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THE MORNISG OREGONIAX, FRIDAY." MARCH 14, 1913. 7 OXFORD BY SPORT PASSES CAMBRIDGE Dark Blue Flashes to Front in Final Dash of Annual Eight Oared Boat Race. LOSERS LEAD FOUR MILES Better Conditioned Crew Responds to Call of Stroke and, at Critical Moment, Forces Prow Past That of Ancient Rival. PUTNEY. England. March 13. The dark blue of Oxford flashed first past the finish line of the Oxford-Cambridge elght-oared boat race on the Thames today. The winner s time was 20 mm utes 3 seconds for the 4 14 -mile course. on which the lnteruniverslty races have been rowed for 70 rears. The Cambridge crew appeared to have the race at its mercy until the last quarter mile, and the finish wss In doubt until the last few strokes, when Oxford, by a desperate spuri, shoved the prow of their shell a quarter length In front of their light blue rivals, cam bridge was unable to stall oft the last desperate rush of the heavier and bet ter conditioned Oxford oarsmen. Cambridge Takes Lead. Cambridge won the toss and chose the Surrey side of the river, where the water almost was without a ripple. At the start Cambridge caught the water first and maintaining a stroke of 36 to the minute. Jumped half a length In the lead In the first half mile. The' Ox ford stroke was kept at 34 for the first mile, when Stroke Horsfall called for a spurt that reduced the light blue lead for a time.' Rounding Chiswlck Mall, however, Cambridge, having the shorter turn, dropped their stroke to 34 and put day light between the stern of their shell and the Oxford bow. Oxford Begins Spurt. At Barnes Corner, less than half a mile from the finish. Stroke Horsfall moved the Oxford stroke up to 36 and, getting a tremendous pace on the boat. Oxford wore down the Cambridge lead foot by foot and with a last final ef fort forced their prow In front. The light blues, who had been com pelled to carry two half-trained men In the boat because of the Illness of members of their crew, were unequal to the last spurt, which would have meant victory. The official times of the race were: One mile 4:12. Hammersmith Bridge 7:40. Chiswlck Mall 12:31. Barnes Bridge 17:31. Finish 20:53. games with fast local teams. The Gill Butchers. Columbus Club. Hollidar Ma roon and Piedmont Stars are some of the nines that the "Orioles'" would like to meet and It promises to give these teams a good game, despite the fact that it reorganized recently. uames can be arranged by calling Mr. Dingle at Marshall 327, between I A. IL and S P. M. , Hopkln Jenkins, principal of the Jef ferson High School, yesterday appoint ed Milton Hermann manager of the Jefferson 1313 football squad. Hermann assisted in the managing of the bas ketball quintet and was a member ot the Jefferson second football eleven last season. . Basil Smith, star Lincoln High ath lete, who took first honors In the broad jump In the 1912 Portland Interschol astlc meet, is now attending the St. Johns High School and is president of his class. Smith was a member of the basketball and debating teams and expects to do Track work for his school this season. March 30 will mark the opening of 1XDIAXS GATHERING AT BOISE Colin Leads Early Squad of Players to Idaho Training Camp. BOISE. Idaho. March 13. (Special.) The call of the Spokane Indian tribe was issued here today by Joe Cohn. the Indian manager, who blew Into Bolso today, and by Monday of next week the training camp will be alive with ac tivity, a squad of players reporting to the chief. Colin said tonight that bis orders to all players are to report by Sunday. He proposes to start the first practice at Cody Park tomorrow. Bobby Davis, P. H. Lind. Pat Bowen and Al Bonner were the first Indians to report. Following on their trail arrived Gleason, a new pitcher from Portland, and Powell an outfielder . from Charleston. Va. Cohn has been notified that Melcholr and Johnson, outfielders, and Ower, a new catcher, all of San Francisco, should be here tomorrow. The preliminary opening of the train ing season tomorrow will comprise four hours' work from 10 o'clock to 2. The weather conditions are excellent for hard, fast practice and a mild cli mate, plenty of sunshine and a dry field will produce results for Cohn and his men. COLUMBIA TO MEET JEPFERSOX Dual Track Games Arranged for April 19 Between Schools. The fourth annual dual track and field meet between