WATCH TOWER GBSERVATI
I ,rr- n M v,.. noitinnThfi Greater the Hilaritv the Greater the Reaction the Next Day' Abe's Philosophy.
r xiero w ursxiiu jvcsciuuica o itoi B wiv, - . . -. -
I ' lis to detract 95 per cent for leakage
PIVE weeks more and then base
ball. January, the one dull month of
the year for ye sporting editor. Is
passing. Happy Hogan has or has not
settled upon Venice for his ex-Vernon
Tigers; Cal Ewing has or has not
sold his stock In the Oakland Coast
Club; Walt McCredie has or has not
decided to give Benny Henderson one
more chance to be "good" yea, the
Delphic spoor has been worked over
time In the grand old cause of filling
the sport page.
Now cometh February, the month of
the holdout's contrition; the month
when all six Coast magnates will lay
claim to the 1913 pennant: the month
when the mailman brings In the strag
gling baseball contract, a document
which holds the young men down to
$1800 or 12000 a Summer when they
might make as high as 11.75 per day
wielding picks or shovels: the month
of preparation for the training camp.
Tea, five weeks more of Insomnia
and then real action.
THE Portland Coasters will report
either at VIsalla or some other Cali
fornia town on March 1; the Seals will
ay goodbye to the kinks at Boyes
Springs: Sacramento will train at
Marysvllle; Oakland probably at
Livermore again and Los Angeles and
Vernon at home.
Portland fans are evincing tremend
ous Interest in the coming race. Edu
cated to championship clubs, local en
thusiasm suffered a temporary eclipse
In 1912, when the Beavers got oft to a
poor start. But baseball interest Is
again sizzling. McCredie's efforts to
put the Beavers up in the first division
again are not being passed by un
noticed. He has his usual quota of knockers,
to be sure, but the general run of fan
dom Is sensible minded enough to
realize that a winning team means
thousands of dollars In pocket to the
local owner and that Manager Mc
Credie will exert every energy toward
giving Portland a winning team.
THE Portland, team, on paper, looks
as strong as any club in the league,
but January appearances do not win
pennants. The Washington Americans
looked like second dlvlsloners last
Spring, yet they forged up almost to
the lead: the critics were unanimous In
awarding Connie Mack the champion
ship, yet the Athletics finished down.
The Beavers appeared In infinitely
stronger than either the Oaks or the
Vernons in 1912. but McCredie ran Into
a anag of trouble through no fault of
Ms own. His pitchers failed dismally.
Not one of the new crop, including Gil
ligan and Steiger. of the American As
sociation, and Lamline and Temple, of
class B. came through, and. add to that
the poor start of Speck Harkness, the
defection of Ben Henderson and Bill
Lindsay's sickness, and It's a wonder
Walter McCredie didn't jump into the
river.
Luck should not break that way for
the Beavers In 1913. McCredie has pro
tected himself with a batch of experi
enced inflelders. Including Peters and
Derrick at first. Rodgers at second,
Kores and Courtney at short and Lind
say and McCormlck at third, and has
weeded out the trouble-making factors,
which also tended to add to the man
agerial woes in 1912.
He has grabbed a whole fleet of
pitching dreadnoughts and is out after
more. Htgginbotham and Hagertnan
appear to be the simon-pure stuff, with
Wtst, James, Carson. Krapp. Stanley
BRANDY COST BELT
Ad Says He Was Drunk When
Ritchie Bested Him.
CONFESSION MOST FRANK
Pugilist Says Alcoholic Beverage
Kuiled in Mission Moped For and
Only Made Him Reckless
and Careless In Boot.
BY JAMES H. CASSELL.
Ad Wolgast has confessed. Intoxi
cation lost him the lightweight cham
pionship to Willie Ritchie. That is
putting !t boldly, in terms the ex-tltle
holder would shrink from using, but It
reallv amounts to that and nothing
else, for the injudicious Injection of
brandv Into an appendlcltls-weakened
body was responsible for the elevation
of the San Francisco boy to the pin
nacle of pugilism.
