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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921 INTRODUCING ENOCH BAGSHAW, WHO MAKES HIS DEBUT AS A PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE title and retired as the undefeated champion. Kllbane Is going on 21 years and he has reached an age where It Is particularly hard to "make weight" even if he is only a few pounds over. At the time Kilbane beat Attell the weight limit was 122 pounds and that was the weight at which both men entered. Kilbane made the mistake of his ring career when he went Into the ring with Benny Leonard in 1917. Leonard was a "new champion" then and one of the cleverest boxers of his weight. He .made a regular punch ing bag of Kilbane and knocked him out in the third round. z The featherweight champion has always had an aversion to knocking men out and most of his fights have been by the decision route. He has preferred to outbox his opponents and take the decision. He has been se verely criticized by boxing writers al! over the country, but he always bobs up, Juat as he did with Frush, and wins and puts at naught all the criti cisms. VARSITY 11 BEEFY ing the spikes of a sliding base run ner that enables him to keep off the Injured list. Scott's errors are so few that In a recent game in the went. In which he was charged with an er ror, the comment of the baseball writers was that they could not re member when he had been charged before with a mlsplay. By reason of his superior fielding he has led the shortstops of both circuits in fielding for the lust three seasons. He also led his league In 1917, with an average of .953, but was headed out by Fletcher of the Giants, who had a rating of .9S6. In 1918 and 1919 he set a field ing mark for shortstops at .978, the hichest In major league annals. This season his fielding mark is .973, with every prospect of again being the best record In either circuit. Scott's ambition is to be able to set the record at an even 1000 consecu tive games and only a serious injury will keep him out of the lineup. If the team plays out its full schedule he will finish the season with 832 games to his credit. VARSITY COACH THIS FALL. READY TO RETIRE Featherweight Champion Is Barred in Cleveland. Champion Tired of Fighting and Opponents Lacking. Last Year's Freshmen Only Hope to Plug Holes. RECENT FIGHT DISGRACE NO WORTHY RIVAL SEEN QUARTER NEEDED BADLY Referee Said to Have Let Title Holder Get by With Everything Short of Murder. Lightweight Title Holder's Fam ily Opposes Boxing Game. Business Field Lures. Steers Without Understudy Rein hart and Hal Chapman Are Being Groomed. SUNDDD6ERS PLAY OCT. 1 KILBANES TACTICS PROVE BOOMERANG BE1 LEONARD IS BUT PLAYERS GREEN f CONFERENCES 1 SPORTS "BIG TEX" AXD MISSOURI VAL LEY FEDERATIONS LAUDED. BT DICK SHARP. Johnny Kllbane. featherweight champion of the world, leemi to have violated Just about every rule of the boxing same appertaining to fouli In his recent battle with Danny Frush at Cleveland. The champion kneed Frush in the groin, hit him after the bell ran; In three of the rounds, threw Frush on the floor coming out of a clinch, fre quently bent him backwards over the ropes and struck him once when the Baltimore boy was rising after being knocked down all this according to news reports of the bout. But, then, Kllbane was the cham pion. Also, he was fighting in his home town and the fans were with him. Nevertheless, he proved himself about the unfairest champion that ever drew on gloves. Why Protect Champion f It was well enough to think of protecting the fans and therefore not stop the fight in one or two rounds on a foul, but why protect the cham- )pion? If every referee were to an- fight on a foul, the game soon would be In such disrepute that Its end would be Just a matter of months. Kllbane got by with everything short of outright murder, but never again will he be permitted to pertorm in his home city. J. B. YVilmerdlng. chairman of the Cleveland boxing commission, is a man with nerve, and he used It. So KJlbane has been barred from participating In any more fights In Cleveland. He not only would not abide by the rules of fair boxing, but wouldn't even obey the rules of the boxing commission. That is where he made his mistake. Johnny Kilbane is a wonderful flKhter without doubt, perhaps one of the greatest that ever held the title In his division. He displayed all his old time ability against Frush and probably would have had things pretty much his