The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 06, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Image 40

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 6, 1903. FAMOUS ATHLETES CARTOONIST'S IMPRESSIONS OP SOME SPORTING SUBJECTS OF CURRENT INTEREST TO BE AT SEATTLE HIGHEST HONORS Amateur Athletic Union's Meet to Be Held During A.- Y.-P. Exposition. Evergreen Collegians Entitled to Championship in Football. MEANS MUCH TO OREGON REVIEW OF SEASON'S WORK WASHINGTON WON Referee Gives an Analysis of Vari ous Conference and Non-Conference Elevens That Figured In Struggle Just Closed. BT REFEREE. Thanksgiving day marked the close rtt the collece football season In the Pacific Northwest, with the University of 'Washington holding the cnampion rhip title. Washington's claim to the honor was established, notwithstand ing the tie game with Washington Slate College and the post-season wail from Pullman. The latter team made a most creditable record, but Its tie games with both Washington and Idaho and its failure to meet and de feat either Oregon or O. A. C eliminate It from championship consideration. Coach Dobio proved the wisdom of his choice at Seattle, for he turned out the best team that Washington has seen Fince the days of Jim Knight, The Evergreen eleven was strong in all de partments of the game, especially in the use of the forward pass. The "Washington line-up contained a num ber of Individual stars, such as Coyle, Babcock, Tegtmeier, Mucklestone, Grim and Eakln. Coyle showed better form than any freshman quarter that the Northwest has seen, and Eakin proved himself to be one of the best punters thai the season produced. Washington's! Tainted Record. The only blot on Washington's rec ord was the playing of Mucklestone and Eakln, both of whom should have been declared negligible by the faculty athletic committee. Washington's ex cuse for playing these men is a lame one. It is based on the smallest kind of a technicality. They were students at the North Dakota Agricultural Col lege last year and the spirit of the four-year rule demanded that they be excluded from membership on the AVashlngton eleven until next season. Washington's excuse for playing these men Is based upon the fact that they entered college as freshmen this year and were therefore In the pre paratory school class when 'they played In North Dakota. The excuse Is too thin to be accepted by other members of the Conference and the feeling is quite general that Washing ton's action Is a most open, .flagrant and notorious violation of the rules. Washington has heretofore enjoyed the confidence of her sister Institutions here in the Northwest for acting fairly upon matters of this kind, but her re cent action tends to spoil her credit able record and destroy the Influence of the Conference. Conference Should Meet. The writer is of the opinion that there should be a special meeting of the Conference at an early date and that the year's resdence rule and other questions that the season has produced should be threshed out and written down In no uncertain terms. Washington had a corking good team and could have undoubtedly won the championship without Mucklestone and Eaklns. Other Northwest institu tions lined up to both the letter and spirit of the rules and there is no ex cuse for Washington's failure to do so. The attack of the Seattle papers upon the Pullman eleven for alleged viola tion of the Conference rules by playing Dehner, Byron and Halm comes with poor grace, when one stops to consider the playing of Mucklestone and Eakins. Forbes Good Work. Too much credit cannot be given to Bob Forbes for the splendid team which he turned out at Oregon. He began the season with four old men end a squad of untrained freshmen, and finished by scoring victories over O. A. C. and Multnomah. The victory over O. A. C. was one of the big surprises of the season. Oregon won because her men played better football and put more fight into their game. The in dividual ability of Moullen was direct ly responsible for the result of the game, but the chances which Moullen had were made possible by the superior work of his team. A strong defense, n ability to handle punts, a first class kicker, and a quartet of fast ends were factors that contributed to Ore gon's success. Most of the Eugene men will be In college next season, and If the athletic management of the uni versity wise, Forbes will be retained. Vnder his coaching, Oregon should have a most formidable team next year. Farmers Were Overrated. There is no denying the fact that the Agricultural College eleven was somewhat overrated and that some of Its members were the vic tims ot overconfidence. Because they defeated Oregon last season and as their line-up contained a majority of last year's