CALIFORNIA TRACK SQUAD PROMISING Veterans of 1911 Record Breaking Team in College. Stanford Is Weak. -BEESON IN GREAT FORM Cardinal Strong in Sprint but Will Some of Best Men on Ac count of Scholarship Kuliugs. Weight - Tosters Excel. CNIVERStTT OF CALIFORNIA. Berke ley. Jan. 13. (Special.) Th California track aquad for this eason will In clude virtually all the veteran on laat year" record,-breaking- team. Eddie Beeson. winner or both hurdle events In the moet against Stanford laat April, will be In the running again and la ex pected to equal hla wonderful record of a year ago. when he won both hurdl events and tied for first place In the high Jump with Horlne of Stanford .at feet 1 Inches. Beeson tied with Haw kins of Oregon In the hurdle event at the laat Pacific Coast conference meet at Berkeley, both runners coins' the distance In the record time of IS 2-i seconds. Shattnrk. holder of the Stanford California Intercollegiate record for the -hammer throw at U feet, and winner of tha hammer throw In the Pacific rout conference mwt against the best hammer throwers of the Coast. Includ ing Kellog and Bailer of Oregon. Wooley of Stanford and Eaklns of Washington, has been throwing; tha hammer around tha l0-foot mark In practice lasl ran. ana V' - f bettering his former record. Scfcetanal Hart Stanford. . Alderman of Stanford, with a record of 11 feet In the hammer throw, waa placed on probation by the Stanford (acuity for poor scholarship last term. . and ao will not be eligible. UTooley. the only other Stanford weight man of real Importance, must bear the brunt of Id fight for places In the big meets. Th. ..m faculty ruling which put Alderman out of the running for the tram also robbed the Cardinals of a number of other men who were expect ed to win points In the meet against rallfornla- lawson. with a record of ii feet In the broad Jump: Templeton. pole vaulter. who clears the bar con sistently at 11 f-w Inches, and Mo Clure. uuarler-mller. with a record of 10 flat, are the others disqualified. Ucne Kern, football player and track man, will be the lone Stanford de pendency In the hurdles. Kern broke his leg during tha football aeason two ears ago. but the Injured member has recovered sufficiently to allow hlra to don his track suit again. Kern ran In the meet laat year, and waa up In the front when he tripped over tha laat hurdle and put hlmtielf out of th race. Smith and Campbell wtll be the other Cardinal entries In th hurdl races. Macllse and Haven will be other Cali fornia men who will be team mates of Beeson In th two barrier races. Berkeley Jasspera Agile. Captain Kretslnger and Fred Allen, of California, have both done better than 23 feet In the broad Jump. Arga brlte. Campbell and Stevens will be th Stanford entries. None of these men have done better than 21 feet. With Captain Tom Coleman In the sprints, the Stanford men ar looking for a majority of th polnta In these events. Coleman has a record of 10 flat In the 10 and 22 fiat In the 220 yard dash. Ho la recognised as one of the best sprinters that has been de veloped on the Coast in recent years. McKee la another sprinter of note at Stanford. .McKee Is credited with a mark of 23 1-5 In the 220-yard dash. He won the event In th meet last year. Stanford. as, usual, will have an abundance of quarter mllers. With Campbell. Ward. Dawson. Taylor and Leaman In thla event. It aurely looks aa though th Cardinal men would clean up when this race Is pulled off. California will have Calklna and Ylt ousek. but these men do not Bgure to place against th Stanford men. Dlstaaee Mem Fast. Foulke. of California, has1 negotiated the half In 3:01 and Is looked upon by n the Hlne and Gold to show a clean pair of heels to the Stan ford men In thla event. Utmin and Oard are good half-mller reglatered at Stanford and they may place In th "ifarry Wood, with a record of 4:30 ;-5 In the mile, seema certain of first place In this event. Crabbe. a Port land boy who holds the Intercollegiate two-mils record, may be second best man In th mil. Crabbe also has a good chines for first plac In th two mile. Stanford has no good distance runners. HOGAN AD MTIlFlir MATCHED One-Round Freddy and Harlem Tommy to Fight on January SI. PAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 1 (Spe-clal- One-round "Freddy- Hofran. th Fan Francisco lightweight, and Har lem Tommy Murphy, of New Tork. have been matched to box 10 rounds feefor Jim Coffroth' Shasta Club on Wednesday nlrht, January SL Th match was announced