St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-05-12
University Park and Portsmouth
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ITEMS

VI 'hS poyS attenued tile
game last Sunday between the
University Park team and the
Schillers to see the former Colum.
bia crack twirler display his assort-
ment OF curves to the makers of the
perfectos. Charlie is pitching
great ball this season and will soon
be seen in fast company.
George Wilhelm attended the
meet at Corvallis to see what his
alma mater could do against the
sturdy agrics.
New champions at hand ball are
being developed daily. The best
teams so far are the Weber brothers
and Monks and Case. The court
is immensely popular and a great
advantage for rainy days.
Several new faces and forms are
seen cavorting OH the turf daily.
Don't let a slump in baseball
take place before the season is over.
The graduating class is busy pre-
pairing for the commencement exer-
cises. The class pins are very neat
and the class colors, black and
orange, are nice depression from
the schools colors.
There is some talk of the baseball
team taking trip up the valley in
the near future. Last years team
played all the harbor towns and
played the leaguers to a standstill.
Last Saturday the track team met
defeat at the hands of the sturdy
o. A. c. men by the score of 81 to
ID. After the long ride from Port
land to Corvallis il was too plainly
evident that the Columbia men
would not and could not do their
best. Nevertheless the large aud
ience, the largest ever present at
track meet at Corvallis, that wit.
messed the events, was well salts
fed with the plucky fight made by
the wearers of the purple and white.
The day was anything but ideal for
the meet but yith all the disadvan-
tages of the weather. the athletes
Of both schools did remarkably well
and the sprinting was the best ever
seen in the Northwest. Three of
the fastest men on the coast were
to each other, but the long
ride and the nearness to the dinner
hour and the strangeness OF the
track were too much for Kelley,
and lie went down to defeat TO
Smithson aud Williams. but in so
doing he forced them to equal the
coasts records III the hundred and
the 22o. Kelley was, by all odds,
The star Of the meet, for he entered
m nearly all the events and won
points for his school. II Kelley
we're with a team more balanced
han Columbia's he would. in all
probability, make new records in
The aao and in the broad jump. His
endurance Is remarkable. and for
my man to enter in six events and
Ne victorious Is too much to expect
when the opposing team Is the
strongest in the Northwest. Cor
'allis has a very strong team and
lad new men in each event. Col
imbia took ten men to fight for her
'olors and some OF the men had not
'een on the track before. All in
III the boys did remarkably well in
he contest, and while the support
rs were grieved to learn that Kelley
had been defeated, yet they know
hat lie was beaten by men that
lave been training for months only
o beat him in these events. Smith
on beat Kelley out in the hundred
" inches only, aud the same was
rue in the 22o. when. only inches
eparated the men at the finish.
Walsh forced Greenhaw to run a
asst half mile and Roe showed skill
With the discus. Hinkle did we'll
or the short period he has been
mt on the track this year.
Fifty yard dash - Williams.
;mithson and Graham, all o A {
Time, o:oS S.
Half-mile -Greenhaw. o A c,
Walsh, Columbia, VanCleve, o A
;, time a;o7 as.
Hundred yard dash-Smithson,
, A {, Kelley, { U, Williams, o
e. time o:Io. l..