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the aronxiXG otsegoxiax. Saturday.- December. 3, 1914. MABQUARD WON I FEDS' LATEST SPOKANE GLUB MAY BE PORTLAND FARM finish second. In football she hasn't! anybody but Haughton and the cham pion Harvard s. Not satisfied with this duet, she has now resurrected Sam Langford in a revival of exterminating white and black hopes alike. About the only thing that seems safely in trenched against Boston's surging sportsmen is the boomerane-throwing COfJFEBEtlCE BARS SUMMER BASEBALL 3il T i BUYING AND SELLING THE SEALS IS POPULAR DIVERSION NOWADAYS WITH THESE GENTLEMEN. championship of the Malay peninsula. . A Boston father . has named a youngster after Charles Brlckley, thus putting Brickley in a class with Fred !Noted Pitcher for New York .5 Giants Signs With Brook I lyn, Says R. B. Ward. Working Agreement Likely to Be Made When Farr Is Here in Next 10 Days. Penalty Set for Attempt by Ineligible to Compete in Collegiate Sports. Merkle. Evidently somebody had the New York first sacker in mind during the christening rites of Marblehead Mass. r If we were Walter Johnson or Eddie Plank. -Detroit would look better than either Chicago or St. Louis. One wouldn't have to pitch to Ty Cobb or Beniy Kauff only in batting prac H-EGAL ACTION IS LIKELY SALE OF SEALS IS FACTOR G0NZAGA IS NOT TAKEN IN tice. BAD "orfieial of Gotham Club Avers That I Star, Third Taken in Week, Is 5 Not Free Agent and Can't v Join Another Team. 2 NEW YORK. Dec. 4. "Rube" Mar 3quard, one of th trio of famous pitch ers for the New Tork Giants, cast his -lot with the Federal League today. It was announced here, as the third star 'flayer the Federal League has won icver from the older organizations In a iweek. Robert B. Ward, president of the Brooklyn club of the newer base ball organization, gave out that Mar quard had signed a contract to pitch ior the Brooklyn team. '; Ward said that Marquard had signed :the Brooklyn Federal League contract -In triplicate, in addition to making an -affidavit that ne was a free agent in a baseball sense, and had received and receipted for an advance payment lin ger his Federal League contract. '' Giants Have Claim. Secretary John P. Foster, of the New Tork National League club, said the :iitcher was under contract to the New S'ork Giants in a series of three inter locking contracts which covered his .playing services for 1915 and 1916 and pave an option on his services in 1917 to the New York club. Still another contract gave special rights in regard to Marquard's playing services to the New York club and was drawn up with the idea of covering any loopholes .which might exist In the other con tract. Z The secretary of the New York club scouted the idea that Marquard could play for any other team than the New "York Giants for the next two seasons and Intimated the case would be taken -to court if the Giants' southpaw endea vored to jump to the independent league. x '-'! David Fultz, president of the Base ball Players' Fraternity, said tonight that the report of Marquard's signing "with the Federals was hard to be lieve, but that if It were true, Mar quard undoubtedly would be expelled from the fraternity. Fultz' statement follows: -) "Information has reached me that Rube' Marquard, in spite of the fact Jhat he is under a binding contract rwith the New York National League club for the season of 1915, has signed :with the Brooklyn Federal League club. The report is hard to believe, as I feel -that the Brooklyn people would not iknowingly sign a player under these circumstances. "If Marquard has done this, he will :be expelled from the Baseball Play ers' Fraternity, as the directors will "not countenance any such disregard of .'their obligations by its members." J Ward in Doubt About Flghtinc. When informed that the New York jClub management asserted that Mar guard's name was signed to a bind ing contract to the New YorK Nationals lor 1915 and 1916, with the 10-day clause eliminated. Ward, president of '4 he Brooklyn Federals, said he could not tell whether be would be prepared to fight for Marouard's services. w "1 must see the contract first,' Ward said. "1 am convinced Marquard dealt with me in good faith. In fact I cannot conceive of anyone making an affidavit, as Marquard did, unless tie was convinced that he was in the .rlKht. He said that