early this evening after Coffroth had a confer ence with GH Boog. of New Tork. who Is acting as manager of th California boy. Terms acceptable to Boog were proponed and Coffroth -ild that th card would be put on. He also sent a rush message to Jim Buckley, of New Tork. who is manaKlng Murphy, tell ing him of the bout and urging that Murphy leav at one for the Pacific Coast In order to go Into Immediate training. The weight is to be 123 pounds, al though It has not been settled Just wfcen the men are to weigh In. No trouble Is expected on this point, since hvth Murphy and Hogsn are light and ud do tne weight easily. BLIND TRAIXFR GETS $20,000 Patrick Hum-t. Old-Time Cycling; Coach. Given Big Benefit. NEW YORK. Jan. 11 A fund of ;).0'0 raised In less than half a day by members of th Motor Accessories Mission at the annual automobile show here wlU gladden th declining years of Patrick Hussey. who 15 years ago was the country best-known trainer ft racers and trick cyclists. He coached riders at all the big meets and was a rarer of note himself. Later Huasey turned his attention to auto mobiles, but his career was suddenly , cut short by the loss of his sight. Som of his old Weetern friends started th relief fund. . XII L. SUAJJiVX UlilUUJXAJ. mmiiii - - - QUABTET OF FIELD ATHLETES WHO WILL PROBABLY UPHOLD H0N0E OF AMERICA AT ST0CK H HOLM OLYMPIAD. Jr -i) :.. X r - , - -p.; J ' - 1 i r - . y n;;-f?rj. ;-V ::;:t . v'';:-';-:: t:' r i : JS4JA'SP02&? . . s', L.v-V 'e . MIXED MATCHES GO Day of Fights Between Whites and Blacks Near End. OPPOSITION IS SPREADING Jack Johnson Can Meet Only Other croes If He Goea to Australia. Fast Men Await Him for Bonis There. BT THOMAS ANDREWS. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Jan. 13. (Spe cial.) Is the boxing game to be a "class" affair In the future? From the trend of things in the past year It seems to be leading that way. There was a time when very little attention was given to a meeting between some colored boxer and a white man, but now whenever a match of that kind Is men tioned, it seems to be the slenal tor general opposition from a 1 sides. That has been the case ever since the Jack Johnson affair at Iteno. Nev.. In 1910. when the colored man annexed tne world's heavyweight championship. There were thousands of good sport ing men opposed to the match at that tlm for th simple reason that they did not consider Jeffries In proper con dition or abl to com back after five years' retirement, and do himself Jus tice However, that out little figure, for the money end seemed to be the principal aim of all parties concerned, and the contest was permitted to go on with the colored man winning. Credit Dae Johaaoa. It is not th Intention to take away any credit from Jack Johnson, but only to show that there waa a general feel ing against matches between whit and colored men. There Is no doubt that Johnson la on of th cleverest big men who has been brought before the boxing; publlo in many years and In some rspcts is almost th equal of Jim Corbett H Is a great fighter and no one will deny that, but at the same tlm th follower of th sport are op posed to matches between white and blicks and especially where th dif ference In weight I o great aa has been th cas In a number of matches the past year. It was the color question that pre vented the Johnson-Wells contest In England, although It haa been given out by Johnson himself and others that It was a question of big purses which the National Sporting Club of London would not stand for. and a a result brought on the agitation against the match. This may be true In a sense, hut from information I have at hand It seems more plain to tne that the real cause waa the color question, especially where th principals wer so well known and wher th Interest waa even greater than moat big affair In th European countries the past year. mall Bewta l'aatfred. Where small contests of this kind hav been arranged, nothing haa been raid for the simple reason that they did not attract the attention of the general public. The agitation has been taken up In America, and boxing pro moter all over the country have been shy In arranging matches between colored men and white men; In fact, it Is understood that the New York pro moters have been given to understand that such matches are not to be toler ated Now the agitation has spread to Australia, wher the boxing game has thrived for many years and the people love It as much aa th people of Amer ica lov baseball. However, all