La Grande evening observer., January 30, 1915, Image 6

SATintnAY. JANUARY 30, 1915. "
LA GKANDE EVENING OBSERVER
LA6RAIJDE IS
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ENTERPRISE TAKES GAME
- LAST NIGHT 43 TO 34.
: L Grande Shows Big Improvement
. .. in Form but Can't Win. . ,
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: Enterprise, Jan. 30. -(Special.)--.
The slump which the La Grande high
acnooi . oasicetDaii team-nag lailin
into, continues to grip the destinies of
the squad. - Enterprise defeated the
Wallowa county invaders last night
43 to z. ' However, it must be said
that the La Grande team showed a
big improvement in form over tho
.. previous night's performance,, hut
while the La Granders were greatly
improved, the slippery floor, similar
in every respect to tho famous Union
court, prevented the visitors from do
ing effective, work. . a.
It is tho opinion of the La Gran.le
. : players that Enterprise has a better
. team than Wallowa, although Wal
Icwa defeated Enterprise a week ago
al Enterprise.
The La Grande team goes to Jo
seph tonight for the last game of the
series. Enterprise and Wallowa are
both to play at1 La Grande later in !
the season.
ing was established by Bill Gray, Uw
well known Vancouver expert, at a
recent test, when, bowling con
tinuously for L fifteen. . and one-half
hours,' he rolled 120 games for an
average of 180.80. in all uray oron
pad 21.C80 pins,, his highest game be
ing 241, and, his worst etlort 118.
Gray's performance is said to be a
world's record, the best previous mark
for twenty-four hours' bowling being
114 games for an average of 176.
".' Pendleton bowlers defeated Walla
Walla in the mutch between clubs re
presenting the two cities ut the Bun
galow Alleys Thursday night. Tlu
score was 2865 for Pendleton and 2021
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BAND
HEADS FIVE
VALLENT BATTLE TO BE STAGE
ED MONDAY.
New
. Floor Givea Neither Team
Advantage Over Other.
- Iron Horse on Trout Crek '
Excellent progress has been made
in the last week by the tracklayer
on the ; Ease Oregon Lumber Com
pany's - new railroad.' The raito
were down well into the old Badde
ley ranch yosterday, and before tin
week is out the Hanson pluco will be
rt&ched, , .:. . .. .
The construction crew starts from
Enterprise early in the morning and
upends the entire duy at the end ot
the line. The engine caboose, Dallas'..
car and flat car loaded with rails com
iinsepriKe the . train at present. Be
fore long the work of ballasting the
track ah .ady laid will begin, and
then there- will (be more for the en
pinj crew to do through the day. A.
W. Green is engineer and Sterling
Smlttle is fireman.
The ties nre now. laid on the froz
en ground and the rails spiked t
tl:m. A dirt bank has been openrri
- ' .'. '..;.. . ;at the lower end of tho old Baddeley
Compilation of scores made by rnch, and a driveway erected over
Oregon bltierock destroyers in various ; the track. 3c; jpers cun load ballast
registered bhoota during 1914, have cars here and the dirt will be dis
been made, and La Grande gets prom- tnbuted along the tract and the rails
Inent mention. In fact all Eastern leveled. The cold weather and froz-'
Oregon does. Lou Rayburn is way up) en ground have not interfered at all
Union ns n town is aroinir tn move
BLUie who bmiu iui 1 VllUIVWll OTllU iiuli " " -
for Walla Walla, giving the home club ! ""w I- Grande jlonday night. Ilor
a margin of 241 pins,
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$ NEWS ABOUT SPORTS.
$ 4 4 4 -fr 4 4' ! ! 4 -l' -h
basketball team that is the Athletic
Club team, is bringing : the Union
band with it, mid a crowd of people
that will probably be half as large
as the Union population. The c.iuso
of all the excitement is. the basket
ball game between Union and Lu
Grande M. I. A. at the gymnasium
Monday night. Each team- has de
feated the ether, though each time on
t?ieir respective floor, and now the
two teams will play on a floor witn
which neither is familiar. On the
floor there will be no disadvantage
to either team, lor both baskets and
floor are entirely new to the M. I. A.,
they having been practicing and play-
Inir nn tha hin-ll flrhnnl orvmnuuiiim
r - o- w! I
floor in the past. I
-: The game between the Union giWs
ana mo m. i. a. gins wnicn was to
have been played at Union week
ago, will be staged here Monday night
making of the contest a doubleheaded
proposition. As this will be one of
the few girls' games of the year that
fact alone shculd draw a good crowd.
