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15 BASEBALL MOGULS In Europe that'll soon b oetdlng national anthems. "Ontario Has Gone Dry by a Big Majority," says a news head. That's nothing-. The whole United States has gone dry by a large minority. There's many a person who has acquired wealth through oil. but a lot of 'em Just poured It out of a can on to the stock and touched a match to it. according' to insurance records. GOMALOIE GO CALLED EVEN BREAK FJ Coast Players Start Rush for More Mazuma. Arbiter's Ruling Meets With Divided Opinion. Loss Blamed to Absence of Star. "WASHINGTON. D. C. Nov. 19. W. and J. supporters claim that, had Tackle Henry been allowed to play against Pittsburg. the Presidents would have cleaned up the Panthers. Pitt had protested him, as he had al ready played in four games with the Panthers. TEAMS' LIMIT IS FARCE BOYS GO AT GOOD CLIP --sic t4 Magnates Pay o Attention to Rules Regulating Salaries or Men to Be Carried. Georgie Brandon Wins Fans by Game Exhibition Against Neal , Zimmerman, Who AVlns Bout. M'CORMICK IS ON HAND THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1919. ICE WAGE DEMAND "X f T r .-. . -J" 1 "ST".. . w "Wat c . "5 z JLJt 'sK i v i - ll.- c.- h 1 J -- - V Holdouts in plenty will be on hand to worry the Pacific Coast league magnates when the high and mighty t mogul gets down to talking business with ballplayers in 1920. The Pacific Coast league made money this year plenty of it. The ballplayers know this and being hu man are going to get all they can while the "getting" season is on. Ballplayers' salaries were low this year in comparison to other seasonsi hut event at that were not so very low. They were told at the outset of the 1919 season that retrenchment was necessary if the game, then in its most uncertain stage, was to come back. I The game did come back and an a result almost every player in the league has a plea for more money ready when his 1920 contract is of fered. The first definite indication that the magnates have trouble on their hands comes from the south. When Johnny Powers signed Wade Killefer for another season the other day, the Angel leader got a substantial In crease. During the season. Killefer worked for less money that some of hte men under him. Every Angel is now after a boost in wages. Nor is the "Insurrection" confined to the south. It confronts every owner in the league. Regulations of the National associa tion are talked of with all solemnity at the meetings, hut when .the mag nates depart for their own bailiwicks they apparently have the idea that the regulations were meant for all the other members, but not for them selves. According to press dispatches, the association decided that the salary limit in class AA leagues should be $3500 monthly. No one who Is not connected with the game Intimately cares what sal aries are paid. But Just as a matter of information it may be set forth that there was no class A A club in existence last season operating any where near the $3500 mark. It is doubtful if any club in the Pacific Coast league was under the $5000 mark. And in the face of this regulation adopted bv the association is an agree ment in the coast league that here after there shall be no salary limit of any kind. As a matter of fact salary limit of $4500 was supposed to be in force last season. Nobody od served it. Also there was a player-limit of 16 men. Nobody paid any attention to that rule. Kighteen. 19 and even -0 men were on the roster of the va rious clubs during the height of the season. Oakland submitted its list of play ers to the president of the league, with Clyde Wares listed as "assistant manager and coach." Whereupon Wares being in the game every day. San Francisco came back by listing Carl Zamlock as "club entertainer." And Zam also played like a regular ballplayer. - The magnates say that they have agreed upon a player limit of 18 men for netft season and that the limit will be adhered to. hut somebody will slip over a technicality, and the lid will be off and the bench full of extra men. And what will anybody do about it? Baseball nabobs in the east drink copiously at the J. Cal Ewing foun tain of baseball knowledge. The Oak land magnate is regarded as one of the shrewdest minor league baseball parliamentarians in the business, and his Ideas and suggestions are always welcomed in fact courted: It was due to the alertness of the Ewing cerebrum that the coast league was enabled to secure a