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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919. OREGON SQUAD OFF, THIS IS THE HARVARD WARRIOR KEN BARTLETT WILL HAVE TO STOP IN PASADENA JAN. 1 Jimmy Dunn Says DUE HERE TODAY Coaches Optimistic as Team Heads for Southland. Oakland Boxer to Fight Darcy Tuesday Night. MILD SEND-OFF GIVEN PAIR OLD OPPONENTS Workouts on Bear State Grid Scheduled to Begin Saturday. Ilurd Practice Planned. Two Six-Round Bouts on Armory Bill Most Fans In Favor of Longer Contests. 16 BATTLIhiG ORTEGA DETERMINED TO WIN UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eugene. rec. IS. (Special.) Twenty -five members of the Oregon football squad, accompanied by Coach "Shy" Hunt ington, Assistant Bart Spellman and Trainer Bill Hayward left Eugene this afternoon for Pasadena, where the Oregon eleven will meet Harvard on New Year's day. . Both Huntington and Hayward were optimistic of the team's chances with Jhirvard in the Pasadena contest. We're going south to win." said Huntington, the youngest football mentor in the country. It was "Shy's" belief that the fracas to be staged at Pasadena would be a hard fight from Mart to finish, with Harvard having the advantage of weight over the lemon-yellow eleven. "Harvard will fight," he said, "but we're going to outfight them." Bill Hayward believes that the con dition of the Oregon eleven will be a big factor in the game. The varsity is not in exceptionally good condition now, according to Hayward, due to tho poor faiilities for practicing at Kugene but he expects to have them in the "pink" before New Year's day. Hayward Out to Win. "I've a feeling Oregon's going to win." Bill declared enthusiastically. Bill expects to know definitely in a few davs as to whether the supposed change in climate will have any ef fect on the condition of the team. A small crowd of students was on hand to see the team off. The train was over an hour late. The few stu dents at the depot lost some of their enthusiasm during the long wait and were not vociferous in giving tne team a send-off, only one yell of en couragement being given as the train ijulled out. All the members of the squad chosen to make the trip were at the depot early, and a few showed signs of nervousness at the long wait. The men boarded the train soon after its arrival, after receiving good luck wishes of the students who were not going. The men who will occupy the spe ical car to Pasadena are: "Shy" Hunt ington, Bart Spellman, Bill Hayward, Graduate Manager Marion McClain, Professor H. C. Howe, chairman of the athletic council at the university; AVillard Hollenbeck, student manager of football; Porter W. Yett, corre spondent of The Oregonian, and the members of the team. Twenty-five Men Go. The twenty-five men taken along for the game were: Captain Everett Brandenburg, Carl Mautz, Bill Steers, Mollis Huntington, Vincent Jacobber ger, Francis Jacobberger, Stan An derson, Mart Howard, Basil Williams, Earl Leslie, Keith Leslie, Al Harding, Warren Gilbert, Prince Callison, Halph Dresser. Si Starr, Ward McKin ney, Ed Ward, Neil Morfitt, Thomas Strachan, Ken Bartlett, Nish Chap man, Bob Cosgriff, Clifford Manerud and Gordon Pauley. The team expects to arrive in Pasa dena some time Saturday morning, and plans to stage its first workout Saturday afternoon. Sunday will be a day of rest, and the next week the team will buckle down to the hardest , work it has had at any time during I the season. Of the men who were taken, nine of them are backfield players, two centers, four halfbacks, three quarters, and a host of linemen comprise the list. The three quarters taken along prove to be a queer combination. Bill Steers, first-spring pilot, was al most unanimously chosen as quarter on the mythical ail-coast eleven, while "Skeet" Manerud, his understudy, was given honorable mention, and even placed on the second team as quarter by"Shy" Huntington, in his mythical team. And now "Skeet" Manerud has a quarter who is to understudy him. This second sub quarter is Gordon Fauley, a 130-pound man of the same size and shape as Manerud. More over Fauley is known as "Skeet" also. Fauley probably will pilot the second team when it scrimmages with the varsity in Pasadena. Harvard Weighs More. It is expected that Harvard will outweigh the