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TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1921 Be Sure You Are Correctly Dressed T Visitors Going Fast and Now Welterweight Champion Slat ed for Milwaukie May 20. in First Division. . PORT FLINGERS ARE MANY McCarthy coming soon 14 OIS TO EMI BEMfiS THIS WEEK AND THEN HE MADE A HOLE IN FIFTEEN. I OH D ICK - I 'M THIRTY- , ' I'M 3eTTtrG GOOD "oH-H-h! - H-l"I " I WOWBSR mow I FIV6 TO H6R6- ONLr . SAY " Pi II LED IT ! HAPCEMED To To two MORS TO Go ' ' ' rVLLCv ' ' Tu.T . UAVB6 I A FORTY Five FORMS ' RIGHT IN , - ma-p 4 Good OUT. or this Tne ROvkSh! Cn make a.goob ouu HARD BOUTS AWAIT BRITTO IK Team Boasts More Southpaws Than Right-Banders, With Iad Named Alten Best Bet. BY L. H. GREGORY. Iel Howard and the Oaks will en tertain the Beavers on .the home lot . this week, or the Beavers will enter ' tain them, as the case may be. The Oaks got off to a poor start in the Coast league race, but have been coming along so fast of late that they are in the first division. They only broke even against Vernon last week, but the week before took Los Angeles down the line, five games to two. With so many left-handed batters in their 'lineup the Beavers have looked pretty sick against port-sided flinging. Fittery of Sacramento ou.u Jnake almost any club look sick when be is going right, but even Mehaus rot away with his game sunaa, auu he Is no great shakes as pitcher. Evidently the Oaks intend to south- paw the boys to death, for their pitch ing staff includes no less than four left-handers. That's almost a record. In fact, the Oaks have more south paws than right-handers. Their best bet appears to be a lad named Alten, but in addition to him they- have Winn, who had both jaws broken by a Jine drive last season when somebody lammed one at him so fast he couldn t catch it or dodge it; Ray Kremer. who admits he has so much stuff he doesn't dare use it all for fear of kill ing somebody, and old Harry Krause. Krause has been pitching in this league a long, long time, but the old . . i. .hii ihsrc when the hot weath er comes around. His fast one hasn't the hop it once possessea, so ne of pends a good deal on a spitter. There are so few spitball pitchers In the league that It gives an advantage to those who are permitted to use that delivery, for the batters don't see it often enough to get hep. Socks Siebold and Buzz Arlett are the right-handers of the Oak stable. Siebold was with Seattle last season, hut went to Oakland on the trade that sent Outfielder Lane to the Rai niers. Buzz Arlett last season was rated by many the best pitcher, in the circuit, but something has happened to Buzz. He either has been knocked out of the box in every start he has narte hnf one. or has been left on the mound to take punishment and suffer. That happened in San Francisco Sun day, when Vernon made 16 hits off him and won the game, 12 to 0. The peculiar part about it was that Arlett was left there to take all that Ver non could give him. This seems to lend some color to the story spread in Oakland that Ar lett's ineffectiveness isn't due to a sore arm, the official alibi, but to the fact that he isn't trying to pitch. If he really had a sore arm. It doesn t seem reasonable to believe he would be required to pitch out a game like that. According to the Oakland story, Ar lett is on mighty poor terms with Del Howard and some other members of the Oakland club. Of course, he may really have a sore arm, but in any event he hasn't been pitching the ball expected of him. The Oaks present behind the bat Honus Mitze, who captains the club. and our old friend. Art Koehier, who went to Oakland from Portland by a circuitous route in which Detroit figured. At first they have Jack Knight, a veteran ballplayer, who can bang the ball; at second. Al Yhite. a collegian, who is a nifty fielder, though not a strong hitter; Brubaker at short, and Pmelli, once with Port land, at third. In the outfield is another old Bea ver player, Denny Wilie, Guy Cooper and the celebrated slugger, Hack Mil ler. Hack looks heavier than ever, but he busts the ball just that much harder. Hack will have the Portland flingers in a cold sweat every time he comes to bat for fear he will get one" just right and lift it over the fence. With Miller here this week, the unusual record for