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TIIE 3I0IEXIXG OKEGOXTAX, " FRIDAY, JAXUAUT 21, 1921
ST.
FIGHTERS
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Miske, Tillman and Ward to
Mix at Milwaukie.
BOUTS ON FEBRUARY 9
Slatehmaker Evans Declared
Have Good Card Tor Ar
i mory Tonight.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Through! WHV .
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Hands Good whekJ
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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
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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
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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
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