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DETERMINATION Cu..
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HERE'S SOMETHING THAT KNOCKS SOX OFF CALIFORNIA'S FAMED TUNA
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OF COLUMNS SPACE
Are Millions of Devotees of
Game Where There Were
Thousands Few Years Ago
IS NO WEAKLING'S -GAME
Defeat in Columbia M:
Took All Over Confiden:
Out of Athletes..
STATE MEETING APRIL 26
MEET MULTNOMAH '.-HEX'
Public Will B Cordially Invited by
Successful Flayer Must Hare Tast
Brain and Well Balanced Strangtn,
MntelM, Verve jand Coolness.
Hobf ood How Working Out on r.
nil Specialty j Anderson Gettlzr
Away With the Gon.
Pres. Xverding to Witness Sport
at Jennings Station Ground.
PORTLAND TRAPS TO
BE QUIET TODAY BUT
; TO HUM WEEK HENCE
Local Shots to Take in Tour
nament . Prepared by Sa
lem Shooting Set.
TENNIS
GAM
GROWS
WITHOU
THOUSANDS
. Today the traps of the Portland Gun
club will practically be deserted as a
number of Portland's best shooters
Will participate In the tourney to be
'staged under the auspices of " the Cap
ital City Rod and Gun club at Salem
but one week hence the Jenne station
grounds will be crowded with blua
rock smasher from all sections of the
i state, who will be practicing for the
events of the annual shoot of the Ore-
j gon State ,Trapshooters' association, to
.be held on the two following days.
The feature event of the two-day
program is the Oregon state chara-
on the second day, Tuesday, April 27
The winner of this event will par
ticipate in the Grand American hand!
cap in Chicago against the title win
ners in the other states of the union.
This title is. to the shooters what a
. champion boxer is to the boxing fans
and a pennant winning team Is to the
baseball fans. .
Program Attractive.
The program for the first day will
consist of ten 15-bird events and i
special handicap shoot for the Honey
man diamond trophy, a work of art
which is set with diamonds. The
anooter winning ' this trophy holds it
for one year or until the next state
shoot. In order to become the perma
nent holder of the trophy a shooter
must-win It three times.
Besides the championship event on
the second day, there will be ten 1
bird events. The title event carries
even trophies, donated by the Inter
state association, which go to the seven
high gups, and two fine watches, do
nated by the Portland Gun club, for
the two low scores. All through this
fthnnt ttiA Inn, or-nro In ava. Atrant i
given a prize and It has been whis
pered by some shooters that they are
going to win the low score trophies.
General Publo Is Welcome.
"Many people have the impression
that they must be a member of the
gun club In order to witness this or
any other shooting event," said Pres
ident Everding yesterday. "This Is
not the case as spectators are always
welcome and trap shooting Is one of
the sports which give the public some
thing for nothing."
It might seem peculiar to some peo
ple but the state tourney gives the
best shots a chance to win some cash
and trophies and gives the poor shoot
er his money back, should he be shoot
ing in poor form.
In all events of the two-day pro
rraun. with the exception of the Hon-
. mvmnn dtamntul trinhv onH at'ita
championship events shooters who fail
io ura uttKQ lb are Kiven meir en
trance fee, less the price of targets.
Tnftlan Indorses Traps.
.", In a recent interview. Chief Bender,
fni-moi. twirl.. r. t K a ii 1 TVi 1 1 a A 1 rH i a
Athletics, said:
"Trap shooting alone will not make
a 'pitcher, but the (juick calculation of
the angle of flight of the target, its
elevation and the effect of wind in
deflecting not only the target, but also
the charge, are not without value . to
a moundsman. -
"The exercise you get in clay bird
hooting is not exactly of the molly
coddle kind, for the handling of a shot
gun through a 100-bird program, tak
ing the mild pounding of a like repe
tition of recoil, and the other activities
of a half day at the traps, are just
about enough- for the average man.
