The Sunday Oregonian., September 30, 1906, Page 14, Image 14

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, , SEPTEMBER 30, 1906.
JEFFRIES READY
BIGGER LEAGUE
Portland Huntsmen and Their Dogs Take the. Field Tomorrow
TO FIGHT
IS NOT N F
Jimmy Coffroth Now Looking
for Man to Meet the
Big Fellow.
California Opposes Eight
Team Circuit, but Wants
Portland and Seattle.
NO FAKERS NEED APPLY
PENNANT RACE IS OVER
AC
All
Champion Has Full Confidence in
Manager and Match Will Be on
the Square Why Boiler
maker Retired.
Ecore once mere for Oregon1 grand
climate. Breathing Oregon's glorious
mountain ozone for a month has . con
vinced Jim Jeffries that" he is still the
Jeffries that lowered the colors of Bob
Fitzslmmons beat Jim Corbett twice and
made Jack Munroe squeal like the aant
coward he Is When the big ex-boiler-maker
quit the squared circle and an
nounced before retiring to his ranch,
near Los Angeles, that he had fought
his last fight, hanging his title on the
false-alarm champion. Marvin Hart, many
of the fight fans believed that he would
keep his word and never put on the light
gloves again.
In a measure, lovers of the fistic game
did not blame Jeff for getting out of the
game. He began at the bottom and
cleaned all of the heavyweights along
the route until he reached the champion
ship Then, when there were no new
heavies in sight, he went back over the
list and beat them a second time. It took
two terrific beatings to convince Bob
Fitzslmmons that Jeffries was his mas
ter It took one beating and the begin
ning of a second to thoroughly convince
Jm Corbett that he was a member of
the down-and-out club. The rest of them
who had hooked up with the big fellow
were willing to quit with one drubbing.
From the time that. Jeff whipped Fitz
slmmons first until he finally retired, the
champion always had a rank lot of second
raters howling at his heels. To these
yappings he paid no attention, and it was
not until that mixup at Butte with Jack
'Munroe that Jeffries got tangled up in a
fight that didn't give the fans a run for
their money.
From the time that Jeff became cham
pion until his fizzle with Munroe, he
had always Insisted that the man who
faced him must be worthy of considera
tion. That he was tricked into meeting
Munroe through the cleverest press-agent
boosting known to the prize ring, is a
matter of inside history. Jeff boxed with
the big miner dub when meeting all com
ers while traveling with Bob Fitzslm
mons. It was heralded to the world that
Munroe had knocked Champion Jeffries
down. Jeff denied the tale time and
again, and so did Lanky Bob, but the
fight fans would not believe it.
When the fake story of Munroes feat
would not down, a wise bunch of Eastern
talent got hold of Munroe and the boost
ing began Throughout the East Munroe
was lionized as the only man who had
ever planted a punch on Jeff's Iron jaw
hard enough to make his knees bend un
der him. After Munroe had received the
proper amount of boosting, with a
framed-up fight and a few fake wrestling
matches thrown In. challenges were hurled
at Jeffries. For a long time Jeff, know
ing what a big dub Munroe really was.
ignored the challenges.
At last the fight fans began to demand
that Jeff meet the miner. The champion
had demanded that Munroe beat some
good men first, but the public clamor be
came so great' that Jeff finally agreed to
fight the miner. In speaking of ...de I
heard Jeff say:
"I never would have made the mistake
of fighting Munroe but for the fact that
they made me believe that he really did
count for something in the game. I trained
as hard for my fight with him as I ever
did in my life, but If I had known what
an awful dub he was. I wouldn't- have
trained a day. Why. the very first thing
he did was to beg me to let him stay for
a couple of rounds, so as not to show
him up. He was whipped when he went
into the ring.
"Honestly, he was the worst excuse for
a man I had ever met. I was going to
let him stay for a while, but when I got
to thinking how he had fooled me. and
made me fool the people, I made up my
mind to finish up In a hurry."
Only a few of Jeff's close friends are
aware of the fact that it was this fiasco
that made the big fellow quit the game.
He was disgusted with Munroe. and, hav
ing been a fighter whose record had never
heen smirched by anything that looked
like a frame-up. he was pretty much dis
gusted with himself. ' During the same
conversation he declared that while he
was not a rich man. he had earned enough
in the ring to keep him comfortably, and
that, while he liked money, he did not
want it bad enough to fool the people into
seeing him fight old, worn-out battlers
and fakers.
