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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. JULY 29, 1906. FINE PLAY ENDS TENNIS TOURNEY w jjjjjgPS! f " t "iii ii 1 1 i i ii in j Goss Takes the Singles, and San Francisco Blacksmith Is Trying to Arrange Go Be tween Gans and Nelson. ; Bellinger and Wickersham Take the Doubles. MISS HEITSHU ALSO WINS COLORED BOXER IS WILLING COFFROTH DOWN, GRANEY LOOMS UP After the State Championships Are Decided, Mrs. Tom Kerr and R. A. Leiter Award Tro phies to the Victors. The challenge round In the Oregon State tennis tournament on the Multno mah Club courts yesterday brought out some of the finest exhibitions of tennis ever seen in the city. W. A. Goss won the title of Oregon State singles cham pion, Dan Bellinger and Brandt Wicker sham retained their title as champions In the doubles, and Miss Amy Heitshu successfully defended her title as woman champion. The Goss-Bellinger match excited the greatest interest, and this proved to be the closest and most interesting of the whole tournament. Goss has heretofore easily disposed of all local players, and has. In fact, won often from Bellinger, but yesterday it was only by dint of the greatest effort that he was able to tri umph. Bellinger secured a commanding lead In the first set, which he won, 6-1. His form was almost perfect, and he passed Goss time and again. The veteran pulled the next two out. 6-4, 6-3, but in the fourth he again went down easily be fore the younger player, 5-1. The fifth and deciding set was a fierce contest. Every point was fought for desperately, and many games went to deuce before they were decided. Each won four games, and with the score standing In this way Bellinger took the serve. Weakening at thi critical point, he lost his first serve, and then seemed to lose all control. Goss pulled the deciding games out without the loss of another point. " Both players were roundly cheered for their fine show ing. In the challenge doubles Bellinger and Wickersham. the present holders of the cup. disposed of Goss. and Lewis, twice holders of the championship, in easy style. Goss was much weakened toy his gnilllng match in the singles, and he could give his partner but little help. The scores were 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Miss Heitshu and Miss Robertson, runner-up. had a close arid exciting match for the women's championship.-Miss Rob ertson played strong In the first set, which she lost only after it had twice pone to deuce, S-6. The second went to Ml Heitshu, 6-0, the winning player hrlnclng to bear all her skill born of lonr experience. Miss Heitshu and Miss Joseph! beat Miss Lm. Weldler and Miss Morrison in the ladies' doubles, 6-3, 6-1. The mixed doubles went to Miss Rob ertson and Wickersham over Miss I. Wei. Her and Goss. 7-5, 6-3. This was plftyed in the morning. , The consolation events were also con cluded. Miss Joseph! won from Miss Xoehler, 6-2. 6-3, and L. Wickersham beat McAlpln. Mrs. Baldwin offered a beau tiful cup to the winner of the ladles' con eolation. This becomes the permanent property of Miss Josephl. It was well Into the evening before all the matches were concluded. At a few minutes before 7 o'clock the winners were presented with the trophies on the upper courts. R. A. Letter made a few remarks appropriate to the occasion, and Mrs. Tom Kerr graciously distributed the hard-won trophies. One of the largest crowds ever seen at a tennis match in the city was gathered to witness the play in the challenge rounds. MACKETT AXD ALEXANDER WIN Are Eastern Tennis Champions and Will Play West. LONGWOOD. Mass.. July 28. Harold H. Hackett and Frederick B Alexander, of New York, a Yale-Princeton combina tion, i won the Eastern lawn tennis cham pionship In doubles at the Longwood i'ricket Club today for the second time by defeating w. J. Clothier, of Philadelphia, and William A. Larned. of Summit, in a hard-fought contest, three sets to two. The match lasted nearly three hours, 67 Barnes being played, with the final score 7-H. S-6, 6-2, S-10, 6-3. Hackett and Alexander will meet the Western champion at Newport on August 21, and the winners will have the right to play Ward and Wright, the present National title-holders, on the following day. Of the 66 games played in the match today. 