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THE SUNDAY OHEGONIAX, POUTLAND, NOVEMBER 8, 1914. 5 MINOR LEAGUES TO CONSIDER BOLTING Question of Affiliating With Federals tt) Come Up at Meeting at Omaha. STORMY SESSION LIKELY Claremont links playing the 14th hole when the little hand pointed danger ously near to reporting time. Instead of quitting the game Mack hastily sent his caddy to order a taxi- cab, rounded out the 18th hole and then directed the cabby at top speed to the theater He arrived just. In time to walk on the stage In golf clothes and- do his act. From the tone of Eastern dispatches the Pacific Coast may get the National amateur tournament next year. Golf would receive a tremendous boost west of the Rockies should the classic be staged here. Because of the exposi tion San Francisco doubtless would land the plum. Great numbers of the players would be seen in Portland, however, going and coming. . According to the New York Globe 6000 golfers have paid $1 for the privi lege of playing over the Van Cortlandt public links in New York City. The ALIBIS OF GOLF LINKS. Trimming Pay Checks That Go to Players to Be Taken XJp With Opening of Gathering Ban Johnson Will Sit In. OMAHA Nov. 7. (Special.) Minor league magnates will now monopolize the spotlight. Starting Monday, wnen the board of arbitration composed of 11 men squares away to battle with problems of vital interest to the mem bers. the annual session of the Na tional Association will enter upon fours days' run in this city. A stormy meeting has been predicted. Four cars heavily laden with magnates will leave Chicago at 6 o'clock tonight over the Rock Island lines for the big powwow. For downright thrills these conven tions far overshadow the annual gath erings of the majors, and the moguls who know agree that - owing to the many reversals suffered during 1914 by the minor organizations this session will go down in history as the most im portant in the records of the little circuits. From every league in the National 'Association fold has come the squawk of the trimmed sucker, and lamenta tions over excessive salaries have been heard from all corners of the United States. Cutting Salaries to Be Up. The business of getting together for the purpose of wielding the pruning knife on the pay checks issued to ball players will hold the attention of the moguls from the start ot the conven tion. The status of the Federal League also will be given a thorough airing, for a number of the presidents have gone on record as favoring an affilia tion with the third circuit. Opinion Is divided, however, on this score and a merry fight is likely to ensue before the problem can be adjusted satisfactorily. On all sides the cry has gone up that the majors have been turning down the minors In cold-blooded fashion be cause of the activities of the Federals. and it is to thrash out ways and means of padding the various league coffers for future campaigns that the "little fellows" will unite during this gather lng. Flsrnrea to Be Brought Out. Lest the fan army, accustomed only to following the fates of the majors, may. not appreciate the true conditions in the minors, a few facts and figures wiir be brought out to show that the "bushers, as they are called, surely have been riding the bumpers during the past year. Sixteen minor leagues have suffered financially during the season. Not until Tecently did the powers that be, who are on the National com mission, learn or realize that the mi nors threatened to bolt and- leave the organized game flat on its back. That the minors will come in for more than passing recognition Is evident from the fact that Ban Johnson, head of the American League, and a member of the National commission, will leave Chi cago Monday night for Omaha to sit in with the little fellows. The annual banquet of the National Association has been scheduled for "Wednesday night, the "Western League playing host to the visiting members. A smoker and cabaret at the Commer cial Club of Omaha will serve to keep the magnates busy Thursday night. President August Herrmann made reservation of a parlor suite of five large rooms in a local hotel this after noon. It is understood the entire member ship of the National Commission will attend the meeting. It was learned that not less than a dozen major league club owners will be in the city next week By Brlggs. ;. No. 1. This la Peril up the Most Inde fatigable Excuse la the Golfing Lexicon. Heard on the Links GOLFS GRIP STRONG Christy Mathewson Tells Why He Is Its Devotee. FIRST DRIVE SEALS DOOM Crowds Throng Public . Links and : Even Hamlets ' Have CInbs of Enthusiasts; Game Called Fatal Blow to Open Saloon. BY - CHRISTY MATHEWSON. NEW YORK. Nov.