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9, 1912. fANS HT BOSTON ON YOUR NEW Suit or "Smoky Joe" Proves Hero of Gre'at Crowds at Bulletins Gasp During Giants' Rally in Ninth. Overcoat Before we move to our Close Battle Giants' Finish Dramatic. if V NaW HOME November first M'GRAW CLINGS TO HOPE RESULT INFLUENCES. BETS 'Hi a? THE 3I0RXEVG OREGOXULS", UEUAESDAT, mm IS FASTER fjN OPENING GAME 1 u -' HEAD LINERS IK FIRST GAME OF WORLD'S SERIES AT NEW YORK IN WHICH BOSTON WALLOPED THE NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS IN EXCITING BATTLE. - 11 yrv?' 5 SAVE 20 V GTORY lff:M4lliili; 1 5 :v: T- .w " X f 3 SAVE i t; Boston Bats Mighty Tesrean Prom Mound New York Comes Within ' One of Tie in Xlnth, bnt Two Fan With Men on Bases. CROWD ' (MBF7K8 So,7JO; RE CEIPTS $75,127. . NEW TORK. Oct. 8. Ths Na tional Commission's figures for at tendance and receipts at today's came follow: Total paid attendenee, 35,730. Total receipts, $75,127. National commission's share, $7013. Players' share. $40,568. Each club's share, $13,523. m : rt - y NEW YORK, Oct 8. The Boston '-Americans overcame the New York Na ( tionals by 4 to 3 toaay before more than 35,000 persons in the first came f the world's series. ; : The contest was nip and tuck all ' the way. The New Yorks made a j: thrilling rally in the ninth inning', when they nearly tied the score, but "Smoky Joe" Wood's bewildering; speed turned i two New York batters back to the - bench on strikes for- the last two put ; outs, and the Bostons carried off the honors. Rarely, if ever, has any world's series L provided such a dramatic finish. Two runs behind, the New York supporters had given up hope. Hundreds were i leaving; the stands when Merkle sent a single whistling to the outfield after ','v. one man was out. Even then the -.chanco of tying the score seemed re--mote, but a Texas leaguer by Herzog, 1 fnllnW.H miiflriv hv o nmnlru hi J " J ' " " 111V uj I thn Indian. Mpvcm whffh mn MapUu' i: home, put the stands in a flama of ex cltement. V ; Thousands Stand and Yell. ' With Giants on second and third, ' thousands stood in their seats and ' yelled. Fletcher swung his bat nerv- i . ously at the plate, while Joe Wood f seemed anxious. The Boston twlrler ! patted the grass, hitcued his belt, ;; rubbed the ball, and adjusted his cap. , This delay unsettled Fletcher and he I swung futilely at Wood's fast-breaking - shoots three times and went back to .the bench. Crandall. strong man in the pinch, J came up. Wood put over two strikes and then three balls. The pitcher his arm back and shot over a high, fast lnshoot Crandall swung, missed it by an inch and the game was over. J , It was a battle of managerial wits in the selection of the pitchers. Man . ager McGraw pinned his faith in Tes reau and the Ozark bear hunter held the Bostons hitless until the sixth in ning, when Speaker's three-bagger broke the ice. Tesreau weakened in the seventh, and before the fusillade of Boston hits was over, three runs were across the plate and the visitors had . a lead of two runs. Wood Fans Eleven. Manager Stahl placed his star pltch- er, Joe Wood, on the mound. In only two Innings was the moundman hit hard, and his dazzling speed continued undiminished until the last man -had struck out. Wood fanned 11 batters. He gave only two bases on balls. The New Yorkers were the first to edge their way into the run column. Wood held them scoreless until the third inning, when after Tesreau had , fanned, Devore worked Wood for a base on balls. Doyle put up a high fly . .to left, which fell too far back for either Gardner or Wagner to reach. Uoyle took second on a hit but De vore was held at third. Then Murray caught one of Wood's inshoots and sent the ball over second for a single and brought Devore and Doyle over the plate. Tesreau Mighty TJntll Sixth. ' Tesreau was mighty until the sixth inning. Twenty Boston players had faced his moist" ball before the first v hit was made. That was a long drive for three bases by Speaker, who came home for the first run for the Ameri- ' can Leaguers on an infield out by Duf fy Lewis. The seventh inning saw the end of Tesreau. Three singles and a double sent three. Boston players home, and Manager McGraw was quick to see , that the visitors had solved Tesreau's : delivery. Wagner started the trouble ; for Tesreau in the seventh, after Stahl i had been retired by sending a line ' drive to center. Cady followed with , another liner to