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IS TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 14, 1906. PRETEND TO HEAVY WEIGHT THRONE Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns ' Will Fight for Empty Title. MEET ON THANKSGIVING Jlurns, Who Wrested Championship Vrom Hart, So Eager to Meet O'Brien That He Makes Con cessions in the Articles. BY WILL G. MAC RAE. After weeks o bickering and the spill ing of printer's Ink, the fight between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Sad Sam Berger, Is off; and the fighting real estate dealer from the Quaker City has signed articles to fight. Tommy Burns. The articles call for the heavyweight championship, and these two pretenders to the heavyweight throne will battle on Thanksgiving day. Straight Marquis of Queensberry rules are to govern, but the battlers must keep a wary eye on each other in the break-aways. The other light tuat will attract some attention from the light fans will be strictly a Native Son affair between Al Kauffman and Sam Berger. This fight Is also sched uled for November. Evidently Tommy Burns, who has steadily been making a name for himself pince he adopted Los Angeles as his abode. Is willing to make concessions to O'Brien just for the purpose of getting liim Into the ring. He has agreed to al low O'Brien a $1X100 bonus out of the $42. 00 purse, and has consented that the split In the purse be 75 and 23. The wording of the articles of agreement will give O'Brien a shade the best of the milling. O'Brien's great forte is to stand off and light, and he has never shown any desire to mix wlthpugs that can wallop In the flinches. This was the rock which split liis tight with Berger. Berger wanted to light in as well as out of the clinches. But Jack, knowing that his midsection does not assimilate punishment kindly, lias always sidestepped such an agree ment. . ' "Dope" Says O'Brien. On past performances, O'Brien should rln. He Is faster and has forgotten more nf the fighting game than Tommy Burns iias learned. But at that the Quaker City Tjrutser will find in Burns a husky, willing and pretty shifty fighter, who can out punch him. Burns has always had a notion that he could whip O'Brien. They met a number of years ago, and O'Brien put it all over Burns in the final two rounds. Burns was a novice at the game, when this fight look place. The Philadelphian knew this, and after feinting Burns until he was cross-eyed and dizzy, he became careless. In either the third or fourth round. Burns came out of the trance and caught the wily O Brlen a couple of stiff punches that came within an ace of putting him out. O'Brien was able to even up mat ters by a lot of stalling and fancy boxing. Ever since this fight. Burns has camped on O'Brien's trail. Several times it looked as if Burns had O'Brien cornered, but there was nothing doing, because O'Brien either announced his retirement from the rins- or went over to England and picked up easier money. Burns never ftave up hope of securing a match with O'Brien, and there is a chance that his eagerness to fight O'Brien has caused him to overlook certain advantages, when it came to signing the articles of agree ment. With the bars let down and any old kind of milling allowed. Burns would have a better chance to win the battle As it is, I don't look for him to lose. He has a chanceto win if he can get home the knockout : punch. If It goes the full 20 rounds. O'Brien will have the decision because he can outbox Burns and is a better ring general. Xo Championship to It. The story that they are to fight for the heavyweight championship will not go down. It Is true that Burns holds the title, because he beat Marvin Hart. It is also true that Jeffries handed Hart the title. Jeffries, no matter what he or any one says. Is still champion. As long as he is physically able to defend the title it still belongs to him. He cannot give it to Tom. Uick or Harry. What would there be in the way of his present ing the title to Young Corbett or Battling Kelson? Jeff was joking when he placed the heavyweight mantle on Marvin Hart. Hart wasn't foxy enough to see the trick. After beating Jack Root he starred him self aB the heavyweight champion. It rwas the Joke of the pugilistic century. Not even the. scribes seemed to get wise to Jeff's clever bit of sarcasm. Jeff knew that some other second-rater would take the gift title from Hart, and that he would have all of