26 went to deuce, while in the fourth game of the tirst set. 22 points were scored before Hackett and Alexan der captured it. The morning match was the final in the consolation doubles. Holt and Dewhurst playing Read and Jackson. The former team won, 7-5, 6-4. FIXE PROGRAMME PREPARED Rock Island Club to Give Entertain- ment Wednesday Night. The Rock Island Club, under the management of Ed Lamberson. is plan ning a musical entertainment for the regular midweek reception on next Wednesday evening. Miss Ethel Lytle and Miss Ethel Shea have consented to sing on the occasion and a rare treat Is promised. In addition medals will be presented to those who were win iters in the canoe regatta held at the club on July 7. Later in the evening an informal dance will be held. The mu sical programme will be as follows: Luet. "Carmena" Misses Lytle and Shea. "Love in the South Wind" Caufteld Miss Shea. "Merrily I Roam'' Schluffarth Miss Lytle. "Annie Laurie" Scotch Miss Shea. "Tonight" Gardo Miss Lytle. "Good-XIght, Little Girl" Macy Miss Shea, "My Heart Is Singing" Sans Bouca Miss Lytle. Duet. "Pearls of Love" Pinsutl Misses Lytle and Shea. Cornet solo Selected Fred English. Violin solo Selected H. S. Rudd. Ptano solo Selected Ceorge Houghton. Those who will receive medals are: Dent and Frohman. double canoe Pfaender, single canoe; Dent, swimming: R. A. Lamberson and Pfaender, tug of war: Zimmerman and Pemberton, tilting Korrell. tub race. County Game Laws re Void. SAN BERNARDINO. Oal., July 28. Judge Oster, in the Superior Court, today rendertvt an opinion declaring uncorustitu tlonal all county game laws in California. He holds that Boards of County Super' visors have no power to change the game seasons as nxed by tee Legislature. ifs-C-1 if J: 1 l fi I r!5 :X .ir-.; MMBIM'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMII''llllllllllee'llll'''MeeeeMs3 I If Bx, - . j.. 4r w,. A , v "stiaaMaiasM i-BBWwiit4 " W . vr " ! : WALTER A. liOSS. WHO WON THE S1NGJLK8 C HAMP1(SHIF. I "'S,Wy' ,-sJ - ii - ? fri I .ill ! t I WON BY SALVIDERE Thomas Hitchcock's Gelding Takes Brighton Jr. Stakes. TEN TO ONE SHOT BEATEN Purse of $4 5,000 Goes Chase Away Is to the Sec- " '. Owner ond and .Superman is Third. NEW YORK. July 28-. Before a crowd of 25,000 persons, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.'s chestnut gelding Salvidere won the $15,000 Brlgton Junior stakes, six furlongs, at Brighton Beach today, defeating the 60-to-1 shot. Chase Away, with Superman third. Results: Five and one-half furlongs Gold Lady won. Gallant Dan second. Dan Enrique third: time. 1:07. One mile and one-sixteenth Ebony won, Janeta second, Champlain third; time. 1:47 4-5. Handicap, one mile and a quarter Con tent won. Colonial GM second. Rubric third; time. 2:04 4-5. Rir furlnncrct Sa 1 irirl nra SIIQI Miller. 4 In 1, won; Chase Away (109), McDaniel, 60 to second ; superman 112;), ivnapp, 1 to a. third: time. 1:13 3-5. Go!f Ball. Rose mount, Peter Paun and " Ballota also ran. 'Coupled; "coupled. Steeplechase, about two miles and a half Hylas won, Delcanta second, Kernel third; time, 5:01. Six furlongs Nannie Hoge won. Come dienne second. Ben Hodder third; time. 1:13. One mile and one-sixteenth The Clown won. Oarsman second. Sir Russell third; time, 1:45 4-5. At Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 28. Results of races at The Meadows: Seven furlongs Pearl Waters won. Flourish second. Pachuca third: time, 1:27. One mile Little Mirthful won. icatie Crews second. Kindler third; time, 1:414. Six furlongs Linda Rose won, utile Buttercup second. Golden Buck third; time. 1:13. Five ana one-nair iuriongs t ony rausi won, Lucy C second, Miisora tmra; time, 1:07. Six furlongs Ruby won. Misty s Pride second, Martinmas third: time, 1:12V4- one mile ana oo yaras w. t. ijaies won. Gloomy Gus secona, Kaipn xoung third; time, 1:424. One mile and one-sixteenth Dusty Mil ler won, Florence Fonso second. Stilicho third; tine, 1:45"A. At Detroit. WINDSOR. Ont., July 28. The Summer harness meeting at Windsor ended this afternoon with some fine drives and fast time. From here the horses go to Kala mazoo and Cleveland for next week. Re sults: 2:12 trot, purse jUlOO Lake Queen won first, fourth and fltth heats and the race, in 2:08 . 