12 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920 'CI '1 4 -J '.-' r" I -1 WALTER IS PLAYING ACES UP HIS A! Beavers to Blossom With Rare Playing Orchids. MAJOR TALENT COMING McCredie Waxes Confident and Tells of Plans for Portland Glory During 192 0 Season. BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. ASHLAND, Or., March f . (Special.) En route to spring: training camp . Walter McCredie opened up today and divulged a few confidences concern ing his 1920 coast league ball team. . The big Scotch sphinx should have been a poker player. He admitted across the Pullman plush that he has been sitting tight for several weeks ' with one or two aces up his sleeve ' that will change the Beavers from . their present rather mediocre appear ance to a regular ripsnorting aggre cation. But let Mack talk: "I have two or three players com lng from the majors who will make : my ball club. One of them is pitcher who will be a star in this j league. I don't expect the reinforce , merits until 10 days before the season ' opens, but they will be in fine conai : tion and will be ready to go. One of the new men is a second baseman "When my new pitcher arrives the . Portland team will be as high-proof in the pitching department as any ' dub in the league." Walter Lamps Hills. Gazing out of the car window at the classic grandeur of the Siskiyous. Manager McCredie declared that his only worry and problem at this time 1 centers about one outfield berth. Firmer has been turned over to De troit to sell and the same procedure will be followed in the case of Walker, who does not want to come west. This leaves only Maisel and Schalier as outfield regulars, with Cox in the utility role. Failing in his efforts to land Tag gart of the Columbus club and Pick up of Pittsfield, who hit .2S5 in the eastern league last year, McCredie now is dickering with Hartford of the Eastern league for th purchase of Outfielder Potteiger. Dan Howley, old-time Portland catcher, is manag ing Hartford, and as Howley feel that he will not be able to meet Pat teiger's salary demand, he has offered to sell him to Portland for a bundle of cash, with Pitcher Pennington of the Beavers' holdout corps thrown in for full measure. If Players W ill Agree. Both managers have agreed to the barter, and all that remains to pu the deal across is the acquiescence of the two prima donnas involved. Potteiger hit .34S for Worcester last season, so looks like a valuable prospect. His complete record fol lows: Potteiger Games, 72; at bat, 261 runs, 52; hits, 91; total bases, 136 sacrifice hits, S; stolen bases, 10 average, .349. Mack refused to name the big leaguers he has in the hole, but, an swering a query about Southpaw Old ham, shook his head negatively and Kaid: "No, 1 don't expect Oldham back. He is a major league pitcher and no doubt will -come to terms with Frank Navin." There are 13 in the Portland ball contingent aboard today's train speeding southward seven players, manager, trainer and four baseball correspondents. The party will spend Tuesday in Sacramento, boarding the Owl early in the evening for Los Angeles. 'with Lincoln and Koerner with Wichita." Jordan is a well set up young fel low of 26 and he has a good reputa tion back east. He used the spitball a good deal back there and be can use it out here this year because he will start the season labeled as a spitball lunger. He started in 28 games, won 15 and lost ten with the Buffalo club last year. Washington grabbed him and sold him to San Francisco. Jordan will get into uniform a little later in the week and show what he can do. He has no weight to take off. The other pitchers have quite a start on mm In training. SAIXTS BEGIN LIMBKRIXG TTP Brakes Pat on Sands for Cruel Pre-Season Speed. BOTES HOT SPRINGS (training camp of Salt Lake club). March 8. (Special.) Pitcher Madison, who came to the Saints in a trade of Pitcher Dale to Dallas', arrived this morning and reported in uniform for the workout. Madison won 20 games last season for the Texas league club. He is a right-hander and apparently In good condition,' for he went right through the workout in good fashion. Stroud signed his contract this morning and was in uniform with the balance of the men. A couple of days and Stroud will be in tiptop form. Because it looked somewhat like rain, the talent insisted on an early appearance at the ball park. They started at 12:15 and went right on through without their lunch hour. Jenkins and Heine Sands, the little thlrd-sacker, who was farmed out to Bloomington last season, had the "pen" of the outfit and had to be told to desist. Sands saya he brought his trunk with him and plans to stay. He looks a greatly improved, ball player. The whereabouts of Earl Sheely is still a matter of mystery. KITIGERSQII If FI C01T1 Bill Essick'c Champions Are Ready for Fray. WINTER PRACTICE KEPT UP Pitching Staff for 1920 Will Be Far and ..Away Most Conspic uous One In Coast League. VANCOUVER AFTER FRANCHISE 400 Average Attendance Held Suf ficient to Pay All Expenses. