The San Francisco call., 1905-02-12
MANY ATHLETES
ARE TRAINING
University of California
Will Be Well Represented
in Competition This Year
DATES ARE SELECTED
Intercollegiate Field Day
and Regatta Will Be
Decided on April Is

BERKELEY, Feb. 11.-Spring
sports at the University of California
include boating, baseball, track ath-
letics and rifle shooting and the dew
otees of each are hard at work pre-
pairing for contests in which the crack
Stanford and other institutions for
honors.
Those in charge of the sporting ac-
tivities have decided that the date of
the intercollegiate field day and boat
| race shall be the same. On the morn
F, ing of April 1 5 the boating crews will
compete, while the field and track
men struggle for honors during the
afternoon of the same day.
The new racing shell ordered by the
Boating Association from Cornell Uni
versity has arrived and will be put
into action at once. The men who
are candidates for the, coveted seats
in the shell have begun work, trying
. out for the positions on the crew. G.
j.. Anloff, chairman of the committee
in charge of the try-outs, has accept
ed the names of fifteen freshmen who
are anxious to compete for places on
the crew, and these men are being
given practice work.
Professor Magee has announced
that he is prepared to give special
work in his department of physical
| culture to twenty-four men until the
| 18th inst, when all men who have
signed up will be excused for the rest
of the term. Last year the freshmen
&l-.-
| can duplicate the feat this year. All
| freshmen who make the crew will re-
ceive their class numerals. AS there
are two vacancies in the varsity crew
| there will be chance for the pick of
| the freshmen to make their big "C's."
| The Lippy trophy cup, won from
Washington by the boating crew last
year. has finally come to Manager De-
coto. 1t is on exhibition in the CO.
operative store on the campus.
The importance of track athletics is
vouched for BY Professor George c.
Edwards, chairman of the faculty COM
mittee on athletics. who declared re-
| Gently that they are more important
| than football He said football is
| fine sport, but field day athletics per-
rnits of the combination of athletes
interests, all for the glory of the uni
versity, and so deserves a great. deal
of attention.
There is no lack of interest in the
preparations for selecting a team of
athletes to compete with Stanford on
track and field. More than 100 men
| have signed for track work. The list
includes many freshmen, who will be
excused from gymnasium work after
the 18th inst Every event has a fine
lot of candidates marked off for trial
work. The track is in use each after
noon by varsity men and the field is
dotted with figures, lightly clad, en-
gagged in hurdling, pole vaulting, shot
! putting and jumping.
| Competition for places on the base
ball team of the varsity is keen, de-
| spite the fact that nearly all the po-
| sitions are sure to be given to veterans.
| who were on the victorious team
against Stanford last year. The nine
showed up well against ST. Mary's last
Wednesday, and, though defeated by
score of to 2, satisfied Coach Will
Iiams that there is the making of a
champion team in the material he has
in hand Captain Heitmuller is in
good form and getting better and is
expected to do the bulk of the box
work, Streub having broken his
finger.
Five freshmen are trying for outfield
positions. There are eight OF last
years nine back on the field, and these
will make up the infield and battery,
with one of the "vets" in the out
field.
Negotiations are under way for
match between the university rifle
team and Company b. Fifth Regiment,
N G. c., of San Rafael The match