10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECE3IBER 7, 1917. SACRAMENTO MUST ACT OR STAY OUT Coast League Chiefs See No Sign of Coin and Port land May Stick. ULTIMATUM IS ISSUED Ujarley Graliam Maintains Silence as - to Efforts in California Capital and Magnates Arc at Last Disgusted. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 6. (Special.) Sacramento must "fish or cut bait" on this baseball proposition. Last week Charley Graham "was in town, and after he had talked to Presi dent Baum and Hen Berry, the an nouncement was made that there was a rainbow in the sky and that prospects looked brighter for Sacramento to re place Portland in the league than they ever had before. Graham went back to his home in Sacramento and the fellows at this end sat back and waited for him to report that the money was raised and that the transfer could be made at the annual meeting of the league in Los Angeles, December 17. Shondoirn to Be Demanded. But Graham lias utterly failed and neglected to report that the money has been raised. In fact, if anything has been done at Sacramento it has been kept a profound secret; so now Baum, Berry and Ewing. the committee ap pointed to look after this transfer, are going to call for a showdown. Charley Graham will be asked to come here either tomorrow or next day and he will be told .that Sacramento must .make good, pronto, or talk, of putting a team In Sacramento will cease and Portland will be kept in the league. In that case, the circuit will remain the same as last year and all that the moguls will have to do at the annual meeting will be to ascertain how they can reduce expenses so that baseball can be run next year without cutting too big a hole in the bankroll. The trouble seems to be that Sacra mento is trying to get into the Coast League on "no pair." " Folks up there take the position that Portland has been dropped and that the Coast League has nowhere to unload the franchise except Sacramento. President Baum says that they have the wrong viewpoint. He says Portland still be longs to the Coast League and that the club will be kept there if Sacra mento does not make the proper show ing and that at once. McCredie Balks at Proposal. An effort was made to get Walter McCredie to take the team at Sacra mento and have Judge McCredie turn the players over to him. That is prob ably what was meant when it was an nounced there was a plan to give Sacra mento a ball club without the men of that town putting up any money. Walter curled his lip in fine scorn at the suggestion. They have not been able to do so and it now comes down to a question of Sacramento making a showing of some real coin of the realm or cease the chatter about wanting to have a club in the league. Sacramento men make the suggestion that if some man could be found to put a club in that town, "perhaps" get that word "perhaps the fans there would rally "round, the flag and sup portsiiim." Something definite will be done about Sacramento this week and then the 3ecks will be cleared for the annual meeting in Los Angeles. Billiard Shots. From the interest shown by the fans at the Waldorf Wednesday night, the " Boalt-Lundstrom game was the 6tellar contest of the tournament. The players had been trying for threa weeks to get together for a game. George Warren, Boalt and Lundstrom re now tied for first place in the first division of the tournament. If Condon and Hicks win their next game there will be five tied for the top position. Chances are good for these two men winning. Jimmie Martin says if Nickerson la a billiard player, then Jimmie is aji aviator, but at that Nick has the- edge on the rest of the billiard experts !n the fourth division, holding one of the high-run records of six in the tourna ment. . Jake Weinstein has made one of the best showings in the third division, al though he has lost five games and won two. He lost three games in the "one" hole. . . Goodland, with six games to. the good, playing 26, looks like tough game for the high man in the tourna ment. Sophomores Beat Freslimen. The Reed College sophomores de feated the freshmen in an exciting soc cer game Wednesday by a score of 7 to 0. Neither side had a full team on the field, but short-handed playing added to the novelty of