The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1902, Page 11

THE ‘SUNDAY | CALL. OWEVER much there has been aid about the growing opposition to athletics for college women, the fact remains that sports of all kinds have taken @ mew boom at Berkeley. Never before have outdoor games been 5o popular with the girls, be- cause pernaps never before has there been SHOOTING FOR A BULL!S Fyr. such a very high order of excellence. No one who hag been watching the trend of events during the past year alone can have the slightest doubt of this staiement, for wkile basket ball has been the leading feature of athletics for girls at Berkeley for nearly a generation past, tennis, arch- ery and boating have practically just f‘\ab\% BIRKELEY TEAM come existence at the university. And that they have come to stay was amp! demonstrated by the splendid success the entertainment—Gibson girl living pict- ures and the progressive dinner given last Baturday for the benefit of the ath- letic fund. 3 This money will be used to clry& out the . pians of the Tennis Cludb to bufld a new court in Hearst grove near the basket ball court, as well as to purchase a new boat for the Boating Club, which, though but very recently formed under the manage- ment of Miss Tallulah Le Conte, now has 2 membership of thirty-five college girls. The present plan is to secure a light but serviceable fouf-oared barge at once, with the possibility of following it with a sec- ond boat in the near future, so that a racing regatta may be held among the members on the Alameda estuary, where the boats will be kept ana where the girls will row at least twice a week. But perhaps the best evidence of the growing popularity of outdoor sports among the girls at Berkeley is the’ fact that a committee is now at work prepar- ing plens for a convention of delegates from all the Pacific Coast teams, which includes all the girls’ schools, both public and private hereabouts, to consider the formation of an amateur basket ball league. The purpose of the league will be to es- tablish a uniformity of playing rules. Un- til the convention meets no dates will be arranged for the match games which are ustally held during the second half-year. If one were to judge by the upward trend of basket ball alone,” the recérd made by Berkeley is a brilliant one. The Untversity of California team ‘since its early existence has in-the main been victorious, having been defeated only three times In thirteen years. It has met teams from Miss West's School, Miss- Head’s Seminary, the Girls’ High, the Lowell High, Oakland and Alameda High schools and Redwood City High School. Among its most worthy opponents are Stanford University, Mills College, Stock- ton High and Nevada State University. In 1900 Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst equipped a most complete gymnasium at Berkelcy and later built a basket ball court adjom- ing Hearst Hall, as the gymnasium is called, after the most approved ideas. This court is well drained and covered thickly with tanbark. The fleld is sur- rounded by an amphitheater of seats for the spectators. ‘With the best possible equipment of the day the present season of 192 opens ‘with over fifty names on the membership roll of the Girle’ Basket Ball Club. Out of these have been organized a junior, soph- omore and two freshmen teams. The varsity will be made up of the best players from these four teams. The po- sitions on the varsity will be contested for with much spirit, ahmnny excellent play- ers of the entering‘€lass have been added to the roll. The present college team will be taken up chiefly with interclass games, the first of which—sophoifiores vs, fresh- men—was played on Hearst Hall court on September 27. % ¢ The ‘Archery Club came into existence with the reorganization of the women's nthlen' under sports and vastimes in the year 1800., With no equipment, nor prospect of any, the future of the club sistance by loaning the necessary pars- President Sports and was, for a time, very uncertain. Mr. What the feimimieleiiie Harold Havens, however, cams to its as- phernalia, and, during the first part of Xindly sssisted as ossah. t the elud is fully , arrows, wrist bands and tar- gets. It has attained great popularity. The membership is limited to twenty. The members are required to devots two hours each week to individual work, and to come together once each week to take part in competitive practice. The practices have been facilitated this year by having the target hung perma~ jgnently in the basket-ball court. The officers are Miss Faith Shoup, man- ager, and Miss Myra Darke, fleld captain. The office of fleld captain is of recent cre- ation, made necessary by the increasing popularity of the club. Her duties are to arrange for individual practice and to keep score at the competitive mestings. The club is very enthusiastic over the outlook for this year's work. The mem- bers are now engaged in active practice in view of a tournament to be held in the mear future. And though the tennis elub has accom~ &}:M wonders in such a brief space of e the chief difficulty in the way of more rapld progress is the sad lack of & tennis court of its own. This con- dition of affairs has compeiled the mem- Ders to practice on private courts wher- ever that was possible or to use the court in “Co-ed Canyon,” which is sadly in need of repair before fast work can be done on it. The prospective new court, however, will remove this difficulty In the way of = brilllant future. The Girle’ Tennis Club was formed in the year 1301 with = membership of fifty. The members became very enthusiastic. Practices were held daily on the court in Co-ed Canyon, the final