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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1908)
THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1908. Bp TOOMMt ARMS , 1-. OF ITS? nccitib iNWF-snr 4 mmm-m1 '11 rflni'fcPnTT ,,,y,fy. . .... 1 " 1 f HJ If' L 1 I I .lw ... ' Br Graree W. McMillan. IX February, 1SS1, through the efforts of a few individuals who were inter ested in clean sport the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club was organized. It had for its first president A. B. McAlpin, who has at several elections since been chosen Its president and is at the present time one of its active members. There are a great many men who were active members In the early history of the Mult nomah Club, the most notable amonsst them were L. J. Goldsmith-, W. M. Lip man, Dr. A. B. McKay and a score of others who are still actively engaged in athletics. The club has prospered from the time of its organization; It has not always beeen strong financially, but its member ship was composed and always has been composed of representative young men of the city. H. E. Judge, W. H. Chapln, George L. Blckel, A. M. Ellsworth. James 31. Murphy. Edward Cooklngham and Colonel Charles E. McDonell are men who have given much of their time to furthering the interests of the Multnomah Club, and they are to this day solicitous as to its welfare. These were the men who laid the foundation for the present club. The Multnomah Club was organized with about 14 members, and today has over 1100. . The history of the Multnomah Club is unique in itself, as it is the only club of Its kind in existence in this or in any other country, for the reason that it is maintained absolutely from the dues re ceived from its members and money de- ; - ir- rived from the athletic entertainments. It employs a large number of instructors to teach the junior classes. In Robert Krohn, the gymnastic instructor, the club has perhaps one of the ablest in that line of business in America. The exercises of his classes and the drills given by dif ferent members of his classes have al ways received favorable comments at public entertainments. The club has also employed the most competent boxing, wrestling and swimming instructors, and the heads of these different departments are kept on class nights looking after the youngsters. Any young man or woman with good moral character can become a member of the Multnomah Club and Join all the classes. The club is nonseetartan and it is against the rules for members to hold po litical or religious discussions in the club house. It is also strictly against the rules for any member to have or cause to be brought on the club premises liquors of any kind. It is also strictly against the rules to gamble, so that young boys who make up the membership on junior days are as well taken care of as if they were at home. B. V. Woodard. present superintendent. is not only one of the most popular, uut one of the most competent who has ever acted in that capacity. When the club purchased its present grounds and erected a clubhouse many predicted Its failure. It was an enormous undertaking, but the success of .the club is now assured beyond a doubt. In seven years' time it has reduced its indebted ness from t6S.0Q9 to t25,000. The past year has been one of the most prosperous in the historv of the club; over J10.000 has been paid on the 'original indebtedness, besides over $4000 has been expended in improvements. From present indications the club should be out of debt entirely in three years. Then it would own a fraction over Ave acres of land In the heart of the city. As soon as the club is free from its present indebtedness it should immediate ly and probably will erect a brick club house for the use of senior members only, and the present clubhouse would then be devoted to the exclusive use of the ju nior members and the ladies' annex. The ladies annex is under a iboard se lected from the women themselves and their department has done much to stim ulate the social features of the club. Their last annual athletic exhibition and drill exercises was one of -the best of the kind ever seen on the Coast. The club is governed toy a hoard of directors of eleven men in being elected annually to serve for a term of two years from amonirst the members of the club. The officers ' are. president, vice president, secretary and -treasurer. The funds of the club are under the exclusive control of the treasurer, who expends annually about $50,000. A. O. Jones, the present treasurer, has served for six years, previous to that C. H. Buckenmeyer served in the same ca- . pacity for eight years. These men de serve great credit for the time thejr devoted to this position. Some expensive improvements are under consideration for the next year . in the way of an erection of a new grandstand to extend the entire length of the field on the west side, facing; the clubhouse. This will give the grand stand a seating capacity for 3,000 peoT -pie and is an Improvement that - has long been needed. The club is desirona at all times to have the parents visit their children while in class exercise and learn' for themselves some of the good that the club is trying to do for the city ot Portland. ' OREGON'S RANK IN ATHLETICS THE state of Oregon Is keeping pace with the older states of the East and Middle - Wesf In the advance ment and development of athletics. The history of Oregon athletics, however, is one of humble beginnings, and in many ways the growth and development of the different branches of sport has .been very slow. Conditions have been improving during the past five or six years and there are now a number of strong ath letic clubs and college athletic associa tions in the state. Prior to the year 1SW, there was little organization in the athletics .of the state. About that time, the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club was organized, and a foot ball team, was put in the field. The Bishop 'Scott" Academy and Pacific "Uni versity were soon in the field with teams and a number of interesting