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4 HIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 3, 1911. v -. 1 " . " ' " ""' ' 1 aa " Maaaa i 1 PUGILIST RYAN, 111 HUFF, RESIGNS 'Unfortunate Muddle" in Re cent Armcry Fiasco Cause of Action. t NEW YORK IS ATTRACTIVE Tommy Cati-ln' Oregon Cold and It Staj With Him. He Says, When Confronted for Explanation. Rjan Keputetl Rich. BT ROSCOE FAWCETT. . Tommy Ryan, month-old boxing In structor at the Multnomah Athletic Club. last night tendered hl resigna tion to Edgar Frank, chairman of the boxing and wrestling committee, and the famous ex-we!ter and middle weight champion will leave Portland within a week for his home at Syra- ruse. N. Y. Several factors figure strongly In Kyan's sudden determination to quit Oregon soil tonallltls. the allurements of boxing club conditions In New York 8tat under the new Frawley law. and last, but probably not least Important, the unfortunate muddle resulting from the so-called athletic carnival staged at the Armory on Wednesday night, when Ryan was matched without his knowledge, he says, to box "Denver ' Kd" Martin, the colored obelisk of Taroma. "Anyway." says Tommy. "I don't think I would hsve come West had I known that professional boxing was barred In the states of Washington " and Oregon. There Is too much money . In other sections of the country for "me to stick here at a $150 Job. My 'health, though, is the main conslder .atlon. I caught a cold when I first boxed at fie club's temporary gym- - nastum and It has stuck with me ever ,- since." Ryaa Reawte Rick. "" Ryan Is reported to be worth from f 73.000 to $100,000. but lays claim to only about fnO.000. which, he says. Is r 1 tied up In realty and other properties - i In Syracuse. Chicago and Kansas city The boxer, rated as one of the great- - est exponents of the glove game that - ever lived, made $10,000 In Syracuse last season running boxing clubs. "I have been wondering for the past fortnight whether or not It would be best for me to resign." added the Multnomah mitt Instructor, whose real . Jiame Is Joseph Youngs. "That show " J they put on at the Armory decided ? .ane, for those promoters certainly put ..mo tn wrong' and I was appearing "'only as a favor to them, too." The visit to the city of Senator Frawlev. of New York, framer of the 4 .Frawley boxing bill, during the past 1 -week. likely had the most to do with Ryan's resignation, however, for prior I" tn that time Ryan had labored tinder the hallucination that a New York promoter, under the new-fangled stat ute, was forced to put up a building - for his bouts worth at the minimum $10,000. Frawley. who was en route to San Francisco, told him nay. Thus. the hasty departure for "the fields of clover." Kaa 1'ays Reapeeta Beslag Here. 7- Ryan. In the parting, pays bla re-t-pecls to amateur boxing such as In dulged In by tbe Northwestern clubs, nd laughingly labels It as "more to be pitied than censured." r "1 don't want to knock the Mult riomab Club, for the heads have treated me floe," declared Tommy, aa a smile lighted op his visage, "but let me aay that tbe only distinction I have been able to discern between amateur boxing and professional la that the profes sionals are wall trained and know how to box while the amateurs are In no condition at all and rip each ether's heads off with no semblance or ear marks of skill. -"These kids should be made to get In condition before being put on the r bills. Cp at Seattle the boxers wrapped their bands In tape, cussed each other and went about one step farther than , the professionals In every respect." No successor aa boxing instructor at the club has yet been named, but the , committee will likely get together I within a day or two. ; Ryan became entitled ta call him- ; self middleweight champion about 1900 although, like Ketchel. Papke. Tommy Burns and other pugilist embers, he gained his spurs more through news- ; paper ratings than In any one flght to which he can revert. Ryan, who Is i now nearly years old. really gained the "press" championship In three main ' battlea with Craig. English rhsmpton. whom he defeated in ten rounds at "'ney Island; Bonner, whom he best tn . In rounds at Coney Island, and "Kid" Carter, who succumbed In six rounds tn Chicago on November ST. 1900. During this period Tommy claims to . have posted $3500 to meet Fitxsframon at the middleweight limit, but Flta had graduated Into the heavyweight de partment and relinquished the middle title. -When I retired." says Tommy. "Ketchel. Hugo Kelly. Pspke and all , that bunch claimed the title. No, Mc , Coy had no claim on the middleweight i title because McCoy waa a light heavyweight." OUR LONG-HIDDEN HOARDS ' Many Million of Dollars in Amer- Ira Without Owner. Harper's. None can estimate the wealth hidden in Civil War times. Down