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Newspaper Page TextTHE arORSTXG OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAT, JANUARY 12, 1920 CLAIMS TO TITLE In the league ars the Aberdeen Moose and the Hoquiam Elks, each having fire wins and one loss to their credit. Aberdeen Elks, Hoquiam Y. M. C. A. and Montecano Legion are tied with three won and three lost for each. , 36 ROUNDS ISNT THAT THE TRUTH? 10X1NG in i i naimii j j BY DESCAMPS STORY WAVER LEI G H TEAM WINS I KEARniS SURPRISED BOUSEDUIEEJIi Two Featherweights Willing to Meet Quartet for Honors. BOTH. BOXERS CONFIDENT Pair to Clasb at "Betllg Wednesday Bay They Are Equal to Malone, Baird, Gorman, Pelsinger. f BT RICHARD R. SHARP. Jimmy Dundee and Weldon Wins', Pakland and Portland featherweights, respectively, who will clash In the six-round special event of the Port land boxing commission card of lights at the Heilig theater Wednes day night, take exception that the featherweight championship of the Pacific coast could be determined by a. series of elimination bouts between Frankie Malone, Karl Baird. Joe Gor man and Harry Pelsingrer. Dundee and Wing are both vehe fcfBl in that they are on an equal plane with any of these four boxers, and each points to battles with all of SUe quartet to prove his contention. If one would take the trouble to Eelve in Pacific coast records for 1819 ha would find that both Wing and Dundee have more than , held their own at various times the past year in battles against the four mentioned claimants of the featherweight cham pionship of the Pacific coast. Dundee hu fought Pelsinger and Halone half a dozen times or more each, and the dope fails to show him outclassed by any wide margins in any of the engagements, and he holds eulsions over both men. Dundee has lso fought Gorman and Baird. Ving gave Baird a nlp-and-tuck battle in Los Angeles last year, and has fought Joe Gorman four times, tiie verdicts being about even. In face of' this the fans are compelled to give Dundee and Wing some atten tion when , it comes to claiming the coast featherweight title. One of them may be eliminated Wednesday night. Wing says he will not be eliminated. Weldon Wing asserts he has never Jbeen given his just dues in his home town. On the other hand. Weldon has failed at times 'to appear like a champion here. It seems that he Is able to travel at his best in other cities. In Los Angeles he is good for a mainevent at Jack Doyle's every week, and in his last trip took part in seven straight top-liners, holding his own with Jimmy Dundee and Earl Baird in two of these starts. It Is jald that It requires a man like Dun dee to make Wing show his best. This remains to be settled Wednesday night. Johnny McCarthy and Alex Trambi tas, who will meet in the main event of ten rounds, worked out eight rounds apiece yesterday at the London Athletic, club. McCarthy ap pears- in excellent condition and Trambitas equally in the pink. Alex is boxing faster in his daily training sessions than he has in some time, and figures that he will not have any trouble outpointing the San Fran cisco welterweight. Frankie Farren and "Puggy" Mor ton are expected to put up a whirl wind mix in the ten-round semi windup. It is to be Morton's debut here and he is out to make good. Portland fight fans who at times WVi attended fistic shows in Oak lai'd and San Francisco are predict ing that the six-round battle between Krankie Denny and Sammy Pelsinger will be the real affair of the evening. Jimmy Duffy will box Bud Stevens, an old favorite In the four-round cur tain raiser. Another claimant of the Pacific coast featherweight championship de veloped with lat night's mail on band. "Chuck" Sampson, a member of Jack Dempsey's coterie, and writing on a. pale green sheet of the heavy weight champion's stationery, devotes considerable space in his letter to setting forth the claims of Gene Del r.iont, Los Angeles featherweight, to the Pacific coast title. Sampson eays that he does not see low Pacific coast fight promoters an stage a championship bout for 'he coast featherweight title and not iive Delmont a chance at the crown. According to Sampson, Delmont. al though a featherweight, has been boxing lightweights and welter weights, and issues a challenge Jn be half of his protege to any boy be- rvL'An 124 snH 138 rtminrin nnil Via i'ther states that they will be ready at. a weeks notice to