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8 THIS irORXTVG OREGOXEAN, FRXDAT, JANUARY 1G, 1914. BIG TO RESENT T STAR SECOND BASEMAN OF THE PHILADELPHIA NATIONALS, WHO WILL GUIDE THE BALTI- ales VERGING ON GRAVE ASSQCIA 0 Wo t ake S Here mm ai IVASION UUILMI I sell clothes that are guaranteed with the maker's name inside the garment. No shoddy sweatshop garments have hanging space here. As a special inducement also to meet and beat the strong- est competition, Pay Me $2.00 Less than the marked price of every SUIT, RAINCOAT or OVER COAT. Thus a garment marked $14.75, PAY ME $2 LESS. Seal Magnate Says He Will Go After Players of Fed eral League. Withdrawal of Missoula May Put Montana Baseball on New Footing. !.,& IN HAPPY HOGAN IS CRITICISED I Am Not Scared," Adds Magnate In Predicting Hard Time Ahead of Xew Organization in Contest Against Major Clubs. BAN FRAN-CISCO, Jan. 15. (Special.) Reports that the Federal League Is negotiating with fc;ur Seal players Artia Hofman. Chappie Charles, Lefty LeKield and Charley O'Leary prompt ed J. Cal Ewing. president of the San Francisco club, today to declare war against the activity of the "outlaws" In Coast Leajue territory. The San Kranctsco owner declares emphatically that if any of his players are ap proached he will retaliate by raiding the federal League clubs, "I will pay no attention to the Fed eral League contract if our reserve clause is not observed," he said. "J consider the reserve the same as a con tract. If they should entice Hofman or O'Leary or any of my players to Jump I will go after their players, re gardless of the fact that they have been signed. Jumpers to Be Ignored. "I will not do business with any Tlayer who jumps organized baseball, but I will go after some of their prom ising players to plug up the places left vacant in my lineup. Tin not worrying about the Fed erals. They simply cannot succeed. They need 160 first-class ballplayers to compete with the two major leagues, and where are they going to get them? fco far they have signed about a dozen. Furthermore, they have not the parks. I know what a fight it is to make out law baseball go, for I have been through the mill, and they will have a harder row to hoe back there than we did out here." Ewlng Criticises Hog-am. Happy Hogan is criticised freely for allowing George Stovall, recruiting agent of the Federals, to make such headway In Los Angeles. Stovall makes Happy's poolroom In the south his headquarters, and there he comes in contact with the players. Ewlng thinks Happy should bar the outlaw and make it more difficult for horn to get in touch with players. Artie Hofman, the ex-Cub star, who played with the Nashville club of the Southern League last season, is re ported to have signed a contract to play- .with the Pittsburg club of the Federal League next season. Hofman was one of the best hitters in the National League a few years back. Last season he was turned over to Pittsburg by the Chicago Cubs. He suffered an injury in the early part of the season and Pittsburg sent him to Nashville. Howard expected to . use Hofman in the outfield. KANSAS CITT. MoT. Jan. IS. Charles Stengel and Joseph Riggert signed contracts tonight to play with the Brooklyn team of the National League according- to the announcement of Wllbert Robinson, manager, who with Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn club, came here today to get the signa tures of the two baseball players. Stengel has been one of Brooklyn's regulars in the outfield. Riggert, also n outfielder, was drafted by Brooklyn from the St. Paul club of the Ameri can Association. It was said substan tial increases in salary were offered to Induce the players to sign. "All of Brooklyn's players now have sisned contracts with the exception of Tinker," Robinson said, "and I think there ij little doubt about his getting Into line." INTERN ATTOXAL TO BE MAJOR? New Plan to Combat Federal Inra- sion Reported in East. BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 15. Turning of the International League into a major organization by removing the draft and transferring the Jersey City franchise to Washington is the latest Plan of organized baseball to combat the invasion of the Federal League, ayB an afternoon paper here today 1 his information comes from an ab solutely authoritative source," con tinues the story. Although officials of the National snd American leagues refuse to con firm the story, it was learned, also on Rood authority, that there has heen serious consideration of a rate war in which admission prices would be cut in tivo. Heads of the Federal League say major-league prices will prevail at all outlaw parks, regardless of any cut that may bo made by rival leagues. femce the purchase