The Sunday Oregonian., December 22, 1912, SECTION TWO, Page 3, Image 21

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, - .PORTLAND, DECEMBER 22. 1912.
DEVELOPS
TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES WHOSE PERFORMANCES FEATURED SEASON OF 1912.
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The Toggery Is Not Selling Out
Thorpe Is One Great Shining
Light of Track and Held
Work This Year.
BUT!
To Reduce Stock we are now
showing our splendid line of
octet? pranb Clotfjesi
HORINE ALSO SENSATION
AT (and below) COST
SEASON
Kolehmainen, AYrlffht, Meredith,
KlTiat, McDonald, Gntteraon,
Craig, Upptncott and Kelly
Also Take Front Rank.
BT T. MORRIS DVNNE.
(Secretary of th Pacific Northwest As
sociation of th. Amat.urAthl.tlo Union
and chairman or th. outdoor .porta com
mlttro of the Multnomah Ammuur Ata
1,-llc Clnb.1
The season of 11. with lt wonder
ful string of amateur record-breaking
performances, culminating; In the great
Olympic games competition at Stock
holm, was br far th greatest In the
history of track and field sports.
Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian
George Horlne. the Stanford University
lad. and Hannea Kolehmainen, the Finn.
were perhaps the most sensational ath
letea of the season. There were others.
of course, including Ted Meredith, the
Olympic games 800-meter champion
Marc Wright, pole vault record-breaker
Abel Kiviat. new 1500-meter champion;
Pat McDonald, weight king; Albert
Gutterson, great broad jumper; Craig
and Lippincott, the sprint winners at
Stockholm, and Fred Kelly, the South
ern California boy who defeated the
world's best in the hurdles In Sweden.
Thorpe Greatest Ever.
Jim Thorpe, the great red man. not
only towers over every athlete of the
191! season, but his wonderful exhlbl
Hons, covering a wide field of athletic
work, brands him as one of the great
est athletes of all time. Jim Thorpe
would lire forever In the annals of ath
letic history for his football pro
lone. but. add to this his track ana
field conquests. Including the winning
of the decathlon and pentathlon at
Stockholm, and followed by the all
around championship of the United
States, and overlooking entirely his
basketball, baseball and lacrosse skill,
and you have the greatest athlete wh
ever figured in the record books.
The Sac and Fox Indian not only de
feated all competitors in all-around
showing, with a good performance in
every event, but his marks in nearly
every event of the decathlon and pen
tathlon would have won National
championships In this or any other
country. Jim cleared over 23 feet in
the broad Jump, over six feet in th
high jump, ran the hurdles In 15 1-5
seconds, ran 109 yards in 11 1-5 seconds
and otherwise distinguished himself
when under the heavy strain of the
all-around competitions. Had Thorpe
specialised, it is easy to believe that
he would have won many oi tne in
dividual competitions.
Next to Thorpe comes George Horine,
the Pacific Coast boy who high jumped
six feet seven inches. The records
credit him with six feet six and one
eighth inches, but he will get the bene-
it of the extra seven-elgntns oi an incn
rben the amateur officials have a
rhance to vote on those mislaid affidavits.
Hoiiae Revolattvatsea Methods.
Horine has revolutionised high jump
ing. So amazed were the Easterners
when the quiet Stanford University boy
shattered the record held by Mike
Sweener that ther attacked his style.
claiming that he was not jumping in a
legitimate manner. However, the ex-
nerta watched him closely at New York
and later on at Stockholm, but could
pick no flaws In bis methods. Instead
of twisting his body over the bar with
a short, quick Jerk. Horine rolls over
with a slow. ta&y motion. He does not
hold the bar to prevent It from falling,
neither did the California bars sag in
he center, giving him an inch or two
the best of the measurements. Horine
umnprl over slv feet eight inches in
practice, and but for stalenesa, result
ing from a strenuous season ana a long
land and water trip, he might have
beaten his own world s record in tne
Olympic games. Horine had participated
In half a dozen meets nerore tne r.ast
erners had started, hence was "fine"'
before the fellows had commenced
training.
