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THE 3I0RXIXG ORIGONY TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1932 13 CLUB AT HARTFORD l AFTERJIMTHDRPE Good Offer Made by Eastern League Nine. ACCEPTANCE IS LIKELY Wife Speaks for Player, Big Ia- ' cliun Himself on Hunting L nd I'ishins Trip. Big Jim Thorpe, famous Indian athlete and ball player, who was released unconditionally by the Portland baseball club last week to get it within the Pacific Coast league player limit and also to re duce expenses, probably will sign to play for Hartford, Conn., in the Eastern league, for the remainder of this season. The information that he has re ceived a good offer from Hartford and that h.e probably will accept it came last night from Mrs. Thorpe. Jim himself was not In town. He had gone to Hood River on a fishing and hunting trip, for the big fellow is taking advantage of his release to get in some of the sport he has heard so much about since he came to Oregon. ' Release Taken Philosophically. Jim has takes his release philos ophically. At considerable expense he had brought" his wife and three children to Oregon, and they occupy an "apartment at 189 Twenty-thire street, but Jim has voiced no kick. He takes It as all in a lifetime, though both ha and Mrs. Thorpe regret to leave Oregon, which they both like very much. Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe and the children went to Chemawa yester day, where Mrs, Thorpe visited with three teachers who also were her teachers at the Carlisle Indian school from which she was gradu ated in 1918. It was at Carlisle that Jim and his wife first met, their marriage resulting from a school romance. Jim at that time was Just becoming known as the greatest athlete in the world, Decision Not Positive. "Jim hasn't positively decided to accept the Hartford offer, but from what he said before he went fishing I think he will take It," said Mrs. Thorpe. "The children and I will go to Chemawa later In the week to visit for a time and after that we probably shall go to Los Angeles, where we have relatives. We cer tainly regret to leave this beautiful country and its wonderful climate and Jim will hate to leave all the fine fishing and hunting out here." The Eastern league is a class A circuit. There is a lot of good base ball left in Jim Thorpe and he eould help more than one club In the Paclfio Coast league, for the hot weather has brought back his lame arm and he can hit with any of them and run bases, too. Thorpe and his celebrated Aire dai dog, Tip Top Oorang. are both great favorites with Big Jim's ex team mates on the jPortland club. It is hard to figure how the stories got abroad about his being so hard a man to handle, for the exact op posite was true during the time he was with the Beavers. Jim was the easiest man on the club to get along with and his big sunny laugh pro duced many an answering chuckle on the bench. TACOMA ENTRIES CLOSED Great Array of Drivers to Vie in Championship Classic, TACOMA, Wash., June 5. (Spe cial.) Entries for Tacoma's 11th annual national championship mo tor classic closed last nighf with the following drivers entered: Jimmy Murphy, driving Murphy special; Harry Harts, Duesenberg speuial; Tommy Milton, Leach spe cial; R. C. Durant. Durant special; Ralph Mulford, Frontenao special; Howdy Wilcox, Frontenao special; Ralph De Palma, Duesenberg spe cial; Roscoe Sarles, Duesenberg special; Joe Thomas, Duesenberg special; Peter De Paolo, Pisteel Duesenberg; Benny Hill, car un named; Jerry Wonderlich, Duesen berg special; Leon Duray, Frontenac special; Art Klein, Frontenao spe-r cial; Frank Elliott, Leach special. This will be without question the greatest field of drivers ever started on the Pacific coast. Every car which showed to good advantage at the recent Memorial day race at Indianapolis is included in the entry list. 1000 KACEKS AT IATOJflA Opening of Spring Meeting To day Big Derby June 34. CINCINNATI, June 5.