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FOR HEhVIER ODDS
Negro's Backers Decline to
Bet Against Nelson at
Prevailing Figure.
COLORED MAN LOOKS WELL
Attell-Moran Fight Second In Inter
est Among Fight Fans Ketchell
Figured to Win From Papke
at Los Angeles.
BT HARRY B. SMITH.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Sent. 5. (Spe
cial.) The one subject uppermost with the
porting public in and around San Fran
cisco these days is the grand fighting car
nival that will be pulled off by Promoter
Jimmy Coffroth at the Mission street
arena. The curtain-raiser will be the
celebrated skldoo or Z3-round fight be
tween Abe Attell and Owen Moran on
Monday. Lbor Day. September 7. and the
other the fight to a finish, with Joe Gans
A D.iinv Valnin AN the narttclDantS.
To tell the truth, the lightweight card
has rather overshadowea me conirm ov
tween the featherweights. Attell and
Moran are the biggest men In their little
division, but Gans and Nelson have been
so thoroughly advertised and so well
known that Interest has naturally cen
tered In their contest.
Not only has this been demonstrated in
the opening sale of reserved seats, but It
has been proved as well In the crowds
that have thronged the fight camps, par
ticularly that at Croll's gardens In Ala
meda, where Joo Gans and Abe Attell
are both getting into shape.
Gans Watched Closely.
As I have said time and again, people
can't get it out of their system that there
was something radically wrong with Gans
when he was beaten by Nelson on the
Fourth of July. They can't get away
from the fact that he has been the clever
est of the clever lightweights of the coun
try snd that Nelson was rated as all but
In. For that reason they have been scru
tlnlilng Gans more closely than might
have been expected, watching his gym
nasium work all the more closely to de
tect signs that age Is having Its sway.
Negro Shows Improvement.
After having seen the Baltlmorcan sev
eral times since he commenced his train
ing, the writer can say of Gans that he
looks improved over his appearance at
his last fight. There is something of an
Indication in his work, however, that ha
tired easily, and he certainly is doing lit
tle in the way of boxing, except on the
defensive.
Until a few days ago his boxing was
confined mostly to light sparring with Abe
Aite'.l. a form of exercise in which he
could hardly have been deriving much
benefit, as Attell is no match for Jos
with the gloves. Since the first of the
week. Gans hss had with him Johnny
Murphy, a local lightweight, who was re
cently beaten by Freddie Welsh In Los
Angeles. Murphy is of the Nelson type,
always rushing In at his man. He has
been Instructed to tear at Gans- body,
with the Idea. I presume, that it would
toughen Gans. This style of boxing Is
unquestionably better for Gans. although
It will hardly bring back his stamina If
that lias wasted away.
From conversations with Benny Selig,
manager of the black. It appears that Joe
will adopt a new style of meeting the
Dane. He will give up the thought that
he can speedily knock him out. but rather
devote his attention to pecking away at
Kelson, to blind him If possible, and then
tow him away at his leisure. Nelson
has met other men who have tried the
same game, but the peculiar ability of
the battered one to keep coming has
caused their schemes to collapse.
Nelson In Good Shape.
As for Nelson, the Dane certainly looks
In great shape. Ha is plugging away in
the same old style, doing more or less
boxing, with plenty of roadwork. He Is
naturally a lightweight who does not In
crease In poundage and has no more
trouble on that score than does h!s
opponent.
The betting on this fight, which opened
at even money, has dropped to 10 to 8,
with Nelson favorite, and still no Gana
money. The announcement that the bet
ting Is 10 to 8 la rather deceptive, be
cause there is really no betting. When
the odds do drop, and drop they will,
then the Gans money will come out of Its
hiding places. There will certainly be a
cut of 10 to 7. and probably to 10 to 6,
before the fight fans show any Interest.
While a strenuous effort Is being made
to hold up the betting. It does not look
as if It will succeed, and sooner or later
It will have to come down to the proper
level.
Moran-Auell Outlook.
