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HUMAN BILLIKEN. 240-POUND GUARD, WHO PLAYED FOR MULT NOMAH CLUB IN TIE GAME AT SAN FRANCISCO YESTERDAY. 1L ; AND OLYMPIC TIE awyer: Professional Men in All Ranks Crowd of 15,000 Sees Score less Battle in Which Dud Clarke Makes Long Run. EACH TEAM THREATENS iltnohah CLUB .Ban Portland Men Unable to Gain Foot Zing in Turf on Exposition Field. Penalty Rolls lied and White of Its Best Chance. SAX FRANCISCO. Nov. 14. (Spe cial.) Football, the American game, and the kind of football that grips right down and gives the heart strings a lusty twang, was an Exposition fea ture, played on the grassy Marina, be fore a crowd of 13.000 this afternoon with Multnomah Club, of Portland, and the Olympic Club battling through four 15-minute quarters of scoreless football. Yes. gooseeggs for both. How San Francisco and California like the game that is. how it stands vith those who really have no college or school affiliations was demon strated before the game was well along. That whole crowd took sides one way or the other and enjoyed it immensely. Art Smith There With Airship. Art Smith, the aviator, who takes In every kind of a game no matter what it is, was on hand with his toy racer and he, too, went wild over San Francisco's lirst big game of the re juvenated football. The game did not offer as much as it might have. Both teams opened up with some wild exhibitions. Multno mah's warriors slipping and sliding on the carpet-like turf without doing any damage. Fumbles were frequent, in which O'Rourke and Philbrook did the recovering to good advantage. With that kind of play, the game surged back and forth on the field, both goals threatened twice. "Dud" Clarke staged a comeback, shortlived but brilliant. His run of 35 yards was a feature. Through the efforts of Fran cis and De Witt, yardage was made several times, but the Olympics, too, had a hand in the game, using a young chap named Hogan, whose work at half made him stand out from the rest of the Winged O. Olympic Once Danreroni. In the second his work almost made the San Franciscans dangerous, but the cloud over the Multnomah goal flitted on when the drop kick from the 30-yard line went careening like Art Smith's "maple leaf flip." The remainder of the game was al most eventless. Multnomahs prospects had a sunrise tint in the first quarter only when the momentary start of Francis and the backfield generally tore off 35 yards and landed on the 11-yard line, only to be penalized and , forced from the coveted zone. Tomorrow the football team will be ; the guests of the Oregon Commission at a luncheon to be given in the Ore gon building. an". served by the domes. i tic science seniors from the Oregon Agricultural College. The lineups to day were: Multnomah. . Olympic. S't?"" EI ca O Kourke RTL rjaiv ?n,Y111 R?.L "Koebel , '.. "el's vS:v; Vanacker i..r,!er ' J"SR Montagne T'hllbrook L. T R Nelson lonaldson L. fc; R Lautz Si..- -Jfv Adam I lU'HIO . . - I II I.,... rreWltt L.HR Cay Hogan . . smitn Cartwrlght Substitutions Multnomah Sharp for Ru rfrt. Rupert for Sharp. 1'arson tor IeWitt f'iark tor Dir. Duffy for O'Rourke, DeWltt for Clark. Clark for Parsons. Dav for Rupert OlympK Chandler for Vanake'r, Montagne for Daly. Meier for Montagne. Snook for .Smith, Sharon for Adams, Holllngshead for fenook. Miiler for Mt?ler. Officials Pete Smith. referre; Captain Mini, umpire: Walter Christy, head lines man: F. Foster and George Bertz. time keepers. WELSH BOUT YET TENDS CRVMAX'S MANAGER REPORTS NO DEKIMTB ACTIO.V TAKEN. Match?, However. Are Lined I'p Im Milwaukee and Kaunas City Bout Here I Tuesday Night. Ralph Gruman. the lightweight rel ceived word yesterday from his man ager Billy Roche, now in Chicago, that nothing definite had as. yet been done in regards to a 20-round match with . ireddie Welsh in Denver. Roche an jounced, however, that he had lined ud -.bouts for Ralph in -Milwaukee and Kansas City and would leave Chicago shortly for New York, where he would set busy obtaining dates for the Port- landei. Among the boys whom Ralph In all probability will be matched with by the various promoters are Charley White. Willie Ritchie. Johnny Dundee Ted Lewis. Ritchie Mitchell and Joe Welling. At present Ralph is bard at work for his match with Tommy Clark Tues day night at the Rose City Club. ... It Is reported that several boxers were taken before the grand jury Sat urday in connection with the investi gation that is being made into the matches at the Rose City Club. "I am ready to give them the key to the place any time they want to look tU our books," said Manager Merrill after hearing the above report. "We are within the law. always have been and always will be." Muff Bronson. who takes on Bill Brown Tuesday night, is showing up pretty well in his training at the East Side