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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1917)
4 MUNICIPAL GOLF LINKS ARE GLASSY Prominent Portland Golfers Admit Convill's Project Will Be Popular. SPORT IS MOST ALLURING Committee In Charge of Getting Course Ready Busy Endeavoring: to Raise $1800 Xecessary Be fore City Will Give 94000. In the opinion of many Portland ex perts, the new Portland Municipal Golf Links located near Reed College Is the most sporty in the West. Sporty golf can only be had on a sporty links and if the word' of Lawrence A. Spangler, Victor A. Johnson, Dr. Millard C. Hol "brook. Rabbi Jonah B. Wise and several others can be taken as a criterion some of the most enthusiastic members of the various Portland private clubs will do a rood share of their playing: on the new links as soon as it is completed, which J. O. Convlll, superintendent of city parks, thinks will be in July. The uncertainty of golf makes it the sport alluring:. A good golf course con sists chiefly of two things: Its greens and natural hazards. Surely the mu nicipal links are full of the latter and under the watchful eyes of Superin tendent Convill the greens will be shaped up perfectly. For those who have never been over the site of the municipal links a brief review of the whole 18-holes Is not out of place. First hole Two bunkers to be installed. Second hole Six bunkers to be Installed. Third hole Three bunkers to be installed. Fourth hole Natura.1 creek hazard, run ning water on three sides of the green. This Js a reature bole. Fifth hole Uphill, two bunkers to be In stalled. tilxtb hole 800-yard dog-leg. downhill, five bunkers to be installed. Seventh hole Six bunkers to be Installed. Klghth hole Four bunkers to be Installed. Ninth hole Dog-leg-, five bunkers to be Installed. Tenth hole 366 yards, two bunkers to be Installed. Eleventh hole Dog-leg. five bunkers to be Installed. Twelfth hole 110 yards, mashle shot, nat ural hazard gives water on three sides of green, good hole. Thirteenth hole Long dog-leg hole. BOO yards, natural hazard gives drive over creek, three bunkers to be Installed. Fourteenth hole 000 yards, creek forms natural hazard with three bunkers to be Installed. Fifteenth hole 325 yards, five bunkers to be Installed, flock of trees Just beyond green for which one will be, penalized for driving into. Sixteenth hole 385 yards, dog-leg. water and trees all around, mesa of all kinds nat ural hazards. Seventeenth hole 70 yards. 90-yard water carry. Eighteenth hole 370 yards, four bunkers to be Installed. Del Monte, Cal., had a reputation of having a dandy course and many East erners went to California, and do yet,! to play on it. But the going got too monotonous. The course was too level So several years ago the Del Monte people spent a lot of money to Install an artificial lake. . Del Monte, the Seattle Golf and Country Club, and the new municipal links of Portland are the only courses on the Pacific Coast with water hazards. And Seattle and Del Monte have only one body of water each, while Portland s public links will have a number of natural bodies. Folk will come from all over the country to play on a links with water . hazards. The Waverley Country Club Is spend ing a lot of money installing artificial hazards. Play in late years became monotonous for members of that club and Just recently holes have been dug in which sand piles have been put to make play more difficult. In driving from the 13th tee at the new municipal links a crack golfer can take a gambler's chancer and drive over a clump of trees to the 13th hole If he so desires. This is one of the sever al dog-leg holes of the ceurse and Is one of the leatures that bid fair to make the new course popular. The committee in charge of getting the course ready by July are now busy endeavoring to raise 1800 which is necessary before the City of Portland will appropriate 14000 to complete the links. This committee will meet to morrow noon at the Hazelwood where an active campaign will be launched. Letters win be mailed to many busi ness houses and individuals and Act ing Chairman Spangler has conceived en idea of making up a popular sub scription so that everyone can give $1 toward the new links. The course will be self-supporting as eoon as it is ready for play. The whole proposition is not only a golf course but a recreation center also. There are ideal picnic grounds where a family can go and pass the day and a lake where boating can be enjoyed. ,The Reed College, adjoining, will give the use of Its several tennis courts. Its shower baths and gymnasium to the public for three months in the Summer time. The site of the new municipal links and recreation center is 151 acres of land in Eastmoreland near Reed Col lege. PEXDLETOX TO PLAY .OAKLAND Girls' Basketball Teams to Meet at Eugene for State Title. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Feb. 24. (Special.) Negotiations for a state championship basketball game be tween the girls' teams of Pendleton and Oakland were completed today and the teams will meet on the university gymnasium floor March 2. A great deal of Interest has centered in this matching of the Eastern part of the state against the Western, on the basketball floor. In a letter to Graduate Manager Tiffany today, An thony Jaureguy. coach of the Oakland team, wrote: "I have Just received a telegram from H. T. Drill, manager of the Pendleton team, saying that Pen dleton wants us to play the game March 2. That date is all right with us." The Oakland team will arrive In Eugene at 5:30 Friday night. Just when the Pendleton youni- women will arrive Is not known. The Pendleton team is coached by Miss Louis Bailey, a graduate of the University of Oregon last year. Mr. Jaureguy, coach of the Oakland team, received his degree from the University of Oregon In 1915. The officials for the game will be elected tomorrow. Jacoby Wins Houston Golf Honors. HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 24. Premier honors in the midwinter golf tourna ment here today were won by Louis Jacoby, of New Orleans, over George Aldredge, of Dallas, Texas, in a 36-hole match for the tournament champion ship. Jacoby shot the last eight holes in 32 strokes and defeated Aldredge two lip and one to play. Head The Oregonlan classified ads. SOME OF THE NATURAL ADVANTAGES OF PORTLAND'S NEW MUNICIPAL GOLF LINKS AND RECREATION CENTER WHICH IS BEING PUT " v 4 1 y"- ' r - L MP US TO DISPORT School Children Will Show Skill in School Tank. SWIMMING MEET FRIDAY Miss Mllle Schloth Will Direct Ex- hibition at Shattuck Pool Some Participants Little More Than 6 i'ears Old. All forms of aquatics stunts will be put on In the exhibition of the public school children in the Couch School swimming tank next Friday night un der the personal direction of Miss Mille Schloth, girls' swimming instructor of the Portland public schools. Some of the youngsters who will be seen in action have barely passed 8 years of age. but they are Just as adept as some several years tneir senior. Miss Schloth has taken particular pains to teach the youngsters everything per taining to diving and swimming, and she has made the slogan "Every Child a Swimmer," which is the official word of those who enter the various public tanas. ' Vivian Learning. Dorothy Kramer and Roberta E'dmonston learned to swim before their sixth birthday, four months ago, having access to the Shattuck and Couch School tanks after school hours and on Saturdays. Patience and hard work on the part of the teacher is necessary to develop permanent confi dence. This Miss Schloth always has done, and she is reaping a harvest now. Near-Champions Featured. She feels that since the public school pools were opened a year and a half ago some promising material for cham pions already has come to her notice, but she Is not letting that Interfere with her "Every Child a Swimmer" proposition. Near-champions as well as beginners will be featured in the exhibition next Friday night. ( Jewel Dwight and Margaret Macauley at seven years are experts, both hav ing had a year's training. The two little ones have earned their first honors, this being a red ribbon for swimming the length of the school swimming tank, which is 60 feet. The programme for Friday night in the Couch School tanks calls for dem onstrations of the "dog paddle" as taught to beginners, the evolution of which is the "over arm" or racing stroke. With training and practice this develops the more difficult trudgeon and crawl strokes which all real swimmers are interested In and eager to learn. Several Events Scheduled. Relay races by first, second, third and fourth teams; under water swim ming, diving by novice and advance classes; novelty .swimming and diving; demonstrations of lifesaving by Junior and senior girls, all will be on the programme arranged by Miss Schloth and her assistant. Miss Lucile Bronaugh. Beatrice Fish and Lavelle Lovern, senior girls, will demonstrate the en tire Red Cross lifesaving test for women, which-. entitles them to a bath ing suit emblem and, a diploma. Parents and friends of the youngsters are cordially invited to attend the ex hibition, which will start at 8 o'clock Friday night. Miss Schloth would like to have men tioned the sanitary conditions of the school swimming tanks. Considerable comment has been forthcoming as to, the condition or tne tanas, ine tanas are all that frequent scrubbing with disinfectants and plenty of refilling with fresh water can make them, says Miss Schloth, and this is done three times a week regularly. Every person who enters the tanks must take a shower before entering the pools. ORDER OF THE O" MEETS Letter Men at Oregon to Look Out for Good of All. TJNIVERSITT OF OREGON, Eugene. Feb. 24. (Special.) At a meeting of the letter men recently "The Order of the O" was reorganized and is to be made an active society on the cam pus. In the past this organization has been more of an honorary society since it was founded by Trainer "Bill" Hay ward eight years ago and, has had no I II EfFifS THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 23, 1917. 