La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 08, 1916, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1916. iiioii UIIIT BEATEfl 64-21 M. I. A. ASSOCIATION HAVE IN TERESTING MATCH. Long-Range Shooting Chief Asset of - Visitors Last Evening. STANDING OF CLUBS. W. L. Pet. . La Grande 1 rl .SOU Union 1 1 .500 Irabler ......... ,1 . 1 .500 Cove . 11 .500 La Grande snowed Union under 64 to 21 last evening when the. Union M. I. ' A. came to La Grande to meet t'- La Grande M. I. A. in the M. I. A. stake league. The visiting ten. is not the strong Federal team which beat the , La Grande squad a week ago by cne " point. .. -.. ' The game last eveninc began with a Union spurt that indicated a snappy game for the evening, and it wae, but .. the La Grande . team held rtihe visitors down with superior team work. Serine and Dewey Webb were the chief point getters for the . visitors, eash taking turn at dropping pretty baskets at long Tanges and hard an gles. Webb threw three baskets and iwr fouls, Serine three baskets and two fouls and Erl Johnson one foul. Osman Orton wts the other regular ' on that team, . j The home- tea was' shifted about considerably. VlfY older heads kept out in the firathalf at the end of whkh the score .was. 17-8 in the home t- team's favor. Peterson and Larson entered the gam at that stage and in creased tne jeaa ty some lightning ing-basket shooting. It was Peter son's first game on the home floor l and tie demonstrated his reputation was well grounded. ;' He covers the floor well, is an accurate shooter and can outjump anything he has yet met in vregon tnus rar; at center. The original La Grande lineup was Combs at center, Lyman and Ken-in at forwards, Baum and Ainsworth at guard. Substitutions included Rosen . : baum. Peterson. Larson and Stoddard Combs threw two baskets, Peterson seven, Larsen nine and a foul, Ferrin 11, Baum a foul and Ainsworth a goal. umciais: iteieree, Nelson; umpires, ... Larsen and Horutman; timekeepers and scorers, Ferrin, Baxter and Rosen ' baum. , , , . . Cove; Jan. 8. (Special) Imbler lost its first game in the M. I. A. stake league last evening when Covo took the team into camp 40-42. There will be a basketball game at the Y between first and second teams, of the intermediates tonight. The game begins at 7:30. ; . ;;--vA-.M'i '.Jr. . While ah alumni basketball team is usually not able to defeat its alma mater the tables will no. : doubt be : turned when the : hiarh- school five tangle with the pld grads at the high school gym this evening at eight o'clock. The alumni' team ,will be com- . posed of Larsen and Carpy forwards, Woods center, Lottes and Rosenbau:n .- forwards while the entire high school ..." squad will be ; used '" consisting of Rosenbaum, Larsen, McDonald and Adcook. forwards, Bean And Millering centers, Captain Huff, McOSinnis, : 'Reynolds, Moon and Johnson guards. The .admission will be 15 cents and the proceeds used ' in buying new equipment. '. iWhile Manager Andrews has' not , 'Completed a full schedule for the j high school games will be played with Union, Pendleton, Enterprise, Wal- " Iowa, and in all probabilities, Walla Walla and Jefferson high of Portland. '. Practice games, will be- Dlaved with the local M. I. A. team so that the squaa win be in good condition for US nrst games. . . ... HORSEWOMAN TO WED A COUN, T WHO EARNS HIS OWN WAV, ' I fmmii Vw ' mum Munmiin njjMtw I VC 4 y 'J! It ', k it&m www : "Shinny" is not far off. ; Hockey and from destructive attempts of the en hi v Miss Ida May Swift. Miss Ida May Swift, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Swift., a tall arid striking beauty of Chicago " so ciety, will, -shortly after the. new year, wed Count or Mr. Minotto, who is connected with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. The ieount, an Italian, has become a plain mister since he has -: entered trie banking business here.' Soon after the wed ding he will leave on a business trip to South America for the trust com' pany. ' ' "" ' Mies Swift is known in Chicacro so ciety as an experienced horsewoman. She' is really an expert rider. She has been riding since she was a child. VOLLEY BILL TOURUET OPENS ROUND BOBBIN AFFAIR BEGAN TENNIS CLUB TO PROVIDE RINK Captain .Olsan's Tcam Leads Y. M. C. A. Activities. -Other Columbus, O., Jan. 8. Columbus has & basketball team that literally, can shoot baskets with its eyes shut! Fans who've seen the boys in action say they're wonders. The little squad of sightless lads wear the colors of the Ohio State School for the Blind. There's Joe Arndt of Lima, Ohio, whirlwind forward; Joe's left eye has 1 n nv . t ' J t-J ! 