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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1903. 11 ' " - . I II 111 W"- MAT GAME COMES INTO FAVOR AGAIN Cldtime Sport Experiences Revival Here and AI! Over Country. BIG BOUT NEXT THURSDAY ' (.rent Interest Centers in Handicap Match or O'Connell and Berg, in Which Latter Must Get Four Falls. BT W. J. FETRAIX. , The old-time sport of wrestling Is ex periencing a revival all over the coun try, and this revival is particularly no ticeable here In Portland, where the hungry fans patronise the sport liber ally. I'ntil the recent rejuvenation of the game here, over 15 years had elapsed since a wrestling match was patronized sufficiently to pay. The present Interest in the game is due principally to the fact that Portland has been so long without boxing matches that sportsmen hungered for something to relieve the monotony. During the days when tne boxing game flourished here wrestlers tried to break Into the game, but were unable to draw enough patrons to meet the expenses of t::e matches., and after a few such fail ures they gave it up. Only last April the famous pill-mixer of 9?attle visited Portland and wrestled one McLaglen. an allfged grappler, and while the match was advertised liberally, the attendance hardly defrayed the expense of ftaging the show. While dwelling on the wrestling game It might be well to call attention to Ed O'Coniull's match which is scheduled for Thursday night, with John Berg, better known as Young Hackensehmidt. Berg Is classed with the premier light heavy weight wrestlers of America and is the man who brought out Jess Westepaard. The latter has improved wonderfully ince he was defeated by Dr. Holler last year. According to Berg. Westegaard stands a better chance with Roller or Gotch than any of the other heavy weight" of the day. He is 26 years of age and weighs, when in wTestling form. ?'0 pounds. Westegaard's most noted victory was his conquest of "Yankee" Rogers, of Buffalo. N. Y. Frank Gotch witnessed this match and pronounced it the hardest-fought wrestling bout he had ever seen. Rogers has a fine record and !s rated as one of the really good men In the heavyweight division. Gotch. the American champion, halls from Humboldt, Iowa, and Is without doubt the best man In the game today. His most notable feat was his victory over George Hackensehmidt. the Russian Lion, who quit after two hours and three minutes of hard wrestling. Hacken sehmidt laid his defeat to his physical condition, for he said he was 30 pounds overweight. However, he has not shown any desire to meet Gotch since that time. A partial list of the heavies now before the public and their weights follow!": Joe Rogers, of New York. 2S0 pounds: Parelli and Leo Pardello. Italians, weight !) pounds: John Rooney. of Chicago. 1M0 pounds: George Turner, of Iowa. 20 pounds; Ollle Donaldson, 240 pounds, all of whom are good men and have made creditable records. Among the light heavies, of whom Berg, now In Portland. Is entitled to recognition, are Gus Schoenlein. Fred Peel. Charles Olson, Martin "Farmer-" Burns, Walter Evans, of Knoxvllle, Tenn.: Oscar Wawm. the "German Cy clone," and Charles Franklin, of Seat tle. In this division Berg and Beel are probab'.y the best men. although Olson and Franklin are coming to the front rapidly. Berg continues his training dally and Is approaching the required weight limit, loo pounds, quite handily. He expects to make the weight easily and entertains no fears as "to his ability to accomplish the task he pet for himself that of throwing Eddie O'Connell four times In one hour. cakd wixs six-day RACE Cover Nearly 60 Miles in Roller skating Kaee at Tlic Dalles. Tlia DAI.L.1. Or., Feb. 14. (r.eVal.) The six-day roller skating race which v: tn progress inst week at ihe rew rink ended Inst night. Card, of Portland, finished first. The winner covered 59 1R-18 miles in the six nights, an nver sc of nearly ten miles a night. Faster thne was marie here than In the Port land race. The following skaters were entered: Card. Holt. Little. Myers and Scanton. all of Portland, and Cooplnnd, "f The Dalles. SKATING HKCOHDS AUK BROKEN I'ttt Time in Three Events Made at St. Paul Rinks. ST. PAl'L, Feb. 14. In a series of matched races here today, betwen Norval Baptle and John Nilsson, three profes sional indoor world's skating records for jiii indoor track were broken. In the half-mile event Baptie lowered his own world's record of 1:1S 1-5, making the distance. In 1:17 1-5. Nllsson established a new world's record for the mile, making trie distance in 2:39 3-5 and also lowered the two-mile record, going against time and covering th dlstanc 'n -5 'THE NUGGETS," GRANTS PASS BASKETBALL TEAM. i - ' ; i " jf 1 ' It ' ' ' ' '! , F, '. ' . A. V ; r ' v " I $ v 'L i :? W&BBtA ililil ' AS A ' , l ' fvA . I 4 ' J I - ' :"fi S. - It- ' ' ' - W - mMMm if Ipmmmm ml I lispl ! . I r i 1 SSilii READING FROM LEFT TO IGttOP ROW WARD, 4 LOWER HOW). B. STEPHENSON, CENTER? CHARLES MOORE, ,en having for Its purpose the promotion of basketball ,n r?