The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
Crews to Compete in First
intercollegiate Race
Held Here.

BERKELEY, April 26.-There came
to Berkeley to-day two sets of athletes
from the University of Washington.
who have come all this way to match
their prowess and their brains against
those same qualities in the men of the
University of California. One of the
sets is a rowing crew and the other
a track team. They arrived in San
Francisco on the steamer City of
Puebla this afternoon and came
straightway to Berkeley, intending to
get right into harness and make the
best OF the time between now and Sat
urday. when the trials will be held.
Both the crew and the team show
a husky lot of young men, and, judg-
ing from their records, California will
have to hustle to win. The crew has
already demonstrated its superiority,
having beaten California on Lake
Washington last summer. The oars
men had the advantage of home wa
ters and larger experience.
The track team is the best Wash
ington ever turned out, but as this will
have been the first time the univer-
sity's athletes have competed against
university larger than their own
there is some doubt as to the way
it will result.
Joe Pearson will do the 100, 220
and 440 yard dashes. He has covered
100 yards in 10 1-5 seconds. This, of
course, will not do against such men
as Abadie, Snedigar and Cadogan, who
are all 1O-second men. Pearson can
do the 22o-yard dash in % AS, and
that is a little better. In the 440-yard
event his record is :51 3-5 seconds.
Edward Thompson and Rex Smith,
who viii go into these events, are not
so fast as their colleague.
Bob Pearson is the track captain
and Joe Pearson's brother. He will
go into the half-mile and the relay.
The half-mile he does in 2:01.
Another man for the 44O-yard dash
is II. c. Green, who is credited with
:54 seconds for the distance. He will
also go in the relay. Tom McCrory
and Dal Twitchell are the teams mile
runners, with a record Of 4:5O and 4:54
respectively. Maurice Tibballs will go
into the 220-yard dash and the 22O-
yard hurdles, which he negotiates in
:23 10 and :2S respectively.
In the weights Washington will have
Tom Mcdonald, who can throw the
hammer 13O feet and put the shot
forty-one feet. In the jumps there
win be Dave Grant for the high jump,
broad jump and pole vault, his record
for these events being 5 feet 10 inches,
21 feet inches and 10 feet inches
respectively.
The track events are scheduled for
10 o'clock on Saturday morning at
Berkeley and in the afternoon the
rowing regatta will be held on the
Oakland estuary. The Washington
crew will be composed of Carl Van
Kuran. captain and bow; Dan Pullen,
forward waist; Clinton Lantz, after
waist Fred McElmon, stroke.
There will be two intercollegiate
races, the first ever held in California
waters, one varsity and one freshmen.
The varsity race will be a three-cor-
nered affair, with crews from Wash
ington, California and Stanford. The
freshmen race will be between STAN
ford and California.
The Boating Association of Califor-
MIA has arranged to accommodate
many people at the races. Seven
launches and a tug viii leave Peter
sons wharf in San Francisco at l
o'clock Saturday afternoon and will
arrive in time to see the races, which
begin at 1880 o'clock.