THE SUNDAY OREGOXIA, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 2, 1913.
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WATCH-TOWER OBSERVATIONS
Material and Immaterial Syllogisms
on Sport by Roscoe Fawcett
'Walter McCredie's 1912 Portland Coast Ball Club Was Like a Fake Stone in a Tiffany Setting" Abe's Philosophy.
VES, Rollo, James Thorpe Is now
member of Muggsy McGraw
" typewriting contingent of ball
biuvrL and we're back to the dull
monotony of official sloth again. After
si strenuous week of blading among me
various big league magnates tne pro
fessionalized aborigine flocked Into th.
New York tepee and laid down besidi
that other world renowned tomahawk
But, as the smoke lifts from across
the scene of turmoil, why hasn't some
one thought to investigate what all the
scramble has been about?
Baseball records for 1909 show that
Thorpe pitched for the Rocky Mount
- team In the Carolina Association, wm-
B4 i i it i r, x in And that, in
1910, he pitched in 20 games for an
even break of wins ana loses. eu
the Carlisle all-around athlete was
traded to Fayetteville, wnere ne piayea
a . l m- -i fioMine- n VPrfl PC of .955.
Inasmuch as Thorpe batted only .236
and .250 during those seasons in a lit
tle jerkwater league, McGraw must
l ,j Bnmthintr HnairiA baseball in
mind when be tacked onto Thorpe. As
a sideshow attraction ine imunu '"
lete should be a pronounced success.
But, as a ballplayer, well Thorpe Is
still a great nign jumper.
OAYINGS of famous men:
O Walter McCredie "I would
rather have Justin Fitzgerald than
Hank Butcher In the outfield,, even
though Fitzgerald's throwing arm was
so bad he'd have to dropkick the ball
in to the nlate."
Arthur Cavill "Look a shark in the
eye under water and he'll swim right
away. Also, he'll take you with him."
John D. "Good morning. Judge."
Cal Ewlng "Where In h Is Bill
Reldv?"
Pat McArthur "This is the first
reading of the bill. Without objections
It will be passed to its second reaomg.
Ben Henderson " "
NEVADA is pot-hunting after pugil
ism. Governor Oddie says It is
bruital and recommends the repeal of
the present law permitting finish fights
for a license fee of $1000. Oddie sug
gests an amendment fixing the limit
at 20 rounds, with a reduced tax.
The two big heavyweight fights held
In Nevada were both terminated under
20 rounds. Jim Corbett went fluey in
14 rounds before the onslaughts of Bob
Kitzsimmons on March 17, 1896, and
Jack Johnson put Jim Jeffries to sleep
In 15 rounds on July 4. 1910.
Battling Nelson is one who can. be
counted upon to lobby for Oddie's olive
orgies. . His best argument Is found on
page 136 of Tommy Andrews' record
book, annotated as follows: Battling
Nelson.
"1906 Sept. 3. Joe Gans, L-F., Gold
field, Nev., 42 rounds.
EVERYBODY' Is Interested in hammer-throwing
nowadays. Conse
quently the proposal of the Intercol
legiate Association of Amateur Ath
letes that the weight of the big globule
used in track meets be increased from
16 to 21 pounds, with a cut in the
REPORTS POINT TO
MEET IN PORTLAND
Every College West of Rocky
, Mountains Is Eligible to
Enter Contest.
MAY 17 MAY BE DATE
Graduate Manager Geary, of Uni
versity of Oregon, Says Senti
ment as to Place Is So Far
Evenly Divided.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Feb.. 1. (Special.) In all probability
Portland will be the scene of the next
annual Pacific Coast Intercollegiate
track meet, which was held in Berkeley
last Spring. Such is the' prediction
made by Graduate Manager Geary, of
the University of Oregon, who is re
sponsible for the movement to bring
the big contest north.
Every college west of the Rocky
Mountains is eligible to enter this meet.
Last May, when it was held in Berke
ley, representatives of at least 12 in
stitutions of this section gathered to
formulate plans for future games.
They created an executive committee
consisting of the graduate managers
at California, Stanford, Washington
and Oregon, which was given the power
to select the place and date and make
all other arrangements for the 1913
meet
Committee Evenly Divided.