The fight that precedes it the Moran
Attel contest gives promise of being
really a better fight as far as action is
concerned. Owen Moran, the English
champion, who fought a 25-round draw
with Attell on New Year's day in this
same arena, has been working hard un
der the supervision of Tlv Krellng. With
out resorting to press agent work, the
Britisher is really first-class, so far as
being fit is concerned. He haa been
working hard, boxing all comers In his
gymnasium, and wants more exercise
than his handlers have seen fit to give
him.
Attell. by all the dope, should win. He
Is more clever than Moran. even grant
ing that the Englishman Is fast on his
feet, and with his hands. Few figure
that Attell will knock Moran out, but
they look to see him win on points. At-
tell Is credited with having aald to a
friend that he would win on points and
that he didn't care how many rounds
the fight' went, or whether It went the
limit Abe Is by no means a has-been
and Is not careless with his training.
Ha Is shrewd enough to rate Moran a
tough bor to beat and when the fight
comes win be ready to give a good ac
count of himself.
There has been some little betting- on
this contest. At the present writing,
the betting favors Attell at odds of 10
to 7, but it la apt to take a drop of an
other point, or 10 to , before anything
occurs in the gambling line.
Now that the advance sale has been
opened, there had been considerable spec
ulation as to th crowds. It looks very
much as If Attell and Moran will, draw
In the neighborhood of 114.000. while Gans
and Nelson are figuring on I24.ono for
their contest, if not more. Where the
gallery seats for the last Gans-Nelson
fight were t2. the tickets have been raised
this time to J3. which will help some.
Because it looks so one-sided, the fight
in Los Angeles next Monday with Stan
ley Ketchel and Billy Papke as the
scrappers. Is not attracting much atten
tion. If you listen to San Francisco peo
ple who saw Ketchel when he beat
Papke In Milwaukee, you will not figure
2apkve as having a (.host of a chanoe to i
GANS
on
win. Already the betting Is even money
that Ketchel will win in 12 rounds, and
with nobody willing to take Papke on
the general result
After the Papke fight, Ketchel will re
turn to San Francisco and then will come
the cry to have him matched with Sam
Langford, the Eastern middleweight, who
only the other night gave Heavyweight
Joe Jeanette an awful beating In six
rounds In New York.
Coast Baseball Gossip.
There haa been a story going the
rounds hers the last two or three days
that the California State League wants
to get into organized baseball and that
it has made a proposition that Presi
dent J. Cal Ewing, of the Coast League,
looks upon with considerable favor.
It is reported that the outlaws would
be willing to turn organlged and would
agree to let both leagues have a club
in Sacramento, the outlaws to arrange
their schedule so that it would not
conflict with the older league.
The tale sounds fishy; In the first place
Sacramento cannot support two base
ball clubs and will have plenty of work
cut out to support one. The State
League has little or nothing to gain
by going into organized ball and a lot
to lose. President Frank Herman, of
the State League, who haa just returned
from his vacation, says that he knows
absolntely nothing of the story and
does not think there la any foundation
to It.
Stockton dispatches say that Hal
Chase, the first baseman of the New
York Americans, dissatisfied with con
ditions in the East. Is on his way to
the Coast and will play with Stockton
for the rest of the season. Chase is
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club and as his head has been consid
erably swelled of late, there is a pos
sibility that he will do this very thing.
Chase thinks that he is indispensable
to the Highlanders and that he can do
about as he pleases.
From the same source comes a story
that Jimmy McHale, of Boston, and
Morlarlty, a brother of the shortstop
who was at one time with San Fran
cisco, are also contemplating coming
to the Coast to finish the season witn
the outlaws.
The press dispatches the first of the
week to the effect that Beck, the San
Francisco outfielder, had been drafted.
came as a shock to Danny Long. The
last couple of weeks has showed a won
derful Improvement in the Texas boy
and to lose him right off the reel to the
Boston Nationals is pretty much of a
Jar. However, that will be an end to
drafting so far as the Seals are con
cerned and Long will know Just what
he has to depend upon in the way of
material.
