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Eastern Outlaw Baseball Or
ganization Flirts With
Beaver Pitchers.
OTHER COASTERS SOUGHT
Overall and Koestner Approached by
Stovull Higglnbotham Will Jump
Organized Ball Rather Than
Go to Northwestern.
The Federal league is said to be
flirting with Irve Iligginbotbam and
Eugene Krapp. two members of Port
land champion Coast League pitching
corps. Hig practically admitted aa
much yesterday, while information aa
to the demon spltballer emanates from
Detroit newspapers.
"No. I don't think I'll Jump to the
new outlaw circuit." said Higgln
hotham. "In fact. I know I will not.
Just aa I also know Walt McCredie
wasn't figuring on sending me to the
Northwestern League when he asked
waivers on me at the last Coast meet
ing. "But you can say this for me: I will
ro to Ihe Federal League before I
will go to the Northwest."
His thinka there Is a good thing in
store for the Feds and to show that
he is keeping in touch, he produced a
clipping from a Cleveland newspaper
only two or three days old.
"Recently the newepapers said that
Cleveland had dropped out of the Fed
eral League." pointed out the big
pitcher. "This Cleveland newspaper
denies this report. Furthermore, the
magnates met In St. Louts last week
and eight clubs. Chicago. St. Louis and
Buffalo and Baltimore, each posted
bonds for JSO.0O0.
That looks as if they mean busi
ness." Higglnbothain returned only a few
days ago from several weeks on his
brother's ranch In Central Oregon.
Hig won 13 and lost 13 games for
Portland In 1912 with a second di
vision club, and won 21 and lost 14 In
1913 with the champions, so all in all.
he would make good timber for the
Feds.
Down South It Is known by the of
ficials of the Coast League that an
agent of the Fed circuit has ap
proached Jerf Overall and Elmer
Kocstner. Stovall, former ft. Louis
American manager, now at the head
of the Kansas City outlaws, is the
man who is doing the scouting.
Koestner was drafted by the Chicago
Cubs last Fall, and If he falls to make
good. Happy Hogan will have a chance
to take him back. But. Koestner, does
not seem pleased with the prospects,
for he admits that he will Jump to the
outlaws rather than return to the
Coast circuit.
Portland, it will be recalled, traded
Koestner to Venice one year ago for
Al Carson. Carson was released out
right in mid-season, whereas Hogan
got $2500 for Koestner and a full
year's work.
Someone asked Manager McCredie if
be wasn't sore on himself for the trade.
"Not a bit." remarked Mac, smiling
aar donlcally. "If he had been with me
nobody would have drafted him along
side Bill James and Hagerman. Fur
thermore. I had five better pitchers on
my staff, so why should I regret my
deal. Hogan tells me he had trouble
with Koestner. too, for after his draft
ing the' "Sphinx" would simply tell Ho
gan to Jump into the river whenever he
felt so disposed."
While Portland Coast League con
tracts will not go out until January 1,
or soon thereafter. Manager Walter Mc
Creedle announced yesterday that his
champs would be asked to convene
about February 25 or 26. The training
camp undoubtedly will be Santa Maria,
where McCredie conditioned his squad
for several seasons prior to 1913, when
he took a flier over to Vlsalia.
Santa Maria is midway between Los
Angeles and San Francisco, on the wet
side of the Coast Range. It is located
almost opposite the Coast divide from
Vlsalia. which Is set in the heart of the
San Joaquin Valley.
McCredie plans to remain there for
three weeks, playing the American
Giants, colored, and the Chicago Ameri
cans. Then he will move his Beavers
north to Stockton for a few days. Jump,
lng from there into Sacramento, where
Portland opens the season on March 31.
Two years ago when Portland exer
cised at Santa Maria Dan Cupid took a
hand and a courtship resulted in the
marriage of Jack Gllligan. pitcher, to a
t'anta Maria lassie whose papa owns
half the sugar beet land in the county.
So the unmarried players naturally will
welcome the switch to the old camping
grounds.
The Oaks and Venice Tigers are the
only Coast League clubs without known
unlimbering quarters. San Francisco
will train at Boyles Springs, Los Ange
les at San Bernardino, Portland at
Santa Maria and Sacramento at Marys
villa. Oakland's choice likely will be
Llvermore.
