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THE MORXIXG OREGOMAX. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1921 0011. GRUUN THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT. PRIMED FOR FIGHT Both Eager to Score Clean Cut Victory Tonight. J. DARCY TO MEET HUFF j Georgie i;asrl and Willie St. Clair Down to Tangle In Spe cial Ecnt. t C'OMIM.KTK I BOX I Jl l'UO(.RAMMK OF BOOTS TO B K IIKI.O T O I - H T AT mill'. THEATER. Main event, ten round Al Grunan vs. Joe Gorman, 133 pounds. Semi-final, ten rounds Jim my Darcy vs. Billy Huff, 158 pound. Special event, six rounds Willie St. Clair vs. Georgie Ka glet. 135 pounds. Preliminary, six rounds Johnny Boscovich vs. Jack. Gor don, 14S pounds. Curtain-raiser, four rounds Billy Ryan vs. Joe Miller, 122 pounds. Trained to the mrnuie and eager for the bell, Joe Gorman and Al Grunan, the two lightweights who clabh tonight in the ten-round main event of the Portland boxing com mission's show at the Heilig theater, are ready for what promises to be the-1attle of their careers. A more confident set of boxers than Gorman and Grunan never set foot in a local ring Gorman, flushed with a recent victory over Grunan, promises to set the pace for the Los Angeles boy and prove to the thousands who saw his last ko with Grunan that his pre ious victory was not a fluke, as some maintain. Grunan on the other har.ri says that Gorman fouled him la their last match and will prove that he is Gorman's master with the padded- mitts. Darcy Uuut Attracts. "While the main event is naturally attracting the most interest, the Jii.:my Darcy-Billy Huff go is coming Jn for its share of attention. Huff, though he has never appeared here, has made quite a reputation in the "bticks," having defeated such mitt me:i as "Wild" Bill Reed, Earl Ritchie, Willie Webb. Leo Cross and several other lesser lights. Those who have seen Huff in action predict that he will come closer to toppling over Darcy than any other boxer that has met him here duripg the past three years. Huff is sup posed to be a fairly good puncher v. Uh more than the ordinary amount of knowledge. One thing is certain, there are many boys in the country who are capable of outboxing Darcy, Bttt the middleweights who can out fight the battling Roumanian are vei y few. The six-round special event be tween Willie St. Clair, the ebony flash, and Georgie Eagels ought to provide its share of thrills providing tit. Clair will stand still and do a little fighting instead of a lot of fancy stepping. St. Clair, if he would only stani up and mix. ..ould be more popular with thc fans. BoMcovitch to Battle. In the six-round preliminary. Johnny Boi-covich, who has not appeared since he gave young Jack Dempsey a neat socking several weeks ago. will start with Jack Gordon. Gordon has a reputation as a slugger and against Boscovich he will have to de liver the goods or take a terrible trim ming. The four-round curtain-raiser will find Billy Ryan and Joe Miller in the corners. i ii i i tfuo aa i i i : . l . i STUDENT QUINTETS BATTLE WINDMILLS hat. whre bia amounts are mentioned. thre la one set of figures for public con sumption and another, private and con fidential, between promoter and perform ers. A New York sport writrr in mentioning the facl that Battling Nelson was granted a referee's license in that city, said that the Battler's career as a fighter ended several years ago. We take it that Mr. Nelson will take umbrage at this for the reason that all ex-champions always be lieve that they are "as good as they ever were." So strong ts this conviction, aa a rule, that the lambas tings they get from third and fouth raters fall to couvinec them to the contrary. Faculty members of many high schools are adept basketball players and many schools have faculty teams. One of the strongest in the northwest Is that at the Centralia (Wash.) high school. ThiWeam is composed of Walter Bailey, principal; Leslie Johnson, H. E. Rogers, Ted Buttrey, J. L. Mattaon, C. J. Storlie and Waldtmar Jaeger. The quintet is out with a defi against any other faculty team in any part of the state of Washington. HOOP GAMES SCHEDULED l'HKEE LEAGUE COX TESTS SET FOK PLAY TONIGHT. WESTERN FOOTBALL SQUADS HAVE EDGE ON EASTERNERS Washington State's Sensational Victory Gives Pacific Slope Margin of Two Wins Out of Three Games. Arlcta to Meet Swastikas; Oregon Tech to Play Alameda, and Bachelors Versus Parkway. Three games are scheduled for to- BT L. H. GREGORY. THE score in California's 28 to 0 victory over Ohio State at Pas adena, was identically the same as that by which Dartmouth defeated University of Washington at the opening of the new'varsity stadium In Seattle November -27, That makes It even up in the two east vs. west foot ball struggles staged on the coast tnis season. Washington State's sensational 21 to 20 win over Nebraska at Lincoln, Neb., Thanksgiving day. however, gives the west the call in season's intersectional clashes by two games to one. That was a clean-cut triump ., all the more pronounced because Washington State came from behi.id in the final quarter and put over the two touchdowns required to win. Moreover the University of Wash ington