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EASTERNERS FAVOR
0L0 GRIDIRON GAME
Milwaukie to Stage Match for
World Title.
Clique of Coaches Want An
cient Massed Play.
CHARLEY WHITE ON CARD
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Best String of Bouts Ever
Offered Oregon Fans.
Failure of Certain Mentors to Pro--'
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as Reason for Squawk.
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' The first world's championship box
ing: bout ever held In Oregon will
take place in the Milwaukie arena
New Year's night.
Matchmaker Frank Kendall of the
Milwaukie boxlngr commission and
George Moore, manager of the arena,
announced yesterday that they had
signed Boy McCormick, light-heavyweight
champion of England and hold
er of the Lord Lownsdale belt, em
blematic of the title, to meet Tommy
Gibbons of St. Paul, recognized Amer
ican champion. In the main event of
ten rounds.
. Wonders do not cease with the Mc-Cormick-Gibbons
match. How does
this look?
Charley "White of Chicago, contend
er for the world's lightweight cham
pionship, who has fought every great
boxer at his weight in the ring today,
will battle ten rounds against Muff
Bronson of Portland In the semi
windup. Can you imagine Charley
White boxing second on a card and
In this neck of the woods? The only
thing that crowds him down, or rather
the only reason that he permitted the
Milwaukie commission to put him in
second notch was the fact that a
world's championship battle was on
top of the bill.
Wonders Kever Cease.
More wonders. Joe Gorman, claim
ant of the Pacific coast featherweight
championship, will fight Earl Baird
of Seattle, former amateur champion
of the United States, who turned pro
fessional last year, eight rounds In
the special event. This bout is a
main event in any city on the Pacific
coast. Baird has only returned from
fighting a series of six main events in
Los Angeles and is matched to battle
Bobby Harper in the main event of
this week's card in Seattle.
An eight-round bout will open the
show, featuring Al Sommers, former
Pacific coast middleweight champion,
against the best man that can be ob
tained to meet him.
If this card Is not the greatest bill
that has ever been arranged in the
northwest, a guess is missed.
. Never has such an amount of class
been assembled on one card. It will
be the first real championship bout
staged on the Pacific coast since Jim
Jeffries fought Jack Johnson in Reno,
Nev., for the heavyweight title of the
world.
When the Milwaukie boxing com
mission first made its bow it an
nounced through Matchmaker Frank
Kendall that it would endeavor to
give only the best obtainable in the
line of fistic bouts to the boxing fol
lowers of Portland and the state of
Oregon. They started off on a pre
tentious scale by matching Boy Mc
Cormick and Frank Farmer, one of
the biggest bouts staged In-years in
the northwest. The initial' card at
Milwaukie was also stamped as the
best all-around bill yet to make its
appearance since the advent of the
ten-round game.
Second Card Good.
In staging the second card, which
was held last Tuesday night, Milwau
kie went everyone else one better and
signed Tommy Gibbons to box Jimmy
rjarcy ten rounds. The balance of the
card stuck out with class and the
bill was another hummer.
Now in only their third show, Mil
waukie has secured an international
bout that will attract country-wide
interest and settle the light-heavyweight
championship, which has been
so muddled for several years. Since
Jack Dillon started on the down slide
there have been many claimants of
the light-heavyweight championship.
One by one, Tommy Gibbons has been
polishing them off until there does
not remain a man at his weight who
has any better right than he has to
the crown.
McCormick is the real champion of
England at his weight and has not
been defeated since his arrival in this
country. In England they are consid
ering him for a match with Carpen
tler. He is the one remaining British
title holder who has not proved a
lemon and has held his own against
the leading boxers of other countries.
McCormick is unlike most of his coun
trymen in that he is a fighter as well
as a boxer. That may come from the
fact that he is a through-and-through
Irishman.
Kanuer Gets Plenty.
Although Farmer held him to a
draw, it is the opinion of" most of the
close followers of the game here that
had the bout been scheduled for sev
eral more rounds the Tacoma boxer
would have been stowed away.
Gibbons Is on his way to St. Paul,
but will retrace his steps as soon as
he gets home and has a peek at a
new-born baby that made its arrival
while he was in the northwest. Mc
Cormick is In San Francisco and will
leave at once for Portland. Charley
White is in Seattle and will arrive
here early this week.
Owing to the great expense that
will be required to stage the card, the
prices will be scaled from II to $5.
