THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 19U
SVAN SONG OFrBEZ'S
STATE CHAMPIONS IS
'REMARKABLY LUSTY
Oregon Ends Her 1915 Grid
iron Career With Two Vic-
tories in Five Days,
BIGBEE ONLY ONE MISSING
Crack Saekflald Han Xs Considering
Chaaea mjr Baskatbail; Chances
Tavar Beckett tor 1915 Captain.
University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.,
Nov. t7. reiron sang a lusty swan
on by ending- her gridiron career
r tha season with two victories
within five day, and a total of six
triumphs and two defeats for the
whtole eeano n.
When Oregon defeated the Oregon
Assies 9 to 0 there was considerable
speculation and resultant scepticism
concerning the dry-field prowess of
the lemon-yellow. The battle took
place In a sea of mud, and Oregon,
after winning the game, tightened
Up her defenses and Beckett kept
the Aggies from dangerous proxi
mity to the lemon-yellow goal by
using his powerful toe on first down.
The scepticism of Oregon's offen
sive prowess was shattered In the
IB to 2 victory over Multnomah Ath
letic club on Turkey day. when the
Oregon backs, showing wonderful hit
ting power and aided- by still better
Interference, outplunged the Winged
"M'! In every quarter.
Now comes the realization that
Oregon ended her season with one of
the rot powerful and versatile elev
en that ever represented the uni
versity Sport writers have state!
that the. Oregon team, playing as In
the last two games, could probably
haVB beaten any college football team
in the Northwest.
Only Two Old Men.
The Oregon team is only in the
making, for this season's line-up wis
new for the lemon-yellow. Outsile
Of Beckett and Blgbee the team was
new material at the beginning of the
football year.
The material at the opening of the
season gave Coach Hugo Bezdek a lot.
of worry, and his feat in turning out
' winning team has been termed a
miracle In the football firmament.
Early In the season the Oregon
mentor conceived the old style foot
ball as best adapted to his raw ma
terial. So he gathered together te
brawn of the squad and whipped them
. Into pseudo-f ootballists, only to hav-!
them defeated early in the season by
Multnomah and Dletz's Washington
Btate College machine.
The, failure of his first idea to de
velop Into an efficient scoring machine
did not daunt the ex-Chicago player,
whom Alonzo Staggs called the best
football fighter he had ever coached. J
Began His Work Over.
Following the defeat at the hands
of Dletz's Juggernaut Hozdek started
his work over. What he had accom
plished prior to his 28 to S defeat was
nothing from his viewpoint. On th
return of the beaten squad to Kugene,
the heavyweights were shifted to the
second team and in the vacant places
were put light, lithe and heady men
men who had more brain thn brawn.
Little by little Bezdek's better iden
came Into Its own; first by defeating
Idaho; then by crlmpinjr Whitman
and Willamette: and finally by haul
ing down the colors of J.he University
of Southern California, the team that
beat a team that played robie's
Washington insurgents to a 13 to 6
defeat.
Still campus and outside sportdom
was skeptical about what kind of a
splurge the Beadeklans were going to
make. In a week of solid rain Bezdek
put the final touches on the team that
beat Oregon Agricultural college in
pit of unfavorable dope, and vin
dicated Itself five days later bv
squelching Multnomah club for the
first time in seven seasons.
On of Banner Seasons.
That much of Oregon's 115 football
aaon will gqdown In history as one
of tha banner seasons for the lemon
7 allow, and the credit belongs to Coach
Hugo Bezdek and Trainer "Bill" Hay
Ward: the one reversed Oregon's 111
fated dope by a regeneration of the
taam, and tha other whipped Into- con
dition tha 'pinkest' team that Oregon
has ever put on tha gridiron.
But with tha end of the football sea
son there also Is some forecast of what
to expect from Oregon next season.
Kcepiion or Higoee pres
ent prospects Indicate that next year's
turnout will contain not only most of
tha present varsity men, but also near
ly all of tha squad.
Tha team that beat O. A. C. and
aqnelohed Multnomah was in reality an
underclassmen team, and contained one
freshman. Bob Malarkey. Lyle Blgbee
Is a senior, and. even were he not. there
Is Uttla chance that next year would
sea him In tha lemon yellow ranks, es
pecially when he Is considering an of
fer from Walter McCredie to play pro
fessional baseball.
Captain Anse Cornell, the martyr of
football this season, will get his sheep
skin this June, and will probably coach
some high school next year. He Is con
sidering several propositions.
