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TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIA, SATURDAY, : FEBRUARY 19, 191fi. 12 EAST PRUSSIA HARD HIT BY INVASIONS Detailed Estimates Surpass Guesses Once Believed Wild and Sensational." TOTAL ABOVE $375,000.-000 Hundred Millions Voted by Diet Is Melting Kapidly and Work of Rehabilitation Has Really Only Just Begun. BETKL1N. Jan. 20. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Detailed esti mates of what East Prussia has suf fered by the war with its two inva sions by the Russians have been com piled, and they surpass even the guesses that, earlier, were, thought to be wild and sensational and were dis counted even by the East Prussians themselves. . In the briefest form, the East Prus sian damage and loss is quoted from the German statistics as follows: Kntirelv or partly destroyed. 24 clt ' les. 600 'villages. 300 estates. , 34.000 buildings. Plundered. 100,000 residences. Killed or seriously injured. 2000 civ Carried off to Russia. 10.700 pcrsns. Fugitives who had to leave home, 350, 000 to 400.000. Killed or carried off by Russians, 135 000 horses. 250.000 cattle. 200.000 hogs. 50.000 sheep. 10.000 goats. 600,000 chickens and 50.000 geese. Not All Due o VnndiJllwm. The investigators who have compiled these statistics make It perfectly clear that "only a portion of, this damage may be laid directly to the Russians vandalism." and that part of it ! chargeable to the inevitable ravages of war. This is particularly true of that portion of East Prussia, which was the scef of the first invasion Practically all are agreed that the t i rfnrinir the first inva sion were soldierly and orderly, and that most of the acts of violence, plun dering, murder and wilful arson, and destruction came in the second and longer invasion. The Russians, It is said, may on their first invasion have been confident of eventual . success and may therefore have desired to spare territory which they ultimately expected to annex. The new and relatively inexperienced troops taking part In the second In vasion may have been responsible. An ger and disappointment at setbacks may have instilled a spirit of blind revenge. Or. lastly, the Russians may have thought to Instill fear into the German forces by their depredations and violence. Total Damage Exceed.. $375,000,000. The total damage caused, both by ' legitimate war losses and by devasta tion, the statisticians estimate at 1375 000.000. They place this as the lowest figure and believe that even tually It will have to be revised up ward The $100,000,000 voted' by the Prussian Diet for the relief of the i province is melting away fast, and the work of rehabilitation has really only lust began. In addition to this sum. money In large quatitics has been raised by various communities throughout Germany for correspond ing East Prussian districts, which Is being eaten into rapidly. Reconstruction work. insofar as buildings are concerned, can for the time being go ahead practically only in the more westerly portions of the province. In parts along Hhe border line It will probably be necessary to wait until after the war before be ginning permanent work of this kind. Architect Aiding Restoration. The province has been divided into 16 districts, presided over by as many head architects with numerous assist ants, who are striving to attain the proper combination of taste and util ity and are meeting with every co operation from the inhabitants. The latter have won the warm ap proval of the authorities by their al most universal willingness to proceed with the agricultural rehabilitation of the province and its restocking with cattle before they attack the problem of permanent homes for them selves. They may come later. To meet the lack of farm animals with which to carry out this agri cultural rehabilitation, oxen have been Imported and caprored Russian horses not available for military uses and German military horses- unfit for fur ther service are being used. Particu larly are efforts being made to re store the thoroughbred horse-breeding industry to its former high stan dard. - Baseball, Football, Boxing, Personal Touches in Sport JOE CARR, or Minneapolis, and Waino Kletgnen wrestled for four hours and ten minutes at Duluth. Minn., recently wlhout a single fall. They are light heavyweights. Both grapplers were in elegant shape and wriggled out of strong holds whenever on the verge of what appeared to be a fall. Manager Clark Griffith, of the Wash ington Senators, is rocking the boat of the Washington crew. Following the expected shake-up involving First Baseman Chick Gandil comes the an nouncement that Second Baseman Mor gan is not to be carried this season. Griffith is said to have oltered Mor gan and Catcher Ainsmith to the Yankees recently for several players. In the outfield Jamieson. secured from Buffalo with Judge and Barber, drafted from the Winston club of the North Carolina' League, will probably have a-chance. Ion J. Cortrlght. a