Oregon eleven about seven pounds to the man. The big problem at Pasadena will be for the Oregon team to develop some sort of a defensive that will stop the heavier Harvard plungers. Very little news of Harvard plays or of their system of playing has leaked out to the Oregon camp. Not many Oregon alumni are in the east, and those who are there have not known enough about football to be of any value to the Oregon mentors. In a letter sent to a campus pub lication. Congressman "Pat" McAr thur, an Oregon graduate, who has seen many of the eastern teams in action, still has faith in the Oregon eleven to triumph in the New Year's contest. In McArthur's opinion, any of the six best coast teams if pitted against six of the best eastern teams would win a majority of the con tests. McArtnnr Praises Casey. He believes that the Harvard eleven is lacking in many things necessary to a good eleven, but still he rates them as one of the best he has seen in action. Casey, their star backfield man, is the man most to be feared, he eays, but he really has nothing over Steers, except speed. It is the belief that when Oregon meets Har vard, two of the greatest men in the game will pace each other. Steers of Oregon and Casey of Harvard. In the opinion of the Oregon mentors, Casey is not a better man than Steers,, and they are even backing Steers to prove a greater menace to Harvard than the all-American Casey will be to Oregon. Only a few Oregon students left with the team this afternoon, al though a handful more expect to leave after completing their examina tions tomorrow. Several Oregon stu- VrrA" t J' ''X W"- " - ( X - t x 2?.-. . "4 . r r & . .. : . : -k ,. WOODS, LEFT TACKLE, HARVARD, dents have homes in Pasadena, while, the parents of others are wintering there, so there may be a dozen or more lemon-yellow supporters on hand to give an "oskie" as Oregon comes on the field to meet Harvard. It is ' expected that Pasadena will prove to be a mecca for a host of Ore gon grads now living in the south and Oregon rooters will not be lacking. BALL- LEAGUE UXDEB WAY S i x Northwest Towns Figured for A'cw Diamond Circuit. VANCOUVER. B. C, Dec. 18. Six cities, Vancouver, Victoria,' Tacoma, Spokane, Butte and Great Falls are to be included in a baseball league being organized by Robert Brown, president of the Vancouver baseball club, it was announced here today. An 18-week schedule is contemplated. PULLMAN LAUDS OREGON COtGAR COACH THINKS HAR VARD WILL GET HAH I) GAME. COLLEGE G1ES WANTED MULTNOMAH MAY" MEET CAL IFORNIA QUINTETS. Independent Teams Meet and Or ganize League, but Have N'ot Formulated Schedule. i the swimming committee he! leet. ing and presented to Ross !. jid tie pin, carrying the Hawaiian coat-of-arms, as a token of the regard that Honolulu entertained for the greatest swimmer the mainland ever sent to the islands. Welch Declares Team Is Well Able to Represent Best In Pacific Coast Grid Circles. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pullman, Dec. 18. (Special.) On the eve of his departure for cooler eastern climates. Coach Gus Welch, Cougar grid mentor, tendered Webfoot root ers and football athletes a ftowery tribute. Anent the coming encounter at Pasadena for the first game of the new, year Welch stated that not only was he well pleased with the selec tion of Shy Huntington s sterling eleven to represent the west, but that also he believes them far more capa ble for the job than any other team in the coast conference. "I know that the University of Ore gon had the best offensive team we met this year and although Harvard is bringing a wonderful collection of players, especially in the backfield, to Pasadena, yet I believe and hope that western football will be vindicated on New Year's day." Entire satisfaction is publicly ex pressed on the campus over the fair ness and efficiency employed by the Tournament of Roses officials in choosing Oregon to make the south "j trip. George A. Anderson, chairman of basketball at the Multnomah Ama teur Aethletio club, has telegraphed the graduate managers at California and Leland Stanford universities, asking them for games with the winged-M quintet, on their northwest Invasion. The Stanford university basketball team will play Oregon Agricultural college in Corvallis, February 25 and 26, and also