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Mi LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 141911. PAGE 7 4. -wwwwwwww4 WW Fill WINAT mo WILL ElllilEERSHOWSiK PllS UiQN QUIT STAGE MUCH CLASS CHESTY HEAP DIG FUN ENJOYED BT OVER THREE HUNDRED. Overalls and Straw Hats Set Off Sflk "Lids and Fancy Bags of Merchants. Union, Jan. 14 (Special) Farmers, honest tillers of the soil, last night vanquished the huBineBS men of Un ion In the much-heralded game of basket ball, the proceeds of which Won n Vrt fix..., . i' . - --- waiji iuuu. Aeiae from the fact that over $75 were turn ed over to that fund, the most import ant Item in connection with, the af. fajr is that all the gladiators are alive today though much to the surprise of the 300 spectators. The game between the first and second teams of the high Bchool went 10 to 7 for the first team and then began the real blood of the evening. The band, leadlne the h- fore-the-battle march commenced. The businessmen, wearing red sweaters and white trousers and high silk hats formed a fitting introduction of the farmers, wearing overalls, straw hats and smoking corn cob pipes and In other ways bring their real selfs into the midst of society and publicity. The game got under way at last, and inougn the referee did his best to - T keep the event tame, It was Impossible and It was much of a rough and turn ble affair. Jim Dobbins and 'Hutchin son were the real stars of the game. The farmers won 19 to 2. After the good natured burlesque a dancing car ty followed and the game and subse quent functions "panned" out to be even better than the promoters had hoped. The stunt was a novel one and extremely popular, BIG MAT MATCH IS IN SIGHT Gotch to Meet Hackenschmtdt to Dis cuss Terms for Bout Chicago, Jan. 14. (Special) Frank Gotch, world's champion wrestler, and George Hackenschmldt, the "Russian Lion" and challenger, may be matched In Chicago before the end of the week, according to Harry Frazee, lo cal theatrical man, who has signed Gotch for a twenty weeks' tour of the woria.' lne champion was married this week In Humboldt, la., and im mediately after the wedding brought his bride to Chicago, where Hacken Schmidt will be met. Frazee said that (Gotch is sincere In his mimosa to meet Hck 'in a finish bout, and If the match is made it will be decided in a month or five weeks. Gotch will re ceive $2,500 a week for the tour, which is about as much money as any grappler ever received for exhibition purposes. . -: . less the danger from pneumonia and other J- " tj in r Ti.li -i serious ureases, iur. d. . u unu, ui Waverly, Va. ,says: "I firmly believe Cham berlain's Cough Remedy to be absolutely the nest preparation on me marKeiior corns. . j have recommended it to my friends and they all agree with me." for sale by a" ltnpr. FAMUSKING Havana Cigars Cream of Havana, of a Smoke. : : : Prince "5 Will Always Meet Your Taste FMH US KING CIMR FACTORY SPO PREMIER INSTRUCTOR IN BOX. ISO GAME HAS NEW JOB. Will Go to Pittsburg to Assume Charge of Fine Club There, Joseph Bartlett Choynski has utifle.l his stage ambitions and taken on a line of his own kind of endeavor bv drawing one of the prizes that some times fall to the lot of the retired atniete. He has been appointed phys ical director of the Pittsburg Athletic club, which has one of the finest club. houses In America. The building was erected at a cost of $1,500,000 and 1b tne equal of any similar clubhouse in the world, says a Chicago paper Choynski returned from the Smoky city yesterday after signing a con iract, and at once set about selling nis property in La Grange and mov ing his lares and penates to Pittsburg wnere he will report for duty on Feb. 22 Joe Is "Tickled to Deaths "It was taking a shot at the moon." said Joe. "I was advised by friend to make formal application for the do sltion and did so, almost In so many words, not settting much store by what might come of It. Mv frfonrta b XMJ iilUUI must have got busy too, for the di rectors invited me to go to PRtsburg and have myself looked over. I must have made a good Impression. My credentials proved satisfactory to D:v Savage. Anyway, I got the Job and I'm tickled to death to get back into athletic work under condltlona that promise to be more pleasant. "Part of my duties consists of box ing and wrestling instructions to the members and assist in the general gymnasium work. I also will have charge of the training and prepara tion of the track athletes. Although It has built one of the most luxurious homes I have ever visited, and I have seen them all over the world. the Pittsburg club will