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TTTE MORMXG -OREGOXIAN, nrT-nT,T)AT. DECEMBER 23, 1914." SALT LAKE HAS TO FIGHT FOR PLAYERS ing to a ruling today by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborne. OREGON PLAYER IX HOSPITAL- Captain-elect Cornell to Have Op eration on Knee. Captain-elect Anson "Nance" Cornell, of the University of Oregon football team, was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital last night, where he will be operated on today. Cornell has been suffering with a "bad" left knee, due to an injury received in practice, and E BALL SOON NEEDED Wolverton and Jacobs Claim All Men Under Contract to Defunct Club. Fanning and Pernol! Among Pitchers in Coast League Who Employ Trick. as a result it has been thought best to operate on the injured member, so that the stellar little quarterback will be able to get back into the game by next Fall. Drs. Rockey and Horace B. Fenton will have charge of the operation. DEVELOPMENTS HINTED AT While a major operation, the doctors SCHEME IS HARD TO STOP have little doubt that.it, will prove successful . 12 RULING MEN Utah Promoters Naturally Building on Signing Those They ' "Wanted In for Disappointment Ex Owners Plans Secret. SAN FRANCISCO, Bee. 22. (Spe- cial.) Salt Lake, will not gain posses sion of the players of the defunct Sacramento Coast League club with out a struggle with Harry Wolverton and Lloyd Jacobs. Dispatches from the Utah city - today Indicated, that Cliff Blankenship would have a nu cleus of about 14 men with which, to build up a team for the coming sea son. AVolverton and Jacobs aver, how ever, that they still hold title to the ballplayers, of which there are up wards of 20. and that, if necessary, Ihey will fight in the courts for their lights. Whether Jt Is proposed by the ex magnates . to sell these players or otherwise use them, Jacobs asserts he in not in a position to say, but he In timates there will be some lively de velopments within the next week that will make (he Coasters sit up and ta ke notice. Announcement to Be Surprint. Salt Lake City, quite naturally, was building on the right to use as many of the ball heavers as they might care to sigh in agreeing to pay $15,000 for the fraachise, and the announcement that there is any disposition to ques tion their right and title will-be more or less of a bombshell. Jacobs' contention is that, even though the league may have had the right to forfeit the franchise, the fran chise in itself does not carry the ball players, who are still, according to Jacobs' argument, the property of the Sacramento baseball club. He admits that the league settled back salary claims which were out standing, but avers that the league confiscated money belonging to the Sacramento club and that this money was used to pay salaries. All Players Claimed. "We certainly lay claim to all the players who were with the Sacramento club when the season closed," said Jacobs. "There are more than 14 of them. Granting, just for the sake of argument, that the league might have had the right to forfeit our franchise, that does not carry with it the play ers. "The franchise is simply the right to play ball in a certain city under certain conditions. The ballplayers still belong to Wolverton and myself and we will do with them as we please." USING 1913 TEAM IS PIiAXXED Salt Lake Manager Expects to Add Men Obtained From Majors. SALT LAKE, CITY, Utah, Dec. 22. (Special.) Allen T. Baum, president of the Coast League, and Henry Berry, owner of the San Francisco team, changed their plans today and decided to remain several days in Salt Lake City to get acquainted. All arrange ments for the transfer of the defunct Sacramento-Mission franchise to -Salt Lake City have been completed, and plans are under way for the construc tion of a new grandstand four blocks from the heart of the city. After a conference with President Baum yesterday. Cliff D. Blankenship, who will manage the local team, said: "All that remains to be done is to build a good, strong team that will compare with the other contenders for the Coast League pennant. Heretofore, Salt Lake City has been the backbone of organized baseball in this territory, and it behooves her to maintain a like record in the Coast League. It will be a benefit to the city as well as to the Coast League for us to make a good showing. "We have the nucleus of a good team in the shape of the reserve list of the 1913 Sacramento team. I in tend to leave for the East in a few days and will confer with managers of some major league teams and no doubt will make several deals with them. It is probable that three play ers will be sent to the Salt Lake team by Connie Mack. ' J'These deals for the purchase of players will require only about two weeks, and I will return to Salt Lake jn that time, judging from present in dications. The backers of the local team have supplied me with plenty of money, and I will not be handicapped In that way. It will be necessary for Salt Lake to have Spring training, probably in California, but those de tails will not be arranged until after January 1." SKI CLUB MEETING IS CALLED