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13 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1930 1 '- t - : -v. 1 . . .'.J riiEW YEAR'S BOXIIHG CARD OWE OF BEST List of Battles at Milwaukie Arena Caps Season's Climax. THREE EVENTS 10 ROUNtfS Harlan Bunker, Elongated HcaTy weight Battler, to Take On Frank Farmer of Tacoma. have the legislature at the next ses sion enact amendments and new laws that will clarify the statutes on angling. A number of local sportsmen have been undetermined as to their rights to catch salmon trout in local streams. Mr. Berghduffs letter, in part, was as follows: "The season on 'six-Inch trout Is closed during th'e months of Decem ber, January, February and March. The law governing game district No. 2 allows angling for ten-inch trout all the year, but an order of the state board of fish and game com missioners, dated March 19. 1919, closed the season, and eo no trout except salmon trout can be taken dur ing the months above named." IT AT 101 CONTESTS TRACK FAVORED Intercollegiate Athletic Asso ciation in Session. GOLF SESSION IS JAN. 15 PROPOSAL FOR NEW COXSIX TCTIOX STILL STANDS. BOXING PROGRAMME FOR SATl RDAY AFTERNOON AT MiLWAl'KlE ARENA. Harlan Bunker of San Fran cisco vs. Frank Farmer of Ta coma. ten rounds, heavyweights. Alex Trambitas of Portland vs. Frankie Murphy of Denver, ten rounds, welterweights. Babe Herman of Sacramento vs. Ray Rose of Denver, ten rounds, 120 pounds. Roy Sutherland of Los An geles vs. Charley Dawson of Kugcne. six rounds, catch weights. Al Nelson of Boise vs. Johnny Fiske of Portland, six rounds, 133 pounds. This season is certainly witnessing one grand windup as far as boxing is concerned and the fans are getting th-e benefit of it all. Two cards on paper such as that which was staged at the armory last night and the above list of battles which will be held at the Milwaukie arena Saturday afternoon have never been put on be fore in history and for a top price of $3. Many cards for which the com missions have charged a top price are put la the fadeout by these two shows. As last night there is 42 rounds of milling on tap for New Year's day with three 10-round main events and two preliminaries extraordinary rounding out the bilL Every boy on the card has proved his mettle to the local boxing followers and their abil ity is not nebulus. Harlan Bunker. the elongated heavyweight battler, who has mal treated two of Tacoma's best boxers within the past four weeks, will try and topple over the third and most formidable heavyweight of that city in the final 10-round scrap. Frank Farmer is the tough old bird that will be dished up to the aggressive Bunk er. Harlan did not nave a cnance to show much when he put the ekids under antiquated Joe Bonds l-i a few rounds, but did have the opportunity to make good when he met Ole An derson and he did that with a ven geance. Bunker took plenty, gave out plenty and handled himself like a seasoned performer, while it was only his 10th or 11th. fight in the squared circle. Farmer is a hard nut for anyone to crack and will be the toughest prop osition that young Bunker has tackled in his short but meteOTic career. The Tacoma veteran has been training steadily for several months and was a Portland visitor to challenge the win ner of the Boy ilcCorniick-Battling Levlnsky bout. Frankio Murphy has been traveling at a sensational clip in his last two fights and always a good welter ' weight looks like a find. Several months ago Murphy hit a long siege of illness which put him completely out of commission. He had a long rest and In his first fight a boy not rated among the topnotchers, but yet recorded as a tough one, was selected for Frankie. Lloyd Madden was the goat on two occasions. The first time he took a lacing and the second time was knocked out. It was not Mur phy's feat in knocking Madden out that made him look so good, but the way he stepped around at all times and. handled his dukes. When Mur phy stopped Madden it marked the second time that Lloyd was put to sleep in a local ring. Fans will re member his set-to with Fred Gilbert at the then Eleventh-street play house, when Madden took one on the chin ia the third canto and stayed down. Bab Herman, the flashy little Sac ramento boxer, will make his debut in a 10-round bout against as rugged a youngster as could be selected to jrive. him the test, namely. Bay Rose, tho stocky Denver boxer. Herman has been cleaning up in his division In California, and when the game was brought to a sudden halt, was being primed for a main event with Bud Ridley in Oakland. Herman fousht Billy Mascott a 10-round draw at Vancouver barracks last fall and fought Baby Blue a six-round bout at the Milwaukie arena. Both of the elx-round events loom as tentative struggles of the first order. CRIB TOCKN'ASIEXT IS HELD Secretary of Western Association Makes No Reference to Taking On National Scope. CHICAGO. Dec. 29. Reuben TV. Newton, secretary of the Western Golf association, in sending out no tices to-light that the annual meeting had been transferred from the Con gress hotel to the Blackstone hotel at 8 P. M.. January. 