Manager Geary has received letters
from Graduate Managers William Don
ald, of the University of California;
IX W. Burbank, of Stanford, and R. A.
Horr, of the University of Washington,
stating their positions on the questions
of where and when the next meet shall
be held. Donald, the newly-appointed
California manager, agrees with Geary
in favoring Portland, while Horr and
Burbank want to stay with Berkeley.
This leaves the committee evenly di
vided in this matter.
However, the other colleges which
are not represented on this committee
may decide the issue, and most of them
favor some other city than Berkeley
as a scene for the meet.
The question of a suitable date is
also causing a delay in the arrange
ments. The final examinations at
Stanford and Berkeley come in the first
part of May, so that the athletes from
these institutions could not get away
at that time or for some days before.
It would be impracticable to hold the
meet in Portland much earlier,- on ac
count of the danger of encountering
bad weather. The solution seems to be
for the Californians to remain in train
ing after the close of the college year
and enter the meet at a post-season
contest. It is likely that May 17 will
be the date selected.
Okkos Second In 1012.
This red-letter event in Pacific Coast
athletics will no doubt be welcomed
by Portland, for it will be the only op
portunity given Portland to see out
door intercollegiate games this year.
I.ast season the annual conference meet
wis held there, but this year it is
scheduled for Walla Walla, May SI.
The last all-Coast meet held in Berke
ley last Hay resulted in a victory for
the champion California team, witli
Oregon second. Stanford third and
Washington fourth. IX It is held in
length of the handle from 3 feet 6 to
3 feet, is of exceeding interest.
The suggestion is apparently made
to prevent the elimination of this event
from intercollegiate proprammes on ac
count of its dangers. The Northwest
ern Conference abolished the hammer
it the December Seattle meeting, and
many other conferences have done like
wise. They took this Tadical action on
rhe grounds that hammer-heaving is
dangerous to other athletes in practice
and dangerous to spectators in compe
titlon.
The argument in favor of the in
creased weight is that the distance of
the throw would be so greatly reduced
as to make the event comparatively
safe. But those behind the move evi
dently forget that the men developed
under this system will be useless in
the hammer-throwing events, both of
the Amateur Athletic Union and of the
Olympic Games. Yet, one of the chief
objects of the intercollegiate meets is
to develop men to win points for Uncle
Sam in foreign competition.
According to Peter Gearhardt, the
veteran San Francisco athlete, the
Swedes provided the easiest and best
remedy at the 1912 Olympic games at
Stockholm. All hammer hunkles were
forced to throw from beneath a semi
circular wire cage. This precaution
absolutely protected the officials and
spectators, and also compelled accuracy
in throwing, lor the flying missile had
an arc of only 45 degrees in which to
light.
The hammer-throw at any rate should
be retained. The big man should be
catered to in the track games. If the
colleges desire safety there is no rea
son why they should not fall in line
with the Swedish scheme. A few
yards of chicken wire, a paper sack
of nails and three or four poles would
end the furore in a few minutes, and
save a lot of useless persiflage.
IF the census man were to get busy
In San Francisco he would find the
population shy about six white hopes.
Sam Langford is due to arrive at the
Bay City today from Australia.
IXE flowed like water at the
Nelson wedding," assures a
San Francisco headline.
From what we know of the Bat
tler," sarcastically remarks T. P. Ma-
gilllgan in the Bulletin, "we take it
the headllner meant the kind of water
the ice trust deals in."
Both wrong. What the headllner
meant to say was "Water flowed like
wine."
AT the present price of good nickel
and tin, Jim Thorpe could have
realized quite a snug fortune from the
sale of his carload of trophies and lov
ing cups.
F Frank Chance has a cranium
worth 340,000 a year, he will dem
onstrate by insisting that oranges and
lemonade occupy the headline roles on
the New York training camp menu.
