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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAK, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1920
FANS EXPECT BOUTS
TO FURNISH THRILLS
McCormick-Meehan Fight Is
Popular Event.
BOXERS TRAINING HARD
English Champion Favorite, but
''Steady Work of Opponent Is
Augur of Real Battle.
BY DICK SHARP,
f Everything is primed lor the first
elr show of the season at the Mil
wnukle 8 rena Wednesday night with
Boy McCormick and Willie Meehan
playing the leading roles in a ten
round affair, which Is likely to be a
tragedy for one of the parties con
cerned. McCormick will be the lead
ing man', while Meehan will hold down
the comedian role. Of course Meehan
may be unruly and try to do the
leading, which will make the per
formance much better.
putside of Fred Fulton, McCormick
has been the biggest box office mag
net that the officials of the Mil
waukie arena have used on their
tiiils. The fighting Irishman, who is
the light heavyweight champion .of
England, has taken part in four con
tests at the Milwaukie arena, lit two
of which he faced Frank Farmer "of
Tacoma. He then tangled with Cap
tain Bob Roper in a ten-round
racket. His final appearance be
fore returning to England was against
ths clever Tommy Gibbons. He won
two of the bouts and went to a draw
in the other two.
.Win, lose or draw, the fans are
with Boy. His aggressivo style of
milling made every man his friend
and the regulars will be pulling for
him to cop over Phat Willie Wednes
day night. McCormick has been work
ing like a Trojan getting in the best
lit condition for the fracas, and while
on the subject the same goes for
ieehan. For once in his 11." Willie
bas been really trying to get in the
beet of shape. Hard work was never
meant for Willie, but any of the many
who have been watching him go
through the paces daily at the Olym
pic gymnasium will vouch for the
tauCt that he is not shirking work
this time.
Both boxers will wind up training
this afternoon. There is a good deal
of interest in the coming tilt, judg
ing from the way the seats have
been going. The advance sale usually
is not opened until Monday, but for
this card the sale was started 'yes
terday. An unusual amount of out-of-town
reservations have been pouring
in to George Moore, manager of the
arena.
The eight-round semi-windup be
tween Billy Mascott and Ray Rose
should be the best bantamweight
scrap here since Billy and Charley
Hoy put up such a nip-and-tuck
struggle three years ago. Rose is
about the most aggressive little
youngster at his . weight that has
stopped off here in some time. He
can hit with either hand and take
punishment. Ray is nof the clever
est boy in the world, but looks fast
enough to hold his own.
Mascott is a past master at the
ungentle- art of boxing, and no
doubt should he elect to stay away
frpm Rose, he could do it, but in
eight rounds he would drop from ex
haustion if nothing hit him. The dis
tance of the bout means, that it will
be a battle, and the coast bantam
weight crown goes to the winner.
, Three more bouts round out the
Card. In every one of the prelimi
naries there is a chance for the T.
N. T. to touch off. George Eagles
and Roy Sutherland of San Francisco
and Los Angeles, respectively, box the
six-round special event. Both boys
made their marks here by sensational
knockout victories. The fans know
that both can hit, and they don't
have to prove it to the customers.
Eagles is not at all satisfied with
hie showing against Muff Bronson,
and says that he was not in shape.
Mike Do Pinto is one of the few
likely looking Portland boxing pros
pects. Mike is only IT or" 18 years
old and has been boxing less than
a year, but in that space of time he
has beat some of the best boys at his
weight in the Northwest. Do Pinto
will box Young Joe Miller of Los An
geles six rounds. Miller is a new
comer, and out to make good.
Mickey Dempsey, the budding k.
king, will meet Jimmy Willis in t
o.
the
four-round curtain raiser. Dempsey
has two straight knockouts to his
credit.
Louis Brlx. who has been associate
d with Billy Gibson for over 15
year, is here with Joe Benjamin.
When Billy can't get away with his
battlers. Brix accompanies them as
the handler. He was in Joe's corner
la Milwaukee, Wis., the other night.
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; Jaka Abel, ths Atlanta -welterweight,
who fought Tilly Herman
here some time ago, win box Jack
Britton in his home town November
89. Abel has been going good the
past year.
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Willie Jackson and Johnny Dundee
should draw a capacity house when
they clash in New York. Both boys
have large following in the boxing
Kama and will fight for what is
termed the junior lightweight cham
pionship of the world. The junior
limit as laid down by the interna
tional sporting Ut 130 pounds, which
both boxers can make.
...
- Jack Sharkey, who meets Joe Lvnch
in a return battle at Madison Square
Garden December 2 in a 15-round
battle, will, in all probability, fight
Jimmy Wilde in London' the third
week of January. Sharkey recedes
a guarantee of 120.000 and transpor
tation for three for 20 rounds. A
decision will be rendered.
