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THE 3IORXIXG OKEGONIAX, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 10 19. usual standard and, considering the PREP SCHOOLS TURN TO BASKET TOSSING member of the crack C. B. B. C. I U. OF 0. SQUAD SITS -TIGHT ON RECORD captain of the 1920 squad. Workman is a junior and a hard worker for the interests of the college. Each member of the team spoke briefly on Reed's revised athletic policy and expressed hopes that the year's experiment would become a wet course and the use of some tem alumni five. W. D. Murphy, football coach at the Commerce high school, probably will coach the basketball team. porary greens, his card of 72 for the round was remarkable. Going out Wilhelm made a 37 and returned in 35. The other matches resulted as fol lows: First flight, C. A. Sharp de feated Dr. A. D. Cage, 2 and 2; Dr. C. C. Moore beat W. D. Scott. 4 and 2. Fifth flight, J. H. Lambert beat C. B Lynn, 5 and 3; C. C. Gross beat Dr. San ford to Quit Coaching. George Foster Sanford is to retire from active field coaching In Rutgers college football, but is to be an ad visory coach. Sanford has been prominent in college football more than 25 years. Citizens of New Bruns wick will tender him a banquet as an appreciation of his services to Rutgers. Golfers Kits Burned. SEATTLE. Dec 1. Golf clubs, bags and players' clothes esimated aa worth 150,000 were destroyed when a fire swept the clubhouse at the mu nicipal golf links here today. permanent system. Considerable ela tion was felt by the men when C It. Woody, faculty representative at the conference of independent colleges at Philomath, stated that several sug Southern Committee Likes Lemon-Yellow Team. W. I. Northup, 3 and 2; James Copland won from William Miller by default. Close of Grid Season Drives Athletes to Gym Floors. "Undisputed Champs" Wait gestions from Reed's outside athletic policy had been accepted by the Wil lamette valley institutions. There is a general feeling at Reed which expresses approval with the re sults of the two outside football games. President Clark of Pacific university, wrote to Dr. Torrey com mending Reed for the reception given Pacific players. The annual meeting of tve Portland Golf club will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the Portland hotel. All members are urged to attend. Of ficers will be elected and reports will be read by the retiring president and chairmen of the various committees. ing Word From Pasadena. PLAY-OFF IS SUGGESTED 10-TEAM LEAGUE PLANNED CLAIM DAYS ARE PAST STANFORD BEGINS TRACK BILLIARD PLAY BETTER Contest With Sonthern California Desired to Clear Up Fog Over Coast Title. Several Schools Will Be Piloted by New Coaches Lincoln Yet to Secure Mentor. Coach Huntington Vouchsafes His Men Will Play No Extra Games to Win Honor. KALE STIRRED OVER TEAM TrRXOUT SHOWS GOOD MATE IMPROVEMENT IS SHOWN CONTEST STATISTICS. BY RIAL FOR THIS YEAR'S TEAM. OREGON IS FAVORED FOR PASADENA GAME 11 j Tl "" i? m I - 'j lj nil -; fearl -4 ifag.-Wil t j Vt , Lis ill ! ps'riispt PASADENA, Cal.. Dec. 1. (Special.) At 9:30 o'clock tonight, while the after-dinner speakers of the Tourna ment of Roses association were doing their best, the football committee, which is to select the rival east and west teams to compete in the annual New Year's day classic here, slipped away from the table to discuss the sit uation. Long after curfew had rung) ine trio wno are to name tne cievena Bounded taps over their gathering. Here's the latest dope: The University of Oregon is the fa vored western team to meet Harvard Xvhen the crimson comes to the coast. The University of Washington is -practically out of he punning, but the University of Southern California, a non-conference school, has still to be reckoned with. The University of Southern Califor nia is considered only because the na- . lives here want them to be. The Tro jans, under Coach Elmer Henderson, formerly football man at the Broad way high school of Seattle, licked Stanford 13 to 0 here Thanksgiving day. Southerners Have Pull. It was such a pleasing surprise to the home guards that they are pull ing tooth and nail for the Angelenos. Seward A. Simons, perhaps the most influential member of the committee, conferred with southern California officials today and suggested that they endeavor to arrange a game with either Oregon or Washington, the New Year's day plum going to the winner. The southern California school was told to endeavor to land a ame with Oregon first, and if the lemon-yellow did not want to play, to try Washington. The purple and gold's only chance to write football history here on the f ir: t day of 1920 lies in Oregon's refusal to play the Trojans. Simons advised that the game be played in San Francisco, which would equalize the trip of both schools. The battle would draw much better in Los Angeles or Portland. However, after analyzing the situa tion, it must be said that Oregon's chances look much rosier this even ing. The committee wants the Eu gene boys. Hugo Bezdek, former Oregon coach, who piloted Pennsylvania State col lege through a very successful sea son, has written