the heavyweights in the Becond division scrambling for the belt. Kauffman Made Claims. Of the fight between Berger and Kaufff rnan. there Is little to say. Both fighters have yet to be tried out. Kauffman was touted as a kid that could trim Jeffries. Jeff laughed and passed him up, and the Olympic Club heavy was matched to fight O'Brien, What Jack did to the kid was A shame. Since then Kauffman has been making matches and taking the hurdles after they were made, until It looked mi if h waw going to keep on the run. The last heard from him was that hn wn tn tiook up to Jack Johnson. Someone must have told Kauffman .that he was stepping on a live wire, for he passed the big black up. it s lucky for him that he did, for mo ingger wouia nave oeaten him suce that is, unless Johnson laid down, asne ma against Hart. Berger has had only a few more fights Uian Kauffman. He hooked with Jack O'Brien in one of those six-round, no dcclslon affairs In Philadelphia. Press ac counts gave Berger a great send-off. Some bf the pencil-pushers went so far as to nay that Sam could beat O'Brien in a light of greater distance. Then they woke up. The tip got out that O'Brien, with his eye on a big nurse. held himself under wraps and allowed Berger to make the showing he did. This was denied by both fighters, but the facts seem to be borne out by recent develop ments, for the pair tried to fight at San .Francisco. Berger must have smelled a mouse. In the- East he signed articles that were misstated by O'Brien. But when It came to signing the real articles Sam wanted to hit in the clinches and also wanted a certain split in the purse that O'Brien could not see. I believe that Berger go wise that O'Brien let him make a big showing dur ing their Philly fight, and like a great many others he knows that O'Brien has It on him, when it comes to dean breaks and straight rules; Berger ought to beat Kauffman, for Sam has had a chance to develop, while Kauffman has not. The Articles. Following are the articles of agreement Under which Berger and Kauffman fight: Ban Francisco. October 9, 1906. Sam Berger and Al Kauffman hereby Htm to box twenty (20) rounds under the auspices of the Associated Athletic Club of San Francisco for 50 per cent of the gross receipts, to be divided as follows: 60 per cent to tha winner and 40 per cent to the loser. . ' 1. Contest to be conducted under Mar quis of Queensberry rules, soft surgical bandages or ordinary pair of kid gloves may be worn under the five-ounce boxing gloves. 2. Jack Welch of San Francisco Is here by selected as the referee of this contest, fee to be paid out of gross receipts. 3. Berger and Kauffman agree to submit to a physical examination at all reasonable times by the club's official physician. 4. Kauffman and Berger agree to post a forfeit of $1000 immediately each to guar antee their compliance with these articles of agreement. 5. Forfeit to be posted with Harry Cor bett of San Francisco. B. The date of contest to be October 31, 1906. SAM BERGER, BILLY DELANET, for Al Kauffman. J. W. COFFROTH. WILLIS F. BR1TT. EDDIE M. ORANEY. MORRIS LEVY, for the Associated Athletic Club of Ban Francis.. W'tflST CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS Friday-Night Tournaments Will Be This Winter's Programme. ' These officers were elected at the an nual meeting of the Portland Whist Club: President. N. J. Levinson; vice-president, D. A. Grout;' secretary-treasurer. A.' A. Llndsley; directors. H. P. Holmes, G. O. Scribner, A. K. Slocum and M. W. Gor man: tournament corrinlttee. S. B. Hus ton, C. U Nichols, A. R. Draper, A. P. Armstrong and E. C. Johnson. Finances of the club were never In such good condition as now. A feature of the Winter's play will be the Friday night duplicate whist tournaments for which Individual, pair and team prizes will be offered. GOLF TOURNEY THIS WEEK INTERCOLLEGIATE ASSOCIA TION PLAY AT GARDEN CITY. Other Teams Will Try toW'rest Hon ors From the Sons of Eli. The annual championship tournament of the Intercollegiate Golf Association will be held at aGrden City, L. L, beginning Tuesday, October 16, and continuing up to and including next Saturday. Added Interest will be lent to this year's meet ing through the admission of Williams College Into the association. The play ers from Wiliiamstown swept everything before them in the New England Inter collegiate Golf Association last season, and in the Spring of this year played matches on