THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 12, 1U13.
W A T CH-T OWE R OBSER V AT I ONS
Material and Immaterial Syllogisms
on Sport by Eoscoe Fawcett
'Here Is a Suggestion for Paragraphers: Why Not Say Something About the Waterwagon Losing Its Passengers?" Abe's Philosophy.
ja AUGHTT squirrels are causing
1 great excitement in California by
stealing the golf balls at some ot
the high-class links. Golfdom is wild
ly agitated, and various remedies, tarn
lng, feeding, etc.. have been suggested
While they are talking it over some
one ought to go out with a shotgun and
kill the nutty creatures.
irCCORDlSG to the Associated Press,
S Frank Chance will get J120.000
for managing the New York Americans
for the next three years. Of this pit
tance. 175,000 is salary, and the chick
en feed left over represents 5 per cen
of the estimated profits of the Yanks.
While J75.000 is quite some New
Year's present. New York fans are more
Interested in percentage right now than
in salary.
ROBERT Li. STEVENS, who evacuated
the Sheriffs swivel-chair- Tuesday
In favor of Thomas Word, has made a
most unique New Year's resolution,
Hereafter he will pay his way into
baseball and football games, boxing
and wrestling exhibitions, and likewise
into baldheaded row.
CTOIBALL has been saved.
I After a terrific struggle of eight
long years, during which period of trial
the gridiron game has suffered untold
ridicule and censure, the rules commit'
tee seems finally to have evolved i
game that is satisfying all the way
around.
In 1905 It looked as If football was
doomed for the ash heap. The gruel
ling, brutal style of mass play, the
maiming and the deaths in colleges and
high schools, the tactics utilized by
colleges in enticing athletes into the
fold and the evils of professionalism.
made the future of plgsktnning preca
rious Indeed.
Then was undertaken the tinkering.
Change after change was inserted into
the code books. Some proved benefl
clal, but others hurt the sport. Sea,
son after season the committee till'
kered on, fully aware that every an
nual upheaval further complicated the
rules in the minds of the spectators,
yet realizing that only by .these heroic
measures could football be returned to
Its former plane of popularity.
Isn't it time, then, for a few whoops
of Joy? The tinkering is over. There
will be none of the drastic action of
other years when the rules committee
meets this Winter. Everybody is sat
isfied and except for a few restate
ments football will remain about as it
was in 1913.
Not only are coaches satisfied, but
many schools and colleges, which aban
doned football during the war period,
have come back into the stockade. And
more have telegraphed ahead. Union
and Fordham Colleges again have
teams and the once terrible- Columbia
Is expected to play prodigal. The Engp
llsh game is being gradually shoved
Into the background in California and
it probably will not be many years be
fore California and Stanford show evi
dences of Yankee patriotism and re
turn to the American college game.
Yes, football has had a hard strug
gle. But the family row is all over
now. The only detail remaining Is to
have Seattle writers claim that Dobie
did it.
THE t Oregon State Board of Medical
Examiners concluded the semi-annual
qulzz Thursday.
How would you like to be one of 100
anxious candidates and have this fed
to you through a test tube:
"What is the etiology, pathology and
earliest symptoms of anterior poliom
yelitis?" Or this:
"Give origin Insertion and nerve sup
AD'S CHANGES SLIM
Too Much Money Demanded to
Please Promoters.
CONDITIONS THOUGHT POOR
Griffin Tries to Get Wlllard to Coast
for Match; O'Rourke Tells or
Big. League Players Whom
Wolverton Has Signed.
BY HARRY B. S1IITH.
SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 11. (Spe
cial.) There seems little probability
that Ad Wolgast will be seen In action
within the next few months. At
least that Is the conclusion one is
forced to reach after talking with the
former champion and his manager.
Jones and Cadillac Ad were through
here the first of the week, en route to
Oregon, where Ad Is talking about
purchasing a ranch, and they have some
hlghfaluting ideas about the value of
the German as a card.