the Portland ball park of ten home runs over the fence in ten games played isn't likely to suffer for want of exercise. The pudgy Hack can hit about as hard as any man that ever lived. He is right Up with Babe Ruth, or ahead of him, in home runs this season, and he always did like that Portland fence. Weather permitting, the 6eries against the Oaks will start this aft ernoon at 3 o'clock. The usual seven game series will be played, with a double-header Sunday. Portland hasn't met the Oaks before this season, so it's too early to say whether their visit will be a blessing or a curse. Dutch Rock, the California Mission league pitcher who joined the club three weeks ago in Sacramento, is no longer with the Beavers. Walt McCredie released him Sunday and he took the rattler back to California. With big Rip King on his way to join Billy Speas' Regina club in the Western Canada league, that re duces the Portland club to 18 play ers, two less than they can, carry under the league rules. Rip will be absent only temporarily for a season's work behind the bat nearly every day will just about make a star of him. He is pretty sure to be with the Beavers next year, if he isn't in the big show by then. The big fel low is ambitious. Though he hated to leave the Coast league, he did it because he became convinced that plenty of work is what he needs to bring him around. This kid Rose . who plays utility outfield for Sacramento will get himself badly beaned one of these days if he doesn't restrain his rowdy tendencies. He deliberately kneed Pep Young while going into second Sunday. It was a dirty piece of work, done with full intent to injure, not the foxy Interference that a skillful baserunner will pull to prevent a double play. Young's knee where Rose hit him was badly swollen Sun day night and the youngster was kept awake from the pain. On some ball clubs the pitcher on Rose's next tui;a at bat would have shown him his place by throwing the ball at his head just as hard as it could be heaved. After the kneeing episode Rose started to get fresh with Ike Wolfer. who is smaller than he is. but when Dick Cox stepped in and in- t(nmtri that hA urnntH crlaHlw ontar. tain Mr. Rose at any time and place, with or without gloves. Marquis of Queensbury or logging camp rules, his cockiness subsided quite a little. It's a real treat to have umpiring cf the kind with which Messrs. Phyij and Casey have obliged in the Salt Lake and Sacramento scries. With seven of the games won or lost by only one run. one of them a 12-inning another a 13-inning and a third a 'T&F j -of Atu-THunj- I r "Get out.1" I lJ WHOLE. COURSE f" 19-inning battle, they have had a lot of close ones to call, too. Yet there hasn't been one real kick against their decisions. Of course a ball player has crabbed a little now and then on strikes, but ballplayers al ways have used the umpire to alibi thomselves when they strike out and they always will. Phyle and Casey are capable, conscientious officials. Even the ballplayers like 'em, which is saying a whole lot. Being only human, they will miss a close one now and then, but not often. Walter Genin's twisted ankle will lay him up three or four days, or a week, but Doc Meikle, the Beavers' trainer, says his injury isn't serious. At first it waa feared some tendons had been wrenched loose, but Doc says it is no worse than a bad sprain. NILES CUP IS TROPHY TO BE IX MEMORY OF LATE WHITMAN STAR. President Accepts Proffer; Cham pion Football Player Each Year to Get Emblem. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla. Wash., May 2. (Uecial.)P To honor the memory of the late Royal F. Niles, one of the best-known gridiron play ers Whitman ever turned out, a friend has written offering a cup to the college in his memory. Each year the cup is to be won by the champion fnothnii nlaver. to have his name en graved thereon, and to be kept in his possession until another winner is named. Th letter waa - addressed to Dr. Stephen B. L. Penrose, president of Whitman college, with the request that the name of the writer be wttn held for the present. The president has written to the donor, accepting the offer, and assuring him that his wishes shall be followed out. "Tubby" Niles died at tne nome 01 his brother, Ralph W. Mies, in Ore gon City, December 28, 1920, follow ing tUuerCUlOSIS