THE STHTDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLA2!,, DECEMBER 21, 1913.
GYMNAST REOUiKES
HASTEN
J. Lee Thompson Tells Why
Spectacular Feats Now
Are Left to Circus.
APPARATUS WORK IS TOLD
Multnomah CInb Physical Director
Says Beginner 6 boa Id Study Un
der Experienced Instructor
In Good Gymnasium.
ARTICLE FOURTH OF SERIES.
Tm Is the third article of ths series on
Crmnulun work br J. L Thompson. In
siructor of the lloltnomsh Club. This
article Is not so much a treatise on bow to
do the work as to explain briefly the benefits
to be derived from some oi the heavy ap
paratus. BT J- LEE THOMPSON.
Physical Director Multnomah Club.
The old order of things in regard to
Teats of strength and daring in the
gymnasium has passed, so far as gen
eral exercise Is concerned. They have
been made specialties and are seen in
circuses and on the vaudeville stage.
The physical directors of today .deal
with apparatus work differently. A
dudII Is led through simple exercises
to stronger ones, so that in a course
that,. extends over a penoa or tour
years he becomes master of his mus
cles and can perform what at one time
seemed impossible.
He is then ready to enter the be
ginner's class of the circus. In all
apparatus work co-ordination and. bal
ance movements play an . Important
j.art: however, the strengthening of
the larger groups of muscles is the
main idea. Athletes are taught to han
dle the whole body Instead of some
particular part, as when light ap
paratus Is used.
The horizontal bar is the most pop
ular piece of heavy apparatus. It is
used to develop the chest, arms, shoul
ders, upper back and abdominal mus
cles. "Giant Swims" far Ambitions.
It Is the ambition of every pupil of
this piece of apparatus to be able to
do the "giant swing." by taking an
ordinary grip on the bar and swinging
around it with arms, body and legs ex
tended. I daresay there have been more
tumbles as a result of trying this trick
than any other. On the other hand It
is easy enough If one goes through
the necessary exercises leading up to
it. I am not writing a book, so will not
give many exercises on any piece of
apparatus; what tew I do give will be
explained.
Thepull up on the bar with palm
front grasp is a very beneficial exer
cise for the arms, forearms, chest and
upper back. (The picture on the bar
illustrates this position.)
The upstart, or kip. is a fine exer
cise also; it strengthens the abdom
inal walls as well as the chest and
arms.
The parallel bars make a very valu
able piece of apparatus on account of
the varied number of exercises which
can be done on them. There is hardly
a muscle that cannot be brought Into
play by some exercise upon them.
Among the star feats among the am
bitious Is the hand balance, or hand
stand, combined with walking and
turning around. The pushups are a fa
vorite exercise and develop the triceps,
subscapilarious. trapesions and flexors.
Exercises of the horses are mostly
of a balancing -nature. They teach
the use of weight to the best advan
tage. The greatest benoiits. I be,
lieve. are received in the wrists and
forearms. The transversalus muscles
come In for their share of the work
also. The half back-lever is easy
enough for one who has strong wrists
and good abdominal muscles, but quite
hard otherwise. All manner of vaults
are executed on the horse.
Riajcs Exhilarate Gjinil.
The rlng.are popular. The pleas
ure and exhilaration of traveling
through space Is experienced. Like the
horizontal, one has to be able to handle
his entire weight most of the time, i
There are a number of exercises that
are simple and do not require much
strength, such as putting legs through
rings and swinging as in ordinary
swing, hanging by knes. forming
bird's nest. etc. The most fun. though.
Is Just to Jump and awing from hang
ing position. This deepens the chest
nd demands deep breat:i:rr.
The picture shows a back lfvcr. This
Is quite hard until one hns developed
a coud set of back and shoulder mus
cles. It is not the hardest trick on
the rings by a long way. Thi cross Is
one of the most difficult tricks. This
In done by spreudlng both arms out
straight parallel with the floor aid
supporting the body at rijsht angle wllh
arms.
In the gymnasium there are many
other pieces of apparatus on which ex
ercises may be dime to helo put the
body under control. The stall bars,
or ladder wall. Inclining ladder. ver;I
cal ladder, horisrntal ladder, tumbling
mat. buck, ropes, poles, traveling rings
and pulley weights are but a tew pieces
found ;e.i well -appointed gymraslum.
like the Multnomah.