take them all fa, one right after the other. L'ACITTC UNIVERSITY WISXER Vancouver Le-prlon Quintet Is De- feated by 38-15 Score. FOREST GROVE, Or, Jan. 11. fSpectal.) The Pacific university bas ketball team opened its season here last night with a game with the American Legion team of Vancouver, vanning by the-score of 38 to 15. The locals took the lead from the open ing of the contest and at the end of the first half had a Zt to 7 lead over tlx soldiers. Goodman and Graham v re chief scorers for Pacific, while Bievin and Bishop played a good Same for Vancouver. As a preliminary, the Forest Grove hif-h school alumni team met the high school five, winning by the 6 ere of 39 to 11. The Pacific university five . will jreet the North Pacific squad In a contest on the local floor next Fri day night and on Saturday will play Cheraawa. The lineup in last night's contest louows; Pacific. Vancouver Todd. Goodman ....J..... Bishop, Nonrren -Sennza .C. Blevin l aham. Wolf G . ........ Davia, King r Ot'GAK QUINT GAMES SET irst Clash With Gem Staters to Be January 20. Fuillmau, Jan. 11. (Special.) Two basketball games have been sched uled with the Gem Staters for Jan uary 2U. at aioscow, and either Feb- ruarv 18 np 17 for th nnnn Tliia Is a record for brevity for it ): always been the custom for the two institutions to meet each othe at least four times op the court. The bulging schedule, der-larori Tint Icr, is responsible for the curtailment Wiltso Hopes to Land Jordan. WASHINGTON, T. C, Jan. 11. Man ager George Wiltse, of the Buffalo Internationals, is pulling against the success of Pitcher Jordan with the (iriffmen this coming spring. He wants him bark with.fhe Bisons, where he did Bo3Le fine 'flinging last season. : ........... ---................... ... I OREGON IN POOR SHAPE LINEUP UXCERTAIX FOR WHIT MAN' CLASH TONIGHT.. With Only Two Weeks of Practice, Coaches nave Not Tet Chosen University Quintet. EUGENE, Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.) With no definite lineup arranged as yet, and the squad la rather poor, condition, the prospects for a basket ball victory over the Whitman col legt five, which will come to Eugene for two games Monday and Tuesday nights, are not the best in the world. Only two weeks of practice has been held, and Shy Huntington and Bill Hayward, who are coaching the quintet aspirants, have not yet had time to pick a team. Nothing has been heard from the missionaries In regard to the -caliber of their team, but it is certain that Coach Borleske will bring south a squad that will make a strong try for a victory over the lemon-yellow five, last year's coast champions. Whitman has a number of old men back, and rumors have been received here that the northerners have been practicing for a month or more. The probable line-up will be: Eddie Durno and Bill Reinhart, forwards; Herm Lind, center; Nish Chapman and Vince Jacobberger, guards; Bill Rein hart and Vince Jacobberger will probably get a chance to show what they have on the ball, but neither has played on the varsity before. Reinhart has been showing excep tionally well in practice and if noth ing interferes with his work, should have little trouble in landing a per manent berth on the team. Skeet Manerud, a forward candidate, is a small, speedy player of much the same type as Eddie Durno, who won a berth on the mythfcal all-coast team last year. Fans are eager to see what he can do with the ball against a col lege team. The games with the Whitman five will be played in Hayward gym nasium, and additional seats am hs. Ing built to accommodate the large crowd of rooters that Is expected to be present. A special section will be provided for business men from Eugene. ' STUDENTS TO DECIDE ISSUE Stanford Quint and Oarsmen Both Seek to Get Fund. STANFORD TTNTVTr; W stt v e.i. -t Jan. 11. (Special.) Either the Stan- i crew or the basketball team will e o beererinff- fnr rm.nna M suit of a student body election which win oe neio. nere next Tuesday. There is a $3000 flurolus in th hon. . t, A athletic management as a result of the iootoan season and both the crew men ana me Dasketball men want to get their hands on it. To settle the argument the whole proposition will be put up to a student referendum. xne question presents several very interesting issues. The basketball players Insist that for the best in terests of their cam a id.. have a specially-built pavilion