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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAK, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, 1922 BIO LEAGUES PLAN 0 National Chiefs to Meet in New York Tuesday. GRAVE AFFAIRS LOOMING Americans to Assemble Also and Joint Confab Will Follow Separate Pow-wows. I BY GEORGE CHADWICK. (Copyright, w2, by The Oregouian.) NEW YORK, Dec. 9. (Special. The little leagues finished their j.owwow in Louisville very well sat isfied with themselves. Those who bad been prosperous and who added to their bank accounts by selling (stock from the old farm, rolled home filled with thoughts of Christmas cheer, and those who had no Christ mas cheer, at least had some Louis ville cheer left with them. Now comes the week of the major league meetings. The first of them is the meeting of the National league, which is to begin Tuesday, December 12, at New York. It is an annual fixed date in baseball and all baseball winter dates hinge upon It In one way or another. The American league meeting is to be held immediately following and subsequent to that is the meet ing of both leagues, the joint meet ing. Important Matters Loom Up. The major leagues may have some Jnternal affairs of grave importance to adjust. Usually they have to run over the minus of the previous meeting, match each other for din ner or luncheon and figure how they can come out better than even at the end of September. It is quite true that to some of them the tUsk of thus figuring is a severe tax on their brains, because some of them will have a long way to go before they are within hailing dis tance of striking a balance with anything on the credit 6ide of the ledger. Baseball is developing almost as many parties as English parliament The minor leagues have become ag gressive inflationists. The major leagues are mostly deflationists. There are the opportunists, there are also the conservatives in some strength and the liberals loud enough in speech but not so vigor ous in action. They came together in the big melting pot, which is the minor league meeting, and tried to reconcile conflicting interests, all of which, however, have a common purpose the acquisition of dollars through the obtaining of presunv ably perfected physical skill. minors Boost Prices. The minor leagues are inflationists because they wish to keep prices up to their present altitude. Practical ly ?75,000 has been paid recently for each of three ballplayers and J100,- OOu for each o two players and other sums between $25,000 and $10, 000 on several occasions within four years. The minor leagues have not obtained all of it, but they got most of It. They alsofthave a great deal more than they have received for ballplayers in smaller sums. The major leagues are the defla tionists because they would like to soe these prices drop, but they don't exactly know how to get at it. They can't make any kind of a com' bination by which they can keep from outbidding each other. They are willing enough to get all they can when they transfer ballplayers back to the minors, but point rue fully to the fact that, while they can purchase youngsters for $50,000 from the minors, they can't release wornout old boys to minors for much better than carfare. Opinions Differ Widely. The opportunists are those club owners who are ready with just a little more coin to get a little fur ther. They won't take the initia tive, but they will trail after the opinion of the other fellow. The liberals are the fellows who are ready to do anything if they can get the other fellow to pay for it The less affluential clubs are hinting that it is time to put on brakes, and the clubs with plenty insist that it never is time to put on the brakes with a clear track ahead. The big leagues will talk about some of these matters. A condition of anxiety, almost of fear, that the financial side of the professional game is becoming too much expanded is seizing upon some, of the promoters, and yet they are powerless, for the smaller cir cuits have the bit between their teeth and those who have anything to sell are taking advantage of con ditions to get all they can. In one way and another more than a half million dollars has gone out to the Pacific coast for bail players in the last four years. There never has been anything like it in baseball. The $20,000 which the Clcago club received a few years ago for the transfer of Clarkson and Kelly is a paltry sum in compari son. Stakes Are