For Instance. Coffroth wanted to
match Wolgast with Harlem Tommy
Murphy for Washington's-birthday.
Jones promptly retorted with a de
mand for H0.000 for his end. In San
Francisco this week he backed it up
by an explanatory statement.
Ad Han Plenty of Money.
"Wolgast has plenty of money." said
Tom. "and he doesn't have to fight the
pork-and-beaners. He would like to
tight one of three men who would be
good drawing cards Willie Ritchie.
Joe Mandot or Joe Rivers. No one of
the three seems to want a meeting. As
for the other lightweights. If any of
them wants a match Wolgast will In
sist upon J10.000 for his end. That's
our price for all such bouts. Otherwise
Wolgast will prefer to retire. He
hasn't any intention at the present of
quitting the game, but he would do so
rather than take and small change for
boxing. He has a good comfortable
income and doesn't need to trouble
himself unless there is something
worth while in sight."
Jones adds that for Ritchie Wolgast
would be willing to sign up for the
same terms that Coffroth made the
San Franciscan when the pair had
their Thanksgivlr.g day march. The
manager and his scrapper also have
some uncomplimentary things to say
about Ritchie and his press agent.
Billy Nolan, and intimated broadly that
Ritchie would never fight Wolgast.
Layoff May Weaken Ad.
As a matter of fact I doubt If an
enforced layoff of this sort will do
Wolgast any good. Unless I am sadly
mistaken the boy has been slipping
ever since that operation and has to a
certain extent lost his grip. He doesn't
seem to be taking the best care of him
self. Further, he was always a fighter
who showed to better advantage when
kept busy and that is one reason that
it looks as if Jones is making a mis
take. However, Wolgast unquestionably is
well fixed from a financial standpoint,
so that be can do ubout as he pleases.
ply of (a) Tibialis anticus, (b) Brach
ialis anticus, (c) Psoas tnagnus.
If Dr. warren Gill, the new Lob An
geles first sacker. passed an examina
tion of this character some enemy must
have been responsible for the canard
that it was "Doc who pulled the ongi
nal "Merkel" bonehead play when at
Pittsburg.
Poliomyelitis and concrete do not
harmonize. It takes a noodle with
specific gravity other than bone to pin
poliomyelitis to the mat, with alkaloids,
lndicans, rickets, influenza, abdominal
aortas, HCN's, and "choke damp" stick
lng around on the edges endeavoring to
slip In a poke or two to the prog
nathous.
THE theatrical business provides an
easy avenue of income for ball
players. But, sometimes these Winter
contracts are confining. New York has
just concluded a chicken show of 6500
exhibits, yet Rube Marquard was tied
down to a vaudeville parchment 2000
miles away.
CHARLES BRICKLEY, Harvard's
great athlete, may be barred from
participation In future college games.
It has been charged that he is now In
the professional class because he has
been given a newspaper correspondence
job on the strength of his athletic
achievements. This charge will not
hold water. The college correspondent
"in the professional class" has never
been discovered.
A
L PALZSR has not yet been taken
into custody for his willful per
jury that he would fan Luther McCarty
on the jaw with a nltro-glycerine
works Inside of 10 rounds.
McCarty Is also roaming at large. His
crime is fully as heinous. Luther posed
as a single man, while his press agents
primed column after column of roman
tic junk into the columns of Los An
geles papers. Luther was made to pose
as the innocent college lad seeking es
cape from a regiment of hero-worship
ing millionairesses. Mccarty proDaDiy
suffered severe twitches of embarrass
ment when an energetic reporter at
Fargo. N. D.. discovered his wife peel
lng potato skins In the kitchen annex of
a Moorhead saloon and tipped it off to
the Associated Press.
When married men begin posing as
bachelors It is high time to search the
neighboring kitchenettes. The idea
seems absurd.