of a park in the center of St. Louis by the Federals, rumors have been persistent that the franchises of the major leagues in that city could be purchased. The same re ports contained information that at least three franchises of the Interna tional League were for sale. One of these is Toronto, where the park of the Internationals is on the outskirts of the city and car service is inadequate, lne outlaws" have obtained close-in ground, with good car service, in the Canadian city. That the group of business men of Cincinnati are sincere in their offer to back a Federal League in that city is evidenced by the fact that they have posted $250,000 in a bank and obtained options on a downtown park. INTHANAPOLIS, Jan. 15. Negotia tions pending for nearly two months between the Indianapolis club of the Federal League and Owen Bush, short stop of the Detroit American League team, were ended today when Bush refused to sign a local contract. Bush asserted he was satisfied with the sal ary offered, but that he was not ready to sign a contract with any team at present. Oeorge Bauss, pitcher, and Pat Bau man, infielder of the Detroit team had not accepted the contracts ottered by the Federal League tonight and. ac cording to officials of the local club the negotiations will be ended. President Ollmore came here from Chicago today to try to induce the players to sign with the Federal League. Otto Miller, catcher of the Brook lyn National League club, who has been negotiating with the local Fed eral League officials, announced to night he had signed a contract to Dlav with Brooklyn. "My contract calls for an increase in salary and is for three years," Miller caid. BALTIMORE, Jan. 15. Secretary Harry Goldman of the Baltimore Fed eral League club, returned last night from New York with the signed con tracts of three players. They are Enos Kirkpatrick. infielder of the Brooklyn Nationals; Guy Zlnn. out- C ' ' ' ! : . -V ; ' - o - fr f - IvNABB IS SHOWN SIGNING THE CONTHACT TO MAKACB THE FEDEBU, TEAM OP BALT1MOBE FOR THREE YEARS. WHILE NED HANLOV IS STANDING BETWEEN THE LEADER OR THE NEW TEAM AND W. HOWARD HAMILTON, OF THE CLUB'S COUNSEL. SECRETARY GOLDMAN. WHO HELPED NED UANLON SIGN KNABE. IS ANOTHER WITNESS OF THE SIGNING. w -u.i.rt.ij fielder, formerly of the Boston Na tionals, now the property of the Roch ester International League Club; Frank Smith, who played last season with the Montreal Internatinalv League Club. DETROIT, J&n! 15. The Detroit baseball club today received signed contracts from three recruits. They are: George Burns, first baseman, from the Sioux City team: Martin Kav anaugh, third baseman, last year with the York, Pa., and Ralph Ccmstock, pitcher, obtained from Minneapolis. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The signed contract of Luke Boone, shortstop of last year's Dallas, Tex., League Club, was received at the New York Ameri can League headquarters today. Boone was purchased last Summer. NEW YORK. j"an. 15. The signed contracts of four more players were received by the Brooklyn Baseball Club today. Otto Miller signed for three years; George Cutshaw, two; Elmer Brown, two, and Pfeffer, one. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 15. Eighty per cent of the players of the American League have been signed for the approaching season, according to B. B. Johnson, president of the league, who was in St. Louis today. CINCINNATI, Jan. 15. Outfielder Johnny Bates signed a one-year con tract today to play with the Cincinnati National League team. CHASE IS SUED FOR ALIMONY Ex-Wife of Major League Player Says Hal Is $145 in Arrears. BAN JOSE, Cal., Jan. 15. Suit to re cover $145 back alimony was brought In the Superior Court here today by Helen Chase against Hal Chhase, first baseman for the Chicago White Sox. Mrs. Chase alleges that since December 1, Chase has paid her no alimony. Mrs. Chase secured her divorce on a counter suit against her husband. She was granted the custody of their child. Noe, 3 years old. ' Under the decree Chase is ordered to pay his former wife 1100 a month. Both Chase and his wife are living here. Boxing Briefs ALTHOUGH Gunboat Smith is the recognized heavyweight champion, prospects In th money line are not as bright as they might be; not because Smith is not given full recognition of his title, but because there Is really no great man to go against him, and it takes somebody to draw a gate in this "good man's days." While the possibilities in a match be tween Gunboat Smith and Georges Car pentier are realized by the San Fran cisco fans, they know that they have as much chance of signing up Mrs. Pank hurst and Huerta. With Carpentier able to pick up all the loose change of Kurope, he has little to gain by coming West, and if