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.THE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, POTMXAXD, OCTOBER 10, 1920 MANY GOLF TREATS r FOR NEXT SEASON Exchange of Best Players . With Britain Likely. WOMAN STAR NOW HERE Tourins Parties Bel n Arranged and U. S. Team for English Amateur Seems Certainty. '.NEW TORK, Oct. 9. There are plenty of good golfing tidbits stored away for next season's consumption on the golf links, foremost of all per haps being a visit for the second time ff a team made up of the present and past, golfing stars of the Oxford and Cambridge society. A cable received a few days ago by the officials of the Vnited States Golf association con firmed this news. If all goes well there will be in the golfing party ten or a dozen, which no doubt will have as prominent members three players who took part in our qualifying round for the British amateur title. the British champion. Cyril Tolley, Roger Wethcred and Lord Charles Hope. To this group can be added Fuch golfers as Major Gilles. Bernard Darwin, R. Montmorency and a score of fine players of more recent date. No doubt there will be touring par ties staged with the different state and district associatiors putting in the field the best ten or a dozen play ers who can be mustered, and, if the dates are well arranged, a grand na tional team opposing after the manner of the Canadian international event. Only conjectures. of course, but founded partly upon the methods of procedure on the occasion many years aro of their first visit to these shores. Eicbange of Teams PonKible. Moreover, it is practically a cer tainty that a representative team will be on hand from America at the time of tne next British amateur cham pionship. Americans hoped more than they expected that they would be favored by a visit from the British stars in a body, especially the finest In Britain, and it can be said here and now that events are shaping them selves so at least ten of the golfers who would have a fighting chance for the title will be on the way to England and Scotland next May. More interesting news, however, is the announcement that Miss Molly Griffiths. runer-up to Miss Cecil Leitch in both the British and French championships, will arrive to play at 'Mayfield this coming month in our women's championship. Others may come with her. A determined effort is being made at the present time to induce Miss Leitch to change her mind and also play in that event. Love of Game Ingrained. Tn any case, America will see in Miss Griff iths one of the finest women golfers now in the British isles. The Grifiths family came from Australia and settled near Sunningdale. where the game of the girls (there are three Molly, 19; Barbara. 14. and Nancy, 13) has been a source of wonder to the members. The two younger girls played in the Junior girls' champion ship this past spring and. attired as they were in Juniper frocks and short Bocks plus a very businesslike swing, made quite the hit of the meeting. Miss Molly Griffiths, however, has attained to second place in the golf ing world across the water. At Le Touquet in the semi-final of the French championship Miss Marion Hollis was the last hope of America, but an outward round in 39 and even fours to the thirteenth gave Miss Griffiths a win by 5 and 4. In the final of the play at Le Touquet Miss Leitch gained a rather easy victory, as she did in the final of the British event at Newcastle. But then there is no one in either land within two strokes of Miss Cecil Leitch. CASEY JONES IX NEW ROLE Demon Engineer si Announcer for Cincinnati Ball Yard. Casey Jones, famed in song and story as a demon locomotive engineer snd chief rooter for the Cincinnati club, at last has broken into baseball and is delighted thereat, even though the role he plays is a minor one. On afternoons when Casey isn't at the throttle of one of the Pennsylvania's tig locomotives pulling trains east ward bound out of Cincinnati he acts as official announcer at Redland field and derives great pleasure from his work. "Casey is known personally to about every plnyer in the National league, and his chief joy lies in taking one or two of the diamond stars in the cab with him when he is piloting a train bearing a ball club out of Cin cinnati. E FLEET ANCIENT RECORDS CREDIT NAG ' WITH MILE IX MINUTE. Efforts of Great Man o War Show Small, Compared to Fly ing Childers. The advent of an outstanding race horse like Man o' War Invariably raises the interesting question as to liow he would fare in a contest with the champions of the past If the bugle call could wake such oldtime fliers as Childers, Eclipse, Ormonde and St. Simon to measure strides with him. So much has been said about the incomparable speed of Childers ,and Eclipse that many horsemen of today