IS Ton Added to Keel.
BRISTOL. R. I.. Dec. St. Eighteen
tons of lead was added today to the
keel of the Vanderbilt syndicate's can
didate for defender of the America's
cup. This brings the weight of the
keel up to 73 tons. The additional
weight was required as the result of
changes made in the plans since the
keel was molded December 12.
Harper to Lead Stockton.
STOCKTON, Cat., Dec. I. George
Harper, for years prominent In base
ball circles on this Coast and an um
pire of note, was authorized today to
make known his appointment as man
ager of the Stockton State League
team.
HAIRY LIP GERM JUNGLE
Cincinnati's Health Officer Warns
Yoonjc Men of Today.
CINCINNATI. O.. Dec. 23 J. H. Lan-
dia, chief health officer of this city,
views with alarm the revival of the
mustache among fashionable young
men. and has given fair warning
against It.
"The young men who deliberately let
hair grow on their upper lips are tak
ing backward steps." he- said. "No
man has a right to go back to the
Jungle and raise germs. A mustache,
however small. Is a garden for germs.
It is a bad thing for the owner, as well
as for others."
Michael Ryan, millionaire meat pack
er, who has had 44 years of practical
experience in beard culture, today de
clared: "I do not believe in the germ theory
of whiskers. I have lived with my
beard for 40 years and we have enjoyed
good health together,"
TOMMY BURNS HEAVYWEIGHT PROTEGE WHO BATTLES
GUNBOAT SMITH NEW YEAR'S DAY.
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TINKER ONLY HINTS
Money Behind Federal League
Says Joe After Conference.
$36,000 OFFER IS TALKED
President of New Organization Said
to Have Tempted Ftormcr Man
ager of Beds, but Neither
Discusses Negotiations.
CHICAGO, Dec 2S. Joe Tinker, for
mer manager of the Cincinnati team,
and President Gilmore, of the Federal
League, held a conference this after
noon with reference to bringing Tinker
into the new league.
According to Tinker, the conference
was without result excepting that they
agreed to continue negotiations tomor
row or Monday. Neither party to the
meeting would divulge the terms, which
were considered.
Followers of the game asserted that
Gllmore at the least must outbid
Brooklyn, despite Tinker's preference to
remain in Chicago.
Tinker refused tonight to confirm or
deny the report that he had been of
fered 336.000 for three years in the Fed
eral League. In discussing the affair,
he commented, however, that he could
not ask that much money in three years
in the National League.
"There Is money behind this Federal
League." said Tinker, "and the proposi
tion they made me Is a good one. I
know I can make more money than If I
stayed In organized ball. They have of
fered mo some stock on which I now
have an option and If arrangements can
be made I will take it the same as
Chance did his. He was given 10 shares
and paid for it out of his dividends."
If Tinker signs with the Federals, he
may be enjoined by Charles Ebbetts.
of Brooklyn, according to Charles W.
Murphy, president of the Chicago club.
Murphy declared today that the reserve
clause in a player'a contract would be
made the basis of an injunction suit
that would probably prohibit the player
being used by the Federal League.
"Humming Bird" Tyler Dies.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Turf men
beard with regret today of the death
of Frank L. Tyler, a bookmaker known
from coast to coast as "Humming Bird
Tyler." He .died yesterday at his home
in the Bronx of pneumonia. Tyler got
his nickname on the New York courses
because of his peculiar method of call
ing off bets to his sheetmaker.
Fighters Go Through Window.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. Dec. 26. (Spe
cial.) Robert Brown,
Pe Ell. Is
PRANK CHANCE, chief of the down
trodden . Yankees. Is expected to
lead an uplift movement the
coming Summer. Chance took over the
Yankees last year when they looked
about the worst possible specimen of
a baseball club. The fCfW """T
USU VI ' r.
knife .enabled
Chance to rid him
self of a lot of ex-ce-s
bazgage and
the liberal purse of
Owner Farrell en
abled hira to build 1
im a nrettv strong
infield and a speedy : CSLifZ .?
outfield.