veterans the Corvallis men figured on another victory. Norcross worked hard to over come this unwarranted confidence upon the part of his players and their asso ciates, but without success. Eliminating the question of over-confidence, however, the bare fact remains that Corvallis was outplayed. Her men freely admit the miperiority of Oregon and accept the re mit like good sportsmen, holding In their hearts a determination to turn the tables next season. One factor that con tributed toward the downfall of the O. A. C. eleven was its poor schedule. Only one game of Importance the contest with Whitman was played ' before the Oregon game. The new men hardly had an opportunity .to accustom themselves to their positions on the team and to solve the plays of their opponents. On the other hand, Oregon had Just come through three hard, grinding games those with Whitman. Idaho and Wash ington. Goaded to desperation by the successive defeats and fresh from expe rience with the best teams In the North west. Coach Forbes' men threw Into their play a fighting spirit which was a revelation to their most ardent support ers. Next years game between Oregon and O. A. C. should be equal. If not su perior to this season's contest. Oregon loses only three of her men by gradua tion and It is said that ail of the Cor vallis players will return to college. No announcement has been made as to the coaching policy of the O. A. c. team, but a mistake will be made If Norcross Is not retained. Idaho Not In Race. Idiho's poor showing cannot be charged to Coach Middleton or to the quality of material In college, but to fraternity strife among members of the team. The Gem Elate players were In j I a9H ''Wlllllii ONLY WRY POinirVOfc FAN) CRN 6BT J -r J!r "" ' B MEW GRFUJD STAND. - V2ei . ' constant turmoil over a fraternity squab ble, and, as a result, their season was not a success. In Savidge. Stokesberry, Small. Elton. Smith. Johnson and Thorn ton. Idaho had a bunch of players that would have made good on most any team, but for the reason above men tioned, these men failed to work together for the best interests of their team and their university. No team can win when It harbors internal dissensions. There must be a unity of action and an unselfish devotion to duty. Let other Northwest Institutions profit by Idaho's misfortune and keep college politics and fraternity differences clear out of the game. J. Merrill Blanchard, the Whitman coach, deserves as much or more credit than any Northwest coach deserves this season. He began the season with only two veteran players, yet turned out a team that made a brilliant record and showed its ability to play the new style of football. The critics who alluded to Blanchard as a "lemon" and a "Juicy lime" ought to feel ashamed of their un sportsmanlike conduct. Blanchard had his opportunity and made good in a most emphatic manner. Whitworth made the best showing among the non-conference colleges by defeating both Whitman and Oregon and by showing up splendidly against Wash ington. Whitworth had a veteran team and a coach who knew his business. Al bany College won the championship of the non-conference teams of Oregon by defeating Willamette. Pacific and Che mawa. Albany has laid the foundation for a good team and ought to make a fine record next season. coacn KIrby turned out a creditable eleven at Willamette, considering the paucity of experienced players. In local academic circles, the Hill Mili tary Academy has first honors. he local teams have played some good foot ball this year and a number of star plavers have come to the front. The high schools of Eastern Oregon and the Willamette Valley cities have also turned out some strong elevens. ' Altogether, the season of 1308 has been a most creditable one. The playing of Eakin and Mucklestone, the squabblo between the Seattle newspapers and Pullman, the rough work In the Oregon Idaho game and the disqualification cf Pilkington on Thanksgiving day. are all Incidents that the writer would like to forget. They tend to spoil an otherwise good season. These should be closed Incidents, however, for the good work and good sportmanshlp that the season produced far outweigh the bad points. Jjet us all look forward to 1909, with the hope that it will write another creditable pae In the history of Northwest foot ball. Among the Boxers BT W. J. FETRAIN. sOMMT BURNS and Jack Johnson I are scheduled to hook up at Syd- ney, Australia, en the morning of December 28, and a bright San Fran cisco scribe has figured it out that the fight fans of the Pacific Coast will know the result on Christmas night, December 25. Going some when one can learn the result of a scrap the day before It comes off. Joe Gans does not want any more 25 round or longer ring battles, and did not