The first lessors on all heavy anoar
ttus should be taught br an instructor
of -physical training, whether ir the
gymnasium or on the playgrounds.
Notable Bowling Records
MUSCLE
LL.GONQUIN CUE. New York. 1175.
Team George Sv.ilt'.-. F. L. Died
erick. "Jamie" Watt. F. V. Moynah.tn
and M. C. Wvman. Pp tiled with lig
n um vane wofKf balls on the Columbia
alleys. JTew York. .
I'cwarJ Majors. Chicago. 111.. 120.
(leaded balls.
Bikes. St Louis, Mo. 127. 1900
(loaded hMls.
Brooklyn Interstate I.rague team,
four games. 446 (averatre . !'. 24:
Orar.d Central aMevs. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mal'.hops, Rochester. N. Y.. three
games total. 3197 (nve-aac. 1165): rr.nde
at Syracuse. N. Y Jenuary 21. 11S.'
Orad Centrals. Rochester. N. Y..
three games, total 2997 (sve-eo. !:
N. B. A. tournament. Patersnn, N. J,
ISii
Three-Man Team Bwrd.
Mortimer Lindsay, Ale-tender Pun
bar and Glenn Itidell. 77: Columbia
alleys. N. Y.. 1 '.'.
Tno-Mas Team Keeerdn-
K. L Plederlck. 277: il. C. Wyman,
2"S: total. 6S5. Columbia alleys. New
York. 1904.
McGuirk and Grady. Pateraon. 523:
N. B. A. tournament. Rochester. N.
Y.. l0i.
George C. Keisey and Charles John
son. New Haven (three games), total.
1355: N. B. A. tournament. Buffalo, N.
Y 1911.
Individual Record.
William E. Roach (three games), 300,
tJ. 29: total 169 (average 289.2);
Ademy alleys. Wilmington. DeL. 10.
Lee R. Johns. New York (six games).
:;. 268. Sis. 277. 277. 2T9; total. 1621
(average. 271.1); 61 strikes. spares,
no breaks: Oxford alleys. Newark, N.
J.. 10. (A Greater Ktw York in
dividual series. "Jamie" Watt was
Johns' opponent: Watt lost.).
M. C. Wyman. New York (six
games). 245. 278. 257. 280. 257. 226;
total. 1443 (average. 257.1): rolled with
wooden ball on the Columbia alleys.
New York. 1904. .
Charles Schaeder (three games). 267,
27S. 268: tots!. S14 (average. 271.1):
Amphlon alleys. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Larry Sutton. Rochester. X. Y. (three
games). 279. 2 ST. 25: total, 798 (aver
age. 264); State League tournament,
Syracuse. N. Y.. 1013.
"Jimmy" Smith. New York (three
games), total. 771 (averages 2"7): C.
B. A. tournament, Hamilton, Canada,
112N
George Kaumpf. buffalo, N. Y. (three
games), total. 712 (average. 237.2); B.
A. tournament, Rochester, N. Y., 1913
Mortimer Lindsay, New York (three
games), total, 708 (average. 236.2);
Metropolitan Championship. Grand Cen
tral alleys. Brooklyn. N. Y., 1911.
Mortimer Lindsay, New York (nine
games), total. 203 1 (average, 225.6);
N. B. A. tournament (all events), Pat
erson. N. J., 1912.
Otto Kulusch. Rochester, N. Y. (high
single game). 288: N. B. A. tournament,
Buffalo, N. Y 1911.-
Fred B. Kgelhoff (76 games), aver
age. 230.29; Palace alleys. Brooklyn,
N. Y 1906.
John Koster, New York, has the dis
tinction of having made the perfect
score (300) more times than any other
bowler in captivity, he having achieved
the maximum score no less than 15
times.
"Jimmy" Smith, world's champion
bowler, has won every time he start
ed In the Greater New York and In-ter-Clty
Individual Championship tour
nament, setting the pace for the lesser
stars during the seasons of 1906, 1907,
190S. 1909 and 1913.
G0AGHIN6 SYSTEM HIT
PRINCKTOX FAXS THISK SKIAD
NOT FILLY DEVELOPED.
1913 Tiger Team. Potentially Strongest
la Years, Falls. te Make Shnwins
Expected Change Wanted.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. (Special.)
