The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 20, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Image 45

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Newspaper Page Texti"- I'V.'' "MEET ME ATOTE COUNTRY CLUB" : ' m' ' 'lvltf 'rf L' ' "X. ' I IT'S RE AD Y ' I PORTLAND'S ,L A,XE ST- S E L, EJID I D ... AC HI E,V E.1VI E NT - W ., f i.JM :,jL rl'Mm " k ? 1 JjB- : RACING IQORAmI i I PORTDAND COUNTRY CLUB IS ALL READY FOR OPENING THE BIG SHOW . TOMORROW GRAND STAND, PAVILIONS, TRACK Everything in Readiness for Animals, Events and Spectators AMERICA'S FASTEST HORSES ON THE GROUND Speeding on the Track, Sightliest in the World, Makes the Heart Glad LASTS ALL THE WEEK BIG EVENTS EVERY DAY Nine New, Light,. Airy, Exhibition Pavilions BLOODED STOCK ON EXHIBIT Poultry Pigeons See the Fancy Bird9 From all the Pacific Coast CATTLE, HOGS, SHEEP, GOATS MAGNIFICENT PERCHERON STALLIONS GIANT DRAFT HORSES HIGH-STEPPING COACH HORSES ON PARADE DAILY Era? Event Carried Out on Tima Watch for Schedule Admission . . , 50c Grand Stand. . 50c Bieacta:. . 7 25c Boxes, Season $30.00 TAKE ROSE CITY PARK CAR SPLENDID SERVICE ALL DAY OR SOUTHERN PACIFIC SPECIALS Two Trains Leave Union Depot 12:30 and 1:00 P. M. Daily FIRST EVENT ON NEW GROUNDS $40,000 IN CASH PREMIUMS Monday, September 21,. .' , Grand Opening Day. Open Kiver Purse, J100J. 2:14 pace. Commercial Club Purse, J1OO0. 2:19 trot. ' ' Colleg MiM, 1 :0 g-uldelea- pacer. Mile, dash. Mule handicap, dfrectora to drire. Running race, fhlle. - Tnosday September 22, . Inland Empire Day. Board'of Trade Purse, $400. 2-year-old trotters. . - Chamber of Commerce Purse, 00; 8-year-old.. pacers. . . , . , Trotting, J1000, t:27. class. Special Running race.' 1130; five' eighths mile. - r "Wednesday, September 23, Portland Day. ; Manufacturers' Purse, 1400, S-year- old pacers. . Rose City Purse; $2500, ?:0S pacer Trotting: $1030, 2:30 clue College Maid, 1:09 gruldelesa pacer. mile dash. Special Running, $100, 1 mlle.- Thtirsday, September 24, . .Western. Oregon Day. , ' Pacing;. 11000. :2ft class. Country Club. Purse, H609, treU . ter. ; Columbia Purse, $604. a-year-eld trotters. College Maid, 2:09 g-uldelesa pacer, : mile dash-. Running- race, flve-elgltths mllfk Friday, September 25, Western' Washington Day. , Pacing1, $5 (MT, 1:09 class. Consolation class. i 'Pacing-, $1000, 2:25- claaa. . Specla.1 trot. Running, three-elg-hths mile. Saturday, September 26, Children's Day. -Rapid Transit Purse, $100, 1:05 pacers. Rural- Spirit Purse, 150, trot ters. Trotting-. (500, Consolation, 1:1 ' class. Running race. O A T T? T A "V"C Hrse Auction Thursday O J. JLvJC JiJ I I O Cattle Auction Friday A 1 COLLEGES SECURE BEST OF COACHES Northwest Teams Will Be Un der Crack Football Stars of Country. GREAT SEASON IN SIGHT Proapecta t 'Weuihlngton Brightest In Teare nd Student Bare Blgb Hope of IiBTMUnr; Cham pionshtjj Honors, FOOTBAIX FOB IBM. John Mlddleten. et Idahe. Idabo. Oregon. Kobert W. Ferbea et Tale. -Washing-ton, Ollmoer Doble, of Jflaaesota. O. A. C F. B. Iforcross, Jr, of Vlehle-an, W. s. CL. Walter Kbotaaehnd. of Ulehlgaa. Whitman, X M. Blanehard. of Bowdoln. Optatna. Idaho, Ilgh Savldga. end. Orogoa. F. O. Monllen, guard. Washington. T. a. Tegrmeler, center. O. A. C, Carl Wolff, fullback. W. . C-. Herbert Wexler, guard. Whitman. Walter Brubaker, enar- Idahe, Paul 8. aTtdg. Oregon. Ralph B. lfcEwon. Washington. W. B. Basmusea. O. A. C. H. B. Cooke. W. B. c J. Huston McCfroskey. Whitman. Carl 8. Morton. BT RETEREB. Tomorrow will witness the actual opening- of the college football season n the Northwest. Desultory practice has been going; on for several days at a number of colleges, but the candl dldate for gridiron honors will begin systematic work tomorrow. Coach Nor cross reached Corvallls on Thursday last and Bob Forbes, the big- Tale end, who is to coach Oregon, is due at Eu gene today. Other Northwest coaches are on the ground and will bare their men out tomorrow afternoon. Never in the history of Northwest football baa there-been such an array of coaching talent as is seen here this year. Perhaps the most noted man of all is Forbes, the great All-Amerlcan end who coached West Point last sea son. Forbes has made good both as a player and a coach, and the fact that he ! to coach Oregon means that lovers of the Autumn game In these parts will see some football of the highest order. In spite of the loss of many of her veterans. Oregon seems to have a splendid squad of players in sight and there