after a careful 'reading of his contract he felt sure the only thin which bound him to the iiew York club was the reserve clause. : "Anyway, I can see no difference be tween this case and that of William Ritter, a player whom we signed last 'all. Three day later the Giants signed It i m to a New York contract, talcing -advantage of the technicality that he vas a few days under age when he signed one of our contracts." BROOKLYN' PITCHERS MANY "Byron Houck, Portland Boy, Gives List of Those Who Have Jumped If the Federals keep on signing new stars they'll, have enough extra talent lor a Russian army corps. Byron Houck. a Portland boy. Jumped the Athletics for the Brooklyn Feds last Bummer. Byron is Wintering here, and lie eaid yesterday, in commenting on Marquard s tup. that Brooklyn owns about 15 good flingers. T "We must have 35 or 36 players on the list," said Pitcher Houck. "One day last Summer I counted them on the bench and there were 34 Brooklyn men in uniform. When the team is at bat the reserves just nicely fill the bench, so you can see whart a flock are on our payroll." If it is true that the Federals intend to cut to 20 men, the pruning knife will be busy in the neighborhood of the Brooklyn team. Perhaps about 25 Brooklyn players are on two-year con tracts. Houck signed a three-year document, which has two years to run. Houck gave the following list of jiltchtrs completed by the addition of 3he famous Reuben: Tom Seaton. Philadelphia Nationals lordecal Brown, St. Louis Feds; Ed Xafitte, Detroit; Rube Peters. Chicago tox: Kudy Somer, Chicago Cubs: Byron Houck. Athletics: Jim Bluejacket. New York Giants: Joe Zinneran. Philadelphia Nationals: Rube Marquard, New York iants; Don Marion, Minneapolis; Fred N Ilson, New Orleans; Bill Chappelle Southern League; Bert Maxwell, Texas League: Harry Juul, holdover. The Brooklyn team has seven out fielders Murphy. Athletics: Anderson and Cooper, New 1 ork Giants; Shaw and Evans, St. Louis Cardinals: Hoff .man. Pittsburg, and Chouinard. The .infield adds seven more Hap Myers, rtfuffalo; Ureggs, Toledo; DeTehanty tagnior. rioit. v eeterzu and Bradley and the catching staff shows Grover Land. Owens and VV atson. OIEN'RICKSOV GOES TO FEDS T"lclder Jones Believes He Will Be ? Heard From Next Season. - Olaf. Hcnrickson, who figured In the winning of the world's series for the Boston Red box two years aro. in tther big leaguer who has been path ered into the Federal fold, according Jo reports from the East. 3 "He is to play with the Buffalo Feds." aid Fielder Jones. "Olaf was one of the heroes of the world's series two years ago. but his showing last season was mediocre. I think that his poor showing was due to the fact that he atas used in but few games and believe hat the Buffeds have signed a valuable man." -- The report said that Henrickson had a contract for two years calling for a salary of $400 a year. Jones could not yerify this. 'Hen "BrRTvy,. SPOKANE LOSS TRIVIAL IJTLAJrn CITY WILL ASK FOR BET TER. SCHEDULE TfEXT YEAR Salary Limit of 92500 for Northwestern League Urged aid Team Mar -Train at Home. SPOKANE, Wash., Dec 4. (Special.) Directors and stock owners of the Spokane Northwestern League baseball club were advised at the adjourned an nual meeting last night that the amount of money actually lost during the last year was so insignificant that none of the stockholders should be discouraged. It was announced that the Spokane representative to the annual league meeting in Seattle December 15 will De instructed to make a vehement demand for a more equitable schedule next year. Last season Spokane got rive games with Vancouver, 13 with Seattle and something like 35 with Ballard. Spo kane will recommend the salary limit be set at $2500, as the recent meeting of the National Association in Omaha, while setting a class B limit at $2000. intimated that the Northwestern might have $500 leeway If It wishes. It 'was recommended that the club this year train in Spokane if possible. The California trip last year was a heavy expense. President Farr announced that he had the contract of Pat Walsh, the City League youngster who pitched such a strong game against Victoria last Fail Gridiron Gossip BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. ' University of Illinois graduates liv- lng in aeauis imv u iuauiuiicu movement for a game between