The Princeton coaching system in
football has been the target for more
than a little heated criticism since the
closing of the gridiron season for the
Tigers. For several seasons dissatis
faction has been growing, and the feel
ing is strong that the eleven has not
been developed to Its fullest strength.
Criticism Is not. and never has been,
aimed directly at the coaches, for. In
every Instance they have done all that
lay In their power. It is declared that
nothing can be more unreasonable than
to put absolutely green men at the
head of the field work and expect
them successfully to vie with coaches
who have had the advantage of from
two to five or even 10 years' actual
experience at the task set before them.
Haugbtons and Cavanaughs are not
made In a single season, is the conten.
tlon of the advocates of a new system
at Princeton, and it is thought that
no season is better proof of Princeton's
need of sucb men than the one Just
closed.
Rarely have the Tigers had greater
potential strength than the season Just
past, and yet they were beaten by
Dartmouth and Harvard and outplayed
by Yale. The Dartmouth and Yale
games are taken as the most glaring
examples of this year's coaching fail
ures. The Yale game was a particu
larly keen disappointment, and has
heightened the spirit of discontent with
the present system. Nobody knows
Just where the responsibility lies, and
that leads to the most severe criticism
that can be made against the system
the utter lack of leadership.
A Princeton man. who has been
closely identified with athletics, said
a few days ago:
"The most urgent demand In foot
ball at Princeton is for an experienced
head coach of commanding personality,
who will take entire charge of the
work of the season and shoulder the
responsibility for the policy adopted
for the team. A multitude of coaches,
all equally responsible or irrespon
sible, has done more than anything else
to block the effectiveness of the grad
uate coaching system, and It Is to avoid
this line that the undergraduates are
demanding a change.
"The opinions of a woman who has
played with the team he is coaching,
and who has to look up more or less to
a committee of five other graduates,
few of whom agree, can scarcely be as
Impressive as those of a coach who has
proved his Judgment and is fri to
work out a definite policy. Con pro
mise amounts to a jumble and cannot
bring out the best there Is In a team.
Authority this year was divided among
at least three men. and no one could
be sure who had the final word."
Hungarian Pheasants to Be Tried.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Dec. 20.
(Special.) Twenty-four pairs of Hun
garian pheasants, recently received
from Europe, will be sent to this coun
iv soon. Tliev are about the size of
the ordinary pheasant but are believed
to be hardier and more capable of car
irg for themselves than the Mongolian
pieasant. Several shipments of the
latter have been made into this sec
tion and they have been well cared for
each Winter, but so far they have made
little increase. The bob white quail
does not seem well adapted to this sec-
ticn either, as they show little Increase i
though protected by law. I
COMMERCIAL BOWLING LEAGUE BOWLERS, WHO ARE TERRORS TO THE ALLEY BOYS
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J. LE THOMPSON. PHYSICAL
PAETS OF
BOWLERS BU5f HOW
No Postponement Before Con
ference Is Plan.
HOLIDAYS' LETUP" LIKELY
Class A Tournament, in Which 20
Teams Are Entered, Planned by
Association on Saratoga
Alleys This Week.
While the holidays will put a damper
on most of the bowling leagues, the
Commercial has decided to roll its
regular games on Tuesday night to
keep the time before the Northwestern
Bowling conference from 'getting too
well filled with postponements.
The Oregon Alley and Saratoga
Alley house leagues will bowl their
regular games.
However, this does not mean that
there will be nothing doing on the
skids, for the festival week will be
an extremely busy one.
On the Saratoga Alleys the associa
tion has arranged a two-men class A
tournament in which 20 teams have
been entered. The entrance fee Is $2
and the resultant sum has been di
vided 15. $10, $8. J5 and S2. This will
mnke a real nice little present to the
winning team.
The games will be rolled on six al
leys, one game on each and total pins
will tell the score.
The teams of two men have been
made of a high bowler and a low
bowler, so that the general average
does not vary five pins. It was the
aim of the schedule committee to have
the average of the two read about 160.