&: l .Mc?.rOT Z: WVZr ceSt oPf the games in wh.ch the mem- bers we.'e enffagea. Laws for Hunter; Never for Bird William L. Finley Gives a Few Facts in Ornithology for the Benefit of All Concerned. BY -WILLIAM I FIXI.EY. IN the columns of The Oregonian yes terday are two communications con cerning wild ducks. Parts of thess ar ticles are erroneous and should not go unanswered Just now when an effort Is being made to shorten the season for killing these birds lather than lengthen It. J. H. Wescott, of Gaston, who is a duck hunter, states his rea sons whv the season should he length ened. Mr. Wescott means well enough, but he has studied ducks from the hunter's standpoint alone. He Is not familiar with the breeding .of d ducks In our state. Herein lies the trouble. t ih, first nlnce Mr. ,ii ... ..... , some of the other hunters x desires to shoot ducks In 'he SIrir,g because he says that is the best shoot ing. He says this consists mainly of canvas-back ducks, and these k.h in our state. This is statement to make in reply to a man who has seen hundreds of canvas-backs In Oregon during the breeding season, who has seen the mother canvas-back with her young, and not only knows they nest In this state, hut can 'lb" photographs of young wild backs taken In Oregon lefore the birds could fly. Wood ducks, mallards, red heads. Pintails and other ducks breed extensively in Oregon. Spring shooting interferes with their mating and breed ing It should not be permitted. These are facts In ornithology Wescott, like do not a poor not hunters' Another error Mr. Wescott makes Is . t. i.i iai lis to believe that FANDOM AT RANDOM PRESIDENT LCCAS, of the Northwest em League, left last night for Salt Lake City, where he will meet and con fer with John J. Grim and some Salt Lake fans Interested in the promotion of the new Inter-Mountain League. Walter D. Bratx and Will Rlschel, two Salt Lake City sporting writers, who successfully conducted the Utah State league last year, have given President Lucas the assurance of their support in advancing the Interests of the new league. An Oakland scribe christens Umpire Jack McCarthy "Pleasant Jack," which Is all very well before the season opens. Kid Mohler and a few more of the Pacific Coast League crabs will christen Jack something else before many games are played, and he w.ll have to stand for It or get the ax. as is usually the case when an umpire falls to give the 9. F. bunch the best of it. Alex Cheyne, the Portland umpire who Impressed the fans with his ability last Fall, Is to be one of the members of President Lucas' staff In the new Inter Mountaln League. Cheyne Is a good man and the new league will afford him an opportunity of showing what he can do, which has been his ambition for some time. the ories. . n-nni.i lend us to believe j....... decreasing in number. He savs. "I think that all hunters agree with me that ducks have been more plentiful last year than they weic for vears." The fact Is duck numbers do fluctuate. A favorable year will pro duce more than an unfavorable one Notwithstanding this, the number of ducks In our state has decreased rap fdly and steadily, and today there are not SO per cent of the birds we had 20 years ago. , The reasons why certain hunters think ducks are as plentiful today as for rnerly are very simple. Every one of these men own rent, or have shooting privileges on certain duck lakes and ponds. They have money to buy tons and ton of wheat and hire a special man to keep off poach ers. Six days In the week they feed the ducks, and on the seventh they slaughter Ducks are not different from people In that thev must have food. herever food Is plentiful and they do not have to work for it the knowledge soon spreuds and ducks collect from all through the eoun- i trv Into thcfe few places. Every wee i the duck-shooter gets his limit. Ho says to himself. "I nag as ni" last year and the yenr before, therefore ducks are not decreasing." The man who thinks this hasn't enough logic in h s head to reason beyond the end of his nose. A few years ago a p?rson could go out along the sloughs, rivers and ponds and stand some show of killing a few ducks. Today we might hunt a wee and not get a single shot. Go out through the country and ask the residents, not the men who have well-fed preserves, and you will find whether ducks are decreasing or not. Duck-shooting for the average man throughout the Western part of