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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, POJJTLAXD, NOVEMBER 13, 1904. With the Athletes in the Field -of Sports Multnomah's Fierce Plunges Batter Albany's Line Indoor Sports Revive Albany Is Beaten by Multnomah College Lads Are Outweighed and Outplayed' to the Tune of 16 to 0. vUTCLASSED, outweighed, and out 1 played, Albany College put up a 'V dogged resistance to the relentless plunging of the Multnomah backs and tackles in the football same on Multno mah Field yesterday. The visitors did not even succeed In making their yardage once until the game was almost ended, but In the two halves permitted the club team to score only three touchdowns. "though broken over constantly for gains averaging five yards., The final score was 16 to 0.. It was all so one-sided that it was hard to -tlr up any enthusiasm in the crowd and the first touchdown, which usually brings some sort of applause, was taken as an inevitable fact and passed over without a chirp from the grandstand. The only cheering came when Albany made one or two of its desperate stands and held the burly Multnomah backs for no gain. Multnomah's Strong Eleven. This showing against Albany, which held down Oregon a month ago to a field goal, gives the club team great hopes for the Thanksgiving day game. It "is clear now that Multnomah has the best football eleven that it has turned out In Its whole history. And. between now and Thanksgiving It will receive some strengthening. The game began yesterday with an al most unprecedented happening this year on the club field Multnomah was held for downs. Albany received the kick-off and afer two ineffectual attempts at the club line, punted, and Multnomah had a short So yards for goal, but three downs only netted four yards and Albany, having the ball once more, punted further down the field. And again Albany's- line seems Im possible to break over. But on he third down, with three yards to gain, Corbett rushed oh a criss-cross, for first down. Kerrigan Scores Touchdown. After that It was easy. Dolph and Ko ran . made yardage, and Ross, on a very cleverly-executed fake pass, took eight more yards. With ten yards to gain. Ker rigan slipped around right end for a touchdown close to the sidelines. The ball was punted out by Stow to Kerrigan in good kicking distance of the goal, but the extra score was not made, to 0. Albany made one stand before the sec ond touchdown was scored. Multnomah Iook the kick, Dowllng returning the ball o the 40-yard line. Then followed half a pozen fast line plays which prophesied a fctilck score, but a fumble in the center It the field gave Albany another lease on ffe. Two attempts were made on the Rlub line, but punting was the only, way Hor Albany to advance the ball. Horan Scores Second. After Multnomah had rushed the ball for -40 yards once more, came the best stand Albany made. Horan and Corbett, who had been plunging through the line as they pleased, both failed to gain, and there was five yards to get or lose the bail on downs once more. The simplest deception in the world, a fake kick, served the purpose, and Horan bucked straight ahead for yardage. After thr.t the touch down was made by hard but effectual pine-bucking, Corbett Bconnjr. Stow kicked tne only goal of the game. Score, 11 to 0. In the second half, before Multnomah made Its third touchdown, it looked as if Albany had Its chance. Stow fumbled on the 35-yard lino and Albany had a far-off and falsely-glittering hope that by some chance there might be a touchdown in store for it The first down netted a yard, the second three, and vardasre would probably have ! been made, but a lumDie spoiled tne chance. Cast Touchdown Hardest. The last touchdown was the hardest for -tiiaiiuuuiiui mace. Aiuany, iar irom weakening, bucked up as-the chances be came more desperate, and flung back the runners for losses, but every time one of the big backs would force himself through and the gaining would continue. The last goal falling, the third touchdown brought the score to 16 to 0, where It remained. The last few minutes of play were devoted to a punting match, in which Multnomah had the best of it in distance gained. During this time Albany made first down once. Lonergan, of Columbia and Herd man, of the Portland Academy, officiated. The line-up follows: Multnomah. Position. - Albany. Blanchard L. E. R Francis Wrkley L,. T. R Griffith Rss I. G. R Morgan Grieve Mack Seeley R. G. L, Butler Stow R. T. L Dolan Dowling (cap.)