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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1912)
TIIE MORNING , OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. JTTNTE 14, T3T2. AQUATIC SPORTS 01! day. June 1, when the Tigers will For Town or Country For Vacation or in the Home, Here's the Greatest Money's Worth in take on the undefeated Hopewell a are gation. Baseba.ll Brevities. Bob Brawn, of Vancouver has turned Pitcher 8ton sod Outfielder Demarsio State Swimming Champion"' over to Winnipeg- Demesslo Is promlaln. bat etlll green, while Heatoa could not get sieriea with the Northwesters cneinpe. ship Occurs Today. Bill R.ldy. sew Sea FTandeeo manager. was the recipient or two flora, offering. Jur. Derore a seme the other dev. mnny Lng, a Modern Music-Making Machine whom he succeeded, sent one, and a group or admiring fsna the other. Reldy Is in communication with Comlsky. Meek. Griffith and Ehbets In en effort to RECORDS MAY BE BROKEN .cure bolstering talent. ... Kerry Wolverton has played several full Ever Offered: $2S games at third for the New Tors Tanseea. Ilia first dar out the Tanks trimmed Cleve land unmercifully. Last Season's Attendance of 25,000 Regatta Beglna Saturday. Which Stands as Largest, Ex. pcctcd to Be Eclipsed and Good Fan la Assured. NEW LONDON. Conn, June 13. The With 14 Selections Cash or $1 a Week first race of the Yale-Harvard regatta. It was announced today, will be rowed next Saturday and will be between tAe second Tale and Harvard fours. 90 a ' ' All aquatic attendance fig-urea In Portland promise to ba shattered this afternoon, when men, women and chll dren will compete In the Orea-on swim ming championships In the Willamette RlTer. Last rear 25.000 people wit nessed this Rom Featlral feature, bat the ImproT.d proerramme and irrester Interest eTlnced presages eren a larger gathering- of spectators. td meeting- will be the best ever staged In the Northwest. Nearly 100 contestants hare entered for the 11 eventa, and the lore of several prospee tlva record-breaking; performances adds to the Interest In the competitions The meetlnr will start nromntlv at o'clock on a 100-yard course Just off the dock or the Portland Railway. Light A Power Company, on the east side of tfte river south of the Hawthorne bridge. Professor Arthur Cavlll. Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club Instructor In rnsrge or the programme, baa Issued a rail for all contestanta to meet at Kel loss's boathouse at 1:30 o'clock, from which point they will be taken In launches to the scene of the competi tions. Gold and silver medals will be given for first and second places In all events. The trophies will be presented to the victors by Frank A. Watklna. of the Multnomah Club, Immediately after each event. - Professor Cavlll looks for a record breaking swim In the 800-yard race, figuring Que Msnkurts. the Multnomah Club man, one of the best In the coun try at the distance. Lewis Thomas Is a hot favorite In the 100-yard dash and expects to establish a new Oregon record. The IS events consist of: Senior. 104 yard. 500-yard, fancy diving; junior, 100-yard: ladies, SO-yard, fancy div ing; Boy Ecouta, race In uniform; egg-and-spoon race, cigar and umbrella race, canoe tilting, greased-pole- rare. A rescue stunt will be an additional feature. SMITH RECALLED BY AJV&EXS notes Kustalns Broken Thumb and Catching Staff Is Weakened. LOS AJfQELKS. June 1 J. (Special.) Hughie Hmlth has been recalled from Murletta Hot Springs and accompanied Henry Berry to Han Francisco tonight to help out the Angels' catching ataff. Boles, the catcher, who has been do ing wonderful work for the Seraphs, sustained a broken thumb In yester day's contest and will arrive In this city tomorrow morning to got In shape. Brooks Is doing the catching at pres ent. i Andy Ferguson, of the Los Angeles club, who has been close In touch with Smith, says the veteran Loa An geles catcher Is In good shape and will be ready to take his turn behind the plate. State League GamessPostponed. Games In the Washington State League were postponed yosterday on account of rain. M'CLURE BESIDE KIVIAT 1 200 METER KACE LOOKS 5LVVT LIKE DEAD HEAT. TO Bellah 'Wins PoIoVevul TVewtern Jfa tlon Ha w Athlete Surprise kins Too Lat to Compete. MAJORS' SCOUTS PICK DALEY Loa Angeles Club Find Three Teams Who Want Center fielder. LOS ANGELES, CaL, June 1. (Spe cial.) Three major league club are after Pete Daley, the Angels' center fielder. A Detroit scout, who Is work ing on the Coast, has recommended Dsley to Hughie Jennings. Henry Berry, president of the Log Angeles dub, has received offers from Harry Wolverton. of the New Tork Americana, and Robert Hedges, of the St. Louis Browns, for the centerflelder. - "Both Wolverton and Hedgea wanted to purchase Daley for immediate de livery." said Berry today. "As I need Daley's service more than the big leaguera I refused to part with