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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 20, 1910. GIBSON TO MAKE NEGRO TOt MM SCOTCH LADDIES WINNERS AGAIN ROWING GLUBS WILL TRY FOR COAST CHAMPIONSHIP Spring Practice Has Begun Earlier Than in Any Former Year Many Veterans Are Out for Plans on Crews and Much Promising New Material Is in Sight. Promoter Goes East to Insist on Johnson's Coming to Coas by April 1. Soccer "Futeba" Champion ship Lost by "Englishers" by One Goal. BERGER ALSO TAKES TRIP NORTH 0' TWEED HAPPY Arrangements Will Be Made for Jeffs Round-the- World Tour. Ketchel and Papke May Be Signed for Bout June 3 0. v SAX FRANCISCO. March 19. (Special.) Sam Berger, business manager of Jef fries, and Jack Gleason leave for the East Monday night. They will make hurried trips, as Berger must be In San Francisco not later than March SO. so that training at Rowardennan camp can open April 1. Berger Is going to Chicago to confer with H. H. Frasee- regarding the round-the-world trip that Jeffries Is to make "under their management, providing he wins. Gleason has a threefold mission. He has heard that Johnson will not leave for the coast until the middle of May. The contract calls for Jack to be here the first of April and Gleason will Insist that this be carried out. Gleason will also endeavor to secure a general rate from the railroads for the fight carnival, and as the match maker of the Metropolitan Boxing Club of San Francisco wishes to arrange an attractive card for June, he has his eye on Ketchel and may land a bout with Papke. He would- fix it for the last day of June, so as to catch the crowd here, and this event would bo second only to the heavyweight cham pionship in Importance and Interest. JEFF FAILS TO SHOOT BEAR Hunt Yields Xo Game, nut Helps Champion's Condition. LOS ANGELES, March 19. Without having even sighted a bear on his long tramp during the past week through the Tehachapl country, James J. Jef fries will return home tonight to start light training, preparatory to leaving for his permanent camp at Santa Cruz April l. Bob Armstrong, the negro training assistant, will meet Jeffries and remain with him until the battle with Johnson, July 4. Jeffries will not do any hard work during the few days . he will -have at home. Light road stunts, light gym nasium work and some tree chopping is the programme. According to hunt companions who arrived ahead of the champion today, the trip In the moun tains has done Jeffries much good, al though he is greatly disappointed in not getting a shot at a bear. JOHXSON BEGIXS HARD WORK Negro Drops Four Pounds First Day of Real Training. CHICAGO. March 19. Jack Johnson, heavyweight pugilist, yesterday put in his first day of real hard work in preparation for his coming encounter with Jeffries at Emeryville, Cal.. on July 4. The champion, after putting on the finishing touches last night, found lhat he had worked off four pounds of superfluous flesh. Johnson opened the day by tramp ing 13 miles through South Side parks 'and wound up by taking a whirl at different appliances In stalled in his new gymnasium. Be fore going out for his spin in the parks, Johnson tipped the scales at sllghtly over the 222 mark, but at the finish of his daily work last night he had dropped to 218. FENCING CUB IS ORGANIZED Charles Lamport, Expert Fencer, Arouses Interest in the Sport. The first fencing club of any preten tions ever attempted in Portland is be ing organized by Charles Lampert. a foil artist well known In the East. The only other strictly fencing organiza- - tion on the -Coast is located at San Francisco. The club will include both men and . women-members and is intended to be a high-class organization for the use of society people and all others inter ested In one of the cleanest forms of ' sports in existence. Foils, drilling swords and sabers will be used. Among those particularly interested in the new organization is Mario G. Montrezza. a prominent real estate dealer and head of the Italian Informa tion Bureau. Mr. Montrezza is one of the best Italian fencers in the country and is a pupil of Pini. the instructor ' at Rome and the greatest foil man in the world. It Is the object to make the club a permanent affair and to hold annual Coast tournaments. Professor Lampert was formerly