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16 THE, SUNDAY OREGONIAN, POETLAOT), FEBRUABY 25, 1900. V 7 - j? kr WORSTED ON VISIT NORTH PORTLAND BOWLERS OUTPLAYED " IX THE SQTWD CITIES. Titei XMAferont. wfce rites & ehoislonc wfceol but be pOBM't Mtee To ant -Witt rantnlti see. SOME STIR IN SPORTDOM evening last at the Y. M. C. A. gym nasium. At the Multnomah Club Protes tor Krohn is teaching some of the mem bers of his class some of the fine points of the game, and as soon as they be come somewhat versed in the rules a team will be selected. Good material is at hand, and a game -with the T. M. C. A. is already under consideration. Thursday evening last the board of di rectors of the M. A. A. C. elected Judge "W. M. Cake to the office of president of 'the club for the ensuing year. Judge Cake two years ago creditably discharged the duties of president, and his election now Is but a fitting recognition of his past efforts. W. C. Dunlway was ap pointed chairman of the billiard commit tee, and Elmer E. Mallory chairman of the bowling committee. Pickering, Cullison, Buckman and Idle man won the Multnomah team medals Monday night, for the second time in suc cession. There will be a hard fight to morrow night to prevent a final winning by that team. The "Rubber Stamps" will be depended upon to put a stop to the pro ceedings. A3IBRICAS PROUD SUPREMACY. letics on the Pacific Coast, and an. agree ment for five years was entered into. Not only does this agreement provide for the employment of only graduate coaches, but it calls for 'no athletic meets of any kind to be held hereafter in San Fran cisco, except on college athletic fields. "Thus two of the greatest advances of the last 10 years in the field of amateur athletics have at one meeting been adopt ed by these two universities. With the graduate coach and the playing of all games on home grounds, athletics are sure to boom on the Pacific Slope, as ihoy have never boomed before." Turn the Tables, However, in Return Visit of "Wnsninsrtonions Mult nomah's Showing;. JjvThe Portland bowlers returned from the Sound last Sunday very enthusiastic in their praises of the splendid manner in which they were treated socially by the Washlngtonians, who outdid themselves in their efforts to make the visit a pleas ant one, but, with the exception of Mult nomah the teams are far from satisfied with the showing they made in the differ ent contests. The three teams bowled 13 games each, making a- total of 36 games, of whloh'they won 8 and lost 23. Arlington won none and lost 12, Commercial won 3 and lost 10, Multnomah won 6 and Jost 6. The showing of the latter team Is a good one, considering the fact that all the games were, bowled away from home. Bom commercial and Arlington were Visit Xerthern Bowlers and Golf ers Arescei Leoal Interest Pren rati&s for Spring. In ttM-taak mm an of eAMetics, ,when the Mha hofite&y who udVKBeortH la next to IwgBuulbi, when, nothing in vites to phyatcal exertion, bat, on the contrary, everything toads the other way, Portland hoe bad a busy week. Indoor bowline; new been king; with, its invasion of Northern bowlers from Puget Sound, than whom a more gentlemanly or sports manlike delegation has never visited this cKy With them came several golfers, v ho have stirred P matters -at the W& erley links. This visit of the Northern ers has had a most salutary effect upon the otherwise easy-going golf experts. The bowling contest has cemented the friend 1 feeling among the rival players of Port land and the Sound cities, and the visiting teams have won. new laurels and formed xhw friendships. Not only in golf and bowling has the -r eek been a busy one, "nut the oaikat-baU teams, composed of the feminine members of the T. M. C A. and Turn "Veretn. en gaged In one of the most spirited and closely-contested games yet played here. The ri airy of these young women is keen end the desire to win is Intense, hence the fast: game put up As eaeh team has one game to its credit, a third and deciding game is the logical result, and although arrangements have net yet been made for playing It, It is to fee hoped that it will come off So, taken, all in all, and at the season when sports are usually dormant, the signs: Are snoouragmg for he ensuing season. Spring: Preparations. Before another week has passed, the first of the spring months will have been entered, and the weather should soon be sufficiently settled to allow outdoor ath letes to begin training While there is not tnuch outward evidence of preparation for open-air sports as yet, aquatics show some signs of lite Captain "Sandy" Scott, of the Portland Rowing Club, has had the rhells of the club given a complete over hauling, new boats have been added to "the already large stock, and the new shell for the senior roues will be