The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
THREE MEETS ON
THE CARD FOR
STANFORD
Utah, Denver and Chicago TO
See Cardinal Trackmen
i'm Action

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 22.-
While the majority of the undergradu
ates of Stanford university have left
the campus for the long vacation of
summer the attention of the students
will be focused during the next two
weeks upon the press accounts of the
doings OF the two varsity teams which
are to contest in post season tests of
supremacy.
Next Saturday. on Lake Washington.
a three cornered intercollegiate regatta
for the championship of the coast will
be held between eight-oar crews of the
universities of Washington. California
and Stanford. The race has been re-
garded here as of considerable import
ance. as it will give not only the two
local oarsmen crews chance to test
their skill and Drawn against the best
of the state of Washington, but IL will
serve as another opportunity for the
blue and gold and the cardinal rowers
10 meet on an intercollegiate basis,
which should prove more satisfactory
than the race held over the course on
the Oakland estuary last month
The Stanford OarSmen left the
campus last week and intend to spend
the next week in familiarizing them
selves with the course on Lake WASH
ington. While the varsity crew. which
represents the cardinal, is not as eN-
perienced as the one which rOwed last
month, because of the absence of three
of the regular varsity men, the places
are we'll taken by the heavy freshmen
who rowed against the blue and gold
babies and won so handily. III Stan
ford does not win II VIII be surprise
here, as Dan Murphy believes the aS-
Sregat tion one of the best he has ever
seen on this coast.
While the oarsmen will contest in
their first and only test next Saturday,
the Stanford track team will hold sew
eral contests during the coming week.
and in less than three weeks will take
part in the big intercollegiate struggle
of the Western conference association
on Marshall field. Chicago. The Stan
ford team will first meet the athletes
of Colorado at Denver on Tuesday or
Wednesday and from there will pro-
ceed TO Utah, where they will meet
representatives of one of the Utah uni
versities in dual contest. From here
they will proceed eastward, arriving
at Chicago in sufficient time to become
accustomed to the track and get ac-
climated
: While the track team is not as large
was hoped at first. 1T is confidently
expected that the men will make a
creditable showing and bring back
place, if not the scalp of all the other
teams. Last year Stanford was repre-
sented by a strong team. which took
second against the pick of the middle
year is perhaps not as well balanced,
it is said Stanford is particularly
strong where the other teams OF the
east are weak, and it is believed that
there is little chance of the caicula-
tions being upset if the men come up
to anything like their usual form In
this meet will be several veterans OF
last years struggle. who will have the
advantage of their experience.
While no action was taken by the
executive committee of the associated
students of Stanford university on the
proposition advanced by Or. Frank
Angel of the faculty athletic commit
tee in regard to summer baseball. it is
well understood here that DR.. Angel
intends to keep a sharp watch of all
the doings of the Stanford players dur
ing the vacation months and that he in
tends to take the balance of proof and
place it against the collegianS who,
upon their return, provided they have
played ball must show 10 the satisfac-
tion of DR.. Angel that they did not
come within the shadow of prOfes-
sionalism. He Will make the men prove
that they are innocent and not that
they are not guilty to charges he may
be able to bring. 1t is expected similar
tactics will be followed at the Univer-
Sity of California by Professor O'NeiI