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I; V MA Washington Street, Corner First DE-IN-OEEG ON SAO ' MADE) I.V OREGON ' $18 Oak Dresser $9.85 Oak Dresser with French plate bevel mir ror; we also have a few of these Dressers with oval mirrors ; they are finished in the pretty dull wax. This is pos i t i v e 1 y the greatest Dresser value for so lit tle money ever offered in the city. Gadsbys' price $9.85 ' MATJE TS OREGOIf $25.00 Princess . Dresser for $12.50 Call and see this high-grade Princess Dresser we are of fering in quarter-sawed oak, pretty dull finish, with 18x36 beveled French plate mirror. Regular $25 value for half price - $12.50 Iron Beds $7.45 M Massive In design with two-inch continuous posts and heavy fillers at head and foot. A splendid Bed in every way. Braced with heavy angle-iron braces. Now is your opportunity to get a tine bed. ' MADE IN OREGON ' $18 Solid Oak Table for - 'I E y taat r, x $10.95 This Table is solid oak, 42-inch top, 8-inch pedestal base, extends to six feet when open. Can be had la fumed or golden oak wax finish. Regular price of this Tablets 1S; for this JJQ JJJJ Sold ob Easy Weekly r Monthly 'Payment. MADE IN OBESOX 2pr This Style 21 ki m This Style $25.00 Gadsbys' Gas Ranges Always Satisfy Buy Tour Gas Range While the Price Is Low. 120 Gas Ranges, Special at $15.00 Other Gaa Stoves an Cheap as $0.50 GAS PLATES AS LOW AS . 50c GadBby Sella Gaa Water Heaters for Less. Parlor Suit Bargain $25 This Ss a Parlor Suite we can recommend for beauty, design and ele gant finish. Solid birch frame, mahogany finish, with beautl- CJOC f ul relour upholstering. Is worth S38; Gadsbys" price only 9tU We have other Tbree-Plece Suites aa low as 815. Our Club Plan of Easy Install ments A f fords You the Most Liberal Credit MADE IX OREGOX ' Convertible Into a Bed With Two Motions hMJillsdSyuJia ASA Above is pictured the Duo-Fold Divan Bed when opened up and ready tor use as a bed. But two simple motions are all that are necessary to make the change from divan to bed. It is unnecessary to move the Divan from the wall, the back remains stationary. There is e"nough space between the springs to allow the mattress and bed clothes to remain when folded up. When used as a bed, you do not sleep on the hard upholstering; but on the mattresses that can be placed over the springs, thus making your bed tfOrt as comfortable as a full-sized regulation bed. Gadsbys' price Other Davenport Beds as Cheap as $22.50 Special Sale of Rugs Imperial Wilton, 9x12 feet, jJ29 50 Royal Axminsters, 9x12 ee23 00 Extra Axminsters,- 9x12 feet, jfJ25 00 Saxony Axminsters, 9x12 feet, j J g 50 Sussex Velvets, . 9x12 feet, j 50 Metropolitan Brussels, 9x12 00 Eureka Brussels, 9x12 feet, 50 Special Brussels, 9x12 feet, 1 00 CARPETS WERE NEVER SOLD SO CHEAP ' BEFORE RUGS REDUCED FOR THIS SALE No Matter What You Want In Furniture oil it, "foy Less USE OCR EXCHANGE DEP'T If you have Furniture that doesn't suit want something more up to date and better phone us and we'll send a competent man to see it and arrange to take it as part payment on the kind you want the Gadsby kind. We'll make you a liberal allowance for your goods and we'll sell you new Furniture at low prices. The new Furniture will be promptly delivered. Have Furniture you'll be proud of. i Fast Fight at San Diego Goes 20 Rounds, With New Yorker Favorite. MUCH MONEY CHANGES Referee Jack Root Fails to Make Hit by Decision Both Mien Coming Strong Even at End of Last Go. SAN DIEGO, Cat, July 4. At the end of 20 rounds. Leach Cross, the New York dentist, was given the decision over "Red" Watson, of San Diego, in a fast fight here this afternoon. The decision of Referee Jack Root was unpopular with the crowd. Many declared that on account of both boys being In good condition at the of 20 rounds, strong- and ready to continue, a draw decision would have been cor rect. .Much money was bet. Cross being the favorite at 10 to 6 and 2 to 