mountain .slopes, across the great plantations, and along the streets of cities of the Houth are the trails of lost fortunes. On tha Mississippi River the shanty- 'boaters tell tales of kettles of gold coin and money that were burled tn the brakes or revealed In the caving bank at the Mississippi by a cascada of coin rushing down the crumbling slope into the flood. Now and then soma sharp darky appears with a handful of old gold. A mathematician might estimate the quantity of nugget gold hidden by the placer miners, the loggers, tinkers, tramp, soldier all the kinds of for tune that are tucked away In useless and wasteful neglect In all part of the country in stockings, mattresses, old clothes, garrets, cellars, hollow trees, hovels, mansions, cachea of des peradoes, hidings of foreigners. If only one In 10.000 hMea $100 that la never -found and In every village and town the proportion la larger, among farm ers and back-country people, much larger the losa will amount to $300. 000 The chances are that there are 1.00.000,000 of hidden fortune In this Sountry now gold, silver. precious 'atone and paper wealth. Many a farm, many a city property goes Into neglect and decay because the heir sever know $ it. . MEDDLE WEIGHT AND WELTERWEIGHT EX-CHAMPION EE SIGNS AS BOXING INSTRUCTOR AT MULTNOMAH CLUB. l3 4 - i 't 'v. TOMMY AHREHS AFTER HATCH PORTLIXD BOWLER ISSCES AX OPE.V C HALLE X G E. Exiert Make Average ft 24 3 for Three Game Hood River Will Play Team Here Attain. Wtth an average of 14$ for threa game aa his latest achievement. Qui Ahrens has Issued a challenge to any bowler in Portland or the Pacific Coast for a ten-game match. Ahren and Raymond rolled In the turkey contest which the Saratoga. Alleya were con ducting. The two made the score of 13H. of which Ahren made lit. whlcti Is the best record made here for some time past. Tba average for the three games which Ahrens made la alao note worthy and one w hich haa seldom been equaled in this city. The week past baa been one marked by high scores all around, especially those made In the contest for the turkeys. A good many of the figures ran close to Pacific Coast records. R. M. Gray made the highest single score, which waa 26g. George Henr made the highest record for 00 pins, having 3t tallies which were above that mark, see McDonald wa another turkey win ner. His number Is 13$ duck pins. "Doc" Melee n, one of the oldest men on the Portland alleya. cam In a few minutes late wtth a score of 160 duck pins, aa the contest closed at 8 P. M. Wednesday, so he had to go Hungry on Thursday or would have had to had he' depended on the contest for his turkey. The record made by Dale last Winter hlch waa 164 duck plna, I the only one ever rolled on the Saratoga elide which surpassed u.at of Meleen'a. Last Sunday a picked team from Hood River defeated the Forester here by a large score. Thursday a team consisting of men who are acknowl edged to be the best In the city when It comes to bowling, went to Hood River and met defeat by a score of 1644 against Hood River' J61. Tbe Portland team consisted of Ahrens. Henry, Raymond. Kneyxe and O'Don nell. The Hood River team will Invade Portland again in the near future and play tbe Portland team. The Forester have exciting game BOTH BASEBALL AND COFFEE SlNKEHS I f 1 A ,c s; - 1 RfAX every Wednesday evening between team In a league of their own. The team In the Big Four League now stand as follow: Won. Lost. Pet. Dltworth Derbies T 2 .TTS Jarreta 5 4 MH white Crows 8 Escalators 8 -333 MODERN WILLIAM TELL Lurid Story of the Alpine Rebellion of the Year 1848. HarpM'a- "There were many thousands of the Austrian, and they came against us from the north and from the south, and from the east, so that we did not know which way to go. But our Cap ltano knew, and the priest knew, even though we did not know. "At last there waa better than build ing and piling and mining, for there wa a cry, 'The Auatriansl They are coming!' And every man went to hi place, aa our Capltano had directed, for ha knew the rule of war. "The soldiers came on very brave, marching steady, steady, keeping step. Then they halted and spread out across the narrow valley, and some were set to climb the rocks. And in all there were thousands of them. W cheered and we fired, and we shouted when men fell: but the Au strians had a leader who would not easily give up, and hi men all fired back at us, and more of them ware set to climb the rccks. "And then we sent the stones rolling down, down upon them. The powder wa exploded and the great rocks fell. And they struck the Austrian who were on the mountain-side, and many a man went rolling down with the rock a And our men fired from be hind the barricade. "And many rock went down like Irve things, leaping from point to point and then springing down and scatter