OPEN SEASON FOR "WHITE HOPES" ON Prospect for Wresting Cham pionship From Johnson Still Seems Dim. MANY NURSE ' AMBITIONS Rising Star in Heavyweight Blvl- Ion Are Barf Straggling to Greater Heights Negro lias Man of His Own. BT W. J. PETRAI:. Tha "open on" for "white hopes," aa tha numerous rtstla exponents whose e-atlcle is colored other than ebony. yellow, bronse or red are styled. Is till on. and they continue to occupy space In the papers every day. RUIn stars In toe Heavyweight divi sion are so numerous that It keeps the average fight fan busy keeping trace of them, for they are now engaged In the taxic of cleaning up all the second rate and has-been fistic exponents who ever wore a glove, and a lot of them that never had a pair of mitts on In their lives, but who are "boosted" as great fighters simply ta make the eventual victory of this or that "white hope" appear, promising. It Is likely that If all the "white hopes." including the effervescent Al Kaufman, were put Into a room and turned loose on Jack Johnson, the negro would be tha only one to come out after tha melee. Lester Not Bis Enough. However, several of these "white hopes" are taken seriously, and as one irt them. Jack Lester. Is sprouting out "close to hum." we are entitled to peculate a little on Just what each of the principal ones Is likely to. accom plish. Lester, being a Northwestern prod uet. will naturally come In for first mention here. Will he have a chance with Jack Johnson? The writer does not believe that he wllL In the first place L-ter Is not large enough to be plttrd against the Big Black. Lester is what can be styled a good light heavy weight. He Is hardly more than S fret & inches In height, and while ha weighs from ISO to 14 pounds, he can not be aaid to figure as the possible dual of the negro Riant. Lester Is being drilled In the art of flft'ena by Tommy Burns, and It Is generally admitted that he has a clever and scientific teacher, but Barns Is by no me&ns the equal of Johnson, for he. likr his protege, la handicapped In else and weight. A good little man Is never as good 1 a good big man. and John son I everything that a good big man should be as a fliihter. Lester's only horo fr championship honors seems to rest entirely on the elimination of Jack Johnson as the champion before he as says to that title. Carl Morris Finish Seen. Next In order comes Carl Morris, tha Oklahoma mini, who has enjoyed a brief but sucr-ful career In handing out ikrp producers to several "never mmi" of the fistic arena. Morris waa picked up nnr 4apulpa. Ok la., where he was employed as a railway engine rtreman. and If he ever tackles Jack Johnjun before Johnson begins to de cline, his route will be back to tha shovel and firebox quickly. Morris Is belnir primed as a world's champion by the Oklahoma sports, and imti; them Is Kddle Robinson, who enjoyed a brief career around Portland as an expon-nt of Jlu-Jltsu wrestling. Itcbinson takes Morris seriously, and It may be that the young fellow has ome ability. His victories over Mac rln Hart and "S.lke" Kennedy, the lat. r occurring during the past week, are not indicative of ability to beat John son. However. It must be conceded that Morris, because of his slsa, has a setter chance aaalnst the colored :hamplon than has Lester. Morris is more than feet tall and weighs Bounds. . Miles McLeod Is the Missouri giant who never bad a boxing glova on in nls life until Jim Corbett and Joe Choynskl picked him out on account of his else and touted him as the coming -hope of tha white race." McLeod la I years old too old to learn to fight tnd stands feet i Inches In height and wetghs 2:5 pounds. He Is the si os I likely "bloomer" of tha lot so far tamed. O'KclIy Give Sunic Promise. Con ffKelly. the Irish athlete who won the world's amateur wrestling championship during the Ixjndon Olym pic championships In 1908. la being groomed by Tommy Ryan to beat Jack Johnson. O'Keily has been more suc cessful In the ring than most of the other "hopes." for he haa participated In eight battles In the eight months he lias essayed professional boxing. Four of bis fiichts he won-by the knock-out route, and In threa of tha others he re ceived the decision, while the other bat tle waa stopped by the police to save Ma opponent further punishment. How ever. O'Kel'.y'a opponents were none of them on a par with Johnson, but soma were hard nuta and tha Irish lad de serves some credit for the dev" rnent he haa aliown. He haa advanced more In the fistic game than any other wrest ler who ever switched from tha one game to the other. Walter Monohan seems a likely lad. He Is a ChKagoan who was taksn to California by Jack Johnson to be used aa a punching bag while tha big nsa-ro was preparing for his battle with James J. Jeffries, and Johnson asserts that Monohan "haa tha goods" and lacks only experience,. Johnson haa an nounced t!