THE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 24, 1923
WORLD SERIES PLAN
IS BEING DEVELOPED
COLLEGES TO BUILD
DAVIS CUP DEFENSE
OH MAN!
T LETTER
that he is seeking the first-base
honors.
Behind the bat Bob O'Farrell Is
catching the ball In a manner that
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self. The Cub pilot has taken pride
In teaching O Farrell the Job. Bob
has been in the big show a few sea-
Polo Grounds Arrangements
Same as Last Year.
Phil Neer Expects Campus
to Develop Stars.
School Expects to Have
Winning Eleven.
MEN
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IN BONN
LINEUPi
STUDENTS WIN PRESTIGE
Except Tllden, Johnston and Will
iams, Leading Tennis Flay
ers Are Varsity Men. .
"Davis cup defenders in future
will be chosen from the best of the
tennis players in the colleges," said
FhllNeer, 1921 intercollegiate cham
pion, who was here last week long
enough to win the Irvington club
singles championship.
"Except William Tllden, national
champion, William Johnston and
R. Norris Williams, ex-national
champions, the leading players of
the country are college men. They
hold practically all the sectional
championships.
"When the 1923 intercollegiate
championships start the tournament
will include so many great players
that it will be second only to the
national tournament in number of
stars entered. The 1922 tournament
had 71 entries,- representing 33 col
leges. In 1921 there were 60 en
tries, while in no previous year
were there more than 30."
Neer Modest About Record.
Neer was too modest to admit that
when he won the intercollegiate sin
tries championship in 1921, whll
representing Stanford, it was the
first time any college west of the
Rocky Mountain ever had achieved
that honor. This year Neer and
Jim Davles, playing under Stanford
colors, won the intercollegiate dou
hies championship.
Luclen Williams of Tale, 1922 In
tercollegiate singles champion, and
Macey Wheeler, his doubles partner,
will be back next year. Arnold Jones,
also of Yale, was not eligible this
year because he was a freshman.
Jones won the 1922 junior singles
championship and seems the most
promising of all the young players.
Bates Has Two More Years.
Wallace Bates of the University
of California has two more years of
college competition. Bates is the
1922 Pacific coast intercollegiate
champion and won the California
state championship in 1920. defeat
ing the Klnsey brothers, Robert and
Howard, and Willis Davis, fifth
ranking player in the United States,
in 1920 and 1921. Phil Bettens and
Alec Wilson of the University of
California also will be back. Both
are steady players and cut quite
figure in the California state cham
pionships this year.
Harvard will be represented by
Will Ingraham, 1921 Oregon state
champion and member of the Har
vard-Yale team that defeated the
Cambridge-Oxford team in Europe
last nummer.
Anderson Goes to Columbia.
Frank Anderson, 1921 national in
door champion and 18th ranking na
tional player, will wear the colors
of Columbia university of New York.
To win the indoor title 'Anderson had
to beat Vincent Richards of Yonkers,
N. Y., who won a place on this year's
Davis cup team.
Unlveisity of Pennsylvania has a
star in Harold Taylor, national
Junior champion in 1918. Carl Fisher,
Bill Tilden's protege, will wear the
colors of Philadelphia college.
Fisher is a former captain of the
University of Pennsylvania team.
University of Texas will rest its
hopes on Louis N. White, runner-up
in the 1922 national Junior cham
pionships and conqueror of Bill In
graham. White is only 18 years old
and, according to Neer, is a coming
star.
PRISON HAS. GRID TEAM
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Is
sues Challenge.
NEW YORK, Sept. 23. College
athletes are not the only ones whose
thoughts are turning to the football
field. The Inmates of the Atlanta
federal penitentiary, after finishing
a successful baseball season, already
have taken up the grind that Is
necessary to team work on the grid
iron, and have sent out a challenge
for games with fast local . elevens.
"We are in the field this year with
a high-class organization of football
players consisting of ex-college
stars, and we would like to arrange
games with some good semi-professional
aggregations about the city,"
says the fall announcement.
For any of the 2000 or more men
at the prison to "make the team"
demands great effort, as the cham
pionship baseball nine has been al
lowed at times to play on fields. be
yond the grim walls surrounding
the grounds of the institution, and
the football stars are hoping they
may get the same treatment.