ing the soldiers In the road. "Their dead this time we did not bury. No. You have seen how swift I the PlaveT You have seen how we men of the mountains float our logs In it. sending them down to tbe plains? Well, it waa so that we did with their dead. We tossed them into the river, those men who had burned our vil lage and misused our women. We tossed them Into the river,, and we said, 'You dead men. follow after the Irving.' And they followed fast, float ing, bobbing, tumbling, in the swift waters of the river." One of Llfe'a Mysteries. "Oh. the fool and his money are soon parted." said Blithers, sententiouBlr. "That' all right," said Blobbs, "bnt the thing- that I can't make out is where In thunder the fools get all the money they are parted from." FOOTBALL HAVE NOW REACHED i 1 r c ; MASTS ILLNESS UPSETS ALL PLANS Busy Programme Which Had Been Arranged for Him Is Now Abandoned. FINANCIAL LOSS IS HEAVY Estimate Made That Ad's Appendi citis Attack and Operation Have Cost Hint' $100,000 in Hard Cash Missed. BT BARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Dec. J. The nntoward accident to Adolph Wolgaat that necessitated an operation for ap pendicitis the day , prior to bis scheduled match with' Freddie Welsh has knocked the plans of the light weights helter skelter. Tom Jones had a busy programme arranged for the Michigan boy following the Welsh tight. Ad was to have crack at Knockout Brown and then and then a few Packer weeks later was himself. to take on As matters now stand, there isn't a chance for Wolgast to do any fight ing for a year at the least and even then it Is a question whether he will be in fit condition to tackle hard mill ing. In the meantime, no one knows just who Is champion and there Is going to be some lively scrapping for the honor. Freddie Welsh very coolly annexed the honor In Los Angeles. He gave out a story saying how sorry he was for the misfortune of Wolgast and when he found that Willie Ritchie, of Ban Francisco, had been substituted as his opponent at the eleventh hour, wound up his remarks by declaring that he was willing to defend the title and whenever Wolgast was ready would give him a chance to regain his for feited crown. That's all very nice, but Just how a chap who has lost the British title and Is no great smokes In the game expects calmly to appro priate an American title is beyond me. Freddie may get away with that sort of rough Btult in Los Angeles but no where else in the country. He might better style himself the Welsh light weight champion of the world and let It go at that. MeFarland la Champion. If there is anyone In the country who is entitled to take to himself the cham pionship that boy is Packey McFarland. And Packey has far too much sense. He says, like the others, that he re grets the Illness of Wolgast and then backs it up with a logical statement. "For another and more selfish rea son. I am orry about this. It means that my chance of getting a clear title to the championship has passed for the time being. Wolgast will hardly be uum io ngm ior anotner 12 months and in the meantime who is there to claim his tltle7 Nobody would admit it and if wolgast is through with the game. It will be a case of working up to the top. Of course, I am willing to take my chances but it is very much like beginning all over again.'' That' a sensible sort of talk to be giving out and shows that Packey has a mighty good understanding of the situation. Personally. I think there is no question of his fitness as compared with any other man than Wolgast but it will probably be necessary to match mm wnn treadle welsh to the world at large. convince Wolgast Probably Through. Wolgast Is probably through with the game. Physicians with whom the writer has talked "seem to feel that after an operation of that sort, a man Is always liable to a collapse, parti cularly In case of violent exertion of the athletic sort. Furthermore, a year out of the game is a bad thing for any fighter, as past events have proved, and Wolgast will probably appreciate this when he Is well enough to think over the situation. There is no question but that hl ill ness will cost him something like 8100 -000. particularly If he is out of the harness a full year. He would gathered in something like 820.000 from the Welsh match. A bout with Knockout Brown would have meant anotner 820,000 and with Packey Mc Farland, he would probably have been good for $30,000 all told. Then, in addition there would be the movlng-plcture rights and his theat rical work. So Tom Jones Isn't exag gerating when he says that Adolph, totalling what he would have made along with his expermes, stands to be out $100,000. At the same time, I un derstand that the little chap haa saved a fair proportion of his money, so be can get along and perhaps it will be aa well for