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THE SUNT) AY ORI5GOXTAN. PORTLAND, . DECE3IBER 27. 1914. 3 135-POUND TEAMS iTLE FOR TITLE Western Club andAIbina Foot ball Squads Ready for Game This Afternoon. EACH ELEVEN UNDEFEATED South Portland and Lincoln Park, of Junior League, to Meet on Sellwood Grounds Westover to Play Overlook Eagles. BY EARL R. GOODWIN. Independent football championship In Portland for this season are nearing a. close. Already tjie Columbia Park representatives have been declared the 1S14 title-holders irrespective of size or weight by virtue of their X7-to-6 trimming- handed to the East Portland eleven last Sunday. . This afternoon the lightweight section of the Archer & Wiggins League will see to It that the championship Is set tied between the Western Amateur Athletic Club and the Alblna squad on the Columbia Park grounds. Clyde Rupert, president of the league, has Issued order that the contest must Ktart promptly at 2:30 o'clock. Luke Rader will be referee; Clyde Rupert, umpire, ana Jiari Jt. uoodwln, head linesman. Both Sides Are Ready. Both aggregations have gone through the season without a setback, and each Is Just as confident of winning the line, coacn Woodworth. of the Athletic Club, has had his players out three tlmea a week drilling them on new plays. He says he is ready for the rray. Hair the players on the Western Club eleven are members of the Frank E. TVatklns" 135-pound 1913 champions. A great deal of interest is being snown in the contest by both aggrega tion. Several of the players have been fasting and taking Turkish baths in order to be able to get Into the light weight section. The teams must aver age 136 pounds, according to the orders of the league directors. Such well-known players as Law rence ("Mike") Bloch, for Albina. and Sam and Bill Graham, of the club side, are scheduled to take part. Bill Graham and Mike almost had to starve them selves in order to make the required weight, according to the followers of the squads. Football In the Portland Junior Athletic League is nearing a close as far as the settling of the championship Is concerned. As it now stands, three contingents are leading the heap with six victories and no defeats. Westover Juniors, South Portland Juoiors and Lincoln Park have yet to meet better teams. South Portland has not been scored on this year, but a big scare was presented to It when Albina Played it to a scoreless tie Christmas day. Considerable complaint has come . forth as a result of the match. Both teams claim overweight and one says the officiating was off color. Referee Louttit made a statement to the president of the league saying that he did the best he could under the cir cumstances. He had no co-operation from the players, spectators or even the head linesman, he says, and he further asserts that he Is glad that the embrogllo ended in the 0-0 score, as neither team can enter a protest. 1'ne crowd followed the teams up and down the field so close, in fact, that good playing was almost impos sible. During the entire get-together there was continued wrangling, and more than two hours were consumed in staging the contest. Police protec tion in a large measure was responsible for the lack of a general mix up. .South Portland will have its hands full this afternoon trying to stop the Lincoln Park footballers! The contest will be played on the Sellwood grounds and will start promptly at 2:30 o'clock. The officials have not been selected. A defeat for either ag gregation will hinder its progress for the 'coveted title. The Westover Juniors are slated to meet the Overlook Eagles at the grove, Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets, this afternoon. The Westovers will hook up with South Portland a week from next Sun day on the Sellwood Park grounds. Because of their recent success the Columbia Park players have been feted on several occasions. A hard-time dance was given in their honor last Tuesday evening in the Firemen's Kail at University Park. A large turnout was on hand and a considerably sum was taken in. which will go toward purchasing sweaters for the champions. Six handsome prizes were offered, and the judges Clyde Rupert, presi dent of the Archer & Wiggins League; Mrs. S. L. Kingston and Martin Park made awards to Miss C. Sneed, Miss N. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Howard Howes. Jesse Sneed. Elmer Bailey and M. L. Staysa. "Rowdy" Curry received honorable mention. Prizes were donated by Meier & Frank; Olds. Wortman & King, Plum mer Drug Company, A. C. Stubling. Archer & Wiggins and J. G. Mack & Co, Following is the season's record for the team: Columbia Park 7, Oregon City 0. Columbia Park 3. Mohawks 0. Columbia Park 10, East Portland 0. Columbia Park 0, Oregon City 0. Columbia Park 23, Mohawks 0. Columbia Park 6, Kawt Portland IS. Columbia Park 1", East Portland (i. Total. Columbia Park 66, oppon ents 24. lliiHcbull ifrevities. According to reports, organized base ball is soon to start a movement to get Ivack its Jumpers from the Federal League. Hojfer Bresnahan, the. new Cub boss, is still looking for a second baseman. m Jimmy Casey, former Cub and Brook lyn third-sacker, is now Detroit's lead lug dentist. Catcher Thomas is the only Boston Red Sox that has not signed his 1915 contract. It Is reported that the business men cf Toledo will organize a stock com pany and have the Cleveland American Association team back in Toledo for 1015. Evidently Connie Mack figures that the Philadelphia fan has been fed upon so many rich baseball viands that he has contracted gout in his paying arm. Outfielder Bert Paniels. of the Yan kees, is to be released to Louisville, according to reports from Gotham. Manager Joe Birmingham, of the Cleveland Naps, has announced that his big squad will be trimmed to SO mem bers before Spring. v It is said that during the last three years that he managed the White Sox, Jimmy Callahan never signed a con- BA ! tract. He is the only man on record connected with the playing end of the game who did not work under a con tract. A player deal between the Indianapo lis and Pittsburg Federals is pending. It has been reported that Ned Hanlon has sold, his stock in the Baltimore Federals. All teams in the National League have signed their managers for 1915. . "Buck" Freeman, the famous old home-run hitter of the Washington club, made quite a reputation for Him self as an umpire last season. He is now besieged -by three leagued who want ins services. The first thing Charley Herzog did after signing his contract to manage the Reds for two more years was to order a layout of the loudest sweaters that ever bedecked a ball club. Arthur Devlin, former Giant third eacker and Oakland manager, was seen in New York during the meeting of big league moguls recently. TIXSHOP QUIT FOR BASEBALL Papa Maranville Poor Judge of Son's Playing Ability. Walter Maranville broke into base ball against his father's wishes. Pa Maranville thought that "Rabbit" would make a mighty good tinner, but as a ball player bah! Several years ago the . "Rabbit" played amateur baseball in odd mo ments, and his work attracted the at tention of the New Bedford. Mass., team. "Rabbit" got an offer from the New Bedford team and went to his dad about it. "Turn it down," said Papa Maran ville, to "Rabbit." who just then was learning the tinners' trade. "In a few years you'll develop Into a good tinner and you'll make good wages at least $25 a week. As a ball player you'll never make good. You're too small." "Rabbit," however, disregarded the advice of his dad and signed up with New Bedford. "You'll be sorry and so will I," said his father when he heard what "Rab bit" had done. . "You'll never make good. They'll fire you in mighty short order. And you'll get so used to loaf ing that you won't want to work at your tinning Job again. Instead of having a son that I can be proud of, a son who works hard at a regular trvle, I'll have a son who won't be worklnjr at anything. Press Pointers. "The Feds have the last word in up-to-date warfare. When you can't beat the enemy, buy them." Chicago Herald. "Packy McFarland and Freddy Welsh are making more fuss over a pound of flesh than Shylock ever did." Pitts burg Post. "Now that Walter Johnson has ful filled his ambition to draw down a bis salary ho will probably begin worry ing about the income tax. Every sil ver lining has its cloud." New York Press. "Organized baseball has been mis taken many times within the past year regarding the Federal League and its strength. And O. B. is in line to be mistaken again if it now imag ines that the Federal League is due to die a natural death." Baltimore Sun. "There will be no shortage In beef in Germany this year. One of the first things the Kaiser did was to capture Zbyszko.". Chicago Exam iner. "It all depends, so to speak. If Charley Murphy had fired Bender, Plank and Coombs at one fell swoop the howls or the baseball scribes wojld have crowded the war news out of the newspapers." New York Amer ican. "Mr. Britton, the goldarn Joker, says Lee Magee is under moral obligations to the Cardinals. A moral obligation in baseball is almost as good as phoney money." New York Ameri can. "Now it is said that the Feds may get Moranville. but it is too late to do the Athletics any good." Philadel phia North American. "The waiver rule long may It wave." Chicago Post. "While the magnates are about this matter of retrenchment they might