Shortstop Boots Four and Quits.
Shortstop Clinger of the Rocky
Grove team in the Twilight league
fumbled four grounders in succes
sion in a recent game and became
so disgusted with himself that he
quit the game, refusing the plead
ings of his manager to resume his
position. His team had no substi
tutes on the bench, and the manager
of the opposing team took dinger's
place in order that the game could
proceed.
Safe or Out
BY CHARLES D. WHITE.
Q. Runner on first. The batter hits
for a home run. Runner on first; miesed
second when he was going around and
after the. batter had scored umpire
called the runner out for not touching
second. Was he right? '
A. No. He should not have made
that decision unless it was asked for by
the side la the field. The rules are very
particular about that point as the play
is one of perception on the part of the
fielders.
Q. Runner on third with two out. He
starts to steal home and is admittedly
over the plate before the pitcher has
begun to wind up. The batter follows
with a. hit to pitcher and is thrown out,
but ths umpire says the run counts. Does
it?
A It does not because no play had
been started by the side in the field
when the run counted. If the pitcher
had started to wind up before the run
ner started home it would have been
another matter.
Q. Batter hit to outfield but the grass
was so high that the umpire couldn't
eee the catch which was made and called
the batter safe. Was that right?
A. Yea. You cannot expect a. decision
on a play which the umpire cannot see.
Q. Runner on first went to third on
what he thought was a safe hit. Umpire
announced foul and the runner started
cross lots back to first and the side in
the field said he was out. Was he?
A. No. The diamond can be cut on a
foul ball.
Q. Was the Cub pitching staff of
1906-10 the greatest ever'" assembled 7
A. A matter of opinion, but I should j
say us, . . ..
STANFORD HOPES HIGHER
WEALTH OF MATERIAL
HAND FOR ELEVEN.
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Faith of Students Pinned to Abil
ity of Glenn Warner, New
Football Coach.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. CaL,
Sept, 23. (By the Associated Press.)
Football hopes a.t Stanford uni
versity never were higher than they
are for the 1922 season, according to
Cardinal athletic cniefs and students
who are encouraged by the return of
most of last year's stars and who
have faith in an entirely new coach
ing staff. Many think this will be
Stanford's greatest football season.
After changing coaches three times
in three years, Stanford has at last
pinned it hopes for the next five
years on Glenn Warner, the famous
Pittsburg mentor, and Andrew Kerr,
i student of the Warner system,
"Tiny" Thornhill, last year's line
coach for Centre college, will be an
assistant coach,
Kerr, who will be head coach un
til Warner comes west in 1925, has I
been in California since the first of
the month and has expressed him
self as pleased with prospects here.
Kerr hopes to build up an "organiza
tion on the gridiron that will be cu
mulative in its effectiveness
throughout the five-year period.
Observers eay there is material on
the squad for a 200-pound line and
it is possible that the team win
eventually line up with the forwards ,
at that weight. Behind the line i
there can be a powerful backfleld
averaging about 1.75 pounds.
The Stanford eleven win be built
around the veterans Captain Dudley
De Groot, center; Fred Ludeke,
guard; Art Wilcox, halfback; Dick
Faville, guard, and Bud Woodward,
quarterback. Other letter men who
probably will return before school
opens are "scotcny uampoeii,
Kewp" Sproull, Joe Douglass and
Rae Doughty.
Among the new men wno seem as
sured of a place on the team are
Chuck" Johnson, tackle, from Los
Angeles: Murray Cuddeback, fresh
man star laet year; Floyd Tull, giant
fullback who never played in the
west before, and Paul Murray, who
was out last season with an injured
foot. Murray, Tull and Cuddeback
are expected to be first-string back
field men. Dennis, last year's "frosh"
quarter, may give Woodward a bat
tle for the post. Skipkey and Dole
another member of the famous Stan
ford family are out lor tacKie ana
either Widaman or Janssen from the
freshman eleven will get an end po
sition unless new backfield mate
rial shows up. -
If "Tiny" Hartranft, intercollegiate
champion shot-putter and a 10-flat
man in the 100-yard run, comes out
for football, he ought to cinch a
place for himself at either guard or
end.' Hartranft was used at guard
in the 1920 freshman season. James
Arthur, a 1920 freshman guard, who
is also very fast in football spikes,
will be out for the varsity for the
first time.
