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THE STIX DAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1909. 5 FIGHT FANS NOW WAIT OH JOHNSON Jeffries Shows Good Faith by Posting Forfeit and It's the Negro's Move. OTHER GOSSIP OF RING Papke-Ketchel Match Will Prob ably Be xt Event of Import ance in Pngdom Will Surely Be a Hard Contest. BT W. J. .PETRAIN. By posting a forfeit of KOOO to bind his end of a match with Jack Johnson, the colored heavyweight, James J. Jeffries has seemingly thrown the gauntlet into the arena and evidently intends to battle the colored n-.an for the championship of the world. The posting of the forfeit was "not altogether unexpected, though many of the big fellow's admirers hardly believed he would put up his money so soon. In Issuing his defy, Jeff announced that the battle will take place next Winter, or after January 1. and by that time he promises to be fit to give the best ex hibition of his career. He promises to put an end to the aspirations and boasts of the colored chap. Before taking on Johnson. Jeffries will spend several months in Europe, prin cipally at the Carlsbad springs in Ger many. At this place he expects to fit himself for a hard battle and entertains hopes of getting himself into better physical condition than ever before in his career. While Johnson continues to make frequent boasts he has not yet covered Jeffries' money, though he will un- pugilist after the honors. The new as pirant for pugilistic fame Is not "a Spring chicken at the fighting game, for some years ago he was a notable figure In the fistic arena near bis native town. Sacra mento. His name is Eddie Donnelly, and while he has not earned world-wide fame with the padded mlts, for, being a man of more or less means, he has not aspired to the championship until now. At least reports from Seattle have it that Donnelly is desirous of taking up the task of beating Jack Johnson, and in his challenge Issued a few days ago, he does not care whether Jeff and the colored man get together or not. Donnelly has commenced active training and expects to obtain a match with either Al Kauf man. Dr. Roller. Jim Flynn or Philadel phia Jack O'Brien in California during the next month or so. Donnelly, should he get a match with Johnson or any other boxer, will have no trouble In ob taining backing In Portland, providing he needs such, for he has a number of friends and admirers here who remember the good old days around Sacramento when Eddie showed championship cali ber, and their only regret has been that he did not decide to cast his lot in the ring two or three years ago. when Tommy Burns was claiming superiority in everything. If Boxers in Training. CENTRALIA. Wash., July 31. (Special.) Billy Ross, of this city, and Frank Street, of Elma. are working out at the quarters of the Centralia Athletic Club preparatory to their boxtng bout here August 5. Both boys are in splendid condition and each is confident of win ning. No referee has as yet been de cided on. ROLLER HAS HARD JOR MANY DOCBT HIS ABILITY TO WIN BIG BOUT. While Physician Has Beaten Both Berg and Olson, Time Limit Will Hurry Him. Without doubt the greatest wrestling match ever held in the West is in store for the Portland fans next Wednesday BIG WRESTLERS WHO WILL MEET IN PORTLAND. ,- -v - - jKuV H if.; ( J - ill fc.'.V i V 'I ;-'.:- - 1 VJ i V '"" I; -j - . Dr. B. F. Roller, John Berg. doubtedly do so eventually. However, Just at present he is making himself doubly obnoxious by the boastings in which he indulges almost daily. If John son seriously believes he can defeat Jeff. Instead of carousing around in the gay manner depicted in the telegraphic dis patches, he had better get down to training, and hard training at that, for he must be in very good condition to stand even a ghost of a chance against the big boilermaker. Still Johnson is no different from others of his race who have enjoved success In the prize ring, and dissipation and excesses can be ex pected to cause him to go the way of Dixon, Wolcott, Peter Jackson and the others who attained more or less fame as exponents of the boxing game. Billy Papke and Stanley Ketchel in a finish fight seems to be the most likely match to be staged in the immediate fu ture. Jimmy Coffroth. the San Kran cisco promoter, is announced as having signed these two performers for a bout to take place Labor day. The two scrappers have met so often that it now requires an excellent memory to detail off-hand iust how many battles they have fought. In two of their meetings decisions were reached by the knockout route, but as each man has scored one of these, the advantage does not seem to lie very strongly in either- favor. Still Ketchel. for some reason or other. Is alwavs chosen