HEN the Government announced
that limburger cheese could not
be shipped through the mails Portland's
lone sporting weekly promptly slipped
into innocuous disintegration.
1N(
OT to be mentioned just now as a
Ible recruit to the Portland
pitching staff or as a possible post
master Is to be conspicuous.
HE new bridge over the Willamette
is so firmly anchored that It Is fig
ured that no strain that can be put on
it will pull it loose. Doesn't that re
mind you of what father said about
George when that human post used to
come to call on Saturday nights?
P
EACOCK spit has done nothing to
be proud of.
w
turned the
Philadelphia Nationals over to
his successors he left only $500 In baled
certificates In the treasury, yet the new
owners value -the club at Jl.000.000. W.
W. McCredle made $.75 on the Portland
Northwestern League club last year,
but is willing to sell for II.
While the Judge has made public no
Naturally, however, he wants a return
match with Willie and will do every
thing In his power to regain the title,
more as a matter of personal vanity
than for any other reason.
He can't see but what he is the same
Ad Wolgast that he always was and
wants a chance to prove to the world
at large that Ritchie's win was a fluke.
From . Oregon it Is the Intention of
Wolgast to go to Cadillac to pass sev
eral weeks. Jones will hasten to Chi
cago. He thinks that he has a chance
to land as manager of Jess Wlllard, the
Eastern heavyweight who holds a de
cision over Luther McCarty, and he
wants to cinch that up If It is possible.
Wlllard Wanted on Coast.
Jim Griffin, who haB the February
permit In San Francisco, has tele
graphed Wlllard offering him a match
with Gunboat Smith for February 7.
No word has been heard as yet from
Wlllard as to whether he will accept
If there Is any truth In the report that
the National Athletic Club of London
has offered htm $75,000 for three fights,
there isn't a chance for Wlllard to be
brought to the Pacific Coast, as there
would hardly be monay enough in
sight for him here.
Patsy O'Rourke of the Sacramento
club, passed through San Francisco this
week, en route to Santa Clara College,
where he Is to coach the baseball team
until the middle of March. Patsy
brings news from Wolverton to the
effect that the new leader of the Sen
ators will arrive the first of Febru
ary. Already Wolverton has signed
live new men for the club. Including
Drucke. the New York pitcher; Dolly
Stork, shortstop from Brooklyn; Stroud,
Detroit twirler; Moran and Kenwor
thy. Washington outfielders, and Jack
Bliss catcher. In addition, Wolverton
intends to get another big league catch,
er, as well as an infielder. with which
list he ought to be in shape to give
the other Coast League clubs a run for
their money.
O'Rourke also says this will be his
last year In baseball on the Coast un
less he lands a job as manager of one
of the teams. If he doesn't get that
sort of a berth he proposes to go East,
where he says that he is sure of the
sort of a job that he Is looking for. .
Kwlng . Causea Stir,
wo ..,,,. n stir In Inrnl base
ball circles this week, when It was an
nounced that J. Cal Ewlng had asked
for waivers on 1 of his players. The
names of the men on whom the waivers
have been asked were not published,
but it Is Delleved that a lot of the bush
ers, along with Kid Mohler and Claud
Berrv. are down. It Is an open secret
that Claud Berry will either work for
a class D club in case such a league
is formed, or go to Spokane to catch
for that aggregation.
Just what will be done ' with Kid
Mohler in case the small league can
not be organized Is a problem. Chances
are that under such circumstances he
would be given his release and allowed
to shift for himself.
The word coming from Cal Ewlng that
he would not retain Bill Reidy unless
his manager sent word had the desired
effect, and last Saturday night there
n Tn a from mil a telegram asking for
more money, aiso giving out the In
formation that he wouia De ii
about the first of February.
Reidy has been requested to obtain
permission from the Toledo club for
San Francisco to do business with
Harry Krause. In case Toledo grants
that permission, Krause will likely join
the local team this year. The former
Athletic twirler la quite anxious to
remain on the Faclflc Coast, and Ewlng
thinks that he would prove an acquisi
tion to the local club.