la little doubt about the ability ef Forbes to- whip them Into shape by mid-season. Whether or not Oregon will win the championship Is another question, for the strength of Oregon's rivals must be taken Into consideration. Five years ago the presence of a man like Forbes at a Northwest Institution was equiv alent to a championship certificate. To day all the colleges have formidable coaches gad the championship question cannot be figured, out on paper. Norcrose la Clever Coach. F. S. Norcross, Jr, the clever Mich igan quarterback, who Is booked to coach O. A. C, ag-aln this year, la coach of more than ordinary ability. He has made good both as a coach and a player and his career during the coming; season wiU lie watched with In terest, whether or not Norcross can hold the position that be established last year remains to be seen. Figuring on the basis of a veteran team, Nor cross appears to have the advantage over his Northwest rivals, especially over Forbes, who begins work at Eu gene with only five veterans. There are some disadvantages about a veteran team, however, and although old play ers are, desirable, too many of them are apt to overbalance a team. The Cor vallls eleven has, however, lost enough of Its veterans to Insure a lively scram ble for the open positions. One disadvantage that the Aggies will suffer lies In the fact that their game with Washington Is the first con test of Importance on their schedule and In the additional fact that It la to bs played in Seattle. The Corvallls players will go north without having- played a single game of ' Importance. while Washington will have played four or five good, stiff games. In spite of these handicaps, O. A. C ought to win. There Is no question about the superiority of O. A. C. over last year's Washing-ton team, especially because of Wolff's ability In the punting de partment. With other elements of strength equal, Wolff's ability should cause Washington's downfall on Oc tober SI. Blight. Prospects at XT. of W. Washington has a first-class coach In the person of Gllmour Doble, a former Minnesota star. Doble learned the rtma under Dr. H. I Williams and the writer believes he will make the best coach that Washington has seen since the days of Jim Knight. Washington always comes to the front with a good bunch of material, but there la no de nying the fact that her teams have been disappointments since the memor able season of 1903. Alumni and stu dents of the Seattle Institution are greatly encouraged over this year's outlook, for they really see the possi bilities of a championship team. Middle ton Football Wizard. John R. Mtddleton, the Idaho coach. needs no Introduction to football cir cles of the Northwest. - His work last year branded him as the most unique gridiron general ever seen in the Northwest. Those forward passes that his man Small pulled off sent the cold chills down Oregon's spine and knocked Pullman's championship aspirations into smithereens. There Is no denying the fact that MIddleton's proteges will prove a formidable factor In the com ing battle tor Northwest honors. Walter M. Rhenschild, the Michigan man who Is to coach Washington State College, has an enviable football record. Hurry Up" Yost cannot say enough nice things about him and other Mid dle West critics are equally enthusias tic over him. He will be confronted by a squad of green men at Pullman, but the situation Is by no means a hope less one. Pullman has a large supply of material and Rhenschild will, no doubt, turn out a team that will be one of the foremost In the championship race. J. M. Blanehard, the Whitman coach. seems to have' drawn out' an unneces sary amount of advance criticism be cause he failed to turn out a cham pionship team last season. Such at tacks are unjust. Fair play demands that he be given a trial with the Mis slonarles before he Is alluded to as a "false alarm" or a "Juicy lime." Whit man's prospects are none too good and It is barely possible for Blanehard to turn out a winning- team. He ought to have a fair chance, however. All In all, the Northwest coaches promise better than any set of pre decessors that they have had. If In dications count for anything, they will show us a high quality of football during- the coming season.- EXODUS OF PUGS ROBS PUBLIC OF $1,500,000 Chicago Geo-RlchQnick Company In Receiver's Hands. CHICAGO, Sept. 19.