THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 26, 100S.
THE f CARTOONIST'S IDEA OF THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SPORTS
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AMERICAN YACHTS
Corvallis Wants to Play in
i Portland, but Eugene Op
poses Plan.
Superiority of the Designers
Shown by Upton's Refusal
to Race Again.
WILL COME NEXT SEASON
CUP WILL BECOME RELIC
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DISCUSS
CHANGE
UNABL
DUAL
ANNUAL
Both Sides Advance Strong Argu
ments, but Metropolis Appears
- to Be Best Place for Big
Football Contest.
BY REFBREE.
t The transfer of this year's Oregon
' O. A. C. football game to Portland has
aroused no little discussion In state ath-
lytic circles, but there Is a diversity of
opinion as to the wi3dom of the change.
, For several years the Oregon Agricultural
College has asked to have the big game
' played here In the metropolis, but the
: university has stoutly refused, and has
insisted upon a campus game. Commit
i tees representing the Athletic Council of
: the university and the faculty athletic
committee of the Oregon Agricultural
College met in this city during the holi-
days and drew up a tentative agreement
which provided for the playing of the big
Rnme in this city during the next four
. years, i ne Auueuc uiuimi ui iuc um-
verslty refused to ratify the agreement,
' ! but at a meeting held in Eugene last Sat
' urday the football manager was author
; : izrd to arrange the Portland game for
this year only.
unanimous for a Portland game, but at
Eugene the preponderance of opinion is
I just tho reverse, although there are a
number of Oregon students and alumni
r who would like to see the game played
, here annually.
Why Game Should Come Here.
; Those who want the gamo transferred
- to Portland say that both Eugene and
I Corvallis are unable to handle the vast
crowds that gather for the big event, and
' that many of those who attend are unable
to get food or shelter In the college
. towns. Many of those who went to Eu
gene for the game of last season came
away hungry, and the hotels of the var
i slty town were so crowded that many
visitors could not secure rooms. These
i ; same conditions exist when the game is
i played in Corvallis.
1 . During the recent Eugene game more
' ; than 3000 spectators suffered the diseom-
titure or standing up ior neany mree
hours, the seating accommodations being
' altogether inadequate. There is no deny
' Ing the fact that the game has outgrown
' ' 4Ua MnllAnn tABin. nnrl hosiul linnn hi
. consideration, it ought to be moved.
Another argument In favor of Portland
! is the neutral field which would afford
a fair chance and no favors for either
' team, and eliminate the aftermath of
; : bickering that has followed many of the
" '. Oregon-O. A. C. games,
i ', It is also argued by friends of the
' Portland movement that this game is al
; . ways the big event of the season in the
Northwest, and that it should be played
where the greatest number of people can
1 BrC 11. JIIBl. Ui5 lUllfi HO IHD (iamb
played in the small college towns it will
' be of limited importance and will not re
ceive tho consideration which it should
i ' be accorded.
; Portland is the metropolis or Oregon,
' ' and Portland pays a large share of the
taxes that go to support the two state
schools. Surely, it is not unreasonable
, for Portland to ask for this game, es
. peeially as college football is growing
more popular here each year. The trans
portation prohlcm from Eugene and Cor-
vallis to Portland would not be a serious
1 nnc, for the Southern Pacltic Company
-has already 6ffcred exceptionally low
excursion rates from both towns. These
. excursion rates would enable the poorest
' students of both institutions to see the
Riime, which would also be within easy
rrach of many alumni and old students
who reside here.
would be a great money-maker and would
put into the treasury of the athletic as-
soeiatlons of both institutions enough
money to carry on all branches of ath
letics successfully. College baseball, track
Athletics, oratory, debate, glee clubs, etc..
seldom pay expenses, and usually depend
upon tho football surplus to carry them
through. From a business standpoint,
therefore. It would seem that the game
' -ought to come here.
Students Want Campus Game.
A majority of tho university students
want the gamo to remain on the campus.
They aro honestly and sincerely opposed
to its removal. They recognize the game
as tho big evert of the season, and they
want to see it kept within easy access to
; ', ride from Eugene to Corvallis. and the
' railroad fare is only one-third as great as
the fare to Portland. The change to
.' Portland, so say the university students,
would put a damper upon college spirit.
; would foster commercialism and pave tne
way for gambling, drinking and acts of
. rowdyism.