ready for early spring work. Baseball, on the professional side, k still In the unoertsJn stage, on account of noth ing definite being known about grounds, and it is about time that the amateurs were casting about to see what material there can be got together for the coming summer s play Tennis will be in a better condition at the opening of the season than has been the case in previous years. The clubs are rumerous and thriving, and the game had a boom last summer that will carry it along tasty thes year. As to track athletics, there Is a prob ability of improvement over last year. Then many of Portland's athletes were is the Philippines. This year they are all back tome, bigger and stronger than ever, and from the showing they vnada. m foot ball, it Is sals to say tiiey are only too anxious to got one on tne cmoerpaca. Otttjr of the dubs. The different clubs to which these hardy young mem belong should gtv thorn their. chance, and if Xhay do. Seattle, with its Parts and Palmar, will have a hsrd task to hold the banner. Y. X. C A. has a bright, enthusiastic lot of young Indoor athletta, and i would seem the hnpera tive dut of the association to provide a field or pUygrtfund for the young f-j lows Had the T Ja. C A. a sold, it would be a much stronger motor la ath letics than it is It might perhaps form a combination with the struggling profes sional baseball people, by which grounds would bo procured and it be allowed tkei use of them when no ball games were being played Th scheme is feasible, and ?nlgbt Jbe. worth considering. The uortoe handball tournament, which was concluded J Monday evening on the M. A. A. C. court, developed some speed' jroung players. The singles were won 2y punbar. who, defeated Holbrook Europe Tacitly Concedes Her to Be J Chief Tnch tJn.gr Nation. It 3ias taken Europe over a century to learn, or at least to acknowledge, that America always has been its superior in the art of shipbuilding, whether the vessel be a yacht or a. trading ship. .Nor is the acknowledgment even yet made In any way, excepting by Inference. And "yet, there never lias been a time since America took up the business when she has not excelled all foreign shipbuilders, despite the superior facilities and longer experi ence of the old countries. In early Colonial days, when the Amer ican cllppershlp, from which the present Yankee yacht is the direct ana legitimate descendant, plowed the deep, sailing rings around the heavy, cumbersome merchant men of other countries, and thus beating them la the great race for commerce, up to the defeat of the Shamrock by our own Columbia, there never, sajfc the Brooklyn Eagle, has been a time when America was not far and away ahead of the world. Time and time again in the years gone by has the Anglomanlac, who believes that anything English must be better than his own country's production, imported yachts, both big and little, with the hope of prizes, "but in every Instance they have been badly" beaten by the native produc tions, and the Anglomanlac3, Has either given up yachting or been compelled to turn to his own. countrymen for prize win ners. It is with much pride- that American yachtsmen see at last a tacit acknowledge HOW TO RIDT PROPERLY. Randolph. Fnrles Snovrs How Best1 Results May Be Attained. Thexcorrect position to be assumed when running is set forth clearly by Randolph Paries, the Intercollegiate mile and half mile champion runner, former president of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America, and now the di rector of physical education at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. "When running," declares this author ity, "no matter what the distance, the arms, or, more properly speaking, the upper extremities, should "be used chiefly from- the shoulder, with precision, and should swing in harmony -with the legs i Or lower extremities. The right arm should move with the left leg, and the left arm with the right leg. In order to main tain perfect balance and to gain greater speed. The trunk and head should be al lowed to assume their natural position, which. If a person carried himself prop erly, will be in the erect posture, or near ly so. The runner ought never to lean forward. "All distances, under and including one mHe should be run upon the toes, while distances over one mile should be run upon the ball of the fot, or the part just back of the toes. Runners should put their feet out in front of them in a per fectly straight line, making the advancing step with one foot, when the other is di rectly beneath the body, keeping each arm in its relative position and the legs close together, in order to concentrate energy. A good stride will-cover about seven feet, seven feet two inches, seven feet four inches or seven feet six inches. It is a great mistake to