It is said that officials of the Califor
nia Jockey Club, whose Winter racing
season commences early In November,
are considering the advisability of Intro
ducing the Paris mutuals system of bet
ting this year. It Is declared that the
club has had representatives in the South
to see how the new system works out as
opposed to bookmaklng. The report has
it that there is more money in booKmaK
ing, so far as the track is concerned.
but that it may be advisable to make the.
change to forestall public sentiment that
might turn in favor of an antl-raclng
bill. It sounds like a good story, but
Tom Williams is hardly apt to do any
thing of the kind.
The Santa Clara Couege baseball team
has returned home from a decidedly
unique trip to Honolulu. The team lost
but one game of the nine that It played.
Members of the club declare, that base
ball interest is running high in the
islands and that crowds of 6u00 and C000
were on hand to witness their games.
They were treated with the utmost cor
diality socially and otherwise. Next year
it Is planned for both Santa Clara and St.
Mary's College team to make this trip.
GIVE 95000 PURSE TO MCRPHY
Olympic Games Committee Plans to
Reward Trainer.
NEW YORK. Bept. 6. The American
committee of the Olympic games has
started a subscription list to realize funds
to properly honor Mike Murphy, the fa
mous trainer who handled the team in
the London Stadium.
James E. Sullivan, secretary of the com
mission, has sent out the following letter:
"While giving the fullest credit to the
athletes who represented the United
States in the recent Olympic games, there
is one person whose services were practi
cally invaluable, and without whose In
terest and advice It is doubtful If the
men would have performed so. splendidly,
as events proved. He Is Trainer Murphy,
who devoted his best energies, in the face
of numerous difficulties, to have the team
in shape.
'Mr. Murphy cheerfully gave up his
time and devoted his energies for the
athletes, and how well he, performed his
duty Is a matter of record. Now let us
not be so unpatriotic as to forget his
good work. Instead, let those who recog
nize the man's true worth come forward
and assist those who are anxious to make
Murphy a suitable present.
'It has been proposeo mat we ssk ion)
citizens who are interested in track and
field work to contribute $5 each, this fund
to be presented to Mr. Murpby as a token
of esteem and as a mark of lecognltlon of
his valuable services."
Thre Portland Boys Chosen.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal., Sept.
B. Ex-Captain Koerner, of Portland,
will be again in his rugby suit and
will play in his old place in the scrum
this Fall. J. R. Holman and C. F.
Ganong, both of that city, have ajso
registered in Stanford, and will have
little trouble in holding down their
places as backs on the varsity team.
On the freshman team Herbert, who
has Just entered Stanford from Port
land, will undoubtedly make a place
for himself, as he is a fast man and
played the old gams with great head
work.
STARS
AWAIT
NEW FOES
Football Season Begins in Col
leges of East and Mid
dle West.
HARVARD LOSES GOOD MEN
Princeton Retains Some of the Val
orous Tigers and Yale Prom
ises an Excellent Showing
During the Season.
BY REFEREE. . .
Next week will witness the opening of
the football season at most of the col
leges of the East and Middle West. A
majority of the big teams will begin prac
tice about the middle of the month and
the smaller aggregations will commence
operations about a week later. Interest
naturally centers in the work at Yale,
Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Penn
sylvania In the East and at Chicago,
Michigan. Wisconsin end Minnesota In
the Middle West. As the season advances
great interest will be manifested in the
Yale-Princeton and Yale-Harvard games
the classlo events of the American foot
ball season.
Tale's Splendid Record.