1. . only a-zvv normal vision ana nis rigni ' eye 5-200 normal vision. Yet Joe, in 'the three games lies played this sea 'son, has averaged 15 1-2 baskets a f' 'ame. B. McQueen, captain and cen er, has a cataract on his right eye and his left eye is 1-25 normal. But he has a wierd, uncanny sense of where the basket is and sticks 'em in the pan, one, two, three. There isn't a man. on the squad who can read even poster print. .Totally blind students are the team's backers. They can tell when a basket is made and their rooting would shame a col lege bunch. Are they winners ? The squad has secured 205 points thus far this season to its opponents 68. ' Pendleton, Jan. 7. As a result of the resignation of Prof. W. K. Living ston as coach of the basketball teams, Donald B. Rice of this city has been chosen to the .position Rice .is a former University of Orettpn star and was perhaps one of the best players representing that institution. Mr. Rice was present last night for the first time. The boys are quite confident of a championship team for the season and are now determined to work hard. Pendleton's Health Report. In the health report for the city of Pendleton for the year 1915 it is shown that pneumonia led all other causes of death, the total hciiiif 11 Accidents wore the muse of fl deaths, while tuberculosis and heart disenfe claimed 8 each. Tha total number of deaths in Pemileloii for the year wnt 02 of which "i were male? and 29 were females. lhe i. M. V. A. gymnasium con tinues to be the busiest place in town; tne regular class work requires 19 dif ferent periods every week. This to gether with the extra events keep's ithe Gym in use almost continually. The business men are now engaged in a round robbin volley ball tournament in which four teams are engaged. The tournament runs for six weeks, each team playing twice a week on Tuesday end Friday evenings. The following men are engaged in this interesting series of games. Team No. 1, Captain Crow, Scrog gins, Larrison, Prince, Kelley. Team no. 2, Captain Pabst, Harding. Miller, Graham, Snodgrass. Team No. 3, Captain Olsan, Drahn, Myers, Anderson, Howlnnd. Team. No. 4, Emahiser, Wright, Cockran, Lumper, Nelson. v The first game was played last evening with the following result: Capt. Emahiser's team Bcoring over , Capt. Crow' team.- Capt. Olsan's team- scoring over Capt. Pabst. . The standing of the teams are counted by points. . ' ' . j Absence . of any player counts j asrainst the snuad. Hence Emahiser's team, though victor's last night, are j one point under the lead Deoause au were not present. The . standing on I this basis now is: Team No. 1 with 5. Team xno. z witn 4. i Team No. 3 with 15. 1 j Team No. 4 with 14. ; Capt. Olsan is so far in the lead. I I Mr. Clark announces that a' chess and checker tournament is about to be launched. This will prove of interest to quite a number of the old timers who pride themselves on being some pumpkins when it comes to (playing chess and checkers. All who are in terested in this series will kindly place their names with Mr. Geo. Currey Sr., who has the matter in charge. After reDeated attempt nn in structor has been secured Rev. Drahn to lead a class in public spealting. This will fill a long felt want in the city and no doubt many of the leading business men will be found enrolled in this clans. The instruction vnll be along the line of declamation, ges tures, and the art of fooling at ease when asked tq sboak in public. En tninB into IV in rlnss fan be o'ltainrj regardless of membership' in th AJ ti.ciiition. Mr. Dralin is exonMunaliy 1 ivalified ioi this work having fan instructor for two years in a leading cn'.'.ege o" his home slate. (Hockey and "Shinny". Due to Follow j . i; New-; Venture. . ' '-Ice skating right in the heart of . town is soon to be a fact if frosty j nights ' keep up which is to be pre i sumed. ... The La Grande Tennis club intends to flood its big double-court on Adams j avenue near the hospital and having skating facilities under electric lights, provided for the -public r A1 nominal fee will be charged for an evening's skating'. If it is chilly enough bon fires will be built and. ' sure-enough sKating scenes will nrevaii. 