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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORXIXG OKEGOXIA3J, SATURDAY, 3IJLRCH 11, 1916. 3 BEAVER HOLDOUTS GIVE UP; 3 ABE FIRM LEADER OF CROSS-COUNTRY RIDE OF PORTLAND HUNT CLUB. ! V v 13 ' Tne Qu-rnr Stohcw FonruuiD f tfn ! AW J Speas, Southworth and Sotho ron Return to Ranks and Submit to Terms. VAUGHN DICKERING YET Portand Magnate Blows Vp Demand of ex-Buffalo Player or Rise Wilie and Hnr- ttad Not Vet Signed. BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. -(tone are the golden days of the hold outs In baseball. And the holdouts themselves- know It better than anybody. Three of them on the Portland roster gave up the ghost yesterday Speas, Southworth and tiothoron and now the only boys who. are yodeling from a stump for more I of the greasy paper are Outfielder WIHe. Inflelder Vaughn and pitcher Harstad. Not much difficulty is expected In obtaining the signatures of Wilie and liarstad. but "Vaughn is one young ath lete who refuses to crack his heels in anxiety to sign any sort of a parch ment. Kact is, Vaughn already holds a 3000 contract from the St. Louis Federals and he is standing aloof like a. prima donna in A bunch of spear toters. Vanstbn Aikn 5 Prr Cent nine. Vaughn is the Buffalo boy who Jumped to the St. Louis Feds last sea son. He wrote Judge McCredie yester day from Tacoma demanding that he be protected, not alone on his 3000 meg. but that Portland astree either to give him his release in the Fall or else ten der him a new contract for 1917 calling for a 5 per cent rise on the $3000 docu ment. When the Portland magnate read the pistle his anger blew up like a half barrel of benzine when kissed by a cigarette butt. "I am forwarding the correspondence to St. Louis to let them thresh it out," iaid President McCredie. "Portland has agreed to pay a. certain amount of his contract and St. Louis is to stand the balance. . SuspenMlon Is Foreseen. "My contract sent to Vaughn express ly protects Vaughn so far as his $3000 is concerned. If he had any sense at all in his head he would sign it and return without fussing over technical ities about 5 per cent rises next year and all that sort of thing. "My candid opinion is that Vaughn will be suspended, and he may have to fight to receive any of his $3000. 1 know I am through fooling with him. If he doesn't get that contract back to me pretty soon, we will not have him around. Ballplayers are a drug on the market this year. We can get plenty of them, and certainly will do so rather than putter around for sev eral more weeks wasting time on trivialities." In order to attempt some sort of a pacification between Vaughn and the local magnates. The Oregonian sent an emissary to Tacoma Thursday to In terview Vaughn and to get his side of the argument. Adherence to Contract Asked. Vaughn said he would be very glad to come to Portlund, but he wanted the terms of his Federal League con tract lived up to to the very limit. "Although Judge McCredie's contract specifies that 1 am to receive the same salary which I was paid at St. Louis last year, St. Louis' letter to me noti fying me of my transfer to Portland contained several different phrases which I did not like." he said. "One was that my salary was to be reduced. I am mailing McCredie's con tract back today with additiona clauses added to it by myself. If he agrees and sends it back to me. 1 will sign it and forward the contract to him immediately. I have been work ing out nere in tne coliseum, and am In fine shape. Captaincy Views Are Given. When asked what he thought of the captaincy of the club, Vaughn laughed and said: "That stuff sounds good now, but it's a hard old row and a tough grind be Tore the season gets fairly started. I was captain of my team at Princeton my fourth season, back about 1909." aughn is a more experienced ball player than anybody out here had real lwt. lie played for five seasons in the A A International League before Jumping Buffalo for the St. Louis Feds last year. ins Damng averages for the past six years iouow: 1910. Toronto. .216: 1911. Toronto, .Jii; 19IL', Newark, .243: 1913, Jersey City and Buffalo, .296: 1914. Buffalo, .-':'. iHlu, tt. Ijouis Federals, .274, Above succulent statistics show Vaughn to be a .