wasn't up to Pacific confer ence caliber last season. Her record in the books shows that. When a team loses four out of its five games in a season, and has two touchdowns scored on her in the one game she does win, that against Whitman, it isn't alibi stuff to aver that she isn't up to conference class. ' As we remarked the other day night in the Portland Basketball j California's victory makes the score nursing a grievance against Cleve land and organized ball, they have just about made up their minds to take the hurdles. They assert that before they would agree to come west last fall. Owner Dunn and Manager Speaker of Cleve land both assured them that if the Indians won the pennant they would be reimbursed. They have written about it several times, but haven'tv. even received an answer. Whereupon they have both become soured and say they are through with organized baseball. They will be mighty foolish, at that, if they jump. The National Associa tion of Baseball leagues has become extremely active in clapping the five year blacklist penalty onto amy player who jumps, and' once blacklisted, it is almost impossible to get reinstated. It was different once, but nowadays the association is adamant., against pleas. Once out. a ballplayer can't get back for five years. And five years just about means the end of one of the greatest years in the his tory f the club. The nominating committee has met and submitted the names of the fol lowing to fill the vacancies: William A. Prier Jr., Herbert Fredericks. Dr. Charles E. Hill. C. W. Roblin. G. L. Gade, J. S. Smith, William Allen and William Lofstedt. The trustees whose terms expire are William Lofstedt, J. J. Carter, Fred W. Vogler, G. L. Gade, R. H. Neuberger. Dr. Charles E. Hill and L. M. Myers. Several of the members are already tuning up their cruisers and speed boats in preparation for the coming season. The power plant of Fred Vogler's Wisdom is being overhauled and the boat generally put in shape for some extensive cruising this summer. The big Sterling from the speed boat Vogler Boy III is also in the shop. It is rumored along the water front that Volger will build a 20 footer, 'with which he hopes to bring home the Pacific coast championship. WILLAMETTE HOOPERS THAIX Stiff Basketball Workout Held in Anticipation of Game. Fluke of Interscholastic League Serious Blow. ATHLETICS IN DISCARD rounds at Kenosha, Wis., January 14. White has received a guarantee of $3500 for his share, while Freedman has an agreement with Promoter Frazier, which is an innovation to the game. He is not a receive a cent unless the receipts reach $5000 after the & per cent which goes to the state has been deducted. If the re cipts reach that amount or more, he is to receive one-half. Bobby Harper, the crack Seattle lightweight, arrived in the city yes terday and plans on starting training immediately in preparation for what ccnies his way in the shape of bouts. Harper is considered one of the best lightweights developed on the coast in recent years and has many friends in the city who have followed his ring career closely for the past three jrc rs. In that time the Seattle boy has met the best at his weight. The rec ord books show he has tangled with Joe Gorman four times, Jimmy Dun dee, Earl Baird, Eddie Shannon, Har old Jones, Bert Forbes. Joe Harrahan and Eddie Jackson. Harper has lost but one decision tn his career and that a four-round hairline to Eddie Shannon when the Irishman was going at his best, a a I. Is the intention of the Portland boxing commission to hold a show at the Armory every Friday night start ing January 14. when it is expected another all-star programme will be dished up. league. Two of the contests will be played on the Washington high school floor with the other game to be staged at St. Johns. Previous showings of the teams in dicate that the two arfairs at Wash ington will be the best of the season. The first game, which will start promptly at 7:30 o'clock. Is between the fast Arleta Athletic club and the Y. M. C A. Swastikas. The two teams are very evenly matched and average eight wins for the east, six for the west, and one tie battler in the lo football games played between the sections since the early '90s when Chicago came to the coast to play Stanford. But from the beginning of the modern history of these intersec tional games, dating from the first Pasadena battle on New Year's day. 1915. it has been decidedly one-sided in favor of the west. Of the four games at Pasadena, for instance, the west has won three about the same weight. Manager j Washington State defeated Brown. 