hesitate to say so when Jimmy Cof froth wanted to match him for a go with Fackey McFarland. However, Gans says he is quite ready to take on Mc Farland for a limited bout to be held In some Eastern city. Can it be that Joe has become tired of the California fight promoters? Jack Gleason Is said to have cleaned up spmethlng like $2000 on an amateur boxing tournament recently. Jack al ways did have the happy faculty of getting In right among the younger scrappers. Some day these youngsters will get wise and want to fight for real money, and then Jack can turn them over to the tender mercies of CofTroth et al. Jack Grace, known In pugilistic cir cles as the globe trotter, who visited Portland with Battling Nelson last Summer, Is now managing the destinies of 'Kid' Dalton, a promising young ster, now holding forth in . California. Dalton recently hooked up with "Cy clone" Thompson and made a most fa vorable showing against the heavier man. Wrestler Parker, who formerly ca vorted In the ring as a pug and later as a vegetarian, does not like to be referred to as a man "who thinks he can wrestle." Unfortunately we had never been Informed that he could wrestle, and on that account took occa sion to refer to his challenge to O'Con rell In a manner he considers slight ing. Sam Berger, who once upon a time thought he was a fighter, now believes he Is a fight promoter, and Is therefore trying to arrange a match between the winner of the Burns-Johnson bout and Sam Langford. Langford Is a dusky scrapper who Is highly touted, although the annals of pugdora record very few j victories for him WISEONESSHOGKED Papke's Defeat by Ketchel Surprises Fans. WINNER MADE BEST FIGHT Result Marks Elimination of Papke From List of . Aspirants for Middleweight Champion ship Honors. BT HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 5. (Special.) The defeat of Bily Papke by Stanley Ketchel last week at the Mission-street arena left the wise brigade In the boxing division of sportdom ab solutely dumfounded. No one had seen the Los Angeles fight, but It was said that Papke was a lion at Los Angeles. On his form he was figured a certain winner, so certain that betting at the ringside dropped to 10 to 6. But in the fight the Illinois man was anything but a lion. He was beaten from the word go, and never had a chance. Ketchell's Best Fight. The Michigander, who shattered all ring tradition by reclaiming the cham pionship title that he had lost, fought the best of his career. He assumed the awkward crouch with the left ex tended and early in the opening round Papke caught a stiff right In the stom ach that took all of the fight out of Papke. The Illinois thunderbolt lost the steam in his punch and never hurt Ketchel. As long as the fight lasted he was a complete disappointment. He was careless In breaking loose from the clinches, and In fact put up a worse fight against Ketchel than did Hugo Kelly a few months ago. End Came Quickly. The end, when It - did come, was quick. Ketchel waited until Papke backed out of a clinch with his guard down: He landed a terrible left swing and Papke dropped. The German boy took the count and staggered on his feet. He was helpless even to protect himself and once more went down. This time he was counted out, but he made the claim later that Referee Jack Welsh didn't count all the way and that he had Intended getting up. To the writer It appeared that Papke was perfectly willing to call It quits and that he wanted no more fighting for that day. At all events, so far as San Francisco fans are concerned, Papke is down and out. Nobody In this neck of the woods will believe that he could ever whip Ketchel, and they wonder how it hap pened In Lns Angeles.i One of the sensation-loving writers Intimated that this last fight was a fake, but he has been laughed at for his pains. He laid partlcu'ar stress on the argument that neither man was marked up. It is true, but it is also significant that Ketchel played mostly for the body and preferred to knock out Papke rather than bruise him. Attendance Very Poor. The receipts were an awful disap pointment to the fighters and Pro moter Coffroth. When the match was made It looked that the house would draw $30,000. Then came the court suit of Jack Gleason and the rain that came the day before the fight. This all hurt the attendance, and there was Just $13,347 In the arena. Under the orig inal agreement Coffroth was to give the first $20,000 to - the fighters, of which $12,000 was for Papke. win, lose or a draw, and $8000 for Ketchel. When Coffroth saw that there was going to be frost, he called Papke and Ketchel together and told them they could take what was In sight or there wouldn't be any fight. They had to capitulate. Papke accepted $S0O0 and Ketchel accepted $5000, wi..ch