him." ATHLETES TO TRAIN' OS SHIP Banning Truck, Swimming Pool and Jumping Pits Fitted on Finland. NEW TORK. June 13. Workmen to day completed the task of transform ing the steamer Finland into a trans port for the Amerlcon team hound for the Olympte a-Smes at Htockholm. That the athletes may not grow stale on the trip every possible means has been provided to give them dally exercise, One hundred yards of linoleum ws tarred down flat on th starboard promenade deck for a running-track. Aft on the lower deck a swimming pool feet deep waa erected. At the after end of the shin Is a tennis court. Jumping pits were fitted up and vault Ing poles erected. The Finland will sail tomorrow. NEW TORK. June 13. (Special.) "Bill" Hayward. of the University of Oregon, arrived today to take charge of the Western athletes on the trip to the Stockholm Olympic games. On the eve of their departure the West ern athletea are attracting great atten tion on account of their marvelous per formances yesterday. McCIure, of the Multnomah Club, al though beaten by Klvlat In the 1300 meter run. finished right beside the greet New Yorker, and to many It looked Ilka a dead heat The time, t:0S 1-fi, Is a record. The track was very wet. Sam Bellah, of the Mult nomah Club, won first honors In the pole vault, but the event waa stopped before a record was approached on ac count of a dangerous vaulting pit. Ira Courtney, of Seattle, was an easy win. ner In the 300-meter run. with Pete Gerhard t, of the Olympic Club. San Francisco, second. Hawkins, of Multnomah, arrived too lata to start In the 70-meter hurdle event, which waa .won by Nicholson, and In which Allen took third, despite poor start. Kdmudaon. of Seattle, did not compete yesterday. It wss a Westerner. Rose, who es tablished the second world's record of the day, the big Callfornlan hurling the shot 0 feet 10 inches, with both hands, and 43 feet 1- Inch with his eft hand, both record performances. Oerhardt also took second In the 70- yard dash. Allen won the broad Jump, with Donahue second. Horlne. although beaten in the blah ump by two men, la regarded as one of the surest point winners on the American team. He has been jumping and breaking world'a records with won derful regularity recently, and It la be lieved he has been doing too much work to keep In perfect form. Plays All the Great Records Perfectly. Pick Them Out Today. ' Offer Is Limited to June and July Buyers. 'C v V under 9SO that hat Now on Saia tt Talking Machine Heftdqnax ten. Latest modern hornless machine smaller in size than the one in the great $59 offer announced yesterday, but of exquisite tone quality, and only $28.90 complete. . HOME OF THt VrV Eilers Bldg Alder Street at 7th. Attend Today's FREE CONCERT A modern hornless machine, densed, compact: the cabinet la Inches square and 7 Inches high, built of quartered oak throughout. Its qual ity of tons Is beyond Improvement and Its volume of tone la aurprlalng. un'U you realise that It haa a perfect re rrooucer and a correct tone-chamber. Just like that of the high-priced In struments. 8ea that tone-chamber be fore you order. Tha cabinets of other amsll hornless "talking-machines" are little more than empty boxes In which the motor mechanism hangs. The un interrupted and acoustically perfect tone-chamber la shown clearly enough In tha diagram. "Hearing la believing " The reproducer glvee a round, full, natural tone. The motor la a aoundless double-spring drive, running three records at one winding, and ran be rewound while playing. Fpeed regula tor, start-and-stop lever nothing leit out. everything right. The Instrument plays any make of either 14 or 11 -Inch disc records. Even If yon already own an Instru ment that cost you flue or whether you do or not you can get I2 0 worth out of tha 'Xyrlc" the first time you axe away from tha house and want good music. Tou can atow It away easily and carry It anywhere boat, au tomobile, tent, seaside, camp, lawn, or neighbor's veranda. If you do not yet own a record-playing Instrument, you will never have a better opportunity to provide yourself with "all the music of all the world." Ho re Is a splendid outdoor outfit, becauee It Is porta hi. ; but In Its tone. Its finish and Its gen eral appearance, it Is a worthy Instru ment for any home for all the year round. This Is an extraordinary Kt.tO worth. At II a week or ti a month you will have It paid for In a little while and "all the muKlc of all the world" at your command In tha meantime and always afterward. It's going to be the best part of your Bummers fun and you will find It so. -At HOME OP THE CH1CKERINQ PIANO Eilers Bid... Alder Street at 7th. Attend Today's FREE CONCERT BATHER SWIMS FROM RES(XE Man In Bathing - Knit, Marine Pageant. Sighting the head of Watches man bobbing up and down In the wlndruffled water of the Willamette near the piers of the draw-span of the Morrison bridge while the river parade waa passing