The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 15, 1907, Section Four, Image 38

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 15. 1907. KELLY DECLINES -TO COME HOME SCENE AT RUGBY GAME AT BERKELEY AND FOOTBALL STATUE PRESENTED TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RUGBY GAME COMES TO STAY iff t - x , " - - - v ' - Champion Sprinter of Pacific Coast Will Remain in Eastern States. California Colleges Are Warm ing Up to the English Style of Football.- , K t - ' " 4 ti. i! JJlfc j -m fflNE MATCH AT BERKELEY TAKES DEFEAT VERY HARD 4 Kir yvy, C 1 oft r 7. 3 If 4 S3 r Has Secured Position In Pittsburg With Frlessell, Former Oregon Athlete, and Will Go to Work. Wins the Jump Easily. BT W. J. PETRAIN. Dan Kelly la not coming back to Ore gon. Such la the startling-, though not al together unexpected, newi received yes terday by Morris Dunne from E. E. Mor gan, who was at Jamestown and wit nessed the oontests In which Kelly par ticipated. Morgan's letter also conveys the in formation that Forrest. Smithson Is to compete at the meet of the New York Athletic Club this afternoon. Bmlthson made quite a hit with the New Yorkers and they Invited him to visit their olub and participate In the meet, and he ac cepted. In referring to Kelly, Morgan expresses the slncerest sympathy for the Oregon boy and his failure to score In the short eprtnts. Before the meet at Jamestown Morgan had a chat with Kelly and his trainer, BUI Hayward, and both expressed the keenest confidence In the result of the Jamestown events, and after the de feat of the Oregon man, he was the most disappointed spectator on the grounds. Kelly did not seem to run as he did In Oregon, and was almost disconsolate at his defeat. It was a most trying ex perience for a number of the Easterners took occasion openly to. affront the Ore gon poy and the crowds roasted him un mercifully. This latter made Kelly angry and. returning to the field he showed that he was not a quitter by winning the broad Jump easily. Kelly Going to Pittsburg. Before leaving Jamestown, Kelly In formed Morgan that he was going to Pittsburg where he Intended to enter the employ of Frank M. Frlessell, the former University of Oregon and Multnomah Club athlete, who Is engaged In business In the Cmoky City. This disposes of the talk that Kelly was about to enter the University of Michigan. An extract from Morgan's letter. In which he refers to Kelly's showing la as follows: "Kelly -made a poor showing In both sprints. He camo In last In the trial heat of the 220-yard dash and the time was 23 seconds. In his trial heat of the ion.- both Seltz and Gerhardt beat him in the slow time of 10 2-6. Before the race Hayward told me that Kelly was In per fect condition. After the race he said Kelly was down too fine. I have seen him run In Oregon In better time, and with much less effort. Yesterday he ran with much effort and as though It was very hard work and there was no snap or life to his movements. He was hope lessly out of It at the 60-yard mark and finished well back of the bunch. Takes Defeat Hard. "Everybody on the grounds wanted to see Kelly win, and he felt very badly after the meet because of his defeat. In the 120 It was very evident that he had lost confidence In himself. Later In the afternoon, when he was being called a false alarm by everybody, a reaction set In and he got his Irish up and came back and gave another surprise. He won the broad Jump by the mark . of 23 feet 11 Inches and every one of his Jumps was over 23 feet. ' He told Sullivan In my pres ence thit ha would not return to Oregon, but would remain In the East. Frles sell, the former Oregon athlete, has se cured Kelly a position In Pittsburg." Mr. Morgan concludes his letter by an nouncing that he will be In Portland In about three weeks and will have more to say about the Jamestown games. He was the official cierk of the course of the meet and received a handsome gold medal which was presented with the compli ments of the exposition directors. Eastern Press Comment. In publishing the results at James town at the A. A. U. meet the various Eastern papers comment on Dan Kelly as follows: New York World Dan Klly. of the Uni versity of Oregon, the greatest sprinter of the country, holding the world's record of ft 8-5 seconds for the 100-yard dash, was beaten at the Senior National Championship at Jamestown today. In the dash with Kelly was Charles Parson, the San Van-1 Cisco champion. Hera two great sprinters f-ll before the mighty Hun", the Chicago Athletic Association wonder, who surprised ths talent by nosing In ahead of W. D. Eaton, of BoHton, the world's champion 00 yard dasher, who finished second. New York Eun The senior track and field championships of the Amateur Athletic lnlon took place at Jamestown today and in many ways proved remarkable. The world's records were shattered and thare were many surprises and upsets of previous form. By far the most absorbing event of ths day was the lOO-yard, in which the stars were Dan KUey. of Oregon University and holder of the world's record af