The teams are:
1 ODonnell 197
Shepard 155 S52
2 Meek h
Duraton ltK 838
S Kruse 1M
Xaper 14fl 30B
4 Ahrcns Cr '. .1HS
Mvers "Dad" 17 8G0
5 H outer 310
Berthold 107 357
H.rhtcl 18U
Major .- M7-357J
7 Raymond iw
Fro'jst !': 3o8
S Franklin 1SS
NIelson 171 359
9 Case 17 -
Binhop 171 338
19 r;llro- 1S3
BVjcock 171 351
11 S'ctf- , 1S3
Capen 172 .1.15
s -ncntneyer -. . , 1K3
i'rancis - 17 3.-i5
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(he HorUoatal Bar 2. the Horse Fur- """-L A ' - -.TJ , p Jt
Biskra Good Work for the Legs, Ab- i ' - ', "i S (Kf - fj
domea and Hips 8, The Hand Stand. i 111 iff W
One of the Points to Wbleh the Amlil- aaJflj A t I 1 ir" " A
tlon of Every Gymnasium Worker - m 1 irrttis .5 txf k' f
Points V . .l J -. J A
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DIRECTOR MULTNOMAH CLTJB,ILLTJSTRATINQ; SOME OF VALUABLE
WOKK OH HEAVI uimjiA&iwm
13 Meister ....
usternauic
14 Hanson
Wood
10 Abell
Christian . .
1(1 Melvln
Freeboroush
17 Ahrens Al. .
Baker . .
18 Heffron ...
Leap ......
lfl Meyers. Al.
Blaney '. . . .
20 Goldsmith
Ball
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174 33
1S1
175 358
, 1711
178 357
17S
17S 35
17S
,..17S 356
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C.' H. Ball and Al Myers played two
series of four games each to settle
their long-standing tie of one of ths
weekly series. - However, they both
won A set, and will have to settle their
grievance at another meeting. Ball won
his with a total of 869, and Myers took
the first with 772.
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Harry Meek is organizing a "south
paw" bowling team to represent the
Saratoga alleys as, a standing deft to
all comers. . Some of the members will
be Deppe, of the Baker Shoe Company:
Goldsmith, Gus Ahrens, Meek and Paul
Knisey.
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Ojendyke looks like a winner in the
most 200 score contests for December.
He had nearly 50 of them yesterday,
and was still going at last report.8
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Fisher and Babcock are leading the
Saratoga ragtime contest. Their best
mnrlc la 1217. which gives them some
assurance of winning the event. Ber-
thold and Goldsmith are secona wnn
199 tw1 Mr'Mnhnn and Berthold third
with 1221. One hundred and fifty teams
have Dowiea - in mis contest uaws,
with three days more to go.
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Ball rolled the high game of the
week on the Saratoga alleys, spilling
253 in one of the games. Krause holds
the high score for the month, 269. Ojen
dyke made 10 consecutive spares on
Thursday night, winning the special
prize for the first man able to roll the
r.bove.
The House League 6n the Oregon
alleys is making a lot of smoke and
causing, good matches. The Friday night
games brought out some good totals.
The men, although classed as C
Leaguers, are playing over their heads,
but seem to have the ability to keep It
up from week to week.
.
On Friday night the Olds, Wortmen
& King team defeated the Ballou &
Wright five, two of three games. The
Columbus Juniors took all three from
the Portland Sign five, the second by
a difference of one pin.
The scores were:
Total.
Portland Sign Co.. ..731 766 675 2152
Columbus Juniors. ..741 757 839 2337
Second match:
Olds, W. & King... .758 E31 865 2464
Ballou & Wright... 763 72S 792 2183
In the Oregon Alley Duckpin League
the Blaney five defeated the Bailey
team two of three games. The- scores
were:
Blanevs 446 418 421 1283
Baileys .'423 457' 404 1266
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ArrABAiua
CLASS IMPENDS
Northwestern Magnates to
Meet Here Tomorrow.
More "dates is demand
Portland and Taooraa Demand Open
ing Game at- Seattle McGinnlty
Thinks Tigers Should Play
More Batt at Home.
Some lively skirmishing Is expected
at the annual meeting of the North
western League, which convenes In
Portland tomorrow afternoon.
Fielder A. Jones, the man whose
personality and baseball experience
brought the Class B League out of
a bad tangle a couple of years ago
and gave it prestige all over the coun
try, was elected to a three-year term
in 1912, so the presidency will not be
a moot topic.
But. with all the delegates barking
about more home dates, and Portland
and Tacoma both lined up for the open
ing date in Seattle, there likely will
be enough excitement and talk to keep
up former records.
