THE 3IORNIXG OREGOXIAX. SATURDAY. JANUARY 8, 1921
1.000. 4 PLAYERS
PER FOR HOY
'is' Manager Confirms
Refusal of Deal.
CAPTAINS OF RIVAL QUINTETS WHICH CLASH TONIGHT ON
M'JLTNOMAH CLUB FLOOR.
BID IS RECORD ONE
be of .370 Hit During Sea-
by Second Baseman
Who Ranked Ninth.
IGE, Tex.. Jan. 7. Branch
manager of the St. Louis N
here today confirmed reports
lad refused an offer of $300.-
Ind Tour players for Roger Horns-
tteey declined to name the club
isf the offer and said he could
ilk for publication at this time.
UCUIS, Jan. 7. A new record in
itfry of baseball finance will be
led if the report is substan
thal the St. Louis Nationals
received an offer of 1300,000 and
.yers for Roger Hornsby. scc
eman and champion batsman
eague. am
b Rickey, manager' of the
is in Houston. Tex., where
sort originated. Officrals here
ley were unable to deny or con-
Ihe report. The name of the
apposed to have made the offer
been mentioned.
Isby hit .370 during the last
and. though ranking ninth
second basemen in fielding.
pre than 100 chances more than
his rivals.
If - Jr ill
CLUBMEN TONIGHT
MEET OREGON FIVE
Basketball Fans to See First
Big Clash of Season.
VETERANS TO BE IN GAME
Multnomah Team Is Believed
Have Slight Edge Over Uni
versity in Experience.
BOB MORTOV MIITXOMAH AWATETR ATHI-KTIC CLUB. AM EDDIE
DLRNO, UNIVERSITY OF MHOH,
1 OF BUSINESS HOLDS
HANDICAP AWARD.
M and National Tourneys
Idardizcd by Deciding
i 200 Targets.
IGO, Jan. 7. The American
Itincr association opened its
beeting today, but because of
fjc volume of buwnfss to be
M. to. the award of the grand
in handicap will be made at
i session. Cleveland, At
and Chicago arc the chief
s for the shoot.
fcsoctation standardized stato
Id national tourneys by de-
200 targets for all cham-
meels. It also was decided
'a professional event In con
with all state and national
lent?, the shoot to be from
rise and at -00 targets.
fa-ifif coast was divided into
e. the northwestern, to f n-
fashington, Oregon, Idaho aikd
; the southern zone will be
of California, Nevada, Utah
Ionium. 1 early avrrdu't-s will
Ited from a basis of 1000 rc-g
turrets Instead of from 2000,
iofore.
mama canal lone was granted
let association and will le
Med In the grand American
charriiMonsh ips ere a warded
i at New Haven, Conn.;
at Atlanta, Ga. ; Great Lakes
Hpeapolis. Minn.; Prairie at
i D. ; Pac I f ic Coam a t Ta-
n. .no uaies were sei.
recently discharged from the marine
corps, where he held a berth as
wrestling coach, arrived to tutor the
50 promising wrestlers that compose
the Cougar mat t-quad this year.
Coach Grant wrestles at 165. and
has had considerable experience in
coaching. He was with the marines
overseas.
Leslie Tromanhauser of White
Bluffs. 175-pounder. is the captain of
the 1921 team. Frank Logan of Se
attle 125-pounder and captain of last
year's team. Is the only other letter
man on the floor, although Shorty
Boggs of Spokane, who handled the
14r.-nound iob last year, is expected
back at the start of the second
semester.
SEATTLE TEAM CRIPPLED
SEVERAL BASKETBALL
ARE BADLY HURT.
MEN
kSSOCIATION ELECTS
r Organization
talc Assistance.
Asks for
(IVKR, Or., Jan. 7 At the
eting of the Hood River
me Protective association
officers were re-elected by
They were: J. H. Fred-
sldent; George I. Slocom.
Ident; A. R, Cruikshank,
H A. I. Day, secretary, and
avenport Jr., C. H. Khoades
Thompson, trustees.
ii game organization, which.
ting with the city and ioun-
ided a considerable sum in
Ithe mouth of Hood river by
true t ion of a diversion dam
I migratory game fish might
small stream from the Co
adopted a resolution asking
commission to complete the
ther resolutions adopted
closed season here for at
rear on China and native
and that the commission
i trout hatchery on Hood
(clean out the inlet and out-
hat lake. The commission
loned to obtain a closed sea-
Ck bear.
s 1 II (ALL TO MAT
i -
Meeis Arc Being Planned
j aIunsion Couch.
PLE. Jan. 7. (Special.)
answered the call for the
r wrestling turnout after
t the University of Wash-
Under the direction of Coach
t. formerly at O. A. C. and
Jollinger. the men are turn-
every night in the gym-
It meet will be a practice
the T. M. C. A. squad. The
rs are under the direction of
bson. a former Washington
A plan for extensive in-
wrestling is being formu-
I Coach Arbuthnot to increase
In the sport and afford
for the varsity squad..
fO OECIDK CHAMPIONS
of Bunker.' League to
flay -Monday Nip, In.