The Yankees are
still a bit weak in ; . '- -r :, - J
the pitching end of a ". -
the team, but some Fraalc Chance,
of Chance's recruits may develop into
finds, and it they do the team will
bear watching. Strength added in that
department means trouble for the first
division teams of the American League.
Chance, Staliings. Carrigan. Rickey
and Robinson are the men who are
being queried the most on that score.
Staliings is one of the most-feared
manaeera in the National League. He
took the Braves last year after thej
had floundered around the cellar for
years. He put new blood into the
t:m St all In sr s got rid of a few
-ha beens" and has added recruits.
on the development of whom depends
the strength of the team,
The Pacific Association of Amateur
Oarsmen will have a big regatta on
Exposition Day at the San Francteco
I'aur gruunds. Tne Alameda, ittutp. ma.
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TTTE MORXTXG OREGOXIAy. SATURDAY. -
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in the County Jail charged with assault
on Joe Lucas, moving picture manager.
of Centralia. The trouble occurred at
Pe Ell Christmas ove, and during the
mix-up the two men crashed through
two or three panes of heavy show
window glass in the front of a -building.
Twenty stitches were taken in
wounds suffered by Brown and several
on those of Lucas.
Tennis Tourney Opens Today.
TUXEDO PARK. N. Y, Dec 26. The
first court tennis tournament for the
new National challenge cup. presented
by the Tuxedo Tennis and Raoquet
Club, will be on here tomorrow. Some
of the best, amateurs in the country
are entered for the trophy, which takes
the place of the gold racquet, now in
h nofuession of Jav Gould after a
series of victories. The tournament is
open only to amateurs.
Albany Team Xamcs Captain.
ALBANY. Or.. Dec 25. (Special.)
Clinton Archibald was chosen tnis weea
as captain of the Albany High School
fnnthall team for the season of 1914.
He played halfback on the team during
the past season, ana is one i ma
niavers of the High School, particu.
larlv on defense. He is a son of O. A.
Archibald, cashier of the First National
Bank of Albany.
VENICE OWNER TO LOOK OVER ST,
LOUIS AMERICANS.
It Proposition Offered Is Liked Cali
fornia Magnate May Eater Majors
and Thereby Become "Hero."
LOS ANGELES, CaU Dec 26. (Spe
cial.) Ed R. Maier, owner of the
Venice Coast League and Stockton Cal
ifornia League baseball clubs, is plan
ning to leave for St. Louis next weeK,
n.r,aihiv for the nuroose of investi
gating and probably purchasing the
St. Louis American League franchise.
If Maier likes the proposition offered
by the St. Louis outfit, it is highly
probable that he will accept and be
nm a full-fledged "hero" in addition
to owning a major-league franchise.
Thn. who have canvassed the situa.
tion at all, realize that the franchise
will be about all the St. Louis man
agement would have to sell and no one
except a hero would tackle such an
undertaking.
MEHEGAX DEFEATS BROWN
Australian Lightweight Gets Decision
Over American Boxer,
MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec 26.
Hughie Mehegan. tne Australian iBui
w.icht won a decision today over Pal
American pugilist, in an
..nitlnv aft-round bout.
By wlnnig today Mehegan evened up
the score with Brown, who defeated
him on points in a 20-round contest at
Sydney, in OctoDer.
iri.i mil Dolnhln Clubs will have
crews entered in the big event.
Yale today has a brilliant record
which gives it equal standing with
the St. Louis teams.
In rowing the last
from Harvard In 1907.
race was won
In baseball Yale
Harvard since 1909.
has not beaten
In football It is five years since a
win was registered over Harvard.
In track athletics Yale has not made
a cleanun from her big rivals for
nearly a decade.
Another syndicate to build boats for
the 12-meter international race in 1915
was organized in San Francisco re
cently. It Is composed of bay pilots
and will be manned and sailed by the
men who direct the ocean-going ves
sels in and out of San Francisco Bay.
. . .
Twenty thousand persons saw the
annual indoor meet of the San Fran
cisco school children. At 10 cents a
head, a crowd like this would buy
Portland's school children all kinds of
needed playground and field parapher
nalla. . .
