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THE 3IORNIXG OEEGOXIAX, "WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1919. 13 BRITTDN TO MEET O'OOWD AUGUST 22 Welter Middleweight Mix Is Criticised by Some. FIGHT WILL GO 8 ROUNDS Instructive Boxing Lesson Given to St. Paul Thumper Two Years Ago Causes Speculation. That time-worn question of. "Can a f ood little man beat a good big man?" is coming up for discussion again. This time jack Britton is the good little man and' Mike O'Dowd the good big man. Britton islhe holder of the wel terweight crown, while O'Dowd boasts of the middleweight title. Britton and O'Dowd will meet in an eight-round bout at Newark, X. J., on August 22. Some of the critics are criticising Dan Morgan, the welter weights champion's manager, for let ting him take on O'D.owd, but Morgan just smiles. Maybe Morgan has a reason to smile. It is just two years ago since Britton and O'Dowd met in the .ring, and the great welter then gave the St. Paul thumper an instructive boxing lesson. Beyond question, Britton is stiil the master of O'Dowd in the matter of box ing, and the only question is whether Alike s improvement in combati veness and attack is sufficient to overcome Britton's .'advantage in boxing skill. Judged by the way in which O'Dowd disposed of a trio of light heavyweights at the military cournament in London, he has gained in aggressiveness and force, and Britton will need all of his ring craft in order to keep him at bay. If the welter king can do that, he should then be in line for a battle w-ith Jack Dempsiy. O'Dowd is above the mediocre class of middleweights and has proved him self a worthy holder of the title. How ever, Britton's " chances loom even greater when it is known that Ted Lewis, the former welterweight cham pion, whom Britton knocked out, on several occasions gave O'Dowd more than he could take, in no-decision matches and the last time was not so very long ago in Boston, just before O'Dowd joined the army. At any rate, a great deal of interest Is being displayed in the contest, and if Britton should be fortunate enough to land a k. o. punch he will be the holder of two world's titles. O'Dowd is making 158 pounds ringside for Britton, while the latter will enter the ring weighing between 145 and 148 pounds. Morris Lux, the Kansas City welter weight, more recently of Portland, made his ring debut in San Francisco the other night and fought a draw with a battler by the name of Blliy Shade. Lux has been playing golf a good deal and used a. slice to advantage over Shade. Now who wants to fight. Jimmy Wilde' None other than little old, bale-headed Johnny Coulon, who was HoOxteri twice in Portland several years ago by Billy Mascr.tt. coulon i ,.i i vimcalf ,nrl-r the manage ment of Al Lippe. the Philadelphia fight promoter, who is planning on making an invasion of England with a stable of boxers. Coulon has in formed him that if he is taken along he is quite sure that he could whip "Wilde., Thsre was a time long, long ago when Coulon very probably would have whipped Wilde. Coulon, as far as fighting is concerned, is now a little old man. The petition containing 100 names of prominent Portland taxpayers is slated to be presented to the. city council to div. which will pave the way for a new local boxing ordinance to permit ten-round bouts, as provided for in the bill passed at the last session of the state legislature. The recent Ted "Kid" Lewis-Jack Biitton contest in New Jersey drew a $13,591 gate. Britton received ,oo. for his end and Lewis $4077.30. Captain Bob Roper, late of the IT. S A who aspires to be heavyweight champion of the world, has returned to r-hi.ano from Mexico, wneie no uuu . .nnH witn Jack Johnson. m former champion. Roper says, is still in good physical condition, but he is down and out financially. Roper is under the manascnwiit of Charley Cut- . ler, the wrestler. " "Leo Honck, the Seattle lightweight , v. t Vrtrtiaml a number ol W IIO lUUrlilt " - - , . i times, has been maicncu lu - -Grunan ten rounds at Miami, Ariz., Au : 6VSt 22. ... McCoy. former middleweight . v. o c iSArt suspended by the rie.-,t5. bcxing co amission for hold Minnesota oo.xns '" iPg up the promoters for more mone before he entered the ring to fight . i .nen-iu ........ f ,K fact teat he was knocked out by O'Dowd ha was doubly punished. Big League Gossip. - . , . iiui-A . f ti ilotne riTlEJ i, ' ' X much better since tney iui " "valuable services of Carl Mays. Bar row's pitching has been far more ef fective ana me v imio uru... .. - absent, seemed to buckle down to busi ness. - The Yankees have another second baseman, or will have in September. -He is Dave Black, who has been play- i-iti the Pittsburg collegians, an inHr,nHonr team famous in western Pennsylvania. He is only 19 years of age. but has a great reputation around Pittsburg for hitting ability and speed The Detroit club seems to have a lik ing for pitchers with but one eye. Once r,t a time l ie llKers iiau i v.i;l and now the club has purchased Claud Jonnard from Nashville. Although handicapped by the loss of an "eye and with a tailend team. Jonnard has made a great record in the Southern league. When Ping Bodie heard that he was to be one of the players to go from the Yankees to the Red Sox in the Carl Mavs deal, he rose in all hi Roman dignity and declared he'd be dinged if he would unless arrangements were made for him to get a bit out of the world's series purse he thinks the Yan kees may win. The Boston Red Sox announce that Hill Lamar is released to the Rochester club under option of recall. There's one for Dave Fultz to look into. The New York Giants recall George O'Neill from Rochester and send him to the Boston Braves in the Nehf trade. That's another one for Fultz- to look into. American league umpires evidently don't agree on what constitutes an "in field fly." In one game a third base man muffed a fly, just getting his .hands on it, after a hard run into left field. Tom Connolly said it was an "infield fly." A few days later a short stop lost an easy fly in the sun and it dropped safe four feet away. Umpire Oeorere Moriarty said it was not an "in field fly" because the shortstop did not reach it. Hugh Jennings used to boss George Moriarty. Now George bosses Hugh. The Detroit manager and the umpire' had a run-in the other day at Boston and iloriarty came out on top. Jen nings drew a suspension, even though he telegraphed Ban Johnson that the umpire "robbed" his team. AXGELS SIGN YOtTH. OF 16 Jimmy Reese to- Become 3Iember of Team at Age of 18. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12. Jimmy Reese. 16-year-old mascot of the Sub marine baseball team, of San Pedro. Cal., has just been signed to play with the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast Baseball league when he becomes 18 years old. He is said to be" the youngest player to be signed with a Class AA contract. Reese has been working out at Wash ington park, here, the home of trie Angels. Fans are enthusiastic over his fielding, while he is said to have a re markably fine arm for his age. He has been tutored by such players as Howard Ehmke, Harry Heilman. Herb Hunter. "Butch" Byler, "Lefty" O'Doul and Don Rader. ME LEMS AT BUT BEE SEEMS WELL 'ESTABLISHED AT HEAD OF LEAGUE. Sam Crawford Is in Second Place, Ten Points Behind .3 70 Mark. AVisterzil Tops Beavers. Bill Rumler of Salt Lake seems to be sufficiently well established in the bat-tin- leadership of the league td fear no opposition. He is hitting the ball at .370, while Sam Crawford of the Angels is in second place, ten points below him. With but two months of the season left, Rumler is not apt to be headed. Hugh High of the Tigers took a big jump during the past week, and is now hitting .322. But Bob Meusel with .333 is still the Tiger leader. Justin Fitzgerald advanced one point, and so did Phil Koerner, but Fitz is the chief slugger of the Seals, with an average of .327. The base-running championship is still in the hands of Billy Lane of the Oaks, with 3S steals. Ernie Johnson of the Bees has 38 to his credit, while "Babe" Pinelli of Sacramento, who was in the lead for many weeks, is now in third place with 36. Harl Maggert has a long edge on competitors as the league's best run getter. He has crossed the plate 95 times. Billy Lane of Oakland and Justin Fitzgerald of San Francisco are tied for second honors with 86 each. while Jjk Fournier of the Angels is next with 83. "Tex" Wisterzil has the lead over all Portland hitters in the unofficial aver ages up to and including games of last Saturday with a mark of .286. Follow ing are the averages: Last U. A H. K. BH. Pet. Wk. . 