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. THE MORNING OR EG ONI AN. TUESDAY. MARCH ; 4, 1913. BEAVERS SLOWLY 1 will lecture to the high school students of Eastern Oregon. Hayward's mission Is to scatter as much elementary training knowledge as possible - among the preparatory school athletes, and thus improve their chances of becoming collegiate, stars later. He will use stereopticon slides, including those showing "views taken at the Olympic games in Stockholm last Summer. All branches of track and field athletics will be covered as thor oughly as the one-hour lecture will permit. Hayward Intends to visit all the larger high schools in the state for this purpose during tHe Spring. He will undertake a second tour of one week during the April vacation. ' The itinerary of the Eastern Ore gon trip follows: Hood River, March 10; The Dalles, March 11; Pendleton, March 12; Athena, March 13; Baker, March 14; Salem, March 17. WHITE HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION AND MAN WHO ASPIRES TO REGAIN TITLE. STRAY INTO GAMP AS SURE COMEBACK ATHLETIC EVENT Ten Players Are Yet Absent, Relative of ex-Heavyweight Champion Says Latter Is Best in Game. Rose Festival Folk Should Hurry if Championships Come Here. . but 16 Present Indulge in Light Practice. . SEE THAT gpURVE M'CREDIE IS SURPRISED FIGHTER IS IN GOOD SHAPE HALF EXPENSE IS PUZZLE 16 0 OOKED PORTOLA SEEKING He Kinds That Mariott, Signed for Outfielder, Is Third Backer and Stanley Is No Youngster; Hlnes No Southpaw. BY HOSCOB PATCETT. VIS ALIA, CaL, March 3. (Special.) The Portland Coast Leaguers are some laggards at reporting. Outfielder Chad bourne and Mrs. Chadbourne registered In from' Guilford, Me.; Pitcher Carson from San Diego, while Manager Mc Credie dropped in from San Francisco on the other track, sixteen - men are in camp enjoying morning and after noon exercise, and 10 or 11 are to doff their woolens. The force likely will not show up before Saturday, which will give rival clubs a 10 days' edge on the Spring preliminaries. The white hopes present are: Catch ers Fisher, Berry and Loan; Pitchers Hagerman, Higginbotham, Stanley, James, Krapp and Carson; Infielders Derrick, Kores and Mariott; Outfield ers Chadbourne, Krueger, Doane and Fitzgerald. Some of those whose arrival is ex pected daily are: Catcher Riordan; Pitchers Krause, West and Hlnes; In fielders MeCormick, Lindsay. Rodgers and Heilmann, and Outfielders Fortier and Cunningham. It develops now that Manager Mc Credle, In his wild scramble after new timber, made a few managerial faux pas, whatever they are. Pat Kelly, the ban Francisco scout, who discovered Fitzgerald and Cunningham, recom mended Earl Mariott, and Mac signed him as an outfielder. The Eureka youngster proves to be a third-sacker. The big manager also made the dis covery today that Southpaw Stanley, secured from the Phillies in the How ley trade, is not a youngster, although drafted in 1912 from the Tri-State League. He pitched in the Tri-State sure enough and made a great record, but Stanley is a veteran of several years' service in class AA leagues. "He pitched for Montreal in the In ternational League in 1907 and 1908 when I was at Providence and Balti more," observed Chadbourne, as he gazed over the assemblage of new faces. "Stanley twirled for Baltimore the following season, and also has been wtih other major clubs besides Phila delphia. I understand he was sent to class B to do penance for striking Man ager Dunne, of the Baltimores." At any rate, McCredie is Immensely pleased with Stanley, as the late bul letins offset whatever poignant grief he may have suffered at the disclosure that pitcher Hines, drafted from the little Eastern Canadian League, is not a southpaw, as supposed, but an honest-to-goodness right-hander. Only light warming up practice was indulged in today. The twirlers work up in relays, serving up straight balls to the batters. Eugene Krapp pro nounces his salary wing in excellent condition, although be has not let it out as yet; in fact, everybody is tak ing things delightfully easy and ex pecting a strong finish down the train ing period stretch. Walter. McCredie received an urgent invitation from Stockton today to bring the team there for the finishing touches, and he is considering leaving Vlsalla about March 20. After the two White Box games for that city. Tub Hackett lias promised him a series of exhibi tion matches. The ball