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4 THE" SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 50, 1916. BIG ROLLER SKATE MARATHON PLANNED The Oregonian Arranges Repeat Exciting Event of Rose Festival. 200 BOY ENTRANTS LIKELY l our Miles Is Distance and Streets Are to Be Roped Off and Care fully Policed Affair to Rank With Chief Features. Jtere's good news for tha boys! The annual roller skating maraton originated by The Oregonian last year as a special feature of the Rose Festi val will be repeated this Summer. Thursday morning. June 8. is the prob able date. The course will run through the principal streets in the business district, and the distance likely will be increased from three to five miles. I The street, will be roped off and well policed and beautiful trophies will be nresented to the winners. The event will be known as the second annual Rose Festival skating marathon. There were 76 entries last year, and it is ex pected that more than 200 will answer the starting whistle next June. Portland is the only city in the United States featuring the skating marathon as an annual event, and the rice last year was given much space in newspapers all over tne couniry Roller skating, while a fad. is put to practical use by many youngsters in Portland, who skate to school each day over the Daved streets. Last season many of the youthful skaters beat the automobiles carrying the directors to the finishing line. The Oregonian. is going to endeavor to have at least three or four entries from every school in Portland. Any youngster from 9 to 11 years of age is eligible. Last year the race started at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and brought out huge crowd ail along the course. There were so many at the finishing point. Kixth and Alaer streets, that the first boys to finish were hampered. The Rose Festival officials have promised to have the extra firemen and boy scouts aid the pollee in keeping the crowd back. The course will also be roped off. Hundreds of youngsters dashing through the streets on roller skates will be an extraordinarily novel sight. and judging from the enthusiasm dia played last year the event will com pare favorably with tho main features of the annual Rose Show. Chips From Flying Clays 0 , N'E of the most modern of gun clubi the Chic-go Gun Club. It has 12 acres of ground, and recently made lm- proementa to its property at a cost of 9oO, OuO. The club has tioo members, and Id 1'Jio they broke 532,000 targets. The wind was so stronr at m recent shoot of the Manhassett Bay N. T.) Yacht Club mat it carried one of the 'blue rocks ' back to the firing line and it struck R. A. Barnes. one of the shooters. In the mouth with fore enough to knock out oue of his front teetn. In the vernacular of the day this was "some wind.' L. L. Swarti has been named the chair man of the Tournament Committee handling the 'JMh annual championship of tho trap shooters of Pennsylvania. This event will take place at La n ad ale. Pa., outside of Phila delphia, from May lti to 10. inclusive. Twenty-four trapJhooters participated In the first of the diamond medal shoots of the Spokane (Wash.) Gun Club. Wichita (Kan.) is the home of the newest gun club. The new organization will con duct tournaments every other Sunday. Decatur, I1L. boasts of a great trap shooter In H. W. Cadwalader. He shot at &n0 targets in 1910 and broke 05 per cent of them. The White and lansdale teams are still 1t-d for first plane in the Philadelphia Trap. nooters' League with eight points eacii. sUansdsle. however, has broken IMi J targets tu 17J1 for the Whites. Kiverside 111- has a gun club that is coming along rapidly. The shoots are held Sundays. In the Middle-West and Far Western States the majority of the trap shooting clubs conduct their tournaments n Sunday. The recent amatenr championship rhoot cf the Missouri Athletic Association was won by E. A. Miller, ho broke 144 out of 'J?Q targets. He competed In five of the seven shoots and had three scores of SO and one each of 4S and 44 to his credit. Art : K