graduate from the Michigan Agricultural College and roach of the football team of the Uni versity of South Dakota in 1914-15. was recently appointed coach of the .football eleven which will represent the University of Cincinnati next sea son. Cortright will also handle the basketball Ave and assist in bringing out a track team. He succeeds George LUUe. The Pittsburg National League team purchased Harry Moran recently from Pat Powers, representing Harry Sin clair. Moran played last season with the Newark Federals. He is a left handed pitcher. "Darkhorse" Newman, the former Lincoln High ail-around athlete now at Oregon Agricultural College, has taken up wrestling along with his regular college course. He broke Into the game in a blaze of glory Wednes day night, when he won his' first bout, getting decisions ion aggressiveness over a freshman in the interclass meet. "Darkhorse" must have chewed his' op ponent's ear or thought that he was participating in a greased pig contest In Southern Oregon similar t,o the one In which he appeared last Labor day. Right here It might be appropriate to tell the tale on Newman once more "Darkhorse" was in a small town in Southern Oregon last Summer, and as he and his pal had been traveling around the country theywere pretty well broke. Newman had but one clean shirt with him, and of course was "togged up" for the Labor day cele bra-Uon. There happened to be a greased pig contest on. The porker was to He well greased and then let loose, and the one that caught him and held him was to receive $5. It looked like a lot of money to Newman and he entered. The pig was turned loose and charged di rectly for "Darkhorse," who jumped on him an tackled him as if he were a football opponent. He squeezed the porker so hard that the poor animal nearly died. . The town marshal de manded that Newman release it and they chased the Aggie hero out of town with a dirty shirt for cruelty to ani mals. "Darkhorse" says that this was the, height of hard luck. It has just leaked out that Dave Burns, the National amateur champion wrestler at 145 pounds, which title he won for the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club at San Francisco a year ago; gave Walter Miller, the middleweight cham pion of the -world, the surprise of his life in the Snokane Club's gymnasium just before Walter arrived in Portland on his way to San t ranxnsco. Burns had been introduced to Miller, and the latter asked him to go on the mat with him for Just a little friendly bout. Burns consented. It was sup posed to be only a little friendly affair, hut tinrfinsr Burns a little tougher than he expected. Miller started to rough the ex-Spokane Club's amateur, and found Burns willing to mix It. Then the two cut loose and as lar as the few spectators could tell -used everything they knew. They wrestled for 30 minutes and then someone sug gested that they had gone far enough. Miller says that Burns is one of the greatest little fellows he has seen for some time. m w w Honey Mellody. the old Chicago favorite when he made sensational bat tles as a welterweight, has gathered a formidable stable of boxers together in Boston and is thinking of touring the Eastern and Middle Western states with them. Honey handles them in all classes. MEET MAY BE IN IC'B HIPPODROME OFFERED FOR BIO COLVMBI4 CLASSIC. Propoaal Made to Cover Surface With Soil and Staee Indoor Track and Field Games at Mailt. Although Columbia University offi cials ordered a cancellation of the an nual indoor track and 'field champion ships a few days ago as a result of extensive damage to the Columbia coliseum by the silver thaw, the 13th annual classic may be held after all. And guess where? In the huge rink of the Ice Hippodrome Company at Twentieth and Marshall streets, of course. And. if the officials of tbe two Institutions agree as to the details, it will be pulled as a night affair. Just like the, big indoor meets in the East E. H. Savage, manager of the Ice Hippodrome Company, is to meet Father Boland. of Columbia University. today, it is said, to make some sort of a proffer for the use of the rink. Whether Columbia will be agreeable is not known. The ice surface at the hippodrome is 320 feet long and 85 feet wide, and it mav be nossible' to hold a 100-yard straightaway, something that was lacking at the coliseum. As soon as the present ice-skating season is over and the ice has melted. Manager Sav-. age says' that he could easily fill, earth in between the pipes and arrange for a running track. , Engineers have been out to the cam pus making a further examination of the damage dSne to the coliseum. If possible, braces will be erected to hold the roof and the side repaired. From all indications the extent of the dam age is- such that the entire building will have to be torn down, but this will be done only as a last resort. The original date for the 13th an nual indoor classic was set for April 15, and. should the Portland Ice Hippo drome be secured, plans , will be made to