A manager's iob Is not a lasting one-
Only five of the big league leaders
have held their position for three
years.
Helena, Mont, will have a boxing
blowoff to start the year. The main
event will be a 13-round go between
Matty Smith, of Wisconsin, and Jack
Douglas, pi Euue,
BILL"
CASE
DAHLEU ONE
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Mathewson Says Deposed
Manager of Brooklyn Team
Got Little Credit.
TALENT ADDED TO CLUB
New Leader Will Have Good Aggre
gation to Begin With, Says Giants'
Star Hurler, Who Discusses
Game and Players.
BT CHRISTY MATHEWSON.
The Glsnti' Star Fllcher.
LOS ANGELES. Dec 26. (Special.)
So they have turned poor old "Bill
Dahlen out of Brooklyn. Ills case
proves that you have got to be a win
ner In baseball to stick not that
Bill's" was needed as an example to
demonstrate this theory. That Is the
roasnn that so many star piayero
dodze the Jobs of managers when they
are offered to them, jr tney oon i
make good and are turned out, there
is no other baseball prospect for them
as a rule, except, perhaps, as a minor
league manager. Most stars would
rather trail along with their old club
in an advisory capacity.
Whll Dahlen did not make gooo in
a sense, he Improved the Brooklyn club
during his four-year term and appeared
to be lust on the verge or collecting on
the players he 'had bunched when he
got fired. The only players with the
Brooklyn team today who were on the
roster when Dahlen took charge are
Hummel. Rucker and Wheat It win
therefore be seen that Dahlen has made
good in selecting players, as he has
gathered several stars under his man
agement. His trouble was probably do
ing too well at the beginning of the
last season. He had nls ciud up mere
fiKhting with Philadelphia for first
place and all the Brooklyn fans were
talking pennant. When It fell back
and was passed by Boston, the Brook
lyn rooters were naturally very much
disappointed and started to knock, as
rooters will.
It strikes me that the new Brooklyn
manager should have a fair assortment
of talent vto start with, and I would
not be surprised to see the club finish
In the first division next season. There
are liable to be several changes In the
looks of the first division next year.
as the Boston team, under George
Staliings, has a great chance to land
there and, if these two teams do make
it. then some of the regular tenants
are going to be crowded for room. The
Cubs. Giants. Pittsburg, and either
Philadelphia or Cincinnati have ac
cumulated the habit of finishing in the
first division.
When Frank Chance took hold of the
Cubs he inherited a great bunch of
ballplayers, gathered by Frank Selee,
his predecessor. The team was just
ripe to win and Chance got all .the
glory. Of course. Chance was and is
a great leader, but he does not deserve
the credit for gathering the marvelous
Cub machine that won so many cham
pionships for him. There ore two types
of men in baseball, the kind that can
pick good players, but cannot develop
them, and the kind that can get the
baseball out of latent talent. Of course.
the ideal combination in a manager is
the man who cannot only pick the
players, but also develop them and get
the baseball out of them. All the great
leaders have these two qualities. Mc
Graw, "Connie" Mack and Fred Clarke
possess them in an exaggerated de,
gree. If that is possible.
Personally, I do not see why Dahlen
did not carry the punch, because he was
always one of the shrewdest players
that ever wore a uniform. I know this,
because I played on the same team with
him for several years and saw him
pull off plays that required lightning
thinking. I don't see why he should not
be able to both lead and develop players.
But It would not surprise me to see the
next manager of Brooklyn take Dahlen's
collection of talent and make a good
showing with It, and "Bill" get very
little credit. I have a soft place in my
heart for Dahlen because he was al
ways a game ballplayer and a good one.
Frequently the fast-thinking ball
players do not make the best managers,
because they think too fast for their
men and have not the ability to trans
mit their knowledge. There has been
some talk of "Ty" Cobb as the manager
of the St. Louis Browns. Cobb is a
wonderfully fast-thinking ballplayer.
but he cogitates too rapidly for the
other members of his team, as well as
his opponents, as a rule, and this has
been responsible for much of the trou
ble, real and rumored, in which Cobb
has been mixed up on the Detroit club.