-'75 batter or there ntiouts. and, as he is a corking fielder and a very able baserunner, local fans lire hoping that he quits his fight for more kale and climbs aboard the band wagon. l'ave Wilie. the other most serious holdout, is in Waco. Tex. He wants to report to camp and adjust his differ ences there. Wilie came to Portland from Cleveland. SKVTIXO CAPACITY TO GROW I'ar Western Meet Attracts Santa Clara and St. Mary's Teams. ORKOON AGRICIT.TURAL COL,, LEGE, Corvallis. March 10. (Special.) Plans are bein: made for the con struction of additional seatinpr accom modations for the larpe attendance al ready assured at the Far Western in door track meet, which will be held April 1 in the Oregon Agricultural Col ic pe Armory. The list of colleges, athletic clubs and secondary schools which will en ter teams in the bier meet continues to Rrow. St. Mary's and Santa Clara col lesres are the most recent to announce that they would enter teams. The exact personnel of their teams is not yet decided. The Seattle Athletic Clui. Multnomah Club and the Spokane Athletic Club are among the organiza tions mrvpt recently sending word that they would be represented. The Den ver Athletlo Club has decided that It will be Impossible to send a team to the Coast. MEIER & FRAXK FIVE WINS Iiipman, Wolfe & Co. Team Loses In Basketball, 32 to 21. Meier & Frank's basketball team de feated that of the Lipman, Wolfe & Company at the Neighborhood House "Wednesday nigrht. score 32 to 21. Wolfe for the losers and Wagner and Hummel for the winners featured the same by brilliant playintr. The lineups follow: Meier 4 Frank. Llpman, Wolfe Tiacoll . .F Bipbes K . ". ".Spa re." ". '. ". ' Wolfe Kantner .. . . toanp Wagner H ummel Kitrfl . . Jonca Swerdieck i - ' ' I ; - - . -. r ' 5 " ' : ' III ' - It l f 1 ' The first annual cross-country ride of the Portland Hunt Club has been arranged for tomorrow afternoon. The start from the Portland Riding Academy will be made at 10 o'clock A. M., arriving at Zion Station about an hour later. All the men riders are to wear their red coats and high nats, while the women will appear in dress-parade costumes. Harry M. Kerron and Sheldon A. Volkman are responsible for the first cross-country ride. A lunch eon will be served the party at the clubhouse. Garden Home, about 12:30 o'clock. The entire body will meet at Zion of the ride. TBAfilTAS GETS AID1, Butler Promises Vast Improve ment in Fighter. USE OF TOES IS TAUGHT Hitting Tower and Speed Combine for Bright Future or Protege, Declares Boxing Instructor. Skill to Be Mastered. That Valley Trambitas has a bright future in the fistic world is the opin ion of Mike 11. Butler, well-known boxing- instructor and pnvsical director. Trambitas has been put under Butler's wing in order to have him prepared for his bout "of March 17 with Billy Murray, which will serve as the main event of the Rose City Athletic Club's show of that date. "This boy has a wonderful hitting ability and is as quick as a flash." remarked Butler yesterday. "No one has ever taught him how to save him self from punishment or to use his head by standing off and out-boxing an opponent after having piled up a big lead. "I have watched this boy pile up a lead on good boxers by out-punching them in the first four or five rounds and then, instead o.f standing off and pecking the opposition with left and right jabs. Valley would rush in and take a chance of being hit by a chance wallop and finished. "Valley sets himself too much, box ing flat-footed, and consequently the muscles of his legs tire quicker than they should. 1 hope to have him broken of this fault by next Friday. The boy has worked in my place only three times and we have him boxing on his toes already. "This will give him an opportunity to save himself and will cure his habit of falling 'down after making a wild swing. Yes. you can take it from me, there will be a good many of the fans who will be unable to believe that it is the same boy when he gets started against Murray." concluded the former athletic director of the Chicago Ath letic Club. Trambitas is full of confidence and says that he will give Murray a tough time of it. He has his heart and soul in the coming bout. The following is