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THE SUNDAY O REG ONI AN, PORTLAND. JANUARY 4, 1920. GREAT CONSTELLATION OF BASKETBALL STARS. WHO WILL PLAY UNDER THE COLORS OF MULTNOMAH AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB THIS SEASON, Cluft Season to Open at Cor vallis Saturday Night. Tentative Programme Gives Idea of Great Games. HARD PRACTICE IS AHEAD PMNY EVENTS STRANGE Gamp WiOi Wliitman College to Be First on. Portland Floor Mis sionary Aggregation Strong. Fencing, Cross-Conntry Riding. Sculpture, Literature. Supple ment Track and Field Events. 2 W N6ED M TO CLASH OLYMPIC SCHEDULE COVERS WIDE RANGE WITH AGGIE DUiWTET Multnomah Amateur Athletic club basket tossers will open their 1919 20 season when they meet the Oregon Agricultural college five next Satur day night on the Corvallts institution floor. James J. Richardson, manager of student activities at the Oregon Agricultural college, and George A. Anderson, manager of the "Winged M team, have completed negotiations whereby the Oregon Aggies and the "Winged M team will play two games. The date'for the return game in Port land has not yet been decided upon, but it is probable that the contest will be staged some time near the end of the present month. The Winged M hoopers will be sent through several hard practice sessions this week in preparation for the clash with the Oregon Aggie quintet. Coach George "Ad" Dewey will leave nothing undone to have the members of the Multnomah club team on edge for their first game next Saturday. In the absence of George Anderson, who will be out of the city for several weeks on a business trip, the duties of basketball manager will fall upon the shoulders of Harry Fischer, secretary of the Winged M institution. Coach Dewey and Manager Ander son, after looking over the available material, decided upon the following team to send against the Oregon Ag gies Saturday night: Ira Mix, center; Toomey and Twining, guards; Marton and Duniway, forwards: Gus Clerin, La man. Brooke and Swift, spares. The players named have by no means clinched their positions on the Winged M team for the entire season, as there are several first-class players who are turning out for practice daily and who will giva some of the vet erans a close race for a place on the quintet. The first chance that the Multno mah club basketball enthusiasts will have to see their team in action on the home floor will be one week from next Saturday, vrhen the Winged M five will clash with Coach Vincent Borleske's Whitman college quintet. Coach Eorleske, while in Portland re cently, said that the Missionaries have one of the strongest quintets in the history of the college and that they will be In shape to battle the club men to a standstill. a a a The meeting of the Portland City Basketball league scheduled for Tues day night at the Multnomah Guards' clubrooms has been -changed to to morrow evening, as the clubrooms will be in use Tuesday by the guards for their high jinks entertainment. The City league is composed of six teams the Silent Five, Waverleigh, Arleta, Acorns, Swastikas and Mult nomah Guards. The managers of these teams are expected to be pres ent at the meeting tomorrow night to discuss several important matters pertaining to league affairs, - - OLYMPIC COUCH BOTHERS MANY MENTIONED TO HANDLE AMERICANS AT GAMES. tlanson ' Robertson of Penn ''Re ported to Load Candidates f or -Post at Antwerp Festivities. "Who is going to coach and train the American' Olympians of 1920? "While nothing as yet. has been done about selecting the Olympic coach. It is pretty well understood that Lawson Kobertson of the University of Penn sylvania, who was the assistant of the late Mike Murphy, coach of the American Olympians of 1912. will land the berth. Robertson eminently Is qualified for the position. Coupled with his being i without a' peer as a conditioner of athletes, he Is thoroughly conversant with Olympic competition, Lawson sported the Old Glory shield at the Olympic games In St. Louis in 1904, in Athens in 1906 and in London in 1908. The bulk of the work of coaching the American Olympic team of 1912 fell upon Robertson, for poor Mike Mur phy was on his last legs at the time and his health would permit him to do but little. Having made so many Olympic trips, both as competitor and trainer, Kobertson has an inside knowledge of affairs that is invaluable. He knows how best to handle the athlete on shipboard, is familiar with foreign cooking and edibles, understands ac climation and other necessary details. ITe also knows temptations the boys will be subjected to and the safe guards against them. Needless to say, li is thoroughly conversant with the idiosyncrasies of foreign athletic of ficials and can help the Olympic ath lete with many pointers. Harry Ilillman of Dartmouth is al most as well Qualified as Robertson to direct the coaching and training activities of the Olympic team. Harry and Lawson were members of the same American Olympic team of 1904. 