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TITE 3IOT?XTVG OREGOVTAX. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1913. WINS INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF THE LINCOLN-WASHINGTON' CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ON MULTNOMAH FIELD, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. YALE AND HARVARD Featuring WILL PLAY TODAY SCHOLASTIC TITLE today WASHINGTON "5b V Earl's Big, Fast Eleven Runs Up 21-to-0 Score Against Lincoln High School. EDRIS DASHES 80 YARDS Lankj "Ernst Side Center Intercepts Ftorward Pass and, Pnrsned by Whole Lincoln Team. Rnns Through for Touchdown. The bulky, but speedr. Washington High football team plowed Its way through the Lincoln line to the Inter- scholastlc League championship yes terday afternoon on Multnomah Field The score was 21. to 0, representing three touchdowns, one on an Inter cepted pass. This Is the third cham DlonshlD which Coach Virgil Earl's team has won In the six years In which It has been organized. Lincoln captur Ing the flag last year with a 6 to 6 victory. In 1909 and 1910 Washington " won the honors by good margins. Close to 3500 enthusiasts filled the stands. Lincoln was outplayed In every de partment yesterday. It confined Itself mostly to the old-style of football, making what little yardage 1t did by the plunging of Mulkey. Groce and Kennedy. The first part of the game was over before Lincoln realized that attacks on the Washington breastworks were futile. Forward passes and behlnd-the-llne tricks were tried after that biU the spirit had begun to fag; the players were weakened and the for ward passes went awry. WaiblnKton Scores Karly. Backers of the Lincoln team began to lose enthusiasm before the first quarter was over. It was exactly nine minutes from the time, the ball first rose into the air, that Foster, Wash ington's quarter, .placed the ball back of the line after 'a six-yard buck. Tho first two touchdowns of the game were made by consistent gains for yardage from the center of the field. One was stepped off in each of the first two quarters by short gains on downs. In several Instances Wash ington took the chances of losing the ball by choosing to try for yardage when a margin of as much as two yards was left on the fourth down. However, in these pinches Washington showed strength and not once did it tose the ball to Lincoln on downs. The last touchdown of the game was made In the third quarter by Edrls. Washington's lanky center. Kennedy tried a forward pass on the Washing ton 20-yard line, but Edrls got in the way and made an 80-yard dash for the goal. For nearly the whole distance the spurt was a race with Groce, who was but a step behind but unable to -overtake the fleet-footed Edrls. This touchdown was made Just after Lincoln's best chance in the game. Matters were, slightly in favor of the West Side team. Washington being on the defensive through the first seven minutes of the third quarter. Lincoln Sport Is Stopped. Lincoln made yardage but four times In the game and two of the tens were made Just previous to the Edrls ram page. The forward pass which made the last third of the score was one of Lincoln's many disastrous trials in the last part of the game. Washington had more success with speed plays Two of Its forward passes were beautiful exhibitions of 1912 foot ball. Beckett to Baker was the course of the play both times and in both cases the gain was close to 20 yards. The second one of the airline trips resulted In the second touchdown. The ball landed on the 20-yard line and Tegart, Beckett and Normandln bit off equal pieces from the distance to the goal, the latter putting it over. Lincoln lost the ball three times in the game for Its holding on punts. Groce being the principal offender. Both he and Kennedy were warned several times for objectionable play ing. Both teams entered the arena with altered lineups. Washington sprung a surprise by . having both Beckett and McLynn. the usual right tackle and lefv ' guard, in the backfield. Their play was, as usual, stellar and the change did not stop them any. Johnson took Moore's place at guard and the latter was. shifted to Beckett's place. Both played good