-.at he Inlet) ds to groom Mono haa to succeed ta the title, and It may be that history will repeat Itself In this instance. James J. Corbett put the fighting bee In Jeffries' bonnet when he used the big Los Angeles bollermaker as Johnson used Monohan while tha pompadoured oca waa training; for fcls encounter with Bob Fltxslmmona at Carson City m 1S7. Johnson is taking a decided Interest In Monohan and may make him the champion eventually, though Monohan has not yet demon strated any great ability as either a fighter or a boxer. Army Champion Eliminated. -Bombardier" Wells. the former champion of the British army In India, defeated all comers In England and Ireland untlt "Gunner" Molr. whe Was easy meat for Tommy Burna a couple of yeara ago. put him to sleep In tha third round and thereby crushed the championship aspirations of the former Tommy Atkins. Wells weighed 109 posses and stood six feet In height and the Johnny Bulls thought him a world beater until "Gunner" Molr put the crusher on his aspirations last week. Having run the gamut of "hopes." we will now consider tha "almost champions." who still Imagine tey have a look-in wltb Johnson. Foremost rnmes tha Irrepressible Al Kaufman, whe has a better chance of licking a cos tags stamp than ha baa of conquer- C0L0EZD HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION PUGILIST AND SOME "WHITE HOPES" WHO EXPECT TO : . "5'-' i v:5'. v:- ; 1 ' CLr-oxzz,-0jir ' 'iZ.J ""-Z.--iiAr"c7 I" ' -;. ; " - ' L...i . ..-. s. . .i:- "e.i - 1-.- M ' 1 , . I a "a"a"ataasaaBa5Sasa55 aMawSBawsTnsas'asaaas" ''ZZtt f 'J u , Rl jL ' '" Ins: Jack Johnson. Kaufman sprang Into fame as the champion of the Olym pic Club, of b'an Francisco, when, as an amateur, lie defeated Sammy Berger, the sparring partner and manager of James J. Jeffries, on tha famous tour of the ex-champion. Just why Kaufman ever acquired so much fame for beat ing Berger has never been explained ex cept that both are "native tons." and naturally called forth extra efforts In the boosting game among tha Call, fom la scribes. Since then Kaufman has had a number of battles, but has failed to beat decisively anyone but "Philadelphia" Jack O'Brien and some other alleged &a?hters. for he lost to Jack Johnson, who simply toyed with tha tsan Francisco boy. Kaufman'a ex perience with Johnson eliminates lilru from further consideration as the man likely to vanquish the negro. Flghtera never forget a good lacing adminis tered them by another man, and Kauf man will remember the one he got from Johnson all the rest of his life. Others In Same? Boat. What appllea to Kaufman also goes for Tommy Burna. though Burns, being a much smaller man, put up a better argument against the negro than did Kaufman. Burna was not knocked out by Johnson, but there Is hardly any question that ha would have been had not the Sydney authorities Interfered and stopped the battle. Bill Lang, the Australian, la a likely enough candidate, but the several beat ings he has received at the hands of Burns do not argue much In. his fsvnr when tha question of a battle between him and Johnson Is brought up. If he failed to beat Burns, what chance would he have with the champion? Lang does not appear to have the roods necessary to accomplish the downfall of tha big Texas black. And the same seems ap plicable to all tha others. PKNDLETOV 6KES FIGHT FILMS Jrffiir-Johnson Go Re-enacted Be spite City's Fair Sex. TENDLETON. Or Jan. 14. (Special.) Local fight fans are today gaxlng at tha moving pictures of the Jeffries Johnson fight despite the fact that tha women of tha city have not yet recov ered from the shock which the bare an nouncement that the pictures were coming gave them. After Mayor Murphay assured the manager of the theater that he would not Interfere with their exhibition here, the members of tha W. C T- U. and La dles' Civic Club gave up their Idea of filing a lara-e signed protest petition with the city's executive. They an nounced today that they would leave the Mayor and the Council with tha responsibility of running the city's af fairs. Becker Bark From Auto Tour. After an absence of seven months apent In touring Europe In his big touring car, Rudolph Becker, Jr.. of Portland, arrived home yesterday and apent the day recit ing details of his travels. Young Becker left Portland last May and visited Ger many. Holland. Belgium. Franca, Switz erland. Ppaln, Italy. England. Ireland and Scotland. He says that most of the roads In Europe are fine highways and make automoblllng an enjoyable sport all the year round. En route home Becker slopped at New York and closed a deal to handle the Portland agency of the Losler automobile, and announced that ha will open headquartera during the coming week, as ha has two car loads of this make of machine now en route to Portland 17IE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, AXUAIi Y 15. 