1 The Natural Lake Whloh Will Be Used for Boatlns;. Th Grove on (he II Inht Will Make Ideal Location for Plenlcs. The Extreme Left End of the Picture. Across the Neck of the Lake, la Where the 13th Toe Will Be Situated, While In the Fornronnd Will Re the 18th Pnttlnsr Urtea and Hole. The Photograph Shows Where the Sod Hoe Been Turned. S Ilcrd College Gymnasium and Some of the Tennis Courts Which Will Be Turned Orer to the Public for Three Months Each Summer. One of the School Buildings Can lie Seen In tic Corner of the Picture. 3 The Bis; prlns. Which , Forma a Natural Unsard for the Long; 13th Hole. special functions to perform. Plans for active service were made, in which the rights of the members of the order should be looked after. j A motion was passed to have the let ter men supervise the interscholastic meets held at the university and that the organization as a whole should look after the interests of all the athletes in their various branches of sports. Sommers to Box in Idaho March 0. Al Sommers will box Jack Torres 15 rounds at Wallace, Idaho. March 6. Four days later he will battle Farmer Burns 12 rounds at Echo, Or. Bobby Evans, who went to Astoria last Thursday with Billj Mascott. where the latter got a draw in 10 rounds with Joe Gorman, saya that Gorman weighed all of 130 pounds when he entered the ring. Mascott took Gorman's weight forfeit, it is said. Centralis High Defeats Raymond. CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) The Centralla high school basketball team defeated Raymond on the local floor last night by a score of 42 to 27. Van Gilder, with seven field and seven foul goals, was the biggest point winner, but Marley at guard was the Individual star of the game, keeping his Raymond opponent from trying for a single basket. LITTLE MERMAIDS AND BIG MERMAIDS WILL BE SEEN IN ACTION IN THE SWIMMING EXHIBITION AT THE COUCH SCHOOL NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT. I"- ; - -tv v . - - - ct r-s?js? 7, ss---f: srccfx StSjOtSf o'zi CoteA otraa" c54KiitcJcAoo' Miss Mllle Schloth, swimming and diving Instructor of the girls' classes of the Portland public schools, will be In charge of the exhibition Friday night and will be ably assisted by Miss Luclle Bronaugh. The first number on the programme will be started at 8 o'clock, and the public is invited. f" ,y . - ' ''' OUT FOR TITLE GAME WITH UNDEFEATED CHE IIAUS TEAM IS HOPE. Southwest Championship la at Stake and Chehalis Management Asserta Wminarncsa to Make Trip. HOQtTIAM, Wash., Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) Negotiations are under way to bring the undefeated Chehalis High School basketball team to Hoquiam. probably next week, for a game with the undefeated Hoquiam High School team to cattle the southwest cham pionship. The Chehalis management already has signified a willingness to come here for the game, and It is thought the championship contest will be arranged. The Hoquiam team has a strong claim to the Southwest Washington championship by reason of the schedule It has played this year, from which it has come with a clear record ,of vic tories. The latest victory was won Thursday night on the local gymna sium floor over Raymond High School by a score of 58 to 12. This was a HDOUIAI r - m 5. v -V.- f return game, and was the second vic tory of the season over Raymond. Since the Hoquiam team returned f rpm its tour of the southwest it also has played the Aberdeen High School team, winning by a big score. The team recently made a week's tour, playing five games and opening the series with a victory over Astoria. The Chinook, Raymond. South Bend and Lcbam teams were the other teams played and defeated by Hoquiam on the trip. This is the first year Hoquiam has been a contender for the southwest championship in basketball, though al ways having a strong team. In the past the schedule has been confined to gamea with teams In the county. Tono Arranges for Tenino Field. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) Arrangements for the Tono baseball team playing its games In Tenino this Summer were practically completed at a meeting held in Tenino Wednesday night, at which a Tono dele gation laid the proposition before Tenino business men. It was enthu siastically received. The Tono Athletic Club figures that its games will draw better in Tenino than Tono. owing to the fact that the coal mining town la located on a branch line. A. new boy'a sled haa a third runner In front to aid In steering. IN SHAPE NEAR REED COLLEGE vV '.