TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 19, 1909.
TWO CRACK ENTRIES IN PORTLAND HORSE SHOW, WHICH WILL BE HELD OCTOBER 7, 8 AND 9.
ATHLETIC CLUB IS
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Multnomah, With Brilliant His
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BT FRANK E. WATKISS.
In beginning this brief histor of the
Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. 1
can not do better than to start with an
editorial whicn appeared In The Ore
gonlan. September 2S. 19"0. which said:
The Multnomah Club's formal opening
of its new and commodious home lal nlpnt
was pre-eminently a social event, but its
Tr.eanina is much deeper. Fate ha oeen
kir.d to tnis organization of oor beet young
men. widening Its cpe from purely ath
letic ideal" to (octal ways that make for
Ainttv and rrirA t,f character. If we
ourht for the causes we should find them
In a combination of favorinK circumstances,
not the leas' potent of which has been the
ban upon liquo-s ana Fimoiinpt. rurnmm
Is peculiarly blest in this institution which
offers its younK men a habitat conducive
not only to viKr of body, but to R-nod fel
lowship of hhit and courtesy of bearir.K
The t-pe of man that Is to set on In the
20th century must have the hardihood of
the Roman, the buovaney of the r;reek the
address cf the modern man of the world.
Feldom does a club home promote these
qualities as does this Multnomah Athletic
Club. Perhaps a sense of this fact and its
bearing on Portland's future animated the
thrJns of Portland s best men and women
who last nicht (traced the new clubhouse
with their presence.
At anv rate It should be felt hereafter.
and Insure popular approval and aupport of
the club s publlc-splr'ted ventures. 1 ne iu
tnre history of Portland wttl be largely
made by the youns; men who spend their
letsure and formative hours at tne Mult
r.omah Club. They are worth looking-
" Club Formed in 1891.
I consider the above compliment, which
was Riven our club, by our leading dally,
the morning after the formal opening
of our present clubhouse, as great a one
as we have ever received, although we
have had many.
But to begin at the beginning of our
club history, let me take the reader back
to February. 1S91. when Portland was a
small city compared with whRt it now is.
when a little band of good fellows and
sportsmen got together and on February
25. of that year, had their first meeting,
organized and elected officers, the first of
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club.
There were 11 present at that meeting:
A. E. McAlpin. L. J. Goldsmith, W. H.
Wallace, W. F. I.lpman. H. E. Judge,
Bruce Carr. George L. Bickel. Dr. A. E.
Mackay, Allan Ellsworth and A. Gavin.
A. B. McAlpin was elected the first
president of the club and of the original
11 members, several served on the first
board of directors.
The first club quarters were secured In
A building on the east side of Second
street, between Yamhill and Morrison
streets, where a gymnasium, billiard room
and reading room were provided for
members.
Soon after this, the need of an athletic
field became apparent and the inclosure
back of the Exposition building, which
is now Multnomah Field, and which at
that time was being used as a stockshow
ground, was secured and an athletic
field was laid out and a grandstand
erected.
In the Fall of 1R93, the clubhouse on the
southwest corner of Tenth and Yamhill
streets, which had ben built for the
club by the Ladd estate, wos opened and
was the home of the club until July,
- 1300.
The opening of the then new clubhouse
on Tenth and Yamhill streets was an
attraction that gained many new mem
bers for the club and the initiation fee
was raised and Multnomah began its real
journey to success and prosperity. Ath
letes from all over the state Joined the
club and its track, football and -baseball
teams began to win championships not
only in the Pacific Northwest, but Pacifio
Coast championships as well.
Honors Won in Athletics.
About this time, cocked-hat bowling
became a great fad and the Multnomah
team developed more "stars" at this
game than any other Northwestern club
and Its team won several championships
in the Northwest Cocked-Hat Association.
In the meantime. Multnomah had de
feated the Olympic track team of San
Francisco, in a dual meet, on July 27,
J1?, and its football team had defeated
Stanford University and all Northwest
teams. Its boxers and wrestlers had won
many honors in the ring and on tho mat
end Multnomah had become the by-word
for clean, clever athletes and athletics
and also stood for success in all athletic
sports.
