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THE 3IORNrfGs OREGONIAX, TnTJRSDAT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920 15 W.'H. Wallingford Co., 15th and Washington Streets i"r f- ;- ' -- '.- - - -- -v - ... Smashing All ReGOtfds Breaking All Precedent Selling New H .Lilbe'Fttv- S Regular Price Is $2225 t i Every Car Brand New and the' Latest 1920 Model - You Simply Save $430 The Liberty Six needs no recommendation to the American public. It's splendid record stands supreme an enviable achievement in automobile history. We are ' going out of business, but the cars pioneered in Portland by us will be distributed by other able firms. We Are Selling Out! Every car remaining on our floors, regardless of cost, must be sold at once. Our building will be leased and we must get out. This .is your one greatest opportunity. New Liber tys $1795 New Briscoes $1195 NEW BRISCOES- 1920 models of this popular car cut , to prices that will move them NOW! Two New Briscoe Sedans, regular C? "fl V 5 price $2145, going at' P JL O ? 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Bobby Evans, matchmaker for the Portland boxing commission, yester day officially announced tils mam event and seml-wlndup for the Oc tober 6 card at the Heillg theater. The bill will be topped by two heavy weight contests. Sam Langford. the famous negro Goliath, and "Tiny" Herman will box the 10-round main event while Ole Anderson of Tacoma and Leo Cross of Portland will battle In the eight-round semi-final. Langford arrived here from Chi cago last evening and was present at the show at the Milwaukie arent. Her man is at present In Tacoma, where he Is being put through a, severe training period by his manager and trainer, Cliet Mclntyre, former Pacific coast heavyweight champion and box lng instructor of the Seattle Athletic club. Ole Anderson has the reputation of being one of the roughest heavies in the business and Is back In Tacoma after a six months' tour of the coun try, during which time he met Harry Wills. Bill Brennan. Oene Tunnev. Al Roberts, Martin Burke, Gunboat Smith, Willie Meehan and several other of the country's best known big men. Anderson beat Meehan on two occa sions. Cross Fast b Shifty. Cross is a fast, shifty boxer and a light-heavyweight by rights, as he only scales about ITS pounds and says tnat ne can make 165 in a pinch. However, ne is willing to meet any one from the latter weight on up Leo beat Bob Martin, the A. E. F. champion, in six rounds in France, and put up several good fights here in the six-round days. His two bouts against valley Trambitas will lng be remembered. ! Evans will announce the rest Of the card today. . The Joe Gorman-Bud Ridley bout slated for Seattle next Wednesday nijrht is expected to draw one of the largest houses that has ever at tended a fistic card in the Puget sound city. Gorman Is the biggest drawing card in Seattle at the pres ent time. ... Morris Clinton Hill, the apartment house magnate, who keeps a stable of fighters for a "stall," can hardly wait for the Portland fans to get the opportunity to witness his ban tamweight, Allie Taylor, in action. T.vior is a product of Bend, Or., but Is said to be devoid of all bush box Ins; talent and a real comer. He will likely get a chance to show the! youngster on the first card under the Portland commission. ... George Eagles. aggressive San Francisco 133-poundef, Is In Port land ready to battle anyone at his weight. Eagles has beat such boys as Dave Shade, Joe "King" Leopold and others. He fought Weldon Wing at the Milwaukie arena last year, tak ing the match on a day's notice and losing the decision. He proved him self a Willing mixer, however, and de serves a chance to make good. At that time he weighed about 12$ pounds. ... Jimmy Stevens, manager, and "Goat" TiSvln. battier, were also arrivals from San Francisco yesterday. Lavin weighs about 168 pounds and al though he has only had 14 fights, beat eome of the best men In Cali fornia at his weight. He has hsd two RUTH'S HOMERS ARE FEARED Swat Kins Breaks 3 Windows and 1 Frame of Little Store. CLEVELAND, Sept. 29. There is a little candy store on Lexington ave nue here, just opposite the league park, the proprietor of which be lieves in "safety first," Every time the New Tork Amer icans come to town the proprietor of the store puts up heavy screens in front of his windows. "Babe" Ruth has broken three windows and one window frame. When the New York aeries ends down come the screens. BRIBERY TALE RELATED TWO GA3IBLERS ARE INDICTED IX BASEBALL- PROBE. TACOMA DOE TAKES TITLE CHAMPIONSHIP, 2 CTPS AXD TROPHY GO TO OWXER. Sox Fielder Says Mates Who Were Crooked Lived In Fear of Exposure. ' Contimied- From First Page.) Washington Field Trials for 120 Comes lo Successful Close Near Centralia. CENTRA LI A, Wash., Sept. - 29. (Special.) Hyas Cull Chicamun. owned by M. A. Howe of Tacoma, to day won the International champion ship stake, closing event ot the 19i0 Washington field trials, and as a re sult the D. G. McDonnell memorial cup, offered by the British Columbia field trials club, and the cup offered by William Zeigler Jr. of New York pass into Mr. Howe's possession. In addition to a special trophy offered by