have come to regard them as racers possessing powers quite be yond the laws of nature and su perior to every other horse before or since their time, says the New. York "run. Particularly is this true of Childers, or Flying Childers, as he was often called, tradition and turf "history having accredited him for nearly 200 years with running a mile in a min ute at Newmarket, England in 1721 John Lawrence accepted this ridic ulous story, though not without reservation, by saying in his "Phllo sophicai ann i-raoncai treatise on Horses," published in 196: - ."It haa been asserted with confi dence, but not proved, that Plying Childers ran a mile over Newmarket in the space of a minute,' and add ing. "It has. however, been really performed in a few seconds over a minute, ar. instance of which within my own recollection is that of Fire tail of Pumpkin." And Pick's Turf Register corrobo rates Lawrence by reporting the time nade in the race between Flreiail 'and Pumpkin over the Rowley mile at Newmarket in 1T73 as 1:04, with 112 pounds up. show'ng that horse man of that period had little or no conception of ,ihe speed of the run ning horse, as measured In minutes and seconds, and indicating pretty clearly that either their chronometers or the men who held them were ut terly unreliable. C'hilders lived at a time when there were no racing calendars, and no record of his turf triumphs has been preserved. All that is definitely known about his performances is that he started several times at New market beginning in 1721. when 6 years old, and was never beaten. Childers' extraordinary reputation seems to rest almost wholly on speed shown in private trials, as measured by tile watch, and he was probably timed with one of the same kind which registered the mile in a minute mentioned by Lawrence. Pick. Law rence and Weatherby all record the trad:tion. however, some 80 years after, that Childers was generally (supposed to have been the fleetest horse that ever was trained, as the compiler of the. stud book put it. MIDDIES' WOKKOITS STIFF Cool Weather Allows Coach to Speed Up Thc'.r Practice. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 9. (Special.) Stiffer football practice than at any previous time this year has been made possible at Annapolis by cooler ' CIS WELCH, COACH W. S.. C. weather. Bob Folwell is showing his charges some special stunts in tack ling and charging and works on these periods. There was also a longer formation and signal drill than usual. The squad from the new ' fourth class is rapidly working into shape and a number of g ioi men are being j developed. A dozen or more looking like valuable acquisitions of the main I squad. Dahlgren, a 175-pound tackle I from Mercersberg academy, and Noyes. a back from the New York cially good impression. OLYMPIC TRIP DEFENDED YANKEE TEAM WAS HANDLED WELL DURING VOYAGE. Member of Committee Says Ship Was Xot Bes't But Only One That Was Available. Everett C. Brown, member of the American Olympic committee, who attended the world's games at Ant werp, has issued a statement in de fense of the committee s action in handling the Yankee team. According to Brown, who was In charge of raising a $20,000 fund from the Chicago district, the government had promised to take the athletes across the ocean on the transport Mercury. One week before the date of sailing the transport was dis abled and the Princess Matokia was pressed into service. The team had to be sent across on this transport or left at home. Brown asserted the committee knew the ship was not fitted properly for training but it was the best obtainable, as it was utterly impossible to engage pas sage on the regular liners. He also said there were no hotels in Antwerp which cared to house the American athletes. The committee then did the next best thing by putting the men up in a schoolhouse. The committeeman accuses three or four athletes on the team of doing everything possible to break down the morale of the entire squad. One or two of these athletes. Brown as serted, have no visible means of sup port other than their athletic affi liations. Brown also said the committee, not withstanding the shortage of funds subscribed, gave every athlete on the American teani an opportunity to take a two day's trip to the battlefields in Belgium and France and paid their expenses on the tour. As far as was possible. Brown said. all the athletes were brought back on the best liners. Most of the men on the team according to the committee man. appreciated the conditions which confronted the American Olympic committee and showed their sports manship by refraining from any un favorable comment. ONE GOLF BET IS FAILURE 7 50-Chance Wager Lost While National Stars Play. A freak bet was made in Toledo that a "one" would be shot by one of