They argue that amicable relations be
tween the two schools are more likely to
rxist when one body of students are hosts
; ind the others are guests than where
both are flocking in large numbers to a
1 . neutral ground. They believe that the
ftudents of one institution should famil-
iarize themselves with the work of the
- other, and that this result can best be
- accomplished by friendly visits at the
: time or Dig atmeuc events.
In this connection it might be well to
note that the Oregon students believe
. thai all athletic contests should be on
; the campus of one of the contesting
' teams. They do not wish to continue the
Oregon-Idaho game in Portland, and have
arranged to play it alternately in Moscow
; and Eugene during the next two seasons.
Portland the Proper Place.
It is the hope of the writer that the
'. big game will be played here, not only
this year, but annually hereafter. The
arguments against the Portland arrange-
ment are appreciated, but they do not re
fute the stronger arguments in favor of
the change.
The Oregon-O. A. C. game of 1907 was
! ' the greatest event of the Northwest sea
; son. This year's game promises to be
' equally as good. "With its new grand-
stand, seating more than 4000 people,
Multnomah Field would be an ideal place
i for such a game.
MAGNATES EASILY BUXCOED
;;Or $170,pOO Worth or Ballplayers
; Only $10,000 'Worth Make Good.
"If I could only look into a ball-play-'
er' heart when I make up my mind to
; pay good money for him," says Presl-
dent Barney Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg
elub. "In the last eight years I have
''xpended about I1TO.O0O for ball players,
t ' only about 10,0C0 wortl of them
out to be the real thing.
am not the only magnate that
has been stung in that manner, either.
A good friend of mine in Cincinnati
bought lemons by the crate under the
impression that they were luscious
peaches. I'm I willing to bet that he
didn't come off any better than I did.
"And there is a feature that is worse
even than that. If an owner pays a
lot of money for a player, and then
finds out he is no good he doesn't feel
so very bad. But if he turns that
player over to some other club, and a
wily manager waves his wand over him
and converts hint into the real luscious
fruit, oh, what a headache!
"But we'll keep right on doing that
very thing as long as we stay in base
ball. A player may look pretty good
before he faces the big -league batters,
but his heart may fail him at the
psychological moment, and away blows
a bunch of pretty greenbacks.
"I think the baseball magnate is the
biggest greengoods man on earth. But
he doesn't bunco anybody but himself."
MAKES TWO RUNS OX HOMER
Umpire Allows Hixon to Score Twice
on Long Hit, In Game.
The Toledo team is to have the pitcher
this season who struck out 23 men one
day last Summer, and who then hit a
ball so far that he ran around the bases
twice, making two tallies and winning
tho game. Tho umpire decided that, as
the ball had not been recovered in time
to prevent the pitcher from going twice
around, he was entitled to two rune.
The gentleman referred to is I M.
Hixon, a big right-hander, who twirled
in the Waterloo (Ohio) independent team.
He is a schoolteacher in the Winter
time, but they say he has speed some
thing like that of young Walter Johnson,
the Idaho phenom whom Joe Cantillon
usberVd into the American League last
Summet.
Hixon pitched all the games for his
club, as they had no other pitcher. One
day when playing the rival nine his
team went to pieces in the first inning
and showed it could not field any kind
of ball. Hixon buckled up and struck
out all but five of the men who were
retired that day. It was after perform
ing this stunt that he hit out the double
home run. Chicago Record-Herald.
Many Entries for Bench Show.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. Officials of the
Westminster Kennel Club annouace heav
ier entries than ever for the annual bench
show to be held in Madison Square Gar
den, February 11 to 14. The number of
exhibitors, it is stkted, will be the largest
on record..
Entries from Europe are on their way
across the ocean and will be accepted as
will domestic entries bearing a postmark
not later than January 23.
CHIT-CHAT OF THE
BY WILL G. MAC RAE.
ONCE more the forward pass is in
danger of undergoing an operation.
The skilled doctors of the football
rules will shortly hold consultation over
the patient.
Governor Hughes ' is backing the fight
against racing in New York state. This
will certainly endear him to a lot of folks
in and around Portland who ere Against
the bang tail game. There is satisfac
tion in knowing, however, that the Ore
gon delegation to the national conven
tion won't be delivered to Hughes.
Mysterious Billy Smith, refused to box
at the Jack Hill benefit, unless Yost wore
a sweater. Smith was afraid there was
a Anthony Comstock in the audience who
would object to looking at nude living
pictures. At least that is what the
mysterious one said.
