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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVE3IBER 10, 1912. WATCH-TOWER ' OB S E RVATI QNS I -wtezasr "Nick Williams, of the Portland Northwesterners, Is a Free Agent-He Is Keeping Books This Winter and Can Quit Any Time"-Abe's Philosophy. - FROM Helena. Montana, telegraph wires ticked out a dream story a few days ago. In which Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Americans, was credited with saving his own life by beanlng an infuriated deer with a rock the sixe of a base ball. Simultaneously from all extremes of the nation the boys began kidding him. "Griffith owns a ranch at Helena and spends his off-season hunting there." says Ed Hughes, of Seattle, "but he hasn't enough speed left to break a pane of glass, and he'll have an awful time making his friends believe that part of the story. "Will not do around the big show, Interjects Damon Runyan, the clever baseball twirler on the New York Amer icans. "They've been unable to find any steam to Old Fox' delivery, even with a gage, for some time pasi. . Reminiscent of the yarn some will recall the storv on George Engle, of the Vancouver pitching staff, who has been getting by for several years who only a wind-up and a prayer. The old Portland star had had some words with a player on the Spokane team one day and when this man came to bat. Boby James crept In to George and whispered vengefully: "Bean him. George. Bean him." With withering scorn George eyed him. "Bean him?" he answered. "Bean him? With what?" WHEN Principal Otto Luther, of the Queen Ann High School or Seat tle, failed to hear the noon whistle's last Tuesday he was amazed and im mediately began an investigation. His Inquisition resulted In every student In his nom being haled up before the bar on a charge of wearing obscene hosiery. Some of the socks were pink with purple embroidery: some orange and green, but in every case the boys -had affixed a double roll at the end of the trouser to better display the glorious scenery and give better acoustic quali ties to the reverberation. "Pull down your your your trouser ends.'" gasped the startled Luther. "Then every man Jack of you change hose when you reach home thlsafter n"n." Luther was right. People who wear socks that make more noise than the bald-headed man's reminiscences at the old settlers' meeting ought to keep the ferocity of their footwear veiled or oc cupy the very back seats. CHARLES "WEBB MURPHY. who owns the Chicago National League ball club, when Charles Taft Is In Cin cinnati. Is to lift the National sport from the realms of materialism into boundless IdeaJism. On the eve of a hasty departure for the East he an nounced that next season band concepts will be given at all ball games at Cub park. Music? Ah. yes! Some of these haunting melodies have been suggested for enchanted fans: Overture "Cumin' Thro' the Rye." Kuue "Stein Song." March "Under the Anlicuser Busch." .Minuet "Here's to the Good Old Team Drink 'or Down." Waltz de Concert "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes." Grand Finale "You'll Get All That's Coming to You." Although but few suspected an ar tistic technique. Murphy's temperament ia not superficial. It is no violation of confidence to say that his fine Italian hand was plainly disclosed In the sum mary "resignation" of Manager Frank LIPTON IS COMING Yacht Races in San Francisco to Be Discussed. LOCAL YACHTSMEN INVITED Great Series of Water Races Planned for Panama-Pacific Exposition. AVoIff to Design Racer for Local Club. Portland will be represented at a big meeting of yacht and motorboat en thusiasts at Ban Francisco on Novem ber 19. when Sir Thomas Lipton. the noted vacht challenger, will be present to confer with Pacific Coast people relative to the record-breaking water race programme scheduled for 1915. during the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Elwood Wiles and George S. Shepherd, prominent enthusiasts and members of the Portland Motorboat Club, will be two of the delegates, while several others may make the trip. Commodore Boost, of the Portland rlub, received a message from Charles C Moore, one of the promoters of the water carnival, Friday, inviting Port land to have representatives at the meeting, which will formulate the plans for what is expected to be the biggest series of yacht and motorboat races In history. Portland lavlted'to Joisu The following is a copy of the mes sage: "Commodore Portland Motorboat Club, Portland, Or.: "The Panama-Pacific International Exposition extends a cordial invitation to your 'club to participate In an im portant conference to be held at San Francisco with Sir Thomas Lipton on November 19. for a discussion of suit able plans