The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 13, 1918, SECTION TWO, Image 24

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Newspaper Page Text8 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 13, 1918. BASKETBALL FIVES PREPARE TO PLAY With Ten Teams in League in Two Divisions, Successful . Season is Expected. MANAGER CLAYTON SIIARP AND HIS QUINTET OF MULTNOMAH AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL STARS WHO ARE READY FOR A STRENUOUS SEASON. MANY VETERANS ARE GONE Winners of Title ! Each Division of Intersrholastlc Association Will Clah at Season's End for Championship. A little snore than on mora week f practice and the ten trams In tbe two divisions of tha Interscholastlo lu lll ba ready to start tha 191 S Ir.temcholastlc basketball seanon. to dtclde tUa champion high, school quin. tat of I -or t land. On account of tha large number of trams now entered In tba Intarsrholastle League It has been divided upon Into two divisions of five teams acb, which wilt ba called League A and League B- At tha end or tha season tha winner In each league will fight It out for the chanv pionship. Last year thera were alna teams In tha league and with the entry of Cnrls tian Brother" Business College. It brine the total op to 10 teams. Divid lng tha league will shorten tha sched ule a great d"al and create mora Inter est among tha basketball followers. Tha final run between tha winners la each league will ba ona of tha big' seat games of the year and should draw one of tha largest crowds that ever attended a basketball game In tha history of tha Interncholastlc League. Tha limi that will play In League A are: Washington. Columbia. Frank lin. Benson Teca and Christian Broth ers, while Lincoln. Jefferson. II111. Commerce and James John will battle In League B. Rare la Claae. The season will open on January 22. Jefferson High School won tha cham pionship last year, winning seven nnifd nrf Inline nnne In until (h. X.nal game Columbia Prep and Jeffer- KpnTlir.k'ian LPflflS in Pmnilfi. ichool were tied for first I CLEAN LIVING IS BIG FACTOR SAYSHOPPE Good Habits, Patience and Hard Work Essential to Win Billiards Honors. ADVICE GIVEN AMATEURS 1 IRA D. MIX. 3 R, B. STIXSO-V. 3 L. B. Dl'XIWAT. -ROBERT ; MORTON. 5 CLAYTOX CCTIE" SRM! P, MANAGER. CAREER IS son lilch School place. Jefferson winning from Colura bia la tha last game of tha season, taking tha championship. Coach Jamison will put an entirely new team In the field this year. Not ona man of even last year's second team Is back at Jefferson and he will nave to start tha season with green material. Several of the new turnouts ara showing up well and may develop into a promising squad. Among the boys that Jamison la de pending unon for bis first-team mate rial ara Ed Anderson. Scrogglns. Art Broreson. Ralph Thayer. Pratt. Louis Coulter. Ike tanaher. Ed Williams and Cronk. lie has about 1 out for prac tica and. although things do not look any too bright this year, Jefferson will be righting all tha time for tha cham pionship of tha league. Six of tha eight of last year's players are In tha Army. Jefferson will play Its flrpt game Janu ary St. meeting Jamea John. Columbia I'rep School runner-ups In last year's race ara in as bad a fix as Jefferson wben It comes to having letter men back. Coach "Tick" Ma lark ay is working overtime trying to wbip a championship team Into shape and has a fair turnout. Fred Allen. a;i-etr guard In the Interscholastlo League tw,o years ago. has returned to cnooi and win be Columbus main stay. Allen baa been elected captain of this year's team. Malarkey will prob ably start the following lineup In Co lumbia's first game: Harold Shipley and Fete Bweeney. forwards: Bert Ja-eobh-rser and Kred Allen, guards, and AlrKlercan. center. inhere who ara making a strong bid f-r first-team honors at Columbia are: Will Stentsen. Wa:ch. Teller. Johnson, and Archie and alike Dunaigan. Ose t rims Retaraa. Dr. W. A. Fenstermacher. coach at Waahlngton High is-hoot. baa one letter man back to build his llf team around In tha person of Art Beckwith. wbo played guard last year for Wash ington. Beckwith has been elected rap tain of this year's team. Coach Ken stcrmarhrr will pick his first team from the following basket-lnasers: Ueorge Iji Koch. Al Clougb, "Tiny" Jenson. fcdlund. Harold Mann, Oeorge liltcbrock. Howard Staubw Haak. Ben Beit. Tate. Boles. Wild and KoUle. Mora thaa 3t players have been out for basketball at Franklin for the last three weeks nnder tha direction of "!udge Brown, coach and captain of this year's team. Brown baa Bob