class AA rating several years ago, when both the American association and Inter national league vehemently opposed any such action. Defeated on the floor in the first ballot and sensing that he and his cohorts were in the minority, liwing Jumped up and asked for a recon sideration, intimating that he might withdraw his application. The ruse was successful. In the interim the canny politician lined up the Northwestern league, which was bucking the coast league, by offer ing them his assistance in their ef forts toward securing a class A rating and when he returned to the meeting and again placed his appeal before the board ha had sufficient backing to win. RED-HEADED IRISHMAN COM MENCES TRAINING FOR FIGHT Milwaukle Matchmaker Makes Hit With Programme Offered Fans for November 2 5. Boy McCormick, light heavyweight champion of England and holder of the Lord Lownsdale belt, emblematic of the title, arrived in Portland yes terday to commence training for his 10-round bout against f rank f armer, light heavyweight champion of the Pacific coast, at the new Milwaukle area on November 25. McCormick Is a true-bred Irish man with firery red hair and a face a crowd of a thousand. that would stamp him as a fighter in Matchmaker Frank Kendall, of the Milwaukle Boxing commission, signed what looks to be the banner event since the inauguration of the 10-round game In Oregon when he signed Mc Cormick to meet Farmer. Both are legitimate titleholders of their re spective - sections of the globe and need no boosting to put them over on the public. They fight on their merits and have proved that they are real battlers. The boxers who have been able to win decisions over Frank Farmer in the last two years or even three years, can be counted on less than one finger. He has been held to a draw on only a few occasions, and in his last bout, beat "Gunboat" Smith to a pulp In six two-minute rounds in Seattle. McCormick lost no time starting to train and boxed seven rounds at Ad Garlock'B school of physical culture in the Columbia building yesterday, where he will do all of his training. McCormick took on "Sotty" Williams and all other boxers that showed up and does not bar anyone. He .will workout daily and the public are at liberty to watch him go through the paces. His training will not be done after hours or behind closed doors. According to the "wise headB," thi colored battler, "Scotty" Wllilams who is down to meet Billy Wright of Seattle in the semi-windup of 10 1 rounds is some "punkina" as a mitt wielder- Those who are handling Williams ay that he was one of the sparring corps which whipped Jack Dempsey into shape for his championship fra cas against Jess Willard and that all of the welterweight and middle- weights on the Pacific coast have been sidestepping him. Kendall of fered Battling Ortega a match in Mil waukie with Williams, but the bat tler's manager, Tommy Simpson, came back with a telegram asking for a lease'on the courthouse for Ortega's ervices. Frank Barrieau was then signed by Kendall to- take on .Wil liams and then suddenly left Seattle for eastern Canada, taking the well- known powder. Harry Casey of Seattle will meet Stanley Willis in the special event of 10 rounds while Bud Ridley, Fred WInsor's classy bantam, will meet Bernie Dillon of Seattle In a six round mill. Wlnsor is taking anything that Is offered him so as to get the bantam- weight in the limelight. Winsor has tried every way to line up matches for Ridley with the -topnotchers here, including Billy Mascott. but without avail. As the result Winsor is not letting his boy remain idle and get stale, but is taking a preliminary to show the fans what his boy can really do. Winsor offered to let Rid ley fight Mascott when the Portland commission was hunting for an op ponent for him for $100 or winner take all. Instead Matchmaker Grant could not Bee the offer and took the biggest lemon ever foisted on the fans here. Harry Paul, a "sprout" from Denver. Sidelights and Satire. WHAT has become of the old fashioned football player who wore a nose-guard and played for his tuition only? A fellow named Heal is playing in the three-cushion billiard champion ship now being staked in Detroit. As he has only won a single game of four played, it appears as if he is well named. Don't know picked out as Why not the pigeon or some easier to get? why the turk was the bird of thanks. auk, the passenger other bird that Is The old-fashioned turkey raffles are still with