This conversation occurred in Harry
Corbett's old place, the night before the
Britt-Nelson fight. Billy Delaney, Jeff's
old trainer, was one of the party, and
with Delaney was Al Kauffman. Delaney's
new heavy-weight aspirant. Jeff sized up
young Kauffman and jokingly remarked
to Kauffman that, after he (Kauffman)
had cleaned up all the heavies In sight, he
could get a battle with a real champion.
Jimmy Coffroth was another of the
party, and it was this remark of Jef
fries that convinced Coffroth that Jeff
would again enter the ring:. From that
moment on Jimmy Coffroth has been
looking for a heavyweight to meet
Jeff. The two men know each other.
Coffroth knew that before he could
hope to get the big fellow Into a ring,
Jeffries must be satisfied that his op
ponent was of his own caliber, and
Jeffries knew that If Coffroth conduct
ed the fight the other man In .the ring
would be one who had been tried and
not found wanting.
Beyond question. Jimmy Coffroth is
one of the best fight magnates that
has ever pulled off a battle, bar none.
In the first place. Coffroth is a busi
ness man. He knows the value of
printers' Ink. and every time he gives
a fight he wants It to please the fight
fans, for he knows that when they are
pleased they will come again.
When Coffroth gives a fight, whether
it Is a battle between second-raters or
a championship affair, the public, after
he has signed up his men, is his first
consideration. No fight magnate in
the game spends as much time think
ing about and looking after the pub
lic's comfort as Coffroth. His seat
ing arrangements when he pulls off a
fight cannot be beaten. He knows how
to get a crowd into the seats, and how
to get It out, without fuss and without
hurry.
Once In a while some foxy guy rings
in a bloomer on Coffroth, but only once.
Jimmy believes that it Isn't the wise
man that never makes a mistake, but
that It is the wise man who never
makes the same mistake twice.
This is why the fight fans all over
the country rejoice that Jeffries has
promised Coffroth he will fight under
his auspices. Just now there is no
one in sight that is capable of giving
Jeffries half a battle. Sam Berger,
Is the gun and the dog ready?
The China pheasants are. and last
night and early this morning all the
passenger trains leaving the city car
ried hunters to the pheasant field. In
the baggage-car a chorus of yelps,
growls and barking and a mass of tan
gled chains kept the baggage man
swearing and wishing that his dog was
among the lot. This exodus of hunts
men means that the open season for
toppling over the Chinaman is at hand.
For weeks past the dogs have known
that the open season was approaching,
for their long rest has been
broken by long runs into the country.
sort of hardening and tuning-up
process preparatory to taking the field
October 1. In Portland alone there are
dogs valued at 550.000 that are used In
the fields for upland birds and in the
water for retrievers.
In the Willamette Valley and
throughout Southern and parts of
Eastern Oregon are found the Chinese
pheasant and native quail. This kind
of shooting calls for a good dog, and
there are plenty of them in Oregon. It
would be hard to say what breed of
hunting dogs holds sway among the
Portland hunters, especially among
those who make It a point only to hunt
upland birds. Opinions differ as to
the best dog for field shooting, so there
are as many, if not more, setters than
pointers owned in and about the city.
For hard work in the field, however.
the short-coated pointer is undoubted
ly the best. It does not take a long-
coated dog a long while to get so warm
That he will lose his power of scent and
over-run the birds. This z- about the
only advantage the pointer has over the
setter.
Conservative hunters estimate that
Portland sends Into the fields on the
opening of the pheasant season each
year fully 500 sportsmen. Some go
down the Columbia River, but for the
most part they hike to the Willamette
Valley. From Portland south the
woods and farms will be scoured for
Hongkongers. Not all of the farmers
will allow promiscuous hunting on
their places, and many a hunter will
find himself looking down a gun bar
rel on Monday, with an order from the
man behind the gun to skidoo.
Tne story printed the other dav to
the effect that the farmers were kill
ing off the pheasants will not down
with the hunters. Men- who have
gained knoweldge of the China pheas-
ant have
nepc tracK or the long
Tommy Burns and Jack O'Brien are
the three big fellows who have been
doing a. lot of talking lately. Jef
fries could take Berger and Tommy
Burns on in the same day and then be
ready to take on O'Briep in the even
ing.
Kauffman is out of the running, be
cause O'Brien chopped the youngster
to pieces wnen tney met. All that
Sam Berger has done Is to fight a six-,
round battle with O'Brien in Philadel
phia, where they cannot render a de
cision. Sam's showing in this fight
was very good, and entitles him to a
longer match with O'Brien, a fight
which Coffroth is now trying to get
cerger 10 consent to. Tommy Burns
HTJNTEKS MTST HAVE LICENSES.