--More than 1000 thoroughbreds are at the La tonia track here ready for the open ing of the spring meeting tomorrow, which is expected to be one of the most spectacular meetings in the history of the Latonia track. In addition to the Latonia derby, a classic itself, the special $50,000 race which will be run on June ?4 is already being referred to as' "the classic of the century" by turf writ- This new strapf pump is obtainable either with or without heel. Made of specially woven canvas with springy rubber sole. There are other styles for men, women, and children in the big Keds line shoes for sport, home, street, and gen eral outdoor wear. Not all canvas rubber soled shoes are Keds. Keds are made only by the United States Rubber Company. Look for the name Keds n every pair I .eas l"" b. a 8. fat. Of. le this special race Morvich,1g j winner di ine R.eniucKy flerDy, ana iSnob, which won the Withers' stake at Belmont, will compete. Aggie Co-Eds Liose.. OREGON AGRICULTURAL vCOL- LEGE, Corvallis, June 5. .(Special.) i The University o OFegon ce?ed j baseball team swamped the Aggie j SO-eds Saturday, 33 to 13, .The came was featured by heavy hijting on ' both sides. Miss Hathaway led the Oregon batters and Ruth LeVan i featured for the Aggies. The Ore son batteries were Misses McKee, 1 Sullivan and Evans, Hathaway, and lor O. A- C. Misses Tonseth anj Wilson, .... - . . . " TEAM MM HAMED COMPAAV E HT7XTING FOR KASKRAI.ti MATERIAL. Captain Hansen Planning to Make His Company Ail-Around Athletes; 4 0 Men Wanted. Captain Harry Hanson, company E, 162d infantry, Oregon national guard, has selected John Somerville to handle the company E baseball team throughthe series to be played at Camp Lewis June 15 to 29. It is Captain Hansen's plan, to make his company one of all around athletes, from cook to captain. Somerville now is seeurlng the city for first-class material for the ball team. He hopes to have about 25 or 3d ball playerB on the ro6ter of the company when It departs for Camp Lewis next week. s " Willie Bernstein has signed up with company E and will have charge of the botting team. Flans are under way for a meet between company E and the regular troop? at Camp Lewds. - Captain Hanson will look after the track and field team In person. Hanson has not dene mueh running himself for several years but at one time was one ef the best track men In the ranks. In 1912 at the annual encampment he won the 108-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 410-yard dash, mile run and obstacle race. This feat has yet to be equaled. Edward Hantack, winning under the colors of company E, last year at Camp Lewis won the 22fl, 440 and 880, yard events. He will ie a. main stay again this year. Captain Hanson pins his. hopes to a number of high school athletes who are joining for the summer en campment. A recruiting detail is out every night for material, while another detail is rfn duty all day at the company E clubrooms at the armory. At present company E has a vacancy for 40 men. If this num ber is obtained before' June 15 the eompany again will be the largest at the camp. Story of Ralph Smith One Of Hard Luck Youth That Showed Great Prom ise In Bins; Lale Out Br Accldeat, BT ROBERT EDGREN. 1'YB heard many a hard-luck tale in connection with the ring but none that beats the story ef Ralph Smith. . A little more than three months ago, (n this, column, I, tald about the Minnesota, boy's appearance among the amateurs at the Les An geles Athletic club, and hew ' he knocked the biggest fighting sail ors of the Pacifie fleet on their ears, one after another, until there were no amateurs left to meet him. Ralph was slated to go to the national amateur championships and after seeing him fight a couple of "times J realizeed that he would be the sensation of the meet and by tar the best amateur heavy weight that ever took a. title. George Blake, formerly boxing instructor at Camp Fremont, had eoached Smith for three months and bad made him a fairly skilful box er. Besides that, Ralph, 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighing 217 pounds stripped, although he was built on I the lean, ana rangy pian Fitsimmons, with tremendous reach and wide, loose shoulders and pow erful forearms and big fists, had a fighting equipment that was nearly perfect? He had much of Dempsey's aggressive