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16 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND SEPTEMBER 2, 1906. BRET HARTE IS TO BE OUTOOfiE Goldfield Will Surpass Mining Camps of Fiction on Day of the Fight. FORTUNES WILL BE WON Miners Scout Idea of Fake, and Law or tlie Camp May Prevail If Gans and Nelson Are Not Square. FACTS ABOUT THE FIGHT. PRINCIPALS Joe Gans, of Balti more, and Battling Nelson, of Chicago. TITLE AT STAKE Lightweight championship. LENGTH OP BATTLE To a finish. PURSE Thirty thousand dollars, 120,000 to go to Nelson, win. lose or draw, and (10.000 to Gans. RULES Marquis of Queensbprry. MOVING PICTURES Proceeds to be divided on percentage basis. REFEREE George Slier, of Chicago. PLACE OF CONTEST Open-air ' .amphitheater at Goldfield, Nev. TIME OF CONTEST Labor day aft ernoon, men to enter ring at' 3 P. M,., about 5 P. M-, St. Louis time. WEIGHT One hundred and thirty three pounds at noon and 133 pounds at ringside. , GANS At present holds lightweight championship, which he won from Frank Erne on a knockout In one round In 1002 at Fort Erie. Can. AGE OF MEN Gans, 30 years. Nel son, 24 years. Best fights of both men for last four years: GANS 1902: Frank Erne, knockout, 1 round; George McFadden, won, 1 . round; Rufe Turner, knockout, 15 rounds; Gus Gardner, knockout. 5 rounds; Charley Sieger, won, 14 rounds, and drew In 10 rounds. 1003: Gus Gardner, -won on foul, 11 rounds; Steve Crosby, knockout, 11 rounds; Willie Fitzgerald. . knock out, 10 rounds; Buddy King, knockout, 8 rounds; Joe Grim. 8 rounds, no decision; Dave Holly and Jack Blackburn, 6 rounds each, no decision; S&m Langford, lost. 13 rounds. 1904: Willie Flti ' gerald. won, 10 rounds; Joe Grlm.A won. 10 rounds: Mike Ward, won, 10 rounds; Jack Blackburn, won, 13 rounds; Jimmy Brltt, won'on a foul, 4 rounds. 1805: Rufe Turner, B rounds, no decision; Mike "Twin" SuHlvan. draw, 15 rounds. 1906: Mike "Twin" Sullivan, knockout, 11 rounds; Dave Holly, won, 20. rounds. NELSON 1902: Johnny Thompson, won, 6 rounds; Billy Hurley, won. 6 rounds. 1903: Adam Ryan, drew. 10 rounds; Johnny Thomp- son, won. 10 rounds; Clarence Eng lish, drew, 15 rounds; Charley Neary, drew, 6 rounds, Clarence English, won. 14 rounds. 1804: . Spider Welsh, knockout. 16 rounds; Martin Canole, knockout. 18 rounds; Aurella Herrera, won, 20 rounds; Eddie Hanlon, won, 10 rounds; Aurella Herrera. won, 20. rounds; Young Corbett, knockout, 10 rounds: Young Corbett, knock out, 9 rounds; Abe Attel, 6 rounds, no decision; Kid Sullivan, drew, 6 rounds; Jack O'Neil. 6 rounds, no decision; Jimmy Brltt, knockout. 18 rounds. GOLDFIELD, Ncv., Sept. 1. (Special.) Life will run large In the youngest and richest mining camp on September 3. Not only will those who Journey here see the most attractive sporting event that the world can give, but they will see the modern mining camp at Its best. They will drink in a little of the ex citement that stirs the blood and makes one feel that he Is alive. They will see pictures that will linger with them, for ihe modern mining camp is every bit as picturesque as the places that Bret Harte Immortalized, though It Is vastly different in many respects. Imbued with that extravagance that oomes with wealth easily obtained, the big men of Goldfield looked about for the highest-priced amusement that they could Itod. They wanted something that would traw the eyes of the world to their little town in the big desert. They agreed upon a prizefight. "Get us the biggest right that you can get," they said to Tex Rickard, mine owner and capitalist. "We don't care how much It costs. We want it and we can pay for it." That's the spirit of the mining camp. "We can pay for anything." They do not stop to form committees and to bicker In Goldfield when the camp wants any thing. A few of the big men of the town meet on the street or at the club the Montezuma and happen to think of some thing that the town wants. "I'll give so much," eays one. "I'll give the same," eays another, and before night a sub scription is raised that would take a city of some size a little time to get together. Money seems to be fne least of their troubles In Goldfield. Go around some of the restaurants. You will hear something like this: "And the rock looked pretty good to me. so I bought in for five hun dred. We took out fifty thousand last month and the lease Is good until Decem ber. When we get Into the hill a little she will run even better." What Counts at Goldfield. Most