15. made no refer ence to any change in the plan to sub mit a new constitution, changing tho organization to a national one with the name American Golf association. It was reported from New York recently that some agreement had been reached at a business conference between officers of the Western as sociation and of the United btates Golf association to avoid a clash over authority in American golf con trol. It was said tonight by those con nected with the plans of the Western association that the proposal as sub mitted to member clubs by the board of directors would have to come up at the meeting for some disposition and that there had been no backing down by the sponsors of the new as sociation, as the proposal was not for war with the United States Golf association, but to bring about de mocracy in golf. Downey to Fight Chip. CLEVELAND. Dec. 29. Bryan Downey of Columbus and George Chip, middleweight ex-champion, will box 10 rounds here January 7. The weight will be 160 pounds at 3 o'clock. Vancouver 0, Stanford 0. VANCOUVER. B. C, Dec 29. Van couver university and Stanford uni versity of California played to a scoreless tie in their game of Rugby football here today. MANY REPORTS HEARD Formation of Olympic Cnit Also Is Recommended Amateur Politics Are Opposed. CHICAGO, Dec. 29. An annual na tional track meet in which every col lege and university in the national intercollegiate athletic association would have representatives and the formation of an Olympic association to take charge of and interest itself in the American Olympic committee were indorsed at the 15th annual meeting of the association today. Committee reports favoring legis lation of interest to collegiate cir cles as weH as undergraduate bod ies were made, in addition to the transaction of routine business. The suggested track meet would bring together athletes from all over the country and would be in the na ture of an annual American college OlvmDic. The resolution which was adopted regarding an Olympic association would place in it the responsibility for electing a representative commit tee which would use every endeavor to gather together a team of Ameri ca's best athletes. Amateur Polities Opposed. A. A. Stagg. athletic director of the University of Chicago, declared the committee should be representative of the best in the country, whether college or industrial associations. He also made an especial plea to east ern college men to divorce them selves from amateur athletic politics. Palmer E. Pierce, president of the association, who presided, declared that the war had caused widespread interest In boxing. He urged that some action be taken to lend support to the establishment of boxing in col lege curriculums. Faculties in more colleges had taken control of athletics as over-' seers and physical examination of the students on entering the school and on leaving was now a matter of course, he declared. His report also pointed out the distinct development in the past year in sports and said abuses had decreased. Collrses Doing llmoit. . Mr. Pierce declared the colleges were doing their utmost to reduce the 35 per cent of rejected men in army examinations during the war. A national committee on arbitra' tion of athletic disputes was author ized. Another committee was au thorized to look into the expense of conducting a national track and field meet and in raising the money for the event so that the burden will not fall on the big intercollegiate bodies. Reports on football and other sports were heard at the afternoon session. New colleges admitted to member ship in the association, which covers the entire country, were Cornell col lege (Iowa), Masachusetts Tech., An napolis Naval academy. Center col lege, Miami, Depauw and Coe. The Pacific coast athletic conference was also accepted to membership. . HUNT CLUB PLANS EVENTS FIVE MAIN AND TWO JCNIOR EVENTS ARE ANNOUNCED. CALIFORNIA TO KEEP EYE ON STINCHCOMITS MOVES If Ohio Player Gets Away NVith Any 50-Yard Forward Passes He'll Have to Be a Super-Marvel. w- S2 Players to Decide Championship j of Beaverton, BEAVERTON. Or., Dec 29. (Spe cial.) The first annual crib tourna ment among local crib enthusiasts is being held nightly at Jones' barber shop this week to determine who will be champion crib player of Beav erton for 1920. With the champion ship goes a box of cigars and a medal. Competition is keen and the players are planning to make it an annual event. Twelve contestants are playing in the preliminary games paired as follows: W. P. McGee. R. D. Young; Harry