Cobb outguesses his own men, as well
as the others, and he Is temperamental
and has little patience with slow think
ing. It is this quality that he would
have to overcome in order to be a suc
cessful manager. Hal Chase was of the
same type and failed for this reason.
His own men could not follow his indi
vidual work.
I do not think there is a. chance of
Cobb going to St- Louis for several rea
sons. One is that he is getting an
enormous salary in Detroit, and he has
only his own worries there, which are
sufficient when the game is played as
he plays it. If he should attempt to
lead a club he would have the worries
of the whole team as well as his own.
It would doubtless hurt his playing, and
there is no question but that he would
be a playing manager for several years.
Then again, there are no players in St.
Louis that the Tigers would look at in
a trade for Cobb, and they could not
afford to take anything but players.
The Georgia star is getting an enormous
salary, but he is worth much more than
the money he draws at the gate each
season. None knows It better than the
Detroit management. There Is not a
chance of Cobb going to St. Louis or
any place else.
Recently I have noticed frequent ref
erence in the newspapers to the extreme
youth of John P. Mitchel, the Mayor
elect of New York. The papers speak of
his age as that of a boy, and say that
he is Just beginning his career, and that
he has many years of youth ahead of
him.
That is the difference between base
ball and politics. I am Just about Mr.
Mltchel's age. his being 34. There is
not a year's difference between ns, yet
they always speak of me as the moss
covered veteran. Baseball Is certainly
a business that feeds on youth.
(Copyrighted, 1913, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
M'LOCGHLIX has xo fear
Proposed Rule to Handicap Him Not
Possibility, Says Tennis Star.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 26. Maurice
McLoughlln, America's foremost ex
ponent of tennis, to whom goes most
of the credit for winning the Davis'
cup in England this year, discredits
reports that British tennis authorities
desire to change the rules of play
for tie International troDhjr jj BUCn
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DECEMBER 27. 1913.
a way as to handicap him and other
American players who have a similar
style. The story has reached Mc
Loughlln that the Englishmen want to
Inject a rule that a player, after serv
ice, must touch his foot to the ground
before running In to the net.
Such a regulation would slow down
McLoughlin's play materially, for one
of his greatest sources of strength has
been his alacrity in reaching the net
to follow up his cannon-ball Bervice.
McLoughlln, in discussing the sub
ject today, explained that such play
ers as Wallace Johnson, of Philadel
phia, and Parke and Wilding, the Eng
lish cracks, might favor the proposed
foot-fault rule without surprising him
very much, as they are back-court per
formers, but he expressed the opinion
that the rule never would be adopted.
DELIBERATE WALKS TARGET
Hank O'Day Proposes Protection to
Heavy Hitters.
CHICAGO. Dec 26. A plan to elim
inate the intentional passing of heavy
hitters will be proposed to the rules
committee of the National Baseball
League, at its next meeting, it was re
ported here today.
The Idea was born in the head of
Hank O'Day, umpire, and member of
the committee, who thinks that mak-
lng the catcher's box narrower would
accomplish the desired object.
CHICKS RAISED IN JAIL
HEAD OF. INDIANA WOMEN'S PENI
TENTIARY .TJITS JOB.
Assertions Made That Miss Rhoades
Owes State IHOOO, bat Makes
Settlement for flOOO.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Dec. 22. Miss
Emily E. Rhoades has resigned as
superintendent of the Indiana Wo
man's Prison, and Miss Addle Bond,
who lias been connected with the in
stitution for several years, has been
placed in charge temporarily until the
board of trustees makes a permanent
appointment. The resignation of Miss
Rhoades was demanded by Governor
Ralston after an examination of the
affairs of the prison by the board of
trustees.
The report of the examination,
which was made by the state board
of accounts, has not been made pub
lic, but it is said Miss Rhoades made
a settlement with fhe state oy tne
payment of 31000 and turnel over a
large number of chickens which she
had raised on tho prison property.
State authorities assert Miss Rhoades
actually owed the state more than
$4000, although the best they could
do In the way of a settlement was to
accept $1000.
It was charged Miss Rhoades had
run a chicken farm on the prison
rmimili: that she had raised thou
sands of chickens; that she had sold
thousands of dozens of eggs; that she
conducted it as a private venture, and
that the state paid TU1 the expenses
nf maintaining the chicken yard.