Now that amatuer boxing lias "taken"
in Portland it will not be long before a
lot of clever youngsters will be de
DAM KELLY WHO p .EAST TO TOE THE MARK
MISTAKES BY HORSEMEN
BA1 JUDGMENT IS SOMETIMES
SHOWN BY KEENEST.
Virginian Tells Story of How Billy
Garth One Time Lost Golden
Opportunity.
It may fairly be presumed that Billy
Gat th, the keenest of the modern school
of Virginia horsemen, knows as much
about horso trading as anybody. Ho
was talking about some of the queer
phases of horse dickering the other
night.
"There are pretty nigh as many hard
luck stories in horse trading as there
are in horse racing,'' he said. "The
worst of it is that a horseman will
often involuntarily hand himself a
hard paste. I've done that myself, not
once, but often.
"Once I had a mare shifty third
rate sprinter, but a right good proposi
tion for the minor circuits that a
well-to-do man from my state who
wanted to get into racing had his eye
on. He came along to the farm early
in the Spring, before the racing season
had begun, to look the mare over.
'I hadn't taken her up yet, but her
record for the previous season wasn't
So bad. I had the mare saddled and
brought out, with a coon boy astride,
for a jog. y
" 'Perfectly sound, is she?" the man
who wanted to get into racing asked
me. as the mare trudged around the
grounds. -
" 'As a new flute,' I said. 'Never
walked a lame step in her life, and eats
like a hired man. Sound as a taw
agate.' '
" 'What are you asking for the mare?"
he asked me.
" 'Two thousand flat, and not the
price of a cigarette under that,' I said.
" 'Give you fifteen hundred right
there where you stand," he said, pro
ducing his roll and beginning to strip
off yellows.
" "Couldn't think of It,' I said. 'Might
as well put your money back in your
clothes. The first three purses the mare
hauls down this season will give me
fifteen hundred, and she'll still be' mine.
If she doesn't traipse away with nine
or ten purses this year I'll eat her."
"He wont right ahead counting out
hundred-dollar bills. Finally he had got
fifteen of the hundreds sorted out and
he put the rest of his wad away.
" 'Here's your fifteen hundred, BUI.'
he said, trying to hand me the money.
'I'll send one of my boys over for her.
She's mine as she stands-, eh? Here,
SPORTING WORLD
veloped. While It is necessary to develop
the boxers, there is also a. chance to edu
cate the fight fan. He must be brought
to realize that a boxing bout is not a
finished fight and must be satisfied with
a decision on points and not by a knock
out. Jim B., we can't tell you what will
become of Russ Hall, should the North
west Lieague decide to drop Butte. Mana
ger McCredie said the other day he was
not looking for a shortstop. - '
This is the kind of weather that makes
the baseball fan stand around and wish
it was time to play balL It is also the
time of the season when the player wish
es he was on the pay rolL
When it comes to the advertising Kid,
we have to slip emblem to Dr. Roller,
of Seattle. When tooth carpentering is
at a low ebb in Seattle, the doctor breaks
Into the wrestling game. He says his
recent match with Farmer Burns was on
the square. All right Doctor, we believe
you now, but if you repeat it, don't blame
us if we get a bit suspicious.
m 1
take this money. I'm tired holding It.
You can tram her for me yourself. But
she's my mare from this minute,' and
he tried lo slip the roll into my coat
pocket.
"I've got to own up to it. but I'm
as pigheaded as any Yankee., And this
looked too good. If he'd give fifteen
hundred, why, he'd soon do better than
that.
"'You, Mose!' I yelled out to tho
coon boy n the mare, making a funnel
of my hands, 'take that mare back to
the shed!"
"That move, of course, you see, was
only to show my friend that I meant it
thought I didn't, and fifteen hundred
was more than right for tho mare
and to gouge my price out of him.
"Well, when I yelled that way at the
dlnge boy, he wheeled the mare sud
denly, and her head knocked against a
projecting branch of a peach tree that
was covered with blossoms. A great
shower of the blossoms fluttered down
upon the mare's head, scaring her.
"She jumped like a tomcat filled with
birdshot. Then she got her teeth down
on the bit and hopped for It.
"Gentlemen, the way that mare
plowed up my tarm! The-crazy coon
boy dropped the reins and hung on
around her neck. Then, panic hitting
him as she made straight for a high
board fence, he slid off backward.
"The mare, crazy with fear of those
fool peach blossoms, tried to take, the
fence, head down. But she'd never been
asked to do anything over the sticks.
Anyhow, this board fence was seven
feet high.