Summers. C. W. Allen: Lou Jones, M. K. Emmons; A. E. Storey, W. J. Stitt; Charles Jones. August Rossi; L. B. Wilson. Orton McLeod. BY L H. GREGORY. HATEVER the outcome of that Ohio State-University of Cal ifornia football game at Pas adena Saturday, make sure of this: No player who ever started in a foot ball game will be more watched, de ployed against, covered, encircled, surrounded, rammed, bumped, at tacked, razzed, guarded, spied on, smothered and altogether made the focus of an entire team's play than Pete Stinchcomb. If Pete can grab any 50-yard for ward passes and get away with them for touchdowns against California under those circumstances he will have to be a super-marvel, that's all. For there isn't any doubt in the world that California regards Pete Stinchcomb as her worst threat and has been coached to pay mighty par ticular attention to that elusive gen tleman. Not that any rough stuff will be pulled against Pete. That's hardly likely, for the California players are Kood sportsmen. But they'll lose no opportunities to let Jane Anne bum niers" well known and popular fiance know that football is a real man's gs-me, and you can't blame them for that. At least one and probably two Cali fornia players will be told off to the assignment of keeping their eyes glued to Mr. Stinchcomb in every play of the game. They may be able to make him look pretty bad with all this kind attention the best player In the world can t perform well witn a Dack of wolves at his throat. And then again Pete may surprise them all and pull something spectacular in 6Pite of them. He did it against Wisconsin, whose rlayers had been coached to watch him particularly, and he did it again. in the very last minute or piay, against Illinois. Both times he won the game. Can he do it against Cal ifornia? We'll all know more about that next Saturday night. Coach Wilce is no freshman In the art of coaching, and it needn't be sup posed for one little instant that he Is not fully aware of California's in tentions against his star, itio very fact that California will be so closely on guard against Stinchcomb may en able him to cross me aniornia isu ticians with some good strategy. How would it be. for example, with half the California team watching Stinchcomb. for Hoge Workman to slip a forward pass to Myers, at end who would be comparatvely unno ticed? Something of that kind is ouite likely to occur. Myers is no Stinchcomb at pulling down the long, high ones, but he is said to be a bear cat at clinging to snappy ten-yard shots across the line of scrimmage. And players have been known to score touchdowns from ten-yard for ward passes. But speculation of that kind is in teresting only as speculation. It doesn't get you anywhere. Just the same, a football eleven of Ohio State's stellar record is bound to have more than one ace up its sleeve. Pete Stinchcomb is said to be the brains of the team on the playing field. If he is so well covered off that he isn't able to perform himself, watch for Sisk was the wily Pete to engineer some other eneciive inuiw. vau wiw his brains. HOLT NAME TEAM IS WIXEB Basketball Five From Christian Brothers School Defeated. The Holy Name basketball five came back with a rush and defeated the Christian Brothers by a score of 20 to 8 yesterday. high point man with 10. Quirk also played a good game, and the guarding of Billy Gagnon was a big feature of the game. The Holy Name team will play the Holladay Midgets this morning. The lineup: Holy Name 420). C. B. B. C. (8. Quirk 6 F 2 Hilzenderger While r e SleacD Sink 10 C Keating (iaffzion X ........ -G. ......... Callahan filers Li MrBride Alberm 8 3 Hinton ANGLING LAWS ARE COMPLEX Legislature Will Be Asked to Make Present Statutes Clearer. HOOD RIVER, Or, Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) In a leter to County Clerk Shoemaker, who wrote inquiring the status of fishing laws, as applied lo cally. State Game Warden Berghduff says that plans, have been made to. J than the ons that played Oregon As Little Hugh McKenna. the midget 116-pound quarterback of the Oregon Aggies, picks California to lick Ohio State decisively. Hugh has the ad vantage as a prognosticator In hav ing played against California. Said he the other day: "That California team is the great est football machine I ever played against, or saw in action. What gets you in a game with California is the speed and precision of their plays. You may know what's coming, but when you try to stop it you just don't. In their game against Oregon Agricultural college, in which we held them to their lowest score this season, 17 to 7, I know it was al most impossible to keep them from gaining ground. They went through in spite of everything, and California today ought to be a lot Better eleven ricultural college. If they don't win by at least