If you remember the telegraphlo
story of that Thanksgiving day battle
by rounds, you have not forgotten the
mention of the frequent use of brandy
In Wolgast's corner. Well, passing up
all other alibis. Wolgast says that the
vsa of this alcoholic beverage as a
strengthe-sustalnlng not only failed to
accomplish Jts mission but that the
alcohol attacked his brain with sucn
vigor that he became reckless and
careless during the final rounds of the
fight, laving himself open to the b,o
to the Jaw which 'paved the way for
defeat.
"It s a funny stall for a man to make,
and it sounds silly, yet It Is a fact."
declared the Cadillac youth last night
in talking over the mill in which he
lost the championship in the 16th round
on a foul.
Brandy Alwaya Vaed.
"Jones has always used Brandy in
my fights, and I think that it has fre
quently helped me In long, hard bouts,
but it surely had the opposite effect
In that last affair at San Francisco.
Tom gave me more than usual, when,
as a matter of fact, my system was
not in condition to hold even the regu
lar modest amount.
... - , . .e.w . , n .1 T Yifamm avhllr-
in xne i.ii iui v . w .-
ated. felt confident that no one coul-
beat me. and then grew careiess irom
tne excess , ...... - -
tbe 16th round, with that blow on the
Jaw that KnocKea me uown. vi k
t.. . , - i ,. : .1 h,.- hAn rlirht
ail ngni iw " ' "
In another minute, but I aimed those
blows at Ritchie and fouled him.
"I was groggy at the time all right.
But still nao. cmri in., t.i
'clently to feel that I was not striking
below tne oeu. rui
. , T 4 ... ,-v ttmA T lashed at him
he raided up a trifle, just enough to
take the punches below the danger
Had It not been for that brandy he
would never have hit me the hardest
blow of my ring career, and conse
nuentlv I would have had the fight
well in hand, with victory a certainty
v t .f tn Boards.
. . , . . 1. - nv-Ar ln will
brandy be used In his corner during a
fight. Gruel, or soma other non-intox
and Gregg In the offing. Whether any of
these twirlers will deliver in class AA
style during the coming campaign none
can gainsay. But West. James and
Krapp have all had their flings In the
majors during the past couple of years
so must possess some qualifications
entitling them to serious regard in
minor league ball.
At any rate If all three fizzle out
hard luck will never again' be adver
tised as against return engagements.
But even so, McCredie will be In much
better shape than last April ultimately
found him. If he can round In another
first-class pitcher of the KrauBe cali
ber there will seem to be slight foun
dation for lugubrlty and moping on the
part of any small faction of weak
kneed Portland fans.
STRANGE to say "Mysterious Billy"
Smith has not been called before
the Pujo Investigating committee.
it
T Is better, to give than to re-
I ceive." said the San Francisco
magnates as they handed over Noyes,
Powell. Altman and Hartley to Spo
kane for Wuffll and Zimmerman.
THE Hebrews and the Italians are
gradually monopolizing the pugil
istic limelight. A friend, who sat at
the ringside during the Joe Rivers vs.
Leach Cross bout in New York, writes,
that, with the exception of one coon,
every man in the three preliminaries
was a Hebe, although several fought
under such Kosher pseudonyms as "Mc
Farland" and "O'Malley."
This name-changing stunt Is not at
all new or surprising. however, as
probably half of the boys who enter
the ring adopt nom de guerres of a
sporting euphony. Willie Ritchie's
real name is Geary Steffens; Leach
Cross is known In private life as Dr.
Louis C. Wallace; Joe Rivers is travel
ing under a false cognomen, as his real
name Is LIto Ybdrra; John T. Hagan
and "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien are
synomymous. while Stanley Ketchel
was raised as Stanislaus Kiecal. which
would never have done for a fighting
name.
Here are a few more switches from
chlstenlng titles to a more popular
tinge :
Tommy Burns, Noah Brusso; FreJdy
Welsh. Fred Hall Thomas; Bill Lang.
William Lanfranchl: Tony Ross, An
tonia Rossllano; George Knockout
Brown. Valentine Brown; Frankle Con
ley. Francesco Conte; Jlm'Flynn, An
drew Haynes: Jack Redmond. Henry
Hoppe; Joe Coster, Joe Angello: Wild
cat Ferns. Clarence McCubblns; Fritz
Holland. Fred Creel: Tommy Ryan. Jo
seph Young, and Jack Dillon, Ernest
Cutler Price.