the more than 250 experts competing in the second qualifying round of I the National Open Golf championship at tne Inverness ciud. A three of the greens can be reached from the tee. the man who made the best figured he had 250 chances at each of the short holes, or better than 7o0 chances. Any number of twos were made on the short holes, but no "ones." Abe Mitchell got a "one" at the eighth hole in his second round in Deal in June. j - I. T.vyv wwMi.tKY to j?13 V)"W'Mwwiti.uMtw ibii i I,,,,, iiiUM,W,im iiwjiii iutmt.iiniJMii.iiLuj.ui,Ji,i.iJiWs,.,iu,w im-hhhu m...w mw-tstvm a" wnwy ir JvL. J3s rs .;u &v-Cv: ?! H - i-- jrrx rTH - jws - y m J - mVkrM0 ill M ' ?Jli Vt f , 5 - 1 1 ' 2 - W I Jr J ( , I" i I ?i ! ' I j v. $k V?t bf V f ; - i ; ?l M MISS STIRLING WINS NATION'S GOLF-TITLE Mrs. J. V. Hurd, Pittsburg, Defeated, 4 and 3. DRIVING GAME UNUSUAL Edge Is Held on Rival From Tee on Every Hole Except Twelfth. Approach Is Even. CLEVELAND. O.. Oct. . Alexa Stirling of Atlanta won the women's national golf championship for the third consecutive time when she de feated Mrs. J. V. Hurd of Pittsburg. 4 and 3. at the Mayfield club today WASHINGTON (RIGHT) W. S. C. BACKFIELD. LEFT The champion played a wonderful long driving game, one of the best of her career, having the edge on her rival from the tee on every hole ex cept the 12th, where Mrs. Hurd's shot five feet the better. In ap- proaching and nutting they were fair ly even, but Miss Stirling's gains on the long shots gave her the edge. Miss Stirling was 5 up at the turn. having won the first, second and third; Mrs. Hurd picked up her ball on two after she had used four shots when Miss Stirling lay within a few feet ,of the pin on her second. Fourth Goes to Mrs. Hard. The fourth went to Mrs. Hurd. her drive falling on the green back of the cup while Miss Stirling teed into a trap and used three to reach the green. The champion then won the sixth, seventh and ninth, halving the fifth and eighth. Miss Stirling went out in 40, using approximately 15 putts. Coming in. Mrs. Hurd halved the 10th and won the 11th in six. while some bad lies and a penalty for pick ing out of water penalized Miss Stir ling for a seven. The next three holes were halved. Mrs. Hurd being saved on the 14th when her second shot hit a spectator in the woods and bounded back on the course. Miss Stirling Drives ZOO. On the 15th, Miss Stirling drove 200 yards and then put the bail on the edge of the green with her mid- iion, while Mi's. Hurd took throe. Miss Stirling's first putt hung on the edge of the cup. while Mrs. Hurd's was several feet away, and tney halved the hole, ending the match. The cards: Miss Stirling Out... 4 4 5 !t 5 5 4 4 440 In. . . .5 7 4 4 5 $ Mrs. Hurd Out 5 7 6 3 5 6 5 4 6 47 In. . . .5 4 4 5 S CUISTS TO VIE FOR TITLE POCKET BILLIARD AND THREE- CUSHION MEETS ANNOUNCED Winners of Preliminary Events Will Get Crack at Crown of Champions. The annual championship billiard tournaments, inaugurated last season, have been announced for the coming season. -The pocket billiard tourney will be held at Chicago October 18 the three-cushion championship con test being scheduled for immediately following the first event. A preliminary tournament will be held in both cases. tl,e winners of first, second an third prizes In each tourney to compete with Ralph Greenleaf, present pocket billiard champion, for the national title, and witn Boo uanner, three-cushion king, for the angle championship. The following are the conditions named: Fifteen ball continuous pocket bil liards. Each game to consist of 125 points. Three-cushion carom game of bil liards. Each game to consist of 50 points. These tournaments to be held un der tlft auspices of the Brunswick-Balke-Collander company subject to the following conditions: company to contribute S9950. which The Brunswick - Balke -Collander together with the entrance fee paid by the players is to be divided in prizes. The pocket billiard tournament for the national championship of the United States of America will be lim ited to twelve players in the preliml nary, subject to entrance fee of $100 This tournament is to be held at the Strauss Auditorium, Illinois, starting cn October 18. Entries close Oc-I tober 11. The following prizes to be awarded according to their standing at the close -of the preliminary tournament: First. $1000: second. 800: third, J700; fourth, $500; fifth, (300; sixth. 