THE SUXDAT OltEGONIAN. . PORTLAND, DECEMBER 13, 1912.
REGULAR REST 15
HEED OF ATHLETE
Simple Food, Abstinence From
Dissipation Is Advised
by 'Doc' Schmieder.
TRAINING COURSES DIFFER
Prtzerigiiters Mast Submit to Most
Stringent Rules; Baseball Play
ers Subject to Rheumatism
Because of Many Changes.
"Sleep, at least eight hours In every
t and In regular doses," Is the cardinal
training principal of F. W. Schmieder.
er "Doc" Schmieder, as the trainer of
the Portland Beavers Is known to
sporting men of the country-
"Regular meals, 'or simple food, ab
stinence from intoxicating liquor and
tobacco are essential to the success of
the average athlete, or the prolonged
success of any one in athletic endeavor,
but sleep Is one essential that cannot
be overlooked,' says "Doc" "This
doesn't mean eight hours of sleep in
the daytime, after staying up until 4
or 5 o'clock in the morning, but sleep
starting from 11 or 12 o'clock at night.
The morning - sleep may seem pretty
good, but the Irregularity hurts almost
as much as though no sleep had been
indulged in."
Adbereace to Rules Enforced.
Schmieder, In his experience as con
ditioner of boxers, football players and
diamond exponents, has been handling
athletes for seven years, but whether
he is training a man for a ring bout.
necessitating the most rigorous aaner
ence to rules for several weeks; a foot-
ball campaign of two months, requir
ing almost equally Spartan treatment;
or a diamond season of five or six
months, a milder course, demands that
his charges hew close to tne prescriDea
rest line.
"Doc" had his first experience with
boxers, being a member of the training
camp of Jim Flynn and other fighters
1 in Los Angeles in. 1905 and 1906. In
1907 he came to Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club. He stayed there for
nearly three years, going to the Cleve
land Americans in 1910. Walter Mc
Credie landing the berth for him. In
the Winter of 1910 Schmieder came
back to Portland, the cold weather of
Cleveland sending him post haste to
the scene of his former work. Me
Credle offered him a Job as trainer and
traveling secretary of the Beavers in
1910 and he has gone through three
seasons with the Coasters. He spent
last Winter about Los Angeles, at the
Los Angeles Athletic Club and everal
weeks in the training camp, of Joe
Rivers, and this Winter once more be
came connected with Multnomah Club
is trainer of the football team.
Courses of Training Differ.
"Different courses of training ' are
required for different kinds of ath
letes," continued Schmieder. "The
fighter, who works for a few weeks
prior to a fight, must necessarily forego
the mild dissipations permissible in
the baseball player, who works his way
gradually into condition and keeps that
way through a long season by his dally
tasks on the field. So with the track
man. who often trains for one or two
meets, and the football player whose
period of activity is limited to six
weeks or two months. .
"It the baseball player lives a good
clean average life his daily athletic
performances will keep him In good
trim. It's only the frequent Injuries
that require the services of a training,
outside of the constant work necessary
to keep a corps of pitafaers ready for
box duty: N
Pitckers Careless of Selves.
"The pitcher is the hardest man on
a team to set into condition and the
easiest one to get out of shape. He
pays less attention to his p!yslcal
well-being than the other players,
when he Is the fellow who should take
the best of care of himself. The fact
that he pitches only every four or five
days, and the rest of the time Is doing
nothing, bas much to do with this,
while the pitching arm overheated in
a game, and rendered sensitive from
constant treatment and thus subject to
danger from changes In climate. Is an
other big reason.
"The trainer must assist in getting a
pitcher's arm Into shape before a game,
particularly if the day Is cold. It he
tries to work himself Into shape he
cannot last the entire game. Then,
after each game, the arm must be thor
oughly massaged to keep it limber,
while I use a preparation to prevent
colds. The pores are wide open after
a -game and the arm Is open to any
attack, ranging from a slight cold stiff
ness to rheumatism, the bugbear of the
ballplayer.
Rhramatlam Ballplayer's Fee.
"Rheumatism is unquestionably the
greatest foe of the baseball man.
Changes of climate, water and other
conditions conspire to give muscular
rheumatism a hold on the player. If
the weather in every city waa the same,
much of the danger would be removed,
but in the Summer, when Los Angeles,
Sacramento and Portland have warm
weather. San Francisco will be cold.
