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17 SPORTS OF AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL Yachts Sail for . the Astoria RegattaGiants in a Slump With Some Hopes of Mending i THE SUNDAY OREGON IAX, PORTED AjXD , AUGUST 27, 1905, GIANTS IN s LUMP Quickly Slide From Roof to the Cellar. WEAK POINTS IN THE TEAM Manager SrcCrcdie Is Finding Them and Spending Money for Xcw Players Light Hitters in the Outfield. With tho mooting of the Coast League magnates and the Giants sliding from the top of the heap into the collar. Portland has had more than its share of base ball during the past week. The big talk and the things done by the leaders of tho league wore productive of only one little thrill that when James Morlcy and Los Angelos were left out in the cold. The really big thing of the week was the slump that the Giants have taken, a slump that has thrown the fans Into a nervous fit. Tho cry that is heard around the .cor ners is, "What's the matter with the Portland players?" A reward will be given for the correct answer. There have been some silly stories floating about that some of tho, players have been playing the thirst Joints off the boards. One, perhaps, two, of the players hai) been out on benders, but to charge the slump to this Is simply malicious and the idle talk of Irresponsible mutton heads. True, there has been some wretched base ball tossed into a few games, but look up the dope on any ball team that ever wore a uniform and you will find the same balloon ascensions. No man is try ing harder to give Portland a winning ball team than Manager McCredle. He started with nothing and lias built up a pretty fair ball team. He has lain awake night trying to get players to All up his weak spots, and if some of tho knockors had half the money that he has spent they would take their noise away. Mistakes Often Happen. McCredle is -bound to make mistakes. He would not be human if he did not make errors. When he signed Hoffman, It was not with a view of getting a cheap er man than Louis, Hunkle. He thought he was getting a better man. He has found out that Hoffman is no improvement on Runkle, and since that time he has been burning up the wires in search of a ideal third baseman. He has signed Sweeney. Time only will develop whether lie has made a find, or whether it is an other mistake. It shows one thing, how ever, and that is. that Manager McCredle has not given up trying to got the right sort of players. He has had more than his share of sickness and Injuries and sulky players. French is a fair sample of this. French is a pitcher that has the goods ajid can deliver them if he wants to. Just what made this player sulk and refuse to do his work is known only to French himself. He may complain of 111 treatmont, but he Is no more Just in this than he has been in his treatment of the club. Something is wronsr with MeUan t? says he wants more money and for some time past he has declared that he would not work all the time unless more coin was forthcoming. McLean may be Just or unjust in his demands, but his actions are not to be commended, at least at this time, when his services are so badly needed. McLean Is undoubtedly second only to Charley Graham as catcher in tho Lwigue. He is a great local favorite and no matter what his differences are with the management, he should play the good ball that he is capable of plaving. The public demand this of him and the way to get what he wants is to play great ball, and by doing this he can force his demands upon the management. No one will deny that catching every day is hard work, but at the same time it fs no more than just what a player some times makes sacrifices for his manager. Light Hitting Outfield. In addition to being bothered with his infield, Manager McCredle has had to face a light-hitting outfield. He may not have strengthened this by signing Jimmy McHale, but he has helped It much, for McHale Is fast on his feet and can throw from the outfield, a thing that was Im possible for Fleming to do. There are a few better fielders than Tan Buren but Van has been hitting In hard luck for- two years. This has bothered Van Buren as much as It has McCredle and the fans and if the Deacon could remedy this he would give the rest of his season's salarv to do so. Householder is not hitting thfs year either, and when an outfield Is not meeting the ball on the nose and planting It in safe territory, it is hard for a team to win. Essick is the only pitcher who has not gone wrong. He has been tho mainstay of the team, and but for his pod services the Giants would not have been as close up as they were. Garvin, until 'nis arm went wrong and he took sick, was another of tho win ners His game of Friday, although ho lost it, showed that he is again In win ning form, and if ho continues, he will again be beating tho teams that face nim. Bert Jones went wrong- Just" when his services were most needed, and Cates. because of illness and In juries, has played In all positions. Cates is a reliable follow; a good faitnful ballplayer, and once Mc Credle gets his team with each man playing his