A- C. Wilkes of San Francisco. Cups were won last year by Willie Wilkes, owned by Dr. A. Iieardsley oi can rratreisco. Other entries In today's stake were Western Lady, owned by Delta ken nels. Vancouver, B. C: Beanies Bell. owned by D. P. Ewen, Portland; Lucky J tvia, ownea Dy a. u. Wilkes, San Francisco: Willie Wilkes, last year's champion, and Corrlanche Jingo Rush, ownea Dy jsa s. .rioag, Seattle. According to officials of ttve Wash ington Field Trials club, this year's trials were a complete success. The majority of sportsmen here for the event returned to their homes tonight. Trials will be held 'on Grand Mound course annually In future. ' ATHLETIC GATHERING HELD fcnthu.siasm Shown for Football at Pacific University: PACIFIC UNIVERSITT. Forest Grove, Or., Sept. 29 (Special.) Most of the men attending the university gathered at the college gymnasium Monday evening. Naturally, football received large attention. Coach Strong, who is already making good In a most decided way, was called upon for a speech and outlined the athletic programme, arousing great enthu siasm. Others who spoke were Presi dent Clark, Dean Bates. Arthur Jones, president of -the student body, Donald Butterworth and John Stovall, president of the college Y. M. C. A. Athletic events of the evening In cluded several exciting boxing bouts, each of which was declared a draw, also a demonstration of "jlu jitsu" by Suniyosht Arlma, of the senior class. Large quantities of coffee and dough nuts were consumed. The success of this event augurs well for the work of the college Y. M. C. A. under whose auspices the meeting was held. Sunday night telling of his private investigation; how Comlskey had told him a year ago he suspected some of the White Sox players and how he and William Veeck, president of the ChlcAgo Cubs had obtained a confes sion from Lee Magee. "One incident In Magee's case Is amusing." said Heydler, "for while I think ha tried to throw this game, he really helped win it. Blaa-ee Forced to Be Square. In July, 1918, Magee was playlne second for Cincinnati against Boston. He came to bat with two out and hit an easy grounder which took a bad bounce and ne was safe. He was ordered to steal second and ambled down. Wheu half way to second, he stopped, but Art Wilson made a wild throw and Magee had to go on to third. He might have scored with the tying run. I think. If he had tried, but he didn t. Then Rousti knocked home run. Magee had to come in j with the tying run and Roush's run, of course, won the game." Heydler is said to have told the jury that Magee confessed to him and Veeck that he took part In the throw ing of several games. According to an official in the state's attorney's office, the names of two brothers in Des Moines have been brought before the jury. They are said1 to hare placed large bets on the world series and to have been .tipped that it waa "fixed." ' Further indictments against gam blers may be expected within a day or two, it was said. The jury will not consider baseball at its session tomorrow, but probably will resume the investigation the next day. "Rlsberg, Gandll and McMullIn were at me for a week before the series started," Clcotte said he told the grand jury In his confession. "They wanted me to go crooked. I needed the money. I had the wife and kids. They don't know this and I don't know what they'll think. "I had bought a farm. There was a $4000 mortgage. I paid that oft with crooked money. "The -eight of us got together in my room three or four days before the series started. Gandll was master of ceremonies. We talked about throw ing the series and decided we could net away with it. We agreed te do it. "I was thinking of the wife and kids and how I needed the money. I told them I had to have the cash In advance. I didn't want any checks. I didn't want any promises. I wanted the money in Dills before I pitched a ball. "We all talked quite a while about It, Ires all of us decided to do our best to throw the games to Cincin nali. Then Gandll and McMullin took us all, one by one, away from the others and we talked turkey. They asked me my price. I told them $10,000, paid in advance. - "Well, the argument went on for some days but I stood pat. 1 wanted that 10,000 and I got it. The day ,before I went to Cincinnati I put it up to them squarely for the last time Lthere would be nothing doing unleBS i naa tne money. That night I round the money under my pillow. I had sold out 'Commy' and the boys to pay off a .mortgage" on a farm and for the wife and kids." . Joe Jackson described his confes sion to the grand jury as follows: "I heard I had been indicted. I de cided these men could not put any thing over on me. I called up Judge i McDonald and told hum I was an honest man. He said 'I know you are not,' and hung up the receiver. I figured somebody had squawked and that the place for me. was the ground floor. 