Bsekett WW Ba Back.
Acting Captain Johnny Beckett, Ore
gon's greatest tackle and most versa
tile of plgsklnners, will be back next
year. According to present indications
there Is no doubt that within a few
weeks ha will ba elected captain of the
lvlo team.
In Huntington, Mentelth, Mitchell,
Snyder, Bartlett and Tegert, Coach I
Bezdek has a quintet which is as yet ,
' comparatively undeveloped. Considering
their possibilities. J
In addition to these, there Is a bunch
of fellows who are coming into their
own and Will probably be varsity ma
terial by next year. They are Mast,
tha halfback of the freshmen team;
Holsington, captain of the freshmao
team, and Williams, tha Eugene lad,
, .who played part of the Multnomah
(am when Spellman was Incapaci
tated. - And there is Bnaley. whose middle
. ' ; T-
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id and 760. such as Chase & Baker,
ster. Sterling and Hal let & Davis,
r .have now been marked all of them at
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., Easy payments.
A number of f 800 Behnlng, Baldwin,
Kimball, and also several slightly used
- genuine Bungalow nayer nanos, Auto-
piano Player Pianos, and Weber Piano
la Pianos will ba sold at exactly half
"pries,
; 'This sals, as advertised, is being
conducted simultaneously at two
places. Graves Music Company. 147 4th
street, near .Morrison, and at Eilers
,- '. Muslo House, Eilers building, Broad
, way at Aider. , , v
T
om Skevlin
Dr. Tom Ross Knocked Him Out
Portland Man Tackled Him
When Yajjg Played Colum
bia in the Old Days,
"Thera Is no question but that Tom
Shevlin was the greatest football
player tha game ever turned out," re
marked Dr. Tom Ross, the former Co
lumbia University guard, when the big
New York institution played football
with Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Penn
sylvania and other leading colleges
of the Atlantic coast.'
"Shevlin was In collage when I was
at Columbia and when we faced Yale
wa didn't have much of a team lert
because of injuries and other causes.
They gave us a licking of better than
40 to 0, the worst we ever received.
"I was playina- a sruard nosltion and
having much work around the cefttar
of the line, the guards never had much j
of a chance to do open field tackling.
Then, too, carrying so much weight,
I wasn't keen on sprinting very hard
with a heft of 260 pounds on my
ankles.
"Well, we guards had been hanging
back on kick offs and the lighter fel
lows would go down to do the tack
ling. I took a notion I'd Join In the
running late in the game, so I got
away with the kick and tore down t!ie
field. Shevlin caught the ball and
started up the field at a rapid .clip,
in my direction. I put on more speed
and dashed toward him. I carried the
momentum and he the velocity, 'Hero's
where I tackle SheVlin 1 said to my
sfclf, en route. I outweighed Sheviln
about iU pounds and opined if there
was any ambulance work it wouldn t
be for me.
Struck Banner Pull Force.
"I made ny dive and lilt Shevlin on(
the right leg with full force. We
both went sprawling. I felt my back
bone buckle under the Impact of our
collision. 'I may be maimed,' I said
to myself, 'but I've put out the great
Shevlin.' When I finally collected my
self and drew up to my knees, Shevlin
was not in the Immediate vicinity,
finally I spotted him going like a
wild man down the field toward our
goal, none the worse for the bumping."
Tom Shevlin is well known in Port
land, where he often visits his uncle,
K. C. Shevlin. A couple of weeks be
fore he was called back to New Havn
to help the Blue for the Princeton
and Harvard games, he made a trip
to Bend, Or., where ha is Just opening
a new mill.
Speaking of Sheviln, tha New Haven
Register says:
"Nobody ever made a run around
my end all the time I was in college,"
is one statement attributed to him
and it has never been called in ques-
t lrn
uu-Tinrai voacn ax .coos.
"It is as a coach of ends that Tom
has made his reputation. He brought
back the Minnesota shift from the
west in 1910, when, after Ted Coy's
gha.stly failure with Fred Daly's team,
he was sent for on a hurry call, as he
lias been this year. He whipped that
team in shape until It trimmed Prince
ton, 6 to 3, and tied Harvard's mighty
line-plowing aggregation, with Wen
dell, Corbett and other man-hammerers
in it. But probably the greatest
tiling, from Tom's standpoint, was that
he made Kilpatrlck a great a truly
great end.