hold it on that .date. FEBRUARY SPORTSMAN IS OUT Official State Flsli and Game Com mission Organ Interesting. The February issue of the Oregon Sportsman, the of facial organ of v the State Fish and Game Commission, is out. The publication contains 75 pages or unusually interesting matter to sports men in "particular-and the public in general. ' Stories or game protection and or the interest local organizations are giving game protection are pub lished from -all parts of the state, the stories being the contributions of deputy game wardens. These com munications have been lauded because orthe effective manner in which-they have brought before the entire state the- general policy, of the commission in handling ' its affairs through the game and fish wardens. The leading editorial, the contribution of Carl Shoemaker, State Game Warden, is an indictment against the reckless hunter who shoots at moving brush in the hope that he has killed a deer, entirely unmindful of what the real results of such carelessness may be. Four hunters have been killed, cites the editorial, in the past season when their deaths' might have been avoided with the exercise of a little care. Several articles on Winter bird feed ing are contributions to the new issue of the Sportsman. '.. A complete list of game law viola tions in the state, tabulated by counties, the amount of the fines collected and the -report of the receipts and -expenditures for the fiscal year ending No vember 30, 1915, complete. the publica tion: - '- f " MAXV WANT TO MEET VICTOR Wrestlers Hurl Challenges at Winner .of O'Connell-Miller Match. Every wrestler In the country seems to be hurling challenges at the winner of the O'Cennell-Miller match, which will be held in Portland on -February 29. ' Now comes Jim Londos. the 175 pounder who exhibited his. wares here last December. He writes in behalf of Tony AJax. His protege is at present in Dayton, Wash. Ajax is the grappler that was to meet O'Connell at Dayton two weeks ago. The match was called off because the Portland mat artist was unable to get'trf the Washington town on account of the trains being -tied up by the weather conditions. Londos also says in the letter that he would like to meet Polly Grimm here. " Grirnm weighs 240 pounds and Londos 175. Ashland to Stop Game Betting. ASHLAND. Or., Feb. 18. (Special.) Hereafter rooters will share with sleuths in plain clothes the privileges of witnessing athletic events under high school auspices. Too much en thusiasm has given rise to some bet ting on the side, a practice which the school authorities have determined to suppress. The Fpeeial officers will be appointed by the City Council and vio lator's will be brought before trie proper authorities. BERRY SAYS SEALS 11 Magnate: Optimistic Despite Loss of.Heilmann, Cor han and Schmidt. SHORTSTOP IS ONLY WORRY Club Owner Insists Sepulveda, Bohne and yVutrey, With Increased Power on Mound, Will Make Team 30 Per Cent Better. Henry Berry is a real optimist. De spite the losses of Harry Heilmann, Roy.Corhan and Walter Schmidt all stars Magnate Berry predicts that San Francisco's Coast League club will be 30 per cent stronger this year than last. . . Inasmuch as the Seals won the pen- PLAYER WHO WILL BE USED WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY . John R. Rossman. nant last year this virtually is an ad mission that they will repeat. "I think we will be about 30 per cent stronger," said Magnate Berry to a San Francisco newspaper man the other day. "I look for Baum to pitch as good ball as he did last season and Fanning to improve. Both Brown and Couch ought to be on the up grade, and this new man, Robinson, looks to have the goods. You know we had Steen' for only a couple of months in 1915. L we have him this season, as I think we shall, for the full season, that's going to make a big difference. And. as I said, we have our eyes on some other pitchers who will probably be coming our way." In proper sequence Barry progressed to the catchers. "Louis Sepulveda is a better catcher today than Walter Schmidt," he said, "and a lot of the fans are going to find this out before, the year fs much older. I hope Schmidt does well with the Pirates, but I wouldn't have grant ed him a rise last Spring only that the public demanded him. Block had a sore arm, and that ought to come around in good shape. "The outfield (here Barry skipped for the moment) is Just about the same, and that's strong enough for any club around the circuit. "As regards the infield. I'm willing to admit that the one weak spot that appears on the surface is' at -short. Sammy Bohne, so WoJverton tells me, is to have every chance in the world to make good, but you "can go and bet we will be in a position to protect ourselves if there is any break." Corhan is one of the best ballplay ers in the business, and San Francisco will be extremely fortunate in getting a new shortstop even approximating Corhan's value to the ball club. Schmidt's place behind the pad will not be felt