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THE SUXDAT OITEGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 12, 1920
ARLETA, ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL PLAYERS OUT FOR INDEPENDENT STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
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Woman From Pittsburg Says
Interest Here Keen.
WATER POLO IS FINISHED
Winged M Swimmers Soon to Start
Training for Meet to Bo
Held Next Year.
Portland ranks eecond among the
cities of the United States so far as
Interest in aquatic sports is concerned
according to Mrs. Marian Dyrlund. the
latest addition to the local swimming
colony. Pittsburg, the home city of
Mrs. Dyrlund, wit placed at the top
of the list by the fair mermaid, who
will make Portland her home for the
time being.
Mrs. Dyrlund's specialty is long
distance swimming and she holds sev
eral records in this class. She can
also holds her own in the ehort-dis-tance
sprints.
In the time that she has been la ac
tive competition, which extends over
a period of nearly five years, Mrs.
Dyrlund has visited practically every
swimming center of the country, and
when she says that Portland is second
among these centers in the United.
States, it is a big boost for the sport
here.
Mrs. Dyrlund started her swimming
career at the University of Pittsburg,
where she was a member of the
varsity swimming team. After her
graduation from the university in
1915, she swam under the colors of
the Pittsburg Athletic club. During
1914-15 she held the half-mile trl
state record for Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia.
The Pittsburg girl took her first
fling at the long-distance grind in
1916. when she swam in a 15-mile mar
athon race from Spuyteer, on the Hud
eon, to the Battery, the length of Man
hattan island. Mrs. Dyrlund finished
fourth in a field of 18 starteis. Fannie
Durack and Minnie Wylie. the two
famous Australian swimmers, finish 1
first and second, with Lucy Freeman
Of New York third.
From 1913 to 1916 she held the long
distance records for Conneaut lake,
Penn., and Lakes Hopatcons and Cul
ver, N. J. Another title, this time
in a short-distance race, was an
nexed by Mrs. Dyrlund in March, 1918,
when she led the field In the New
York Young Women's Christian as
sociation 150-yard free-style event.
In the past year Mrs. Dyrlund has
done little swimming, owing to a
long illness, but since coming to Port
land has decided to enter the popular
sport again. Mrs. Dyrlund is a mem
ber of the American Ked Cross life
savers, and also holds a membership
in the Women's Wqld Lifesaving al
liance. She is at present devoting her
training to the 500-yard event.
Swimming activity at the Multno
mah Amateur Athletic club will start
shortly after the first of the year
when the Winged "M" natators will
start training for the meats to be held
here next year.
The Winged "M" club wound up a
Yery successful water polo season re
cently when Tom Wallace's team was
crowned champions of the Multno
mah house league. The members
of the championship team were Tom
Wallace, captain; Locke Webster.
Bob Morrision, S. A. Qmoot, Ernie
Tucker, Frank McHale and George
Faust.
The Multnomah club will hold the
men's national indoor diving cham
pionships next year, probably the lat
ter part of March or the first of
April. This event should be the cream
of diving activities in 1921, as prac
tically every man diver of any abil
ity is at present on the Pacific coast,
and the event will undoubtedly draw
a. large list of classy performers.
The women's national event goes to
Detroit again for the third consec
utive time. One of the rulings of the
American Amateur Athletic union is
that no city can hold a championship
event twice in succession, but it is not
thought likely that any city will
protest Detroit's claim to the event
now that it has been awarded.
Myron Wilsey and Bus Douglas, two
of Jack Cody's swimming proteges,
are now attending the University of
Oregon. Both are crack water polo
players and they are planning to or
ganize a team at the university. Fred
Howard, a member of the American
expeditionary force swimming team,
is also at Oregon and has been placed
In charge of swimming activities.
Swimming is the leading sport -at
Stanford university this season. There
has just been published a list of men
having reported for the various ath
letic teams, and it shows 264 can
didates for swimming and water polo,
as against 164 for boxing. 134 fof
gymnastics, and S7 for football, the
branches of athletics next in line.
