TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3IARCII 8, 1908.
CREWS ARE AT OUTS
SPORTINTG EVENTS OF THE WEEK AND A FEW IN PROSPECT
KILLED BASEBALL
Stanford and .California. Un
able to Agree'. '
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OWNERS' ALMOST
Jjick .Young Says Magnates
; Encouraged Rowdyism
j 'on Field.
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UMPIRES WERE " BAITED
REGATTA DAY IS NOT. SET
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Tender Clean Tactics of the Present
I Management, Great American
Game Has Flourished as
j Never Before.
Nicholas -K. Young. . of,. Washington;
wfio was for many years president of
t!(e National league and one of tjie best
Mi most widely known men ever con
nected with baseball, in a recent inter
wSrw made the flat statement that base
ball was all but killed a few years ago
by the tactics .of several club owners,
wtio not only countenanced, but encour
aged, the rowdyism of their players on
the field. . .
fi'oung Is in a position' to know more
about this subject tnan any man who-has
jer been In the game. While he was
president of the league all the trouble
nlade by squabbles between clubowners
nfd umpires and the players and the in
dicator handlers, fell on his shoulders.
When ltame to giving the public any
Information in those days Young was a
sphinx. ' Still it was well known that the
suggestions, requests, complaints and
threats that came to him from the mag
nates in regard to umpires' added many
a gray hair to Uncle Nick's head.
Umpire baiting was always a feature
of baseball almost since the inception of
the. game. As early as I860 a critic of the
game wrote. "We hope to see the boys'
3lay- of disputing over the decisions of
tinipires entirely done away with."
Nearly 50 years have passed and still
the, "boys' play"' goes on.
Ill 1869 the following article appeared in
a New York paper. It was headed
"Rather Severe"; 'Kelly says tnat Peck's
dummy has created quite an excitement
on Aim street. Dressed in a full base
bail rig he looks quite natty. Scofield,
of the- Haymakers, did think about
bringing the figure over to the Union
Gub'unda to act as umpire in the Haymaker-Kck
ford game yesterday, but a
young man named Monell was found who
answered nearly as well."
Xjck Young's Story.
Following (b, Nick' Young's story of the
umpire problem while he was president
of the National League:
"Rowdyism has been almost entirely
eliminated from baseball within the last
10 years; Umpiring is a pleasure now to
what it was a few years back, and it is
all because the clubowners came to the
rcuWxatinn Just In time that they were
killing the" goose which laid the golden
eggs by allowing' the players to do as
they pleased on the ball field.
"During my regime the clubowners
were always wlljiug to talk of legislation
aiMtnst the : rowdy player, and they
passed- rules, too, but when it came "to
enforcing them ngainst their players it
w9- a different proposition. I have had
courageous men on my umpire staff who
sirnpl; could not stand the abuse which
used to be heaped on them, and it re
curred all sorts of persuasion to koep
tljcin from resigning. Nowadays umpires
are plentiful, but in' those days there
wrre but few men who cared to tackle
the Job. r ' ,
"Hank O'Day. now one of the" best um
pires in the'rbustness. resigned - twice in
two days que Summer., but, I .persuaded
hm to stick to me. He was working In
Hjiltimore. and one night he came to
Washington and notified me that he was
through. I urged him not to.-resign. buf.
td go back and drive the plavers who
wre trying to got him out of baseball
opt . of it. He went back, but'the next
nightie was back again, and this time
jilgni fie i
lif was d
indicator t
npd he we
determined never to handle -an
again. But I pleaded with him
vent back, and from that time mi
lifc was a star. Lynch, one of the very
best men the game ever produced, re
signed because of the abuse which the
layers -heaped on him. and there was
nbt a man on the staff who did. not tire
l least' two or three times a year and
wanted to quit.
i Halting the Umpire.
"Strange to say. the clubowners at that
IJne believed that to . stop the players
Mom baiting the "umpire wouid be a
detriment to. tho game. They thought it
amused the spectators to see an official
Viulcd and pushed about by a lot of.
payers, and when it was suggested that
t!jis sort of practice be eliminated, it was
aigued that it would kill the sport, which
wj-Mild-lie lamp unless the wrangling be
tween players and umpires was tolerated.