II Man was the best of the professionals tth -48 out of having three scores of 00 and two uf 4'X Ther Is one point on ahich a!l lovers of trapshooting are agreed, and that Is that tho merit and appeal of trapshooting are o obvtoiw and strong that it Is only neces. ary to exhibit the sport to caln and hold converts. Not withstanding all the Canadians who ar fighting with the allied armies "some where In f ranee ' there are gun clubs still doing busint-sa In Canada. Traphootlrc rlnbs were organised !n Mrirtin. South Dakota, and Jackson, Miss., last week, and the gun club at Elgin, 111., was reorganised. The Cnited Gas lmproement Company, of Philadelphia. Pa., is planning a countrj olu for Its athletic association, which com prises several thousand members, and one of the main branches of sporting activities win be trapshooting. The eighth annual amateur clay target shooting championship of Long Island Sound -mill be shot on February 1. under the aus pices of he Msnhassett Bay Yacht Club at Port Washington, L. I. Members of all recognised club on Long Island and the waters thereof are eliglb.e. A trophy will presented to the club with the best score. lv gunners will comprise a team. Middlesex County N. J., has a trapsboot ers' league comprised of all of the gun rlnbs in thtat county, and the league Idea bus proven so successful that the devotees of "the sport allurtr." alsh to exrand. and are row makine nn effort to form a league w-ieh will take In all the trapshooting clubs In the rout tea of t'nton. Somervet, Hunterdon. Mid Ulex and Eex Counties. North Jersey Is a fertile fi-ld f-.-r trapshooting. and such a league would create additional Interest in a sport which already is the major sport in this section of New Jersey. Metuehen. New Jersey, boasts of a real irun bug in Louis E. Clark, secretary of the Rod and Uun Club of that town, ft was mainly through his efforts that the Middle sex V"ounty Trapehooters" Lea gut as farmed, and he has been instrumental In rebuilding a numb r of gun clubs and i" teretiTiE Influential persons In the sport In Xorth Jersey. He si s that eveary one ias a HttTe time, no matter horn- buy they ar-. for th sport alluring." He eot Mar Tat. f Metuchen. t- ty his skill at the traps and the Mayor is now president of the club. Some Kansas gunners are of the opinion that laws are made to be broken, for no Iss than of them were rounded up one dsy tat week by a Game Warden for bunt ing without a license. Several states have lengthened the sea son for bunting game, while other states tiave shortened the season for various reasons. Montana has lengthened the hunt ing season on ! and deer two wki: Flor ida has added three weeks to the birds and Wr season: Minnesota has added J0 days to the qualt season, and Nevada four and one-half months on sage heus, one month on groue and two weeks on quail. On the thtr hand, Arkansas has curtailed the der s--asou three months, and Oregon and Wssn. Ington shortened the deer season two weeks. Minnesota trimmed "0 days from the dove sson. and Oklahoma has taken six weeks from the season on quail, I FOUR PROMINENT MEMBERS OF Month of Interfraternity Bas ketball Brought to End. 55 GAMES ARE PLAYED Good Material Found In Contests of "Doughnut league" First and Second Teams Are Chosen From Ranks. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Jan. 29. (Special.) Four Veeks of In terfraternity basketball were ended this week and the Drilllant store of real material brought to light has been surorise to "Coach Bezdek. Since thn dronniner of the university basket ball from the conference games, nine fraternities and two clubs on the eamnus rormed a "Jjouernnui ieague, and have played a total of 65 games. Many students have taken pan in me series who have had no basketball ex Derience before. The former system or scneauimg tne lnter-fraternity games in an elimina tion contest has been discarded and the present season's plan of playing accord ing to percentages has worked witn better results. The system has given the weaker teams a chance to develop. and several