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BmTH DETHRONED By Mice III) Welter Champ Outpointed in Furious 15-Round Bout. CHALLENGER IS FAVORITE Veteran Boxing King Enters Ring With Betting Odds 8 fb - 5 Against Him; Bets Off. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Age and its ,wlsdom fell before youth and its crushing: determination when Jack Britton, nearlng the 40 mark and he oldest living man to hold a world's boxing: championship title, Isurrendered to Mickey Walker of Elizabeth, N. J., after IB rounds of gruelling; boxing; in. Madison square arden tonight. After 20 years la th ring:, Brit- Iton. the ease and crafty master of rlefense, twice the holder of the fcrowE that toppled tonight, was a roor match lor the aggressive Jer- 3yman. who displayed more than dinary knowledge of the science J I ... 1 (.. TIT.IT... 1 I ,1.. ,'vay. Bralnln.es Saves Knockout. Throughout the latter half of the battle Britton was on the verge of , knockout. It was not his iron ides and steel Jaw that averted nhat fate, but his stock of gray natter, which, no matter how hard the punishment, was able to func- lon. At one time Britton's eyes were rlassy, but by a strategic retreat he nanaged to hold off his man until lis brain cleared. There was something odd about he fight that was not satisfactorily xplained to the crowd that filled he historic arena. When the contestants entered the ing it was announced on behalf of he New York boxing commission ind Tex Rickard that "all bets were ff." This afternoon wagers were aid at six to five on Britton, but when tlra preliminaries began to- ught the long end had been trans- erred to Walker. He was made fa orite by eight to five. Crowd Seems to Have Faith Despite this unusual incident, the rowd seemed to believe in the con est. They howled as they watched he 21-year-old, fighter pummel Britton; they held their breath when hey saw the coronet slipping off he aging head of the weakening hampion, and they applauded as ach of the closing rounds of the :out ended with Britton, though eeling, still on the safe side of a :nockout. As the last round began here were shouts of hopes that 'LJritton could survive. They were unnecessary, for Walk er, weakened from his efforts and .shorn of some power by Britton's curlier blows, was without the ileep-producing punch. Britton knew ,ie was whipped and, without await ng the decision, he congratulated Walker, adding, "I wish you luck, toy." Walker replied that the cham- -m was the earnest man he has 1 f Flash Made In Eleventh. fBritton went to his knees nearly la half dozen times, first in the sec ond round. After a demoralizing hird, he appeared strong in the fourth and fifth and then grew ap preciably weaker. He made desper- fate efforts for a knockout in the ninth, again when most helpless In the tenth and in the 11th made a flash that startled the ringside. But after the spurt he had nothing left put his gameness and he show.ed quantities of this until the end. , in tne eemi-nnii sailor Friedman of Chicago knocked out Eddie Fitz simmons of Yonkers in the sixth found of what was to have been a 2-round bout. The winner's weight was 146, eight pounds more than his opponent. Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo re ceived the decision over Rep Cap Wilson of Yonkers in a six-round preliminary. Billy Mascott of Port land and Johnny Gannon of Brook Jyn, fought a four-round draw. Round 1, Britton tore In and landed a left to the body, following with a light fusillade from both hands. Walker backed to the ropes, where he staggered the champion with a right to the cnin. Britton recov ered, but Walker held him near the ropes, hammering furiously with both hands, and then driving the champion to the center of the ring, where he contin ued to hammer away. Coming from a clinch, Britton caught his opponent along the ropes and landed both hands to the Jaw. It was a furious session. Round 2. Britton began the second round care fully, planting his left into the chal lenger's stomach and cleverly getting away, making Walker miss. Britton tripped near Walker's corner and fell to both knees, but was up in a flash. Walker caught the champion with a right to the head and as Britton wabbled Walker fol lowed with his left, but the champion steadied and they were clinched at the bell. Round 3. They began the third VV and mixed at close quarters. Walker look the lead, hooking his long left Iran in front of him and the champion etreated. Walker, using his left jpusneo. jrjriiton to the ropes and the J champion again clinched. Walker I ij-.r ' . ,ruton blows and in addition the champion lacked power. Round 4. iThey began with long-distance spar ring, but soon Walker planted his left is Britton s stomach and the champion's return was short. Kritt walker with rights to the head and evaded the returns. Britton caught i tL ln a neutral corner and pumped both hands to head and body con tinuing after the bell rang until stopped by the referee. Round 5. .S.ri? ai"arei stronger and more sure or himae f anrt tir i . a ,i ...c tcau more. He again caught Walker in a corner auu ianaea short uppercuts and an over hand right and knocked Walker to the ropes. Walker missed several swings. Round 6. hn'w bl05k'd Walker's onslaught and hen began sharp shooting left hooks and ight Slams. Walker rn,.