Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 03, 1920, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY JANUARY 3, 1920. JUDGE WILL START TO CONFAB TONIGHT of children playing the game of mar bles. WHITE FIGURES 1 "At last!" he said, "I have found an unflnancial sport!" Looking closer he found that the 1820 GRIO CLEANUP children were playing with cubic 12. HUNTINGTON PUNS WESTERN CAMPAIGN marbles and saying one to -another: "Come on you little Josey! Speak to me. eight! Speak to me for two bits!" Them Were the Good Old Days. In days of old When athletes bold Had won a football game. The studes went out With many a shout And set the night aflame. And up and down . The sleeping town They made their merry way. And rum bazaars And trolley cars Were wrecked ere break of day. Great were the joys Of rah rah boys And wild the nights they spent, I wonder how They do It now On less than 1 per cent. We mean working the job not the tenants. Oregon Coach Not Worrying Over Loss of Veterans. McCredie Decidedly Favors Restoration of Draft. Chicago Lightweight to Re turn After Eastern Visit. MANY MATCHES OFFERED HARVARD ENJOYS JUNKET SESSION OPENS MONDAY Milwaukie -Managers Deny Kepoai Beaver "Prexy" Is Opposed to Starting Season Earlier, as Proposed In South. Bob Fisher Not Averse to Return Trip to Coast Eugene Boys Head for Home Campns. Windy City Boy Outweighed Bronson by Big Margin. BY HARRY M. GRAYSON. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) "Shy" Huntington is drawing plans for a greater University of Ore gon football team, which he figures will crush all western enemies and fight its way to a third Pasadena trip and the right again to represent the west on New Year's day, 1921. If this 27-year-old farmer boy from Tho Dalles cannot be classed as the miracle man of the 1919 season, he certainly presses the gentleman graced with such a title. Although handicapped through injuries all sea son and with a scant outlay of ma terial, Huntington piloted his lemon yellow machine through a very suc cessful schedule and came within an aco of smearing Bob Fisher's marvel ous crimson machine.. "Although we'll lose five of our best players I have men who can fill their shoes." said the Oregon coach before leaving for the north at S o'clock tonight. "Stan Anderson, Ken Bartlett, Hollis Huntington and Basil Williams graduate this year, und Keith Leslie has announced his intention of not returning to school. Veterans Will Be Missed. "We'll miss these sterling players who have fought so hard for the old school, but among our second-string players of the season just closed and on our freshman team I have several high-grade fighters who will take up the task where Anderson, Bartlett. Hollis Huntington and Williams left off. This fellow Ward, who has not played this season largely because of being Incapacitated, will make a bear of a lineman," concluded the youngest "big time" football coach In the business. ".Shy" Huntington's one aim is to come here again next year. He has the nucleus of a powerful 1920 ma chine and with 'an even break will press all other western schools to the nth degree. Huntington has built up an esprit de corps which will be hard to down. If any school outside of California establishes the best western record for 1920 southern Cal ifornia is hoping that it will be the name Oregonians who performed so nobly against the Massachusetts players. . "Will we come west again next year? Well, I cannot answer for the athletic council of Harvard univer sity, but I can for the players and coaching etaff," said Head Coach Fisher of the crimson before leaving for the cast. Trip Pleases Easterners. "Although the 3000-mile jaunt, to a. certain extent, played havoc with our men, we sailed through nicely end the team heartily enjoyed the whole affair," concluded Fisher. There is no doubt that tho best J 920 team among the big three Har vard, Yale tnd Princeton will cross the Sierras next winter to meet the representative western cleVen. Any eastern steamroller will be glad to come. If the Cambridge crushers had lost yesterday it might have been e. different story. Had Harvard been humbled the pastern scribes would have at once become busy with the business of waking it plain that no team can do itself justice after a transcontinental trip. We grant them that it is not to a team's advantage to ride for days aboard a Pullman rattler, but the handicap placed ' upon a squad which has the marathon Journey to -ontend with is not as great as pic tured. Harvard had six days to ehake .its train legs. It succeeded admirably in so doing. It developed that Fullback Hollis Huntington, the big star of the name, sustained a broken nose early in tne conflict and played almost the entire battle in that condition. The big Oregon back's injury is very painful. The nose will have to be rebroken and reset according to Trainer Hayward. Huntington's 150 yards