2:13, 2:10; Lady Gall Hamil ton won the second and third heats In MM. 2:10: Exalted: Gale and Comilla also started. 2:20 Dace, purse J100O George R. won the second, third and fifth heats and the race, in 2:lSVi, 2:13, 2:224; Kitty Brown won the first heat in 2:15"4; Mabel T. won tne rourtn in 2:10 trot, purse $1000 Gold Dust Maid won the second and third heats and the race in 2:094. 2:08V.; The President won the first heat in 2:084; Oro, Helen Horte. prince ureenlanaer ana isellast also Started. 2:14 pace, purse JIOOO Darkey Mat won three straight heats and the race in 2:08H. 21. 2:09H. Legateer, Nilly Fos ter, cnrystai, urea Miner, a. r. jtiue, Billy W., Queen of Clubs, Irene D.. Lit tle Buck. Diamond B Tom B. and Sara J. also started. - - ' DO NOT ENCOURAGE CUBS. Veteran Ballplayers Often Discour age Youngsters. Youngsters who are drafted- from minor leagues have pretty tough sailing among the old fellows, wno resent their admis sion, as they regard the advent of each newcomer as another evidence of the in exorable fact that soon or late a sprightly young man, full of hope and ginger, will be called upon to shove aside the veteran whose hinges are growing rusty, and whose arms have gone stale. Jesse Tannehill. one of the greatest left- hand pitchers in his time the diamond has produced, recalled his first appear ance among the big fellows. It was In 1891. He had been drafted by Cincinnati, and had pitched a wonderful game on his initial appearance in Redland. "After I had pitched that game for them and went out to the Cincinnati park the next morning, I thought I had made a mistake and got on the wrong grounds,' said Jesse. "Why, for a time I thought the players on tne team had forgoten me. At tirst not a member of the team spoke to me. They passed me by without so much as a nod of the head. Those who did look at me did so with a stare, as much as to say, 'V hat are you doing here, any how"!" I was only a green kid, and this kind of treatment nearly broke my heart. 1 felt that I couldn't do anything on that team. Indeed, it looked as though the old-timers hoped I wouldn't, succeed. believe this Is the way most youngsters are treated. I know I 'would have been in for the same dose at Pittsburg If I had stood for it. When I went to that team the old-timers started In to give me the same treatment I had been accorded at Cincinnati, but I returned as good as they sent. I answered stare with stare. I was as cold as they were, and I didn't try to warm up a bit. I said to myself: 'I have come to paddle my own canoe; I shall do my part, and that is all any one can ask of me.' In a short time I was on a par with the best of them. "A youngster who expects to have easy sailing when he comes into the big league is going to be fooled. When he takes his place it means that some one has got to go. There Is no telling who . he will suc ceed. Self-preservation isthe first law of nature, and a ballplayer Is not going to help dig his own grave. The first two or three months in a big league are the hard est in a player's experience. If he wins oh, well, everybody knows the answer." Detroit News-Tribune. DOUBT DAN KELLY'S RECORD Inexperienced Timers Believed to ' Have Held Watch at Spokane. The men who timed Dan Kelly, of the University of Oregon in his won derful sprinting: at Spokane, Wash., a few weeks, ago, profess to be very In dignant that their timing- is doubted in the East. One hundred yards in nine and three-fifth seconds is such a mar velous performance that the evidence will have to be the most convincing and absolutely irrefutable before it is allowed. The fact of the matter is that Western records are always looked at with suspicion because the timers are usually Inexperienced men. This has happened so frequently in the West, where there has been a tendency to overlook small details for the sake of a record, that this section always has to suffer even when good performances are actually made. At a meeting in Wilkesoarre, ra, last May. J. X. Whitman, the University of Pennsylvania sprinter, did 100 yards in nine and three-fifth seconds, ac cording to the timers. The performance was so remarkable that his trainer, the celebrated Mike Murphy, was asked about it. Said Mike: "Neither Whitman nor any other sprinter could do 130 yards In