Irjiw mistaken this impression was has
siice .been proven, for the game has
ntver flourished as It has In the last
ritht or ten years, and it is still only in
111 Infancy.
'Had no action been taken to protect
1l(e umpire and to eliminate the rowdy
t;-tlrs which were in vogue In my time
I ii satisfied that baseball would almost
ba a dead letter now. The better class of
riiople and true sportsmen were kept
ay from the ball parks because one or
t-o players thought it the proper thing
loj conduct themselves like roughs on the
field. Just as soon as it became known
tliat only clean ( baseball would n tol
ernted. they all canin back and brought
thousands with them. The iball player
nowadays who resorts to. rowdy tactics
Is; a rarity, and he soon learns that It
ioes not help his popularity in the least
t'K-aJi baseball is the greatest of all out
ddor sports, and the time will never come
when It won't be the greatest American
gijnie. There is nothing to take its place
rid yet its future "Was threatened a few
ars back because those who had it in
thrir hands could run see where the fault
wis." New- York World.
,frllM-TKS KI.KCT OFFIUKKS
st Side High School Association
Ready for AVork.
At a meeting of the Kast Side High
Sc,hfol Athletic Association, held last
Tisday. the following officers were
elf:ted:"Presldent," Hillary Cason; vice
president. Kay Kellogg: secretarv.
IMrbert Cook; treasurer. Delbert Staa
najrd: baSeball manager. Theodore
l.ilum; board of directors, (students)
Glkdys Wiggins. R. Landfare. D.
Stfcvall. O. Morrow, Willow Fields and
faculty). F. Harrlgan. W.' A
Kojistermaeher. Miss E. Armltage. Miss
l.rtna Nealond and K. E. Jackson.'
Next week the baseball team will
tuffi out. for practice at East Twelfth
nil Davis strerts, under the direction
i't i hZ. K. Jackson. The association is
composed of young people, who made
nl excellent record last year In
athletics, and who are determined to
do letter this year.
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FAVORS NEW RULES
College , Football Pronounced
Better Than Rugby.
TRIED FOR TWO YEARS
Ex-Head ' Coach at. Harvard Com
pares Former Rough Game With.
' Present' and Draws '; Conclu
sions on Side of American.
i "William. T. Reid. Jr., former head foot
ball coach at Harvard, and prominent
in: the legislation of two years ago that
resulted in the new football, has wTitten
ln; the current number of the Occident
Magazine, the s-tudent publication of the
University of California, a plea for the
American college game of football, as
compared with the Rugby game, which
now takes the place of American football
on the Coast.
Reid. in he article, strongly favors
the American game and declares that
recent legislation proved 'its salvation,
'lie says:
"The game of American football has
been played now for' two years under
the revised rules. Rugby has been
played for two years also. It would aeem.
therefore, that each game has been tried
long enough to furniEh a basis for com
parison. '
"The old American game was discard
ed, temporarily at least, at the Univer
sity of California and at Stanford, be
cause the game was not open enough,
because there was too much mass play,
because injuries were too many and too
serious, because football was too much
of. a business, and because it was too
brutal. Rugby was adopted because it
seemed to be comparatively free from
these undesirable attributes. .
Football and Rugby..
"Let me now make some comparisons
of the new American same with Rugby.
In the first place both teams seem to
require about the same type of player
and the same degree of physical fit
ness, although It is a matter for debate
as to whether Rugby is not the more
exacting in the latter respect.
"The game seems to me to be about
on a par, as far as. opportunity for
roughness and the likelihood of injury
nre concerned. -This statement is likely
to be questioned. I know, but 1 believe
thtt it is borne out by the facts in the
season Just ended. Certain it is. at any
rate, that the reports of injuries at both
colleges were numerous.
"Neither game is one which can be
played with much pleasure or satisfac
tion by those who are not at-least in
partial- training: - therefore, neither will
ever satisfy the demand which it Was
thought Rugby would satisfy for a Fall
game which everyone could play, and
which would bring on to the Held every
day a large percentage of the student
body..