- 7. (Special.) The various sports rise and fall in popularity from year to year with the exception of the more prominent one. Tennis has been immensely popular for the last two or three . seasons, I am told, and golf has always been popular since I have had any know ledge of it through following it. Be fore that. I did not take so much notice of the hold that the Scotch game had on the American' people. But since becoming interested as a player, I have observed the constant, steady in crease of popularity that the game has enjoyed. It was a little more than a year ago that I first became converted to golf, and I began, like most players, with out any intention of keeping it up. Three or four years before I began to find it tougher each Spring to get into condition to go into a championship campaign. I guess most ball players have the same experience as they grow old. This especially was true after the Winter that I spent In vaudeville, and it was forthls reason that I decided never to go on the stage again as long as I was connected with ' baseball. I have not much taste for the work be hind the footlights around the vaude ville circuit. I frankly will admit that I did not fit in any too well. First. Good Drive Fatal. Well, anyway, -a newspaperman, who is a friend of mine, is an ardent ad herent ..of golf and he invited me to play with him one day. I was looking course is so crowded Winter and Sum mer that nine adidtional holes have been onened nearbv. . The other fore noon a newspaperman counted 230 bags for some mild form of exercise to keep of clubs in line for the first tee. BIG THREE GREAT GOLFERS Vardon, Taylor and Braid ' Started for Honors In 1894. In an article on Vardon, Taylor and Braid , the Strand Magazine publishes the following table, showing. what the big three have accomplished in the open championship since one of them first won It. This table shows ' their positions in that great golf event from line, not sliced or not pulled, you want me in fair condition throughout the Winter so. that the Spring conditioning would not come so hard. I went out to Some public links in New York in. the Fall of 1913. and I am sure that all the scars I made on those links that day have not healed entirely up yet. But I got one good drive, and The feel" of that drive forecasted my doom. It felt good. The most satisfactory sensation in baseball Is the "feel" of I a base hit when the bat meets the ball squarely. The . "feel" of . a clean, golf drive : is a worthy rival. When that little white-ball sails out straight on a '-' " fKj W!&Pl.- THE TURKISH BLEMP ti , " - ' S mS Ta - CIGARETTES p,: 'V V . ! fe.J To blend fobao- OHk L cos a quality piPiliSlSliHIIEh, iWSX so distinctive 'is --iMr an. art i pHBHBHtthJfc j : pj . 1 Ksriinisr nl Fir rt n unit JL-at tutt tan wiuuiiitriji tt iw iustt.ii. jwi-um'mtmiinw.imiil ml 1iriwnliilii.miMii.iint.iimmmliiiil Ulililfai,, m. Ui..J....-.M... ai I. tu. t- i s nami ttt t'tti artwv-M ...,...... . - I ;tn. . J. iAnj the -time the three of them began compete regularly: 10; 1803.. V. T. 1S04 B 1 1805 9 1 1896 1 2 18S7 6 10 1698. 1 4 1SU9...... 1 4 19O0 2 1 1901 .. 2 3 1902. 2 6 1903 . . 1 9 19t4...... 5 2 6'J907 . 6'J 12U V. T. 9 2 3 3 7 2 5 T 20 1 10 14 1 5 . 2 11 3 1 .12 to 3!1911.. 1,1812. . 2 1913.. 611814. . 2 The article goes on to say that dur ing all these years the only -other men who have won the open title have been Arnaud Massey; Jack White. Edward to do it again., and you are gone. But you may not get another for a week. I believe Just this ' one thing has con verted most of the followers of the game to golf. .They want to get an other good drive and another and an other, until it takes hold of & man like the desire for alcohol does a drunkard. if , what the prohibition folks- say Is true.. .But the results are far more pleasant. Golf . gives you a clear head the next day.