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BURHS 15 FAVORITE 1 San Francisco Fans Will See First Big Battle, Since July, This Month. WELSH HIGH IN DEMANDS Jack Johnson Disregards Training Pate for Wells Combat Draw Ver Australia to 8r Important Fights. SAN FRANCISCO. Cl Sept. SJ (Special.) Aftw being without jty professional puglliatlo attraction of anr Importance inc tba Ad Wolgast- 0 Moran championship mill of July 4. Fan Frmnctaco fight fana hare fairly good card tc! month la th match bftwwn Franki Burna. the Oakland l:ahtwlrht. and Matty Balil win. of fto.ton. The lightweight will co 10 rounJi on September J. weigh Inc 131 pound at I o'clock on the day Ot the rnotHL Bill Kyne. a promoter of semi-pro fessional boxing contents, will handle the ahow as Milton T. !ark. the local contractor, ha stepped down and out of tne flahttnjr frame. Clark ha made a auccea of his show thla year but find preialne; bualneaa will require all of hla attention, so be turned over his club to Kyne. Berme lieaata Brlsht. The appearance of Burns In the ring will mark Ms right to "come back after his championship aspiration were given a back by Ad olgast vnral months tio. In that bout Burns Injured a rib and he la Just rounding to form. Burna Is tl years oil. and It Is reKonahl to expert that he will flrht his way up the ladder again, t ntil he ran acalnsl Wolnast. Burns had a perfect record and many local fana predict that he will out-battle Baldwin. Asalnat a clever. Ught hltttnic chap like Baldwin. Bums will show Id good aMvantage and lie will l'kelr rule faveelto when the men step In the rlns;. If Burns Is ucceful arainat Bald win. Jick Terkins Is figuring on tak ing the Oaktanrter East lu order to take a crack at ioir. of the l:t(ht weight now around .New ork. lab flealre PrtTlleae. .The Metropolitan Club, which holds tne permit to staae a boxinat show this month, had a chance to pet the Ad Wolgast-Packey il. FarUnd conteet. but declined the offer on the ground that trouble mta-ht arl In tryln to t;e 'he contest he. Frank Mulkern, the Milwaukee promoter, had WolKaat and Met arUn.l slcned up to a contract and wanted to bring; them to Pan Fran cisco. Mulkern offered te Metropolitan flub 10 per cent of the gross receipts If It allowed Mm to use their permit to put on the attraction. It would have mennt a tldv sum for the Metropolitan lub aa the fight ficured to draw around $35,000. but the tip was given out that an outsider would not be allowed the privilege of "huttins In" the local field. Thus It l Fan Francisco will not iret the crack llehtwetrht card of the year unless Jimmy Coffroth lands the men In a bout outside the city limits. rlik Trains for V digest. Freddie Welsh, the Welch llght- ntltM. was In loan for a couple of days laat meek trying to ret on here hut bis demanda ere too steep for local promoters. Welsh only wanted 1 1.000 for his bit. win. lose or draw, and they were considered out of bound when only a local lightweight could be secured to ito against him. After the deal foil through Welsh took the train for New Tork. where he ha signed up to meet the winner ot the Abe Attell-Matt Well bout In New York. The Welchman Is figuring- on getting In two or three fight before be meet WolinI In Los Angeles on Thanksgiving Pay. Torre were some misgiving that the Los Angelea bout would go on because Welsn had withdrawn his forfeit which ha had up with John T. Clark, of this city, but everything haa been patched up now and Tom McCarey holds tha forfeit of both Wolgast and Welsh that they will go on as achedulcd. Beavlee Invade Aaatralla. Australia will be the Mecca of the heavyweights from all parts of the glob thl Winter. It haa been learned through At- Kaufman that Jim Flynn will cross the pond in a couple ot weeks, and with Jack Johnson. Sam Ijncford. Jack Lester, tvim McVey. Bill Una and other heavies already signed up for bouts there Australia will prac tically house all the prominent heavy weights in the world. nam Fltapatrtck. former manger of Jack Johnson, haa received lettera from friend In London that the negro cham pion la In anything but good condition for hi scheduled go with Bombardier Well at London on October x. John son Is reported hog-fat and haa not been pursuing his training with any great amount of system. Johnson seem