the game. The fresh men were supposed to have played the seniors, but the latter aggregation asked tor a postponement. K. SMITH CO., SOS Sit Everett SW iorUanu. Or.. OistrUbutwa. SAN FRANCISCO WELTERWEIGHT WHO GILBERT TONIGHT. f -. :- J5ar:"ViH'r:5:':::5-r i : A f - ' ; V 5 ' ' ', ' - joh.wv BOXERS ABE READY Indications Are for Good Con tests at Smoker. FANS' INTEREST IS KEEN Bout Between McCarthy and Gilbert Is. Scheduled as Main Event in Which Both Fighters Pro fess Ability to Win. BOXING CARD SLATED. McCarthy vs. Gilbert, 145 pounds. Sommers vs. Sontag, 158 pounds. Tucker vs. Williams, 135 pounds. Leonard vs. Moore, 122 pounds. Hoke vs. Hoff, 125 pounds. The ten boxers "who will participate in tonight's all-star boxing smoker at the Kleventh-Street Playhouse - under the auspices of the Butler Athletic Club finished their training yesterday and all said that they were in perfect physical condition for their bouts to night. The Johnny McCarthy-Fred Gilbert bout is scheduled as the main attrac tion in tonight's fistic programme. Mc Carthy's well-known ring record, which includes a list of victories over some of the best boys of his weight in the country, stamps him as a hard man to beat. That Fred Gilbert, the "Bend Cyclone," should undertake the task shows that the Central Oregon young ster is made of the right metal. Boscovltch Badly Beaten. The night Gilbert made his initial appearance in a Portland ring against Johnny Boscovitch he won favor with local fight followers by giving Bosco vitch a beautiful laciner in six rnnnria He then was matched with Lloyd Mad- ! aen, me Seattle boxer, for the next smoker, and upset all traditions by being the first fighter to knock out Madden. The supporters of the Bend fighter are unanimous in their belief that Gil bert will win from McCarthy as easilv as he did from Madden. The . Sommers-Sontag bout has worked - itself into almost as much prominence as the main event. The four-round draw which these two mid dleweights fought recently at Seattle was said to have been a slam-bang af fair,' with honors even, but Sontag con tends that he was not in the best of condition and for that reason has agreed to a return bout in order to prove his claim to superiority over Sommers.' Sommers has not boxed in this city since he fought Mike Gibbons a few months ago. Since then he has become a greatly improved fighter. Minn Tucker Is Confident. Elizabeth Tucker, who.manae-es the ring affairs of her brother. Frankie Tucker, who will clash with Billy Will iams tonignt. is authority for the state ment that Frankie probably will top ple Mr. Williams over before the con clusion of their six-round bout. "He is going to be the lightweight cham pion some day," smilingly declared Miss Tucker yesterday. "Mr. Williams will have to fight hard if he wants to stay six rounds with Frank. Don't van think Frank will win?" Williams is anxious to mix with Frankie Tucker and is confident he will win.- "Tucker has received ko much newspaper publicity that he ought to De a gooa Doy, Dut 1 m positive I will beat him," said Williams. Ray Leonard and Vincc Moore will clash in a six-round bout. Hoka anrt Hoff, who fought a four-round whirl wind curtain-raiser at the last smoker, will don the mitts tonight in a return engagement. Chet Mclntyre. boxing instructor r,r the Tacoma Athletic Club and Padfli. Coast heavyweight champion, will ref eree me two main bouts. COMETS FIVE WAXTS GAMES . M. C. A. Aggregation Has Victory . Over Astoria "Y" Team. One of the latest basketball teams to enter the independent field is the Com ets, of the Portland Young Men's Chris tian association. The. team averages WILL BOX FRED McCarthy. in the neighborhood of 140 pounds, and is anxious to schedule local games. The Comets are the boys who recently swamped the Astoria "Y" team here in Portland by a wide margin. Art Beckwith, Washington High School star, plays guard for the me teoric five. Tucker is the other guard. "Tiny" Thomas is center. Haddon Rockhey, one of the best all-around athletes in the association, is one for ward and Howard Werschkul the other. ' Games may be arranged through the Doys department of the l. M. C. A. TIA JUAXA RACES HOPELESS Government Shows No Prospect of , Opening Border. According to Southern California papers, Jimmy Coffroth, of racetrack fame, still is boosting his Tia Juana racing proposition and . hoping that Washington will change its mind at the last minute and decide to allow Amer icans to cross the line and go into Mexico to attend the races. A-r-tele-gram from the San Diego immigration authorities does not extend much hope: "No permission has been received up to late tonight (Tuesday) by local im migration authorities to permit people to cross the border for the Tia Juana races." 