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14 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917. BASEBALL PLAYERS PORTLAND BOY WHO GETS ANOTHER CHANCE AT NORTHWEST LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE TONIGHT. Just Look How Much Extra Value Your Money Buys You get loads of wear and comfort, with no itching, from Hanes Underwear. We sell it at 75c a garment or $1.50 a union suit and it would be a world beater at twice as much. ' Your eyes will pop wide open when you see and feel and wear a suit of Hanes. Value is piled on value, feature after feature is added, the useless frills are cut out and Hanes is bettered in every way clean down to the buttons. It's some underwear, menl THREATEN STRIKE Magnates Told Training Camp Will Not Be Needed if Re . v quests Are Ignored. PITCHER SALLEE EXPELLED I - v"r .1,' s r ' aff - "' 4 - ' S : . ' i J. -v, t - t ; Willi IU ' ' ' ' v: hi 1 Jr X'raternity Insists That Men Await Word Before Signing Contracts, l'ultz Says Stars Are Ready to "Figlit for nights." taW YORK. Jan. 11. The Baseball Players' Fraternity, through its presi dent. David L. Fultz. today threw down the gauntlet to organized baseball and declared that unless the magnates agreed to the requests of the fraternity there would be no need of training camps this Spring. As evidence of the earnest Intent of the fraternity to light for what it terms its Just rights, the organization an nounced it had expelled Piicher Harry F. Sallee from membership because he had signed a contract with the" New 1 ork National League club after he had promised he would stand with the fraternity until the word that would permit of a contract acceptance had been given. bailee was a memper of the frater nity and voluntarily pledged himself, with 'between 600 and 700 other play ers, not to enter into a contract until he was Instructed to do so, after our requests to organized baseball had re ceived proper consideration." said Presi dent Fultz. "As no consideration what ever has been given our requests to the board, and as Sallee acted in direct violation of his pledge, he was expelled from the fraternity today. Sallee now stands discredited among ballplayers as a man wno DroKe his word. IUght for Reform Fails. "It has been reported that Ritter, Sandberg and Witterstaetter also have signed, witterstaetter has not signed and the report evidently was given out for the effect it would have on other Players. Ritter did not pledge himself f to the fraternity and his case will be taken up later. Sandberg is not a mem ber. ""For more than two years we have, through petition, argument and appeals to public sentiment and to the sense of fairness of the board of arbitration of the National Association of Baseball Leagues, attempted to get, not sweep ing reforms, but only those ordinary considerations which are well recog nized to be the Just portion of the play ers, thlng3 which the National Com mission long ago granted us on behalf of the major leagues and which they have gone on record as approving for the minors. In this we have failed absolutely. "This board does not comprehend these methods and has in addition vio lated its agreement with us. It is now a case of continuing to accept breaches of their contract and of submitting to - unfair regulations or talking in terms which the board understands. "We believe it will understand this, that if it continues its present methods, organized ball is in for one of the greatest surprises it has ever had in its existence. Players Determined to Fight. "The magnates have failed utterly to diagnose the temper of the players. When players who have had no affili ation with the fraternity volunteer to stand with us because we are right; when the meetings held so far In the large cities have had full attendance: when for a period of nearly three weeks from 10 to 25 letters and telegrams daily have been received at this office from players, among whom are many of the brlght stars of the game, de manding that we stand for our rights, it can be seen which way the. wind is blowing. 