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THE STJXDAT OREGONIAN, PORTLiAND, NOVE3IBER 8, 1914. ANTI-HGHTUWMAY SOCCER FOOTBALL TEAMS WHICH FURNISHED THE FIRST GAME OF THE YEAR ON THE VAUGHN- STREET GROUNDS. i Half-Minute Store Talk Said a lady and gentleman to one of our courteous salesmen: Please give us your card, for. since coming from the East one year ago, we have nowhere had the painstaking and courteous service you have given us this after noon." We repeat this here in the hope that you will make it a point to learn for yourself whether or not we live up to our slogan of "The Store of 100 Per Cent Service." If you think we do. 'we'll be glad to have you say so, or. if you can suggest any way in which we could Improve our service, please tell us of that. " T Lightweight Champion, With California Ring-Field Gone, Plans on Denver Match. The Store of 100 Per Cent Service MANY VICTORIES RECORDED "We Expect Every Dollar to Do Its Duty Portland Boxer, Formerly of Colum bus Club, Aided In Career Jy ' Kltchle L:ach, Conlejr and Scott Among Many Victims. 9J SEND GBUmAN EAS feCvfer I IB 11 V BT EDWARD HILL. Jlalph Gruman. the Portland light weight, may never again fight in Call Xornia as the result of the passage of the anti-fight law. He immediately will get in touch with his manager Marry Foley, who is now in San Fran cisco. ' Unless Foley arranges a bout ior him before the law becomes effec tive, early next month, he will pre pare to go East. Gruman has several friends and relatives in New York and that city probably will be the next scene of his fistic endeavors. ' "If 1 go East.", said Ralph, "I will Journey by way of Denver and try to get a match with Stanley loaKum. i think that I would have no trouble in iwlnning from the Colorado cave man." Gruman does not consider that he will have a hard time with any of the Gotham boxers but. that if they ere like those he met on the Coast, he .would prove an easy victor. Career Begun With Columbus Clnb., Ralph started, his pugilistic career in Portland in 1911. A veteran of the ring Eaw Ralph working out and had him Join the old Columbus Club. As a representative of this club, he gained (fame in local amateur ranks. Stanley McDonald, at that time boxing instruc tor of the Columbus Club, saw . the making of a clever boxer in Ralph and brought him along slowly, developing him perfectly. Gruman made a name for himself in local amateur circles and when Willie Ritchie, then the lightweight champion, came through Portland he invited Ralph to his camp In California. Ritchie aided Gruman in his training for the bout with Joe Rivers. Ralph, however, did not arrive in San Fran visco until after Ritchie had finished training and missed a chance to work - In the champion's camp. Later Billy Nolan and Ritchie fell out and Harry Foley became Ritchie's manager. Fo ley, however, had an altercation with the champion and they parted company. In the meantime, Gruman had been showing considerable class in his bouts about the Bay City and Foley applied for the position of managing the Portlander. Professional Game Has Appeal. After failing to get a chance' in Ritchie's camp. Gruman worked out at the Carmen's gymnasium in San Fran cisco with Jimmy Carroll and Johnny McCarthy. "After my stay with these fighters, I began to consider professional work myself," said Ralph yesterday. The Ritchie-Rivers' fight on July 4 was the first real ring battle Gruman ever saw. "There was a great difference be tween the real and the amateur game," raid Ralph, "but I had a hunch that I could be as good a man in the pro fessional ranks as I had been in the amateur. I was offered a preliminary four-round bout with Jack Bratton a few weeks later and took It. "I never will forget my first pro fessional fight. when I hopped into that ring 1 was as nervous as a sick cat. I seemed to be walking on air. and every time anyone would say any thing to me it sounded like they were about a mile away. Only Defeat la by Bratton. The only fight Gruman has lost as professional was 'that first battle with Bratton. He