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4 SATOiV.'iiKlf Xjli W, 1913. I'; IJL GBJLKDE EVEHEN6 OBSHUVXR, 5 StirJie LEADERS M 'ii'. - ill : . SPORT 111912': ' ' BABKHAI.L ' World' champion. Burton Red Sox. '"' National tsusua champion. Now York Giants. , . . , American leagu champion, Hoaton Red Box. - Champion batsman. National league, Belnie Zimmerman. Champion oaismau. Aimniwu ira-ue. Ty Cobb. ' ' KOOTBALU . Champion college team. Harvard. .' HOCKKY. Champion Amateur league. Crescent A. C. Champion college team. Princeton uni versity. , TENNIS. National champion, M. E. McLoughlln Natlonul double champions. Mi-Lough-lie and Bundy. National women' champion. Mis Mar ia ret Curtl. GOLF. National champion, Jerome D. Travere. National women' champion, Mia Mar caret Curtl. ROWING. Champion college eight. Cornell univer sity. Champion N. A. A. O.. (Ingle (culler, B. B. Butler. POIX). National champion, senior. Meadow Brook team. ....... . ., -- ......... , Open champion. Cooperstown team. Junior champion. Cooperstown team. MOTORBOAT8. k ' ' . World' championship, Ma pel Leaf IV. One mile recosd. Tech Junior, I mlnut Jl seconds, nautical mil. ., r. aJ ( Record In dispute Average In statute miles, W.88 seconds. - ? . - ; TROTTING, v V ; ' World's champion, C. K. Q. Billing' Union. 1:58. , BILLIARDS AND POOU Billiard, 18.1 ' balk line. Orm Mornlng-atar;-141 balk line. Willi Hoppe: three cushion, John Morgan. Pool, professional champion, Alfredo Da Oro; amateur champion. A. B. Hymen. . ' COURT TENNIS. ' National champion. Jay Gould. ' , . ; , RACKETS. ' National champion, Reginald Flnck. TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETICS. r 100 meters, 10 4-6 second, first beat. It G. Craig. Detroit Y. M. C. A.; final heat, H. P. Drew, Springfield H. 8.: at saltern tryouts, held at Cambridge. Mass.. June ,1912. 1,500 meter, minutes D6 4-6 seconds. A. R. Klvlat. l.-A. A. C, at eastern tryouts held at Cambridge, Mass.. June 8, 1812, 6,000 meters (Indoor), 15 minutes 6 4-5 sec ond. G. V. Bonhag. l.-A. A. C. at Irish American games, Madison Square Garden, Jan. to, mt, :. . , . . . - fc.OM meters (outdoor). It minutes I t-i seconds, L. Scott. South Paterson A. C. at New York posloflice clerks' game. Cel tic park, New York, May 26. 1911 Two mile On'Soor). a minute 24 s-s sec onds. P. R Wlthlugton. Harvard univer sity, at Intercollegiate championship. Philadelphia. June 1. 1912. ' Two mile (outdoor). 9 minutes 17 4-6 sec onds. . Tel Berns. Cornell university, at Ithaca May 4, 11112. Putting sixteen pound shot, right and left hand, with toe board, 91 feet 10 Inches; light hand. SO feet 6 Inches; left hand. 41 feet 4Vt lnchea; Ralph Rose,, at Oakland, Col., June t, 1912. Ona mile relay (Indoor), 3 minutes 1-t seconds. New York A. C team (O. W. Do Grouchy, J. W. Richmond. E. Prick, La 1 Roy Wood). New York city. Feb. 17. 1912. Pol vault. It feet 2H Inches,. M. a Wright. Dartmouth university, at eastern tryouts. Cambridge. Mass.. June 8, 1912. Throwing the javelin. 1M feet 10 Inches. H. G. l.o;t. Mohawk A. C. at Junior met ropolitan championships, Celtic park. New York. Aug. SI. 1912. ' j Running high jump. feet Ctt Inches, G. L. Horine, Stanford university. In dual meet with University of Southern Califor nia, at Stanford. Cal.. March 29. 1912. Walking on mile walk. minute 28 second a, Indoor, Q. Goulding. at Seventy fourth Infantry games, held at Buffalo Dee 18, 1911; 14 miles, a, minute 20 4-4 seconds: Vi miles, 10 mlnuta ( second; 1 miles, 11 minute 12 1-t seconds; ' 2 miles. 12 minutes 32 2-6 seconds! 24 mile. 16 minutes 26 2-6 seconds: m miles, 17 min utes It 1-6 seconds; 2 miles, U minutes, 4-6 second; 3 mile. 20, minute 49 4-6 sec onds; S4 miles, 22 minutes 36 3-6 seconds: Vi mlloa. 