us. but they've changed like the map of Mitteleuropa. In or der to get a gobbler, you. raffle off your steam piano, twin beds, automo bile and the baby's shoes. A $20 bird is too valuable to eat. It should he broken to harness and entered in the grand circuit sweepstakes. Do your Christmas shopping early. What you are going to do it with is your business. Duke Kahanamoku'e retirement from the swimming game will pre vent many an argument between the printers and proofreaders. Spirited fighting ia all right, but some of these seconds go a little strong on the spirits at times. ... "Mike O'Dowd beats Pat O'Hagan reads sport headline. Looks like the Irish are coming Into their own again a,fter a flock of five-syllable birds ruled the roost for many years. There is one good thing about the nur-beer they are selling now. There is no law compelling a man to drink Somebody page George M. Cohan there, are a lot of new republics over Murphy May Play Against Harvard NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 19. Thome Murphy, Yale's great drop kicking quarterback, who broke a leg in the Boston college game, was unable to play against Princeton, but some hope is entertained for his ap pearing in the Harvard contest. Pollard Stars Again. Fritx Pollard, Brown's famous col ored halfback of three years ago, starred for the Akron Indians, a pro fessional eleven, against the Massil lon Tigers Sunday. Massillon won. 13 to 6. but Pollard could not be blamed for not defeating eleven men. T.uquc Still Pitching. NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Though he promised Garry Herrmann to play no more baseball until 1920. Adolfo Luqun, the Cuban pitcher with the world's champion Cincinnati Reds, is pitching for the Havana Reds in the Cuban capital. INDUSTRY MEED SHOWN General Dti Pont and Dr. Richard McLiaurln Address Alumni. KANSAS CITY. "The future pros perity of industry in this country is dependent upon the number of tech nically trained men that can be se cured to help Industry Increase pro duction and eliminate unscientific waste," said Dr. Richard McLaurin, president of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, popularly known as "Boston Tech." in an address to the Kansas City alumni of the insti tute at a dinner at the University club. Doctor McLaurin and General Cole man du Pont spoke to the alumni on the subject of procuring additional endowment for the institute. An anonymous contributor has promised $4,000,000, providing as much more will he contributed by other parties. $3,000,000 of which must be pledged by January 1. 1920. The munitions magnate and the institute president have toured as far west as Kansas City to interest alumni in the need for guaranteeing the endowment. In an informal discussion, follow ing the dinner. General du Pont summed up the business outlook In the United States as follows: "What the country must do is pro duce. There will be a lot of business done in the next year, but I don't think prices will come down very much. No one can I ell when a slump will come; it may be In two years, or it may be in five years." Results of Tuesday Nights Matches. Joe Gorman of Oakland vs. Frankle Maione or Oakland; draw; 10 rounds, 130 pounds. Bobby Ward of St. Paul vs. Muff Bron- son of Portland; draw; 10 rounds, 135 pounds. Weldon Wing of Portland vs. Joe Coffey or ban Francisco; draw; 6 rounds, 1 pounds. Oeorgle Brandon of Portland vs. Neal Zimmerman of Portland. Zimmerman won decision. 4 rounds, 120 pounds. Bernie union of Seattle vs. Mike De rinto or Portland, draw. Spurred on by the talk that they were roommates. Frankie Maione, Oakland featherweight, and Joe Gor man, rormerly of Oakland but late of Portland, battled to a fast 10-round draw in the main event of Tuesday's ustic card staged under the auspices of the Portland boxing commission at tne armory. Referee Jack Day's decision did not meet the approval of those present many of the customers thinking Ma lone should have had the decision for outboxing and outpunching Gorman Others voiced their approval when he raised both boys' hands at the end of the 10th canto of milling. The doughty little Spaniard made a whirl wind finish. Maione might have had a shade, but it was a very small shade Gorman ripped In many a lusty punch and was willing to battle at all times Maione started off well, stepping around Joe and darting in and out with a snappy left. Up to the sixth round he did not find a great deal of trouble