from scrimmage was a record. Crimson Strategy Succeeds. How the Harvard strategists crossed the Oregon defense has leaked out. The lemon-yellow open ly discussed the situation before de parting. On the defense it was the job of Captain Everett Brandenburg and Vince Jacobberger to watch Ed die Casey when the aerial attack of the crimson opened up. The dope is that the Oregon backs figured that Casey would cut out and then in, re ceiving the ball almost directly over the center of the line. Instead he cut in and then out and his speed en abled him to get into the new posi tion bo quickly that neither Skipper Brandenburg nor young Jake could Xlag him. Outside of Fullback Ralph Horween, who dislocated his left shoulder, the Harvard squad is in excellent shape end the men were happy, for, in view of the fact that they have broken training, they can enjoy themselves to n greater extent returning than they did en route here. After a brief visit in the Bay city the Eugene boys will trek northward In a body. AI of the officials and the manv out-of-town folks who came south for the game are leaving tonight. George m. varnen, reteree, hiked for hia Spokane home and Umpire Ernest C. Quigley and Head Linesman Plowden Stott left for St. Mary's. Kan., and Portland, respectively. Quigley Is a major-league umpire. Roscoe Fawcett and George Bertz Portland sport writers, left tonight. SMOKER IS TUESDAY NIGHT Postponed Motorboat Club Show Is Rearranged". The smoker scheduled for December 10 by the Portland Motor Boat club, but postponed on account of the etorm. will be held next Tuesday night, according to an announcement made by v ice-Commodore Charles W, Boost, chairman of the entertainment committee. Chairman Boost has arranged a programme that promises to eclipse anything that has previously been staged by the club. More than 30 performers have already been listed. The order from Commodore oBost is to start the show promptly at 8:15 o'clock and "make it lively until mid night." Jimmy Dunn and the Hazelwood saxophone band will make the noise and W. H. Curtis, Judge Seaton. Frank Dayton. W. ft. McColloch and others will tell tales between jazz offerings. There will also be mandolin trios. cornet solos, songs and sketches by some of. the best local talent thrown , THOSE AWFULLY LONG MOMENTS. ' . y GEE.! wonpern ' t r BET JOE- A APPYTKiGHr OHEsr is EVERoing I .Toco y , t vi 6 j ! THNKS HtV Ovv;vvrM TAT fr. TO SfaP AND LEX ttz 0 ;T I' Z ? r ? ! co , W,rM ASA V GOSH' V Y9b I ALRIGHT V NEW SrRlpgfc 5uit , -wv tt'WM- ' t 1 FROM THE SfATP- f VV'P J 1... ............l into a medley of whoop-er-up enter tainment that will keep things mov ing all the time. The smoker will be open to all members of the club and as many friends as they care to bring. HIGH SCHOOLS PLAN MEET Intcrscholastic Tournament May Close Basketball Season. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 2. Plans for a series of basketball games be tween high schools of eastern Wash ington and northern Idaho during the present season, to close with an inter scholastic tournament here March 11, 12 and 13 between the 16 winning teams of the preliminary series are being worked out by Cisco Bullivant, athletic director of th Spokane Ama teur Athletic club. Until conference rules declared such tournaments undesirable for in stitutions of higher learning, such a tourney has been conducted for sev eral years by Washington State col lege at Pullman. Thirty-two high schools of this sec tion have been invited to enter teams in the tournament. A silver cup. it Is announced, will be awarded the winner of the final contest here. L. E. BEAN IS SUMMONED Legislature Committee on Fish and Game Will Meet. EUGENE. Or.. Jan. 2. (Special.) L. K. Bean, a member of the fish and game committee of the house of rep resentatives in the state legislature, has been asked by Governor Olcott to meet with other members of the house committee in joint session with the senate committee at the capital in Salem January 5 to discuss the controversy that now exists in regard to the fish and game commission. The governor said in his letter to Mr. Bean that he is also issuing a general invitation through the press to all interested persons in order that the joint committee may call upon them for their'views. Mr. Bean did not say whether or not he would attend the meeting. MILLER IS KNOCKED OUT Cederstrom Scores Victory In Bout at Eugene Armory. EUGENE, Or.,' Jan. 2. (Special.) Roy Cederstrom of Roseburg knocked out Barney Miller of Eugene in the Becond round of the main event at the New Year's boxing match at the Armory last night. The match had been scheduled to go eight rounds. "Pink" Manerude, brother of 'Skeet" Manerude, the football play er, won the decision over "Shorty" Watson in the first match of six rounds. Glen Tirrell and Earl Couch boxed to a draw in a bout of similar length and Bill Porter won the de cision over Elmer Statler in the spe cial bout of four rounds. These men each weighed in the neighborhood of 00 pounds. Providence Bars Bcrger. PROVIDENCE, R, I.', Jan. 2. Vic tor L. Bergef, who postponed an en gagement to speak here Saturday night with the understanding that he would speak in the city at a later date, will not be allowed to make a public address here, according to a decision announced by Walter Press ley, chairman of the police commis sion. Mickey Ion to Boss Games. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2. Mickey Ion, veteran referee of the Pacific Coast Hockey association, has been engaged to officiate at all the asso ciation games to be played during the coming season. JUast year Ion set a hockey record when he refereed 38 games, including the wo. . . cham pionship series between Montreal and Seattle. Ion is a former lacrosse star, Chehalis to See Wrestlers. CHEHALIS, Wash., Jan. 2. (Spe cial.) A return wrestling match be tween the Canadian wrestler, Taylor, weight 175 pounds and Jepson. billed as the champion of Alaska, weight 160 pounasf win De tne ieature attrac tion at a big smoker to be given un der the management of Bob Stoy. In cnenaus, January is. Grid Seats for1920 Sought. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 2. Like first roDins or me pnngv a number of checks for season reserved seats for Ohio State's '1920 football offerings nave Deen receivea. iJlrector St. John, unaoie to make such reserva tions so far .in advance under Dres ent conditions, was forced to return the oraers. . Red - Sox Sign Basher. The Red Sox have signed a third baseman named Stack from a "shop league" in Kenosha, Wis. He will De given.a iriaj m ine spring. WINGED M TDSSERS BUSY CLUBMEN WILL MEET ALL COL LEGES IN NORTHWEST. - Multnomah Squad Opens Season With Aggies January 10; "Ad" Dewey Assumes Coach's Duties. A busy season is being mapped out for the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club basketball team by Manager George . Anderson. The completion of negotiations whereby the Winged M tossers will play two games with the Oregon Agricultural college prac tically assures the local basketball fans an opportunity of witnessing the Multnomah quintet in action against every college five in the northwest. , The first game with the Oregon Aggies will be played at Corvallis January 10, while the return game is scheduled for some time near the end of the month on the Winged M floor. Vincent Borleske's Whitman college five and the local clubmen will open the season in. Portland January 17. Two tentative games have been ar ranged with Willamette university, 'the first date being January 31, while I the date for the return game has not . yet been decided. The Willamette team wants to play February 6, but as Multnomah meets the Washington State college quintet February 7, it is not likely the Winged M team will weaken its chances against Pullman by playing Willamette on the night before the game with the Washington staters. The Winged M team will be without the guiding hand of Manager George Anderson for the next month, as he leaves Portland shortly on a business trip. In his absence Harry Fischer will look after the basketball activi ties, while George "Ad" Dewey will coach the Winged M team. The following have been selected to make the trip to Corv-.llis:' Ira Mix at center; Toomey and Twining, guards; Morton and Duniway, for wards, with Gus Clerln. Laraan, Brooke and Swift, spares. Sports of AH Sorts. THE Olympic stadium at Antwerp, Belgium, is expected to be com pleted May 8. Under the peace terms Germany will have to surrender to France 500 stallions and 30,000 mares and to the Belgian government 200 stallions and 5000 mares, all of the heavy draft breeds. Belgium will also receive 50,000 horses under 3 years old. ... Toronto has formed a cricket coun cil to promote the English game. WWW Tufts college will be represented by a rifle team at the intercollegiate competition this season. Tufts will also arrange dual shoots. . The Greater Boston Interscholastic Hockey league will be revived this winter. Oklahoma has been admitted to the Missouri valley athletic conference. The Iowa State Agricultural col lege, at Ames, will stage the annual track and field meet May 28 next. Piatt, Adams, the former 6tar jumper of New Tork, and A. E. Mar riott, well known in Alabama as a coach of college teams, have sailed to Italy and Greece, respectively, to take up the work of preparing ath letes of these countries for the Olympic games at Antwerp next year. The major league baseball season will start April 14, 1920. a schedule of 154 games being resumed. The rowing clubs of this country will be asked to subscribe to a fund to permit of crews being sent to the Olympic rdgatta, which will be held at Brussels. The races will be singles, doubles, four and eight-oared shell crews. The Philadelphia and vicinity Catho lic high schools