- Alcohol gives a dull eye and a fogged brain. In the last year, I nave done a good deal of traveling from Coast to Coast, and I have seen links spring up where FORD MAY BUY LOZIER DISTRICT MANAGER INTIMATES BIG DEAL - IS PENDING. Ray and Harold Hilton, which gives you would -never suspect the soil of aomeidea of the quality of golf played by the big three over a long stretch of years. ALL REED ENTERS SPORT NEARLY EVERY MAN IN COLLEGE IN SOME ATHLETIC BRANCH. being fertile for golf courses. Even some hamlets have their golf links and clubs, although a. few of these links are. hard to-identify, they are so full of natural hazards. Croirda Tkrons Public . Links. Frequently I go out to the public Famous Manufacturer of Light Cs Said to Be Negotiating to Invest in Reorganised Company. . Henry Ford,, famous manufacturer of light motor cars, may take a hand in the affairs of the Lozier Motor Car Company, the . builders qf the high- class car reorganized recently. This rumor has been heard before, but de tails were revealed yesterday by W. J. Drumpelman, central -district manager of the Loiter Company. About a year ago, it was generally declared that Mr. Ford had taken an interest in the Lozier Company. The links at Van Cortlandt Park, in New Lozier people denied the rumor, but It BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. TpHERE is considerable talk of X prospective match between Ru dolph Wilhelm, the open champion of the new Portland Golf Club, and Johnny Junor, professional at the Tua latin Country Club. Wilhelm scores below 40 consistently on the Portland links and Junor well down toward SS and 36 on the easier Tualatin course. If the two cracks are brought together 18 holes will be played over each course. A new scoring system at least Travis says it is new was tried out on the Garden City links last week for the Belgian relief fund. Walter J. Travis, former British and American champion, claims the honor of invent ing tne new scoring system, which is for four-ball matches. The new scheme ought to take, be-, cause it has the merit of giving the duffers a chance to do something be side trail along behind unwept, unhon ored and unsung. Under this method a 3 is possible on each hole. The best ball counts 2 and the next ball counts 1. For example. A and B are playing C and D. On the first hole the score is: A, 4; B, 6: C, G; D, 7. A and B score 2 for the best ball, 4. and C and D score 1 for the next best ball, C's B. There seemed to be some doubt as to how to score in this case: A, 4; B, S; C, 5, and D. 5. The score would be 2 for A. B, on the best ball, the next best be ing a tie. In the case of A. 7; B, 5; C, 5, and D, 5, C, D score 1 for the next best ball, the 5 beating the 7, and the best ball being a tie. A sample score card t -was counted up by Travis and Is here with reproduced: A. out 53483665 414 H, out 6 5 8 6 7 7 7 7 S 55 , out 5456576S 4 it D. out "6 5 5 B 7 7 5 6 53 A-B rcore 02220200 1 9 C-D score 0 1O0 20 0 1 0 4 A. In 5 7 4 6 4 5 4 6 A 5 89 B. in 6 0 4 8 5 6 6 7 7 62 107 C. In 6 8 6 5 4 5 6 C 343 90 B. In 5 5 5 8 6 8 7 7 3 52 105 A-B score 00301 120 0 7 16 C-D score 11020010 3 8 12 A and B win by 4 points. The early bird gets the worm, but also gets his feet wet. Harry H. Pierce, prominent young attorney and clubman of Portland, can attest to this. Halloween eve Mr. Pierce attended s masquerade dance at the home of Ed ward Patton, near the .Portland golf llnKs. bomebody suggested remain lng up all night for a spin over the links at daybreak, and Mr. Fierce was among those who volunteered for the novel experience. "Never again," says he. "Hereafter I'll get my sleep in the morning and play golf when I've had my fill." . Golf almost caused a tangle In the bill at the Orpheum Theater at Oak land recently. Mack, of the team Walker and Mack, is a golf bug of the pugglest kind and was qui pa the Football Interest Keenest. - But Work of Individual Seen . In Handball and Tennis Tournaments. Athletics at Reed College this Fall so far have been s mixture of football, tennis and handball, with practically every man in the college taking part in one of these three sports. Football, of course, has held the most Interest, but chiefly because of the class feeling, for the handball -and tennis playing have been entirely Individual. A tennis tournament was held, in which about 40 men participated. The scores were used as the basis for a per petual ranking tournament. The rules allow any . player to challenge any player not more than two places ahead of him in the ranking. - If the chal lenger wins he exchanges places with the loser, but if he loses he may not again challenge the same player within a month. The winner of the tourna ment was Dr. Kelly Rees. A few other standings up to