THE SUJfDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTXAXD, DECEMBER 17, 1916. BIDDY BISHOP ONCE AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT TWO HUSKY CAPTAINS WHO WILL LEAD TEAMS IN THE RACE FOR THE 1917 BASKETBALL TITLE OF THE PORTLAND 1NTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE. HOTELS ELEVENS WANT BIG -TY PASADENA Pilot of Champions in Past Wow Lugging Billy Weeks i on to Title. NOTICE BEING GIVEN HIM Gibbons Claim for Honors Disputed by Tacoman Who Avers His Boxer Can Defeat Any Middleweight. BY HARRY M. GRAYSON. Managers of fighters come and go. Some last a Ions while." 'When one of their boys is beaten they hastily grab another one, as has been the case with Thomas Jones. He first had Billy Papke, middleweight champion, then Ad Wolgast, lightweight king. When Ad lost his cunning he threw a lasso around the neck of Jess Wlllard and pulled him plumb out of Charles Cut ler's fatherly arms. George ("Biddy") Bishop, for a long while sporting editor of the Tacoma Kewa, has entered the list of "big time" managers once more. It is not a new game with "Biddy." Before re tiring to the quiet and peaceful life In Tacoma Bishop managed Young Peter Jackson, Joe Gans, Aurelio Herrera, Bob Fitzsimmons, Al Neill and Kufe Tu rner. Right now he is In the East guard ing the reputation of Billy Weeks. Now, Billy is not the most wonderful middleweight in the world, but Bishop is rapidly getting him in the limelight in the East, and don't be surprised if you read of Weeks being matched with Mike Gibbons or Les Darcy any Old day now. On November 27 Otto Floto, on the Kansas City Post, came out with an article to the effect that Mike Gib bons must dispose of Billy Weeks and Les Darcy before he could hope to be hailed as the middleweight champion. Manager Bishop has convinced other big Middle Western and Eastern writ ers the same way, and he i3 getting a lot of publicity for Weeks. Who is Weeks? In the opinion of a frood many Portland fans who have feen him in action he is not much better than Al Sommers, Valley Tram tiitas and several other middleweights who have displayed their wares In Portland audiences. Weeks has been recognized as the middleweight cham pion of Canada for some little time. For all anyone knows he might have won the title from Romeo Hagen or someone like that. A party of Portlanders, including Jack Fahie. Fred T. Merrill and others, Journeyed to Chehalis last Winter and saw Al Sommers fight Weeks to a draw in six rounds. In their opinion Sommers gave the Vancouver, B. C, mauler all he wanted. Weeks i3 no longer a youngster, either. He must be 23 or 26 now. But his success Is only what happens to a lot of boxers who are fortunate enough to secure the cervices of a fellow like Bishop. ... Getting back to the middleweight championship. Claiming this title these days seems to be one of those "grab bing" affairs. You push your arm into the bag and pull out a prize, then go away shouting you are the champion. Mike Gibbons is unquestionably the most generally recognized, although Al McCoy must be removed before anyone has a clear title. Les Darcy is recognized by many as the legitimate champion. In some cities they say that Weeks should be recognized as champion because Man ager Bishop is willing to bet J5000 on his boy against any middleweight. ... "Muggsy" Schoels, Cheyenne. Wyo., lightweight, has hit town, and is de fying all the boys who have been pas timing in these parts. He is an old- timer-and has boxed in all sections of the country. Just as soon as a good boy is de veloped in Australia he comes prancing to this country. Les Darcy is the latest. Take Peter Jackson. As soon as he found out he could box he came to America. And Peter didn't go back to Australia until he went there to die. Then take Young Grlffo. He won't go back at all. Bob Fitzsimmons didn't go back until he was a broken down old man. And what did they do then? Put him in the ring with a young dub named Bill Lang and got him knocked out, that's what. Dan Creedon went back, but not tintil he was through and could make no more money In America. Frank Slavin and. Tommy Tracey never went back. nrCALATIX DEFEATS SHERWOOD High School Five Hands Athletic Club 48-to-10 Beating. TUALATIN. Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) The Tualatin High School basketball team again showed its superiority over the Sherwood Athletic Club quintet, 48 to 10, here last night. The features cf the game were the sensational work f Walgrave and Nyberg, of the win ners, Walgrave scoring 21 points, while his teammate registered 13. Captain Fosner, of the visitors, was team's high point-getter. He scored all but two points. A return game will be played at Sherwood. Or., be fore the holidays, according to present plans. The lineup follows: Tualatin (48). Position. Sherwood (10). TV.!rrav (21) F Fosner (8) Nvt.ere (13) F More TValllser (S) C Murdock vionn I i Anderson H,ii G Colfelt CHAXCE WILXi MANAGE ANGELS Refusal of Chicago Nationals to Ac cept Terms Does Not Worry. TXDS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec. 16. Frank Chance, manager of the Los Angeles baseball team of the Pacific Coast League, announced here today he would manasre the team next year. It had been stated Chance would quit baseball following the action of the Chicago Nationals in refusing to ac cept his terms as manager of the Cubs. Silverton Defeats Corvallis. SILVERTON, Or.. Dec. 16. (Special.) The Silverton High School basketball team won from the Corvallis High School five on the local floor Friday night by a score of 29 to 11. This is the second game played and won this eeason by the Silverton team. Harvard and Haverford Tie. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Dec. 16 less tie at soccer today on a field covered with several inches of enow. Two extra five-minute periods were played besides the two regulation ' periods of 35 minutes each. Pennsylvania will plant black cherry trees in the state reservation to provide food for birds. r . j . I z "X . ''i ' f ".v f I i" ' ' ' " " " Ij " " . ; .V ..A ::::;.j:: y-.. X-'. "' V 3 1 i. "-""T-i if. ' K - v if h J , w l s ,i i I T&crA TRAPS LURE F. M. Troeh, of Vancouver, King of 600,000 Marksmen. PORTLAND MAN IS HIGH, TOO F. Templeton Is Pacific Coast Cham pion Shooters Spend $7,000,000 and Standing Investment Is $70,000,000 In America. BY PRANK a. MUTNTCE. (Copyright. lSlrt. by th Menke Syndicate. Incorporated.) NEW YORK, Dec. 16. Once upon a time a trapshooter was as scarce as ice cream . parlors in the Sahara Desert. But it's different now. Trapshooting has advanced to the ranking of a major sport, and its devotees are in creasing with almost the same rapid ity as the high cost of existence. Five years ago there were 495 reg istered gun clubs and about 75.000 shooters scattered throughout dear old United States and territories. And now there are 4108 club and 600.000 count 'em gunmen and gunwomen. In the olden days the shooting sport was supposed to be for men only. But you know those girls, Oscar always prodding into men's affairs. They be gan to take an interest in this explo sive pastime three or four years ago. and now there are at least 25,000 women throughout the country who find health and pleasure in busting clay targets into minute fragments. 970.0O0.0OO Invested In Sport. Four million dollars the price of eight dozen eggs or 2 tons of an thracite at prevailing prices is spent annually by trapshooters for targets and shells. It costs about $3, 000.000 more for carfare, railroad fares, hotel Jack WMtc MANY Vfr KJ bells, etc. So the yearly outlay for the regulars approximates 17,000,000 more, perhaps, than is spent by any other crowd of sportsmen for mere "upkeep" cost. About $25,000,000 is Invested in clubs, ranges, target machines, etc. The guns, ramrods, cleaners, toggery, etc., cost to each trapshooter an average of $75. Which means about $45,000,000 invested in personal paraphernalia by. the 600,000 shooters, or $70,000,000 in standing in vestment. Frank M. Troeh, of Vancouver, Wash., Is the "champion of champions." He annexed his title in St. Louis last Summer during the big shoot there. That contest brought together all the state and sectional champions. Troeh was returned victor with a score of 99 hits in 100 shots. J. F. Wulf. of Milwaukee, is the Grand American Handicap champion. He won in St. Louis with 99 out of 100. F. C. Koch, of Phillipsburg, O.. won the Southern Handicap title in Mem phis in May, breaking 95 "birds" in 100 trials. E. F. Gibbs, of Cawker City, Kan., is the Western champion. He scored 92 in Omaha. Neb., during the Western Handicap. The Eastern cham pion is C. B. Piatt, of Bridgeton, N. J. He s red 97 in the Philadelphia shoot. F. Templeton, of Portland, Or., with 91, won the Pacific Coast championship. Itanltn of Beginners Grow. In 1916 nearly 12.000 competed in the Beginners Tournament, which was about double the number in 1915, when this event was inaugurated. At least 25,000 will do their first trophy shoot ing In this matcn in 1917. "Why the popularity of the sport?" we asked a veteran. "Because it's an exhilarating, health- giving pastime, and one that urges a man on to improve his work," was the answer. "Trapshooting takes its dev otee out into the open, and keeps him there where the air is fresh and pure. The sport itself fascinates and it is constant challenge to the shooter. "When you start you naturally want to break as many clay birds as you can. So you keep at it and always with the idea of bettering your mark. Soon you are able to break 50 birds in 100 shots: then It's 60; then 70. A perfect score 100 hits in 100 tries is your ambition from then on. So you keep at It, and find a lasting ioy and a fascination in it. Try it and see for