TIIE MORNING OREGON! AX, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1918.
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Competition Is Keen and Good
Scores Are Made at Port
land Gun Club Traps.
0. D. BLANK IS FIRST
HOLDER OF A NUMBER OF WORLD'S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
WHO LOWERED HIS RECORD FOR 500 YARDS IN SAN
FRANCISCO SATURDAY NIGHT.
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Trmplrlon Are Tied Dr. U.
iU Mmot Defeat R. P. Knight
la Special Match.
Th ItriMt crowd of trapshootern of
th year attended the practice shoot
h'ld by the Portland Uun Club at
:vrdina: Park yesterday. More than
i ntmrnlt lured up their guns and
trvnk a f!lnf at the c!a plueons and
some sood Kortt war run during
the dT.
HI Kverdtns; trade hia appearance on
the around after an absence of six
ik berau of a svr attack of
rheumatism, but did not cater any
tfiir.D1ltton.
P. J. Ilolohan. Fd Morris. Frank
J5elhJ. P. L. Blank and J. K-ld fought
It out for the professional honor.. D.
I Blank won flrt place with a score
of 14. IS. 1 out of a possible IS. IS. 20;
ar.k Relhi. of Tacoma. took second,
U. 11. 1: P. J. Holoban took third. 13
IS II: J. Hold took fourth. II. 13. 18
and Kd iiorrls placed fifth. 13. 14. 1.
A. Bowker. of Heppner. Or, and S.
Templeton tied for first place In the
amateur rank, wirh a score of II. 14, 20
out of a posstMe 12. IS. :o tarcet
In a special match between R. P.
Xmaht and IT. H. K. .Khoot. for 24
tarceta. the latter won. II to 1.
Besides the exceptionally lance rum
be of shooter present there were
xnany fans on hand to witness the
event The woather was Ideal for
' trarhootlnr and the competition wa
keen throughout the matches. F. G.
MtIL of Hlllsboro. vl.ited the club
afi scored 41 out of SO tarsus.
Nest Sundae at Kverd'.ng Park, the
home of the Portland Uun Chlb. there
will be a big merchandise shoot and
the officers of the club are making r-
raiirements for handing the largest
bo-tr of shooters leathered at the local
in riub In a lone time.
Fallowing Is the complete list of
yesterday; enlricj and their (core:
Numbr of shots
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C J.rkeoa -.11
A. K Ins 13
I.UUI KI1 .....12
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It Vc'.r;.nd II
O. U B..n 14
A. O Horns 1
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A vr. nnnr 14
It b. K fztmiy IS
Kruk K.I n I 15
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P. J. Ho ohso 11
Xr. u t Thornton .13
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A. U Z-hr.oa II
K W Kltsar I a
J. Hri 14
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FAV FRANCISCO. Jan. 27. Norman Ross, holder of the Amateur Athletic
Union tOO-yard swimming record, clipped one and two-fifths seconds from
hi own time when. In an officially sanctioned exhibition In the Olympic
Athletic Club tank last night, he made the distance la S minutes and 4
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Portland and Vancouver Will
Clash in North Tonight.
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Conieit for Pacific Coast Ice Hockey
Championship This Year so Far
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Squirrel Food.
1fctUte Meehan claims that with shoes
froins; at 1 a team It U cheaper to
ride la a taxicab.
BcMy Rrans says that It Is Impossl
rs to sret Into a heated argument with
the i.uor these mornings.
Rddle CConnell ouaht to get busy
and sign up Stone and Roosevelt for
his seml-windUD on February a.
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Owing to the new liquor ordinance.
Villi Hoppe can't play bottle pool
aftor 7 I. M. in Montana.
The only trouble with prise fighters
St the front would be that they would
be listening for the gong all the time.
This one from "Scotty" McCohen:
W'hr can't an automobile with two
wheels stand up? Because It Is too
tlred."
The Kaiser is the only gink that gets
columns of publicity in the papers with
out running- an ad.
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With fuel at a premium In New Tork
Tiffany la now handling coal.
While everybody's knitting for the
oldler boys, why not knit some barb
wire sweaters for the 'rltxls"T
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Ooernor whitman, of New Tork. has!
written Governor Withycorobe request
ing a carbon copy of our Oregon I
weather.
Joe Flanigan say that he weeps
when be goes into one of the self
styled lunch counters because be feels
so sorry for the one-arm chalre.
Willi Ritchie claims that Jack
Johnson would be eligible for one of
New York's dark nights.
Coal wagon 'drivers soon will have
to furnish bonds.
ICE HOCKEY LEACIK STANDINGS.
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Portland 3 4 .4tf 20 17
Portland Ice hockey fans are much
concerned over the outcome of tonight's
contest at Vancouver between the Port
land Rosebuds and Vancouver Million
ires.