White Give9 'Em AH a Whirl.
Anyhow, you have got to hand it
to Charley White for trying. The
Chicago lightweight will take one
more whirl at the grand old cham
pionship when he mingles with
Benny Leonard in a 12-round no
decision bout at Boyle's Thirty
Acres on October 6. Tex Rickard,
a young man more or less familiar
with ring affairs, will promote the
show. White has taken a shot at
about every lightweight champion
since the days of Noah. But he's
always failed to whirl through to
victory in the big test. Charles will
have to knock Leonard out to win
the title.
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COACHES OF GRIDIRON TEAMS
TRY SHORT CUTS TO VICTORY
New Wrinkles of Footfall Now and Then Develop Amusing Situ
ations and Sometimes Are Banned as Unsportsmanlike,
O
DD when you think of it the
number of short cuts football
coaches have tried to put over
a win. Most of them do not work
out. But in the course of years
enough get by to help the game.
Now and then amusing situations
result, such as the Warner gag with
the Indians in the early days of the
forward pass, when Fop had Imita
tion foptballs sewed on the jerseys
of his players -at about the place
where a back carries the ball when
running with it.
The ruse was to set the defense
after the wrong man. But the stunt
enjoyed a brief existence. It was
deemed unsportsmanlike and ban
ned in a Jiffy.
Tandem Back Recalled.
In the old days of mass play, at
tention was given to perfecting the
tandem buck. All sorts of devices
came into being. Woodruff, once
supreme as a grid mentor, hit a
corker. It was simple. He had
canvas grips sewed on the hips of
the nlayers who carried the bail.
and handles of the same material
sewed on the back of their trousers
at the waist line. They did prove
effective. When a back was sent
directly on a line smash another
fellow would get his shoulder be
hind him, grab the two side handles
and push for his life.
And when an interferer was sent
in advance of the jrunner on such
plays, the latter would seize the
handle of the back of the trousers
the interferer. In consequence
keeps. Tacklere would come, to be
sure, but they rarely bowled 'over
the intereferer. In consequence
they would be dragged along with
the runner they clung to for a few
precious yarda It was a grand pile
up, these old-time rushes through
the line. Football never has had
moments since to equal the excite
ment stirred up among its fans that
then arose when a team pounded
its way for a few yards at a time
over the white chalk lines for a
touchdown.
Hunches of Old Timers.
The modern football player rarely
appreciates the hold football had
on its followers 20 or' more years
ago, for hit; game Is a far different
one from that the old timers played.
In a contest today speed, quick
thrusts and long chances predomi
nate, with the individual always the
determining factor. Team -work .is
at par today, but when mass plays
were the rule the cohesion of all
parts of the machine was far more
necessary. Elevens worked as a
unit for the success of the old timer.
His plan of play demanded it. ' Sys
tems built on the flying wedge and
guards' back required eleven men
fighting as a unit. Then the in
dividual did not advance the ball.
He went into the line with most of
his team pulling and pushing him
Spirit ran high because of all this
and so did the casualty list. Be
cause of this' team Spirit you can
not get an old-timer to admit that
the modern game highly scientlfc
as It is is to be compared, to the
battle they fought.
The charging machine was a de
velopment of mass play days. It
was found that the former scheme
of teaching linemen to charge by
lining them" up opposite ach other
was a bit too strenuous for the
daily grind of practice. Thus was
invented the charg'ng machine. It
has various purposes today, and
there are several types. But all
are made with one dominating Idea
in view teaching the linemen to
drive hard and low.
Likewise came the tackling dummy.
