THE MORXIXG OREGONIAX, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1909.
"FIGHTING DICK" IS
EASILY DEFEATED
"Cyclone Johnny" Thompson,
of Sycamore, Gets Decision
in Ten-Round Bout.
HYLAND IS FELLED TWICE
Bay City Lad Goes Down Once for
Eight Seconds, Again for Nine.
His Wife Sees Defeat Receipts
$4500, 60 Per Cent to Men.
KANSAS CITY. Dec. 17. After ten
rounds of furious fighting, 'Cyclone
Johnny" Thompson, of Sycamore, 111., was
awarded the decision over "Fighting
Dick" Hyland. of San Francisco, tonight.
Thompson easily deserves the verdict.
He rushed the battle from the start and
forced Hyland into clinches time after
time. Using his vicious right to ttae Jaw
to good effect, the Sycamore farmer
tottered the Pacific Coast boy repeatedly.
. Hyland Felled Twice.
Had Hyland been a fighter of slower
recuperative power, he would have been
knocked out in the fifth round. Twice
with right swings to the jaw Thompson
sent his man to the canvas. The first
time Hyland took the count of eight, and
the second knockdown kept him down
nine seconds. He came back strong,
however, and. although Thompson tried
hard to land a knockout punch, he failed.
Much In-Fighting Used.
The battle was fast all the way "through
with much in-fighting. By an agreement
the men were permitted to fight in the
clinches as long as either could swing,
and this kept them close to each other
the greater part of the contest. Hyland
landed many blows In the in-nghttng but
thev were not as powerful as those of
Thompson in the breakaways.
H j land's Wife Present.
Mrs. Hyland was a spectator, although
few people knew she was present. The
gate receipts were estimated at $4500.
Sixty per cent of this went to the- boxers.
who divided it on a 60 and 40 per cent
basis.
Betting was at even money. Thompson
offered Hyland $200 to $400 he would
knock him out. but Hyland refused to
take the bet.
Clarence Owens1, American Association
umpire, refereed.
Following is the story of the fight by
rounds:
Round One. .
Both men bored in at the outset. Hyland
landed the first Rood blow, a rlKht to the
body. They clinched and exchanged rights
and lefts to the body without effect. Round
even.
Hound Two.
They rushed to a clinch and In the break
away Thompson landed a good right to tho
Jaw. Hyland fought back with vicious body
blows. Thompson missing a hard right to
the Jaw. In a clyneh Hyland hammered
Thompson's kidneys. Hyland landed hard
rlrht to body and left, to Jaw. Thompson
sent a right to Jaw, and Hyland retaliated
with right to heart. Hyland's round.
Round Three.
Thompson rushed to Hyland's corner and
sent right to body. Thompson landed right
swing to body and followed with stiff right
to head. Thompson sent hard right to Jaw,
Jarring Hyland. then a succession of
rights to head. Hyland hammered at
Thompson's kidneys. Thompson's round.
Round Four.
Thompson was at Hyland as he rose from
his chair. Hyland clinched for a moment
and drove right to Jaw. Thompson eent
right to body and they clinched again. Hy
land sent right to body and, as they clinched
the men exchanged body blows. Thompson
peppered his opponent's Jaw wtth rights
and Hyland landed two hard rights to Jaw.
Bound even. s
Round five.
' Thompson led with a stiff right to Jaw.
A second blow of the same kind sent Hy
land to the floor for count of eight. A
third right on Hyland's jaw sent him down
for nine seconds, but he came up strong and
a half dozen more rights delivered by
Thompson did not seem to hurt him.
Thompson tried hard for a knockout, but
did not have the necessary punch. Toward
the end of the round Hyland used rights
to stomach and head with good effect.
Thompson's round. t
Round Six.
Again Thompson rushed things. He
missed a right for the head. Thev clinched.
Hyland sent light rights to Jaw and Thomp
son Bent several lefts to body. Thompson
drove stiff right to Jaw. They clinched and
pulled each other around the ring. Round
even.
Round Seven.