tf 3-3 Sec onds and Herbert Parsons, another flyer from the Pacific Coast. "Everybody wanted to hsv a look at Kelly and they got a good square peep at him the second trial heat, which he barely won In 10 2-5 seconds. Parsons won the third heat In exactly the same time. In short, all three trial heats were the same. Katon of the Boston A. A. winning the first, with Huff, of Chicago, second, in the final heat Kelly and Parsons did not ap pear "to have much life left ,ln them and Huff of Chicago won by about 18 inchee from Eaton, with Parsons a close third. Kellv was fourth. There was some doubt about the placing of the men. Victory for 'the Irish. New York Press The Irish-American Athletic Club overwhelmed their rivals In the National Amateur Athletio Union championships at the Jamestown exhibit The wearers of the winged flst scored 62 points In the various events, nearly three times as many as their nearest competitor, the New York Athletic Club, which aeored only 21 points. The Chicago A. A. finished third with IT points, while the Olympic Club, of San Francisco, scored 14, the Bos ton A. A. 6. and the Multnomah A. a. A. of Portland. Or., and the University of Oregon 6 each. While the score shots the division of the prizes, it does not tell of the manner of winning them, for the members of the Irish-American Club scored In X'l of the 10 events, and won nine championships. "The much-touted Dan Kelly, who rep resented the University of Oregon, failed to uphold his honors in the lOO-yard run. Kelly was recently credited by itie Ama teur Athletic Union wifh the record of 0 3-5 seconds for the century dash, but failed miserably In the competition, not even gam ing a place. H- J. Hufr. the Chicago A. A. sprinter, won - the event, with Eaton, the Boston A. A. man. second, and Parsons of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, third. The time. 10 1-5 seconds, was rr behind that credited to many of the competitors in the event. Huff repeated his victory In the 220-yard run, beating Gehrardt of the Olympic Club, and Selti of the New Tors A. C. In 22 1-5 seconds. "Smithson, the Multnomah hurdler. lived up to all predictions made of him by West ern men, and won the high hurdle event from Shaw, the New England Intercollegiate champion, In the fast time of 15 8-9 seconds. Mi M K JV -VS lU" -V. V- 14 ms, GOOD 6CcZ'17mc? PITCHERS' BATTLE Commuters Make but One Lonesome Run Off Hart man's Delivery. WRIGHT IS HIS OPPONENT Allows but Two of McCredie's Braves to Dent the Pan Double-Header Is to Be Played Thia Afternoon. Gee, but It was a loneeoroe town for the Commuters yesterday afternoon. Truck Eagan's lone home-run was the only bacon In the pan that the ball tossers from the earthquake sone could steal from Hartman. and but for this belt, which went over the right garden wall. Pop Van Haltren's hired men would have returned to their soup and nuts, scoreless. The score was 'Portland 2. Oakland 1. Manager Mac wanted the Saturday game, not because he hopes to win the pennant, but because there is to be a double-header this afternoon. Hart man for Portland and Wright for Oak land fought out a pretty pitchers' bat tle. Mr. Wright was wrong In the third canto and It gave the home talent a chance to ring the bell. With Hartman In cold storage, Casey waited for free transportation. Burdette's infield out helped him along the Journey and when Bassey poked one on the seam for two stations, Casey rolled home. Fine. Hartman slipped along until the fifth Chapter without getting more than a scratch. His pendulum was working like grandfather's old clock used to work In the long ago. He had control and the benders oozed over the pan in such a way that even Old Man Derrick .couldn't help but call them. All right for Hart man. .In the fifth with no one up but Eagan and no one down, the big sorrel-topped shortstop JuBt leaned against one of Hart man's finest and the last heard of the ball was that It had gone Into Wash ington County looking for Judge Mc Credie's latest phenom. This tied the proceedings In a true lovers' knot, which lasted until the seventh inning. Jimmy Byrnes opened this chapter with a poke to Brick Devereaux. The old Red Dog knocked the ball down, but ' there was a lot of steam in the wallop and by the time Oakland's cigardealer had hooked hlmBelf. Byrnes was roosting on first. Hartman drove a shin toaster to Kagan. Truck couldn't handle the grass- burner in time to retire any one, so this made two safe. Casey went to the morgue via the infield, but it left Byrnes perched at third. Burdette kited a long one to left field and before the toss back happened Byrnes sprinted with the win ning run. In the closing canto Oakland got chesty. Jimmy Smith biffed one safe. Haley hit to Hartman and he tossed ,the ball to Schimpff. Nothing doing because the Baron wasn't holding 'em. Pap Van Haltren thought he was going to start something by bunting. He did. He bunted a bloomer to Hartman and before Haley could get back to the switch, there was a double. Hartman wasn't taking any chances with Eagan. He walked, but Holtmuller was 'lasses candy. The big student . hit to Schimpff and the song was sung. The score: OAKLAND. AB. R. BH. PO. A. E. Smith,. If 4 0 2 2 0 0 Haley,- 2b 4 0 0 12 0 Van Haltren, cf.... 4 0 0 4 0 0 Eagan, ss 1110 2 0 Heitmuller, rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 White, c 3 0 0 5 2 0 Bigbee. lb 3 0 0 11 1 0 Devereaux, 3b....... 3 0 0 0 0 0 Wright, p 3 0 0 1 fi 0 Totals 29 1 J 24 13 1 PORTLAND. AB. R. BH. PO. A. E. Casey, 2b 3 114 2 0 Burdette, cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Bassev, If 3 0 1 2 0 0 Donahue, lb 4 0 0 8 1 0 McCredle, rf 4 0 0 4 0 0 Mott, 3b 3 0 1 2 0 0 Schimpff. ss 2 0 0 1 3 1 Byrnes, c 3 114 2 0 Hartman, p 2 0 1 2 2 0 Totals 28 2 6 27 10 1 RUNS AND HITS BY INNINGS. Oakland .