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THE OREGON SUNDAY - JOURNAL, PORTLAND, - SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 29,- 1908.
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ALL-NORTHWEST IS
SELECTED FOR 1908
FOOTBALL MEN FOR THEORETICAL TEAM
Left End Leigh Savidge, University of Idaho.
Left Tackle Lou I Piokham, University of Oregon.
Left Guard Fred Moullen, University of Oregon.
Center Phillip Cherry. Washington State college.
Right Guard Prank Babcock. University bt "Washington.
Right Tackle Frank Pendergrass, Oregon Agrlcaltural college.
Right End Warren Grlrom. University of .Washington. - v
Quarterback William Coyle. University of "Washington.
Left Halfback Vincent Berleake, Whitman college.
Right Halfback Carl Wolff. Oregon Agricultural-college.
Fullback Dudley Clarke. University of Orercftt,.
By Robert -A, Cronln. -
, After carefully constaerlng the good
and bad olnts of every , player In . the
conference ; eligible to the theoretical
All-Northwest footballs-team for 1908,
I have finally settled upon, those .named
above as best fitted, for xthe ..various
places on the eleven. - "When the-selec-'
tions were made, the possibilities of the
new game were kept in mind. With
," one exception -ach man atands out In
. his position above alt Other ,men . In
the six college.. "y. 4
Under a coach like-Gtlmur, Dble,
Robert w7 Forbes or F. S..Norcross, I
believe this team would make a cred
itable showing against, f not able to
defeat; teams of the Michigan, Minne
sota or Wisconsin tlaaa. They have
been selected from a wide range of ter
ritory famous for lta football players,
nearly all of whom in the past on try
ing have made the best eastern teams.
Under the old style game yet another
team might be picked which would be
better at advancing the ball, but this
is barely possible. The eleven Is well
balanced, heady, rpeedy. game and spir
ited. ; From' center -out to each, end the
line tapers nicely , in weight. In the
back field , there is an admirable bal
ance, combined with an aggressiveness
on every portion that cannot be beaten.
While it is barely possible the line
might be Strengthened, this is not true
of the backfleld. 1 should almost hesl
. tate t, draw a distinction In two cases
in tha backfleld, but fortunately a per
plexing situation was swept away when
one coach decided to shift his fullback
to the position of halfback and played
him there regularly during the latter
part of the season.
Punting Taken Care Of. .
With Clarke and Wolff to look after
the punting department of .the game.
Beileske to pull off ills sensational
runs, and "Wee" Coyle to pilot tfee ma
chine, what could not be expected, es
pecially with that line in front? Add
to the punting the wonderful defense
of Clarke and the fierce line bucking
Of Wolff, and what do you never
. Clarke Is far and away above any
fullback of tha season, a really mora so
than last-year, when he waa closely"
followed- by wour. .worn ouipumna
Clarke by a yard or so in the Oregon
Co; vallls game, but the Oregon man's
spirals were much harder to Judge than
the flapping ball from Wolff's toe. At
backing up the line Clarke is a wonder.
His speed and hla accuracy in tackling
' era always noticeable. With that he
: has an unusually clever brain and a
confidence that is inspiring.
At right half Wolff would add great
strength to "the team. When Coach
Norcrosa decided to play him at half
back Instead of fullback, it was to
make room for another player in . his
backfleld who was best fitted for full.
Wolff has been all that could be de
sired at half. He. is a fierce tackier
and a player who does not know. fear.
On the verge of going to the fcBspltal
more than once during the season, he
has stuck out, against tha wishes of
. his trainers .and in addition played a
phenomenal game.
Wolff is a demon on battering the
line. His ferocity reminds me much of
Henry McKinney, the old Oregon full
back, whom I consider to have been the
hardest hitting llnebucker the north
coast game has produced. Wolff is
steadier on his feet than McKinney and
?irobably much faster, in the open. I
udge him to be better at ripping up a
Ine than Clarke, but not so good in
returning punt or providing interfer
. ence. . "-.'.
For the other halfback position there
- are a number of excellent candidates.
Cave of Washington state. Johnson of
Idaho, Mucklestone of Washington or
Main of Oregon might be mentioned
Even if Mucklestone were in Bosleske's
class 1 should not choose him, for I
am convinced that the university of
Washington sidestepped the conference
rules in permitting him to enter the
game.