overstride, be cause In so doing an unnecessary amount of energy is wasted, and fatigue comes on more quickly. If one Is able to stride -seven feet at first he Is doing well. It 13 best to increase the stride by Inches. In this way a .good stride may be obtained, without unduly taxing the muscles. "Never kick your heels up behind you that Is, behind the axis of the body because it will cause a loss of locomo tion and also of time, by making the legs trail through a greater space un necessarily. As one progresses, alighting first upon one set of toes and then upon the other, or bail of the foot as the case may be, great care should be exercised in coming down upon the ground lightly. If attention be paid to this the body win escape much jarring, which is important to the muscles and nerves." coma, and won three, after having lost the first by four pins. The third was very exciting, Multnomah winning out by- four pins and getting revenge for the first game; The other, twjo wera easy for the visitors. Multnomah scored 1063, Tacoma SSS. Parsons led Tacoma with 151, and put up a..fine game throughout. Idleman did the star work of the afternoon, securing in the final game a single-game total of SO, with a. perfect game to his credit, and rr the high score of the day, 19L The scores lory, 189; Buckman, 137; Craft, 172 Sigler, 166; Pickering, 15S. The team was much surprised at Its good! work here, as it wasbelleved that the alleys were very slow. It was found that the alleys are first-class in every respect, although prob ably not up to the average on "flukes." They wera in fine condition, and all the Portland teams pronounce the Tacoma al leys as good as any on the Sound. Saturday night the teams finished up, Arlington bowling at Tacoma, Commercial at S. B. C, andi Multnomah at S. A. C. The Arllngtons were still in. a charitable mood, and dropped four games to Ta coma, in a featureless contest, so far as Arlington was concerned. The Tacomans, however, put up the most consistent game the contest has yet produced, there being a variance of but six pins between the high and low team, games, wWch av eraged well above 40 It was a set of games of which the Tacoma bowlers may well be proud. Parsons' 187 was high, Tinllng, Griggs and Eberly getting high totals, uroasman got Dacic mio nis class away, but the poor showing of Arlington and Commercial had a whole lot to do frith that. Those two teams' lost eight games to S. A. C and seven to S. B. C, but the less was no fault of thekrsr as they were lamentably weak, foi the reasons al ready stated, and they -were fortunate in getting any games at all. For the abili ties of the Washington bowlers tho mem bera ef the Portland; teams-have the great est respect. Every team Is represented howlers who are far mere skillful than any teams ever before made up on the Sound. A good many of them are old boilers, who- are well known in the Northwest, but a number of new faces are seen among them. Of these, some are wonders on their own alleys, and tho trhj to Portland will show how theyfa're away from home. The Graham & Moore trophy for th Interstate match was on exhibition while the Portland teams were in Seattle. It. H a masslie stiver urn, rather plate, but rich in appearance. The names of the donors and the contesting tearaa are en graved on one side, and the name of the winners will be placed on the opposite side. The cup is a very fine one, and Is a good incentive to the players. COME INTO THEIR OWN AS&miaxK Mfaf at xwlt bbu maxi KvsQvaufiwr majuwos. handicapped la being compelled to fill up their teams -with bowlers who were with- oUtpractlcB and, in no condition to do andput up a score that looked more Ilka bowled. Multnomah, was ouCforWood and Tables Turned The three- Paget Sound teams arrived here Thursday evening and the" final se ries of the big contest began -that night. The first night's play resulted very-fa- vorafely to the Portland teaans.-the visit ors getting but three out of -the, H games WILL STEAM FIPTY MILES AN HOUR. PIGEOX-SHOT M'ALPIN. Repbrt That the Champion Will Withdraw From Mntcn-Sliootinsr. The story Is going the rounds, sajs tho Brooklyi; Eagle, that at a. recent meeting" of some of the members of the Carteret Gun Club, George 8. McAlpIn, tho ama teur champion ulgeon-shot of America, announced his intention of" withdrawing er"rr,r,:, T ? ,:; IZZ:: ::? entirely from match-shooting. He said T.rt.1 t3tJ,,. . wKoer a1 that the notoriety he was receiving was While the tendency to purchase American ,,, 0v,r,w x., ..?,-,. yachts has been growing abroad for sev eral years, it has. never before .reached the point which the past ytear has brought forth. Many agents from Europe espe cially from Germany hae been In this exceedingly objectionable to him and from a business standpoint hurtful