3 BOWLING TEAMS TIED RACE FOU CITY , CHAMPIONSHIP BECOMES EXCITIVG. " Rose City Park, Woodmen of the World 77 and Multnomah Club Team 5 Even in Race. Inter-Club Bonrtinr Association. W. . 9 . S . 0 . s L. 3 8 3 4 ' n 8 . 10 11 Pet. .7SO .7.-.0 .7.-.0 .(!7 ."00 ,333 .1H7 .084 Rose City Park wooamen or world. 77 Multnomah Club team 0. . . . Multnomah CamD. 77 R. M. Cray Co Turn Verein . . . '. 4 I.aurelhurst 2 Multnomah CluD team 3 1 Three teams are now tied for the club bowling championship of the- city and the race is growing closer than ever as the schedule nears comple tion. The close of last week saw the Woodmen of the World and Multnomah 5 teams tied for the leadership of the league, but the first match this week saw the Rose City Park quintet Join the leaders by taking thj-ee straight games from the R. M. Grays. The Turners also recovered from their slump and trounced the Laurel hurst pin wreckers three straight. Multnomah 5 won two from the Mult nomah Camp 77, while the Woodmen of the World 77 bowlers took the entire series from Multnomah 3 and backed the latter team into last place. A special meeting of the team cap tains is. to be held next Thursday at 8 P. M. at 804-3 Selling building. THREE BILLIARD I STS ARE TIED Boalt, Warren and Lundstrom Even in Three-Cushion Tourney. Fred Boalt. George Warren and L. Lundstrom are now tied for first place in the 1917 three-cushion billiard tour nament. Lundstrom broke in among the leaders by defeating Boalt 29-2t. The game was fast and spectacular, both experts being handicapped at 29. The match was the first, that has been played on the tourney schedule for several days, as a good many of the players have already completed all their games and the lists are thining out. Today's call board lists Ruven and Ryan, Russell and CorUey. The first two are tied in the standings, so the match promises to be interesting. Vis itors are invited to witness the tourney, which Is being played at the Waldorf Billiard Parlors. Soccer League South. San Francisco has an eight-club semi-professional soccer league now in full swing. , Games are played every Sunday: a double-header at the Ocean Shore grounds, another game at Croll's Gardens and a final match at Fortieth, and San Pablo streets. -in Oakland, across the bay. The clubs are as fol lows: Union Iron. Works, Thistles, Burns, Barbarians, Olympics, Celtics, Arnonauts and Rangers. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian, Main 7070, A 6093. R0D6ERS WILL QUIT DIAMOND FDR GOOD Beaver Captain Declares He Will Engage in Automo--. bile Business. ACTION CAUSES SURPRISE Well-Known Second Baseman, Al ways Known as Hard Fighter for Victory and Rights of Port v land Baseball Team. BT JAMES J. RICHARDSON. William "Bill" Rodgers, captain' and second baseman of the Portland base ball club, yesterday announced his de cision to retire from baseball and de vote his time exclusively to the auto mobile business. Rodgers' announcement came as a surprise. While it has been known for some time that the popular Beaver chieftain contemplated going Into the autombile business on a big scale, it was hardly believed that he would for sake the great National game and de vote his entire time to selling cars. Yesterday the "peppery" Beaver sec ond sacker bought himself a pair of overalls and with a big smile started to learn the automobile game from the ground up by going to an automobile school, where he Immediately dissected a "flivver" and. Just to show other "rooks" he was no busher at th game, he put the machine together aga'n. Salarr Cuts Predicted. "I was going to quit last year," said Rodgers yesterday, "but thought I'd stick with the old game for another season. Now I'm through. There may not be any baseball this coming sea