center, and the Bos ; ton delegations in the stand turned ; loose a lusty cheer. Wood forced Cady at second, but Hooper shot a double past Merkle, putting Wagner across the plate, and sending Wood to third. ) Verkes responded with a sharp drive ' over second, and before the ball could be returned to the infield. Hooper and . Wood had scampered over the rubber. With a lead of two runs, the Giants ' had to take the offensive, and nobly they responded with their ninth ' Inning rally, which failed by a run of tying the score. Stahl Extols Joe Wood. "We won, as I thought we would, but the New York gave us a great fight," Manager Jake Stahl remarked as he ' led his players aboard an early even ing train for Boston. "Joe Wood car ried us to victory with fine pitching, and our players were ready with their bats when hits meant runs." "The series is Just beginning, Man - ager McGraw said. "We are by . no means disheartened by today's defeat. The Ph!ladelphians were defeated the first game of the world's series last year, but they won the title of cham pions." Business cams to a standstill In the financial district while the game was In progress. -Crowds on the Stock Ex change and brokerage houses forsook - the tickers and hung around the news tape which carried the record of the - game. The crowd at the Polo Grounds was handled without confusion and there vlrtuallj" was room for all who came. Speculators obtained high prices for seats in the upper stands, but many lost money when would-be purchasers . failed to meet exorbitant demands. Attendance Short of Last Year. The attendance figures fell short of ! the first game between the Philadel phias and New Yorks last year. The - paid admission at today's contest to taled 35,730 2551 less than last year. Total receipts for the game were $75, 127, of which the players receive $40, 668, and each club $13,523. The Na tional commission's share was $7513. For New York, Larry Doyle shone with his usual brilliancy. He had two hits in four trips to the plate, one of them being for two bases. He was all over the field and nothing got past him. Herzog also was much in the I aSSSSSSSSMSSSSSaSS I ii.Si: i '1! IS. SftSiK ' W " j vsr. r s ft ixW i - game, getting two hits and helping New York to make the third run. Only one attempt was made to steal a base. That came in the second Inning, when, after reaching first on a force, Stahl started down and was flagged by Meyers with a perfect throw to Doyle. Despite the nervousness of the two teams, there were only two mlsplays. These were committed by Wagner and Fletcher, both shortstops falling down on easy grounders, no doubt due to their anxiety to get the ball across to first Strikeouts Play Bis Part. Seventeen men struck out. For New York Fletcher fell a victim three times to Wood's "smoke" balls, Tesreau fanned twice and Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Herzog, Meyers and Crandall each struck out once. Jake .Stahl went out twice on strikes, as did Third Base man Gardner. Hooper and Speaker struck out once. Tesreau looked every inch a giant as he hurled the first ball to the plate and Klem called it a ball. Hooper, the first Boston man, waited out the string and was rewarded with a base on balls. He took secondi and third on Yerkes1 and Speaker's outs, both of which -were fast grounders, and was left on the paths when Lewis sent a high fly to Snodgrass. Wood got his "smoke" ball right, at the jump when Devore, the first New Yorker, stepped to the plate and struck out. Doyle reached Wood's1 pitching. but he shot a grounder right into the waiting hands of Wagner, who threw the New York captain out at first Snodgrass crashed a single over sec ond. Wood passed Murray and Mekrle popped out to Wagner, Stahl Falls In Attempt to Steal. In the second inning Boston got its first batter on first, through Fletcher fumbling Gardner s grounder. Stahl hit to Tesreau, who turned swiftly and threw Gardner out at second, Stahl reaching first base. In trying to Bteal second Stahl was thrown out Wagner received his base on balls and Cady fol lowed by sending a high fly to Murray. There was little action In New York's second Inning. Herzog sent up a pop fly that Stahl captured and Meyers and Fletcher struck out Joe Wood received a fine reception by the crowd as he walked to the plate in the third inning. He waited pa tiently and received a base on balls and Hooper sent him down to second on a neat sacrifice, Tesreau to