LA GRANDE EVENING OBSEBVEE,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1910.
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Draft Hems Sot Alone te Hold High
Distinction, Say Breeders.
With the importation of tlx stand
ard bred and registered mares, the
Grande Ronda valley becomes a trot
ting borse producer this year. The
teedcnnles of the times in years past
have been to make the valley primar
ily a pure bred animal producer, and
seekers for draft horses have found
this to be a garden of Eden where
the best in the Northwest was to be
had for nominal prices, but the year
1910 has seen a ramification and
hereafter for with the brood mares
brought here this year special atten
tion will be placed on the matter of
breeding trotting horses. .
There' are now six standard bred
and registered stallions here. The
next two or three years will make Un
ion County second to none in produc
tlon of turf stock the same as it is
now in draft horses.
Loads to Kace Meets.
Basing the assertion on ti e facta al
ready mentioned, a new sport is soon
to loom up again, or more properly
to be revived on a higher scale of ex
cellency. Itace meets are to be as fre
quent and popular as baseball games
now are,i if the ambitions of dozens of
horse breeders in this valley are real
ized. :
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Conditions ire Peculiarly Favorable.
Conditions and environment are pe
culiarly adapted to horse raising In
this county. For that reason the
spread of standard bred horses Is
bound to proceed with rapid strides
once the virus has been Inoculated
Into the veins of the horse breeders.
Stock has advantage of the mountain
ranges. This gives them the best of
food: yet they are so near the com
fortable barns that tbey can be herd
ed in at short notice In case of storm
and occasionally at time of shortage
of mountain range grazing facilities,
they can be changed to more fertile
pastures with dispatch. This, primar
ily, is responsible for the low mortal
ity rate among horses of this county
Doctor P. A. Charlton, the local vet
erlnary, who keeps abreast with the
finer points of the horse business
throughout the Northwest is authority
for the statement that Union county
is freer of horse diseases than any
other county in the state.
With draft horses already at the top
of the rune in the Northwest, and
breeders' preparing to give more at
tentlon to trotting stock the prediction
can be made with no danger of contra
diction that in less than half a decade
Union county will hold the pinnacle
of the Northwest in the standard and
purely bred horses.
Boms IKwned by Lang.
London, Dec. 26. Bill Lang,
the
Australian pugilist, and Jack Bun.,
of California, met In a twenty round
match at the Olympla this afternoon.
Referee Eugene Corrl stopped tha
match in the twentfth round and de
clared Lang the winner. Burns fought
gamely, but was outclassed by Lang,
who after the first few rounds appir
cntly did what he liked with h'm.
n,hre were 7,000 spectators present.
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will Ih Kid Expvfcito, a goer and
has suddenly conic tit the front by
Former stars of the high school
basketball circles last night came
back to their own and won an inter
esting game from the high school reg
ulars by a score of 24 to 17. At no
time did the locals maintain a lead
and the alumni was safely to the good
throughout. While the alumni bad not
forgotten their old time form, the
local high school showed unmistak
able signs of stage fright and failed
to put up anything like their custo
mary game. It was primarily through
their inability to handle the ball that
the highs failed to win. In the last
half the two teams scored 11 points
each and at one time, for a minute
or two, the high school showed Its
real ability and ran up several goals
In a hurry, but before the leaders
were overtaken the spurt of good
form disappeared again. ,
The high school alumni (played
consistent game throughout and
showed much the better form on the
floor. Officials. Hollister, referee,
Currey, umpire. Bean, time keeper
and eMtcalf and Alnsworth scorers
An encouraging feature of the game
was that the deficits In the basket
ball funds were covered by the re
ceipts from last night's contest.
Hack to Meet TurklHh Wrestler.
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 30. George Hack
enschmldt and Yusslfr lleussian have
been matched to wrestle in Dallas
January 6, at the Colislum. The event
will be catch as catch can, with best
two out of three falls.
Boiler to Grapple Pons.
Dubuque. la.. Dec. 30. Dubunue'i
newly organized Irlquols AthWttlc club
has announced the first wrestling card
of the season for Jan. 2 at the German
hall'. Dr. n. F. Roller and Carl Pons
the French giant, will furnlBh the tea
ture event.
NEW YEAR SPORTS.
Saturday, Dec. 31. Football. Har
vard Law vs. Southern All Stars. New
Orleans. Hockey, Yale vs. Cornell.
Ice Palace. Basket ball: Illinois at
Evanston Y. C. A. Bowling: City
championships, at Flenner's. Oak
Park vs. Portland at Portland.
Sunday, Jan. 1 Annual run. Chica
go Automobile rlub.
Monday. Jan. 2. Trark: Athletic
carnival, Dexter Park pavilion. Hock
ey. Yaie vs. uornen, ice nuaco. sunt
Ing: Sleiuner A. C. annual derby.
Humbolt's park. Fight: Tony Caponl
vs. Jim Flynn. Los Angles. Turf:
Opening at Tampa,
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a La Grande boy Meets this rear
a hard hitter. Exposite is a Dago who
mtral Performance. .
Unique Race Event.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 26. A con
test unique In sporting events was de
cided at Moncrief park today when the
management provided as an added hol
iday attraction a special handicap
novelty race, in which was tested the
speed and endurance of an athletic
runner, a thoroughbred racehorse, a
mule, and an automobile.
