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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. FRIDAT, JULY 19, 1918. MAGNATES FIGHT FORLEAGUE POWER Outcome of Tener - Johnson Squabble Promises at Least to Show Somebody Up. ACTION IS UNPRECEDENTED Connie Mack's Rushing Into Civil '' Courts to Hang On to Scott Perry, Who Had Been Decided to Be long to Boston Braves, Stirs. BY JAMES J. RICHARDSON. Baseball men throughout the entire country have been eyeing the Tener- Johnson wrangle over the Scott Perny case with much interest, as the final outcome of the squabble promises to show either one or the other of the two big magnates up. The National Commission, of which both Tener and Johnson are members, and which au gust body is presided over by Ganry Herrmann, owner of the Cincinnati club, recently .decided that Perry was the property of the Boston Braves, al though at that time and at present writing Perry is a pitcher on the staff of the Philadelphia Americans. Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics, pulled one from the clouds when he broke all baseball precedents and took the case into the civil courts, which tem porarily enjoined Perry from playing with any club other than the Phila delphia Americans. Rude Shock Received. This form of procedure on the part of Connie Mack and backed up by Ban Johnson was unheard of in baseball circles and gave the magnates and players a rude shock, almost knocking a few of them off their pins. The real cause of the imbroglio, whf.h threatens the very structures of the game, went deeper than was ap parent on the surface. Baseball men who are on the "inside looking out" in matters pertaining to major league gossip suggested it was a fight for power, and that the Scott Perry case has been seized upon merely as a pre text to bring matters to a head. This belief was supported by the un precedented attitude of Ban Johnson in coming out openly in defiance of the National Commission and of the very laws which have bound the two major circuits together. It is almost cer tain that the two major leagues, with many millions invested, would not split over a player of Perry's ability. The real object of the fuss is undoubtedly the power to dominate the National game.- HoHtllity of Long Standing;. There has been no denying the fact that there has long been an under current of hostility between the two leagues. They have publicly aired their differences on two former occasions. Ban Johnson, president of t'.ie Ameri can League, has several times defied the National League, and in each in stance has, forced issues to his advan tage. The magnates of President Tener's circuit have long looked with want of confidence upon the -growing power and popularity of the American League, which had the most stars of the first magnitude and which usually won the world's series. On the other hand, American League moguls harbor resentment at the fact that they were outnumbered on the National Commis sion. A reconstruction of the com mission has several times been threat ened, but that is as far as it ever gets. Many Applaud Tener. There is no hesitancy in stating that fair-minded baseball men applaud John K. Tener in his stand. Regardless of the merits of the Scott Perry rumpus, they assert Tener has taken a stand on a principle which is the foundation of organized baseball. Either the mem bers of the major league circuits must accept the decisions of their own high tribunal or else that high court ceases to have an excuse for existence, and the two leagues become rivals in the fullest sense. the National League club owners are determined to back up Tener in the stand he has taken, in which case Johnson will either have to back down or go to war with the oldep organiza tion. And who is willing to say that this is not an especially bad time for baseball to be stirring up a tempest such as this imbroglio might turn out to be? The magnates are finding it mighty tough sledding navigating their clubs these strenuous times, and such a step would mean the end of the game in the big shows until the end of the war. Moguls Much Dtapleaned. National League moguls are " much displeased with the stand taken by Ban Johnson in backing Connie Mack in the civil