Last season Doane. Fisher and Rodgers
were rheumatic patients. The first
two are rid of it now and with good
care will be In splendid physical shape
next season.
"In Spring training lfs the young
fellow who has the "Charley horse,'
lame arm. and other athletic aliments.
The older men know how to take care
of themselves, going at the work grad
ually, but the youngster, knowing that
be must hustle to beat the older fel
low out of his job, often works himself
into the hospital, and is discarded be
fore be haa a real opportunity to show
I his merya. i -
Anxiety lajnres Yougaters.
"The "Charley horse, so often men
tioned but so little understood by the
average fan. Is a muscular strain or
tear In the "leg. After a season of In
activity the fellow who tries to show
too much speed in the first day or two
of training work, finds that he has
strained or torn the muscles of a leg.
and that they pull up or knot. Then
the member must be heated thoroughly,
massaged until thoroughly relaxed, and
then strapped with tape or adhesive
plaster until the muscle cannot work
out of shape. It gradually knits to
gether again arM the man has recov
ered. Three or four of these "Charley
horses' make training camp work de
cidedly strenuous for the trainer.
"I advocate no special diet at a
training camp unless a man reports
very thin or carrying considerable fat.
A player requires meat once or twice a
day. substantia food being necessary
for a man working as hard as he doea
Winter Excreta Advises.
"I believe firmly in players, exer.
rising during the Winter, but not In
playing strenuous Winter baseball.
From IS to :o minutes a day in the
gymnasium, with the weights, grip ma
chine or light calisthenics, will keep a
man In condition. Then, when he goes
to training camp ha will not have a
flaAby muscle which may require six
weeks to work into shape. '
The easiest pitcher I ever had to
handle Is Higgtnbotham, of the Port
land team. He has the most perfect
physique of any man I ever saw in
baseball; doesn't know how strong he
really is. and takes good care of him
self. If all players were like him there
wouldn't be much demand for trainers,
except in the training camp.
"Spec" Harkness is one of the hard
est men to deal with I ever ran across.
His muscles won't respond to the
treatment so rapidly as those of other
players, while he pays not so much at
tention to the little things necessary In
a man of his physique. Tom Seaton Is
another hard man to take care of. He
requires as much work on his arm
muscles as three ordinary men."
YACHT FLEET WIMj INCREASE
Members of Club Are Planning to
Build River Cruisers.
The Oregon Yacht Club will have
several additions to its fleet if the
plans of several yachtsmen are carried
out. The boat which T. J. Mendenhall
had built In the East by Gus Amund
sen seems to be a popular design and
two sailors, H. C. Hastorf and H. F.
Todd, had plans of the same style
drawn. Their boats will be oat for
the opening race on Decoration day.
Several of the members also are con
sidering the building of Columbia Riv
er cruisers and the chances are that
SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF ATHLETES UNDER WELL-KNOWN
PORTLAND TRAINER.
P
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BIG FIVES TO PLAY
Champion Teams Will Meet
. Multnomah Men.
MANY ATHLETES COMPETE
several of these boats will be added
to the fleet.
The boat which Max Myers has de
signed for Frank Creasey and Arthur
Shollin has not been started pending
the decision of the club regarding the
one class races. There is a probability
of the club accepting the Amundsen
design as the standard. This would
eliminate Creasey and Shollin from the
Oregon championship races, as their
boat is of the typical Western "lark"
pattern.
li'GIIITf PUNS ANEW
MORI", SCHEDULE CHANGES ARE
PROPOSED BY HIM.
"Iron. Man' Suggests Playing Four
Games In Series Instead of
.- Seven as at Present.
TirnM. Wash- Dec. 14. (Special.)
If "iron Man" Joe McGlnnity, the new
owner of . the Tacoma Tigers, nas nis
way, there will be more changes to tne
Northwestern schedule this year than
th. r.r-t that Taeoma will have her
share of games. McGlnnity today out-
llneda plan wnicn, ne dbucybh, wuui
do much toward increasing baseball ln-
. I L. mnr rr and VAIlld. there
fore, be more profitable to the mag
nates, even ir loo iniui -
higher. .
. .n. . .k.ii. i tma nn In trie
x ne i u " i -
. i uintiltr fa 1 1 w for a aeries
of seven games each with clubs, and
then a Jump to anotner town, x ucnom
that a schedule which would call for
BIRTHDAY COSGBATTrATIONS.