Place to Which to Make Trip to Be . Selected Monday Night. President A, D. Wakeman, of the Portland Indoor Ski Club, has called a meeting of the members to be held at the Multnomah Club next Monday night. A preliminary gathering brought out every member last Thurs day, but no choice of a place to which to make the proposed club excursion was decided on. Two locations have been taken un der advisement. Government Camp, on the south sme oi .Mount Hood, and Rogers place on the north slope. A choice will be made Monday night. Officers also will be elected. Sev eral applications for membership have been received and they will be acted on. FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL PAX Other Sports at Princeton Kail to Make Expenses, Report Shows. PRINCETON, N. J.. Dec 22. Foot ball and baseball are the only self supporting branches of athletics at Princeton, according to the annual re port of the Athletic Association, which was made public today. The report covered the period from July 11, 1913, to July 10. 1914. The figures for the football season are not complete, but in 1913, football netted the association $38,844, while in base ball last Spring $9318 was cleared. The $48,000 from these two sports had to be applied to track, crew and the minor sports, which do not make their run ning expenses. y Policy Loans Not Taxed. WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 Policy loan agreements between holders of life in surance and their companies .re not subject to the war revenue tax, accord Homing Pigeon Club to Meet. The regular monthly meeting of the Oregon Homing Pigeon Club will be held tonight in the offices of Presi- dent Bauer, in the Panama building. Any one interested in the flying of homing pigeons is particularly invited. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock. ALASKA TEAMS TO MEET BORLESKE IS ASKED TO PLAY IN ' NEW YEAR GRIDIRON GAME. Manager of Juneau Team Seeks Stars for Battle for Revenge Against Hated Tread well Eleven. They are going to have some big league football in Alaska to welcome in the New Year. Tom McDonald, the old Washington star, is located at Treadwtll, and wherever you find Torn you'll find football. Further, Vincent Borleske, coach of the Lincoln High athletic teams, Portland, may make the 1000-mile journey for the specific pur pose of playing four 15-minute quarters as halfback on the Juneau -eleven against the hated rival, Treadwell. Borleske received a letter from Man ager Perkins, of the Juneau squad, yes terday asking his terms. Whether or not the ex-Whitman College star makes the trip will depend on how Perkins takes to his terms. Treadwell and Juneau are only a few miles apart, and strong rivalry exists between the two camps. Thanksgiving day the miners licked Juneau, and this second affair is slated to be a bloody battle for revenge. Now Perkins has gone forth with the money strings hanging out of his hip pocket, and such stars as Borleske, Max Eakins and Mucklestone may be found on the same side opposing their old side kicker, McDonald. In the Turkey day imbroglio Tom Mc Donald had in his lineup such well- known players as Carl Wolff, ex-Oregon Agricultural College and Multnomah Club phenom: "Babe" Sample, who started his college career at the Uni versity of Washington and in the 1913- campaign played with Borleske for Tom McDonald a Seattle All-Stars, and Rich ardson, of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. "I hate to make the trip up there. said Coach Borleske last night, "and still more I hate to leave my basketball team, now that practice has been going on so nicely and the season is so close at hand. "I haven't been on the ocean much and I don't want to take any chances of getting seasick. A fine condition to play football I'd be in when I reached Juneau if I were not myself on board. I wrote to Manager Perkins and told him how things here held me back, but I set a price and should he pay it I will go." "Ignorance Is Bliss; 'Tis Folly to Be Wise." Ills Scbool Faculties to Play Bas ketball; Positions Announced as In Football. JEFFERSON High School faculty basketball team has sent a challenge to the Lincoln High School faculty squad, which has accepted it through Manager Koehn. The contest probably will be played during the middle of January. Some of the prospects, for the squads know few of the points of basketball and the positions will have to be looked up by one or two. "We hardly krrow what we will do about it, but one thing Is certain, Borleske is going to play half and fullback on our team," said Manager Koehn, of the West Siders, last night. Captain Borleske. says that his quin tet will be plcltCfJTrom. Koehn, Fabre, Roberts, Carmaaformer Lehigh Uni versity all athlete, Boardman, Marietta and himself. Manager Scott, of the Jefferson High representatives, has not said whom he will select for the play ers on his team. FLOATING ICE HAD NO TERROR TOR TWO PORTLAND SWIMMERS WHO BRAVED THE COLD WILLAMETTE WATERS N YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. - . , . " " .' immmmKvfy"- i ' - . - I " ' IV v , JUL'.. i -fHv j4V - : V - !25SP III" " . r 