institution. George Munroe. who ranked up among the best bantams in the old days, is now a promoter in New York. , . RidRcHeld Has Athletic Clnh. RIDGEFIELD, Wash.. Nov. 14 (Special.) At a meeting recentlv held a club to be known as the Ridgefield Athletic Club was organized and 15 members were enrolled. Byron Fry was elected president. and Wallace Bethel, secretary and treasurer The new athletic organization has -secured a local amusement hall as its meeting place. A full equipment will be pur chased, and the members will be given instruction in athletics. Shedd Defeats Junction City. SHEDD. Or.. Nov. 14. (Special.) Th- Shedd High School football team defeated the heavier Junction City team here yesterday by a score of 26 to 7. Stone of Shedd was star of the game, crossing the lino for three touchdowns. The local team gave a good exhibition of the forward pass and breaking up the enemy's passes. The next game for the local team will be at Erownsvilie. ' ' t kg- m , .,3'"'-. ipi CREDIT GIVEN "BEZ" t t Oregon Coach Admits Working 1 rS I One Day With California. I ff DEFENSE ONLY IS TAUGHT C Jri ' r Eusene Fans Hare Their Own View 1 as to Reason for Berkeley Come- V fcmf wwwi Back; Oregon Men Best and 1 $ t ' i X Forget About Football. UNIVERSITY OF ORF-.GOV Fni. -' Mi. & UNIVERSITY OP OREGON. Eugene. Or.. Nov. 14. (Special.) The unex pected in football has occasioned more man one riot in dope sheet ranks, par ticularly this season, since the game has reached the high degree of popu larity which it now holds in the hearts of American people, and always after the unexpected has held sway reasons for and why are generally advanced and taken through' a long process ot eliminations. Here's a good one: Yesterday it was the great showing of the University of California against Coach Dobie's var sity machine of Seattle which has caused no end of comment in North west circles and credit for same may be due in no little measure to Huga Bezdek, roach of the Oregon eleven. Chlcaso Spirit Prompts "Bf." Bezdek is a modest man: he doesn't crave publicity, but this noon at train ing quarters the talk was centered around the Californ:a surprise, and it was here that the news of Bezdek's helping Coach Jimmy Schaeffer with his troubles leaked out and the Oregon coach was forced to admit that he, did take charge of the California squad while returning from Los Angeles. He coached California during one practice session. When asked what prompted the move he said: "We old Chicago men stick together and believe in helping each other out." Schaeffer is a Chicago graduate. When asked for aetails. Hugo said that he worked on the California men individually and from end to end. "I didn't try to correct tteir defense." he said, "for there wasn't time, .it was the defense that . devoted my attention to, and this was done at the request of Schaeffer. who said that it was years since he had played the old game and that there were many new knacks which ne wasn't up on. Low Score Predicted. "California has wonderful possibili ties," be added, "and when I left I told the boys that with plenty of fisht and dash to their work that Washing ton would not beat them badly." Wasnington 13. California 7, was the score. f Tomorrow and Tuesday Bezdek is sending his men through long scrim mage sessions. It i hard work and long hours which will place Oregon on even grounds with the Aggies, states the undaunted BezdeSk. In addition, it is a fight against ,heavy odds, and if an Oregon vic tory Ss won. no other factor than that Bezdek's men were desperate and their play was pulsed with the spirit which the head coach is always teaching them can be attrib uted as the cause. Today was a real nest, and football was not the subject of conversation as the 14 regulars lounged around the training quarters prior to and after their prescribed meal4 "Get the game witl the Aggies off your minds until tcmprrow." enjoined Bezdek and Hayward.j liugene has gone football mad. Al ready merchants are beginning to dec orate their windows with colors of both colleges and displavs fare wreathed in lemon-green. Posters! "We are back of you Oregon"--have i been distributed far and wioe. I II. Ti. EVERDIXG IS HIGH GCX Practice Shoot Preparing for Next Sunday's Turkey Event Hold. Members of the Portland Gun Club are getting ready for the Thanksgiving turkey shoot slated for the Jenne Sta tion grounds next Sunday afternoon. H. R. Kverding was high man yester day with 94 per cent in the regular event. Outlaw targets were thrown at the morning's session. K. H. Keller broke 80 per cent. Following are the scores in the reg ular event: H. R. tverding 94. William W. McKenzie 88, E. H. Keller 84, H. A. Pollock 72. Earl R. Goodwin 72 and J. G. Ciemson 69. JAMES JOHX 4 7, VAXCOUVEII 0 I,ine Bucks and End Runs Bring Easy Victory for High School. The