several local courses and made a favorable impression. For years, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell have been the only members of the associa tion. With the exception of Williams, however, the association is likely to lose in another direction. Cornell, which has not been represented in the tournament to any extent for sev eral years, is showing signs of renewed Interest, and the Ithaca University will at least have entries In the individual cham pionship. There is considerable uncer tainty as regards Pennsylvania's plans. The first two days will be devoted to the team championship, and the last three to the individual. At present all honors are held by Yale. In the team contest at Garden City a year ago the New Haven institution proved too strong for both Harvard and Princeton, while in the in dividual championship. Robert Abbott de feated his colleague, Ellis Knowles, in the final. TIE'S A "FOUR-TIME WINNER." Comiskey, the "Old Roman," Is the Greatest Baseball General. Charles A. Comiskey, better known to the fans as "Commy" and the "Old Ro man," is the pioneer pennant-winner of the baseball business. This season's re sults in the American League, which meant the championship for the White Sox, brought him his seventh big league pennant. The expression "four-time win ners" originated when Comiskey led the famous St. Louis Browns to victory for four consecutive seasons 1SS5, 1SS6, 1SS7 and 1888. In the seven years of the American League's existence Comlskey's Chicago White Sox have captured the champion ship three times I'M), 1!K)1 and 1906. In three of the other four seasons his team was a strong contender for the bunting, last year losing by only two games. In TOMMY only one season did the White Sox finish lower than fourth, that being in 1903. . Mllvraukle Country Club.. Eastern and California races. Take Sell wood or Oregon City- car, starting from First and Alder streets. wmm MmmmmM&r -mmmA afci" . mltninlIHIiliMni(rl'i'i . . , I TRY BERGER OUT AL Will Prove Whether He Can Stay in Jack O'Brien's : Class. SHOULD WIN, SAYS WRITER Portland May Play California State Pennant Winners at the Close of the Coast League Season. BY HAP-RT B. "SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct 13. After 'fiddling around for three or more weeks, in which . there has been little doing otherwise than talk, Fight Pro moter jimmy Coffroth has at last achieved succes. The middle of this week he signed up Sam Berger and Al Kaufman for a 20-round battle in San Francisco Wednesday night, Oc tober 31 Berger signed the articles for himself, while Billy Delaney repre sented Kauffman, who is scheduled to arrive' the last part of the weejt. There was a spirit of harmony, and, as both contestants were eager for the match, there was no trouble They will fight straight . Marquis of Queensbury rules, and will wear either soft surgical bandages Or ordinary, kid gloves, with the fingers out off; and have agred upon Jack Welch as the refferee. This last was a disappoint ment, equally so to Eddie Graney and Billie Roche. Both these men would havo agreed upon Jack Welch as the referee. This last was a dlsappoint- It is the general opinion that the fight will be a god drawing card.- It is true that Kauffman was walloped, and easily so, by O'Brien, but it will give a good line on Sam Berger. What has Berger done? Nothing save fight a six-round encounter with O'Brien. That is not enough to bringhlm into the star line, but his fight with Kauff man will tell the story. If Berger wins, he will have a fight with O'Brien, if the two can agree upon that hitting in the clinches rule, which caused the trouble. If Kauffman wins, and wins decisively, Berger might as well step into the ranks of the never wuzzers. Berger looks good to me. For a big, husky man, he has a world of speed. Unless Kauffman has improved, he is not apt to be arrested for exceeding the fast driving ordinance. Fighting Dick Ilyland will be in the ring again next Wednesday night, to meet Cyclone Johnny Thompson, of Los Angeles, at Colma, in a 30-round encounter. Thompson won in nine rounds on an alleged fowl a month ago, and Hyland is anxious to show that he can win. Thompson is on the Kid Broad order of fighter, and. would never win a prize in a beauty show. He looks able to take a worlri of he.it In J and that is what he will get from Hy- lana. it ought to be a slugging fight. Thompson admits that he is not a scientific