A BOISE man. who began raising
chickens, found to his surprise
that he couldn't eat his own hens any
Portland all the colleges in the North
west conference undoubtedly will enter
teams. In addition there will be the
Southern California institutions, includ
ing Pomona, Whittier and the Univer
sity of Southern California, all located
near Los Angeles. The Universities of
Nevada and Montana are also expected
to participate. One of the chief ad
vantages urged for Portland is that it
is more nearly central than any other
city to all these contestants.
M'CREDIE SIGXS TWO MORE
Chadbonrne and Hynes Send Auto
graphs to Portland Magnate.
Chester Chadbourne, outfielder, and
Hynes, the new Canadian pitching re
cruit, are the latest to ship in auto
graphs to Portland Coast League base
ball headquarters. Chadbourne, writ
ing from Guilford, Me., said he was
eminently satisfied with the terms of
his contract, and so was Hynes. The
latter was originally drafted for the
Colts, but has such a rosy-looking rec
ord that McCredie intends to look him
over at Visalla before passing him up
to Nick Williams.
Among the Beavers who have signed
are Fitzgerald, West, James, Hynes,
Chadbourne. Doane, Rodgers, Krueger,
Fisher, Gregg and one or two others.
Higginbotham offered to sign yester
day, but W. W. McCredie may not get
time to arrange the details for a day
or two.
IXTEKSCHOLASTIC SWIM OFF
Lack of Equipment in Schools Is
Cause for Ruling.
There will be no Portland inter-
scholastic swimming meet this year.
The Portland Athletic Association.
composed of principals of the Portland
Academy, Hill Military Academy, Co
lumbia University and the three Port
land high schools have so ruled.
The interscholastic schools not hav
ing swimming tanks in which to hold
practices, and the fact that the meet
would have to be staged by some ath
letic institution not connected with the
league, are given as the reasons.
Last year Lincoln High School car
ried off first honors. The ruling of
the athletic association will not keep
the lovers of the water sport from
holding a swim among themselves, but
should this meet be arranged it will
have nothing to do with the inter
scholastic league.
JCXCTIOX CITY TEAM VICTOR
Cottage Grove Basketball Players
Lose 2 2-to-2 1 Game.
JUNCTION CITY, Or., Feb. 1. (Spe
cial.) The Junction City High School
basketball team defeated the Cottage
Grove team here Friday night, 22 to 21.
At the end of the first half the score
stood 11 to 7 In favor of Junction City.
Junction City held the lead through
out the game, but never by more than
four points. This was the best game
played by the high school this year. A
decided improvement in the local team
work was noted. Athlson and Cellers
starred for the visitors, while Jensen
and Hays performed nobly for Junc
tion City.
By winning this game Junction City
is one notch nearer the championship
of the upper Willamette Valley.
DICK SEASON" CHANGE AIM
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Feb. 1. (Spe
cial.) Coos Bay sportsmen have been
circulating a petition the last week
looking to the changing of the season
for ducks on the bay, so that they may
be bagged from August 16 to Febru
ary 1, instead of from September la to
March 8. as at present
The gist of the petition has been
telegraphed to the local representa
tives in the state Legislature, and the
petition will follow. The reason given
for the change is that it will give local
N'imrods a chance to secure some of
the ducks that are hatched on the
sand hills in the bay.
W " CotAP VANCOUVER NAMESAKES fit.
more than he could eat his own oat or
canary. He became attached to the
hens, knew their little foibles, kind
nesses to their chickens, their sacri
fices and their sweetness. Said he:
'They liked me and I liked them. I
remember when we killed and stewed
Mary Jane. She had stopped laying,
so we murdered her and tried to eat
her. But we failed. Afterwards we
felt as savage as Sarah Bernhardt when
asked if she liked acrobatic acts. More
than that, we felt like cannibals when
Mary Jane's mangled remains were set
before us. EatT Why the very mem
ory of it sickens me now."
I once knew a man back East who
sold his own pork and 'bought other
pork for the use of himself and his
family. He had carried out the skimmed
milk to the porkers from the time they
were little pink boys about the size of
a Seattle building permit record until
they had attained Buck Keith propor
tions. He became attached to them
LOCALS BEST. BELIEF
Beavers Sure to Win Pennant.
Says Higginbotham.
