0 TITE SUNDAY OKEGOXTAX. POKTXAD. 3IARCII 16, 1913. JENKINS IS f ZAB "MATTY" TELLS OF BIG LEAGUE MANAGERS, THEIR METHODS AND SOME INDIVIDUAL PECULIARITIES McGraw's "Iron Rule" Viewed as, Good Thing fcy Giant's Great Pitcher Connie Mack's Sportsmanship Lauded; Chance Found Somewhat "Irritable," but With a Reason Chance, Griffith and Jennings Revealed in Light by Which They Are Sees by Major Club Flayers. PRINCIPAL OF JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL WHO HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN COACHING ATHLETIC TEAMS. Br CHRIST? MATHEWSON. Of trie ' York. GisTil. iCopjrrlsht. lit!3. b the McClure Newspaper Syndicate., IT HAS been frequently said by base ball authorities that the New York club, which won the last two pen nants In the National league, would have been lucky to finish in the first division under any other manager be sides McGraw. While I do not concede this much, still I admit that the Giant leader wad himself largely responsible for the two championships. The pennants were won In exactly op posite ways. In 1911. the team started West for its final trip with a slim chance of grabbing the honors. The club made one of the greatest Journeys in the history of baseball, winning- 18 out f 2 games and coming home with the pennant. Last year the race looked like a walkaway for the Giants when the team had opened up such a wide gap between itself and the next club by June that the second place holders could not see the Giants over the hori lon. But toward the last of August, there was a difference of only four Sanies between the Giants and the Cubs, with the latter apparently closing up at every Jump. That was M'Graws busy spell, win ning a championship after a hip and what locked like a safe lead hai been rut dowii is the hardest thing In the world because the players become dis couraged to see the team Flipping little by little, day after day. and the pur suers gradually gaining. The leaders have everything to lose and nothing to gain in this situation while the second club has all the psychological advan tage. None realized this more than Mc Graw last Summer, and he treated every player according to his needs, ex horting one and abusing another to get all of the basenatl out or mm tnai there was In hint. He drove, drove drove all the way to that pennan Things looked darkest when we were In Pittsburg, about the last of August The series there was opened with double header, and tho Giants dropped one of the games. "I want to see every one of yon boy In my room tomorrow morning." Mc Craw ordered that nlcht in the club' house after the contest. We all knew that it must mean some. thing serious because he seldom sum mons the team to consultation off the field. At 11 the entire club was on hand. MrGraWa Methods Triwinyh. "Now." said McGraw, -I don't know whether we will win the pennant or not. There Is one thing I want you boys to understand, though, and that is we are KOing to play baseball. 1 want you fellows to Hop thinking about the championship and settle down and play ball. If necessary. 1 II take every regu lar out of the lineup, but I will put i club in the field which will play ball." McGraw never let up on his men From that time on. the team settled down and played good ball. McQraw's methods had triumphed because they bad made a cohesive team out of one whirh was slow'.v disintegrating. With out him. I do not believe the club would have won the pennant last year. Probably no subject In modern base ball has been more fully or more com prehenslvely treated than that of big league managers. The Held boss of the club is held responsible for the poor showing of the team, and. when a pen nut is won. the players generally get credit for it. Managing Is not a Job to be altogether reluilied. My own quaintance with managerial methods has been limited to one club. While T did work1 for other managers before Mctlraw came to New York, most of my baseball knowledge has been ab sorbed from lifm. Constant followers of the game fre miently do not understand why a club cannot be a pennant winner if it has oientv of monev to spend for players. Why don't they go out and .buy Wagnerr' says the disgruntled patron. It would be almost as inexpensive to co aut and buy J. P. Morgan as to pur chase the big Dutchman. Dreyfuss would not take 150.000 for him. He is in. i not for sale at any