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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, DECEMBER 31, 1923 MULTNOMAH MEETS L BEBIMI SATURDAY Winged M Bastetball. Sea son Includes Most Colleges. TWO MAX GLADIATORS REMATCHED FOR ANOTHER TWO-HOUR STRUGGLE. 28EIK IlilOiE STILL A BIG RING CARD IS THIS LANKY HERCULES. THORPE TO INVADE WEST WITH ELEVE; "-GAME YET RECORD Brooklyn Sets Pace No Oth er Team Ever Equaled. Indian Professional Team to Tour Country. HONOLULU IS ON LIST SOME OTHERS BAD, TOO LONG TRIP TO BE MADE Outriggers' Club to Be Played February 10 While Team Is on Coast Tour. 120 Errors Made In 7 Contests in Big Leagues in Day, but Fines Put End to Frolic. Copper - Colored Athletes Start Schedule In Boston and End In Los Angeles. r 4 m The Multnomah club basketball team will open its season Saturday night, January C, in the club gym, with the University of Oregon quin tet furnishing the opposition. Clar ence Twining, chairman of the bas ketball committee at the club, has arranged a schedule of ten games for the season which will keep the Winged M boys busy for the next two months. Every college basketball team In the northwest except the University of Washington has signed for a game with Multnomah. Oregon Agricul tural college and University of Ore gon will be played twice. The first game with Oregon is set for Janu ary 6 here and a return match will be played at Eugene on January 13. Multnomah plays the Oregon Ag gies January 12 at Corvallis, but the date for the return game here will be set later. The date for the Willamette university contest, an other home game for Multnomah, also remains to be set. Honolulu Club on Schedule. Two games other than those with college teams are on the club's schedule. One is with the Outrig gers' club of Honolulu, champions of the Hawaiian islands; the other with the Walla Walla T. M. C. A. The Outriggers, who are making a tour of the Pacific coast, will be here for a game on February 10, while Walla Walla will be the op position at the club February 17. Multnomah is trying something new In basketball coaching this sea son. Instead of having one coach to run the team a committee of five ex-basketball stars will act as an advisory body. The team has been practicing four and five nights a week and will have its teamwork well . in hand for the Oregon game. Besides the regular practice ses sions the players have had plenty of chance to get into condition by flaying in the Sunday morning house league games. Several new faces appear on the club lineup this season. Only four of last season's players are back. Mclvor, all-Pacific coast selection for guard when he was playing with Washington State college, is one of the regulars at guard. David son, from Kansas City, where he played for two years on the Lowe & Campbell team, which last year won the national basketball tourna ment, is out for the other guard berth, along with Hugh Clerin and Bus Douglas. Ex-Agrgie Is Forward. Dick Stinson, ex-Oregon Agrlcul turel college player, Gus Clerin and Bob Pelouse are the forwards. "Skin" Reynolds, who played with Franklin high in his school days, later going to Whitman college, and was with the Los Angeles Athletic club team last year, will hold down center. Complete schedule of Multnomah elub games follows: January 6, Oregon at Portland. January 112. Oregon Aggies at Corvallis. January 13, Oregon at Eugene. January 10, Idaho at Portland. January 20, Whitman at Portland. February 3, Washington State college at Portland. February 10, Outriggers' elub at Port land. - February 17, Walla Walla at Portland. FULTON WANTS CHANCE (Continued From First Page.) I always did have Jess' goat. But I bar none of 'em white, black or green. I am feeling fine now, am very far from through and will make It some fight." Fulton really thinks that in Jack Curley he at last will have a man ager who can make him do his best. He didn't say so, but we gathered that he believes Curley knows how to handle him to keep him in the pink mentally as well as physically. Fred Fulton's trouble always has been more psychological than of physical performance. Big as he Is and bulky and strong, with his tremendous fists and punching power and great sise, psychologi cally he is more the bending willow than the oak. His great fights always have been fought when he was exuberantly confident In himself. His poor ones against fighters of reputation. Never was the power of mind over matter better illustrated than in the case of this huge, simple, likeable fellow. Whenever- he thinks he can win lie is indomitable, invincible, im pregnable, a . champion indeed. Whenever he has doubts of himself he disappoints. In many respects he is like a varsity football team. He needs a coach like Bezdek o Dobie or Andy Smith, a master psy ohologist, to hop him up mentally to the struggle. Let him get such a man Jack Curley may be or he may not and Fred Fulton might yet punch him self to a permanent place among tne iisuc great ones. These Scott high school players from Toledo are a fine crew of young fellows. They are a beauti fully coached team, too. They held e. practice on Multnomah field yes- xeraay aiternoon