The San Francisco call., 1913-12-08
ATHLETIC 81 q
81 81 CHATTER
BY WILLIAM UNMAcK

The A A. u. of the United States
does not recognize women swimmers
or athletes. The English Swimming
association at it's annual meeting last
month oficially passed and set their
hand and seal thereto to list of
IL 'women's records" All these rec
ords constitute new records for Great
Britain made by girl swimmers Even
though the A. A. U. frowns on girls
competition. 1t is a lead pipe cinch
the organization can not stop the
fair ones,' and We will have this
competition just as long as the world
goes round.
The San Francisco subleague will
hold its regular meeting next
Wednesday afternoon. The basket
ball series will be discussed and then
the big gun viii be fred. The big
noise" will bring out all the Black
stonian tactics that the league has
become famous for. as the point at is
Tue is. Who won the track meet?
Shall it be decided by technicalities?"
y = X
The California Rugby union has
taken its time In organizing the high
schools of the state and it is to be
hoped that next season will find the
union in the field with at least an
idea on the school situation. 1t is up
to the union to help the schools and
The schools are looking to the union
TO do something and il the body wants
the confidence of the schools it is up
to 1t to act. and P D. Q. at that.
x X
The defeat of former World Scull-
ing Champion Dick Arnst in Australia
by Paddon for the championship of
Australia has brought to light another
remarkable Australian oarsman Pad
don is now looked on down under"
as coming worlds champion and his
work against Arnst certainly gives
cause for this theory. Paddon's back
ers have already challenged Barry,
the worlds champion, to defend his
title. Barry is now twixt the devil
and the deep sea- Albany. an English
sculler, has already challenged, but
Barry tried to get out of this owing to
Albany only posting $1,000. Now the
new Australian champ wants to row
Barry in Australia for $4,000 and will
pay the Englishman's expenses. but
Barry says nay, nay, you come to
London.
Eastern athletic clubs are assess
ing their members so cents per year
fnT 1914 1Q1E nd
ing for the purpose Of defraying the
expenses of the American team to the
next Olympaid, at Berlin in 1916 A
number of eastern clubs have started
the assessment, and It is expected to
spread all over the country. The as
sessment per year is not heavy, and II
is about one of the best ways so far
devised to raise the necessary money
to send team 1t is a scheme that
local clubs could take under consid-
Grafton with a. view OF assisting the
A. A. U. in seeing that Uncle Sam is
fully represented at Berlin.
x
Australia is very keen to have Duke
Kahanamoku 4 swim down in the land
of the southern cross, and, further
more, the 'Stralians are pretty cock
sure that they are going to beat the
worlds champion. Here is what the
Sydney Bulletin has to say about the
Duke:
Australia is going to welcome the
dusky Duke Kahanamoku in Deem
| Der, this year. He is universally ad-
mitted to be the worlds topnotch
swimmer, and the fact that he will
take part in the Australasian cham
| pionships meeting on January 8, Z, 10
and 81 and February 2, and also the
Queensland championships on January
| II and "a. is putting the local talent
on it's mettle. Many regulations have
been buried in Australia, and 1t is
quite possible that by the time he is
through the Duke may be a very shorn
and shaven Kanaka."
X
W. J. Howe. well known here as
| Mother" Howe, when he assisted the
California varsity Rugby team in
1909 to its first Rugby victory over
| Stanford was interviewed last month
in Sydney relative to the showing OF
the various teams here against the
! New Zealanders. In part he said:
| Rugby will not deveiope satisfact-
orily in America until the influences
of the professional coach are obliter-
4 ated. The players are worked up to
such a high pitch of nervous tension,
and the varsity game for weeks pre-
vious is referred to in such serious
terms, that players are, in sense.
goaded into regarding it as gladia-
| torial rather than a football contest"
| y
There is q Rugby team across the
| bay composed of deaf mutes. "No
grabbing at the referee" Is one of
| their strictest rules, and 1t is lived
right up to the letter of the law IT
| is a pity that all the teams playing
J the game round the bay do not have
the same rule. However, 1t would
do little good as it would be broken
| every minute. The deaf mutes, how
ever, will throw any of their members
| off the team that breaks the rule.
Referees state that 1t is pleasure to
/ oficiate for the mutes.
y
Ransom Henshaw has been elected
captain of the University of Cali
| fornia golf team for next years sea-
son. Henshaw played a great game
| against Stanford on Saturday, and
virtually won the series by holing a
putt from the edge of the green at
the last hole Of the deciding four
/ somes. T. T. Weldon, another men,
ber Of the blue and gold team, will
be manager next year.