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3 BIVERS TO FIT . HARPER TUESDAY LIGHTWEIGHT VETERAN ENTERS RING AGAIN. ES HAS THIS BOY STUFF OF WHICH CHAMPIONS ARE MADE? is done away with and you will avoid all chances of getting Into " the habit of slowly moving forward and trying to guess the gun. So t the first command step into the holes snappily and get well forward the first thing. Then, as the sec ond command comes, all there is left to do is to raise the back leg to the proper angle, and you are wait ing for the gun. Tk , .,.- BALLY-HOQ CUTS UP THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 25, 1923 DEMPSEY-GEORG iflTIESTSM MEET POSTPONED , L - -."-. rSSSiWi-te 20-Round Clash With Wol gast Recalled. BOUT ENDED IN 15TH Battle at Armory Expected to Be Good One With Both Men Getting Into Shape. Bobby Harper's coming fight with Joe RiveTS at the armory next Tuesday night brings to mind the old 20-round days In California and particularly the Rivers-Wolgast bout, whioh will live long in ring history because of its strange end ing. To Rivers, who is going through his paces daily at the Olympic gymnasium getting ready for the first fight on his comeback cam paign, the details of the Wolgast fight are still vivid. It will be re membered that the fight ended in the 13th round with no two ring side spectators able to give the same version of its ending. In the record books Wolgast is credited with a knockout but Rivers Btlll contends that he was robbed of the decision which would have given him the lightweight title. Here is his story of the final round: "We had been fighting at a ter rific clip up to the 13th round with honors about even. Both of us had been giving as well as taking. The 13th had been under way but a short time when I sank a stiff left Into the pit of Ad's stomach. He dropped to his knees, claiming a foul, but as he went down he swung at me and the blow landed on my cup with terrific force. Whether he tried to foul me intentionally I don't know, but the blow was low and I dropped to the floor. Fight Given to Wolgast. "The referee tried to pull Wol gast to his feet, at the same time starting to count me out. At the count of eight I was in my corner and on my feet, but this did not pre vent the referee from giving the fight to Wolgast on a foul. This fight took place July 4, 1912, at Vernon, Cal. "I got my second chance at the title the following July at San Francisco, the championship then being held by Willie Ritchie. Ritchie stopped me in 11 rounds." Strange as it may seem. Rivers does not consider his hardest fight to have been that savage encounter with Wolgast. It was a practically unknown slugger who gave him his roughest ring battle. It occurred in 1910 just about the time Rivers was getting started good. The unknown was Frankie Sulli van, who did not figure to have a chance with the flashy Mexican. Rivers was expected to cut down Sullivan in a couple of rounds, but to the great surprise of everyone, Rivers included, Sullivan put up a stiff argument. Rivers finally stowed him away in the ninth round but only after he himself had suf fered a broken nose and been badly battered about the head. Mexican Like Champion. If those skeptical ones who have already decided that Rivers is nothing more than a setup for Har per would only take a peek at the- brown-skinned athlete in one of his workouts at the Olympic gym they might change their minds some about the "setup" part of it. Rivers says he is in better shape today than when he bowled over Joe Ben jamin in 16 seconds of the first round of their bout at the old Eleventh street playhouse in 1917. The Mexican is boxing like a champion and appears still to have the goods in hitting and cleverness. He has a style of milling all his own and combines boxing with fighting. While Rivers' legs are small his chest and shoulders are those of a superman. His chest measurement when normal is 41 inches and on top of that he can expand it eight inches. All Weight in Chest. Practically all Rivers' weight Is In his chest and shoulders. It is from his broad and powerful shoul ders that he gets his terrific hitting power; ' When he hits it is with the whole weight of his shoulders, and he can deal a truly Herculean smite. Rivers out "of the ring is an un assuming fellow with a personality much different from the usual run of leather pushers. This personality and his wonderful fighting ability carried him to the top rung of the lightweight ladder. The veteran and his manager. Max Webber, who also had consid erable boxing experience in the early days, are a peculiar combina tion. They first met as ring enemies back in 190S, when they fought the semi-windup to the Sam Langford-Jim Barry fight in Ver non. That, incidentally, was Rivers' first professional fight. McVEY BASEBALL VETERAN Only Gambler Ever to Approach Player Was Knocked Out. If the pension the National league votes to Cal McVey is enough to keep him comfortably in his declin ing years, the league will only be doing what is partly due a man who was one of the real founders of organized baseball, and one who did his full share toward keeping the game, out of the clutches of the gamblers. Only one gambler ever approached McVey personally, and he was hit so hard on the jaw that he forgot all