W. F. Creller, the third member and chairman of the football committee, asking that his club be brought here. Penn State is ot being considered, however. Oreseon'H Claim Prfwntfd. W. S. Kienholtz presented a letter from Trainer Hayward of Oregon to the committee. Hayward in his let ter presented Oregon's claims, which were heartily indorsed by Kienholtz, who, by the way, will be the com mittee's choice as referee. He han dled the Oregon-Pennsylvania game here New Year's day, 1917. Porter W. Yett of Portland, has written the committee, putting in a boost for Oregon. Elaborate preparations are being made for the game, additional grandstands are under construction, which, when completed, will com pletely enclose the turf field, giving it the appearance of a huge 'stadium with seating capacity of 23.000. Officials of the University of Southern California and Coach Hen derson were non-committal tonight. It is known, however, that they have asked Oregon and Washington to play the Trojans. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1. The Har vard university football team will ac cept an invitation of the Tournament of Roses association of Pasadena to play a western team, yet to be se lected, at Pasadena New Year's day, according to advices from Cambridge, Maps., received here today. The dispatch said that Dr. Ed H. Nichols, who with "Pooch" Donovan, lias charge of the conditioning of the Harvard players, following a confer ence with Fred W. Moore, graduate manager of athletics and secretary of the Harvard athletic committee, and Coach Robert Fisher, announced to day that the faculty had approved the proposed trip to California and that an acceptance of the invitation would be forwarded as soon as the Harvard endowment committee could act. This committee. Dr. Nichols was quoted as saying, already has given unofficial approval. According to plans announced by Xr. Nichols, the dispatch said, the team would leave Cambridge Decem ber 20, arriving in Pasadena Decem ber 24 In time to become acclimated. Selection of the western team to meet Harvard was still in abeyance tonight, it was announced. YARN ELL PICKS ALL-PACIFIC Hubbard, Bartlett and Steers Placed on Reterce"s First Team. SPOKANE, Dec. 1. Washington State college is given four members of the 1919 all-Pacific coast conference eleven selected today by George M. Varnell, sporting editor of the Spo kane Chronicle, who refereed seven conference games during the season. The University of Washington and University of Oregon are given two men each and Oregon Agricultural college. University of California and Stanford one each. Varnell refereed games in which all the conference elevens except Stan ford participated, and saw many of the teams play three games. On the second team the University of Washington was given three men, University of Oregon, Washington State college and Oregon Agricultural college two each and University of California and Stanford one each. The selections are as follows: Captain "Jesse" Wells of Portland Is Considered Best at Palo Alto University. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, " Palo Alto, Cal.. Dec. 1. (Special.) With the cross-country season over, follow ing the run with the University of California last Saturday, Stanford vniversity track men are . ow devot ing their attention to fall track prac tice. Captain Willard B. Wells, : Portland student at Stanford, is at' tending to the coaching at present. Undoubtedly Stanford's best bet, re cording to pre-season indications, is "Jess" Wells, the captain. While he can hardly be expected to repeat his record of last year of taking all four first places in the hur'les and sprints, he is bound to be a heavy point-getter for the Palo Alto insti tution. Stanford is very strong o sprinters this year, the foremost of whom is Morris Kirksey, who recently won the "superman championship" of the college. "Bobby" Pelouze is another man who probably will show in the 220. He made a name for himself at Medford, Or. "Ken" Lilly, an Ashland boy, is another fast man on the squad. E. R. Holt, who used to sprint for Lincoln high school in Portland, also will probably earn a place on the freshman team. Mike Reed from Jefferson high school intends to go out for the hurdles on the "babe" squad. "Reg" Caughey, who took first in the shot-put in the inter-allied games at Paris last summer, will have Here Binirnan to work with him in the weight division, and Curtice, who won the hammer throw in the meet with California last year, also is back in college. DAVIS CUP PLAY IS SET TENNIS MATCHES OPEX SIDNEY IX JANUARY. AT United States Ready to Challenge Winner of Trophy After An zac Games Are Over. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The Davis cup international team tennis cham pionship will be played at Sidney, Australia, January 16. 