The San Francisco call., 1907-03-31
News Of the Counties Bordering the Bay
MANY CONTESTS IN APRIL
FOR RIVAL UNIVERSITIES
Stanford California Baseball
Series to Open on
Saturday

The season dearest to the under
graduates OF the universities OF Stan
ford and California iH here. The era
OF spring athletics has commenced, and
this week will see the finishing touches
put upon ell undergraduates who are
to sport tho colors OF the rival insti-
tutions In the contest scheduled for
April. Baseball fans, track enthusi-
asts, followers OF the racing crews and
tennis experts, well as those who
back the collegiate debaters are en-
thusiastic over the outlook.
Saturday of this week will witness
the first game Of the sixteenth annual
intercollegiate series. when the univer-
sity mines VIII cross willows" on the
California Field at Berkeley. Interest
in the national pastirne is at fever heat
and the contest has never before at
tracted so much interest from coll
legians and outsiders. The Stanford
squad has been thoroughly flanagan
led and the fans arc eager to see
what effect the tonic will have upon
the Cardinal batsmen and heiders For
seven years California has held the un-
disputed supremacy on the diamond.
Not since 1898 has the Stanford team
carried away the scalp of the Blue and
Gold contingent in the finals of the
series.
Last year was unique in the record
of the colleges. The earthquake dis
rupted every branch of college activity
and with it the athletic contests then
well under way JJinamie', flanagan
was the hope of the Cardinals as he
is now. He had charge of the team
and great things were expected in the
final game California had decisively
beaten the Cardinals only the Satur-
day before, while Stanford had taken
the first game and matters stood at a
deadlock.
With the contests this spring the coll
legians look to settlement of all
boasts and allegation OF supremacy
which have been passed back and forth
in undergraduate circles. flanagan
ism will be given a fair trial on the
baseball diamond.
Following closely upon the heels of
the first game comes the second of the
series, and then the fans will take a
breath, provided honors' are even. The
Olympic Club upon Saturday, April 13.
the day of the second game, which is
to be held on the Cardinal campus.
will give the Stanford track team a
warmup for the coming intercollegiate
meet. The contest on the cinder path
will be held in the morning.
The third Saturday in the month of
showers" is allotted to the track and
tennis experts. with the forensic eff
forts of the debaters in the evening.
As in baseball, the interest in the
track events is twofold, because of the
intermission of two years since the
last contests in 1905. As finally agreed
upon the meet will be run off on the
Berkeley oval. The new Stanford track
yesterday got all that was coming
it's way in the intercollegiate contests
of this year Both teams are strong.
and records may go climbing in many
events, especially the distance runs.
Stanford is handicapped by a ruling
which prohibits suspended students
from taking part in intercollegiate
athletics upon returning from their en-
forced vacation.
Stanford comedies the tennis cham
pionship to Berkeley, which has won
it for years past
The remaining Saturday of April bids
fair 70 cap the climax and wind up the
series fttingly. With the first con-
test of eight oar shells on the coast,
together with freshmen contests on
water and the likelihood of the final
baseball game falling on the same date.
that Saturday will be one long remem-
bered by the undergraduates Big
husky oarsmen are in attendance at
both universities and under excellent
coaches the first struggle of the var
sity eights" will be the event of the
season and the interest will rival that
of the annual struggle on the turf of
the Rugby field. Stanford has a new
boat that had been built especially for
the University of Syracuse and is mod
ern in every particular. the exact coun-
terpart OF the shells of Cornell The
blue and gold eight has an equally
good she'll made by the Cornell boat
makers.