favorite over Papke. This is one of the mysteries of the prizering. and is especially so when the fact that the number of short-enders bringing home the bacon Is so much greater than the number of favorites who have won In recent years. Those who saw the recent scrap be tween the two are almost unanimous In . declaring that it was far from being even a fair sample of a bout. Ketchel has excused himself by resorting to the ulna bone gag made famous by Jeems Edward Brltt. Papke says nothing. The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the fol lowing in the form of an Eastern dis patch, and which is calculated to give food for reflection among the pugilistic fans when questions of fighters and fighters' weights are under discussion: Th riving away of weight forms quite a problem for the fiithteri and tl-.eir man agers to solve. Sometimes a Mttl fellow will bite off more than he can chew. At others he will have the situation pretty well figured out. can donate seven or eight pounds to his adversary, adding the sum faultlessly and give the correct answer, like Wolgast "did with Nelson. An amusing proposition may be worked out along these lines, Firhrer No. 1 will gle a few pounds to Fighter No. 2. The latter will do the same for No. 3: Xo. 3 wl!l keep up the good work and the first thing you know there will be a complete metamorphosis from a tiny VKr-pound ban tarn to a deep-chested heavyweight who kicks up around the 22."-pound mark. A aort of natural growth of development, as It were. For example, if Johnny Coulon were to post a forfeit and Issue a challenge to Jim Jeffries, with Jeff at his best, the white folks of the parish would whisper among themselves and say: "There is an Idle cot over In the booby-hatch that Is fairly yawning for an occupant. Why not send John over?" Still, there is a true "weight line" that connects, this ludicrously matchod pair, and It is as easy to follow as is the wide road that leads to your landlord's door when you g to par him the rent the first of each and every month, some months, when you bar the price. Coulon ran do 110 pounds or better. He fought Kid Murphy. Mur phy fought Al Delmotit; Delmont fought Jimmy Walsh: Walsh fought Aba Attell: Attell fought Owen Moran: Moran fought Ad Wolgaat; Wolgast fought Battling Ni-I-son: Nelson fought Joe Gans: Gans fought Mike (Twini Sullivan: Sullivan fought Honey Mellody: Mellody fought Joe Wnlcott: "U-alrott fourht Dan Creedon: Creedoa fought Bob Fltaslmmons, and Fits fought Jeffries. Ana mere you axe; aope u i'ui for yourself. Seattle, while bidding for fame with both Exposition and the number of , wrestling bouts pulled off recently, also night in Exposition Rink, when Dr. B. F. Roller, the famous physician-wrestler, will attempt to throw Charlie Olson, light heavyweight champion of the world, and John Berg, the local favorite, In 75 min utes. Roller has a big Job cut out for him, for it Is all he can do to throw either one of the men In an hour, as past records show. Roller is declared to be faster right now than he ever was before. He has en tirely recovered his strength following the ptomaine poisoning that be suffered in the East. He is weighing more than he ever did before, and the campaign among the big guns of the mat in the East last Winter gave him a wide knowl edge of the game. While there is" no denying that Roller can throw either .of the men in a straight match, the bout" Wednesday night is a very different proposition. In other matches Roller had no time limit in which to flop his opponent, and he set about to wear them down by his superior strength and greater weight. In the coming whirl, there Is a time limit of 75 minutes, and the big medico will have to hustle. Both Berg and Olson like the going when it is fastest, and as that Is Rol ler's style all the way through, the fans are bound to see some furious milling. While Olson has never wrestled a match here, enough was seen of his exhibition bout at the last Berg-Youstff match to show that he is about the speediest proposition that ever appeared in this neck of the woods. Local fans know what Berg can do. Berg is now up at Collins hot springs taking the baths. Berg is-a great fellow to seek the rest of a mountain mineral spring w hen training, as he claims it puts him in much better condition tot his matches. He wrenched his ankle l his last match, and what little soreness there remains in it he is anxious to work out in the hot water. Olson Is still on the Sound, but the slender wonder will probably be here to day or tomorrow for workouts prior to going on the mat. In view of Roller's popularity and the general merit of the bill, extra arrange ments are being made to care for the big crowd that will probably turn out. Whitney Horses "Also Ran." ALEXANDRA PARK. England. July 31. The Juvenile selling plate of 100 sovereigns for two-year-olds, distance five furlongs, was won today by Irish Vote. H. P. Whitney's Tyrconnel wa among the starters. The Municipal Handicap of 200 sov ereigns, for three-year-olds and up, five furlongs, was won by Wind Flower. H. P. Whitney's Sea Cliff started. The Maiden two-year-old plate, 100 sovereigns, distance five furlongs, was won by Amadeus. H. P. Whitney's Lic teral started. Wagner Breaks Down at Bat. PITTSBURG, Pa.. July 31. After swinging at a wide ball in the fourth inning of the game with New York yesterday. Hans Wagner suddenly dropped the bat, put his hand over his heart and went to the beach in great pain. His doctor said that he had sim ply injured the muscles of his left side in trying to slide home last Wednesday. Vanderbilt Horse First. PARIS. July 31. The Prix Henneque ville today was won by W K. Vander bllfs Liban. H. B. Duryea's Rose No ble ran unplaced In the Prix Reine Ma-thilde. romises to send another heavyweight Tulare Wants Big Fight. . VISALIA, Cal., July 31. The latest offer for a match between James J. Divide, with the buyer the saving we effect by our superior methods of manufacturing and distributing." Studebaker Policy 55 years old. Four Cylinders 20 Horse Power 100-inch Wheel Base 32-inch Wheels All Metal Body Seats Two or Four Magneto Included Of Course Studebaker - Flanders "20 "-$750. The Greatest Automobile Value the World Has Ever Seen. HERE'S THE ANNOUNCEMENT for which the world of Auto- mobilia has been waiting so anxiously hoping or dreading according a? the individual was a buyer or seller of motor cars. WE HAD INTENDED KEEPING SILENT about this car for a few weeks yet until other makers had had their say until they had all sprung their "sensations." BUT THE MAGNITUDE OF OUR PREPARATIONS -the purchase of several factories by Studebaker interests as represented by the E-M-F Company of Detroit set trade tongues a wagging and informa tion as to the car that was to be produced on such a tremendous scale began to leak out. DEALERS, ANXIOUS TO GET THE WINNING LINE, began to inquire as to the Studebaker plans for next year. They were insistent for, very naturally, they did not want to tie up with any other concern if Studebakers were to have the great line that had been reported. No man likes to enlist on the losing side. All like to march with the Victorious. i CUSTOMERS EVERYWHERE WROTE in this vein: "If Studebakers are going to build a runabout I don't want to buy until I have seen it." 1 housands of these writers have dealt with this old house for years some of them never bought a vehicle anywhere else. To them ti, tLtiiHoViaUpr name iustlv adds to the intrinsic value of any car. VIEW OF -THIS ANXIETY on the part of our friends we de cided it would be unjust to dealers and prospective buyers to longer with- , . i r . - u.v ,,.u:.u .,-itl cnnnlpmAnt thro rtther turn i n- noia lniormauon as 10 nu 1 " ""kk"-"" - comparable models, Studebaker-Garford 40 and Studebaker h-M-fr 30. IN cr THn rAT IC OI TT ' RqH th. nertfi-atirn? bneflv piven below. Consider the source of this car's origin. Then compare it with other "Sensations" recently announced and see if you don't think they were false alarms. STUDEBAKER-FLANDERS "20" is the name of the new car; and the title was selected because it was believed that that alone would be the strongest guarantee of its quality to any one at all familiar with the history and the personnel of the automobile industry. STUDEBAKERS STAND SPONSOR for the product the en tire output will be marketed through this organization. That is your guarantee that the car will be of sterling quality throughout Stude bakers could not afford to lend their name and a reputation based on 55 years of upright dealing to any but an honest product. FLANDERS WILL MANUFACTURE this product. What could we say here that would add to his fame as a manufacturer? His has been the most wonderful record in this wonderful business. It has been a suc cession of triumphs a repetition from year to year of feats in production that had theretofore been considered impossible that other makers now call marvellous. E-M-F "30," which attained such an instantaneous success and now stands the most popular car on the market, was sufficient to establish Flanders for all time. JAMES HEASLETT DESIGNED the Studebaker-Flanders "20" an engineer who up to the time he undertook this com mission had never set his hand nor his talent to the designing of any but high priced cars. Several of the best known emanated from his brain. He designed the original Studebaker chassis the one from which have evolved all later models. Heaslett doesn't know how to do cheap work in the sense