CROSSED OFF MEANING LUTHER INTENDS
detail estimates his stenographer quotes
these prices f. o. B. Manager Williams,
33 cents; Frank Eastley, 9 cents; Pat
Doty, 12 cents; Bill Speas, 8 centavos;
Bob Coltrin, two bits; Skin Harris, a
nickel, and the rest in conglomerate, S
cents.
Nowadays good ball players come
high.
T HAS been definitely proved that
Venus the de Mile was not one of
the young women who participated in
the recent boxing contest at Vancouver,
Wash. This will likely settle a lot of
bets.
LANGUAGES can best be learned in
infancy, according to the New York
Sun. Words come before thought, and.
as there are far more thoughts than
words in the average language, it is
patent that you should begin early, in
stead of waiting until the child has
grown up and begun to get settled In
his English, and then to have his pro
nunciation of a foreign tongue ruined
by attempts to make every word con
form to an English inflection.
That the child age Is the time for
picking up languages, one is convinced
by the aptness with which children
pick up and understand the most dif
ficult slang. When a 6-year-old boy
BOXING IS OPPOSED!
Oregon Solons Not Likely to
Worry About Bill.
FRAWLEY ACT TO FRONT
State Senator Joseph and G. X. Mo
Arthur Unable to See Why Ore
gon Should Legalize Sport Even
Though It Is Tolerated.
With legislative sessions impending
in many states, New York's Frawley
boxing bill will likely receive much
publicity during the Winter. Ohio, Illi
nois. Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri and
Washington Legislatures are among
tho&e which will wrestle with the vex
ing problem, but apparently Oregon
solons will not be asked to legalize
the mitt wielding game, for the first
time in several sessions.
"I don't think a boxing bill, even of
the Frawley type with Its boxing com
mission and its other excellent features,
LATEST PICTURE OF
I.VTHER M'CARTT, PICTURESQUE
r ' -tnlSi
1 t r I" , - ?l
comes home and remarks tersely that
his teacher "slipped him a lemon" or
that the monitor of his class "got his
goat," you may be sure that a large
error is being made in not thrusting his
tiny head foremost into German and
Latin.
JACK HERMAN is a genuine pro
moter with a keen perception, but
the Buffalo gink pulled a moribund
miscue when he billed his obese object
Stanislaus Zybszko, the great Polish
wrestler, . for Portland the latter part
of January. The biscuit would not have
attracted the proverbial corporal's
guard, and Sheriff Word really con
ferred a favor upon Herman when he
closed the gates of Multnomah County
to future professional wrestling
matches.
To those unfamiliar with local con
ditions this assertion may sound sur
prising. Zybszko has a record that en
titles him to more than a mere nod of
the head. True, he was defeated by
Gotch two years ago, but Gotch is the
most remarkable mat man the world
has ever known. Furthermore, Gotch
says he Is out of it now, and titles
are not like men-t they cannot be re
tired by age. Like the little trickling
brook, they must go on and on for
ever, and the fans, being partly human.
will stand a chance in Oregon," said
George W. Joseph, State Senator, yes
terday. "Someone approached me sev
eral weeks ago and I gave him my
opinion then. I think the attempt has
been abandoned.
C. N. McArthur, prospective Speaker
of the House, is of a similar mind.
Oregon Tolerates Boxing.
Boxing is tolerated in several see
tions of Oregon, even under the pres
ent stringent regulations, and such a
bill would likely receive encourage
ment from Pendleton, Medford and the
poos Bay district, but , Multnomah
County would strongly oppose th pro
posal under the prodding of the vari
ous ministerial and radical civic so
cieties. In Washington active steps are being
taken by the boxing enthusiasts to
ward legalizing the fistic sport. Two
years ago Tommy Burns engineered a
bill through the House, but the Senate
performed the autopsy. Tacoma and
Vancouver are the two boxing bee
hives. At Vancouver an attorney has been
retained to get everything prepared for
the assault. He has received a copy of
the Frawley law from Secretary
Charles J. Harvey, of the New York
Commission. Harvey says the state has
raked in between 575,000 and $80,000
from the percentage clause, and boosts
the success of the bill.