court action to retain Perry. They assert that their members have lost heavily by decisions of the commis sion, notably in the Sisler case, when jairnejr ureyiuss, or Pittsburg, lost a rtal star to the St. Lc ii Browns. Treyfuss, baseball men say, had an even better claim than has Boston now, yet the Pirate magnate did not go beyond the court of baseball. Tener s action has won him a world of supporters. Judge McCredie packed his duds yes terxiay and departed for his Hot Springs at Mackdale. a few miles out Of Eugene, where the Portland mag nate proposes to take life easy for the next two weeks. McCredie dropped "ioi SjUOO during the ten weeks of Pacific Coast International baseball and is going to hibernate in the wilds of Lane County long enough to forget the trials and tribulations that were his during the life of the Buckaroos Aimougn the Salt Lake club went Into the cooler for $9000 during their id weeKs oi Daseball the 50 stock holders of the Bee nine dug down in their jeans for the above amount, to gether with $3600 due as a payment on their park, and pungled up the dough without a whimper. It is quite nice when you can liquidate the losses in such a manner. C. W. Peterson, a traveling sales man of Tacoma. breezed into Portland yesterday ana was the guest .of Dr. Paul iates. .Peterson is a thirty-third degree baseball fan. and says that -while they have no Pacific Coast Inter national ball over in the City of Des tiny they go awfully strong for the shipyard brand. RAILROADERS "WIX AX'D LOSE O.-W. R. & . Trims Lumbermen but Soldiers Prove Too Fast. The O.-W. R. & N. baseball team de feated the Portland Lumber Company Saturday by the score of 9 to 5. It was a fast contest and was marked by th pitching of Nielsen -and the hitting Adams, the O.-W. R. .i N. first base man. The railroaders lost to the crack Spruce Division team Sunday by a score of 7 to ,5. The only thing to mar the c-ontest, which was a clean, last affair, was the umpire, who seemed to have a rule book all of his own. This makes six out of eight games running for the O.-W. boys. For games with the O.-W. R. & N. team, call Man ager Fisher, O.-W. R. & N. House 38. ARMY TO GET CARSOX BIGBEE Pirates' Shortstop to Be Sent iu Draft Leaving July 24. EUGENE, Or., July 18. (Special.) Carson Bigbee. shortstop of the Pitts burg Pirates, will be inducted into the National Army, July 24, despite the ef forts of Hugo Bezdek, manager of the smoke city baseball organization, to have the appeal board for the second district of Oregon grant the registrant a deferred classification so that he might finish the season on the diamond. Bezdek telegraphed an appeal to the district board, but it was announced today that the board's action in placing Bigbee in class 1 would stand. His induction papers have been issued un der his present classification. GIGOTTE IN RARE FORM ATHLETICS HELD TO TWO HITS IX FIRST WIS OTHER. Red Sox Trounced by Brown and Yanks Each Win One dians Defeat Senators. Tigers -In- PHILADELPHIA, July 18. Chicago and Philadelphia split a double-header here today, the world's champions win ning the first, 3 to 1, and the Athletics the second, 4 to 3. Cicotte's fine pitch ing gave Chicago the victory in the first contest. In the final inning of he second Philadelphia won out on Dugan's double with two on bases. Scores: First game R. H. E. R. H. E. Chicago 3 9 lPhila 1 2 l Batteries Cicotte and bcnaik; Gregg and McAvoy. becontt game R. H. E. R. H. E. Chicago 3 6 21Phila 8 0 Batteries Benz, Danforth, Shellen- bach and Schalk; Perry and Perkins. St. Louis 6, Boston 3. BOSTON, July 18. St. Louis, with Davenport holding Boston to five hits, won the last game of the series today, to 3. Bader started for Boston and was hit hard lor six innings, jvioiy neux finishing well. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. St. Louis 6 11 4Boston i 6 1 Batteries Davenport and Severeid; Bader, Molyneux and Mayer. Detroit 4-2, Xew York 1-S. - . NEW YORK, July 18. New5Tork and Detroit divided a double-header today, he visitors winning the first game, to 1, and New York the second, to 2, in ten innings. Walker's home run with two on bases in the seventh nning decided the first game. In the enth inning of the second game, with the bases full. Baken hit into the grandstand and Keating scored from third. Scores: First game R, H. E. R. H. E. Detroit 4 6 lNew York...l 5 0 Batteries- James and Stanage; Thor- mahlen, Keating and Walters. Second' game R. H. E. R. H. E. Detroit 2 12 ljNew York.. . 