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: Ole Anderson, game and aggressive
Tacoma heavyweight, who knocked
out io ross nere recently, turned
In hie second victory of the month in
Aberdeen this week, when he scored
a clean-cut win over Clem Johnson,
gtnnt Panama negro, who outweighed
him 20 pounds.
. JHarbor fans pronounced It one of
the fastest goes of the season, and
Anderson made a big hit. He had an
edge all the way and knocked John
son down cleanly in the fourth round,
after which he had easy sailing:.
-Anderson is keeping right on with
his training, and it is probable that
he will be seen in Portland shortly
... English Girl Is Golf Star.
Another English girl who plays i
good game of golf arrived in New
York recently. She is Miss A. R.
Airey, and when George Low, the Bal
tusrol professional, saw her playing
tnere recently he was impressed with
bar style, la. bis opinion, Misa Airey
should give any of the leading women
. players hero a hard match. Miss
I Airey, who intends to stay here, is a
sister of Miss Daisy Airey, who came
here last, spring and competed in a
few tournaments. Including Mrs.
Charles Knight, who also arrived here
in the spring, this makes three
women golfers from Britain who have
come over during the year.
McGRAW RECRUITS MANAGERS
Evers Sixth Giant to Be Released
to Pilot Teams.
The release of Johnny Evers by the
New York Giants to permit him to as
sume the management of the Chicago
Cubs adds another to the long list of
players who have been let out by
John J. McGraw in order that they
might accept an opportunity to be.
coma manager of a major league club,
McGraw traded Roger Bresnaban to
the Cardinals 12 years ago when
Roger was wanted as a manager, and
since that time he has released Wil
bert Robinson to Brooklyn, Charley
Herzog to the Reds, Christy Mathew
ssn to the Reds. Pat Moran to the
same club, and now Evers goes to the
Cubs.
FOOTBALL IS IMPROVED
oLd-time game probably
was 5iore stbextocs.
Contests tinder Current Rules Bet
ter Adapted to Public Desires
and Make Sport Popular.
Football players of a decade or two
ago are prone to argue that the men
of that time were or more heroic
mould than those of the present day
and that the old timer was forced to
meet strenuous conditions which do
not exist under the present code of
ruhs.
Am evidence of this they call at
tention to the fact that in the old
days the game consisted of only two
halves and each of these was of three
quarters of an hour's duration. -As
played now, the teams play li minutes
and then get a minute rest while
changing sides between quarters. Then
comes another quarter of Id minutes
and then a ten-minute intermission,
while under the old rules the men
would have been playing all this time
without incermission and would still
be going on f'.T another quarter of- an
hour before a breathing spell was
called. -
Secondly, it is recalled that under
the old rules, when a player once was
taken out of the game, it was not
permissible for him- to return into it.
again. As it is now, a player can be
taken out and returned to the game
as often as the coach pleases, thus
giving all the time necessary for
testing up a player who is valuable
to his eleven.
There can be no question that the
ordeal wa-s a more severe one from
the point of view of physical endur
ance required and stamina necessary
to p.ay out the game. At the same
time, there also is no question that
thc-e was a tendency to Play a man
to the limit and even beyond the
limit of his endurance. This defeated
the primary object of all sports, which
is for the physical upbuilding and
welfare of the participant.
Physically, the players of today are
just ad sturdy as those of 20 and 25
years ago and they could undergo
just as much if they were called upon
to do so. That thi-a is not necessary
redounds to the credit of those men
who are responsible for the framing
of the rules. They haye had an eye
to the physical benefits to be derived
from the game and their campaign of
rule changing has been for the pur
pose of eliminating all those things
which tend to overdoing the thing.
There- have been few changes in
augurated in the rules since the in
ception of American football which
have not tended for the benefit of
the game. Time was when a team
could keep possession of the ball as
long as they did not fumble it or
through .some other blunder lose it
to their opponents. They hugged the
ball and the game resulted in a mo
notonous succession of short line
bucks. To overcome this, the rule
calling for a five-yard gain in three
tries was Inaugurated, which was the
first step toward opening up the
game. Changes since that time all
have been along that line so that to
day ten yards must be made in four
tries. , This was a long distance to
cover and so the aerial game was in
troduced in order to permit of ac
complishing the distance gaining.
Strength and speed count todav as
much as they did in the past, pos
sibly the latter a little more so, but
there can be no question that the
intellect and wits are called on to
day to play a greater part. No dul
lard and slow thinker is likely to
make much of a success of today's
game no matter now much strength
and avoirdupois he may have. It
calls for more alertness than ever be
fore.
