The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1899, Page 2

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1899. RARLI SCI HUDSON, FAMOUS GOAL-KICKER, T WOMBLE PLOCKED A FEW FEATHERS/ FOR Hiy 5 CAP. FoR THE ToMAHAWIK E BARECY DEFEAGS QACIFORNIA S SRS we SRt et et e et eN e NN Nt dre npticed, 1 the field so splendidly eral admiration X upposed to be good for d goals in a game, did fence, to the Clearly, the Ind A few minut \ r the Califarnians ring, but ation the obje regu the brilliant play of th g awful might opponents. tain Whee! President Benjamin Ide at became o velis of ©on the fleld. In the fir me from Scrimmages the a the Berkeley- the California formation were so closur slow ; but it was number of little drop kicking, once putting the pigskin:over the givine soiz delight of the crowd. were in great fettle. ap- peared on the field, and shortly afterward, tion ard the Indians, some- t of the spherc ing of Hudson, lined up against 371 ck of the Indians having with his broken ribs, won the toss, kicked the ball into a pl ce at times that reds nford men and whites were lald out indiscriminately two or three =ame sort of stage fright that on Thanks- ed the Stanford players. They soon found, however, ghat they could make good resistance u! the line-bucking of the reds and they got to themselves in short order and began playing magnificent It learned wyipout preliminary practice, lined up for fooehall their partisans yelling them- saw Call- kick-off. The selves hoarse when they were not gasp- st Kind made objection to ing open-mouthed at the brilllant exhibl- claimed, nd Hon had been accustomed. Just about this time when things were theirs be substituted. going well for the Californians came the mishap that cost them the game. With the ball In their possession on thelr 20- yard line, they formed up for a fake The signal was given and the ball to Cornish, who, having mistaken . tossed where he thought Kaars- 1d have been. The fullback, of was another position, and Cornish’s mistake sent the ball over-the California line between the goals: Loud groans were heard as the parti- passe r i Shees e uns of Berkeley saw one of the Indians od that Stanford men furious that men were knoe ik a2 : at the bottom of them. The retorts, Spun on their heads before they e ‘}jnr <5 m{‘ ?\m msn‘-m“e"?h": ther deserved or not, were short, sharp into play. It appeared to everybody that - Over the line it would count five agalns derisive, one of them, ‘Oh, you lob- the boys from Berkeley could not stand them. He seemed to be on top of it, when being intend ed as a reminder to s sort of attack for »mething red had and the nksgiving day. freely predic: splendid, and the It w despite statements to the contrary, skins- in splendid shape. The game itself ling E Jerkeley. It was undoubtedly fetietietiotie ACTING CAPTAIN HALL GIVES HIS VIEW OF THE CONTEST AP FTER yesterday's game with the Carlisle Indians, Percy Hall, left \ half and acting captain of the U. C. team, sald: y “It was the best game ever played on this coast and the hardest in which Berkeley has participated in years. The Thanksgiving game was mild in comparison. The outcome of to-day’s contest proves that ia team is at least better than the Columbia College eleven and t to cope with the big four of the East. "he Indlans did not have the team work that I expected to see In their play. They were no stronger in that line than we were. Both elevens P 1 a good square gam le would not have scored when she did but for the mistake in signals which happened in the first half. The signal was for a fake kick nd run around the left end, but Cornish mistook it and snapped it back to Kaarsberg for a regular kick, and as Pete was running to complete the play it flew past him. I think we played fully good a defensive game as the Indians. Metoxen was the only man who could gain ground for them, d he bucked the tackles more than he did the center. Wheelock put up nest exhibition, both In line bucking and punting. Hudson’s Kkicking was much of a disappointment to me. “I think Dibble was not strict enough on his off-side plays. In the first half he should have pe lized the Indians when one of their men was pal- pably off His explanation to me s that as long as a man did not interfere with the actual play he would not rule that he was offside. “The field was quite a little better than on Thanksgiving day, but a trifle slippery under foot. The ground might have been firmer. The cheering was greatly encouraging to the team. W were surprised at the ¢volume of nd, as we thought most of the boys were home eating Christmas din- , but it seems they did not desert us, nor did we desert them. Every an in the team played hard to uphold the reputation of the college and the State.” STttt tie e . 