Hanues Kolehmainen, the Finnish
surprise of the Stockholm games. Is
unquestionably one of the greatest dis
tance runners In the world. At Stock
holm he was supreme in every race over
the 1500-meter event and under tne
marathon. Had he not gone through
such a severe campaign In the other
events he might have captured the his
toric marathon from McArtnur, or aus
traila. In one of the races, the 5000
meters, the Finn ran three miles several
seconds faster than Shrubb's record for
the distance. Had the course been
measured' in English miles, the for
eixner would have established new
amateur and professional records in
everv event from two to five miles.
Ted Meredith, the Mercersburg Acad
emv lad who sprang into fame at
Stockholm, was one of the stellar per
formers of the season. Last April be
came to the front and then commenced
a series of wonderful running antics,
culminating In the breaking of the
half-mile record of the world against
the best athletes of the world. The
time was 1:51 -10. Meredith also
broke the world's 400-meter record In
the preliminary heats but lost out In
the finals.
latereat la VanltlasT Kcea.
Because of the presence of Sam Bel-
lah In Portland much Interest is shown
locally in pole vaulting. In this event,
as well as many others,' world's marks
were shattered last season. Marc
Wright, the Dartmouth athlete,
vaulted 1J feet 1 Inches for a new
record. 8everal times during the sea
son inches were added to height
Wright topping them all In Cambridge
meet Oi June s.
Albert Gutterson, of the University
of Vermont, broad Jumped 24 feet 114
inches, within three-eighths inch of a
new world's record. His work at
Stockholm was one of the features of
the meet, and with proper care should
be ready to jump 45 feet next season.
Abel Kiviat. the New Yorker, estab
lished a new 1500-meter record of
3:59 1-5. defeating Mel Sheppard and
other great runners In achieving this
mark. This distance, with such con
tenders as John Paul Jones. Sheppard.
Knight and Paull. Is a popular one in
the East.
Craig and Lippincott, the college
men who captured the 200 and 100
meter races, respectively, at Stockholm.
are among the men entitled to rank
ing among the greatest performers oi
the year, while Pat McDonald, the shot
putter who beat Ralph Rose, the Coast
prltfe. is also to be listed among the
"iffher ups" in the league of track
and field luminaries.
Fred Kelly, the Southern California
boy who won the hurdles at Stockholm.
la not a record-breaker, coming witn-
in one-fifth second of Smlthson's mark
of 15 seconds flat, but he was the best
hardier of the year. i
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TRACK STARS LOST
Earl Crabfae, 2-Mile Champion,
Leaves California "U."
CRACK HURDLER DISABLED
Deindng Macliue Not Likely to Be
Recovered From Operation and
Floyd Rice, Giant Shot-Putter,
Will Be Missing; at Berkeley.
BERKELEY. Cal.. Deo. 2L (Special.)
California's track prospects for 1913
received another hard Jolt yesterday
when Earl Crabbe, the Intercollegiate
two-mile champion and Coast record
holder, before leaving the campus for
his home in Portland, announced that
he will not return to college next sem
ester. Crabbe's absence from the dual
meet with Stanford and the Pacific
Coast conference championship will
mean a loss of five points in the two-mile.
In the two-mile Crabbe was In a class
by himself when competing in the col
lege meets. The only man to defeat
him during the season of 1912 was
Walter McClure, of the University of
Oregon. Admirers of the California
runner contend that craDbe would best
McClure if the two should hook up
again. A week before his defeat by
the Oregon star, the gritty little Cali
fornia two-mile champion lowered th
Coast record for the event, reeling off
the two miles In 9:54.
Addlttoaal Hoaora Takes).'
In addition to his prowess as a two-
mller. Crabbe is also a mller of note.
In the Fall lnterclass games the port
lander headed a large field to the tape
in the good time of 4:35. The track
was slow and Crabbe had the added
disadvantage of conceding large handi
caps ranging from 10 to SO yards.
Crabbe added additional honors to
his list by taking first place in the
lnterclass cross-country run. Tne run
was held over a four-mile course of
hilly and level country.
Since his freshman year crabbe has
been a leading light In track athletics
at the State University. He won the
two-mile against Stanford in the dual
meet of 1911, establishing a new rec
ord, and repeated his peformance last
Spring, winning the event in record
time. Crabbe was a member of the
California track team which Journeyed
East last Summer to compete in the
Middle West conference meet In In
diana. Captain-elect Harry Wood is the only
candidate in sight for the two-mile
event. Wood Is a mller but has shown
ability to go the longer route and
Coach Christie may decide to start
Wood in both distance events. Wood
Is one of the gamest college runners
that ever put on a spike and should
find no trouble in going through the
strain of two races In one afternoon.