(laropionship of the Fortland
Basketball league will be
(onday night on the floor of
lland Young Mtn's Christian
when the teams of the
1 Savings bank and the Ladd
bank play. T H. liawlev.
of physical education, said
that the league, which was
late last fall, has stimulated
Interest among the bankers.
most of the games have
bely contested.
ccess of the season just olos-
itd to insure a continuation
Inkers' basketball tournament
season.
IXC
STOCK
J I MPS
Hon State College Mutnien
Work Under Coach.
INGTON STATE COLLEGE.
Jan. T. (Special.) Wreetl-
took a big jump here this
Ralph crant. formerly
Spokiae X. M. C A., and
HOLGATE IS AJTER DUNIWAY
Independent Football Champion
ship Remains Unsctlcd.
The Duniway park football team is
having a hard time making good Its
claim to the 130-pound independent
championship of the city. Last Sun
da;, with a defeat over the Highland
eleven, the Duniway team evidently
thought all contenders for .he title
had been laid on the shelf, but now
the Holgate gridders are hot on the
trail of Duniway park.
Either Duniway has overlooked
Holgate this season or did not consid
er the team to be of championship
caliber. At any rate, Holgate wants
to hook up with Duniway any time
between now and next baseball sea
aon. Harold Fay. at Tabor 647, would
like to hear from Duniway regarding
arrangements for the contest.
LINCOLN LOSES FIRST OA ML
Veriiou yuintct Defeats Leaguers
by 17 to VI Score.
The Lincoln leaguers lost their first
game of the season Thursday night
when they were defeated, 17 to 12, by
the Vernon basketball team. Shaw
and Rehburg proved to be the main
stays of the Vernon five, while High
played etellar ball for the lowers.
Vernon will play the B'nai B'rith
quintet on the lattcr's floor on the
evening of January 18.
Athlete Quils University.
UNIVERSITY OK OREGON, Eu
gene, Jan. 7. (Special.) Frank Crip
pen, famous prep school athlete from
La Grande, who registered at the
university this term, has returned to
Oregon Agricultural college to go to
school. Crippen was reported as be
ing pledged to the Beta Theta PI fra
ternity, but such was not the case.
Crippen has a phenomenal record in
high school track, and holds many
intcrscholastic records and medals.
He is now registered as a freshman
at Oregon Agricultural College.
Caddock to Begin Training.
OMAHA. Jan. 7. Earl Caddock,
ex-heavyweight wrestling champion.
probably will leave next Wednesday
for New Y'ork to' begus training for
his match there January 24 with the
titleholder. Ed (Stra. ler) Lewis, it
was announced today.
Ice skating Match Slated.
ST. PAUL. Jan. 7. Everet Mc-
Gowan of St. Paul, International
amateur ice skating champion, and
Norval Baptie of Batgate, N. D., will
meet here in a series of races January
16 and IS. It will be McGowan's first
start as a professional.
Squad in Good Condition Until
Some of Its Best Men Were
Injured Practice Is Set.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Seattle, Jan. 7. (Special.) Injuries
have crippled tho varsity basketball
squad and will throw a damper on
prospects for the early part of the
season. Until several members of
the first string were injured the
squad was showing the best of form
and may show unusual strength if the
men are able to play.
Captain Talbot injured his foot in
practice shortly after vacation and
will be handicapped for some time
Jim Lewis, the other varsity forward
and Leo Kicholsen, running guard.
are carrying injured hands, while
Jimmy Bryan, guard, has a bad knee
to work with.
A practice game with Spokane Ath
letic club is scheduled for January 20
the night before the Sun Dodgers
open' the conference season against
Washington State in Pullman.
Elimination of all but 16 men
leaves the squad in its final form
Talbot, Lewis, Summy, Savage and
Bakke arc playing forward on the
first and second fives. Mapes, Slelk
and Frankland arc sticking at center
without any one man cinching his
position.
Practice games with the Y. M. C. A.
and an alumni five have been tenta
tively arranged for the Sun Dodgers.
Definite dates will not be set until
the condition of the squad improves.
Legion to Sponsor Boxing.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 7. Coin
eident with the anouncement today of
Comeron L. Orr, new prosecuting at
torney, that he will oppose boxing in
Kansas City until the sport is legal
ized In the state, came an anounce
ment that the American legion,
through a legislative committee to be
appointed Sunday at a meeting at
Jefferson City, is preparing to sponsor
a boxing bill. There is a law in
Missouri which prohibits prizefights
and boxing matches but the law has
been ignored in the past.
St. Joseph to Retain Club.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. Jan. 7. George
K. Beldon, president of the Minne
apolis American Association baseball
club, announced today that the St.