-Ms 5,,:K V." '' i . 4 -4 i. ... .- i.. ' - " . -3 BEAR ELEVEN TO WORK &PRJXG GRIDIRON PRACTICE WILL START MARCH 10. California Football Machine Loses Eight of Rcaulara In May by Meana of Graduation. BERKELEY, Feb. 24. (Special.) Al though the California gridiron season Is quite a fv months away, the sea son is brought nearer since the first preliminary call for Spring practice haa been called by Head Coach Smith fot March 10. Coaoh Smith has Just signed a three-year oontraot with the Univer sity of California student body. Ac cording to Graduate Manager Stroud. hs has received an increase In salary. The varsity line work will be taken care of by Ous Zlgler. No third coacn will be selected this season, as Eddie Mahan will not return. Freshman Coach Elliott and Reserve Coach Cher rington. present basketball coach, will aid with Spring practice. A recent survey of the football talent available for next season made by Coach Smith shows that the Bears will have an entirely new squad In the field. Foster. Monlux. Bell, Montgomery. Rus. sell, Cohn. Sharp and Johnson will be graduated in May. Foster and Sharp will return In the Fall, but may not play football again. Hicks, quarter back, has left college and will not re turn. The reserve team of last year also has lost many of Its valuable men. Lane. Graf. Conine and Congdon will be among (he missing. Much attention will be paid to the freshmen this Spring. They will be drilled further in the basic funda mentals of the American game. Use of the hands, tackling, blocking, interfer ence, punting and other bits of the manual of the gridiron will occupy this pre-season practice. Among the fresh men, Toomey, Roe, Stebblns, Boyd, Wraith, DeCoudres. Gifford and McKay will be called upon to form the varsity reserve squad for next season. Penn Swimmers Beat Gothamites. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 24. The Uni versity of Pennsylvania swimming team tonight defeated the college of the city of New York, 45 to 8. Penn sylvania also won the water polo game, 40 to 0. MAGNATES WILL MEET NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE TO DRAW IP ANNUAL SCHEDULE. Salary Limit Mar Be Lifted hy Di rectors and Season Extended at Both Enda of Schedule. 8POKAXE. Wash.. Feb. 24. The an nual schedule meeting of the North western League will be held here early next month. It was to have been held this month, but the president of the Great Falls club Is a member of the Montana Legislature and could not leave his legislative duties to attend a baseball meeting Besides the fixing of ths schedule for the coming season, the principal matter to be considered by the directors will be tha salary limit. Most of the directors have expressed themselves in favor of increasing the 1916 figure, but the amount has not yet been deter mined. It is probable ths schedule will be lengthened. In this connection Presi dent Farr, of the Spokane club, has said he believed the season will open a week or two. earlier In April and continue longer in September than last year, when the opening was April 2T and ths closing September 4. An effort will probably be made to arrange ths schedule to avoid unfavor able weather in Montana, which here tofore has caused many postponements at Butts and Great Falls. Regardless of tha international situ ation there being a team In Vancou ver, B. C. the Northwestern League will play this season, according to President Robert Elewett. ? J OTHER SPORTS LURE BASEBALL PATRONS National Game Is Waning as Tennis, Golf, Motoring and Trapshooting.Gain. MANY DISPUTES DETRACT Controversies Oxer Players' Salaries, Ticket Scandals and General Sacrifice of All Else for -Money Harts Game. BY PETER P. CARNEY. PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. 24. (Special.) A difference of opinion ex ists among baseball moguls as to the reason, or reasons, for the falling off in the attendance and the apparent lack of interest in the pastime by America s great popnlation of sports men. The magnates agree on one point i mat inert is something radically wrong j with baseball. What that something la moat of them profess not to know. They are only fooling themselves. There are a few magnates who see ths light. These are the men who pay at tention to the trend of the times. Dick Klnsella. scout of the New York Americans, says that the movies have hurt baseball. President Navin, of De troit, says that mqtoring Is causing many thousands to forget baseball. Jack Hendricks, the Denver manager, says that golf Is the lure of majiy from the ball parks. Grantland Rice says the continued bickerings of the players and magnates are driving the fans to