THE 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
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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.