1906 and 1908. Keene Fitzpatrick of Princeton, Jack. Moakley of Cornell, "Pooch" Donovan . of Harvard, Tom Keane of Syracuse. Steve Farrell of Michigan, Bernie Wefers of the New ) ork Athletic club and Columbia and Frank Kanaly of M. I. T. all are great trainers whose age, experience and ability well qualify them as Olympic pilots. Each of them will demand tha earnest consideration of the Olympic committee before an Olympic coach is selected. The sporting world knows all about the careers of Keene Fitzpatrick. Jack Moakley, Bernie V efers, Tom Keane, Frank Kanaly, "Pooch" Donovan and Steve Farrell. Of the other, most of them younger, members of the group Mike Ryan, the Colby coach, will be recognized as the former marathon runner of the Irish-American A. C. of New Tork; Jimmy Mulligan of the Navy as the former Georgetown star quarter-miler: Bart Sullivan of Holy Cross, Jack McGee of Bowdoln and Kddle Farrell, assistant to Donovan at Harvard, all former New England middle distancers. Von Elltng long was coach at the Mohawk A. C and brought and developed "many good men. Albany Jlay Meet Portland. ALBANY. Or.. Jan. 3. (Special.) The Olympic club basketball team of Portland has written for a game with the team of the Albany post of the American Legion. A contest probably will be arranged for some date this month. ('"'-'1 YC- rl)- x v -:x f K n J n r TTT ' -'4 x I V- ; It f ' w..; I -r 'st .-X'- - - 4 ' " ' 1 If ' ' ..!.w i .t" xr-s : -J ' " y.-J v-'i . X 4 ' , f f Xlcj-Zosz "LOVE 15" CALLED PUERILE PORTLAND PIAYERS FOR ABO LITION OF SCORING PLAN. Spectator Ridicules Game Because of Effeminate Terms Present System 43 Years Old. The recommendation of the execu tive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis association that the ecoring rules be changed to eliminate the "love" form of scoring has met with favor in Portland tennis circles. It has long been conceded that the "love 15" plan of scoring has ap peared eilly and puerile to the specta tor and has done more to subject the game of tennis to ridicnle than any other one thing. As a matter of fact. Instead of exercise, tennis, as it is played on the coast, is a regular he man's game, requiring a rugged con stitution. Walter A. Goss, northwest sectional delegate of the United States Lawn Tennis association, welcomes the pro posed change as meaning a great deal to the game. His views on the subject are as follows: "Epoch-making in the development of tennis, and fraught with the great est possibilities of popularizing and advancing the game, are the recent recommendations made by the execu tive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis association. "The suggesiter method o flooring, and particularly the elimination of the "love which In tennis usage Is age-hoary, has from time to time found strong advocates in various tennis centers throughout the coun try. Never before, however, has the idea been accepted and presented by a committee of the national associa tion and formally recommended for adoption. "While tennis manuals and refer ence works do not explain the reason for the adoption of the term 'love' in tennis scoring, its usage can be traced back to tennis as, first introduced in America from England by Mary Ew ing Outerbridge in 1876 to the Staten Island Cricket club, afterward known as the Staten Island Cricket and Ten nis ciuo, at Livingston. N. T. "Due principally to the game's early . associations and the confine ment of the popularity of the exclu sive eastern club or the leisure class, the present method of scorinir eisted throughout its nearly 43 yeara wi American neveiopment. "However with the advent of pub lic courts and of numerous tennis clubs, embracing membership from all classes, the scoring system soon became a target of ridicule and seri ously hampered a free and wider team development." Those in charge of organized ten- WO V l ift? -o, . i THEM WENT OUT PICKING CANVAi UUE$ IN THC UK. i 1 1 . I H x to . if if X , i.M III v V"' ' f V, 1 1 nls affairs throughout the country, and particularly in the west, well realised that in order to further pop ularize the game with the masses an understandable scoring system would have to supplant the senseless and effeminate one so long in vogue. To the progressive and virile west ern influence must one credit the suggested reform, for the new scor ing idea first found favor