..R. E. , Underwood Kerrigan Q Rupert Corbett U H. R Saltmarsh Hoj-an R. H. I, Leonard Dolph F Englehard COLUMBIA ELEVEN CRUSHED Portland Academy Defeats College Players 24 to o'. The Columbia football eleven met com plete and overwhelming defeat from its old-time rival, the Portland Academy, yesterday morning on Multnomah Field. The 6core, 21 to 0. gives an adequate idea of how the game went. Columbia never had a look-in. The teams were about evenly matched in weight, the P. A. having the better of it principally through injuries to Columbia men. But even at that, it seemed as If Columbia should have done better. The players looked as if they had it In them to do something, but from the first min ute of play, when Clark, the big academy fullback, smashed over the center through a hole a wagon could have gone through, the outcome was obvious. It could not be mane out whether the academy players were doing very well or not; they did not meet the resistance which would bring out the best In them. The backs seemed rather slow. In fact, seldom taking full advantage of oppor tunities. Columbia has had a hard row to hoe this year with injuries to the best play ers on the team. Glcason broke his leg .three weeks ago, Moore went out in the first few minutes of play yesterday and Dooly was taken off before .the first half was up. The whole team seemed rather out of condition and suffered lamentably from the lack of suitable substitutes. The academy took the kick-off and went through, over and around Columbia's line' for a touchdown in the first .few minutes. Flavel made the first big gain, breaking over center for 40 yards. White followed with an end run of 50 yards and a down or two more was sufficient for a score. A few minutes after the second kick-off the academy was again threatening Co lumbia's goal but was penalized twice in the same set of downs and was forced to punt. The ball was regained, however, by a fumble on the ten-yard line. The academy lost the ball on downs, caused by regained fumbles, and Smith punted from behind Columbia's goal line well out Into the field. The academy worked the ball down to the same place again, and lost on downs once more for the same reason. Smith made another good punt, but Fla vel's 35-yard run at this point brought tell jlown. within easy dlstasce of tbe CARTOONIST MURPHY TAKES A GLANCE AT THE FOOTBALL FANS AND GRIDIRON HEROES -me RIOTER. TO KVfcRX line, and "Clark went over center for the second touchdown. For the rest of the game everything went the academy's way. long runs be coming very common. The only point where Columbia had the advantage was in returning punts. Two more touchdowns were made and toward the end -of the game Columbia was pushed back for a safety, making the score 24 to 0. The time of play was two 20-mlnute halves. The line-up was: Pa A. Position. 'Columbia. Hart 1u E. R Albright Polhemus L. T. R.McInernv. Oulnn Olds L. G. R Quinlan Giesy C Meany Cook R. G. L Grussl Hurlburt r. R. T. L Scott "Whittlesey R. E. L. BIneham Reed Q Smith White L. H. R ManEold Clark R. H. L.Moore. Mclnerny Flavel, Corbett.. ..F. B.... Dooly. Webster FIVE FOR PORTLANDS. Win From Sailors in Association Football. The kicking game, known to the unin itiated as association football, opened for the season yesterday afternoon on the East Side baseball grounds by a match between the Portland Association Football Club-and a team selected from the crews of British ships now in the harbor and who played under the name of Seamen's Institute. The Portlands were easy vic tors by a score of 5 to i. Both teams showed up well, but -were handicapped by lack of practice. At first, the Portlands rained shot after shot at their opponents' goal, fine work being noticed by Wilder, Charles Stewart. Jago, Cormack and Rae. For the sailors, Devlin, Dee, Ashley, Bain and Porteous played well. Bain, of the ship Dumbartonshire, scored the sail ors' goal, and Rylands, Wilder, Kilpeck and Vernal scored for the Portlands. In team work the Portland's showed creditable form and have the making of good players. They are to organize a club this week and elect officers. All In tending players should communicate to morrow with Frank Wilder, telephone Main 12. The crowd rooted for the sailor boys, who played a hard-fought game. The line-up: Portland. Position. Seamen. Carlyle G Devlin Jago R. F. B Dee Cormack L. F. B McFarlane Kennedy R. H. B Bain Rae 1,. H. B Low Stewart C. H. B Ensor Kilpeck R. O. B McDonald Rylands R. I. F Ashley Wilder , C. F Porteous Tate L. O. F Pallant Vernal L. I. F. Bell Portlands 6. Institute 1. .Referee Colin V. Dyracnt. MULTNOMAH CLUB HANDBALL Indoor Sport-Arouses Much Interest Among Old and New Players. Handball has always been an attractive game in the Multnomah Club, and the present tournament Is arousing much in terest. Yearly tournaments have been held for the past ten years and many fine players have been developed, among whom were Walter Holt, Allan Ellsworth, E. E. Merges, Thomas