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THE -SUNDAY- PORTIAKD, OCTOBER 15, 1905; 1 SPORTS AND ATHLETICS LIVEN UP FOR FALL News From the Gridiron and the Turf, and" Reviews .of Passing Events ' EE WILL NDT RETIRE SYSON BY Appreciates Public Desire to Watch Winners on the Racecourses. HORSE IS'-GREAT FAVORITE Handicapper Should Consider Pop ularity of Sysonby In Alloting Weights for Suburban and Brighton Entries. James R. Keone is himself authority for the announcement that, Sysonby will ,not be permanently retired this Fall. The vice-chairman of the Jockey Club said yesterday, at Belmont Park, that Sysonby would Winter with the other horses at -Shcepshead, and in January be entered In all the great handicaps and weight-forage races to be run in the year 1906. He will be cot ready In good season next Spring, and he will fill his dates while. he stands up. This means that ho may be seen in at least one of the great mlle-and-a-quarter handicaps, provided the handicapper Is reasonable, and he should win the one James Rowe tries for. "Whether he will make another effort to win the Metropolitan, the great Belmont Park race, in which last Spring the sell ing plater 'Race King ran him to dead heat, chiefly because Jockey Shaw took him to the outside as he entered the home stretch at a cost of three or four valuable lengths. Mr. Keene will not say. The chances are he will not. To run in the Metropolitan, It will be necessary to begin to train Sysonby too early for safe ty. He was ready last Spring, to be sure, but that will be another year. Preparing a 3-year-old for a hard race to be run about the first of May In noFthern lati tudes is a vastly different proposition from preparing a 4 or a 5-year-old. The 3-year-old, being younger and fresher, naturally comes to hand quicker than "the mature horse. Irish Lad and Gunfire have won Metropolitan handicaps since they were 3-year-olds, but they were not trained In New York. They had their preparations in South Carolina, where the kind of "Winter weather in New England parts Is not known. It Is more than likely that Mr. Keene will make a special effort to have Syson by ready for the Suburban. It Is quite natural that the vice-chairman of the Jockey Club should prefer the Suburban to any of the other rich mlle-and-a-quar- ter races. The Suburban Is the- oldest of them ail. and It is run at the most popu lar of the Eastern racetracks. By win ning it a horse cams greater distinction than he gets..by winning either the Brook- : lyn or the Brighton, although those races have always been Important, and their popularity is destined to Increase as they grow older. It should be a fairly easy matter to get Sysonby ready for the Sub urban. The race Is never run before the middle of June, and he Is a big, robust colt, who will stand vigorous Spring train ing. It was at Shcepshcad last June that Sysonby was at his best. Although he won several races of greater value than the Tidal Btakes later in the season, he was never, perhaps, so good as he was on the day he won that valuable event. Sysonby carried 126 pounds and stepped a mile and a quarter In 2:03 flat In the run ning of the Tidal. Mr. Keene Is of the opinion that he could have covered the distance in 2:04 if he had been asked to extend himself. But he was not required to run. He did not have to get out of a gallop to whip Agile and Cairngorm. He was a mighty good horse a few days afterwards, too, when he took up 111 pounds and made a show of a first-rate field of mature runners In the Common wealth handicap. Besides the Suburban. Sysonby -will be put in such races as tho Advance, the Brighton, the Saratoga, the Sara toga Cup, the Century, ana" possibly the Brighton Cup. They at any rate are the kind of races that suit him; Sysonby would have started In this season's Brighton Cup if he had hap pened to be eligible. Getting: him ready to go two miles and a quarter on the day of the running: of the Cup would have been an easy matter. He can run In the Annual Champion as long as he stands up -and the vice chairman of the Jockey Club has the wherewithal to pay a starting fee Once a horse is in the great two-mile-and-a-quarter race at Sheepsheaa" he is always in. That Is one of the beauties of tho Annual Champion, and one of the reasons why some day it will bring together In a llfe-and-death struggle the most splendid field of horses ever seen In a distance race in this or any other country. It is