players and newspapermen were tendered a complimentary ban quet tonight by the Vlsalia Board of Trade, and a Spanish dinner has been promised for the next fortnight. STAND-RIDGE ARRIVES AT CASIP Calgary Recruit Dons Suit, Taking Light Preliminary Exercise. BOYES HOT SPRINGS, CaL, March 3. (Special.) Pete Standrldge. pitcher, arrived from Calgary, Alberta. He did not do much else today than don a uniform and toss a few balls around. The McArdleites continued their win ning streak today. The score was the closest one of the engagements so far, but when all was said and done the Mundorffskies were on the wrong end of a 2 to 1 proposition. It was decided today that the Seal squad which will attempt to accom plish the downfall of the White Sox will leave the springs Thursday morn ing. - The pitchers were given a layoff this morning so far as pitching to the bat ters was concerned, and the infield sub stitutes had to look after that end of the Job. ABLES AND POPE IX CONDITION Oak Pitchers Pass Time Exercising in Outfield. . LIVERMORE. Cal.. March 3. (Spe cial.) The Oaks took things rather easy. The morning work consisted mostly of batting practice, with the pitchers shagging around in the out field trying to keep the line drives from tearing up the trees and shrub bery which surround the outfield. The pitchers all warmed up on the side lines afterward and from appear ances it looks as though Big Jumbo Abies and Ashley Pope are drawing close to the pink of condition. Tyler Christian dropped Into camp from the noon train today and looked to be the came old boy. He haa been working for a piano factory during the Winter and does not have much to do to get Into shape. The afternoon's work today consisted of a six-inning game, in which the regulars won by a large score. REGULAR SENATORS VICTORS Toots Schultz, Pitching for Yanni Cans, 'Shows Well. MARYS VI LLE, CaL, March 8. (Spe ctal.) In the first game of the train ing camp, the Regulars of the Sacra mento squad downed the Yannlgans by a score of 10 to 6, playing the regula tion nine-inning game in the fast time of 1 hour and 35 minutes. Toots Shulta, the ex-Philadelphia National twlrler. was on the mound for the Tannlgans for seven Innings and threatened to send the Regulars down to the short end. Pitchers Alberts and 'Harden and Shortstop Stark were out for their first practice today, but did not get into the lineup. Bert Lynn, ex-catcher for the Agnews State Hospital team, who at tracted Patsy O'Rourke's attention sev eral weeks ago. reported today for a tryout. and looked good in bis short practice. - - VIS' I wb- i 1 ; a- yi : V: 1 z j lip I f LITHEK M'CARTY, ,WHITB HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, AT IEFT. AfcD TOMMY BURNS, WHO LOST THE WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE TO JACK JOHNSON. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT CAL GARY BEFORE M'CARTY HAD WON RING FAME. MOHLER HAS "SAY" "The Kid" to Select Infield for 1913 Portland Colts. SPECIAL POWER IS GIVEN Williams . Declares Veteran . Second- Sacker May Choose Men With Whom He Can Work Best. Hope to Land Speas Less. Kid Mohler will name the shortstop and third baseman of the 1913 Portland Colts. So says Kick Williams, Colt manager, who asserts that the veteran San Francisco second Backer will pick out the infielders he can best work with. , -Mohler is going to be a mighty valuable man on our Infield, and I'm go ing to try to give him the best support possible," said Williams Deiore iea.v ing for California. "If he can work faster with Bancroft at short and Col- trln at third, that's the way the men will line up play when the season opens. 'The Kid is going to have special charge of the infield, and it's up to him to look over tffe candidates and pick out the men who are going to assist him in making the Colt infield the fastest in the Northwestern League. W. w. McCredie and Nick Williams have split up the Colt practice game schedule between them, the "Judge to handle Oregon and Nick California. The Colts will train two weeks at Santa Rosa, then play in California towns for a week, and taper off the conditioning process In Oregon. Nick arranges for the California practice af fairs and McCredie is responsible for the Oregon workouts. Williams has little confidence in the ability of the Colts to land Bill Speas for 1913, even if the player does not stick with the St. Louis Cardinals. "Our agreement called for the