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THE SUNDAY OEEGOKIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 21, 1900.
Plscntor Dreams.
OThen cltj streets are dulland gray;
And office hours axe 'dull as ticj .
"When, 10-e a schoolboy back at (school.
I dream about the salmon pool,
Down from mj mantelpiece I reach
The Idle reel and make It screech.
"What glorious memories trill be found
In that exhilarating sound
The freshness of the autumn breeze.
That -whistles through the rowan trees.
The moorland air; the grouse that calls;
And, best of all, the spate that fails.
The spate that, as it hurries by.
Bears down my realistic flj r
My "Wilkinson, my silver Scott.
My jellow Doctor, or what not,
A specious morsel to lm lte
The salmon' jaded appetite.
Humor this foils to the full
And gire my listless line a-pull;
A sudden jerk, that I may feel
The thrill, and hear the "whirring reel,
3ay fight again those fights of mine,
'With strenuous rod and running line.
I see Turn leaping -ov er there,
A car of silver in the air;
I hear the onlookers pronounce
Him twenty pounds If he s an ounce;
His rushes and his sulks begin.
He struggles but I always win.
I ne er feel the sodden drag
That proves me broken round a snag;
Life may admit of griefs like these.
But in my dreamland to the lees
The chalice of delight I quaff.
And always bring film to the gaff.
Pall Mall Gazette.
ROAD CLUB IN ATHLETICS
Its Preparations lor Engaging; in
General Sj?orts tlie Principal Topic
of Local Sporrins Interest.
January, so far, has been a very dull
'month in sports, the thing most worthy
of notice being the air of preparation
that is observable in all the clubs and
ether organizations. Notable so far, and
worth following up closely, is, first, tne
formation of the Kennel Club, and, sec
ond, the move, made by the Oregon-Rpaa
Club toward the fostering of an athletic
department. The Road Club has paid par
ticular attention in its career to two
branches of athletics onl bowling ana
bicycling. In bowling, it has always had
a first-class, learn, and in bicycling a
great amount of credit is due to Its rid
ers for the inauguration of the movement
for the development of the extensive bi
cjcle paths now diverging from the city.
If the same amount of energy Is shown
Jby the members of the Road Club in tha
gymnastic department, Inaugurated re
centlj, the attempt will no doubt be suc
cessful. Work Under Way.
A gymnasium pn a small scale has been
put in place, with apparatus to be added,
According to the demands of the classes
and the availability of funds. A new
liandball court will be erected very soon,
and a proposition is on foot to build a
Ew.mmmg tank. Several members of the
club are enthusiastic baseball and foetball
men; therefore, with proper manacement.
good, representative teams should be put
In tho field the coming season.
The anglers are having great sport along
the tributary streams of- the Columbia
nver with that game fish, the salmon
trout. The run this year promises to be
excellent and, no doubt, full advantage
will be taken of the fact. The warm
weather of the past month has given
golfers ample opportunity for indulgenco
in their particular sport, large numbers
of players having daily reported at the
Sellwood links.
At the T. M. C. A. gymnasium, a basket,
ball game has been arranged between the
women's team of the association and thai
from the Turn Verem, t be played Fri
day evening, January 2G, at the X. M. C.
A., a return game to be played at Turn
Halle on February 5. The teams will line
tip as follows:
Turners. Y M. C A.
lss Pyu ....Miss it Schloth
Mrs. R. Krohn F Wrc n xinMa.
Miss QuackenbushF Mls's M. Little i
Miss G. Stanton...G -Mrs. Hadley
Mtes Becker Sub Miss Morgan
Referee C Mackie.
Umpires C. C Moore. J. Schwart
The annual junior exhibition at the Y.
M. C. A. gymnasium is set for February
12, when the juniors promise to gh e their
friends something novel in the Tray or
gymnastic entertainment The programme
will embrace fancy marching, calisthen
ics, apparatus work, mats, tumbling, races
and games, much interest being manifest
In the approaching eyent
Gymnastic Aspirants.
A large number of aspiring athletes
presented themselves before Professor
Ringler at the T. M. C. A. gymnasium
last "Wednesday erenlns for the lntermo
diate indoor test and examination. Several,
of the men passed successfully.
Indoor baseball -is getting in shape for
another league Schedule. The three teams
forming the original league are again in
line, the T. M. C. A., Battery and O. K.
G. Added to these a new team from the
naval reserve has joined. M. A. A. C. is
yet to be heard from, with a strong prob
ability of its putting a team in the flela.
Should such be the case, a good 5-cluo
league will afford lots of sport during tne
couple of indoor months yet hi store.