200. The first, second and third winners" to compete with Ralph Greenleaf. present champion, for the national championship. Entrance fee $150 Prizes as follows: First, national championship em blem, cash $1500, salary $2404: sec ond. $1000; third. $500; fourth. $2S0. The three-cushion tournament for the national championship of the United States of America to be played under practically the same conditions in the same room, starting immedi ately after the close of the pocket bil liard events, to be limited to twelve players in the prelimary, subject to an entrance fee of $100. First, $1000;' second. $S0; third, $700: fourth, $500; fifth, $300; sixth, $200. ' The finals or national champion ship games will be played immedi ately after the close of the prelimi nary tournament. The winners of the first, second and third prizes of the preliminary tournament to compete with Mr. Robert Cannefax. present champion, for the national champion ship. Entrance fee of $150. Prises as follows: First national championship em- blem, cash $1500. salary $2400; sec- STATS COLLEGE BACKFIELD TO RIGHT DAVIS. RIGHT HALF) ond. J1000; third. 600; fourth. J2S0. The winner of each tournament will be awarded a trophy emblematic of the championship, which will re main in his possesion as his claim to the championship for a period of one year, and thereafter to revert to the next winner of the annual tourna ment. The trophy will become the personal property of a player win ning it a third time, and a new tro phy will be substituted for future competition. PARIS SEEKS RIG GAMES EFFORTS TO GET OLYMPICS REGULARLY UNDER WAY. Union of Sporting Federation of France to Make Strong Effort at Lausanne Meet. PARIS. Oct. Will Paris becoVne the Olympic city of he future? Will the Olympic games' be held in Paris every four years Instead of taking place in various cities of Europe and America? Such is the question that is being discussed Dy'the Parisian press and the suggestion that is being advanced by the Union of Sporting federations in France. The question of the attribution of the 1924 Olympic games should have been settled in Antwerp, but owing to the large number of cities claiming the honor, it was decided to delay the solution of the problem until the Lau sanne congress in June. 1921. A press, campaign by all the Paris sporting papers- and in which staid political papers like the Echo de Paris and the Avenir have joined, is being waged to prove that the moving about of the Olympic games from city to city and from country to country every four years is all wrong. One city should be chosen to replace Athens, they say. "What city is bet ter qualified than Paris?" asks the Avenir. If the present system of allotting the Olympic games to cities and not to countries is maintained, every cap Ital of every state in the Union of the United States has a right to have its Olympic games as well as Antwerp, the newspapers argue. "Make of Paris the "Olympic city' where every four years in a gigantic stadium, magnificent and permanent. athletes from all parts of the world would compete. It would then be possible 'to give to the games the character, the beauty, the splendor which they deserve." Such is the plea that will be sent by the Union of Sporting Federations of France to Baron de Coubertin when the Olympic congress meets at Lausanne. GREB-WIGGIXS BOUT SIGNED Light Heavies to Meet Again Next Thursday. SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Oct. 9. Spe cial.) Harry Greb, Pittsburg claim ant of the world's light-heavyweight championship, and 'Chuck Wiggins, Indianapolis heavyweight champion of Australia, have been matched to box ten rounds here Thursday. The two boxers were signed by Eugene Kessler, sporting editor of the South Bend Tribune. The two staged a lively six-round encounter as a windup to the Demp-sey-Mlske tilt at Benton Harbor on Labor day. Qneet Gny. In the fall when the end of the season ia nirn And the team's in the second division, We still run across an occaalonal sruy Who will kick at id umpire's decision, FOOTBALL INTEREST AT COLLEGE KEEN Hundreds on Sidelines Watch Aggies Practice. LINE UNDERGOES SHIFTS Changing- Players Order of Events Last Week in Preparation for Game With Winged M. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvaliis, Oct. 9. (Special.) The stadium of the college was the quietest today It has been since the football season started. When the game with Pacific uni- AND COACH. GIL LIS, PILLBACK) MORA N, LEFT versity was canceled, due to the in ability of the Forest Grove college to procure enougn men for their team, Coach Rutherford announced that the Aggies would get a rest. The interest in football at the col lege has never been more keen. . Each night at practice the sidelines have been covered with hundreds of stu dents who stay during the entire prac tice period in rain or shine. Line Continually Shifted. Continued shifting of the line has been the general order of everts. Babe McCart is now playing center in place ot Bob Stewart, who is out of the game with a broken finger. Dark horse Seely injured his back during practice last week and Joe Kasberger is laid up with