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THE SUNDAY OREGONIA", PORTLAND, APRIL 25, 1915. NEW CHAMPION GREETING BOB FITZSIMMONS AND FAMILY OF MAN WHO LAID JOHNSON LOW ROSE CITY SPEEDWAY ATURDAY UNDAY WILLARD VIIS DUE TO DETERMINATION I New Champion at Goal Which He Set for Himself De spite Ridicule. - STRUGGLE IS DIFFICULT It'lock of Kumors Concern! ug Victor Over Jack Jolineon 1 lu n Down by Reporter, "Who Finds That Tombstone Proves Name. Although whole flocks of rumors have been floating; around to the effect that Jess Wlllard, tho new heavy weight champ, is not Jess Wlllard, It seems that after all he is Jess Wlllard, son of M. B. Wlllard and none other. An enterprising newspaper man in Chi cago detailed to look into Jess- poster ity, comes forth with the statement that he read the name of M. B. Willard, who was Jess' father, on his tombstone at a cemetery in Kansas half way be tween the towns of Ummett and St. Clere. Jess Willard was born at St. Clere. Kan., December 29. 1881. These facts looked up. in the town where the cham pion was born prove that he is 33 years old and not 27 as was generally be lieved before and shortly after his encounter with Jack Johnson in Havana. . More Kvidence Offered. The Chicago scribe also offers further evidence to show that the Kansas giant is no Spring chicken. The "oldest inhabitnnts" of St. Clere declare that ' M. B. Willard died two monfhs before his Ron Jess was born and the date of the elder Willard's , death is given on the tombstone as October 20, 1881. two months to the day before Jess first saw the light of day in this world. W. R. Blddle.' a Portland attorney, residing at 1028 Hawthorne avenue, offers some data and a clipping from the Fort cott (Kan.) Tribune-Monitor to show that Willard is not Willard, but Xrthur Britttngham, son of Sol Brittingham. who Jived near the Kan sas line in Missouri about ten miles from Fleasanton, i Kan. Elder Brittingham Tall. Mr. Blddle lived in Pleasanton from 1872 until 1887 and claims to have been well acquainted with Sol Brittingham. The elder Brittingham, according to Mr. Blddle. was six feet seven inches tall and was powerfully built. He was of a retiring and inoffensive disposition, declares Mr. Blddle and has been dead for a number of years. The Brittingham story originated In Denver when Frank Brittingham, of that city, declared that Willard was his cousin and that his real name was Arthur Brittingham. The only facts he has set forth to back his story Is the fact that he knew Arthur Brittingham several years ago and recognized the picture of Jess Willard as that of Brit tingham. whom he played with in Kan sas 15 years ago. Brittingham also says that he visited the Brittinghams in Kansas, but that Arthur was away at that time so he has not seen him since he was a boy 16 years ago. He declares, however, in a story in one of the Denver papers tnat Jess wuiara has several of the Brittingham features which are unmistakably characteristic of the Brittingham family. Giants Evidently Mixed. However, the Denver Brittingham has evidently got his giants mixed, as the tombstone in the cemetery between the towns of St. Clere and Emmett in Kansas is pretty good evidence that Jess Wlllard goes by the name which was his father's before him. Charley Cutler, the Chicago wrestler. Is given credit for first teaching the rudiments of the manly art to Willard. According to a statement issued recent ly by Cutler, he picked Willard up in St. Louis about 1912, when the pres ent champion was on his last legs financially. Frank Carsey, a former boxer, now In the livery business in Chicago, comes forth with the asser tion that he waa the first to get Willard to don a boxing glove. He also has newspaper clippings to prove his asser tion. Tentative Agreement Made. Carsey was running an athletic club rn Oklahoma City and Jess Willard was in town. That was in 1910 and this, according to Carsey's dope, was the first time Willard ever pulled on a boxing glove. Carsey invited Wlllard to work out at his place and had a 'tentative agreement with him. He was to train him, teach him the boxing game, and manage his affairs in the ring. At that time Williard was a big, awkward fellow but was In the best of condition. He did not have any bad habits and was willing to learn. One day, however, Carsey was called out of town and on his return discovered that J. D. Brock and W. T. Toder, of the Union Athletic Club In 6klahoma City, had been making overtures to Jess. Jess Joins Union Club. Jess afterward Joined the Union Club and Brock is generally credited with having "discovered" Jess in Oklahoma. The champion remained under the man agement of Brock for three months and then was shooed out of the state by the authorities, who were trying to arrest him for participating in a prize' fight In a small town near Oklahoma City. That marked