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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 9, 1909. ROYAL WELCOME FOB THE GADETS PULLMAN IN LINE FOR FIRST PLACE Husky Athletes of Hill Military Academy Track Team AUTOMOBILE DEALERS AND AUTO SUPPLY HOUSES OF PORTLAND Archer, Combs & Winters Co. AUTO SUPPLIES. 306 OAK STREET H. M. A. Athletes Win Laurels in Great Track Meet in California. Caliber of Washington State Athletes Well Brought Out in Idaho Meet. A Idanba rVfotor Car Company 11 ITIIT 111 F-w-VOGLER-Gen- 4L 9Uf 3. SL ELM. 7th and Couch A2520. Main 4555 WORK IS LOUDLY PRAISED MANY NEW RECORDS SET Lads Take Ninth Place Among 28 Schools Represented and Have No Entries in Some of Leading Kvciits Back Home Again. Cadet Captain William E. Graham, captain of the Hill Military Academy track team, returned Wednesday from California, where a picked squad of six cadets represented If. M. A. at the Ms Interscholastlu meet held at Palo Alto May 1. Although the team managed to annex only six points. ranking ninth among the 23 schools entered. Captain Oraham's report of the trip and the meet are most enthusiastic and he cannot say enough of the splendid manner in which his team was entertained at Stanford. The cadets arrived In Palo Alto Thurs day. They were met by a number of men of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and conveyed In carriages to the chapter house, where they were quartered during their stay at Stanford. On Thursday aft ernoon Coach Veatch gave the team some light work on the track. Friday morn ing the cadets were, shown over the campus and given an opportunity to thoroughly see and admire the magnifi cent buildings and wonderful facilities of the great university.' Friday after noon. there was more working out on tho track..'.". . " Preliminaries Are Held. ' Saturday the preliminary heats in the tOO-yard dash, the semi-finals in tlie 220 yard clash, the qualifying trials, in.' the broad jump, and the eliminating trials In the shot-put and hammer-throw were held.' Meier qualified In the 220-yard dash, while Prenn lost the advantages of a big lead by frequent looking back. In the afternoon Burns won the mile run in after a hard fight, from Thorpe of Alameda High and Vallely. of the Harvard Military. The Daily Palo Alto, a paper edited by Stanford University, says about this race: "Burns, of H. M. A., who was unknown In the list of con testants, ran a consistent race through out, taking the load in the back stretch of the fourth lap and Increasing it to five yards at the finish. Vallely. who looked to be the winner of the event, fought hard with Thorpe for second place, but was too exhausted to get place. The first three men were 30 yards ahead of the other entries at the finish. Burns de serves great credit for his victory, as he ran a heady race and finished in " good condition." Captain Graham "ran a heady race In the half mile and finished a close third, after a poor start." thus making a total of six points for Hill Mili tary. Used Smitlison's Style. McGuire. who was entered In the high -nd low hurdles, got an excellent start in both events and led easily over the first hurdles, using Smithson's style of hurdling. After the first hurdle, how ever, ho lapsed into his old style, of which Coach Veateh has labored hard to break him. a"nd was soon left behind. Graham pronounces Macaulay. of Alameda High, who broke the record by winning the quarter-mile In 60 3-5 seconds, a won der." and Is greatly enthused over the performance of Beeson. of Healdsburg High, who broke the record in the low hurdles, running this event in 26 2-5 seconds. Here Are Point Winners. Of the IS High Schools and academies entered in the meet the following were point winners: Healdsburg High, 20: Alameda High. 16: Venture High, 10: Cogswell High. 94: Berkeley High. 9i; San Jose High, 9: Harvard' Military, 7 (Winners of last year's meet); Modesto High. 6'; Hill Mil itary Academy, 6: Watsonsville High. 6: Lick High. 2: Chlco Normal. 