The athletic association of the university
of Oregon, at Eugene, last week elected C.
N. McArthup, '00, of this city, to the
management of the track team for the
coming season, and L. S. Hooker, '02, was
elected assistant manager. Frederick a.
Edwards, '01, will be manager of the in
door "baseball team. The captain of tha
1909 track team and the manager and as
sistant manager of the 1900 football eleven
will bo elected at a meeting to be held
during the coming week.
The most successful handicap handball
tournament,- both as concerns number of
entries and quality of play, yet held on
the M. A, A. C court was completed
during tha past week. Watkins and Trenk
man seem to be Invincible in the doubles,
with Lombard and McAlpin a close seconc.
"Catkins carried, off the medal in the s
gles, defeating Jones in the finals, after a
-hard struggle. Jones and "Watkins were
both, scratch men.
Iiively Contest Promised.
Interest in the Evans-Tost boxing con
test, fixed for February 15,, is not mater
ially less because of. the outcome of the
previous match between the same parties
While Evans was knocked out, after a
warm contest, his long experience in the
rinar, compared with that of his antasr-
I onlst, gives hlm .many supporters now.
His statement that lie wont into the other
fight pracf ally untrained, but will thor
oughly work for the coming event, adds
to the value of tho claims his friends
make of his success. Tost is far from
being without adherents, as his steaay
work since he first commenced boxing and
the showing made in the fight with Evans,
In particular give him a strong lead
among a large circle of the sporting ele
ment. GOLF'S PI.ACE AS A SPORT.
Has "Won Its "Way Into Popular Fa
vor "With. Rapid Strides.
The origin of golf is lost in antiquity,
and its birthplace is unknown, although
it was probably Scotland Shakespeare,
who was a sportsman, knew football and
tennis and bowls, but not golf. But the
Stuart kings played golf, and the game
even in their time was royal and ancient
Tluey played with leather balls stuffed
with feathers, and almost entirely with
wooden clubs England was slow to adopt
the jgame, which was first seen on Black
heath common, six miles south of Lon
don, some E0 years ago. Then a very
few m6re clubs sprang up, "Westward, lio!
ha North Devon and Hoylake, near Liver
pool, and "Wimbledon, near London.
It is now some 15 years only" since in
terest in the game began to spread," and
in the last 10 years Its progress has been
phenomenal. Inland courses were formed
everywhere, though old golfers asserted.
FAMOUS MAUD S, QUEEN
WILIi BE KEPT IN COMFORT UNTIL SHE DIES.
Tho great raoins career of the queen of the turf, Maud S , saj-s the Chicago Tines-Herald,
has been recalled by the announcement that the honees of, the late Robert Bonner Will be
sold at public auction In 2aw York next month Etery horse In the bis Bonner stable vlll go
to the block, with the exception of Maud S Turfmen all over the country were grateful for
the statement of the Bonner heirs that Maud S would be retained and kept In comfort until
she dies Probably no horee that ever Uvea was better known than the daughter of Harold.
Her series of great performances on the turf, the remarkable prices which shohas brought when
sold and the names of her distinguished owners hae all helped to make her fame. 6f late
years nothing' has been heard of her beyond the fact that she was being- maintained In befit
ting style Maud S Is now 25 years of age, and may live to be much older. Sho first be
came conspicuous when William H. Vanderbilt purchased her for 21,O00, "in 187S. when she
w8 4 years old. It was the highest price eer paid for a trotter of that age, and none has
ever brought more money. She had a trial of 2.17& aa a 4-year-old, and this led Mr Van
derbilt to think he had a world-beater. His Judgment proe& correct. Maud S was given an
Ideal training, Just enough to assist development. In action she -a as practically' perfection,
her gait Twins easy and smooth. In 1SS0 Mr. Vanderbilt announced that he belled Maud
S. could do 2 OS. which at that time was considered too low a figure ei en by the mos,t op
timistic turfmen. Her record went to 2.16 that year. It was reduced a half a se"cond the
next year, and in ISSi went to 2 09 Shortly after this Robert Bonner purchased" Maud S
of Mr. Vanderbilt for $40,000 As high as $100.0CO was "offered for her, but MrVanderbHt
preferred Mr. Bonner's ownership Maud S made her record of 2 0531 In 1SS5 Although much
aged, sho still retains many of her handsome Hate. She Is a 'golden chestnut, with a clean
head and fine neck. "
with some troth, that the game can 'only I of 1900, and will hold the, sailor to its
be played on tho short turf and sandy terms. The general opinion among sport
soil of the seaside links The history of lnS men throughout the country is that
the game in this country during the last 1 Sharkey has made a big blunder in throw-
10 years has been s'imllar, but its spread ,
quite recently is evenlnore astonishingly
rapid. Lawn tennis In Its earlier days
made its way into the popular favor with
rapid strides, but it never had aulte the
hold that goir hag now all over.ilie TSSEld I
though it has, we believe, established it
self permanently as a first-class game.