GRAHAM AFTER MANAGERSHIP
Tacoma First Baseman 'Wants to
Boss Tigers Next Season.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 11. (Spe
cial.) Bert Graham, Tacoma first
baseman last year, in a telegram has
announced his application for . the
managership of the Tigers for 1921.
Graham, now in San Diego, Cal., was
one of the most popular members of
the 1920 Tiger team, and his selection
would please the majority of Tacoma
fans. He hit .314 and led all first
basemen In fielding averages. He
leo was leading two-base hitter of
the league.
Bobby Vaughn, last year's manager,
has not filed his application for boss
ing the Tigers. Vaughn met with
much opposition in Tacoma and is
not much of a favorite.
Directors of the Pacific Interna
tional league will go into session here
tomorrow noon .according to Presi
dent L. H. Burnett.
ANGLERS TO MEET DEC. 17
Tenlson Dinner Will Be Served to
Club Members Next Friday.
The monthly meeting of the Mult
nomah Anglers' club usually held the
last Friday of each month will be
moved ahead two weeks which brings
the meeting for December on the 17th
of this month. Members of the club
were so well pleased with the. wild
duck dinner served at the meeting
lat month that the officers have de
cided to serve a venison dinner for
the club December it.
The Dinner will be served at 6:S0
o'clock, with Lester Humphries as
toastmaster. A presentation of Christ
mas gifts to the most popular
members of the club ana the showing
of two reels of outing and fishing mo
tion pictures will oe some of the oth
er entertainment features. The meet
ing will be held at the usual place.
top iioor oi tue Oregon Building.
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FAST FLAT MARKS OPENING OF f f t iT I f X
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Winners Will Meet Wednesday and
Good Crowds Are Expected
to Turn Out.
Portland Basketball League Standings.
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Arleta Athletic clnt 1 0 1K0
St. Johns Bachelors 1 O 1OO0
South Parkway 1 1XK)
Oregon Tech 1 0 1001
Pemneula Park Cadets O 1 .OO'l
St. Johns Lumber company ... 0 1- .000
Aiameda 0 1 .OOo
Swastikas 0 1 .00 J
Basketball fans were treated, to
some fast games when the Portland
Basketball association league opened
its 1920-21 season on Wednesday
night. The South Parkway team de
feated the St. Johns Lumbermen; the
Y. M. C. A. Swastikas dropped their
first game of the season to the St.
Johns Bachelors. Thursday night the
Alameda quintet lost to the Arleta
squad 41 to 11. while the Oregon
institute of technology defeated the
Peninsula park cadets in their open
ing clash.
All of the games were exceptionally
well played and hard-fought for so
early in the season. Prospects for a
banner year are very bright, as there
seems to be more interest taken in
the games this season than there has
been for some time. This season the
schedule calls for all games to be
played in community gymnasiums,
giving the people of the outlying
districts an opportunity of witnessing
them.
The opening games were all well
attended. At one gymnasium it was
reported that people were turned
away. . Next Wednesday night will
bring the four league leaders to
gether. South Parkway meets the
Oregon Tech team on the Neighbor
hood house floor. Two games are
scheduled for the Washington high
school gymnasium. Arleta tangles
with the St. Johns Bachelors' club
and the Y. M. C. A. Swastikas will
clash with the St. Johns Lumber com
pany. The Bachelors will outweigh the
Arleta boys several pounds, but from
comparative scores they will have a
hard time winning from the Arleta
clubmen. The' Swastikas are also a
light scrappy bunch and are expected
to stage a comeback against the
Lumbermen.
Thursday night will find the
Alameda team battling the Peninsula
park cadets on the Beninsula court.
Both teams lost their first starts, but
since then have signed several new
players and a battle royal is looked
for.
President McCracken of the Port
land Basketball association requests
all managers to be at the regular
weekly meeting tomorrow night at
A. G. Spalding's as several important
matters are to be considered.
