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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SPORTING AND MARKET REPORTS SECTION TWO Pages 1 to 16 0)f VOL. XXXTTI. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JV'LY 12, 1914. y- 28' WM. GADSBY & SONS Washington Street, Corner First MADE-1N-OREGON FURNITURE SALE! Sale of Dressers 110.00 Dressers are now reduced PjQ $15.00 Dressers are now reduced J PjQ $18.00 Dressers are now reduced CjQ $20.00 Dressers are now reduced Q0 $25.00 Dressers are now reduced 00 $30.00 Dressers are now reduced 85 $40.00 Mahogany Dresser now (2) $50.00 Mahogany Dresser now QQ $75.00 Walnut Dresser on sale PjQ Sale of Odd Chiffoniers $45.00 Mahogany Chiffonier $33.50 $40.00 Mahogany Chiffonier $30.00 ii jv.uo uajs or hogany Chiffonier now for only $24.00 $25.00 Oak or Ma hogany Chiffonier now for only $20.00 $21.50 Oak or Mahogany Chit- (J- r7 AA fonier now for only JpX I UU $18.00 Oak Chiffonier now on A Qf sale at Xrt.Ot) $15.00 Chiffonier placed on sale Q-J S AA now at. tpAeW.VU $10.00 Chiffonier placed on sale fl Q AA now at only $ O.UU HMBJpwtlll suJ A Sale of Iron Beds $8.60 Iron Beds placed on sale rt - Qf now at. Jp J..D $4.50 Iron Beds placed on sale rt Q A now at. tp O.DU $5.00 Iron Beds placed on sale rt Q fyf now at p O. i O $7.00 Iron Beds placed on sale fl P rTK now at p O. t O $20.00 Brass Beds placed on Sale 50 $25.00 Brass Beds placed on sale jJ 00 Sale of Dining Chairs Largest display of Din ing Chairs in the city, all reduced for this sale. This chair, as illustrat ed, is solid oak, with genuine brown Spanish leather- covered slip seat, full box pattern; sells regularly for $4.50. Special for this sale at $2.95 Sold on Easy Payments of $1.00 a Week. SALE OF RUGS Imperial Wilton. 9x12 feet, at, QQ Pft each ipid&0 Royal Axmlnaters, Sxl2 feet, at, 23 QQ Extra Axmineters, xl2 feet, at, J5 QQ Saxony Axmlnsters, 9x12 feet, FjQ Sussex Velvets. 9x12 feet, at, (j - rt fZfi each P X I mOXJ Metropolitan Brussels, 9x12 feet, Qt Q f each pl.OU Eureka Brussels, 9x12 feet, at, 2 )Q Special Brussels, 9x12 feet at, QQ CARPETS WERE 7JEVER SOLD SO CHEAP BEFORE RUGS REDUCED FOR THIS 9AI.B Gadsbys' Gas Ranges JUL 3if Boy Year Gas IUue While the Price Is Low. g20 Gas Ranges Special at Other Gas Stoves as GAS PLATES EA. Cheap as 86. SO. AS LOW AS. .WC Gadabr Sell Gas Water Heater for Less. This Solid Oak China Closet 38 inches wide and 60 inches high. Is finished either In fumed oak or wax golden oak: glass double door and glass ends and adjustable shelves. Regu lar p r i c e $30.00. S p e c t a 1 at r A Gadsbys' now for iJj.LO.tJU Special Sale of Cribs Child's White Enameled Crib, with guaran teed spring and drop sides. Spe- & A rJ? cial at Gadsbys' this week tPr. I tJ $15.00 Famous Gibson Refrigerators Gadsbys will save you 10 to 20 on your Refrigerator this Summer. Prices from $10.00 to $35.00 Bold on Easy Terms. $30.00 China Closet $16.50 Large Colonial Rocker Special Only $10.50 Framework of well-seasoned solid oak, best steel-sprl ng construction, upholstered In brown Spanish leatherette. A spacious, com fortable rocker and a most extraordinary value. Specially priced for tllls (PI A KA week's selling at only t)lUuU Sale Extension Tables $15.00 Extension Table now atJ2 5Q $18.00 Extension Table now atJPj 00 $25.00 Extension Table now at 2Q QQ $35.00 Extension Table now at POP? PA only ij)a OU $45.00 Extension Table now atPj 00 $50.00 Extension Table now at Q QQ $60.00 Extension Table now at A4t ETA only $40.?)U WE HAVE OTHER TABLES ON SALE AS CHEAP AS 9S.SO. Mattresses, Special at $8.95 These Splendid White Cotton Felt Mat tresses, weighing 40 pounds, are compressed down to six inches in thickness, remain soft and elastic, and do not wad; equal to the mat tresses so extensively advertised at $15; abso lutely sanitary, durable and com- (PQ QfT fortable. Gadsbys' special price Is tPO.JO Kitchen Cabinets $8.75 Special for This Week Made of well-seasoned lumber, finished nat ural or golden oak color; 48 Inches wide, 76 inches high. Contains two flour bins, two large drawers, two kneading boards, three small drawers and large cupboard extending across the entire top. W o r t h (PQ rTf $11.75. Our special price this week j)0. I O USE OUR EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT! 