games. -Foster at quarter back and Normandln were new stars. Tegart conducted himself with credit. Crowd Large mmd IVoiay. The crowd which witnessed the game was the most enthusiastic which ever turned out for an lnterscholcrtic foot ball game In Portland. There were close to 3500 people on the field. The only larger crowd is that which saw the Washington-Oak Park game when the Chicago team played at Recreation Park, two years ago. Referee Fawcett shortened the second half six minutes because of darkness. The. lineups: Lincoln High. Washington High. It. Groce. Pearcey.L. E R Morrow Condlt L T R Moore ' jO . . - ' - . . ... W Highest Football Honors of Year'Await Victor in Big Struggle. CRIMSON ELEVEN FAVORITE Old Ell's Recent Showing of Prow ess In Kicking Department Slay Upset "Dope" and Count In Final Ilesult. IV i i iwiiTT-r- i P. e V 'it S A V. ton ill lit S.vi' ! -- 5 II " , 1 I ABOVE, LIXCOLX WITH THE BALL JIST BEFOKK A GOOD RUN AROUND LKFT KD V MULKKV BELOW, NOKMANOIX 0" A DIVE WHICH NE TTED FOUR YARDS. BuKh Rlsely Flnko Dudifty Lewis ..L. Q R - ...R O L ...R T L ..R E L. ... .. Johnson . E.;rl. Walker Tppart Baker Foster Normandln KennedT Q. E. Oroce L H R... H. Mulkey R H L Beckett Freeman F McLynn Touchdowns Normandln 1. Foster 1, Kdrta 1. Kicked goal from touchdown Footer S. Time of quarters IS, 15. 1?. 12. Officials Roseoe Fawcett referee. Martin Pratt umpire. Plowden Stott head linesman. L N. Garman and A. H. Burton timers. CROSS-COl'XTRY EXTRY LARGE Eleven Eastern Colleges to Vie in Six-Mile Race Today. ITHACA. N. Y.. Nov. 22. Eleven Kaatern colleges will contend for the intercollegiate cross-country cup here tomorrow. Columbia has withdrawal tier entry without explanation. The other teams of seven men each arrived here today. There is one more entry than In the race at Brookllne last Fall, and one of the greatest cross-country races ever .held Is expected. It will be over a course of six miles. FANS TO BET NEWS Walter McCredie Due Tonight From Middle West. NEW MEN ARE OBTAINED Reports Have It That rtillty Out fielder Butcher Will Be Sent to Denver, and Denver Pitcher Comes Here. MoKlnJey's Favorite Horse Killed. NEW PHILADELPHIA. Ohio. Nov. 22. Charger, former President Mc Klnley's riding horse, met a violent death today on the farm of Albert Lewis, at Strasburg. He became en tangled in a wire fence and strangled. Charger was President McKlnley's fa vorite mount. After his master's death, the horse was sent to the Lewis farm. Although il years old. he would prance to music. Former W oman Golf Champion Dies. CHICAGO. Nov. 22. Mrs. Bernard C Home, known to golfing enthusiasts as Bessie Anthony, for years woman Western golfing champion, died today at her home, "Glenview," near Keswick. Portland baseball fans may expect some Interesting news of 1913 Beaver developments within the next day of two, for Walter McCredie, manager of the Portland club of the Pacific Coast League, Is due home tonight from a two weeks' trip, which took him to the National Association meeting at Mil waukee and Nebraska and Iowa points. "I've heard some pretty good news. but I can't say anything," said Mrs. McCredie last night. Manager "Mac" has been remarkably reticent in im parting information to President Mc Credie. the official news distributor. but. Judging from Mrs. aicureate s words many choice tidbits of diamond knowledge concerning tnose iva "champions" are to be doled out to the baseball DODUlace. , . The naramonnt 'Question, one of pitchers, would appear to be settled to the partial satisfaction of Manager Mc Credie. if the tone of his epistles are Indicative of his beliefs. He Is report ed to have disposed of Hank Butcher, the outfielder-utility man, to uenver, throuKh the Cleveland club. A pitcher, dne owned by Denver, drafted by Cleve land, or now a memoer of tne isap squad, probably will Journey to Bakers- field, or some otner tjaiuornia poini, for Spring training maneuvers with the Portland contingent. A hard-hitting first baseman and a couple of pitchers summarizes the im mediate needs of the Beavers, proviaea that the other members of the team norform as valiantly next Spring as they did toward the close of the 1912 season. Harry Wolverton Is on the