the Columbia Uni versity and Jefferson High School ath letes will take place April IS on the Jefferson grounds. This will be one week following the Columbia Indoor meet, April 13. The Jefferson athletes were victors by a margin of a few points In the 1812 meet, and Columbia la eager to even up matters this season. Coach Eastham. of the Jefferson track team, has sent out entry blanks to the Lincoln and Washington High Schools In an effort to bring about a triangular meet among the Portland High Schools, but his efforts are In vain, aa Coach Borleske, of Lincoln. Is strongly against this move. "I think that our athletes will have all tney can do when they enter the Columbia, Eugene, Corvallls and Port land lnterscholastic meets without en tering the proposed triangular meet among the high schools," said Coach Borleske yesterday. It Is probable that the Washington and Jefferson High Schools will hold a dual meett as the athletes of these schools are willing to meet. The Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club has tendered the use of Its tank on the afternoons of Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays between 3 and 4, to the Portland lnterscholastto swim, mers for practice In preparation for the annual swimming meet, which will take place late In April In the Multnomah tank. Amateur Atthletlcs. Commercial Baseball League sched ule for the 1913 season will be formu lated at a meeting of the teams at the Archer & Wiggins store Saturday night. The following teams will com pose this league: W. P. Fuller & Co North Bank, Portland Gas Company. McCarjrar. Bates & Lively, Pacific Hardware Steel Company, Pooley & Co., and Marshall-Wells Hardware Company. This season no player will be allowed to play In this league un less he Is directly connected with the firm the team represents. The Archer & Wiggins store has hung up a silver trophy for the winner. The Mount Angel baseball team has organised and held its first practice game last Sunday, defeating a picked team, 15 to 4. Gus Schnee was ap pointed manager and Volna White was chosen captain. If the Mount Angel nine meets with the success It did last season that aggregation will be hard to beat, as It closed the season with 26 victories and four defeats. The col lege nine would like to arrange a game with the Portland Colts In the near future, as well aa any other fast teams. Manager Dingle, of the "Orioles baseball team, known last year as the Vernon nine, la anxious to arrange PORTLAXD BOT TO LEAD AG RICULTURAL QUINTET. l: :l - t ? ilUili r-4. -a X 5, -J XM Captain Thomas El. May. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallls, Or.. March 12. (Special.) Thomas E. May. of Portland, Junior student In commerce, was Monday night unanimously elected captain of the Oregon Agricultural College basketball team for the 1914 season. There was no active candidate tor the captaincy and all united In conferring the hon or on May. The new captain won his sec ond letter In basketball this year, which Is. his third on the squad. Although kept out of several games early In the sea son on account of a "football" knee, he made an enviable reo ord In the conference games and his election met with approval on the part of fans. Last year May was played as "basket guard" and his work, while consistent and effective, did not permit him to figure prominently In the scoring. This season, however, his particular assignment was that of "floor squad," and he has outscored every man against whom he played with the exception of By ler. In the Washington games at Seattle. The election followed a love feast given the squad and Coach Stewart by ex-Captain Burdlck at the Delta Omega house. EASTERN GRAR TO TRY FOR LAURELS Threats to Vanquish Portland z Speed Boat Are Amusing to Wolf's Designer. FORMER TESTS ARE CITED the baseball season of the Brooklyn Athletic Club team. Its opponents for the opening game Is yet undecided, but Manager Sherrett expects to ar range a game with some amateur nine with a good reputation. The Brook lyn and Columbia Hardware teams will play a practice game March IS. NIAGARA GAVILL'S M PORTLAXD MAX WILL ATTEMPT TO SWIM RAPIDS. Instructor at Multnomah Athletic Club Has Many Daring Ex ploits to His Credit. Not content with being the first man to swim across the Golden Gate, the entrance to' San Francisco Bay. swim ming across the Tillamook Bar with