3; Lowell High. 3; Pasadena High. 2: Oakland High. i. The Cadets, who were the only team from outside of California and the first northern track team ever seen in that state, attracted a great deal of attention and were highly complimented on the showing made against the fast southern athletes, in spite, of the faot that they had no entries in the- pole vault, the high jump or the weight events. Saturday evening Captain Graham at tended the annual meeting of the track captains of the California schools. Later in the evening the visitors were enter tained at the. Stanford gymnasium with boxing, wrestling and fencing events and must-, and a number of dances were given ritles. The same evening the different trophies and medals were awarded to the winners. The medals will be mailed to the winners as soon as they have been properly engraved. Given Automobile Ride. . Monday morning automobiling to San Jose, Oakland and the beach, canoeing and swimming were the order of the day. J.ter in the day Ben Hill was entertained at Phi Psi house. McGuire and Prehn at the Sigma N house and the other mem bers of the team went to San Fran cisco, where they met in the evening at the Hotel Stanford in order to attend the theater in a bod Monday morning was spent sightseeing in San Francisco and Oakland, and at 3 o'clock the H. M. A. team left for Eugene, where the cadets represented their school at the yesterday's meet held there by the freshmen of the University of Oregon. Hill Military Academy is quite satis fied with the showing made by its ath letes in Palo Alto, and in response to a very cordial invitation by Stanford Uni versity will make the big meet a regular annual event. GKXERAli II BEATS KOXOCTI San Francisco Yacht Club Opens Season at Sausalito. SAUSAL1TO. Cal.. May R. The San Francisco Yacht Club formally opened its season today at Sausalito, the event of the occasion being a. race for the Pacific Coast championship between the yachts General II and Konocti. The course was from Sausalito through Raccoon Straits, around Southampton Light and back through the straits to the finish line in front of the clubhouse. There was a brisk breeze and the race was closely contested all the way. The General IT was the winner, her time being 27:0. The Konocti came in only three seconds later in 27:12. The afternoon at the clubhouse. was devoted to dancing and an informal reception. Illinois Dcfcata Purdue. I.AFATKTTE. Iml.. May 8The Uni versity of Illinois won the dual meet from Fuvdua today. 80 t'o 46. - i V I J ) J - 1 -- J. e 3 "I I f 'Jli -t ylr:i i 1 H, - - - -v-i 'te PUGS ONLY TALKING Few Ring Battles Are in Sight at Present. NELSON AFTER EASY ONES Battler After Negotiating Willi Pack; McFarland Declines to Meet Him Before September and Bout Id Off. The game of fisticuffs seems to have resolved itself into a voice-culture ex ercise, for, aside from the thousands of defies issued by scrappers and would be scrappers, little In the matchmaking line has been accomplished recently. Battling Nelson occupied the lime light for a few short intervals when It was announced that he would meet "Packy" McFarland in California, but this more or less good news was ch merical. The "Battler" said the match should take place in September, and now all negotiations are off. Bat Is a thrifty personage, and he had it all arranged for himself to pick-off a couple of supposed easy marks before he tackles the scrappy "Pack v." This meant the postponement of a possible meeting between the rival little chaps until the September date, and "Packy" could not see the ante. He is holding otit for an immediate scrap, while the "Battler, who is the "sce-me" kid, says he will mix it with Freddie Welsh and one or two others first. Sam Langford, the dusky scrapper who Is now . across the pond, . seems likely to lose out on his match with Hague, at least such is the conclusion derived from the following item- of a London dispatch to the Cincinati En quirer: Thrre is 'absolutely nothing: to all this talk which has been given such wide currency tn tho States to the effect that the Hague-l-angforl match i only tentative and In no wise binding as yet. Hag-tie would undoubt edly like to crawl out of the match, for he would like to retain his title longer;but the promoters have him ev wedged In that he cannot, although undoubtedly he i a finan cial loser thereby. Hague got the match with Gunner Molr at the National Sporting Club and so was able to win the title in the 'first place, only upon the promise that he would meet ' I-angford at te flame club. In the event of hi winning, the Hague LAngford fight taking the place of the one that had been planned for Johnson to figure in. Hague is now back at Wit hern pea. where he trained for his Molr fight, getting ready for I-angford. under the training instruction of Bigg, known throughout Kngl&nd as a prettv clever fighter. The new champion is coming all the while, is a whole lot faster than most folks Imagine, as was perhaps best evinced the other day when