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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGOSIAX, - FOKTLASU. UEUE31KER 8, 1912. WATCH -TO WER OB S E R V A T I O N S Material and Immaterial Sport Syl logisms by Boscoe Fawcett. "Explorer Stefanson's White-Haired Eskimo 11 ECAUSE of their dislike for the way the bout was being conauci rf two men shot into a wrestling match with scatterguns a few nights ago in Texas. The Hunters occupieu .n..i.'ata an4 Bnim rpr.il v were en thusiastic fans until one mat expert permitted his opponent to sque a wis v from a. sure-thine hammerlock. Then the two shotguns poured their contents into the twisted mass or men on the canvas. George Burke received several shots In the right side, as well as in his arms and legs, and it is feared some of the pellets nave pterceo m inal cavity. His opponent is also in i ritlnl nnndition. Th. hunters were captured two blocks down the street after a spirited cnase. 11 seem mere somewhere In Texas against shooting jnto wrestling raatciies. iur i jwe. held the parties. - These old statutes ought to. do revisen. N NO MATTER if you have the bright Idea It Is pretty sound wisdom to keep your mouth shut. People are not so much looking forward to hearing your bright idea as they are to getting a chance to express their own Idea, which, by the unfortunate con structlon of the human mind, neces sarily Impresses them as bright. Be a good listener and you will make a Hit. Hans Wagner, the Pittsburg short stop, had ,a cute idea, last week, one that simply Illustrates the point. The great Dutchman opined that ball play ers should get one week's vacation In mid-season every year. The truth of it is most of them should get a weeK and some of them should get longer than a week. Portland had a number last Summer who were living argu meets for 12-month respites. PERSON may learn the Morse A telegraphic code by mail: he may acquire the mastery of business success via the two-cent stamp route; he may become an expert tonsorialist, a hair-dresser, a bank president, a card sharp, a mixologist or a preacher, law yer .or doctor through the medium of the correspondence schools. But the real blow has just now fallen. A, .close corporation of National League ball stars, backed by some New York money and exploited by a clever press agent, has announced the estab lishment of a correspondence school of baseball. . Any aspirins youth of the sand lots Is thus enabled to learn the Inner workings of the great game, put ting himself in direct line for 14000 hunks of world's series bullion in bulk. The personnel of the faculty has not been given publicity, but some of .hose who will not be asked to serve are Fred Snodgrass. Fred Merkel, Eugene Krapp, Harry Davis. Duffy Lewis, Ping Bodle. Hank O'Day and Richard Max- meyer. fflN Champion Willie . Ritchie we I have a lightweight with the hand of a heavyweight," says a San Fran cisco exchange. "The largeness of Willie's mitts has caused many an ex pert to marvel. A bet was made yes terday that Ritchie has the largest hands of any lightweight now in the game. . Frank Moran. the Pittsburg heavyweight, was called Into the con- CAPTAINS FOR 1913 Washington's Choice Will Be . Made From Three Candi dates December 12. NEW RULES ARE FAVORED Walter Camp Says Game Has Been Produced That Gives Chance for Individual Skill and Higli-Grudc Team Work. Northwestern colleges will soon be diverting attention to the annual elec tion of football captains for 1913. The University of Washington will take the initiative, the date of the annual ban quet and election having been set for December 12. Three candidates are in the field there Wayne Sutton, Jack Patton and Presley. Presley has played center for threes-ears. He is a. hard-working, conscientious fellow. Coach Pinkham, of Oregon, says he never saw a center wield such terrible execution as Pres ley did in the Washington - Oregon same this Fall. Wayne Sutton is also a three-year man. He has made the all-star team at end for two seasons, being the unanimous choice this Fall. Patton did not make the team in 1910. opposing such veterans as Polly Grimm and Max Eakins. but has been an all star for two seasons. Victor Zednlrk has announced that he will be a candidate to succeed him self as graduate manager. Dr. D. C. Hall has been re-elected track coach, at a salary cf $500. At the University of Oregon the cap taincy last Fall resolved itself Into a scrimmage between fraternities, with Kd Bailey and Dean Walker the lead ing figures. Both go next Spring, and the veterans on the squad, who will likely be in line, are Elmer Hall. All Star, end: Fenton at guard, and Brad shaw. Politics, of course, may divert the' issue. At the Oregon Agricultural College two. Aberdeen boys loom up as cap taincy candidates, Kellogg, the star end. and Shaw, sterling halfback. The practice of handing the honor around year by year has been in vogue at the Corvallis institution. Last year, for instance, the squad boasted of three men who had held the captaincy at one time or another, Sitton, Evenden and May. '.