The prestige that Yale has built up dur
ing the history of American football has
manifested Itself from year to year and
the successive victories over the Prince
ton Tigers and over Harvard have made
Yale football famous the worldjver. Oc
casionally the sons of Eli are defeated,
but more often they win from both of
their big rivals. Whether or not Yale's
supremacy will be maintained this season
remains to be seen, but to a casual ob
server it would appear that the wearers
of the blue have at least an even chance
of duplicating their splendid record of
last season. Lucius H. Blgelow, captain
of last year's Yale team, and "Tad"
Jones, the renowned 'quarterback, will
have charge of the actual coaching of
the team, and Walter Camp, according to
long-established custom, will be the rec
ognised head of the coaching staff. The
team has lost Blgelow, T. Jones, H. Jones,
Alcott, Paige and Congdon by graduation,
but retains Goebel and Cooney, guards;
Brides and Murphy, halfbacks, and Coy,
fullback, beside a number of substitutes
of last season, including Captain Robert
Burch. who will probably play; and not
withstanding the severe loss by gradua
tion, Yale will begin the season with a
wealth of material. A number of men
who were ineligible last season, includ
ing a splendid squad of freshmen, will be
out for honors this year, and with Yale's
superior coaching system, a crack team
should be developed. Yale and Princeton
will meet at Princeton November 14, and
the Yale-Harvard contest is scheduled
for November 1 at New Haven.
Harvard's Severe Lose.
Harvard lost heavily by graduation
and much new material must be de
veloped. Nine of the 13 men who
played against Yale last year will be
missing from the crimson line-up. Cap
tain F. H. Burr and his followers are
not downcast over the outlook, but
will begin the season with a bulldog
determination. Burr will be found in
his old position, at tackle. There are
.any number of good substitutes, sec
ond team men and freshmen, from last
year's squad, so the followers of the
Harvard eleven believe that the suc
cess of the season depends, in a meas
ure, upon the coaches.
Among the candidates for end on the
Harvard eleven will be found Hamil
ton Corbett, of this city. Corbett did
good work on Harvard's freshman team
last season and has a fair chance to
make the varsity this year, although
competition for the end positions will
be very keen. ,
Squad of Princeton Stars.
Coach Roper will begin work at
Princeton on September 23. Captain
Dillon will have a good squad of last
season's veterans at his command and
the Tigers see visions of a victory over
Yale. Rutgers, Darmouth, Cornell and
Pennsylvania all appear to have bright
xtroanscta. tor tha season, not with-
GRIDIRON
standing the element of uncertainty
that attends the modern American
game-.
The coming season promises better
things for football in the Middle West.
Last year, both the seniors and the
freshmen were but of the game at the
Middle West conference colleges. The
seniors were out because the "three
year rule" was made retroactive in
1905 and the freshmen were disquali
fied because of the year's residence
rule. This year only the freshmen will
be disqualified.
When Coach A. Alonzo Stagg be
gins work at Chicago he will face a
squad that has been badly depleted by
graduation and because certain star
players-are not going to return. Chi
cago's schedule centers about three im
portant games those with Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Cornell. From present
Indications, Stagg"s chances for turn
ing out a winning team are decidedly
slim.
The University of Wisconsin seems to
be suffering in a most acute manner
from an attack of scholastic deficiency.
Rumors from Madison state that the
cream of the Badger eleven is under
"the ban of the faculty, with excellent
chances of remaining there. All in all,
Minnesota's prospects for success look
brighter than those of her Middle
Western rivals.
Conditions at Sllchlgan.
This year will mark the, triumph
or the undoing of "Hurry Up" Yost at
Michigan. The Wolverines' debut into
Eastern football circles was not alto
gether successful, as the 17 to 0 defeat
at the hands of Pennsylvania, two
years ago, demonstrated, and the fact
that the Quakers repeated the dose on
Michigan's home field, last season, has
made the followers of the latter team
wish that Michigan had remained in
the Middle West conference. With
prospects of another defeat at the
hands of Pennsylvania, the 'outlook for
Yost's proteges is not a pleasant one to
contemplate. If Yost develops a win
ning team, however, he will be the
greatest football man that the West
has ever seen. If he loses, his services
will doubtless be discontinued at Ann
Arbor. In the good old days when
Yost first went to Michigan, he had a
fine, bunch of material and a splendid
team. Those were the days of Heston,
Maddock, Gregory, Norcross and Mc
Gregln. Michigan has never rallied
from the loss of these men and Yost
has been unable to fill their places.