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 pay ment 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. OUR CLUB PLAN OF EASY INSTALLMENTS AFFORDS YOU THE MOST LIBERAL CREDIT WESTERN ATHLETE GQMESINTOHISOWN Los Angeles Club Has Team Which Should Win Honors at Baltimore Meet. DREW AND KELLY TO FRONT Irishman Stands Without Peer in Two Hurdle Races; Champion ships This Year Will Bring Out New Talent, Too. BY EDWARD B. BfSHNELL. PHILADELPHIA, July 11. (Spe cial.) No Western club ever had such bright prospects to win the National A. A. U. track and field championships as will the Los Angeles Athletic Club if it brings to the Baltimore games, to be held next month, the wonderful col lection of athletes it now has on its rolls. It ought even to win against such teams as the New York Athletic Club, Irish American Athletic Club and the PARIS. July 10. Charles Le Doux. bantamweight champion of France, last night defeated Eugene Criqul. also of France, in the lUth round of a 20-round match. Criqui refused to respond to the call of time. Boston and Chicago clubs will have on hand. There are three men who, between them, should win five first places, and it ought to be possible to score enough additional points to run up a total of nearly 40 points. This, with the keen competition there will be between Bos ton, New York and Chicago, ought to be enough to win the games. Drew In Class by Self. The nucleus of the California team will be Howard Drew in the 100 and 220 yards' dashes: Fred Kelly In the 120 and 220 yards' hurdles, and Borgstrum in the pole vault. America has no sprinter quite In the class of Drew in the century dash. When he is right he can do 9 4-5 seconds and under such circumstances and with keen competi tion he can come nearer than anyone else to shading even this wonderful time. Drew can beat 22 seconds for the longer sprint, and thinks that he can do 21 1-5 seconds, which is the world's record. But while Drew has convinced East ern critics that he can make the time credited to him in the 100 yards he has never demonstrated that he can con sistently do much better than 22 sec onds for the furlong. There is at least one Eastern runner who. In codltion. undoubtedly could beat Drew In the 220 yards' dash. This is Lipplncott, of the University of Pennsylvania. Lip plncott, though, has not yet recovered from the pulled tendon which put him down and out this Spring. Therefore, he won't be a competition He is joint holder with Wefers and Craig of the world record of 21 1-5 seconds for this event, and In condition, probably could do 21 seconds. If pushed. Outside of Lipplncott, there Is probably no other runner in the country who can beat Drew even in the longer event. Kelly, of course, stands without a peer in the two hurdle races. He prob ably will have Wendell, of New York Athletic Club, the former Wesleyan and Intercollegiate champion, as a com petitor. But Kelly has beaten Wendell and undoubtedly can do it again. In the high hurdles. Kelly can do 16 1-5 seconds. In the low hurdles, the Call fornlan has never been hard-pressed, but the chances are that if he lets himself out he can beat 24 seconds, which ought to win at Baltimore. College Men Lead. Outside of the college there are no very high-class pole vaulters In the East, and most of the best vaulters now representing the athletic clubs are former college men. Borgstrom won the pole vault this Spring at the Penn relays in a pouring rain and at a height of 12 feet. He is good tor ciose to 13 feet under normal conditions and that will win at Baltimore. In addition to these three men Los Angeles has three other star perform ers In Dawson, the former Leland Stan ford broad jumper, good for close to 24 feet: McClure, the Oregon miler with a record of 4.22, and Thompson, the all- around champion, who Is good with the weights. Not since the A. A. U. championships were held at the Seattle Exposition everal years ago has the West been such a serious contender for the A. A. U. championship as it will be this year. Everyone will welcome the competition of the Pacific Coast stars because the onoDOly of New York, Boston and Chicago has been long-continued. When the A. A. U. all-around cham pionships are held this year there will be a new competitor in the person of Alva Richards, the Olympic champion high, jumper. Most persons think of Richards only as a high Jumper ana probably will be surprised to learn that he Is almost as proticient in sev eral other events. Richards is now a student In Cornell University and for a year has been trained especially for these events by Jack Moakley. He is competing for the Illinois Athletic Club this Summer and in a recent meet in Chicago won three events the high lumD at six feet two Indies, tne oroaa Jump at 21 feet 10 inches, and the shot put at 43 feet