THE SUNDAY 0REG0NIA2, PORTLAND, yOVEMBER 20, 1904.
23
News and Gossip in the Field of Sports; ' (tS:
Sporting Comment
of the Week
3rlef Opinions on Happening In
Athletics Gans-Brltt Fight Gives
Pugilism a Black Eye.
To Battle in San
. Franqisco
Young Corbett and Nelaon Mateh
This Month Will Be a Hard-Foufht
Contest
CONSIDERABLE speculation 'is rife as
to the high Jinks that "will come off
at the annual meeting of the Pacific
Coast league. In California the Northern
talk of breaking away is looked upon
with Indifference. In short, the Califor
nia wing of the league- does not care
whether the North drops out or not, for
the Southerners say, and not without
something to, back them up, that there
has been .nothing but trouble and dis
content since Portland and Seattle were
taken into the fold. The Southern moguls
say, "Let us know what you want up
there. If it's a case of going back Into
a Northwest League, we're willing."
With this attitude abroad it goes with
out saying that when the moguls . meet
the Northerners will be given attention,
but if they want too much, there is sure
to follow a rupture. So far as Portland
is concerned, there has been no talk of
quitting the .Coast League, hut in Se
attle, where they howl their heads off,
there .has been lots of secession talk.
There has also been a rumor that Tacoma
was to be dropped for Spokane. This is
idle talk also, for the league cannot burn
up the money of those who are inter
ested in the Tacoma club without first
giving the stockholders a run for their
money. Spokane will be taken in, if a
fourth California city can be added to the
league, but otherwise there Is little
chance of Spokane becoming a Coast
League city.
Just what will be done with Portland
Is not known. This matter will also dome
up at the meeting. It is pretty firmly
established that the team cannot again
-go through another season under the
present management. One df the best
baseball towns in the league Is about to
be ruined by bad management and a
tall-end team. The Callfornians know
this, and they undoubtedly will take an
important part in settling the - question
when Portland's troubles come up at the
annual meeting. The town will not stand
for another tail-end team and no amount
of assurance on the part of the present
management will make the fans 'believe,
la case It is again in control, that it will
give Portland a winning- team. In the
first place, the sale pf the Portland fran
chise to the Elys was never sanctioned
by the league magnates. This Is another
matter that will be thoroughly threshed
out at the meeting. '
THE GANS-BRITT fight has not helped
pugilistic matters in California, the
only city In the country where big fights
can be pulled off without Interference.
Fight followers are still up in the air over
the questionable and unsatisfactory ending
of the fight The truth of the matter is
that the whole affair smacked of too
much Herford and Gans. These worthies
have given the boxing game the worst
black eye of any two men who ever fol
lowed the game. San Francisco and Bal
tlmore, where Herford's money has cor
nered things, are the only two places
whore Gans and Herford can fight, and If
the 'Frisco sports stick to. their declara
tion, Herford will have to confine his
operations to Baltimore hereafter. There
was some talk of matching Britt and
Gans again, but the match was received
with a knockout punch in the first round.
The fighting game in the Bay City has
leen on the ragged edge for some months
and the Britt-Gans fight did not help mat
ters. There is whispering that the next
meeting of the Legislature will deal a
death blow to fighting in the state, and It
is positive that a bill will be Introduced
making prizefighting a felony. Whether
Jimmy Coffroth, Harry Corbett and others
who are behind the game can head off the
bill is a question. They are already ai
work in an attempt to sidetrack such a
bill in case It is introduced.