3 9 2 Batteries Kallio and St: nage; Fin- neran, ideating and Hannah, Walters. Cleveland 5, Washington 1. WASHINGTON", July 18. Washing ton was unable to hit Coveleskie, while Ceveland batted Sha" and Hov lik hard and won. 5 to 1. Wambs- ganss handled 14 fielding chances per fectly. Johnson got three doubles. Score: R. H. E. R. II. E. Cleveland 5 10 0 Washington..! 6 2 Batteries Coveleskie and ' O'Neill; Shaw and Picinich. BALLMEN SHOULD WORRY JOBS OFFERED "NOX-BSSEXT1ALS" WHO MAY BE OVER DRAFT AGE. Knights of Columbus Have SOCIO Secre tary Jobs Open and Would Wel come JIcGraw, Mack, Mathewson. If baseball is declared non-essential by Provost Marshal-General Crowder the managers and players not within the draft age need not worry about finding a suitable position until the war is over, as the Knights of Colum bus have enough secretary jobs open to accommodate all of the men thrown out of employment, writes the Knights of Columbus news service. Most baseball men know little else but baseball. Men like Manager Mc Graw, of the Giants; Connie Mack, of the Athletics; Ed Barrow, of the Red Sox; Christy Mathewson, and other equally famous men would be of im mense service to the boys over there. The Knights of Columbus intend to have 2000 men acting as secretaries by the first of next year. Johnny Evers, the Cubs' great second baseman, is the first of the great diamond stars to gi abroad as a Knights of Columbus sec retary. Anything the baseball stars do for the Knights of Columbus they are do ing for their country. It is necessary to have the soldier boys in good spirits all the time, and nothing keeps their minds and morals so sound as athletic entertainment. The Knights of Columbus committee on war activities wants it impressed on the minds of all big league players beyond the draft age that they will be welcomed as aplicants for positions. CHEVROLETTE TAKES BIG RACE Average of 101 31iles an Hour Made by Barney Old field. UNIONTOWN, Pa., July 18. Roy Chevrolette today won the 112-mile independent automobile race, finish ing one minute ahead of Omar Toft. Chevrolette s time was 1:11:22.4a, an average of 95 miles per hour. Eddie Hearne was third. Barney Oldfield won the international world's championship over Arthur Du- ray in a five-lap race. He averaged 101 miles an hour. Duray was forced out on the third lap by tire trouble. Billy Murray to Teach Recruits. "Fighting" Billy Murray, middle weight boxer of repute, who ia a sol dier stationed at Fort McDowell, CaL, since his induction into the service has landed a berth as boxing instructor at Angel Island. Cal., and will have charge of teaching the art of self-defense with the padded mitts. Baseball Summary. American League. W. L. Pet. w. L. Prt Boston 61 84 .M) Chicago. ... 3943.47a leveiana., IB -u .04otftl. Lrfjuls. . . . 40 43.47 New York.. 44 33 .537 Detroit as 4rt wi Washington 43 41 .i Philadelphia 35 48 .422 National League. Chicago 5H 25 .sni'Cincinnatl.. 33 42.455 .now lorn.. ai .OKitioston .....35 4i 432 Pittsburg:. . 41 8K .519 St. Louis. . . S3 48 .407 PhiUutlJJtJ.; 39 40 ,174BrpoklyaMz 31 47 ,3SJ7 CONN STILL CAN RUN "Tuffy," Star 0. A. C.-Ne-braska Game Here, Wins. AMERICANS TAKE" HONORS Relay Team Defeats Italian and British Runners ' in 800-Meter Race In International Games Held in Italy Somewhere. ROME, Wednesday, .July 17. As American relay team today defeated Italian and' British runners in an 800 meter race in international games held at . The American team was com post of Brenn, Conn, Irving and Swiv ven. The Conn mentioned in the dispatch from Rome as being a member of the American relay team which defeated Italian and British runners in an 800- meter match in Rome is undoubtedly "Tuffy" Conn, former Oregon Agricul tural College football star, who was also a 10-second man. Conn came to O. A. C. from Los Angeles and participated in only a few games with the Aggies. He was fleet of foot besides being a wonder ful open field runner. He played