The race so far has been the closest
since Ice hockey was first dished up
for approval of Portland residents. The
teama have been see-sawing their way
between first and last place in the per
centage column until one game prac
tically changes the entire complexion
of the league race.
Vancouver will furnish the Rosebuds
plenty of excitement and opposition
when they clash tonight. The Million
aires have been going at top speed and
with Cyclone Taylor In ahape the Port
land septet will have to Inject every
ounce of energy and ability Into the
game in order to walk away with the
long end of the score.
Taylor, of Vancouver. Is leading: the
league In scoring with a total of ID
points to bis credit nine goals and
one assist. The next nearest contender
on the Vancouver lineup for scoring
honors is Mackay with three goals and
one assist, so it can easily be aeen that
Taylor In the dare-devil uuckster of
the Canadian team.
Muldoon will present the same line
DP against Vancouver that went down
to defeat at the bands of Seattle. Friday
night, with the exception of "Smoltey"
Harris. "Moose" Johnson Is anxious
to get into the game and while Man
ager Muldoon took Johnson to Van
couver yesterday. It la a question
whether he will start "Moose" against
the Millionaires.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGCE TO OPE
11S SKA SO APRIL 3.
1I.VCLL CIIAMFIOX
SRIICR
Vafavorable Wealhrr Causes Un tries
to Make Poor Showing.
CART. lit. Jan. 17. I-ars liaugrn. of
Chippewa Falls, W in, won the National
championship at the annual ski tour
nament here today tinder the auspices
er the Norge skl club, of Chicago,
llaugen Jumped 127 and 11 feet.
The showing made by all participants
was poor. owing to unfavorable
weather conditions. There was a strong
wind. The class H champtonahlp was
won by fverre llenricksrn, of Vir
ginia, Minn. He Jumped 107 and 101
feet. Ragnar OmtredlC former cham
pion, fell each time he descended the
elide.
Law)cr to Train IUtl Sox.
Martin fowler, for many years phys
ical trainer for the St. Louis American
League ba.ehall rluh, has been en
gared to train the Boaton Americans
this year, lie sucveeds Charles tlrren.
lawl.r was enaaaed on the recom
mendation nf Manager Jack Berry, who
was trained by I.awler the first year
that he plaed wtlA Lhe I'hiUnailjihia
Ajnerlrsna,
Doable-Head era Arranged for July
aad Ueceratloa lay October 23-27
Is Cloalas Week.
SAN FRANCISCO. CaL. Jan. 17. The
schedule of playing dates of the Pacific
Coast Baseball League for the 1918 sea
son were made public here tonight by
President Allan T. Baum.
Tne eeason will be opened on Tues
day. April 2. at Sacramento. San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. The Senators
will open the season's hostilities with
the Vernon club, Oakland will meet the
Seals, while the Angela will take on
the Salt Lakers.
July 4. the big day for baseball, will
see the teama lined up for double-head
ers as follows: Sacramento at Salt Lake
City, Oakland at San Francisco and Ver
non at Loa Angeles. The programme of
double-headers for Decoration day on
May 30 ia: Oakland at Salt Lake. Ver
non at Kan Francisco and Sacramento
at Los Angeles.
October 22-27 will be the closing
week, the final battlea for the pennant
being listed as follows: Salt Lake at
Sacramento. Vernon at San Frauulsco
and Oakland at Los Angeles.
billy; xklsox hurt ix eye
Camp hpwl Title-Holder's Optic Is
Target for Opponent' Mitt.
Billy Nelson, former Portland Ilght
wsiaht, welo recently puicked off tne
lightweight championship of Camp
Lewis, is suffering from a slight blood
clot In one of his eyes as the result of
stopping one of "Pickles" Martin's Jabs
in the bout In which Nelson became
cantonment title-holder.
.The popular 135-pounder is under the
care of the camp doctors, and it is
hoped that the defect soon will be
remedied. Meantime he is being han
died with care and will not be allowed
to go into the ring again until he has
entirely recovered.
McCarl Y. M. C. A. Director.
Cliff McCarl, former Seal and last
year's skipper of the Butte Northwest
ern League club, has been appointed
Y. M. C. A. director of athletic activ
ities at Presidio. Cal. V. U Seawrlght,
director in chief of the Y. M. C. A. ac
tivities for the soldiers and sailors,
will have McCarl handle the Presidio
end of the game. McCarl is an all-
round athlete and will have charge of
basketball, baseball and gymnasium
work.
Pasco Defeats Ritiville.
PASCO. Wash, Jan. 27. (Special.)
Pasco High School defeated the Rflz
ville High School. 28-23, in a fast game
of basketball here Friday night. A
preliminary game was played between
the Pasco High School girls and the
teachers of the same school, the former
winning by a score of 10 to S.
GOLOENDILE FIVE FAST
B'tiAl B'RITH WINNER
Fast Basketball Five Trims
Vancouver Barracks, 38-15.