price. Stars cannot be bought nowadays, but the managers must develop them. To Il lustrate the hopefulness of trying to purchase stars. I shall relate a story about how Hugh Jennings attempted to buy Walter Johnson and Charlie Street the old Washington battery. lie called Washington on the long distance telephone: "Hello; this Is Jennings of Detroit.' said he. "I want to buy Walter John nn and CharIie" Street." "They are not for sale." came back the prompt answer. "Do you want us to iv no our franchise? -I ll give you I20.M00 for the two- of them, replied Jennings. "This is not bargain day." "Twenty-rive thousand." ' "Thev are not for sale." "Thirty thousand dollars." persisted .Ten nin H-S. The voice at the other end of the tel ephone laughed, and across the long distance wires came the reply: "You could not have them for J50.000. r.rtnd.bVil" The receiver clicked and Jennings lost the pennant. Pvblle First Coanlderatlon. The frnits of this decision were born lat vear when the Washington club made Its gallant spurt In the American league race and had the whole town and half the country behind it, pulling hard for its ultimate Tictory. Walter Johnson was largely responsible for this great showing of his team, but the club would not have had the patronage that It enjoyed last year If the owners had permitted Johnson to get away when Jennings wanted him. The fans would have turned against It. The base ball managers and owners, to be suc cessful, must consider the public, first, middle and last. While we are talking of managers and their methods, let us look at the case of Clarke Griffith, now the pros perous leader of the Washington boys and one year ago discredited in Cin cinnati, where he hud Just spent an unfruitful term of years. Griffith is a great man to sw itch his players about, and he generally keeps three or four pitchers warming up all the time, so that the twirlers who work for him sometimes protest that they prrch six tiays a week, two In the box and the other four In the warm up pen. This style of managing was an utter failure in Cincinnati, yet Griffith went to Washington and tame nearer winning a pennant there than he ever had in bis life before except in 1904. with the Yankees. Griffith's style Is peculiar to himself. He makes changes for which not even ball players can figure out the reason. I doubt if "Griff" has any reason in mind, himself, sometimes, but he at- wsys wants it known he Is in authority. He is the absolute boss of his players, and in this resembles McGraw some what. Griffith Is also a great fighter and one to keep after the umpire If he does not think he is getting a square deal. Off the field. Griffith is one of the finest men in baseball, but frequent ly. In the excitement of the game, he will talk in a whine which Is very Ir ritating to the young player. "Griff" Is a great man to get out on the coaching lines and try to rattle the opposing pitcher. Griffith tried to get after me one afternoon several Years ago. and at tempted to talk me out of the game. But I ever answer back. This coach ing conversation does not bother me. It was immediately after the time Grlf. MS - W v4 IT . . . - ,. - ... V -. -yH 1791. . -'-V.A-- , i, -TV JACK COOMBS, ATHLETIC PITCHER. 'ith attempted to worry me that I took J2 games In succession from the Cin cinnati club, and Griffith abandoned his plan to try to annoy me. Vaudeville to Cease. Griffith and McGraw have produced Mint remarkable scores In their timet when playing against each other. They look more like club rosters than tht lineup of a ball team. Griffith Intro Juced a new feature Into his manag ing last season when he hired "Nick" Altrock and Herman Schaeffer. the two omedy coachers. to work for him. He i'igured that he would gain two advan tages by having these men on hia club. Une was that they would distract the minds of the opposing players by tbelr antics and the other that they would brlns money Into : the change drawers by their popularity. He was correct In both ot these surmises, but tt Is doubt ful if the two humorists will be per mitted to appear on the lines this sea son because of the complaints of other American League owners that they were making the game a farce. Of course, there Is one thing required of all baseball managers, and that Is nerve. There Is no success for the man who Is not a fighter. All the great ones have been such