"She plunged at it, hit the top scan
tling with her forelegs, and fell back,
both of those forelegs broken. I had
to shoot her on the spot. For being
pigheaded, like a Yank, I was out a
nice mare and $1300. I could have
saved the $1500 anyhow, by letting it
remain in my pocket when my friend
had slipped the bills In there, and the
mare's loss would have been his, for
that's the. way it's done in borse trad
ing bargain strike, bargain stick."
New York Sun.
HE DID XOT LOOK GENEROUS
Compliment of Yobng Woman Dis
pleases Hunter Hill.
Hunter Hill, ,who rjlayed third base fot
Washington a few years back, was not
noted for any Apollo-like beauty ot
countenance, and, although he was in
the main a good natured player, his ap
pearance when at the bat was fierce, to
say the least. He was one of the best
sacrifice hitters then in the big league,
and for that reason he was generally
called upon to make a sacrifice hit when
ever it came to his turn to wield the wiU
low.
One day when Hunter was at the bat,
with that grim look of determination
overspreading his expressive . if not
handsome countenance. Jack Thoney,
who was then playing on the Washing
ton club, was seated in the grand stand
with a young woman, having laid off
from play this particular afternoon.
Barry McCormick was on first base, and,
of course it was up to Hunter to sacri
fice, and so Thoney told his friend.
"But what does sacrifice mean?" the
fair fan inquired, with a bewildered
look.
"It means," Jack explained, "that Hill
there at the bat will allow himself to be
put out on going to first so that McCor
mick can reach second base."
'Dear me,': the young woman ex
claimed, "from Mr. Hill's appearance
you- wouldn't think that he would be so
generous and kind-hearted, would you?'"
Thoney told Hunter about it that night
down at the hotel, and Hunter didn't
laugh himself into hysterics over it all
at once, although the other members of
the club enjoyed the story hugely.
Washington Star.
Stanford to Try for Distances.
STANFORD 'UNIVERSITY, Palo Alto,
Cal., Jan. 25,S tan ford will enter a team
of distance runners In the Olympic Club
two-mile race in Golden Gate Park on
Washington's birthday.
WRESTLERS POOR BOXERS
NEVER GREAT IN RING, SAYS
FRANK GOTCH.
Champion Declares Matmen Arc
. Too Cautious Because of Habits
Acquired While Training.
Frank Gotch, the champion catch-as.
catch-can wrestler, has discovered why
a wrestler cannot succeed as a boxer.
"Some people marvel at my . desire
to get into the fight game," he says.
"They do not realize that the, wres
tling game is far harder, far more cruel
than the boxing. Some wrestlers on
the mat suffer indescribable pain from
certain holds. The boxer suffers little
real pain. A well-directed blow to the
jaw and he is in dreamland. He never
knew what hit him.
"I see no reason why I couldn't
make good in boxing. I am as fast
and shifty on my feet as any of them,
and I surely am as strong. There is
but one drawback.
"Here's the only difference between
a fighter and a wrestler. The mat
man pulls away; the fighter goes for
ward. See what I mean? Take, for
instance yourself. When your oppo
nent grabs hold of your wrist you pull
back. You resist him. You do not go
forward. Take a fellow, now, who
has wrestled as long as I have. Wres
tling has become a second nature to
i
me.
"I put on the gloves, we'll say, and
deliver a punch. Instinctively I draw
back before hitting. The blow loses
its force and makes me look slow. The
fighter whips one loose and never hesi
tates. If I could overcome that one
weakness I would gladly tackle some
of the big fellows.
"I am afraid to go too far because
it might mar my work as a wrestler,
as I still have my ambition to meet
Hackenschmidt. No man can be a
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great wrestler and a great fighter at
the same time.
"Yes, but I guess I'll have to go to
England to get the match with Hack.
He won't come here. I don't mean to
say he's afraid of me. He's a mighty
good man. But he is getting a thou
sand and more a week in the concert
halls of Europe, and he would be fool
ish to come all the way over here
when he can make more there. I'm not
knocking anybody's game. I just think
I can beat Hack, but because I think
so doesn't mean that he should chase
oyer here to meet me. I know- I threw
Tom Jenkins as easily as he did.
"The Russian is a wonderful man
physically. He is as handsome a speci
men as I have ever looked at. He
awes his opponent by his size and
build. But I don't call him a finished
wrestler. I feel sure I can beat him.
I'm going to try; anyway."
'STARCH BALIi" THE LATEST
Pitcher Manuel 'Working on Cum
to Relegate the "Spitter."