Tuck er, of last year's squad, back to assist htm In putting out a championship tem for Franklin and ha Is confident that the Quakers will ba op In tha per centage column of this year's race. Franklin will open League B, playing Benson Tech on January 21. Lincoln will enter the leagne with a new coach and one letter man. Ralph Jvnuasen played center on lost year's team and la this season's captain. Un der the guidance of Coach Lon Orput, It la hoped to put a strong team out. riome of tha moat promising hoopers that Orput has out are: Johnny Tuerck, Jack Rile y. Dave Wright. UurUn, Du blnsky, Legget. tsklvtngton and Oscar Kelser. Uunao and Itlsley collided In a practice game nlghf before last, with the result that Gurian had to ba carried home and probably will ba put oat of the game for several days. Orput has had a good deal of basket ball experience, playing two years at tha University of Wisconsin. He also Is a graduate of Washington High' t-chool. of this city, and tha Univers.ty of Oregon. Jasaea J eh a Strang. Jamea John Is very well fixed In the basketball line, and will make things Interesting for tha teams In Its divi sion. Coach Strong has everyone of Ust year's letter men bsck and has a bunch of live subs to back his first squad up la caie of accidents. Captain Meyers and Bill Schroeden are the let ter met available for tha forward posi tions: John Wulf. last year's center, will ba back at his old Job, while "Hoody Smith and Kpackmen are let ter men at guard. There are a num bes of good, second-string men out, among them being Diinimors. Hellker. Joe Toole. "Pop" Day, Thompson, h'tearns. Whttmore. Cook. Joe Jowar, Hlatt. Olrt. Johnson. "Shorty Day. Clarence Tools and Jessup. Benson Tech has a promising team, and with a little mora practice will be able to bold Its own with rivals. Coach ;oldman haa been shifting his squad around quite a bit and has found the best positions for his first-team men. Tha following line probably will start tha first game, which will be with Franklin Htuh, School January 21: fcott and Gregg, forwards; Culett and Buoy, guards, and Faster, center. Coaasaerew Tamest Good. Commerce has a good tournoat this year and will open League B. Wednes day, January 22. playing Hill VI Hilary Academy. Coach Kogaway will pick tils first team from tha following play ers: Ernest Richardson. Paul Wong. Virgil Oliver. George Sprawktna, Martin Paulback. Levoff. Sam Tessler, Byron Anderson. Julius Fax. Dave Singer, Alf ICoaduded aa Page Couaa a.1 , tion of Fast Race Horses. EFFORTS ARE REWARDED J. E. Madden Recognised as Great .Trainer and Breeder 'Develop ment of Hamburg Belle Into Winner Interesting. BT W. II. OOCHER. Secretary National Trotting Association. Not since Noah paired tha animals In tha ark and led them out to renew breeding operations after the waters subsided has tha world seen, tha equal of John E. Madden, of Lexington. Kt In the production and development of race horses. Within 20 years this powerful athlete has run a shoestring Into millions and purchased bluegrass farms that extend to tha borlxon wben viewed from the house in which be lives during the Winter months. Glancing back Into the early '80s. those wbo know him can recall when he retired from the clndrr path and appeared on the trotting turf with the gray gelding Class Leader and failed to make even an Impression, Plodding along determinedly, be soon made his presence felt. Good things began to come his way, while before long this restless spirit owned or con trolled a high class of trotters snd number of valuable staUlona. When ha located In Kentucky a few resented his Intrusion, but before long everyone was forced to recognise his ability aa a dealer, while many of them al adopted his original method of doing business. Speedy (ferses Developed. In the gray mare, Abble V- Mavdden had a trotter that was only a few sec onds shy of being a champion and tha big horse Wyandotte, by Artlmiis, died on the verge of a triumph. He also owned an Interest In Robert McGregor when ha aired Creaceus and selected tha KentScky Futurity winner filllko as a yearling. That the trotter still and always haa had a warm place In bis heart Is shown by the careful development given uam burg Belle. Soprano and Tenara. while the splendid series of racea w-blch they won brought their own reward, each of them, aa well as Stllko. were win tered at Hamburg Placa nnder tha Madden method, a formula that car ried health and strength with It. while he also reserved the right to trim their feet and shoe them when they were sent away to race. No matter where they were on shoeing day the Hamburg Place farrier want to them with a set of shoes made under their owner's su pervision, put them on, and departed, leaving Andrews or McCarthy to dis play tha farm's representative on race day. Also If tha food In tha section In which they were racing was not op to the standard, hay or grain also was tent by express. Wben ha purchased Hamburg Bella from her breeder It waa known that she waa a very fast mare, but a con firmed knee-knocker and worthless for racing on that account. Ha leveled her feet and shod her so she want clear and In 101 sha won five racea in tha Grand Circuit, one of them bring trie 110.000 Charter Oak Purse at Hartford In 3:06. 