THE SUXPAY OREGOI&EAN, -POBTLAKDt DECEMBER 18, 1904.
MULTNOMAH GIANTS A"RE DEFEATED
Seattle Athletic Club's Light Team Plays Rings Around
Portland Veterans and Wins 5-0
Foley Saves the Day
for Second Team
No Changes in Coast
League
CARTOONIST HARRY MURPHY REVIEWS EVENTS OF THE VEEK IN SPORTS.
After He Goen In to Play, Mult
noranb Juniors Score Two
Touchdown Against Y. 31. C. A.
I ill 1 1 I l-M '
Laclc of Another Good .California
Team Shuts Out Spokane From
Circuit.
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rHILB the first team was battling
In Seattle yesterday the second
Multnomah football eleyen was beating
up the Y. M. C. A. In the first half It
received an equal amount of beating and
the score was blank, but between the
halves Dan Foley showed up, and after
that Multnomah scored twice- Foley
kicked both goals. Score 12 to 0.
The second team played about as poor
football as It could all during the first
half and the Y. 1L C. A. surprised" even
Its supporters by the game it put up,
but after Foley went in thore was" such
a difference that Multnomah scored in
the next four minutes. Foley carried the
tall himself most of the time and maap
the touchdown. Every one thought he
had gone with the first team to Seattle,
hut he showed up unexpectedly and "sent
te team to victory. It is a remarkable
frt that the second team can play only
when Foley is there to give the signals.
And he is not the captain.
Y. M. -C. A. took the kick and gained
Rtradily for ten yards, when Thorp, left
ta.lt. broke through right tackle and ran
20 yards through a broken field. This
rrought the ball close to the center of
the field and beyond that the Y. M. C. A.
was not able to force it.
No Score In First Half.
Multnomah took a try at ground gain
ing, but except in the case of Sersanous'
end run of 25 yards, could only lose
ground. Multnomah's line was' weak. All
the Y, M. C. A. backs broke through, as
they pleasefd, and Newland, their little
center was the star performer of the
whole show. The three centor men to
gether could not block him. He hurdled
the line and got into the backfleld every
time. In three downs at one stretch he
forced Multnomah runners back with an
aggregate loss of 20 yards. Clark, who
was playing fullback, then tried to make
it up with a fake kick, but was downed
after gaining eight yards.
Clark punted down close to the Y. M.
C A. goal line, and Meyer's ten-yard
gain on a double pass was lost on a
fumble in the next play. Multnomah
could not gain fast enough to beat out
the stop-watch indicating the end of the
half.
Foley Saves the Day.
Foley went in at the beginning of the
second half, and Multnomah's poor play
ing ended. Even the line, which haLieji
Ineffcctlvo on offensive, bucked up and
held. Foley did not give himself the ball
every time, but when someone else had
It he was behind pushing. He scored the
touchdown and kicked the goaL
Foley did everything. He even made
the fumble which gave the Y. M. C. A.
the ball - down on Multnomah's 20-yard
line. But the Multnomah, line was better
on the defensive, and a kick was forced.
Gates tried a drop, but the ball flew
short, though directly at the goal.
Foley caught the ball on the ten-yard
line and ran it back ten yards. Then
Multnomah backs seemed to get together
aid pushed back the Y. M. C. A., Holman
finally scoring the touchdown. The offi
cials of the game were "W. O. Rudy and
Long of Columbia. The line-up follows:
Multnomah. Position. Y. 2dC. A.
Montague .......L. E. R... Carlson
Wiley. Clark L. T.-R Vinson
Sterling L. G. R Thing
Callahan, "Wiley.. ..C Newland
Shell ..R. G. L Plnkham
Allen, Murray... R. T L Jamieson
Sersanous. .R. E. L Llghty
Harder Q Gates
Holman I H. R Meyers
Smith R. H L Thorp
Clark. Foley. F. Hyatt
CAMP PROPOSES NEW RULES.
Team With Ball Would Be Compelled
to Gain Ten Yards.
"Walter Camp's proposed changes, to the
football rules, whereby the team with
the ball would be compelled to gain ten
yards In three trials Instead of five yards,
as the rule now reads, produced varied
opinions among local football exports.
On the whole tho scheme is believed here
to be a good one and would have the
desired effects of making the game more
open.
One of the local football experts said
in speaking of the rule: "I think, Mr.