Illinois and Washington next Fall at Seattle. Illinois won the Big Eight cnampion ship this year and likely will repsat in 1915, as Zuppke will have Pogue, Clark, Macomber and others of that crowd that cleaned up Chicago back on the Job next September. His only losses will be Fullback Schohlnger, unapman and Armstrong, tackles, and Graves, an end. With Washington State and Idaho combined against them, it looKs as though the Washingtonlans will have to do something drastic next ran 10 get a strong Thanksgiving card. Some time ago iiia Hugnes, or iae uraes, sug gested that Nebraska ba-brought Wsst for two or three games. Illinois, noiro Dame. Nebraska, any one of these teams, would draw like a porous plas ter out here, and Hughes scheme is well worth booking. The Oregon Ag gies are anxiouj-for Just such a game and the Multnomah Club would Join the pot to help pay expenses. There was some talk of the Univer sity of Montana asking admittance into the Northwest conference at the Spo kane session. Montana showed extreme wisdom in not doing so. for the Inland KmDire folk are bitterly opposed to Montana's style of doing business. Newt Colver. of the Spokesman-Review, calls them "ringers' and he quotes lioeraliy from Spalding's football guides to prove his case. Clark s lace appears in me guiae with Washington last year; Vance shows in the Washington State photo graph; 2Z0-pound Indian Bentz iooks natural in the official group of the Northern Normal and Industrial School, at Aberdeen, S. D. ; Robertson played at Carlton College, Minn., last year and his mug appears on page 176 as No. 20; Burris, the 195-pound fullback, starred at the Missouri Military Acad emy, Mexico. Mo., last year, and Colver shows the goods on him on page ztz of the same much thumbed guide book. ... Judging from the evidence, Montana's work has been manifestly crude, but it's being done In the best of circles everywhere. Vic Zednick, former grad uate manager at Washington, slipped over a few veiled insinuations against Oregon the other day regarding the Cornwall and Cawley incident. ' Ask Zednick where Dobie got Mur phy, his big halfback substitute. Mur phy tried to get Oregon to give him a Job a couple of years ago, so ' he could enter school and play football. Dobie heard of it and Murphy was raked out of the Idaho mining district and ensconced in a Job at Seattle so fast it made the Oregon folk open. their eves in amazement. Ask Johnny Bender where he got Bangs, Bernard and Alvord. All of them played football at Albion Normal, or some such school, over in Southern Idaho. Ask Pink Griffith where John stone and Kipp. his big guards, came from, and how about Wheelock. the former Carlisle guard, who entered school last Fall and then- disappeared And. in passing, get Zednick to ex plain about Mucklestone and Max Eaklns, and query Dr. Stewart about the big Indian buck. Emll Hauser. Montana went out and raked in all the big huskies she could find, but that doesn't necessarily imply that Montana did more than give the boys a chance to earn their educations. Somebody has to wind the eight-day clocks and it migat as well be burly 200 pounders as a squadron of weak, anemic knowledge chasers, who could not make the college checker squad. New York football fans are getting peeved at the colleges which do not number their football players. "How many persons who saw the Army-Navy game were able to tell one iTOvs-STEPHENS Arnot, In San Francisco Chronicle. player from another?" ask Joe Vila, in the Sun. "The management did not even megaphone changes in the line ups and it was merely a guess at times as to the names of the players making line runs, effective tackles and touchdowns. The same conditions pre vailed during the Yale-Harvard game. In justice to the followers of foot ball, whose money provides big gate receipts, it is to be hoped that next year the games played by West Point, Annapolis, Yale and Harvard will be made more enjoyable by ths adoption of the numbering system in vogue at other colleges." Michigan Aggies Xame Captain. LANSING, Mich., Dec." 4. Blake Miller, of Tonawanda, N. Y., picked by several critics for end on all Middle Western football elevens, was today elected captain of the 1915 football team of the Michigan Agricultural Col lege. BIG TRADES ARE LIKELY NATIONAL LEAGUE MANAGERS TO ESTABLISH EXCHANGE. Deals