with the Aggies against the University of Nebraska October 22, 1916, and dazzled the large crowd of gridiron followers. as well as Dr. Stewart, coach of Ne braska, and the Cornhusker players themselves, when, with the score 7 to 0 in Nebraska's favor in the second quar ter and the ball at the threshold of the goal line and another Nebraska touchdown imminent. Conn recovered a fumble in 'midair a yard or two back of his own goal line and gave a most remarkable exhibition of dodging and footracing with the entire Nebraska team at his heels and dashed some thing like 101 or 102 yands with the ball for the lone Aggie touchdown, and few minutes later kicked goal. Conn later played with Penn State and then enlisted in the Allentown Ambulance Corps, where he made his tory as one of the best halfbacks in he service. He played sensational ball, his only fault being that hf was too small to stand the gaff of heavy defensive work. VAUGHN SOARS IN 16TH DODGERS WIX FROM CHICAGO OS THREE BLNCHF.O SINGLES. rhillles Tramp Pirates Into Dust Frames Giants Bat Ont Ninth-Inning Victory. In 13 CHICAGO. July 18. Vaughn weak ened in the sixteenth today and Brooklyn scored a 3-to-2 victory over Chicago in the first game of the series. Singles by Z. W heat, O Mara and Doo- lan scored the winning run. bcore: R. H. E. R. H. E Brooklyn... 3 11 5Chicago 2 7 1 Batteries Grimes and M. W heat; Vaughn and Killifeiv Philadelphia 1, Pittsburg 0. PITTSBURG. July 18. The Philadel phia-Pittsburg game here today went to four extra innings, the visitors win ning, 1 to 0. Slapnicka and Jacobs both pitched well and were invincible with men on the bases. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E Phila 1 4 2Pittsburg. . . 6 3 Batteries Jacobs and Burns; Slap nicka and Schmidt. New York 8, St. Louis 5. ST. LOUIS, July 18. New York batted out an 8-to-5 victory over, St. Louis In the ninth inning today. A timely single by Doyle with the bases full scored two runs. Zimmerman was sent to the clubhouse by Manager JIcGraw for failing to run out a pop fly dropped by Packard. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. New York.. 8 12 O.St. Louis 6 9 2 Batteries Schupp, Demaree, Smith and McCarty; Packard, Doak and Gon zales. Boston-Cincinnati game postponed; rain. IS. GAVIN TO GO OVER NOTED GOLFER WILL DRIVE AM. BILANCE AT FRONT. Machine Furnished by Sirs. Gavin Dedicated to Brother Now Prisoner In Hands of Enemy. Mrs. William A. Gavin, noted woman golfer, who played against Forrest Watson on the Waverley course a few weeks ago and who is no doubt the strongest player of her sex in the country, is to drive an ambulance In France beginning next November. She already has donated the ambulance herself and dedicated it to her brother, Captain Dudley Ryder, who is a prl. soner ot war in Germany. Mrs. Gavin is touring the Western country meeting all comers on the golf course and turning over the proceeds from such exhibitions to the Drake Section Sanitaire. Mrs. Gavin found. after her tour started, that many of the places she was to have played matches had oversubscribed their Red Cross quota and she changed the purpose of her tour from Red Cross to the Drake Section Sanitaire, founded by Miss Ethel Langdon Drake, to provide am bulances for the French and American troops in France for the purpose of carrying the wounded from the firing line to the emergency stations and thence to the base hospitals, as well as providing transportation to the refu gees from, the affected towns. While in Portland Mrs. Gavin raised over $5000 for this most worthy cause and her exhibition matches throughout the tour are meeting with great re sponse. FIGHTTO GO 20 ROUNDS BATTLING ORTEGA. OAKLAND MID DLEWEIGHT, SIGNS IP. Will Soon Leave for Butte to Get Ready for Bout on July 27 With Leo Bens. SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. (Spe cial.) Battling Ortega, the Oakland middleweight, is going to embark in the long distance fight game. Tommy Simpson, his manager, anon need the other night that he had closed for Or tega to box 20 rounds in Butte. Mont., pa July 27, in. Saturday night fight against Leo Benz. Bens recently won from George Chip in the Montana me tropolis af ter a 20-round encounter and naturally