ana it was a revelation to see the speed and pre cision witn wnicn tney worked. Dr. W. A. Neill, the Scott head coach, is a leading surgeon of To ledo who gives up his big practice for two months each fall to coach the team just because he loves foot ball so much he can't withstand the call of the gridiron. Dr. Neill is no stranger to Portland. He used to play tackle for Whitman college and he wag some tackle. From Whitman he went east to Pennsyl vania and played tackle on the Penn team until one day when Bill Mar tin, trainer at Penn State and also a former Whitman athlete, protested him for having already played four years or. . varsity team. That ended his eastern footfall playing career. Besides a head coach, the Scott high team has two assistant coaches, being better equipped that way than many college elevens. The assistant coaches are Gary Clash and Bob Crowell, recent graduates from Syracuse, where tney both played on the varsity. Clash was a guard and Crowell quarterback, Tou can get some idea as to what kind of football they teach at Scott high and how superlatively good their teams are from the fact that this last season no fewer than 14 of the stars on eastern college ttievcns were Scott graduates. ffwq. of them were, on jta Tale ( J L V I iV J I":".:'- K- - . Sm" i pill. ''"-it S f A I I i ' . A t 1 j 11 jj Ted Thye, left, and AI Karasick, the match last week, so he asked for scramble at the Helllg theater thinks he can squeeze Thye into team. Another was Vlck of Michi gan, selected by Walter Camp and about everybody else as all-Amerl-can center. Another was Culver, the Syracuse captain and center. Scott high develops real players. The team looks and plays more like a yarsity than a high school eleven. The boys go through their plays at top speed no delay, nu hesitation. Make no mistake about it, this game at Corvallis tomorrow will be worth going a long distance to see. This section doesn't get to see any of the big eastern college elevens in post-season games, but in Scott high it will view eastern foot ball at its best. Dick Rutherford, football head coach and director of" athletics at Oregon Agricultural college, will use motion pictures in coaching all lines of athletics this coming year. He has ordered a motion picture camera which he will operate him self. Films will be shot showing. for example, football plays. These films will be put on the projector and run off at Blow speed. An ac companying lecture will point out the mistakes made by each man and commendable actions as welL Same in baseball and track. Harvard for several years has ac complished fine results through just such a use of moving pictures. All the big games played in the Harvard stadium are filmed from a place on the edge of the stadium, high above the field. . This gives a birdseye view of the plays, show ing every player in every play. What some one or two men might do on some particular play conceiv ably would escape the eagle eye of the coach, but they can t dodge the camera. Their every action snows on the film. Gus Welch is too sportsmanlike a fellow to give any alibis for his showing at Washington State. Gus resigned and let it go at that. Not everybody realizes what a handicap this fine coach and man was under at Washington State in the matter of schedule. Gus never stressed that part of it, but it shows how well they thought of him even In Cali fornia when the situation Is ex plained as Jack James of the San Francisco Examiner has done it in comment quoted herewith: Indian Gus Welch has resigned as football coacn oi wasnington State college. Don't blame him. Washington State, with by no means a weak team, finished so low in the recent coast conference race that its percentage was almost neg ligible. The Cougars belt Idaho, if memory serves. Otherwise they were beaten by everybody. Why? Because the -Washington State football team did nothing but travel all football season. A game here (at Berkeley), a game in Los An geles, a game in Seattle, a game at Corvallis never a game at home. All told, Welch's team had a mile ace record of some 8000-odd when the season was over. Who couia hope to coach a winner under such conditions? No sooner would the team be back from one trip than it was necessary to prepare for an other one. The next job Gus Welch takes he should have something in his con tract about efficient .scheduling. Only the famous Carlisle Indians of which Welch was a member could stand all that traln-hopplng. How does Tacoma feel about the justice of the baseball ruling by which the national board barred Bill Klepper "for life?" Well, here's a pretty good Indication the state ment herewith quoted is by Guy Kelly, attorney for the former Ta coma baseball club, and is taken from a recent issue of the Tacoma Ledger: "Bill Klepper more than carried out his agreement with the Ta coma club. He met everything more than half way. I am satisfied he tried his best to do the right thing. Tacoma fell down when Tacomans refused to produce their amount of stock purchased, which they had signed to take. Ball players, stranded and broke, were paid by Klepper as he agreed. "I believe the national arbitra. tlon board has shown itself arbi trary and unfair o Klepper.'