return of Speas-if St. Louis could not use him, but the waiver line is too strong." com plains Nick. "First the AA clubs must waive and then the As before the Northwestern League gets a look-in." Martlnonl, the bespectacled pitcher of the 1912 Oaks, may wear a Colt uni form this season. Several friends have been boosting the hurler to Williams and Nick will try to land him if no other club stands in the way. Nick's Informers say that Martlnonl is a free agent. w m The building inspector has ordered W. W. McCredie to place a few more concrete pillars under the bleecber sec tions at Vaughn-street parK. "Mac has studied the "dope" sheets to such effect that he is convinced that extra pillars will be needed to hold up the crowds due to gather to watch the pen nant-winners In action. joirysTox ast fottrell lose Strachan and Griffin Take Cham pionship at Long: Beach. SAX FRAA'CISCO, March 8. In one of the most spectacular tennis matches seen here in recent years, John Strachan and Clarence Griffin defeated W. Johnston and Ella Fottrell In three straight sets Sunday, and thereby won the Long Beach doubles championship. The preliminary games in the tourna ment were played at Long Beach two weeks ago. The scores today were 6-3, 6-S. 6-2. Of the four players Johnston was the only one who did not play up to the best form. Griffin played a slashing game close to the net and was largely responsible for the victory. BASKETBALL GAME THRILLER Mount Angel Juniors .Defeat Com pany I Second Five, 55 to 1 6. MOtTNT ANGEL COLLEGE, Mount Angel, Or, March S. (Special.) In a basketball game last night that was full of snap and ginger the Mount An gel College Juniors easily defeated Company I. O. N. G. second team, of Woodbum, E5 to 1. The Junior cham pions played this game as if life de pended on it and the basket throwing and team work displayed were nothing short of sensational. Gnos starred for the winners by his accurate shooting, while Franciscovltch brought the crowd to its feet time and again by bis phenomenal shooting near the center of .the floor. Hicks played good' ball for the visitors. The next game to be played by the junior An gels before the final test with the Jew ish boys' team will be with the Salem High School on the Mount Angel floor Friday evening. . The lineup: ' -M. A. C. ' Woodbum. Gnos R P Dimmiclc Beck L P, . Hick Ryan C Curry Franoiscovlch- .....I. G Tau Sullivan RG Harper POOL TOURNEY GAMES PLAYED O. S. Borders Wins Two Rounds In Highest Class. . ' O. S. Borders won two games in the Multnomah Club handicap pool tourney yesterday, defeating H. H. Keck, 100-61, and Plckard 100-74. This was in the first class. Other winners are: First class, R. Clagett defeated L. S. Lawson, 50-v!3 second class, H. H. Jenkins defeated W. S. Walter, 75-56; third class. H. O. Pugh defeated E. J. Frohman, 60-51; McGuire defeated Frohman, 60-53. SPORTING SPARKS JOHN L. SULLIVAN, former world's heavyweight boxing champion, will be in Portland two weeks. The veteran is on another tour of the Pantages cir cult. : Betts, the catcher who comes to the Beavers if Cleveland cannot use him, is making a hit at Nap training quar ters. When not working with the pitcner Betts Is romping about the out field. He Is also an adept at kicking the soccer football about the Pensacola lot. . Fielder Jones take notice: The White Sox have u "big five" checker squad, composed of White, Lange, Ernie John son, Rath and the Indian, Johnson. Coach Harvey Snyder, of Western Re serve College, Cleveland, will not per mit his promising football talent to play basketball. Milwaukee promoters are trying to arrange for Ad WolgaBt to meet the winner of the Steve Ketchel-Pal Brown fight on March 17. Clark Griffith has asked Johnson to lift the ban on Dutch Schaefer and Nick Altrock. The old fox wants to have the comedians on the Bide lines pulling their funny stuff. ' Johnny Bender, of Washington State College, picks the following all-star Northwest College conference basket ball team: Byler, U. of W. (captain). Cooper, O. A. C, forwards; Savage. U. of W.. center; Sampson, W. S. C, and May, O. A. C, guards. Ex-Governor Hay. of Washington, has joined the Spokane baseball boost ers' club. Believing that Al Bonner has out grown the Bulking fits which marred his efficiency in the Northwestern League in 1911, Spokane writers figure the big hurler a 10 per cent addition to the pennant-winning strength of the Indians. " Four members of Spokane Amateur Athletic Club are going to take a swim in the Spokane River on Easter. Sun day. The temperature of that stream will be many degrees below that of the Willamette when the Multnomah Club men take their Christmas day plunge. THREE WRESTLERS SELECTED Others on O. A. C. Squad Will Be Determined by Contests. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis, March 3. (Special.) James Arbuthnot, physical Instructor, announces three members of the wres tling team to represent O. A. C this season as being Cramer, freshman, of Corvallis, 135-pound class; Muck, soph omore, of St. Johns, 158-pound class, and McBrlde, of Eddyvllle, senior, who won the 175-pound and the heavyweight events. , Who will flU the other places on the team is to be determined next Friday and Saturday, when the contestants for the 115-pound, 125-pound and 145 pound berths will meet between the halves of the O. A. C.-Oregon basket ball games. The men who will dispute the claims of Freydig, Amort and Cap tain Kelley, of last year's teams, to represent O. A. C again this year, are Pearcy, of Portland, freshman, who won from Potter In the preliminaries; Ed wards, of Monroe, junior, who defeated Bolin, and Hawkins, freshman, from Belllngham, Wash-, who beat Hukill, of Corvallis. Moimt Angel to Meet Dallas. MOUNT ANGEL, Or, March S. (Spe cial.) The Mount Angel College bas ketball team will open the season here tomorrow when it meets the Dallas College quintet. Last season the An gels defeated Dallas by a score of 30 to 13. Captain Kennedy announced that the lineup would probably be: Scholz and Kennedy, forwards: Carson, center; Brophy and Dusseau, guards. - . He Is Ready to Meet Either Luther MoCarty or Wells and Snport- ' ers Declare He Can De-. feat "Both Men. BT JAMES H. CASSELL. "Tommy Burns will be the first legit imate boxing comeback in the his tory of the ring," is the tenor of a song as rendered by L. C. Keating, a relative of the once heavyweight cham pion, his former manager, and a theatrical man of Portland. "If they only give Tommy a chance, he'll hold that heavyweight champion ship again," declared Keating yesterday morning; just beore leaving for Cal gary and a conference with Burns. "He's only 30 years old, not 31 until June IS. has taken few beatings, is in good physical shape and stands ready to bet 310,000 that he can beat either Bombardier Wells or Luther McCarty. I believe he can do it, too." Record In DiMcnased, Keating is a great admirer of Burns. He thinks that no heavyweight has ever been underrated as has Tommy, and believes that the Burns who de feated Bill Squires at San Francisco in one round could have won the title from Jim Jeffries when that worthy boilermaker was at his best. "People think when Burns is men tioned that Tommy has been out of the ring for four or five years, when, as a matter of fact, it wasn't much more than a year ago that he met Sam Lang ford and last year beat a chap named Rirkard up in' Saskatoon and trained bard for another bout which was can celled," argues the theatrical man. "Burns weighed S08 pounds the day after he fought Bill Squires and last week I saw him tip the beam at 214 pounds at Calgary. He can make 180 pounds in a few weeks. He is much cleverer than these heavies, with the possible exception of Bombardier Wells, and I am willing to bet my money that he can beat any of them. ' Match Is Expected Soon. Keating is confident that Tommy will be matched with McCarty or Wells within the next few weeks. McCarty has been offered $10,000, win, lose or draw, for a bout at Calgary, while a $10,000 side bet Is also held out as a further Inducement. Wells has received a simillar offer and friends of the Britisher say that he is seriously con sidering it. If these matches fall through Burns and Keating will start on a tour of the world. First they go to New Yorlt, ac cording to the itinerary mapped out by Keating, where Tommy will take on one of the heavies in a 10-round bout. Then they will go to London, then to France. and from there jump to Australia, where Burns has been offered $22,500 for three matches against white men. , "Burns is more popular than any heavyweight in England and Australia, and can draw big gates In either coun try," says his manager-to-be. "The Australians are crazy about him and will pay big money to see him in action. While Mcintosh says that Langford can never fight for him again, I believe that Burns