Millions. Baseball is no longer the quar ter game of the bleachers, but the million-dollar stake of the promot ers, and that is the striking feature of the immediate moment. In 1918, when baseball had been stopped by the war and there seemed tobe no peace in sight for perhaps Two years or more, the "whole league could nave oren nought for pennies as compared with dollars now. Swimming Splashes. Victor I.ipda, diiVctor of athletics at Franklin hiph whool in Honolulu, de clares i-liiklrt'i) should, be taught to swim at a very early age. Ligda is quoted: "I would ni most say that youngsters rnrr are Uo immature to learn. In Hawaii the natives otten start infants of 7 and 8 months on aquatic careers. 1 have seen babies only 1 year old who ci uld float comfortably. Youngsters of 2 and 3 frequently are pood swimmers, nd island boys and girls of 5 and 6 perform astonishing feats in the water. Vet on this side any child of that age who can swim at all is considered, a marvel." ... Louis Happy Kuehn. C!ympic divinff champion and member of the Multnomah ciub. ia auemting Columbia university, New YorH. and is on its swimming team. Also on the uani with Kuehn is Louis Baibarh. former Multnomah club diver nd holder of several Metropolitan div ing titles. ' One of trie wortd's best divers. Clar ence Pinkston. holder of the -world's high diving'title. and Dave Fait, member of the Multnomah club, and also a diver of abdity, are at Oregon Agricultural college without a competent coach. Both boys went to O. A. , C. in hope of finding one of America's best swimming tanks tn the hands of a well-known instructor, but for soma reason no ona has, been appointed. VETERAN BASKETBALL STAR , , jf " " ' 1 " ilittt fit- " ' a 'if I ; BnumqjjuA- ...I. agaiu. ;.ul i 'li George (Ad? Dewey, ex-college hoop star now coach and captain of Arleta professional quintet. He will lead his team into action against the Silverton, Or, five next Thursday night on tie Franklin hish floor. Minn READY FOB FRAY PROFESSIONAL BASKETEERS TO PLAY SILVERTOX. Local Team, Headed by Craig, Is One of Strongest in Portland and Still Undefeated. The Arleta professional basket ball team, which won its first two games of the season by overwhelm ing scores, will swing into action again Thursday night against the strong Silverton (Or.) team on the Franklin high floor. Arleta is ex pecting a much harder fight than it experienced in its previous two games, as Silverton is composed mainly of ex-college stars. Headed by Craig, the lanky cen ter who stands 6 feet 5 inches in his gym shoes, the Arleta team pre sents one of the strongest scoring combinations ever put into the local basketball field. Craig, who gained his experience with the University of Wyoming, and a service team while in the army, is a whole team in himself. He is always dangerous under the basket for he has a back hand shot that seldom fails to con nect. Slip Evans, forward, is another strong scoring factor. Evans is an ex-Grmnell college star and was high point the last two years of his college career. He is fast and a good shot. X. Clerin, the other forward, is an ex-Whitman college and Mult nomah club player. Clerin is going better this year than when he waa in college. Coach Dewey holds down one of the guard positions, with Jerry Jlil- ler playing the other guard. Dewey has payed on three college teams Purdue, Wisconsin" and Oregon Agricultural college besides star ring for several seasons at Multno mah club. An effort is being made to get r" AMEQiCMWINNCa GOLF is a game in which one can get all the exercise he cares to if he has the time to devote to It. In tennis an hour or so a day will keep a man in condition, but in golf one hour a day is not much, considered as exercise, unless the olaver spends all his time in hitting drives or brassie shots or j swings the iron as though he in tended to knock the, cover off the ball. The man or woman who takes up golf for the purpose of reducing will find it anything but a reducer unless much time is devoted to it. "How much golf should I play to take off 20 pounds?" asked a woman pupil once. I was bewildered for the moment and couldn't answer. Many beginners ask now many rounds they should play ,and now long they should stick to the game before they become good players, but only once has the other question been put to me. I am no doctor or physical di rector. Being just a plain golf pro fessional I have little knowledge 'as to how many rounds of golf will take off ten pounds