aaerKie. Yerkes went out; Doyle to Merkle, Wood taking third, where he remained as Lewis closed the inning, after SDeaker had been purposely passed, with a high fly that Fletcher had to run backward to get New York's biggest inning of the game did not open auspiciously. Tes reau, the first man up in the third, went out on strikes. Devore had bet ter luck and got four balls and a min ute later pulled up at third base when Captain Doyle put up a nigh nay tnat gave him two bases. Wood appeared to be weakening, but he stuck gamely at his task and fooled Snodgrass into striking out. Devore feinted to go home, but Wood paid no attention to him. Murray's Single Scores Two. Murray singled to centerfleld, bring ing both Devore and Doyle home with the first runs of the game. Speaker threw home to head off Doyle at the plate, but he was too late and Murray, in trying to take second, was thrown out by Cady, ending the Inning. It was one, two, three for the Bostons in their fourth inning. Tesrau was now pitching in fine form. Gardner fouled to Herzog, Stahl struck out and Wagner sent up a foul to Merkle. For New York Merkle opened the in ning by fanning. Herzog lifted a sin gle to center field, and went to second on Meyers' weak grounder that Wood got and shot over to Stahl ahead of the Indian. Fletcher struck out for the second time. The fifth Inning was barren of re sults. Cady was an easy out. Doyle, to Merkle. Wood rolled an easy ground er to Merkle that the latter scooped up and touched to the bag, and Hooper fell a victim to strikes. Doyle's Ambition Costly. Tesreau, the first man up for New York in the fifth, struck out Devore sent a high one to Lewis, and Doyle shot a single over third, which Gardner knocked down and could not handle quickly. Doyle rounded first as Gard ner got the ball, and was thrown out at second trying to stretch the hit into a double, Wagner taking the out Yerkes flied out to Snodgrass in the sixth. Speaker waited until he got a goo& ball and then drove it to deep left center. Snodgrass sprinted after the bali, and Devore, seeing that the cen ter fielder apparently had the ball, stopped. Snodgrass ran with the ball and was able only to get his finger tips on it and the ball rolled toward the center field wall. When the ball was returned to the infield Sneaker was on third. The Boston outfielder then came home on Lewis' easy out, Doyle to Merkle. Gardner struck out." New York's sixth inning was quickly over. Wagner fumbled Snodgrass' grounder. In attempting the sacrifice Murray sent up a little pop fly that Stahl gathered in and doubled up Snod grass at first, Wood taking the toss. The play was so quickly made that it was thought Stahl had made the dou ble play unassisted, but the official j ri il GAPRQN PICKS SOX 1. Trls Speaker, Boston Fielder; 2, Mur ray, Giants' Rlghtfielderi 8, Wood, Left, and Tesreau, Right, Opposing Pitchers; 4, "Bis; Chief" Meyers, New - York Catcher. scorers agreed that the play had been made by Stahl and Wood. Merkle end ed the Inning with a fly to Wagner, Boston Forges Into Lead. In the seventh Inning Boston forged to the front by scoring three runs, as already told, and driving Tesreau from the slab. Herzog struck out Meyers was hit by a pitched ball, but a mo ment later was forced at second by Fletcher, Yerkes to 'Wagner. McCor mick, batting for Tesreau, flew out to Lewis. In the eighth inning, with Crandall pitching, Lewis went out iietcner to Merkle, and Gardner and Stahl struck out. New York in its half of the eighth was quickly disposed of. Devore and Doyle both went out, Wagner to Stahl, and Snodgrass sent a pop fly to Gard ner. . Wagner opened the ninth inning for Boston with a slashing double to left He went down to third on Cady s sacrl flee, Herzog to Merkle, and was held there while Crandall was throwing out Wood at first Hooper sent up a little fly to Doyle. Then followed the climax, when the Giants made a run and failed to win out what promised to be a suc cessful rally. It was learned tonight that Wagner, the Boston shortstop, hurt his hand when Murray slid into second and was touched out by Wagner in the third in ning. Wagner continued playing, how ever, and it is believed the injury will not prove serious. . The official soore: BOSTON. AB 3 , H PO A E 13 0 0 10 10 1 O 1 0 o a o o 0 11.0 0 4 10 2 5 3 1 1 11 1 0 0 110 8 27 9 1 H PO A E 0 0 0 0 3 2 7 0 12 0 0 110 1 1 12 0 l 2 110 16 10 0 8 11 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 J 8 27 18 1 Hooper, rf. .... Yerkes, 3b. Speaker, cf. . . Lewis, lf Gardner. 