the fans want a match. Gunboat will have to go over there. Two weeks from today Ritchie and Murphy meet at the Eighth-street arena in San Francisco. It seems that there is about 25 per cent more Interest in this battle than the first ill-fated scheduling of the two. Carpentier has a regular American system of fighting. He goes for the soft ones when he can, demands that the money be placed in his fist before he starts fighting, and the guarantee has to be a real substantial one. Some are bothering over the Jtlvers Wolgast fight in Milwaukee, January 23. If Wolgast wins they expect him to be a real bidder again for the light weight championship. If Wolgast wins that battle it will mean simply that Rivers has taken another slump, for, after the miserable showing which Wol gast made against Azevedo, his possi bilities as a lightweight contender seem to be far fetched. GERMANS REFUSE SPORT FOB Socialists and Clericals Vote Down Olympic Game Appropriation. BERLIN, Jan. 15. The budget, com mittee of the Imperial Parliament re jected a proposition today to appro priate $50,000 for the Olympic games to be held here in 1916. The rejection of the appropriation was due largely to the feeling of re sentment prevailing against the So cialists over the government's alleged systematic prosecution of the working men's gymnastic societies. The Social ist Deputies voted in a body against the appropriation, and the Clericals joined them, declaring that it was no business of the empire to support such "private affairs." The proposed appropriation will prob ably be reintroduced in the plenary sitting of the Imperial Parliament. AGGIE MARKSMEN COMPETE Corvallis Shooters Score 891 and 90 9 Out of Possible 1000. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. Or., Jan. 15. (Spe cial.) The Oregon Agricultural Col lege Rifle Club held shoots Wednesday night and last night with the Worces ter Polytechnic School and the Penn sylvania State College, respectively. The score registered against Worcester was 891 out of a possible 1000 and that against Pennsylvania 906 out of a pos sible 1000. Scores nave not been re ceived from the Eastern colleges. Members of the O. A. C. team and their scores are:' Worcester College match C. E. Hill. 188; F. Jaeoby, 179; R. P. Hammesly, 176; S. E, Brett, 176; F. B. Young, 172. Pennsylvania State College match C. E. Hill, 188; J. W. Green, 181 ;S. E. Brett, 180; R. P. Hammersly, 179; H. C. Gilbert. 178. COOKIXGHAM TO HEAD CLUB Ardent Golfer Elected President, Polo Player Vice, of TVaverly. The newly elected board of directors of the Waverly Country Club yesterday unanimously elected Edward Cqoking ham as president. This was the first official business of the new board, which met yesterday at the Arlington Club. The same election made Victor Johnson vice-president and H. A. Sar gent secretary and treasurer for the coming year. Mr. Cookingham Is an ardent golfer, as is Mr. Sargent. Polo will have a champion' In Mr. Johnson, who represented the club in the lineups of the last two Summers. He has been a member of the club for three years. Lebanon Boys Form Club. LEBANON, Or., Jan. 15. The young SPORT-NEWS o NE. canny scheme figured out by the Federals to hurt their chosen enemy, the National League, is tne stealing of every first baser-.. n in the circuit. By this process they 'calcu lated that they could just about wreck half a dozen teams by the signing of just half a dozen .players. Had they focused o n catchers and pitchers, they would have had to get several men from a team to hurt it seriously. The same is true of outfield ers and also of the thr three infield positions, for near ly every big league team has from four v. 5. Kred Merkle. to six men who can perform acceptably at any one of the three places sec ond, third or short. But nabbing a team's first baseman is the cruelest and most effective blow that can be dealt, particularly, if he is of the Konetchy or Daubert class. This particular phase of the Fed eral League plans, however, though skillfully framed, has not worked out as well as expected. Jack Miller, of the Cardinals, and Ed Konetchy,' of the Pirates, refused to listen to the Federals. Vic Saler, of the Cubs, Dick Hoblit zell, of the Reds, and Jake Daubert, of the . Brooklyns, also were ap proached, but Daubert would not be allowed to throw his talents to the new league because it was discovered that he had already signed for 1914 with the Superbas. and it is not the policy of the newcomers to encourage players to break perfectly good con tracts. But the main point is that the Fed erals made overtures to every first baseman In the National League, bar three Fred Merkle, of more or less fame; Luderus, of the Phillies, and Schmidt, of the Boston Braves. The