THE MOUSING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY lO, 1910. BATTLER SIGNS TO IF SLY -SIX GAMES BOXER WHO WILL MEET FKANKIE EDWARDS HERE Toll & Gibbs'lnc MORRISON AT SEVENTH The Home Furnished Complete Housefurnishings Sold on Easy Payments OP INDOOR LEFT MEET EDDIE LANG Gold Seals, Honeyman Team and Dilworth Derbies Are After First Place. ight-Round Bout at Memphis - to Be Nelson's' Final Workout. COMMENCING TODAY THE SECOND WEEK OF OUR ANNUAL BARGAIN-GIVING EVENT HALL BASEBALL WEAR END WOLGAST NEXT OPPONENT Hardware Men in Lead, Stellar Game Due if Tie Kesults Con- tested Score Still in Dark. Standing i-pown. 8TANDIN Of TEAMS PORTLAND 1XDOOK BASEBALL LEAtil'E. W. L,. P.O. llnnrvman H'rdware Co.. 7 50 Tilwrt)i Iorbios ... .6 2 .7.v .714 .4-'8 .J."0 .000 (loodyar Rubber Co. -..." Columbia Hardware Co...:f Y. M. O. A 2 W. P. Fuller & Co 0 Am .... ....... With only six more games to be played Jn the Portland Indoor Baseball League, an exciting finish is predicted, with the Sold Seals, the Honeyman Hardware Company and the Dilworth Derbies Iigni ing for first place. The season closes January 21. Kach of the three teams has the same chance of winning the pennant. The !old Seals rely on their pitcher. Bob Fordney, to put them in the lead the Honeymans on their fast infield, and the Dilworths on their general team work nnd the old heads of the players. The Honeyman Hardware team leads the trio at present with a handsome margin. The arbitration committee has not yet handed in its decision on the disputed came plaved recently between the Honey mans and the Y. M. C. A. The score In this game stood 6 to 5 for the Y. M. l A. in the seventh inning when the lights went out, but was awarded 9 to 0 by the umpire to the Honeyman team. It appears that the W. P. Fuller team will draw the cellar championship, al though Manager Flint is working hard with his team and may spring a sur prise in the last few games. The Ful lers will play the Gold Seals a double header Monday night in Ringler"s gym nasium. Both Players Clever. If an all-star team were picked from the different nines, it would be hard to choose between Irwin and Causey for the first-base position. Causey, the Honey man first sacker, would perhaps be more acceptable because of his speed, although Irwin, who is always cool and is last. considering his weight, would be the choice of many critics 'Nig' Herschler, the noisy outfielder of the Dilworth Derbies, is clouting the ball hard in spots. Bauer, the clever third baseman of the Gold Seals, is the pinch hitter of the league. Last Wednes day, in the game with the Honeymans. he batted in six runs and scored three of the runs made by his team. Manager Niece, of the Y. M. C. A. team, sprang a surprise on both the Honey mans and the Gold Seals by signing up McKenzie, who turned out to be the hardest pitcher in the league to hit. In the event of a tie between any of the teams at the end of the league race. a large gymnasium will be secured for the deciding contests. The East Side hall is too small to seat even a fair- seized crowd, to sav nothing of the incon venience of the small room provided the players. Bonnie Briggs. E. E. Davis, Baker, Bauer and Pembroke are the. heaviest batters in the league. Todd and Guerln are meeting the ball hard for the Co lumbia Hardware Company. The heaviest hitting teams are the Gold Seals and the Dilworth Derbies. Todd and Weisendan- ccr had a slump recently in their abil Ity to meet the ball, but they have re covered. Backus, the Columbia star pitcher, and Daisy, of the Fullera, are also numbered among the first ranks In the hitting department. Trio Stellar Slabsters. Henderson, Sweeny and Pat McHale. of the Honeyman team, are star slabsters. McKenzie, the late acquisition to the Y. M. C. A. pitching staff, is in Aberdeen t present. If he does not return. Man ager Niece will be handicapped, jvicwen zie is considered the best twirlor in the league, and his slow ball is particularly tantalizing. Bob Fordney. the southpaw for the (old Seals, usually invincible, went bal looning last "Wednesday night in the game with the Honeymans at Ringler's gym. Pembroke and Magee are the fastest shortstops in the league. Ewing. Wil liams and Causey are dividing honors around first base The star players on the Fuller- team re Daisy, pitcher. egalius and Ray Snyder, catcher. Two or three of the players who op poped the umpires were put out of the game. Henderson and Niece have been particularly unlucky in this respect. Buzz Beagle's bad knee is giving him considerable trouble. a,nd he may be obliged to quit the game before the end President Harry K. Smith is attending tUJ the games played at Ringler's Hall. The Ooodyoar Rubber Company's team in composed of hoya from the store with but two