son and if there Ts the topnotch salary is going to be about $250 pur month, and the season will be cut a month or six weeks, so it won't pay to stay in baseball. "I have made money at the baseball game, but in the short time that 1 have been selling automobiles I have accu mutated more per month than I could make playing baseball. The auto giime is a clean-cut business and, although I like Daseball, as for making a liveli hood at the old game, the future holds out, no prospects 'or me. "I have given the Portland fans the best I had since I came to the Pacific Coast League in 1911. Some of the fans thought I did not play to suit their fancy, but now that I am through with piofessional baseball I think they, will agree with me that I was always out fighting for the Portland club first lasc ana an tne time. I kicked one sometimes, and so did the others, but look over the fielding averages of th Pacific Coast second basemen cincs I have been in the league and sec how many other second basemen finished each season with a better average than I. When business is good I'll be able to go out and sit in the grandstand and look the boys over myself. Beavers Joined In 1011. Rodgers was drafted by the McCre dies in 1910 from the Waterbury club of the Connecticut League. Bill played shortstop for Waterbury and hit .2S3 the year he was drafted by the Beavers. His fielding average was .892. When Rodgers joined the Beavers at Santa Maria in 1911 Walter McCredie placed him on second base and he has remained at that station ever since. Rogers was sold to Cleveland In 1915 and later was sold by Cleveland to the Boston Americans. On account of a weak arm Rogers failed to make a good snowing with the Red Sox and at his own solicitation was turned over to Cincinnati for a trial. Rodgers finished the 1915 season with the Reds and re ported in the Spring of 1916 for another trial. He failed to stick and was later purchased by the McCredies from Cin cinnati for a larger amount than that for which he was sold. Rodgers is one of the most popular ballplayers who ever played in the Fa- 4 Bill Rod en. Beavers" Captain, Who O mltm HaaHiall a Hr-I I An. T tomobllea. i ; cific Coast League. He always fought for the Portland club and the harder the home fans "rode" him the more fight he showed. He always will be remembered as one of the most popu lar ballplayers to wear a Portland uni form, x , Rodgers' Portland record follows: .? Hittln. Fielding. ........ 1!12 1U13 li14 ini5 1!1C 1017 f f i V' fa ' ' "L i ' i "a - ,nort .147 ,.K.- .iw -U-1 .055 -'"J .OAS I Squirrel Food. YESTERDAY we told you about the "holler" Ban Johnson put up to the War Department, issuing an ultimatum to quit drafting his ballplayers. Now here comes one with a real "holler." President Dunn, of Cleveland, has lust discovered that nine of his artists have been drafted to Uncle Sam's ultra majors. Jim Scott, White Sox twirler, re cently received a Captain's commission at the San Francisco Presidio. Opposition to the. 140-game major schedule is growing stronger. When the big leagues meet next month there'll be a powerful fight against this plan. Fred Merkle says If the Cubs at tempt to trade him to a minor league he will retire from baseball. Christy Mathewson, now managing the Reds, announces that he will take his turn on the mound with the other twirlers next season. If Matty can stage a come-back with that "fade away." down will go some batting av erages. Eddie Collins. Sox second-station man. will offer his life for his coun try as soon as the second draft goes into effect. Under compulsion, y" un derstand. Bill Friel, former St. Paul manager and at present an umpire in the Amer ican Association. Is to umpire in the National League next year, according to the Washington. Star. Charley Moran also may be signed. "Any sucker who won't fight for his country should be' sent to Germany and made to fight against it," is Bat tling Nelson's idea of the present war situation. The Battler recently tele graphed President Wilson offering his services as boxing Instructor at one of the camps. H. Orvill ("Pat") Page, baseball coach at the University of Chicago, would neither deny nor affirm reports that he was considering an offer to be come -manager of the St. Louis Na tionals. "Nothing 'definite has been done," Page said recently. "Anyhow, any announcement must come from the St- Louis club. 1 am not in any position to discuss the matter." GREW OUTLOOK GLOOMY WASHINGTON HAS LITTLES PROS PECT FOR COMPETITION. Neither Stanford Nor California- W ill Send Oaramen North This Sea son for Races. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se attle. Dec. 6. (Special.) The refusal of Stanford and California to send crews to Seattle for the annual tri angular regatta next Spring virtually kills the rowing sport here and stu dents meanwhile are wondering what will become of the crews. Final deci sion probably will be made next week, but it is almost certain that no inter collegiate race will be staged. Two-score freshman and varsity as pirants have been turning out all Fall under Coach Edwin Leader. The water sport has been supported less in the past by students than by local citizens, but sentiment among the students seems to be against absolute abolition of the sport. Coach Leader had planned to pick a varsity shell early In the Spring and work on these men intensively for the regatta. The material from which a first eight would have been picked in cludes the veterans Wilbert Slemmons and Almon . Bogardus from the 1917 shell; Snider, Gibson and Baldwin, who are turning out for their third year, and Copeland. Guenther, Logg and Foreman, of the 1920 freshman crew. Newspaper Men Are Excited When Judge Gets Letter. It Wan Walter. Wrltlnsr From Los Angelen. bat Baseball Goes I n mcntloned. WHEN it became known yesterday that Judge McCredie was the re cipient of a rather bulky letter from his nephew, Walter McCredie, there was an expectancy on the part of the newspaper men at baseball headquar ters of some real exciting news. "What's all the excitement. Judge?" "Just received a letter from Walt." "What's the old boy have to say for himself?" "He's In Los Angeles." "What's he doing?". "Didn't say." "What did he say?" "Met Bill Essick. who formerly pitched for the Beavers, and who man aged the Grand Rapids club last year. Essick told him that it would be im possible for any of the small Eastern leagues to start." "What did Walt have to say for him self?" "He's taking life easy down there." What did he say about baseball?" "Nothing." "Is he trying to buy the Frisco fran chise?" "If the San Francisco club was sell ing for $1 he couldn't buy the key to the pitcher's box." "Good-by, Judge." "S'long." SOUTH PARKWAY FIVE WIXS Christian Brothers Basketball Five Defeated, 4 1 to 19. In their initial appearance this sea son the South Parkway Club defeated the Christian Brothers Business College basketball quintet Wednesday night by a score of 44 to 19. The game was fast and hard-fought throughout. .he outcome of the game was a sur prise. The Parkway players were an unknown quantity, while Christian Brothers started the season by winning five straight games. The all-around playing of the South Parkway team and the stellar work of Kanter and Goldstone were the out standing features of the match. Ryan, of Christian Brothers, starred for his team. Arbuck, of tne Parkway team. demonstrated that he is one of the best guards in independent circles. Next Saturday the Parkway boys will go to Sandy, Or., to piay the high school team. On the same night the first team tri umphed over Christian Brothers, the second-string Parkway boys defeated Arleta, 50 to 7. Arleta was outweighed and lacked experience. Games may be arranged with either of the' Parkway teams by addressing the Neighborhood House. Second and N oods streets, or by telephoning Main 6228. KEARDOX WILL LEAD AGGIES Star Quarterback. Is Elected Captain of 1918 Eleven. Henrv "Butts" Reardon. Orerim A a-- gie star quarterback, yesterday was elected captain of the 1918 football team. Reardon is registered as a junior from Corvallis High School and is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Reardon'a " gridiron performances during the season just passed won him a world of praise. He is regarded as one of the best quarterbacks the Aggies ever had. Phone your want ads to The Orego- nlsn. Main 7070. A 6095. Save $2, Men, WalkTwo Blocks. Low Rent Prices. TRADC a . ' mak Portland 2i3 Washington, Kekr SecoiJ Sr. !T5 i " , DIETZ MAY