left Coffroth to dig up for the expenses, running close to $2500. The whole thing may be a lesson. There may be less of stealing fights in the future and fight managers may be less apt to break their agreements. There is another phase of the case to be threshed out in the courts. John T. Clark, who held the forfeits of the two men, decided the first of the week that Promoter Gleason was entitled to the $2000. Both fighters object to this and have threatened to commence suit in the courts to reoover their coin. Interest in Langford-Flynn Fight. At last the fight-going public will see Sam Langford. the wonderful col ored middle-weight. He has been matched with Jim Flynn, the fighting fireman from Pueblo, to fight 20 rounds before Sam Berger's club on Deoember j 17, at catch weights. Both men are now on the ground and training will commence In earnest by Sunday, rivnn is about a 175-nound man. but a I tough fellow to beat. If Langford cleans him up quickly, there win De a demand for a Ketchel -Langford fight. Ketchel, by the way. Is apparently getting ready to graduate Into the heavy-weight division. - He has been talking about a fight with Tommy Burns, and through his manager has been intimating that he found it hard to make 158 pounds the last time he fought. FANDOM AT RANDOM BY W. J. PETRAIN. Phil Cooney writes from New York City that he is sorry now he did not Winter on the Coast. Another ballplayer con verted to the mild climate, of the Pacific territory. Mike Lynch hopes that Casey will hot manage the Northwestern team next sea son. Mike says he can beat McCredie any day In the week, but is not so sure about Casey. Mike is getting the "Seat tle spirit" early in the game. Catcher Ostdelck, the man McCredie secured from Boston for about a minute last season, and who has been reported as purchased by Spokane, seems to have lasted about as long with that club as he did here. He is now being claimed by four Eastern clubs, and Bob Brown will be likely to lose him. "Honest" John McCloskey. who has had a more varied career than possibly anv other baseball manager in the world is to take charge of a new club next season. According to report, "Jawn" is to manage the Milwaukee American As sociation team next season, congratu lations are in order from Jake Thielman and Mr. Hart, of San Francisco. The friends of Danny Long, it seems that he really has a few, are out with a denial of the story that he is to Be sue ceeded by Joe Corbett as manager of the Seals next season. The San Francisco magnates would do well to make the change, for Corbett would prove much more popular than the manager of the past season. The New York Nationals are after Catcher Rapp. who In real life Is Capron the former Minnesota football player and famous punter. If McGraw secures Rapp he will have two ex-football players who were famous for their punting ability, the other being Christy Matthewson, who kicked himself Into fame while' playing for Bucknell College. Manager Dickson, of the Vancouver Northwestern League club, Is anxious to purchase the return of Joe Sugden, the veteran catcher. Joe was drafted by At lanta, and Dickson has made that club an offer for the return of the player. Sugden Is one of the veterans of the game, and It was owing to his good work that Vancouver landed the pennant. Bill Campbell, the former Aberdeen player, who, for a time wore a Portland uniform, is said to be slated for the man agement -of the Roanoke team in the Vir ginia. League. He is to succeed John J. Grim, who formerly managed the Port land team. Campbell Is a popular ball player and his friends In this -section wish him luck. Count Bassey, of the Portland baseball team, when not herding "chinks" as an immigration inspector for Uncle Sam, likes to play billiards. He is noted for his dexterity at three-cushion billiards, and many a lively match has been witnessed between the little left fielder and Casey or McCredie, each of whom Is a cue ex pert. Somebody started the rumor that "Doc" Anderson was going to boycott the game next season because he could not find time to see both teams at play. On in-, vestlgatlon we find the rumor is false. "Doc" will bo qn hand , every day If ho has to move his office (which by the way Is under his haf to the baseball grounds. Captain Pearl Casey, or to be exact. Manager Casey now. can be classed among the thrifty members of the pro fession. He has already invested in six lots in one of Portland's thriving sub urbs, and has his eye' on other spots equally as remunerative. Casey is not looking for calls from real estate dealers, for he picks out the places he likes and then hunts up the agents. Charles B. Shanks, the sales manager for the Stearns Automobile Company, of Cleveland, O., slipped quietly Into Portland last Thursday