1. For the first round both were cau tious. After this they opened up and exchanged wallops. Cross fought for Watson s head and face and started the blood flowing from his opponent's nose in the latter stages. Watson con fined his work to Cross stomach and long right and left swings, which Wat son landed on the New Yorker's stom ach, made him wince. CHIP KNOCKS .OUT , MCRRAY Petalnnm Fighter's Plnck and Vital ity Prolong Fight. SAN FRANCISCO, July, 4. George Chip, of New Castle, Fa., aspirant for the middleweight championship, knocked out "Fighting" Billy Murray, of Petaluma, Cal today in the 15th round of their 20-round fight. The finish was not unexpected. Only Murray's indomitable courage and re markable vitality enabled him to with stand the powerful punches of the Pennsylvanlan in the last four rounds. Coming out of a clinch in the nnal round Chip shot three terriilo right hooks to the Callforntan s Jaw. Mur ray's arms dropped to his sides, his eyes closed and as he crumpled Chip caught him flush on the Jaw with a heavy left uppercut. It was fully two minutes after he had been counted out before Murray was revived sufficiently to be removed to his corner. Murray led by a good margin until the 11th round. He outboxed and out' fought his hard-hittlag opponent in al most every round. The Pennsylvanlan was unable to land effectively with his celebrated left and right hooks. Mur ray staggered Chip in the second round with a straight left to the Jaw. Again in the seventh and eighth the East' erner was in distress, and appeared tired and worried at the start of the 10th. Toward the latter part of this round Chip rallied briskly, but the round was still Murray's by a slight margin. " After an exchange of lefts to the body at the opening of the 11th Chip changed the tide of battle with a solid left punch which closed Murray's right eye and brought a stream of blood from his nose. A moment later he sent the Californian down for a count of nine with a left to the body. He arose weak and groggy and only Chip's over anxiety saved him. From then to the finish it was the victor's fight all the way. Chip was the favorite in the betting. Last night and this morning 10 to 8 H on Chip and even money that he would win Inside of IS rounds was offered. A flood of Murray money sent the odds up to 10 to 9 at ringside. A capacity crowd filled the open-air arena. M'CTJE IS EASY FOR RIVERS Wolgast's Substitute Goes Down in Second1 Round of Fight. LOS ANGELES. July 4 Apparently awed by what he considered the su perior "class" of his opponent, Matty McCue, a lightweight of Racine, Wis, .who was substituted for Ad Wolgast, was an easy victim today' for Joe Rivers, of Los Angeles, in the second round of a 20-frame contest at Vernon arena. McCue, whose press agent said he never had been knocked down in the course of 50 fights, sat down violently twice In less than two rounds when Rivers' fist landed viciously on his chin. The first .time he went .to the canvas McCue smiled In a weak way at Rivers, and rubbed his jaw as if he did not quite understand how It happened. The second time he again stroked his Jaw, but the smile was absent. He sat still while the referee counted to six, when his manager threw a sponge Into the ring. Then he cried. "He didn't knock me out. He didn't knock me out." The men entered the ring at catch weights, with Rivers the heavier by two . or three pounds. McCue looked scared from the beginning, and his ring frightbecame obvious to every person in the arena as soon as the first gong sounded. He did little except try to cover, while Rivers, with cool, calculat ing eyes, easily broke down the weak defense of the Easterner. Goldfield .'Witnesses Two Bouts. GOLDFIELD, Nev.. July 4 Johnny McCarthy, the San Francisco light weight, won a 10-round decision today from Kid Harrison, or teno. sauor Grande, of San Francisco, a middle weight, knocked out Bob Graham, of Goldfield, in the fifth round