' ' Jem DrlseoU.
. Jem DrUcoU. the EoUah feathar
wetsht pusIUat who Is the permanent
paaaasaor of the first Lonsdale bait,
waa born In Cardiff. Wales, Decem
ber 1S. 1M0. As a younter ha
worked in the mines In Wales, and
lt WBs while thus employed that he
first showed his cleverness as a boxer.-
At the ase of 31 Drtecoll had
his first battle a a professional,
copping the verdict ever Billy Lucas
in four rounda
Bis first important match wss a
ten-round affair with Harry Mans
field, which reaultea la a draw, la
1004 Jem lost to Mansfield, but two
years later he came back and put
away his old" opponent in 14 rounda
la hie next notasle performance he
knocked out Joe Bowker.
In 1B08 Jam crossed the water and
ansaaed In no-dedalon boats with
Matty Baldwin. Grover Hayes, Leach
Croaa and Abe AttelL TJpon his re
torn to London la 1810- he knookad
out -Splkar Sullivan and latar lost to
Freddie Welsh on a foul. Brtaeoll
Is now preparing for a ao-ronnd
contest with Owen Mo ran. which Is
arhaduled to take place in London
next month for a 15000 pane and
another bait offered by Lord Lons
dale.
four games with each team and then
four more with another would do mucn
to stimulate interest. The fans get
tired of seeing the same teams play
day after day.
"It would mean an Increase in rail
road fares to begin with, .but there is
but one long jump In the league, that
being to Spokane, and I cannot see why
it won't work out. Because of the in
creased cost of a trip to Spokane from
the Coast, lt might not prove profitable
for that one jump, but we would make
lt up in the long run with short jumps
like from Tacoma to Seattle, where the
round trip is but 60 cents.
"I believe that this kind of a schedule
would be the best thing for baseball
In the Northwest. ' Should the cities
having to make longer jumps object to
the plan, we might arrange a system
whereby the road expenses for the year
would be pooled and paid out of a
joint fund. The fact, however, that
new faces would be constantly coming
before the eyes of the fans wotild soon
overcome the additional cost of rail
road and boat fares."
LYXCH DROPPED BY MGrYNlTY
Ex-Tiger Manager Notified Services
Are Not Jfeeded. '
TACOMA. Dec. 14. (Special.) Presi
dent McGlnnity today notified Mike
Lynch, ex-manager of the Tacoma
Tigers, that he was at liberty to make
arrangements to act as manager of any
of the clubs in the Northwestern
League which might require his serv
ices. '
"Lynoh has been offered a chance
with the Victoria club and also with
Vancouver, I understand." said McGln
nity, "so I do not want to stand in his
way. I'll trade him for a bat bag or
something- like that. I ' could get a
few hundred dollars for mm it i neia
out. but I want to be on good terms
with Lynch, as I believe that his friend
ship is valuable to. a man just breaking
Into this league, but I will not need
him as manager, as I Intend to do that
mvself."
Lynch said last night that he had
closed with no one and would not be
ready to make any announcement of
his future plans for the present at
least.
HAYWARD OFFERS GOLF CVP
Students at Eugene Will Compete for
- . Silver Trophy.
TTNTVERSITT OF OREGON,' Bugene.
Dec 14. (Special.) The game of golf
has received a big doosi rrom -aw
Havward. athletic trainer at tha Unl'
versltv of Oregon, who has announced
his Intention of mastering Its fin
nolnta and has hung up- a silver cup
to be contested for by varsity golfers.
The links Is located aoout a mile
south of Eugene, and haa always been
a favorite place ot recreation for stu
dents. - Last year much enthusiasm for
the snort was developed, wblcn culml
nated this Fall In the organisation of
the College Hill Golf Club with an
nual dues, for the purpose of keeping
the links In shape. A number of fac
ulty members have been prominent in
promoting tne game.
Healey, -of Denver, holds a -'world's
record. In IT games last season he ap
peared at bat 82 times and not once
did he make a case nit. -.never De
ter haa the feat been duplicated.
Winged M" Has 70 Players Out In
Effort to Make First Basketball
Aggregation - Wrestlers
Are Preparing.
Three sectional basketball champions.
the Rochester, N. Y., Eastern; Red
Wing. Minn., Middle Western, and the
Stockton, Cal., Independents, ranking
team of the Pacific Coast, may be seen
in action against the Multnomah Ama
teur Athletic Club five this Winter.