- Walter Camp pronounces the new football rules a success. He said in a recent issue of the Yale News: "The rules of 1912 have produced, a game that gives every opportunity of developing an all-around attack, at the same time promising positive relations in the shape of scores for that attack. In advocating the chang in the rules, the idea expressed was If a team be better than another let the rules so stand as to show this on the field and score board. "The rules have Justified themselves in this respect and have produced a game that pleases the public, the play ers and, so far as may be. those who have formerly criticised, for it gives NTEREST PLAYERS BASKET BALL SEASON OPENS troversy, and his hand was measured against Ritchie's. Willie, sure enough, had the most expansive paw." This Is very .interesting intelligence indeed. A great many of us had been wondering about Willie's hands, as bands are said to give a deep msignt Into character. "Large hands, large breeding," is an ancient axiom. The exchange editor will watch carefully for further details as to Willie's feet. teeth, collars, neckties, finger nails, and other absorbing details. The writer may be prejudiced in favor 01 Ritchie as against the busting of the Harriman merger, the crimping of the Balkan war bulge,, the piking of Pike Davis, and divers Incidental matters given prominence on the first page. but Willie s hands are our idea 01 tne real news demanded by the masses. THE Elyrian says tnat the unneces sary is a sin. Was It necessary to rake the gutters for the most putrid case on the docket to hand to the first feminine jury in Oregon? THEY all came to bury Caesar and at the conclusion of the obsequies the corpse got up and made a cur tain speech," penned one' New York hu morist, describing the recent Bat Nelson-Leach Cross boxing bout In the big metropolis. The . Battler's remarks were substantially these: "When I landed in New York many an hour of exciting, strenuous play with plenty of chances for exhibition of individual skill and team work of a high order and finally, thus far, the casualties have been less than for some seasons." Harvard won the collegiate cham pionship of the East by walloping Yale and Princeton decisively, vviscunsm wrested honors from Minnesota and Chicago. Washington easily romped home with the 'acinc norowesimi title. These are the three most lm portant conferences, from an Oregon standpoint. . nut there -are others. Missouri Valley honors resulted In a dead heat between Nebraska ana Ames, which teams did not meet. The Corn- huskers had a great bunch, holding Minnesota to 13-0 and dereating UKia hnmr, 13 to 9 and Kansas 14 to 3. Oklahoma beat Kansas and had a strangle hold on the Southwestern championship until Colorado came alone and beat ner I to n. Notre Dame and Holy Cross were the loader of the big Catholic institutions. Roth teams tramDled on St. Louis uni versity, but Notre Dame looked by far the stronger. Vanderbllt has on easy time winning the Southern title, defeating fcewanee and Virginia. Scores from 'the games in the Middle West for the football season of 1912 are as follows: Minnesota. . -v South Dakota 0 1" Iowa Assies 5 - 0 Nebraska 13 0 Iowa 56 Illinois 13 0 Wisconsin 0 1 Chicago 0 Total 87 as Wisconsin. Lawrence 13 0 Northwestern 56 C Purdue - -t- 0 rhlcain - 3d l: A .-Kansas ' Minnesota 1- Iowa 28 JO Total 2 Chicago." Indiana . 13 0 Iowa 0 Purdue- u Il'Irpnii.ln 1Z 30 Northwestern 3 0 Illinois jo " Minnesota ' 0 Total 88 S3 Northwestern. Tfthe Forest Wisconsin Indiana Chicago ...... Illinois TotaT 58 Washington Indiana .... 13 0 33 7 0 IS O 0 10 0 0 Minnesota .. Purdue Chicago Northwester Tot-ll "3 Iowa. ctoia T"rt.-V. ................ 3.1 7 Corned College .