last night, the nabor patrol made a dash to tha scene and aent out a show er of rescue lines and buoys, only to see tha supposed drowning man glide gracefully away from the rescue ap paratus and laugh heartily. The would be rescuers trained their light on the man and found that he was attired In bathing suit and a Festival cap. He explained that ba sought the bathing route aa the best mesne of seeing the parade and forthwith swam away from he patrol boat so that his view of he approaching parsdo would not be obstructed. Hardly had the patrol boat left the scene than tha United States customs patrol caught alght of the bather and hurried to his rescue. Disgusted with the succees 01 his endeavors to see the pageant from the water, he swam to the edge of the bridge pier and perched himself on a leg. The Festival revelers wj.o stood on the bridge above him wore overcoats, but the bather seemed to be comfortable and warm. When the parade had passed he made a graceful plunge into the water and swam toward the docks on the east side of the. river south of the bridge. tiwno:naoot3Eo 0 JEFFRIES TO REFEREE FIGHT Wolgaat Now 2-to-l Favorite In Betting; Over Rivera. LOS ANGELES. Ca., June 11. T. J. McCarey, the prtseflght promoter, un der whose ausplcee Ad Wolgast. of Cadillac. Mich., lightweight champion of the world, will meet Joe Rivera, of Loa Angeles, at Vernon July 4, an nounced today that James J. Jeffries positively would referee the fight. SWIMMERS WHO WILL PARTICIPATE IN OREGON STATE CHAM PIONSHIPS TODAY. T' ELEANOR SEARS RIVAL PICKED Mary Browne, of California, Quull firs for Women's Tennis Finals. PHILADELPHIA. June 13. Miss Mary Browne, of California, defea-.ed Miss Adelaide Browning, of New York, in the semi-final tennla singles today by two sets to one. Miss Kleanor Sears, of Boston, will meet Miss Browne in the finals Sit urday and thla match will decide the championship. Track In Good Shape for Matinee. Despite the rsln which haa fallen this week the track at the Country Club, where the Riverside Driving Club win hold its second race matinee Sat urday, la In good shape and the horses will be able to make good time. Fred T. Merrill, owner of Red Mall, which won Ita first rsce In the meet two weeks ago, la more enthusiastic than ever and la out circling the mile every day. Saddle races may also be Intro duced Into this meet. Boy Makes Long Trip Alone. VANCOUVER, Wash.. June IS. Spe claL) Henry Clay Stewart. 11 yours old. grandson of J. N. Stewart, chief clerk of the adjutant-general's office or the Department of the Columbia, ar rived today from Omaha, having made the trip alone. He will pass the Sum mer with his grandfather, who lives east of Vancouver Barracks. Rain Prevents Trl-State Game. Rain yesterday prevented the Fendle-too-Bolse game at Pendleton and the I .a Grande-Walla Walla game at Walla Walla. McMliinvlIle lo Play Hopewell. M'MINNVILI.E. Or.. June 11 (Spe- rtsl. McMlnnvllle fans will be treated to another fast game of baseball Sun- 7 ? . - , tV ! v - aaaaaaaMSfaasaaaHsixisBBatae-AgVe x : a.v:-.3 a? w J J W'MiMmm U n e n 0 mie Today, the Fifth Day, Will Be HALF-PRICE DAY o ISA 0 T4 0 ANOTHER INNOVATION in the celebratinf of "Tha Owi's" Twen tieth Anniversary. Not only is this sale unique, but it is something wa have never dona before. Today is "HALF-PRICE DAY." Every item which appears below is at one-half our usual prices, which are gener ally considered low enough. Many items featured are even less than cost, but thla ia our plan of celebrating this event. Though the prices are cut in two, the quality is the same as offered by "The Owl" at all times THE BEST QUALITY. Saturday, the last day of this sale, will be another memorable one, bnt no item which appears here will be repeated. As during tha other days of this sale, wa reserve tha right to limit Quantities to purchasers, nor can we assure that articles advertised will last throughout the day. Deliveries will be made at our earliest possible convenience. Abeve Lhi Fafcre, Gas Maekert levr Levis Thoaiaa. s. Be McCarey said that JefTertes had sug gested that he act In the ring and that two more referees, one on each side, be engaged. McCarey stated he was uncertain as to whether to follow Jeff ries' suggestion. McCarey said the betting today made Wolgast a -to-1 favorite. Farmlnglon Defeats Tckoa. COLFAX. Waslu, June IS. (Special.) At the annual Elberton picnic today Farmlngton defeated Tekoa 14 to 1. 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X aw2C lution, 50c pint bottle O C Cream, the $1 size for O U C 0 0 01 01 0 0 n n ft n o 0 o 0 Free Today LIBERAL TRIAL PACKAGE OF JAVA RICE POWDER placed with us for distribution. We snow of no better time than now to dc so. Don't hesitate to aek It's our picture to see that you receive one. 0J L0 0 i2! CSTABLISRKO ISM nr I U I Seventh and Washington Streets KICHrr.EJf owt, STORRe ON THB PACIFIC COAST 0J ,aqT30w3.ora.Ow3ro