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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1917)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 9, 1917. SPORT PROGRAMME PREPARED FOR ALL HERE ARE A HALF-DOZEN OF THE BEST BOWLERS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. OREGON WON T SUE SISTER UNIVERSITY vvv' "'.rv" ,sv.j University Physical Training Aims to Make Every Man Physically Fit. Breach of Football Contract Not Condoned, but Good of Athletics Is Considered. DEAN WALKER IS DIRECTOR 1918 SCHEDULE IS MADE 1i - " ' 4 IT;- in i ' ltf fc, t ' III ' J ' Itl VvW AT- o . ' . -. j ; 17-' J Tfevr Arrangement Provides for In tramural Athletics Throughout ' School Year All Students ,; to Participate. "UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eugene. Dec 8. (Special.) That every Oregon man called into military service shall be physically fit is the aim of the uni versity department of physical training, which has just announced a programme of intramural sports that will embrace every man on. the campus. Dean "Wal ker, assistant football coach during the past season, has been elected director of the new activities and will be in complete charge during the absence of Hugo Bezdek, head of the physical training department, who left Eugene on a ten-months' leave of absence Fri day evening. Under the new plan physical train ing at the university will come under three separate divisions varsity ath letics, which will include all teams rep resenting the university in intercol legiate sports; intramural athletics, comprising interclass and inter fraternity contests, and the regular gymnasium classes, correlating prin cipally of corrective work. Coach Bez dek and Trainer Harvard will be in charge of the varsity teams and will direct the work of the gymnasium classes, while Dean "Walker will de vote his entire time to intramural activities. "Our plan," said Mr. Walker, "is to develop athletics to a point where every man will have a chance to compete and thereby derive a benefit. Then, too, we expect the plan to develop much latent material for our varsity teams." Under the new arrangement in tramural athletics will be In progress during the entire year an will include all of the sports on the intercollegiate conference calendars, as well as minor branches. Each of the four university classes and possibly the facuty and alumni will be represented by teams in one division, or league, and the other division will be made up of teams from the various clubs, fraternities and other campus organizations. While the plan was not perfected until this week, the, work was started a month ago with the organization of class football and soccer teams. Bas ketball is now on the boards and will coon be accompanied by wrestling, handball, swimming and possibly box ing. ' During the early Spring indoor baseball will hold sway, and with til, arrival of settled weather Director Walker expects to have a whole flock of teams tearing up the diamond at the National pastime. A track and field meet between teams of the companies in the cadet corps is also on schedule for the Spring season. Nearly all of the 400 men in the uni versity have, already signified their In tention of entering some branch of the Intramural sports, and competition for the championship trophies is expected to be keen. Bowling Notes. THE MEIER & FRANK COM PANT team will roll a special match with the Club Alleys quintet, of Salem, to day at 3 P. M., on the Oregon alleys. Both teams are about equally matched nd a good game is expected. Specta tors are welcome. The United States Forest Service boys got a good start and will roll for 15 weeks, as all the foresters are in town for the Winter months. The Grant Smith, Porter & Guthrie Bhlp Builders' League started Friday night with a great success. The first division of the company league will roll Friday and the second on Saturday nights. The first games of the sea son round every man on deck and things were humming. The Northwest Steel Company union men's quintet will hold a business meeting this afternoon, after which a "spread" at a downtown cafe- and a theater party at the Orpheum are on band. Metcalf. of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, rolled a good game, but still the team could not stop the leaders. ... The pride of the "Kant Shoot Com pany" is Vetsburg, who is noted for his lucky