The following is a digest of the New
5Tork law, which will be introduced in
a more or less modified form at Olym-
pia:
New York Lair Outlined.
It was enacted July 25, 1911, and pro
vides for a state a th la tic commissleon con
sisting of three members and a secretary,
to be appointed by the Governor on January
1, every five years.
The members of the commlsssion must
NEW WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT
FIGURE WHO STANDS AT THE TOP
By Mrfjuik.
TO STAY AWHILE.
will always carol that same old tune
"The King Is dead; long live the King."
Zybszko says he is champion, and
certainly he has more right to claim
the title than any wrestler next to
Gotch. Some assert that Mahmout is
his superior, but Mahmout is abroad
fighting Turks, and, anyway, Zybszko
holds decision over the Bulgarian.
But, despite his great- bulk, de
spite the seven 'different languages
by - which his press agents says
he can console the Grimms, the Jack
sons and the Montanics of the brush,
despite his divine right to call himself
the Woodrow Wilson of the Fllmflamo
cratic party, the fact remains that
Zybszko wouldn't draw eating money
in Portland.
Whyr
Merely because the wrestlers have
acted superlatively silly in the past.
One scandal after another has cropped
up. Last Winter efforts were made to
revive the grappling game, to eradi
cate the crookedness and give the
people real sport for sport's sake.
Gotch and Mahmout appeared here in
satisfying exhibitions; Berg and Deme-
tral battled in one of the most spec
tacular matches ever staged in the
West, and then.' in the crowning bout
of the Winter, the muckrakers were
furnished with their little morsel of
ammunition.
Yes, it was the wrestlers. John
maintain permanent offices, where all busi
ness can be transacted. Two members of
tie commiSElson constitute a quorum and
any ruling made bj the commission must
be made with the approval of two mem
bers. Including traveling, expenses, the commis
sion must not expend more than $5000 an
nually and must make an annual j-eport to
the Legislature. The commisssion is vested
with full authority to control all boxing
bouts or exhibitions eiven in the state and
can cancel any license Issued if It deems
such action necessary. Club3, associations or
corporations wishing to secure licenses must
hold leases for not less than one year on the
building or structure where bouts or exhi
bitions are to be staged.
No exhibition more than ten rounds in
length can be staged and all contestants In
such contests must wear gloves weighing no
less than eight ounces. In case a club stages
a fake" bout or exhibition its license is
canceled by the commissison and a report
stating the exact number of tickets to the
bout have been sold and the gross rectX.s
placed in the hands of one of the memLAi
or the secretary of the commissison within
24 hours after the bout has been staged.
Contestants In such matches shall be
penalized as follows:
First offense Restrained from fighting in
the state for a period of six months begin
ning thft close of the bout or exhibition in
which "he took part.
Second offens Barred from boxing In the
state forever or until the commission de
cides to allow him to again take part in
contests.
Vancouver Strengthens Team.
SEATTLE, "Wash., Jan. 11. (Special.)
Vancouver has obtained a big left-
hand pitcher named Deeenniere, and
First Baseman Tony "Walsh from the
St Paul club. President Brown now
has 36 players and expects four more,
making1 a squad of 40 to start the (rain
ing season.
BOXING CHAMPION.
OF THE PUGILISTIC LADDER.
I Berg, who, it now develops, figured in
some of the biggest fiascos of the dec
ade under the pseudonym "Charley
Hackenschmidt. several seasons back,
double-crossed the promoters, refusing
to appear unless his opponent. Fred
BeelL would agree to lay down to him.