Dvrtns Annual Session May Re sult In HcGnr Gettlita Zlnmrau mad Others Being Swapped. NEW YORK, Dec. 4. While the Na tional League club owners at their annual meeting Tuesday are discussing questions of policy, and. making plans to fight the new Federal League, their managers, according to advance no tices, will establish an exchange for players that will result In some of the biggest deals in the history of the oreanlz,tion Several managers. It is reported, are on their way with Instructions to bid for players needed to make pennant contending teams. Miller Huggins, new manager of the St. Louis Cardi nals, wants a shortstop and an out fielder; Manager McGraw. of the Giants, is said to be after Zimmerman, or the Chicago club, and Manager Stalllngs. of the Boston Braves, hi. 8 announced that he Is in the market for players who will strengthen his team. Roger Bresnahan, new manager of the Chicago Cubs, has several pitchers to trade for an outfielder, and it is reported that; Zimmerman and a pitcher may be offered to McGraw for Eddie Grant. Manager Henor. of tbe Oln-innnti team, and Clarke, of Pittsburg, are the other leaders who are expected to make some interesting offers, if other managers show a disposition to trade. BECAUSE the Oregon City football team forfeited Its regular scheduled contest with the East Portland repre sentatives for tomorrow. Manager Kline, of the local squad, would like to ob tain a match for his eleven. Any man ager .with a 160-pound squad wanting an affair call East 5651 after 6 o'clock at night. Basketball games are wanted by Man ager John D. Dwyer. of the Stilettos. a new team in the Portland Basketball League. The regular schedule does not commence until after the- first of the year, and the boys want to keep in condition for the coming heavy season. Call Marshall 3404 after 6 o'clock at night or write the manager in care of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company in the Electric building. The Jefferson Juniors have a basket ball team averaging 135 pounds. Write the manager at 515 Ross street for games. - Only three letter men are turning out for basketball practice at Columbia University. They are Captain Schmitt Mike Bloch and Cornelius Murphy. The loss of Mulrhead and Larson will be keenly felt. Hugh Williams, late of the Christian Brothers' Business College, is one or ine new stars turning out. c A challenge has been issued by Man ager Dwyer. of the Multnomah Club second football team, to the winner of the Archer & Wiggins Football League title, jno date is given, but the chal lenger announced that his eleven would play any Saturday on the Multnomah Field for the minor championship of tne city. In a fast basketball game the Irving ton Grammar School quintet trimmed the Multnomah Juniors 17 to 7 in the school gymnasium Thursday. Again Porter Randall was the big star for Irvington. while his teammate Coford also did good work. Swatlskas Defeat Soldiers. The Sellwood Swatiskas defeated the Twenty-first Infantry basketball team, 26-24, Thursday on the Sellwood floor. At the end of the two halves the game stood at 24-24 and two minutes of extra play were called for before the winner could be decided. Proppe starred at basket snooting for the Sellwood team and Schwaber for the soldiers. Sunday Game Ordinance Upheld. BALTIMORE, Dec 4. The validity of the city ordinance of Baltimore nro- hlbiting Sunday baseball Was upheld today by tae .Maryland court of Ad. ! peals. AMATEUR ATHLETICS : i Appointment of Xick Willams to Alanage Indians 'Would Assist. McCredies to Have Great Surplus of Men on Hands. BY ROSCOB FAWCETT. Portland's Pacific. Coast League club likely will be teamed up in a working agreement with Spokane, of the North west League, next year, so it need not surprise anybody to hear of the trans fer of Sam Brenegan and other excess Portland talent to fipoaane. -Walter McCredie heretoforenaed the Portland. Northwest club s a "farm for his surplus material. The dropping of the Portland-Ballard team from the circuit means that big Mack will have to look elsewheru and, as Spokane Is free of Seal alliance entanglements, following the sale of the club to Hen Berry, McCredie naturally Is looking to SpoKane as his logical .ltt'e Drotncr. Both the McCredies think a great deal of President Farr, of the Spokane club, and this ' friendship