with a larger seating capacity than the present court. . The defense of the crew that the water sport is one of the oiaest ana manueet or college sports and there would be little likelihood of the sport being revived when once discontinued. COUGAR FIVE ARE IN SHAPE Spokane Athletic Club to Be Met Next Saturday. WASHINGTON STATE COLLERE Pullman,' Jan. 11. (Special.) The tTougar rive is rapidly roundine- into shape for the opening tilt with the Spokane Amateur Athletic club five in Spokane next Saturday. A telegram for a game was received from Ritz ville and Coach Bohler stated that the farmers would probably have a chance to meet tne college quintet. From all data and statistics avail able it appears that other teams will unoouDteaiy nave to display consid erable finesse to win from Bohler's live. IDAHO GRIDIRON CLASH SET Fylman to Play Idaho on Octo foer 15 or 16. WASHINGTON STATE COLLECT Pullman, Jan. 11. (Special.) The date of the annual gridiron classic with the University of Idaho, which has been pending arrangement since the close or tne past season, was an nounced yesterday by Athletic Dlmn, tor Fred Bohler. The contest will be played October 16 or 16. Bohler stated that the Idaho au thorities were eager to play the gam on a Friday, but that final permis sion to waive classes on that date would first have to be obtained from the state college authorities. This means that the arrangements under way with the University of Southern California for a game on that date will be dropped. SAX ANTONIO TRADES BENSON Utility Man Swapped for "Pitcher Simms of Wichita Falls. HOUSTON, Tex.. Jan. 11. President Benson of the San Antonio club an nounced the trading of Burch, utility man of the San Antonio club, for Pitcher Simms of Wichita .Falls. Burch played in 89 games last year, while Simms has been on the reserve list of the Waco club for two years. 20 LETTERS ARE AWARDED UNIVERSITY OF OREGOX ATH LETES ARE HONORED. prder of "O" Also Adopts Reso lutions Urging That Rules Bo Tightened. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Jan. 11. (Special.) Twenty new members were- taken into the order of the "O,", the organization of all college men who have won letters in a major sport at the University of Oregon, at the first meeting- of the organization held this year. Several resolutions affecting the athletic activities of the university were adopted, one pledging undivided sup port to the present athletic adminis tration. The 20 new members taken Into the organization of athletic leaders are those who have won letters In base ball, track and football during th6 past year. ' Initiation for the new members will be held next month, as a feature of the Oregon-W. S. C. bas ketball game. The order of the "O" also recom mended that the rules covering the awarding of the "O" to members of teams in the major sports be made more stringent. PENINSULA PARK IS VICTOR North Pacifio Dental Quintet De feated, 37 to 2 6. Peninsula Park defeated the North Pacifio Dental college five on the Peninsula floor Saturday night by the score of 37 to 26. The game was slowed up considerably by poor offi ciating. v Murphy and Orphan were high point men for Peninsula, while Chishoim and Butler made practically all the Dentists markers. The Peninsula Juniors are having a hard time arranging games. This club has always been one of the fast est in the city at its weight, having won the city championship for three consecutive seasons. Any 125-pound team desiring games may be accom modated by calling Isadore Wester men at Woodlawn 3507. The lineup: N. P. D. C. (29) rS7) Penfnrala. Butler 14) F.. (4) Praendxr Chishoim (10) ....F ( Preacott Merrll (2) C (10) Murphy Thompson. ....... G. ....... (3) Metcalf Cooper ........ ...G (12) Orphan - fi (Zt Hauler COACHES, REFEREES TO MEET Interscholastlc Basketball Rules to Be Decided Upon. A meeting of coaches of tho Inter scholastic basketball teams and the three referees who will officiate in the contests this season has been called for 4:15 o'clock this afternoon at the Multnomah Athletic club. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss rules by which the games will be governed this year. ,- By reaching an agreement on play ing, rules before the season com mences next Monday, both coaches and officials believe they will elimi nate much of the misunderstanding which may result from some of the games later In the season. Leon Fabre, Earl A. Harmon and Herbert Goode are the three men se lected to handle the hoop contests this season. GOLDENDALE QUINTET IXSES Multnomah Guard Tossers Tri umph In Fast Game, 35 to 16. GOLDENDALE. Wash.. Jan. II.. (Special.) The Multnomah Guard bas ketball tossers Saturday defeated the Goldendale fire department quintet. The Goldendale team had an unbroken string of victories since 190S with the exception of a defeat by the famous Dallas. Or., quintet in a game played at Goldendale In 1915 when they held the Dallas team to a two-point lead. Goldendale took the lead Saturday in aggressive playing and got the first field basket three minutes after the game started. The first half ended 16 to 3 In favor of Portland. In the second half the firemen, aid ed by E. Kaiser, a recruit on the Goldendale team who took the place of Dewey Barnes as a guard, made a better showing and threw a scare into the guardsmen by getting three field baskets In the last two minutes of play. The final score, was 35 to 16. Fearnley, forward for the Portland team, was easily the star for the Multnomah Guard. The lineup: Goldendale (16). Multnomah Gd. 2S). Ward. 7 F... 14, Fearnley Guinan. 2 F 7. Goods M. Spaldlnc, C Darlinc U. Barnes G 6. I He ,T. Byars . 1 8, Cols ivaiser, z s Mill Referee Bldon Hinwhaw. VERNON MAKES THREE DEALS Third Baseman Beck Released on Own Request. LOS ANGELES, . Jan. 11. Three deals affecting the makeup of the 1920 Vernon baseball club were an nounced yesterday by Manager Bfll Essick. Third Baseman Zinn Beck has been released on his own request to become manager of the Columbia team of the South Carolina league. . ( Hap Moores, & young lnnelder, has i been purchased from the Saginaw I club of -the Michigan-Ontario league. Pitcher Pete Schneider, whom Essick expected would go back to the New York Americans, probably will stick with the Tigers. 22-YEAR SPELL BROKEN PORTLAND QUINT WINS FROSI GOLDENDALE FIRE3IEN. Multnomah Guard Players More Than Pleased With Treat ment Accorded . Them. Members of the Multnomah Guard basketball team returned last night from Goldendale, Wash., where they defeated the Goldendale firemen five Saturday night, 15 to 16. It was the first time in 22 years that a Port land basketball team had won from the Goldendale quintet and the sec ond defeat in the history of Golden dale. The other defeat was chalked up by the Dallas team. Members of the guard team who made the trip were more than pleased with the splendid treatment accorded them by the Goldendale people. The local team was somewhat handicap p'ed by the severe cold weather and the fact that H was not used to play ing on a 64-foot court on which the game was staged. Despite the handi caps, Multnomah Guards have the dis tinction of being the first Portland team to take Goldendale into camp. The Multnomah Guards will play the Dallas American Leglpn five a return game on the local' Y. M. C. A. floor next 'Saturday night. Manager Slmonsen has Issued a call for first and second team practice tonight on the Washington high school floor. SILVERTON BEATS OLYMPICS Portland Club Nosed 22 to 21 In . Hard-Fought Basketball Game. SILVERTON. Or.. Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) The Bilverton Athletic club basketball team won from the Olym pic club of Portland Saturday night by 1 point, the final score being 22 to 21. It was the first game outside of Portland for the Olympics, and they fought every minute to out-distance the Silverton hoopers. The "first half ended with the valley team leading by a score of 19 to. 1 1. A change of tactics in the second half netted the Portlanders three bas kets In three minutes, and a convert ed foul placed the Olympics within 1 point of their opponents. From then on both teams played exception ally close ball, and when the whistle blew every spectator was on his feet. Two long shots were the features of the contest, Waleott and Woods divid ing the honors. For the Olympic club, "Pug" Toole played a great game, scoring a total of 12 points for his team. Buell played his man well, but one field goal being thrown over him. The line-nps: Silverton (22). Olympic 21). Waleott U) F (12) Tools Morley 2) K Aim Woods ) i...O 6) Quail Wray .G ......... (3) Brame Aim G. Buell 6cott F. .... ... LarHn m G. .......... Johnson Referee Halvorsen. Ross Wins Swimming Races. SYDNEY. N. S. W., Jan. 11. Norman Ross of San Francisco today