never could arrange another bout with him. "I boxed him once after that in training," said Ralph, "and he didn't lay a hand on me, while H could have peppered him with ease. Bratton now is fighting in the bushes, while Gruman is considered a coming champion. The next fight Ralph had was With Jimmy Leach. He hit Leach on the chin after about one minute of fighting and knocked him out cold. Joe Conley was his next victim. Gruman had Con ley all in in the fourth round and ecoreda knockdown as the bell rang. The Portland boy's next battle was with Jimmy McVey, one of Ritchie's eparring partners. This was the fight that caused considerable comment when Gruman was given a draw after having beaten McVey all the way. Ralph says McVey is the cleverest boxer he has ever met. ; Gruman Easily Defeats White. After the McVey fight the Portland boy met and knocked out Eddie White ' in two rounds. Until this time White never had been beaten in San Fran cisco. Dick Kendall was Gruman's next victim. Ralph got the decision in four rounds. Walter Scott, the next man to face Gruman, suffered a broken Jaw at the hands of the Portland boxer and has , not been in the ring since. Scott was eaid to have the fastest left hand in San Francisco before the Gruman bat tle. A six-round return match between Gruman and Kendall came next. Ac cording to reports of the fight in the papers at that time Kendall did not hit Gruman one real punch during the Dour. In the next contest that Ralph par ticipated in the Pacific Coast light- -weignt cnampionsnip changed hands, with Gruman on the receiving end. The victim was Johnnie O'Leary, the mgniy-toutea Seattle scrapper. Gru man won easily in four rounds and had the Seattle boy hanging on when tne final ben rang. FltuimmoM Also Victim of Ralph. The next fight gained more publicity ror Gruman than all bis former bat ties combined. It was the four-round encounter with Sally Salvadore, in which Referee Frank Schuler "lost his head and called the bout a draw. Gruman had the best of it all the way, and at the last bell Sally walked to his corner and started to leave the ring, when Schuler called him back and held up his hand. "I think Eddie Kelley must have run 100 miles in trying to keep away from me," said Gruman in speaking of the draw with the Harlemite. "He had a most peculiar style of fighting and never opened up." The last battle Gruman had before coming home initiated him into the 3 5-round game. He won the decision from Willie Fltzsimmons. Fitzsim mons is an old-timer and has beaten euch boys as Monte Attell and Lee -lonnson. He also won from "Kid Williams before the Baltimore battler won tne bantamweight title. Army Beats Notre Dame, 20 to 7. WEST POINT, N. Y Nov. 8. The Army won from Notre Dame today, 20 to 7. The "Westerners handled the ball loosely throughout the contest. jHainHnfiiniiiMiwgftriiii f.vr-niVTi a r irmi -lti-- rssaa.'Ti-il','t JJ !i 1 1 I - t V o1-. k L , - ! 4, C I TUB HOUSE OF KUPPENHSIMB nBBSsnnsBBaannnaaBaaBBnnnjsnsnnsnnsBB-snnsnuaani Invlndiles, Left to Right (Standing) Archie "Scotty" Duncan. Morris, 3. Macklf, Martin. Kneeling: (Left to -tllRht) D. McPhrrson, J. Pomte, J. Stewart, (Standing, Left to Right) W. Flint, Coach Bloor, of the Kerns Grammar Brrce, A. E. MacKenzle, C. Haefllnp;, "Hob" Rankin (Kneeling, Left to Duncan, Jr, Mascot j P. BUlington, George Gray and W. Grter. NEW LEAGUE IN AIR Soccer Players May Arrange Schedule for Six Teams. FIRST GAME INSPIRES IDEA Old-Time Speed Revealed by Veter ans Who Learned Sport on Other Side, hut Now Plan to Revive It for Contests Here. Plans are being formulated by sev eral well-known, local soccer flayers to open a league of four or six elevens. Several of the former high school stars want to get on with some of the pros pective squads but as yet nothing def inite has been arranged. The opening game of the year saw two aggregations picked from all the leading British players In Portland and resulted in a 3 to 3 score. These play ers will be used as a nucleus for the new organization that is being formed. The game was