spirit and a real liking foe the game. For the short time he had been boxing he was aston ishingly fast and his punches were like a mule's kick. When I saw him knock out a sailor nearly as tall as himself and powerful In proportion, by hitting him on the side of the head, I made up my mind that Smith was the best prospect for a heavyweight champion I'd seen since Jim Jef fries came out of the boiler shop. Smith's plan was to win the ama teur championship and then turn professional and go after the big fellows until he worked his way up to Dempsey. All he needed was ring experience to enable him to maoth punches with the heaviest slugger of them all. Smith was a stage carpenter In a movie plant. About a week after I last saw him in action the plant closed temporarily and Smith ap plied for a job jn the Los Angeles fire department. It was easy for the supple big fellow to pass all physical tests and he was put on almost immediately. One week in the department on the erew of a fire truck, he started fop a fire. Crossing a Pacific elec triq railroad track the truck on wt)ich he was riding was run down by a fast moving train. One fire man Was killed And the others badly injured. Smith was on the side of the truck opposite the train. He saw the crash coming, but had no time to jump. The fire truck was wrecked and Smith was thrown a ong distance. Telling about it next day he said: "As the train hit us I said te myself; Goodbye! Here goes nothing!1 Next I found myself lying in the read. I was still conscious and J laughed at myself for not being knocked out. 'I'm pretty tough to take that.' I thought. But when I tried to get UP I couldn't move." That was three months ago. Smith hasn't moved yet. He had no brok en bones, but he is in a serious condition from internal injuries that the doctors don't seem able to rem edy. He has shown no improve ment from the day he was carried to the hospita.1. Even if he recovers it is hardly possible that he'll ever box again. And if any man ever had a cham pionship and a million dollars in sight it was the young Minnesota giant, Ralph Smith. I was talking with Snowy Baker, famous Australian promoter, about the recent easy defeat of the sup posed Australian heavyweight champion, Tracey, by Bill Brennan. "How do they get away with it?" queried Baker. "Traeey comes here as Australian champion and a easily beaten. Cook goes ta Eng land as Australian champion and is knocked out. Lloyd is also spoken of as Australian champion. I had these fellows fighting for me in Australia and never considered any of them better than ordinary second-raters. Traeey wa a. blgp fellow.' wsa 15 If Ca.K-C Sale Kuppenheimer Jr. Suits for June Graduates . - SUITS UP TO $50 REDUCED TO ' '''' '' '. $ Season's newest colors and patterns, plain blues included. Other Graduation Suits, grades worth to $40, Special atf$l9, $24, $29 Lively young fellows, are Keen for Kupp Jr, , . and Lion' Suits, peppy sport models, dressy single and doubl&breasted models. The same clothes that successful men the country over , : are wearing. Your chance, to buy fine clothes at these low prices, ' . . Jhe House of Kuppenheimer Clothes MORRISON AT FOURTH ST. grew tea fast and never developed properly. He was a preliminary boxer, and I doubt that he could have drawn a gate of more than $1000 in any match in Australia. "In fact, . we haven't had any really good heavyweights in many years. Boxing seems te ga in waves. For a time, when Aus tralia was turning out men like Fitzsimmons, Dan Cpeedon, the Mur phys, Young Griffo, Jim Hall, Frank Slavin, Peter Jackson, George Daw son, we had the greatest boxers, arrtf fighters in the world. But boxing seems to be forgotten. , "Our men don't know haw to box the way they used to. I stationed skilled instructors in three states trying to revive it, but without much success. I suppose some leader will come along soon and then we'll have another period dur ing which Australia will produce some of the world's great cham pions, for we certainly have the men, and there's no other country in the world that has a. greater fondqess for sports." '.. ; I Johnny Dundee made 128 pounds