It used to be that tackling was
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taught by having the candidates al
ternate m downing eacn otner on
the field. A good many were knocked
out, so a dummy was hit updn as
the ideal scheme. At first dummies
were weighty and hard and soon
proved ineffective. Players fought
shy of them. Eventually they were
lightened by -filling with sawdust,
which was frequently changed to
avoid packing. And they were hung
over pits filled with the same ma
terial. Men were then more easily
taught to tackle, as they were not
hurt. The old methods wrenched
shoulders, broke collar bones and
bruised knees and elbows. The
dummy has solved all that and the
player of today is a better tackier
as a result. You see precious few
high tackles today. Fellows know
when and how to hit a runner.
Only one phase of fundamental
play falling on the ball has not
had a substitute Invented, nor a
short cut worked out for teaching
perfection In it. It is today the one
onerous task to teach, for until a
boy knows how to dive to the ground
and scoop up a recumbent football,
he is continually battering his
lights out in his attempts to do so.
Falling on the ball is a difficult
procedure, a part of practice de
spised by all.
Little wrinkles crop out in all
camps for perfecting play in one or
more details. Harvard was first to
adopt the plan of sewing- a sort of
soft, rough leather strip on the sides
and arms of its players' jerseys , to
make it easier to carry the ball.
Golfers will appreciate what I mean
in this description by the handles
on their clubs. Smooth leather
grips do not always work, especially
in wet weather, whereas the soft
rough wrappings on handles afford
a sure grip at all time's.
Fumbling- Spells Disaster.
Fumbling- spells disaster In all
football. It has been given as
much thought as any fundamental.
Coaches always seek to obviate it
by constant attention to this impor
tant detail. One best appreciates
how fumbling is looked upon wAen
Johnny Helsmann, successfully j
coaching the Georgia Tech teams of
some years back, constantly cau
tioned his charges as follows:
'It were better to have died when
an Infant than to fumble."
One of the .other wrinkles to
avoid fumbling is to dampen the
Jerseys and trousers with water and
sprinkle a little powdered resin on
the wet surfaces. That gives a sticky
feeling and creates the idea in the
young mind that lie can hold a
football. But the main thing to do
is to hold the ball correctly at all
times. To bring this about some
coaches, in the early- part of the
season, always appoint one player to
call out at the start of each scrim
mage, "Hold the ball!" The idea Is
to make proper holding of the ball
a habit,
Years ago, when tackling was not
as clean as It Is today, backs used
all sorts of stunts to avoid being
downed, even to greasing their uni
forms so that they had about the
same chance to pass obstructing
players as the greased pig at county
fairs nad in escaping pursuing boys.
Moleskin suits also were decidedly
In vogue at one time because of
their slippery surfaces. And then
came the canvas jacket, laced se
curely, even having long sleeves, and
worn for the one purpose of cover
ing the Jersey, which an opponent
could hoJ on to. Every little trick
under the sun has been tried at one
time or another. Few survive the
test of time.
EASTERN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR SEASON OF 1922.
FINE HORSES ENTERED
BEST IN NORTHWEST TO VIE
AT STATE FAIR.
Hunters, Jumpers and Three
Gaited Steeds Sent to Salem
for Night Show.
Final entries received for the
night horse show at Salem' this
week, to be held in conjunction with
the state fair, indicate that prac
tically all of the fine show horses
of the Pacific northwest will com
pete for" prizes in the show ring.
Approximately 100 horses, the ma
jority of them hunters and jumpers
and three-gaited saddle horses, have
already been shipped to Salem.
Half of this number constitute
the entries of James McCleave of
Victoria, B. C, and the horses
owned by members of the Portland
Hunt club. H. M. Kerron, master of
foxhounds of the hunt club, said
that he and other members would
ship about 25 horses. McCleave will
show 20 animals.
The fine stable of Mrs. Wayne W.
Keyes of Tacoma, Wash., was ex
pected to arrive at Salem this morn
ing. Mrs. Keyes will have four
horses there, two of them being
Sir Sidney and Sir Chester, a pair
that won many ribbons at the Port
land show last November.
Another sensational string are
the five horses entered by the Misses
Roberta and Margaret Ellen Douty
of Portland. These, include the three
purchased from eastern stables last
summer. They are Mountain Missie,
a five-gaited horse; Sunbright, a
three-gaited animal from Virginia,
and Grey Leg, a thoroughbred hunt
er of Irish breeding.