2:04. 2:04. tha three fastest consecutive heats on record op to that date. The next year he also saw her defeat Uhlan at Cleveland 2:014, the present race record world, and sold her the same $50,000. Soprano, supposed to be fourth in tha list of great three-year-olds In 1S09, became under his management a magnificent race mare, while Tenara, known to be unsound, won a number of Important events, ona of them being the SSth renewal of the Charter Oak Purse before sha went amiss. Faith la Work Great. Tha success of John E. Madden can ba attributed to the faith that he has In his work as well as the constant care which he gives all of the horses that he breeds or owns. When he breeds a horse or purchases one on the strength of blood lines be does so with tha knowledge of the fact that the sire plants the seed and If the sire is a failure the colt Is also very apt to follow suit. The germ of speed Is in the seed of the sire. If It Is not there tha product of the greatest mara will fail. John E Madden'a method of breed ing, feeding, cars and training are tha four sides of the keystone of his suc cess as a racing magnate. No one ever hears of bis 'ill urea. If be has any, while there has never been a year that tba acid test of tha race track failed to award him his share of win ners even after ha permitted his friends to select what they considered the best in the paddocks at Hamburg Place. Tha records also show that no mn will pay mora money for a good horse than John E. Madden and no one ever sold ss .many for the high dollar as tha owner of Hamburg Place. Still with all of his success on the trotting and run ning turf thera Is nothing so near and dear to him as his two splendid sons. Edward and Joe. both of whom are wearing the khakl of their native land and eager like your sons and mine to give tha vigor of their youth and their lives. If necessary, to make the world safe for a government of tha people oy tha consent of the governed. Si CLUB FIVE STRONG Basketball Team Composed o Experienced Players. MANY GAMES SCHEDULED Multnomah Hoopers "Will Meet TJnl rerslty of Oregon, Pullman, Will amette, Washington and Ore gon Aggies During Season. TEAMS GO SOUTH SOON CLETEL45D CREW TO LEAVE FOR REW ORLEANS MARCH 1C. Maaasrr Griffith Hay Take Seaatera ta Taaapa, Wkera Exhibition Games Ara ta Prospect. James C Dunn, president of tba Cleveland Americana, and Business Manager E. 8. Barnard have arranged. It Is said, for tba Cleveland team to leave homa March 14 for their regular training grounds at New Orleans. If tba present schedule Is carried out they will leave New Orleana April 2. going to Dallaa, Tex., where they will play In exhibition game with tha New York Giants. The prospect Of a series of exhibition games with tha Philadelphia Nationals n Florida and at military training camps during tha trip homeward Is causing Manager Griffiths, of the Wash ington Americans, to give serious con sideration to Tampa. Fla., as the Spring training place for bis Washingtonians. Griffiths recently was advised that games with Philadelphia could be ar ranged if ba went to Tamna. He vir tually had decided upon Augusta, Ga. Gopher Captain 19 Tears Old. Norman Klngsley, 19 years old. the youngest man ever named captain of the University of Minnesota football earn. Is six-feet tall and weighs more than 200 pounds. Tha captain-elect tarted his football career on the high school' team at Spring Valley. Minn., his home, and this year was one of tha mainstays of tha Gophers' backfleld. The Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club basketball team will play its first big game of the year January 19, when it will journey to Eugene and mee tha Lniversity of Oregon quintet. Man ager Clayton Sharp has arranged to play Oregon a return game here March 2. Multnomah Club has a heavy ached ule this year that calls for the follow Ing big games: University of Oregon, January 19 