of a sched uled 10-round bout. Carl Morris Is Fourth Victor. FORT SMITH, Ark., July 4. Carl Morris, of Sapulpa, Okla., stopped Al Kubiak, of Michigan, in the sixth round of their scheduled 10-round bout here tonight. CITY CHAMPIONSHIP IS GOAL National Laundry Team Ha Xot ' Been Defeated This Season. The National 'Laundry has gathered together one of the best semi-pro. baseball teams in the city. Manager Wniiini? ha secured the services of some of Portland's best semi-pro, toss- ers, and Is out for the city champion ship. Last Sunday afternoon the Nationals trimmed the West Lynn Club, near Ore gon City, to the tune of 8 to 4. making a rattling finish In their half ot the ninth, overcoming a 4-to-l lead and chasing seven runs over the plate. Jamison, in the box for the West Lynn Club, had everything on the ball, and had but two hits registered against him until this inning. The home crowd be gan to leave, thinking the game stowed away, when a series of three doubles, a few bunts and errors placed the Port land club In the lead. "Mysterious" Patton, twirling for the laundry, got away nicely. The four runs chalked against him were caused, it Is said, by a decision at home plate and errors on the part of his team mates, who found it almost impossible to field the ball, owing to the poor con dition of the grounds. Patten succeed ed in retiring 13 via the strike-out route and allowed but one safe hit. Plymouth, an Ashland High School boy, on the receiving end for the Na tionals, broke up any attempts at stolen bases and made two circus catches of foul flies. The game gives the National Laun dry team two wins and no defeats, and Manager Walling is confident that he has a neatly balanced and hard-hitting club, and Is willing to start against the best in the state. He is looking for a game for Sunday and would like to hear from Dayton, Albany, Astoria and The Dalles, .with a. view to filling his open dates. PENNSY '8' IS WINNER CREW KKFEATEn BY COLl'MBIA VICTOR OVER TORONTO BOAT. of Philadelphia Oarsmen Capture .11 15 Races oa Schoylklll River. T. J. Rooney Takes Sculls. PHILADELPHIA. July 4. Tho Uni versity of Pennsylvania elglit-oared crew, the same, with a few exceptions, which finished second to Columbia at Poughkeepsie, beat the Argonaut eight, of Toronto, by half a length In 6:31 in' the senior eight-oared race, the feature event of the annual people's regatta rowed today over the mile and a quarter course on the Schuylkill River. Detroit Boat Club finished third; New York Athletlo Club, fourth; Vesper Boat Club, of this city, fifth, and Ariels, of Baltimore, last. Philadelphia oarsmen won 11 put oi 15 races. The New York Athletic Cluo eight won the intermediate eight race from the Vesper Boat Club, of this city, the latter being disqualified. AnaloKtan Boat Club, of wasnington. finished first In the Junior elght-oared race, but was disqualified for interfer ing in the last quarter mile, when the coxswain steered into the course of the Undine Boat Club, of this city. New York Athletlo Club also won tne Intermediate sculls quadruple race. beating out the Quaker City Boat Club crew. Thomas J. Rooney, of tne Kavens- wood Boat Club, Long Island City, won the senior sirigle sculls race, jonn o Kelly, of the Vespers, gave Rooney a hirii hp t Hp, for seven-elgbths of a mile, when he touched sculls with his rival onH fail overboard. T.eo Chaffee, of the Arunoju boat Club. Baltimore, won the Junior single sculls race PEORIA SPEED BOA! RACES EXCITING Warren Groat and Baby Speed Demon Divide Honors in Big Event. KITTY HAWK VI DISABLED After Averaging 61 Mile an Ilonr Little Ohio Craft Is Forced to Run .Wiore to Prevent Mnklnjr. RcsTilta Notable. BERG DEFEATS SWIM MIDDLEWEIGHT, OUTWEIGHED, WlJfS BY HIS CLEVERNESS. Thousand Fans See Rattling 10-Ronad Exhibition, One Fee tare of Closing Day of Regatta at Astoria. ASTORIA Or., July 4. (Special.) In a rattling 10-round boxing exhibition this afternoon as