covering international yacht motorboat races at San Francisco In 1915, under auspices of the universal exposition which opens here February 20 and closes December 4 that year. "The object will be' to make the regatta the biggest event in yachting bistorv. The occasion will oe pecu liarly In harmony with the underlying sentiment of the great maritime achievement which thia exposition cele brates In the opening of the Panama CanaL "It is aimed to secure entries from all the world's most famous yachtsmen and Induce the personal attention of many other distinguished competitors. "Your representation at this confer ence is particularly desired. Kindly wire Miller Freeman at Seattle advis ing him how many of your cluh mem bers are coming so that he may re serve the necessary accommodations on the Shasta Limited for the whole party to Journey south together, If agreeaDie. "CHARLES C MOOKti, iresiaenu Wolff 1 Dealff Racer. Mr. Shepherd has been working with the exDosltion people for a year rela tive to the International motorboat races, . and thinks that prizes of at least $20,000 will be offered for the speed boat winners. Th. Oregon Speed Boat Association, in which Wllea and Shepherd are In Chance some weeks ago. But, most of Murphy's muse is a-muse. THE groceryman and " the butcher smile and wink at each other at the theater when the beautiful actress Intimates that music Is the food of love. NDREW CARNEGIE was given a r line or two In the Eastern press when he added a couple of million dol lars to the endowment of the Pittsburg Technical School. When Joe Tinker buzzed his automobile too fast In a Chicago suburb and was fined $5 every newspaper In the country ate up a quarter column. In order to get into the "scareheads." Andy, you must do something worth while. Give a billion next time. A 7CORDING to a crumpled theater programme received from some kind friend in the East. Muggsy Mc- Graw, the "little Napoleon of baseball," has Jammed the trlcocked bat upon his alabaster brow, the grease paint on his swarthy cheek, has filed application for membership in the "White Rats" and is now a full-grown actor man. Here is one notable gouging from his monologue: "I do not hold the slightest animosity toward Fred Snodgrass, who dropped the fly ball that gave Boston the cham pionship. He is a wonderfully valuable player and I do not hold him respon sible for the loss of the series." Some weeks before election an East ern manufacturer got out a clock on the style of the well-known cuckoo ticker, in which, however. Instead of the bird appearing each hour and an nouncing the hour, an image of Roose velt popped out the open door and in a natural voice cried, "Liar! Liar! Liar!" the number of times to corre spond to the hour. Teddy will have no use for the time Dlece for a few weeks, so the writer suggests that it be crated and shipped Keitliwards. That a what we tmnK 01 Johnny McGraw and his Christianlike regards for Freddy Snodgrass, the hap less. McGraw talks 10 minutes, appearing 12 times per week. He gets $2500 per week, or $20 per minute, which figures down to about 41 cents per word, again putting him in Theodore's class. As an actor McGraw is said to be one of the greatest baseball managers 'in the game. THE other afternoon an elderly gen tleman who had a mild interest in knowing where he would be about 1976. was told by a fejend that there Is a book in the llbrnry called "A Study of Death." He nearly broke a leg getting over to Stark and Seventh to draw the book. Ills disappointment was piteous, but. on concluding his reading, he felt some inner Joy in noting that a nrofane and illiterate person, who evi dently had been likewise dluappointed In the book, hud added a line in clear lead pencil script to the tltlo page, so that It read: A Study of Death and a damn poor one. Thij line made-up in conciseness tL-hat It laeked in elegance. It exactly described the contents of a book in wMrli a. man with few Ideas of any value had written them out In 200 sad and dreary pages. Walt Whitman tells a story that is interesting. He sat In o rnnm at a funeral and many children came to take a last peep at. ino iace of the dead one. One appeared quite puzzled and the poet took her in his arms. terested, and Johnny Wolff, his boat designer, will maKe every tuun i build a world champlonsnip Doai in time for the 1916 races. In addition to another new one for the retaining of the Taciflc Coast title next season. COMI.VG GAME IMPORTANT O.VE Livolu High-Columbia Football Result May Affect Championship. The two games of the Interscholastlc Football League, this week, will about clean up the pdellminaries. On Wed nesflay. Jefferson High will play Port land Academy a game which will not affect the situation, as