Camp has given tho" subject a great
amount of thought and his view would
carry more weight than mine, but at
first I don't see how the change would
do much good. I think with the fclen
tiflc end playing of today there would
be as much difficulty in running around
the ends as formerly, and contesting
teams would simply have a kicking duel
in mldfield nearly all the time- The
team with the best kicker would have a
great advantage with an eleven of more
varied attack but minus a punter.
"There is some question to my mind If
the open play wouldn't be even more
dangerous. Smashing into a line doesn't
hurt as many players as being tackled
by half a team and burled under a mass
of players after an attempted end run
"However, the change is worth trying
for a year, and perhaps It will work out
to great advantage. It would teach cer
tain "Western teams as well as Eastern
to perfect their Interference. Michigan
employs the best Interference in the
"West, and that team would be hand!
capped by tho new rule less than the
others, as they have such fast-moving
backs and quick and effectlvo interfer
ence for end runs. ;
"It would be a great thing .in evening
up games between light and heavy teams.
As it is today a lighter team hasn't
much chance against a team of heavy
men ir tne latter nave developed a
strong defense.
"With ten yards to gain instead of five.
the lieavy weights would be compelled to
change their crushing, grinding attacks
from mass plays directed against the
line to end runs. Tho change will give
a chance for more men to engage In the
game. The light fellow, who likes the
game, but is almost ineligible on account
of his lack of beef, woud be put more
on a par with the bulky player."
FOOTBALL GATE IS A NOVELTY
Improved Device for Measuring Gains
Proves Useful.
t
If the football season of 1S04 has not de
veloped much novelty In plays,-it has at
least brought out an ingenious device to
take the place of tho two stakes for mark
ing the down and tho distance to be gained
on each play. Its technical name is the
"football gate." It is tho Invention of a
Pennsyh'anla player. Dr. Nathan P.
Stauffcr.
The gate is made of two upright Iron
posts placed five yards apart, joined by
wooden bars. A white ball representing
the football Is attached to a wire con
necting the posts. As the team advances
the ball the object Is advanced by the
linesman and Indicates the progress of the
ball.
In this way the spectators and players
alike can toll at a glance the gain made
on each play. As a final test; of its ultlity
It makes it impossible, too, for a partisan
linesman to take advantage of one of the
teams by manipulating the stakes under
the old method. The gate was first used
in the Yale-Princeton, the Yale-Harvard,
the Penn-Cornell gan5s and the Army
Navy contest. '
SportingCommentof
the Week
Brief Opinion on Hnppenlncs In
AthletlcM Oregon Chose Good
Captain In Lntourctte.
JACK LATOURETTE was a good choice
for the captaincy of the University of
Oregon football team next year. He. has
been playing as regular quarter on the
eleven for two years and has the ability
to be captain as well. "When a quarter
will make a good captain it is just as
well to elect him such. He generally has J
the running of the team anyway and di
rects it on the field. He is in a position
to see the playing of every one on tho
team and knows each man's ability. Tho
coach, In reality, chooses-the .line-up and
-the field captain Is more "responsible for
victory or defeat than the nominal cap
tain. If thp two can be combined, the
team work is the more harmonious.
THERE are so many points to the pres
ent game laws which need revision
that it is difficult to pick qne much more
important than the rest, but there is at
least one crying need. Something- must be
done to stop the slaughter of Chinese
pheasants and give them a chance to in
crease In numbers. For years there have
been plenty of these birds, ever since the
expiration of the period of first protec
tion provided when Judge Denny Intro
duced them to tho Oregon fields, but of
late they are disappearing much more
rapidly than they can propogate. Two
courses are open: Prohibit tho sale of
birds at all times or prohibit the killing of
them for a short period of years. ThQ
first would be effective, but so far the Fish
and Game Association has not been able
to induce tho Legislature to enact such a
law. That being the case the sportsmen
will have to forego shooting these birds
for a seaspn or two until they rccujierata
from their losses.
yr NUMBER of American ugnt fans on
r returning from London after tho
Frankie Nell-Bowker fight, accused the
president of tho National Sporting Club
of London, a Mr. Bettlson. of unsports
manlike conduct. It seems that Jim Neh.
father d Frankie, had Invited the Ameri
cans to see the fight, saying that they
were to be the guests of the club. Five
of them saw the battle, but imagine their
surprise whon Jim Neil came to them
before the fight and stated that Mr. Bet
tlson had, forced him to pay $75 for the
five seats. These men refused to allow
Noll to pay for their seats and refunded
the money to IselL On arriving In this
country one of the men who saw the
fight, as tho supposed guest of the Nation
al Sporting Club, told tho story and Mr.