be essentially an atnietic club and will furnish all the facilities to trun out good per formers." One of Jeffries' Staff. Shortly after Its organization, Choy nski was made boxlne instructor nt the Illinois Athletic club, a position which he held for several years. Later he opened a school of his own, but closed it last summer to loin the staff that was selected to bring Jim Jeffries back. Since that lamentable affair at Reno, Joe has been fitting himself for the stage under the tu telage of his wife, who was ambitious to mane an actor out of her husband. FLUNG TACKLE DOWNS THIEF High School Football Player Dives at Robbers Feet Des Moines, la., Jan. 11 (Special) As a result of his training on the foot ball field, Charles Langdon, a West High football star, Is the hero, and Daniel Brafford, accused of robbing the H. S. Chase grocery store here, Is in Jail with numerous bruises on his person caused by a flying tackle. Nels Brode, a watchman at the store, dis covered two men making away with articles taken from the store, and seizing one of them, called for help. Langdon, who was passing, heard the call and seeing Brafford running. made a flying tackle, throwing Braf ford with such violence that he was unable to get up. He was taken to the city' Jail, badly bruised. Foley Kidney Pills. Are tonic In action, quick in results. 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All of a sudden he lumped Into nrom. inence by throwing down the gaunt let to Jack Jackson even when then only a big engineer. Morris was, on tnat day, pulling a train through a little dinky town In Oklahoma when fight returns told the Btory of John son's victory and Jeffries downfall. Shaking his big bulk of human flesh with Just anger, he threw away his greasy overalls, brushed away the call boy who tried to get him back to his panting engine, and' declaring he would never enter another engine until he had "licked" the Nigger, pro ceeded to climb into the limelieht He knew nothing, absolutely nothing, of fighting at that time; knew only he had bIx feet four in his body and a powerful physique, better than el. ther Johnson pr Jeffries. Since then he has licked several good scrappers, including Marvin Hart, and aDDarent- ly Carl Is on the way to the goal of nis ambition, a match with the neero. 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A year or two more, perhaps three fcefore, can turnish the house, though I own it." NRW . 3 HAS TROUBLE WITH MAKING THE , BIG TITLE STICK. Defeat of Portland and W'enatchee Deemed Not Sufficient Honors. Chicago, Jan. 14. (Special) Despite reports from Seattle that the wnh. I'lngton High School eleven of Port. land "and the W'enatchee , team of wasnington were not of national championship caliber, members of the .Oak Park team and Coach Zuppke will claim the national title by vict ories over these teams. When Oak Park won out in the Cook county league It issued a chal lenge to meet any and all schools for the national title. Only Wenatchea and Portland replied and accordingly contests were arranged with theso elevens. Oak Parkers do not believe Mor gan. Park academy, although a prep school, can claim the title. They claim an unwritten agreement was made before Oak Park lost the con test, 9 to 6, that the game would not be listed as a scheduled or calendar game, unless the Morgan Park team lived up to the high, school rules, one of which required all players to be under 21 years of age. TEAMS GO TO UNION. Local Teams Take Their Departure mis Morning for Union Games. The boys and girls of the hieh school basketball teams left this moraine for Union where they meet the boys and girls teams of that city tonight. Prof. Carruth of ..the girl's team 1b confident that theUassles will accom plish a victory while Manager Neau- oauer and Capt Bohnenkamn realize . wey are going up against a fast and snappy team. . The girls will lineup as follows: aiiBta Love.-left forward, Olive Masse right forward, Anna Top, cen ter, Ruth Cotner, left guard, Runa Ba-' con right guard. Elva Green and Ida Billings, subs. The boys who will play are: Bolton and Reynolds, forwards: Bohnenkamp center, LotteB and Ralston, guards. Substitutes, Solley for Bohnenkamp and Crawley for forwards. FOR" SALE OR TRADE A post card machine that makes and makes 6 poBt cards In 10 minutes. A sacri fice. Address Post Card this office, V Vi.'."'