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March S. (Special.) The work of financing a baseball team in Vancouver for the coming season is to be started at once, and with this in view a meeting of those interested is being held to-' night E. E. Larrimore, president of the organization, today said that Vancou ver will be the smallest city in the league, but that it has been arranged so that an average daily attendance of 400 a day will pay all expenses. It is proposed to sell 1000 shares of stock at $10 a share to raise the nec essary 110,000, which will assure Van couver the franchise. It is hoped to get the committee busy selling stock by Wednesday or Thursday. OAKS GET JAWBONE DRILL Baker's Dozen of Pitchers Lob 'Em Over the Old Platter. OAKLAND. Cal., March 8. (Spe cial.) Del Howard and his collection of baseball players opened the train ing season here this morning. More than two-thirds of the total Oak staff reported for the initial workout which consisted chiefly of a verbal explanation of the proper and improp er methods of playing ball by the eminent chief of the east bay club. Howard, dolled up in a 1920 model baseball suit watched several of his pitchers heave 'em over the old plat ter and also put his catchers and fielders through a short programme of training. The Oakland club is not wanting in pitchers. The personnel of the twirl ing staff now contains 13 heavers of every size and description. The catching department is not so well off, although Howard has Mltze, Spellman and Gorman working for receiving jobs. In the infield Howard believes he has a very likely prospect in the per son of Ginglardi. a semi-pro player who has been showing heaps of class. In the outer garden there will be the old standbys. Miller, Lane and Wylie. with Cooper and Peterson both look ins for positions on the team. Guisto. Zeider, Knight, Jackson, A. Arlctt. Mitchell. Paull and Ginglardi are the infielders. The pitchers are "Buzz" Arlett. Hollings, Kramer, Rus sell, Gearin, Weaver, Krause, Cun ningham, Lambert, Coleman, Ragan, Swartz and Winn. lOV BLUE SIGNS CONTRACT First Sackcr Now on Way to Club's Southern Training uarters. The only thing to transpire at base ball headquarters yesterday was the arrival of Lou Blue's signed contract and the Beaver first sacker is by this time on his way to Ontario, Cal., from Washington, D. C. Judge William Wallace McCredie Is not very sanguine about the chances of Portland getting either "Slim" Love or "Red" Oldham from Detroit, but it would of course not be a sur prising thing if either of these twirl ers were turned over to the Mackmen later in the year. Portland will no doubt get more help from Detroit be fore the season is very far under way, but it will not necessarily be in the line of pitchers. Detroit is as well supplied with . left-hand heavers as Portland, having four on the list, but one of them is a busher and will be farmed out closer to home. The other three are Dutch" Leonard, Love and Oldham. JORDAN JOINS SEAL SQUAD Former Buffalo Spitball Expert'Re- ports at Stockton. STOCKTON, Cal. (Training camp of San Francisco team), March 8. (Spe cial.) Ray Jordan was a very weak and sick young athlete today, he had a touch of ptomaine poisoning and he looked as if he had been pulled through a knothole. When Jordan came-down to the hotel lobby to meet the bunch he found an old friend in Phil Koerner. They were in the West ern league together in 1913. Jordan , BULL MANAGERS TO MEET SEMI-PRO CONFERENCE TO BE HELD THURSDAY NIGHT. Good condition, which' is nine tenths of a battle won, may again place the Vernon Tigers on top of the percentage column when the end of the 1920 baseball season is reached. A well-known baseball fan who knows the game and can tell a team when he sees one is back from a trip to southern California and says that Bill Essick's 1919 cnampions are al ready in mid-season form. Nearly all of the members of the Tiger squaa have been playing at least twice week all winter in the south and when the call for training camp was issued were already for the start of the coast league race. Bv far and away the Tigers will have the most conspicuous pitching staff in the league and when one con centrates on the various staffs on the circuit he knows that Vernon must be there a million. The Vernon team has always been one of the best drawing cards in the league and for the last five or six years they have been sitting in the first divis on. The late "Happy" HO gan made the Tigers famous through his "never say die fighting spirit" If the breaks were hopelessly against them and the score stood 10-0, Hogan would have his men out there fight' ing to the last play. The Tigers al ways have been a drawing card ana they will continue to be. The Vernon club, in spite or it be ing inside of two miles from Wash ington park, the home of the Angels, draws some monster crowds. ine Tigers have drawn a tight rivalry be tween the two southern clubs and the fans are divided in their favoritism. Several Commercial Houses Plan to Have Teams This Season and Leagues Are In Forming. A meeting of all semi-pro baseball team managers who are interested in organizing an independent baseball league has been called for Thursday night at the A. G. Spalding Bros, store. Jack Routledge, who is in charge of Spalding's Amateur base ball bookings. Is eager to get the in dependent league off to an early start and is calling all team managers to gether who intend to put a team in the field this season. Several teams already have turned out for their first practice. One of the best looking nines that has been heard from so far is that of the American Can company. The Caneos held their first practice Sunday and more than 25 candidates were on hand for . tryouts.