"Besides keeping a fellow physically
fit, trap shooting has irresistible fas
cination as a game. This Is proved by
the hundreds of thousands who regu
larly shoot at the traps and the rep
resentation of every walk of life
among the shooters."
Trap shooters from all parts of the
United States will gather in New York
April 30 to attend the tenth annual
amateur championship of America
at clay birds to be held at Travers
Island under the auspices of the New
York Athletic club. The program cov
ers three days, Including a preliminary
THIRTY-FIVE POUNDS OF REDSIDE RAINBOWS
One of the first catches of th season from the McKenzie river, Dick
successful angler. There are
1 .
ing 2 1-4 pounds.
One of the first Portland fisherman
to make the McKenzie river, one of the
greatest trout streams In the world,
was .Dick Carlon. He caught 27 of
the beauties and they were on exhi
bition last Monday in the window of
the Honeyman Hardware company, at
tracting a great deal of attention.
Carlon fished last Sunday on the
McKensie from Martin's rapids to Lea
burg, a distance of 11 miles, with E.
A. Bean."' the well . known Eugene
.Dortsman. They trolled from a boat.
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event of 200 birdP, the amateur cham- W'' "''f' ; r . ? J V J-C J v 1
Pionsh,p and a. m.'raan interclub ' , -C -fM A SJ
team championship. A gold medal f , . ' ' - Cl ' .V'l ' I 1 '
will be awarded to the contestant mak- X ' ' t " ' " ;V- ,C ,A VW x I i m
ing the longest continuous run during ' ' "' " ' - - " v 1 - . -i" m" v
the competitions and another medal ZaT NA.,-" v ' ' - ""' ' ' . v-"'''"' ,
will be awarded for the highest aver- V" " .iJ f l --l-- . T ' -'''" '""-J- . - " . - X'
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L). K. Simpson of the Stevenson.
Vash., Gun club and C. F. &aylpr of
the Ilwaco, Wash., Gun club 'were
Portland visitors during the past week.
These men will probably participate
in the state shot next week. Simpson
played baseball with Krank Dillon,
the manager of the Ios Angeles team
in 1834 on the University of Wisconsin
team.
E. II. Keller, Jim Seavey, Frank Tem-
pleton, F. Van Atta. IL K. Everding,
Al Seguin. L. Ray-burn and P. H.
O'Brien will participate in the second
annual registered shoot of the Capital
City Gun club in Salem today.
A registered shoot
at The Dollea today.
FOUR NEW BOATS
FROM SEATTLE
AT BIG MEETING
Effort Will Be Made to Trim
Portland at Astoria Re
gatta in July,
Astoria, Or., April 17. That the
prospects for, the Astoria 20th annual
Regatta were never brighter from a
racing standpoint in the history of
the organization, is the opinion' of C.
H. Haddix, iex-commodore of the ' As
toria Motorboat club and member of
the governing councilNf the Pacific
International Power Boat association.
The dates for the annual event are
July l, 2, and 3, and arrangements are
well under way here for the enter
taining of the thousands who annually
visit Astoria on that occasion. '
The Pacific International Power
Boat association is to hold a meeting
in Tacoma April 24, for the purpose
of outlining the races for the coming
season and also to hear the protects
of the Doman cup race and the 16
foot championship race at Astoria.
If the ambition of the Puget sound
sportsmen are realized, they will take
away the honors in the 16-foot class at
the coming regatta. A letter has been
received here from the Lake Wash
ington Power Boat association which
is to the effect that the organization
is building two new 16-footers to com- j
pete in the races. This will make four
boats coming from Seattle, the other
two being the Wastrel and Red Nose.
"We expect to put a crimp in Portland
this year," said the writer, "for we are
certainly coming strong."
"Kitty" Brashear, the former Los
Angeles, Venice and - Portland player,
will manage the Tnscon, Ariz., base
ball team this season. Several former
Coast leaguers. Including Matt Hynes
and Outfielder Felts, will play under
Brashear.
