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Newspaper Page TextI TIIE 3I0IEXIXG OKEGOXTAX, " FRIDAY, JAXUAUT 21, 1921 ST. FIGHTERS I JO S Miske, Tillman and Ward to Mix at Milwaukie. BOUTS ON FEBRUARY 9 Slatehmaker Evans Declared Have Good Card Tor Ar i mory Tonight. to TO.MGHrS BOXIC. CARD AT THE ARMOR V. Joe Eaean of Boston vs. Alex Trambitas of Portland. ten rounds, catchwelehts. Bobby Harper of Seattle vs. Willie St. Clair of Sacramento, eigrnt rounds, lightweights. I'rankie Monroe of Los An jreles vs. Sammy Gordon of Portland, six rounds. 122 pounds. Neal Zimmerman of Portland vs. Eddie Gorman of Oakland, six rounds. 130 pounds. Allie Taylor of Bend vs. Billy Ryan of Portland, four rounds, 118 pomnds. BY DICK SHARP. Portland is the New York of the west as far as boxing is concerned and Is one of the fistic centers of the universe. Starting with tonight's all tar bill of fights at the armory and running through for another two months at least, the boxing fans will cee some of the greatest boxers of ' the world In action in local rings. Here's an eye-opener for you that even grlvea the announcement that Jack Dempsey would box here a run for news. Billy Miske, Johnny Tillman and Bobby Ward, famous St. Paul mitt men, will appear against the three best opponents available at the Mil waukie arena February 9. Each boxer will step ten rounds. It will be Miske's first bout since his defeat at the hands of Jack Dempsey at Benton Harbor, Mich., last Labor day. Miske's opponent will be the winner of the Frank Farmer-Bob Devere scrap at the Milwaukie arena next week. Frankle Murphy, Johnny McCarthy or Frank Haynie will meet Johnny Tillman. Oakland Frankle Burns, Phil Salva dore, Bobby Harper, Al Grunan, or possibly Joe Benjamin, will face Bobby Ward. The latter fought here early last year and has been going like a champion since his return to St. Paul. Jack Reddy, the St. Paul promoter. Is managing all three of the battlers, and closed with Match maker Kendall yesterday. So much for the future. Match maker Evans has one of the classiest cards that has ever been lined up here 6lated for the armory arena to night. Every one of the five con tests on the bill looms as a red-hot go. The ability of every scrapper on the card is known, and on paper all are evenly matched as to weight and class. A shave and haircut will put Joe Eagan, the clever Boston middle weight, and Alex Trambitas, sterling Portland youngster, on edge for the ten-round rftcket in the main event. Eagan Is not making any eight for Trambitas, and is likely to scale any where from 151 to 156 pounds tonight at ringside. Trambitas has been training In private for the match, allowing only newspaper men to watch him go through his paces. Jack Kahie pronounced his promising young protege to be in the pink yes terday and awaits the bell. Abe Matin, the "boy bandit," who does the arguing for Eagan. can see nothing but a clean-cut victory for his boxer in tonight's battle. He says that the fans can depend on Joe's going in and doing some real fight ing, and treating the younger Tram bitis rougher than he did his older brother at the armory several weeks ago. Bobby Harper, flashy Seattle light weight, who can punch as well as box the best of them, will make his second start here in the eight-round semi-windup against Willie St. Clair of Sacramento. St. Clair carries a lot of guns, and Harper will know that he is in a fight. Bobby showed world of class against Roy Suther land on last week's card, and if he steps as well tonight the fans will not complain. Krankie Monroe of Los Angeles and Pammy Gordon of Portland meet in the top six-round special. Monroe put himself in solid with his great scrap against Weldon.Ring, and to night boxes a man at his own weight, but who has a lot of Ftuff on the ball. Gordon figures against any boy around VIZ pounds. Chick Rooco will be unable tc go through with his six-round encounter with Neal Zimmerman. His place will be taken by either Eddie Gorman, Carl Martin or some other good boy around the 130 or 133-pound mark. Gorman seems to have the inside track on the choice if he wants to match. ' A curtain raiser of exceptional merit holds the boards. Allie Taylor, popular Bend bantamweight, will tangle with Billy Ryan in the four round opener. Perle Casey and Frank Lonergan will act as judges In to night's mills. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham pion of the world, will arrive here at 10 o'clock Sunday night to acclimate himself for his six-round exhibition match with Terry Keller at the Mil waukie arena next Wednesday night. Another eix-round go has been add ed to the card. Young Sam Langtord. the Seattle colored lightweight, will box Freddie Adge of the Billy Murray stable in the added bout. Outside of the Dempsey-Keller muss, there will be one ten-round go and four six round settos asfollows: Frank Farmer vs. Bob Devere. Babe Herman vs. Sammy Gordon, Jack Allen vs. Battling SSu Zu, Young Sam Langford vs. Freddie Adge, Mickey Dempsey vs. Billy Ryan. Muff Bronson returned to Portland yesterday from Pocatello, Idaho. Bronson has been away for more than three months, taking part in several pcraps in various parts of the west. He beat Al Young and a fellow named Kelly in Salt Lake last month and won over Louis Garcia In Poca tello the other night. Johnny Fugate and Freddie Lough, who put up a great four-round bout here recently, are both clamoring for another chance to get started. Lough broke his right hand in the bout, but tt has healed sufficiently to allow him to resume training. Fugate Is working out at Weldon Wing's gym nasium ia Aibina. X HERE IJfJ'J COAST. UMPIRES OF DOUBTFUL MERIT LIKELY TO BE LET OUT McCarthy, Under Soothing Influence of 10,000 Bucks Each Annum, Gives Signs of Reconsidering Some of His Last Year's Proteges. BY L. H. GREGORY. SOME of the distinguished gentle men who umpired in the Pacific Coast league last season with such pronounced lack of success prob ably will be missing from the league this year and the ball parks won't miss them much, at that. Now that the soothing influence of 10,000 bucks each annum has induced President McCarthy to reconsider his retirement and consent to collect said 10.000 bucks for the next three annums, there are certain signs that the league president also will reconsider some of his last season's umpires. It's devoutly to be hoped that he will. The Coast league had remarkably eood umpiring during the presidency of Al Baum. Al had the faculty of selecting good umpires. He backed them up, too. and kept the players in leash, yet not too much so. Now and then some umpire or pair of umpires would get into a jangle, but Baum, who was a diplomatic fellow, would usually smooth it out. Taken all in all, the Baum administration was the Coast league's golden age for um pires and everybody was as nearly pleased and happy as anybody pos sibly can be pleased and happy where umpires are concerned. When McCarthy succeeded Baum he tied the can to most of the good old timers and Imported some men with reputations and temperament. Lord Byron, for example. His ludship w about the most cantankerous speci men of umpiring gent that ever called "em in this vicinity. Byron's idea of a good time was to average about one fight to the game, and If a player wouldn t start something the dour Byron would start it hiniseit. Ballplayers here last season gen erally agreed that there were just two good umpires in the leagqe. Their nominations invariably were Perle Casey and Ted McGrew. These two not only were good technical umpires, always on top of plays and averaging high in calling them right. but they had the further ability of getting along with the ballplayers. Casey and McGrew were paired for a brief period and all their games went off smoothly.- Then they were paired with other umpires and the usual jangling followed, nearly al ways at the other umpire. -1 Casey and McGrew are fixtures for next season, or ought to be. Word has come from San Francisco that McCarthy is thinking of taking on. Ed Finney and Hull Guthrie. its certainly to be hoped that he does, for both are high-class umpires. Finney was In this league a long, long time under Baum and he got by as well as any umpire ever did. Guthrie is an other good one. Ballplayers always will have their kicks, but with good umpires they know just about how far they can go. Guthrie and Finney got along well with the players and with the fans, too. except occasionally when they were worked too long in the same town. Another umpire that veteran play ers in this league would like to see return is Red Held. This may sur prise some persons for Held was a fiery tempered fellow who sometimes went wild under provocation and took a swing at a taunting ballplayer. But big Red was as sunny natured as he was fiery and never "had it in" for player because of some previous clash, even if the player licked him, as not infrequently happened. One amusing clash of this kind hap pened one day in Portland just after a Call