The San Francisco call., 1913-11-25

/ tangle is for the teams to 'sbe sports
and make the best OF it. The affair IL
as bad for Lowell as it is for Lick.
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Earle Crabbe showed what he Is
made of in the recent cross country
race. The plucky varsity two miller
can go his regulation route with the
best of them in these precincts, but
the AZ mile grind was a little too
much for him with such distance men
as Millard and Wickhoff. Crabbe
dropped far behind after the two miles
had gone by, and 1t was in the last
mile that he showed his fighting spirit
and came through in great style, TAX
/ ing third place, which at one time
looked hopeless for him. The gink
that has the right spirit and Is will
ing to fight will always get there.
| Nevada university has started an
innovation in basket ball Manager
Ross is progressive and has started
plans for holding an interscholastic
I tournament. which will be open to all
high schools of the sagebrush state
Schools from 16 towns have already
accepted the invitation TO participate
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Tt would be quite an innovation
and popular one with the public
| if California and Stanford were to
have a race for the single shells
championship of the two colleges. II
could be worked In with tho big
eight cared race to advantage and
should create considerable excite
ment. There are number of men on
each varsity squad who would make
good in the sculling event.
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George Hodgson of McGill univer-
| sity, Canada, and one OF the fastest
! swimmers In the world, will not swim
/ in dual meets in this country during
the coming season. Hodgson was
practically the whole McGill team
and with a series of dual meets the
great swimmer has found it too
much of a strain to be expected to
go in and win five or six races every
time he started. Last year against
American intercollegiate record OF
5S2-5 seconds for the centuryA
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The All-America track and field
team arrives at the island OF Tahiti
today and will have a workout All
the boys have been doing stunts on
the steamer in preparation for the
invasion OF the antipodes. and a good
workout on shore today will help
some. The team Is due in New Zeal
and Thursday week.
The San Francisco subleaguo is an
example Of where the tail wags the
dog.
If one of the teams of the Pacific
Coast Baseball league were "a frv
and wag President Baum and his
associates-well, you could see the
teams finish.
That public sentiment is with the
Rugby code of football was amply
exemplifed Saturday at the stadium
A game of the old style was being
played by teams from the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons and the af-
| filfated colleges. Probably 1000 peo-
pie were watching the contest. At 8
o'clock the Barbarian and Univer-
sity of California teams came out to
| play q game Of Rugby. The old
| game was deserted in a minute and
the crowd thronged to the Rugby
game. Before the first half was com
pleted more than 1000 people were
watching the Rugby game and less
than 20 were in attendance at the
old game.
This lad Wickhoff showed some
| thing Of the form, pace and ability
! In Saturdays cross country cham
| pionship that earned him the repu-
tation as one Of the best distance
men of the Ohio university team
The Olympic club has got hold of q
| good one in Wfckholff