of the men of the camp are young. It takes good physiques to stand the wild rushes to new strikes. It takes endur ance and quick judgment. The man who has these gets on in Goldfield. There will be a curious assemblage In the new arena when Gans and Nelson face each other for the fight that all the sporting world has been demanding. Af ter the fight there will be scenes that will rival Monte Carlo. The fight will draw the men of the desert from far and near for a holiday. The man who breaks the bank at Goldfield will make the man who broke the bank at Monte, Carlo look like a pauper. Women of both sorts will be there. Probably there will be over 500. There will be no veils worn. They will not try to hide. The men of Goldfield have decid ed that It is all right for themo be there, and any one who has any objec tions had better keep them to himself. The gallantry of Goldfield, like that of mining camps all over the world, is very easily jarred, and the man who shocks it once will not b given a second oppor tunity. In order that the women will be assured full protection, guards will be strung all over the grounds, and the man who does anything or says anything that might ' 7 1 -J Battling Nelson, Joe Gans, and a Group of Goldfield Fight Pro displease one of them will be Impressed suddenly and forcibly with the fact that he has done wrong. "Why shouldn't a woman see a prize fight if he wants to?" asks Tex Rick ard. "Nobody up here objects, so it goes." Bets Large and Many. Big preparations are made for the. gam bling. There will probably be more bet on this fight than there has been on any pugilistic event that the world has ever seen. Right in the- heart of a country where precious metal Is plentiful, before an assemblage of men who are finding fortunes in a day, the event will be marked with wonderful extravagances. Here a man talks matters Involving thousands with his hat on and a cigarette In his mouth, as though he were talking of two-bit pieces. Goldfield has the min ing camp gaming spirit strong. Most of the big men have made their millions by taking a chance, and they are willing to stake half of their fortunes on the turn of a wheel. They have some gambling places here where good sized fortunes are cast away In a single night. Picture to yourself the night scene in Goldfield after the fight. Thousands of men in toxicated with the excitement of tne fight and wild with the spi'it of the game crowded around the tables. The Course of the little Ivory ball slackens and It rolls Into the whirling wheel. "Number 34" says the dealer In mono tonous tones. "Who has 34." Yes, sir; 2000 to you sir." There are bigger games, bigger by rfar than those run surreptitiously by Canfleld in New York. There is no need of concealment here. Everything Is wide open. Everything Is on the square. This is a place where every man Is as good os-tne best intll he shows himself otherwise and then he had better leave. If some of those who are whispering that this fight will be a fake were up here for just a day they would learn bow wild and foolish such talk Is. These men of Goldfield have paid for this fight and It's going to be a fight. They feel that the least shadow on It would be a slur on their town and they are as touchy about the rep utation of their camp as they are of their own reputations Individually Law of the Camp. The law up here Is crude but far reaching. It Is the sort of law that acts quickly and discusses things after, ward. It has been said quietly that the fighter who does not do his best to make this event what It should be will not leave the oountry alive. That in no empty talk. Thf: men of this niiulnj camp back what they say to the finish. They say around here that Qina should first take out the biggest life Insurance policy thut he can get if he does not Intend to do "nis Vest. If there is the least thing about the bout that does not please the members of the Goldfield Athletic Club the negrj will not get a cent. Every ddUlar that be has or expects to get Is deeded over to his manager, Larry Sullivan, one of tha members of the club. 