game. Held and Bobby Davis got into a hot argument at the door of the clubhouse and Held threatened to eat up Davis. Walt McCredie rushed over In the role of peacemaker to pull tbem apart. "Come on Bobby," he chimed In, tugging at him, "don't try to argue with the big faUiead." Evidently this didn't appeal to Held'a sense of peacemaking, for he turned from Davis and gave Walt a right handed clip over the ear that knocked the big fellow half overseas. Walt canae back as mad as Held and swung at the umpire so hard he skinned his own knuckles and broke a finger. Held tried a left hook that nflssed and Walt then countered with a riht cross to the eve that cent Held toppling Into the 'arms of Bull Guthrie, who was watching the fight laconically. With, one hand Guthrie WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND. Mercy! wht awful booking hamds Rub TriAT Glycerine im Good ! The blootj 13 Coming "Right Through! WHV . PohT You dry your Hands Good whekJ You WA5H'em!! F grabbed Held by the coat collar, opened the door to the umpire's club house with the other and pulled Held through with both hands, remarking: "Aw, you- can't fight, c'mon with me." But it was typical of Held that next day he apologized to McCredie. laughed about the pair of black eyes he had accumulated in the muss, and shook hands. Vernon was playing here at the time and the Vernon players razzed Held unmercifully about his black eyes, but he only grinned at them. Today Walt Is one of his best friends. Al Baum, of course, heard about the t xracas ana canea Held to nis otlice -I next time he was In San Francisco fo his version of the scrap. "Mac wasn't to blame, Mr. Bau said Held. "I started it and hit him first." Then Baum called McCredie before him. "It was mainly my fault," Said Walt. "I got sore and clipped him.' Well, said Baum judicially, - "I guess If that's the way you both feel about it we might as well forget it." Vancouver is leading the Pacific coast ice hockey league, with Seattle a close runner-up, while Victoria is trailing. League standings following last Tuesday's games were as follows: w. I.. Pet. I w. L. Pet. Vancouver a .MB7A ictoria ...2 6 .i!50 beanie ...0 4 .ilodl Some highly excited talk has been published hereabouts over the reputed deal whereby Gus Gleichman, first baseman, is alleged to be coming to Portland in exchange for Tex Wister zil. As a. matter of fact, if Gleichman does come to Portland, and it isn't at all certain that he will, it will be only incidental to the Wisterzil trade. The fact of it is that Seattle asked waivers on Gus and Portland declined to waive and is willing to take him at the waiver price. That's all there is to that. So far as fielding is concerned, Gleichman is one of the niftiest first basemen that ever performed in this league and he is a streak on the bases. His difficulty for the last three or four years has been his inability to hit. That resulted from a terrible ac cident that befell him one day when, with a player attempting to steal home from third, Gleichman, who was at bat, watched the base runner in stead of the pitcher. The pitcher's heave caught him under the eye, frac tured his cheek bone and mangled him so badly that his eye was hanging down on his face. He was in a hos pital for weeks and it took a costly and delicate operation to restore the eye to its socket and save Jts sight. Up to that time Gleichman was a fine hitter, but the accident left hint bat shy. No less an authority than Frank Chance declared Gleichman to be one of the best first basemen he ever saw but predicted that it would be three or four years before he regained his batting confidence and ability to step into them, though he said he Vas sure he would regain it. And in the last two years Gus has been going better at bat each season. The idea seems to prevail, that Gleichman Is a tottering old timer. He is 27 or 28 years old, about half the age of Tex Visterzil, who has been playing ball some 15 years and tried out with Detroit ten years ago. Tex is still a mighty good ballplayer, but he is slowing fast and his are shows when he Is on the bases. Perhaps Gleichman will come to Portland and perhaps he will not, but if he does there Is no occasion for so much ex citement about it, particularly as he will come only at the waiver price and there still will be a lot due for WisterziL PEXDIJETOX TEAM TAKES TRIP v'ashington ' State Freshmen and Pullman High to Be Played. PENDLETON, Or.. Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) rendleton High school bas ketball team, accompanied by Coach Hanley, will leave I'eitdleton Thurs day for Pullman. Wash., where the local five will meet the Washington State freshmen in a game which will be the curtain-raiser for the Wash ington State-University of Washing ton contest Friday night. The local quint will play Pullman High school Saturday night, and re turn bome Sunday. Coach Hanley's aggregation has been handicapped In practice during the past week by the sickness of Myron Hanley, crack for ward, and it is possible the team will have to play against the Pullman aggregations without his services. Football Men Play Basketball. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 20. (Special.) The backfield men of the college football team went down to defeat before the line men In one of the most interesting basketball gamesxof the season. After 30 minutes of play. during which diving, running tackles, running, in fact anything in either football or basketball formation was permitted, the line won by a score of 4 to 2. BIG PIN EVENT SUNDAY SECOND HALF OF MATCH WITTI SPOKANE TO BE BOWLED. Efforts to Accommodate 700 Spec tators at Alleys to I5e Made by Manager BIuDcy. The Oregon Bowling alleys will be the scene Sunday afternoon of the second half of the bowling match be tween picked teams of Portland and Spokane. Last Sunday the local bowlers traveled to Spokane for the first half of the match which re sulted in the Inland Empire pin smashers nosing out Portland by a margin of 21 pins. The final count in the first five games rolled last Sunday was 4807 to 4786. J. W. Blaney, captain and manager of the local bowlers, was well pleased with the showing made at Spokane. On the local alleys Blaney says his bowlers should be able to pick up the 21 pins they are behind. According to Blaney, an effort will be made to accommodate 700 specta tors at the match Sunday, which will be started at 2 o'clock. After the match is started no bowling will be allowed en any of the other alleys and there will be nothing to take the attention of the bowlers from the big match. In addition to the five-man match there will also be a doubles and sin gles contest with crack bowlers of the two cities competing. The Spokane-- team with several supporters is expected to arrive to morrow morning. v AGGIE-CHEMAWA GAME TODAY Basketball Team to Go to Palo Alto for Next Contest. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis, Jan. 20. (Special.) Despite the defeat handed out to the Aggie basket shooters by Willam ette university Tuesday night on the local basketball floor, the team de termined to redeem itself and win from Chemawa in games here Janu ary 21 and 22. Richard Stenson, for ward, high point man against Wil lamette, and Captain Ernest Arthur, Stenson's forward mate, are sure' to keep their positions. Following the Chemawa games the team will leave for Palo Alto to meet Stanford January 25 and 26. It will also play California before returning to Corvallis to meet Oregon Febru ary 4 and 5. CALIFORNIA'S OFFER REFUSED University of Pittsburg Turns Down Footbairciiallenge.' PITTSBURG, Jan. 20. Carl E. Da vis, graduate manaer of athletics of the University of Pittsburg, yester day announced that he had rejected an offer made by the University of California to have the Panthers play at Berkeley, Cal., October 22. He said that the offer was declined be cause the Pitt football schedule had been definitely decided upon for next year. ' Mr. Davis said he received the In vitation in a letter from the Califor nia Institution Tuesday. Acceptance, he said, would necessitate cancella tion of two games already scheduled. Yale Likes Football Coach. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 20. Sat isfaction was expressed by the Yale News today at the selection of T. A. D. Jones as football coach for a term of years. It says his time will be de voted to building up a new. Yale system such as has been utterly link ing since the days of Ted Coy." PROPOSES TO MAKE BOUT SURE Offer to Take Over Brady's Interest and Bond Made. CQCHRAN STANDS IN WAY Status of Dempsey-Carpentler Con test Undecided Cntil Word Comes From Englishman. KEW YORK, Jan. 20. After a con ference late today between Tex Rick ard and William A. Brady, the former announced that he had offered to take over Brady's Interest and bond in the proposed Dempsey-Carpentler bout. Rickard told The Associated Press that Brady refused to accept the of fer until he had consulted Charles B. Cochran, the third joint