this talk in England and America haa had considerable effect, and Hugh Mcintosh, the Australian pro moter, who has conducted some of the biggest matches In the world, and was the first to pay out an enormous purse for a boxing contest, cables me that In the event of Johnson going to Australia thla year he will In all probability be matched against colored men only, Mr. Mcintosh Is on of th shrewdest pro moters In the business, and be no doubt understands that If he were to try and get over the heads of the people while such feeling exists he would be the loser, and he has very wisely decided to keep within bounds. This would mean that Johnson's op ponents In the country of the Southern Cro.is would be Sam McVea and Sam Langford two of the best heavy weights In the world today, outsid of Jack Johnson himself. It all depends upon Johnson's position in the case. If the champion la willing to be reason able In his terms, then he will have an opportunity to visit Australia again and fatten his already well-filled purse. But If not, he will find that Promoter Mcintosh will arrange to go along without him. A match between Johnson and Mc Vea would be interesting, not only to th colored followers of the sport, but to all classes, as they are evenly matched and would no doubt put up a great contest, with Johnson on th long end betting. Reports of the contest between Bom bnrdier Wells, the British heavyweight champion, and Fred Storbeck. the South African, whom Wella defeated In 11 rounda. does not show Wells in any more favorable light than he was six months ago, when h was being groomed for a meeting with Jack Johnson. I have a letter from one of the attendants at th bout In which he saya that Well waa fearful all the way through that Storbeck would get to bis stomach and put him out of busi ness. That was Wells' weak spot when PORTLAND BILLIARDIST SEEKS CUE CHAMPIONSHIP Henry Soloman Challenges Joseph Carney for World's Three-Cushion Title. Fred Beel May Meet John Berg in Portland. BT ROBCOE FAWCETT. EN'KY SOLOMAN. Portland's crack three-cuxhlon billiard expert, as pires to world's championship H honors, for hardly had th wires brought in reports of Jo Carney van quishing of Champion AJfred De Oro In Denver on Thursday night than Solo man's defl went spinning over the con tinent. Soloman recently defeated Car ney In Portland for the championship of the Pacific Coast, score 100 to . and he believes be can duplicate this performance and gobble in th world's title while be Is about It. Carney score in th three nights against De Oro was 150 to 148. the San Francisco man overtaking the Cuban's 100 to ta lead at the close of the second block and running th last (2 points whll De Oro bit off 4S. Th Carney Soloman match In Portland waa of only two nights' duration, Carny leading at the half-way point BO to 43. Solo man ran oat th last 30 points in 30 Innings, an averag of on point per frame. "I am ready to post th stipulated 3250 is soon a I hear from Carney," said Mr. Soloman last night. "If he does not car to com to Portland to play. I will meet hlra either at Denver or In Chicago or New York some tlm late in February or early In March. Carney will probably want to hold the title for a few weeks without having to defend it. I expect to go Eaat in about four weeks, and hope to meet several of th top-notcher on Eastern tables." Soloman has met John Daly on two occasions. Daly defeating him both times by the narrow margin of one point. Daly beat De Oro a fortnight ago In an exhibition match. Although reports from Chlcag-o are rather vague. Portland mat fans may be given the privilege of seeing Fred Beel. the wonderful light heavyweight wrestler, and John Berg, the Portland bone crusher. In a match settling finally the light heavyweight championship of tha world. Th till I now claimed by both stellar performers, following the recent elimination of William Demetral by Berg in this city. Emil Klank. manager for Frank Ootch and Yousouf Mahmout. th Turk, Is the man who believes Beel can de feat Berg and in a letter received by th writer yesterday Klank declared that he would bring Beel to Portland to meet Berg If the Swede was willing to put up a substantial side bet. Berg lias been trying to Inveigle Beel Into a battle for several months, but his telegrams have gone unan swered, according to hl own state ment He Is now In Spokane dickering for a match with Jess Pederson. the Dane, when he comes through on .his Northwestern tour, but It Is believed he will be willing to raise any amount of money demanded by Klank as a side wsaer. A Sroksne man, Engstrom by mnip, acknowledges willingness to back Berg for any amount up to 500(, and U9 Berg is possessed of a considerable amount of thl world's goods he will undoubtedly be willing- to augment the . v TinuTT ir' -T A r A TJ V 14. 