THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND, APRIL 10, 1910. CAMERAS GET JEFF FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JEFFRIES' TRAINING CAMP. JEFFRIES' GROUCH' TURNS TO SMILES eral public has ever been invited to at tend the annual exhibition. The Dig hit of the evening will be. the 'Dutch Kiddies." Bert Allen says wooden shoes will not cure. corns. There is talk of putting In a squash court between the handball court and the main building. A number of boxers and wrestlers will be entered by the club in the Armory meet January IS. Considerable interest Is betng taken by club members in the bowling contsis which are held every week with the Cath olic Young Men's Club. There are six more games to play. Eddie Sammons Is one of the promis ing candidates for this year's base-ball team. Eddie is a husky youth and goes In for everything. Superintendent Walker says he finds it hard to keep busy. Thompson complains similarly, The young man who overshadows all others when it comes to gracefulness in the fencing drill, which will be staged in. the annual exhibition, is Edgar Frank. It is hoped that more interest will twv taken by th members in the baseball team this year and that they will turn out for the big games. IN VARIED POSES Big Fighter Doesn't Like to Big Fighter Gets Over First Hurdle Toward Con dition. Face Lens, but Can't Avoid Publicity. SUMMER HOME IS IDEAL MUSCLE SORENESS " GONE Pugilist Says He Does Xot TTnderes ; timate Ability of Colored Man, hut Will Be In Shape by July 4 and Is Going In to Win. BT HARRT 7t. SMITH. JEFFRIES TRAINING CAMP, Ro wardennan. Cal., April 9. (Special) The settling down in his new training at Rowardennan, in the Santa. Cruz Mountains by James J. Jeffries and the first of his actual training for his com ing fight with Jack Johnson, has, nat urally enough, been the chief news of the week in sporting circles in this part of The country. To tell the truth, Jeffries did little actual work the first few days, but the eyes of the world have been upon him and practicably everything that he has undertaken has been commented upon by the newspaper writers who have been detailed to be witii him. No de tail of Ms life has been too small to hang a story upon, and he has been fol lowed as closely as any royal person age. Jeffries had trout for luncheon the first day that he arrived, and every paper in the country chronicled the tact. He cut down a small tree for ex ercise, and it was the basis of a good story. Jeffries, his wife and two nephews, Russell Klssler and Tod Boyer, arrived in San Francisco last Monday, and as the fighter was anxious to be settled at once, plans were made to go to Rowar dennan the next day. The party in cluded other than those who have been mentioned. Manager Sam Berger, Farm er Burns, the wrestler; Tick Adams, a life-long friend of Jeffries; Bob Arm strong and a big crowd of newspaper men. Kodaks Chase Pugilist. In fact, the newspaper men made up the life of the first afternoon and had t not been for the antics of the pho tographers I am afraid there would have been little to write about. Each of the San Francisco morning papers and one of the afternoon dallies had a special writer on the scene, and each was accompanied by a photographer. In addition, two New York news asso ciations had photographers here ready to greet the party and rush their illus trations Kast, And the way those photographers chased Jeffries around during the af ternoon was a caution. They took him in every conceivable position and pos ture. They showed him getting off the train and assisting his wife down the steps; they took him when he arrived at t lie hotel ; as he stood on the steps of the cottage that is to be his home for the next three months; Inspecting the lake where he will do his rowing and playing baseball.. They wanted to take pictures of him stripped for ac tion, but the big fellow declared that he was tired and that the newspaper photographers would have to wait. Jerfrles Doesn't Uke It. Jeffries has never been an easy sub ject for photographers, as he doesn't like that sort of thing, and bis friends remarked upon the good nature that he displayed with so many men pes tering him for various poses. Unquestionably the programme for the first day was somewhat colorless, but just the' same what Jeffries under took he did with a vengeance. lie a little boxing the latter part of the the afternoon, and he kept at Jt until he was perspiring freely. Jeffries did b little boxing the later part of the neck, but it was to a large extent for tlie newspapermen, and it will be after tlio first of the week before he is Sown to what you might call good hard work. There la no question, however, but Mint he Is going in for a hard siege of training, lie evidently realizes that he has a hard task ahead of him, and he is not going to underestimate the ability of the colored man. I had a short talk with him, and tlits is part of what he said: "I have given out no statement that Johnson will be easy for me. lie .may So easy and he may be tough. But I will be in good shape for him. I have been training for a year practi cally, looking ahead to this fight, and T don't think, but I know that I will beat him. In spite of the work that I have done. I am going to work hard for the Summer. T like my quarters and I like my work. You can just say t hat I will be f !t when I step into the ring on the Fourth of July." Summer Homo Is Ideal. And ngw, perhaps, you will like to know just r little about the place that Jeffries will call home for the Sum mer months. 