-H t... tO the Stomach, a shnrt- hnflir ,.. and a right kidney punch. lie rocked the champion with a left to the jaw. Walker then drove Brittnn ,.,- ,, ring, driving both fists to the jaw. The champion reeled about and fell into a belLCk' They were "'hanging at the Round 7. Walker shot a left to th iaw ..i Britton clinched. Walker ri,nn.i;v landed his left to the jaw and Britton trieu only to block. The champion ap peared weaker but the challenger gave him no rest, again causing Britton's kne-s to sag with a left to the jaw. Brit ton occasionally landed a blow but Walker continued hammering away. Round 8. Walker hooked his left to the law and Britton retreated. Walker sent bis left twice to the stomach then twice to the jaw and Britton continued to back up. - iritton tooK. more letts to tne jaw be fore swinging out his own in return. He made Waiker dance with a left to the jaw but the challenger replied with a two-handed assault which the champion could not meet. Round 9. Jack rocked Mickyy with a right to the head, then took a. volley of body blows Waiker continued turning the BIG THREE FOOTBALL TEAMS PUT BARS UP AGAINST WEST Decision of Yale, Princeton and Harvard to Play Intersectional Games Only on Own Fields Fortifies Supremacy. 6. V tp TmOT a C WThw 6 retT on Their. fwnce r-iei.0, i Ct0SiTV. BOB EDGREN POKES FTJN AT SNOBBISH FOOTBALL ATTITUDE OF SO-CALLED "BIG THREE." BY ROBERT EDGREN. YALE, Princeton and . Harvard, having entered into a trian gular agreement barring long trips for their football teams, are still not opposed to letting the teams play matches with far-distant col leges, providing the other fellows do the traveling. The games must take place in the regular football season. It is very nice for the Big Three to show such, a charitable spirit There are several hundred other colleges with football teams in the United States, and how could they ever know whether they were play ing real football unless some of them could, on rare occasions, hike eastward and mingle with the mo guls of the gridiron? If all chance for intersectional football were wiped out the unfor tunates outside the Big Three might drift away from football entirely, and after a few years might be dis covered playing something akin to tag or tiddledewinks under the de lusion that they were following the great American game. But now that the Big Three has decided to let distant outsiders travel and have a game now and then if the schedule can be conven iently arranged no doubt football will continue to exist, even in the outlying districts. Barring the members of the Big Three from playing outside the reg ular season may be aimed at the intersectional games played in Cali fornia on New Year's day in recent years. These games have been in tensely interesting, but always close enough to make defeat possible for the visitors, even if they were in the Big Three. Harvard beat Oregon by a 7 to 6 score after slugging Bill Steers, the great Oregon back, who was half the team in scoring strength, early in the first quarter and injuring him so badly that he was not only put out of the game, but practically out of football for a time. - Pennsylvania was beaten with ease by the coast champions, and Ohio State, conference champion and a great team, was over whelmed by California. Washing ton and Jefferson, a great football aggregation last year, held Cali fornia to a scorelesstie on a muddy field. The New Year's day games give the only chance for eastern and western champions to meet. it is impossible for western teams to go east in the playing season. Games can't be played in the east during the winter vacation, while on the coast the best football weather comes in January. The Pacific coast football season covers the same part of the fall months devoted to football in the east, so the westerners need to go through just as much extra train champion's head with his left and began hooking his right more frequently. In desperation the champion began sending sfcort right uppercuts, but they lacked steam. The champion resumed liis re treat and then began to hold, the chal lenger sending crushing blows to the kidneys. Round 10. Walker began hooking both hands to the head and then to lay back for pow erful left swings to the stomach. The champion took a left to the jaw and a series m the body without return. With a series of body blows Walker pushed Bi:tton to the ropes near the champion's corner, where he pummelled away until Britton fell to his knees. He was calm ly listening to the count when the gong rang at the count of six. Round 11. Walker launched into the attack only to find that Britton was coming back with more vigor than he had shown at any time. Britton returned blow for blow and forced Walker across the ring, lambasting the challenger against the ropes. Britton began to burn out and bowed with folded arms before a new assault, but Walker, too, was tiring from the pace, and he did not press the champion. Round 12. Both men fought in a tired but dog ged fashion. Walker took the lead and rocked Britton with a right crack to the jaw. The champion began to absorb punirhment without much resistance and as Valker landed a series of body blows Britten went to his knees and knelt on the floor until nine was counted. The champion was extremely groggy and only able to hold up his feeble arms. Walker rained both hands to the head, stomach and to the kidneys as the champion leaned over, faltering in his steps, but Walker lacked the finishing blow. Round 13. Walker hammered at Britton's chest and stomach, frequently shooting his left o the jaw. Walker seemed tired and the