strikes. He can hit the seven pin and get a strike. Someone recently remarked that old Vet was smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes, but we don't know whether to put much faith in that or not. Bill Krause, of the Pacific Outfitting, Is hitting 'er up again. Flavin and Wiebusch. of the Com mercial A League, rolled a good pair of games for their team, taking three straight from Multnomah. "With De Haven in the Brunswick Tire lineup, the non-skid boys ought to roll right up the hill and into first place. Capt-in Ruchert has been work ing hard to get his team up to the standard. The quintet is composed ex clusively of employes of the company. ... Who said the bowling game was dead this winter? Just ask Thurman. of the Oregon Alleys. He won't tell but watcn the grin. , The Bergmann Shoe Company, of the Mercantile League, have been taking me cumo ior me last nine weeks, win ning two games out of every three game series they have played. This has boosted them up into second Place in the league, and Captain August j-pringer is certainly a nappy man when they meet every Thursday. - Oregon Alley schedule for week Decem- Monday U. S. Foreat Service veraua 1 perial Hotel, alleys 7 ana 8: Tru Blu Biscuit Company versus Pacific Coast Biscuit Com pany, 9 and 10; Portland Broom Company -jueaaay union .ueai company versus erjrman Pho Company, 5 and 6; Krause I hoc versus .uiuniauer-1 rank, 7 and S Zerolene versus standard Oil Company, 9 ana 10; HcLfCans versus Kent Shirt Co.. 31 and 12. Wednesday Oregon Alleys versus O. K. Cafeteria, 7 and S; Webfoot Camp versus Multnomah Camp, 8 and 10: W. H. Walllng ford versus Cozy Dairy Lunch, 11 and 12. Thursday Pathfinder CIuo versus Meter A Frank. 7 and 8; Ceiro Kola versus North west ffteel. 9 and 10: Honeyman Hardware Company versus Pacific Outfitting, 11 and 12. Thursday afternoon Splinter Cats versus Hoe Doits. 9 and 10; Bide Hill Gougers ver sus Whirling Whimpers, il and 12. Friday Ballou & WriKnt versus Edwards Tire Shop. 7 and S; Archer A Wiggins ver ai; 51araliall-U;i. 9 and 10; Chaoslor & Lyon versus Brunswick, 11 and 12, ' f " f I'M v.-- 1 j (. ef I WOMEN TO COMPETE First Annual Athletic Meet Will Be Held December 19.- MANY EVENTS SCHEDULED Every Pliase of Meet Will Be Con ducted in Official Manner, and Practically Every Girl at O. A. C. Will Participate. OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COL LEGE, CorvaUis. Dec. 8. (Special.) The first annual inter-class athletic meet for women of O. A. C. is sched uled for December 19 and will take place in the women's gymnasium. The athletic association is arranging the meet, which will include practically every girl in college. The event will be the biggest athletic affair for wom en this year and is being looked for ward to With great interest by stu dents and faculty. The events and points for each are: Military tactics, 6; rope climbing, 5; relay race, 5; obstacle, 5; tug-of-war, 5; posture and carriage test, 1, 3, 5; basketball game, 5. The posture and carriage test will be especially inter esting. Several girls will enter for each class and will be judged accord ing to the manner in which they walk and carry themselves. All manner of costumes will be worn by contestants. gymnasium suits, bathing suits, even ing dresses, street clothes and sport clothes. The tug-of-war will include the biggest and strongest girls in each class. Class managers for the events are: Josephine Hammond, senior; Bertha Fisher, junior; Fay Carver, sophomore; Esther Spitzbart, freshman. Tell lead ers for each class are: Doris Sawyer, senior; Helen Hailey, Junior; Marion George, sophomore, and Fay Benson, freshman. Special judges for the posture test will be Mrs. Oran Nelson and Mrs. Mc Dougal. Miss Peggy Walker will be THIS "BIRD" l RR DID HIT THAT BALL. Maurice Rats. Maurice Rath. Salt Lake, was the king of the swat in the Pa cific Coast League during 1917. In 197 games Rath played he went to bat 721 times, scored 129 runs, gathered 246 singles, stole 40 bases, made nine triples, 22 doubles and 68 sacrifice hits for an average of .541. He goes-to Cincinnati next season. t 5 ' r - w " I I j. u n J T t St 1 jT'i',. " trt " X t - : I i X clerk of course, and Miss Laura Camp bell starter. Mrs. Miriam Seely. head of the woman's physical education de partment, will be official announcer. Miss Fay Carver timekeeper and Miss Eva Brunell referee. The