1 to warden nan is a hotel property, comprising 50 acres. It has an office building and then come the cottages scattered all around the grounds. Hotel Rowardennan is near the railroad station of Ben Lomond snd within eight miles from Santa Crua and just three hours travel from San Francisco. It has an elevation of I.1 fet, and the climate is ideal for a o3 feet, and the climate is ideal for a The Jeffries party has a large cot tage, with four big rooms, and during the season will be provided with a pri vate dining-room. The place that was formerly used as the dancehnU for the guests ha s been converted into a gym nasium, where will be found the ap paratus, the punching bag and also the ring that will he used for sparring. There is close at hand a large handball court. The Snn Lorenzo River is close at hand, and will afford facilities for swimming and rowing. Of course there is mountain climbing in abundance and at this time of year excellent trout fishing. An Is:iak Walton of the coun try, who knows every trout hole, has promised t.f help Jeffries catch some M hoppers. There are accommodations at Rowar dennan for something like 250 guests, and it is no secret that the hotel man agement expects to have a lot of guests all the time. It will be a popular place for automobile parties and the like from the city. Johitaun Due iu April. So far as can be learned. Jack John son will be in San Francisco about the 2uth of the month, and will settle down at the Seal Rock House at the beach. That will be handy for the newspapermen and will attract a world of sports. Last week, Sam Fitzpatrick, former manager for Johnson, was responsible for a statement in which he said that if Jeffries could get Into condition he would have no trouble beating the ne- i gro. He explained as his reason for I Xh - -- -M ' -jjj- H'jP ITlTllim III l'-" ".F .... -1 mm such an argument th&t Johnson could not hit. Johnson had a come-back the following day and said that the reason Fitzpatrick made such a statement was because he was sore. Of course there might have been some truth in that. and consequently the Fitzpatrick state ment carries less weight than it other wise would. The advance sale of seats opened this week in San Fra ncisco. Accord ing to the announcement that has been ssued, only seats ranging from ?15 to 50 will be sold at the present time. Purchasers will be given certificates which will carrv. the guarantee of a San Francisco bank that their money will be refunded in case the fight does not take place. The lower-priced seats, those selling for $5 and $10, will not be placed on sale before June 1. It is believed that the Easterners who expect to see the fight w'll be ready to pay the larger sums, while Californians will look for the lower-priced chairs at the arena. Advance Sale Is Heavy. Tom Williams has decided to run the races right up to the 1st of July, but it Is not expected that this will inter fere with the construction of the arena. Inasmuch as the light is to take place within the inside enclosure, the stands can be put up without interfering with the actual racing. Just at present writing. both Tex Rickard and Jack Gleason are out of San Francisco, but they are xpected back shortly. Rickard has been called to Fly, Nev., on business, but Gleason is expected back from the Kast almost any day. In the meantime, Dick Wat son, an old friend or Kickard s. is look ing after his business interests as re gards the fight. Reports are to the effect that the ad vance reservations are unusually heavy, so that there is every indication for a bumper crowd on the day of the Fourth. .lerf to 1K Mueli Boxing. Sam Berger gave out a mighty logi cal statement one afternoon this week In regard to Jeffries' training. 'When Jeffries starts boxing,' said i?am, "there will be no let up. He will box every day. The only element against man who has been out of training Is the lack of judgment, distance and time in boxing. What he needs is box lug and he will have a lot of it from now until about the middle of June. Jeffries has this in his mind, and he wants to box and keep at it. If we can get Joe Choynski, we will have him and perhaps also Jack Burns. . Jeffries a rough man in his boxing, and he needs other help than Bob Armstrong." STANFORD CHEWS WIN TWICE Berkeley Loses Both Freshman a.nd Varsity Scull Events. OAKLAND, Cal.. April 9. Stanford University won both the freshman and varsity races in the eighth annual re gatta held with the University of Cali fornia on the Oakland Estuary today. The Stanford