so deeply, for Sepulveda is a hefty backstop. Heilmann, of course, will be badly missed. Harry belted home a huge total of runs last season before he was taken sick. Autrey, who succeeds him, is a clever fielder but a weak hitter and slow on the paths. ' Walt McCredie received welconfe news yesterday that his St. Mary's Col lege phenom, Louis Guisto, intended to report to the Beavers at Sacramento, all reports to the contrary notwith standing. Guisto said as much in a letter to the sporting editor of The Oregonian. "Guisto played with Oroville in the Trolley League for two seasons," said Manager McCredie yesterday. "Last Summer he played first base and out field at Petaluma, Napa. Martinez and Yreka. He is a corking hitter and I think will be carried for utility pur poses if he does not break in regu larly." Guisto is 22 years old and is' a star In football and track in addition to, baseball. ' ' Allan T. Baum's armual literary ef fort, the Pacific Coast League schedule, is to be released around the circuit to day. The season opens on April 4 with Portland at San Francisco, Oakland at Salt Lake, and Vernon at Los Angeles. AL M'NEIL ' MAY BOX HERE Fighter Seeks Match at Rose Club Before Going East. Al McNeil may be seen in action against Jimmv Fox or some other good boy at the Rose City Athletic Club next month. Portlan'd fans will re member McNeil as the former feather weight of the Columbus Club. Manager Fred T. Merrill received from Los Angeles. Cal., the following letter from him yesterday: "I was talking to. Bud Anderson today and he was telling me about the Rose City Athletic Club, so I thought that I would drop you a line in regards to a bout. 1 AE1C S ONGER . H2.1i ', leave for New York soon and I would like very much to box in Portland be fore I go. "Tommy McFarland is running a club down here and Is going to try to get Jimmy Fox to box me here short ly. I don't think that there is' much chance, as he has gone north. I think that 1 could give him a good go, for I boxed Johnny Arrousey evenly and he held Fox to a -draw in Oakland. "If you could match mo up with some good featherweight I would appreciate it very much. "P trust that this finds you well and I hope to hear from you soon. I Temain, yours respectfully. (Signed) "ALLEN M'NEIL." COVELESKIE GOES WEDNESDAY Ex-Beaver to Go to New Orleans to Join Cleveland Training Camp. Stanley Coveleskie will leave Port land about Wednesday of next week to report to the Cleveland Americans. He received notification yesterday to show up in New Orleans early in March and expects to start in plenty .of time. His wife will go to her home. The Cleveland Indians will do their Spring conditioning at New Orleans. LEXTS MEN BACK FRANCHISE Interest Is Reported High in Entry Into Baseball. Secretary " Wayne F. Lewis, of the Inter-City Baseball League, accompa nied by Harvey Newell, one of the own ers of the Lents franchise, has visited some of the business men there and reported that they showed great inter- BY MULTNOMAH CLUB AGAINST TONIGHT IN PORTLAND. est in baseball. The .business men of that section will hold a meeting at the fire hall on Main street in Lents Mon day night. i President Fred N. Bay will explain the conditions under which they will enter the circuit. 1 The business men bf Lents will ap point their own business manager and the lumber or the fence of the ball park has been ordered. GOLF CLUB NAMES ARCHITECT Folger Johnson to Design New1 Home , for Portland Organization.' Folger Johnson will be architect for the new home of the Portland Uoir Club. He was selected at the di rectors' meeting Tuesday and accepted Thursday. Secretary Harry H. Pierce went over the ground with him yes terday. The club hopes to be in their new home by June. They are still usirfg. the temporary greens. Frank Raley, chairman of the linance committee, has leftfor the south for three months and. Sam B. Arch6r will discharge his duties during his absence. DAftLAS BEATS . GOLDENDALE Quintet Is Defeated First Time: hi Six Years in Fast Game. DALLAS. Or., Feb. 18. (Special.) The Dallas Athletic Club quintet played Goldendale there Tuesday and Wednesday. In the first game the score stood 10 to 10 until the last three minutes of play, when Dallas made four sensational field baskets, bring ing the score 18 to 10 in favor of Dal las when the whistle was blown. This is the first time Goldendale has been beaten for six years and the low est score Dallas has been held to this season. The score in the second game was Dallas 18. Goldendale 7. Indoor'Tennis at Semi-Finals. NEW YORK. Feb. 18. Dr. William Rosenbaum and Arthur M. Lpvibond defeated Wylie C' Grant and G. Carlton Shafer, twice holders of the title, "in the National indoor lawntennis cham pionship tournament today. Score 6-4, 11-9, the winning pair taking its place in the semi-final round. The semi finals in singles and doubles will be played tomorrow. Penn State Wrestlers Win. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 18. The Pennsylvania State College wrestling team tonight defeated Princeton, 25 to 7. Pennsylvania State had three clear falls, two decisions.' and shared in one draw. Princeton won the 145-pound event with a fall and secured two other points by getting a draw in the 175-pound class. Centralian Is in Training. CENT R ALI A, Wash.. Feb. 18. (Spe cial.) Young Turkey, a prominent Ccn tralia lightweight, has left for Port land to train for his bout here on the night of February 25 with Joe Benja min, of Portland. The other main event of the smoker will bo a six-round go between Leo Cohen, a local middle weight, and Ted Derbyshire. Western League Adopts Schedule. LINCOLN. Neb.. Feb. 18. Directors of the Western Baseball League adopted their 1916 schedule Wednesday night. The schedule calls for 154 games. The season opens April 20 with Sioux City at Lincoln. Omaha at Des Moines, To peka at St. Joseph and Wichita at Denver. ' Tom Longboat Enlists. . BRANTFORD. Ont.. Feb. , 18. Tom Longboat, the famous Indian runner, came to Brantford Thursday and en listed with the scemt section of ' the 125th battalion. He returned to his home at Caledonia and will report for duty in a few days Corhan to Coach College Nine. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Feb. 18. Roy Corhan. or the St. Louis Nationals, signed a contract today to coach the University or New Mexico baseball team until his training season opens. Corhan last eeason was captain of the San Francisco team of . the Pacific Coast League. Gresham Signs Six Players. William Ross, owner of the Gresham, Or., baseball team . in the Inter-City Baseball League, has ' signed Leo "Frisco" Edwards, catcher; Fred Mc Kean, first baseman; Jess Stranahan, second baseman, and Stepp, Groce and Bogart, outfielders. He says that Bogart may be used at third base. . New Circuit Called Eastern League. BOSTON, Feb. 18. The circuit of 10 professional baseball clubs which is to take the place or the New England League and the Eastern Association in territory formerly occupied by them has been named the Eastern League. Miss Gates Wins Tennis Singles. PINEHURST, N. H.,' Feb. 18. Miss Eleanor Gates. Nassau Country Club, won the Washington's birthday tennis singles for women here today, defeat ing Miss Alice Blum, South Shore, 6-3, 6-3. . COLUMBIA DRUBS JEFFERSON, 34-6 High School Team, Weakened by Loss of Three Regulars. Makes Poor Showing. CLUB FIVE IS CHANGED Lineup Switched for Tonight's Big . Game With Willamette Because of Rossman's Return and Dewey's Probable Absence. Intersrholastic Basketball Standings. Points W. U Pet. For. Agst. Washington High. . . 4 O l.OOO 191 o9 Columbia University 3 O l.OOO 110 p2 IJncohi High i 1 ' J11 'J" Franklin High 1 1 .000 o! Jefferson High 1 2 .333 SO Si James John High.. 1 3 ."0 l l-'J Hill Mllitarv Acad.. O 1 .000 10 39 Benson Tech 0 2 .00O 36 i7 Portland Academy.. 0 .voo Columbia University administered an overwhelming 34-to-6 defeat to the Jefferson High School basketball team in the Portland Academv gymnasium yesterday afternoon. Coacn Homer Jamison, or the high schoolers, was torced to start three substitutes be cause his stars. Williams, Burke and Maurice, were unable to play. Williams is just up from a sickbed. Burke has not been able to get an Amateur Athletic Union card and Maurice has quit high school to enter the' University or Oregon. This was too big a handicap ror the Jefferson team. The first hair ended 20 to 4. and in the second hair Dick Hastings added two points for the public school ath letes by converting rouls, while Colum bia made five field baskets and con verted four fouls. Charles Botsford, of Reed College, refereed. Following are the lineups: Columbia (34). Jefferson (6). Capt. C. Murphy 12) .F .- Fisk Malone (IS) F (4) Hastings F. jacobberger (2)..C (2)Prescott Bloch (2) G CaptKennedy Allen G Base Officials Charles Botsford. referee; Con wav anri Anderson, timers. Substitutions Nlles for Jacobberger, Foley for Murpliy. Knapp for Bloch, MurharU for Fisk, Cameron for Base. Because of his great success in han dling the last two games in the Mult nomah Amateur Athletic Club gymna sium. Homer Jamison, coach of the Jefferson High School basketball team, will handle the Multnomah Club-Willamette University tussle in the Winged "M" gymnasium tonight. The contest will start promptly at 8:30 o'clock. It will be followed by an informal dance. Manager Harry Fischer,, of the Port land squad, has made some changes in his lineup. John R. Rossman will be back at forward, and Lawrence Ed wards has been switched to center. This last move was done because "Ad miral" Dewey is out of the city, and it is not certain whether he will be able to get back to Portland In time for the game. In case he should fail to arrive, Edwards will be called on to do the jumping tor the quintet. "We are in the poorest shape of the season right now," said Manager Fischer last flight, "and we have a mighty tough proposition on our hands in Willamette University. For some reason or other the Salem