as well go back to the single umpire system. This would suit the fans, as it would allow them to concentrate on one man." New York World. "Ban Johnson insists that the Fed erals are on their last legs, but up to date, those guys appear to have as many last legs as a centipede." New York World. Panning by Shawkey Hurts Bender's Feelings. "That's Gratitude." Says Big Chief, and He. Narrates How He Worked Hard to Help Young Pitcher. OB Shawkey was recently quoted as saying that Chief Bender and Eddie Plank were "all in" and that they were effective last season only because Manager Manager Mack nursed them along and sent them against cluba that were easy for them, while other pitch ers, presumably himself and Joe s. il Bush, were saved Charles Bender. for the hard-hitting clubs. When he read this statement in Philadelphia Bender said that he could not believe that it came from Shawkey, but when he became convinced that It did, the big Indian laughed in a bitter way and said: "Gratitude. There's been a lot of talk about that lately in reference to ball players -who better themselves after they have been shown but little con sideration by employers that they worked hard to serve for years, but I did not think one ball player would hand it to another that way, particu larly when he is indebted to a ball player for a large part of his success. I worked harder with Shawkey than I ever have with a young pitcher and I will leave it to men on the team and other American Leaguers if Shawkey does not work exactly like me, and it is due to the time I worked with him. I taught him his curve ball, his change of pace, slow curve ball and rehearsed with him time and again little weak nesses of balsmen and gave him hints that I have always found invaluable. "It is hard to believe that he would pan Plank and me the way he has af ter all we have done for young pitch erf. In the first place, it is a Joke, hut it floes not appeal when it comes from a youngster who has yet to show that he can stand the gaff. I thought Shawkey was going to be agreat pitch er. He might, at that, but it requires brains to last long and I am now con vinced that he hasn't any. or any sence of appreciation. I am an older man, but Just take it from me. I have not strained my arm or wasted my strength and I will be pitching major league bait as long as Bob Shawkey. Remember that . when you hear people claim that I only have a year or two left." , - W ,.K di ??r WiK .t. ,W . - c ,-:-v i: j ColumWa r.rlc FootboU Team, Kront Ho-t, Left to Rieb Peterson, Ingram, V. V.t, Mn-eot Mron. Baliey nd WUkomb. hnrrl.ns, Left to HiKht Maurlw, Marphy. Wilehart, -Norway" uttenon acU Vl,, yard. St.ndins;. ltt to Rtsht. Conch - . S...KII..,r ' J ' . " V,nf- Yost and Manager Howh, AGGIES TO GET BUSY MID-VACATION BASKETBALL PIUC. TICK BEGINS MONDAY. Late Start Slakes Jt - Necessary Fa Team to Resume Work Successful Season Indicated, Fans Believe. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallls, Or Dec. 26. (Spe cial.) Basketball practice will be re sumed at the Agricultural College Mon day afternoon at 4 o'clock, when Cap tain King, Blagg, Sieberts, Mix arid a few others of the first squad will re port to Coach Stewart, after having had a week of the Christmas vacation with their relatives at their homes. Mid-vacation practice is held to be necessary owing to the late start which the Aggies made at the indoor game. Coach Stewart had Captain King, Dewey, Mix and Blagg out for football during the season just closed, and he thought a rest of a few weeks after the close of the football season would do the players more good than to rush right into the hard season of basketball training, hence the late start was nec essary. After a week of practice, which closed when school was dismissed for the holidays, only an Indefinite esti mate of the strength of the Aggies Is possible. Of course, the regulars tit last beason have a certain advantage over tho new men and as four of the five regulars from the 1913 team are on hand, things do not look specially gloomy. Considering the fact hat there are two or three good-looking Jresh mcu as well as Blagg and a few more of the subs of the 1913 team who ate going good in the early practice, the Aggie fans have every reason to hope tor a successful season. Assistant Manager May has scheduled a game with the Chemawa Indians for Tuosday night, January b, and this will be followed Saturday night by the an nual game with the - Alumni. The Alumni will have In their lineup such stars of former years as May, Cooper, Keck, Matson, Darling and others, who should be able to give the Aggies a real tryout. January 22 and 23 the Aggies will plan their first conference series at Seattle, when they will meet the champion Washington University team. After that conference games will come thick and fast. They will end with ihe big series with-the Oregon University, the latter part of February and the first of March. College Chatter FT. W college golfers have been able to win the National amateur cham pionship. Only three have attained this distinction, H. Chandler Egan, of Har vard, and Robert Gardner and E. M. Byers, both of Yale. Robert B. Ward, Jr.. of New Ro chelle, son of R. B. Ward, owner of the Brooklyn Federals, has been elected football manager of the Wesleyan team for the 1915 season. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity as well as of the Corpse and Coffin, an honorary society composed of Juniors. , -ji One of the few Harvard men to win monograms In both football and soccer is Frederic Burnham Withington, ot Honolulu. Withington received his H in the Princeton game, and. although not as athletically prominent as were his two brothers in Cambridge, he is one of the few athletes to be honored with two letters. i Cornell's first hockey game will ' be against Princeton next Tuesday In New York. AH the practicing of the Cor nell squad has been done indoors so far, but the players expect to get out on Beebe Lake before the day of the big game. Of the 28 candidates for the Cornell aggregation 12 of them were on the 1913-14 team. William Wood. of PottsviUe, Pa. will be the next captain of the Penn State varsity, according to the letter men of the 1914 eleven. Only 11 play ers were able to vote this year, the smallest number to receive their mono grams in years. Wood was acting cap tain during the last campaign, due to the injury of Captain Hobin, who was burned severely in a celebration which followed the 13-to-13 game with Har vard. Swlmraln'g is holding the attention of many of the Eastern Colleges just at this time. Amherst College has one of the strongest teams in the East, ac cording to the school followers. Many of the stars were brought out in the recent Inter-class races held in the school tank. A triangular match has been obtained with Brown and Will iams, and negotiation are going on now to have dual meets with Harvard. Brown, Cornell and Penn. Coach Dr. E. J. Stewart, of the Ore gon Agricultural College, is well pleased with his 1915 basketball pros pects, now that Ade Sieberts has prom ised to appear in a suit. Coach Stew art Jiad his players remain in College several days after the official vacation had started, to keep them in the best of condition. ' That a football coach, to produce the best results, should make coaching a regular business, is the opinion of William (Bill) Edwards. the famous Princeton guard. Edwards in express ins his views on the future coaching system at his former alma mater re 1914 INDEPENDENT FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS tMft ' Y f -t -fit:- 3 cently said: "I believe absolutely In the one-man system. Football has become a regular business, and In any regular business one man must stand at the head. Princeton has numerous men who are able to hold their own with any of them, but when this man is se lected he should give all his time to football. Such a man must be well paid, and this man, I believe, should have entire selection of the coaches iindcr him." With the coming of the holiday sea son many of the out-of-town Portland era attending schools wend their way back to the home firesides. From the two California universities come Dick Grant, Jack Day. Tom Greer. John Buckley, Bab Fithian. Raymond Buck ley and Howard McKay. Oregon uni versities send hairthelr students away for the holidays, "Rusty" Groce, Rod erick Pearson, "Fat" Russell, "Dark horse Rook" Newman, from Oregon Ag ricultural College, Frank Beach, Leo J. Malarkey. Charles Parcell. Malcolm Reed and a host of others from the state, institution, and Dick McAdams. Wilson Schiffer, James Read from Uni versity of Washington. All will re main at home after the first of the new year. EAST POBTLAXD AVIVS, 7-0 Washington Athletic Club Victim In Christmas Day Match. VANCOUVER, Wash., Deo. 26. (Spe cial.) The East Portland football team of Portland proved to be a 7-to-0 win ner over the Washington Athletio Club here as the main Christmas day attrac tion. The only score came in the third quarter as a result of a long run by Stemler cn the kickoff. and two end runs by Mumford and Cherry. This put the ball within three yards of a touchdown for East Portland, whereupon Captain Edwards went through center for the necessary yard age. Frank Busch, one of the selec tions for the 1914 All-Star Interscho lastic League eleven, was the big star of the matinee for the East Siders. - The lineups are as follows: East Portland (7). . WashingtonO). Inman c J McDonald Jamison RG... Hagadora Bu"Ch It T ;. Sumholtz Morey, Mumford . . RE McGavln P. T'atteraon L.G Hunter E?w'r LT Hurd Clark L E Cook memier, gjnwaras ... . wellman Mumford, Stemler . RH Devine Lherry L, H Ijickaff Murphy F B Llppie AIX-XATIOXALS ARE SHCT OUT Hoblitzeli's Home Run Wins at Sun Diego tor AU-Americans. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Dec. 26 Hoblit- zell's home run in the first Inning, scor ing Lewis ahead of htm, gave a 2 to 0 victory to the AU-Americans over the All-Nationals here today. Tesreau al lowed only four hits, while Cole was touched up for eight, but the latter was effective In the pinches. The Nationals had the bases filled twice, but failed to score. The tour of the teams will come to a close with tomorrow's game here. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. All-Nat's. .0 8 HAH-Am'c's. 2 4 1 Batteries Tesreau and Clark; Cole and McAvoy. POPULAR LEADER IN O. A ATHLETIC ACTIVITIRS. Gcursje ("A4mlFl"j Dewey. With George ("Admiral") Dewey ready to report to Coach Stewart of the basketball squad of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, Corvallis fans are confi dent that the Oregon Aggies will show up strong in the basket " ball arena during the coming sea son. Dewey was a member of the 1914 football team, and as a result Coach Stewart has not had him out for practice, but decided to give him a much-needed rest after the heavy football cam paign. Dewey will report tomor row at the college to do some vacation training along with Captain King and several others.. J f - " ,." ' I $ - ' 3 X J i . . I OF OREGON. yf&r- ' ' . : '. -Jf it " : AGGIES -BAIN NEW TRACK PERMISSION GIVES FOR FIVE-LASE, BANKED COIRSE IX ARMORY. Elgbt-Lap Dirt Floor Path Will Give Best Winter Training Facilities Enjoyed on Coa.t. OREtfOX AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE corvallis. Dec. i!R. (Special.) Track prospects were given a big boost Fri day when Presiaent Kerr granted per mission to the Athletic Association to construct a five-lane, eight-lap banked track in the immense Armory, which heretofore has been used little by the imcKmen auring tne Winter months, owing to the fact that the surface was flat. This banking of -the big dirt floor win insure the Aggie trackmen the best training facilities for the Winter months enjoyed by any track candi dates on the Coast and should im prove greatly the chances of the Aggie team for all of the early season meets. Tho Armory at the Agricultural Col lege has a dirt floor 300x150 feet. This permits of a la-foot track with reirn lation turns and will add great Inter est to the speed game, where formerly training practically stopped with the ucsinniiig oi ine rainy season. jvieets at Columbia University, with v asntngton State College, Oregon Uni versity. Northwest Conference at Cor vallis. Pacific Coast at San Francisco, -t.a.a. m ii, uiiuauuri at L.O lumoia ana tne Dig Intercollegiate at t-nicago. as well as minor events with a . f ew of the smaller coleges, give a schedule which will keep the Aggie track candidates busy from the time the outdoor season begins until school closes. The form already shown by Hobgood, Captain Reynolds, Kadderly, Lafky, Anderson and a few of the new men warrants the belief that a big year is aue in tracK. - ACADEMY CLUBS ASSERT TITLE Basketball Championship Based on Defeut of Peninsula Midgets. Coach Skene, of the Portland Academv Cubs, now lays claim to the 80-pound basketball championship of the city. His team defeated the Peninsula Park Midgets 13 to 2 yesterday In a return match. Earlier in the, week the Cubs trimmed the-Midgets 15 to 4. Captain Fielder Jones is the big star of . the nana Acaaemy tucs. . Any DasKetoall team which dis putes tne claim of the Cubs at 80 jjuuuua can uoacn SKene at Main 384 Following are the line-ups: Cubs (13). Midsets (2). :olman Palmor Pointers Given Coaches for Keeping- Teams at Crest. Rise and Fall of Sqnadn Lamented and Rotary System Suggested to Hold Warriors Always Near Top of Heap. The summary of the football season as compiled by Parke H. Davis shows that nearly 8000. teams were in action during the season. When the 1915 Guide appears it will contain about 200 pictures and records of teams with Just a few short articles by coaches from the various sections. The Guide will be available about the time schools open and fans have scarcely enough time to glance through the contents when they will be swamped under "dope" of the current season. Why can't we have a football record coming out shortly after the holidays and covering football in the same way the baseball record covers baseball? It would fill a long-felt want and gives coaches