to his Inter ests. If this story Is true, McAlpIn, like Charles Macalester, will retire from match work an unbeaten man. McAlpIn, when CHARIES R, FUAT'S YACHT 'ARJEUrtV "WXJJj BE THE FASTEST VESSEL IN THE WORM). At the shipbuilding yard of Samuel Ayrea & Bon, Nyack, N. Ti, there Is being constructedfor Mr. Charles R. Flint, th New York mer chant prince, a long1, narrow-waisted ocean racer, which Is expected to attain the phenomenal speed of SO miles an hour. That Is an extraor dinary gait, but this Is to be an extraordinary craft. Her peculiarities are many, but the most strlklhg la the great dlsporportlon between length and beam. With a length of 130 feet 4 inches, this remarkable craft-has a beam of only 12 feet 6 Inches. In fact, she la nearly 11 times as long as she la broad. TVlth engines 'whoaa tre mendous horse-power will exceed that of many an oceanjllner, the entire hull will weigh only 23 tons, a weight less than that of the main shaft of many steamships. Designed for cruising In sheltered 'waters; this craft wllU neiertheless, b6 capable Of crossing' the Atlantic, and, weather being fair, of crossing It at a speed that would make thelAicanla seem. Inert. That It Is possible to construct a vessel which will travel on water at the habitual gait of a "limited" on land, has long been a con tention of marine architects and marine engineers. It was to prove In practice- what theory has so long asserted that Mr. Flint gave out the contract for this yacht. He wanted a vessel to beat all others at fast going, and; with deliberate Intention of playing trjeks with distance and time he delegates Mr. Mosher the task of drawing plans for a steam yacht. In which every usual feature- la to be subordinate to high speed. The vessel. Is to be launched early In May. She Is to ie ready for service by June 1. Ayrea & Sen are building1 the hull only. The Beth- ., lehjiro SteekCbmpanjfjhas the contract for furnishing the shafting, the engines are being- built by Lycander "Wright, of Newark, and the boil ers, by tbeJCrescent Shipbuilding Company, of Ellzabethport, N. J. These are to be of the .Mosher water-tube type. Two will be Installed In 1 th.ArrWrTh&t?s tn'name Mr. Flint 'has selected for his yacht. Each boiler will have 2000 horse-power, giving 4000 la all. They will furnish steam to two quadruple expansion engines, which will operate twin screws. Engines and boUefcs will weigh but a little over 31 tons This, with the weight of the hull, will give tho yacht, when coaled and provis ioned ready orervloe, a displacement of about 6T tons. Sho will have a draught of 3 feet, and will show a freeboard of five feet. country during the past -winter, to buy up "Z&Z '"""f1" -T -J1 i-- JVVr W..AWW-WUU itOAiU 4U1 M4SU - 01UC refused to lift a gun unless the stakes were $5000 or more a side, each man to shoot at 200 birds. Of course the race fell such racers as were for salo cheap. Few of these were to be .found, but those whtoh were for sale were quickly purchased. Of course we have only heard of the Impor tant transfers, but the tendency has been clearlj4 shown. It is a known fact that advances have been made to Herreshoff by both Germans and Englishmen, which, however, he vaS unable to meet, on account) of4he volume of work he already had on hand. As straws show which, way the wind Wows, so the incidents of the w Inter show crearly the rapid advance of America to the posi tion of the chief yachting nation of the world. REASOX FOR SA1ISFACTIOX. "Phrady" Pleasea nt Adoption of Graduate Coach. System. "It is always a great source1 of satls faction to a writer oft any subject to see hie works bear fruit," writes "Phrady," the sporting editor of tho Brooklyn Eagle. "For some time' he continues, 'the Eagle has been endeavoring to bring about, by keeping the subject continually before the public, the adoption of the attUetic graduate coach system, by all the big colleges Tale through. McAlpIn is, probably, the best amateur plgeon-shot in the country today. He ia a bundle of nerves and everything must be just so whan he goes to the score. Should a stray pigeon be flying around the grounds when he is at the- score, he steps back and waits for the bird to get away. His hat must be In a certain position; his mustache must bo just so, and his toes must turn out at a certain angle. His gun must be placed to his shoulder in a certain way eery time. It seems hard to realize that he can shoot well while laboring un der such an evident nervous strain, yet shoot well he does and makes some re markable scores. . "RIGGEST OUTPlfo1 OX RECORD. Eigrht "Hundred Thousand American Bicycles Made in 1800. The year 1S99 will mark an important period in the history of American cy cling, whether considered from the pop ulation, commercial or the sporting stand point. Thf fflrH-PTit