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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 1 T, 1022 IERICI LEAGUE E Clubowners Weary of Rows Between Rivals. BRIGHT FUTURE IS SEEN HOPES EAC ' Two Successive Defeats in World Series Declared to Have Hurt Big Chiefs. '. t, ' BT GEORGE CHADWICK. (Copyright, 1021. by The Oregonian.) , NEW YORK. Dec. 16. (Special.) The American league has wearied ' of baseball politics. There is a feel ing among some of the clubowners that a brighter day is dawning in which there will be fewer flank , movements upon the president of , the league and his . policies, and more direct assaults upon the Na tional league and its gradual en croachment upon the standard of excellence which the American league once asserted existed more i for them than for the Nationals. ". "J When Colonel Huston stepped out of baseball there were certain mem bers of the American league who ... breathed a sigh of relief. Whether they were right or wrong they held that the colonel is blamed enough in conversation when inclined to be a stormy petrel in baseball. The defeats of the New Tork American league club in two suc cessive world series have set heavily upon the American league chest While the American owners do not exploit their grief openly, they are grieved. A man who is prominent in the American league expressed ' the opinion that the Chicago Amer ican league club would never be ,:..come reconciled to Johnson. Peace la Possible. Another man whb is equally prom .,. inent said: "Anything is likely to happen any day in baseball. I have lived in its . atmosphere so long that I have seen .he rain fall briskly in the sunshine .land expect to see a similar sight . again. The league may not have a quarrel again for ten years. I hope ..it doesn't." The American league clubs con , front the new year with more ... changes of importance than any . major circuit has made in a decade. .. .First there is a new park in New .;. York and a partly new club. . At ,. Boston there is a new manager, : Frank Chance. . : .. .At .Washington there is a new ...manager. The situation was totally unexpected. It is doubtful if any one except Griffith had given Owen .. Bush a thought as manager. Connie Mack has invested (75,000 . for a new infielder with whose help and that of other players on his reconstructed athletics he has dreams of bringing Philadelphia , back to the position of prominence that it once held in the American league. White Sox Have Knmm. . The Chicago White Sox have a $100,000 ballplayer in Kamm, an ex hibit to be shown all through the east as the highest priced of any ' that has come out of California. There Is no hokum about the "amount of money transferred. The ,,. check is photographed and on ex hibition in California and at the bottom is the bold signature of Charles Comlskey, a little tremulous as if he were given three cheers when he signed it. The fans become annoyed with quarrels of owners if they last too long. That is why a prominent American league owner, a conserv ative owner, said today: "I devoutedly hope our days of politics are over. I think there will be a change. I have too much at Etake to be fooling with personal differences any longer. I am look ing for the most eventful 'year that the American league ever had." ' BOKIESKE. PICKS PLAYERS 15 ot Whitman Football Squad . Recommended lor Letters. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec IS. Fifteen members of the Whitman college football squad have been recommended for letters by Coach Borleske because of their showing during the 1922 season. All of those recommended for awards, played eight or more quarters during the season. ' Those recommended for letters in clude Captain Earl Heritage, Sedro Woolley; Earl Tllton, Spokane; Walton Schroeder, Florence. Or.; Hal Holmes. Walla Walla; William Lucht, Deep Creek; Frank Hall, White Salmon; . Wymon Ratchford, Sedro Woolley; William Boyd, Seat tle; Arthur Walther, Spokane; Les ter Walton, Seattle; Burr More look, Oakesdale Harold York, , Walla Walla; Ralph Lackey, Touchet; Everett Bartholomew, WTiite Salmon, and Delbert May, Dayton. Three players, Holmes, Heritage and Lucht, played through the en tire season of seven games without being taken out. Walther played all but six minutes of the varsity season. Holmes, Schroeder, Lucht and Boyd are seniors and will be lost by graduation. 