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TTTE MORXIXG OREGONIA.N. , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 101C. 14 SEATTLE OFFERS TO PLAY PULLMAN Washington Would Require State College Again to , 1 Cross Cascades. 2-YEAR PACT PROPOSED younger Says Iobies Men Will Go to Pullman in 1917 if Dietz's Squad Will Tlay at Seattle Thanksgiving Day, 1916. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 24. J. Arthur Tounger. graduate manager of athletics at the University of Washington, wrote a letter today to Washington State Col lege at Pullman, offering to schedule a football game between the teams of the two colleges in Seattle next Thanksgiv ing day. , . . The University of California is sched uled to play Washington here on that iate, but Manager Stroud, of California, has agreed to step aside if Washington State College acce-pis iuc ..-..-ington and California are billed for two games this year, one ai uerKtiej the other at Seattle, but if Washington fUate College accepts iuuukci o u. i.: .in tiv in Rerkelev next tBSUIimLlu .. . . . i j --- - Fall and California will play in Seattle next year. -rf.n Wni inert on State t loungei wiID ' " -- College a two-year contract, the game this vear to oe piayeo. in oen . , . . .,Aa r hn nl;t vpd any ine paints ca j .... . . - - where selected by Washington State College. iir..i.inrtnn'a nffor contains a nrovl . - . . n-..t.;r..n MtntA fTnlleere bar r l " II iimi. iioouw. all freshmen from all intercollegiate football games all season, not umjr from the game with Washington. bohij-:r spcrxs chauexge W 'usliiugtoii State Already Has Game Scheduled 'or Thanksgiving. OREGON AaRICUL.TURAL.COLi.EGK. Corvallis. Feb. 24. (Special.) J. r . Bohler. Washington State CollegeAth letic director, who is here today wltn the Pullman basketball team for a con ference game tomorrow night, declared flatly tonight that Washington totate College would not go to Seattle for a football game in 1916. -It is up to Washington to come to Pullman in 1916 if they really want a game." declared Mr. Bohler. - Wash ington State College has not met Wash ington in Pullman in the last eight rears or more and the only time Wash ington has come east of the mountains thev made us play in Spokane. e had a contract for a game with Wash ington in Pullman and this was delib erately broken by Washington after we had fulfilled the first part of our con tract, going to Washington the year before. Now Washington will have to carry out its agreement and play us In Pullman or there will be no game. "As to Mr. Younger's proposal that wc plav in Seattle Thanksgiving day, that cannot be. It looks like a delib erate attempt to put us in a position of declining to play. This offer is made after we have scheduled a game with Whitman College for Thanksgiv ing day and our contracts are more than "mere scraps of paper' and Wash ington iState College will not be found breaking contracts, even though there might be larger gate receipts by so doing. "The students of Washington State College would have to decide on Wash ington's proposal that Washington State bar freshmen from all interschol astic conference sport. That is not for me to decide and I cannot say what the attitude of the students would be on such a proposal. However, should Doble really be desirous of a game with Washington State College, so much that he would Influence Manager Younger to offer us a game in Pullman "on a possible date in 1916. then the question of freshmen eligibility would doubtless be taken up. "I cannot believe, however, that Mr. Pobie or Mr. Younger are sincere In any negotiations for a game at this time and think they are only trying to put Washington State in a position of refusing to meet Washington." ELGIN' BIDS FOR ROAD' RACES Association Would Put on Bis: Anto Events Wanted by Santa Monica. ELGIN. 111.. Feb. -.'4. Directors of the Elgin Koad Racing Association have decided to apply to the Motor t ups Holding Association of New York for the Vanderbilt cup and Grand Prix races sanction, it was announced today. The decision was reached at a meet ing last night. It is understood the Santa Monica, Cal., Chamber of Com merce is a rival bidder for the events. Prizes for each of the four events the Vanderbilt cup, the Grand Prix, the Chicago Automobile Club trophy and the Elgin National will be $3000 for first place, $1500 for second, $1000 for third and $500 for fourth. CATTON' RUN'S 2631 BILLIARDS Straight Play World's Record, iu . Force Since 188 7, Is Broken. CHICAGO. Feb. 24. Mark Catton, of Chicago, made what is claimed today as a world's