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FAQS TWEKTT-TWO OAltT CAPITAL SOXrZSKL. SALEM, OREOON, 8ATOBDAY, DECEMBEB 20, 1913. WINTER?' ' 'OORS AND OTO SALEM FARES WELL UP BOYS AND AT THEM IN SPORTING EVENTS WILL BE CRY OF LAND Football, Baseball, Track Work and Other Linos of Activity Brought Prominence to This City. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY MEN WON HIGHEST HONORS High School ToamB, Salem Senators, Y. M. 0. A., 0. S. P. and Other Insti ' tutions Help to Please Fans. Salem fared well in the sports of the year which is drawing to a close. The Willamette University football, basohall and track teams, tho high school base ball, track and football teams, the Sa lem Senators base ball toam, the poni tentiary baseball team and tho Y. M. C. j In fact Undo Sam is to bo attacked A. basket ball team and runners were,from threo different quartors by the among the coritendorB which kept the , Britishors and if ho comes through with- Capital City in the limelight. The greatest credit belongs to Willamette University footaball team, intercollegi ate champion of tho state of Oregon, and Dr. 0. J. Sweotland, the coach, who rounded out tho splendid team which, among otlior performances, hum bled tho University of Orogon. It mny be said in this connection that ono reason that tho Willamette Univer sity team was a winner was tho fact that its mimbership was not seloctod because tho player belonged to this or that frat. It was made up of mon chosen boeauso of thoir ability to play the gaino. This course might be fol lowed advantageously by certain teams not located in Marion county. Senators Big Summer Card. The Salem Senators furnished week ly baseball games of minor lenguo brand. It is a little early to talk of next season, but if Manager Baker can furnish as good au aggregation this sonsou as last, tho fans here will bo more than sutiBfied, The high school baseball team was oasily tho champion of tho state of Ore gon. This wus duo, in a large uiensure, to tho splendid work of Koonn, tho stur pitcher. Koeno also took a prominent part in winning the Willnmetta valley championship for the high school foot ball team. Athletic Training Helps. Tho Bthlotin training acquired nt Wll- lamettu Culvorsity, the high school and tho Y, M. C. A. is ono of Salem's big BHets. Itoeogiiizitig ., ....... ecoguizing the fact that tho1. ,.i,,,,..,.i .,.,.i;i;. r i.,.i,,... i,. , . i ,, ., I'.ngliKli were puked to win this venr, much to do with Ins success, these thrco I , ..... , ., . . . , , , ... .. . .... might Imvo turned the trick, hud institutions have steadily extended their I . ,, ., .. , ' . , , , . , . , ,, . . i not Hurry Whitney s aggregation fairlv work and nro great factors in the bet-, ,, . , . .. , , . .... , , tore up ull the turf t iMeinlowbroek in torment of tho young people here. . ., , ., ... ..i.o, carrying the fight to the cracks from In the grade school of Salem thers',, ' ,. , , . . . , , the other side. 1 ho III it isliers were not has been a honlthv development iilio. ' . Youngsters ambitious to lo on tho high tennis sumo day, take a lively interest In contests and there is much promising material. Tho Twilight league furnished good exercise for four local sniateiir tennis and a lot of funs during the summer evenings and had successtul baseball IKMimMl. Llbe Clean Sports. Snlem people tnke much interest In clean athletics. Fake traveling wres tlers aro unwelcome and give this city n wide berth. No legitimate sporting lino Is overlooked and every encouragement is given contestants. About tho only disappointment of the year wits tho fail ure of Willamette to secure admission in the Northwest conference. That the!'0 1,0 Ml,t " srHil fl,r training. university will be admitted next year ia considered certain, however, Jabs and Jolts! According to ths official averages the Cardinal are second in fielding, show ing that tliero la at leant ono thing they can do better than somebody else. In spits of Uis prevailing prices of meat, it is estimated that the 500 pounds of beef exhibited In Madison -., ., r. ,,. uul . You may bellevs It, but thers are sev- , erul ball players who have not boon mentioned in a Tinker. possible trade for .loo ' The boy stood on ths hearing deck, And ull