he is more or less a card. Ortega has never gone more than ten rounds and that only once, but he has an unlimited amount of confidence in himself. Simpson, who will make the trip to Butte with Oretga frankly admits the medal offer is what makes him take an Interest in the struggle. The medal Is just about five times what the allied promoters offered 'at their best," said Tommy the other day. "and that is one of the reasons we have accepted." In addition to giving Ortega a long distance fight this likely means that the Emeryville arena is once more on the shelf for several weeks. Simpson had to call his programme for this week as he was unable to get together the right sort of a card. Naturally he will want to devote his time after July 27 in getting Ortega in the best of sbspe for what appears to be an im portant match. JAPAN TO SHINE HERE LEADING RACQl'ET AVI ELDER OF ISLANDS OX WAV EAST. Ichlya KumiKae and Ills Countryman, Kskhiro, Will Enter in Championship Tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. NEW YORK, July 18. The announce ment that Ichiya Kumagae. the leading tetnls player of Japan, will soon ar rive here to play in the coming Na tional championship tournaments is welcome to devotees of the court game. His entry in the titular tournament to be played at Forest Hills. L. I., late in August, in company with his coun tryman, Kashiro, will given an inter national aspect to the play at the West Side Club, which will compensate, to some extent, for the absence of the majority of the first ten ranking Amer ican players who are in various branches of war service. If Kumagae can regain Or improve upon the form shown when he visited this country in 1916 it can be stated without fear of contradiction that the Japanese racquet expert stands an ex cellent chance of winning the cham pionship tournament, which has been restored after a lapse of one season. With Kashiro. he would make a for midable doubles pair, for the former came within a stroke of defeating W. M. Hall and winn.ng his way into the final round of the Middle States tour nament held recently at Orange, N. J. Kashiro later suffered from a nervous breakdown, but reports indicate that he will regain his form after a period of rest. Even though Kumagae confined his efforts to singles his 1H16 record in dicates that he would have to be reck oned with, for his play was the sen sation of the tournament season when he won the Newport. New- York State and Central States tournaments. Dur ing his stay in America he defeated William M. Johnston. Clarence J. Grif fin. Nat W. Niles, E. H. Whitney. Craig Biddle. G. C. Caner, J. S. Cannon. Ro land M. Hoerr. W. S. McEllroy, Leon ard Beekman. James O'Neale, Bernon S. Prentice. E. P. Earned and many others. George M. Church. R. Lindley Murray, Joseph J. Armstrong and Wat son M. Washburn took his measure at various times, Church's victory in the National championship being one of the sensational matches' of that tour nament. ALL COMERS ARE MET WELL-KNOWN WRESTLERS WITH WORTH AM SHOWS ACTIVE. Mattmen From Shipyards Give Bern ard! and Humid Kala Good Try out at Performances. Although it is not generally known. two of the best wrestlers in the world are meeting all comers daily with the Great Wortham Shows, which is hold ing forth at Williams avenue and Mor ris street this week under the auspices of The Oregonian Night Hustlers' Club, the premier newsboys' organiza tion of the country. The grapplers are Tony Bernardi, Italian middleweight champion, and Humid Kala Pasha, the hand-painted Americanized Terrible Turk heavy weight. Both men have met all of the best wrestlers in the business at their weights and are cleaning up most of the local talent. At each show the two take on whoever comes forth with challenge and the patrons of the show, which is the most popular with the Great Wortham aggregation, are treated to some regular sizzlers. Bernardi hails from Pittsburg. Pa. He recently spent several months in California and met and defeated such wtestlers as Nick Daviscourt, Con stantine Romanoff, Demetral and oth ers. Bernardi does not confine his ac tivities to the middleweight ranks and is always ready for a handicap affair with the best heavyweights In the business and