of them which showed low averages on the start have risen rapid ly in the scale of percentages. The evenly-matched teams have fur nished real amusement to the specta tors, the number of which has been large throughout the series. The purpose of the faculty in aoonsn- ing basketball as an Intercollegiate sport and to place it upon a basis where a larger number of the men in the university may have an opportunity to participate has been accomplished. as several of the members of the faculty have expressed It. But Oregon s chances lor a winning team, if ever the game will be re stored to an intercollegiate basis, are appearing stronger as more small games are played. Between 70 and 80 students have had regular ' work on the teams playing in the regular games of the inter-fraternity league, and up wards of 30 have gained some second- team experience. Upper-class material has shown It self more than ever and would prove an acceptable addition to a first-layout basketball team. The Thl Delta Theta fraternity is the winner of the league, earning a .900 percentage and winning the silver cup offered early last Fall. The Delta Tau Delta fraternity was well up in the race, but lost to the Phi Delta Thetas in a late count. The latter team had one only defeat by Beta Til:i& a a. What Is considered remarkable, the playing of nearly 100 men has been improved rapidly and the attention of the coach could not be directed on all I l? .1 laflil Readlnsj From Left to Right C. A. Meyers. S. S. Humphrey, J. 1. Hyatt, R. f U ''I S ' ' i Sir;? I i I h. Johnson. Three of the Six Target Vsed by the Club la the Preaeat f jl .i'T - :. f : " : : 5:ij - w wsi'- Tournament Are Shown in the Insert. I :;mf raging dates set OREGOfi Picks stabs ENTRY NO. 1 IN SECOND ANNUAL ROLLER SKATE MARATHON TO BE STAGED AS SPECIAL FEATURE OF ROSE FESTIVAL. t -. Tom Conway, 14-year-old Jefferson over the coming marathon. THE PORTLAND RIFLE CLUB CAUGHT IN ACTION AT THE CLUB ACADEMY ARMORY LAST WEEK. only to a limited extent. The men have not coached themselves, but have followed all the directions for better playing they could get and devised the rest of the system. The'appearance of fast team work during the latter part of the series of games. was especially noted. Chester Fee. a 1915 track man, has picked a first and second team from the stars unveiled in the series. His first team line-up follows: Estley Farlay, of Dallas, and Lyon McCready. of Dewiston, Idaho, forwards: Donald Roberts, of Astoria, center: Carl Nel son of Hollister, Idaho. .nd Dale Butt, of Newberg guards. The second team choice is: Laird Woods, of Dallas, and Fred Cate, of Eugene, forwards: "Dick Nelson, of Lafayette, center; Frank Campbell, of Dallas; and,Dorris Medley, of Cottage Grove, guards. Folk! a Boys to-Play at Vancouver. RIDGEFIELD. 'Wash., Jan. 29. (Spe cial.) Felida will send two basketball teams to Vancouver next Thursday night. The first team will play the Vancouver All-Stars, and thys second team will play the Vancouver Barracks five. , RIFLEMEN SCORE HIGH PORTLAND TEAM MAKING GREAT HEADWAY IJT NATIONAL SHOOT, Mark Against Clinton, 0 Men la Un officially Given as 12 Points Higher Than Opponents. Portland's representatives In" the United States Rifle Association are making great headway. Members of the Portland Rifle Club practice every Tuesday, Thursday&nd Friday nights at their new range Iff the Hill Military Academy armory; Twenty-fifth and Marshall streets. The highest score the Portland team has registered was last Tuesday night against the Washington, D. C, team. The local quintet made 940 in match 6. while match 5. with Fort Clinton, O., was good for 928. six targets nave oeen piacea in ui bers are taking advantage of them. S. S. Humphrey, who Is directing ope rations In the Portland Rifle Club, fs pleased with the showing made by the Portlanders. -Although . tne Iirst re port shows that tne locals won matches 6 and 6, no official word nas been received from headquarters. Following are the marks made in match 6 against the Fort Clinton, O- team: J. is. Hyatt, 193; c A. Meyers, 193; C. G. Stryker, 183; Egger Sgluss. 