17 and 19, ac cording .to word received by the United States Tennis association to day. The English team, which sailed for Australia late in October, will consist of A. A. F. Kingscote, A. E. Beamish and A. H. Lowe. The Aus tralasia team will include Norman Brookes, Gerald Patterson and two other players yet to be selected. The series will consist of four singles matches and one doubles con test, the nation winning three out of the five matches to be the winner. It is understood that the United States association will vote to challenge for the trophy at its next annual meeting with the series to be played during the summer or late in the autumn of 1920, according to the location of the cup-holding country at the close of the coming matches. C. B. Tossers Start Work. The Christian Brothers' alumni issued a call for basketball players last week with the following reporting for practice: Ryan, White, Jacobberger, Driscoll. Brost, Flynn and Altstock. All of the men have had interscholas tic experience and if present indica tions count for anything, a very suc cessful season is assured. The alumni will play their' first game tomorrow night when they tackle the fast Christian Brothers school team. Bantams Go 10 Rounds. RACINE. Wis., Dec. 1. Joe Bur man of Chicago outpointed Mike Dundee of Rock Island in a 10-round bout tonight. The men are bantam-weigrts. With the 1919 interscholastic foot ball season a thing of the past, ath letes of the various high schools and prep schools of the city are now turning their attention to the next event on the sport calendar, basket ball, the reigning sport of the win ter season. The gridiron season just ended has proved that athletics have again re sumed their normal state of pre-war days and the basketball season prom ises to be an interesting one to the followers of the popular gymnasium sport and with many veteran players in view on each of the quintets the race for the championship this year should develop into a close one. It is a little early in the hjop season to get any line on any of the viij'cm uui nearly an of the school nave several basketball enthusiasts I who have been limbering up on the gymnasium floors for the past two weeks. Within the next two weeks the school gymnasiums will present a busy scene, when the hoop season will get -started in earnest. The league this year will again be com posed of 10 teams. The Christian Brothers' business college will again compete with the high schools and prep schools. Dlrec-tora to Meet. The meeting of the directors of the interscholastic league probably will be held Friday. Following the meet ing of the directors the coaches will be called together to draw up a tentative schedule which will be sub mitted to the league directors at a later meeting. Several new faces will be seen among the coaches who will handle the school quintets this season. Among the new-comers is Dr. Harry Estes, who will coach the .basket shooters at the Hill Military academy college. The cadets turned out for their first practice last night and Dr. Estes, an overseas service man and a graduate of an eastern college, after looking the first turnout over was very enthusiastic over the pros pect of a championship five. Billy Bryan, who coached the Ben son football team through a success ful season, will also handle basketball at the Tech school and the showing which Bryan made with the gre'en football material at Benson this sea son speaks well for his ability as a coach and ho no doubt will keep the Mechanics well up in the race for the DasKetball championship. A new gymnasium has just been completed ai us j.ecn scnool and the hoopers will start practice w'thin the next day or bo. Lincoln Without Mentor. A coach has not yet been selected at Lincoln. George Dewey, who piloted the Cardinal five to a state championship last year, will handle basketball at the Columbia univer sity ithis season. E. G. Harlan, who coached the football team at Lincoln this season, and Professor Reynolds, faculty athletic director at the west side high school, are mentioned as prospective coaches. H. W. Quigley, coach for the past two years of football and basketball at Jefferson high school will again handle the blue and gold five. Can didates for the team have been turn ing out for preliminary practice at Jefferson for the past two weeks, but Quigley will not be able to devote any time to the basketshooters until the state football title has been set tled. W. A. Fenstermacher, one of the veteran basketball coaches of the league, will again be in charge at Washington, and can be depended to build up a strong team with the ex perienced material which he has on hand this year. Franklin is an unknown quantity, both in the matter of a coach and material. Carlton Meeks, an instruc tor at Franklin, has been secured to coach the Quaker five. Harry C. Campbell, who coached the James John basketball team last season will again hold the reins at the double J institution. The Christian Brothers Business college five will be coached by this season by Ed "Smick" Ryan. Ryan is a graduate of the college and a INVESTIGATION BEGUN" AS RE SULT OF DISSATISFACTION. Undergraduates Propose Radical Innovations to Strengthen, Next Year's Eleven. NEW HAVEN, Dec. 1. (Special.) Tale dissatisfaction in the 1919 foot ball season will take the form, of an investigation which will be conducted by the undergraduates, who, while loyally supporting the valued uphill fighting eleven and the coaching sys tem which has been installed by Dr. Sharpe. believe that numerous Im provements should be installed at once. Some of these are: 1. Changes in the personnel of the graduate football committee. 