both schools have lost enough games to keep away from the leaders. On Friday, Lincoln High will meet Columbia University, and the game may have a decided bear ing upon the outcome of the series. Should Columbia University win the game. Lincoln would be eliminated from the running. On the other hand, if Lincoln wins, the game with Washing ton on November 22 will be the real test, and the winner wll be the cham pion. "Dope" places the two on a par, practically, although some odds on Washington can be found. The back ers of Lincoln argue that the team Is Just getting warmed. up and that the only game In wnicn me mm i-u played was tne jenerson man, last Wednesday. IS to 0. The third game between a Portland team and a Spokane high school eleven will take place Saturday afternoon, when Washington High will meet the Lewis and Clark High School football team of Spokane. FORESTF.RS TAKE S STRAIGHT Wright and Dltson Defeated City Hall Also Victors. X (iC i' in rrn . .i i. . t .... -' clal League took three straight games from the Wright and Ditson five on c il. tTrlrla v ntcrht 2510- LIIO oarUK 1 1 J . . . j ..-o ' l 2270. The City Hall team took two InJ three games from the Meier & rrann squad, Z40U-Z3su. Krause, of the Foresters, rolled 213 for high score of the evening, with Flnck ot tne same ciuo cmBiuB for the best mark. The scores: Meier It Frank. Tot. Ave. Metr . 14 JM 1?3 BOO 1HT . JSH 116 157 488 13 . 54 115 13 440 147 . 15 175 112 445 14 . l&O 172 164 Sl 172 . 830 71 7792300 City Hall. First. See'd. Third Tot. Ave. . 1S9 170 1R7 46 12 . 161 1S2 121 4H4 155 . l.VS 11-7 173 516 172 . l.V 177 152 479 160 . 124 139 102 455 102 . 750 SC5 795 2400 BaKer ... Wolfe .. .. petterfon Halls Wilkinson Totals 750 Wristtt Dltson. Barofsky ... F. Ho.vard . Scliunaciier . 145 161 141 447 140 . 1S5 130 122 437 146 . 157 120 1X7 434 141 . 145 147 133 431 157 . 154 210 155 621 174 . 7SS 788 714 2270 Foresters. First. Sec'd. Third Tot. Ave. . 131 213 15(1 500 167 . 144 202 153 4i IS') .124 12 l- . 1S4 169 193 546 182 . 108 157 142 497 16 . ... 174 16S 842 171 . .783 PIS 8122510 Totals Kraue ... Anderson Aaron .... Flnck .... Fisher ... Bohr Totals . Chemawa 2ft, Pacific "C." 6. CHEMAWA, Or.. Nov. 9. (Special.) The Indians today defeated raclnc uni versity in a fast game of football by the score of 20 to 6. LEADERS DURING NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE STRUGGLE OP 1912, AS - y? ; ft - x n ' 4 : NsC- rX ft l X ! I . . V r- k& $! 0a Y- w-r es&&M I W 4S J " tic Paurezt "Yon don't know what that means. do you?" he asked. She shook her tousled little lieaa. "Well, we don't either." JAKE STAHL gives up baseball for the Winter to resume operations in his national bank; Frank Chance re- res to his California orange ranch ...wt. cinnnn in h1 1pn Now won't some other ball player please oblige y DUying up uie Iliinillian mnwaj ines? The Boston Red Sox. capitalized at lofinno earned 1147.000 In ten days during the world's series. That was Boston's Hhare of the eight davs of fat, and besides the Bostons earned $200. 000 in profit during the regular sea son. And some folks say baseball doesn't pay. CIXCIXXATI GETS EX-MAXAGER OX WAIVER OP $1500. When Told of DeaTj Famous Baseball Organizer Says Hermann Must Pay Him 2 0,000. CHICAGO. Nov. 9. rank Chance, ex-manager of the Chicago National League baseball team, was released to tne Cincinnati team, oi me same icsuo, i STAR FOOTBALL PLUNGER ADVISES HOW TO PLAY HALFBACK POSITION Keep Your Eyes Open and Watch for Holes' on Offense and Don't Jump Into Play on Defense Until You Know Where It Is Going. Says Dudley Clarke, Multnomah Luminary. T .TYT-nr.EY R. CLARKE. t . 1 1 ... r riark ! recosrnlzed as the peer of" any Northwest gridiron star as a plunging back, if not the su- i f Au l T ham nlaverl football since he was S years old. with four years at Portland Acaaemy. tour fcm . i .i... t n.AVAii And two vears at Multnomah Club as a record of con tinuous service. He nas piayea eveu . n an .i.v.n nTprnt end and center, but is best known as a hair- backl. - Football Is a matter of brain as well as brawn. No matter what -physical qualifications a man may . possess, he is inferior to a player not his equal physically unless he uses his head as well as his tremendous strength, bulk, and speed. Nowhere is the exercise of brain more essential than at halfback. Keep your head up. watch for the hole, and when you see it strike hard and quickly. That is my best advice for an offensive halfback. There is a hole there, no matter how big. if you can only see it. The man who is heady enough to see that opening, and fast enough, physically and mentally, to shoot through at the right moment, Is the successful offensive halfback. Broadly speaking, my advice