McGraw, Chance. Mack, Jennings and the rest of the winners. These same qualities must be evident In the ball player, but, of ne cessity, must be stronger In the man ager, lor often he has to bolster up the courage of the entire team, as In the case of the Giants last year. Nerve and grit are the first things McGraw looks for in a player. To introduce an analysis of Mc Graw's methods would be merely repe titlon because so much has been said r.d written about the boss of the Gi ants already. He treats his players fairly, gives each one the same deal. i th absolute boss and plans his ames and executes his moves with the precision of an expert chess player maneuvering his pieces. McGraw will not brook insubordination, ami has tongue which will cut any man who crosses him in his judgment He never gives up. and this spirit of his has been soaked up by the players on the Giants. In picking a new man McGraw selects one who has plenty of fight, and then he works to put more fight into him. He does not want a player on his club whose back will droop when the other team gets ahead. Now is the time to get In there and start fishting." says "Mac" If the other side is leading by three or four runs. He drives unmercifully ami forgets everything about tha battle when it is over. He may make all kinds of re flections on the Intelligence of a ball player after he has thrown the ball to the wrong base only to ride nome in he ball-player's car after the . game. Baseball men look up to bim as an au- horitv on the game, ami he has the respect of all his players. Expensive Poker Net Approve. There is one thing to which a player can alw.ys make up his mind, and that he Is not putting anything over on McGraw. To illustrate. I might relate an Incident wntcn occurred last sea son. He does not mind the men play- ng cards if the stakes are not too high or the hours too late. He feei; hat the play should not be too expen- Ive for fear that the losses might WHO'S WHO AT . Arthur Korea, ShortMasv. tsritKb 11 not lor tne aisiinguisn- ".TV ing fact that Arthur Korea has ww clayed every position on the bal ield except home plate anl the grand land, the life history of the new Port- nd Coast League p..'s rrs.?s: bortstop would be bout as succulent j. sascramoieu sponge. But that very va- f. rlety In the 24-year- J Id bowlegged uer- , man boy's baseball compendium adds v he necessary spice, Kores has really f been playing pro fessional ball only our seasons and thus hasn't any meteoric or plethoric existence th better to furnish live copy, for the fans. He lives at Milwaukee, and was induced by William Dlsch, a Beef City man. to enter Edwards College, at Austin. Tex, in 1908 as a pitcher. Dlsh be'ng cs-arh of the college nine. Kores won eight games f the col legians then lost three and 190 found him back home playing ball In the Lakt Shore Sunuay League as an outfielder, his hitting talents having been discov ered. In 110 he signed with Racine lr some Wisconsin league as a firet bas man and lasted 45 games before his manager fired him after a rumpus. And now comes the interesting part faf bis career, for it concerns his rise 3 9 & ie . make bad feeling between some of the players. Certain men are bound to brood over the money dropped in games of poker or seven up. Three or four veterans I am not naming any one and one youngster were playing poker in a hotel while the club was on the road one trip last Summer, and the stakes extended to a considerable altitude. So absorbed be came some of the contestants In the game that' they neglected to notice tht time, and it had slipped around to half past two in the morning without any one observing It. In some way, Mc Graw heard of this friendly contest going on in a player'i room. Tou can not keep anything away from him. He must be clairvoyant. "Mac" made his entrance' into the apartment with that delicacy of manner generally observed by Inspector Dwyer when he is making a raid. He did not stop to knock that is, not until Da got inside the door. "Don't you know It is a club rule to be in bed at midnight?" he began by way of an Introduction. Nobody denied it. "I'll fine you a hundred apiece." he said, pointing to two of the veterans whom he regarded as the founders and charter members of the game. Also they had the largest piles of chips on the table In front of them, and "Mac considered this arrangement -'f fines