SWEEPING CHALLENGE OUT
Manager Fabre, of B"nal B'rUh Ag
gregation Saya That Before' Any
Team Claims City Title It
Must Defeat His Quintet.
The B'nal B'rith basketball team
trimmed the fast Vancouver uarracKs
quintet. 38 to 15, on the B'nal B'rith
floor Saturday night. The game was
fast and well played throughout, with
the B'nal B'rith team the agsrressers
. t .11 times. They were wo imi
the soldiers and snowed them under
with baskets from all angles.
At the end of the first half the score
stood SO to 3 in favor or the a nai
B'rith team. In the second period the
soldiers came out with a rush, dui
while they made 18 points the 541 a i
B'rith squad ran up 18, making the
final score 38 to la.
Billy Lewis and Shenker starrea lor
the winners, while Barnes and bmitn
stood in the limelight for the losers.
The lineup:
Wnla B'rith M). Vancouver (is
l.ewls
. Smith
Cohen F Hsu Kins
Wle-er C uomnn
Darlln O Barnes
ghenkar ....'. a Plumle
tspare.- r ooi.
After, the same the B'nal B'rith club
gave at Jance in bonor of the soldiers'
team.
Coach Leon Fabre. of the B'nai B'rith
quintet, is willing to start his team
against any squad in the state and
says that all teams in town claiming
the championship will have to Deal
the B'nal B'rith quintet before they
can Justly claim any uues. raore
would be only too glad to meet South
Parkway, Sully's All-Stars, St. An
drews or any other team.
The B'nai B'rith club will play tne
Tiger Club from Tigard. Or., at the
B'nal B'rith gymnasium. Wednesday
night. After the game there will be a
dance. Fabre would like to schedule
game with Sully's 'ATI-Stars for next
Saturday night. He can be reached at
the B'nal B'rith Club.
In speaking of the South Parkway
team, which has been claiming the in
dependent basketball championship of
the state. Fabre said: "We will play
the South Parkway team any time on a
neutral floor, the entire gate receipts
to go to the winner of the game."
The Multnomah Amateur Athletic
Club quintet may play the Puget Sound
University of Tacoma, at that city Sat
urday night.
The Peninsula Park Cadets defeated
the Neighborhood House Athletic Club
Tigers, 13 to 6, at the Neighborhood
House gymnasium Friday night.
The Lincoln High School basketball
team will clash with the High School
of Commerce tomorrow afternoon at
the Washington gymnasium.
LUTSEY MAKES O'COXXELJj go
Marsh field Wrestler Thrown After
1 Hour and 28 Minutes.
MARSH FIELD, Or, Jan. 27. (Spe
cial.) Eddie O'Connell, of Portland, and
M. G. Lutsey wrestled an hour and 28
minutes last night at the Orpheura
Theater before the Portland man ob
tained a hold that gave the falL
The hold was a wrist lock. It was
announced afterwards that Lutsey's
arm had been injured and he could not
go on with the match. Keieree wai
ter Miller thereupon awarded the bout
to O'Connell.
Five hundred persons witnessed the
match and went away well satisfied
Ith the exhibition.
winner. Rose Croix. 2:1H4, deserves
more than a passing comment. She
was the fourth one to secure the hon
ors, the event that year being worth
825,000, and of the 25 that appear in
the list of winners, she is the only one
that was bred, developed and owned
by the man who drove her in the race.
Myron E. McHenry was awarded that
honor, and it is very doubtful if it will
ever be duplicated. In 1892 SlcHenry
sent the Billy Wilkes mare, Lizzie
Ryder, to Ash Grove Farm and mated
her with Jay Bird. Rose Croix was
the foal. Before being taken to Lexing
ton in her 3-year-old form she won at
Davenport aind j'anesville, while she
also made Stanley B. trot fn 2:163. to
defeat her at Dubuque and George G.
etep in .16 in a class race at Decatur.
The week following the Kentucky Fu
turity she appeared again in the Ken
tucky Stake, where she was distanced
by Bingen after winning a heat in
2:13.
The records made at the last Atlantic
meeting proves that the Southeastern
Fair Association has one of the fastest
tracks in tha country. It is built around
an old reservoir in which the water is
allowed to remain. This keeps the bed
of the track moist and the footing per
fect. Should the Southern member of
the Grand Circuit decide to open a few
colt stakes in the near future, it is
almost certain that the world records
made each year at Lexington would
get another cut at Atlanta as soon as
they began to mature.
MIL GAME STORMY
FRED MITCHELL'S BASEBALL DE
BUT MARKED BY DISASTER.
"LIVE WIRES" VICTORS
ST. FRANCIS QdXTET BACK FROM
SUCCESSFUL TRIP.
SUvertoa AtUletio Club la Defeated. IS
to 15. and Mount Angel Col
lege. 19 to 17.
