The San Francisco call., 1908-11-15
Vast Throng Cheers
for Heney
Students and Spectators at Big
Game Show Sympathy for
Gallant Prosecutor
By Arthur L. Price

Three cheers for Francis ]. Heney.'
First from the white banked rows
of the University of California
students came that cry of sympathy
and praise for the gallant prosecutor
Three cheers for Francis ]. Heney.'
Scarcely second later the cry few
back from the thousand throats oi
the Stanford university rooters' Sec
ton.
Then the rival rooters' sections, led
by the slim, indomitable, facile yell
leaders," went at their work of striv-
ing to strike terror into opposing
hearts and to make opposing limbs
tremble. But before the purely col
legiate side of the cheers came. the
two sections of undergraduates voiced
their strong, concordance of sympathy
for Heney and their contempt for his
enemies. Eighteen thousand pairs of
hands applauded the cheers for Heney
simultaneously, ratifying the many
sistant district attorney.
California field at Berkeley never
held so many football devotees as as
sembled yesterday afternoon to watch
the red jerseys beat the blue jerseys
in the Rugby game that at times re-
sembled gayly colored maypole dance,
and at times filled with stirring action
and swift, true foot of hands and feet
The adherents of the blue and gold
were in the majority. Everywhere the
HI, fr.alI 1r
predominated, save, of course, in the
square reserved for the Stanford root
ers in their red and white coloring.
SCENE IS BRILLIANT
North, east and west of the modi-
fed gridiron the crowd was jammed
Within the fence Graduate Manager
fornia said that 1850 were present.
They would represent $685. 900 or more in
tickets sold. The perfect sunshine. the
blue sky fecked with but the fimsiest
of cirrus clouds, the phenomenal
tributed to the glory of the day. The
embarked men and women about the
field were gay with colors and thrilled
with the flashing movements of the blue
and red jerseys in the field below
Every play was welcomed with a shout
every tension of the serum was broken
by a cheer; every agony of a threatened
goal was relieved with cry of triumph
OF QSIldlCe.
The field did not hold all who wanted
to see the game, and possibly could not,
for never on this coast was there such
an aggregation to witness the fortunes
and fate of a pigsAin ball
big CT hill behind the Berkeley
campus was dotted with. those who
were willing to take their football
through a telescope or by guesswork.
The streetcars stationed in Bancroft
way to take spectators away held roof
garden parties of enthusiasts without
price. Every building that boasted a
point of vantage was occupied Even
pus, where Prof Jacque Loeb makes
a protoplasm do nearly everything but
wear Merry Widow hat was filed
with advanced specimens of biological
phenomena.
stand on the east side of the field
groaned beneath the weight of people
and many left their seats to avoid dan
ger of a collapse.
YELLOW BLOSSOMS WAVE
The series of football struggles be-
tween California and Stanford NAV in
time come to be known as the war of
the chrysar themuns. A feudal war in
England is historical as the war OF
the roses because one campus, or cas-
tie wore the red rose and the other
decorated itself with the white. Now
the maid from one seat of culture and
athletic prowess appears with a red
,chrysanthemum. and maid from the
rival seat is ornamented with a yellow
blossom of many petals. Yesterday the
yellow blossoms waved high before the
game was well on, but when the sun