for a defensive back is to hold his position until he knows where the attack Is going to be, and then act quickly. In stinct will often tell him, when, a knowledge of the opposing team's line of attack falls. Just where the attack Is going to be. and If he keeps his place until he knows where the attack is coming from, there Is no danger of the defeat from the use of the trick plays so often uncovered in these gridiron davs. "Keep your own alley clean" is the fundamental principle of football. This means, to lineman and back, take care of your own territory. The tendency, particularly on the part of green men, is to swing towards a prospective cen ter of assault, leaving unprotected an entire wing for a bewildering switch of attack. Let every lineman attend to his man.-with the ends in proper posi tion to force the runner in, and the backs will take care of the rest. The trouble with the average half back Is that he- cannot see the holes, but madly butts into an opponent with out an appreciable gain. Any back who is fast and has an eye for the openings, can make good gains. Take three back field men of this caliber and It's easy for them to make yardage under the four-down rule of the 1912 game. The trouble with many men Is that sequential idea and makes the reader believo he is reading something, has written another called "On Something." There Is the same skill and the same same choice of diction, but, after care ful reading, we have been unable to find anything, not to say the some thing, promised. Belloc has some very able disciples In America today. Hardly had Fred Snodgrass dropped the 29,000 fly that gave Boston the championship than Sam Crane and several other New York writers expounded on the idea that Snodgrass would not be with the team again next year. Just why Snodgrass shouldn't continue to wear a New York uniform is a puzzler. Truo he made a muff at a critical time, but ballplayers will continue to do that as long as baseball Is played. Manager McGraw contradicts Crane and others by saying Snodgrass will be with the team, so we 11 iao ma wum for It T n tn fho nn.t HfflnA P.1V A Dhll osophical definition of "an Idea" as "any damned nonsense tnai nappena m today on a waiver of $1500, it was an nounced here. . This ends Chance s connection witn the Chicago team and puts an end, it is believed, to the conjecture that Joe Tinker. Chicago shortstop, would man age Garry Herrmann's Ohioans. Every club waived on Chance except Pln.lnnotl BArriltl? tO A meSSSgO from President Lynch to President Mur phy, of the local club, touay. The t-ni-cago club telegraphed at once to Chance, who Is at nis Winter home in Fresno. Cal., advising him that he was hereafter a member of the Cincinnati club. What disposition will be made of Tinker, providing Manager John Evers . .. . . J l.l. ,v .'..Jji Mi iti'ihir " J Dudley R. Clarke, Famous North west Halfback. they are slow to see the openings, swing back of their line and leave the Interference, only to be downed for a big loss instead of a gain. Keep to the interference as long as possible, then strike hard and quickly for the open ing. A fierce lunge will widen that gap wonderfully, fo the man going the fastest always has the advantage. On tho defensive, the half should play In close this year on account of the four-down rule, which makes it easier to make yardage, and so es sential that the line be bolstered up with a strong secondary defense. But the back must-not go forward until he Is' certain that the play Is coming to wards him. Then go to the play, don't wait for it to come to you. The half must be in position to sprint backward as well as forward, on account of the forward pass. If he Is a veteran, fast on Ma feet, and with an Instinctive knowledge of the game, he may play closer the line than the green man; for he knows Intui tively when a pass is contemplated, and can Jump back Into position to Inter cept It. The Multnomah Club team can beat - - : ! ! fill ?' v. lift ijf ?., ' f V I SHOWN BY OFFICIAL AVERAGES Into one's head." If the boys choose to write on such, far be It from us to cavil. Some of the rest of us have drawn an Inadequate, but useful, salary for years on a similarly slender foun dation. SOME political facts and fancies. One of the first men to telegraph condolence to Roosevelt was John L. Sullivan. John was also wounded in a great battle. Woodrow Wilson was a great half back In his days. He is 56 years old. Business men at Taft, Cal., may get together and vote a change in name. Wouldn't Roosevelt make a great cheer leader? Wilson was not elected President be cause of his college connections, but In spite of them. The Chicago Cubs did not vote for Eugene Chafin. THE Sacramento ball managers are debating where to train the Sen ators next Spring. Leave them on the commons at home and they can still finish in sixth place. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 9. "I will not stir from my ranch In Glendora until I am paid 20,000 cash," ex claimed Frank Chance today, when tola of the deal whereby he had been trans ferred to the Cincinnati Keds by Presi dent Murphy, of the Chicago Cubs. "That bit about Garry Herrmann paying 1600 for me is all bosh. "Murphy got much more ..ian that and I want 120,000 before I go to the Reds." CINCINNATI. Nov. 9. President Herrman. of the Cincinnati baseball ... i.fnrm.H tortav that Frank Chance has been released to his team said he did not know wnetner ue u,v. use the former Chicago manager next season. the men are veterans. Trick plays are old to them, and they are not to be fooled Into running helter skelter about the field, leaving wide gaps for double and triple passes and such strategy. Four or five yards back is the logi cal position for a half under the pres ent rules. Just outside of tackle to guard against gains, but on tiptoe, ready for a sprint backward. On the offensive the back must be close to the line, for the assaults must be started quickly If gains are to be made through the tight line formation of the present. Another fundamental of football is for the backs to have a knowledge' of how to furnish proper interference for the man carrying the ball. The average player butts Into an opponent, only to be swerved by the clever use of the hands, and turns around to see the man he tried to put out of the play get the runner. One of the hardest things to learn in football IS how to get the end out of the way on an end run. I do not believe in diving at a man, for he always has the advantage when on the defensive, but have found that by throwing myself sideways against the man. striking him with my hip. I Invariably spill him, and at the' same time take both of us out of the way so that the man with the ball has an op portunity to make a good gain. When off down the field and the only man In the interference, a half, or any other player, should try to keep his feet and go along with the runner. .The back must use his hands on the defensive, for he can often upset two or three men in this manner, where he could only get one. and place himself out of the play, by hurling himself upon the charging mass of players. Of course, the best way to tackle. Is low particularly if the tackier is a smaller man. This is the only way he can dump a huskier fellow quickly, but a big man can often tackle about the waist and throw his man back for gains. I have had much success with tackling a man about the neck when he is running low. often swinging him back for losses, but wouldn't advise the youngsters to try this without much practice. Unless he knows how he Is likely to miss his man altogether. The new game has increased the im portance of the plunging halfback, or fullback, and I am glad to see a re turn to the old style of play. It's more fun because it offers more chances for success, and with the retention of the forward pass, and making it unlimited, the unexpected and spectacular is still there. along the texture of certain Portland organizations, the league could not have made a more suitable selection. SOUTHERN football doesn't general ly interest the North because of the general conception that the shady tree habit, heightened by hook-worm weari ness, rules the camp of the sub-Mason and Dixon athlete. But, lovers of lackadalsy pulled one in a football game between Vanderbilt and Rose Polytech nic a week ago that certainly height ens the general contrast if it does nothing else. The exchanges tell the story: "The opening.. of the Rose Poly-Vanderbilt game developed a new one. Fol lowing the klckoff Rose lined up hur riedly, then shot a long pass toward the sidelines to a man in citizen's clothes. He ran 40 yards before be ing downed. To the astonishment of all he then peeled off his citizen's clothes and was found wearing a reg ulation football uniform. Vanderbilt had not noticed that 10 Rose men had lined up against them." LOS ANGELES sport lovers were treated to a wrestling match a few nights back in which, according to Van Court of the Times, "one of the bouts was framed to make It more in teresting." It Is ever such the wrest lers striving with a kind-hearted good ness to please the public Then the blowup. The possessors of the pointed skulls flock around the newspaper of fices with typewritten manuscripts sizzling with charges and counter charges and reminding one of so many Darwinian disciples in a cage. Portland has had one or two experi ences In the past, but the piercing of the John Berg bubble of honesty last Winter put