Thompson put stiff left to mouth. Hyland
sent two lefts to jaw. Thompson drove
right to Jaw and bombarded Hyland's
stomach with a succession of-rights. Thomp
son rushed Hyland to the ropes and was
planting rights and lefts to body when
the gong rang. Thompson's round.
Round Eight.
They rushed to. a clinch. Thompson forc
ing the fighting. Thompson drove right to
Jaw, twisting Hyland's neck. Thompson
landed stiff right to neck. Hyland forced
a clinch and did good In-fighting. Thomp
son sent right to Jaw and Hyland hung on.
They fought hard to the end of the round.
Round Nine.
Thompson landed two rights to Jaw. Hy
land retaliated with left to Jaw. They
clinched and delivered bodv blows as they
wrestled around the lng. Hyland was tired.
Hyland put a right to body. They clinched
and the referee cautioned Hyland for hold
ing. They were fighting when the round
ended. Round even.
Round Ten.
Thompson rushed In to win and landed
two rights to Jaw. Hyland closed In and
Thompson landed several good body blows.
Hyland landed stiff right to head. Thompson
( based Hyland around the "ring, but failed
t- land. Hyland drove right to Jaw and
landed several body blows. Thompson
slipped to floor and they were in clinch
w-hen round ended.
stamina he may have lost while he baa
been out of -the game.
"In some of my bouts- with him we
may go as many as 20 rounds. I have
no monetary agreement with him; I
am simply helping him out because of
my desire to see him in shape to whip
Johnson."
BILLY MADDEN HAS SCHEME
"Elimination Night". Is Phice to
Find Coming Boxers.
NEW YORK. Dec. 17. Billy Madden,
the old-time manager, who is now
conducting a physical culture farm, or,
rather, a rest, at Carlo, N. T., has a
scheme.
"You know an elimination night
would be a great thing," says Bill. "I
don't want' a purse for each man. All
I ask is that they give the boys enough
for training expenses and I'll take the
fellow who wins and make a champion
of him. I found Jack McAuliffe. Jack
Derapsey and Charlie Mitchell this
way.
"Mitchell when he weighed 142 could
beat most of the big fellows we had at
that time, and he proved, later that
he was all there.
"You know that the greatest fight-
COKBETT TO TRAIN JEFFRIES
Not Stopping With 'Exercise," He
Will. Make Big Man Fight.
NEW YORK. Dec. 17. James J. Cor
bett will be the animated punching
bag on which James J. Jeffries will
practice in fitting himself for his
fight with Jack Johnson for the heavy
weight championship of the world.
This was the announcement made
today by Corbett on his arrival from
Europe, on the Mauretania. The one
time wearer of the championship belt
said he would start a series of hard
fights with Jeffries 40 days before the
big fight comes off.
"I am going to do all I can to help
Jeffries win," declared Corbett. "I
think if he simply spars to get into
shape it will do htm little good and I
have arranged to get into condition
and have some good fights with him.
They will not merely be light forms
of exercise, but we will go at one an
other as if there was a big stake up
and a good house looking on. I be
lieve this is Just what Jeffries neeUs
to make him fit.
"If Jim Jeffries were the Jeffries of
10 years ago I would not bother go
ing to see the fight." continued Cor
bett. "But we must find out just what
i f - J
te safcw " '1 til
i m - - "'naemirrBm i
Charles W. Murphy, of Chicago,
Prominent Fltcnre in Baseball
Struggle Konr Being; Waged.
ers in the world have come from tour
naments. Why, even in San Francisco
they found their best boys in tourna
ments.' Jimmy Britt, Al Neill, Frankie
Neil, Eddie Hanlon, Abe Attell, Monte
Attell, Al Kaufman and others. I think
that if I could get a good big fellow
like that in the heavyweight class
I'd be able to push him right up to the
front.
"We have a poor lot of heavyweights
right now, and If I could bring a boy
within a year or so I feel that I'd have
a fine chance to bring another cham
pion through."
BILLIARDISTS IN FORM
MULTNOMAH CLUB BOYS SHOW
CLASS IX TOURNEY.
Contest for Various Trophies to Be
, Given 'Winners Proves Inter
esting and Exciting.
