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4 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 9, 1913. 1913 GRAPPLING AND BOXING RULES OUT Elimination of Toe Hold and Limiting Bouts to 15 Min utes Features. NEW CLASS IS CREATED J n Both Bra nchcs of Sport Ama teur Athletic Cnlon Arranges Contests for Men of 175 Pounds Weight. for The elimination of the toe hold, sus pension of an athlete engaging In a match of more than 15 minutes, Intro duction of the one-bout match and the addition of a 175-pound class, are the Fallent wrestling; features of the 1913 rules of the Amateur Athletic Union. The boxers also have another class for competition, the 175-pound or. liglit-Jeavywetg-ht division. The most drastic section of the new rules for the government of amateur wrestlers, at least s far as the North west Is concerned. Is that prescribing suspension for anyone engaging in a natch of more than 15 minutes. Add to this the elimination of the toe hold, a. broad provision which gives the , referee unlimited sway, and you have grappling revolution. Under the rules of the Pacific North 4 west Association clubs as drafted for Hierciuo. competitions, wrestlers are rmtched for three bouts of 15 minutes each,- best two In three falls to score a victory. This rule really permits of wrestling over an unlimited period, for In the case of draws the men are to tussle until a decision may be rendered. 3ut under the new ruling- no amateur may grapple for longer than 15 minutes In one match. Referee May Deride. As for the toe hold, which, along "With the strangle, full Nelson and ham mer lock. Is barred hereafter, the in terpretation is left to the referee. There Is no specific kind of toe hold; the hold has numerous modifications. The scope of the rule palpably is too .broad, permitting a prejudiced official to disqualify a contestant almost at win. The old rules, as well as the new, em powered the referee to break all holds Which endanger life or limb. Evident Jy the purpose of the officials was to bar all holds likely to break bones, And they sought to protect ankle and 3c nee by eliminating- the toe hold. But tne effect may prove discouraging in the extreme. In both boxing and wrestling the 17o-pound class, variously called light heavyweight and commission weight. bas been introduced. This class -Is feature of the Northwest interclub competitions, but not of the annual championship meet. Another poundage change Is that from 105 to 108 pounds in both boxing and wrestling. L,dgar Frank, presi- cnt of the Pacific Northwest Assoc. a tlon and Indoor athletics, chairman of Iultnomah Amateur Athletic - Club, -rote to the National authorities ad vocating the dropping- of the 105-pound - class because of the immaturity of Its members. Recognition or tins came in the shape of a three-pound boost, which Is not a material advance. Bandages Are Barred. The wrestling and boxing weights How are: 108, 115. 125, 135. 145. 158, 175-pound and heavyweight eight in stead of the customary seven. Boxers are forbidden to use band- zes of any kind hereafter, the ama teur officials determining- to put a stop to the heavy bandaging in emulation of the professional fighting. This ap plies to han!s. arms and head. The changes In the mafleh periods, as touched upon before, are: Wrestling Preliminaries, from one six-minute and two additional two-minute bouts to de. termine a decision If one fall Is not se cured, to one 10-minute bout: finals. Ifrom two six-minute bouts and one of three-minutes, to one 15-minute bout; boxing three three-minute rounds, with an extra one of two minutes to deride a draw. Instead of the two three minute rounds, one of four minutes, and a fourth of two minutes to award A decision. The wrestlers still go 10 minutes in the preliminaries, or 15 minutes in the finals, or to one fall, while the boxing period is rut from 12 to 11 minutes. The abolishment of the four-minute round is commendable, but In the Northwest boxing- has been in straight three-min- tite rounds for several years. Frank Will Awlt Explanation. Mr. Frank has written to Secretary Fulllvan, of the Amateur Athletic Union, regarding the 15-niinute wrast- Jing bout. Sevtitn !3 reads: "Any atn Je who competes In a wrestling match ir a longer period than the rules pre r1be will be suspended." However, 2Wr. Frank holds that where all mem- r-ers of an association agree upon a different system for interclub matches, the National ruling may be suspended. Frank Is strongly opposed to the toe hold section of the new ruls and will endeavor to get a more explicit ex pi a nation of the intention of the rule com 'mtttee on the subject. and Hood Bottler is chairman of the