own way had . he stuck to clean fighting Instead of re sorting to foul tactics. But champions who act as Kllbane did against Frush are a detriment to the game, no matter how clever, how resourceful, how great as ring gen erals they may be. The Shade boys are breaking In nicely at Madison Square garden next month. Billy will tackle Fay Kleser, the light-heavy weight who recently beat Bob Martin; George will meet Mike O'Dowd, while iave will be pitted against Mickey Walker. If the three are right they should all win laurels. Although Kelser and Walker are among the toughest men In the east at their respective Weights, George Shade seems to be In for the real fight in his meeting wltn O'Dowd. George is not as clever a boxer as Billy or Dave and depends more on his punch to carry him through. Muff Bronson left Portland for Fhoenlx. Ariz., yesterday to meet Frankie Farren next month. Bronson Brained a decision over Farren here four years ago. Farren sprained his angle or Referee Jack Hcler stepped on It. Anyway, Farren couldn't do much but hop around and take a beating. Ralph Lincoln, Los Angeles bantam, with victories to his credit over all the prominent youngsters In the south. Is after matches in the north west. Clyde Branum, who brought Pave Shade. Tony Palmer and Roy Sutherland. In ooklng after Lincoln's affairs and says he is a classier per former than any of the bantams he has seen around here. Among the men Lincoln holds decisions over are Pick Griffin. Earl Puryear. Danny Lyons, Charley Moy. Danny Kramer, Saljor Kramer, Tommy Richards, Ted Frenchle. Kid Mende, Benny McCoy and many others. George Adams, the Chicago bantam who fought Danny Edwards in Seat tle the other night and took a lacing, landed one punch in the whole battle, according to George Moore, who took In the fight. Edwards cut Adams to ribbons. The Chicago boy Is said to be a one-punch fighter. If he lands the fight Is over. If he doesn't the fight Is terrible. Johnny Trambltas and Archie Stoy have been matched for the main event at Aberdeen, Wash., October 10. Oeorge Eagels. who left Portland for the east some time ago. won In three rounds over Silent Regan In New Tork the other night. Eagels beat him from the start, and the ref eree stopped It In the third. I ... Frankie Murphy will box at Colo rado Sprfngs, Colo., October 5. The Irishman Is to meet Clair Bromeo In Vsncouver, B. C. Monday night and will start for Colorado Immediately after the bout CEDEOJf IS JP LAYING AGAIN rUtyer Who Promised Evidence Id Wiwulal Case Has a Job. Ovdeon, who promised to fur nfh evidence that would convict some of the gamblers In the Chicago trial of (he Black Sox and their asso claft's. but who did not take the stand for reasons he bent can explain, la reported to be playing with a club In an Independent circuit in California. Gedeon was dismissed) from the St. Louis Browns when he admitted he knew ffie world's series of 1919 was fixed, and Instead of telling what he knew he bet his money on the Reds. There are other players In the big leagues today who knew as much as Gnieon and bet more money but their club owners failed to take the drastic action tha Phil Ball of the Browns took. Liu nils Shows Collins Some Golf. J u dire K. M. Landls. baseball com missioner, and Eddie Collins, captain of the White Sox. though both actively engaged In professional sport, are keen golf enthusiasts snd unexpect edly met at the South Shore Country club the other day. The judge had time for nine holes on the links and Eddie took him on. Collins' score for the nine was 44. which is pretty fair for a professional ball player. The judge's score was 42 and the wise cad dies around the first tee figured the Judge was a bit off his game. "I tried my best to brat him, but he was too much for me," declared the Sox cap tain when it was over. E l' " . - - - -4- N I y - ... t' f 3 i ' ! f I 1 1 x- " ' 1 ' . . : t ' J - . - Jt . Ai ' ; " : V ! I i ':;.: j-y. J s i - - . r - ' J . ' ' v - : ' - ' I ; ! ' 4 - J; ! i ' J J y . f r ; Ky ' x :k , - . , " 1 llli-vrii r ii i "i I ii i' . ii ri'n i iiwiiHiiW.mii1iIT tr in" s "ill 'i 'ion i " n " it r--' -n ii in 'T.wi 'nf ilirt' iropmiT i i1hwiln VinrTi rtcllV iirr ir Tn--i'i- r iiarr ir- '"'- -BmKKT." M they rail him at the I'nlverslty of WaaklUton, whlrh has 5. O. S.'d blm t reitrne Its football teamfroca ' the depth to which It had fallea since the departure of the mlahty Doblr, made a -rondcrfal roarhlna: record at F.verett Uik. high school. He Is a