has games scheduled with Pacific college and Willamette uni versity.. Pacific will be tackled Feb ruary 23, while Willamette will be met February 24. February 27 and 28 Stanford will meet the University of Oregon in Eugene. : Six independent basketball teams were represented at the meeting held in the club rooms of the Multnomah Guard last night for the purpose of organizing a basketball league. Coaches Nothing was done in the way of drawing up a schedule, as it is ex pected that several more teams will enter before final arrangements are made for the season. The, following teams have signed up for the circuit: Waverley Ath letic club. Vancouver American Le gion. Standifer' Construction company of Vancouver, Omegas, Swastikas and the Multnomah Guard. If enough teams enter the proposed league it is the intention of the offi cials to divide the circuit into two divisions. One division will be for the heavy teams and the other for the lightweights. There are several teams in the city who were not rep resented at the meeting, but who have expressed a desire to enter the league. Another meeting will be held in the near future at which time it is hoped that a larger representa tion will be present and at which time more definite plans for a permanent organization will be made. Information regarding the proposed league may be had from Manager Simonsen of the Multnomah Guard team, whose headquarters is at the Multnomah Guard club rooms in the Chamber of Commerce building. .Exhibition Games Arranged. The St. Louis Cardinals and th Philadelphia Athletics have arranged a series of 17 exhibition games at their respective trainlns quarters next f-pring, to be divided between Lake Charles. La., and Brownsville, Tex. The Athletics lost 104 games during the season; winning only 36. The Cardinals did better, winning 54 games and losing 83. The Athletics finished in last place, a position which they occupied nearly the entire season, while the Cardinals wound up In seventh place after a struggle with the Phillies. They seem to be badly matched, as on past performances the Cardinals should hardly lose a game to the American league tailenders. BY RICHARD R. SHARP. "Battling" Ortega of Oakland is scheduled to arrive here this morn ing accompanied by his manager Tommy Simpson, the well-known Oakland hr-'iR promoter. Ortega will start aing at once for his ten-round bo. : against Jimmy Darcy at the armory next Tuesday night. These two rugged mlddleweights are not strangers to each other by any means, but never have clashed in a local ring. San Francisco and Oakland boxing fans have been treated to four or five matches over the four round route between Darcy and Ortega, and if the writer is correct Ortega holds the edge on the deci sions. Their most recent encounter was in Oakland. According to me available dope on the bout. Darcy held his own for the first three rounds only to blow up and get a lacing in the final canto. Ortega Is considered by the Cali fornia critics as the best man at his weight in this part of the country and without a doubt holds decisions over more good men that any other middleweight now boxing in the west. Ortega has fought them all and Is still on top of the heap. Portland fans have witnessed him in action once. That occasion was when the six-round game was in vogue, Ortega meeting Al Sommers in the main event of a show staged by the late Joe Flanigan. The fight was one of the best ever put up here and drew the largest crowd that had been pulled to a six-round bout show. The Darcy-Ortega bout will be the only ten-rounder on next Tuesday night's bill. It has been decided to schedule the semi-windup between Pete Mltchie and Freddie Anderson for b!x rounds. Pat Williams of Se attle will meet Niel Zimmerman in a six-round bout in the special event. The two preliminaries will each go four rounds or less. Sailor Hansen will do battle against Johnny Bosco- vltch while Leo Bell will take on Kid Rocco. BASKET MEETING DELAYED LACK OF QUORUM POSTPONES LEAGUE BUSINESS. Expected, to Draw Up Schedule Today Soccer Cir cuit Goes Into Discard. NO MATTER WHERE YOU BUY BUY EARLY IN THE MORNINGS THEN A MERRY XMAS 33S SCHOOL GYMS SHUT DOWN Five Floors Will Be Quiet During Week of Holidays. W. H. Knapp, supervisor of physical education of the Portland public play grounds, who is in charge of the night gymnasium classes in various public schools throughout the city. announced yesterday that the night gymnasium classes in some of the schools will be closed during the holidays. Only five of the schools holding classes will be, affected. Those classes which are held on Mon day and Tuesday nights will not be closed. All gymnasium work will be re sumed again after tne first of the year. The following schools will be affected by the closing order: Peninsula, closed on December 17. 