of h mPiHiim-Tirtrpd turhpol olleges of the country. Harvard, j ana the temporary glutting of the market and Princeton were tho first to ap- ' -with "ehnan bikes" caused an Inrrenprx in predate the benefits to be derived from the total of bicycles throughout the this system of coaching, and gradually j country far above what could have been all the Eastortt colleges !have been brought expected after the enormous boom of the to see that this is the only proper way preceding years; and never before did of managing university athletics. the bicycle assert Itself as "the people's "I do njaf mean to., imply that all have own in so striking a manner as it did adopted tho system. That 19 by no means during the 12 monthB of last year, the case. The. smaller college has not yet On no less authority than that of the 'SMART, AREN'T YOU?" in the nnala. Bom put up nna games. end before Ions, with a little added ex perience, they should make Jt Interesting tor the seniors. Lttmgalr defeated Knight, Stile beat Basch. Holbrook. de feated JtclCnian. BtDes defeated Lum gair end Hotbroofc defeated Stiles, .leaving Holbrook In the seml-SwUs, he In turn to .go down berore Dvnbar Holmes and J&eeratog who the doubles, were entered for the stogies, hot we vaafele to cotmr' Mw's Basket-Ban. . TSwjflrst of thledniirMi serfes. ef oaea's feneket-fraU gaaeee " hegm' Triiey .;jn ' &H vo 4&frrFWiLf. 'T'jra '. m r "v ' -: .- r vs rv- ... Z- "Where dees this-road go tor' "It doeaa'i go anywhere. TVe keep it rlgktrhere to drive on." Baltimore American. reached that polo- where it feels that it can dispense with the valuable advice of the star university player. That is only natural. It needs time to entirely abolish tt raiA ffisvjlra wmrfv T USA thA Trwril another college or university. I had rather expected that the big colleges of the Middle "West. "TClsconsln, Michigan and Chicago, would be the first to follow the example of the Eastern universities. Chi cago does ia a way employ the graduate coaching system. Tt remained, however, for the two big universities of the far West I refer to Berkeley and Iceland Stanford to be the fleet to entirely adept tho graduate coach system. This was done at a joint meet- jlag of these two leaders af amateur atb- prlme mover and ruling spirit of the recently-formed American bicycle trust, the firms now connected with that combine produced a total of S0Q 000 bicycles in the course of 1S99, this bems' an Increase of 203.609 on 1S8S, and the gentleman who il quoted, sees "no reason why the ratio oi increase should not continue," on the con trary. he considers it "quite likely that the output for 1900 will be 1,000,000." Doesn't Have to Cackle "The common shad of our rivers," said the. country schoolteacher, "lays almost 1,009,049 ggs.l' "It's a lucky, thing," said tho farmer bey. "that the shad doesn't have to cackle' I oyer every ,egg.lBdiaRapolis Journal. tournament srork, several regular members of ach of the teams being unable to make the" trip, This proved a bad thing for Multnomah, as both the leading Sound team3 secured games which would most certainly have been won by both Arlington and Commercial, had they been able to jhQWl their regular teams. on a aay nignt uommerciat lost tnree to Tacoma, by narrow margins, and won ond by 10, pins; Tacoma, 971; Commercial, 915- The -Individual totals of Commercial were: Beckwlth, 182; Charley Burckhardt, 174; Graham, 169; F. O. Burckhardt, 157; Mathena, 151; McMlchael. 112. Beckwith'B work was splendid, his scores showing a variance of but B pips 43-to 49. This Is one of the best set of games of the contest. Griggs did fine -work for Tacoma, getting out with 1S2. Eberly also showed up strong, with 179. On the same evening Ar lington Tvent up against the Seattle Ath letic Club's' aggregation, and lost four straight games, tho home team winning each one by large pluralities, and outscor Ing the visitors by almost 300 pins. Hug gins, of S. A. C. put up a terrific game, scoring a tota of 21S, which Is easily the contest record. The Arlington team scored individually as follows: Burrell, 155; Mays, 141; Smith, 118; O'Reilly, 109; Croasman. 105; Morris, go The- Seattle Athletic Club alleys have long since been dubbed the "graieyard of individual averages,1' but this is the worst ever charged to them by any team. r - Feature of Contest. The feature of the contest was the final games of Croasman and Mays, two of the best bowlers in the Northwest, which de veloped, in tho last frames into an indi vidual effort to keep "out of the bay." With, the assistance of Croasman's first ball corner work and a strike and spare In the 10th frame. Mays succeeded in landing a 20 score, beating Croasman four pins. No doubt these scores .wfll go into his tory. On the night of the 17th inst, Mult nomah wont up against the Seattle Bowl ing Club, and, as these two teams were the leaders-at that time, the contest was a very interesting one. .Multnomah won. the first two games by 16 and 83 pins, re spectively. The third went to S. B. C, by five pins, and the last game was easy for the home team, 245 to 218. Sigler put up a splendid game, and got high place wlih 191. Sauls was high for 8. B. C, with 181i .Huston, Pickering and Craft played in hard luck and fared poorly. The Multnomah team scored as follows: Sigler, 191; Mallory, 180; Buckman, 177; Idlemair. 