Not a Spectacular Game.
But golf is more written about and
talked about and played (where ppssible)
than tennis ever was. It has one draw
backif such it be that It is not a spec
tacular game, and managers, trainers and
rooters, and surgeons, too, have no part
or lot in the game It- is just a fair trial
of skill between two or four men, and
involves a moderate amount of exercise
in the open air. It, can be played all
the year around, except when snow is on
the ground, and two hours is long enough
to play a tcourse of IS holes. The skill
required in a first-class player is very
great, but weak players seem to get as
much pleasure out of it as good players,
though a spectator may wonder wherein
the fun consists.
'It Is a - curious fact about golf that
those who have not played, especially if
they are adepts at otHer gamgs of skill,
nearly always have a fine contempt 'for
it. The right way to treat such a scoffer
is to leave a club around within his reach.
He will try a few shots and his fate is
sealed; henceforth, 'as the Glasgow mer
chant said, "He will neglect his business,
his wife and his Bible."
"May Not Play Well, Bat
He may not ever play very well; few
have become better than second-class who
have not begun young; but he will be an
enthusiast In Scotland every Caddie
learns to play, and workingmen or trades
men, as mu5h as the laird, since the
grounds are generally common land, and
true sportsmanship knows no class dis
tinctions. In England and America it is
a rich man's game, owing to the expense
Of keeping up the courses, and 'the golf
er's get-up has been justly the object of
a good deal of ridicule.
But many a hard-working business or
professional man 'has added 10 years to
his life by taking to the game. It is not
merely the exercise in the open air, but
the constant interest, the hope that rises
eternal, even the revenge which is so
sweet. "Who can brood on the troubles
and cares of life, when he has "that for
the hole" and his opponent is- "one up
and two to play" ? Denver Republican.
"WORLD'S RECORD IN DANGER.
Great Things Expected at New Yorlc
Winter Athletic Carnival.
The Brooklyn Eagle says there is very
little doubt that the three standing jumps
event, at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club
winter carnival, to take place at the Madison-Square
garden, New Tork, on Satur
day, February 10, will result in the break
ing of the world's record1. Ray, C. Ewry,
of Perdue university, undoubtedly the
greatest standing jumper in the world,
will enter, with the determination to es
tablish new figures, and other "i;op-notch-ers"
are expected to participate.
The old record, without weights, is 34
feet G inches, made by B. Dougherty, of
Boston, in 1S94; .but Ewry, the Eagle
thjnks., will easily shatter this perform
ance. He"has Been clearing over 36 feet
In practice of late, and even expects to
do much better m February. The an
nouncement of a mile relay race at the
carnival, to be confined to the colleges,
has aroused the various Eastern educa
tional institutions to fever heat, and a
great contest will be the result. Invita
tions have been sent to Tale, Princeton,
Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, uniyersity of
Pennsylvania, and New Tork university,
and each of these colleges will be repre
sented by its best teanij,
Tnllclns TJironcIi His Hat.
Tom Sharkey has announced that in the
future he will manage his own affairs.
The pugilist characteristically declares
that had O'Rourke never been, connected
with him he would now be the undis
puted champion of the world. "I, only
want a square referee and I'll punch the
big guy out and prove my claim, to the
championship," said Sharkey, in discuss
ing his prospective match with Jeffries.
It is rumored that O'Rourke has a con
tract to manage Sharkey during the whole
OF THE TROTTING TURF.
lnS down O'Rourke, who took him in hand
when his only reputation was as a foul
fighter, and has made him what he is.
Don War Paint.
A lar8 Uinj2fir4pf. Cambridge unlver-1
sity athletes are joining the British
forces In South Africa. Frank Mitchell,
the cricketer, and captain of the inter
national Rugby iootball players; the Duke
of Marlborough, who used-to play polo
With the lighlbluesj C F. Gresham, tne
Old Hall hoejkey play or and oarsman;
Fred Christmas, the local long-distance
champion runnerand W. J. Hill, the old
third Trinity q&rsraan, are among them.
HORSE G03irgn,TS suicide.
Descried by" Hip Mns,ter, Drowns
Himself. Ratlter, Titan, Iiive.