him. That waa a pretty little story that one of the press association sent out on the day of the operation. Wolgast wm described aa waking from his anesthetic and asking If he had been knocked out by Welsh. Sounds good, but it didn't happen' to be true. . Wol- THE CAKE SEASON. St Explak WW byoo tow 3,ood 1900 too boo voo, 3oo I20C 1000 700 5po Voo op mo gast was perfectly normal when he re covered consciousness and told his wife that he would be all right within a few days. Ritchie la Lack. Willie Ritchie, a local Ban Francisco lightweight, fell heir to some good for tune as a result of the appendicitis. Tom McCarey denied that he wanted to go through with some sort of a match and so wired an offer to Ritchie. He offered Ritchie $1500 with the privi lege of accepting 20 per cent of the bouse, which is more money than Wil lie ever dreamed of making in a fight. Willie rushed to the train Wednesday night, arrived in Los Angeles In the 1 forenoon and wa ready for his scrap In the afternoon. Very fortunately, Willie has been acting as a sparring partner to Packey McFarland, so he was In decent shape. He weighs a lot more than 133 . pounde and probably would not do better than 138 at such short notice. At the same time, Mc Carey was able to go ahead with his j arrangements. San Francisco fight fans are won dering whether Jack Welsh Is the Wol gast Jinks. Jack went to Milwaukee, vou will remember, to referee for Wol gast and McFarland. The authorities did not allow the match and Welsh had his trip and trouble for nothing. Then Jack was practically demanded by the champion to referee the Los Angeles bout. And Jack Welsh arrived the morning that Adolph was rushed to the hospital. There's no use talking. It begins to look as if the hoodoo was working over time. Just what Tom O'Day will do for December remains to be seen. He did WAGNER LOSES FORMER JUDGMENT OF HORSES Ex-Constable Buys Aged Nag From Acquaintance and Decrepit Animal Becomes Care and Expense to Owner. A NUMBER of years ago, when the bangtails were performing at the old Irvlngton racetrack, among the most expert Portland -men at siz ing up the meriU and demerits of the -speed marvels" was Lou Wagner, ex Constable. Since then, according to a story going the rounds, the former of ficial has lost his cunning as a Judge of horse flesh, at least so it would seem from the mirth derived by Wag ner's friends at each rehearsal of a recent deal In horse flesh manipulated by Wagner. However.. It may be m-timed to charge Wagner with the deal. Judg ment will be left with the reader. Since retiring from public office Wagner has been conducting a grocery store near Willamette Heights. A few davs ago he found himself in need of a horse to attach to his delivery wagon, so he started out to buy a horao. While Constable, Wagner had several "run-ins" with Thomas W. Murphy, a well-known horsedealer and trainer, but the ex-Constable evidently forgot these after his tenure of office expired and the first man he visited to buy a horse was Murphy. Now Murphy, It is said, had not forgotten his grudge against the former official, and when Wapner applied for a delivery horse Murphy saw a fine chance for revenge. At lie ilurpbj; stables was an an The record' of ten months' shipments show that Eilers Music House secured 2920 pianos, -while its next rival in this city had but 274. One con- ctrn had only 21, and still another concern in this city had none at all ! Does this record mean anything t It means everything for the piano-buyer. Twelve years ago the Eilers business was started iu Portland, Oregon. One 6mall store, not larger than the space now required for the office, marked the commencement of this enterprise. Before that time most of the pianos sold in Oregon were of low grade. Prices, however, were maintained by the dealers then at the very highest possible notch. The coming of the Eilers Music Stores changed all this. Instead of con tinuing along the beaten path of trade, the plan of Eilers Music House was to supply the highest grade of instruments. Instead of putting prices as high as they could possibly be placed, the Eilers plan was to make the prices as low as they could possibly be put. Instead of making big profits whenever an occasional piano was sold, the aim of Eilers Music House was to make an aggregate profit on many sales. This plan, coupled with many other innovations, was carried out in the face of bitterest opposition. But, nevertheless, all competitors of those days vanished, and today the Eilers Music House stands as the Nation's largest. Bitter opposition against so-called Eilers methods exists today. The com parative showing herewith published indicates only too plainly why there is so much vilification, so much abuse, so much knocking, to employ a phrase of today, of Eilers Music House, and its