his hands and feet tied, and perform ing other prodigies of aquatic valor. Arthur Cavlll. instructor at Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, aspires to swim Niagara Rapids, a feat no man has ac complished. Cavlll, who comes of the Australian swimming family, announced yester day that he would attempt to swim the dangerous rapids next Summer, local men financing the trip during his va cation. Only once has a man attempted to swim the rapids, and Captain Webb, the daring conqueror of the English Channel, lost his life In the boiling waters below the famous falls. Pecu liarly. Captain Webb was god-father of Arthur Cavlll. the parents of the Port land man christening him Arthur Ro land Channel Cavlll. the "Channel" In honor of Webb's feat. 'I came to this country seven years ago to swim Niagara Rapids, but one thing arid another has Interfered with my plans." explains Cavlll. "The op portunity Is now at hand and I am going to make the effort. I have studied the situation for several years and believe that I can swim the rapids, a distance of about 15 miles, in an hour to an hour and a half." Cavlll, who Is 34 years old, came to the United States seven years ago. and has been swimming Instructor at Mult nomah Club for several years. At one time he held many of the world's pro fessional swimming records. His long est swim was 2$ miles, in the Thames, while he says that his most strenuous one was a 10-mile trip lu the open ocean near Adelaide. South Australia- Angels Lose Another Pitcher. LOS AXGELES. March 13. (Sneclal.) Chaijeyv Jackson is the second mem ber of Los Angeles twirling staff to join the hospital list this week. Jack son was sent to one of the local hos pital's today and the present Indica tions are - that be will pass the next week In bed. Charley Chech was the only member of Hen Berry's gunning squad who is on the retired list. Chech stepped on a rusty nail this week and will be laid up for some time. Michigan Builders Said to Claim All ' Records From One Mile to 35 . Miles but Oregon Wolf Is . ' Declared Equal of Any. Jealous of the reputation achieved by Johnny Wolff and his motor speed craft, the Smith-Ryan Boat & Engine Company threatens to Invade the Northwest with two champions this season nnless the Portland man agrees to campaign one of their boats. Wolff, who Is at present working on a one-step hydroplane, which will be raced this season under the name Oregon Wolf II, laughs at the threat of the Easterners and Invites competi tion, requesting that they send "real live ones, and not cripples." In his letter to the Portland de signer and racer, John P. Ryan, presi dent of the Alganoc, Mich., concern, praises Wolff for his success in the past. Invites him to secure onef their Reliance models and then winds up by declaring that unless someone in the Northwest buys one of the boats for 1913 the company will send two out to lower the Wolf's colors. Wolff Wants Laurels, "Wolff has four times defeated East ern champions and welcomes another opportunity. In 1906. with the Flirt, he defeated the Mercury, winner of the races at the Thousand Islands; In 1907 be beat the famous Arias with the Wolf; In 1909,- at the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, at Seattle, hidefeated the Pacer with the Wolf IL winning two 3500 prizes and robbing the Easterners of a $1000 guarantee they had depos ited to forfeit If the Pacer lost a race on the Coast, and In 1911. at the Asto ria regatta, he beat Red Top II, Mid dle Western champion, with the Ore gon Wolf, and captured a purse of 21650. . "They have tried to beat me four times and have always failed. My boat will be just as speedy as their best. If not several miles faster, and the sooner they come out and put up a nice purse with us the better I'll like It," de clared Wolff last night, as he was put ting the finishing touches on the hujl of the Oregon Wolf IL -' Reliance Records Questioned. "The Reliance people claim all rec ords from one mile to 35 miles and are credited with performances up to 58 miles an hour, but the Reliance III, mile champion, actually traveled at a rate of 37 V4 miles an hour last year in the big competition, while the Ore gon Wolf went at the rate of 42. t miles an hour over a 20-mile course. "Mj new hydroplane will be ready for & tryout late next month. If It is a success those Eastern people would be wise to remain at