"Moxle" Manuel, the Southern League
recruit for the Chicago White Sox, has
received his contract from President
Comiskey and expects to answer to the
call for the first practice. Manuel was
a. star in Southern company last year.
He is practicing a new curve which he
expects to launch on American League
hitters. He uses it with the aid of
starch mixed with saliva. Manuel's ex
perience with the starch shows that it
is an improvement on the ordinary
"spitters." Manuel says it is possible
to pitch the "starch ball" with more of
a quick dart than a curve. He expects
to perfect it with the aid of Ed Walsh,
and says they have talked of it on for
mer occasions and agree it will eventu
ally succeed the ordinary "spit ball."-.
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Although Sir Thomas Is Ready to
Spend Fortune No European
Builder Can Compete With
Captain Herreshoff.
Sir Thomas Lipton's announcement that
he could not challenge again for the
America's cup under the old conditions
was a matter of little moment to many
But it really means that the famous old
"mug" the greatest of all sporting tro
phies Is to remain uncontested for. It
seems doomed to become a relic, says the
New York World.
The expressed inability of Sir Thomas
to challenge under the rules governing
races for the cup was an admission that
no yacht designer of note in the British
domains will undertake to compete with
Captain Nat Herreshoff.. And Sir Thomas
emphasized that point by adding that the
size of competing yachts was no object to
him. He would order a 90-footer as
quickly as anything else, but no one will
build one.
That sounds like an overdrawn state
ment, but one must take into considera
tion the fact that when a designer draws
the lines of an America's cup boat he
puts his all his foremost skill and his
reputation into the model. William Fife,
it will bo remembered, created tho first
Shamrock for Sir Thomas, and the Co
lumbia beat her by ten minutes and eight
seconds in the first race, or more than
20 seconds a mile. In the second race
the Shamrock lost her topmast and with
drew. Tn the third race the Columbia
won by six minutes and 34 seconds.
The late George L. Watson was then
called upon to design the Shamrock II.,
and many American yachtsmen today
believe she was a better boat than the
Columbia. On one occasion the Lipton
boat finished two seconds ahead, but lost
the race, as she had to allow the Co
lumbia 13 seconds.
Shamrock III. Settled Question.
Fife "then took up the work again, this
time modelling the Shamrock III. Tier
career, which wound up on September 3,
1fKi3. with the Reliance distancing her in
'a 15-mile thrash to windward and return,
settled the question In the minds of
British designers as to whether a yacht
built with a 90-foot waterllne and no
other restrictions could be sent over here
and win the cup. Fife has persistently
refused to design another- such ' boat.
Alfred Mylus. who had been successful
In British waters with smaller boats, was
talked of as one who might attempt" to
turn out a victorious craft, but he soon
took the same view Kife did. Both, how
ever, were and are still willing to design
boats under the present American or the
European measurements.
There was some doubt as to whether
Fife would accept any kind of an order
again from Sir Thomas, but he now has
under construction a small yacht for htm
to race.
Sir Thomas was first reported to be
considering asking the New York Yacht
Club again if they would change the cup
rules, and that he should persist in talk
ing about challenging under new condi
tions caused surprise among those yachts
men who heard of the statement attribut
ed to him. It kindled a feeling in certain
quarters that he is trying to benefit in
pocket by keeping his name linked with
the trophy. Sir Thomas well knows un
der what conditions he can arrange a
race, as he forced the New York Yacht
Club in make those conditions, and thpv
were sent to him.
New Rules Talk Kept Up.
Even long before the Shamrock. HI was
beaten by the Reliance, Sir Thomas
talked about new rules to govern the con
tests and has kept it up. When he sent
a challenge last Fall for a race with a
6S-footer under the present measurement
rule, the New York Club decided to settle
once for all the question of conditions.
The new rule had been found wanting,
and as custodian of the greatest interna
tional cup the club did not deem it ad
visable to apply the rule to races for
that prize. Furthermore, it was the gen
eral opinion that the cup was wortn
building 90-footers to race for.
At a meeting of the club called for the
purpose it was voted that competing
yachts shall be 90-footers In other
words, the fastest boats, 90 feet long on
the surface of the water that can be
built and that the question of time al
lowance (which would take into consid
eration the yachts' overhang, or water
line lengths subtracted by their deck
lengths) should be settled by argument.
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Thomas along with a letter declining his
challenge. He had been officially notified
before that negotiations would not be en
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been received.
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