1911. "HI v" ! ls C ll III. ' & - " ' ' - --' - BOXERS MEET TUESDAY SMOkEIl WILL GIVE A3IATECKS CHANCE TO SHOW ABILITY. Clever Young Portland Lads Match for Interesting Bouts at Cath olic Club Event. Tha Catholic Young Men'a Club will hold a boxing smoker Tuesday night at Merrill's Hall, when eight matches, of three and four rounds each between the 'amateur mitt wlelder of tha city will be staged. The programme Is strictly an ama teur night and tha entries represent the Catholic Club, the Multnomah Club and the Y. M. C. A., and some Interest ing bouts are expected. A match that Is exciting considerable interest is that between Stephen Hanns, a 175-pound amateur from Coburg, Or who Is anx ious for a trial In Portland's sportdom. He has been matched to meet "Cy" Young, the clever heavyweight of the Cathollo Young Men's Club. Nelson Mose. of the Multnomah Ama teur Athletic Club, la matched to meet joe Fraota. of tha Cathollo Young Men's Club. Mose and rranta have met . before and thla return match Is expect. I ed to prove an Interesting affair. An- 1 other match of considerable Interest will be between Loratl, the lad who made such a showing against Franta at the recent smoker, and Stanley Mc Donald, another favorite among the patrons of the Cathollo Club. Qus Mankurti, tha Y. M. C. A. swim mer, has taken up boxing, and will make his first apearance In the arena against Joe Sax. of the Catholic Club. R. Duncan and Brj Wheatley are scheduled to meet at 135 pounds, while three lads are entered in the 115-pound division. These lads are Billy Farrell, Ralph Boddy and Harold Bowe. Boddy and Farrell will be pitted against each other at the start, and the winner will meet Bowe for the final honors. Laurla Gay, son of Peter Gay, tha former boxing Instructor of the Mult nomah Amateur Athletio Club, has been matched to meet Porter Yett, an un attached boxer. Yett Is the lad who stepped from the audience at tha last show of the Catholic Club to meet an other lad whose opponent failed to put In an appearance, and the youngster made such a good showing that he waa selected to appear in a regularly scheduled bout at the next smoker of the club. Alumni to Dance. The Alumni Association of tha Chris tian Brothers' College wll give a dance at the hall of the Christian Brothers Busineas College. February lu. This event will be held aa a preliminary entertain ment to tlie celebration of the J6th anni versary of the advent of tha Christian Brothers in Portland. ACCOMPLISH HIS DOWNFALL. CONTEST Hi? BE OFF IDAHO ASKS CANCELLATION' OF GAME WITH COKVALLIS. Football Struggle Scheduled to Be Played at Moscow Will Be Los ing Thing, Is Fear-pd. ORBGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis. Jan. 14. (Special.) That the Agricultural College may be deprived of one of its conference, football games is certain, unless Manager1 Cox can induce the University of Idaho to hold to the contract made between the two institu tion? at the Northwest Conference meet ing at Spokane this year. A letter from Manager Larsen, of the University of iTlaho, received today requested that the game be cancelled.. ,. The contest was scheduled to be played at Moscow November IS. -The reasons given for the action of the Idaho Uni versity management is that the faculty committee has reivoea to sanction the game on the grounds that it wjll be a loeing- proposition financially. The faculty members called attention to the fact that the guarantee of $C50 to the University of Oregon last year resulted in tbeir losing over J100 and they feel that this year the loss would be greater becauaa Whit man ia scheduled to play Washington State College at Pullman on the name date, thus depriving the Moscow institu tion of the Pullman patronage, upon which they depend to a considerable extent. The management here will attempt to make a proposition to the Idaho school for the game to be at Corvallis Instead of Moscow on tha date agreed upon. Man ager Cox states that he will Immediately make Vie Idaho people a counter-proposition with such a provision. The students are very anxious to meet the team from the University of Idaho, as they have not played them for several years. Dlllcy High Beat Forest