A referee will be brought from the
Bauer "I" to oiliciate. After the
two games u dance will be given nt
Kex hall to which all are invited.
towards the top, and out of 160 con
testants, Claude Mackey of La Grande
ranks 13th. Muckey has a percent of
.8685 out of 350 birds shot at. Ray-
Durn has a percent of .9061 - out -t
650 birds shot at. ' The high average
for the yeur, both professional and
amateur, is held by H. R. E. Vet-ding
: of Portland .9321 out of 1900 birds
shot at. Several non-registered shoot
: were held, but are not considered in
these tables, which reduces the fluni.
ber really shot at during the year for
for practically all tho contestants. Al.
Jones, B. W. Brady and others irom
Wallowa county iared woll in ' th'
averages. , , ,
The admission ticket to the'Y. M.
C. A. for employed 1 boys has ben
dropped to $3.00 for the term. The
change wits officially announced last
night by Secretary Rudd. : i v-
In order to accommodate more peo
ple, sidelines can be drawn at the
"Y" floor and thus let, people stand
oi sit ag iinst r the east t wall. This
will tend to save cuticle 'too, for the
brick is anything but soft material
to rub elbows en.
with the truck laying and the work I '-A
I going on very smoothly. :
. It is a strange sight to note the
construction train pushing its way
up Trout creek. The whistle of ths
engine is heard as it passes through
thf town nnd it begins to sound very
businisr.like. .
j In the tie camp the activity con
tinues, and the timbers' are hauled
down on the grade in a' study stream.
It is only n matter of a few weeks
now until tho first unit of the rail
road will be fully finished -Enter
prise Chieftain. . : - .
Hauling In Much Wheat. "
(Enterprise Chieftain.)
dozen 3lcds have been on
BACK IN NEWSPAPER WORK
- E. H. Flags; Starts a New Paper at
t: .- Warrengton, Oregon i
A marvelous mark for alloy bowl-
E. H. Flacrtr. a former editor nt the
Elgin Recorder, but who for. severil
years has been - operating a job
printing shop near Portland, ' has
started up a new newspaper at
Warrengton, Oregon. . ' '.i
' Warrengton is just beyond Astonn
Land has beeii greatly advertised and
exploited during tae pust year, and
chances semi favorable for it be
coming ..a. good Bized town within a
fow years. .'
tht
road during the last week hauling
vheat from Paradise to Enterprise
Last week O. L. Borland and a few
ether men brought grain in!. six
loads of Straley and Beach wheat
were brought down on Monday and
lour, loads -the day following. The
orivers were Roy Ralls,- Ernest Fish
er, Harry Miller, Dale Beach. New
man Phillips, Mr. Graham, OlUe and
tddio Karnes, and their cousin,-and
John Bollm. Sleighing ' has bee i
good to within a mile or two of En
torprise, wh;i the snow is so light
that the sleds drafj on bare ground.
. Important te Piano Owners.1, -
Sidney Lyle, the well known piuno
tuner, is at the Foley hotel. Refer
ence furnished from. J. J. McClelland
of the Utah Conservatory, also Whit
man Conservatory of Walla Walla.
Adv. .... . 1 29 it.
Tn Tatarrh Viriimo.
- Bp wise in time and use Hyomet
tor catarrh and head colds. Neglected
catarrh, too. frequently destroys the
hearing, smell and taste. Get a Hy.
omei outfit from Newlin -Drug Co.
It's the quick, simple and effective
remedy. Adv.
LOCAL CHINESE EXPECT TO STUDY BASKETBALL AND THEN
PRODUCE A TEAM FROM YOUNG MEN'S ORIENTAL CLUB
. Three Lines of Endeavor Purposed by Popular Club Among Celewt ials Who Make La Grande Their '
? 1 Home Gymnasium Yet to Bo Comppleted.
PROMINENT CHINESE WHO HEAD ORIENTAL CLUB.
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ii : . Toy Young, President
Mental, social and physical just
like nn occidental Y. M. C. A. are
three motives of the La Grande Ori
ental" Young Men's club, which re -J
cently was -incorporated under the
state laws, and which is now ready to
meet two of the fundamental pur
poses of the order, namely mental nnd
social entertainment. Just as soon as
the club can get at it, the physical
-end will be taken up. In fact, i:o
enthused are tho Chinese boys who
. belong to it that they are coming
out en masse to the Amateur Basket-1-all
league games one of these fine
days and get a notion of what the
psme is and then go back to their
-own little dub rooms and learn some,
thing about the sport. After duo
deliberation and practice they are
going to put on gym suits and semi
a quintet against some La Grande
team. This is not a &r fetched no-,
tion but a plaurabile scheme now be-'
I .em Young Vice-president.
ii.g worked out by the leaders of tho
Oriental lub.