BATTLING NELSON may not be the
premier lightweight, but he can
still poke his cauliflower ears Into
print like a regular champion. Bat
tling Is forever pulling the unexpected,
yet the dent he put In the sane and
simple Helen Gould-Flnley Shepard
matrimonial venture last week by his
high-finance romancing with Miss Faye
King will ever be remembered In hig'h
social circles.
Miss King, whom the famous light
weight pugilist married, to the tune of
clicking moving-picture machines and
the crash of brassy horns and saxo
phones, is 'just the sort of girl who
will make Nelson a good life mate.
The Portland girl has lived in an
atmosphere saturated with the Roman
holiday idea since childhood. Her
father, Jack King. Is known the coun
try over as a famous sprinter and
icating strengthened will be the sub-
i 11 h. KlHi n-hlrh Wol.
xii an vl . 1 1 j ..ne '
past figured, only once did he stop a
punch bordering on the knockout, and
that was the one delivered by Willie
Ritchie in that fateful 16th round at
San Francisco. He has stopped many
a punch with his Jaw, but none of them
had landed on the right spot to pro-
auce tne peculiar leemii? ui ic
out. Ad describes It as follows:
"The first sensation after the blow
....... ........ i. WIIa u-nhhtinrAtthe knees.
Try as I might my legs refused to sup
port me ana i sprawiea on iw
while for the first time my brain re
fused to work clearly, because of a
k,, ji..lnea Thpn f -.me to slowly
and pulled my weak legs Into an up
right position, but reany oioni
full control over mem uuiu mo ne"
was over."
Otker Bonta Recalled.
K1 llt? BIX liei ., ...
knockouts, after he won the champion
ship from Nelson, on February 22, 1910,
or the seven, including me line unu.
In only one. that against Owen Moran.
was his opponent sent to the mat for
the run count.
. , (.!. .... i-l.mnod In the
i ne i. "ij iiBiu
40th round to save the Battler from
further punishment, while Memslc. La
Grave. Hogan and Burns were still on
their feet when Wolgast was declared
the winner. Rivers was on -me
at the end of the Vernon scrap, but Ad
j i a l. AA next Irnnok Joe out. de-
UHLldira ' - " "- .... - -
spite the record-book story, but tnat
the Mexican quit.
. , i.i. . w . . ......finprq olzagt
Along wiiu ' -
has a knockout to his credit which
does not figure in tne doork. h"
was over his manager. Tom Jones, and
was scored at Wheeler Springs, just
bofore Ad commenced training for the
Nelson fight.
The knockout was scored with an
tv, r.iln of the troupe. Ad
hurling' the citrus sphere at Jones dur
ing a friendly iree-ior-an
missle caught the portly Tom In the
. i. . inn nerformea
solar piexu. sum -. : - , .
foolish maneuvers ere he dropped limply
to the floor. .
Ad stepped on the scales at Jack
... . L.w.n..AA vMtprriAT afternoon
. ,iiu ,,H. three nounds
ana weimri ------ .
better than at any time before In nis
life This, more tnan anymms
. . v. i .. ...... tM Trtrtland a nleas-
19 m-mns . , An
urable one. for he hopes to weigh 140
pounds when next ne sw v
for his next Iigni.
Portland School Wdll Compete.
T-vn-PBSITT OF CALIFORNIA,
rl Tun. IE. (Special.) Hill
ic -
Military Academy, of Portland, is the
only school of the Rose City which na
so far communicated with the commit-
lee in ---- ,
. i.t.hnimtlr track and field
. nt thH annual racmc
meet, which will be held In April. Hill
. ,n he anxious to make the trip
.v.. t.nr- of the letters from the
school would Indicate that It win db
represented at tne racmc
-w7.. r,t . Several of the high
" . .v.- titles In Oregon
scnoois ox -ne .
are also writing in regard to the big
event and four or nc
attend. .-
Berkeley to Play 32 Games.
ac r'AT.TFORNIA.