The crowd grew impatient waiting: a
whispered consultation "Tell him 111
let him win," snapped BeelL "Get him
on the mat and then I'll fix him."
A messenger quickly carried the
news to the Swede at his hotel a block
down the street and he entered lae
hall. Briefly, the bout ended in a free-for-all
mixup. Berg quitting the ring
cold when he discovered that he, in
turn, had been slipped a Maltese mono,
gram. - ,
Little wonder the authorities point
to the next stopping place. Suspicion
has a hatnmerlock on the community.
Nobody wants a hedge of bunions In
the front yard. Nobody wants wres
tling scandals. David and Goliath
couldn't settle their ancient feud here
today without Jack King or some other
recalcitrant arising to make the charge
that David won on a foul. The wres
tlers themselves killed the amphibian
bird that laid the golden prolate spher
oid not Sheriff Word.
((OAS FRANCISCO will finish in last
J place," said Jack Atkins, new
Sacramento owner, discussing the 1913
outlook In. the Pacific Coast League.
While Atkins' reputation attaches more
to his ability to rake in the coin at
the bookies' rostrum than to his dia
mond acumen, he seems to have
guessed .correctly In the Seal instance.
For a city supposed to be the back
bone of the circuit the New York of
the Coast League San Francisco Is
giving apitiful exhibition of how not
to get Into the money. B1U Hogan Is
the only recruit of merit added since
the close of the . 1912 campaign when
the Seals dumped almost Into the cel
lar. Manager Relay needs a couple more
outfielders to go with Mclntyre and
Hogan, at least one additional Infielder
of class, a catcher or two. and about
five slab artists. Nine men needed and
Manager Reidy sleeping peacefully
through the Winter at his home in
Cleveland like a grizzly bear hibernat
ing through the cold spell.
Little wonder Owner Cal Ewing an
nounced that unless he heard news of
Reidy by January 15 he would name a
new manager.
Ewing is a puzzle. Admittedly the
brains behind the Pacific Coast League,
one of the foremost figures in Nation
wide baseball today, Cal, like TJarry
Herrmann, of Cincinnati, seems to fall
down utterly when it comes down to
the detail of choosing his team man
ager and dictating policies.
For years Danny Long hampered the
Seals just as any manager unable to
accompany the club on its jaunts
away from homo would hamper It.
Imagine a General in the Army remain
ing at home during the battles in the
enemy's country. Fine army that. Fine
baseball system that. Ewing should
not have needed the coercion of the
newspapers. But it took columns and
columns of first-page stuff to apply
the screws to Long, and it begins to
look as though the boyB might well
call out the baying bloodhounds again.
Of course, the Seals are probably
waiting for the Chicago White Sox to
begin sloughing off talent. But the
White Sox slipped Long mostly unripe
cheese last Spring, and the fans cer
tainly are not again going to fall for
that stuff in wintry contemplation of
the campaign to come.
Enthusiasm is what makes baseball.
Let a team start the year sans enthusi
asm and It will more than likely fin
Northwest Vies With California
in Season's Work.
ONLY ONE TITLE CLOUDED
California Takes Track Champion
ship and Divides Baseball "With
Washington, Which Is Holder
of Football Championship.
BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 11. (Special.)
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate athletics
enjoyed a most successful season dur
ing 1912 and the new year promises
even better results than those achieved
by the college stars of the past year.
The year was a success from every
viewpoint, one of the most pleasing
features being the closer bond of union
between the institutions of the Pacific
Northwest and the South. The various
championships, with the exception of
the Rugby title, claimed By the Uni
versity of Santa Clara, a new figure on
the athletic horizon, were settled with
out dispute.
In baseball, tennis and soccer the
successful colleges had a clear title.
Performances in the track and field
meets were of the highest and com
pared favorably in many cases with the
best marks recorded by Eastern stars.