XAVY SELLS YACHT HACOL1
Weil-Known Steam Craft Contend
er for Several Cups.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20. The well
known steam yacht Hauoli, which
was built in 1903 for F. M. Smith, who
owned the sloop Effort when that
yacht won the first race for the King's
cup, has been sold by the navy de
partment to the Denton-Shore Lumber
company of New York. The- Hauoli
was more recently owned by Mrs.
Clare Baldwin Stocker, a daughter of
the late Lucky" Baldwin of San
Francisco, and was for a time known
as the California.
The Hauoli was built to win the
Lysistrata cup, donated to the New
York Yacht club by the late James
Gordon Bennett- The first race for
this cup was held in 1902. when the
Kanawha, owned by the late 11. H.
Rogers, defeated the Noma. then
owned by the late W. B. Leeds.
In 1903 the Hauoli tried to wrest
the cup from Kanawha, but failed.
Kanawha covered the 60-mile course
at the rate of a little better than 20
knots and Hauoli's speed was just
a fraction less than 20 knots. She
211 feet over all and when used as a
yacht was very handsomely fitted.
The price paid for the Hauoli was
J18.800. Last spring she was consid
erably damaged by fire on board.
Commissions Work Together.
Boxers suspended or Jisqualified by
the Massachusetts state boxing com
mission will hereafter be banned from
appearing in the rings of New York
state during the terms of suspension
or disqualification imposed by the
Bay state. Matty Herbert, a New
Yorker recently suspended by the
Massachusetts commission for three
months, as a result will not be per
mitted to box in. New York state until
the expiration of that period.
Cadets Stage Parade.
A recent novelty at West Point
Military academy was a "parade of
1500 cadets in various styles of ath
letic uniform on the historic parade
ground. They were members of the
rugby football, basketball, lacrosse,
soccer football, tennis and pole
teams. It demonstrated what has
been accomplished during the dril
season since compulsory athletics
have been effective.
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WRESTLERS TO COMPETE
JOSEPH M. RIEG TO STAGE
SERIES O' BIG MATCHES.
Best Known-Men in Game Will Be
Brought Here to Show Prowess
in High-Class Events.
Joseph N. Rieg. owner and man
ager of Columbia Beach, well known
n Portland business and amusement
circles, has decided to invade a new
sphere of activity. That is. staging
top-notch f wrestling matches here.
using only the best-known men in
the game as headliners of his cards.
After a good deal of deliberation Rieg
came to the conclusion that clean
wrestling, free from suspicion and
taint, would be a successful venture
n Portland, and he has decided to
take a "whirl" at jt this winter.
Ted Thye, middleweight wrestling
champion of the world, wrestling in
structor at the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic club and Reed college, will
be featured against the challengers
for his crown in several of the com-
ng main events. Rieg is also in
communication with a number ' of
famous heavyweight grapplers, such
as Ed c strangier J Lewis, w laaen.
Zybzsko, John Pesek and Sam Clap
ham, with the idea of using them on
future cards.
At present Rieg plans on staging
an all-star card every two weeks,
either at the Heilig theater or the
armory. ,
Portland fans have been treated to
wrestling in past years, some of
which came in for more or less criti
cism. With a man of Rieg's caliber
at the helm and using such wrestlers
as Thye and other well-known stars,
there is a chance for the game.
Rieg expects to announce the date
for the first card within the next
few days.
SEPARATION IS TALKED
HAWAIIAN SWIMMERS AX-
GERED AT OLYMPIC OFFICERS.
Plan fnder Way to Send Aqnatic
Stars as Separate Unit to
xt Meeting.
HONOLULU, T. H.. Nov. 9. (Spe
cial.) It is almost a certainty that
Hawaii will send Its own swimming
team to the next Olympiad, no matter
where it is held and that such a team
will not. as it did during the Olympiad
of this year, constitute a part of the
American team. The Hawaiian swim
mers were so disappointed with the
poor management of affairs by the
Central Amateur Athletic union that
it ia a foregone conclusion that it
will not send any swimmers to the
next Olympiad under the Jurisdiction
of the mainland Amateur Ainieuc
union.
The Hawaiian swimmers feel that
in havine to compete time and time
again against scores of second-raters
before beinsr allowed to make the
team, thev wers unjustly treated.
It is almost certain that unless
the mainland Amateur Athletic union
can promise the island swimmers that
they need compete but In one tryout
before making the team, the Hawaiian
team will be sent direct, with island
financial "backing. This time Ha
waiian swimmers had to compete in
San Francisco, cmcago ana tnira
irvnnt in Antwerp before they were
permitted to become members of the
American team.
