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1 TITE MORNING OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY. JANUARY . 8, 1915. 14 GORBETT STRONG III PRAISE OF COWLER COAST LEAGUE CORBETT'S "WHITE HOPE" BOXER, POUND HEBE, WHO WILL BE TAKEN TO AUSTRALIA I'M IN THE 0REG0NIAN BUILDING AND GROOMED FOR H 2AVY WEIGHT CBOWfl. BE S-CLL1B Jim Says His Protege, Signed . Magnates Plan Expansion in V 1916 if Salt Lake Suc (j. ceeds, Says McCredie. in Portland, Is Best of All "White Hopes." Ml JAMES J. CIRCUIT SCHEME FULLY DISCUSSED Z Seattle, Ogden, Walla Walla, Sacra 3 mento and Spokane Considered T for Teams Beaver Itelease of Chinese Recalled. "J RT ROSCOE FAWCETT, -"- Tf Salt Lake City makes a success of Its shrift In Clans AA baseball, 1916 v wlU witness expansion of the Pacific : fAKt iiru to el7ht clubs. W. W. McCredie, back yesterday - afternoon from the annual session of - the Pacific Coast League directors si X. san Francisco, dropped this lnforma- .nri admitted that the eight-club V question had occupied a great deal of - the magnates' valuable time. - Tho Portland owner made several ' other Interesting announcements. ; Anions other things the Judge vouchsafed the information that he had ' recalled the release of his Chinese :. Hawaiian outfielder and would have ' Alcana In Spring camp. "Umpire Jack Carthy looked me up - specially about Akana." explained - Judge McCredie. "He had read about .-. our releasing him and he said It was :. the mistake of our lives. Jack recent .: ly returned from Honolulu. He de ' ,-i.rerf Akana was as white as many ; Caucasians and that no Coast League . player could object on color lines. Jack Haa Prnlae. ' 'Ha Is as good an outfielder as there is In the Coast League Jack In : it1 'ind can hold his own right to ; day." So Walt and I have decided to . bold onto him and ask him to report ' at camp. Th.t Portland would be the second " club to show in Salt Lake City was ', another morsel dropped by tne jurist ' magnate. Portland will open the sea- - son at Los Angeles March 30 and win - Vin over to Salt Lake the second r week and Into Portland the third week, n.nh. Anrll 13 against Venice. "Nearlj all the jumps to Salt Lake " are arranged on this triangle basis." .dd.H the Judge. "In one or two cases one of the southern teams will jump to Salt Lake City and then dou- : bla back home, but those cases will be " rare. , ; -I disagree from Fielder Jones and :-Nephew Walter most radically about . Salt Lake City as a weak sister" In the league. I believe that Salt Lake City Is destined to be one of our strong franchises. It is in a country by itself - and it nas me rigm wri ui men the team." UgM-Clufc Plan Dlacuaaed. ' "But tell us mora about this elght elub expansion scheme." was asked of the Judge. "Well, it was discussed at some . length." he replied. "We went over the ground thoroughly and raked up all sorts of possible combinations. One suggestion was for teams at Ogden and ' Walla, Walla, these cities to take from - seven to ten weeks apiece and play ' the rest of their home schedules in ': bait Lake City and Portland. "Another nosslble combination was . Sacramento and Seattle: another Seat ; tie and Spokane, and stin another Og ': den and Sacramento. Of course, all 1' these plana necessarily are contingent r upon Salt Lake city a success as Coast League city, but I am higl ontlmlstic." Salt Lake City did not pay the money owing to tho Coast League at the an - nual session, but telegraphed that most of its proposed stock issue had Deen subscribed. Tneswa Asks More Time. r Two telegrams of some import were waiting for the Portland magnate upon his return home. One was from Happy loean. accepting the terms for the purchase of Pitcher Hi West, of the ' Beavers. Tho other was a message ; from Tucson. Aria., begging more time , for the raising of a guarantee lor tne ! Portland club to train there. : "To be candid. 