- Another commercial house team to turn out Sunday was the Coin Machine Manufacturing company. Gail B. Shadinger of the community service is devoting much of his time to developing semi-pro baseball this season. He has visited all of the car barns and the railroad boys are en thusiastic about forming several teams. It may be possible to form a league among the car men. The de partment stores have declared their intention to enter teams in a league. There has always been a shortage of grounds to play on before but this season Mr. Keyser or tne Portland park bureau assures the team man agers that there will be grounds for everyone. Mr. Shadinger and Mr. Routledge are working in co-operation in tne organization of baseball leagues and f all of their plans are completed semi-pro circuits will be as plentiful as profiteers. FLOCK ANSWERS GUARD CALL Candidates Given Three-Inning Tryout by "Si" Simonsen. Twenty-seven candidates respond ed to the Multnomah Guard's first call for baseball Sunday, a veritable wealth of material cluttering the dia mond seeking try-outs. Al Noyer, prominent semi-pro player, who is handing out the contracts for" the Guards, gave every man an oppor tunity to show his wares, each man going three innings in a game be tween the regulars and the yannigans. In the twirling end the prospects are bright. In the outfield it will be difficult to pick the men, while on the Infield there are several likely looking chaps contesting for regular berths, which will be allotted, says Manager "SI" Simonsen on ability alone. Several men who are figured to have a good chance to make the earn did not show up Sunday, but will be on hand next Sunday, practice be ing scheduled for 1:30 P. M. Those wishing tryouts should show up then or get in touch with Simonsen at 232 Chamber of Commerce building. CITY LINKS ATTRACT 5IANY Record Attendance of 103 Players on Sunday Is Reported. Sunday was a record day for at tendance at the municipal golf links at Eastmoreland, according to C. P. Keyser, superintendent of Portland's parks. Between the hours of 7 A. M. and 5 P. M. 193 players drove off the first tee for a round over the nine holes at Eastmoreland. Sunday was an ideal day for golf, which accounted for the large attendance at the Jinks. Work on the second nine at the municipal course is progressing rap idly and tne notes win probably pe ready for play by the latter part of May or the first of June. The new clubhouse which is also being planned for the course will be ready by July. Br It ton Outfights Palitz. HARTFORD. Conn., March 8. Jack Brltton. welterweight champion, won a newspaper decision over Dave Pa lita of this city in a'10-round bout to night. Letter Here for Perle Casey. There is a letter at the sporting edi tor's desk for Perle Casey, coast Jasue umpire. . When Hogan passed away he was succeeded by a number of managers but none of them could get the Tigers anywhere. Among these were Doc White, a former White Sox pitching star, and "Ham" Patterson, a first sacker oi the Tiger club under the Hogan regime. Essick, a man ager in the Western league, was se cured and to date he has come through in fine shape during the two years he has been at the helm of the Bengals. In 1918 he was sitting in first position when baseball was abandoned for enlistment. The An gels were a couple of notches under the Tigers and it was decided to let the two southern teams play it out for the Pacific Coast league pennant that year. The Angels defeated the Tigers and thereby won the pennant for the half-completed season. How ever, the Tigers got it back last year when they did the impossible won seven games in a row and crept in ahead of the Angels two days before the, season closed. Now for the Tiger hurling staff: Just take a look at these heavers, all are from last year's team: Mitchell and Ross, Southpaws; Rex Dawson, "Wheezer" Dell, Byron Houck, Joe Finneran, Art Fromme, Pete Schnei der. Schneider was with the Tigers during the latter part of the 1919 season. Here is the pitching aver ages of the Tiger heavers during the 1919 season: Finneran, 14 wins and 3 defeats, average 824; Ross, 3 wins and 1 de feat, average .750; Fromme, 19 wins and 7 defeats, average .731; Dall. 23 wins and 15 defeats, average .603 Mitchell, 8 wins and 6 defeats, aver age .571; Houck, 17 wins and 15 de feats, average .531; Rawson, 14 wins and 13 defeats, average .531; Schnei der, 1 win and 1 defeat, average .500 All