27 trout 3 n the -catch, the largest
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f The fish caught were the redslde va
riety of rainbows and were landed with
flies.
"The red upright flies are falling
Into the McKenzie by the millions,"
said Mr. Carlon, "and that makes tbe
fishing a little bad. However, as soon
as the flies are gone the fishing ought
to get good. Almost, every branch you
struck was tbe signal for a deluge of
flies. We used the red upright fly
hooks.. . . . .
"It is a, little early for fly fishing,
but I think that the trout fishing will
111 be staged I I ? T -1 ..'v -.w'- . TT "' I 1
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Landing the Royal Chinook salmon, a. fighter from away back. In the Willamette river near Jennings
Lodge. Yesterday 68 boats 'filled' with enthusiastic fishermen were enjoying the sport and the
camera shows they were successful. At the -bottom is shown a 30-pounder fighting to the
last and trying to wiggle away from the gaff. You can catch them with a six-ounce rod. Oil up
your reel and get out on the river.
ROWING CLUB TO
BEGIN PEA0TI0E
ABOUT MAY 1ST
Number of New rOarsmen
Have Been Working Out
Each Sunday,
The Portland Rowing club oarsmen
will start daily practice work about
the first of May. This statement was
made yesterday by Art Allen, chair
man of the regatta committee.
"For the past couple of weeks, be
tween four and five four-oared crews,
besides the singles and doubles, have
been working out Sunday morning,"
said Captain Allen, "but aftar the an
nual spring smoker, which will be held
In the last week of this month. I will
Carlos of Portland being the
being 17 inches iong and weigh-.
be earlier all over this year owing to
the lower stage of water. . The water
in' the McKenzie is clear and Is al
ways cold and the trout are very solid.
"The trip to the McKenzie may be
easily made. An auto stage leaves Eu
gene at C a. m. and, returning, leaves
Blue river at 4 o'clock, landing the
fisherman at Eugene again about 6:30
p. m., where he can get a ' train for
Portland. The week end rate to Eu
gene is $4.80, tickets being good until
Monday. It Is a nice way for a -fisherman
to spend Sunday."
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rnftiiiiWWitBMliir
tart the boys on the regular train
ing schedule."
No effort has been made to pair off
the crews as yet. but from the way
shown in the early work outs It looks
as though the crews will be as strong
If not stronger than they were last
year.
A number of new oarsmen. Including
Mills, ex-Harvard man; Gore, who
rowed with Yale for a couple of sea
sons and Parker, who was a former
member of the Winnipeg Rowing club,
have been working out every Sunday.
A large number of the old club men
have also been turning out for prac
tice. Today a number of the Portland
Rowing club men are participating in
the first canoe trip of the season down
the Tualatin river rapids. A number of
club members camped on the banks of
the Tualatin last night, while others
left up the-river this morning.
YACHTING NOTES
Chairman Ed Carr of the Regatta
Committee Is busy preparing the sched
ule for the summer races, the first of
which will take place on the opening
day. May 20. This season's program
will provide for a ..more extended
schedule than In the past seasons.
Captain Carr says that with the
squadron Increased by the cruisers, of
which there are five, the new, Colum
bian, Captain Arthur Sholin; The
Halycon, Captain Bill Wylie; the
Wauna, Captain Dodge; the Althea,
Captain McBrlde, and the Niada, Cap
tain Breymann, the club will arrange
for handsorde trophies for tbe first,
second and third place- The above
named cruisers will go to Astoria for
the regatta there and it is the Inten
tion to provide a special race during
this meeting. .
The 28 footers-will be Increased this
season by at least three and possibly a
fourth.
The full program for the inter-club
meet will receive its final touches dur
ing the coming week. This will be
tbe largest regatta held on the Wil
lamette and with favorable weather
conditions it should be the most suc
cessful. "
Three Local Stars
To Enter University
Three crack local scholastic baseball
tossers. Claude Rlggs. pitcher, and
Hughle McKenna. second baseman, of
the Columbia University team, and Ike
Wolfer, who played shortshop for, the
Jefferson team last' season, will en
ter the University of Oregon next fall,
according to an announcement .. made
here today.'