trail of a miinr leasrue receiver. Yantz. the Chi cago Cub backstop, reported to be inT eluded in the deal whereby the Sena tors lose Eddie McDonald, Dut get in fielder Downey, is not to be a Senator. Instead of Yantx, Wolverton obtained a good financial consideration. Wonder if Tub Hackett. the former Coaster out law, and later a short time on Wolver ton's payroll at New York, is the re ceiver In question? The Missoula club of the Union As sociation boasts that it finished the sea son In the Union Association with the same team that started. Only one change in batting order was made,. and that on the second day of tne season. Jackey Warren, who was out one Cay, was the only man who did not play the entire 136 games. ... Bill Reldy, the San Francisco man ager, left home the other day, bound for the East. He is after a big league pitcher, and has his eyes on Gene Krapp, the former Portland star. If Krapp is on the market, Walter McCre die undoubtedly will announce, his ac quisition tomorrow. The Seals have only 43 men signed for 1913. but both Ewing and Reldy are looking for more. One of the interesting features of the Brooklyn housewarmlng at Ebbett's Park next Spring will be the case of baseballs won by the famous old Atlan tics. of Brooklyn. The sphere used in the 11-inning bout which shattered the wonderful winning streak of Cincin nati in 1870 is in the collection. Ty Cobb's batting average for the- 11 years he has been in baseball is a frac tion under .361. He only hit .237 with Augusta, Ga.. in 1904. but has been hitting .300 or better, with two trips into the .400 division, since he has been In the majors. SCHOOLBOYS BEAT SOLDIERS Vancouver High Defeats Barracks Eleven, IS to 0. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver High School football team today met and conquered Battery F, Second Field Artillery, team. 13 to 0. When the referee blew the last whistle the Soldiers had forced the ball to within five yards of the High School goal. The soldiers from Vancouver Bar racks outweighed the High School lads about five pounds to the man, and played a plucky game of ball, but they showed lack of team work. They were especially good at breaking through the Vancouver line. Cecil Knapp. High School captain, broke away in the first period and ran 25 yards for the first touchdown. Miller was pushed over in the second period. In the last period Knapp was carried from the Held with an Injured ankle. The Arnada Grammar School . will play Ockley Green, of Portland, on the High School grounds tomorrow after noon. CONFERENCE TEAMS IX TRIM Chicago Looks Askance at Bulk Minnesota Football Men. CHICAGO, Nov. 22. Chicago and Minnesota football players gained the prospects for whirlwind competition in tomorrow's battle at Marshall Field by putting in the speediest kinds of polishing drills today with their prin cipal plays. Minnesota players re hearsed their plays at American League Park, while Coach Stagg was rounding off the rough places at the scene of the game. 1 Minnesota's men apparently are as heavy or heavier than those of Chi cago. Coach Williams is guarding the weights of bis players with zealous care. The Northwestern University squad is keyed up to its highest pitch for its game with Illinois tomorrow. Primed for all the plays Wisconsin has shown In the games for the lead ershlp of the big nine, the Iowa foot ball team Is waiting the battle with the Badgers at Iowa City. ' Several Iowa alumni who watched the game last Saturday at Minneapolis have been on the field all week, showing the Iowa freshman team the fine points of the Wisconsin play and then help the varsity to break up the formations. The big game of the Missouri Val ley section that between Missouri and Kansas Universities will be played tomorrow at Lawrence, Kas., and In diana will meet Purdue. Nebraska will play Oklahoma at Lincoln. SPORTING SPARKS CALIFORNIA reaped a bountiful har vest of dollars from hunting li censes In the season ending June 30, 1912, 3136.290 being collected. Licenses to residents totaled 141,551. with 68 to non-residents, and 140 to aliens. The last named paid 325 each for the priv ilege of hunting. m m m Bob McAllister, the sensational- San Francisco