The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23

and IA as the dates for the national
championships. junior and senior, at
the AlaSka-NukOn exposition in Seattle
At the present time il is not known
what teams will go north from this
state other than that of the Olympic
club. The local club should be able to
send one that will come pretty close TO
carrying off the hOnOrs. With Rose.
Glarner. Knox, Cheek and Snedigar as
nucleus great team can undouot-
edly be gathered that VIII make rec
ord for the state. The club can easily
get a junior team together that can
win that meet. Glarner, Rose. Snedi-
gar. GerhaTdt and Cheek are about the
only men in the club that are seniors.
while there are plenty of frst class
material such as Knox. Tommy smith
and Leo Meyer for the organization or
the junior team. Let us hope that the
state is well represented in both
classes. OF course, both chicago and
teams and the coast climate does not
affect the eastern athletes as the east
ern climate affects our men This was
proved at the championships during the
Portland fair. when the Chicago and
Milwaukee athletic clubs sent teams to
the coast. so we can expect the eastern
teams with their star athletes to make
a hot fight for hrst honors.
From the showing made in the pre-
liminary meets among the eastern col
leRes it appears that Yale should win
the big eastern intercollegiate cham
nlOnships on next Friday and Saturday
Pennsylvania and Harvard viii likely
be old Ellis" closest competitors. for
Cornell is not nearly as strong as two
years ago. while Princeton has also
lost many of its best athletes Jacques
of Harvard apparently appear to be the
class in the one and two mile races
from his showing of last saturday.
when he ran the one mile In 4.ZS 20
and the two in 9-46 40, while Foster.
also crimson man. looks the best IN
the sprints. ale pins great faith to
Howe In the hurdles. Splitter in the half
.sr1ra in Inn In
COOney in the weights looks the like
liest. 1t is in the field events that the
blue is the strongest
The baseball season of the Academic
athletic league. which closed yester-
day. was the most successful and the
best handled OF any similar event Civ
en- by that organization, and. further
more. the playing has been of better
order. especially in the local mines.
COgswell has put up in most instances
a classy game. mainly due to Hollis
excellent pitching. Hollis is one OF the
best high school athletes that this city
has turned out for a long time
The efforts of the baseball commits
sion of the Pacific athletic association
to purify the great American national
game have not met with the success eX-
pected by that committee owing to the
avariciousness of mana gers. who are
always too anxious to turn out cham
piOnShip teams The registration COM
mittee will have TO keep it's eyes open
this summer watching college and high
school ball players in the little country
towns. A number of complaints are
already being heard. Honest managers
are apparently the only cure for the
baseball evil
William T. Reid Jr.. president OF the
American football association, left on
Tuesday for the east. While there he
will look into the matter of securing
one or two good football coaches who
are willing to come west and coach the
various elevens of this vicinity in the
American game as il should be PLAYED
under the new rules. In the meantime
the new association will meet and ar
range a schedule for the coming
season.