"I recall seeing a hosse deliberately com
mit suicide In three feet of water because
he had been deserted for three days," said
an old miner to a "Washington Star re
porter. "The horse was owned by a man named
Jim Kelly, a well-known prospector, who,
'in July, 1897, came into Grand Porks, B.
u., after an absence in the mountains of
several weeks. The animal wasTiplhing
but a common, eayuse, on which Kelly
sometimes rode and sometimes packed his
outfit when the trails were steep and diffl
cult. Naturally, the mitn and "horse Tae
came attached to each other by their
close companionship.
"On one of "Kellya trips to town ho In
dulged in a prolonged spree, .and when he
had neglected the stable for three days tho
cayuee broke Ills halter and started to hunt
him up. He made a. bee line for the hotel
where he had often gone with Jim, walked
up the steps to tho porch and peered anx
iously through the windows irf search of
hi& master. For 15 to 20 minutes be walked
up and down the porch, whinnying as
though in great pain. Then, after a long
look Into the windows, he left the porch,
and, with head hanging near the ground,
he walked into the stream of water, about
three feet deep, lay, down on his side and
buried his head under the water. '
"The act was witnessed by a number of
us who were unable to reach him in time
to saye his life.'
PUT THIS IN TOUR PIPE.
So-Called Briar" Pipes IUnde
of
"Wood ojf Hentber.
According to Uie "Windsor Magazine, tho
so-ealIed brar pipe is not made of briar
at all. "Briar" is a corruption of the
French word "bruyere," meaning health,
and the misnamed briar Is in reality the
wood of the heather. Tills peculiar cor
ruption, like many others, is solely due
to the English tradesman, who. on finding
the eprrect word "bruyere" somewhat dif
ficult for the British tongue to negotiate,
quickly reduced it to the more familiar
"briar," and the wood has been known
by that name ever since.
The heather thrives in great profusion
on the rocky slopes of the Tuscan Alps,
In North Italyu, and on the mountain
sides in Corsica; a little is alio to be
found in Algeria, though this is" not of
a sufficiently high quality to be used for
the best English pipes. A few years ago
the plants nourished on the. French, side
of the Jura mountains, but this supply
has long since baen exhausted. The only
briar to be obtained, at the present day,
from France, grows In the" Alpes Marjti-
mus, near .Nice, but even m tnis neign
borhood the root is so scarce that it would
not pay the peasants to work It. Hence
there is no such wood as "French briar,"
Same Qid Chestnnts.
Same old winter,
Same old, year;
Same old dying,
Same old bier.
ff&me old younket.
Same "old boy
Same old watohmeet,
Same old joy.
Same oldt leaflet.
Same oldl make;
Same old promise,
,- Same old. break.
Samepfii Jokelet, '
Same old rhyme;
Same old whiskers
Same old Time.
Sam old fellows;
Same old call;
Same old bid to
Same old ball.
Same old music,
Same old whirl,
Sam old tryst with
Same old. girl.
Same old ojuestlon ?
Same old. give
Same old mitten I,
Same old live'
Chicago Times-Herald
Breeder of Famous Horses.
Major John S. Clark, who died at Ie;r
ington, Ky., recently, aged 59t years, was
known to the turf world as the owner of
Coldstream Farm, a place no- owned by
li. V- Harkness, of New York. He bred
such racehorses as Jim Gore, Locohatchee,
Sunburst and Santilarlo.
The yearling prdduce of "Coldstream"
was eagerly sought after, and Mr. Clark
was at one time one of the wealthiest
men in. Kentucky. Business reverses and
ill health broke him. He was a major in
the Union army and. fought above the
clouds at Iiookout Mountain.
Horse-Brecdinsr Epochs.
Writing in the almanac for the London
Live Stock Journal for 1900, Mr. Lowe, a
recognized English, authority for race
horse breeding, summed up the past cen
tury substantially as follows: During tho
first third of it horses were bred for
stamina alone; during the second speed
became a factor; during the third speed
only, has been considered. This is true
on this side the Atlantic as well, tor now
we have few long-distance racers, and
with the possible exception of Ben Hol-lada-y,
there is nd Animal in training who
could live with the four-mile champions
of the past.
Sixtecn-Year-Oja Golfer,
The best score made in. the qualifying
round of tha Lakewood, N. J., Golf Club
tourney recently, was 93, by N. Moul
louf, of Garden City, L. L, N. T., a boy
of 1G, who went over the course as though
it had been a balmy day in June. He
went out in 46 and came home in 47, mak
ing his holes in fours, fives, sixes and
sevens, and there were, only two occasions
in which he took seven for a hole, and
those were the 10th. and 11th, 405 and 475
yards. . l
AIL 1)bat Was Needed.