Stmdeata Are. Worried.
The- loss of two other stars, both
champions in their respective events, is
causing the undergraduates not a lit
tle worry. Demlng Maclise, the hurdler
who broke several records in the low
and high hurdle flights last Spring, Is
slowly recovering from an operation
for appendicitis. It is doubtful If he
will be able to perform on the track
next Sprtng. Maclise is the holder of
the intercollegiate records for the low
and high hurdles. Last Spring he won
the low hurdles in 15 1-5 seconds and
romped over the high barriers in the
fast time of 25 2-5 seconds. Great
things were predicted of blm for next
Spring, when he was suddenly stricken
with appendicitis, which necessitated an
operation.
Floyd Rice, the giant shot-putter,
who is a second Ralph Rose with the
Iron ball. Is another track star who
will be missed from the campus next
Spring. Rice, whowas attending the
medical school in San Francisco, has
abandoned his studies at that institu
tion. He is pursuing his medical course
at the San Francisco College of Physi
cians and Surgeons.
New Mark Set Up.
In the shotput Rice was invincible
last Spring. After breaking the record
in the Stanford-California dual mt,
he followed up by smashing the best
previous mark for the Pacific Coast
Conference and then traveled East with
the varsity track team to the confer
ence meet. At the Western champion
ships Rice set np a new mark of 47 feet,
( inches, supplanting the old record
formerly held by "Babe" Crawford, of
Stanford. California has no one in
sight at present qualified to fill the
shoes of the big shot-putter. Rice was
also a sure point-winner in the hammer-throw,
taking second place to
Shattuck, his team-mate In the dual
meets. Pacific Coast Conference and
Western Conference meets. Rice flat
ly denies the report that he will regis
ter again at the commencement of the
Spring semester In January.
Pennant winners seldom do much ex
perimenting. The Giants used only 28
players last season, while Cincinnati
and St. Louis used 41 each. The Reds
used 24 pitchers, I
HORSE FARM IS AIM
Captain McCann Buys 1400
Acres Near Rainier. .
$150,000 TO BE EXPENDED
Hood1 River Man to Build Track on
Place and Make It One of Big
gest in West Horse Gossip
Indicates Good Year.
Oregon is soon to have one of the
biggest stock farms of standard-bred
horses in the West. Captain C. P. Mc
Cann, of Hood River, who recently pur
chased a 1400-acre tract of land near
Rainier. Or., will ship his two stallions.
The Bondsman and Patchen Boy up
from .Pleasanton, Cal., about April 1,
and import a number of fancy mares.
In addition to harness equines Mc
Cann will breed draft horses, special
izing on Belglums, the breed with which
Chris Minsinger Is having sucn remark'
able success.
Within a year $150,000 will be ex
pended ' in erecting buildings, fences,
track, etc.
Captain McCann plans to race a string
or harness performers in the Northwest
next season. C. L. De Kyder naa charge
of his stable in California last season.
Fourteen 2:10 trotters lowered their
records during the past season. The
performers, with their marks, follow:
Uhlan, by Blngen, 1:08 to x:oa; jsniy
Burk, by Silent Brook, 2:03 to 2:03;
Dudie Archdale, by Archdaie, Z:06tt to
2:04a; Brace Girdle, by Tregantle.
2:054 to 2:04: Grace, by Peter the
Great, 2:05 to 2:04; Anvil, by Saint
Valient Vincent, 2:08 to 2:06; Helen
Stiles, by Sydney Dillon, 2:08 to
2:06; Fair Maid, by Prince or India,
2:08 to 2:07; Chatty Direct, by The
Director General, 2:09 to 2:07;
Cheeny, by Medium Line, 2:09 to
2:07; Gordon Todd, by Todd, 209 to
2:07; George Todd, by Todd, 2:09 to
2:07; Elizabeth Ray, by Axtellion,
2:09 to 2:08; Kenyou W, by Marcus
Bozzarls, 2:09 to z:0S.