24 minute 261-6 second; l mile. 26 minutes 17 3-6 seconds; 4 miles, 22 mlnuteei 61-6 seconds: Indoor walk. O. Goulding. at Twenty-third Infantry games held at Brooklyn March 20, 1912. ',' V , . The record committee of the Amateur Athletic union approved of' the following Olympic and world' records, mad by American athletes, at the Olympic games In Stockholm. Sweden, July. 1911 100 meter. 10 3-6 second. Donald Uppln oott. University of Pennsylvania. 400 meters, 481-6 seconds. Charles D. Reldpath, Syracuae university. 800 meter. I minute 61 9-10 seconds. J. El Meredith, aferoeraburg academy. 880 yards. I minute 62H seconds, J. B. Meredith. Mercersburg academy. 1,606 meter relay. 3 minutes 16 3-6 sec onds, C. D. Reldpath, M. W. Sheppard, J. E. Meredith, F. Undberg. , Running high jump, 6 feet 398 lnchea. A. W. Richards, Brig ham Young univer sity, Utah. Running broad lump. 34 feet 1 1-6 Inches, Albert Gutterson. University of Vermont Pole vault. 12 feel 11V Inches. Harry Babcook, Columbia university. 16 pound aliot put. 60 feet 3.1 inches, Pat lick McDonald, Irish-American A. C. 16 pound shot put. both hands, 90 feet 6.4 Inches. Ralph Rose. Olympic club. Ban Francisco. 16 pound hammer throw. 17 feet 7.1 Inches. Mat McUrath. Irish-American A. C. 8WJMMINQ. 600 yards, bath, two turns. 23 3-6 seconds, Kenneth Huetngh. C. A. A.. Illinois A. C. bath. Chicago. March 12. 1912. 60 yards, straightaway, tidal salt water. 24 1-4 seconds. Duke P. Kahanamokn. H. & C. Honolulu H. T.. Aug. 12. 19U. (Mad at high tide, not aided by current.) 100 yard, straightaway, tidal aalt wa ter. 36 2-6 seconds. Duke P. Kahanamoku. H. 8. C Honolulu H. T.. Aug. 12, 111. (Made at high tide, not aided by current) 4 mil, open still salt water. 21 turns. 26 minute 36 1-6 second. L. B. Goodwin. N. Y. A. C Coney Island. N. t.. Sept 10, 112. Plunging. I mlnut time limit, bath. 8 feet. F. B Willis. University of Pennsyl vania. University of Pennsylvania bath, Philadelphia. March t, 1912. K mite, VnTh"ur"wor rmrdfor rwut raotas. mada or Teddy TetafaS Mav 76.72 mile an pour, world'' record for oeedway racing, mad by Jo Oawsoa and Don Herr. alternate driver (Nation al). In Decoration day 600 mil rae at In dianapolis. , I mile. 3134 seconds.1 circular' track. Louis rHsbrow. San Diego. March 3L Grand prise, won by Caleb Bragg (Tlat) Oct 6 at Milwaukee. Vanderbllt cup, won by Ralph 3 Pal an (Marcedesi, Milwaukee, Oct 1 A Bold Ruse By OSCAR W. TOWNSEND A man rode up to a party of witters making coffee uud frying bacon at a campQre and said, looking earnestly at oue of tbem: "Mart, the red devils have got Sam." "Oh, my God!" luouued the innn ad dressed. Martin and Samuel (ilfford were twin brothers wbo. In ttie middle oi the last century, went out to the min ing district of Colorado to prospect for gold. . The country atlU belonged to lti j original owners, or, at least. Its posse ion by the whiten' was made uncotn fortable. The savage tortured thelf captive before killing them. "How long ago did they get him?' asked Martrn Jlff ord. "Not over half an hour." "Have they killed hlmt 15 ' "Reckon not- They'll probably tor ture him first" "Come, boys, aaid Mart; "we may U In time." ' . - . - Five men.- alh welj armed, rode off, guided by Simmons, the one who had brought the news, for the purpose of rescuing the captive But the Indians were not acustomed to going abqut In mall .parties, and the white men bad little hope of finding a force that they would be able to master. Besides, a soon as' they were discovered the sav age' would kill their prisoner, if they had not done so before. - Indeed, they set onttm their enterprise because they bad not the heart to refuse Martin Gifford rather than with any expecta tion or making a rescue. "- ' - ' " Simmons led tbem to the spot where Sam Gifford had been surprised and captured. Then one of the men dis mounted and. leading bis horse, fol lowed the footprints of the savages. It was evident that tnnre was a large number of tbem. so many. In fact, that It would be madness for the