THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1908.
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Br Graree W. McMillan.
IX February, 1SS1, through the efforts
of a few individuals who were inter
ested in clean sport the Multnomah
Amateur Athletic Club was organized. It
had for its first president A. B. McAlpin,
who has at several elections since been
chosen Its president and is at the present
time one of its active members. There
are a great many men who were active
members In the early history of the Mult
nomah Club, the most notable amonsst
them were L. J. Goldsmith-, W. M. Lip
man, Dr. A. B. McKay and a score of
others who are still actively engaged in
athletics.
The club has prospered from the time
of its organization; It has not always
beeen strong financially, but its member
ship was composed and always has been
composed of representative young men
of the city. H. E. Judge, W. H. Chapln,
George L. Blckel, A. M. Ellsworth. James
31. Murphy. Edward Cooklngham and
Colonel Charles E. McDonell are men
who have given much of their time to
furthering the interests of the Multnomah
Club, and they are to this day solicitous
as to its welfare. These were the men
who laid the foundation for the present
club.
The Multnomah Club was organized
with about 14 members, and today has
over 1100. .
The history of the Multnomah Club is
unique in itself, as it is the only club of
Its kind in existence in this or in any
other country, for the reason that it is
maintained absolutely from the dues re
ceived from its members and money de-
; - ir-
rived from the athletic entertainments.
It employs a large number of instructors
to teach the junior classes. In Robert
Krohn, the gymnastic instructor, the club
has perhaps one of the ablest in that line
of business in America. The exercises
of his classes and the drills given by dif
ferent members of his classes have al
ways received favorable comments at
public entertainments. The club has also
employed the most competent boxing,
wrestling and swimming instructors, and
the heads of these different departments
are kept on class nights looking after the
youngsters. Any young man or woman
with good moral character can become a
member of the Multnomah Club and Join
all the classes.
The club is nonseetartan and it is
against the rules for members to hold po
litical or religious discussions in the club
house. It is also strictly against the
rules for any member to have or cause
to be brought on the club premises liquors
of any kind. It is also strictly against
the rules to gamble, so that young boys
who make up the membership on junior
days are as well taken care of as if they
were at home.
B. V. Woodard. present superintendent.
is not only one of the most popular, uut
one of the most competent who has ever
acted in that capacity.
When the club purchased its present
grounds and erected a clubhouse many
predicted Its failure. It was an enormous
undertaking, but the success of .the club
is now assured beyond a doubt. In seven
years' time it has reduced its indebted
ness from t6S.0Q9 to t25,000. The past year
has been one of the most prosperous in
the historv of the club; over J10.000 has
been paid on the 'original indebtedness,
besides over $4000 has been expended in
improvements. From present indications
the club should be out of debt entirely
in three years. Then it would own a
fraction over Ave acres of land In the
heart of the city.
As soon as the club is free from its
present indebtedness it should immediate
ly and probably will erect a brick club
house for the use of senior members only,
and the present clubhouse would then be
devoted to the exclusive use of the ju
nior members and the ladies' annex.
The ladies annex is under a iboard se
lected from the women themselves and
their department has done much to stim
ulate the social features of the club.
Their last annual athletic exhibition and
drill exercises was one of -the best of the
kind ever seen on the Coast.
The club is governed toy a hoard of
directors of eleven men in being elected
annually to serve for a term of two
years from amonirst the members of
the club. The officers ' are. president,
vice president, secretary and -treasurer.
The funds of the club are under the
exclusive control of the treasurer, who
expends annually about $50,000. A. O.
Jones, the present treasurer, has served
for six years, previous to that C. H.
Buckenmeyer served in the same ca- .
pacity for eight years. These men de
serve great credit for the time thejr
devoted to this position.
Some expensive improvements are
under consideration for the next year .
in the way of an erection of a new
grandstand to extend the entire length
of the field on the west side, facing; the
clubhouse. This will give the grand
stand a seating capacity for 3,000 peoT -pie
and is an Improvement that - has
long been needed.
The club is desirona at all times to
have the parents visit their children
while in class exercise and learn' for
themselves some of the good that the
club is trying to do for the city ot
Portland. '
OREGON'S RANK IN ATHLETICS
THE state of Oregon Is keeping pace
with the older states of the East
and Middle - Wesf In the advance
ment and development of athletics. The
history of Oregon athletics, however, is
one of humble beginnings, and in many
ways the growth and development of the
different branches of sport has .been very
slow. Conditions have been improving
during the past five or six years and
there are now a number of strong ath
letic clubs and college athletic associa
tions in the state.
Prior to the year 1SW, there was little
organization in the athletics .of the state.
About that time, the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club was organized, and a foot
ball team, was put in the field. The
Bishop 'Scott" Academy and Pacific "Uni
versity were soon in the field with teams
and a number of interesting games were
played. Multnomah's lineup included a
number of men who had played on the
best college teams 'of the East. Annual
games with Seattle and Tacoma were
quite popular in the early days, and later
on. after the Portland Athletic Club was
organized, some great battles were wit
nessed on Multnomah field. The Port
land Athletic Club disbanded In )S9T, and
with the exception of the year 1S99, when
the T. M. C. A. put out a team. Mult
nomah has been the only club that has
"been represented -by a team every year.