--A concern In Chicago which has had 20 months of life and which has sold $1,253,000 of preferred stock to people all over the country, at a price to yield Jl,B00,O0J or more, went Into a receiver's hands yesterday. The receiver at once called on the officers of the company to turn over the assets. He got some engraved oertiflcates of stock in "allied and sub sldlary companies" and $119.92 in cash. The receiver will try to find where the other . $1,499,680.08 has gone, for he does not attach value to the cer tificates. The concern which has had this thrilling existence Is the Mercantile Securities Company, second in the chain of the Rhodes Bros, high flnancs corporations. John C Fetzer Is the receiver. He is also receiver for the Central Ufa Securities Company. Following a petition for an account ing, filed by several stockholders, and a number of hearings before Master In Chancery GueTrn, Judge TuthllL In the Circuit Court, yesterday appointed Mr. Fetzer receiver for the Mercantile. The Mercantile Securities Company Is a subsidiary company of the Central Ufe, which was placed In a. receiver's hands In June by Judge Kohlsaat. of the United States Court. It Is a Maine corporation, capitalized at $1,600,000, equally divided Into common and pre' ferred stock. The company was or ganized in January, 1907. the officers being Birch, Thomson and Edward F. Rhodes, Miss Minnie Scully, who fig ures In all the Rhodes corporations, and William L. SherrllL The prospective stock purchasers were told that the company was to be an agency company for the sale of Central Life Securities Company stock and that the proceeds were to be used to establish a great bank in Chicago. Although the preferred stock was issued at a par value of $10, much of It was sold at $12.50, $14 and even higher. Preferred Death to Insanity. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19. While confined In the general hospital In the Presidio. First Lieutenant Felix W. Mot- low, Artillery Corps, yesterday attempted suicide by slashing his throat with a razor. He was discovered by one of the Hospital Corps soldiers and given Immediate attention, but because of his enfeebled condition, his recovery Is said to be doubtful. According to the state ments of brother officers, Motlow has been brooding over the fact that his brother. Second Litutenant W. G. Mot-' low, became mentally unbalanced a year ago and has been confined in St. Eliza beth's asylum, Washington. It Is said the younger brother feared that he was to be overtaken by the same late. Tomorrow (Monday) positively the last day for discount on East Side gas bills. Don't fall to read Gas Tips. FROM CALI01 Ift Fighters Are Leaving for East ern Fields in Hopes of Pick- . ing Up Easy Money.. . : PAPKE GOES TO - CHICAGO Al Kaufman Starts -for New Yorkl Jack Gleason Captures. Fapker Ketchel Match Joe Gans ' ' : .. Seeks New. Fields. 1 : BT HAHRT B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO. CaL. SeDt. 19. rSno- elal.) The . pendulum Is swinging from one extreme to the other. For weeks there have been fights and fighters until you couldn't rest. You have been able to see all the famous ' pugilists of the world gathered together on the Rue de Fillmore, but things are changing and with the approach of the cool season In the East they are commencing to talk about going to New York or Philadelphia or Boston to annex , some of the money tnat is to be made in the six and ten- round game. The exodus of "fighters we nave met" will start next Sunday nutht when the veteran trainer. Billv Del&nev. and his heavyweight charge, Al Kauf man, leave for New York, In company with the middleweight champion, Billy Papke, who will go to his home in Illinois until It is time for him to return to the city to commence training for Stanley ietcnei. Kaufman Has Ambitious. Kaufman having done very well In Los Angeles, where he met and defeated Battling Johnson and Jim . Flynn. the latter an especially hard customer, wants to try the snort round game, after which he will return to California. Al still thinks he is destined to become the heavyweight champion of America and already his manager has' announced his willingness to post $1000 as a side bet that Kaufman can beat Tommy Burns. Papke, who has been in the city over a week and has been doing a sparring ex hibition at one of the local theaters, is anxious to return to Chicago so that he can taste the fruits of victory among- his friends at home. Now that he Is matched with Stanley Ketchel for a return bout of 20 rounds before Jack Gleason's club In this city on Thanksgiving eve, there la nothing to keep him in California. He