Oregon is a thing of the past. It is in the hands of the men who have reserves and who en tice the ducks to them by feeding without limit. This Is said not with the idea of raising the question of halting ducks, but to contradict a false statement voiced by a certain set of hunters who still want to kill more of our vanishing birds. The second article that appeared In your columns yesterday was one by C. B. Stokes.. In referring to me and some of the statements I have made, he says: "I have passed as many years in Oregon as he has, and he and I know that the breeding of wild dneks in this state is practically at an end. etc." I agree with Mr. Stokes about cutting down the limit of ducks allowed each hunter, but this and other statements he makes shows he knows little about wild ducks in Ore gon. As far as ducks breeding in this state is concerned he has scarcely looked outside of his own yard. If he cares to know the truth I will say that Oregon is a big state, and parts of it contain the greatest breeding grounds on the Pacific Coast for wild ducks. Not only that, it has a larger and more extensive breed ing ground for these birds than any state in the Union. It has the two largest Government reserves In the United States, set aside solely for the protec tion of wild fowl. These, again, are not hunter's theories, but facts In ornithol ogy. In the southeastern part of this state, especially Klamath, Lake and Harney counties, the altitude is much higher and the climate much colder. The breeding season for ducks Is about a month or a month and a half later than in the Wil lamette Valley. In Western Oregon ducks begin to court, mate and breed from February on. In Eastern Oregon this does not come till March. To defend his position In wanting a longer time to shoot ducks In the Spring Mr. Wescott says: "I am a member of the Oregon Fish and Game Association, the members of which are giving their time and money for the preservation of the game In our state." I want to state that I am also a mem ber of this association, but I -belong to a small minority. The present pol icy of game protection Is governed by hunters and not true sportsmen. It Is governed by men who want the maxi mum of killing with the minimum of protection. The outward attitude of the Oregon Fish and Game Associa tion may be to protect birds and ani mals, but the Inward spirit is to pro tect the hunter and let these creatures go. I do not Bay these things merely to criticise. I believe the association -has a good mission. I should like to see it change and live up to this mission. That others who are not familiar with the cir cumstances may know, I give my rea sons for this criticism. The real object of this association is to give game ample protection, so that wild birds and animals may not decrease and become extermi nated. The game laws recently proposed and recommended for passage by this association are very good In some re spects, but they show startling incon sistencies. Our present law for the protection of deer doe? not allow these animals to be hunted by dogs. Deer In Oregon have been decreasing rapidly, and it Is recog nized, not only as being unfair and very destructive, but as unsportsmanlike, to hunt and kill deer in this way. Disre garding these facts, this association lis tened to the wants of a certain set of local hunters' and drafted a law so that in a small section about Portland, "Clackamas, Multnomah. Columbia and Washington counties." hunters could use dogs to slaughter deer. This was not only a pernicious piece of legislation, that the association should have been-ashamed to stand for, but it was sectional. It stood for the Interests of a few local hunters against the interests of those in other sections and opposed to the ideas of good game protection throughout the state. That I am not accusing unjust ly is shown by the fact that when this section was discussed before the joint game committee of the Senate and House, no one dared defend it, and Im mediately representatives from the coun ties It was supposed to favor demanded that It be stricken out. ' In the second place the law which this association asked the legislators to enact for the protection of ducks was nothing but a law for their rapid extermination. The seasons were not only lengthened for the benefit of hunters who want to kill more of the duck remnant that is left. but In certain sections where ducks now breed most abundantly. In Klamath and Lake counties, they asked to be allowed to shoot ducks at the very time that they are mating and breeding in the Spring and before they can fly In the Fall. To show that I am not accusing unjustly, the sportsmen themselves of these locali ties have protested against such long