Borleske Is the speediest back on the
field, without a doubt. He has a dis
position to follow the ball always, and
his hair raising end runs were the sen
sation of the games he played in dur
ing the season. It takes a fast quarter
to make connections with Borleske and
once away with any kind of interfer
ence he Is good to akirt the ends for a
gain.' He is wonderfully agile and a
very deceptive dodger. In addition
Borleske is strong at the defensive
? erne and taken altogether is the man
or the other half.
That extremely impart position on a
football team, quarterback, goes to
Coyle of Washington without a mo
ment's deliberation. Earlier in the sea
son. Small of Idaho looked to be the
man for the place, but Small waa un
usually weak toward the end of the sea
son. Small has had more varsity ex
perience but he is not the resourceful
general that Coyle is. Small also Is
mora susceptible to Injury. I admit
that Small. lias a cool head and that he
uses good Judgment In - the forward
Sass, but at all round playing Coyle is
is superior. Coyle is Just as good
with the forward pass and is better at
running In kicks. noyle csn tackle
harder and 1 probably, a faster man.
He baa the knack of finding his half
or n witn his forward pass nine times
. out of ten.- . -
Latourette of the university of Ore
gon is a young player "who will bear
watching and a pretty fight should de-
. velop between htm and Coyle before
graduation, for they are both in their
freshman year st college,
, Foran. the Washington state pivot,
and Gagnon of O. A. C- are hardly In
a class with Coyle aa a quarter.
, End Crop Is Bparse.
Exhausting - the backfleld .i -turn
io the ends. Tha crop is inferior this
esr. Except Savidge of Idaho there
Is none p-llh any experience. Savidge
a tha choice for end last year and
although he is pot of auch force as last
aoanon, stands out above the rest of
them in the new departments of the
smme. Savidge Is a. apwexly end, is al
ways down on punta, and Is an ac
curate, receiver of a forward pass. His
j'l.ttmeut of catching distance is very
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I.r t tv other wing T Orlmm, the
i"Rrr cl v ' Vi'asl lngtm. end. and you have
h cimMiiHti"n at : the forward pass
garnet) at is batd to beat anywhere, i
With Coyle to shoot the ball through
space and Grimm and Savidge at hand
to receive the spheroid, there ia a trio
mai win gain many a yara oeiore a
game has ended. Grimm also Is down
the field- rapidly on punts and is un
usually clever In breaking up plays di
rected at his end.
The fiercest tackling end I have seen
mis year is uoaaoa. tile Oregon man.
He Is faster- than Savidge or Grimm
and nails his man hard. In addition
ne is very successful at running with
the ball. With a little mora exnerlanre
Dodson would eaBily be my choice for
end as he seems a natural man for the
position. Neither Dobbin nor Cady, the
O. A. C. brace, is aa good as Dodson on
their season's performance. Before Dod
son has finished his college course he
suouia aeveion mio the greatest end
the modern game has seen In the
northwest
Tackles rail of Claaa.
It would be a far and wide search to
find a better pair of tackles than Pink
ham ot Oregon and Pendergrass of the
Oregon Aggies, -They are lightweights
but withal so fast and shifty and strong
as to 'have a shade over their more
hefty contenders for the places. Pink
ham Is undoubtedly the best tackle1 in
the northwest. He has not been used
so much In carrying the ball this year,
but he has demonstrated that he ran
make-yardage with any of them when
called on. But it is as a defensive
tackle that Pjnkham Is at his best. He
Is absolutely fearless, possess an ability
to diagnose a play as soon as it is
started and is an extremely hard man
to put out of the way.
Penderarass. m hln nmnino. t
about the shiftiest
field. He plays much after the fashion
of .he wiry Arnsplger of last year's
Oregon team, their build belng much tha
""i. "'nniie, Jamison, who was
the choice for the place last season has
.v,v inrii ui iu sum aura mis rail. Jam
ison is nounds heavier than Penderarass
dui wnen all. their good points are
BuiuHira up ,me ngnter tackle comes
Eaklns of Washington Is a sterling
,,ca ol meiigioie on the
same grounds as Mucklestone one might
te tempted to name him over Pender
fhffr But Vil are o evenly matched
the line would, have to be drawn pretty
'Of tBtK of Washington is another
good tackle and so is Elton of Idaho
and his teammate .Smith. The Wash
ington State pair. Hunter and Fishback.
are also above the average.
