The San Francisco call., 1908-09-20
St. Mary's Returns to
the Amateur Fold
Pink and Blue Will Be Carried
i'm Seasons Athletic
Contest
By Herbert Hauser

CCllcso Carried III d11 Tie various open
contests. Its new track will be a five
and a half lap affair. Forty men will
be put at work on it next week in order
that it may be completed before the
rainy season sets in The grandstands
will have a seating capacity of 5000
The fence around the track has been
completed. The new gymnasium. a gift
of the alumni, is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. Coach Mil is hard at work en-
deavoring to learn just what his
charges can do. He is being ably as
sisted by Brother Joseph.
w G. George. the great English mile
runner and holder of the worlds record
! for that. distance, is now a wreck in
London. He may be seen nightly beg
Drink was the. cause of his downfall.
| Next week will see the eastern foot
ball season opened. The big games viii
commence a few weeks later. Yale has
nine games scheduled, while Harvard
and Princeton have 10. The Yale
schedule winds up with the Princeton
and Harvard games. which will give the
sons OF Eli a chance to be at their best.
They start the season with game
against Wesleyan, followed a few days
Cross and West Point. Washington and
jefferson, Massachusetts and Brown,
which will put the New Haven boys
into shape for Princeton October II
and Harvard the following Saturday.
Harvard has a harder schedule, all
the harder games coming at the END,
one right after the other. The crimson
games run as follows: Bowdoin, Maine.
Bates, Williams, Springfield training
school, for the early games. followed
by Annapolis, Brown. Carlisle. Dart
mouth and Yale. Harvards and Yale's
games with Brown come a week apart,
/ so il will give the critics a chance to
compare the two teams before they
meet
Princetons schedule takes in games
with Springfield training school, Ste
yens. Lafayette. Villanova. Virginia
I Point, Dartmouth and finally Yale.
PENNSYLVANIA starts in with West
Virginia. Ursinus, Bucknell, Villanova,
/ Pennsylvania state, Gettysburg. Brown,
+ ing up with Cornell.
/ George Lowenberg, a well known
angler, has returned from Webber lake,
where he spent two weeks endeavoring &
to coax the fish to bite. but met with
meager success. Lowenberg reports
at Webber. for 200 900 trout have been
planted this summer in the various
| tributaries of the lake. Among tn
different species are lochleven. eastern
brook. cut throats, German brown and
rainbow. One of the great complaints
| of the Weber fishermen will be done
! tdWdH Hll0"lildI tie IIld1dS VI
the hotel has arranged to have the
weeds torn up. using donkey engine
70 draw graphing hook at~the end of
a 1.500 foot cable.
Quail are reported to be very scarce
! in that district. owing to the fact that
sheep have devastated the country so
completely that it was impossible for
the quail to nest
Just what Ralph Rose is doing
around New York. other than breaking
! records, Is hard to say. His record of
49 feet 10 inches, made last week, un-
/ doubtedly VIII stand until he breaks it
again. The Amateur athletic union
meets in November. so Rose still has
time to get the record beyond the so
foot mark before the season closes.
The story from New York that Rec
tor the Virginia. sprinter, and one or
/ two others had been refused registra-
ton by the Metropolitan association of
! the American athletic union does not
mean, as many believe. that their anna
teur standing is in any. jeopardy;
enough in the Metropolitan district to
| entitle them to register there and par
ticipate in any OF the Metropolitan
George Braden. formerly physical di-
rector of the Pasadena Young Mems
| Christian association and one of the
Pacific athletic associations southern
California commissioners. has taken
| the position of physical director at Oc-
cidental college, Los Angeles.
The Canadian amateur athletic asso-
citation will hold its annual champion
ships at Montreal October 8, under the
auspices OF the Montreal athletic club.
It is about time that the Pacific ath-
letic association take some action on
! the Dreamland athletic club. Boxing
can never be purified in this city. The
Dreamland club is paying the boys
money, and every one knows 1t, and the
best thing for the association to do to-
morrow night is to wash its hands.
once and for all.
letic association. who has been vice
president of the Pacific athletic asso-
citation for the last year. has left
Stockton, owing to i'll health. and has
oil company at Coalinga. He will be
| greatly missed in the Slough City.
where he did much. not alone to build
but athletics in the public schools of
that city as well. His successor has
not yet been chosen
The annual meeting of the Pacific
athletic association will be held tomor-
row evening in the red room of the
Hotel st. Francis. 1t VIII be the most
| ever held here. st. Mary's college. Cali
fornia association football league and
/ Belmont school and possibly Sacred
Heart college will apply for admis-
sion to Membership There is no doubt
that President Peixotto will be re-
/ endeavors have placed the association
/ on its present high pinnacle.
An elaborate program for the year
no doubt will be adopted at this meet
! ing, for the association means to give
/ all branches of amateur sport show
The first thing on the program will be
the fall handicap track and field meet
! which will open the new st. Marys COL
lege track Saturday, October 81 This
will be followed closely by a basket
ball tournament
The Public School athletic league of
| this city will be formally organized
the latter part Of this week. Chair
man Lionel Wolff of the Pacific athletic
association committee will return today
/ from a two weeks vacation at Tahoe
/ and will set date Immediately for the
! meeting to perfect the organization.
Another league will be organized in
Oakland early next month.
The Siaplarnat Indians and their Iadv
| friends turned out in large numbers
Friday night for the first ladies' night
/ given by the club Prof. Charles Stew
4 art was agreeably surprised by being
presented with handsome gold watch
by the braves Of the club for his excel
lent work with his gymnasium cIa ss
Prof Charles Brill. the wrestling in
/ structor. was remembered with a sef
! of cut glass. George Behrman and
! William Joyner, the Dfpsea race heroes
were rewarded for their efforts. each