a feature of the clos ing day of the regatta. Otto Berg, well known middleweight, won a clean-cut decision from Jack Swlnton, of Grays River. Berg was outweighed by Swlnton. but his cleverness far offset his surplus avoirdupois. Otto Is several pounds over the 1SS middleweight limit, but he looks to be in excellent trim. Nearly 1000 spectators witnessed tne match. It was held in tne Astoria Theater. .Two preliminaries preceded tne main event. Jack Grant, of Portland, one of the most efficient and popular experts in the West, was referee. TRAP SHOOTS STEEL NERVES Sport Relaxes Mind hy Bringing AH Bodily Energy Into Play In response to a request for a concise description of "clay bird" shooting, a nrominent local sportsman writes In general, trapsbooting consists ot shooting with a shotgun at targets thrown from traps. The targets, or pigeons, are composed of river silt and tar, moulded into a Bhape similar to that of a saucer. They are impelled bv the releasing of a strong spring when the word 'pull' Is called to the trapboy. "The shooters. In squads, usually of five, take their places 16 or more yards In the rear ot tne traps ana snoot iu rotation. Your skilled trapshooter Is a fellow with steel nerves, quick and unerring Judgment and unfaltering action. In the majority ot cases tnese positive, manly qualities were as latent in the trapshooter as they are In the average man, until the devotee of the trap and gun took up this most fascinating of recreations. Veitr snorts are as sclentinc as trap- shooting. The rapid calculation of lead. elevation, angle, etc., tne nice decision and Instant action, quicken the eye and hand, and develop qualities which make for success in the affairs of life. Work at the traps drives away brain fag, for the reason that it requires intense con centration on a pleasurable pursuit. Thus, the brain-worker nnas real re laxation In trapshooting. without the physical exhaustion which in many games more than offsets the good ef fects of the mental diversion." ' Portland Batting- Averages. Pacific Coast I Northwestern Ab. H. Ave. I AO. H.Ave. 235 84 .829Pespain... 1 1 l.ono .;U4 'allahan.. jurvj ..'to ,ai2!5alveson..' HI .l.'9IWoloholr.. 1M 7U .Vl .:lMllllKan.. i'rt.l 72 .1:71 .UlitllHuworth. . 7SL'J ,i"i3 .2S'.i Mi Kune. . 2wn .:!;. .;r.7GuInnl 2f 3 78 .276lroltrln .7 tU .22 .227AIurray. . . 1W0 41 ..'HI .i.'L'.liWllllams.. 207 49 .i-J'WauBman. 1SJ 3.1 .2JS Hanon . . . ).1 :i .-"0 .217 Leonard. . 45 8 .17 KatOry . . . 48 R..1PS . Jim Prunibach. 18 0 .000 18S' Ryan Doane. . .. Fisher. . . Bancroft. (Cores. . . . Lober. . . Derrick. . Svans. . . . Rod sera. . Martinonl HiKS vis . Brashear. Brenegan. tVest Rteger. . . Krause. . . 3peas. . . . rants..,. Paps 82 173 54 204 l 2S7 85 274 81 280 81 15 4 312 88 22 5 74 IT 118 24 57 IS 23 r 45 10 25 r. 84 12 1ST 28 .10I 61 8 .168 0 0 .000 PEORIA. III., July 4. The rlnnlna day's raclnn of the seventh annual Mi sixslppl Valley Association saw Baby Speed Demon, owned by A. C Smith, of Algonac, Mich., equal and outdo the American rocords set up yeMerday by Kitty Hawk VI, owned by 11. 11. Tint Ken, of Canton, O. The four mile", two up snd down stream, were traveled at an avcra speed of r..1.M miles an hour. Her fst owt lap uvynced 54.54 mile n hour. Warren ;ioat. owned by W. T. r rcn, of Chicago. t"ok third rises, and. with Spot. dlv1dvl second honors for the big event. Spot had no trouble In winning th second straight heat Iti rlass li at M miles. Baby Spool Demon w en terixi beside hfr, but was rarod as : runner-up. She took second plnce, and Warren Groat third. Spot covered ths 20 miles In 32.26. doing the first lap . at 42. S miles an hour. Warren t.'rost took tin1 second straight heat of tho cl.tws C event in easv fashion from Leading l-n1v. I- t. Q. IV took the final event In the clsss B event at ten mlnutra. Klrst event, one ti 1 1 . saalnst tims. Baby Spe'd Demon, M. C. (Smith. Al gonac, Jlich., one mile up stream. 