'I 1 1 1 .500 Boelzle. Prattle . , Rumler. Suit Lake Craw-ford. Los Ang Miller. Oakland Krause. Oakiund Dale. n!t Lake . . .10:! 414 7!) .M7(J .371 -ii:i A.ut 7:1 l.i.. .:ti .;itii . 04 11 an ih .:i... .: . 17 :t a .:;.-.: ..": '. 11 21 .S42 .:4 spencer, Salt Lake .. OS 20: 0 .340 .3 urover. Ua kland .... IS ;5 Fournier, Los Ang ..lis 4."il Meusel, Vernon 101 402 Kldred Sacramento .112 421 Fitzgerald. .San Fran.Hr 4.V1 Hifcli. Vernon t;0 2:i:i Sheely. f-'alt Lake ...110 422 Koerner. San Fran ..110 ;1MH Borton Vernon 12(1 407 13 S3 22 .3.".S .. l.-.l .33.1 . 74 13". 73 13S so l.-.o 42 73 72 13,) 42 120 HQ 12S) .333 .337 .32S .330 .327 .320 .322 .3112 .320 .310 .318 .317 .317 .323 Vv ilie. Oakland Ion .1.14 7:i 1 1 '2 31 MaKEert, Halt Lake.. 114 4:10 13ti .310 .Soft hdilinKton. ernon ..112 3SS 72 120 .:0I9 .3ll Killefer. Los Anselee.lOS 440 S2 l:ifl .300 .rtir Wolter. SarramenLO-.ll.'I 402 .V2 124 .3nS .;I08 Compton. Seattle ...111 428 6S 132 .308 .:lott Oillisan, Seattle ... 13 " 4 .308 -2.-.0 Johnson. Salt Lake.. 92 302 B0 111 .3o7 .310 44 OS 7 30 .300 .2!t3 1 322 r3 !17 .301 .31 rt 3S 123 14 37 .3111 .310 3 a:;S 3t llll .2S.SI .302 S2 320 32 94 .204 .3(13 22 73 4 22 .'.'. .203 Zam'.oeh. S.in Fran Cooper. Oakland .... Kassler. Los Angeles. UricK?, Sacramento.. CunninKham. Seattle. Sweeney. Seattle .... r.iiiott. Oakland 1 204 23 33 .2S9 .Murphy. Oakland 120 4." 00 131 .2S4 .203 .300 .286 .30(i vv'ist-rzil. Port land. . . 07 33 46 1(12 2 .2S ,2S .2S3 Larkin, Sacramento. . 0 21 Bohne. Oakland .... HI 312 32 Schultz. Los Angeles.. 22 30 3 Sifflln. Portland 113 431 54 S9 11 121 .2M .277 Markie. Salt Lake .. 27 S3 S Mullipan. Salt Lake. . S3 3(1 47 Knijrht.. Seattle 1M1 334 33 23 S3 02 123 23 .2SS .20 273 .281 274 .273 274 .273 273 .207 273 .270 272 2280 272 .284 271 .272 KruK. Salt Lake ....124 43t Grt tilth. San Francisco. 30 84 111 Mitchell. Vernon ....120 473 70 129 Blue. Portland 114 403 3 1 Schick. San Fran 112 404 78 1 Farmer, Portland.... 01 22S 20 Middleton. Sac 113 442 40 1 R. Arlett. Oakland. .. 31 74 8 20 .270 Couch, San Francisco. 23 07 8 18 .200 ("randall. Los Angeles 43 7 7 2 .208 .270 .270 .268 .243 Mulvey, Salt Lake 100 444 60 lis .208 Brooks. Vernon 40 134 22 41 .200 Cox. Portland 101 308 41 08 Walsh. Seattle 105 311 32 104 .236 .206 Chad bourne, Vernon. . 120 403 76 123 .207 .230 .283 "Ittery. Los Anseles. 3(1 S3 0 22 AUIridee. Los Anceles 17 411 4 13 RciKer. Seattle 24 33 8 Bates. Los Anpreles .. 40 144 22 14 264 .243 38 .204 .281 Driscoll. Los Anseles. as 121 17 3: .204 .238 .203 .202 .203 .201 .203 .207 .200 .207 .238 .204 .236 .260 .234 .234 .234 .244 Rader. Portland So 2o3 43 77 61 31 liosp. Seattle 03 232 18 Derrick, Seattle 20 118 18 C'aveney. San J ran.. .113 442 113 Crandall. San Fran. .108 3 41 96 Schorr. Peattlie ... 20 31 0 13 Fisher. ernon ... Koehler. Portland . Smith, Salt Lake .. Pinelli. Sacramento. ..S3 310 30 81 .V.I 100 17 43 . 48 131 20 38 . .237 108 410 fi 104 .230 Speas. Portland ... 4 224 37 36 .230 .230 Lapa n. se.att le .... (lUichman. Seattle. Wares. Sacramento. Baker. Portland ... Maisel. Portland . . McGaffiaan, Sacra . S6 283 34 I .240 .249 73 278 30 02 206 22 8 fl 2-2 23 30 1 so 21 83 273 34 13 37 3 37 134 13 88 28'1 33 14 40 7 73 223 IS 52 lot IS 43 132 19 0.1 .248 .238 31 .240 .246 00 .243 .243 44 .244 .243 67 .244 .230 0 .243 .205 37 .240 .242 07 .239 .243 Thomas. Seat t le ... McKee. San r ran . . Roche, Seattle Ouis to. Oak land ... Mltze. Oakland .... Rlgbee. Seattle ... . French. Seatt'e . - . . Kllis. Los Anpeles . 11 .239 53 .2.".S 24 .238 .233 .210 .220 .236 .234 .230 30 .23 110 430 .30. 102 .23 Lane. Oakland 11 Kamm, San Fran ... 0 Pert tea. Los Angeles. 2 .lames. Oakland .... 418 80 310 27 68 1"! .237 73 .235 16 .233 .242 3 .231 .273 18 .2:'. I .237 55 .230 232 17 .230 .235 31 .230 .234 49 .23(1 .234 11 .229 .234 44 .228 .215 4!1 .220 .225 74 .226 .228 0O 225 228 10 '.224 ".220 02 224 .227 28 222 .223 ItollinE. Oakland . . . 