Billiardists at the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club are- enjoying a most inter
esting and exciting tournament at pres
ent, and many of the matches played so
far have been hotly contested and often
a game is decided in the final frame,
when one or the other competitor has
"run out" his string, when his opponent
needs one or two points to win.
The list of entries in the various classes
number 41, and the interest in the com
petition is greater than has been the case
for several years. Seven classes divide
the entries, according to the skill and
dexterity of the cue experts, and for each
class a handsome medal is offered, by the
club. ,
The standing of the different competi
tors, according to classes, as well as the
entries who have not yet been -scheduled
to play,, is shown in the following table:
First Class. Played. W. L. P. C.
W. B. Slreeter 2 2 0 l.ftOO
William S. Walter 1 1 0 1.000
William Dennis ....2 1 1 .500
Oscar Kerrigan ...5 2 5 .400
A. W. Morris 3 1 2 .3.!3
S. X.. Banks 1 o 1 .000
Second Class
T. Morris Dunne 1 1 0 1.000
E. Holcomb 2 1 1 .500
J. B. O'Shea. Jr 1 O 1 .000
H. Jennings. Jr., C. E. Murray and George
W. McMillan also entered.
Third Class
D. J. Jordan 1- 1 0 1.0OO
A. E. Kerrigan 3 2 1--- .067
P. E. Brlgham 1 1 .000
T. M. Baker 1 0 1 .000
J. H. McKenzie and J. R. Rogers also
entered.
Fourth Class
Philo Holbrook 1 1 o 1.0OO
O. T. Brown 2 1 1 .500
R. Wannerberg 1 0 1 .000
F. E. Harmar, Park Myers and M. Myers
also entered.
Fifth Clars
O. K. Knight ' 4 4 0 1.000
C. I.. Monson 2 1 1 .500
I H. Hughes 3 1 2 .333
H. R. Butler 1 o 1 .000
E. E. Young . 2 0 2. .000
E. R. Morris also entered.
Sixth Class
T. II. Cleland 4 a 1 tka
-B. Whiting 4 3 1 !?50
J. K. Mahoney a 1 2 .333
E. D. Barrett 2 o 2 .ooo
I.. Buck also entered. ,
Seventh Class
A Murphy S 8 0 1.000
F. C. Warren 3i 2 1 .667
R. M. Sullivan 4 2 2 .500
J. L. Richardson 2 1 1 500
H. R. Bennett 4 o 4 .000
H. R. Rasch also entered.
JOHNSON
OPPOSES
NO LONGER
All Agree That Three Regents
May Be. Necessary to
Govern League.
HEYDLER MAY HOLD OVER
Brown, of Louisville, Gets All Pro
. Heydler Votes Heydler Has Ma
jority of Directors and
Would Eule Regents.
(Continued From First' Page.)
say they will never vote for anyone but
Ward.
Entrancing Offer to Robison.
It is considered almost certain "that if
an agreement is not reached after three
hours tomorrow, the election will be post
poned Indefinitely and that either a
regency of three will be. appointed or that
Heydler will continue acting president.
-t is rumored that Stanley Robison, of
St. Louis, can obtain sufficient players
to make an almost pennant-winning club
If he will vote for either Ward or Heyd
ler. His manager, Roger Bresnahan, has
been very busy among the players in the
corridors. Brush of New York and Mur
phy of Chicago are said to have made en
ticing offers of players to Robison if he
will vote for Ward.
Horace Fogel and the Philadelphia club
have ceased to be a mystery. Fceel now
aamns ne is irrevocably attached to Mur
phy, of Chicago, and that he will vote
as does Murphy.
VEXABLE TO WRESTLE GREEK
Seattle Champion Matched With
Buzukos, Who Is After O'Connell.
Virgil Venable, ex-champion of the
Seattle . Athletic Club, who has since
Joined the professional ranks, has ar
ranged to meet Peter Buzukos, the Greek
grappler. in a straight match in Portland
on December SO. Venable has been
anxious to meet Buzukos for some time,
and when the latier could not induce his
friends to put up J500. to back him against
Kddie O'Connell, he made a match with
Venable.