182; C. H. Morrison. 178: total. 928. Match 6. against Washington, D. C: J. S. Hyatt. 191: C. A. Meyers. 190; C. H. Willison. 190: C. G. Stryker. 1S7, and Norman Schmitt, 182; total. 940. The local club has almost 100 mem bers on its roll.' The initiation is S- and dues for a year are 83, which In cludes 120 rounds of Krag ammunition and use of a Krag furnished by the Government. All shooting done by the embers of the Portland Kifle Club is from a prone position, while academic and college teams shoot 10 from stand ing position and 10 from prone. The local club has a 75-foot range, while the colleges do their shooting In com petition on a 50-foot range. 7 S.'N 4 Hish School boy, who Lj enthusiastic Grand Circuit Stewards ffleet and Adopt New Rules. INNOVATION IS PLANNED Stake Kace of $5000 for Trotters That Never Have Won $2000 or More Gross Nor Have Time . Faster Than 2:14 1-4. GRAND CIRCUIT DATES. North Randall July 16-22 Detroit July 23-29 Kalamazoo July 31-Aug. 5 Grand Rapids ...Aug. 7-12 Columbus Aug. 14-19 North Randall.... Aug. 21-26 Empire City Aug. 28-Sept 2 Hartford.-. Sept. 4-9 Syracuse Sept. 11-15 Columbus '....Sept. 18-30 Lexington Oct. 2-14 Atlanta Oct. 16-21 CLEVELAND. Or, Jan. 29. The stewards of the Grand Circuit met here recently In annual session to arrange for the 1916 racing season. The rules committee held an informal session and prepared a report for adoption by the stewards. It was decided to provide a 15000 stake race for trotters that have never won J2000 or more gross nor have a time or race record faster than 2:14. Each Grand Circuit meet ing will be required to offer this stake. the entries to close at the same time as for all other early closing events. The three-heat plan will be recom mended for all eany closing events. It was also decided by (he committee to recommend that horses that have start ed anywhere In 1915 or 1916 without winning a race shall be awarded a time allowance of one second: horses started two or more times without winning a race, two seconds; horses whose win ning race record was made prior to 1915 shall be allowed two seconds, pro ,,. . , , i ijie 14 Weeks of Racing Provided. Fourteen weeks of racing was pro vided for in the schedule adopted today. The circuit extends from North Ran dall. O., to Kalamazoo, Mich., on the west, to Hartford, Conn., on the east and as far south as Atlanta, Ga. It is one of the strongest circuits ever for mulated by the Grand Circuit stewards. Ohio plays an exceedingly important part in the makeup of this major rac ing organization. In order to fill up the gap caused by the dropping of Montreal, after much discussion on the part of the schedule committee, two meetings of one week each are to be given at North Randall, and two meets, one of one week and the other of two weeks, at Columbus. By that arrangement and the declara tion of E. J. Tranter that he will give a meeting in he East, should the Na tional Fair and Exposition Company fail to give a meeting at Empire City, the circuit remains intact. Dates were awarded to Empire City because thtet track is still a member of the Grand Circuit, but it is understood that it will be unable to carry out its meeting. In that event, Mr. Tranter and his associates will be allowed to give a meeting, and it is believed that"lt will take place over the Hudson River track at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Neither the Em pire City. Poughkeepsie or Goshen. N. Y.. members of the circuit were repre sented at the meeting. By granting dates to Atlanta, Ga., the stewards have added a brand new member to the Grand Circuit, and In Atlanta's addition the fliers will campaign farther South than ever before in a Grand Circuit chain. Atlanta will have a fine new racing-and fair plant, according to R. M. Striplin, secretary, who attended the meeting. New Rules Are Adopted. As was expected, the stewards adopt ed the resolution offered by H. D. Dev ereaux, limiting the amount of money to be won by any trotter in a special early closing