crews in both races led from the start, showing better form than the California oarsmen, and In the two-mile varsity race for eight oared shells the Cardinals led all the way, finishing three lengths ahead in nine minutes flat. The Stanford fresh men won the one-mile four-oared race by four lengths. The official time in the Tatter race was not taken. SEATTLE. Wash.. April 9. Through Stanford's victory over the University of California in rowing today-, the race between the University of Washington eight and the Stanford crew on Lake Washirfgton. May -5, is now assured. Stanford agreed to come to Seattle if it defeated California in today's big race. Cheese rose from cents a pnnd in 1 S.M to 11 cents a pound In lUOS. and potatoes from to 70 cents a bushel during the same period. I, - ' - - I ' " ' - " ! V - w B NDDQR MEET NEXT Columbia University Stadium Rendezvous. FASTV MEN NOW ENTERED Athletic Tournament on Saturday Promises to Be Attractive Feat ure in Sporting Fraternity. Entries Are Heary. With the interscholastic cross-country run out of the way and all the try outs for the various school and college track teams completed, there Is nothing: left to claim the attention of local track men but the big Indoor meet in the Columbia University stadium next Saturday after noon This meet Is the most important early PRACTICE GAME INDICATES , ' ' a a p r. : i -. a, sJ4 Af r fix fi 0. M (4 n i tkS- f?f vrs r -e ! AlAyi : - ft. - j: - A7 .O p i , "Xl 1 ' '"$t :: I , , - . . . - ? ?s- i , , . , i ;; PLAYEHS ASD OFFICKRS'lJi ALBANY BASEBAM, TKAM. ALBAXT, Or., April 9.- (Special.) The Albany team of the Willamette Valley League lined up for the first time last Sunday afternoon in a practice game with a team of the Albany Twilight League and though the team played without practice it did good work. From present Indications Albany will have a strong team. The players and officers in the photo .taken at the grounds just before the initial game, are as fol lows (reading from left to right): Standing, William Eagles, Manager H. J. Kavanaugh and Harry T. Shea, of the board of directors of the club; Wicks, pitcher; George Dooley, outfield; Bllyeu. center field; Eugene Dooley, first base and outfield; Salisbury, pitcher and captain. Seated Bauer, first base and outfield; Swan, second base; Sutherland, third base; Driver, outfield; Shorey, shortstop; Chapin, catcher, and Scott, the .Sellwood pitcher in the Tri-City League, who was in Albany and worked out with the local players last Sunday. John Wesely, of Scio, who will play an infield position, and one or two other prospective players on the local team were not present Sunday. 'T V- i -.v X - v. f- Spring contest in the state and brings into competition all of the big college and school teams. The event has been growing In importance for several years and the indications . are that this year's meet will be the largest ever held. The entry lists were nearly all in last night, and will be published tomorrow. An unexpectedly large number of en triee have been turned in for the two mile course. Strong Men En tered . The two strongest distance men entered thus far are George Burns, winner of last year's mile event, and Chester Hug gins, of Hood River, winner of the mile run at Corvallis last Spring. Burns is considered one of the strongest distance men in the state, but he will have a. strong competitor in the Hood River lad. Both the University of Oregon and O. A. C. will enter strong teams as usual. The "Aggies" expect to show up par ticularly strong this year. All of the local prep schools ere enter ing teams as well es the Multnomah Club, the Y. M. C. A. and. the Catholic Young Men's Club. The officials for the meet will be- com posed mostly of members of the Mult nomah Club. The M. A. A. C. men who will officiate are. Frank LfOnergan, clerk of the course: Frank Wat kins, referee; Bert Allen. Ed Morris, Fdgar Frank, George McMillan, Harry Fischer, Morris Dunne, George Gammle, Oscar Kerrigaji, Fred Martin. William Fechheimer and Martin Pratt. The Y. M. C. A. team, as it was an nounced yesterday. Is as follows: THAT ALBANY WILL HAVE GOOD - - rf r 1 . - if ' " -I -' E J's . 1 " - ' I ' I 830-yard run Keys. Poison and Gross. Mile Poison, Hartman and Sweeney. Two-mile run Hartman. 19 hot-put Gardner. Broad Jump Robinson, Jordan and WitBell. Pole vault Millard, Robinson, Sheet Sheets and Jordan. High jump Millard and Sheets. 220-yard dash Devilbliss. 