-. HI 0 CI Icaito 1 JJ Mlt.nejola u Indiana 10 2 An.es 20 ' WUconsin 10 Total 130 14S Mirhissn.' I Case 34 Michigan Aggies ' Ohio .Stat.: - 1Z ," Svloc:Ise i f. South pakota ' " Penn 'i Cornell Total .165 BS Butler Wins Batting Honors. CHICAGO. Dec 7. Batting honors of the American Association go to Short stop Butler of the St. Paul Club, ac cording to official averages Issued to- Isrht by President Chlvlngton. In 125 games Butler, who, before the close of the season was purchased by the Pitts burg National League Club, pounded nut lea hita for jl total of 212 bases. giving him an average of .329. Discovery Shouldn't Puzzle "BOOT rR.OM PLACEMENT' I I sports and newspaper writers spoke of me as a "poor," feeble old Bat.' After just seeing me go 10 rounds with Leach Cross, New York's best light weight, I leave it to your own Judg ment whether or not I am old and feeble." Evidently no knocks went out over the wires that night. Murder appar ently would have been the only unpar donable sin on Thanksgiving day in news dispatch circles for the tele graphic accounts gave the aged veteran quite a sendoff. In New York, however, they tell a different story. The fight critics at the ringside dubbed the match "a pitiful exhibition the folks tried to forget as soon as they left the clubhouse." At the end of the last round Nelson's face looked like a red quilt. He tried to smile through the bumpy mass, but the bumps refused to arrange themselves In Roosevelt array. His judgment of distance was so terri ble that he seldom landed within a yard of where he aimed. The Battler may boast and crow over that sort of a showing for all we care, but some one is sure to rise and rudely recall the remark made by the English dandy when an American, mistaking him for another, wiped his muddy brogans on that portion of the anatomy usually reserved for tacks and patches. "HI soy, old chap," chortled he gleefully. "It's a good Joke on you. BASKETBALL FIVES Many of Old High School Ex perts No Longer Re main in League. JEFFERSON STAR IS GONE Irle, Edwards and Grebe Lost to Washington Academy's . Best Men Absent Lincoln Re tains Best of Old Men. The start of the Portland Interschol Estic basketball season finds the timber pretty evenly divided. The switching about of the "tramp athletes' which so mixed football matters, has not ex tended to the indoor game, although graduation has made big Inroads In all the quintets. No school has been im mune from, the loss of players-through graduation and even Washington will have to build practically a new team. Jefferson High last year lost one of the best basketball players the schol astic games have ever produced. He is Ernest Vosper, now attending the Uni versity of Oregon, where he has already shown himself to be a star at the in door game, even though pitted against the best players In the state. He played several games 'with the freshmen last season and stands a good chance of making the 'varsity quintet this year. Washington Silases Irle. Washington lost Kenneth Irle. an all- star man and Ted Edwards. The latter baa gone to Stanford University, where he already received mention for work AUTOMOBILE DUCK-HUNTING i READY OR SEASON V (fi-lT - " 1 TUBS MEMBERS OF THE PARTY ARE! W. 8. FALK, STANDING IX FRONT OF CAR) B. DAVES PORT, AT IVHEELl F. BIER, IN TONINEAU) W. l CtAPP, AT REAR. . The above party of four hunters, all Portland automobile men, bagged the limit of duck on one of the lakes near Klamath. Falls two weeks ago. The men left Klamath Falls one morning, going 17 miles to the shooting grounds. They were one. hour late, for .the best shooting,, but bagged the limit in two hours. The ducks were strung all over the car, but many had been removed when the picture was taken. . Science Likely a Society of he bah Jove. I'm not the chappie you're aftah at all. A-ha! A-ha! A-ha!" If the Battler was satisfied with not being drawn and quartered by his den tist antagonist I guess most people win agree with him, and, answering his ar gument against senility, exclaim: "You're right," jUBt the same as the keeper at the Salem Asylum says to the man with the soup ladel over his head: "Sure, you're Napoleon." TY COBB uses up a. half column of space in a Detroit newspaper tell ing the public that he is not worrying about his. 1913 salary. Owner Navin finishes out the column with assur ances that he is not losing flesh over a prospective financial fuss with his star. If news is scarce the Detroit boys can put Portland fans down for an equal contribution of Christmas cheer. Strange as it may seem no body is worrying here, either. ABANGUP bard is John Kendrick Bangs. He has written some clas sic verse and all that but censors will read this effusion with mingled emo tions: "Went out shooting in the wood My, the morning air was good. Sort of filled your soul with joy: Made ye feel just like a boy; Made ye want to dance and sing Like a bird upon the wing." ' Out here on the Coast some of the on the cinders. Grebe is also gone, but there is some chance