of the above twirlers will be back again to fling the pill for "Vin egar Bill" Essick and they should be a hard bunch to beat if their work of last year is to be judged by. Besides these Essick will have Lanfranco Moffitt, Kressler, right-handers, and "Lefty" Mann, a southpaw. The last four are recruits and will have a hard fight on' their Sands if they ex pect to stiyk. Until the present season, or for the past two years. Bill Rodgers was the "boy manager" of the Pacific Coast league. That Is, Bill was the latest player to be selected from the play ing ranks and made a manager, but in the coming race Bill might be termed a "veteran," as Clyde Wares and Ernie Johnson now are the two "kid" managers of the league. Wares, who formerly played the Oakland infield, will guide the hopes of the Seattle team. He has assem bled a club that looks to be in the race .and he has a grand chance to make a reputation for himself. Ernie Johnson, shortstop, came to the Salt Lake team from the big leagues last season and has taken the place of Eddie Herr as skipper of that club. The Salt Lake team finished a close third last year and Johnson has a Btrong club with which to start out his career as a pilot. demon Is the champion of Kentucky and second high in the 1919 averages, while Troeh is the Washington cham pion and 18-yard champion of the United States. Just the number of targets has not I been determined, but it is more than likely that they will shoot at 20 tar gets from 16 yards, 20 from 18 yards, 20 from 20 yards. 20 from 22 yards and 10 pairs of doubles 100 targets .in alL This should be a great contest. The shooters are the best four amateurs in North America, if not the world. Arte, Henderson and Troeh were the leading three in the 1919 averages and Wright was fifth. They are trap shooting champions of their own states, and Troeh, Arie and Hender son have been champions of the United States and Canada a title which Wright now holds. All four are high-class doubles shooters. Troeh is a former cham pion and Arie has been runner-up. All are as much at home on the back marks as they are on the front lines, and a competition as mentioned above would in reality decide the all-around amateur trapshooting championship of the country. The Oregon and Lakewood tourna ments are scheduled for May, while the Illinois state championship is list ed for June. There is a possibility that the snooters will continue their match at the Canadian national exhi bition in Toronto the last week In August, but this matter Is in the hands of the exhibition people. Each of the three shooting organi zations mentioned has given $1000 for the match and this money will be pooled at the finish, the man break ing the greatest number, of .targets receiving about 7a per cent of the money. GUIJGl GUTS 11 Roper, Failure Here, Makes Big Showing in East. BIG BILL BRENNAN BEATEN Hugh Walker, Kansas City Heavy weight, on Next Milwaukle Card, , Whipped Roper Here. TRACK MOTS MEET WINGED M TO XAME TRAINER AND COACH SOON. ' Biggest Season in History of Club Is Anticipated Next Meeting Is Friday Night. T TO BE EVENT SCHEDULED FOR ORE CON STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Contest Will Practically Decide Holder of Amateur Trophy for Whole Country. One of the greatest trapshooting events in history will in part be de cided at the Oragon state champion ships to be held by the Portland Gun club in May. Trapshooting has long been a matter-of-fact pastime. Thousands of tournaments are held yearly, and they are all pretty much alike just trap shooting tournaments. The Oregon state shoot has never left this class. Seldom is there one held out of the ordinary; one that appeals to the spectators as well as to the shooters; but an event Is on the cards this sea son that should do a great deal to liven up the clay target sport. Arrangements have been made for a four-cornered match, the annual Lakewood Gun club tournament and the Illinois state championships in Chicago , between Frank Troeh of Vancouver, Wash., shooting under the colors of the Portland Gun club; Frank S. Wright of Buffalo, N. T:; Mark P. Arie of Thomaaboro, 111., and Woolfolk. Henderson of Lexington, Ky. Wright Is the amateur trapshoot ing champion of the United States and Canada. Arie is the champion of Illinois and the high-average leader of the United States for 1313. Uen- A large and enthusiastic turnout attended the first meeting of the winged-M track team with the com mittee in charge of outdoor athletics at Multnomah club last night The committee, which is composed of John O. Baker, chairman, George Gammie and Sam H. Bellah, is preparing for one of the biggest track seasons in the history of the club. The committee intends to get a coach for the track team and also to obtain a trainer. A meeting for the track candidates will be held every Monday night and a second meeting will be held this week on Friday night at 8 o'clock. ' The winged-M track team will enter at least six field meets thife season, the first being the Columbia univer- ity indoor scholastic event, which will