nine and three-fifths seconds on that track. Inexperienced timers accounts for it. Whitham is a consistent ten-second man, no better, at present. Tne trouble with inexperienced tim ers is that they start their watches with the sound' of the pistol instead of with the flash, which always makes a difference of one-fifth of a second in favor of the runner. The stopping of the watch a fraction of a second too soon will produce the same effect. A further reason for doubting Kelly s record Is that at least three other men must have done nine and four-fifth seo- onds to hae been as close as they were to Kelly. Washington Star. THIRTEEN AUTOS FINISH RUN TO BRETTON WOODS ENDS TOUR OF 1134 MILES. Iota Must Be Drawn at Journey's End lor Second Trophy Offered by Glidden. BRETTON WOODS, N. H-. July 28. The 13 automobile tourists who today finished a 1134-mile run through New York, Canada and Maine, and this state without penalties during the 10-day test over a great variety of roads for the second trophy offered by Charles J. Glidden, of Lowell, Mass., will prob ably draw lots for the prize. Sixty-three cars started from Buffalo on July 12 and made runs averaging about ISO miles a day, with three stops at Saratoga, Quebec and Rangeley. When the tourists left Rangeley Place this morning for a final 12o-mlle run to Bretton Woods, 14 had clean scores. No penalties were Inflicted until the cars were within six miles of Bretton Woods, when Ezra E. Kirk, of Buffalo slipped a chain and lost two minutes. There were two other accidents to cars which were not In the hunt for the trophy. The following are those who finished with clean scores: P. S. Flynn, Pitts burg; G. W. Davis. Buffalo: W. E.Wright, Springfield, Mass.; W. C. Walker, Hart ford; E. Keeler, Lansing, Mich.; Charles B. Burman, Cleveland: George Soules, Toledo;F. E. Wing, Boston; G. G. Buse, Buffalo; L. Petere, Cleveland; C. F. Bar rett. Hartford: Percy Pierce, Buffalo; A. E. Hughes, Philadelphia. For the Demmingr trophy, C. W. Kel sey and A. A. Post must also draw lots, as both finished without penalties. There will be hill-climbing- contests next' week over a three-mile course in the Crawford Notcn. Billiard Tournament In September. NEW YORK, July 28. It was an nounced today that a tournament for the American billiard championship 18-balk line, two shots in, will be held in New York early in September. It is planned that the winner of the trophy shall be subject to challenge by the other con testants in the order of their standing in the first matchv-and that the holder sball have the right of naming the city in which the subsequent contests are held. - ; L ) f i 4 " ' r i-avf--? 4 ! DAN BKLUNGEB, WHO GAVE GOSS A HARD GAMS. ILL FOR GOLFERS PHYSICIANS DIAGNOSE TROU BLE AS GOUT ECZEMA. Like Hereditary Complaint, but Is Not Blood Taint Players Neglect ing Blistered Hands Suffer, St. Paul Pioneer-Press.-Inordinate golf is the cause of a new skin disease. It is a form of eczematosls that for want of a better name the doc tors call gout eczema, as, while It is only an exaggerated skin disorder and not a taint in the blood, In the resistance to treatment the complaint shows the stub bornness of the hereditary infliction. Gout eczema really went out with the I four bottle men and is unknown In these days of light wines, aerated highballs and moderate drinking at -dinner. Golf eczema would be a more exact name for the new disease, for it Is not contagious and is not accompanied by scaly skin or a dis charge of serum, and on this account . the physicians have gone to the old books for a classification of the complaint. A golfer always Is known by his hands. The men who play regularly are as horny- handed as any son of toil. Some experts assert that by the location of the lumps of callous flesh that form on the palm the golfers call them corns they can tell whether a stranger is a good player or a poor one who pulls and slices his shots. Playing constantly in gloves would tend to keep" the palms in better condition. but the "feel of the club" is so dear to the golfers that those who use gloves are few- in number. Baseball players, crick eters and oarsmen have calloused hands, but their palms are dainty kid in com parison with the gnarled oak leather of the constant golfer. Trouble Becomes