to realise that he 1 picking an easy mark and I going right ahead with hi high living, which he likes so well. Mrong oppoitlon on the part ef the church people of England haa arisen and It la quite likely that the uneven match will be stopped. In that evant Johnson will be quite fortunate for a big man not In condition la at a big disadvantage In facing even a fourtn or J fin. rater. WALT. A WALLA RFCORD BEATEX Ftland S-, In Fxhlbltion Illv, Lowers Mark Slade by Blaoche. WALLA WALLA. Waah Sept. 81. Nellie Q took the X: pace today In straight heats, the feature event at the County Fair. B'and 8 went an exhibition mli In I 0T. lowering the track record set Wednesday by Blanche, who negotiated the mile In I.0V,. Re sults: I 11 pace, purse 11009. 1 la Nellie O Brat Grade renter second. Buck third. Best time !:. I 14 trot. peclal race. S In t Car lisle won. F.'.garelia second. Brook Belle third. Best time 2. MV S' 01 trot, special race Break won, Lee Crawford second (two starters). Best time J. !'. Four furlor.gs. selling, purse 1S Pcorchar won. Ane second. Elsie Fln nle third. Time :. Five furlongs. elilng. purs ll0 Native Bon won. Kiack Fluid second. .Nona Noncomon third. Tim 1.0I. Feven furlongs, selling, purse 1 Foot Iose won. Round and Round seo end. Mscus third. Tl:n 1::I. Tie e;.k la th luwer ef Trinity t hurch. v T s Is er old. Rust and as (,- p.ad hsToc nh IL It to t be re . it one of modern make, hav.es four 2 alv A tr-l In daijiet. ell aa aeu iaeesibed ta ltf SIX PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOOTBALL SQUAD. I S'.. HJM il t'1 . J -J .vv; . ; . .:f- -v ' W J V ii -U n - vw ' tgg-v r' " ' 'I z-r-OLi.y' - - 1 ' ' ' :- "' O-V ." ''i t - . ' WvvS - : t; ,-.. - ; .:-: ' :i ' V : ;l v.vv - ' - ! f-y. i V... . - t TJ W " it P- ' '1 VARSITY WOHRY OH Coach Varner Sees Too Many Holes in Line. 5 CAUSES TAKE VETERANS Graduation, Death, Withdrawal, Pa rental Objection and Mining Con tract tesponalblo for Loss of Men Hard to Replace." CNTVEHFITT OF OREGON. Eugene, 6pt- 13 (Special.) When the Oregon varlty football team lines up against Its Northwest rivals thl Fall Ave stars of ths 1111 eleven will be rnlssln. Graduation, death, withdrawal, paren tal objection and a mining contract are each responsible for the loss ot one man. Ben Grout right guard, graduated last June and will not return to u his remalnln right to play under th four-year rule of the Northwest Con ference. Charles E. Wldlund. the giant right tackle " the 110 team, fell a victim of tynholfi fever a short month efter completing his first eaon. Charles M. ("Chuck-) Taylor, captain of the 1910 team, who waa given favor able mention by the famous critic, Walter Camp, on hla theoretical all Amertcan eleven, will not return to graduate. Taylor has played only three years of college rooiDau ana wouia have been eligible again thl year had he not left college to attend a pro teaalonal dental school at Loe Angeles. Although both of the llo ends are expected to return neither will be can didate for the squad. Homer Jamlaon. who broke Into the game last year at right end. announcea that Be haa at last barkened to the aversion that his parenta have against football and that he will not parUclpate (gain. Graham J. Michael, the reliable left wing man. Is still In Alaaka filling out a mining contract and will not arrive In tugene until November a. This tardiness will bar him from play because of th con ference ruling requiring aa athlete to register within two weeks after th opening of college. Vacancies Mean Hard Work. with these vacancies to nil from among the new candidate It Is plain to see thst Coachee Warner and Hunt have a big task staked out ahead of them. When asked yesterday If be were pleased with th present outlook Head Coach Warner emphatically an swered. "I am not. The material avail able la not nearly aa favorable aa the laat year turnout. My Dacgneio is rood enough, but look at thoae holes In the line and at ths end." As a nucleus, the rormer . omen heroes will have Captain Slain, liou rett. Kellogg. Walker. Bailey and Fen ton of the regular outfit, and Chandler and Hall as reerv 0 men. Bailey, ho 1 due in Eugene uciooer . been hardening nia mii u u mines of Montana and If his aubter- rannean Jaunts oia not gn r.im nio be ought to be In even better form than laat year. Nine members of the strong freshmen team of laat year are again In college and several of them notably. Caufleld and Orout. llnearaen: Anunsen. wi ahlfty end. and Bean, tne eiai-air back are Itab! to land squad place. Bradshaw. the rangy end. waa reckoned last year aa a lad with a great future. Of the fresh timoer. rvaiser. wi haired California giant, naa spienum prospect to land the vacancy left by T.vior Joe Jones, who made the all- Portland Irteracholaatlo In 199. 