TIIE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 1 T, 1022
IERICI LEAGUE
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Clubowners Weary of Rows
Between Rivals.
BRIGHT FUTURE IS SEEN
HOPES
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' Two Successive Defeats in World
Series Declared to Have
Hurt Big Chiefs.
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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
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CHESTER SIMS,. AGED 17, SUR
PRISES IIAWAIIAXS.
Mile Open Water Race at Waikiki
Beach Won Easily, Defeat
ing "Wild Bill" Harris.
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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
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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
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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.
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BEING BUILT OV CONCRETE AND
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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
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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