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1, 1914. WEIGHT KILLS OFF BUD, SAYS SMITH land County Council, has told a re markable story in a lecture on spirit ualism to the church people of Dear ham, Maryport. He was dealing with the possibility of a dying person's form IS appearing to the Individual in his or her mind at the moment of death and he related an extraordinary experience. He befriended the orphan daughter of a clergyman by obtaining her a situa tion as a governess. She became en gaged to an officer of the Indian Army and Canon Sutton gave her a sealskin coat as a present. The affair turned out unhappily, however, for the officer jilted her and broke her heart. Some time afterwards Canon Sutton dined at Dovenby Hall and rode home to Bridekirk on a clear, moonlight night. Near Dovenby School, at 12:15 A. M., he saw the form of the girl in her sealskin coat. The horse seemed to see something, too, for he stopped. On reaching home the Canon told his wife what he had seen, but she laughed at him. Nevertheless he learned later Reed College Interclass Sport Brings Many Benefits. tody nry nawrvtr ajritatsa In vain Par won waa rignt. a subscriber. .. Questions 1" sine rain WMakp. To the Editor: In large whisky advertisements ta the local press the statements are made that "whisky la on of tha great est medicines ever Invented," and that It la "the only medicine ever Invented that baa been proved to proUmk human life." . Will someone who baa Investigated or who Is a chemist or physician kind ly Inform me if this statement is true, and state what ingredients in wblskr possess each medicinal and curative properties? will someone Inform me In wbat way U prolongs or preserves life? . PERPLEXED. Sporting Writer Believes Last Seen of Medford - Van couver Pride of Ring. POLICY ADOPTED YEAR AGO her It Is Dr. roster's Turn to Laugh at Those Who Considered Xew Sys tem in the Light of a Temporary Jest. Iodi ne Is NEW MIDDLEWEIGHT SEEN atlc that the girl died at the very mo ment she appeared to him on the road, that at the time of death she was wearing the sealskin coat he had given her and that her last words were to tell him that she forgave him for In troducing her to the faithless officer. Asked if his experience on the Dovenby fighting Billy Murray Thought Le gitimate Heir to Late Stanley Ketchel's Honors Cof froth Takes Eastern Trip. ro the Bdttor i "J In BT RALPH J. STAEHLL One year ago Dr. William T. Foster, president of Reed College, announced THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTXAXD, 31 ARCH SUCCESS METHOD BT HAART B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. (Special.) Will California develop in Fighting Billy Murray, of Sacramento, a legiti mate heir to the middleweight throne that, since its vacation by the death cf the late Stanley Ketchel, has never had a fitting possessor? San Francisco fans who saw Murray defeat Leo Houck Monday are very much of the opinion that Murray is a comer and a fellow it will be well to tab. It was figured that Houck's experi ence would be far too much for Hur lay, but the Sacramento boy proved p.n agreeable surprise. Houck looked to be dead on his feet and loggy. but Murray beat him at every stage of the trame. In- the in-fighting ne exceuea and punished Houck considerably about the body. At long-range he uped a swinging left from which Houck couldnf seem to get away. Murray is a Portuguese boy, about 23 years of age. He is the same loose limbed chap that Stanley Ketchel was. Murray doesn't shape up today as fast a man as the Michigander, but he can improve. Moreover, he is a' small mid dleweight and can do 154 pounds nice ly. Probably he gave away six pounds to Houck. Future Tbonsbt Promising. All the same, I should say he has a promising future ahead of him. He Isn't particularly bright, although he Is bright as most fighters go these days. He is quite willing to learn, and Jack Kearns. who is his manager, doesn't want to carry Murray along at too rapid a gait, which is to his credit. It looks very much as if we have seen the last of Bud Anderson in the boxing game. Of course, he may decide to try the sport again, once he has had a good long rest, but if he has any real friends they will advise him against such a move. The truth is that Ander son has had quite enough and ought to be contented to settle down to some r.lce business from which he can make a living. " So far as the match with Red Wat eon is concerned, it was the last straw with San Francisco fight fans. The local followers of the game do not fig ure Watson as anything and they real ize that it was entirely a proposition of making weight that killed off the Northwestern boy. He had to take off more than 12 pounds in two days and as he had been conditioning himself in the