'We admit our weakness on the two New York clubs, but this is because of long-term contracts and not because of any lukewarmness on the part of , these -players. There are. however, 10 and probably 11 big league clubs which will need no training camps. The Inter ' national League will not be able to re crult one-sixth of its strength; the Southern Association about that much and the American Association about one-quarter. "We deeply regret the drastic means which have been forced upon us and the trouble in which they will involve the big league magnates. Were an appeal to the commission granted us we would unquestionably get a favorable decision. But, unfortunately, an appeal is de nied us. "Every method Is blocked except that which we are now pursuing. The real men will stand and see this thing through. A fighting spirit is the very bone and sinew of the game of base ball, and the boys will tight for their rights as hard as they do for the games." Tener Sees) 'o Cause for Strike. President John K. Tener. of the Na tional League, and one of the three members of the NationaJ Commission, tald tonight that he deplored the threatened stand of the Baseball Play ers' Fraternity in so far as it might af fect the National League, as there was absolutely no ground, he said, for what might be termed a strike on the part of the players expected to play with the senior organization next season. President Tener refused to say what method of retaliation might be adopted In case the fraternity members carried out their threat to strike, but said the situation would undoubtedly be dis cussed at the schedule meeting of the big leagues in this city next Monday. "There is absolutely no moral or legal basis for a strike on the part of our " players." said President Tener. "as we have granted every request that has leen made to the National League. In fact, I thjnk I am safe in going further end stating that the major leagues have dealt with perrect fairness and har mony in the matter of contractual re lations with their employes. "The National Commission has no Jurisdiction over the minor leagues or the National Board, and these bodies tiave a perfect right to adjust their re lations with their players as they may fee fit. So far as the big league players are concerned, a refusal of a majority of them to sign contracts with their respective clubs until matters tonwm. . lng the minor league clubs are adjust ed to their satisfaction Is equivalent in a broad sense to a sympathetic strike. I feel sure that the average follower of baseball will not support the play ers under such circumstances." Speaking for the International League in regard to the fraternity re ciuests. President Edward G. Barrow to night declared that the international -and the minor leagues in general" will welcome a strike. "The minor leagues are in no humor to be coerced, or forced into doing something which they do not care to do," he said. "We will welcome a year's vacation and perhaps, by the end of the "year, the players may sing a different tune. Our owners have been losing money and holding on and the players have been getting the money. "I cannot help but say, however, that fultz' action is poorly advised and, he. has gone a long way to break his or ganization." HERRMANN INDORSES TENER National Chairman Says Fult? Does Not Tell Truth. CINCINNATI. Jan. 11. August Herr mann, chairman of the National base ball commission, when told of Mr. Fultz' statement tonight, said that he heartily indorsed the attitude of Presi dent Tener and added: "When Mr. Fultz says that 'no consid eration whatever has been given our request to the board' he does not tell the truth. All the requests have been acted upon. 'The only request that the commis sion had to deal with, that relative to tne pay of players injured during serv ice, has been decided for some time and I understand that the Players' Fra ternity has no complaint whatever against the major league contracts." FULTZ CALLED "ANARCHISTIC" Ban Johnson Says Traiiunc: Camns . AVill Be Opened as Planned. CHICAGO. Jan. 11. Ban Johnson. president of the American League, said tonight that the remarks of President David Fultz. 'of the players' organiza tion, seemed "anarchistic." However, despite anything he may say to the contrary, we are not worry ing and will go ahead to the training camps precisely as planned," said Mr. Johnson. DICK HIS PRAISE PORTLAND HOCKEY PLAYER RATED AS OX'E OF BEST IX LEAGUE. Unele Sams to Flay Canaries Tonight, While Metropolitans and Million aires Clash at Seattle. VANCOUVER. B. C, Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) Two games will be played to morrow night in the Pacific Coast Ice Hockey Association. Frank Patrick, manager of the Vancouver Millionaires, will take his squad to Seattle, while the Portland Uncle Sams will be seen In action against the Spokane Canaries at Spokane, Wash. President Patrick, of the league, is high in his praise for the work of Dick Irvin, Portlander, who is break ing into his first season of professional hockey. "That youngster is going to make a record for scoring goals which will be a hard one to beat, if he con tinues his present gait, said President Patrick to some friends here. "He is a natural shot, not overly fast, but with good head. When he goes into the