of fat. I have heard golfers remark that a round on the links on a warm day would reduce them five or six pounds apiece, but a day or so later the weight would all be back again. In playing a round of golf the average person walks about five miles. The average golfer takes about 100 to play the course and, wittt a few extra practice swings thrown in, the round means a lot of exercise. If the day were warm and heavy clothes worn several pounds might be sweated off quite easily, but this would be in the same manner as weight is taken off an athlete in training. To keep the weight down one must keep at it every day or at .least three times a week. This should reduce and make one feel fit for business and for golf. The golfer with too much weight will WITH ARLETA PROFESSIONALS iTrancis Jacobberger to join the Arleta squad. Jacobberger, since leaving University of Oregon, has been playing with the Multnomah club. WOMAN IS GAME WARDEN Daughter of Wealthy Farmer En forces Law in Ohio. WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, O., Dec. 9. Fayette county has the first woman game protector in Ohio in the persons of Mrs. Rosetta Zim merman, 24, daughter of C. P. Lut trell,' a wealthy iarmer. Mrs. Zimmerman carries a pistol and a pair of handcuffs dangles at her side. "When I go after them they got'ta come," declares Mrs. Zimmerman, who some nights' ago made a trip to Dayton and placed a man under arrest early In the morn-ins-. The man was fined $10 and costs for hunting without the own er's permission. "Of they get hard boiled with me I simply show them I can be hard boiled, too," declares the woman game, protector. "I am not afraid and I can shoot, if it ever becomes .necessary." Mrs. Zimmerman wears knicker bockers while on duty. GONZAGA TEAM IS INVITED Game With West Virginia at San Diego Is Planned. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 9. A definite in vitation to Gonzaga university of Spokane to send its football team here to play against the University of West Virginia on Christmas day was telegraphed tonight by E, B. Gould, president of the local associa tion which is arranging the contest He said he expected a favorable re ply within a few hours. Telegrams received here today from Morgantown, W. va., - an nounced that the West Virginia team was in hard training and would remain so until the game. West Virginia has not yet set the date for its departure for San Diego. The West Virginia team has not been beaten this eeason. OF BaiTlSH 'oszm 4".' find it hard to execute his shots properly. How much play should a golfer have to perfect his game and keep him in working order? This all depends on the golfer. I know some stars who can pick up a club once in two or three weeks and perform as well as if they had been swinging it every day all summer long. others need much Practice and every-day play to keep on edge. too mucn golf, like too much of anything, has a bad effect. I would certainly impress it on the minds of all golfers that play when they are tired is never beneficial. On the con trary, it may be injurious. I never like to give any pupil a lesson that takes longer than a half hour unless I am playing around the course and coaching only occa sionally. Too much instruction all at once is bad for the beginner, as he should gather in a little at a time, but surely no more than he can retain. i The lack of concentration' will be apparent in one s game or in taking a lesson if one is tired or the lesson is too long-drawn out. The result of such play is seen in slackness, in which bad habits may easily be acquired. To play well one should always feel fit and eager. No man ever kept up good golf steadily week in and week out throughout the season. There al ways will be a time when the eye and hand refuse to work in harmony if overtaxed. (Copyright 1922, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Xounger Pillctte to Have Tryout. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. Her man Pillette, leading pitcher for the Detroit Americans last year, has a young brother who probably will be given a tryout next spring by the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast Baseball league. The elder Pillette was with the Portland coast league club before he went on to the majors. BASKET. SHOOTERS' LIFE IS Slid Stanford's Trainer Uses Football Tactics. MEN ARE KEPT ON JUMP Smiling Andy Kerr Devotee of Glenn Warner System, Wrhich Is Strong oh Defense... STANFORD UNIVERSITY, yCal., Dec. 9. (Special.) In the lull be tween the Stanford-California big game and the resumption of grid iron practice for Pittsburg, Andy Kerr is sending his basketball pros pects through a typical Warner sys tem grind. The Warner idea; is to have a team fit and conditioned for the. first game, and not by mid season. The Stanford court squad started practice two weeks before the big football game, but Kerr was busy with his football huskies and left the say-so to Jimmy Davies, captain and star of last season's quintet. On the Monday following the big battle Kerr personally took over direction of his basket shooters, and has had them working hard and furiously since. Only one vacancy is to be filled on the Card five this year, the for ward position of Jimmy Davies be ing open. ? DeGroot and Janssen of last year's regulars are still fol lowing the pigskin in preparation for Pittsburg, leaving "Nip" McHose and Skipper "Lefty" Rogers to hold down the ,court until after Jan uary 1. Kerr TTaes Football Tactic. - Kerr is using the same tactics in basketball that h used on the foot ball tuYf. He is giving his menhard and thorough training in funda mentals. He intends to have every man on his team constantly on the jump, with no let-downs. One day last week a sub came up to. Andy and asked for a .chance in- scrim mage. "I played standing guard on the frosh team, said the sub. "Standing guard!"-Andy was dis gusted. "There are. no standing guards on my teams; they are all running guards." From this it should not be in ferred that Kerr is a driver of the "Fighting Bob" , Evans type. He never swears at his men, though he doesn't hesitate a minute to give them a bawling-out whenever they forget to use their brains. He is a small, likeable fellow, known as "Smiling Andy" around the farm. Coach Is Great Booster. If there ever was a "Booster's club for coaches, Kerr would be its charter member. He is always ready with praise where due, and is full of optimism for all his games. This spirit of hope infects his teams, and makes them fight just that much harder for their coach. It is the "out to win" psychology. something that Stanford has been needing a large dose of for the past three years. ' Neither is Andy exactly of the "good mixer" pattern as is Andy Smith of the Bears. He wastes no time on the field striking up an in timate friendship with anybody, but gets down to business at once. He has every one on the field at work, and keeps them at it with a running fire of comment, direction and praise. J Voice Carries Over Entire Field. He has a voice that carries over the entire practice field, though he never shouts. He puts about as much effort into It as one wouldln talking into a telephone, yet his words are carried by a peculiar timbre in his voice clear from one end of the field to the other. No player has ever had to say "What?" to Kerr. This "voice of authority" is one of his biggest assets both in football and on the basketball floor, for it Iceeps his players on the jump every minute. "Smiling Andy" started his grid iron career as a quarterback on the Dickinson college eleven 25 years ago. Glenn Warner found him coaching a high . school team 'in Pittsburg in 1914, and put him on the Pit staff as freshman coach. For the next eight years Kerr ab sorbed the Warner system, and made it , his own. Last spring Stanford secured Warner on a ten-year con tract beginning in 1924, and left it up to "Pop" to send out a coach until he could come here. He sent his freshman coach. At the same time Warner successfully nego tiated for "Tiny" Thornhill, an old Pitt player, then at Central college, as line coach, and "Chief" Denny. formerly Carlisle Indian trailer under Warner, to take care of the bandages and arnica. . "Husky" Hunt to Coach Frosh. When Warner moves his family and possessions to California ' in 1924, Kerr will continue as his assis tant on-the varsity as "Husky" Hunt, another protege of the Warners, was taken on as freshman coach last spring. Hunt "was at that time in charge of the Berkeley high young sters, and succeeded in bringing i lot of them down to the farm this fall about the way Bagshaw worked things for Washington. Kerr got a big surprise in his first g'ames of western football. That was the lack of defensive play shown" everywhere on the coast. In the east defense counts for a lot, and it hag been part of Andy's sys tem of training with the Cards that defense training should be the first consideration. This may have