the programme which will be presented: 158 pounds. Valley Trambitas vs. Billy Murray, of Santa Rosa. Cal.: 125 pounds. Leo Houck. of Seattle. Wash., vs. "Mufr" Bronson: 135 pounds. Walter Knowl ton vs. Tommy Clark: 108 pounds, Alex Trambitas vs. Abie Gordon or "Toughy" Wing; catchweights. Ike Cohen vs. "Kid" Stone: 125 pounds, "Ping" Bodie vs. Dummy Meagher. Billy Weeks, who has not been de feated since he won the middleweight championship of Canada, is still writing to Fred T. Merrill, manager oi the km City Athletic Club, asking to box any middleweight In the business. The end of the letter received recently from his representative reads: "Billy Murray and Weeks would draw a record crowd at your club. Don't overlook the fact, Mr. Merrill, that Weeks is a champion." Weeks may be a champion all right, but right now it is the general opinion of fans of the Northwest that he is somewhat of a "sagebrush" champ. He says that lie is very anxious to meet Murray here. Weeks also Tefused to meet Frank Farmer and seems content with run ning out to some small towns and box Ing some unheard-of performer. His excuse with Farmer was that he wa too heavy. Any boxer who intends to get by with much In the fistic game and not willing to give away three or four pounds for a four-round match will be disappointed. has boxed considerably around Astoria. Or., wants to meet some middleweight at the Rose City Athletic Club soon He has joined the organization and will start getting in shape today. He has a draw with Frank Parslow to his credit. . Eddie McAuliffe. the San Francisco boy, has been in communication with officials of the club across the river, and word was received from him yes terday that he had no dates ahead and would be glad to appear kere at any time. He says that Just at present things in the boxing game are slow around the Bay City. Murray Scott, soldier welterweight of Fort Stevens. Or., wants to hook up j with any welterweight in the country. Station to start the main portion Parslow shaded him at Astoria laat Winter. Scott is scheduled to box in Astoria next week. FORT STKVEXS SMOKER HELD Scott Wins Fast Six-Round Bout From Boffroff, of San Francisco. PORT STEVENS, Or., March 10. (Special.) Murray Scott, of Fort Stevens, won the decision over Jim Boffroff. of San Francisco, last nig-ht in a fast six-round bout at the Hammond skating- rink. Scott was outweighed1 by nearly ten pounds. Nace Grant, of Astoria, acted as referee. Scott has been at Fort Stevens about one year and during" that period has been uniformly successful in the boxing arena. Tuffy Bolin, the fast Fort Canby 135-pounder, scored a victory over Verne Hastings, of Astoria, in a three round preliminary. Hard, fast fighting characterized this bout throughout. Thadeas and Rosendale put up another fast exhibition. The boxing contests were handled under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias Social Club. SCHOOL BREACH WIDENS WASHIXGTO.V ANGERED AT PULL. MAN'S ACTIOS OX SCHEDULE. Refasal of Rearrangement of Wrestling Events Considered Canse for End of Relations. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seat tle, March 10. (Special.) In refusing to grant Washington's request for a re arrangement of the wrestling events between the two schools at Pullman Saturday night. the Aggies have widened the breach already existing be tween Washington and W. S. C, and campus sentiment today seemed to favor the entire elimination of Pullman from Washington's schedule in any branch of athletics in the future. Pullman, as its selection of events. chose the heavyweight division as one, knowing that Washington had no can didate at that weight. That forces Captain Vande Bogart to wrestle at his own weight, 175, and then take on the heavy man also. The natural order of events is to begin with the lightest pair and on up to the heaviest, which would compel the Washington captain to wrestle two bouts in succession with out even getting off the mat between matches. Washington's request was that the 175-pound event be staged to open the meet, let Bogart rest while the other matches were being settled and then go back for the heavyweight bout to close the programme. Pullman refused to change the order, suggesting that Washington