of his returning for the game. Portland Academy lost Bean and Tucker. Bean is one of the best players the Academy ever had and his loss will mean a big niche to nil. our gard, the center, who did valiant serv ice, la still at the pivot point and re inforcements from the Portland Acad emy Basketball League, which has been in progress during the past three months of the Fall semester, are ex pected to help the five make a better showing than usual in the mterscnoi astlc Leacrue. The idea of a house league occurred to Coach Lee. who recently left the Portland Y. M. C. A. to take charge of the physical department of the pioneer school. He will cdach the team and it is his idea to play the games In the Internal league so that the best crude material can be somewhat de veloped before it comes under his di rection as a part of the picked team which will represent the school. ' -Lincoln Stars In Harness". Lincoln will have a goodly propor tion of the 1912 players in their old places. "Billy" Lewis, all-star last year, and one of the best of players in the game, will continue to play forward for the five. Gage, a good man at guard, is also back in the traces. The lost men are Buyer and Cudlipp. There is some talk of protesting Gage, because he played with a team not in the league. It is charged that he played with one of the teams of the Y. M. C. A., but Lincoln believes that a team of that rank does not count, as nearly all the players belong to either the Y. M. C. A. or the Multnomah Club, where they indulge in the house games. Columbia University will have to build a new team from the ground up, as Larsen, the only remaining man of the last team, will be shifted from guard to forward. Kirkland and Fitz gerald, stars of the last season, have both gone to Notre Dame University, where they are making good at foot ball, although but freshmen. Columbia Lacks Gymnasium. , - Las well is a matter-of doubt, there being some possibility of his return ing to school In time to play the game. Columbia will be handicapped, as in the former season, because of having no gymnasium. The players work on the dirt floor of the stadium, but when in matches with the high school teams, which all work on the PARTY BAGS LIMIT AT KLAMATH FALLS IN TWO HOURS. Canned Sacramento or Cincinnati Baseball' Managers" A FINE SfREEN HALFTONE. REPRODUCTION OF NEW PITCHERS) has just j J PUVEP MH FIR5T &AME OP HANOBALL. birds have been known to sing, but not many of them while on the wing, and the most courageous nature faker is yet to rise and claim that he has ever seen a bird dance on the wing. Still. If John's poetic license is autographed and brought down to date it must be forgiven, of course. JOHNNY KILBANE'S fixed fight with a sparring partner in a Middle Western city last week has brought down a - tide of bitter editorial com ment on the boxing game. Take as a sample this excerpt from the editorial page of the San Francisco Post: "There was a time when the ring offered clean sport, when the fight was fought inside the ropes and nowhere else and the bes'. man won. That time has passed. Everybody knows it, and those closest to the Inside know it best. Some of the men who defend the sport, while admitting Its rotten ness, seek to cherish it as a medium for gambling, imagining with what Jus tification they may have that they can get close enough to the Inside' to learn the selected winner. "Others, swayed by the traditions of the ring in the time when its conduct was clean, honestly believe they are defending the game as it was in the old days. . . . There should be no law prohibiting boxing, but something waxed hardwood floors, the Columbia boys, used to the .slow ground, often act in a clumsy fashion. Jefferson is worse off than any of the schools. Every one of Its stars has left, some to attend other Bchools, while the others are working about the city. Murphy has started a bas ketball team of his own, called the Portland Ponies. , He has Ashworth, another Jefferson player, with him. The team has been defeating all the teams of the Willamette Valley with out trouble. - DEL MOXTE GOLF RENDEZVOUS Annual Programme Tells of Planned Sports for Several Days. Copies of the annual programme of the Del Monte, Cal., Country Club have been received here. In past seasons some of Portland's golfers have attend ed the meet, which will this year be held on December 28, 29, 30, 31 and January 1, 1913. The programme fol lows: . ' Saturday, December 28, 9 A. M. Men's qualifying round over 36 holes, medal play (First 18.) 10.30 A. M., women's qualiryinj round over 18 holes, medal play. (All mul tiples of eight to qualify.) 