THE 5IORXIXG OREGOiAV MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1919. 10 RUMOR OF 'SELLING' BIG SERIES PROBED White Sox Owner Investi gates Alleged Offers. GAMBLING IS MENTIONED Comiskey, Retaining Faith in His Men, Reiterates Offer to Pay $10,000 for Proof. CHICAGO, Dec. 14. It was disclosed today that Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White" Sox, and Man ager Bill Gleason, met in New York recently on the occasion of the ar.nual meeting of the American league and compared notes on investigations of the rumors that some White Sox had conspired for a financial considera tion, to lose the world's series to Cin cinnati last. fall Incidentally their investigation ad duced no evidence. Comiskey, who al ways maintained implicit faith in the innocence of his players, declared the invesitgation had not ended and that his offer for $10,000 for proof still stands. Mr. Comiskey hired private detec tives and the $10:000 offer induced in dependent investigations of the ru mors that a. gambling syndicate had paid some players among the Ameri can league champions to "throw" the games. I). OBRIEX IS HKIAZCTKl) American ex-President Secretary of New York Nationals. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Joseph D. O'Brien, of Milwaukee, ex-president of the American association, has be come secretary of the New York Na tional league club, it was announced today. He succeeds J. B. Foster, who has held that position several years. Mr. Foster, when asked about his resig nation, said he preferred to make no statement. Baseball on the Inside. BY BILLY EVANS. 13 THERE any set ruling in the two major leagues as to how the balls tshall be put in play? Does each league have the same rule? R. J. L. . The major leagues use different systems. In the American league the game is started by putting into play six new balls. When these have been used, the umpire goes to an under ground box, which contains his sup ply. In this box are any old balls, which the umpire might regard as fit for play and a dozen new ones. He then uses up any of the old ones, which must be practically new, and, after using them up. takes nothing but new ones from the bog. In the National league the umpire starts, I believe, with four new balls, and then as he needs them they are supplied from the ress box. I believe the official scorer is in charge of the balls, and his stock consists of new ones- entirely. The two systems tend to prevent jockeying by the home team, as to what balls shall be put into play. Where did Chicago get Pitcher Wil kinson? Is he a right or left-hander? I never knew he was with the club until I saw his name in the lineup of one of the world series games. Did he ever have a major league trial prior to joining the White Sox? Wilkinson was secured from the Columbus team of the American as sociation. He is a right-handed pitcher, and appears to have a lot of promise. I am told four major-league clubs were after him and that Joe Tinker allowed him to make his own selection. He picked the Sox and land ed a share in the big series. Wilkin son once had a brief trial with the Cleveland club. He joined the Chi cago club five or six weeks before the close of the season and turned in several creditable pitching perform ances. A bet has been made that in the American league the home team some times bats first, and we are asking for your opinion. Can ydu recall an American league game where this was done, and can you mention a particu lar date this last summer as an ex ample? F. L. Iv. It Is contrary to custom for the home team to bat first. During my 14 years with the American league I have never appeared in a game in which the home team went to bat first. Several years ago the Washing ton club was in a losing streak. In an effort to kill off the jinx Manager Griffith sent his club to bat first in a game at Washington, but to no avail. - That is the only incident of tuch a nature that I can recall. ! A play was made at home and the catcher threw the ball to third, to which. base a runner advanced on the play at home. The shortstop was covering third, and on leaving the base handed the ball to the third baseman, but in a manner not de tected by any of the opposing team. Prior to this play a ball had been i fouled out of the diamond, and was i returned toward the pitcher perhaps j a half minute after the third base- j man had received the ball in play ; from the shortstop. The pitcher was ' told by the shortstop to hand the ball ) to the umpire, but before this was done the runner, on seeing a ball in ! the pitcher's hand stepped off the base ; and was tagged by the third baseman. ; I. who was the umpire, ruled the run ner out. The moment the ball which had been fouled off was thrown back on ' the field, the. umpire should have called time. After having called time, it was necessary that the proper ball ; be returned to the pitcher, and he get in his position on tha rubber. ' That would have been the proper and really the only fair way to handle the situation. Tendler May Go to England. NEW YORK. Dec. 14. Lew Tendler. the Philadelphia lightweight, who is one of Benny Leonard s most persist ent challengers, is another boxer who planb to go overseas in search of bouts. Tendler has received an offer of 115.000 for two contests in London. his opponents to be named by the promoter when . Tendier reaches England. Reds May Be Fined. It is rumored that some of the champion Reds are likely to be nicked for a fine, as there is a rule prohbiiting exhibition playing by memb-rs of the pennant-winning outfits. Centralia Proud of Grimm. CENTRAL! A. Wash.. Dec. 14. 