30 78 8 712 230 20 20 74 48 135 1 03 213 12 20 48 1 Pevormer. Vernon. .. Brown. Los Ar.Reles.. Oldham. Portland . . Murphy. Seattle Baum. San Francisco. Corhan. San Fran ... A. Arlett. Oakland . . 63 103 27 217 25 Niehoff. Los Angeles. 04 328 32 KenworHiy. Los Ang.11 4 400 47 Dell. Vernon 32 83 7 Stumpf. Sacramento. 112 411 33 Schaller. Seattle .... 41 120 13 Beck. Vernon 73 27(1 20 .210 .210 Faoritine. Los Ang l"s 4" SO -MO Regan. Seattle 12 32 3 .210 .233 Gardner. Seattle .... 2.i 05 5 Sutherland. Portland. 19 52 7 Finneran. Vernon ... 14 38 5 Rodpers. Sacramento. 55 180 14 Orr. Sacramento . . ..102 302 24 Hnuck. Vernon 27 70 5 Baldwin. San Fran... K3 107 19 Rromlcv. San Fran. .. 22 - 33 6 Hunter. San Fran ... . 55 215 10 Vance, Sacramerto. .. 24 55 5 14 11 .215 .210 .212 .204 .21 I .210 38 .211 74 .204 .2US 16 ,2"3 40 .203 11 .200 43 .220 11 .200 CYCLISTS GO TO AUSTRALIA San Francisco Lads Plan Tour of Land at Antipodes. SAX FRANCISCO, Aup. 12. Sailing from San Francisco November 11 with a troupe of Sydney bicycle riders due here next month, Hans and Ernest Ohrt. San Krancisco cyclists, plan to tour Australia. The two brothers are training? here. Willie Spencer, a Canadian rider, also will accompany the party, which will also include Bob Spears. Frank Corey and Reggrie McXair.ara, Georgre H. rowsinpr. who brought the swimmers, Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack, to the United States, will sail to Australia in September to arrange for the tour. HARNESS RACES ARE OMITTED Washington State Fair Has Diffi culty in Obtaining Entrants. YAKIMA. TVash., Aug. 12. (Special.) Because the Multnomah county fair at Grestam, Or., which, this year con 1 ! Fatima contains more Turhish than any other Turkish blend cigarette. flicts with the T, ashinprton state fair date, attracted a number of harness racing; men Tvho wanted the short jump to Salem for the following: week, the management of the state fair here has decided to eliminate harness racing for the first time in many years. The card will consist entirely of running races and special events. The decision was made at a confer ence between Secretary Frank Mere dith of the state fair and K. F. Bensin, state commissioner of agriculture. On one day there will be auto racing;. Two derby events are offered, "governor's derby on governor s day, and rlKs derby." in which the riders will all be members of the Klks. WHEX you are about to use the nib lick as an extricator, the stance you must take up is determined by the position of the ball, but when you take it for a short approaec there is no dif ference as regards stance, grip and the position of the ball, between the meth od of playing this club and the method of playing the mashie. The one factor that you have to consider Is the loft, which is much more pronounced than in the case of the mashie. The greater loft makes it necessary in using the niblick to put more power into the stroke, for a portion of our energy is inevitably wasted in sending the ball into the air and it naturally follows that more force is necessary; in fact, the player should tell himself that he has to hit the ball half 'as hard again as he would if usipg the mashie for a stroke of the same distance. The read er may not unnaturally ask: Why then use a niblick at all for approaching, when we have the mashie, a club built for the purpose? The proper reply is that you often find yourself approach ing a green from such an angle that the disposition of the bunkers leaves you without much space whereon to pitch. In such a case it is necessary to make the ball draw up quickly if you would escape the hazards beyond the green. Just enough Turkish x AT most of the places where straight J. Turkish cigarettes used to have the "call", Fatima is now the leading ciga rette. Here are a few of these places just as examples of Fatima's popularity among men who really know how to judge "cigarettes: Atlantic City 1 Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel Traymore Boston Hotel Copley Plaza Harvard Club Stock Exchange Hotel Touraine Chicago "Auditorium Hotel Congress Hotel Narragansett Pier Casino New York Hotel Belmont Hotel Manhattan 'v Hotel McAlpin Stock Exchange Waldorf-Astoria Palm Beach The Breakers Philadelphia Ritz-Carlton Stock Exchange Washington The Capitol Building The niblick does naturally and easily what the player himself would have to do if he were using- a mashie, that 1r, impart a bottom spin to the ball. With the niblick there is no necessity to lay yourself out for cut; the loft of the club will do all that is necessary. But you must remember to play the club boldly. DENVER LURES TENNIS STARS Galaxy of Great "Players to Gather for Tourney This Month. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 12. The larg est gathering of tennis stars that ever participated in a Colorado state tennis championship tournament is expected at the courts of the Denver Country club wV:en the annual tennis tourna ment of the state opens play on Au rnpt 25. Tha tournament is being conducted under the auspices of the United States National Lawn Tennis association. The local committee is composed of Franklin Ballou, Eugene Dines and Jack Phelps of. Denver. Donald Harker, state singles cham pion, will play this year, but the dou bles champion team, Harker and E. R. Bailey, will not be entered. Bailey now is living in Omaha. R. D. Brooks, who last year was runner-up with R. W. (Jmbam. i nn entrnnt thi year, nmong Boston Garter NOTE FATIMA a host of other top-notcbers Rocky Mountain region. Sidelights and Satire. THIS swimming same Is all a mat L ter ot form." Pearl Keys, Ore gon's champion bathing girl. m m . "Of course, men may be getting worse, but my observation is that horses are not as wild as they used to be," Herman Politz, the demon golfer of Washington street. . There may be a lot of folks color blind, but no one ever saw anyone In this world who could not recognise a greenback without the aid of a magni fying glass. Love may be blind, but that doesn't prevent it from making a hit with the misses. Ban Johnson has suspended Jennings and Mays. The big boy is surely work ing in mid-season form. He has sus pended everything but the rules. Jck Britton. whose regular occupa- Hunting Time! is only a few weeks away. Right now is a good time to get ready your equipment. We have the right kind of shoes and clothing also Remington U. M. C rifles and ammunition. Backus Corria 273 MORRISON, JTEAR. FOURTH shout 6 o'clock now does tjour cigarette begin to taste 'This is the severest test to which you can put your cigarette. ' NEARIY dinner time. You've been smoking all day. How is your cigarette appetite? If it is tired and jaded in other words, unless it's as fresh, crisp and snappy as right after breakfast you ought to look around for a different brand of cigarettes. The right brand (when you find it) will let you feel fine and fit and smoke-hungry clear up to bed-time. It will give you enough of the delicious flavor of Turkish tobacco but it will be so blended as to off-set the over-richness or heaviness that comes from smoking too much Turkish. The one cigarette which today seems to be attracting most men who tire of straight Turkish is Fatima (see at left). As soon as you are ready to look seriously into the cigarette question, put Fatimas to the 6 o'clock test. 'A Sensible Cigarette idrtait-eiteejiii tion is boxing- with Ted Lewis, will I take on Mike O'Dowd in the near future to show his versatility. Dempsey, it appears, displays a neat right hand, but his left is simply stun ning.. Some baseball players are so super stitious that they won't even afcept a traveling bag as a gift. AMERICANS ARE HONORED Red Cross "Workers in Montenegro Receive Decorations. CETTINJE, Montenegro. The minis try of foreipn affairs of Jusro-SIavia has conferred higrh military decorations on several members of the American Red Cross unit in Montenegro, say ad vices from Belgrade. Others members have been awarded lesser orders. The director of the unit. Ma jor Henry Rushton Kairclougrh, formerly profes sor at Stanford university, was given the order of the White Eagle, fourth class. Captains Cnelsea C. Pratt and Joseph F. Jaros received the fifth, class decoration of the same order. About 60 Americans have been en gaged in relief and medical work in Montenogro. It has been estimated by a European scientist that the commercial value of the electricity in a flash of lightning lasting one-thousandth of a second is 29 cents.