In behalf of equity. "You're fined fifty," he told the third veteran. Then he whirled on the young ster. "I'll nick your pay envelope for twenty-five because It Is the first time and I see you had to go shy on that last hand.' concluded McGraw. "I wasn't playing," replied the re cruit. "I was only looking on." "You're fined fifty for lying to me.' promptly replied the raider. "I suppose you'll be apologizing for making an er ror on the field next because there was a pebble in front of your position." Fines SSOO la Season. The fines stood, too. As a matter of fact, there was about JSOO in fines col lected from the Giants for one thing or another last season. When McGraw issued the order that the p ayers were to be on hand In tho clubhouse at 1U o'clock every morning at the Polo Grounds whether there was actual morning practice or not. some "f the boys took it as a joke. One man came out for two or three mornings and found McGraw was not present. The bed felt pretty good the next morning, and he stayed in it, showing up in time for the game. His arrival in the club house would never be mistaken for the inaugural parade because of its bril liancy. "Where were you this morning?" Mc Graw Inquired from the missing one. and It was easy to see from Mac s face that it was surely going to cloud up and come on a heavy shower and downpour. "I forgot about it." replied tne p!ayer. "That will cost you just twenty-rjve and fifty the next time to help you re member." It was remarkable how promptly the boys used to arrive at the clubhouse after that. "Connie" Mack is of a more retiring nature than any of the other great managers, such as Jennings. Clarke, MoGraw and Chance. Mack prefers col TRAINING CAMP to recognition. Kores was signed by Des Moines, in the Western League, in the Spring of 1911 as a third baseman He made good that season, although tils hitting was not spectacular, owln-t to an Injured hand, and in 1913 he was shunted to fill a vacancy at shortstop. Kores banged the ball around the lot n a startling fashion, finishing with i mark of .2S8. and several majors put in drafts for him. McCredie eventually won out in the drafts and Kores comes to Portland to fill the shoes of such sterling short patchers as Ivan Olson and Roger teckinpaugh, now .at Cleveland. Dave Bancroft tried to do the job last year but failed at the bat and is now in the Northwestern League. Korea bas been htting hard and often n the training games and is a shifty ad around the infield. The 165-pound Dutchman appears a trifle fidgety in .lis fielding but attributes It to the un ?venness of the local diamond. In 1912 x new position and with a bad leg. he fielded .911 in 162 games, which s lower than the marks hung up by the eading Coast shortstops. Cook, of Oakland, was th most erratic with 914 and Berger, the surest wltb .958. Bancroft fielded 41. Inasmuch as McCormlck and Lindsay are natural shortstops it will not be at all surprising to find Kores shunted in at first, second or three bases should the tenants of any of those crrnera be incapacitated by accident burins tht coming campaign. Kores Is surely a versatile chap even though clamped down by the thongs of matrimony. lege men for his club, although he likes some of the players developed in the minor leagues, too. Mack thinks that college men are desirable for two reasons, one being they are supposed to be able to grasp situations and think more quickly and the other that they will keep themselves ' in better condi tion because they regard baseball as profession. But, of course. Mack Is searching for the same essentials In his players, that every other manager wants,- but which some fail to discover. These are nerve, brains and the phy sical ability. Jack Coocnbs, the Philadelphia pitch er, is a great example of the kind of man "Connie' Mack has developed. Coombs was Just a good pitcher when ha came to the Athletics. Under Mack, Liie has developed into one of the stars of the last three or four seasons: Coombs combines the ability, nerve and brains, as he has frequently demon strated. The first game that he worked in the series of 1911 for the world's championship he pitched wonderful ball a,gainst me and won in extra innings after Baker banged out that home run. But Coombs' real test came in the last game which he pitched in the world's series. Marquard had started this one and had been knocked