The San Francisco call., 1913-10-09
Hot Right Off
The Gridiron
By WILLIAM UNMACK

Freshman Montgomery of the Uni
versity of California baby squad looks
to be one of the few first year men
who stand a good chance of being
switched to the varsity squad when
the freshmen play their last game
on Saturday. He has been showing
well throughout the seasons play
and promises to develop into varsity
material
Berke keley high school has named its
% lads from which the team to play
Palo Alto will be selected. Those
named for the big Portola champion
ship game are: Joe Marvin, William
Brewster, ALT Fraga, John Hoffman,
William Kiessig, Clarence Johnson,
Reginald Thomson, Walter Wikander.
Fred Richardson, Carlton Bond,
/ Frank Graves, Cecil Matthew'S Lucius
Hicks Frank Mckenzie, Harvey Har-
Olson, Lloyd Sutherland, Bruce Ham
| ilton, Fred Stephens. Arthur Johnson,
Wilbur Fowden. John Martin, Ken
meth Fenton, Harold Jones. George
Davis, David Jardine.
Big Bill King of California and
Blase of Stanford are the two largest
men playing the game at the univer-
stiles. King is the huskier OF the
two Both men have the speed of an
two of the most formidable Ruggers
on the Pacific coast.
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So far this season there has not
been any sign of a man with the
ability of Monty Morris to go behind
the serum for the blue and gold.
California has several good halfbacks,
but there has only been one Morris.
Something the same thing prevails
at Stanford. Louis Cass played the
position last year and put up great
Tilton are out for the place.
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Tackling is an art that Americans
| have perfected. This much can be
said without fear of contradiction.
| Our teams have played against the
| Wallabies. the Waratahs, and now the
ALI Blacks, and every member of
these foreign teams is willing to ad-
NIT that the tackling of the locals
is the hardest and most deadly in any
| part of the world We have got tack
| ling sdown to fine art and excel all
nations of the world in this depart
ment of the game.
| Dick Roberts, the tricky little New
! Zealander hardly expected to jump
| into such fame on this tour that it
has been his lot to encounter. That
run of his against the Olympics,
which in his own land would be
nothing sensational to rave about.
did the trick. In New Zealand such
a run would be given due credit, and
| 1t was a worthy performance, but
being one of the very few such per-
formances that are pulled off on our
| fields, the feat stood out as extraor-
| dinary and wonderful Our friend
Dick Is just as likely as not to pull
off just such another stunt in every
game he plays. and SO are others OF
the team.
! The full Stanford team attended
| the game at Berkeley yesterday. The
| boys from the farm were naturally
All Blacks and they undoubtedly alb
| sorbed many points which will be
| used to goo effect when they meet the
| All Blacks next Wednesday at STAN
| ford.
| The largest crowd that has ever
| attended a midweek game was on
! the California bleachers yesterday
/ Estimates varied from 5000 to 1900.
MacGregor is famous name on the
Rugby fields of New Zealand. The
IMacGregor clan has been in the lime
| light down under for many genera
tions. and Dody MacGregor. with the
present All Blacks, has some famous
ancestors. Dick Macdonald. who
toured with the original ALI Blacks, is
cousin of the present lad. while
| Dody's father was another one OF the
clan who gained world wide recogni-
tion for his prowess.
| Big Bill King tangled up a serum
Tin the first half and it took some