IMVtKM.l 'i.R.l . TWO
Berkeley. jan. ----- ,.,
games with Stanford and 30 others with
tne strongesii .
state will make up the t'La
calirornm s ,aved
game, tne xirsi - -
January !2. a practice match with tne
Ireland Independents. Two games nave
been arranged with the Oakland team
of the Pacific Coast League. Too Chi
cago White Sox, who will be In Oak
land In tie Spring, may. also bo met.
i . . - land take the rest with a grain or salt.
trainer of athletes. Miss Faye took to
the Battler as a genealogical expert
takes to the family tree and as the
January brllde is a vivacious, clever,
charming little girl, little wonder the
Durable Dane began building air cas
tles out of matches and potato parings.
That was back in the days when the
durable pne was making himself most
unendurable to his lightweight antag
onists. The friendship ripened, while
Bat's cauliflower ears blossomed and
expanded, but always the impression
able young cartoonist flooded the pug
ilist with flattering cartoons.
A year ago Nelson returned to Port
land and It was freely rumored at that
time that the attachment would culmin
ate to the tune of wedding- bells. But
Nelson went away armed only with
additional cartoons and the satisfaction
of having been told that he was only
a plain, mouse-colored dromedary after
all.
The revivified friendship ripened at
long range. Nelson secured for the
girl of his choice a Job as cartoonist
on a . Denver newspaper. She made
good and recently signed a. contract
calling for a large salary. The friend
ship grew into love and the famous
Battler is now experiencing thrills of
triumph overshadowing any bitterness
TRUCK MEET FIXED
Columbia University Contest
. Will Be April 12.
MANY SCHOOLS TO ENTER
Records of Past Nine Struggles of
Schools Show That Tnlversity of '
. Oregon Has Won Seven and
Oregon "Aggies" Two.
The tenth annual Indoor track and
field meet of the Columbia ITnlversity
Athletic Association will be held in the
POET-LAND COMMERCIAL CLUB
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LEFT TO RIGHT-W. H. CARROLL, R. S. SMITH. L. V. KEADY i SHOOTING). R- S. CLAYTON. R. P. Ml EttS
. . AND A. F. SWENSON (SHOOTING).
to have as many as oi
&JJe? for Tkitees.
CAMERA GLIMPSES OV MEN PROMINENT IN WORLD OF SPORT DURING
PAST TEN DAYS.
of defeat he may have encountered In
nis ions career 111 1110 jiiie-
Nelson Is one of the foremost figures
In ring history. A clean-living, high-
minded sort oi ieiiow, wie iint"
probably has more friends today than
any otner pugmsi living,
of the admiration and respect of any
community, and here's wishing the
bride ana groom -ine naypiwa. buh w
honeymoon.-
From the eighth floor the matcn ap-
university coliseum Saturday afternoon,
April 12. This date was decided upon
yesterday. '
Last year, this meeting, the most
unique of Its kind, in that it is open to
all universities,' colleges, preparatory
schools and amateur athletic clubs of
the Northwest, attracted 21 teams, and
this season the entry list is expected
to be even larger.
Efforts of many track and field squads
will be directed this season to the un
seating of the University of Oregon
athletes from the position of supremacy
which they have held for the last seven
seasons. On April 16, 1904, the Oregon
Agricultural College team opened these
annual meets by carrying off the great
est number of points, and duplicated
this performance the following year.
But in 1906 the University of Oregon
men made their initial appearance, and
at that meet, as well as succeeding ones,
led all teams.
Fast Men Compete.
Forrest Smithson, the Olympic games
hero of 1908, was the star of the first
Columbia University meet, winning the
60-yard dash in 6 4-5 seconds. Gilbert,
another Oregon "Aggie" man, and also
an Olympic games winner, won the pole
vault event with 10 feet 2 Inches.
The second meet brought out Dan
Kelly, another Olympic representative.
Kelly set a new Indoor record by broad
BILLIAPJ-R00MS ARE AMONG
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pears ideal, and we'll await with in
terest the "movies" with the real dope
on the alarm-clock nuptials.
AD WOLGAST denies that he wagered
$S000 on either the McCarty-Flynn
or McCarty-Palzer fights, his estimate
being several degrees closer to the con
gealing point. Apparently when a
fighter Is credited with speculation to
that extent on a match, one good way
Jumping 22 feet 1 inches. Smithson
set a new record of 5 2-5 seconds for
the 60-yard dash on the same day, this
record being equalled by Gordon
iic.nv.M n-.onn tViA fnllnwllie vear.