when he bxed Lew Tendler, and finding out that he is a real feather weight as well as a "junior light weight" is hot on the trail of Johnny Kilbane, who never has shown any eagerness to mingle with the doughty Italian, although I pnee saw him box Dundee and make the show a farce by.rni):ating Johnny's jumping tactics. In February Dundee posted a $?5po check with the New York stte boxing commission as a guar antee that he would weigh 12 pounds at 8 P. M. for Kilbane If Kilbane would meet him in a. featherweight title bout. This was just before Johnny sailed to Europe. After his return Johnny was again challenged by Dundee. There has been a lot pf talk about matching Kilbane with Pepper Martin, tne latest ring sensation among' light men. Dundee resents this. He says that having posted a forfeit with a challenge to the feather champion several months ago, he's entitled to action, and if he doesn't get it he'll claim the championship. He fought Kilbane a 20-round draw on the coast eight years ago, 1a championship bout refereed by Charlie Eyfon. "When I put in my claim," says Dundee, "I'll fight Pepper Martin or anyone else who wants a crack at the featherweight championship.'' There should be some way to make a ehampien defend his title or resign it. Kilbane surely has no fear ef any featherweight living, but he's a cautious lad, and bal ances the possibility of defeat by demanding something like ?65,06O for.his end in a title bout- sum no featherweight ever dreamed of be fore. While waiting for Kilbane to come off his pereh Pundee will tackle bigger game--in bulk at least when he fights Charlie White af Rock Island June 27. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Interference -by Catcher! MILWATJKIE, Or., June 5. (To the Sports Editor.) Man an third, two down and the batter has threa and two on him. The instant pitch er starts his windup for another pitch, runner on third starts home. Catcher steps up into batter's box and interferes with batter and tags runner out. Should run count and pitcher ba forced to pitch another hall to batter, or should umpire rule the pitched ball a ball, walking the batter, Umpire ruled the runner Put. ADAM KECK. Umpire Is judge as to whether in? terference 'was committed by the cateher, but if he did interfere, as the description of the play indi cates, runner should have been de clared safe and batter also sent to first. Baseball Summary, National Laamu Standinrs. w. ret. w. L,. Pet New York. 27 ll.ttOO'Cincinnati 2fl 24 .R2fl . 24 IS .571IChicaeo... 20. 24 .4.11 S T.aili. O Of EJO'T. . . n Broakij-B. 25 22 .632 Pbiladefa 1J 2T .857 American Lracue Standings. Kew York 0 18 .625 Philadel'a IS 21 475 St. Luis. 28 IS .dStBosfUn. . .. 19 24 44" Cleveland. 24 !4 .500!ChieaKO. . . 20 26 435 Wssb'ston 23 25 .478iletrait. .. 20 26 .435 American Association. T.ouisvUls 8, Toledo a. Kansas City 5, Minneapolis S. Indianapolis 7, Columbus 4. Milwaukee 8, St. Paul 4, Western Lsairae. St. Joseph 2, Stoox City 4. Wichita 12. Des Moines 1. Only- two KBtiiei fcheduled. Where the Teams Plar This Week. Portland at Seattle, Sacramento at Salt Lake, Los An gale, at Baa Francisco. Oakland at Vernea, T See big window displays Morrison street , w CASTERS TO HOLD FORTH REGULAR WEEKLY PRACTICE TOURNEY TOMORROW, Everyone in City Whq Owns Rpr Is Invited to Be on Hand at Sellwood Pool.;' The regular weekly practice fly and bait-casting tournament ef the Multnomah Anglers' club will be held tomorrow night in the club's Sellwood park pool. ' Everyone jn the city wha ans a rod is invite4 ta be on hand by of ficials of the Anglers' olub. Anyone who doesn't know the art of casting will find plenty of tutors on hand to post him. - The programme of three events will get under way at' 6:15 o'clock tomorrow night. The programme follows: . ' .' 6TOunce accuracy fly easting. 