forfeit one of the events. TACOMA PUTS CLAMP OX LID Commissioner Surprises Even Chiei of Police Willi Boxing Order. TACOMA, Wash., March 10. (Spe cial.) Commissioner of Public Safety Mills has issued an order to Chief of Police Smith ordering him to see that no more boxing matches are held in Tacoma. Chief of Police Smith said the order was a surprise to him, as he had no talk with the Commissioner about it. The order reads: "After reading in the daily news papers of the evident falling out over the division of spoils resulting from the boxing match 1 have made up my mind that it it absolutely time to call a halt on that kind of amusements." JEFFS BEAT FACULTY FTVE Score of 3 5 to 3 0 Is Registered in Basketball Game. By a score of 35 to 30, the Jefferson High School basketball team agailn defeated the faculty yesterday after noon in the school gymnasium. George Anderson refereed. The lineups follow: Jefferson (3o) Williams F Burke F .. Pixjscott C.. Cameron .......... O .. Base G . Kennedy . .... Spare Murhaid ........ Spare Faculty (30) Harper Jamison Goode . Homer Jamison Scott ........ Ritchie MATURO'S CUE BEATS CHAPMAN Denver Player Scores 100 to 64 In Pocket Billiards Tournament. CHICAGO, March 10. James Maturo. of Denver, scored an easy victory over Jesse Chapman, of Chicago, 100 to 64. In the pocket billiards tournament to day. Maturo scored a high run of 23 and went out In 23 Innings. Kd Blankenshlp, Detroit's hope, won from, r rank Kink, of Philadelphia. lt'O to b3, scoring a high run of 27 in 25-lnnlnff un FISHERMEN! Prices Reduced on Oregon City Salmon Tackle Salmon Fishing has started. rags- i Wire Leaders, Dozen 37c Regular price 5c each. Best quality piano wire leaders greatly reduced. Genuine Cuttyhunk 75c, 100 yds., 9-thread. V.. .570 90c, 100 yds., 12-thread 680 $1, 100 yds., 15-thread 770 One 50c Baseball Mitt Glove, one 50c Bat, one 25c Ball, 3 for. . . 93c PULLMAN NABS LEAD Washington State Beats Idaho to Tune of 41 to 24. CHAMPIONSHIP IN REACH Repetition of Victory Tonight Over Gem Staters Will Decide Title of Xorth-w-est Intercolle giate League. PULLMAN. Wash.. March 10. (Spe cial.) The Washington State College basketball team stepped into the lead in the Northwest Inter-Collegiate League tonight when it defeated the University of Idaho quintet, 41 to 24 here. If the Pullman team repeats with a victory over the Gem Staters tomorrow night, it will cinch the cham pionship of the league. Pullman has a record of seven vic tories and two defeats. The Oregon Aggies won seven games and lost three during their season. R. Bohler and R. Moss played a spec tacular game for the home team. The contest originally was scheduled to be played in the university gym nasium at Moscow, but when the State Board of Health ordered that no gatherings of any kind be held in that city during an epidemic of smallpox the play was transferred here. GOLF CLUB TO PASS OX PLAN'S Portland Organization Directors Will Discuss Problems Today. There will be a meeting at 12 o'clock today of the directors of the Portland Golf Club. There are many important subjects to be discussed at the meet ing, which will be held In the lunch room of the Imperial Hotel. The titles to ail three tracts of lant which com prise the club's courses were taken over yesterday. The permanent plans for the new clubhouse will be presented at a meet ing scheduled for Monday noon. At that time it will be decided just where the new clubhouse will be built. The outlay of the new course also will be decided upon. TIAJUANAREDPENING SET RACING WILL BE RESUMED OS SIOXDAY, APRIL 10. Work on Dike to Protect Track From Possible Future Floods Will Be Started at Once. SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 10. Racing at the Tia Juana track will be resumed Saturday, April 8, according to the an nouncement today by James W. Coff roth, president of the Lower California Jockey Club. Work will be started immediately upon a dike to protect the track from possible future overflows of the Tt juana River, flood waters from which nearly wiped out the racing plant In January. The main event of the opening day will be the "A. B. Spreckels resump tion handicap," In honor of the noted California horseman. Municipal Golf Links FY