exceptions. William Duncan and Kay Duncan. t'mpires Washburn and Marias are successful in preserving order on the dia mond. Flayers on several occasions have tried to run over them but failed. Several members of the Honeyman Hardware Company and the Goodyear Rubber Company teams are related. On the Honeyman team are the McHale blathers and the Beagle brothers. The Gold Seals have Bob and Terry Ford ney. and E. E. and Jack Davis, father and son. SPOKANE TKAIXS AT LEWISTOX As i Kormor Years, lief ore- Season Work Will Be Done. LKWTSTON. Idaho, Jan. 9. Spe cial.) The Spokane baseball team of the Northwestern League will be brought to Lewiston this Spring for early training:, according- to advices re ceived from President Joseph Conn. The team has trained in Le wist on on three previous occasions and the con ditions and accommodations found here have met the approval of the manage ment and the players. Manager Bob Brown brought the Spokane team here last year and during the period he piloted the Aberdeen Black Cats he used the Lowiston grounds one season for the before-season work-out. " The visitors this season will be provided with the new grounds com pleted last Summer on Holbrook Island and better facilities for shower baths ind dressing quarters will be furnished. TVTnrff-jin A- "Ro-bb. 2u6 Stark street, can k s - '' ; if-' '- v I ; ; ; x LOl'IG LONG HEADY-FOB GO Portlander Prepared for Bout With Frankie Edwards. WEST-O'BRIEN MATCH SOON Recently Turned Professional lex ers Anxious to Mix Again Before Oregon Club "Dancing Jim my" Carroll to Locate Here. BY TV. J. PETRAIN. Frankie Kdwards, the clever light weight, who is to meet Louie Long in an exhibition before the Oregon Ath letic Club on January 20, is scheduled to box six Rounds with Frank Norall before the "Wheelmen's Club of Oak land, Cal.r "Wednesday night, and imme diately after that date he will return to Portland to take up training here for the bout with Long. Long arrived last night and looks fit as a fiddle. He recently boxed a four round, bout before a labor union at Spokane, and says he does not need much preparation to be fit for a run-in with Edwards, though he will open training quarters tomorrow and keep himself in trim by regular workouts. Long claims Portland as his birth place, though he was taken to Spokane by his parents when quite young. Thus far in his ring career he has not ap peared before the Portland sports, and is quite anxious to give a good account of his prowess when he shows with Ed wards next week. Gene West, the former Multnomah club star, who has adjured amateurism to get a return match with Danny O'Brien, probably will work out with Long. West expresses regret at de serting the club, but he looks at the matter in a business-like manner. He explains that his one ambition has been to secure a return date with O'Brien, and, now that the latter has turned "prof," it is necessary for him to fol low suit. According to West, he is not as young as he used to be, and on that ac count he figures that he would retire from the fistic game sooner or later anyway, and by turning pr6fessional now and taking advantage of the date offered him by the Oregon Club, he believes he can show his ability to bet ter advantage, and quit the game for good afterwards if he so elects. The match between West and O'Brien will prove one of the biggest drawing cards of the season. An effort is being made to secure Roscoe Taylor to meet Ned Whitman, but the little Seattle lad has not yet replied to the offer made him. Whether lie comes or not, the Oregon club has a lad on the scene to meet Whitman in the person of Tom Hennessy, and in the event that the latter is signed, it is likely that Whitman's bout will be cut from ten to six rounds. Whitman has never shown here, but the fans know of him because of his record as the champion of British Co lumbia. "Dancing Jimmy" Carroll, the clever little chap who made his debut here under the auspices of the Oregon club, and later appeared before the Rose City Club with Monte Attell, has been sing ing the praises of Portland ever since he returned to California. The other day he announced his intention of leav ing San Francisco and removing to Portland, a'hd has resigned his position as electrician at the Princess Theater. He is scheduled to meet Jimmy Austin before the Wheelmen's Club, of Oak land, Wednesday night, and after that bout probably will come directly to Portland with his family. There is some talk of matching Car roll and Couture for an exhibition here in the near future. VEXABLE AFTER O'COXXELIi Sound tirappler Willing to Meet Multnomah Man Xext Month. Virgil Venable. the Seattle grappler, writes that he has no intention of dodg ing a match with Eddie O'Connell, and expresses willingness to meet the Mult nomah Club instructor next month. The Sound wrestler says he intends to retire from the game, but would like a chance at not only O'Connell, but "Strangler" Smith and Charles Harnden, a Belling ham grappler of som prowess. Venable believes he can defeat all three wrestlers. He contemplates engaging in business at Seattle. Winlock. Defeats Astoria. WINLOCK, Wash., Jan. 9. (Special.) 