white men to. attack them. But .hey pressed on fill there begun to appear evidence that the Indians were not far ahead of them, when they halted and sent oue of their party cautiously forward to reconnolter. He returned to say that from an eminence he bnd seen as many as 500 redsslns tn a' plain below drawn np in two lines. Iietween which a white pris oner was about to run the - gantlet The party followed their guide to the point of observation, and before reach ing It they could hear the shouts the yells of the savages, from which It was evident that their prisoner was running between the lines and they were belaboring him. j . It was with difficulty that the white could reatraln Martin ' Gifford from rushing down the slope to die fighting for his brother. But they held him back oc the edge of a wood In which they were lying on their stomachs and used their persuasive power to "" vlnce him that if he betrayed tue;t presence. Instead of saving Sam, he would bring the ladlans npoD tbem and they would be overpowered. By the time they bad accomplished this the prisoner had run the gantlet and 'was driven staggering to tree, where he was bound and the Indians, standing at n distance, were preparing to fire at him. The whites knew that It was not the Intention to kill him. Be would Im reserved for a lingering death. ; Tbey would see how near htm they could send their bullets and ar rows wlthoir inflicting a death wound. "Mart." ssld one of the party, "If you want to die with Sam or bare a chance to save him I'll give yon an Idea for trial. These red devils are as supersti tious as they are cruel, and can easll be imposed upon by working super natural rnckf t. None of 'em eonld tell you and Sam apart. There's no differ ence In your dress or height or build. Suppose you start down the slope; un armed, with the measured tread of a ghost. They "won't shoot an unarmed man til) he gets near enough for thm to see what be looks like, and when fhey see Mart's double stalking towari them ten to one they'll run." The' words were no sooner spoken than Mart Gifford was Impatient to try the plan, but they held him for a few minutes to Impress upon bim the Im portnnre of keeping his head and play ing his part well. Some regretted that they had nothing with which to whiten his face, but others avowed that this would add nothing to bis similarity to his brother and might detract from It The Indians were engaged IrJ Bring at their victim when Mart, who bad pull, ed himself together for a great ef fort, left the wood with folded arms. , looking up at the sky that be might fx., m pTiai4 fnw ttt rwvvthap's AantrA There, was an Interval of about ten coeds between each sf hli steps tie was soon noticed by a redaktn, who railed the attention f the others fo Urn. . "-''v' "'' The gbostllnesa of-his measured walk soon brought about commotion .mong his observers, and when be came near enough for them to see their prisoner's double they were dum founded. , When be bad approached near enough to them for his features to be distinct to tbem he stopped and. still looking np at the sky. pointed to bis brother Some of the Indians fell on their faces, while others, understand ing the ghost's motion to be a demand for himself, ran to the prisoner and un bound him. . Sam (Ilffnrd soon di fined his broth er's maneuver and when released walked slowly toward Mart, and on reai'hlng him (he twins marched away side by side. COLLEGIATE " BASKETBALL Exciting Race For Eastern Title Is Predicted PRINCETON APPEARS STRONG. In Many Quarter Tiger Team Is Pick ad to . Win Eastarn Championship. Columbia and Pnn Also Look Good. Yala Out of It - ' i ' The tight for the Intercollegiate Bas ketball leugue is off to a start on what promises to be a most sensational sea son. Last year's championship race was nip and tuck all the way. but on the present form of the teams the sea son's battles will be even mora excit ing. Columbia.