1912 he fought Porkk Flynn last March, but he managed to keep out of harm s way. He certainly looked good otherwise and th general Impression among boxing critics was that If he could strengthen up In his lower body and be able to take a punch there he would prove a wonder, for there Is no doubt about his cleverness. However, If h cannot get away from body punches there are several of the second-rater here who will "get to him" and that would bo Just what Jim Flynn would delight In. While the Bombardier can box at long range he will make th other man look foolish, but once let his opponent get to the middle section and It Is all off. At that rate what would Jack Johnson have done to the Bombardier? And during all, the trouble at the National Sporting- Club In London the famous Kid McCoy was there to chal lenge the winner and announce that's had "come back." But the foxy Kid will have to show even the tolerant Britishers, for they are next to the fact that the Kid has passed beyond the Dr. Osier class. Despite this fact the Kid could defeat most of the heavier about the country, that is where he would not have to go longer than three rounds for beyond that period it would be all' off with the much-married Hoosler. Leper Colony Has Fire. NEW BEDFORD, Mass.. Jan. 13. The administration building at th Massachusetts leper colony on Penl kesee Island, at the entrance to Bus sard's Bay. was burned today, causing a loss of J10.000. Nona of th other buildings was in danger. side bet to a 38000 or $7000 total If Beel wishes to go that high. ' v . Beel, though hardly 170 pounds in weight. Is one of the greatest mat prodigies that ever lived and a match with Berg would draw probably th largest house that ever turned out In Portland. Beel for years was aupreme In the middle and light heavyweight classes and has the distinction of being the only man to win th world's heavy weight championship from Frank Gotch. Gotch subsequently regained It at Kansas City. "That match would be worth going hundreds of miles to see," declared Eddie O'Connell, of the Multnomah Club, yesterday when told of the ef forts to bring Berg and Beel together. "I traveled on a vaudeville circuit with Beel several years ago, meeting all comers, Beel In the light heavy and middle class and I in the light and welter divisions. I look upon Beel as the greatest wrestler for his size that the world has ever produced. Beel and Berg have never met, but those who have seen both men in action believe that Beel would prov Berg's master Is a finish bout." t Klank, In his letter to the writer, gives an Insight Into the switching of the Pederson-Mahmout bout from Chi cago to Kansas City or soma other city, Mahmout' peculiar looking bout with Zbyszko months ago caused th ban to be promulgated by Chief Mc Weeny. 'Mahmout was undoubtedly mads to lay down to Zbysxko," deolarea Klank. "He should not have come out and made the charge after the match, though, for now that he wants to b on the square the Chicago authorities are afraid to trust him. Mahmout, I believe, can beat both Pederson and Zbyszko and he says If he ever gets in the ring again with the Pole he will cut him in two with his leg scissors. "I posted 31000 for Mahmout after the Pederson-Coordrelll bout, and John Moje posted a similar amount for.4 Pederson," added Klank. Seventy-five per cent of tha wrestlers' share Is to go to the winner. It will be two falls out of three." Klank confirms tha report that should Pederson win from the Turk, his man. Frank Gotch will be forced from retirement to defend the title one again. Asked the other day for a synopsis of big league pitchers, Jo Tinker de clared, with remembrances of several White Sox victories over the Cubs, that Ed Walsh, of the Chicago Americans, was the hardest to hit. Of the famous heavers the former Portland star thinks Jack Coombs, of the Philadelphia Ath letics, the easiest. Tinker places Mathewson at tha pin nacle of greatness, but says Mordecal Broifn. of th Cubs, is by far th best fielding runner in the major show. 