I'alverslty of Wanhlnsrtoo sana himself, baTlng played football there In the prr-nohle days. Ilaggy Is reputed to be one hard-boiled egg as a coach, but the photographer caught fain oa a sunshiny day. BAGSHAW NOT AT ALL GLOOMY OVER WASHINGTON PROSPECTS New Football Coach Admits He Ends Grid Tutor Expects to BY ROYAL BROUGHAM. SEATTLE, Sept. 24. (Special.) The thud of toe against pigskin, the squeak of tackling dummy pnlleys, the barking of quarterbacks these are everyday sounds echoing up and down University field these autumn afternoons. But above the din rings the sharp commands of a square-Jawed little giant in full grid Iron regalia. That's Baggy, Wash ington's football Moses. Last winter Washington's athletic managers, alumni, under-grada and fans wrapped up their hopes in a neat little bundle and placed them in the care of Enoch Bagshaw. Somebody has to redeem the football reputation of old Washington and when the uni versity folks turned their cheaters on the available coaching material, their gaxe settled on Bagshaw. They scrutinized his record; they caught the gleam In his eye: they measured his football shoulders and turned him loose at the Job. And Baggy's hard at It. What kind of an eleven will Wash ington's new coach mold this year? Can Bagshaw take his high school coaching methods Into college and get away with It? Can the Everett tutor handle men as he handled his prep school lads at the up-sound city? These and a lot more questions Se attle grid fans are asking about Enoch Bagshaw. This yarn may an swer some of them. Mrs Strong for Him. There are many ways to measure the ability of a football coach, but one sure-fire method is to sound the opinion of his men. A coach who has obtained the confidence of his players has taken healthy strides toward suc cess. And the 60-odd candidates for Washington's varsity are for Baggy stronger than horseradish. - "How do we like Baggy? Say. there's a guy who knows what he Is doing." spoke a veteran lineman one day last week. "System, that's what he's got. and a lot of us old timers are learning some things about this game that we didn't know were in the book. Don't worry about Baggy's he's a coach." And that's one of the secrets of Haica haw's success, points out Darwin Melsnest. who hired him. System a thorough knowledge of football fun damentals, one thing at a time and each well mastered: ground work first and then hit the highlights. That's what turned out national high schoo! champions at Everett and these the ories are going to work out Just as well in college football. Washington teams of the past few seasons have lacked tht thorough coaching of Doble-made machines of better years. Coach Not Gloomy I.Ike Doble. Bagshaw. unlike Gil Doble. is frank in discussing his prospects. And Baggy Is not pessimistic over his first college football team. He candidly admits his squad's weaknesses and points out its strong points. A half-hour chat with the new coach convinces his hearer that Wash ington, the dark horse of the confer ence, will cut some Ice In the race before the curtain drops next De cember. et Bagshaw tolls you that Has Fine Material Excepting Two Win Championship Next Year. he is building for next year. He plans to put a creditable machine on the field this fall, but next season is when he will make his drive for the conference championship. "They're a pretty fair bunch," said Baggy one day last week as he stepped from the shower and tossed a Turkish towel over his dripping shoul ders. "It's too early yet to tell, but I can't kick at what I have seen so far. I have the foundation for a good line, and If the men I am grooming develop as I hope, I'll have a back field that will worry some of them. But I need ends, need ends awfully bad. Gee! if somebody would show me a couple of big, rangy ends with a couple of years' experience, I would be sitting pretty. Baaar Like. Look, of Squad. "I haven't yet decided on a quarter back, and may have trouble finding the man I want to run the team. But with the new men and the vets. I have a pretty, fair squad out there, and I haven't any kick coming. But next year then is when I'm going to have a football team!" As proof tnat he Is planning for the future, Bagshaw has four assist ant coache toiling with the candi dates from 2 o'clock to sundowr, teaching them the rudiments and building for another year. R. L Matthews, a capable and experienced coach who taught football at Wil lamette, is teaching the freshmen, and W. F. Brockmeyer, Ervin