"Neither game, if properly coacned.
should send a boy to his room after
the day's practice, incapacitated through
fatigue for a good night's work. In
deed, a player should ordinarily sit down
to his books with a clear head. and. If
be be a fellow ot purpose, with a real
lest for study.
'Both games offer opportunities for
foul play, though I think that Rugby
has a little the advantage in this re
spect, being a mure open and visible
game. This Is not a very serious mat
ter, however, since any man who makes
up hie mind to do a dirty thing can
find a chance in either game.
"Voul play cannot be stopped by
rule.
VNext and. here we' come to the
parting of the ways Rugby permits
victories to be woi on penalties. This,
it seems to me. is un-American, as Is
the English custom of not allowing
substitutes, and is a distinct weakness
In the game
"Rugby is unquestionably more open
exosrts in ATCPi.aV' WICIPflTION OF ; GREATE ST. PLEASURE' .
than the American ' game, though,
whether-, this openness is a point of
superiority or not is a question for dis
cussion. To the writer It - seems as
though It had been secured at' the ex
pense of those features which' consti
tute the principal strength of the
American game.
Element of Chance.
"The element of chance figures to a
far greater extent In Rugby than in the
American game. This is especially true
of the "blind" passes frequently made
by the Rugby players in their endeavor
to avoid being tackled wim the ball in
their possession.
"Rugby and the American game
differ vitally with respect to the sig
nificance that may be attached to the
location of the ball on the field at any
given moment. That is to say In
Rugby the ball may be now in one
part of the field, now in another, a
change in location . due not. .to . any
planned and consistent attack through
which credit might accrue to the team'
thus benefited, but to the many and
often startling, vicissitudes of the
game. On the other hand. In . the
American game, such changes In posi
tion, while less kalledoscopic, , argue
a strategical or a physical superiority
of one team over the other
'The general effect of all this is to
make Rugby the more spectacular of
the two games, but at the same time
to rob it of that sense of ground won
and held which is so characteristic of
the American game.
"Without carrying this comparison
further, I feel that I have gone far
enough to warrant me In drawing some
general conclusions as to the- relative
merits of the two games.
"Rugby is simple, more easily
Jearned, more open, more spectacular.
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MISS 1ZKTTA JEWEL 1ST HKR EW TWKM'V.HORS&POHER MAIIVBLL TOt'RIti CAR, PIRCHASED
THIS CITY FROM THE PORTLAND MOTOR CAR COMPANY.
but it is more of an individual game:
has in it disturbing elements of chance;
allows penalties to figure too largely
In the score, and does not afford op
portunity for consistent advance or
the exercise of much headwork on the
field. '
"The American game is complex-and
diversified. It is educative: it w essen
tially a team game, a game of co
ordinated action directed by skilful
strategy, stimulated by a well defined
purpose and rewarded by a feeling of
deserved and consistent- - accomplish
ment." BEND SCENIC PHOTOS EAST.
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CHOSE HARDY MEN
Autoists on Trip Around World
Tried Out.
IN CHARGE OF RECORD MAN
Some of Xew York-Paris Race Had
- Experience in Long Runs and
Otbcrs. Belong to En
: ginecrtng Service.
The foreign drivers and mechanicians
In the New Tork-to-Paris automobile
race have had considerable experience
In endurance contests, and several took
part: in the Pekin-to-Parls race last
year, says the Chicago Record-Herald,
Each man was selected with a view to
his special qualifications for the long
and .arduous journey across the two
hemispheres. The men were in excel
lent physical condition and thoroughly
prepared for the rigors o the hazard
ous undertaking.
G. Border St. Chaffray, the driver-in-chief
ot the De Dion car, was the
winner ' of - the mnch-heard-of Pekin-
to-Paris contest last year. His wide
experience in this event and other en
durance tests has made him a specially
valuable man, and the originators of
the New York-to-Paris. race engaged
him to take charge of the present run.