that the term is generally used. He simplifies and he knows how to design parts to manufacture to the best advantage there he is unsurpassed by any. 25 000 S-F "20V WILL BE BUILT IN 1910. We realize ' that these figures will be almost incredible to persons unfamiliar with the resources of Studebakers and the ability of Flanders. It is a simple statement of fact. That the old "ultra conservative" house of Stude bakers and not some young and inexperienced concern stands back of the statement ought to give it a par value. We know it will. THIS QUANTITY WAS NECESSARY. It would be impossible to produce a car of this size and quality at the pnee if made in smaller quantities. The tremendous "overhead" expense of equipment and dis tribution would, if saddled onto a lesser number of cars, make it necessary to add 25 to 50 per cent, to the price. We cannot build a much better car than others do for the money in lots of 3,000 to 5,000. But by dis tributing the overhead over 25,000 cars we have been able t set the price " at -j,o. COMPARE THIS CAR WITH OTHERS listed at ? 100 to f3oo more Add a magneto to those not so equipped we believe no automo bile is complete without a first class magneto and you will find that, , aside from the difference in price, there is no comparison in value. We didn't intend there should be. THIS IS A FULL GROWN, MAN'S SIZE, magneto equipped, four cylinder car not a four cylinder toy or a one-lung makeshift. WE HAVE HAD IT IN MIND SEVERAL YEARS under way several months dimply waited until plans could be matured for its proper manufacture and distribution. No concern would dare at tempt a task so large as this until proper machinery not only for making but for marketing the product had been perfected and installed. That time has arrived. THE DEMAND IS ALREADY THERE this we know. It only remained to perfect an organization to properly take care of it and to extend to buyers that uniform courtesy and prompt attention that have made Studebakers famous and prosperous. Did you ever notice that a Studebaker representative, wherever you find him, breathes the spirit of the whole organization is a sort of beacon of safety to all Stude baker patrons? Well, it's a fact. It's the way we stand back of them treat them as we want their customers treated. They soon get the spirit STUDEBAKER AUTOMOBILE South Bend, Ind. THE BEST BRAINS IN THE INDUSTRY are engaged in the production of the Studebaker-Flanders "20." Plants best suited to its manufacture have been purchased for if we would avoid all chance of delays and disappointments to buyers we must depend on no outside concern to furnish the smallest part. Every part must be made in our own factories and under the watchful eye of Flanders. TO MAKE THE LOW PRICE POSSIBLE it was necessary also that there enter in no intermediate parts profit. No concern making an assembled car can hope to compete with this car in quality at the price. It was the purchase of several plants among them the splendidly equipped De Luxe factory at Detroit, a forging plant, a body making plant,and others that started the rumors and made it necessary to announce our plans a few weeks earlier than intended. It suits us all right but OUT OF CONSIDERATION FOR COMPETITORS we intended to keep silent yet a while. Deliveries will not begin until January. Besides, we realized that the announcement of such a car at such a price, and by Studebakers, is likely to have the effect of an explosive bomb on the market at this time. We had no desire to precipitate anything, but our hand was forced. "THIS CAR WILL BE THE SCREAM OF 1910," said the first dealer who was let into the secret, and if dealers can't pick winners who can? . v IT WILL BE A REPETITION OF E-M-F "30" HISTORY. the greatest sensation the greatest success from every standpoint ever sprung in this industry up to yet. OF COURSE IT WILL BE DAMNED by rivals. But damning doesn't hurt. No car ever was damned as was the E-M-F "30," now known as Studebaker E-M-F "30." They said we would never be able to make them at the price we did. Then they said deliveries would be delayed shipping 45 a day now 4,500 in hands of owners. Damning doesn't hurt, for they never damn dead ones. STUDEBAKERS ARE THE WORLD'S LARGEST makers of motor cars many times over. Yet we cannot hope to supply the whole demand. And as cars sold under the Studebaker name are always first choice, persons who are unable to get them and must buy some other are very naturally disappointed and often sore. THERE IS CERTAIN TO BE A SHORTAGE of every Studebaker model in 1910. We know that now, but are powerless to avert it. Under the Studebaker name 41,600 cars, gasolene alone, will be made in 1910. That sounds big, but this is a big country and the name stands