squad always has been able to win from us, regardless of what kind of a team we had. Captain Toomey is out to break this old jinx, and from all acounts the boys will be full of the 'old fight' when they trot out on the floor." The Sportlight By Grantland Kice. Ode to a Harbinger. Bluebird. Harbinger of Swat. Herald of the Two-Base-Hit, Are you tuning up or not? Are von preening for your skit? Wake up take a warm-up fling. Put a fresh note In your beak; "What." you say, "ft isn't Spring Don't the Yanks start South next weekT Bieblrd, Harbinger of .Ball. Whv this loafing on the job? Can't'vou hear the wild fans call For "another peep at Cobb? Come, you loafer, lift the lid: "But." vou answer, in your pique, "This Is Winter" make up. kid. Don't the Yanks start South next week? BROOKLYN'S Florida training quar ters are in poor condition, and the palpitant Dodgers have no other spot selected. The war correspondents that go with them may have to locate their dispatches' "Somewhere in the South." Mr. Rlckard expects 1.1.000 folks to pay $110,000 to see the Willard-Moran fight. Yet Charles Dickens was re ported to be the author of "Great Ex pectations." What hes become of the old-fashioned ballplayer who was going to jump to the Reds unless he gets his price? Walter Camp's Return. "Walter Camp's return to Yale foot ball is not a matter of "coming back" so far as the game itself goes. Mr. Camp has been in active touch with football ever since he surrendered his ancient portrolio to Elidom. So he has never gone away. And, as Hurry-up Yost says about him "No man in America has done as much ror rootball or knows more about the game." With Walter Camp and John Reed Kilpatrick in close reach, the Jones Sweeney combination should have all the outside aid it will need. - Advanced Boxing. vto the art of boxing advanced? Have the science and development or the game been carried along? undouot edly. most people will say. But 24 years ago John Lawrence Sullivan fell berore the youth and skiii oi james j. Corbett. t nn.,mnA nav that either Willard or Moran has more or the llorl-hearted courage, more of the ruggedness or more of the wallop tnan oia jonn j- had? Or that either Willard or Moran had greater skill and science than Corbett put upon display over two aecaaes ago? , Tf so. we II be mucn ODiigea to re ceive proof. s tt-w TAi.ncmn n1rlra Mnmn t n heat Wiilard." As we recall it. Jack John son also picked Jack Johnson to beat Willard. m m Torn Abont, Etc. xir xT,.rVi v la tn panose the Na tional Pastime." Well, why not? The National . pastime has certainly ex posed Mr. Murphy in about 10 vulner able spots the last 10 years. m m m t rharing Wphh can eet as much on the N. P. as the N. P. has ha on Charles Webb, he will put it out or business berore April 1. Spring Boost. n.v.j AiicrVit in hA ji first-clAssi Snrlnz. Johnny Evers looks five years younger than he looked five years ago, and this at least is a nuncn. "By all the laws or chance." said Johnny, "lightning should pass me by this ycar. In my. case it has struck, and J .'.' on ess h; ji.-. , Something. "Willard to earn ?1T.51'1 in oik fight." Exchange. Willard may galber ui- Ten carloads in!! o' . . tt : But "earnitm" all t t;i:i l;.il-- Is something else - .We always shrink from putling a scandal on display, but there an- tunes when exposure is necessary. A day or two ago wo dropped Into an indoor golf emporium and who, or whom, lo you suppose was in there, ironing mil the kinks and preparing for a South ern drive? None other than Sir William Klem. umpire extraordinary. Mr. Klein is growing more ardent in his devotion to the ancient game each passing month. "Controlling your temper while you play five shots in a bunker makes its soft and simple when the enraged athlete breaks out in the Spring," he says. "We have no great young inventors coming on equal to those produced in Germany," says a contemporary edi torially. Evidently the author of these lines had never been informed that Our Own John Doyle was the inventor of golf pool. Any further debate would be rank and unalloyed piffle. AMATEUR RULE IS LIGHT National Association Gives Broad In terpretation to Ruling. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Feb. IS. There are all kinds, of amateurs, including the variety defined by the National Amateur Baseball Association of Amer ica in its meeting here. According to the decision of this body, an amateur is a man who "has played professional, baseball less than one year, that being an indication that he has given up the profession; a be ginner in professional baseball who has been -released before June 15, it being considered unfair to cause him hardship because he aspires to a pro fession and has fallen short of the mark; the so-called semi-pro player, because that fs not his means of live rihood. This maftes it easy for the members of the Inter-City Baseball League and semi-professional ballplayers through out Oregon, according to the National Association. SEALS SEEKING NEW HURLER