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tttp; MfVRVTVG OT?FnoXTA!C. TUESDAY. DErE3IBEIt 2, 1913. BEST TEAMS WIN UNDER HEW RULES SNAPSHOTS TAKEN AT THE LADD-CHAPMAN" GRAMMAR SCHOOLS' CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL GAME ON MULTNOMAH FIELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. LADD BOYS DEFEAT 14 TO 7 THIS CAR TURNED OVER ? r -. ' v ' Football Luck Is Reduced to Minimum by Revision of Laws of Game. Fast Game Played on Multno mah Field for Grammar . School Championship. 8 CHAN COACHES ARE SATISFIED Play or 1913 Season in Northwest Detrclops Xo Freak Formations. Speed and Weight Factors In Scoring On-Side Kick Falls. f BT KOdCOE FAWCKTT. Coaches and officials in the Pacific Korthwest are satisfied with the rules 'governing' football as now constituted. The gridiron sport seems finally to Lave settled on a middle ground. The bent team usually wins, yet the game la open and free from the brutal mass plays which were In rogue prior to 1906. There remain three or four minor rule technicalities that ought to be cleared up. but technicalities are found even in the baseball tenets, so there Is no merit In launching a phllllppic o that score. The chief criticism of the rule tinker ing three or four years back was that too much ncertainty lurked in the pos sibilities of the open same and the forward pass. That criticism has been legislated out of existence swept away In the ' path of continued victories by the bet ter trained and heavier elevens. Speeat and Wright Coast. Eliminating: the coaching, speed and weight remain the predominating fac tors. Other things being equal, the beefy team la sure to be found reliable when the test cornea The element of luck remains, as In all athletic sports, but tt has been reduced to a minimum. It used to be the case that the heavy team would tear down the Held, smashing its lighter opponent into smithereens, with never a break or let up. That was when mass formations were bulided and planned so as to gain five yards in three downs. Mod ern rules have altered this to some extent. The substitution of the four downs for 10 yards and the ban on the tackle back formations have equalised the relative chances of the contesting clubs. But the fundamental Idea of suc cessful sport is that the best team should win, and, under the revised code, the best team does win in nine cases out of 10. Next to weight, speed Is the biggest factor under the present rules. Johnny Parsons and Anson Cornell, of Oregon, are prime examples of the players who rely on nlmbleness of foot: Hap Miller, of Vashington, a type of the wildcat in bulk. Few New Forsaatleas Tried. Few formations, differing from the old-ttme schemes of the famous men tors, were sprung In the. Northwest during the Fall. At the Oregon Agri cultural College Coach Stewart used a freaky direct pass formation that was perhaps the chief hybrid of the cam paign. The direct pass was supposed to have been consigned to the Junk heap as a failure years ago. It Is a fact that the ordinary direct pass tends to slow up Instead of speed a bacVfleld. But Coach Stewart provided a subterfuge by utilising a peculiar side pass from the center, so that instead of receiv ing the leather from between the cen ter's legs, the backfleld took It on the run on whatever side the attack was concentrated. This formation led to considerable Tangling on more than one occasion. In the Oregon vs. Oregon Aggie game Anderson contended repeatedly that auucia was nicking bis arms before he moved the ball. Caufield was pen alised once for his over-zealousness. Wide-Spread Flare Fall. Washington State and Idaho resorted to wide-spread plays occasionally, but with mediocre success. Doble, at Washington, did not spring a new wrinkle all Fall, relying on Mll - ler. Shlel and Jacquot to win on straight football, with an occasional delayed cross buck and tackle around sandwiched in to vary the monotony. The forward pass in the Northwest was not a howling success. Oregon made the mistake of not covering Wayne Sutton In the Washington game, despite Sutton's past reputation for re ceiving passes, and that virtually cost Oregon a 10-7 battle. With this one exception the aerial attack was not an Important factor in deciding the North western championship. In the East some of the teams built up formations around the onside kick, the chief new wrinkle of the 1M3 foot ball code. This formation is such that two or three men are behind the ball when It is kicked and are thus privi leged to recover, as the ball Is booted suddenly to some unprotected nook. Onside Kirk Flutes. Perhaps they were able to make something out of the onside kick back East, but it In certain that it proved a flzxle in the Pacific Northwest, and in the Middle West, too, if comments In that section may be believed. On an ordinary