about baseball and everything else for quite a while. This gambler was a friend of Cal and the two were playing billiards one day in Boston, when the propo sition was made. The sock on the Jaw ended the game and their friend ship. McVey was captain and manager of the Cincinnati team in 1879 and' brought the team to San Francisco after the close of the .season. Cal suspected two men on his team of being too friendly with gamblers. But he-could not prove anything on them, nor could he get the owner of the club to fire them. So he was disgusted that fall because his team did not win the pennant when he thought It had the class to do so. He took a flyer in mining stock while here and was unlucky enough to win, getting $4200 on an invest ment of $700 in a few hours. That settled it. No more baseball for him. He was cut out for a mining broker. He sold his stuff in Cincinnati and moved to San Francisco, and he has been in California ever since. He was only 30 years old at that time and was at his best as a ball player. He was getting $3000 a year, which was just about the big gest salary paid any player In the ft ! "tJ - Joe Rivers, lightweight boxer, who twice has fought (or the world's title and will attempt his second start toward the top of the ladder next Tuesday night when he meets Bobby Harper at the armory. country; but that easy money made on the mining deal turned his head and he left baseball flat. Cal was running a cigar store at Third and Folsom streets at the time of the big fire in 1906. His wife was hurt in that disaster and. after a lingering illness of two years, she died. Cal says the light of his life went out when his wife died, for they had been married 36 years and they were always the best of pals. In his prime McVey was five feet nine inches tall and weighed 195 pounds, andhe was a slugger of the real type. He says he drove at least one ball over every fence in the National league circuit, and that despite the fact ' that his fingers were so bent and twisted from catching bare-handed that he had trouble gripping the bat McVey , and Anson were room mates on the old Chicago club, and it was McVey who taught Anson how to hit to right field,- thereby adding greatly to his effectiveness. Both were rightlhanded hitters, and Old Cap was a dead left-field hitter until McVey changed his style. Oil Hay Finance Links. LONG BEACH. Cal., June 24. DEMPSEY SAYS HE'S WILLING TO FIGHT ANYONE IN WORLD - : Champion Declines to Draw Color Line and Will Meet Wills. Initiative in Willard Challenge Denied. ' BY HARRY B. SMITH. I SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. (Spe- ; cial.) Jack Dempsey was an Oakland and San Francisco vis itor for several days this past week. The champion, according to reports from southern California, mysteri ously disappeared from Los Angeles. The very next morning he reported bright and early at the Oakland home of Jack Kearns, his manager Two day! were spent with "Mother" Kearns, the afternoons being de voted to gymnasium duty in the back of the Kearns lot. Then one morning wa.s given over to chatting with friends in San Francisco and on Wednesday morning Dempsey, to gether with his brother, Johnny, left for New York city no stopovers being planned. - I had quite a telephone chat with Dempsey; surprisingly cordial, since he apparently has lost no love for this city since his difference with the federal authorities and his for mer wife, Maxine. Dempsey spoke freely of his plans for the future. . I was particularly interested in what he might happen to think of Harry Wills. " No' promoter has seen fit as yet," replied Jack, "to make me any offer for a match. I am willing to fight anybody in the world if the financial Inducements are sufficient. I am not drawing the color line and would just as soon meet Harry Wills as anyone you might name. It's all a matter of money with me. ' I am selling my services and if they offer me enough money, I'll be glad to meet Wills. Certainly I am not afraid of him." Dempsey, if he wants to avoid Wills, may .put the price to such a point that no promoter may listen to terms, but that's still another story. Also I queried him as to Jess Willard. "There are a lot of folks," he said, "who think that I have been re sponsible for this challenge issued from Willard, that Jack Kearns has been working up the interest. That is absolutely wrong. Whatever has been said or done has been on the initiative of Willard and of no one else. Naturally I believe that I can beat him again and just as speedily as I did two years ago in Toledo. But if Willard thinks otherwise, and what's more important from my own standpoint, if he can get some pro moter to agree with him and offer me a substantial guarantee, I'll play along. Fighting is my business. So why shouldn't I agree?" You doubtless recall that the press dispatches from Los Angeles re cently told us that Dempsey had dropped Teddy Hayes as his trainer. The champion was asked for an ex planation. He didn't have much to say but what he did say was sig nlfir.ant. . "Teddy Hays isn't working for me any longer. That's all there is to it. He really never was my trainer. Nothing much more than a messenger boy. . I simply made up Now that Long Beach promises to be the first city to abolish taxes be cause Its royalties 'from municipally owned oil lands loom pleasantly large, the Virginia Country club golf .course, which occupies 130 acres in what is said to be the prob able direct line .of development in the Signal Hill field, may acquire fame as the first golf links to be supported by its own oil derricks. While no serious proposal to permit oil exploitation on the golf courses has as yet materialized, it is a fact that membors of the club are watch ing the progress of the oil field with considerable interest. " City Gets Course. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 24. The nine - hole Wandamere Park golf course has become the property of the city of Salt Lake, being re named Nibley park" in honor of ;lts donor. Bishop. Charles W. Nibley of the Mormon church. In presenta tion ceremonies, Heber J. Grant, president of the church, and Bishop Nibley tried their hand at driving the first tee. George von Elm, Salt Lake, prominent .. western golfer, participated in the opening play.' my mind to let him go. I believe he is still working for Kearns.'- However, if you will read between the lines, it is not hard to conceive that the friendly spirit between Dempsey and Hayes if indeed it ever existed has been completely dissolved. .-..' We may eventually have a new fight club in San Francisco. The Disabled War'Veterans are to stage a show as a benefit for their com ing convention next Thursday night at what onca was Arcadia dance hall. The Disabled War Veterans,- at least the' San Francisco post, figure on a fight show every week. Moose Taussig, at present on his way back from Japan, where he went with Spider Roach and Young Ketchell, is said to be slated for the post of matchmaker and promoter for the new club. The Olympic club hag arranged to finance more golf territory. How ever, the entire personnel of the Olympic club will not be asked to put up the money. The club had an opportunity to obtain some additional property so that two courses may be laid out instead of one. So it was decided to seek 850 contributing members. That is to say, members who will contribute the sum of $300, payable at the rate of HO per month. A dinner was held the other night and at the close all but ,60 member ships had been subscribed. These contributing members, of course. will have rights and privileges over the Olympians who do not- con tribute. Their monthly greens fee will be $4, whereas if the ordinary Olympian wishes to use the links he will be forced to pay $2 any week day and J3or $,4, as may later be de termined, on- Saturday's and Sun days. PARIS . TAKES TO BASEBALL Veterans of British and American - x . Armies to Play. , PARIS, June 24 Veterans of thi American and British armies who are residents of the French capital tsnnn - will maet In haRAKoll rfcrlcket games. The British Legion nalres have challenged members of the American Legion Paris post to a baseball tussle, providing the Yankees meet them on the cricket field. Since the ex-doughboys must learn cricket from the ground up, the ex- Tommies have agreed not to play Canadians on their nine. Paris is taking to Daseoau. in the new league the Paris post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, is , leading, the American Legion is runner-up and a rattling good outfit of French-, men is near the top. An American graves registration service team and clubs picked from branches of various American- banks also are in the league, whose games arj played Saturday and Sunday afternoons. . .. . , Quartet, of Backers Finds It Sings Alone; CHORUS EFFECT LACKING British See Champion and Real ize That Chances of French- -'. , man Are Slim. . BY SPARROW McG ANN. (Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonlan-) NEW YORK, June 24. (Special.) Disquieting news from London. The little group of men in England who had been carrying on the bally hoo for a return Dempsey-Carpen-tier fight, in some London stadium have laid off their glad cries. " This was chiefly because the four promoters came to realize that the quartet was singing alone. There was no chorus effect.'; It made thern feel a bit ridiculous, particularly so as the British public, far from be ing won to, the idea of another Dempsey-Carpentier fight which was Jack's principal purpose in go ing abroad went just the other way when it lamped . the: champion and saw what a. strong,-clean-cut;- in telligent guy he was. , If he had met the English cbnoeption jpf iiijnr and pr.oved to be the sort of Joe Beckett, the idea of his fighting the French man again might have gone big. Harry Dime Sends Letter. : But as .it was they saw a young man who in his way had as pleas ing a personality as Carpentier, a man who convinced all that he is the sort of big fellow who fights with his brains as well as with his fists. -- , ' ,: Harry Dime, the western sporting' man, outlines very clearly in a let ter received today the attitude of the British. ' They felt, he writes, that if the first championship battle had re sulted in a close contest, the result being a draw or with Dempsey com ing through by a very narrow mar gin, then the boxing public on the other side would have been very much interested in knowing. which was the better man. They believe that the recent Criqui-Fox bout calls for another battle, because, until he