Hugo Bexdek, coach of the Oregon
team, had a talk with these players re
cently and all of them have promised
to register at the Eugene institution
next fall. a- .- )
Buckles "is Winner.
By winning four of five blocks of
the handicap pocket billiard - match of
the Idle Hour , parlors, C Buckle de
feated Charles Weber. 760 to 626.
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WINGED M TRACK
! STARS WORKING
I FOR DUAL MEET
Multnomah Men Will Work
Out Today for Next Sat
urday's Contest.
I The Multnomah Amateur Athletic
club athletes will Invade Corvallis, Or.,
next Saturday to participate in the an
nual dual track and field meet with
the Oregon Agricultural college team.
Last year, the "Winged M" team was
defeated by the Aggies by a wide
margin.
: Manager Martin Hawkins will send
the following' athletes against the O.
A. c team: Sam Bellah, George Phil
brook. Ora Holdman, Walter Hummell,
Magone, Jordan, Fithlan, Willett and
McClure.
; The club team will work out on the
club field , for the first time today.
Walter McClure. the former distance
runner of the University of Oregon.
Is working out in Hammond. Or., and
he writes that he will be in good shape
for the meet.
i A dual meet with the University of
Oregon will be held in the near future
and this will be all the competition
for the club athletes until the P. N.
A. championships. June 11.
CYCLIST FLIRTS WITH DEATH j
w"- r-,-' . , v r - :
G. H. Strickler of Boise, Idaho, in act of jumping 37 feet.
Ski riders must take a seat in the
far distant background, according J to
F. P. Keenan. local representative for
tbe Popo Motorcycle, who has just re
ceived a picture from Boise, Idaho,
showing G. H. Strickler in the act of
Jumping a distance of 37 feet,
j Skimming through the air at the
rat of some 45 or-60 miles an hour
on the hurricane deck of a bundle of
bussing dynamos and steel frame with
all senses alert to avoid a nasty spill
;t of
MEETS PLANNED FOR
WINTER BY AGGIES
0. A, C. Athletic Director Is
Seeking Sanction of Ama
teur Union for Event.
Provided sanctions can be secured
from the coast branches of the Ama
teur Athletic union, the Oregon Agri
cultural college will stage the big
gest open indoor track and field meet
ever held west of the Mississippi river
In Its armory j next winter. Although
no definite date has been set byDr.
E. J. Stewart, ! athletic director of the
Corvallis Institution, it is his plan to
put on the events during the latter
part of December or during the first
part of January.
All the prominent colleges and ath
letic clubs in the west will be invited
to send teams to participate in the
meet and it is likely that a great
number of the institutions wfll re
spond. The Olympic club of San Fran
cisco, one of the largest athletic clubs
t " I
Amateur Athletic club
teams, without a doubt, and
practi-
cally every northwestern college and
fl ii r tirmi 1 n na rAnreuoi Ion in th
club would
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events,
A number of prominent local ath
letic followers, who have been ques
tioned about the meet, favor it. T.
Morris Dunne, secretary of the Pacif lo
Northwest association, stated recently
that such" an event; would be a great
boom to indoor athletics.
Coach Stewart will likely complete
preliminary arrangements for the
staging of- the meet before the sum
mer vacation. The expense of staging
such a big meet would be very large,
but Stewart figures that it would draw
at least ,2000 people to Corvallis.
The O. A. C meet would in no way
Interfere with the Indoor meet of the
Columbia University, which Is staged ,
during the early part of April
each
year.
TESTING MEN'S ABILITY
Coach Sexton f Harvard University
has Installed a mechanical contrivance
to test the curving ability of the pitch
ing candidates for the Crimson nine.