'IDAHO HAS TfO CAPTAIN , Coach to Designate Player to J Serve at Each Game. j MOSCOW, Idaho, Dec. 16. Uni versity of Idaho football players have voted against electing a cap- l tain for next season. At a meeting of the players held to decide what i action would be taken on the mat- ter, they decided It would be best 1 to do without a team captain for . the season. However, since it is necessary that some one player bear the title i of captain when the team is in actual competition, since the cap- tain is the only player authorized to ; represent the team with .officials handling the game, the players I voted that the coach should have ; power to designate one player as i captain before each game. t Previous Action Rescinded. J CHICAGO, Dec 16. The western conference faculty committee at a '. special meeting here tonight re E scinded Its action of December 2, v recommending that big ten stars re- ! f rain from participating in the na- 1 ttonal collegiate track and field meet ' to be held here the third Saturday I of next June. The lacuity repre S sentatlves agreed to participation in the meet provided the meet were limited to point winners In the vari- ous conferences throughout the - .country. NEW STADIUM AT LOS ANGELES WILL SEAT MORE THAN V UP s S -kVV . I tTi f t wifi ' 'fegv.-v s;ip-- y&mm&iozm INTERIOR OP STADIUM TO BE COMPLETED BY FIRST OP YEAR IS IS CHESTER SIMS,. AGED 17, SUR PRISES IIAWAIIAXS. Mile Open Water Race at Waikiki Beach Won Easily, Defeat ing "Wild Bill" Harris. ' ... I ' HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 4. (Spe cial.) Chester Sims, 17 years old, fair haired and blue eyes, is the latest swimming star to burst upon the horizon of the Hawaiian aquatic world. His burst happened Thanks giving day when he surprised the thousands who lined the beach at Waikiki by winning the mile opei water swim from Castle's Point to the Outrigger Canoe club diving stand. In winning this race he de feated the favorite W. W. (Wild Bill) Harris by more than 100 yards. Harris is now on his way south for a three months' tour of Australia and New Zealand, while the local swimming fans are still talking about Chester Sims. It , was a go-as-you-please race with any style of swimming being permitted. His time was 22:16.2, which is fast, considering that part of the swim was through the big combers off Waikiki beach. Sims took the lead from Harris in the first 50 yards and increased it as he went along. He swam the crawl for only a part of the distance, turning over and swimming on his back most of the mile. As luck would have it Sims was not aided by. the combers while Harris who came second and Minville. who came: third caught' -a wave and body surfed at great speed through the combers thereby cut ting down Sim's lead from 150 to about 100 yards. Nine swimmers competed. In the girls' race held the same day Mariechen Wehselau was first, Connie Davis second and Lillie Bow mer third. Miss Wehselau was fa vored to win and had no- trouble scoring by BO yards. The boys' half mile race was won by K. Mak'nney. WILLARD IS IN TOWN (Continued i'rom First Page.) feat, and how unquestionably I am entitled to another chance. "Do I sincerely believe I can whip Dempsey when we meet again? I most certainly do. I go further. I say right now that I sincerely be lieve that in our next fight I not only will whip Dempsey and whip him easily, but he will not even hurt me, will do well, in fact, if he can hit me at all. "I say that because I know I am b'gger than Dempsey. I am stronger I am a better fighter and a potter boxer. I say this without the slightest egotism. My straight left has bothered some better boxers than ever Dempsey will be. My straight left kept off Jack Johnson at Havana and jabbed him till his teeth were loose and his head swam. Johnson was a greater fighter than Dempsey by far. , I will go into this fight abso lutely and completely confident of my ability to win back the cham pionship. I haven t a doubt that I can do it. I have set my heart on doing it and I will do it. And I will not fight a lot of second-raters GREEN 15 : Urn J Wood burn high wins nix out of nine games played during Neaon. Among the teams that fell before the slashing attack of the wiry crew were Stay ton high, Ciresham high. West Linn high, Willamette fresk men and mount Angel college's second eleven. . ' WILL BE PRACTICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE. first. I went through them once and there is no reason why I should do it again." . " . We brought up casually the topic of Big Jess' age Thought it might be a sore point with him, so went at it cautiously. But Jess dashed in head first and took the question. "Yes, they say I'm too old," ha said, and laughed his booming laugh. "They say I'm 43 and that, good as I- may have been once, J haven't a chance with the grave yawning before me. "I'll tell you how old I am, and you can believe it or not. I am 37 years old and I celebrated my birth day December 9. I was born in KansaB in 1885. If I were an old, battered wreck, a fighter who. has 'taken them,' 37 would be a hope less age at which to attempt a comeback. But I am not In all 1 have not fought 0 fights. In only one, the fight against Dempsey, after he dazed me with that punch in the first round, did I take any punishment. , "I am not a dissipater. I am mar ried and have a fine family and