Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-19
NINETEEN PACIFIC
 COAST ATHLETES IN
 CHAMPIONSHIP ROLL
Vim. Unrnack Co. Complies structive Book on Athletic Records, Trotting, Pacing and Other Sports.

SAN FRANCISCO, March IS. - That nineteen Pacific coast athletes are the holders Of worlds recards is brought out ia book Of Pacific coast records which has just been compiled and published by William Unmack of San Francisco. chairman of the Hcc- ords Committee of the Pacific Assoc.a- tion of the Amateur Athletic Un'cn. They are as follows:
 Tennis-William Johnston and Car ence J. Griffin.
 Swimming-Ludy Langer, D-1e Kahanamoku and George Cunha.
 Track-Fred Murray, George Psrk- CT, Dan Kelly, Ralph Rose, Forrest Smithson, Fred Kelly, L, ,Beeson, Hcw- ard Drew and Patrick Donovan.
 Cycling-Hans Ohrt.
 ShoUting-G. Armstrong, J. E. Cor man, Nj. c. Laughlin and W. r. Blasse.
 The book includes complete records of past performances made by Pacific coast athletes and teams, both ana teur and professional, in all branches of sport. including baseball, yachting, motor boat racing, tennis, basketball, American football. rugy football, a5- sociation football, cricket, boxing cy. cling, trotting and pacing, bowling, billiards and pool, golf, rowing and revolver and rife shooting. All kinds of statistics are included.
 Among these it is shown that Stock ton defeated Lodi in 1903 in the .lcng- este game of baseball played on the coast. It went 25 innings are resulted in to 1 score. Ping Bodie of the San Francisco Pacific coast league is credited with the greatest number of home runs scored in a season. The greatest number of strikeouts in one game is accorded to Charlie Shields of Seattle in a game against Portland when he retired 19 men on July 8, 1905 at Portland.
 The first college baseball game on the coast was played between the teams of St. Mary's and Santa Clara in 1873 and was played at San Mateo and won by the former club by a score of 10 to 1.
 The trOtting and pacing statistics were compiled by William Neal and includes the fastest performers of each gait and sex bred in the coast states, including Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
 fact believed to be little known is shown in the cycling records. There are number of Spokane men who still retain records which they made as far back as 1899 and earlier.
 brief history Of golf on the coast together with a list of the Pacific coast champions is compiled by Jack Neville, the present coast champion
 Tennis is handled by John c. Rchlfs. secretary of the Pacific States Tennis Association, and includes coast, state and college champions together with brief biographies of coast stars who earned international reputation.
 Coast rowing takes in the inter collegiate and club champions in four and eight cared shells and barges since its inception.
 The achievements of swimmers around the Seal Rocks, the Golden Cate, San Francisco Bay, Seattle liar bor, the Willamette River. the Pan anna Canal, Honolulu and other points are included in the regular compila- ti0ns Of the standard races. ParticL- lar attention is paid to the records made by women, in which the volume is considered the most complete ever published.
 Photographs Of the champions in each department are used to head the various chapters. The book will be published annually.