an. injured shoulder. Dad Butler, the Aggie trainer, is hard-hit by the crippled condition of the men. He is confident, however. that he will have the entire tribe in excellent shape for the game with Multnomah club at Corvaliis on Oc tober 16. Powell In Back. Powell Is back In the lineup again and. has continued his hard smashing of the freshman line. In addition to Woods, Harold McKenna is showing up exceptionally well as an under study for PowelL McKenna has been tried at almost every position on the line, but during the last week he has been shifted to the backfleld. The ability of McKenna in the back- field has been attracting even more attention than has the work of Seely, who was considered an unknown quantity. It is believed that he will put up a hard fight against Woods as understudy for Powell. McKenna's style of line plunging Is as remark able as that of either Powell or Woods. No favorites are being played by Coach Rutherford and his staff, and on account of this any attempt to name the lineup which will face the Multnomah club would only be a guess. The Aggie football mentor has made it clear to every man on the team that not one of the old letter men are sure of a position. All can didates have taken him at his word and have been fighting their limit to make good. Chances HInsje on Condition. The Beavers' chances against Mult nomah depends very largely upon the condition of the men. Work on the new steel, concrete and wood stadium is being rushed in order to have it completed for the California game, which will be played on the campus October 30. It cannot be fin ished in time for the Multnomah game but arrangements are being made by Manager Richardson to provide ample accommodations for the large number of visitors who are expected to be present. Messages are being received dally from alumni members and from backers of the Multnomah club in re gard to seating facilities. ORIGIN OF BILLIARDS ANCIENT Pawnbroker Shoved Three Balls Around With Yardstick. Investigation into the popular game of billiards produces some queer his tory, both as to the origin of the game and the methods used in manufactur- lng the paraphernalia. It is said to have begun when William Kew, an English pawnbroker of the 16th cen tury, passed idle moments by push ing about three golden balls of his trade with a yardstick. He soon gained considerable skill , and the game became known in London as "Will s Yard," and this was corrupted to "Willyard," and then to "Billyard.'1 and lastly to its present form. The playerB, seeking a name for the stick with which the balls were pushed about, called it after its originator, "Kew," the French after taking over the game, respelling- it "que." The Ivory balls have to be sea soned for many months before they are ready for play, and manufactur ers have incubators in which to store them, many of the latter holding as high as 3000 balls. The deep red color of the red balls is obtained by giving them what is known as the "guardsman's bath" a dipping into dye secured by boiling English sol dier's red coats. The finer tables used are built of Spanish mahogany, ebony or satin wood, and some of this has to be seasoned seven years before being used. The green cloth was first used by Prince Leopold, and it Is still known as. "Prince Leopold green." It was selected .as being less hard on the eye under the bright light de manded for playing than any other color. CINCH GAMBLER SCARIFIED New York Commission Again.! Sure-Thing Bettors. When the commission granted box ing licenses to New York promoters the other day, Joseph Johnson, chair man of the commission, made a speech in which he spoke as follows to the assembled promoters and fans: "Boxing appears always to have held a special fascination for the professional gambler and particularly for the type of professional gambler I who takes no 6portlng chance, but seeks surely to win by bribery or chicane. "I have always thought his was HALF) SAX. QUARTERBACK. about the lowest of human vocations. He would crawl over the healthy body of any sport and as he crawls, he poisons that body. This insect is al ways hungry and always busy. He is hard to eradicate. But let us fumi gate our house as well as we can and when wedo catch him let us put a crushing foot upon him." DEAL IS ON BROOKLYN PITCHER WANTS TO COME TO COAST. Southpaw Unquestionably Nearing End as Major League Mem ber, Says Report. Rube Marquard, southpaw pitcher of the Brooklyn club of the National league, and a prominent figure in major league baceball for the last 12 years, wants to quit the bis brush and come to the Coast league next spring. "Doc" Strub and Charley Gra ham of the Seals are in communica tion with Marquard and. provided a satisfactory arrangement can be made with the Dodgers, the crooked-arm slinger will take up his abode on the cfoast. Marquard has had only a fair sea son to date, winning nine and losing seven for the National league pen nant winners. Last year he was out of the game on account of an acci dent. He took part in nine games, winning three. Although the Brooklyn pitcher has been in the National league since 190S, he is far from being an old-timer. Marquard was born in Cleveland. Ohio, May 22. 