! Russian Lion (right). Karaslck did not get massed up enough in their another chance to lose an arm or leg. They will nut on their return next Wednesday night. Karaslck is submission. , FDES WILL MEET HEM THYE AND KARA RICK REPEAT AT HEIXIG WEDNESDAY. Each Promises to Make Complete AVrecE of Otber and to Put an End to Supremacy Dispute. Ted Thye and Al Karaslck will resume their mat quarrel where they left off at the Hellig theater laBt week in the same theater next Wednesday jilght. Karasick says he wasn t right when Thye beat him two out of three falls in the last match, so asked for another chance. Thye obligingly agreed, so arrange ments have been completed for the second half of the cauliflower ear marathon. While the first combat was lively enough for the most exacting mat fan, both wrestlers declare it "was only child's play compared to what will happen Wednesday. Thye eays that when h gets through with his wristlocks Karasick will be minus one or maybe two arms, and the Russian says Thye will be lucky to come out of. the match with his head on his shoulders, for he will try to headlock him to a slow death. At wristlocks and headlock both grapplers know their stuff. .Thye Is without question the greatest wrist lock expert in th mat game, and while there may be wrestlers' who can use the headlock to better ad vantage than Karasick they have never showed here. Karasick learned his stuff from the greatest of all headlock wrestlers Strangler Lewis. When he was breaking into the game the Russian had a chance to train with Lewis for almost a year, and made the most of it. Basanta Singh, welterweight Dick Stinson, M-irmton Aggie bas ketball star. I J IV " , J practicing his headlock dally and champion of the world, will be In action again on the same card. The Hindu made a hit with his flashy style when he disposed of Kid Ire land In the short space of nine min utes at the last wrestling how Promoter Hamlin eays he will give Singh a chance to show some real stuff Wednesday night. Singh will wrestle Henry Burke to the best two out of three falls or decision at the end of one hour. There also is a possibility that Fred Fulton, heavyweight boxer, will show in a mixed bout with a wrestler. Fulton, who arrived in Portland yesterday in quest of a bout, says scoffingly that a wrestler does not stand a chance with a good boxer. Fulton says he Is ready to take on Strangler Lewis himself at any time or place, under any condi tions, and as for any of the others, he thinks It would be safe indeed. CRACK RUNNER FACES BAN Refund of $100 Necessary for Future Amateur Standing. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Jole W. Ray of Chicago, crack distance run ner and holder of the national mile championship, who is under tem porary suspension until January 1, for receiving alleged exorbitant ex pense money, .faces permanent de barment as an amateur athlete after that date unless he refunds 5100, the amount involved, to the Ama teur Athletic union before midnight tomorrow. Frederick W. Rubien, secretary of the union, said tonight that so far Ray had not returned the money, although he said he understood the Chicago star intended to do so and planned an extended indoor running campaign early m the new year. joe Loomis of Chicago, who. with his brother Frank, was suspended at the same time as Ray for similar reasons, has assured his restoration ta good standing, Mr. Rubien said, by refunding $5. No word has been received from Frank Loomis who was asked to refund $20, but it is pointed out that he already has for feited amateur standing by being engaged as a professional coach. The Loomis brothers gained fame as all-round stars in track and field sports. TUG-OF-WAR TO BE HELD Policemen and Firemen to Put on Act at Hippodrome. Strong men of the police and fire departments will hold a tug-of-war New Tear's eve as the opening fea ture of the Hippodrome s midnight carnival of fun. Captain H. A. Cir cle, who has picked the team for the police, is backing the follow ing men to win: Anchor, Sergeant B. F. Wade, supported by F. C. Rehberg, H. J. Kingern; Lee Martin, H. J. Epperson, E. B. WilJ.ard and H. M. Nutter. ; ' Chief Young of the fire depart ment has delegated to Jack Mattes the selection of the defenders of lire house laurels. Beside Mattes, who captains the team, there will be the following lineup: Dolphy, anchor; A. J. Dooney. Rasmnssen. Kumpf, Lieutenant Watts and An derson. PACIFIC V SCHEDULE IS . BIG Most Football Games In History of School Are Billed. FOREST GROBE, Or., Dec 29. Jr-acuic university, the latest addi tion to the northwest conference, next year will have the heaviest football schedule in its history. De spite the hard games, Coach Frank is confident his team will be able to make a good showing, for only three men of the 1922 team graduate In me spring. The Pacific schedule follows: September 29 Oregon Aggies at Cor vallis. October 6 Washington Stats at Pull man. October 13. Oregon at Eugene. October 20 Mount Angel college here. October 2T. Whitman college here. November 3 College of Puget Sound here. November 23 Willamette