a member of the Chicago Fencer's Club and was a pupil of Professor George Helntz, now fencing instructor at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He also belonged to numerous other fenc ing organizations in the East and had a reputataion as one of the best ama teur saber men in the United States. He has been in the fencing game 18 years. HELSEK IS CHOSEN PRESIDENT Tri-City Season Will Be Inaugurated by Derbies nad West Sidcrs. Six managers representing six different teams of the Trt-City League met Friday night at the office of H. K. Smith in the Oitiaens" building and elected Mr. Hei fer president. Secretary Smith reported at the meeting that the president had notified the league of the closing of the -Peninsular deal. A schedule will be formulated next week for the coming season, which will be Inaugurate?! on the second of April at the Vaughn street grounds with' a game between the IM 11 worth Derbies and the West Sides. The same teams will play on April 3 also. Salem opens up the season with Sellwood at Salem, w-hile Vancouver opens up -with the Peninsular team at Vancouver on April 3. Moran Will Fight in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, March 19. 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I $ " . -.i?J2lK (?22SZZZ22SS III f t - , - , w6,-i , rfB,' w assfc- . y I t ; THE Portland Rowing Club, with 400 members, better equipment than ever before in its history and on a firm . financial footing, is looking forward to a successful season. During the fine weather of the past week a large number of candidates for the 1910 crews turned out for the initial practice of the Mason and. judg ing from the showing made, there will be no dearth of championship material. The fact that Coast championship rowing races probably will be held here during the Rose Festival, In con nection with the proposed gigantic water carnival, is an incentive to the oarsmen to put forth greater efforts to secure winning crews this year. If the plans are carried out, crews from Victoria, Seattle and Vancouver will be present. The practice last Sunday was the earliest ever, held by the club. Three single shells and two fours were out on the course. In the fours were Glass, Wait, Pfaender, Spooner, Hel wig, Chlckerlng, Tuck and Allen. Hail ey. Strong and Burrows occupied the singles. Helwlg and Spooner are. both new men in the club and are consid- BEAVERS HAVE IDLE DAY KAI.V PREVENTS GAME SAN" JOSE CLUB. WITH Contest Today May Also Be Impos sible Modesto Cancels Pate. With Portland. SAN JOSE, Cal., March 19. Spe cial.) Oregon is not the only place on the map where It rains unexpect edly, for this afternoon McCredies baseball squad was sent Into enforced retirement because of a downpour that would have made a wet day in Port land ashamed of itself. Instead of playing another game with the San Jose State Leaguers, the Portland tos sers were compelled to seek shelter at their quarters in the St. James Hotel, where they rounded out the afternoon in fanning bsjes and story telling. Be cause of the heavy downpour it is doubtful If the team will be able to play tomorrow, for the black adobe soil at the San Jose grounds retains the water for some time after a shower and this afternoon's precipitation con sisted of several showers combined and lasted for six hours. However, the two clubs will get in the Sunday game if there is a possi bility and on Monday morning the Portland bunch will leave, for Madera. The Modesto date was cancelled this morning and McCredle is not at all pleased with this treatment by the Stockton State League Club, with which he was scheduled to play Tuea day. Mac asserts Madera is a better ered among the best late acquisitions. Some of the club faithfuls, also numbered among the best oarsmen oh the Coast, who will be in line for this year's crews are the following: Senior four, Ir. B. E. Loomls, stroke; A. C. McMicken, No. 3: Rex Conant, any po sition; Art Allen, bow. Tuck Wait, Pfaender and Ball will" be among the candidates for the junior four. W. Ball is considered the coming 'junior sculler and an unusually good man for any position. He has been in the game 10 years in the East. place, and he will keep his Portland players there until luursday morning, when the team will go to . Fresno, which is but three-quarters of an hour's ride from Madera. "Roaring Bill" Rapps and Pitcher Steen are In fairly good '"shape today, afer being ill yesterday; Rapps was suffering from an attack of chills and fever, while Steen contracted ptomaine poisoning. Competent medical attend ance has brought both of them around and they will be able to play at Ma dera. VAXCOLTER WANTS BOAT CLUB Secretary- of Oregon Organization ; Has Challenge in View. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 19. (Spe cial.) Secretary W. C. Keim, of the Ore gon Dinghey Club, will come to Van couver In a few days to organize a dinghey club here. He says that if such a club is formed here, a challenge by the Portland Club will be made, the race to take place in the Columbia River. A prise of $25 has been offered by the Oregon Club for the winners in a meet between the two clubs. Local enthu siasts are preparing for the organization of the club. The complete cost of a dinghey. Including hull, spars, sail, etc., Is about $30. BROWN" GETS 'SILENT PAT' Sylvester S. Flanagan; Champion Slugger, Goes to Vancouver. VANCOUVER. B. C. March 16. (Spe cial.) Sylvester S. Flanagan, better known ns "Silent Pat," the champion hitter of the Northwest League, two seasons ago, has been bought by Man ager Brown, of the Beavers, from the Active training and picking of candi dates for all the crews will begin in two or three weeks. The competition for positions promises to be keen this year, as a large number of crack oars men have recently been taken , into the club, and the interest in general Beems to be greater than in former years. It is announced that there is noth ing lacking in equipment, and that all the shells, canoes and other ap paratus are in first-class order and ready for active service. Two new San Francisco club, of the Coast League. "Pat" slugged the ball for a .354 average when with the Vancouver champions in 1908 and his coming back has caused wild rejoicing among the local fans. Flanagan will play center field for the Beavers, who report for Springe practice one week from Satur day. Practice games with the University of Washington and Victoria have been arranged. RHODES SCHOLARS WIN" TWICE Hurdles and Hammer-Throwing Go to Americans. -LONDON, March 19. M. T. McDon ald, an American Rhodes scholar at Lincoln College. Oxford University, won the 120-yard hurdles at the annual Oxford-Cambridge intervarslty sports at Queens Club today. His time was 16 seconds. - George E. Putnam of Ottawa, Kan., another Rhodes scholar, won the hammer-throwing event for Oxford, with 143 feet 8 inches. Cambridge won the meet 7 to 3. VERNON" WINS FROM WHITE SOX Roy Brashear Makes Homer, Scoring First Run for Team. ' LOS ANGELES, March 19. Vernon won the first game with the Chicago White Sox. No. 1. bythe score of 3 to 1. Roy Brashear made a home run, scoring the first 'run for Vernon. The score : - R.H.E.! ' R.H.E. Vernon 3 4 2,Whlte Sox 1 5 1 'Batteries Schafef, iiiiX and Brown; Scei. rx--t Bloat, shells have been purchased recently. The club will send its crews in July to Vancouver, B. C, where the annual regatta of the North Pacific Associa tion of Amateur Oarsmen will be he'd. The full entry of senior and junior fours, doubles and singles, will be sent. Two or three club regattas for oars men who are not picked for the trip will also be held on Saturdays and holidays. Dan Murphy, who has coached the Portland organization for three sea TRI-CITY OPENING NEAR FIRST GAME IN" LEAGUE TO BE PLAYED APRIL 2. Dilworth Boys Out for Champion ship, Though Mack Squad Won State Honors Last Tear.' The' Tri-City Baseball season of 1910 will open, Saturday, April 2, at the Vaughn-street park with a game Be tween the Dilworth Derbies and the West Sides. The West Side team Is the J. G. Mack squad of 1909, which won the state championship. The Dilworth Derbies are as fast a bunch of players as ever represented a Portland team in the Tri-City League. Manager Gar rigus has secured a nucleus of a fast bunch. His team is not yet complete, but he expects to announce It the first of the week. The West Side team con tains the following well-known play ers: Shea, Brock, Lake, Gardner, How ard, Montag. Andy Anderson, Mangold, Rupert, McElwain and Nelson. The Dilworth Derbies have Bauer, Town send, Aiken, McConnell, Irwin, Rabin son, Moulton