ROLAND COTTERIT.L, Secretary of Park Board. No. 7 Seattle, Wash. Seattle golf enthusiasts had quite i struggle convincing the City Council men of the need of a municipal golf links, but now that the course is reality everybody admits that It was a wise Investment. Our munimipal links is 18 holes long. or 6095 yards, and embraces 101 acres in Jefferson Park, and 2 miles from the business district. Besides the money for the acquisition of the land the Park Board spent 45,- 799.22 for grubbing, grading, seeding, clubhouse and equipment. A. great many cities do not charge for the golf privileges, but we levy a small fee of $6 per year for annual playing permits. Monthly permits are sold for t'i; daily permits for 60 cents and game permits for 25 cents. Lock ers can be rented for $6 per year. The - links did not open until last May, and the revenue for the first eight months was J10.073.60 and the operat ing cost $9,318.29. This gave the Park Board a nice proflr, and as the game is growing more popular all the time this profit is bound" to increase. This It s time to overhaul and equip your tackle baskets. Here's a list of underpriced tackle. Buy now for your Spring fishing ! Salmon Spoons, Each 10c Dozen 97c. Regularly, each 15c. Extra stout hollow treble hooks, 20-gauge met al, sizes 4, 5 and 6, all fin ishes. Salmon Reels, $2.10 Regularly $3.00. 150-yard reels, nickel and rubber, double multiplying. Line, Underpriced $1.25, 100 yds., 18-thread. .940 $1.30, 100 yds, 21-thread..980 $1.50, 100 yds., 24-thr'd..$1.13 One $1.00 Baseball Mitt or Glove, 1 $1 Bat, flQ 1 A 1 $1 Ball, 3 for...P-l-'- Sporting- Goods Store, Basement Balcony. first report is not altogether fair, any way, because considerable machinery was purchased and charged to operat ing expense. The daily average number of players making the rounds was 112. making a total of 26,309 for the first eight months. The University of Washington has a golf course, and in addition there are several private golf clubs In the city. BARNSTORMING IS PROHIBITED National Commission Upholds Rule Abolishing Winter Trips. CINCINNATI. March 10. The Na tional Baseball Commission has issued a notice approving the recent legisla tion by the two major leagues abolish ing harnstorming trips. This action of the National and American Leagues la predicted on the opposition of their respective clubs to a practice that has been abused from the standpoint of sportsmanship and has resulted in injuries to players that have impaired their ability and earn ing capacity. I COAST UMPIRES ARE NAMED President Ilauin Announces Officials for 1916. SAN' FRANCISCO, March 10. Allan T. Baum, president of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, announced tonight the names of the official umpires for the 1916 season. John J. Doyle, of Chicago, was ap pointed in place of James Toman. The others appointed were: W. J. Guthrie. W. J. Phyle, J. B. Finny, Norman Brashear and H. R. Hold. BAIN HAMPERS AGGIES WALTER M'CREDIE ABANDONS JOB AS BASEBALL COACH. Weather- Too Unsettled for Outdoor Practice Hanaser Finds Good Talent on Corvallis Squad. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEOK. Corvallis, March 10. (Special.) Walter McCredie, who has spent this week wtth the baseball candidates at the Oregon Agricultural College, left yesterday for Portland as the continued unsettled weather made it impossible for the squad to get out on the diamond. The Portland manager was favorably impressed with the appearance of the sqrad under indoor conditions and had it f een possible to get in some outdoor w-ork would have coaohed the team the remainder of the week. "A promising looking lot of college players," said the Beaver manager to Captain Loof. "You should lead the other college teams a pretty race for the championship. McCredie has passed three hours with the squad every afternoon. Much of the time was passed in instructing the veterans on the fundamental points of the game. Each night the squad num bered between 40 and. 50 men. Several promising looking freshmen have appeared this week. Among them are three first basemen of more than average freshman caliber. The most experienced is Bill Heiss. of Pasadena. Cal. Swan, of Baker, and M alone, of Castle Rock, Wash., are the other two both tall, rangy youngsters. Craft, of National City, Cal., and Collins and Ward Irvine, of Portland are other freshmen of ability. Albany to Have Rifle Club. ALBANY. Or. March 10. (Special.)