14 Sport Comment. The lid i. clamped on boxing in San Francisco while Ben Tracey. Australian boxer and New South Wales Ita-htwetght champion, was crossing" the Pacific on board the liner Marama. When the Ma rama steamed in through the iSolden Gate. Benjamin discovered, to his surprise, that there was no opening for members of his profession. Tracey perforce, will have to look elsewhere for matches and. accord ing to present plane, intend to Invade the northwest and seek work in the ring at Seattle. Tacoma, Portland and other points where the boxing game still flourishes. Restoration of horse racing under su pervision of commissions similar to thos, which have been Institutod in certain parts of the country to control the boxing game. Is the step planned by lovers of the "sport of Kings." The next legislature of Michigan will be asked b tht .Michigan Association Of Fairs to legalise the sport In the state under some such commission as oversees boxing. Gambling has become such a fixed Institution as a component part of horse racing that many doubt that any commission would be able to "regulate" It With any ,i,rir,- of success. The plan evolved at Carnegie Tech to Veep the football squad organised all the year round and hold meetings at regular Intorvals throughout the year, with a view to have the men "think football every day of tho year, has raised considerable question as to its merits as a help to ef ficiency. Those who do not favor the plan say the? are opposed to It for the reason that the men are likely to get "nick of the game" as a steady. Imposed diet. Furthermore. thinking football Isn't going to make surer catchers of kicks and passes and more certain tacklers. The say "thinking" football will become a bore and in no way familiarize the boys with handling the ball. Joe Lynch, the new bantamweight king. Says he ts going to be a fighting cham pion Ho-hummmm. excuse the yawn: Vf've heard that before. Judging from tlr- way In which the WTOatlers "Strangler" Ed Lewis and Karl Caddock are Ignoring the purse of $10,001 offered by Frank Sehuler of San Fran cisco for a match between the two. one wonders how much of this amount is tage" money for the beneftt of the pub. lie and how much the real coin for the benefit of the wrestlers. The public Is rapidly acquiring the habit of figuring Brooks of Arleta. will have his full squad back again tonight ready to travel at top speed. The Swastikas have lost only two games in the league so far. Both of these were by close scores. The second game at Washington will be between the Oregon Institute of Technology and the Alameda club. From comparative scores this contest should 'prove a thriller. The Oregon Tech team has in Beckwith and Rob inson two of the best forwards in the league. Alameda has turned out to be the dark horse of the league, hav ing dropped only one contest so far. The St. Johns Bachelors and St. Johns Lumber company will clash for the championship of St. Johns in the third league game of the night. Soots. Parkway should have little trouble in holding on to its tie for first place as the Peninsula Park Cadets have disbanded. It has been decided by the league directors to for feit all of their games. Tomorrow night the Arleta quintet will meet the B'nai B'rith five in the second game of their scheduled tbree ;;ame series, on the Franklin high school court. Arleta won the first game, 24 to 23. Monday night on the B'nai B'rith floor. Coach Routledge of the B'nai 43'rith team says his squad will come back stronger than ever for the second fray. According to Manager Brooks of Arleta the game tomorrow night will end the series, as he expects little trouble from the B'nai B'rith tossers Arleta has yet to be defeated on its own floor and In addition Brooks will have Thomas. Hobson and Kin back in the lineup, which is ex pected to strengthen Arleta's chances considerably Beds to Play at Cisco. CINCINNATI. Jan. 4 Frank Ban croft, business manager of the Cin cinnati National league baseball club. tonight announced the spring training schedule for the Reds on their south em trip. The team will leave for Cisco. Tex.. March 2. and will play several practice games there before meeting the Cleveland and Detroit clubs of the American league. Vancouver Schedules Games. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Jap. 4. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver High school basketball team will play Rillsboro here Saturday evening and James John of Portland January 14. Coach Arnette. who has just arrived as the new coach for high school athletics, gave the team first instructions at last night's practice. I'ig-hters lo Be Examined. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 4. The state boxing commission today adopted rules requiring examination of all contestants by physicians before bouts and compelling a report of the examination to be made to the com mission. Youths 18 years old are for bidden to box in authorized events. Nebraska Basketball Winner. BLOOMIXGTON. 111.. Jan. 4. The University of Nebraska basketball teum defeated the Illinois Wesleyan university five tonight, 30 to 17. to 0; Oregon downed Pennsylvania, 14 to 0, and now California has de feated Ohio State. 