record at straight rail billiards in three nights' play. Catton ran 2634 before missing a shot, lead ing the former record of 2472 made by Harvey McKenna in Boston in 18S7. Catton began the run Friday night, when he made 1000. Sunday he ran another 1000 and last night counted t34 before missing. Mourner Unable to Compete. Deploring the fact that a recent oper ation on his nose will keep him from entering and representing the Multno mah Amateur Athletic Club ill the Pa cific Northwest Association champion ships to be staged at the local club March 2 and 3. Vincent Monpier. crack 3 35-pound boxer is rapidly recovering and hopes to be at the club once again to don the padded mits within a short while. His nose was operated on last Monday after being broken four times and never properly set. He will be forced to stay at home for the next ten days. Olympic Club Five to Tour. SAN" FRANCISCO, Feb. 21. The Olympic Club, of San Francisco, basket ball team, holders of the National title, won last year at the Panama-Pacillc Exposition tournament, will leave here Sunday, it was announced today, for a tour of the East and Middle West. Sutlicrlln Club to Release Quail. Pl'THERLIN'. Or., Feb. 24. (Special.) The Suthcrlin Hod and Gun Club has received four crates of Valley quail from the fctate Oaw;c Farm at Corval lis and the birds will be liberated In the Valley noar Suthcrlin. The State Fish and Game Commission has agreed to'shtp 109,900 trout fry to Sutfcerlin this year for the purpose of stocking the local streams. jfffersox quits . league No More Basketball to Be Played Following Amateur Rulings. Jefferson High School will not com plete the 1916 basketball season of the Portland Interscholastic League. Ho mer Jamison, coach of the quintet, yes terday sent word to Stanley Borleske, coach of the Lincoln High aggregation, that it would be impossible to play this afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. Considerable agitation has been caused because of the many protests that were issued against several ath letes of the. league regarding alleged professionalism. All with the excep tion of "Spec" Burke, of Jefferson High, finally obtained Amateur Athletic 1 '' - "' ' I: :.1 i ' ; 1'bA - -r - H ! Sw388&K'3:: V 'Mi " ' r""l; ' 1 V b I T Walter Miller, tile World's Mlrt- idlevreight WrrwtllnK mum pi cm Wenrlnic the Police Ua 4 rtte Belt. Which Won Put Up I to He Held by the Tltleholder. Union cards from Edgar E. Frank, chairman of the registration committee of the Pacific Northwest Association. Intra-school athletics have been fos tered in the minds of the Jefferson High School students for some time, in stead of interscholastic competition. Those in charge of athletics at the school are not trying to defend young Burke, but they think that it is strange all the other athletes were granted amateur cards. FULTZ BACKS JOHNSTON EI1BETS. HOWEVEH, INSISTS STAR MAS BOVGHT FROM OAKS. Brooklyn (Inner Declares Ten-Day ( laune Must Be Inserted T'nlens Rational Body RuleM Otherwise. BROOKLYN, N. Y.. Feb. 24. Stirring up the magnates is the best little thing Davy Fultz, president of the Ballplay ers' Federation, can do. David was somewhat quiescent while the Federals were in flower, but now that the field is clear again for his activities, the brilliant young leader has re-entered the lists with both feet. Fultz is championing the cause of Jimmy Johnston, . the Oakland out fielder, recently signed by Boss Ebbets for the 1916 Superbas. Fultz asserts that Johnson belonged to the Federal League and the Brooklyn club is there fore in duty bound to assume the con tract the youth signed with that or ganization. Charles H. Ebbets takes an entirely opposite view, and intends to fight the contention without gloves. "The whole desire of Johnston is to have the 10-day clause taken out of his contract, -und that I absolutely re fuse to do unless the National Commis sion orders mo to do so," said Boss Ebbets today. "In all my recent deal ings with the players, I have insisted on inserting the 10-day clause in their contracts because I consider it essen tial to the life of the game. Larry Cheney agreed to the 10-day clause. So did Sherrod Smith, Rube Marquard and more lately Chief Myers. Johnston made no objections to the clause when I closed with him, and I was surprised when the point was raised. "Mr. Fultz1 tries to make it appear that I purchased Johnston from the Federal League. That is not the case at all. Johnston signed a Federal League contract, but never worked under it. I made a deal with the Oak land . club for his services, giving Chabek and Zimmerman