the world scemoed blue) Ilis breakfast was a totnl wreck, For he was heaving, too. Ths fact that Messrs, Wlllard and Morris escaped intact after what they perpretrated in New York shows that Inhabitants of Manhattan are blessed with tbs milk of human kindness. English Invasion Is Duo and American Athletes Will Be on Hand to Give Them Warm Reception. ATTACK BY LAND, FOOT, WATER AND HORSEBACK English to Go After Polo Title in Ear nest This Time and Shamrock IV Is to Have Big Spread. BY HAL SHERIDAN. (Written for the United Press.) Now York, Dec. 20. Up boys, and at 'em, will bo tlio cry for next year, as wo are facing one of tho most determined English invasions in Bporting history. out having his coat tails at lea.it some- what frayed, it will bo time to stick an other national holiday on the calendar, We are to bo attackod by land and wator, foot and horseback. The chal lenge roceontly sent ovor by the Hurl inghaine Poloists for anothor tussle for the international cup mado it certain that our estoemod Uncle during tho com ing summer months to bo ono of the biiBicBt little defenders that ever do fended. In addition to the polo cup which must bo nursed ovor anothor as sault, there is tho Dwight F. Davis ten nis trophy and tho Amoriea's cup to koop under lock and key. Knglund has high hopes of taking tho polo cup back whoro tho crack four, headed by Foxhall Keone, found it many years ago. Sir Thomas Upton is building a challenger which ho says will "stjirtlo the world," And as for ten nis, tlioxo Englishmen aro thinking of drafting Dilding and a few other Aus tralian plnyors to send after tho Davis cup which was won by Maurice Mc Laughlin and his associates Inst sum mer. Looks Like Plot. It's a deep laid plot. It isn't clubby to bo hammering away nt so ninny points at once. At lenst plans may be laid along that lino for au alibi should thero be a slip anywhere. The English learned much during tho year of 1013 as to American methods in sports and they may lie expec ted to profit by what I they saw. As fur Polo, the .Meadow- I, ... , ' roim rour innv nave io get up mm . ' ..... , ilium nouie in nicy repel mo arnica, i no . Iini win, M , llllt I1IU tiu uint-ii so blamed seriously, but when they found it hud to be done, they did a fair little job of ripping up considerable sod themselves. Whitney has announced his retire ment from the gnnie, so that the Amer ican four will have n new leader next year, it might fall to the veteran Fox- j hall to go to the front ngnin, but Whit ney mi id he believed some of tho young er men should lie given a chance and if the Ideas of the retiring lender are fol lowed, Koeno In more or less let out. Ill Dead Earnest Now. Tho English nro going nt this polo business in dead earnest this trip. Tho ponies mid candidates for the team are The weather Isn't to bo givon a chance to Interfere and under tho skies of tho south T. Bull's men will keep In niliid the charging Monte Wnterlmry and work up a counter attack, Thero are likely to be several changes In the Knglish team, just as tho Ameri can line up is to bo switched. So long as Maurice McLaughlin is ablo to shoot 'em over the net, thorn will not be any need of great concern as to tenuis. Nerris Williams proved to bo almost as good a the California comet and with other stars rapidly ris ing the chances apmnr good for a suc cessful defense of the Ihivis trophy. Harold lla.-kelt, the third member of , Am,.ri. w torn w hich lifted the cup (HliU i,liimi(( (f mlITllnt ed In next year's tournaments. The Kngllsh quickly discovered that Hack ed was tlio weak member of the Amer ican team nnd firt! n mime .if tli. ,,, u , , . , fc. ' . llllt fer tho wonderful work of McLaughlin the cup would probably have remained en the other side, and tho Americans would have been gloriously drubbed in the double, Designs May Widely Differ, There is as much jockeying In tho re ports coming from ths erectors of ths two boats which will meet In ths inter national racs fur ths America's (up, as ( there will be In ths racs proper. Early j reports Indirats that ths doieadsr and challenger will differ widely in design. Sir Thomas Lipton is going to make his stab at the cup a real zipper, and the English builders are giving the impres sion that they have something "in the nolo" to spring when the time comes, Naturally figures as to tho measure ments of the hulls will be kept secret until too late for the other follow to make a switch. The Shamrock IV is expected to have an unusually largo sail spread. Re ports have it that her keel recently cast weighs 80 tons. The Shamrock III had 90 tons in her keel, and was a 90-footer. The Shamrock IV is to be only about 73 foet on the wator line, so that with the groat weight in tho keel, she may be expected to have several acres of sail ia comparison with her size. Sir Tom is evidently after driving power. The defonder, being built by the Horre- shoffs will have a keel weighing only about 52 tons, it is understood. This leads to tho belief that Herreshoff is going to produce a new 70-footer. A now creation will bo a centre board giv ing tho defender eight foet additional draught on windward work. GEORGE E. PHAIR'S IDEA OF WHITE HOPE A White llopo is a largo section of human flesh surrounded entirely by hot air. H is called White because that is the color of its liver, and it is called a Hope because it hopes to obtuin a liv ing without working for it. Technically, the White Hoe is a fighter, but it generally has about as much fighting spirit as a senile clam. The only time a White Hopo shows any ferocity is whon it attacks a freo lunch counter. On such occasions it resom Idea a famished behemoth. It boards tho Bismarck horring in its don, it smites the pickled pigs' foot hip and thigh and ravishes tho Boston baked beans on its very threshold. Tho Whito Hope, howover, ia not en tirely to blame, It is a child of circum stance It begins life as a human being in some soquotorod hamlet far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife. It waxes strong in tho back and weak in tho mind, utterly ignorant of the terri bio fate in Btoro for it. Then comes tho Manager, liko tho vil lain in tho movies. He inveigles the fooblomindcd creature from its hnppy homo, forces it to sign tlio fatal papers, and from that time on its doom is seal ed. It is a Whito Hope, Tho Whito Hopo is then taken to a nnwspnpor offico, whoro it is Bortillon- ed, photographed in fifty-seven postures and introduced to tho world with the nccmiipuiiimeiit of a brass band. It then climbs into a pri.o ring mid, for a stipulated sharo of tho gato receipts, lemons! rates that rhinens T. Dnruiim knew whereof ho s)oko. duck- Johnson is responsible for tho Whito Hope, but there is no legal meth od of getting back nt him. The State Fair due of the iiiiiiuul events in Salem is the Statu Fair, which meets genernlly late in September, anil which runs for an entire week, excepting Sunday, For more thnn ."0 years this has been looked forward to by nil tlio people of tho state, as a great occasion for getting to gether; ami in this respect the Oregon state fair is different from iinv others. In the early days, when this section was lit off from the world, the state fair was a sort of family reunion, where all the old settlers who had braved the trials and dangers of "tho plains" met to talk over old times and renew and cement friendships, In those days ac commodations wero not of the host or most abundant, nnd so those who gath ered hero brought thoir tents and camp ing fixtures, and all lived in the tented city nt tho fair grounds.. It was a pretty custom and one that is still fol lowed. Indeed, it Is the one distin guishing featuro t lint marks the Ore gon sluto fair ns different from any in the world. Whole families come annually and they havo their own little "lot" on tho camp grounds which they occupy each year. Hero they visit, recall old times, havo their old fashioned dances, and live again for a too brief week, the days of SO or 00 years ago. It Is indeed an event, and tho Oregon state fair ranks second to none in tho beauty and variety of Its agricultural display. The track Is said to be the finest In the Vailed States ami somo records have been made here, In this connec tion it Is necessary to state that the sec retary of the board that lias charge of the fair is Frank H. Meredith, whom every one in tho state knows, and who is tho finest exhibit always In all class es from "A to l..ard. " His energetic and practical work in the Inst year or two has