HOOP TOURNAMENT LARGE
REED COLLEGE QUINTETS PRE
PARE FOR PLAY.
Despite Lack of Outside Contests
Many Stndcnts Take Up
. Basketball at Reed.
Although no outside games -will be
scheduled this winter with college
teams, there has been a good turnout
at Heed college the past week for
basketball practice. The teams will
be divided Into classes and after the
holidays will begin r a- schedule on
which the athletic cotincil is now
working.
The freshman class is the dark
horse of the interclass league. Stef
fen, who last year played with Lin
coln highr school, which fought it out
with Salem for the state champion
ship, is sure of making guard. King.
also a Lincoln high star, is out for
center, as ,also is Bailiff, a former
Franklin high player. Others trying
for the team are Henny, Blew, Kenin,
Piper and atklns.
The sophomore class, which last
year was runner-up in the interclass
league this year is minus some stars
who have not returned to college.
Nevertheless the class will enter a
team composed of the following men:
Kiddle. Aehrll, Jonnson, Jones, W.
Houston, Foster, ilclndoe. Helms and
Gordon. Riddle, a former Grants
Pass athlete. Is captain of the squad.
The senior and Junior classes may
enter separate teams or one team
together. The seniors have Brock
way, an all-star on the college team
of last year. Foley, Robinson and
Stewart. The juniors have Kelly, all
star guard, and Stone, all-star for
ward of last year; Grondahl. Hamil
ton. H. Houston. Wilson, Benson and
Beich.
Football Sqnad Guests.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Dec. 11. (Spe
cial.) The men of the high school
faculty and the school board were
hosts at a dinner to the 1920 football
quad last night. Principal Conkle. of
the high school, was toastmaster.
Responses were made by Arthur
Florer, Paul Reed. Ray Slavens and
John Moore, members of the school's
successful team. Members of the
faculty and board gave short talks.
PHYSICAL TESTS UNIQUEt ki -r;r sot toeet
1 I lr Gil Doble ended a tough season at
UNIVERSITY" OF CALIFORNIA
SYSTEM INTERESTS EXPERTS.
Students Wbo Aspire to Athletics
Must Show Agility, Posture
and Skill in Combat.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eu
gene. Dec. 11. (Special.) The Uni
versity of California system of phys-
sical examinations for students proved
especially interesting to the delegates
to the Pacific coast conference of fac
ulty athletic directors, according to
Dr. John F. Bovard, dean of the echool
of physical education, who has Just
returned from the conference held at
Berkeley.
The California system was devel
oped about six years ago by the pres
ent head of the department there,
Frank Kleeberger, a classmate and
close personal friend of Dr. Bovard.
"The plan," said Dr. Bovard, "is to
subject each man who registers for
physical education to an examination
to test his agility, posture and his
skill In personal combat. The agility
test includes the running of a 100
yard dash. If he is able to make it in
11 seconds or less he is placed in
class 1; If his time Is 12 seconds, he
is placed in another class; if he can
not make the distance in- a predeter
mined number of seconds for in
stance, 14 he is required to continue
frequent trials until he can meet the
standard set.
"The posture test is unique; the
student is taken into a room and told
to step inside small circle painted
on the floor. His attention then Is
directed to some object on the wall.
An attendant presses a button and a
photograph is made of 'the student.
During the test several photographs
are taken, the student- being unaware
that his posturing Is being recorded.
The background against which the
photographs are taken is especially
nrenared. It is marked off into
squares in such a way that the defects"
in posture are registered ana indicat
ed in the pictures.
"The combat test is designed to de
termine the student's ability to give
and take. He is required to put on
the gloves with the boxing Instructor.
The examiner notes whether he be
comes angry or accepts the situation
in a sportsmanlike manner."
The student is put through numer
ous other stunts, according to Dr.
Bovard, after which he is shown his
records and receives suggestions as
to the most deirable course to pursue.
When a student has passed the tests
in a satisfactory manner he is permit
ted to choose some athletic activity
in which he Is especially interested.