home; If not, the old Oregon Wolf Is still good enough to beat the best they'll send out." UPTON DELAYS ACTION YACHTSMAN XOT LIKELY TO MODIFY CHALLENGE. Designer Advises Sir Thomas Xot to Compete With 75-Foot Craft Against 9 0-Foot er. LONDON. March 13. Sir Thomas Lip ton said this afternoon that there was little likelihood that he would modify his challenge to tne New York Yacht Club or that he would race with a 90 footer. A definite decision on this point, he said, would be delayed until the of ficial notification that his challenge had been rejected reached him. Charles E. Nicholson, the designer, came to London from Gosport today to confer with Sir Thomas. He said, he had advised Sir Thomas to challenge with a 75-foot yacht, as with that size the best type of vessel could be pro duced and a race between two such yachts would go far to encourage the sport So far as 90-foot yachts were con cerned, Nicholson said that In his opinion the extreme had been reached, and it would be dangerous either to cross the Atlantic or to race with one that necessarily must carry more can vas than the Reliance did. "That was ten years ago." he added. "Things have moved since then. A 90-foot yacht to day would have to be a still bigger freak." Nicholson considered the challenger right In stipulating that the defender must, like the challenger, be 75 feet in length at the water line. He said he ordinarily would decline any orders to build a 75-foot yacht to race against a 90-footer. Nicholson pointed out that the 90 foot yachts of 20 years ago carried less canvas'than does Sir Thomas Llpton's present Shamrock, which Is less than 1 5 feet long. Telegraphic Sport Briefs SALT LAKE-CITY. Utah Without a 'dissenting vote a blU legalizing 15 round boxing bouts passed the Senate. It now goes to the Governor. The measure is copied after the New York law. New York Gunboat"' Smith, who is to box Bombardier Wells, the English champion, Friday, has finished his training. Smith weighs slightly under ISO pounds. Wells expects to weigh in at about 195 pounds ringside. Calcago "Spike" Kelly and Billy Walters, two of the leading aspirants for the now unattached welterweight title, agreed to box 10 rounds at Keno sha. Wis.. March 23 or 29. New York Packey McFarland, of the English lightweight champion, at the Oiympia. London, providing he re ceived a guarantee of 110.000 and 3500 expenses. San Francisco Pacific Interclub Yacht Association delegates have been called to meet here next Monday night to discuss a draft of the proposed deed of gift for the trophjr presented to San Francisco yachtsmen by Sir Thomas LIpton on his recent visit. Officers for 1913 will be elected. Winnipeg. Man. The Winnipeg Baseball Club of the Northern League has signed Tim Flood as manager. Flood played with St. Paul and Los An- Time Off with the old hat, on with the new '' Some bully good novelties in the Spring Gordon soft felt hats , -Smart shapes in Gordon derby hats. At your hatter's. THE Gordon HAT I 1 II MATTERS. maW 125-4 tlxStreet. geles and for the last two years has been at Cairo. 111., as manager. PACIFIC TO HANDLE MEET Washington County Athletes to Com pete at Forest Grove. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY", Forest Grove. Or., March 12. (Special.) At-a recent meeting of the Pacific University Ath letic Council It was decided to allow the track manager to take charge ot the Washington County High School meet to be held April 26. The meet will be held on the Pacific University track and will be open to all of the high and grammar schools of the county. Theevents will differ somewhat from the regulation events, as some of the schools wish to abolish the mile and half-mile events, owing to the Injury that one of the contestants received last year. A compromise is possible providing that the half mile be re tained and the standing high Jump and the hop, skip and jump be placed In the list In place ot the mile. The weight will be somewhat changed and the javelin substituted for the hammer. Levi Austin has full charge and is already working his own men out on the outdoor track. The Forest Grove High School will also have partial use of the track and has 'permission to use the r:ulversity baseball diamond. HARBOR MEN PLAN TRIP SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON" "GET ACQUAINTED" 3IOVE ON. President Brewer, of Development Association, to Lead