New York Giants pay out more money annually in rent and taxes for their playing grounds than any other outdoor amusement enterprise in the world, according to Bill Gray, former secretary of the team. The rent sums up each year to $60,000 and taxes to $10,000, or a total of $70,000. But part of this, of course, is paid this year by the New York Americans, who have again sub-rented the Polo Grounds on the "away from home" days of the Giants until their own new park: at Klngsbridge is completed. It is generally believed that the Yankees' rental, paid to the Giants, is somewhat more than one-half of the total amount. It is amusing to read of Ned Han Ion and Connie Mack panning each other for being cheap skates. It re calls the old saying about glass houses and stones and, paraphrased to suit, would read thusly: Magnates who live in economy houses should not throw mud. A. G. Spalding, returning from abroad, says that international base ball between America and France is a matter of only a few yers. Does "be tween America and France" mean somewhere on the high seas? Has Al invented a new kind of water base ball? a Cooper, a name that did not figure at all in baseball until a couple of years ago, bids fair to run the Smith, Jones, Miller and Brown monakers a cose race in the nomenclature stakes. The Giants have a young outliejder named Claude Cooper, the Pirates a young pitcher known by the euphonic handle of Wilbur, and now the Yan kees come to the front with a Vir ginia youth, alleged to be able to pitch some, who bears the name of Guy Cooper. Next? Mike Gibbons surely is an elastic young person. A few nights ago he allowed Bob McAllister to enter the men of this city between the ages of 1 and 25 have organized an athletic club and have rented an up-town store room for a reading-room and clubroom for athletic exercise. . A majority of the youngi men are High School boys. They organized by electing Glen Are hart, president; Guy Mackay, secre tary, and Max Millsap, treasurer. A committee of the club will look after the rooms and supply reading matter. MT. ANGEL BEATS VISITORS Washington State College Tourists Lose for First Time. MOUNT ANGEL, Or.. Jan. 15 (Spe cial.) In one of the hottest contested games in the history of the local school the Washington State College basket ball team here went down yesterday af ternoon. This is the first game the tourists have lost this season. Mount Angel started the scoring and from the beginning the speed of the locals was too much for the heavy Washington players. The lineup: Mt. Angel (20). Pos. p. W. 8. C. (15). Kennedy P Anderson Beck F Bcushler, Mos ?"an .C Glover. Love bulllvan o... Sampson Kronberg O Hildebrand Th British, admiralty la contemplating the construction of a huge floating selt- ' . - . 1 " 1 J u 1 Ul .UMXIJIKlg UUl almost any kind of repairs to -war vessels POT POURRI ring weighing 162 pounds ringside, and now he has . signed to tip the beam at 145 at 4 o'clock on the day of battle. This is bl difference of exactly 17 pounds in plain numbers, though of course Gibbons did not come anywhere near the 163 limit against McAllister and also will weigh well- over the 145 pound mark when ringside time ar rives after the six-hour interval when he and Packey Jump on the scales. As a matter of fact he probably will not be more than a pound or two lighter for the McFarland match than for the McAllister bout. The Gibbons-McFarland engagement, now sewed up for Billy Gibsons Gar den Athletic Club in New York, has been clamored for by the public longer than any other match that could pos sibly be arranged. Mike's appearance against McAllister last Monday did not dim the luster of the bout as an at traction for the dollars at the gate. This is one case of a battle so good on paper that nothing can take the edge off It unless one of the partici pants should happen to break an arm a Aa a result of McFarland's match ing himself with Gibbons, the Stock yards idol at last must say good-by to the lightweight division and come out with a proclamation that he is a full-fledged welter. If willing to box a man at a weight over the alleged welterweight limit, and moreover a man who fights the best middle weights, he must put a quick check to that talk about 135 at 3 o'clock for the lightweights. It is a sure thing now that Packey couldn't make the old and genuine lightweight limit of 135 pounds ring side unless he had the assistance of consumption or pneumonia, granting he would be unwilling to cut off an arm or leg. No, sir, Packey is ' through as a lightweight, and anything further he may say about meeting lightweights must be regarded as a joke. a a Jack Britton, also a Chicagoan and one of McFarland'a wnr,t now practically a confessed welter. The pnnlltlnn. 