Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22


! Stanford next Saturday look for T
Z a hard game.-Coach Hempel Of !
4 the Indians. i
j. !.
With her lines crumbling before the
charges of the Berkeley backs the Sher-
man Indian team was defeated yester-
day in q poor exhibition Of football be-
fore one of the largest crowds that ever
gathered at Fiesta park. The score was
Fl to o.
The play Of the Berkeley men, al
though steady, was slow II the extreme
and while they were able to win with
ease they did not meet with a suffi-
cient defense to make their showing
amount to anything like what was ex-
pected of university caliber
The game was clean throughout
probably the freest from rough work
that has been witnessed in the south,
but there was not enough real football
to create excitement for any but those
in immediate sympathy with the two
elevens.
The Indian linemen played we'll
throughout and got beneath the forma-
tions in a manner that showed they
understood the game.
The day was ideal for football and
long before player or official had gath
cred for the whistle to set the men in
side of the field was at a premium and
when the gates were thrown open for
autos there began a jockeying for po-
sition and lucky was the chauffeur who
found way between the almost impene-
trable wall that lined the wire barrier
which guarded the checker board space
from encroachment.
The surrounding house tops teemed
with a restless throng awaiting the
opening of the game which they might
view without the expenditure of two or
three dollars for a seat in a mere grand
stand. Every crannie and knot hole
that the old fence boasted was occu-
pied by hundreds who could not or
would not get inside the grounds.
The reserved sections filled in a leis-
urely and dignified manner. There was
all the chaff and raillery that is ever the
accompanying feature of an important
football event.
Berkeley colors were in the majority,
but over to the right at the end of the
bleachers a little band-and not such a
small one either-was gathered to sound
the slogan of the Riverside prides.
There were dusky Indian maidens,
brave in their purple and orange, wav-
ing the banners of the braves who were
upholding the honor of the south on the
field below. They are an enthusiastic
people and even when the colors of
their favorites were being trampled in
the dust beneath the onward march of
the Berkeley boys, there was ever the
cry Of encouragement and not for a
minute did their faith IN the little band
of warriors, who were striving their
best on the white chalk lines, abate and
the spirit of real football was in evil
dence from the south end Of the bleach
ers until the call of time.
Berkeley had it's contingent and a
strong one at that A leather lunged
~v-l1 NNr I, H. Il i
porters we'll in hand and the cries of
the college men lent a university aspect
to the affair.
On the whole, the crowd was not Of
the kind that vibrates with the very
trend of the game and is thrown into a
paroXysm with the tide Of the play.
Little Enthusiasm Shown
More enthusiasm has been manifested
in any single half of local games dur
ing the season than that which marked
the whole Of yesterdays contest. Out
side of the banded rooters of River
side and the immediate adherents of the
California men, there was but little
demonstration for either side.
The Indians arrived on the field first
and in stole indifference threw them
selves along the side lines on the east
ern edge of the field, watching with no
apparent concern the curious crowd for
lege band could not excite.
And as Neafus trotted out on the
field and limbered up with a few desul-
tory punts, the Berkeley men, who ar
rived a moment before in a blue and
gold bedecked tallyho, were for the
moment forgotten and the crowd looked
with a curious interest on the white
faced Indian with the red cheeks and
the shining brown eyes. The whole
world might have been gazing for all
Neafus cared and the waving mass
of life ana color was apparently the
last thing in his mind as he sent the
leather whirling through the air for
the submen who cantered around the
end of the field.
Captain Sunny Jim" Force of the
Berkeley men stalked to the center of
the gridiron and shook hands with
Shoulder, the big, powerful leader of
the Indians. The officials gathered in a
little knot to nave a last say as to the
rules that were TO govern the play. Bill
Greager, Hesplendent in a cardinal
sweater, came running from somewhere
and held a hurried consultation with
coaches and players. The camera men
fitted about and a minute later both
teams were lined for the call
Elliott Kicks OFF
At last the whistle sounded and Ell
lott of the Berkeley team dug his toe
Illo lle ledlHeT ana lne Ddll went hurt-
ling to the Indian five-yard line at the
south end IF the field.
The first play brought the crowd to its
feet as Neafus, in fake movement
went spinning around the right end OF
the blue and gold for a spectacular gain
of twenty yards.
They were forced to kick, however
and on their fifty-yard line Sperry
Snedigar and Mead began a succession
OF straight line bucks that carried the
ball to the one-yard line. Sperry tried
again and for moment he was waver-
ing on the top of the pile, but finally
went over for the touchdown.
A succession of the same kind OF
play tnterspersed with long end runs
by Snedigar brought the score to 16 to
before the half closed.
A few minutes after the half ha6
opened Neafus right half, Magee, full
back, and Coleman at quarter, were
taken from the field, the two former
with broken ribs and the latter suffer.
ing with strained tendon.
The feature of the half was the steadS