three tncnes. Today's Game Bookings. Portland Cordage Company vs. Tl- gard. at Tlgard. Knights of ColumDus vs. me uaues, at The Dalles. Sellwood vs. St. Marys, at Sellwood Park. Fulton vs. Maccabees, foot of Nevada street. St. Andrews vs. Llnnton, at L,lnnton. Portsmouth vs. Columbia Tark. at Columbia Park. Piedmont Maroons vs. Hillsboro, at Hillsboro. Mikado vs. Palace Laundry, at Thir tieth and Sandy. Villa Cubs vs. Beaverton, at Bea verton. Foresters of America vs. Lents Gi ants, at Lents. Union Depot vs. National Laundry, at Jefferson High school. Yeoman Lodge No. 42 vs. eotoots, at Creston. Villa Grays vs. St. Johns Pharmacy, at St. Johns. Union Social Club (colored) vs. Mil waukie. Crystal Lake Park. FITZSIMMONS BEATEN BY TRICK BEFORE BIG FIGHT William A. Brady Tells How Dressing Room Scene "Staged" Just Before Title Bout Made Jeffries Victor Even Before Entering Ring. (Copyright. 1914. by William A. Brady.) CHAPTER XVII. FITZSIMMONS and my California customer, Jeffries, began to train for the Coney Island meeting, but even then I was not sure Fltzslmmons would go into the ring, because every once In a while we had reports about him playing with a baby lion and were afraid the beast might bite his hand off before the match was due. Again. he was constantly making new de mands, but we satisfied them all and finally It came to the time for the contest. This had been the first real cham pionship match that had ever been held In New York City. In conse quence, there was an enormous amount of interest In the event and the sale of seats was somewhere in the neigh borhood of $70,000. It was a terribly rainy night and the trains were stopped or we would have taken in over $100,000. As the date for the fight drew near, I began to get a line on Jeffries. He came from Pennsylvania Dutch stock, was very cautious, very suspicious, and, in my opinion, lacked the game ness of the other men of the same type with whom I had come in con tact. Notwithstanding the fact that he had beaten quite a number of good men before he came East, he was still very young and inexperienced. I was afraid that when he got In the ring the coolness and experience of Fltz slmmons would count, that before Jef fries got through with his fright Bob would have him down and out. So 1 tried a little trick that Corbett had taught me. Little Scheme Tried. At about E o'clock on the evening of the fight Delaney and I had Jeffries dress up In a little hotel he was stop ping at on Surf avenue and we took him out on the Coney Island boule vard and walked him up towards Brooklyn. He was as nervous as a cat, very surly, and lacked all the as surance that 1 had been accustomed to seeing In Corbett. Nevertheless, he was a good pupil and so I arranged this little scheme. "Now," said I, "when you go to the clubhouse tonight you'll find that your dressing-room ts in a little shed right across the hallway from the room that Fltzslmmons will dress in. When you get there, you are to strip and lie out on the table to be rubbed down. "Then I will cross over into Fltx slmmons' room and will call Julian out Into the hallway and will start to argue loudly with him about the rules to be followed In the contest, princi pally as to whether you are to break clean or whether each man Is to take care of himself In the breakaways." There are two ways of doing this: When the men clinched, the referee would Bay, "Break!" and the men would step back themselves. The other way was that they would clinch and each man had to take care of himself. If a man could strike a quick blow in the clinch, it was all right. There was much dispute as to the Marquis of Queensberry rules In this respect. In the Corbett and Bulllvan fight, the referee said, "Break!" and walked between them. As It is now. the men are compelled to care for themselves In breaking away, which is good for the man that is not clever, since he can hit here, there, and every where while he Is clinched. I continued my Instructions to Jef fries. "I will call Julian out in the hallway and loudly ask about these points. Fltzslmmons will hear me, the sound of my voice will set him on edge, and he probably will come out Into the hallway and engage in the discussion. Then I will say to Fltz slmmons: 'What Is the use of you and me arguing this; come In and talk It over with Jeffries,' and then I will usher him into your room. He will see you for the first time, and your appearance will be a Bhock to him." In fact, stripped and In his fight ing costume, Jeffries was a dangerous looking brute. He had long, shaggy