DEPART Pullman May Not Ask for Fa mous Coach to Return. , FINANCIAL LACK IS CAUSE Physical Director Bohler Declares That Football Mentor Has Re ceived Offers- of More Money Front Eastern Schools. Dr. Fred J. Bohler, physical director at Washington State College, who has been attending the meeting of the Pa cific Coast conference at San Fran cisco, was In Portland yesterday en route to Pullman. That William "Lonestar" Diet has not been asked to sign a contract to coach football next year and probably will not be asked unless athletic con ditions become much more settled than at present were the chief items of in terest gathered from the well-known athletic authority. "In our opinion. Mr. Diets is the greatest football coach on the Pacific Coast and we have to pay him a sal ary commensurate with his ability, ir respective of what returns we receive from the game, but unless conditions are much brighter than they were this season it is doubtful If Mr. Dietx will be back." said Mr. Bohler. "He has many offers from Eastern schools w-hlch are in much stronger financial condition than we are at Pullman. As I understand it. Mr. Diets has gone East, where he will play in the movies during the inter. "There will be no conference track meets next season. That was decided at the conference meeting. Baseball will be played between the state tnstitu tions, but there will be no conference games. We will have a good basketball schedule, but will not play California. The Washington State quintet will play Oregon, Oregon Aggies. Washington ana tne Multnomah Club in February. "We practically have agreed to play a football game with the University of Southern California at Los Angeles next Thanksgiving day. California wanted us for its big game November 16, but we could not agree, owing to a previous, promise to. Oregon to make the Washington State College game the home-coming game next season, and November 16 was the date upon which we agreed." Lefts and Rights. "OENNY LEONARD, lightweight cham U pion of the world, probably will be seen In another bout in Denver soon. Manager Billy Gibson has accepted terms from Promoter Hamil. of Denver. and the latter is looking around for a suitable opponent for Benny. Hamil also has his wires working on Mike o Dowd. Jack Britton, Pete Herman ana other top-notchers. The receipts of the Leonard-Kirke bout in Denver last week did not come up to expectations. But $7800 wen through the gate. The Charley White Niamey loaKum doui m Denver some time ago drew more than $10,000. The cheapest seats at the Leonard-Kirke bout were sold at $1.50, which kept many of the fans away, as they could not see $1.50 per and up to glimpse the champion. Frankie Burns, the clever Jersey bantamweight, and Roy Moore, -"rir- tually are matched to meet in a 10 round bout at the Minneapolis Boxing Club on the evening of December 15. Moore is a big card in Minneapolis. COUNTY CONTROL ADVOCATED Albany Spoilsmen Would Take Game Law Administration From State. ALBANY. Or.. Dec. 6. (Special.) A county administration of game laws and the collection and expenditure of fees incident to the game law administration by the county instead of the state is desired by the members of the Albany Gun Club? The club has decided to broach this proposition at the meeting of the Sportsmen's League in Portland next week. The local club also went on record favoring a limit of five China pheasants to each hunter without regard to sex. It is contended that many hens are killed which are left in the field and that hunters go on and kill the limited number of roosters and that the present law produces the opposite effect from that intended by leading to the slaugh ter of more birds. C. -3. Dodele was elected president of the club for the ensuing year, P. A. Young was chosen vice-president and Harry B. Cusick was re-elected secretary-treasurer. A. B. Weatherford was appointed to represent the club at the coming meeting of the Sportsmen's League. In 1913 sugar refiners in America ex ported 28.0IH) tons of sugar: in 1916 al most 704. ooo tons. year-round drink, il ' ' if M Delights the 3 grown-ups, too! P"i nw Large Bot- I rS S. ties, f 2.20 ! F53l f Doz- Refund ! lf0fcsim oc. bott!es-! 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