The establishment of this chicken
business by Miss Rhoades, the state
charges, dated back several years, and
It was charged that the state had paid
out more than 4000 for feed ajid other
maintenance.
Miss Rhoades, it is said, contended
she had reimbursed the state by sup
plying the institution with chickens
and eggs.
There was testimony that prison
employes had built the chicken coops
and vards out or state material; mai
state employes had delivered the eggs
to downtown grocery stores and re-
vrt nav for them at market prices,
hut that the books of the institution
fall to show the money found Its way
in iha institutions fund.
Miss Rhoades owned a farm a few
miles north of the city, and there was
testimony that men employed at the
woman s prison had Deen sent oy miss
Rhoades to this farm to do work on
the state's time. It was testified that
,h sent some prison furniture to the
farm, but later it was returned to the
prison.
MATRONS SAVE MURDERESS
Woman Condemned to Death Puts in
Plea for Postponement.
LONDON, Dec 25. A Jury of matrons
was impanelled at the .Old Bailey to
iui tho truth of a statement made
by a woman condemned to death for
h murder of her illegitimate son.
four years old. Not for 34 years has
nnh a thine happened at the Old
Counsel for the defense said that
this was one of those cases In which
tho woman caid. and there was not a
In the court whose heart was
t wniTiir with rlty for her. . The
Jury found her guilty and recommend
ed her to mercy. Justice Ridley, hav
ing no option under the law, sentenced
her to death.
When asked by the clerk of the court
if ,he had anything to say the wo
man nioaried that she was about to be
come a mother. The Judge ordered a
Inrv of matrons to be impanelled, and
12 were brought together from various
courts, put in the Jurybox and sworn.
The Jury of matrons after deliberation
expressed themselves satisfied with the
truth of the statement, and the Judge
ordered the sentence to be postponed
until after the birth or tne cniid-
Engllsh practice in such cases is to
commute the sentence to penal servi
tude for life. No woman whose sen
tones has been postponed In such cir
cumstances has been hanged after the
birth of the child.
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BAD CHECKS ARE PASSED
Lansine. 3rich., Firm Defrauded
by Clever Swindler.
LANSING, Mich., Dec 20. A forger
entered Lansing's shopping district,
and, mingling with Christmas buyers.
managed to pass several Daa cnecKS.
Returns are not In from all the
stores yet, and Chief Behrendt thinks
the amount of the man's peculations
mav be increased when the papers be-
ffin to come back from the banks. He
would purchase a fairly large bill of
aoods. order them sent to iaiamazoo
by parcel post and tender In payment
a check slightly in excess ot me oiii.
His presence in the city was called
to the attention of the police when
one of the stores victimized called
Kalamazoo firm by telephone and
found that the check was a forgery.
AEROPLANE MAILMAN NEXT
Plan Is to Cse Slachines in Philip
pines, Utah and Arizona.
NEW YORK, Dec 22. Delivery o
mail by aeroplane may soon be a part
of the United States postal service.
Henry Woodhouse. a member of the
Aoro Club of America and editor of the
magazine called Flying, received word
from Washington that the committee
on postoffices and roads of the House
nf Ranrasentatives had reported favor
ably a bill appropriating $100,000 for
the carrying of mail by aeroplane.
"The idea is to use the aeroplanes in
nrh nlaces as the Philppines, Utah,
Arizona and"Colorado." said Mr. Wood-
boose.
GUNBOAT" SMITH
IS
San Francisco Ring Fans Look
to See Gunner's Experi
- ence Beat Pelkey.
FIGHT IS NEW YEAR'S DAY
Fawcett Says French-Canadian Ought
to Win, and ny Knockout, De
spite Prevailing Odds Story
on Wolgast Is Related.
BV KOSCOB FAWCETT.
When Arthur Pelkey and Gunboat
Smith meet on New Year's day for the
right to claim the heavyweight boxing
championship, Smltti, for the first tlmo
In his life, will be a San Francisco fa
vorite.
The gunner was noted for his wild
swings and his awkwardness when he
broke into the four-round game at the
Bay City. But one year in tho East
caused a wonderful transformation.