PORTLAND, Sept. 29. (Sportlnj
Editor OreBonian.') Please notify the
hunters that the bird season opens on
Monday for all game birds, but before
they leave Portland for the hunting
fields that each hunter must nrovid.
himself with a hunter'a license. Thla
Is the last warning and any and all
persons caught hunting after October
1 without having a hunter's license
will be arrested and prosecuted. There
will be no excuse as all are familiar
with the law. Any person who Is
for the protection of game will abide
by this and all same laws.
There are plenty of blrda in this
ectlon this year. boys. My advice Is
to be good and go see F. S. Field
the County Clerk, and get your licence.
W. A. MACK,
Deouty Game Warden.
victory over Marvin Hart doesn't
count., He wouldn t have any more
chance against Jeffries than Abe At
tell. Should Berger and O'Brien fight
and should O'Brien win. which he
ought to do. O'Brien might be a can
didate for Jeffries. It would be a foot
race until Jeff got close enough to the
wily Quaker City lad, then it would
be curtains for the Philadelphian.
Dan Kelly Welcome Back.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene
Sept. 29. (Special.) Dan Kelly, the var
sity sprinter, who made a world's record
of 0:09 3-5 at Spokane last June, has re
turned to college, to the unbounded joy
of his college admirers and the immense
gratification of Trainer Bill Havward.
With Kelly again on the track and some
new distance men from the freshman
class, the varsity track team will be very
strong, and an attempt will be made to
compete against the teams of California
and Stanford.
BUSINESS ITEMS.
If Baby Is Cutting- Teeth
Be tiure and use that old and well-tried rem
edy, Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, for chil
dren teething. It soothes the child. - auftena
the gum, allays all pain, cures wind colls
and diarrhoea.
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AT CRUCIAL STAGE
This Season Tells Rugby's
Fate in California.
MINOR SCHOOLS IN LINE
But Colleges of Northwest Did
Xot Follow Stanford-Berkeley
Lead as Faculties Had
Fondly Hoped.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. Sept.
29. (Special.) A queer situation has
evolved here out of the faculty innova
tion in supplementing American inter
collegiate football by Rugby. The
Stanford student body has ever been
loyal to Jimmy Lanagan, with a loy
alty 'almost unto fanaticism. Lanagan
being a man of few words and great
deeds, long ago concluded that further
objection to the faculty decree would
result In good to nobody, and so set
himself heart and soul at work to de
velop a creditable Rugby team.
At his call for players a month ago
every able-bodied athlete in the univer
sity tumbled out to learn the new
game, and if possible to assist in main
taining Stanford athletic prestige. At
first the squad made a wry face when
it practiced at 'dribbling'." passing and
other features of the new game, which
seem almost feminine in comparison
with the salient points of the old
"slam-bang" football. . It is still a bit
ter pill for the-athletes, but they are
taking their medicine bravely, training
and practicing as consistently as ever
did a varsity squad of former years.
If Rugby is not a success at Stanford
the faculty may never consistently say
that It was not fairly tried.
This Season Test Permanency.
Stanford still clings to the hope that
the old game will be restored. All
recognize that football is being criti
cally tested this season Just opening.
If the new rules eliminate roughness
to a large degree, if the maze of protest
which swept over the country last Win
ter has had the effect of cleansing the
game of the athletic parasites, who
cling to it for a living rather than for
any sport in its playing, the chances
are good for a restoration - here- In
California of the old style of play next
year.
Yet another factor, not so important,
perhaps, but still worthy of consider
ation. will no doubt influence the Stan
ford and Berkeley faculties to a de
cision whether or not football shall be
restored. If the colleges of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho can pull through
the season successfully and establish
the fact that they are not at all de
pendent on the California universities
for athletic direction, they will do more
than most people at present suppose
toward a relegation of the English pas
time, for it cannot be gainsaid that
when the California faculties took their
radical 'step last Spring they were
somewhat inclined to the belief that the
universities and schools of the Pacific
Coast would follow their lead. A lit
tle firmness right now in the Northwest
States among the schools and colleges
will go far toward dispelling the illu
sion. California All Going Rugby.
Circumstances more and more in Cal
ifornia are encouraging the athletic
faculty committ.ees of Stanford and
Berkeley in the conviction that they
can firmly establish Rugby in this
state. Increasing defection from the
American game is being reported every
day from secondary schools and col
leges, and even in San Francisco the
High Schools are showing the first
signs of weakness.