1 mak ing a good try for tne aame joo, ana Ueuiner of Cascadllla prep.; Vlerlck of Tillamook. Koiaad of Portland THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 24. .1911. demy, and Tlawkln of Portland, are working hard. Borman. the husky from Baker, la after an end station, a Is Fraxler, the former Washington High tackle. De Bnr. of Eugene High. Black, of Rose burs;, and Morton, of Astoria High, are also entered In this mix. Three new men from Iowa appeared at practice last night Glen Curtis. Lewis Heaton and Kmmett Curtis. They played center, guard and tackle re spectively on the left side of the line for the Cherokt-e High School team, which held the Iowa championship title. , ' The 1411 schedule aa announced by S'1tul,,;ol11?,,,,er Jara" a John", Jr- October 2S Washington state col lege at Pullman. Wash. November 4 Whitman Collegs at Eugene. November 18 University of Wash- lnglon at Portland. November 15 University of Idaho at Eugene. November 10. Thanksgiving day Multnomah Club at Portland. Thl arrangement bring three major game within a space of 12 days, but a counter advantage is given by the two weeks' rest prior to ths big gams of the year, November 18, with Wash ington. The manager Is In negotiation for one or more early season practice games. For the first time since 1902 and for the third time since 1894 there will be no game between the team of the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural College, due to the recent severance of athletic relation. In 1940 and 1901 there were no game because of th temporary abolishment of the game by the Corvallls faculty. NELSON SEES CAPITAL TOrN'G SCRAPPER PLAXXIXG TO "COME BACK" STRONG. Orxrn-Alr LflTinr in Oregon Works Wonderful Change Has Old Snap and Vigor That Gave Him Fame. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. (Special) Battling Nelson, looking Jut aa healthy and trong as when he knocked out Joe Can for the world's lightweight championship, visited In Washington laat week on personal business, leaving later for Boston, where he Is booked for three fights In hla now famou "come-back" campaign. Nelson' appearance showed the ef fect of the long month he has spent In the open air of Oregon and New Mexico. The great Dane waa red and tanned. HI cheeks wear the healthiest hue they have ever ahown alnce he has been familiar to Washington boxing fana He look 10 pound heavier than he did when appearing hers In th theaters, and he also walks with the springy. Jaunty tep which waa mill ing when In Washington before. Nelson was confident of his ability to tUl give th best lightweights In the ring a tusst. In fact it would not be the gamaater from Hegewlsch If he were not confident. He ha mapped out a hard campaign, and la showing the fight fana hla alncerlty by not pick ing off the eaay ones for hla tryouta. Nelson's firat fignt will be In Boston on September 19, when he tackles Toung Ntxon. one of ths beat of the New England crop of lightweights. Two weeks after meeting Nixon be la matched with Young Saylor, the sensa tional lightweight of Indianapolis. Af ter the Saylor fight he will take a few daya' layoff and then prepare for hla battle with Matty Baldwin, one of the hardest tighter In the ring, and re cant victor over Willi Ritchie In Cali fornia. Nelson has adopted out-of-door liv ing entirely. He has a tent fitted up with electric lights, running water and all the comforts of a home. Thl tent win be pitched near hla training quar ter In Boston, and Nelson will live In It exclusively. At night he opens tip th flap and practically sleeps In th open air. All hla meala axe served in the open, and he haa aogSLged his own private chef la Boston DUCK BAGS FILLED Despite Early Season, Hunters Have Excellent Luck. CHINA PHEASANTS COMING Large Order Placrd With Andrew Kan Gnn Club