To promote the mental and social
nffairs of the Chinese boys, they
buve reading rooms supplied with pe
riodicals where tho boys, when off
bhift, can congregate and amuse
tr.emselves.
"Chinese boys ore like other boys
they want recreation and amusement,"
said Toy Young, president of the club,
in discussing purposes and motives
of the club. "We now havs our cluij,
located at 2010 Fourth street in the
building occupied by T. H. Lung
Comapny, a place, where the boys
fleet for rr reation nnd rest. It
l.eeps them together and amuses them
with solid tilings. We have about 40
members in the club nnd it is en
tirely co-otycrative. What ever the
expenses arc at the end of the month,
each member has to pay his sharo of;
William Eng. Sec.-Treas.
ilr that way. there is no- extra va
gunce."
1 The. officers and incorporators ot
the club are Toy Young president,
Lem Young vice-president and Wil
liam Eng, secretary-treasurer.. The
Chinese boys besides the officers who
belong to the club include the fol
lowing: Lee Kee, Yea See Wo, Lem Yeun,
T. B. Font-, K. B. Quin. Jim Lee.
I Ching Wah, Lev. Tin Ling, Jim Liver
jmore, Wong Man Yea, Joe Sue. 1.1
Be am, Li Wo, Wing Lee Tong, Wong
Duck, Tong Kin Y'ou, Young Hing,
Lem Sing, Toy Sam Young, Huev
Ball, Won Wing, Wong Gee, Sain
Chow, Ching A. Sing. Eng Tom, Eng
Qui Mon, C. M. Wah, Lem Toy, Hen
ry Tic Ninut, Kim Chung Que, Ng Hak
Pon, Ng Man Keun, Lem No, Ng Ben,
Ng K Men, Tell Don, Mack See, Ng
S Gee. Heniy C Chaw, T. Ht Lung
Co., Toy Bros. Store, Tong Bo and
Sam Tiise. .
New MMwccle
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3 Speed 11 H. P. r
1915 HARLEY DAVIDSON ISHERE
See the machine with the three speed gear and the electric system that are like that of the v
most modern automobile.- . ' ' -
Prices: Range from $220 to $330
Used Machines from $75.00 up
Ask about our time payment plan. You can buy one of these macMns for a small pay- . i
ment down and a small monthly payment. , a
WMBOMNENKAMPcqA
It Beats Both Booze and Pool.
"Money spent: for gasoline . is ; certainly a
much better investment than the same amount
spent for booze, pool, 'bowling, theatres or cabaret
entertainment." ''..,-'
We all know this. To those who have been
-through the mill, the fact that booze at last
biteth like a behemoth and stingeth like the
stingairee, is a twice-told tale. But not so to the
new convert to motor-cycling telling his story to
Austin W. Burges, who travels' Texas for the Mil-
waukee branded gray gasoline steeds. The other
fellow had only just found out these things for : -himself,
having only recently bought a motor
cycle, and talked with the enthusiasm of a new
discovery. And Burges listened' as if it was a
special revelation, as the enthusiast went on
"It's a heap more fun; a fellow sleeps much
better at night and he sure does feel a heap better
in the morning. No more of this so-called city
entertainment for me. 'Back to Nature' is all
right.
"A lot of us guys laugh at these spring
poets, but, take it from me, they're all right. I
can't write their kind of stuff, and I don't say
that I can understand it when I read it. But I
' can feel it in my system all O. K. just take it
from me.' ' '- "
"A fellow doesn't have to take a course in
biology to appreciate teh country. I know a .
spai-row from a robin and maybe I know a wren
from a swallow, but what I don't know about birds
would fill a book. And yet I like to get out in
the country and watch them and hear them.
"Some of the guys who used to envy me
when I was- a shark on the pool table now think I .
am kind of dippy. They think that this stuff about
liking the birds, trees, flowers and streams and all
" this other country dope is kind of slushy. -
"But there are a couple of my old pals who
understand. I got them going first on the tandem
and since then hoth of them have bought ma
chines.: We are a heap healthier, 'huskier and
happier than we were when we were hanging ,
around the. pool room and sticking in on an open
: game. - Now we are in on a real open game.
"And, say, we got the other guys on the run,
too, you bet. They don't kid us any -more. Sev
eral of them are saving their money and you can
take it from me that it worit be long before all
of our old bunch is together again and it will be
out in the country somewhere every time we get
a chance, Instead of slipping down town to some
dump where the sun never shines and they don't
know the meaning of fresh air. ....
"The sidecar is the thing that broke the
camel's back. Do you get me? When I saved up
and got a sidecar the bunch down town handed me
; the laugh right,. But I only grinned. ' - '
: "The first chance I got one evening I
picked up one of those comedians and gave him a ,
it ride. :-, I pulled that off t night 'because I knew
that Pete'd mever take a chance on- a daylight
ride he was afraid of being laughed at by the
other fellows.