a cinch that Sy sonby will be the top weight in tho big handicaps. Not in 20 years have we had a racer more worthy of that distinction. He is by all odds the horse of the year, and It may be he is, as Mr. Keene thinks, the best racer we have ever seen. When Handicapper Vbsburgh comes to allot the weights for the big handi caps he should consider that Sysonby is a popular horse, and that the pub lic wants to see him run in races like the Brooklyn, tho Suburban and tho Brighton. It would not be to the in terest of the racing associations of fering: such specials to the sport In general tq put so much weight on this gallant son of Melton as to make it Impossible for Mr. Keene to start him. One hundred and twenty-seven of 128 pounds would be perfectly satisfactory to Mr. Keene. Sysonby will hardly start in a handicap In which he Is asked to shoulder 130 pounds or more. It Is not fair to ask even the greatest horses to take, up such burdens and run one mile and a quarter at break neck speed. And all of our mlle-and-a-qua'rter handicaps are run at breakneck speed. ine pace is made hot by one llcht weight after another, and the horse that falls to keep up has no chance to win. Heavily-weighted horses, and especially popular favorites, are al ways liable to meet with serious accl dents. The intelligent thing to do is to put a reasonablb burden on Sysonby and pitch tne scale by which the oth ers are to be measured accordingly. While Mr. Keene has always In tended Sysonby for the stud, and the sooner the Melton horse Is safelv in stalled at the head of his Castleton establishment the easier he -will feel. he thinks it will enhance the value of his produce to go on as a 4-year-old and beat the greatest horse of his time in one of the big- handicaps. , While Mr. Kceno breeds chiefly for his own use, he realizes that ho cannot himself race all the horsesi Castleton turns out. He must, therefore, con sider the effect victory In a Suburban or a Brighton will have on future buy ers of Sysonby colts and Allies. The ' a jL, l llp n I MULTNOMAH TEAM READY FOR FRAY Senior Eleven Type of Men Who Win Championship on Gridiron. SEASON OPENS SATURDAY C ATTAIN OF HILL MILITARY ACADEMY. public will be glad to learn that he takes this view. Such racers as Sysonby do not come often, and no man interested In 'the sport likes to see one prematurely retired. Mr. Keene can well afford to wait with this fel low. The exploits of Wild Mint this season demonstrate that old Kingston has not outlived his usefulness. He has a fine young stallion in Disguise, a son of Domino and. Bonnie Gal, and has three crops of the lamented Com mando youngsters coming on. Sysonby will be the Winter-book fa vorite for the handicaps, no matter what weight the handicapper asks him to shoulder. Turf folk all over the country have faith In Sysonby, be cause he has done everything asked of him. like a flrst-class racehorse, and, here at the end of the season, In spite of his many efforts under weight, he Is as sound and as healthy as a brand new 2-year-old. Sysonby has yet to take his first lame step, and he Is rap Idly recovering from the skin dlseaso which made it necessary for Mr. Keene to announce at Gravesend that he could not meet Artful in the spe cial race at Brighton prepared by Christopher Fitzgerald. Mr. Keene was deeply disappointed when inform ed by nis trainer tnai bysonoy wouiu not be able to meet ArtfuL express mm H0R5E5 RANCHO BEL rASO STUD WILIi BE SIIIFFED EAST. Forty-Eight Cars Necessary to Ac commodate the IarffO Number of Splendid Animals. The dispersal of Jarnes B. Haggin's far mous Rancho del Paso breeding stud. and- the necessary -shipment of the stock from California to New iork marks a new epoch in the transportation of horses. Between 500 and 600 head of stock will bo taken across the continent by express. making by all odds tho largest shipment of thoroughbreds ever undertaken ana largest shipment of horses of any char acter ever undertaken by an express com pany. Forty-eight cars will be required to carry the horses across the mountains. The assembling of so many cars of this character at ono point at a given time is in itself a tremendous undertaking. The American Express Company, which will attend to tho transportation of the stock, will draw all available cars from the va rious lines of railroad over which It op erates and send them westward for tho Haggln horses. The contract calls for the cars to be ready for