position, Cates will give a bettor account of himself In the, box. Jones, too, will come back, and with the two new pitchers that "McCredle has signed, there is yet plenty of tlrao for the Giants to be leading: the van. Spokane Wants In. The moguls have como and gone. Some important business was trans acted at the meeting-, but the big things will be reserved until the an nual gabfest, Harry Green, of Spo kane, is anxious to get into baseball again, and from all accounts he has the backing of the best men In Spo kane. Green likes the game, and if he can talk the Coast League people 10 taking Spokane Into tho fold, he will give that city a good team. Be fore this can be accomplished it will be necessary to add another city In California, making the league an cight-club affair. If this is done, in all likelihood Sacramento will be the new Southern city. Sacramento has realized since the ball team left there that something has been left out, and liow they are anxious to get Sacra mento Into the date lines. So far, Ta-c-oma has not lost any money and is not anxious to bo dropped from the league fold. And even if the team did Jose money. It is a question whether it will "bo dropped. Cal Ewing is de termined to CTCt OUt Of Oaklan.V ana It looks as if Bakejrefleld would set the! CAPTAIN DILLON AND CATCHER SPIES, TWO STAR MEMBERS OF THE LOS ANGELES TEAM plum. If Sacramento is again ad mitted into the league there will be a chance for Spokane. Spokane would more than make up for what Tacoma would fail to produce, and the attendance of RRknraflnlr! nnri Sanr. mento would be helped out by San Fran cisco and Los Angeles. This would givo four teams 'In the South and four in tho North, and a nice soheduln mulri h ar ranged. The four Northern teams could make two trips South, one for tho train ing and the other to close the season, and It would only be neceenary to bring the Southern teams North once. After open ing the season and playing the circuit in the South, the Northorn team.o could come home and play several months, and. If necessary, play around the circuit sev eral times, California teams doing the same thing. Then they could come North and swing around the circuit. GREAT COLT "WINS FORTUNE Sysonby Now Has to His Credit $151,043. The $42,000 valuation of the rich Groat Republic stakos to the winner. Sysonby, puts the sensational English bred colt now socond on the list of big American turf wlnnors, he now having to his credit the handsome sum or $151,042, to H2,$62 won by Kingston, which he has supplant ed in second place, and to $124,562 won by Sir Walter, now pushed back into fourth place. As he only has to win $5L7 now to equal the record of Domino, and appears to be able to defeat any performer on the turf at nrescnt. the chnncn CMmil rosy or Sysonby leaving the turf for the iuu largest winning horse in the his tory of American racing. He has broken the records made by many turf stars of the old world, passing such $100,000 and over winners as the unbeaten Ormonde, Sure Foot. Galtee More. Lord Lyon. Tris tan, Sea Breeze, Thebais, Robert the Devil, Epsom Lad, Achievement. Jean nette, Bendigo. Cremorne and Minting. Only eleven English Terformr y,nv now won more money than the Keene colt, and the chances are nnw that fore his racing career Is ended he will Join the charmed circle of $200,000 win ners, which has only five members, name ly Isinglass, Donovan, La Fleche. Sceptro ana jjommo. xne son of Melton now heads tho list of winning three-year-olds in this country, havlmr bo far 'nam fhi. year $110,850. The next largest three-ycar- uiu winner is iianover, which won $S9.E27 In I6S7, and Tournament is third with $$9,755, won at that age in 1S90. Domino alone leads him now as the largest winner in a single season in Amer ica, that sensational son nf tti-,o.- i. 18S3. winning $180.0SS as a 2-year-old.' In iuc maiier or tnree-y car-old. winnings, Sysonby has a lonir wnv equal the record of tho English horse ""'""""i a mree-year-oid, as the lat ter won at that nro of $130,400. which is a world's record. Handy a Swimming Marvel. H. J. Handy was the star of the Contral A. A. U. swimming championship at Barry Beach, recently. The "brown water devil won all the events in which he was entered. . He did not start in the 100 yard swim, but was first in the 220 440 and SSO-yard races. ' Handy simply ran away from his fields In every race. At the finish he was any where from five to 25 yards ahead of tho next man. In proportion to the length of the race. Handy accomplished the same feat in the aquatic events held at the Exposi tion. He Is a swimming marvel. Abe Attell Getting on. Little Abe Attell. once n itnmnra n-ii behaved California boy, is rapidly becom ing a blase New Yorker. Only the other day the dispatches mixed Audi's name up wnn mat or a lorraer chorus girl twice tried for her life In connection -with murder of a once-famous Western book- j maker. Yes. Aba la jccttlnj; on finely ' - - 4 SEVEN YAGHTS SAIL Will Take Part in Regatta at Astoria. ENTRIES IN FREE-FOR-ALL Zephyr, Albatross, Synamay and Moonshiner "Will Struggle for Supremacy In the