hair on his breast, big. thick jaws, and all the other attributes of the Ideal prizefighter. "When I get Fltzslmmons Into the room." I went on, "I will start to argue with him about the rules, and after I have got along a waj-B, you Jump off the table, grab him by the back of he neck, and show him the way you un derstand the fight will be conducted. Don't let him get a word In edgewfce. Just shove him over against the wall and that will be all that's necessary." Jeffries had been listening like a bulldog and when I finished speaking, he said: "Do you think this can be done?" "We'll try it," said I. "It will put fear Into his heart and Instead of your going into the ring scared, he will go In scared." Fits Is Cowed. The whole thinr worked out per fectly. Night came and at the club house Fltzsimmons came to his room Just as I had expected. I called Julian out into the hallway and started to argue the rules with him, and, as I had predicted, Fltzslmmons came rush ing out and butted In. I called him Into Jeffries' room to argue the matter with my principal, and Jeffries did Just as I had Instructed him to do. He Jumped off his perch, rushed over to Fltzsimmons. started In to show him how he understood the rules, grabbed him and literally tossed him over In a corner. And the Cor nishman walked out a few minutes later, cowed, demoralized, whipped In the dressing-room before he entered the ring. When the two men faced each other In the ring Fltzslmmons was by far the more nervous man of the two. The episode of the dressing-room not only scared him, but had put confidence into Jeffries. The battle was really held In the dressing-room. The fight began, but not much was done in the first round. Jeffries sparred most of the time. At the be ginning of the second he did something that I had never seen done before he hit Fltzslmmons with a straight left and knocked him down. It was all over then. Fltzslmmons got up with difficulty, realizing that he was up against a wonderful opponent. At the end of the sixth round Fltz slmmons landed what he'd been trying for all these rounds to land hig fa mous solar plexus punch. He hit Jef fries right In the proper spot, but It never feazed him a bit. FiUslmmoni was greatly surprised at this, but was quite astounded when he saw Jeffries, apparently' undisturbed, walk back to his corner at the end of the sixth round. His great blow had not worked. Fltzslmmons walked back to hts cor ner greatly dejected. Much depended on him. At all of these contests there was a tremendous amount of money bet. and now they were laying 3 or 4 to 1 on Fltzsimmons. As I was passing through the aud ience earlier In the night Jesse Iewls ohn stopped me and told me that he had bet $20,000 on Fltzslmmons and asked me what I thought of It. 1 told him that Fltzslmmons would be beaten that night, and Lawisohn hedged out $20,000 between that time and the ttme the men, entered the ring! Victor la t'np pulor. Fltzslmmons waa beaten Jeffriea was champion, and the earn old story happened again. Jetfrlsg, the victor, became unpopular, and Fltzslmmons. for the first time In hie Ufa, knew what popularity waa We put Jeffries In a play called "The Man from the West" and although he was a fairly good ac tor, the public would not go to see him. Presently we took him to England, but It was Impossible to overcome the Brit ish prejudice against what they consid ered an anomaly. If not a parados a prize fighter playing legitimate drama! They would have none of Jeffries. But he got revenge on the public over there by knocking out an Englishman every night. He knocked out thirty Englishmen In thirty nights Jeffries would say, "How much In the house tonight. Bill?" and I would say, "About five pounds." Then he would say, "See If you can't get two or three more of theee bluf fers." They were mixed-ale fighters and Jeffriea certainly made ahort work of them. On another occasion I aaw Jeffriea make short work of a man. It was In Detroit and they had put a dangeroua fellow up against htm. We were get ting $1200 for the night It waa the only time I ever aaw him do the knock out business. The bell rang and he walked over to his man Just one shot, and It was over In a minute! While the English people would not havo Jeffriea at air, the Parisians went wild over him. He appeared there and they paid him 7600 francs for the week After Jim Jeffriea and I returned from Europe Tom Sharkey, who had fought a draw with the big fellow In San Francisco, was matched to fight htm again. But Jeffries, like his pre decessors, developed