Had he remained in the Middle Western
conference and left Pennsylvania alone
his efforts would have been more suc
cessful. In her coming game with
Pennsylvania, Michigan will naturally
have the support of a majority of West
ern football men, but at this stage of
the game the Quakers look like win
ners. E
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FTJVD NOT ADEQUATE TO EX
TERTAIX HEROES.
Committee Sleets and Outlines Plans
lor Greeting Oregon's Prize
winning Athletes.
If the achievements of Oregon's three
victors in the recent Olympic games are
to be appropriately recognized on their
arrival from New York next Saturday, the
fund provided for their entertainment will
have to be increased within the next few
days. In view of the fact that the home
towns of the various athletes in various
parts of the country are planning to do
their representatives honor, it is felt by
those In charge of the local celebration
that the state which furnished three prize
winners should show its appreciation in
a worthy manner.
At a meeting of the entertainment com
mittee held Friday night in the Portland
Commercial Club It was the opinion of
those present that the occasion has not
received the consideration that it war
rants, and that the subscriptions are by
no means representative. Many of the
largest firms have contributed only nom
inal sums to the fund, while individuals
whose importance in the community Is by
no means proportionate have given liberal
amounts.
During the coming week the members
of the finance committee will undertake
to raise the additional sum necessary.
Persons desiring to subscribe to the fund
may do so by making checks payable to
A. H. Devers, treasurer of the fund, or by
notifying him a member of the finance
committee can call upon them and collect
ths amount, . ,
According to the plans arranged at Fri
day night's meeting Smlthson, Gilbert
and Kelly will arrive in Portland Satur
day afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. They will
go Immediately to the Portland Com
mercial Club for dinner. Later a parade
will form at that point and the three
athletes will be escorted to the Multno
mah Club, where a reception will be held.
At this gathering it Is proposed to present
each of the young men with a loving cup.
The clubhouse will be suitably decorated
for the occasion. On Monday night the
athletes . will be guests of honor at a
banquet to be given in the main dining
room of the Portland Commercial Club.
It is planned that during the parade the
three young men shall occupy a chariot
which will be drawn by 100 boys of the
city, members of the boys' section of the
Multnomah Club and Y. M. C. A. and
others Interested in athletics. Those de
siring to participate are requested to call
upon C. F. Brg at 308 Morrison street.
Details of the parade will be announced
later. As the date of the party's ar
rival draws near Interest In the home
coming of the three athletes is steadily
increasing.
It is confidently believed that when the
young men make their appearence next
Saturday night the demonstration in their
honor will be a source of gratification not
only to them but to the visitors and resi
dents of the city as well.
proposed organization In England is
ths Guild of the House of GodT whose sole
duty it shall b to care for the English
nsthiirsls.
L
IS
Difficulties in Way of Men
Who Keep Records of
Plays.
GAME GREATLY ADVANCED
Pittsburg Expert ' Discusses Ad
vantages and Disadvantages
of Prevailing System
on Diamond.
BY GEORGE Jj. MORELANIX
Statistical Expert of Pittsburg.
The scoring of a baseball game by the
ordinary patron is generally a matter of
minor consideration, for all he cares to
know is how many runs were made, and
he scores the game with an "o" for an
out and a "1" for a run and lets it go at
that. But to a sporting editor who must
write his account for his paper from his
ecorebook it is an altogether different
thing.
How many sporting editors can take
their "Spalding" and tell Just how each
play was made and how the runs were
forwarded? I will venture to say, not
60 per cent of those who go to a game
in an official manner can do so.
It is no easy matter to score a ball game
correctly, play for play, and at the end
of the game read the account correctly
from your book. A man should be able
to read the score Just the same as the
fans read his account the next morning.