'I don't think much of P.ube Mar quard. of New York," Tinker la quoted as remarking. "Rube hasn't the men tality that will place him on the Mathewson plane. He has the arm. but not the head. Rucker. of Brook lyn, makes an awful hit with me." added Joe. "Chance would pay 135,000 Co et Aim for t&e Cuba." ROSE IS MAINSTAY OF AMERICAN Giant Shot-Putter Expected to Prove Bulwark in Com ing Olympiad. HAMMER EVENT IS SAFE T. Morris Dnnne Thinks United States Will HaTe Little Trouble In Taking Principal Weight Bventa In Sweden. That America has a cinch on the hammer throw, shot put and the Jave lin throw at the Swedish world s Olympio games is the belief of T. Mor ris Dunne, member of the board of di rectors of the Amateur Athletic Union of Portland, member of the Western committee which will make choices of America's representatives at Stock- kMr Dunne believes that Matt Mc Grath, of New York, will hurl the 16 pound hammer close to 190 feet by next July 6, when the track and field events are scheduled to begin at the 1913 Olympiad. His last throw of 187 feet Is by far the best ever done with the big globule. Snedlgar, the San Fran cisco Javelin thrower. Is expected to win the spear event. He Is improving all the time. He won the event at the Pittsburg National championships and later at the Pacific Association games hurled the Javelin 16S feet He should do more than 175 upholding- the prowesB of Uncle Sam across the pond. Rose America' Bulwark. "Stlffer competition will be met In the shotput and discus, to my way of thinking." said Mr. Dunne. Still I think Ralph Rose will be there with bells on In the pinch In the shotput, I understand Rose weighs close to sis pounds now. against 250 when he broke the world's outdoor records, so I was surprised to read today that he had "come back" with a vengeance. I look forward to seeing him In action at the Western trials In Golden Gate Park. San Francisco." Ralph Rose, Olympic Clu'j. San ran clsco; McDonald, of the New York Irish Americans: Beattle, of the New York Athletic Club, and Coe. of Boston, are said to be the foremost shotputters of the country. Rose Is quoted by William Unmack, of the San Francisco Call, as saying that Beattle has the best chance of the trio. In the discus the French have been forging rapidly to the front and Martin J Sheridan, the best of the American experts, probably will be hard pressed to win. Several Frenchmen have,shoved the disk out nearly 145 feet- New Events on Programme. "Copies of the official programme re ceived by me a few days ago furnish interesting reading," said Mr. Dunne. "For one thing, I note that there are to be two separate competitions In the shotput. Javelin throw and discus, one for the best hand and one for both hands. The latter event Is not used in America Ralph Rose will find this Just to his liking. He has done better than 47 feet with his left hand. In this event the distances of the two hand puts are averaged. "I want to call the attention of Northwestern clubs to another feature," added Mr. Dunne, who Is also secretary treasurer of the Paclflo Northwest As sociation of Amateur Clubs. "The wrestling tryonts are not to be held In San Francisco with the track and field trials, as several of the clubs seem to think. Wrestling trials probably will be held In one city, Chicago, Kansas City or New York, because otherwise there would be no basis of ascertaining- the best men. In track and field we can gauge by the records. Another thing, all wrestling is Greco-Roman style which is vastly different from tha catch-as-catch-can In vogue In America." The weights for the Swedish Olym piad are as follows: Feather, 133 pounds: light, 149 pounds; middle (a). 100 pounas; miaaie and heavyweight, 182 pounds and over. The maximum number of competitors from each nation In each different class is limited to 12. ROWING OUTLOOK IS CHEEKIXG Tr airline at Portland Rowing Club Will Start In Two"Months. Training for the 1912 crews will start at the Portland Rowing Club In about two months, announces Captain Allen. It was his plan to have two new shells for the coming- Beason, but the lum ber arrived only recently from the East and so it Is improbable that more than one will be finished befor late this Fall. Members of the club Intend to build the shell themselves. All the boats used last season have been overhauled and are ready. The club now has a good assortment of boats, from the single shells to the family cutters. Captain Allen is very optlmlstlo over the prospects. At the close of last Summer ther were more aspirants for rowing honors at every practice than could be riven boata If the most of these turn out again, he Is sure that the club will make a fine showing at the races with the Vancouver Rowing Club next July. The date has not been decided as the final details of the af fair rest with the Canadian organiza tion. Two senior crews and probably three is the present outlook, besides a number of strong Junior crews. After the Willamette Rowing Club went out of commission some years ago. Interest In the water sports be gan to wane, but last Summer it was revived. Many of the members of the old club, who were waiting for a pos sible rejuvenation of the Willamette, went over to th Portland Club, help ing to swell Its membership to more than 400.