The horses of Mr. and Mrs. W. U.
Sanderson and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
C. E. Smith are also expected to
show, and among these animals are
two of the best hunters in these
parts. Sanderson's Flying Fox and
Smith's Daisy Deane have won rib
bons wherever shown.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Martin of Gar
den Home have entered their two
three-gaited horses. Harvest Girl
and Coco, and these, with Mrs. C. E.
Grelle's Peter Piper, H. M. Kerron's
Fire Lad, and Mrs. Robert Schmeer's
Lady Jane, will rank high In the
Judging of the three-gaited classes.
Oswald West and Miss Helen West
will show their pair of hunters,
Peggy O'Neill and Princess Pat, and
H. M. Kerron is also showing two
pairs of hunting type. Captain K.
B. Wise of the 59th Infantry from
Vancouver, Wash., is shipping ten
horses from the post and these will
show In the ring and also compete
in the steeplechase on the track.
The horse show will consist of
five night performances, beginning
Monday and ending Friday night.
During this time 45 different classes
of saddle, draft and harmless horses
will be judged. v
FOSTER BACK IN
GAME
Boston Ball Hero Now Playing
in Oklahoma.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2S. George
Foster, hero ut the Boston Amer
icans when they won their last
world series, is In the limelight
again.
George quit the game after that
memorable series because he could
not agree on salary. He was then
sold to the New York Yankees and
again refused to report for the
same reason.
He has been out of the game until
about a month ago, when he broke
in as a shortstop with Henryetta,
Okla., in the Western association,
and he has been soing like a house
on fire.
LINE CAUSES NO WORRY
Coach Craig Paying Attention to
Back Field, Which Has Been
Considerably Weakened.
With eight letter men in the line
up, Benson Polytechnical school ex
pects to have a winning eleven in
the Portland High School Football
league this season. Harry J. Craig,
coach, is not worrying much about
his line, although his backfield has
been considerably weakened by the
graduation of Bell and Maloney.
Mason, who played quarter in the
laBt three games last year, has been
elected captain, and will call sig
nals again. Sicaggs earned his let
ter at half, but as Coach Craig's
policy is to have a substitute quar
ter always available Skaggs will
play, for the time being, at quarter.
Pyock and Cover, letter men, alter
nated last year at full. Fyock prob
ably will be switched to half, as
there is no experienced halfback on
the squad.
Fallis, Taylor and Bottler, tackles,
and White, guard, are experienced
players with at least one season's
football behind them. Bottler will
play an end and either Miller or
Rose of the second team will play
the other wing position. Fuller, the
220-pound guard of the second team.
has been showing so well In practice
that he should win a regular place
If he docs he probably will be the
heaviest man in the league.
Norvell of the second squad Is the
only candidate for center, and he is
showing well. Of the new men
Ashley may earn a place in the
backfield. Carlson and Peck also
are trying out at half.- Peck Is
basket ball letter man, but this will
be his first year on the football
squad.
Vaughn. Jarvis and Nau, second
team tackles, show much Improve
ment. The players and their
weights are as follows: Norvell
(165), center; White (190), Fuller
(220), guards; Fallis (180), Taylor
(180). Nau (165), Vaughn (185) and
Jarvins (190), tackles; Bottler (ISO),
Rose (160) and Miller (145), ends;
Skaggs (180), Peck (160), Ashley
(160) and Carlson (150), halves;
Cover (185) and Fyock (170), full
backs, and Mason (145), quarter.
According to Coach Williams of
Commerce, a benefit game between
Commerce and an out-of-town high
school eleven may be played at the
end of the season, provided Com
merce makes a good showing, the
proceeds to go into a fund to pay
the doctor bills of Marcus Schneider
man, star tackle, whose leg was
broken in a game last year. Al
though the injury was not serious,
Marcus entirely neglected the- in
jured member and complications
have set in. He has been In the
hospital more than six months, and
is not yet able to walk.
Harold Quigley, Jefferson coach,
is converting the sprinters of the
track team he coached last spring
into football men. Jefferson has
lost mos't of its players through
graduation, and the school's only
chance of a winner is to develop a
team that will make up in speed
what it lacks in weight. Quigley
said Jefferson's entire backfield
probably will not average more than
145 pounds.