can go home, have a real good time and return to the Golden West by the 1st of November. The announcement of the rematchins of the men came as a complete surprise and It is generally admitted that Glea son stole a march on the other boys In" the promoting business. Jack went to Los Angeles to see the other fight on Labor Day and no doubt utilized his time to good advantage in getting the boys to gether. Ketcbel-Papke Match. -Ketchel, of course, has everything to win and nothing to lose by a return match, and It must be that Papke. is confident of his ability to beat the Mich igan boy again, else he would not con sent to a return bout, but would pick up a few easy ones while he can still lay claim ' to the mlddlewelR-ht title. It IS generally -admitted that Gleason has se- cured one of the big- cards of the year.' It will not be a boxing match, but a Blambang affair, . with plenty of action and very likely plenty of blood spilled before the- battle- is decided; Joe Gans Goes Eatft- In spite , of all his declarations that he has quit the game for good, it la a sale bet that Joe Gans win be boxing before. many moons. " He has received many flattering offers to embark in the six round game around New York and Phil adelphia, and when he finds the theatri cal business panning out is likely to fall back on -hia standby. .There, was one $4000 offer if he would take part in four six-round ' bouts in .New York, and only the. other night came an offer of $2004 if he would meet Tommy Murphy, Leach Cross or ' Packey McFarland before some club in Gotham. That money will look good to Gans, so don't be surprised when you - read that be Is matched. He took his departure from San Fran-" Cisco last Monday - night, and his leaver taking was not untlnged with sentiment. "The whitest colored man that ever came over the pike," was the- way one writer paid his tribute to Joe Gans, and It Is about right.- - "I want to thank the people for the way they have treated me," he said-' ' I appreciate it all .very much. - Somehow my leaving this ' time seems ' different. Every other time, that I left San Fran cisco I expected- to some back, but this time I guess that It Is good-by for keeps. ' And so passes. Joe Gans out of the pu gilistic history of California. He may be brought back to fight, but It will not be the same Joe Gans that we used to know. Nelson on the Stage. Battling Nelson has been gathering; the coin all week at the Central Theater, where "blood and thunder" melodramas hold forth. He Is doing a boxing act along with a show that Is entitled "The Curse of Drink." He says the title Is quite , appropriate Inasmuch as be is a teetotaler. The Dane's father and bro ther from Chicago- have been his guests all the week, and they have been on hand at one or two suppers that he has given the press. The Nelson family, however, holds out for mineral water, when the rest of the bunch Is going for something stronger. The Dane, being the undisputed cham pion lightweight. Is much, sought after. He is getting dispatches every day. A Philadelphia club made an offer of a $10,000 purse if Kelson would fight Packey McFarland six rounds the first week In October. He has taken the matter under consideration, but is not likely to ac cept. He would undoubtedly be out pointed in that short distance and when he hooks up with Packey, wants it 45 rounds or to a finish. Just now the Battler is drawing $1500 a week as a theatrical proposition, which Is not had, and he can afford to keep the other fellows waiting at least until the first of the' year. The chances are that Nelson will go to Chicago to accept thea trical offers In the Middle West and that he will be back to California to fight around the holidays. Moran to Fight Hanlon. Another match was arranged ths first of the week, when Owen Moran, the English featherweight champion, and Cute Eddie Hanlon, the California light weight, who was thought to have a promising career ahead of him several years ago, signed articles. They will fight 20 rounds before Sam Berger's club, at the Coliseum on Wednesday night. Sep tember 30. The weight is 133 pounds at $ o'clock on the afternoon of the fight, which will give Hanlon an advantage of several pounds In the weight. It ought to be a tough fight and I look for Moran, on account of his youth, to be installed the favorite. - Delaney Is Attell's Manager. Abe Attell, the featherweight champion, has placed himself under the manage ment of Billy Delaney, the veteran trainer, and his career in