Judges will be Florence Berch told, Helen Leigh ton, Ella Bechen, Irene Curtis, Clarissa -iubbard. Eva Yates, Elsie Gilson, Philo. Hall and Eva McLeighton. Scorers include Lulu May, Agnes Reardon, Elizabeth Richardson, Ruby McLagen, Florence Holmes and Kath erine Strome. Every phase of the meet will be con ducted in the most official manner. Rooter sections will be established. Participants in various events are bard at work on apparatus in the gym, in preparation for the meet. The board of the athletic association, in charge of all arrangements, includes: Jose phine Hammond, president; Zetta Bush, vice-president; Minna Ash, secretary, and Bertha Fisher, treasurer. NAVAL. RESERVE ELEVEN VEVS ISostcm Navy-Yard Team Loses by Score of 7-6 at Cambridge. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 8. The Newport Naval Reserve football team today defeated the Boston Navy-yard eleven, 7 to 6, in a game for the naval district championship of New England. Both teams were made up of former college players, the -rst district team from the Navy-yard, including Eddie Casey and other Harvard stars, while "Cupid" Black, the 1916 Yale captain, led the second district warriors. More th n $20,000 was contributed by the spectators to the welfare fund for widows and orphans of naval men. "CHIEF' BENDER IS GOOD SHOT AS WELL AS EXPERT PITCHER Famous Indian Hurler Is Strong- Advocate of Trapshooting and Cannot Understand Why Everyone Is Not. BY CHARLES ALBERT BENDER. EVERY man and woman, boy and girl, who has read the sporting news knows of "Chief" Bender, the greatest of Indian baseball pitchers. Trapshooting is the hobby of the Chip pewa. Here is what he has to say of that sport: I can't see why every man should not be a trapshooting "bug." Certainly I must confess that microbe "has got me." And there is a logical reason why. Without a doubt the love for trap shooting and hunting is Inherent with every man who lays claims to the throb of red blood In his veins. The "fever" is Just naturally bred in the bones. It may lay dormant for a while, but, soon er or later. It's bound to assert itself. What man is there who cannot look back over the years and recall an irre sistible youthful desire to own a real gun? What man is there who hasn't heard"! the call of the big outdoors? And what man is there who could play the role of spectator at a trap shooting competition without experi encing a desire to take a crack at the flying clays himself and show the other fellow how to smash 'em? The old adage that a man ia only a grown-up boy still holds good. The latent desires of youth are bound to crop up. If you doubt it, pay a visit to the nearest gun club. Personally, I like all outdoor sports. The bond between baseball and myself is practically unbreakable. Golf, too, comes In for its share of attention. But trapshooting In my hobby. There's something irresistible about the whirl ing, cavorting clays that fairly chal lenges one's skill. And there's no let up to the-froposition. It not only inter ests, but it grows on one. I have been banging away at the clay targets for 15 years, and even today every new competition every new trial at the traps sends me to the score with an increased desire and ambition to outdo all previous efforts. And, as a. matter of fact, lately I have done my best work. For the last few weeks I have been exceptionally fa vored. and right here let me confess a pride in having "gotten my 100 straight." From the standpoint of clean, whole some, invigorating sport, trapshootins (1) Thry Look GMd-utKd, Don't Theyr l.rtt to RlKht They Are Patterson. Wyntt. Leathermno. Mt and Kllldow, of the Edwirda Tire Shop Quintet, and Tbirnan, of the Ore son Aileya. (S) Here Are the Boys In Ac tion. Left to Kl-ht, Mead, Kllldow, Hyatt, Patterson and Leatherman. LAGRANDESAYS"NO" Eugene High Wants Game to Decide Championship. CHALLENGE NOT TAKEN UP Eastern Oregon Team Claims Title of State Doe to Defeat of Frank lin High, of Portland; Lane Boys Contest Assertion. EUGENE. O., Dec. 8. (Special.) Eugene Hteh Sclio"! has challenged, by threa different telegrams, the La Grande High School football team to play for the championship of the state, and has offered to pay all ex penses. La Grande has refused, so the local hlgh'school now claims 'the state championship. La Grande recently announced that they held the championship because they defeated Franklin