games were played. Multnomah's lineup included a number of men who had played on the best college teams 'of the East. Annual games with Seattle and Tacoma were quite popular in the early days, and later on. after the Portland Athletic Club was organized, some great battles were wit nessed on Multnomah field. The Port land Athletic Club disbanded In )S9T, and with the exception of the year 1S99, when the T. M. C. A. put out a team. Mult nomah has been the only club that has "been represented -by a team every year. For a number of years, the wearers of the winged "M" were -the undisputed cham pions of the Northwest and they often defeated the crack teams of the Reliance Athletic Club, of Oakland. Cal. -In track Athletics, the club also proved her superiority. The great teams of 1S96 and 1SS7, developed toy the veteran trainer "Jack" Kiruj, contained a number ef record-breaking athletes that would liave dona credit to the best teams of h East. Talent, Kerrigan, Morgan, Fuller, Coyne, Flanagan, Watkins and Trenkman were the point winners of these great teams. The dub organized an other champion team in 1906 and sent .c to Spokane where Dan Kelly made him self famous as a record-breaker. Multno mah has always supported a baseball nine, as well as all forms ot Indoor ath letics. College . football in Oregon began in 1894. On February 23 of that year, the University of Oregon defeated Albany by a score of 46 to 0, on the varsity campus at Eugene. In the Fall of the same year. Oregon. O. A. C, Willam ette. Pacitic and Portland University formed a leasue. The championship was won by Portland University. The University of Oregon played through the season without scoring a point, the final game with Pacific being the only one that Oregon did not lose. This game was a scoreless affair. - It was played on the Stewart racetrack near Eugene, and it is said that the mud was so deep that the players could not distinguish each other. In 1895, the Oregon team secured the services of Percy Benson, the well known Berkeley quarterback, and won the tate championship. Oregon won agam in 1896, but in 1S97 the Oregon Agricultural College won the state honors. Oregon won in 1S98, 1899. 1900 and 1901, but in 1902 Oregon, Albany and Corvallis were tied for the cham pionship of the state. Oregon won in 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906, but lost the Northwest championship to O. A. C. in 1907. Beginning with the year 1896, Ore gon has played an annual game with Multnomah. Two of these games (1899 and 1900) were ties, but Multnomah al ways won until 1906, when Oregon turned the tables and won a magnifi cent game by the score of 8 to 4. In 1907 Oregon again defeated Multnomah by the score of 10 to 5. In track athletics, a number of great CITY OF PORTLAND'S GROWTH WELL SHOWN BY INCREASED POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS Receipts of the Portland postoffice during 1907 showed a gain of approximately 16.5 per cent over 1906, and for the first time in the history of the city exceeded $600,000 during a calendar year. The receipts for the year, with those of December estimated, were $630,147.23, as compared with $540,805.47 for 1906, an Increase of $S9, 2S1.63. Every month showed a gain over the same month of the previ ous year, the largest Increase being for September, when the excess was $12,142.71. The Increase for the year is even larger than that of 1906 over 1905, when the gain was 14.3 per cent. In 1905, the year of the Ex position, there was an Increase of 24.6 per cent over 1904. Although bank holidays prevailed throughout the entire month of November, 1907, the local postoffice sold $6398.69 worth of stamps in ex cess of the previous November. During December there was also a gain, but the exact figures are not obtainable and are estimated in the following table, which shows a monthly comparison for the two years: 190 $.M.71.S2 Juuary February . ....... March .......... April May . June . July AUSUM . September ...... October November ...... December 45.522.12 M.773.08 48.322 87 ...... 62.7J7.70 4H.tf32.43 5l.95.t-4S 4S.SB2 67 M.2W2.32 30.270.87 S2.O1.1.0S 65.029.11 Total $630,147.23 LHcember. 1!V7, estimated. 1906. $ 44.795.00 40.025.00 45.210.73 44. 19. 32 47,736. ts 41.831.42 42.4tf9.."5 43.9S2.7l 42.149.61 47.064.56 ' 43.614.37 55,739.24 $540,805.47 Increase. $ 6. 921. SI . 5.5.17.12 9.51.12 4.153.55 5.020.S5 . 8-H.01 9. 13S 93 4.709.96 12.142.71 9.216.31 .39S.0 9.2S0.&7 Z8U.2S1.63 performers have been developed here in the Beaver state. Dan Kelly, the champion sprinter; Smithson. the speedy hurdler; Gilbert, formerly of Pacific University, but now of Yale: McKinney, holder of the Pacific Coast record for the shot-put: and "Rube" Williams, the great quarter-miler of O. A. C, are all products of the Ore gon colleges. The University of Oregon won the state championship in 1895, 1896, 1898, 1899. 1900, 1901, 1902, 1906 and 1907. In 1897 and 1905 the Oregon Agricul tural College won. Albany won in 1903 and Pacific University in 1904. There has never been a college base ball league in Oregon, although most of the institutions have put out teams. Willamette won the college champion ship In .1906, and Oregon and O. A. C. tied in 1907. Basketball has flourished at the dif ferent Oregon Institutions, especially at Dallas College and O. A. C. 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How long would it take to build up your city if you sent ' all of your money away for goods instead of - .. : : i v : m f . employes to trade with you, if you do not assist in selling the goods which their labor produces? How would you feel if you invested many thousands of dol lars in manufacturing plants and found the trade you ex pected to secure sending their orders away from home 1 Ask yourselves these questions; answer them honestly and frankly, and you will send your orders to your home factories and you will prosper; your customers will be many; your city will grow; the county and state will increase in wealth and population and you will have done your duty; BUT OT UNTIL, THEN", (