Dailev and Sandv Wick, the last two nf thm ! former Washington stalwarts, arc helping Bagshaw with the first an! secoid-strlng squads. This Is the most elaborate coaching system Washington has ever had, and It will bear fruit In coming seasons. But Baggy will turn out this year's team first, and both he and Manager Meisnest arc hopeful of bettering the record of the past few seasons. The Initial conference clash is with the Oregon Aggies. The Washing ton coaches are worried over that game, because it Is the first test, and It will be played at Corvallls. The Aggies are stronger than ever this season, and the varsity officials will breathe easier If they hurdle this first trench. Kot Afraid of California. Meisnest and Bagshaw hope to de feat Whitman and Montana, and they are not expecting defeat from Stan ford. Then comes one of the really big Jobs of the year playing Cali fornia. The "wonder team" of Andy Smith's Is the bugaboo of the coast, yet the Washington men are not looking forward to this contest with fear and trembling. There la a slight suspicion in some quarters that the cocky Callfornlans, flushed with their successes and targets for that deadly enemy's darts, over-confidence, are due for a defeat this year. Baggy hopes his team is the one to turn the trick. Finally Washington State comes here for the Thanksglvtng-day clas sic The Cougars figure to win on the dope sheet, because of last year's showing' and this year's material. But the Dodgers are outto beat Pullman this season, and the Washington lads are not demanding odds on tha holi day game. The 8th army corps area will send over a formidable collection of stars from Camp Low is next Saturday. Cap- I tain Everett May. a former Oregon Aggie luminary, says nis men are big and experienced. Baggy hopes they are, because be wants to see his team in a real contest. The soldier eleven includes a couple of ail-American huskies and a dozen former col lege players, showing that Bagshaw is not picking set-ups for his practice teBts. RagMhaw Has Color. It Is no secret that the university managers are hatching plans for a successful season from the box-office view. Not because they look for a champion eleven, for they are expect ing defeats. Baggy Is the reason for the optimism. The new coach has what both Claude Hunt and Stub Allison lacked, and that is color. Baggy is a fighter; he has a personality that draws the shekels through the turnstiles, and he is new. It is too early to Judge at this stage, but somehow the opinion Is growing that Mr. Football Fan will not be disappointed, in his football team this tall, nor in his coach. RUTH RECKLESS WITH MOXEY Letters Tossed Into Waste Basket Unopened Contained $150. No player In baseball makes the money that "Babe" Ruth does, but the slugging king disposes of it with s lavish hand. Money has no value to baseball's human abattoir. Early this season in St. Louis Ruth was handed his morning's mall. It consisted of close to 200 letters and move,d Ruth to anger. "Why do they write all these letters to me?" Ruth moaned in the pres ence of a few of his mates. "I haven't the time to read or answer them." say ing which he tossed the pile Into the waste paper basket unopened. Curiosity Impelled some of the play ers to open the whole batch of letters. Ruth looked on disinterested, nor did he show signs of Interest when assort ment of the entire mall revealed )150 in $1 bills and checks for $1. Baseball fans the country over are so anxious to obtain Ruth's signature that they send him checks for $1 and retain his indorsement on the check as a sodvenir. Evidence of the breezy recklessness wUh which Ruth scatters his gold Is told by Charley Barrett. In Chicago Ruth was approached by a diamond salesman seeking to dis pose of his costly baubles. "How much for this one?" asked Ruth, plucking a gem of unusual size and luster. He was told the price was $950. "Here," said Ruth, handing the stone to his wife, "take this and don't thank me." Jim Barnes Makes Suggestion. Nobody thinks more or better abofit this game of golf than our open champion. Jim Barnes. The Pelham star is one of the most observing players in the business. Barnes re cently was discussing golf courses. "Undoubtedly they are better today than they used to be," he said, "but there Is one thing I would like to see aided, and that Is longer carries from the tee. "If you stand on a tee and see a trap across the fairway about a couple of hundred yards out you have a desire to lay into the ball, and I think that Is an aid in driving. The greens on most courses today are well enough trapped, but I would like to see more greens that slope away. This kind requires a real golf shot such as we seldom see in this country. Dan O'Leary. one of the greatest of long-distance walkers, was born June 23, 1842. in County Cork, Ireland. BY SPARROW McGANN. (Copyrlirht. 