I am a family man. ' My vitality has never been burned out. I am as good today as I ever was, and even if I have gone back I have the strength and the size and the power to go back a long, long way and still be better than any other heavy weight. - - "They say I can't come back, be cause no defeated heavyweight champion ever has been licked and come back. I'm glad they say that. I'm glad the odds all. seem against me.' I couldn't ask for anything better. That will send me into the ring with the psychology" yep, Jess Willard said psychology "all favoring me. "Let me tell you something. All my life I have been doing things people said couldn't be done. When I began fighting they said I never could get anywhere; that I was just a big, strong, awkward dub. Then they said I never .could whip Lute McCarthy, then the idol of the white hopes. But I did lick him. And that's a funny story. Don't remem ber having seen it in print. "It happened this way: It was along in the 'white hope' days short ly before 1912 that I saw Carl Mor ris fight in Tulsa, Okla. I was cow punching then, a big, strong kid, and tough as nails. " 'Say,' I told the boys, 'if that's all there is to it, I'm going in there and knock over some of those stiffs." ' "They razzed me and laughed at me and said I was crazy. But I went in and knocked over a few of them. Then I went to New York to fight McCarthy, who was the big potato on the Great White way. "It was funny I didn't even have a manager. They wouldn't let me fight in New York until I got a manager, so I went up to Billy Gib son and he turned me over to some brother-in-law of his. I went into the ring against McCarthy and glanced back at my corner just be fore the bell rang. ' There wasn't a sign of manager or second in the corner.. They all thought I was the bunk; that I didn't have a chance; that McCarthy would bump me over, and they didn't want'to be in on it, so they, had all skipped. ."I won the first round and all the other rounds and though McCarthy went the" ten-round route, they had to help him out of the ring. And then it was funnier yet. As the fight progressed my original manager SCHOOL ELEVEN MAKES FINE f ff ho gwn -iF-fl 100,000 PERSONS AND IS HERALDED AS LARGEST IN WORLD. SHOWN IN THE PICTURE. IT IS and seconds returned, and with each succeeding round, as I showed bet ter and better, more managers and more seconds would appear. At the end of the tenth there were about 20 seconds and no less than half a dozen managers all trying to claim me as their original property." And Jess laughed and laughed. High old joke. . .When Jess Willard laughs, believe us, he laughs. His huge face cracks, expands, explodes into voice and his great guffaw goes booming down the corridors. . An easy fellow to meet,' anything but the dour, unpleasant champion he has usually been pictured; a big man with a big man's good niture anc love of a laugh and a joker an easy and fluent talker, a reminiscer, a storyteller, an interesting conver sationalist; withal, a man deeply in parnest and impressing with the sin cerity of his desire to fight again for the championship of the world, and of his own belief that he can win , it that's Jess Willard as he Is today. BEZDEK IKES CHANGES FIVE SECOXD-STRIXG MEN SEXT INTO LINEUP. Penn State Mentor Giving Every Player Chance to Slake . Trip to California. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 16. Several changes have been made in the lineup of the Penn State foot ball team in preparation for its game at Pasadena New Year's, day with the University of Southern California, according to, , word re ceived here. , . .: ,f . ,. - - . ' Hugo Bezdek, coach of. the Nit tany Lions, in a recent practice, sent in five men from his second string to take the places of five players who started In the staters' disastrous game against Pittsburg Thanksgiving day. The change -may not be permanent but it. indicates that the- Nittany mentor Is out to give every man on the squad a chance af the team and the trip. Captain Bentz, center of the Lions, was one of the men sent to the second team, Bill Hamilton tak ing his place.' Hamilton did such good work against Pitt that the coaches feel they must make a place for him on the line. Glen Killinger, quarterback of the. great 1921 Penn State team, has re turned to the campus to help coach the team. The men are ' practicing in rain and freezing weather. The Nittany team leaves State College December 19 for the coast Coach Bezdek is planning to take 25 players. They will stop at the Grand canyon for one day en route and will arrive at Pasadena Christ mas eve. . . Before the game the Lions may Journey to Stanford to watch the contest December 30 between Stan ford and Pittsburg. Woodstock Methodist Episcopal plays Centenary Wilbur at 7:30 o clock tomor iow night at Woodstock. At 8:30 o'clock on the same floor East Side Baptists