The San Francisco call., 1908-12-02
TO PLAY
0LYMPICS AND
BARBS
Rugby Games With Two Local
Teams VIII Give Cardinals
Needed Practice

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec l.
Stanford undergraduates will have an
opportunity to watch the Rugby var
sity in action again before the post
season games are completed Coach
Presley announced today that he has
secured games with the Olympic club
of San Francisco and the Barbarians
The clubmen have consented to play
the cardinals in two games in order to
give the local men practice before
| they go north to meet the Vancouver
players for the championship of the
coast.
The first of the two games will be
played here on the supplementary, field
Saturday, when the Olympics will pay
the campus a visit. The following Sat
urday the Barbs will play.
Three games will be played by the
varsity while in the north All of the
matches will be with the Vancouver
fifteen and no match will be held with
the Nictorians as last year, While
Manager Stewart has not completed
much has been settled and also the
dates for two of the championship
games. One will be played on Christ
second game of the series will fall on
some weekday between those two
dates. Word was received by Manager
Stewart that the. Vancouver men had
scheduled the first game for Decem-
Der %. the second the day following
and the third on January /. Directly
upon learning this word was sent
the Stanford men to play two games
running without at least a day to rest
and prepare for the next struggle.
Vancouver with its host of Rugby
players could better afford to do this.
! The Stanford varsity will in all prob
ability travel both ways by rail. 1t
was at first suggested that the trip
! be made by steamer, but the uncer-
tainty of the weather has made this
mode of travel seem risky.
The work of preparing the football field for
baseball has been started by Graduate Manager
Stewart The surveyors have found that the
field is several inches lower on the north side,
which viii require some filling in. The re-
mainder of the field is being covered with loan
President David Starr Jordan has received a
eouaty which has ben turned over to Manager
Stewart for consideration. The writer states
that several Of the pigeons let loose with car
dinal ribbons tied to their feet during the foet
! View cemetery, which Is several miles from
| California field The birds were struggling to
| free themselves of the ribbons and were In q
| much exhausted condition. The writer has sug
| gested that carrier pigeons be used another time
so that the birds win return to the senders and
thus be relieved OF the ribbons
The varsity football men will be the guests OF
the Skull and Snakes honor society at banquet
10 be held tomorrow night In the University Inn
= The first of the series of interclass games be
tween the women basket ball players OF Stan
ford university will be held tomorrow afternoon
/ at 4:30 on the Roble courts and viii be played
! by the 1911 and 1912 teams. On Thursday the
two upper classes viii play, and the finals will
be Saturday morning. Miss r. sampson, who
captains the 1911 team, played last year In the the
freshman team is from Los Angeles, where she
/ is well known as player OF ability.