2 P. M., men's qualifying round. (Second 18.) All multi ples of 16 will qualify In men's events. Sunday. December 29. Special events. . Monday. December 30, 8 A. M., first match play round men's handicap. 10 A. M-, first match play round women s Handicap, i v. M., second roatcn play rouna men s nauur can. Tuesday, December 31. 9 A. M.. semi-final match Dlay round men's handicap. 10 A. M.. semi-final match play round women's handicap. 2 P. M., men's consolation event. Wednesday. January 1. A. M., final round men's handicap over 18 Holes. :dO A. M-, final round women's handicap over 18 holes. 2 P. M.. "good resolutions" tournament for men and women. Palzer to Begin Training. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec' 7. Al Pal zer, the New York heavyweight "hope," arrived here today and began hunting for training quarters in which to pre pare for the New Year s date with the winner of the lynn-Mcuarty oattie scheduled at Vernon - next- Tuesday night. He was accompanied by his man ager, Tom O'Kourke, and his sparring oartner. Al McClosKey, a miaaieweigni. who expects to find an engagement for himself around the first of the year. should be done to do away with the rottenness of the prizefight game." It's the same old story. The Idiotic boxer slaughtering the goose that laid the golden egg. The kick that Champion Kllbane gave his own bank account is one of the best arguments of the season for a widespread adoption of the principles of the Frawley boxing bill in vogue in the State of New York. Under the New York law professional boxing has been put back on the blll-of-fare of clean and healthful sports. There has been almost no taint of scandal mixed in the New York brand. Abe Attell was barred for six months at the merest suggestion of "pulling," but even in this instance later develop ments showed that Attell's poor exhi bition was due merely to the natural decline of the once great feather and not to a desire to fake. - In a speech a few days after the re cent election of Sulzer had guaranteed the life of the boxing law in New York. Senator Frawley stated his. pleasure over the good results of the law in freeing boxing of many of Its object ionable features. Mr. Frawley pointed out that, while thousands of glove con tests have been staged" In New York since the law passed the Legislature, not a fatality has been recorded and most of the brutality has been eradi cated. No sport has had to fight harder for a living than boxing, but the time is coming when scientific regulation will prevail over the whimpers of the molly coddlish. And the longer the other states permit fake fighting and double crossing to go unpunished, just that much more circuitous will be the path way of the ring game back Into public favor and public confidence. JACK LATOURETTE, former Oregon and Multnomah star quarterback, took in the magnificent battle between his alma mater and the Corvallis Ag gies at Albany. While waiting for a train he noticed an Irishman prying around at the railroad station "in a crated box containing a rabbit His inquisitive fingers loosened a slat, when out popped the rabbit and was gone in a flash. Just as he vanished Pat shook his fist and exclaimed: "Go It if you want to. Ye don't know where ye're goin' the address' is on the box." THE groundkeeper at McCredie's Portland Coast League ballpark has high social aspirations. After gazing at the $1700 gasoline lawnmower In use at the Waverly Country Club, the Lord Fauntelroy of Vaughn boule vard put in a request at ball head quarters for a similar 1913 model lawn automobile. Two newspaper men brought the "Judge" to. The plain 3 non-ballbearing machine should rattle the Vaughn-street neighborhood suifl clently If wagged around the ball orch ard about 6 A. M. FXJTBALL coaches 90 per cent of them. In all sections of the country have come out with stirring indorse ments of the 1912 gridiron code. Clarke Griffith, manager of the Washington ball team, is credited with this saying: "The one thing we ram all get for nothing is gratuitous advice." The foot ball rules committee will get plenty of it within the next two months. But, if the solons are wise, they will leave I GLASS D ADJUNCT AA League Magnates Want Farm for Developing Young " Baseball Stars. PLAN HERETOFORE FAILURE McCrcdie Only Expected to Oppose Minor Organization on Account of Already Having Portland Club In Northwestern. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 7. (Special.) When the Pacific Coast. League mag nates convene at Sacramento Monday for the annual Winter meeting, one of the important matters to come up for consideration will be the new proposed Class D League in California. A number of the magnates have expressed a de sire to get behind such an organiza tion, and ways and means will bedis cussed to get the league started. J. Cal Ewing, of San Francisco, Hen Berry, of Los Angeles, and Happy Ho gan, of Vernon, have expressed them selves as favorable to the plan of fi nancing the league, so that the Pacific Coast League can have a farm to de velop, young players. It is understood that the Oakland and Sacramento teams are favorably inclined towards- the plan and the only uncertainty seems to be the Portland club. W. W. McCredle has his Northwestern Class B club and It is not considered likely by San Fran cisco baseball men that he will care to become interested in another minor league club. . School for Young Players Plnnned. According to the plan outlined by Ewing, every club in the Coast League will take a team in the Class D League and see that it is properly run. Four or five games a week will be tlayed, and on the other days the players must turn out for practice. In short, Ewing hopes to establish a baseball school for young players and thus develop new talent. Ewing proposes to put Kid Mohler, the veteran second baseman, in charge of the team in which San Francisco will be interested, and he thinks It would be a good scheme for all of the Coast teams to puti one of their vet erans at the head of their teams so that the young bushers will be properly schooled. Claude Berry, the Seal -catch er, is a candidate for a berth as man ager, and Cal Ewing has promised to make a fight in his behalf. Quite a number of the small towns in the Interior have been mentioned as members of the circuit, San Jose, Stock ton, Fresno, Watsonville and Gault are already on the list. Fans Demand High-Grade Ball. The scheme of a minor league of low classification has been tried a number of times in California, but has never been made to pay. The trouble seems to be that the fans have been educated to too high a .class of ball and will not turn out to see bushers play. The State League has had a number of big league stars in the outlaw days and the tanB demand to see the big fellows in action Before digging up their quarters and 50-cent pieces. Only as recently as last GOAS MAT HAVE Abe's Philosophy. football Just as it stands as to cardinal principles. The writer takes the liberty of quot ing from these columns under date of February 11 last some comments that still hold good: "From a spectator's point of view the new game will be much improved. Fans don't like kicking games. Four downs in 10 yards instead of three will enable the field generals to employ a greater variety of. strategic plays be fore having to surrender the ball to the punt. The unrestricted forward pass beyond the 20-yard zone and over the goal line will encourage this fea ture of play and will make the game more popular with the fans.' "In short, the new rules will oblit erate nine out of 10 of the 0-0 gume.s, which have proved so unsatisfactory from the spectators' standpoint. Crouds have left the stadiums from the lust two Yale-Harvard contests with nut a cheer to llcht tip the glumness of the scene, when, if the present rules had been in vogue, there would undoubted ly have been scoring by one of the teams and 40.000 people would have scattered broadcast sounding the praises of the great gridiron sport." The unrestricted forward pass has done wonders in spreading out and. consequently weakening, the second line of defense. It has also palliated a dangerous hazard, as the backs for merly came up on the full run to meet an opposing player Just emerging from a break In the line. This is. perhaps, the most dangerous tackle on the field. The hazard is still present with the fullback backing up the line, but not In the insidious form of a few years back. While the unrestricted forward pass has proved a safe improvement, sev eral of its frills need pruning and in terpreting. " Under the rules an incom pleted forward pass is any pass that touches the ground. The penalty is an added down, the ball to go Into play at the spot where last scrimmaged. As a result. In games of the Fall, If the passer found himself unable to pass to any of his outposts and likely to be tackled for a loss of from five to IB yards, he merely had to throw the ball to the ground to avoid the added loss of ground. This is too much like putting a pre mium on carelessness. Incompleted for ward passes should be only those touching the ground beyond the line of scrimmage; those on the offensive side