175; Craft; 134 Pickering, 122. Multnomah scored the most plns.irrc to .961.- Saturday afternoon Arlington bowled at S. B. C.,. Commercial at S. A. C, and Multnomah at Tacomaw Arlington im proved in average slightly over1 the games of the previous night, but still lost four-'stratght, without effort for the op posing team. Croasman redeemed, him self and got first place on the team, which scored 217 pins less than the home play ers. The S. B. C. did not bowl very high, due, no doubt, to the fact that the games were coming so easily. Darlington and Baldwin were high, with 17L The Arllng tons scored as follows: Croasman, 158; Mays, 135; Burrell, 129; Smith, 114; O'Reilly, 103; Morris, 93. Commercial scored fair games at S. A. C. but the home team was out with its bowling clothes on, and) put up a high total. All four games went to S. A. C none of them close. Bowes cracked out 206, and Huggins, Barrager and Churchill were well up. Commercial's scores were well hunched, F. O. Buckhardt leading with 158. S. A. C. scored, the most pins by 169. Tho Commercial individual scores weret F. O. Burckhardt, 15Sj C. A. Burck hardt, 157; Graham, 155; Beckwlth, 153; Mathena, 151; McMlchael, 126. Multnomah put up fine games at Ta- what he is capable of. He led) tho Arllng tons with 171. The Tacomans had! 212 plna to spare at the finish. The Arllngtons scored as follows: Croasman, 171; Burrell, 142; Smith, 131; Mays, 126rO'Reilly, 123; Morris,, 84. S. B. C. was after games Saturday night and put up a fast race against Commercial. The latter, however, by the fine work of Graham and the Burckhardt brothers, succeeded in landing the third game by a good margin. S-. B. C won the other three. "Pongee" Burckhardt rolled up a total of 209 and secured high place for the evening. "Dad" Harrison had both eagle eyes with him, and led his teanv The, Commercials scored as fol lows: F. O. Burckhardt, 209; C. A. Burck ihardt, 16S; Graham, 155; Beckwlth, 110; Mathena, 123; McMlchael, 122. Result Important. All realized that much dependied upon tho result of the games between Multno mah and S. A. C, as the winning lof a majority, by either meant a lead in the contest, both teams being even in the race. Multnomah was conscious of the fact that It was going to bowl on alleys which had never failed to produce poor results for Multnomah teams, and it felt that there would have to be a new order of things, or else the team would be lucky to break even. The first half of the first gamo was a tie, and extremely exciting, and the second halves went in to win. It was neck and neck until the last frame, when a brilliant finish by Buckman put the Multnomahs well In the lead 265 to 252. This waa encouraging to the visitors, but it was short-lived, as the hdme team won the second and third games, by substantial margins. The greatest excitement was in the-last game. Seattle's first halt gained, a lead of 10 pins, and it was a hard proposition, that Multnomah's last half went against. with Huggins, Cole, Barragar and 10 pins to the good, to contend against The win ning of this game by Multnomah meant a tie between S. A. C, S. B. a and Mult- put up a terrific pace, scoring 1120 pins, which is but 13 pins below the association record and a team average of but little Jess than 47. The team easily took four games from tho Seattle Bowling Clubf although the latter got a good total. Fred Gillette, S. B; C.'e "Cyclone," captured the individual honors of the evening, with 208 fo the four games an'" the high singfe game of 70. Idleman, Craft and Buckman scored respectively 206, 204 and 200. The latter put up a remarkably good percent age game, and it looks now as though he would be an easy winner of first place In percentage, a position all the experts are striving to attain. Pickering put up strong ptey, and Mallory and Sigler got out with good totals. The visitors dtfd good work, but unfortunately for them they caught Multnomah at the wrong time There was a good crowd present. and the applause was Impartially distrib uted; in fact. It seemed to favor -the visit ors more than the home team. The Seattle Athletic Club received a jolt at Commercial that was unexpected. The home team was considerably stronger than it was on the Sound, and it succeeded