Clnss B. Event on Thursday. St-von yachts, their owners and crews of the Oregon Yacht Club, left yestor Vlay for Astoria, where they are to participate in tho annual regatta, at that place. Tho yacht races will take place Wednesday and Thursday, Au gust 30 and 31, and the local yachts men are confident of making an ex cellent showing at tho regatta. They will arrive at Astoria this afternoon or tomorrow morning, and will put in the days between the time of their arrival ! and the date of the races In preparing the sloops for the contents. Tho races on Wednesday are free-for-all events and the Portland boats have entered. The Portland fleet com prises the yachts Albatross, Captain George S. Shepherd; Gadfly, Captain Charles Shivcly; Moonshinor. Captain Honeyman; Naiad, Captain Breyman; Synamox, Captain Ambrose Scott; Wauna, Captain Taylor, and Zephyr, Captain H. F. Todd. Thursday's races are for class "B" yacnts and tho boats eligible from the Portland fleet arc tho Zephyr, Alba tross, Synamox and Moonshiner. In tense rivalry exists between tho yachts Zephyr and Albatross; for last year they were unable to decide the supe riority of either for although they competed In the races, were unable to finish owing to tho high Feaes rolling over the course and the dense fog pre vailing at the time. This year both yachts have been thoroughly over hauled and fitted with stronger rac ing gear, and a close and exciting race is anticipated. The captains of the Synamox and Moonshiner state that their boats are to bo reckoned with, and thatgthe ownors off the other two Portland craft should not get over confldont, for they promise to glvo these yachts a run for tho honors. Eqch yacht was manned by a Jolly crew in excellent spirits on leaving the mooring, for they anticipate a pleasant trip down the Columbia. Harvard Hopes High. Although beaten on the gridiron, track, diamond and river by Yale. Harvard's lopes are high for the athletic contests this FalL Her football eleven meets Williams on September 30, and early prac tice will be culled to prepare for the game. With Bill Reid at the head of a capable staff of coaches. Harvard expects to de velop a winning team from tho gridiron material at hand. Captain Hurley will lead the backfleld candidates. S perry will not be back and a reliable punter must bo developed. D. P. Starr has a lead in the competition for quarterback. He culdes a team well. Squires, White, Brill and Parker, all good men. who plsyed last season, will return to collego and be available An experienced center la neded. and the same old problem of se curing ends will arise. Montgomery, Loary. Shurtloff. Blagden and Hall will be candidates for the positions. Talbot, from the freshman eleven. Is expected to develop Into a fast linesman, and will probably do the punting if he makes the varsity. The prospects for baseball next year are not good, nowevcr. on account of the loss of so vera 1 capable players and the comparatively poor reserve material. Only Catcher C. Stephenson, Third Baseman C Leonard, Right Fielder A. McCarthy and Center Fielder W. Dexter are left for tho 1905 nueleus. now that James Wray has had time to know his material and prove the efficacy of his next year. Corbctt Visits Auto "Ward. They were recently showing Jim Corbett through one of the retreats for the in sane In New York State. , "We will now visit the automobile ward." explained one of the guards. "Moaning what?" Interrogated the as tonished actor-boxer. "A ward In which we keep those whose afflictions are traceable to tho auto craze," elucidated the guard. "The ward contains 00 inmates'." The outer oaken door swung open and through the Interstices of the grated inner one Corbctt saw two lone patients off In the far end of the ward. "Thought there were 60 of them?" in quired Jim. There are," assured the guard. "I only see two of them where arc tho other SSr Insisted Corbett. "Undor tholr beds, deluding themselves into the belief that they are ropalrlng tholr machines." Sells Horse at Profit. Daniel W. 3Ialoney. one of the best known horseman In this part of the coun try, today made a sale of a horse he owned, and as a result he Is now $15,000 richer. He bought the horse five years ago for $500. and today he sold him for 51S.50O to a Mr. Murphy of Poughkeepsle. Velero, the horse sold, made a record a few days ago of 2:09 at Poughkeepsle. and Mr. Maloney received many tempting offers for him, but hold out for more. Today he recolved an offer of J1S.E00 from Mr. Murphy for the horse, and he ac cepted. Twelfth Hound In Chess Contest. BARMEN. Germany, Aug. 26. In the 12th round of the International chess masters tournament today, games re sulted as follows: Janowskl defeated John. Gottschalk drew with Alapln. Marshall won from Burns. Tschigorin from Molses. Maroczy from Leonhardt and Suechting from Bernstein. The games between Bardele bon and Berger and Wolf and Schlcchter were drawn. Water Baseball Is the Latest in Sportdom New York World. Hoar. O athletes! Have you ' tried water baseball? No, not water polo or water football, but tho good old Na tional game, played on a