" 'Yes,' Tom is quoted as saying of
Kll's play in those last two games,
'Kilpatrlck is undoubtedly the greatest
end that ever played the game. But
you must remember he had the benefit
of my coaching."
Ha Broke Spending Becord.
"He is credited with having spent
more money than any undergrad ever
spent in the course of a year $17,000
H the figure given. He bought every
thing flowers, taxlcabs, autos (they
were Just coming In when Tom was in
name is "beef,'- and whom Multnomah's
beef trust could not drive out of the
market. He was a regular member of
Bezdek's first team, but had to be
placed back on the second team bo
cause he did not fit into the altered
scheme of things.
Coifnus Also Kas Chanoe.
James "Blacksmith" Cossman is in
the same category. He played on the
first lexm of last season aad the first
part of this season, but was later put
on the second team and "Jake" Risley
shifted to the pivot position from end.
Tuerck will be back next year, unless
something unforeseen arises; and, if he
does not get injured for the season, as
he did this year, he will make a strong
bid for a backfield berth. He pos
sesses wonderful footwork, and has de
veloped an effective stiff arm
Sterling Spellman broke into varsity
football this season and made good j baseball uniform Instead of flesh-col-when
he wasn't sick. His playing In , ored tisrhts: It finds him swlneine his
the O. A. C. classic surprised Bezdek
wljo says he handled "Hungry" Smyth
In such a way as to make him a neg
ligible quantity most of the time.
Huntington is the conning Parsons.
From a second team man of last year,
he got a "rep" by slipping a placement
over on the Aggies and tying last year's
score In the moment when Oregon's
chances were not worth the mention;
and this year he is one of the stars in
Oregon's constellation.
Btontelth Also ITaw Kan.
Monteith is also a new man on the
varsity, and only needs a year of ex
perience to develop into a wonderful
halfback. In the Multnomah game he
demonstrated his punting ability.
"Bob" Malarkey stepped into his
brother's shoes, and is on the road to
success. He was the only freshman to
make the team.
Risley has convinced tha coach that
his logical position Is over tha ball, al
though he would have made a cracking
good end.
I In Mitchell and Tegert, Bezdek has a
I duo of ends that reflect back to the
more recent days of Hall and Brad-
shaw. Mitchell Is one of the fastest,
shiftiest end men Oregon ever had, and
Oregon's prowess in getting down on
the punts and breaking up tha end runs
has been a big aid. Tegert Is probably
the headiest of ends Oregon aver had,
as ha showed in the O. A. C. game.
Despite tha favorable outlook for
next season. Coach Bezdek Is doubtful.
He still remembers that many upon
whom he counted this season did not
return to the fold.
Calls Spring Practice.
In an effort to build up a winning
football team the University of Call
fornla will hold spring football prac
tice in preparation for next year's con
test. A call will ba Issued after tha
Christmas holidays.' A new coach,
probably an eastern man, will ba se
cured.
Are English Methods Beat?
Coach Jim Rice of Columbia uni
versity oarsmen says the recent tri
umph of his varsity eisht over the
Tale crew should do much to counter
act tha growing feeling that English
rowing methods are superior to the
American theories of rowing.
Greatest of Foottall Players
Latest picture of T
college), clothes (and such clothes),!
Jewelry, canes, dinners and their ac
companiments there wasn't a thing
that was untouched by Tom's versatile
and seemingly bottomless purse.
"One thing Tom did with his money
that has made him remembered with
kind words and good wishes. He
helped many a poor fellow struggling
to get an education with money and
other gifts, and he did It all anony
mously. Not until, long after Tom's
leaving college did It come out that he
had been the donor of many hundreds
of dollars to less fortunate classmates.
Secretly Left It oa Desks.
"A poor fellow would be worrying
about the time term bills were due as
to how he was to raise the where
withal to meet them. In the morning
he would find, say, $100 on his desk.
An Actor oa field,
"Tom isn't much of a talker on the
field, he's an. actor. In that familiar
heavy Persian-lamb lined overcoat,
wearing that familiar derby at that
rakish angle, carrying that famous
cane, with the horseshoe diamond pin
In that flashy tie, and smoking that
inevitable cigarette, he will run down
the field with the varsity ends under
kicks and beat the youngster in their
togs every time. Then he'll get ex
cited; and, dressed though he is In top
form, will rush right into a scrim
mage and show 'em how it should be
done. Practice over. Tom will go back
to the Taft and order another suit. He
seems to have a new suit of clothes
every day.