Grove. FOREST GROVE, Or., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) The Dilley High School basketball team defeated the Forest Grove High School quintet at Dilley last night by the score of 5 to J. The Dilley team con sists of Hughes and Henry Boyd as forwards; Wolf, center; Earl. Boyd and Turner, guards. They will play Gresham on February 3, and the Newberg High School at Newberg on January 21. Both teams -will play return games gf Dilley later in the season. Professor William Scott, who te manager of the Dilley ag gregation. Is eager to secure games with teams of the same class. Oakland Get Detroit Player. CHICAGO, Jan. 14. President B. R. Johnson, of tha American League, today announced tha release by Detroit of H. H. Pernoll to Oakland, CaL KAUFMANN 'HOPE' AGIST JOHNSON James J. Corbett Believes Al Is Only White Man Qualified to Meet Champion. . MORE SPEED IS NOW NEED Critic Sayg Coast Fighter la Big, Strong, Clever, and Knows Fine Points of Game Which Sow Is at Dullest . Season. , BY JAMES J. COKBBTT. JACKSONVDLE, Fla.. Jan. 14. (Sneclal.l These are dull days In hea-vywelght pugdom. and we can blame the lethargy and lack of Inter est partly to the fact that the present crop of fighters' is such a poor one. I am speaking of whlta men. Outside of Kaufmann there ta not a big man In the country with a vestige of what la called "class." When I remarked, in a recent artiole In this column, that it looked as if the title was safe 4n the hands of the col ored race for some time to come. I then had no Idea that Albert Kaufmann had changed his mind and would exercise his prerogative to challenge Johnson for the championship. I was under the Impression that the Californlan was satisfied to rest on the laurels already won and let the championship go hang. I will not say that I thought Al afraid to go after the negro, but rather that he was overcautious. Blnce coming out like a man and de claring his willingness and even anx iety to go to the mat with the cham pion, I feel that Kaufmann is due con siderable credit and praise. I wish to qualify the remarks above referred to by saying that, if there is a white man in the game in this country capable of trimming the dusky holder of the title, it is Al. Kaufmann Big and Clever. The Californlan Is big,. strong, a fair ly clever boxer, and understands the finer points of the game, although he can hardly be called a great ring gen eral. Al's greatest, fault is his slow ness, and If the youngster only could put on top speed once in a while he would not be lacking much In cham pionship timber: Bo far as gameness goes, he has demonstrated that in the past. For instancs, in his first contest against that crafty ring expert, Phila delphia Jack O'Brien, in which the ex perienced and clever boxer cut Al, then a novice and boxing his first profes sional engagement, into ribbons and closed both the boy's eyes, Kaufmann battled on until unable to put up his hands. That memorable encounter should satisfy even a man from Mis souri on the question, of the big fellow's heart. I do not oonslder Jack Johnson a hard man to beat. I did not think so before the Jeffries fight, and what I saw at Reno has not made me change my mind. And mind you, it is not prejudice or any personal feeling against J. Arthur that makes me feel confident that he is not such a terribly hard proposition as some sporting writers and admirers of the colored man would lead us to believe. ' Negro Is Not Giune. v In tiie first place, I say that: Johnson is not a game man. His actions In the ring while waiting for hostilities to commence and during the first few rounds of the Reno mlxup demon strated beyond a shadow of doubt that the present champion of the world was a scared and much worried man, and that, had Jeff not been the nervous and mental wreck he unfortunately was at that time, the contest would have been a short one. Indeed. Johnson looked to me like he was ready to lay down before the fight started. Of course, he now la champion, has disposed of the Jeffries bugbear, and would be meeting a younger and lees experienced boxer in Kaufmann. Na turally lis courage and - confidence would be much more Jn evidence. But If Albert could put ofer one or two of those triphammer punches to the body I reckon that Mist" Johnson mos' likely be glad to beat It r think the yellow streak would show under fire. Tha bot with Jeff was no test. That af fair was a Joke, and no one knows it better than the champion. -Willing to Back Coast Man. I merely am' expressing my opinion In this column and may be wrong, but will be willing to bet my money that I am right when the big event comes off. There