lako or bay or swimming pool, or a quiet bit of a rljVer where there is not much cur rent. If you haven't tried it. gee in lino and begin at once with the new gamo of the season. They are playing it in the Middle West, where the swimming season seems to begin much earlier than It does along the Atlantic Coast. There the sport has becomo more than a fad of the moment. It Is enjoying a boom that Is almost a mania. Ono need not be a great ballplayer nor a star swimmer to play the game. All It requires is a rudimentary knowl edge of baseball and fair swimming ability. The outfit consists of a ten nis ball, a yard or loss of broomstick and four rafts ono large and tlirco small. The batsman and the catcher stand on tho big raft. On a small raft 10 POISON IN SPORT Caspar Whitney Writes of College Athletics. TENDENCIES ARE CROOKED Commercialism Is the Banc of .Uni versity Games Noted Author ity. Blames Collegians and Alumni. Vlrer4ty faculties, athletic chalr men. aliHl committees sound the cymbls loudly for undented ceHese sport, but let 'the test como and watch them scatter to cover. ."Tiey say they want "reform." They He. If they really wanted it they would have It. EHsaoneet professionalism is like any other dishonesty, and posing as an amateur when In reality one is a pro fe!lonal In a peculiarly contemptible mean of obtaining goods under false pretenses, 'which In commercial life is a misdemeanor leading to Jail. At the preparatory school and at college boys are deliberately coaehed to beat the rule; to injure the op ponent. Trickery, deception and ques tionable methods are put forth as prime requisite of ths successful athlete. The American sportsman, when you do find him. Is the salt of the earth, the fairest fighter and the beat loser. Sport Is what we make It, writes Cas per Whitney in the Chicago Inter Ocean on the topic, "Crookedness the Poison In College Athletics." It Is wholesome or unclean, according to the character of its exponents and the atmosphere in which it lives. It accurately re-echoes the tone of the day. and as the dominant note of this day Is money-making, it follows nat urally that amateur sport reeks with com mercialism and hypocrisy. We sit In judg ment upon the game and the players; we would better V1 once Impanel a jury for self-arraignment. . We allude to sham amateurism as professionalism. We name It wrongly; It should be commercialism composite of the worship of the golden calf and the unslaked fever for winning. Why is it the dishonest amateur gets more money for his performance than the confessed professional? Why Is the volun teer soldier given more glory thnn the regular who does the same work better? Why are the gold mines farthest from home nlways reported to be the richest? Why do we favor the crooked trail? Be cause of the subtle appeal to our Imagina tion, and imagination tends (not neces sarily, of course) to complexity and over drawn or underdrawn pictures. The plaln-ly-toW tale is too simple, too near at hand, too direct. It must be embellished a little to disguise Its true nature. The late P. T. Barnum once said that the peo ple loved to bo humbugged, and being humbugged a lot develops the humbugging habit; obviously the people like It. Pub licly they rave over the decay of the drama privately they yell In wild delight at the worst "knockabout acts" of tho vaudeville stage- At the club they wax Indignantly virtuous over "yellow" news papersand at homo scan them eagerly. The other day on the train I sat opposite an elderly and respectable looking divine, who devoured the yellowest of yellow dallies all the way from New York to Brewster, and no doubt thundered against it from his pulpit the next Sunday. The Cry of Reform. That was a very clever and deep-thlnk-lng Japanese who snkl recently: "When we were giving to the world the most ex quisite bits of ceramic artever seen, you called us 'heathen. Now, 'since we havo killed some thousands cf Russians, we are acknowledged by you to be civilized." We are hypocritical. We thump our breasts with great vigor, crying aloud the virtues which our acts fail to reveal. Were you ever were so unfortunate as to come upon a man beating a woman, amid a circle of onlookers, and not one raising a hand to stop the brute? I find a3 I journev .through life that courage of united action under command Is common enough (for example, troops In battle where men are shoulder to shoulder), but Individual initiative in tests of courage Is rare, and rarer when the moral rather than physical quality Is demanded. Lack of moral pourage breeds hypoc risy. University faculties, athletic chairmen. alumni committees, sound the cymbals loudly in a Salvation Army walk-around for undeflled college sport, but let the test come and watch them scatter to cover. They say they want "reform." They lie. If they really wanted It they would have It. They do not really want It unless it brings them Immediate mate rial returns; unless there Is no hurt com ing to their winning prospects through the turning a new leaf. While the faculty salvation buglers blow themselves blue in the face at the public