For a number of years, the wearers of the
winged "M" were -the undisputed cham
pions of the Northwest and they often
defeated the crack teams of the Reliance
Athletic Club, of Oakland. Cal.
-In track Athletics, the club also proved
her superiority. The great teams of
1S96 and 1SS7, developed toy the veteran
trainer "Jack" Kiruj, contained a number
ef record-breaking athletes that would
liave dona credit to the best teams of
h East. Talent, Kerrigan, Morgan,
Fuller, Coyne, Flanagan, Watkins and
Trenkman were the point winners of these
great teams. The dub organized an
other champion team in 1906 and sent .c
to Spokane where Dan Kelly made him
self famous as a record-breaker. Multno
mah has always supported a baseball
nine, as well as all forms ot Indoor ath
letics. College . football in Oregon began in
1894. On February 23 of that year, the
University of Oregon defeated Albany
by a score of 46 to 0, on the varsity
campus at Eugene. In the Fall of the
same year. Oregon. O. A. C, Willam
ette. Pacitic and Portland University
formed a leasue. The championship
was won by Portland University. The
University of Oregon played through
the season without scoring a point, the
final game with Pacific being the only
one that Oregon did not lose. This
game was a scoreless affair. - It was
played on the Stewart racetrack near
Eugene, and it is said that the mud
was so deep that the players could not
distinguish each other.
In 1895, the Oregon team secured the
services of Percy Benson, the well
known Berkeley quarterback, and won
the tate championship. Oregon won
agam in 1896, but in 1S97 the Oregon
Agricultural College won the state
honors. Oregon won in 1S98, 1899. 1900
and 1901, but in 1902 Oregon, Albany
and Corvallis were tied for the cham
pionship of the state. Oregon won in
1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906, but lost the
Northwest championship to O. A. C. in
1907.
Beginning with the year 1896, Ore
gon has played an annual game with
Multnomah. Two of these games (1899
and 1900) were ties, but Multnomah al
ways won until 1906, when Oregon
turned the tables and won a magnifi
cent game by the score of 8 to 4. In
1907 Oregon again defeated Multnomah
by the score of 10 to 5.
In track athletics, a number of great
CITY OF PORTLAND'S GROWTH WELL SHOWN BY
INCREASED POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS
Receipts of the Portland postoffice during 1907 showed a gain of
approximately 16.5 per cent over 1906, and for the first time in the
history of the city exceeded $600,000 during a calendar year. The
receipts for the year, with those of December estimated, were
$630,147.23, as compared with $540,805.47 for 1906, an Increase of $S9,
2S1.63. Every month showed a gain over the same month of the previ
ous year, the largest Increase being for September, when the excess
was $12,142.71.
The Increase for the year is even larger than that of 1906 over
1905, when the gain was 14.3 per cent. In 1905, the year of the Ex
position, there was an Increase of 24.6 per cent over 1904.
Although bank holidays prevailed throughout the entire month of
November, 1907, the local postoffice sold $6398.69 worth of stamps in ex
cess of the previous November. During December there was also a
gain, but the exact figures are not obtainable and are estimated in
the following table, which shows a monthly comparison for the two
years:
190
$.M.71.S2
Juuary
February . .......
March ..........
April
May .
June .
July
AUSUM .
September ......
October
November ......
December
45.522.12
M.773.08
48.322 87
...... 62.7J7.70
4H.tf32.43
5l.95.t-4S
4S.SB2 67
M.2W2.32
30.270.87
S2.O1.1.0S
65.029.11
Total $630,147.23
LHcember. 1!V7, estimated.
1906.
$ 44.795.00
40.025.00
45.210.73
44. 19. 32
47,736. ts
41.831.42
42.4tf9.."5
43.9S2.7l
42.149.61
47.064.56
' 43.614.37
55,739.24
$540,805.47
Increase.
$ 6. 921. SI .
5.5.17.12
9.51.12
4.153.55
5.020.S5
. 8-H.01
9. 13S 93
4.709.96
12.142.71
9.216.31
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9.2S0.&7
Z8U.2S1.63
performers have been developed here
in the Beaver state. Dan Kelly, the
champion sprinter; Smithson. the
speedy hurdler; Gilbert, formerly of
Pacific University, but now of Yale:
McKinney, holder of the Pacific Coast
record for the shot-put: and "Rube"
Williams, the great quarter-miler of
O. A. C, are all products of the Ore
gon colleges.
The University of Oregon won the
state championship in 1895, 1896, 1898,
1899. 1900, 1901, 1902, 1906 and 1907.
In 1897 and 1905 the Oregon Agricul
tural College won. Albany won in
1903 and Pacific University in 1904.
There has never been a college base
ball league in Oregon, although most
of the institutions have put out teams.
Willamette won the college champion
ship In .1906, and Oregon and O. A. C.
tied in 1907.
Basketball has flourished at the dif
ferent Oregon Institutions, especially
at Dallas College and O. A. C.
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