1 had almost given up ' thought of training at Tucson, said ' President McCredie. "The Commercial Club promised to write to us a fort- nlirht in and had not done so. One offer made at San Francisco appealed . strongly to mo. That was for us to do our conditioning at Calexico. "That city in located on tho Mexican . border in Southern California and ie (' rives its name from Its peculiar geo- crmnhli-al position. Calexico is a mem brr of the Imperial Valley Winter l.fieu", and we could arrange several ' good practice games in tho alley. Tucson's ltejaest (.ranted. "However, we have granted an ex tension of time to the Tucson people. : and If they come through with tne ae t-ircd guarantee the Beavers will train .' there." Walter McCredie did not divulge the : amount of the West sale price, but It ' Ik believed to have been in tho neigh ' borhood of $500 or $600. West was a member of the Beavers for two years : and pitched great ball when his arm . -was right. He injured his salary flip per In the Fall of 1913. however, and it lias never been right since then. "Doc" Schmieden Portland trainer. . spent many an anxious hour over Hi's wing last season. Schmleder, by tne way, will train the Beavers again HIS, said Manager Mack. in TWO NEWSBOYS' TKAMS WIX Jefferson High Juniors and Jeffer son Mid sets Are Defeated. The newsboya scored two victories in their srmnasium last Wednesday night, when the first team trimmed the Jef ferson High juniors. SO to 15. and the necond organisation downed the Jef ferson Midgets. J 2 to 14. In the pre liminary contest Morris Rogoway and A. Welnstein were the bis stars for the second string, while Denny Will lams and George Weston did their best for the Midgets. Alfred "Icky" Schilt was the big thins in the main event. The playing of the former Lincoln High star was what kept the first team in the run ning. Shandeling and Brosy were the star for the Jefferson High juniors. The lineups: First Umm tI0 Juniors l..l Schlll Shandeitnc Aurbuek Bb Knfr - Choate H after Mulrnraa l'ljnrM .......... . .Brosy O'orick Spare Sv-oni leant i3 Aurburfc K . M. R.iowt r. . A. Alnlin. ...... .O. .. II. Cohen G. . Xldcets d Kin ...D. WMUlaois ...... Weston ...I. Williams YYlntz II. Lt H Nuihiiim SL'&r Referce. WUr; umpire. II. Gevurtx. Balk-Line Tournament Date Set. NEW TORK. Jan. 7. The National class A 18.3 balkline American ama teur billiard championship tournament will be held in Philadelphia beginning ' Monday March 1. The executive com mittee of the National Association of 'Amateur Billiard I'layers so announced today. it , , ' ?".A i . i V -.i I - fr .'.Zii;At& SALT LAKE WANTS 8 Negotiations for Players Entered Into. Are CALIFORNIA CAMP LIKELY Members of Rotary Club Take $5100 Wdrth of Stock, Making Amount Sold More Than $49,000. Relf May Head Club. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah... Jan. 7. (Special.) The Salt Lake City team in the Pacific Coast League will establish Spring training quarters in Southern California if plans under consideration are carried out. Cliff D. Blankenshlp. manager of the Salt Lake City team, is negotiating with major league managers and ex pects also to sign about eight players in a month. The players on the re serve list of the 1914 Sacramento team will form the nucleus of the local team and will be ordered to report for Spring Dractice late in February. Just when some of the backers of the Salt Lake baseball club were becoming a bit discouraged over the prospects of raisins the S50.000. members of the bait Lake Rotary Club took $5100 worth of stock. The amount now subscribed is more than $49,000 and it was said last night that the Rotary Club probably would take the remainder of the stock. "Some of the bigger interests which will be directly benefited by a Salt Lake City club in the Taciflc Coast League have failed us." said George Wasson chairman of the club, "but we expect to have the remainder of the stock sub scribed within hours. . I expect to call a meetlns-nr the stockholders with in a week and then the permanent or ganisation will be completed and offi cers elected. Cliff Blankenshlp said that J12.000 had been placed at his disposal and would be given over to the organization of a ball club that would make Salt Lake a contender for the Coast League pennant. . van Devanter, managing editor or a local newspaper. Is taking an active part in the organization of the club