promoter, who is in London. Brady; agreed, however, to ascer tain whether Cochran desired to con tinue with Rickard or withdraw with Brady should he decide to accept Rickard's offer. Rickard said that his offer was the only concrete re sult of the conference. According to Rickard. the interests of Cochran in this country were in charge of Brady, who holds a power of attorney for Cochran, but there was no direct evidence that the lat ter desired to abandon his ehare in the match. Conference Features Controversy. This conference was the feature of another day of controversy over whether the match between Dempsey and Carpentier should or could be canceled owing to alleged non-fulfillment of contractual clauses. Much of the discussion appeared to hinge on the mystery of the missing bond. According toRickaTd, Kearns and others, such af'Vond for $50,000 was made out by ffie champion and his manager, but its whereabouts is shrouded in mystery. Officials of the Central Union Trust company stated that it was not in their possession, as called for by the contract. Kearns telegraphed to a local rep resentative to break Into his safe deposit box to ascertain if the bond had been placed there, but the re sult of this search had not been an nounced. The bonds of the three promoters and the money put up in France by Carpentier have been ac counted for apparently. Robert Edgren Arbiter. Another angle is whether any tech nical or legal oversight in carrying out the contract to date takes prece dence over the final rulings by Rob ert EdgTen, named as arbiter Qf all disputes. The final clause of the' 15 page contract reads as follows: 'The parties hereto agree that Robert Edgren shall be the sole and final arbiter of all questions relating to any of the covenants and condi tions of this agreement and agree to be bound irrevocably by the de cision of the said Robert Edgren. Attorneys for the pugilists ex pressed the opinion that under thi clause each promoter would be obliged to discharge his obligation assumed in the contract, even though certain clauses had been technically violated should the arbiter rule that they had been fulfilled in his opinion n a general way. Rickard Makes Offer. Rickard stated that he had no de ire to hold the other promoters to their contract should they desire to withdraw and that he stood ready to assume full responsibility for carry ng out the match. Such a move would equire him to postrthe full $100,000 forfeit of the promoters and assume responsibility for a SoOO.000 purse. Possibility of legal action to force the promoters to stage the fight was forecast tonight by H. S. Heicheimer, attorney for Denlpsey and Carpentier. He declared the contestants had ful filled their contractural obligations to the promoters.and intimated tha a suit for specific performance of the contract would be instituted if the promoters showed any inclination to abandon their agreement. CONTRACT HELD OT BROKEN' Edgren, as Arbiter, Gives Opinion on Denipsey-Carpentier Bout. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20. The con. tract for a heavyweight champion- hip bout between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier has not necessar y been violated if Dempsey s forfeit Is not on deposit with the Central Union Trust company of New York Robert Edgren, named in the contract as "sole arbiter." said here tonight "The contract provides the forfeit shall be deposited with the bank or with the promoters," Edgren said. "Tex Rickard, promoter, w'red me today Dempsey's money was posted and I have no reason to doubt his statement." Edgren said he did not consider the situation one that called for action by him. AGGIE ROOKS SCHEDULED i AVIXGED M INTERMEDIATES TO PLAY CORVALLIS SQUAD. Club's First Team to Take Rest Saturday While Juniors Occupy Gymnasium. Multnomah Amateur Athletic club's basketball team will be given ai rest this Saturday, but its place on the Wlnged-M floor will be taken by the club intermediates, who are sched uled to battle the Oregon Agricultural college freshmen. From present indications the inter mediates are oing to have their hands full with the Oregon Aggie rooks, who shape up as a strong and fast combination. The rooks rode roughshod over the Franklin high school tossers here Wednesday night, and are out to turn the same trick against the intermediates Saturday. On Coach Hager's freshmen team are two players well to known to local basketball fans for their work with local quintets. One is Walter Fernlty. formerly a Washington