should be treated as . ordinary fumbles. The man passing the ball, too, should be given the same protec- afTnrrtasl tlio kicker of a PUnt. There was too much, roughing and man handling the passer in the games this Fall. These two suggestions are the merest details. They involve no change In stylo of play. In the main let the rules remain as they are for another year or two.' IN the Tacoma News a writer points out that "man says to the little child: 'Sit still." but God says 'Wiggle.'" I have a primary teacher friend who can bear witnesa that -the little child hearkens to the voice of God rather than to the command of man. But then, why should a little child be forced to sit still? It is the same brand of cruelty that would force D. E. Dugdale to keep on the move every , minute or make Pete Buzukos and other professional wrestlers go to work. Spring a four-'Club State League was launched to play. Sunday ball only. but. it soon went on the rocks. . The Coast League magnates are fig uring on losing money the first sea- . son, but believe that they will derive enough results from the development of players to cover their losses. Then, after the league gets running, they de clare that it will grow into a prosper oues organization. Cal Ewing's mission to Los Angeles on Thanksgiving day In quest of First Baseman Gills was not successful. He was not able to see the player and hopes to put through a deal in a week or so. Gills is the property of the Min neapolis club, of the American Asso ciation, and Ewing has received per mission to do business with him. Gills Is a practicing dentist In Los Angeles, and has threatened to quit baseball unless he is permitted to play on the Coast. . Ritchie to Postpone Ring Work. Willie Ritchie, California's first lightweight champion, has been re ceiving the plaudits of the fight fans all week at one of the San Francisco playhouses. He has signed up for a 10 weeks' theatrical tour that wilKake him for week stands at Oakland, Sac ramento, Los Angeles, San Diego and across the Rockies to Kansas City. Manager Nolan expects to sign for more stage work after he finishes at Kansas City. He announces that it will be at least May before Ritchie steps into the ring to defend his title. Then he may take part in a series of no-decision affairs in the East and there will be no really big lightweight championship bout for weeks. In the meanwhile, Ad Wolgast, Joe Rivers, Joe Mandot and Frankle Burns, the lightweight contenders, are hang ing around and will likely have to fight among themselves to keep up in terest in the lightweight division. San Francisco harbored all five of the lead ing likhtweights in the world during the early part of the week and every one of them was doing everything pos sible to entice Ritchie into signing for a match. Wolgast, without his title, seems to be the most-feared battler in the light weight ranks. Willie Ritchie made the remark the other night that he would back the ex-champion against any man of his weight in the country. "Wolgast's strength lies in his mar velous defense," said Ritchie. "He is an awful hard man to hit and when he gets a chance he can land a punch that shakes you from your head to- your toes." Horsemen from British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, California and Arizona will meet In San Francisco Tuesday for the purpose of reorganix ing the light-harness circuit for next year. Secretary Shirley Christy, of the Pacific Coast Fair and Racing Circuit, hopes to form another grand circuit, which will start the season in the northwest and then race around the California circuit and, finish up at Phoenix, Ariz. "California horsemen, however, are not in favor of the plan. It was tried last season and little result was ob tained. They will propose a separate circuit for the Northwestern states and an Independent circuit for California. This, they believe, will give the horses more chance to show their form for the campaign will not be as strenuous and the climatic conditions will allow . the trotters and pacers to show better form. . . Rugby Title In Dlipute. The football season has closed In California, Santa Clara College claims the honor of being the Rugby cham pions, but Stanford University dis putes the title. A game between the rivals was proposed, but no satisfac tory arrangements could be made to Pl"Babe" Drlscoll, the rlghtflelder for Los Angeles, was secretly married in San Francisco two weeks ago. He claimed Miss Helen Marie Hall, of Berkeley, for his bride. Shortly after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Drlscoll departed for San Diego.