and is Rlated for the secretaryship. George Rclf, president of the Salt Lake City team in the Union Association, probably will be elected president, but who the other officers will be iB doubt ful. FEDS HAVE $50,000 AT STAKE One Object of Suit Is to Trotect Sal ary Advances, Says Gil more. CHICAGO. Jan. 7. Club owners of the Federal League have paid out $50,000 In 1915 salary advances to. ma jor and minor league stars who de serted organized baseball for tne fed erals, according to a statement today by James A. GUmore, president or tne Federal organization. Protection of this money, he said, is one of the ob jects of the league's suit filed against organized baseball, charging it with operating in violation oi tne snerman anti-trust law. "Th league proposes to fight to a finish to protect this investment," Gil- more sa d. "in tne event oi a repe tition of legal controversies which im paired the 1914 season, when litigation caused several of our star players to sit idly on the bench all season, this money will be tied up in a knot that win take months to disentangle. We propose to make ourselves certain of the results beiore me piayms season begins." The Federal League executive cueu the cases -of Hal Chase, who deserted the Chicago Americans for the Buffalo Federals: Pitcher George Johnson, who Jumped to the Kansas City Fed erals from the Cincinnati club of the National League; Armando Marsans. who also quit the Cincinnati club for the St. Louis Federals, and the cases r nlivpn who have Joined the ranks of the Federals since the close of the 1914 season. All of them have received advance money on their 191S salaries Gilmore said. Pitcher Walter Johnson heads the list with JS000 and others have re ceived sums ranging from $1000 to $3 U00. . Brier Bits or Sport. Hobey Baker, the football star, is the whole show on the St. Nicholas hockey team In New York. St Nick beat the Vies of Montreal C-l the other night and Hobey received a bad braise on hid 'e' ... peakinz of the decline of the dram-! TOM COWLER. mer, Dave Warfield safd the other night that Battling Nelson had returned to vaudeville. ... Football, baseball and track titles were won by the University of Illinois teams in 1914. . Interest in hockey at Columbia is so great this Winter that a big outdoor rink is being planned by the athletic association. . . Work has been begun on the big ath letic park of Fordham University. ... A British sporting publication ad vises Englishmen to enter the golf tournament for the amateur champion shin, providing Detroit gets the course. saying the links are more like British courses than any other in America. ... Seventeen thousand dollars will be distributed among the winners at the race meeting at New Orleans. e Sung by Welsh. I love these dear -Wisconsin laws. And New York's, too, somehow; For if it were not for those codes I'd have no title now. e According to Curley the Johnson Willard fight date is undecided. What's the matter with April. 1? Germany Schaefer probably wants to Join the Cubs just to prove that it is possible for a fellow to play on that team and still have a laugh left. The United States having decided to publish a daily paper, we hereby apply for the job of sporting editor. . The news that the Federal League batters hit left-handed pitchers hard last season will come as welcome infor mation to Joe Tinker, whose team oc casionally got a base hit off one when he grew careless. We certainly would like to see Win Loo. the Chinese inflelder. last long enough with the Sox to sit In one of their 10-cent limit poker games. Ah amateur. according to John Brown, Jr., is one who competes for pleasure and the physical, moral, intel lectual and social benefits derived ai rectlv therefrom. Let's see; what men taL moral and social advantages does an amateur wrestler derive? 