Joseph Western league club would
remain In St. Joseph during the 1921
season. t The local club was sold to
the Minneapolis organization last
week and since then several cities
have made bids for its transfer. At
a meeting of business men last night
the new owners were given assur
ance against lose here. St. Joseph
is to be a farm for the Millers.
Sport News and Comment
Verily, the athletic span of activity al
lotted to performers in any line ot sports,
with the possible excepiton of golf, is
short indeed. Consider the three pitchers
who hurled the so-called "miracle team"
the Boston Braves into the national
and world's championship only as recent
ly as 1914. All now are has-beens. Bill
James never could hit his stride after
that world's series and soon retired,
tieorgre Tyler was passed alone; by the
Braves to the Cubs and hasn't been heard
from i n ce. Dick Rudolph las-ted through
until last season and then his arm gave
way. No hope Is held out that he ever
can stase a comeback.
With the Mare Island navy-yard filled
with huky sailors and marines, it seems
superfluous to say that Vallejo. Oil . has
few cittsens who are not actively interest
ed In one way or another In athletics.
With an eye to keeping on the baseball
map, this community is dickering with
Roy Corhan. popular player of the Paciflc
Coast league, to take in hand baseball
there.
.
Sales and trades of baseball players all
over the country are beginning to be
noted In the columns of the sport Paget,
which Indicates that the rabid fan can
begin to figure on the lineups of the
various clubs In the particular league in
which he Is interested. This phase of the
national game la mainly a scramble that
causes a lot of heartburns for managers
whose rivals get In ahead of them.
Coarh Ben Wallia, former Tale univer
sity oarsman, again will have charge of
the varsity crews of the University of
California. Many do not appreciate that
Wallis does not get a cent of remunera
tion for his labors, but does it entirely
for his love of the sport and his desire to
see it prosper on the coast. He took the
Bears after they had sustained a long
string of defeats and had decided to quit
the sport through sheer disgust and dis
couragement. Now Wallis not ooly has
put them back Into the running, but has
strong hopes that he will be able to turn
- - r.,.vv thin snrinr worthy of iMttln?
across continent to compete in some of
the major eight-oared regattas on tie At
lantic side.
Cohan Denies Ball Rumor.
NEW YORK. Jan. 7. George M.
Cohan, actor and theatrical manager.
when asKed to comment today on an
announcement from Boston that Andy
Lawson was coming here to confer
with him regarding financial inter
ests in the new Continental Baseball
association, incorporated, said: "S3
far as I am concerned, it's two-thirds
hot air and one-third piffle."
Cubs Sign Whelan for First.
CHICAGO. Jan. 7. The first base
position on the Chicago Nationals
was taken care of today with the
signing of Thomas Whelan, a gradu
ate of Georgetown university, whose
services were sought by several ma
jor league clubs. Whelan played one
rrame last year with the Boston
Braves, but refused to sign a contract.
Local basketball fans will be
treated to their first big hoop clash
of the season when the Multnomah
Amateur Athletic club five and Uni
versity of Oregon quintet meet on
the Winged M court tonight. It will
be the first appearance of the two
teams this season and considerable
Interest is being taken in the out
come of the contest
The University of Oregon five has
not appeared on a local floor for sev
eral years and did not meet the local
clubmen at all last year. Last sea
son the lemon-yellow tossers fin
ished third in the northwest confer
ence and the team is expected to be
considerably stronger this year than
last. Coach Bottler is having his first
year at Oregon with the basketball
team. He was greeted at the start
of the season with a fair turnout of
letter men from last year.
Veterans to Be in Action.
Eddie Durno. captain of the team,
was selected as a forward on both
the all-Pacific Coast and Northwest
quintets last year. Chapman, a
guard, is another all-Northwest play
er, who Is with the squad again this
year. Bellar and Latham are other
letter men who will be seen in ac
tion against the clubmen tonight.
The Winged M team is also com
posed for the most part of veteran
players who have been at the game
for several seasons. Captain Bob
Morton and Gus Clerin. who will start
at forward, were both with the club
last year and Clerin also gained con-ciHt-nhin
pvnerienoe at Whitman col
lege under Coach Vincent Borleske.
X. Clerin at center is anotner vet
eran basketball player, as is Manager
Toomey and Twining at guards.
Fowler, who captained the university
of Oregon team in 1919, also will be
used at forward. Irve cole, hooq anu
Deprato are other club players wno
will also have a chance to snow iiieir
wares against the collegians.
Ten Playera to Come,
Ten Dlavers will accompany Coach
Bohler from Eugene. Those who are
certain to make tho trip are Eddie
Durno, captain; Nish Chapman, Franz
Beller. Mart Latham, J-:unk Latham.
Bill Reinhart. Spike Leslie and Carl
Knudson. The new substitution rule
wil. ?llow Coach Bohler to use every
man in the lineup at some stags of
the game. He has not yet selected
the eight players for the varsity
squad and his choice win aepena a
n-rent deal on the showing oi me
nlavers tonight.