The present prices range from $1 to
$3. Manager Moore announced
though that the increase of admission
will be in force only for such bouts
of international importance as the
McCormick-Gibbons mill, which means
that big guarantees have to be made.
It is estimated that the show will
draw between $10,000 and $15,000.
Baseball War Fails to Stop Trades.
While American league club own
ers have been at war their managers
have kept the peace with each
other. Miller Huggins of the Yan
kees, for instance, lets it be known
that one of the trades he is about to
conclude is with the manager of a
"club whose owner differs politically
with Jake Ruppert.
Cubs After Reuther.
The Chicago Cubs are said to have
made an offer of $2B,000-,to the Cin
cinnati club for Walter Ruether. Of
eourse it has been refused. Now why
didn't the Cubs keep Ruether when
they had him? They let him go to
Cincinnati for $1500, the then waiver
price.
Allen's Volley Ball Team Wins.
Captain Baltes Allen's volley ball
team won the business men's inter
class tournament at the Y. M. C. A.
yesterday. Twelve teams were en
tered in the tourney. Captain Allen's
team was composed of the following:
C. A. Wood, W. F. Nash, H. Y. Jacob
sen. I. C. Cunningham and A. D.
Cutler.
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INDEPENDENT FIVES BUSY
PLANS FOR SEPARATE LEAGUE
ARE UNDER WAV.
Multnomah Guard Team to Go to
Dallas December 27; Maroon
F. Wants Out-of-Town Games.
Independent basketball is on in full 1
swing. Plans for organising an inde- I
pendent hoopers' league are under I
way and final arrangements will be
made and a schedule drawn up at the
next meeting Tuesday night at the
Multnomah guards' clubrooms in the
Chamber of Commerce building.
Six teams were represented at the
first meeting held last week, and it
is expected that several more teams
which have expressed a desire to
enter the proposed league will have
tnetr managers or representatives
present at the meeting Tuesday night.
With such a large number of teams
already in the independent field and
new ones springing up daily, there is
no reason why one league or possibly
two cannot be organized and carried
on successfully. An organized circuit
would do away with the worry and
trouble that the team managers are
put to In scheduling contests, and
would prevent teams from taking the
well-known "runout" at the last min
ute after the game has been sched
uled. .
Some of the teams have -hesitated
about entering, the league : because,
they felt that they would stand no
chance against the crack Multnomah
Guard five. ' "
Manager D. M. Simonson of the
Multnomah Guard five says he will
not enter the guards' first team in the
league, but will place a team in the
circuit known as the Multnomah
Guard intermediates, which is com
posed mostly of high school players.
Billy Lewis is coaching the inter
mediates and will select his team
from the following players: Kdlund,
Irvine. Gilman, Tuma, Kenneth Hill.
Daniels and Wright.
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, The Maroon F team, composed of
Franklin high school lettermen. wants
out-of-town games. Negotiations are
under way for games with some ot
the valley high school teams.' A team
will be selected from the following
players: Harry Thomas, Babe Thom
as. Charles King, Claire Badley. Bill
Poulsen, Kenneth Farley, Charles
Kelley, Tank Macalum, Ralph Borrelll,
Ed Thompson, Art McKenile, Byron
Lewellyn, Bob Tucker. Jack Rout
ledge and Skin Reynolds.
Jack Routledge. who Is .managing
the Maroon F team, can be reached at
Sellwood 1791 or houseboat I. Wil
lamette moorage, Milwaukie, Or.
The Y. M. C. A. Acorns, holders of
the 130-pound city championship for
me past iwo years, are in me iieia
for another championship this season,
with practically the same five that
has represented them in the past.
The Oregonian quintet, composed of
employes of the composing-room, will
play the Lincoln high school team to
morrow afternoon on the Lincoln
floor.
Right Off the Bat.
F1
RANK NAVIN passed up an op
portunity to arrange a spring
series for the Tigers with the Cin
cinnati Reds. He had promised to
have his team engage in another Joint
tour with the Braves. The Reds
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but Xavin passed up the champions.
Ed Konetchy. who led the National
league-first basemen in fielding dur
ing the 1919 season, did nothing novel?
as he had been at the top of the list
or tied for first honors in five pre
vious campaigns.