played for the Red Cross fund of the British Benevolent Society and more than $150 was derived from the gate receipts. None of the men who played in that benefit affair started his soccer career in this country, it being understood that all must be either Scotch, Irish or Eng lish, and played their first game in the old country. Some of the .older generation . who were seen in action started In more than 20 years ago and although rather stiff in the joints a good brand of soc cer was put up to the several hundred fans who were on hand. Flashes of old-time speed were quite frequent by some who had not been out in a suit for two or three years. Because the result ended Invlnclbles 3, Dreadnoughts 3, these same aggrega tlons are planning to come together sometime in the near future to settle the supremacy. MULTNOMAH IS VICTOR ABERDEEN MOOSE GO DOWN TO DEFEAT, SCORE 15 TO 3. Game Taken nm Sort of Burlesque a Final Should Have Been 30 or 40 Points, at Last. Multnomah Club played horse with the Moose Lodge eleven from Aber deen. Wash., yesterday on Winged M Field and beat their lighter opponents 15 to 3. They ought easily to have run up 30 or 40 points and the small-sized crowd took the game as a sort of bur lesque. Plainly the clubmen were not In con dition, and Manager Pratt did a wis thing in scheduling this practice ses sion, else the club surely would hav been caught In the hole by Oregon on Thanksgiving day. The victors registered two touch downs In the first quarter, and so con fident were they that they permitted "Chub" Cherry to try to kick one goal. The 225-pound center could barely lift his foot off the ground, - and his at tempt did not get to the crossbar. Straight line bucks is what put th football across the Aberdeen line the. opening period. Luke Rader doin the stunt the first time and Grover Francis accomplishing the feat the last try. Francis missed the goal kick after Eader's six points. Ira Blackwell, coach .and captain of the visitors, saved his teammates the humiliation of a shutout by making a drop kick from the 16-yard line in the last quarter. Captain Convill dupli cated this act a few minutes later with the ball going from the 25-yard line. .George Fhilbrook.; who announced his retirement from active football playing, was forced into the fray yes terday by Manager Pratt. Fhilbrook was the big star of his team, with Ru pert and Luke Rader coming In for a hare of the applause. Rader was at is best on the offensive and he tore f f more yardage than any of his team mates. Two forward passes from Blackwell to Faulk netted 40 yards, and this was the cause of Blackwell getting close nough to score his drop kick. Schu macher, Steele and Faulk helped Black- well hold down tthe score. The lineups: Multnomah (15) P Aberdeen (3) Cherry .C Blackwell Holden ........... rtLj. ..... .. ocnumacner O'Rourke RTL, Mesaegee Durry ..KKL "auiK w.iu ...LGR Huso l-hilbrook LTR IngebrlBtsen Donaldson L?;r Bteeie Rupert Q Willikson Francis rtn l,. ........... nuiw Rnrtf r LHR Adams Os Day F Cross Officials William Schmltt. referee; "Spec" Hurlburt. umntre: Georjre Bertz, head lines. man; Mae Maurice, or jerieraon mja School, and A. Aglcr, timers. Scores Rader 1 touchdown. . Francis 1 touchdown. Convill 1 place kick, Blackwell drop kick. ... . Substitutions Convill for Day. Hargrave for Rupert, Rogers for Eolden, Harrison for uurry, renoyer ror iviessegee, axiana .ior Blackwell. Blackwell for Steele. Vanuice for Blackwell, Blackwell for Willikson. Scores by Quarters 1-2-84 Tl. Multnomah 12 0.0 8 15 Aberdeen Moose 0 0 0 3 3 Time of quarters, 12 minutes each. I- OCTH BECOMES PB.OFICIEXT ' WITH GLOVES IX FEW 1 MONTHS. I- i t t: t t t Jlranile Moscow. Entering the local amateur, ranks but a few months ago, Jlramle Moscow, the clever West- . ern vClub 125-pounder, is already one of Portland's topnotch box era. - ... el - ' - " , X - J X V 1 - tJ A. Buchanan, A. Matthews and S. K. Wallace, b. Inglls. Ureadnoughts. School Soccer Elerrai A. Stewart, J. Right) J. Falrlle, Sam Duncan, Sam HOCKEY IS TO FORE Portland Welcomed