was put away, Fox was going strong and had a clear lead on points. The same with Kid Lewis and Johnny Basham. Or, - again says Dime, it is felt over there that if Carpentier had had any good alibi ie his fight, if he had been ill or below par some way, even then every sporting man in Europe would pay good money to . see another battle. No Barker Succeeds. - - But under the circumstances no better reason is seen for another "battle of the century" than there is for another Carpentier-Ted Lewis fight. No barker for the proposed heavyweight championship battle has been able to put forth argu ments that have made headway against the above-mentioned line of dope. Another interesting point is that the English are getting wise to in ternational boxing conditions. They are now putting forth that Carpen tier is not even the second best heavyweight in the world. It is pointed out that he won his light- heavyweight title from old Battling Levinsky and the cry now Js that he meet Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Bob Martin, Willie Meehan or Billy Miske. Greb's fine record is now known on the other side and the be lief is that Carpentier is side-stepping him. Never forget there are wheels within wheels within the heavy weight championship situation and if Dempsey signs for Harry Wills which for the peace of the land it is hoped he will not it will be be cause the proposed Carpentier bout shows signs of going glimmering. BROOKLYN TEAM NEAR TOP Maintenance of Present Pace Said to Insure Lead. "Opportunity knocks but ,once," the old proverb' says. In baseball it knocks possibly once a year and Just at present it is feverishly beat ing a tatoo orf the door of the Brook lyn baseball club. The Robins are within striking distance of the league lead and they have only to maintain their winning pace of the last few days to reach the coveted goal. The Robins are sailing along smoothly in a- first. division berth, only a few games in the wake' of the leaders and, with the long home stand before them, they have their big chance of the season. If they should come through, which is not at all impossible, Brooklyn fandom will be planting the festive ivy on the brows of one Walter ("Dutch") Reuther, southpaw pitcher, and Bert Griffitn, rookie outfielder. Reuther and Griffith have done more than any other Brooklyn play ers to pull the team out- of .the slough of the second division . and into the select, circle. , The twirler has been going well all season, so well in fact, that he is leading his league in pitching. . . Strain on Champs Said to Cause Early Break. . Doubt as to Ruth's Ability to Re. peat Is Expressed. WE HAVE yet to evolve a sys tem which will prevent aur star athletes from breaking Sown and burning out. In the recent in tercollegiate games, Woodring, con ceded a first place in the 220, pulled a tendon -and was helpless.. In the British amateur, Roger . Wsthered, picked as a sure winner, flubbed an 18-inch putt in the semi-finals and fell before a less skilled opponent. A year ago Chick Evans got the back door by a far less able golfer. Captain William Fownes of Pitts burg. And such a wise old bird as Ban Johnson laid Babe R.uth's poor showing at the start to the mental strain he had been under watching his hom-run handicap mount be fore he could get into his stride. - Then there is the case of Maurice McLoughlin, recsntly pronounced physically perfect, but unable to get up steam in tennis anything like what was formerly an easy job for him, and the almost parallel case of Francis Ouimet,' one of the greatest golf players of the world today, but one who has not struck his stride in a tournament since the peace pact was signed. Few champs carry through conr sistently for more than a few years. Willie Anderson did so in American professional golf, but that was 20 years ago. When the going was not so rough.- And Larned was our most consistent performer on the JSC-. : m III I Ptri M 111 k 'iwxfc.vifiaT'j'- - .-Kif . i i urn ( tim I I I Bobby Harper will have to shoir his real mettle In his fight at the armory Tuesday night against Joe Rivers. Many' a championship Contender . has run Into one of Rivers', terrific punches and gone quietly to sleep. Harper Is good, but he villi have to be at his best for this fight. courts. Outside these few examples, our stars are unable to hold their course for any length of time. Even Ted Meredith failed when his col lege days were over. Our own hunch is that it takes a tremendous amount of almost super human effort to reach the heights when the going is hard. Larned was rarely pressed, so .the strain was not great in his case, which possibly accounts for his long reign. But the California comet had noth ing if not uphill battles. To drive his way to the top took rare cour age and the gathering together of all his moral fiber. Ouimet per formed the most astounding feat of American golf when, as a boy, he took on both Vardon-and Ray and downed them in a play-off. for the United States open golf title. It was probably not until afterwards that he realized what a gigantic ac complishment it was. . V i There is a tremendous let-down when one gains the dizzy heights against all odds. This washed-out condition is felt in mind, body and soul. The average human's make up balks at