Everv player on inc .Muimoman
team has had the benefit of warm
nir uii in tho house league, which was
l pre-season event, and as a result
the Winged M tossers should Jc In
tho best in condition. Following the
close of the house league the regular
club team settled down to a strenu
ous period of practice two nights a
week and Sunday morning. This
practice has perfected the team worK
of tho squad.
C'lnbmen IIbtc lldlge.
The clubmen are expected to have
the ede-e on the college players In
team work, as the latter have only
been practicing as a team for a short
time.
Harry Fischer will referee the con
test, which will get under way at
5. Following the game the usual
Saturday night social dance will be
held in the club gymnasium. Tickets
for the game, which also will admit
spectators to the dance, are on sale
t the club office.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL APPEARS
PALE BESIDE PROFESSIONAL
Andy Feichtinger Says Game Little Different Than Going Over the
Top Under a Barrage of 42-Centimeter Shells.
ST. LOUIS GETS T
AWARD OP XATIOXAL CHAM
PIONSHIP EVEXT 3IADE.
Aberdeen High Defeated.
ABERDEEN". Wa6h., Jan. 7. (Spe
cial.) The American Legion team,
playing a much Improved game,
Wednesday night slipped the high
school five a defeat, 36 to 32, In a
practice tilt. While the youngsters
showed up well as individuals their
teamwork has not yet developed
strongly. The game was only their
second practice match.
March 10 Set as Chess Date.
LONDON". Jan. 7. Dr. Emmanuel
Lasker, world's chess ex-champion,
sent a cable to the Union club of
Havana, fixing March 10 as the date
for the commencement of a match
for the championship with Jose
Capablanca, Cuban player, who now
holds the title, said a dispatch to the
Times from Rotterdam.
Dartmouth Appoints Waison.
HANOVER. N. H.. Jan. 7. The ap
pointment of Jack Watson, trainer of
athletic teams at the University of
Iowa, to a eimilar position at Dart
mouth college was announced today
by Graduate Manager H. G. Pendor.
Gleason to 'Pilot White Sox. -
CHICAGO. 111., Jan. 7. William
("Kid") Gleason today signed his eon
tract to manage the Chicago White
Sox the coming season.
Open Golf Meet Given to Columbia
Club of Chevy CJiasc, Md
by Association,
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. The national
amateur golf championship tourna
ment for 1921 was awarded to the
St. Louis Country club, Clayton. Mo.,
at the 27th annual meeting of the
United States Golf association here
cnight. The national open golf
tournament was awarded to the Co
lumbia club. Chevy Chase, Md.
The executive committee stated
that it had eliminated the stymie oen-
ition or other mention of the stymie
n the rules as follows:
When either ball is on the putting
green, the player may remove the op
ponent's ball; the opponent shall not
be deemed to have holed in his next
troke.
The new rule will be submitted for
fair trial.
Permission was given to clubs to
ake a local rule to penalize distance
nlv for a ball lost out of bounds.
The change is allowed, it was stated.
because numerous courses nave nianj
"out of bounds."
In order to give clubs time to pre
pare for national tournaments, an
amendment was adopted providing a
committee to determine the course
and announce It at least one year
before the holding of the champion
ship. The executive committee will
pass upon this choice.
A reference to the Western Golf
association, recently threatening to
secede and form another national
body, was made by George H. Walker,
the retiring president.
"Happily that is not necessary," he
said, "for they will remain a sectional
organization and will abide by the
rules set down by the United States
Golf association."
Many of America's best amateur
players will enter the British national
tournament this year, it was an
nounced by President Whitney.
Among those who have signified their
intention to go abroad are Charles
Evans, Francis Ouimet, Bobby Jones,
David Herron. Max Marston, Nelson
Whitney and Reginald Lewis. He
added that he is trying to persuade
Robert Gardner to make the trip.
Dead Soldier's Pay Sent Mother.
BEND, Or., Jan. 7. (Special.)
Army pay due Percy A. Stevens. Bend
high school boy, who lost hi life In
the Tuscania disaster, has just been
received by his mother. Mrs- F. S.
Stevens, of this city. Report of the
payment of 137 was made last night
at the meeting of the local American
Legion poet, which is named, for the
deed, soldier. .
BY L. H. GREGORY.
AFTER listening to half an hour's
talk yesterday by Andy Feich
tinger, former Multnomah club
rootball end, who now pastimes pro
fessionally with Staley's Decatur pro
fessional gridiron team, we begin to
think the great game of intercolle
giate football, supposedly so strenu
ous, isn't so much after all.
To judge from Andy's casual re
marks the professional game is Hftle
different than going over the top
under a barrage of 42-centimeter
shells. Great sport, no doubt, but one
that no gent not congenital!- hard
boiled and tough of frame should con
sider for a life career.