play Moreland Presbyterian. The teams are members of the Inter-Church heavy lt-ague. - - SHOWING. r-aoLo copyrighted by fauuic auu Atlantic Photos. BEING BUILT OV CONCRETE AND , VIRGINIA RECORD GOOD TEAM SCORES 246 POINTS TO ' " OPPONENTS' 21. Mountaineer. Eleven Picked as One of Leading Four in i East by Experts. MORGANTOWN. W. Va., Dec. 16. -- (Special.) The West Virginia university, football team which opens the east-west holiday foot ball season at San Diego on Christ mas day has an untarnished record for the 1922 season. Opening her season with the sec ond largest West Virginia college, West Virginia Wtsleyan," the Moun taineers, as the West Virginia state eleven is - called, wnon an easy vic tory, 20-3. Marietta college next was slaughtered by a score of 55-0. The University of Pittsburg, which plays Stanford at Palo Alto in the second east-west game, was next met and defeated 9-6 at Forbes) field, Pittsburg. Then followed the only "blot," if such it might be called, on the West Virginia record. Washington and Lee university, a comparatively weak southern eleven, was met at Charleston on the Satur day following the Pitt victory and West Virginia was held to a 12-12 tie. ' This result seemed to have a bracing effect on the West Virginia team, however, and from that time forward no eleven scored on the Mountaineers. The University of Cincinnati was beaten 34-0; the University of Indiana, a represen tative western conference eleven, was beaten S3-0; Rutgers" college, conqueror of Lehigh and other Strong eastern elevens, was taken into; camp, 28-0; the University of Virginia, which played Princeton to a.,,5-0 score, was beaten 13-0 in a sea,"of mud where effective offen sive play was greatly minimized; Ohio university was defeated 28-0 and finally Washington and Jeffer son, the great team which last year played the California Bear to a 0-0 score, was beaten 14-0. Washing ton and Jefferson had exactly the same line-up against West Virginia as faced California except Stein at tapkle and Neal at guard. The Mountaineers wifl take to the coast a record of nine victories and one tie game, or a point total of 246 for West Virginia university and 21 for her opponents. - Eastern newspapers have been somewhat divided as to where east ern honors actually rest. Princeton appears to receive the majority vote, with Cornell, Army and West Virginia following in close order. The most general practice among the "experts' is to rank Princeton and Cornell, teams that were not beaten or tied, in the first group. and Army and West Virginia, both playing tie contests, in the second group. Army was tied by Yale 7-7 and by Notre Dame 0-0. The West Virginia squad of 20 picked men jumped' back into togs Saturday after a final decision was reached as to the game and jegular daily workouts are on. Good weather prevails, fortunately, and the men have been able to pick up exactly where they left off follow ing the Washington and Jefferson victory Thanksgiving day which closed the regular season. The squad, will leave here Tues day, arriving at San Diego on Saturday preceding Christmas day. This will provide for two light workouts on the soil on which the game Is to be played, and Coach Spears Is well satisfied with this arrangement GRIDIRON LETTERS GIVEN 14 of Idaho Football Team Re ceive Season's Honors. MOSCOW, Idaho, Dec. 16. Pour teen members of the 1922 football team at the University of Idaho have been awarded varsity gridiron letters for the season just closed. The awards were made upon the recommendation of Coach R. L. Mathews. Captain J. A. Brown of Boise, fullback; Howard R. Breshears, Caldwell, halfback and end, and James NeaL Boise, end, received their third and final awards. The three veterans will be lost to the team next year. Other letters granted include Arnold Gobley, Boise, end; Dale Vohs, Emmett, tackle; Maurice Kline, Plainsfield, N. J., center; Abe Goff, Walla Walla, Wash., guard and center; Lawrence Quinn, Boise, tackle; Charles B. Hausen, Rupert tackle" and guard; John Vesser, Coeur d'Alene, end; Vernon Stivers, Moscow, quarterback; Sylvester Kleffner, Twim Falls, halfback; Frank Kinnison, Payette, halfback, and. Lyle Tapper, Richfield, guard. KNUCKLES SECRET OF PITCHER'S FIE Freak Delivery Makes Star , of Ed Rommel. PLAYER IS VALUABLE Managers Reported to Have Made Offers of $100,000 for Phenomenal Twirlcr. l There are numerous avenues approaching the entrance gates of baseball's hall of fame and foKtune. Babe Ruth carried 220 pounds of swat and swing to get his diploma. Christy Mathewson mastered a fadeaway. Tyrus Cobb sprinkled the aggressive stock of Georgia along the path. Tris Speaker, Gedrge Sisler, Mordecai Brown, Honus Wagner and many others knocked on the door and entered. And now three knuckles, apparently no different from those of any other hand, have created a new baseball phenom. . Edwin Americus