Bettlson was harshly criticised by New
York papers. The story finally got to
Mr. Bettlson's ear and it now develops
that he knew nothing about the invitation
which Nell had extended to the Ameri
cans, neither has he scten any part of the
$75. This matter places Jim Nell in an
ugly position ana mere snouia oe an ox
planation coming from. him.
ANEW YORKER has proposed a new
scale o'f weight for (lighters that, if
it Is adopted, will settle forever the pres
ent muddlo on the question of weights.
Gans, Corbett, Brltt and a number of
other of the toplinor boxers, havo been
dictating the scale of wolghts until they
have messed up the whole thing. Tho
weights proposed by Mr. Crowley aro as
follows:
Pounds.
Bantam-weight, tyr to , no
Featherweight, up to . 120
Lightweight, up to 130
Welterweight, up to , 140
Medium-weight, up to...- .'150
Middleweight, up to ..-....lG0
Light heavyweight, up to 170
Heavyweight, over 170
T"HE second team men of the Mult-
1 nomah football squad had their first
Innings yesterday. They havo been play
ing hard for two years and have had" the
one growing ambition to make the first
team. Last week when It was found
necessary to get backfleld men from some
where, they wore on hand well trained
and mad to play. Some of thorn havo
suffered continual disappointment this
season, for whenever an opportunity
opened for them to play, some old and
experienced 'player turned up to fill the
vacancy. But this time none such ap
peared and the second team mon had to
bo used to make up the team. They are
the men who will be playing regularly
on the first team within a year or two.
and their development will be worth
watching.
HOW "RUBE" LOtST A .WATCH
Eccentric One Left Kenosha Just as
Presentation Was to Be. Made.
"When the life of George Edward "Wad
dell Is put on the shelves of all the Car
negie libraries scattered throughout the
land one chapter at least will be devoted
to' the adventures of Rube In "Wisconsin,
says Ren Mulford in Sporting Life.
Time was when Kenosha laid claim to
"Waddell as one of the town celebrities.
He not only shot slants across for the
Kenosha ball team during the afternoons
of play, but fixed up high balls o' nights
whlleacting in the capacity of "a star
barkeep at the dew foundry of Tommy
"White, the ex-fighter, who put on the
gloves with the boxing kangaroo that
Noah had ia the ark, and has been at it
ever since.
Kenosha liked the Rube, and to all In
tents and purposes Rube was madly In
Jove with Kenosha. Just as aUoken of
friendship and good-will the redhots of
this hustling little city wont into their
trousers and dug" up enough coin of the
realm to buy a gold -watch for their twirl
ing Idol.
"While J. Keck Wheeler, an old Cin-
cinnatian, was rehearsing tho address of
presentation Rube slipped out of town
without Eaying either au revoir, farewell.
scat or rouse mlt him! It was a sudden
move that cost him- a full-jeweled stem-
winder.
Junior Football Champions.
One of the irregulars," the South Port
lands, defeated the Columbians junior foot
ball team yesterday by a score of 15 to 6
This was a game of little chaps, among
whom there has been considerable rivalry
for football honors, in spite of their size.
Columbia has been going along winning
right and left for weeks past, doing up all
the school s little fellows, but when It
bumped Jnto the South Portlands, it had
to bow its head In defeat. South Portland
holds the junior, football championship of
the city.
Pygmies Win the
Football Battle
Multnomah's Heavy Line" Ik
Pierced by Seattle Player at
Will Fluke Prevents Second
Score.
SEATTLE, Dec. 17. (Special.) A score
of 5 to 0 in favor of Seattle Ath
letlo Club is the sorry talo which the
Multnomah boys will take back to Port
land, and this does not In any way toll
tho game. In the football gamo today be
tween the Seattles and Multnomahs, the
latter were completely outclassed. "When
the teams lined up for the game tho
Multnomahs were the giants and the Se
attles the pygmies, but a few minutes af
ter the whistle blew it developed that the
conditions were reversed and the klddlsh
Seattle players became the . conquerors.
with Multnomah unable to withstand
them.