in Califor nia and then the middle west, and through the dominant influence of its players the new method received rec ognition from the eastern authorities. Sounding the Sport Reveille Advanced Bxtnar. The ancient style of boxer. He came of sturdy stock, sir. And sturdy was his low and slanting dome. He fought where he was able, In meadow, grove or stable. And won enough to pay his car fare home. But now,' when boxer mingle. The loud and merry jingle Of coin is heard from here to Singa pore. The modern boxer hollers For half a million dollars. The moving-picture rights and then some more. Whenever a fight promoter opens his mouth these days it sounds like John W. Gates in a poker game. Modesty. . Five hundred thousand shekels Is all he hopes to get All hail to thee. Jack) Dempsey, .' Thou shrinking violet! - After years of earnest endeavor Chicago received Its due recognition. On Sunday, December 21. the Harvard football team stopped there for four hours. LOCAL SPORTING EVENTS IN BLACK AND WHITE FOR OP FAX LCD gS JHO TMtNK W w '- ' mm " . - - " w am. -w a - i , mm -"NcsvrcsJ SAN FRANCISCO MAY SOON SEE TEN-ROUND FISTIC BATTLES State Authorities Believed Unable to Intervene on Federal Property . at Presidio Service Club Sees Way Out. . BY HARRY B. SMITH. ' SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 8. (Special.) Ten-round fights may be all the rage in San Francisco in the days to come. Oh, yes, we have a state law that prohibits more than four-round -$ntests. amateurs and all that. But there is, so it teems, a way to get around that. At least the Presidio Service club, an army organization that has taken over to itself the entertainment of the soldiers, says there is a way out. If the fights are held, say at the Presidio, which is federal property, they insist the state authorities can not intervene; that they can go ahead with their shows, as they see fit. Naturally the service club needs funds with which to give its various entertainments, and they believe that with ten-round bouts they can attract thg crowds. Undoubtedly they can. It has been many years since San Francisco fans have seen anything more than the four-round flashes, un less they have traveled far away from home. And we have so many fans just itching to see what they call a real scrap that bouts in the j Oregon building, located on the Pre- lng cards. There is one fly in the ointment. The army authorities may be all pow erful in their territory, but if tha pressure comes too strong, they may have to call a halt and Insist that fights be limited to the four rounds permitted in the Golden West. Willie Meehan has made the state ment .that he doesn't want to fight until February. Tommy Simpson, promoter of the Oakland auditorium matches, was anxious to match Wil lie with Gunboat Smith. He offered, so It is said, the best of inducements. Willie hemmed and hawed and finally said that he would not be ready to accept any matches until February. He didn't go any further with his statement, and Simpson has been forced to' forego his plans for a heavyweight match on January 7, which will be the opening date for the Oakland Shipbuilders' club. Perhaps Willis has argued to him self that by the first of the second month in the year Harry Wills will have left for other parts. Ha Is quite smart- enough to realize that once he gets back Into the harness there will be yells for him to fight Wills. He doesn't want to box the New Orleans colored chap, and I'll say on behalf of Willie that there are others just like him. At ail events, he is not prepared to start for the present. a Frankie Farren, who is coming to be one of our best little in and out ers, lost the verdict the other night to Eddie Shannon, a local kid who has seen service overseas and is quite popular in this neck of the woods. Farren, after the way he won from Harry Pelsinger a couple of weeks ago, was considered quite some Vrm a HC ttt&OH MACHINE. TO rlXKfi TtIC CRPLsr tit THC - EAST SUPE.fi I CK. T THC HeSf, comer. Of course, he had the edge when It came to the weight; but all in all, he did put up a good fight. Then along came Shannon to show him the way. Shannon's best 'asset was a right hand uppercut. a nasty one that he delivered when the men were coming out of their clinches. Frankie didn't seem able to solve the problem of how to get away from it. and the conse quence was he was tadly whipped at the close of the four rounds of mill ing. ' 4 Bud Ridler Is back in our midst. After much fiddling one way and the other the little chap from the North west took on Georgie Lee in a return match at Woodland on New Year's day. His manager, Fred Winsor, has already announced that Ridley