the effect of revolutionizing western gridiron style, for if Stanford's sys tern proves strong enough every team will be forced to adopt it. Training; Pnt on Firm Basis. Also, Andy found that he was cop ing with heavier teams than those they put? out in the east. The line especially averaged more pounds per man in coast conference foot ball than even among the , "Big Three." Passing, particularly the passing "Brick" Muller displayed, is a rarity in the Atlantic colleges. There are few passes in any game, though most of the easterners have some kind of a strong running at tack. After having four coaches in four years, Stanford football training has been put on a firm basis by the ten year contract with Glenn Warner and three-year agreements with his assistants. Every one around Palo Alto is more than satisfied with the new regime, and after this year's game with California the sentiment seemed to be that Kerr's eleven will b'eat the Golden Bear when another season comes around. Gouliet-Belloni Cyclists Viii. NEW YORK. Dec. 9. Gouliet Belloni tonight won the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square gar den. Brocco and Coburn finished second and the Egg-Eaton combi nation third. FOUR PLAYERS WHO STARRED ON MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE ELEVEN DURING SEASON JUST CLOSED. rJ M x'zi t iiv :- 1 John Watson 200-pound lineman. 2 Ernest Kohler, quarter and half. 3 Clarence Ziegenhagen, captain vrho played at fallback and quarter. 4 Ed Stockton, halfback, who g-fves promise of beinf? an even greater star than his brother Zeb, ex-Columbia university ridder and now on the eleven of Gonznga college. DENTISTS DRILLING HARD HOOP PROSPECTS BRIGHT AT JfORTH PACIFIC. ' Coach of Ijast Year's Independent Champions Reports Diffi culty Scheduling Games. North Pacific college basketeers are out In full force under the direc tion of George (Ad) Dewey, coach. With practically the same iine-up as represented the schpol last year back in uniform Coach Dewey does not expect much trouble in turning out a winning combination. Dewey's chief trouble right now is filling the schedule for the com ing season. Several colleges have been offered games with North Pa cific but according to Coach Dewey me f the independent college quintets in the state nave retuocu to meet the dentists. Dewey de clares that both Pacific university and Linfield college at McMinnville have declined to meet the Portland college and have failed to give a fair explanation tor cutting orin Pacific off their schedules. North Pacific won the independent college state title last season and is out to repeat again tins year, in addition to having all of last sea- I son's first string team back Dewey has last year's freshman team play ers besides several new players who entered college this year. The, first string players ot last year's squad who are back are Mc- Loughlln and feppin, iorwaras, Kstes, center, and Butler and Mick leson, guards, besides Rogoway, who played several games at guard last year. t Last year's freshman players wno are showing up good for first team positions this sason are Louie Ras sier, forward, and Erickson, guard. Webster, who entered North Pacific from Vancouver, B. C, this year also is making a strong bid for a first team berth. North Pacific's first game is witn the University of Oregon here the early part of January. PLASS LAID FOR tJNTJSTJAL TRIP TO XORTHLAXD. Giant Seaplane Will Be So Com plete as to Match Modern Parlor Car for Comfort. , DETROIT, Dec. 9. In a giant sea plane, a party of Detroit and New York sportsmen will invade the great wastes'of the Arctic next sum mer on what is regarded as a most unusual hunting trip, if present plans are carried out. Members of the party intend to so completely outfit the plane that it will match the modern parlor car for conveni ence and comfort. - , The trip will have as its objec tive the land which heretofore has been known only to the dog train. Included in the party will be Inglis M. Uppercu and Charles F. Redden of New York, Howard E. Coffin, Harold H. Emmons. William E. Merger and Dr. James 'W. Inches of Detroit, men prominent in the airplane and motor worlds. The plane, which now is being esoecially constructed at Keyport, N.. J., will take an all-water route to the far northern bay. It is planned to leave New York about July 1, thence to Montreal and Moose Factory. The Hudson bay territory will be entered from the latter sta tion. s The equipment of- the plane