121. by The Oreronlan.) NEW YORK. Sept. i. (Special.) Benny Leonard is thinking of retir ing from the ring. This Is the chief matter of interest, as the boxing sea son in the metropolis changes from ebb tide to flow. Pausing long enough to remark that In the course of the fall and winter months New Tork will clinch firmly its new pres tige as the national seat of pugilism, occupying that position which San Francisco occupied two decades ago, we may turn to the Benny Leonard situation. First of all. then, he Is pretty well tired of the fighting game, especially so, as there is no opponent in sight who seems qualified to take his title from him. Some may mention Lew Tendler's name. Well, the Philadelphia south paw is about the most promising con tender for the championship in the public eye, but If his recent fl-hts do not indicate a lad who is slipping, they suggest a fine brand of stalling. Which is it? gnawer it for yourself. Leonard "Sore" at Teadler. While the writer wouldn't say It In Philadelphia unless he was shielded behind a cordon of state constables, the belief may be expressed that Tendler reached his peak last year and will never get any higher. Tet the chances are that Leonard would not consider the lefthander as an op ponent, anyway, despite public an nouncements. He Is sore at Lew for the way In which the Phllad'e'.phlan copped that $5000 forfeit money when Leonard husted his knuckles training for the projected bout in August. Gee, he is sore! And his advisers have figured out for him that the best way to get revenge is to refuse ever to meet Tendler. With Tendler eliminated, who is there left? Willie Jackson? No sane man would consider him as a possi bility to beat Benny. Johnny Dundee Is not up to the champion. Neither is Charley White, good as the Chica goan is. Another Chicagoan, Joe Welling, is beginning to slide down hill. Ritchie Mitchell Is through and Rocky Kansas is a good second rater and will never be anything else. In order to get big purses a fighter has to have opponents that promise fights worth the money. Benny Leonard's horizon shows no contenders for his title who would pull big money out of any promoter. This goes for Tend ler as well as the rest. Again, as time goes on, Benny's weight impulse is toward the welter weight division. Yet even here there are no great honors to be won. Say he beat Jack Britton, the present title holder In that class, he would not be regarded as having done much. Family Opposed to Game. But weightier still is the fact that Leonard's family, particularly his mother, wants him to get out of the fight game. Aside from his family there are certain business acquaint ances who would like nothing better than to put Benny Into business. This Idea appeals a lot to the champ. What he would like to do would be to retire undefeated and thereafter live a safe, sane and sober life as a potential champion of Industry. That he would succeed In business no one doubts. He has an engaging personality, a quick brain, a pieasin? manner. He has been a credit to boxing; he has adorned the trade and given a speaking demonstration that a fighter need be neither a dub nor a plug-ugly. It is likely that Leonard will make a decision as to his future career be fore the mow files. But right now it may be said that he sees more rea sons for quitting the game than for staying in II. FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE HELD NEARLY 10 YEARS. World's Championship First Won Against Abe Attcl on Feb ruary 22, 1912. Johnny Kllbane. featherweight boxing- champion of the world, first won his title February 22. 