morning and out again In the evening. His stay was short, but In the time he was here he managed to develop a piece of business that not only will be nice for his com pany, but which brought a smile of satisfaction' to the face of the secre tary of the Portland Automobile Club when that .ndividual was informed. According to Mr. Shanks he closed a sale of a six-cylinder Stearns that will be one of the competing cars In the road race next June. This car Is guar anteed to attain a speed of 80 miles per hour and will be driven in the com ing contest by Frank Leland, who made such an excellent showing in the stock car races at Savannah last Mar oh. CASEY GIVEN PLUM Portland Second Baseman to Run Northwestern Team. TAKES PLAYERS WITH HIM Manager ' Walter SIcCredie An nounces Additional Plans for Next Season Chicago White Sox Will Play,. Here.' BT IT. J. PETHAI.V. Manager McCredie, instead of handling the Northwestern League Club of Port land, has now practically decided to turn that club over to Manager Pearl Ca'sey , and assume charge of the Pacific Coast League club himself. The reason for Mac s indecision in the matter has been caused by a doubt as to whether he would get a certain big league player for Portland in which event he announced that Casey would take charge of the Northwestern team. Yesterday McCredie received two let ters, one from Boston and the other from Cleveland, each stating that a first-class second baseman would be turned over to him if desired. The proposition of secur ing a good middle sack guardian has caused MeCredie's hesitancy in- deciding on his team for next season. For busi ness reasons McCredie cannot give out the names of the players offered him by the major leaguers, but he says each is a hummer and that he la almost tempted to take both and dispose of one of them later. The shifting of Casey to the Northwest team, which now seems highly probable, will mean the moving about of several other players, for Casey will take Phil Cooney with him, no matter which league he is in, because he believes the little shortstop will prove a strong foundation for a club. "Count" Bassey will also be with Casey in the Northwest League, and Ote Johnson is now sorry he hit the ball so hard last season, for he might also have been slated for the Northwestern League and get a chance at the short fences of Seattle and other points. McCredie eGts Staton. In addition to the four players an nounced as signed yesterday, Manager McCredie has renewed Billy Staton's name to a contract, and this clever little chap, who quit the team on account of his health a year ago, will work out at the California training grounds this Winter. Staton is at Chicago, where he put in an other successful season with the Chicago City Leaguers, and is anxious to come to the Coast for the second time. While negotiations for the training quarters for the Portland team have not yet been settled, Manager McCredie is considering a proposition to take his team to Paso Robles. Last year the team trained at Santa Barbara, and while there the team was benefited greatly. In cidentally, most of the players who were in Spring training last year are desirous of returning to that resort, and while Mc Credie has heard from the baseball peo ple there as well as from Paso Robles, he has not decided upon either location as yet. It is quite possible that he may divide the team into two sections and train the Northwestern League recruits at one place and the Coast players at the other. Both places are convenient to the two principal centers of California, and in the event that Manager McCredie should schedule an exhibition game between his two clubs In either San Francisco or Los Angeles, as he now plans, the trip to and from the scene of the game could be made ealsly. , Will Play White Sox. Among the exhibition games the Port land teams will play during the training season will be those with the Chicago White Sox. The team Is also scheduled to come to Portland, at which time it will be accompanied North by MeCredie's North western League team, whieh will start for Portland about the time the Pacific Coast League season opens. The list of players who will comprise the two squads at the training quarters are ae follows: Pitchers Klnsella, Gar rett, Harkness, Graney, Rose, Plnnance, Carson, Ferraris, Traeger and Ames; catchers, Fournler, Beaumont and Har rigan; lnflelders, Johnson, Casey, Staton, Mullin, Kennedy, Ort, Olson, Hallahan, Dugan and Cooney; outfielders, Mc Credie, Bassey, Ryan, Shinn and Rose. This list will probably be swelled by a dozen or more players, most of whom will be slab artists before the team la ordered to report. McCredie also expects to se cure most of the players enrolled on the Butte team, the franchis of which club Is to be