he took on three men for a nine-round exhibition, each man doing a minute in turn while Hague went merrily along. The most logical fight In aright, in addition to those already under way, would be one be tween Young Josephs, who defeated Young Otto, from the United States, here this week, and Honey Mellody. Josephs can make 142 pounds at almoe-t any hour and Mellody. if his claim for recognition as welter-weight champion is to get a hearing here,, must be willing and able to do a similar weight. That would give a Josephs-Mellody bout something of an international championship flavor. Young Otto has never been regarded as good a boy as Mellody, when the latter is right, and basing opinion from what was shown in the Josephs-Oito mill, the winner and Mellody should contribute a pretty lively encounter. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press man has the following, which expresses the point quite clearly regarding J. Ar thur, better known as Jack Johnson, the four-flush colored champion: Mr. Jack "Johnelrg" is assuming the as pect of a huge "josh" every day. "The ne gro Is spending the greater portion of his spare time shooting hot air and calling big Jim Jeffries a bluff. He doubts the sincerity of the big boilermaker In announcing that he will return to the ring, but he is ope a verv select few of that opinion. Jeff's word has always been as good as gold except In one csne. when he announced that he had retireti forever but no one can blame him for breaking his word In this case after a big negro had taken advantage of his position to hurl mud at him. When Jeff came before the New York pop ulace the other day. or at least several hundred of them, and fiat-footed announced that he would fight again, but the only person he was after was Jack Johnson, he meant what he said, and the colored "pusson," who has been so highly honored, need only wait a few months it o find out that such is the ca.se. We can't help but coincide with Jim, Cor bett. when he said that he does not see how Jaok Johnson has a. look-in with Jeffries, should the two meet for the heavyweight championship of the world. Corbet t fought Jeff ries twice and he cer tain! v ought to know a little bit about the "returned champion. This is the way the actor-pugilist puts It: 'I can't say how long tt will take for Jeffries to knock Johnson out, for that depends on how long it will take Jeffries to catch him. Johnson may stand still with other fighters, but when he sees the big bear coming for him he'll run so fast he'll burn his shoes. He probably counts on Jeff being out of con dition, but Jeff i all right." Tut that In your pipe and smoke it, Mr. 'Johnslng.' ' Ebor AY ins Great Jubilee. KEMPTON PARK. May 8. The Kemp ton Park Great Jubilee handicap, 3000 sovereigns, for 3-year-olds and up," over the Jubilee course, one mile and a quar ter, was won here today by Ebor. Dean Swift was second and Succor third. Four teen horses started, among them August Belmont's Fair Play II . f TT' -V-CW -- hsZ& j!lLf' A I f'.. (3 rof I if I. 5'-- 1 i - LL I 3 RULE IS IN DOUBT Baseball Chiefs Don't Agree About Outlaws. CAN THEY STILL RETURN? I.ange Gets Contradictory Messages From Hermann and Johnson. Oakland Tries Strength at to Gain Bat. SAX FRANCISCO. May 8. (Special.) Organize!! baseball doesn't seem al together clear in its . own mind as to what the ruling of the National Com mission with regard to bascbali play ers In the outlaw league really meant. A few weeks ago the commission pro mulgated an order. It announced that players in outlaw leagues. meaning particularly the California State League might have until May 1 in which to rejoin the clubs that - held - them by contract. Falling in that, said the commission, four years must pass be fore any such player could apply for reinstatement. Up to May 1 there was a hurrying and scurrying. Scouts were out trying to induce the outlaws to jump. Ben Hen derson, the crack twirler of Moreing's Oakland team, was offered a bonus of $1000 and a three years' contract if he would join Cleveland. He said he wouldn't desert the man who had stood by him, but it is surmised that Henderson has been given a block of stock in the club and therefore pre fers to stand pat. Joe Nealon, Tommy Sheehan, Danny Shay and others prominent in that league were all offered other jobs. But they refused and May -1 passed with out the wholesale jumping that we had been led to expect. Conflicting Messages to Lange. But now comes Bill Lange, the Pacific Coast