'Spe cial.) Word that William Grimm, tackle on the University of Washing ton football team, had been selected by Walter Camp for one of the tackle positions on his mythical all-Ameri-can second eleven, caused the chests of Centralians to swell with pride. Grimm was graduated from the Cen tralia high school. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Grimm of this city and a brother of Lieutenant W. O- Grimm, one of, the four war vet erans shot in Centralia by alleged I. W. W. on- Armistice day. Albany Legion Quintet Loses. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 14. (Special.) The basketball team of the Van couver, Wash., post of the American Legion defeated the Albany post team 32 to 23 here last night in the first basketball game of the season in Albany. Albany led In the first half but in the second, showed lack of training. CONNIE MACK HEARS 55 'SPHINX OF DIAMOND" HAS WEATHERED MANY STORMS. Successful Career Credited to Hard Work; Philadelphia Fans to Observe Pilot's Birthday. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 14. (Spe cial.) Cornelius McGilllcuddy bet ter known as Connie Mack will be the "oldest manager in the major leagues next season, if, indeed, he is not entitled to that distinction at this very moment. On December 23 Con nie will observe his 57th birthday,' as the baseball season will not get un der way until late next spring, he will be closer to 58 years of age when he takes up his duties for the 1920 campaign. There are several magnates in the majors who are Connie's seniors, but there are no managers. And with his increasing years, the Athletic's direct ing genius seems to lose none of his cunning that enabled him to annex several pennants and as many world's series. In many ways Connie Mack is one of the most remarkable figures in American sport. Thirty-five years have passed since Connie broke into baseball, and during that time he has seen the game in several, of its most interesting phases. He has been con nected with the sport during the time it developed its greatest players, too, so that in building for the future he has something of value in the way of knowledge by which to measure fu ture greats. Although his career has been a long and successful one, it was obtained at the expense of hard and conscientious work and from the first has borne the hall-mark of honesty in every par ticular. Unlike some of the great managers baseball has had. Mack was never a howling success in the business end of the game, nor in that department wherein craft is expected to manifest itself in the matter of trading. Mack's fame has come through his ability to make ball play ers and also through his uncanny ability to handle them so the best re sults could be obtained. Philadelphia fans permitted Mack's birthday to pass almost unnoticed in 1918, but there will be no repetition of that condition this year, because there is a committee already at work on plans for a great celebration for the "Sphinx of the Diamond." Phila delphia fans claim Mack lias been' one of the city's best advertisements and next week they are going to show their appreciation in a substantial manner that is expected to further cement relations between Connie and the "City of Brotherly Love." Mails May Coach High Schoolers. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 14. Walter Mails may coach the Sacra mento high school baseball team this coming season. Yesterday Walter was asked if he would help get the stu dents into condition for next year and he gave his consent. Mails has coached and managed other teams and has established a reputation in that phase of the game. Albany Class Teams to Play. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 14. (Special.) Plans are being made for a series of three games for the class basket ball championship of the Albany high school. The series will be played next week if weather conditions permit. The first night the freshmen will play the sophomores and the juniors will battle with the seniors. The win ners of each of these contests will plfty for the championship on the fol lowing night. Moore and Wilde Would Draw. Although Pal Moore has been de feated by Jimmy Wilde, another bat tle between the Memphis scrapper and the English flyweight champion would undoubtedly be a great draw ing card. T A. t w v r -v, r r.. s . , ti 1 rfcs- u 1 w 1 t a in . iriv 1 iiiv.