Cleland, Robert Scott, H. W. Kerrigan, Frank E. Watkins, Ar thur Jones, Maurice Dunne, A. B. Mc Alpln. Benjamin Trenkman and many others. When the clubhouse was opened In 1S93 on Tenth and Yamhill streets the first good court was ready for use and In the singles and. doubles Allan Ellsworth and Walter Holt won out. They remained, the champions for two seasons, -when H. W. Kerrigan and Frank E. Watkins came up Rnd won the doubles and singles. Kerri gan remained the champion single player for the next three seasons and at his de parture for Manila, when the Spanish American war broke out. his old partner, Watkins. doubled up with Trenkman and they held the championship undisputed for four years. Watkins was also the cham pion single player during this time and was succeeded In lhat tltlo by Arthur O. Jones, who in turn was succeeded by Morry Dunne, who is the present cham pion. , Watkins and Kerrigan played together again in 1902 and won out, and in 1903 Watklna and Dunne won the double cham pionship and will defend their title again this month In the coming tournament. The old players who have long since quit the same, but who were experts In the days gone by, are Cboklngham, Culli gan, "Casey" Allen. Griffin, White. Reames, Pattullo, Howard, Paul Deady, Canning. Greenland and Charles Mc Donell. A great deal of interest Is now mani fested in the game at the club and a very successful novice tournament Is now run ning. Many new players have developed who will give the older ones a hard run for the medals this year, among whom are Jeff rey, Heusner, De France. Eastman. Starr, Patterson, Ifolladay, Harder. McGulre, Barrett. Honeyman, Zan, WIckersham. Irwin and others. Handball is probably the. most beneficial Indoor gama there is on account of the exercise It gives the entire body. Every muscle must be used while playing. It is essentially a two-handed game, and is an admirable form of sport for those who enjoy mild exercise. CHANGES IN FOOTBALL. Object of Rules Committee Is to Get an Open Game. Each year the "rules committee," of which Walter Camp, the father of Ameri can football, is the chairman, does a little tinkering with the rules in its endeavor to make the game more open. It has been the object of this committee, by means of restrictive legislation, to do away more and more with the "mass plays," which have been so generally used the past few years, in which big, "heavy men are called back from the line, one spot In the oppon ents' defense chosen for the attack, and three or four powerful runners sent ahead to hew out a path for the ball. But no sooner does the rules committee succeed by means of a restrictive rule to do away with one evil of masa formations than the ingenuity of the coaches contrives a new formation which Is equally objectionable to the promotion of open play. Touch downs are what the coaches are after, and the safest and surest way to get them la the course they bend their energies to. Open plays, however, In which everyone can follow the progress of the ball at ever stage of the play, long end-runs which bring the spectators to. their feet with a shout as the runner is brought down, plenty of kicking and tackling in the open, are what the spectators want, and results which the committee is striv ing for. With these results in view, the rules committee, in order to prevent massing back of the line, last year laid down the rule that in the middle of the field, that Is. between the two 25-yard lines, the side having the ball must form with seven men on the first lino of scrimmage. And within those limits the quarter-back, with seven men upon the line,-was allowed to run with the ball upon a direct pass from the center, providing he first darted five yards to either side before advancing the ball past the line of scrimmage. This rule was a marked advance towards open play and was a success and tended to in crease a kicking game. Once inside the opponents' 25-yard line, however, a team was allowed to use the mass formations and could bring as many men back, before the play &n It wished. This year the committee has gone a step further and declared that at all times there must be at least six men on the line of scrimmage. And. further, if one man of the seen linesmen is brought back he, or one of the regular backs, must take a position outside the man occupying the position on the end of the line, and the quarter at all times can advance the ball so long as he runs, as before, five yards to either side before crossing -the line of scrimmage. This Is a marked ad vance in the fight for epen play and will materially change the style of both the offense and the defense when the ball is nearlng the goal. Under the old rule a team on the defensive when being crowded back