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Listen to Cyril
T
ale of a Misguided "Bonus"
New York, Nov. 27. Now that the
football season has skidded down along
the pages of history, we will shift the
spotlight in the general direction of the
frost-bitten baseball diamond and tell
you the story concerning Cyril Slap
nicka. Cyril acrobats during the chilly
months of the year, but springtime
finds him cavorting around wearin a
arm and a baseball bat Instead of
QUARTET
err : w?fiA ir?j sl n
These fleetfooted youngsters are part of the reliance of Coach Ed.
right half; John Gloor, fullback, and Bob Stewart, left half.
Once Almost
om Shevlin of Yale.
"Just before the Yale-Harvard gam
of 1914 at the final practice off Yale
field before the team left for Auburn
dale Tom called the squad together.
The Percy Haughton regime was then
Just coming into being at Cambridge
and Percy Wendell was hammering
away at all lines in the Crimson back
field. In came the Yale squad, pant
ing, perspiring, expecting to hear some
great new play unfolded. This is what
happened:
"Tom looked them all in the eye and
with fire In his tones, said:
" 'There's a man up at Harvard they
call Percy . I don't like the
name!
"And that was all there was to it;
that's all he said; whether he meant
Haughton or Wendell or both, nobody
knows, nd nobody ever will.
Struck One Snag.
"Tom struck his one big snag in
New Haven when he wasn't tapped for
Skull and Bones, as he, football cap
tain, had every "reason to believe he
would be. Legend has it that he placed
a bet of J1000 that he would go Bones
and that Bones heard of it, and de
cided to give the uppish young Junior
his comeup-panee. Tom wasn't tapped
for anything and tha college hasn't
stopped talking about it yet. To his
credit be it said that, although bitter
ly disappointed, he came back the next
fall and proved a buddy captain, and
always has been a loyal Yale man
ever since. Some people say tbat
turndown by Bones made a man of
Shevlin."
Slapnicka?
yru
swinging on some bars and rings: it
finds him spitting into the palms of his
mitts instead of rubbing rosin therein.
Well, Cyril gathered unto himself a
Job as pitcher for the Milwaukee club
in the springtime of this year. Before
the documents were signed that made
Cyril a Brewer, he thought his twirling
services wereworth so much per sea
son. The club owners thought he val
ued the power of his arm about $400
too much, and they toldhim so. Cyril
pouted. The club owners
nerFw
rere what
OF CRACK PLAYERS FROM
might ba called qbd urate concerning
that small -Item of $400.
Tha $400 Prorlso Contract.
In tha and, vows and declares Cyril,
tha club owners "Spoke to him thusly:
"We will siva you a contract calling
for tha figures wa have mentioned.
Into this contract we will Insert a pro
viso to the effect that If you win one
half Of your games we will pay you the
extra $400. What sayr
Cyril said he said that what the club
owners said was peneciiy an rigni
with him. whereupon Cyril clutched a
pen In his digits and affixed his name
to tha sheet of paper.
Time flitted, as time will do. Vhe
and of the .season approached. There
were only two or three weeks left to
play, at which point Cyril got out his
pencil and a tablet and began figuring
up his pitching average. After consid
erable adding and deducting Cyril dis
covered that ho had lost just one more
rame than he had won -that he was
Just one victory shy of acquiring the j
much-coveted 400 bones.
Cyril at once hustled to the liniment
cabinet and greased his arm with wing
! strengthening remedies. He applied
smoke-producing salve and he got that
arm in wonderful shape, because he
wanted to be sure that his arm woud
be werking right when he would be
sent to the mound to effect the cap
ture of that 1400 game.
And Cyril Was Left Behind,
And then the Brewers got ready for
a trip on the road the last swing of
the season. Cyril got ready, too, Dut
when he reported with his little grip
in his curve-forming hands, the mana
ger, he says, spoke to him thusly:
"You aln t gotn along, ola gia
you're gonna linger behind. We don't
need you."
Cyril immediately emitted a roar. He
pointed out to the manager that if he
didn't go along on that trip he wouldn't
eet his chance to pitch that J400 game.
Cyril, 'tis said, wailed and he gnashed
his teeth, and he wrung his hands, ana
did a lot of other things which depict
despair, agony and terrible grief, but
the manager responded with a frigid
glare and Cyril was left behind.
