Show Are Out Ot OtTo To Speed Sped Up Jp Grid Games ame Shor Shortening ening of Baseball Games Produced Re- Re suIts Desired and New F Fans ans Want F Football Foot Foot- oot- oot ball Co Contests tests Speeded Up By GEORGE D D. D CRISSEY United Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND Jan 1 While Oregonians Oregonians Ore Ore- make no no claims ot of being I speed peed demons they thoy have confessed a weakness for athletic events I being run oft off according to program and in n fairly rapid order During the closing da days s 's the 1925 Coast league baseball season walls wails long and loud shook this metropolis metropolis me- me wIred double headers started out long past the hoUr when man begins to wonder it if the good wife is singeIng singe singe- tag Ing some hamburger and onions or unwrapping tl the e Un tin from around a. a flock ot of beans The protests results and double headers headers head head- ers Were shortened by two tw Innings innings In- In on the second se-cond game thus speeding up playing in general J been SQ lucky with baseball baseball base base- ball the dauntless are now trying their thedr luC luck in football and it mUst be confessed with even better reason MOSt Moat games In the se season son just juat closed were toO long The complainers blessed with the t-he faculty of making their carry a long distance declare that two hours and thirty minutes is too long when a football gamo is supposed to be divided up into four minute iS-minute periods It is ot of course that that a a. a minute of rest is provided between the first acl and third and nd fourth a min 15 mIte 15 te rest at halt half time that calling time is when pla players ers are injured injured in- in and that each team eam has the right fo calling time eight times during a game The local pr teSt is that play should be speeded up and and it it Is felt that slow officials are more to bl the hie thin than the players Two hours hours' generally Is to be the idea time In which a a game may start sad n end In this cont Contention a California game Cal California fornia vs StanfOrd rd f fur fur- r- r a bright example It was played In an eVen two 11 hours ours and Sam Dolan a competent and speedy official worked that game O Opponents to oV s sport ort events events' take this as loof oot that a games length depends upon upon the Immes Imme's |