1:08 3-5; one mile down s'resm, l:(i: second mllo, up stream, 1:08; second mile, down otreain, 1:08 2-6. Hont rr Sinking Point. Average miles per hour for four hour: Kitty Hawk VI, It. V. Tlmken. Canton. O.. one mile down stream In 1:10 4-3 (disabled st finish, forced to run suhore to prevent sinking), aver age CI miles an hour. Second event, clafs C. second heat. K, miles Warren Groat. W. T. Warren, ClilcHgo, won; I.ittlo leading Lady, W. P. Cleveland. Joplln. Mo., second; I'nly Duckling, Harry Godley, Davenport, third; 1'. T. Q. IV, A. C. Strong. Hnr llngton, la., fourth. Time. 27:28 4-S. Warren Groat wins cMnt In two straight heats. naby Mprrd Demon llesf. Krro-for-Hll championship class, sec ond heat. 26 miles: Baby rpeej Demon. K. C. Kmlth. Al ponac, Mich., won; Kpot. Thoniss J. Tracy, New ork, second; Wsrren Groat, W. T. Wsrren, Chicago, third; Ugly Duckling. Harry Golley. Daven port, la., fourth. Time, 18:23. Bsbv r!peed Demon, by winning two straight heats, takes the Webb trophy cup and 1000 purse. Class B, second heat. 10 miles V. T'. Q. IV, A. C strong, Burlington, la, first; I'gly Duckllnn. Harry G.!ly, Davenport, la., second; Vixen, Art Kall mann. Rock Island, 111 . third; V. I . III and Uthel V. slsn ran. Tltnn, 21:li. P. D. vl. won event on points. Class K. second heat. 20 miles Spot. Thom8 J. Tracy, New York, won; Baby Speed Demon, K. O. frmlth. Al gonac, Mich., second; Wsrren Groat, W. T. Wsrren. third; I.ittlo leading La1'. P. D. J. IV snd Ualy Duckling also ran. Time, 32 .28. GlS CLIIIS PltOTI-XT tiAMi; Substitute or Itange for Field Aid to Enforcement of Law. A leader In the movement for a ra tional conservation of bird and other game life wss discussing his hobby at the recent Eastern hsndtcap shoot, at Bradford, Pa., and In the course of his remarks said: "Where there Is game still to be had trapifhootlng will keep hunters In trim for lltld work. To many young men the sport affords the only means of their becoming skilled with the gun, for ths lack of game In thickly poptilnted dis tricts removes' tho opportunity for the necessary practice "With tho increasing stringency ef game laws, shooting with shotguns would In many sections needs become virtually a 'lost art' were It not for trapshooting. "True, the sport does not appeal to the "game hog' he who Is responsible for the almost complete depopulation of our fields and forests. Hut trap shooting does appeal to the real sports man, to whose ears the crack of a gun is music. 'Some one has aptly said, a sum- clent number of trapshooting clubs In state Is better than the best game laws." The truth of this Is proved by the fact that many trapshooting clubs con stitute themselves game protective or ganizations, and at the same time offer an acceptable substitute for hunting." THREE TEAMS TIED IX)R FIRST Printers' Ix-ague Baseball Race) at Interesting Stage. W. T,. PC W. I,. PC. Job-Unos. ... S 1 .7M KWeotypers. 2 2 .r'"' Kinravarl... 8 1 .7.'.0i.Iournal 1 .21 Job Printers.. 1 .750 orvgoulan. . . 0 4 .0m1 There are three teams now lied lor first place In the Printing Trsdos League, the Job printers having beaten the stereotypcrs Monday mgnt, ami the engravers having taken the long end of a D-to- score from the lino-typers. This was without 1oubt the bsi game of tne season, mere oeiug out one lilt allowed on each side and ex citement was at fever heat throughout the entire game. The engravers, how ever, displayed greater skill In running , the bases and were ready to take ad vantage of every opening, which they did to good advantage. Games scheduled for today are: Jour nal vs. Stereotypers and Ungravers vs. Job Printers. The game scheduled for today be tween the Oregonian and Job l.lno- typers was postponed. Brltton Gets Popular lecllon. CANTON, O.. July 4. .lack BrlHon, of Chicago, defeated Johnny Griffith, of Akron, O., In a hot 12-round battle t' day. Thero was no decision, but ttaa popular verdict was for lirlttun. )