And then Cyril filed suit in the
courts of Justice in this land of the
free and the home of the brave, as
serting in said petition that he was
greatly wronged wronged to the ex
tent of $400 by being left in Milwau
kee. Ain't them there ballplayers got sad
lives, Oscar?
AMATEURS ARE TO MEET
The Eastern Intercollegiate Associa
tion of Amateur Athletics of America
will hold its annual meeting in New
York, December 27. The Amateur Ath
letic Union will send a committee to
tha meeting. Among the purposes of
the meeting will be a discussion of
amateur athletics with the idea of
framing a uniform rule defining the
status of an amateur.
A. A. U. MEET AT NEWARK
Newark, N. J., having been awarded
next year's National Amateur Athletic
Union championships of the track and
field will probably stage the meet Sep
tember 8 and 9. The wrestling cham
pionships are also to be held there and
sporting events will make the two hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary of that
city a memorable year.
DARCY GOES TO BAY CITY
Darcy, the sensational middleweight
boxer of Australia, my arrive in San
Francisco in a few weeks. He has
beaten Eddie McOoorty and Jimmy
Clabby in Australia. The Sydney sta
dium is reported to close on December
1, and as there will be no more bouts,
many of the pugilists will come to
America.
HUNTLEY IN TOURNEY
Sam A. Huntley of Omaha, one of
the most expert trap shots in the
world. Is matched to participate in a
special contest at 1000 targets for a
purse of JIWO against an "unkown" In
Omaha In December. His opponent, it
is rumored, is Bob German of Hagers
man, Md.
Ony L Has Pupil.
Ouy Lee, the former welterweight
champion boxer of Portland, is hand
ling a San Francisco youngster named
Frank Farren, who has a bright future
as a boxer. Farren now obexes in the
bantamweight division. He Is well
thought of by a large number of the
Bay City boxing promoters.
Tigers Cant Win at Home.
It took Harvard university from
1808 until 1913 to win one of the foot
ball games with Tale or Princeton in
tha Cambridge stadium; it took Tale
one year to win in the Bowl at New
Haven, and Princeton has not yet won
one in the Palmer stadium, which has
been in use two years.
ALBANY COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM
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Bailey, From left to right they are:
rx (Tl Jar
St Vk?
Harvard Stars '
(t U K K X
Got Score on
Bf Frank O. Meoke.
New York, Nov. J7. "Foiling tha
Playful Huns With Football Tactics
is tha title of this Little Yarn.
Our heroes In this story are Hugo
Francke. who played fullback for Har
vard last year, and Bill Underwood,
who used to do end duty for the Crim
son squads of191 and 1914.
Having acquired their sheepskins
during tha graduations at Cambridge
last June, the pair started out to con
quer the world by lassoing Jobs In a
cardage factory in Ludlow, Masa, as
machinery oilers.
Now in that shop where the ma
jority of the oilers are Huns, it is an
unwritten rule that an ntwwm. .
must be miltaiea bj "'
oil soaked wtfete. xnereiore,
their first day as oilers. Francka and
Underwood were bombarded ever and
anon. A half dozen times some of ths
playful Soreigners smeared tha classic
Harvard countenances with grease bj
hitting them with an oversoaked ball
of waste. ....
Tha second day tha Initiation cere
monies continued and Francka ana
Underwood only grinned.
There was no letup on tha third day.
On tha fourth day tha pelting Instead
of decreasing seemed to Increase, OH
soaked waste fairly rained down upon
tha youths, and they decided right
thera that they had been , initiated
quite sufficiently.
Our Karoos Issua TJltlmatum.
And then Francke and Underwood
sought out their tormenters and I told
them to desist and desist immediate
ly under penalty of
things happen tr them.
.... n th. VTifna was
having dire
The only an-
the exchange
- h.u.ivM of knowing grins
.A. .nfl Underwood returned to
their stations, but hardly had they re-
SPORTING NOTES
Phllllps-Exeter football
not lost a footbau gama
Phillips-Andover beat the Exonlans 7
to 0 in the final game that year, and
s?nce that time Exeter has won 21 con
tests in succession.
Tha L street swimmers, the well
known Poston organization, have add
ed a 26 yard race for women and I girl"
as a feature of Its Christmas day out
door progrm of races.
Coach Walter Christie, the veteran
instructor in track athletics at the Uni
versity of California, has organised
classes for instruction In ;oart'n and
students training at which thera la a
large attendance.