loading by November 15. at the latest- The shipment will leave California two or three days later, and about five days will be necessary' for the trip. The 48 cars will be divided Into four special trains, or one train of four sections, which will run on the schedule of passenger trains. From Sacramento the route vill be over the Southern Pacific to Ogden, the Union Pacific to Omaha, Illinois Central to Chicago, Lake Shore and New York Central to New York. Every care will bo taken to the end that the trains may be. run through on schedule time. The horses will reach New York ten days or two weeks before the date of the sale, and their care In the meantime Is a detail of no little importance. They will be cared for at the export stables of a big horse sales company, and at other stables where accommodations can be had. The sale will not be held at Madi son Square Garden, as It will not be avail able at the time. The shipping expenses will amount to a good-sized fortune to an ordinary mortal. Any one who has had. experience In ship ping horses to and from California can bear witness that tho cost of a. single carload leaves no great amount of change out of a ?1000 bill. Mulplily this by 48 and a good Idea of the cost of shipping the Rancho del Paso stock to NewTTork can be gained. - 3Iatch for .Nelson andv Gardner. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14. "Kid" Egan, formerly press .agent for Jim Jef fries, arrived today irom uoiaucids, isev.. with the object or arranging a matcn oe tween Battling Nelson and Jimmy Gard ner, to take plaoo at Goldflelds in the wek before New Year's day. Egan says that a bank at Goldflelds has taken up the proposed match as a business venture and will offer a purse of 525.000, tho sum of 5000 being already deposited. Gardner has agreed to sign at .133 pounds. Nelson is now on the Toad with a theatrical show and Egan is seeking to locate him. Santry Wins Furious Bout. CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (Special.) Eddie Satry demonstrated to about 400 mem bers of the Chicago Athletic Associa tlon that he Is still In the fighting game, getting the decision over Eddie Kennedy after six rounds of furious boxing In the club's gymnasium to night. NEWELL MILITARY ACADEMY. CAPTAIN OF T1IE NEWELL MILITARY ACADEMY. PE MMTTO BE 1 Pacific Coast League Trophy in Reach of'AII. PORTLAND YET HAS CHANCE Fact Tliat Final Games Arc to Bo Played In California Is an Ad vantage for the South ern Clubs. One more week and the Portland ball tossers will journey to the ' Southland, where they will contest with the three Southern clubs In the final 'slx weeks struggle for the pennant honors. Every club has a chance for the ng at the present writing, for the lead of the Commuters Is so small that should they lose six straight games, which Is not beyond possibility, they would be dis placed from tho lead and land in second or third place. The local team is not entirely out of the race; In fact, every team in the league has a chance for the rag, but the chances favor the California contingent, as tho three clubs in that locality have the -last six weeks at home, while the Northern trio are the invaders during that period. Manager McCrcdie has stated that he has completed his team for next season, and has announced the signing of Pitch ers Skcl Roach and Harry Bond, together with First Baseman Lister and Catcher Donahue for the Giants of lOS. Portland fans know the worth of Skel Roach, and many have censured the man agement for not securing this man's serv ices for the present season, but this was no fault of McCrcdle'E, as Roach refused to sign, both at the start of the season and again a' few days ago. when he was released by Seattle. In the latter In stance. Roach agreed to McCredle's terms for 1905, but stated that he would not play any more this year, as he wished to re turn ' to his home- in Chicago for the Winter. Jn Harry Bond, tho local manager be lieves ho has a Christy Matthewson. for the new man is a tall, rangy youngster, with a world of speed and firm control, and will join the team In Bakersfleld next Spring. Lister, the first baseman, and Donahue, the catcher, come well recommended. Of the present team, Schlafly, Atx. Sweeney, McLean.McHalc, Mitchell, Van. Buren and the pitching staff will be re tained. It Is the Intention of McCredle to take a colt batten' with him on the southern trip. In the persons of Pitcher Callff, late of the Belllngham team, and Catcher Suess, well' known In local semi professional circles, as both theao young sters are stated to be worthy of a trial In this league. Tie Game at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Oct. 14. (SpeciaL) The Aberdeen High School football team and the Centralla High School. team this afternoon played In the rain, which re sulted 0 to 0. The Aberdeen team put up a snappy fight against much superior weight. ' PULLMftNHflSSTRONGTEAM START FOR FIRST SERIES OF SEASON TOMORROW. "Washington Agricultural Collego Football Boys Aro Confident. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE. Pullman,' Oct. 14. (SpecIaL) On Monday the State Collego boys will leave for "Old Oregon," wher? they will meet the Wll lametto University In football on Wednes day and the famous O. A. C. bunch on Saturday. Tho Willamette boys, holding Stanford down to 12 and tielng Berkeley, have a good team from all reports. The O. Ju C boasts of superior material to last year, so the Washington team will leave Pullman fully determined to do great stunts or get the short end by Sat urday's setting of the sun. Pullman sends to Oregon next Monday 'a team fast and heavy. The line aver ages 152 and the backfleld 174. andthe entire team 1S3 pounds to the man; aver age of 183 is a happy team. Captain Stewart at center weighs 200; Morgan and Collins, guards, ISO: Sapp, IS, and Thay er. 208, tackles Goldswortby and Wexler, 1SG, ends; Miner and Spauldlng, quarter, 1; Nissen and Jones, halves, 163; and Hardy, 201. ullback. The subs that will make the trip will probably bo Reed, line; Lynch, full; Thomle, end; Dudley, back and line. Manager Kreager and Coach Sweeley will accompany the team. In the games this year the State Col lege scored 50 points against the strong Spokane High School eleven In 40 min utes; 52 points against" tho gritty Lewis ton High In 25 minutes; and 32 points against tne jdoniana .Aggies in min utes. - Although thcee three. teiras were out classed, scores of 50. .52 and 32 in short halves Indicate that when the Northwest speculates on the championship the Washington State College is plainly to be found on the map. STOTT MaYHQT'PLAY Brilliant Quarterback Slowly Recovering From Injuries. SERIOUS LOSS TO ELEVEN Physician Hopes Portland Boy Can Be Restored to Condition Within a 3ronth, but That Secm Ilardly Probable. t STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal., Oct. H. (Special.) Plowden Stott, the brilliant quarterback from Portland, is confined to his bed with an injury which may prevent him from participating in any further football games this season. While heeling a punt, Stott received a severe wrench of the ankle, which tore the ligaments loose and burst several blood-vessels. On first examination the trainer and attending surgeon positively stated that the Injury wolud keep Stott out of the game for at least a month, but later developments seem to Indicate that he may be able to get on his feet in a shorter time. The player will perhaps be able to use the injured member in a week, but whether ho can subject It to tho severe strain necessary in playing is a matter of grave doubt. It is feared that the- Injury -13 so severe that the cardinal will be deprived of the clever player's chances for the rest of the season. In case Stott Is unable to get back into the game, Fenton, who has been playing a brilliant game, will take his place. Port Townsend Eleven Will Meet Portland Amateur Athletic Club jn First Tussle of Heavy Plnyers This Year. On next Saturday afternoon the senior eleven of the Multnomah Amateur Ath letic Club will Inaugurate Its season of 1905-6 with a game at Multnomah Field, with an eleven from Port Townsend. The local team 13 much lighter this season than last, but what It lacks in weight the team makes up In speed, for most of the new faces are fast men. and expect to make up any deficiency they may have on account of weight by their ability in run ning. In this respect they compure favor ably with the other teams in the North west, for from the reports sent out irom the various training quarters most of this season's elevens will be composed of light teams. Under the direction of Coach Overfield. who will play center on the eleven, tho Multnomah contingent have shown won derful improvement in their preliminary work, and the team promises to go on the field next Saturday In condition to meet any eleven In the Northwest. Overfield at