"Watts Since my ife has gone in for
athletics life has been one round of ex
citement, but the culmination came last
"Week.? - r
Potts What happened?
""Why. X was-ifool enough to show hei
one of those newspaper articles proving
that housework is the best athletic exer
cise .possible, and Now she does nothing
bujt, sweep and dust all day long."-Jn
dianapolis Press.
Bnelcins: fixe Line.
"What's the matter with your head,
Bixby?"
"Been bucking the line "
"Whatr At- your age?"
"Yep. Somebody let it out all night in
the back yard and. I didn't se it." Cleve
land Plain Dealer. -.
Oddn Against It,
The bra est man may be theone
Who Is always telling what
Blood-curdling wonders he has done,
But the chances are he's not.
Times-Herald.
iAtlifetfc' Ardor.
Bertie Mother, will you take me to see
the Iootball match this afternoon?
Mother No. darline: but if ttou ar a
good boy mother .will let vqil hln hor
clean her bicycJ&MF.jia,
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OFFICIAL STANDING IN "BIG FOUR"
AND ASSOCIATION CONTESTS.
Unto-vrnrd Experience of Y. M. C. A.
Team at The Dalles Cnrions Inci
dent on Commercial Alleys.
The standing of the teams in the "Big
Four" and association championship con
tests up to and including January 18, is
as follows:
Big Four Played. "Won. Lost. Per ct.
T. M. C."A 12 9 3 .750
Illlhee 12 G 6 .500
lThealles 16 T 9 .431
Astoria 8 2 6 .250
Association championship
Astoria 8 5 S- .625
Oregon Road Club .8 5 3 .628
T. M. C. A. .'. 8 2 6 .250
The Y. AT. C. A. team had but llttrc
difficulty In taking four straight games
from The Dalles "bowlers on the 12th inst.
Although the visitors made a much better
showing than, they did at Salem, the night
previous, they had not fully recovered
their usual form. They very justly com
plained thaf the games were delayed for
an hour and a half, on account of some
CHAMPION. FOOTBALL PLAYER OF THF. NORTHWCSr
r TTr TS : :
GEORGE M'MILLAJf, 31. A. A. C.
George McMillan, the famous coach and halfback of tha champion Multnomah Amateur
Athletic "Club eleven, whose, likeness Is presented herewith. Is one of the best and. most favor
ably known football players on the Pacific coast. HIa work on the field la always of the star
order, while his wond'erful defense, when playing In the line, and his terrific line plunges at
halfback, mask him as c. gridiron athlete second, to none In the West, and to but, few. If any.
elsewhere. HIa performances during the season just closed In fihls city hae served to place
the stamp of popular approval on his play, and he may "well rest satisfied with the position
he has gained In the esteem of lovers of the game.
Mr. McMillan's early football knowledge was gained with the famous Standford team, of
1804. of which he waa otjj of the foremost players. Since that time he has played with and
captained th well-known Reliance Club eleven, of Oakland. Cal.; has been captain of the
crack-a-Jack Butte, Mont., team, and. has captained! and managed the equally famous Ana
conda eleven. During 1S98 and 1S09, as a member of the Multncmah Club, he acted as adviser
and leader of Its football team, w'lth" what result Is known- to everybody la the Northwest.
kind, of an entertainment which was being
held in another part of the bullaing, and
'which it "was claimed might be disturbed
by the noise of the alleys. The game3 had
been scheduled for a long time, and it
was hardly proper treatment to compel the
visiting, team to delay bowling until a late
hour, in order to avoid possible disturb
rance" of a subsequently arranged social
affair,. The visitors, to say the least,
should have been given previous notice
l of the arrangement. The home team put
I up an unusually high total ecore. The
t following night The Dalles team won three
Igames from Astoria, with much Improved
score..
On the 13th hist, T. M. C. A. bowled
at lllihee, and, the teams split even. Uli
hee had a fine opportunity to get four
games, but were unable to bunch their
scorea at the proper time; their average
was lower than usual. The Y. M. C. A.s
hurt their team average greatly By mak
'ing a very poor showing on pins. The
games between the Oregon Road Club and
Astoria teams at Astoria Monday night
showed a surprising result. The Road
Club team made an exceedingly poor
showing, and won only two games, but,
considering- the size of thejr scores, they
may consider themselves fortunate in hav
ing struck the Astorians on an oft night.
These two teams are now tied for the
association championship, but the Road
Club has an adyantage In that the remain
ing games they are to play are to be
bowled on their own alleys, while Astoria
must "bowl on foreign allej s. .