1912. when he whipped Abe Attell, getting the de cision at the end of 20 rounds at Ver non. Cal. This gives Kilbane nearly 10 years' tenure of the title, the long est time any featherweight has ever reigned as king of the division and longer than any other champion In any weight class bas bung on to his crown. Kllbane's fight wljh Danny Frush showed that though more than 32 years old the champion is still a champion this despite the fact that many western experts have been pre dicting his downfall for the last three years. To date he has shown up these predicters, though It can hardly be long before Kilbane actually does meet his match. George Dixon held the feather title for six years. He won it first from Nunc Wallace In 1891 at London and retained It until 1S97. He lost It that year to Solly Smith at San Francisco. The next year Dave Sullivan took the title from Smith when the latter broke bis arm, and the same year Dixon regained it by winning in the tenth on a foul by SulHvan. But he held it then only for three months when "Terrible , Terry" McGovern won it. Kilbane's reign as champion bas not been one of milk and honey. The year after hi) won from Attell he had one of the hardest fights of his ca reer at Los Angeles when Johnny Dundee stayed 20 rounds with him. Since then Kilbane has fought in numerable men and with the rights that have from time to time been as sumed by champions he raised the weight limit. In the latter '80s and at the time Dixon won, the feather weight limit was 115 pounds. It has been raised since by degrees to 122 pounds and today the limit is recog nized by boxing commissions as 126 pounds. In the fight with Frush Kilbane is said to have gone Into the ring at 128 pounds, while Frush was forced to make 126. It looks as though Kll bane cannot make the feather limit of 126 pounds. If this is so It is about Urn lis voluataxliy gave up tha SOLDIERS TO BE MET IX PRE SEASON GRID GAME. Sandy Wick, ex-Center and Frosh Coach, and Crum Da Hey, ex Captain, to Aid Bagshaw. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Sept. 2i. (Special.) Camp Lewis will oppose the University of Washington in a pre-season practice game October 1. Announcement has been made by Coach Bagshaw and Graduate Manager Meisnest that the game is intended to give the coaching staff a line on the men. Sandy Wick, ex-center and fresh man coach, and 'Crum Dalley, ex-varsity captain and half, have been named assistant coaches by Bagshaw. This brings the coaches to five, in cluding Assistant Coaches Matthews and Cortmeyer. Tunrnouts have increased dally and the squad numbers more than 100 men. Zeke Clarke, varsity tackle for the last two years, reported' for prac tice Wednesday. George Rogge and Ed Porep, varsity ends, and Uus Pope and Edo Hobl, guard, have been out for the last week. The quarterback and end positions have given Coach Bagshaw more worry than any other places. With the graduation of Bob Abel, Wash ington lost Its only pilot. Johnny Wil son, second-string quarter last year, may fill the position . Dan Whitman, captain of the 1920 freshmen, is a likely prospect for full back. Whitman has gained weight and looks good In the backfield. Jim my Bryan was coached for the Job this season, but will not be able to play because of injuries suffered in basketball. Washington's first conerence game will be played October 8 in the sta dium against Whitman. The Mission aries gave Washington a bad scare last season, and the varsity had a terrible time pulling the game out of the fire, 21 to 14. SCHEDULES DRAWN UP MID-COLUMBLY HOOP AND GRID GAMES PLANNED. Odell, The Dalles, Goldendalc, Hood River, Stevenson and Du fur Represented in Circuit. HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) Tentative football and basket ball schedules for the Mid-Columbia Athletic league were arranged at a meeting of high school representa tives here last week. Six schools, Odcll, The Dalles, Goldendalc, Hood River, Stevenson and Dufur, were rep resented. It was also agreed among the representatives that a basketball tournament should be held at The Dalles, March 10, for the league cham pionship. ' The following football schedule was drawn up: Sept. 30 Dufur at GoMendale. Oct. 7 Stevennon at The Dalle. Oct. 14 Tha Dalles at Dufur. Oct. 14 Ktevenxnn at Goldendale. Oct. 21 GoldendHle at Hood River. Oct. '2H Hood Klver second team at Stevenson. Oct. ad The Dalles at Pendleton. Nov. 4 The Dalles at Hood River. Nov. 18 The Dalles at Ooldendale. A tentative basketball schedule was arranged as follows: Dec. 9 Dufur at 8tevenon. Dec. 1 Hood River at OdelL Dec 111 The Dalles at Dufur. Jan. 6 Odell at White Kalmon. Jan. 6 Dufur at The Dallea, Jan. 13 Goldenrlule at Dufur. Jan. 13 Odell at Hood River. Jan. 1.1 White Salmon at Stevenson. Jan. 20 Stevenson at Goldendale. Jan. I'O White Salmon at Hood River. Jan. 21 Hood River at White Salmoo. .Jan. 27 Dufur at Odell. Jan. 27 The Dalles at White Salmon. , Jan. 27 Hood River at Stevenson. Jun. 28 