two touchdowns I'll be surprised." Little Hugh, by the way, already is in training for next football rea son. Iot strenuous training, of course, but training none the less. He is centering his efforts just now on adding 10 or. 15 pounds of weight by next fall. Some corking good quarterback ma tenal is coming up at Oregon Agricul tural college next fall, and little Hugh knows it. Far from discouraging him it is only making him work the narder. His great handicap is his ex treme lightness. At no time last fall did he weigh more than 126 pounds, which is pretty light when vou're eo- ing up against big fellows like those who compose the California team. All his competitors for the quarterback job next fall will have a running start on him in this matter of weight, but if he can put on 10 or 13 pounds, tip the scales say, at between 135 to 140 pounds, fighting weight, they will have to be mighty good to beat him out. He is a plucky lad and has made up nis mind to put that extra meat on his bones if it can be done. Here's success to him. une Pasadena game is attracting so much attention that another east versus west game, only second to it in importance and interest, is hardly getting the notice it deserves. This is the clash to be staged at Everett, Wash., the afternoon of New Year's day between the East Cleveland high school of Cleveland, O., generally con sidered the high school champion of the east, and Everett high school champion of the west. Everett high has clearly won its western honors by its 67 to 0 defeat of the Salt Lake high school, followed by Its 28 to 0 victory over Long Beach high school in Call fornia. Enoch Bagshaw, ex-University of Washington player, is the Everett High coach. Bagshaw has coached Everett High for several seasons and has made a remarkable record with his charges. He is seriously consid ered as the University of Washington coach for next season. The East Cleveland High school players were due to arrive in Port land at 9:50 o'clock last night via the Southern Pacific on their way to Everett from the east by way of California. The train was delayed by the storm,' however, and did not get here until past midnight. The players went through to Seattle on the first train after their arrival. The stadia craze isn't limited to Pa cific coast colleges. Ohio State, Illi nois, Wisconsin, vanderbilt, Boston college and others all plan the erec tion of stupendous arenas in the more or less distant future. All this is due to the remarkable attendance at foot ball games this season. All over the country the colleges halve been pack ing tnem in to standing room only wherever they have high-grade oppo nents. Harvard's net gain from football in 1919. according to a writer in the Bos ton Transcript, was nearly J75.000 and there is every indication that the 1921 profits will be much larger. Here on the Pacific coast games 11 drew well. A new record for football attendance In Oregon was set at the Oregon-O. A. C. game at Corvallis. in fact, when 13,500 persons crowded into the en closure. This brings to mind quite an im portant point relative to next year's Oregon-O. A. C. game, which will be played at Eugene. The University of Oregon can't handle such a crowd as attended the game In Corvallis for the very simple reason that there Is room in her field for not more than 8500 persons, and that would be cram ming them in, at that. Yet. to judge from this year's attendance, a great many more than 8500 persons will want to see the game. VV hat's to be done? The trouble at Oregon is inadequate stands. The main stand on Hayward field seats only about 2500 persons. There is room in bleachers for a few thousand more, but, including stand ing room and all, not many more than 8500 can bo accommodated Men and Women Riders Will Take Tart In Paper and Hare Chase for Trophies. Five events now being planned by Harrv M. Kerron. master of fox hounds at the Portland Hunt club, will keep the riders of that club busy in the month of January. In addi tion to the five special events there also will be two junior paperchases to be held the Saturday afternoons of January 8 and 22. The first event on the calender for the new year is an open paperchase for men and women, to be held New Year's day. The start will be from the Portland Hunt clurj at iu:su o ciock in the morning and the trail will be laid by Mabel Lawrence. Those com peting in the chase will have their first opportunity of winning a leg on the Stevens trophy. Sunday, January 9. riders of the club will participate in a cross-country canter. The start in this event will be from the Portland Riding academy at 9:30 A. M. and the riders will finish at the Portland Hunt club, where breakfast will be served. W. U. Sanderson, former president of the club, will lead the riders as path finder. A closed paperchase for men