- last year's champion, and Dartmouth, which finished a close second,. have.Airactlually the suine play ers as last seasou. Cornell has splendid material, and Al Sharpe, a member of the rules committee, for years a' basket ball omciul. is iu charge of the men. Sharpe should have a team fighting at the top of the heap because be com bines a thorough knowledge of the game with a splendid personality. The Itbncans finished fourth last year, fall ing down In mldseasou after making a splendid start Princeton was a disappointment last year, but the Tigers are counting on coming back strong, and muny of tbe basketball wiseacres predict Prince ton's championship. Led by tbe husky fullback of the Princeton eleven, De Witt who plays guard on tbe five, tbe Tigers should put out a fighting team. Tbe Princetonlans have introduced a new style of basketball this year, being coached by F. W. Leubring of the Uni versity of Chicago, who will glva tbe Tigers tbe western open game. ' . Then, too. Dr. 3. B. rtaycroft, former ly of the University of Chicago and -now the chairman of -the -college bas ketball rules committee, is director of physical education at Princeton. . Dr. Ray croft is a basketball strategist and the Princeton teum will benefit by hav ing many of Dr. Ray croft's aggressive scoring plays. ' ' ' -"'.-. Llko - Columbia," Pennsylvania, the fifth member of the league, can be al-' ways counted upon to produce a strong team. Tbe Red and Blue five Is led by Tn Jourdet who played and on tbe luutbull team. A new lot of play ers represent Penn this year, aa most of last year's team have been gradu ated, Pennsylvania Is fortunate, bow ever,: In baring a good staff of basket ball coaches In Cbarlea Keinatb.' Artie Klefaber and Carl Eblers. three stars of the champion 1910 Penn team, j Al Sharpe should turu out a strong team at Cornell with the material on band, . Princeton plays a strong open at tack and endeavors to play Its oppo nents off their feet ' by rolling up a large score. Dartmouth plays a drib bling game, with Sisson, tbe clever sc-oriug forward who led the league in points scored last year, as tbe storm center. , Sisson Is tbe best dribbler pltfying college basketball today and Is second only to tbe wonderful Keinatb of Pennsylvania's champion 100U. 11)07 aud 11)08 teama In whirlwind ability. With tbree others of last year's Ova (o support him, Sisson should carry Dartmouth's colors to the front this yetir. - " " '' ', : Yiile. the sixth member of the league last year, resigned because of tbe Mi nor Sports Athletic association ' reor ganization at New Haven, but the Ells, captained by Swlhart who also catches on tbe Blue Dine, will play Princeton and Pennsylvania borne' and home gomes and will meet Columbia ih New York, so tbe relative rank of the orlgl mil six teams may. ns usual, he deter mined. The KM expect to lw httt k In the league III ii mil Iter year, and It will Ite'Well to runk (lie Blue with the leugue teams. MILLIONS FOR THIS PITCHER. Rockefeller's Grandson Take tesson F'o-n Moraeeai B'Oatn. KuvUr ili-t'pru.wk. tf'.t-en jerrs old. sop" of" ffiuwET FT. IfcCormlcr aad frsndaoa f Joha D. Rockefeller, took up a course in baseball pitching re cently under the tutelag of Mordecal Brown, formerly star pltcber of the Chicago Natlonul League club. The boy. wbo, some day probably will rank with the world's wealthiest men. is being trained fur pitching In Princeton University. Uls father is graduate of Princeton, and It la bU am bition to watch bis son strike out the buUnien of tale and Harvard, for Fowler McCormlck is to enter the uni versity as soon its he Is prepared. . Brown will give his pupil two lessons en di week, and when spring comes Fowler will try for a pitching berth on the tettui of the preparatory school he now nttetitls. Syracuse to Kuvonstruct Navy. Syracuse university