-For Multnomah, the least said is rab
Jably tho best.hoir line was absolutely In
effective, oltfief in defense or offense, and
'their backfleld was a3 bad. The same
"thing may be said of the generalship and
tho handling- of the team, and the one
great missing feature was there was no
Murphy present. Had that veteran been
present the score might have been dif
ferent. The light team of tho Seattles simply
played rings around tho veterans of tho
Multnomah club, the hitherto unvan
qulshed. Tho Webfooters wcro practically
on the defensive during the entire game,
and it was only a fluke that saved them
from being hit with a second touchdown.
The only thing that can be said of the
game today is the brilliant work of the
light Seattle Athletic team. Dr. Roller.
Seattle's left guard, was the star, and
tore through Multnomah's line for any
where from 5 to 25 yards at a time. New
meyer. at full, and Huntoon and Tlllcy,
at halves, also did great work.
Game Laws of Two
States in a Tangle
WnshlnKtoa and Oregon Are
Both' In 3feert of n Solomoa to'
Revise Legislation.
CLOSED FOOTBALL SEASON WITH ONLY ONE DEFEAT
SALEM HIGH SCHOOL POOTBALL TEAM.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 15 (Special.) The Salem High School football team closed the season with only one defeat and four
victories. "scorlns 56 points to their opponents' 10. Next season, the High. School j expects to put out a team' that' will take
an active part -In the contests forvthe High School championship of the' state. The average weight of the team 'Is 153
pounds. The players aro as follows: '
Beading from left to right, lop rows, H. Mourer, right' tackle; Nlles; center: Eyre. loft guard: Cross, fullback.
f Center row. Stater, right guard; Cary. substitute; ' Hinges, captain, left half ; -Miller, left-tackle; Chet. Moores, quar
.terbaok. , - ''.'"--.
Lower row, Ralph Moores, right end; "Williams, substitute; Rhodes, left end. , . t .
REGON can take some lessons from
Washington on game laws. The leg
islators have gone further with regula
tions of this kind up there and have done
some good, things and some bad. The bad
ones they have recognized themselves, and
are trying to undo them. But it seems at
least that sportsmen there have a little
eomethlng to say about what shall be
open season and what not, and they use
their power with discretion.
Thore is just one block in the way of
their progress. They have not yet di
vorced the" commercial fishing interests
and the game commission. Thoy are go
ing to try to effect a separation as quickly
as possible, probably at the coming ses
jslon of the Legislature.
This done, there Is nothing to prevent
them having the best of game protection.
Their system of game wardens Is not tho
best yet. and will not be until the Wash
ington State Game Protective Association,
a very strong organization, composed of
disinterested sportsmen, have their way.
"They bave imposed upon themselves a
hunting tax of 51 to the person, and they
have collected more money than they can
get away with profitably under their pres
ent system of hiring deputy wardens. $ut
that will also, bo remedied soon.
They, have made one mistake, one that
might possibly be made here licensing by
counties. Washington sportsmen say that
is tho worst nuisance possible, and brings
'very- little mors money into the treasury.
iAiiq it uoes not result in tne most protec
tlorr where it is most needed. That pro
vision stands a good chance of being re
pealed.
The plan there, and here, too, for that
matter. If a licensing system can be in
troduced. Is to divide the state into four
or five districts with a chief game warden
in each district, assisted by deputies, who
can do detective duty. The greatest dif
ficulty in game protection is not In learn
Ing that tho game laws are being broken,
but In securing convictions. Resident
deputies are absolutely useless for this
purpose. Soma outride man must be sent
Into tho country where the law Is being
broken. With $10.0CO or 515,000 a year, an
amount which could be raised readily
with a license law, a Suitable corps of
deputies could be maintained and the law
would be obeyed. At present. In this
state, there Is so Jlttle money approprl
ated for the game wardens that they
cannot pay traveling expenses and can do
little good.
In Washington the hunter is licensed
and not the gun, nor are fishing rods 11
censed. The sportsman have learned a
lesson from Idaho, which burned Its nose
on this proposition. Thore they passed
such a law, and found that women, not
having a lgal status In such case In
Idaho, could not bo llcenscd.and, more
over, learned that women could fish and
hunt when and where they pleased, in or
out of season.
Tho hunter, Instead, of the gun. is the
Washington license law, adopted from
Bastern codes. Here all tho talk has been
toward licensing the gun, but. It Is said
this leads too easily Into the law court
and that Is a place a game law wants to
keep out of. Once in the courts on a point
of law, convictions are hard to make
stick.