formally transferred to Portland at the meeting of the Northwestern League at Spokane on Tuesday. SHIP FINE HORSES TO EUROPE Large Consignment of Thorough breds Sent Abroad. NEW YORK, Dec 5. One hundred and seventy-two thoroughbred horses, said to be the largest shipment that ever left the United States, left this port today on the steamship Minne- tonka, of the Atlantic Transport Line. J. B. Haggin, of the Elmdorf farm, in Kentucky, the largest breeder of race horses in the world, Is shipping in the consignment today some breeding stock to be sold in Germany and France. The other horses are sent by turfmen of this country to be raced abroad and to be used for breeding purposes. Among the prominent shippers are John E. Maiden, II. P. Duryea, Joseph E. Widener, F. A. Clark and H. E. Leigh. Mr. Madden's horses, consisting of 24 selected mares, are bound for England, from where they will be shipped later to France. The Duryea horses, includ lug the famous stallion Irish Lad, will go to a breeding farm in Southern France, where Mr. Duryea has already sent a number of fine mares. The Wliener string will be raced in France, while the Clark bunch will go to Eng land for hunting and racing during the Winter season. There had been reports that Mr. Mad den would ship today his crack 2-year-old colt, Martin, one of the entries for the Epsom Derby next year, but it is said that the colt will be shipped on Saturday next. AMERICA HORSE5IEX MAY TRANSFER SPORT. Ground Secured for Track at Mexico City and. Circuit to Be Created. Clnb Already Formed. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Doc. 5. Proposi tions to ' race American horses In Mexico, it was learned here today, have recently been made to Colonel Matt J. Winn, of this city, president of the American Turf Association. Colonel Winn, Algernon Dalngerfleld, secretary of the Eastern Jockey Club, and Mr. Davis, secretary of the Louis vTlIeTjockey Club, will go to Mexico to look over the field. If the plans de velop as expected, the first season in Mexico will open In January, 1910, with the running of the $25,000 Mexican Derby as the opening event. Club Already Formed. Colonel Winn said today he believed the outlook for racing in Mexico was encouraging and will afford a fine field for American horsemen and breed ers. He cites that the Mexican Jockey Club, which will have control of racing in Mexico, has already been formed, with many of the most prominent American turfmen and breeders inter ested in it. Among them are Messrs. Keene, Haggin, Whitney, Dwyer, Butler, Follansbee and Mackay. Ground for the racetrack at the City of Mexico has already been secured. It is near the Castle of Chapultepec, with in 15 minutes' ride by streetcar from the heart of the city. There are 130 acres in the site, and the Jockey Club Is ready to spend $300,000 on the plant. It is proposed to have a circuit of Mexican cities. Besides the City of Mexico, it is practically certain that Monterey and Juarez will be in this circuit. The Mexican government has agreed to give the Jockey Club $25,000 a year for ten years. It provides , the ground on which, the plant at the City of Mexico will be built and concedes the racing privileges for 20 years to the Jockey Club. Wants Stadlnm In New York. NEW YORK, Deo. 5. James E. Sulli van, president of the A. A. U-, and re cently appointed a member of the Board of Education of New York City, is pushing a movement looking to the erection of a monster stadium here, which will surpass anything of its kind In the United States. Mr. Sullivan points out if the city can afford to. spend $6,000,000 on a speedway, it can easily appropriate $3,000,000 for the stadium. Central Park Is suggested as the location for the structure. Maher Wins Hurdle Race. LONDON, Dec. 6. Danny Maher, the American Jockey, made his debut over the hurdles at Kempton Park this aft ernoon. He won the Stlnes handicap on Daflla, the favorite. Seven horses started. Contestants Will Come From All Parts or Country to Wrest Lau rels From Multnomah Club's Successful Representatives. BY TV. J. PETRAIX. The American Amateur Athletic Union has given Its official sanction to holding the next annuul field and track meet at Seattle. In 1909, and on that account the sprinters and Jumpers and welght-wielders of this section of the country are anxious for the Spring period to roll around in order that they may prepare for the great con tests. Captain Will Inglis, of Seattle, has returned home with the confirmation of the reported decision of the A. A. U., the annual meeting of which he attended last month. The holding of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle next year aforded the oppor tunity desired again to ask for the A. A. U. games in this section of the country. The annual