won the 100-yard and S80-yard swimming championship. , T GITEO MINNESOTA. PILOT'S VISIT TO NEW HAVEN SIGNIFICANT. Post-Season Game in 192 0 Be tween Vale and Some Western Team Indicated. NEW HAVEN, Jan. 11. Harvard's jaunt across the country for a post season football contest with Oregon may pave the way for an intersec tional contest between Yale and some strong western team next season, ac cording to the belief current. Yale men place much significance In the. recent visit of Dr. H. L. Williams, coach of the Minnesota team, to this city.. They say that one of the pur poses. of his trip east was to sound sentiment as to the possibility of Yale accepting an invitation to play in Minnesota next year. Such a game could it be arranged would be played about two weeks after the Harvard contest or during the Christmas recess. During the last 15 or 20 years all of Yale's games have been confined to New Haven, Cambridge, West Point and Princeton. The university authorities have usual ly frowned on extensive trips for the football team, although the under graduate managers have always favored it. The fact that the track team plans to go overseas next summer to com pete against Oxford-Cambridge, and that the hockey and the basketball teams are now away on trips that have carried them as far west as Pittsburg and across the border Into Canada, strengthens the belief that there is hope of the football team tak ing a long jaunt. Manager Hefflefin ger of the 1919 eleven was anxious to play a game with some western team last fall, but the advisory committee opposed It. .. Apaches Defeat Sunnyside. The Apahe Bible' club basketball team of the Y. M. C. A. defeated the basketball five of the Sunnyside gram mar school Saturday, 14 to 11, in a hard-fought game. Although the Apaches were outweighed by the grammar school boys, they showed that speed was a greater advantage. Snider, Benson and West played the stellar role for the winners, while WilkinS starred for the losers. Xewberg Legion Beats Albany. ALBANY, Or., Jan. 11. (Special.) The American Legion basketball team of Newberg defeated the local legion team in a fast game here last night by a score of 29 to 9. The game was more closely contested than the score Indicates, but the visitors clearly ex celled in team work. Albany scored only two baskets, Kuck throwing one in each half. Jones Will Coach College Team. John Paul Jones, the famons Cor nell miler and holder of the world's record, will coach the Muhlenberg college track men next season. Jones during the war was a captain In the ordnance department ana is now lo cated at Allentown, Pa., where Muhl enberg college Is also located. Bits of Shrapnel. Mtaapelled Monakers. Johnny Kilbaln. Partnership Diaaolved. Rock and Rye. Sherry and Jt;gg. Tom and Jerry. Brandy and Soda Half and Half. Rheln Wine and Seltzer. Moroccans spend their evenings on their housetops. Wherein they differ from a number of our acquaintances, who spend their evenings in their cellars. Famons Doubles. Parlays. FreqnVnt FlnallMts. Frankie Burns and Johnny Coulon. Absolute Antitheses. Right and Wrong. . Today's Tautology. Liberal reward for return in even ing after 6 P. M. A Sop's Fables. Once upon. a time there was a mod ern heavyweight champion who did not demand a mint for defending his title. He insisted upon the other three, also. Old Stuff. Only one person in 15,000 reaches the -age of 100 years. Boxer's Manager Says New Jersey Decision "News." CABLE MESSAGE AWAITED Promoter Coffroth Believed " to Have Labor Day Arrange ments for Bout In Charge. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Jan. 11. Jack Kearna, manager of Jack Dempsey. heavyweight champion, said here to night the announcement at Bordeaux, France, last night by M. Descamps. manager of Georges Carpentler. Eu ropean champion, that the Dempsey Carpentier fight would take place In New Jersey Labor day, September 6, was "all news to him." ' "I didn't know a thing about it un til I saw it In the" papers," Kearns added. "And I haven't received the cable message Descamps was said to have sent me. "James W. Coffroth, whoso terms for the match between Dempsey and Carpentier have been accepted, may have an eye on some place in New Jersey, but of that I don't -know. I know there were Inducements offered him some time ago by New York backers to go Into fight promoting in the east. "Personally I am still strong for