'If Joe don't show that be la on the fcs; -Si v ) C V" -t iY' H v ' square up here," one of the members said. "His heirs won' even get ,a cent." The people of GolUtie'.d are going to make it as pleasnn as possible for visitors. All the rlncrsUe and box peats could easily be disposed of in t;ie town and surrounding camps but the direc tors of the club decided to reserve a block of them for outsiders. The arena will accomoJao 1,000. The historical battle between Corbett and Fitzsimmons, the fight tiia; decidal the world's heavy weight champion ship, drew only a little over tf.UOO. Tins fight will draw the full 10,000 from -.he State of Nevada, alon. Those in the bleachers will have to learn how it feels to be a sardine. It will be a wonderful battle the struggle of a veteran against endur ance and youth. The Danish lad has beaten down science, consummate science and quickness In Jlmm'e Britt of San Francisco. Against him this time Is the man who is admitted to be the most scientific boxer in the world- Some may sneer at the word science applied to a "brutal prlxe fight." but Maeterlinck has come to the defence of boxing. He declares that it Is a f,port that uplifts and that thero is nothing finer to watch in the whole world than a trained boxer both on tlie defence and on the offence. The ladles of Goldfield do not point to Maeterlinck as their exauss to seo this contest of brain and muscle. They just give the women's reason, "Just because we want to, that's all." It will be a scene that will outdD any of the chromo stories of desert mining life that the magazines dish out monthly. It is hard to conceive any thing that will have so much concen trated excitement connected with it. The clear sky of the desert country overhead, the bare brown hills where more than the wealth of Golconda is hidden surrounding, a sea of faces turned on the little square platform where two men, one of the dogged de termined Teuton type, the other a pro nounced Ethiopian, are struggling with the savagery of animals and the Intel ligence of humans. The shouts' echo back from the hilly walls, women, pale with excitement, lean forward, cheering them on; one of them staggers, hia knees weaken under him, he falls, a pulpy-looking mass, to the floor. He struggles to rise, he lifts him self half way from the mat, then col lapses. A gray-haired man is counting, but his voice cannot be heard in the din. The prostrate man writhes in agony. The lips oj the gray-halred man cease to move. The crowd breaks into the ring. It is over. "Habet" And thousands of dollars havo changed hands. A lightweight championship has been decided. But the whirl of exoitement Has not been decided. Now for the gaming tables, and a night wilder than any -in "the days of old and the days of gold the days of '49." The Argonauts of Nevada are the same as those of that other day In their love for extreme in everything. It Is not edifying, perhaps, but It Is life the wild, large life of the pioneer. Nearly all of the men who put up their money to bring the fight to the desert have made millions or more within a few miles of where the fight will be held. Tex Rickard. the man who secured It, Is worth several millions. He was born In Missouri. He went to the Panhandle, where he punched cows for awhile. Then he joined the first rush to the Klondike. He had fair luck there, making enough to retire, but when the Goldfield district was heard of, Tex went with the stam pede. A. D. Meyers, one of the first of the Goldfield bunch who located several mil lions in the hills before there wa such . place as the town of Goldfield, Is another of the contributors. Here are some of the others and a few facts about them: L. M. Patrick, owner of the Combina tion mine, accumulated J3.000.000 in a year here. Larry Sullivan, of the Sulli van Trtist Company, is Interested in nearly every stock on the Goldfield Ex change. H. T. Bragdon, president of the Stock Exchange, and also of the Montezuma Club, which is nick-named the "Million aires' Ciub," is one of those who helped to promote the fight. He is one of those who tried his luck at prospecting and speculation In the o!d Comstock days. He is now worth $2,000,000. Walter, JStone is a prominent merchant and lntetested In the "Goldfield Explora tion Company. Ernest Kenedy is a broker. F. L. Lathrop is a member of the Stock Exchange. J. A. Ingalls Is owner of the Palace. J. D. Lathrop is owner of one of the largest stores, and is Interested in the local telephone com panyv R. L. Johns Is an attorney-at-law, and a heavy owner in the January mine. R. P. Sweeney is a wealthy mineowner. Kenneth Donnelan Is heavily interested In new mining properties. J. R. Kane is a broker. Benjamin Rosenthal is in the drug business. B. F. Sullivan, of Boul der, Colo., is in the real estate business, and owns the Monte Carlo. J. L. Wood