-. 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 01 Hits 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 13 Portland 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 Hits 10 10 112 0 6 8UMMART. Struck out By Wright. 3: Hartman, 5. First asa on balls Off Wright. 1: Off mm w n I ..... ?f'','J reiJ lis-1 1. 1 Mir LsslntrsirttnmBitiliillMltltfliilisniWfit rmtun.inni i THE JeUGBY T-AJCsroSS' PXZSCNTZD EydXHESD PHZLLAA.tAMD CULPTU7eEDSy Hartman, 3. Two-base hit Bassey. Home run ESagan. . Double play Hart man to Donahue. Sacrifice hit Bassey. Stolen bases Burdette, Mott, Schimpff. Prominent Football Men of Northwest College Teams Elmer Armstrong, captain of this year's team at the University of Idaho, is re garded as one of the best halfbacks in the Northwest. Idaho students are count ing upon Armstrong's generalship and playing ability, and expect great things from him during the season. j. M. Simpson, manager of the Idaho eleven, has arranged an interesting schedule for his team. The most im portant games are with Oregon, Pullman, ' r ! Hil l I , If- '-i I tmWms. Wv a In ui r -s .-"- v si if hi ''-"' . ' fill i ri ? J -v w V , v ' jot voh owl I4t, ftl I T ..JS f mm Hit by pitcher Schimpff, Hartman, Mott. Passed ball Byrnes. Left on bases Oakland. 4; Portland, 4. Time of game 1:30. Umpire Derrick. 7 Washington and Whitman. The game with Oregon will be played on Multnomah field on October 26. J. M. Ulllgrren, manager of the Pullman eleven, is a prominent and popular man among ths collegians of the Inland Em pire. Victor M. Place, head coach at the Uni versity Of Washington, Is a Dartmouth graduate. He coached Washington last year and has been engaged for the coming season. 5 V 9 'A 1 4 iv -4; i t : HI . S "4 ST L. v-yV'': .y. ,n :?v'-: 1..- .-"jr. vv. kj JoJ Svt5, d?s, FOOTBALL WILL -BE BETTER GAME Popularity In Pacifio .North West Promises to Be Great er Than Ever Before. NEW RULES GAIN FAVOR y Indications Are That Reformed Stylo of Play Will. Be Glren Much Attention The Outlook Is Bright. BT REFEREE!. Football is the all-absorbing; toplo of conversation In amateur athletio circles Just at present, and Interest In the work of the coming season is already manifesting Itself. A number of the colleges of the East and Mid dle West have already opened their doors, and during the coming week: most of the Institutions of learning of the Pacific Northwest will begin the work of the Fall term. Whitman College began her year's work under favorable auspices and Coach Balrd has started the preliminary work of football practice. Idaho will begin work tomorrow, but Oregon, Wil lamette, Pullman and Corvallis will not call their players out for another week. The fact that the rules committee made but few changes In the rules means a continuation of the open play and a further development of the for ward pass, the on-side kick and other popular formations. Men who are well-posted on gridiron matters say that there will be more punting and more place-kicking than there was last season. Many of the coaches Of last year held as closely as possible to the old style of play and attempted to win ! games by pouildlnsr through center or STATE, C4lLGZ: over tackle. Few games were won In this way. , The forward pass and on-slde kick, as well as the regular punt, were sel dom used last year until the third down. The former plays were looked upon by coaches as "fake" plays, and were used with great caution. Punts and place-kicks were usually at tempted after regular old-style forma tions had failed to net the necessary yardage. A few coaches experimented and did so with considerable success. Idaho had several splendid forma tions, and used them to advantage in her Thanksgiving game wlfh Wash ington. Pullman and Oregon won most of their games by , place-kicks, and kept their own goal-lines safe by splendid defense. Whitman showed good form with the forward pass, but most of the teams of this section stood by the conservative formations of the old line-plunging game. Will Be More Exciting. This year will bring about numerous changes in the general style of play. The conservative coaches will Join ths ranks of the radicals and many ex periments will be tried. The open gams Is still in Its Infancy, even at such Institutions as Princeton, Tale and Harvard. Coaches In all parts of the country are