If the football season of 1906 in the
East does not bear the scrutiny of
athletic moralists, if this season is not
a thorough success in the Northwest,
the seal of fate is placed on American
football at Stanford and California for
a good many years to come, whether
the coming . intercollegiate Rugby
matches attract popular favor or not.
It would seem that Stanford has lost
for good the services of Dan Murphy,
the rowing coach, who so successfully
piloted the four of the Portland Row
ing Club in the international regatta
at Lake Quinsslgamond last Summer.
Murphy made a favorable impression in
the East, by his clever work with the
Portland bqys, and it is understood that
he has received several offers there,
which preclude the possibility of his
returning to Stanford. He has a per
manent berth with several Atlantic
boat clubs, and it is g'enerally reported
that the University of Wisconsin- is
willing to throw over Pat O'Dea for the
veteran Irishman who brought the four
unknown 'huskies" out of the West to
open the eyes of the Eastern boating
world.
Directly Stanford benefits by Mur
phy's trip East with the Portland crew.
Through him, the .cardinal crew has
virtually been invited to participate in
the Eastern intercollegiate rowing
event of the year at Poughkeepste, N.
Y.. next Spring. In this meet Cornell.
Syracuse, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin and
Georgetown enter, and the only regret
of Stanford is that he will not be able
to send her crack crew against these
universities under the direction of
Murphy.
dry spell, and know that the two
broods that the Chinamen are in
the habit of raising each year were
raised this season because there was
no rain to kill off the young chicks. Of
course the farmers kill pheasants In
and out of season, but It would take
a great deal of ammunition to kill off
enough birds to make the limit killing
impossible.
For a week past the local gun stores
have been doing a land office busi
ness. Just what becomes of the shot
guns that are bought each year around
about the time the pheasant season
opens is a mystery. Yet when the open
season rolls around there Is a rush for
the gun stores, and by the time that
the last day of September has been
checked off the calendar the stock of
guns has been about wiped out. The
gun is a big Item In the hunter's ex
pense account, but It Is a small one
compared to the cost of shells. The
season opens on Monday, and bringing
the figures down to bedrock it is safe
to. estimate that fully $5000 will be
shot away on the opening day. Figur
ing the cost of railroad transportation.
FIGURES ON FARES
Ball Fan Estimates Expense
for Northwest League.
WOULD REVIVE OLD PLAN
Movement Is Again on Foot to Join
Northwestern Cities in Circuit
and Leaving Old Coast '
League.
Every once In a while some old-time
fan will break loose with a cry for a
Northwest League and he will do a whole
lot of talking about the money that could
be made with Portland. Spokane, Butte.
Seattle. Vancouver, B. C, and another
city or two in the league. This fan has
never sat down and figured the cost of
such a league, so he knows not of what
he is crying about.
Railroad transportation ie one of the
largest items of expense in running a
ball team, and many a manager has lost
hours of sleep and much nervous energy
trying to figure out a league that would
keep the railroads from eating up all of
the profits. 'Since the Pacific Coast
League invaded Portland and Seattle, the
Southern Pacific . Railroad has had the
lion's share of the money paid out to the
railroads. When the old Northwest
League was in operation it was the North
ern lines that got the money.
The revival of the talk of taking Spo
kane and Tacoma into the Coast League,
or dropping the Coast League and again
entering the Northwest League, has made
a fan with a fondness for figures take up
the cost of transportation. He shows
what Portland would pay to the railroads
for transportation in a Northwest League
and he shows by figures the cost of mov
ing players In the old California Outlaw
League. Here is the way the fan has it
figured out:
The ' Northwest League desired by some
fans Is Butte. Vancouver. Seattle. Tacoma,
Spokane and Portland. Making the season
24 weeks for convenience, every club would
play in every one of the other towns two
weeks. It would cost Portland $30.25 per
ticket to Butte and return, or for 14 men
$423.50 each trip, or $S47 tor the two trips.
Tickets to Vancouver B. C, and return,
$13.50. or $378 for two trips of the team,
or $1225 for the season, assuming that
Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma could be vis
ited without extra cost. This would make
an expense of $5104 per week for tickets
for the Portland team in tae Northwest
the tip to the expressman for carrying
the dog. the cost of shells and other
Incidental expenses, each hunter can
figure that every pheasant he gets will
cost him no less than 50 cents. The
limit is 10, and only about half of the
hunters who go out will be able to get
tne limit. Me wno is unfortunate
enough not to have a dog had better
stay at home.