NEW MEN HIGHLY PRAISED
Portland Pitcher, After Sizing tip
Coast League, Says McCredie's
Team So Strong. Race 'Will
Not Be Interesting.
If Erve Higginbotham knows a ball
player, McCredie. has made the serious
mistake of gathering in a bunch for
Portland that, will make a runaway of
the Pacific Coast League in 1913 and
make the pennant race uninteresting.
The tall Portland fllnger returned
yesterday from Southern California,
where he won 16 in 18 games pitched
in the Winter league, bubbling over
with good words for McCredie's new
stars Derrick, McCormlck, West and
James of Toledo, and Hagerman of
Lincoln. Higginbotham has played
ball with four of the new Beavers,
and while at Louisville two years ago
DALLAS BASKETBALL TEAM, COMPANY G, THIRD INFANTRY, OREGON NATIONAL GUARD,
MAY FINISH ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SEASON.
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Frant Kow, Sitting- Reading From Left to 'Right! Shaw, Centers Boydaton, Guard Morton. Gnardl Ballnn-
tyne Forwards Gatea. Forward
Back Row. Left to R!(cht Captain Conrad Stafrln, Manager; Smith, Sub-Forward aad Center; Foster. Sub
Forward Lyron. Sab-Guard.
and knew them so well he couldn't eat
them.
This may be the reason cannibals do
not eat their own tribes. They prefer
foreign meat. If you had to eat a
man steak wouldn't you prefer a man
steak from some gentleman over in
Spokane to one from your next door
neighbor? No? Too tough over there?
Well, make it New York State. I be
lieve you would.
JIMMY ISAMINGER suggests Ban
Johnson as Secretary of State in
Woodrow Wilson's new Cabinet, John
J. McGraw as Secretary of War and
Tom Sharkey as Secretary of the Navy.
For Postmaster-General Erve Hig
glnbotham appears to be the foremost
candidate. - If he continues his fusil
lade of advance money "touches"
through the mall, he will put the post
office department on a paying basis
had a fine chance to size up the fifth.
Bill James, then at Toledo.
West Picked to Lead.
"Hi West will lead the Coast pitchers
this year," declares Higginbotham. "I
consider him one of the greatest minor
league fllngers I have ever seen. He
Is not a spitball pitcher, but ,has a
great assortment of speed, curves,
slow balls and teasers."
Higginbotham is also' loud in his
praise for Bill James. Despite James'
wildness, which, by the way,' "Hig"
says he Is rapidly overcoming, he likes
James better even than "Rip" Hager
man, the Western League phenom. "I
was with Hagerman all of 1909 at Chi
cago and part of the next year at
Louisville," adds Higginbotham. "He
was a high ball twlrler in those days,
but now I understand he has developed
a good curve. If so, watch out for him."
As for Derrick and McCormlck, the
big fellow declares Derrick can play
rings around Bill Rapps, while Mc
Cormlck fields bo gracefully and coverr
so much more ground than any other
shortstop or third baseman in the Coast
League that there is no comparison.
Higginbotham fancies McCormlck
most of all.
'!We all know how great a fielder
Bancroft is, but McCormick will cover
more ground and do it with less ap
parent effort than Dave," he declares.
"Mac's a good hitter, too."
"HIk's" Condition Good.
' Higginbotham says the Wintet
league was revised after two of the
clubs dropped out and that it is hum
ming merrily along. He quit and came
north so as to give his arm a month's
rest before the training season opens,
"I never pitched better ball in my life
than this Winter. My arm is in grand
shape. Give me five days' Spring work
and I'm ready," ejaculates "Hig," by
way of sizing up his own capabilities.
"Toots" Schulz, signed by Sacra
A fin vgy;
for the first time in history, and the
Secretaryship would be only a proper
expression of gratitude.
Other leading candidates are John I.
Sullivan, for Postmaster-Generalohip;
W. W. McCredie, Attorney-General; D.
E. Dugdale, Secretary of the Treasury,
and Ad Wolgast, Secretary of Agricul
ture. Sullivan has clear title to Isaminger's
place on the all-sport cabinet. He
should know what the Interior Depart
ment can stand, as no man ever put a
more severe strain on it without bust'
ing.