organized and will promote sports in baseball, basket ball, football, etc . Cleveland will hold a pocket bil liard tourney. Pennsylvania . has. scheduled ' ten football contests for next season. - The Hamilton (Ontario) .T. M. C. A will revive the Hamilton-to-Dundas foot race on New lears day. WWW Northwestern University students will be instructed in wrestling, in cluding the Japanese and Swedish methods. With the announcement that Tale, Harvard and Princeton will next year number-their football players, more enjoyment will be shown at the an nual classics. Stanislaus Zbyszko is expected to arrive in this country the latter part of January. Increased interest is bound to, result in his tour because of the Polish giant's desire to raise money for the Polish relief fund. SPOKANE U PUTS OUT BIDS Multnomah CInb Is. One of Those Asked for Gaiijes. . SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 2. Efforts are being made by Roy C. Jacobs, manager of . basketball at Spokane university, to schedule a serfes of games with Washington and Oregon educational ' institutions which will take the basketball team of the local institution upon the first trip it has ever made to the Pacific coast. If arranged, the trip probably will be made late in the winter. Games have been asked of Whit man college at Walla Walla, Wash., the Multnomah Athletic club at Port land, McMinnvlUe college at McMinn ville. Or., Pacific university at Forest Grove, Or., and Willamette university at Salem, Or. Prospects for a winning basketball team at Spokane university are de clared to be exceptionally bright this season. HONOR WAITS LEMON-YELLOW Eugene Chamber of Commerce Will Banquet Football Squad. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) The Eugene Chamber of Commerce is preparing to give the Oregon football team a dinner soon after its arrival from Pasadena. Although the team was defeated, Eugene " people are proud of it for the great showing It made against the champions of the east, and the general expression vis that the members are fully deserving of the treatment that would be ac corded them had they been victors. ;A similar dinner was given by the Chamber of Commerce to the team that defeated Penn three years ago. The team id expected to arrive home Sunday afternoon. Governor Praises Losers. SALEM, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) "All Oregon is proud of you, and though defeated, it was against heart breaking odds," read a telegram sent to "Shy" Huntington, Captain Bran denberg and other members of the Oregon football team by Governor Olcott today. "Your fighting Oregon spirit has upheld the. traditions ,. of your school and state, and the gallant fight you made was a victory in itself.". The telegram was addressed In care of the Maryland hotel, Pasa dena, headquarters ' for the Oregon warriors. Columbia Signs Pennsy, Cornclli NEW TORK, Jan. 2. Return of Pennsylvania and Cornell to the football schedule of Columbia univer sity, after a lapse of 15 years, has been announced here. Eight games will be played by the blue and white eleven. Brown was dropped from the list. The teams booked for the 1920 season include: New York univer sity, Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams. Swarthmore, Cornell and Pennsyl vania. One date remained open. Motorcycle Rider Hurt. LOS T ANGELES, Jan. 2. Bob Perry, motorcycle rider of Chicago, was se riously,, possibly fatally, injured here today during elimination trials at Ascot speedway for the 100-mile mo torcycle race Sunday. Riding at an estimated speed of 75 to 80 miles an hour, . Perry spilled on the grand stand turn and skidded along the track nearly 100 feet. Stecher to Wrestle Pesek. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 2. Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., who claims the world's wrestling championship, and John Pesek of . Shelton. Neb., a con tender, will meet in a finlsn match here January 16. It .will be their first meeting. Two Clubs Join .Virginia League. Two clubs. Rocky Mount and Wil son, both in North Carolina, have been added to the Virginia league circuit for 1920. The league will hold a meeting January 5 at New port News. - - Wilde to Meet Asher. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2. Jimmy Wilde, British flyweight, will meet Babe Asher in an eight-round,- no-decision bout January 8. Asher won the A. E. F. bantamweight championship. Dick Loftus Signed by Reds. . CONCORD, Mass., Jan. 2. Dick Loftus, with Fitchburg in the New England league last year, has signed for a trial with the world's champion Cincinnati Reds in 1920, SEVEN MANAGERS SIGN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION IS READY FOR BASEBALL RACE Toledo Is Only Club With Arrange ments Not Concluded, Bresna han Being in Doubt. ST. PAUL, Jan. 2. The new year will come in with seven of the eight 1920 American "association managers already lined up and signed for the next baseball race, word havinfe been received from Kansas City last night that John Ganzel, manager of the Blues for the last three years, yes terday had affixed his signature to a contract for another year. - The list includes Joe Cantlllon, Min neapolis: Mike Kelley, St. Paul; John Ganzel. Kansas City; Clarence Row land, Milwaukee; Bill Clymer, Colum bus; Joe McCarthy, Louisville, and Jack Hendricks, Indianapolis. This leaves only Toledo in a doubt ful state, conflicting reports having emanated from the city of Mud Hens. Roger Bresnahan was slated for the "gate", previous to the Toledo direc tors' meeting, but the doings in that session were so indefinite that there have since been conflicting stories of the status there. One report has it Roger still has a chance to lead the 1920 Hehs, while another has him en tirely out of it. Be the Toledo situation as it may, it is a bit unusual for seven of the eight A. A. clubs to know exactly where they stand on the, managerial question before the new year arrives. It is understood Ganzel has with held signing the parchment hereto fore in the hope that he might land a job bossing some major league club, but after scouting around he found nothing that looked better than his berth here. It also was announced at the Kan sas City club offices that the Blues would train at Claremore Springs, Okla.. in the spring. The players will report in this city March 14. Exhibi tion games have been arranged with Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Wichita, of the Western league. EASTERN TROUT EGGS COMING Washington i Game Wardens Ar range for Exchange of Slock. SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. 2. L. H Darwin, state game warden, and sev eral deputy wardens leave here to morrow for the east to arrange for an exchange of Washington trout and Chinook salmon eggs for eastern Drook trout eggs. On his return Mr. Darwin will bring with him several million trout eggs which he purchased recently rrom eastern game commissions and farms. Outright purchases of 1,400, 000 eastern brook trout eggs have been made from Maine and Massachu setts hatcheries. Of this number Spo kane county will receive 500,000 eggs. Other purchases were made of 2,000, 000 eastern brook trout eggs from Pennsylvania and 3.500,000 eastern brook trout eggs from Michigan. Pierce county will receive 2,000,000 of the Michigan eggs. BASEBALL MEET POSTPONED National Commission to Assemble in Cincinnati January 8. CHICAGO, Jan. 2. The national baseball commission will meet in Cin cinnati January 8 instead of the first Monday in January, as prescribed by the rules. President Ban Johnson of the American league announced to night. The election of a chairman is to be decided. August Hermann of Cincinnati has been chairman of the commission since it was formed in 1903. Seven of the eight clubs of the National 'league at the annual meeting last month expressed themselves against his re-election. Chicago Golfer Wins. DEL MONTE. Cal.. Jan. 2. Jack Morrill of Chicago won a sensational match from Gus Schwartz of San Francisco here today at the 20th hole in the first round of the annual New Year's golf tournament. John C. Levlson of San Francisco beat J. A. Lindsay of Victoria, B. C, 4 up and 2 to play. Indiana Gets Bowlers. CINCINNATI, Jan. 2. Indianapolis was selected as the 1920 tournament city at the annual meeting of the Central States Bowlers' association today. The territory covered by the association was increased from a 175 to a 200-mile radius, which takes in Toledo and Huntington, W. Va. Janitors going out on a strike. Have you ever seen a janitor in the act ot working? Judge McCredie. Beaver "prexy,' will leave tonight for San Francisco' to attend the annual meeting of the coast league magnates there Mon day. The Judge will not go par ticularly loaded for bear, but will be Hooking out for all angles. McCredie always has a lot to say about the schedule-making act and will be sput. tering louder than ever this season getting Portland all the best possible. The draft question and the length of the season are the only other two big questions elated. It is understood that McCredie is not in favor of start ing the season earlier, as suggested in the south, and sees no reason for such action. It is likely he will fight any attempt to start ahead of the regular time. ' McCredie is decidedly in favor' of the full restoration of the draft, .as are said to be six other club owners in the league. Some arrangement will be worked out to renew relations with the majors in regard to the drafting of players. Eddie Maier and Johnny Powers will represent Vernon and Los Ange les, respectively: Jack Cook will be on hand for Salt Lake, Lewis More ing for Sacramento, William Kleppe'r for Seattle, Cal Ewing for Oakland and Charley Graham for the Seals. William McCarthy, president of the Pacific Coast league, will