figuring on new plays, and new possibilities. Formations that were looked upon as last resorts a year ago will be tried on ths first down this year. Punting will be mors frequent, and place-kicking will be tried from greater distance. The game will be no more dangerous than last season, but it will be more desperate and more exciting. Fumbled punts In the back field will lose mors than one gams and spoil the otherwise good records of formidable teams. Quick formations, calling for speed and headwork, will be more common than old-time line bucks. Long end runs will be more frequent than last year, as many teams will use this style of attack. According to the recent changes In the rules, there will be a less serious penalty if the forward pass is dropped on the first or second down. Last year, the penalty for dropping ths forward pass was the loss of the ball. This year, however, the penalty is a set back of 16 yards. This will give the attacking team a chance to try the same play again or punt. This change is the only one of consequence that the rules' committee saw fit to make. John R. Bender, head coach of the Washington Stats College, is enthusi astic over the new style of play. He believes that ths American gams is becoming so popular that there Is no danger of Its ever being supplanted by the English game. Bender has de voted a lot of time to the study of the new rules and will havs some good formations for his men. The same may be said of J. Arthur Balrd, the Whitman coach. Balrd Is a Northwestern graduate and has spent the Summer near his alma mater. He comes back to the Northwest brim full of modern football ideas. Victor M. Place, the Washington coach, has already announced that he will de velop a more open style of play, and that Washington men will be taught to take a long chance on all reason able formations. Norcross, the Corvallis coach, and Chase, the new man at Willamette, will bring out the latest ideas of "Hurry Up" .Tost, and Archie Hahn, another old "Michigan man, will have all the latest plays from Ann Arbor. Gordon Frost, Oregon's head coach. has been In conference with the best football talent at Dartmouth and other New England colleges, and ought to be wise to all ths new developments 6f ths game by the time college opens at Eugene. Taken altogether, the coaches of the Northwest college teams rank high as generals of the game, and there is every reason to believe that the quality of football in this section will im prove by leaps and bounds during the coming season. Competent Officials in Demand. Good football officials are not over abundant In the Northwest, but there are several men who will doubtless be in demand during the coming season. Hugh Boyd and R. N. Holkenberry, of this city, showed themselves to be competent men last year, and they will no doubt be in demand again. Chet Murphy, Horan, Lonergan, Mc Millan and several other prominent men of the Multnomah Club are com petent as well as Impartial men, and Bruce Shorts, of Seattle, has a reputa tion for fairness and for keeping the game going along without unnecessary delays. George Hug, Oregon's center rush, has shown himself to be a competent and fearless - official in a number of minor games, and will no doubt be used In some of the more Important contests of the coming season. The fact that W. Lair Thompson formerly of Albany, will not officiate In any of the season's games, has caused a general feeling of disappointment in football circles all over the North west. Thompson has moved to Lake view where he has established himself in the legal profession. He has of ficiated in most of the important games of Western Oregon and Washington for the past four seasons, and his im partial decisions and strict enforce ment of the rules have made him the most popular of all the Northwest officials. ' Many old college men from the East are coming to the Northwest each year, and these, together with the of ficials that are being developed' out here, will soon Insure a liberal supply of competent umpires and referees. Freshmen of University of Califor nia Defeated by San Francisco Team H. W. Kerrigan - Writes of Kelly's Defeat. BT H. W. KERRIGAN. BERKELEY. Cal., Sept. 13. (Special oorrespondenoe.) It looks like Rugby has. coma to stay. This is shown by the en- thuslasm and attendance at the game between the U. C. Freshmen and Bar barians, of San Francisco, last Saturday on the Berkeley field. There were fully 2000 people In the west side of the big bleachers surrounding the new Univer sity grounds, and the rooters were there en masse, led by Sam House, who Is pretty much the superintendent of all events connected with university life. One would think It a regular big field or a football day the way' the students yelled, both for the opponents and their own men. Considering that the game was not ad vertised at ail, it had an exceedingly large attendance, I thought. But the fellows say that It really was the first time the Fresh girls, all the Sophs, Juniors and Seniors had a c -ice to eee""each other In a body. And they take advantage