The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-26

is even enthusiastic enough to think
that Charlie is going to get into the
worlds record mark. Though dis
playing a form singularly his own,
Borgstrom is a great pole vaulter.
and the wonder of it is that he is able
to soar to such heights with the awk-
ward and peculiar style.
Southern colleges are already ar
ranging their various track and field
schedules. The season opens earlier
in the south than with us. Francis
Lawson, graduate manager of the Oc
cidental college, has already COM
pleted his schedule. which will include
meets with both Stanford and Cali
fornia. These meets. however, will
be in the form of combined team, as
Occidental and Pomona colleges will
send up the best picked team they
have got. Only the real star of each
college will be selected for the team.
The schedule of events announced by
Manager Lawson is as follows:
January 17-Interclass cross country run.
January 2431-IntercIass track meet.
February 14-Relay carnival for college
teams
February 21-A. A. U. meet at Bovard.
February 2S-High school meet at Occidental
field.
March 7-U S. c. VS.. Oxy. Open.
March 14-High school meet. Practice
March 2l-Pomona VS.. 0xy.
March "a to April 6-Spring vacation. Po-
mona and Occidental track teams will combine
to meet northern colleges in north.
April Combined teams and Stanford.
April 4-Combined teams and California
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Princeton and Cornell will def
nitely meet in shells in the coming
season. The race will be held on
Cayuga lake on May %. This race
was not held last year, as the only
available date coniicted with the
Princeton exercises. In 1911, Cornell
defeated both Princeton and Yale in
a triangular regatta. Yale has been
invited to enter crew in the May
23 race for another triangular re-
gatta.
The New York Evening Mail has
come out with a long story telling
of the merits of our good old Honest
John" Elliott and the great work, he
has done for the amateur game on
this coast The Mail states that it
has 1T on good authority that John
will be put up for president of the
A. A. U next year, and in fact, favors
the candidacy of our man. Looks as
though the coast viii be able to upset
tradition If necessary to get Elliott
elected. 1t has been an unwritten
law that a president holds his posi-
tion for two terms. but Delegate
James gave the easterners full notice
at the last meeting that the coast
would start a boom for a far western
man. Though Elliott has not been
Officially selected by the coast to run
for the position, he is without doubt
the strongest man that the coast
could send up for the berth, and there
is little doubt that when the time
comes we will be able to get the full
support of the two other coast sec
tions and the Hawaiian branch for
the candidacy of Elliott. There are
several of the eastern branches that
are also ready to support Elliott.
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Although game of golf is sup
posed to be played over Is holes. yet
there exists a number of courses
which are irregular. In Great Brit
ain there are a number of them. Skel-
morlie has only IL holes, 6 of which
are replayed in order to make up the
round. Another IL hole course is at
Bude Cliff, near the Cornish coast
Here the score cards are arranged for
only IL holes, which constitute the
round. Years ago. Musselburgh could
offer only holes. while ST. Andrews s
boasted of %. At Nasik, India, the
Royal Western India club has a II
hole course. and one hole is replayed.
In Australia these irregular courses
are not uncommon. Until few years
ago Perth western Australia) had IL
holes; Lindisfarne (Tasmania) had 10,
and at Wellington New Zealand) the
Walraropa and Wellington clubs
each had 13 hole course