Visitors to Towns in League. HOQUIAM, Wash.. March 13. (Spe cial.) Preparations for a get-acqualnt-ed campaign are being made by Presi dent Brewer, of the Southwest Wash ington Development Association. His plan includes a visit to the counties and clubs Included In the association. He will be accompanied by local and harbor business men, members and offi cers of the Hoquiam Commercial Club and of the Aberdeen Chamber of Com merce. Mr. Brewer feels that a great deal of good can be accomplished, and the association greatly strengthened by this means and In addition he desires to learn more of the district represented by the Southwest Association. The tour will be made in automo biles, and it is probable that a num ber of business men of other cities than those of Grays Harbor will accompany the party on several of the visits. "Southwest Washington should and must pull together." declared President Brewer today. "The association has accomplished a great deal, but I be lieve far more Is to be done, with the period of prosperity now upon us. This year gives promise of being the best in a business way in the history of the Northwest, and Southwest Washing ton is going to feel it to an even greater extent than any other section. If anything. It Is time to pull to gether and organize for a .greater Southwest and for the development of our district. "Grays Harbor Is going to do Its part to cement a firmer friendship throughout the Southwest. Our com mercial organizations are alive to the need of getting acquainted with our neighbors and of working together for the upbuilding of the district and a spirit of activity is apparent" PROWLERS STEAL MONEY Two Thefts Reported Aggregating $230 in Cash and a Watch. Prowlers obtained 3230 in money in two cases which were reported to the Iter- 2000 HartSchaffner & Marx New ' ' ' Spring Suits Not on display Ifor your early inspec tion, consisting of the finest selec tion of all-wool, steam-shrunk fabrics in every conceivable pattern and cloth you'd desire "styles created by the master designers, tailored in the most perfect manner." Norfolk, Varsity and Box-Back Styles and the price is consistent to all. Give us a trial; you'll be satisfied and so will we. Priced From. $18 to $40 Money Cheerfully Refunded on All Goods Sam 1 Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Shop for Quality and Service Northwest Cor. Third and Morrison 'Copjiisnt Hart Schanncr Multnomah Hats, unequalled at $3 police yesterday. The only other loot taken was a silver watch. From the attendant circumstances neither crime Is attributed to the professional crimi nals who have been active recently. L. Klggs. living at 444 Hawthorne avenue, reported that while the mem bers of the family was absent, someone entered the house and stole 3150 which was hidden under the carpet and took a silver watch. A tramo neddler Is suspected In the case of the loss of 380 from the home of George Mugge, 210 Hamilton ave nue. He had been at the house a few minutes before the loss, which oc curred while Mrs. Mugge was- in the back yard. St. Johns Notes ST. JOHNS, Or., MarchJS. (Special.) Ray Davis and Carl Stone have purchased two lots each in Point View, on which they will build residences. C. D. Pullen was arrested today tor being intoxicated and baving liquor in his possession. Pullen Is only 20 years of age and his partner, who operates a cleaning and dyeing business on Jersey street, opposite the postoffice. Is said to have secured the liquor for Pullen. A warrant is out for the arrest o"f the partner, but he has vanished. Superintendent Monahan, of the St Johns branch of the Portland postof fice, is in receipt of a request from Washington, D. C, for a map of St. Johns, giving location of the business district and locations of suitable prop erties on which to build a Federal building. A call has been Issued for a meet ing of the Commercial Club athletic branch at the St. Johns ball grounds at 1:30 P. M. Sunday. In case It rains the meeting will be held in the Com mercial Club rooms. Walla Walla Pastor May Stay. WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 13. (Special.) Rev. R. C. Brooks, pastor of the Congregational Church, who re cently accepted a call to Berkeley, CaU, to fill two pulpits and a chair in Pa cific Seminary, may change his mind and remain in Walla Walla. 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