Bill Carrigan. one-time manager of
the Boston Red Sox, made a visit to
Boston a few days ago and while
there he denied a report, that he was i
contemplating a career as part owner'
of the Red Sox. . He said, however,;
that he might become a club owner
later if an attractive opportunity pre- ;
snlleu itatsii.
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, mice iiiemuers ul tnr neu sux,
Russell, McNeil and Walte Ho-yt, are
working in a shipbuilding plant near!
Baltimore durtag the ore season. All
are awaiting the time when they will
hie themselves
to a southern train-
ing camp.
Miller Huggins returned to his home
in" Cincinnati without being able to
make any progress in his quest of a
hard-hitting outfielder. He inter
viewed . several managers, but could
not coax any of them to give up the
talent he sought.
John H. Farrell. secretary of the
National association for many years,
is now being mentioned as the next
chairman of the national commission.
Farrell would be an ideal man, as he
has been settling baseball problems
for manv vears and known ths aa.
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Eddie Collins, after drawing'down
$15,00,0 a year for the last five years,
is anxiously awaiting that registered
letter which will arrive about Janu
ary 1 with an , autograph of C. A.
Comiskey attached. Collins is hoping
that Commy remains a stand-patter
on the size of this particular con
tract. Chick Harley. football star of the
Ohio state eleven, is being besieged
with offers from owners of baseball
clubs. Harley is quite a ball player,
but he has not decided whether or
not he will join the professional
ranks.
WILLAMETTE BEATS CHEMAWA
Lack of Practice Shows in Play of.
Indian Tossers.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Sa
lem, Dec. 20. (Special.) The Willam
ette Bearcats opened their basketball
season by defeating the Chemawa In
dians on the 'latter's floor Friday
night, by a score of 34 to 22. The In
dians played a rough and tumble game
from start to finish and the failure of
the referee to call fouls gave them an
unexpected advantage over the Bear
cats, who were not used to this style
of playing.
. Although outplayed, the Indiana
fought hard and the game was fast
throughout. Their forwards, Bittles
and Downey, played a fast, consist
ent 'game of ball, but were handl-
capped by lack of practice in basket
i shootintr.
Game Birds Saved.
ST. HELENS, Or., Dec 20. (Spe
cial.) During the week that the enow
was the deepest and the weather the
coldest, members- of the St. Helens
Rod and Gun club, aided by Deputy
Game Warden Brown sent out many
sacks of wheat to feed the game
birds. In the work of saving the
pheasants and quail the club and the
state game department had the co
operation of many farmers. Many
birds were saved that would have
perished.
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BLli; ALUMNI. ANXIOUS. FOR
CLASH WITH ARMV.
Ell Wants Gajne Played, in Bis
Bowl Instead of Journeying
to Wett Point Lot.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 20.
Yale's efforts to stiffen its football
schedule for next season will center
around the arrangement of a game
WHth West Point. The cadets will be
offered a date, it became definitely
known today, but with tbe explicit
understanding that Tale cannot visit
the military academy on the Hudson.
The game must be played in the
bowl, and the Yale management will
offer the army the chance of filling
the bowl as Harvard is expected to
fill it the succeeding month.
Yale alumni and undergraduates be
lieve that a game with the army
here will fill every seat in the sub
way structure. Hope that the game
will be permitted by the war depart
ment has been heightened by the an
nouncement that the navy will be
permitted to take a trip to Princeton.
Inasmuch as the journey from West
Point to New Haven ia much shorter
than that from Annapolis to Prince
ton. Yale is very optimistic about the
prospects of a game.
If it is arranged it will be played
in October, and will be the first test
of the Yale team's strength. Yale has
gone to West Point a dosen times for
games, but they haver been an aggra
vation to the football public, because
not more than 7000 to 8000 persons
have been able to be present, because
of the lack of transportation facili
ties and seating, or even standing ac
commodations at West Point.'
The Yale bowl has 61.000 permanent
seats and will probably construct
about 1000 more for the Harvard game
next year. Yale men believe that
West Point will attract a crowd that
will nil even 'the temporary seats, in
the bowl. The fact that Yale was the
1 flrst American university to
: artillery unit after the world
j gan. organizing one in 1916.
form an
war be
and for
nearly two years being the only
American university that, would give
a degree which- carried with it a mili
tary commission, hair brought the uni
versity close to West Point, while
another bond exists in the recent ap
pointment to West Point as com
mandant of Colonel Robert Danford.
who was head of the Yale artillery
battalion from 1915 to 1918.