for him. I met Johnston in Lbs Angeles last Fall, and we agreed on all the terms pos sible. He was willing to repudiate his Federal League contract then, and that was done, his only condition being that we should protect him in the event of any lawsuit the Federal League might bring. "Two weeks later the National and Federal League representatives met, and peace was declared. The Brooklyn club, under this agreement, sent Harry Sinclair its check for $1250 to reim burse the Federal League for its ex penditures in signing Johnston. Of this amount, $1000 was for money ad vanced the player on his salary for 1916, which we will collect. The re mainder is for the expenses of sign ing him up. We did not purchase Johnston's release from the Feds, which is plainly to be seen. Had we done so, we would have been com pelled to bid for his services and pay Mr. Sinclair a bonus. "The whole thing rests, as I said be fore, on the 10-day clause. I have insisted on its being included in tho contracts of Cheney. Smith. Marquard and Myers, and I will not stultify my self by striking it out of Johnston's contract unless, as 1 have intimated, the National Commission considers the clause unnecessary. If the commis sion orders the clause stricken out, it will be done, but as the situation stands now, Johnston must abide by the existing form of contract pre scribed by the Brooklyn club." A serious effort is belns made In India to revivw tho natural Indigo industry and more than I'oS.OuO acres have been planted thU year. MILLER WILL NOT RISK TITLE BELT Trophy Emblematic of 158 Pound Championship Not lip in 0'Connell Match. VALUE IS ABOUT $1500 Wrestler 'Who Will Meet Portland Man Here Tuesday Says He Needs More Time for Train ing for Big Bout. Walter Miller's refusal to stake his beautiful world's championship belt on the result of his championship match with O'Connell next Tuesday night in Portland has kicked up quite a stir in grappling circles. The belt in question Ts one put up by the Police Gazette for the middle weicht championship. It was won by Miller from Joe Turner. Miller exhib ited the beautiful trophy when he was in Portland and it lay on the table when the two wrestlers signed their articles for the coming bout. It was valued at something like $1500. Inasmuch as the Miller-O'Connell bout is for the world's 158-pound cham pionship, O'Connell thought the belt was to so to the winner of the matcn. Miller's refusal by letter from ban Francisco to risk his belt has, there fore, somewhat peeved the Multnomah Club expert. Some of his friends are even advis ing him to call off his affair with Mil ler. "No. I will go through with it. whether Miller gives me the belt if I win or not," he said last night, when queried for a statement of his end of the fuss. "Miller says he will not risk his belt unless he has time to settle down here for a month or two before his match to do his training. "However, it seems to me that I am the one who is giving in all around. Miller claimed both the welter-weight and middle-weight championships of the world, and yet, when It came to signing articles for my class, the welter-weight, he refused to come across. Finally I had to agree to wrestle at the middleweight limit, which will put Miller 'n at 15o pounds as against not more than 150 pounds for me. "I think I can beat him anyway, ana that is why I would like to see that belt for tho winner. According to Milton Seaman, of the Baker Company, who is promoting the big title match, the affair will come off as originaly scheduled at the Eleventh-street playhouse next Tuesday night. The house will hold about 1500 persons, not including the stage. Mr. Seaman is having circus seats built on three sides of the stage, where another 500 fans can be accommodated. He looks for a packed house, Judging from his advance seat sale and the inquiries received. No referee has been chosen and no selection will be made until Miller and his manager, Charley Cutler, arrive from San Francisco Sunday morning. Miller wrestles with young Gotch in San Francisco tomorrow night. The Span of the Game. TUB world at large would only know The rank which you attain below; Were you the victor of the day? Or vanquished in the hard-fought fray? Have your feet tracked the lautvilled path! Or lagged before the fates' red wrath ? Victor, or vanquished. How you fought. Or strove or struggled, worked or wrought. Ia nothing in the world's raw creed Which only crowns those who eucoeed. But to your soul which pays the cost It matters not who won or lost; It matters only how you played Until the final out was made; It