No game bird that files Is harder to
kill than the pheasant, unless one has
a dog. The average China pheasant
can outrun a racehorse, and. once an
old rooster catches sight of Mr. Hunt
er, he is hiking for the next county. It
takes a good, fast dog to catch one that
has only a broken wing, so a man
without his dog in a stubble field Is
about as helpless as an infant with a
fan. A dog that knows his field work
and knows the habits of a pheasant
will, when he discovers that his quarry
is on the run. dash out and make a
wide circle and head the runners oft.
He will turn the birds back, and per
haps the hunter will get one or more
out of a flock that he would have
never got a shot at without his dog.
League. Dropping Butte and Vancouver,
each team would visit each town four times
In 24 weeks. Tickets to Spokane and re
turn. $15, or $210 per trip, or $640 for the
season. To Seattle. $7.50 per ticket, or
$105 per trip, or $420 per season, making
an average weekly expense for tickets of
$52.50.
California, before it Joined the Pacific
Coast League, consisted of four towns San
Franetsco. Oakland. Los Angeles and Sac
ramento. Round trip between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, $15 per ticket, and
between San Francisco and Sacramento.
$5. making It $20 per ticket around the cir
cuit. Figuring on their season of 38 weeks,
each team played in the rther towns six
times, making the tickets $20 per man. or
2S0 per team, or $1680 per season, being
an average weekly expense of $46.66.
In the Pacific Coast League, under the
schedule prepared by your humble servant,
all teams start In California, make two
trips North each season of SO weeks. A
round-trip ticket from Los Angeles to Port
land Is $35; two trips would be $70. As each
team plays In each city three times, there
would be an extra trip around the circuit
In California, which would be $15 more,
playing Fresno, on the Los Angeles trip'
This would make $85 per man. Trip to
Seattle and return is $7.50. or $22 50 for
the three trips, making the expense for
tickets $107 50 per man and for a team of
14 men. $1505 for the season, averaging
a weekly expense of $50.16 for tickets It
win be noticed that the Northwest League
of four cities had the greatest weekly ex
pense, Callfronla the least, and the Pacific
Coast League would be lighter than either
the old or tne proposed Northwest League.
WILIi DECIDE CHAMPIONSHIP
Trunkmakers Meet Brainard Ma
roons on Diamond Today.
This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the last
ball game of tne season will be played,
on the league grounds, between the
fast trunkmakers' team and the Brain
erd Maroons. The fact that this game
will finally decide the amateur cham
pionship of Oregon, adds additional in
terest to the game. These two teams
have not met this season and as they
are very evenly matched an interesting
game is expected.
Another point of interest to the local
fans is the fact that "Slats" Davis, if
he arrives In time, will handle the Indi
cator. The lineup follows:
Trunkmakers. Maroons
Taylor pitcher..-. Parrott
Antoine catcher Brock
Dorner - first base. Trowbridge
Brown .-.seconj base Campbell
Day third base.... Mangold
McClellan ...shortstop Gray
Van Nortwick.left field Hathaway
Briggs center field Oliver
Jameson right field Smith
College Football Games.
At Princeton Princeton 74. Villa
nova 0.
At Columbus Ohio State 41. Otter
bern, 0.
At Philadelphia Pennsylvania 32,
Lehigh 6.
At Worcester Holy Cross 6, Am
herst 5. - ' '
At Easton, 'Pa. Lafayette 34, Wyo
ming Seminary 0.
At Providence Brown 12, New
Hampshire State College 0.
Portland Is Believed to Have a Cinch
on the Flag Coffroth and
Graney Are Again at
Swords' Points.
BY HARRY a SMITH.
SAX FRANCISCO. Cal.. Sept. 29 San
Francisco fans are breathing free once
more With all their independence and
don't care attitude in regard to the north
ern end of life circuit, they had their ears
to the ground so long as President Bert
was in the north, and there was a sigh of
relief when the word came along that
Seattle would make the southern trip and
probably be In the league next year. Of
course it would be possible to have a
California state league, but It would be
lacking the spectacular show of the Coast
organization, and if Seattle and Portland
stay, the personnel of the league will not
be disturbed.
While there has been some talk from
Seattle: I notice, of a league with eight
teams, the suggestion has not been re
ceived with any great amount of favor
here.
The Eeavers are again in California,
playing this week at Idora Park, and the
crowds have been particularly good this
week, as the fans like to see the cham
pions. While a bad slump might lose
Portland the pennant, such a thing is not
liable to happen.