Buzukos was anxious to meet O'Connell
and was ready to post J100 of hie own
money to bind such a match, but his
backers, having seen O'Connell's demon
stration of wrestling against Strangler
Smith, got cold feet and refused to ad
vance Buzukos the balance of the re
quired SoOO.
Buzukos believes -that if he can beat
Venable he will secure enough money to
get his match with o connell.
HOPES TO SEE WARD ELECTED
Alvord Says Johnson Opposes Be
cause Ward Knows Law.
William C. Alvord. a major league
balltosser many years back, and now a
traveling salesman, is of the opinion that
John Montgomery Ward will yet be elect
ed president of the ; National League and
also that the talk of war in such an
event Is all buncombe.
"The trouble with the National
League," said Mr. Alvord, "is that it has
never had a president who knew the first
thing about the law, and Ward to one of
the best lawyers in the business, which
is one oi tne principal reasons Ban John
son opposes him. Johnson is afraid to
sit on a board with a man who knows
more than he does, ana Ward is such a
man. -
"They throw it up to Ward that he was
crooked in the Brotherhood days. Now I
was playing then and was one of the
men whom Ward would have liked to In
duce to Join that organization, but when
he found that I had a two-year contract
with Kansas City,' he told me that there
was "nothing doing.' for the Brotherhood
did not want contract-jumpers. I think
he is one of the fairest and squarest men
i ever knew, and as for baseball know!
edge, he has Ban Johnson and the bunch
who oppose him lashed to the mast. I
hope he Is elected, simply because he is
a friend of mine and capable, though it
is notning to me otherwise, for I am out
of the game for good and the nresident of
xno national league or any other leazue
.would be able to benefit me but little."
PUEBLO FRANCHISE IS SOLD
Team Will Move to" St. Joseph, Mo.,
With I she II as Manager.
WICHITA, Kas., Dec. 17. John Hol
land, formerly manager of the Wichita
Western League baseball team, com
pleted the purchase of the Pueblo West
ern League franchise and team of 17
players today. He paid S5500. The fran
chise will be transferred to St. Joseph,
Mo.
Frank Isbell, who with Holland owned
the Wichita team, has purchased Hol
land's interest. Isbell will ask for his
release as a member of-the Chicago White
Sox team and will manage the Wichita
team next season. - , .
TRACEY'S BOUTS ALL CLASSY
Clever Youngsters Scheduled for Go
on Monday Night.
- Tommy Tracey's boxing - programme
seems likely to prove a most attractive
card Monday night, for he has matched
several of the elassiest boys in the city
tor a trio or three-round bouts to take
place at the Exposition Rink Monday
nignt.
Ianny O'Brien, th star boxer of the
Catholic Young Men's' Club, will meet
Bud Anderson in a return match, despite
the possibility of the match being an un
recognized affair, for the A. A. U. rules
do not permit sanctioning bouts conduct
ed by an individual wherein entries are
solicited from regular clubs.
The events planned by Tracey promise
some high-class sport, and he announces
that the matches as previously published
will constitute the card Monday night.
Several preliminaries between young
sters of Tracey's classes will open the
bill.
Silverton Defeats Cheruawa.
S1LVERTON. Or.. Dec. 17. (Special.)
Chemawa and Silverton High School
played a fast game of basketball here to
night, which was won by the home team
by a score of 28 to 20.
FILES C'UREU IX to 14 DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is cuaranteed to cure any
case of Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding
Piles in fi to 1 days or money refunded. 60c
EDWARDS BEGINS TRAINING
Boxer Wants Match With McFarland
or Wolgast.
Frankie Edwards, the little California
boxer, who is to appear before the Ore
gon Athletic Club next Tuesday night,
arrived in Portland yesterday and began
working out with "Jockey" Bennett - at
Tracey's gym. Edwards Is anxious to
get a match with Packey McFarland or
Ad Wolgast, either of whom is about his
weight- He can spar at the lightweight
limit of 133 pounds, but likes 125 to 130
netter.
Edwards and Bennett attracted more
than an average training quarters crowd.