- In line with the general movement toward preparedness, Spanish-American War Veterans here are taking the initiative in organizing a civilian rifle club. The club will be conducted un der the National regulations governing such organizations and will have regu lar target practice. The committee in charge consists of Frank C. Stellmacher, R. C. Churchill, Alvln C. Baker, William V. Merrill and E. S. Hawker. Pacific University Plays Tonight. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY. Forest Grove. Or., March 10. (Special.) Pacific Uni versity closes its basketball season with a game with McMinnville College tomorrow night on the home floor. Cap tain Wilcox, Pacific's center and high point man. who was called to his home in Grass Valley, has not yet returned to school. Harvard Hockey Team Elects. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. March 10. John E. Morgan, class of '17, of New York City, was re-elected captain of the Harvard hockey team at a meeting of the varsity players today. Under Cap tain Morgan's leadership. Harvard, won the intercollegiate championship this year undefeated and with the loss of only two goals.. The city of Dresden has bought lC.OOO hops in Serbia, and arrangements have been made by other German cities to ob tain a similar number. It is believed thli will relieve to some extent the tamia. in lara. .J! tfURAO Why is Murad TE-3E TURKISH CIGARETTE Because the 1 7 pure Turkish tobaccos in Murad are higher grade than the tobaccos used in MANY brands of 25 Cent cigarettes. Because these 1 7 Turkish tobaccos are put together in a combination that has no counterpart for delicious origi nality. That is why Murads are the great est .sellers of all 1 5 Cent, 20 Cent and 25 Cent cigarettes. That is why Murad is THE Turk ish Cigarette. 25 &rfCc4A2& a AMATEUR DIVISION SET I CLASS B FOR SEMI-PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS IS PROPOSED. Rales Committee of National Baseball Federation to Recommend Series In Each Ranking. CINCINNATI. March 10. At a meet ing of the rules committee of the Na tional Baseball Federation here today. recommendations were decided upon to divide the amateurs into two classes. It will bo recommended that class A be composed of none but those who are strictly amateurs, while the class B should be composed of those who accept. money for playing baseball but who do not take up baseball for a living. The committee also will recommend a championship series for each class and an inter-city series. A huge mass meeting of amateur baseball players, as well as delegates to the convention here, was addressed tonight by August Herrmann, chair man of the National Baseball Commis sion, and by Ty Cobb, of the Detroit Americans. BOWXilXG CONGRESS ELECTS William Agnew, of Cleveland, Is Chosen President. TOLEDO, Ohio. March 10. WiJliam Agnew. of Cleveland, was elected presi dent of the American Bowling Congress at its annual meeting here today. The chief amendments to the consti tution provided for the extension of the secretary and treasurer's term of office from one to 10 years. Abe Lang try, of Milwauke e, and mn-y Ji Frank L. Paddeloup. of Chicago, were re-elected to the secretaryship and, treasurer's position. Grand Rapids won the 1917 tourna ment. Banks Wins at Washington Tennis. Kenneth . Banks defeated William Crofton In a handicap match in the Washington High School tennis tour nament yesterday afternoon. Monday afternoon Harry Shank takes on Phil Neer, while Jacie Neer opposes Stewart Wise. Wlltse to Manage Minor Leagues. ALBANY. N. Y.. March 10. George Wiltse, formerly with the New York National League, has signed a contract to manage the Albany Club of the New York State League for the coming, sea- son. Fish On! SALMON FISHING will soon begin at Oregon City. NOW is the time to give your tackle attention. We can satisfy your needs with the BEST of tackle at a minimum price. If your rod needs repairing, our repair dept. is at your service. .Everything for the Angler Honeyman Hardware Co. Fourth and Alder Sts.