fine pianos, by individuals, who have instruments of their own to sell. Particularly of late, when business has been found in many quarters to be rather unsatisfactory, many of our patrons in making their investigations cbout town, have found the attacks upon Eilers Music House, and its excel lent pianos, particularly virulent. We are pleased to say that in every in stance where people have made careful investigation, their patronage has been bestowed upon Eilers Music House. As was stated by us in 1899, every item of expense that enters into the cost of selling pianos and organs will be found reduced to the lowest degree tt Eilers Music House. Every member of the firm brings into the business a thorough knowledge of affairs down to the smallest detail. Here are found the very best makes of pianos, for the least money, and here every caller finds careful and painstaking attention to every want. People always find our stores busy, hustling and enterprising. The facil ities we have are -equaled by none in the United States. Our earnings do not have to be divided with bankers and note-shavers. "We do not have to- pay a jobbing or wholesale profit to San Francisco or other houses. There are no idle drones in this house, because of which many etneerns are compelled to add considerable to the price of their goods. We have our own delivery service. Instead of paying rent, we collect rent. Our freights are less the cost of doing business is so much less in every way. And for these reasons, quality considered, we can afford to sell for less than can any other dealer or agency. The growth of our business is limited only by the number of people who investigate the advantages we have to offer. To examine them carefully means to become a patron of Eilers Music House. We sell pianos that will please you and that will bring your friends here when they are ready to buy. And while firms have come and firms have gone, during the years that EUers Music House has been in business, one has the reasonable assurance that Eilers Music House will always be found here to make good every prom ise and obligation. Our customers are our references. We feel that no transaction can be right that does not give satisfaction to the buyer, and thus it is today, as it was the case as announced by us in July, 1899, that "Eilers Music House leads the procession because it belongs at the head, and those in the rear should lfarn to contain their souls in peace." Our methods make prices lowest on worthy goods. We have no time to worry over the selling of questionable articles. We have no inferior, make believes to foist off. In 1899 we began to sell pianos just as other commodi ties are sold on the basis of quick sales and small profits money back if the purchaser is not entirely satisfied. This was bound to be and has been successful. Here you will find for $318 a better piano than can possibly be obtained at any other institution for less than $425. For $137 we furnish an instrument which could not be obtained elsewhere for less than $250. Paper is patient many broad claims are made in advertisements, but claims and assertions invariably make a different appearance when stood in a row with downright facts. Eilers Music House for years has sold more pianos, and is today selling wore pianos than all other dealers in the Northwest combined. This certainly indicates that Eilers Music House is the place where most people find it to their interest to trade, and undoubtedly is the place where you can do the best, no matter how alluring may be the offers from elsewhere. EILERS MUSIC HOUSE NOW THE NATION'S LARGEST IN EILERS BUILDING, CORNER ALDER AND SEVENTH Want Knockout Brown and Ad Wol gast, but now that is out of the ques tion. Packey will return to New York to take on Matt Wells, the British champion. In a 10-round, no-declslon encounter and that doesn't leave much of a field for O'Day to pick from. He might do a whole lot worse than Brown and One-Round Hogan for a 20-round match, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see that card finally set tled upon, RULING A BIG CITY. Instances Where Germans Go From Home After Public Servants. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. S. 8. McCIure, of New Tork City, founder of McClure's Magazine, lec tured before an audience of 1000 men at the Young Men's Christian Associa tion meeting for men in Court Square Theater tbe other afternoon. His sub ject was "An Efficient Government." The lecture was interesting in many respects. It brought to the attention Of the men of Springfield some weak nesses in our present political system, and especially the weaknesses caused by our loose political methods. Mr. McCIure characterized the present sys tem of government as a government by amateurs, and made a strong and ef fective plea for business administra tion. The value of trained men for offi cial positions in the government, the speaker stated, could be seen in the cient, dilapidated specimen of horse flesh which Murphy desponded of ever getting rid of, but he had his stable hands "doctor" up the ancient rack of bones and when the animal was shown to Wagner tt presented a fairly good appearance. The price quoted also lent enchantment 'to the animal, and Wagner was the owner of the staed very quickly, as he feared Murphy might raise the price. ' The old horse managed to travel to Wagner's barn, where it collapsed shortly after the new owner had left for home. When Wagner entered the barn next morning to groom his new steed, all his powers of persuasion failed to make the animal stand up, so the new owner immediately telephoned for a veterinary surgeon. The doctor attended the beast and immediately rendered a bill for $7.50, and Wagner referred him to Murphy. Having sold the animal to Wagner without any guarantee. Murphy na turally refused to the bill and the vet erinary put it in the hands of a col lector. In some manner Wagner's for mer associates in the Constable's of fice beard of it and telephoned him that attachment proceedings were about to be registered against him for $18 and Wagner hurriedly hunted up the horse doctor and paid the $7.50. Wagn-is now thinking of buying an automobile delivery wagon. He thinks it win be cheaper. my i Me German system of municipal govern ment. He took as an example the city of Frankfort, which is almost as large as Boston. He stated that in Frank fort the voters nominate their own candidates for office. No printed bal lots are used, the voter simply writing the name of his candidate upon a slip of paper and casting It into the ballot box. In case no man receives a ma jority, the candidates receiving the largest number of votes are voted upon at another election until the elec tion of some candidate is assured. Can didates elected as councilors are se lected for a term of six years and should they prove their efficiency, they are invariably returned. This system usually guarantees the election of the ablest men in the community. It is not unusual for a German city to go outside of its community for an official. Men who havo given excellent service in other communities are often chosen. A regular school of admin istration is thus created, and In many instances men holding positions in smaller towns and cities are selected to fill similar offices In larger cities. The speaker said that the Germans want a man who has been tried anil not. an experiment. So strong is this desire for the best in municipal ad ministration that men are sometimes summoned from any part of the world to fill some responsible position In mu nicipal government. As an illustra tion, he told how the city of Frankfort selected an Englishman to lay out and administer the business operation of the street railway. This man held the position for many years, and was suc ceeded by his son, who now holds it. The city officials of Frankfort, as well as in many other German cities, usu ally hold their positions for at least 30 years and are then retired on a pension that gives them a good livelihood. The -city of Frankfort, he said, has millions of dollars invested in suburb an property which is sold to residents for a certain amount, made payable to the government, on easy payments, for which the government charges but 8Vb per 'cent for .the money which it has invested. The electric street railways are used to carry the people daily to and from the country for less than op eration costs. By efficient manage ment and profitable returns from other municipal business the city is able to operate the road without loss. The speaker stated that the city itself was ssvample of pure democracy and that it wai. tiot cursed with a corrupt politi cal machine. The city of Frankfort holds a lesson by which American cities could well profit. City govern ment today has become Just as techni cal as any large private business, and it requires Just as expert men as it does to run a railroad. The great fault with our American cities, the speaker stated, is that then is no attraction for cable and honest men. tie attributed tne cause or tms state of affairs to the fact that there is no decent reward,- no guarantee of permanency and no certainty of in come, all of which he believed essen tial if the services of a good man are to be procured. It Is characteristic of Americans to get the services of the best men possible to conduct their pri vate business, he stated, but it is rare indeed for ttgm to Indorse an equally efficient man as an official to be In trusted with the management of the public business. It can be flttinirly said that in many of our cities govern Ojexit by. criminal alone exists. A