At present, writing the boxing game is
in a tangle, and whether It win be
straightened out In a hurry is a problem.
Jimmy Coffroth and Eddie Graney are
more than at swords' points. There is
open enmity between them. When Coff
roth offered 66 2-3 per cent for the
O'Brien-Berger fight. Graney made a bet
ter offer and said he was willing to put
up a $5000 deposit that he would make
good. Graney thinks That as he made the
first offer. Coffroth should have kept his
hands off.
It looks very much as if Coffroth would
secure the plum for Colma on Thanks
giving day. 3am Berger is on the ground,
having arrived Tuesday night. His man
ager, jack Gleason, arrives Saturday, and
if O'Brien returns from the couth, then
will come the real discussion.
Berger says that he wants a fight with
O'Brien the very worst way. and that,
after O'Brien he is willing to take on any
one. "That's the reason I rushed back to
California." said Berger. "I wanted to do
everything in my power to keep O'Brien
here. .Mark my words, there will be no
trouble in our signing. There are. of
course, some preliminary matters to be
settled. The people want to see us fight,
and as public sentiment demands it, I am
willing I am confident, after my six
round fight with O'Brien in Philadelphia.
that i can beat him on the longer route,
and I will show you people what I can .
do. Those articles in Chicago were mere
ly a rough draft "
Jeffries stirred up public opinion when
he announced in San Francisco last Mon
day that he would fight again when a
logical candidate made his appearance.
Upon his arrival in Los Angeles, how
ever, he denied the report, and said that
he was either misquoted or misunder
stood by the newspaper men of San Fran
cisco. The facts of the case were that
Jeffries, mellowed by the opening of sev
eral bottles of wine and the presence of
Billy Delaney, Jimmy Coffroth and a host
of his friends, agreed to almost anything
He certainly did say that he was willing
to fight, but when R. E Morse got hold
of him the next morning he changed his
mind.
Things will be humming out at Colma
in a short time if Billy Roche, the fight
promoter, has his way. Billy has Lew
Powell and Willie Wolff, the two San
Francisco lightweights, for his card next
Tuesday night. For October IS, Al Kauff
man and Fred Cooley, the latter sparring
partner for Jack O'Brien until O'Brien was
knocked down in an exhibition at Detroit,
have been matched. Billy Delaney signed
up for Kauffman. and Cooley had already
signified his willingness to come West.
Charlie Neary. the Milwaukee lightweight
who was offered a match with Dick Cul
len. declined with thanks, stating that he
was after bigger game. That settles
Neary with Roche, and he will have a
hard time securing a match here.
e
If the Governor of Kansas again inter
feres with the Joe Walcott-Billy Rhodes
match! scheduled for Sunday morning at
Leavenworth, the two welterweights will
fight in California. The boys were of
fered a chance to scrap at Colma for 60
per cent of the house, and have accepted
provisionally.
GOOD STUFF AT WASHINGTON
Coach Place Is Much Pleased With
Bunch Turning Out for Practice.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se
attle, Sept. 29 fSpecial.) The university
opened here this week with an attendance
of nearly 900. This is the largest regis
tration for the first week In the history
of the institution, 800 having registered in
the first two days. This crowded condi
tion is being made the lever to bring
forth a generous appropriation at the
next session of the Legislature.
Football practice began immediately
under Coach Place, of Dartmouth, and
Trainer Conibear, of Chicago. About 30
men are turning out daily for practice.
The men of last year's team who are
back are: Bagshaw, Jarvis, Reser, Neber
gale and Captain Crim. Parker, of last
year's second team. Is almost certain of
the position of quarter. Among the new
men who show promise of making good
are: Boggs and Burke, of Tacoma High
School: Forsythe and Connaught. of
Port Townsend Athletic Club, and Willis,
the University of Montana's last year's
fullback.
The team will probably weigh about ISO
pounds, though the change in rules makes
it somewhat difficult to forecast the line
up. Coach Place considers this the best
bunch- of football material he has ever
trained. October 6 .the vareity will play
a practice game with the sailors from
the United "9tates ship Chicago, and until
then the line-up will be problematical.
NEW FOOTBALL RULES TRIED
First Harvard Game of Season Is
Played Without Casualties.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Sept. 29. Har
vard defeated Williams, 7 to 0. in the
first football game of the season, a
touch-down and a safety contributing
the points.
The effect of the new rules was soon
shown in the quickness in which the
game was played, not a minute being
taken out for injuries, while rough
playing was almost entirely absent.