15 ATHLETES TO GET LETTERS At Sixth Annual Dance Tonight Lincoln High Pays Honors. Fifteen athletes of the Lincoln High School will receive first-team football letters at the sixth annual football dance, to be given In the school gym nasium tonight. Second-team letters will be given to 14 students this morn ing at a general assembly. ltav tiroce. captain of tho 1914 foot ball eleven. Wednesday was re-elected to head the 1915 contingent after a meeting of the letter men. Lynn Oli ver, "former vasnineton mgn piayer. was the only opponent of Groce's and he declined in favor of the popular last season leader. The coming year will make Kay s fourth and last fling at local inter- scholastic football, and like his brother "Rustv" who now attends the Oregon Agricultural Collese. he has been star each year. Captain Groce, along with Coach Borleske, Manager Josef Ltllard and E. R. Holt, will speak at the formal assembly of the West biders this morning. Following are the players wno win receive the nine-inch block "L": Clifford Druschell. Frank "Hercules Busch, George Busch. Charles Johns. Karl Boehmer. Captain Ray Groce, Lowell Page. Monica "Dutch" Livingston, Lynn Oliver. Erie Freeman, William Muir, R. Holt, Walter Tannensee ana Man. ager Josef Lillard. XEW TRI-STATE CLUBS LIKELY League Soon to Meet and Two Teams May Be Added to Circuit. SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 7. A meeting of the directors of the tWestern Tri State League, which last year included the towns of Walla Walla, North Yak ima, Pendleton and Baker, will be held about the end of this month. According to the present plans of the directors of the league, all the former towns will be in the league this year, and ne gotiations have been begun to add Lewiston and Boise. The league, which last year was made up of players dropped from the North western League teams and recruits picked up largely from the territory covered by the league, plans to obtain players in the same manner this year. Yankees Get Caldwell Back. NEW TORK. Jan. 7. Bay Caldwell, the pitcher for the New York Ameri cans, who left the team last August, shortly after which it was announced that the Buffalo club of the Federal League had secured his services for next season, will rejoin the Yankees the coming Spring, according to an nouncement by President Ban Johnson, of the American League, here yester day. . i IS Discovery Alone Required for Aggies to Have Big Year. COACHES AND FANS WORRY Conference Season Opens Soon and Practice Games With Multnomah and Archer & Wiggins Ag gregations Are Sought. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Or., Jan. 7. (Special.) "Wanted One tall, husky, speedy bas ketball player, with elementary experi ence at least, to play center on the Beaver basketball team. Apply to Dr. E. J. Stewart, Director of Athletics, Oregon Agricultural College." The foregoing appeal expresses Coach Stewart's heartfelt wish in the troub lous days preliminary to the opening of the conference basketball season. The Aggie squad Is devoid of a first class center, and the coaches as well as fans are becoming worried. With two forwards and two guards from last year's team, and an abundance of sub stitute guards and forwards, the dis covery of a big whirlwind center of the class of Darling or Fenton or Savage is seemingly all that stands in the way of a big year for the locals. Selberts and Dewey Safe. Seiberts and Dewey look like fixtures in the forward positions. Captain "Blllie" King looks better than ever at guard. His eye seems good and he is playing his customary fierce, aggres sive game. . Johns, a substitute for two years, and Jordan, also a second-stringer last year, are leading aspirants, along with Mix, for the other guard berth. Ray, of Roslyn, Wash., and Phillips, of Ash land, are two freshmen who are play ing the part of understudies for Dewey and Seiberts at forwards, and Hogan and Allen, centers on the freshman team, are stacking up with Smyth and Blagg for the pivot job. Practice Games Sought. "The conference season opens January 22 in Seattle, with the University of Washington as the opponent of the Aggies. In the intervening two weeks a number of games will be procured if possible,, in order to whip the locals into shape. The Archer & Wiggins team, of Portland, and the Multnomah Club team are two aggregations with which Everett May is trying to arrange games for next week. May is somewhat downcast after hav ing watched the practice, but looks