a repetition of the same overwhelming task. The strain L""---- ONLY AMCOiCAN WINN M ANT times I have been asked to explain the difference in the eolf courses in America and Great Britain. Golfers in Amer ica always have been led to believe that courses in the United States were far inferior in make-up and design, in grass and in many other ways. Now that I am In England again, I will answer this question from this side of the great water hazard. I have not seen all of England's best golf courses, nor all of Scot land's, either, for that matter, but I have seen and played over enough of them to familiarize myself with tne type. It is the same in Amer ica. I am well' acquainted with the American golf links, although there are many first-class courses that I have missed. Born and reared in what golfers all over the world know now as famous old St. Andrews, the home of golf, my early training was com pletei enough, but no one really appreciates his own home town or golf links. There are many courses like St- Andrews in Scotland and also in England, so I will pass that up as only a type of the seaside course. There are hundreds of them in Scotland on both coasts, and there are plenty in England,, per haps a little different in architec tural make-up, but as for traps, greens and tees, with little notice able difference. Courses derive their names of "links" from these seaside layouts, "links" meaning really a lot of low, connecting hills along the sea. In other words, simply a number of sand dunes covered with grass. We have no golf course in Amer ica exactly like that. Whether they are better adapted to golf or not is a matter of opinion and al ways will be a subject for dis cussion. . " - England and Scotland have th same type of course, which is often in as the nark course. These inland links are more like our own, as tney are mauo uj m hand of man instead of beingthe natural product. . Many Tees in British Courses. The British seaside course, with the ever-blowing wind, the ever present sand, and gorse, and undu lating fairways and greens, offers a fine test of the game, but one feels a great relief in changing to a so-called park course, which re sembles our own. ' ' T'he British course Is superior to the American course in many ways, but the American coturse has many advantages that the British course has not. I'll try to explain the dif ference. ' In starting for a round in Eng land or Scotland one is impressed from the very first by, the great amount of teeing ground available. There is not one good tee, but sev eral. I have counted as many as six in places and they are arranged at all angles, some low and some leaves its mark on us just as a similar strain tells on the perfect engine. A man living some ten miles from a city in the mountains purchased the finest automobile in the world. In a few months it did not work right. The factory sent a star me chanic to learn the trouble. It took him four days to reach a diagnosis. He then told the owner that the strain on hts car of driving It two and three times a day up this steep hill on high was a problem the au tomobile engineer could not meet with modern machinery. He recom mended a mule or a jitney. That's probably the reason few champs repeat. Also why the near champs plot along somewhere near the top In all battles. The thorough bred racer is good for a season or so, the mule and the jitney for all time, apparently, but no one is ever going to breast' the tape a winner riding the latter. All of which' is by way of saying that the mighty Babe Ruth has a new handicap, that of facing com petition. It will be a rare feather in his cap if he can come through when facing pace for the first time. Eg OF BftirijH 'oft V - high, and there is nearly always a tee for the ladies. This great wealth of tees always Insures the club member a fine spot to -drive from. It is always easy to keep one or two in perfect shape and, as there are so many of them, no one tee is In use long enough to become cut up and worn down. The British tee box is a funny lit tle affair, about -half the size of ours. It lies flat on the ground, without a sign of a scrubbing brush or a towel, so common in our coun try. There is a good reason for this. The British golfer does not have to pick up his sand because his caddie has been trained to do that. The American golfer, not used to the little attention, is often caught on British courses trying to make his own tee. Th golfer in Great Britain selects the spot for his stance and then points out with his club the place he wishes the ball teed. After leaving the tee it rould be rather hard to tell ; whether one were on an American or a British link as far as the trouble one must encounter with his drive is con cerned. Run-Tp.Shot in Vogue. The British fairways seem richer in grass and the, lies are, as a con sequence, much better. There is a sort of flaky substance in the soil that feels a bit different when one uses a brassie or a long, iron shot. Although the texture of the greens may be better in most places (better on the average, I might say), there are few courses where the trapping is done as well as In our own greens. The' traps in England and Scotland are further from, the greens and there is often' an open space of fair way between trap