Caspar Whitney, probably the best
informed authority on athletic clubs in
America, said in Harper's Weekly, in an
article on "Athletics and Athletic Clubs."
that the Multnomah Amateur Athletic
Club was second to none as a clean,
amateur club and. in fact, had no su
perior in this respet't. Coming.' from the
source that it did. this statement rausert
many complimentary articles to be writ
ten about our club in various papers
and magazines throughout the United
States.
After a successful career in the home
on Tenth and Yamhill streets, the
growth of the membership demanded
larger and more suitable quarters and,
consequently, the purchase of Multno
mah Field, comprising about five acres
at the head of Morrison street, where
the present grounds and clubhouse are
located, was consummated and the build
ing of the new clubhouse was commenced.
This clubhouse, which Is the one at pres
ent occupied by the club, was completed
in July, lyOO. and was thrown open to the
membership on Saturday. July 21. 1900.
The present clubhouse Is being out
grown by the membership and ere long
a new one will have to be erected. The
present board of trustees have i consid
ered the matter Informally, and the
general opinion of the trustees and
membership seems to be that the new
clubhouse, when ' built, should be
erected on the southwest end of the
present property owned by the club,
which is on the new piece acquired
this Spring from the King estate. The
acquiring of this new ground rives the
club something over eight acres in the
heart of Portland, and its ideal loca
tion and amphitheater situation make
it probably the most desirable and
unique location for an athletic club and
field of any in America.
Advantages 'Without Equal..
No other club has-Its clubhouse and
athletla field combined in the center of
a city and the advantages enjoyed by
the members of Multnomah are greater
than those of any other athletic organiza
tion In this country.
The Multnomah Club has many ad
mirable features which stand out In
comparison with many athletic clubs
- other cities which, foster profes-
slonallsm in athletics and degrade
healthy amateur sport. The Multnomah
Club has never been tainted with the
elements of dissipation, often a feature
of athletic clubs, and all forms of
gambling and ungentlemanly conduct
are absolutely discountenanced. There
is no bar in the club and no intoxi
cating liquors of any kind are allowed
In the building. This iff a splendid
thing and undoubtedly accounts for the
large number of Junior members, both
boys and girls, that the club has, as
parents know that their - children are
not brought Into contact with such
things in the Multnomah Club.
There are nearly 1000 senior mem
bers, and the Woman's Annex to the
club has a membership of over 450
ladles, while the Junior girls number
about 350 and there are over 600 Junior
boys, making a total membership In the
club of over 2500. In all departments.
The membership is growing very
fast, and the board of trustees waived
the customary re-initiation fee for
members who resigned in good stand
ing at any time up to September IB.
There is no club In the country that
gives as much to its members for the
same amount of dues that Multnomah
does. The club employs Professor
Krohn as physical .director, one of the
most skillful in his profession. It alao
employs Arthur Cavlll, who Is conceded
to be the best swimming Instructor In
America, as its swimming Instructor.
Danny Danzlger, of the Olympic Club
of San Francisco, has Just been en
gaged as boxing instructor, to succeed
Fred Rennick, resigned, and while Mr.
Danzlger is not known in this city, he
comes to us very highly recommended
and will undoubtedly prove a valuable
acquisition to our role of instructors.
In wrestling, ihe club Is fortunate in
again securing the services of Eddie J.
O'Connell,. the champion professional
welterweight wrestler of the world, who
made such a splendid record as instructor
for us last Winter.
When Classes Are Held.
The classes are as follows: Senior
classes, Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day evenings; business men's classes.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday after
noons from 5 to 6; ladies' classes, Tues
day and Friday mornings. Besides these
classes the Junior classes are held twice
weekly.
In connection with other advantages
offered by the club Is the Turkish bath
'department for members, which has
been newly refitted and renovated and
Is a very important adjunct to the
club.
The club has also adopted an official
seal which will be put in the form of a
a button and pin and. will be copy
righted by the club and the output con
trolled by It. Members may obtain
them at the club office.
As Portland has grown so rapidly and
there are perhaps many who are not
familiar with our clubhouse, it might
not be out of place to give a general de
scription of our present home. It was
designed by Architect Lazarus and is
essentially composite in structure, being
Colonial in style. The eastern facade is
two stories, somewhat plain, excepting
around the entrance and front porch.
which are prettily adorned. : The western
facade, owing to the depth of the field
on which it faces, is three stories in
height and is much more attractive than
the front of the building. The orna
mental porches from all three floors
afford splendid lounging places for the
members and an excellent view of the
athletic field, tennis courts, etc., ia had
from them. The beautiful new grand
stand which was completed a year ago at
a cost of nearly ,$3O.J0O and which seats
nearly 000 spectators comfortably, is op
posite the west. end of the clubhouse.