A box-like arrangement Is placer over
the home plate and the pitcher takes
his stand at the regulation distance
away. A "groove" ball aimed properly
will hit the bull's eye, but a curved
the buU s eye but a curved
hit on the side of the aper- ,
iss it breaks properly Jus.
ball will
ture unless
before it reaches the machine.
at the . end, that Is the sensation
which a dozen Portland motorcyclists
have been flirting with death for since
the receipt at the Fourth Street motor- I
cycle store of i the picture showing
Strickler in bis death defying plbnge I
through space. ! There Is a hill in
South Portland where these ski meets
ar being held and any sunny after- I
noon from six to a dozen local fans j
can be found out there trying to beat '
the 37 foot record
Idaho demon. I
now, held by the
ii
By P. C. fcl.
Tennis is the only sport . that has
come to the fqre without thousands
,of columns of j newspaper publicity,
i And in th past five years, tennis has
Increased in popularity to such an ex
j font that there are millions of de-
, voters where there were only thou
sands before, i t -
j Other games like baseball, football.
pugilism end golf have interested the
public and be-n taken up by it because
jpubliritr has Influenced them. But
i with tennis it (has been different.
There Isn't a sporting page in the
country that has averaged onetenth
a much tennis ! as it has baseball,
PukIUpto. golf or football.
Tennis lias won its several million
enthusiasts because of the merits of
the game alone, i It Is not a weakling's
gamer but a game for red blooded mtA
nnd women, a real game in every sense
of its athletic usage.
A successful player must be fast of
foot, and faster of brain. He must
have a steady eye and a steady arm.
Tennis doesn't require brute strength
but It does "require well balanced
muscles, nerve, j coolness and skill.
A good tennis player must hit hard
and hit softly as the occasion de
mands. And there Is not much chance
for him to figure out how be Is going
to hit. His decision and the action
must follow each other within a fras
tlon of a second, or he loses a point in
the game. .
Is Builder of Health
Many sports i have been pointed
as highly as health builders, but none
is better than tennis. The new game
Is an Ideal one' for those' who have
Brown a bit bulky and want . to lose
some of the bulk. If constant playing
of tennis doesn't send a portly person
back to or near normal weight noth
ing can. . . j
Tennis once was a game for the
wealthy. Now it is everyone's game.
In other years there were no public
tennis courts. Those who liked the
game of tennis bad to belong to some
club that had courts. That meant a
sizeable initiation fee and dues each
month that were too big for the ordi
nary person to pay. . But things are
different now. j )
Iir-every big city in the country the
municipal Authorities have built tennis
courts In the parks. And they will
build more this summer and more next
because the army of tennis players is
increasing amazingly and the city can
not accommodate half of those who
want to play. ; j
Owners of vacant lots In the resi
dential sections of many of the cities
have shown enterprise by laying courts
on these pieces of land and charging
a moderate rental for the courts.
Their courts are always In demand.
Tennis is not a costly game. A rac
quet costs from $3 to 6. and will last
for years. Tbe tennis balls are vcrv
' cheap and
! many games. The rest of the
shoes and a flannel -nit .itt,,.i. .k.
suit is in no way a necessity
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I Ana lor WIS Small out nv nn. -..
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An fl m if r a
health giving- exercise. No VOnnA the
popularity of the gams Is growing by
leaps and bound.
BIG CROWD SEES
SIX RECORDS GO
SMASH AT. DRAKE
Des Moines, lows, April IT. (TJ. P.)
A mammoth crowd at Haskin ffM
aw ' records broken at the
; "'om vi Jraae uni-
crny participated in by over 400 run
ners from 13 universities, 15 colleges
and 24 high schools. The summary of
records broken follows:
One mile (college) Coe, time :JI:
old record, S:29 4-6.
Two miles (high school) Cedar Hap
ldstlmej 8:38 4-6; old record. 8:48.
One-half mile (university) Chicago.
time 1:80: old record, 1:31.