the future will be mapped out and governed by the Oak land man. Attell visited Delaney In Oak land this week and the mutual plans be tween them were at that time- arranged. When Attell 'made his proposition, De laney at first - demurred, saying he al ready had Al' Kaufman and that his physical condition was such that he did not believe he would be able to handle another man. Attell Insisted, however, and Delaney finally surrendered. Under the new- management, Delaney declares" that Attell will in the future be known, as. a fighter as .well. as. a, boxer. There ;wll) be no more stalling, says the veteran, and what 'Delaney says' he means. First off. Delaney makes the an nouncement that li will- match Attell with Nelson for a $5000 side bet and ha is willing' to- taflk- ever -the details of the bout at any time. . - "If, . Nelaon. Is dissatisfied with his night's work with- Attell a few months ago, I will be delighted to match Attell against- hint to go over the same route," said Delaney. "And as an Inducement, Nelson can have side bet of $5000; . "I had a heart-to-heart talk with Attell and the public can rest assured that as long as Attell fights under- my manage ment; he- will cot out his stalling- and win or lose- bis battles by- the knockout route, -' X used to think that Attell was only a boxer, but the. night I saw him and -Nelson hook. up. he convinced me that with proper handling-, he could fight as well- as box. Yes-, I- know he put up a miserable fight with Moran and I know the reason why. ' "From this time on, Attell Is. going- Into the ring to win and win In a hurry.- There wtU be no- stalling a long, as I am with him and- he will prove himself a fighter as well as a boxer- I am sincere in this offer to Nelson and ha can take it up any time he sees fit." Germs in Mineral Waters. CHICAGO, Sept 19. That, several highly-recommended table- waters from various springs contain more colonies of bacilli than the water that passes through the city's mains; that the companies sell ing these waters are perpetrating a fraud and are to be "put out of business," were some of the startling disclosures made by Dr. Joseph Favil Blehn, director ofr the Chicago City laboratory last night. He spoke In the rooms of the Chicago Drug : Club at the monthly meeting of the Chi- -cage section of the American Chemical Society. He said, that many of the bot- .' tied spring waters were merely hydrant water run through a worse than useless filter. PLAN FOR PHYSICAL WORK Department in Charge of Y. M. C. A. Massmeetlng Today. Physical Director Grllley.. the Leaders' Club and the physical committee of the Y. M. C. A will have charge of this after-. noon's meeting lm the association audi torium. The physical department will make public Its plans for the Winter. Mr.. Grilley will outline what he hopes to ac complish, and there will be representative members- present to present their particu lar Ideas for the season's work. The meeting will begin at 3 o'clock. The speaker of the afternoon will be G-; A Smith, of Vancouver, B. C, who is at' present in the city to. confer with- Mr. Grllley as president of the Physical Di rectors' Society. Mr. Smith became well known last year in the. brief visit he made here with the champion Vancouver basketball team. Milton. Hunyon,. the basso In the White Temple choir, will! sing and the Rose City Quartet will also' give selections under the leadership of A.! K. Marriott. Mr. Marriott has for some: time led the singing at the Y. M. C. A-i meetings. The other members of the' quartet are W. C- Aylesworth, F.. D. Mil ler and C. H. Parrish. New Carrier for Portland. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. John H.1 . Buehler has been appointed letter carrier at Portland. Olympia Beer. -It s the water." Brew ery's own bottling. Fhoneu Main 671 A 2467. ENTIRE ADDITION to be SOLD TODAY COME AND SEE COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION $140,000 has been spent to make the Country Club the finest amusement park in the West. Our addi tion joins it. That investment is for your benefit if you buy a lot in this addition. $140,000 worth of pleasure and a lot on Hill Crest Drive, a parked boulevard overlooking Mount Tabor, Mount Hood, Portland Heights, the City and the Country Club. View lots equal to Portland Heights without a climb. BUILDING RESTRICTIONS ' . CEMENT SIDEWALKS CITY WATER GRADED STREETS LOTS 50x100 FEET $500 AND UP Take Rose City Park Car to Coleman Avenue. VAN W. ANDERSON 215 Lumber Exchange.