50-yard dash Sheets and Witzell. Relay team Sheets, Jordan, Iivilblis and Witzell. One of the features of the meet will be the relay race for the interscholastic teams. It is announced that the track will be In the best possible condition and that nothing will stand in the way of records being broken if the right kind of athletes show up. Brooklyn and Chicago Trade. NEW YORK April 9. Announcement was made today of a trade by the Brooklyn) Club to Chicago of Mclntyre for Tony Smith, Harry Smith and Dav idson. Brooklyn is also to have first call on any players the Chicago Club desires to sell for cash during the 1910 season. Bantamweight Title Vp April 30. LOS ANGELES, April 9. Promoter Tom McCarey has selected the after noon of April 30 as the date for the Frankie Conley-Danny Webster fight in the Vernon arena. It is scheduled to go 45 rounds for the bantamweight ti tle. TEAM IN VALLEY LEAGUE I ! Training Camp Chirks T7p AVlth TMs- pelUng of Hark Clond White Champion Works Like Harvest Hand; la Hard to Restrain. BEX IjOMOXT, Cal.. April 9. Jim Jef fries joined the sunshine society today after several days of gloom which had led his trainers to fear that he would not readily get back Into til a old-time form. Todays change of mood brought decided reassurance to the colony- of trainers and attendants and the big fel low smiled blandly as he faced the omni present battery of cameras, as though he aaw & dark cloud suddenly dissipated. Jeffries le working at his training routine like & hired man In harvest time. but today he found a faw moments to cbat pleasantly with visitors and chaffed his trainers. His trainers were delighted with the change for the better. First Days Were Tough. "It simply means," hio chief traitier said, "that Jeffries1 has gotten over the first hurdle toward good condition. When an athlete has been out of the game as long as Jeffries, the first few days of work are pretty tough on him. iNatural- ly he becomes stiff and sore and when all the rubbing In the world cannot effect a cure, a fellow Is quite likely to nurse a bit of a grouch. Now, however, it is quite plain to me that Jim has worked all the soreuess out of his system. He will be in the best of spirits from now on." Despite his havim? been cautioned. Jef fries put in the hardest day of the first week's schedule today- Early in the morning he started on a ten-mile road tripi, returning to the camp by a dif ficult mountain trail. His penchant for baseball seems stronger than ever and he was unable to finish his daily prac tice without an additional half hour. Al though perspiring freely he followed with a five-round bout with a hastily Im provised punching bag hung from temporary platform. The one-sided bag swung through a parabola like Halley's comet, and kept Jeffries lunging much of the time at empty air, but he seems to enjoy the game, although he did not succeed In making the bag take the count. The afternoon's work consisted of rope-skipping, shadow-boxing exerclse. with light dumb-bells, three fast games of handball, and tugging and hauling four rounds with Burns and Armstrong. Jeffries will do his first boxing Monday. Two sets of especially-made gloves reached here today. TEX RICKARD GROWS XERVOIS McKeon Ordered to Tow Johnson to Training Camp. NEW TORK, April 9. The course of big things pugilistic took its way rap idly westward with Jack Gleason, one of the Jeffries-Johnson fight man agers, en route to San Francisco, and John McKeon, who has been repre senting the Gleason-Hickard interests here, on his way to Chicago. McKeon will stay in Chicago until next Friday, and, the fight enthusi asts say, will not make his way far ther west except In Jack Johnson's company. Uneasiness on Tex Rickard's part re garding Johnson's plana is responsi ble for McKeon'e trip to the Far West with Johnson in tow. The New York agent has been instructed not to leave Chicago for the Coast without being sure that Johnson is on the same train. Gleason before leaving expressed himself as confident on this point. There is no occasion for worry over Johnson," assured Gleason. "Rickard has only conducted one big- fight, the Gans-Nelson battle at Goldfleld, and he may be a trifle 'restless. Johnson has assured me that he will begin training near San Francisco May 1, and I believe him." ' Gossip Turned Loose at the M. A. A. C. SAM HOLBROOK has announced that he will take part in all the Multno mah Club's social functions hereafter. The big doings at the club just now are the preparations for the annual exhibition of the club at the Armory on April 21. Rehearsals are held in the club gymna sium every night. Ralph Knight, a professional clown, will be one of the features of the exhi bition. Cass Campbell is working hard with his baseball team and expects to .turn out a winning aggregation. Taft Warriner and M. B. James, two of Multnomah's prominent members, recent ly married, are expected back shortly from California, where they are honey mooning. That Multnomah's Spring carnival will be a success is the prediction made by the chair-warmers. Some have request ed that the , lounging chairs be moved to the gymnasium on rehearsal nights. Park Meyers, who has just won the novice handball tournament, is a comer. He gain permanent possession of the beautiful E. E- Merges trophy. E. E. Merges, one of Multnomah's most enthusiastic supporters, has given three handsome silver trophy cups for novice events. This method of boosting is a first-class method of developing athletes. Mr. Merges is one of the club's greatest boosters. Tennis enthusiasts crowd the four courts every afternoon when the weather Is good. When the two new