ring fear. In fact, so eager waa he to avoid the fight that a week before It waa to take place he claimed to have broken something In his elbow, and the thing had to be post poned But It waa no use. fighting wae the only way he could make any money, and notwithstanding hla efforts to aldeatep the fight, we got him Into the ring. Fira Mnvlea Takea. In thla contest moving pictures were taken for the first time at night. The American Blograph Company under took the Job. Enormcis llghta war hung right down over the ring and the temperature while the match waa going on for twenty-five rounda waa Ite. No other two men In the world could have atood It. But these flghtere were wonderful specimens of brawn and muscle. Sharkey waa small and atorky and Jeffriea waa built Juat like a big Newfoundland dog. We had attempted to take pictures of the Fltzslmmons-Jefflera contest at Coney Island. We had paid a man $$000 to make the experiment with the llghta. But at the laat moment the machine failed and we loat our monav The Blograph Company, however, aucceeded. but at a terrible cost to the men who had to fight under such con -dltlens. And, strange to say. the cam era went wrong at the most Important time, during the last round. Jeffrie' glove fell off In thla round and ha fought two or three mlnutea with a bare flat, which waa claimed to be a violation of the rules. It waa a won derful battle! There waa no knockout; not even a knockdown The declalen waa given to Jeffriea on polnta Nobody could have complained much if the match had been declared a draw, aa Sharkey put up a wonderful fight ao wonderful that after he waa taken back to hla dreaalng room that night. It waa found that two of his rlbe were broken. He traveled In a plaater cast for a year afterwards. Corbett Needs M. After this match Corbett approarhed me and begged to be allowed to box Jeffriea "I know I hava not got a chanoe. Bill," said he, "but I'm In trouble and need the money. We will draw a big house and the loser's end will be good enough for ma" So. for old times' sake. I made the match. Jeffries reaented It. however. He knew of my long frlendehip for Cor bett and feared eome kind of a Job. Hla suspiclona were justified. In a way, al though I waa Innocent For It trana plred In a month or eo that my old friend Corbett had deceived me. For six months before thle he had been working quietly In a gymnasium re storing himself to condition. You see, through lack of exerclee In the saloon bualneaa, he had become "run down," and everybody thought he was a phyalcal wreck. When the match waa made Corbett promptly left for Lakewood, and there he did the mar velous he remade himaelf. He waa if, I think. Jeffries heard the rumors of Cor bett's wonderful rejuvenation end be came more and more sueplcloua Ha waa training at my houaa at Allen hurst and during the laet week he re fused to eat the food that waa put be fore him until some one else had taated It. Jeffriea' attitude In thla and other matters caused a decided coolnaas be tween us. His euaplclon was so groundless, so unreasonable. He owed everything to me and I owed nothing to him. But It waa ble nature to bo suspicious that's all. By this time Jeffriea had got an Iden that he waa a wonderful boxer. He proposed to beat Corbett who waa eup posed to be the finest boxer In th ring, at hla own game: that la outbox him at long ranga You aea, Thomaa Ryan, the middleweight champion, who had almost Corbett'a renown aa a boxer, had taught Jeffries how to epor, and hud peraMevded the big fellow that he waa cineIo of going Into th ring and defeant Corbett on a scientific propositi i Mfe iteBi. tr Strange trty, the receipts for thl conteat were, th amallet of any big battle of the kind that had vr bn pulld off In Nw Tork om $$.00o. The rumor had got into th air that the whole thing wae to b fakd. and th public believed It. Furthermore, they could not ee how Corbett had a chanca But to ahow how aquare th whole thing waa, I mad bete on th fight at th end of th first eeond. fourth and tenth rounda and whan th gong sounded finally 1 etood to lo $7500 that I had bet on my man. In fact I thought Jeffries would wl In one round. When the men got Into the ting Cor bett'a condition amaaed everybody. H looked aa good, If not bettor, than when he flrat fought Sullivan. Jffrla, fol lowing th Inetruotlone of Ryan, etart ed to spar, but Corbett mad him look like a novice made him look a bigger ,.! tn h'd mad Hulllvan look some year before. He Jabbed and punched him when ind where he pleased, and (Coa-luded ea i'agc 4.)