worth is a broker. Harry Coffee is a merchant and mineowner. C. L. Stanley is a brewer. M. C. Ish is a mineowner and merchant. Milton M. Detch Is an attorney-at-law. George Wlngfleld Is a mineowner worth $3,000,000. John Cook is a banker. Gun Shoot at the Oaks. One of the events of the season in sporting circles will be the great shoot of the Multnomah Rod and Gun Club, which has been - arranged for on the grounds of "The Oaks" on September 23, commencing at 10 o'clock in the morning. It Is possible that this club will make "The Oaks" their permanent headquar ters, as Manager Frledlander has agreed to install complete paraphernalia in the way of targets, etc.. for the use of the members of the club. The exhibition shoot on September 23 will Include a number of the world's champion marks men. Thoe who are known to have ar ranged in this meet are Tom Marshall, Rollo O. Hikes, William Crosby and H. C. Hirschey. This quartet bears the reputation of the champion shots of America, and much interest is centered in witnessing their marksmanship. Breaks Guideless Trotting Record. NORkOLK. Neb.. Sept. 1. Surena. a guideless trottlne horse, broke the world's record for guideless trotting-horse events at Battle Creek, going a mile in 3:18. This was the horse's second public perform ance. The former record was 2:20. CITY IS EBALL White Sox and Cubs Lead the Two Leagues at Pres ent Time. FANS WANT TWO PENNANTS Cubs Are Almost Sure of Vl'ctory in the National League, but the White Sox Lead by Only a Small Margin. CHICAGO, Sept. 1 (Special.) Chicago has gone baseball crazy. It is the first time In the history of the city that both teams were ever at the top of the league at the same time. Local fans insist that It will be the Cuba and the White Sox to decide the world's championship for 1308. Chicago has always been loyal to both ball teams, but the enthusiasm has greatly increased this year, especially since both teams reached the top of the pennant ladder, and are putting up an exhibition of the National game that has never before been equaled. The attend ance at both parks has been the greatest ever recorded. On Saturday and Sun day, when the CubR and Giants were playing, 30.000 saw the game in the park, 3000 witnessed the contest from house tops and telegraph poles and several thousand were turned away. On the streets. In hotels and clubs, the only gOBSip that is heard la a discussion of the merits of the individual members of each team. To listen to the conver sation, one would be led to believe that the season is over and the pennant flag is about to be raised at both parks. Both teams are putting up nnch a fine exhibi tion of ball that the enthusiasts are con fident of victory, hut a.s to which team would win the world's championship is a question over which there is much differ ence of opinion. Women Take Great Interest. Women have taken a great interest In the outcome of the race, and are rooting for the success of both tean as strongly as the old-time fans. They have attend ed the games in large numbers, and down town, where the scores are posted, near ly as many young women and girls as men can be seen every evening looking at the results. The Chicago National team practically has the pennant cinched. The only thing that can deprive them of the bunting would be a serious accident to several of their star players. They have 33 games to play and have only to win half of them to cinch the victory. The teams that they are to meet are the weaker ones, barring New York and Pittsburg, and with the way the team la going and the fine shape the pitchers are in it Is hard to conjecture how they can lose. They are now 12 full games ahead of the Giants and Pirates, who are running a neck-and-neck race for second place. The ease with which the Cubs are in creasing their lead over the' two con testants in causing little surprise, for Manager Chance and his men are play ing wondorful ball. While the Sox have been at the head of the American League for more than two weeks, they will have to work hard to maintain supremacy, for they have not the lead that the other team has. But in the last six weeks they have been more successful than the Cub. Record of the Team. Comiskey's team broke the great run of consecutive victories made by the Giants in 1!04, and the Baltimore Orioles In 1S94, and came within one game of equaling the world's major league rec ord, held by the Providence' Grays in the National League peninant race in 1SS4. The