Jewish Boys to Play Sell wood.
The Neighborhood house floor will
be the scene tomorrow night of a
clash between the basketball teams
of the Jewish Boys' Athletic club and
Sell wood. These two teams staged a
hard-fought series last year for the
110-pound state title with the Jewish
boys coming out on top. Woodmere,
B'nai B'rith juniors. Reed Park and
the Hawthorne grammar school have
been defeated by the Jewish boys bo
far this season. Manager Phil Un
kelea of the Jewish team would like
to hear from some of the Y. M. C. A.
teams or any of the grammar school
quintets.
Top. left to rlgbt Babe Thomas. Larry Miller. Hay Brooks, mnnager and
coach; Hobby Hobaon, Johnny Kolklno, captain. Bottom Winnie Scott,
Chappie King, 11. Johnson and C. Johnson.
HIGH SCHOOL GRID CIRCLES
ROW SAME AS BIG COLLEGES
Expulsion of Columbia and Hill From Interscholastic League Declared
No Remedy for Evils Encountered During Past Season.
BY I H. GREGORY.
NOT TO BE outdone at; all by the
big fellows, the little fellows
must stage a conference row of
their own.
Now come the public school mem
bers of the Portland Interscholastic
league and smash things sky-high.
The seven high schools have with
drawn and are to form a nice, exclu
sive little family circle of their own
to which no boisterous outsiders are
admitted. While they don't say so,
the inference decidedly Is that they
want to freeze out Hill Military acad
emy and Columbia university. Any
way, that'a what their action amounts
t0If Columbia and Hill had been
carrying on with a high hand, using
players ineligible under the rules and
all that, there might be Justification
in Bhoving down the bars against
them But no such charges have been
made, or if any were made they never
have been made public Columbia and
Hill teams played clean football
through the season. Moreover, both
have been members of the league in
good standing since it was formed
back in 1912.
Indeed, the disregard of league
rules and regulations has been on the
other foot entirely. A nasty scandal
developed in connection with- the use
of ineligible players by Washington
high. Details of it have been kept
pretty well hushed, but there was so
much fire behind the smoke that the
school board forfeited Washington
high's victory over Columbia back to
that the unidentified colored gen
tleman behind the woodpile in this
peculiar and as yet unexplained
league action? Is Columbia to be
marked for discipline and Hill along
with her, because of this forfeited
game? If not, then what? It looks
very much as if something that hasn't
appeared on the surface is at the
bottom of this affair. What is it?
' The only semblance of argument
or explanation accompanying the
strange action of the high schools is
that the football schedule of the
league last season was too heavy for
preparatory players. It certainly was,
as The Oregonian has remarked be
fore. Eight games In a season are
more than even college teams attempt
to' play. It was all the worse .be
cause It compelled each team once in
the season to play two games within
ten days and at least once a week
otherwise.
But all thai is very easily remedied.
So ridiculously easy is the remedy
that the only surprise is that it Isn't
applied. The remedy doesn't require
the splitting of the league into two
parts, ae had been proposed; it doesn't
require a lengthening of the schedule
after Thanksgiving, as had also been
proposed; and it certainly doesn't re
quire the dropping of Hill and Colum
bia, as has now been done.
The theory on which the inter
scholastic league schedules have been
drawn is that each team In the league
shall play every other team. That
was why each school had to play
eight games in the season just paBt.
No high school eleven ehould play
more than five or at most six foot
ball games in a season.
Therefore, why schedule more than
five or six games?. The colleges don't
do it. No college conference in the
country with as many members as
are in the Portland Interscholastic
league attempts such a thing. Why
should the preparatory school play
ers be asked to do what older and
stronger college players don't do?
The remedy is simply this: Sched
ule each team In the league for five
or six games, and make no attempt
to have each team play every other
team in the league. Arrange a sched
ule just as the college conferences
do. True, this means that a schedule
committee would have to work out
a schedule, which might require a
few hours' toil and a little sweating.