be held April 10. The University of Washington relay championships on April 24 is the next track event on the calendar, and will be followed by a dual meet between the clubmen and the Oregon Agricultural college. This meet will be held on May 12, either here or at Corvallis. The P. N. A. championships will be held or. the winged-M field in May or June, and will be followed by the OlvmDic tryouts. which will probaby be held in Pasadena. The winged-M team will also enter the Pow-Wow meet at Spokane, which will be held later in the season. No captain was elected at the meet ing last night, but the track men will make their selection of a pilot within the next week or so. The following men turned in their names last night as candidates for the team: S. W. Morris, Art Keil, Sidney L. Goodwin, Ralph Thayer, Ray Dodge, Harry Floeter. C. C. Thompson, Wallace Kad derly, --Millard Webster, Floyd Payne and Ralph Spearow. CRICKET FIGHTING POPULAR United States Marines Enjoy Fun and Bet Money on Favorites. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. Cricket fighting is a popular sport in China, according to United States marines who just returned here from a tour of duty in the orient. The most celebrated cricket fights are those at Fa-ti, near Canton," says one of these sea soldiers. "A number of sheds are provided, made of mat ting, and are divided up into com partments. Each compartment con tains a table with a vessel standing on it In which the encounters take place. "Big contests are waged, the at tendance is large and betting is heavy. Final results are posted conspicuously. Crickets are matched according to weight and color. "When a cricket with a long record of victories dies its owner puts it in a tiny coffin and buries it, believing that funeral honors will assure him good luck in finding good fighting crickets." STREAMS WILL BE CLOSED BY RICHARD R. SHARP. The fight game is certainly a funny proposition and about the hardest one to figure in tne books. Captain Boh Rod er camA out here from Chicago a month or so ago to fight Boy McCormlck. Ropes came as highly touted as any boxer that ever crossea tne Rockies and in the bout with McCormlck had the eda-e in weight of between 12 and 20 pounds. The result of the bout was never in doubt. Roper fought like an "edu cated Holstein" and 'Andsorae Boy Mccormick gave him a beautiful lac ing for ten rounds. Never during one wnoie minute of the bout did Roper snow anything to the fans to con vince them that he had ever won or put up a good fight in his life. His showing put him on a par with Jack Root, who did manage to beat Larry Madden one night, long ago. Roper's handlers could not explain his showing and did not try, merely saying that they could not figure it in and that he was not himself. Of course the fans would hardly believe it after the sorry exhibition. But right here is where the funny proposition comes in. Since his re turn east Roper has had threefights, which in the first place shows that he must be a card or they would not use him. Secondly he faced two of the best men in the world and beat one of them. His other opponent was a tough second or third-rater named Jack Kelly, whom Roper knocked out. His first start after that .was against Harry Greb, the Pittsburg light heavyweight. No one will dispute Greb's ability. The latter won the decision at the end of what was termed as ten furious rounds of box ing. Roper's bout with McCormlck hardly reached the "fury" class. Last week came the surprise of their life to the local fans who are close followers of the game and watch the east. toper took: on Bill Erennan In a 10-round bout in Saginaw, Mich., and won from the fighting Irishman, who is rated as one of the five best heavy weights in the world. Brennan may have had an off night, just like Roper evidently had here, but nevertheless he received a beating, so the Captain may have something after alL flicts that develop as the applications are received. Present indications are that the schedule will include an unusually large number of applications, an this fact, coupled with the prooame num ber of international events, will make it a difficult matter to avoid some conflicts. Not only must provision oe made for the International matches, but the addition of various new events tn the home nchedule it is anticipates In the middle west, for example, there Is much discussion of new inter-city and inter-sectional matches. Further more, the suggestion has been made in Cleveland that a new doubles tour nament be established, on an inter city basis. These Indications of in creasing interest in tennis and tourna ment play show the complication in volved in arranging a national scneu. ni hut It la honed all will be ad justed in time to permit adoption of the schedule about March so. Ex-Irish Champion Loses. MILWAUKEE.. Wis.. March 8. Pinkey Mitchell, local lightweight. tnnio-h.t An oil v outboxed Barney Adair. New York; formerly champion of Ireland in his class, in a ten-round windup, sporting writers agreed. Baker to See Ad Santel. BAKER, Or.. March 8. (Special.) Ad Santel, world's light heavyweight wrestling champion, will replace Jim Noregaard, Baker s nereuies, wno was hurt in an accident Saturday. Santel agrees to win two falls within an hour or forfeit Thursday's match to Ad Gustavo, the Argentine middle- WBGTll HIGH SWAMPS COIVIMERCE Colonials Pile Up 50 Points to Opponents' 17. COMBINATION PLAY WINS Postponed Games Scheduled for This Week In Effort to End In terscholastlo Season. Intervrholastle Icud Standing-. W. 1. p.C.I W. L. P C. Benson.... 