matters only with what heart You tried to do your utmost part; And beaten, battered backward, then How bravely did you try again? How bravely? All your other lore Ie nothing in tla final score. Victor or vanquished? In the gloom The oJlve withers on the tomb; World-plaudits, on the fur winds tossed. Are hushed where nerveless hands are crossed; The cheering swells and then there comes The monody of muffled drums; But when at last we track the night Of death to face the farther light That waits beyond the only test That lives is this "He gave his best." Clarke Griffith has a keen, almost an absorbing desire, to see Walter John son take a shot or two at a world se ries. Not that Griff has any personal feeling in the matter. Nothing of the sort. There is no part of an ulterior motive attached. He would merely like to see whether Walter could win four games in a series or only three. That flOO.000 Melee. We put this query to Tex Rickard, "Suppose Willard and Moran, in place of mixing it from the jump, decide to pull a Packey-Mike affair and play it safe? How about those who paid from $25 to $50 a seat?" "No chance," answered Tex; "they'll fight, all right." ' "You think they will, but how do you know?" "Because," said , Tex, "Willard is now the champion and' he understands that he must prove he Is a regular cham pion. He would only make a bum out of himself by loafing or holding back. He must fight as fast as he can and as hard as he can, with only 10 rounds to go. "As for Moran this is his big chance. He will tight even harder than Willard' will. Moran is a smart, in telligent fellow, with brains enough to know that his reputation depends upon the showing in this match. No, I'm not worrying about that part of it. There will be no loafing not for any $2000 a minute of my money. 1 don't say there will be a knockout, but there will be a wild scramble in that direc tion, at least." Perhaps, and Then Again. Tex may be right. You can say for him at least that he will do more than his share to produce 30 minutes of action. But Willard especially will have to show a number of innate Missourians that he can produce $47 worth of action in a 10-round bout, much less $47,000. Sure. I like to read about your stars And lesfer lights as well; So lower your percentage bars And tell of Roy Hartzell. Pallanza. O. K.. old pal, we'll take your tip And so reduce our cult. By turning in a four-line slip About the art of Schulte. "None But the Braves" t "None but the Braves" was the cho rus to a Spring ditty we sang last April. Our bedraggled Dope stumbled down the Stairway of Fact by October. Buk with the addition of Konetchy. Allen and Knetzer. if Stallings doesn't land in front this season it will be 'portlighir , A & GrantJtnd Rice. largely because old Doc Fate decided to shoot another volley or poisoned arrows into his system. The Braves toppled last Summer when Bill James broke up the pitch ing staff and when Evers cracked an ankle. Today Stallings looks to have a pitching staff equal to that of the Red Sox. Overlook this talent: Ru dolph, James, Tyler, Nehf, Barnes. Hughes, Allen and Knetzer. If he doesn't get four working stars from this delegation there isn't anything in anything. Great Staff. . James will report to Stallings at the manager's Georgia plantation this week. "I understand," says the Big Chief, "that his arm is now right again, but I want to be sure. Nehf is a wonder. He has already arrived. can get at least five stars from this bunch, with every one hard to beat as hard to beat as James, Rudolph and Tyler were two years ago. And this time we are fortified against anything but an earthquake or a war. Golf, like any other game, has its ultimate limit. Which happens to be the bloke who says "good shot" when you barely clear the rough on a half hit pop-up. And there should be a law passed against an opponent hoping you will drop dead, who says "Tough luck I'm sorry," when you slice one out of bounds. The one feature that has kept a lot of people from being strongly anti- German is Hans Wagner. In "exposing the National pastime we wonder just how much of the great white glare Mr. Murphy intends to turn upon himself? BY BILLY EVANS, American League Umpire. THE balk rule Is perhaps the least understood of all the rules in the baseball code. Fandom of course has a general idea of the balk rule, in that it pertains to illegal actions on the nart of the Ditcher. 