"I breezed along when he was' waiting for a
street car to go down town. As a. matter of fact,
I had been laying for him for a couple of. nights,
just to pull off this stunt. Pete is all right only-
he got started wrong. He didn't think there was
any fun in life if he didn't go down town every
night and stick around until the owl car.
" 'Hop in,' said I, 'and 111 have you down town
before you can say Jack Robinson.'. He hedged
on this as I knew he would; said he wasn't going
to ride in one of them thingsand have all the
other guys laugh at ' him when we pulled up at
McCarthys, I knew he was going to say that and
told him I'd let him off a couple of blocks from
McCarthy's, where no one would see him. -
"It was a peach of a night the stars were
all out and it was kind of quiet like nd twinkling.
I didn't beat it to get down town and when Ihe
said he wasn't in any hurry, I diJri t ask him any
more questions but headed him right straight out .
into the country. Pete didn't jay a word. We
hadn't gone very, far when the moon began to
show up among the trees.. , , ; .
'The way that he lamped that moon you'd -
think he had -never : seen the moon before at
least, not that moon. But still he didn't say a
word. . Here and there a farm house, with' its
lights showing cheerfully the location of homes
that really are homes. - We could see the barns, -too,
in the moonlight. : Bat mostly all we saw was
just country. . . . J ( , .
"We scared up a couple of rabbits along the
Toad and Pete was-as tickled hs a kid with the
eight. 'Gee, see the rabbits,' he said. 'Uh huh,',
said I and let it go at that. ; What was the use
. of talking ? I had Pete out where I wanted him
and knew that he was getting the idea quick.
','The little trip that I had mapped out made
sort of a circle a little more than thirty miles
long. Pete hadn't peeped about the passing of
-the time so I just kept on going. ...The country
through which we were going was pretty hilly.
Y'ou could see the hills looming up ahead in the
moonlight and they, looked like .mountain's. I
knew -that Pete was surprised when- he saw the
ease with which the big two-speed twin snaked
its load up those hills, but still Hie didn't say a
word.-" .-,-;. .-
"On the way -back to town I stopped on a -bridge
where there was quite a little waterfall.
It was a f avonte ih'angout of ours my motor
cycle pals and myself but of course, it -was all
. new stuff to Pete. We stayed there nearly half
an hour, sitting on the bridge,' and during that
time Pete said next, to nothing at all. He said
Gee!' about half dozen times, and once he re--marked,
'Say, this is great, isnt it?'. I
. knew ihow he felt; it was no place for conversa
tion.. Finally I told hime to climb in, that we had '
better be going because. I wanted to. get up early .'
in the morning. -
. ., . "The rythmic purring was the only sound as-;
we slipped along smoothly on our way back. Pete
was doing a heap of thinking I knew that.- Still
I said nothing. Just about that moment a skunk
ran across the road in front of us. "
" 'What was that?' said Pete.
" 'A skunk said I; smells something like
McCarthy's, doesn't it?'. -
" 'Say fellow, don't rub it in,' said Pete, and
I let it go at that. When we got back to the city
.Istarted to hit down town, but Pee stopped me."
" 'Nix on that down town stuff for me to
night or any other night, I guess,' he said. 'You
can put this in your pipe and smoke it: That Pete,
. the three-cushion champ at McCarthy's is saving
his coin right now and will have a motorcycle of ..
his own,, and mighty soon, too.
" 'I have taken this little trip with you, Pete,
just to hear you say those very words,' said I.
'You have some brains in that dome of yours
and I knew that I could depend upon your using
them if you had half a chance.'
"Pete got to hed earlier that night than Ihe -had
in many years and when we said good-night
it meant something to both, of us. :
"When we landed Pete we lhad the rest of
the bunch on the run, because he "lways was
looked upon as the leader in our crowd. There
are nine of us -who have teamed around together
ever since we were kids. - - - - -
"It did not take long to win over the rest of
the bunch. They kidded Pete a little bit for a
couple of days, but we got them one by one
and gave them the same course of education that
we had given Pete. There was nothing for them
to do but to admit that they hod been foolish in
wasting all of their time down town.
"We all travel together now. Every morn
ing we take a run out in the country somewhere.
Our Saturday afternoons and Sundays we spend
in a way that does us some good. When we go
to work Monday morning we are ready to eat the
work right up.
"The motorcycle certainly has made a heap
of difference in us. It has made us happier and a
heap healthier. We spend less money than we did
in the old days around town and at the same time
we are capable of holding down better jobs and
getting better pay." . '