BURTON'S TEAM IS VICTOR
Lead Is Maintained in Mnltnomab
Club House Iieagrue.
Russell Burton's basketball team
maintained its lead in the juuitnoman
Amateur Athletlo club intermediate
house league by annexing another
game from Anderson s quintet Friday
nirht bv a score or 2b to s. .
On the. same evening Serr's team
defeated Peek's aggregation zz to 11
Burton has won rive straight
games without a defeat; Serr has won
three games and met two defeats;
Anderson has won two games and lost
three while Donald Peek's all-stars
have yet to win their first game, hav
ing been downed in an rive starts.
Gibbons to Meet Wlsrlns.
TOLEDO, O., Nov. 20. Tommy Gib
bons of St. Paul and Chuck Wiggins
of Indianapolis will meet in a 13
round bout at the Coliseum bere the
night of December 6. it was an
nounced today.
Athletic Club Prosperous.
The Newark (N. J. Athletic club
has 3000 members and intends erect
ing a (1,000,000 clubhouse in the near
future.
THREE BATTLERS BEADY FOB ACTION AT
VV; :rFiCi!Y4 RING CANDIDATES BEATEN
Left to rlsbt Mike De Pinto, bantam; Boy McCormick, liKbt-heavrTrrlgrbt
. champion of Knjcland; Willie JMeelian, Pacific coast heavyweigTht cham
FRANKIE FARREN'S KNOCKOUT
SEEMS T O HAVE GIVEN "PEP"
Victory Over Willie Robinson in Four-Round Contest Boosts Chances
for Future Matches.
BY HARRY B. SMITH.
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AN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 20.
Frankie Farren seems to have
fought h'mself back into the best
shape since the memorable night he
was dealt that stunning blow by
Willie Jackson in a San Francisco
Tins- Up to the time that Jackson
scored his knockout Farren was cock
o' the walk in the San Francisco four
round game. Along came Jackson
asd knocked Frankie for the well
known goaL
For a long, long time after that
Farren was more or less of an in and
outer. He seemed to be afraid that
he was going to De hurt and clinched
so frequently that be put, up Borne
poor fights. After that he would
make one good fight and then a
couple of bad ones.
More recently Frankie seems to
have struck his stride. His last
showing was a knockout over Willie
Robinson. Robinson is a veteran or
the four-round game, to be sure, but
it's been many a day since the fans
can remember seeing him knocked
out and he appeared to have a new
lease of life. Frankie knocked his
man out standing up, the referee,
Toby Irwin, slopping the fight when
he realized that Robinson couldn't
even protect himself.
It has been a big boost for Farren
and if he keeps, on going in the same
sort of fashion there snould bo not
the slightest difficulty in getting all
the matches he desires.
Frank Watkins, chairman of the
Portland City Boxing commission,
has been a San Francisco visitor for
the past week. He took in the
Dreamland fig-ht to watch the mys
terious workings of the California
four-round --game, with which he is
well acquainted. Watkins has con
fided in friends that it is planned
to stage four.-rbund boute in Port
land and he is naturally looking for
prospective talent.
He was lucky enough to land a pair
of pasteboards for the California-
Stanford game Saturday. He will
be in Los Angeles fey the auto
mobile races on Thanksgiving day
and will take a flyer at the Tijuana
race track before he returns north.
Although there was a record s;ate
for the California-Stanford football
match Saturday, San FranciBco peo-.
pie had to take it out chiefly in
watching the newspaper . reports.
More than two weeks in advance of
the battle. It was Impossible to buy
a ticket for love or money. Every
ducat was sold and Graduate Man
ager Lute Nichols of U. C. announced
there would be receipts totaling
$75,000. Another 150,000 worth of
tickets could have been disposed of
had there been room on the field for
the spectators.
The California boys are all worked
up at the enthusiasm that has been
displayed and are planning to use
part of their share of the- receipts
in building stands with even greater
capacity.
As matters go, only alumni of the
two Institutions and undergraduates
are in line for tickets. The general
public doesn't have a look-in.' Only
those with friends at court can think
of buying tickets and watching the
big spectacle. ,
Evidently it will be many a year
before the public will figure In the
purchase of the necessary creden
tials. "
This has been a good year for the
blue and gold team, financially as
well as otherwise. All of their games
in Berkeley have been good drawing
cards and they will close their year
with a profitable balance on the right
side of the ledger.
There will be another opening of
Interest to Pacific coasters and to
Californlans this coming week. The
Tijuana race track in Mexico, right
across the border from San Diego, is
due for the opening of the season
on Thanksgiving day. Already - a
meeting of 100 days has been sched
uled, with mare to follow.