Captain Hans Hendrick Hansen is
Chafrray's assistant driver. Before
leaving Russia to take part in the race
he made a bet o-f 10,000 rubles ($7700)
that the race would be successfully,
completed before June 15
Lieutenant Hans Kuppen of the Ger
man Protos car is a member of the
general staff of the German army. He has
been In the service of the Kaiser for
14 years. He la not an automobilist.
but a sportsman, and is entering the
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race In-, that spirit. Hi's military ex
perience commands the confidence of
the proprietors of-the Protos car.
Engineer Knape is first officer .of the
German engineer corps. ; He entered
the infantry branch of the German
service and afterward was shifted to
the engineer corps. His love of
mechanics and of machinery is what
led him to abandon the infantry service
for the engineer corps. He is a clever
mechanician and thoroughly famtlliar
with the tietalls of the work which he
may be called upon to perform on the
trip.
Antonio Scarfogilio, the driver-of the
Lust car, -is Jhe son of the proprietor
of an Italian newspaper well known
in Naples, Italy. He is an amateur
driver and has .entered .the. race- from
a sporting spirit and a desire, for ad
venture. He has had long experience
in autoing and is considered a compe
tent chauffeur: His companion On the
trip is M. Sirtori,a well-known Italian
chauffeur, while Henri Haaga will act
as alternate driver and mechanic for
the team.
FOREIGN PUGS ' LACK SKIIJj
George Dawson Says Emigration Is
' the Reason.
From time immemorial, even since
Goliath took the count before Tavid,
excuses nave not been lacking from de
feated puglists. "If"; and "might-have-been'
are favorite - phrases with
them. But it remains for George Daw
son, the old-time boxing instructor of the
Chicago, Athletic Association, to explain
the decadence of a whole nation of
fighters. Bill Squires need no longer
be ashamed of his poor showing In this
country If the excuses - offered by Iaw-
son hold water. Emigration, and ' the
consequent lack of proper' instructors,
says . Dawson, is the - reason for the
luxuriance of the lemon crop in the Anti
podes. "By that," says George. "I do not
mean that all the physical perfection of
Australia left the country, but that the
passing of all the good fighters left no one
fit to train th4 younger generation.
"Fifteen years ago the Australian
stamp was enough to Insure the quality
of a fighter. The American and English
boxing fans took kindly to the Austral
ians; they all migrated: they didn't go
home, and they left none of the live
ones behind them. And there. In my opin
ion, is the reason for the present infer
iority of the Australian fighters."
OBJECTS TO FOOLISH LAWS
AtTO MANUFACTURER REFUTES
CRITICISM.
Contends That Road Should Be Built
to Accommodate Modern
Requirements.
" T.et them keep the automobiles in
doors when it is wet arid icy.' Such is the
statement reported' to have been made
by John Menwagen, -chairman of the
Board ot Local improvements of the
great city of Chicago." remarked B. F.
Everett, of the Wayne Automobile Com
pany, says the New York American, as
he laid down an article on the light
against automobile chains being made in
Chicago.
"Our friend the enemy," sarcastically
continued Mr. Everett, "then goes on to
say that the chains on automobiles are
ruining the pavements In the city; that
the people who have to pay the taxes
never use the streets, and that all rthe
people using automobiles live on the out
skirts so that they don't help to pay for
the pavements they ruin.
"Another brilliant statement ' this
learned chairman of Improvements makes
is that the only time the wheels slip is
I when the chauffeurs are speeding the
macmnes.
. It is just such ignoramuses as this that
are responsible for a whole lot of the fool
legislation being enacted, to the detriment
of the automobile industry legislation
which is entirely unwarranted legislation
which, by virtue of its unfairness, is do
ing the industry a great injury by placing
it before the public In a false light.
"When the old roads were not able to
longer care for the advancement in com
mercial lines we laid pavements. Nobody
in those days complained that the heavy
wagon cut up the mud roads; they sim
ply went to work and made the roads for
the wagons. Such will be the eventual
outcome of this age.