out of the box. Ames relieved him and pitched along evenly but hopelessly for three or lour inning, with the New iork club behind all th time. McGraw saw hia chance to switch a batiar later along, made the change, took Ames out, and "Otio' Crandall was pitching. All this time Coombs had been spinning that sharp breaking ovrvo of his up to the plate in untouchable style. His fast one came- through like a bullet. But toward the end of the game 1 made a misstep as he tried to put all his effort into the pitch and strained a tendon in his groin. I'vsaiba Carried Front Ftel4. To digress a little, I want to say that never have I seen a pitcher get every ounce of his strength into his pitch better than Coombs docs. It Was only recently that McGraw showed me a picture of him at the finish of his pitch, and you could see how he had used every muscle to swing his whole body iuto it. "There," said McGraw. regarding the picture, "you can see from that why Coombs is a good pitcher. Look; at his body in that delivery. Almost as soon as Coombs had in jured himself. In this game, we. the Giants batting against him, realized that he was not right. We did not know what was the matter with him, but thought he had set out at too fast a pace and had tired. "He's lost his stuff," said one batter after another. "Go in there and get the runs, and we'll win the series yet," urged Mc Graw. Coombs refused to give up in spite of the fact that, each time he delivered the ball pains of agony shot through him. He was making every effort to keep up the pace, but the flash was gone from his pitching, the great break was stripped from his curve, and his speed had faded. Members of the Ath letes have told me since that Mack begged him to quit, but that he refused. The Athletics' leader would not order this star out of the game even if he lost. "Connie" is too good a sport. It was not until after the Giants had tied the score in tho ninth and the game had run into extra innings that Coombs gave up. and Plank took his place. Coombs had to bo carried from the field. and he spent some time In bed after that on account of his injury. For two or three innings,, he had been pitching on his grit alone. Mack is a very sportsmanlike man ager. When Larry Doyle scored an Im portant run in the fifth game of the 1911 world's series, he failed to touch he plate, but slid Just a few Inches lear of it. Several Prlladelphla fanatics rushed to Mack that night and urged him to protest the game, the winning of which would have meant the series :o his club then. "He could have touched the plat couldn't he?" answered "Connie" to the protest advocates. "Yes."' they agreed. ."Well. I don't want to win a world series that way, and I don't believe an of the boys do. There will be no pro test Chance "Irritable9 Manager, Frank Chance, on whom much atten tlon has been focused recently, is gruf fer in his manners. Pitchers who go into the box and go bad declare that his fashion of removing them does littl toward encouraging them or pampering their vanity. Chance has the reputation of being irritable. There is a story told of some young pitcher for whom "Charley" Murphy had paid 3000, and Murphy likes 13000 as much as any one. Chance was giving this pitcher hi first trial. He took five minutes to deliver his first ball. He was prepar ing to pitch the second when Chanc rushed out from the bench. "Beat it." he said. "Beat it fast and when I get to the clubhouse, I don' want to find you there. You won't do, ton are released." Chance had suffered 'very much from headaches during the last years he was with the Chicago club, and this made him easily Irritated. He is also the kind of manager who never forgets the game and plays it over in his sleep. It 1 constantly on his mind, and he worries over it continually. In this he is exact Iy the opposite of McQraw, The Boston American League club is really the only successful one in which the president and the manager collabor ate In its direction. But McAleer, the president, is an old and skilled baseball man. I have related briefly the methods of some of the leading managers. There are almost as many systems as mana gers. and. like roulette systems, some win and some don't. In fact most ol them don't. BILli JAMJES JIAKES COMMENT Walter Johnson Hardest Hitting Pitcher In World, He Says. VISA MA. Cal.. March 15. (Special.) Ask Bill James, the human Eiffel Tower, who aspires to the perpendicu lar championship of the Coast League in 1913. for bis opinion on the hardest hitting 'pitcher in the world, and his reply will come bounding back like disappearing 4?un after a discharge. "Walter Johnson, of Washington, said he today, when one of the Beavers ventured the query during the rub- down process after a workout. "I have proof of it." he added, "be cause Johnson sent one back at me on July 18. 