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lO TIIE MORNING OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 34, 1914. EVERS FIGHTS ODDS A! LANDS Of TOP Johnny Keeps Up Game Battle and Wins Despite Long Run of Bad Luck. PNEUMONIA LATEST BLOW I'inancial Loss, Broken Leg, Death of Little Daughter and Other Troubles Fail to Put Fight ing Player Down. BT CHRISTY MATHEWSOX. NEW YORK, Dec 23. (Special.) Whenever you run into any tough luck, think of "Johnny" Evers and cheer up, for "Johnny" is the real tough luck boy, undisputed champion of the world. But through it all, he has shown the magnificent fighting spirit that has made him. In spite of all his hard breaks, probably the greatest second baseman of his day. When "Johnny" lay flat on his back with pneumonia at the .Somerset Hotel In New Tork, I went in to see him and Bympathfze and I came away sure that "Johnny" was going to get well. I knew when I got one look at his fight ing spirit that he was tackling the pneumonia with the same pep that he went after the Athletics. He was "crabbing" at his physician and at his nurse. Just as if they had been "Hank" O'Day and "Bill" Klem. "What do you think of me on a world's championship team and falling for pneumonia?" he demanded apolo getically. "I ought to know better. But this doctor has to show me something quick or I'll ask for waivers on him." How to Come Back Is Shown. Evers" career has been a splendid ex ample of what the fighting spirit will do for any one of us. and it has shown how we can come back, if we will only make up our minds to it. i When "Johnny" first went into the game he was so frail that the members of the Cubs kidded Selee about the size of the new youngster and asked him why he robbed the cradle! "Johnny" was an alumnus of a collar factory in Troy, and the conditions under which he worked there in- his youth bore no resemblance to those in a sanitarium for promoting the health. Because of his size he was the checker in an iron ing room, keeping tab on the number of shirts turned out. The temperature of this room hovered In the neighbor hood of 90 degrees and the air was seldom changed from October to April, for no one believed in opening the win dows. Time was spent there during the years of "Johnny's" life when he should have been growing in the open air. It left him drawn and frail, as so many factory kids are. Evers will tell you proudly that he finally quit his Job in the collar fac tory because he asked for a raise from H a week to $5 and was refused. He Enters Big League. He entered the big league with his frail body and wonderful nerve and made good strictly on the latter, re fusing to be cut loose to several minor league teams in the West, where Selee wanted to leave him when the Cubs were returning from their first train ing trip in California after Evers joined. That nerve has been carrying him ever since, and it was done well by "Johnny." as nerve will by any one. Once he had made good, Evers' life ran along smoothly enough until after the famous play at the Polo Grounds in 1908, which took the championship away from the Giants. He invested most of the money he had saved up to this time in shoe stores in Chicago and Troy, thinking to build up businesses to carry him after he got through in baseball. In 1909 his first stroke of misfor tune hit him when he took George Mac Donald, the sporting editor of a Chi cago newspaper, for a ride in his auto mobile, and the accident which fol lowed after a trolley car came in col lision with Evers' motor killed Mac Donald. This shattered Evers' nerve for a itime and many of "Johnny's" friends thought that he was through. Shoe Stores Fall. On' top of this, both his shoe stores failed, and Evers found himself broke. He made his first comeback after these disasters, although for a time a lot of us ballplayers thought that he had gone off his 'head because he "crabbed" more than ever. We didn't know "Johnny" then as we do now. Just before the world's series in 1910, "Johnny" broke his leg sliding home because "Tommy" Clarke, of Cincinnati, made a bluff to catch the ball that was never thrown, an old trick, and "John ny" hit the dirt to make sure. He stayed down, for his leg had