champion laid his weight on his op ponent's shoulders. Walker stepped awa and planted his left to chin and right to body, but still the groggy cham pion kept standing on his wobbly feet. As the round ended Britton caught Walker with a one-two to the Jaw and the crowd applauded. Round 14. Walker caught Britton with a left to the jaw and sent his right to the back of rile neck and Then hooked several lefts to the jaw. Britton tried to clinch continually and reeled and wavered as he backed around the ring. Britton sent both hands to the jaw and Walker replied with both arms full of blows. The reeling champion backed around the ring, lurching awkwardly. Round 15. Walker played for the body and then shor wild uppercuts to the jaw. He forctd Britton to retreat around the ring, but Jack blocked with some effect. Walker staggered Britton with a right behind the ear and a left to the body, but the challenger was' becoming wild and was too tired to follow his advan tages. Britton clinched and backed as though to stave off a knockout. He calm'y shook hands with the challenger when the bell sounded. Head The Oregonian classified ads. mashtt bwkeo other, TTeMS FROM THB TrVWELUUti. " TAuL. &ACTeETH ?ULi.et TS jp Rti from KnoctoAft ing for a New Year's day game as the visiting team. It's a cinch the football players don't object to taking a winter trip to the coast, and paying transporta tion and training expenses for the traveling team out of the gate re ceipts and allotting part of the gate to the visitors' athletic fund doesn't involve any taint of professionalism. It's to be hoped that other col leges in the east do not follow the example of the Big Three. For tunately no college holds any mo nopoly of football talent and there still will be a few gridiron combi nations east of the Mississippi that can claim to represent eastern foot ball fairly well. If not, then there are some in the middle west who could go to the Pacific coast and demonstrate that no section has all the football ex perts there are . on the map. Steve O'Rourke, coach of St. Louis uni versity, after seeing Nebraska beat his team 48 to 0 said: "Nebraska is so good it could play Harvard Thursday, Yale Fri day and Centre Saturday and win all three games." Maybe Mr. O'Rourke is a bit en thusiastic. But the showing of Iowa against Yale a little earlier in the season proved that the corn belt isn't to be overlooked in football. The Corn Huskers have a half back who weighs 201 pounds. He is an all-round athlete. In a 75 yard dash last summer, with 100 competitors, he finished third. His name is Noble. So is his football. Fred Dawson, formerly of Prince ton, halfback in 1908, is the Ne braska coach. The Nebraska play ers are so big that a man under six feet tall showing up for cquad practice is a novelty. In the east the player over six feet is a novelty. Benny Leonard has spent several months with a dentist, and his jaw still needs tinkering before he can take on any matches. The tooth scientist says if Benny fights now he'll be in no shape to defend his championship title against any real contender. Wonder if Benny ever heard how when Sharkey was going to fight Bob Fitzsimmons a dentist told Tom that the shock of a blow on the jaw was communicated to the brain through the contact of the back teeth and that if Tom had no back teeth he couldn't be knocked out. So Tom let the dentist yank his molars. - Tom almost had to laugh at Fitz that night, thinking what surprise it would be to lanky Bob when -Bob hit Tom a devastating wallop on the chops and nothing dropped. However, science failed to gain any new ring data through Shar key's experiment. Fitz knocked out Tom with a punch in the pit of the stomach. At that, Tom never was in danger of brain shock. (Copyright. 1922, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) BIG BONUS GIVEN BHGWNS $25,000 IS DIVIDED AMONG ST. LOUIS PIiAYERS. Reward Is for Team's Best Per formance in 20 Years, Ac cording to President Ball. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 1. A lump bonus of $20,000 was distributed to the members of the St. Louis Browns shortly before the end of the season by Phillip de Catsby Ball, president of the club, as a reward for the team's best performance in 20 years, it was learned tonight. It was said that the money was divided among the players on the basis of each player's performance during the 1922 season. The stars, including George Sisler, first base man; Urban Shocker, pitcher, and others were said to have received $1000, while some of the recruits received $200. President Ball Is understood to have given his players a bonus of $5000 during the middle of the sea son, when they forged into the American league lead, making a total of $25,000 presented in bonuses by the president and owners. MANY GEESE IMMIGRATING Huge Flocks Reported In Upper Columbia River Region. A considerable immigration of wild geese, on a scale of tens of thousands, into the region around the upper Columbia river, was re ported to Game Warden Burghduff yesterday and seems to point to a great fall for geese hunters. The birds are mostly of the Ca nadian variety, indicating that they have flown from the north, but many of the large geese . of the variety known as ' Honker," also have been observed. The geese season ex tends to December 31. . - IiLXKS WTjLIj BE AXI-GREEN Irrigation System Is Contracted for Hood River Course. HOOD RIVER, Or, Nov. i. (Spe cial.) The Hcod River Country club yesterday let the contract for con structing an irrigation system' for its nine-link golf course to the Transfer & Storage company, a local THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ice 1'er m concern. Six thousand feet of 8, 6 and 4-nch concrete pipes will be laid. The system will cover all greens and fairways. The Hood River club will be the first in the state to have an all-green course. Only two others, located at Seattle and Aberdeen, Wash., are found ln the northwest. The course will be ready for play next spring. More than 50 Portland citizens have taken 6ut member ships and a large number from Spo kane have .also affiliated with the Eleven Has Good Record. RAINIER. Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) The Rainier football team has made some of the best scores this year of any high school team inthe state. It has played four games with the following results: Rainier 45 to Scappoose 0, Rainier 65 to Kelso 6, Ralrier 46 to Castle Rock 0. Rainier 28 to Kelso 0. This gives Rainier a total of 185 I olnts to its noonents 6. Saturday Kainier win play the fast Astoria team at As toria. These two teams are old- time rivals and the battle tor su nremacv of the lower Columbia will be stubborn. On Armistice day Rainier will play Camas at Rainier. Iowa Gates Barred. IOWA CITY, la., Nov. 1. !oach Howard Jones barred the gates to Iowa field again tonight in starting active preparation for the MInne sota game here Armistice day. Up to this evening Coach Jones had Invltntion from Tale authorities asking Iowa to play at New Haven again next year, ne announced. tea 3 (A, & A. S. R. .WMH.Jllll nrifr.iiim ) mi 'P..UMl-- 3- IS CINCINNATI ATTEMPTING TC ADD PITCHING STRENGTH. Deal Is Under Negotiation With Pittsbnrg and Boston; Mc Graw After Lnqne. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) CINCINNATI, Ohio. Nov. 1. A three-cornered deal between the Pi rates, Braves and Reds that would land Tim McNamara, the Brave hurler, and Whitey Glazner of the Pirate staff, to the Reds, is expected to be consummated at the December meeting of the National league. If not a three-cornered deal, then it will ba the two deals with the clubs involved. Moran is after the two hurlers and has abundance of outfield and in field stock to offer in exchange. Pittsburg needs one infielder and Boston needs one outfielder who can hit; It is also said that Adolfo Luque, the veteran Cuban hurler, if not included in the deals mentioned above, undoubtedly will go to the CARABANA The best Cigar you have smoked in four years. ' g , "MaigljS 2, 1922 0 Happy, smiling children red blood cours ing their veins these are the public school children. In their class rooms and play grounds they learn to understand the principle that common fellowship is at the very root of all Amer ican achievements. They learn to know that station alone class in society does not count. They learn to know that brains, merit, and spirit to do to reason practicably are the factors which lead to success. Great men and great women are not born they are made. They are made through that broad experience and training which come to children in the public school years of their lives. Why? Because the public school gives them the viewpoint of the vast multitude of those who form the backbone of the country. It gives them the viewpoint of other children who in later years will be the thinkers and the workers the doers and achievers. To stand in the way of having our free public school sys tem broadened and extended is a hand turned against the future greatness of the Nation is a stone placed in the road of progress. Ask yourself this question : Do we want a nation of red--blooded men, women and children, or do we want a nation of blue-bloods ? . You answer the question. Every red-blooded American will answer it by voting . !7 1 School Committee. 721 Gasco Bldg., -AJM...jk Giants. McGraw thinks a lot of the Cuban. McGraw figures the Jinx that had Luque last summer can be lifted if the Cuban tries his hand with an other club. At any rate there will 3 extensive movements in the pitch ing market, both towards and out of Cincinnati, in the hope that the Red's hurling staff will be just about invincible next season. Read The Oregonian classified ads. Truck Salesman Wanted Braley, Graham & Child, Inc., 11th at Burnside Have one sales position' open on Trucks. This position requires not necessarily truck experience, but ap pearance, intelligence, persistency, loyalty and confidence. This is not a temporary position, but permanent to a producer. ASK FOR MR. HOWE 0 oo Portland, Oregon) .t-.i: -- Centralla to Play Elma. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Nov. 1. (Special.) The Centralia high school football team is working hard in preparation for its next Southwest Washington league game to be played here Saturday with Elma. In their three league games played against Olympia, Hoquiam and Aber deen their opponents have run up a total of 222 points. 19 7 r-: - f .. . . m tit.,... ... .,. . FOOTBALL 0. A. C. (Oregon Agricultural College) 60 Minute ot l"in,ht. MULTNOMAH AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB 60 Minutes of Thrtlla. SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1922 2:0 P. M. MULTNOMAH FIELD Grandstand tl.50; BEXERtl ADMISSION $1; Boxes $2. Tickets on sale at Rich's. Sixth and Washington Sts.; Spald ing's, Broadway and Alder; Meier & 1'rank s. When . you want to entertain a guest Goto YE OREGON GRILLE AY