1911, at Washington, so fast that I didn't see the ball from the time It left the bat until It bounced off my shoulder to the ground In front. "That blow broke my shoulder bone. and I was laid np for six weeks, two of which I epent bunting." The human, monolith bad just got started with the Naps, and his in jury really spoiled his chances for making good in the majors, as he didn't get a good opportunity last Spring, when Manager Davis was natu rally relying on his veteran twirlers. James was sent back to Toledo after warming a soft spot on the Nap bench up until June. J & r A ' c - - l '-, ! . . v ..,. tj. a .a v 'vT, J s -i s. ; eV - I V - . V , f - ':: " . : C"' ' - :;:--v. .V; . :S : jfr--' ' -' HOPK1X VARSITY NINES ARE BUSY OREGON' WEEDS ASPIRAXTS TO LIST OP 24 IEX. Despite Rainy Weather Captain Chandler and Coach Ayer Keep Men in Practice. UNIVERSITY OF ORGEON", Eugene. ularch . 14. (Special.) Oregon's base ball squad of 40 men is rapidly under going its transformation Into a "varsity nine. In spite of unfavorable weather. Coach Fred C. Ayer and Captain Ben Chandler have kept the men at tbeir work almost continuously. As a result of the two weeks which have been spent in practice, the 'var sity squad has been cut down by the process of elimination to Z4 men, com posed of two teams and their reinforce ments. Welch, a member of last year s var sity pitching staff, and Fleming, a promising freshman from the Shattuek Military Institute, are working In the pitcher's bo on the hypothetical first team. Motschenbacher, last year's change catcher, is presiding behind the plate. Bllllnss, a freshman from Olym pia, is holding down Jamison's old sta tion at the welcome-corner. The first team infield Is now com posed of Morris Bigbee, last year's util ity man, on the keystone cushion; An son Cornell, the stocky football quar terback, at shortstop, and "Dutch" Anunsen. the only regular left from last season's infield, at third. The cast In the outfield is Captain Chandler and Mount, veterans, and Kirk, a likely freshman from Salem. On the tentative second team, Tuerek, the big ex-Lincoln High School flinger, and Street, a sophomore from Ken tucky, are the speed vendors. Miller, from Portland Academy, is at the re ceiving end. Arney, the former Uni versity of Washington, player who is disqualified by conference rules, is at first; Jones, formerly of Washington High School, at second: Hidden, a fresh man, at shortstop.' and pobie, an old varsity utility man, at third. Grout, Runquist and Sidwell compose the out field. The other players who were taken on the varsity squad are Reed, a catcher; Dorrls, a pitcher; Gorman, an infielder, and Grady and Gray, outfielders. .Meanwhile the inter-class series has been progressing, two games having been played between cloudbursts dur ing the past week. The sophomores conquered their hereditary foes, tne freshmen, by a score oi o to t. wuua iue seniors defeated the Juniors. SEVEN" BIIXIARDISTS TO PLAY W. C. Dnniwaj Is Entered in Cham pionship at Philadelphia. NEW YORK. March 15. The execu tive committee of the National associa tion of amateur billiard players an nounced tonight the entry list for the class "A" championship. The entry, an uncommonly good one. ST. JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' BASKETBALL QUINTET It tut ' i ' t t i 4 f ,y ; :":V- A - V ' - ff -' -' . t E Lf-v'.