- 1 ' s ' i' i i . i i i m i i i t tin a ws"-'- 1 . 1. 111 11111 1 inmnrBsa; i w -.y-v....-A- a.-v ,v-s5waiw a r I. . ... .,. ... ,,,,1 , ; ,, . . - l --1 . ... .1 RODGERS TO ANGLE 1 EAST FOR TALENT Gentlemen's Agreement With Majors Proposed. PIERCY MAY BE TAKEN Cy Jloreings Interests Out to Form Good Team for 1920; Purse Strings Loosened. Wild Bill Rodgers. ex-Beaver sec ond sacker, and now plenlootentiary-in-chief for Cy Moreing's recently ac quired interest in the Sacramento ball club, is en route east to form a "gentlemen's agreement" with the majors. If Rodgers succeeds, prob ably with the Cincinnati club. It will be the first time that Sacramento has been benefited in this manner. Sac ramento alone of all Pacific Coast league .clubs last season' wended its way unaided by big league support. Rodgers' trip east is doubly signifi cant. It means -that the Moreings. al ways live wires in baseball affairs, are going to untie the purse strings and allow the boss to gather a win ning club' If the miracle can be per formed. It means that the other seven clubs in the Pacific Coast league might just as well realize that the Solons will be in the race from the drop of the flag to the final bell. Bill Piercy again will be in a Sac ramento uniform if Rodgers can get the New York American league team to lend him to the Sacramento club. Piercy is one -ballplayer who does not wish to participate in the big show. Bill has been up "there" and was bounced around quite a bit, and the speed-ball thrower would rather be a star in the Pacific Coast league than not knowing where he stands in the major circles. , There also may be a chance of Bill Rodgers filling the vacancy left by 'Babe" Pinelli at third base. Bert Niehoff, who started last season with the Angels, Is out of a job and a free agent. He has written to Rodgers. asking for a 4ittle information about signing with the Senators. Charley Mullen, ex-pilot of the Se attle ball club, has probably quit base ball for good. Mullen is still a mem ber of the Purple Sox, but does not expect to answer the rollcall next spring. Mullen is blessed with more than the average amount of business brains, and will lay aside his diamond "unie" to accept a position as cashier of a Seattle business firm. He" was not begging for the job of manager, and now that the powers that be have chosen someone else, he will probably hang up the spiked shoes for good. Portland fans will hardly recognize the Oaks when Cal Ewing brings his hirelings north next spring. Rod Murphy was the first regular to jump the traces, and "Rowdy" Elliott, sold to the majors, is the second. "Hack" Miller, the slugging outfielder, is holding out. and says he won't play unless the boss boosts his contract a notch or two, and Ewing is authority for the statement that several more members of his squad are due to get the bounce. Before next spring rolls around there will be a flock of other shifts in the league lineups. The Angels will miss Fournier like the Tigers would miss Ty Cobb. Tom Seaton's departure will leave a blank space in the Seal pitching staff. Babe Bor ton, reports from Los Angeles say. j is pining for a change, and will be traded or sold. waiter Boles, the little Angel catcher, has laid aside his playing togs for all time. Harry Wolter has said he is through and Curley Brown will go to the majors. Roy Grover has a good word for Seattle's new outfielder, Kopp. Gro ver was a teammate of the Athletic gardener and knows whereof he speaks. "Kopp will be a winner in the Coast league," opines the Seattle boy, who is wintering in his home town. "He is as fast as a streak and is a brilliant fielder. He will strength the Seattle club a lot." Grover has not announced his plans for next spring. Del Howard turned him back to Philadelphia after a short trial and Ray is not certain where he will play ball in 1920. PENINSULA QCINTET WLXS Standifer Basketball Team Is De feated, 3 7 to 1". On the Peninsula Park gymnasium floor last Saturday night, the Penin THE ORIGIN OF THAT sula Park basketball team defeated the Standifer five from Vancouver by the score of 37 to 17. It was the Peninsula Park quintet's first game of the season and its playing indicat ed that the Park team will again be strong contende-s for the 135-pound championship of the state, which It won in 1916-17. Prescott and Carr were the high point men for Peninsula Park, while Phillips featured in the basketshoot ing line for the Standifer five. Thi Peninsula Park team is ar ranging Its schedule for the coming season and teams desiring games should write the manager. Peninsula Park basketball team, Albina avenue and Portland boulevard. The lineup: Peninsula (37). Standifer (17). Carr 10) P (7) Phillips Prescott (12) F (2) Johnston Ford (6) C a Campbell Metcalf (5) G H) Hanman Pfaender (2) G Palmer Cullen 2) (2) Duback STRENGTH TEST REVIVED TAKING OF FRESHMAN REC ORDS IS TO BE RESUMED. System, Not Followed at Oregon Agricultural College Lately, Returns to Favor. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis, Dec. 14. (Special.) Intercollegiate strength tests will be given all freshmen at the Oregon Agricultural college. This system of taking a test of the muscular power of the men has not been followed for the past two years, but Professor Arbuth not has just given out the information that it will be instituted again. The best strength record of any col lege man in the United States is at present held by Harry Cole, who was at O. A. C in 1916-17, and made the record during the spring ' of that school year. His total points, in kilo grams, was 2154. Various methods of ascertaining the strength of different parts of the body are used. First a man's weight- is taken, then a machine tests the strength of his hand grip, -both right and left. Next there is a back pull and then a leg pull, both on a dyna mometer which registers the highest amount -of strength exerted. A mono meter tests lung strength, and the candidate winds up by chinning to a bar and dipping to parallel bars. The number of times he can chin 1- added to the number of dips, the total is multiplied by his weight, and divided by ten. All of the other tests are added in at their face value. England Beckons Champion. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Mike O'Dowd's contemplated Invasion of England promises much in the way of action for the middleweight cham pion, though he is not likely to en counter very serious opposition in his wanderings abroad. England has a full quota of capable glovemen in the lighter divisions, but the classes above welterweights contain very few men of real ability. Mount Angel Five to Play Here. The Mt. Angel College basketball team will play the Christian Broth ers Business College five Friday even ing on the Christian Brothers floor This is the first time In two years that the- team from Mt. Angel has been scheduled for action in a local gymnasium. The Christian Brothers Midgets and the Triumphs will clash in the preliminary game. AH-Star Rugby Team to Play. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Palo Al to, Cal.. Dec. 14. (Special.) Stanford and the University of California placed two Rugby fifteens on the Stanford field yesterday. The match was an elimination contest of the candidates for the all-California Rug by team, which will start on its northern trip on December 22 for games with Vancouver and Victoria. Columbia to Wait. Columbia's football authorities will take their time about choosing a suc cessor to Fred Dawson, who has re signed as coach of the baseball, bas ketball and football teams. Denials are entered that Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle "Indian, will be named. No choice will be made until the spring. Big Game Slated for New York. SYRACUSE. N. Y., Dec. 14. Efforts are being made to have next season's Syracuse-Plttsburg football contest played in New York. It is thought that better crowds would be the re sult, as only 8000 paid to witness the Orange victory over the Panthers here this fall. Valger Wins on Foul. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13. Benny Valger, French lightweight, won from George Chaney of Baltimore, on a foul in the fifth round of a scheduled six round bout here tonight. LITTLE HYMN OF HATE. GIBBONS TO MEET . DARCY TOMORROW Each Determined torWin Mil waukie Fight. BOTH ARE IN GOOD SHAPE Ward to Tangle for 8 Rounds With Stanley Willis; Brandon to Mix With Zimmerman. Jimmy Darcy has to win and Tommy Gibbons can't lose. This is the situation that will face these two battlers when they clash In the main event of ten rounds at tomorrow night's fistic card in the Milwaukie arena, Jimmy Darcy has a promise of a match In Portland December 27 against Battling Ortega. The match would not draw a very big crowd if Gibbons should trim Darcy tomorrow. On the other hand. Gibbons has never lost a decision in his career. and to taste defeat at the hands of Darcy would - go against his grain twice as bad as one at the hands of Billie Miske or some of the other top- notchers he has defeated. Both men finished training yester day, for the second time, for tomor row night's clash. If anything should slow the boys up, it would not be overtraining. This Is not likely, how ever, as both men are in the pink. All of tho other boxers on the card have tapered down their work and1 are eager for the gong. The postpone ment of the show for a week gave them plenty of time to train. Bobby Ward, clever St. Paul lightweight, will tangle for eight rounds with Stanley Willis in the semi-windup. Georgie Brandon will mix eight rounds with Niel Zimmerman in the special event, while Weldon Wing and Carl Martin will step six rounds. A