Chronic. The gradual hardening of a water blis ter is the foundation usually of each cal loused spot on the hands. This means that when a blister has formed golfing must be stopped until it hardens. The neglect of" this -precaution is the first cause of the goiters' eczema. Sometimes, for instance, if a blister forms on the opening day of a tournament it is not con venient to stop golfing; at other times the player la too impatient, too zealous for the pleasures of the links, to throw aside his club and wait in idleness for the hands the right hand is usually the worst to heal ud. To play on means that the skin will be torn from off the blisters and a sore de veloped. Persistent play aggravates the sore and makes It a deep-seated and chronic one. Such players cover their hands with antiseptic salves and strips of court plaster, or bicycle tape, before each round, but the irritation of the under flesh continues, and finally they have to stop golf abruptly until a cure is effected. Nearly all players have trouble with their hands In the Spring, when the Winter's rest has made the skin tender, and it is at this season that unless care is used the eczematosls will be established. X-Ray Is Recommended. The under flesh will remain sore after the cure has been started and the outer akin is so firm that golf may be taken up again. The itching and worry of the deep sore in such cases is suggestive of true eczema, but as the player may still enjoy AGAR, OF MONTANA. ONK a round he Is generally content to endure the pain with the pleasure and to vow that once cured never again will he be so neglectful in the early stages of the attack- " ' - In this form of the disease the use of the X-ray Is recommended by one of the leading skin specialists of the city, a prac titioner who is most often called in con sultation by the specialists In other lines. One golfer who contracted the disease and Ignored, the tenderness of his hands has been talcing the X-ray treatment three times a week for two months. The results have been satisfactory and the hands are healing from the bottom of the sores upward, which is an indication of thorough cure soon. Better still, this player was able to go through tourna ments, winning some good matches in them. He puts plaster and salve on his hands before playing and uses roomy gloves after the approach shot so as- to "feel" the club in putting out. . Eastern Player Has Trouble. ; A prominent Eastern golfer has had the same trouble this seasoR, and so has one of the scratch men at St. Andrew's. The three have had the disease analyzed as gout eczema by their physicians. The three doctors live in three different cities, the coincidence in dlagosis being accepted as proofby the trio that the profession recognizes their complaint as resembling the obsolete disease. With many more who have been treated for a similar skin trouble the three in 'question blame too much golfing with broken and blistered hands as the cause of their eczematosls. It is an expensive disease to cure, espe cially if the X-ray is taken, and the best way is to give up the game as soon as the blisters appear. Self-denial then will be repaid by a quick cure. In the early days of the game in this country the golf elbow had a distinct place in the ills of the players. It was a transient cramp of the muscles, which yielded readily to treatment. The feet trouble many golfers, but this is a trouble of pedestrianism and not peculiar to the game. The golf eczema, which may have serious results,' should poison ivy or umac sap get into the sores, is alone peculiar to the links. There are no cases as yet to be reported from Great Britain, but calloused hands are a frequent trouble there. It was "Old Tom" who remarked, after shaking hands with a newcomer at St Andrew's, "Yon mon's na golfer, wl sa'ft hands of a leedie." UNIFY RULES OF BASKETBALL Intercollegiate Regulation Rapidly Supplanting Old X. M. C. A. Code. Washington. Star. From Indications, the rules which now govern Intercollegiate basket-ball will be accepted rules for this sport the country over within a year or two. The old Y. M. C. A. rules are now obsolete, and those in charge have not been able to keep pace with th times. This compelled the college men to draw up their own rules. That they