The athletes of the Pacific Northwest
individually and collectively did their
share to make the year the success it
was. Oregon University was repre
sented by two of her premier athletes
at the Stockholm Olympic names and
me university or Washington also had
a representative in Ira Courtney, the
s-rinter. Hawkins, hurdler, and Walter
ilcClure, distance runner champion,
rank among the best ever produced on
me (joast.
WanhlnstoB Football Champion.
The University of Washington, whom
many critics believe would prove a ca-
paDie lootoaii opponent for the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, winners of the Mlri
die Western championships, has a clear
utie to me intercollegiate champion
ship under American rules. Occidental
College had her championship hopes
shattered when the team from the
Oregon Agricultural College won an
easy victory. After defeating Colo
rado School of Mines, Occidental
claimed the title, but Kiilisenut.-., Ac
I feat at the hands of the Oregon "Ag-
HfiTinS" CAVA We eh !m crtnv. ! n t .3
Washington won all the games on her
schedule, defeating Idaho, the Univer
sity of Oregon. Oregon Agricultural
College and Washington State.
Baseball honors are a tossup between
Washington and the University of Cali
fornia. In the series between the two
last Spring the result was a tie. eanh
University nine winning one game
while the third contest resulted In a tie.
Therefore California Is adjudged inter
collegiate champion of this section,
while Washington is given the North
western championship.
t California Track Team Bart.
Track honors go to the University of
California with Oregon second. Cali-j
HONORS ARE DIVIDED
ish sans several other essential as
sets. Yet who wants to enthuse over a
corpse. Nobody does that except the
undertaker. -
Mr. Ewlng's declaration in re a pros
pective "tinwaring" of Bill Reidy, car
ries a little laugh all Its own. "I'll
appoint Harry Walton manager."
threatened Cal. "unless Reidy writes
by January 15." Inasmuch as Walton
gained most of his baseball hard
knocks and experience at Stanford
University, his fitness, stacked up
alongside that of the veteran Seals,
Mclntyre. Mohler and Howard, is ludi
crous. Cal's badinage is bad.
Ban Johnson made his sobriquet,
"Czar of Baseball." by careful applica
tion to work and a wholesome regard
for the old saw which prescribes: "A
chain Is no stronger than its weakest
link." Only recently Johnson executed
a master stroke by engineering the
deal whereby Frank Chance went to
New York, the weak city in the young
er organization. Al Baum, the clever
president of the Coast League, could
do worse than apply his talents to
feeding the San Francisco infant.
'ME FIGHT McCarty?" queried Jim
I I Jeffries in Los Angeles the other
day.
"Well I should say not. I'm done with
fighting. How long do you suppose
these fellows .would last with Sam
Langford?
"Why. he would just name the round
he would knock 'em out in."
Big Jim's Jibes sound too much like
the jeers made by the batsman at the
pitcher who has just struck him out, to
influence seriously pubHc opinion
against the spectacular McCarty. But
tnen Jeff should know about these
black demons!
FAME is barren. Ice water flows
through its veins. A man who at
tains its dizzy heights realizes it of
tlmes during his Career. Gompers has
been denounced as an anarchist: Jack
London as a plagirist; Paine as a com
munist; Muggsy McGraw as a revolu
tionist; Patrick Henry as a muckraker;
Roosevelt as a nature fakir, and Tom
Word as a welcher.
Pete Buzukos should not worry. The
only criticism the writer has ever heard
of the Greek wrestler is that he is ex
tremely obnoxious and crooked.
SECRETARY FRANK REDPATH, of
the newly tobascoed Tacoma Tigers,
says he will delay the starting of games
at Tacoma this year until 3:45 or
o'clock. "This will be suitable to a
much larger number of people," said
he, explaining the change.
Either this Is a knock on Tacoma or
else Redpath doesn't read the news
papers. All over the nation the ten
dency for earlier starting is growing
and in almost every case In which a
vote of the fans has been procured
either through the newspapers or via
the turnstile medium, "Start Early" has
been the verdict.