In 1909' Smithson ran the 50-yard hur
dles In 6 seconds.
' Sam Bellah, the former Stanford ath-
1. ...numtaj MiiHnnmh Cluh
icie 1 1 ... v. . . ----
at Stockholm, was the star of the 1912
meet, pole vaulting 13 xeei i .ihcum
a rnti i 11 (l rvor record. Hawk-
Ins and McCIure, of Oregon, and Baker.
of the "Aggies," are men wuu
figured prominently In these meets.
Grant and - Wlndnagle, Washington
High men of last year, stand out prom
inently among the academic stars of
these indoor gatherings. .
Multnomah Strone Contender.
Multnomah Club is expected .to-be a
keen contender for the honors this
season. Last year Oregon won with
25 points, against 23 points for Mult
nomah Club. ' . . . . .
New York's heavyweight elimination
series failed to produce an opponent
for Luther McCarty. ''Soldier" Kearns
beat "Sailor" 'White, but he made few
friends in so doing. The other bouts
were only fair, according' to the most
friendly critics of the boxers.
LARGEST IN .UNITED STATES
ONS
Material and
on Sport
HARRY WOLVERTON avers he Is go
ing to Sacramento and start all
over again. As the office boy says,
"that's a helofaplace to begin life."
GORDON MACKAY, the clever Phila
delphia Times sport writer, comes
to bat with the following:
"Some ancient dope from the Biblical
league:
"First putout Eden.
"First double play Apple to Eve. to
Adam.
"First cleanup hitter Flood.
"First player sent to the bushes
Moses."
But there are others. Samson might
easily qualify as the orlglal bonehead,
while Cain's ramifications with Abel
would seem to have all other "bean
ball" discoveries backed up Into the
coal chute. .
. t
Its October of 161S Sir Walter Raleigh
had his head knocked off. And,
while he was not exactly to blame, yet
there are things against him. The worst
worst Is this: He succeeded in per
suading King James of the existence of
a gold mine somewhere on the Orinoco
River. He said to the King:
"Orvte Overall told me. your honor,
that thesides.of the shaft were Just
spotted with yellow flakes."
"Do you know Orvie?"
"I have always found him reliable,
your honor. The only reason he sells
stock is because he wants to put in a
reduction plant and work the mine. The
minute we get In our separator the
stock will go up to par. I tell you that
mine is located right on top of a
Jewelry store."
"You are letting a little stock go at
seven cents?" .
"Yes, just to our friends. We adver
tise It at IS cents and guarantee It to
go to par Inside of 90 days."
"How can you do that?"
Why It's our stock and we can put
It at par."
"Oh, I see.
"It's simple." .
So King James took a little stock
ni allowed Sir Walter to fit out an
expedition but warned him to avoid all
trouble with the spaniaras. as r-nsianu
was at peace with all Arellanes or tne
continent at that time.
Raleigh went to Orinoco, and while 111
In bed there, a party of his men at
tacked a Spanish town, killing many of
Its Inhabitants. In the fight Raleigh's
young son lost his life. The gold mine
could not be found. The soldiers mu
tinied, the voyage proved a failure and
Raleigh was obliged to put back to
Enarland In disgrace. i -
There he was Imprisoned and when
the Kin heard that they couldn't find
any mine and that he- would have to
pay the garbage man to tote off his
stock, he was so mad he kicked all the
paint off the throne.
When Raleigh heard this he lost his
head completely. The executioner took
it off. Of course all mining stock pro
moters should not be beheaded, but
GERMANY Is said to be opposed 'to
including boxing in the programme
for the 1916 Olympic games at Berlin
The Germans are not up on the tech
nloue of mitt wielding.
' ThU emDhasizes one of the chief
drawbacks to Olympic procedure. Lo
cality determines to too great an ex
tant iH character of the programmes
The system should be reorganized, for
the nation which Is entertaining me
Early Schedule Found to Be
Too Unwieldly.
MOST GAMES POSTPONED
IMrectors of Interscliolastlc League
Say Play Will Not Be Started
Until February Jiext Year.
Hill Forced to Quit.