Is nothing In Jack's record to make- me look upon him as the . a ti .1 n- an 1inhpn.tfl.hle. ' I rtin co. wt - I There were at least half a dosen boxers of the vintage or ivvv, io wmcn jouu son has so sneeringly referred, who to my mind were Just as good if not of a better class than the champion. I re fer 'to such men as Fitzsimmons, Ruh lin. Sharkey, Jeffries, and Kid Mcfsy. Sandy Ferguson never was consid ered of championship calibre, yet . he found It an easy Job to hold his own with Johnson when the pair met a few years ago. The bout was glien to Jack on a foul, but Sandy always has con tended that the negro deliberately qu!t and many who saw the contest agree with him. Kaufmann can hit harder and box' more cleverly' than Ferguson could in his palmy days, and he, too, might make the champion show the white , feather. No telling, no telling, and I always will be willing to string with a good white man agaiast a negro any old time. Others Fall Far Behind. There are at present no other white heavy-weighta who have shown even a flash of championship class or even the form of second raters. One or two of the recent disooveries may develop into good men, and on this point I will have something important to say later. Then there are a few, like Jim Barry and Tony Ross, who more or less decorate the profession, but none of these fel lows can be considered seriously as championship possibilities. Kaufmann Is the only "hope" in stock in these United States. It is quite a long time since I last visited this city (Jacksonville), and it does not look much like the town I knew when I fought Charlie Mitchell here years ago. The old city was large ly destroyed by tha great fire of 1901, and the newer Jacksonville is a great improvement, and one of the most pro gressiva cities of the South. They finally are getting wise in old Gotham, and the scribes are panning the alleged boxers who have been palm 'ing themselves off on the patrons of the .ga,me. Some months ago I took tha club managers and referees to task for permitting the el'nehers and stallera and biters and huggers to get away with the rotten exhibitions of the "man ly" art inflicted upon the public; During a recent stay in tha metrop. ells I attended several bouts, and was I .K-. .-.-.4 .-!! tha T.tlo .Via 'r.ontes tants were allowed to bring into play. In every contest I saw tHe men wrest led more than they boxed and were clinched throughout the greater part of teach round. The clubs, through the referees, have the power to remedy this state of affairs by disqualifying the foul fighters and barring them from the right t5 compete. In the future before their members. Now that a few of the leading sport writers of New York have taken up the subject, possibly th !:". managers or directors will take steps to stamp out the evil conditions. I remember on one occasion of callinir the attention of several newspaper writ ers to the sorry exhibition of boxing before us at the time, and all unani mously agreed that the referee ought to stop the bout and throw the partici pants out of the ring. I am more than pleased to note that they are now tak ing the matter up In their respective papers "and handling those at fault without gloves. The public pays Its good money to see boxing between ex perts, and those in charge ought to de liver the goods or refund the dough. More Work for Packey. v Lively times are ahead for Packey McFarland. He Is scheduled to box Jack Goodman in New York City on Tuesday night and to put on the gloves with Freddy Welsh over in London February 9. Even for a speedy, youth -like Packey this Is going some. It'a a clnoh that one bout or the other will be called oft or postponed. Hugh Mc intosh haa booked the affair with the international flavor and will glva tha forms me that he has taken over the Olympia Annex in London, a palatial structure seating 8000, and will con duct boxing shows between men of the highest standing in the profession at . regular Intervals. Hugh Is In the mar , ket as a bidder for the services of Jack I Johnson. Al Kaufmann. Sam Langford and other big and little men. and al ready had under his wing two possi bilities in Bill Lang and Bombadier Wells. Mac's modest plan is to try to corner the pugilistic market. If possible, and he seems to land whatever ha seeks. The time-honored National Sporting Club has so keenly felt the competition of this hustling and ener getic Australian that its directors have planned the erection of a now club ' house and arena to meet the new con ditions. Boston Fight Is Burlesque. Boston sports were forced to' endure one of those burlesque boxing matches last week when Sandy