will reconstruct Its unvy. destroyed by a recent cycloue. The aluiuul rotuuiittee will raise $3,000. the student committee $-'1,000. and the citizens of Syracuse will contribute $2,000. making $8,000. Shanghai to Hold Rao Meet. A Sydney (N. S. V. denier recently shipped twenty-live well bred geldings to the International Itace club at Sbaaj haL 0. N. G. and O. A. a Almost Tie, Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallls, Oregon, Jan. 13. O. A. C. five won by but two points in the basket ball game with the Corvallls O. N. O. Saturday night, because of the loss of Walker and the inability of both May and King to enter the game. This leaves ithe squad of Beaver men only six Capt. Burdlck, Cooper, Jor dan, Dewer and Darling and Jams text both of whom' are berng tried out ' at center. Tbey could H no better than to hold the O. N. Q. to a 15-13 score. . . , SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN. m saass '-.;. ' Neither Origins! Nor Enlightened, la Helen Keller's Verdict - I doubt If tbe women in Shake speare's comedies are to be taken se iously. They are pretty creatures in tended to be played by boys. They are tbe vehicle of nuy more or less fitting strain of poetry which happens to please the poet Alice In Wonderland is a very real IHtle girl, but one would not make a crave, scholarly analysts of the traits of character which she dis plays In her encounter with the mock turtle. Neither should we press too heavily upon Shakespeare's poetry to extract his beliefs about women. The onrivaled sonnets voice the praise and also tbe petulant dissatisfaction of a man In love or pretending to be in love for the purpose of poetry. The woman worship in tbe sonnets and In the glow lag passages of tbe plays spoken by gallants In pursuit of their ladies is only tbe conventional romanticism com mon In medieval 'and renaissance liter atura. ' .. . ... .,-' - ; . . Shakespeare's' phrasing outflles that of all other poets. Bnt bis ldeaa of women are neither Original nor en lightened. ' in studying the social ideal of a writer and his time we of ten learn more from hi unconscious .testimony than from bis direct eloquence. Portia la wise, witty, learned, disguised as a man; but she Is disposed of without protest through her father's will and Its Irrational accidents' to a commonplace bankrupt courtier, and the tacit Impli cation is that she Is happily bestowed. Wbere Shakespeare brings Portia's ca reer to an end a modern comedy -would begin. In tbe other plays tbe delight ful heroine Is hurried off at tbe close of the fifth act Into tbe possession of a man whom she would not look at If she wore as wise and strong and witty as the situations have represented her. Helen Keller In Metropolitan. Punstsrs. Dstiglns Jerrold. when challenged to make a pun ou the xodlac. replied. "By Memlnl. I Can-cer", . , . Theodore Hook, when he was Impro vising at a party, and ft Mr. Winter, a weli known Inspector of taxes, was an nounced, went on without a moment' hrenk In his p-rfornmni-e: H4-r.i come air Winter. Inspector of luxes I'd silvlxr jro in give aim whatever he xm ,. I'd advise re in give him without anv MiiJ-nwy For thou. tils nnme . Winter hi actions err snmiiuiry 'Th Dinger. inwyer wtiit- comlmflnu bis case eiiiKt the niillmrlty of n dis-tor of luw vi I nllve - ".My learned friend." Interrupted the JiiiIl-m ."viii should never go upon tbr itiilliiirlty ot anv nave that of the dead. lie living may elmnge their minds. Vms liNIrs ' . ' Caus and Effect ' "Mrs Smytlie bas a beautiful new plume for ber hat "I thought -o I Just met ber hus band " "Did he lell yon stout ItF "No. but he looked as If he bad Just been plucked tl'iustnn Post LOCAL GlBUrcLXK, SD WJLttJiEB, LIST WAS-HIKGTON GKAPPLER IS PBIJi diPALLT JOKE. Fiasco Has Kedeeming Feature in Warner's Conduct M Wariuar.. nnnilJar Y. M. . C. - A physical director, made quick work of