Good Sbonvins of Y. 3J. C. A.
The Dalles wop. three games from llli
hee at home Thursday night, but the offi
cial scores have not, been received, and
the character of the work of the teams is
unknown here. The result of these games
makes the position of Y. M. C. A. much
stronger, and that team, under ordinary
circumstances, should win out, although
it is possible for either of the other clubs
to get first place.
The "Bigr Four" match and the asso
ciation championship will end this week,
the former with Astoria, at The Dalles,
Saturday, and the latter Friday after
noon with Astoria, at the Y. M. C. A.
alleys. The big Interstate match opened
last night, and will continue until Febru
ary 24, with two sets of games on Wednes
day .and Saturday nights of each week.
The schedules show the following games
set for this week.
Association champ'onshlp Monday, Y.
M. C. A. at O. R. C; Wednesday, Astoria,
at O. 'R. C; Friday afternoon, Astoria at
Y. M C. A.
"Bit; Four" Thursday, Astoria at llli
hee; Friday, Astoria at Y. M. C. A.; Sat
urday, Astoria at The Dalles.
Interstate match Wednesday, Arlington
at Commercial, and Seattle Bowlrng Club
at Seattle Athletic Club; Saturday, Com
mercial at Multnomah, and Taeoma at
Seattle Bowling Club.
A very peculiar incident occurred at the
Commercial CJub alleys a few days, ago,
which would have required some tall
guessing on the part of the referee to de
cide the result of a game, had it hap
pened, during a compet.tive tournament.
Charley" Evacooper, who delivers in very
rapid ball, was the last man up in a
regular game, and, with one ball to bowl,
he needed three pins to win the game for
his side. The ball struck the kingpin
fairly and, owing to some flaw, split
it into two pieces, each piece upsetting a.
q6rner pin, clearing the alley and win
ning the game, if the frame counted. Of
course, there was a prdtest from the
losing side, but it was -without avail, as
Mr.' Evacooper is hot in the habit of
springing miracles, without reaping the
benefit, and the frame "went."
A Fine Question.
Now a question has arisen as to what
would have, been a correct decision in the
case, there being no association rule gov-
Cr-5iS (&HU&3&91 gg& 12!
, t- r, ,
that the ball comes within that definition
of a. "delivered baiy and that thi bowler
is entitled to the result, where the deliv
ery was made without knowledge of the
condition -of the ball. Others think that it
should be discretidnary with the bowler to
claim the right to rebowl, as he probably
would In this case, if lie had secured leaa
than three pins. The best solution of tha
j problem would seem to be that the bowler.
in any case, sauuia reoowi tne OaiL It
would be unfair to allow him to rebowl if
the result did not suit him. and not allow
the opposing side to have any say m the
matter, especially where a game Is decided
by tha ball. The splitting of tha ball 13 a
very remarkable ocurrenme, and those who
have had experience with lignum vftae
would think it an. Impossibility. However,
'ii has actually occurred, and no doubt the
association, at its next meeting, will pro
vide a rule to apply to such cases.
For a long tinie the Portland bowlero
bae ben hearing a great deal about tho
marvelous strength of the Seattle Bowling
Club's team, and thay have heard it so
much and so often that they "have become
practically convinced that nobody else will
be in the race with this team. A Seattle
(man, a member of the Bowling Club,
thinks that that team Is not getting a fal;
deal, and is being placed in a bad light.
Hft" gays 'that while he believe? the team
is a strong one, it is. not composed of
wonders, by any means., and the members
of the team are. not as confident a3 rumors,
would indicate. They d6 not relish the
notion of gojpg Into the "contest looked
upon as sure winners, as it would hae a
bad effect every time they were beaten in
a game.
Unusually Fast Alleys.
It is true the team Is putting up a high
average at home, but Its alleys are un
usually fast ones, and the scores cannot be
fairly compared with those made on the
other alleys. Both the Seattle teams are
strong, but not more so than the Port
land and Taeoma teams, and the latter
will be in the race all the way through.
Whoever wins will have a run for the
money, and know there has been a race.