snapped under him. Clarke never got over re gretting that bluff. It kept Evers out of the world's series and out of many of the games in the early part of the following season. After Chance was passed along "Johnny" was appointed manager of the Cubs, a thankless Job, and then he was turned out in a year by Murphy, as Murphy had turned out his other stars who had made a fortune for him. "Johnny" went to the Braves a poor man, and for a time last Spring it looked as if he were surely through for good, because he was not in any kind of shape and came around 'slowly. But he finished with all the old Evers pep and it was one of his best years. Little GUI Dies. However, another stroke of misfor tune overtook "Johnny" during the latter part of the -season, when his little daughter died. This loss upset Evers completely for a couple of weeks until he got back Into the "spangles" again and put his mind on the game. This is a partial list of the misfortunes that have hit Evers since 1908. I have not mentioned that his home was robbed twice, and I have omitted some minor disasters. And always the game little ballplayer has fought back', "crabbing," with the spirit never broken. Then came the pneumonia and "Johnny" fought that His nerve has won for him because his constitution has never been strong, and he always looks drawn and haggard. What has won for "Johnny" each time has been flaying the game hard. "I want him -to bring his wife and come down to my plantation in the South, where it is warm all Winter." said Stallings to me when the Boston manager was in New York recently for the baseball meeting. So, when things look tough and your luck is running bad. always remember "Johnny" Evers and the troubles he has had and beaten. Don't let your nerve droop and you will climb as high as "Johnny" has, and Evers has the respect of every ballplayer in the pro fession. Within that frail body he has the spirit of a giant. Joe Bonds to Meet Tommy Swlnton. Joe Bonds, the -Tacoma heavyweight, stopped over in Portland - last night on his way to Astoria, where he meets Tommy Swinton on Christmas in a ten round bout. VICTORIA HOCKEY PLAYERS WHO WILL BE PITTED AGAINST UNCLE SAMS NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT. I IrJ-: '" 'J " ft?; 1 . ,4 i 77 cfe. c&Vfe, f - :v ' 1 ' y 4vmniK y" 51 i - i-l 3 lii! mm FAST PLAYERS DUE Five ex-Boundary League Members to Meet Here. ALL LIVELY ON SKATES Connie Benson to Get Tryont in Saturday's Match "With Seven From Victoria Dunderale Holds High Scores. Five players now in the Pacific Coast Hockey League were graduated from the Boundary League and three of them will be seen in action next Saturday evening, when the Portland Uncle Sams meet the Victoria representatives in the Portland Ice Hippodrome. McKay and Cook, of the Vancouver seven, Morris, of Victoria, and Mitchell and Benson, of the locals, are the players who have been doing duty in the Boundary cir cuit. Portland's new member, Connie Ben son, hails from Phoenix, B; C, and he will be given a thorough tryout next Saturday night. Tommy Dunderdale, Victoria's sensational rover, is cred ited with being the high-scorer of the Western division--ior the past two sea sons. Last "year his record was- 24 goals. ' Dunderdale, before coming West, was with the Quebec contingent and played the same position. Walter Smalll, left wing for the coming opponents of the Uncle Sams, was formerly a member of the Wanderers and his teammate. Bert Lindsay, found himself in the services of the Renfrew Club as goal keeper. George Poulin is the roughest player on skates when it comes to going after the puck. He has been penalized more than any other in the Coast league. He is playing right wing for the Vic toria club. Victoria was trimmed by the local players at the last meeting in the Can adian city, but word has been received from the North that the Uncle Sams will have their hands full if they ob tain a win from the visitors. Managers Muldoon, of the locals, has his play ers out each afternoon between 2 and 3 o'clock, but if a practice match can be obtained from the Multnomah Club Ice hockeyists for today, practice will not be held until 7 o'clock tonight. Should they practice tonight it will