Des Moines Loses Ball Park.
DES MOINES. Ia., Dec. 20. The ball
park that has been used by the West
ern league club has been sold to the
school board for a high school athletic
field. It means that, if Tom Fair
weather keeps his Western league
club in Des Moines he will have to
find a new park and practically con
firms the opinion that the club will
Be shifted to Lincoln provided a park
can ne round in that town.
CATHOLIC PLANS LARGE
NOTRE DAME LOOKS FOR BIG
1920 GRID SEASON.
Schedule Most Pretentious Ever
Handled by Catholics Har
vard Asks for October Date.
NOTRE DAME. Ind.. Dec 20. No
tre Dame university looks forward to
1920 as the greatest year in history
for football.
Plans are being formed for a 1920
schedule that will be the most pre
tentious ever attempted 'by a western
eleven. Negotiations are under way
for a contest with Harvard as the
feature attraction on a chart bristling
with sterling opposition. Harvard
officials wired Athletic Director
Knute Rockne the fore part of the
week, asking for a game at Cam
bridge on October 9. The local ath
letic chieftains are striving to secure
a more favorable date before signing
the contract, but it is believed that
the matter of a date will be settled
satisfactorily in the near future.
If the 1920 engagement goes
through it will mark the opentng of
relations between the two great grid
machines. Notre Dame has invaded
the east annually to battle the army.
Vale or Syracuse, but never has the
Gold and Blue troupe unloaded its
wares at Cambridge. Harvard took
the initiative in arranging the big
contest. Fans throughout the entire
country have been clamoring for the
game between Harvard and Notre
I Dame, as they are thought to be the
I best representatives of eastern and
' western football. Harvard plowed
) through the faded season without euf
I fering defeat, although Princeton
managed to hold .the Crimson to a tie
score. Notre Lame was the only
eleven in the west to complete its
schedule undefeated.
Nebraska will araln be encountered
at Lincoln and Indiana at Indianapo
lis. Purdue will play here in the fea
ture attraction of home-coming day.
October 30. Arrangements have not
been completed with the Army and
the Michigan Aggies for the annual
battles, but undoubtedly both insti
tutions will ink contracts calling for
games on their fields.
Valparaiso and Wab&sh are slated
to furnish the early opposition on
Car tier field and Rockne is endeavor
ing to bring some strong eastern
team, preferably Syracuse, to Notre
Dame for a clash in November.
"Y" GAMES ARE HARD-FOUGHT
House League Teams Struggling
for Championship.,
Games in the Senior House Basket-.
ball league of the Y. M. C. A. are de-
veloplng into naro rougai corneals as
the schedule is drawing to a closefc
and the teams are putting up a, great
flirht for the championship, of the
league. At present the Swastikas are
leading with five wins and no defeats,
while the Secretaries are crowding
them close with four wins and
d -one
lose. The "Y" Students now are in
fourth place coming along in great
shape and getting stronger each
game.
The coming week will see the finish
of the Intercollegiate Basketball
league. The business boys, "B" class
will play off their final game Tues
day night. Immediately following
the close of this game there will be
an interclass tournament between the
winners of the interclass league. The
army of the intermediate class will
play Princeton of the B. B. "A" class,
Cornell of the junior class will clash
with the winning team of the busi
ness boys "B" class.
In the young men's division there
are three teams. Pirates, Arcadians
and Swastikas, contending for the
championship of that department with
the Swastikas leading.
The Junior- Bible club league with
four teams. Eagles; Lions, Orioles and
Cruisers, will start their basketball
schedule Tuesday evening. The in
termediate Bible club league, with
three teams, Iroquois, Buckaroos and
a third team which has not yet been
named will start on Thursday evening.
The "Y" Student basketball team,
which is composed of students at
tending school at the Y. M. C. A. will
play the Jefferson high school five a
practice game on the "Y" floor to
morrow afternoon. The "Y" team has
some good material and are rapidly
developing in team work and shooting
Middies walloped the wamus off tbe
foemen in a sterling game of soccer.
Rain put the opposition, in a manner
of speaking, all at sea. The middies
played in noble fqxm and kicked
doohicklea onto the shanks of the op
position with great abandon and
shlnesse.
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COUGARS TO PLAY IDAHO
TENTATIVE DATE SET FOR OC
TOBER 16, 120.
Agreement for Gridiron Battle
Good as Signed Montana Also
on Pullman Schedule.
