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HINTS OH HOW
TO SWIM FIST
THE TRUDGEON FOR DISTANCE
v ' IS BEST STROKE. -
The Crawl Stroke Preferred In Sprint
r-BOta LHwble Overarm.
face a person baa mastered tbe ordl-
ry breast stroke In swimming, and
then learned tbe single overarm stroke.
Is ready to develop speed swim-
be racing strokes are vitally dlf-
Int from tbe ordinary pleasure
as.
for distance, racing toe double over
arm (trudgeon) Is nsed, t.nd la sbort
events one should adopt tbe "crawl."
The trudgeon as a racing stroke It
executed as follows: '
.The arms are used in alternatt
strokes, the bands reaching out well
in front to give a long sweep. Tbey
are carried back in tbe water as fai
as tbe waist Breathe on each right
arm stroke, or on each left arm stroke.
Tbe bead Is carried low In the water,
so you must turn your face upward
out of tbe water for a second to snatcb
a breath, then lower It again. Keep
ing tbe bend submerged u an essen
tial. Tbim the body Is kept on a
straight line and offers less resistance
to tbe water than it otherwise would.
The kick is important Spread tbe
legs far apart in a big "scissors" on
every right arm stroke. - Bring the legs
violently together Just as you finish the
arm stroke. . Polut tbe toes out as
much us possible and keep the legs
straight and rigid during tbe left arm
stroke. Kick once for every two arm
strokes. The "double kick" will kill
your speed. -
. Ths Crawl.
In tbe crawl stroke plunge forward
in tbe water and take sbort, quick over
arm strokes, kicking tbe legs from the
knees down up and down violently.
Keep the knees as close together as
possible and turn your toes inward.
Your feet come. out. of the water at
each kick if you make tbe leg stroke
very pronounced. ;. , ' . i
. Your face is submerged. Turn it up
ward to Dreatne at every inree or ruur
ie strokes, some racers rase sev-
"tht strokes on a single breath.
Ustrallau crawl can be dlstln-
4l tui n .hnrt ipm poilfh with
A-W u ...
I ifews. similar to tbe arm action
printing fast with the trua .
a kuecllng poxltlon and a naru
Bug down of taeui In time wltb
Ihe atch of the opposite hand, and
by a fiat, face down position of tbe
body. 1
' . Its great advantage Is tbe remarka
ble speed of action, which allows abso
lutely no check, making It probably
quite as fast a stroke for sbort dash
es as any known. Its worst ftro.lt Is
that It Is a freak stroke, totally unfit
for distance work. : It Is Impossible to
bold It If the movements are fast, and
there is no speed in it when tbey are
retarded. - - .
i The American style calls for a longer
reach In sprinting, decidedly longer in
distance swimming. The legs perform
tbe snme ulU-iuate thrash, but so
much narrower that the feet seldom
rise above the snrfiu-c. The great dif
ference between It and the. Australian
variety lies In the fact that the move
ments of arms and legs are totally In
dependent of each other. The body, as
sumes the same position at the start,
but rolls a little more, offering a bet
ter chance to breathe with less exer
. tlon. .
Referee Please AM.
' Vancouver, B. C.,: Aug. 30. (Spe
cial) The unusual spectacle of two
managers being, perfectly, satisfied
they have both won the preliminary
skirmishes in a world's championship
' match is being witnessed here. Harry
Pollok, manager of Freddie Welsh,
British champion, and Harry Foley,
pilot of Willie Ritchie, world's cham-
' pion, both believe they have exceeded
the usual managerial limit in selecting
the referee for the world's title be-
tween the two lightweights, this bat
' tie being scheduled to t:e place in
' Vancouver on the afternoon of Satur
day, Sept. 20. ,
Ritchie came to Vancouver declar-
ii.i - r.nfimlnn must referee
'the bout. His first choice was Eddie
Graney. Welsh took tne siana inruutsu
Pollok of course, that he would not al
io Graney to be the third man in the
.. -n-iii. .AmamWpd a hattle nine
ring. riw . . .
' vtxrs ago, in which Graney officiated,
sic in which young Corbett, then un
derithe management of Pollok, who
hindled the alleged short end of a de
ciiion in a bout against Jimmy Bntt.
.,.. tnrtrnvn firttnev for the
detision, claiming that it starts the
phinky Denverite down the pugilistic
ljer. PoUok deadlocked the match
orji
less fl
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when Graney was forced upon htm.
. Ritchie precipitated another dead
lock when the matter of a Californian
came up. He refused to risk his title
unless a man from his native state de
cided the issue.
Then the name of Jim Griffin, of
San Francisco, was suggested. Pollok
wired hi intimate friend, Jimmy Coff
roth, the San Francisco promoter, ask
ing advice. Coffroth wired back en
dorsing Griffin as the one 'man who
could be absolutely depended upon,
and Pollok accepted him on the spot,
thus getting away from Grodney,
but allowing Ritchie to win on the
point that a Californian would referee.