event, which is to be a feature of each Grand Circuit meeting this year, and which is to be conducted under the same conditions .throughout the circuit. This is an event for trot ters that have not won more than J2000 gross, and which have not beaten 2:14 ',4 in a race. .Such horses will be eligible to the event until they have won 87000 gross. Then they will be forced to compete in such events as their records then make them eligible. The three-heat plan of racing was defeated for a year at least so far as being made universal over the circuit. That system of rac ing will govern at North Randall In the main, and also at Detroit, while Syra cuse. Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Co lumbus were rather favorable to its adoption. One new officer was elected. Adam Schantz. the new president of the De troit Driving Club, who succeeds Fred Postal as vice-president of the circuit. H. K. Devereaux and H. J. Kline were re-elected president and secretary re spectively. The stewards are: H. K Devereaux. North Randall; Adam Schantz. Detroit: S. E. Dobson, Grand Rapids: William P. Engleman. Kal amazoo; Lieutenant-Governor Edward Schoenek, Syracuse; E. W. Swishej, Co RANGE IN THE HILL MILITARY lumbus; E. A. Tipton, Lexington; R. M. Striplin, Atlanta. A steward for Hart ford was not appointed. TEAS! TO GIVE BENEFIT? DANCES First of Series by Columbia Parks to Be at Kenton Tuesday. The 1915 championship Columbia Park football team of the Intercity League has decided on a series of bene fit dances to make up the deficit of last season. The first dance will be given under the supervision of Carl Munson. chairman of the entertainment committee. The Columbia Fark eleven played in the various parks of Portland during the 1915, and as a result was unable to collect money to pay for the running expenses. Every member of the foot ball squad will be In attendance, as will A. C. Stubbllng, coach. VICTORIA LOSES HOCKEY KINK Troops Take Arena and Team May Switch Games to Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 29. The mili tary authorities at Victoria have taken the ice arena for a drill hall, ousting the hockey team, which will play the remainder of Its home games in other towns, most of them In Seattle, prob ably. Three thousand soldiers are drilling in Victoria for service in Europe. Athlete Plays With Broken Nose. UNION, Or., Jan. 29. (Special.) The Union High School basketball team de feated the Enterprise High School team here last night, 35 to 25. The game was a clean and fast contest. Ault made all but five points for the visitors. Burleigh, center for the visitors, sus tained a broken nose in a game with La Grande the night before, but played throughout the entire game here, wear ing a football noei guard. Chess. E. H. BRYANT. Editor. - Contributions of games, endings, problems or items of interest, criticisms, club notes solicited, fend direct to 143 Hast Thirty- fifth street. Phone Tabor 6213. PROBLEM NO. 13. By Is". H. Greenway, Alameda. CaL Black, four pieces. $0 VVnlte, five pieces. White to play and mate in three moves. White. KK2. RKt4. BK. BQBo. PQB2. Black. KKi. BKBo, PK4. PQB3. PROBLEM NO 14. By David A. Mitchell. Black, one piece: white, six pieces. White mates in three moves. White, king. Ksq.. K on KB8, B on KB1, knight on QKtsq., pawns on Q4 and Q'd. Black, king on Q4. Friend Mltuneil, tnanas xor dook ana problems. - rrtt-j?L.E.M rtu. Black, 14 pieces: white, nine pieces. mates in two moves. White. K on OR3. Q on KKt-". rooks Osa. and Q7. bishops on QB3 and QB3, knights tLtsil ana w pawn wo. jBiacK. n on no, quee-i K7. R on Ksq., bishops RKt5. QKtsq.. knights KR7 and KRsq.. pawns KR3. KRb, KKt2, KKt4. QB2. QB4 and QR.l. Mr. Mitchell admits he had a brain storm when he composed this one. SOLUTIONS. Problem No. 9 Q-QR6 key move. If PxQ. rook k P, K-Kt, R-R8 mate, if R-K8, Q-QSch.. K-Kt. Kt-K7ch.. K-KRsq.. RxPch.. K8 R-KW mate. If B-K7. in answer to key move. RxR, R-Q,' Kt-KK17. PxQ), RxP. any inc -. . . . o ..c -Crawford. Problem No. J3xi, js.