1 The facilities will likely be ready Sunday evening and will be continued as long as the weather is suitable. "' v ' '' '., ' ' ; The prolonged spell of snappy weather has given sporadic skating this winter, both at Perry and on the Palmer logging pond. Due to tha frequency of storms, and the lack of care, conditions have not been the best always, but with the Tennis, club members looking after facilities, a tine season is looked forward to. . With suitable quarters under elec trie lights already assured, the day of STILL ON THE 4 JOB delivering King Coal to satisfied users. There is no better coal on thLa : Grande market. its affiliated sports are not only the most ihvigorating but the most fas cinating of winter sports, and as long as the winter continues cold enough to keep the ice, this particular sport should be followed with a vim. A good game of ice hocxey i about the best you ever saw. , ., , BOWLING NEWS. ' ' Last evening the All-stars defended their title when they trimmed a plclted team from the City Bowling league. The score: . ' All-Stars Scott .... 163 Roesch ... 179 Crowe . , . . 227 Skiff .... 181 Van Fleet . ..148 Total ... Picked Team-T ' Houck I McLeon Garity . Mclnnis Child .. Total . 191 160 135 134 134 ' 2 . 177 211 165: 134 165 V2 197 157 119 161 176 3 138 168 184 164 149 T'l Ave. 478 159 588 576 429 462 ;i89 192 143 154 ...2503 3 202 166 163 178 135 T'l Ave. 590 197 483 897 473' 444 :'. 2397 161 132 157 148 AUTOS AND MOTORCYCLES. Gebree Ruhv is . nn nf is w devotees of motorbobing to turn out a machine. He used his Excelsior to good advantage, completing his out fit yesterday afternoon. .The fire department has a well rmrnrH m torbab properly supplied with a head- iigm;. "Kea- Williams is another to manufacture such a machne, he hav ing less equipment on his machine than the most of the others. .. Lynn Bohnenkamo has entered a contest conducted by a well known trade paper. .The price will be given to; the person who writes the best article on how to -build a motorboh and supplies a photoeraoh of it ia completed piece. , L. C. Smith. Ford mnn tins hoi demonstrating an attachment that can be applied to a Ford car. It makes a one-ton truck out of the machine with a floor space on the truck bed of four feet bv 8 1-2 feet. .Mr. Smith however has been hauling 3000 pounds of cement about town in his demons trations. ' - r ' From Des Moines to Omaha 157.9 miles in three hours, fifteen min utes, is a new road record established 'by C. Zimmerman in a Maxwell a-oad. ster. Most of the triD was over tha xamous gumbo roads of Iowa and Nebraska. The flight represents net averaire of nearlv 48 milns n hour; , ems secret service,' during the days immediately prior to an attack. Mr. Flanders also-believes that,. in the event of war, Uncle Sam will make great use of thousands of privately-owned care... These. will prob ably be attached to the citizen sol diery. In . onany cases he predicts, they will be driven by their owners. Definite provision for such a citizen motorist reserve may already be part of the War Department program, Mr. Flanders points out. At any rate, it is plain that Uncle Sam has appar ently ceased to regard the motor car as an object or double or treble taxa tion. .- - !! i "To make our motor car preparedness-complete, the government could assign each manufacturer the duty 01' supplying a certain type of car and body, in the event of need," Mir. Flan ders concludes. "I believe that the re sponsibility for the troop movement could be covered solely by (the big builders of four-cylinder cars, - Heav ier types of cars would be used for aeroplane guns, wireless outfits, ar mored limousines and similar develop ments. ' ' . ' . - ... "Definite assignment of this work now would enable all of us to do some intelligent experimental, work that might save much time later on." coming around to using and advocat ing oil made f com California pe troleum. ., v - . "Paraffine base oil was the first motor oil developed" says this refinery reprefclitative, "and ven after Western oil had been developed and proved, the old tradition concerning parafflne base oil still clung, encour aged no doubt by the refiners of thesa oils." . . . ' "And, by. the way, not only tne ex MADiilnn Infioa ,lnit CRD Anirine author. ities are now endorsing asphalt-base motor oils." .' ' ' " One Puncture 28,000 Miles M. R. Stewart, a jitney proprietor of Spokane tells a, story of tire en durance which he is ready to sub stantiate