date are Sabln, Dr. Foster. Lancefleld and Dr. Ogburn, in the order named. Lancefleld was expected to win the tournament, but he was defeated easily by Sabin. A number of the tennis en thusiasts get their rackets out a.t every sign of a clear day throughout the year. The courts are of asphalt and drain easily, so a few hours of sunshine gets them in fair condition. Since the tournament was held about a dozen more men have . joined the ranking, taking their places at the foot of the list. The women of the college also started a tennis tournament, but it has not been finished, on account, of the weather, combined, with the fact that they started late. - The girls also have given a good share of attention to playground baseball, and a number of interclass games have been staged. A handball tournament among the men. is now in progress, and rankings will be made as in the tennis tourna ment. Play in the first, round will be completed tomorrow. Several men have a good chance to get the title.. Among them are Webster, Runyan. Weber, Jenne and Sabin. York, early in the morning to pray. It is impossible to enjoy a game on Sun day because of the crowd. Men who have worked all the week are out there almost at dawn. They are golf fiends, and I'll bet that few of them would be found in saloons on the preceding Sat urday night. To my mind, golf Is t bigger force for prohibition than all the . talks in the world. Eveni"Mike" Donlin has taken up the game, but Mike", has one bad fault which, so far. he has failed to overcome. finally became known that Ford had stock in the company and was . con sidering further investment. The Lozier Company then went Into the hands of a temporary receiver. whose instructions were merely to act the part of arbiter between opposing factions, of the company. Financial movements made in the past week will mean release of the receivership. The only deal which now is troubling the Lozier Company Is the shipment of nearly 3100,000 worth of cars which He cannot stop talking when another was dispatched by sea just before the member of the party is making a ihot w Drose out nu wn.cn aa.a not. ueeu Mike" and I were playing with a aispoaeu oi sinsii;iurii)r mu i. couple of e xcellent golfers recently. As Ior Fords lurtner investment in and they are particular about the Loz'er Company and active partlcl- ethics of the game. Every time one of panon in n as an uuiubu, -ueiiune an them would start ' ta . TnnU. a. mitt nouncement la expected in a iay or Mike" would craclf Hnm itrtrv. After I two. the game. I backed him no in a corner. "Before I left ne lactory. it was "Don't von know. 'Mike.1 thnt vim nr generally uuuofsluou ww, mr. jj oru not supposed to talk when a golfer is playing a stroke? Those guys were sore at you out there today." Tvell. answered Mike, "you can t expect me to keep quiet as long as it takes one of those birds to clay one. Why. Chlef Meyers could steal sec ond In that time." I'm afraid Donlin ' will never ' be good golfer. ADVANTAGES ARE SEEN IN RUGBY. Canadian, However. Admits ' Football Has Ita Good Points. TORONTO, Nov. 7. (Special.' Canadian rugby football follower says -it took a long time to convince the powers that be in United States foot ball that the Canadian game has many I terdav. advantages over that played, across the I announced. It is Doruer, narvaa, iai and frmceton paid a great compliment to the game as played In the Dominion by seeking Canadian coaches for their backfleld plays. At the same time the fact fchould not be overlooked on this side of the international boundary that there Is much In United States foot ball that could be embodied to advant age in the Canadian game." In the Canadian game 14 men com prise a team, and the backfleld has five players Instead of four in the American style of football. was going to become busy around the Lozier plant, said Mr. Drumpelman. All correspondence which I have re ceived since then has indicated that the deal with Mr. Ford is about to be closed. I give credence to the story that the deal was closed in the past Week because of a- telegram which I re ceived today. I think the story will come - from Detroit In a day or two saying that Mr. Ford has taken over a heavy interest In the Lozier." Louis Rose, Coast manager of . the Lozier, also passed through Portland yesterday. Fred Vogler, the local representative of the Lozier, is in Idaho. A third -sales manager, B. F. Keip of the Chandler Six, was in