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514 story, but adequate, with plenty of names, including a prize com mittee consisting of Walter B. Beebe, David M. Dunne, and Frank B. Thorne.

The track story told of the proposed trip north of the University of California athletes to meet the University of Oregon tracksters at Eugene and the University of Washington at Seattle. Arrangements had been made by C. N. (Pat) McArthur, the University of Oregon's first graduate manager, later member of congress from Oregon. A clipping from the San Francisco Examiner told of the new Pacific Coast record of 4:32 4/5 in the mile, made by Roy Service of California. That was before the days of the Ralph Hills and the Zamperinis.

Professional baseball had three-quarters of a column with a top Jack Grim of Anaconda had been signed as manager of the Portland team. There was a lot of gossip about Eddie Burke, Homerun Tom Turner, Jack Flannery, Manager David E. Dugdale of Seattle, Ralph Frary, old-time catcher and later Coast League umpire, and others. Amateur baseball got 150 words of notice on the election of Frank E. Watkins as captain of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club baseball team, together with gossip on an amateur league to be formed. Frank Watkins, incidentally, is also the hero of the handball story, having won the championship of the Pacific Northwest. Another amateur baseball story that got a top head told of the opening of the Interscholastic Baseball League on the next Saturday. The teams were to represent Portland High school, Portland Academy, and Bishop Scott Academy. The article had plenty of detail. There was another item about Robert Krohn instructing Portland High school girls in basketball, early in his long career as physical trainer and coach in the Portland school system—an active career which was to end only with his death 36 years later.

Fishing was represented by a 200-word story telling of the disappointing luck of fishermen the preceding Monday, when a down pour of rain spoiled the opening of the fishing season.

The opening of the season in the old Northwest League of six baseball clubs—Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Helena, and Butte—received half a column of space in the new Journal of May 14, 1902, including the box score. The lead of the Helena-Portland game, which Portland won 8 to 2, was written in the slow, chronological fashion which was formerly universal:

The professional league baseball season opened on the home grounds yesterday afternoon with a game between Portland and Helena.

It was certainly an off day for the visitors and they played like a lot of school-boys. Jack Flannery is a fine fellow, presumably, and he may be a good team manager, but he was a dismal failure at short yesterday.