would be heightened were Nick Williams named manager of the Spokane Indians, as has been rumored. Aareenrent May Be Made. Farr Is expected in Portland within the next 10 days and some sort of an agreement may be drafted at that time, Inasmuch as Walt McCredie has SO or 35 players under his wing. ' a great many will have to be disposed of even before training season, -ie does not ex. oect to take more than 25 or ZQ men into camp. Fishr and Murray will do the back stopping and Haworth also may receive a trial. Brenegan will go to upoaane, if ''wanted. ' or will be disposed of else where. . The greatest surplus is noted in the bitching staff. As reliables Mack will have Krause, Higglnbotham, Lush and Martinoni. Kvans, xtieger and Eastley are holdover veterans and among the North west League aspirants are big Leonard, Salveson and Callahan and. In addition, a big soldier from near San Francisco named Barnes is slated for a spring tryout. Smith May Be BoVL. U. S. Smith, procured train Venice In trade for Yantz, probably will be sold. Callahan is the only one of this squadron certain of being a Beaver at the initial gun. Mack likes Callahan because of his all-around playing abil ity, but any one or all the others may be found elsewhere in 1916. Also Mack is sweet on Covaleskle, of Spo kane, and the Pole may come here in trade for other players. All in all the pitchers on the Portland Coast club are due ior some nervous matinees ere another April 1. No sooner had the Venice ball barn stormers landed - on- the Hawaiian Islands than Mauna Loa began erupting lava in a spectacular fashion. It was not known that Roy Brashear accom panted the tourists. E. R. Hughes, president of the North western League, will be a. Portland vis itor next Tuesday. .Portus Baxter and Frank Glbb, two other- well-known Seattle sporting editors, will be in the party, which is coming to see the in troductlon . of Portland into Coast League hockey circles. This week s issue of the St- Louis Sporting News shows a cut of Hughes labeled "A Little Man in a Big Job, This would seem a good time to keep away from Canada, but over in Helena somebody is dreaming a dream of new ball circuit embracing Edmonton Calgary, Mobsejaw, Medlolne Hat and Helena. Great Falls and Lewiston are mentioned as other American prospects. m w w Del Baker, catcher on the Detroit Americans, is the latest addition to the Portland Winter league colony. Baker lives here and played semi-professional ball before he broke In at Spokane about four years ago. GENTLER GAME DESIRED BASKETBALL RULES DISCUSSED BY COACHES AND OFFICIALS. One Object Is to Develop PassinsT Game Instead of Dribbling and Chars. J lnsJ Mast Cease. Seven or eight years ago unnecessary roughness was Ironed out of the foot ball code and now the reform has struck college basketball. At an interpreta tion meeting of intercollegiate basket ball officials and coaches at New Tork few days ago the rules committee drafted several important recommen dations which will be sent through out the country. The most Important matter discussed was the, latitude allowed a man drib bling the ball. Complaint was made that officials varied considerably on this point and, after an exhaustive study of the subject, it was decided that the spirit of the rules meant that in case a man dribbling the ball runs into or fails to avoid a guard standing to block his progress, a foul is committed by the dribbler. The members of the rules committee said that their idea kwas to encourage the passing game in place of dribbling, and for the past three or four years they had this object in view in framing the rules. It was decided that a guard In order to be the aggressor in a case of dribbling would have to charge into the dribbler. Another important question brought up was the system of timing the gamo. Frequent disagreements over watches were recited and the conference decided that the best practical way of avoiding trouble in this phase of the game was to have one watch with two timers and in case of a difference between the two the referee s ruling was to be supreme. An interesting point which was placed before the rules committee for its con sideratlon was the suggestion of a change in the rules so that it would be possible for a player after having lett tne game to return. Sounding the Sport Reveille IT'S about time