and March 2: Washington State College, at Portland, February 9 Willamette University at Salem, Feb ruary 16; University of Washington, date not set, and one or possibly two gams with Oregon Agricultural Col lege this season. Team Works Hard. The "Winged M" squad has been training hard for the last four weeks and Manager Sharp reports that they are In good shape for a strenuous cam palgn. The team has played a number of practice games with local high school and independent teams. In speaking of this year's team. Sharp says that he thinks Multnomah Club has the best shooting and offensive team that it has had in many a season. A glance at the lineup of the Mult nomah Amateur Athletio Club squad shows that taey are a live bunch of basket tossers and If In the right form will make any of the Intercollegiate teams step. Clayton Sharp and L. E. Duniway are holding down the forward positions. Dunlway Is a former University of Washington star, while Sharp formerly played a stellar game for tha Unl verslty of Oregon. Blea Arc Experienced. For the guards there Is Robert Mor ton, another former University of Ore, gon player, and Richard Stlnson, wbo played a great game for the Oregon Agricultural College freshman several years ago; Ira D. Mix, former Oregon 'Aggie" all star center, also Is playing tne pivot positiqn for Multnomah Club. Ray Toomey, for several years one of Multnomah Club's mainstays, makes six first string men. A captain for this year's team will be elected at a meeting of the first team players at the Multnomah Club gymnasium. A. B. COATES GETS COMMISSION Former Alronnd Athlete Is Made First Lieutenant In Signal Corps. ALBANT. Or.. Jan. 12. (Special.) Alton B. Coates, former wire chief of the local office of the Pacific Tele phone tc Telegraph Company, haa been commissioned a First Lieutenant In the Signal Corps of the United States Army, according to word received In this city. Ha has been in the service several months and has been serving as first sergeant of Company E. Eighth Tele- phone Battalion of the Signal Corps, stationed at Monterey, Cal. Lieutenant Coates was reared In this city and formerly was an athlete of state-wide prominence. He was a hur dler and a middle-distance runner on the track team of Albany College, which won the championship of the state, and later ran for the Oregon Agricultural College. He was a half back on the Albany College football teams for three or four years and also was a member of the football and track teams of the Multnomah Amateur Ath letio Club of Portland. He has been engaged In work for the telephone company several years and -enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, with many other employes of the Pacific Telephone Company. He Is a son-in-law of Frank J. Miller, chairman of tba Oregon Publlo Service Commission. SPORTS TO FIT 1 Participation of All Students in Athletics Needed. CUE TOURNEY TO START PROFESSIONAL S-CTJSHIOX BIL LIARD TITLE AT STAKE. Entrants tn Contests Which Will Be gin Monday Ave Among Best Players In Portland. The professional three-cushion bil Hard tournament to determine tha pro fessional champion of the city of Port land and to place the city of Portland championship trophy for the coming year will begin at the Waldorf parlors tomorrow. The opening game will be played between Boalt and Merle, and will start at 8 o'clock. The trophy, which will remain the property of the winner of tha contests as long as he is undefeated, is now being arranged for by. A. R. McKinley The city championship tournament at the Waldorf is strictly a profes sional contest. Day Manager T. H. O'Connor, who initiated the tournament several weeks ago, saya that the best players in tbe city have entered and that truly professional contests are ex pected. Manager J. J. Parker, under whose general direction the professional three-cushion tourney will be staged returned from San Francisco Thursday and baa made arrangements to affiliate tha professional city championship tournament with the billiard activities of Chto Wright in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Is expecting that the arrangements to send tbe winner of the Portland tourney to the California cities to vie with the native sons will ba perfected shortly and that the pro fessional tourney will ba of greater scope than first expected. Entries already In for tha profes sional city tournament ara as follows: Fenna, Boalt, Hicks, Hart, Leonard, Kaiser. Sanders. O'Connor, Goodland. Crulksbank. Cornell, Condon, Merk and Walts. Purdne and Indiana Quit. Purdue and Indiana have broken off all athletic