KIULEFER'S TEAM IilKELY TO
RAMBIE IN 1923.
Nine Declared to nave One of the
Fastest Young Outfields In
Baseball Circles.
Keep your eyes on Bill Killefer's
Cubs. They're going to be full-
grown bears next year.
For the big he-bear, Killefer, has
been feeding them well and sharp
ening their claws. Above are placed
on exhibition five of these young
Cublets and another older bear, who
are making the Cubs the most
feared team In the National league
even now. True, the Cubs have only
an outside chance of landing the
pennant, but the Windy City team
can throw the proverbial monkey
wrench In the flag -chasing ma
chinery of either the Cardinals or
Giants, now insiders in the race.
Killefer has one of the best young
outfields the game has seen In years.
Hack Miller, obtained from Oak
land: "Twin Six" Stats, brought on
from Los 'Angeles, and Barney Frl
berg, hooked from Kansas City, are
already making bids for honors in
their respective gardens. They may
lack finesse and may pull bobbles
once in a while. But they make up
for those shortcomings with their
pep, spirit and slugging.
In the infield. Charley Hollocher,
young in years, although now
ranked as a veteran in the line-up,
is having the. most brilliant year of
his career. His sparkling fielding
is the feature of every game and
he is hitting at a fast gait. At first
Ray Grimes, brother of the famous
Burleigh Grimes, is fielding wonder
fully and giving every indication
sons, but apparently is just nuunts
his real stride.
With the pitching prospects KU
lefer has lined up and the other
moves that will be made to
strengthen the weak spot in the
team next season all considered, the
Cubs today look ready to make a bid
for the 1923 pennant.
We hereby nominate them.
TACKLING HELD NEGLECTED
One Fundamental Football Play
to Receive More Attention.
NEW YORK, Sept. I J. Tackling,
one of the most Important funda
mentals in football, which has been
sadly neglected in recent years by
some coaches of larger university
and college elevens, will come In for
much attention this fall during the
preliminary practice periods. There
are many coaches who lay more
stress on the development of ex
cellent tackling and blocking teams
than on the perfection of a working
attack.
To the average football fan noth
ing is more discouraging than to see
a half-hearted tackle or one around
the neck or by the arm. The player
who makes a tackle which brings
an opponent to the ground with a
thud is the type of warrior every
coach should want on his eleven.
RAY CHIP! I! YEARS
MILEK EQUALS RECORD MADE
BY. GEORGE, ORTON.
During: Reign as Title-nolder Jole
Twice Has Broken Amateur
Mark for Distance.
When Jole Ray of the Illlnol
Athletlo club won the United States
one-mile running title at Newark,
N. J., a few days ago he set a. rec
ord of being eight straight years
a track champion, equaling tha
which George Orton made from 1882
to 1899 inclusive.
Never in the history of mile run
nlng, however, has Ray's perform
ance been equaled. Orton won th
mile title from 1892 to 1898 In
elusive, or five straight rears, hu
Ray now has a clean sweep of th
event for six straight years, from
1917 to 1922 Inclusive. In 1915 Ray
first won the mile, the next yea
he ran In the five-mile event an
won it and since then has been un
beatable in the mile, giving him
consecutive run of eight years
champion. Orton gained his elgh
years an champion with five straigh
years as the mile title-holder an
from 1897 to 1899 inclusive he wo
the two-mile title.
The nearest approach to these
two men's performances In straigh
victorious years on the track is that
of the famous Lon Myers who from
1879 to 1884 was unbeatable ove
the quarter-mile for a auccesslv
run of six titles. There is only on
athlete in either track or field
events who has shown a longe
string of consecutive wins and that
Is the late J. S. Mitchell with
string or rune straight years a
champion. From 1889 until 189
without a break be won the hamme
title and in 1897 won the '56-pound
weight.
joie nay- performance Is a re
markable piece of work In these
days of specialists and stiff comDe
tition. Longevity of competitive life
is conceded to big weight men who
improve with age, but track event
as a general rule "burn a man out'
in quick order. During his relirn as
champion Ray twice has broken the
American Athletic Union record for
the mile, though he has never been
quite able to equal or break the
world mark of 4:12 3-5 held bv Hor.
mn inupr.