kick the kicking team Is not permitted to recover the ball until It has touched an opponent The umpire Is Judge. But the umpire is In no position to see whether the player recovering was behind the ball when kicked, thus being put onside, or whether In front and offsitlf. hence confusion invariably reigns whenever an onside kick is attempted. This new wrinkle opens an avenue for too much fussing and should be abolished when the solons get together (luring the Winter. VAHDOX AXT TtAY ARE BITTER Golfers. Who Played Here. .Had "Sickenin? Experience." LONDON. Iec 1. Vardon and Ray arrived at Liverpool on the White Star liner "citlc and announced their inten tion to say nothing about their tour In America. They added "We had a sickening experience at the hands of the American papers. They put Into our mouths a great many things we never said, and thty were- irresponsi ble and Inaccorate." The attitude of Vardon and Ray toward the American press is accord ingly one of supreme contempt, and a good deal of bitterness still rankles in their minds. They also hinted at a grievance against the rrnglish press, and they have preserved a bundle of clippings to corroborate their views. -Tha?." said Vardon In conclusion, "is why we decided to say nothing. 1 do not want to say anything at present about America or Its golf courses and eolfers, and cannot say what our plans are. All we need to tell you Is that Oulmet. who won the championship, was a fine player and deserved to win." Vardon and Ray then shook hands and parted. .-. o'.-v-' - .'4, - : . , i;'-.i---'.''f.-v-r.!;vj tea..- . ,. - .. -J. v.. .r- v.- t t t-1 ' V-l-v ,' ."1 . L",. ;. --.' y" v ' .'- :' ': .. - - 1 eUy-". I'PPKR PICTl RK LEFT E.I, JORi) X, OF THE LADU SCHOOL, StT AR TI 14 ON A I'LAI WHICH OAI.M.U 13 YARDS KOIt THE W1.ERS. LOWER PICTl It K LADU HAVIG A LIKEBVCK MISSED IP BV THE CHAP MAX AGGREGATION. EXPERTS PiCK BEST II TEX COACHES AMD CRITICS IXAMI. SlOt'S OX FIVE PLAYERS. Keatee. Parsaaa, Sattaa. Miller and Ckriaaaaa Flacea Wltkaat Dlapat la aiortkweatera All-Star Ttu. ComDoaite All-Northwet Elevea. Kmlf Jobason. Idaho, and Sutton. Wash- insioo. Tarklea Thrtaman. Orefon Aulas, aa Anderson. Washington. Guards Karter, Washington State, and Fsntoa. Oreson. center u. tiarter, nasnmrton Dtaia. Quarterback Cornell, orvson. Halfbacks Parsons, Oregon, and LOekhart, Idaho. Fullback Miller. Washington. The above eleven of Northwestern conference college football players rep resents the composite choices of ten coaches and crIUcs. Five degrees were tnanimouslr conferred Fen ton, Pat - sons, Sutton. Miller and Chrlsman. Mil ler was given four for his regular half back position and six for luiibacK. The composite returns louow: -EnJs Sutton 10. Johnson (. Brad- shaw 2. Tyrer and Botta. 1 apiece. Tackles Chrlsman 10. Anderson 7, May S. Guards Fenton 10. J. aner Laythe 1, Holdep, Gronlnger, May and Moore, 1 apiece. Center Q. Harter . Presley 4. Quarterback Cornell 9. Smith 1. Halfbacks Parsona 10. Miller 4, Lockhart . N'lles and May 1 apiece. Fullback Miller . Shlel 2. Mlea I. Those votina in the symposium: E. J. Stewart, coach Oregon Aggies; Archie Hahn, coach Whitman: J. O. Griffith. coach Idaho; Ollmour Dobie, coach Washington; John R. Bender, coach Washington State; George Varnell, Spo kane Chronicle: "OfTside." Spokane Spokesman-Review; Stanley Borleske, Spokane official: R. A. Cronln. Oregon Journal, and The Oregonlan Australia Wants Tennis Cup Back. MELBOURNE. Dec. 1. Australia will mske another attemnt to recover SPORT -NEWS D WOLGAST may be through as a fighter, but his bank roll and his Jinx attachment still stick A with him. . , This savage little 13S-pound boxer licked every fighter In his day. amassed about $200,000. saved the greater por tion of it. and. It might be explained for the benefit of strangers, suffered as startling a string of ailments and misfortunes as any prise boxer who ever stepped Into the ring. Ad'i mourning periods, together with a list of hla tccldents. are de tailed as follows: 190S Left ear "caullflowered" Into a frapred egg ef fect. 1907 Right ear scrambled to bal ance. 190S Bores In both hands broken and knocked out of Joint Ad Wolaast. 1909 Brlda-e of nose caved In. Sur gical operation necessary. 1910 Arm broken In bout with Jack Redmond and rebroken against Tommy McFarland. 1911 Stricken with appendicitis and appendix removed. 191 Bones In both hands Injured again. 