be done before the regular skating ses sion and will not interrupt the usual opening at 8:30 o clock tonight. "Mickie" Ion, of Vancouver, B. C, will be the referee, and Tommy Phil lips, also of the Northern city, will be the Judge of play. Phillips, in his day, was considered to be the greatest all-around hockey player in the coun try. He was a member of the Ottawa World Champions and when the Kenora Club held the world's title he was "in on" the spoils. Sidelights and Satire By Roscoe Fawrrtt. AS A member of the Irvlngton Up lift Club our heart bleeds. buckets of blood as we note the debasing influences of the prize ring upon present-day youth. - Take the following ex tract from a British soldier's letter to Reynolds" Newspaper, London: VWe have charged the Germans again and again. They won't stand their ground. You never saw such a fight. I was next to one of the High landers, who got his rifle knocked out of his hand, so he knocked two of them over with his fist." Could anything be more disgusting? A presumably dour Presbyterian stoop ing to exchange blows with a man who may have been an ex-bartender. Yet the brutal Scotch slugger proba bly gloried in his deed, and the secret admiration of his English friends shows how the contamination spreads. Is It any wonder we uplifters throw up our .hands in holy horror and shud der as each day brings some new ex hibition of lack of self-control not pre scribed at the Geneva convention? Get together, folk, and prepare to resist the spread of this hideous monster. Some of you may talk loud enough and SPe rr-f T-e GoerS say so little as to get your names In the newspapers. Later you may ,be named secretary of some reform society and the graft will be found very good. t Oakland will have a real ball club next year. He likely will do most of the catching. - A criticism of American football Is that only a small percentage of the students participate. For instance, at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the enrollment is around 100 annually. This college has a hard schedule to fulfill every Fall and to meet the issue Sewanee's football squad numbers 51. Fifty-one per cent is a fairly sufficient reply in this specific case, at least. Speaking of reformers and reforma tions, when the New York Legislature goes Into session next month at Al bany another crusade is to be launched against the Frawley. boxing bill. Governor-elect Whitman Is not op posed to boxing, but he favors one paid commissioner to the present triumvi rate. It is possible that Whitman may save the sport by pushing new legis lation to correct existing evils, but 'tis rumored the reforming clique Is very strong this year. ' Of course, the reformers are in earn est, for nobody ever saw one that wasn't; but somebody ought to lead them in totsuch recent bouts as .the McVey-Johnson and Coffey-Smith alter cations. We wot not they'd change their notions about prizefighting dis tinctions. From the standpoint of brutality. New York boxing cannot hold a candle to such embroglios as that Methodist mlxup at Third and Taylor. From all appearances, our brave fore fathers battled and bled In vain for a 54-40 dividing line between this coun try and Canada. Speaking of Clarence Rowland, the new manager of the Chicago White Sox, the Chicago Herald says: "in 1908 Rowland had charge of the Aberdeen club in the. Western Canada League." The Herald is a good newspaper, but, like the rest of us, it sometimes scram bles its geography. , , "The tip-off on 'the Federal League." says an Eastern anti-Federal writer, "comes in the announcement that Steve Evans batted over .340 in that circuit. Steve never batted over .280 in the Nationals." Also, here is another tip-off this wise man of the East overlooked: Ivan Olson batted .237 for Portland- in the Coast League in 1910 and then went up to the Naps in 1911 and batted .261 in the American League. Which, proves what? Then again, there's the case of Joa Tinker, who batted over or around .300 in the National and who clouted only .250 in the Federal camp. When you cite statistics to prove a baseball argument you monkey with loaded firearms. For Christmas we are not going to forget the Pacific Coast league mag nates. We intend sending a photograph of Bill James to Harry Wolverton and one of Elmer Lober to Henry Berry. - m A hawk-eyed contributor comes to the defense of Walter Camp's all-Amer-lcan football choices with the following acrostic: .