CUIlLrae.icu tta nn- result of ' influenza while witn me American expeditionary forces m France. He played through four seasons 1910, 1911, 1912 and nis namo appearing one" on i" pages of the northwest for his won derful playing. Cutting Wins Way to Finals. LONDON, May 2. (By the Associat ed Press.) C. S. cutting, me Amtn- can court tennis player, today won the right to meet E. M. Baerlein, hold er or tne xriLisu fun .....o pionship. for the title weaneauay us defeating C. Bruce in me no. round of the court tennis maicnea at the Queen's club. Cutting won in three straight sets, 6-3, 8-4. b-. Baseball Summary. National League Standings. V. L. Pot. i W. I Pet. Plttsburs. );t o .Sls rinclnnatl. Brooklyn.. 11! 6 .70t Boston. . . . 7 10 .41 6 10 .375 4 10 .2S6 3 9 -00 ew York w .wi-uiiau v Chlcaeo... B 7 .4ti2,Bt. 1-ouis.. American League Standings. W. tt. Pet. i V.'. L Pet- Cleveland. 12 5 .70iVew York Waah'ton. 10 6 .ti-'i,st. Louis.. Boston.... 6 5 .54."iChicafro. . . Detroit... 7 8 .4i7!Philad'p'ia 6 7 .2 6 9 .400 4 7 .364 5 9 .oo7 American Association Results. At Indianapolis 8. Louiaville 15. " At St. Paul 2. Minneapolis 7. Southern Association Results. At Memphis 4. Little Rock 1. called end eighth Inning. At asnvli:e-irmmsiiK"i, mu, At Chattanooga-Atlanta, rain, WeBtern Leasue Results. At Omaha 2, Tulsa 0. At Dea Moines 3. Wichita 9. No other games scheduled. College Baseball Results. At Cambridge, Harvard 4. Bowdoln 1. At Lafayette, lnd.. Michigan . Perdue 0. At Urbana. 11L. Notre Dame 2. Illinois &. How the Series nded. At Portland 1 game, Sacramento 4 games: at Seattle 4 games. Salt Lake 2 games: at Los Angelw 4 games, San Krancisco 3 games; at San Francisco, Vernon 3 games, Oakland S games. Where the Teams riay This Week. Oakland at Portland, Vernon at Seattle, Sacramento at San Francisco, Suit Lake at Loa Angeles. Where the Teams Play Next Week. Vernon at Portland. Oakland at Seattle, Salt Lake at San Francisco, Sacramento at Los Angeles. l'acific tast League Standings. W. I.. Pet.: w. L. Pet. Sacram'nto IS 8 .tKtiiSeattle. . . . 13 12 .5J0 S Franc'o IS 9 . 6ti7, Vernon. .. . 1115 .423 L ne'le 14 12 .Mi Salt Lake.. 13 .3x1 Oakland... 12 11 .522,Portland. . 819 .208 Beaver Batting Averages. A.B. H. Ave.! " A.B. H. Ave Baker... Si 20 . 363 Krug.. . . Wolter.. 104 3 .340 Bourg.. . Cox Wl S3 .3:t!i young.. . Koss. Sid 7 2 .26 Genln... Poole... 95 27 .2S4 King.... Fisher.. 33 9 .269 Johnson. Pillette. 12 S .250,Polion... Paton. .. 8 2 .2ol!Kalllo. . . Rutler.. 102 23 .22.MHic.kev. . ra 7-R .rr ivn mm 'Mm I 92 20 .217 23 5 .217 74 16 .21S 86 18 .209 10 2 .201 J6 3 .187 It 2 .1S2 9 1 .lit 1 0 .000 Ko;s.Sam 14 3 22iT'm ave..S60 528 .2il i "i j ST. I;OriS TAKES LAST OF SE RIES AFTER 13 IXNCXGS. 13 Detroit Players Get Bases on Balls, Bat Visitors Are Able to Hold Tight In Pinches. DETROIT, May 2. St. Louis won the last game of the series from De troit today, 7 to 6. after 13 innings. Lee's walk. Lamb's sacrifice and Josh Billings' only hit, a single, scored the winning run in the 13th. Thirteen Detroiters got bases or balls, but the visitors played well In the pinches. 21 Tigers being left on the bases. Score: R. H. E. H. H. E. St Louis .7 15 3!Detroit ...$14 1 Batteries Bayne, Shocker, Davis and Billings; Holling, Dauss and Ain smith. k 1 Red Sox 2, Yankees 1. BOSTON, May 2. Ruth tied the score with a home run, ihis sixth, in the ninth today, but Boston won rrom New York, 2 to 1. Pratt doubled to left with two out in the last of the ninth and scored on Hendryx's drive. Score: R. H. E. H. H. B. New York.l 7 01 Boston ...2 5 Batteries Mays and Schang; Jones and Kuel. Athletics 6, Senators PHILADELPHIA, May 2. Philadel phia made it two straight from Washington by winning today. 