boxer, and Hyland has some thing to learn along that line. Will David Dugdale be manager of the Seattle team in. the Pacific Coast League next year? San Francisco fans are anxious to know and it may sur prise some of you in the North,- who think that California is opposed to Dug. Time has healed the wounds of the war three years ago, and there is a warm spot in the heart of the fans for the fat man. They are beginning to real ize, in official baseball circles, that Dugdale is the Moses who must lead Seattle out of the financial wilderness. Therefore, President Bert, Cal Ewlng and the rest of the moguls are with him, heart and soul. It will doubtless be a pleasing bit of Information that San Francisco will have its own grounds, and that these grounds will be located at Kighth and Harrison streets, as of old. While the announce ment has not been officially made, Bert is figuring along these lines. After the season closes, the work of building a new grandstand and getting the diamond into shape will be commenced. It would have been the right thing, even for this sea son. but the directors did not grasp the opportunity quick enough. The attend BCRN'S. ance at Oakland has been anything but encouraging, with the exception of Sun day afternoons. In San Francisco, the fans are hungering for something to do, and a baseball game would have filled the vacuum splendidly. Now that Port land has a cinch on the pennant. Inter est has somewhat dropped. The season Mi is far too long, and the Coast League would do well to make a further cut in the time. It is running baseball into the ground. According to reports, following the close of the season, the Portland pennant-winners will go to Stockton to play a series with the Millers, providing Stock ton wins the State League pennant? It would be easy pick-up money for Mc Credle and his men. and these champion ship games, can easily become a feature on the Coast, if they are properly cared for. San Jose is within half a game of Stockton, and might win the flag. You never can tell what will happen in a baseball game. There is no Joy among the followers of Rugby at the State University. The boys are well-nigh in open revolt, and the story comes from across the bay that there will be a boycott if the intercolle giate game Is not returned to its own. There Is no enthusiasm among the Berke ley men. They are playing ball in a per functory fashion, and it grinds them that Benjamin Ide Wheeler forced it on them. They say that they will stick it out. but will Insist upon a change. If the change is not made, there will be no more foot ball at Berkeley. Now the Pacific Athletic . Association wants Dan Kelly to come to California tof the big field meet this month. There Is "a suspicion among some of the ath letes that the Californlans. knowing that Kelly was sick, took the opportunity to invite him to participate In games. Of course, there is a world of cTiscusslon as to whether he really made the time given out at Spokane. For that reason, he would be a good drawing card. We had a chance last Sunday to witness the most nerve-racking cross-country run in the history of. the United States. It was a marvelous test of endurance, not so much because of the distance seven miles as because of the uphill and down hill going, with a quarter-mile finish on the yielding sand. It was marvelous also because an 18-year-old high school lad. Geoffrey Hassard. won first place and made best time, duplicating his- perform ance of a year ago, when he won the same event. There were 104 starters, and 95 of them completed the course. Many of you have taken the trip to Mount Tam- alpais. The course starts at Mill Valley, where you take the "crookedest railroad In the world," and runs up the mountain to West Point, more than half way to Tamalpais, then down-grade to Dipsea, on the ocean. Hassara weighs not more than 110 pounds, but he made a great race, and finished In five seconds less than 50 minutes. The man who was in the lead as they turned Into the final stretch took one step on the sand and fainted. Another Boy was so ex hausted that he hardly knew what he was doing thought he had reached the finish and sat down, only to find that Hassard was speeding past him. ATHLETIC NEWS OF STANFORD Kenneth Fenton Defeated at Tennis by Se.cond-Rater. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Oct. 13. (Special.) Kenny Fenton, who made KENNETH FENTON. OF PORT LAND, AS THE SAN FRAN CISCO BULLETIN CAR TOONIST CAUGHT HIM. Fenton, About to Punt (Showing Wishbone Effect.) such a good record the Dast Summer in the Oregon state tennis tournament, play ing to the seml-nnals, was defeated re cently by a second-rater in the class tour naments which are In progress. Fenton was badly out of form and showed lack, or practice. In trim, the Multnomah boy Is the equal of anything on the Stanford courts, but he devotes his whole time to more stryiuous athletics, to the detriment or nis tennis lorm. Concerted and spirited efforts are being made oy faculty, students, trustees and alumni to repair the damage done the university buildings. A faculty board of engineers has in charge the work of re construction, and under their careful su pervision all the working buildings and dormitories nave been made safe and ten able.' The task of tearing down and cart ing away the debris from the immense library, gymnasium and church, which were total wrecks, is still unfinished. though being carried on energetically, and plans for the rebuilding of these mighty structures are not yet made. In the snaoow or the disaster. President Jordan declared it would be a matter of years before the ornamental buildings could be restored. So great now is. the agitation of siuaems ana alumni for a quick restora tion of the campus to its old beauty, and such Is the willingness of these people to contribute to this work, it seems prob able that it will only be a matter of months rather than of years when the walls of a new gymnasium, a new church ana a new library will again rise. WILL PLAY WILLIE HOPPE Wizard Sehaffer to Tackle the "Boy Wonder." Jacob Schaefer, - the billiard wizard. has concluded that he could succeed where Vlgnaux failed, and has challenged V line Hoppe, the boy champion. iuey win meet in tne concert hall in Madison-Square Garden on the night of October 16, and the Interest in the great contest promises to be very great. The conditions are 500 points, 18-inch balk, one shot In. Judging from the way Hoddc is.nlav ing in practice. Schaefer will have to do some fine work to win. . The second championship game con cerns the 18.2 title, held by George F. Slosson and which is coveted by George button,, tne bulky but clever Chlcagoan They are scheduled to meet In the con cert hall of Madison-Square Garden on the night of October 17, following the Hoppe-bchaefer match. This will be spe cially interesting from the fact that Sut ton. who tied with Schaefer for second place In the tournament in which Slosson won the title, had a single average of 100 and a high run of 234. jF THE1 MEMOftrSuN f AfcCtf MUST.HANB J V fcEEH DESIGNED 7 after Bs Shape ' Al E Move to 'Add to Coast League Seems to Be Hopeless. RECEIPTS ARE TOO LIGHT Spokane and Tacoma Fail to Make as Good Showing In Whole Season as San Francisco in One Week. SEATTLE. Oct.' 13. (Special.) The sta tistics of Northwest League atteiTdance Just given out seem to indicate the hope lessness of the scheme to add Spokane and Tacoma to the Coast League circuit for the coming year. Seattle drew more money in a single week at San Francisco than either Tacoma or Spokane paid visit ing teams during the entire season. There were 46 games played at Tacoma and 47 at Spokane, yet the visitors at the former only got $2049.80 and at Spokane $2137.60. Seattle's share of the gate for the open ing week at. San Francisco was $2200, and the figures of Northwest League attend ance do not look good even to the ar dent promoters of the new circuit here. The last Sunday at home Seattle and San Francisco divided more than $900 as a result of a rainy day's receipts, and San Francisco took away almost as much as Butte got Out of Tacoma for 14 games. During the week when the teams played between showers, $1400 came into the gate, and that money Is more than the grand stand receipts at either Tacoma or Gray's Harbor for the season. It costs $100 a day to maintain the Se attle team, and next season the club own ers believe the cost will run $1000 a month greater than this year. At this figure Seattle would have to play all season at Butte to pay a month's salaries and would have to borrow carfare to get home from either Spokane or Tacoma if the season's share were lumped and handed In for a month's offset. In the official report of the North west League's season, Butte's attend ance Is based on a 25 per cent admit tance fee. As a mater of fact, they play "four-bit" ball in Butte, and the actual attendance was just half as large as the figures Indicate. But this is what the official report shows: Games. Admissions. . Ave. Butte 30 43.710 1,121 Gray's Harbor ... 