28 to 0. The sole eastern victory, that of Harvard over Oregon a year ago, was by only a 7 to 6 margin. Not much glory for the east in that win. a a It is further worthy of note, es pecially for those who cry that no eastern team can be in shape to play its best after the. long cross-continent tour to Pasadena, that on the only two occasions in which coast football teams have traveled to the east, they have won. The Oregon Aggies de feated the Michigan Aggies 20 to 0 in 1916, after the Michigan Aggies had licked University of Michigan by the same score. And this year Wash ington State beat Nebraska, 21 to 20. That ought to dispose of a lot of this long-journey alibi material. But Just to make It 100 proot, so to speak, we'd like to see at least one and perhaps a couple of coast conference elevens tangle next sea son with big eastern teams on the easterners' home grounds. This Cali fornia team will be virtually intact next year. It would be a great thing for Pacific coast football li uauiornia could stage a game against one of the Big Ten conference teams, or against one of the strong Atlantic teams, back where Walter Camp and all the boys could see the sport. ' Now, of course, arises the question what team is entitled to the football championship of the United States? Certainly none has a better claim to it than California. But what of Prince ton? Bomebody asks. Yes, what of Princeton! Princeton had first chance to come to Pasadena and play Cali fornia for the championship. Prince ton declined. That lets her out. Ohio State was invited next as champion of the western conference. Intersec tional clashes between east and mid dle west showed the middle west rank ing fully up to the eastern standard, if not a little above it. Of course, there is Notre Dame, con sidered by many to have had the most powerful football eleven east of the Rocky mountains. Notre Dame had a wonderful team. She would have played Washington State on the coast Christmas day, but for the death of her great star. George Gipp. But taken all in all. her win at Pasadena seems clearly to entitle California to the football champion ship of the United States. And that means of the world. Bill Rodgers. Sacramento skipper, Who is wintering In Portland, was gloating the other day over the fact that including cash and ballplayers, the price he got from Cleveland for Walter Mails was probably the big gest ever paid for a ballplayer from the coast league. In his tabulation of returns he listed Faeth and Niehaus, pitchers turned over to him last fall, at 5 000 bucks apiece. Bill hardly had got through talking when news came from San Francisco that these two very birds. Faeth and Niehaus. are figuring on turning turtle for bill and going to the Cali fornia outlaws. Old Beals Becker, who is managing the Leeoiore team of the independent circuit, has been talking WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Sa lem, Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) A stiff basketball workout, the first real practice since the holidays, was di- .,nt,u , V. I .. ,...........- V... I T J . . ic-iu in .a aim . uj iv, x. ami' his usefulness in baseball. Jack , ews, coach who has just returned Farmer, former Portland outfielder, ! from Pasadena, where he saw the has just been placed on the black- i California-Ohio battle. Wapato. lasl list by Memphis. When his five years year's captain, was in charge of the are up Jack will not be good for much I scrimmage work yesterday, and the outside the cozy corner league. I team is expected to be hitting its striae in a few days after the etfects Boles Rosenthal, line coach for the University of California, was as signed to pull a queer stunt at the Pasadena game. Andy Smith sent him into the press box, which is 100 feet above the field of play, and had him connected up by telephone with the California bench. Rosenthal's job was to size up Ohio State's best stuff from his perch and telephone the antidote to Smith on the bench. He might have saved his voice for Ohio State never got a chance to use its best stuff. But now that Andy Smith has set the style, presume we 11 see adopted all over. The press box in the new Oregon Aggie stand at Cor vallis is made to order for this kind of scouting. It is in the roof of the grandstand and much closer to the field than the press box at Pasadena. From it one has simply a' perfect view of every play, whether n raid field or near the goal lines a much better view than is possible to get from the side lines. Presume Coach Rutherford will havo an assistant or so peering down at opposing teams from this elevation at every game next seas'bn. Walter McCredie yesterday turned over to Billy Speas' Regina club in the Western Canada league, Infielder Sr-ranger, who pastinied for Portland last season in a utility capacity, and Cl.aney Barnabe. the youngster who finished the season with Portland pHler playing through the summer w'th Yakima. The Beavers are re taining strings to both players. of the holiday vacation wear off The bearcats will tackle the Dallas American Legion quintet Friday eve ning at Dallas in a pre-season game. Last year the Dallas men put up a hard fight against Mathews' five, los ing by one basket, and are said to have a fast line-up on hand again. LF.GIOX PLAXS ATHLETICS Organization Plans to Project Wholesome Sports. BOSTON. Mass.. Jan. 4. (Special.) Under the leadrsnip of a committee composed of notable Massachusetts athletes, the Massachusetts depart ment of the American Legion will promote an athletic organization to encourage wholesome sport for ex service mer. The personnel of the committee Is as follows: John J. Lane, chairman. formerly secretary of the American Legion baseball club; Frank Cava naugh, noted Boston college football star; Huntington "Tacks" Hardwick, Harvard football athlete: Joseph F. Conway, vice-president American Ath letic Union; Larry Bankart, Yale foot ball mentor; Lawrence Leonard, man aging director of the 1919 intercol legiate track meet, and John Herbert, past department commander and well known sportsman. State teams of legionnaires repre senting every branch of sport will be organized and other states invited to compete. Indiana department will stage a basketball tournament and other departments are scheduled to develop athletics during the winter and spring. Hockey Crowds Are Record. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 4. Record crowds are attending the games of the Pacific Coast Hockey association . j In Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, l inn mice Liiica , i cacu t 111 Lite organization. At Vancouver recently it was estimated that 7500 people at tended the opening game. Standing room only signs are displayed at every game here. Seals Get Pitcher Crumpler. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4. Pitcher Crumpler, a left-hander, has been ob tained from the Detroit Americans for the San Francisco club of the Pa cific Coast league, it wag announced today. Crumpler, according to Man ager Ty Cobb of the Tigers, has the reputation of being a "second Babe Ruth when it comes to hitting." Lincoln Leaguers Win Again. The Lincoln leaguers basketball team continued its winning streak by defeating the Olympic club Mon day night. 27 to 10. Superior basket shooting and teamwork on the part of the Lincoln quintet were too much for the clubmen to overcome. High starred for the winners, with Slade playing a good game for the losers. Buffalo Hunt Scheduled. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 4. A buffalo hunt, with each person kill ing a buffalo paying $200, will be stageo on Antelope island In Great Salt Lake next week, according to announcement of John W. Thornley, president of the Antelope Island Live stock company, owner of the animals Basketball and Baseball Seem to Have Suffered Hard Setback, as Result of Blowup. BY GEORGE COWNE mere are at present in various sections of the city several high school basketball teams that are be ginning to wonder if their pre-season training in preparation for a strenu ous hoop season has not been in vain. The quintets of the various prep schools were all set for one of the well-known "greatest seasons In the history of the game" when the grand Diow-up of the interscholastic athletic league took place. Despite the fact that football was the only sport men tioned in the controversy which finally resulted in the public schools withdrawing from the league, basket ball and baseball apparently have suffered a setback as a result of the action of the directors. When the public schools withdrew from tho league it was thought a new circuit would be formed, to be known as the Portland public school league, which would take care of other sports besides football. As yet nothing has been done toward re organization, which leaves seven bas ket-tossing aggregations all primed for a go at the city championship, but without a league in which to play. Some of the quintets are remaining idle so far as actual competition is concerned, while others have stepped out and taken on a few outside teams. The most notable performance of the hh school quintets so far this season was the whirlwind tour of the Jefferson high school squad into the Coos Bay territory. The blue and gold five, under the coaching of Harold Quigley, director of athletics at Jefferson, invaded the Coos county interscholastic league over the Christmas holidays and re turned with'a string of five victo ries and no defeats as the record for the trip. Myrtle Point, South Bend. Coquille, Bandon and Marshfield were the teams that went down to defeat at he hands of Jefferson. All defeats were decisive, with the exception of Bandon. The members of the Jeffer son teams have nothing but praise for the treatment received at the hands of the players and townspeople where the team played. Hill military academy and the t-o- umbia university, the private schools of the city and the only remaining members of the old Portland inter scholastic league, are busy lining up games with out-of-town teams. The first trip to be taken by the Hill I cyintet will be to Ridgef ield, Wash- on January 14. Columbia university Is arranging a schedule of games with several of the college freshmen teams of the northwest. ' , Franklin high school's quintet went down to defeat Monday night at the hands of the Honeyman Hard ware tossers by the score of 22 to 8. The Hardware boys took the lead at the start by pouring in five baskets in a row. Coach Meeks of Franklin at this stage of the contest put in a couple of reserves, with the result that the Quakers held Honeyman to 14 points in the first half. Charley King saved his teammates from a whitewashing in the first period by sinking a spectacular bas ket from the middle of the floor, and a minute later converting a foul. Due to close checking in the sec ond half neither side was able to make many baskets. Honeyman scored three field baskets, while Babe Thomas shot two baskets for Frank lin. Considerable credit is due the hish school players for their show i ROCAP WINS SLAXBER SI IT Tex Rlckard Forced to Pay $5 00 to Sport Writer. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4. George L (Tex) Itickard. fight promoter, was ordered today to pay $500 to William H. Rocap, a boxing referee and sports writer, bv the Jury in Rocap s slamlcr suit against Rickard. Rocap charged his reputation had been damaged by remarks made by Rickard the day following the Willard-Dempsey fight in Toledo, O.. July 4. 1913. He alleged that Rickard. offended at an article by Rocap criticising the match, declared to newspaper men that Rocap was a blackmailer and had "tried to hold him up for $1000.' Rickard denied having made the statement. AUDITOR-ELECT IS TflRBET crrraExsHip of waxxi a POLl.s l ITTACKEB. AT O'Kccfe Laid Up Willi Injuric-. CHICAGO, Jan. 4. Dennis O'Keefe Chicago welterweight, will be unable to box for three months due to in juries to his hands sustained in his match with Pinkie Mitchell in Mil waukee, New Year's day. O'Keefe's left hand was seriously fractured and his right was broken. Physicians said today that a piece of O'Keefe's shin bone would be removed and grafted into his right hand. Old Grid Rivals tPpiay. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 4. Two old rivals. Washington State college and the University of Washington, have resumed football relations and will meet on the gridiron here next Thanksgiving day. it was announced recently. Last season Washington and Washington State did not meet. A game was scheduled but later was called off when an agreement could not be reached regarding division of receipts. Tierney Quits Minnesota Eleven. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 4. Fes tus Tierney of North St. Paul, Minn guard on the University of Minnesota football team last year, has left school because of scholastic differences, it became known here tonight. Tierney. who was a senior in the college of engineering, was unable to stay above grade in 50 per cent of the, studies required, it was said. Ruth After 60 Homers. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. If "Babe" Ruth does not get at least 60 home runs next season he will be greatly disappointed, he said today. As he is many pounds overweight due to his extended vacation in Cuba, he will go to his farm in Massachusetts and put in about six weeks at wood chop ping. Ruth is counting on doing some of the twirling for the Yankees. ng against the much stronger inde pendent team.. Jefferson high school won its sec ond straight game from the New berg high basketball team yesterday afternoon on the locals' floor. Carl son proved to be the whole show for Xewbere. with the entire Jefferson team showing up remarkably well. In the second half the Jefferson high second string men were sent into the fray. DlMnAY PARK IS VICTOR Colima Outrights Celmars. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4. Bert Co lima, middleweight of Whittier. Cal.. won a decision over Johnny Celmars of Denver at the end of their four round bout at the Vernon arena to night. In the semi-final Danny Ed wards, bantam of Oakland, took a de cision from Ernie Goozeman of San Diego, whom he fought at catch-weights. Carter Wins Over Hanion. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 4. Tom my Carter of El Paso received the newspaper decision over Jimmie Han Ion of Denver at the end of a 12 round boxing match here tonight. Hockey Players to Be Numbered. BOSTON, Jan. 4. Hockey players wili be numbered at all games held in the new Boston arena, the man agement announced today. Toronto Wins Hockey Game. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4. The Uni versity of Toronto ice hockey team defeated the Quaker City team here tonight, 3 to -'. Writ ICnjolnitig Successful Candi date Krom Taking Office Asked of Court . SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 4 (Spe cial.) A legal writ preventing Coun ty Auditor-elect Ferguson from tak ing office next Monekiy. on tho ground of alleged flaws in his natur alization as an American cltiien, was demanded in superior court today by James A. Dougan, a local attorney, appearing on behalf of Inez W. Harris, who filed suit as a taxpayer of the county. Presiding Judge Ronald deferred action until tomor row morning. Dougan has prepared a petition for a writ of prohibition which he will file with the clerk of the superior court. The petition was directed jointly against Ferguson, to enjoin him from taking office, and against County Auditor Wardult. to restrain him from turning over the office to his elected successor. It was alleged that Ferguson was born in Canada in 1S72 and was ad mitted to American citizenship at Grand Forks, N. D., November 1. 