has beaten many of them. Humid Kala Pasha is the famous Chicago wrestler and among the men that he has tested his strength with are the late Frank Gotch, Charley Cut ler, Oderraan, the f inn; Pelestina, and Hackenschmidt. the Russian Lion. The Portland shipyards boast of classy wrestlers and several of them have given Bernardi and Kala Pasha a tough engagement at times. To night a crackerjack soldier wrestler from the Vancouver Barracks will meet Bernardi in a special la-minute match. VERNON BEATEN AGAIN ANGELS TAKE SECOND OF COAST CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES. Two Hits. Error and Out In Fourth Produce Tin Runs for Winners. Tigers Never Dangerous. LOS ANGELES, July 18. Los An geles won its second straight game of the series with Vernon for the championship of the Pacific Coast League, when the Angels scored two runs in the fourth on a single, a dou ble, an error and an out. Score: R. H. E. R. II. E. L. Angeles. 3 7 0Vemon 1 6 Batteries Crandall and Boles; Quinn and Jjevormer. Russell Hops to Steel League. NEW YORK, July 18. Allan Russell. pitcher lor the isew iork Americans, has gone to the Sparrows Point team of the Steel League, it was announced here today. Manager Hugglns declared that Russell had severed his connec tion with the club without the formal ity of a resignation. Draft Takes Giants' Pitcher. ST. LOUIS, July 18. Fred Anderson pitcher with the New York Nationals, departed last night for Statsfield, N. C, to report for military service July 25 Manager ilcGraw announced here to day,' kmlmlim Speed! Up! Get the most in value for your dollars when buying clothes. My low-rent, up stairs prices on Men's1 and Young Men's SUITS 20, $25, 30 set the pace for value in this man's town. And there's a dash and go to my styles that win satisfaction. BUILDING Broadway SAlder mm icnni jnn 5BBEB3 15 Trade Upstairs Save Your Dollars Open Saturdaq Until 8 P.M. FRENCH LIKE BOXING Frankie Burns - Mantell Bout Draws Big Crowd. AMERICANS ALL PRESENT Well-Known Pacific Coast Light weight Upholds California Repu tation by Knockout Route, as Battler Compelled to Quit. Special boxing tournaments among the American soldiers now in France, many of whom had noted pugilistic records to their credit before Joining the colors, are fully as popular with the French as to the overseas forces serving under the Stars and Stripes. At a recent series of contests the prin cipal feature of which was a glove battle between "Oakland" Frankie Burns and Battling Mantell. every available inch of space in the hall, even up to the rafters above the third bal cony, was occupied ana many were forced to gather outside to await the returns. Seats were at a premium two weeks before the show. The whole city where the bouts were held de clared a holiday for the evening and it was midnight bfore the celebration was ended. The French people are very enthusi astic about the sport and many high French officers made special trips for the occasion. The entire force of American officers in the section was represented. A large sprinkling of women was In attendance and they ap parently enjoyed every feature of the entertainment. This section has an ar ray of clever boxers at the present time and ft is expected that some familiar names will figure at the next show. Burns, the well-known Pacific light weight and an enlisted member of the 35th Engineers, upheld his California reputation by practically knocking out Mantell, a Brooklyn boy. who is a member or a cavalry squadron, in me eighth round. Frank McGuire. also of the 35th Engineers, wno nans rrom Edgewood Park. Pittsburg, and was a former sparring, partner for Harry Greb, stopped Toung Attel, of the cav alry, with a sucession of right upper cuts to the body In the sixth round. Burns and McGuire scored their sec ond knockout victories within a month on this occasion. Sergeant Eric Ramey, of the En gineers, and a Milwaukee, Wis., man, had all the better of a bout for four rounds with Young Vincent, of the Cavalry, when he accidentally landed a swing low on his opponent's body and was disqualified for an unintentional foul. ' By stopping Mantell. who has made his mark against the best boxers in the United States and Australia, Burns again proved