1912 Suffered serious attack of ptomaine poisoning. - Ribs cracked in bout with sparring partner. At his present gait Wolgsst should go Into his 40th year with a cork leg. a mahogany wing, a glass eye and a couple of rows of "hand-me-down" molars. a e Back in Boston Duffy Lewis. Sox out fielder, has placed himself In charge of an athletic trainer to learn how to run. Rip Hagerman should join the class. A New Tork newspaper carries a headline. "Boxing. Wrestling and Sport." Jt seems to have the right idea. - Tale officials have made a proposi tion to Harvard to play the annual game on Thanksgiving day Instead of on the Saturday preceding. Harvard likely will not favor this, because it will give Tale a few more days of rest between its Princeton and Har vard games. The Cincinnati management fired Joe Tinker because he wanted to man age his team. We'd like to be present when they offer his Job to Fielder Jones. Jones would about tell them the Dwlght F. Davis lawn tennis cup held by America. Norman E. Brooks and A. W. Dunlop have booked pass age for Europe and will compete in the British and continental tournaments. They will thus be able to round Into form for the International contests, and Anthony F. Wilding, of New Zealand, who this year defeated Mau rice E. McLoughlln, of Fan Francisco, for the championship of Great Britain, announces he will be available for the Davis cup contests. ad explaixs lirs nnoKKX rib Wolgast Says Injury Sustained in Battle With Xelson. That Ad Wolgast did not receive his broken rib. In training, but suffered the injury In the Nelson battle at Mil waukee, was the information contained in a letter received yesterday by Jack King. Following his battle with Rivers. Wolgast returned to his farm In Min nesota, where he is busy planting. Hla letter In part follows: "Am Just at present fattening a turk and nursing a broken rib. This I owe to Nelson, who broke It for me in our battle at Milwaukee. It was Just getting properly knitted when Rtvers broke it again. I'll stay out of the game for some time. I expect to be In Portland soon for a stay of several days. I am Just put ting wheat and rye In the ground, and will leave Just aa soon as that is all over." Women allndle Vnlon Election. UNION. Or- Dec 1 (Special.) Four hundred votes, a record in the history of the city, were polled today. The count is slow, but Indications point to the election of C. E. Davis tor Mayor and J. C. Crawford for Chief of Police. Three Councllmen were In the field with two to be elected and the result Is in doubt. Two popular young wom en of the city, Ruth ficiblrd and lone Eaton, served as clerks of the election board. The election passed without snv fllstnrrmnc. - POT POURRI to save their money and get a .com petent office boy at 10 a week. The University of Montana will be remembered always as the one Whit man licked in 1913. Rugby football may be a wonderful game and all that, but It's too bad the rest of America has to nit back and witness ' her "representative - teams," Stanford and California, getting wal loped about ISO to 3 several times a week by British Invaders. "You don't know the game," was the candid comment of one of the New Zealand Blacks. "Americans." he de clared, "are not content to rely upon skill -and stamina alone for victory. They begin roughing. In -other words, the element of good, clean sportsman ship has not been highly developed in California football." Jack Britton and Packey McFarland are to meet at Milwaukee December t for the assistant lightweight champion ship, aa it were. Colin Bell, heavyweight champion of Australia, has Invaded . the, United States. We recall Bill Squires and Ben Bolt. In order to secure Joe Tinker. Cin cinnati gave Chicago Mitchell. Corrl den. Phelan. Humphreys and Knlaely. three of whom are still members of the Cuba Now Clncy wants to let Joe go. and. ou past performance, will trade him to Washington for Walter Johnson's 191 1' uniform. Bob Brown has signed two new bushers who hall frqm his home state. Iowa. They aro Infielder Grant and Outfielder Beck Patterson. Seattle. Vancouver and Ppokana newspapers please note "bushers." The word Is In good usage In the majors, but not as referring to prospective Northwestern League material. Bobby Davis apparently hasn't lost his batting orb. Playing for Brawley In the Imperial Valley cactus circuit, the Portland infielder secured six hits In his 11 times at hat up to mall time. "It's none of our bnslness," remarked a football enthusiast yesterday, "but we'd Ilka to know how a man ran write a running account of a game he Is referee! ng." It Is easier to write a running ac count than any othr. That explains it Ping Bodie says he has never yet re ceived a scented note from the stands. Ping's conception of "scented" pre sumably Is one that has been aoaked in a stein of beer. CUB'S FATE IS IT ISSUE CALIFORNIA MAG ATM MAY 111.1 CLASS II FROM PORTLAND. Fatar of Southern I!asbera" Depeaas a Aetloa at Meeting t Be - Meld la Saa Fraacisea. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 1. Men who direct the fortunes of baseball In the Paclntc Coast and California State Leagues will meet heTe tomorrow and Wednesday and on their decisions hinge the fate of the California State League, and that of the Portland club In the Northwestern League. The latter ques. tlon probably will not come up for dis cussion until Wednesday, With regard to the California League J. Cal Ewing. who runs the Watsonville club, has asserted that he will drop out unless many changes in the method ot conducting the league are approved. What Ewing particularly desires is a written agreement from the other of ficials that only young players with a chance of being graduated, into tha Coaet League be employed In the Cali fornia League. The Northwestern club In Portland Is owned by the McCredles, also owners of the club In the Coast League and own ers of teams In California, contend that baseball In Portland will be improved by the elimination from that city of the Northwestern team. Another ob jection of Californlans against the in vasion of Coast League territory by a Class B club Is thst the Coasters fre quently have planned to make a try in the Northwestern's domain by putting a team In Seattle. These plans have been frowned" down by Northwestern League magnates. It's a game of "tit-for-tat." GRANGES OP LAXE PROTEST Game Wardens Xot Wanted, and Referendum Is Criticised. CRESWELL. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) Condemnation of the warden system of protecting game: determination to effect reforms in the state's referen dum laws, and commendation of the Lane County Court for its method of raising funds for the improvement of roads are contained In resolutions adopted Saturday by the Lane County Pomona Grange In session here. En forcement of the game laws by Sher iffs and Constables Is favored. The discussion of the referendum laws led to the appointment of a com mittee of three to make a study of the problem, and prepare a bill correcting abuses In the use of the referendum. The resolution In regard to the man ner of levying taxes for the road work of the county arose from a report that the County Court Intended to abandon the practice of past years, and levy a millage for roads and bridges. That had been the practice until a few years ago, when the City ot Eugene recov ered from the county several thousand dollars that had been collected from Eugene prnerty-holders as county road tax. The courts held that. Inas much as the municipality Is a separate road district. It Is entitled to its share of any road money collected upon Its property. The county thereupon adopt ed the policy of submerging the road levy In the g-eneral fund levy. XAVT SUSPECTS RIVAL PLOT Attempt to Weaken Team by "Sick t Message." to Be Investigated. ANNAPOLIS. Md.. Dec. 1. An Inclt dent In connection wit htha Army-Navy football game in New York on Satur day Is being Investigated by Naval Academy authorities. Just before the game started. Nlcholls. Navy quarter back, was handed a telegram which saUt his father was seriously III and re quested him to start Immediately for home. The Initials were not thoso of MidshinmAn Nlcholls and he did not connect the signature with any of his relatives. The telegram was datcr Baltimore, while Nlcholls" family live In Spartans burg. S. C Although Nlcholls dis credited the telegram, he felt some anxiety until he learned his. rather was In good health. If the telegram was the work of someone who wished to weaken the Navy team, as has been suggested, Nlcholls naturally would have been selected, as upon him de volved the selection ot Navy's play. Walla Walla May Have League. WALLA WALLA. Wash- Dec. 1. (Special.) A city league Is being talked of for thn basketball season, as teams will be In the field from Whitman. High School, Y. M. C A. and Company K of the National Guard. Mm. Pleolalay, explorer and trareler. Is tha onlv void a a in Franc who la permitted to wear mala attlra. a law having boan paaxca specially iot aer aaaaov. FORWARD PASSES SUCCEED Young Players Show Football KnowL edge That Would Pnt Some Inter scholastic Teams In Back ground May Meet Again. The Ladd Grammar School football team downed the Chapman School eleven 14 to T on Multnomah Field yes terday before more than 600 enthu siastic young fans. The game was to have decided the heavyweight cham pionship of the Grammar School League, but unless the directors decide other wise another contest for the champion ship likely will be played Thursday. Both teams showed knowledge .if the new style game that would put some of the tnterscholastic teams in the background. Time after time a for ward pass would be sent Into the air and the waiting player would run acv- I eral yards before being downed. Of 11 forward passes tried by either team only two failed, one for each aquad. The little Ladd players seemed t3 be better trained with the open style of play than their opponents, and oim foe ward pass netted them 45 yards and a touchdown. With the score tied 7 to 7. Quarterback Rogers called for a for ward pass