Earlier came reports that another
clique might oust Jimmy Coffroth
from control of Tijuana: that Jerome
Bassity of San Francisco was fis-ht-
ing for control of the track. Bas
MILWAUKIE ARENA WEDNESDAY
slty evidently missed fire somewhere
along the line, for he didn't connect.
Coffroth never said 4 word but
bobbed up smilingly and only two
or three weeks ago it was announced
for a certainty that the track will
open under the old regime.
The sports still have money for a
good cause, even though they may be
holding back on the purchase of shoes
and clothing and the like. Bum
Spiers is a colored fighter of no par
ticular class, though well enough
known. Recently It was discovered
that he was going blind.
The other night during the course
of an Oakland fight card Bum Spiers
was led into the ring, introduced, and
something told of his misfortune:
also it was announced that he would
never fight again.
The sports were asked to contribute
and they dug down into their pock
ets to the tune of more than $500,
which sum will take Bum back to
his home. It was quite a contribu
tion when you recall the followers
of the fight game are asked on every
sid to give something to this char
ity or to that one.
FINE- PAVILION ASSURED
STANFORD STUDENTS DECIDE
ON IMMENSE BUILDING.
Basketball and Dancing Area Also
Will House Tenni9 Courts Cost
of Improvement $75,0 00.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Palo
Alto, Cal., Nov. 20. (Special.)
Stanford is to have a new basketball
and dancing pavilion to cost $75,000.
The building will be large enough to
accommodate 3000 persons .and will
have a spring floor.
A new basketball league or td
teams, divided into euo-ieagues oi
eight teams each, started games this
week on the old gymnasium area. This
will crowd ordinary classes to use
the outdoor gymnasium apparatus
and is evidence of the crying need
for the new structure. One-half of
the funds for the new pavilion will
be raised by the students. The lump
sum will be taken from the univer
sity funds on hand, and will be re
turned in four years. This will en
able the board of athletlo control to
start things humming promptly.
The board of control considered the
pavilion favorably because it pro
vides an investment of a permanent
nature, both from a financial and a
physical standpoint. The present bas
ketball space is too small, and being
constructed' on a solid foundation
is detrimental to all who used It.
It Is also the plan of Dr. A. D.
Browne, head of the department of
physical 'education, to Install several
ndoor tennis courts in ine new area.
This will (urnish the greatest stimu
lus ever offered to the net game since
it was made a major sport at Stan
ford. .
MOOTtES NOTED IN ATHLETICS
Three Brothers MakeReputations
as Football. Stars.
Captain Lindsay Moore of the
Washington and Le football team
comes from a family of noted ath
letes. He and his two brothers have
made reputations as star football
Dlavers. ,
Pierman Moore, Lindsay's youtiger
brother, is one of the stellar guards
on the navy football team, and also
rowed on the championship navy
Olympic crew last summer. He is
captain of the navy crew next year.
The oldest brother, Arthur, played
tackle for Virginia Tech. from 1911 to
1916.
Captain Lindsay Moore of the Gen
erals football team is playing his
third year as left tackle on the varsity
and is the mainstay of the line. Hs
stands six feet two inches in height.
He was a member of the crack Allen
town football team in 1917. The
Moore brothers' home is in Rlngold,
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NIGHT.
AUTOCRATIC SPORT LEADERS
LOSE CONTROL.
United . States Amateur Athletic
Union Shakes OTf Shackles
or Domineering Rulers.
For the first time In its history, the
autocratic government of the United
States Amateur Athletic union has
been broken. It happened at New
Orleans Tuesday at the, annual meet
ing of the organization. The defeat
of Judge Bartow S. Weeks as trustee.
and of Herman Obertubessing, the
candidates put up by the autocrats,
marks a turning point in the -government
of the union.
Athletic officials and athletes of
these Pacific coast states for years
have complained of the domineering
tactics. Officials and ahtletes of the
middle west around Chicago. St.
Louis. Kansas City, etc., and in th
south at New Orleans, have all been
treated as badly as the Pacific coast
has been. The Kew England states
for years have been a factor in keep
ing together the machine of the east
but various events in the last five
years culminated in New England's
breaking away from the political ring
because of its treatment by New
York in the recent Olympic games.
New England threw its voting power
behind the south, the middle west
and the far west, with the result that
the power of government has at last
been broken. There is every indica
tion of fair play and a broader inter
pretation of amateur government for
the future.