and women will be held Saturday after noon, January 15. Riders in this event will compete for a trophy to be do nated. The start will be from the club house at Garden Home at 3 o'clock. The hares are Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Fagan. The following Sunday, which falls on January 23, another cross-country ride will be held, with Harry M. Ker ron as the hare. The start will be from the Portland Riding academy at 9:30 A. M. The final event of the month will be a point-to-point race Saturday, January 29. This event will be held at the Hunt club at 3 P. M., for a trophy yet to be donated. The junior chases will start from the Portland Riding academy and will be under the supervision of Harry M. Kerron. The Friday night rides, which have proved so popular among the mem bers, also will be continued next month. DUSKY SOU Tl HERN K D OUTRAGES 1 Jimmy Barry Sticks Through Ten Marathoning Spasms. LANGF0RD WINS DECISION Bout Between Clever Joe Egan and Jimmy Darcy Called Draw, but Herman Defeats Lodge. CORNELL, OXFORD IN MEET Steady Drizzle Slows Route in Eng lish Cross-Country. LONDON, Dec. 29. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A steady drizzle throughout the day made England's "classic and cruel" seven-and-a-half-mile cross-country course at Roe hampton a muddy and heavy route for the Cornell and the Oxford-Cambridge distance runners, who will compete tomorrow in the first race of its kind between English and American ath letes. James L. Dickinson, captain of the Ithacan squads1; Thomas CMcDermott and Charles T. Brown are suffering from colds and are not in the best of condition. This, however, is offset by an injury to E. A. Montague, the Ox ford star, who, although he expects to start in the race, is suffering from a sore toe. Jack Moakley, the American coach, asserted today that Cornell had no runners to compare with Montague, N. F. Mclnnes and W. R. Steagrove, but that in the scoring the Americans might win the race. ALEXANDER'S RIVAL SIGNED Twirler Who Held Cub for- 12 In nings Is Bought by Team. CHICAGO, Dec. , 29. As a reward for making Grover Alexander, pitcher of the Chicago Nationals, work 12 innings before, he won his game James D. Kenney today was signed to a Cub contract. The game was played in France while both were in the United States army, ana Alexan der's team was victorious, 1 to 0. Upon his return to the United States Alexander recommended Kenney, who Is a right-hander, 22 years old and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He pitched semi professional ball around Chicago. ICE-SKATINC MEETS PLANNED Chicago and New York Public Schools Will Compete. CHICAGO, Dec. 29. An ice-skating meet between the publnc schools of New York and Chicago will be held in New York, February 5, It was an nounced today. This is the first meet of its kind ever scheduled. Eighteen representatives from each city will compete in five events. The entries will include six skaters from the grammar schools, six from the high schools less than 14 years old, and six from the public schools more than 16. Seattle Hockey Team Victor. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) Seattle's Metropolitan hockey team came up from behind and took an overtime game from the Van couver, B. C, Millionaires, 3 to 2. on the local rink toTlight. The visitors scored two goals in the first period, holding Seattle to a blank score. Se attle scored one in the second and another In the third, evening up the count. The winning goal was made after seven minutes 50 seconds over time play. Federation Seeks Recruits. CLEVELAND, Deer 29. James F. Potts, secretary of the National Base ball federation, has gone on a west ern trip in the hope of inducing sev eral more cities to join the federa tion. He left here last night for Chicago, planning to visit Omaha, Minneapolis, Kansas City and other points. Wrestling Champion Retains Title. CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Dec 29. Jack Reynolds, welterweight champion, de feated Thor Jensen of St. Paul here tonight in straight falls. A body scissors and quarter Nelson brought the first fall In two minutes while a leg split won the second fall in 2S minutes. j ' BY DICK SHARP. Jimmy Barry, a dusky-skinned bat tier, came 799 odd miles from Peta luma, CaL, by train to meet Sam Langford. the Baston tar baby, in th main event of last night's card at th armory. If Barry had laid his course due south at the start of the sera he would just about have covered th distance to Petaluma by the time th reader finishes this paragraph. Needless to remark Langford won the decision at the end of ten round of a modified marathon. But Barry's credit be it said that he put up a game under-dog fight from start to finish that gained him a host friends in the capacity audience tha jammed the newly-constructed