Ferguson and Porky Flynn (whoever he is) undertook to show the enlightened citiiens of the Hub a sample of the art of boxing. From the sample, those who attended a boxing contest for the first time were not Impressed favorably with the pos sibilities of the game, as reports have it that the affair was simply awful. And these men are posing as represen tative boxers of the heavyweight di vision. Really, I do not blame Bat Masterson and other authorities of the game for drawing tha deadly compari son and holding up the boxers of today against the brilliant records of a num ber of those of a decade ago and cry ing out with sorrow and shame at the decadence of the science. Wolgast is reported to have affixed his signature to an agreement to meet George Memsio at Los Angeles on Washington's birthday. This will be a tryout for the little champion. I think Wolgast is'not so sure about that had wing of his and feels it would be safer to test It on an eaBler mark than Mo ran. Ad Is the champion, and wlllTnaks the Briton take his turn in line. This may not be sportsmanlike, but Is tha fashion and established custom these days. J. C. O'Brien Has Own Style. Leave it to Jawn Chesterfield O'Brien to do things In style. At the formal opening of his spacious new clubhouse, Philadelphia, Jack had the Mayor of the Quaker City and all the other big bugs present, and even conned the boss of the city to enter the ring and make 1 the big talk. Jack also made a decided hit in a neat little speech in wnicn ne turned over the net receipts of the en tertainment to a local charity. And they say that there is no class in pro fessional pugilism. Latest advices from Australia state that Billy Papke soon will return to tha States and not attempt to get on a re turn match with the man who defeated him last month. Papke feels that ha cannot fight at his best In that oountry, for the reason that the climate does not agree with him, and will meet his conqueror In America or not at all. What about this man Dave Smith, who now will be widely advertised aa middle-weight champion of the world? Shall we have the chance to see him in action? Probably not, with that man Mcintosh already gunning for him. BASEBALL " BOOK OF 1911 OTJT V Ia Two Parts, Spalding Guide Thl Year Is Hummer. Spalding's official baseball reoord for 1911 has Just been published. This an nual book Is growing more and more in favor each year, containing as It does a record of thousands of incidents which occurred during the year of in terest to its readers. The 1911 Baseball Record is divided into two sections. Part I contains the records of 1910 of the major and minor leagues. In this division of the book can be found the world's series, tha annual meetings of the leagues, charts of the American, National and all minor leagues during the year; an article on attendance in 1910. official averages of all the leagues, the pennant winners for tha year, post-season series in Jtfew York. 1910 statistics, and what tha players did in 1910. The opening chap ter in the book is entitled "The Year In "Baseball," This feature deals in chronological order with all the hap penings for the year In- the baseball world. It will be found, probably as Interesting as any article In the book, as it will recall the little features of the year to mind again. Part II contains the statistics, etc.. of the National League of previous years; AU-Amerlcan teams, champion team records, Grand National All Amerlcan team; holders of the' highest fielding percentages from 1871 to dote, and the same in batting percentages; officers to date, pitchers' records and percentages since 1871. world's series from 1884 to 1910, world's chumplon shlp records. The American League is covered In this part of the book in a similar manner. Another feature of Part II is the chapter on miscellaneous baseball records. Swimming itocord Lowered. SYDNEY, N. S. W., Jan. 14. Long worth, the New South Wales swimmer, today clipped t 4-6 seoonds off C. M. Daniels' record for 1320 yards, making the distance In 17 minutes and 42 sec onds. Daniels' record of 17 mlnuteT 45 4-5 seconds was made In New Yorjc city February 17, 1907. making 65 turna in a tank. Indians Scalp Whites, 33-30. FOREST GROVE, Or., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) The Chemawa basketball team de feated the Pacific University here tonight before a large and enthusiastlo crowd of fn.nn. When the whistle was blown which. 1 signified that time was up, the Indians had scored S3 points while tucir oppo nents succeeded In scoring 30. Owing to the cheap electric power electrio earllnes sr springing up in ail parts o Northern Italy-