1 r i . ... Ia i iio uoui witn Alike Glo ver at the National Sporting Club Mon day night call for 140 pounds ringside Glover, who, like Britton, tackles both welters and middles, beat Britton on points several weeks ago before a Brooklyn club, but Jack declares his confidence that he will get a large chunk of revenge on the coming occa sion. a Indians have made a success of every important sport except boxing Bender and Chief Meyers are head liners in baseball; Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest performers that ever lived, both at track athletics and at football, and there also is the entire Carlisle Indian football team of any year to observe shining in that line Now, at last, a full-blooded Indian appears on the boxing horizon. He is a Mohawk and Jimmy Coffey is his name. The young redskin has been boxing for some months and bears the earmarks of a classy lightweight. It Is appropriate that Yale and Penn sylvania should sail into Winter foot ball practice in the manner they have begun. Among big colleges of the East last Fall they were regarded In the same light as the tailenders in a baseball race, each biting the dust more than once. . Brooke, at Pennsylvania, and Hinkey. Yale's new coach, both have mapped out strenuous programmes for the next few months. The present stretch oi work at Yale will end during the com ing week, but it will be resumed again late in March or April. Penn's work will be continuous up to about April 1 uj necessary ior both col leges to show considerable progress If they expect to wipe away the blots of last season. Yale has five to erase defeats by Harvard and Colgate and ties by Princeton and Washington and Jefferson. Penn has four to make up for defeats by Michigan, Cornell and Dartmouth and a dead heat with the Carlisle braves. FREE TALENT IS LIKELY Confirmation of Shift of Hagerman to Cleveland Received, and Pre dictions Are Made That Ho Will Make Good In East. BT ROSCOE FAWCETT. Baseball matters up Montanaward are In a chaotic bonditlon and unless Boise Is taken into the fold, as a sub stitute for Missoula, It Is doubtful if the Union Association will launch Itself forth on the 1914 seas. The annual meeting of the Lucas circuit 'Will be held Saturday at Butte and from all the "dope" at hand Missoula will ap prise the magnates of its withdrawal at that time. The remaining clubs win be Great Falls, Helena, Butte, Salt Lake and Og den. Butte is said to be favorable to a state league comprising Butte, Hel ent, Lewiston, Great Falls, Missoula and Billings, so it is possible that the Union Association will throw up its hands at the Saturday session. The league was organized four years ago by the late William Lucas, whose promoting genius has made his name memorable all over the West. Talent May Be Free. By virtue of the Missoula withdrawal a small herd of promising baseball tal ent soon will be on the market. Cliff Blankenship, manager, has already ar ranged to handle a California State League club, but Perrine, veteran sec ond-sacker; Changnon, a crack third seeker; Auer, a. catcher; Dawson and Carman, outfielders, will be as free as soapbox oratory, unless sold prior to the -coughing up of the franchise. Nor does there seem much chance of these players being retained for a state league circuit, for only 57 fans turned out to a Missoula baseball rally the other night. And it takes more than a pickle advertisement to run the Na tional frolic up In the copper belt, where the railroads mulct the masses to the tune of 8 cents a mile and. no re bates. Ryan's Place Still In Doubt. "Nothing will be done toward ship ping Buddy Ryan to Portland until a new manager Is named for Toledo," is the private dispatch received by the writer from Cleveland yesterday. Ryan is on the Toledo reserve list and i passing the Winter in Portland. He has received no contract of any sort, but wants to return to the Coast League, from whence he migrated to Cleveland in the Fall of 1911. Confirmation of the shift of "Rip" Hagerman, pitcher, to the Naps was re ceived by Manager McCredie yesterday. "I don't know what men will come to me in. exchange," said the Portland leader. "Nor will I know until the Naps have had a chance to look over their men in the Spring. 