the end of Brock as his manager and he was next heard from when Charley Cutler picked him up in St. Louls. The Chicago wrestler says he met Jess in St. Lou la broke and wearing a euit of clothes about five sizes too small for him. He explained to Cutler that he was determined to become champion of the world, although he had traveled a rough road up until that time. Cutler purchased Jess a suit of clothes and took him to Chicago, where he proceeded to put him in shape. Sports Call Wlllard Lemon. Chicago sports made all kinds of fun of Willard and said he was one of the likeliest-looking lemons they had ever seen. Willard was extremely awkward at first.' but was determined, and it was this spirit that made him the champion of the world. A neat little romance has been woven about the marriage of Willard and his wife who was formerly Miss Hattie Evans, of St. Clere, Kan. Barnie Evans, who is Willard's father-in-law, and is Just as proud of him as thousands of other admirers, Wouldn't see Jess at all when he first began calling on his daughter, Mamma Evans was also set against the big horse trader. The reason fpr the dislike was be cause Jess was a horse trader. At that time he owned a livery stable at Em mett. Kan. However, Willard and Miss Evans finally married and moved to Texas, where Jess entered the real estate business with some success. He Enters Boxlne Game. From Texas they moved to Oklahoma where Jess enpaged In the mule busl ness at Elk City. Later they moved to Oklahoma City, where he broke into the boxing game. At the time of the - -4 -if-V4U , ' i ' ; . I J?S- I 8""'"""" I ,wfL -1 , Jeffries-Johnson fight, he was driving a mule team In Elk Crty. He was much perturbed at the out come of the battle that July 4, 1910, and told his wife that he would rather lick Jack Johnson than be President of the United States. He little dreamed at that time that his dream would be realized five years later in a foreign land. During the tight years Wlllard often told his wife that fighting was a poor business, but that the financial returns were good. Jess is not a fighter at heart. When Jess got to going good back in New York a year and a half ago, he moved his family to Los Angeles. They arrived Just before Willard's fatal bout with "Bull" Young. Mrs. Willard and the four children are still living in Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Assisted by a maid Mrs. Wlllard cares for their little home. The oldest child is a girl 7 years old named Zella, then there are Frances, a girl of 4, Jess, Jr., 16 months old, and Baby Enid, 5 months old. NEXT TOURNEY AWAITED PORTLAND GOLFERS HOPE TO DO BETTER THAI AT EUGENE. Best Playem of Club Not on Recent Trip, It Is Said Waverly-Port-land Club Meet Unlikely. Members of the Portland Golf Club are not offering any alibis for losing to the Eugene club last Sunday. How ever, in credit to the club, it should be said that the golf ers who made the trip and competed against the Eugene players did not represent the best tal ent of the Portland club by any means. Some of the men that composed the Portland team were little more than novices at the game, while the Eu trene club had a selected team of its best players on tne linns against tne Portlanders. For instance, Harry H. Pearce, of the Portland Club, was matched with the fourth best player of the Eugene club. While he was perhaps the - fourth best player among those that made the trip to Eugene, he is not tne rourtn best player of the Portland club. The Portlanders are anxiously await ing the return tournament with tho Eugene club, which will be played on the Portland club links, near tiaraen Home, in the near future. Members of the Portland club- are no longer afraid to go out to the links late in the day for fear that they will have to auto home after .darkness after enjoying a match of the grand old game. The dormitory is in work ing order now and those who do not feel inclined to make the trip back to town after a day on the links may be entertained in the dormitory with all the comforts of home. All who wish to qualify for play in the tournament for the directors' cup at the Portland links must turn their scores in before May 1. As soon as the scores are received after the first of the month the players will be hand! capped according to their lowest score and the tournament will be on In full swing. Four new members were added to the Portland Golf Club at its regular weekly meeting. Those voted in were: Howell Jones, E. T. Ames, George Mc- Glll and Mrs. C. H. Abercombre. Some talk has been heard at the Portland links lately about a tourna ment between the members of the Portland and Waverly Clubs. The older golfers at the Portland Club, however, say that such a tournament is not like ly to be staged as the Waverly Club has too many bogle players. CRICKET SEASON OPENS SOON Portland Club's First