- Chairman Newell, of the house com mittee. Is planning to have the club rooms In good shape for the Summer. The dance hall will be put in shape for the dances, which are one of the social features of the club every Summer. The weekly Friday night dances will con tinue as heretofore, but the place will be open to tha members all the time, and after an evening- on the river, the night may be concluded by a dance in the room overlooking the river. The club Is In a better condition financially than it has ever been. The boathouse for the benefit of members owteing their own boats has been re pair;! Canoe trips, which were so successful last year, will be made more often this year, and some will be as long as a week, but the majority will be only from Saturday until Sunday night. Brief Sporting Notes. Ed. Frank, of the Multnomah Club, is nuoted as saying that Ned Cheely's . J with Tark TiTr will TEAM Jmko him ineligible to compeu wltajaam position, for Nob Hill. the mitts for Multnomah Club. Sounds rather strange, as Lester was then an amateur boxer for the Spokane Ama teur Athletic Cluo. Tom S. Andrews' annual sporting book for 1912 haa been received by the sporting editor of The Oregonlan, Jim my Clabby'a physiognomy supplanting that of James J. Jeffries and Battling Nelson on the cover page. Some of the new fighters listed are the three Browns, Chicago K. O.. New York K. O. and PaL Mike Gibbons. Jack Lester, Jose Rivers, Dave Smith, Young Saylor, Digger Stanley, BUly.vvells and Jack White. The Oregon Yaoht Club, spurred on by the success of the annual ball on Thursday night, is planning for a sec ond event at Christenson's HalL The second will be a colonial affair and will be held, during February. President Baum, of the Coast League, says that Walter McCredle's published declaration favoring Perle Casey as an umpire had absolutely no Influence In the ultimate appointment. "I always liked Casey and believe he will make ftuld Baum. "I wouldn't handi cap an umpire by letting It be under stood that some manager wanted htm appointed." , . ' In San Francisco on Wednesday Walter McCredle gave utterance to the statement that Jack Barry was the wisest ball player in the Pacific Coast League last year, bar none. Mac still insists, howaver, that Barry did not purposely block the ball that caused the near-riot-against George Hilde brand on the local lot toward the close of the season last Fall. The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted J. Cal Ewing as saying that the San Francisco- Club made 360,000 last season. Ewing refuses to name his profits when Interviewed on the Cast, but he was probably not over estimating the total to the Middle Western scribes. Patsy O'Rourke, of the Sacramento Senators, will use Chris Mahoney as a pitcher next season. Mahoney. Lerchen and Catcher Thomas have been turned back to Sacramento by Boston. Patsy says Miller, the first-sacker secured from Philadelphia, will prove the class of the league. H. 3. Miller, a member of the Spo kane Athletic Club, writes in a boost for Oecar Wassum. the Wichita wrest ling wonder, whom Miller thinks should be considered In the eliminations for the world's light heavyweight cham pionship. Wassum wrestled a five-hour draw with DemetraL . SOCGEUlfPOSSIBLE LEAGUE LEADERS TO BATTLE THIS MOKXTXG. Independent and Mount Scott Nearly Together in Race lor Oregon Association Honors. Oregon Association League. W. L. P. C- Mount Scott I Independents W North Bank J J O.-W. R. N. 0 4 .000 In the Oregon Soccer League this morning at 10:30 the rival railway teams. North Bank and the O.