Dufur at Hood River. Jan. 2N The Dalles at Odnll. Feb. a Goldendale at Hood River. Feb. 4 Ooldendale at Odell. Feb. 8 Stevenaon at Hood River. Feb. 10 Odell at Stevenaon. Feb. 10 The Dalles at Ooldendale. Feb. 17 GoldendHle at White Salmon. Feb. 17. Hood River at The I ml Irs. Feb. 18 The Dalles at Hood Rlvar. YOUNG HORSES ARE LACKING Bulk of Campaigners Now on Track Are Harness Veterans. The surprising number of horses out racing would seem to give denial to the statement by experienced breeders that the number of trotters and pacers is growing less, but a careful analysis shows that the bulk of the horses now at the races are horses with some age, racing in slow er classes than their records would allow under old conditions, the year ly allowance giving them an oppor tunity to still make some money for their owners. This season not over a dozen young and fresh untried horses have been seen that look good and this answers the claim that breeding has not diminished. It has reached almost the vanishing point and in a few more seasons, un less there Is a revital of breeding, there will be a real famine In trotters and pacers good enough to win money on the half-mllers. BALLPLAYER SOCKS PELLET Batter Hits Ball Into Woodchuck's Hole for a Homer. If the big league outfielders had to do their fly stabbing under condi tions faced by the outer gardeners in the Adirondack league, their fielding averages would not look so well in the annual baseball guides. In a recent game between Malone and Loon Lake, at the latter resort, one of the Malone players busted one on the trade mark for a humming bird into short right field. The out Ilelder came In fast, trying hard for a pickup, but as he stopped to scoop the ball It faded from the scene. A frantic search revealed that the old apple had shot cleanly Into a woodchuck hole, down which It sailed so far that a new ball had to be put in play. It was probably the short est boms run oa record,' j UNIVERSITY OF OREGON", Eu gene, Sept. 24. (Special.) With the first ten days of preliminary training behind them. Coach Huntington's proteges are rounding into shape for the grind of daily scrimmage. Two workouts dally have been meted out to the squad of 40 since the opening practice period, September 15, al though from Tuesday on, one period daily win be the order of the schedule. There is plenty of beef on tl squad, but experienced players are lacking. The backfield appears to be the problem for the loss of Bill Steers and Nlsh Chapman will be felt behind the line. Last year's freshman team Is the only hope to fill up these holes. Bill Steers left no understudy at quarter. Skeet Manerud filled that position in 1919, but he has decided at the last moment that he will not enter college this year. Bill Relnhart worked at quarter before Steers returned to school last year, but after Bill's re turn was shifted to half. Pilot t Be Developed. Then there Is Hal Chapman, fresh man quarterback last year. He wasn't a sensational player but played consistently. ' From Chapman and Relnhart Huntington must de velop his pilot this season. Both are fast and shifty but luck the experi ence. For halves Huntington has a variety of green material. Charlie Parsons was the star on the fresh man eleven last fall. He is fast and weighs more than last fall. Many old timers predict for Tarsons a greater football career than was en joyed by his brother, Johnny rarsons. Tom D'Armand, another big mnn. worked part of last season with the freshmen, but was laid up with a broken collar bone. Ward Johnson and Dutch Grimm are the other backs from the 1920 first year team, all big men and fast, but green. George King, full back, did not ar rive here until Thursday. He Is a little heavier and has been working hard during the summer. 1 Shields la Ilockfleld. Tiny Shields Is groomed for the backfield and Huntington hopes to make a punter of him. I'arsons, D'Armand, Gramm and Johnson also take daily workouts In punting. Bart Spellman and Brick Mitchell are giving the linemen strenuous work. Spike Leslie and Mart How ard are the live veterans, both hav ing played two years on the varsity. Leslie plays tackle and Howard end. Then there are Rudd Brown and Neil Morfitt, letter men at end. Scotty Strachan who made his letter at guard is back, but has been out of practice almost a week with an In fected foot. The coaching staff Is trying to whip the team Into shape faster than was possible last year. The weather has been Ideal and the coaches