1-defeated, the Astoria (Or.) team in a LONG. fast game of basketball last evening by 22 to 8. The Winlock team took the lead from the start. OREGOX1A TEAM PLAYS FRIDAY Strong Concordia Boys Pitted in Basketball Contest. The Oregonia and Concordia basketball teams will play"a, basketball game next Friday night at the Concordia Club, Fif teenth and Morrison streets. The lineup follows : Oreeonia. Position. Concordia. Wolfe 1- FR Hexter Gevurtz (mgr.)...R FL., Rosenfeld Shisser C Kahn Dberdorfer R G T- Edear Frank Rosenthal L GR Henry Metzger OLDFIELI) BREAKS RECORDS Goes Five Miles on Circular. Ascot Track in 4:24 1-5. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. Barney Old field, driving his Benz racer over the Ascot Park mile track today, broke the world's circular track records for 2, 3 4 and 5 miles. His time for the five miles wa; 4:24 1-5 as against the previous record of 4.26 held by Ralph de Pal ma. TRAINS HELD BY STORM O. R. ' & X. Expects Moderating "Weather Will Restore Schedule. All trains from the Ka6t due here yesterday over the O. R. & N. were de layed by storms East, but it Is expected that moderating weather stcrn will bring the trains back to their regular schedule. The Chicago-Portland special, which was due to arrive in Portland at 8 o'clock Saturday night, did not get here until 8 o'clock yesterday morning, and the train due to arrive last night at S o'clock was reported at 3 o'clock this morning. No. 5, the Oregon ' & Washington Limited Express, due in Portland at S o'clock yesterday morning, did not get here until 4 o'clock in the after noon. No. 41, the Fast Mail, - due at 7:50 o'clock yesterday morning, did not arrive until 3:45 o'clock in the afternoon. I,OllE LONG'S FUTURE OP PON'K.NT COMING. Fraakle Edwards, of San Prao claco. One of the Cleverent , LlftrfatwriKntK on the Comat IV ho Will Box in Portland Jan uary SO. mmmmwmmmmmwm (PWW :. ' 'M'lllllllllMIRII.lll.HiiHitnji LllWlJUt Contest January 2 1 Before Tommy Ryan's Club at 133 Pounds. Champion Will Then Train for Bay City Fight. CHICAGO. Jan. 9. (Special.) Battling Nelson will meet Eddie Lang, a local lightweight, in an eight-round boujt be fore Tommy Ryan's club at 'Memphis, January 21. This contest, to bo fought at 133 pounds at 6 o'clock in the evening. will be the champion's only workout prior to pitching his training camp at Milletts, on the outskirts of San Francisco, for a finish scrap with Al Wolgast. "I have been out of the ring for several months and realize the value of a fast contest before I 'hook up with the lit- le German," eaid the Battler tonight. 'That's the reason I signed with Tommy Ryan to appear before Doc Hottum's club." XELSOX FAVORITE AT 10 TO 7. Los Angeles Sporting Man Bets $7 00 Against $1000 on Wolgast. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 9. fSeecialA Betting odds on the coming Wolgast- Nelson fight have already been estab lished, with Nelson favorite at 10 to 7, by the action of Ellis Cohen, a well known sporting man. of Los Angeles. Cohen, who arrived in San Francisco today from the Southern metropolis, an nounced his willingness to wager his coin on Wolgast. He said that before leaving Los Angeles he had wagered $700 against $1000 and that he stood ready to bet any part of $3500 at the same odds in San Francisco. Cohen will be here several days. "Los Angeles people think mighty well of "Wolgast," said Cohen, "and will be ready to back him .up, if the odds are right. I ' have already bet $700 ""Jn Los Angeles, but have more money, most of it my own, which I would like to place here." According to what Cohen says, the peo ple of that city are quite "sore" because the fight comes to San Francisco, in stead of the South. We ought to have had the fight," he said. "We could have raised $1000 around my place and another $1000 could have been vaised around the city so to have increased the NelSon purse to the $11!, 000 that he demanded. But we let the chance go." SAM LAXGFORD IS BARRED Safety Director Will Not Let Him Fight Sullivan in Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, Jan. 9. (Special.) Sam Langford will not box in Pittsburg Jan uary 18. The man selected to oppose the 4'Tar boy" would not, in the mind of the State Safety Director, John M. Morin, stand anything like a chance, so when the application for a permit is received, it will- be refused. "Montana Jack" Sullivan was the fighter scheduled