and students plenty of food for the "stone league season." I believe it would be as popular as the Guide. . The coach "nowadays" who springs something new and startling is likely to get away In front with a lot of victories. I believe coaches are over looking one of the best methods of having first-class teams year after year. At present, teams are built up year after year around the remnants of the year previous. If they graduate nearly all the men as Michigan did last year . and Har vard this season, then the following season is pretty much of . fiiii Team work is everything and the men wno come in as sophomores and stay together till graduated are the ones who accomplish things. Season's . suits may be indicated by a series of climaxes. The first year the team travels onit low; second year, somewhat higher, and reaches the highest point the last year, tnen tne process must be re peated. The present method finds us at the bottom of the hill every three or four years. This condition can be overcome, especially In large universities, by having teams representing each of the classes and kept together under the same coach or system of coaching from 'he time they are freshmen till graduated. This wi:t give first-class teams at the crest of the. hill year after year. Few sophomores are stars I and not until they have become Juniors or seniors are they thoroughly truet worthyj Many . men , who would make stars , by. their ei,ioi-. yeir . ive up. making the team during the sopho more year because of the present "sur vlval of the fittest" method of select ing men. Under present rules both the Junior and senior teams could be played dur ing the season alternating quarters or halves. s Stagg keeps Chicago near the crest year after year by practically select ing his team during Spring practice and starting signal practice immedi ately. He has good teamwork before the other coaches have started signal worK. ; Brickley,' Coy, Eckersall. Heston and Maulletsch were stars when sopho mores, but they were of a type that appears in a school once in a decade. Some coach will pull this "stunt" sometime and get a running start on other coaches. "U-NO-ME." BOWXIXO RECORD IS BROKEN Sioux City Man Rolls 114 Games, Downing 2 0,045 Pins in 2 4 Hours. SIOUX CITY. Dec. 26. What Is said to be a new world's bowling record was made by Dariel Hamlet, of Sioux City, today, when he rolled the last ball In a 24-hour endurance contest- Hamlet bowled 114 games and knocked down 204)4o pins, an average of 175.8 pins. The best previous 24-hour record, 70 games, was held by a Los Angeles, Cal. bowler. GILBERT HOLDS LAURELS TRAPS HOT CHAMPION OF" 20 YEARS - AGO STILL, IN LIMELIGHT. Du Pont POTi'dn Company Offers Cups to Cluba Holding: "Krcd Gilbert Anniversary Shoot" in Wee Is. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26. (Special.) Nearly 20 years ago there occurred a momentous event In trap shooting circles, when the sport was in its in fancy, overshadowed by the more pop ular live-bird shooting, the arrival of Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake. Ia.. in .Baltimore. Md., to compete in th matches for the live-bird champion ship of the world. Arrayed against tne then unknown youthful Westerner were the mighty Brewer, the great Macalaster and -many other celebrities of the shooting game. Unheralded at the time of his arrival in the Maryland city, in three days Gilbert had vanquished every compet itor and won the title "champion of the world." With practically no experience at snooting live pigeons or clay tar gets, almost over night he assumed a leading place in American shooting an nals, which, thanks -to his early train ing on the sloughs of his native state shooting ducks and on the prairies of Iowa and Minnesota shooting prairie chickens, he has held ever since. In the 20 years during which Gilbert has constantly been in the limelight a host of celebrities have arisen in the shooting- game, only to be overshad owed after a short timo by some stiil greater performance by a more youth ful or more expert competitor. Not so with Gilbert. Shooters have come and shooters have gone, but Gilbert goes on forever-. Year in and year out a high standard of excellence has char acterised his performances. To the Du Pont Powder Company, with whom he associated himself at the start of his shooting career, he lias al ways given the best he had to give and by his personality and happy and lika ble disposition he has made Du Pont powders thousands of friends. It seems fitting and proper that they should, in appreciation .of his faithful and meri torious service, take unusual steps to honor him as no man In trap shooting history has ever been honored. This tribute will take the