for an improvement. The men do not seem to be able to get to going right, and, we have a big problem to face in finding a center," said May yesterday. Captain King said also: "We are far from right, and we will have to show a lot of improvement in order to figure against Washington in Seattle, but I think we have a lot of good material." Philadelphia May Get Whitted. DURHAM, N. C, Jan. 7. George Whitted, Boston National outfielder. left today for Haddock. Ga., to confer with Manager Stallings and President Gaffney. He said they would discuss a proposed trade with Philadelphia, whereby he would go to that team In exchange for Sherwood Magee. MACON. Ga.. Jan. 7. George Stall ings, manager of the Boston Nationals, tonight denied reports that George Whitted, the Braves' fielder, would be transferred to the Philadelphia Nation als in exchange for Sherwood Magee. Ruppert Takes Over Yankees. NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Final details of the transfer of the New York American League baseball club franchise were completed here today. Colonel Jacob Ruppert and T. L. Huston, the new owners, assumed control with the pass ing of stock by Frank J. Farrell, the former executive. Piatt Adams to Get Hearing. NEW YORK. Jan. 7. Piatt Adams. the Olympic athlete, will get an oppor tunity Wednesday night to disprove the charge of professionalism made against him last week. The registra tion committee meets at that time and will take up his case. Racing With Wily Opponent. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. "Forever, and forever people will try to whip the devil 'round the stump, when if they'd run a fair race with him on a straight road they'd stand a chance of finally getting somewhere." CENTER NEEDED ENGLISHMAN IS SPEEDY Polish In Boxing and Footwork Lacking but ex-Champion De clares His Man Will Learn Fast Record Is Good One.. WHAT THE TAPES SHOWS. Cowler. J. J. Corbett. 6 ft- Zhi in... Height f 1. 1 in. 81 in Reach.... 74 4-5 in. 18& in Neck 16 in. 15 in Biceps 15 in. 14 in Forearm 14 in. 9 in. Wrist 6 4-5 in. 43 in Chest 40 in. 36 in Waist 32 in. 25 In Thigh 17 in. 18 in Calf 17 in. 10 in Ankle 8 in. 215 Weight 182 Although James J. Corbett admits that his new white hope, Tom Cowler, has a lot to learn before he will be ready to lick Jack Johnson, Corbett de clares the English protege he signed in Portland Wednesday already has it all over Jess Willard. Porky Flynn and the rest of the flock of present "hopes" now barking at LI1' Artha's heels. "Willard and Flynn both wanted me to manage them," said "Pompadour Jim" after his act at a local theater vesterdav afternoon. "I turned them down because I did not think they had the stuff. I met this -Cowler here early this week and his looks impressed me. Our little boxing seance at Mine Butler's club convinced me that Cowler is far and away ahead of any of the 'hopes,' even though he lacks boxing polish. Cowler Haa Speed. "I intend to take him to San Fran cisco with me, and if he continues to show improvement he will be with me when the wife and myself sail for Aus tralia February 16. Cowler is one of the fastest men I have ever boxed. He Is a fine specimen of manhood and as soon as I teach him boxing and foot work I think he will be able to win the world's heavyweight crown. "At present he does not know how to use his hands to the best advantage and is lacking In many other essen tials. This, however, it will not take him long to learn, as he is quick and apt and has the fighting heart." Cowler had a number of fights in England before heading off to Canada. His last bout in Great Britain he lost to Frank Moran on a foul in seven rounds. He knocked out Boer Rodel, the former champion of England. Cow ler stowed the former British champ away in six rounds. Contract Is Slsned. n fnmlne- to Canada. Cowler went to Vancouver, where he signed a 10-year contract with John MCAianon, wno wo. at that time staging bouts at Vancou ver, B. C but is now in Portland. r.wi armoured in three contests in Vancouver and in each case put his op ponent to sleep. His first meeting was with Jack Dan iels, an unknown heavy who had aspir ations to