Babcock Stands Supreme.
"Biill Moose" Babcock, the great
Washington guar' is head and shoulders
anove every center flanker of the year
Babcock returned to the game after two
years absence strong and willing. He
Th." Kefi" i.Jy 1,1 advancing,
the ball for the Evergreen team and
more than one opposing eleven has had
ts play cut into shreds by the big fel-low-
For a big man he is fast. He
weighs 210 pounds, which he knows how
to handle to the very best advantage.
It takes a mighty onslaught to budga
Babcock from his tracks and more than
one eleven has found this out to ts
sorrow, he has a habit of mauling hu
man opposite until the latter Is readv
to call it quits before 70 minutes have
elapsed.
As stated before there Is only one po
sition in which the players on this
eleven do not stand out above any
othei-s. There are one or two better
guards in the game than Moullen, the
Oregon captain and right tackle, who
has been Fhlfted. Halm of Washington
state is undoubtedly a classier defenslv
player and Wexier of the same team
Is at least as good as Moullen. Rtokes
berry of Idaho has nothing on Moullen
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IF BURNS WILL FIGHT
WILY CANADIAN Jf AS EVERYBODY GOING
The Alblna Athletic club has turned Out a very creditable football team this year and their present
record of two games won and one tied Is very good. They are especially anxious to meet all second class
football teams throughout the state. The members of the team, reading from left to right, are as follows:
Standing, Dufur, Lolllcji, W. Beagle, Berg (captain), Cameron, Henderson, Beagle, Crlder' and Howard;
sitting, F. Fortler, Fitchner, Booth, Lollick, Fortier and Todd. - -
as a guard and neither has Wallace or
Evenden of O. A. C.
It is solel" on his nhenomenai niaco-
kicking that I would select Moullen for
the team. His crippled foot handicaps
him In the rushing game but - it does
not prevent his putting up a sturdy of
fense against any attack. It Is doubt
ful if there is a more consistently
brilliant field goal kicker in America
than the Oregon captain. He puts tham
over on wet and dry fields alike. In
the new came, a good place kicker is
a necessity. There are several men wno
can plave the ball between tne posts,
notrblv Covle and Halm, but none can
do it with the accuracy and finish of
tne Iron hoofed wonder from icugene.
Two games this season nave been won
for OreKon by Moullen s place kick
ine. In the Idaho contest he established
a world record in a college game by
kicking four field goals lor is points.
That alone would entitle him to a place
on the team.
Aa Array of Canters.
There Is a really high class array of
centers this year, a somewnat unusual
thing. Of course the selection Is. made
between the two veterans '.Cherry and
Tegtmeler. Tegtmeier, the Washington
captain, has noi piayea ine rjruuani
frame of last season, whlla Cherry has
mproved nearly two fold. Cherry has
more weight than Tegtmeier and Is
well nigh impassable on the defense.
He rets Into all the plays. Is an accu
rate passer both to his quarter and his
nunter. and has a level head. Cherry Is
a more aggressive player than Tegt
meier ana wiliiuul aoum a mure valu
able man to the team.
Oregon's freshman center. Means.
Impresses one greatly with his work and
if he continues to improve he should
make a bid for the honor next year.
Means while a trifle nervous in his
big games was nevertheless a good
passer and a clever tackier. Several
times In the local games he plunged
through his center and tackled the
man with the ball before that Individual
struck the line. He is good on open
offensive work and It was his timely
fall on the ball twice in succession
that gave Oregon her touchdown over
Multnomah. Means put up a harrowing
game against Tegtmeier and the veteran
had little on him when they met. KeJly
of O. A. C. is another man equally as
good as Means, however, he haa, had
more experience than the Oregon youth.
This team. I believe would hoM its
own with proper training against any
aggregation of football players in the
west.
GUARDS BACK"
GREATEST PlAY
Mike Murphy Tells of Wood
ruff Creaiion Which Rev
olutionized Football.
Wrestling Seats for Sale,
Reserved ringside seats for O'Connell
Helnrich bout Thursday night at Mer
rill's hall are on sale at Schiller's.