done much to add to the at tra. lions of the fair, and his handling of the Intricate business of the big show hns given it new life ns well as new features, Ed Kouotchy absolutely and positive ly refuses to play with the Cards again. This shews that ball players are only humau. Lsachss Crow complains that his pursuit of Jos Rivers is a failure, but thers Is a suspicion that Learhes is pursuing oa low speed. Cbc Sisttne JWadonna, y : tfs-ef & ? t U 43 iJ T 4 a: rsa m 1 1 -Yi i' . trull1 ii'vumii' MiMssntiis mi nADUNNA REPRESENTING the Virgin, not as a mother, but as the all powerful queen of tlio tieuv eng, descending from cloudn which nre theiiiemlves composed of thousands of cherubs, Itaplniel's Ma donna dl Sun Slsto, moro voniinoiily known as the Sistlne .Madonna, ranks, by universal consent, us tho greatest painting In the world. in the Virgin's anus there Is tho Christ Child, whose thoughtful eyes muku it appear that he is fully con scious of his destiny us Saviour of the world. On either side St. Slxtns II. and St. Catherine kneel In adora tion of the queen of tho henvens nnd tlio Chrlsi Child. St. Catherine Is looking down at the two cherubs, which form the base of the picture and which nre familiar In popular reproductions. Sixtus II. was blslmp of Koine from J.ri7 to 2,"S A. I), uud was martyred un der Valerian. Raphael Sauzlo or Snntl was born In MS,'!, nuil tills picture, Ills master piece, wns completed two years before his death In l.YJO. Thus the artist was tlili'ty llve yours old when the greatest picture of all times was completed. It . . . i x A, ..... I CHRISTMAS IN OTHER LANDS. it . Many American children of foreign, parentage know something of Christ mas customs in nt least ono European country, having been told by their elders, but for tlio most part our boys nod girls know little of the day except in their own land. In Spain It Is the custom to let out of prison many of tho short time prison ers on Christmas eve. ulso to permit a few of the soldiers to go home ou fur lough. Only blood relations cat In the housi on Christinas evo or Christmas day. It Is n general belief that ere midnight on Christmas eve the Virgin comes, bearing a blessing. There Is n midnight mnss In the churches, and Other masses follow, A few years ngo lu England It was the custom after the Christinas dinner to pull bonbon crackers and to wear tho grotesque caps and masks that came with them. In other ways the celebration Is very much as with us. Good cheer is tho rule In IreJund, and holly nnd Ivy are seen on every hand. A midnight mass Is celebrated, and mnsses follow through the night and morning, all of which nre largely at tended. The religious element predom inates. Rich nnd poor alike have goose for their Christmas dinner. Ths day following Christmas Is devoted to ath letics, fun and frolic. The celebration of Christmas Is not general In Japan, yet the Nipponese have a Santa Clnus of their own. Ms Is the god Hotel, and he Is supposed to give good things to the chlldreu not on one day iilono, but the year around. Christmas Fortuns Tailing. ititchclors mid spinsters In Itoheinla desirous of seeing the fonlutvs of their future matrimonial mate cut u sole In the Ice of a river or pond nt midnight of Christinas eve and pver Into the black water beneath. It Is the belief that the face of tho one the experi menter Is to marry will then become visible as In a mirror. A combination of faith and Imagination Is necessary to- milks the spell work successfully. Au instrument in the Weather llurcau at Washington, I). C, records every lightning flash within 100 miles. latest reports show that mors than 30,000 men sr employed as eoal miners ia ths roifi aortkwssk i IA V 3 J ,.