the United States was I peeling its duster and perpetrating some sort of a sortie to check the championship habit which seems to be raging in the Black Bay district of Massachusetts. Poor old Bawston! She hasn't a soul to look to in base ball except Stallings and his world's rhamnion Braves, not tn mention the Tn ,ce CTMm consumption or ins umtea cnampion Biai es, not to mention the stlltee Htimttcd at Ovs quarts pr capita Red Sox, who. were good enough, to'snouaiw. Walter Johnson has been the main prop of the Washington Americans ever since he joined the club in 1908. When Clark Griffith assumed charge in 1912. and turned It into a winner Johnson caThe into his own and the strengthened team jumped from last to second place. It finished second again in 1913 and third in 1914. John son's seven years' record at Washing ton xouows; Year Won. Loot. Pet. .600 .142 .iS .405 .727 .117 .401 1903. . 14 14 25 IT 10. . ... II ... It ... 1 ... 11 .. . at ... XI 1910. . 111. . 1912.. 1911. . 1114. . IS 11 1 11 Johnson's broad jump to the Brooklyn outlaws recalls to mind that Mike Lynch once released the famous blond. And if you want to see a sore Irishman, try to "kid" Mike about it. Johnson was tried out by Lynch in 1905 when Mike was boss at Taco- ma. Mike released him and ha landed in the bushes at Welser. Idaho, from whence Cliff Blankenshin extricated him for Washington. Irve Higgln botham won a famous 1-0 extra inning oattie zrom jonnson when he was in the Idaho brush. No sooner had the Government an nounced a war tax .of 15 on every pool table than Johnny Kllng began taiKing a "comebacK. Walt Mc Credie says the pool and billiard game is poor so Kltng's activity Is not sur prising. It is the Irish cropping out again. SOCCER SEASON OPEN'S TODAY Multnomah Club to Meet Thistles in First Scheduled Matcli.- Portland's first regularly scheduled soccer game will be played this after noon when the Multnomah Club team and the Thistles, of the Portland Soc cer Football Association, will meet. The contest will be played on the Mult nomah Field and will bogln at 2r30 o clock. Instead of 8 o clock as pre vio4isly reported. Five teams make up the association, and the schedule will not be completed until February 14, when Portsmouth and the Archer & Wiggins Wnonas will battle for the second time. Each team will play every other team twice. Following is the schedule: December 5 Multnomah vs. Thistles. December 6 Weonas vs. Beavers. x December 12 Multnomah vs. Weonas.. December 13 Portsmouth vs. Beav ers. December 19 Multnomah vs. Ports mouth. December 20 Thistles vs. Weonas. December 25 Beavers vs. Multno mah. Dec 27 Portsmouth vs. Thistles. J. January 1 Thistles vs. Weonas. January 2 Multnomah vs. Ports mouth. January 3 Beavers vs. Thistles. January 9 Multnomah vs. Thistles. January 10 Weonas vs. Portsmouth. January 16 Beavers vs. Multnomah. January 17 Portsmouth vs. Thistles. January 23 Weonas vs. Multnomah. . January 24 Portsmouth vs. Beavers. January 31 Beavers vs. Weonas. February 7 Thistles vs. Beavers. February 14 Weonas va. Ports mouth. ' M. C. TO NAME DATES Meeting Tonight to Revise Volley Ball Game Schedule. Volley ball schedules will be revised tonight at the Portland Young Men's Christian Association, when the mem bers of all of the association teams gather at a supper at 6:15 o'clock. The standings of the teams now are: Captain Pike, 40; Waite. 160; Lltzen- berg, 100; Monnell, 50; Flemmlng, 70 Shoot, 100. In the young men's class the teams are rated as follows: Peter son. 160; Young, 115; Foster, 110. and Boquet, 105. The volley ball singles tournament for the week-end rating shows: I. C. Cunningham, 888; C. M. Little, 777; A M. Grilley. 666; M. O. Waite, 625; M. M Ringler, 672; S. H. Dykstra, 500; W. B. Shively, 444; E. J. MonnelJ, 375; F. H. Flemming, 332, and H. Howard, 250. Sellwood Young Men's Christian As sociation will meet the Archer & Wig gins basketball team on the East Side association's gymnasium floor tonight. The Intermediates will have a prelim inary game, the contests starting at 8 o'clock. Thursday night Company M from Vancouver Barracks was defeated. 