2. Changes in the present resident coaching staff. 3. Radical innovations in the sys tem of medical supervision of the players. 4. Alternating in the training table system. 5. Changes in the method of ticket distribution. In general, many undergraduates believe that both the graduate foot ball committee and the resident coach ing staff should include additions of yonuger men. Vance McCormack has been chairman of the football com mittee, but he has been unable to give personal attention to the details, which have been looked after by ex Captain Brinckerhoff Thorne of New York City. Thorne was visited in midseason by Captain Tim Callahan of the Yale team, the latter pointing out several defects which were then apparent in the methods. The faults continued, however, till the end of the season, and are believed to have affected the general ability of the eleven during the final games. The suggestions for innovations will be taken up In undergraduate conferences, and it is believed that the athletic council will indorse the requests, which will be made pre vious to the election of a captain for next year. The athletic council has received power under the new Yale athletic constitution to make any changes nec essary for the good of Yale athletics. The proposed changes, therefore, will not depend upon the choice of a par ticular undergraduate for the cap taincy next year. Johnny Kilpatrick, who is a member of the present foot ball committee, is quoted as favoring most of the proposed changes. It is felt at Yale that, in the reor ganization of athletics immediately following the world war, numerous imperfections crept into the system. Yale men believe, however, that Dr. Albert Sharpe, the new athletic di rector, has inaugurated an excellent system which, before another fall, can be strengthened materially. CHEHALIS SEES ROSY 1920 Return of Football Material Pres ages Strong Squad Next Year. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Dec. 1. (Spe clal.l Chehalis high school is ex pected to put the fastest football team into the field for the 1920-21 season in the history of local ath letics. This year's team made a splen did showing by winning five out of the seven games played. Since but one of the members of this year's team will graduate in June the team that has been built up will remain practically intact. The further fact that the bulk of the players are under classmen assures Chehalis of strong football and ath letic talent for the next two or three years. Majors Captains California.' TJNTVERSITT OF OREGON. Eugene, Dec 1. (Special) The football sea son at Oregon is over, at least until word is heard definitely announcing which coast team will play at Pasa dena on New Year's day. The varsity returned from Portland last week, "undisputed coast champions," in the words of "Shy" Huntington, and with no one on the injured list excepting Hollis Huntington, fullback, who re ceived a broken nose and a badly marred face in the Thanksgiving day game with the Multnomah club men. Practice will be suspended ' until late In the week, when it is expected that some definite word will be re ceived from the tournament of roses committee at Pasadena, announcing the selection of the team which is to represent the west in the intersec tional contest there. Selection Im Expected. Oregon will make no more claims to be the coast representative, ac cording to Graduate Manager Marion F. McClain, but at the same time it is expected that the Pasadena board cannot do otherwise than to select the Lemon-Yellow as the western representative in the contest. We won't know until late In the Seven of 45 Matches In Three Cushion Tournament Made in Less Than 50 Innings. Some idea of ' the fast-Increasing excellence of billiard play, due no doubt to the increasing interest in the various styles of play, may be ob tained by a glance at the records of those who played in the national American three-cushion championship which was won by R. L. Cannefax last week at Cleveland. Seven of the 45 games In the tour nament were played In less than 50 Innings and no less than a dozen in less than 55 Innings, which means that the single-game experts were averaging close to a point an inning in about half the contests played. This is more than remarkable in view of the fact that the fastest game played in the last tournament held previous to the Cleveland event was for a total of 52 Innings. Moreover, Charles McCourt of Cleveland, who led all others In his average for all games played, made 436 points in 488 innings, his closest competitor being Otto Reiselt, who chosen." he said. "It is an invitation .-.