sit at the head of the tabl. - Announcement is made that shift ing of players from one team to an other eolely for the purpose of bal ancing the league will not be per mitted any more in the American Which would seem to be a tacit ad mission that something of the sort had been done semi-occasionally. -... The coast league is going to buy enough uniforms in one lump for all eight teams. But they won't be hand-me-downs, nor will they be of one shape or pattern. This purchasing of unies en masse is to cut down ex penses, and is a brand of retrench ment which in no wise reduces the quality of ball played. Should Babe Pinelli, purchased by the Yankees from Sacramento, and later sold to Detroit, fail to deliver for Hughey Jennings, he may land with Portland. The Angels are still circling around seeking a training camp in which to alight. President Powers has found Urbita Springs more to his liking than any of the places yet in spected. Sentiment in Boston seems to be somewhat against Babe Ruth in his demands for a new contract with the Red Sox calling for double the salary now received. It is pointed out by some of the writers that Ruth signed this contract in good faith, and was so well satisfied with it that he tied himself up to it for a period of three years. There seems to be no opposi tion in Boston to the proposition to trade Ruth to New York. It is ar gued that on the basis of where Bos ton and Detroit finished in the race, euch stars as Ruth and Cobb are by no means indispensable to a team. ... Begins to look as though Jim Scott was epraking on the square when he announced his retirement from base ball to enter the oil business. Doubt less Jack Fournier was equally hon est when he announced his retire ment, but Jack likes the game so well that he will find it difficult to stay quit. . . . A fan has written to know if any one will dispute his opinion that the greatest joke club the coast league has had since 1906 was the Vernon club of 1909. There is no disputing it; it is a fact. Players and fans to this day get many a laugh out of that weird team that the late "Hap" Hogan gathered together that year under the guise of a first-class ball club. It will be remembered that Hogan had but two short months in which to get together a ball club, and that the directors of the league passed a rule requesting the other clubs to turn over all their surplus players to Hogan. The result was a misfit ag gregation that could not play ball but were always good for at least one good laugh. BOXERS PURSES WITHHELD Promoter, Suspecting Dishonesty, Donates Proceeds to Charity. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. Because he was suspicious that the contest was not honestly fought, the promo ter of the Harry Wills-Jack Thomp son negro heavyweight fight here yesterday decided today to withhold the fighters' share of the proceeds and give it to a group of charities in the city. The charities were desig nated by the sporting writers on the daily papers. The referee left the ring at the end of the third round, after advising the men he did not think they were mak ing a sincere effort. The fighters finished the four-round contest. Sidelights and Satire. OFFICIAL statisticians have dis covered that Walter Johnson is the best pitcher in the American league. A lot of persons have had a sort of suspicion to that effect. Eddie Collins arises to announce that he is not a holdout. You can al ways depend on Eddie to pull an un expected Play. Holdouts are so plentiful this year that an athlete who is satisfied with his job gets a half-column piece in the paper. Slow Blossotns. The holdout grows In Winter snows And fades in early Spring, And every year The magnates hear The same darn thing. In these days of national and inter national politics, a gent turns to the sport page. " "Here," he says, "is a haven of rest. Here I may lave my weary brain in the cooling waters of sport." And the first thing that looks him in the optic is a flock of baseball politics. Diogenes, looking for an unflnan cial sport, finally ran. across a bevy MEN FOR FARMING FEW BIG LEAGUES LIKELY TO KEEP THEIR PLAYERS. Kid" Wares Is Condemned for Let ting Couple of Ballplayers Sever Connections. Kicking youngsters loose from the big leagues is going to be as easy as ousting Ban Johnson from the presidency of the American league. This Is the combined concrete deduc tion of every manager in the Pacific Coast league. Every team in the league needs players worse than the Germans needed morale. When Coast league ecouts make their pilgrimage east next month it will be known just how the player situation stands. f As a rule, managers In the Coast league have .waivers' on nearly all of their players by this time. They get them early so as to use the men for trading purposes. This winter the club owners are holding to every player possible. Coast league managers have awak ened to the fact