1 guess Lo ber and Kodgers will both remain with Portland, although I offered all three stars to the Naps when back East In November." "Kip" Touted to Make Good. Manager Mac believes that Hagerman will make good, because the Naps are shy on right-handed pitching material. Steen is their main reliance. Willie Clark, who used to catch Hagerman at Lincoln, in the Western League, also opines to the view that the $2500 Coast star will stick this time. "If their catchers keep him awake and if Birmingham gives him plenty of fielding practice, I think he will get by," said Clark yesterday at ball head quarters. "He certainly has the stuff and the speed to make good in any league." Catcher Clark was negotiating sev eral weeks for the Boise franchise, but has turned the proposition down. Veteran Boosts Federals. Comes now old "Farmer" Carroll. outfielder on "Pop" Anson's Chicago team back in the early '90s, and later a star at St. Louis, Washington and Bos ton, with a boost for the new Federal League. Carroll, who is the owner of a large apple ranch near Grants Pass in the Rogue River section, was a Portland visitor yeBterday and the preponder ance of "outlaw league ball talk In the newspapers prompted a little rem iniscing. "Same chance now that there was In 1890 and again in 1900 and 1901 when the American League branched out," declared the veteran, fanning, with Walter McCredie and several other sec ond cousins of Methuselah. "I Jumped the Chicago team to go to Von der Ahe's St. Louis Browns dur ing the brotherhood war of 1890 and in the shuffle that resulted found myself ultimately traded to the Boston Na tionals for Joe Quinn." Carroll's last year of baseball was with the Boston champions in 1893. Van Buren Not to Move. "Deacon" Van Buren, demon-hitting Sacramento gardener, says all the talk several weeks ago connecting his name with the Vancouver management was the rankest kind of bunk. "I was hunting north of Sacramento at the time," said the bridegroom yes terday, "and, when I got back to town I hunted up Manager Wolverton for an explanation. He denied having uttered a word that could have been so con strued. I don't know where the story originated. So far as I know now, I will be the extra outfielder on the 1914 Senators. Moran, Schweitzer and Shlnn doubtless will be assigned the regular posts of duty." With Portland last year Art Krueger drew down a monthly salary of $275, so it is reasonable to suppose that his stipend at Los Angeles after the Lober switch was approximately the same. Figuring a seven-month schedule, Krueger's salary. In the Pacific Coast cirouit, therefore, totaled up around the $1925 mark. Now the Dutchman Is flirting with the Federals on a three-year contract at $3000 per annum. Three thousand minus $1925 leaves $1075. Who wouldn't? Freehmen to Play High School. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Or., Jan. 15. (Spe cial.) The Oregon Agricultural College freshman basketball team will meet the Corvallis High School quintet tomor row night on the National Guard Arm ory floor. Both teams are fast and a lively game Is expected. Carlson, Abraham and Mix. who started with the freshmen at the beginning of the sea son, have been drafted by Dr. Stewart for the varsity squad. SHU City Defeats 6ilverton. MILL CITY, Or.. Jan. 15. (Special.) Last night at the opera-house the Mill City live won a fast game from the Sil verton second team to the score of 21 to 9. Wolford was the star .for the home team, JIMMY DUNN Take Elevator to Birds Swarm on Last Day of Shooting in District 1. SOME REPORT BAD YEAR Other Hunters Say Water Fowl as Plentiful as Ever Us of Auto on Roads Near Pools Said to Be One Cause of Scarcity. As If in defiance to the duck hunters, the bird which has been conspicuous this season by Its absence almost swarmed about the lakes and sloughs of the 'lower river yesterday, on the closing day of the open season for ducks in district No. 1, which Includes Portland and the Columbia River. Duck shooting will not be legal again until October 1. The last shots were fired at 4:60, which was the time officially desig nated as sundown in the schedule of shooting made up by the Federal au thorities. Despite the fact that so many of the hunters reported "nothing doing" during the season, the trouble, accord ing to some, must have been with the sportsmen and not with the ducks. Some Kill Near Limit. The most Successful hunters of for mer years frequently returned with a near-limit kill. Season records kept by some sports men show that hunters who remained at the good stands down the river had their usual success. For instance, those who shot with J. Wesley Ladd at a preserve down the river killed more tl -n 700 ducks in the last three months. Arthur Flnley did not have the suc cess of last year. He believes this is due to the fact that automobiles and other vehicles have begun to use the road that passes his place. ' Several others who own or lease places down the river where hunting was good In former years report a falling oft in 1312 and still more so In 1913. State Game Warden Finley says they proba bly forgot to take into consideration that the duck is a game bird and does not view the encroachments of the de veloped country-side as