-ain.' p.rev'?u" A0'?8 V" matter, and the right of inviting a team to play there is entirely up to the Pasadena committee." "Shy" Huntington has concluded his second year as coach of the varsity, having been defeated but twice in that time, by California, 6 to 0, last year, and by Washington State Col lege, 7 to 0, this year. Huntington Claims Title. "We are undisputed champions of the coast conference," he said. "There is no question about that. Whether Pasadena chooses to invite us to play an eastern team is another matter We do not intend to play any more games to earn the right to play New Year's day, and it is unfair to the members of any team to ask them to do so." Huntington and Graduate Manager McClain characterized the claim of the University of Southern California as coast champions as "pure bunk." Southern California, according to them, has played but two conference games, losing one to California and winning from Stanford. This puts them out of the running, according to the mentors. The coaches are opposed to playing a "Round Robin" series, between conference teams to decide the cham pionship. "We've played all the games we had scheduled," said "Shy," "and so have the rest of the confer ence teams. The matter Is now up to the Pasadena board." WINGED M PLANS MEET BERKELEY. Cal., Dec 1. O. C. Majors, who registered at the Univer sity of California from San Diego, was elected captain of the 1920 var sity football team at a post-season election held in Seattle on Thanks giving day, it was announced here today. Picked Mattmen of Los Angeles Club to Be Met in Portland. The next big event in the athletic line at the Multnomah Amateur Ath letic club will be an inter-club meet between a team of picked Los Angeles Athletic club amateur mattmen and Winged M representatives. It is prob able that five or six of the best men in the south will be brought to the meet by Multnomah club. An at tractive card of preliminaries will be arranged by Edward J. O'Connell, boxing and wrestling instructor. Walter Miller, ex-middleweight champion of the world, is the wrest ling instructor at the Los Angeles Athletic club. A date for the meet will be set in the near future. REED FOOTBALL PLANS LAID College Players Meet and Ask That Policy Be Adopted. Reed college football men met yes terday at the home of Professor Tor rey, chairman of Reed athletics, for an intimate discussion of Reed's entry into the field of outside athletics. The present football season was reviewed and plans were laid for next year. Paul Workman, all-star fullback for Reed, was unanimously elected First team. Hubbard, O. A. C ianlpy, W. S. C. rimm. IT. of W. terrtld. W. S. Second team .10 Faulk. IT. of W. . fe. . . ArdorMOll, IT. of O. . .T ... Walker, O. A. H T .Hamilton. W. S. C. THE WORST THING I KNOW OF. 3artlelt, U. of O..G.... Caushey, Stan. Slake. V. of W .. .il .... Majors. U. of C iunlay. W. S. C...C Wick. U. of W. Iters, TT. of O....Q.r. Stanley. W. S. C. Veils. I of O H..Efkman, V. of W. lillis. W. S C .... 11 Hun tin k ton. U. of O. mpleton, Stan. . ..P ... Powell. O. A. C. WILHELM DEFEATS ANDERSON Score of 7 2 Turned In for Play in Rain on Muddy Green. Despite the cold and rainy weather Sunday, several golfers were on hand at the Portland Golf club for the sec ond elimination round of the play for the president's cup. Rudolph Wil helm and George F. Anderson were matched one of the most interest ing rounds of the day. Wilhelm win ning by finishing the match 5 up and 4 to play. Wilhelm played up to his X tournament, the record for short games was 36 innings and the mark for high run in a championship tour nament 14. Tiff Denton of Kansas City tore these records to ribbons in one game, making a high run of 17 and 50 points in 30 innings. Gebhardt Challenges Thye. John Gebhart. St. Paul middle weight grappler. arrived in Portland yesterday on his way to California, and took time out to hurl a challenge at Ted Thye. middleweight champion of the world. Gebhart says he would remain over for several weeks if he could land a match with the cham pion here. The St. Paul wrestler says that he has met all of the best men at his weight, 160 pounds, and always held his own. Ministers Against Sunday Snorts. The Methodist ministers" conference of Tennessee is going to start an other drive on the state legislature this winter to secure enactments of a new and stringent law against Sun day sports. The announcement is that special attention will be given to bunaay oau games wmch com mercialize the Sabbath." Theaters and moving picture shows also will be gone after. The liberal element is organizing to make a counter move. Britton K. O.'s Ryan. CANTON. O., Dec. 1. Jack Britton welterweight champion, tonight knocked out Billy Ryan of Cincinnati in the 11th round of a scheduled 12- round contest. NOTRE DAME IS WILLING FACULTY GRANTS PERMISSION FOR GRID COMBAT. Catholic Squad, 19 Strong, Leaves for Aggie Game December 19, Stop-Offs Planned. SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Dec. 1. The Notre Dame football team will meet the Oregon Aggies at Portland on Christmas day. it was announced to day by the faculty. The squad, which will consist of 19 men. will leave South Bend on De cember 19 and stops will be made at salient points of interest. The board of control of the Ore gon Agricultural college did not take any action on the proposed Oregon Aggie-Notre Dame contest at the meeting last night, according to word received from Corvallis. The board