Jimmy Carroll boxed yesterday with Dan
O'Brien, of the Catholic Young Men's
Club. O'Brien had the advantage of
slme and weight, but the little San Fran
cisco electrician seemed to like the going
and the spectators were pleased.
ARBITRATION IS DESIRED
Panama and Costa Rica Representa
tives to Meet at Washington.,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. The Gov
ernment of Panama has notified the"
State Department that it will send a
special plenipotentiary to Washington
in January to negotiate with the rep
resentative of Costa Rica a protocol for
the arbitration of the boundary line
dispute between the two countries.
Chief Justice Fuller has accepted the
invitation to act as arbitrator.
The Home
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lots arein black and colored pan&mas, voiles, mohair and fancy
mixtures. In regular and extra sizes.
SKIRTS AT $3.95 Your choice from Skirts worth $5.00,
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Silk Petticoats at 3.4-
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choose from in this lot.
, 'Silk Petfcflcosifcs-ait gg4-04rS
100 of them at this price; in black, colored and fancy figured ma
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QUAINT JLrr The' frames of these little pieces are of
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stered in leather cloth; 9 inches is the
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them out they are offered at this very low priee. '
CHILD'S
ROCKER
1.
for $1.75.
A heavy, well made little piece in
golden elm, with solid seat and high
back. Well balanced. Sells, regularly
SATURDAY
EVENING
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FROM r TO 9:30 IN BASEMENT CROCKERY SECTION
. ' .
Jb aney nand-painted Cups and
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Fancy hand-painted Plates, reg
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Fancy decorated Salad Bowls;
80e values at 55
$1.50 values at ' $1.15
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Your choice of two designs in these attractive and practical little
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GAME BOARDS
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$5.00 Crown Combination Boards at $4.15
$4.00 Archarena Boards at ' $3.25
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$1.00 Tool Chests at .75
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$3.00 Tool Chests at $2.15
GALVANIZED TUBS In Four Sizes:
20c Tubs at. 15. 30c Tubs at .-. .S5
35c Tubs at 30 45c Tubs at .35?
Special values also in Children's Kitchen Sets.
$3.00 AXMINSTER RUGS AT $1.90
The 27 inch by 60 inch, in a standard make of Axminster
Rugs, in Oriental effects and pleasing color combinations.
A serviceable rug at a very low price.
CARPET
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You may know them better
as carpet footstools. They
make useiul gifts. Regular
value 85e each. Carpet Department, Sixth Floor
Holiday Bedding Specials
End-of-the-week offerings from the Bedding Section, 6th fir.
$2.50 COMFORTERS AT. $1.45 EACH In two grades
light and heavy, covered in fine silkoline.
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cambric or plain muslin and filled with lambs' wool.
$555 BLANKETS AT $3.00 PAIR " Wolverine " Blan
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plaid effects colors, pink, blue or gray.
$7.50 COMFORTERS AT $3.57 EACH Extra fine
quality filling and covered in sateen.
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satin covered. ' .
ATTELL IS FLOORED
Webster Hits Fast Pace, but
Result Is Draw.
DECISION LOUDLY HISSED
organized the Montesano Athletic Club,
with the following officers: President,
J. H. Hearde; vice-president, B. B. Tus.
tigr; secretary, Joe Law; manager, Gaston
Moeh; instructor, Chester Strayer. The
club starts out with 25 members.
Crowd Thinks Los Angeles Man Is
Entitled to Victory Through His
Aggressiveness Gary Fights
Scaler With Broken Hand.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 17. Mingled
cheers and hisses greeted the signal
of the referee, Jack Welch, for a draw
tonight at the close of the 20 rounds
of hard fighting between Danny Web
ster, of Los Angeles, and Monte At
tell, bantamweight champion of the Pa
cific Coast. Many believed that Web
ster had earned a decision, for he was
aggressive all the way and in the first
round floored Attell with a clean right
swing to the jaw.
' Attell1 Promptly Floored.
Webster opened the fight with a rush
that carried Attell oft his feet. The
Los Angeles man hit fast and hard,
and fairly smothered Attell with blows.