8b. ........ 4 Stahl, lb. 4 Wagner, as. a Cady. c 8 Wood. p. 8 Totals SI 4 NEW YORK. AB R Devore. lf. 8 Doyle, 2b. 4 Snodgrass, cf. ....... 4 Murray, rf. 3 Merkle, lb 4 Herzog-, 3b 4 Meyers, c. Fletcher, ss. Tesreau, p. . McCormiok , Crandall, p. Becker" . .1 Totals -. 8$ Batted for Tesreau In seventh. Ran for Meyers in ninth. SCORE BY INNINGS. Boston 00000180 01 Hits 00O0OI4O 1 New York o0 2 0 0 0 0 Or 1 3 Hits 10211O0O 8 S SUMMARY. Struck out By Wood, 111 by Tesreau, 4; by Crandall, 2. Bases on balls Off Wood. 2; off Tesreau. 4. Two-base hits Doyle. Hooper, Wagner. Three-base hit Speaker. Double play Stahl to Wood. Sacrifice hits Hooper, Cady. Hit by pltahed ball Mey ers. Innings pitched By Tesreau, 7. Base hits Off Tesreau fi, runs 4. Time of game Two hours 10 minutes. Umpires At plate, Klem; on bases, Evans; left field, O'Lough lln; right field. Rigler. 17 ARRESTED AS SCALPERS Ticket Speculators at Big: Game Have Xo Easy Time. NEW YORK, Oct 8. Speculators with tickets to sell at exorbitant prices were active today outside the Polo Grounds. Few of the "scalpers" had any great number of tickets. The po- lce were observant ana tna specula tors had to work craftily to dispose of their wares. Seventeen men alleged to be "scalp ers" were arrested. Thirteen of them were fined $10 each and the others dis charged for lack of evidence. One from Hoboken said he waited in line eight hours for a ticket and thought he was entitled to sell it for a fancy price. Another said he had been refused ad mittance on a ticket he bought from a speculator and was trying to make the speculator take back the ticket wh'en he was arrested. Another pris oner admittted he sold two tickets for 24. "Cupid" Childs .Dying. BALTIMORE, Oct 8 Clarence L. Childs, known familiarly by baseball fans as "Cupid" Childs, is dying of Brlght's disease at his home here. Childs was one of the greatest second basemen of the '80s and '90s, and was a member' of the Cleveland "Spiders," of the National League. He is 45 years old. Ex - Northwestern Leaguer Would Back Boston. KILLI LAY'S FATE BEWAILED Oakland Fllnger Who Started With Red Sox Sees $5000 "Players' Share" Lost as Result of Fortune's Fickleness. BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. Smoke ball won over spitball yes terday in New York youth opposing youth Joe Wood against Jeff Tesreau. Whether or not the uncertainty sur rounding the pitching choices affected betting, certain it is that while Port land fans packed the streets in front of every bulletin board, few wagers were placed on the first .game of the Boston-New York world's series. Per haps less than one-quarter the usual amount was laid at local headquarters, in fact one commissioner reports more financial Interest in the Coast League games down souih. George Capron, ex-Northwestern out fielder, pulled down $350, one of the largest bets reported, laying against $300. Sentiment Not to Figure. Capron is one of the few so-called experts who does not let sentiment swing him around. The ex-Minnesota drop-kick artist received his first ma jor league tryout under Muggsy Mc Graw, but is now lined up on the other side of the fence. George says he lost too much money last Fall backing the Giants against Philadelphia, on Russ Ford's recommendation. A good many rabid Bostonian back ers believe that the Sox will win three out of the next four games, ending the series, but the more conservative fans are satisfying themselves with the pre scribed four games in six. This con tingent expects New York to take two of the next five games. With Wood out of the way and. Mathewson and Marquard ready on deck It's a safe prediction that despite Boston's first blood there'll be no fluctuations of the odds In favor of Jack Stahl's bunch today'. As a matter of fact a great many Giant rooters have picked up faith as a result of the closeness of the opening game, when any kind of a hit would have won the game in tne nintn lnnin-. The enormous attendance at the opening game indicates that the world's series melon cutting is to be gala event for the players. Last year proved the high-water split but whereas 20 members of the Philadel phia Athletics received $3837.31 apiece, the pro rata distribution next week will reach close to $5000 for the win ning team. Twenty-one Giants ceived $2436 apiece last Fall for per mitting the Athletics to wallop them four games