THE Lewis and. Clark Fair Board will
have no trouble obtaining all the ath
letic events It wishes next year. Com
munications 'are already coming In from
the -colleges and universities- of the North
west and states as far away as Montana
seeking Information as to what will be
done here In the athletic line during the
Summer. Aa yet nothing has been done
at alL and no Information can be fur
nished aside from the general statement
that all sports In the amateur, line will be
taken care of. There Is no hurry about
the matter. And when the matter is
taken up, if the. Exposition authorities
will accept a little advice. It would be well
to place the athletic contests In the hands
of the North Pacific Amateur Athletic
Association, and the Intercollegiate Ama
teur Athletic Association. The Multno
mah Club has obtained for the coming
year the annual meet of the North Pa
cific Amateur Athletic Association, to oc
cur In June. If the colleges can get up
another meet and If the Pacific Coast
Amateur Athletic Association wakes up
from its present half-dead state to see
what Is going on here, a general meeting
of the whole Coast and the Rocky Moun
tain States might be arranged for the
middle of the Summer which would
be the first of Its kind and would no doubt
prove one of the greatest athletic meets
ever held.
THE Portland Rowing Club is taking a
step that means everything for oars
men in this part of the country. It Is at
tempting to secure a profeselonal coach
for next year. For a long while the club
has depended upon the voluntary coach
ing of old club members, but crews
trained altogether by amateurs have not
' proved successful here or anywhere. Un
der the American system of rowing a
coach must devote his whole time to the
tr&lnlncr of hl prnira in dnvolnn r,
smooth stroke. The Canadians, with their
system or a long, easy stroke, rhythmic
ally timed, can learn to row a shell
swiftly and smoothly without any trouble,
but the American mptbrvl T-fm!roe nn.
etant coaching to keep the stroke from de
generating into a spasmodic jerK.
JOE WALCOTT, who was held In Bos
ton on- a charge of manslaughter for
having shot another negro, has been ac
quitted. This does not mean, however.
that Joe will ever fight again, for in the
shooting scrape Joe was shot through his
hand and it is reported that the shot put
an end to his fighting career. While It
may be a harsh thing to say, neverthe
less It Is true, that It is a good tiling for
the fighting game to have the Demon
out of it. He should have been chased
out of the business long ago, for next to
Gans he Is the biggest fakir boxing to
day.
LOCAC fight fans are looking forward
to the day that boxing will be re
sumed In Portland. There Is a bit of a
mill on tap now between Dave Barry ""and
Tommy -Burns, hut whether It will be
pulled off is a question. There is no rea
son why the game should not open here.
Local sports like boxing and if it Is con
ducted by the right people It should be a
Training Academic
Eleven
P. W. Blanchard, Ooach Portland
Academy Team,1 Tells How Youthful
Football Players Are Made.
jr" CADEMIC and school footballl game&
r are taking a more important posi
tion eacn year in the athletic world.
There are two good reasons for this.
First, these same boys are the ones who,
a llttel later, will be playing on our colr
lege teams. The other reason Is that
the schools play good. Interesting games.
They aro usually close and fiercely con
tested by both sides. They are not happy-go-lucky
games either, but are scien
tifically played. The school teams for
the most part are coached and drilled by
experienced men who thoroughly under
stand the game.
In these days football, has been reduced
to a science, we might say a military sci
ence. Each player has to learn his du
ties in both offensive and defensive work
the same as a soldier. Expert general
ship Is required on the football field as
well as on the battle-field. Many a game
has been won or lost because of good
or bad generalship.
Difficulties of the Coach.
The difficulties which a coach encoun
ters, are almost Innumerable. They begin
from the first night he 'calls the football
squad out until the very end of the last
game. Coming very often as he does,
fresh from college, he is discouraged by
the apparent want of material with
which to make a team. In the first place
he may not have even eleven men out.
And those who do turn out seem woeful
ly light and ignorant of the great game.
Then begins a personal canvass for ma-,
terlal. With pleadings and urgent ex
hortation he at last succeeds In getting
quite a good sized ' squad. Luck Indeed,
is the preparatory school coach, that can
get out 22 men and keep them out the
whole season. And it Is almost impera
tive to have two teams In order that the
first team may have a team to practice
against..