High, of Port land, champion of Western Oregon. V 44 1 J " A a -A.SK Charlr A. (Chief) Bender. India Pitcher. Who la Also Ore at Shot. Is worthy of every man's attention. And it is surprising to note the number of . women who are daily Indulging in it. Also it is remarkable to learn of the many "crack" .phots to be found among the gentler sex. One seldom goes through the trapshooting news without finding surprising records made by some feminine devotee. This in itself is ample evidence of the whole someness of the pastime. In fact, if one wished, he could un doubtedly consnme many pages on the merits and virtues, the educational tendency toward physical and mental development of the sport at large. It is an invigorating recreation that is growing greater every day. If you have any doubts on the subject, visit some gun club on the day of a fhoot. Incidentally, see if you, too, don't get the "iever," - ) 1 ". t t i it Eugene disputes Franklin's claim to the western title. Following are telegrams sent La Grande, together with replies: "Eugene. Nov. 30. Manager La Grande High School football team: The Eugene High School football team challenges your claim to the state in terscholastic championship. We hold at present the Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon championship, and we propose to dispute your claim to the above until such time as you have defeated us. We are ready and anxious to show that we are contenders and are also ready to take up wi'h you the matter of a game in Eugene Saturday. December 8. The winner of this game will hold the undisputed state championship. Answer immedi ately. FRED CHESS. "Faculty Manager. Eugene." "La Grande, Dec. 3. Fred Chess, Eu gene, Or.: Would suggest you play some Portland team and establish a more definite claim for the Willam ette Valley championship before we could consider playing a post-season game. CHARLES H. REYNOLDS. "Coach, La Grande." "Eugene, Dec. 3. Charles H. Rey nolds, La Grande: Ours is only team In state except yours that has claim on state championship. Cannot see how you can claim above without meeting us. We propose to push this to the limit. It is backdown for you if you do not accept. FRED CHESS, "Manager." "La Grande, Dec. 3. Fred Chesa. Eu gene: Our claim to state championship is based on the defeat of Franklin High, of Portland, the champions of Western Oregon. No reason why a post-season game should be played with your team. "CHARLES H. REYNOLDS." BASEBALL PLAYER ENLISTS Frank Bowden, ol Klamath Falls, Asks for Draft "Exemption. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dec 8. (Spe cial.) That Frank Bowden. Klamath Falls baseball player, has enlisted in the Army was the news received here yesterday by the local exemption board in a telegram which asked for Bowden's release from the draft list. Bowden has been a familiar figure on the local diamond for several seasons, where he has covered the position of third base. Arthur Glenn Nichols, another man on the Klamath draft list, has tele graphed from Kellogg, Idaho, for a re lease in order 'to enlist. Dan Gerald Hutchins. after trying to volunteer in the regular Army, and failing twice in the physical examina tions, will now attempt to enter the medical department. 210 SOLDIERS RCX IX RELAY Race at Camp Lewis Is "Won by the 3 4 6tli Field Artillery. CAMP LEWIS. Tacoma, Dec. 8. The 46th Field Artillery team of 3$ run ners won the great 17H-mlle Army Y. M. C. A. relay race at Camp Lewis this morning out of a field of 210 com petitors. Time. 1:30:45. The 363d Infantry- finished second, 30 seconds bac-K of the winner. The other teams finished in the order named: 348th Field Artillery. Machine Gun Battalion, 364th and 362d Infan try. Albany Boys on Artillery Eleven. ALBANY. Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Edmund Tracy and Loren Davis, two former football stars of the Albany High School, are still winning gridiron honors, though in military service. Both boys, who are members of the Fifth Company, Coast Artillery Corps, of this city, are playing with the Coast Ar tillery team at Fort Stevens, as well as on their company team, and are rated among the beat players on the coast defense team. Dnrk Hunting Is Improved. - ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. 