"Mike" Murphy, head trainer of the
Univeralty of Pennsylvania, hero of the
Olympic games and regarded as the best
athletic trainer in America, was asked
to tell what he considered the greatest
play ever Invented. This was his
answer:
"Undoubtedly the greatest plav that
was ever Invented, the one which had
most to do with revolutionising the
game and one which is largely respon
sible for our present attitude toward
reformed football, is the famous old
'guards back,' invented by George Wood
ruff, the old Pennsylvania coach. In
1896.
"It was m this year that the Penn
sylvania team was having a strenuous
time with an uriusuallv lonr and hard
schedule. Several of the smaller col
leges had given the Quakers hard bat
tles, and each new game waa looked
forward to as a possible defeat.
"Woodruff, who all along had seemed
to have the team well In hand, had been
working hard behind closed gates on a
new formation. A auard was drawn
back of the line, directly behind the-J
otner guara on tne opposite or tne line.
wnue ine nair ana tuudscks were close
noon his heels. The other half was
within easy reach of tha fullback.
little to one side. With this formation
the varsity battered tha scrub, mainly
trying to buck the line.
"For a while the play met with' only
fair success, gaining smau aistances.
The keen eye of the Penn coach soon
detected tne reason xor tne smau gains,
ana ine remeay was soon xormcomini
Th first luirit mam ami-turf a. lift
sooner, while the men behind paused
slightly, then plunged forward, striking
the first man and lifting. him straight
inruugn ine line uk a nuge oaiiefing
ram. Gradually tha aecond gefard
nicked his openings and occasionally
darted through tackle-instead of center
and guard.
"In the Harvard game that year the
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; - . posed . of , Many College and. Scholastic Stars. i ' "
It Is Corn-
Red and Blue team managed to use the
new play quite effectively, but not witn
anv startling results. It was not until
the Cornell game that the other colleges
would admit that Woodruff had dis
covered a- wonder in tha line of new
plays. The play, however, enabled the
nea ana time to trounce tne urimson oy
a narrow margin, the score being IT to
"On November 28. Thanksalvlne day,
the other colleges were compelled to no
tice the strength of the famous Wood
ruff creation, for the Cornell team that
year was defeated by a team that was
inferior in weight and skill. The
Ithacan eleven had defeated Brown, who
in turn bad played Yale a tie game ana
had tied the New Haveners.
"In thia game Quarterback Williams
worked every variation of the guards
back formation that Woodruff had
tauarht him. 'Time after time Buck
Wharton ' Would' plunge through tackle
ror a Dig gain; men. wnen wie v-ornen
backfleld would shift, waiting for a
repetition of the play, Brooke, who was
playing fullback, would slip around the
end lor a substantial gain, i nn varia
tion of the attack so baffled the Cornell
team and so surprised the coaches of
other colleges, that all winter long ine
Fosslblntles or tne new piay lurnisnea
ood for discussion among the gridiron
generals.
"From that date the success of the
famous combination wss never ques
tioned, and only the change of rules has
made the play a back number. From
this formation the 'tackles back' for a
few yards later arose. The principle
was the same, the tackles being used In
place of the guards.
"The massing of th Ws men around
the center and the Injuries resulting
caused the demand for an open game,
which, finally Indorsed 'by President
Roosevelt, resulted In a revision of the
rules, under which every semblance of
the old formation is Darrea on ine grju
lron, probably forever."
George Woodruff is the elder brother
of Dr Wylle O. Woodruff, the famous
Penn 'guard, who ia now a resident of
Portland. Dr. Woodruff was the guard
who put the memorable formation into
effect after his famous brother had
evolved it. . Oeorga Woodruff was a
guard on tha Yale team for four years
prior to taking up coaching at Pennsyl
vania. He suggested the round table
meetings at which each one of the play
ers was expected to give his opinion as
to how plays should be made and met.
As a result of these conferences Penn
was "enabled to put out a team which
was a terror to is opponents of the
former "Big Four."
HOOVERS SAIL ON
FOUR YEAR TOUR
Los Angeles Family Will
Journey Througn avery
Country on Globe.