town yes- While no changes have been rumored that Cohen Brothers may give up the Chandler Six which has been handled by the Pa ciflc Motor Company. It is reported that the line may be taken by H. B. Manley, of the local Hupmoblle distrib utors. HUNT djCB CHASE IS SUCCESS CALIFORNIA IIXEUF LTTCERTAIX Nearly All Positions for Stanford Game Are In Doubt. UNIVERSITY OF - CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Nov. 7. (Special.) In con trast to the settled state of affairs at Stanford, the University of California has not yet picked the team for the big game November-14. It is doubtful if even Head Coach Schaeffer knows the final disposition of his men. One game remains for both California and Stan ford. Saturday, California takes the field against the California-Stanford Alumni Club, and the Cardinals go up against the Olympics. The first five position is most doubt ful, and has been causing the coaches not a little worry. Three men, Gianelli, Sharp, and Montgomery have held the position In various pre-season games. The first two are favored for their speed, but Montgomery is superior on defense, and has a thorough knowl edge of the game played by Austin, the Stanford man. who will be opposing. At half, Montgomery and Freshman Harper have been alternating. If Montgomery were not needed further back, the choice would fall upon him without a doubt, but the backfleld com plicates matters. FAMOUS CINDER PATH . TO GO V California University to Supplant Track of Records With New. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Berkeley. Nov. 7. (Special.) The old cinder-path is - passing. . The track where world's records have been made and broken, the track of Howard Drew's great race, of Eddie Beeson's record high jump, - of Karl Shattuck's world s record breaking-hammer throw, and of many other events in years past, will be given a farewell next Saturday. As a last offering, there will be a re. lay In which two hundred men will participate, each man running half a lap apiece over the loot-worn path. A short. ceremony will follow. . A new track is being built. ' , V. Bowman, on Tamarack, Fin ishes First in Event. Another successful paper chase was held yesterday afternoon by the Fort-J ca,UB. c land Hunt Club and more than 35 rid-l ona team- rldlng through ively time and again and made long gains by end runs. Ridgefleld resorted to many trick plays, which netted gains in the last quarter. Captain Weger, Brock, half back, and Neal. end. excelled for Wash ougal, while Webber, quarterback, was the star for the visitors. Wood, Univer sity of 'Oregon, ref ereed. PORTLAXDER'S SHOWING GOOD Vcre Windnagle Wins Cross-Country Run for Cornell. Vere Windnagle, holder of the inter scholastic state' -record for the halt mile, is making a great showing at Cornell University, and according to Coach Jack Moakley, the former Wash ington High athlete, is in line to be second John Paul Jones. In the recent cross-country run against Harvard University, Cornell won, 28 to Sf. and Windnagle was the first man to break the tape. Windnagle's time was 34 minutes and 50 Vi seconds. ' Several Portlanders are registered in the Eastern college as freshmen, among them being Adolph L. Frledenlhal, who was graduated from Hill Military Academy last June. ASTORIA DEFEATS CORVALLIS Game Extremely One-Sided and Won by Score of CO to 0. ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 7. (Special.) The Astoria High School football team added another scalp to its belt tnis afternoon, when it defeated the Corval lis High by a score of 23 to 0. The game was extremely one-smea and at no time was the Astoria team in danger. In the first quarter. Plant ing, of Astoria, made a. touchdown, and Burns kicked a goal in the third quar ter. Burns scored two touchdowns and kicked one goal, but missed the second. Mnltnomali Club Notes. Every department of the Multnomah Club will be running In full tilt next Thursday night. The occasion will be the "open-house night" similar to that held last Spring. There will be boxing, wrestling. water snorts, athletics and in fact programme comprising every branch of sDort. An effort will be made to hold theae meetings hereafter once a month. In this way members will get a chance to become better acquainted. The soccer team will turn out for Dractice In about 10 days. Edear Frank may represent the P. N. A. at the meeting of the A. A. U. In New York City November 16. Whether Frank will