-n.t-t, s-l&.t4. K-R3. R-B3. K-R2. R-R5 mate. W. E. Crawford. N. Sanfield. Edwin Widraer. Problem No. 11 K-wrncn., ivxf, bisnop- QB2ch.. BxB mates. A. K. Trenholm, St. Sanfield, A. Bold, K. Widmer. Problem No. iz Key move -nto. a. PUF PPP Wm4 mm mm W'M fM tm mm w4. W4 W S M mm HH wm HH W W ill Pf I 11 g I ssLif- -Aizj tn?M EiiBas&fiJll '0M WM 'Pff ' Mti wm 'Mm m mmm m wm wb w mm m mm wm ' SEVEN COQUILLE BROTHERS FORM FAST BASKETBALL QUINTET. ; if ' ak i i j i e6&x&&&'& I - - -Airi"w fr&.Ai6Ys , i Top Row Hurrr Oerdlntr. Right (iuardi Charles Oernln, Left Guard r John Oerdlnr. RlB"t Forward; Ueorge Oerdinar. Centers Walter Oerdlnsj, Left Fornird. Bottom Row Albert and William Oerdlng, Substitute. UAK-nriK - nr. Jan. 29. fSoeciaL) Seven brothers of Coqullle, members of the J H Oerdlng family, compose one of the fastest basketball quintets ever seen in Coos County. With the exception of the two substitutes, who are yet in the grammar grades, all of the boys have been members of the Coqullle High School teams, one of them. Charles, being a member of the school team this year. Their string of victories includes a recent 22-to-la score over Bandon ana a 51-to-16 defeat administered to the high school in their home town. In the latter game William Oerding, 10 years' old, won his stripes. Bold. Mart Myers, Peter Claudlanos, K. Wid- mer. W. E. Crawford offers this solution to problem No. 6 in place pt solution which would result in a stale "mate: Q-Kosq, PiBP ur P-Q4 white mates in two moves. due tr blacx plays fxlvfcn., iv-tvnj. Kt-yR2 mates in three moves. So'ution to "End-Game," or problem No, in (irom Mitchell's Guide to Beginners White. Black.! White. Black. 1 Q-BS 2 Q-Q3ch S Q-C14 4 Q-K4CH 5 Q-K.-, K-KtS 7 iJ-KBS K-KS S Q-KKt6Ch K-Ktx, Q-Kt7 K-RS HI Q-R7ch K-Kt8 K-K8 K-Kt8 K-RS K-KtS K-K1M 11 li-KS 8 Q-KBKeh K-RSIl'' o-KR Mste A tesutiful end-name, one of Dr. l.askers favorites, liv K. Rink Solution follows: White, lhre pieces, kins KKt.i, queen QKt2. knight, Jlt7: black five pleoes, kins; Ksq., nueen Qr:C. knlxht QK4, and KR-4. White to play and win. Black Is two pswns ahead. True, black K and Q are misplaced, but with one move black could remedv that Q-K.ch, K-B. Now comes th surprise. ICt-fciti's threat plain fQ-Bteh., but black gets his queen into tho center of action then), Q-KKtOch. One would expect black quite out of danger, but white replies, K-RU. Black has no checks; Q-KS menaced. White's attack still In force. Black replies. Q-QL". guarding Im portant squares. White moves K-Ktn. threatening O-HSch mate. Rlark Q-Kt5ch.. klng-R7, Q-Q!ch K-RS. Of the six moves by white only oue a check. yst black has to surrender. The Herman chess chamolon. Dr. p. Tar rasch, and the world's champion.. Dr. B. Lasker, are In the employ of the War Academy. The nature of their work sug gests the essential qualities tlist make the finished chess player. These master minds. Instead of mimic battle, are confronted -vith real battle. Places ara living men; the board virtually all of Europe. GAME NO. 81. Queen's Pawn Opening." Intercity chess match M. A. A. C. vs. T.lnnton C. C. A. W. Linthicum, white; A. W. Stevens black. White. Black.l White. Black, i T-ni otors B-K 2 Kt-KtB3 P-K:23 Q-B5 b)B-Ba 3 P-KII P-KB3 24 rQxKt JXW 4 P-QB4 PxP 25 RxQ BxKt 5 BxP B-Q2I2B PxB KR-K 0 Kt-QBJ B-Kt527 P-Qtl PxP 7 B.02 Kt-K-ilas RxU RxR 8 OO OOI2S) KtxP R-B2 9 Kt-KS P-OR4130 P-QKt3 P-R3 10 Kt-KB4 Q-QBi'll P-KR3 R-Q2 11 o.OKt:i kloi'tj Wt-OKt3 R-Q4 12 BxKt PxBi.JS P-OR4 K-R2 13 KtxP K-R 34 R-QB K-Kt3 14 BxB PrB :iS R-Br, R-Q5 13 QxP - Kt-QB3 36 P-R5 P-B4 IB QB3 Q-Qsq !7 P-R8 R-K2 IT P-K4 P-QKI4 38 KR2 P-B5 15 KS-CB CR-QB 3l P-R7 R-K7 19 Kt-R4 B-K 10 P-PSQ RxP 20 Kt-KB5 Q-Q241 Q-Obch K-Rt 21 Q-B5 B-B2'42 Q-K4ch Resigns. A The beginning of the end-game. Black loses In the exchange and white has a clear field for action. B Q-B2 much the best, but would only have prolonged the final result. GAME NO. 32. Intercity chess match. J. Vanzante, white. H. F. Latourette, black. White. Black.l White. Black. 1 P-K4 2 B-B4 3 BxP 4 B-Kt3 B Kt-QB3 P-QX 7 Kt-RS 8 O O 9 K-R 10 KxKt 11 PxB P-K4 13 B-KS B-WS P-Q4 14 R-KKt KtR3 P-QB3ilO R-Kt2 K-R KtB3il R-KKt R-KKt B-QB4I17 Kt-K2 B-B4 Kt-Kt.'