1 Left to Riglit Nornun Ross, Holder o f Several Pacific Coast Swimming: Rec ords, and James Fulton. Insert Korman Itonx, Swimming Around With a Huge Chunk of Ice in Hla Hand After Having Dived From the Morri son Bridge, Trade Involving Four Players of Oakland and Portland Teams in Progress and May Inclnde Ryan or Davis. VVill Charley Fanning and other Coast League pitchers be allowed to use the emery ball? This promises to become a prime question in the Pa cific Coast League ere next April rolls across the horizon. When Ivan How ard got back from St. Louis last Fall he showed it to the pitchers on Del Howard's club and Fanning and Per noll used it with considerable success. They did not rub the surface of the ball with emery cloth, but nicked the hide with their fingernails. Hub Per noll made the sphere spin and perform all sorts of convolutions. Both he and Fanning could make it curve either out or in and take many peculiar twists. Fanning Irgtd to Drop It. When Fanning moved over to the Imperial Valley Winter League- this Fall he was advised to drop it. But he persisted and when his team consistently whipped the Brawley club, the Eastern members of that club exposed him. Last year when an umpire in the American League discovered that Keating, Joe Wood and other star moundmen were using emery paper on the ball. Ban Johnson promulgated a $100 fine and 30 days' suspension order for any pitcher caught using this de livery. Question Likely to Come Vp. Now, events in the Imperial Valley would seem to make the emery ball a matter of future diplomacy in rhe Pa cific Coast circuit. "I'm surprised the Coast League pitchers didn't get onto the emery ball early last Summer," remarked Byron Houck, of the Brooklyn Federals, yes terday. "A lot of the Federal pitch ers were using it last year. It's going to be hard to stop, too, because one doesn't need emery paper to roughen the surface. It can be accomplished with the thumbnail." A baseball trade involving four play ers of the Oakland and Portland teams Is in progress and may be announced any day now. Tyler Christian has been renamed manager of the Oaks and his barter with Venice Mitze and Hetling for Elliott and Litschi is only a pre liminary to the shake-up he has planned. Neither manager will open up on the rumored trade. Walter McCredie shook his head enigmatically yesterday and in reply to a pointed query said the only men he would like to have from the Oakland roster were Middleton and Murphy. Christian turned down a deal involv ing these men last October, demanding Gus Fisher In exchange for Middleton. Of course McCredie laughed at mention o"f giving up Gus Fisher. It may be that the Oaks are bidding for Buddy Ryan. Another Beaver mentioned for the exchange table is Bobby Davis, utility infielder. McCredie says he doesn't want any more pitchers, and he doesn't need any, but he could use infielders and out fielders. Big Rube Gardner and Murphy appear to be the most prob able Oaks Involved. Murphy 13 the Washington kid brought West by Art Devlin last Spring. He is the fastest thing on earth, next to a heliograph sign, and in his few games at second base here last season looked decidedly promising. Murphy was called -East by sickness in the family last Fall and did not fin ish out the year. Ex-Track Star to AValk. Far. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. Dec. 22. Clark Boulware, a former track and football star at Stanford, and who has played rugby with the Barbarian Club of San Francisco since leaving the university, will attempt to walk to New York City from Palo Alto, Cal., within 100 days, as the result of a wager made here today. The start will be made shortly after New Year's day, and if successful Boulware will receive a purse of JaOOO. ; ' . . ' f, c. , Mf a Gillette for 11 M V -I At all Dealers Gillette Safety Razors and Combination Sets, $5 to $50 ri1lJf PS. V vNkX.'' V Packets of Gillette Blades, 50c and $1X0. XtITr y4ljfer ' GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY, BOSTON J J5f TV0 DIP IN RIVER! Norman Ross ton Brave and Jimmy Ful Icy Waters. CROWD WATCHES PLUNGE Swim of 100 Feet Follows Jump From Morrison Bridge Swimmer Witn Chunk of Ice Poses In Water for Camera 5 tan. Not to be cheated of their annual Christmas day dip in the Willamette, Norman Ross. ' winner of the 1913 Christmas swim, and Jimmy Fulton, both members of the Portland Swim ming Association water polo team, splashed for a few minutes in the icy waters of the river yesterday after noon. After anointing his body lavishly with goose oil. Ross jumped from the west approach of the Morrison bridge, swam about 100 feet and hopped out on a float. "Want to take my picture out there in the river holding up a chunk of ice?" he called airily to the photographer. Before that worthy could reply, he dove off the float and was striking out for the middle of the river. Breaking off a piece of ice from a mass that went floating by, he juggled it in his hand while the camera man snapped the picture. Fulton contented himself with diving off a float and swimming around a bit. A thermometer showed the water to be SO