4 0 inno' Columbia. . 8 4 .4?t Franklin. .4 O100O H1II 1 8 .1(17 Lincoln... 6 1 .HrvTICommerc. . 1 6 - US Washlna-ton 4 1 .smvjamoa John 0 7 . 000 Jefferson. 5 2 .OUO) The Washington high school five piled up a score of SO to 17 against the High Scnool of Commerce basket ball team in the opening game of the weie-ht. who has become popular in week yesterday afternoon on the eastern Oregon with his wrestling Young Men's Christian association successes. - floor. The Commerce tossers were no match for the fast-working colonial quintet and the latter scored at will. The score at the end of the first half stood 24 to 7. The majority of the Washington teams points were made by Captain Irvine and Edlund. the latter getting ten field baskets and the former net ting seven baskets from the floor and converting four free throws. Team Play Wln The combination playing of the Washington team was very good and PHILADELPHIA, March . Benny the players were not forced to attempt This "Bevo" Has Kick.1 SEATTLE, Wash., March 8. "Bevo" Kruvosky, San Francisco heavy weight, who has a record of six straight knockouts, will make his first appearance in the Pacific north west here tomorrow night, when he meets "Wild Bill" Reed, also from California. Talger Defeats Jimmy Murphy. Valger, New York, defeated Jimmy Murphy, Philadelphia, in a six-round bout tonight. OTTO KETTENBACH LEADS GROSS SCORE OF 91 TURNED IN FROM CITY LINKS. Several Fishing Spots Near Eugene Are Barred to Anglers. EUGENE. Or., March 8. (Special.) By a ruling of the state fish and game commission, issuea in fortiana nn March 1. it will be unlawful after March 31 to fish in a number of creeks tributary to the Mcn.enzie river. K. . Ha,wker, district game warden, brought notice of the decision to Eugene. Angling for any and all kinds of fUh will be prohibited after the date eet because of the fear on the part of the commission tnat tne nsn will soon be extinct, the ruling says. The streams included are Ritchie, Johnson, Trout, Driftwood. Granite, Indian, Gate. Deer, Martin, Ennls and Quartz creeks and Smith river. The penalty for a violation of the ruling is covered by statute that provides for fines from 25 to $500 and 30 days In Jail. . GEORGES CARPENTIER WEDS Brldo Declares "She Will Not See Husband Fight for Title. j PARIS.' March 8. Georges Carpen- tier, heavyweigrnt boxing champion of Eurooe. married Mademoiselle Georg ette Laurentia Elsasse at the city hall today. The religious ceremony will be celebrated at a Paris church to morrow. The civu marriage occurred some hours before the time originally set. In order to avoid crowds. The bride said after tne ceremony that she did not like boxing and would not watch her husband fight for the championship. Francois Descamps, Carpentler s manager, had previously announced her opposition would cause the match with Jack Dempsey to be Carpentier's final fight. . t 1 Basketball Game Decisive. - CENTRALIA, Wash., March 8. (Special.) The championship of the Southwest Washington Basketball league apparently hinges on the out come of this week's game between the Olympia and Montesano high BC11UU1 urilliio. Aitc league ci o iia, final week with Centralia and Olym- pia tied for first place, each team having won five and lost two games, - Roper's showings make Hugh walker, who will meet Willie Meehan in the main event of next Wednesday night's fistic card at the Milwaukle arena, stand out all the better. Walker holds two 12-round decisions over Roper and neither were close. The Kansas City mauler and his manager. Jay Thomas, are on their way to Portland for the Meehan fra cas and may get here by tomorrow. Meehan was slated to leave San Fran cisco for Portland yesterday. a According to word from Minneapo lis, Jock Malone, the formidable Twin Cities middleweight, is headed for the Pacific coast. He has a fight coming up in Canada and is then billed to start in Seattle. Johnny. Noye and Jimmy Duffy are scheduled to mix in Tommy Simpson's main event in Oakland tomorrow night. Joe Gorman and Billy Mas- cott may also be on the card. Charley Swinehart, well - known San Francisco handler of boxers, will leave for the northwest with his sta ble shortly. Among his proteges are Harlem Eddy Kelly, 142 pounds; Steve Dalton, 145 pounds, and Allie Nack, 138-135 pounds. Nack and Kelly are New York boxers. Henry R. "Hi" Everding, prominent Portland sportsman, has some vacant property on the east side upon which he has been considering building an arena, which he would offer to house the Portland boxing commisison's cards. The proposition has