North prior to coming to San Francisco, that meant a lot more than would ordinarily be the case. The fact is that Anderson can't do better than the welterweight limit any longer and be strong. Also, with tne knockouts that have been registered against him, it is questionable whether he could stand for an,y length of time. Ritchie Pays Taxes. There is no question but that Ander son and Donald have had -something of a quarrel, in spite of the announce ment that they just agreed to disagree. Willie Ritchie, the lightweight cham pion, left on Thursday week for Mil waukee, where he has been matched with Ad Wolgast for a 10-round bout March 10. He was accompanied by Harry Foley, his manager and trainer, and the fighter also took with him one of his sisters, in order to give her a peek at the Middle West, Promoter Jimmy Coffroth left on the same train with Ritchie. The promoter will go to New York to attend to some business and expects to be in Mllwau kee for the Wolgast match. Ritche has set the fashion for pugilists, of paying his income tax. Kstimated on what he made during the last 12 months, the little San Fran cisco boxer paid a tax on a little more than $20,000, which meant that his tax to the Government stood him about J200. Kddie Graney, who holds the March permit for San Francisco, has done nothing as yet regarding a card. "TAP DAY" IS UNDER BAN Vale Juniors Would Abolish Time- Honored Custom of Class. NEW HAVEN, Feb. 24. One hundred Tale Juniors have organized to abolish the time-honored "Tap day" and to re tnove the selection of candidates for the secret societies of the academic college from the historic old maple tree on the campus to Berkeley Oval. The juniors contend that "Tap day" has become too much of a public carnival, instead of a dignified election. The rivalry of the clubs to get desir able men has led to some unpleasant in cidents, it is said, and the heartburn ings of disappointed boys have been paraded too much. One plan suggested is that some responsible person suggest the names of 70 .men of the junior class thought to be eligible for society honors and submit them to the clubs, which may agree upon them in advance privately instead of scrambling for them in public. GIRL'S LIPS HIDE GEMS lHanioiuls Stored in Her Mouth as Kobbers Fleece Her Escort. SPRING FIKIJ. Mo., Feb. 24. Citi zens living in the residence districts near the business section of Springfield have been terrorized for several nights by repeated daring holdups, committed almost in the heart ,of the city. Five persons have been held up. One young .woman saved diamonds valued at sev eral hundred doliarw by putting them in her mouth, while the robbers went through the pockets of her escort. The method of operation used by the robbers, believed to be boys, is peculiar in that they approach their victim from behind, touch him on the shoulder, point a gun in his face and go through his pockets from behind. The sum of $51 was obtained early this evening from a druggist on his "way home for supper. Police have thus far been unable to find a trace of the robbers. VISION OF DEATH APPEARS Briton Tells of Remarkable Experi ence Late at Xight. TjONDOX, Feb. 26. (Special.) Canon Button, vice-chairman of the Cumber PORTLAND SWIMMERS WHO HAVE BECOME EXPERT IN NEW TANK STUNT v ZL - M I t Mi 1 a. i 1 f i -' li'J k $ v 1 1 t - PERCY BOTOX AND JAMES MISTROT. road had not shaken his nerves. Canon Sutton replied that he had no nerves. BOYS EAT UNDER WATER PORTLAND LADS PRACTICE QUEER "STUNTS" IV TANK. James Sllstrot and Percy Bowen Con. sider Offers to Enter Vaudeville at Flattering Salary. Did you ever jump into a swimming tank, go to the bottom and go to sleep, or eat a meal, or play cards, or sing a song, or smoke a pipe" or cigarette, or something equally out of place un der water? Most of you probably did not, and those who tried got a mouth ful for their pains. James Mistrot and Percy Bowen, Portland amateur swimmers, have built a big tank and in that they do each of those "stunts." The ability to stay under water de mands, above all, good wind. . ilistrot first learned to swin the length of th tank, then back and the full length a third time all under the surface. Bowen was soon able to do the same. Then they started doing "stunts." They are now able to eat a three course meal under water. Following the submarine lunch the ysing. The voices reach those above the water by means of a electrophone arrangement. The boys have been urged to accept some vaudeville offers at flattering pay, and are thinking seriously of ac cepting. ON FIRST RIDE MAN HURT Farmer Sues Kailroad for $20,000 Damages for Injuries. FORT SMITH. Ark., Feb. 22. (Spe cial.) To live 60 years without being on a railroad train and on the first ride to be ia a wreck was the