representative of the National Commission, to say that he doesn't al together understand the ruling. He explains that he had one wire from Garry Hermann, in which the presi dent of the commission said the Pa cific Coast League was at liberty to take any player it desired. Six hours later came a message from Ban John son, denying that such permission was granted the Coasters. In the mean time, Lange has tried to figure it out for himself. He takes the view that it applies only to players belonging to major league clubs who have remained outside the fold and that other players who have transgressed may still be approached by the forces of organized baseball. The attendance at the local games is keeping tip in a remarkable fashion. This can be attributed largely to the success of the Seals, who have been d-Qlnar bo well in the pennant race, but it is not to be gainsaid that tho wave of baseball has at last struck the Pa cific Coast in large gusts. Sacramento, which has been fortunate all along, drew decidedly well against San Francisco last week. The Sat urday crowd was as large as the ordi nary fanfest on Sundays, and for Sun day they, had to stretch ropes around the field. Oakland Strengthens Team. Oakland is making strenuous efforts to strengthen up and close the gaps. Shortstop Breyette, a wee bit of a fel low, who' was' a good fielder but a poor sticker, has been released to one of the "Western League clubs. Bernie McCay will play shortstop and an other of the men, very likely Willie Hogan, will hold down third base as a regular job. This last week, Ed. Walter, of the Oakland club, made Henry Berry a proposition for George Wheeler, the Angels' utility man. Walter wanted to use Wheeler as a regular man on the team, but Berry wouldn't agree to the deal. He said he needed all the men on his team. The Sapramento club is having the hayrd luck of the league. House has been out of the game several times and the players are constantly injuring them selves in one way or the other. Spider Baum, for instance, had his finger Kmangled by a thrown ball and last Sun day had to retire in the middle of the game, when he was doing good work. In spite of these setbacks, Graham keeps his men hard at work and there is no aggregation that fights harder until the last inning is rounded out. DAN MURPHYWILLCDACH VETERAN TRAINER TO HANDLE PORTLAND CREW. Is Coining North to Whip Local Oarsmen Into Form for Great Race -on Lake Washington. Dan Murphy, the coach of the Stan ford crew and formerly for the Portland Rowing Club, has been engaged to take charge of the Portland rowers, and is expected to be here about the last of the month when he comes up from Cali fornia with the Stanford crew, which is to rake part in the three-cornered race on Lake Washington among Washington, Stanford and California. The regatta takes place at Seattle July 23 and 24. Four crews of the Northwest Pacific Association will compete in the four-oared events, representing Vancou ver, Nelson and Victoria, of British Co lumbia, and Portland. It may be possible that a crew made up of Seattle oarsmen will also take part in the regatta, as they have signified their intention so to do. The Portland Rowing Club turned out in full force last Sunday, three shells being occupied, with others waiting their turn. Every night at 6:30 o'clock the members of the crews turn out for an hour's exercise to get into shape before the trainer arrives. With their own ef forts and assistance of the proper coach ing the teams expect to be able to make a good showing. The senior crew has not been picked yet, and probably will not be for some time. Oregon Is Not So Strong as Usual This Year and Will Probably Lose Conference Games, but lias Some Star Men. NEW NORTHWEST RECORDS MADE IN PI LI.MA.N. IDAHO, MT. 440-yard dash SO1 seconds, by Nelson, of W. S. c. " Mile run 4 minutes 31 2-5 sec onds, by cooil, of M'. S. C- Two-mlle run 10 minutes 22 sec onds, by Cooil, of W. S. C. JOO-yard dash 9 4-3 seconds (for mer record tied), by Nelson, of W. S. C. SSO-yard run 3 minutes 1-5 sec ond (former record tied), by John son, of TV. S. C. BY THE AMATEUR. What promises to be an eventful sea son of track and field athletics began at Pullman a week ago yesterday, when Washington State College defeated Uni versity of Idaho in one of the most spec tacular dual meets ever held in the Northwest. Thiit Washington State has a strong team is attested by the fact that it scored 100 points, as against 31 for the collegians from the Gem state varsity. The