will include compartment sleeping quar ters, with an observation room for ward, an electrically equipped kit chene'tte, an armory, a gallery and large storage rooms. It is announced that arrangements have been made with the Hudson Bay company for gasoline and other supplies. In discussing the proposed trip, Mr. Redden said: "It was after operating passenger-carrying craft for three years and having flown more than, 1,000.000 passenger miles without a mishap that I concluded properly regulated flying would en able us to safely reach Hudson bay." MYTHICAL ELEVEX SELECTED Southern Washington Coaches Pick All-Star Players. OLYMPIA? Wash, Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) Coaches of southwestern Washington : high school football leagues, meeting here today, se lected by popular vote mythical first and second all-southwest teams. Aberdeen and Olympia high schools divide honors with four men each on the first team, the other three selections going to Hoquiam. Mel Ingram, Aberdeen's star right halfback, was the only player in the league to receive the unanimous choice of all coaches voting. In gram, by one vote, hosed out Joe Koenig of Olympia for captain of the mythical team. Koenig was the popular choice for the other half with Berlin of Olympia for full back. Koltz of Aberdeen was the selection for quarter. On the second team Aberdeen placed five men, with Olympia and Chehalis two each, Hoquiam one and Montesano one. Centralia was eliminated as without material for the mythical team. A complete sur prise was the elimination of Louie Tesreau of Chehalis from either the first or second team, none of the coaches favoring him on the basis of his showing this year. Trie selections follow: v First team. Position. Second team McGuire, Olym u E. .Blackwell. Aber. Chabot, Aber L T. .Thornbury, Cheh. Hartley, Aber L G. . .Goshrend. Aber. Kalenius, Hop. C Winters, Olym. Poster, Olym RG.McCrimmon. Aber. Gordon. Hoq RT White. ' Olym. Peterson, Hoq. ...RE Eddy, Aber. Koltz. Aber Q. .:. .Phillips, Monte. Koenig, Olym.. . .L H. . . Mitchell, Cheh. Ingram, Aber RH Hughta, Hoq. Berlin. Olym FB. Swift. Aber. Why Worry Be original give something for the automobile. Over 500 gifts from which to choose. We enumerate only a partial list. GLOVES With and without gauntlets, and unlined. - $3.00 to $6.00 AUTO ROBES S4.50 to 815.00 Pendleton Robes $9.00 and $10.00 Other Gift Suggestions Automatic Windshield Cleaners. $4.75 to $7.00 Rear View Mirrors $1.50 to $3.25 "Cigar Lighters $2.50 to $7.00 Ash Receivers $1.00 to $2.50 Sun Visors $5.00 to $12.50 Motometers , $2.50 to $15.00 top Lights $1.65 Side Lights $2.25 to $7.00 Dome Lights '. $1.75 to $5.00 Flashlights ' $ .50 to $3.00 Allen ql H WASHINGTON HQQP PROSPECTS Bid! Three Veterans of Last Year Out for Quintet. CENTER IS NEEDED MOST Coach Edmundson May Have Dif ficulty Getting Man to Fill Shoes of Heine Seilk. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Dec2 ' 9. (Special.) The week at the University of Washing tori has seen two intercollegiate sports in full practice swayl Large turnouts for both basketball and wrestling have made' for enthusi astic predictions in these lines. Coach Hec Edmundson, with his duties as football trainer over, is now able to give all his time to his hoopers with six practices a week. During the last three weeks of tre football season, his men were prac ticing three times a week and he was only able to be with them on Saturday mornings. 1 Edmundson will have three last year veterans to build his quintet on. Evan Lewis, captain, Jimmy Bryan and Windy Crawford are these men. Lewis is not in school this quarter, but will be back in the University the first of the year. Leivis Good Forward. Lewis is considered one of the best forwards who has ever played on a Washington team. A fast floor man, a good man under the basket, and above all a good shot from dis tance, he will be a valuable asset to the team. Jimmy Bryan is considered one of the best standing guards on the coast. He is big, but he is fast and active. Windy Crawford, though somewhat diminutive, is fast and has a world of fight. He is a two year letter man tn basketball. Edmundson's job is going to be to find a' center who can fill the shoes of Heine Seilk, who has grad uated. Seilk almost invariably won the jump on opposing centers and' this enabled the husky quintet to assume the offensive from the start. 