. O LOCAL SPORTLETS, COM. A MENT AND THE LIKE X Ben Grouty a La Grande senior at the University of. Oregon, Is one of the students at Eugene holding re sponsible committee - positions In preparation for . entertainment of prep athletes at the big Eugene meet Jay Mlllering, the crack pole-vault-er, who last year pushed the Ontario shark to 11 feet four inches in the local meet, and who walked off with the gold charm at Walla Walla last spring, Is not going to Baker this spring, though it was so rumored. Instead, Jay Is going to stay here and will attend both the O. A. C. and Eu gene state meets. Davis, a big husky with the "weights. and Abe Perry, the black horse on the extended courses., from th half miu up, are both coming to La Grande; in time to matriculate for the spring se mester and partake In the big meets with the La Grande team. Every body knows how Perry has performed tor without Instruction of any kind has gone the mile under, 4: 50. Davis hurls the weight further than Helden rlch did last , year and Is . ajways steady; Both of these new men will fill a much needed want In the local track team. , ; ; I Roy Skill, a former Stout Manual Training and high school athlete of Menomonle, Wisconsin, Is a guest In the city. He traveled the half and mile in splendid shape when In LIgh school, and is better than the aver age with the basket ball. Durinz the years that the mile was run by high school lads in 4;35. Skill was a point winner, v..; v-" - ' Packey McFarland and Jack Good man are carded to fight ten rounds at the Fairmont A. C, New York next Tuesday night. "Digger" Stanley, the English box er who arrived in New York this week, will have his first trvout with "Frankle" Burns. - mn Lang, the Australian cham pion, and Sam Langford have been matched to .fight in London on the six teenth of next .month.' If the dlnge doesn t win easily, there will pro bably be a reason other than ability to do so. It Is stated that a new manager for the St Louis Browns will be named Sunday and the Job will pro bably go to Harry Brown. Among the basketball games sched. uled for today are Yale vs. Pratt In stitute at Brooklyn; Pennsylvania vs. Naval Academy at Annapoii. and Princeton 's. Military Academy at West Point. The big college hockey games are also to be played today. "Why George, she replied, "this ad. should decide If you're anxious to wed why delay, dear? They'll furnish our home from cellar to dome, And give us our own time to pay, dear." Princeton will meet Cornea ' at the St Nicholas rink, New York. aaJC Yale playing Dartsmouth at the Bos ton Arena. ' . Roy Rice and Frank Ralston, meat bers of the B. M. A. took an opea air treatment last evening and In tm . suits and tennis shoes, jogged to 1113 ' Canyon and back. The. lnvlgoratiac exerclBe was greatly enjoyed. The high school meets the Summer-1 vllle aggregation next Friday alght. ; The Chicago White Sox will begis the spring exhibition season at Fort Worth Tex., on March 4th and Kk. Later in the month they will plsjr games with Houston, Galveston, TST co and Dallas. In the 11 years Christy Mathew-, son has been with the Giants he has led them to 263 victories and has fig ured in only 118 defeats. His greatest number of 8ucceses In a season ni ' The Louisville Colonels, of taej American Association and the' Toronto Easlern League will iprobably meet la a series of four games to be playel In the Kentucky Mteropolls next Ap ril. It has been several seasons sine these teams have matched their' strength. - - - Construction of the dam and canaai at the Park Is the finishing touca to what will become great sport In thfci city boating ; and aquatics. The Ca-, cllitles will be very good and where few canoes have been built and owsea In the past, scores will be the orGar next summer. .. . : MEN WANTED No Man lOver 43 Need Apply,' " There's" the sign , that getting to b avcommon thing In America. .Corporations are retiring men at SO. . They are not hiring any over 40, - A balded man often looks 10 year older than he Is. A man with gray hair always does. It is important nowadays that a ma v look as young as he is; It Is vastly Im portant that a mad having a family dependent upon him should take car of bis hair. .. .. If you have dandruff get rid or It by . killing, the germs. If your hair Is falling out stop rt t Jf your hair Is turning gray doct wa9t.e any time. There Is one sure remedy that wW cure these misfortunes and aid you to remain young. ', Parisian Sage, the great Hair Re -storer is guaranteed to permanentfer remove dandruff in two weeks, or tst money back. Parisian Sage stops 'falllns- hair It prevents the hair from turning grar. Parisian Sage Is sold and rigidly guaranteed by the Newlln Drug Co and druggists everywhere. Price 60 cents a large bottle. Jan. 14. 2K Fp.hu Want adi pay, on rem i wora 1 I'. ' ;v r. ; - J,, ...