In college football a man thinks he
has accomplished something if he
lastp through the five or six games
of a season's schedule. And a col
lege team feels abused if it has more
than six or seven games' to play. But
in the season just ended Andy's team
played 13 games and he himself was
in the thick ot eight of them.
And evidently they were real games
We present this incidental extract
from the conversation in testimony
thereof:
"Our toughest battle of the year
was for the world's championship
against the Akron Indians in Chi
cago December 12. Say. that wa
some game. We held the professiona
championship of the west and Akro
was professional football champion o
the east. We played before 12,000
persons in the Cubs' baseball park
and the final score was 0 to 0. Those
12,000 persons were standing up and
yelling most of the time. "
"But say, those Akron Indians were
the tough birds. They had a massed
attack and their linemen charged
with their heads only about a foot
above the ground. They simply
rammed through Ihe boys for
time. But I'll sav we stopped them.'
"How did you stop them?" -sib
casually inquired.
"Oh, that was easy," said Andy
our guards Just went in under 'em
and rolled their cleats around. That
brought their heads up."
Yea, bo!
'In a college game," continued
Feichtinger, "you'll see some of the
players throwing away their head
guards. You never do that more than
once in professional football. Be
lieve mo, I got cured of it the only
time I tried it. It was an awfully
not aay, tne sun beating down on
us so hot I could hardly breathe. So
I ups and tosses my head guard to
tne side lines.
"'Hey. don't do that, you darn fool!
big Halas. who used to play with
Illinois, yells to mc. 'Some blrd'll
sink his cleats into your skull.'
"That s just what they did. I got
that old head guard back in a hurry
ana l never tooK it off in a game
alter tnat.
"But the boys who play professional
football are all good sports and they
aon t put over any unnecessary rouerh
ness. It's just a mighty stiff game
of football, that's all. In one of those
games you get about as much real
playing as you would in three or four
college games. Some folks have the
idea that professional football play
ers are a lot of toughs and rough
necks. Nothing like that. Nearly all
of them arc former college players
and they are good fellows. But they're
playing rootball every minute.
"I'll tell you how good they are. In
that California-Ohio State game at
Pasadena last Saturday, which I saw,
California put over the old criss-cross
time after -time for big gains. Do
you know how long an end in pro
iessionai tootbaii lasts if they ever
slip over the criss-cross on him? Well,
I'll give you the straight dope. He
is allowed just one criss-cross to the
season. If they ever get away with
anotner ono around him, good nltrht
end! He's through. Not only for that
game, mind you, but for the whole
season. No team would have him.
"Another thing. No end can play
with one of those teams who can't
play either end. The same with
tackles and guards. They have to be
able to play both sides of the line.
One of those games is like seeing a
coupfe of Walter Camp's ail-American
teams lined up against each
other, but just because a fellow hap
pens to be named on the all-Amerl-can
doesn't mean he is good enough
to play. He has to prove it.
"Why, Eddie Mahan lasted only one
game in professional football. Why?
Because after Ite'd rammed that op
posing stonewall line a few times and
got flapped for losses it took the
heart right out of him. He'd been so
used to having things his own way in
college, and smashing through the
other line for yardage that he couldn't
understand what was stopping him,
and he lost his pep. A man who playt
the backfield in the professional game
has to have a fighting heart a. big
as a house.
"And you have to keep thinking
every minute. The best college team
in the world usually is built up
around two or at most three good
players who do all the thinking for
the team.. Nothing like that in pro
fessional football. Every man has to
e his noodle all the time. If he
doesn't, he's gone, that's all. No ivory
need apply.
'I want to make one thing clear
about professional football. You
couldn't buy one of those players.
They're all in the game to win, and
if a fellow pulled a rank play he'd
never have the chance to pull an
other. 4
'Another thing: The teams are com
posed mostly of ex-college players.
and the lineups are cluttered up with
all-American and all-western players
and ail that. But the American Fed
eration of Professional Football
clubs has an iron-clad rule against
tampering in any way with a football
player, no matter how good he may
be, while he's 'n college. That rule
was proposed by Jim Thorpe himself.
We never make an offer to a college
man to play protcssiona. football so
long as he's 'n college. After he is
through, then of course we try to
sign him up. But we have a high
code of ethics that way and we are
not doing anything to hamper college
football.
"Do the people like professional
football? I'll tell you they do. They
go nutty over it. When you eee
crowd of 12,000 or 15,000 persons
rooting like a bunch of collegians, and
all that without a yell leader, you
can know the game has a hold on
them. In Chicago we play to bigger
crowds than the colleges of the Big
Ten.
Feichtinger says a couple of the
good teams are figuring on coming
to the Pacific coast next season and
that Portland probably will be on
the schedule for a game or series of
games. The Akron Indians are in
Los Angeles at present, where they
are to play a team managed by Tuffy
Conn, who used to play with Oregon
Agricultural college. Conn made that
memorable 107-yard . un for a touch
down against Nebraska on Multno
mah field in 1916, when he got
fumble behind his own goal line and
raced all the way down field across
the Nebraska goal. Conn played only
that one year with the Aggies, then
going to one of the eastern colleges,
where he was a star. He is now at
tho head of a professional football
team in the east.