in getting three out of the fSur games bowled. The first game was a nerve de stroyer, Commercial winning by one pin, and nervous prostration was threatened in several places. Cole and Barragar did good work for the visitors, the balance of the team scoring only fairly well. C. A. Burckhardt had his eye with him and, with a total of 194, got himself out of a wet ilace In Individual standing. His 67 -was the high single game. Blersdorf, a new man, got 182, a fine total. Beckwlth and Dunlap, two of Commercial's strong men, did not bowl. The Tacomans split even with Arlington, in a rather featureless game. The scores were good ones for the Arlington alley. which are ordinarily considerably slow.er than any others in the city. At the Ar lington Club, four alleys were UEed, but ! at the others only two. This extended the contests to ratner late hours, but the BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. "Give me your haad, ma'a." "Oh, this Is o euddenl" Plek--Jl-Bp. nomah for first-place, and a valuable game for either club. Slglers hard luck in the ninth and Buckman's center on a strike in the 10th, together with good finishes of, the three S. A. C. men, gave the game to S. A. C, Multnomah's half having over come but three of the 10 pins lead. This game counted two against Multnomah and two for S. A. C, so that the Sound teams come to Portland with S. A. C. in the lead, S. B. C. second and Multnomah third. 3XnltnomaIx's Good Showing;. Multnomah never made so good a show ing on the Sound before, coming home this time with an even break on games and a team averagejn the 12 games away from home of -4U6V IJt is true toat.lt returned scores are usually better alL around whea but two alleys are used. I in a worse copdltfop tbap wbeaJk went Bits, Pound-Calce for Hlxa. 'I'm going to get married," said he, as he placed a hand as large as a Dutch cheese upon the counter, "and I want a wedding cake." "It is customary nowadays," said the pretty confectioner's assistant, "to have the materials of the cake harmonize with J the calling of the bridegroom. For a mu sician now we have an oat cake; for i man who has no calling and lives upon his friends, the sponge cake; for a news j paper paragrapher, spice cake, and eo on. j What is your calling, please?" "I'm a pugilist!" "Then you'll want a pound cake." Tit- Sspply ef BB4ea et AM. Beeerlp tiens XBadcfiHate r Bvenr Be siestle 3"eed Bjf Priee. At the aiuMM meettae; ef the 3tteal Livestoofc Qo-eveatlem heW w VWsk flecth, Tex., feet bmbMh a- very IwemaaWag pa per oh "The Uiufwe Berne tea read by Cotoeel'Hewy XmO, o ! that State. , "Oa,& bright day of OeMee V said Cotene Bxail, "a jilwHugiaete waa takes of a erewd of pleaeeae aaoiwrf la Lin coln Park, ChJeago. fet w aet a he$te ia sight, bat you oooJft soaceety aee the people for the wheels, aad this pic ture was masked. The. Paeetag of the Horsey A photograph of Ue earn spot was- feken in October, 18. This ttaee one blcycte only was hi sight, aad. the was riddea'hy a meseeoger boy. but the park was filled with handaome ettetpageg. drawn by speedy roadsters, and thte pic tarec waa raaiteett. The Return of the Horse.' An inspection of the splendid an. lmats that gave s much Ufa to this scene -and pleasure to their owners, proved that the heree most in te waa tha best type of the Amerleaa standards-bred trot ter, the winner at all distances, on all the tracks of Europe, the horse that has within a month reduced the four-mile rotting record of the world, defeating the mighty Orion's, In the capital city of the Czar of all the Rasetes. "So deeply impressed has the Russian Govenuaeat become with the great value of th American trotter that it hag re cently purchased several thousand for breeding purpose More than a year ago an American trainer waa installed in the Imperial stud to school the Russian train ers in American method. The superiority of the American trotter has forced Eu ropeans, ia salf-defeasev to handicap our trotter-to a certain extent, to prevent him. from winnteg everything from their native horses. They Win Bverythlnje. Tn "Vienna, Austria, are to be found some of the fastest American trotters, quite a number having coat their wealthy Austrian owaers $W apiece. In tha great intemattoaal raees at Ntea last sea son, first, second and third money waa won by American trottew. 