44 17.S.H0 407 Tacoma ' 4B 17.670 388 Spokane 47 10,447 330 The season's receipts show at Butte there was taken in $10,027.40 at the gate and $1592 at the grandstand; Gray's Harbor, $4472 gate, $1223.25 grand stand; Tacoma, $3367.35 gate, $1195.40 grand stand; Spokane, $1111.70 gate, $1831 grand stand. What it means to travel in the North west League towns that it is proposed to include in the Coast League circuit Is shown by the money Tacoma and Spo kane paid visiting teams. Here are the figures: At Tacoma Paid Butte $473.95 for 14 games; Spokane, $639.15 for 15 games; Gray's Harbor. $936.70 for 17 games. At Spokane Paid Butte $902.95 for 17 games; Tacoma, $381.25 for 15 games; Gray's Har bor. $653.40. Of course, it was "bush league" ball the Northwest League offered, but even the most ardent admirers of the Coast League expansion plan or the return to the old Northwest League do. not like the figures on the attendance. Seattle tomorrow will attempt to lease from some of the railroad of tide land property within easy walking distance of the business section. There Is consid erable tldeland property that will not be needed by the roads for two or three years which might easily be Improved for a baseball park to replace the one lost. STOOD VOYAGE WELL. Davenport's Blooded Arabian Safely Installed on Farm. According to advices from New York Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, who re cently arrived home from Turkey, where he purchased a number of Arabian stal lions and mares; has just installed Ms herd at his stock farm in New Jersey, all the animals being in fine condition, de spite the rough sea voyage encountered on the way over. Mr. Davenports fan cies seem to have undergone a change. Some years ago, even while he was living PLAN QIC WELL-KNOWN FOOTBALL COACHES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO. jm 'A I " - ' v " 1 b y3: hJf If; c i l" mf i I I 'r&: ' 1 L - " r- J mj John G. Griffith, Head Coach. MOSCOW, Idaho, Oct 13. (Special.) John G. ("Ready") Griffith, the popular football coach at the University of Idaho, is a graduate of Iowa University, where he played quarter-back, on the famous team of 10O1. He has coached Idaho since the season of 10O2 and has had remarkable success. John R. "Middleton, captain of laat year's championship eleven. Is assisting Griffith with the coaching preparatory to the big game with Oregon on Oct. 20. Middleton played quarter-bark on the Idaho eleven for four seasons, and "nad considerable football experience in Iowa prior to coming West. at Sllverton. this state, and after he won fame in Eastern newspaper circles, his particular fad was game chickens, and he purchased liberally whenever he found good ones. Lcter on his fancy ran to Arabian horses. When Randolph Huntington, of Long Island, dispersed his half-bred Arab lansa a few years since Mr. Davenport purchased a stallion or two. When the Chicago exposition closed up shop he pur chased some Arabian stallions and mares from the Turkish consignment. Now it appears he has plunged still deeper in Arabian blood. Thus far in vestments In Arabian horses have, as far as thie country is concerned, been finan cial failures, if profit from breeding them was the sole object. Since the foundation of our Government there have been nu merous importations of Arabian stallions. One of two stallions were presented to President Jackson, and when Martin Van Buren became President he was also the recipient of two fine specimens from the Sultan. William H. Seward had two stal lions presented to him by the Sultan and General Grant two selected by the Sultan himself In the General's presence. Aside from Mr. Davenport's venture In Arabian blood, there have been four other ventures In the United States on a large scale, viz., that of Keene Richards, of Kentucky; that of the I'lheins, of Milwau kee; that of General Colby, of Beatrice, Neb., and the venture of Randolph Hun tington, of Long Island. Richards aimed in his importations to improve the thor oughbred, of which he was a large and noted breeder. He not only failed in his efforts to Improve his stocks, but went broke financially. Huntington thought he could improve the light-harness horse of this country by crossing Arabian