The election of Bob Weaver of Los
Angeles as the new president of the
Amateur Athletic union is the result
of this combination by the associa
tions with a grievance. Weaver is a
good man. and will have the full sup
port of the branches of the Amateur
Athletic union in the Pacific coast
states. He is now in position to put
over the 1921 track championships at
Pasadena along lines that will prove
an unqualified success. Weaver's
election marks an epoch. It is the
first time the far west has ever been
recognized and it is the first time a
man has been elected from farther
west than Chicago.
Bartow Weeks has been the man
who held the "political machine" to
gether. He has been the dominant
figure In the Amateur Athletic union
for years. At the annual meetings he
wielded a "club no one would oppose.
They used to say that the late Jim
Sullivan was a one-man power and
an autocrat, but he bad nothing com
pared with Weeks. Jim Sullivan kept
the Amateur Athletic union going.
He made it what it is today, and the
organization has deteriorated since
his death. Another Jim Suliivan must
be found. There is no one on the
horizon right now with the force,
power, ability and popularity of the
old chief. .
BOTSFOKD NOW IN BRITAIN
University Player Jfumbers Capt.
Hardy Among Defeated Rivals.
Williard H. Botsford of New York,
who figured with distinction in many
of the leading lawn tennis tourna
ments of last summer, numbering
Captain Samuel Hardy among other
famous victims of bis racquet, has
been playing In England since the
season here .closed with the national
tournament at Forest Hills. The Co
lumbia university man's most prom
inent tournament appearance of late
has been - in the so-called worlds
covered court championship recently
concluded in London. In this he was
defeated the second round by Sidney
N. Doust, once a member of Austra
lian Davis cup teams. Earlier in his
stay Botsford played in the London
Country club tournament at Hendon,
where In the fourth round he en
countered one of England's Interna-
itonalists, the famous F. G. Lowe.
Lowe defeated Botsford, but only
after a hard match, the London critics
stating that Botsford's form was
much, better than the scores of 6-3
6-3 against him might suggest. The
Columbian's play at the net was espe
cially commended. "
Teams Pay Own Expenses.
Among the American Olympic ath
letic teams which paid their own- ex
pensea to the Antwerp festival were:
Kugby, lootoan. fencing, cycling.
trapshooting. The United States navy
bore the expenses of its representa
tives, while the expenses of the rid
ing, tug-of-war and shooting teams
recruited from the army were de
frayed by the government. The cost
of sending the United States teams to
Antwerp and Brussels was $148,563.11.
Soccer Settlement Made.
A long-standing dispute - between
Glasgow - Rangers soccer team of
Scotland and the Burslem Port Vale
eleven over the transfer of Peter
Pursell for a $12,000 consideration
has been settled and Pursell has gone
over to the Engllaa league second
division team. - . t
WILLAMETTE READY
FOR GRIDIRON GAME
Salem Institution Prepares
to Meet Whitman.
SEASON RECORDS GOOD
Infant Members of Northwest Con
ference to Battle Thanks
giving Day.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Sa
lem, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) Foot,
ball fans are looking to Salem for
the Thanksgiving gridiron classic of
the northwest, for the WiWamett
Whitman battle promises to be a real
thriller. Inasmuch as this is the only
college game billed for the state on
turkey day. Interest is proportionate
ly greater, and added attention re
sults from the fact of its being Wil
lamette university's first conference
football conflict.
Although tne 'two elevens will rep
resent the infant institutions of. the
northwest conference, the records of
the season's performances show that
either team is capable of furnishing
any of the larger universities of the
circuit a formidable battle. All of
Willamette's games so far this season
have resulted In viotorles for the
Bearcats with the exception of the
scratch defeat received at the hands
of the Multnomah clubmen. Early in
the sea bo n the alumni eleven was
beaten, 14-0; the Chemawa Indians
were the next victims of the Bearcat
attack, 13-7; a week later Multnomah
was presented with a 2-0 win over
Coach Matthews' men; two weeks ago
the varsity won an easy 23-7 game
from Pacific university, and last Sat
urday they trounced the College of
Puget Sound's representatives 24-0.
Dope Not Available.
Whitman and Willamette have met
none of the same teams this year, so
the result of the pending conflict
cannot be doped out from compara
tive scores. One thing is a certainty,
however Borleske has a fast, well
developed machine, as apparent from
the results of big games in which
the Missionaries have engaged. The
University of Montana, a team that
beat Washington, went down to a
13-7 defeat before Whitman. The
University of Washington won from
Whitman. 31-14, after a hard fight,
and Idaho beat the Missionaries by a
single touchdown. After going three
seasons without a single defeat, the
College of Idaho lost to Whitman,
21-7. These facts illustrate the type
of eleven the Bearcats will be called
upon to face next week. Willamette's
advantage lies in the fact that the
game is scheduled for Sweetland field,
but this will be easily offset by the
Missionaries wider experience
playing high-class teams.