Manaeer Mackie. of the Winged
quintet, has received requests from the
Northern Pacific Railroad to schedule
games with the Rochester and Red
Wing five, the former stopping nere
on its way to Honolulu. The Stockton
Independents are . planning a North
western tour, and the Multnoman uiud
team 4s expected to be its Portland
contestant.
"We have not definitely scheduled a
game as yet, says Manager AiacKie,
-but Multnomah Club is out for tne
championship this year and will meet
all comers provided that the financial
requirements are not prohibitive. The
Oregon. 'Aggies.' University of Wash
ington, suverton, saiem x. jvu U. a-.
The Dalles and many other teams, in
addition to the three big champions, :
are 'our prospective opponents. We
shall play two games each with tne
Aggies' and Oregon, one in Portland,
the other at Corvallis and Eugene, re
spectively. However, no games will be
played until after the first of the year,
when Keck, our center, is tnrougn witn
football. We are not going to take any
chances of losing a game by going Into
one with a weakened lineup." -
Seventy men, members of the 10-club
teams oompetlng for the Winged "M"
title, and a number of others who reg
istered too late for the series, are avail
able for the 1912-13 Multnomah Club
representative five. Captain Fischer,
Morris, Kropp, Pugh, Keck and Mas-
tera all members of last year's team.
are back this year and working hard
to hold their places on the quintet.
Among the most prominent aspirants
for regular berths are West and Lewis,
the "Gold Dust Twins," forwards on
Bert Allen's club five; Sharp, on Ed
Morris' squad, and Earlywine, a former
Middle Western player. Rivalry fof
team positions Is keen, with any one
of these man. as well as others, capable
of representing the club against out
siders. Bert Allen win not play tms
season unless in emergencies.
The club league, which Is proving
such a splendid developer of talent,
shows Keek's team still in the lead,
with four straight rlctorlea, Bert
Allen's five haa lost only one game and
won three.
The Seattle Athletic Club named Its
weights for the January 17 lnterclub
boxing and wrestling programme at
Multnomah Club yesterday, 125-pound
wrestling and 135-pound boxing. Oliver
Ruchle will represent Seattle in the
boxing class, while C Rothus, the clever
lightweight who was seen In action
here last Spring, is the other nominee.
. Eddie O'Connell will name heavy
weight wrestling for his end of the
programme, while the second boxing
bout may be another 135-pound affair.
With Knowlton, Gay and Eyeman
available lt sems likely that two
lightweight headline boxing mills will
be staged.
McCarl or Cllburn. novice wrestlers,
will meet Runchie of Seattle at 125
pounds, with either Knowlton or Gay
pitted against Rothus. Convllle Is the
heawweie-ht wrestler who will tackle
the Seattleite. O'Connell. considering
the football husky from University of
Utah Just as good as Nick Daviscourt,
hla chamnion of last year.
Williams, 115-pound Coast boxing
champion. Is In the hospital with i
alie-ht inlnrr and will not be in condl
Hon to box for several weeks. This
eliminates him from the coming smoker,
while Miebus has neen women, nara oi
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Club rooters at Seattle next Saturday.
Dow Walker expects to have 100 men
in the rooting squad, all members of
the club. In addition 150 dental medi
cal students plan to take advantage
of the special, with return by January
1, making a contingent of 250 to
witness the Multnomah-Seattie aii
Star clash. -
The scarlet and white Tibbons, nanus
and megaphones of the Oregon game
will be in evidence at Seattle, together
with all of the old yells and several
concocted for the occasion.
V. J. Davies, formerly of the Spo
kane Amateur Athletic Club, will take
charge of the Multnomah Club turkish
bath department the first of the year.
Davies, who is an expert in his line.
Is planning a number of improvements.
- . .
The sixth annual Pinochle struggle Is
on at Multnomah Club, Eddie O'Connell
defending the title won last season.
"Morey" Dunne is rated as the toughest
opponent in the brain tilt. In the games
already played O. E. Fletcher beat E.
J Johnson, G. Montague beat S. C. Hol
brook and G. A. Scharpft beat Frank
Harmar.
gPORTING SPARKS
late and will be given a rest
A number of special bouts will also
feature the Seattle programme of Jan
nary 17'. Edgar Frank plans to present
five boxing end two wrestling numbers,
four of them of the regulation lnterclub
variety and three good specials.