in taking the front by h! boxing ability and caught Gorman some nasty wallops with a half open nand downward swing. t.orman Finds Bearing;. In the sixth frame, Gorman found his bearings and began to reach Ma lone, who was tiring slightly from his eirorts. Tne last four sessions found the former Oakland featherweigli slashing right and left, trying hard to lay a haymaker on Maione, but he failed to find a permanent resting place for his mitt. Both boys were fresh at the end of the bout and could probably have gone on battling for i more rounds if called to do it. Muff Bronson, at one time the idol of the Portland fans, fought his wav nacK past the halfway mark in hi 10-round mill in the semi-wind up against Bobby Ward of St. Paul Referee Iay called the contest a draw. For four rounds these two boys pu up a pretty boxing exhibition. They, as well as everyone present received tne surprise of their liv when suddenly In the fourth round while the two were mixing toe to toe Referee Day stepped In and told both to fight or he would top 'the bout He claimed that both were pulling tneir punches. Day Upsets Boxers. Day's action upset both men and it took several rounds for the two to recover from the shock. Ward took the first two rounds puzzling Muff with his Gibbons style of boxing. me tnird found Bronson getting nome ana tne rest of the mill was slam-bang affair. In the final round Bronson came through with a serie of sensational rallies and had the fan calling for him to whip over a k. punch. Ward proved too headv customer, however, and held his own. The fat. Paul lightweight made big hit but slackened up after th sixth post was past under the fu sillade of Bronson s steady blows The Portland lightweight has seldom looked better than he did toward th end of last night's match and is' one again In strong in this neck of th woods. If any decision had bee rendered Bronson would have bee on the receiving end. The greatest fight of the night wa tne six-round setto between Georgl Brandon, recently returned from tw years service in the navy, and Nea Zimmerman, the fast-coming local featherweight. Zimmerman won the decision and deserved it, but never before have the Portland fight fans been treated to a greater exhibition of gameness than Brandon put up last night. Entering the ring with a chok ing cold and practically knocked for the count in the first two rounds, he stuck to his guns and forced Zimmer man to the. finish, never backing up an inch and leading from gong to gong. Brandon Conies for More. After taking a beating In the second round, he tore out in the third canto and fought Neal to a standstill, get ting a cheer from every red-blooded fan in the arena. The last round Brandon stood up in his corner, not taking his minute's rest on the stool, and received another mighty ovation. Zimmerman planted many a wallop on the battling sailor's chin, but never once did the latter falter. Brandon was defeated and lost the decision, but he made 2400 friends. Joe Coffey. San Francisco feather weight, and Weldon Wing of Portland fought a nix-round draw. Coffey failed to get stirred until the last round and put up a painful exhibition. Wing tried hard and kept on top of the San Francisco boxer throughout the six rounds, but the latter would not start to fight until he was in a clinch. The last round he woke up and tried to upset Weldon and got a draw for his one round of work. Mike De Pinto of Portland and Ber nie Dillon of Seattle fought a four round draw in the curtain-raiser. Perle Casey refereed the first three bouts. Speed Boats to Kacc. NEW YORK, Nov. 19. America's challenge for the Harmsworth trophy, emblematic of the world's speed boat championship, has been accepted by the Royal Motor Yacht club of Eng land, it is announced by the American Power Boat association. Harlan Stars for Georgia Tech. In Judy Harlan. Georgia Tech has a wonderful fullback. He played with the Cleveland naval reserves against Pittsburg last year, having much to do with that triumph over the Panthers. Army Has Second Oliphant. In Schabacker the army is said to have another Elmer Oliphant. He is built on the same massive proportions and charges into a line in the same bull-like way. He played great foot ball againBt Notre Dame. StrubiiiK Gels I$oot. Princeton men are boosting .strub tng. the Tigers' field general, for a place on the all-Amerlcan eleven this year. if r mm. siiip " a?l. fte SI fy -s- D . W M . Mil . . . and at Atlantic City