8. (Spe cial.) Good bags of wild ducks have been brought in this week by hunters who visited the lower harbor, as a re sult of storms having drrVen the birds down within easy range of the shot guns. Throughout the early part of the season Summer weather prevailed on the harbor, making duck hunting ex tremely difficult. 'MCS'lESIIET Pasadena Gets No Reply to Invitation to Play. ALLENTOWN LOOKS STRONG Paper Personnel Indicates Team lias Some Good Players, Despite Its Unmerciful Defeat by Georgetown University. The Pasadena .Tournament of Roses football committee still awaits an answer to Its Invitation to the Allen town Ambulance Corps football team to play the Mare Island Marines in Pasadena New Year's day. according to latest reports from the south. The Pasadena officials as well as the Marines who will represent the West are anxious to have the matter settled and definite word is expected anytime. Ed Lawyer, former Occidental Col lege man, and now a First Lieutenant with the American Ambulance Service, stationed at Allentown, has sent an in teresting account of the Allentown gridders' personnel and record. Follow ing are portions from Lawyer's epistle concerning the ambulance boys: , Personnel Ia Strong. "The personnel of the team is some what as follows, although each man has from one to three substitutes fully as good as himself: Cubbare L E Psnn State Johnson Lr Washlnton-loo D'JJonnell LG l'enn State Mayfleld C. Waahlnrton oore RG... Washington-Lrf- H" HT California t-runcke RE Harvard Murphy Q. Tale -onn LH Oregon Aggies Brewer RH... Maryland Aggies -ramer F. . . Hamlin University "Others on the team are Dunn, of Michigan; Beck, of Penn State; Mc Alpine, of Pasadena: Schmidt, of Wash ington: Caughy. of California, and Hurm, of Ohio State. "It is hoped that the team will be allowed to accept the Pasadena date for New Year's, already offered them, so the Western fans will be able to see a true all-American team dem onstrate its claim to the National title. "The U. S. A. A. C. S., as the team is called, has met all the best service teams in the East, defeating them ail. thereby earning the title of the enlisted service. Twice they met and downed the Marines of Philadelphia, captained by Eddie Mahan. The first game, played at Allentown, went to the ambu lance men, 28-0. The second game, played on the famous Franklin Field, was the Army-Navy game of the year. Before a crowd of 30,000, the U. S. A. A. C. S. again conquered the soldiers of the sea, 16-0. " bforgrtswa Kur Victor. "The ambulance men defeated the Camp Meade team. 20-14: Camp Lee, 16-0: Gettysburg, 44-0, and have handed some very handy wallops to every college team they have met ex cept Georgetown which trounced them, 27 to 0. "The service games have held the limelight in the East this season, most of the colleges having teams ot an inferior type. I have seen them all play, and easily pick Georgia Tech as the best college team iu the East this season. "Just r word about the western star on the ambulance team. He Is no other than 'Tuffy' Conn, our own Pasadena boy. Playing half, he has been a whirlwind of speed and his playing has brought favorable com ment from every newspaper In the Far East. In every game he has made run after run of 20, 30 and SO yards. He is playing the best game of his career, which is sufficient to Fay. His work with Brewer reminds me very much of that famous Foster-McClung combination." Dissatisfaction Is Apparent Anions Students Over Playing Thanks giving Game in Portland In stead of on Campus. UNIVERSITY" OF OREGON. Eugene, Dec 8. (Special.) The University of Oregon will take no legal action to compel the University of Washington! to make good its financial guarantee on the football game scheduled for" November 10 and which the northern) Institution canceled without giving oth er reason than that its schedule was too heavy to allow playing the gamei This decision was reached following the return of Graduate Manager Tif fany and Professor H. C. Howe. Ore gon's representative at the Pacific Coast intercollegiate conference meet-i ing at San Francisco the first of th week. While the conference support. 