to meet Langford. Director Morin says: "There are only six men who are able to stand up before Lang ford with any chance of success. These men are Jeffries, Johnson, Kaufmann, Ketchel, Papke and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, and these are the only men that' will be permitted to meet him in this city." DDRANDO GETS OVATION SAX FRANCISCO GREETS NOTED MARATHOX HUSXER.' Big Race With Johnny Hayes Will Be Run Soon If Italian Wins, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9. (Special.: Diminutive in stature and with little that would distinguish him from the rank and file of the Italian people,' Pietro Xo- rando, the well-known longr-distance run ner, arrived today from New York to prepare for his Marathon race with Johnny Hayes, tnat is scneauiea ior sun day, January 23. Dorando was accorded an ovation by his own people. An Italian band pre ceded his automobile up Market street to the St. Krancis and members of the' Ttalian Touring Club accompanied him as a guard of honor. Athe hotel, members of the Italian colony greeted him, and when he appeared at a local Italian res taurant the diners rose en masse to ap plaud him. Dorando cannot speak a word of Eni lish and his brother, who is with him as business manager, attends to the inter views. - This will be the third meeting of the runners. On the first occasion, it was during the memorable Olympian games in London, when Dorando was disquali fied and Hayes given the trophy: later in New York, as professionals, they met, and Dorando beat Hayes. This will be the deciding race. Do rando says if he wins he will be prepared to meet Henry St. Yves', who is also m San Francisco. ' Albany Has Winning Quintet. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 9. (Special.) The Albany High School basketball team . returned today from a Polk County trip with two more victories te its credit. Friday evening, at Inde pendence, the team won from the In dependence, High School by a score of 52 to 17. Last evening at Monmouth it won from the Monmouth High School by a score of 32 to 20. This latter vic tory was achieved with Verne Besson, a substitute, playing in place of Cap tain Park Stalnaker. The team has not lost a game to a high school team thus- far this season. The team is coached by Haman Bilyen, for many years a famous player at the O. A. C. The lineup of the first team is now as follows: Center, Engstrom; forwards, Stalnaker and Dboley; guards, Bigbee and Carnegie: substitutes, Everding, Beeson and Viereck. Charles Ohling is manager of the team. Today is positively the last day for discount on West Side-- gas bills. Read Gas Tips. rvlorsison at Seventh x AWFUL JOLT GIVEN Seattle Writer Sees Chance to Get Walla Walla's Trade. PORTLAND GIVES CHANCE .Possible Entry of Inland Empire Town Into Northwestern League Indicates Severing of Business Relations With Us, Dream. nv w .1. PETRW- In yesterday's issue of the Seattle Times. "Shorty" Hughes, sporting editor gives some advice to the citizens of Walla Walla because of Portland's al leged "desertion" of the Northwestern League as follows: Since Portland has started a commercial, political and sporting warfare on the , c Uies of this state and announced a determina tion to aliftn itself with California, the ap oeal of Walla Walla business men for a place in the Northwestern League nas aroused enthusiasm among the explo.teis of Seattle trade. Walla Walla has always been closely allied with Portland In a commercial and social way. Portland has enjoyed an ad vantage in freight shipping facilities and has maintained a big corps of traveling men who have made their headquarters In Walla Walla. Two Chamber of Commerce excursions, which included Walla Walla in the itinerary, demonstrated the fact that a big opening for Seattle jobbers could be made in the Walla Walla country. Direct train con nections between the Sound cities and Walla Walla have shortened the run be tween the two points and freight can be shipped into Walla Walla territory almost as quickly from Seattle as from Portland. Business" men believe that should Walla Walla bacome affiliated with Seattle in a baseball league the tie of friendship toward this city would be strengthened. Constant association with Seattle in baseball would result in encouraging closer social relations and constant reiteration of Seattle's inter est in Walla Walla would gradually break the hold that Portland Jobbers have bad on Walla Walla's trade. Baseball, of course, i a business propo sition and Walla Walla's application for a team In the league will probably be weighed on the question of whether or not a team would pay In the Inland town. Insofar as transportation is concerned, there Is plenty of train service to accommodate the teams and Walla Walla 4i rich