For a time the teams now in Los
Angeles figured on coming to Port
land for a game this month or next,
but that no doubt will be abandoned
because of the lateness of the season
But a trip here next year is almost
a certainty.
Feichtinger saw the California
Ohio state game at Pasadena, and he
is warm in his praise of California
especially of Brick Muller and Pesky
Sprott. Coming from a professional
football player in fast company, his
praise means a lot.
I never saw a college team that
got off its plays with the smoothness
and precision that marked Califor
nia s playing," he said. "The Bears
are a wonderfully coached aggrega
tion. And that Brick Muller say,
that fellow is absolutely the greatest
college end I ever saw in my life
and ho can throw a football further
than any man that mrat lived. He is
not a quick passe- Bangs, who
used to play with Washington State,
was a better forward passer than
Muller, because he could throw long
ones or short ones with amazing ac
curacy, and get them away like light
ning to any part of the field.
Muller isn't good on the short
passes, but what a bear he is on those
long ones! Say, he can throw a foot
ball 80 yards, and it won't bo more
than 20 yards off the ground at any
time. He did what I never have seen
done in a football game before, and
what isn t good football unless you
have a super-man like him to do it
and that is, throw forward Dasses
right over the head of the opposing
safety. That's what Muller did. Not
once, but a couple of times. Just
threw tho old football over Pete
Stinchcomb's head, and threw it so
fast that Pete couldn't get back to
grab it or spill it.
"And Muller is only a kid. By the
time he's played as long as Bangs he
may be a better all-around forward
passer than Bangs was. Another
thing about Muller that stamps him
as a truly wonderful player. Y'ou
could see him smell an Ohio for
ward pass before it came. He would
step back, a couple of yards and
diagnose the play. That's something
mighty few college ends are able
to do.
'Pesky Sprott is a great halfback
He was perfect in that game. He
had everything a- halfback should
have, and didn't make the semblance
of a boner. And little Erb at quar
ter ran the California team beauti
fully.
"It wasn't the heat that defeated
Ohio State, don't make any mistake
about that. It was the rotten play
ins of her line. What kind of ends
does a team have when the opposing
eleven can pull off six to ten criss
cross plays, every one of them from
10 to 40 yards? I wouldn't call them
ends at all. And her tackles never
once broke through the California
line, though no end in the world can
keep the other tackle from getting
through once in a while. Her guards
were outplayed, too. That kind of
stuff isn't due to the heat. Califor
nia also made gains three times run-
rung on the dead man trick.
But Pete Stinchcomb say, boy.
there's a player. Pete is the real
thing, and Ohio State is a real forward-passing
team all right. I hand
hem that. When any eleven can
complete 12 forward passes it is a
reat forward-passing team, and Ohio
id that. If she had had another man
at receiving like Stinchcomb she
r.iKht have beaten California.
"I used to think Jimmy de Hart
is the fastest man In the world in
a football suit, but I take that all
ck. Stinchcomb is faster than
Jimmy. Stinchy is a streak and he
is always one think ahead of the
other fellow. He was the most dan
gerous man on the field. When a
fellow who is bottled up by the other
team, with every man laying for him,
can play as Stinchcomb played, he's
a wonder, nothing less..
"But take this for the real dope:
The big ten conference is two touch
downs slower than the Pacific coast
conference. I've seen them all play
and I'm telling you the truth."
HOPES ARE DEVERE
WILL NOT FLIWER
Langford's Ability Held
High Esteem.
in
TWO HEAVIES MATCHED
Chicago Scrapper to Meet
Baby; McGoorty Also Com
ins for Card Dec. 28.
Tar
COMPLETE CARD OF BOL'TS
FOR NEXT FRIDAY AT
ARMORY ARENA.
Sam Langford vs. Bob Devere,
heavyweights, ten rounds.
Bobby Harper vs. Roy Suth
erland, lightweights, eight
rounds.
Clem Johnson vs. Tiny. Her
man, heavyweights, eight
rounds.
Weidon Wing Vs. Frankio
Monroe, featherweights, six
rounds.
Y'ost S c h m e e r vs. Frankie
Crites, 142 pounds, four rounds.
TIE
15-ROHND BATTLE AT NEW
YORK ENDS IX DRAW.
Fight Is Fast From Beginning to
End and Referee Splits Hon
ors When Judges Differ.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Willie Jack
son of New York and Pinkey Mitchell
of Milwaukee fought 15 rounds to a
draw at Madison Square Garden tonight-
Major Biddle, who was one of the
judges, decided in favor of Jackson,
while William Muldoon, the other
judge, gave the bout to Mitchell.