at Salem or Fortlano, . If you should wander tO' a ball yard nowadays, dear fan. and see a big league team spill 28 errors in one matinee, you would do one of two things demand your money back, or feel that the performance was so rotten that it was good, and let it go at that. Such a record for bungles was made by the Brooklyn American association team on June 17, 1885, and that record stands to this day, and, very likely, always will. Four days before, on June 13. the Louisville team made 20 errors in a single game. This is to be the story of those history-making games. Louisville was in fourth place on that bright June afternoon, and had been the subject of much unkindly "raizing"' from the Coloneltown sport scribes because it was not in first place as said scribes had told the world It would be. A baseball writer who gets off his real job and goes Into the forecasting business is making a mistake. . The Athletics were playing the Colonels, and the Philadelphians copped by the safe margin of 1? to 2, their twirler on this occasion be ing hone other than the celebrated Bobby Mathews. The Colonel battery, Baker and Murray, weighed In with four mis plays each, while Second Baseman McLaughlin contributed a like num ber to the glorious total. Short stop Miller chipped in two errors, and Reccius, at third, being more liberal,' made three. Jack Kerlns, playing first, erred twice, and Pete Browning rounded out the total by spilling a fly. Meantime, while all this was going on, the Athletics made but two errors, and slammed Mr. Baker's delivery for 13 bingles. Scribes Went the' Limit. As a matter of course. Louisville baseball writers took this game as their subject for the next day s dis sertation, and the only reason they didn't print more than they did about the players was because the postoffice department had long be fore ruled that that sort of lan guage was not mailable. The scribes attributed the sorry exhibition to claim that the players were drunk. This charge raised a storm of protest from the friends of the players, who pointed out to their accusers that the only two Louisville performers who did not make errors were the only members of the team at that particular time who were not passengers on the water wagon. On that same day June 13, 1885 four games were played in the American aseoc'ation with a total of SI errors, distributed thusly: Athletics ........ SIBrooklyn 6 Louisville 2nlClncinnatl 8 Metropolitans ... 6 Baltimore 4 St. Louis 2!Plttsburg 9 On the same afternoon, six Na tional league teams (only three games were played In that circuit that day) found time to crowd in 9 errors, as follows: Chicago .12!Providenee .v....14 Detroit 19INew YorK B Philadelphia 11, Boston 8 One hundred and twenty errors in seven big league games in one day! Ponder that, brother! Is that scan dalous? To use the words of the Immortal Jeff, "Answer me that." It la true that the huge fielders' glove was not the vogue at the time these flocks of misplays were made, and many of the players wore no gloves at all, and some sported lady-like affairs with the finger tips removed from, them, but this hardly furnishes an alibi, as play ing under like conditions on otber days, no such showing resulted. Here Is Record. But to come now to that record exhibition of purely punk perform ing that Brooklyn-St. Louis game of June 17. Pitching for the Trolley Dodgers that day was a gentleman by the-uncopyrighted name of J. Smith, and it was his first game in the major show. Rumor was rife that the Brooklyn players didn't take a shine to the newcomer among them, whose fresh and airy ways annoyed them sorely, and they de cided, with malice prepense, to dis courage him by making him lose on his first time out in high baseball society. It is true that this was merely rumor, but If the Brooklyn players really., did conspire to humiliate their new comrade from the bushes, the conspiracy wag wholly unneces sary, as young Mr. Smith alone, and unaided, himself contributed ten fielding errors to that dizzy galaxy of 28. But to make certain that he didn't win, Hayes, his catcher, and Shortstop "Germany" Smith spit 14 errors between them on a 6-0-60 basis, the other four being donated by other Brooklynites. With Dave Foutz and Al Bushong In the points, St. Louis won the game 18 to S. This game brought about the most drastic disciplining of players in the history of the sport. For some time, President Byrne of Brooklyn had suspected that some of his players were "throwing" games, and this woeful exhibition chased doubt and introduced certainty. As soon as the last man was out, Byrne assem bled his men In the clubhouse. "Gentlemen," he said, "the limit has, been reached. You have dis graced baseball by your perform ance today. I now fine each of you (500. It Is up to you to pay it or not, but those who fail to pay will never again be permitted to play." They AU Paid But Smith. , The fines were paid, except by Pitcher Smith, hero of the ten er rors. That young fellow's connec tion with the club terminated then and there. Fro mthat day on Brook lyn played a better game, because the Dodgers realized that their boss would tolerate no more foolishness. It stands today as the record in the way of drastic punishment imposed upon players. While these two games were the high lights of June, 1885, that month occupies a unique place In baseball history in other respect's. On June 25, Brooklyn, playing the Athletics 25, Brooklyn, playing the Athletics, made 29 hits, while the Athletics biffed for 15. Pinckney, Dodger third, sacker," made six hits in six times up. Germany Smith. Harklns, King, Haynes, Hotaling and Swart wood each hit for two; McClellan for three, while Phillips and Cassi dy weighed in with four apiece. In five times up, Strief, Athletic sec ond baseman, made four three-baggers and a singla, the record until .II ' ?! 