5 -ounce distance fly casting. H -ounce distance bait casting Word was received here recently by Jack Herman of the death of f?anta.in W. W T?ar,nA.. .u: . - .."L,,ivj i.iiiuisu, one of the best-known fly and'baiNl uaaLeia u, ine game, itanney was among the Chicago casters who pars tieipated in the national champion ships here last year. His passing marks the death of the second well knownfrChicago caster who made the trip here. The ether was Cal Mc carty, who won the all-around championship. MRS. PATTERSQX VIJS " CUP Mr. Patterson Defeated in Finals of Play at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 6. (Special.) Mrs. W. J. Patterson yesterday won the finals of the Pat terson trophy play at the Grays" Harbor country club, defeating Mr. Patterson, 3 up and 2 to bo. Mrs. Patterson played on a handicap of three holes, a lead she maintained throughout most of the match. At the semi-finals of the elimina tion play Mr. Patterson Saturday defeated Heinrich Schmidt, one of the strongest competitors ' for the trophy. By virtue of winning from Mr. Patterson yesterday, Mrs, Patterson wasdecjared winner of the yeaft's competition for the trophy. The cup is played for annually. Satur day Mrs. Patterson defeated her son, Kenneth Hayes, in the semi-finals. ' Speptator Hurt at Ball 'Game. BAXKS, Or., June S. (Special.) While watching the ball game yes terday, W. a Walker, 88, long-time resident of this section, and Stanley Clark, about 20, who lives in the vicinity, engaged in a friendly bout. Some way' Mr. Walker slipped and fell, lighting . on his shoulder and breaking it. " . ' Harrisburg 1J, Cjoshen HARRISBURd, Or., June 5. (Sper cial,) In the eeond game 01 the Upper Willamette league series Har risburg again won, this time from Sashen. " The score was 1 ta ."The game was played here. Bush League Notes, St. Johns defeated Sellwood Sunday, 8 t 6. L,areen a-ilowed eniF on serteb hit, while hU tea-m made 22 off Watson of Sellwood. - The fraine W&4 Played af Pies park. Score; B. H. E.l R. H. B. St Johns.. 8 12 oiSellwood 1 3 '' Batteries Laraeft and. Smith; Vataon and Huff. ' .. . The Bergman Shoe company last Its opening game to Duniway park, 0 to 4, Sunday at Duniway park. ' Mix Berlint of DuBiway struck out la batters. - Uc Corraack and Dell pitched lor Bergman Shoe compaay. .-.-Portland Qas company defeated Good year, 20 to 4, Sunday in a six-inning game at Buckman field. Score: ra h a b. h. e. tias Co 20 14 63oodyear 4, T 6 Batteries Nonkcn and Calefj Ijew- man,' Davul and Sinkey. " Bed Feldman of Nicolai Door has been playing a stellar game for his team. several years ago rtmrnas caugnt for Benson and since then has improved greatly. . ' - Morris Rogevay of South Parkway broke his hand Sunday when he was nicked by a foul tip and was taken to the Sellwood hospital. His hand is ta such bad snaps thai he may aet play IB HE average American was raised on the idea that the more people who competed for his trade the better pff Like many good several iaes. TheyaUshowthemselvescIearly to th tire business. - There are tires which crefer to compete largely on a price basis Believing that the public is more interested in the dollars and cents they pay than in the worth of what they get. On the other hand, U.S. Royal Cords believe differently. ; Aod carowners who use Royal Cords have a plus feeling which they get both from actual experi ence, and because they realize the the integrity of the manufacturer. People don't think pf Royal Cords as high-priced tires. They think f them as better tires. Prices on United States Passenger Car Tires and Tubes, effective May 8th, are npt subject to tuar'taxt the war-tax hav ing been included. United States "Hres are Good Tlras y.S.TiieCo. BOXING PARLEY TODAY COMMISSION TO DECIDE OJf JUSTE 15 MAIN EVENT. Plans Are to Put on Something Better Than Usual Run;. Pros? pecta Are Listed. The Portland boding commission yiU meet at noon today ta decide on the main event fof the Jyjne 15 card at the armory. As the com mission plans to show only once or twice more this season, it wishes tQ put en something better than the usqai run of main events jf possi ble. With this, in view, Matchmaker Hansen has been angling w;th va rious Obp-netehers far several days. As it now stands, he has1, six or seven possible combinations of scrappers lor the topline bout, as follows: . Bobby Harper"- versus Morris Schlaifer. , Boby Harper versus Jimmy Duffy. (Timmy Qabby versus Battling; Or tega or Joe Pgan. Joe Gorman versus Lakey Morrow. jimmy Sacco versus Lakey Mar-, row. 