Referee Louis wnite men aeciarea
the bout a draw. Mitchell weighed
1S3 pounds and Jackson 134 at 2 P. M.
From beginning to ena tne Dout
was fast. Mitchell landed more fre
quently, , but Jackson delivered the
heavier blows. Mitchell's long arm
became entangled ocasionally around
his opponents neck and he was cau
tioned at least three times for hold
ing. ,
Mitchell's best round was the
seventh, in which the men fought
three timet back and forth across the
ring and were so busily exchanging
blows at the close of the round that
the applause of the spectators
drowned out the sound of the gong.
AVhole Purse Offered Kilbane.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 7. Johnny Kil
bane may have all the purse if he will
only meet Danny Frush, local aspir
ant for the featherweight crown,
which the Cleveland boxer has held
so long, Frush's manager declared
today.
Downey Outfights George Chip.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 7. Bryan
Downey of Cleveland outpointed
George Chip, ex-middleweight cham
pion, in a ten-round bout here to
night. They are middleweights.
BY DICK SHARP.
Let's hope that Bob Devere, the big
Chicago heavyweight, proves an upset
against Sam Langford rather than an
other Barry setup. Langford's ability
as a mixer is held in high esteem by
the Portland boxing fans and In their
opinion it will take a better man than
has ever fought here to beat Sam.
At the same time there are heavy
weights in this world who are able
to make better showings against him
than such scared youngsters as Jim
Barry. Lee Anderson beat Langford,
catching the tar baby out of condi
tion, something that probably won t
happen again as long as the Boston
veteran In here.
. With Devere will come Eddie Mc
Goorty, the famous Oshkosh middle
weight, at one time the leading claim
ant for the middleweight champion
ship of the world. McGoorty has out
grown the middleweight limit, but is
still in the front rank of the country's
mittmen. His most recent matches are
evidence of that fact. Jim Mullins of
Chicago, who is managing both of
the battlers, left the windy city ac
companied, by the two scrappers yes
terday. McGoorty will fight either
Frank Farmer, Jim Barry or Jimmy
Darcy at the armory arena Decem
ber 2S.
Matchmaker Evans- has lined up
what appears to be as strong a card
of preliminaries as have held the
boards at any boxing show here this
season.
Two eight-round contests, a six-
rotnd go and a four-canto curtain-
ra.ser, are matches of popular dis
tance and bring together evenly
matched boys at least. The immense
new arena which was constructed In
the armory after a year of steady-
plugging on the part of Matchmaker
Evans registered a great hit with the
tans. From now on all of the cards
under tho auspices of the Portland
boxing commission will hold forth
there. Increased facilities for the
handling of the fans arc being made
and a box office will be installed on
the outside of the building so that
the fans will be able to get ducats
and pass on into the arena without
waiting an hour. Of course the best
way to get a scat is in advance.
Roy Sutherland will again get the
opportunity to break into the main
event class or at least get in line for
some better matches. The Los Angeles
youngster, who has improved 100 per
cent since he has been here, recently
got a crack at Willie St. Clair in
stmi-windup and although he put up
a creditable showing, failed to win.
In meeting Bobby Harper, Suther
land will be stacking up an even bet
ter boy. The fans are certain of I
fight when Sutherland steps in tho
ring regardless of who he may be
battling, which is security enough.
Clem Johnson, the big negro heavy
weight, who recently fought Sam
Langford ten rounds at Marshfield,
Dr., will meet Tiny Herman in the
other eight-round go on the car
Herman and Johnson fought a four-
round draw in Oakland last year and
will have the four added rounds to
settle the controversy if there is any
Frankie Monroe, Young Brown's
younger brother, will meet Weidon
Wing in a return bout. They fought
eight fast rounds at the armory last
year. Monrde is said to have im
proved a lot since that occasion while
Wing has not gone back any. They
are down for a six-round eetto.
a
Yost Schmeer, an old favorite, will
try a comeback against Frankie
Crites, who will also try a comeback.
Roy Sutherland flattened Crites in a
couple of cantos a while back.
Joe Eagan will headline the Jan
uary 21 card at the armory, meeting
the best middleweight obtainable.
Tommy Robson, the Boston middle
weight, wbo knocked Eagan out a
year or so back, may be the scrapper
sicked on Joe.
Give Your Wife a
Treat
There's no denying the
wholesomeness of the
Home-Cooked Meal.
But consider the wife
who daily has to aid in
the preparation of that
meal.
She would welcome the
change and enj'oy the
treat of a Dinner at
ye Oregon
Grille
Btmadway at Stark
Where she would have
a selection of the choic
est viands, carefully pre
pared, well cooked and
politely served, and all
in an atmosphere of lux
ury and congenial sur
roundings. Music and Dancing During
Dinner and Supper Hours.
Sunday Service
5 to 9 P.M. Only
George Olsen's
Orchestra
been selected tentatively as America's
delegation that will seek laurels on
British links next spring, it was
learned today. The others are: Miss
Marion Hollins, Mrs. F. C. Letts, Mrs.