Two-miles (college Mornings!,
time 8:15; old record. 8:28 4-6. -
One-half mile (college) Coe. tlrao
.oi. i-a, uiu recora, l:33.
Four miles (unlv.rsity) Wisconsin,
time 18:04 2-6; old record 111 as j I
RojgOty Speedway
i j INAUGURAL INTER-CITY
AUTO
Speed Kings
StZ MAY
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FIRST RACE
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Scale of Prices First Time in America for Hi-h-
i Class Auto Racing.
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GranSstaru 25c Extra Parking AutomcbUes $1X3
Oregon Agricultural College. C- -vallls.
Or April 17. The annual C -lumbla
tract meet held in I'ortla:
last Saturday proved to Coach "LH
Stewart that his Oregon Aggie sprlr.i
em were not In as good condition r
expected. "Losing the meet -by tl
margin that we did wu good for us,"
said "Do!" yesterday. "The boys wet
caught napping and I have noticed 1 i
the workouts this Week a determina
tion and wl I It hat heretofore have bi
forelgn charfcterlstlc. The light, fair
ly confident air that prevailed bef'-i .
the big meet is now a. thing of U
"past."
The wealth of new material that i :'!
Hay ward has lo work with this year
was too much for the orange and blui k
cinder path artists. Oregon's new m i
alone won enough points to defeat O.
A. C. Hay ward's bear story about it--t.
being able to work his track men at.
get them into condition on account of
the bad weather seems to have be i
discredited when Hugglns ran the iuil
In four seconds faster time than 1.
ever did In his life and Mutrhead tlr .
Horlne's indoor record in the hli .,
Jump and Loucks won the 220 In rec
ord time.
The next track meet on the AgKii
schedule is with the Multnomah el u
on the local track next Saturday. Tim
"Winged M's" are collecting a galaxy
of stars from all over the northwest
and are preparing to give "VHhi'b" boy a
a terrible race. Professor Peasley, one
of the college instructors in engineer
ing, is going to run the hurdles for
the clubmen. Peasley is an ex-Stanford
man and while In school was their
champion hurdler. He has been train
ing the local hurdlers and never ap
pears to have much trouble in beating
them to the tape in practice. '
"Andy" Anderson, the Aggie 60, 100
and 220-yard man, has been practicln
starts all week which he fell down in
at the Portland meet and is off with
the gun on every crack. If he keo;
this up he ought not have any trouti
in the dashes against the Portland
club team. Hobgood is back at his two
mile game and looks as unbeatable a
ever in that event. His showing In th
Columbia mile event would indicate
that his condition la not the, best, but
the AgKle champion's race la the two
mile and in that event alone is he able
to lower the coast records.
J In another week, the O. A. C. track
squad will be. in fairly good condition
and should battle Multnomah pretty
evenly for, the first honors.'
SALMON SPORT
" TO LUEE MANY
TO WILLAMETTE
Salmon Club Has to Pas
Out the Winning Buttons
! - to Lucky Ones,
King" Salmon will lure several
hundred sportsmen from all sections
of the state to th Willamette rlvtr
below the Oregon City Kail today.
The success of the fishermen in
landing salmon weighing from 10 to D
pounds during the past week has in
creased the interest in fishing and the
river will be dotted with rowboats ari l
motorboats from the falls to below
Jennings Lodge.
A number of members of the Balmon
Club of .Oregon succeeded in cstchin -button
fish during the past week. Wil
liam Evans landed two 22 pounderp,
the first being caught with a six unc
rod and a nine strand line,
C. W. Boost and party, who have
been fishing every day since, the flrt
of the month, have landed a number cf
blc fish, including a 84 pounder.
CYCLE RACES IN NEWARK?
1 Should 'the annual International Cy
clists Union races be awarded thH
country it la probable the eventa wi 1
b pulled off at the Newark, N. J ,
Velodrome during next August. TI
event emblematic of the worIJ
championship were awarded to Copen
hagen, but' may not be held there t , .
cause of the war.
of Northwest
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