outcome of which was & tournament held in the month of February, When the finals wers played Miss Ethel Ratcliff proved her right to be called the champlon. The next event was the challenging of Stanford and Mills College. Both accepted, but owing to a misunderstanding, Mills - only was played. In this game Berkeley proved herself much the stronger and Mills was badly defeated. This year the tennis club has proved even more popular and the members even more enthusiastic. Interclass ‘t:;m- ments havs already been arran tor under the mianagement of the club pres- ident, Miss Ethel Ratcliff, ’05. Also & committes has been appointed to chal- lenge Stanford University. The commit- tes consists of Miss Irens Hagzard and Miss Gladys Wigkson. GRACE BARNETT, Pastimes Club, Berkeley. i O New Census Figures Show Concerning Our Bachelors and Spinsters. HE bachelor and spinster columns of the new census are out of bal- ance. Pooh! They always are, you say, jumping at your own conclusions. But not so fast. Here is a blow for the parties of the first part, good .news for the parties of the second part, and a surprise for every- body concerned and not corcerned. The over-supply swings heavily on the bachelor side by something over two and a half million. In round numbers there are 2,531,333 more marriageable. bachelors than maids {n the’ United States. Any one who does not believe it may subtract 4,185,446, the exact number of un- married women of 20 years of age and over, from 6,726,779, the number of bach- elers ‘of the same age, and—be sorry he tbi:d not believe and save himself the trou- e. These are the census man’s figures, and if the census man let any one get away, be ‘it man or woman, that one is too slippery to rank as a matrimonial possi- bility . and might as well be counted out. So now let everybody save the pity he has been wont to squander wipon. spin- sters. It is a waste of charitable emo- tion. If pity there must be, let it be directed toward bachelors. They, poor fellows, are the ones who could not marry if'they would, for the very good if simple reason that there are not enough women to go round: not even if all the widows in the country and girls down to 17 years of age ‘were called into requisition. . Of course, there are mates for some- thing over four .million of the bachelors, but who is to know which are to be: the two ‘and a half million left-overs? There is no way to singie them-out, so we must just simply pity everything that's male and unmated. 4 Nor s the man surplus a local condi- tion. Quite the reverse. There is not a State from Maine to California, from ‘Wasbington to Florida, that does not show a majority of unmarried men. . Of course, the proportion varies; still a ma- Jority is a majority, whether big or-lit- [tle. Even ‘Massachusetts, ‘the spinster ronghold, has an over-supply of 5221 single men; States show a still larger proportion of unattached masculinity. “Tennessee . But it is in the West that the man crop is enormously in: excess of the women. In' California, for example, 239,504 bachelors and only 88, ere are single AN OFFICIAL REPORT. Following are the mnew census figures showing the number of bachélors and spinsters of 20 years and upward in all the States of the Unjom: Bachelors.Spinsters. 75,623 ,G02Z 2,988 e = Colorado 3% 2 Connecticu: 74731 Delaware . . au 11,612 Dll(.‘;I Columbia. - D28 Kentucky louisiana Maine ..... Maryland ..... Mussachusetts Michig: d the other New England W women of 20 years and over—more than twice enough men to go round, if they were shuffied up and dealt out to the spcuseless. In Idaho the ratio is § to 1, there being 22421 bachelors and 3556 spinsters. Mon- tana comes along with a fraction over 7 to 1, and Wyoming marches away with the banner with just nine unmarried men to dvery single woman of this so-called marriageable age, though by what right the limit s set at twenty years it Is htrfl to decide. Since this soclological question bhas taken a mathematical turn, there is no use stoppiug this side of the bald, math- ematical truth, though It does lead to the consideration of fractions of human beings, which are always suggestive of morgues and rallroad accidents. According to the census man’s figures, then, there is a trifie more than three- fifths of a woman for each man, provid- ed he gets his honest share and no more. On the other hand, there are one and three-fifths men to each woman, and this- without taking into account widow- ers, who are perhaps as eligible, and at all ‘events as much given to marrying as the average bachelor. It is to be hoped no one is going te feel called upon to demand his or her exact share; but somehow this figuring seems to give the spinster a new status. The woman who remains unyoked where there are enough men and to spare is miles removed from the one who remains that way because there are mot enough. It is the everlasting, uncompro- mising, world-wide difference between can but won’'t and would but can’t. And now for the next decade, until the census man has had time to readjust his figures, we will do away with the faded, time-worn picture of the traditional spin- ster, mostly angles and sour grapes. It will no longer be a case of “any one, geod Lord, will do”; but rather, “I don’t know, good Lord, whether this one will do or not. Let's ses what else there s , to offer.” For a decade girls can pick and choose, can turn down right and left, ¢an play with hearts right merrily, while men are having a life-and-deatl, -bargain counter scramble to get a wife before the supply glves out. Meanwhile, Congress might help mat- ters by amending the immigration laws so that only women might enter the country.