6 to 1 Perry was in good frm, his only lapse coming in the sixth, when walked Judge and Milan and permit ted a single by Rice. Dugan s home run featured the local onslaught on Erickson. Sore: R. H. E.I H. H. E. Wash 1 3 1 Philadel ..6 5 Batteries Erickson, Courtney and Vjnarrity; ferry ana remins. SC DODGERS' SCHEDULE BIG Four Games to Be Played in as Many Days This Week. SEATTLE, Wash., May 2. (Spe cial.) Four games in as many days is the programme for the University of Washington baseball team this week, which is a hard set-up for even the best of college nines. But be cause Washington has one of the best college nines, it isn't getting alarmed over the heavy schedule. The oun dodgers leave here Tuesday night and will play in Corvallis against Oregon Agricultural college Wednes day and Thursday and in Eugene against Oregon Friday and Saturday, Both Oregon teams have- come to Seattle, seen Washington play and been conquered. Oregon was the first to fall, being slaughtered 8-1 and 17-5. The Aggies followed,' losing the first contest 8-3. Because the rain became too heavy during the second contest it was called before the fifth inning. That the Sundodgers will repeat these performances, even on the foreign Oregon diamonds, is predict ed, chiefly because they have a pow erful drive. Their hitting, for ex ample, showed that. In the first three conference games, Washington hit .363 as a team. Eleven men played during those games, seven of whom hit more than .300. The outfield hit .355 that's where the strength was supposed to lie. But when the in field went the outfield one better with an average of .391, and the catcher hit .400, and one pitcher hit .429 and the ot.ier pitcher .333, it can be realized that the whole purple and gold team can hit. LIXCOLX HELD IP BY KAEX For Second Time Railsplitters Un able to Start on Schedule. For the second time this season the Lincoln high school baseball team has been unable to start on its sched ule. Rain has held up the Railsplit ters in both instances. If Jupe Pluvius shows a kindly dis position tomorrow, Benson Tech will take on the Franklin team. Both Benson and the Quakers have tasted defeat this year. The teams are evenly matched. James John and Commerce are billed as Thursday's attraction on Multnomah field, while Washington and Lincoln meet in their annual game Friday FASTER TniE XET FORECAST Trainer of Paddock Thinks Century Mark Will Be Lowered. LOS ANGELES, May 2. Dean Crom well, track coach of the University of Southern California, trainer of Charles Paddock, world's champion 120-yard sprinter, and joint holder of the world's record for the 100-yard dash, declares that the limit of hu man capacity for the 100-yard dash has not been rsached. Paddock, he said, or some one else, will lower the figure cf 9 3-5 seconds for the century run. Coach Cromwell also trained Howard Drew, joint holder of the lOf-yard record. Discussing the possibility of lower Ing the 100-yard record, Cromwell said: You knew that Paddock's great burst of speed at the finish of a, race propels him through space faster than at any other time. I am convinced Paddock ran the last ten yards at Berkeley and at Stanford in 4-5 of a second. This is at the rate of eight seconds flat." S ITS 11TH XIXTH-rXA'IXG RALLY DEFEATS PHLLADELPHIA, 4 TO 3. Single, Sacrifice and Hit Tie Score, AYhile Triple Sends Across the Winning Run. BROOKLYN, May 2. Brooklyn won Its 11th successive game today by staging a ninth inning rally and de feating Philadelphia, 4 to 3. Johnston sigled, was sacrificed by Griffith and scored the tying run on Wheats hit. Konetchy then tripled, sending Wheat over with the victory. score: R. H.E. R. H. E. Phll'phla. 3 9 2Brookl3-n. 4 5 3 Batferies Hubbell and Bruggy; Ca dore, Miljus, Mitchell and Miller. Giants 8, Braves 1. NEW YORK, May 2. The New York Nationals made It three straight Irom .Boston today, winning 8 to 1 The Giants knocked out four runs off Watson in the first Inning, bunch ing a base on balls with two triples and a home run by George Kelly, his seventh or the season. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. Boston... 1 6 lNew York. 8 12 Batteries Watson, Scott, Cooney and ONeill, Gibson; Barnes and Smith, Gaston. Pirates 4, Cubs 3. CHICAGO, May 2. Timely hitting behind base on balls off Martin gave tittsDurg a 4 to 3 victory over Chi cago today. Score: R.H. E.I R.H. E. Pittsburg. 4 8 2Chicago... 