't inability to withstand the red- s results showed—that was troub- velieteN e 2ie ietietietietietie ot etietietie %O et 0% et " Bt tie NN tietetetiene g 1y length of time Xaarsberg dived past him and scored a afety, a saving of three points as gainst the Indians, but a loss of two to fornia. s mis ortune cast a gloom over the the crowd and seemed to be the beginning of the end for Berkeley. The darkness was only momentary, however, as the Cali- fornians, apparently undaunted by the mishap, proceeded to play harder, faster, m .« brilliantly than ever, and to hustle the ball into the Indian territory, where kept it most of the remaining time half. ball was kept constantly on the nd straight football the game, with d then a trick play that invariably had little effect. It was buck and scrim- mage and kick and punt, California’s de- fensive play being a revelation to their friends and their opponents. They wera not only holding their own but they were puzzling the redskins as they never prob- ly had been puzzled before. They un- doubtedly thought their medicine was bad. An evidence of this was glven just before the close of the first half, during one of the interruptions in the play, when Dr. Montezuma was bringing to Miller, the Carlisle right half, who was not up to the bruising he was recelving from Wom- ble and Hall. Out from one of the bunches on the northern side line trotted one of the Indlan subs in the direction of the players. As he did so he made what looked like some sort of mysterious sign with his right forefinger and passed over to the south side line, along which he ran for twenty yards. He circled around without any apparent reason and trotted back to his bench. That performance may have been meai- cine-making, or mere Injun play, but it certainly did look peculiar, although ft had no apparent effect during the half, as, try as they would and try as they did, the bucks could make Uttie headway gainst the superb plays of California. DID N'T EARN HIS SALARY, EAUNNHTAY D AN DR ." F‘qA"%"‘JA“E"-"fi*E o RIES HIS TRICK BUT Table Showing the Manner of Players Against ! same w s Py Whom California Eleven Made Such count for a num it v th es to score X certainly as good for one team as for the . in California territory in all but borregs o f«:m istabhition of ¢itmblks a Splendid Stand. Antes 6 the “tne ould indicate as much. ? 1 it was beautifully i S SRR Eroeaening the pamis | @/E OSEbAr 14/ < el ncXCRTIsla &s o 116 Penmeylvania s » 5. g Sl It w commenced ahead of schedule time. The ¢ October 28 . . , Carlisle , , 10—Harvard . . , . 22 s to score and redskins appe st on the f ~: November 4 . o o Carlisle , . 32—Hamilton . . , 0 % many ‘.‘.“,‘:,, ,v; it 3y Shipr S0 vy fime. §¢ November 11 . . Carlisls , . O—Princeton . , .12 g thetthecrowd] 84, e ke the phenom. & November 25 . . Carlisle . . 81—Oberlin . ., , . 0 & forthe srand c enal little quarter, turned a couple of 3 November30. ', , Carlisle , . 45—Columbia . , . O &% Again and handsprings before he got ir N DIy % December 25 . . Carlisle . . 2—California . . . 0 & together with heavy t tice, the aborigines passing up and down 6. a; and after almost e P c e85 " 5 S £ age each side had groaning men on the © ¢ BN ANt e e e NN e et N e e e e 00 o @ (nEC cach side had g g . ¢ - - — - — = Qdevelop winning powers In the second ~3 ALIFORNIA Had it bee avy .\Iv:;l‘ll.\ i = 2 2 that they possessed « Ir re rs and it p % e R 3 CARLISLE VS. EASTERN TEAMS &=, ) sugh till the Y braves ch less vigorous peated than in the first half It was not =0 much so ground. It was one of the hardest games the Hudson tried a couple of times to kick a wards of the Government had ever been fleld goal. Once when his kick was true against and they Phov;'\-d it f‘-\l;l)'ldl’r;nlh: he was caught by Kaarsberg. The other half by getting together and holding a time he kicked without the goal posts, POWWOW In the center of the field. What Time and again the husky Red Water and Medicine they concocted Ik harvee the sturdy Metoxen were sent at the Calj- known and did not n{!etF t .