'There are so many moves that can be classified as balks that to mention them all would take considerable space. The umpire watches closely every move of the pitcher when he steps on the rubber prepared to de liver the ball. He is quick to see any false move that deceives the base runner and often is the direct cause of him being caught off some base. When the umpire calls a balk a heated pro test invariably goes up from the team affected, as well as the team's follow ing. Usually the players are paying no more attention to the attitude of the pitcher than the crowd. The all-important infraction of the rule may have escaped unnoticed to most of the peo ple at the game, yet to the umpire it was an open-and-shut infraction of the rule that mast be penalized. Amonir many who do not make a close study of the rules the penalty for tho making of a balk is rather hazy. The general impression prevails that when a pitcher makes a balk base- runners can advance a base. That is the correct impression all runners can advance a base, whether forced or not. Yet time and again I am asked the ques tion: "Can a runner score from third on a balk?" "Does the batter go to first when the pitcher makes a balk?" What ruling is made on the bail pitched if the umpire declares the mo tion of the Ditcher as illegal?" "Is it ever possible for an Illegal pitch to be ruled a ball?" Why there is a doubt about the right of a runner scoring from third on a balk is a mystery. The risht of a run ner to advance to second on a balk or to third is never questioned, but an argument often arises as to whether or not a runner can score. If one just remembers that all baserunners have a right to advance a base on a balk, regardless of what base they occupy. there never will be any argument as to whether a runner can score from third on a balk. He certainly can score. Why should there be a question as to the right of a batter to go to first on a balk Is as mysterious as the ques tion of whether or not a runner can score from third. I might as well set tle that question right here. A batter can never go to first base on a balk. When the umpire declares a balk it has no effect whatever on the batter. The moment the umpire declares a balk play is automatically suspended. The declaring pf the balk gives all runners the right to advance a base, but other than that there is nothing doing. If the ball was right through the heart of the plate, or a foot outside, it would mean nothing to the batter, for the moment the balk was called the ball officially became dead. If the batter hit the ball over the fence for a home run there would be nothing doing. There Is a time when a certain ille gal manner of pitching the ball can be construed in two different ways. If a nitcher is leaving the rubber before delivering the ball, or in other ways not living up to the rules laid down for the proper way of pitching the ball to the batter, such a delivery is called an' il legal pitch if no one is on the bases. and is declared a Dan. witn runners on bases the same motion is called a balk, runners allowed to advance, but no ac tion taken on the batter. That is the onlv instance where two similar pitches under different conditions have different interpretations. SPIDERS MAY GO TO TOLEDO American Association Adopts Sched ule and Discusses Cleveland Case. rnT.TTMRT7S. o.. Feb. 24. Club own ers of the American Baseball Associa tion in session here tonight, adoptea a playing schedule of 168 games for the coming season, naming April 18 as the opening date. Toledo, O., was listetd .is one of the league ernes, out no announcement on details for the re occupatlon of the city was made. After adjournment President Thomas M. Chivington and the club owners left for Cleveland, where a meeting is scheduled tomorrow morning wun bankers In charge of the baseball af fairs of C. W. Somers. At this confer ence definite plans for the future of the Cleveland association team are ex pected to be mapped out. It is the desire of the club owners that the team be transferred to Toledo. T RAVERS NOT TO PLAY IX OPEN Champion Will Not Defend Title, Limiting Tourney Competition. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Jerome D. Travers, open golf champion of the United States, expects to make .but one appearance in a golf tournament this season. This will be in the ama teur championship to be played in Sep tember over the course of tho Merlon Cricket Club of Philadelphia. With Travers thus prevented from taking part in the open championship, it was pointed out today that the ama teur delegation would have to depena larrely for its representation upon Charles (Chick) Evans, Jr., or Francis Ouimet, if ' the latter player is then still , in the amateur ranks. . ICE LEADERS TIED Taylor and Morris Each Have 31 Points in Hockey Scores. FINAL GAMES ARE TONIGHT Seattle to Play Here, Fighting Uncle Sams to Wrest Second Place From Vancouver, Which Will Entertain Victoria. Pacific Coast Ice Hockey Standings. Goals. W. L. P.O. For Agst.