3 7 Batteries Glazner and Schmidt: -Martin ana u i-arrell. Lefts and Rights. AMM the rereree question. The first qualification for an official in the coming Dempsey-Carpentier match read, "Can you count up to ten?" A fan writes in, "Does Grover Francis qualify?" Hereafter the Portland and Milwau kie boxing commissions ought to ap ply the Bertillon system of measure ments to all contestants in matches. In this way the boys' fingernails wouia nave to De tne same length to prevent uneven matches. In order to avoid serious comnlica nons, Matchmakers Kendall and Evans should be sure and get the measurements of a boxer's arms, his height and foot displacement before signing nm up. As yet none of the featherweights has complained about the size of Sammy Gordon's nose. He has such a big advantage in that feature that one would think the boys would side step him. And still they talk of matching Joe Benjamin and Joe Gorman. If Leach Cross had such great physical advan tages over Gorman, Benjamin would tower over Joe like the Woolworth building over the armory. Joe Gorman had all the best of it in his match with Cross. Had Joe won he would have beaten a setup; If he had lost, he would have been a bum. A poor little man never will get worse than a draw with a good big man in Portland. Kid Jamaica reported at the Derail- sey training camp yesterday, thus assuring the camp of plenty of ginger. Last week's boxing card at the armory had everything. They even wanted to murder the referee. As the box-fight expert says: "It was an insult to the intelligence of the audience." Ana when a box-fight audience feels it has been insulted you can rest assured the insult was of the "heinous" sort. iSfllDDLEWEIGHT CROWS MAY BE DECID-ED TONIGHT. Multnomah Wrestling Instructor and Opponent Both Victors of Many Hard Struggles. Ted Thye will have the opportunity to clamp a "Strangler" Lewis head lock on the middleweight wrestling crown if successful in tossing Mike Yokel of Salt Lake two out of three falls in their catch-as-catch-can match at the armory tonight. If the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club in structor beats Yokel he will have little to fea'r from the rest of the middleweight grapplers in this coun try. Yokel, who has faced the world's best wrestlers on the mat for ten years, is said to be in fine condition for tonight's tussle. Mike is not a "circus" wrestler, but a student of the grappling game, and probably as fast and scientific as any man who has ever wrestled in the middleweight division. Ted Thye is the best wrestler at his weight ever developed on the Pa cific coast. He always has given the fans an exhibition of clean wrestling, is a wonderfully strong athlete and his appearance is deceiving to an op ponent. In the six or seven years he has been in the game Thye has faced many good wrestlers and has been returned the victor in most Instances. Ted thought he clearly established his claim to the middlweight champion ship of the world when he threw Walter Miller, who held the I'olice Gazette belt, emblematic of the title, but found Yokel had good claims. One preliminary match will precede the main event. The match will be a one-hour-or-a-fall go between Basan ta Singh, the Hindu, and Doug Parks of Kansas City. Parks, who is wrestling instructor at the B'nai B rith club, is a 'good performer and when in condition ex pects to hold his own with anybody at his weight. He will be in shape for tonight's match, as he has been conditioning himself for more than a month. Thye will leave for Los Angeles tomorrow or next dav. where ho is slated to meet Walter Miller in a two- hour match May 11. WASHOCGAIj VICTORS TV 31EET Camas and Union High Schools Go Down to Defeat. WASHOUGAL, Wash., May 2. (Spe cial.) In the sectional track meet for the eastern part of Clarke county, held at Camas Saturday, Washougai high school won handily with 95 points as against Camas high school's 27 points and Union high school's 14 points. White of Washougai was high point man. taking six first places. Jones of Washougai was second with 20 points to his credit. The best records were In the discus. with a throw of 102 feet; 50 yards 'n 5 4-5 seconds, and the pole vault, 10 feet In the grade meet Washougai, by winning the relay, defeated Camas, 45 to 42. The winners of first and sec ond places will enter the county track meet at Vancouver next Saturday GEESE REACH HOOD RIVER Sportsman Sure Spring Is Here When He Sees Flock. HOOD RIVER, Or., May 2. (Spe cial.) Alva L. Day, secretary of the Hood River Game Protective associa tion, declared that spring has finally arrived in the mid-Columbia. Ho based his prophecy on the passage of flocks of geese here the past few days. Last night, according to Mr. Day, a large flock of geese passed over his heights home at 9 o'clock. The geese were apparently confused. They circled over the residence sec tion three tims, Mr. Day said, before finally striking off to the north. "The geese were so low that I could hear the swish of their wings, be reported. BLOWS FROM BOXKVG FATAL Soldier at Fort Flager, Wash., Is Victim; Opponent Is Held. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., May 2. Emmanuel (Kid) Russo, a soldier from Fort Flagler, Wash., died last night in the military hospital at Ford Worden as the result, according to physicians, of a blow received during the fourth round of a boxing contest Saturday night. Walter F. Evans, his opponent in the bout, was being held today await ing findings of a coroner's jury. San Francisco Boxer to Train Here for Elimination Contest With Dave Shade. BY DICK SHARP. ' While on the Pacific coast Jack Britton, welterweight champion of the world,will take part In three or four matches if he wins his starts. which is very likely. The number of boys who have been staving Britton off can be counted on a few fingers. The welterweight champion is slated to box at the Milwaukie arena on May 20, in Seattle a few days later and then in Vancouver. B. C. Con ceding that he will defend his title successfully at the Milwaukie fistic emporium May 20. he will box in an other ten-round championship scrap in May or the first part of June. Travie Davis is scheduled to meet Britton in Seattle and Vancouver. B. C, promoters are making an effort tq line up a suitable opponent for Britton in that city. Johhny McCarthy, the San Fran cisco boxer, who will tangle with Dave Shade at the Milwaukie arena this Friday night in an elimination to determine the boy who will meet Britton May 20, is expected to arrive here tonight or tomorrow morning. McCarthy has been training in San Francisco, but will need a few days here to take off the rough edges. Shade is boxing daily at the Olympic gymnasium with a couple of sparring partners. McCarthy Is rated as the old re liable by the Portland boxing fans and it appears as though Shade will be in for the roughest session he has encountered since his invasion of the Northwest Shade beat Frankle Murphy and Frankie Haynie, both of whom gave McCarthy hard fights. As Shaae nas been boxing only as a welterweight he past few months, he has not tan gled with any other boys whom Mc Carthy has met. which leaves little room for comparison from that angle. Two six-round battles have now been clinched for the card. Sammy Gordon and Mickey Dempsey will meet in the six-round semi-wihdup, while Weldon Wing will box Irving Gleason of Seattle in another six- round setto. Gleason has been in Portland several weeks, working out at the Olympic gym. tor anytning that might come up in the way of a fight. Wing has not fought here since he lost to Frankie Monroe. Tommy Simpson, the Oakland pro moter, has split with both of his stellar performers, Battling Ortega and Jimmy Duffy. Simpson and Or tega have been ready to dissolve part nership for several months and defi-. nitely split after Ortega's bout with Jock Malone in ew Orleans tne otner night. It is said that Fred Winsor a going to handle Ortega and Duffy but as yet nothing definite has been gK-en out on the pressing subject. Ortega was not satisfied with the way Simpson handled him in New York and the trouble began at that time. The battler has not been going any too good of late either, as he lost on fouls both of his last two fights. The trend of discussion over the Leach Cross-Joe Gorman match seems to have switched from the original plaint, the decision, and has now turned to panning Matchmaker Evans for putting on two men of "such" weight difference. Certainly Evans needs no protec tion for matching a boxer who is on his way back weighing 136H pounds and a youngster with the strength of a bull weighing 131H pounds and perhaps 133 pounds the night .of the fight. During the past six years there has been more than 200 matches the writ er can name, many of them main events, where there has been a weight difference of between five and 50 pounds. Never was there a complaint registered and numerous matchmak ers put the ' matches on. Georgie Thompson agreed to make 118 pounds for Billy Mascott one night at the Heilig theater. When Thompson weighed In at the ringside he tipped the beams at 124 pounds. Mascott weighed about 117 pounds. Still the matchmaker