high player. Fernley was with the fast Multnordah Guard basketball team last season. Ryan is the other local star. He was with the Christian Brothers Business college team sev eral seasons ago, and later played with the Christian Brothers alumni. Coach Hager is continually switch ing his players from one position to another while the game is in prog ress, which causes the opposing players no end of worry trying to keep .track of their men. The intermediates have a strong llneun this season, with several ex- interscholastic stars on the team. Bill Priscoll and Bate Jacobberger, Columbia university Irve Cole, Dave Wright. Fred Martin and Leggitt, Lincoln hleh. and Don and Will Peek Jefferson, are the players on the team. All made good records on the interscholastic teams, and under the cnRchine- of De Prato. formerly Michigan player, who is now on the Winged-M first team, have built up n. strnn? combination. The game Saturday will be started promptly at 8:15 P. M., and will be followed byjthe usual social dance. Saturday Night Game Off. The basketball game scheduled for Saturday night on the Y. M. C. A. floor between the Honeyman Hard ware quintet and the North Pacific Dental college tossers has been called off according to Louis Gallo, manager of the Honeyman fives It is probable that the two teams will get togemer later in the season but they could not get the "Y" floor Saturday. Honey man was victorious in a previous con test between the teams. TRACK WDRK TO BEGIN O. A. C. COACH ORDERS SQCAD OCT OX MONDAY. Strong Aggregation Is Expected to Turn Out for Practice In Armory of Coliege. OREGON AGRICULTURAL CCTL- LEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 20. (Special.) The first call for college track practice has been issued by Coacn Butler for Monday afternoon. While the weather will not permit outdoor practice, it is the plan of Eutler to utilize the armory for early working out. The armory contains a suitable track andKplaces for the various field events. Among the letter men who are back in college and who will answer the call of Coach Butler are Grant Swan, distance man: Maurice Snook, dashes; Radcliffe, Kellog, Scea, Lucas, Powell, MoCormack and Damon In addition to the letter men there are ft large number of men who were on last year's squad but who did not make their letters. The freshman team of last year, which defeated Oregon, has a large number of men to add to the "vets," and the early dope is favorable for a winning team. George Powell of Portland, who won the college championship of the conference in the shotput, is qui again in uniform. The return of Radcliffe, the high hurdler, after an absence of two years, will give additional strength to the team. XEW ATHLETIC PLANS MADE Proposal Is to Have Community Service Supplant Pendleton Club. PENDLETON. Or., Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) Pendleton Athletic club will die a natural death and adult ath letics will come under supervision of the proposed Community Service plan now being considered for this city if plans formulated at a meeting of local sportsmen Tuesday night carry through. Fred Bennion, Rev. Arthur Lockwood, Dick Hanley, Leslie Gibbs, Rev. George Clark, Carl Peters, Rex Ellis and R. E. Tucker were ap pointed to form, a committee to draft recommendations and organization plans to report later. Under the proposed change the equipment of the Pendleton Athletic club would be turned over to the Com munity Service organization which will hire an athletic director to super vise both Junior and adult athletics the year round. A clubroom for junior members would be obtained in the city hall building and the present athletic club quarters would be used for exercises and games. MT. AX GEL BEATS mAl CITY Score Is 18 to 15 at End or Fast ' Contest on College Floor. ST. BENEDICT. Or., Jan. 20. (Spe cial ) The Mt.'Angel college basket ball team defeated the Mill City five here Wednesday, IS to 15. The Mill City squad set the pace for the first half with a score of 12 to 6. In the second half the local squad over th lead of the visitors and held iKinr. in their own hands till the final whlKtle blew. For the Mt. Angel squad, Kropp and Cranston were the stars, wnue McAllister showed up brilliantly by bis shooting for the Mill City five A return game will be played Janu- ... . I ...,'11 rilov r'utihu high school at Canby tomorrow and Columbia university of Portland will play here Sunday HOPPE'S TERMS ACCEPTABLE Horemans Agrees to Play Billiard Champion on Own Proposition. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Edouard Horemans, the Belgian Diniaraisi, to day announced he would accept Willie Hoppe's terms for a championship match. Hoppe has Uimstea on a con tract giving the winner tne total gate ror-fints. whereas Horemans wanted the winner to receive 60 per cent and; the loser 40 per cent. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20. vvune noppe, champion billiardist, will not contest with Edouard Horemans in a imc atch until next fall, K. a. .Benjamin, the champion's manager, announced today, following notification that the Belgian had agreed to Hoppe's "win ner take all proposition. CHRISTY MATHEWSOX BETTER Ev-Star Pitcher A Die to sit on Porch of Home. NEW- YORK, Jan. 20. Christy Mathewson, formerly star pitcner or he New York Giants, who for seven months has been fighting with tuber culosis at Saranac Lake, scored yes- eday. - Swathed in roDcs. ne was piacea in sin invalid chair and wheeled out on he front porch. As his wite sat De- hind him, both unmindful of the fact hat the mercury registered 4V oe ow zero, Christy said: Tell mv friends l am nappy ana J know I'll get well." KERR REFUSES $6500 SALARY Pitcher Says He Will Not Sign Up With Sox for That Sum. FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 20. Dick Kerr, star left-handed pitcher of the Chicago White Sox. reported in dis patches yesterday as a, nom out, saia today that a contract for $6500 salary had been offered him. Kerr is at his home in Paris, Tex He said he had returned the contract with a request for more money and added that he felt confident an agree ment satisfactory to all would be reached. However, he said he would not sign for JB'iOO. Hans Wagner in Demand. .PITTSBURG. Jan. 20. Ha'ns Wag ner, former "grand old man of base ball." is among the players desired by George Lawson for his new Conti nental league, it was learned here to day. Wagner last year coached the Carnegie Tech squad and played on an jall - sUr team bearing his name. T Harvard Report Explains Game With Oregon. SPENDING CURB ADVISED Colleges Should Agree to Limit Ex penditures for Athletic Equip ment, Declares Dean. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 20. A suggestion that it might be well for colleges to agree to limit the ex penditures for equipping athletie teams that represent them in Inter collegiate competitions, was made in the annual report of the Harvard athletic committee today. Dean Lebaron R. Briggs, who wrote the report as committee chairman, said he was far from denying that the enormous popularity and unpleasant publicity of college athletics have led to excessive expenditures. Remarking that to some persons the thought of sending students across the continent to play football Is disgusting, the chairman men tioned several factors that induced the committee to allow the crimson eleven to go to Pasadena. Cal., a year ago to play the University of Oregon. "The committee was intluencea also," he eaid, "by the opportunity of showing that Harvard students are not such affected weaklings as many persons in the west have been taught to think them, but simple and cour ageous youths." Harvard's victory in that game. Dean Briggs said, gave it no claim to any championship title. "Far from claiming a championship of the world a team that barely tied Princeton would be impudent in claiming even the championship of the east if such a thing existed. Oregon had a good team in the west; Harvard had a good team in the east. It was in teresting to see how two teams so far apart would compare. Reporters did the rest." SPENCER M CAPTAIN HAWAII FOOTBALL ELEVEN" IS rXAXIMOUS IX CHOICE. Ex-Oregon Man Declines Position, but Teammates Refuse to Accept Resignation. HONOLULU, T. H.. Jan. 20. (Spe cial.) Bob Spencer, formerly of Ash land. Or., and during the last year quarterback and star of the Univer sity of Hawaii football team, has been elected captain of thl21 team. Spencer announced his retirement from the game Christmas day when the University of Nevada defeated Hawaii, 14 to 0, but the rest of the team refused to believe it and unani mously elected him captain. Spencer was responsible for the In auguration of the plan to bring a mainland varsity football team here for the Christmas holidays, which plan proved so success-full that the two games played here by the visitors netted the college a clear profit of $2000 for the athletic funds. - Stanford may be invited next sea son, although no definite decision has