asphalt courts are completed there will be con siderable rejoicing among the tennis fans. T. Morris Dunne, secretary and treas urer of the P. N". A., is the busiest man around the club. P. N. A. business has made it necessary for him to resign hts chairmanship of the Pinochle Club. Superintendent Walker reports the Arm ory will not be adequate to accommodate all the crowds at the women's exhibitions. Borne are requesting two performances already. This Is the first time the gen Petraln's Talks on Current Sporting' Topics JAMES J. JEFFRIES has lived up to &U the promises he has made thu far. The toifr white fighter an nounced "when he accepted the defi oC the Galveston black that he -would re turn to the ring and defend the su premacy of the white race, and fol lowed that announcement with the as sertion that he would commence actlvo training about April 1. For the past several days he has been installed at his training quarters at Rowardennan, a pretty place in the hills, about 12 miles from Santa Cruz. CaL The nearby hills afford the hi)? fellow all the opportunities of moun tain climbing and hunting, which ex ercises are his especial delight. In ad dition, there is th,e San Lorenzo Rlyer. a mountain stream, which is sufficient ly placid to afford the exercise of rowing, which is another branch of physical exercise most beneficial in. the matter of conditioning an athlete, who has become stale or overweight through Inactivity. If Jeffs surround ings can help him any, he Is best equipped to get into shape of any fighter the latter days of pugilism hav known. Rowardennan offers more ad vantages than any other place In Cali fornia that could possibly have been selected. . During the coming Summer thera will be more activity shown In aquatic sports in Portland and vicinity than ever before In the history of this city so splendidly situated for the fostering of this advantageous and practically necessary means of athletic diversion In all its branches. Aquatics include boating, yachting, rowing and, best of all. swimming, and with the Willam ette and Columbia Rivers adjacent to the city. It is surprising that all these sports have not enjoyed more favor in the past. During the coming Sum mer the athletic organizations of this city promise to foster these sports on a much larger scale than has ever be fore been attempted. Their expressed determination means that the art of swimming, an exercise which should be learned by every man, woman and child, will be made one of the most popular sports. Portland's baseball prospects for tli coming season loom up brighter each day, for McCredie's balltossers are play ing in gilt-edge fashion, and with any kind of even break in the luck of baseball the Beavers should be a factor in the race all the way. Earlv-season prediction oftentimes Is shattered later in the year, but the Portland club comprises enough ambitious youngsters to warrant the expectancy of good things from them throughout the struggle. In selecting his club. Mana ger McCredie has used fine Judgment, for he now can lay claim to as gentle manly a lot of players as are found ?n "d1Etne tea.m the Iee, and in addition each man Is a player of merit and capable of greater thing, Ai7 The, Port,an1 team shouTd find favor with the fans, and that fUs'edas'on?n " ellt ... fwit. Wr6 treated a K-nod card of exhibition boxing matches staged bv the Oregon Athletic Club. Such cards wilt add to the popularity of the port. and the Judgment used by the promoters in conducting the bouts cannot but help in crease the popular favor now being shown the boxing game. No objections could i possibly be offered to Tuesday's show. Keep up the same standard and there will b-3 no interference or objection to the boxing matches. . . . The success enjoyed by the professional matches lends added interest to the ama teur boxing performances, which brings to mind the fact that the Armory Ama teur Athletic Association, a National Guard' organization, intends to present an amateur show Tuesday night next.' This show Is worthy of the patronage of the sport-loving public, for some of the cleverest exponents of the boxing art among the young men of Portland I will be introduced that night. ... J. Cal Bwing says that Seattle will j never be admitted Into the Pacific Coast League as long as Dugdale has anything to do with the game at the Elliott Bay -burg. As J. Cal is something of a factor in Pacific Coast baseball circles, Seattle may do well to observe hts assertion. ... The total attendance at San Francisco opening day was 7200, including passes. Last season Portland turned out l7H0 paid admissions. Will somebody kindly inform us whether San Francisco Is the best baseball town on the coat? PLAY BALL OUT TODAY SPALDING'S Offlcl GUIDE i Baseball siO 34th Year. Complete and accurate. Get posted on the revised XW Rale. Contains many new features. Pro fusely illustrated. The final au thority on the National game. Price 10 Cents. A complete line of Spalding's Library. HOKYM' HARDWARE CO., Fourth and Alder St.. Portland, Or. A