"Legislation will .not be made prohibit
ing the automobiles from using the roads,
but by the evolution of things the- roads
will be made to accommodate .the' auto
mobiles, for only a few: ignorant and uninformed-
people take the stand, that the
automobile is anything but a .commercial
necessity and . becoming more- so every
day. .- - -
"The statement that the people should
keep the automobiles indoors- when it is
wet and Icy is . just -as assln-ine as the
same; statement would be if applied to
.human .beings.. - t r - - -
"It is also untrue that the people who
pay the taxes never use the streets, as
everybody knows Ithat in most communi
ties throughout the land the owner of the
automobile-pays; two and sometimes three
taxes upon his . car. : He first pays his
general tax upon it as personal property,
then he has.to paya license to drive it
on the street, and in some states an addi
tional state license, and in- other states
an additional road license, so that when
It comes to a question of taxation nobody
can say that the automobile is not over
taxed instead of undertaxed.
"The anti-chain laws may flourish for a
brief time, because legislators and public
servants are always to be found who are
ready to make a play -to the galleries on
most any. pretext and this is nothing
more nor less than a play tho the gal
leries. "The day is coming, and coming fast,
when the automobile will receive the
recognition to which it is entitled, and
when that day comes, such fool legisla
tion and such fool - remarks as those
made by the eminent J. M. Larrabee,
chairman of the Board of Local Improve
ments of Chicago, will be hooted into
quietness."
The top of trie Great Smoky Moun
tain has been reached by a Haynes
automobile.' which was lately driven by
a Hayne3 owner from Kokomo down
through Kentucky and Tennessee with
out trouble whatsoever in the long and
arduous trip. - The Smoky Mountain is
350o feet in height and the grades are
severe. In one stretch the grade is full
45 per cent. A model O Haynes was
UBed and not once in the entire trip
did the- motor balk and the entire trip
caused not a single puncture.
University of California Manager
'Declares Annual Race Will Be
Held on April 11 or
Xot at All.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. March
".(Special.) The question of a date for
the intercollegiate regatta has been
threshed out for the last two weeks be
tween the executive committees who
have charge of the athletic affairs of the
University xf California and Stanford,
and as . yet no agreement has been,
reached.' There is considerable difference
between" the dates that are favored -by
the two universities. California wishes
to have the regatta on either April 11 or
18. and prefers April 11. Stanford favors
a later date, and suggests .April 25, which
Is about the date on which the contest
was held last year. The reason assigned
by the California representatives for
asking the early date is that tho final
exsmtnations at the University of Cali
fornia begin on April 22. and.it is not
desirable ;o keep their athletes in train
ing during examination week...
Stanford's position in the -matter is
indicated in a letter written on February.
24. by Coach Turner, of Stanfard, to
Coach Tyssowski, of California. Turner
states that the Stanford boating interests
do not approve of . making rowing sub
servient to any other intercollegiate sport,
and that the regatta should have a day
of Its own. coming after the intercol
legiate track and baseball events in
order that the men engaged in the latter
sports may have an opportuinty to
witness the races. He concludes with the
statement that it will be impossible for
his crew to row before April 26, but is
willing that California should , set the
date at any time thereafter.
Graduate Manager Snedigar. of Cali
fornia, was present at a meeting of the
Stanford executive committee held on
February 27, in which, the question of a
date for the regatta was thoruoghly dis
cussed. Manager Snedigar seemed, im
pressed by the reasons on sv-blch Stan
ford has taken its stand, and promised to
take the matter up again with the oars
men of the University of California. 'At
the same time Stanford offered to com
promise to the extent of allowing the
regatta to come off any time after April
18, the date for intercollegiate track meet.
Last Saturday, however. Captain Dean
Witter of the California crew made a visit
to Stanford and informed Manager Knupp
of .the latter university that the California
men will row on April 11 or not at all.
No final action has yet been taken, and
until further developments come to light,
the date, when the race will be held is a
question that technically lies with the
graduate' managers of the two universities
to settle. Both universities are becoming
anxious, however. - to terminate the dis
pute, for It is necessary to arrange for
a date of meeting very shortly in order
that Washington may be notified and
have suitable time for making all neces
sary arrangements for the regatta. Prob
ably the date finally fixed will be cither
Monday. April 20. or Tuesday. April 21.
The date upon which -the . tides will be
most advantageous will be chosen.
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