'Two. Candidates Promising. The two most promising canii-dates- for the jumping position ire Chuck Frankland and Bob Hesketh. Frankland substituted for Seilk last year when the latter was off color and is a hooper of experience. Hes keth played on one of the frosh teams last year. Both men are bet ter ou the floor than Seilk, but nei ther are noted for their long shots or can jump as high as Seilk could. Edmundson has cut his squad to 23 men and will cut it awain in a week to 14. Then the real work of build ing a team will begin. The confer ence' schedule does not start untli after. Christmas. ' Edmundson is giving his football men and will cut it again in a week the hoop game a little rest before they get into rubber-soled shoes. Bryan, Petrie, Kuhn, Abel and Hall are the former gridders who are going to give the game a try. - Fronde Likely Prospect. To fill the other forward position, Edmundson has three men of prom ise. Chet Froude, who all but won What to Give? RADIATOR CAPS Monogram and Self Locking $6.00 Other Ball and Arm Caps 60d to S3.50 SPOTLIGHTS All Types and Kinds - 4.25 to $13.50 eoai 64-66 Broadway a letter last year by substituting lit varsity games, is out again this year. Dick Fraya is also a, likely man for the job. Ob Gardner made We letter In basketball in 1920, playing a fucrd. Last year he was twirling with the baseball team in' Japan duTing the hoop season. Gardner has many ot . the qualities of a forward, and as Heck has two guards of first water. he may make a forward out ot Gardner. Coach Jimmy Arbuthnot, a former O. A. C. athletic mentor, is pleased with the showing his wrestling can didates have displayed in their first turnout. About 50 made their ap pearance at the first call for grap plers. Many Wrestlers Out. The turnout was of such a size thatvArbuthnot has had to divide his practice periods among the days of the week. He will be with his var sity men on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, leaving them to keep in training during the rest of tho week, by running and weight work. Tuesday and Thursday he wil devote to freshmen. Coach Arbuthnot has six letter- emn available, headed by Captain Jos Crum. 158-pounder. The others are: Paul Davis, 175: Roy Berry, 125; Ray Clithero, 135; Mao Carter, 125. and former Captain Ralph Gale, 136. Arbuthnot realizes that work from now until the end of the sea son must be of a concentrated va riety. On February 28, the Oregon Aggies will Bend their team to Seat tle to meet the Huskies. The farm ers were the only aggregation which stood between Washington and ths northwest championship last year. Pullman 9eet March 5. On March 5, the varsity will jour ney to Washington State college for a series of matches with the Cougar grapplers. Other non-conference meets may be scheduled later. Fall crew practice at the Univer sity ended this week. The winds have been blowing and the snow falling; all of which makes it a bit unpleasant for the oarsmen to go out on the lake. The varsity quit last week, but Coach Callow's four freshmen boats have been out on Lake Washington all week, despite the wintry breezes. None of the former Poughkeepsie crew has been in the shells this fall. Spuhn, Grant and Tidmarsh are in school, but they have been working off their deficiencies incurred dur ing the trip east last spring and have not had the time for shell work. Three Crews Practice. Despite this fact, three varsity boats have been working out five times a week. Several members of last year's freshman crew look good. Dow Walling, stroke on the frosh crew last year, is going to make a strong bid for a similar JOD on tne varsity this year. Coach Callow is well pleased with the showing his freshmen have made in the fall practice. About 60 have stayed with him during the entire practice season, and prospects for a winning yearling- crew are bright. GAME IiAAV CHANGES URGED Washington Sportsmen to Present Plan to Legislature. SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. Z. Pro posed changes in the state game code will be the chief topic occupy ing the attention of the annual meeting of the "Washington State Sportsmen's association to be held here December 9 and 10. It is esti mated that from 75 to 80 delegates, representing all parts of the state, will attend the meeting. It is the plan of the association to present the proposed changes in the game code to the next state leg islature for ratification, according to local members of the association. President Earl Frye of Seattle will 1 preside at the annual meeting. d Co.