and Langford will meet In Aus tralia during 1913." MITT-MAT GAME GROWS MULTNOMAH, COLCMBCS, ST. JAMES ANT BROOKLYN BCSY. First Card of Month Offered on Thursday When Seven Fast Bouts Will Be Seen. With Multnomah Club, Columbus Club, the Brooklyn Club and the St. James Club, of Vancouver, 'staging monthly boxing and wrestling pro grammes, lovers of the mitt-mat sport in Portland and vicinity ere due for a programme a week during the next few months. . The first card of the month will be offered at Columbus Club Thursday night, seven fast boxing bouts being scheduled. The complete programme has not been arranged, but McNeil, Gruman, Tuerck and Carlson are among the stellar performers scheduled for appearance. The present lineup of bouts will pit Gruman against Mclrwln, a 125-pound boy from the St. James Athletic Club. McNeil was tackle either Belmont, of Multnomah Club, or Meagher, the deaf mute from Vancouver. Blomseth and Koehler, two big chaps, the former from Columbus Club and the latter a protege of Mike Butler's, are matched. Tuerck will meet a good 120-pound boy, and Owens, 140-pounder, is to ex change wallops with Allen. Carlson, 140-pounder, meets a Brooklyn A. C. lad, while Mahoney, Columbus Club middleweight, goes up against Mike Butler's green but . promising 158- pounder, Kane. SPECIAL TRAIX CHARTERED Spirited Will Be Rooting at Oregon Aggies Games This Week. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. March 3. (Special.) Spirited rooting is assured at the basketball games be tween the University of Oregon and Agricultural College scheduled for Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and Sat urday evenings of this week. Excur sions of rooters will be run from both colleges for the games played in the enemy's territory. Cheer leader, "Abe" Blackman, of the University of Oregon has secured a special train for his delegation and estimates that 150 Oregon partisans will make the trip. The train will leave Eugene about 4 o'clock Friday after noon, .and the special rate will be in effect until Sunday. Graduate Manager Geary has received word from Corvallis that 125 O. A. C. supporters will be on hand for the first game to be played on the Oregon floor Wednesday evening. The majority of these probably will stay over for the second game the following night. SnSSIONARY TOUR IS PLANNED University Trainer Will Lecture to High. School Students. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or., March S. (Special.) William L. Hayward, athletic trainer at the Uni versity of Oregon, will leave March 9 on a trip ox one wee, during which he HUNT CLUB WILL HOLD CHASE St. Patrick's Day Will Be Enjoyed Over Seven-Mile Course. The Portland Hunt Club will hold a closed paper chase on March 17, St. Patrick's day, over a seven-mile course in the vicinity of the Garden Home grounds. Among the entries for the chase are George Stanley, Jack Bobn, W. 6. Wal ter. Howard Charlton, W. C Kava naugh, Harry Kerron and James N. Nicol. . GAME TO BE SATURDAY MULTNOMAH AND AMICUS TO MEET IX BASKETBALL. . Feature of Sport This Tear Has Been Absence of Eastern Tourists Invading the Northwest.' The Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club and Amicus Club basketball fives will meet on the winged "M" floor Sat urday night In the first game of a series to determine the 1913 Portland championship. The following Saturday the teams clash on the Amicus Club floor on the East Side, and If a third game is necessary the Y. M. C. . A. gymnasium will be the scene of the struggle. Unless the Dallas Soldiers agree to play a return game in Portland with a more modest guarantee, the Mult nomah Club season will close with the Amicus Club series. A game is scheduled with the St. James Athletic Club five of Vancouver, at Vancouver, tomorrow night, but otherwise the schedule is barren. A feature of the season has been the absence of the Eastern tourists. For many years from one to two crack Eastern teams have invaded the North west, but this year, after the railroad officials opened negotiations for tours, the programmes were abandoned. The season has been a most disastrous one for Harry Fischer's Multnomah Club boys, not a big game of the year showing them on the right side of the score. However, the Oregon and "Ag gie" games were played under the intercollegiate rules, and from one to three regulars were missing when the five left Portland. Captain Fischer, Keck and