to Ranks by Easterners. CUP GAMES TO COME WEST Portland Ineligible to Compete for Stanley Trophy Under Terms by Which It AVas Donated , to Be Competed For. OTTAWA, Nov... 1. (Special.) East ern papers are welcoming fortiana into hockey ranks and hope to see the time when a victorious Portland team will visit here. The Ottawa Citizen says: "Out on the Pacific Coast the Patricks are al ready on the hustle. It is announced that the championship season will open on December 8 with the Vancouver team playing at Portland, and that it will close on March 9, with Vancouver at Victoria. This would not give the challengers much time to come East, but fortunate ly they ; do not' have to do so.. The world's series and Stanley cup games will be played In the West next March, so the Patricks can continue 'their race longer than last year. The National Hockey Association, on the other hand. will have to finish Its season off earlier than, in 1914, so as to allow their champions to go West. The Stan ley, cup- is now. held by the Torontos. "The new rink ot Portland will be known as the Hippodrome, and it is expected that hockey , will make a big hit on the American side. In the event of. Portland' winning the championship, they could not play for tho Stanley cup, as the rule states that only Cana dlan teams may try for it "The Patricks have opened -their ne gotiations for Percy, Lesueur as man ager, and he probably will go to the Coast, if they make him a generous enough Offer. Lesueur would make a rattling good manager for one of toe Coast, clubs, and it is likely that the Westerners -will meet his terms. They must, of course.' first make a dicksr with the Ottawas before approaching Lesueur. The matter will be taken up at the next meeting of the Ottawa di rectors. If Lesueur goes to the Coast. Clint Benedict will be depended on to do . all 'the goal-guarding for Ottawa, which he should be able to accomplish with ease and- credit, providing he keeps those pads . tight and overcomes his weakness on long shots. - Kenny Mallen, once of the Ottawas, has' been traded from the New West minster club for Fred Harris, .who was with ' the : Vancouver! last Winter. Mallen will line up with the ' Van couvers. while Harris will go to Port land. - Hugh Lehman has also been switched from ' Westminster to Van couver. : Harris formerly played at Kenora. He played In Ottawa with Frank Patrick's touring all-stars last Spring. E. H. Savage, manager of the Portland Arena - Company, is looking after the affairs of the American city. pending the appointment of a manager. The mention of Mallen s name in the disnatches recalls the fact that untilltt o ntill a trifle safer in he went-West, Kenny was never a f in ished star. He figured on the Wan derer. Renfew. Ottawa and Shamrock clubs with Indifferent, success. He had a world of speed and was a fine skater, yet he . appeared to lose bis head when pocketed., tnougn ne also possessed terrific shot. Last Spring Captain Les ter Patrick, of the - Victoria club, in formed the writer that Mallen was one of the best forwards at the Coast. The which the Live Store has been this com munity's exponent with such merchandise as Kuppenheimer Clothes And the ungrudging measure in which the public has responded to our efforts this Fall has been more than a surprise it has been a revelation. A revelation of how unmistakably clothes buyers register their appreciation of a store that renders them the genuine service of giving them a bigger money's worth. Suits, $18, $20, $25 and up to $40 Balmacaans, $15, $18, $20 up to $30 Successor to Steinbach. & Co. improvement, according to rairick, was marvelous." Boxing Notes. TVnition will be admitted to prize fights hereafter in Kalamazoo. Mich. Promoters of boxing matches wm have to pay the Federal Government fees under the new war tax. m Jim Barry, the American heavy weight, is in England. w ai nnnm. the California heavy weight, is in Indianapolis looking for a bout. Willie Ritchie declares he will fight onlv at catch weights in the future. a flo-ht between Johnson and