he still has those assets which carried him through his earlier fights with Wolgast. Rivers. McFar land. Scaler, Snailham. Hogan. Azave do. Ritchie and many other stars who have entered the pugilistic hall of fame within the last 10 years. Burns has outlasted all of these men and he and his trainers claim that he is Just now at the height of his career. Both men entered in perfect condi tion. Mantell kept his body well cov ered during the first seven rounds, leaving Burns only an iron Jaw and head to play for. Burns' left hand was in fine working order, as usual, and throughout the earlier rounds he Jab bed and hooked, mostly with his left, planting an occasional straight hard right to the face as a follow-up. At infighting some hard body punches were exchanged. On several occasions the situation looked bad for Mantell. but he still kept his feet, fighting. At the start of the eighth Burns dropped all attempts at defense and waded in. letting his blows co with full force. Mantell fought back desperately, but he was growing weaker. Gradually his hands dropped to his sides and the referee, seeing that he was in no position to defend himself, ordered Burns to cease firing and raised his right hand in token of victory. Vernon Sells Two to Majors. IXS ANGELES, July 18. Alfred De. XPrmer. catches &t tuo ystoqu Pacjfio S3 HATS that are a-head in values. QRIGINAL Coast I-eague team, has been sold to the Chicago American League Club, and William Dell, pitcher on the Ver non team, has been sold to the Cin cinnati National League Club, William Essick. manager of -Vernon, announced today. Baseball Chief Going to France. NEW YORK. July 18. E. W. Dicker son, who was president of the Western Baseball League, disbanded two weeks ago, is going abroad as a secretary of the Knights of Columbus war organ ization, it was announced here today. WATER SPORTS BOOKED CAMP LEWIS ARRANGES FOR SIX DAYS' CARNIVAL. Card Will Cover Swimming, High and Fancy Diving, flowing. Canoeing: and Many Other Events. TACOMA. Wash., July 18. (Special.) The greatest water carnival ever staged in the Pacific Northwest, and probably on the Pacific Coast, is booked for American Lake for the six days be ginning July 30 and ending August 4. Brown & Stroufe. managers of the pavilion, already are assured that the entry list will be big. Seattle, Olympia, Portland and other aquatic centers will be represented. The prizes and awards will cover swimming, high and fancy diving, rowing, canoeing, sailing and other aquatic competitions, the pro visions covering professional, semi professional and amateur competitions. In addition a carnival will be staged with regatta and fireworks as features each evening. Improvements aggregating 125.000 are being made to the boathouse. swim ming pavilion, picnio grounds and grandstands on the beach. During the week the programme will begin early in the evening so as to give the soldiers from Camp Lewis a chance to attend. On Saturday and Sunday the programme will open in the afternoon. Thousands of swimmers from Cali fornia. Oregon and Washington are lo cated at camp, assuring a big entry there. ROSNER REPORTS BATTLE STAR REPORTER. SAYS SIPREJIE WAR LORD WAS THERE. Kaiser Represented ports of "Xew i is Reeelvlns; Re ad Fine Sue cesses on Marne.' AMSTERDAM. July 18. According to a dispatch sent to the Berlin Lokal Anseiger, by Karl Rosner. the Kaiser's favorite correspondent, the supreme war lord believes his armies are win ning on the French front. The dis patch says: "A few minutes after our storm, which burst forth at 4:50 o'clock, the Emperor had in his hands the first re ports of good progress. Until night fall, denying himself a minute's rest, he stayed with the troops and remained on the battle field, facing the contested ground all day a day which brought new and fine successes on the Marne and southwest of Rheims." "The Emperor." continues Rosner. "whb desired to participate in the bat tle from its very beginning amidst his fighting troops, went during the night of July 14 to the region of the impend ing battle and spent the night in an advanced observation post. "The Emperor listened to the terrible UBTAIRSK CLOTHIER,,- vJ U DEL. 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