Toward the close of the first round he
shot over with his right with force
enough behind it to send "the cham
pion to the mat. Monte jumped to his
feet, but was partially dazed and had
all he could do to protect himself until
the fifth round, when he came up strong
and held his own for several rounds.
Monte Gets Second Wind.
Webster again took the lead in the
tenth and maintained it. although At
teell was strong on his feet and showed
no sign of weakening when the gong
signaled the end of the fight.
Ringside opinion gave Webster the
credit of putting up the hardest little
man's fight ever witnessed in the local
ring.
.Gary Fights With Broken Hand.
The bout was in the nature of & bene
fit for Johnny Murphy, a former ban
tamweight who was very popular in
ring circles. Murphy is now at Hono
lulu with consumption. '
In a. 15-round preliminary between
Tommy Gary, of Chicago, and Kid Sca
ler, of Seattle, which also resulted in
a draw, Gary fought from the second
round with one hand, the other having
been broken in delivering a blow.
Montesano Athletes Combine.
MONTESANO, Wash.. Dec. 17. fSn-
ciaL) The young men of Montesano cave
V. M. C. A. WINS ITS FIRST GAME
Indoor Baseball Honors Go Against
Fuller Boys.
In a classy contest for the cellar posi
tion in the cjty indoor baseball league,
last night In the T. M. C. A. Gymnasium,
the T. M. C. A. team - won for the first
time this season, defeating the W. P.
Fullers, to the close harmony of 26 to 25.
The game was set for a seven-inning
affair, but the scce at the end of the
seventh was a tie. In the first half of
the eighth the Fullers secured three runs
and in the last half the Y. M.'s went one
run better and won the game. v
The Y. M. C. A.s used three pitchers
and the Fillers two. Neither set was very
effective, however, for the Y. M.s team
secured 21 hits and the Fullers 19. The
heavy hitter was Daisey who clouted six
6afe bingles out of six times up. 'Niece
and McKenzie, were also strong in the
hitting department.
Score by innings:
Y. M. C. A A 4 4 0 5 6 2 1 325
W. P. Fuller & Co 1 19 7 1 0 3 426
Struck out By Keys, 2; by Weber, 1;
by McKenzie; 0; by O'Deen, 4; by Daisey,
4. Bases on balls Off McKenzie. 4; off
Keys. 0; -off O'Deen, 1; off Daisey, 3.
Two-base hits Daisey 2, McKenzie 2,
Niece 2. White 2. Hendrick, Flint, Robin
son, Snyder. Umpires Washburn and
Beagle. .
O'COXXELiL OFF FOR SALT LAKE
Wrestling Instructor Has Two
Matches in Utah City.
Kddie O'Connell, wrestling instructor of
the- Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club,
leaves this morning for Salt Lake City,
where he has been guaranteed two wrestl
insr matches during the holidays.
The Multnomah Club has extended the
wrestling instructor a vacation during
the holiday season, and as he has sev
eral friends in Salt Lake, he decided to
accept the proposition to wrestle there
and pay them a short visit.
The Salt Lake promoters have several
graDDlers in view to match against O'Con
nell, who is willing to meet any of them,
as he has received a suitable guarantee.
Pendleton 40; Milton 5.
PENDLETON, Or.. Dec 17. (Special.)
By the overwhelming score of 40 to S, the
Pendleton High School basketball team
defeated the Columbia Junior College
team, of Milton, on the floor tonight.
The game was one-sided throughout.
Convicted Forger Gets New Trial.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17. Mrs. Ger
trude Driggs. convicted in the Superior
Oourt of having forged the name of the
late John J. Charnock to a lease of
property valued at $100,000.- was granted
a new trial today by .the District Court
of Appeals. - - '
AUTO RECORDS FLY
"Johnny" Aitken Smashes All
From One to 20 Miles.
DASH IS SENSATIONAL
Better-Than-Mile-a-Minute Time Is
Made by New Man In National
Car Strang Beats Oldfields
Indianapolis Mile Time.