There is no more fear of the Seattle
Bowling Glub than of any other in the
league, and the members of that team are
very anxious to have it understood that
they are in no way responsible for the
circulation of the stories of their wonder
ful skill. They say that they are just
ordinary boilers, In the contest to win, it
they can do so fairly, and that they fully
appreciate the fact that they are to meet
the strongest teams in the Northwest; if
they should succeed In winning out at all,
it will be by a . close margin, and after
a hard "contest. ,
Interest in bowling- at tho Commercial
Club has revived, wonderfully during the
past month, and the alleys are the center
of attraction. Crowds of bowlers are to
bo found there at all times of the day
and well into the night, and appearances
rival those of the palmy days of 1S97. A
handicap tournament for 1C0 games has
been arranged to begin in a few days, and
the weekly team tournaments will be re
sumed this week, the club having provided
an entirely new set of very handsome
gold medals as prizes. The allejs hae
been oerhauled throughout and are now
in splendid condition. They will no longer
haunt the dreams of aspiring tournament
bowlers, to whom, in the past, they Tia e
usually meant the dropping of a large
slice of general average; moreover, they
have on numerous occasions proven to be
the Waterloo of many previously high
averages. Present indications are that the
alleys are a9 fast as any in the Northwest,
with the possible exception of those of tiie
Seattle JBawling Club,
Multnomah Team "Winners..
A rubber stamp could be used for the
purpose of announcing tho result of the
Multnomah team tournaments each wees,
as it has been demonstrated that Craft,
Ball, Zeller and Farrell can take the mec
als -whenever1 they please. They were tne
winners' again Monday night, which makes
five winnintrs out of six trys. They were
defeated by a small margin, week before
last, but put up an average of almost 45,
Monday, and won easily. A strong effort
will be made to beat them out tomorrow
night.
At, last accounts the tryouts for positions
on the team of the Seattle Athletic Cluo
were about completed, so far. in fact, thai
five of the team have been practically de
termined upon. These are: Huggins, Co:?,
Barragar, Bowes, Nelson and Brady, witft
a tight race between Churchill and Mc
Kenale for sixth place. The contest has
developed fine scores and some splendid
percentage work. Huggins leads on pms
while Barragar and Cole- are tied "for first
place in percentage. Huggins, Nelson and
Brady are new men who have developed
wonderfully during the past year and will
do good work for the team.
Notes.
The qOrgame handicap tournament at the
Multnomah Club was won by Dr. J. T.
Panton, with an average of about 46. The
scores were high all around and show
great Improvement over those made In the
last individual contest.
The trophy provided by the Seattleltes,
as a prize for the big Interstate match, has
arrived in Seattle, and is said to be a
very fine one. There will be a great con
test for its Dossession, and the very best
of bo-wllng is expected all around.
The Seattle Athletic Club has removed
the Babbitt metal from the pin trianr'es
of their alleys and substituted hard maol
It is hoped that the chasgs T?III..jesult 1
jiwmi'u in in luiunui 1 n 1
U
WINNEf&ON THE DIAMOND
"TEDt" SDLMYA
iVXEWS THE HIS-
TORY OF
'Alt GA3IE.
Chlcaso' Promlneu 'Umre to Bxinc-
inir Baseball IntoPublic Faor
"Pa" Anson and HU Merry Slen.
"Ted" Sullivan, In the Shicago" Tribune,
discussing characteristics If Chicagp pen
nant-winning baseball teams andi the his
tory of the national game imgeneral, says
that It is just 13 years" aincA the Wmdy
City has tasted of championship baseball
honors. The last great team teat won the
pennant was that of 1S86, ant it, Sulli
van declares, was a team, that Vas never
surpassed and hardly equaled in modern
baseball. Then he goes on to say that
Chicago was the main support of he Na
tional League, from ISTfi to 1SS3, am. won
three pennants during the periodAfrom
18SQ to 18SG.
"W. A. Hulbert constructed this wonder
ful club that set the pace for the entire
baseball world. Iewas the greatest com
bination of baseball talent ever put to
gether, unless it was their running maies
of those years, the famous St. Louis
Browns, under the leadership of CQininr
sky, or, at a later date, the Baltimore
of '91. '93 and '98. The kindred and dash-
lng spirits that composed the Chicago
club of the early '80s namely, Mtk KeHy,
Gpre. Dalrymple, Fred Pfefter. Tom
Burns, Ned Williamson and Frahk Flint
were men of tha greatest mechanical
speed and intelligence. These players
were never surpassed m the, history of
the game, and could scent the route to
victory without the aid of any manager.
"It would be, however, unfair to omit
the services of that batting gladiator, A.
C. Anson. In the thickest of the fray
this old batting warrior was there with
I his stick. For an aggressive batter, the
game never furnished his superior, and
many a victory was clinched and won by
the stroke of his timely bat.
"Slide, Kelly, Slide."
"Of the many bright lights that com
posed that great team, Mike Kelly was
the Intellectual torch. He possessed all
the genius of a moral fighter, and wheth
er In the mimic battle of baseball, or on
the field of arms, the excitement of bat
tle only cleared his brain. While other
players were In a quandary as to how to
act, Kelly would divine their thoughts
and perform his task with the speed of
lightning itself.
