The San Francisco call., 1909-04-04

What they called a moral wave
washed over the University of Califor-
MIA baseball team about three weeks
ago, submerged distinguished player
and the coach and left the team with
three freshmen players in the lineup.
In college baseball freshman is
usually so much jetsam, but that rule
does not hold with the blue and gold
players this year For with freshmen
at both ends of the battery. and an
other in the field, the players from
Berkeley were able to wailop the nine
from Stanford university to the score
of TO 8. The University of California
can laugh as serenely at a moral wave
as the former president of the defunct
tennis cabinet of Washington, d. c..
can laugh at a wetter one. But, then
no wave should be dangerous in a dry
town like Berkeley
The freshmen-Forker, the pitcher:
Stoner, catcher, and Allen. left field.
particularly one of them-had the In
dian sign on the cardinal. This dis
tinguished one was Forker, the pitcher
College tradition traces his ancestry
back to the Cherokee nation, and for
the first two innings he seemed a rather
wild Indian with the delicate duty of
tossing college ball team to victory.
But he steadied and won the game
The Hon. Crazy Snake of Oklahoma.
could learn from Forker that peace
hath her victories no less renowned
than war. General Sherman would
have modified his epigram on the vir-
tuous redskin If he had been on Cali
fornis field yesterday-that is. if the
campus made genealogical tree of the
freshman is authentic. But whatever
his antecedents, Freshman Forker cer-
tainly had the Indian sign on the
youths from Palo Alto.
But there were freshmen in the stan
ford team. too.
-Four thousand people saw the game
"a record breaking crowd for the first
of the intercollege series. OF this
number the blue and gold adherents
largely predominated, as the game was
played on the home grounds Nine hun
dred California rooters cheered with
their thunder clap yeI1s, warwhoops and
swelling songs under the chieftain-
ships of Hardigan and Crossfeld. The
Stanford rooters numbered about 400
or 400, but they had three veil leaders
Richardson, Happy and Enron. Durinp.
the game one must have turned in an
alarm for the California military
band, for while the seventh inning was
being negotiated the gray clad musi
clans trotted on the bleachers at dou
BILE quick and played, We've Got 70
Win or Know the Reason why"
Berkeley had its sun hung fairly
high in the sky when the game startad
but when the excitement was about
half over the sun discourteouslv
slipped down behind the western
bleachers, and curious migration of
birds of Easter plumage followed
from the chill, shadowy, western seats
to the light bathed eastern benches
One particularly fetching hat with
charming pink blossoms moved at IT'S
peril. A rakish foul hit landed in tbe.
middle of the cerise garden. WHY docs
girl take young man to a baseball
game If not to have her hat protected
by him from the recklessness Of +ba
batters?
Another foul hit made directly for a
red and yellow parasol but tho SIM
shade lodged.
gay feature Of the environs OF
California field was contributed hv +ha
Haunting banners of the fraternities
The frat houses near the basebal,
ground, with their bright flags snan-
ping in the stiff breeze and the bunt-
| ings. looked like the heraldic devices
OF gallant knights struggling in q
tournament
The game was more fun to the sneo-
tators than it might have been If it
were more skillfully played The oh
vious raggedness of both teams made
it possible at any stage for a runaway
match to be struck and defeat chanped
into victory. But nothing like that
happened. The rooters of each college
We're good TO their own and loyallv
eheered their men. win or lose. hit or
strike out, put out or error. If the
"Oski WOW. California was the louder
yell, the "Ra.h, raE, rah- Stanford" was
no less heartfelt