are to be the recognized rules of the future has been shown by the fact that they have been taken up by the schoolboys every where, and even many Y. M C. A. teams, which have played the old rules, are adopting the college code. At the last meeting of the intercollegi ate basket-ball rules committee several important changes were made in the rules which are bound to help the college game. The committee decided to Incorporate in the rules a provision legalizing the "drib bling" of the ball. This was a feature introduced a year ago by the Pennsyl vania team which won the championship. The officials were obliged to allow this form of play because the rules did not forbid It. The style was taken up by all the other colleges, and became so popular that there was little opposition to it be ing legalized In the rules. Another im portant change waa that of dividing the playing time into three periods Instead of the customary two. Some of the basket-ball reformers are now trying to secure a rule which will make it necessary to play In a cage in stead of in an open room in order to make the game faster, by doing away witn tne necessity of stopping the game every time the ball goes out of bounds. HORAN ARRANGING SCHEDULE Multnomah Football Manager Prom ises Good Contests. Manager J. A. Horan is rapidly making up the football schedule of the Multnomah Club for the coming season. As custom ary for many years, the University of Oregon will be matched with the red and white on Thanksgiving day. This annual Thanksgiving game has come to be a classic event, and it always draws a great crowd. Two games will be played with the Seat tle Athletic Club, one at Seattle on Christ mas day, the second on the local field on New Year's day. Seattle won from Mult nomah last year, and these matches with the Seattle Athletic Club will probably be the most hotly contested of the whole club card. Three Best British Golfers. This year Is the third In which the British triumvirate have ocoupied the first three places in the open cham pionship. Taylor won In 1894 and 1895. but since 1896 the - trio have won or been placed. In che 44 rounds played in .11 years it is marvelous that there are only 28 strokes between the three and only eight between the first and second. The tally is: Harry Vardon, 3428; James Braid, 344S. and J. H. Taylor, 3454. Herd, who must be added when a quartet Is made, won once, but has been unplaced four times, his ag gregate strokes being 3527. OF THE VISITING PLAYERS. FAILURE AS UMPIRE Hodson's Judgment Is Bad on Balls, Strikes and Plays. HE SHOWS NO PARTIALITY Charlie Moore Out of Game With Severe Cold Henderson 'Cannot . Win on Ladies' Day Base- ; ball Gossip. Georre Hodson Is an utter failure as an umpire. His Judgment is . poor in all things, his eyesight must be bad, and he has absolutely no control over the play era It is too bad that a man of Hodson's appearance, voice and general manner, all of which are good, should prove to be so decidedly off when it comes to passing on balls and strikes and close plays on the bases. He has not. the goods and should be supplanted as soon as possible. Any kid who ever handled a ball on a back lot could judge balls and strikes better than Hodson. He hh. called them balls this week time and again when they cut the middle of the plate. He has called them strikes when they were a foot over batters' heads of a foot wide of the pan. He has called foul fair when they could be seen to be outside by any man in the bleachers. Such work Is not to be tolerated, even though the umpire is absolutely Impar tial in his decisions. And this much we must say to Hoddy's credit:. He is un doubtedly Influenced by neither fear nor favor. A great wail has gone up from Seattle that Hodson was giving them the worst end. Nothing can be further from the truth. This past week Portland has suffered just as much from his decisions as have the Slwashes. Back to the pitch ing business, Hodson; you are out of place as an arbiter of balls and strikes. Charlie Moore is out of the game with a severe cold. It has settled in his mus cles, and he will probably not be able to play again for some time. Meanwhile big McLean will cover the second bag. With his hitting, Mao always helps, even though he is filling in at a position