Rommel owns the knuckles. Hundreds, in fact thousands, before have possessed the .same number of knuckles, but none ha-s applied the lower extremi ties of the pitching hand with the same success. For Edwin Americus Rommel, by discovering and mastering a freak but legal knuckle ball ehoot. - not only won more games than any pitcher In the American league dur ing the 1922 season, but caused another stampede in the direction of Connie Mack and gained extra distinction last summer by rating next to George Sisler as the most valuable player. Knuckles Turn Trick. Three knuckles on the right hand turned the trick. . By gripping the ball with the lower knuckles of the first three fingers, balanced by the thumb fend the last finger, Rommel created such a mystifying assort ment of benders that rival Ameri can league owners are crowding the Athletics with offers In the neighborhood of J100.000 for the latest pitching prize. With 1922 practically devoid of any sensational individual records, Rommel's feat ' of registering 27 victories with a seventh place club practically etamps his performance as the most brilliant of the season. It is natural for pitchers on a pennant winner and a contender to come up with a high percentage. It is the support of the team more than the miraculous work on the hill responsible for the string of victories. There is Joe Bush, who had a percentage of .788 with 26 victories and .seven defeats for the Yankees. With this record Joe was No. 1 in the list. But consider the other actors in the Yankee cast! In a way it did not require much pitch in, ct,,ff ,n maintain n n average of three victories and one defeat with those Yanks. , Knuckler Not Fast Ball. . Now turn to the page presenting the Athletics. They had been the tail-ender for seven consecutive seasons, and Connie Mack was be coming desperate. Everybody knows the quality of the material jviacK placed on the field each day. And with a seventh place club Ed Rommel won more games than any pitcher in the American league during the 1922 sea-son. The knuckle ball tells the story. It isn't a shoot of cannon-ball speed. It does not completely dis appear from the view of the batter. There are no tattoo marks on the seam. It leaves the palm and Is on its mysterious journey. It has been known to start in the general direc tion of the waistline, drop to the right or the left, hop upward around the chin and even change its pace from slow to fast and fast to slow. It is all through the manipulation of those knuckles on the three fingers. ' It isn't a strikeout ball. This fact Is brought out in the records of the American league pitchers. Rommel in 294 innings fanned but 54 batters. He walked 63. Base ball sharps Insist that successful pitchers have a higher average ot strikeouts than walks. Bush. Wal ter Johnson, Urban Faber, Urban Shocker, Bob Shawkey, Stan Cove leskle. Waits Hoyt, Howard Ehmke, Hubert Pruett and others averaged more strikeouts than walks. There was Guy Morton of the Cleveland Indians, with the highest strikeout average, last season, get- ting 102 in 203 innings, more than j one to two innings. But where : Morton had 48 more etrikeouts he i itr ... ) L-..3 mnra than Rnmmnl anii pitched in 91 fewer Innings than the Athletics" star. Sller Says It's Hard to Hit. A close-up analysis of Rommel's knuckle ball was given by George Sisler recently. Sisler had an aver age of .419 during the past season, therefore is qualified to speak on the subject of pitching and batting. "The bat has to meet the ball squarely for a clean wallop," re marked Sisler. "I have found my Belf not only topping Rommel's knuckler but getting under it Which results in grounders to the Infield or soft flies. The ball does not seem to do its stuff until It is 1 about six feet from the plate. "it it maae a one-way nop the batter would be able to set himself and familiarize himself with the break. But that's just where Rom mel's success comes in. It goes down one time and the next will take an upward break. "I believe I hit more infield flies against Rommel than any pitcher In the league. With the golfer who hooks and slices it Is: 'What am I doing? I know blame well what I am doing against Rommel. I'm getting under it too much. I'm prepared to meet that sharp drop the next time and Rommel is giving me that break which shoots from the belt to the shoulders. "That isn't all. Rommel Is a pitch lng student. In a year or so he has DAYTON, PIERCE ANO HUDSON BICYCLES PRICES CUT TO PIECES Now la the Time to Select Your CHRISTMAS BICYCLES $25.00 to $45.00 Indian Motorcycle Bicycle Co. mmj8is" 209 THIRD - SC studied his batters and you seldom get a good ball from him." The knuckle-ball shoot is the re sult of Rommel's fancy as a kid to invent something out of the ordi nary. As a schoolboy he says he al ways was tinkering with a toy en gine, making freak kites, building little wagons and bicycles and try ing to make his dad's eight-day clock run for life. . ' Skill Gained as Boy. "Like all kids, I played baseball," explained Rommel. "There wasn't enough to do in the game in the out field or the infield so 1 went in for pitching. I wanted to make the ball do something that the other fellows couldn't. The first time I pressed the three knuckles against the seam the ball dropped more than two feet. I experimented with all sorts of de liveries. 