R. H. Barlow and Miss Edith Cum-mings
BEARS INVITE OREGON
LEM OX -YELLOW ELEVEN ARE
ASKED TO PLAY AT BERKELEY.
Recall Petitions Kept Out.
DALLAS, Or., Jan. 7. (Special.)
A. G. Remple, chairman of the com
mittee seeking the recall of County
Judge Robinson, said that he be
lieved that enough names have been
signed to the petitions to result in
the recall erection, but sent out word
to all who are circulating petitions
to continue to set names. Remple
hoped to get such a great number
of names, he said, that Judge Robin
son would be induced to tender his
resignation and not put the county
to the expense of an election
Evidently the Eddie Shannon-Mel
Coogan fight in St. Louis recently
was not so good. This from the St.
Louis Dispatch:
"Mel Coogan of Brooklyn and Eddie
Shannon of San Francisco will never
dethrone Benny Leonard as light
weight champion if they do not per
form any better than they did in their
eight-round set-to at the Colfxum
Tuesday night. In fact, the New Y k-
er and. California lad will have to
wield the gloves in much better ma 1
ner even to hold their own with man
a third-rater. Their exhibition waff
one of tne poorest witnessed in St.
Louis in a long time, Coogan having
what edge there was on the battling.
The boys started clinching and wres
.tling before the first minute of the
"bout had proceeded, and they con
tinued these tactics until within a
minue of the end of the affair, when
they staged a little storm that
aroused some enthusiasm from the
3000 fans, who until this time had
been using their vdcal organs to hoot
and jeer during the greater part of
the exhibition.
'Shannon was by far the more
guilty at clinching and also offended
often by hitting while holding and
hitting after holding before a clean
break. It appeared a hard matter for
Eddie to make a lead and not follow
with a clinch. Time after time the
coast boy would shoot out a left and
then grab Coogan's arms, while on
several other occasions he brought
over a right cross and fell right with
the punch with his arms embracing
the eastern lad. He did not slip
punches or block like he did against
Charley White, but called upon the
illegal way of clinching for a de
fense.'' Five Women Golfers Chosen.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Five women
eolfers, including Miss Alexa Stirling,
three times national champion, have
Unii'cn-il Willing to Meet Cali
fornia on Date Requested on
Eugene Campus.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON'. Eugene.
Jan. 7. (Special.) The University of
Oregon received a telegram tonight to
the effect that the University of Cali
fornia would like to play tho lemon
yellow football team at Berkeley.
October 29. The game thus offered
would bo played on the same date as
was formerly planned under the
three-game conference schedule. As
sistant Graduate Manager Jack Benc
fiel announced that Oregon had re
plied stating that the men would be
glad to play California at Eugene on
that date, but would not make the
trip south. California's reply has not
been received as yet.
Though the game with Washington
State college has not been definitely
arranged, it is practically certain that
it will be played November 5.
FIGHT MADE FOR YOUTH
Author of Death Penalty Law
Would Save Young Slayer.
EVERETT, Wash.. Jan. 7. (Spe
cial.) The law which restored capital
punishment in the state of Washing
ton, under which Isom White, 13-year-
oid weak-minded boy, has been sen
tenced to die for tho murder of Lee
Linton, taxicab driver, may be uncon
stitutional. Attorney Joseph H. Smith, who
drafted the law and led the fight for
its passage, and who now is attorney
for White, attacked the legality of
the measure before the supreme court
yesterday when he asked for a new
hearing in behalf of the youth.
Smith charged that when the legis
lature passed the bill the acting gov
ernor discovered a flaw, but instead
of using the veto he returned it to
the legislature and the flaw later
was corrected. He contended that
the legislature had no power at that
time to change the measure.
SLAYER MAY RECOVER
George F. West Takes Food and
Is Believed to Have Chance.
DALLAS, Or., Jan. 7. (Special.)
There is now a strong possibility that
George F. West, the confessed wife
murderer, will live. On DecemDer 20
he swallowed carbolic acid after
shooting and killing his wife, and
has since hovered between, life and
death at the Dallas hospital. For two
days this week he has taken nourish
ment, being particularly eager for Ice
cream. West has made several writ
ten confessions of the crime.
Montana Industries to Confer.
HELENA. Mont.. Jan. 7. Secre
taries and other officials of locals ot
the Associated Industries of Montana
and secretaries of Cofcmercial clubs
and chambers of commerce have been
asked by John H. Mcintosh of Butte,
secretary of the Associated Industries
of Montana, to meet in conference
here January 10. Recommendations
o be made to the state legislature
will be considered.
PIANOS
REDUCED
PAYMENTS ARRANGED
There are some splendid piano bar
gains in Baby Grands, Players and
Uprights on sale this month on our
seventh floor. '
! Merchandise of J Merit OrO