middleweight who won the Coast amateur title at Los Angeles, trains on a typewriter. He is a stenog. rapher in a railroad office. Sacramento promoters are trying to revive boxing in the California capital. The game has been on the wane in re cent months, but a holiday programme or two is planned. m w w While Wallace DeWitt, ' the Spokane boy. is not a sensational football play er, he is a. good, consistent man, both on offense and defense. In every Princeton game the story of the strug gle Includes a number of good gains made by the former Washington State College man, as well as successful kick ing. www Walter Camp says that the picking of a championship football team is purely matter of opinion, unless one team looms high above the others. A fan wrote to Camp asking him how the titles are decided, and the great ex pert refused to commit himself on the issue, m 9 w Cherokee. Iowa, and Sioux City, Iowa, were towns visited by Walter McCredie while on his trip. He did not o to Cleveland, but met Nap people at Milwaukee and Chicago. WORLD YACHT RACES WANTED Lipton Says All Nations Should Be in 1913 Contest at California. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22. Sir Thomas Lipton wants to race not only an American yacht in 1915, but the best the world can show. His challenge in the 23-meter class, under the universal rule of measurement, was accepted here yesterday by a syndicate yet to be named in full. "You ought to have the yachtsmen of the world here," said Sir Thomas. "Of course, the Eastern American yachts men will be invited. There will be a Canadian boat. The German Emperor and King Alfonso of Spain, both keen yachtsmen, ought to be 'represented and I think Japan and Australia could both be induced to accept. I should like to see the-1915 race the greatest between 23-meter boats the world has even seen." Sir Thomas left tonight for Los An geles. Amateur Athletics. The Montavilla Grammar School soc cer team defeated Couch yesterday on East Seventy-first and Glisan streets. The game was well contested but the Montavilla boys knew more of the game than their opponents, enabling them to make three goals to the others' none. . The Weston and Sellwood grammar school soccer- teams played a scoreless game yesterday on the Sellwood Park. Time was called with the ball In the middle of the field. Section I of the Grammar School Soccer League is finished in the fol lowing order: Portsmouth, first with 10 points, and Vernon and Peninsula tied for second, with six points each. The other two sections will not finish playing until the middle of December. The Sellwood Methodist Club foot ball team is looking for games with teams, averaging about 120 pounds. Ar rangements can be made by calling Herbert Donnell, at Sellwood 1330. The Woodburn, Or., Athletic Club football team wants a game for Thanksgiving. The Woodburn eleven weighs about 150 pounds. Write or phone. Manager H. M. Austin, Wood burn. I Part of the Jefferson High football team left for Aberdeen tonight and the rest will leave for the Southwest Washington city this morning, for a game with the champs of that section today. The F. E. Watklns 'eleven, of the Archer & Wiggins League, will meet the McLoughlin Juniors on the Colum bus Club field, Sunday. This game will be a curtain-raiser to the Mc Loughlin Senior-St. James Club, of Vancouver, mix. SCORES OF HARVARD-YALE GAMES OF PAST. 187B Harvard. 4 goals; Yale. 0. 1878 Yale, 1 goal: Harvard, 0. 1S78 Yale, 1 goal: Harvard, 0; 187B Yale. 0: Harvard, 0. jgRO Tale, 1 goal, 1 touchdown: Harvard, 0. 1881. Yale, O; Harvard, 4 safeties. 1882 Yale, 1 goal, 4 touchdowns; Harvard. 2 safeties. 1883 Yale, 23; Harvard, 2. 1883 Yale, 48; Harvard, 0. 1886 Yale, 29; Harvard, 4. 1887 Yale, IT; Harvard, 8. 1889 Yale. 6; Harvard, 0. 1890 Harvard, 12; Yale, 6. 1891 Yale. 10; Harvard, 0. 1892 Yale, 6; Harvard, 0". 1893 Yale, ; Harvard. 0. 1894 Yale, 12; Harvard, 4. 1897 Yale, 0: Harvard. 0. 1898 Harvard, 17; Yale. 0. 1809 Yale, 0; Harvard. 0. 19ii0 Yale, 28; Harvard, 0. 1901 Harvard. 22; Yale, 0. 1002 Yale, 23; Harvard, 0. 190S Yale, 10; Harvard, 0. 1904 Yale, 12; Harvard, 0. 190B Yale, 6; Harvard, 0. 19()8 Yale. 6: Harvard. 0. 1907 Yale, 12; Harvard, 0. 