stallions on Clay mares, the latter tracing in the paternal line to the barb. Imported Grand Bashaw, from which the Bashaw family also descended. His affair was a joint stock company, and after many years' experiments Mr. Huntington and his as sociates had to throw up their hands and seek the auction block. If General Colby, who was once a resident of Washington, and in the Attorney-General's office, has made a financial success of his venture, no one has heard of the same at this point of the compass. The Arabian stallions presented to Gen eral Grant finally found homes on his Ne braska farm, after being near Washing ton for some years, on the farm of the late General B. F. Beale. These stallions were called Linden Tree and Leopard. They were gray In color and scant 14 hands in height. They were liberally crossed with native mares, but their pro duce never amounted to much, as they showed no speed and were too light for farm work. The Ulheins are famous brewers and very wealthy. They can af ford to Indulge in almost any fancy in the breeding line they choose, as it will not materially affect their bank account Every one who knows Mr. Davenport will wish him good fortune. After what has gone before, he has shown himself to be a man of rare courage. RUBE ILL "SLING SUDS" WADDELL GETS JOB AS BAR KEEP IN DETROIT SALOON. Connie Mack's Twirler Will Dish Out Highballs Instead of Curves This Winter. Somehow the average baseball fan doesn't feel just right unless he hears something about "Rube"" Wraddell now and then, and the eccentric one Is usually on hand to accommodate the most exact ing. He hasn't been shining with any particularly conspicuous luster the past season, though he has been on Conny Mack's payroll all year, but he has been heard from again, even though the base ball season of 1966 is a matter of history. He has returned to Detroit to spend the Winter, evidently hungering for an other vision of the Wolverine metropolis where many of his most sensational es capades have -been "pulled off." Rube has signed to tend bar for Billy Rooks, an old-time friend, and has left about all his baggage to Insure his show ing up at the proper time as a suds slinger. "Billy and I are old par," said the Rube, in discussing his promise, "and many is the hard-fought field on which we've competed either together or on dif ferent sides. His place here seems to be baseball headquarters, and I think I'll find it congenial." Rube's intention was originally to make Cleveland his home this Winter, but the vacancy discovered by the astute Mr. Rooks looked better to him for more rea sons than one. Also the Utopia Is near a fire station, anil Billy has promised Rube a tire alarm right back of the bar. John If. Middleton, Assistant Coach. m RACING CANADA Bill Bailey Tells Experiences Among the "Canucks." NEVER BECOME FLURRIED Coast Horseman Says He Was Some what Confused in Land of tlio. Maple Leaf by Those Odd English Nantes. Bill Bailey, with a carload of race horses, arrived In Portland yesterday from British Columbia on his way to Ios Angeles, where he will race this winter. Bailey, at the close of the Seattle meet ing, shipped his stable to Vancouver, B. C, and raced over the tracks at West minster, Victoria and other British Co lumbia towns. Bailey has nothing but praise for the Britishers he met, but the only thing he could not get used to was calling the street car the "tram" and the fact that the Englishmen would not get excited or do things in a hurry. "They are sure a queer lot," said Bailey yesterday. "Be fore you can race over there you must dig up $3 for a membership to the racing association and $2 for the swipes. They have no system about stabling horses, you Just back into a set of stalls and take possession. One of the things that Jarred me was the way those English men rambled through your stables. If they wanted to look over your nag they simply opened the door and if the horse was not standing so they could take a good squint at him they cuffed him until he turned around. "No one Is ever In a hurry over there. They call a street car a 'blooming tram' and an elevator a 'lift' and they can skin us four times around the track when It comes to drinking whisky. The stuff they get over there is the real juice, but my, how they can put It. away. I'm going back next year, but I'll not make the mistake I did this year. When 1 cross over from Seattle I'll have some distance birds in my