game it means 'goals' and not 'fight." " The standings of the league are ex pected to be upset tomorrow night, as but a half a game separates Vancouver from first place. Seattle is leading with Portland at the bottom just a full contest behind. Nothing but the most sensational playing by Hugh Lehman kept the Portland Uncle Sams from being at the top of the race Instead of at the bottom. The Millionaires won from Portland 5 to 4, while Seattle won from Spokane 3 to 1, in the games last Tuesday night. TWO NOTED ATHLETES BARRED Piatt Adams and Edward Ernes Under Ban for "Capitalizing Fame." NEW YORK. Jan. 11 Pltt AJ.m. of the New York Athletic Club, win ner of the world's standing high Jump championship at the Olympic games in Stockholm, and Edward Ernes, of the Bxonx Church House of New York, a prominent competitor In the same event, were declared ineligible as ama teurs by the registration committee of the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union her night. Both athletes wprn riAnlni, barred from amateur competition under ine new "capitalization of athletic fame" clause through connection with sporting goods stores. Sportsmen's Meeting Postponed. The scheduled meeting of the Oregon Sportsmen and Game Shooters' Asso ciation for tonight at the Commercial Club .has been postponed. There will be no important business to come be fore the body until the committee which Is attending the Legislature is ready to report. President A. L. Mills will an nounce the date of the next meeting later. Johnson to Select Umpires Soon. CHICAGO. Jan. 11. B. B. Johnson, president of the American Baseball League, intimated today that he will announce the personnel of his umpire staff for 1917 within a week. Eight men will be carried instead of nine, as heretofore. The only new arbiter al ready announced is George Moriarlty formerly of the Detroit club, ' mADDEN IS SANGUINE Lightweight Thinks He Will Beat Bronson Tonight. MUFF AGAIN IN CONDITION Portland Boy Says He Will Pile XTp Big Lead SIonpler-Mitchle Bout on Same Bill Is or Almost Equal Interest. Welsht. "Muff" Bronson 135 Lloyd Madden Vincent Monple.r.. .140 Pete Mltchia Weldon Wing 118 Joe Hill Frankle Huelat 130 Sammy Morris Bn Bordoen 19o Art Wilson "Buck" Smith liio Jack Hadley Flushed with his sensational showing against "Oakland Frankie" Burns at Seattle "Wednesday night, Lloyd Mad den, Northwest lightweight champion, will enter the ring tonight at the Rose City Athletic Club, East First and East Morrison ' streets, determined to make short work of "Muff" Bronson, his Port land challenger. The rivalry between these two lads has been intensified by the fact that the winner of the match may be pitted against Johnny Kilbane, world's fea therweight champion, at Seattle soon. Madden and his trainer, diet Mclntyre, will arrive this afternoon from Seattle. Bronson has recovered entirely from the cold, which threatened to cause him to climb through the ropes in poor shape. He completed his training yes terday with a light workout. The local youth is full of confidence. In fact, he feels that he had a slight shade at the last meeting between the pair and says that he will pile up such a lead tonight that Referee Jack Grant will be forced to give him the verdict. Muffy nearly dropped Madden In the third round at their last meeting. As he puts it himself: "If I had followed this up with a couple of more hard jolts I might have stopped him, but 1 didn't have time, as the bell rang a second or so later." Of almost equal interest Is the bout between Vincent Monpier and Pete Mitchie. The former Multnomah Ama teur Athletic Club crack is said to be shtswing great form in his daily exer cises and if he is able to get over Pete Mitchie tonight he will have to be reck oned as one of the best boys in his class in the Northwest. Weldon Wing, the popular little Al bina mixer, meets the hardest nut he has encountered in his brief but mete oric career. Joe Hill, who battles Wing, is a seasoned warrior. The remainder of the card Is excel lent. Jack Grant will referee the final three bouts, with Joe Sax handling the first three. Jack Fahle will keep time, with Leo "Frisco" Edwards announcing. First bout, 8:30. Arthur Pelkey lost the heavyweight championship of Panama the other night, being knocked out in 13 rounds. With a few exceptions, Arthur has now lost the heavyweight championship of every neutral nation in "the world. They will try to "come back." Tommy Burns is the latest to essay the role. The Moose Club, of Seattle, has offered Tommy a match with Willie Meehan, San Francisco heavyweight. Tommy agreed to box Chet Mclntyre in Seattle, but when the folk there found that Mc lntyre was