center will prove a towor of strength to the club, for ho Is ratod as one of the best football generals in the United States, having been chosen a member of the Ail-American eleven two years In suc cession. His work in the practice games demonstrates that ho has not gone back any since leaving his Alma Mater. The positions of left and right guard have several capable aspirants who have demonstrated their ability to hold a place on the eleven. Wilson, a new man of powerful physique, weighing a trifle over 200 pounds, is showing up well at right guard, while Jerry Qulnlan and Butler promise to develop into very capable men at the other guard position. Cy Sterling has also shown up well In the trial for this place. Keller, who played so capably last year at center, has been shifted to left tackle, at which position he has done so well that he will likely "prove a fixture. Martin Pratt, the old reliable right guard of last year's team, will again bt found In harness, -which announcement Is a source of great Joy to the admirers of the crimson and white, who have learned to appreciate the sterling worth of this capable player. Arthur Seely. younger brother of "Jeff" Sceley. of last year's eleven, has shown excellent qualities in tho nraotlees for a line nositlon. and Is ( likely to be used as one of the tackles. ijavu joruiui, captain ui inu ictini. is n fixture at left end, whore his work so far this season compares favorably with his splendid performances of the past. Eddie Dowllng, last year's captain and right end. Is out again this year. and. although handicapped .somewhat by old in juries. Is nevertheless displaying consid erable of his old-tlmo form. Percy Blanch -ard and Carlson, a youngster from last season's Dental Collego eleven, aro also promising candidates for end positions. At quarter the club has two capable aspirants In the persons of Dan Foley and "Red" Reupcrt. who, by their perform ances so far. have the call on the other candidates. Both are doing excellent work and are easily blg-tcam material. Walker and Harder have also done capable work at this position. Breed, who was originally slated for fullback. Is now a certainty at tho posi tion of left halfback, while Owens. Austin and Alexander are tho contenders for the other half position. AH three are display ing excellent qualities for positions back of the line. Bud James, captain of the track team, has made good at fullback, at which po sition he will be found when the whistle blows as the signal for active play. Manager Watklns Is very much encour aged over the enthusiasm displayed by the candidates, and expresses considerable satisfaction over the showing mado by the second-team men who aro making good in tho first team. "The team will bo lighter than last sea son." said Manager Watklns yesterday. "But what we lack In weight wo expect to make up in speed, and I anticipate an other successful season for the honor of old Multnomah." Fitzgerald Anxious to Fight. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Oct. 14. (Spe cIaL) Johnny Reld, manager of Willie Fitzgerald, the Brooklyn lightweight, has Issued a challenge to Twin (Mike) Sul livan, offering to- fight tho Boston man and allow the latter practically to make the conditions of the match. Reld de clared that he was willing to allow his charge to do battlo with Twin Sullivan, and says that Willie will fight Mike at any weight from 135 to 140 pounds. Reld says he Is willing to back up his chal lenge with a side bet of $3000 that his man can beat Twin Mike. Jimmy Coffrdfh has made an offer for the bout. Ho says the men can fight at Col ma either tho last week of this month or the first week of November. Tarrascli "Wins Chess Mutch. NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct. 14. Play In the 17th game of the chess match be tween Marshall, of Brooklyn, and Tar rasch, of this city, was resumed here to day and the gamo and match were won by Tarrasch. The score of the match: Tarrasch, 15: Marshall, 1; drawn, 8. TELL YOUIC FRIENDS In the East About Low Colonist Rates Vlft the Union Pacific. Until October 31 very low rates are In effect from the East and Middle West to the Pacific Northwest, via the Union Pa cific, Oregon Short Lino and Oregon Rail road & Navigation Company. Ask or write your nearest O. R. & N. agent for particulars, and tell your friends of the rare opportunity to visit this section. 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