barn, swift ones that pick up a ton of weight, for they like to see a .horse carry a package. The meetings are small ones and the harness events are not much, but the American who goes across the drink with the notion they haven't got some good racehorses over there gets fooled. They can go over a distance of ground and carry the weight and run like the wind. Mr. Britisher will bet also and any time he thinks his judgment is right he'll bet your eyes out." FOOTBALL AT COLUMBIA. Coach Lonergan Hopes to Hays Strong Team in the Field. The football squad at Columbia is a little late In beginning practice this year, but Coach Lonergan hopes to overcome the handicap by the fact that the major ity of the team are old men on the grid iron. With the exception of two men, all the members of the team have had from one to four years' experience, and at least seven of last year's team will be out to represent the purple and white. Several new players have entered Co lumbia this year, and among them are Dooley, Walker and Porterlield. from the Oregon Agricultural College. The latter was a first-team "sub" last year, and ac companied the team on its southern trip, while Walker and Dooley both played on the second team. These three men show up good at practice, and, while they are not heavy, they are exactly the kind of men Lonergan is looking for. Of the '05 team, Grusoi, one of the best linemen in the scholastic league: McKay, last year's full, and Porter, center, are among those who have registered. A squad of about 30 men are out. and. while a great many of them do not ex pect to make the team, yet they show their spirit by donning a suit and helping , out in the practice scrimmages. Foot ball spirit is high throughout the whole Institution, and every member of the fac ulty and student body are out to wit nests the practice. Because of the new rules of this sea son, punting will be one of the. features of the game, and a number of old-time trick plays will iV: practically eliminated. On these grounds, Lonergan hopes to de velop a winning team, as interference and ability to hold the ball will be the strong point of an end run. The team will aver age about 155 pounds, and each man will be about the average weight, and there will be no exceptionally weak or strong points on the team. The line is being trained to play a more open game on the defense, and on the offense something more than blocking the opponent will be expected, as the lineman Is expected to help in the Interference. The scholastic league schedule opens on November 9. but Columbia hopes to get a practice game before that date. ASCOT EXPKCTS BIG 51EKT. Management Thinks County Super visors Will Not Interfere. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Oct. 13. (Spe cial.) The Ascot Park racetrack man agement is going right ahead with ar rangements, and expects to run off the most successful meeting ever pulled off htfre. the Increased value of the stakes having already attracted a higher class of entries than in former years. Al though a change In the county super visors might result in action inimical to the racetrack interests, it is gen erally conceded that, even if such oc curred, nothing would be done this season. There Is ample assurance that no adverse step Is contemplated by the Legislature. MANIA 'FOR GIRLS' TRESSES German Jack-the-IIair-Cutter Guil ty of Outrages In Berlin. BERLIN, Oct. 13. A young man named Lange, who had a mania for cut ting off girls' hair, was arrested In the Seydelstra.sRe. A soldier saw him spring upon a girl, who wore her hair In two long braids, and cut one off. Lange was taken to the police station, where he burst Into tears, and declared that he could not resist the temptation of cutting off beautiful tresses. If he saw a girl whose hair was particularly long he must cut It off. He had robbed no fewer than 19 girls of their tresses. The young man's mother, when Informed of his arrest, came to the police station, and said that her son had had this mania of haircutting since his youth. She added that. In con sequence of medical opinion, he could not be punished. Pope Receives Canadian Dignitary. ROME. Oct. 13. The Pope, who Is in perfect health, received many people in private audience today, including Arch bishop Mazzclla, of Rossano, Italy, and the Right Rev. E. Grouard. Apostolic Vicar of Athabasca, Canada, talking with 'the latter lengthily about the condition of the church in Canada