OMPADOUR JIM" CORBETT
confided during his stay in Port
land last week, that Joe Jean-
ette would surely beat that other gi
gantic bruin. Jack Johnson, if the two
ever meet in the ring. Corbett Insists
that Johnson is not a hitter, and that.
mento, and Jack Ryan, another ex
major, taken Into the fold by Los An
geles, pitched on the San Diego club
with Higginbotham. The four teams
are recruited from every league in the
country. George Stovall, Chief Meyers,
Fred Snodgrass and a host of other
major constellations are dragging down
as high as $100 per month, while the
Coast, Northwestern and numerous
other circuits are well represented.
DOBIE'S PLAXS FRUSTRATED
Expose of Students In Alleged Foot
ball Frame-Up Thwarted.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Feb. 1. (Special.) The proposed ex
pose of the students accused by Coach
Dobie of participating in the framing
up of a "crooked" football election was
blocked by .the faculty committee that
made the investigation today, when it
refused to make public the names or
the charges of any of those implicat
ed. The student board of control may
take up the matter and make an in
vestigation of its own, but tne team
men and some of the fraternity men
who were accused by the coach claim
that they will refuse to appear before
any committee of the board of control
and will refuse to testify at all.
This is practically a defeat for Coach
Dobie. He Instigated the- postponing
of the football election and it was at
his - instance that the faculty took up
the matter. He practically influenced
the election of the new captain, Her
mann Anderson, but Anderson is a good
man and his choice is satisfactory to
the team and the students.
In all probability there will be no
more investigations and Dobie will not
be given the chance to expose anybody,
under the rules of the New York Ath
letic Commission requiring clean breaks.
the champion will be unable to hold,
and will thus lose his efficiency.
"He confines his punishing to the
breakaways and is strictly a defensive
fighter," says James J. "He isn't a clev
er boxer when it comes to feinting and
footwork. Jeannette is. to my notion,
the greatest long-distance fighter in the
ring today, and could beat Johnson in
a finish contest."
Mr. Corbett was equally Insistent that
Jeffries could turn the same trick at
Reno, July 4, 1910. Ergo, the actor
man's opinions on the subject do not
constitute what the Associated Press
might term "hot copy."
"Big Tim" Sullivan acted a stake
holder at the Jeffries-Johnson battle.
The unfortunate Tim must have had
recollections of Jim's forecasting in
mind when he booked Jim over the
Sullivan ,& Considine vaudeville circuit
in competition with Dr. Frederick A.
Cook.
JOHN BERG, and the rest of his
wrestling "Ruths" are still in the
Northwest. Extremely still.
HONUS WAGNER, the great Pitts
burgher. Is playing basketball to
Improve his wind for the coming base
ball season. Here is a suggestion that
will be weelomed by managers of the
present-day fighters, who are contin
ually flooding the malls with defiant
cackles and challenges.
THE Thorpe Incident brings up the
same old bugaboo that has been
troubling amateur sport heads for
years, namely. Summer baseball. Should
or should not college athletes be per
mitted to put their baseball talents to
pecuniary gain during the vacations?
We all have our personal views. Al
most any of us can make a noise like a
load of tin dippers going over a cobble
stone throughfare rebutting on either
side of the question. But while the
arguments are waxing most furiously,
the Thorpes, the Martins, the Hausers,
the Cartmells. continue to slip off into
the tall pampas, where the loose
change hangeth from the tree boughs.
The Amateur Athletic Union has al
ways taken the stand that amateur ath
letes shall be those untarnished by pro
fessionalism. Sullivan argues, and with
considerable justice on his side, that if
the bars are let down on baseball other
branches will begin clamoring for
financial anointment.
Furthermore, " some distinction would
have to be made between the Summer
ball players and the out-and-out profes
sional who makes a business of base
ball. It does aeem a pity, however, that
some sort of a middle stand cannot be
agreed upon whereby athletes who have
attended college for, say a year, can
play Summer baseball for money. Scores
of them need the money to complete
their educations and a one-year rule
would surely protect the colleges
against the insidious "rough" work
pulled by numerous institutions a few
yearB back.