24 and ol : "pen on January 7. St. Johns, closed December 24 and 31; open January 7. WoodBtock, closed December 25 - and January 1; open January 8. Glenhaven, closed December, 23 and January 1; open January b. Kerns, closed December 25 and January 1; open January 8. WARDEN" APPEALS FOR BIRDS The Dulles Official Says Game Fowl Are Starving. THE DALLES. Or.. Dec. 18. Spe cial.) "The game birds of this sec tion are starving and freezing," de clared W. O. Hadley, local game war den. "They must have feed at once. else the hunting seasons next year will be merely a name. To preserve the game birds the sportsmen of this city should club . together and buy wheat and distribute it. "I will match all contributions dol lar for dollar to buy food to keep the birds from dying of starvation." he added. "Y" Tossers Beat Swastikas. The speedy basketball team of the Swastika club of the Y. M. C. A. de feated the Waverley club quintet In a fast game on the Reed college floor last night, 39 to 2s. Although out weighed 20 pounds to the man, the accurate passing and superior shoot ing of the winners enabled them to put over a victory. Pallock and Blumberg starred for the Swastikas and -succeded in makins 30 points , between them. The first games of the triangular basketball meet of the Park com muniy houses were played Wednesday night at the Sellwood, Duniway and Peninsula parks. Tiie scores were somewhat onesided, due, no doubt, to the fact that the games were the first of the season. No games will be played next Wednesday night, but the hoopers will get into action again on December 31. The games Wednes day night resulted "as follows: At Sellwood. Intermediates. Sellwood beat Duniway 27 to 17. At Peninsula, seniors. Peninsula beat Sellwood 60 to 11. At Duniway, juniors, Duniway beat PeninsuTa 30 to 0. Louis Gallo is coaching the Duni way teams. Robert Gesell is piloting the "Peninsula quintets and Sigurd Grondahl is mentor of the Sellwood fives. The Maroon F team will clash with the Standifer quintet of Vancouver on Saturday night. It has not been de cided as yet whether the contest will be staged in Vancouver or Portland. a a The Oregonian basketball team, which is composed of former college and independent hoop stars, will prob ably play the Lincoln high school quintet Monday afternoon on the Lin coln floor. The Oregonian team won their first start of the season against the Jefferson high five on the Penin sula Park floor. ROSS LEAVES HONOLULU Vast Crowd Pays Tribute When Xoted Swimmer Departs. HONOLULU. T. H., Dec. 18. (Spe cial.) Norman Ross, world champion middle-distance swimmer, who took part in two swimming meets here this autumn, sailed recently on the steam er Niagara for Sydney. Australia. Practically all the local swimmers and a great many swimming fans were down to see the star depart. The crowd was estimated at 1500. Ross was hung with leis so that his clothes were just a mass of gaily-colored flowers. A Hawiian orchestra made up of Waikiki beach boys played "Aloha," and the major portion of the crowd joined in the singing as the big liner drew away. Ross was touched with the spirit of the occasion and shook his head and just blinked his eyes when they called upon him for a speech before the hawser was ca.st off. Some hours before the departure Not enough of the directors of the Interscholastic Basketball league were present yesterday afternoon at the meeting in the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club to form a quorum and as a result there was no business transacted. Those who attended dis cussed the basketball situation, but aU final arrangements for the com ing season will have to wait until the directors are called together after the Christmas holidays. The coaches of the various team probably will meet