Will Hold Handicap Shoot . for Fine Trophies. Duck hunters from preserve down the Willamette report fairly good shooting at present, although the sea son has not advanced far enough to bring game In the abundance expected In October. Northern ducks have not come In since the first of the month In larire numbers, " owing to mild weather. Strong winds and heavy storms are necessary to drive them to seek the sheltered lakes and sloughs, and sports men do not expect heavy bags In these kinds of ducks until a change of weather. The North Bank Railway trains carry numbers of sportsmen to Tide Creek and vicinity every Sunday, where they are able to secure good bags and re turn the same evening. M. C. Dickinson says that on the Wright and Dickinson preserves at Dead Willows, good shooting In wood ducks has been had already this year, but no Northern ducks have been seen. "The lakes on the Dead Willows shooting grounds are too deep," he said, "to make first class feeding places for ducks, and we Intend to have them drainei to a more favorable depth some time In the future. We have suc ceeded In pulling off several pretty good shoots there this season, though, a a rule, we have established records for long walks only." Deer Island Is turning out best thla year as a duck preserve, and members of the club that Is shooting It claim the largest bags that have been made this year. A. L. Mills. Will Llpman, George .Lelthof. Morris- Abramd. Dr. MrKenxle. and Jack Culllson are shoot ing this preserve. MerrU's place Is also turning out well. Deer shooting haa been proving beat In Southern Oregon counties this sea son. Game warden for those local ities have reported many sportsmen In Curry and adjoining counties coming out from the hunt with the limit, and in some cases they have been kept on the alert to prevent sportsmen from exceeding the law In sections where shooting was especially good. A report from one of the Southern Oregon warden to State Warden Fin- ley say that In one day's patrol he sighted 75 deer, while another tells of a party of five hunters coming out with a full kill. There hare been fewer breaches of the law this year, say the game wardens. State Game Warden Flnley haa ar ranged with Andrew Ran to have 250 palra of Mongolian pheasants shipped to Portland from China, to be put on the Simpson Pheasant Farm near Cor vallls for breeding stock. Mr. Simpson ha contracted the use of his 28-acre farm and his own services to the state for three years at 12050 a year to prop ogate Mongolian and Reeves pheasants for distribution in the different hunt ing grounds of the state. A limited number of pheasant raised In captivity were liberated near Salem early this month. Mr. Flnley ex pect to liberate several hundred more next July. Experiment will be made In raising game ducks on the Simpson farm, and. If this proves successful, the breeding and distribution of the best species of ducks will also be adopted In the new schemo for improv ing game facilities In different part ot th stat FOOTBALL'S BEST YEAR PREDICTED High Officials of Game Are En- thusiastic Over This Sea son's Prospects. COACHES NOT HAMPERED Elevens Do Sot Have to Learn Xew System of Attack and Defense. Reformed Play Is Expected to Justify Itself. NEW TORK. Sept. IS. That college gridirons thla year will stage the most Interesting and successful season of football In the history of the sport, waa the opinion exprsssed by the hlgn officials of the game here today. Nearly 150 coaches and football vet erans from all parts of 7iastern foot ball territory were in New Tork to day after holding their annual con ference last night for the final Inter pretation of the rules prior to the sea son's opening games. Walter Camp, dean of football at Tale; Percv D. Haughton. the Harvard coach; Dr. Carl S. -Williams, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, and Dr. James A. Babbitt, chairman of the central board, were among those who declared VIEWS AND REVIEWS OF PAST WEEK IN SPORTS BT HOSCOE inOPE" may be all right as "a 31 first aid" to the actorine's " facial makeup, but when It comes to baseball, you'll probably hit closer to the. bullseye by throw ng a boaconstrlctor hook into the statistics. In other words, if there's anything at any trend about the festive game where the hunch