The Northwestern colleges came
DALLAS HOLDS TO
BASKETBALL FAME
Home of National Champions
of Game Claims Country
Wide Distinction.
STAR PLAYERS PRODUCED
1913 Season Under Way and All
Comers Find Quint Invincible as
of Old; Present Team Said to
Be Strongest Ever.
BT WALTER I TOOZE. JR.
DALLAS, Or., Feb. 1. (Special.)
With the football season of 1912 prac
tically a matter of ancient history, and
as the time Is too early for the sport'
loving public to get very interested in
the baseball situation of 1913, it might
not be amiss at this time to consider
briefly a few facts with reference to
the Nation's greatest indoor Winter
game; the one game of which it has
been well said: "There is something
doing every minute." A sensation
every play," viz: Basketball.
Dallas is held to be the home of the
National champions in- this premier of
indoor games, as the result of its vic
torious trip through the country in
1908-09.
' This game came to Oregon first as a
girl s game, but was soon taKen up by
the young men as it proved too stren
uous for the girls to Indulge in success
fully, particularly when playing under
the rules made for men. Under the
rules made for games in which the girl
participated, most of the interesting
features of the game were omitted with
a view to taking away the rough part
of it.
However, even today many people
who are unfamiliar with the game as
it is now played, refuse to take any in
terest in it. or even attend a game,
claiming that it Is a girl's game, and
of no interest. Had they witnessed the
recent Dallas-Multnomah 22-to-19
point clash, their ideas as to the game
being a girl's game would have soon
been dispelled. As a matter of fact, it is
not a girl's game, but on the contrary
is a game worthy of the most courage
ous of athletes.
Headwork and Agility Count.
In basketball headwork. endurance
and agility count; weight is not a
matter of consideration. The destinies
of a team cannot be controlled by one
man. Four good men can easily over
come the weakness of a fifth The fact
that size and weight count for little Is
illustrated in the cases of Swan, star
of the Corvallis team, who has out
played on several occasions big Tom
McDonald and Morton of the Dallas
who kept Pollard from getting a basket
during a 20-minute half. In both cases.
Swan and Morton lacked at least SO
pounds of being as heavy as their op
ponents. There is no rest or Dreathing spell
for the basketball player; from the be
ginning of the half until the end, he
is on the run. There are so many
chances for a signal to fall that each
man must be continually on his guard.
He never knows when his chance is
coming to get Into the play, and a
fumble or bad play will usually prove
disastrous, particularly in a close game.
Errors count in basketball, and for
each error the guilty team loses some
advantage; in baseball and football,
within one vote of granting practically
this same sanction in December.
Reverting to the world-renowned
Olympic athlete. Jim Thorpe, who has
occupied the center of the stage in the
past week's excitement one can only
sympathize with the redskin. As James
. Sullivan remarked in disqualifying
the Carlisle Indian, "those who knew of
his baseball playing and held it back
until the harm was done are the men
who should be censured most."
Inasmuch as baseball Is not under the
jurisdiction of the Amateur Atliletio
Union, Thorpe may have slipped into
the low gear without knowing where
he was going. And he Is entitled to
commiseration in that respect.
But, to hear that brilliant specimen
of physical manhood always conspic
uous, proud, dominant and deliant. a be
ing of intellect imbued with the organ
isms of galvanic life refer to himself
as "a poor. Ignorant Indian" who did
not know he had done anything wrong,
is surely playing the sympathy gag
with a high stack of red and blue cel
luloids. Thorpe knew he was a professional
when he participated in the Olympic
tryouts. And the athletic heads at Car
lisle knew It. In the light of the week's
developments no further explanations
are necessary from Glenn Warner aa
to the significance of his startling dec
laration a fortnight ago that:
"Baseball makes bums oat of college
athletes."
SNOW Ties Vp Portland," la the
headline in an Eastern newspaper
over a local dispatch. It will take more
than snow to make Portland stay where
it is.
THE only hero that is sure of a
steady job is a dead one. And who
the devil wants to be a dead hero?
rEAR that they would be stolen and
sold as white slaves Impelled New
York white goods strikers' pickets to
ask for police protection.