decided to put off a final decision un til tomorrow night. Notre Dame has agreed to come and it is now up to those m charge of athletics at O. A C. to say whether or not the contest will be playea on Christmas day. It is expected by those in close touch with affairs at O. A. C. that the board of control will decide in favor of the game being played when the directors meet tomorrow night. Hie Incomparable CHENEY The Cheney is here again. Only yesterday a new shipment arrived. Come in now and let the Cheney sing for you. Its voice is clear, serene, beautiful, like the song of birds. Write for Catalogue G. F. Johnson Piano Ql 149 Sixth, Between Alder and Morrison Chickering Mehlin Packard Bond Pianos Guitars Ukuleles Mandolins Banjos GRANTS PASS CASTS DETI SOUTHERN CITY BACKS GRID TEAM AGAINST NORTH. Chamber of Commerce Tells World Its Boys Are Out for Gore Anywhere at Any Time. GRANTS PASS, Or.. Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) The local chamber of com merce today telegraphed Portland newspapers setting forth its belief that the Grants Pass high school football team, which ie the southern Oregon champion and undefeated, should have serious consideration In determining the holder of state honors. The chamber of commerce urged that the Grants Pass team be given an opportunity to demonstrate tne local belief that it ie as good if not better than any other high school team in the state. President Frank lin S. Bramwell of the Grants Pass chamber signed the telegram and on behalf of his organization and the high school issued a challenge to any claimant to the championship. He also asked the co-operation of Port land newspapers in getting it before whatever team may be adjudged the beet in northern Oregon. The local chamber guarantees financial backing for its team or for any team brought here to fight the northern-southern classic luck as Pussyfoot Johnson in grab bing fights in England. Football taps at Harvard. Over at Tale they are still waiting for reveille. Don't pull any more of that yours of - the - 20th received-and-contents-duly-noted. Revenue birds won't know whether you mean a letter or a bottle. Old Carranza wants to clatter down in history as the lightest dumb-bell in the gymnasium. . Don't pull down that victory arch. Let the mothers parade under it when their boys come back from the foot ball season. Every Mex figures they could flat ten the United States if it weren't for Texas. And it's known as the Lone Star because it only has 47 more around it. Distributing; the Credit. I won the Springfield, North Caro lina. Tufts. Maryland and Brown games. However, THE TEAM lost to Boston college, Princeton and Har vard. (Signed) DOC SHARPE OF TALE. First Yale mistake was the sched ule. They fed a bulldog cream puffs. Sidelights and Satire. M1 IKE GIBBONS is another good old woolen sock that didn't know it had retired until it found Itself in the rag bag. i Public wants to discover if that Commerce football team represented the day or night school. Can't say that Sam Langford knocked out Jim Johnson without batting an eye. Jim had two batted for goals. No Mex can understand a note that is written with your fist open. Fred Fulton didn't have as much Boxer's Wife Dies. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1. Mrs. Mariolla O'Neil Walcott. . wife of Willie Meehan, a heavyweight pu gilist, died here today after an illness of four months. Her former home was in Butte, Mont. rho Mart Dear Co.. 1(W 30."-7 fine M.. l'ortlnna. Phone Bmmlwnv 1'03. Home A BOYS MAKE CONFESSION Three Are Arrested for Theft and Carrying Weapons. Three boys who are said to have confessed that they had set out on i career of crime were captured at Eas Forty-second street and Hawthorne avenue last night by Patrolmen Hess and Fleming. Two of the lads are charged with carrying concealed weapons and the third with the theft of a kit of automobile tools. Police are trying to find out to whom the tools belong, and say that the lads confessed to stealing them from an automobile. The boys under arrest are: Ralph Benke, 16, and Antone Deis. 15, both charged with carrying concealed weap ons, and Lee Hitt, 17, charged with stealing the tools. The boys are said to have intended to start for Califor nia last night in an automobile owned by the Hitt boy's father. They had 90 cents, and are alleged to have con fessed that they intended to turn highwaymen when they had spent it. FINKE STOREROOM BURNS Frame Building at 183 Madison Street Is Destroyed. Fire early this morning destroyed the upper story of a two-story frame building used as a storeroom by Finke Bros., coopers, at 183 Madison, street. The loss was about $2000. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building is a frame structure, with the upper story rilled with bar rels. Once the flames got headway, th y swept through the structure at a rate that threatened neighboring buildings before the firemen could couple up their hose. The blaze lasted about 25 minutes and attracted a 1 large crowd, as the flames were vis ible for a considerable distance. Arri ive d at Last! 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