18S9, which would leave him a bit over 31 years of age. The complications which may arise before Marquard could join the Coast league are many. It Is not believed that other National league teams will waive on Marquard. although his long stretch of service may have some thing to do with them passing him out as a free agent. Brooklyn has a working agreement with the Oakland club of the Coast league, and it may be that the trans bay team will put in a bid for Mar quard's services. "Rowdy" Elliott joined the Dodgers this spring, while Hack Miller was sent to Oakland by Brooklyn a few years ago. Unquestionably Marquard is hear ing his end as a major league pitcher, He joined the New York Giants from the Indianapolis club in 1908 and was sent to Brooklyn through the waiver route in 1915. CALIFORNIA TENNIS HIT Bates Slay Lose Place on Varsity Over Sophomore Ruling. BERKELEY, CaL, Oct. 9. Wallace Bates. Un'versity of California soph omore and holder of the California tennis single: championship, has been instructed to appear at the next meeting of the Pacific Coast Inter collegiate conference and defend his eligibility for a place on the Cali fornia varsity team. Bates, it has been charged, broke a conference rule when, wh'le a freshman, he played on the varsity tennis team in the east last summer. Bates, It is said, believed himself a sophomore when he completed his freshmen year and so went east with the team at the end of the school se mester. The conference has ruled that a man is not a sophomore until he returns to college. Disqualification of Bates by the conference as a result of the charge would be a blow to the California varsity tennis chances. OLYMPIC OFFICIALS HOTLY DENOUNCED Miss Thelma Payne Home From Belgium Meet. HARDSHIPS ARE MANY Multnomah Club Diver Charges Amateur Association Commit tee Grossly Neglected. Miss Thelma Fayn of the Multno mah Amateur Athletic club, American Amateur Athletic union women's div- I ing champion, holder or numerous other fancy diving titles and member of the United States Olympic games team, arrived home yesterday from New York brimful of news and with bitter resentment towards the A. A. U. and the Olympic games committee for treatment accorded her and the rest of the American athletes who journeyed across the pond to bring victory to the Stars and Stripes. Miss payne and Mrs. Constance Dressier left Portland July 3 for New York to compete in the final Olympic games swimming trials after cleaning up in the Pacific coast trials in San Francisco. The raw deal claimed handed the two winged M girls began as soon as they arrived in Now York. There was no one to meet them, no accommoda tions arranged and not until they ran across a former Multnomah club mem ber now living in New York, were they able to even find a place to live. Upon looking the Olympic games com mittee up they were shown but scant courtesy. Trial at Manhattan Itearh. The springboard fancy diving trials were held July 10. at Manhattan beach and the high diving trials July 14. Miss Payne competed only in the fancy diving event while Mrs. Dres sier participated in both. The second rub developed during the fancy diving trials. The five judges who had been announced to handle the meet failed to show up. and others were substituted. Three of them turned in their score sheets giving Miss Payne first place and their sheets are claimed to have been thrown out. The other two judges, who had placed Miss Helen Wain wright of New York first, got by, and the latter was declared the winner. Miss Payne being shunted to second place and Miss Aleen Riggen third. Mrs. Mohlenberg, instructor of the New York Women's Swimming asso ciation, the largest organization of Its kind In the country, went to bat for Miss Payne and demanded that the Portland girl be given a square deal. What was declared the most glar ing feature of the whole meeting was when they informed Mrs. Dressier that she had failed to place high enough for recognition, and then sent Miss Aileen Allen and Miss Betty Grimes, both of whom had placed far below Mrs. Dressier, to Belgium. Mrs. Dressier Placed Seventh. Mrs. Dressier rated not lower than seventh in both events while Miss Allen failed to place higher than 13th or 14th and yet after !. Dressier had left for Portland Miss Allen was named on the team. The same ques tion prevailed in the case of