not a suitable opponent they offered the ex-heavyweight champion a match with Meehan. Now, Meehan can fight. At first Tommy thought that he would not ac cept, as he believed it would disgrace the man who has never been knocked out to lose to a fellow like Meehan. However, he has thought the subject over and has advised the Moose Club to the effect that if they will fix things so that he will be able to collect 2000 for his end he will once more get into condition. The Sportlight BI GRAXTLAND BICE. TT7HAT forms the most spectacu YV lar sporting feat of the past year?" a bystander desires to know. Offhand we should say it belonged in fairly equal portions to Trls Speaker, for beating out Ty Cobb, and for Chick Evans' conquest of the open and amateur golf championships. The fight game had no particular feats of any outsmtandlng proportions, while football produced no one star of the all-around value of Ned Mahan from 1915. The Darer Viewpoint. 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We farther guarantee to return your money or give yoa a neut garment if any team breaks on any piece of Hanee Underwear. P. H. HANES KNITTING COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. C as it is that he should not be taken up as any conquering hero. It was his privilege to stay at home and not enlist. But it is hardly the privilege of any citizen to hide out and slip away from his country when its existence is at stake. It might very well be that' a number of those criticising the Australian would not enlist. But neither would most .of them, with enlistment threat ened, duck from the country. Which is another angle. Pollyanna Plus. Says the King of Rumania: "The valor of our armies shows that we can look into the future with the greatest confidence." If the genial Rumanian lying was manager of the Cincinnati Reds he would undoubtedly pick them to win the National League pennant and there after the world series. The New Curtala. The curtain rolLs back, day by day. Where we may look within. To find our part of pain and Joy, Of mystery and Bin, Of war and peace of life and death Of happiness and woe. All ready with their scrambled parts Of bouyanr hopes and broken hearts. Sped onward by the mystlo darts From Fate's elastlo bow. The curtain rolls back, "foy by foot. Where we may look beyund. To see what waits along the road For kins; and vagabond, For all who mingle In the came Or wait around the tee. For In advance no man may know The arrow's way from Fortune's bow. Nor who will atlck nor who will blow, Sor what the score might be. ... "I played with a golfer a little while ago," confides Jekkel, "who was the most ignorant guy I ever saw. He couldn't count over 6." ... Big league camps are now planning a general peace conference on these terms complete disarmament of the Dtroit outfield and the dissolution of the Red Sox pitching staff. ... In the last 10 years only three clubs have won American League Dennants. They are Detroit. Philadelphia and Bos ton, in tne same period five National League clubs have finished In front. Philadelphia and Boston. In the Amer ican League, have won the last seven flags, which indicates that it is about time Fate was reshuffling the cards. These two clubs have split up over $500,000 since 1909. , ... Jess Willard boxed a total of 30 min utes through 1916, but in spite of this we understand that he isn't stale or overtrained. It's a wonderful thing what theso big fellows can stand. In the Kast. 1914 found t-T rtrn rH nn top: 1915 fell to Cornell: 1916 belonged to Yale, so far as Harvard and Prince ton were concerned. No wonder Prince inn in Innklnir tn 1917 with VAavninc eyes. The Tiger, even though it be at odd intervals, must be fed. ... "Peace may arrive soon." But. what ever the date, it will arrive too late for at least 2.000,000, wtio will have very little use for it over the rest of the way. , Home-run ability Is not 'so much a matter of the batting eye as it is the location of a right or left field fence. Mount Angel Juniors Win. 6T. BENEDICT. Or.. Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) Great interest Is being manifest ed in basketball at Mount Angel Col lege. For the past six years the Mount Angel team has been considered one of the beet in the Northwest. The Juniors have Just completed a success ful season of league games and the Imps, piloted by Captain Moffenbler, have captured the pennant. The five Juniors who captured the bunting are Graham. Schultz. Moffenbler, Hastings and Spenner. Four Cubs Sold to Kansas City. CHICAGO. Jan. 11. Four members of the -Chicago Nationals were sold to the Kansas City American Association Club today. They were Pitchers George Pierce and George McConnell. C. E Wallace, a catcher,) and Eddie Blc" lng, , 75c per Garment CLUB FIVE ON EDGE Oklahoma Normal Plays Mult nomah Tomorrow. 