-' - McEWAN TRUMBULL ' MAULBETSCH ' O'HEARN CHAPMAN GHEE BKADLEE BALL IN i HARD WICK MAHAN -. PENNOCIC If Mike Lynch Is awarded an umpir ing Job in the Northwestern League next year it will not be his first stab at the bottle-target game. Away back in 1902 Bob Brown tried his hand at umpiring. It was a 14-inning affair be tween Portland and Tacoma, and after the game Brown wired his resignation to President Lucas and Mike stepped in as substitute for two weeks. Mike broke Into ball at Anaconda, Mont.,, in 1900, and went to the Cubs for a cup of tea, then t Minneapolis and back to the Northwest in 1902. He has been here ever since and has man aged the Seattle Giants, Victoria Bees, Tacoma Tigers and Spokane Indians. Mike admits he Is after an umpiring Job. He has a large ranch' at Selah, Wash., ten miles from North Yakima, but is spending the Winter at Tacoma. "HAP" FIRST J UTAH Tigers . Likely to : Get Initial Game at Salt Lake City. PORTLAND AT LOS ANGELES Oakland to Play San Francisco on Opening Contest Giants to Take Brooklyn and Phillies Boston Braves at Start. "Hap" Hogan and his rejuvenated crew of Tigers in all probability will be the first Coast League club to frolic on the new diamond in Salt Lake City when the call of "play ball" is heard next Spring. Although the official schedule has not as yet been fixed, the teams proba bly will open the season as follows: Portland at Los Angeles, Oakland at San Francisco and Venice at Salt Lake. It is the custom in the Coast League each season for Venice, Oakland and Portland to alternate in the selection of parks for the opening games. This season Oakland leads off and will choose San Francisco. The home of the Seals always has been chosen in the past as it is the biggest city on the circuit and a good baseball town. Portland having second choice this season chooses Los Angeles. Venice at the bottom is forced to take what is left, which in former seasons was Sacramento, but this time is Salt Lake City. And at that it does not look like the Tigers are making such a bad gamble. The opening week of the Coast League in the Utah city no doubt will be a gala one and the Tigers ought to leave with enough at least to pay their carfare back to California. . In the East the Giants will take on Brooklyn at the Polo grounds in the opening session of the National League. The same day the Phillies will be en tertained by the Braves in Boston. This much of the 1915 schedule was settled at the recent meeting of the magnates In New York. - Clr.rence Rowland, the new manager of the White Sox. is rather . impressed by Larry Chappell, who cost Comlskey $18,000 last season, according to re ports from the windy city, and will give the ex-American Association gardener a thorough trial next Spring. Chappell played under Rowland sev eral seasons ago at Jacksonville, Fla. . Now that a brewer has about come into control of the Yankees, there is no chance to get Pitcher Ray Caldwell to leave the club. Bays a Philadelphia wag. Perhaps as one-fourth of Connie Mack's $100,000 infield brought $50,000, Mack concealed the real valuation to double-cross the tax collectors. Schuyler Britton, of the Cardinals, suggests that the American and Na tional Leagues close their parks for a year to bring the players back to their senses on the subject of "prices. Perhaps that would go all right in St. Louis and there hardly would be any objection from the Federal League, but the Giants and the Braves, who man aged to break a little better than even last season, can't see it. LEAGUE TO BE SUED NOW WOLVERTOS AND JACOBS LAY PLANS FOR LEGAL WAR. President Barnn, Still In Salt Lake, Expected to Have Something; to Say on Case Soon. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 23. (Spe cial.,; Joseph E. Bien, attorney for Harry Wolverton and Lloyd Jacobs, admitted today that he is preparing to tile suit against the Pacific Coast League in behalf of his clients. "Just as soon as the franchise' is awarded formally to Salt Lake, action will be taken," says Attorney Bien. "Just when i that will be, I cannot say now, but Wolverton and Jacobs have good grounds on which to base a con test in the . courts to protect their rights." There will be a legal fight over the action of Coast League directors at their annual meeting in forfeiting the franchise held by Wolverton and Ja cobs. Lloyd Jacobs has declared that the 20-odd Wolf players are still the property of himself and partner, and the contest likely will hinge on that point. President Baum has been detained in Salt Lake completing the details of the transfer of the franchise, but he is due to arrive home tomorrow and have something to say on the case. The Coast League magnates have been ex pecting a fight by Wolverton and Ja cobs, and preparations have been made to line up their forces. JUNIOR GAMES SCHEDULED Football Teams to Clash on Christ mas Day and Sunday. The following football games will be played December 25 and 27: Christmas morning Lincoln Park vs. St. Johns at St. Johns at 19 A M. Alblna. vs. South Portland at Eellwood Park 10 A. M. Northern Hill vs. Dally News at St. Johns at 10 A. M. Brooklyn Juniors vs. Arleta at Anabel at 10 A. M. Overlook vs. Creston at Anabel at 10 A. M. Westover vs. Bear Cats at East T we If til and Davis streets at 10 A. M. Sunday, December 27 Lincoln Park vs. Sooth Portland at Pe ninsula Park at i P. M. Albina vs. Dally News at East Twelfth and Davis at 2 p. M. . Northern Hill vs. Bear Cats at St. Johns It ! P. M. St. Johns vs. Arleta at St. Johns at 2 P. M. Brooklyn vs. Creston at Sellwood at 2 P. M. Overlook vs. Westover at Twenty-fifth and Raleigh at 2 P. M. Standings of the teams to date Team Won. Lost. Pet. South Portland S 0 1000 Westover E 0 1000 Lincoln Park 6 0 1000 Albina Juniors 6 1 .833 Brooklyn 5 3 .00 Overlook Eagles 2 4 .833 Northern Hill 2 4 .333 Creston 2 4 .333 Arleta 2 4 .333 Dailv News 2 4 .333 St. Johns 1 E .167 Bear Cats O 6 .000 JOITXSOX EXDS DEAL BY DRAFT Washington Star Sends Weeghnian $6000 by Sale of Herd of Steers. COFFEY VILLE. Kan., Dec 23. With the money obtained from the sale of a herd of steers, Walter Johnson, star of the Washington American League club pitching staff, today mailed a draft reimbursing Charles Weeghmau. president of the Chicago Federal League club, for the bonus given John son when he signed a Federal con tract. The draft was for $6000. "As far as I am, concerned, the In cident, which has proved an unpleasant one for me at least, is now closed." Johnson said. "There is nothing more I can do. I shall report to the Wash ington club when the Spring training season opens. If any complications arise ihey will have to be fought out between the two leagues, or between the heads of the two clubs Washing ton and Chicago. When I mailed that draft my responsibility ended." v DETAILS OF PURCHASE RUSHED Farrell Says He Still Owns Yankees but Ituppert Gets Busy. NEW YORK, Dec 23. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Jr., and Captain Tillinghast L. Huston arrived in New York today and went into conference with Frank J. Farrell, chief owner of the New York American League baseball club, to ar range final details for the purchase of the club. Colonel Ruppert anounced before his meeting with Farrell that the deal had not been closed ana tnat it was now "all up to Farrell." He Indicated that he expected there would be no hitch, however. Farrell said: "Up to the present we still own the club and will own it until we are paid our price. That's all there is to it. We had nothing to do with what happened In Chicago. We merely have eet our figure and are waiting. There seemed to be little doubt, how ever, that the deal would go through. AMATEUR "WILL KJTOW STATUS Golf Association May Alter Bylaws at January Sleeting-. NEW YORK. Dec 23. A proposal to amend the by-laws of the United States Golf Association more clearly to define the status of an amateur will be submitted to the annual meet ing of the Association here on Janu ary 8. The proposed amendment defines an amateur as "one who does not accept money or the equivalent thereof, di rectly or indirectly, in his association with the game of golf." Exceptions provide that an ama teur's standing shall