relations following the action of Purdue in dropping Indiana from the 1918 football schedule. The Indiana authorities requested a cancel lation of tbe basketball and wrestling games and the request was compiled with, Purdue taking on the Great Lakes Training Station team and Depauw in place of Indiana in this season's schedule. Harrisbnrg Beats Springfield. HARRISBURG, Or.. Jan. 12 (Spe cial.) The Harrisburg High School basketball team defeated the SDrlntr- field High School team here last night, 3S to 19. The game was fast and snap py from start to finish. N. C. A. "A. PLANS TOLD New Programme of looking After Physical Welfare of All Re garded Esnential Factor In ' Winning Conflict. BY A. D. BROWNE. M. D. Director of men's physical education at Oregon" State ABrlcultural College; aecretary paMfin r.nnmt Cotlesrfata Conference: mem. ber executive committee National Collegiate Athletio Association. A willingness to discard intercol legiate athletics as a spectacle and to make them secondary to a programme encouraging all students In athletio participation characterized the discus sions at the conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held in New York City during the holidays. College presidents, faculties, alumni. directors, managers and coaches were present from all pars of the country. Out of the naze or uncertainty wmuu surrounded intercollegiate athletics following the entry of the Nation into war. has come the fixed purpose to continue athletics only so far as it is compatible witji a successful conduct of the conflict. Trained Hen Are Needed. The country has a tremendous job on its hands, and everything must be made subservient to the needs of the year win the war. ah Dusiness, an enterprises, must be adjusted, and all Individual endeavors must te central ized on helping the Government to throw Into the war overwhelming forces of trained men, whether they are on "the front in Flanders or in the shlnvards and factories at home. Many evils that have been associated with intercollegiate athletics during the past 20 years gradually have been eliminated. The war is shaKlng us TlO' lently from our familiar standards of developing a selective few for the pur pose of entertaining a vast crowd to the new programme of bringing every man Into the game. Programme Is Indorsed. The Government haa asked for It President Wilson, Secretaries Baker and Daniels and officials of tha Army and Navy have indorsed the great physical benefits to be derived from athletic participation, but they have gone further and have appealed toall port-governing associations to mage an athlete out of every man in college and school. Athletics should be made a military essential during the war. Many col leges suspended athletics In order to arrange for a military programme. It was the opinion of educators and Gov ernment officials that it was not nec essary to carry on military training at the expense of physical education, but that a programme should be ar ranged whereby physical training and military training could co-operate and work harmoniously. Just as the military experts have had to change their methods of training soldiers, so physical directors must map out an emergency programme and formulate a plan of physical educa tion which will contribute the best aid to military preparedness, YOUTS'G ATHLETES WHO WILL CAPTAIN THE INTERSCHOLASTIC QUINTETS THIS SEASON. i r -. 1 .'" t I J .V' "-.., 4 'V t ' ' . . .( i ? t i in n s v: j i hi Ml If . I sMBeiillaMniint r lit tsl etf.Ta I I lav k -A ft I I .it -.?;t u co, a - s-y-.'L c.j. I' r"' y "X'J fix t Christian 23 ess ji Jefferson. Columbia and James John ar not represented In tba layout, tba camera xcaa. . The first two have not yet elected captains. Russell Meyer, James John captain, was unable to report to Balkline Champion Says Game Ra- qnires Nerve, Endurance and Skill Number of Finished Players Is Increasing. BT WILLIE HOPPE, World's Champion Bllliardlst. Let me say, in the first place, that It is not impossible for any young player to become a world's champion. It Is not easy, perhaps. It requires work; lots of work. It takes patience, because you must be master of yourself. And it takes a clean life. Tou can't make a hairline shot if you dissipate. Clean living is more essential to the one at the top in billiards. Ty Cobb and Hal Chase had to work hard to-Bet where they are in base ball. They could not maintain their wonderful eyes if they dissipated. Benny Leonard li a boxing champion, and he got there by taking care of himself in the proper manner. Billiards Is a game that