-, - Ettfj r.'n X Ml. A m imi WITti r RArlC wns bis last Madonna, although hs painted others prior to this time. The Madonna was the favorite theme of painters In the renulssance era in Italy, starting with Fra Angellco, Era Bur tolommeo und others of the first paint ers In this period and reaching its height with the completion of the Slstine Madonna by Raphael. This Madonna was pnlntcd as an altar piece for the church of Sun Slsto at riaconza. lu'l7o4 It was purchased by the elector Augustus III. from the Benedictine monastery and Is now the property of the Royal gullery at Dres den. Raphael, the artist, died of a fever nt Rome when but thirty-seven years old. He wns the son of an artist nnd studied nt one time under I'eruglno. In law Raphael went to live In Florence, where most of his Madonnas wero painted. Ills fame rapidly spread until be wus called to Rome to decorate the Vatican. Toward the end of his life, ubont the time the Slstine .Madonna was com pleted, the artist developed his own style nnd did his greatest work. Aside from his ability to paint, Raphael was a talented iircliltoct. t'l1 41 m T X CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM, i H"H"H--M--M KH-H-M No place lu all the world bus a greater Interest In the Christmas son son than ltetlilehem. The normal pup illation of the town where Christ whb born In less than O.tKli), but during Chrlstmiis week It becomes a great cosmopolitan center of ftMXH) or HO.OOO souls, all eager to pay homage to the pluce hallowed by the Saviour's birth. In Iletlilehein people are brought fuce to face with the wonderful scenes which are but feebly known to the rest of the world. Here they may see the place where the three wise nieu of the east halted after their long Journey Here they worship the shrine Inclosing the munger lu which Christ was born. They walk along the same road fol lowed by the Virgin Mary In her Jour ney to the ancient city. They see buildings and ruins which the eyes of the Infant Christ rested upon. The tiny city, crescent shapvd and beauti ful to look upon, teems with tho real ities which the rest of the world cele brates, IN FRENCH CHURCHES. Christmas Mass Always Well Attend ed Ssrvioss Art Uniqus. In Paris Christmas day Is kept as religious festival, and many who never dream of going to church on any other day In the year make It a point of at tending mnss on le .lour du Noel, and the blnze of (lie tapers falls on crowd ed congrewitlmis, men, women and children, kneeling, sitting ami stand ing In the wide urea of the Madeleine and Notre liimc. Midnight muss Is held on Chrlstr.in, eve A waxen Image of the Infant Saviour lies upon a little hutch of rml straw In a cave built of miniature stones The Virgin ninther kneels over the child, nnd to quote a verse from one of the quaintest old enrols: Bt. J"Mh, trio, ! near Id mmrd ths child. To tvnii-h him ami protect his moihar mild Often the three wise men nre added, bearing otTerlngs In their hands. The population of the I'nited States contains .1,300,000 more males tksu fe males. Ths suffragists found President Wil son to be a naa with a backbone and "errs," SALEM FURNITURE CO. CHRIST PRESENTS That aro useful and beautify the home are the ones most acceptable. We are making extremely low prices on all kinds of rockers, tables, couches, desks, bookcases, cribs, buffets and chairs. Our extra special, until Christmas is a fine line of Brass Beds. PRICES NEVER EQUALED See this Line of Beds-Compare Quality and Price $20.00 BRASS BED $16.00 $30.00 BRASS BED $24.00 $25.00 BRASS BED $20.00 $33.50 BRASS BED $26.80 $28.00 BRASS BED $22.40 SALEM FURNITURE COJ 247 North Commercial Street The boys and girls will soon be at home for the Holidays While they are feeling well and looking well, their minds free from the care of studies, send them to us for their photograph. You will be sorry if you let them grow up without a good record of their youth. Family groups taken at home or pictures taken at night BY APPOINTMENT. We are specially equipped with an arc light for night work. 1 , COME NEXT WEEK. DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS. Bullock Studio Hubbard Building Beaver State Printers Barbour & Rowland, Managers. Pntton Block. 1'hone 1512. 4t-M---f-T-f44-fTTTtTt THIS In our special Holidny Number was nlloled to the Taiker Studio. Mr. I'arkor, however, was too busy finish ing up promised holidny orders to givo any time to writing elaborate copy, Ho says: "The interest and welfaro of our customers comes first. Just tell thorn that we appreciate their patronage, and wish them one and all, a Merry Christ mas and a happy and prosperous 1B1V MAS We guarantee our printing to be first class Ilium We want your printing there's a renson. mum All kinds of commercial and society printing. mum Color work a specialty. SPACE