towards Its own goal could be reas onably secure in massing Its defense close in along the line, knowing the side with the ball would hesitate to try an end-run and trust rather to plunges through the line for small gains, making sure of re taining possession of the ball. Under the new rule the side on the defense must just as carefully guard its wings near its goal for at any time a fleet quarter on a well executed play Issuable to shoot out past the end or tackle and dart over the line. The chief obstruction in the way of the committee's attempt to promote greater open play has been caused by the coaches. Each year they have met the new rules with clever formations that cling to the mass formations. The coaches are after touchdowns and the deadliest attacking power with the smallest chance of losing the ball and distance, and not speo. tacular . play's. This year they will meet the new rule by swinging the backfield from right to left Instead of starting the formation from directly back of center, so that the extra interference may be employed with the least loss of time and distance and thus preserve, to as great-an extent as possi ble, the close Interference so ' successful for its clock-like plunges over tackle of from two to four yards at a time. These plays must from necessity, however, go further out to the right or left than for merly and will be much more open than under the old attack. JSo matter how much the coaches try to keep to the system of close formations the rule Is a step in the right direction, and this year's play will show many pretty formatlonos running far out in the open with the runner carrying the ball in full view of the spectators at all times. The use of the quarterback in advanc ing the ball will be employed more than ever before and a speedy quarter with a quick start and skill in dodging is apt to swing clear of the end for a long run at almost any attempt at this play, and this transferring the point of attack to the outlying wings of the line, instead of concentrating on the center and tackles, will add a spectacular variety of open play to the game which will fan to fever heat the already abundant enthu siasm of "the millions of followers of this greatest of American games. The only other marked change in the football fules relates to the manner of scoring points. This year a goal - from the field whether made by a drop kick, a place kick from a fair catch or a iilck from placement In the scrimmage, counts but four points, where formerly it scored five. The rerolt of this is that a team with a skillful kicker cannot tie. a game with a team which scores five hard-earned points by steady rushes over the line and then fails at goal, unless the kicker can turn the trick twice in the same game, a feat very difficult to execute. A further marked tendency of the changes in the rules is to lesson material ly the liability of Injuries to the players. This result Is welcomed alike by the coaches, the players and the spectators. M. INDOOR BASEBALL AT ARMORY Infantry Companies and Battery A Will Play Schedule. While most of the young and lusty are Just now struggling for supremacy on the football field, there Is a large crowd of young fellows at the Armory who are talking nothing but indoor baseball at this season. Every institution which dabbles In athletics comes at the end to take vio lently to some particular eport. Here the Multnomah Club devotes Its greatest at tention to football, the Y. M. C. A. is en thusiastic over basket-ball to the last de gree, and the boys in the Third Regi ment caro for nothing but indoor base ball. It is hereditary. From the time the tug-ofrwar became obsolete In the old First Regiment, indoor baseball has been In the highest favor with the militia. All the companies of Infantry and Bat tery A take a whack at the big ball, and they have already fixed a schedule for the whole- season, beginning December 3 and lasting on to April 8. And there is no game played today, at least in, this town, which arouses the spectators to. such an extent as this game. It Is fascinating to watch, the players are so shifty, and everything goes that will delude the op posing team into mistakes. Outside of blind man's "buff in an old-fashioned coun try kitchen, there is no game that fur nishes so much fun for everybody as in door baseball. This is realized to the full extent, and the Saturday night games at the Armory bring out jolly crowds. As early as September there were full teams at the Armory in regular practice, working away like mad to learn the diffi cult trick of landing the big, soft ball where it could not be returned quickly, and the still more difficult trick' of holding to it when It came bounding out across the asphalt floor. Most of