with which he is not familiar. They say that Ben Henderson has never yet won on the home grounds on ladies' day. Benny was sent in last Friday. In addition to losing the game he almost lost a rib or two, his neck and a finger. Ben. is too handsome, anyhow. The fair ones do not get the benefit of the game when he is on the mound. They watch one player all the time. Rube Vlckers thinks1 it not at all im probable that the California clubs have it all framed up to throw the pennant to San Francisco. Rube knows. Next! NEW YORK FAX ON FOUL BALL On July 4 138 Players Out of ,286 Failed to Make a HiC. This from a New York fan to Gotnam paper: beveral years ago the gentlemen -who control the desti nies of baseball passed a rule making a foul ban a strike. This, in my estl matlon, was the most unfortunate and Ill-advised rule that the committee on rules ever passed. It practically gives tne Datter Dut one strike and has made the pitcher so all powerful that the game has lost a great deal of its for mer interest.- What the average per son wants who goes to a ball ' game is action plenty of batting, fielding, and base running, but with no hitting ac tion is impossible. "On the fourth of July there were 15 games played in the National and American Leagues, in which 286 play ers iook part, ur tnese 288 players, 103 struck out, 138 failed to make a hit, and 05 made only'one hit apiece. Out of the 286 men who faced the pitcher only 63 made two or more hits. Thirteen teams made 48 hits. Further criticism is superfluous." GOOD SWIMMING AT THE OAKS Excellent Time Made in Contests in the Willamette River. Some good sport in the water was en Joyed at The Oaks bathhouse yesterday afternoon. The 300-yard swim across-current proved an interesting match. J. J. Byrne, the professional swimmer, entered this to. try for time. He made the dis tance in 5:15. Other entries finished in this manner: Olaf Skedsmo, 6:05; Gus Skedsmo, 7:10; L.- H. Deitz, 83; J. J. Conway, 8:35. L. G. Levy swam 128 feet under water without rising to the surface, and won first place In the long dive. Olaf Skedsmo won the most points In the high and fancy diving. A unique event has been arranged for next Saturday. A live duck will be turned loose in the water, with a reasonable start, and, on the call of time, those en tered will set out to capture the live bird. The prize to the man who gathers in the duck will be a season's ticket to The Oaks and possession forever of the due. Nelson Declares He Will Never Ap pear in a Fight With "Which C'offroth Is Connected Un less Latter Pays Up. BT HARRY B. SMITH. . SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 28. (Spe cial Correspondence.) For a time Just a brief interval San Franciscans thought it was all framed up that they would see a match between Joe Gans, the holder of the lightweight title, and Battling Nel son at Colma on Admission day, next September. Now they don't know what will happen. It was reported early in the week, apparently on information of some unknown person In New York, that Nelson and Gans were as good as signed. A few days later there cr.me a statement from Nelson, in Ogden, In which he de clared positively that tie story was a fake. Here is what he says: The New York story in regard to Gans Is absolutely false. CofTroth can never be connected with any fight In which I am principal until he settles the money he is trying to welch from me. will keep my word with Graney for September. providing the Inducement is satisfactory." Of course, this does not mean that the September match is beyond the possibility. It- simply goes to prove wnat nas been the contention all along that Jimmy Coffroth is a wee bit out of the running. If any one in the wide world has a chance to frame up this match, that person is Eddie Graney. The blacksmith and cafe owner Is the friend of Gans. The colored boy will swear by Graney. and stand for anything that, he decided. Nelson ana Nolan are disposed to look with favor upon Graney, and it looks as if he will bring the men together. It would cer-. tainly be a more attractive ngnt trom tne standpoint of general interest than a go between Brltt and Nelson. Gans has proved that he Is not out of the running, and no one will be disposed to dispute that the Chicago lad Is easily the