the mat game In the shadow here for several years to come. The Swede was given every chance to make good and did skid along the greased pathway of purity under watchful orbs until late in the Sprlnrf. Then habit as serted Itself, but when Berg endeavor ed to "put one over on the dear pee-pul" In a bailiwick that had been stung be fore, even Christian forbearance and fortitude refused to stand the test. Berg is back In town now, and, odd ly enough, Oscar Wasem. the Omaha light heavyweight, has Joined the col ony. Are the boys laying plans for an other Joyous' mid-Winter house clean ing? Perhaps. But then again, perhaps not. Wrestling at best Is about as ex citing as hop scotch, but there is one good word to be said about the mat maneuvering in the amateur clubs It Is on the square. Los Angeles found that much out at last and professional wrestling will be about as welcome as the smallpox In Angelville from this time henceforth. WHEN Owner Murphy, of Chicago, announced that every player on the Chicago Cubs would be required to sign a total abstinence clause next Spring, the moss dropped off the old oaken bucket and Plymouth Rock turned over on its side fjn alarm. Baseball men from Coast to Coast are now busily engaged in discussing the movement, some pro, some con. The St. Louis Sporting News excoriates Murphy; the Philadelphia Sporting Life upholds him Just as strenuously, and one New York writer adds: "The only l . i-1 i .i..,.. fnrnhv will nut Jn his 1913 contracts will be one prohibit ing the Cuds rrom winning. i r . n.,pw n f T ja Ansrelss. savs J ' J " ,ui h. n tntl Abstinence clause In the contracts he offers the Angels next Spring, ana tnars aoout xne viuy New Plan Broached for Pick ing Congress Bowlers. TWO TEAMS ARE LIKELY Winners of City Championship and Picked Team of Stars Proposed as Contenders at Coming Vancouver Tournament. The team which wins the champion ship in the City Bowling League may be the aggregation which will repre sent Portland at the annual Western Bowling Congress, at Vancouver, B. C, in February. In former years the teams were chosen at random whether a player belonged to any of the local teams and leagues or not Last year two teams went to Los Angeles and the same number may go to Vancouver this season, one team the champions of the City Bowling- League and the other picked from among the star boilers. Some of the bowlers are objecting to this scheme, however, their objection arising from the separating of the bowlers known to be the best. The best man on the Portland alleys may be with a losing team and could not go with the five which won the champion ship. The champions might have the winning team yet not be strong enough to take anything at the congress, which might not be the case had they a few of the best bowlers from the other teams in the lineup. , T ' n,AiAVanV.. nnlH thft high game and high three-game record for tne new season, xuesaay msm- ' bowled 976 in a winning game and with the two which followed It, added up 2773. This is still far behind the records which the leaders made at the close of last season. In the laBt three matches the White Crows bowled 2935, a record which will not be equaled in a hurry. An attempt will be made to launch a third bowiir.g league at a meeting to morrow night at the Saratoga Alleys. The combine has four teams at present, i..., i. nnoaihiiitv of two more entering them. The teams which have already signed up are: Frank, the Journal, Cooper's team and the Telegram. Al Ahrens 'ooks like the man who 4ii v.A Knnriinc shoes, the prize for high game put up by Manager Venatore or tne saraws "j " made 247 in one game. The high men in the two leagues already in operation are Martin of the Commercial League, with 24, and Bechtel of the City League, wnn za. Amateur Athletics. The Brooklyn Athletic Club is now a lUU'lieUgCli Bim"""! ' tion, with a clubhouse and a rapidly grvwiujs no, vi i.iu.... . - - o j ..... Ki,im ia now fully equipped and one of the best in the tlty. Basketball will angle of the wet and dry controversy that Interests the writer. This is the first knock on record for the brand of dope thej serve on the bars down An gelenowards. The tangle sent chills coursing up the spine of the referee, but finally he al lowed the freak stunt and play was resumed. Up in the North no team would have been permitted AO get away with a play like that and cer tainly no team of the V&nderbllt-Rose Polytechnic caliber has been given such a chance to defy the flats of sportsmanship and equity supposed to surround football. In the first place nobody but a boob official would have permitted a man In citizen's clothes to Invade the play ing field, and, in the second place, there are two distinct sections in the rule