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8au Francisco, Doc. J8. Will Tommy
Burns ' fight again, provided he emerges
victorious from tha rhig when ha goes
cp against Jack Johnson In Australia
on tha day after, Christmas? . This ts
the one question -that Is troubling the
fight fans and promoters of San Fran
cisco at tha present time. They do not
seem to be sure aa to whether Tommy
talk t of quitting the ring Is on the
square or not, for Burns is a peculiar
fellow. - '
If Burns makes up his mind to fight
again, he will find a willing opponent in
big Al ' Kaufman, the San Francisco
heavyweight and the most logical can
didate for championship honors now be
fore the public All Burns has to do is
to say the word and the match is hla,
but until his setto with Johnson has
been decided nobody can make any pre
dictions. 1
For the good of the game, everybody
here Is hoping that Burns will bring
home the change. In the event that the
big black man trims the Canadian,
there will be no fight for Kaufman, as
his manager, Billy Pelaney, says that
he will never allow Al to step into the
ring with a negro.
"2 would send him back to the black
smith's forge first." says Pelaney.
"Kaufman has never fought a negro and
he never will if I have anything to say
about the matter. He is one man who
has drawn the color line for keeps. This
talk is not generally on the level, but
mark my words. It will be with me. If
Al cannot mak any money fighting
white, men, why then he will quit the
game, at least if he stays under my
wing." '
Promoter Jim Coffroth would like to
stage the Kaufman-Hurns match and
has already made arrangements with
Delaney to this end. The Mission
street promoter hasytrT6T repeatedly n.
get some Bort of a definite answer from
Burns, but every attempt thus far
failed. KOr this reason, Coffroth be
lieves that the wily Canadian will keep
in the dnrk till after he fight. If he
loses, he can retire from the ring with
plenty of change, but In the event of
his winning, Coffroth believes that he
will come out with a flare of trumpets
and fight anybody who would draw
some Voln with him.
And so everybody will have to wait
till after the big affair in the land of
the kangaroo has been disposed of. Lo
ral Interest in the combat Is very much
In evidence and . Were the battle to be
fought at Honolulu. It would draw manv
of our fans.
The prise fight is fast developing
Into one of the grandest holdup layouts
in all the world. It has come to sucn
a pass at the present time that the
greedy managers and fighters are get
ting, all the monev bv rtnnhla rrnnlnr
everybody with whom they come In con-
Take the Panke-Ketohel affair for
Instance. The men originally agreed
to fight for Oleason and at the eleventh
hour, then ran Out on the hasehnll man
and cast their fortunes mlth Coffroth.
after the latter had offered them a
better financial guarantee. This only
goes to snow the value of a fighter s
or a manager's word.
In order to land tne match, Coffroth
was compelled to guarantee "the rival
gladiators 120,000. with the privilege
of a percentage. He did not make any
money out of the fight and he may have
lost some, though he has kept his own
counsel In regard to thla and nobody
has been unable to get a correct line
on just how he stands in the matter.
Perhaps these managers and pugs do
not realize It, but they are slowly mur
dering the little hen of pugdom who
has laid so many golden eggs for tbem
In the past. The game Is going to dle'a
natural death here very shortly unless
the men who are Interested In it awak
en to the fact that they will have 19
out out a lot of their rough, work. -
The . recent scandal has done more
to disgust the sporting . public with
fighting than anything that has hap
pened here for long time. The con
stant wrangling and wire pulling on the
part of the principals Is no boost for.
the manly art The men who pay theiPV
food money to see -t he bruisers in ac
ion are sick and disgusted with it It
will not take them long to" forget that
such a person as a fighter, a manager
or a promoter ever existed and once
they turn against the game, then It will
be goodnight for keeps. It I coming to
this, sure. , .,
The days of immense houses In San
Francisco have passed and this - without
the question of a doubt. We will never
gain- hear of such houses as the ones
that Brltt and Nelson, Corbett and
Jeffries or Oans and Nelson fought be
fore. The good old days of big money
In fights have faded away and the men
who nave been doing the get rich quick
stuff are responsible for their own
losses. It is the same old story of the
more they get the more they want, so
tbey will, have to finish with nothing.