But the job certainly is not insuper
able. The college conferences do it
every year.
Could anything be more obvious or
simple as a way out of the schedule
difficulty than that? It disposes ut
terly of any excuse for such extra
ordinary action as the high schools
have taken in breaKing up the league
and putting Columbia and Hill out In
the cold. Unless, of course, the in
ference that peculiar motives are at
the bottom of it all should be correct.
Let's see if the league directors
can't get together and Iron out the
trouble by drawing up a schedule as
here suggested. There will be times
when such a schedule will not leave
one eleven with a clear title to the
championship, but what of that?
Washington's forfeited game to Co
lumbia this season leaves Washing
ton, Columbia and Franklin in a
three-cornered tie after eight games
apiece. So what of it?
Eddie AInsmith, the Detroit catch
er, is quoted in San Francisco as say
ing he expects Babe Ruth to beat his
present home-run record next year.
"You can't stop him from hitting
home runs," says AInsmith. "Babe is
a natural home-run hitter and as long
as pitchers try to put the ball over
the plate, he is going to make home
runs.
"I don't believe in walking Ruth.
In fact, our club was the only one in
the league that did not make a prac
tice of it. We're out there to win
ball games, and we're not playing the
game when we walk him with such
good hitters as Meusel, Pipp and
Lewis following him. You've got to
realise that Ruth is worth Just as
much to the Yankees, whether he hits
home runs or not, so long as pitchers
walk him purposely. He is getting
Gil Doble ended a tough season at
Cornell when he lost to Pennsylvania
by a big score. However, consider- I
ing the material he had to -york with
and conditions for practice, the won
der is that he got away for only two
defeats in the whole season, the other
loss being to Dartmouth, 14 to 3.
Bill Hapward, athletic director at
Oregon, has a pretty good idea of
the handicaps that have confronted
Dobie. Bill on his way home from
the Olympic games had a talk with
the athletic director at Cornell, who
Inquired about Dobie. Bill told him
Dobie was one of the greatest foot
ball coaches In the world, but that
he was also one who would have
things his own way or not at all. The
Cornell director remarked that Dobie
would have a hard time getting
things his own way when about half
the members of the football squad
had 4 o'clock classes.
The following remarks by Doble
himself to. a Philadelphia sporting
writer just before the Pennsy-Cor-nell
game indicate tj t the 4 o'clock
classes were a big worry to him:
"One of the reasons why Penn has
won a lot of games from Cornell, I
think." Dobie is quoted, "is that Cor
nell has never been able to get any
consistent practice in November. It
gets dark early at Ithaca and most
of the men don't get out until 6
o'clock and after. This year, for the
first time, we had lights on the field,
but at that it is hard to get enough
work when your men don't get out
until late.
"Our., team this year is made up of
men who have not had much ex
perience. Pendleton and Maher are
the only men who were regulars last
year, and these with Finn, Dodge ana
Moir, are tne only ones "who were
In the Penn game last year. That
gives us a team that has not seen
much in the way of varsity football.
From a class of 1500 freshmen last
year all we got this year was Munns,
Carey and Caw. The others were
simply taken Out of the student body.
mat makes it hard to develop a team,
particularly now. when teams are
built up with a lot of second-string
men one year to become varsity men
the next. It is simply impossible un
der present conditions to build up
a good team in a year. It can't be
done, and that is what we have been
up against."
Robert "W. Maxwell, sports editor
of the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
beare out Dobie's plaint with the
following remarks of his own:
"Early In the season Cornell looked
like the saddest aggregation that ever
stepped on a grldircn. The men
couldn't tackle, carry the ball or
handle a forward pass. I was up
in Ithaca the first part of October
and witnessed the practice one after
noon. Cornell was fortunate in hav
ing an easy schedule. Colgate and
Rutgers were supposed to be big
games, but they happened to have
weak teams and easy victories were
scored. There are no stars on Dobie's
team. There isn't even a captain.