Indoo arena at the armory. Heeding the fate of one Oscar Her man at the capable hands of old Sam Barry went into the ring under in structions to keep on his heels and retreat to the bitter end. Save in on or two instances he followed instruc' tions to the dot. For that he may give thartks to the fact that he struck the distance. Langford crowded th California scrapper, whom he out weighed from 20 to 40 pounds, from the first round to the tenth. Sunny Smile Won Them. Sam drove in ripping body punche from every angle and frequently landed to. the chin and head, but ap parently Barry was too tough, as none of them sent Billy Murray's pro tege to the canvas. The match wa: not exactly interesting, but as the rounds passed the fans way down in their hearts began to pull for Barry to stick. At first they were all for eeeing bam end it quickly. Jimmy was such a nice-looking young fellow and had such a pleasing smile at the end o each round that by the fourth o fifth they were for him to last. In the fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth cantos Barry showed something of what his form would be against a man or his own class and weight. His wild lunges at Langford, sometimes landing and more often not, brough him rounds of applause, but only I good-natured smile to the Boston vet eran's face. Sam slipped to the floor In the third, Baj-ry giving him a half shove. Some thought he had floored L,ang- lora. Egan Clever Fighter. langtord dealt out a lot of pun ishment, which Barry took without a whimper. But he kept circling around the ring to avoid the corners and rushing into clinches. It's danger ous to clinch with Langford. How Barry stood up under the smashing blows to the short ribs that Sam drove in is a mystery. Barry against some good boy who does not rank with Langford would be welcomed The ten-round semi-final between Joe Egan, clever Boston middle weight, and Jimmy Darcy of Port land, as a fight pleased everyone, but the draw decision by Referee Fran cis didn't. Perhaps Egan could have had the call for his wonderfully clever exhibition of boxing, but Fran cis thought differently. Darcy was the aggressor through most of the bout but was beset at every angle by Egan's superior clev erness and ring generalship. The Boston boy's only lack seems to be a wallop with any great amount of steam behind it, but he landed often enough. Darcy rushed . from round to round and tried vainly to spill Egan. He couldn t pin Joe down lone enough in one spot to put over the crusher. The Portfand boy staged a great ninth-round rally, boring in from the oxing Milwaukie Arena Big New Year's MATINEE 42 Rounds 42 Frank Fanner TS Harlem Bunker 10 Rounds 10 ALEX TRAMBITAS vs FRANKIE MURPHY 10 Rounds 10 BABE HERMAN RAY ROSE 10 Rounds 10 DAWSON vs. SUTHERLAND 6 Rounds 6 NELSON vs.. FISKE 6 Rounds 6 Seats Now on Sale At Rich's, Sixth at Washington At Stiller's, Broadway at Stark Prices: $1.10, $2.20, $3.30 Ladies Admitted First Bout 2:15 P.M. Take Cars First at Alder. gong trying to corner Egan and land a knockout punch. The latter is the cleverest man in a .Portland ring since Marty Farrell. He is not as big as Farrell and has a different style of boxing, but he gets by with it just as well. He is more on the order of the Gibbons boys, while Far rell keeps bouncing around. Tiny Herman pushed. pulled, slammed and tugged to a ten-round decision over Farmer Lodge, the im ported heavy from Minneapolis. Lodge lodged a few In the region of Her man's chin and solar plexus, but these occasions were so few and far be tween that they were hardly notice able. Lodge is green, but showed he is game and the possessor of a fight ing heart. If size counted he would be champion. The fans thought Herman was a Goliath, but Lodge had him cheated from basement to garret. The Astoria slugger was too smart and carried to many guns for Lodge.- Tex Vernon fought a six-round draw with Baby Blue while Sammy Gordon and Kay Rose went to a draw verdict in the six-round opener. Both were thrilling tangle i, replete with action. Blue came near putting Vernon away In the fifth but Tex rallied in the final round and got a draw. He did not put up the battle he did against Eddie Gorman. Gordon and Rose staged a nlp-and-tuck engagement. tammy got hit so hard in the first round that he forgot how to box, which made it a good fight. The new arena was a treat to the fistic followers. JEFF QUINT WINS Tl HIGH SCHOOL V1CTORIOCS IX COOS COCNTY INVASION. CO.NXKLL IS CHESS CHAMP Title Retained in Triangular League Among: Colleges. NEW YORK. Dec. 29. Cornell uni versity retained the championship of the triangular college chess league, which today was renamed "The Inter collegiate Chess league." The Ithaca players lost the final round match to the college of the city of New York, but finished with a record of three