Jem Drlscoll, the featherweight
champion of Great Britain, Is very anx
ious ta come to this city and fight Abe
Attell for the world's title, but thus
far, he has received but little encourage
ment, though the eastern press agents
are going on record as saying that the
match is as good as made and will be
decided shortly. . '
The truth is that the fans of San
Francisco will not fall for Attell any
more. They have had too much of his
game of late. If a fighter expects to
make good in San ; Francisco, lie must
live up to nin name ana wane in ami
fight This Abe has steadfastly refused
(a At .vMnt when ha fAliti hltYlMlf 1,1
the ring with some sucker like Brooklyn
'tommy usuivan or juaaie Keiiy. fie
can fight If he chooses, but he won't
come through. .
Attell's last stand against Owen Mor-.
an fixed him for keeps as far as' his
native city goes. All he had to do on
that occasion waa to take a chance and
he would have won sure. But the yel
low in Abe's system came to the sur
face as soon aa he stepped Into tho
ring and he went at his work of stalling
for .3 rounds to the disgust of the big
crowds
urmcoii lias wireo ana wmien uor
froth to make the match with Attell..
but the Mission street promoter, sternly
announces that he would have nothing
to do With Attell. It is barely possible
that Sam Berger will get the card for
his December date,, but If he does take
this chance, it Is a foregone conclu
sion that he will drop a package of
money In the venture.
Poor old Joe Thomas seems to have
shot his bolt for keeps. When Joe
failed to do any good against Sailor
Burke In Boston the other evening, he
practically put the seal on his ring
career. Everybody was trimming Burke
systematically and Joe figured that he
could get Into the game again by beat
ing nis man,, out jnsieaa m cui was
switched on him and the once promis
ing young fighter found hfmself In
witn tne down and nuts.
Ever since he lost to Ketchel tha
first time, which Is more than a year
now, Thomas las been going down the
ladder a couple of rungs at a time. The
Michigan lion had the Indian sign, on
the Callfornlan and he made him a
soft mark for the rest of the boys.
Thomas was a near champion who had
a chance to clean up many a bundle
of the change, but poor management
was in the way and now he finds him
self through with little more than he
started out with.
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Ed O'Connell Tells What Is
Best Method of Prepar-5
ing Athletes.
' (Halted Press teased Wire.
New York.'-. NoW it. Probably the
most extensive automobile trip ever un
dertaken is that planned by Mr. and
Mrs. Hoover, who sailed on the steam.
hn -Banuhlin todav for Algiers. The
t,nm. rf tha Hoovers is near Los An
feles. Cat,, ana n compieung me inn
y auto from that city to New York
the couple have already finished the
first lap of their ambitious Journey.
When they land at San Francisco, as
iney plan w uv n v,.
they expect to have covered more than
76,000 miles. . - '
Mr. ajii Mrs. Hoover will spend this
winter In' touring Algeria and Egypt,
with ss far retching ; excursions Into
the Banara desert as may prove prac
tira.hi. Rarlv in the aorlnr their car
will be ferried over -to Italy,-and for
tnree successive years tours will be
made across every country In- Europe at
least one way. They even nope to pen
etrate western ' Siberia. In the winter
of 1911 they expect to . turn .south into
Turaey ana irom mere imo j-aiestine
and back to the coast On the home
ward . voyage stops will be made in
India. China. ' JaDan. -the PhlllDDlnes.
Australia. New Zealand and Hawaii,
and in every, country as much motoring
will be done as the circumstances per
mit bailing from Hawaii to Ban Fran
cisco in the winter of- 1.913 they will
have completed the trip, in about four
years,.'!-'' . . v " ,
The trio is not "being taken ss an
endurance test, and It la not their-intention
to, try to break any vpeed rec
ords. Mr. Hoover, who has spent the
greater Dart of his life in perfecting
systems of Irrigation in the west was
in poor health last winter and he has
undertaken the trip around the world
wth the outdoor life which it offers as
a means of getting welL The start
from southern California - -was made
early last April. Their route to New
York was by - way of San Francisco,
Portland, Spokane, Omaha and Chicago,!
Eddie O'Connell, the Multnomah club
wrestling instructor, woo is to meet
Joe Helnrlch, the "Terrible Dutchman."
of Spokane. In Merrill's hail next Thurs
day night, is a stickler for the simple
methods when It comes to training for
a wrestling match. Other wrestlers may
run their heads off on the road, scale
mountain sides or spend half their time
In a chemical bath,- but O'Connell pre
fers the less heroic, though none the
less effective method of taking matters
quietly.