When he returned to meet Frank Moran
he surprised overybody. He had im
proved as a boxer and he showed that
he possessed gameness.
Now comes the critical point in his
career.
Smith is stacked up against Pelkey,
a 207-pound- giant who is notorious for
having uncorked a couple or reartui
wallops. One of these caused the death
of the then recognized champion, Lu
ther McCarty.
Whether or not Pelkey is game re
mains to be shown. He has the size,
the strength and the huge underjaw. So
far as science is concerned Smith likely
will have- it on him. At least, such is
the expert opinion of "Spike" Slattery
and other San Francisco fight experts
who have be-en watching both heavies
in their training work.
Smith, too. is said to have the heavi
est hand In the profession today and he
has a big edge in experience. But r-ei-
kev lias never really had a fair trial.
And somehow, we have a nice little
hunch carefully packed up the left
sleeve that the French-Canadian will
be there in the pinch.
Certain, it will be more a question or
punch and ability to assimilate the
same than of science. When two big
yokels hook up. generally the "brow'
wins who Is able to take the gruelling
walloo and come back for more. Nor
does the Pelkey-Smith affray resemble
an excentlon.
DesDite the prevailing odds on bmitn
In San Francisco. Pelkey ougnt to win
and that by a knockout. That Is our
guess.
Quite a wad of Northwestern coin has
gone south to be wagered on Bud An
derson In his return engagement
against Leach Cross in the New Tear's
day fisticuff tangle at Los Angeles.
Leach disposed of the Vancouver
wonder in short -time when they met
several months ago, but Buddy was
neither the old-time nor the present-
time Buddy on that occasion.
On the dope and that s all we have
to go on un In this neck of the timber-
Cross should beat Anderson again. But,
10 to 7 and 10 to 6 odda looks pretty
sweet to Buddy's backers In Oregon.
We await the verdict.
A Chicago newspaper says that pub
lie sentiment will soon force Jack John
son to relinquish the heavyweight title.
Hey. boy. page Old Doc Millennium
He's lust around the corner!
Tommy Burns has wagerea ! tnai
Pelkey will slip over the rirst puncn on
ffunboat Smith. If it were a Pelkey-
Burns bout we'd stick with Tom, but, in
the present instance, we re more inter
ested in the last punch.
Owen Moran doesn t like Ad Wolgast.
He tells this to support his animosity:
When Woleast was champion a
friend was introducing him around
Philadelphia. And." explained Moran
he became so offensive in nis ae
moo nor during a short session in a cafe
that his friend expostulated with mm.
" 'These men. Ad.' he remarked, 'are
some of Philadelphia's best citizens.
Tou ought to try and make them your
permanent friends.
" 4Aw. slush.' retorted Wolgast. "I am
champion of the world and they ought
to be thankful to have mo witn tnem.
For further particulars see itecora
book. July 4, 1911.
COVEY AVD GOULD TO PLAY
Own CIiamnionslilD of World is
Goal of Tennis Cracks.
st T-mrrs. Dec. 26. It was an
nounced today that James Gould, of
K-or Tort and George F. Covey, of
EDrlini will Dlay a racquet match
for the ODen championship of the
world here next March. The match
will be played at the Philadelphia
Racmiet Club. Gould Is the amateur
champion of the world and Covey holds
the world's professional championship.
If Gould wins he win De given a
trophy, and if Covey is the victor he
will receive prize money.
COAST WORLD'S SERIES AIM
Sullivan Would Stage Supplemental
Games During 1915 Fair.
vkw -ro-RTt. Dec 26. James E. Sul
livan, who has charge of the sporting
features of the Panama-Pacuic .expo
sition at San Francisco in 1915, is lay
ing plans for a baseball series be
tween the world's contenders of that
year.
Mr. Sullivan said yesterday that he
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intends to take up the matter witn
President John K. Tener. or tne Na
tional League, and President Ban
Johnson, of the American League, soon
after New Year.