will start an active California campaign, v His two fights in this locality were successes. He knocked out an un known in Oakland and then came to San Francisco to render Johnny Or tega hora de combat at the benefit fights with a hard left to the body. It was a solar plexus punch. Ortega tried to make It apparent that he was fouled. He was, as all of the critics agreed. knocked out fairly and squarely. There was no argument about that. Harry Wills Is shortly to return to the east. His match last Thursday afternoon against Jack Thompson, the colored heavyweight who is han dled by Charlie Swineheart, about cleaned up the available opponents, and Charlie Costain, his manager pro tern., has decided there is nothing to be gained by lingering here any long er. If Bill Tate, Jack Dempsey's sparring partner, can be coaxed to San Francisco, it would make a good card. Otherwise. Wills will be wasting- his time In this community. n m w Ad Wolgast wants to fight once more in San Francisco. The former lightweight champion of the world has been regarded as down and out for a long, long time. It was printed months ago that it was unsafe for younger boys to box with him in Los Angeles gymnasiums. Since then Ad has appeared in soma southern matches and particularly in the bushes of Arizona. Recently he has been winning unimportant matches. All of which has encour aged him to the point where he wants to show in the city where he made most of his fortune. It was at Point Richmond, across tha bay from San Francisco, that Wolgast beat Battling Nelson for the championship of the world. And he has ambitions to come back. Chances are some of the promoters who want to coin money on the ones magic name will take him up. ' Miss Eleanor Goss, one of the most skillful lawn tennis players of New Tork. will shortly go to ths Pacific coast to practice previous to trying for the national title at Philadelphia. THE FANS. Racc. ALU HA HAD 'To ' -THK. HILI-. I rHCY2XX r X .. : if ft GOLF HAS. GREAT YEAR EXD OK WAR SEES BIG GAIN IX POPCLAU GAME. Number of Players in TJ. S. Esti mated at One Million Many Xew Clubs Enter Field. The year Just closing has seen the most remarkable development in the comparatively brief history of Amer ican golf. With their release from war service, thousands of golfers re turned with .renewed enthusiasm to the links, while the ranks of prose lytes to the game has far exceeded those of any previous year. A con servative estimate of the number of men and women now playing golf in these United States is 1.000,000, or not far from 1 per cent of the popu lation. Perhaps the best indication of the phenomenal growth of the game in the last twelve months Is 7. , , . - ,h :,.i-i snorting goods firms that their bust ness in clubs, balls and other para phernalia of tha links, has almost doubled. But an equally reliable Indication Is found In the number of new clubs which have been springing up all over the country. In the flelghbor hod of Portland, the latest recruit is the municipal links which, a few months ago, brought nine holes into play and shortly plans its clubhouse. Seattle started two new clubs in a single month last summer, and both ars on the high road toward realiza tion. Among the new clubs in Cali fornia organized during the year and already opened, are those at Bakers field and Santa Rosa. i The premier honors in the profes sional ranks are not so easy to de cide, bnt the outstanding fact is that Walter Hagen won the national open after the historic tie with Mike Brady, and that fact must go a very long way indeed in any attempt, to rank Jim Barnes, winner of a num ber of other championships, above him. What is the national open championship for if not to pick the golfer par excellence of the year in America? . 13 NT IT ;NNy WATT. AT TM'i I TENNIS CHANGES URGED LAWX ASSOCIATION CONSIDER ISSCES. TO Alteration in Foot-Fanlt Rnle Will Be First on List of Regula tion Amendments. When' the annual meeting of the United States National Lawn Tennis association convenes in February they will have before them three rec ommendations of the executive com mittee embracing radical changes In the playing rules. First on the list is the foot-fault rule, the regulation that has, per haps, brought out more gray hairs on tournament committee officials than any other law on the entire lawn ten nis calendar. Under the present meth od of scoring, the server can't hop. Jump, take a step, swing his foot over tne line or get a running start ror the net before he hits the ball. The result was that the so-called foot fault rule was seldom enforced be cause officials with the mentality to remember 'and apply a long list of aon ts were