baseball committee. The Washington High School basket ball team will return tonight from Eugene, where they met and were de feated by the University of Oregon freshmen Friday evening. Showing better team work in the sec ond half in Its game with the Portland j Academy basketball team, Friday after- noon on the Academy floor, the Ore gon City Hish School gained a 26-to-25 victory. During the first half Coach Less men led, 13 to 4. . PORTLAND MO TO KB OAT WHICH WON BEAUTIFUL CUP FOR RECORD MADE DOWN" COLUMBIA RIVER FROM PORTLAND TO ASTORIA. SPORTING SPARKS BOBBT GROOM, former Portland twirler, says that Washington will win the American League pennant next season. He figures the Athletics as the contenders if Alack unearths a "phen- n' to assist his pitching staff. t. Several Eastern newspapers are say ing unkind things about the Amateur Athletic Union. A Brooklyn paper, in "tips to the A. A. U..M makes pointed remarks about questionable athletic performances. George H. Brooke, now Pennsylvania football coach, expects to place Penn back on the schedule of Harvard and Princeton. The tallest battery afloat McConnell and Sweeny. The heaviest baUery Tesreau and Meyers. Can Ty Cobb equal the mark of Hans I Wagner? Wagner has led his league eight times and has never batted below I 300. Ty, on the other hand, has topped the sluggers of his organization six times. Manager Griffith, of the Washington team, has ordered his young twirlers to report for duty on February 15. That means next Saturday, so the season opening is not so far off. There are three Zlmmermans in fast company Helnie, with the Cubs: Willie with Brooklyn, and Eddie with New ark. San Francisco has a fourth, and who will say the company Is slower I than at Aewark? Roy Hartzell has notified Frank Chance that he Is a candidate for sec ond base on the Yankees. Cree, who is named by Chance for the berth, says -Nix." Willie Keeler is the only professional ball player who went through a cam paign without once fanning. . "The greatest of all baseball slo gans was "Tinker to Evers to j Chance,' " writes Grantland Rice. "Of that combination only Evers is left. The next In order were: 'Walsh, now pitching for the Sox.' 'Mathewson, now pitching for the Giants' and 'Brown, now pitching for the Cubs.' The last fades out, with Tinker and Chance, and Matty's day as a wrecking crew Is about due to pass along to Tesreau." "Add to the list,' continues Rice. " 'Cobb pokes a double Into right and Crawford drives him home. And Wahoo Sam, the blngling barber. J hasn t many laps to travel. But among those echoes still doing duty we still nave this: "Baker bits over the fence. The greatest outfield could be picked from those born in the South Cobb, Speaker, Milan and Jackson. Harvard's baseball nine has 30 game on this year's schedule. The Crimson opens against the world's champions, the Boston Americans,, at Boston, on April 8. The games with Yale close the season as usual. Harvard and Dartmouth have broken In football Just as these Institutions did in track athletics last Fall. The Crim son schedule next Fall does not give Dartmouth a look in. They first me in 1822, meeting annually since 1883, except In 1300, playing to close score; and large crowds in later years. Har vard is at outs with Pennsylvania, and the breach promises to be Just as bitter and last just as long as with Hanover. Alleged ungentlemanly conduct of play ers on the Dartmouth eleven Is sponsible for the trouble. Abe Langtry. secretary of the Amer ican Bowling Congress, names the fol lowing men on his Ail-American five William Elwert. Toledo; Jim Blouin Chicago; Jim Smith. New . York; Alex ander Dunbar. New York, and Rob Rolfe. Chicago. Langtry predicts that 600 five-man entries will be made for the Toledo tourney, which starts Feb ruary 23. Amateur Athletics. ; The Hill Military Academy gymna Hum will be the scene of two basket ball games between the Hill and Jewish Boys" Athletic Club first and second teams. The .Jewish hoys' first team bas won 13 successive nam?. The Jewish boys first and second quintets will meet the St. Johns High School tams Wednesday evening on the Jew 1th boys floor. The Gregory Athletic Club basket ball team won Its 12th victory, this reason, by defeating the Columbus Orays. 