The veteran Ed Geers has three new
speeders In his stable for next season.
with Barney Uibbs the best of th trio.;
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Barney Glbhs. the 1 -year-old gelding,
was purchased at Rochester several
weeks ago by Frank G. Jones, of Mem
phis, the owner of Dndle Archdale,
2:04, and Anvil, 2:06. Geers will race
Brighton. 2:11. for John E. Madden,
and O'Neill. 2:12, a colt that was fast
as a 3-year-old but unsound. Barney
fl(hh Is such a nromislnir trotter that
many predict he will prove a peer of
any trotter ueers nas oruusw
Highball.
...
Springfield, 111., and New York City
will be applicants for grand circuit
when the stewards meet on January 14,
to make plans for 1913.
...
M. H. Reardon, of Indianapolis, has
Just sold Star Winter, a promising trot
ter, to Alonzo McDonald, for $15,000.
The find is a son of Ed Winter, 2:12 H,
and was first called Battling Nelson.
He has not started In public but worked
a mile In 2:06 and a quarter in :30.
.....
C. K. G. Billings, the millionaire
horseman, has decided to spend the
Winter working his horses. He has
sent his stable to Brunswick. Ga., and
has taken his vacht to that place. He
will assist Trainer Tanner In condition
ing his champions on the half-mile
track, and indulge in yachting on tho
side. Uhlan, the world's champion trot,
ter. Slats, Charley Mitchell. Louis For
rest and McDlilon are among the mem
bers of the Billings stable.
4 ...
C. A. Harrison, who recently sold the
Woodland Stock Farm o J. W. Consi
dine and associates, predicts that Prince
Ansel will be the greatest sire of futur
Ity winners ever bred or owned In Call
fornia.
El Ben Maden. who raced in Port
land this year, won $2500 on the sea
son.
...
Al Russell. weil:known Coast trainer,
won $12,720 on the season, with Hal
McKinney, Hellenes, Jr., Auto Zombro,
Bessie T., Judge Dillon, Hal J, The
Monk. Prince of Peleg and Monica Mc
Kinney. Hal McKinney topped the list
with earnings of $5190.
. ...
The Panama-Pacific Exposition dlrec
tors have practically decided to build
a mile track on the exposition grounds
and hold, a big harness meet there in
191S.
... .
George Haag, the Canadian trainer,
won nearly $14,000 during his season In
Canada and on the Pacific coast.
SPORTING SPARKS
f IMMY CALLAHAN, of the Chicago
I White Sox, says that he could win
a pennant with three pitchers Walter
Johnson, Ed Walsh ana Jaaie pianx,
Among the major league ballplayers
wintering in uaiuornia are: rrans
Chance, former Cub manager; George
Stovall. manager of the St Louis
Rvnwna ftla OlAfton. Cleveland short
stop; Rube Ellis and Jack Bliss, of the
St. Louis carainais; cnier jneyers, me
New York slugging backstop; Fred
Snodgrass, the Giant who made the Red
Rn, wnrid'n rhamDlons: Art Shafer.
Giant infielder; Charlie Hall, Red Sox
pitcher; Ray Collins, Red sox soutn
.,,. Dfntf TtnrllA WhltA Sox outfielder
Duffy Lewis and Harry Hooper, ' Red
Sox outfielders; Clarence Walker, for
mer Washington pitcner.
. . ."
A movement is on foot to make
American athletes independent of the
public when it comes to the Olympic
tames trip to Berlin in 1916. The
scheme Is to increase the registration
fee from 20 to 50 cents. This, based on
18,000 athletes, would mean an increase
of $4500 annually.
...
Th, Hirva.H Bulletin is aeralnst se
cret football practice, contending that
the advantage gained by the secret
n.n-ii- ia nnt Rufficient when comDared
to the loss of undergraduate support
because of ignorance oi tneir piayers.
rftatv MnthAWRAn In a. manv-sided
player ballplayer, checker-player, bas
ketball star. -es au-aiueu eicepi
port-sided.
rnn, mnrt vpflrn a ci a mn.inr leasruer
and Napoleon Lajoie says he will be
willing to retire from tne national
game. He made his debut as a major
leaguer in 1896.
rn rr.t,h ilAnhta his ahilttv. in pcmia.1
the record of Hans Wagner, who has
k,tt,j nrinp 17 consecutive seasons
for an average of .324. Anson, Broth
ers, Kelly, iieeier, ueienaniy, uuiiy
n T n i , J n r-a thm An 1 V Tn ATI who hftVA
beaten .300 for 10 consecutive seasons
In the majors.