The winner was returned In Marie
Hyde, the racehorse, favorite in the
betting at 2 to 5, who under the handi
cap conditions was required to cover
six furlongs. Eight lengths back
came the mule, which started four and
one-half furlongs from the wire, while
the runner, who bad 550 yards to nego
tiate finished third. . The automobile,
which was asked to travel one and
one-eighth miles after a running start
of a sixteenth of a mile, was a distant
trailer, probably due to the slow track.
Ideal racing weather and a program
of six races besides the noveltv event
brought out the largest crowd ever
seen at the local course.
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Hardware and
Furniture
"Mf .darling " sad he, "it can not yet be,
Though it does break my heart te postpone it.
A year or two mon, perhaps three before,
I can lurnish the house, though I own it."
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LATE FIRE CHIEF GAVE
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PATHETIC IMTDEST.
Fire Chief no ran Carried Babbit's Foot
Te Co sale Mark This Tear.
Chicago, Dec. 2L (Special) Re
turning from the funeral of Fire Mar
shal Horan. in company with J. J.
Sirapp, chief of the St. Paul fire de
partment. President Johnson of the
America 1 league recalled an Incident
in the life of Chicago's hero which im
pressed the visiting chief and every
other listener as an oddly pathetic
freak of fat.
"When Chief Horan went to Phila
delphia for the world's series as my
guest last fall." said Sir. Johnson. he
showed me a perfectly mounted rab
bit's foot which had been given him by
one of his many friends and admirers
and said he wanted to give It to Con
nie Mack, the Athletic's manager, when
we, arrived In Philadelphia. He told
me it was the most potent charm and
mascot known to the world of sup
erstition. It washe left hind foot of
a rabbit which had been caught in the
dark of the moon at the edge of an old
deserted cemetery. To make the
rharm doubly effective and protective,
the man who killed the rabbit was
himself a hunchback.
Luck Given to Connie.
"Reaching Philadelphia, we hunted
up Connie Mack In the morning before
the opening game, but he was busy,
and we were surrounded by such a
crowd of Mack's friends that Jim Hor
an, who was modest above all things,
did not want to make the gift so pub
licly. Later In the day he gave me the
rabbit's fot to give to Connie, and
asked me to tell him the story of the
charm. I did so lust before the first
game of the series there.
SPORTI.YG JiOTEh.
When all has been said about your
great and glorious Grande Ronde val
lev and of its marvelous advance in
many lines during the present year, it j
must be admitted with more or leas i
regret, that sports have not been giv- j
en tleir Just attention.- Here is hop
ing 1911 treats us better.
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Even if 1910 did little to enhance j
the standard of sports, and Its former :
prestige in this valley. It did see &
summer series of baseball games pull- j
ed off with Elgin in which nothing '
but good-natured rivalry cropped out
Here's our mitt, Elgin, left's pull off ;
another one like It in 1911.
One of the pleasant and encouraging
thoughts to which our minds run in
recapitulating sports in La Grande j
and Union county today, as
county today, as rawer t
i Time and his hacked and dinted Bcythe
Is sneaking off to neip mane nistory, is
I that fact that the county high school
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law U passed and hereafter big husk
ies too poor, financially, to attend
school and gain an education, wOl he
hereafter permitted to not only gain
the desired knowledge but also
strengthen the athletic departments of
every credited high school in the coun
ty. Elgin roundly refutes the Observer's
statement that baseball may be
dropped in the town there this spring.
The report emanated from Elgin some
time ago. and the Observer welcomes
Elgin back in the fold. Elgin produc
es good players and a good team, so
ccme on fellows.
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Everyone knows Just about who
bought new automobiles this year
they are many, by the the way but
dealers who are in touch with the
spread of the automobile education,
are authorities for the statement that
the sales in 1911 will be something
great The town already has more
high grade machines than any other
city in the state of its size, and it
might as well have a few more.
Poor North Powder! In two games
she had a total or 167 points rolled op
against her this week, and she man
aged to tinkle the bell for only 16.
As the basketball season approach
es in dead earnest,- the race for the
championship becomes heated. The
dope sheet is no easy pfekins either,
for there are several teams that are
sure somewhat teams.
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A Journey to Sookane, is one of the
possibilities of the M. I. A Junket this
winter.
lmbier meets the M. 1. A at tne lo
cal rink next Friday nigM.
Though Christmas did. New Tear
is occupying a preponderance of at
tention, there was a little time left
for local baseball gossip. Things are
warming up early.
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and the team that town will produce
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The question now bothering the M
L A team is: Who la the real "IT
In basketball for North Powder high
school defeated Haines some twenty
to nothing, the North Powder city
team defeated the North Powder high
school about twenty-three to nothing,
and the M. L A. defeated the North
Powder city team by a hundred or
thereabouts. Imbler too, creeps la
and haods North Powder something
strong. Now again, how much better
than Haines is the M. I. A?
Out here on the Pacific coast a mov
ment has been started to amend base
ball rules so as to make it more ex.
pensive for a pitcher to hit a batsman.
It is proposed to give the batsman wo
bases instead of one. There Is an
other reform in the air, and that Is
discarding the spltball, which, it It
f i ried, is one r-f (Le chief reasons that
hitting ia fast becoming a lost art la
every league throughout the country.
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Jack White, the Chicago feather
weight, under the management of
Fred Gllmore, made a sensational ap
pearance in Milwaukee this week in
his ten round bout with Gene McGov
ern, the popular little Milwaukee bat
tler. White's victory was one of the
most decisive seen in any bout that
ever went the limit there. He admin
istered severe punishment from the
start and showed terrific hitting pow
er, but was unable to dispose of his
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