teen reached. Washington State and Oregon university have also been on the list for consideration as possible guests. No decision will likely be reached in the matter until April or May. Spencer has not yet accepted the" captaincy of the 1921 varsity team. LEONARD SIGN'S WITH DETROIT George Lewis Declares He Has Xol Made Contract Yet. FRESNO, Cal., Jan. 20. Hubert (Dutch) Leonard, Fresno raisin grower and Detroit American league pitcher has signed his 1921 contract, he announced today. George (Duffy) Lewis, outfielder, trailed recently by New York Amer icans to Washington, has not signed his contract, he stated here today. Ed Morris Cup Awarded. ABERDEEN, Wash., .Tan. 20. I Spe cial.) rAward of the Ed Marris trap shooting cup. shot for at the opening of the Portland Gun club's new home Sunday, was made yesterday to J. W. Clark of Aberdeen, 111 a letter from H. IJ. Kveriling. secretary of the club. "The Heart , Soak" AT MILWAUKIE ARENA Wednesday, January 26 SIX-ROUND EXHIBITION Jack Dempsey Champion of the World VS. Terry Kellar Human Punching Bag FIVE ADDED BOUTS Rip Snorting; Fistic Barrages Rounds TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT Rich's Cigar Store, 6th and Wash. Stiller's Cigaj Store, Bdwy. at Stark llllllll! EAST VERSUS WES FOOTBALL DEFENDED 38 The fact that 96 shots entered th events, when only 40 were expected, delayed awards of trophies. J.. K. Gill Five Wins. The J. K. GUI five easily defeated the Sellwood leaguers Wednesday night by a score of 52 to 10. The superior passing of the GJll boys was the only feature of the gume. The. whole Gill team played stellar ball. Beck and Wilson tied for high-point honors, with 18 points each. Griffith, played the best game for the losers. Piedmont Beats B'nal B'rith. The Piedmont Juniors defeated th B'nai B'rith Juniors on Peninsula floor Wednesday night. The final score was IS to 13. Only five fouls were called, of which the Jewish boys converted three. Ruck Grayson was high-point man for Piedmoitt, with six baskets, while Silver starred, for B'nai B'rith. Champion Trotting Stallion Sold. HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 20. Word has come from W. H. Cocher, secre tary of the National Trotting associa tion, that William Crozier of this city nas Dought Peter L., the champion 4-year-old trotting stallion of J920 at Memphis, Tenn. The price Is un derstood to have been about $15,000. Last year Peter L.'s best mark waa 2:06U. French Tennis Champion Invited. NEW YORK. J;in "0 Miss Sura nn a IT jennlen nf Francp wnrlil'M wnmnn'fl tennis champion, may come to this country next summer to meet Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and other leading American feminine players. A special invitation will be extended to her to compete in the woman s na- tional championships. Columbia Team to Play In Japan. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. The Colum bia university baseball team will play the Waseda university team of Tokio, Japan, here next spring, it was an nounced today. Waseda. in a letter to Columbia, requested a game during its tour of the United States in May and June. The games will be piaytd early in June. Seals to Train ut Monterey. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. Ar rangements were completed today to have the San Francisco club In the Pacific Coast Baseball league do ils spring training at Monterey and Del Monte. The squad will break camp March 27 and return here to play the Chicago Nationals. English Team Meets DeTcal. LONDON. Jan. 29 The Enpli.-h cricket team touring Australia suf fered a reverse In a series of five championship games there, the Auw-. tralian team winning three consecu tive victories. TONIGHT TONIGHT ARMORY ill Rounds 31 XING Municipal Boxing- Commission features the Boston Flash Joe EAGAN vs. Alex TRAMBITAS 10 Rounds 10 Scmi-Final Eight Rounds Bobby HARPER vs. Millie ST. CLAIR THREE SIZZLING, RED HOT PRELIMINARIES Tickets now selling- at Stillcr's and Rich's Cigar Stands. FORD CAR TIRE SALE Special bargain of BRAND NEW TIRES in Ford sizes that meam a great saving to every Ford owner. WHILE THEY LAST Regular SALE Price PRICE 30x3 30x3 31x4 19.10 7.72 23.20 . 9.48 32.50' 13.19 Out of town orders during this sale mutt come with deposit EAGLE TIRE COMPANY 122 Ttorf h HrojMlwny, lrt lund. 1'liunp Ilrondwoy 1HI2. Fishing Days! They're getting closer right along. Now is a good time to put rods and reels in shape. We haye parts of all kinds. Backus & Morris 273 Morrison St., Near Fourth 'FYTR A I