Pugh were not in lineup in several of the out-of-town contests. Edgar E. Frank, president of the Pacific Northwest Association, has ruled that the new amateur boxing and wrestling rules must be observed in the March 21 Multnomah Club-Seattle Athletic Club inter-club programme. William Inglis, of the Seattle club wrote Frank that the contests would be staged under the old rules of the Pacific Northwest Association boxing and wrestling league, but Frank sub mitted the explanation received from Secretary Sullivan, of the Amateur Athletic Union, and advised Inglis that the new rules must be enforced. The feature of the rules, as used in the last programme at Multnomah Club, is the 15-mlnute wrestling bout with one fall instead of three possible 15 mlnute bouts, best two in three falls to count. The regular monthly social swim will be an equatic feature at Multnomah Club tonight. Impromptu swimming races and fancy diving will be on the programme. Chairman Watklns of the swimming committee announces that all club members and women friends are invited to attend, no admission be ing charged. Amateur Athletics. Joe Gallagher, the former Seattle College star pitcher, yesterday was elected captain of the Columbia uni versity nine for the coming season Gallagher's twirling will undoubtedly strengthen the pitching staff of the team. While engaging in basketball prac tice yesterday Theodore Harmon, mem ber of the Washington High second team, collided with another player and received an ugly gash over his left eye which rendered him unconscious for a few moments. Harmon was to play in the last game of the 1913 Portland lnterscholastic season with the Hill Military Academy Wednesday to make his letter, but it is douDtiui now li ne will be able. Rainy weather yesterday put the damper on the Lincoln High noonday baseball practice. Roussellot, member of the Lincoln High baseball team last year and a star player on the 1913 soc cer eleven, will be out with the base ball squad this season. He played center field last season and made a good showing at that position. The Christian Brothers' Business Col lege basketball team won a decisive victory over the Hill Military Academy quintet yesterday on the academy noor. The final score was 33 to 8. The game was rough. George Davis, manager-elect of the 1913 Washington High football team. was out with the track end field asplr ants yesterday and intends to try for the hurdles. Dr. Fenstermacher, coach of the Wash ington High basketball team, will use his second team against Hill Military Academy Wednesday in order to let the players make their letters. Norene and Gorman are the only two players of the second team who ere sure of starting the game for Washington. Coach Borleske, of the Lincoln track and field team, has called a meeting of the candidates for the track team to day In the gymnasium. Borleske in tends to give his men e good Indoor workout prior to the outdoor grind. Jefferson High School basketball play ers who graduate in June Issued a chal lenge to the remaining players in school recently and a game has been arranged to take place today in the gymnasium. Hendrickson, L. Lister, Flagel. Wells and Williams compose the June team, while Earl, Cooper, Boney, Seeley and Robert Lister will play on the opposing quintet. There is a great deal of Interest In the game and a large crowd of enthusiasts Is expected. Columbia Team Meets Defeat. CASTLE ROCK. Wash., March 2. (Special.) The basketball team of Co lumbia University, Portland, journeyed to Castle Rbck to meet the team of the Castle Rock Athletic Club, and lost the contest with a score of 22 to 15. The game, though a hotly-contested one from start to finish, was a remarkably clean - one, and both teams received much commendation for their ability and fairness. Pacific Coast Track and Field Af fair Would Prove Big Feature ; and With Renowned Stars Would Prove Good at Gate. SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. (Spe cial.) If William Schmitt. newly dele gated chairman of Multnomah Club outdoor athletics, hopes to pull the Pa cific Coast track and field champion ships to Portland In June. 1913, he had better bestir the Rose Festival offi cials into action at once. The Portola festival, of San Francisco, seeks the big athletic games for October and it will take immediate preparation and perspiration to attract the Coast title events to Oregon. The necessity of Immediate