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TUESDAY, AUGUST, 29, 1916. 3 :K 'J ' I; ; f :!- i ! !i SPORT NOTES 1 New York, Aug. 29. Ordinarily Labor Day sees the beginning of the Hca.son for boxers in the United Stat es. And ordinarily there are several good fights on top for the fans. While this year is not an excep tion to this rule, it is true that the fights hilled for next Monday have created only passing interest and de spite the fact that at least three chum pions will be, seen in action unless something unforseen happens, the public has refused to become very ex cited over the mills. At Colorado Springs Freddie Welsh, the lightweight king, is carded to de fend his title for the first time since he won it from Willie Ritchie in a twenty-round bout. He will take on Charlie White, the pride of Chicago. At Cedar Point, 0., Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion, will mix with George Chaney, and at Baltimore Jack Dillon, the light heavyweight champion, will go against Jim Coffey, the New York heavy. Of all these bouts there is only one that stands out. The go-between Chaney and Kilbane .probably will be the feature of the day's milling. A huge advance sale has assured the success of the show from a financial standpoint and the little fellows jirub ably will have a large, if not a larg er, audience than their heavier con temporaries. Baltimore's attraction should prove ' a' real bout, but Coffey's standing doesn't entitle him to a great amount of consideration when pitted against a man of Dillon's calibre. 'Labor day other l)outs include: Cal IManey vs. Lee Finneran at Erie., Pa., Frank Moran vs. Carl .Morris at Tulsa, Okla.; Ad Wolgast vs.' I,ee Mor rissey, Idaho Falls, Ida.; Joe Rivers vs. Johnny Griffiths, Canton, O. Fred Toncy, premier hurler of the Cincinnati Reds, is the hardest luck pitcher in the game, without ques tion. Toney has several times held the opposition to two or three hits, but his team mates invariably refuse to come to his aid. His wildness also has been bad for him. His record at the end of the season probably will place him among the leaders in effectiveness. $1280 WORTH OF PRESIDENT'S TIME IS USED UP SHAKING HANDS m r-J rA' ' "" Ji3sv. - 3Pr lit? THE PRESIDENTIAL HANDSHAKE IS SHOWN iN THE LARGE PICTURE OF PRESIDENT WIL SON AND A WHITE HOUSE VISITOR. THE PICTURE ABOVE SHOWS THE HAND OF THE PRESI DENT EXTENDED PREPARATORY TO AN OFFICIAL HAND GRASPING. Handshaking is one of the big fluties of the president of the United States. - For this activity alone Presi dent Wilson uses up 50 hours of his time during his four-year term at office, AT A COST OF 11280. tWhen the 640 men represent ing the railroad brotherhoods went to Washington tor confer enco, the president had the big gest handshaking ;o"j ot the year. The husky workmen tripped his hand enthusiastically. But C40 firm hand grasps were too much tor the president, so the men were ordered Just to '"touch" his hand. Counting 300 days of the year and SO shakes a day, each consum ing three seconds, the president spends 50 hours in a tour-year term, .or six days and two hours, working eight hours a day, grasp ing hands. ' iDazzy "Vance, picked up by the Yankees lust year from the Western league, and who, for a time, gave promise of developing into a star, has announced his retirement from base ball. Vance, who formerly pitched with dazzling speed, declares some thing has happened to his arm, anil that nothing will help it. Vance has a- no-hit game to his credit, miving pitched it for St. Joseph in the West ern League. O. A. C. Has One Man Nucleus. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis. Aug. 29. When the new foot hall coach at O. A. C Joseph A. Pipnl ssnds out the summons for the O. A, C. team to report for practice on the campus September 12, he will have the assurance of one man only, Cole who was made guard last season, on lasv year's varsity team, who will re port. The most serious factor in depleting the team was the unusually large number of varsity players who were frrntlunted last spring. Two members if the team have married and settled down to the domestic life, some have played the full four years allowed by College Conference rules, and others have c-ngaged in work or business for themselves. Cole has been working in a lumber camp at Mill City. He is now nt San Diego representing the Multnomah Athletic club and is ex pected to report in excellent physical condition. A number of last year's second string men, some of them said by the eoaoH to be excellent material, have announced that thoy will report for, practice whenever the call is made. Some 'of these ara thought by the coaches to be the equal of the former players whom they replace except that they have not thud the seasoning and the practice. it is apparent that tne coacnes in charge of the football this season are putting a good deal ot commence m the freshmen who may report. A newly adopted conference regulation excludes' the freshmen from playing in the Washington University and the Oregon University games, but in the Eastern and 'Southern games and other Northwest games, all fresh men who can make the team will be eligible to play. This fact is attrac tive to many freshmen who have al ready signified their intention of re porting for practice. I I Jewels on Exhibit in Hotel Lobby. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 28. One million dollars worth of jewels were on exhibit in the lobby of the West hotel today, when the American Na tional Jewelers association opened a four day convention. Two thousand jewelers are attending. , before Wednesday, it is thought, 2, 500 juwclcrs will be here. Fifty ex hibitors, including some of the most fnnioi.s diamond importing firms in the United States have exhibits. A report was current that T. L. Comb.) of Oiuuha, ex-president of the organ ization, would be a candidate for re election. A HOI SPELL NIGHTS HOWEVER COOL RAPID LY AND GIVE RELIEF Now Comes the High Cost of. Bibles. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 29. Now comes the high cost of Bibles. Deal ers here today have notices from the Church News association, that an ac- 1 count of the high cost of paper, they I are urged to make last year s edition dleton of the Bible do for this year. The Lu- I Miss Huckleberries Rather Plentiful About Gibbon This Year Gibbon, Aug. 28. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Baker, iMr. and Mrs. Henry Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. George Brace, Miss Evalyn Meager and Will Brace have all returned from a 10 days' outing in the mountains near the summit, where huckleberries were plentiful. They gathered forty gallons in all. Miss Belva Williams returned home Saturday from a two months' vaca tion spent in Portland. IRufford Price was here yesterday irom Weston visiting his sister, Mrs. Henry Thompson. John Hager and Dolaf Thompson returned yesterday from a few days camping in the mountains. Miss. Evalyn Meager returned to Pendleton today after spending a week here. She will return to begin her school September 4th. J. M. Schmidz, forest supervisor from Walla Walla, was here this week on business. Miss Lizzie Swarts of La Grande, is here to visit at the home of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Swarts. Roy Swarts spent yesterday in Pen- West forty or fifty years ago. Great as is the awakening already, the prophets agrea that it is nothing to what will take place immediately after the war, when millions of sol diers, who went from home ignorant, semi-tarbarous peasants, return with a new outlook upon the world, new ideas and new knowledge of civilized way3 of living. What this change mean.; to Russia, men say, is being exemplified every day when a loutish, unkempt, dirty and ignorant peasant is brought into camp and begins his training as a soldier. The change in the individual, even in fourteen days, is said to be marvellous. Russia, it is said, fully expects a revolution after the war, but the be- I lief and hope are that it will be purely poluical, and unattended by bloodshed and destruction. ropean War, the dealers say, has in creased the demand for Bibles, along with tho limited supply. Our Want Ads bring results. Belva Williams has gone up Plan to Standardize Legislation. Chicago, 111., Aug. 29. Terming themselves the by-product of the American Bar association, in session here, members of the Bill Drafting Conference held their first annual meeting today. The conference was organized last December at Washing ton. The conference plans to stand ardize the preparation of bills, Which was termed today as a "haphazard and extremely irresponsible business." The executive committee of the con ference is composed of John A. Lapp, director of the Bureau of Legislative Information in Indiana; George S. Godard of Connecticut, Thomas I. Parkison of New York, Miles C. Riley of Wisconsin and A. E. 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But every morning frost is thick everywhere and even ice on ( the chickens' water pans. I The "Invincibles'' of Kamela, came I down to play a ball game with the I "Pride of the Woods" of Meacham 1 on Sunday, August 27. But the In j vincibles wished they had never come near as they were again defeated, score 23 to 12. They thought they had a fine team to run over the Meacham "out of practice" boys, but j brought in playeis from every town ! of the mountains who could not play I it appeared. Toward the end of the game they i secured a pitcher a colored man, I from Huron. So thev went awav quite disgusted nnd down hearted, but I ! i it is hoped another game will soon be : ! played. I Miss Thelma Coffman returned to Pendleton on Wednesday after visit ing three weeks with her sister, Mrs. Jim Beard. J. D. Casey made a business trip to La Grande on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith and Mrs. F. H. Fair made a trip to Pendleton : ! on Wednesday by auto to do shop-1 1 ping. , I Mrs. Myrtle Murray of Iji Grande;! was here on Thursday to visit her ; aunt, Mrs. Mattie Atchison, who is very ill with asthma and pleurisy. Awakening of Russian Is Told of by Travelers. Stockholm, Sweden. Autr. 27. Travelers coming here from Russia. J - no matter of what nationality, talk of but one thing the wonderful awak ening of Russia. Amcucnns, in par ticular, seem greatly impressed by the growth of national spi.il in the half-mcdiac-val empire, nnd most sanguine as to its future. Thoy compare the commercial rnd industrial prospects of Russia to Oiose of tho American England's sixteenth century war with Spain was responsible for sev eral new words being added to the language. Embargo and contraband arc two of them, while to the cam paigns in the low countries we are in debted for such words as freo-booter, furlough, cashier, leagues, drill, on slaught, sconce and domineer. 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