James Johns High School foot hall team had little trouble in annexing A- rto-0 victory . over the. Vancouver Jse Harter, Former Washington State College Star. High School second squad, of "Vancou ver, Wash., on the local grounds Satur day afternoon. Line bucks and end runs were responsible for the scores, and not once did Coach Reynolds' men have to resort to trick plays or forward passes. Captain Wrinkle. E. Hiatt and G. Smith made yardage at will for the Portlanders. "Rowdy" Curry, of Jeffer son High, and Ozbun Walker, of Wash ington High, were the referee and um pire, respectively. James Johns High Plays its biggest game of the season so far against the Washougal aggrega tion at Washougal. Wash., next Sat u -day. Coast League Won and Lost Pitching Marks Out. Peterson, of Salt Lake, With Record of Nine Gamea. I la Percentage of -10OO. Havina; Been Victor in One Contest. es showing games :ific Coast League 914 season follow: G. W. l. 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A Fromme. Ver. .... Bovd. Oak Oouch. 2?. F. ....." Hughes. I.. A Coveleskie. Fort. "".".. I Burns. Oak. Pruitt. Oak La Roy. 8. F Keefe, port Prouirh. Oak J. Williams. S. L.-I Kahlcr, Port Abies, Oak Ient. S. K.-Ver. ... Evans. Port Reislel. s. K Christian." S. F....i CALDWELL. SWAMPS AVEISER Dyer, of Losing Team. Races 99 Yards for Score With Fumbled Ball. CALDWELL, Idaho. Xov. 14. (Spe cial.) In the deciding game of th Idaho Scholastic League,' Ccldwell de feated Weiser, 49 to 6. The visitors only score came in the first period, when Dyer recovered a fumble on his one-yard line and raced the length of the field for a touchdown. The brilliant work of Ray Seidenberg on defene and then Seidenberg on offense was the chief factor in the overwhelming score piled up by the locals. Jefferson High, of Portland, will meet the locals here November 27 for the Northwest rcholastic championship. Dallas and Lebanon Tie. - DALLAS. Or.. Nov. 14. (Special.) The Dallas High School football team met the Lebanon High School eleven on a local gridiron Saturday afternoon and a scoreless, game was played. In the last part of the last quarter, in a punting duel. Dallas made considerable gain. The game ended on a punt with the ball in Lebanon's possession on their own inrce-j ard iine. Have Been to See Me By Ray Barkhurst ONE BY ONE they have come to me and urged me to continue with this special offer for the deserving unem ployed tailors of Portland. - They have bought from me in the past few days Suits and Overcoats made to order, and tell me how pleased they are with the service I have given them and the money they have saved themselves by taking advantage of my offering of a Suit or Overcoat to order for only $18, which offer was made in order to provide work for the unem ployed tailors of Portland. Gentlemen Therefore I Will Contin ue This Offer Today and Tomorrow Suit or Overcoat This is the time of the year when work is needed most. Will you do yours? You certainly will need a Suit in the next few months, a job? Y Portland's Leading Tailor DOBIE'S TITLE SLIM All Else Than King County Championship Disputed. PULLMAN'S CLAIM AS GOOD Dr. Stewart Says California Put Vp Fine Defense and Deserves Great Amount of Credit; Berkeley Has Good Financial Year. BY RCSCOE FAWCETT. For the second successive season football honors in the Pacific North west and Pacific Coast are deadlocked. Last Fall Washington and Oregon Ag gies finished an undefeated record after playing a 0-0 tie. t-nd this year 'it is Washington and Washington State that are gnarled and knotted in rival cham pionship claims. Unfortunately Washington and Washington State do not meet, and there is no method of differentiating between the two powerful elevens. When the schedules were drawn last Winter, Washington refused point blank to take its turn across the moun tains to meet Washington State and Idaho; refused to play the Oregon Ag gies at Seattle under the same finan cial terms accepted from the Aggies at Albany, and. just on the eve of the season, abrogated a signed contract with Oregon to take on two games with California. Thus, in the eyea of the conference. Washington isn't champion of anything except King County. Fact is, however. Washington's record, even though witn minor elevens, shgws that Coach Dobie has a oeefy, burly eleven that probablv ranks right up with Washington State. Oregon and the Oregon Aggies. This leaves Washington and Wash ington State the only undefeated teams, as Oregon and the Oregon Aggies were both caught napping early in the sea son and overwhelmed by Washington State. Washington's record and that of Washington State. the conference champion, follow: V'niversity of Washington. Washington 31:Ba!lard U Washington Bljwash. Park A. C... 0 Washington 21 Gonzaga I Washington 27Whttman o Washington ...... 