Conditions are different in Washington
from Oregon. There the whole country
has been settled much later, and there
arb no flsed notions for or against any
sort of game laws. The most expedient
Is sought for. In this state, on the other
hand, every one has some different no
tlon as to what aught to bo the law, and
each section of the country has a fixed
Idea or two hard to dislodge. Portland
and the Willamette Valley are both that
way, while the sportsmen of Eastern Ore
gon are more catholic In their Ideas.
Tho antagonism does not, however, He
there. It la between the sportsman and
the pothunter, whether they live In the
city or the country. The pothunter wants
open season for a certain length of time.
He wants to kill and sell, so he kills all
no can. Tne sportsman Kins liKe a sports
man and quits when he has had a day's
shooting. But many a aothunter takes
the guise of a sportsman.
This is particularly true of duck shoot
ing. Most of the birds sold In the Port
land market come from the big preserves
down the -river. These are all supposed
to be maintained by sportsmen. But some
of the men owning them are sportsmen
with a broad streak of pothunter in them.
It costs a great deal of money to feed
and they try to recuperate by making a
big kill and sellfng the bjrds. These are
the fellows who are making the howl
against lowering the duck limit for one
day from 50 to 25 -birds.
Many of these same men, or those of
similar type, annually go down the "Valley
as soon as the season opens and begin
shooting, and they do not stop at the
limit. They shoot all they can and they
put the birds In cold storage. Some live
In the Valley, and many come from Port
land. They shoot through all the early
season, the portion supposed to be re
served for sportsmen, and havo succeeded
by this little game In ruining the" Chinese
pheasant shooting In the. Willamette Val
ley. Either one or the. other of these provi
sions and a good license law, and the
game, laws in this state will be on the
fair road to perfection. Minor changes in
the deorhuntlng clause, permitting the
running of deer with dog3 In the coast
counties, and a bounty., on wildcats and
mountain Hons, are now -the only other
needs.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE moguls
have met in their big annual pow
wow, and according- to telegraphic reports
nothing ;blg was doing. Spokane, who
has been knocking at the Coast League
doors for two' years, was invited to en
ter, but not allowed to stay long. This
means that all the talk about' Tacoma be
ing dropped was the- silliest sort of rot.
as -was predicted it was, when it was first
printed. Just why sporting writers will
grab at this sort of stuff, print It only to
be forced to recall It at the end. Is a
mystery. It does no good, and only makes
monkeys of those who write-It.
It Is a compliment to Portland to have
Judge W. W. McCreedie named as vice-
president of .the .Pacific Coast League.
This gives the Coasters two very able
legal lights at Its head, and two men who
will be sure to steer the affairs of the
league through all troubles without dif
ficulty. President Bert has" been tried.
and has proved bis worth, and it is safe
to say that no league, be it maior or
-minor, has a more competent president
man .ugene iseru It was President
Bert who called very bluff that Jim
Morley made, .and the rood fans of the
Coast League know that he will call every
Diutr tnat the Los Angeles manager will
make during 18b. President Bert is a
broad, liberal-minded baseball macnate.
one whose love for the game Is first, and
a man that can rule with an. iron, hand
yet with it all he Is just. Judge Mc-
Creedie Is untried, but he is a man in
love with clean sports of all kinds, and
unless all signs fail, he Is the right man
in the right place.
While it la to be recretted that Sno
kane was not taken into the Coast League
ramiiy. it cannot be helped. If there had
been another city In California that "could
have been taken Into the league, Spokane
wouiu have experienced no trouble.
President Williams, of the Spokane Club,
stands high In the estimation of the
Coast Lejrrue masmates. and thev would
have been, only too glad to have welcomed
him Into the fold. With Spokane in the
North, the northern wing of the league
would have been Ideal and a money
maker. This would have made possible
the one trip South for the Northern
teams, and one trip North for the South
erners. The two towns In California are
too small, however, and after a careful
canvass It was found that not even- two
California cities could be added to tho
league that would have helped matters.
Again the double season Is to be tried,
and right here It might as well go on rec
ord that it will be a dismal failure, for
no matter who makes tho schedule, and
no matter how carefully the dates are ar
ranged, the railroads will again make the
money. Then, too, there will be the same
row at the end" as there was over the re
cent games between Los Angeles and Ta
coma. Morley, with his usual kick, want
ed everything, and It took, tho action of
the league to shut him up. In the North
Morley has stood for nothing- when it
came-fo the loyal gentlemanly sportsman,
and the cry "Nothing to do with Morley"
went up long" ago. It was not until his
recent howl about the tie game between
the Loo-Loos and the Tigers that the San
Francisco baseball critics awakened to
the fact that he was a short-skate. H. L.