and green that will .permit a bad shot to escape punishment. The run-up shot' is more in vogue in England and Scotland. The greens are left wide open in five cases out of six. There is more of a demand for accurate sharp shoot ing in the approach to the green in America than abroad. This will In time develop better golfers. Americans are learning to pitch through force of necessity. The run-up shot, if one has no other approach shot in his bag, will count for little on American courses. Hagan. Barnes and myself agree that Gleneagles is one of the best courses in Great Britain. It is a combination of an American and a British course. America, however, has many just as good. Joe Kirk wood thinks American courses are better. He insists that Australian courses are quite different from either, and just as good. Americans who have seen the great Pine Valley links near Phila delphia' and the National links and the Lido links on Long Island have seen perhaps the greatest courses in the world. . Lido was constructed at tremendous cost. Several of - the famous holes in Scotland were Imi tated. Americans spend more money for golf architects than Great Brit ain and this is- responsible for our advancement. (Copyright. 1023, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Title Events at Victoria, B. C, Set for August 5. WINGED M IS HOPEFUL Happy Kuehn, World's Champion Taney tlver, Will Train to Enter Competition. The annual Pacific Northwest Amateur Athletic association out door swimming and diving cham pionships, which were to have been held in Victoria, B. C.j July 15, have been postponed until August 5. Word that this action had been taken by the Victoria Island Ath letic association, under whose aus pices the meet will be hld, was re ceived yesterday by Jack Cody, swimming and diving instructor at the Multnomah Amateur Athletic .club. The " annual outdoor champion ships are the biggest swimming events of the year in the Pacific northwest. British Columbia has many good swimmers who do not compete in any outside competition except the outdoor titular affair. The Victoria Island Athletic as sociation has staged the event for several years. Just as it is an an nual custom with the directors of the Pacific Northwest association to award the outdoor track and field championships to the Multnomah club each year, so it is with the awarding of the outdoor swimming and diving championships. The Vic toria Athletic club takes great pride in the way it puts over the meet. Meet Is In Royal Gorge. The meet is held in the Royal Gorge, a salt water Inlet, surroundd by a sloping bank, which makes a natural, amphitheater capable of holding thousands of people. The programme always is a long one. usually of 20 events or more, for men, women and Juniors. The Multnomah Amateur Athletic club has always come home with its share of the prizes. Although the club does not expect to win the meet this year, it expects to win several of the big events. It is not practicable to take a full team to victoria, owing to tne Dig expense, so just a few of the club's best swimmers and divers will go. The big event of the meet will be the water polo competition. Five or six teams will be entered. A special cup is up for the winning team and wlh it goes the northwest title. The Multnomah club squad has won the championships for several years and hopes to repeat this year. Juniors Showing Well. The Winged M junior swimmers. who include Virginia Wilson, Ben Lombard and Bob Farrell, are show ing well in their workouts in the club tank. They now hold-all north west junior records and are after nw laurels. Louis (Happy) Kuehn, world's champion fancy diver, may join the Multnomah club team. Kuehn has not beem doing much- diving this year, ownig to an injury received while performing stunts at Oregon Agri cultural college. Mowever, he has been- testing himself of late and is back into form. He will start train ing soon and expects to be in shape by August 5. He will have strong competition for the right to make the trip as the club's fancy diving representative, with Dave Fall,' Wel don Hyde, Gurtln Carroll, Warren Lasseter and Frank Lasseter out for the berth. : Harold Hatton,. all-round swim ming star, is leaving Portland for his home in Pendleton, Or., this week, but will continue training there and will join the team in Vic toria. EAST IS NOT SO SANGUINE Washington Crew's Victory Makes Fans Take Notice. Eastern rowing critics are not so sanguine of the chances of the eastern crews at Poughkeepsie June 26, since the victory of the Uni versity of Washington eight over the University of Wisconsin. It was an easy win for the northwestern ers, as there was' ten lengths of water between the boats at the finish. Washington's crew is the most formidable of all those now train ing on the banks of the Hudson river in physical proportions. Its defeats of California and Wisconsin showed the western oarsmen had the speed and the stamina. Start Held Vital Matter in Hurdle Racing. Listening for Report of Gun Said to Be Keynote of Success - BT EARL J. THOMPSON, Olympic Games Hurdling Champion. Article V. . IN this article I shall deal with the psychology of hurdle racing. As I have said before, the start has a lot to do with winning or losing a race. Consequently, when