Final articles were signed within an
hour, and now the battle is a certain
ty. Portland Road Ready Soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Van Buren bring
back the word - that the public road
being built out. of Portland will be
finished within a few weeks to such
an extent that the highway service
will be complete into Portland. They
have recently returned from Portland '
where they went in their car, and say i
that when the proposed road is fin
ished it will be possible to ive into'
Portland from La Grande with little
difficulty.
Popular Horses Winning.
Delmas, owned by Lon Fidler, of
Haines, and Aldin, owned by C. ,W.
Todd, both well, known horses here,
are winning fast races at the Ccn
tralia meet thiB week. Both animals
are not only winning races but doing
heats in good time. '
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HOT LAKE BANQUET DATE
CHANGED.
Union county automobile own
ers, regardless of their member
ship in the county's auto club,
will feast at Hot Lake on Sept
tember 8th, instead of the 10th
as first planned. This was made
necessary due to several conflict
ing dates. Tickets should be re
rerved early and one auto is to be
limited to four diners as the
grand total must be kopt down
to 200. Tickets should be re
served from Secretary A. V. An
drews at once to indicate bow
many will attend.
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Photos by AmorlcaD Press Association.
. THBOVCBAIiM STROKE.
fin the upper photo the swimmer Up
shown with bis hand reaching forward
for a stroke. In swimming merely for
pleasure the head may be held up out
of the water as In the Illustration. In
racing the head is submerged, except
when the mouth Is brought out of wa
ter for breathing. In the lower picture
the swimmer's arm la being drawn out
of the wtAer at the finish of a stroke.
This Is a faulty pose. The arm should
not be drawn out of the water until the
hand Is back to tbe waist or hips.
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Knabe Shows Dow
In Executing Successful Stick Work
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Photo by American Press Association.
E, NABE. tbe heavy bitting aec
' ond hKomun of the Phllndel
phia Nationals, says that tbe
' secret of a ball player's sue
ew wltb the willow lies In swing
ing at the ball with tbe bat beld In a
straight line. The handle and tbe
heavy end of the bat should lie carried
forward to meet the ball on ub neur a
level with each other as possible.
When tbe heavy end of tbe but is
DUO! HEBO
LAYMEN TROUNCED BY LAST
MINUTE SWAT RALLY (
With Game Tucked Away They Lose
. Through Two Home Runs. i
Two healthy home runs in the last
inning of the Ministerial-Laymen ball
game that came as the afternoon at
traction of ,; yesterday's conference,
laced far into the outfield by Pemper
ton and Ousterhout, broke up a sure
thing, lead-pipe-cinch, that the ordi
nary laymen had tucked in their pock
et by a substantial margin up to that
point. Padgham of Gooding captained
and pitched for the laymen through
two innings of good ball and it was
during that time that the laymen
rushed a half dozen scores over and
had a lead bigger than a. house over
the expounders of the gospel but he
felt himself weakened and sent White
to the mound. What the preachers did
to the new pitcher wasn't really in
keeping with the canons of their creed
which hinge about mercy to the weak
and downtrodden. With the bases full
Pernperton connected for one that
went a mile more or less, anyway, far
enough to clean up the cushions. That
was in the-last half of the three inn
ing game and all the laymen could do
was to growl at the umps. Rev. Mil
ler opened the pitching business for
the D. D, aggregation with Ouster
house receiving, but considerable wild
ness in the first inning gave a big
lead to the laymen. Ex-Governor
Gooding was really the chief batterest
for the laymen for his husKy two bag
ger put Over a couple of runs. The
next time tip he made a miserable
failure and "fell" for benders that
came his way. Frequent appeals to
the arbiter made it plain that an or
dinary sirnier has some license in dis
puting an ump's decision once in a
while. Luscombe and Finger were
high priests at the coaching line
throughout the game.
Ousterhout finished the game for
the ministers as twirler and got away
with more or less punk offerings. We
almost forgot to mention the final
score 11 to 8, but the laymen console
it
PENNON
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to Hold the Bat
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dropped lower than tbe handle . tVc
cbances of missing the bull or fowling
are multiplied.
In the accompanying Illustration
Knabe Is shown holding a bat In the
effective style used by many of . tbe
leading batters. Ty Cobb, Bans Wag
ner and Napoleon I-aJole always awing
ut tbe ball' wltb the bat on approxi
mately n straight line. - Experience has
taught them the wisdom of so doing.
O '''' -Q
OPENS MONDAY
PREMATURE SHOOTING IS TO BE
WATCHED CLOSELi '
Bag Limit Is Five a Day or 10 for Six
. Successive Days. , .
Next Monday the grouse law is open
and for several weeks, the shifty game
bird can be shot, with limitations. It
is1 always a big temptation to kill
birds the day before the season' is
open, but this is neither wholesome
sport nor healthy policy, for not a
few of the choice game pastures are to
be' watched tomorrow by deputy game
wardens and by local Gun club mem
bers. t The bag limit, during the time the
law is open September first to Octo
ber 31st is five a day J? 10 for a
week. The grades of grouse coming
within the same law are blue, sooty
ruffled and native pheasants. :
JOHNSON IS MASTER.