With the revival of professional wrest
ling In Portland the -wrestling classoa
In all the gymnasiums have been aug
mented by new pupils. O'Connell. who
Is the premier exponent, pf the art in
Portland, has kindly consented to give
a -few simple suggestions' en training
In the following words. '
"In a wrestling match, the wrestler
in order to win must -not only be a
better wrestler but must also be able
to stand the strain of a long, hard
-match. In order to do this he must
have attained the best possible physical
condition that proper training can give
him. ,. - , ..
. - Training; JTo Easy. y.
.- '"Training" for a match seems. very
simple.' Most people Imagine that all
a wrestler has to do ia to don a sweater
and run a few miles and then take a
cold shower bath.- Add to this a little
wrestling and they think he is fit to
win a championship. .Training ia much
more difficult than that however. In
the first plaee, he , must take . proper
food;- that Is the most essential thing
In. training for any athletic event
"While I do not advise anyone to diet,
an athlete must first find out what is
best suited for him in the line of food.
Some athletes can do better-work on
a meat diet, while others are strtctlv
vegetarians. "But there is one thing ail
athletes must avoid, and that Is pastries
and greasy foods of any kind. Plain
food, chops, steak, rare beef, toast with
fruit in place of pastry. Is the best
diet for anyone in athletics. . ,
"Some wrestlers, especially the Eng
lish Wrestlers, believe in taking ale with
their meals, but If a wrestler wants
to be at his best he should avoid llauor
of any kind while training. Milk Is
also bad, aa it, Is very hard on the wind.
Weak tea or water Is the . best . drink
tq take at mealtime. .. . , . --
in training for a maten, it oepends
on S - wrestler s natural . condition
whether be should work hard or not
There are some who are born athletes
and who are always In condition. They
have to be careful or they will over
train and go stale. Many a good ath
lete has been spoiled by overtraining.
Different Classes.
"Then there la the class that easily
goes out of training and gets very
fleshy. These latter can stand more
training than the fdrmer, as they have
to work hard to get into condition, and
there Isn't much fear of their going
stale.
"The best work a wrestler can do
for training is to wrestle. Wrestling
not only puts him In condition bat also
adds to his 'ability as a grappler. It
Is a good Idea also to throw the medi
cine ball and to use chest weights mid
light dumbbells, as they strengthen the
body from the waist up. Heavy weights
or heavy dumbbells should never be
employed. They have a tendency to
bind the muscles' and deprive them of
their resiliency and endurance, and
thereby make an otherwise good wrest
ler an easy victim for a second-rater
who has good staying powers.
"A wrestler should never fun more
than half a mile unless he Is training
to take off weight Running pulls the
weight off the shoulders and chest,
where a wrestler needs it most. Heavy
legs are only a handicap- to a wrestler,
and as wrestling is better for the wind
than tunning it- is not necessary to
canter unless overweight. People with
light legs and 4eavy upper body are.
as a general rule, adapted to wrestling
and all forms of athletics, although
there are many exceptions."
CADILLAC CAR MAKES
LOHB,PERFECT RUN
Finishing 1000 mile In 72 hours, dur
ing which time the engine never .
stopped, a Cadtliao 10, I90 model, last
week Justified every-claim made" by U
bUUders. The car was sent out by the
Covey motor car 'people and made the
1000 miles over all kinds of roads and .-
very bad weather. i-v
Part of the time was spent running
over city Movement, while the car
at times traveled over country roads
and over the worst of the city streets,
The run was made in three days, start
ting Saturday at 8:30 o'clock and finish
ing at the same time Monday after- -noon.
During most of this time It
rained and the drivers and car alike
were Worked to the utmost In making
the run without a.flaw. - "r
Tha machine was driven by H. M.
Covey Ouy Hoi man, l. Stine. and Oscar
Lsyifian. During the a days the car
used pp 6H gallons of gasoline and
maintained an average speed of 14 miles
sn hour. ;The 14 miles around the auto- '
mobile , race course east of Mohtavllla,
was made on Monday afternoon In 21 i
minutes on a sloppy road, after slowing -up
several times for team. -. ,
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