Johnson's crown. Cowler put Daniels on the floor in the first round. His next bout was with Denver Ed Mar tin and he conditioned himself for the fight with Ed by working in the coal mines at Nanaimo. B. C. Martin should have won the fight, according to i one ni.i, -nHtTK-ased the battle, but he didn t After the Denver battler had floored Cowler in the first round, Corbett's hope came back In the second round and knocked Martin out. rnwler Weighs 213 Pound.. In size Cowler towers above Corbett and Jim is no lightweigni any more Cowler stands more than 6 feet 2 inches In his stocking feet and tips the beam at an even 215 pounds. He came to Portland several weeks ago i hn, hoen conditioning- at jatiw King's. ... , .H r ma.vArt nifn Tin wilii uanj uen - . ... .. j oftprrnun ana no ctii.iuvw me of his future," remireea night. "Cowler is tne iasiest ui I have ever seen and you take it from me he'll wade throush the other white hopes. . . . h Corbett knows a so , V he ees It and ne is strung ! w.!!e;..-n,knnt with the big fellow Jim said to him: 'Those the best clothes you have?' 'es,- repneu V V ."n have been hard with me lately.' 'Wei ,,T.iiri Tim. 'here's Jivu. uo -i r ..A I-- v r!v $50. but I guess that shows what Corbett thinks of his new protege. FIstie Record Given. Cowler's fistic record follows: Vnrlnnd. 1012. Hounds. K.O. 4 OharllJ Wilson . Jack Gibson ... Kid Jackson . . . j? Drummond .. Harry Croxon . . Seaman Parsons G. Mc Murray .. K.O. 1 K.O. K.O. K.O. K.O. 8 ' K.O. 2 K.O. 4 Ben rayior ITUiiu.;' KG. Rnm WellS N.D. Gunner Rawles Andy Goddard Bob Scanlon Jew Smith "Iron Hague" George Rodel, Boer "Toung" Johnson Frank Moran Bob Armstrong Canada, 1914. .K.O. .K.O. .Won 13 .K.O. .K.O. S .K.O. B .Won 13 .L..F. 7 .N.1J. 4 Jack nanlels ..K.O. . .K.O. ..K.O. ..K.O. Denver tun aia i ' Casey Jones Chet MclntjTe Sidelights and Satire. BY ROSCOB FAWCETT. GEORGE THACHER'S services will not be required in the unraveling of that great mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Rube Maxmeyer. Rube's brother called up yesterday and excit edly exploded the whole story. Rube, he confessed, is farming on 160 acres of prairie land near Battle Creek, not Michigan, but Washington. He Is the proud parent of a little girl, whom he has named Agnes in honor of Ducky Holmes' wife. Quick, Watson, the needle! A New York golfer is out with a scheme for a golf course on ice. He haa the course laid for a six-hole links. The game ought to go good in Iceland or up around Moose Jaw and Saska toon. Personally we would like to get a crack at one of those devilish little gutta perchaa on ice and we wouldn't worry whether we topped it or not Cuban sportsmen are not the orig inal lightning rod purchasers after alL They are wiser than some boxing pro moters imagined. It had been taken for granted that a Johnson-Willard j where no landlord can rob me i don't pay "fancy rent." no $o00 monthly rent to give me a headache no sire-e $60 a month is all i pay i'm upstairs where rent is cheap and fresh air is free. the downstairs merchant must charge from $5 to $10 more than i do for each garment he simply can't compete with me he doesn't dare it would mean suicide to him and his business. if i paid more rent, i'd have to charge more. come up now and see my "crack-style'' suits and overcoats at $14.75 and $18.75. 315-16-17 oregonian building jimmy dunn "the clothier you ought to know." uwsujww bout at Havana would draw around $200,000, but the sport cartoons in the Cuban newspapers don t prove It. One comic sheet shows Cuban sport fandom guzzling a light guitar, o neath a watermelon tree, while only a few yards away the promoters ara barking frantically before an empty arena. Another cartoon represents the characters talking thus: Senor Tomasco Jones Caballero, this fight will be superb. Senor Jack Curley The greatest thing, gentlemen and only $50 a seat. The Cuban Public Haw, hawi e One New York writer refuses to list Fromme or Cole as pitchers. "Throw ers" he calls thim. F. C. Farr, president of the Spokane ball club, ran into a bundle of misfor tune last Sunday. A young lad coast ing down hill, steered into Mr. Farr's