not yet been formally considered by the com mission, but will be looked over. The plan to take over the Ice Pal ace by a stock company and convert it into a boxing arena is still in the air, although some definite arrange ment will be made shortly. By shoot ing all but a few of the seats on the lower floor of the Heilig theater up to S3 the other night the Portland boxing commission managed to pull out with some profit on the Benjamin Anderson card. Rotary Club's First Tournament Is Arousing Interest In Big Affair at Victoria, B. C. any long shots, although Peteraon, who replaced Bruno in the second half, popped two pretty baskets from the center of the floor. Commerce started out with a substi tue lineup which failed to do anything against the Washington combination, but after Ted Gurian and Marty Paul bach arrived on the scene and were shoved Into the fray the play of the Bookkeepers improved considerably. "ix" Grider is credited with 9 of the Bookkeepers' points, while Paul bach marked up 4 points and Gurian and Harris got one basket apiece. Stars Are Picked. Gurian and Grider put up the best game for the losers, while Irvine, Ed lund and Lady were working fine for Washington. The lineup: Washington (50). Irvine (IS).. I-ady (6) n a inea ........ Jirilund 20) Bruflio t- , Peterson (4)... Referee, Leon and Neudleman; Junes. .F. . . K . ..C. ..a. ..a . ...s . s. Fahrc Commerce (17). (11) (irl.icr - llarrlK l'eppina-r hhscc Altlnnm ....(4) Paulbm-h (2) IJurl.in scorors. Ttow) timers, Hockhey and The Franklin high school quintet Otto Kettenbach turned in the low Kgross card of 91 Jn the first elimina tion round of the Portland Rotary club's handicap golf tournament at the muinicipal links last Saturday. Kettenbach also turned in the low score of 89 in the Qualifying round last week. This is the Rotary club's first tour nament nf the year and. by the inter est which is being shown, the club probably will take the lead in the race expects a large number of the local I for the lnterscholastlc championship Rotarlans who are devotees of the an- this afternoon when the Quakers tnn clent Scottish pastime to make the gle with the James John five. The trip to Victoria, B. C, for the annual double-J crew has failed to annex a northwest conference of Rotary clubs game so far this season and It is and golf tournament April 4, 5 and 6. hardly probable that they will be able The local club originated the Idea I to do much against the raft-coming of a golf tournament for the Rota- Quaker quintet. The game will be rians at the annual conference here played on the Y. M. C. A. floor. last vea.r and nut un a troDhv to be nlaved for each vear. The Victoria Coach Dewey's Columbia university delegation carried the cup home last shooters and the Benson Tech five are year, but the local club Is going to I DOOKeo. io cihjjm lumurruw anernoon out a strong team In the competition on the Y. M. C. A. floor. If postponed at Victoria In April and has hopes oil games naa nm oren ine oracr tie arrangements for a series ef ba kethall games between the Lniveralty of Chicago, champions of the western conference and' the University of Pennsylvania, lnter-rollrgiate lcnrue winners, were made today. The flritt game will be played In Chicago, March 20. PARKWAY TO MEET G CARDS .Manager Tries to Get Old Men to Save Title From Mlliurltt. Manager Sam Teasler of the Sooth Parkway quintet burned up the wire yesterday in an effort to get rein forcements for bis Parkway banket tossers for their eeeond game with the Multnomah Guard team, which U booked for the B'nal li'rlth gym to morrow night at 8 o'clock. Tfjuler is attempting to ret both Gurian, now at Whitman college, and Goldstone, who Is at Spokane, to come here for the game and tave the champlonahlp honors, which are threatened seriously by the Guards. If he is eucrAAHful aome faat and nappy basketball may be expected. The first game rexultcd In a lj-to-7 score for the Gunrdt. A prellmlniry game Is scheduled. Both will be handled by Io Fahra. M1SSIDMBJES WIH. 4B-24 rCLLMAX FAILS TO PIERCE AIR-TIGHT DEFENSE. bringing the trophy back. inrousnuui mo u,,n im,.. ., Hlllnrh.i would have brought the 1920 hoop Ln gt ,.!,,.,,,' th,a wenk. A Seventh Straight Win for Whitman Registered In Contest Bris tling Wilh Fouls. WALLA WASH, Wash.. March 8 (Special.) Whitman decisively beat Washington State college tonight ty the score of 40-24 In the roimhrnt game yet seen on the local floor. Thirty-eight fouls were callrd by Rrf eree Moycr and two free throws were awarded In addition tn each aide for excessive personals. T1S feature of the game was the playing of lta-n Peterson, guard, who in the last five games has allowed his man to make but one basket, and that to Stlnson of O. A. C Dement lived up to his reputation by corralina eight baaketa. every one from a difficult angle, due to cloae guarding. Rockey, Bohler's all-star forwarrrwas taken out In the second half when he had failed to deliver a single point and Clana put In his place. The latter fared no better. however, under the watchful eye of