other forms of amusement, and James MO GUL the owner of the Denver Club, asserts that the decline of baseball is due to the increased interest In other outdoor sports by the people who wera formerly baseball fans. McGlll Is con vinced that baseball Is on the decline. Other Sports Lure. Mr. McGlll may or may not be cor rect about the decline of baseball. It Is a big subject, abut he is right about the Increased interest of the once base ball fana In other lines of outdoor sporting activity. Here are the rea sons why: Golf, tennis, motoring and trapshootlng. It la a long story why the sport loving American has turned to these sports from baseball. The modern young man takes up a sport that he can actually do. No longer is he to be a bench-warmer. For many years mag nates grew prosperous as the turnstiles clicked 'their sweet refrain: but the clicking hasn't been so Industrious dur ing the past couple of years. Politic in baseball brought charges and coun tercharges; then came one scandal after another on world's series tickets -thn cry of commercialism, the continued wrangle between the magnates and the players, and the threat of the play ers to close up the ball parks. And some of the magnates still wonder why the people do not take aa much in terest in baseball as of yore. Money has done more harm to sport than any other single factor. Baseball is the only professional sport that haa thrived for any great period of time. The continued alguments In the public press over salaries never went well with the fans. Idols were knocked from their thrones and the fans began to stir themselves and look for other forms of amusement. So the baseball fan of yesterday la the1 tennis, golf, motoring or trap shooting bug of today. Other Gamea Show Gain. There were not more than S00 tennis clubs nor more than 50.000 tennis play ers 10 years ago; today there are more than 800 tennis clubs and in the neigh borhood of 600,000 racquet players. And they have about 30.000.000 Invested In the sport. There are nearly 400 golf clubs In America, a gain of more than 100 per cent In five years; and golfers have more than 150,000.000 Invested In the sport. This, of course. Includes the maprniflcent homes of golf clubs. Then there Is trapshoot tng. It's a great sport. Golf and trapshootlng are the two sports to which no admission is charged, no matter how many cham pions may be performing. The former Is a sport in which the majority of the players are of middle age, while trap shooting Is the real sport of contrast ing ages. You can find them at tha traps from the little fellow in short trousers to the gray and grizzled vet eran. More than 15.000.000 shotguns have been sold and there are more than S00.000 trapshootera. Five yeara ago there were less than 100.000. The num ber of trapshootlng clubs have in creased in that tlmo from less than 600 to mora than 4000. VARSITY SQUAD INVITED TRACK TEAM URGED TO EXTEl EASTERN COMPETITION. Pennsylvania in Letter to Coach Hay vrard Saya Oregn Would Have Chance to Win. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Feb. 24. (Special.) The University of Pennsylvania, having been beaten in football. Is now anxious to meet Ore gon in track and this week sent a let ter to Coach Bill Hayward requesting him to enter a team for the annual relay race oarnlval to be held In Phila delphia April 27 and 28. Special men tion Is made In the letter of the worn of Chet Fee and Moose Muirhead. botn former Oregon stars, who have been lost to the team this year, the former by the graduate route and the latter because he got a good job. That there may be a slight possi bility of Muirhead again entering the university was admitted today by his fraternity brothers, when Moose ap peared on the campus for a visit. Al ready one man. Leo Furney. a weight man from Astoria, has re-entered ana will help to bolster the weight end of the team If he is ellgible'by hour. The letter from Pennsylvania reads: "We notice that at the Pacific Coast conference meet your men made some very good performances last year. Your man Muirhead should certainly be given a chance at our, relay carnival to win a National championship.- as ho would have a chance in both the hlgn hurdles and the high jump. Fee woula probably win the javelin, as he threw over 12 feet farther than anyone has done at the relay races." It is doubtful If ths request of the University of Pennsylvania will be con sidered. BUI Hayward cannot yet see where he has any chance to make a showing with his track team this year, and then the expense attached to sucn a trip would be more than the univer sity student body could stand. Hayward has been keeping his men hard at work through snow, mud and shine, but fights shy of all dops re porters continually, saying he has so dope to give out. as he has no chance this ar. A