The St. Francis "Live Wires" re
turned Sunday night from a victorious
trip up the Willamette Valley, on
which they defeated the Sllverton
Athletic, Club and the strong Mount
Angel quintet.
On Saturday night they took the Sil-
verton Athletic Club into camp to the
tune of 18 to 15. The game was fast
throughout, although a trifle rough at
times, and was marked by the team-
worK 01 tne victors. The game was
well played and was tied until the last
three minutes of play, when the "Live
Wires" speeded up and added three
points. Kropp throwing the winning
basket in the last minute of play. This
is the second time the "Live Wires'
have defeated this club, having beaten
them 30 to 9 two weeks ago in Port
land.
The "Live Wires" yesterday defeated
the Mount Angel College quintet, 19 to
17. As the score would indicate, the
game was close. At the end of the first
half Mount Angel was on the lone end
or the score, li to 8. The "Live Wires'
started off with a rush and soon were
in me leaa. 1 to 12, and were never
headed after that. Jacobberger pulled
off some pretty shots for the winning
aggregation, while Dunn and Smith
starred for Mount Angel.
This Is the "Live Wires" eighth con
secutive victory, and they feel confi
dent that they can give any of the
local teams of their weight a fast game.
Manager Duffy would like to hear from
some of the fast out-of-town aggrega
tions. The line-ups of the games follow:
Live Wires 18).
Flynn 4j F. . .
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Kropp (2
Jacobberger (8) ..
Bioch (4j
Live Wires (19).
Flynn S
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Kropp (2)
Jacobberiter (6) ..
Bloca (4)
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(7) Human
(2) Cooley
(2) Capt. Carson
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. 4) Muffenbausr
B) Dunn
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. (2) Ernalerg-erger
Smith
HOOD RIVER BEATEX 105-S. IX
M ID-CO LIT MB LI CONTEST.
Score) la Said to Be Largest Ever Made
by Basketball Team om Coast.
Aorta west Fives Challenged.
GOLD END ALE. Wash, Jan. 27.
(Special.) Judging from the result of
the first two games played by the
Uoldendale High School quintet in the
1918 schedule of the Mid-Columbia In
terscholastic League comDosed of
Goldendale. The Dalles. Hood River
OdeJl. Stevenson and White Salmon,
the Goldendale team will capture the
pennant for the third successive time.
Uoldendale won the opening game
here last week from White Salmon by
score of 80 to 3 and Friday night
established a Coast record for a hi&rh
score by defeating Hood River lui to 2
and also shut out the nood rtiver
quintet from getting any baskets
thrown from the field. Goldendale got
a fieJd basket tnree seconos alter the
play started and at the end of the first
half the score was &S to 1.
When the second half started the
Goldendale rooters came out with the
slogan. "Make it a hundred." Hood
River took a brace and put up a stiff
fight in an effort to keep the score
under the 100 mark. Kenneth Hill and
Edward Guinan. forwards, and Robin
Ballou. guard, who played with Golden
dale in the lnterscholastic tournament
at Pullman last year, starred for
Goldendale. Guinan got 30 field bas
kets out of the 62 made by Goldendale.
The Goldendale team is open for a
game with any high school team in the
Northwest.
TKOCT RAISING SAID TO PAY
Hood River Man Advocates Persons
Who Can to Make Ponds for Eish.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Jan. 27 .(Spy
clal.) "If one baa a plot of boggy land
on his place." says J. C. Porter, East
Side orchardlst. in a report to the
Hood River County Game Protective
Association, "it will pay him to build
dam or dikes and establish a trout
pond. Within two years trout fry are
big enough for food use. Instead of
being considered as waste land such
property as I have mentioned. If turned
to the propagation of trout, will be
come remunerative."
r . a. &nyaer, a resiaeni 01 ins city.
who has raised trout in a limited way
on city lots, across which streams of
water constantly flow, also says that
trout may be raised profitably.
Norway Beats Marine Quintet
MARSH FIELD, Or.. Jan. 27. (Spe
cial.) The Norway basketball team.
from a country precinct in the Coquille
Valley, defeated the Marine quintet
here last night in the Marshfield High
School gymnasium. 18 to 12. The at
tendance was made up of HlKh School
students and visitors from the valley.
The third game to decide the supremacy
will b played hex ia Februaxy.
Trotting Gossip.
By XV. H. Gocher.
THE Real Lady Is still In Thomas W.
Murphy's stable at Poughkeepsle,
N. Y., and as she is In perfect condition
it is to be hoped that her owner, H. H.