be able to get away or not will depend entirely on his business. The nice afternoons give much en joyment to members who use the ten nis courts. Eddie Humphreys and Collie Wheel er, two well-known athletes, lert re cently for CaIifornla. Toomey and Rossman will play this morning in the house basketball league. Thirty entries have turned In their names for the billiard tournament. Manager Dwyer is complaining b cause he can get no games for his sec- RELIEF GAME PLANNED EAST MAY PLAY WEST TO RUSE SJ30O.OOO FOR BELGIANS. Illinois University Head Proposes Scheme for Champions to Meet In Post-Season Struggle. CHAMPAIGN, 111., Nov. 7. A post season National championship football game between the East and the West, to raise $500,030 for the relief of Bel gian refugees is the plan of President Edmund James, of the University of Illinois, who today sought to persuade the Western Conference to waive its rule against post-season games. Stagg. of Chicago, and Huff, of Illi nois, directors of the conference, have approved the idea and it is believed that Wisconsin, the third contender for the Western championship, also will pprove. If the conference consent is gained President James will open negotiations with Harvard, Yale and Princeton and the winner of their series will be asked to meet the Big Nine champions. President James plan is to have the ame In the stadium of either Harvard r Yale and all the proceeds above ex- enses to go to the Red Cross Society for the aid of the Belgian sufferers. - Harvard Harriers Outrun Yale. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 7. Har vard Harriers defeated a cross-country team from Yale today In their annual dual hill and dale run, 7 to 2 8. J. K. Ovington, of Yale, made the five and three-fourth miles over a varied course in 33 minutes 7 2-5 seconds. Illinois Runners Victors. URBANA. 111., Nov. 7. Illinois cross country runners outclassed Indiana University today, the five Illinois boys finishing before the first Indlanian. Mason and Wright, of Illinois, tied for first place in 22:21 2-5. Navy Defeats Ford ham. ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Nov. 6. The Navy defeated Fordham In a one-sided con test on the academy gridiron today by the score of 21 to 0. era started, with 25 C. V. Bowman, on Tamarack, finished first, with William Whitfield, on Lady Myrtle, and F. C. Livingstone, on Win nie, pressing him close for honors. The start was made from Garden Home and went through new territory. Mrs. A. M. Cronin and Mrs. James Nicol' were the hare3 and because sev eral new riders were out, few jumps were Included In the pleasant ride. After traversing about eight miles. the finish was made near Metzger Park. Because of the success of the last two paper chases, another one will be held Thanksgiving morning, starting at 10 o'clock. Lots of enthusiasm -was ap parent at yesterday's affair, and after the finish about zs riders went to the clubhouse at Garden Home, where re freshments were served. A dance was held in the clubrooms lajt night. WASHOUGAli BEATS RIDGEFIELD Gophers WTIn Run From Wisconsin, MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 7. The Univer slty of Minnesota took the first five F orwaEa passes Used Effectively in places in the dual cross-country run I with the University of Wisconsin to day. Six men composed each team. The distance, five miles, was covered In 27 minutes lihL seconds. Ohio State Wins Run. CINCINNATI, Nov. 7. Ohio State University won the Ohio conference cross-country run of four miles hero today. Nevin. of Ohio State, finished I got away for a 45-yard run. The local first. Slaking tho iistaftce, in S2U 4-6. J team, jv.orked Uis forward, pass sffifctV-. Game Won lv 38 to 6. WASHOUGAL, Wash.. Nov. 7. (Spe cial.) The Ridgefleld High School foot ball team was defeated here today by Washougal High School by a score of 3S to 6. Washougal's scores all came In the first period as the result of six touchdowns, while Rldgeneld scored In the last period, when Fullback Jennie Cottage Grove Challenge Out. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Nov. 7. (Special.) The high school football team has been challenged for a game Thanksgiving day. The challenger Is Samuel Loophole Mackin, he of base ball fame, who represents that he has a team of has-beens and never-wases that can clean up anything with nerve enough to face 1L The only conditions in the challenge are that the game shall be played on Thanksgiving day and that the proceeds shall go to charity. Goullett and Hill Win 6-Day Race BOSTON, Nov. 7. Alfred Goullett, of Australia, and Fred Hill, ot water- town, tonight won the six-day bicycl race which has been in progress 10 hours each day during the last week. Reggie McNamara, of Australia, and James F. Moran, of Chelsea, formed the combination which won second money. A team composed of Iver Law son, of Salt Lake City, and Peter Dro bach, of Boston, was third. California Wins Practice Game. BERKELEY, Cal., Nov. 7. The Unl versity of California first team de feated an all-star team of Californi and Stanford alumni here today by score of 27 to 3 in the last prattle game before the "big game'' next Sat urday. The Trainer's Corner K egroes Are Pioneers of Pugilism. American w HATEVER else you may say about the negro race, you simply have got to hand it to the black brothers as being first-class fight ing men. The c6nquest of Africa has been accomplished by the white man only after numerous little affairs with ,ths natives. In which the brunette warriors, despite great Inferiority in armament, have proved that they were able to put up an Al quality ot rookus. Ask any British Tommy or French For- ign Legioner or Italian soldier who has seen African service what he and he will tell you a few things that as a fighting man. WW Having taught the blacks of Senegal to respect the Frenchman, the latter are now using the Senegalese in the European war. and from ail reports the blacks have given a good account of themselves. They may have their lit tle eccentricities, such as a fondness for preserving the heads of enemies slain in battle as souvenirs, but war is a bloody business at best. Doubt less many Germans who have faced these black terrors from Africa have learned to sympathize with John L. Sullivan, who - drew the "color line when the big black bulk of Peter Jack son loomed formidably In the distance. In Cuba and elsewhere the black sol diers of the United States have shown their white comrades at arms a few tricks of the fighting trade that they never dreamed of. There are some lo calities in the United Statea where the negro troopers are not popular no tably, Brownsville, Tex. but when It comes to fighting, why, nobody can deny that the "brack debbila" can fight! It is scarcely necessary to point out that the negroes have produced several men who were pretty fair artists with their fists. Pretty fair! Jack Johnson has had a lot of predecessors as negro champions. George Dixon. Job Gans, Jo Walcott. Dixie Kid. Jack Johnson five world's champions in the last quarter of a century is the record of' the Africans. Added to this list should be Peter Jackson, who was undoubtedly the premier fighting man of the world when at his best, and Sam Langford. who was entitled to the heavyweight honors when Johnson virtually wae ruled out of the ring. Of these seven blacK champions, only three were born under the Stars and Stripes, the others having been British subjects by blrtn. Jacn jonnson was born In Galveston. Joe Gans In Balti more and Dixie Kid in Fulton, Mo. Peter Jackson was a native of the West" Indiee Joe Walcott was born In Brit ish Guiana, South Africa, and George Dixon and ' Sam Langford in Nova Scotia, Canada. Young Algernon Mollneaux was a patron of this rude sport, and he had a fair fighter in his "stable." One day in Richmond, when Algernon had been he offered to bet that he could pro duce a black man who could whip any other slave that could be produced. Another youth named Peyton, who had recently inherited a fortune, accepted this olfer and made the stake J100, 000. . . . 1 t. . - when, in his soberer moments, he re alized' that he had wagered every cent he owned, and more, and that he would be ruined and in debt if he lost. But he was a Virginian and too proud to withdraw. After looking over Peyton's man he realized that his own negro would be no match for him, and in desperation he began to look about for another and better fighter. . HowDoYouDoIt? A man asked me yesterday how I managed to sell so many suits in my upstairs clothes shop. I answered: "By selling the customer DEPENDABLE MERCHANDISE AT A VERY CLOSE MARGIN OF PROFIT I cut out all the expense or high ground-floor and big overhead expense for your benefit. Take elevator and see the MEN'S SUITS, RAINCOATS, OVERCOATS at $14.75 and $18.75 JIMMY DUNN 315-1S-17 Oregonian Bldg. Elevator to 3d Floor. the -frffifc