out of six; this year they will likely drag down close to $3500 even lf Boston proves the tyee. Receipts In 1911 (302,364. Under the rules the players get 60 per cent of the first four games after 10 per cent of the gross has been sliced out for the National commission. Play ers cannot cut In on any other games even in case of ties in the initial four. The receipts for the six games last year were as follows: Players' Gross. Share. First s-ame at New York $77,359 $41,773 Second at Philadelphia 42.U62 23,190 Third at New York 75.5W3 Fourth at Philadelphia 40.057 Fifth at New York 8W,3S4 Sixth at Philadelphia 86. loa 40.820 22,110 Totals 1342,884 127,910 Jack Killilay, the Oakland fllnger, is entitled to grumble at the fickleness of fortune. Just as Neal Ball, ex-Cleve- lander, can chortle at lugubrlty. The sale of the Boston club last Spring cost him approximately JoOOO. Killilay made an impressive start with Boston last season and had a good stand-in with John I. Taylor, so much so. in fact, that when Taylor bought Jersey City he trundled the handsome-visaged one along with him. Had Killilay be gun with the Sox It's almost a cinch he would have remained the season and thus come in for his share of the big sweetening. Neal Ball, it will be recalled, .was sold to Boston in mid-season by" the Naps. Neal, by all that's right, should split bis portion with Harry Davis. Cubs-Sox Game Is Postponed. CHICAGO, Oct. 8. Rain forced a postponement of the game today be tween the teams of the American and National leagues to decide the base ball championship of Chicago. Odds Go to 10 to 8 on Sox To-day. "Line at Park Forms Before Xight for Chance, for Seats In Stadium. BOSTON, Oct. 8. Bulletin board crowds of a size rarely equaled here exulted today over the Boston team's victory in New York. "Good, old Joe Wood." was the slo gan of thousands after the opening game of the world series had been .de cided in Boston's favor. When Wood struck out Pitcher Crandall, of New York, for the third out in the ninth in ning, with men on second and third bases, a sigh of relief went up from the crowd, and all were shouting and cheering in the next breath. While most Bostonians were interest ed in reports from the game In New York to the exclusion of all else, many gave thought to the problem of bow to see the game here tomorrow. Some 15,000 persons have obtained re served seats. More than this number will find places in the bleachers. A few went to the gates tonight to be first "in the rush" when the gates open shortly after 10 A. M. Boston's victory today had its effect both on the betting and speculation In tickets. The betting, which has been 10 to 8 on the Bostons, changed to 10 to 6. Tickets for the three games, which originally cost $9, were held at $25 apiece, and a few sales were made. Indications were that the prices to morrow would be greater, as the num ber of tickets In speculators' hands li small, and the demand increased with the hours. BOSTON WINS FIRST GAME (Continued From First Page.) grasp, weakened his position by rush ing three pitchers out to warm up. A solid drive by Wagner and seml-fluky hit by Cady, a fierce smash for two bases over first by Hooper and the game was tied and an Instant later. while the Giants had an entire battery of pitchers warming up, Yerkes de livered the solid single that seemed to end it. That hit of Yerkes sent in two more runs, made the count 4 to 2 and with Wood working as he was, the game seemed over. Neither side could make a dent in the defense of the other until the ninth. , Wood Pitches Carelessly. I do not know whether Wood grew careless or what the matter might have been. It seemed to me he was trying more for- control than for anything else. Murray went out - on a sharp drive to Hooper, Merkle carelessly pitched to, singled, and Herzog, who was the luckiest player of the day. swung on a ball he should have allowed to pass and lifting It over into short right field, got credit for a single. Myers, who Is a real ball player, swung on the next ball that was offered and drove it viciously against the concrete wall in right for two bases. Merkle soored; Myers was dragged out and Becker was sent to second to score the winning run if a hit came through. Fletcher was at Bat. wood had grown white around the gills again and he was showing signs of his des perate resolve. He flashed his speed three times and Fletcher was struck out. Crandall, the best pinch hitter of the Giants, came