As a rule the boys have an Idea which
position ttfey want to try for. and even
less idea do they have of the position
they are fitted for. Thus all the respon
sibility rests on in the coach. Very often
he has to put a player into a position and',
make him play there. So not only has
to teach the boy his position bat as much
of the general game of football as he. has
time. That is the one great trouble with
a. jrrecrf player. He may he a. stronc or
j even stronger than the seasoned flayer,
I hut sAt hsvlnjr the jrarae so well, Is un-
able to take advantage of all his oppor
tunities. Thus the imperative need of
teaching him as much of the general
game as possible.
School Coach Is Alone.
The head- coach of a college eleven
usually has at least one or two
coaches under him to help In coaching
the different positions. But the school
coach is usually alone. He has to know
how o play every position on the team
and what Is much harder, he has to
know how to teaqh others to play those
positions.
The first week or two Is devoted to
teaching the candidates how to handle
the hall, to fall on It, to start quickly and
with the ball, to tackling and to getting
the players Into a physical condition to
stand the harder work to come. Then
the line men are taught to Wdck their
opponents and to break through. The
backs practice punting and catching
punts. The ends practice running down
on the punts.
By this time the coach gives the team
Its signals and simple plays are "run
through. As the season advances these
plays are elaborated, new plays are add
ed, until the team has twenty or thirty,
different plays, all with different sig
nals. Down to Hard Work.
After a week of this work the team is
prepared to line up, against the second
team and buck. Then commences the
steady- drill. The perfection of the team
work and the plays. For an hour and a
half every evening the team Is put
through Its paces, the coach hovering on
the outskirts advising, praising or con
demning as the case my be. Absolute
obedience Is demanded and no talking,
except by the coach.
It Is by such methods aa these that the
school teams are developed and rounded
into shape. At the end or the season the
teams play as good and often much fast
er football than larger teams composed
of older men. P. W. BLANCHARD,
Coach Portland Academy Eleven.
Nightmares.
Xesv Orleans Tlmei-Democrat.
The barber woke .and wlped-'the sweat
Of icrror with his fist; k
He" dreamed be shudders at It yet
The ' world was Posullst!
From slumber the night watchman woke.
Beneath the moon's pale light;
He dreamed be was a lather; moatW
Be kept awake alt night. '
The waiter leaped up from the b'ed'
, "SVlth shriek of horror shrill: 4
He dreamt that every man he served '
Would add u his own hlUIj - -f
The humorist &woketa- fear;
No wonder for It when
He dreamed that but one race wrviv,
Xsti tbr wer& "EnslUwrnaa.
Jungle Horses Cap
ture Purses
Racers That Won at Portland and
Seattle Show Eastern Cracks Fleet
Feet
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13. (Special.)
Those lovers of good . horseflesh
have enjoyed a week and one day of Call-
fornia Winter raclng'and. In spite of the
hungry-handed railroad people, who have
drawn the knot tight around horsemen
who ship from the East, there are over
500 very fast horses stabled atf Emeryville!
On the first day and during the' past week'
horses that raced at Portland. Seattle and
through the hushes of the North nave
been - mowing down the Eastern crack
selling platers and winning the money.
This fact has surprised those horsemen
who went to the expense of shipping their
stables Bast and back again.
The reason that the horse3 which raced
In the North are landing the purses, and
at long and Juicy prices at that. Is because
they did so well In Portland and Seattle.
Horseman, who have returned to Emery
ville from the North declare that their
stables thrived In that country and that
racing there was like giving the horses
a rest. This means that horsemen will
get wise and Instead of shipping East
next year, they will stay on the Coast
and race In the North. It also means a
better class of horses- for the Portland
and Seattle circuit. Ownera and trainers
who raced at Portland are stin talking
about the splendid meeting which was
held, there last Summer and about the
clever way In which they were treated by
the officials of the Multnomah Fair Asso
ciation. They all declare that they will
again race at Portland and are anxious
that next season Portland get datea ahead
of Seattle. They .are iooklng forward to
t least a 60-day meeting at Portland,
with hopes-that it -will" be stretched to 100
days..
The Examiner, In giving account of the
opening' day's racing, had this to- say
About the horses "that raced at Portland
and Seattle:
The despised Jangle horses sawed some Ice.