their equads will be doing spring training work in less than two months. Pitchers and catchers will be using the liniment in the training camps by February 22, although the rest of the squad may not report for duty until March 1. The near approach of the training season is the reason for the crab blng" at Kid Wares. He let a couple of men get out of the Coast league that other clubs would be able to use. When President McCarthy of the Coast league told the Seattle club owners they would have to ask for waivers on Jimmy Walsh and Ed Sweeney before turning the players over to other leagues, he gave every ball club of the Pacific coast circuit a. chance to say if they wanted these men or not. Lewis Moreing says the Sacramento ball club will waive on them, but It is almost a certainty all other clubs will not. ian Francisco needs outfielders and if the Seal mag nates waive it will be a surprise, as Walsh is a high-class fly chaser. Sweeney would be a good man for a club that needs a catcher. The committee selected to act upon the proposition of the Sacramento Coast league ball club playing games in Stockton Sunday morning when the team is scheduled at home did not get together as scheduled. Owing to the holidays, the meeting was post poned. There is a chance the games will not be played in that city, but some of the business men of Stockton are showing much enthusiasm about bringing the team to the slough city on Sunday mornings. Sam Aaron, chairman of the Mer chants' association committee, is the man who is pulling strong to have the games played in Stockton. Pete Corapton, who was traded to the Sacramento club for Harry Wol ter, has a minor league record that will look good to the fans despite the fact that Wolter is a favorite in the capital city. In 1914 Compton played with the Kansas City club of the American association. He went to the Boston National club .due to the great record he established that season. In 1914 he led all basestealers of the league with a record of 68 stolen sapks. He hit .325, of which 11 hits were home runs and 13 were three-cushion bingles. He scored 89 runs that year and these figures were run up In 166 contests. In the field he established an aver age of .967. The next season he was with the Boston National team and wa3 in about 35 contests and hit for an average of .241. He went back to Kansas City after that short stay and finished the season as the second hitter of the league, with a figure of .343. One of the problems confronting Manager 'Ernie Johnson of the Salt Lake club is the disposition of Catcher "Tub" Spencer and Pitchers Ralph Stroud and Walter Leverenz. These three players are said to be anxious to get away from the Bees, and John son is willing they should go. But if they go he proposes to get real talent in exchange. He is reported to have turned down an offer to buy them made by Sacramento. He was willing to consider a trade but Sac ramento had no players to offer. SCHU-MAN DEFEATS CASEY Seattle Boxer Sent to Canvas Four Times During Go. TACOMA. Wash.. Jan. 2. Heinle Schuman of Tacoma. claimant of the coast lightweight title, walked away from Harry Casey. Seattle, in the main event of the sportsmen's smoker here , tonight. Schuman registered four 'knockdowns, the bell saving Casey in the second round, and had a big lead in every round. Schuman hit his rival at will, while the visitor did not land a half dozen clean blows. The bout went eix rounds. In the six-round semi-windup Har old Jones of Tacoma outpointed Billy Nelson, Portland lightweight. Jones hit straighter and more frequently, while Nelson was .unable to land his swings. Marty Foley. Tacoma welterweight, trimmed Lloyd Madden of Seattle in a rousing four-round go. Morgan Jones and Earl Conners, Tacoma feathers, went four rounds to a draw, accord ing to the referee, but Jones had a good lead. Pat Williams and Charlie Sontag. Seattle lightweight, fought a draw and Young Jensen of Seattle trimmed Joe Dunn, Tacoma lightweight, in the four-round preliminary. Piercey Worrying About Season. Bill riercey. the young pitcher owned by the Yankees. i worrying lest he fail to make gooS next spring. He has already asked that, if he is to be let out. he be permitted to play with Vernon in the Pacific coast league. Charley White, the crack Chicago lightweight, who toppled over Muff Bronson in less than a round New Year's day in Mllwaukie, will leave for his home tonight. He will clean up a few business affairs and then return to the coast. White had been planning on preparing for a trip to Europe but has received so many of fers to box in the west and on the Pacific coast that he has decided to postpone his tour for a few months. White has offers to box in Seattle on January 23; Edmonton, Canada, February 6; Denver, January 15; Salt Lake city next Wednesday night, and in San Francisco. He has not closed for any of the dates but will wait until he gets