Peterson. ' Rich and Garver played a great brand of aggressive bnakethall. and with Dement formed the combination that has not been beaten yet this year. Rich was forced to quit with an in jured shoulder. The score shows that Captain Wil son also defended his goal In (tood style, allowing Mose only one field h.isket. The fact that two men did ifll the visitors' scoring speaks well for the mlasionary defense. The lineup: Whitman Foul Hon. W. 8. C Carver H) 1. K rtni-iteT Kl.'h 141 II r (IB) Mc.oa Iiinent (18i (' Illlii" I'pt-Tnon It (a) Cor-i-laml Wilnon 2 L U Mi-lxnr Sulxtllutlona W. H C. Kins fnr il!li. Cjsna tor Hockey; Whitman. Uunan for Ilh-h. Kree throw W. S. C. Mum. 14 out ef 21: Whitman. Rich. 11' out of 21. Referee ilnvrr, Hpokane. BELLIXGHAM SENDS "DEFl" Vancouver High (iulnlot lo Play Northern Team This Monlh. VANCOUVKK. Wash.. (Special.) Vancouver M.irch I hlch achool Harry Druxman is arranging banner card for his monthly show in Aberdeen this Friday night. Jack Wagner, the hard-hitting Portland welterweight, will tangle with Lloyd Madden of Seattle in the main event of six rounds. The scores follow: Handicap. Groaa. Net. O. H. Becker 15 loo 1 R. A. Stewart 20 lXt - M Frank Heltkemper 20 11 Htt Kdsar HiKKina 'M 107 T J. A. Vosan -0 113 0.1 W. J. Lyons 20 107 87 Dr. F. E. Moore 14 ." 81 C. H. Mead 18 100 Hi Thomas M. Hart 20 107 87 S. C. Jacirar 20 109 8o Otto Kettenbach 10 01 . 81 Irving R. Stearna 20 117 7 W. A. Barendrlck 24 113 89 W. J. Roope 20 114 04 season to The T. M. C. A. floor has been en gaged for the playoff of two post poned games on Thursday and Friday afternoons. Hill and Commerce will be the opposing teams on Thursday and Washington and Franklin will meet on Friday. Basket Title at Stake. PHILADELPHIA. March 8 Tenta- teli-graphic Invitation was received today and accepted. It la underNtoml that Bellingham has dt-feali-d prac tlcallytevery team f ita claas In the northern part of the stale. Vancouver has games scheduled with llwaco and 'hehalla Krlilav. March 12, and Friday, March 19. but one of thene will bo postponed to per mit the plnylng of the game with Bolllnirham. TENNIS DATES TENTATIVE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE FOR TOURN'AMEXTS SEXT OUT. C. S. Association Calls Upon Mem bers to Forward Applications for Dates Promptly. Tentative dates for the national ten nis championships have been set by the United States Lawn Tennis associa tion, according to a Dunetin request ing its members to forward their ap plications for sanction of tournament dates promptly. According to pro posed arrangements.- the schedule shows the following dates: June 11-12 Church cup match, Naw York. June 28 (tentative) Intercollegiate championship, Philadelphia. July 3 ttentatlve) Clay court champion pionship, Chicago. August 16 National doubles champion ship, Boston. August 23 Tantatlva date for women's International team match for the Wight man trophy. August 30 National singles champion ship. New York. September 13 Woman's national cham pionship. Philadelphia. , Discussion of the schedule shotsld recognize, of course, that many of the dates are tentative, those for the na tional events, as well as for the cham pionships of lesser Importance. Until about March 10, when most of the applications will have been received, it is impossible to tell what clubs will be holding tournaments in 1920 and the dates they desire. Consequently the schedule committee canont act un til It has all this information, al though pending receipt it is able to do much in the way of obviating; con- LEGIOXXAIRES BEAT SWASTIKA Xewberry Team Rolls Up 4-1 to 16 for Portland "Y" Quintet. The Newberg American Legion quintet emerged the victor over the y. M. C. A. Swasticas in a gamf played on the Newberg floor Satur day night. Outweighed 20 pounds to the man, the Portlanders battled against heavy odds and succeeded in holding the home town team to a score of 44 while they were running up 16 points. The "X" Crescents are scheduled to battle the ex-service men tonight on the same floor. Friday night "Si" Simonsen and his bunch of Multnomah Guard tossers will invade Newberg to tangle with "Buddie" Baird's legionnaires, who emerged victors by one point in a previous contest staged on the same floor. Rhinehart is slated to officiate as referee. Baird says that a record breaking crowd is promised, reserva tions being made from every section of Yamhill county for the game. The Guard has reserved a block of seats, 50 or more expecting to make the trip. SEATTLE LEADS IX HOCKEY j Vancouver Septet Is Defeated by Score of 2 to 0. VANCOUVER, B. C. March 8. Se attle again climbed to first place tn the Pacific Coast Hockey associa tion series here tonight, defeating the Vancouver team, 2 to 0. The last game of the season will be played Wednesday night at Seattle, between Seattle and Victoria. Following that game, first and second-place teams will play off the championship. Seattle scored in the first and sec ond periods of tonight's game, the third period being scoreless. 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