24 to 3, on the Columbus floor Krlday evening. The Gregory quintet would like to meet any 135-pound team in the city. The Brooklyn Athletic Club has de cided that It will not have any wres tling matches at the smoker Tuesday night, but Instead will stage "seven boxing bouts. Lin Powers, the Multno mah Amateur Athletic Club 125-pound boxer. will meet Al Roberts, of Brooklyn, as headliner. The newsboys basketball team won Its seventh straight victory Friday, when they defeated the Sell wood Y. M. 4 A. quintet, 24 to 15. The newsboys team average is 115 pounds and would like to hear from teams of the same weighty Games ran be arranged by CHllmg Marshall 3783 nd asking fur Willie Bernstein. The Christian Brothers Business Col lege basketball team will meet the "Mount AnFel five next Saturday on the Christian Brothers' floor in a return frame. The local team lost to the Mount Angel team recently at Mount Angel. "Local employes of the Harriman lines "have organ tzed a baseball team, and hope to tour the Northwest and meet all fast amateur teams. Sol Richard aon was elected manager of the team Minnesota hunters would make It un lawful for unnaturalized foreign -born residents to hunt In that state. This is expected to lessen the number of fatal! ties due to careless shooting. At a recent referendum vote taken by the Grand Circuit officials, 65 out of 65 voted in favor of the three-heat, every -hea t-a-race. system of harness racing. The old three-ln-five heat plan is becoming unpopular and is sure to die soon. It means a saving of horses and early dinners for patrons. A petition asking that the A. A. U. reinstate Jim Thorpe because of his ignorance of amateur etiquette when he played "pro" baseball, was circulated in Yonkers. N. Y., just hefore the Indian slcned a contract with the New York Giants. Nearly 1000 signatures were secured in a few hours. f John Geggis, employed in the billiard-room of the Boston Athletic Asso I n n " T"- Dr. U. J. Sweetland, Jr.. tVII lamett l' Diversity Coach, Who Was Considered Fen syl van! a Prospect, elation since 1887, has been voted a pension for long and faithful service. K is 61 years old. The International League baseball schedule will not be -released In Mon treal ahead of time this season. The Montrtal club was fined '$200 last year when enterprising newspaper men printed the contents of the schedule ahead of time, and this year the pa pers have been placed in a safety de posit- vault until the date of release. "Pat Dwyer, the former Pennsyl vania center, has been signed to coach Georgetown University for 191S. Al though he weighed only 150 pounds, Dwyer forced Germany Schultz, the Michigan 250-pounder and one of the greatest centers In' the West, to leave the field before the end oX a game. I I ' , i ,n., t, Z55!x4iuiiiaix i:j. . - r ri , -o-Hjr vi-tr'A ,:zr II F iril liiliiniM niniiiirnniriminir'iii iiinriiiiiiiniii"-- inr n I J I 1 Ji ' T4i " ' , iS1 " x? - J 1 GAMP! REGARDED ASCOfKW i Interest Keen in Bout With Kid Williams for Secondary Bantamweight Honors. M'FARLAND GO WATCHED III SYSTEM TRIED National Trotting Association Agrees to New District. ENTRY FEES ARE REVISED Salem Session Fails to Set Dates, Owing to Uncertainty Regarding State Fair, . but Portland Meet Is Probability. Turf protests and disputes in the Pa cific Northwest hereafter will be aired before a home tribunal. At the Salem meeting of fair officials Friday the Na tional Trotting Association agreed to the creation of a new district, the Pa cific Northwestern, and from this time on harness affairs in the Northwest will be run entirely separate from the Cali fornia influences. This drastic action, together with the decision to give the every-heat-a-race system a thorough trial during 1913, conspired to make the session of horse men at the State Capitol one or tne most important In years. There has always been trouble in the old Coast district, and the appointment of a Northwestern board to govern the new district Is expected to be Its solution. Both V. H. Gocher. secretary of the National Trotting Association, and W. H. Knight, secretary of the American Trotting Association, were present. Knight favored a retention of the for mer three-ln-five heat procedure, but. as the Northwest is controlled by the National body. It was decreed that at least 60 per cent of alt races in the Northwest must be run under the three-heat, very-heat-a-race scheme. Another change of considerable im portance- was voted In by the fair man agers, that relating to the payment of entry money by the horse owners. Hereafter, instead of paying 6 per cent at time of entry into the early closing events, with another S deducted from the winnings, only 3 per cent will be taxed before the race, the balance of per cent being mulcted from the purse money. This 3 per cent, too, will come in easy installments. 