1S90. Dougan asserted that he held a copy of the North Dakota naturalization proceedings. The attorney contended that Ferguson was admitted under the revised statutes of the United States, which provided that appli cants fbr citizenship must be 21 at the time of their admission. According to Dougan's alleged records, Ferguson was IS when hn became a citizen. The petitioner con tended that this nullified Pcrguaon's citizenship, and made him ineligible to hold public office. The petition further set forth that the Seattle registration records showed that in 1914 Ferguson, when regis tering to vote, gave his age as 42; that in 1915. he was recorded as 41, and that in 1916, he told the clerk that he was 45. None of these alleged ages, it was asserted, would have made Fergusun 21 when he was naturalized. FIANCE ASKS RECEIVER H. Wioterstein Wants Account ing With Sweetheart. Though the comnlaint snirl nnthlno- about the breaking of the engage ment alleged to have existed between L. H. Wlnterstein and Adah Dyrud In 191,, It was indicated in the desire to sever an oral business partnership. oounu in u complaint rued in the cir cuit court yesterday. Wlnterstein averred that on July 1. 1917, when he and the plaintiff were engaged to marry, they agreed to become partners to conduct an apartment shoo at 565 Irvhur trt She invested $35 in cash and he bought considerable furniture and rented the building, he asserted. He worked in the shipyards, prospered, and in time the building at 563 Irving also was acquired. He asserted in the com plaint that on August 1 hl lntejided bride took exclusive possession of the property and excluded him from en terffig. He asked an accounting and the appointment of a receiver. PASSENGER HSKS $18,808 FIRECRACKER BLEW HIM OCT OF BCXK, SAYS TRAVELER. BOAT CLUB ELECTION" SET Xnnual Meeting of Organization to Be Held Monday X'lght. Members of the Portland Motor Boat club will gather at tneir club bouse next Monday evening for the annual meeting ana election of of ficers. Activities of the speed-boat own ers throughout the winter months are confined mostly to the building and overhauling of crafts. The 1921 sea son is being eagerly awaited by the gas burners, for with several speed boat regattas on the tentative pro gramme and the usual number of Browns Obtain Pertica. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 4. The St. Louis Xaliorals today announced that Bill Ftrtlca. a pitcher, has been obtained from the Los Angeles club of the Pa cific Coast league, in exchange for George Lyons, a pitcher; Dorsey Car ioll. an' outfielder, and Edward Bo gart. an infielder. Eitzsimmons to Eight Burke. PITTSBURG, Jan. 4. The new Bir mingham Athletic club will stage its firl show here next Monday. Bob Fitzsimmons Jr. will meet Jack Burke. former national amateur title holder in the light heavyweight division. McGoorty to Box Miske. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Jan. Floyd Fitzsimmons, fight promoter, announced tonight that he had -arranged a bout between Billy Miske of St. Paul and Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh. to be held the night of January 13 at Grand Rapids. Duncan to Tour Country. r NEW YORK, Jan. 4. George Dun can, open golf champion of Great Britain, and Abe Mitchell, prominent British professional, will tour the United States this year and attempt to capture the American open title. Roper to Fight Brennan. CHICAGO. Jan. 4. Captain Bob Roper.' Chicago heavyweight, today was matched to meet Bill -Brennan. hicaco. in a ten-rounq contest in Defeat of Highland Gives Claim to City Championship. t The Duniway Park independent football eleven won undisputed claim to the 135-pound championship of the city by defeating the Highland grid ders 18 to 6 in a hard-fought game Sunday. Two of the winning team's scores were made by Garbarino while Lillis shoved the other over. Mitchell made the lone score of the losers. The game was featured by the great open field running of Bill Gar barino, the Duniway halfback, who made several big gains, one of which was 95 yards for a touchdown. For Duniway, Lillis and- blater starred in the backfield while on the line Cegler, Valpredo and Schatz featured. The Cosgrove brothers and Mitchell did the best work for High land. GRID DOUBLEHEADERS LISTED University of California to Piaj Two Games in Future. Seamen on Steamship West Keanc, Charged With Firing Explosive. United States to Be Xamed. to them and as both pitchera are. cruises the members are prophesying ; Kansas City, January 1 BERKELEY. Cal.. Jan. 4. Double headers in football are to be played by the University f California next sieason. according lo present plans. On some Saturdays of the football Kor season tnere may even ue tnree games on California field. California's first and second var- sitv elevens will meet rivals every Saturday in the double-headers. Some of the freshmen games will also be played on the local field on the same days. . Football officials are planning to send the second team against elevens representing some of the smaller colleges. Colonial Quintet Wins. The Colonial basketball team of the Y. M. C. A. defeated the B'nai B'rith Juniors 12 to 9 yesterday afternoon in a hard fought and interesting con test. Failure to convert fouls spelled defeat for, the Juniors. Rutler and Lamb prayed great ball for the win ners while Blank and Vidgoff featured in the play of the losers. Vhite and Freedman Signed. CHICAGO. Jan. 4. -Charley White and Sailor Freedman, Chicago