- Portland 12 .". .70S !! J2 Seattle 8 -a 1 Vancouver 9 S ! 2 Victoria 4, 13 .30 71 100 Tonight's t.ames. At Portland Seattle vs. Portland. At Vancouver Victoria vs. Vancouver. Individual scoring honors for the 1915-16 season of the Pacific Coast Ice Hockey Association are siiil tied, and with the final games slated for to night, lively exhibitions can be ex pected. The Seattle Metropolitans will play in the Portland Ice Hippodrome against the Uncle Sams tonight, while Vancouver will be entertaining the tan end Victoria septet. "Cyclone" Taylor, the millionaire rover and Morris, of Seattle, each has 31 points to his credit. Morris has scored 23 goals and eight assists, while Taylor has netted the puck 18 times and helped in 13 goals. Tommv Murray, guardian of the Portland Uncle Sams' net. has the best record among the goalkeepers of the league. He has had but 52 goals scored against him, while Holmes, of Seattle, has had 61 and Hugh Lehman 62. Mc Culloch, of Victoria, has had little sup port at the critical times, with the re sult that an even 100 have been sent through him. Following are the individual aver ages to date: Player, Team. Goals. Assts. Pts. Taylor. Vancouver IN 33 HI Morris, Seatrle ' Kerr Victoria I- 13 - Tobln. Portland 1 7 i.8 L. Patrick, victoria j.i j; Cook. Vancouver 1 -j Oatman, Portland J' JH Mackay. Vancouver 3- 6 3H Dunderdale. Portland 33 4 17 Xichol. Victoria 30 6 3S Wlljspn, Seattle 11 Harris. PorUand 30 u 3 a Walker, Seattle 30 4 34 Griffis, Vancouver 8 . l.l Mallcn. Victoria 7 f. 1- Box. Victoria 6 0 JJ Ko.vston, Seattle 3 3- McDona'.d, Vicroria 8 3 1 Carpenter. Seattle 4 30 Stanley, Vancouver 4 o Duncan, Vancouver o 3 Johnson, Portland ij J Irvine, Portland Rowe. Seattle 3 b ! Genge. Victoria 8 J g Riley. Victoria ill Barbour, Purtland 3 F. Patrick, Vancouver J J O'Leary, Victoria 3 3 2 Rlckev, Seattle - l.'ksila, Portland 3 0 1 Seaborn, Vancouver v 1 3 Thniehfs affair in the Portland lee Hippodrome will start promptly at 8:30 o'clock, with Fred Ion, of beattie. as referee and Jimmy Rllance, of Port land, as judge of play. Manasrer Savage received word yes terday from President Frank Patrick that a league meeting will be held in Seattle tomorrow. The Portland repre sentative will leave here immediately after the contest tonight. Tho All Stars versus the Portland Uncte Sams, 1915-16 champions, will be held March 2 and 6 in the Portland Ice Jiippo- arome. AGGIE WRESTLERS AT EUGENE Annual Competition to Be Staged With Oregon Saturday Night. OT?I.-(TON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGK, Corvallis. Feb. 24. (Special.) Coach Jim Arbuthnot, of the Oregon Agricul tural College wrestling squad, has se lotori tho team which will meet the University of Oregon grapplers Satur- l:iv niirht at Eugene. J ne winners in the recent interclass matches were pit ted against varsity letter men in com r,,.itin fnr nlacps on the team, but In every case the old-timers were too Strong for the varsity aspirants. George Hardman, all-Northwest champion in the 115-pound events last 'ear. is slated to wrestle in mat. ciass at Eugene. Cantain Bolin will wrestle at lo nnnnds .T. C. Hawkins is the orange and black entrant in the 135-pound lass, and the 14a-pound competition ..in v.- innlraH oflpr hv Mnshv. it mem- V, tha tanni lnat VPflf Hfl Will On- pose Rutherford, of the University of Oregon. The same men met. in inis event last year and the Oregon man was too strong for the husky Aggie, on. lVottrs a stnrlcv athlete, will wrestle in the 158-pounl class and Kd AUworthy, varsity fullback, will tackle the University man who Is selected for the 175-pound class. CLATSKANIE TO PLAY RAINIER Deciding Game Will Settle Basket ball Title of Columbia County. CLATSKANIE, Or., Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) The quintets representing the Clatskanie and Rainier high schools will meet here tomorrow night to de cide the basketball championship of Columbia County. These two teams have met twice before this season, the first game resulting in a 14-13 win for the locals, while Rainier captured the second. 