"McGinnlty is howling about a better
deal at home," commented W. W. Mc
Credle yesterday. "McGinnlty had
about 85 games at home last year and
an equal number abroad. What Is he
kicking about? Tacoma split Its
series with Seattle, but It makes no
difference to the rest of us whether
they are split aeries or run the entire
week through. That Is his business
and he can have it that way if fc
wishes.
"So far as the opening date muddle
is concerned it is Portland's turn to
open at Seattle and I intend to see
that we do. That's all I have to say."
FOUR TWiRLERS AT TOP
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ISSUES ITS
HONOR ROLL FOR 1913.
Flene. McQuillan, Cutting and Clemons
Make Good Records -"King" Cole
Is "Iron Mam" of League.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Pitching honors
so far as proportion of games won
and lost determines them, went to Fiene
of Minneapolis. McQuillan of Columbus,
Cutting of Milwaukee and demons of
Louisville in the 1913 American Asso
ciation season, according to figures an.
nounced today by President Chivington.
Fiene is credited with seven victories
snd two defeats; McQuillan, with 12
victories and four defeats, and Cutting,
who took part altogether in 39 games,
won 21 of the victories which gave
Milwaukee the pennant. He lost nine
games. Clemens was credited with
seven victories and three defeats,
though he was on the slab in 23 games.
"King" Cole, who was drafted by
the New York Americans, where he
will play under Frank Chance, his
captain when he was a cub, ranked
among the "Iron men" of the league,
pitching in 46 games for Columbus,
with a record of 23 games won and 11
lowC -His record gave him sixth place.
Eayres, of Columbus, was fifth, with
nine wins and four defeats.
Louisville and St. Paul tied for team
fielding honors with .964 each, and
Milwaukee's champions ranking third,
with .960.
Clatskanie .DefeRts Astoria.
CLATSKANI2. Or... Jec. 20. (Spe
cial.) The local high, school basket
ball team won one of the hardest and
closest games ever played on the local
floor by downing Astoria High. 18 to
17. last night. By virtue of this vic
tory Hie home quintet is the undisputed
champion of the Lower Columbia
River.
Harvard Honors Lewis H. Mills.
Lewis Hunt Mills, a Portland boy,
has been appointed third marshal of
the senior class at Harvard University.
Toung Mills is a member of the Insti
tute of 1770. and made his "H" in var
sity football in the game against Tale
November 22. .
REAL SPORTSMEN
NOW BEING BRED
Game Commission Sees Far
Less Trouble in Enforcing
Laws of State.
CLUBS HELP IN WORK
William L. Flnley Xotes Hopefnl
Signs Pump Guns Thought Men
ace to. Best Interests and Un
written Law Discussed.
The State of Oregon has witnessed
a remarkable change in the class of
sportsmen who take advantage of the
game resources of Its fields and for
ests, in the opinion of State Game
Warden Finley. The Game Commission
has had less trouble in enforcing the
laws this year than before.
Part of this- can be attributed .to
the organization of sportsmen's clubs
in different cities of the state on the
order of the Multnomah Anglers' Club,
of Portland.
Through these an extensive aduca
tlonal campaign has done much good.
At each meeting of these associations
soma, of the prominent hunters and
anglers talk of their experiences and
occasionally officials of the state game
protection departments explain - the
laws, their functions and how the en
forcement will benefit the hunter.
Better Sportsmen Developed.
In speaking of the condition, William
L. Finley says:
"One of the most hopeful signs in
fish and game protection throughout
Oregon is the rapid development of a
better class of sportsmanship In an
gling and hunting. The protection of
game and the enforcement of game
laws are matters of growth and edu
cation. Formerly game was abundant.
The country was unsettled and little or
no attention was paid to game laws.
This is the case even at the present
time In some sections of the state. Yet
in the advance of civilization it be
comes necessary to have game laws and
to live up to these laws. The effective
ness of game protection is governed by
the interest of the people and the spirit
of those who hunt and fish.'
"Many people wink at the tales of
an angler when he continually boasts
of the number of fish he catches and
the size of the big ones that get away.
They also look with suspician upon the
hunter who brags about tne numDer
of birds he shoots. The majority of
people know that a true sportsman
does not judge the success of his hunt
by the size of his game bag.