Ben Jaxksdn's prodigy-racrariana of Tnrnr. fWaah..i !tb Steward last night before a handful of jieople when he laid tne nrg; rancner uowu In three minutes of aotuaa1 wrestling. A an arrversarv McFariand wag1"-a nincompoop, hut that Is another tale Warner flew - at his foe' ' "though bere wete a million. In the auuience t Yobs than 10 seconds bad the big fellow on the mat and In "one minute and 30 seconds had raetenea the .punishing bead ecissor and the i.l. TVi Karnnd fall OCCU- umiiuvn. - " ilv the same length it time and ' was accomplished with Gotch s painful toer noia, wn.cn ner hooked on' Without half trying. Facts in the case are that rr.M the young amateur of the io.. cculd not only keep out of fatal holds with McFarland hut could roll him. However, "though niudh of a fiasco, Warner endeared hlmsef with his fol lowers by ' fussin with McFarland with a vigor that came near Injuring the Turner grappler. - Warner was Indignant that Ben Jackson should have slipped sp easy an antagonist over on the La Grande public and scorning the tactics that are often follow, tore into the untutored ma', man without loafing, and "nary" a soul has a word to complain about the local aide of the fight even though some paid $1.0, a minute for the wrestling. ; They are 'highly pleased with the way "Warner behaved In the pinches on his honor. poor McFarland Is not to blame. He waa the fall guy-and this is not all alang which the bump on hla head today testifies to when Ben Jackson was here some time ago he told War ... on nther that McFarland was a dandy,' fast skilled and active:- when he rothome, be old MoFarianu, m i. vi. nin. that Warner waa a hard wrestler but that McFarland could throw him all right. The poor Irish man came to La Grande under a mis apprehension and Is not to blame for his Inability to even get a start to : i i'1:'"-'?,''''' r-l-: i; W-. ;T . It - ' : 1 4 ' '' J if . WBO XAJOS KeFirUlO i jrT3 NIGHT. ::C.::rbi' 'V' ward throwing. Warner Jackson mm. the slippery engineer..,'; ; 1 ;. Flannery had all the hett ct it la ana entirely unscientific preliminary wUfa "Kid" Owens. Owena la a Bparnkar flghter and (Flannery is -a hamruCTSs tongs proposition. Flannery woau " P. A. Foley officiated as referee s both the 'preliminary and the event'' ". '' Promoter McLeod apologized to 1 audlence'for the weakness of the ? ttlng wrestler, explaining, and ing letters . from Jackson,' that 1 Farland waa a' man fully capable giving Warner, a run; i-,-; : t ;i i t, ,', f i - ,T -V. H. C A. JTATElBAr XB1I T ';.TItHW OUT'WmEBS,.; . v. Mew Hen at Hand to Help Malta Om Team- Stronger Than Eve. , Basketfall fana are clamoring 6r a renraranlzatlon of the Ia Grande ketball team of last year . under sT,' M.-C. A. colors.- Larsen and would be in ltn for the team In sist In making it stronger even It was laet year. Though tb -on la well under way these assm could readily develop 'and neeons greater factor In Eastern Oregon ttasx they were last year even. It was go far towards throwing Tiew gtajpar' and life Into the Y. M. C. A. circles sa well. ' ' . , "All Stars" Formed. For Baker comes the following aa noujieemcnt: ' : '' ' ' . "With the high school and mlMa. company out of the running as tar aa basketball is concerned In tk city, a number of students and Iso mer studenUf; who have made game famous In Baker have cra ixed as' the 'All Stars' and are nr practlclng every evening 'In the arav ory getting In trim for shark season, for whteh several games ha already been scheduled. A week from tomorrow Ore tF .-in start on a. four days' trip thwnjl , the Panhandle , and will meet teams at Richland and Hairway . ' other places. The two former msar aood teama aad have Deen, pur-t since early In the fall. Among 1-krns. .u trvlna- out for fhe 1I team are: Herbert Fnye. ar and Douglas Potter, Sherman 'Ptfts Alfred Flnley, Frank McCulloch m others." , . J r 1 m 1