degrees where the boys swam, or two degrees below freezing. With Ross' appearance on the bridge in a bathing suit, a large crowd imme diately collected and watched the Jump Into the icy waters. DANCE HONORS CHASIPIOXS Columbia Park Eleven Will Be Dined. Next Week. Complimenting the Columbia Park team, 1914 independent bootball cham pions of Portland, a hard-time dance was held in the Firemen's Hall at University Park last night. Six hand some prizes, donated by Meier & Frank, Plummer Drug Company. Olds, Wortman & King, Archer & Wiggins, J. Q. Mack Company and A. C. Stub ling, were given to the best represent tations of poverty. A banquet will be given the mem bers of the successful eleven next week and each will be presented with a monogram and sweater. Sixteen players will be so honored. Follow ing are the lucky boys: Hudson, Vine yard, Frank Yost. Captain George Tost. Wilehart, "Rowdy" Curry, Bally, Maurice MacLeod, Fay Duley, Horton, "Norway" Otterson, Paeschal. Murphy, Peterson and Ingram. BASKETBAXIj MEET PXiANNED All Clarke County ' Schools to Be Asked to Enter Competition. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec 22. (Spe cial.) All the schools of Clarke Coun ty will be asked to send teams to a basketball tournament to be held in the gymnasium of the Vancouver High School in March. This was a decision of the Clarke County Principals' As sociation at a meeting today. Three classes will be formed. Class A, including Vancouver, Camas, Wash ougal, Ridgefield; Class B, for other schools in the county, and Class C, for players from grammar grades not more than 5 feet 6 inches tall. LOBERT REJECTS BOTH OFFERS Philadelphian Leaves Chicago After Sleeting McGraw and Feds. CHICAGO, Dec 22. Hans Lobert, third baseman of the Philadelphia Na tionals, who has been in Chicago two days, failed 'to come to an agreement with either the Federal League or with Manager McGraw, of the New York Nationals, and left for Philadel phia tonight. McGraw and Lobert were together for more than an hour and McGraw was credited with seeking to keep Lo bert in organized baseball. HARR1AN CLUB VICTOR accurate: passing causes de feat OF WAVERLY TEAM. Ogllvle Is Star of Hockey Game and Appears to Be Fastest Amateur Player Seen In Portland. Accurate passing on the part of the Harriman Club hockey players brought about the defeat of the Waverly Coun try Club representatives when the Har rlmans walked away with a 7 to 3 game in the Portland Ice Hippodrome last night When' the first period ended the Railroaders had the contest stored away 3 to 0, but just to make It good measure they added four more In the last 20-mlnute half. Ogilvle, rover for the West Siders. was the big star of the play. Four times he saa& the puck whirling into the Waver kj goal net. He appeared to be the (Jtstest player outside of the professional teams In Portland. His teammate. Hood, put two across and Center Stewart added the seventh and last score for his side. Miller, Forbes and McVeigh tried their best to bring victory to the Waverly seven, but their flashes of speed were dashed to pieces when they came in the vicin ity of this Ogilvie person. Only one change was made in either lineup and thaf was in the second half when Wilder took the place of Stephenson at right wing for the Waverly aggrega tion. The next affair of the Portland Amateur Hockey League will be played in the Portland Ice Hippodrome next Tuesday night with the Portland Rowing Club having " the Waverly Country Club as opponents. Following are the lineups of last night's game: Waverly 0) Harriman (T) Poster G Adams Webster p Hood Small P Rllance Miller R Ogilvle Forbes ...C Stewart McVeigh LW... Parks Stephenson-Wilder RW Cunningham Officials, Charles Tobln. referee; Cbarlea TJkslla, Judge of play. Bonvllle Sleeting Canceled. - The regular Wednesday lecture of the Bonville Industrial League at the Central Library will be omitted this evening on account of the holidays. "Drat "em" and "od rot "em" are said to be contractions of "May the gods out-root them." YANKEES ARE SOLD Men to Be Added and Manager Is Chosen, It Is Said. DONOVAN TO PILOT CLUB Rnppert and Huston Leave Chicago After Virtually Completing Ne gotiations tor Transfer, Ac cording to Story. CHICAGO, Dec 22-Negotiations for the Bale of the New York American League baseball club, the transfer to it of half a dozen players from other teams in the organization and the se lection of a manager from a champion ship class AA team were virtually completed here today. Formal announcement of the trans action awaits the arrival in New York tomorrow of Jacob Ruppert and T. L. Huston, the prospective new owners of the Yankees. They left here late to day after conferring with B. B. John son, president of the league. It was intimated at the league bead quarters that only signatures were needed to make the documents of the sale complete. Attempts to get any ICE SKATING AT THIS HIPPODROME Twentieth and Marshall. Daily. 10 A. M, I P. M g P. M FREE INSTRUCTION. UNION BAN IX One hour at bowling; the easy nlan To make tme world m healthy man. 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