Coffroth's offer- and Tijuana, Lower California, looks good to me. "William Fox wanted to stage the match. He made us an offer of $300, 000 for Dempsey. I asked him if he had signed Carpentler or could get him and if he would post a forfeit. He sent me a message he was willing to post a forfeit. I am preparing a mes sage to him that I want $26,000 or $50,000, so that I won't be wasting my time. "There are too many people who are trying to get Into print just by mak ing offers. I am not going to worry with any more of them till they get Carpentier, a place to stage the fight and put up forfeits. Then I'll talk turkey." COFFROTH FAVORS TIJUANA Promoter Sends Cable Message to Carpe ii tier's Representative. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Jan. 11. Admit ting that he was still in the dark re garding the exact plans of Carpentler, French fighter, and his manager, M. Descamps, James W. Coffroth, pro moter, - today sent a cablegram to Charles Harvey, his representative In London, to get details. Jack Kearns, manager for Jack Dempsey, departed early today for Los Angeles after a conference with Coffroth. Coffroth's message to Harvey fol lows; "Cabled January 7' asking you to see Descamps or Carpentier and learn their plans and best terms agreeable, also date when options for his services expire. Dempsey accept ed my terms. "JAMES W. COFFROTH." Coffroth said that he would favor Tijuana, in Lower .California, as the place for the match, but would be willing to stage it in New Jersey or any other place on which both prin cipals could agree. COFFROTH "NOT CONCERNED" Governor's Statement on Fight Pro motion Challenged- SAN DIEGO. Cal., Jan. 11. James W. Coffroth, who has made an offer to promote the proposed fight be tween Carpentier and Dempsey, said tonight that he was "not greatly concerned" over Governor William D. Stephens' opposition to holding the match at Tijuana. Mexico. "I have been up against the same thing, practically, from one gover nor or another, every time I have promoted a prize ring match in the last 15 or 20 years," he said. "As for the fight being promoted in Cali fornia, that Is wrong. The work of promotion has gone on In almost all other parts of the world, but little of it has been done In California." M. L. KLINE BOWLS 2758 TEAM'S AVERAGE FOR THREE GAMES IS COMPUTED. ' Score Mad at Opening of Second Telegraphic Tournament on Pacific Coast. The M. L. Kline bgwling team of Portland, which is entered in the sec ond telegraphic bowling tournament of the season conducted by the Pa cific Coast Bryvling association, rolled its first game of the tournament yes terday afternoon on the Oregon alleys. More than 75 five-man teams are entered in the tournament, including quintets from Portlandf Seattle. Ta coma, San Francisco, Los Angeles. San Diego. Oakland, Salt Lake, Spokane and numerous other cities. The M. L. Kline team average for the three games rolled yesterday was 2756. Henley knocked out the high average of 192, while Blaney was sec ond with an average of 191. The score of the M. L. Kline team follows: lft. Rlaney Be.li ......... Konz ........ ..165 . .171 ..171 -.16.1 Krause Henley ... 166 Totals .. ...8.18 984 936 2758 TEXAS LEAGUE SETS GAMES Schedule of 152 to Be Flayed Dur ing 192 0 Season. HOUSTOX, Texas, Jan. - 11. A schedule of 152 games will be played In the Texas league in 1920, It was decided at a meeting of club, owners of the league today. Tho season will open April 16. .- The club owners also voted to for bid all freak pitching except the "spitball." A committee was appoint ed to consider, an increase in the ad mission price. Perry Signs With Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11. Pitcher Scott Perry has signed his 1320 con tract with the Philadelphia Ameri cans, it was announced tonight. Chicagoans to Train in Texas. CHICAGO, Jan. 11. -The Chicago Americans will train this spring at Waco, Texas, it was announced to 21. 8d. Tl At) 211 197 GTS 1!K 210 170 rxto 1K7 1S6 l.r.S 015 '172 1ST 182 M2 177 litO 220 576 12 Peninsula Park Soccer Aggregation Also- Is Victor. The Peninsula park and Waver lelgh Athletic club soccer teams were the winners In the Portland Soccer association league games yesterday, the former winning from the United Artisans by a l-to-0 score and the Waverleigh club defeating Kerns by the score of 7 to 2. The Peninsula ahd Artisan teams were very evenly matched and the goal by Percy Gibbs for Peninsula In the first half was the only score made during the game. At the end of the first half the ball was in the center of the field. . By their victory over the Artisans yesterday the Peninsula kickers Jumped into the league lead with two wins and one defeat. WALKER WINS ON CYCLE 50-MILE COURSE COVERED IN 37:473-5. Fred Ludlow Finishes in Second Place and Albert Burns Third; - New Record Is Reported. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Jan. 11. A so called 50-mile "national championship"-motorcycle race at Ascot speed way here today was won in 37 minutes 47 3-6 seconds by Otto Walker. Fred Ludlow was second, and Albert Burns third. Walker was said to have made a world's record. Walker's victory Immediately fol lowed his finishing third in a. so called .25-mile "national champion ship" race. In which he was second up to the last turn on the mile track, when he spilled, skidded 60 feet, picked up his machine and finished the contest in 19 minutes, 10 3-6 sec onds. Albert Burns won. Time, 18:32. In the 25-ralle race, William Church and Joe Walters spilled and Church's machine was practically burned up. Neither rider was injured. WINTER SPORTS ON AT NAVY Middies Devote Their Time to Bas ketball, Swimming and Boxing. ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 11. With the waning of the excitement over the service football game and the ending ot tne Christmas leave, winter sports have begun to loom larere at the "Naval academy. Big squads started to work In several lines of sports this week. Preliminary practice had been go ing on for several weeks, but the work began In a regular way this week, with a cutting down of the squads and the assignment of promi nent candidates to the training tables. Special interest is beins shown in wrestling, swimming and boxing, with smaller squads in gym nastics and swimming, while basket ball and soccer are showing steady improvement. Boxing has been put on a definite basis by the selection of Midshipman Edwin W. Schell of Mount Pleasant. Ia., to manage the team during the year. This follows the first official recognition of boxing as a competi tive sport by the academy authorities. The academy is In complete sympathy with the move to include this in the regular Intercollegiate sports, and will have one match against, the Uni versity of Pennsylvania this season, and probably a schedule of several matches next year. The Navy's boxing director Is "Spike" Webb, who was boxing In structor of the 29th division, A. E. F, and manager of the inter-allied matches on the other side. G REEN LEAF YOUNGEST CHAMP Pocket Billiard Expert Called One of Game's Greatest Shots. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11. Ralph Greenleaf, who was crowned as the new national pocket billiard cham pion in Philadelphia recently when he went through the tournament without a single defeat, is just 2 years of age and is the youngest man ever to win the championship of the United States. He was born in Mon mouth, I1L. where at the age of 14 years he learned basic principles of the game. His father conducted a billiard par lor in the Illinois town and young Greenleaf attended high school there, but divided his off hours between pocket billiards and baseball, the former gaining primary recognition. Greenleaf was an infant phenom when he first came into prominence In the east after his family moved to Wilmington. Del. He played in the last national tourn ament, held before the United States entered the war. but was inclined to beerratic at that time and was beaten by several of the men whom he swamped In this year's event. He is a perfect master of the cue ball and is known as the Willie Hoppe of the pocket game. He can leave the balls as safe a any of the veterans, but scorns this style of a game. He goes out after them, takes all kinds of chances and as he can make any style of shot, he usually gets away with his reckless stabs. Once he has the balls opened up he clears the table with neatness. leaves a ball out. breaks the bunch on his next shot and keeps right on going. Veterans players proclaim him the best shot they ever saw. ARMY-NAVY GAME SITE IN AIR Annapolis Autliorities Deny That New York. Is Out of Question. ANNAPOLIS.. Md, Jan. 11. Com mander Douglas L. Howard, athletic officer at the naval academy, denied today that it had been -determined to abandon New York as the scene of the Army-Navy football game. He stated that no action had been taken" in the matter, and that he l" HEILIG THEATER WED. EVE.; JAN. 14 Johnny McCarthy vs. 