Reports from Walla Walla indicate
that neither eleven will enjoy much
weight advantage, although the
Whitman line is conceded to be
slightly heavier than that of the
home team. However, chief interest
of the spectators will doubtless be
directed toward the work of the
backfield, for each school boasts of a
string of backs of first-class caliber.
Although Mathews has not decided
who will start the Thansgivlng game
ror tne Bearcats, the presence of Zel
ler, Rarey and Irvine in the back
field goes without saying. Whether
Wapato will fill a berth in the line
or secondary defense is a question.
but, nevertheless, the varsity's backs
are expected to furnish thefr share of
the afternoon's thrillers. The same
can be said 'of Whitman's backfield
quartet. Carver, fullback, and Tilton,
half, coming strongly recommended
as star performers.
Neither Has Advantage.
Neither eleven has any considerable
advantage in the kicking department,
either. Irvine has been doing . the
punting work for the varsity this
season, and, although he has an
nexed several drop and place kicks,
he cannot be called a high-class
punter. However, the Walla Walla
team is without an efficient kicker.
it Is also claimed.
Everything considered, it is prob
ably that each school has put on the
gridiron this season one of its best
lineups in years, and neither the de
scendants of Jason Lee or Marcus
Whitman are able to dope ou the re
sult of the batle with any accuracy.
If Coach Mathews' 155-pound eleven
can slip over a win, they cannot be
denied the place of a representative
conference team.
Athletic Manaeer Bain nredicta that
Sweetland field will have its greatest
crowd in history for the Thanksgiv
ing game, many out-of-town fans as
well as the Salem pepulace being ex
pected. Heretofore attention of most
Portland football followers has been
called to the annual Oreeon-Mult-
nomah turkey -flay engagement, but
this year the lemon-yellow will be
lined up against Southern California.
As it stands, not another game in
the northwest that day will provoke
as much interest as that billed for
Salem.
Several big rallies as well as a few
additional advertising features are
promised for next -week, according to
Yell King Gillette and a committee in
charge of the work. Ticket sales
started the middle of . the week, and
the cardboard slips are going like
hotcakes, it is reported.
A referee has not yet been decided
upon. Coach Mathews said again yes
terday, but the other officials have
been secured. Dean Walker will um
pire arid "BiH" Holden of 'Portland
will act as head linesman. The game
will be called at 1 o'clock sharp to
enable the fans to get home in time
for their Thanksgiving dinner. .
RULES MAY BE UNIFORM
PROPOSAL TO STANDARDIZE
BILLIARD REGULATIONS.
RevUrbn Would Affect Profession
als and Amateurs Alike and
Make for Better Game.
NEW YORK. Nov. 20. For the first
time in the history of American bil
liards the playing rules appear- likely
to be" standardized alike for amateurs
and professionals. The National As
sociation of Amateur Billiard players
has undertaken a general revision
The determination to bring this about
was one of the paramount questions
of discussion at the annual meeting
of the body last March. At that time
the executive committee was directed
to fulfill the task and to bring the
proposed revision before a special
meeting of the association. This meet
ing will probably be held in January.
The reports as to pocket billiards
and three-cushion carroms have al
ready been made. In both instances
the committee advocates the adoption
kA nrnfotsinnal r nlpq n a ra vlwoH
for the championship tournaments at J
? these respective styles Dt games last
I season. Robert Weld, chairman of .
the pocket billiard committee and a
member of the New York Athletic
club, together with Edward W. Rey
nolds, New York state champion;
Henry Osborlte of Connecticut and
John I. Ryan were unanimous in pre
senting their report as to standardiz
ing the amateur professional rules.
Two of the competitors for the
three-cushion carrom championship,
Wheiton H. Flinn of the Amateur
Billiard club and Dr. W. O. Campbell
of Chicago, have declared that for the
multiple cushion game the amateurs
could not do better than follow the
laws laid down by the professionals.
There has been no revision of the
professional rules as to balkline' for
many years. It is generally admitted
that these rules are not satisfactory.
Julian Rice, the national clas B
champion, heads the group of players
now at work upon tiie balkline re
vision. This group includes Edward
W. Gardner, former, class A titlehold
er; Percy N. Collins, the present class
A champion; J. K. Cope Morton of
Philadelphia, and L. A. Servatius.
