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! ( : f . r ' i; l! I! j i ! I 5 i- 'I I i II ! J I I it l r i ' Willamette HOUGH TUTOR HERE REASON GIVEU g-ether behind the . teams which represent in scnoot - ana om-4 m unity. '. . j ' OneWIUamette graduate. Loren Basler. at Boise, piloted hu team to the Idaho stats . championship this year, not losing a sinale game during the season; Rnssell Rarer, at Tillamook J was almost as successful, his team being one of the four or fire out-! standing claimants of the Oregon state title. - i Both these men were. prodactE of Mathews coaching. i r Rein Jackson Is another Math ews man who has achieved prom inence la high school coaching cir cles. Jackson coached some years at West Linn and j. Is now ' Rooserelt high school. Portland. He presented the only practicable plan for a high school football championship competition at the meeting of the state association last winter. .. , f . . - Two athletes from Coach Guy Rathbun's regime. "Hiram- Fas- nacht and W. Deloss Robertson! achlered notice this year. Willamette anlrerslty has more than its proportionate share of graduates listed Among the leading: high school athletic coaches of the northwest. .- There are numerous reasons for this: Among" the most brio us may be mentioned the fact that big percentage of these present , high school coaches' were disciples of Bob Mathews, Willamette men tor from 1915 to 1929. While at Willamette, Mathews, who has since become recognised as one" of the outstanding coaches of the country, made no particu larly noteworthy record of Yletor lee. Willamette was master of. all the smaller colleges, except Whit man at football and basketball. Occasionally, it defeated Oregon State or U. of O. at basketball, and might hare made a good showing at football, but Mathews, aauidnr the fighting spirit of his Bearcats, declined to send them onto ' the field to dash themselrea to frag ments against the hesTier state school elevens. . . r -: . But Mathews' elevens receired during those years eve a mere care ful coaching than did his wonder teams at University of Idaho a few 7rs later. The reason was that they needed It. and the squads be iar small. "NixV was able to de rote plenty of time to each candidate,-' ? - w.j . Most of Mathews players came to Wlllamett poorly coached; often he took man : who ' had playec" absolutely no football, and in one or two years, made a star of him. He had to do It to make np a team. Now that Is. just the problem that the average high school coach faces, and these players, when theyf Bernard Ramsey, at Madras; Paul went out to coach, knew what to; Brown, at Grants Pass; Harold tion departments, and the practice f hiring star' athletes Just for their name was . decried. High schools could get much more sat isfactory service out of young men and women" who : understand the fundamentals of directing this kind of work, it was pointed out. Coaches do not always have to have records as "stars" In order! ally to stage lnteraectional and post to turn out winning teams, ft .was stated, and several examples of the non-player type of coaches are now : marked successes in colleges and universities. Sports : Done-Brmml By Norman E. Brown ROAMING AROUND Dropped into Birmingham, Ala., after an absence of 12 years and find the city Jumping almost oyer night Fa. into the front ranks of the cities gia drew 24.009 paid admissions. - R. 8. Marshall, general superin tendent of the park and recreation board, newspaper men and other public spirited cltlsens have al ready laid plans to draw the 'na tional public links golf champion ship tourney to Birmingham with in the next few years and eventu- nacht piloted Bandon to the Coot Bay section title for the first time! in Bandon's history. ' Robertson at Monroe. Wash., had a season of straight Yictories. Other Willamette graduates who have made records at coaching and the places where they served are as follows: Willis Vinson, at Ray mono, Wash., now . assisted by Henry Hartley; I Orlo Gillette, at Goshen; Ed Warren at Stanfield; John P. Robins, at Sisters; 'Davei Ellis, at Tonasket: Jacob Nickel at Dorena; Henry Spies at Stan field: Harold Dtmlck at Milton: Arnold Grallup; at Hermiston; James C. Caughlin, at Eatonrtlls; Howard George, at Myrtle Point: Bryan McKittrick. in California; Herbert Krlckson, at Post Falls, Idaho; Merwin Stolzbelse .at athena. r. ' --y Beeny" Bain, . at Woodhurn; do when players were not ready to their hand, bat had to be de veloped. : The same' conditions, ft ssight . be said, prevail in Willamette and the other small colleges today, al though to a slightly leas degree because of the greater prevalence of good coaching in the high schools. Another factor Is Willamette's reputation as a school of education for high school teachers. Most of the men turned out are bona tide educators as well as coaches, and that . is what the average high school must have. A third, perhaps, is indicated in the trend now noticeable, at. thei Toble, in Washington; Albert Lo gan, at Athena; Fred Patton. at Monmouth Normal; Waldo Zeller, at Monmouth and Vancouver; and Lestle Sparks, at Salem high and Willamette university. A rather unusual happening was the election by Eugene high school, of Ramon Dlmlck. a Wil lamette man, ae coach there last fall, despite a vast number of ap plications from University of Ore gon men. Dlmlck did not take the Job, receiving a better one in Cal Ifornla. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Ea gene, Dec 1 X. (Special. A con centrated effort: to hare high larger colleges of recommending? school officials consider the grad- for coaching positions the men who really are able to coach, rath er than the . stare who ' have achlered great notoriety. And a fourth is the fact that Willamette la a denominational college with its own peculiar tra ditions in the matter of sport as well as along other Unas; tradi tions which appeal to the parents a well as the athletes when, they are transplanted to the high uatee of schools of physical edu cation of the universities and col leges of the Pacific coast who have- had an all-round training. rather than lust "star athletes,! for physical training positions, de clared Dean John F. Bovard, bead of the school of physical education at the university, upon Ms return from Stanford where he attended the conference of the association. The-. chief toplo of discussion schools, so that school spirit and) around the' round table session community spirit are welded to-1 was the placing of physical educa- in the development of athletics. Within less than a. year this southern industrial city has - paid oat (630,000 in one lump to -buy a completely developed and equip ped golf course and club house for Its home folk and has erected the first units of a giant athletic sta dium which will eventually take rank with the huge concrete and steel amphitheaters of the east ern, middle-western and Pacific Coast centers. For years and years . tourists shunned Birmingham on 1 week ends because of the dlrth of ath letic activities- there. Other cities had been developing municipal golf links and fostering other ac tivities for years. Finally Birm ingham awoke. With one vote of the town fathers they bought bait. hook, slice, line and sinker the Birmingham Country Club's prop erty. , The city's business district bad encroached on the property too much for the club members. but the acquisition of the property presents the thousands of non club members of the city with a fin ished 18-hole golf course Inst 12 minutes ride from the heart of the business district. The course, close to thirty years old, takes rank as one of the best. it not the best municipal course in the country. ' The club bouse, dance floor and ballrooms are open for use by individual parties and organisations. The athletle stadium was inspir ed by two trips ef Alabama Uni versity's grid team to the Pacific Coast in 192S and 192. Home town folk awoke to the fact that they could have such intersectlon- al games had they a suitable place to hold them. The Junior chamber of commerce took the matter into its hands and raised the first lump sum to start the work. They cow lected f 169,090 ever night. The city added 1399,909 to this to start the structure. The units now completed seat over 21,000 per sons. The final units will, give a seating capacity of 90,909 persons. Ground was broken tor the sta dium last May. The Thanksgiving game between Alabama and Geor-J season grid games at the stadium that will compare In Importance and interest with the Tournament of Roses festival on the coast and the big late season games of the east. ' ' -C ; And while these moves ' have been made la the interest of foot ball and golf baseball has kept pace. The Birmingham team of the Southern Association played to 299,000 fans last season, a minor league record. The local club of New Orleans, engaged in a heated battle for the pennant in the dos ing- weeks of the campaign, play ed to 100.000 persons in 19 days in the two cities combined. Incidentally the new golf course renamed Highland park, was the scene of the first triumphs of Bob by Jones and Alexa Stirling away trout tneir home town of Atlanta. Sport ftfieisi icisms h BILL PITT1 FAST HOOP TEMSS WILL flPPEAI) HERE There lsnt a thing to put in the papers bow that tbe international chess tourney is over. The National league has Just picked Paul Waner as the most valuable player in the circuit. Shucks, the fans knew that before the season closed. University of . Oregon, Puget Sound, Oregon State college, Iin- fleld, and Pacific, will meet the Bearcats at basketball on the Wil lamette gymnasium maple court, according to the hoop schedule an nounced by Coach "Spec" Keene last night. The dates with U. of O.. and O. S. C, have not Tet been decided but they will be late in December or early in January. Willamette must Journey to Walla Walla and Caldwell to play Whitman and College of Idaho two games each on their floors. These two schools sent teams to Salem for games last year. Coach Keene, last night, an nounced that the barnstorming j tour through California would not be taken. c He instructed his Cali fornia representative yesterday to wire all schools lined j up cancel ling the schedule. It appeared Friday that the schedule would go through, and the men were all primed to go. Last minute can cellation of tentative games with Stanford and University of Cali fornia prompted Coach Keene's action. - Practice games will be held this month againsk Monmouth Normal school, Dallas, Silver on. and a couple of Portland teams. Two additional games against Whitman may be scheduled in Sa lem if the Walla Wallans make a tour in this section. The schedule, not yet complete. follows: i Jan. 29 Pacific j at Forest Grove. . ; j Jan. 28 Lintield at Salem. Feb. 4 Ashland Normal at Sa lem (tentative). Feb. 7 -Lrnneia at aicaiinn- Feb. 10 Whitman at walls Walla. Feb. IS College of Idaho at Boise or CaldwelL Feb. 18 Puget -Sound at ia- coma. - ,. Feb. 22 Pacific at Salem. Greyhound racing is being in troduced in China, Another coun try gone to the dogs. One of these days a real smart lawyer Is going to find a Jury in sane. To make a long story short Just who did win that six-day bi cycle raeet . A fellow was thrown out of an eastern school recently for con duct unbecoming to a college man. He probably insisted on wearing garters. USEFUL GIFTS Are Most Appr eciated Kaiser BUl tried to keep his aged slater from marrying. At last we have the old boy working for peace t Read the Classified Ads INDIAN PLAYERS CAUSE. PROTEST Whether Coach "Spec" - Keene will he permitted to use his Indi an football stars next year, will be decided by a Northwest confer ence committee composed of Dean Frank M. Erickson, and faculty members from Linfleld college and Pacific university. . Coach Larry Wolfe, of Linfield, raised the question of playing In dians except under the conference rules governing collegiate trans fers. A similar question was rais ed at the coast conference session, where it was also referred to a committee tor determination. Those broaching the matter stated that inasmuch as Chemawa Indian school vies on the gridiron with college teams, it ranks as a college according to the rules, and transfers as a college according to rules, and transfers would be Ineligible to compete until resi dence had been established for one year. This is denied by -many wno contend that Ch awa scholas tic- all V ranks as a high school. Should the Indians be voted in eligible, the conference may rule against Willamette' using the De Poe brothers and Haldeane next year. 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