not be jeopardized by writing- articles about or reporting golf matches. Members cf firms or corporations selling golf supplies and players making wagers on the game are exempted In the proposed amendment-Violations include teaching the game of golf for money, receiving pay as caddies after reaching the age of 16, and professionalism in any other branch of sport. STATE LEAGUE FORMED IIXIFORM RULES FOB, ATHLETICS IN HIGH SCHOOLS MADE. City Superintendent Meet at Eugene and Organize Association Under Faculty Members' Control. EUGENE, Or.. Dec. 23. (Special.) The Oregon High School Athletic As sociation was formed and the first uniform interscholastic rules to gov ern 20 leading high schools of the state were drafted yesterday at a meet ing of city superintendents attending the State Teachers' Convention. The issues regarding eligibility were closely debated.' After determining that high school players cannot be older than 21 years, must carry four full courses and may be barred" for misconduct on or off the field, the meeting adopted the other regulations, subject to later amendment. C. W. Boetticher, of Albany, is the head of a committee to place the or ganization in operation. Under the association, the state Is divided into the Columbia River, Portland, Eastern Oregon, North Wil lamette, South Willamette, Southern Oregon and Coos Bay districts. An eligible athlete must enter school not later than 20 days after a semes ter opens, and cannot play more than four years. He must be an amateur,. cannot be delinquent in more than one subject the preceding semester, must maintain a passing standard in 15 reg ular recitations a week, not counting music, rhetorical or physical culture, and must be regular in attendance. Students who have been enrolled in a higher institution of learning are ineligible. The superintendent or principal of a school Is to determine the eligibility of an athlete who comes from another school. Certificates of eligibility, cer tified to by the principal for members of teams, must be mailed to the man agers of the respective teams three days before a contest. Failure to pro vide certificates or allowing an ineligi ble player to participate may cause the expulsion of a school from mem bership in the association. The board of control .may suspend, permanently or temporarily, a player or school, if found guilty of willful violation of the rules of the associa tion. Superintendents or principals must approve of the selection f officials. No one but a member of' the faculty or a person directly responsible to the superintendent can be a trainer under the rules. The expenses of the principal, or his representative, when accompanying athletes on trips shall be paid as are those of -41 e contestants. TA5KEES TO GET SEW PARK Rnppert and Huston to Bnild Plant to Seat 4 0,0 00 Persons. , CHICAGO, Dec. 22. A. new baseball park, patterned after the home of the Chicago i American League club, and costing $425,000, exclusive of the site, will be built for the New York club 'of the American League, it was learned today. B. B. Johnson, president of the league, said Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Jr., and Captain T. L. Huston, the prospective purchasers of the club, already had the property on which to build. The park, it is planned, .will seat 40,000 persons, 5000 more than any other plant in either of the major leagues. It will be erected within two years, it was said. Big Leaguers Back From Hawaii. FRESNO, Cal., Dec. 23. The All Nationals defeated the All-Americans here today 6 to 2 in thei first game since returning from Honolulu. The teams left tonight for Bakersfield, where they will play tomorrow. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. Americans. 2 10 6NatIonals. . 6 9 2 Bateries Cole and Henry; Tesreau and Clark. i Smith Staggers McCarty. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. The bout be tween "Tom" McCarty and "Gunboat" Smith, of California, was stopped here tonight in the fourth round by the referee, when McCarty, after taking the count of seven, staggered to his feet in an apparently helpless condi tion and Smith refused to hit him again. Both are heavyweights. ' Phil Powers Dies at 62. NEW YORK. Dec 23. Philip J. Pow ers, an old-time baseball player, fa mous in his day, died today, aged 62. He was a player on the old Mutuals In this city and later catcher for the Cincinnati National League club, which he Joined in 1876. He was an umpire In the National League up. to 1892, AM Buff urn .vwimmiiiiii x or nrts cnrsTKaTf u M At VMf NUrt U Mlt( 1 J Two Suggestions That Will Be' EE Welcomed by Last-Day Gift-Makers j Merchandise Certificates j H and Hat Orders H for Men ee E And These Further Suggestions: EES EE Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, Kid Cloves, Silk Hose, EE E Mufflers, Shirts, Bathrobes, Nightwear, Underwear, r EE Sweaters. Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats, Mackinaws, Umbrellas, Suitcases, Hand Crips, etc. EE Store Open This Evening EE Buffum & Pendleton E nr Morrison Street Opposite Postoff ice EE rJfIfIIlIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIVIIlI!lIIlIIIISIIESlIIIIIlIlIiIIEIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIlIIIIlIlIIl1tr MOOSE BAN BOUTS Tacoma Lodge Decides to Call Off All Matches. GRUMAN SEEKS BATTLES Xorthwest "Fighters Challenged to aieet Portland Boy at Any Time Before Eastern Trip Is Taken. Conners at Everett. By popular vote of the members, the Moose Lodge of Tacoma has declared a ban on boxing and will no longer hold shows or allow bouts to be staged in its hall, according to reports from the Washington city. The reasons assigned for the sudden change of frontthe calling off of the New Tear's card and the closing of the doors to boxers was that members had become dissatisfied with the way things had- been managed. According to the report the calling off of the Al Palzer-Jack Lester battle was the last straw. It was after this that the lodge members began to turn a cold shoulder to the game. It also has been said that not enough money was made to war rant the effort. "In the future the lodge wiTl stage purely amateur affairs at which none but lodge members will be permitted," says the report. Members of the committee who de cided on the change are: G. W. Bishop, P. B Thompson, J. B. Gyle, William Atkinson, A. Duenwald and James Campbell. It was hinted to a member of the committee that perhaps the stand taken by city authorities had been the cause of the change. This was denied. - The Eagles Lodge has announced that it will hold a smoker in Tacoma after the first of the year. Now that his proposed trip to Aus tralia has been called off. Ralph Gru man. the Pacific Coast lightweight champion who makes his home in Port land, is casting about in search of matches in the Northwest. "Ralph Is open to fight any of the topnotchers In Tacoma or Seattle," said his brother Sherman, yesterday. He intimated that Ralph was partic ularly anxious to hear from "Rough house" Burns, Chet Neff, Johnnie O'Leary, Joe Bayley or any of the others from the twin Washington cities. However. Gruman does not confine his challenges to these fighters, but will take on any man who can make 133 pounds ringside. In asking for battles in the Northwest he says he does not want to get too far away from home as he intends making an East ern trip later. Eddie Conners, ex-boxing and wrest ling Instructor at the Eagles Club, in Raymond, Wash., is now acting in the capacity of matchmaker for the Ev erett Athletic Club. In taking over the Job he has decided- to offer the fans of Everett an all-star card of five four-round bouts to be staged on New Year's day. Ray Campbell and Johnnie O'Leary will furnish the wlndup. Conners tried to get Ritchie to meet Campbell in the main event, but Ritchie could not see the proposition unless he was given a guarantee of $2500. So O'Leary was signed. Joe Swain, the Portland middle weight, also is on the card. He meets Freddie Brooks, a clever boy, at 154 pounds. Swain started in the game In Port land as an amateur under Tommy Tracey. the veteran Multnomah Club Instructor, and also worked under Tommy Ryan, but for the last year he has been under the management of Conners. In that time he has met and defeated every boy of his weight in 48 encounters. He has 31 knockouts to his credit and fought a draw. with Bud Anderson after the Vancouver boy re turned