-W. B- & N., meet on the Columbus Field, at the same time that Mount Scott, on its own enclosure, Is battling with the Inde pendents. This latter game should be worth going some way to see, as a win for the Independents would put them level with the leaders. The lineups: Mount. Scott. Indepenr.d,e.IitB';en krSonfev:v.v.VKVv":.v::.;: W. strader-Huntley.L B. .. . Fuller-Bayliss Gunn-Raupaca - i ti-. -G. Drynm .......CHB-... R. Robaon LHB.... McOUverle O RF Wallace W. Robson CP.... F. Drynen ...... .1 LF. .. . J. Robson OLF. ... Referee aiffard. North Bank. 1 R. M. Karr O R. Karr RB Stllman L B.... Barteta Bryce Tufts Titley . . . Wempner Wells , Grier Ritter -W. R. N. W. Gavin . . Chamberlain , Struble-Tead Biselow Webiter RSB- BalUngale c wr T.lnd-Wrlirht spooner . Drlscoll Francis . Manning Crosby . . Patrick Referee- L HB Bergsvlk GRP.. J. Garvin .1 r p Maglus CF Johnson "i LP. . Robertson-Morris OLF Voss Ingles. SPOKAXE DEMANDS SMOKER Proposal to Call Off Meet With Mult nomah Is Rejected. Edgar Frank, chairman of the box ing and wrestling department of the Multnomah Athletic Club, received a telegram from Spokane yesterday aft ernoon declining to call off the inter club smoker, scheduled for January 19 at Spokane. Spokane finally accepted the weights proposed by Multnomah and the local representatives will be: Wrestling. 13o pounds. Trainer; heavyweight, Davis court; boxing, 125 pounds, Somervllle; 145 pounds. Madden. "No date has been set for the Se-attle-Multnomah meet originally sched uled for February I?3 in Portland." said Mr. Frank. "Wo will hardly be set tled in. our new building then, so a postponement had to De asaeq iur. PORTLAND will not b represented at the Northwest Amateur Wrest ling tournament which tha Tacoma Y. M. C. A. expects to hold. Th prin cipal organisations of the Northwest were asked to sent representatives, but Physical Director Lee, of the Portland Y M. C. A., does not think that he haa any team strong enough to compete. -Thirteen entries for the six-day Marathon race to be held in February have been signed. They are Fleming, Brockman. Savage, Gaynor. Martin. Fadden. Mann, Rooney, Starr, Masters, Havlick, Nutting and Sontag. The course for the affair will be about 14 miles. A swimming contest between Sell wood Y. M. C. A. and Portland Y. M. C. A will be held at the latter's tank tomorrow night. The programme will consist of diving, racing and a game of water polo. Marton will do stunts above and under the water. Tait. the Y. M. C. A. champion fancy diver, will perform, while Balbach, a hew man here, will do some speed work. - The Lincoln and Jefferson second basketball teams played a practice game at the Y. M. C. A. yesterday. Lin coln winning, 20 to 15. Both teams played a consistent game. The game gave the two coaches, Lee and Dake, a chance to view prospective material to fill vacancies on the first team. w A city championship game of inde pendent football teams will be played today at the Columbus Club field be tween the Nob Hills and the Columbus Club. The Nob Hill team is composed of almost all the all-star men of Lln Washington High schools. i while the Columbus Club will have a number of the Jefferson all-stars m its lineup. Moyer Cole will play quarter for the Columbus Club, while Patter nn. of Lincoln High, will play the amateur athletics nr IliHI UL GENIUS OF ITCH San Francisco Looks With Dis favor on Johnson-Flynn Championship. SMALL HOUSE PREDICTION Otto Berg, of Astoria, Seeks Bouts Around Golden Gate Kaufman, Not Convinced Hs Is Down and Out, Would Meet Palzer. BT HARRT B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 13. (Special.) it looks very much to a man on the fence as If Jimmy Coffroth Is to be the guiding spirit of the Johnson-Jim Flynn farce if that pair of worthies ever manage to get together for their promised heavyweight cham pionship?) The last news from the East was a statement from Jack Cur ley, who up to date has been acting in the dual role of promoting the fight and managing Jim Flynn, to the effect ; that he was convinced It would be the' best policy to ask James Waldorf Coff-: roth, of San Francisco, to act aa man ager of the club giving the show. Coffroth, when he was interviewed as regards that end of the affair, coyly admitted that he had been in corre spondence with Curley. "There are several little matters to be adjusted," he said, "and in case they turn out all right I probably will han dle the fight, but will have no Interest outside of that." San Francisco Not to Be Scene. It is rather bard to size up the situa tion, but it looks to me as if the propo sition were to interest either Salt Lake City people or some of the men inter ested in those two small towns in Ne vada. If they could be persuaded to post the $30,000 that Johnson requires. Curley would very likely be willing- to take a chance as regards the end that Flynn will draw down and Coffroth: might be willing to work lor a per centage of the house. j One thing is absolutely certain -that match 4sn't coming to San Francisco. The sports have been guying the card as a lopsided affair and Coffroth .the other day admitted to th newspaper fraternity that he didn't believe it would be good policy (for several rea sons, none of them stated) to try to land the match for San Francisco; The press of San Francisco has not taken kindly to the fight and most of the sporting writers have openly de-1 clared it to be a bout best unmade. Small House Predicted. To date there hasn't been any charge! that the match Is "fixed," but, as the! newspapers mold public opinion, it la : sure to be a small house. The sports ; of today are not paying their good i money to see that sort of card and ! particularly when they would be obliged to take the long trip to Ne vada. Th most reoent dispatches Indicate that both Johnson and Flynn are con sidering other matches In advance of that July date of their own and possi bly they want to see how the card la going to take with the public. For that reason I wouldn't be in the least surprised to learn at any time of the bout being declared off. The latest arrival in the boxing col ony is One-Round Hogan, the San Francisco lightweight, who has been in the East with Gil Boag, his manager. Hogan was due to reach home last Monday, but his Overland was some thing like 24 hours late and it wasn't until Tuesday that he put In an ap pearance. Otto Berg, the Astoria middleweight, also arrived the first of the week. Berg Is accompanied by his manager, Charles Hanlin, and Intends sticking here un til he gets a trial. He Is a likely looking lad and as he comes well rec ommended by Peter Grant, he shouldn't have so very much trouble In landing. There are already a couple of good middle-weights. Sailor Fetroskey and Frits Holland, In San Francisco and that will make it better for Berg. There are two clubs In Oakland going full tilt, with shows every month, and Berg. If he fails to catch the eye of one of the San Francisco promoters, may connect across the bay. Kaufman Not Convinced. Word has com from Al Kaufman anent the beating that he took at the hands of Al Palzer. Kaufman hasn't written himself, but a friend sent a letter th other day In which he said that the Californian was trained down altogether too fine. This coincides somewhat with the views of some of the New York experts, who said that Kaufman showed very plainly the ef fects of being too long out of th ring. At all events, the friend adds In his letter that Kaufman might have won had he continued to use the left Jab that he worked effectively at the outset- However that may be, Albert wants another match with Palzer and thinks he can come back. The con sensus of opinion of Californians who know Kaufman best is that he ought to be through with the game for good and alL LUMBER PROBLEM TOPIC Pacific Coast Shippers Hold Conler ence at Seattle. SEATTLE. Jan. 13. (Special.) Wholesale lumber and shingle dealers, as well as a large number of manufac turers, were In Seattle yesterday In attendance at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Shippers' Association This is the only general meeting held by the association In the year. In his report Mr. Fairbanks pointed out that reduction In rates on shingles to Denver points from 60 to 60 cents, recently announced by the railroads, will also mean reductions In rates to the western half of Texas, and very likely to Western Kansas, due to th fact that the combination of the new Coast-Denver and Denver-Texas rate, will be more than permitted by the In terstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Fairbanks declared that in his opinion general reductions in freight rates to the Middle West are not at all Improbable. That curtailment will not solve the problem of lumbering In the Northwest, but that new markets must be created, was another point made by Mr. Fair banks. , , An amendment to the by-laws was submitted, creating the office of man ager F. D. Becker will fill' this posi tion, as well as that of secretary. F A. England. C. R. Roy. E. L. Con nor of Seattle, and C. E. Hill, of Ta coma. were elected trustee. The earliest record of rubber shlpmsnts from the Congo was In 1SST, 'hn It amounted to 2u0,0OO pounds, but la 180 It reached 8,000.000 pound. COFFROTH MrW