Unless weather conditions improve
within the near future the interscliolas
tlc soccer football schedule will drop
sadly behind. The present condition of
the Columbus, Jefferson and Multnomah
fields, where the games are to be played.
is such as to make play Impossible. .
The lnterscholastic . soccer football
season was due to open on January 14,
with the Portland Academy and Wash
ington High School elevens meeting.
This game was postponed by Manager
Adams, of the Washington team, and
Coach Mackle, of the private school ag
gregation, because of the bad weather
on that day.
There has been only one game played
so far this season, the Jefferson and Co
lumbia teams playing on January 16 in
a drizzling rain to a 2-to 2 tie. The
eame between the Portland Academy
and Lincoln High School elevens, which
was to have been played on January 21,
was also, postponed because of bad
weather, as was the case with tne Co
lumbia and Washington game on Jan
uary 23.
Later Schedule Planned.
When the lnterscholastic athletic di
rectors draw up the 1914 schedule near
ly all the directors will favor having
tt. schedule call for the first' game In
February, and arrange for the last
game to be played off before the base
ball training season starts during the
middle of March.
Dr. Fenstermacher. athletic director
of the Washington High- School, is in
favor of a schedule to start play early
in February.
"I believe that until the lnterscholas
tic athletic directors adopt a schedule
calling for the first game to be playea
in February, when the weather condi
tions hold out hopes of drier grounds
than dnrine the month of January, jus
tice will not be given the game." said
Coach Mackle, of the Portland Academy
eleven. Mr. Mackle is strongly against
seeing the game spoiled by being played
on a sea of mud rather than a football
field. .
Lincoln. Washington, Columbia Uni
versity and the Portland Academy ath
letic directors are all in favor of draft
ing a schedule next year which will call
for the first game to be played during
the early part of February, and a two
months' series which will not interfere
with baseball training.
. Hill Suddenly Withdraws.
The Hill Military Academy declared
the intention of having a soccer foot
ball team in the league. The original
1913 schedule called for the first game
to be played on January 7, but the sud
den withdrawal of the Hill team caused
the attUetio -director to call a special
URTS
SOCCER
Immaterial Syllogisms
by Roscoe Fawcett
athletes Is no more entitled to nsme
the events than the other nations
which participate.
Hoxinsr was a dominant reaiure
the original games and should be re
Inserted. TOM RICE, a clever Brooklyn writer,
has begun the publication of a hls-
a k.ahall Inf-liirilnff- SO vrftTS Of
" " "
the professional game In that city and I
borough. Rice has had ethnological
agents out for many weeks delving
into the social life of the anthropoids
and the discoveries " will be of over
whelming Interest to the siuuenis oi
inside baseball.
Says he by way of prologue:
"Wb t.n nn nnthronoid ancestor, en
sconced on the top of a coeronut tree.
hurled a cocoanut at an ancestress in a
neighboring tree, his control was In
variably bad. but he had the spirit.
"It was the lnclplency of pitching.
From that miscellaneous heave of a
fretful ape to the accuracy of Christy
Mathewson, Nap Rucker, Walter John
i it ' -j mvi.i it h.T nitchers of
the present day was a long step, but
the development was natural, as
the tropical Jungle to steel and con
crete grandstands costing nearly a
million dollars."
While historical license Is on Kice
shle. the monks and the chimpanzees
seem to have entirely discarded the
cocoanut-heavlnj? Instincts in favor of
.ihaiuininir hv the time natural
processes of evolution had brought
them down to the human stage oi ou.
old pal. Pithecanthropus Erectus, the
sage of Java.
Therefore it is only tair tnai mo
loners, and that's not with primordial
man, whose similarity 10 pmcui-iw
baseball players centers more in pea
nut-eating capabilities and general
depth of intellect than In pitching in
stinctiveness. The revival of pitching appears
date from a later epoch, the epoch of
the Israelite, or perhaps tlie epoch of
Noah, the original houseboat enthusi
ast. The ancient Israelites were par
ticularly efficient in throwing, for ;he
Scriptures record not only that they
stoned certain classes of criminals, but
that thev pitched their tents. King
David, who was the Ty Cobb of the
Sling League one season, was himself
the target for a rain of rocks from an
ancient Roosevelt person unutu
i r.,r, f the house of Saul,
as he Journeyed to Bahurlm.