1 per cent May 1, 1 per cent June 15 and 1 per cent August 15. In the late closing events the former o-and-5 system will prevail. This makes it much easier on the horsemen." said John McClintock, edi tor of the Pacific Horse Review, last night. Mr. McClintock. A. C 1ohmire, president of the Riverside Driving Club, and Dr. A. J. Smith, secretary, were the Portland representatives. Whether or not Portland is to have a week of racing the coming Fall is still problematical, but the chances ap pear excellent. No definite dates were awarded at Salem, because of the un certainty of the dates for the Oregon State Fair at Salem. Mr. McClintock believes that Salem will decide upon the week of September 29 to October 4, which case Portland. If the Country Club Is still intact, will hold a speed carnival the preceding week, Septem ber 22 to 27. If these dates are chosen, Portland will have to compete with Walla Walla, and Salem with North Yakima. Portland, however, will be In line for the California horses, as the Sacra mento Fair is scheduled for the week f September 13 to 20, under the recent revision. Pleasanton Is billed for Sep tember 22 to it: Santa Rosa for Sep- ember 29 to October 4, and Fresno October S to 11. The prospective lineups of Js'ortn Htnrn dates is, therefore, as follows: Vancouver, B. C, September 1-6; Se attle, September 8-13: Vancouver. Sep tember (-13; Spokane, September 15- 20: Walla Walla, September 22-27 Portland, September 22-27; North Yak lma, September 2D to October 4; Salem, September 29 to October 4. VEX1CE BAI.1, PARK IS AFLOAT iiogan May Have to Seek New Field on Which to Train. IXDS ANGELES, Feb. S. (Special.) From now until after the rainy season is over the Venicft Baseball club (Ho pan's) will have troubles all its own. The new park at the seaside is the main cause for this forecast. A man coming here from Venice to day reported that the park being laid for the use. of the baseball team ap pears afloat. He says the water gath ers quickly and does not drain off, even within a reasonable length of time. Some of the wood being used to erect a fence around the grounds and for other building purposes was afloat to day. The ground, which has just been freshly plowed, has caused small ponds to be formed in many places. It Is not so bad now, as the Venice team does not want to do its Spring training yet, but in March the men are scheduled to work out on their new diamond. As it generally rains con siderable In March. Hogan will have a hard time if he tries to use the beach grounds. j Hogan was out hunting mushrooms today, and It was hinted that he had visited Venice in his quest for the edibles, but he denied this. RACER Wl TROPHY Silver Cup to Be Presented to George W. Kendall. ASTORIA JEWELER DONOR EAST LIKES SWEETLAND 'VESSSY' CONSIDERS COACH AT "OIT WILLAMETTE." Good Record of Mentor at Salem School Attracts Quaker State. Brooke Finally Chosen. Presentation to Be Made at House Party of Portland Motorboat Club . on February 1 3 Fast Time Is ' Made by Sylph. George W. Kendall, vice commodore- elect of the Portland Motorboat Club, will be presented with a beautiful sil ver trophy donated by the Donnerberg Jewelry Company of Astoria as a re ward for winning the Portland-to-Astoria motorboat race last Fall with his Sylph. The presentation of the trophy will be made at a home party to be held by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Portland Motorboat Club on Feb ruary 13. The Charmale was the only other motorboat to enter the race and de veloped engine trouble after entering the Columbia River, but managed to finish the race. The actual time that flapsed from the time the Sylph started on her 100-mile race from Portland to Astoria was three hours 29 minutes, but owing to the fact that Mr. Kendall was compelled to re place a valve spring, which delayed his run 184 minutes, the actual run ning time was three hours 11 minutes. Mr. Kendall decided to-race the boat back to Portland from Astoria and de spite the fact that he was compelled to run against strong current, he made the trip in the remarkable time of New York Displays Eagerness t See Heavy Lightweights Battle. Cyclone Johnny Thompson Is Gaining Weight Rapidly. BY JAMES H. CASSELU While the little fellows are seldom numbered among the financiers of the "ing, and their mills fall to figure In he list of 10 greatest gale receipt bat tles, more than ordinary interest is at tached to the Kid Williams-Eddie Cam. :i bout of next Wednesday at Vernon. The lad who emerges victorious from :hls 20-round bantamweight encounter :nay be the next champion of the world Those who have been keeping i watchful eye on Champion Johnny Cou Son and his performances for the past rear say that he Is slipping. His mends declare that he merely over worked himself and went stale. But the fact remains that Kid Williams out pointed him in 10 rounds at New York cn October 16. Hence the interest in the Vernon