On entering the building, one ta ushered
immediately into the assembly hall. A
striking feature Is the extreme simplicity
and richness of the furnishings.
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FINE GUPS OFFERED
Ninety Trophies Are Hung Up
for Horse Show.
ENTRY LIST IS GROWING
By way of expediting the transmission of
letters, the Belgium postal authorities have
recommended that all letters intended for
Brussels should be inclosed in red envelopes.
thie for other Belgian points In yellow and
foreign letters In green envelopes.
Business Men Show Great Interest
In October Society Event and
Will Decorate Windows
on Lavish Scale.
Portland business men have come for
ward with even more than their .usual
liberality in donating cups to be offered
as awards in the horse show that will
be held October 7, 8 and 9 at the Orien
tal building on the Lewis and Clark
fair grounds. As a result the Hunt
Club, under whose auspices the show
Is to be held, haa hung up much finer
prizes than the ones which called forth
so much favorable comment last year.
Altogether 90 cups have been offered,
one in each of the regular classes and
several in special classes. Any one of
the cups is a valuable trophy and well
worth competing for. They will be
handsome souvenirs of victory and the
competition . for them promises to be
very spirited in view of the numerous
high-class entries.
In all of the divisions, A. M Cronin,
president of the Hunt Club, reports that
the entries are of higher standard than
last year, when the fanciest stock of
the Northwest was brought into the
Portland show ring. Not only have some
high-bred steeds been shipped to the
Coast from the East since that time,
but the entries will come from a greater
distance and be more numerous.
As the formal closing of entries will
occur tomorrow night, it is expected
that a great many new names will be
received before that time at the Hunt
Club headquarters in the Lumber Ex
change building. Officers of the club
are in the office every day and are
kept busy answering correspondence
and receiving telephone entries and
inquiries concerning the show.
Portland merchants are planning to
make the horse show an occasion for
elaborate window decorating. Many
have volunteered to arrange handsome
displays appropriate to the occasion
and it is expected that practically every
store In the central district will devote
one or more windows to this society
event. '
In order to stimulate rivalry be
tween window dressers of the various
establishments, the Hunt Club yester
day announced prizes of $25, $15 and
110 for the best decorated windows
suggested by the horse show. Last year
some of the. displays were very hand
some, but these promise to be surpassed
by this year's decorations. All of the
chief hotels and grills are also plan
ning decorations complimentary to the
event, and it is safe to say that the ap
proach of horse show week will be
heralded everywhere lnthe down-town
district by special displays.
Farmer Fights Soldier.
BERLIN, Sept. 18. (Special.) At a
ball given at Neuhelm, near Zong; a
local farmer. Franklin Bienz, and a
soldier in uniform, Joseph Smstutz,
both married', quarreled about a valse.
The farmer left the building early,
and armed with a pitehfork, awaited
the soldier In the street after the
function.
The farmer attacked the soldier, in
flicting several wounds, when the later
fixed his bayonet and transfixed the
farmer, the bayonet passing through
his chest and killing him Instantly.
It has been announced that an airship
tine will be In operation soon between Pots
dam and Berlin.
BIG CAR NEWCOMER IN WEST.
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I. N. FXEISCHYER'S SIX-CYLINDKR LOZIEB-tANDAIILET.
The six-cylinder Lozler-Landaulet seven-passenger car purchased by I. N. Fleischner, of Portland, through
the H L. Keats Automobile' Company last week, is the largest and highest priced automobile built in Amer
ica. It is the first of its kin to be received in the Pacific Northwest. T he car equals a 75-horse power ma
chine, and was delivered to the purchaser at a cost of $7750.