8o popular have our horses become m France and Germany that the local homebreeders of both countries have Induced their respec tive governments to place an embargo on their importation; but, despite tnte restric tion, the trade with these two eountrlea ia constantly increasing. "At tfce great horse show held at Madison-Square Garden, New York, the Ameri can trotter has. for the past few years, won in all daases. He bar out-haekneyed tHe. feeeknev. as he can not only stop high, bat go fast at the same time. As a coaca herse, in either heavy or light harness, he has defeated all oiher breeds in the show ring, and has brought th top prices In New Tork and London markets, 10,00fl having been paid during the laet season for an extra nne pan- of trotttag-bred car riage horses by a London customer, aixiy head of large-stae trotting-bred earriage horses in one consignment wesa sold ia New Tork in December las, for W.OOO, an average of ?lli each; and'many pairs changed hands at prices ranging from $2509 to ?00, quite a number of them going to England. "So much disturbed have the English hackney and coach-horse breeders become over the increasing demand for American carriage and coach horses in England that the London Livestock Journal, of a recent date, editorially advises that the horse breeders of Great Britain send a commis sion to the States to investigate the meth ods by which the American breeders ha a been enabled to produce the splendid type of harness horse that Is attracting so much attention in all Europe. AH Countries "Want 'Em. "It will thus be.seen that almost every country in the civilised world is looking to the United States for a supply of horses. Our export trade has grown from 3509 head in 1894, to almost ttM head in 1898, and there is every indication that tne business is yet In its infancy. The horses so far sent abroad, whether to race, drive In the parks, or for use m the army, have been most satisfactory, thus insuring large orders in future, and fortunately our facili ties for raising high-class horses at a com paratively small cost are vastly superior to those of any other country. "What are we doing to meet this great coming demand? Are we sleeping upon our rights? Let us examine ne aciu conditions. From MM to M96 every one who owned a stock of horses was using his utmost efforts to sell them. Stallions were sold for drivers; tho best Individual brood mares were sold aad put to work, and breeding was almost abandoned In every section of the United States. Farm ers sold their mares and used geldings or mules for their work, and even in the great horsebreedfng districts of Indiana, Ohio and Illinote, in a whole day's ride you would scarcely see a half dosen colts fol lowing their mothers. More than two thirds of the great horaebreedins estab lishments in Kentucky ceased active oper ations and sold then- stoek for what It would bring In the one market, 'a such ruinously tow prices tha tn whole breed ing interest of the eouatry was thoroughly demoralised. "Onr the ere&t ranees of California, Ore gon, the Dakotas and Texas, the herds of horses were neglected, stallions were shot to stop the-increase, and in many in stances pceratems were offered for the re moval of the great herds of horses m order that cattle, then so rapidly advancing in price, might grow fat upon the grasses that were thought to be wasted upon the unsalable horse. The Supply Inadequate. "However, despite this unwonted effort to sell and the f orelng upon the market not only ef the legitimate prodruct of the range aad the farms, but also of the very foundation stock itself, and the farther feet thai the last crop of the boom days of 1S98- and. 18M baa just now reached a mar ketable age, and should, If conditions were normal, fully supply the demand, the truth is that the country and Its business have gzown so rapidly, and the foreign demand is so great, that the aoek hi hand is In adequate, "Thereis already an admitted scarcity of salable horses of all grades. For the first time in 30 yearn farmers from the bst horsebreedfng districts of tne great agri cultural sections are now forced to buy work horses in the St. Louis and Chicago auction markets. To assist m meeting this unusual demand, the Union Pacific Rail road has recently closed a contract to bring from the Oregon ranges Into the grain-growing district mm of wild range horses, to be fitted for use. If this is tne condition of the market now, what will it be. whea we have consumed the boom day horses and the available animals from the ranges and the breeding ranks, and must depend upon the crops of IMS, 189. 1897 and ISM, when almost no horses were produced? Do we comprehend fully the gravity of the situation? "Mark me, we shall see in the near fu ture every grade of useful horse worth twice as much money as his line has ever sold for, and the better grades will be pro portionately higher than the inferior ones. All useful horses win be m great demand, and it witt take- the high dollar to get them. Was there ever such an opportun ity to make manor ae Is now presented to the intelligent, discriminating horcebreed er of America?, We have a eerner on the horse most unfveasally In demand; we have the, oaeapest feed on which to raise jja which to sou him.