1 Oregon in its stand In regard to too broken contract, it was feared that taking the matter to court would provd a hard blow to Intercollegiate athletics on the Coast. ' Considerable dissatisfaction Is being voiced among the students here in re gard to the scheduling of the Oregon O. A. C. game to be played in Portland next Thanksgiving day. Feeling that this is the big game of the season front the standpoint of student interest ancl that it should be played where the greater part of the student body can Attend tk lurir narl rif the Oreirrtn canrw portera are urging that negotiations be opened to establish the games be tween the two schools permanently as campus games, to be played in Corvaliis and Eugene alternatively. Under the terms of the contract O. A. C names the place where the game Is to bo played next year. According to the schedule announced by Graduate Manager Tiffany. Oregon, will have only one intercollegiate game at home during the 1918 season. Wash ington State will meet the varsity on Kincaid Field in the banner event of the university annual home coming day, November 16. The lemon-yellow will open the season with a University of Idaho game at Moscow, October IS. and on November 2 will go south to Berkeley. October 28 and November 9 are the only open dates on the varsity list and an attempt will probably be made to sign the Multnomah Club eleven for the former date. There ia a possibility, however, that the Idaho game will be moved forward a week, which will allow for the Multnomah game as a pre-season attraction on the campus. WASHINGTON IIIG11 FIVE BUSY Big Squad Turns Out for First Ac tive Practice Friday. The Washington High School baskety ball squad turned out for tirst activ practice Friday, with only one cf las-j year's letter men back. Captaln-elec Carl Mautz is now attending the Uni- versity of Oregon, so Art Beckwith wll lead the team in his stead. When the first basketball call waa issued, prospects did not look very! brilliant for Washington. Half a hun f dred boys reported, but all were new tc3 the game, and Beckwith was the on.-l seasoned man of the lot. Al Clougl and Ritchie, who made the second string quintet last year, also reported aAa U.pnlil t o n n frtr fflire venr btfl i center or the Y. M. C A., resorted for practice, and was soon loiiowea oy Roland Mcllheny. of the 1S1 Denver High team, so basketball prospects at Washington are exceptionally good this year. Several football men also have reported, among them Jensen. Ritchie, Hitchcock and Glass. GAME'S CHANGE URGED AG G IKS WOl'LD PLAY FOOTBALL "WITH OREGON' AT CORVALL1S. Contention Ia Raised That Eipfnt ot Students' Making Trip ta Port land la Too Great. "While the annual state football championship game between the Uni versity of Oregon and Oregon Agri cultutal College is scheduled for Mult nomah Field next Thanksgiving day. It is understood that the Oregon Aggiu board of control is opposed to the plan to stage the annual football classic in Portland and wants it played in Cor vaUis instead. The main objection the Corvallis au thorities have to playing in Portland Is the expense which the Corvallis ami Eugene students are forced to bear in order to witness the annual football clash between the two large state in stitutions. They contend, so it is said, that it costs a Corvallis student at least $5 to witness the game in Portland. This i.-t the minimum amount and Includes fare, meals and ticket to game, and the stu dent must "Hooverize" at every turn in order to get under the barrier at that figure. A large number of the students at Corvallis and Eugene have folks Iri Portland or this vicinity and would make the trip here Thanksgiving day. game or no game, and there are many students who would come to Portland for the Thanksgiving day battie ir they had to walk. Christian Brothers in Service. All of the crack players on the Chris tian Brothers' basketball team in lSlo are now in the service. Barnes has been reported as wounded in France: Ensign Kenneflck and Paymaster Sea man Van Hoomlsen are at Bremerton: Ensign Higgins is with the Atlantic fleet; while Kohn and Hughes are with the Marines at Mare Island. Mat Men to Meet In March. NEW YoTRK. Dec 8. The annual matches of the Intercollegiate Wres tling Association will be held March 22 and 23 at Columbia University. It wss decided today at a meeting here of rep resentatives) of the institutions com prising the Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. High School Brats Business Men. WHITE SALMON. Wash., Dec. S. (Special.) The season's football game between the high school team and that of the business men was played Friday, resulting 6 to 0 in favor of the hi ph. school team.. All stores were clojcd, during the same. ,1 1