This committee is engaged in iron
ing out the kinks in the amateur rules
which were adopted in 1914. Already
changes have been advocated as to
fouls, playing with the wrong ball,
frozen balls and determining whether
or not a ball on the line is in or out
of balk. Morris D. Brown has for
several years advocated a change in
this rule. There is a likelihood that
when these rules have been revised
they will be adopted by the profes
sionals, as the latter inclined more
recently to follow the standard set UP
by the amateurs for competitions of
this character.
FENCING TO BE REVIVED
.
INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT
MAI" BE HELD NEXT SPRING.
Amateur League of America Has
Plans Under Way for Match
With British Experts.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20. A series of
international fencing matches be
tween representative foilsmen of Eng
land and this country will be held
here next spring if present plans of
the Amateur Fencers' league of Amer
ica materialize. It became known yes
terday that the A. F. L. A. had issued
an Invitation to tive- Fencers' asso
ciation of Great Britain to send a
team here next spring for a series of
matches. The indications 'are that
England will accept, since, before
America's Olympic fencers sailed for
home, after the competition at Ant
werp, the Britons assured them they
would accept an invitation for Amer
ican, competit on if one were issued.
The tentative plans cf the A. F. L.
A. provide that the Britons appear in
matches in Washington, Philadelphia
and this city. It is proposed to hold a
dueling swords event in the nation's
capital some time in May. A saber
competition is planned for the Merion
Cricket club. Philadelphia, a week
later, and the following week, ac
cording to the tentative schedule, the
British fencers will compete at the '
Hotel Astor- here. The Washington
and Philadelphia competitions would
oe neid outdoors under conditions
similar to those which prevailed at
Antwerp. This feature Is expected to
strike favor with the Britons, who
were outscored by America in the
Olympic competitions aild are deter
mined upon revenge. It will be re
membered that at Antwerp the full
strength of American fencing was not
represented, inasmuch as two leaders
in the sport. Sherman Hall and George
II. Breed, former champion, were not
Included on the team because' of busi
ness exigencies at home.
In the invitation it is suggested
that th British team include up to
but not more than 12 fencers. Under
the plan for the matches the visitors
would engage in team events only,
the matches being so arranged that
the winning team would be deter
mined in best two matches out "of
three. A bronze trophy will be do
nated for each match by the A. F. L.
A., and each member of the victorious
team will receive a replica of the
team award. In the event that the'
invitation is accepted it is planned to
make the competition an annual af
fair, held in the two countries alter
nately. This, it is expected, would
greatly stimulate interest in the sport.
Henry Breckenridge of the Washing
ton Fencers' club is chairman of the
international committee in charge of
the arrangements for the prospective
British Invasion.
Sidelights and Satire.
There was grrcat intere9t In the schooner
race off Halifax. The public ittili has a
warm feeling for schooners.
The fishermen will now demonstrate the
difference between sailing and. yachting-.
Sailing.
The fishermen are sturdy folks
To whom a gale is joy.
They are not like the dainty blokes
Who sail a painted toy.
They j?Jory In the flying: foam
When winds begin to snort.
Nor do they turn their noses home
Nor hustle back to port.
They chodtle at the booming g-al
And batten down the hatch.
For when the fishing ttchooners ull
.It ain't no parlor match
-Comfngr
down to bare facts, the A. A. tjt.
has decided to regulate swimming cos
tumes. "Oefi." wailed the bride, "when w
were first married he used merely to
chuck me under the chin.,t -Sure," barked
the Judge, "but now he's getting moe
stuff in his punches."
-
Suspicion that the Carpentler-Lovinsky
battle wasn't- played according to Hoy is
and Levinsky heeded the advice of hts
ancestors to "get the money" are heard.
Baseball history has its Arnolds Gon
dii and Hothstein.
Modesty Is the superlative: A baldhead
.ed man who won't take off his hat in
the house until he pulls down all the
shades.
Tf Indicted Chicago ball players go to
jail, why not put them to work in the
laundry with theTest of the Soiled Sox
"Babe" Ruth's income from various
sources this year will total $100,000. And
the only think "Babe" frames is his pic
ture. When the band played the Marseilaifte
at the Carpentler-Levlnsky battle, Levins ky
was too old to get up.
w m
At least footbsll Is honest. They give
you two halves and four quarters for S2
Coast league baseball scandal threatens
eruption. -That's all it ever did threaten.
"Carpentier and Levlnsky all set for
battle." Thus go the headlines of some
weeks ago. And according to later de
velopments. It seems a though they were.
"
Mary had a little Iamb.
Its gambols made 'em laugh;
Right here we pause, in this here sheet.
We dare not mention calf.
Ole Fashun Danse
Columbia Beach Tonite
Prize Pie Eating Contest. '
All Rubens and Gals Kum.