The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-19

With an immense stadium at the ex-
position, however, there is bound to
be room for an international series.
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It has been claimed by one Jack
Burk that he was the first man to
invent and use the crouch start" or
all four method of starting that track
athletes use today. 1t is quite pos
sible that Burke got down on all fours
in 1882, as he states. but 1t might be
interesting to him to know that the
writer has positive evidence that the
method was used as far back as 1858,
and that George Seward used to use
style in 1884 that resembled the
crouch method. Jack Is In San Fran
cisco at the present time. and IL he
would come in to The Call office the
writer would be glad to talk over the
situation with him and tell him who
the man was that used the method in
1868.
Since Joe Collins and James White
of the Olympic club have returned
from participating In the worlds
handball tourney in Brooklyn they
are ready to play all comers. The
duet has issued a challenge to play
Condor and Lydon. the clubs cham
pion team. Incidentally Condor and
Lydon have laid claim to the coast
honors for the last five years. Col
Inns and White, however. played bang
UP ball In the worlds championships
at Brooklyn and went right through
to the finals, where they were de-
feated by Dunno and Kelly. who took
the title. II the match Is arranged 1t
he ho ra1a on q SUNDAY
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The disbanding of the Public Schools
league or the curtailing Of It's work In
any way would be calamity to the
local school boys and girls Eustace
Peixotto has made the league what 1t
is today and his work has systema-
tized the league to such an extent
that the Dement'S derived are greater
than ten times the amount appropri
ated every year by the board of edu-
cation.
Twenty-Five riders will participate
in the midwinter FIVE mile handicap
race, which will be decided by the
riders of the New Century wheeimen
next Sunday on the Stadium track.
The race will be started at o'clock.
ommittee-consistin of Captain
Alec Mcdonald, AL Benefit. George
McGrath and w. Hammitt-will have
charge of the event. At the annual
meeting OF the club last night the
following officers were elected for the
1914 season: Leslie Rennis. president;
H. Ohrt, financial secretary; L. Drury,
secretary; A. j. Borner, treasurer; A.
Mcdonald. captain; George McGrath.
w. Rhodes. L. Drury and III. Ohrt, race
committee.
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The Olympic club will have soccer
football team in the field next season
and preliminary arrangements have
already been made to put a team IN
the field before the close of the
present season. The club team as
soon as it Is organized will play a
series of games with both Stanford
and California universities.
There is a general trend the coun-
try over to eliminate the professional
coach and trainer in various forms of
sports. Dad Moulton states that this
policy at Stanford was one of the
main reasons for handing in his
resignation 1t will be interesting
to see how the system at Stanford
works out. There Is no reason why
the student body coaching should not
be a success. There Is the incentive
Of the big track meet to work for
and the student loyalty will be the
means of every man giving his best.
At the same time there are many
things that a professional trainer
knows and can tell his men, that
proves beneficial in the long run
The Stanford system will be closely
watched for the next few years.
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For many months the colleges OF
the east have been considering the
advisability OF keeping coaches away
from their teams when playing q
game or participating In q track
meet. williams has even gone so far
as try the experiment. and In the
coming baseball season the coach will
not be allowed on the players bench
or anywhere near the team. Many
other colleges are following suit and
now Harvard IL agitaing the same
thing. If Harvard or Yale set their
seal OF approval on such thing the
system will become general the coun-
try over. Though colleges hate to
admit 1t. Harvard and Yale are the
little tin gods OF the college athletic
world. It is q case of follow the
leader once Harvard or YalA start
things
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