Game May 1 and Good Crowd Expected. The Portland Cricket Club will open the 1915 season Saturday. May 1, when all cricketers and their friends are In vited to the cricket park. The play ing ground has been put in first-class shape, and it . is hoped that all old members will turn out in force.. The officers of the club extend an invita tion to all who play the British na tional game to be present on the open ine day. Portland has the advantage over all cricket clubs in the Northwest in re gard to grounds, there being none that compare with tne local one. xne sec retary of the club, E. Fenwick, 898 East Everett street, will be pleased to receive applications for membership. and will give intending members all in formation required. The cricket park is located on the Montavilla carline, at East Sixty-seventh street, . two blocks north Of the track. WOMEN SWIMMERS FACE TEST Examination to Be Held to Choose Instructors at Parks. Women swimmers will be, invited by the Municipal Civil Service Board to show their skill In long-distance swim ming, endurance, ability to teach swim ming and their ability to rescue drown lng persons in a civil service test at the Multnomah Athletic Club. From the list of persons passing highest, the city will select salaried swimming in structors for women at the parks dur ing the Summer. Among: other etunts planned for the examination will be the removal by each applicant of a dead weight from the bottom of the tank. Endurance will be tested by a swim of 100 yards. I VEY7 : : : UTO lr5 rr " - m?ri III Top Jess Willard I.efl Shaking Hands the Delegation That Met the . New lleavTeljcht Cbamplon at the Depot In Washington, D. C. Below Mrs. Wlllard and Children. GOLF TOURNEY NEAR Eugene Players Planning on Trip to Medford. TENNIS TEAMS MEET, TOO Ladies' Golf Matches Likely to Be Arranged Also Waverly Cln.b Is Ready to Accept Invitation for Eugene Contests. EUGENE, Or., April 24. (Special.) More than 25 Eugene golf -play ers are planning to go to Medford May 15 for the return inter-city golf tournament with the Medford Country Club. A special sleeper will be chartered, leav ing Eugene Friday night, arriving in Medford early Saturday morning and returning to Eugene late Sunday night. The Medford Club members were pleased with trout breakfast, the ban quet and other incidents of their en tertainment here last year, and they have announced their intentions to show the Eugene -players a real time next month. A dinner at the University Club and luncheon at the Country Club are planned. Tennis Tourney Planned. A feature of the Medford trip will be an inter-city tennis tournament. The Eugene team will probably be com posed of Elmer Paine, Ralph Newlands, Jav Lewis and Bert Prescott. This will be the first such contest for the Eugene Club. Medford is said to have a strong team. A ladies' golf tournament at Medford will also be staged. If the wives of a sufficient number of the Eugene mem bers make the trip. The Eugene tournament committee has received word from Gay Lombard, secretary of the Waverly Golf Club, that its team of 14 or 15 players is ready to accept the invitation to come to Eugene for an inter-city match. The date probably will be last Sunday in May, according to the announcement of the Eugene tournament committee today. Portland Match Likely. A return match with the Portland Country Club probably will be staged at the time of the Rose Festival, ac cording to present plans. A match with Salem also will be held early in June or late in May, if Salem can get its club and grounds in shape in time. The u$ene Country Club this week lost two of its best players, with the announcement that C. F. Carskadden will move to Portland next week and Jay Lewis will go to Corvallis. Cars kadden is one of Eugene's threo best players and has done more than any other one man., toward promoting golf tournaments during the last two years. He will not Bever his connection with the Eugene club or give up his position as chairman of the tournament com mittee until after the prospective inter-city tournaments are played oft. Orenco 1, Tigard 0. ORENCO, Or.. April 24.(Speclal.) In an exciting baseball game here yes terday afternoon Orenco High School defeated the Tigard High team 1 to 0. A good delegation came with the team TTT With Bob FKmlmmoM, Who Headed from Tigard. The Orenco team has no been defeated this season. It will play at Hlllsboro May 1 for the champion Rhip of the county against the team from Dilley or the Banks team. Track Meet to Be at Woodland. WOODLAND. Wash., April 24. (Spe cial.) The annual track meet of the associated Cowlita County Schools will be held at Woodland May 8. The inter est in track and field events has taken un nearly all the attention of the schools of the county to the exclusion of baseball. TOLD ON THE LINKS EARLY Spring golfers in the East are enthusiastic