It is Mr. Sullivan s idea to nave a
so-called "supplementary woria s se
ries," for a valuaole tropny to oe
called the Panama-Paciflo cup. the ri
val pennant-winners to play seven
games on tne exposition jiououj im
mediately after the regular worm a
series has been decldea. 'ine nioi
major league champions will De in
vited to go to tho Coast at the ex
pense of the exposition promoters,
and the players will receive the entire
gate receipts.
Petroskey Visitor at Kelso.
CENTRAL! A. Dec 26. (Special.) In
company with Otis Wallace, who ar
rived In Kelso for a Christmas visit
with his parents. Edward ("Sailor")
Petroskey. pugilist, is passing the holi
days in Kelso. He has been a feature
card in boxing exhibitions in California
for some time past.
CONTRACT FORMS ISSUE
PLAYERS' FEDERATION AND COM
MISSION MEETS JANUARY 6.
President Falts Announces Reserve
Clause Feature Will Not of Neces
sity Caswe "Fight."
NEW YORK, Dec 26. David L Fultz,
president of the Baseball Players' Fed
eration, announced today that a com
mittee representing the federation
would meet the National commission
at Cincinnati on Tuesday, January S,
for a conference on the petition for
alterations In the present form of con
tract between club and player.
"The fraternity probably will be rep
resented." says the statement, "by John
P. Henry. Jacob E. Daubert. Ray W.
Collins, John B. Miller, Edward M.
Reulbach and myself.
"It has been reported erroneously
that the fraternity will make a tight
against the reserve clause. There is
nothing In our petition which in any
way affects this clause, with the ex
ception of the 11th and 12th requests,
which ask that the veteran player,
when no longer wanted in the classifi
cation in which he has labored for
years, bo released outright. As these
requests are not aimed at the principle
of reservation and only slightly affect
the operation of this clause, they can
not, with justice, be characterized as
antagonistic to it."
OCEAN DIP POSTPONED
MULTNOMAH CLUB'S MID-WINTER
PLUNGE SET FOR FEBRUARY.
Inability of Hotel at Seashore t Care
for SI ore than 20 at One Time
Responsible for Change.
Multnomah's annual mid-Winter dip
in the Pacific received another post
ponement yesterday when it was an
nounced that Hotel Gearhart would not
be prepared to handle crowds of more
than 20 at a time until the middle of
February. Chairman Frank B. Wat
kins accordingly has decided to stage
the swim on the week-end which jibes""
with Washington's birthday.
Watkins had a list of more than 100
who wanted to make the trip during
the present holidays. Interest In tho
swim is keen and the shifting of the
date is something which the Multnomah
excursionists dislike to see.
The next thing on the calendar of
water events at the Multnomah Club
will be the regular monthly social swim
on January 6. Instructor Cody has a
lot of new things to introduce at that
swim, one of which will be a thrilling
contest between swimmers mounted on
horses, the body of which will be niado
of barrels.
Ernest Crueger, of the Spokane Athletic
Club, is Btill the guest of the Multno
mah Club and is swimming in the regu
lar classes. He Is an expert tank man
and his methods of making the turns
are being watched with interest
GRANT ESTATE NOT TAXED
Court Decides General AVas Not Resi
dent of New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Surrogate
Fowler decided yesterday thut Gen
eral Frederick D. Grant was not a
resident of New York at the time of his
death and dismissed a claim by the
State Comptroller that the estate of
$103,000 is subject to a transfer tax in
this state.
General Grant's widow, who is the
executrix, made affidavit that her hus
band actually had transferred his resi
dence to Washington before he died
and had selected a house he intended
to buy there. Some of the household
effects had been sent on to Washing
ton. Rooster Routs Boy, Saved by Mother
PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Dec. 22.
Playing in the yard of his home, Ed
ward Pahl was attacked by a rooster
and is in a serious condition. The
rooster picked one of the boy's fin
gers and when he tried to escape the
rooster flew to his shoulders and
pecked his face and ears, knocking him
down. The boy's mother rescued him
by beating the rooster with a club.
Score Churches Robbed in Year.
CINCINNATI, Dec 23. A confession
by a prisoner amazed the police here
when Frank Selser, a former traveling
salesman, voluntarily told of having
robbed 27 churches the last year. Sel
ser estimated that he had obtained
about $500 from contribution boxes.
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