from his battle with Leach Cross in California. Jack Skelly.i the Yonkers boxing au thority, is remembering his friends this year with a Christmas card that is unique. Bob McAllister is back in New Tork again and is looking around for matches. The New York fans haven't forgotten the artistic trimming he gave Battling Levinsky. Johnny Dundee will be matched for ICE HOCKEY ICE HIPPODROME Portland vs. Victoria, B.C. (PROFESSIONAL) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 8 :30 P. M. Admission, Including Re- II served Seat, 50c and $1 NOW ON SALE AT SCHILLER'S CIGAR STORE, 11th and Washington; HUNT LEY DRUG CO., Fourth and Washington Sts., ICE HIPPO DROME, Twenty-first and Marshall Sts. & P rno Won iiiiiimiiif. unvt SSifA a bout in Gotham as soon as the hand he hurt in the Rivers encounter is well enough. . MARKSMEX AVIX !0 TURKEYS Cold Winds Lessen Crowd at Port land Gun Club Shoot. Twenty turkeys were taken away from the Portland Gun Club grounds yesterday by winning marksmen. Tlia cold wind kept the number of con testants away, and the scores for the most part were rather low. Twenty five were shooting Sunday and but a few more than a score were out to the Christmas turkey shoot yesterday. Art Throop was high man yesterday with 92 per cent, and Henry Wihlon was a close second, just one point be hind. Fred Dryden was credited with, making the best score last Sunday, when he shot for an average of 95 per cent. P. J. Holohan was high among the professionals with 95 per cent.. Joseph A. Addleman, secretary of the Portland Gun Club, and Bill Strowgers had low scores Sunday because each shot in the same squad with the women contestants and they had to be handi capped nine yards. Mrs. Peter O'Brien was high with 63 per cent among the women. Yesterday's scores were as follows: Throop 92, Wihlon 91, Rauw 90. P. J. Holohan (professional) 86, Dryden S3, H. Smith 82, D. Holohan 82, L. Rayburn 81, Huston 84, Munson 74, Theilman 7fi, Jones 7o, Hillis 76, Harkins 60 and Slack 60. The scores for Sunday follow: P. J. Holohan 95, Dryden 90, Mathews SO, Cook 82, Dennis Holohan 7o, Chandler 67. Hare 65, Joseph A. Addleman 5S, Strowgers 50, Campbell 5S, Hersch bemer 70, Ed Morris 76, Kltzmiller 76, R. Sleight, Sr., 80. R. Sleight. Jr., SO, J. Morris 60. Allen 76, Keller 72, Hillis 81, O'Brien 65, Young 81. Templeton 70, Mrs. Fred Dryden 50, Mrs. Peter O'Brien 63, Miss Gladys Reld 50, Miss Martin 40 per cent ANGELS CHOOSE SHAFER SUCCESSOR TO DILLON MAY NOT SERVE AS MANAGER. Glanta Tarn Over Infielder, bat Auto Business Likely to Interfere, Ivan Olson Suggested. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. (Spe cial.) Art Shafer, famed as the third baseman who quit the New York Giants to go into the automobile busi ness in Los Angeles last Spring, was the player selected to succeed Frank Dillon as manager of the Los Angeles club in 1915. Tom Stephens, majority stockholder in the Los Angeles club, gave out this news in San Francisco today. He said the deal had been set tled whereby the Giants were going to turn over the star Infielder and every thing was going along nicely. A hitch Has arisen, however. In Shafer's determination to stay retired and devote his entire attention to busi ness. It was pointed out to him that he . would not have to leave his busi ness, but could put in his spare time managing the Angels. Shafer seemed to look with favor on the idea, but to day word came over the wires from Los Angeles that Shafer had reconsidered and would not accept. Another player who Is being con sidered is said to be Ivan Olson, the old Portland shortstop who has been with Cleveland for the past three sea sons and was sold this Fall to Cin cinnati. SEARCH FOR BOY FUTILE Xo Trace Found of 14-Ycar-OId Lad Lost In Kalama "Woods. KALAMA. Wash., Dec. 23. (Special.) No trace has been found of Scott Haguewood, the 14-year-old boy, who wa3 lost in the wilds of the Upper u-oiamo 'River the dav after Thanks giving day, while hunting for deer with two companions. TVm Pnnntv Commissioners ordered rwaA nnnitimcnt nrnvidpd for Reamhinff and several combed the woods in quest of the boy, but all returned after futye search. 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