enough to carry a team. Probably the town would make a good foil for Spokane by giving two Inland Empire towns representation. Since Portland invited the cities of Wash ington to solidify themselves when that city declared for a preference of commercial and baseball alignment with California, the big wholesalers and manufacturers of Seattle insist that this state ought to cut loose en tirely from the Oregon metropolis. A base ball team in Walla Walla, they show, would be a big step in that direction. Such an Awful Jolt to Portland ! Now what do you think of that? Such a terrible Jolt has never been hurled at Portland by the scribes of Seattle, and "Brer" Hughes should be in line for a pension from the 8eattle Chamber of Commerce. "Since Portland has started a commer cial, political and sporting warfare on the cities of Washington," says Hughes. In most things the diminutive knight of the dopesheet has proven himself an able oracle, but when he attempts to lay the blame for the present Northwestern League difficulties upon the fans of Portland he misses his guess by some thing like a thousand miles. "Shorty" evidently picks out Walla Walla as a possible "boycotter" of Portland simply because that city has been named as a possible successor to Portland in tho cir cuit of the Northwestern League. If Walla Walla is given a franchise in the Northwestern League, and thereby gets a position on the baseball map, the Walla Wallans will more likely be thank Important Savings in Every Section of the Store, In "Wearing Apparel for Women, Misses and Children In Furniture for Every Place in the Home. ' In Office Furniture. In Floor Coverings. In Drapery and Upholstery. In Lace Curtains and Portieres. In Bedding. ' In Crockery and Housef urnishings. In Heating Stoves. Toll & Qibbs, Hoc. ful to Portland for the opportunity, for the "desertion" of Portland is what offers the chance for baseball to some Wash ington town, whether it be Walla Walla or some other.. Portland Starts No War. Hughes' assertion that Portland has started a baseball war on the towns of Washington is absurd. That Portland is not to be represented in the North western League next season is not the fault of the McCredies nor of any one in Portland, for the Judge, now Con gressman McCredie, always supported the Northwestern idea, and would as suredly have financed such a team an other year had not Messrs. rugdale, Lu cas and Cohn, acting as an advisory board which was more like a dictator ship, decided Portland was not wanted because the fans here failed to appre ciate the ''high-class" of "bush" ball presented by that league. Attention of "S." Hughes is called to . the fact that Seattle made the first break when Dug dale advocated the abandonment of. Port land and the selection of some other town to take its place.. It would appear that Brother Hughes is Dug's press agent, and is doing nicely at that, at least as far as the enlightenment of the Seattle fans is concerned. MAN CAUSES PANIC ON CAR Drunken Passenger Is Cause of Screams and Shattered Windows. After starting a panic on a Jefferson depot car, in which several windows were smashed. "Fonty" Bethune was arrested toy Patrolman Klingle, at Fifth and Mor rison streets Saturday and sent to the police station on a chargei of drnken ness Coincident with his arrest, Bethune gave the policeman and the conductor of the ca.r a lively fight. Bethune became obstreperous while Our Furnaces Look Pretty Much Like Any Other You "Never Heard a Heating Engineer Say His Furnaces "Were Poor TTjey all handle the best all-but us. Honestly, we don't know whether we put in the best heating ap pliances or not, but we have had twenty 3-ears' ex perience and wre give you the best service we know how. 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The property has a good frontage on the Columbia River and has been purchased by the Inman-Poulson Company to complete what i con sidered an ideal mill site. "We have no present intention of put ting in either a main or subsidiary plant there," said Robert IX Inman, president of the company, last night. "We bought It so as to round out what we consider an ideal mill site and now we have it, either to sell or to have for future years if we may need it. "We have no intention of abandoning our present Portland location and as this location is on the Oregon side and most of our holdings on the Washington side it would be little more available for our timber." Greeley's Office Boy Is Dead. FREMONT, Neb., Jan. 9. James R. Kelly, editor of the Uehling Times, died here today, aged 79 years. He be gan his newspaper career in New York, and was at one time Horace Greely's office boy. Today is positively the last day for discount on West Side gas bills. Read Gb.9 Tips. lead. xour nnw on staie. v