yourself." BOUTS LOOK PROMISING JACK WHITE WILL MEET FHAXKIE SULLIVAJJ TUESDAY NIGHT. Manager Merrill, of Roae City Athletic Club, AImo Announces Other A t - tractions for Ilia. Card. Fred T. Merrill, manager of the Rose City Athletic Club, has lined up an ex cellent set of bouts to tOD his card of next Tuesday night. He was fortunate in securing the services of Jack White older brother of the famous Charley Although vvnue nas not fcoxed since last August he has kept in condition, and plans to stay in this city and Se attle to compete in the four-round game. Frankie Sullivan will clash with the Chicagoan and has insisted that the latter make 130 pounds. White has agreed and has already started active training. Chet Neff will come over from Seattle and battle Walter Knowl "ton. rxerr win give away three or four pounds to the capable fireman, and it ought to be a hummer. Neff meets "Muff" Bronson in Seattle next Fri day night. Efforts are being made to bring Val ley Trambitas and Eddie Palmer to gether again. Either Frank Farmer, of Tacoma. or Frank Kendall will do battle with Terry Keller. "Muggsy Schoels will meet Peter Mltchie or some other good lightweight. Shel McCool meets Leo Houck. of Seattle. Winlock Chess Players Tie. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Dec 16. (Spe cial.) K. McKay. H. Beck and Hiram Raught are all tied for first place In the annual tournament of the Winlock Chess Club. Each has won six games without a defeat. Sixteen players are participating in the tournament, to the winner of which Mrs. F. E. Veness has offered a silver cup. John H. Keefe Dead. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16. John H. Keefe. for 24 years port captain of the Corinthian Tacht Club, died today at his home here after a brief illness. Keefe Company, of this city. Keefe old, and was president of the J. H. Feefe Company, of this city. Keefe .was widely known among yachtsmen. DEVICE ENDS ERROR Machine to Check Targets as Broken Is Invented. SCORE ALWAYS IS VISIBLE Interest in Trap Shootingg Said to Be Growing At Recent Competi tion in New Jersey 5122 Persons Entered Contest. A mistake in the scoring of the tar gets broken by A. R. Stevenson, of Jew ell. Ia.. in the Iowa state shoot in Mason City, in 1914. prompted him to invent a machine for the scoring of trapshooting competitions. The machine, ready ror work, is sit uated about half way between the fir ing line and the traps, and is operated by means of two levers, connected with the machine by Jointed rods, from be hind the shooter. The operator is also the referee. The Figure 1, two inched tall, is marked for a broken target, and an O of the same dimension for a 'oat target. The feature of the machine is that the score is always vieibie to the trap snooiers ana snouia a mistake occur it could be corrected immediately. At the present time the scoring is done to the south of the fifth peg on the flrins: line, by an assistant to the referee, and, as trapshooters seldom ever look at the score until through firing at their full quota of targets, it is then too late to make corrections if a mistake has been made. i nese mietaKes occur at times as we mennonea in ine opening paragraph, one happened to Mr., Stevenson, and he hopes, through this machine, to avoid mistakes in the future. In the Iowa state shoot in 1914 Stevenson broke 15 targets at Trap 1: 14 on Tran 2: 15 on Trap 3. and then another 15 on Tra l. After this Stevenson took a look a the scores, and found that he had been credited with only 13 breaks on Trap J. uo say ne was somewhat peeved putting it mildly. He vas so peeved mat ne at once tormea a plan to eliml nate the scorer which will occur if the machine is universally used. sometimes mistakes are blesslnea in ine Atlantic ijiiy, in. j.. school o rrapfinootlng the first of its kind in the United States attracted 5122 per sons during the period from March 27 to November 18. which, we might say, speaKing oy ana large. Is quite a crowd. There was some doubt when the trap shooting school opened as to whether or not it would be successful. All doubt has been removed. It was clear ly demonstrated that a school for the instruction of trapshooting was some thing that was nede. Of the 5122 persons who placed the 12-gauge guns to their shoulders and fired at the flying clays over the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean from the Million Dollar pier, 2806 never before had handled a gun. That means there are 2806 more trapshooters now than there were when the school opened for there are no backsliders in the "sport alluring." Of 'these novice shooters 2483 were men and 323 women. This means that of the regular shooters there were 2312. Of this number 2264 were men and 52 were women. The number of targets thrown was 249.125. An equal number of shells were fired. From every point of view the trapshooting school was a success. -o mucn so mat me better class of hotels at all the Winter and Summer resorts have added trapshooting schools to their establishments. Indications at this time are that a public trapshooting school will be opened at one of the bathing resorts In Florida either this Winter or next. , The Atlantic City school will reopen next March. The best score at 100 tagets during the season was 99 out of 100. by Bar ton Pardee, of Atlantic City. N j. The beet score by a woman was 90 out of 100 by Mrs. B. Q-Earle, of New York City. ' Colnmbns Gets ex-Aberdeen Catcher. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) Lou Bacchant, formerly of this city and who last season was let out by Russ Hall, of the Tacoma Tigers, after a tryout. has been sold by the Fargo Northern League club, to Co lumbus, In the American Association, according to word received. Bacchant is & catcher and made good with Fargo last season. XUid The Oresonian classified ads. Entertainment of Oregon and Pennsylvania Teams Is Deemed Honor. GRIDIRON IS IN FINE SHAPE Field Where Champion Teams W ill Struggle Is Covered With Turf, Making It One of Best on En tire Pacific Coast. PASADENA. Cal.. Dec 16. There Is intense rivalry among the four hotels of Pasadena for the honor or enter taining the football teams of the Uni versity of Oregon and the university of Pennsylvania, which will meet at Pasadena in the Tournament of Roses football game on New Year's Day. One of the hotels, the Maryland, Is already open for the season and will make a. strong bid for one of the two teams. Besides the Maryland there is the Hotel Raymond, occupying an 80-acre site at the southerly city limits, the building itself being on a commanding and historic eminence known as Ray mond Hill. The Huntington Hotel, named for Henry E. Huntington, the retired Southern California traction magnate, also has a charming site in the exclusive southeast section. City Owns Tournament Park. Tournamftnt Park, where the teams ill play, is the permanent home of the Tournament of Roses Association for its sports events. The park was purchased by the association and deed ed to the city. The municipality main tains the park for the ue of the gen eral public whenever It Is not needed by the Tournament of Roses Associa tion. Since the Brown-Washington State game last year on New Year's Day the gridiron has been covered with a beau tiful springy turf, making it the fin est football field on the Pacific Coast Eastern coacnes of Southern California elevens say it "looks like home." The grandstands at Tournament Park seat 24,000 persons. The question of replacing them with a great concrete stadium is already under considera tion. Commodious training quarters divided into two sections with deadened wall between have been constructed by the city for the accommodation of the New Year's day teams. The quarters will also serve for the Chicago Nationa League Daseball club which will do its Spring training in Pasadena next Spring. Seat Sale .Heavy. Alumni associations of the large Eastern universities are Joining with the Penn alumni to fill the rooting section of the East grandstands. Dr. Earl Sweet, president of the Penn sylvanta association, who attended the university while Coach R. C. Folwell was a student, has already put in a re quisition for additional seats beside those first allotted. The interest of the Southern California alumni Is in tense and the seat sales have been th most phenomenal In the history of th Tournament of Roses association, de spite the fact that It began a month before the date of the game. Half a million municipal-grown bios soms will help decorate floats for the Tournament of Roses pageant at Pasa dena. on New Year s day. A floral .parade approximately two miles in length will pass through the streets prior to the big football game between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oregon. Realizing that the task of supplying flowers for a constantly growing pag eant was tasking the resources of th private and commercial gardens of Los Angeles, the city of Pasadena last Spring cleared a space of several acres of its wild lands along the Arroyo Seco where a great natural park is being developed. Park Superintendent Jaco Albrecht planted this area to a variety of flowers that are now In full bloom Bowling Notes m HE biggest event of the 1916-17 A. bowling season on the Oregon Al leys so far will be the holiday hand! cap tournament, scheduled for Decern ber 27. 