Dartmouth college Hano ver N. H.,
will hold Its annual winter rnlvl
February 10 to 12. It Is Pctd
coming festival of P?rwl"h
best In tha history of tha college.
The annual Tale vs.
ball game has been played for the last
41 years longer than any other col
lege series In this country.
i nt Pmnsvlvania relay
races are to be held on April 29. The
annual eastern lnterconeg.aio
and field meet will occur May 27.
Tha Amateur Athletic union has 17.
479 registered athletes. A total or
458 clubs hold membership through
out this country.
Pittsburg's new Winter Garden ice
skating rink Is the largest indoor
structure of the kind, having 30,000
square feet of Ice caracity.
Miss Ruby Roberts, the Australian
woman billiard champion, is in Lon
don playing exhibition games of the
English style of billiards.
Tha Courtney rowing No. S In tha
present Cornell first boat is a nephew
of Coach Courtney. This year's fresh
men candidates number 100.
Talk of forming a rowing associa
tion of southern clubs has been re
vived in Baltimore.
Montreal may construct a modern
auto speedway by June of next year.
Kansas City, Mo., may soon boast a
fight arena to seat 6000.
Local Athletes Are Injured.
Rugby football caused Injuries to
two former local high school boys this
fall. Dick Grant, the former Washing
ton high school sprinter, injured his
ankle while turning out with the Stan
ford team, and Ray Leonard had two
rib broken while practicing with the
Santa Clara eleven.
Del GiJklow, quarter; Seth French,
1 -v.t- v-M w J : .."1
Showed Huns
X X XXX X
Oil Initiation
Isumed work when a doxen oil soaked
wads volleyed down upon them. Imme
diately followed by a bucketful of oil
which drenched them. And then It
happened.
Tha crimson pair wiped tha grease
from their eyes, saw the Huns grouped
in a doorway laughing uproariously,
and then, like maddened bulla. Francke
and Underwood dashed at that gang as
they used to dash at tha opposition
lme in their football days headfirst,
low and crouching, and with all th
speed and power at the command of
their healthy young bodies.
Use football Char g a In right.
They crashed into that pck of for
1rner and unlit it like a 14 Inch shall
would split a wooden wall. Five of
the 10 forelgnera went down aa though
ieuea Dy a marun fpiiw. , o.nn
hurled himself at two of tha others
and floored them. A third tried to es
cape but Francke overtook him, lifted
him off his feet and hurled httu
through a window.
Underwood, in the meahtlma. was
attempting to "polish off the two
others who had escaped tha first
charge. He sent one to the floor with
a terrific body punch and Just as he
was going after the other Francke
came along and saved Underwood the
exertion of putting him out of com
mission, by butting him with his head
and sending- him catapulting toward
(li wall
"Ramming through tha Yale line
m haJf Him fun I've had
Just now. Bill." said Francke. as he
viewed the success of tha onslaught.
"Righto," assented Underwood. "And
now let's get back to work."
p. g. The Huns decided that day
that- Francke and Underwood needed
no further Initiation In the Frolicking
Fraternity of Machinery Oilers.
Stories of
Farming According to Hoyie.
THE "back to tha farm" movement
has on several occasions struck
fruitful ground among the deputies of
Assessor Henry E. Reed's office, but
no more faithful follower has It gained
than Carrol S. 8towe. Stowe's specialty
is making land valuations and he
prides himself on his ability to tell
the quality of land at the first glance.
Some time ago Stowe Invested In
a few hundredths of an acre on one
of these "so close to town you're in
before you know It" tracts like Rex
Lampman's. He also Invested In a
touring car of the brand now being
advertised In cartoons depicting "peace
at any price."
Work over in the afternoon Stowe
would motor home and don old
clothes. Then ha would emulate the
hero of tha picture, "Tha Man With
the Hoe," and his potato patch waxed
plenteous with vines aa the season pro
gressed. "Tou know I think 111 buy a bigger
car when I harvest that crop," he
confided to envious neighbors who
v. atched the vines grow. "I'm going
to charter a ship and sand tha crop
to Europe. I'll make a fortune off
this patch."
When the days began to shorten
and the vines began to die Stowe
counted aven more profits than ever.
Finally tha time for digging tha un
suspecting tubers arrived. A neighbor
watched tha first hill as it was turned
over.
"Where's your spuds r the neighbor
asked. "What are those little round
things? MarblesT" ,
Another hill produced llki results
and so on throughout the patch.