the nines are ready for business now and straining to get at ono another, but they can't have the Armory Just yet; it is needed for other purposes; but when they do start they will play the following schedule: Saturday, December 3, Company H vs. Company K. Saturday, December 10, Company B vs. Company C. Saturday. December 17, First Battery vs. Company E. Saturday, January 7, Company C vs. Company K. Saturday, January 14, First Battery vs. Company F. Saturday. January 21, Company C vs. Company H. Saturday, February 4, Company B -vs. Company IC. Wednesday, February,?,- Company F vs. Company K. Saturday, February 11, Company B vs. Company B, Saturday, February 18, First Battery vs. Company C. MEETING OF THE ROWING CLUB Officers Will Be Elected and New Organization Perfected. The Portland Rowing Club has found lt- seu m a peculiar predicament. In order to hold property and do its . business straight, it will have to disorganize it self and form ,a new corporation. This it will do tomorrow night In the regu lar annual meeting to be held this time in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. The trouble, is that under the old corporation, stock was issued in the way of an' Initiation fee to every mem- Der, out in the by-laws no provision was made for the return of stock when a member resigned. Naturally stock of tms Kind could not be realized on and was not taken caro of very well, and Is now scattered far and wide and a great deal lost. The last of it issued was back in 1895, so that the majority of the present members have Son. thouarh nominally they should have some. But there are a number of the older mem bers left who represent a sufficient amount of it to dissolve the old cor nnrfttlnn lcn11v anil Vmt-v It. ' j J i The new corporation will be formed under a law which does not necessitate the issuance of stock. The change is to be made as the club has a piece of land just above the Inman-Poulsen sawmill which cannot be transferred to it under the present corporation and Is held by trustees, causing a clumsy way of doing business. The annual election will be the other principal matter taken up. The club has been very fortunate in its officers and the attendance will be large, as every member of the club Is interested to see as good ones take their' places. The present officers are: W. L. Brew ster, president; Ralph Wilbur, vice president; W. F. Morten, secretary; J. M. Ambrose, treasurer, and Richard C Hart, captain. These five officers with J. G. Mackle and George Houghton make up the board of directors. SCESX BtTRTXS THSC 6AXK BXTWKXX THE UXIYXftgrXOEg OF CALIFORNIA ATfT QSaGOK. Illustrated Sportlnff Xewo. AT -BHatXXJXT. CAL., OC TOMES 33. New Game Laws Are Now Agitated Sportsmen Will Urge That Sale Be Prohibited and More Money Appro priated for Game Warden. THERE will be a meeting toward the end of this month of the Fish and Game Association, and at it a num ber of things will come up for discussion. There will be movements toward the stif fening of certain gime laws and ameliora tion of others. A partial list of subjects, gathered from the conversation of promi nent members of the association, include the cutting off of the sale of game of any description, the permission to hunt deer with dogs in certain counties, and above all a determined attempt to provide a bet ter system of game protection. A local sportsman who never sells a bird or ani mal of any "kind himself was seen yester day and discussed the whole situation from the point of View of the true sports man. He said: Why Pheasants Are Scarce. "There has been a good deal said this Fall about the poor upland blrd-shobting. The Chinese pheasants are said to have been unusually scarce. The fact Is that pheasants are about as plentiful this year as formerly, but they all took to the woods long before the shooting season opened. They had been shot at ever since the grain was cut. And this shooting, was not all done by the farmer boys. Tha pot-hunters were out as soon as the birds were big enough, and have been shipping their kill Into cold storage ever since. Consequently, by the time the season opened, the first crack, of a gun In the early mornmg warned every pheasant within half a mile to take to cover. Mean while the hunters knocked around the center of the fields and had poor luck. They should have gone to the brush. "This condition Is universal in the "Val ley. The shooting, generally speaking, was very poor Indeed, all Fall. It is a condition not to be tolerated, , and this un. usually poor season will stir up the most easy-going to try for better game legisla tion. Two things will be necessary. It there Is to be good shooting in this Val ley. The sale of birds must be prohibited, and a better system of game