scrap. Tim McGrath, the versatile manager of campl. says that his boy is the com intr bantamweight king, and Los An geles fans back up Tim's prophecy to the extent of establishing the iilsn Frenchman on an even-money betting basis with the Dane No matter who wins, the victor Is entitled to a match with Coulon, and will get it sooner or later. Kid Williams, whose reaT name Is John Kutenko, will not be 20 years old until December 5, according to the rec ord books, but has eneaged In nearly 60 fights, and won 36 of them on knock outs. Eddie Campl. or Eddie De Cam pus, will be 20 on July 4. and has been In more than B0 flRhts. scoring 1 knockout victories. Campl started in fighting In 1908. while the lad from Copenhagen, Denmark, first stepped into the rlns In 1910. Strange to say, these two title con tenders will battle for a chance to meet Coulon on the 24th anniversary of the champion's birth. Packey McFarland and Jack Brltton will not battle for a championship, If they meet in New York on March 7, but It's an even bet that as much In terest will be evinced In the mill as thfc ordinary championship affair. McFarland and Brltton. both hailing from Chicago, are generally rated as the best lightweights of the day, i you can style them lightweights. Neither is likely ever to wear the lightweight crown, for the task of making 133 pounds ringside, or even 135 pounds Just before clamoring through the ropes, seems an Impossible task for either. But lightweights or welters, few are so strong in their partfzanshlp as to contend that these two Chicagoans are not the cleverest and best fighters of their weight in the world. A 10-round, no-declsion bout Is not a thing of joy to the enthusiast looking for decisive ring ciasnes, DUt wnen these two get together look for the greatest fight in years, and a crowd which will tax the seating capacity of any New York club, and cause another scandal similar to that which marked the Rivers-Cross bout. . Cyclone Johnny Thompson, who as pires to the light heavyweight cham pionship, is a poundage freak. This veteran fighter, who will be 37 years old on June 20. started fighting In 1902 as a lightweight. He continued a light weight until he went to Australia, more than a year ago, and then began to fill out at an alarming rate. Johnny was scheduled to fight Hughle Mehegan, and posted a weight forfeit for 133 pounds. He worked hard, but a week before the fight' weighed 140 pounds. Realizing his in ability to make the lightweight limit, Johnny quit training, forfeited his money and entered the ring weighing 162 pounds. Ha then turned miaaieweigni. oui soon after returning home discovered that he could not make 158 pounds, and at present is a light heavyweight, tipping the scales at 175 pounds. Jim Flynn had a similar experience, but one not so marked. He was min gling with middles not so long ago, but found the going strenuous, with few opponents, and decided to buna up, Soon he weighed 16a pounds, then lit), and when he met Johnson vibrated the beam, at 190 pounds. While no definite date has been an nounced, a Bombardier Welis-I.uthe McCarty fight seems imminent, the bi.r chaps to meet in New York in Maro i or April. The match should be a goo-l one. despite the easy victory scored by Al Falser over the Kriton not long age. Wells has Improved wonderfully In tlie last year, according to all reports, while McCarty. though not a Corhett, Jeffries or Fltzslnimons. may take his place among the greatest within a year or two. While McCarty Is the topic, it might be well to say that I.uther has no Indian blood In Ms veins, despite the highly colored yarns to that effect. "Lute" was born at White Horse Can yon. In Nebraska. 21 years ago. of Irish-Scotch parentage. If his dad's testimony is to be relied upon. Mc Carty senior traveled around as an Indian medicine man. hence the ease with which the redskin "dope" slipped Into the records. San Francisco writers are beginning to give Gunboat Smith a rating among the heavyweight championship possi bilities. A year ago he was a rank dub. with a faint heart, but now, after a Feries of victories over men of fair caliber, they think he will bear watch ing. Despite the almost unanimous opin ion of the critics that Rivers would have knocked Leach Cross out in a few more rounds at New York, the dental fistic exponent says he would be glad to meet the Mexican over the 20-round route. However, as he was a little too free with derogatory remarks concern ing California after his first trip West, there is little chance of Cross securing an oimortunity to go 20 rounds with any one. Roy Cougar is the name of a light weight at Cody, Wyo. Cougar is said to fight harder