Durand correspondence with his brother

and the fourth was another heavy flat bottom boat which was rowed by two fellows, each rowing one oar and sitting in the same seat. It might have been so fun as Patterson, who won, was hard pushed on the home stretch for most of the way by one of the skifs but just in front of the crowd they both lost themselves and ran into the bank and the man in the skif in his hurry to get away caught a crab and lost his oars. and Patterson went over the line by himself. The other skif gave up before getting to the stake, and the two rowers came in about five minutes behind, pulling as though they were winning a great race. The swimming match was much the same and the polo game in the water turned into a base ball game of throwing the ball and trying to keep it away from the other side. I got disgusted here and didn't wait for the tub race. I saw enough in the morning and didn't go to the farce in the P.M. and was thankful I didn't afterwards, as it was of little account. I didn't think much of the plot to start with. The scene was laid in a fraternity house. A good boy comes to college and joins the frat, which was sporty and he follows their example and shortly after he receives a telegram from his mother saying she is to arrive at a certain time with a yound lady, who he is in love with, and it turns out that this young lady, who was formerly very quiet

has became a regular flirt and so all ends apparently well. The greatest success was the "hop" in the evening. I didn't go but stayed home and worked all day on my thesis and finished the mathematical part in the evening which relieves me very much, as I have been working for six weeks or more on it and it comes out just as I was wishing it might. It is on the distribution of loads in a steel footing for high buildings and I can now show that the present method is theoretically very incorrect. About ten o'clock Hethrington and I went over to see what we could see at the hop. As no one was allowed in the galleries we climed [climbed] up on a shed on a lower part of the gym and tore holes in the curtains and watched the fun for about an hour. It was a very pritty [pretty] party indeed. There were a great many strangers there, & especially many young ladies from the city, which made it much brighter that it would have been otherwise. They danced until after three in the morning I believe. I must go to church now and will finish the account of yesterday when I get home again. It is a cold disagreable day

with a strong wind blowing and the dust is awful. The building was so cold that I didn't stay to chaple but came home after Prof. [Thurbans?] bible class. Tonight I am to play my flute at the YMCA meeting as Mr Harnssen and some others ae to speak. Well to return to yesterday the Berkeley boys arrived here at 10:00 and we started the tournament in immediately. [?] was beaten by [Deuburn?] of U.C. 7-5, 6-3, 6-3, but Ellis won his match 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 giving us the only match we have won this year. I got mad on Thursday the way things are running in doubles and haven't played since. I made arrangements with Ellis to play doubles with him and on Monday we went out to practice, when [B?] said he wanted to play with Ellis so I gave up and Cochrane, a Fee Gee as is [B?], and I played against them and Cochrane and I won. Tuesday we played the same way again and they won but we were just even in games and sets so Ellis and I tried together and we beat [B?] and Cochrane. Then [B?] got mad because I wanted to play in the doubles as I had a perfect right to it, and there was a row I said if playing wasn't going to decide it I would

have anything to do with it. Some Fee Gees were there an they of course thought [B?] right to play, as he is certainly the best individual player here. I decided that the only way to decide it was to play on Thursday a tournament for all teams wishing to enter. Thursday came and [B?] and the Fee Gees made up their minds that they wanted to have the whole team, so [B?] and Cochrane played together against Ellis and Packard who had never played together before and [B?] & C. on by a score of 8-6 only one set and them claimed they had the contest. I didn't hear of this until later A.M. when I was at the court. I then raised a row and claimed they had no right to it & the executive committee backed me. It finally resulted in our defaulting in doubles but I won my first and Cochrane and I were appointed the team to play. Cochrane acted so rotten about the

that I refused to play with him and so it finished. Rice - the managing editor of the daily paper - asked me to write the matches up so I had a good chance to put things in just as they were about doubles but I don't know what will be published yet as rice is a Fee Gee. I shall resign the presidency of the club next week in account of work. I have the backing of the whole student body as more than a dozen students not directly interested in Tennis came to me yesterday and say that this intracollegiate was something that the whole university was interested in and it was my place as president to put myself into play anyway that Cochrane and I won the [?] team and should not let my putting myself forward make any difference, but I thought it best to do as I did and am perfectly satisfied. The ball game resulted in a victory for Stanford by score of 16 to 12. It was a very loose game as the score shows but lots of fun as there was a great deal of hard hitting and our out fielders did some fine work. In the first inning we piled up six runs every man coming to bat and then Berkeley got there