Noah s earner ciaim i" i"
distinction Is somewhat vague, but. In
any event, Noah must l:ave oeen a
sportive sort or a gin, i -that
he "pitched the ark within and
without." a feat .which is the superla
tive In "roundhouse curving."
With this correction, Archaeologist
Rioe ijiav' meander his Simian way in
peace. This much we all know base
ball pitching Is a heritage from the
strange and remote Dark Ages, like the
Archimedean wheel, the small-nasaled
Hebrew, the embryonic tail, the third
eye In humans, fish wings and the feet
in snakes.
THK last word In nothing to read Is
the cryptogramic report of a chess
same, the like Of which one sometimes
sees in some newspapers.
THE parcel post has its ' disadvan
tages. -. I'ncle Sam's regulations
forbid tho sending of disease germs.
Infernal machines, poisonous reptiles
and limbtirarer cheese. '
meeting and draft a new schedule which
was to have startea on jmuuj
, n..rtv nil the lnterscho
lastic soccer teams feel that had it not
been for the Hill fliunary
: . 1 J 1 r-nm II.. 1 II ffllP H number
of games would have already been
played on, as tne weamci i.uuuiuw..
during the early part of January were
. l. ,-IM. ,J .1 i 1 at-
Ideal. Jim lias mimi "'
. - i i ua It football
icr ociiuvi, biiu - - -
plavers for practice, but could not see
. ' ... .v.- Km-a nff ftir SOCCeT
lis WU IU 1 c i. " J .- -
as well, and there are not sufficient oth
er athletes to organize a icam
would have a chance.
Tomorrow atternoon, weamci jin".
tlng. the Portland Academy and Wash
ington soccer football teams will play
their postponed game scheduled for
January 14. The game will be playea
on the Jefferson High School field.
Amateur Athletics.
rnn. rQiir.i. of the Columbia
University basketball team, had his
men out for a hard practice on the
Washington gymnasium floor yester
day. The team Is rapidly developing
: . ....I.l.t anri n-hpn tlieV meet
iniu . moi .( n . . . " . -----
the Washington High- -chool team.
champions 0I.1913, a gouu Baiuo
pected. '
: The McMlnnville High School bas
ketball team will leave McMlnnville
1 .. nAV. u-Air nn a trlD down the
Columbia River, where they will meet
a number of teams. r. jinioii.
coach of the team, will be in Portland
.!... vi. flavors nn February 1. and as
he has no game for that date lie would
like to meet some local team. Tho
game can be arranged by calling Wal
ter White, at McMlnnville, over lons
distance phone.
In a fast basketball game played on
the Y. M. C. A. floor last Friday night
the Ladd & Tilton basketball team
was defeated by the Y. M. C. A. dormi
. . . it ie Th nlnvinsr of
lory quintet, xi w , ' , , . .
Hamlin and Steadman for the defeated
team was a feature.
The Newsboys' basketball team, re
cently organized, is meeting with great
success. When they defeated the South
Portland Ramblers by a 21 to 3 score
last Friday it made five straight vic
tories for the newspaper sellers.
.
The Christian Brothers' Business Col
lege third team defeated the Colum
bia University Juniors yesterday, 21 to
5, on the Christian Brothers' floor.
The Columbia boys passed the ball with
accuracy, but their basket shooting
was poor.
.
Owing to the lack of Interest shown
by the Southern Oregon high school
basketball teams, the proposed seven
day trip of the Lincoln High School
quintet has been given up. Coach Bor
leske received word from four teams
declaring their willingness to help
finance the trip, but eight games were
necessary before the trip could be
made.
Before the entire Jefferson student
body last Friday H. B. Auger, the fac
ulty adviser of the February, 1913,
class, was presented with a silver lov
ing cup by the graduates. Harold
Fltzglbbon made the presentation
speech. The 1913 February class also
presented the Jefferson High School
with a large picture showing the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independence.
The picture will be placed In the school
library.
Manager Goodwin, of the Lincoln
soccer football team, has discovered a
great find in Pauley, as goalkeeper.
His playing has been a feature of the
practice games and will greatly help
the Lincoln team In its chances of win
ning the lnterscholastic soccer cham
plon&bJn ,