Pullmanltes broke three Northwest records, -tied two more and did so well in the whole programme of events that they are generally picked as the season's champions. The meet developed two record-breaking stars for Pullman in. Jack Nelson, the sprinter, and Cooil. the long-distance run ner. The former tied Dan Kelly's North west collegiate record for the 100-yard dash, covering the distance in 9 4-5 sec onds. Five watches caught the time at this figure and there can be little doubt as to its correctness. Nelson further dis tinguished himself as a sprinter by de feating Edmunson, Idaho's fleet-footed wonder. In a heart-breaking quarter-mile dash. he time of which was 50 1-5 sec onds, or 2-5 of a second below the record made by Floyd Williams, of Oregon Ag ricultural College at the Lewis and Clark Exposition games. Owing to the Conference rules Edmun son is ineligible to membership on the Idaho team, but the special race was ar ranged and the Idaho runner was de feated. Edmunson Is one of the best runners in the United States today and the Pullman lad who defeated him may well fee! proud of his record. Nelson duplicated his time made in the exhibition race, when lie won the regular quarter-mile event, and there is little doubt but what he is one of the greatest sprinters ever seen in the Northwest. The writer, however, ventures the opin ion that Kelly or Williams in their palmy days could have shown their heels to the Pullman sprinter, and that young Huston, of Oregon, will give him some thing to worry about at the Conference meet !n Seattle on June 5. ( Johnson Smashes Record. Johnson started the fireworks in the distance runs by tying the Northwest record of 2:05 1-5 in the half-mile. Later on Co:il established new Northwest' rec-. ords in the mile and two-mile runs, cover ing the distances in 4:312-5 and 10:22, re spectively. Cooil came to Oregon with the Pullman team two years ago. when he and his team-mates showed their class by- running away from the best distance men on the Oregon and O. A. C. teams. His recent performances put him at the head of a splendid list of distance run ners that the Northwest has produced. Washington State has a strong, well foalanced team. Cooil and Nelson are the stars, but. there are good men in every event and those who follow the fortunes of Northwest track athletics are already proclaiming the Pullmaliites as winners of the Conference meet. Corvallis has arranged a dual meet with Washington State in Pullman on May 11, and there is little doubt but what the latter team will win. Wolff, of O. A. C will outclass Holm, the Pullman weight-thrower, and Hall should best him in the hammer throw. Chapman, of O. A. C bids fair to win the high jump, although Putnam, Pullman's jumper, cleared 5 feet 9 inches in the meet with Idaho. Tri-State Meet Next Friday. Notwithstanding her overwhelming de feat at the hands of Pullman, Idaho has a good team and will be heard from in the tri-state meet, at Eugene next Fri day. This contest promises to be more interesting tjian usual for the reason that Oregon is not as strong as usual this season, while both Idaho and Washing ton are more formidable. Oregon has won the tri-etate meet since its inaugura tion and has done so with apparent case. The loss of such - athletes as Moores, Moullen, Zacharias and Kuykendall has weakened Oregon materially, but Hayward still has a good bunch of men and will have an even break with Washington and Idaho. Huston, the Oregon sprinter; Reid and Lowell, the quarter-mile . runners , and Downs, Davis and Riddell, in the dis tances, are all fast men and there are good ones for the other events. Wash ington's recent defeat of Whitman puts the Seattle bunch in line for the cham pionship. Idaho's strength lies in the hur dles, pole vault and jumps. Wrestling Honors for O. A. p. Oregon Agricultural College has shown Its class in the wrestling game by win ning over Washington and Washington State, thereby establishing her claim to Northwest honors. Wrestling has been stimulated in the Northwest during the past year and there will be some inter esting amateur contests between the col leges next Winter. Basketball, wrestling. boxing and other indoor sports are of great value to young men who do not care for outdoor athletics, as well as to football and baseball men who desire to keep in training during the Winter months. In order to be of the greatest value to the greatest number, athletic sports should be so arranged that all who de sire to participate in the different branches may do so without having to compete for places on the "varsity" team. In this connection the milder indoor sports and inter-class "baseball and track contests are of great value to our schools and colleges. Oregon Ball Players Make Good. The Oregon baseball nine made a splen did record on its Inland Empire trip, as well as in - Its . games with Multnomah. On Saturday next the Eugene lads will beg-In a series of games with O. A. C. BALLOU & WRIGHT Automobile Supplies 86 Sixth St. Main 1834: A 1834 CARTERCAR Automobile and Launch Supplies Vulcnnlxing A Retreading. It. E. 