Effort Beins Made to Get Becbe, Baseball Coach at Indiana. SAX FRANCISCO. Feb. IS. (Special.) Measures looking toward the strengthening of the pitching staff of the San Francisco Seals are evident in a dispatch received last night from Bloomington,. Ind.. which told of the efforts of the local Coast League club to induce Pitcher Frederick L. Beebe to resign his position as baseball coach of Indiana University to join the West ern champions. The dispatch reads as follows: "Bloomington. Ind., Feb. 1". Wires are being kept hot between here and San Francisco in an effort to induce Fred L. Beebe to resign his position as baseball coach of Indiana University to pitch for the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast League. Beebe, be fore coming here, pitched for- Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia. Cincinnati and Buffalo. He has the San Francisco of fer under consideration." BASEBALL DRAWING ATHLETES Basketball Players Desert Gymna siums for Diamonds. With good weather, basketball has been suffering considerably in Portland the last two days. The first official baseball practice of the 191B season was called by Captain Niles, of the Columbia University, and he had his athletes working out on the campus yesterday. Seven of the 1915 letter men are back In school already. They are Captain Niles, Cornelius Murphy, Mike Kloch. Hugh McKenna, Eugene Murphy and Claude Riggs and Bert Maloney. The best prospects in sight for the twirl ing staff are Bu Sharp and Francis Jacobberger. . SKI JUMPING RECORD BROKEN Ragnar Omtvctit Leaps 102.9 Feet at Colorado Tournament. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 18. All ski Jumping records were broken in the annual mid-Winter ski carnival here today, by Ragnar Omtvedt. the Chicago professional, who cleared a distance of 192.9 feet. The former world's record was 117 feet, held by Amble Oinundsen. of the University fki Club, of Christiania, Norway. Tho pre vious American record of 169 foot was held by Omtvedt. The record, it is said, was made under prescribed tournament conditions and will stand. Lars Haugen, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., won second place in today's car nival by jumping 184 feet. Clatskanie to Play at St. Helens. CLATSKAN1E, Or., Feb. 18. (Spe cial.) When the Clatskanie High School basketball team leaves for t. Helens .Saturday It will, in all prob ability ,be without the playing serv ices of John Eilertsen, captain and star forward. While practicing for the Astoria game last week Eilertsen was injured. In honor of past services the popular captain will make the trip as substitute. ' Besides Eilertsen the fol lowing will make the trip to St. Hel ens: Harry Van and Kenneth McGil vary, rorwards; Edward Larsen. cen ter; Dewey Van and Jesse Lewis, guards; Coach McCord and Herbert Geary, scorer. Pythian Convention Postponed. KENNEWICIC. Wash., Feb. 18. (Special.) The firth annual convention or the Knights of Pythias or the 11th district, which was to have opened here yesterday, has been indefinitely postponed because or washouts on the railroads making it impossible ror the delegates to arrive in time. At least 150 were expected to attend the meet ing. Will Stage Water Championships. NEW YORK, ' Feb. 18. Permission has been granted by the Amateur Ath letic Union of the United States to the Illinois Athletic Club, of Chicago, to conduct the 1916 junior National indoor swimming championships, it was an nounced today. The events will be contested in that club's tank on March 29 and 30. Pullman Five Defeats Montana. PULLMAN, Wash., Feb. 18. Wash ington State College basketball team defeated the University of Montana here last night, 41 to 24. The locals played a whirlwind game, featured by accurate basket shooting in the first half, the score at the end of that period being 31 to 11. Montana rallied strongly in the last half. Exhibition Game Scheduled. PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 18. The New York Americans and the Pittsburg Na tionals will play an exhibition game on June 19, according'to an announcement made by the local club. ' Soccer Games Are Sought. Russell Brooks, at Tabor 6731, would like to arrange games with any team in the city for the Woodmere soccer team. not twice, but a dozen tin 1916 1 should be Immune." Fate ha been pi.-ltiinv for so long that the p; qc must he a bore. ilri.erc.c: i.'r,; ; Win iav Ca.:: , ' i EDITOR'S FIRl RETc'RrJtO Ability r Mar Wii llnn-i s N I'ointrd Out as .i iiiiK'nl ,u:iinl rracily of Verbal Irle Again!. Fence. pi I ils spouts i:l:lli ; PI 11 LA DEL PITT. -. VTu. if. li'i'u Swope, sporting editor of tlm in iii natl Post, is Mariir.n a drive iixanut. tho Phils' rih'ht field I cine, lie sent :i letter to all sporting wrltei it ask ln what steps .houkl lie taken lo reniovti "the advantage the Phils enjoy in hav lng this short fenee." The inference that tho Phils win wholesale games tiinuiKh fluke homo runs is decidedly unfair. Tho present park has been standing at Lli-oud unit Huntingdon streets for many years, and in this time ttie Phils have v on only ono pennant. Attackers of our innocent fenen for get that the l'hils aro manned with two of the greatest cireuit-llek wal lopers in the history of ba.selal! in Messrs. Cravalh and Ludorus. Here tf Cravath's record In home-run making since Joining the l'hils: , Fenee J-'orty Feet lliirh. Year. 1H12 I 'J llil.! 1! 