is heavy on you to elucidate the same, grapple gently with the fig ures till the picture fits the frame, for It s all there in the dope. The latest tabulation on Pac,"cc"; teams furnishes concrete proof of this pudding, for. If the figure, were to w n or lose the pennant. Portland would finish In fourth place, with "Vernon and the Oaks at the pinnacle. Oakland Is second In team hitting, with an average of -2": Portland fourth, with .256; Oakland has made 185 sacrifice hits. Portland 16.: Oak land has pilfered 284 sacks, Portland 264: Oakland has made 64 home runs. Portland 81: Oakland has manipulated 152 double plays and the Beavers 116. Could anything be more convincing? Tes. Four games out of five this week. Still It's all here in the tables: Team Batting. Clubs Games Vernon 1"2 Oakland 1 Fan Francisco. 17 f Portland 1R1 Loa Anels..l73 Sacramento ..171 ATI R PH 1.538 1. .,.. 1.484 1.876 1.440 1.431 BA .2BS :2 .29 .216 .251 .246 8.722 K.740 6.3fl T..735 r..s;T 773 7 no --3 840 64.1 620 aj -n a 030 8.810 .2JT Totals . Learu battlns averase. Ions: Hits by Clnba. 8H SB 2BH 3BH HR DP FP SO 2S9 28 251 64 Ii2 lOB 1 H Vernon . . . Oakland San Fran. Portland L Angelas 6acram'to 185 2S4 219 82 64 152 1 23 2S4 2.".: 167 r 1 ci lid 4.10 2ne I3 172 239 72 41 119 8i9 204 67 ii JOT Totals. 1246 1534 1346 815 24T 728 T 80 Frank B'. TJfer, the Oklahoma million aire Is menasrlna- Carl Morris, de clares his beaten white hope will yet be champion, for Carl Is going ahead with more determination than ever. Morris la entitled to great credit for his game ness. if not for anything else. "I was getting stronger, and would have beaten Flynn In a few more rounds." says the Sapulpa swashbuck ler. Frank Erne, the one-time lightweight champion, says he never saw a man display more determination or more courage In the ring than did Morris in his Flynn fisticuffs. "Morris doesn't belong' to the white feather tribe, that's certain," writes Erne. "The canvas in the arena was so covered with blood that it looked like a rose patch In bloom. If this fight does not break his spirit, and he learns the science of delivering a blow, there's a chance of his making good some time." a The 1911 world's baseball series be tween the Philadelphia Athleticse and the New Tork Giants will probably start on Saturday. October 14. Phlla- UtMpiliU CUUB ' . ..--...- .. - allowing a week for practice, which Will DO utllizea as mat jrar uy o. "ci i e-nme with an all-star bunch recruited by James McAleer. The Giants nave scneauiea games iur yclODcr iu, ii auu a, ... . . ... to play ball right up to the start of the big series, it mcijraw iimmumia his big lead, however, his club will be able to ease up in the final week and get about as mucn gooa irom me regu larly scheduled games as Mack's men will from the all-star tangles. The All-Stars and Athletics will meet In the first game on October 8. at Bal timore: October 9 and 10 at Washing ton, and October 11 and 12 at Rich mond. a Peter Buzukos, Portland welter weight grappler, has been called on to make good his claims to championship honor. From that bustling burg of Raymond, on Wlllapa Harbor, comes a challenge under signature of E. Lind say, manager of the Raymond Athletic Club, who offers to wager 8500 thaf Carl Nelson, a Raymond knight of heroic hip and bulging bleep, can pin the Greek's shoulder to the mat thrice In an hour. " "I tak' hem." declared Buzukoe .ve hemently when the challenge fra flaunted in his face. ."Let hem send he monee to The Oregonian." Thus great oaks from acorns may grow. t m Autumn, like the Coast League pen nant race. 1 clattering down the home stretch with a roar not dissimilar to Joe McGuire's crack pacer, Francis J, - ICAAA r. I. ( BTnt. AlltUmlL In the second readers, is pictured as a time of bursting granaries and that sort of thing, which, from a sportina; standpoint, means nlL Football, world's series. Coast League pennant fight there hangs the true algnlflcance of the glorious Fall of the yeai- the ushering in of the gridiron sport and the closing of the gate on the diamond hero for an other Spring. Football Is a wonderful game, the sport of our colleges, the game that has remained unsullied and above the taint of commercialism or accusation through the years It has been played, one calling for the sterner