'i2jCa11fornt& 0 Washington 3tfCaIiforria 7 Total 2io! Total 14 Washington State. Washington State- i A 1 umn 1 Washington tstate. Oregon 3 Washington State. 2 Oregon Aggie.... a Washington State. 4l:!daho 0 Washington state. ITjWhitman o Total Xl Total a Washington has yet to meet Colo rado, a sick sister of the Rockies with string of five or six nightmare defeats behind it, while Washington State is booked to meet Gonzaga college at Spokane, unless the schedule has been altered. Dr. K. J. Stewart, coach of the Ore gon Asrzies. witnessed the Washington-California 13-7 game at Seattle Saturday, and he is of the opinion that Washington and W-ashington State are mueh.,pr a stand-off. "Washington's t?am will average close to 190 pounds. I believe," said Coach Stewart yesterday, en route back home to Corvallis. "It would outweigh Pullman were the two teams to meet; but I believe such a game would be a close one. with the breaks winning for either side. I also think my team is as etrong now as either one of them. "California put up a remarkable de fense .Saturday and ousht to have a corking good team next Fall. Kusseil, Made to Order EA the California center, put It all over "ss. ana tnis little California quarter back. Sharp, proved a wizard. "Washington scored its rirst touch down after a long forward pass to Murphy or Smith and the Purple didn't break the 7-7 tie until the last two minutes of play. Miller returned a kickolt to the center of the. field and then Washington tried a fake forward pass that had failed once before. Cali fornia's linemen had a habit of reach ing up in the air on passes and knock ing, them down, and, when they stood up this time, the Washington line wheeled and Shiel ran from the cen ter of the field to inside the' ten-yard-line behind great interference. Two plays pushed the ball over the goal. "Dobie's team looked slow and pon derous beside the snappy Californtans. Its style of play showed the same for mations Washington has used against us the past two or three years. X came back with the California team as far as Portland and the players at tribute their terrific 72-0 rout a week ago to the turf. They say they couldn't get any foothold against the bigger Northerners which disposes of the bugaboo that the turf would be a handicap to Washington." According to Johnny Stroud, man ager of athletics at California the Berkeleyites cleared about J1200 more from their big game this year than from the California-Stanford seance last season. And yet. the attendance was much lower. In explanation, Cali fornia's contract with Washington per mitted her to take all the receipts from the San Fran disco rame, except a guarantee of J2000. whereas last sea son the velvet was divided with Stan ford. In the return game at Seattle. Washington gave California a 2000 guarantee and kept the velvet As a crowd of about 4000 persons attended the game, Washington probably cleared a few hundred dollars. In intersectional contests the Pacific Northwest has it all over California This is to be expected, however be cause Southern California has 'been back in the American football fold only two years, and this ia California's in itial trial. California lost its two. intersectional games with Washington, 72-0 and 13-7 and Southern California was defeated by Oregon at Los Angeles. 34-0. South 28 California walloped California, COLUMBIA PARK TEAM WINS Soldiers Lose, 10 to 9, in Game In Which ex-West Pointer Stars. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash., w?,h iiT, sPecial.) In, a game replete with thrills, spectacular plays, win ning forward passes and a few costly fumbles, Columbia Park football team won a victory today over the soldiers 10 to 9. Luck played against the soldiers on several occasions when fumbles were made. .x.Tt? MurDny. for the Columbia Parks, thrilled the big crowd by making a drop kick in the second quarter, scor ing three points. Lieutenant Benedict, recently from West Point, playing with the soldiers, made a kick placement at the end of the second quarter. In the third quarter 'Pep'1 Yost, for the visitors, blocked a punt on the la-yard line, secured the ball and. un assisted, made a touchdown. In the last period Benedict made a successful forward pass to Chapin. left end. for a touchdown. Football Player's Injuries Fatal. CHARLESTON, 111., Nov. 14. Paul Root. 18 years old. fullback of the Eastern Illinois Normal School football team, died today in a hospital here of injuries received in Saturday's game with the Normal University, of Bloom ington. 111. He suffered a fractured skull. Silverton Defeats Canby High. SILVERTON. Or.. Nov. 14. (Special. The Canby High School football team was defeated by. the Silverton HiRh School team in a fast game yesterday on the Davenport grounds. The tcore aa 4 7 to ti. I am going to do my part. Why not get it now and help Corner Sixth and Stark Streets TITLE CLAIM OPEN Comparative Scores Show Su periority of Four. QUARTET RATED AS EVEN California Elevens Alone Have No Bid for Honors, but Berkeley Students Feel They Have Fine Record for First Year. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 14. That the champion team of the Pacific Coast for the season of 1915 can, with reason able certainty, be found in the North west remains an indisputable fact. Cal ifornia has been thoroughly eliminated. Whether the University of Washing ton or the Washington State College team is deserving of premier honors probably always will remain in doubt, in view of the fact that the two elev ens will not meet on the gridiron. That the adherents of each team w-ill be able to set forth plenty of argu ments to settle the vexed question in a manner favorable to the borne aggre gation is a certainty. The usual method of resorting to comparative scores will be the favorite one. In this particular pastime, however, the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural College are able to join with consid erable satisfaction to themselves. Many things can be proved by these comparative scores. Flame Slow Anything. In the first place let us prove that the Oregon Aggies are as good as those of Washington state. Oregon Aggies 40, Idaho 0. Washington State 41. Idaho 0. Also let us prove this is not the cases Washington State 9. Oregon Aggies 0. It is Interesting to note that the Oregon Aggies have a slight edge on the University of Oregon. Oregon Aggies 40, Idaho 0. University of Oregon 19. Idaho 7. Likewise that the reverse is the case: Washington Htate 29. Oregon Aggies 0. Washington State 28. University of Ore son X The comparative scores below will show that three winning teams are very evenly matched: , University of Washington 27. Whitman 0. Oregon Aggies 35. Whitman 7. University of Oregon m. Whitman 0. Pullman Superiority Shown. . It is perfectly simple to show that Washington State College is the su perior of the University of Washington by a glance at the following: University of Washington 27, Whitman 0. Oregon Aggies 3.". Whitman 7. Washington State 2ik. Aggies 0. That Idaho could defeat Whitman easily can be figured thus: University of Oregon 19. Idaho 7 University of Oregon 21. Whitman 0. And that Whitman is the better team Is conclusively shown in the follow ing figures: Oregon Aggies 3.'. Whitman 7. - Oregon Aggies 40. Idaho 0. With several more games to be played, additional figures will be avail able to continue these comparisons to the complete satisfaction of all hands. It should be apparent from the above that no team need be without a cham pionship of its own, providing a little care is exercised in bringing together the proper combinations to prove the case. . Berkeley Students Joyoan. There was joy on the campus of the University of California as a result of I lie remarkable showing made by the Berkeleyans in their return game at Seattle yesterday with the University of Washington. . After , mo crusuiiu; some tailor who badly needs 7 YTFT) (CTT UK5 Jl 72-to-0 defeat of California by Wash ington at Berkeley the week before, it had been expected that Washington's steam roller again would flatten out the Blue and Gold team. The fact that the Northerners not only failed to roll up another big score, but were forced to the limit of their play to win at all by the margin of a single touchdown, has heartened the Berkeley student body tremendously, and they rejoiced today over the fact that the team' in the first season of its return to the American game had firmly charted a place for itself on the football map. Hunters Seek Live Cougar. GENESEE. Idaho. Nov. 14. (Spe cial.) Philip Schooler and Frank Jones left this morning for the moun tains where they hope to capture a live cougar. They have been offered $250 cash for one. They have with them several well-trained hounds, and plenty of Jope with which to handle the animal. These men killed three large cougars at this place last Win ter, and feel that they will have no trouble in getting one this trip. Batting Game to Be Tonight. The second game of the Indoor Base ball League will be played tonight at the Electric baseball plant in the Yeon building when the All-Stars hook up with the Beavers. Interest is now rife among the fans of the auto matic game, and a hotly contested game is expected. ALL STAR SMOKER Tomorrow Night TUESDAY 5-Big Boxing Events -5 RALPH GRUMAN vs. TOMMY CLARK DANNY O'BRIEN vs. WALTER KNOWLTON MASCOTT vs. M'COOL PARSLOW vs. TRAMBETUS BRONSON vs. BROWN Substitute Boxers Club Members in Training BLAZIER, BODIE, COHEN, WESTON, SENEY, MOSCOW, GILLAND, HANSON Read The Oregonian's classified ads. ATLANTA, 2i in. high WHITBY, IX in. high AHHOW COLLARS 2 for 25 cents Ontt. Pgnhodv A Co.. Im. Mckat N