--, r - ' ' TOP ROW, LEFT TO RlfiHT COACH WILCOX, M'CARTHV, MID DLE ROW. LEFT TO RHiMT DAT, DEA.1, HIPKORD. LOWER ROW. LEFT TO RIGHTv-P-ALMER, YOUSG, M'GREUOR, WAFS, MANAGER. The girls' basketball five of the James John High School, St, Johns, made a very creditable showing during the season just ended. It played but two teams from other schools, winning two of four games. Many games were won from other teams in the school. This was the second season of basketball among the girls of the school, and much interest was evinced in the sport. JEMvI.VS. comprises the following seven players: Edward W. Gardner, of New York, who has already held the championship twice; Charles E. Conklln and Percy Collins, of Chicago; J. Cope Morton, of Philadelphia; Dr. Walter Uffenlielmer and Joseph Mayer, of Phi's de.ipl.la; and W. C. Duniway, of Portland, Or. The turnament will be in Philadel phia, beginning March 24.' SPORTING SPARKS WHEN Jack Leon came to at Fort Wayne following a five-minute knockout at the hands of Jess Willard, they say he murmured this: "v.ii Mark, he didn't knock me out did he? Ana ir dot aam roof don t fall on me I vould haf been de chempeen, ain'd It?" The Papke-Klaus fight has done more to kill boxing in France than any iiontest ever held in the French capital. The audience was thoroughly dis gusted with the "bunny hug" tactics. The day before the men were heroes. Tom O'Rourke writes from London that he Called to sea Charley Mitchell at nis nome the other day and found the famous English pugilist in a very precarious condition. "Mitchell will hardly recover," O'Rourke says, "owing to the fact that he is apparently in the lasi stages of Bright a disease. ' Frank PIcato, the American llght- wetgui, aeteaiea hock J.eyes In 13 rounas in Australia recently. Johnny Kllbane expects to leave for the Coast on March 20 to prepare for nis April ID arrolr with Johnny Dun- aee. UTom recent performances Kil bane will have no trouble with Dundee. m Chicago has the followine lineuo of Italian ngnters: Tony CaponI, middle weight: Willie Schafer. welterweight Jimmy Murphy, liehtweieht: Jimmv i ravers, joe Homeland. Kid Buckem, featherweights; Christy Marr and iranKtt Izzo, bantams. If Jack Johnson ever gets into a rina: again he will cut a more pitiable figure tnan John u. Sullivan did when he rougbt Jim Corbett. Luther McCarty is not big enough in the ring game to play fast and loose for long as he did with Bombardier Weils. Eddie McGoorty and Bob Moba will clash at Milwaukee tomorrow night. The boys are scheduled to fight 10 rounds at 160 pounds. Only a month or two ago Moha weighed more than 200 pounds, according to the press yarns. Rudy Unhola and Bat Nelson, the old men of the ring, may clash at Kenosha. Wis., ere long. Rudy is keen for the meeting. Frank Farmer, of Kapowsin, Wash., Is touted as the best middleweight in 'the Northwest. Farmer made a uplen lid showing asrainat Billy- Ross at Ta coma. Minnesota has 7(17 banks under state su, ervision, with resources totaling Slo0,957, 000. 1 -wi, X. ' .Tw" f-fep :'rJ 2 1 Turning Out Champion Ath letes Is Specialty. COACH HAS RECORD OF OWN Principal of Jefferson Hiph School Graduate of Bishop Scott Acad emy and Yale Ui:nse!f Foot ball and Baseball Star. Turning out championship athletio teams is a specialty of Hopkln Jenkins, principal of the Jefferson Iliph School. Mr. Jenkins has been connected with the Portland schools since 1900 and has developed three championship gram mar school footbull teams and one ' prep" school championship baseball nine. Besides being a good coach.' Mr. Jenkins lias a record as a baseball and football player. He played with Bishop Scott Aoademy, where he attended school in the early 90s. before enter ing Yale, from- which institution he graduated in 1900. lie played quar- terhack on the Bishop Scott football eleven and shortstop on the baseball nine and was pronounced a remarka bly road player. In the Fall of 1900 Mr. Jenkins ar rived here from Yale and became faculty member of the Bishop Scott Academy. He was Instructor of his tory and Latin. It was greatly through his help in coaching the Bishop Scott football eleven in this year that the team made a record for itself. Rosa, who was a member of the Columbia University football team at New York, as well as of the Multnomah Club squad, was playing on the team then. Jenkins Eliminates Ceacblns;. Bishop Scott Academy went out of existence early in 1901 and Mr. Jenk ins was employed as history instructor at- the Hill Military Academy durlns the remainder of tite year. While at Hill ha did not coach any athletio team, but was a strong advocate for toe promotion of sports. From 1903 to 1905 Jenkins served as latin and history instructor at tho Portland High School, known now as Lincoln High. While connected with this school Mr. Jenkins was general man ager of athletics and helped coach the football team of 190s and 1904. During these ears Portland