One of the reasons that there Is not
more uniform scoring is from the fact
that there Is not a uniform scoring sys
tem. Every man has his own idea of
how to score a play and how a play
should be scored. In my travels around
the circuit (this also applies to all the
boys who travel with ball clubs) I have
discovered many young fellows who have
Just graduated from school and who in
some way, certainly not from the 'fact
of knowing the angles of baseball, have
been selected to score the games. They
have an idea of how to do it, but any
more lets them out. Ask half of them
how So-and-so went out and how So-and-so
scored, and they cannot tell you. Can
one expect to find an accurate account of
a game from such source?
Trials of Scorer.
The present-day style of beseball is
considerable harder to score than when
such noted writers as Morse, Crane, Fos
ter, Murnane, Gruber. Richter, Flanner
and other old-time writers started in to
score the games. In those days keeping
track of a game was easy, for they did
not have the squeeze play, bunt, sacri
fice hit. hit and run, and all the late ideas
now practiced.
The game is too far advanced for
some and the present system will send
many to the bug shows ir new plays
come as fast as they have In the last
two years.
What must be done and done soon is
for the two -major leagues to pass a
rule to put scoring on the same basis
as umpiring. This may seem like ask
ing a whole lot from the magnates,
but it will come eventually.
The game has advanced beyond the
experimenting. Whynot keep up with
the game? It would not cost the two
major leagues a whole lot to select
four good efficient scorers and have
them assigned the same as umpires.
Make out a schedule for them and have
them travel from city to city. It would
not be necessary to have them leave
any particular city when a team has
finished a series, they could remain
there until a complete series were com
pleted. That would cut down the rail
road fare, which would mean a whole
lot.
Evils of Favoritism.
This argument may seem like a
knock at some scorers, but it is not In
tended as such. There are many good
scorers among the official scorers in
different cities, but again there are
many who really do not Know now to
score a game and they are selected as
"official scorers." Why? Simply to
keep on the good side of such and such
a paper. The selecting of official scor
ers from the ranks of sporting editors
has caused much endless Jealousy from
others, older men in the business. The
idea of dividing the work among sev
eral writers to keep peace in the fam
ily is bad. It will always be so until
the mogiils in the two major 'leagues
adopt the traveling scorers. When this
is done. It will stop all future argu
ments about how a hit was made. It
will also stop one of the greatest evils
In baseball, favoritism. It is a cer
tainty that scorers in different cities
that have the honor of having a player
on their team who is likely to lead the
league in batting are not going to give
that particular player the worst end
of the deal. This argument, of course,
is an old one, but it will always live
until the present scoring system is
changed.
Problems In Scoring.
Should the major leagues select the
men to travel the same as do the
umpires, they could all meet in New
York and Chicago before the sea
son opens and argue out all
plays and how to score them. Is a
man to be credited with a sacrifice
when he Intentionally bunts a ball,
but the fielder makes an error? Does
a player who throws a ball to a bag
for an out and gets the ball on the
return, completing a double play, get
an assist as well as a put out? Should
a player be charged with an error
when he makes a bad throw in try
ing to complete a double play, the
runner not advancing past first?
One of the greatest arguments for
this idea is the fact that the present
way of deciding who wins and who
loses ' a game would be settled once
and for all. as the official scorer
could decide then who should be
charged with the victory or defeat Is
it right to charge a man with a de
feat in a case like this: A pitcher be
comes wild and fills the bases on balls,
making the score a tie, with two out;
a new man goes in without any warm
ing up, and the first ball he pitches
Is hit for a single, scoring the win
ning run. How are the secretaries to
know Just how that play came up? It
is Impossible .to keep an accurate ac
count of the number of games pitch
ers win and lose because no one in
authority can decide. The official
scorer is supposed to be the Judge, but
one reads every day that a pitcher is
charged with a defeat by the secre
tary of the league, but the newspaper
man who follows the game carefully
cannot tell this from the account of
the game as published any mors
than the ordinary fan.
One could go on at length to show
that a change from the present meth
ods Is very desirable. In fact, imper
ative. Four Umpires for Big Games.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 6. For the
BASFBA
L SCORING
NO TRIVIAL TASK
OTn-lyVa nhamnlnnshfn hARPhflll CaiDM
there will hereafter be four umpires.