attractive. Morris Abraham is one of the suc cessful hunters and In the season Just closed bagged about 200 birds. Dr. Alan Welch Smith says he shot the limit almost every time be was out. In fact, all those who hunted In the vicinity of Deer Island had their usual good luck. Two Report Good Season. George Kelly and John Burgard do not complain. They say they enjoyed one of the best seasons in their hunting experience. Late shooting, until yesterday, was not as good as it might have been in the lower valley, but on the other hand, the Willamette Valley and- the tributary country was at its best. The Wapato Lake country, in Washington County, was a particularly good region for the late season hunter. Tomorrow It will be illegal for any hunter to have In his possession any ducks which have not been tagged by a representative of the state game de partment. Tags must be obtained from tho office of the Game Warden today and then the birds can be placed on ice or preserved in any other man ner, to be used at the convenience of the owner. ZAMLOCK HAY RETIRE PITCHER GRIEVES WHEN SOLD TO DENVER BT DETROIT. Golden Gate Twlrler Bays He Would Like to Play With Portland, but May Never Return to Baseball. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 15 (Special.) Carl Zamlock, the Golden Gate pitch er, received a message from Detroit to day that he had been sold to Denver, of the Western League. This came as a shock to Carl, for he had been ftgur ing on another wnirl with the Tigers. Also a $50 decrease in salary had a tendency to prompt Carl in announcing his retirement from the game. Zamlock is engaged in the advertls ing game in San Francisco, and as he Is an energetic lad, he says that h may as well quit right now if be is not good enough for the big league. Later Zamlock said he might reconsider. "I would like to come back to the Coast League with Portland," he said. "I r Ti disappointed at not sticking with Detroit, for I led the Tiger pitchers in the new system of figuring records. President Navln, however, explained that he sold me to Denver because he thought my health would be improved there. I have a good position in San Francisco and, unless I change my mind in the meantime, will stick with it and give up baseball." S II-VERT OX DEFEATS PULLMAN College Lads Lose In Valley Town by Score of 31 to 10. EILVERTON, Or., Jan. 14. (SpeciaL) The Silverton Commercial Club bas ketball team made up for the Monday night defeat which it suffered at the hands of the Washington State Col lege when it defeated the Pullman five tonight 31 to 19. The Washington team took the first game. 32 to 20. Silverton tried out some of Its own tricks against the Pullman band and outwitted the altered lineup of the vis itors. Eoyen, a forward of the Silver- DUCK SEASON ENDS 315-16-17 Oregonian Building the Third Floor ton team, proved to be a wizard, reach ing the net from all angles of the floor. For the Washington State College. Forward Moss proved to have the best aim, shooting nine points of tho 19. The lineups were: Bllverton. Washington. Name, point. Position. Points, name. ?yien-..l6 ' F Moss Wolcot a F a. Hunt Kundret, 3 ..C 2. Glover Cooley. o, Love Cooper, 7 G e. Bohlcr For25Suits ahdOVERCOATS Any HIGH-RENT clothier can "re duce" the marked price on his cloth ing, 'cause, goodness knows, it's marked high enough to start with. The larger the "reduction" the more undesirable the clothing usu ally is; either the patterns are ones the merchant is "Btuck" with, or the fabrics are Inferior and worthless. ' My UPSTAIRS MEN'S CLOTHES SHOP Is doing more business right now in the face of all "sales" than ever before, and the reason is that thousands of my old customers know the REAL clothing value they get here, and hundreds of new ones are learning every month. They come back here and are not fooled by any "sale" bunk. To you men who haven't been up here yet I especially invite to come to my LOW-EXPENSE UPSTAIRS CLOTHES SHOP and see the $25 Suits. Overcoats and Raincoats (same identical patterns the HIGH RENT stores sell for ?25 I sell for $1-5.00. Just received a new shipment o Imported Mandelburg and Bal Macan Raincoats. 15.00 MAX MICH EL Upstairs Clothes Shop The Cigar men esteem For twenty -five years the General Arthur cigar has been the choice of smokers of mild cigars. It's a much better cigar than ytra are used to buying for 10c Of finest Havana and lightest domestic Sumatra wrapped and hand made. Fishing Is Good - - " - . u u u.u n in all the nearby streams. These bis fellows will furalsb errand sport, and it takes tackle to hold them. We have made a close study of this Winter ateelhead fishing, and are pre. pared to iurmak Just the rlicht tackle. Backus SCorris 223Morrl sonjStrget. Betlst &2nd Stj