1 went over to tell him what I knew. "I got in there and said "I got $5000 and they promised me $20,000. Lefty Williams handed it to me in a dirty envelope.' I told that to Judge Mc Donald. "He said he didn't care what I got, that if I got what I ought to get for crabbing the game of the kids. I Wouldn't be telling him my story. "i aon t think the judge likes me. Williams Takes 920,000. Before going before the grand jury Claude Williams made the following sworn statement to Alfred Austrian, attorney for the White Sox: "In New York Mr. Gandil called me to one side, out In front of the Hotel Ansonla. and asked me If anybody had approached ma about th world's seriesr' "After coming; back to Chicago I was called down to the Warner hotel, where Eddie Clcotte, Chick Gandil, Buck Weaver and Happy Felsch and two fellows Introduced as Brown and Sulit van,-supposed to be the gamblers, or Yellows that were fixing It for the gamblers, one of the two, they didn't say which. They said they were from New York. They wanted us to throw the series to Cincinnatt for $5000 apiece, and I said that wasn't enough money to fool with, and I . was in formed that whether or n.ot I took any action, the games would be fixed. so i iota mem anything isey aia would be agreeable with me; if it was going to be done anyway, that I had no money, and I migjt as well get what I could. I was supposed to ret $10,000 after the second game when we got back to Chicago; and I didn't get this until after the .fourth game, and Gandll then said' that the gamblers had called It off. And I figured then that there was a double croes some place. Then Uandil Informed rue In Cincinnati that Bill Burns and Abe Attell were fixing lt'so We could get $100,000, making $20,000 more. That I never received." "He. asked Uandll when we wer going to get the $100,000 that Burns and Attell were supposed to give us. He said 'they are supposed to give me arter eacn game $20,000 or 130.000. If they gave him that I know nothing oi rt at an. .None of the other boys ever told me a word of what they got whether tney got a penny or not. That is all I know. I went Xo Gandil's room; he was there; there" the money was ly lng. two packages, two envelopes laying there, and he said 'there is your dough.' I picked it up and went right back down to a taxicab and went right back to the hotel where I went in and threw half of it on the bed; some of the folks was in the bathroom or in the bedroom. I won't say which; we had a big suite there, but I went in the other room and said here is supposed to be half of it.' " - Questioned as to how he knew what was In the envelope, W illiams said "Gandll told me, 'there is five for yourself and five for Jackson and the rest has been called for." That was after the fourth game." was "fixed" New York authorities to day started an inquiry into reports that the same clique of gamblers planned a crooked series for 1920. Acting on a newspaper story that members of the Brpoklyn Nationals, winner of the league pennant, were to be bribed to lose to the Cleveland ndlans. District Attorney Lewis of Kings county summoned all members of the local team before him Friday. At the same time he telegraphed to Chicago for any evidence available there. "If there is anything wronsr -with this world's series, we are going- to find it out before it is too late," said Mr. Lewis. "I intend , to investigate fully certain ugly rumors which have me to my attention. I feel this Is a duty I owe to the followers of base ball. If the games are. to be on the level, we will establish that fact and If there is crookedness, we will prose cute the crooks to the limit." The district attorney was promised full co-operation by Charles H. Eb betts, president of the Brooklyn club, who said he would personally request his players to visit the district at torney without the formality of sub poenas. While expressing confidence In the Integrity of his players, Mr. Ebbetts added that If any were found to be involved they would be sus pended. Zack Wheat, captain and left fielder of the Brooklyn team, tonight dented rumors that members of the team had been approached in an attempt to "fix" the coming world's series. Wheat was surprised when he learned that eome of his fellow players were to be questioned with reference to the reports. Asserting that there was absolutely no truth in the rumors. Wheat con tinued: "No one has ever approached me and It would not be well for any that had. I am sure that none of the players have been approached. If any persons have doubts about the game we will play they had bettci come out and see us perform. Per haps we will be beaten In the series, but we will play the best, game we can. "Even the hint that there is any thing wrong is bound to affect the feeling of the men. We. have always played clean ball and we're in there lighting; up to the finish.-" BOYHOOD'S IDOL DESTROYED COMIMG SERIES IXDER FIRE Xew York Hears TJgly Rumors of Xew Gambling Clique. NEW YORK, Sept. 29. While a Chi cago grand jury was Investigating charges that the 1919 world's series sums paid them ranging from $5000 to $10,000. Every one of the eight. It was said, was getting a salary In ex cess of $5000 a year and some as high as $10,000 or more. Clcotte testified his salary was $10,000, just the meunt of the bribe he admitted tak ing. Jackson, who got $5000 of the gamblers' money, is said to have re ceived a saJary in excess of $10,000 a year. Mr. Comlskey was the heaviest fi nancial loser in the transaction, how- ever. He estimated today that seven of the eigrht players, excluding Gan dil. who is not playing with the team this year, had a cash value of $230.