better balanced card has never been billed- in thenA n:i rt . Rnv KjnriaH j and Denver Ed Martin will referee the bouts. Big smudge furnaces were kept go ing all day in the Milwaukie arena, and the spacious pavilion will be well heated to the rafters, accord ing to Manager George Moore and Matchmaker ''rank .Kendall. ... Roy McCormick, lightweight cham pion of England, who recently fought a draw with Frank I armer in Milwau kee, is now in San Francisco and plans on returning to England In April to go after a match with Georges Carpentier. McCormick has been the only English titleholder in the heavy class who has not proved a flivver, and no doubt could do better with Carpentier than Beckett. ... Harvey Thorpe and Barney Adair boxed ten rounds to a draw the other night at Cleveland. Bud Ridley was barried from box ing at the coliseum in San Francisco last week because he did not. consult Captain of Police Dan O'Brien, who has charge of all the San Francisco fistic "shows. Ridley, through his manager. Fred Winsor, made an eleventh-hour ap plication, which was not satisfactory to O'Brien, who ruled ap-ainst the ap pearance of the northwestern ban tamweight? "I have established a rule that pro moters are familiar with," said O'Brien. "I intend to live up to it." A sporting paper just received from London states that Bombardier Wells is treading the primroso path and not taking care of himself. The Bombar dier has probably arrived at the con clusion that he will never be cham pion of the world. LINCOLN QUINTET MAY TOUR Pre-Season Trips for High School Five Proposed. A pre-season tour of the state is being planned for the Lincoln high basketball team by Manager Mann heimer, to take place during the Christmas holidays. Some of the quintets which the Rallsplltters have already challenged are Salem high, Eugene high, Roseburg high. Grants Pass high. Medford and Ashland high schools. The Lincoln team, 1918 state champion is open to play any of the valley high schools and also college frosh quintets. The letter men of last year who will form the pre-season team are Cole, Mlsche, Dublnsky, Wright, Beck Gallo, Leggett and Welnsteln. Hal Garner from the Butte high school is crowding some of the letter men for a place on the first team. A A If the oil in your crank case does not flow freely in cold weather, you are running the danger of excessive wear on bearings and cylinders, for congealed oil cannot reach in sufficient quantities the parts to be lubricated. Zerolene, correctly refined from California crude oil, is manufactured in several grades to meet the vari ous requirements of the different types of internal combustion en gines. Two of these grades Zerolene Light and Zerolene MEDIUM are specially recom mended for cold weather lubrica tion Zerolene Light for Ford cars and. Zerolene Medium for the cold weather lubrication of all other automobiles. Drain your crank case and fill with Zerolene the correct -lubricating oil for summer and winter. STANDARD OIL, COMPANY California) lr Bits of Shrapnel. The All-World Team. Being as it is the shank of Autumn and the experts- are selecting- their All-American, All-Western, All-Eastern, All-Southern, All-Conference, All-Big Ten. All-Little Joe, All-State, All-County. All-City. All-Ward, All- , Precinct, All-Wood and All-Every-thing football teams, it behooves this column to select an All-World team. As is usual with All-Teams, we haven't seen most of the athletes whom we have selected, but what has that got to do with it? All an ex pert needs is an imagination and a typewriter. Thus this column submits to the ap proval of its readers the following symposium of athletes whom it be lieves worthy of recognition: Center. Hohenzollern of Potsdam A suc cessful center must be proficient in two ways, offensively and defensively. Offensively, Hohenzollern is without an equal. He is the center "of the most offensive movement known to the history of the universe. Polecat and Mustard-Gas are close rivals for the second team, but, offensively speaking, Hohenrollern is in a class by himself. Defensively, Bill is a wizard. His retreat into a previous ly prepared position in Holland was one of the masterpieces of the late campaign. Guards. Streeter (Capt.) of Streetervllle and D'Annunzio of Flume Streetef is elected captain of the team because he admits it. He guarded Lake Mich igan so long thai It got up and moved. He shines in a silk hat, but his chief strength is his language. D'Annunzio is strong in two ways language and garlic. He once wrote poetry, but Is now In the publicity business. He is now guarding Flume, but expects to fall before a bombard ment of photoplay contracts. Tarklea. Hy Cost and Strike are the unani mous choice for the tackle positions They tackle you going and coming. Hy Cost lands on you from aDove, while Strike is kicking you in the shins. Just as you think you have double-crossed Hy Cost and are hik ing