The National Baseball Commission to
day announced its decision to this effect.
Two shall be named from the National
and two from the American League staff
of umpires, and their service is to be
subject to the decision of the chairman
of the commission. A recommendation to
this effect made some weeks ago by, the
commission has been approved by both
leagues and the rule was thereupon
drawn up and announced, being section
14 of the rules and regulations covering
such contests.
TEMPERAXCE IX ATHLETICS
Farmer Burns Still Hearty After
Years of Hard Work.
Martin (Farmer) Bums, the veteran
wrestler. Ilka "Old Cy" Young, the
festive fllnger of the Boston Americans,
is a typical example of what the temper
ate life will do for active participants in
athletics. The comparison drawn by
Frank Gotch, the world's heavyweight
wrestling companion, tells truly how
the heroes of bygone days are able to
maintain their positions with the men of
the hour in sporting events.
Gotch, better than any other man in
the country, perhaps, is qualified to tell
the story of the life led by the Big Rock
veteran, which has enabled him to remain
within touching distance of the wrestling
heights. For it was Burns who taught
Gotch all he knew in the early career of
the present champion and the friendship
of the pair Is like adamant. Gotch.
though loaded to the guards with work,
rehearsing for the vaudeville sketch In
which he will shortly be launched as a
histrionlo possibility, is a close follower
of the baseball pennant races.
The benefit given Cy Young by his
townspeople at Boston put the big cham
pion In a retrospective mood. He didn't
recall the days when Farmer Burns at the
age of 8 years first tried his hand at
wrestling on the old farm In the Hawk
eye state, for the veteran is now in his
BOth year. But Gotch never tires of re
lating his experiences when as a youth he
acquired his first knowledge of the toe
hold, which has since been associated
with him, while scuffling with the
Farmer.
Burns has always been a bitter foe to
John Barleycorn, and though tempted
many times has never given that op
ponent the least consideration. Tobacco
is another deadly enemy In the eyes of
the Farmer. He abhors the use of pro
fanity and Is known far and wide
throughout his native state as an ardent
churchgoer. In fact, the ex-champlon is
one of the pillars of the church at Big
Rock, where he passes the contribution
box each Sunday. With his happy family
the old athlete lives on a little homestead
surrounded byt four acres of rich soil, and
his time when not taken up with the mat
game is devoted to agriculture and the
raising of chickens. The Farmer Is re
puted a wealthy man In his community,
and friends who know him opine his bank
roll ranges around the $76,000 mark.
Economy has long been a bablt with
Burns.
Thousands of aspiring wrestlers have
fallen before the prowess of this old
gladiator, and even today, when Burns is
preparing to celebrate the golden an
niversary of his birth, there are few men
enjoying the prime of life who can hold
their, own in a tussle on the canvas with
Burns. He won his title from Evan
Lewis in Chicago and for years was in
vincible, until Gotch came along and
wreeted the crown from his former tutor.
Now they are as thick as bees.
STOTT WILL COACH OOLUMBL
Stanford and Multnomah Star
Chosen to Develop Team for 1908.
The faculty of control at Columbia Uni
versity last week selected Plowden Stott,
of this city, as coach of the football team
for the coming season. Mr. Stott has ac
cepted the appointment and will enter
upon the duties of his new position when
school opens for the Fall term on Sep
tember 14.
Mr. Stott's previous experience, both as
a player and coach, has made him emi
nently fitted for his present position. Dur
ing four years as a student at Stanford
University he made a mark for himself
on the varsity team aa captain. He also
played with Multnomah and will captain
the club team the coming season. He
manifested his ability as a coach by his
work at the East Side High School last
season. With practically raw material he
turned out one of the speediest aggrega
tions that ever played In an interscholastlo
series.