23 to 22, after a contest hard fought from the first moment of play. Boxing Briefs. Decisions force a boxer to do hi best at all times. , The talk that their adoption encourages gambling Is abso lutely silly. In tiotham there Is as much betting under the no-decision rules as there ever was when decisions were given. Jim Corbett thinks that Willard should prove his claim as challenger by fighting a number of the "white hopes' before be tackles Johnson for the title. Bud Anderson is working at the Mo hawk Club for his coming bout with Frank Barrieau in Wallace, Idaho. Ralph Gruman, the Coast lightweight .champion, also is keeping in shape by sparring and indulging in a few games of handball at the East Side Club. "Bubbles" Robinson, a clever negro scrapper. Is coming north from San Francisco In a few weeks. He was here last Winter and will make Portland his borne if the game opens up in the near-by towns. Johnnie O'Leary, who lost the Coast lightweight title to Gruman, is not the boy he was a year ago, according to fans who saw him recently in Vancon ver, B. C. Johnnie has fallen for the white lights, they say. It will be several weeks before Yost Schmeer will appear in the ring again. The former Multnomah boy is having trouble with his left ear. It was in Jured recently in his fight at St. Hel ens and is not mending as rapidly as could be hoped for. Cleveland, O., will have professional bouts with decisions after the first of the year. boxing committee will be in charge. P Wrestler Issues Challenge.' Dan Karll, the Albany wrestler, who claims the 145-pound championship of England and Bulgaria, nas written The Oregonian challenging any welter weight wrestler in" the United States. He will give a handicap of 15 pounda Karll has won six matches in the last few months, according to his letter. Track and Field Meet Awarded to Oregon Agricultural College and 11S Session Is to Re Held In Portland. SPOKANE, Wash.. Dec. 4. Members of the Pacific Northwesulntercolleglate Conference at a meeting here today vated down a proposition which would have permitted college athletes to play Summer baseball providing they played on teams not members of organized oaseoaiL The debate on Summer base- all occupied the areater Dart of the afternoon. The conference also decided tn nut heavy penalty on any athlete who makes an effort to compete on one of the conference teams by turning in a iaise account ot nis previous collegiate competition. Year's Rlshta to Be Lost. Under the new rule the athlete who falsifies his record will be b&sred for on year alter be becomes eligible to compete in conference sport by the one-year residence rule or otherwise. Ihe conference will meet annuallv hereafter for a legislative session. Portland was decided on for the 1915 session of the conference. The track and field meet will be held at Oregon Agricultural College, May 28 and 29. ltie delegates worked tonight on the schedules. They did not expect to com plete their work until tomorrow. Victor Zednick, of Seattle, was re elected president of the conference and John R,Bender, of Washington State v.oit4Ke, secretary. Gonzaga University was refused ad mittance into the conference. Willamette, which had applied in De cember, 1913. was represented at the conference today by Coach Thompson and formally withdrew its application for membership. Cross-Country Meet Off. A revision of the salary of football officials was made to the effect that no college should pay more than 925 to a referee, 325 to an umpire or Slo to a head linesman for any game. In the session of managers it was de cided to follow the sectional scheme in making baseball schedules, the three East Side colleges playing among them selves, and the three West Siders fight ing it out for their sectional honors, the winners on each side meeting in a final series. No decision was arrived at as to the sectional division for basketball. The cross-country meet was called off. University of Washington will drop Washington State College from its football schedule, and will take on Idaho. A squabble has arisen between Wash ington and the Oregon football cham pions, the latter demanding a better cut-in gate receipts. JOHNSON SUIT PLANNED WASHINGTON AMERICANS TO DE PEND ON OPTION CLAUSE. Pitcher Sigaed by Chicago Feds Noti fied Contract Will Hold Gllmore Ready to Flsht Case in Conrts. CHICAGO. Dec 4. The option clause of the contract between the Washington baseball club and Walter Johnson is to be the point on which the battle for bis services between the American and Federal Leagues is to be waged, according