'Alex Trambitas Frankie Farren vs. Puggy Morton Jimmie Dundee vs. Weldon Winger Frankie Denny vs. Sammie Pelsinger Jimmie Duffy vs. Bud Stevens SEAT SALE Heilig: Theater Box Office Prices 50c to $3, plus war tax would meet Captain Hayes, athletic officer of the military academy, next week and make definite arrange ments for next year. As a matter of fact every chance favors the selection of New Tork, as it is the unanimous choice of army people and of a considerable majority of navy men. The naval academy has the right of choice as to the grounds this year, the game being played on November 27, but it is limited to a place not north of New York or south of Philadelphia. The Yale bowl Is out of the ques tion, as the trip could not be made by the regiment of midshipmen in one day. Princeton and Philadelphia are possibilities, but everything fa vors New York. There were no serious criticisms of any of the ar rangements for the last game. 1910 BIG TRAPSHOOT YEAR Thousands of New Devotees Gained on Battlefields of France. "Nineteen-nineteen" will be remem. bered by trapsnooters as the year when the amateurs accomplished more at one meeting in the way of gaining control of the sport than they had previously done in 30 years. For the first time the amateurs attended ah annual meeting of the American Trap shooting association and came to it prepared to ask for executive, legisla tive and administrative power. They found the association, hitherto con trolled by manufacturers, perfectly willing to pass the entire manage ment of the sport over to them.. A ' joint committee of association of ficials and amateurs was formed' to handle all the affairs of the organ trol, if they choose to do so. ization for a year, after which the "simon purea" may take full con- Trapshooting won thousands of new devotees (n 1919, as a natural result of the close acquaintance with rifles and guns our soldiers gained on the battlefields in France. New clubs have sprung up in all sections of the coun try and old clubs have added consid erably to their membership. The an nual state championships attracted large entries and so did the grand American handicap at Chicago, in which Frank S. Wrijrht and G. W. Lorimer led the amateur and profes sional divisions, respectively. For the year's high average championship. Woolfolk Henderson of Lexington, Ky., set the pace until the final reg istered shoot of the season, when Mark Arie of Thomasboro, 111., passed him and won by an almost negligible margin, .97S0 to .9779. Pacific Beats Albany College. NEWBERG. Or., Jan. 11. Pacific college won its first non-conference game of the season from Albany col lege, 21 to 15. The game was a good one. although slowed by numerous fouls on both sides. Howard Elliott, a 1917 letter man, was high point get ter for the locals, with four field goals and seven free throws to his credit. The Pacific quintet has been showing well in practice and appears as a strong contender for the non conference title. Stecher to Wrestle Caddock. NEW YORK, Jan. 11. Earl Cad dock or Iowa, world's wrestling champion, and Joe" Stecher of Dodge, Neb., claimant of the title, will meet here January 30, it was announced tonight. Caddock in his message of acceptance made It conditional that Stecher should not be advertised as the title holder. French Pair Win in Tennis. CANNES, Jan. 11. In the open lawn tennis tournament here today. Miss Ryan of California and J. G. Ritchie, the English veteran, were beaten in the semi-final mixed doubles by Su zanne Lenglen, the French women's champion, and M. Albarran. Many Bowlers to Compete. AURORA. 111.. Jan. 11. Three hun dred teams representing the larger mid-west cities are expected to com pete in the interstate bowling tour nament which will be held in Aurora beginning January 23. 'Sporting Editor Has Letters. There are letters at the sporting editor's desk for Frank lvendall, matchmaker of the Milwaukie boxinjj commission, and Sam Tessler. man ager of the South Parkway basket ball team. Steinmetz Self -Honing Razor Strop reduced to.-. SI. 23 Steinmetz Double Razor Hone, re duced to S1.00 Steinmetz Silver Steel Razor S2.50 Pocket Knives 25 to S50.00 All brands.. 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