Miss Grimes of Minneapolis. It seems that the officials acted as though curry ing favor in various parts of the country in making their selections rather than on actual merits and work accomplished by the girls in the tryouts which were supposed to' de cide those who made the team. Frank E. Watkins. prominent Port land sportsman, and chairman of swimming at the Mulnomah club is not going to let the matter die down without sending a few bombshells into the ranks of the A. A. U. and the Olympic games committee. At tomor row night's board meeting Mr. Wat kins will bring the matter up form ally and urge the club to demand from headquarters in New York an explanation why Mrs. Dressier was turned down and details of the method used in picking the winner used. He will also demand that the club take steps towards making the A. A. U. and Olympic games committee re fund to Multnomah club the money spent to send Mrs. Dressier to San Francisco and later to New York. Club Forced to Pay Expenses. The committee was also to have taken care of the team upon their arrival in New York until they sailed for Belgium. This they failed to do and Multnomah club was forced to pay Miss Payne's expenses from July 10 to July 26 the date of sailing. The same experiences that were met in the trials in New York are said to have again confronted Miss Payne in Belgium, where she was awarded third place in the world's fancy diving competition. Miss Riggen was awarded first place and Miss Wain wright second. They were both tied for first at the completion of the events with only .05 point separating them from Miss Payne. Going across Miss Payne met with an unfortunate accident when she strained several ligaments in her left foot when she fell while getting down from a high upper berth in her cabin, which she was forced to share with three other girls. Because of this she was only able to work out four times previous to the time of the event, August 27, in Antwerp. Miss Payne said: "The Olympic games officials and their families were given first-class cabins and the best food. The second and third class cabins were slotted to the girl members of the American team while the men athletes were quartered in the hold of the army transport, Princess Matoika." When the girls left the ship all of the bed linen and necessities were taken away from them and many cau-ght colds On the return trip the entire team mutinied on board the ship Antigone and left the vessel when it stopped at Liverpool, refusing to go any fur ther. MARINES BEST RIFLE SHOTS Performances at Olympic Games Furnish Proof of Marksmanship. Whatever a marine does he does well. We well know what happened after the United States marines got into action on the battlefields of Flanders. There are no better shots in the world with a rifle than the marines. This isn't hearsay, it is a fact. Performances speak for themselves. In the Olympic championships Ser geant Mori is Fisher of the marines won the championship at 600 meters, but right at home during the national rifle matches we saw some marines shoot, and we want to say that they are the class of the land. The marines on the whole are fine shots, but one stood out above the others. Sergeant T. B. Crawley is this individual. He won the Great Aggre gate trophy given for the best score in the four leading matches. Crawley won the Leach cup with a perfect score; won the National Rifle asso ciation member's match; was second in the marine corps match, sixth in the governor's cup. eighth in the president's cup. ninth in the Catrow cup and 38th in the Wimbledon cud. In each of these events there were about 1000 men shooting. The marines are of the opinion that Crawley can defeat any shooter in the world with the .30-CHiihre rifle. J. J. Andrews of the marines won the marine corps cup match and Ser geant Thomas won the pistol cham pionship. The marines as teams won the united service match, the enlisted men's team match, had three in the first five teams in the Herrick match and won the team pistol champion sh ip. When it comes to shooting, you've got to hand it to the marine;. ATHLETlSniY GO AMATEUR BODIES RAND TO GET STRONG ACTION. rertlnrnt Questions to Be Asked at Annual Session to Be Held Next Month. While no definite steps have been taken on this coast by athHetcs who werkt to the Olympic games, ih eastern men have already j-tarted organization with a view of airing their grievances and if possible 'ousting" the heads of the Amateur Athletu: Union. The big objection in the east is primarily to two nten, the larpest nr. being Bartow S. Weeks, while Fred Rubien. secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union is the other man whose scalp Is being sought. The smaller clubs of the New York met ropolitan branch, numbering about 150, have