qualities of young manhood. We welcome football while the un derfed poets are lushing forth on golden brown colors and apple trees that the reformed game would this year overwhelmingly Justify itself. For the first time In three seasons, the coaches are not hampered by the necessity of teaching a comparatively new system of attack and defense. There la to be no complaint this year of delay In naming officials at the various contests, according to Dr. Bab bitt of the central board. Most of the assignments of officials, he said, was decided and published earlier than In recent years, and the board expects as a result to have its appointees ac cepted without trouble. Eastern Football Resnlts. Cleveland Western Reserve, 10; Mount Union. . St. Louis St. Louis University. 11; Shurtleff College. 0. Worcester, Mass. Holy Cross, 13; Boston College, 0. Watervale, Me. Colby, 19; Hebron Academy, 0.' Easton, Pa. Lafayette. 63; Blooms burg. 0. Orono. Me. University of Maine, 19; Fort McKinley, 0. Amhurst. Mass. Massachusetts Agri cultural, 0: Rhode Island State. 5. Carlisle Carlisle Indian, 63; Le banon College, 0. Indoor Ball Season to Start. ALB ANT, Or.. Sept. 23. (Special.) Albany's Indoor baseball league will begin the season's playing Monday eve ning, October t. This was decided at a meeting of the executive committee of the league last evening. At this meeting a jonstltutlon and bylaws was formed anl playing rulea adopted and these will be submitted to the league at a meeting to be held next Tuesday. Each of the six teams has now selected its manager and these managers form the executive committee as follows: Oregon National Guard, Herman Stal naker; Spanish-American War Vet erans. Claire B. Baker: Alco Club. Dave Patterson; Knights of Columbus F. McKenna; Albany High School. Lloyd Marquam; Southern Pacific, Alvln C. Baker. - FAWCETT. propped In limb so as to better sup port their burdens. Bring on the pig skin. a a a Johnny Schlff. Portland boxer who Is mingling In the four-round milling at San Francisco, is to be rematched with Jack Duarte, the lad who held Monte Attell and Danny Webster to the grindstone. Schlff got the worst of the Puarte deal ten days ago. "I am to fight him again on Sep tember 28 and will meet Marty Kane, the Kansas City crack on October 6. writes the Portland youngster. "After my bout with Kane I expect to go to Los Angeles to arrange for dates with Promoter McCarey." a a a This little clipping is asisned to its little place behind the hearth: When Adolph H. Rebe, popular Washington-street cafe man, was packing a grip around the Northwest a few yearB back, he had even more friends in the tall pampas districts than a Congressman who doles out free seeds. One evening a party of rustlcants from Baker, Or., arrived over a late train and after two or three Ineffec tual visits to the most likely places downtown ' to see the "Baron," the searchers, decided to take a cab to his home. They arrived there sometime after midnight and rang the bell. A second-story window was raised cautiously and a woman's head ap peared. ' "What's wanted?" she asked. "Is this where Adolph Rebe lives7" inquired the man at the doorbell. The woman peered at the cab and at the human forms dimly outlined therein. s "Tes, I'll unlock the door," said she, resignedly. "Bring him In." John McGraw and his New Tork Giants haven't - won the National League pennant yet. but it's a boll weevil against a stem of cotton that they do, although the gallant fight being made by Frank Chance and the Chlcaeo Cubs Is a . wonderful tribute to the genius of the peerless leader. The Cubs have labored under the stillest handicap that ever penalized any pennant contender in the history of big league baseball. Johnny Evers, the smartest member of the team, suf fered a nervous breakdown early in the year and then Frank Chance was hit in the head with a pitched ball. This left only Tinker in the infleld. Zimmerman, who replaced stelnfeldt, did as well as Stelny, but Doyle and Saler could hardly be expected .to show the class of Chance and Evers. Archer's work behind the bat has been the one most striking feature of the terrific battle waged by the hosts of Murphy. The outfield, with Schulte, Hofman and Sheckard, is as good as ever. . King Cole's failure to "come back" has