experience of Monroe Ray, a farmer, of Sulphur Rock, who filed suit against the Iron Moun tain Railroad for 20,000 damages today. Rather than ride on a train again Ray rode to Batesvillo on a horse, a distance of 18 miles. KAISER BANS MUSTACHE Instructions Given to Regiment Say Style Is Non-German. BERLIN, Feb. 26. Wearing of the "toothbrush" mustache was forbidden to soldiers of Emperor William's body guard regiment. The reason given was that it wa3 non-German. VAUDEVILLE ACTOR IS EN THUSIASTIC AXGUER. Henry AVoodrnff. Henry Woudruff, late star of "Brown of Harvard," who is headlined at the Orpheum this week in the comedy playlet. "A Regular Business Man," is a lover of life in the open. "I always look forward to my wTell earned rest in the Summer," says Mr. Woodruff, "when I can retire to my Summer home, don an old suit Qf clothes and just be lazy. Casting a fly is one of my fav orite sports' and how I would love to spend a few Summer months In Oregon, whipping the streams that are noted for won derful results." that the policy at his institution was "Intercollegiate athletics at the mini mum and interclass sports at the maxi mum." More than that, there were no intercollegiate athletics at all and the interclass contests were broadened out to Include every one In them. This immediately became a jest with the other Northwest colleges and It was remarked by the knowing ones that Reed would soon become a place for the mollycoddles and would not de mand the attention of any self-respecting- athlete. Opinions Are Upet. The first hitch in their opinions came when several prominent inter scholastic athletes went over to Reed. The second came when they stayed there more than a year. They are there still, and it is declared tbat the ath letic system at Reed is the best pos sible. It eliminates one factor the bar gaining for athletes. Though there are many of the stars who seem to specialize in nothing but football and who later make good, there is a vast majority who later make failures of the game of life, though they did star at college. - - What Dr. Foster tried to eliminate, and which he succeeded in doing very successfully, was the condition which had 500 sitting in the stand watching nine or 11 playing in the field below. Now -when you go out to Reed you find no spectators. If there are any, It is merely that some of those in the game are stopping from the play long enough to give some one else a chance. To be sure. Dr. Foster's methods would be the Quickest way to elimin ate the defects of the present system, the bidding for athletes and the plac ing of the Intercollegiate sport at too high a rating. Dr. Foster Gives Opinion. In speaking of these conditions Dr. Foster says: "After two years of trial by Reed. there is not the slightest doubt by those connected with the situation that it Is a success. "A larger proportion of Reed College students and faculty are engaged in athletics as a normal part of college lire than in any other school. The ab sence of all the excesses of intercol legiate sports, the series of intramural games and the 200 acres of playground have proved adequate incentive to every member of the college. "Athletics at Reed are meant for everyone and not for a few selected individuals. There are no stars who make sport their only business at col lege. As we have no use for them we do not have to make athletics a busl ness." Coach Pipal, of Occidental Colleee. In California, says that it's easy enough for the college presidents all over the country to cal for interclass athletics and pass the buck, but claims that In tercollegiate athletics do more for the educational Institutions than to de velop healthy bodies. Compulsory Athletics Advocated. "I would like to see some college president big and strong enough," said Pipal, "to make it compulsory for every male student in his institution to take part in athletics. "Every student an athlete, is what we should have. Make athletic work compulsory and give credit for it. Have the interclass contests and in addition to the interclass athletics have the in tercollegiate contests. "The athletic directors are larerelv to blame for the neglect of many' male students who really need athletic ex erclse to take it.. Too much attention is paid to stars. Get out the third, fourth and fifth-place men. Get three or four full teams out for baseball. At the start of the baseball season get every class to put a team in the field and play off an interclass series be fore the regular season starts. "Personally I would rather hare ten men on a track squad who could run the hundred In eleven seconds than one or two men who could do it in ten flat. It's all right if you have the stars, but the understudy men should not be overlooked. "The bottom will drop out of the athletic system if the stars alone are cared for. Have interclass athletics to give every man a chance, and have intercollegiate athletics to keep up the spirit of loyalty to the college. WOMEN CAPTURE "DIP" Duo Drag Pickpocket to Police as Admiring Crowd Looks On. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Two Brooklyn women captured a small man one night recently on Avenue A. Manhattan, whom they charged with picking pockets, and with an excited crowd of men and boys following after them, dragged him to the Fifth-street police station. Mrs. Mary Bischoff, of 258 Moffat street, and Mrs. John Regan, of the same address. were on their way to visit the former's A CO raiexe tter rsQQ 99 In a recent issue of a local paper "Perplexed makes doubting inquiry regarding the truth of certain statements made in one of our recent advertisements appearing therein. Inasmuch as we are responsible for the statements inquired of, it is up to us to" defend them, although such defense is offered to be received only by the unprejudiced and no attempt will be made to convince those who "much against their will are of the same opinion still." During the past few years we have threshed out this question with the medical fraternity with conclusive results; upwards of forty thousa id physicians canvassed reporting in the same strain, i. e., that good whisky such as we distill possesses medicinal properties unknown to any other substance. u 'International Clintcs" teems with substantiations of the claim that spirits fermenti is indicated, above any other medicine, in a score or more of conditions, and that in many conditions it is the only remedial agent that can be employed. Dr. Edward Willard Watson, of Philadelphia, generally conceded to be among the leading diagnosticians of the world, says International Clinics, Vol. 3, 71st series): "When distilled liquors were first used as medicines their effect! were a little ihort of minunilrmsf brandy was the 'Water of Life in the power to revive the exhausted and stimulate the dying. The power it has to relieve depression of spirits and enable the patient to rally from shock was obvious to all. The world will still resort to it. It will still be given in exhaustion to sustain Jife, and in faint nesa, to rvive. So far as the observation of hundreds of years goes, whisky will continue to help the ick and tide th'm over the brink of death to recovery. When tonics fail, the malt liquors such as whisky turn the scale, causing better digestion and increased weight. If, as some would say, this is because they contain bitters, why in al; these years of temperance reform has not someone invented a non-alcoholic beverage that will do the work of whisky? This question is a practical eme, and will never appeal to the unpractical and visionary. All of which, taken in conjunction with hundreds of similar utterances by men of high wisdom in the profession, is a complete substantiation of the statement that good whisky does prolong human life and if Dr. Watson and thousands of other noted physicians are to be believed is the one sub stance that has prov en to 'do it. Get the Genuine W sttCT-. jv) '.r TXy tli ,t,, ssiiib 11 ssiiiisiiiis !! in I Hi usiiiiir in i ll ill " - i isi .33 Horn With the Republic Endorsed and used in practice by 40,000 physicians ma i i ii iisni-fsmriiH-iiV(ii-f iiestTrTirsansmi nan " mi. i.irp"WF B 4':-?-.v-iJ 'SI mother, Mrs. Barbara Smith, of 412 Fifth street, when at First street and Avenue A Mrs. Bischoff felt a tug at her pockets and saw the little man run ning away. Starting after him. she grasped mm by the coat collar, and despite his ap peals to the crowd around him to make the woman release him, he was brought to the police station. At first he said his name was Samuel Shapiro, of 1212 Washington avenue. Manhattan, but later admitted that he was Samuel Lcvinsky, of 371 Rodney street, this borough. The police say he admitted picking Mrs. Bischoff's pocket. Woman Steps Into Cold and Oies. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. Mrs. Barbara Welsh, of 65 Bridge street, Paterson, cook at the City Farm, is dead as the result of a walk in the zero weather after she left her- kitchen. She started home at night after her work was fin ished. On the way she staggered into the home of Peter de Censo anj collapsed. celebrated the arrival of the 16th-baby at the home of Mrs. Susan Temple, of that place. It is a girl and weighs about 12 pounds. The mother is 40 years old and the father 45. Scores of their friends gave the parents an ovation as real boosters for the town. Slork Makes 16th Visit. Ml" RPH YSBORO, I1L. Feb. 24. Resi dents of Jacobs, Jackson County, III,, No, Alicia, the calf pocketbook n.t made from the hide of a cowlet. ThW's where you wear them.