banded together with a view of voting down both Weeks and Rubien as delegates. This would naturally arvl automatically exclude them from the governing body. The average athlete knows of thef two men as heads of the Amateur Athletic Union. Reubien lias made an efficient secretary and his present unpopularity is more a condition of circumstances than anything else,. Judge Weeks, for years, has been the dominating figure of the Amateur Athletic Union. Rubien has maiie an almost that of an autocrat. He positively controls the Amateur Athletic Union annual meetinjr. and that a man can do this shows on its face that he is a "big man." He is just such a man, but this autocratic control has met a buffer, and if the athletes who went overseas to the Olympic games give their support as they say they are going to, and if their clubs and local branches get be hind these athletes and elect dele gates to the annual meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union fully in structed on their course of action, there is every reason to consider that a new regime of the 'Amateur Ath letic Union is in slight. Looking at the Amateur Athletic Union government from the broad light it is not a government by ath letes, or for the athletes. In the ma jority of cases the men on the various branch boards and on the governing board itself have at some time been athletes, but the government of the Amateur Athletic Union is now more a matter of "athletic politics" than it is for the good of the athletes them selves. The delegates are supposed to represent the athletes, but in most cases they do not. In some cases "dead organizations" are retained on the board of managers of individual branches simply to hold in power the men who have control of that par ticular organization. This is not wild guess but a statement based on actual facts. That a number of very pertinent questions will be aked the Amateur Athletic Union heads at the annual meeting in November is already as sured and there is just as much prob ability that the Amateur Athletic Union heads will "pass the buck" to the Americfln Olympic committee. 43 REED MEN TURN OUT HARRY DORMAN IN CHARGE OF LOCAL COLLEGE SQUAD. New Football Team Plans Series of Inter-Class Contests and Two Varsity Games. With the appointment of Harry Dorman as coach of football. Keed college will be able to proceed with its intercollegiate programme. Diffi culty was at first bad in securing a coach, but with the announcement this week a squad of about 40 men have been out for practice every day. Dorman is also manager and coach of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club team, and will divide his time between the two team, giving three days a week to Reed. He has had all of his experience under Dobie at thn University of Washington, playing halfback for that institution. A series of class games have been scheduled which will be played this month. This is a part of the in tramural programme. These games will be played on Wednesday after noons, the time set aside by the faculty for athletic contests. Since the opening of school class teams were organized and have been practicing under the direction of George Clark, physcial instructor. The freshmen class has elected Ted Steffen, who played with Lincoln last year, captain. Herman Kehrli, a letter man of last year, was elected captain of the sophomores. The juniors and the seniors will enter a team together, but have not ap pointed a captain. The first contest will be played be tween the freshmen and sophomores October 13; the upperclassmen-f resh men game is scheduled October20: and the upperclassmen - sophomore game October 2i. It was thought that class practice would interfere with varsity practice, but arrangements have been made whereby the freshmen practice at 9 o'clock in the morning and the sopho mores and upperclassmen those days on which Dorman will be unable to be with the squad. Only two intercolleeMate games will be scheduled this fall, with probably two or three practice games. Games have been asked for with Willamette and Pacific: one of which will be played on the Reed campus. Batting Record Is Made. Hobart Whitman, center fielder for the Winston-Salem team of the Pied mont league, made what is said to be. a record for southern organized base ball the other day when he hit three home runs, a two-bagger and a single for a total of 15 bases in five times at the bat in the game with Greens boro. Whitman's fourth and hardest hit ball struck the flagpole and bounded back into the field, giving him only a two-base hit on account of ground rules. Autumn Sunset. The curfew tolls tne kneu of partinc day. The football squad winds alowly o'er the lea. The student homeward limps his weary way Vi'llh blackened eye and water on the knee.