When Ray first appeared as
mller, the record was held (cham-
pionsnip record) by the famous Abe!
Kivlat at 4:18 S-6. In 1917. his third
year as mile champion, Ray went
after the record and succeeded in
taking a fifth of a second off it and
tnen in im set the present chain-
pionsnip standard of 4:14 2-. An
other notable fact in connection
with Ray's performance) Is that In
inc seven years he has won the mile
title, ne has run 4:20 or better six
times. Ray Is the only man in the
worm wno snows such remarkable
consistency in the mile title race.
LEBANON ELEVEN AT WOKK
Seven of Last Year's Men Pro
vide Nucleus for New Team.
LEBANON, Or., Sept. 23.
(Special.) Stanley R. Summers,
athletlo director of the Lebanon
Hign school, who was one of
the mainstays on the backfield
on the 1921 fighting Oregon Aggies,
is fast whipping his football team
into a good machine. He has seven
of the last year s men around which
to build up his team.
Whilo Snider, Bilyeu, Bennnt and
Kuhn, the stars of last year, are
throura school, he has some prom
lsing material. Busey, Krleg. Bo
gart, Randle, C. Kuhn. Peasley and
Fee are the old first-team men back
this year. Reynolds, Duncan, Haux
well, Kelleck. Mlchels, and IjiLond
are promising new men. At pres
ent the line-up for the first game,
to be played October 7, will be about
as follows: Right end. Randle; right
tackle, Reynolds; right guard, Haux-
well; center, Mlchels; left guard
Fee; left tackle, Duncan; left end,
La Fond; quarter, C. Kuhn; right
half, Busey; left half, Krleg; full,
Bogart and Peasley.
CENTER HAS 2 6 VETERANS
School Which Beat Harvard Grid
Men Has Good Outlook.
With 26 veterans of the squad
that last year took Harvard into
camp Center college football of
ficials are looking forward to an
other great team this year. The
schedule calls for ten games, with
Virginia, Polytechnic, Harvard,
Clemson, Auburn, Kentucky and
Washington and Lee being included.
"Bo" McMillan, the great quarter
back of the last four years, will not
be with the Colonels. Neither will
Tom Moran. But "Red" Roberts
will be present to guide the des
tinies of the Colonels.
Backers of the team are counting
on young Herb Covington filling
the hole left by the graduation of
McMillan to a large extent. Some
claim that Covington, while perhaps
lacking the almost uncanny football
Instinct of the mighty "Bo," will be
his equal otherwise.
One Team, All .300 Hitter.
Recent Texas league averages
show that the Wichita Falls club
could put on the field an entire team,
including pitcher and utility man.
which would hit above .300, accord
ing to an exchange. Even in these
days of heavy hitting It Is doubtful
if any other club could do that. ,
DEMAND FOR SEATS BIG
Little Enthusiasm Shown Orer
Prospect of Roth New York"
Entering Illg Classic.
BT GEORGE CHAD WICK.
(Coprriiht. 1S22. br Ths OrctmU4L)
NEW YORK. Sept. 23. (Special.)
Arrangements for the world's
series, so far as New York Is con
cerned, will be much the same as
they were In 1(21. There can be
no addition to the seating capacity
of the Polo grounds without Inter
fering with the field. There will
be no attempt to make any.
It was announced today that plsns
which were put In effect In 1911.
and which always have been con
tinued, will be followed as In thu
past. There are a few more scat
tering seats at the present llm.i
than there were In 1921. but on th
whole the general scheme of thins
Is the same. The man who dsvlsnt
these arrangements Is no longer
with the club but bis methods have
been standard for years.
Demand for Seats IImvt,
The demand for seats will not b
abated from other years becausn
there has always been a greater call
than capacity and always will b
The mere spectacle alons woui'l
command a sufficient atronsg
from the transients whether Nr
York turned out or not. If th.i
seats were not put nut by applica
tion and were handed out to th
speculators the latter would tsk..
thousands of them In a block and
figure on getting rid of all of them
at the hotels.