oA fact; At Atlantic City, which affords a typical cro89-eection of American society, Fatima is one of the three best sellers in nearly every hotel on the famous boardwalk. At many of them, indeed, including the Marlborough-Blenheim, the Traymore, and Iladdon Hall, Fatima is steadily the leader. ' r. . . . ff .11 ILivJL Sensible Cigarette 20jor 25 cents The "Just-enough Turkish" blend Leadership facta such as theso offer interesting proof both of Fatima pleasing taete and of the fact that they can be smoked freely vrithont worry abont "too many Three vrords explain it? "Just enough Turkish. Not too mnch Turkish, as in over-rich straight Turkish ciga rette; not too little for ta6te, as in blends less skilfully propor tioned; but just enough Turkish to suit the American smoker nearly everywhere. CANAL EXPLOITS CITY L A N" I IllYKKS FLOCKING GARDEN CITY, MO. TO .Metropolis 'ear New Grand River Drainage Cunal Has Kra of Growth and Prosperity. GARDEN CIT1', Mo. This enter prising little city in the southeastern part of Cass county, 15 miles south east of Harri8onville and near the Henry and Johnson county line, is enjoying a Kreat era of prosperity. Land is selling: at a pood price, and many new people with money and en ergy are locating- in this vicinity. The town was laid out in 1881. and is on the Frisco branch running: from Kansas City to Springfield. It was named Garden City because it was in the midst of a rich agricultural sec tion, and this section was called the garden spot of Cass county. It is eight miles north of Grand river, and with the completion of the drainage canal now in course of con struction, it will be tributary to a large territory in that section. Ciarden City has two good banks with combined resources of over $200, 000; one first-class newspaper, a new high school building, several good churches, electric light plant, many good solid business firms, and a large number of comfortable homes. The town is quite a large shipping point, and a good quantity of live stock, poultry and grain is shipped every week to the Kansas City and St. Liouls. markets. Kach year the town has an agricultural fair and this year it had a splendid exhibit and large crowds were present from all over the county. The Kansas City-Springfield high way runs through the town, and it Is an important place for tourists and autoists. A good hotel and two garages make it a convenient point to stop over and make necessary re pairs and enjoy a little recreation. It has also a good auto road to War rensburg. Clinton and Sedalla. The town Is only five miles north of the ancient town of Dayton, which was once a promising place before the building of railroads. The rail ways missing Dayton killed It, and the population moved to Garden City on the railway. The population in 1900 was 713. and each year the town has made a sub stantial growth, and it is expected that It will be more than doubled by the next year's census. CHAMPAGNE NOT ALL GONE Neptune Will Rejoice as of Yore at Christening: of Ship. HARTFORD. Conn. Champagne, the real old precious $20 a quart vintage from France, will be used In christen ing the ship Hartford, which leaves the ways of the Groton Iron Works, near New London, next month. This was assured when Mayor Richard J. Kinsella, whose daughter. Marion, is to act as sponsor, declared that all of the ancient and accepted rites of launching would be observed. Since the advent of near prohibition those who build ships and send them on their ways down to the sea have been perturbed by the innovation of substituting grape Juice for wine at the christenings. Old salts declare that Neptune's taste for champagne has been too long cultivated to per mit of his cavorting about a ship christened with anything less Joyous, and predict wreck and woe for the ships released from their cradles with lifeless liquids. The Hartford, one of the merchant marine ships built by the United States shipping board, was named for this city because of the city's record in liberty loan campaigns, and it is expected to follow in the glorious course of Fa rra gut's famous old frigate, the Hartford. Read The Orcgonian classified ads. CITY STREET BIDS ASKED IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME TO GET UNDER WAV. First Unit to Total $366,058.75 for Sewers, Paving, Side walks and Roadways. .Bids on an improvement pro gramme amounting to $366,058.75 were called for Tuesday by City Commis sioner Barbur. The call is for both sewer construction and street im provement, which are the first unit of the $3,500,000 improvement pro gramme planned by the city for 1920. The call for bids issued Tuesday includes the estimated expenditure of $125,012.75 for sewers, $214,647 for hard-surface streets. $11,362 for new sidewalks and $5037 for macadam roadways. The work Included in the call Is as follows: Sewer Carlton avenue from East Thirty-ninth to east line oC Eastmoreland. 