and a number of equally promising players. On Sunday. April 3, the West Sides and the Dilworth Derbies will cross bats at the Vaughn-street park and Sellwood will open the season at Salem with the fastest team that Salem has signed up since the Oregon State League went out of existence. The first game at Vancouver will be sons may not be able to be here tnls Summer-. Murphy at present is coach ing the Stanford crew. If he does not return to Portland, it Is not likely that any other trainer will be secured, as it would mean a new stroke and noth ing would be gained. A. A. Allen, captain of the club, will do the coach ing this season if Murphy does not show up. The present officers of the club are as follows: President, H. E. Judge, vice-president. I. Wait; treasurer, Dick Hart; secretary, P. Newell; captain, A. A. Allen. The club has over 400 memrers and the list is rapidly growing. The club house, at the foot df Ivon street, is the best and most completely equipped on the Coast. The frontage extends about 250 feet. played between the Peninsula team and Vancouver. Manager Farrell has secured, among others, the following fast men from Portland territory: Gordon Brown, second base; Jack Tauscher, shortstop; Richie and Archie Parrot, left and right field, and Benny Brlggs in center field. Brown and Brlggs played with Helser in 1908 and are local favorites. There Is a rumor that Fred Gaines will also join the Vancouver squad. Frank Troah and Arthur Pender will pitch and Jesse Troah and Sutherland will be the back stops. The umpires appointed by President Helser are: Rankin, Cheyne and Helser. Two more will be appointed later. - The schedule for the season has not been arranged, but the schedule com mittee, consisting of Fred Valentine, Jack Helser and Harry Smith, say it will be announced within a week. The personnel of the various teams, subject to a few changes, will be as follows: "West Side Shea and Brock, catchers: Lake. Gardner and Howard, pitchers; Andy Anderson. Va. : Mangold. 3B. ; Kelson. If.; Rupert, cf. ; McElwain. rf. Dilworth Derbies Bauer, catcher; Aken and Townsend. pitchers: McConnell, ,rs. : Irwin, lb.: Robinson. 2b.; Houston. 3b.; Moulton. If.; Aken. cf. : Blair, rf. Balem White, catcher: Bowen and Jer man, pitchers; Fay. as.; Iavier. lb.; Hum phrey. 2b. ; Hunt. 3b.: Hlnkle. if.; Johnston, cU: Mikel. rf.; Hamilton, utility. rVancouver Pioneers Troeh, who was g-iven a tryout with McCredie's North west League team, catcher; Sutherland, change catcher; Pender, of last season's Aberdeen team. pitcher; Frank Troeh, slabster; John Tauscher. ss. ; A- Parrott. lb.; Gordon Brown. !b. ; O. Wood. .'tb. ; R. " Par rott. If.; B. Brlggs. cf. ; Fred Gains, rf. Sellwood McKihley, catcher; Scott and Craig, pitchers: Smith. ss. ; Craig, lb.; Locke. 2b.; Duvall, ;lb. ; Taylor. If.; Wood, cf. : Wentworth. rf. The West Side will line up today at 1:30 P. M. at Thirteenth and East Davis streets for practice, by request of Man ager Rupert. Though It Was Believed Boys of Scotland 'Wad Be llefeatlt" Tables Turn and "Gutd Sootcft Whiisky" Hows Freely. BY SAUNDERS M FARL1X. Ye may hae thocht that I'm an Eng lish er, frae hearln ma name pr-r-o nounced, but the fac- is, whushtl I'm a Scotch laddie frae Dundee. Three tae twa' that's th' result e' a futeba' match atween th' Engllshers and th' Scotch, in favor o th' Scotch, an' th' fouk frae north o' Tweed are winners again anither year, every mlther's son o' them. I'm no- denytn' that I thocht th Scotch were tae be defeatlt this year, because sae mony o' them cheenged dr-r-rinks at th' last meenit frae guid whuskey tae tea, an' pit fushionless breakfast food in place o' Scotch oat meal, in trainin'. Then. Jeemie Mur ray, at th' game, turned Engllsher, an spoke wl' an English aksent. Sae, I cannily bet on baith teams, an' dinda lose ony bawbees. Ye ken. Saint Car negie alnce telt us that th" Scotch keep a' thing they can lay hands on, even th' ten commandments. 