automobile and . was instantly killed. "I will never be able to erase from my mind the frightened, staring eyes of that little -year-old baby dashing to his doom." said the big-heartea Spo kane magnate afterwards, brushing away a tear. Grantland Rice, clever New York SDort writer, has switched from the Evening Mail to the Tribune. "Therefore, from job to Job I've moved along; Pay couldn't 'old me when my time ' was done." Rudyard Kipling. Lee Magee, the new manager of the Brooklyn Federals, is getting a lot of publicity in the Eastern press because he is only 25 years old. Lee had better get It while the getting is good, be cause he is going to age considerably in the next 12 months. Cornell students appear to possess strong endurance qualities. Ithacan teams are winners in chess and in cross-country running. If he attends strictly to business James J. Corbett may come out all right as manager for Tom Cowler, the new white hope. Although rather In experienced in ring matters, Corbett is studious and quick to pick up the fine points of anything he undertaaes. Managing pugilists is a skilled occu pation. First of all a good fight man ager must be a lawyer. Jim proved himself equal to the occasion by hiring somebody else to draw up his Initial contract. Second, a fight manager mimt h' a good DUblicity agent. Cor bett seldom gets more than a column a day in the newspapers wnerever ne is playing, but he may overcome this bashfulness. Third, to oe successtui. the fight manager must be a fiscal agent, an encyclopedia on pugilistic records and eccentricities or ngnters. Thanks to Tom Andrews' record book rnrhntt mav null out all right as a fiscal agent. Last, but not least, the top notch manager must be a good forecaster, and that's where Corbett shines. Well do we recall how accu rately Jim horoscoped the outcome of the Jeffries-Johnson fight at Reno about five years ago. Jim insisted that Jeff would win hands down and it was such a picnic for Jeff that Jeff fell asleep along about the 15th round. Anyway, Tom Cowler is not the worst fisrhter in the world. He beat Denver Ed Martin in two rounds. ROYAL ROSARIAN BACK PHIL S. BATES EXTOLS HOSPITAL ITY OF CALIFORNIA. Excursion Greatest and Most BeneBclal Ever Sent by Oregon, Declares Trnv eler Fair Is Praised. rhil S. Bates, one of the advance guard of returning Royal Rosarians, who arrived home yesterday, is loud In his Draise of the people of California, and says that the reception extended to the Portland boosters at every point visited by them exceeded all previous hospitality. The excursion, says Mr. Bates, was the most successful ever undertaken by a Portland delegation. and as a result an Immense amount, of excellent advertising was obtained for the city and state. "One of the things that impressed me most was the unity of spirit manifested by the people in all California cities to boost their home towns." said Mr. Bates. "Everywhere there were evi dences of genuine hospitality. We were made to feel right at nome ana notning was overlooked for our comfort and entertainment. "The San Diego Exposition undoubt edly is the most striking and beautiful ever held. The buildings, all of Spanish mission design, are handsome and pre sent a solid-looking front, as they were put up to be used permanently. The exhibits of California products are the finest I have ever seen. That Oregon has no official exhibit or building at the San Diego Exposition is almost a dis grace to the state. The Washington State building is used as a meeting place for visiting Oregonlana." Ncar-Gresham Homes Burned. The homes of W. G. and Harvey Law rence, about three miles east of Gresh am. were burned Wednesday afternoon. It is believed the fire was caused by an over-heated stove. The loss Is esti mated at $6000, with small insurance. A box containing $285, obtained by the sale of potatoes, was lost in the fire. The Gresham volunteer firemen made the run to the fire in automobiles, but I arrived too late to be of any service, 1 elcvitor to third floor FAIR RATES ARE FIXED ROl'XD TRIPS BY RAIL TO A FRANCISCO AMD SA1V DIEGO. Special Terms of 3.73 and 4JM Re. prctlvrly From Portland Aa. aonneed