Horses that raced in the North and In Califor
nia during the Summer won four races, 'during
the afternoon, and were In the money no leas
-than seven tiroes. A. -study of the dope of the
Portland and Seattle races will now be In order.
Xvery year It is the same old story the homes
that have raced la the North set more than
thtlr sfcare .eC fce aieaey.
The Pacific Coast Jockey Club has dc
etted that Bate shall be allowed to race
at Los Angelas, and President Thoraae H.
Williams notified the Ascot Park people
to that effect yesterday. As James Blute
nor the horse have either one had any
thing to do with the outlaw meetings, It
was not thought proper to bar Sals .from
the turf because the horse ran In the
colors of DeArman.
A sale that horsemen are looking for
ward to with a great deal of Interest is
the omtng- sale of the Burns & Water
house yearlings. There are 22 in all and
they are the finest lot of yearlings ever
bred by that stable. These youngsters
include some very" good-looking colts by
Eddie Jones and Altomax and will un
doubtedly bring fancy prices;
Bob McGlbbon, brother of Sam McGib
bon, who had charge of the Rockies at
Portland, sold his string of horses yester
day. Included in the sale- were Tepee,
Phaon, F. E. Shaw and others, and they
ought to win money for the various- horse
men who bought them.
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Best Jockey in the
United States
Two Years Aao Euaena Htldebrand
Was Begging for Mounts at Seattle
and Oakland.
J5 TJGENB HTLDEBRAND. who less
3L than two years ago was begging for
exercise mounts at Seattle and Oakland,
finished his Invasion of the East by lead
lng all the Jockeys for the season of 1S04-
Not only does he lead the Eastern dlvi
sion, bur because he has ridden the most
winners of any of the riders he is the
leading Jockey of the country. Hilde-
brand began his upward movement at
Seattle. He kept up his splendid horse
manshiD at Oakland and at Los Angeles,
yet there were a number of horsemen who
said: "Walt until he hits the East, and
then watch what happens!" The boy went
East and somehow the mounts he re
ceived ran for him better than they ever
did far any other rider, and it was not
long before his services became in de
mand. When he went East he was under
contract to Joe Yeager. bookmaker and
horseman. Shortly after bis arrival, it
must have been whispered to Hlldebrand
and Yeager that better chances would be
forthcoming If the comblnaton was sev
ered, and It was. Hlldebrand rode Just as
consistently, and by hard work he has
well earned his place at the head of the
list. Like many other crack Eastern
riders, Hlldebrand wilV ride at Oakland
and Ascot Park attain this Winter.
Following Hlldebrand have been Arthur
Redfern, GOIell, .Martin, Burns and Shaw.
There have been a number of meteoric
stars on the turf this year, but the best
of the lot is little Jockey Davis, who will
ride for Walter Jennings this Winter in
California. The boy simply leaped into
prominence and by his good, consistent
riding he is well up in the list of good
riders.
"Talk about Doc Rowell being hot be.
cauce his horse won without a bet on
him, I'm so hot you could cook a tamale
on the top of my head," remarked Al Co
ney after "Venator had beaten Judge in
the handicap.
"Last Spring Venator was a maiden
and I played him to beat such horses as
Honlton," added Coney, "and here he has
beat me out of- the biggest bet of the
season, for it looked to me like Judfi
was In."
"Ob." sneered the self-lraportaHt lawyer who
mi ezoti e-atmltriag, "you think, yoa knew
all. o't your' "Xot rlte." replfeat the wit
mm. for lactases, x don't knew aow yoc
waeape t scur as occasional alkat." CW-
xm4o Xewa,
By. Will G. Xac Kae.
YouriG CORBETT and Battling: Nel
son will be the next pair of boxers
that will face each other in San
Francisco, November 30. This fight ought
to be the best battle and the best batting
proposition held in the Bay City since the
McGovern-Corbett fight, for both of the
little fellows are noted for their slugging
abilities. So far not a breath of suspicion has
been whispered against either of the little
fellows, and the way both of them settled
down to hard training after the Britt
Gans fight points plainly that the fight Is
not only on the square but for blood as
well. In the articles of agreement under
which they are to box Is a clause that
neither man while tralning 3hall leave his
respective quarters. This Is something
that has set the fight fans to gossiping
and offers a new phase to the flsrhttne
game.