con querer Of Jimmy Britt. Coffroth Is again at home after a trip throuah the southern part of the state. Coffroth takes a decidedly gloomy view of the boxing situation. He says tnat ne sees no Immediate chance of a fight with a couple of top-notchers as the drawing card. He tried to get Sam Berger and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien to sign up for a match, but it Is his statement that Berger has other things in view. Be cause of his good showing with the Phil adelphlan, Berger has loomed up as a theatrical attraction, and is bent on pick ing up some easy money. Californlans may yell to their hearts' content that -n ! 1 - 1 nKnna r,f LdotltlV Berger una kuuu v-utini-o i O'Brien In a finish fight, but they will have to let me see it done. Berger might be able to turn the trick, but he would have to be a deucedly clever boy at the game, more so than I am inclined to think he really is. Goffroth further says: "Sam Harris has turned the management of Terry McGovern over to Joe Humphries, and the latter does not want to bring his man out here until the Winter racing season is on. He is employed at the New York tracks during the Summer. It is -the same way with all boxers their plans do not suit mine." It ap pears very much from the drift of Cof froth's argument that he is a bit soared on the world. Ollie Snedigar, the speedy short dis tance runner of the University of Cal ifornia, Is a married man, and will doubtless turn his attention to other things in the future than track ath letics. His bride was Miss Esther D. n . 1 ..... . rAlrtt- DUrnsteiu, aisu a giduun" n. " ley. The wedding took place last Wednesday in San Francisco at the Simpson Methodist Church, In San Francisco. The couple are spending their honeymoon in the Santa Cruz mountains and will make their home In Berkeley, where Snedigar proposes to 30 into business. President Bert, of the Pacific Coast League, is not disposed to talk of the claim of Portland that the Beavers were entitled to the forfeited game in Los Angeles at the time that James Morley -was on .his high horse. Bert shields himself behind the rather in definite statement that his records were destroyed. That is not much of an excuse, for he has aplenty of chanca to remember the occurrence. How pvcr. It may not make much differ ence In the future. Still, that is no. excuse so far as the head of the league's refusal to come out with a direct statement as to whether Port land is entitled to the game in the percentage table. Promoters of the amateur-professional boxing game have found a way out of their troubles, or at least they think they have- As has been detailed, the Ama teur Athletic Union gave up control of amateur boxing, because the situation was becoming so involved. The Pacific Coast branch of the A. A. U. so notified the Board of Supervisors, which has the granting of permits. Now there has been organized the California Athlettd Associa- . - kt.i, I.... n f ! t a n-ajrt vnlttinrt BR. 1 1 (.III, w1u1.11 . w .. .. .. sumed control of the amateur boxing game. It now remains for the Supervisors to accept the association as the govern ing body of the sport. The association Is made up of representatives of many of the so-called amateur boxing clubs, which in reality have been the cause for most of the suspicion that has been at tached to the boxing game In California. A limit of either $50 or 0, it is said, will be placed on prizes. No one Imagines that the situation will be cleared. It means going back to the same old condition of -Ialr-, Events are progressing rapidly in re gard to Gans. Graney received a wire from Gans stating that the colored boy would be in San Francisco next Monday and wanted to know what Graney could do for him. "I know that whenever I want . Battling Nelson and Gans to fisht the match can be made," said Graney. "I will guarantee it will be on the level and I will' stake everything I have on that proposition. The match will be made at 133 pounds ringside." Towns Again Champion Sculler. SYDNEY. N. 9. W., July 28.T-George Towns today won back the title of world's champion sculler and won J25CO by defeat ing Jame Stanbury on the Paramatta River course, three miles and 330 yards, which he covered in 19 minutes 53 1-5 sec onds. Towns won by 20 lengths.