Local Fan in Chicago Writes of Wal-
. ter's Great Prowess.
"Walter Johnson goes to pitch
Washington conceded the game." This,
finds Hal Bohnenkamp, is the situation
wherever the big ex-Idaho star ap
pears. Mr. Bohnenkamp is spending
the summer in Chicago and has seen
practically all of the big lights in ac
tion, and has found that fandom every
where admits it is all off with all
.nnwra whpn .Tnhnnnn takes the hill.
I .4. ! At... Awn i).i.!nnn tflnmo
BCeilig LUC lUO Ul.lDlUH
play, Mr. Bohnenkamp is convinced,
he says in letters to friends here, that
the Giants have the gonfalon hooked,
but is not so sure of the American
league. rm
themselves with the fact that it was
not fllwnvn thnR.
Among "those present" in ball suits
or otherwise, were: Laymen Hughes,
Harsley, Evans, White, Kudd, L.us
cnmhA. Padcham. Gooding and Martin
For the preachers: Ousterhout, Miller,
Kendall, Hartshorn, Finger, Andrews,
Jenkins, Chaney, Pemberton and Mar
tin. .
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LAW
CHANGES IMMATERIAL EXCEPT
FOR QUICK KICK.
More Scoring Should Result From
New Ruling In the Code.
- Football codes for the season just
about to dawn', have ' reached - La
Grande and students of the game have
sifted out the changes. There is lit
tle new other ' than the quarterback
kick which make it possible to de
velop the quick, short punt, to popu
lar and always good for yardage in
the good old days of the old styled
game. Other than this the changes
are minor indeed. The kick can now
come from any point back of the line
and will have .a tendency of spread
ing the secondary defense but the for
ward pass, conditions of which are
slightly changed, will be an excellent
tool to bring up the secondary defense
in case it. gets back too far. There
is no question but what the new kick
gives an advantage on the offense that
heretofore under the new rules has
been a handicap to diversified playing.
It should mean bigger scores for a
well controlled punt from the quarter
back is a dangerous thing to stop in
view of the fact that any formation
to prevent it can be broken up with the
forward pass at any time.
The local high school squad will
soon be drilling but . what the pros
pects will be depends entirely on the
number of players who matriculate.
Graduation raised havoc with last
year's team and some of the under
graduates who were dependable last
year are said to be stuttering about
returning to school this year.
IN THE SPORTING
WORLD
Earl Hamilton of the St. Louis
Americans.
Photo by American Press Association.
Tbe pitching of Karl Hamilton of the
St. Louis Americans has caused tbli
tble twiner's stock to take on a de
eded boom, tils record Is one of the
best in the middle west thys far. aud
Connie Mark of tbe Philadelphia Ath
letlca has his eye ou biin for next year
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NUMBER 43 WINS.
Special Accountant Flada Wwiic of '
: Weekly Cmctt la 4S.
Tho standing of contestants in the-
anto contest today, la: - '
1
760360
17,88961
87849
82,839,811
844110
3,412,550
286,005
23725
291,225
37.750
83625
5.00A970
1,983,626'
9,65290
-: 1,662,625
8,87685
' 2432$'
. 24660
86530
177,000
2,166,960
. 242525
24560
: 29,676
2,11285
. . 34450
237,760
. 23575
. 109,728
' 248,250
- 243,766
241,810
262,215
" 236,150
238,575
235.176
237.000
836,035;
' 629,350
235,100
237,265 1
235.490
90,486,070
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r : 235,059 .
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97716
236,510
236,350 '
286,500
11 235,626
236,625
28625
: 240,000
237350
' 8303,988
236,875
243,750'
-1 235,125
836,750
236,626'
' 236,975
625,205
.376,400
" y 258,060
235,000
2,338,090,
303,010
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Counted by N. J. Mansager. ;
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD
OF EQUALIZATION.
Notice is hereby - jtiven 1 that the
county board of equalization for Un
ion county, Oregon, will attend at the
court house, La Grande, on Monday, -
September 8, 1913, and publicly exam
ine the assignment roll, correct all er
rors in valuation, descriptions or qual
ities of land; lots or other property, as '
assessed by the county assessor, and it
shall be the duty of all persons intcr:
estcd to appear at the time and place
given, : -v .
All persons having grievances re
gaiding the 1913 assessment may ap
pear before such board and present
their affidavits containing grounds
for complaint. All such affidavits must
be presented during the first week of
the meeting of the board.
U. G. COUCH,
Assessor for Union County.
Adv. 8-18 9-8.
Notice Special Stockholders' Meeting.
Notice is hereby given to the Stock
holders of the Grande Ronde Reservoir
Co. that there is a special stockhold
ers' meeting called for Saturday, Sep
tember 20. 1913. at 2:30 p. m. nt the
! Commercial club rooms, for the pur
! pose of asking the stockholders to
instruct tho direction to sell or dispose
of the conipanysr property and also
for a dissolution of the corporation. .
By order of the board of directors.
GEO. STODDARD,
, Vice President.
FRED J. HOLMES,
v Secretary Pro Tern.
Aug 19 lmo. Adv.
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