athletlo contest under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union is an event of considerable im portance, and athletes In all sections of the United States and Canada are ambitious to participate. It is the classic event in amateurdom in Amer ica, and while some of the rulings of the A. A. U. are sometimes arbitrary, as a general thing theso meets are highly satisfactory. Means Much to Oregon. The holding of these games at Se attle means much to Oregon as well ns to the entire Pacific Coast. Like the events at the Lewis and Clark Fair, this will be noticeable for the at tendance of the best athletic talent in America, if not in the world. Many cf the stars of the All-Amerlcan team which won so many honors at the re cent London Olympic games will com pete at Seattle. Three of theso ath letes are Oregonians and each of them will be there, probably all three of them as representatives of the Mult nomah Amateur Athletic Club. This club will be represented at Seattle by one of the finest field and track teams ever assembled. Forrest C. Smlthson. Alfred C. Gilbert and Dan J. Kelly will undoubtedly enter at Seattle un der the colors of the Multnomah Club, for each has finished his college course and has expressed himself as willing to wear the colors of the fa mous Portland club. In addition to the Oregon trio there are a number of Eastern, Western and California athletes who will enter the competitions. Dan Kelly is going Into training for the sprints In the early Spring, for he Is desirous of showing that he still possesses speed enough to outdistance some of his skeptical rivals. Fast Men Against Kelly. Against Kelly at Seattle will he seen Bob Cloughen, Dick Cartmell. James A. Rector and Uiwson Robert son, a quartet of famous Eastern sprinters, while Oliver Huston, of the University of Oregon, one of the most promising sprinters of the Northwest; Martin, of Whitman College, and pos sibly Charley Parsons, of T-os Angeles, will be entered. Other Eastern short distance sprinters who are possibilities are Harry Hillman and H. J- Hufr, both of whom are anxious to come to Seattle, but are not quite sure they can make the trip. Ben Greenhaw and Davolt, the two Oregon Agricultural College middle distance runners, will be furnished with an opportunity of competing against Melvln W. Sheppard, J. C. Carpenter. Claude Robbins. John Taylor and Frank Bacon, all of whom are coming to Se attle if they can possibly make con nections. ... Shaw, Garrells and Smlthson will again fight It out for the hurdling, and as the Portland boy has beaten his Eastern rivals every time he has met them, it will be well-worth while to watch him try it again. Best Hurdlers Known. This trio comprises the greatest set of hurdlers the world has ever seen and both Garrells and Shaw assured the writer that they would be more lhan willing to come West and meet Pmithson at Seattle next year. f-r thev are anxious to reverse his de cision over them st any time and any place "Smithy" is even more anxious that thev should come out here, for he in ha npRire id Shaw's recently made record, whlch recognized at the Amateur Athletlo Union's recent meeting. c,.h. Another great feature of the Pea'" ..in , h visit of the world s rallies njii u" ...v - greatest weight men. all of whom, with .. ... . .-1 i v. -onea n re mem- the exception oi nipu . - ---hers of the Irish-American Club or New York City. In John J. r lanna - gan, Martin J. Sheridan. Jia. .u. - and "Pete" GUlis, the famous New York club has a quartet of weight men who hold practically every mis..-..--- record in the world xne r ,u held by them are held by Ralph Re e, ,d. as the latter is w some keen compemn... - pected In these events. There are a so , ,.rt..nrfr mpn in the Nortn- west who may be able to make a show lng against the big fellows from the k vnrlmia teams In this Hiast, aim - , - vicinity are already touring on de veloping one or two wK.B..v """;' who will make Flannagan and the rest extend themselves to carry off the hAnother event that will prve of great importance to the peop e of Port land and the Northwest will be the pole vault competition, for every ef fort is being made to bring Wallace Dray, the rival Yale pole vaulter of Gilbert's, to Seattle for a competition with the Portland boy. Dray has so far succesfully avoided meeting Gil bert since the latter defeated him on Franklin Field In Philadelphia last year and as Gilbert has completed his allotted four years in athletics at Yale, his only chance of again meeting Dray is to bring the latter to the A. A. U. games at Seattle. Bellah, of Stanford, Is also anxious for another chance at both Gilbert and Dray, and he will surely be one of the entrants at the Seattle games. BILLIARDS AND POOL. The Waldorf, 7th and Washington.