-lu:m. h fornia line, sometimes for short gains, (hoUSH it undoubicdly caused a gTe more times for none. The reds also lost Many sore spots on the an the ball several times on downs and fum. fornia and caused a little later t bles. ment of The doughty rig! All through this first half the Califor- Dod 10 Pe injured fwice Before nians pla; one man and, after that ook his place. Clay. the left t costly “safety,” steadily and briiliantly. was against Whee They tried few trick p A couple’of was almost v tna stayed with the game. ey vt over the lind with o, e faw rtiag, aftér Call his celebrated kangaroo jump. It was fornia had lost Smith, were ‘compe no novelty to the Indians. They had meot retire the phenomenal Hudson, who ha it first with Weeks, the fullback of Co- got a final severe bruising at the hands lumbia, and, not only learned to smother of the Berkeleyites. Roberts took his it, but Metoxen had picked it up so suec- place. cessfully that he worked it several times alf a dozen times in the last fifteen on California for small galns. It would minutes the Indians were so dangerously be rather hard to pick out the men in the close to a goal that it seemed that they California who were playing the best ball. could kick it without trouble. Things All aid phenome work, but Womble, jooked blue for their opponents, but they Hall, Smith, Pringle and Masters were byckled to and aid not fall, and with tha particularly distinguishable. The blue pall in the hands of the redskins on their and gold right end In spite of the fact 3.yard line, the whistle blew and the of under training was always at the right game over, the Indians having failed place at the right time and he always to add to the fruits of California’s first counted. Of Masters, it was said by a W a fumble. Berkeleylte, “Why, that fellow would It was a game that even the most en- tackle a comet.” He pulled down more thusiastic footbM! enthuslasts may not than one Indian. hope to see the like of in years in any It was predicted that the Indlans would country. [ Rl e R R RN u.'o-;.sz.;s. Betistefietisietietietistietietionie @ 2 WHEELOCK TELLS WHY THE & INDIANS DID NOT SCORE 3 + & B & HEELOCK, captain of the Carlisle Indian team, made the following % statement : y “'We expected a hard game with the California team, but they proved g & stronger eleven than we thought they were. Our team had not lined up % since Thanksgiving day, and coupled to that, we played on a field far too soft 8 and with a ball which is larger than that used in the East, with which we are & accustomed to play. Our inability to score against the Berkeley men was due 3 oihe three reasans enumerated. ‘I don't think we piayed as we did against & Golumbla. Had the men been In better shape there Is no doubt in my mind that our showing against our opponents would have been far better. We g did our best and tried hard to score, but the resistance we met was ns stubborn as it was eurprising. Had a ‘Spalding’ football been used instead 5% of a ‘Victor' there would have been little or no fumbling on our side. Th 3 members of the team are used to handling the Spalding ball, which is much smaller and heavier. The ball used during the game was called a ‘California & * ] + F * & * & * 4 . ¢ Fd + ® pumpkin’ by our men, because of its size and weight. We are In the habit of playing on harder ground, and it was, therefore, impossible for the team to work as fast as it has heretofore. Hudson's absence from the game in the latter part of the second half was keenly noted. He always lends con- fidence and inspires the men to greater efforts. was not appreclated as much, because we were able to put in a fast substitute, The California team 1s composed of a ot of good players and would do well against some of East. Hall at left half and Grelsberg at left guard play. may come back next year, and In the event we do we will be in better con- dition to meet the California team. We will certainly not play on a fleld as soft as the one on which we played to-day. things being equal we ought to defeat the Miller’'s . absenc CAN YOU GUYS "Buck. THE TIGER LIKE You 2 the teams of the ed fine games. We With a firmer footing and other Berkeley team by a good score.” SRALINIR LNt e et oo lie Betetetiotiotiotiotiotiotiotiotioti e CADWALLADER, WENT IN To / ECSTASIES ER THE GAME - ¥ GGLED WITH MILLER'S leNqA COLUMN