. J
Rothus, the Seattle boxer named for
the next programme, won xne .im
pound title of the Northwest, but
entered th lightweight class last sea
son. He was light then, but has taken
on weight and Is rated equal to Knowl
ton and Barrlean by the f eatUe fans.
Lyie Brown, will lead the Multnomahj
THE five greatest athletic heroes of
1912: Jim Thorpe, all-around star;
Joe Wood, baseball pitcher; Willie
Ritchie, lightweight boxer; Charley
Brickley, football player; Christy
Mathewson, baseball pitcher.
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Thorns was the greatest football
player of the year In addition to the
decathlon and pentathlon winner at
Stockholm. Wood was the banner
twirler of 1912. Ritchie won the light
weight championship from woigasi.
Brickley gave Harvard the baseball
uti. Vnthcmon nltched wonderful
ball against Boston, coming at the end
of 11 years or DaseDaii.
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Billy Queal, the American profes
sional 10-mile champion, may coach the
Yale cross-country runners. , Alfred
Shrubb's Harvard men scored such a
tremendous victory over Ell that Queal
was immediately approached by the
New Haven authorities.
Pat McDonald, the champion shot
putter, is seriously thinking of taking
up hammer-throwing next season and
cutting sout the shot. Pat is having
trouble with his feet, and claims that
shot-putting is responsible for it.
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As usual, the Xavler Athletic Club,
of New York, will give diamond prizes
to the winners in its annual Indoor
games scheduled for January 11.
,
After listening to fulminations
against American athletes for several
months P. J. Baker, former president
of the Cambridge Athletic Club, comes
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to the bat for the Tankees. He declares
that the American tactics hammered
so- unmercifully are to be found in
their highest degree among English
rowers, football players and cricketers.
The charges afainet the Americans
were that track -and field athletics
were lowered to the professional plane
by the hiring of so many "pro" coaches.
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Gus Welch, a Chippewa Indian from
Minnesota, will lead the. 1913 Carlisle
Indian eleven. He Is 21 years old and
has played quarterback on the red
skin team for two seasons. An injury
to an ankle kept htm from battling for
an All-Amerlcan berth this year.
The South Is again attacked by the
number fever. Word comes from Nash
ville that the scheme of numbering
football players will be tried out
against next season by all of the big
colleges.
The Giants might get up" a fair foot
ball team with Tesreau at center,
Meyers and McCormick- as guards,
Crandall and Merkle as tackles,. S hater
and Heraog as ends, Devore as quarter
back and Murray, Doyle and Mathew
son in the backfield.
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'In support of the denial .that Comis
key gave Ed Walsh $1600 after he had
beaten the Cubs in the final game of
the last Chicago city series, comes the
yarn that the "Old Roman" presented
Ed's boys with $1500 each, with the
words: "That ought to go a. long ways
towards educating them."
Nay Cartmell,' former Intercollegiate
100 and 220-yard champion, and the
best sprinter ever produced by Penn
sylvania, Is scheduled to succeed Mike
Murphy as trainer at the big lnstltu-
tlon. Murphy left for the South a
short time ago in search of his fast
disappearing health.
Edward F. Smith, a world's serlea
fan, has sued the Boston Americans for
$5000. alleging that he was unjustly
flaprlved of his seat at the game of
October 12. He says he was yanked
from his seat, taken to a detention
room on the, grounds, and kept there
for one hour and a half.
A professional basketball team, may
be seen in action In Washington thla
season under the leadership of Hal
Chase. Chase Is organizing a team
now and is writing around for dates,
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When Jim Thorpe tried to make good
as a pitcher for the Anadarko baseball
team several years -ago, he did not
come 'up to the requirements' of the
Oklahoma club and was released.
They have already commenced to
change the name of the Chicago Cubs
to Chicago Crabs. Evers, the new
boss: Clymer, the new outfielder; Mc
Donald, the new utility infielder; Zim
merman, Miller and others, are said to
be keen contenders for Evers' title of
"human crab."
Nebraska and Vanderbilt may meet
on the football field next season. The
Cornhuskers are negotiating for a
game with the Tennessee eleven, hop
ing td give the publio a chance to see
the teams of the Middle West and South
In action.
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Angelo Petrello, an enthusiastic Chi
cago Cub fan, stole $55 from his em
ployer to bet on the Cubs against the
White Sox. The Cubs lost, so Angelo
goes to the house of correction for
six months.
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