28 and 29. Five-men teams, doubles and singles will be rolled. City league teams will have to roll scratch in the holiday tournament nex week while the minor league repre sentatives will receive a handicap suit able to their station in the individual standings. Out-of-town contestants will be classed accordingly. An entry fee will be charged to be distributed in prizes. The team games will be rolled at night while the doubles and singles will be rolled on the Orego Alleys in the afternoons. Entries close December 26. Astoria. Or., bowlers are having th time of their lives running up record for the Lower Columbia. Word ha been received from John D. Dwyer, former Portlander, that 250 scores are numerous. In view of the fact tha games are being rolled on newly planed alleys and against new pins th rollers from the fish metropolis are having hopes of landing some of th prizes in the Portland tournament nex week. Ed Laurin started things with a 259. and Immediately afterward Pete Mantieh raised it 10 pins. There is a possibility that Fred Kruse. the crack Portlander. may be matched with Pete Mantieh, of As toria. The results of last week's game of the Astoria, Or., city league an team standings follow: W. I.. fugarman CO. .11 7 Pet Pedro Cisar Co 9 .r.N) Bee Hlva (Store 9 B ..VIQ Karr Dru Co 7 11 .3a Krr Drur Co. Pedro Clr I "o. Lund.... l.lrt 1S3 1 RVOutzelt .. . 14 144 15 Cameron. 17 l-'fl 1- Bprsirom 'Jni Ji;7 l: Rusco l-'- 1-J7 HO E.Willik'n 171 13 1: Hermann. V.!3 14S 1 'JTlRarTord . .. 10 l!tl 1H3 Insalls... 1U4 132 206.T.Wlllik'n 123 143 136 Totals. 762 71 78l Total" . . 81f 7!S Hugarman Co. Heo Hive Store Mantieh.. lR."i 170 lRS'Smtth 121 lul 13: Mulllns.. 174 i:H) VJ.i Cosovitch. H'. nr l.v Raymond. IRS Id 1'J3 Speter . 1.13 14H 1.1 Hlanric-n. ISO 147 13T Promer. . . 1S7 141 1 Greenlaw. 167 224 184'Laurin. . . 126 1.11 180 Totals. 831 7S4 74j Total. . 6S5 76U 80: CLUB KEJCVEXATIOX IX STORE Colonel Inglis In Charge of Seattle Athletic Organization. SEATTLE. Dec 16. (Special.) Plans for the rejuvenation of athletics at the Seattle Athletic Club were made known today with the announcement that Colonel William M. Inglis. for 10 years superintendent of the Blue Dia mond, has again taken charge of the club's activities. Inglis, who is known on the Coast ns a nrnnintr of clean athletics, nlnniv to make the Seattle Athletic Club one ! "CI . 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Colonel Inglis be lieves that Multnomah, the Olympic Club and Los Angeles will send teams to the meet Boxing will be featured more than In the past, and every branch of sport will be boomed. The return of Colonel Inglis Is wel comed by Northwest followers of sport. K.VCIXG PIGEON' CLUE ELECTS Xew llules Are Passed for 1917 to Aid Marking of Race Birds. A special meeting of the members of the Oregon Racing Pigeon Club was held last Wednesday in the Panama building to elect officers for the en suing year. E. II. Bauer was unani mously elected pre3ldent, Sam Cromp- ton vice-president, L.. H. lienshaw re cording secretary. E. Kinderman race secretary, E. A. Schaefer treasurer, and Adam Jorg and L. A. Kinderman race committee. New rules were passed for 1917 to facilitate the marking of race birds. a small charge being made for same which will establish a race fund to pro vide for three prizes. One will be for old bird making fastest time and one for winner making slowest velocity, this latter proviso being for the bird winning on a bad day. The remaining prize will go to the owner of the loft showing the best average speed for the old bird races. AVOWS SCHEDULE TWO GAMES Basketball Team to Meet Compuny C and St. Helens Pives. The George Washington Camp "Wows" have two games scheduled for this week, and Manager Abe Popick Is trying to land two more. Tomor row night his basketball team will meet the Company C tossers in the Armory gymnasium, and on Wednes day night the "Wows" will Journey to St. Helens. Or., to play the Sunset Club, of that town. Quite a lineup has been arranged by Manager Popick, which Includes "Spud" Iarllng. former Washington High and Multnomah Amateur Atli- DOCTORS HAVE THE & SAVE - OPEN OO YOU MEAN TO SAY DOCTOR THAT A CHt OF THAT Slit IS TOO MUCH? 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The Uni versity of Pennsylvania soccer team to day defeated Princeton. 3 to I, winning the inter-collegiate championship. The game was played on a snow-covered field. A device for coupling ordinary ve hicles behind automobiles, so flexible that sharp corners can be turned, is the invention of an 18-year-old California boy. 14 Hand Trap and practice field shooting. Enjoy your favorite sport rhere and when the spirit moves. Keep your arm steady, your eye clear and your mind alert. A Du Pont Hand Trap with its teasing targets pives excel lent practice for both field and trapshooting. Great for be ginners and experts. Packs easily in a suitcase and is fine for home, country, camp or vacation use. Just the thing aboard boat. The Hand Trap costs $-1.00 at your dealer's, or sent post paid if he can't supply you. Writ a for Hand Trap booklet E. I. du Pont d Nemours & Co. Wilmington, Dela' KNACK OF GETTING WISE. YES. Vf HEM YOU ARC USlMO A. PURE. RICH ARTICLE A SMALL CHEW IS BETTER. 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