Lang ford would be a world's series in tne game of doublecross. Jack Lester and his manager are har-ic in Taft. Cal.. angling for a bout with "Sailor" Grande. Len Powers and Walter Williams, two former Portland amateurs, are boxing around in Southern California. .Tnhnnr O'Leary and Charley Burns will fight T5 rounds again Movemper zi. BT ROSCOE FAWCETT, BILL 6CHMITT, a i-ortiana iooioau expert. Invented a parlor football game a few weeKS ago ana piaceu " upon the market to a limited extent. This scientific game, according to Coach Griffith, of Idaho, fills a long- felt want. The ' Idaho mentor has purchased three or four sets and drills his men several hours every week on rules and technicalities which must be looked up. per the whirls on the spindle. If Schmitt can- get his game advertised extensively, . he stands a good chance to make a mint of money. There 'are bonehead plays In football as well as in baseball and other sports. One of the commonest of these Is made in football by offside players tailing on punts Inside the opponent's 10- yard line. When an orrsiae piayer touches a ball tne penalty is m s" the ball to the opponents on the spot. Inasmuch as the opponents would have recovered anyway, most coaches in struct their players to fall on the ball pven when offside. But mere is a special rule which provides that if an offside player touches the ball inside the opponent's 10-yara line it snail go . a touchback. i. e.. shall be taken out to the 20-yard line and given to me oDDonenta. This tne conege gnaisis usually rorgei. A Washington State I player pulled this boner against Ore gon on Multnoman neia ny m . Fall and an Oregon Aggie star did the same stunt against Washington at Al bany October 31. This by Grantland Rice in the New Tork Mall: Debrutalised Football. They've cleansed the game from all Its sin, I And yet though . few are kicked and I heeled. - 1 The press stand than upon the Held. Debrutalized though it . may be. I will not hammer it or nay it; And yet abstract this thought from me I'd Tather write It than to play it. m A few years ago the Carlisle Indians received considerable publicity by tucking a football under tho jersey Gridiron Gossip J That is the new temper in which men, more and more, are approaching this problem of clothes buying. ; A temper that finds its echo in the greater value-giving methods of Gus. Kuhn, Pres. S. 4t H. Stamps Given of one of their stars, who thereupon 1 scooted the length of the field for a touchdown. This has since been barred by the rules committee. But now comes the University of Mississippi with a greased pig act that is unique and 100 per cent more unsportsman like than the Indian's coup. The Mississippi backfleld plunders, it ap pears, greased their lower limb casings with butter and simply slid and wal lowed through the University of Ken tucky Jn the first half by a score of 13 to 0. Captain Parks, of the Ken tucky eleven put forth such stentorian objections between halves that Referee Blake forped Mississippi to change to dry moleskins and the result was a 19-13 defeat for the oleomargarine coated huskies. At best it would have SHP "W U 1C 2 li Illi COMFORT s u T S FOR EVERY BALMACAANS YOUNG OR OLD BROWN, OLIVE AND GRAY MIXTURE BALMACAANS JtTST RECEIVED A LARGE SHIPMENT the Saute Morrison' At Fourth been high. a costly victory with butter so By the way, where are the folk who were clamoring for Dr. Stewart's scalp when Washington beat the Oregon Aggies 47-0 one year ago? The Cor vallis mentor has more than made good in every department and with a little more harmony on the home cam pus, the Aggies ought to fare ex ceptionally well when the athletic spoils are divided by the Conference schools In the future. Probablv the most costly tree In the world 1b a clane tree, which crow In "Wood street. Iondon. It occuDies a looace that would brinv a rental of 11250 a year, and tblfl caplt&llzed at .ft years purchase gives a value of $ri.r00. " THE NEW MODELS THE LATEST FABRICS j JTULL CUT COATS! THAT DON'T BIND j c A T S MAN t English j WALK IBLOCK OFF t o