Cosden, will reconsider retiring her at
least one season. With her in the field
the race-going public in 1918 would
have an opportunity to see the greatest
series of free-for-alls that were ever
contested in the history of the trotting
turf. The class shown by this Ally in
the deciding heat of the Kentucky
Fu urlty would lead anyone to believe
that she has more than an even chance
to reduce the world's record of 2:01 1
which Hamburg Belle made when she
defeated Uhlan, and possibly add an
other name to the two-minute list. On
their racing form there is very little
difference between the fillies Miss
Bertha Dillon and the Real Lady and
the royal pair of battlers, St. Frisco
and Mable Trask, both of 'which are
now being prepared for their third trip
down the line in the first flight of trot'
ters. To this class it will also be nee
essary to add Lu Princeton and Early
Dreams as well as Miss Directed and
Straight Sail if tiiey are raced again
as the fastest class in the Grand Circuit
will be for the 2:06 trotters.
Measured by actual performance the
bay gelding Baron Atta is to all ap
pearances one of the best bargains ever
picked up at the New York auctions.
He was bred at the Hudson River Stock
Farm, Poughkeepsle, N". Y., being by
thj Kentucky Futurity winner Oakland
Baron out of Laureatta, 2:084, by
Prodigal. He was foaled in 1912 and
was sent to the sale ring in his 3-year-
old form, Roger Kourke, of Greenfield,
Mass., getting him on a bid of 8110.
At that time Baron Atta was a trotter
and the following season he showed a
quarter in 35 seconds at that gait. On
the strength of this Star Lee, of Athol,
Mass., gave 8500 for him. He placed
him in Ed Rowe'a stable. After sam
pling bim for a time Rowe decided that
BaronvAtta would make a good pacer
and that he was right in the matter is
shown by the fact thift during the past
two years he won 19 races with him
and gave him a record of 2:094 over a
half-mile track. The returns also show
that he paced the last quarter of a
fourth beat at Springfield, Mass., in
31 !4 seconds and the middle heat of a
winning heat at Plattsburg in 1:02.
Baron Atta will in all probability be
een on the mile tracks this season.
During the Grand Circuit meeting at
Philadelphia the pacer Butt Hale,
02.. attracted more attention than
any horse at Belmont Park. He is a
Pennsylvania product and was at one
time rated as a counterfeit. The man
ner in which he disposed of his fields
t Columbus and Cleveland as well as
at Philadelphia, however, proved that
in proper form he was not only a high
class pacer, but a very fast one. One
morning while Butt Hale was at Bel
mont Park a stranger stepped in front
of his stall and after looking at him
for several minutes, turned away with
the remark: "I must have been a dummy
when 1 tried for a year to make a
trotter of that horse."
SOCCER GAME ENDS EV TIE
'Fragments of France" Clash With
91st Divisioners at Camp Lewis.
TACOMA. Wash.. Jan. 27. The (titer.
national soccer match at Camp Lewis
today between the 91st Division team
and a team of returned Canadian sol
diers, called Fragments of France,"
ended in a 3-to-3 tie. Thousands of
soccer fans who witnessed the game
declared the first half was the fastest
they had ever witnessed.
Arrangements have been made to
play a return match at Victoria, B. C.
the second Saturday in February. Cap
tain T. G. Cook, camp athletic director,
declared the work of the teams con
vinced him that Camp Lewis men are
in excellent phyisical condition.
The order issued at Camp Lewis
some time ago requiring Class A sol
diers to obtain a "20-mile" pass in or
der to vlnit Seattle or any other city
more than 20 miles from the canton
ment has been revoked by Brigadier
General Foltz. This will permit sol
diers to visit Seattle as freely as .they
do Tacoma. I
First Inning on Slab With. Cuba Lets
in Five Runs, Bnt Youngster
Finally Wins, 10 to 5.
When Fred Mitchell, manager of the
Chicago Cubs, first broke into profes
sional baseball he was a pitcher for
the Boston Americans of 1901, Jimmy
Collins being manager at that time.
Fred's first start as a big leaguer was
against the White Sox at old Comiskey
Park, and this is the way ho tells
about it:
"I was Just a kid and anxious to
make good, so Jimmy Collins gave me
a start at the old Sox park. I was
scared stiff and the first inning was
awful. I was shaking with stage
fright and walked two or three guys
and then someone swatted one. Freddy
Parent chose that time to kick a cou
ple of grounders.
"The result was that when the first
inning was over the White Sox had
five runs and we had nothing. There
was one fellow on the club at that time
who was my friend and that was Buck
Freeman. He came right in from right
field after the inning and I remember
Just what he said to Jimmy Collins.
" You are not going to take the kid
out, are you. Jim?' he said.
" 'Not on your life,' answered Jim.
"I went back and had my head with
me from then on and stopped the
White Sox. In the fourth inning Buck
Freeman came up with one on and
drove the ball over the fence. You
know how Buck could hit 'em. In the
eighth inning Buck came up again
with two on, and once more he poled
the ball out of the lot, tying the score
Before the inning was over we led, 8
to 6, and I won the game, 10 to 5."