1908 Harvard, 4: Yale. 0. 1909 Yale, 8; Harvard, O. 1910 Yale. 0; Harvard, 0. 1911 Yale. 0; Harvard. 0. Note The game of 1S75 was played under a modification of the Rugby Union code, known as the "Conces sionary Rules." In the game of 1874, played under the Rugby Union rules, touchdowns were not counted in computing the score. Safeties be came a scoring play in 1881 under a rule which provided: "In a game, otherwise a tie, the side which makes four or more safeties less than their opponents shall win the game." Nu merical scoring was established in 1883. No games were played In 1884, 1888, 1895 and 1896. University Athlete Dies. ANN ARBOR, Mich.. Nov. 22. Alfred Llndler, of Buffalo, a freshman student at the University of Michigan, died to day from blood poisoning that resulted from a bruise on one of his heels sus tained by stepping on a stone during a cross-country run In October. Llndler was an enthusiastic candidate for track athletic honors. Boy Injured in Football Game. CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Ray French, a Grand Mound boy, suffered a broken thigh In a foot ball game yesterday. The Injured youth was brought to a Centralia hos pital. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 22. The highest football honors of the year among Eastern colleges await the win ner of tomorrow's struggle between Harvard and Yale, on Yale field. Harvard and Yale are the only col leges in the East whose elevens have gone through the season without de feat except Pennsylvania State, which has met opponents generally regarded as of lesser caliber. Yale was tied by Princeton, but as Harvard defeated th Tigers, a BLue victory tomorrow was conceded oy experts to rank as an ac complishment of undoubted champion ship merit. Both teams are expected to display a series of offensive and defensive maneuvers of a higher stage of de velopment than any yet shown under the latest revision of the rule. 33,000 Will Be In Stands. Thirty-five thousand persons will be banked on the wooden stands on Yal field. Tonight New Haven- entertained the largest night before crowd years. - Betting was-lively about the hotels. While Harvard continued the favorite, the flood of Blue money which appeared today narrowed the odds from 10 to 7 to 10 to 9. Some wagers were made at even money. The Yale team spent the night on the outer edge of the city, removed from the tumult. The Harvard squad, which separated yesterday, was reunited at New Lon don and this evening ran through its formations Indoors at a. last workout. Both elevens were reported to be In good condition. Even the players who suffered Injuries during the preliminary season were all said to be fit and ready to play the game of their lives. Yale Kickers Equal Crimson Mem. Until last Saturday Harvard was re garded by many followers as decidedly superior to Yale in kicks, because of Briekley s success at drop and place goals and Felton's high and well-directed punts. But in the Princeton game, Yale possibly equaled Harvard with "Lefty" Hynn and Pumpelly, whose remarkable- 60-yard drop kick enabled the Bulldog to escape defeat. 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Quarterback Earl RInehart will be the only Winged M star missing from the lineup, as he will be at Albany as sisting the Aggies' coaching' staff. 'Sap" Latourette, Oregon s stellar field general for several seasons, will di rect the M's. On the Columbus eleven will be seen many familiar stars of the local Inter- scholastic Leaerue and of various North western colleges. Campion, last season all-Btar fullback with the Jeffersons, will do fullback duty, flanked by Cum mlngs and Sherry. Cummlngs Is the former Willamette University star. The two elevens did not meet in 1911, so there Is no accurate line on their merits, but Captain Hurlburt. of Mult nomah, does not anticipate very stren uous opposition from the East Slders. Officials will be chosen today. The lineups are: Columbus CIud. Donaldson t H R. J'Xell, Elvers. L, T R. J. Hamilton L OR. Munson, Klumpp. . . .C. . .. Barr R G I... C. Hamilton R TL McMahon, Flynn..R E I,.. Kennedy, (Capt. ) Benedict Q. . . . "ttm'lniya Prrtue.T, H R. 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