Team play is the big feature."
Basketball Game Scheduled.
The B'nai B'rith club basketball
team will play its second game of
the season Wednesday night on its
own floor when the B'nai B'rith hoop
ers tangle with the Jefferson high
school squad. Manager Nathan Lake
fish of the B'nai B'rith team has been
angling for a three-game series with
the Arleta Athletic club for sometime
after the first of the year. The B'nai
B'rith manager would also like to ar
range games with out-of-town quin
tets. He can be reached at Main 4036
or 410 Fifth street-
Work on Structure to Begin
June 1, 192T-
COST WILL BE $750,000
Seating Capacity Will Be 6 0,0 00
and Big Bowl Will Be Ready
for 192 3 Games.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Palo
Alto, Cal., Dec. 11. (Special.) The
contemplated Stanford bowl to be
erected on the university property,
win cost $750,000 and will have seat
ing capacity of 60.000. Work will
start June. 1921, and will be com
pleted in time to house the throngs at
the "big game" of 1923.
The stadium, will be of the bowl
tj"pe in a sunken field surrounded by
an embankment. It is planned to
have bleachers both on the embank
ment and on the slope of the excava
tion, thus utilizing all possible seat
ing 'room. The field will accommo
date both American and rugby foot
ball with a 220 straight-a-way on the
Inclosed track. It is necessary to
suspend work until June 1 to let the
ground settle firmly.
A campaign will be started at once
to finance the building of the
stadium. The Skull and Snakes honor
society has been chiefly responsible
for the interest in the new bowl and
has . plans under consideration for
raising the needed funds. It will be
assisted by other campus organiza
tions. Leland Cutler, '06. was ap
pointed chairman of the committee
for financing the project. The en
gineering commission is composed of
W. F. Durand, C. D. Marx and C. B.
Wing.
Jack Patrick, the stalwart fullback,
was elected o pilot the Cardinal pig
skin players next fall at a meeting
of the letter men Monday. In 1912,
while attending Palo Alto grammar
school, Patrick was the official mas
cot of all university teams, and
aspired to be a great athlete. His
chief duty as mascot was to take care
of footballs, but he developed into one
of the best rugby players in Cali
fornia. Incidentally, he was selected
as a member- of the world's cham
pionship rugby team that won every
game at Antwerp. Captain-el;ct Pat
rick succeeds Art Wilcox, who in turn
became chief of the Cardinal eleven
when Preston Holt, ex-Lincoln high
star of Portland, because of illness
this fall, was obliged to relinquish
the honor.
Stanford's soccer team played its
fastest game of the season last Sat
urday when It defeated the University
of California team by a score of 2 to
0. Throughout the game the Bruin
players were desperately working the
ball from the shadow of their own
goal, but could not overcome the ma
chine playing of the Red and White
backfield. Stanford bucked a much
stronger team than in the first game
November 20.
The players who will travel to
British Columbia to meet the Ca
nadian champions have not been
named by Coach Maloney. A confer
ence will be held with the California
coach to pick a team of all-stars to
Invade Vancouver and Victoria at the
close of this term. Those most likely
to represent Stanford on this all-star
line will be Harvey; Newlands, goal;
Adams, left back; Paul Campbell, in
side right, and Peavy inside left.
"Wedding Bells," Salisbury Field's
comedy of matrimonial difficulties,
was well presented to one of the
largest audiences of the year by the
sophomore class. The clever and in
tricate plot was well handled by the
student players. This play success
fully ended dramatics for 1920. The
university is looking forward to the
"Ham's Head" show and the junior
opera to be presented next quarter.
Encina Hall entertained members
and coaches of the 1920 football team
at a dance in their honor Friday.
About 25 football men were present.
The basketball team for the coming
season should be one of the strong
est that has represented Stanford.
The entire team that won the coa.t
championship last year, with the ex
ception of Wilbur Hood. ex-Washington
high school star, will fight fo
their old positions. In addition are
many who were not eligible under
the strict conference regulations last
year.