you- take your mark, all you should think of Is the command of the starter. Arthur Duffy, perhaps the fastest Btarter that ever left a mark, says the power to-keep his mind concentrated on tho crack of the starter's pistol was the secret underlying his suc cess in getting awiy. After the command "get set" there is only one thing you should think of and that is the report of the gun. Do not think of the others in the race, and do not try to jump the gun. Either is fatal to a good start. While speaking about the start, I might as well say a few words on the proper position as called for in the crouching start and also the po sition of the holes. The front hole should be between four and six inches from the starting line and dug fairly deep. Now, get down qn the marks and place the knee of the back leg about even with the joint of the big toe of the front foot or maybe a little back or it, Make a mark with the toe of the back foot, keeping the foot straight up and down. Where that mark appears Is where the back of the real hole should be. Now, for the commands "on 'your "mark" and "get set." At the first command place tho front foot in first and then the back foot." -Place tho hands on the mark, keeping the arms parallel in order to give all possible height to the shoulders. Because of the fact that in the position of "set" the weight must be well forward on the hands and the forward foot, get well for ward when the mark is taken. In this way the trouble of getting for ward after the last spoken cojnmand will make the back parallel with the ground from the shoulders to the hips. One more thing about the start. Many men have a bad habit of pulling their heads back in order to look down the track. Just stop and think and see if any good can come of it. There is never anyone on the- track ahead of the men . starting and the runner goes siraignt down the track after the holes are left. Keep the head in its natural position at all times. The head has well been termed, "the runner's rudder" by an old English professional sprinter, and if it Is held back the chances are that the runner will come up out of his hole too straight, thereby slowing him at the very beginning of the race, where he needs the most speed. Keep the head down where it be longs, but if you must look down the track, look just about a yardjn front and all will be well. One thing you should ' have is plenty of confidence. Don't get over-confident and think you can dispense with training. Feel with in yourself that you are In the best possible shape, and that, short of falling down, you should win the race Go out for blood every time you step on the track and, if you win to win, nine times out of ten you will do it or come so close to it that it won t be any fun for the op ponent The talk that sometimes goes on at the beginning of a race should never bother you. Many athletes have a voluble line which they throw out to bother other men" in the race. It is always bunk, and you should let' it fall on unheeding ears, going about the business of warming up by yourself without saying much to anyone. This will ao muun to Keep your peace or mina as well as to give the others some thing' to think about. Then, too, it is better sportsmanship not to bother anyone or try to get his "goat." " The bitter days of profes sionalism and its frequently ques tionable tactics in competition are gone. Be a gentleman under all circumstances. t Some men I have known have fallen into the bad habit of looking around while running a race, which slows them up very decidedly. It Is rather hard to do this in a hurdle race, but it has been done and races have been lost by it; so keep the head straight in front until the tape has been breasted. The judges are there to decide the relative positions of the finishers. I have often seen men on the field, waiting for their race or just com ing back from one, walking on their toes while they have their spikes on. This is very bad for the muscles of the calf. The leg has been put in shape to run on, not to walk on, therefore it should not be used otherwise. Walk flatfooted always when the spikes are worn. Another good thing to remember is to keep the shoes unlaced until it is time to warm up for the race, then lacs them up tightly, so that they fit the foot snugly and, as soon as the race is over, untw them again. In this country, where there is such a difference In the various tracks, a man should always have at least two pairs of track shoes. It is Still better to have three pairs. One pair should be furnished with spikes about inch long for use on soft or wet tracks, another should have spikes inch long for tracks that are in god shape, and a third with still shorter spikes, as some tracks are hard as cement. Tou can easily see the difficulty to be had in run ning on a hard track with long spikes or ' vice versa. I usually carry two pairs with me and many times I have found it very fortunate that I had the long spikes. Tou never can tell In what condition the track will be, and it is better to be prepared 1 Close Out Sale WOLVERINE KIP SHOES AT COST REGULAR AND HIGH TOPS ' for men. Just the shoes for rough work and for outings. Made from tho finest leather and absolutely pure tanned. 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