MOTOR SPEEDWAY. Indianapolis. Ind.,
Dec. 17. Racing against a freezing wind,
"Johnny" Aitken, in a National, today
broke all world's records for distances of
from 1 to 20 miles at the Indianapolis
motor speedway.
So savere was the cold that lubricating
oil on some racing machines froze and
forced the contestants to quit. It is prob
able that no attempt will be made to
run the scheduled events tomorrow be
cause of the -weather. .
Altken's sensational dash was in the
20 miles. Aitken ran the 20 miles and set
new records for distances from 1 to 20
miles. Aitken ran the 20 miles in 16:18:41.
Aitken's time for five miles was 4:06:66.
He went ten miles in 8:12:10 and 15 miles
in 12:17:01.
Walter Christie, with his "freak" racer,
and Louis Strang, with a 200-horse power
Flat, were unable to fulfill their expecta
tions of lowering the world's records be
cause of the low temperature. Christie,
however, ran a quarter mile in 8:78. there
by setting a new American record for the
distance. This was at a rate of 103 miles
an hour.
Straiur established a new record for, the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway when he
drove his giant car one mile in 40:61. The
previous record for the speedway was a
mile in 43:06. established by Barney Old-field.
CHRISTMAS SPECTATOR OUT
Portland and Oregon Well Exploited
In Souvenir Edition. .
Portland and Oregon, their resources
and opportunities, are exploited briefly
in the Christmas number of the Spec
tator, issued yesterday.
The cover page offers an appropriate
design for the holiday season. Encir
cled by holly, it pictures two expect
ant children on the lookout for Santa
Claus.
Aside from the usual review of the
week's events, the number includes spe
cial articles as follows: "What Oregon
Needs for Her Future,"' Senator Bourne
"The Call of Oregon," c H. Williams!
of the publicity department of the Port
land Commercial Club; "Portland's Des
tiny, First City of the Coast." E. C
Giltner, secretary Portland Chamber of
Commerce; "Oregon and New York."
Mrs. Minon Traver Fleckensteln ;
Portland's Immunity From Fire." Fire
Chief Campbell; and "Oregon's Lumber
Resources," G. A. Griswold.
There are also articles contributed
by Governor Benson. Chief of . Police
Cox, J. L. Hartmeni manager of the
Portland Clearing-House Association;
C. E. Hickman, district manager of the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, and E. L. Thompson, president of
the Portland Livestock Association.
INSURANCE MAN ARRESTED
J. F. Lee Makes Good Check, Which
He Passed.
THE DALLES, Or., Dec. 17. (Special.)
J. F. Lee, an agent for the Continental
Life Insurance Company, was arrested at
Shaniko yesterday and brought to The
Dalles by Deputy Sheriff Dell Howell,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. Lee was arrested on the
advice of F. P Childers, of La Grande,
Sheriff of Union County.
He was accompanied to this city by a
woman, signing her name as Agnes E.
Lee, whom he says is his wife. Lee was
accused of passing a check for H0 by the
La Grande official. He admitted this
and settled ' the matter by making good
the check and paying costs. Today word
was received from Grass Valley that Lee
was 'wanted there for passing worthless
checks in payment of board bills. Ha
is under surveillance by local officers.
Lee says he resided at Joseph, Or., until
three weeks ago.
N. E. Crow, general agent for Oregon
of the Continental Company, with head
quarters in Portland, who came to The
Dalles to assist Lee, will return to Port
land tomorrow.
FEWER TURKEYS SHIPPED
Douglas County Sends Third Less
Birds Than at Thanksgiving.
ROSBBURG, Or., Dec. 17. (Special.)
Christmas turkey shipments from Doug
las County will be about one-third less
than the Thanksgiving shipment, or ap
proximately 75oO birds. Large ship
ments to San Francisco, and also to.
Seattle and Portland, will materially af
fect the. prices for birds in those centers,
but the. local market is holding firm to
what it was- for the Thanksgiving trade.
A large majority of the birds will go to
Portland.
Many persons find themselves affect
ed wtth a persistent cougrh after an at
tack of -luenza. As this cough can
be promptly cured by the use of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, it should not
be allowed to run on until it becomes
ti ublesome. Sold by all dealers.