The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
HOPE RUNS HIGH
IN THE BREASTS
OF STANFORD MEN
Cardinal AthleteSAre
Training in Num-
berS.
MATERIAL IS FINE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Feb. II.
Never before has spring athletics at
Stanford begun as early as they did
this year and never was there a more
rosy prospect for future Cardinal vic
tories than there is at this time. 1t is
far too early to judge what the real
strength OF the Stanford forces Will be,
but in every department of athletics,
track, baseball. tennis and rowing,
there are many likely candidates with
whose form the trainers and coaches
are more than pleased. Strict training
rules have no longer to be insisted on
at Stanford, the men themselves re-
garding il q dishonor to indulge in any
Of the forbidden pastimes. This spirit
is helping more than anything else to
make the Cardinal teams successful.
Track prospects are rosy. When last
years track team broke up and the
realization came that Dole, worlds
champion pole vaulter; Dunn, the great
Cardinal sprinter; Holman, winner OF
both the mile and the half-mile in last
years intercollegiate meet; Hyde, the
weight man, in ALL forty points of win
nings, could never run for the Cardinal
again because they had participated
for four years, Trainer Moulton shook
his head sorrowfully I'VE can never
replace them" he said. But when the
veteran trainer looked at the likely
men the freshman class brought with
il 10 Stanford this year he quickly
changed his mind. Dole is replaced by
flanagan, a Denver youngster brother
of the football coach, who has made
the remarkable record of eleven feet
three inches this early in the season
Davis, Freeman and ElwelI all promise
TO sprint nearly as fast ,as did the
speedy Dunn. Miller seems even better
than Holman in the distances. Last
saturday, on track that looked like
an oval pond, this freshman covered
the half-nile in the remarkable time of
TWO minutes and six seconds. In the
mile he is equally fast. Horton, who
comes from Ukiah, is the new man
with the weights. He has already put
The shot forty-two feet, has high
jumped i've feet six inches and is run
nlng the hurdles in championship
style These freshmen, with their
sprinters, Cope and Gartzmann. are ex-
pected TO win half the points Stanford
makes In the field meet with Califor-
MA For the other half there is Lana
gan, the hurdler; Weller, hurdIer and
Jumper; Macfarland, hurdler; Bell
track captain and jumper; Whitaker.
pole vaulter. and Crawford. hammer
thrower, all Of whom have won points
IN former intercollegiate meets.
rour veterans are all Stanford has
left Of last years baseball team. These
men are Captain Trowbridge. short
stop; Sales, pitcher; Colbert. first base.
and Chalmers, left field. There are
however. large number of last years
second team men to draw on and a, few
freshmen, so Coach Cowden feels con-
noent he will be able TO deyelon
stronger team this year than Charlie
Doyle old last Hitting seems to be the
weakest feature OF the Cardinal team
Dally batting practice is overcoming
ms In the game with the San lose
professionals a week ago the plavers
smashed the ball continually. Vet the
next time that they were called on TO
nit IN the game on Wednesday. the
stanford players showed an astonish-
ing inability TO connect.