gates, official sponsors legitimatize the various meth ods by which the college may continue to throw temptation at the very young man for whose benefit and the public tho buglers are exhaling psalms of athletic righteousness. The faculties wink the other oye. The college trustees wink the other eye. The world winks the other eye. It is the countersign of the day, the habit of the breast-thumping Pharisee. And in sport it leads to covert profes sionalism Professionalism Is much maligned. There Is no more disgrace In earning a yards away stands tho pitcher. He may deliver tho ball In any style he chooses so that it crosses tho plate. In strik ing everything goes bunt, bingle, swat or foul tip. There are five men on a side. The moment bat and ball come In contact a batsman muse start for first base. It does not matter how the ball is hit, you count It fair. Indeed, It is a triumph of skill to turn and swim with the ball and send It flying i-ast tho catcher. Suppose you have driven a rood ball out near third base. You pile over board with a dive toward- first- As you rise to the surface you see the first baseman and tho pitcher furiously swimming after the balL To your excited eyoa it seema as if first baso wore a mile away. A3 you near the base you see the pitcher seize the ball and turn In the water to throw It. But It Is no easy matter to throw a ball while treading water, and the chances are that the throw is a bad one. and you are safe. You now turn J our attention toward living by running foot races or by play ing baseball or football than there Is in selling things from behind a counter or In casting up figures, or In following any other respectable business honestly. But dishonest professionalism Is like any other dishonesty, and posing as an amateur when in reality one is a profes sional la a peculiarly contemptible means of obtaining goods under false pretenses, whlcu In commercial life Is a misdemean or leading to Jail. Over and over again I am asked why it is that hypocrisy and dishonesty en ter Into aport, which Is supposed to be the expression of our playful side. Why. Indeed? Why are there scandals In business, adulteration of food; .corruption In poli tics, disloyalty among friends, social blackmailing? Why? Because It Is the temper of the day. the cursed spirit of progression;" the pursuit of that mod ern grail, "success." Win win some how, but win; get tho purse; everything goes, so long as you are not caught with the "goods on" to borrow Tammany's apt slang whether your activities be at Caracas In the Venezuelan diplomatic service or at Atlantic City playing "Sum mer nine" baseball, or at Albany In the Supreme Court. The Craving Tor Publicity. And do you look for purity in" sport, with Impurity touching It In every human activity from the pulpit to the bar and back again, even to the highest Judlciary of the Empire State? Write graft and green and cant on the front door of mod ern endeavor, and then do not ask me why man's play reflects man's spirit in his business and social struggles. Linked with tho fever for winning Is the craving for publicity, which supports organiza tions of "society" reporters who flourish luxuriously by blackmail. Instead of sub sisting on bread and water behind bars. Publicity at any price, but publicity must be had. If a man shoots a deer he must have his photograph In the papers. If the automobile club gives a road run every starter must bo photographed ami his life history and that of his sisters and cousins and aunts sent to all the dally newspapers. If Mrs. Moneybags helps a poor devil of a family to the ex tent of some dollars, she must read about It In the morning paper. Ever publicity seeking, ever photograph giving; climb ers all social, professional, commercial from Christian Endeavor "singing preach er" to dancing soubrette. This craze for success is exhibited in the sport of different countries accord ing to the temperaments of the respective peoples. It Is most highly developed In throbbing America, where ambition and nervous energy and the commercial zest aro greatest. It Is deliberate and selfish In England; happy-go-lucky and evanes cent In France, where the spirit of play for play's sake really sways outdoor ac tivity more than it does In any other country of the world; it Is sordid and vul gar and greedy in Germany. And con sidering its environment sport shows remarkably slight infection everywhere which speaks volumes for Its fundamental health. Itccrultlng Star Athletes. Now. It is a curious fact that in Amer ica, where the winning spirit is intensest, there is actually less professionalism than In any other country. Cases of amateurs competing for money (which is what the world calls professionalism) are the rare exceptions In America, and when brought before the Intercollegiate Association or the Amateur Athletic Union (our two chief governing bodies of amateur sports) are dealt with severely. That phase of sport Is giving us no trouble to speak of. Our difficulty Is with the really more offensive and certainly much more com plex covert professionalism superinduced by the frenzy