"There are certain things in the ad
vance of civilization and in the rapid
development of firearms that help to
discourage .good sportsmanship. The
modern, up-to-date gun has it over the
old-style because it is a cheaper in
strument with a far' greater killing ca
pacity. The substitution of the pump
and automatic shotgun for the single
and double-barreled shotgun encour
ages a great deal of carelessness among
hunters. It takes a deal of training to
make a real sportsman out of a hunter
with an automatic gun. It is like try
ing to-make a useful American citizen
out of a boy whose father has left him
a fortune.
Doable-Barrel Gun TTrged.
"The modern rapid-fire guns encour
age hunters to take greater chances in
killing and to be less careful in their
shooting. A hunter who knows he has
but one or two shots is more carelul
In aim than if he knows he can fire
from five to ten shots as rapidly as
he can pull the trigger. A man with
an automatic often begins shooting
before his birds are within range and
continues shooting until they are far
out of reach. As a result a larger
number of birds are wounded to get
away and die in some fence corner.
With high-powered rifles many a deer
hunter "takes absurd chances and many
an animal is wounded, never to be
found except by a predatory cat, cou
gar or wolf. '
"Organizations of sportsmen should
commend the use of the double-barreled
shotgun in preference to the
pump or automatic in wild fowl shoot
ing. The smaller bore, close-shooting
shotguns are also to be recommended.
A true sportsman frowns on potting a
sitting bird rather than giving It a
flying chance."
In speaking of hunting conditions on
the Columbia Kiver where the ducks
are each year becoming less numerous
Finley says:
"The Joy of the hunt comes to the
amateur and not to the professional.
A certain amount of duck shooting
along the Columbia Kiver and a good
number of duck hunters are not so
much In the amateur class as they are
professionals. By professional we
mean they are too much interested in
the killing and in the amount of game
killed rather than the true spirit of
sport
"There is a great deal of overflow
COLUMBIA UXIVERSITY HALF
BACK ELECTED TO CAP
TAIN 1914 TEAM.
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George Mxon.
At a meeting of the letter men
of the 1913 football squad of the
Columbia University, George Nix
on, selected for a halfback posi
tion on the 1913 all-star team,
was chosen to lead the 1911 ag
gregation. This is Nixon's third
year with the university and as
a reward for his faithful serv
ices the captaincy was bestowed
on him. Leland Seufert, the lit
tle end who had his leg broken
in two places in the last game
of the season.' was chosen as al
ternate captain. In case that
Nixon fails to return to school
in. the Fall Seufert will step
right Into the vacated position.
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land along the Columbia Kiver. There
are many small and large lakes, ponds
and sloughs which are ideal feeding
and resting places -for ducks. As pop
ulation increased and more people be
came interested in duck shooting -the
owners of the lowlands along the Co
lumbia rented their lakes and ponds
for shooting privileges. They have
asked higher and higher rents each
year until 'their prices have become
unreasonable. '
Need 'for Leaders) Shown.
"In addition to this, as the number
of duck hunters Increased and ducks
became less In number, the baiting or
feeding of lakes and ponds became a
common practice. Hundreds of tons of
wheat are fed to wild ducks along the
Columbia River each season to decoy
-the Viirds to the blinds.
"The high rents that are paid for
shooting privileges and the large
amount of wheat that is fed places a
money value on many ducks -of from
$2 to $5 each. It is this excessive
cost and these conditions that make
many duck hunters feel that they have
a right to kill a large number of
birds because they are paying out a
big amount of money. The sport,
therefore, is reduced to a money basis.
It is but natural that certain of these
duck hunters are asking for the priv
ilege of selling their ducks.
"For many years it lias been a sort
of an unwritten law with the best
class of sportsmen along the Columbia
to shoot but once a week. Certain
hunters are overstepping this rule
and shooting twice and three times a
week. The Federal law for the pro
tection of migratory birds lays down
a rule that Is fair for one and all no
shooting between sunset and sunrise.
Yet there is a certain class of sports
men who cannot withhold from pot
ting birds before the legal time ot
shooting.
"We desire to call the attention ot
those sportsmen who are interested in
duck shooting along the Columbia to
the facts and conditions as they exist
today. The time has come when the
better class of sportsmen must assert
themselves and when the spirit of real
sportsmanship must be shown."