few and far between The new rule simply provides that tne server stand with both feet at rest behind the service line and with In the limits of the center mark and the side line 'before he strikes the ball. That Is all there is to It. In arguing for the change, the execu tive committee pointed out that ln- terpretation of the rule Is simDlified iii ia at iiiia wiin uie main purpose of the present' regulation to prevent tne server from taking an unfair ad vantage In getting to the net. The second change proposes to dis card the old system of scoring en tirely and provides a 1-2-S method that will make such a score as "ftf teen-love . only a memory. If the server win the first point, the score Is called "one In"; if the receiver wins the first point, ths score Is called "one out." If each player win one point, ins score Is called "one alL- If the server win the next point ths score Is called "two-one"; if the receiver win it the score is called "one-two," and the scoring is con tinued In this manner until either player has won four points, when game Is called. As in the present rule. however, the player" must win ' the game by a two-point margin. Members of the committee and players who have tried out this new system admit that it sounds strange at first to ears long accustomed to present scores. They agree, however, that It Is readily understood, easily applied and all believe that it will add materially to the game's present appeal. The third proposal deals with han dicapping and throws the complicated table now in use into the discard. In its place is substituted a system allotting to each player one or more points in a set. these points to be added to the total scored by each player In that set. 'li e points scored shall be recorded at the end of each game and at the conclusion of the set the allotted handicaps shall be added to this total. The player having the greater num ber of points wins the set, regardless o the number of games won or lost. Example: .A B. Handicaps ...... .... . 9 11 Kirrt Oama ...... .......... 2 4 Perond gume ...................... 4 0 Third same 6 4 Fourth frame .... 4 s Fifth came .............. 4 I Fixth same ........ ... ...... .30 8 Seventh cams 4 0 Eighth same ...... ............ 4 2 Totals . .......44 23 A wins the aot. In its report the committee says in part: "Under the new arrangement directness and clearness have been sought and. we believe, attained. As a whole there has been a very mate rial shortening of the laws and a very great Improvement In their construc tion and phrasing." Robertson Preparing for Season. CHICAGO, Jan. 3. When It comes to taking time by the forelock, Dave Robertson. Cubs outfielder, is in a class by himself. In a letter to Pres ident Vesck of the Cubs. Robertson announces that he already has begun training for the 1920 campaign at his home in Norfolk, Va. Kobertson is believed to be the first ball player to begin training: before Christmas. combined schedule for the seventh Olympic, to be held at Antwerp next summer, has been prepared by the Amateur Athletic union for the guid ance of the various American organi zations which plan to participate In the International meet. While the pro gramme, as outlined, la a tentative one. subject to change after further correspondence, it gives an excellent laea of the scope of the games in which the Americans will be strong contenders. The events and dates. arranged in the order of their im portance, are as follows: Athletics. August 15 to 23 100-meter dash, 3O0-meter dash. 40O-mter run. liOO meter run, &OOt-raeter mm. lO.OOO-meter run. flat; llO-meter hurdles cross-country, about fiva milm: Individual and team race; lO.OOO-meter walking race, running high Jump, standing high Jump, running broad Jump, standing broad Jump, pole jumT. throwing the Javolln. with the javelin held In tha center, best hand: throwing the dla m. putting the weight, throwing tha ham mer, throwing the grenade, marathon. Brussels to Antwerp; pentathlon, compris ing (1) running broad Jump. L') throwing the Javelin. 3l 200-meter dash, flat; 4 throwing tha diacua, (5 1500-meter run. flat. Note It la propoaed to suppress tha decathlon, as thia event takea much tima and is practically a repetition of tha pen tathlon. Team competitions 400-meter relav race, four men; 1600-meter relay race, four men: 3lO0-meter team race, five to run. three to count: tug of war, teams of eight men. Bwediah Rule Wmll. Gymnastics, August 22 to 29 Team com petition, with exercises according to the Swedish ayatem. Team of not less than 16 nor mora than 40. The limit, ona hour. (21 Team competition. 16 to 40 men. with exercises aocording to the special condi tions. Time limit, one - hour. 3 Team competition. 