o( some big occasions like this to do so. And they would miss a pretty gathering if they didn't, for it certainly was an at tractive bunch of Coeds' that tripped in through the gate that day, arrayed In their best. Some came in autos, others came afoot, but tosy were all there and the fellows were not far behind, dressed j their dandiest and looking fit to kill. But in spite of the fact that they were there to see and be seen, they were all trus blue and yelled lustily for the Freshmen. This is getting away from the football game, but It Is true Just the same that athletics play a most prominent part in the life of this as well as other big col leges of our country, and nothing testi fies more to this than the statue that meets the eye as one steps on the Uni versity grounds proper. The statue of two football players, and strange to say, they are Rugby players, too. One has j been running with the ball and has evi dently been hurt near the knee, and his I comrade kneels at his side tlelng band- 1 ages around the wound. They are dressed in sleeveless Jerseys, snort running pants, a golf stocking nearly to the knee and low shoes. The statue was presented by James D. Phelan, of San Francisco, (and sculptured by Douglas Tllden) In honor of the two successive victories over Stanford in the years 189$ and 1S99, with the names of the men that made football famous when the old game. Intercolleg iate, was still played at the University, among them being such men as most everyone Interested in football wiil re-" member, Percy Hall, Grelsburg. Wombie, "Locomotive" 8mlth, "Kangaroo Pete'' Kaersburg, Hopper and Prlngle. This statue Is the only status on the grounds and placed most prominently where every one can see it. We did not think that when they erect- 1 ed that statue, the game of Rugby would ever come to our universities. But it has and the statue itself stands for the gams, and symbolizes that It has come to 1 stay, because it really is a good game. When one stops to think, statue of the old collegiate player, with all his pads and protectors, certainly would have looked queer from an artlstio standpoint. So all in all, without pads, as the status portrays it, the short, light-running costume is the only logical costume after all, which means that Rugby Is the most sensible and will last for all time. For what use is a game when so many pads are need ed to protect the athlete from injury? It is going back to medieval times. . Some say that Rugby will not take the place of the old game. But any one seeing the game Saturday and the enthusiasm displayed by the admirers of the old game, too, yes enthuse In spite of all their prejudices, would believe that It Is the future game On the Coast; In fact, the whole nation, colleges and prep, schools, will come i to It soon, thus saving many a crip pled athlete and more men for the other sports on track and field, for light men as well as large men can play the game with less chance for in Jury. We are young yet at the game, but it is coming, and will be a greater gams than it has ever been because it will be taken up by the American athletes, who surpass the rest of the world's athletes in speed and endur ance and skill. These players will make it a better game. And as Lanagan. the coach for Stanford, has said: "The only marked difference will be in the scrimmage of the forwards. In fact, in Australia now they have very little of the scrimmage In the game, doing away with it altogether, which is a good thing, as this part of the gams more than anything else, has been the most objectionable part of the play ing." Although the freshmen were beaten It to 3, they played an excellent game. Well, the National games on track and field have passed, and the athletic world has seen Kelly run. Is it satis fied? Parsons also ran. Neither one of them did anything at all, you might say. What is the excuse? Was it the long trip? Was it condition? No. it can't be that only, for how did Kelly Jump 23 feet 11 Inches if he was out of shape And he didn't get a place in the two-twenty, either. And neither did Parsons. And the 100 yards was run in 10 1-5 seconds. What will the Easterners think about the West now? Tes, Smithson won, all right. We are glad of that, but still the last year he has had Eastern training. And to think that old "Pop" Gearhard won second In the two-twenty. Just think of that! These are only a few of the many questions and guesses that one hears since the National meet. What else will we hear on the return of the athletes: It was a well-known fact that Par sons was not in proper shape. Chris tie knew It, and spoke of it before Parsons' trip East, and, in fact, wrote' about it last Thursday from the East. It Is too bad that Kelly did not get a place in the races. Something must have been radically wrong. Either he was, or the Northwest officials must have been to blame. Just as athletes are developed, so should good track offlicals be trained. This is true East as well as West. The officials are just as Incompetent in the East and Middle West as on ths Pacific Coast.