11320; Killlncsworth avenue and ait Twenty-ninth etreet. 120, 327.45; East Twenty-ninth street and Ainsworth-avenue system, JM64.65: Wyxant and East Twenty-ninth streets. 121. 108.4i; Glenn avenue from Alneworth avenue to proposed sewer on north street. 33H; Glenn avenue and Alnsworth system, J.MJS9.40; Minne sota and Ainsworth-avenue system, IJ4. 270; Jordon street from Butler to Lom bard. $331.7o; Webster and East Twelfth street system, $24,957.15; Mississippi ave nue and Ainsworth-avenue system. $13,989. Bids on the following pavements have been asked for: Montana avenue from Emerson to Kill Inssworth avenue, SMr:i: b&si Morrison street from East Twenty-ninth to East Thirtieth and East Alder street from East Twenty-ninth to East Thirtieth, 57S8; East Eighteenth from Prescott to Alberta, $l0.feOT; Jessiup street from Campbell to Interstate avenue, 1384; East .seventy ninth etreet from East Stark to East CJli E&a, $-3,04; Webster street from Union avenue to Serene park and Sumner street from Union avenue to East Thirteenth. 141,267: East Thirty-third from Francis avenue to Cora avenue. S2005; Elite avenue from Milwaukee to 'East Twenty-second street. 913.SU7: East Wash Ing-ton from Efest Forty-second to East Forty-fifth and Kant Morrison from East Forty-second to East Forty-fifth, $27.1o5r Bryant, from Van couver to Union avenue. $17,200; East Twenty-seventh from Sandy boulevard to Hclladay avenue. $:tlOa; East Thirty-ninth from Henry avenue to Woodstock avenue, $5341; Jarrett from Thirtieth to Thirty third and East Thirty-third Trom KilllnK worth to Blmpaon street, Simpson from Thirty-third to Thirty-seventh. Jessup from Thirty-third to Thirty-fourth, $21. 44t: Jordan from Butler to Lombard, $0126; Church from Union avenue to East Ninth. $9501; Blandena from Maryland to Albina avenue, $11. .102. Walks and curbs in the estimated sum of $11,362 have been advertised for bids. They are: Van Houten from Strong to Lombard, $8614: East Thirty-sixth from Seachrest to Schiller. $1439; East Twelfth from Emerson to Kllling-swortll, $130!). Bids have been also asked for on a crushed-rock macadam road on Seventieth street Southeast from Fos ter road to Forty-fifth avenue, $5037. BAKERS' PROBE IS SCORED HOUSEWIVES OF CITY EX PRESS DISSATISFACTION. Failure of Mayor's Coniniidee to Make Detailed Report Calls Forth Recommendations. In a resolution adopted Tuesday by the housewives' council, in which the members openly expressed them selves as dissatisfied with results of the municipal investigation of books of local bakers, the women of this city are advised to patronize only such establishments as handle a standard weight loaf retailing at 10 cents a pound. Much criticism was voiced at the meeting, the advocates of the resolu tlon pointing out tnat "the committee, appointed by Mayor Baker has failed to submit a detailed report of its in vestigations to the public and stated under date of November 7 that 'Time was not available for a detailed ex-' animation of the records of any one company, hut your committee is of the opinion that its conclusions are based on investigations sufficiently thor ough and extensive to set forth tho facts of the premises.' " Indorsement was given the proposed league of women voters, according to plans outlined by Mrs. Carrie Chap man Catt on her recent visit to Port land. Mrs. John Scott pointed out that it would be undesirable for the members to back the organization as a body, but urged them to participate as individuals. Charles Coopey spoke on disadvan tages of shoddy in wool manufacturing. Paymaster Robbed of $11,000. CLEVELAND. O. Six robbers held up the paymaster of the Samuel K111 ei'Fon company In the lobby of a Ku clid avenue building and. after throw ing pepper into his face, escaped in an automobile with $11,000. which tha paymaster carrif-d in a money hag. One! 1 , - V Short TlIfer0arWi ir? rsznicrcaarieaa tizst SinaJce The llnrt riarar Co., Distributor. 305 - 307 fine Street, Portland. i'bune JUroadttay 1703; liome A 4.633 DTI 103.2