'Sae, th' chosen Scotch keep th' futeba' championship alnce mair. There's only ane thing tae dae, tae celebrate sic a glor-r-rious battle, an' that is tae tak th' cork oot o' the bottle, fn' honor this toast wi' ane o' the Scotch baird's: O. ye can sing o the English wine. Or beer that makes ye frisky, o; But gae me the blend frae th" heather fine A jcill or twa o' guld Scotch whusky. O! What It's All About in Anglo-Saxon. But In justice ' to my American friends, who by this time may be won dering what it's all about, I come to plain English. Two teams, represent ing Scotland and England, picked from the various soccer clubs of the city, played a game yesterday afternoon on Multnomah field for the soccer or as sociation football championship of the city, with the Scotch winning, 3 to 2. If hard work and enthusiasm count for anything, the English should hav won, but the aret-t here-or-die spirit of the Scotch and fine staying qualities won the gam- The English played in uniforms' of the Queen's Park Club and the Scotch in uniforms of the M. A. A. C. Drake, a fullback, Robertson, half, and one or two other stars "could not get away from business to take port in the game and several substitutes were hurriedly called and made good. The one sur prise of the game was the play of Aleo Stewart, sailor and member of the Cricketers' team, who acted as one of the fullbacks of the Scotch. Stewart's kicks were generally well-placed In play and sent where they counted the most. In this play, he was ably sec onded by "Dundee" ISuchan. The op posite backs, Coxon and Iawrence, and defense men like Challis. who played, forward, earned distinction by heady play. Both Climie and Mitchell stopped sensational shots at goal, when scoring seemed imminent. The Scotch right wing, Barbour and Dick, and left wing, he Matthew bro thers, really contributed to the victory and here is where classy play showed the most. Both Andrew and Harry Matthew put up almost professional soccer.' Closely did both Scotch and Knglish wings pursue the opposing backs. Dickie and O'Hara are two good men who ought to be encouraged, they are speedy and full of pluck. Needham and Billington were stars in their respective places. Sid Mills, Eyles, Coppinger. Kilpack, Godman and Hughes all kept up a fast puce. Scotch Win I'lrst IIulT Kasily. The first half finished with the score two to one in favor of the Scotch. Bil lington drew first blood for England ten minutes after the kick off, and at 3:50 o'clock, from a corner kick, Harry Matthew cleverly headed the leather under the bar. Six minutes later, Bar bour sent in a swift shot to- Harry Matthew, who quickly converted it into a goal. At 4:22, just at the start of the sec ond half. Kilpack ran up close to Climie and shot, equalizing matters. Give-and-take followed for 33 minutes, when Barbour passed to Challis and the latter sent in the shot which won the game. There was no more scoring af ter that, although two- shots were sent against both goals, two colliding with the uprights. Collin V. Dyment refereed and Clyde Cummings and Hansen lined. Tl'ne Scotch lined-up as follows: Climie, Alec Stewart and Buchan; Dickie, O'Hara and J. K. Mackle: forwards, Barbour. Dick. Challis, Harry and An drew Matthew. English line-up: Mitchell, Coxon and Lawrence: Eyles, Needham and Hughes; forwards, Cop pinger, Kilpack, Billington, Sid Mills and Godman. This game closes soccer football here for the season. V. S. AND CANADA WILL SHOOT Kiflcinen to Vie for Trophy on Xew Jersey Kange. SEA GIRT. N. J.. March 1!. An in teresting event of the shooting season on the New Jersey range here will be the first International rifle match with Canada, which will be shot about Sep tember 10 if the challenge issued to the Canadians by the Americans is ac cepted, as It is expected it will be. The challenge comes from the Associa tion of American International Rifle men, which is limited to those who have represented America in interna tional contests, such as the Palm Trophy and the Olympic Games, and In cludes a number of the foremost mili tary shots of the country. Brigadier-General Bird W. Spencer, of New Jersey, for so many years presi dent of the National Rifle Association of America, has given a handsome trophy for perpetual competition be tween Canada and the I'nited States, rhe match to be entitled "The Nortr. American Match." Pfyl and Sheehan Ikjsc Appeal. CINCINNATI. March 19. The Na tional Baseball Commission today re fused to reopen the cases of Monty Pfyl and Thomas P. Sheehan. formerly major league players, who were placed on the ineligible list recently because of their playing in an outlaw league In California,