- 000 before the expose of the eerles fixing. G AX Dili FOTJXD IX HOSPITAL Alleged Ringleader In Plot Issues Statement, From Bed. HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 29. Chick Lcandit, 'former White Sox ballplayer. named as one of the ringleaders in the Dlot to throw the 1919 series, today was at a hospital In Lufkln, Texas, recovering from an operation for appendicitis. No one was permitted to see Gun- dil. but the former star player is sued this statement through his phy slcian: "There is absolutely nothing I care to say regarding charges made and I shall not attempt to make a state ment of any kind until my physicians have informed me that my condition will warrant me returning to active work." Gandil is a former Lufkin resident. He was operated on yesterday. Maharg Xot to Testify. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29. Billy Maharg, former prine flffhter, who, Monday night, told the story of the throwing of world's series games last year, said today he was not going to Chicago. The telegram sent last night accepting the offer of Charles Comlskey of $10,000 to go to' Chicago b n nrn;o 1 i H k t ft t ATT1 ATI t t VU R,Tlt bV a sporting editor of this city, Maharg saia. Gaston Chevrolet, Eddie Hearne, Ralph Mulford and Eddie Alilier are among the drivers entered. One of the larfrest do shows of southern California im to be held at Santa Barbara October T, S and 8. Many well-known doff owners of Pan Francisco and Los Anirels are to exhibit, including Mayor James Rolph and Irving' C. Ackerman, of San Francisco and Miss Anita Baldwin ot Los Angelea. BIRD SEASOX OTEXS FRIDAY Dncks and Pheasants Can Be Shot In Coast Counties. The duck season in Multnomah. Co lumbia, Clatsop and Tillamook coun ties will open Friday morning at 5:21 o'clock and will close at sunset, De cember SI. For the other counties west of the Cascades the season will open October 16 and close January 15. The China pheasant season opens Friday rooming at 5:11 o'clock, also tnd closes November 1. For both ucks and pheasants the shooting be gins one-half hour before sunrise and stops at sunset. Southern Golf Title at Stake. ATLANTA. Ga, Sept. 29. Play in the southern open golf championship will open here tomorrow with most of Sport News and Comment. Youngsters Stand Silent as Former Hero Passes. CHICAGO, Sept. 29. When Joe Jackson left the criminal courts building In custody of a sheriff after telling his tory to the grand jury, he found several hundred youngsters, ranging in age from six to IS. w;alting for a glimpse of their former idol. One little urchin stepped up to tty? outfielder and, grabbing his coat sleeve, said: "It ain't true, is It, Joe?" "Yes, kid, I'm afraid It is." Jackson replied. The boys opened a path for the ballplayer and stood In silence until he passed out of sight. "Well, I'd never have thought it, sighed the lad who had stopped Jack son. COM1SKEY IS HEAVIEST LOSER Entire Sbx Squad Out When Mates Take Bribes. CHICAGO, Sept. 29. "Fixing" of the 1919 world's series cost the play ers bribed and their innocent team mates as well an opportunity to win $1952.65, the difference between their loser's share of $3254.36 and the $5207.01 paid each victorious Red. Eight players were bribed, ac cording to Clcotte and Jackson, the Charlie White Is to get hla eleventh chance at the world a lightweight title, irrannmcnb have practlcaMv been com pleted for a return match between White and Benny Leonard and a date will be set within a few days. The pair fought St Benton Harbor last July, when Leonard knocked White out In the ninth round. It was the closest- call Leonard has had and though White waa eventually knocked nut. he at one time during the fight al most had the champion out. and it was on'y due to tne lauer'a ring generaisnip that he pulled through and won via the K. O. Leonard was nol properly trained for that bout, but it is a certainty he will be in shape for this next scrap. Prior to that scrap White had aJeo met Freddie Welch and Willie Ritchie for the title and lost both scrips. Karl eheely"s chance of breaking the coast league home-run record seems to hnvf, inne. The record is 33. made by Bunny Brif a few years ago, and- today Sheely has 27 to his credit. On the average of home-run swats he has set there 19 no chance of his making seven circuits of the bases In the time left for completing the league schedule. At that it looks aft though the Salt Lake swatter Is going to retain his stana as tne leaoing rj&teman of the coast teams. He la hitting con iKtntlv and today heads the lint with SB8. aa against .360 last week. Miller of Oakland la- his nearest rtv-al and he jumped two points last series, coming up from 13o to 338. Automobile racing Is becoming more popular In every section of the coast states. Tacoma. Wash., recently put on a big series and Los Angeles and Hanford. Cal., later put on succesFlul race meets. Fresno, Cal.. 1 the latest and will open a new 1250.00O track. net Saturday with a 200 mile race for a $15,000 purse for whirh IS of the most famous racing drivers of the country will compel. 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