BASKET SHOOTING WEAK
WASHINGTON- QUINTET MAKING
SPECIAL EFFORTS.
Team Is Fast and Smashes Hard
but Is Not Yet Accurate in
Aim at Basket. -
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Seattle, Dec. 11. (Special.) Another
slice in the basketball squad has
been made this week reducing the
number to the 20 or 25 who prob
ably will be carried for the rest of
the season.
The men are extremeiy ragged In
some departments " of- the game.
Coach Edmundson is paying most of
his attention to shooting baskets at
present. This department was the
weakest on last year's team, when
many attempts were lost that should
have been points.
Checking and passing are coming
along better than shooting on the
Sun Dodger squad. The men are fast
and smash hard, although most of
them are light in weight. The
schedule of practice has been length
ened to two hours, the first shoot
ing and handling the ball and the
second scrimmage.
Pre-season practice games with
downtown teams are being scheduled
by the basketball manager and will
open the last week in December. A
number of former college stars are
connected with business teams in the
city that will furnish fast practice
for Edmundson'B charges.
Sport News and Comment
"Alfie" Putnam, secretary of the San
Francisco club of ths Pacific coast base
ball league, contributes an authoritative
sidelight on the playln efficiency of the
Ohio state football team. Putnam figures
that, as a result of the long train trip
and the change In water and climatic
conditions, as well as the loss of practice,
bis baseball team when It makes the long
lump from San Francisco to Salt Lake
City will lose two games in the series.
Applying this to the Ohio state football
team, it would seam that the easterns
are going into the Pasadena conflict un
der a considerable handicap.
In other words, about two touchdowns
should be allowed Ohio to make It an
even, break,. o that if California wins by
two touchdowns it would be fairly Indica
tive the two teams were on a parity. If
California dona not do better than this,
or as well, the claim made for.lt that
It is a "super-team" Is likely to fall to
the ground. California must win by &
better margin than 14-0 to lay claims to
being anything approaching a "super"
team.
Ths football world has watched with
sympathetic interet the struggl afiralnst
death made by Oeorge Glpp. star half
back of the Notre IXame eleven. To rank
as a star in the strenuous ftrldiron game.
It follows that a man must be courageous,
and this Gip-p certainly was on one me
morable occasion last fair. It was in the
game against .Northwestern university. Ie
foat for iotre Dame seemed inevitable.
Glpp, though suffering great pain from
a shattered collar bone. Insisted that he
be given a chance for. the. forlorn hope.
He pulled the play that enabled him to
make a touchdown and win lh yams.
Jim Thome, formerly a Carlisle Indian
college football player, and ranked as one
of the greatest gridironists of all time, is
following- In the footsteps of some of the
ex-champlon boxers who continue In tha
game after being dethroned and let them
selves be beaten up by third and fourth
raters. It la some years sines Thorps
was in his prime as a football star asid
he Is adtllng nothing to his reputation as
a member of a professional football club.
Hockey (m the northwest) and basket
ball teams are beginning to get lined up
for the winter campaign, and it will not
be long before we are In the midst of tho
playing schedules. The Olympic club of
San Francisco Is bendvng Its energies to
turning out another five to win tha. na
tional championship. It also has vlslone
of another national champion team in
water polo. Winged O swimmers already
are doing a little d-ally swimming to get
into trim for the strenuous training sched
ule the game calls for.
California Scores 465 Points
and Ohio 150.
Living In State Where Presidents
l.lve Doesn't Hake Supea rlay
rm. N
OW that the California-Ohio grid
New Year's day, let'a look over the
dope.
Ohio scored 150 points against seven
teams. California scored 4S2 against
eight grid opponents. That's some
thing In the U. C. aggregation's favor,
writes Ed R. Hughes in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Ohio met Wisconsin, Michigan, Chi
cago, Illinois and other big eastern
teams a formidable bunch if you
judge bigness in football y the pre
tentiousness of the cities where a bet
ter article of the grid sport is sup
posed to be played. That's something
for Ohio.