hindered the Cubs to a great ex tent, although Brown Jumped Into the breach and hurled more consistently than ever. Lou Ritchie, a Boston and Philadelphia discard, has also been a great help to Chance. a a a As a most striking evidence of how big league teams change, take a full grown gaze at this personnel of the New Tork Giants when they won their last pennant back In 1905: Mike Donlin, George Browne. Sam Mertes, Bill Dahlen, Arthur Devlin, Sammy Strang, Gilbert. Dan McGinn and Roger Bresnahan. ' Not one of these Is in the lineup to day. McGraw's pitching mainstays then were Mathewson, Ames, Wiltse. Taylor and McGinnity, and of these the first three named are doing yeoman duty still for the far-famed "Muggsy." a a a The difference In the speed limit be tween mile and half-mile tracks has perennially caused more talk than would a bill In the National Senate reg ulating the size of men's handkerchiefs and that,' going some. The question is one that docs not admit of exact answer, but the Horse Peview casts some light upon it by a supplementary table showing the difference between the one-mile and the half-mile track records of the 13 different trotters that have held the world's record over a half-mile speedway. This Is as Ydl lows: See's Horse Mile track. H-mlle track, dlf. Flora Templa ...2.19; 1S5 2.2 1S60 Dexter 2.1754 1S67 2.19 1867 1 Ooldamlth Maid.. 3.14 1S74 2.18 1874 4' Ranis 3.1314 1878 2.1S 1878 2 Jay-Eye-See 1. 10 1S4 2.15'4 18S7 Nelson ....U9 1394 1.11 13D2 i ...3.09H 1894 184 2 14 ...2.0914 1896 2.10H 1896 11 .. .3.0914 1895 2.10V4 1897 H ...2.0214 1901 2.08 1903 614 ...2.02 1906 2.07 1907 11, Maarnolla . . - - Pat u. Dandy Jim . CreaeeuB .... Sweet Marie George a. I'hlan . ' ...2.0514 1905 2.06 1907 1 1:68 1910 2.02 1911 Averase cirrerence in time. :it aeconas. . A study of the table develops many points of Interest. In the first place the average Is undoubtedly lower than most horsemen would have thought it. Many, of course, would estimate the difference at under three seconds, but a great majority would more likely rate it as about five seconds. The history of statistcs has demon strated that nothing about them is more reliable as a working basis for correct calculations than what has been called "the law of averages." Hence the above may be taken as a fairly ac curate Idea of he difference in th mil and half-mile courses (ATHLETES' COMING CHEERS OP 0. A. C. First Call for "Footer" Prac tice Drives Gloom Like Mist Away. OLD MEN STIFFEN TEAM Promising Pigskin Stars Appear on Campus Following Registration. Coach Pol an Expects Fresh man Fifteen. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, CorvaUls. Or.. Sept 23. (Spe cial.) The gloom which has been hang ing over football circles at this Insti tution since the close of the last foot ball season Is' being dissolved like Ore gon mist before a Spring sun. ThU de cided change In the atmosphere of the lower campus has been brought about by the appearance of a large coterie of very promising young athletes. The first two days of registration have brought In more scholastic stars than have ever reported at this Institution. Coach Dolan has Issued a notice that ' candidates will assemble Monday af ternoon for first practice. Dolan was very optimistic today. He said "that he expected O. A. C. to be represented this year by a freshman team, but he felt confident that the first-year dele gation would be able to- hold Its own with the majority of the veteran com binations of the Northwest colleges. There Is every Indication that there will be enough of the old men back on the gridiron this year to assure the team of a good nucleus. Captain Everett May, who played star tackle last year on the college team, and who had previously been a brilliant per former on Multnomah Athletic Club team, will be back to take charge of the squad. With him there will also be "Shrimp" Reynolds, the famous quarterback: Kellogg, who played a splendid game at end last year, and Pitton. who, while badly handicapped by a bad knee, gives promise of doing some very good work. Evendon to Re-enter School. . The best news to reach the campus during the past week Is notice that ex Captain Evendon will again enter col lege and join the squad. . He played a brilliant game during his first year on the