for anyone who makes it an object He says his Maxwell touring car has run 7,000 miles on one set of tires and without a change or repair except for one puncture. The car has made four round trips every day since Oct. 1 between Spokane and Vera. .;;;... Pendleton, Jan. 7. The mystery as to the whereabouts of the Fordvaut mobile of R. D. Foster, a well known Pendleton man, was cleared up today noon when it was found in a badly burned condition by Mr. Foster near I the Judge Fee residence at the bottom . -, or IjOCUSt mil. mo wp una cmniwn One thing the exposition has done of the car were burnt and the coay was for California petroleum, it is said, has been, the correction of , the mis taken theory that good motor oil couldn't be made, from asphalt-base crude. ; A representative of one of the big California refiners says that ever since the awards of. the exposition juries have been given wide publicity, motorists and dealers who couldn't see anything but Eastern oil, are charred. The tires were not toucnea by the fire. A peculiar j-ircumstance in connection' was the fact that there was three gallons of gas in the oar this morning when located.' . ,; '"- Mr. Foster had left the car standing in front of the Eagle-Woodman hall Wednesday night and the car was tak en, from the place .between 10 and 11 o'clock. The machine was insured for $350. No clues have been ascertained. Economical Heat- ProducingLasting. LA GRANDE FUEL COMPANY. . lOGTirSt; PHONE :: MAIN. 700.. " Opposite Thorne & Wilcox' Grocery. ..When Uncle Sam coes ac-ain to war. he will go in a motor car.- So da. clares President Walter'. FlanH the ' Maxwell Company. Therefore Mr. Flanders, adds, a bur factor in American preparedness will be . our large supplv of 'motor cars and our ability to build more of them in large numbers and in short notice. ' Mr. Flanders points out that there are many spots on our coasts avail able for the landing of a hostile force but not accessible bv railroad. ' An in- vader might therefbte mask his at tack long enough to beat our def end ing,, force to one ,. of these points, thereby establishing a foothold. But tnere are no landing places on either Atlantic or Pacific coasts, not reachl ea oy country roads, roads which light powerful cars like the MaxwnlT n able to travel handily the year round. and at more than moderate speeds. Provision by which these points can be guarded bv great numbers of motor cars would be obviously part of any imuuuui pmn oi preparation, Mr. Flanders believes, : "Give .the American automobile manufacturers a month or two of warning," declares the Maxwell chief executive, "and they could turn out enough cars to equip an army of 250 000 men on each coast with whistles that would enable them to shift posi tion -500 miles in any 24-hour period. Such an equipment could move them from their barracks to the very point they might be needed. . It would make the movement of troops inde pendent of railroads "which, it is fair to assume, might suffer severely What does he say? : , .; CALIFORNIA IS BETTER EVERY YEAR v' npHE climate doesn't change, but there are v X -alwayssomeattractionSorpleasuresadded ; to those of previous years? Take'this'year v the exquisite Exposition at San Diego and : t movies iii the making are added to the us ; ual tennis, golf, polo and coundess California ' delights. :r.'V': Go to California this winter. Ask any representative of Oregon -Washington Railroad & Navigation Col UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM "' to help you plan your trip. See your local O-W. R. &? N; agent todaV, or write the General Passenger Agent, ' Portland, lor literature and tull information. 111 D. R. FONG MEDICINE CO. CHINESE ROOT AND HERB REMEDIES Cures Bodily Diseases With Root and Herb Treatment. Phone 762 1412 Adams Ave. Free Consultation La Grande , Ore.. i - j I FARM TRADE S FOR CITY PROPERTY "VVe have a well improved farm, with some stock .and implements valued at $4000 which .the owner will trade for La Grande city property in whole or In part. The' owner prefers to trade for city property of about $1500 or $2000 value and wUTgive exceptionally easy tterms and plenty of time on the balance. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTXJNITT TO TRADE FOR A FARM. Let Us Insure Your Buildings, Furniture, Auto, Merchandise, Etc. Opposite V. M. C Aj"lb8"E!m St. Phoi.e Black 200. Geow HC urrev - 9f . He Who Mores REAL ESTATE La Grande, Ore.