SOTO TO TRY AGAIN
WILLIE HOFPB3 TO BE TAKES O.V
ONCE MORE FEBRUARY 3.
Coming Match Will Make Sixth Time
To Have Met. Champion Being
Consistent Title Winner.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. (Special.)
Willie Hoppe. the billiard champion,
has inserted a bright spot in an other
wise dull and drab billiard season by
accepting the challenge of George Sut
ton, the Chicago expert, for a match for
the 18.2 title. The match will be played
in New York on February 3, probably
at the Hotel Astor. ,
This will make the sixth time that
these two billiardists have met in title
matches. Hoppe has been a consistent
winner, but Sutton has been Just as
consistent a challenger. The prent
champion easily defeated Sutton in
their last match, which was held in
this city, but Sutton, who is one of
the most experienced players in the
country, is dangerous at any time, and
when playing up to form is liable to
get away on a high run at any time.
There was considerable discussion
over the place for playing the coming
match. Sutton wanted the contest
staged in Chicago, and in this was
backed by a large following of the
game in the Windy City. But Hoppe
htood on the rights of the champion to
dictate the place for the match and
insisted on New York. The Chicago en
thusiasts claim that Hoppe's insistence
on playing all of his matches in New
York does not tend to promote the best
interests of the game in other parts of
the country where the billiard fans are
also anxious to see title matches.
This match will bridge over what
otherwise promised to be a slow year
in billiards. The postponement of the
Hoppe-Iriman match for international
honors left nothing on the card except
a proposed tournament for the 14.2
title, which may be held some time in
April, until the next tournament for
the 18.Z title.
Koji Yamada, the Japanese billiard
player, who made such a good showing,
in the last championship tournament in
this city by defeating Hoppe on one of
the nights of the contest, is preparing
to stir things up in the next tourney.
He has been touring the country and
has been a hit everywhere he has
played. Just now he Is showing his
talent in Boston and has won the ad
miration of the Hub fans for his abil
ity to nurse the ivories for high runs
Yamada has announced that he doen
not intend to challenge Hoppe for a titlH
match but will probably be content to
wait for the next tournament, when h
hopes to have improved his game
enough to step out with a title.
Sutton to Meet Hoppe.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20 George Sutton
has accepted an offer of Willie Hoppe
for a 1500-polnt IS. 2 billiard match
for $1000 a side.
Sutton challenged Hoppe for a game
for 9250, but the champion insisted ou
the larger amount. It will be played
in Chicago next February.
De Oro to Play Morin.v
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Alfred De Oi,
of New York, champion three-cushion
billiard player, accepted today the
challenge for the title made by Charles
Morin, of Chicago. The match will be
played here January 6, 6 and 7.
GRUETTER WIXS PAPER CHASE
Hunt Club Programme for Spring
Months Prepared.
Walter Gruetter on Lady Myrtle cap
tured first honors in the paper chase
held yesterday by the Portland Hunt
Club. Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy
were hares and they picked out a
course of seven miles over somewhat
rough territory, but at that the foot
ing was good. Several stiff Jumps wera
included in the trip, which ended neat
Raleigh.
The paper chase was carried out by
the new officers of the club and start
ed from Fairvale at 2:30. Chester
Murphy came in second on Ella Hart
and Mrs. W. L. Wood was third on
Johnny.
The next paper chase will be New
Year's day, when the annual cup chase
is scheduled.
The outdoor programme of the Port
land Hunt Club for the coming Spring
has been made up and all the events ot
the season, with the exception of the
annual Spring meet, have been set.
A. M. Cronin was recently selected
as "master of the fox hounds" and
the first event of his programme was
yesterday's paper chase.
Events for the New Year are:
January 1, 1911 Open paper chase,
New Year's cup.
January 10, 1914 Paper chase.
January 17, 1914 Paper chase, foi
children.'
January 24, 1914 Paper chase.
February 7, 1914 Paper chase.
February 21. 1914 Open paper chase,
Washington birthday run.
February 28, 1914 Paper chase, for
children.
March 7. 1914 Paper chase.
March 21. 1914 Point-to-point rate.
April 4, 1914 Paper chase.
April 18, 1914 Ladles' paper chase.
May 2, 1914 Paper chase
May 16, 1914 Gymkana and barbe
cue. Date of Spring m will be an
nounced later.