this afternoon at the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club to draw up a tentative schedule, which will be submitted to the board of directors for their approval at the next meeting. Soccer football will not be taken up by the schools this year. Some of the high schools and prep schools may have teams, but it is not thought there will be an organized league. Several of the schools intended to take up soccer- this season, but the stormy weather has prevented prac tice and they decided to drop it. COLLEGE OF HAWAII WIN'S Town Team at Honolulu Defeated for Island Championship. HONOLULU. T. H.. Dec. 18. The College of Hawaii won the island football championship here recently wnen it defeated the town team by a score of 27 to 22. The collegians used the aerial attack to advantage, get ting four touchdowns while the town team resorted to old-type tactics of bucking the line. The town team outweighed the winners on the aver age or 30 pounds to the' man. With six minutes to go and the score standing 27 to 0. the town team staged a great come-back and scored three touchdowns and a safety in rapid-fire order. The whistle saved the day for the college team. Ten thousand dollars changed hands as a result. Betting was 10 to 7 on the town team. Both teams went through the season until the big game with out a single defeat. Michigan to Get Help for Y'ost. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 18. As a result of the disastrous fotoball yeaf just ended, the University of Michigan athletic board tonight decided to em ploy two additional assistant football coaches for next season. Coach Yost's assistants, selected by the board, are Prentiss Douglas, former Michigan I siar ana line coacn, and E. G. Stur zenegger of Nebraska. Michigan alumni, in a number of cities, urged the action upon the board. It seems that the majority of the Portland boxing commission have reached the opinion that the public do not care for ten-round affairs, which caused them to decide to limit the main event to the distance. Every one is entitled to his opinion, but the majority of the fans are not adverse to the ten-round goes, otherwise a ten-round boxing bill would never have been enacted at the last session of the state legislature. Two good evenly matched boys can hardly settle their superiority In six rounds. That will be granted by any one who has any knowledge of th fistic game. It will also be granted, however, that six rounds Is too long for some of the bouts. The shorter the better. If the principals are In good shape and have trained faithfully there Is no reason why they can not travel fen rounds just as fast as they can six, The fighters usually do not get started until the fourth or fifth round and when this results the fans get about one round of real mixing. Boxers in the east sometimes take part in as many as three or four ten round bouts a week and make credit able showings. They are able to do so by always being in the best of condition. The boxers here are get ting paid plenty for their efforts and there Is no reason why they should not be in shape. a a Jack Sharkey, the New York ban tamweight, who won a popular de cision over Jimmy Wilde in Mil waukee, Wis., recently will meet Pete Herman, bantamweight champion o the world, in Newark, N. J, next Mon day night. a a a ' Quite a card is on tapis for the Minneapolis boxing fans t6night. Frankle Mason, the Fort Wayne 112 pounder, will tangle wl,th Mike Ertle of St. Paul in the main event of ten rounds, the winner to be matched with Jimmy Wilde. That is something to right for. Johnny Schauer, Mike McNulty's St. Paul lightweight will box Johnn Noye In the semi-windup. They will go ten rounds. Schauer is well known to the Portland fans, having fough here several times last winter. a a a Leo Bell, who will meet Kid Rocco in the curtain raiser of the Portlan boxing commission show. Is a Mult nomah Amateur Athletic club boxe and it will be his first professional contest. Bell put up some spirited contests under the wlnged-M and number of followers, who think h will make good. PULLMAN GYM FROZEN UP Fireside Athletics Now In Evidence at Washington State College. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pullman, Dec. 18. (Special.) Basket ball practice has been discontinue because of the coal shortage. Doc Bohler's ambitious court athletes, f ) Travel ml robhrts-vvicks co. Vs 2 Where You Will This 1 Christmas or New Years You Will Find That Well Dressed Men Are Wearing My Suits and Overcoats $25 $50 I Save You Money Come Up My New Stair way and See the Latest Creations for. Men j Lvdbvu u UNJbvJ UPSTAIRS , BROADVAYnear ALDER me Cat- ty Comer Chnfsr week ago struggling for a place on his five, are today winning champion ships during practice hours, not in the gymnasium, but by various frat fire places. Verily, fireside athletes are prominent these Siberian days. week ago. when the miners were generally threatening the noble cause of higher education by refusing to agree to certain financial overtures. it was decreed by the powers that be that the heat should be throttled at the gym in order to conserve the available supply of coal. Now one Doc Bohler, already worn wan and slightly gray headed by the foibles of college athletes, has an other gray hair coming. Unless the miners begin working with their pa triotic zeal "we won't have a basket ball," says Doc. All of which brings Joy to the hearts of other conference teams. Pittsburg Signs Clarke. PITTSBURG. Pa., Dec. 18. The Pittsburg club has added Nig Clarke to its catching department. Nig is all right. Just as all right was Ed Sweeney a year ago. Both have seen their best days and neither can be considered as likely to help a team to a championship, for experience is not everything. Sweeney did not last with the Pirates last season. Whether Clarke will do better is a question. He was secured from the Philadelphia club, which asked waivers on his ser vices. Regatta Set for May 15. ITHACA. N. Y., Dec. 18. The an nual triangular regatta between Cor nell. Yale and Princeton will be rowed next spring on Lake Carnegie at Princeton. N. J., on May 15. GUS WELCH GOES EAST INDIAN MENTOR COMPLETES FOOTBALL SEASON. Prospects for 192 0 Crop at W. S. C. Thought Favorable by Head Coach of This Season. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE. Pullman, Dec 18. (Special.) Gus Welch, popular football coach at the state college, departed tonight for the east and will be gone until the opening of the grid season next au tumn. He was tonight tendered a farewell reception by the Crimson circle, honorary upperclass sociey. Welch stated that he intended brushing up on his law studies at Dickinson college, at which institu tion he was graduated before enter ing the service. He will be at Dick inson until the close of .the school year and will then conduct a boys' outdoor camp In the Adirondacks. The Indian mentor expects to real ize a small fortune from his summer camp venture. It is his plan to in veigle a swarm of sons of rich New Yorkers and Phlladelphians and in- NO MATTER WHERE YOU BUY BUY EARLY IN THE MORNINGS THEN A MERRY XMAS Does He Like to Go Fishing? Then it's easy to buy him something, because there never has been a fisherman who had enough tackle! Here are a few suggestions: Fly Books 7o to $3 Casting Reels $3.50 to $24 Thomas Fly Rods $23 to $:J2.50 Leather-bound Baskets $7.."0 Dry Flies, best grade; dozen $2.50 Duxbak Fishing Coats $y.OO Fly Rods ,.$2 up to $15 Tapered Fly Lines.. $5 to $8 Steelhead Casting Lines, 6pool. $2.50 . Six-ounce Salmon Rods . .- $15 Backmore Salmon Lines $2.50 up Casting Rods .-...$4.50 to $15 Open Evenings Until Christmas Our Two Windows Will Give You Some Helpful Hints Backus 6? Morris 273 Morrison St, Near Fourth struct the young capitalists in all outdoor sports, games and Indian lore. At the banquet in his honor tonight Welch stated that he would be on the Job early next September and that the outlook was bright for a suc cessful season in 1920. He pointed out that Washington State had learned by this year's experience that a heavy schedule is inadvisable when there is a paucity of material and stated that next season's schedula was accordingly well arranged. Phone your want ads to the Orego nian. Main 7070. A 6095. NO MATTER WHERE YOU BUY BUY EARLY IN THE MORNINGS TOEN A MERRY XMAS Give him cigars like he would buy for himself Rich's Cigars CHRISTMAS CANDY JiOVKLTV BO.IKS AND BASKETS. SlBSCRlPTIOS TAKKJI 1'OK ASV MAGAZINE PlBI.ISHf-.n IV THE UURLU. . Pipes Smokers' Articles Rich's Cigar Stores 4th and Morrison 6th and Washington