.!l8 Kt-Kt3 alBxB O 0(19 PxB P-KKt3 P-KR3!20 R-KB b)Q-Q8 KtxRPi 21 BxP P-R4 BxKt 122 KtxRP PxKt Q-R5I23 QxPch Resigns. Q-B3 12 Q-Kt4 A B-B4 far better, or P-KKt4. B Disastrous. Q-KKt4 much better. Editor. QAME NO. 83. 'Rjy Lopez Knights Game." Between two creat masters of the game in the year 1858 in Paris. France. Study tho game thoroughly. It will Improve your playing. Mr. Anderssen. white. Paul Morphy. black. White. Black.l White. Black. 1 P-K4 P-K4 22 KtxKt Q-Q3 2 Kt-KB3 Kt-QBSl-S Bi(l PxB 3 B-KtS P-QR3 24 Q-QB JIBxP 4 B-R4 Kt-B316 QxRP (K) R-K8ch 5 P-Q3(a B-B4-'(i K-R2 Kt-K.l 0 P-P-3 b)P-QKt4!27 BxKt RxB 7 B-B2fc P-4!2S Q-Ktr,ch K-B 8 PxP KtxP!'.' Q-ROch K-K 9 P-KR3 OO'M KtxB m)Q-Q3ch 10 OO P-RS31 OxQ PxQ 11 P-Q4 PxP'2 R-Q K-B 12 PxP B-Kt:tr:3 R-o qr-k 13 Kt-B3 KKt-QKt5l:;4 P-KKt4 QR-K4 14 B-Kt d)B-K3T p-wi R-K8 15 P-R3 Kt-04!3 P-KR4 R-Q4 1(i Kt-K2(e f)Kt-B3l.17 K-K13 P-R4 17 B-K3 (g) R-K!3S P-RT, K-Kt 18 Kt-Kt3 B-BSI39 K-P.2 R-K 1!) Kt-B5h BxR!40 K-Kt3 R-K8 20 QxB KtK241 K-B4 K-R2 21 KKt,-R4 KtxKt! (n) A This is not the correct move, being of a defensive Instead of an BPffs'v char acter. Cantles or P-Q4 recommended. The Ruy Lopez attack, properly conducted, one of the strongest known. Defense protracted, difficult, but white's Inst move nllnws block at once to bring out his KB and neutralise the advantage Iirst player should have. B The st"rt.nt will perrive the Import ance of P-QRS on the third move of de fense, since, with P-QKt4. the adverse bishop is forced to square, where he is comparatively harmless. C We much prefer B-Kt3. D If Instead of B-K3 black zlKtxP. H5)B-K4. (1S1P-QB3. r10)P-R3. (l(!)KtxKt ch.. rl7)QxKt. (17Kt-04, 18KtxKt OSJFXlvt. tl)ixp and white nas at least as good a game as black. (z) If black were to take pawn wlh bishop, white would regain by B-K4. The position is one of great interest. E Object to defend QP and threaten ing the terrible move of Q-B2, which would win a mece. F Best ooenlng path for QB, besides frustrating designs of adversary. G B-04. but prefer the move adonted. H Anderssen preferred sacrifice of the ex change to giving up aiagonai oi k.. wnicn was inevitable by playing B-Q3, R-K would have lost him a pawn, for black would re ply KtxQP. etc. I Dangerous to sacrifice with Paul Mor Dhv. Mr. Anderssen follows with great ac curacy and ingenuity and the result does him much credit. J Kt-R2 the correct move, as may be gleaned from this variation: f24)Kt-K2. f.'.MOxRP, I231P-KB3. 2c,l B-R2ch. or fa) t2fi)K-R, 27)Kt-KF4, f 27) R-KKt and wins. vHjtnn (a) f2c,lKt-KR4. (20) R-Kch., f27K-R3 f27)RxB wins. K From this point to close highly In teresting M Played with Judgment. Taking the Kt with either Q or R very dipnavantageous, as white would have won a rook. N Each player persisting In his move, the game was declared a draw. The above notes by J. T,owenthal. Edwin. Widmer. IS!) East Tenth street North : Am pleased that In your letter you mv von ar delighted with column. Have received many letters like yours. Glad to enroll you as a contributor O. A. C. SEEKS MATCH OX MAT Challenge Is Sent to Washington High Wrestlers. Word from the Oregon Agricultural College has been received by Dr. W. A. Fenatermacher, faculty manager of the Washington High School, asking for a meet with the winners of the recent wrestling tourney of the Portland Interscholastie Ieague. The Washington High and Lincoln High were the only schools entered, Washington winning 11 of the bouts and Lincoln High four. Coach Fabre. of the two institutions, has been working with his wrestlers since the tournament in hopes of receiving another match for his proteges. Dr. Fenstermacher sent word back to Corvallis to the ef fect that February 19 would be accept able to the Portland boys. No definite word has been received from the south. AGGIES HAVE 6 fN AS TRACK NUCLEUS Training to Begin Tomorrow for. Hard Schedule, With Good Material in Sight. SIX BIG MEETS SCHEDULED Kadderly, Hobgood, Cole, Damon, Coleman and Johnson Are Vet erans In College, With Good Second String Men. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Jan. 29. (Special.) With six men who have won the big orange "O" in track and field events for a nucleus and a big squad of candidates of varying degrees of ability to com plete the quota, the Oregon Agricultural College track team gives promise of being the best turned out in Corvallis for several seasons. Many of the young sters have already shown signs of making some of thi veterans hustle, while others of the newcomers, as well as some of those who have been can didates for the team in past seasons, give indications of developing into de pendable performers. Systematic grinding for the season will begin Monday night on the indoor track. First Meet Is April 1. The first meet listed is the Far West ern indoor meet, originally scheduled for February, but later postponed to April 1. Prior to April 1 interclass, interfraternity and Interclub meets will be held. One or two handicap meets and a dual cross-country meet with the WEEGHHAN FIGURES HE IS blVEJi WITH CIMC1.MNATL CINCINNATI, Jan. 25. Charlea H. Weeghman is even with Cin cinnati, which recently owed hlra something like 26.000. He fig ured that he got all of that back and more, too. when he closed the deal for the Cubs. It was before the World's Fair in Chicago that Weeghman. fresh from the corn country of Indi ana, invaded this river metropolis bent on making a fortune. He saw the pot of gold in the res taurant business, and he pro ceeded to deal out the sirloins and the hams and. The natives were hungry enough, but some how the books wouldn't balance, and after a tempestuous but short business career Charley woke up one morning cleaned. He hoofed it for Chicago. University of Oregon are also scheduled. The team will be entered in the Co lumbia indoor meet in Portland, April 15. The next event will be the Coast conference meet in Berkeley May 5 and 6. Then they will leave for Eugene, where a dual meet with the University of Oregon will be held May 12. A dual meet with the University of Washing ton, Seattle, May 27, and the North west conference contests in Pullman, June 3, will complete the heavy schedule. Captain Kadderly is expected to con tinue his sensational performances in the 440 and relay events. Hobgood. the Kentuckian who has won fame in the two-milo and five mile, events is on hand. He is slated to start in the mile this year arid may also be found in the half. Cole Is Discus Star. Oole will endeavor to win another letter by heaving the discus. Opponents who cannot propel the disc beyond the 140-foot mark are likely to find some close competition. Damon, a California lad who broke Into the foreground iast year in the broad jump and with the javelin, will again be available for both events. He throws the Javelin somewhere in the vicinity of 160 feet and can beat 21 feet in the broad Jump. Coleman, half miler, and "Moose" Johnson, who handles the shot, are the remaining veterans. Dutton of the football team is the best prospect In the 100-yard dash. Blaefg, a high Jumper: Van Buskirk, a half-miler. and Fendall are slated to make interesting going for varsity can didates. Heidenrich, former University of Oregon star, will assist Cole in the discus events in all non-conference meets. Racquet Play Reaches Scml-Final. BOSTON. Jan. 29. The semi-finals In the National amateur racquet doubles championship were played today. In the first two contests C. H. Brooke and J. -H. Wear, of Philadelphia, defeated Joshua Crane, Jr., and Fulton Cutting, of the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. 15-2, 15-8. 15-6. 15-4. In the second mutch Lawrence Waterbury and J. C. Waterbury, of New York, defeated Clar ence C. Pell ana Stanley u. monimsr, of Tuxedo. 15-9. 15-9, 15-11, 15-6, 10-14. The importation of silencers for firearml bss been prohibiied by Australia. SHOOT FOR FUN NO sport equals shooting for pleasure and health. It appeals to both sexes and all ages. Clay target shooting is the school for crack shots. 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