If their pictures in the New York
newspapers did them justice, the fears
were groundless. Even Jack Johnson
would hardly molest them.
THE parcel post rules should be easy
for the man who has mastered
football.
CONNIE MACK had a pitcher named
Salmon, but he canned him last
week. Meanwhile the Phillies gave
Portland a Loan.
LIFE is Just one street opening after
another, according to the dictum
of Portland baseball owners.
C PECK HARKNESS is to be paid
O bonus of 500 if he wins 20
games for Vernon.
The former Portland twirler should
experience little difficulty in annexing
Hogan's coin. If he pitches good ball
he can do so easily In a couple of years,
as he won 13 more than half In one
year 1912 with Portland.
errors are not always a matter of loss.
In basketball, a game is interesting
though one team be outplayed two to
one.
The throwing of baskets always cre
ates a sensation, the same as the sen
sation that is created when the football
hero crosses the goal lines, or the crack
baserunner gets home. The only dif
ference lies in the fact that there are
more sensations in basketball, owing
to the larger scores that must be made.
Game. Grows In Popularity.
Fifteen years ago, basketball was
practically unknown in this state. Since
that time, the game has grown in pop
ularity, until now the universities, col
leges, high schools, academies and
nearly every city in the state, and the
different athletic clubs in the various
cities, have taken it up. As people be
come better acquainted with this game,
interest in it is bound to grow, and in
time this promises well to be considered
in the same class in the sporting world
as baseball and football.
So much for basketball generally.
Dallas today is recognised all over the
United States as the home of the bas
ketball champions. The city developed
such players as Fenton, of the Uni
versity of Oregon, and Shaw, now play
ing with the Dallas team. Both of
these players have National reputa
tions in the game.
Basketball was organized in Dallas
In 1901-02. During that season Pallas
won one game and lost four. The
next year, under the coaching of "Josh"
VIggers, a basketball enthusiast, the
seed was sown that later culminated
in Dallas getting a championship con
tender In the line of a basketball team.
Viggers Introduced a system of play
that is still used here, and which has
become widely known as the "Dallas
System." It is a system of short pass
es, and in many hotly-contested games
It has proved the downfall of the op
ponents of the Dallas five. During
that year Dallas won seven and lost
three games. In the following year
basketball had a considerable slum
over the state. Dallas won four and
lost two games. The following year
they won nine and lost four. In 1905
06 the team won nine and lost two:
and the next season 12 victories were
credited to them with but two defeats,
and in 1907-08 the season closed with
Dallas carrying 14 scalps in her belt
to two defeats.
Trip In Taken Eaat.
In 1908-09 the Dallas business men
financed a trip East for the team, the
team traveling under the name of "The
Oregons." The history of this now
famous trip is well known. With 48
victories and but eight defeats on this
trlD Into 21 states, playing continually
and before unfavorable crowds and
upon strange floors, the record this
team made was truly wonderful. In
the eame played with the Buffalo
German-Americans, at Buffalo, N. Y.,
then acknowledged to be the best team
in the country, the Dallas boys were
defeated by only three points, the score
being 23 to 20. After that game tne
Americans played 40 games and never
lost one of them. The Oregons car
ried with them a great amount of Ore
gon literature, and did much toward
advertising the state throughout the
East.
in 1909-10 Dallas won 12 games, los
ing two. from me nine uaunei
ball was introduced here up to and in
cluding the season of 1909-10, the
irm vlaved under the management of
the Dallas College and LaCreole Acad
emy. In 1911-12, ami during the pres
ent season, the Dallas team has been
playing under the management ol
Company G, Third Infantry, Oregon
National Guard, every member of tne
team being a member of the local mil
itary company. During the past two
seasons and up to date, Dallas has won
26 straight games, and from the form
the team is now playing in, the Dal
las soldiers promise well to finish the
season without a defeat.
In summarizing. Dallas has played
something like 185 games since bas
ketball was Introduced here, winning
156 of those games and losing 29. It
is very doubtful If there is another
team in the country that can show up
such an average.
The game has produced some great
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