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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.
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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.
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'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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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