team, his splendid performances winning for him the captaincy of the squad. He, in all probability, will step back into his old position as tackle, and. with Captain May, Will make a strong combination for these two Im portant places In the line. Some of the scholastic stars who will crawl Into moleskin Monday afternoon and begin the grueling tryout for pos itions on the squad are Scott, of Oak Park High School, Chicago, and Golden, another speedy youngster who has per formed in the Chicago High School League. . Both of these men will be candidates for half-back posltio'ns, for which they have had exceptional ex perience and splendid coaching while members of high school teams. Two other men, who are receiving special attention at this time, are Bryan, who played quarterback for the Catholic Toung Men's Club of Portland, and Christman, who hails from Kentucky. Both of these players are experienced players who come here with flattering reputations. The college team will also have some of the most prominent high school stars of the Northwest enlisted in its ranks. Ben Robinson, former full back of Washington High SchooT team, of Portland, and Neil Tyson, former captain of Lincoln High School, of Portland, have both expressed their in tention of reporting for places on Coach Dolan's squad.' Besides these husky youngsters there will be Shaw, of Aberdeen, Childress, of Medford, and Siefert, the all-academic star, of Los Angeles, California. Several Huskies Expected. Besides this array of experienced veterans and high t school recruits, there will be several husky men who have had experience on the second team at the college and on some of the class squads. Nelson and Moore, who were at the Institution for early practice i two years ago and who left college before the team was developed, will again Je candidates for line positions. Both are heavy and fast and with the coaching which they have had. promise to develop Into excellent material. The class teams have developed Sitton, Mc Brlde, Richardson and McKenzie Into very likely candidates for the big team. A look through the other end of the glasses, however, shows still some haze hanging over the ' college gridiron. There will be absent from the squad this year the famous Keck, Captain Hawley, Enberg, clever little Hastings, Dunn, the experienced center; Hunt lev, the Northwest end, and Loosley and Tyeer, the two big line men. The most severe handicap will come in the loss of Keck. For three years he has been considered the mainstay of the team because of his wonderful ability at punting. He was depended upon as the strongest factor in both offensive and defensive play of the college team. He was a wonderful ground gainer, besides being one of the best punters and field kickers in the Northwest. If his place can be filled the problem which is now facing Coach Dolan will be very largely solved. When the squad assembles tomor row afternoon the principal Interest will center on those men who show ability in booting the ball. The strength of the college team from time almost immemorial has depended to a large extent on kicking. Dolan Inspires Confidence. There seems to be one advantage In the opening of the work this year, and that is the absolute confidence 'which Coach Dolan seems to have Inspired, not only ip his players but in the crowd of football enthusiasts. Every one seems to be satisfied that If there is the proper material to wore wltn, the famous Notre Dame and O. A. C. veteran will turn out a winning team. While in past years the college haa had the services of some excellent coaches, there has never been, at the beginning of the season, the confidence In them that Dolan seems to command at the very beginning. Everyone feels that his splendid loyalty to the institution and his tested ability, both as a player and a coach, leave nothing to be da sired in the way of Instructor In the great college game. Thus, the football season opens at this college with a full consciousness of a loss suffered by the absence of many of the old stars, but also with a feeling of absolute confidence in the coach and confidence that the new re cruits who are appearing on the field in such great numbers will make an array of warriors that will carry for ward the college co'ors with orsdit. If not to champlr