Redpath's middle initial is R. Does
it stand for Retrogression?
CHICAGO is counting heavily upon
the services of Otis Clymer, who
will essay a "come back" with the
Cubs next season. It Is to be hoped
that Clymer will meet with better suc
cess than Cravvy Cravath, who re
turned to the majors with Philadelphia
last year after a fence splintering ca
reer In the American Association.
"Wooden Shoes" batted .303 for
Minneapolis In the American Associa
tion in 1S11 and swiped 33 bases, while
last year in the big league he hit only
.284 and was held to 15 stolen has
socks. The pitching and catching in
the majors and minors is still a little
different.
fornia won the Pacific Coast Confer
ence meet and then later in the sea
son carried off first honors in the Mid
dle Western Conference track and field
championships. California had the best
balanced track team in the United
States and Harvard. Tale, Cornell or
Michigan would have fallen victims to
the Blue and Gold men in a dual meet.
The season produced a number ot
brilliant Individual stars, prominent
among them being Fred Kelly, Uni
versity of Southern California, winnei
of the 110-meter race at. the Olympic
games; Hawkins, of the University ol
Oregon, who ran third to the speedy
Kelly at the Olympic meet; George
Horine, the wonderful Stanford Uni
versity high jumper, who astonished
the athletic world last April by batter
ing Mike Sweeney's long standing
record in the high jump; Fred Allen,
University of California, holder of the
Coast intercollegiate broad jump mark
at 23 feet 7 inches, and a competitor in
the Stockholm championships; , Ira
Courtney, champion sprinter of the
University of Washington; Carl Shat
tuck. holder of the Coast record in the
16-pound hammer throw, 164 feet being
the "California man's best mark; Floyd
Rice, winner of the shot-put at the
Western Conference; Eddie Beeson,
high jumper, who tied the phenomenal
Horine at 6 feet 4 Inches, and Neil, jav
elin thrower of the University of Ore
gon, winner of the javelin at the Pa
cific Coast Conference in the last two
years.
Stanford University annexed rowing
honors. Represented by the greatest
eight-oar crew ever developed in the
West, Stanford defeated California and
Washington in the Pacific Coast Inter
collegiate Regatta and then journeyed
East to the great Poughkeepsle event.
Eastern experts say that Stanford com
pared favorably with the best of the
Eastern crews, but lack of experience
told against them.
BASKETBALL MEN TRAIN" HARD
University of Washington Prepares
for Game With Idaho.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se
attle, Jan. 8. (Special.) With only
10 days left to train before the first
game with the University of Idaho, the
varsity basketball squad is traveling
at top speed and competition for places
on the team is fiercer every day. At
center. Savage, Ames, Price and Mornb
are leading the field. Savage played
with the quintet last year and has
height and weight to spare. Ames was
the star Lincoln High center last sea
son and made the All-Seattle five. Price
and Momb are ex-Pullman men and
both played a stellar game there.
The guard and forward positions are
still undecided and there are many
good men trying out for them. Cap
tain Byler, Tom Wand and Wayne Sut
ton will probably take three of the
places and the fight for the other will
l'e between Fancher, McFee, Mueller.
Hipkoe, Shiveley, Wilson and Bryant.
Albany Alumni Victorious.
ALBANY, 6r.. Jan. 11. (Special.)
A team composed of former players of
the Albany High School vanquished the
1913 baskeyaall team of the school in
a fast game in the Y. M. C. A. gym
nasium in this city last night by a
score of 23 to 3 2.
The former champions excelled their
successors on the high school team in
all departments of the game. The line
up was as follows;
Alumni. Position. High School.
Stalnaker . Forward Hector
G. Dooley . Forward Holland
E. Dooley Center Abraham-
Ebertlng . r Guard Bfrtchft
Cantield Guard Brigg