to win that possesses equally colleges', clubs and Individuals of high and low degree. The aliment manifests Itself in various ways: Recruiting "star" athletes from preparatory schools and other colleges and clubs through promises of help In college by "eating clubs" or score card graft privileges, or other similar scnemes wnicn bring the boy board or keep, sometimes money; permitting undergraduates to play on Summer resort hotel or town baseball nines for their board and lodging; per mitting men in athletic clubs to compete unchallenged, who, because of their ath letic prowess and because the club want ed them, have been given positions in the business house of an enthusiastic mem ber, at salaries which they do not and are not expected to earn outside the ath letic field. In Its wholesale form the nllmpnt finds oxnresslon In collecre foot ball candidates being herded in practice squads to some resort, duduc or private, and there given board and keep for Sev eral TCAAks hpfnrf roIIfe term ooena in the endeavor to gt the advantage of more training and preparation over a rival col lege with which match games are to fol low during- the college term. "What Is the Hemedy. The commercial spirit Is sweeping the world, and where the commercial spirit reigns the spirit of amateur sport thrives with great difficulty. In Amer ica commercialism Is throttling the spirit of sport. The question Is. what are, we going to do about it? Well, the remedy Is simple enough If parents and college faculties and all others con cerned will be honest. Build up the spirit of sport for sport's sake. Not moro rules. Not more legislators. Not less play, but the spirit of the amateur law interpreted truly. We want more games, association as well as rugby football, lacrosse as much as baseball; moro players, fewer spectators. No professional coaches. Reduction of gate receipts; less money, less hypoc risy, less business, less politics. How Is this to be obtained? The spirit should be early inculcated at the home, but for our universities we want a congress of friends with the courage of their convictions. Not only a meet ing; of Harvard and Tale and Princeton, but of delegates from all over the brund country, from Maine to California. A congress of men who will discuss dis passionately the broad question, and arrive at the simplest way to begin an era of sport for sport's sake the simpler the better. The college Is the nursery and the safe guard of the American amateur, and the status of college sport is entirely within tho jurisdiction of the faculty and Is It not simple to put two and two together? second. To steal seems easy, and so, as soon as the pitcher delivers the ball, you start. But if all goej well with tho other team, when you have gone about a third of the distance you no tice that the second baseman has the ball. Giving tip hope of gaining sec ond, you turn to regain first, only to note that tho first baseman has fol lowed you and waits for the ball about five feet to your rear. You again turn your efforts toward second only to see the second baseman swimming toward you. With much splashing you try to evade this last comer, but you are put out and re tired amid the yells of the onlook ers. The game is full of fun. Some times an ardent baseman will lean too far over to ono side in his efforts to get tho ball. This will cause the raft to tilt until tho player loses his bal ance, and In his efforts to regain tho center of tho raft It will shoot from under him and he will land smack on the surface of the water. The game Is full of unexpected fancy stunts. NEW ATHLETIC CODE Washington Takes Lead in Favoring Change. RULES NOT LIVED UP TO Northwest Intercollegiate Associa tion Is AVithout Force ".Let Players Earn Money," Snys Grinstcnd. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seattle. Aug. 26. (Special.) That a great change In the rules of eligibility for col lege athletes in the Northwest will soon take place now seems quite probable. The Northwest Intercollegiate Asociation clearly will not take care of the football games this Fall. Tho University of Ore gon has openly withdrawn from the or ganization, while most of the colleges have been dissatisfied with it from the be ginning. That the Institutions have never followed its contitution as it was intend ed by the framers is admitted by every one. Last year there were no meetings of the association held at any time, while there have been few. In fact, since tho organization first came into existence. Many of the managers have already re alized that some new code on the eligibil ity of athletes would have to be devised for the coming football season. Manager Grinstead. the newly selected manager of the local institution, has been In com munication with all of the managers of the colleges with whom Washington comes into competition. He has proposed a most radical scheme, which seems to bo meeting with favor at most of the schools. The big change which he advocates Is to allow players to accept money for their work during the Summer, and when they are not In college. This applies particu larly to the boys