over the new painted rubber . ball. It has proved the most economical ball made, as one ball lasts for several rounds and loons no different. It won't cut up and it won't lose its original color. Only by actual pounding, which would come after a dozen rounds, would it lose its resiliency. The ball makers evidently have slipped one over on themselves in producing it. . There is no doubt but that they will revolutionize the golf ball market. Golfers are wondering what will happen next year when the original patent for the present rubber-cored ball runs out. With any one able to manufacture and sell them the price should come down about one-half. Paul Ford, the sensational 19-year old .golfer of the Seattle Golf Club, will participate in the tournament at the San Francisco exposition. The Northwest will be well repre sented in the professional events at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in May. Nearly every "pro" in the Northwest has announced that he will compete in the exposition events. Some one said that, the automobile has been one of the principal factors in making for golf popularity. Th perfection of the motor car has cu down distances so much that any on who owns a machine can enjoy the game. Of course, there are a number of us who like to chase the ball, al though we may never own an auto. There is -a new book entitled "Th Pro and Con of Golf." Experience has taught most of us that the "pro ha long been able to "con" quite thor oughly. Thirty-seven open tournaments, not counting championships, will be held under the direction of the Massachu setts Golf Association this season. Th Albemarle Golf Club will be the seen of the junior championship June 28 to 30. The man or woman carrying golf bags In town is no longer looked upon as & freak. Golf has passed that stage. Next to baseball, it is America's Na tlonal sport, and, as a sport, of the individual, it haa no rival. The chances are that it never will. Where score play baseball therd are thousands wh watch them. But this is not true of golf. Save In the big matches, there are no galleries to applaud good shots. Golfers play the game for what pleas ure they get out of it. There is not much fun watching the average golf match, but there is plenty in play ing it. Where baseball is confined to fou walls and tennis to the boundarle of the courts, golf is played over hill and dale, over great stretches of greensward, with the blue sky over. head, and over a field that would en close hundreds of baseball fields an thousands of tennis courts. SPEED KINGS OF NORTHWEST Jim Parsons Harry D. Stratton Chas, Latta Fred Barsby Henry North Percy Barnes Ernest Schneider PORTLAND DRIVERS Ray Bland Billy Smith C. N. Blankhead Jas. Turner F. V. Forbes G. N. Smith C. H. Epton Earl R. Burch Jno. Boscovich GOLF STARS FADING ihick Evans Only Western Crack to Retain Rating. EGAN IN 3-STROKE CLASS Handicaps for Waverly Club of Portland. Show Seven Players Placed, Mclieay and Smith Highest With Five Strokes. '. CHICAGO. April 24. (Special.) Golf stars of the West hit the toboggan at a merry clip in their performances on the links last season, if the handi cap disclosed in the annual roster of the Western Golf Association made public today, are the correct standard of achievement. According to the Western Golf Asso ciation list, issued by Secretary Henne- berry, Charles Evans, Jr., the three time Western amateur champion. stands alone in the golfing firmament this side of the Alleghenies. Warren K. Wood, the former Western title holder, tumbled from the coveted scratch rating to a handicap of two strokes, where he joined W. C. rownes, Jr.. of Oakmont and Eben M. Byers of the Allegheny Country Club, Sewlck- ley. Pa. Ten players who have been promi nent contenders for championship ton ors for several seasons will hav to look one or two notches lower to find their names in the Western Golf Asso elation list this year. In the three. stroke class are Donald Kdwards and Paul Hunter, of Midlothian: H. Chand ler Kgan. of Exmoor; Robert Gardner, Hinsdale; Fraser Hale, Skokle; Ned Sawyer, Wheaton; Norman Macbeth, Los Angeles, and Albert Seckel, River side. Kenneth Edwards slipped into tho four-stroke group while Jack Jevene, of L.os Angeles, gets to bog ganed Into the five-stroke band. The handicaps for the Waverly Country Club, of Portland, are: R. !. Macleay, 6; Russell Smith. 5; J. v. Zan. 8; C. H. Davis, Jr., 8; C. H. Lewis, 9; Jay J. Morrow, 9; James Gtllison. 