Young Corbett Confident;
Naturally Young Corbett thinks he will
beat Nelson. To Jack Grant and the
writer, who visited Corbett at his train
ing quarters the day after the Gans-Britt
fight. Young Corbett stated that he never
rcit more confident of winning? & fight In
his career than he does- of beating Nel
son. He admits that Nelson Is a touzh
customer, but he believes that the Chl
cagoan'3 style, of fight and Nelson him
self were made for him. The little Den
ver fighter Is a much-changed boy since
iteieree uraney gave Brltt a decision over
him. His defeat naturally rankles xet
at the same time he. does not claim -the
title that Graney's decision took away
from him. Instead he talks like a flghter-
tnat nas all of his work to do over again
and has full confidence that he will be able
to do so when he beats Nelson and again
meets Britt. Corbett was a close observer
of the Britt-Gans fight, and like every
body else who saw the fight, refused to
express an opinion the- next day. He did
say, however, that If Brltt had fought him
the way he did Gans, that he, Corbett,
would have beaten the Californlan inside,
of 15 rounds.
Eager to Fight Brltt Again.
I want to fight Britt again." he said;
"and when I do I shall simply repeat his
tory. Throughout all of mr ring career
you will notice If ever I was defeated by
a man, the next time I hooked up with
mm. i neat him. . ril do the same thlnr
with Britt He was very fast the nisht
he fought Gans, but if he will only; bore
Into me the way he did Into Gan3, he will
be my picking. I do not say this because
I think Brltt an easy mark. He is a
clever fighter, but he has a bad offset
a flighty head. After getting his decision
over me, and when we talked over another
match, Jimmy was the great big dictator.
Now, where 13 he? When he lost to Gans
on the foul, Britt lost three titles arid the
featherweight championship which he won
from me, the white lightweight champion
ship and the chances of winning the light
weight championship, which he had la
his glove, for lie certainly had the negro
beaten to a frazzle until ne committed
the foul. In this respect he Is like me.
without a title and without the right to
dictate."
Britt in No Position to Dictate.
And looking at the matter on this angle
Corbett Is right If the Californlan ever
meets the Denverite again he will not be
in a position to dictate. - Corbett states
positively that he will make him do 13
If they ever meet Those who know the
ex-champion know that he means what
he says. If he beats Nelson, the only
boy that stands between him and Brltt,
he will be In a position to dictate to Jim
my, almost as much so as if he were the
champion, for Nelson has .beaten all of
the boys in his class up to Corbett The
fact Jthat "Corbett can once more dictate,
terms may not please Brltt much but if.
he fights the Denver lad. he will have to
accept what is offered, or dog it Inas- .
much as the fight fans In the Bay- City
will have nothing of a return match be-,
tween Gans- and Britt, it 13 more than
likely that Jimmy win consent to yield to
Corbett in order to get a fight
Jeffries and Johnson.
Since Britt met Gans. after so stoutly
refusing to do so for so long, the talk lias
revived of a battle between QhampionS,
Jeffries and the biff black, Jack Johnson'
It may be that the newspapers will hound ;
Jeffries until he takes on the colored man
but if Jeff does, he I little short(ol crazy
If there is not a big white man for thej;
champion to hook up with, Jeff had betteri
keep his title until he gets ready to retirej
Sullivan, the greatest of all fighters up
until Jeffries' time, managed to wind: up
his ring career without fighting a. dingy,"
and there Is no reason why the champion
should not do the same. The mere fact.
that Jeff does not meet Johnson, who Is a
big, strong and clever fighter, is no sign,
enough fighters of both colors in the game
to keep the color apart in the ring, and it
would be the best thing for the game If.
managers refused to allow mixed fights.
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