EVERY DAY THE COMING WEEK
Special Days
MONDAY Hunt Club Day
TUESDAY Business Men and Button Day
WEDNESDAY Portland Day
THURSDAY Willamette Valley Day
FBIDAY-olumbia Valley Day
s SATUEDAY Auto and Children's Day
ADMISSION 50 CENTS
The Home Stretch
BIG PROGRAMME EACH NIGHT
BALLOON ASCENSION
FIREWORKS DIXIE LAND
CHARIOT RACES BOHEMIAN GIRL
PONY RACES
BRONCHO BUSTING
ADMISSION 25 CENTS
A $1,000,000 LIVESTOCK SHOW
$25,000 IN PREMIUMS
$25,000 IN PURSES
GREATEST EXPOSITION EVER HELD IN THE WEST
Rates on All Railroads '
Don't Forget All Next Week Boost Oregon Livestock Follow the Crowd.
Take Cars at Third and Yamhill
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Big Colleges Follow Yale With
Advisory Coaches.
NEW RULES SCRUTINIZED
Football Followers Anxious to See
How Latest Changes Work Out.
Howard Jones Is on the
Job at Old Eli.
BY W ALTER E. HAPGOOD.
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 18. (Special.)
The big universities of the East in
stitutions like Harvard, Yale, Pennsyl
vania, Princeton, Cornell and Dart
mouth are upon the eye of another
tknii aann TTni- these tini versities
and for all of the immense following
that college rooiDau nas nero in
East the season promises to be one of
even unusual interest.
Of course there is an interest to see
how the changes In the football rules,
as enacted by the solons and law-
.iinr, ths srldiron. work Out in
actual .practice. But the real interest
will center around the showing of
Harvard the champion eleven of the
East last year, so far as it Is possible
to have a champion under the present
schedule system and the success at
tained by the ne-v men who make their
debut, this Fall, In the role of head
field coaches.
System Changed.
ti. Bantam nf football' coachinc: in
the East has been gradually under
going a cnange in in" yat
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through the changed rules. This year
practically an or me larger uibuiuhu
have gone over to the advisory system,
in miirhtv few of the universities Is
one man now supreme as was the case
a few years ago. Success must be
credited or failure charged not to one
man, but to several.
This advisory coach idea had its In
ception at Yale, where, as everybody
knows, Walter Camp has been the man
behind the football guns for a number
of years. Other colleges, although they
hated to admit it at first, saw' that
Yale's continued gridiron successes
were due, in no small measure, to the
advisory element of the coaching.
Pennsylvania, although having little
In common with Yale in college ath
letics, was the first to come out in the
open and follow Yale's lead by having
an advisory head in Dr. Carl Williams
for the past five years. Dr. Williams,
by the way, is succeeded this year by
Al Mulford, whose playing made him
famous in his college days.
Harvard's Move Wins.
Tracing this development still fur
ther, Harvard last Fall appointed an
advisory committee of seven it was
known in college circles as the
v stragetic board to confer with and ad
Vise the head field coach. And Harvard
madje a big success of its football last
Fall, defeating Yale decisively after
years of futile effort in that direction.
This year Princeton, Cornell and Dart
mouth have all swung into line .with
advisory boards, confident in the belief
that their varsity elevens will be
strengthened in consequence.
It is unnecessary to go Into the per
sonnel of these boards. Suffice it to
say they are composed of men who, in
the main, were not only good players
in their college careers, but quick
thinkers as well. In the main they
will do little, if any, active coaching,
but they will keep in close touch with
the progress and development of the
team, and will, with a full understand
ing between them and the head field
coach, map out tne general policy of
play.
Sweeping Changes Made.
There never was a season when the
changes among the head coaches have
been as sweeping as this Fall. Harv
ard alone, of the members of the so
called "Big-Six," retains the same head
coach as was in charge a year ago.
Necessity in some cases, expediency in
others, has precipitated the changes.
Harvard, however, retains as head field
coach Percy D. Haughton. who scored
a distinct success last Fall, his initial
year, and who had been, a few years
back, head coach at Cornell, although
himself a Harvard alumnus.