for Convention. Special low railroad rates to the two California expositions during Ida will prevail, starting the middle of next month. Advices were received by local passenger officials of the Southern Pa cific Company yesterday from John M. Scott, general passenger agent, who Is in San Francisco conferring with othsr Southern Pacific traffio officials on the subject of exposition rates and ar rangements. It Is expected as a matter of course that corresponding reductions on account of the two expositions will be made from all points in the Pacific Northwest. A fare of $35 for the round trip, good for 90 days from date of sale, with stopovers allowed at all points en route in both directions, la offered from Portland to the Panama-raclfio expo sition at San Francisco, and tickets bearing the same limit from points In Western Oregon will be sold at the fol lowing fares: Woodburn, J5; Salem. 36; Albany. $36: Corvallis. $36.25; Ku gene, $33; Roseburg, $2$: Grants Pass. $23.75; Med ford. $22.50: Ashland, $21.60. Tickets bearing a 0-day limit will be sold from Portland for $30 and from. points In Western Oregon aa follows: Woodburn, $30: Salem. $30: A many. Corvallis. $30.25: Euitene. $27.25; Rose burg. $24.75: Grant Pass. $20.50; Med- ford. $19; Ashland. $11.50. For the Panama-Pacific Kxposuion at San Francisco to cover special occa sions, auch as large conventions, the following basis of rates will be made: From Portland. $26.75: Woodburn. $26.75: Salem, $26.75: Albany. $26.76; Corvallis, $27.25: Eugene. $25: Kose burg. $22: Grants Tass, $18.25; Medford, $17: Ashland. $16.50. For the Panama-California Exposi tion at San Diego, tickets will be on sale daily, February 15 to November 30, Inclusive, final return limit 40 days from date of sale, but In no case later than December 81, 1915, at the follow ing rates: From Portland. $02.25: Woodburn. $52.25; Salem. $52.15; Al banv. $51.25: Corvallis. $51.25; Eugene, $49.25; Roseburg. $46; Grant Pass, $41.50: Medford. $40: Ashland, $39.50. On account of special occasions at the Panama-California Exposition. San Diego, because of large conventions and other gathering", special round trip fares will be named as follows: From Tortland. $46.60; Woodburn. $46.50; Salem. $46.50; Albany, $45.60; Medford, $35.76; Ashland, $35. These tickets will have a three-day going limit with final return limit 21 days from dato of nale. and will pro vide for Btopover at any point on re turn trip. BRIDE DUPED. SHE SAYS Deformity Concealed and l-:xanilna-tlon Kvadetl I IMvorro Tlra. When Mario Krok discovered that she had married a hunchback, she left John Krok the day after their marriage In Vancouver, Wash- on June 22. 1914. Tra terday the woman tiled suit for divorce, alleging that during their courtship Krok had carefully padded his clothes to conceal his deformity from her. In the complaint Mrs. Krok, whn wants to resume her maiden name of Mario Stuckert. allegea that Krok re fused to submit to the medical exami nation required In Oregon for procur ing a marriage Iliense, and that he per suaded her against her will to go to Vancouver to be married. They were united by the Rev. H. 8. Templeton. of that city. The next morning she left Krok and has stayed away from him ever since. EXTENSION CLASSES SET Illness or Dr. Ki'limldt Causes Post ponement of German htudj. The following University of Oron extension classes will meet in the Cen tral Public Library January 8: Psy chology. 8 o'clock, room H; calculus. 7:30 o'clock, room E; first year mathe matics. 8:30 o'clock, room E; beginning public speaking. 7 o'clock, room K. January . advanced public speaking. 7 o'clock, room H. The class In rhetoric will be held Monday, January 11, 7:30. room B. on account of the Illness of Dr. Schmidt, the classes in German will not meet this week. The class In contemporary history will hold its next regular meeting on January 15, at 8 o'clock, in tha story hour room. ICE SKATING AT THU HIPPODROME Twentieth and Marshall. Dally, It A. It, I P. M., I P. M. Free Instruction Prasp's Haad. BOXING 14 Clever Boxers, 2 Feature Bouts Friday, Jannary 8, 8 l M. MOHAWK CLUB, Union Avenue and East Tine.