PULLMAN, Wash.," Dec. 20. (Spe
cial.) Contrary to expectations, the
University of Idaho will be met by
the Cougars on the gsidiron next fall,
the date having been tentatively set
for October IS. The game will be the
opener for the 1920 season of the
State college and will be played in
Moscow.
Although the contract for the bat
tle has not been sJgned by the rival
institutions. President Lindley ot the
Gem .State institution, who was in
Pullman yesterday making overtures
for the contest, expressed the opinion
as being favorable to the immediate
signing of the instruments. Vthletic
Director Bohler before departing for
the east last night to attend tne
meeting of college athletic authori
ties, stated that the game was as
good as booked.
This Rives the 'Cougars five games
for next season, including another
game scheduled with the University
of Montana yesterday. The Bruins
will be played on October 30.
. The reported break with the Uni
versity of Washington over the 60-60
split of gate receipts is not taken
aerlouely on the campus here, either
by athletic authorities or students. It
is the opinion that it is another at-
, tempt by tho Seattle school to force
tne colleges situated in smaller towns
) to come to the terms ot those in cities
with a big drawing capacity.
1 The State college will adhere to the
j agreement as made with the univer
slty and will rely upon the support
of the other scnoois si
imilarly situated
Including Oregon Agricultural college.
the University of Oregon and Stan
ford, to assist In the fight.
Fight promoter In Pueblo charges
no admission at the gate. Trusts to
passing the hat. He gets his
If he gets bark the hat.
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What sounds suspiciously like the
bellow of a gored bull comes billow
ing out of the east.
Western football men smiled when
Informed that certain unidentified fa
eastern football mentors are urging
a return to the days of old massed
play, with Ambulances abutting on
the gridirojL. Of course, the ambu
lances wer-n't mentioned, but they
frequenil; came in handy during the
former regime.
While those issuing the bleat are
not named, the Inspiration probably
could be traced to a group of ooaches
who have been unable to deliver or
whose elevens have been beaten
through some of the vargaries of
football.
The great element of uncertainty
I to be found in the advanced game and
'the attendant possibility of a team
being beaten by an Inferior oppo
nent are the chief reasons advanced
by those anonymous persons who ad
vocate a reversion of the erstwhile
style.
Amplified, these reasons probably
would be found to be based on the
fact that the supremacy of certain
large colleges and universities has
been visibly unsettled. True, it is
not unnatural that coaches who have
constructed strong elevens, which ac
tually have outplayed some rival, only
to be defeated through some misad
venture, should cast about for an ali
bi. For such as these the open style
of play provides a fair.ly satisfactory
"goat."
That the present style of football
has increased the uncertainties of the
game will not elicit any controversial
replies. It is patent to all concerned.
This was one of the alms sought. And
judging from the immense crowds
which have witnessed cor.tes-,-throughout
the country, marking this
as probably the banner season of ail
time, this uncertainty has not dimin
ished interest in the game.
Aside from lessening the physical
hazards of the game, one of the chief
objects of the rule makers was to
make football less intensive. A lead
ing objection to the old game was that
only men with exceptional physiques
and prowess could hope to qualify.
The participation in football and its
attendant benefits was limited to a
comparative few and those few the
ones who did not need the develop-,
ment and training.
The number of men who could
qualify in big league football was
limited. Usually a few of the larger
universities ' cornered tbe class and
this gave them a corner on the game.
This advantage has largely disap
peared. Nobody now "owns" football.
It has been democratized, so to speak.
The all-sacred precinots of the "big
three" and other exclusive preserves
have been pervaded. -
It is significant that the only objec
tion to advanced football emanates
from the east. The open game has
made much greater progress in the
west. Western men are proving bet
ter coaches than those imported from
the east.
Such- as these, embittered by recent
reverses, would revive those condi
tions that almost caused football to
be legislated out of existence by pub
lic 'opinion. Attempts of any group
of coaches to remold the game along
former massed lines will almost cer
tainly meet with strong opposition
by those with the best Interests of the
rime at heart. Right now there is an
I appalling amount of idleness among
the fake reformers.
Why so many men are
going to the small chew of
this good tobacco.
You get real tobacco sat
isfaction out ot this small
chew. The rich taste
lasts and lasts. You don't
need a fresh chew so
often. Any man who uses
the Real Tobacco Chew
will tell you that.
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