McXEAY WINS 22 0-XARD DASH
Champion Skater Loses to O. Math-
lesen in Mile- Event.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 27. Bobby
McLean, world's champion skater, de
feated Oscar Mathiesen today in the
220-yard dash and the two-mile race,
dropping the mile race. His time in the
two-mile race was 5:38 's, 16 2-5 sec
onds faster than his mark in Chicago
recently. His time in the 220-yard
dash, 20 seconds, was 1 1-5 seconds
better than his time in Chicago.
Mathiesen won the mile event, fin
ishing 15 yards ahead of McLean. His
time was 2:40, 3 3-5 seconds slower
than McLean's time in Chicago.
On the Alleys.
Oregon Alley Schedule, Week Jan. 28:
Hose City League
Tru-Blu Biscuit Company vs. Pacific
Coast Biscuit Company, alleys 7 and 8.
Outlaws vs. Jefferson Cycle Co., alleys
9 and 10.
Imperial Hote vs. TJ. S. Forest Service,
alleys 11 and 12.
V. 8. Forest Service
Splinter Cats vs. Hoe Dogs, alleys 9 and 10
Side Hill Gorgers vs. Wnitling Whimpers,
alleys 11 and 12.
Mercantile
Blumauer-Frank vs. Kent Shirt Co., alleys
6 and 6.
Zerolene vs. Krauae's Chocolates, alleys
7 and 8.
Union Meat Co., vs. McLean's Trimmers,
alleys 9 and 10.
Bergman Shoe Co., vs. Standard Oil Co.,
alleys 11 and 12.
Commercial A
Oregon Alleys vs. Goodyear Tire, alleys
7 and 8.
Webfoot Camp vs. L Cafeteria, alleys 9
and 10.
Multnomah Camp vs. Cosy Dairy Lunch,
alleys 11 and 12.
Oregon House
Pacific Outfitting Co. vs. Pacific Grain
Co., alleys 7 and a.
Celro Kola vs. Meier & irranK, alleys 9
and 10.
Honeyman Hardware vs. Northwest Steel,
alleys 11 and 12.
Brunswick Tire vs. Edwards Tire, alleys 7 1
and 8.
Ballou Wright vs. Marshall Wells, al
leys 9 and 10.
Chanslor & Lyon vs. Archer Si Wiggins.
alleys 11 and 12.
Miller 9
Stegeniaa S3
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Portland Alleys
City League
Teams Standing.
Wells Realty Co 45
St. Nicholas Cafeteria 45
Walkover Boot tihop '. 45
Portland Alleys 45
Hadley & Silver 45
Henry Building Barber Shop. 45
romana Alley House League
W. L.
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Hudson Arms .
Vogan Candy Co.
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Wlldmim Cigar Co
Printing Trades Leagu
Modern Printing Co
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Oregonlan pressroom .......54
shipbuilders' League
Grant Smith S
N. W. steel fitters 15
Cornfoot l-i
Willamette Steel boiler shop. 9
Northwest Steel riggers 12
Job Printers' Dm-lr Pin T..airti,
Glass & Prudhomme 48 38
Portland Electro & Ster. Co. 48 ;iu
Labor Press 4$ uti
Portland Printing House.... 4S 24
Portland Linotype Co 4S 111
Sweeney, Varney & Straub.,48 7
George Henry, of San Francisco,
classed as one of the best bowlers on
the Pacific Coast, is wearing a de
pressed look these days. Henrv lost
a beautiful gold fob in Portland which
he received at 6an Francisco in 193 2
for winning one of the biggest matches
that season.
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Lefts and Rights.
Frank P. Thompson, chairman of
the Minnesota boxing commission, an
nounced that the commission would
investigate reports that Fred Fulton,
heavyweight contender, fought with
a broken bone in his hand in his recent
match with Billy Meske at St. Paul.
Thompson said that if the commission
is satisfied that Fulton went into the
ring knowing that the bone was frac
tured he would recommend that the
boxer be barred from Minnesota bouts.
The statement was made by Dr. Edward
J. Clark, of Minneapolis, that the co
caine he gave Fulton to ease the pain
In his hand rendered him unable to
make the best showing against Meske.
Sammy Pelslnger had the better of
his contest with Jake Stahl in San
Diego last week, but the judges called
the fight a draw. There was consider
able hooting when the decision was an
nounced as Pelsinger had every round
by a good margin. Eddie Huse held
Seattle" Frankie Burns to a draw. The
bout was a fast one.
What's this? What's thisf Jess W11-
lard says that he will fight no one but
Fred Fulton. More camouflage.
Whitey" Fulton, the 18-year-old
brother of Fred, lost the decision in his
fight witfi Cliff Kramer in a prelim
inary to the Fulton-Meske contest. He
a a heavvwaierht. Ttnort of thA fic-ht
say that he made many friends for his
gameness, something that his brother
seems to lack.
Jack Downey will box Al McCoy next
Wednesday night in San Diego, Cal.