His appointment as coach at Columbia
has boosted football stock at the univer
sity, and present Indications point to the
best year In the athletic history of tho
school. Practically all of last year's
squad are returning, among them Dean
Walker, the big halfback of last year and
captain-elect for the coming season. Some
of the others are Qulnn, Ennis, Aya,
Becker, Seufert, Hare. Dockstader, and
possibly Pomeroy. Alfred O'Brien has
been re-elected manager and Is at pres
ent arranging the Fall schedule.
Theatrical Airships Collide.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Six mechanics,
propelling two airships at the final re
hearsal of the "Battle in the Skies."
were injured last night at the Hippo
drome, when two ships were In collision,
the smaller one being completely wrecked
and the larger one badly crippled. The
men were thrown out of the ships onto
the stage. Edwin Clarke, the baritone,
was in the smaller ship, but saved him
self from injury by catching hold of a
rope ladder. The accident was caused
by the misplacing of a switch on an
electric board controlling the current
that operated the stage ships. The acci
dent made it necessary to defer opening
of the big playhouse, which was sched
uled for tonight, until next Thursday.
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BALLOU S WRIGHT, 86 SIXTH STREET
: A
DECRIES MEAT-DIET
English Tennis Expert Is Strict
Vegetarian.
CONDUCTS LONDON CAFE;
Eustace Miles, Defeated by Jy !
Gould at Tennis, Entertain
Prominent Patrons in His
London Restaurant.
Is a meat diet absolutely necessary
for the development of the athlete? I
A glance at the training tables of
American colleges during the football
season would seem to answer that
question in the affirmative. A half
hour conversation with Eustace Miles,
the famous Engll3h tennis expert,
might provide an equally convincing
answer in the negative.
Twelve years ago Mr. Miles turned
his back on the "roast beef of Old
England" and the various other flesh !
foods which the daily routine of most I
bills 'of fare is apparently heir to, and
became a devotee of the vegetarian
diet. During this period hs haa lifted .
several English titles at racquets,
squash and tennis, and once, in 1900,
came to America and won in all three
sports from the best of tho breeds this
country could send forth.
He Is now Hearing what is termed
middle age, being upward of 85. He
weighs about 180, is strong and robust,
and, as his special forte in athletic
sports indicates, he is active and agile.
According to his own statement, be
fore his change to his present mode
of life he was little better than an in
valid, whereas now he is able not only
to follow his favorite sports, but la
also the man behind the gun in a num
ber of enterprises which take much of
his time and a great deal of his
thought and brain work.
He calls his condition "thorough fit
ness." If his appearance is a criterion,
he is surely thoroughly fit for the
strenuous business life of today as
well as for his athletic recreations.
Mr. Miles is not willing to lay down
a ruie for training that could be taken
as applicable to all athletes. Part of
his business in England is the formu
lating of health courses based on his
Ideas of what is right in the eating
line. He treats his 3000 clients sep
arately and individually, prescribing as
each case seems to demand, but always
with -a view toward the elimination of
flesh foods and the substitution of
proteids from vegetable products. He
does give, however, a reason for the
change In his own case and for his ad
vocacy of meatless meals.
"The football player," he says, "who
trains on a meat diet Is really fit for
little else. His muscular development
may be great, but at the same time he
Is neglecting other functions of the
body which In after life will be unable
to take care of themselves. He is
trained to the moment, but his endur
ance in the broad sense of the word Is
not fostered.
"He goes from the university into
the rush of business, and In a very few
years wears out. He Is the victim of
petty Illnesses, which can be traced to
a neglect of his digestive apparatus
and an Inability to assimilate food. He
is not able to take as much exercise
as in his college days, and without this
exercise he finds that his body does
not work smoothly.
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A charming place to
spend the evening. All
t h e delicacies of t h
season, prepared by a
chef "who knows how."
Excellent serv Ice.
Reached by a delightful auto
ride of seven miles, or. If
you prefer, by Astoria tralna.
According to Professor Berthold. of Vi
enna, a man's Intelligence, honesty nd
good nature are in proportion to his portli
ness. Berthold says that a mans brain
expands with his tody, so that a stout man
Is, as a rule, more intelligent than a thin
man. .
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