matches won, one lost and a game record of 10-1. City college was second and New York university, which defeated the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, today jumped into third place K. Rr. Phillips, New York, was elected president of the league and H. Garfinkel. Cornell, vice-president Blue and Gold Team Still Has Myrtle Point, Coquille and Bandou to Meet. Jefferson high school's basketball team got off to a flying start on Its Invasion of the Coos county hoop league circuit by defeating North Bend 49 to 10 In the first game played Monday night and JJarshfield 32 to 15 Tuesday night. Acordiug to reports of the first game, the blue and gold five put up a fast contest and checked its oppo nents closely. Bryan Anderson and Weiser starred for Jefferson, while Louis Anderson, Oxenvad and Balcom played stellar ball for the North Bend aggregation. In the game against Marshfleld the Portland tossers proved to be more accurate at basket ehootlnif and passing. The first half was cIobc, but in the second period the vIMtors ran away from their, opponent. lon Allrn on the floor ami I.angwnrthy with his accurate foul shootlnc starred for Marshfleld. The guard Ing of Wation and Burton featured In the play of the Portland team, while Andemon high-point man. Jrff-ron has three more team to play. Myrtle Point, Coquille and Han don. in the Coos bay dlntrlrt, before the blue and gold quintet returns to Portland. The telegram from Will iam T. Sullivan, manager of the tram, states that the townspeople inhere the team has bren playing bits treated the boys roally. Thelitis I'ajne Is not. Thelma Payne, holder of the fancy diving champlonohlp title of the United Slates, lias acquired a new title, of which rhe Is a proud as of her swimming and dlvln l.turels. The new title Is "auntie" and cnmri about, through the arrival of an right-pound hahy girl at the home of Mr. and Mr. Larl C 8mead of Heights Terrace early Wednr-day morning. Th baby will be named Thrlina May hmcatl. Boxer's Condition Bad. SPOKANE, WiKh. Dec. ! Lakcy Morrow, Spokane lightweight b.mrr, who recently undrrw-nt an operalmn on his nose following a right at Lew iHton. Idaho, Ih reported to lie In bud condition at the hofpitat where he Is undergoing tri atnirnl. He hu a high fever and relatives are at his bid- 3 IN LIQUOR CASE FREED Jury Acquits Men Accused of Op- crating Still Xcar Gresham. At the expiration of a two-day trial, the federal jury sitting In the case of Stlllman Andrews. Melvin Andrews and Lester Talmadge. accused of op erating a still, took little more than an hour in finding the defendants nut guilty. The three men were arrested near Gresham in a raid made by federal revenue officers on a copper still, cleverly concealed in the underbrush. All three men denied knowledge of the apparatus, and made counter at tacks by accusing two of the raiding officers, Edward Wolfe, of the reve nue department, and -M. M. Squires, Gresham constable, of drunkenness. Six witnesses were produced by the government to refute these charges. Melvin Andrews is a son and Lester Talmadge a stepson of SUllman Andrews. WE NEED THE CASH TIRE SALE We must tarn all our tires into money,' regardless of make or size STOCK WILL NOT LAST LONG AT THESE LOW PRICES '7E LIST $19.10, SALE PRICE., Hope Held for Charles York. SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. 29. (Spe cial.) Charles W. York, manager of the Auditorium theater, who sus tained concussion of the brain when he fell down an ls-foot stairway at the Auditorium theater building last iiisrht res-ained consciousness earlv this morning and hopes for his re covery were held by his physicians. Whether or not Air. lorK sustained a fracture of the frontal region of the skull had not been determined. 30x3 Hvl LIST 23-20' $Q44 JUaJ2 sale PRICE J? 90v3l LIST $28.05, "J 27 dLo2 SALE PRICE.. JL i 63 31x4 32x4 33x4 34x4 35x4y2 LIST $32.50, SALE PRICE. LIST $36.80. SALE PRICE. LIST $38.60, SALE PRICE. LIST $39.60, SALE PRICE. LIST $55.45. 2 SALE PRICE. 30 Ont-of-town orders drrriiip; this big sale most come with deposit Eagle Tire Company 122 NORTH BROADWAY Phone Broadway 1612 PORTLAND, OREGON Opposite New Post Office WAN DYCK CIGAR. 1 IN THREE SELECT SIZES Recognising the discriminating smokers right to select his cigar by shape and siie as well as by its very choice smoking qualities, Van Dyck is offered as follows : Victorias ( jtraight shape wrapped 2 in foil) 2 for 25c Box of 50 $6.00 Bankers (a loncer, full-bodied fke wrapped 2 in foil) 2 for 30c Box of 50 $7.25 Presidents (a laree, full-bodied Invincible inapt) 17c 3 for yoc Box of 5- v..w Thus you make your choice from three select sixes. All sizes have the same very choice smoking quality. All have the especially selected choice Havana filler. NAT'fWiT. wn Distributing Branch, 84 X. 5th St- Portland, Or. !