laws de vised. . "As to the sale cf blrdstbe pot-hunters are on the fields as soon as it is coot enough to ship the birds, and when these cold-storage plants throw the game on the market it becomes" so plentiful that Chi nese pheasants have been sold on Front street or 10 cents, apiece. "The sale of birds begins next Saturday, but I and many others have eaten quail on toast and all kinds of game in the. best res taurants six weeks ago. Ducks on Preserves Killed Off. "The sale of upland birds is very likely to be prohibited by the next session of the Legislature, but the sale of ducks and geese, which also should be prohib ited, will not be so easy to bring about. The upland bird pot-Tiunter lies low, and any determined effort will defeat hia purposes, but there are few duck hunters who do not sell a portion of their kill, and usually a large portion. Most of tha preserves maintained support them selves. The birds are fed and coaxed to wait around the lake for Sunday, and then there is a terrible slaughter, and there are few hunters who stop at the limit. The consequence Is that the birds winter on these private lakes and are practically all shot off. If you doubt the possibility of shooting off so many birds, go down the valley where there used to be so many- ducks and geese on the fields in the Winter time and see how many you find. Precious few. All the ducks which come this way are lured to the preserves "and gradually killed off. "If the sale of ducks and geese were prohibited many of the preserves would have to be given up or would get into the hands of the men who would not have Incentive to shoot more than they could use, and in that case the birds would not all be corralled In a limited district, and every one would be able to shoot them. As it la now, only a lew of us can afford to shoot, and the rest of the hunters, unless they Institute an expensive feeding system, get no birds. I have a lake myself, and I hear It said that if It were not for the feeding we do there would be no duck shooting. There would be plenty of shooting for anybody but a game hog. Prohibit Sale of Game Birds. "If the sale of game birds could be pro hibited it would be a great good done, but side by side with this law there must be one to enforce It. We have the poor est system of game protection In this state possible. It is all done wrong- There Is Just about enough money ap propriated so that one man can be hired to patrol 10 miles of country. We should have $20,000 and a system of deputies,. hired to travel' constantly during certain seasons and make wholesale arrests ot those shooting out of season. Other dep- ; uties" would have to watch the market and do detective work on the restau rants and markets. This sum can onjyj be obtained regularly by a license on j guns, and as far as I can see. all sports men are willing to pay $1 for each gun. I It will be worth it In game. "Either of these laws, I believe, will be Ineffectual without the other. It th I sale of the birds is not prohibited, means will be found to get around the! game wardens. If a better system of protection is not provided for, the birds I will be slaughtered the same as ever and I sold openly." New Laws to Be Framed. These are undoubtedly the two most important questions to come up before ! the .Fish and Game Association, and since so many members are Interested In the passage of both of these laws, committees wlli probably be apolnted to frame new laws to be placed before the! Legislature and lobby for passage. . Fairly stringent game laws were passed five years ago and have only been tam-l pered with since to the extent of per-1 mittlng the sale of upland birds durlnarl the last half of November, a loophole through which any number of pot-hunt- era could crawL But this backsliding has been more than made up by the In crease In the number of deer. There axel many more in the state than 10 years ago. j Formerly the animals were killed fori their hides. One deerskin-hunter Southern Oregon used to kill so many thousand deer every Winter merely for their skins that the number seems in credible. This sort of hunting has beer stopped, and deer are plentiful asaln.i There is just one injustice" In the deer law. Dogs cannot be used with which hunt them, anywhere. This will probablj be changed, so that doss can. be used certain counties where the forests are .so heavy that they cannot be hunted any other way. As it Is, in those ccuntiesj dogs are used all the- time. If. it wrr permitted "by law to run the deer witi dogs for one month October, for in stance the law slight be obeyed. greatest breaches in the game law hav been saa.de when the laws seemed un just, or violation, so easy that ever one broke tne Jaw beoa Verybodjr wm aoinc IlkWiM.