.... . .
Storer. the speedy Harvard tackle.
has been chosen to lead a literary
squad in revising the college hymnal.
Six years ago waiter Johnson pitcnea
hav for $15 a month. Now he gets
about $7500 a season for pitching ball
two hours each day for six months.
Connie Mack is after Robert Mc-
Graw, Jr.. a 17ryear-old high school boy
of Pueblo. Colo. The lad has bewilder
ing speed and cool judgment, together
with a splendid batting eye, according
to his admirers.
If the New Tork Americans are
lucky enough to sign Frank Chance to
manage their club next season, we will
have to start right away figuring on
the Highlanders as a big stumbling
block; and that Chance will eventually
build up a pennant-winning club goes
without saying. He Is a great manager
that 8 what Chance is and you can
quote me as saying so," says Clark
Griffith, Washington leader.
... .
There is considerable talk of Syra
cuse taking the place of Jersey City in
the International . League next season.
Jersey City did not pay this year.
...
Ralph Rose is much peeved over the
crowning of Pat McDonald weight king
and is working hard preparatory to an
effort to regain his laurels. The two
may meet in New Tork in January.
...
A Boston writer has named Wesley
Englehorn, the Spokane boy. as All
Dartmouth tackle. Englehorn, former
Pullman football and basketball star,
was a universal choice for All-American
tackle this year. He is rated as
one of the greatest tackles of the game.
. ..."
Keene Fltrpatrick, the Princeton var
sity trainer, has been honored by the
senior class with honorary membership.
This is regarded as one of the highest
honors which a class can beslow on
one who has never attended Princeton
University.
...
Four recent fights In New Tork
brought in gate receipts totaling $97.
201. The Mat Wells-Brown fracas
topped the list with $27,800.
Jesse C. Harper, Wabash College ath
letic director and former Chicago base
ball and football star, will take charge
of Notre Dams athletics next Fall.
Manager McGraw, of the Giants, says
that after Rube Marquard had pitched
and won two games of the world's
series he tried to get Rube to pitch a
third game, but the southpaw had cold
feet. McGraw is much peeved over
Marquard's $10,000 holdout yarn, as
well as his mlxup In a divorce rase.
Rube has a three-year contract with
the Giants.
...
New Tork Is to have a $10,000,000
stadium. The Park Board of New York
announces that It will be lullt over
hanging the Hudson River at One Hun
dred and Sixteenth street.
...
Walter P. Steffen, the great Chicago
football star, has been appointed As
sistant United. States District Attorney
at Chicago.
...
Three major league pitchers. 37 minor
and six college hurlers pitched no-hit
games during the 1912 season, against
71 pitchers in 1911.
. .
Johnny Evers expects that Otis Clym
er. the Minneapolis gardener, will till
the gap in the Cub outfield. Evers
plans to station the hard-hitting Mil
ler at left field.
...
Vin Campbell, former Northwestern
player, again says that he Is through
with baseball. He is connected with an
automobile establishment in Pittsburg
Amateur Athletics. '
The Christian Brothers Business Col
lege second basketball team met Its
first defeat of the season in its own
gymnasium Friday night at the hands
of the Gregory Athletic Club quintet.
The score was 23 to 12. Much of tho
game was due to the good aim of F.
Dorney, center for the Gregory Club.
The Gregory Club Is looking for
-t,i..h ..nn h, .prn.nerMi bv call
ing R.' Sweeney, at Sellwood 240, after
4 o'clock, or writing to mm at ti t-am
Fourteenth street.
fAfttholl wai mail. n. rnff.
nlaed sport at the Washington High
Q,hnnl TTvtriav TMinn when the student
body met and decided , to award game
letters, the same as for the other
sports. Any player representing the
school in two games is entitled to a
golden "W." Practice will be held
all this week on the East Twelfth and
Davis-street fleld '
He lives for the grown-ups old
Saint Nick when his gift is a
Ford- Why not concentrate the
Christmas buying and get the
entire family the one present
they'll all enjoy most? An order
for a Ford today will insure an
early delivery.
Every third car is a Ford. Nearly 180,000
have been sold and delivered. New prices
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ery car $025 town oar $800 with all
equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Get particulars
from Ford Motor Company, 61 Union Ave.,
corner East Davis St., Portland, or direct
from Detroit factory.
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