back in Chicago and straightened out. White is anx ious to box here again and says that Portland made a big hit with him. The fans did not get a very good line on the famous eastern mittman in his go against Bronson but hope to see him against a more formidable opponent at a later date. There was some discussion to the effect that White outweighed Bron son a good deal but both men weighed in at 10 o'clock the morn ing of the fight and Frank Kendall' and several others who were on hand to supervise the event stated yester day that White only outweighed Bronson by a pound and a half. Jimmy Darcy has signed to box Battling Oretga 10 rounds at the Presidio, San Francisco. It will be the first bout ot over four rounds duration in California in a number of years and the only reason it is getting by is that it is on govern ment property and is being staged by the army officials. Those in charge have offered Boy McCormick a 10-round battle with the winner and he will likely ac cept. Benny Leonard has instructed the promoters of the 20-round fight he is , to engage in with Johnny Dundee at New Haven, that before tho day of the fight they must deposit in the hands of Tex Rlckard the sum of $25,000, which is his end of the purse. The promoters have agreed to com ply with the wish of the champion. . The net profits of the St. Paul Box ing club since March 4. when Angus J. Cameron and Jack Reddy staged the first of seven shows that have been held by the club, amount to just 1.03 per cent of the total re ceipts. These interesting figures are revealed by the financial report of the club made yesterday by Mr. Red dv. The total receipts amounted to $95,527.60, and the profits are. $1090. State and federal government taxes absorbed 20 per cent of the receipts; boxers received over 66 per cent, other expenses amounted to nearly 12 per cent and the owner has to be satisfied with 1.03 per cent. TTp to the time the Gibbons-O'Dowd fight was put on with its record breaking house of nearly $3S,000, the club had done business at a loss. The profits from the largest receipts ever received from one show in Minne sota amounted to $1,941.90 and the net profits .for the nine months are only $1090. The average of the re cepits from th seven shows given by the Cameron-Reddy management is $13,503 though the smallest house amounted to only $4523 when Johnny Dundee and Billy Whclan met at the Auditorium. The club lost $1803.60 on that show, almost as much as it mado on the Gibbons-O'Dowd show. FARMER. OFFERS NO ALIBI Logger Knocked Out by McCormicU Will Rest From Ring. TACOMA. Wash.. Jan. 2. (Special.) Without a scratch to show that he had fought nine rounds of his sched uled 10-round bout with Boy Mc. Cormick, Frank Farmer blew back to town from Portland today. Although saying the referee did not actually count him out, and that the bell for the end of the ninth round might have saved him in time to last the final round. Farmer had no complaint to make. "McCormicn is a rugged, husky lad. who oltlasted me," said Farmer. "That blow to the chrn dazed me and mado me groggy, but I knew all the time what was going on. "I slugged with McCormick instead of boxing. Ho was in splendid shape. I wasn't. I've boxed too much lately. I guess: it's me for the tall woods and wildcat hunting to rest up now. I'll meet McCormick again, and it will be a different story. I cut him un prettv badly last night. Of course. I know" I can't put him out.- He's too strong a man for that." BAY BOUTS ARE UNEXCITING Substitutions Spoil Card for Fans at Dreamlaml Arena. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 2. (Spe cial ) Eddie Shannon won the deci sion in a slow fight from Monk Fowler at Dreamland rink tonight. It was the third of a set of substi tutions and the crowd was none too well pleased. Shannon made a mis erable showing, but Fowler wan just a little worse. There was nothing to the bout. George Shade was given 4 verdict over Frankie Denny. Johnny Ar rousey and Pickles Martin went four rounds to a draw. Arrousey took the place of Fowler, who was saved for the main event. Tommy Cello was reported with a boil on his neck. Eddie Gorman, who substituted, drew with Charley O'Mal ley. O'Malley's jaw was broken in the third, but he kept going. Sal Carlo defeated Sammy Good. Buz Kru vosky boxed a draw with Leo Matlock. Louis Williams and Joe Herman went a draw. TROEH TEAM LEADS SHOOTERS Vancouver Crack and Mate Break 293 Out or 300 Targets. RIVERSIDE, Cal.. Jan. 2. LacV of attendance brought the 6chedtwcU seven-day trapshooting programme here to an end after one day's events had been staged. i The promoter handling the affair refused to go further when that day's receipts failed to cover a proportion ate part of the expenses. In the only competition held Frank Troeh of Van couver. Wash., and his teammate, E. O. Lynch, broke a total of 293 out of 300 targets, leading a field of 19 marksmen.