1 If " s l;rT K." X - M';f - I L I V ' pyr T. ft if?,1 - V'uiii ' iji'? . " I'M 'ih: a4 llyi -jtiiM Hit 1 r - t tc M, --11 ' j j-ii ' M 's-tM J "J J 1 MfM - i "11 HI , ' 111 bJhuv-v. . 111 r I fy:c r rs - x " ' If J YnvYv'i'-firfWf''i' Fred Fulton, 6 feet 8 Inches and 215 pounds, who reached Portland yester day looking for trouble. Despite all his tribulations, the bis; fellow packs them In whereever he goes. He would look good against some white heavyweight n an armory programme. then, for extra bases In a single game. The huge Larkln, in center for the Athletics, made two home runs, and Henry Stovey tallied one circuit clout. After the smoke of bartle cleared away, the scorers took an Inventory and discovered that there had been three homers, eight triples and three doubles, besides enough singles to have elected Bryan to the presi dency if they had been votes cast for him. ' Scheduled Bout Called Off. ' OKLAHOMA PITT. Okla.. Dec. 30. A 12-round decision bout, sched uled here for the night of January 8 between Gene . Tunney, former American light-heavyweignt cham pion, and Jimmy Delaney of St. Paul, was called off tonight on receipt of advices that Tunney was ill and would be unable to fulfill his en gagement. Stumps of the earliest known trees, which rose to a height of AO feet and are believed to have been seed ferns, have recently been un earthed by the New Tork board of water supply. Chevrolet Motor Co. ANNOUNCES The opening of a wholesale office at East Salmon street, between Second and Third streets, Port land, Oregon, on January 1 . This office is in charge of Mr. W. J. Richmond and has general super vision of the wholesale business of this company in Washington, Ore gon, western Idaho and western Montana. This wholesale office has been established to meet the require ments imposed by the greatly increased popularity of Chevrolet cars in this territory. Chevrolet Motor Co. ' Division General Motors Corporation DETROIT, MICHIGAN Jim Thorpe, world's greatest ath lete, has a football aggregation that Is the first of its kind in the United States in professional circles. Every member of the eleven is an Indian. All are graduates from the three schools, Carlisle. Haskell and Sher man universities. Joe Guyon, Georgia Tech star a few years ago,, along with Peter Calac of "West Virginia Wesleyan, are with the Indian team. These two college stars are the main cogs of Thorpe's machine and are back- field running mates to the great Indian. Long Time Sleep, a five letter athlete of Haskell university, Nebraska; Busch of 'Carlisle, At tache of Sherman, Little Twig of Yale and Boutwell of Carlisle are other men who are making the country-wide tour with Thorpe. Trip to Be Long. The team represents the Oorang Airedale kennels of Larue, O., one of the largest of its kind in the country. The team is making a five month tour of the United States and will be led by Thorpe Into many states. Eighteen copper-colored athletes will see more country as a team than any other football team, college or professional, ever assem bled. Following the close of the Amer ican Professional Football league, of which the Indians are members, the team will Journey from 'Boston to Ne-w Tork, thence south, stop ping at Washington, D. C. After playing Atlanta, Ga., they cross the gangplank for Havana, Cuba, where on New Year's afternoon they play a team of Cubans. Returning to the United States, they shape their cours'e westward, through to Louis iana and into Texas, where five games are to be played. Dnlly Practice Held. Their itinerary comes to a close on Washington's birthday in Los Angeles, where they play the Pa cific coast fleet team on that day. The Jaunt is the longest enjoyed by any team in the country and will prooauiy cover ciuae iu xu,wu uiun. The Indians travel in their own coaches, consisting of sleeping quar ters as well as a diner. A training table is strictly observed and the team practices daily, the Itinerary calling for stops for this purpose. Two trainers are continually with the team and the players are kept in the best possible- physical condi tion, due to the fact that two to three games are played each week. Stkl Sues for Title. PARIS, Dec. 30. Battling SIki filed suit in the civil courts today against Paul Rosseau, president of the French boxing federation, for annulment of his nine months' dis qualification and for restoration of his title as European heavyweight champion, which he -won from Georges Csrpentier.