on the Chapman 45-yard line. Winters threw the ball to Dlckinsi-n. who ran 30 yards for the winning touchdown. Dickinson also distinguished himself by kicking both goal kicks and catch ing several other forward passes for big gains. Along with Jackson. Cap tain Rogers and Jordan he broke up play after play started by the Chapman eleven, and no gains were made around his side of the lire. At advancing the bsll the little left half. Jackson, was a "bear." and sev eral times he went through for the necessary yardage. Captain Rodgers was a big factor also in gaining fo the Ladd aggregation, and In opening up holes Dawson and Blcknell featured. Although defeated, too little credit cannot be given the Chapman repre sentatives, for they fought gamely throughout, and at the beginning of the last period they were leading 7 ti 0. Their points came after success fully executing a trick play. Chapman kicked oft at the beginning of the set. ond half and Noonnn. doing the kick ing. Just touched the pigskin so tha It went the regulation It) yards. Wright grabbed the ball before the excited Ladd players could secure it, and 20 yards mora were added to tha Chapman gain. AXter a series of end runs, forward passes and line smashes, the ball was brought to the Ladd three-yard Una. where, after three unsuccessful at tempts for a score. Captain Smith went through center for the first touch down four minutes after the third period had started. Noonan kicked an easy goal. The rest of the third period found the ball -surging up and down the field, but at the end of the quarter the ball rested on the Chapman 15-yard Una The Ladd boys started the last portion of the game with a triumphant rush, and before four minutes had lapsed Captain Rodgers had scored a touch down. Dickinson then was called on to do a "Brlckley stunt" and he respond ed, making the score 7 to 7. Then came the climax of tha exciting game. Ladd kicked off and a Chap man runner carried the ball back 15 yards before being downed. A forward pass. Noonan to Mills, annexed 20 more yards, and sfter a long punt by Noon an. the pigskin was placed on the Ladd 20-yard line. Ladd tried several line plays and mado yardage twice. A short pass placed the ball on the Chap man 45-yard line and then Rodgers called for the play that caused the long run by Dickinson for the winning touchdown. For the Chapman team Noonan, Captain Smith and Toumans did excel- "O m a tter where you go, B OlVak Uonald uioinn are looked upon as be ing absolutely correct. Stylith without freak ishness fit, quality and workmanship the best they represent the highest example of the tailor's art of today. BEST SUITS MADE $25 McDonald&Collett TAILORS 289 Washington nr. 5th iilfmore Iriangle YiaZndf.Jacohs&Co a"' 11 m Til V V to you in perfect condition, for you to test out thor oughly, ana if it is not satisfactory at A Saving to You of 29 to 50 Per Cent from original cost, vou can RETURN IT AND GET YOUR JIONEY. Kut this offer is for a limited time only. 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Smith, of Chapman, one touchdown; Noonan, ot Chapman, one aoal kick: Captain K. Rnsera, ot I.ad-t. one touchdown; Dickinson, ot Ladd. one louch Aowa and two aoal klcka. CUKIHT IS NOT DUE TO YOST Army Denies Michigan Conch Gave Pointers lo 1913 Cadet Team. WEST POINT. X. T, Dec 1. The forward pass formations snd other plays used so pcearulljr by the Arm We Hare Been Advertising CLOSING OUT OUR CUTLERY AND SILVERWARE LINE At Cost That is what we mean This sale includes a big line of Carving Sets, Silver Knives, Forks and Spoons, Manicure Sets, Scissors, Razors, Kitchen Cutlery, etc. Quality the best and fully guaranteed Early Christmas Shoppers will not overlook this opportunity. Remember, the earlier the purchase, the better the selection. Posi tively this sale has no fill-ins. "When a pattern is sold out there can be no more had at this sale. 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Coach Yost, of the Uni versity of Michigan. the statement says, spent only one day at West Point and did not assist Lieutenant ". P. Laly. head Army coach. The state ment says: ".Much has been said in the news papers in the last few days In rt-ard to the assistance given to the coach's of tne West I'olnt football team b Kleldtnfr H. Yost. The facts In the cace are: "In 1901 Yost did assist In the coach Ins; of the Army team. This year he arrived at West Point In the afternoon of Xovember 25 and left lu the even inn ot Novemher !S. Yost frequently has been to West Point and will al ways be welcomed, but the statement that he was In any way connected with the coaching or training- of this year's team Is without foundation. As a result of his visit not one plsy was added, neither was any chance of even the smallest Importance made." Wu -,M 1 " J Price h PI y Ml V' m . - . aV '