Sox made a record of 19 consecutive victories against IS for the Giants and WNDY IS CRAZY Orioles. After beating the fastest teams In the league, they fell a victim to Jake Stahl's Washington aggregation and dropped a double-header. This is twice that Charlie Comiskey has owned teams that made sensational spurts by consecutive wins. When com lskey was playing with the St. Louis Browns, then the world's champions, ( his team once won 17 straight games. The "Old Roman" has forgotten that feat now as the Browns were at the top of the heap, while the White Sox were in fourth position when they began their meteoric career on July 27. Since that time they have played 27 games, won 23, lost 8 and tied 1. There will be a close finish for the pennant in the American League, but Comlskey declares he will get it. "We will win the flag," says Comlskey, be cause we have the pitchers and the game fellows to support them. I have heard the bunting flapping around the park for several seasons, but this time It will be floating to the breezes from the top of the staff." The Sox have 40 games to play. If they can win 24 of them, that is. .6K Der cent of the future battles, they will win. To equal that the Philadelphia Athletics must win 29 games and the New York Highlanders 30 to beat the Chicago team for the pennant. It looks like they should be able to accomplish this for the pitchers are In fine shape and the fielders are playing together in grand style. The pltohing staff of the Highlanders and Athletics has gone back and they are not playing the ball they did in the early part of the season. The Sox show that they are strong finishers. They started the season in hard luck, but by hard work passed the others and are just as strong to day as when they began mowing down every enemy that presented Itself, re gardless of on whose stamping ground the battle raged. Out of the last 29 games played, the Cubs have suffered but three defeats, two of those victories going to New York, one here and the other In New York. This is a great record and if the Cubs continue to play this kind of ball until the close of the season, they should win the pennant by a bigger margin than the Giants did last year. Asked as to the chances his team had against the White Sox, should they be the opponents for the world's championship. Manager Chance said: "We will finish our battle in which we are sure of a victory before we discuss what Is to follow. But rest assured the team will play for all It Is worth and I would like to see the big fight on Chi cago soil" Ever since 1902 the Cubs have been gradually growing stronger. That year they finished fourth in the race. When Chance became manager last year he had a fairly well balanced team, with only a few weak spots, which he strengthened during the Winter by trades that astonished the ("baseball world. Steinfeldt, the third Daseman, has de veloped into one of the greatest fielders In the business and is leading the Na tional League for batting honors. Tinker. Evers and Chance form a strong Infield and all are hitting the ball at a merry clip. The outfield is the best in the league. While the WTiite Sox are not as hard sluggers as the Cubs, they have the best fielders In the American League. The in field with Donohue, Isbell, Davis and Tannehill is like a stone wall. When Fielder Jones got Dougherty and Hahn to assist him in the garden, he helped the team a great deal for they are great fielders and handy with the willow. Dougherty's stick work has won many a game for the team. Eddie Wralsh, for the Sox, and Mor decat Brown, for the Cubs, are the pitch ers who have done the best work for their teams. "Doe" White, Roy Patter son and "Nick" Altrock have also aided the Sox in their triumphant march and to Reulbach, Lundgren, "Jack" Taylor and Overall belongs the credit for aid to the Cubs. Walsh and Brown are without doubt the greatest pitchers in either league. Brown has it on Eddie for the number of victories. Out of 28 games In which both have participated. Brown has 21 victories and Walsh has seven defeats. He finished five other games for pitchers and was taken out twice. Brown finished one game for another pitcher and was taken out twice. Walsh has twice this season allowed the opposition but one hit and Brown performed this feat once. Brown has 125 strike-outs to his credit and Walsh 91. - So confident are the fans of the Cubs winning the pennant that they have started a movement for a grand reception