16 to 40 men. with free choice of movements and apparatus. Tima limit, one hour. 4) Individual competi tion, with exercises on horizontal bar. parallel bars and other fixed apparatus. 5) Displays by team of men and of women. Time limit. 4.1 minutes. Nautical sports, rowing. Septemher 27 to 29 (1) .single sculls, J1 double sculls. (S) fours outriggers, 4) eights outrigcers. Swimming. September 2U to 29. Indi vidual events; (a .Men. .lOo-meter frea style, 100-meter back stroke, 200-tneter breast stroke. 400-moter free style. 400 meter breast stroke, ir,00-meter free style; (b) Women, 100-meter free style, high diving. Team events: -(a) Men. S0i-meter team race, four men; water polo, (bl Woman, 400-meter team race, four women. Yachting, July 11 to 14 The programme is not fixed yet and will be sent later. Fighting sports, fencing. August 24 to September Zi Rpee, one individual and ona team competition; sabre, one individual and one team competition; foils, ona Indi vidual competition. Boxing. August 15 to 19. Individual competition of English boxing divided Into eight classes, according to weight. Decision on points with a limited number of rounds Wrestling. August 13 to SI. Individual competition Oraeeo-Roman atyle. fiva :!ases. according to weight. Shooting. July 24 to August 81. at Beverloo. Individual competition. clay bird shooting: Individual competition, army rifle: individual competition, pistol. Sub ject to alterations. (Beverloo Is about 30 miles east of Antwerp.) Horse riding. September 6 to 12 Mili tary, (a) 50 kilometer cross country: (b) steeplechase. Individual: (c team prize Jumping; (d prlza riding. Individual; (e) individual prlza Jumping. Cycling, road Individual and team race, August 9 to 10. Pentathlon la fnlque. Combined sports, modern pentathlon. August 24 to 2T (1 duel shooting, dis tance 2.1 meters; (2) swimming. 300 meters, free atyle: 3) epee fencing: (41 riding over a special marked course not to exceed .1000 meters, with horses tossel up for: (5) cross-country race at 4000 meters. Hockey. April 1 to 10 Competition en the knockout system, men: competition on the knockout system, women. Lawn tennis. August IT. to 23 Individual competitions In open air on brick courts, (a) roen'a sing's. h women's singles. (r men's doubles. tAt mixed doubles. Horse polo. July 15 to August 2. at Ostend Competition on the knockout eyatem. Archery. August to S Polo competi tion; target competition. Golf, no date announced Men's compe tition, women's competition. Contours d'art Tha Stockholm pro gramma win probably be adopted; It wl!l Include competitions In architectura. sculp ture, painting, rouslo and literature. Game shooting and mountain aaosmta Same competition aa at Stockholm. Rugby and association football. Angnst 24 to September 5. Graaa hockey. August 80 to Septembers. Sports of All Sorts. THE measurements of Georges CarC pen tier, the French heavyweight champion, follow: Age. 25 years 11 months: height, 5 feet S Inches: weight. 180 pounda: reach 69 inches: neck. 15i" Inches; chest. 40H inches: biceps. 12 Inches: forearm, 11 Inches: waist 29?; Inches.; thigh, 224 inches; calf, 16 V inches. a Guy Nickalls. " the Knglish rowing authority, will begin the instruction of Yale's crews in February. Mrs. George TV. Wlghtman has of fered the Hazel Hotchkiss Wlghtman cup for the women's international lawn tennis championship ply. It will undoubtedly be accepted by ths United States Lawn Tennis association and eventually may share with ths Davis cup the honor of being Amer ica's greatest tennis trophy. Boston Athletic association wants its annual Marathon on Patriots' day made the official trial for the Ameri can Olympic team. The 1920 Tale versus Harvard row ing classic will take place over ths New London course June 25. a Penn has ten football games sched uled next fall. Including the usual game with Cornell at Philadelphia Thanksgiving day. a University of Nebraska has offered Rutgers a guarantee of $5000 for a football game at Lincoln next Thanks giving day. a a a English sportsmen are raising a fund to finance Ernest Barry's trip to Australia next summer to try to regain the world's title which he lost to Felter on the Thames a few months ago. The prince of Wales donated! $50. a Rowing durlntr 1918-19 cost Uni versity of Pennsylvania $7760.98. a a a California is to .have a regular polo circuit during the winter and spring. It will open at Del Monte January St and continue to February 10. Then Santa Barbara, Cal., and other cen ters will stage contests, with the se ries ending at Del Monte March 27 r many crack players from clubs of this country and Ensland.