than Oie animal of that name when cornered, combining fierce attacks with a punch fully up to the Fltzsimmons standard. He has been walloping every one In sight in that region, and may invade California soon. W1XDXACLE AWAITING WORD Runner Who Quit Oregon Tniverslty to Go lo Cornell Soon. Vere Wlndnaglo", holder of the half mile const intcrscholastlc track record, arrived In Portland yesterday from Eu gene, where he was attending the Uni versity of Oregon. Windnagle will re main In Portland until he receives word from Cornell I'nivcrslty. where lie hopes to take up electric engineec lng and .represent the si-hool on tl freshman track and field team this year. "My short stay at the University of Oregon may cause some persons t think I was not .'reated right, or thut some other matter came up that caused my leaving school so suddently, but, as a matter of fact, I had applied for ad mittance to Cornell months ago," said Windnagle. "If I make the freshman track team I will run again Ted Meredith, holder of the world's half-mi!; record. Don McLaren, the former WaFhin.ton High School hlsh jumper and hurdler. Is at tending Cornell, and writes me that lie Is getting along fine, and may make the freshman track team this year. "While at the University of Oregon r was given the best of treatment, and ihould I feci that I liked the University of Oregon better than Cornell. Coach Hayward can look for my returning to school In time enough to try and take part in the Oregon track meet." Should Windnagle make the fresh man team he will be given pointers by Captain John Paul Jones, of Cornell varsity track and field team, who holds the world's record for the mile. GIRL SWIMMERS TO APPEAR Portland and San Francisco Voun Woinen at Panlages. Miss Vivian Marshall, champion wo man swimmer of Oregon and former member of Multnomah Amateur Ath letic Club, will make her vaudevllla de but before her Portland friends and admirers at the Pantages Theater to-' morrow afternoon, appearing with Miss Nellie Schmidt, the San Francisco girl who swam around the Seal Rocks in record time, in a fancy diving and swimming act. The clrls started their vaudeville net at Spokane several weeks ago, and made a hit from the start. Last week they attracted much attention at Ta conia. Miss Marshall, who Is a pupil of Arthur Cavill, and gives him the credit for her aquatic skill, making a sen sational 75-foot dive from a bridge in Commencement Bay. The fire dive. which she first made at Gearhart and later presented at Multnomah Club, Is Miss Marshalls feature In the act. Members of the women's class at Multnomah Club are planning to glvn Miss Marshall, a royal reception in Portland, occupying a section of the lower floor at one of the first per-x formances. Miss Marshall is the daughtnr of R A. Marshall, a Portland contractor. Her mother is accompanying her on the circuit Dr. G. J. Sweetland. Jr., the veteran athletic coacn of Willamette Univer sity, was among those considered for three hour! 20 minutes and 22 seconds. the football coaching at the Univer slty of Pennsylvania, according to Philadelphia newspaper. George Brooke, Swarthmore coach, was officially named a few days ago at a salary of $10,000. This Is the job for which the friends of Coach Dobie, of Washington, were noisily boosting the Seattle mentor. Strangely enough. Dobfe and Dr. Sweet land coached rival institutions back in North Dakota a few years ago, Dobie being at the State Agricultural Col lege at Fargo and Dr. Sweetland at tne State University at Grand Forks. In his for years at the University of North Dakota the famous Willamette coach had remarkable success, winning the state championship three successive seasons 1904, 1905 and 1906 and de feating the Aggies three games In four, although the farmers had been winning regularly for several years prior to his regime. Dobie's Imported ringers. Including Eakins, Muckleton, Cutting and Jack Marks, caused the lone reverse. In 1907 Coach Sweetland's eleven wal. loped the University of South Dakota by the overwhelming tjore of 26 to ti, the Southerners being coached by Ju reau, now leader of the champion Uni versity of Wisconsin squad. After leaving North Dakota rn 1907, Dr. Sweetland coached the Everett Highs In Washington, losing but one game. He has 'been athletic director of football, basketball, baseball and track at Willamette University for the past four years and has had remarkable success with only mediocre material. He Is also on the faculty. Willamette has won the Northwest ern non-conference championship every year since he assumed charge. Dr. Sweetland's first coaching expe rience was gained at lshpeming, Mich., where he won the Wolverine, state championship for three successive sea sons, 1901. 