'WOWS" KEEP UP RECORD Fast Independent Quintet Seeking Return Game With McMlnnville. St. Andrews Team Beaten, 38 to 13 Vikings Show Well. The Oklahoma State Normal School basketball team Is expected to arrive In Portland late tonight or early to morrow morning in preparation for the game against the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club quintet in the Winged "M" gymnasium at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Tomorrow's battle will mark the opening game of the 1917 season for the Multnomah contingent. The Okla homa team has been traveling for some time, meeting many of the principal squads between here and Oklahoma. The final workout for the clubbers was held last night undfcr the direc tion of Captain Clayton Sharp and all reported in good condition. The team has made plans to go to Salem a week from tomorrow to meet the Willamette University delegation and a return game will be played In the Multnomah gymnasium January 27. . Manager Abe Poplck, of the George Washington Camp, "Wows." Is out to bring the McMlnnville. Or., basketball team to Portland for a game. While no definite date has been announced, the match will be played the latter part of this month or the first part of Febru ary. The "Wows" have landed some of the best basket tossers in indepen dent clrrles of Portland. Only two ath letes are on the squad which started the 1916-17 campaign. Nothing but victories have been chalked up by the lodgemen for the last four or five clashes. The "Wows" were defeated early in the campaign at McMinnvllle. The St. Andrews basketball team suf fered a 38-to-lS trouncing at the, hands of the "Wows" In the Christian Broth ers' Business College gymnasium. Paul Cudlipp. former Lincoln High athlete, and Gene McEntee scored ten points each while Daniels was good for 1 2 points. Following are the lineups: Wows (3. St. Andrews f18. McEntee tO) .V (5) Fordney Cudlipp (101 F Cosgrov. Tanlels tl-J) C (2) Schaffrr IMrllng (4 O Copps Capt. Wetle t 2) Flvnn Kaln (2) Spare Ryan (4 , McEwan Referee. Vic McEntee; timer. It. Brooks, Lents; scorer, Joe Marine. The Peninsula Park Vikings are cut ting a big path through the 130-pound teams of Portland. Coach Heinle Pfaen der has tackled practically all the quin tets around these parts and he still has to meet a defeat at the hands of a team his own weight. Tomorrow night the Sunnyslde aggregation will form the opposition on the Peninsula Park floor, while on Tuesday night the Port land Newsboys will tangle with the Vikings on the Neighborhood House floor. January 20 has been set aside for the Christian Brothers' Business College-Viking game on the C. B. B. C. floor. Many of the victories credited to the Vikings were secured because of the work of Jack Fugate and Lawrence Steuer, the stellar guards. Coach Dr. W. A. Fenstermacher. of Washington High, and Coach George riewey. of Franklin High, met yester day and announced that the annual E-LAS77CKJVT Hanes Union Suits have Elastic Shoulders with Improved Lap Seams which "give" with every motion: basketball game between the two in stitutions would be played in the Washington High gymnasium next Tuesday afternoon, starting at S:lo o'clock. RIFLE CLUB TO MEET SUNDAY Officers to Be Elected at Annual Ses sion at Armory. The second annual meeting of the Portland Rifle Club will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Ar mory. Tenth and Couch streets, in the quarters of Eighth Company. Coast Ar tillery. J. S. Hyatt, secretary of the club, as well as state secretary of the National Rifle Association for Oregon, has sent out notifications to members of the organisation. S. S. Humphrey, one of the best boosters of rifle shooting in Portland, went East last Fall, and as a result the presidency of the club has been left vacant. New officers will be elected. There are 39 clubs in Oregon now affiliated with the National Rifle As sociation, and some warm competition has been promised for the 1917 season. MOVE BY ANGLERS OPPOSED Gardiner Residents Want Commercial Fishing on Vmpqua Retained. ROSEBURO. Or.. Jan. 11. -Petitions have been placed in circulation here by the Gardiner Commercial Club pro testing against the proposed passage of a bill closing the Lower 1'mpqua River to commercial fishing. The pe tition sets out that under present con ditions an abundance of salmon reach the upper river and that the product is not becoming exhausted, as contend ed by some persons residing in other parts of Douglas County. 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