The only answer obtainable is that
which will be supplied along about &
o'clock on the afternoon of January
1, 1921.
During the interim, pin this under
your hat: The California Bears are
meeting eleven humans. Living in
Ohio doesn't make them super-football
players:
The record j follow:
Ohio State 53 Ohio Wesleyan 0
unio Mate 17 Purdue 0
Ohio State ST'Oheriln ft
Ohio State l:t Wisconsin 7
Ohio Stale 7 Chicago 8
Ohio State 14 Michigan T
Ohio btate 7, Illinois 0
Total 1501 Total 20
California 21'Olympic club 0
California fcS.Mare Inland 0
California ,127:St. Mary's ........ 0
Ca:lfcrnia 7y Nevada .......... 7
California 63 Utah 0
California 17'Oregon Aggies .... 7
California 4'J Washington State.. 0
California 38 Stanford 0
Total 4S5; Total 14.
JAPAN" OUT FOR DAVIS CUP
4
Island Empire to Organize Asso
ciation Like That of America.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11. Japan
will be a contender for the Davis ten
nis cup next year, T. Asabuki. Tokio,
a leading tennis authority of the
island empire, announced here re
cently. Organization of a national tennis
association in Japan similar to the
American Lawn Tennis Association
will be undertaken soon, Mr. Asa
buki announced. While in New York;
recently he studied the rules and
forms of the American body.
"The first act of our association
will be to declare our intention of
challenging for the Davis cup in
1921," Asabuki said. "Ichia . K.uma
gae, well known In America, and I.
Schimidzu, present Japanese cham
pion, will form the basis of our team.
Both these men competed with suc
cess in the Olympic games."
Asabuki was here recently on hia
way home from the Olympi games at
.Artwerp, where he managed the Jap
anese tennis team. He is said to be
one of Japan's millionaires and ia
president of the Tokio Tennis asso
ciation. NEVADA TO MEET ISLANDERS
Eighteen Football Players Start
Tuesday for Honolulu Games.
RENO, Key., Dec. 11. Eighteen
University of Nevada football players
leave here next Tuesday for San
Francisco, where, on the following
day, they will board the Matson liner
Maui for Honolulu to play the Univer
sity of Hawaii Christmas day. R. O.
Courtwright, head coach, will have
charge of the squad.
If the Christmas game results in a
tie, the play-off will take place New
Year's day, otherwise the team wilt
play January 1 with another island
eleven, probably the Outrigger club.
Basketball practice will be held
aboard ship so that the football play
ers who are on the basket squad will
be able to step onto the court'for the
opening of the indoor season on their
return.
DEAF QUINTET WANTS GAMES
Contest With B'nai B'rith to Be
Played on Christmas.
F. E. Thayer, manager of the Na
tional Fraternal Society of the Deaf
basketball team, has scheduled a
game for his quintet with Division 44
of the Seattle society to be played
December 25 on the B'nai B'rith club
floor. The local team was formerly
known as the silent five and has
played through several successful
seRsons here.
The players with the team this year
are Greenwald, Thayer, Bauer, Ac
cuff, Dunce, Kelly. Fowler, Pickett
and Alta. Manager Thayer is after
games with local or outside teams. He
can be reached at Woodlawn 2316 or
751 liorthwlck street.
Portlanders to Box at Prlnevllle.
PRINEVILLE, Or., Dec. 11. (Spe
cial.) Crook county post of the,
American Legion will put on a boxing
smoked December 17 at .headquarters
.i . i 1 1 fnfltitrp A tpn-rnnnd bout
between Kid Burns and Carl Martin,
both Portland men. Duffy Knorr of
Terrebonne and Joe Huffs of Portland
will also go to the mat for six rounds.
Greek George and Alva Pelling of
Bend are to be featured and also local
men.
BIG DANCE TONIGHT
Columbia Beach Pavilion
Ladies Admitted Free
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