High School was always a contender for in terscholastlc football championship honors. At that time the following preparatory schools formed the league: Portland Academy, Portland Hiprlt Scheol, Columbia University and Hill Military Academy. In the Spring of 1905 it was Jenkins who coached the championship Port land High School baseball team. This ended Mr. Jenkins' career as a prepar atory school isrructor until the Fall of 1909, when he became principal of -Jefferson High School, where ho is now. During this time Mr. Jenkins was con nected with the Portland Grammar schools. Work Shows Reaalta. It was not long after his connection with the grammar schools that ht) turned out championship athletics teams. In the Fall of 1908, when ho was principal of the Atkinson School. he coached the championship football team of the lightweight division. When the board of education transferred Mr. Jenkins to the Holladay School it cast gloom among the Atkinson- athletes and cheered the Holladay pupils, as ho turned out championship football teams for Holladay in 1907 and 1908. Soon after the completion of the Jef, ferson High School Mr. Jenkins was ap pointed principal of that school and while the school has not won any ath letic championships, it is strongly rep-. resented in all sports. As Mr. Jenkins is compelled to de vote his time to school work he ha been unable to coach a great deal re cently, but managed to coach the base ball nine of 1909, which played off tha Portland Interscholastic championship tie with Washington, losing during tht latter part of the game. This was tho only game lost by the team during the year. Such football stars as Pink am, Carson, Cason, Campion, Williams, McAllen, Cole and McMurry wera coached by Jenkins. "I believe In athletics, not for tha select few. but for the body of stu dents, and It has been my policy hero to have as many as possible take part in some branch of sport," said Mr. Jenkins yesterday. "1 am heartily In favor of the playground movement and believe that the boys and girls of to day need physical training to better their mental condition." COX IS BUILDING KACEK Motorboat Contests to Bo Keen This Season. With J. E. Wolff building a new one- step hydroplane racing motorboat, and the Smith-Ryan Boat & Engine Com pany threatening to Invade the North west with two Reliance models, R. F, Cox and Dixon brothers, owners of the Swastika, are also building a new racer at a cost of 12500. Mr. Cox completed plans for the new boat, and the construction work has al ready begun. Dixon brothers, who built the Swastika, are in charge of the con struction of the new speeder and ex pect to have iT out for its first trial in about a month. The boat will be a 20-footer and will be of the one-step hydroplane type. When completed Mr. Cox Is confident that the new speeder will make better time than the Swastika, which has a record of better than 40 miles an hour. rhe six-cylinder, 130-horsepower en gine, which is now Being used in tne oid boat, will furnish the power, and the beam will bo several feet wider than that of the Swastika. "I look for keener competition this year, and 1 am going to De prepared for it," said Mr. Cox yesterday. "There are a number or rwortnwest motorboat enthusiasts building new speeders and thought It advisable to get In line and build one, too. The Swastika at present is the fastest 20-fonter on the Coast and we expect to get better timo out of the new boat. I will be well prepared in case my hull should prove worthless, as I will keep the Swastka in readiness to fall back on. The new boat's beam will be several feet wider than my old boat, and this should in crease its speed. I will enter ail racing meets possible. It is likely that the new boat will be seen In action In the Tacoma, 8eattle, Everett and Balllng ham race meets. Should the Portland motorboat enthusiasts stage a racing meet, I will only be too glad to enter." Grays Harbor Exports Shellfish. MONTESANO. Wash.. March 15.-. (Special.) Grays Harbor Is fast be coming one of the most important ex porting places of shell fish, and in its crab shipments threaten to outrival Dungeness. More than 50,000 crabs have been caught and shipped from this section during the past three weks. The crabs are caught Just out side the bar, the good weather of the past month making it possible for tha men to fish nearly every day. m