24-19. Out of 11 games played this season the local team has lost but four, and none of these by more than five points. i "Hop" Eilertsen, Clatskanie's star captain, who has been out of the game recently on account of injuries, will start the game at his old position, thus strengthening the team consid erably. The winner of this game will in all probability meet the Christian Brothers' Business College Junior Alumni quintet on March 2, If satisfac tory arrangements can be made. GRESIIAM PREPARES FOR BALL Arrangements Being Made for Purk and Grandstand for Games. GRESIIAM, Or., Feb. 24. (Special.) William O. Ross, manager of the Inter City Baseball League, said today that all preparations are coming on rapidly and that all arrangements have been made with the players, and a franchise has been placed for the Inter-City League at Gresham. Harold Kern, of this city, has been appointed business manager and will oversee the work of Improving the grounds and erecting the grandstand. Tom ("Cy") Townsend, a pitcher for the old Gresham Giants, will be on the lineup of the new team. Kahanamoku to Swim In East, wrw vnrcK Peb. 24. New York and Chicago athletes will have an oppor tunity to test their speed in tTTe swim ming tank against Duke Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian swimmer, in the 220 yard National championship race here April 10. Officials of the Amateur Ath TTninn have lust received definite assurances that the Hawaian will en ter for this event. ICE HOCKEY PORTLAND : VS. j SEATTLE Tonight, 8:30 o'Clock Seat sale now on at Portland Ice Hippodrome, 21st and Marshall Huntley Drug Store, 4th and Washington Schiller Cigar Store, 11th and Washington Prices, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Box Seats, $1.25 Seats ordered and not paid for will not be held after 6 o'clock the night of the game. Portland Ice Hippodrome 21st and Marshall Take W, 23d, 16th or Love joy Cars MIS BOUT IS DRAW HAGEX BOXES GOOD SIX-ROI XD CONTEST WITH rORTI.ANDEK. Valley Trambltna and l.co Cros AUo Have Draw In Kant Mix. Clark Outpoints Grant. In a rather listless bout Wednesday night at the Rose City Athletic Club, Karl Miebus and Romeo Hagen fought a draw. Rcfereo Jockey Bennett's deci sion was regarded as absolutely cor rect. The first, fifth and sixth rounds were even, while the Seattle baker boy shaded the local lad in the second and third by using an effective left-hand jab. Miebus took the fourth round, using the same kind of an attack. Mie bus seemed to weigh about 165 pounds, while 1j8 would not have missed the Seattleite's poundage far. In Hag-n. the Portland boxer found a tough, rugged opponent. Valley Trambltas and I.eo Cross, meeting in a return engagement, put up the best contest of the night and had the crowd howling during the entire 12 minutes of mixing with a little over time thrown in. They battled viciously and both tried to combat a second or so extra after each bell. Referee Bennett called this affair a draw ulso. Tommy Clark secured a decision over "Soldier Kid" Grant, who presented tho unusual spectacle of a boxer entering a contest with a broken nose. The Evergoen Club, of Vancouver, un earthed a personage named R. Lille. He afforded much laughter and got a draw with Fred Rooney, a local 140-poundcr. "Kid" Weston outslugged Oscar Oard ner, Jr., enough to earn tho decision which Referee Bennett gave him. Baseball, Football, Boxing, Persona! Touches in Sport TKFF SMITH, who beat Les Darcy tl the star Australian boxer, who twice won from Eddie McGoorty, one of the best men in the world, is to meet Mike Gibbons, the best man of his class, at St. Taul, March 17. Smith, through his Australian victories, lays claim to the middleweight champion ship of the world. His reputation is good enough to make one believe mat he will mako tho St. Taul phantom extend himself. While Yale oarsmen will do a great part of their work in New Haven harbor, there will bo more or less practice early in the Spring upon the new course on the Housalonlc River at Derby. Conn. Skiing is only six years old in Japan, but it has become popular. In the Winter of 1910 tho art was introduced to the Japanese at Takata, famoui for Its heavy snowfall. News of the death in Belfast, Ire land, of John McKenna, wldidy known in this country as a rllio shot, was received with regret by his many friends here. A veteran of four-score years, he has been a lifelong enthu siast in the art of rifle shooting. McKenna was largely responsible for tho international contests which took nlace between Ireland and the United States, and also between I'lstcr and Canada. Mort Henderson, who created so much interest In the wrestling game In New York as the 'masked marvel, is on a Western tour, and Is at present n Butte, Mont. Baseball war is lust what Sherman said about any other scrap. Tho an nual report of the National commission for 1915 shows that