to a statement to night by B. B. Johnson, president of the American League. ' Like the famous ten-days clause fought over in the baseball actions of 1914, the option clause now is being digested by baseball attorneys. John son received a communication from H. C. Miner, president of the Washington club, and a lawyer saying attorneys nad agreed that this clause would hold Johnson to organized baseball. Of the 112.000 salary paid the pitcher last year, the contract stipulated, it is said, that 39500 was for his pitching services in 1914 and 12500 was for an option on future service. ''One thing that is certain," Presl dent Johnson said, "is that Walter Johnson will never pitch for the Fed eral League." "The best legal talent in the country examined waiter Johnsons 1914 con tract with the Washington League team and advised us that the star pitcher was free to sign with any club he pleased for 1915," President Gllmore, of the Federal League, said. "We would prefer not to go to court about it, but if the Washington club insists on spending money for litlga tion, we will meet them. Johnson will play with the Chicago Federal League team next year and the year after. His contract with us is legal and will stand every teBt." SMOKER SEES LIVELY BOUTS Western Club Stages Battles, Gor don Winning Over Bloomberg. With the lively bout between Abe Gordon, of the Western Athletic Club, and Bloomberg, of Mohawk, as its fea ture, the smoker held last night at the old Turn Halle, under the auspices of the Western Amateur Athletic Club, was a decided success. Both of the boys' fought with pep and ginger, and it took four rounds to decide who was who. Ollie Hill, an unattached fighter, ICE H O C K E Y Opening Game Pacific Coast Hockey League PORTLAND vs. VANCOUVER, B. C. Professional Clubs Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 8:30 P. M. RESERVED SEATS $1 BOX SEATS $1.50 Seats Now on Sale at Ice Hippodrome 21st and Marshall . And at Si Rich's, N. E. cor. 6th and Wash. Also A. G. Spalding Bros.,' 345 Wash. St.. Music by Hippodrome Band. Satisfaction is the guarantee this t ior e ex tends to men who buy their clothes here. Just as true is this of our Ivlens Suits at $20 if $25 as is the satisfaction guaran teed in our clothes at higher prices. To the standard that is certain in quality and style do lee adhere closely. A New Lot of Balmacaans came in a fen days ago. See them. $20 vP $25 Buffum & Pendleton Morrison Street Opposite Postoffice 00 played a loslna game aaainst Maacott of Multnomah. Their contest was an other leader of the evening, and here also lour rounds were reauired to ds. clare the winged "M" boxer the win ner. The summary of the events follows: 105 pounds Abe Gordon. W.. de feated Bloomberg. Mohawk: four rounds. 118 pounds Mascott. M.. won over Hill, unattached; four rounds. 0 pounds Sammy Gordon. V. won over Cohen, Newsboys'; three rounds. . 14& pounds Hiberg. M.. lost to Han son, Armory; three rounds. 125 pounds Moscow. W.. defeated Syveson, Hawthorne; three rounds. 120 pounds Fredericks, unattached. won over Burlington, W.; three rounds. iza pounds Bullen. unattached, lost to Taylor, W.; four rounds. Parslow, of Multnomah Club, sched uled to box Sullivan, of the St. James Club, Vancouver, Wash., won on for feit when his carded opponent failed to put in an appearance. Study Requirement Withdrawn. LINCOLN, Neb.. Dec' 4. Faculty delegates representing the seven uni versities and colleges comprising the Missouri Valley athletic conference at a meeting tonight rescinded the action of this mornlng'and declared non-effective the rule requiring 30 hours' of credits from all students' athletes during each school year. m Astoria Sells 9100,000 Bonds. . ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 4. (Special.) The bond Issue of $109,000, running 20 years at 5H per cent, by the City of Astoria to refund outstanding 6 per cent warrants, was purchased by Frank Patton, of this city, at par and accrued interest. . A Nickel Pi m m m Cigar With Ten-Cent Flavor Yep! ten-cent flavor. It's hard to believe, but a nickel will produce the goods as proof. Just tell your cigar man you're going to give ELDAUP. Cigar j a tryout. You hand him S5 a nickel and hell slip you ?J the best five-cent cigar fe& you ever put in your face. 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