Baggerley, of the Bullotln, who at all
times stood for Morley, has turned from
him at last, and tolls the. following fruth
about the Los Angeles magnate. Hear
what he says:
For stirring up trouble Jim Morley Is
tho limit. He now comes forth with an
other protest on tho tie gamo played be
tween the Tigers and the Angels at Los
Angeles last Sunday. He claims that Jim
McDonald erred in calling Danny Shay's
hit in tho eighth Inning, which started all
the trouble, safe. Both Flood and Morley
protested the game on the ground' that taa
ball was an infield fly and that Shay should
have been called out, but McDonald, who has
been umpiring long enough to know his
business, declared that the ball was not hit
high enough in tho air to be called an In
field fly. The trouble occurred in thfr fol
lowing manner:
At the opening of tho eighth inning Los
Angeles had three runs and Tacoma none.
The trouble began when Jud Smith tried to
cover 'too much ground, struck Toman as
he was fielding Hogan'a hit and made the
little shortstop drop the ball. Overall flew
out. but Doyle made a hit out of the first
ball sent over. Shay was next on deck.
Everybody was. looking .for a bunt. Toman
was close In, and Flood was -well over toward
first base. Shay hit up a ball that went
over Newton's head and dropped almost
straight, lighting about four feet inside of
second base and a few feet toward 'first.
Newton, Toman and Flood went after It. but
nobody could come within yards of It. Shee
han sent a hit out through second, scoring
Hogan, and a minute later Nordyke banged
one to the center field fence, scoring both
Doyle and Shay. McLaughlin, struck out,
and on the same play Spies caught Sheehan
trying to come home, making a double play.
The fans are getting tired of hearing Mor
ley continually kicking and howling when ha
loses. A good sport always acknowledges
when he is defeated, and It is about time
that the Loa Angeles manager woke up to
the fact that'he Is simply making a Jaugh
lng stock of himself by his silly protests.
lit probably thinks that because he man
aged to get the verdict In the matter of
the protested game at Portland, 'which
placed him on even terms -with Tacoma, he
can work the same racket In this case Um
pire McDonald's decision Is perfectly rlgh.t
and will no doubt bo upheld at the meet
ing tomorrow. Fisher and Morley signed
an agreement to play a series of ten games
for tho championship, and as Tacoma won
five and tied one, thus giving them the
necessary numbfir to win the series, the
Southern magnate should certainly be man
ly mough to come out and publicly state
that the Northern team won strictly on Us
merits. The baseball fans are not the sort
of people to support a man who Is always
complaining about the treatment he receives
and that his team always loses by rank de
cisions, etc. So the sooner Morley wakes
up to this fact the better he will be liked
in the sporting world.
The day after Tacoma left for the North
Morley ordered McDonald to report on the
grounds and lined his men up for action, and
after the pitcher had thrown over the
requisite number of balls he had the um
pire declare the game forfeited to Los Ange
les. He continued these tactics all week,
and claims the championship by forfeiture.
A rather empty honor, for at the annual
meeting Fisher was awarded the pennant.
Another thing that serves to- show the
picayune methods of Morley is that he not
only refused to pay the Tacoma players
what money was coming to them, but he
also endeavored to retain the salary due
McDonald for umpiring the games. Overall
made him disgorge the "dough" due the
Tigers, but whether McDonald win make hlra
cough up the coin for him is a matter that
the poor indicator handler will have to solve
for himself.
. When the writer interviewed Mike Fisher
on the subject the King said that It was now
his turn to be the protesting kid. "You see,"
said Mike, "Morley is endeavoring to claim
the games by reason of my team's nonap
pearance, and I'm going to put In a. counter
claim that I wasn't present and therefore
am not guilty, as I canxprove an alibi. An
other thing I notice Is that the Los Angeles
papers are roasting me for running away.
Tou know that old saying, 'He who runs
away lives to fight another day. Well, that
was what was buzzing la my bones. I fig
ured that If I ran away I would live to fight
all next season, while Jim. If he keeps on
worrying about the games he didn't and can't
win, he'll bo an easy mark for me next
season. Tell Morley he'll have to smoke
up to get ahead of me.".