to the front and after a desperate duel between batter and pitcher. Wood struck him out on a fast ball, inside and waist high. Mayors of Both Cities There. The game was a wonderful one under the circumstances. The Mayors of both Boston and New York were there, sit ting elbow to elbow and striving to derive some political comfort from the baseball enthusiasm. Gaynor, of New York, rooting for the Giants, threw out the first ball; and Fitzgerald, of Boston, led the wild Boston chorus in its final cheers. The crowd was far smaller than any one expected and fell far below the first game of last year. It was a polite and rather cynical crowd that came out hoping that New York would win, but not expecting the hope to come through. The crowd had two chances to break loose, once when Doyle's fly fell safe, and. again during that game, brilliant rally in tne nintn. So far as proving which team is the better that game did not show much. Boston played a little better ball and New York came nearer beating Wood than it "ever will again. Outside of a couple of nice stops by Fletcher and two brillinat stops and throws by Wag ner, there wasn't much doing In the fielding line. In catching Cady showed a shade over Meyers, but as neither team tried to run the bases much, the catchers were not tested. Neither Team at Top Form. Neither team played to its best form, but the one thing that was demon strated was that the assertion that the Giants cannot hit fast pitching Is true. They were jokes against Wood's speed today. Ten of them struck out and of the ten, eight took third strikes with out offering to hit at the ball, and two swung at balls that ought to have been allowed to been called. The element of luck broke all for New York. The Giants gained the lead on a fluky hit badly played by Lewis, and came near winning on a Texas leaguer by Herzog. Boston hit 11 balls hard and squarely, while the Giants only hit five hard. The umpiring was the best I ever have seen in a world's series and out side of a couple of attempts by the Giants to get hit by pitched balls everything was beautiful. The teams departed for Boston as soon as the game ended, hurrying into their clothes and taxis to race for a train that was being held for them. Tomorrow they meet again in Boston. Collins and Mathewson are the choice for pitchers. Stahl is very definite about Collins and McGraw isn't at all definite, although the gamblers here are playing Mathewson and demanding 2 to 1 before they will back the Giants. Paid attendance, 35,730. Receipts, $75,127. National Commission's share, $7513. Players' share, $40,568. Each club, 813,623. MAKES .'EM SIT UP! When you buy a high-grade, ready- to-wear suit of me at $14.75 or $18.75, an experienced tailor makes the neces sary alterations free of charge. You walk away feeling good and your ap pearance in the suit makes the $40 made-to-order tailors "sit up and take notice." Jimmy Dunn, room 315 Ore- gonlan building. Take elevator. 20 per cent on 'anything you want in the entire store except contract goods. Blue and black Stein-Blochs at 10 per cent off. "Wliere you get ' the best." MEN'S 1JATTEES, FURNISHERS AND CLOTHIERS. NEUTRAL SITE SOUGHT PROPOSED GAME LIKELY TO BE PLAYED AT PORTLAND. Agricultural College and University Teams Seek Place Where Old Dif ferences Slay Be Forgotten. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis. Oct. 8. (Special.) The proposed football game between the University of Oregon and the Ore gon Agricultural College -cannot be played at any other place but Portland, according to announcements made here today by the college athletic manage ment. The college authorities main tain that all of the trouble which has occurred In the past between the stu dents of these two institutions has originated during or as the result of football games which were played on the local campuses. Thep say that a review of past football games will bring to light the source of practically an of the misunderstanding and the ac cusations of unfairness and improper conduct which have been made by each Institution against the other. This culminated in the trouble following the football game in 1910, which was Dlayed at Corvallis. It is insisted by the athletic man agement and by prominent students that relations would not have heen re sumed last Spring except upon some understanding between the students of the two schools which would seem to guarantee that these difficulties would be avoided