1 pitched it with a side arm motion, underhanded, over handed, moved the thumb and little finger to different parts of the ball and that's all there is to it. "It is impossible to get much speeil with the knuckle ball. The delicacy of the touch prevents it from get ting the full power ot the arm. It is this slow-motion speed which throws the batter off balance. "The successful pitcher must have a' change of pace. If he is always fast those fellows up there at the plate are going to finish him in a I hurry. If it is always a slow ball they're going to write out his re lease ticket in a hurry. But mix 'em up and you'll find out that you have the batter guessing. Keep him guessing and you'll win more games than you'll lose. ' Slow Ball Somtllmts Best. . "The value of a slow ball must not be lost. The American league pitch ers resorted to it against Babe Ruth when it looked as if they would never be able to stop him. During the last half of the season" other pitchers told me that they believed they could strike out Ruth three out of five times on nothing but slow twisters. "I don't throw the knuckle ball at all times. My system is to (Change around on my batter. When I find myself pinched, where three or four hits have been bunched in an in ning, I call out the. slow knuckle ball. And if they continue to hit me, why, then I must admit that they are better than my pitching for that day. "Frequently when I have been knocked off the hill early in the game I have gone back the next day and won with a shutout or a low score. And again a team I have blanked I have had my knuckler knocked to all parts of the field the next time I have faced them. "Proving that a pitcher with the knuckle ball or anything else Is not going to regulate baseball." GONZAGA TO START TRIP Nineteen Members of University Eleven Are lo Go South. SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 16. Nine teen members of the Gonzaga uni versity football squad, headed by Coach Charles E. ("Gus") Dorals, will leave Spokane Monday morning for San Diego, Cal.. where the Bull dogs will meet the University off West Virginia eleven on Christmas day. Other members of the official Gonzaga party will include Father James Kennelly, S. J., faculty repre sentative, and Manager Eugene Ga deau. According to Coach Dorals, the Bulldogs will hold only one prac tice during the trip, a light workout at Sacramento, Cal. Although heavy snow is preventing the squad from engaging In actual football practice, the players are keeping in shape by road work and daily workouts in the" college gymnasium. All members of the squad are reported In excellent condition. The 19 players making the trip are: Captain Nicholas Busch, Al Grant and Del Cary Smith, guards; Andrew Murray, center; Ivan Ca hoon, Marion Ashmore and. Hector Cyre, tackles; Frank Needles and Richard Flaherty, ends; Michael Pecarovich and Phillip Sweeney, quarterbacks; John Garrity, Houston Stockton, Matthew Bross, Sheldon Hodges and "Puggy" Hunton, half backs; Gilbert Skeate, James Mc Donald and Douglas Dykeman, full backs. SOUTH PARKWAY IS STRONG Last Year's Basketball Squad Re inforced by Newcomers. For six years South Parkway has had one of the leading basketball teams of Oregon -and if plans of Henry Pander, its manager, are sue cessful it will have a still stronger team this season. He has all of last year's men back on the squad, in addition to two or three newcomers Abe Popick, who has played center five years, will again hold down the pivot position. Ike De Cuman, former Multnomah star and late of St. Mary's college, will play one forward along with Ted Curian, for mer Commerce Btar. Captain Abe Unkelus and Meyer Dubin will play at guard. South Parkway will again join the Amateur Athletic union. Two local games are on the schedule, against North Pacific Dental college and Multnomah club. Manager Pander has tentative games with Oregon Agricultural college. University of Oregon, Columbia club of Astoria, Pacific university and the Chemawa Indians. The team will work, out Sunday morning at the 'Bnai 'Bri-th club, Thirteenth and Mill streets. GOLFERS! NEXT WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, I WILL OPEN MY Indoor Golf School The largest and best equipped golf school on the Pacific Coast at BROADWAY HALL To guide the destinies of the school we have conscientiously chosen two young professional gladiators of the links