book guarding against this dis play of general cussedness. Under the rule covering "unsports manlike conduct." the referee would have been empowered to punish the trick by suspending the player and requiring the scrimmage to be played over again. There is also an "Unfair Play" rule covering details not other wise provided for and carrying a flvie yard penalty. And. finally. If It came down to a pinch, far better to Invoke the section of the rules covering play ers' costumes under the "hard sub stance" clause and allege that the but tons were a potential danger, than, to let the Polys plaster a black eye on the gridiron sport. There has been an unwritten law against such tricks ever since the days when Carlisle hid the oval under a player's sweater and scored a touch down on Harvard, v s COACH GILMOUR DOBIB of the Uni versity of Washington football elevens attributes much of his success to his knowledge of pigskin psychology. Gil's system is to shove his players Into a game trembling in fear, both of a defeat by the opposition and a verbal lacing by himself. All football coaches reason similarly only Doble gets away better than some others we have known. Nobody has ever been able to ex plain satisfactorily why football psy chology is so different from ordinary athletic psychology. But It ia. Take baseball. During March and April every league boasts of from six to eight pen nant winners, embryonlo of course. Even St. Louis basks in the sunshine of a more beautiful brand of sunshine, for that Is the only stage of the cam paign in which St, Louis has an oppor tunity to smile with the rest. Switch over to pugilism. The tight manager pauses in the momentous operation of inspecting the gloves being fitted on his protege's hands, to issue a statement to the press explaining how his boy never failed to be finer than the fuzs on a fricasseed chicken's back, and that "we" fight managers always use "we" are sure going to knock the other fellow's "mush" in. But football. Ah! There a the rub. Strange forebodings flit about in the ambient atmosphere. Vacuums prevail where confidence should be roosting, and disconsolate walls have become so firmly rooted in football preliminaries that no sporting page Is a real sport ing page, no football camp a real foot ball camp, and no coach a real coach without them. . If you wish a correct line on the mer its of the teams the best scheme is to check up the multitude of reasons why the teams cannot win and place your i.-t. n h .i.vnn that has discovered the greatest abundance. Moat football hai HtnrfpR are UKO me coaches give out to the public they're not be the all-absorbing topic In the new club, a team composed or stars i i" principal teams of last year's amateur 4 1 .1 kavlno- altrnUll Football will be started at once, the team having been reorganized. It now weighs about 140 pounds, but the light weight of the team will be counterbal anced by the speed and experience of the players. Plans are now being form ulated for a big smoker which will take place In December. Both the football and basketball teams are looking for games, which can be arranged by call ing T. C. Luke, Main 7215. for football, and W. Morey, Sellwood 1711, for bas ketball. The St. James Athletic Club football team, of Vancouver. Wash., is out after the championship of Oregon and Wash ington, and in line with this has made up a schedule with the principal teams of Portland. November 10, Columbus Club will be met, Holladay Club No vember 17. McLoughlin Club November 24, Vancouver Soldiers November 28, Oregon City December 15, Dallas Club December 1, Columbus Club December 25, and others yet to be slated. The Portland Trades School basket ball team defeated the Hill Military tossers Friday afternoon, 17 to 8. The game was warmly contested, and the score at the end of the first half stood nine all. The work of Trists, center for the Trades, won the game bv shooting six baskets. McGovern. left forward, played a good game. Talcy, at guard, made the other twe baskets for the winners. Wallowa High Is Champion. WALLOWA, Or.. Nov. 9. (Special.) by a score of 62 to 0 the Wallowa City High School football team carried off the championship of the county when the local team defeated the County High School team of Enterprise yester day afternoon. The contest was a one sided affair. The local team's goal being in no danger after the first three minutes of the play. The feature of the game was a run by Quarterback Tully, of the Wallowa City team, the full length of the field for a touch down during the first three minutes of the game. Pierce-Arrow Motor Cars Receive Service at the Factory Branch 14th and Couch Sts. Temporary Quarters lh Pierce-Arrow Sales Co. Marshall 339 A 6538 H. S. COLTER