in the future. Tne only pro posai which seemed to provide this guarantee was that the football games would be played on neutral ground. Consequently, any proposal to play the game at Corvallis Is no more accept able to the college students than the proposal to play the game at Eugene. The whole point is to have the game played under such circumstances as will create the best possible -guarantee against the unpleasant experiences of the past. It is also urged that neutral ground, particularly Portland, would offer the most advantageous place for the oon- test. One game has been played be tween the schools at Portland and nroved to be most satisfactory In every respect. Portland is the easiest point for the alumni to reach on such an oc casion as this and, moreover, It gives the student bodies the advantage of gate receipts, the amount or wnicn could not be approached at either Eu gene or Corvallis. The greatest gate receipts at games played on the local campuses was $3700. It is estimated that such a contest would bring at least $10,000 In gate receipts if played in Portland. OREGON EAGER FOR GAME Manager Geary Writes for Definite Word From Stewart. : UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or., Oct. 8. (Special.) A letter to Dr. Stewart, director of athletics at the Oregon Agricultural College, mailed this evening by Graduate Manager Geary, asks for a definite statement as to whether the college win consent to play the University of Oregon in Cor vallis November 23 if tne petition tnat is now being circulated by the students at Eugene Is granted hy their faculty. In a conversation over the telephone today with A.. R. Tiffany, graduate treasurer, and Arthur M. Geary, grad uate manager of student activities at the University, Dr. Stewart stated that the date of November 23 is open, but that he did not know yet what the at titude of the Agricultural College would be concerning the playing of the game with Oregon at corvallis. Corvallis Is Choice. In the letter to Dr. Stewart. Grad uate Manager Geary makes it plain BALTIMORE Bye AN IDEAL PRODUCT OF THE STILL Sold at all firsudasi WM. LANAHAN & ORDON near Fifth that the students of the University are willing to concede that the game this Fall be played upon the field at Corval lis, the same place where the last game was played, In order to promote har mony, asking only that the choice of fields the second year be left to the university management. It is not certain what the attitude of the Oregon faculty will be concern ing the granting of the petition. Ore gon already has the heaviest schedule in years, with an itinerary that calls for the team using 2000 miles of rail road tickets. The playing of the game would require the breaking of a long established rule of the faculty that no more than four conference college games be scheduled in any one season. Taboo on Portland. In their decision last April at the time O. A. C. renewed athletic rela tions with the University the faculty agreed to allow the extra game with the Agricultural College. It was then provided that it must be held on the home campus and so instructed Grad uate Manager Geary; but an absolute taboo was placed upon the playing of the game in Portland, the location de sired by the student bodies of both the Agricultural College and the Univer sity. They held that a game at that time would result In demoralization of classes of the week preceding Thanks giving. The students of the University are attempting to prove that a game In Corvallis, only 40 miles from Eugene, would not be more distracting than a game upon Klncaid Field at Eugene. Langes Signs for Wrestling Bout. CENTRALIA, Wash., Oct. 8. (Spe cial.) Nick Langes, of Seattle, claim ing to be lightweight champion of the Pacific Coast, and Frank Eaton, a Bremerton wrestler, today signed up to wrestle before the Centralla Moose lodge on the night of October 21. House flies are prevalent In South Afrlcs during ths months of October. November. December, January and February. As screen doors and windows are unknown there, the houses are tilled with files. Fly paper ll now being- used extensively. Ide p'lver Collars last longest in laundering hold shape. Try them it will pay you. The newest shape is the Pembroke, with LINOCORD "SNAP-ON" BUTTON HOLE, a for 25c X s. Pembroke, 2 38 in. Kensatt. 2 J16 s Chatham. 2 in. GEO. P. IDE & CO. AUo Makmrm of Idm Shirta TROY. N. Y. 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