nigh over every mile of it. ONLY 1,000 STUDEBAKER-GARFORDS America s standard high priced car have been planned for. Of the latest model, not yet publicly announced, nearly 200 are already under order. For several weeks we have been aware that there will be a big shortage of this model, but it is too late to change the plans now. The only thing for you, if you want a car of that type seven passenger, $4,000, with standard body is to get your order in now have a definite delivery date set. "DIVIDE WITH THE BUYER the saving we effect by our superior method of manufacture and selling." That is the keynote to all Studebaker operations the explanation of our policy of small profits per unit on quantities of cars. No other manufacturer is satisfied with so small a margin. Most of them do not know, within several dollars, what it costs to make an automobile and they set a wide margin to cover. YOU HAVE BEEN PAYING FOR WASTEFUL METHODS ever since the inception of this young industry. We have corrected that. This is an industry now not a game. STUDEBAKERS,.WITH ALL THEIR RESOURCES, financial and otherwise, would have hesitated to launch a project as big as Stude-baker-Flanders "20" under the conditions which until within a few months have prevailed in the automobile industry or rather Game. The basis on which the business has been conducted was foolish, fictitious and false. It was fair neither to maker nor buyer most unfair to the dealer. He was always chasing rainbows. Tieing up with one wild-cat concern after another, he never handled the same line two years in suc-cession-never knew where, a' year afterward, to find any or.-; to stand back of the so-called "guarantee he had given with the car. HOW DIFFERENT NOW, when you can buy any type of car your needs dictate or your purse can afford and have behind it the war ranty and the name of a concern like Studebakers fifty-five years old. This latest creation Studebaker-Flanders "20" completes the line. Here are brief specifications. Read them carefully; then if you desire further information about this or any other Studebaker model write your nearest branch. Whatever you do, get your order in or don't berate us because you can't get a car for next spring's use, when you will want it badly. MOTOR 4 cylinder, cast en bloc; rlves all on one side, extr large; ao horse power at normal engine speed. CARBURETOR Float feed, similar to the successful E-M-F "30". carburetor. COOLING Water; centrifugal pump, similar to E-M-F. RADIATOR Studebaker-Garford type; handsome as it is efficient. MAGNETO Standard equipment, not an extra. Splitdorf ; similar to E-M-F, 4500 in ust to-day and not a complaint. TRANSMISSION Selective sliding gear; compare with noisy, power consuming planetary gears on other cars at f 1,000 and less. REAR AXLE Drawn steel ; transmission incorporated in same, similar to E-M-F; fingle universal joint, enclosed, oil and dust proof. WHEEL BASE 100 inches mark that. WHEELS Artillery type, 33 inch diameter; large wheels and long base guarantee easy riding over roughest roads or pavements. Compare with dinky cars that go bobbing over inequalities like lame jack rabbits. FRAME Pressed steel. BODY Pressed steel, made in two types; two passenger runabout, with large deck fof trunk or packages; add two seats and have a natty Suburban. CO. mCW TORE CITT. CHICAGO. H.L. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. KANSAS CITT. MO BOSTON. MASS. BRANCHES PHILADELPHIA, PA SAVANNAH. GA. LOS ANGELES. CAL. PORTLAND, ORE. SALT LAKE CITT. UTAH. DENVER. COL. CLEVELAND. OHIO. DALLAS. TE X. INDIANAPOLIS. IND. SEATTLE. WASH. Jeffries and Jack Johnson was made today by the directors of the Tulaxe County Agricultural Association, who claim the backing- of 5i' local business men willing to subscribe a purse of JSO.000 for the fight if it can be held on September 16, during the annual fair of the association. The directors assert that the money will be depos ited In any bank designated as soon as the pugilists agree upon terms. One of the attractions of the coming fair, which has heretofore been marked by racing:, U an engagement wherein John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilraln wlU ap pear. Power Sites ' Withdrawn. .WASHINGTON, July 31. To frus trate the attempt on the part of the combinations to secure control of the waterpower sites of the country and to carry out the policy of the Administra tion for the conservation of the Na tion's natural resources, approximately 43,000 acres of land for waterpower sites were, temporarily withdrawn in Colorado, Montana and Utah, by Act ing Secretary of the Interior Pierce today. The port of Roaario. Argentina, has a train elevator capable of loading 1000 tons in hour. Its cost was 1 1.000, 0u i