and men are taking advantage of It. The California game on October 22 at Berkeley la the goal toward which the Oregon grldsters are working. The enmity between the two Institu tions has been Increased by Cali fornia's haughty attitude since the Bears Joined the so-callea "Big Three." SCOTT AIMS AT 1000 GAMES Boston Sliprtstop Aspires to Extend String of Consecutive Contests. Playing his 800th consecutive game In the American league, in all of which he has worn the uniform of the Boston Red Sox, Kverett Scott, the star shortstop of the major leagues and captain of the Boston team, hr.s set the record for contin uous performance at a mark that is not likely to be broken for many years. This does not represent the total number of games Scott has played since he came to the Red Sox as successor to "Heinle" Wagner In 1914, for he had a part In 143 games that year, 100 games In 1915 and 18 games In 1916, before he began on his run of 800 straight. That gives him a total of 1061 games at one position. His consistent performances have been the marvel of the circuit. He covers a wide range of territory on either side of his position, throws ac curately and with remarkable speed, and has developed a facility In svold- Announcing Price Reduction OPTIMO Standards and Staples Very Mild Cigars 15c Always the Best Now Better Than Ever LANG & CO., Distributor Organizations Draw From College Population of More) Than 100,000 Students. CHUCAGO. Sept. 24. One of the chief reasons tor the great Increase In Interest In college sports in the west In the last few years has been the presence In the middle west of the two largest college organizations In the world. The Western Intercollegiate Ath letic conference, or, as It is better known, the "Big Ten," which opened Its football practice yesterday, cov ers the territory cut of the Missis sippi. The Missouri Valley confer ence obviously covers territory on the sunset side of the big river. The methods of administration and the rules of the two organizations are identical, with the exception of one or two minor details. Their suc cess has attracted attention of college men throughout the counfry. The Pa cific Northwest conference Is gradu ally taking Its place among the newer Institutions of the Pacific coiuit, while with the beginning of the collegiate season of 1922 a conference will take shape In the south. The "Big Ten," formerly the "Big Nine," Is the outgrowth of an old or ganization which Included the small and large schools of the territories now covered by the two middle west ern conferences. The Missouri Valley conference hsi had a decade of history, most of the time r a seven-school organisation. AdmiiHlon of Oklahoma and Grinnell and the return of Nebrapk recently has atlded to the Interest In athletics In Its section. A factor In tha progress of the two conferences has been the great' amount of athletic material they have been able to draw on. The collegi ate, population of their members last year was more than 100. ooo. Both conferences have been friend ly to Increase In the number of com petitive Intercollegiate sports. Each has made moves to enroll the entire student body In athletics and most of the schools have a compulsory rule for participation in athletics by the first-year clansmen. NEW MAX IX PJIIULY CLUB Robert Coono I'urvlMisea 'Interest In Bacball Stork. According to Information from a reliable source Robert Coane, reported as having bought the Chandler Inter ests In the Philadelphia National league baseball club, has been a stockholder in the company for some time. The Informant refused to say how much stork Mr. Coane formerly held and when he secured it, but did say that the wealthy clubman had stork previous to securing the Chandler in terests last week. It Is reported that Mr. Coane Is now a majority stockholder as the Chandler Interests are said to have been one-fourth of the entire stock. In addition to Mr. Coane. William F. Baker, president of the club; Colonel Edward T. Murphy and L. C. Ruch, the latter a lifelong friend of Baker and a New Yorker, are the stock holders of the club. The report that Mr. Coane has Se cured at least a fourth interest In the club sets at rest rumors that Pitts burg men have been after the club and had secured an option on the stock. The pole-vault record of 13 feet 514 Inches is held by Frank Foss of Chi cago. Werner Petterson Co. rOPI LAR PIUCKD TAILORS 3I3V& Washington Street Portland, Oregon In 2-Story Rnlldlns; at Sixth Main 4KM4. ox.