toward the bank for a touchdown. Strike tackles you from behind and you find yourself downed one daj from the rent line and ten ducks to go. Other tacmes 01 great siren gin are Grocer, Butcher. Chauffeur, Land lord, Laundry, etc. Salary and Expense are two ends that never meet. Salary, no matter how big he is or how fast you make him. never catches up with Expense. Salary is placed at left end because I you never can find him on the right , end of the ledger. The forward pass Is their specialty. Salary does the I passing and Expense is always right I there on the receiving end hollering STEIXMETZ SILVER STEEL RAZOR, $2.50 Prepaid Guaranteed for Life. PORTLAND CUTLERY BARBERS' SCPPLV CO.. 86 Sixth. Sc. Nur Stark. ll w r ' for more. Expense is much heavier than salary and covers much more territory. QDartrrbark. Bill Carlisle is the unanimous choice for quarterback. He is. the slickest and most spectacular athlete t modern times. He covers miles of ground without the slightest effort. He has been known to play in Wyo ming, Kansas, Ohio. Florida. Illinois. Oregon. New Hampshire and Texas on the same day. He is good for half a column any time he feels like bucking the first page. As for clev erness. Bill has a thousand press agents working for nothing and it takes a darn clever guy to do that Halfbacks. One of our selections for halfback is Jess Willard. We base our calcu lations on the work he did in his last game, which took place in Toledo, O., on the Fourth of July, 1919 A. D. He was on his back half the time. Demp sey hadn't half the back Willard had and Jess hadn't half the backbone Jack had and the promoters didn't get half back what they expected. For the other halfback you may consul' Vogue or any other undress magazine. All the gowns are half back and half suspenders. Fullback. Stanislaus Zbyszko has the fullest back that ever flopped on a wrestling mat. We don't know whether Stanis laus is In the game or not, but what difference does it make? It is noth ing unusual for an expert to pick a dead one Anyhow, Zbyszko's back covered a multitude of canvas. His back was so full that he didn't have any neck. Were it not for his ears you could not tell where his head began. Second choice for fullback is a toss up between Kitty Gordon and Mary Garden. Herman After Kilbane. Pete Herman, the bantamweight champion, believes he can trim Johnny Kilbane and by so doing an nex the featherweight title. Pete has challenged Johnny to do battle i -jir ALL OXING At Milwaukie Arena Tomorrow Night Featuring America's Most Sensational Light Heavyweight TOMMY of St. Paul. Claimant of the liKht w e i K h t GIBBONS championship of the United States. 10 ROUNDS 10 BOBBIE WARD of St. Paul vs. STANLEY WILLIS of Portland 8 Rounds 8 GEORGIE BRANDON, Portland vs. NEIL ZIMMERMAN, Portland 8 Rounds 8 WELDON WING of Portland vs. CARL MARTIN of Portland 6 Rounds 6 Cars leave First and Alder Streets every 5 minutes, from 7 P. M. until 8:30 P. M. direct to the doors. Reserved Seats now on sale at Stiller's, Broadway at Stark, and Rich's, Sixth at Washington. Prices $1, $2, $2.50, $3. 2500 General Admission Seats at $1.00. The Arena Will Be Kept Nice and Warm and Ladies Will Be Admitted The management has arranged to take care of all the autos and have men to watch them. Doors Open at 6:30 P. M. First Bout at 8:30 Sharp The Commission will not allow anyone to pass door without a ticket. over any distance acceptable to the Cleveland boxer. Scholarships for Athletes. REXO, Nev., Dec 14. The Reno lodge of Elks has voted to give four $300 scholarships annually to deserv ing athletes at the University of Ne vada. To raise the fun'ds a vaudeville show will be held by local talent each February. The Tonopah Elks have made It a regular custom to give two annual scholarships to Tonopah students at tending the university. Matt Wells Still Boxing. Matt . Wells, the one-time light and welterweight champion of England, and who is well known to American fans by reason of his long sojourn on this side, has been making a good showing in the ring of late in Eng land. Players Hall From Suburbs. Four members of the Cleveland professional football team, George Brickley, "Bucky" Sweetland, Kay Trowbridge and A. Pierrotti. hail from Everett, Mass., a suburb of Boston. PHOSPHATS DIGGING ENDS Japanese Refuse to Renew Con tracts at Present Wage. PAPEETE. Tahiti. (By the Asso cited Press.) Operations on Makatea island, the phosphate island 125 miles northeast of Tahiti, have ben sus pended on account of the refusal of Japanese laborers to renew their con tracts at the present wages. The men contend that at the pres ent value of the French franc the money they receive is not a living wage. The matter has been referred to the head office of the company at Paris. Football is almost as popular In Burma as it is in England and Amer ica. The natives play the game with bare feet. STAR ifr -fr DARCY JIMMY of Portland. ) J