The San Francisco call., 1907-03-10
STANFORD DELIGHTED
OVER TRACK OUTLOOK
Cardinal Athletes Showing
Up Well in Their
Practice Work

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March g.
With the spring athletic season at
hand. the undergraduate IS getting out
his dope book" and endeavoring 10
get some line on the respective merits
Of the cardinal and the blue and gold
on field. diamond and water. u bile the
track dispute is still far from a set
rlement. the opinion is growing that
the meeting viii be held, even n II
be necessary for one side or the other
10 back down completely.
At baseball the campus is 2 bit
inclined 10 feel that the advantage
rests here. Stanford has the older
4eam and since the varsity IS coming
70 meet the ball more consistently the
confidence which marked the opening
Of the season has returned on com
narrative scores. too. IL they count Tor
ANYTHING the balance is with the car
dfnal BY winning twice decisively
from Santa Clara College. the team
has demonstrated its ability, and the
fact that the collegians have got away
with both Of their games against tho
blue and gold IS ample proof that
they are the same classy bunch of
hall players as Of old. In Theile the
hleacher following feels certain that
An has fwirler better than any Berke-
lev can produce. Theile has 'subbed
on the varsity for two years. and has
always shown good form. but this sea
son he is pitching big league ball
FFe has ferrifc speed. and in the game
against Heine HeitmUller's proles-
sionals some time ago, he showed
many Of the old timers tricks OF the
trade they had never seen before.
Track stock has gone booming since
the beautiful aI-around exhibition OF
Captain Macfarland's crew on Thurs
dav afternoon in an interdepartment
= &
went sailing and others were threat
ened. The student body did not know
until this tryout what a really good
SQUAD il had on the track this year,
and everybody has begun TO awaken
10 the fact that. despite the havoc
played by the scholarship committee
with the athletes. the varsity track
team this year viii compare well with
any Of previous seasons.
The campus is exulting over little
Eddie Nashs brilliant performance in
the two-mile race. when he reduced
the record from 1927, made by him
self last year. TO 1924. and that with
out being extended. Al the finish he
was more than a lap ahead Of some
Of the other contestants In Nash, Mil
ler. Severy. Msundrell and the two
sheltons, the cardinal has q group Of
distance men whom il regards as un-
beatable in all other branches Of
track work conditions are equally
bright
IN a few weeks the second inter
collegiate freshman meet viii be held
on the campus. owing 70 the loss of
many point winners al Christmas time
the prospect for victory IS not ex-
tremelv bright. However, reports from
California are that the hrst-year ath-
letes have been negligent in training,
and that Christie has been compelled
10 issue an emergency call 10 get his
men on the cinders. Consistent
training Is half the race now
adays and the Berkeley babies
VIII be woefully handicapped II out Of
condition when they tie up with Stan
ford. for every one OF the cardinal
freshmen is hard as nails and has been
III work under strict training rules for
fully a month.