Of the 23 fights that he lias taken Part
in he has had only one defeat chalked
up in his record. He lost a close match
to Mick King.
-
Harry Greb made it three straight
wins for 1918 when he stopped Augle
Ratner, of New York, in 15 rounds in
New Orleans last week.
Moose" Taussig, of the Bay City, was
rathef surprised when he read that the
Sommers-Ortega match was a draw and
that the "Battler" tired near the end.
"I have seconded Ortega in all his im
portant matches," said Taussig, "and
was surprised to hear that he tired.
He may have appeared tired at his
Kmeryvllle fights, but believe me, ho
was as fresh as a daisy every time the
gong sounded. I couldn't figure Som-
mers with him at all.
It might be added that there are a lot
f things for "Moose" to learn.
Commercial A League
Jones
Sholin
Woods
Kldron ................
Blaney
Wiebush ..............
Games. Ave.
Bruce .......
Monson
Voelker
Austin .....
Crisp
Melvin
Chapin
Adams
Leatherman
Mead
Long
Wascher ...
Moritz
Duffy
Flavin
Woldt
Kildow
31 191
42 183
:I3 1S4
SO 183
40 182
42 ISO
6 180
27 179
38 179
21 175
42 172
12 174
9 171
42 171
39 170
6 170
18 187
33 1 86
9 166
39 1 6
39 1 85
39 165
30 165
15 163
39 162
BATTING AVERAGES HELD DOWN
BECAUSE PITCHERS ARE SMARTER
In Former Days Tossers Found Conditions Easier for Slugging BalL
Stallings Shows Why 1917 Crop of .300 Hitters Was SmalL
H
ERE'S a little book which con
tains the 1896 batting aver
ages for the National League,"
said a prominent Eastern scribe to
George Stallings. boss of the Boston
Braves, who has been dabbling in base
ball since a short time after Christo
pher Columbus discovered us.
"Yep. What about itr'
"Count up those .300 hitters, please,"
the scribe requested, poking the book
at him.
Stallings did, and announced:
"Eighty-three."
"And how many hit .300 or better
in 1917?"
"Exactly six." answered Stallings.
' Stallings Gives Reasons.
Then the scribe said:
"In 1896 83 men out of 256 who wore
National League uniforms in that year
batted .300 or beyond. Twenty-one
years later, in 1917, Just six men out
of nearly 400 who cavorted on National
League lots broke into the .300 list.
What's the answer?"
Stallings, without hesitation, replied:
"There are a number of reasons. One
of the most Important is the foul-
strike rule, which wasn't in existence
in 1896. The second reason is the baf
fling spitball. Furthermore, the horse
hide 21 years ago carried a very high
polish. That made it difficult for a
pitcher to handle a new ball. The shine
was abolished some years ago, and It
is much easier for a pitcher to control
the ball now than it was in the gloss
covered days:
"But the most important reason of
all. in my opinion, is that pitchers of
today are smarter than those of 21
years ago. They use their heads, as
well as their arms. In 1896 most twirl
ers used only their arms. Their sole
aim was to try to throw the ball past
the batter. It failed, aa the batting
averages of 1896 will show. In those
days only a few pitchers made a study
of the strength and the weaknesses of
the various batters. Change of pace
was virtually unknown. Pitchers
didn't try to work on the weakness of
the hitters. They just put all the
speed they had into the heave and
took a chance.
"But. in the present era a pitcher's
The dsaxh of Ul Kentucky Fu t uxity j arm ian't bu waaU aet. Oaxiiity
Mathewson was a star long after his
arm went back. He used his brain.
Eddie Cicotte hasn't a wonderfully
powerful wing, but he has brains and
uses tbem. The moundsman who
reaches the crest of the pitching head
and stays there longest is the one who
has brains, who studies each and every
batter, uses strategy and plays on the
weakness of the batter."
Only once since 1906 has a National
League batsman reached the .350 mark.
That was in 1913, when Jake Daubert,
of the Dodgers. Just reached that fig
ure, and, of course, was the leader of
the older circuit. But in 1896 two Na
tional Leaguers went beyond .400, while
13 hit better than .350. What a form
reversal. It was in that year that
Willie Keeler, of "hit 'em where they
ain't" fame, amassed the mightiest
swatting record of his career. He fig
ured in 128 games that year, went to
bat 562 times, scored 147 runs and
cracked out 243 hits for an average
of .432.
List of 1896 Hitters Large.
Here is the list of the men who hit
.350 or better in 1896:
G. AB. R. H. Pet.
128 682 147 243 .4:12
120 625 122 21 .4118
129 503 113 198 .3S1
49 196 43 76
128 519 128 19 .3S3
129 530 110 200 .377
126 545 107 l!l .383
111 468 111 16S .359
131 525 114 1SS .35S
114 463 93 165 .350
115 436 131 154 .353
117 482 119 170 .352
131 538 113 189 .351
HITS 18 COLLEGES
ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES DROPPED BT
IXSTITUTIOXS.