light weights, have been signed to bojt ten SEATTLE. Wrash.. Jan. 4. (Special.) He was blown from his bunk by giant firecracker, lighted by oilers and firemen on the steamship West Keane. while the vessel was at sea on Christmas day, Jacob Lichtman charged when he filed a libel against the vessel in federal court today, ask ing $15,000 damages for injuries which he alleges resulted from the explosion. He is represented in the action by Eimon L. Wiener, attorney at law. Lichtman, according to his attorney, went to Hawaii recently to purchase Junk. On December 18 last he pur chased a first-class ticket at Kalohi to return to Seattle. Instead of giving him first-class accommodations on the West Keane, he alleges, officers quar tered him with the crew and required him to mess with seamen. The seamen, Lichtman alleges in the libel, took him to be a stow away. On December 20, he alleges, they set off a giant firecracker be hind him. This occurrence, his attor ney iaid, Lichtman regarded as "a joke. On last Christmasi however, mem bers of the crew, he says, threw a giant cracker into his bunk while he lay there, wiiieh blew him out of his resting piaffe, cut and bruised him and caused a severe shock to his nervous system. Lichtman. his attor ney said, was in an explosion several years ago in which he was severely injured. As a result of his treatment. Licht man alleges, he left the vessel at As- Or.. on December 28 and came to Seattle by train instead of com pleting his passage on the vessel. An amended libel is being prepared, Attorney Wiener said this morning, making tne United States board a re spondent to the admiralty action. Lichtman, he said, is being treated by a nerve specialist in Seattle. GAULD INTERESTS SOLD supply Busnesa Is Purchased by Walworth Company of Oregon. The business of the Gauld Supply company, Twefth and Everett streets, has been purchased by the Walworth company of Oregon, according to an nouncement made by the officials of the concern yesterday. The con trolling interest In the new concern is he-Id by the Walworth interests of Boston,. Mass., it was declared. The transfer to the Walworth com pany was celebrated with a dinner at the MuMnomah hotel Monday evening to all members of the new organiza tion. D. H. Lyman, manager, was toastmaster. Speakers included Wlll liam Mickleborough, efficiency expert for the company, and F. B. DeLong, vice-president. The company deals In plumbing, heating, mill and engineering supplies. PARENTS 0F5 ARRESTED Fine Is Suspended; Children Will Attend School. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Jan. 4 (Spe cial.) Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Budde, who live near Hockinson. were arrested and brought to this city today on a charge of not sending their children to school. They took the children out of school last May there are five of them on the pretext that they wene going to move. They remained where they were but when school opened again the children were not sent to school. They were fined, but the fine was suspended upon their promise to send the children to school at once, and to pay the coils in tne case, amounting to $7. Harrisburg Officials Shift. HARRISBURG, Or.. Jan. 4. (Spe cial.) The change" in city officials took place last night at the regular meeting of the city council. R. K. Burton, who has served two terms as mayor, was succeeded by Robert W. Kessell. J. B. Colburn and R. A. Liesy, council members, were re-elected and the new members are F. S. Moody, T. W. Somervllle, Dr. E. W. Barnum and J. L. Guthrie. Dr. D. G. Clark began his third term as city treasurer and L. E. McKellip his second term as city recorder. Police Association Elects. New officers, who were elected to serve for tne coming year, were chosen yesterday morning by mem bers of the Police Beneficiary associ ation, meeting at their club rooms on he fourth floor of police headquar ters. Elected president of the associa tion was W. H. Mass, while the newly elected vice-president is S. B. Vessey. Sergeant A. Clement was chosen secretary and H. S. Raney, treasurer. The new board of directors is com posed of A. L. Smith. Sergeant C. S. Schad and A. Sorenson. P. C. Ander son was made scrgeant-at-arms. TACOMAN SEEKS OFFICE George Smitley Is Aspirant for Postmaster's Berth. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 4. (Special.) George Smitley, secretary of the Taccma lodge of Elks, is a likely contender for the. postmastership here under President Harding. The postmasters at present are under civil service. This is an executive order, however, which It is believed that President-elect Harding will rescind as soon as he takes office. Approval from the Pierce county committeeman will be forwarded to Reraeeentattve Johnson. Woman AccMftea i -Fiancc. W. A. Harmon, said to possess a police record, was arrested last night at 772 Marshall street by Motorcycle Patrolman Anderson on complaint of Miss Brnlle Extrand. Miss Extrand told the police that she feared Har mon would some time take her life. Harmon declared he at one time was engaged to Miss Extrand, but that be had never threatened to kill her. Berg REG V.S FAX. OFT. Hats forYoung Men 4