when they return from St. Louis where the season closes on October 7. All of the combined Eastern clubs this year have only won 11 games on the local grounds. New York has won five of this number and Brooklyn four. Boston and Pittsburg have only -won one game each on the Chicago diamond. The rest of the home series will be played with Cin cinnati. St. Louis and Pittsburg. The White Sox have 25 home games to fiiay and will close the season with De troit on their own grounds. As they will meet the weaker clubs toward the close of the season, the fans are hoping that they will win a sufficient number to win the bunting for the south side partk. Should the world's championship be played between the two Chicago teams It will be the first time since the two leagues have been In existence that the championship was decided In one city. BILL ESSICK GOES EAST COMPROMISES ON MOO OF MONEY CINCINNATI PAID. Claimed Half, but Finally Gave In, Per haps Through Fear of the Reds' Wrath. Pitcher Bill Esslck, who has been Portland's chief slabster for the past couple of seasons, left last night for Cincinnati, where he goes to join the Reds. Esslck figured in the sale in which Larry McLean was the important factor. McLean left last Sunday night and played his first game yesterday, but had the misfortune to butt into a dislocated finger after the game was five innings old. Essick's refusal to Join Cincinnati was due to the fact that he was hold ing out for a part of the purchase price paid for lilm by the Cincinnati moguls. Essick claimed that when he signed up last Spring and accepted a $200 lop oft his salary. Manager McCredle had agreed to give him half the draft or selling price. When It came to paying over half of what Cincinnati saw fit to pay for the blond twirler. Judge W. W. McCredle revolted and for several days past it looked as If Essick would, be out of the game entirely. A com promise was reached yesterday, when it ib undarstood Judge McCredle paid Essick $400.s Essick was holding out for $500, but after trying to get the extra $100 in vain, and perhaps fearing the wrath of the Reds' management be cause he did not report, he accepted the $400. Essick's career in fast company will be watched with a great deal of inter est by the Portland fans. He has one great weakness, his Inability to field his position. He has everything that a good pitcher should have in his pitch ing repertoire. His one other fault Is that of going to pieces If things begin to break badly behind him. With any sort of an even break, he ought to make good. - Denver Player Goes to Chicago. CHICAGO. Sept. 1. (Special.) president Murphy, of the Chicago National League, announced, this afternoon, that he had signed Outfielder Randall, of the Denver team. Randall 1b a left-handed batter and a right-handed thrower. WHAT IS FUTURE DF COAST LEAGUE Seattle Wants to Break Away, Which Might Force Out Portland. ALL UP TO THE S1WASHES Fresno Grows Discontented With "Windjammer Mique," Just as Tacoma and Sacramento Did. Sullivan an Advertiser. BY HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Aug. 30. (Spe cial Correspondence.) Will the Pacific Coast League survive another year, or will Seattle tear loose from the agree ment that has held the six clubs to gether and Portland be compelled to fol low suit? There Is all manner of specu lation on the subject. One baseball fan will tell you one thing and the next man you meet has another yarn to relate. None of them knows what will happen. They are guessing, and at long distance, for it is all up to Seattle. Judge McCredie has so often stated his desire not to break with the Californlans that It can be assumed he will stick. If there Is any chance. But with Seattle it is different. . The Washington people would like to see a change to the North west League. It Is true they have lo3t a barrel of money this year, as well as in seasons past. That, however, is not all Important. It la more of note that their desires trend toward tho old order of things. If Seattle cuts loose It Is ad mitted that California would have to let go from Portland. One city In the North west would never be a paying proposi tion. Teams could not afford to make the jump to Portland. Even Cal Ewing. who sems to have taken the place of Henry Harris as the head of the league, says that if Seattle Is out, Portland would have to be dropped, and this state must be contented with a state league. Now comes the question, Would base ball as