I know the seed waa goad and I
know I planted th durnTtrtngs right
and hoed them pro parly for I followed
just what the farmlYag book said." he
confided to the frierftl. "I guess the
land is not good for potatoes."
Yukon Governor to
Organize Command
San Francisco, Nov. 27. (P. N. S.)
Governor George Black of the Yukon
territory and Mrs. Black are here from
the north. After a visit to the expo
sition and a trip south visit Mrs.
Black's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
M. Munger of Los Angeles, the gov
ernor will return to the Tukon. There
he will raise a body of troops of
which he Is to take command, and
with which he will proceed to what
ever theatre of the war he may be di
rected by the British general staff.
Governor and Mrs. Black's two sons
will also Join the flag.
Hoppe Coming to Paved flc
William F. Hoppe, the champion
balk line billiard player, will visit the
Hawaiian Islands early next spring and
spend the early spring and summer
there and on the Pacific coast. He
will be accompanied by Kojl Tamada,
the crack Japanese player.
Bellah Back Xext Summer.
Bam Bellah, the national pole vault
champion, will be back In Portland next
summer. Sam dropped Into San Fran
cisco while the club team was there
and told several of the players that he
expected to be In Portland next spring,
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PORTLAND MAY YET -BE
MADE FAMOUS AS
OF
Father Schoener of Brooks
Has Already Proved What
Can Be Performed.
CLIMATIC STATE FITTING
Conditions of Boll Also Bald to Ba
Ideal for Cultivation of tha Maw
Species.
Portland's crown "The Rosa City" Is
to have new Reins added to 'it, for In
addition to having the fame of being
the city in which roses grow the best,
H will in all probability in a few years
have a reputation aa a city In which
new roses are created.
Father Schoener. the plant wizard
of Brooks, has already achieved na
tional and even International fame as
a maker of new roses and his work
has placed the little hamlet In tha
Willamette valleym the world's map.
Richmond, Ind., has also a world's
name due to the fact that there E. G. '
Hill created his new roues. While
these villages have secure.! this fame
-oruana hig only achieved a reputa
tion as a place where roses creH ted in
other places can grow to perfection.
Work Za Difficult.
A city or a community gets fame
from what It originates and produces
and Portland and Oregon can never
achieve the highest place In the minds
of rosarians throughout tha world
until it shows that it can originate
roses as well as grow those produced
in other sections.
Tha matter of creating new roses,
as one who knows of the work of hy
bridizing like Father Schoener has
been doing, Is a long and patience
racking undertaking, for the work of
years may amount to nothing.
One of the leading amateurs who is
doing a most extensive work person
ally in this direction is Oeorge C.
Thomas Jr., the millionaire of Phila
delphia, who Iihh already given some
choice creations in rosea to the world
Without cost.
The fourth class to which the world
looks for new ruxea are the profes
sionals like K. O Hill of Richmond,
Ind.. Walsh of Wood's Hull, Mass., tha
Dickson of McGoedy's of England,
Pernet-Doucher of France and Lam
bert of Germany. The fifth class are
those of the same type of Mr. Thomas,
amateurs, who. while not having an
elaborate equipment an he, neverthe
less make progress. It Is this class
that Portland Is going to depend upon.
Time iequlred to Complete.
It taken from two to five years in
which to create and establish a new
rose.
The work Mr. Currey has carried
on during the past summer Is directed
at one goal and that la to f?tve Port
land a red rone whl h will be as ef
fective for general garden cultivation
as Is Portland's famous pink rose.
Madam Caroline Teutout. With tM
object In view he mnile a number of
hybridization the pnnt summer with
practically all of the best red roses
and has gone further and croKsed and
recrossed vigorous and healthy pink
and white anil yellow roses with
equally vigorous and heiiltliy red
roses, carefully following the theories
of Father Schoener as to avoid in
breeding. Dupont
for Ducks
PTE duck season's here. The
bays are black with these
toothsome game birds. There'!
plenty for all. Get your gun
ready! If your v.m is true and
your load's dependable you'll gel
your share
SMOKELESS SHOTGUN POWDERS
Dupent Balllstlte
are tha powders that win. Bulk or deasa'
each ba its good points aad eaeh has
its friend.
Du Pont Pewdar the ehoise of 80
of American bootert, are loaded ia aO
standard abaU or sold in bulk at yeas
dealer'a
WriU for bookleU
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