No great enthusiasm exlts even
In New York over' the presumable
victory f both New Tork nines.
The fans seem Inclined to take It
as they did in 1921, without show
of feeling.
Crowds ffcy osj TCnlkualsam.
When the (Hants finally won th
1921 serl'!H 90 per cent of the crowd
filed out of the field without as
much as a look at the victorious
team. They had witnessed the show
and were r-ady to go home. In th
19V5 series, when the (iiants won
their first world series, tha crowd
surrounded the clubhouse and re
mained there for nearly sn hour
cheering for the players and de
manding to see them.
That kind of enthusiasm no longer
exists In the metropolis. More spirit
Is displayed over the presumable
winning of the Yankees than there
Is over the hollow vlrtory of the
Giants. The impression holds
ground deeply In New York that the
National league Is not mm strong hi
Its rival this year, and that th
victory of the Giants over a soargy
eastern representation and a bsuly
managed western representation
doesn't stand for much.
AOendaBC Nut Affected.
This will not affect tha attend
ance In the least. The city la too
big for the promoters of the club
to worry about anything of that
nature. Last year on the first day
of ths series the upper part of the
stadium did not beln to be filled
and on the last day it was not
chock-a-block. On the first day It
s probable that the attendance
simmered off because the game wa
overplayed, from a sensational stand
point.
There were a lot of hot air yarns
about the ticket buyers In line all
night and the fans down town de
cided they wouldn't go up and tske
a chance. As a matter or fact, be
fore the game be.ft.in there wer"
6000 empty ati and a lot of ball
players shedding tears that so much
spare- should have gone to wsste.
They get In on the first four game
and'they scan the stands to see thi
size of the crowd with eyes that ars
hungrier than those of the basse.
Hoses Always Sold Out.
Boxes to the games hold four
and usually are aold Intact. In fart
It is out of the question grnnrsllv
to get a box. Friends of the owners
nd city politicians have to h
considered. Some boxes are occupied
by those who seldom or never i
game during the regular season.
but who wish to be In the front
row of the world series for the
same reason that they like to h"
in the front row on a first night at
the follies.
Applications for seats are U"usllv
restricted to two, which must b
bought for all of the scries, and
their money must be In the shapi
of a certified check, postofflce or1-r
or express ordnr. The certlflrl
checks get the preferencs because
they ran be better Identified.
If the spectators want at thev
usually send their families over tn
the New Ji-rsey side of the river
and have them buy postal order
and send for tickets with fictitious
names attached.
Yankees fa lie KsTsrlfes.
If the two New York Hubs plsv
for the world title the Yanks will
KO Into the fight favorites In tha
betting. It is ths first time that
there has been that sentiment In
evidence In New j ork. Last year
here were many who thuiKht thn
Yanks had a rhunre to win, hut that
was as far as they went and they
would not bet anything better tlutn
even money. This year It Is dif
ferent. One man In the Hotel AM"r
ut up ItOOO to S1500 that th"
Yanks would defeat the Clanta an !
hat It would not be necessary t
play seven games. That Is fcoln,;
trong.
The first game, no matter who
plays for the pennant, will tak
place on the Tolo ground October.
TEXAS CASH IS 'ABA HON I :i
Next Spring Indian Will Trnlrt
ut Town In Florida.
CHICAGO. III., Sept. 21 Trll
Speaker already has decided thst ha
will not lead his trusty Indians Lack
to the Lone Star state hl.i natlva
ne for their training session next
prlng. Trts hoped to hold to T'lu.i
as the training rite for his cre.
artly because It Is his home state.
But he feels that he cannot lesmbla
n another spell of weather surrt a
he team struck last spring when
aln held them Indoors for a wecK
r more at a time.
Sj he selected Lakeland. Fla., for
ext sprinc's workout. lakeland,
ow In the Florida State c) le. Is
Ituated Inlnnd. eawt of Tumpa ai.d
t. Petersburg. Big ' l-Htw cluhs
re training In these towns, as well
as at otner cities in Kioriiia within
asy reach from lakeland for exhl-
Itlon games. The weather nor
mally Is perfect