a California State League be a paying proposition? I think it would un der certain conditions. If California would drop organized baseball and go out for all sorts of talent, as an . outlaw league, it would pay. California Is so isolated from the balance of the country that It has been proved an outlaw league can work successfully. In the days of the old California State League, just before Jack Marshall forced Portland into that disastrous financial alliance, the Califor nlans were coining money. They had such players as Corbett Dr. Newton and oth ers who were at outs In the organized field. From Fresno is heard the low rumble of discontent. The Fresnoites are kick ing at Mike Fisher. Sacramento tired of the bombastic windjammer: he wore out his welcome in Tacoma, and now the Raisin City experts are onto his curves. Mike has been sailing close to the wind. He has been saving his money Instead of hiring players who understand the game, and he has been doing Just what Is objected to staying down at the bot tom of the laclier. Fisher has proved alt the mean things that were ever said about him. He protested loud and long when the sportinsr writers said that Charlie Graham was the master hand, the power behind the throne. In fact, the throne (Fisher) made the power (Graham) issue a statement that such was not the case. Then Graham left him, and the mighty Fisher has been tumbling ever since. X . . . It has been officially announced, in fact, that Sacramento will take the place of Fresno another season, whether the pres ent Pacific Coast League is maintained or not. Fresno Is said to be non productive from the box office standpoint, and so J. Cal Ewing, Eugene F. Bert and their associates are compelled to turn to the capital city. Perhaps with Fisher out. Sacramento ran tie made a paying proposition. But the good fans of Sacra mento have a reason to remember Mike, and It would not be wise for him to re turn. They say that Larry Sullivan Is not shrewd. They say that he let Billy Nolan work his own schemes when the articles for the match next Monday were signed. Well, maybe he did. but Larry has been Just smart enough lo get him self a splendid lot of advertising as "L. M. Sullivan, better known as president of the Sullivan Trust Company, of Gold field, Nevada." You rVm't se this ex tensive statement nowadays. For a couple of weeks after things grew warm In the Nevada mining town. Larry's press agent worked overtime. San Fran ciscans commenced to look up and won der who was L. M. Sullivan. All this time his name has been going throughout the West and the Kast as the head of a trust company. It will surely bring him some returns. But about the fight itself: There is more than a chance that all this talk about tho unevenness of the articles has been done by Gans backers for the pur pose of changing the odds. Still those odds have not changed up to the time of writing. Californlans like Gans, in spite of the record of the Battling pane. The hundred or more who left here Saturday night for the ringside were fairly well determined to bet on Gans. In my own mind. Gans will go in for a slashing fight, and he has the punch. He must realize that if he loses the battle he is down and out for all time to come. MAHAFFEY GOOD AS HIS 'WORD Fails to Appear at Ball Grounds Be cause Check Is Too Small. Umpire Lou Mahaffey made good his threat not to labor for $150 a month yesterday and did not make his ap pearance at the ball grounds. Judge McCredie came over to Portland early yesterday morning in hope of seeing Mahaffey and having a talk with him, but failed to find him, and Ed Rankin handled the indicator during the game. Just whether Mahaffey and Judge McCredie can get together is a question, although many of the fans, who have watched Lou's clever work, hope that he will change his mind. Rankin's work was all right, although the fans got after him because of sev eral tight decisions. The fans seem to be unable to realize what a hard prop osition a fill-in umpire has confronting him. , Some consideration should be shown a man like Rankin when he is called Into the breach as he was. . Small Boy Kills a Deer. Russell Balrd. the 15-year-old son of Mrs. Gus Reitschmidt, of 5S7 Seventh street, who is visiting his uncle, George Ramsey, at Srappoose. killed a lar?e deer in the field a few mornings ago, shooting It through the head and killing it with one shot, at fully 150 yards. The youngster Is very proud; this being his first deer.