who play baseball dur ing the Summer. He would make tho qualifications to be a bona fide student exceptionally strict, but once that fact is established, then the other fact of accepting money during the Summer for his athletics would not debar the player. This sceme, while it has been proposed In the East and accepted by some of the institutions, still It Is tho first time that It has been proposed in te Pacific North west: and while it has h-.d many ardent supporters here, few felt that It would receive the hearty support which it is being accorded. Manager Grinstoad gave out the following statement as to his plans: "The amateur rule is said to have orig inated In England, where the prevailing Idea is that, to be an athlete, a person must first be a "gentleman." by which Is meant to possess a competency, making It unnecessary to be self-supporting. In this country the great mass of our collego men are in whole or In part solf-support-Ing. These men should not, because of this fact, be debarred from participation In collegiate contests and sharing of col legiate honors. Strictly construing tno English interpretation of the amateur rule, this would be the result. Going a step further, some of our self-supporting students And that by playing baseball, for Instance, during the Summer months they ran earn a greater incomo than In any other way. To rofusc to accept tho oppor tunity may mean remaining out of col lege a year; yet, In honor, under tho pres ent system they must refuse it, or forever be debarred from being a true part of the student body, entitled to earn a sharo of the honors open to students. The result naturally Is that the student assumes an other name, gets his money, returns to college and conceals his record, at least, nominally, although In most Instances all of his associates know of his playing and recognizing the injustice of the rule re fuse to make objection, with the result that he plays during the football season. "Every one connected with college activ ities has numbed his sensibilities In order to meet what he believes 13 the fair thing for the student and for the college. "What I would advocate is that tha present rule of amateurism be abolished, and that the true test of a man's eligibil ity to participate In college athletics Is that he be a bona-fide student. We would have an agreement between tho colleges of the Northwest that only bona fide stu dents, carrying a reasonable amount or work, say 12 hours per week, which must be satisfactorily reported upon by the fac ulty previous to the Intercollegiate con test, should be eligible. To prevent "tramp" athletes from changing from ono school to another, we would Insert an agreement that a man entering a, school for the first time, in order to be eligible for athletics that Fall, must enroll reason ably early, say October 1, and thereafter not be eligible for the team of any other institution during that season. It would, of course, be agreed that no contestant In the Intercollegiate events should re ceive remuneration, directly or Indirectly, for his work for the institution. "The objections that have been present ed to this change are, first, that wo put Intercollegiate athletics on a professional basis. University athletics, under this rule, would still be purely amateur In that those contesting would contest for the sport and for the loyalty to the Institu tion in which they were enrolled, without any remuneration. "The second objection urged is that wo are encouraging young fellows to enter athletics for a livelihood. I think we are only encouraging them to do openly what heretofore they have been obliged to con ceal. The general sentiment In and around a university, together with tho opportunities afforded for earning a live lihood In other and more desirable ways, is sufficient to provent nny large number from entering upon athletics as a profes sion. Only a few notorious cases of this sort exist at present. "I believe that every institution in tho Northwest would live honorably in con formance with such an agreement, and that It would make tho sport clean and open, and not bar men who are In many Instances as good as any In the Institu tion in point of scholarship and manhood, and who have the burden of self-support on their shoulders whllo In college. To debar such men Is simply to say that sport is to bo here, as I believe it i3 in England, only indulged In by those of in dependent Incomes In other words, the Idle classes. Such a spirit Is not Amer ican, and that is one reason, at least, why it has proven a failure In American college athletics." Miss Sntton an Easy Winner. CINCINNATI. Aug. 26. The seventh annual open tennis tournament for tho trl-state championship of Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky opened today under tho auspices Of the Cincinnati Tortnto r-i.-v. A large crowd witnessed the playingl interest was in me match between Miss Mae Sutton, of Pasadena. Cal., tho world's champion, and Miss Francis Smith, of this city. Miss Sutton won easily. Murine Eye Remeay cures eyes: malcM weak otxaiur. Booties eye pain; doesn't smarts