1902 and 1902. At a meeting of the members of the Portland Motorboat Club tomorrow night at the clubhouse, the reorganiza tion of the club will come up for dls cussion. The members of the club fa vor giving up their articles of incor poration. . thus doing away with the corporation and other taxes. "The Portland Motorboat Club is not a business organization, but the club's object is to promote interest in aquatic sporis, said lieorge J. Kelly, who is a member on the site committee. "As we are not organized for profit, but for social purposes, we do not con sider It necessary to continue the pres ent corporation. We will probably re organize under another law that pro vides for the forming of associations not organized for mercenary games." The committee assigned to look for a new site on which the new Portland Motorboat Clubhouse will be built will be heard. The committee has a num ber of good places suitable for the home of the new club, but the price asked for the ground is too high. George Klnnear, fleet captain of the Portland Motorboat Club, and El wood Wiles will represent the club at the meeting of the American Powerboat Association, which meets In New York In May. Tiro Soccer Games Scheduled. The Oregon Soccer League schedule calls for two games today, one be tween the St. Johns and Cricketers and another between Portland "Heights and the South Portland teams. Both games will be played on the Columbus field, the first game starting at 2 o'clock. PORTLAKD MARKSMA1V MAKES GOOD RECORD IN SHOOT ING CONTESTS. p5! ST. LOUIS. Shuyler Brltton. of Cleveland, husband of Helens Hath away Robinson Brltton, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, was elected presi dent of the club today. S. J. Clifford. When S. J. Clifford, a member of the Portland Revolver Club, failed to make the team in the 21 and 22 matches against the Columbus and Philadelphia tearis, it marked his first failure to gain a position on the Portland team since the opening of the United States Revolver Association League last November. The local club shoots a match every week and on some occasions engages in two matches. Between 10 and 15 men take part In every shoot and the five men making the highest score in every match gain a post- . tlon on the team. This is Cllf- ' ford's first year with the Portland gun club and he holds the record for ti beginner for making the team the greatest number of con secutive times. Telegraphic Sport Briefs WASHINGTON The United States indoor rifle shooting team record was tied by the Warren, Pa., team this week, with a score of 996 out of a pos sible 1000. In the Western League Cleveland leads with five straight wins. WASIUNGTON,-The Eastern Inter collegiate Rifle League is still a triple tie between Columbia, Harvard and Massachusetts "Aggies." In the West, ern League, Iowa and West Virginia are tied for first place. CINCINNATI. Player E. G. Bhors was ordered reinstated by the National Baseball Commission here upon the payment of a fine of (25. Shore was a member of the New York National League team. The request of player Herbert V. Juul. of the Columbus club of the American Association, to be de clared -a free agent was dismissed. - CHICAGO. Politicians returning from the Inauguration of Governor Dunne, said the outlook was favorable for passing a boxing bill at the pres ent session of the Legislature. Chicago followers of pugilism are confident they will have boxlne in a short time. CHICAGO. President Murphy and Manager Evers, of the Chicago National League baseball club, before leaving for New York to attend the schedule meeting of the league next week, said they hoped to complete a number of trades and arrange for the return of Orval Overall to pitch the coming season. SAN DOWN PARK. England. J. R. Fell's Hlghbridge, the only American steeplechaser In training for the Grand National at Liverpool next month, was second to the favorite. Glen Heston, in the Prince of Wales handicap steeple chase here. This was the American horse's tryout. PHILADELPHIA. The Philadelphia American ' League Club announces that it has signed Louis Brummerhof, a pitcher who is playing Winter ball st New Orleans. Brummerhof played witli the Bristol. Tenn.. club lust season. NEW YORK. Entries' of several competitors in the Olympic games at Stockholm last season have been received by the Amateur Athletic Union for the American track and field cham pionships to be held In Madison Square Garden March S, Secretary Sullivan announced. Among the entries are Howard P. Drew. Hannes Kolehmalnen, Russell Beatty, Lawrence Whitney, Ben Sherman. Ben Adams and Harry GrumpelL