In Many Other Schools Pre.SeasOB
Coaching; Is Eliminated and Train
ing Tables Are Cut Down.
Eighteen institutions have dropped
athletfc's entirely because of the war,
according to a questionnaire distribut
ed by Professor Frederick B. Woll, of
the hygiene department of the College
of the City of New York, who has been
elected representative of the second dis
trict of the Intercollegiate Athletic As
sociation, consisting of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Twenty-two colleges out of 26 have
eliminated pre-season coaching, while
the remaining four have decreased
slightly the period of training. Twenty-
three colleges have cut down their
training tables, the remaining three
having training tables in football only.
Great efforts have been made to in
terest the students in sports by arrang
ing intercollegiate athletics.
Forty colleges are covered by Pro
fessor Woll's questionnaire. The asso
ciation regulates all football rules of
colleges and keeps tab on what the col
eges are doing in the way of athetics.
Honor Roll of Major Leagues
Payne.
VouKolniu,
Joe Jen-
pitcher; Karl
Uiird
Keeler. Baltimore. .. .
Clark. Louisville
Kelley. Baltimore.
Stivetts. Boston
Burkett. Cleveland. . .
Dflehanty, Pliila
Laloie. Philadelphia..
Stahl, Boston
Davis, New York
Doyle. Baltimore
Jennings, Baltimore..
Lanee. Chicago
Steuzel, Baltimore. . . .
This concluding question was put to
Stallings:
"If Keeler, Clark and the other stars
of 1896 had been in the game in 1917,
how many of them do you think would
have hit better than .300?"
"That's a rather hard question to an
swer." declared the Braves' leader.
"Just the same. I feel that If the
S3 men who hit .300 or better in 1896
had been in the game last year not
more than 10 or 12 of them would have
gone beyond the .300 mark. They
were great hitters, but most of them
would have flunked when faced by the
spitball and menaced by the foul strike
and the wonderful instinct of the present-day
pitchers in knowing each bat
lar'a weajuie and. strength."
FIFTY-THREE players from the
American League and 23 from the
National League are in the various
branches of the military service. The
list is a3 follows:
AMERICAN LEAGCE.
Chicago James Scott, pitcher
kin, catcher:. George
Keiser. pitcher; A. li.
baseman.
Boaton Jack Barry, second baseman;
Duffy Lewis, outfielder; Ernie Shore, pitcher;
Harold Janvrln, mlielder; Ml Ke Mvftally, ln-
fielder; Herb Pennock. pitcher; Del Oainer.
first baseman; Jim Cooney, lnffelder; Chick
Shorten, outfielder; Jack Bcnlley, first base
man: Fred Wilder, catcher.
Cleveland Ktmer binith, outfielder; Her
man DeBerry, catcher: Louis Uuistu, first
baseman; Red Torkeisun, pitcher; Clark
Dickerson. pitcher.
Detroit Howard Ehmke, pitcher: Frank
Fuller, Infielder; Del Baker, catcher; Krea
Nicholson, outfielder; H. ti. Kllison. inflolder;
Ernest Alton, pitcher; L. B. Hollywood. In
fielder: George Burns, first baseman; John
Oldham, pitcher.
Washington Mike Menosky. outfielder;
Joe Leonard, third baseman; Horace 2lilan.
outfielder; John Lavan. shortstop; Billy
Murray, utility; Alec Gibson, utility.
Philadelphia Noyes, pitcher; Bates, third
baseman; Johnson, pitcher; Haley, catcher;
Hieboid, pitcher Naylor, pitcher; Witt,
shortstop; Anderson, pitcher; Keefe, pitcher;
Grover, second baseman; Sliarinan, out
f.ielder. St. Louis Jacobson. outfielder; Sloan, out
fielder. New York Ray Fisher, pitcher: Walter
Smallwood, pitcher; Kane, outfieluer.
NATIONAL LE AG UK.
Chicago William Earl Marlcott. outfielder;
A. Lincoln Bailey, pitcher.
Boston Hank Gowdy, catcher; Georgf
Maranville, shortstop: Arthur Kico, catcher;
Henry Schrieber, infieldnr.
Philadelphia Eppa Rlxey. pitcher; Ben
Tinrup. pitcher; Davie, pitcher.
Pitujburg Ray Miller, first baseman;
Hooks Warner, third baseman; William
Webb, second baseman.
Cincinnati Maurice Rath, second base
man. St. Louis Jack Miller, first baseman;
Marvin Goodwin, pitcher.
New York George Kelly, Infielder; A. W.
Balrd. infielder; John I'ajil Jones, utility.
Brooklyn Kd I'feffer. pitcher: Rherrod
Smith, pitcher; Leon Cadore, pltcbor; John
Kellehor. shortstop; Louis aialoue,