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It is pleasing to note the Improve ment In the quality of college baseball here in the Northwest, although the sport is not supported as heartily as It should be. - Definite announcement has been made by John R. Middleton that he will not coach the Idaho football team this year. Middleton has been a fiiture at Moscow for so many years that he will be sadly missed in- all parts of the Northwest when the whistle blows next Autumn. Idaho has made no announcement as to her coaching policy for the coming season, nor has any word come from Corvallis or Pullman about the personnel of their respective coaching staffs. Dobie will di rect Washington's play again, Forbes has been retained by Oregon, and rumor has It that Blanchard will coach Whitman's gridiron warriors once more. It is a lit tle early to make predictions as to the outcome of next season's championship struggle, but It is generally believed that Washington will have a team that will be hard to stop. LAWN TEXXIS ANNUAL IS OUT Spalding's Guide Shows Big Matches of Past Year. Spalding's Official Lawn Tennis Annual for 1909 has made its appearance for the season, and is up to the high standard of former years. It is edited by H. P. Burchell, of New York, who has been the editor for a number of years. The leading feature of the book is a complete account of the trip of the American team to Australia, written by George A. Phelps, of New' York, a member of the party that accompanied the players In their attempt to recover the Davis cup. .The illustra tions in the article are numerous and In teresting and have not been previously published, having been taken exclusively for Spalding's Annual. That the Aus tralians are a sport-loving people Is seen MORGAN V WRIGHT AND GOODRICH TIRES REIER SON MACHINERY CO. 1 82-4-6 Morrison Street Phones: Main 1346. A 1346 Agency, 8 6 Tenth St. BET. STARK and B0RNSIDE Phones Main 692 A 2234 . FIVE PASSENGER CAR FOR $953 BLODGBTT, 510 Alder St. Main T003. 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The balance of the book comprises a review of the season, records of the Na tional championships, sectional champion ships and important tournaments throughout the country, notes of the game, ranking for 1908, official playing rules, how to conduct a tournament, how to handicap, how to lay out and keep a court, list of scheduled events for 1909, directory of clubs, list of active players and other items of Interest. The Illus trations are numerous and Interesting and comprise pictures of leading players and scenes of important events. NYMPH WIM, GO TO SPOKANE Speedy Motorboat AVill Ply on Lake Coeup d'Alene. The motor boat Nymph, after its farewell trip on the Willamette Sun day, will go to Spokane to be Installed on Lake Coeur d'Alene. It was de signed and constructed by Otto Ranft and is one of the fastest boats on the river. The Nymph is 34 feet long and one of the prettiest craft ever seen In local waters. It has automobile power and control. If the owner wishes to make a racing boat it can be stripped for lighter running. The boat is capable of making between 20 and 25 miles an hour. Mr. Ranft will build another boat similar in construction, but slightly larger. The Portland Motor Boat Club is contemplating having a camera day In the near future, when all the boat's on the river will turn out and have pictures taken. A regatta will be held on this day in which the owners and their friends will be present, and many handsome photographs will be made. Barrett Beats String or 68. LONDON,' May S. H. Barrett, who finished "nowhere." in the Olympic Marathon last Summer, today defeated a string of 68 competitors over the full Marathon distance of 26 miles 385 yards, in 2 hours, 42 minutes 31 sec onds. The competitors Were all ama teurs and represented most of the na tions of Europe. The first men home were Britishers.