11114 I WIS -1 Total '4 Cravath Jilt 74 llomrrN. In four straight seasons Cravath has 74 boundary belts to his credit, which, probably is a major league record. Many of the leading long-distance ha ters' of baseball have not made thaC number of home runs In a career last ing more than 10 years. In 19 seasons of major league hal ting Hans Wagner made 105 homers. It took Sam Crawford 17 seasons to nuikit 9fi homers. Lajoie has served 20 yearn in the fast set, but has made ftv.i fewer homers than Cravath in foui: seasons. But Cravath didn't start to malm home runs when he wore a Phil uni form. He was always known as .A long-distance hitter. In the season of 1911 with .Minneapolis Cravath turned out 29 home runs. Nobody can blamo the right-field fenee here for that. If it Is so easy to hit homers over the right-field fence here, why w.is it that from the days of Sam Thompson in the 'AOs to the. coming of l.udern In 1910, the Phils never had a man who hit home runs to any great extent, al though in this time Ihey had some le markahlo hitters. Fence ll Feet lllh. Lei's see whether it would be fan to legislate against members of the Philadelphia team because of n ci-aiuped playing field. The league const l mi ion calls for a playing field of al leat 2:l.-i feet. The smallest space in tlm Phil's outfield is in right field, which is a distanre of 273 feel from I he home plate along the foul line to Ihe fence. This is 38 feet more llian the rule require. But it must not he overlooked that this right field feme Is 40 feel high, which is as tall as the average tluec story building. Tliis certainly makes the task harder. It also must not he overlooked that many line drive that no oui fielder could handle and would be home runn on a lare,c Held hit this high ram part and rebound so quickly (hat Inc. batsman is held lo first base. CHANCE TO WFAR I SI-IAN ;URI Icticc Under Cup lun-nilcd t Soften Blow by Pitched Bull. I.OS ANGELES. 1'Vb. 1 S. Specla I ) When Prank Chance goes to the plaje this season he "111 wear more than a cap. There will he a hit of extra up holstering on his head. He has placed an order for this It consists of an elastic band, fashioned so as lo fit Ihe head. Inside of it is a layer f'f fpoimc. and this is lined with chamois skin. He has been "heaned" so often that In doesn't like the idea. The aforesaid contrivance Is designed to lessen. Urn shock of being hit on the head. Chance used ono of these while wtih the New York Americans, and it proved effective. It is his own Idea. The linnd fits so closely that it can he wont under the cap. GOTCI1 NOT V FT IX CONDITION' Champion Grappler .Us More Tium (o Prepare for Santel. l,OS A NO ELKS. Cal.. Feb. Ik - Tlm wrestling match between Frank io. i, world's champion heavyweight wres tler, and Ad Santel. t San Francisco, has been postponed from February 22, according to announcement made In to todav bv Goleh. It was said that. Gotch was not In rondition and that his request that he have an additional ten days tn which to pit pare tor tlm contest has been agreed in by San tel. t ' . The new- date for the match was not stated by Gotch. who said that a tele gram received by him merely tald hi request had been grunted. FIRST IIOCKI.V Pl.lUOn TIF.D Portland and Victoria Septets Facli Score Ono Goal. The first period of hockey play lit the game last night, which was played at the Portland Ico Hippodrome beforo a largo crowd, resulted In a score of 1 to 1. Fast skating marked the play, tho Uncle Sams striving to win the ('1"'". which would at least clinch a tie for the title. VANCOUVER. b7C, Feb. 18 The, first period of the Vancouvcr-Sratllo hockey match tonight was scoreless. Dean llexcll Goes to Detroit. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.. Corvallls, Feb. 18. (Special.) Dean J. A. Bexell, of the school of commerce of ttie Oregon Agricultural CoIIckc. left todav for Detroit. Mich., to attend a meeting of the National Thrift Com mission, to which he recently has been appointed a member by Hie National Education Association. Dean Bexell will participate in tho thrift pro gramme, speaking on the subjtvt "Thrift in Connection With Banking, with special attention given college, and high school banks. Tennis Tourney Open. r.OSTO.V. Feb. 18. Three h-trd-fought matches marked the opening play to day in the National amateur cham pionship singles at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. The results: G. A. Thome, Chicago, defeated M. C. Clark, Boston: E. W. Mortimer, Tuxedo, de feated C. Hutchins, lioston: E. N. Cnhot, Huston, defeated Hewitt Morgan. Hm-vard. A