At Yale the long-standing tradition of
having the preceding captain as head
field coach for the following season has
been shattered with the engagement as
head coach for 1909 of Howard Jones,
brother of the famous Tad Jones, whose
success at Syracuse last season fully jus
tifies his appointment to the larger field
at Yale, Tad Jones, by the way, suc
ceeding his brother at Syracuse. At
Pennsylvania Sol Matzger's love for the
West and his apple orchards there pre
vented his return to head coach again,
and after a bitter squabble between rival
factions, Al Smith was finally appointed
as Metzger's successor. Jim McCormlck,
Walter Camp's selection for ail-American
fullback two years ago, is the active head
at Princeton, with an advisory commit
tee of three, headed by Phil King, known
to every Princeton man, behind him. Cor
nell, after a disastrous season and In
j ferior coaching last Fall, lias Induced
Dan Reed, a prime favorite with every
Ithacan, to lead the active coaching force
with a bunch of advisory coaches that
seems from the outside to be almost too
unwieldy.
The season's playing schedules for the
larger universities in the Fast present
precious few startling changes. The Har
vard schedule presents the only digres
sions from the one of a year ago worthy
chronicling. Harvard has taken on Cor
nell again, after an absence of several
years, and tnls Harvard-Cornell meeting
will be especially significant in assisting
at a final solution nf the championship
problem late in November, providing
Pennsylvania Is in the field as a claimant
for the honor, as a year ago.
Cornell and Pennsylvania have always
met for years on FrarTklin Field, in Phil
adelphia, for the Thanksgiving game, the
closing collegiate contest of the year.
The result of that game, together with
the outcome of the Harvard-Cornell meet
ing a few weeks previously, will give the
best line obtainable on the relative
strength of Harvard and the Quakers, for
no other college eleven plays both Har
vard and Penn excepting Brown, and in
that case the Brown-Penn game comes
so early In the season that neither of
the contending teams can be fairly re
garded as having reached Its lull devel
opment. But elsewhere the start has yet to be
made, largely because of faculty inter
ference, the feeling of the faculties being
that too much practice In advance of the
opening of the academic year puts too
much Importance upon the game. At
Princeton, for example, an iron-clad rule
was passed preventing any practice at
Princeton or elsewhere for Princeton men
before college opens. At Cornell there
will be nothing doing until next Wednes
day,' while at Yale Captain Coy had to
cancel his original call for candidates and
delay the start a week because of inti
mation from the faculty.
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Special Reduction Sale
Wines and whisky reduced to half price. Commencing Monday, September 20; we are going
to offer a stock of about $20,000 worth of wines and whiskies and cordials at half the price
formerly sold for. It will pay you to lay in a good supply for the coming Winter, as you will
never have the opportunity again to buy these goods at such a great reduction.
WE SHALL OFFER AS FOLLOWS
10 000 gallons of fine California Claret, regular price 75c per gallon, at, per gallon 25 $
lo'oo gallons of fine old California Port Wine, regular price $1.50, at, per gallon - 45
1000 gallons of fine Eastern Blackberry Brandy, regular price $2.00, at, per gallon. .. ...75
1000 gallons of Monogram Whisky, regular price $6.00, at, per gallon 53.50
1000 gallons of 7-year-old double stamp Bourbon whisky, regular price $5.00, per gallon S3.00
1000 gallons of fine Kentucky Eye, regular price $4.00, at, per gallon 2.50
1000 gallons Kentucky Rye Blend, regular price $3.50, at, per gallon O-.OO
1000 gallons California Grape Brandy, regular price $3.50, at, per gallon
10,000 bottles of California Port Wine, Tegular price 50c, at, per bottle 15
10000 bottles California Claret, regular price 50c, at, per bottle lo
1000 bottles Pineapple, Lemon and Rock and Rye, regular price $1.25, at, per bottle 5?
1000 bottles of Scuppernong Wine, regular price $1.00, at, per bottle 50
500 bottles Tom Gin, regular price $1.00, per bottle 50
10,000 pint bottles of Whisky, Brandy and Gin, regular price 50c, at, per bottle. 30?
10,000 haJf-pint bottles of Whisky, Brandy and Gin, regular price 25c, at, per bottle 15
1000 bottles of Imported Cognac, regular price $2.00, at, per bottle $1.25
1000 bottles of California Brandy, regular price $1.25, at, per bottle 75
2500 bottles of Blackberry Brandy, regular pries 75c, at, per bottle 25c
1000 bottles Old Gold Bourbon, full quarts, regular price $1.50 per bottle, at 75
Sale Commences Monday Morning September 2Qth
Lake Erie Wine & Liquor Co.
Telephone Main TO
234 First Street, Cor. Main