form of a "Fred Gilbert Du Pont Twentieth An niversary Celebration." Some time dur ing the month of March Gilbert will be entertained in Wilmington, Del., by the Du Pont Powder Company. On the date appointed there will be a 100-target trap-shooting" event at the Du Pont Trap Shooting Club, to which will be Invited every trap shooter desirous of attending. In the evening a banquet will be arranged in honor of Gilbert, who will be the guest .of honor and to which local trap shooters, members and officials of the interstate association and others will be invited. It is not the intention to confine participation In the Fred Gilbert Twentieth Anni versary Shoot solely to those who And It convenient to . visit Wilmington on the date the event, is staged there. Every club throughout the country, es pecially those with which Gil bert ha3 visited and shot dur ing the last 20 years, are extend ed a special invitation to assist in mak ing this the greatest celebration ever given in honor of a trap shooter. In honor of the occasion the Du Pont Powder Company has arranged for a special trophy cup, one side of which portrays In relief Mr. Gilbert in shoot ing position, while the reverse is en graved "Fred Gilbert Du Pont Twen tieth Anniversary Shoot, 1895-1915." and these cups will be sent to all gun clubs which will hold a "Fred Gilbert Shoot' during the week of March 13 to 20, both dates inclusive. Clubs ap plying for these cups must agree to hold a 100-target event on one day dur ing this period, at which 10 or more shooters will compete, and the cup win bo awarded permanently on any plan agreeable to the club. Fully 500 clubs are -expected to hold "Fred Gilbert An niversary Shoots" and figuring on the most conservative basis of an average of 15 shooters at each club, it will mean that 7600 shooters throughout the country will assist In doing honor to a man long known and loved by thou sands as "The Wizard of Spirit Lake." A record or each shoot and of all contestants will be kept. That trap shooters and gun clubs In general will approve of this move to render fitting tribute to one of the greatest figures in tne trap shooting game goes with out saying. Aside from the fact that this affair will give the Du Pont Pow der Company an opportunity of pub licly expressing their appreciation of the long and faithful services of the dean of their shooting representatives ana nis many mends throughout the country one more opportunity of shoot- ng witn nim "in spirit if not in per son." the Fred Gilbert Twentieth An niversary Shoot should do much for the grand old game of trap shooting-. TACOMA LOSES RIFLE MATCH Thirty-Six Clnbs Take Part in Na tional Gallery Championships. WASHINGTON, Dec 26.-1 Thirty-six rifle clubs from 34 cities participated this week In the opening match of the rifle club gallery championship under the auspices of the National Rifle Asso ciation of America. The class "A" di vision was led by Bridgeport, Conn., which scored 990, against Manchester. N. H.. 962. Other class "A" matches follow: Kings Mills. O.. 988. vs. Adrian, Mich., 932; District f Columbia. 979. vs. Dick inson, N. D., 951; Warren, Pa, 985, vs. Stillwater, Minn., 934; Cleveland. 986, vs. Boston, 935; Bucyrus, O., 977, vs. Birmingham, 965. Class "P." Hopkins. Minn.. 958, "Vs. Madison. Minn., 932: Hoosier Club, In dianapolis, 930. vs. Tacoma, Wash., 925; Marion. O., 959, vs. Des Moines. 930; Bangor. Me, 980, vs. Youngstown, O., 950; St. Louis, 945, vs. Milwaukee, 943; Watertown, N. Y., 927, vs. Louisville, 916. Class "C" Buffalo. 062, vs. Kane. Pa 914; Watertown. S. D.. 973. vs. Tucson! Aria., 921; Ogden, Utah, 956. vs. Louis ville, 903; Salt Lake City, 932. vs. Corinna, Me., 704; New. Haven, Conn.! 951, vs. Detroit, defaulted; Albion, lnd 83-i, vs. Payette, Idaho, 883. '' LONGSERiESARGUED Some Fans Want More Games in World Contest. MORE COULD SEE THEM Stagnates, However, Fear Interest of Public Would "Wear Out and Popularity of the An nual Event Relax. NEW YORK. Dec. 22. Although there has been considerable informal discus sion among organized baseball mag nates regarding the advisability of in creasing the number of games to be played in future world's series, the club owners realize that the proposi tion is one of many angles and are slow to take official action on the proposal. Two plans were suggested. One called for nine games, of which five were necessary to win the title and with tho players sharing in the re ceipts of the first five played. The other proposition was for un 11-game series, with six victories to clinch the championship, the players to share in the proceeds of the first five or six games. These suggestions received but scant attention at the annual meeting of the