Mr. Frank Johnston, well-known Spokane professional, and Mr. Eddy Nunn, who is better known to Portland golfers through his work as one of trie professionals at the Tualatin Country Club Both of them serious students of stroke analysis and master club makers. THIS IN' ADDITION to our store, where an unusually attractive stock of men's, ladies' and children's clubs and accessories, are to be had, together with a thoroughly equipped making and repair bench, EMPHASIZES our determination to establish a real golf headquarters in Portland. Bring in Your Old Club and Trade It in on a New One Bill The Sporting Goods Man j Broadway o!f School . W. S. FLEMING Automatic 513-K9 Broadway 4135 292 WASHINGTON STREET SWEETSER PREFERS BOOKS TO GOLFING - Young Champ Not Worried Over Next Year. STUDIES NOW PURSUED Yale Collegian Will Not Let Game Interfere With Work, but Will Practice AH Possible. The next golfing task confronting Jesse Sweetser, America's national amateur champion, is to defend his title, but the young collegian is not worrying at all about that. He doesn't seem one bit perturbed over what is facing him when the season opens up next year. Just now he is more immediately concerned in his studies at Yale. He said recently, however, that while he would not let his golf ever interfere with hia studies, he would get out on the links as frequently as possible. It is interesting to recall that, prior to the amateur event at Brook line there were some who did not in clude Sweetser's name in the list of those who probably would be In the leading quartet .They held thia opinion despite the fact that no player of the younger generation even so much as Indicated that he had in him the championship possi bilities that Sweetser showed throughout the spring and summer of 1922. Advance Is Realised Sweetser's mental attitude toward, his chances, however, will be of In terest. He gave them when he waa asked whether he actually had th championship In view when he be gan to play In 1922. "Yes and no," was the reply, "I wanted to play as well as I could during the season, but in May I don't believe that I actually thought that I had a chance to win a cham pionship. Pehaps I never gave much thought to it I just kept playing along, and when I was suc cessful it seemed to me that I could do better than I did, and when I was not successful I knew that I muBt do better. That is the way in which, the championship idea grew upon me. "When I found that I could scors low, and that I could meet in match play and defeat players whom a year before I would have thought wer too much for me, I began to have a ereat deal more confidence in my own game. I don't know that I thought much at that time about being a champion. The champion ship quality really seemed to follow my playing more than I tried to fol low the championship lure or seek a title. I may have said to myself, and I guess perhaps I did say It, that I would be a champion some day. "But every player who begins to feel that he has a real game may have said the same thing. It's like the boy who watches the big ball players or the expert tennis playera, and says to himself that he will be like them some day. Record Feats Helped. "One of the great Inspirations that I had was when I found that I could play around a golf course and lower the record. If I was good enough for that I thought that I might be able to make a good showing in the tournaments. Success In the metro politan championship, naturally, gave me more reliance in myself for the national championship. "How to win a championship? I don't know. Just keep on. playing and hope that you will get better, and when you find that you haven't played a shot in the right way, don't forget to go back and play it over again. The only way that I know how to win a golf championship Is to keep trying." . LETTERS ARE GIVEN TO 1J Rewards for Football Season Are Granted at Aberdeen School. ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 16. (Special.) Seventeen members of the Aberdeen high school football team of 1922 received "high school fetters at the student assembly yes terday. Among them were two men who had received their fourth high school football letters and one who had received his thirdr. Mel Ingram and Norman McCrimmon are the two who have received four letters. Those receiving letters were Mel Ingram, captain; Howard Swift, captain-elect; Eri Blackwell, Elwell Chabet, Henry Hartley, William Goehrand, Norman McCrimmon, George West, Byron Eddy, Robert Kilts, Francis O'Connor, Robert Coons, Harold Little, Mage Rice, Edward Larkin, Carl Cloud and Siver Shutt. Second-team winners of letters were Malcolm StockwelU Floyd Hastert, Harry Williams. Harold Austin, Ed McCrimmon, El mer Strong, Ed Keller, Nell Tebb, Elliott Pulver, Jack Rehra and John Lehtonen. Coach Herrled receive! a loving cup for hiB services as coach. Fleming