'The Harper-Schlaifer bout looks like the favorite.- Although he has never shown on the Pacific coast. 7 0.;$. Royal; Cord "Ores. jM- United States Rubber Company yL f Tire Branch, 111415 North Sixth StreJ i I CIGAREZTE5 Blended in (he Good v OId:EngimWay . 20.r25C bmperition v Good, and Indifferent he was. ideas it has which credits the public with the Instinct for quality, and the ' sqse to find put true economy! Schlaifer, an Omaha boy, is highly thought of through the country. Ha rates as a terrific puncher and a slashing fighter. If Harper is pitted against Schlaic fer it will mark the farmer's debut in Portland as a welterweight. Rather, it will be the first time- he has admitted he is a welter and has faced a man of his own class. Match maker Hansen does not want to pit a setup or a light puncher against Harper, hence the interest in SchlaU fer. Morris has battled Dave Shade, Jack Perry, Frankie Murphy, Cowt boy Padgett, Morrie Lux, Harvey Thorp, johpny Tillman and Bud Logan- ii; the last six months arid der feated all but Shade. Bobby gvans is looking 'after his interests here. Should Harper not care fer any of the rugged gchlaifer's game, Bat tling Ortega may get a chance at him if he will cpme down to 148 pounds. At any rate, the commis sion will get together today with Matchmaker Hansen and thresh out tire main event question. Joe Benjamin and Alex Trambitas will make a barn-stermingr trip of the country, starting next week. The two will leave New York with Tom my Purrie as trainer an"4 fight right across to the coast. Safe or Out? BY CHAELBS D. WHJTB. Q. pne man says the batter will set to first base and the other says that he will not. The. batter hits to the out field and after he has touched first base ha is out trying to get to seg- 2bunds,Sir! You're missiog something! Mads hy PHILIP M0RK1S In the man who knows what a good, faithful product the Royal Cord is, the tire that makes price its main argument hardly arouses more than a little curiosity. - ' z; . So which is better? A tire that thinks a man has no judgment beyond his pocket-book? Oratirelike the U.S.Roval Cord end tftse. Does he reach first safely and does he get credit tor a Ait? A. He reached first safely, and. be should be credited with a hit. Q. The pitcher stands on the pitch er's plate, hut well toward the third base end of the plate. Ue throws a cress fire from that point. Is it legal ? A. It is. If the pitcher prop erly touches the plate he need not confine himself to the exact center. Q. Pfteher delivers the ball with one foot back ef the rubber. Should the umpire call a balk every time he does so? A. It is the duty of the umpire to call a balk even if the pitcher balks on every successive delivery. Q. On a long hit by the batsman the basemen stand so closely to first, see end and third bases that the speed ef the bailsman is hampered when - ha tries to make a home run. Is this per missible ? f A- Th basemen are privileged to Stand on the inside corner of the bases when the runner is circling the bases. They may npt interfere with the runner and on the other hand may make it imperative that the runner turn the bases at a sharp angle. Q. Runner fs on third. A long hit !s made. The runner tries to score, but finds the catcher astride of home plate. What shall he do? A. 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A declaration against war and another urging an American standard of living !nstea4 of a living wage, were suggested for the platform of the national Women's Trade Union league by Mrs. Raymond Robbing, its preai derft, in hep speech befeFe the con vention of the league at Waukegan today. More than 100 delegates from' women's trade unions threughou; th6 United States attended the epet.v- ing session. Silver Jjake Jiebekahs Win Cup. ;f BEXD. Or., June 5. (Special.)- Rebekahs representing the SilveF' Lafce lodge' won the silver, cup of fered by. the Bend Oddfellows, for the best degree work in the contest held here in the American Legioir building. : afl XWMirPir 7J A A HEUSEN'-! jlfkr, iuj BROADWAY, NfW ydRK