wasn't panned. Mascott overcame the weight and received the plaudits of the crowd. If Joe Gor man would have stepped out the other night and handed Leach Cross a lac ing there wouldn't have been any complaint about the weight differ ence. If Joe would have gone In and won hands down, Cross would have been labeled as another setup for Gorman, instead of being hailed as a sensation. Harry Schuman stepped out to the Milwaukie arena on nicM weiching THE "DICER" Remember when we called derby hats "dice boxes?" Dickens wrote about the "pot hat" and his country men still call 'em "Bowlers." The graceful soft hat of today is an aftermath of the Civil War and finds its greatest perfection in the Gordon Hat. The Gordon tnodels this season are sightly the colors mighty attractive. ISMtdi 286 Washington Street dk MAT T FDA MADEtoORDF.B Extra Trousers Double the Life of a Suit And Not Only That Extra Trousers, if kept - pressed and creased, will keep- a man's appearance spick and span. An aggregation of hand some new spring and sum mer fabrics that reflect the best thoughts of the foreign and American cloth makers for this season's wearing will be found on our tables. Suit and Extra Trousers $55, $60, $65 and Upwards NICDI3LT The TUilor TOS Jerrem Sons Oscar M. Smith, Manager 108 Third Street Near Washington a good 138 pounds and knocked over a chap named Jimmy Marshall in two rounds, who welched about 130. The weight question didn't bother any body at that time. The state boxing law forbids match ing men together of more than a cer tain number of pounds weight dif ference, but five pounds is not the the limit Joe Gorman certainly lost. If ever a boy did, to Leach Cross the other night, but Cross' victory can hardly be attributed to the fact that he out weighed Gorman a few pounds. Leach beat Joe by outsmarting him at every stage of the game. Cross lias a life long reputation as a ring general and lived up to It here. FRENCH INTERESTED IX SPOIt T Even Chamber of deputies Invaded by Attention to Athletics. PARIS, May 2. Never before have athletics and sports attracted so much attention among all classes in France. It has even invaded the chamber of deputies. While the bill making physical training compulsory for girls and boys over 16 was being discussed in the chamber the other day. a hot ar gument was going on in the lobb'es. Deputies shouting and gesticulating were criticising the rugby team which had been chosen by the federa tion to meet the English team. "Wtfy, Pacot of I'erpignan is the best halfback In France Why was he not chosen?" Deputy llameil of Perpignan demanded. Just then Gaston Vidal, whoso offi Roll-fronl Smart - as - can -be an Zephyr-weighl YOUNG MEN'S STYLE Trij an IDE collar and note lite number of Irtps ft will eland to ike laundnj bejore showing signs oj u m j "Here's Real Tobacco" says the Good Judge That gives a man more genuine chewing satis faction than he ever got out of the ordinary kind. Smallerchew.lastslonger so it costs less to chew this class of tobacco. And the good, rich to bacco taste gives a world of satisfaction. Any man who uses the Heal Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put uj in two styles W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco ilia cial title Is unrier-serretary of stale for technical education, but who la known all over France as the min ister for sports, huppmed by. Deputy Kamell hailed him and in formed him that nnlnu ia,. Lrhoscn as halfback on the lm,.rn. tlonal French teal... he would inter pcllate him in tho open rhnmbrr. Al though Hameil was Jofhlng his old friend Vldal. several French news paper men took tho matter scrloimly and French papers the next dav printed the fact that Kamell would Interpellate to ascertain why 1'srot had not been chosen. They evidently thought it quite tho loBlcal thing to do. Legion League to Piny .Sunday. JAtKSO.V, Minn., .May ". The first American Legion baseball league or ganized In this state will play Sun day and holittay games, according to te announcement tnrl:iv. Whether You Dance or Enjoy Looking On Ye Oregon Grille Is the place to dine where food Is appetizing, eorvleo re spectful, surroundings cheerful and prices reasunublc. Dinner Service Table d'Hote, $1.25 or a la Carte Mnftlc and Pnnrtnv durlnv dinner and aupprr hours Noon Hour Lunch 50c ''17' i