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Show j . j I'.VCII'IO SPOUTS SKItVICIi By William Unmack ' . At tho end of the first week's play of tho Pacific Coast baseball league, tho Sau Francisco Seals led the other oth-er seven clubs batting averages with a percentage ot .315', Portland and Oakland brought up the rear with .210. Couch, S. F., with two victories victor-ies was the leading pitcher. Several men with ono and two games led the batting with 1.000 por cent, but Chadbourno of Vernon .with five games was the logical best man with 474 per ceni.) ( ' Twlco wRhln two weeks Clarence "Bud" llauser the Oxnnrd, Cal., high I school boy has cracked coast record In the discus and 12-pound shot events. ev-ents. Two weeks ago ho broke the .127-foot discus mark made by. Uag-nnrd Uag-nnrd of Pasadena and set new flg-urea flg-urea with 127 feet 3 Inches and last Saturday ut Santa Barbara ,. broke' this with 145 feelV Inches. Be-stdes Be-stdes being a coast scholastic mark Uils also breaks the mark of 139 feet 5 lt8 Inches by Byrd or Campaign, Cam-paign, III., In 1910. s ' I Tho othef coast mark broken last Saturday by Hauser Is the shot put with a now mark of 33 feet 8 1-2 inches, this displacing the record of ! that greatest of all shot putters whose roast mark was 52 feet 8 1-2 I Inches mndo In 1903. Tho world's record for this weight shot is, 55 feet 0 inches held by Arllo Mucks ot , Oskosh, Wis., made In 1907, It looks as though llauser Is, ono of tho bott shot put prospects that tho coast has produced slnco the days of Rose ami his dlbous performance Is also start-ling. start-ling. ' i B-- Tho Intercollegiate rowing race at Oakland, Cal., has only one prior raco to compare with It for closeness of tho finish. Last Saturday Stanford Stan-ford beat Washington by only five foot Jn tha remarflnblq time ot $ I for tho three mllos. In 1911 Stan- r ford beat California by a scant halt i length In 14 minutes 5 seconds. The Stanford time Is J ho fastest that any coast crew has rowed thrco miles and sands as tho recmd .though It iwas rowed over a different course. Saturday's timo will stand as tho rccoid for that course until broken. California oarsmen will continue their training though for the next two weeks very little work will be done. The latter part of liny the crew in charge of, Coach Hen Wnllls will leave for tho east and will race Ptincoton June 4th an,i n week later will enter tho American Intorcollegl-ate Intorcollegl-ate championships at Poughkcepsle. It Is the strongest crew California hus over produced and Is probably llift fastest crow, except tho Stanford l911, that has ever been turned out) here. While California varsity track team was expected to win from Michigan, Mich-igan, not even tho most enthusiastic Bitpporter of western athletics Vver expected to witness such n genuine ( trouncing as Michigan got. Last yyar Illinois only lost to California In tho relay race which decided tho moot, but last Saturday Michigan dia not have a look In and only won two ovonts. Tho Wolverines were con-j con-j ceded big points in all field events I but California upset all the dope and '0 oulscored tho visitors in theso, while In the track events Michigan only jl scored 19 points. The final score was tfl J 5 to 43 la favor ot tho Pacific coast jfl representative college. '1 |