seasons. Mr. Gebhardt, secretary of the Oregon Fish ami Game Association, has done good work in codifying our game laws and preparing this bill. I do not want to give the impression that I am blam ing him for these and one or two other Inconsistencies, such as leaving plover, snipe and all our other wading, birds without protection. He took the sugges tions he could get from different hunters and compiled them. The point I wish to make Is, that these suggestions came from a class of hunters who have no right to govern legislation. The game interests of the whole state should be represented In the Oregon Fish and Game Association. The class of sportsmen who are interested In real game pro tection should Join this association and by their concerted action, see that game birds and animals do not continue to decrease in number. The people of Oregon are awakening to the fact that the resources of this state should be preserved. They know that If we leave salmon legislation to the gillnetters and trapmen, we will have no salmon. They know If the lumbermen can get the laws they recommend, we will soon have no forests. And it is just as true that if the hunters can get some of these laws they have proposed, the game resources of this state will be squandered in a very few years. Jenning s Lodge. Or.. Feb. IL Trouble-maker Arrested. Vf. H. Freeman, 35 years old, said to bo a civil engineer, was arrested In Fritz's Theater last night and locked up in the City Jail, charged with being drunk and disorderly. Some of the audience called in Patrolman Small who found Freeman threatening people sitting near him with an open pocket-knife, which he hurriedly dropped on the floor at the ap pearance of the policeman. People sitting next to him claimed that Freeman had attempted to disrobe in the theater and when they had remonstrated with him Freeman drew a knife and wanted to clear out the place. He had been drink ing heavily. MM01H HilS B19 GAME WILL PLAY LOS ANGELES FIVE XEXT SATURDAY. Team That Has Lost Only Two Out of 70 Contests Expects to Lower Club Colors. The gymnasium of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club will be the scene of a basketball game next Friday night that promises to be a hard-fought con test. On that night the clever basket- tossers or tne Muunoman Liun are sracu uled to meet t!ie hardest quintet they have engaged with this season. This bunch is the Los Angeles basketball team, the best exponents of the indoor game in Southern California. This team was assembled by Manager C. E. Hahn, who will be remembered as the pilot of the famous Chicago team that visited the Coast several years ago. The Los Angeles team is backed by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. How well thev have advertised their HOW COLDS ARE CONTRACTED ALWAYS RESULT OF UNDUE EXPOSURE. Eapid Cooling of the Surface ol the Body E -rigs About the Common Ailments of Mankind. 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"We have made good every place we have appeared so far." said Manas01 Hahn yesterday, in referring to the tour of his players. "Of course there is al ways a chance of the players going stals once In a while, and at these periods we re likely to lose; but one thing Is as sured, our boys can always make things hum when the occasion demands. We confidently expect to break Multnomah's long string of victories Friday night, and I believe we will do so by a large score. I realize that Multnomah has a well balanced team, but that does not make any difference; the better the opposing team the stronger our boys play." When the winged "M" team goes on the floor next Friday night, Bert Allen, recently elected a director of the . club, will be at his old position of guard. Charles Barton, Vivian Dent, Harry Fisher and Ed Morris will also be on hand with their usual accuracy and spirit, while Dan Bellinger will be avail able in the event that any, other of the regulars are incapacitated. Chops Thumb Making Kindling. Inexperience In wielding a hatchet nmy cost J. B. Llppold. fM -Pettygrove street, the loss of his left thumb. Mr. Llppold went out into his woodshed last night to chop kindling wood and. making a mls stroke, almost severed his thumb from ills hand. The Injured man was hurried to St. Vincent's Hospital and the surgeons sewrd the wound up. WRESTLING JOII.V BERG (Young Hackensehmidt) Light Heavyweight Champion of Kurope, KDI11K OTOXXELL. EXPOSITION KINK XEXT THUBSDAT MGHT Admission 1.00. Reserved Ssat Jl-ftO. Ticket's at ("adwell's and bchiller s Skating Suspended tor One Night Only. MEN WAKE UP tie hurries on the man with foliies lingers until i e he discovers that d-lay and neglect have been the capsheat lies. 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