National League held in New York re cently. The senior organization mag nates discussed the plan in a casual way without taking any action on it. One of the most prominent club owners of the National League In reviewing the idea said that it was the general opin ionthat the 1915 season would be an Inopportune period in which to at tempt baseball innovations. Further more, the plan involved a number of puzzling obstacles which would have to bo removed before the nine or 11 game series could be considered feasi ble. He pointed out that if two clubs widely separated, smh as New York and Chicago, for instance, were to play for tlie championship, the allotment of games would be a matter for the most careful consideration. On the nine game basis it appeared probable that the series would open in the city win ning the toss, with three straight games, after which the play would shift to the rival club grounds. Presuming that the teams were tied at the end of six games, with the addfid possi bility of bad weather and the extra days needed for travel, it appeared questionable ps to whetiier popular in terest could bo sustained to tho point where the longer series would prove much more profitable than the seven game plan. That there is a basis -fur this line of reasoning is borne out by the records of past world's series. Even after making allowance for an increased in terest in the championship series of recent years, the gat-recelpt figures show that the final pames of the long-drawn-out series fail to approach the receipts of the earlier contests. In past world series, where the title was won in four or five games, the receipts each day were close to 100 per cent of the park capacity. Wherever the series ran into seven or eight games there was a sharp slump in attendance and resultant receipts In the 1912 series there was a dif ference of approximately ?16,C00 be tween the receipts of the seventh and eighth games. In 1911 games between the Giants and Athletics the receipts decreased with each game. The De-troit-Pittsburg series of 1909, in which, the rival clubs won alternating games up to the seventh, failed to sustain in terest. It the box office returns fur nish accurate records. Careful observation has led the mag nates to the conclusion for the present at least that the baseball public de sires a sharp, snappy world's series as a climax to the season. Long-drawn- ' out play, covering ten days or two weeks, according to weather conditions. appears to be a hazardous undertaking under present circumstance, and it ia extremely doubtful if there will be any effort to alter, during 1915. the regulations now governing the world's series. In the National Spotlight J. C. ISAMINOEn. in the Philadelphia North American. THOSE New Yorks, according to re port, haven't made a plugged dime in the last four years, yet Frank Far rell's scout is in the market to buy the Newark team of the International League. Perhaps those Feds thought they needed strengthening, so went out and got a Plank. Sunday baseball In New York will be a fact on the day that Milwaukee pro hibits the brewing of beer. War Bulletin Ater trying for a year. General Stifel hasn't yet captured St. Louis. His losses have been terrific. Charles P. Taft. worth $25,000,000. owes Charles Webb Murphy $300,000. Let Mr. Taft have a little joy in life, so send him a food ship. Chief Bender will specialize with a. "jump" ball in the Federal League next season. Ghosts of the past: Plank and Pow ers; Bender and Schreck. For the All-America ownership team we pick the Astors, Wards and Charles Webb Murphy. Government forbids military bands to play "Tipperary," but. still. Army posts are permitted to hold their week ly germans. Three guaranteed starters for the dash to Florida next Spring are Connie Mack, Joe Ohl and Sam Lrwin. Baseball owner complains that lie spent $4000 for base balls last season. Well, let him try playing the game without baseballs. So far, the Ty Cobb and Jake Dau bert batting championship trust has not been dissolved. Marty O'Toole hasn't jumped to the Feds, but he may walk to them. President Barrow wishes that the kind-hearted public would send a food ship to the International League own ers. It is reported that Philadelphia will take Charles Webb Murphy's taxes and build a stadium to accommodate 100,000 persons. For a good scout like Eddie Plank the Feds might have thought of some better place to send him than St. Louis. Shorty Foley says: "Most of v""ose contemptible deals at the baseball meeting turn out to be nothing more than swaps of a round or rye Tor a round of Scotch." ICE SKATING AT THIS HIPPODROME Twentieth. and Marshall. Uaily. 10 A. M.. a P. M P, M. FRKfc, ANaTRUCXIOii. UNION BAN1J,