last year the tribunal received 155.361.74 and dis bursed $48,482.30. Attorneys engaged durlnir the war got 1!637.1)3. The Ar mada Marsans case alone cost $1777.71. Fifty candidates for the Illinois Uni versity's 1916 football team are taking part in the Winter drill instituted bj Coach Zuppke. ' It is the plan of the athletic authorities to teach them the rudiments of the great outaoor game in a Winter session of six weeks, so that when tho regular Autumn prac tice begins the members of the squad will have been well trained in such ground work as falling on the ball, blocking opponents, tackling, etc. Stanford University's eight - oared crew, composed of Nouner. Steinbeck, Worth, Jacominl. Orme, Green, Nayrer and Guerena. will again invade Eastern waters this year. A campaign has been begun at Princeton to get a record-breaking number of men out for track this Spring. Plans have been formulated to conduct a systematic canvass of all the student body in an attempt to in crease the number of 15 men who have already reported to 250. Wild Bill Donovan and 15 of his Yankee clan are at Macon. Us., train ing, and J. Franklin Baker is among them. It is reported that Baker's sal ary, will be between $7500 and $10,000 a year. Benny Kauff. tho Giant outfielder who modestly admits that he can hit that apple, must prove his ability to the American public. He is going to do a lot of his batting against left handed pitchers, and his record shows that he Is no acrobatic marvel at doing such. xiowaro, urflw nucuu. fc . ... i l v i University of California in the Fall. He was one of the most popular stu dents at that institution, and with him again wearing the orange shield, that 1 vursity should make a cleaning on th cinder track. Evelyn Xeshit Thaw, on the t"irpliuir circuit, has been forced to do her dan cing alono for the past fortnlwht. - couple of weeks hko ut Stockton, Cal while investigating a high-power ulr ride. Jack Clifford, ln r dancing partner, lost the tip of his linger when tho gim closed suddenly. Ho fainted anil w:i rushed to the Emergency llnspitul, where tho linger wns amputated ut thu th st joint. A game between tho baseball teaira representing the Wusudn 1'nlverslty of Japan and the University of Ultnoiit nine has been practically arranged. The Wnsedu players on their tour of the United States next Spring, it l expected, will stop at L'rbana, 111., for a game May 23. It has been reported in llnstun that! besides Smoky Joe" Wood, three other world's champions are to be relcusi il soon. Catchers Chct Thomas, llio e' Portland boy. and Forrest Only anil Pitcher Collins are those mentioned. Tho International Indoor Ice sUstlniC championships of llio I'nited StHtos anil Canada havo been awarded to Pitts burg. Pa., by the Western Skating As sociation. They w ill bu In Id February 27, 28 ami 2!. JOHNSON' .MIST l.l'.AVi: I.ON'lON' Ni'Rro I'usilKt Agrees to Sail for South Amrrleii Mnri-lt II. I.ONKO.V, Feb. 2 1.-- (Special. ) Th authorities have mikkcMciI to Jiicli Johnson that his room Is mure desir able than his company. It luis been clear to tho negro prlzetlgbter that If he does not leave voluntarily ho wl'.l probably bo deported. Johnson took the hint mid Hnnoniiceil that ho will sail on March 3 for Snutli America. Tho ex-chuniplon lias Ih-imi heading a rovuo lately Inuring tlio provinces and has been making a "bar rel of money." There have been In numerable complaints received by thi authorities with regard to bis obnox ious attentions to whito women. Gotham ltciulrcs i:urly Itoxlng. NEW YORK. Feb. 21. The Stnt Athletic Commission announced today that there had been added to the newly adopted boxing rules a clause provid ing that no bout shall be started atli r 11:1.". P. M. This action is the uutcoino of the recent complaints that limnv meets havo not been completed until after midnight. BOUGHT A SPRING SUIT AND SAVED HALF HIS SALARY THE SAME Hn manaccd it. without trouble, too. BY BUYING HIS Sl'IT ON CIIKMT AT CHERRY'S. A note at the bank to meet the inili of February! It slipped ills memory lomehow till Just a couple or weens igo. But he did It yesterday, and bought a Spring Suit also an English Model. with every fine point of Stylo punc- iliously taken into account. Tho nin erlal is handsome tho lines and gen eral finish show perfect tailoring. Its ost was the least ho ever paid, and ie hasn't paid much of it yrt, though le's wearing tho Suit today. Cherry's new Spring and Summer ;nli are beauties in every sense of the word. Ixiok them over ourself and pass your own verdict. 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