10. BOTJTS AT EXPOSITIOX FAIR Frank Harmar, Back, Says North west Hoys Lost on Infighting. Fran Harmar, chairman of the Multnomah Club boxing and. wrestling committee. Just back from the lar Western meet at the Panama-mcinc Exposition, says he does not think the judges gave the Northwest boys unfair treatment in the boxing Douts. "Our bovs were bad at innghtlng, he said yesterday. "Up here we have learned to break clean, but in San Francisco the boys do a great deal of infighting. The Northwestern repre sentatives lost most of their decisions on thin account." The two Spokane wrestlers, Dave Burns'and Frank Glahe, and Mrs. Glane returned to Portland with Mr. Harmar. They did not tarry here, but left for the Inland Empire city. Earl Balrd, Archie Wyard and Henry Gleason, of the Seattle Club, and Earl Miebus. of the Multnomah Club, remained in San Francisco and will compete in the Panama-Pacific boxing championships, wnicn Degin aiay o. ah except Gleason qualified, but he was invited to stay and compete aiso. Edear Frank, the Multnomah wres tier who was injured, and Walter Knowltoii, the boxer, are expected back todav. George McCarthy and Jfydoie O'Connell have been home several days. YACHT CLUB NOTES THE Portland Motorboat Club, will be the guest of the Yacht Club on Monday, May 31, which marks the date of the Yacht Club's formal opening for the season of 1915. A Joint programme is being arranged by the committees of both organizations, which will be announced later. a a a nn M 22 the Yacht Club will ac company the Motorboat Club on a cruise to Butteville, where the annual races and water sports of the Motorboat Club will be staged. A chicken dinner will be served in Butteville style. Captain Jack Yates, owner of the cruiser Happy Jack, undertook to con vey a party of fishermen to the falls last week, and In order to insure early arrival, left the Yacht Club at 3 A. At in a heavy fog. There is now a doubt about Captaan Yates' knowledge of the river channel, as he passed the Oaks Park three times en route from the club to Oregon City. In order to dis pel a possible illusion, he tied up to the Oaks wharf until 1 A. M., after which time he was convinced that the park wu not moving, but after that he was lost In his own front yard. Good luck attended the party, however, and later In the day five beauties were taken. Mrs. Yates carried off the hon ors by catching a salmon weighing 37 pounds, which took her an even hour to land. Captain Carr, chairman - of the re gatta committee, announced that the first Yacht Club cruise will be held early in June. The skippers of all sail ing oraft flying the Yacht Club bur gee will be glad to know that Captain Carr has arranged to have their boats MAY 1 msS AUTO Sanctioned by American Automobile Association. Under direction of Northwest Automobile Association. The greatest Atito Race Meet ever held in the Pacific Northwest over a circular (- mile dirt course. Track oiled and in perfect condition. SIX BIG EVENTS DAILY FIRST RACE AT 2:30 P. M. ADMISSION 50c ' Grandstand and Automobiles, 25c Extra. MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT towed on all cruises, should they so desire. A fine lot of prizes have been collected for the season's racing events. Captain Hazlett, chairman of the en tertainment committer, announced an informal hop to be held at the club house on the evening of April 30 for members and their friends. On that evening the men of Fleet street wilt dedicate the new kitchen by preparing sumptuous supper, which ail the women have promised to eat. A fine new addition has been added to the clubhouse, which is to be used as a kitchen and also for a mu5lc room when dances' are given. This will add considerable floor space for dancing. . . . v This is Spring cleanup time. Fleet street teems with activity. Houseboats are being painted and flowers planted and everything will be in gala dress for opening dw. The Dalles Win Meet by Relay. THE DALLES, Or.. April 24. Spe cial. The Dalles High S-hool do- real) f I WAS USING THE TOBACCO CHEW "the good judge congratulates the engineer THE taste you get from "Right-Cut" is the real tobacco substance full and rich. "Right-Cut" is the Real Tobacco Chew a new blend of mellow, sappy leaf, seasoned and sweetened just enough. One ten-cent pouch of "Right-Cut lasts longer than twice the money will buy in the old kind. tobacco taste comet, how it atisfie without grinding, bow much less you have to apit, how lew chewi you take to be tobacco satisfied. That's why it it The Real Tabaccm Chew. That's why it costs less in the end. It a ready chew, cat Cne and abort shred so that too won't bava to grind on it with your tactn. Grinding on ordinary candied tobacco i makea you apit too much. Tba taete of pare, rich tobacco doea not oeed to be covered up with moiaaaca anal licorice. INoticc bow tne salt bringa out tbc rich tobacco taate in "Kigbt-Cut. One small chew takes the place of two big chews of the old kind. WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY SO Union Square, New York (buy from dealer or send idstampsto us) The Pump That Fills a Long-Felt Want Self -measuring portable pump for gasoline, oil, distillate and kerosene. 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