action is best revealed by a study of the Portola proffers to the various affiliated clubs of the Amateur Athletic Union on the Pacific Coast. The San Franciscans have agreed to pay the entire expenses of teams from Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and other cities, the competi tions including track and field, swim ming, wrestling and rowing. In view of the fact that Peter Ger- hardt, outdoor chairman at the Olympic Club, San Francisco, agreed several weeks ago to a switch to Portland if the Rose Festival officials will pay but one-half the expenses. It behooves somebody to turn the crank and set the machinery in motion or it will soon be too late. The Paclfio Coast championships would prove a big feature for the Rose Festival, and, with fair weather, would make money. One-half the expenses for bringing the teams to Portland would Involve between $1500 and $2000, in all probability, but. with such world- renowned stars as Ralph" Rose, George Horine, Jack Nelson, Fred Kelly, Con Walsh, Martin Hawkins, Sam Bellah, Ollie Snedigar. Clarence Edmundson, Pat Donahue and others as headllners the gate would more than recompense the expenditures. The Pacific Coast swimming cham plonshlps are scheduled for July 4 at the Sutro baths. San Francisco, so even if the Portola festival is awarded the Pacific Coast track and field events, the swimming competitions It may stage will not be Coast championships, merely Portola championships. Should Portland lose in its bid for the far-Western meet lovers of outdoor athletics will have to be contented with the Pacific Northwestern champion ships, which will likely be held during the Rose tourney. This competition will be mainly be tween the three athletic clubs. Port land. Seattle and Vancouver, with a few straggling cinder and field prod igies from the smaller clubs at Astoria, Victoria, Tacoma and perhaps Spokane and others included. With the Stanford Southern Califor nla track meet less than a fortnight away, cinder path enthusiasts in this section of the hemisphere are speculat ing on the possibilities the future holds in store for "Ric" Templeton, the Stan ford high hurdler. At the recent Olympic Club Indoor meet Templeton defeated Forrest Smithson, hero of the 15-second nop over the high timber at the London Olympics In 1908, equalling the world's record of 9 seconds for the 75-yard high hurdles. Besides being a crack hurdler, Tem pleton can negotiate over six feet in the high jump and is a fair performer in the pole vault. Many in this section believe the West is destined to turn out another remarkable hurdle prodigy to bid for a seat alongside such stars as Smithson, Kelly, Hawkins and Bee son. LA GRANDE IS NOW IN LEAGUE Merchants Pledge $3500 for Ex penses and I?. A. Foley Is Manager. LA GRANDE. Or., March S. (Spe cial.) La Grande tonight got into the baseball game again after weeks of undeclsion and post haste sent a man to Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Spo kane after players. La Grande had $2500 raised all the time, but didn't have anyone in the city who would shoulder the load of making good possible deficits. During the past few days, however, the mer chants added another thousand to the subscription and tonight the sub scribers elected P. A. Foley, a local hotelman, president of the club, with power to select his assistants. He has sole power over the club and Carl King will be playing manager. This insures the identity of the West ern Tri-State with North Yakima, Walla Walla, Pendelton. La Grande, Baker and Boise as the clubs. In view of the heavy financial losses sustained by La Grande last year when the league was formed, the decision to proceed this year was slow in forming, but came tonight with a whoop. Foley left tonight for Portland. ANGELS TRY IIANT AT BUNTING Ontfield Players Get Away Fast. Tigers Also Practice. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 3. (Spe cial.) Bunting practice occupied the major part of the time of the Los An geles Spring training squad at Wash ington Park today. Time and again "Cap" Dillon sent his men up with in structions to bunt the ball and then try to beat it out. Evidently the Angel leader is figur ing on using his speedy men to the best of advantage this year. He in tends to adopt bunting practice as a regular part of the dally practice pro gramme. With seven exceptionally fast men on the team, Dillon's plan should prove to be a good one. Ellis. Maggert and. Moore, the three men scheduled for outer garden berths, all showed won derful speed today In circling the bags. BOXiN G SEVEN SNAPPY BOUTS Columbus THURSDAY, MARCH 6 FIRST BOUT, 8:30 SHARP Seats for Sale at Schiller's, Sixth and Washington. Sightseeing Auto Direct to Club Leaves 6th and Wash. Sts. at 8 P. M. This May Be Your Case Mrs. S. told her husband that the continual scowl ha was wearing was becoming unbearable. To hu mor her he took her advice and saw us. Eye strain caused him to scowl. Glasses supplied by us re moved the eye-strain and the scowl faded away. You need Shur-ons if you need glasses. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE 209-10-11 Corbett Blag., 2d Floor, Portland's oldest and largest ex clusive optical place. Getting away . fast, these three men were able to beat out most of their bunts. Frans Hosp, John Raleigh and Harry Stewart worked out for the flnst time with the vVenlce Tigers on the T. M. C. A. field today. All three of the vet erans appeared to be la fairly good shape EXHIBITORS DRAW FOR CHOICE Anto Dealers Arranging for Big Show March 17-33. Forty Portland automobile dealers, all of whpm will exhibit at the big auta show of March 17-22 in the Land Show building, met last night to draw for space in the show structure. The Mo tor Car Company of Oregon, represent ing the Lozier, gets the choice of loca tion, while the H. L, Mann Motor Car Company, representing Stuts & Hen derson, and the Gerllnger Motor Car Company, including Pathfinder, Warren and Federal models, come next in or der. The lucky drawers will meet at 11 o'clock Sunday morning to choose their sites. The dealers decided against an auto mobile parade for opening day, owing to another St. Patrick's day procession being scheduled for that day. Friday, March 21, has been decided on as society night. Pacific Freshmen Win. FOREST GROVE, Or March S. (Spe cial.) The Pacific University freshmen defeated the Tualatin Academy basket ball five; 15-14, tonight in a very rough game. The visitors led, 7-3, at the end of the first half. Telegraphic Sport Briefs ST. LOUIS. The main squad of the St. Louis Americans left for their training camp at Waco, Texas. Chicago. George Sutton, the veteran billiard player, won a match at 18.3 from Jose Ortiz, champion of Spain Sutton made 400 to Ortiz' 193, finishing with an uncompleted run of 201. His average was 33 4-12. Ortiz had an average of 17 6-11 and a high run of 52. Milwaukee, Wis. Pal Brown, of Hib blng, Minn., defeated Steve Ketchell, of Chicago, in a 10-round bout. Brown led all the way; landing almost at will. San Diego, Cal. The Pasadena polo team lost to the Coronado four, and is out of the contest for the California trophy. The final score was: 13 3-4 to 2 1-2. Washington The final matches in the Military School Rifle Shooting League show a clean score of victories for the Bordentown, N. J Military In stitute In the Eastern League. The Wentworth Military Academy, of Lex ington, finished first in the Western League. , Havana In the 12th round of the chess tournament Capablanca won from Chajes; Marshall drew against Corzo, and Jaffa won from Kupchlk. The game between Janowskl and Blanco was adjourned. London Entries for the D wight F. Davis lawn tennis trophy closed with seven entries. The United States, Can ada. France, Germany, Australia, South Africa and Belgium will fight out the preliminaries for the privilege of play ing the British holders. San Francisco Matty Mcintyre, an outfielder obtained by the San Fran cisco Coast League team from the Chi cago Americans, has bought his own release by the payment of $1000, hla purchase price. BUSINESS SHOWS NO FEAR Ml Fleischner Repots on Conditions! as Found In East. "The impending change in the admin istration of the Government appears to have not the slightest effect upon busi ness conditions in the Eastern states," says Mr. Fleischner, who returned Fri day from a visit of more than a month in New York. "Everything seems to be going along smoothly without re gard to political conditions or possible changes. The one thing that seemed to be having a Eerlous tendency to check business activity was not political in Its nature at all, but was Industrial. The many strikes that occurred at about the same time made conditions for a while appear very grave, but when I left New York everything was beginning to improve once more. Club Williams Ave. and Morris St.