"The politics and machinations of tho
game make the position of some mana
gers satirical and ironical. In one In
stance you will see an owl at the head of
a lot of eagles, and the owl will get
credit for the flight and perception of
those kings of birds, while, on the other
hand, you will see an eagle of a manager
leading a crowd of owis, and he will be
condemned for their loss of sight and
lack of flight.
"The best jockey In the world cannot
make a 2 50 horse beat a 2:10 one, and tha
figure can be well applied to the men who
handle some baseball teams. The mem
bers of the matchless team of the '80s
were players who took great pride in their
profession and club, and they did not have
to be lassoed to get them to practice.
None of them was maklnr annual Ade
llna Pattl farewells to the ball aeltl, when,
in fact, this class of farewell-makers
could not be kept out of a ball ground.
If it was inclosed with a brick wall 500
feet high and policed by men on Its para
pet with revolvers and bayonets. They
would get Into that inclosure if they had
to burrow under the wall, to put on a uni
form to get In the game."
Mr. Sullivan says that the Chicago man
agement In the last two j'ears fca not
been parsimonious in Its outlay fc? league
talent, but admits that he cannot deter
mine whether it is rank imbecility and
obtuseness in judging the speed of play
ers, or the great uncertainty of the gamo
that is responsible for the poor showing
made by the club during that time. He
adds that baseball is the national game
of the United States, and that It will last
as long as our language It is, he avers,
"the manly and dignified medium be
tween the esthetic games of golf and ten
nis and the bullfighting, mula-atampedlng
and drag-out game of Rugby football.
Tho sport is a symbol of our Institutions.
TVeyter Didn't I.Uzc It.
"When in a foreign hind you should sea
a game of baseball, it would not be ne
cessary to ask what tongue the partici
pants speak, or where they haft from.
While in Havana last year. Cuban ball
players told me that Wejler stopped all
Cubans from playing the American na
tional game, which had been the Cuban
custom for many years. Why did Weyler
stop It? It Is not a Cuban game! It was
the national game of America, and ho
could not bear the sight of it In all its
machinery, he saw our genius and lovo
of freedom and liberty. His stopping of
the game Is not a Santa Claus story, but
a solid fact.
"Many things have been said against
the people that control the game in, a pro
fessional way, which is principally In
curred by selfish and Interested legisla
tion, but no one can raise a finger against
the honestr of the sport. Rowdy balitalay-
I Ing has been exaggerated, yet one-half
of the disturbance is Drougnt aoouc oy
intense Interest of the players to win.
Yet this could be eliminated by rigid and
dignified measures, instead of Issuing
the yearly proclamation as to what Is to
be done with" the evil. We should fol
low the example of the Western Leaguo,
which makes no talk of this rowdyism,
passes quick and summary justice on tho
offender. Ban Johnson, who Is the presi
dent of the Western League, wafts toe no
magnate of magnate"? to eonslder what la
to be done, but lavs the offender oft from
further participation in the game that
year."
Penn "Uay Drop Cornell.
The action of one professor at Cornell.
whq. as instructor in oratory, is suspect
ed of having- had selfish motives In "cut
ting" the university of Pennsylvania the
way he did; first. In trying to Mmlt ean
didatcs for the tatter's debating team to
certain departments, but wanting all the
departments at the Ithaca university made
eligible for him to draw from. and. sec
ondly. In arranging with Columbia to take
tho red and blue's place in an annual de
bate with her, then notifying tha latter
that she was no longer wanted, and fol
lowing this up by giving out a statement
to the newspapers In which he alleged as
his reasons for the step taken that the
Quakers had "ringers" on their team last
year, will probably result In breaking, up
tha friendly relations which have hereto
fore existed between the two universities,
and It is more than Mkely Cornell, will
lose her annual Thanksgiving Oay loot
ball game in this city through it. Phila
delphia Ledger. -
The Six Commandments.
Here are six commandments eultedl from
the catechism of The Golfer:
"L Thou shalt not borrow thy neigh
bor's clubs.
"2. Thou shalt not borrow thy neigh
bor's caddie.
"3. Thou shalt not forget to score each
stroke.
""4. Thou shalt not forget to toll thy
handicap.
"5. Thou shalt not swear when buk
ered. "6. Thou shalt not forget to pay thy
caddie."
i RI
THEWATION
Red and Black:.
The sighing lover led a heart,
A club the villain played;
The hotel, clerk a diamond had,
And the. ijoxtoa held a epade.
" CMcagaRewri.