calls for the iron nerve, the physical endurance and the in-, finite patience even more than any other sport. Practice Brings Reward. Personally, I believe I was a born billiard player and that my present position of being without any com petitors Is due to the fact that my natural Inclination to the game has been supplemented by years of unceas ing practice and more practice plus careful training. It is a commonly known fact that neither Ives nor Schaefer ever) took the proper care of themselves. They took things easy and enjoyed themselves. I hold that there are more good bil liard players In the country today than there were whsn I started, but I be lieve there is plenty of room at the top. Those in the front rank.- if I may be allowed to exclude myself, have not reached the standard set by those two old-timers Ives and Schaefer. My scores at balkline speak for themselves. Good Players Increase. I think Ives and Schaefer were better players than the group rated just be low me, but I am confident that there are hundreds of good billiard players. today where there were scores but a few years ago. However, there is a big difference between being a good player and a champion. I think credit for the tremendous ad vancement of the game is due to R. B. Benjamin, my energetic manager, who is a wonderful missionary for billiards. He is always elevating the game, curb ing the rowdy element and putting bil liards where it belongs as the pastime of a gentleman. There are so many ways that tha ordinary player can Improve his game. First gather some knowledge of tha technique. Then start practicing. Learn the draw shot. Practice this faithfully. Next learn to control the balls. Take up tha simple cushion carom. Master the nurses, and always practice, prac tice, practice. I spend four or five hours at the table every day. - Self-Mastery la Urged. I've seen players miss an easy shot and swing the Cue around in anger. Some quit the game in a huff when a draw goes wrong. But master your pas sions. The beginner should play with nonchalance. Don't start with balk line. Take up straight rail. That is a grand game for anyone. Watch experts play whenever pos sible. To play good billiards is neces sary to see good billiards. Do you think a ballplayer would fctar If he never saw his rivals in action? Cer tainly not. Tou must see the fine points demonstrated. Try some of the shots you see yourself. Use your brains. Think before you shoot. Headwork Is essential. If you have an Important match ahead train for it. I always diet carefully. I avoid sweets, drink neither coffee nor tea and never smoke. These things are detrimental to my nerves, hence affect my game. I'm always glad to meet the ama teurs. They are the backbone of the game. Maybe one of them will ba my successor some day. LOUDERMILK IS STAR PITCHER EXPECTED TO SH1IE IN 1918 WITH BROWNS. Fine Record Made With Columbus Club of American Association . During 1917 Season. f ' Grover Loudermilk, whom Fielder Jones, manager of the St. Louis Browns, expects to be his premier twirler next season, proved the most effective pitcher among the twirlers in the American Association during the 1917 season while Grover was burling for Joe Tinker's Columbus Club. Louder milk wound up the 1917 season with the Browns and pitched wonderful ball. In a total of. 60 games Loudermilk was scored on 97 times, had 67 earned runs charged against him for an aver age of 1.70 to a game, was hit safely 254 times, gave 128 free passes ami struck out 250 batsmen, but his wild pitches and hit batsmen errors totaled 34. Ranking second to Loudermilk is Goodwin, of Milwaukle, with an aver age of 1.91 runs for 27 games, followed by Niehaus, of St.Paul; Fred Falken berg. Indianapolis: Vance, Toledo; Davis. Louisville, and Fillingim, of In dianapolis. Holding positions far below in the rating are many former twirlers who have seen service In both major leagues. In the won and lost column tne honors are carried off by Davis, of Louisville. Participating in 44 games. Davis is given credit for Za victories and 11 defeats. In 12 of these he was taken off the mound, while he finished seven contests. Close behind Davis comes fillingim, mo indianapoiis twirler, with 20 victories and nine de feats. He engaged in 35 contests. Jack Northrop, of Indianapolis, is third with 0 wins and ten loses. Falkenberg, Niehaus and Loudermilk earned the next places in order. The hardest worked pitcher in tne league was C. Thomas, of Minneapolis, who figured In no less than 62 games. He won 20, lost 24, -vas taken out ten times and finished 17 contests.