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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SPORTING AND MARKET REPORTS SECTION TWO Pages 1 to 14 VOL,. XXXVI. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1917. NO. IOC D o January Glean Sweep Sale Every Piece of Furniture in the House Goes Into This Sate at Honestly Reduced Prices p disposal of our remaining 1916 stock. Prices have been slaughtered right and left to make a Clean Sweep of O ffif various linps nf F'iirnifiii"f 3-Room Bungalow Outfit $98 o D o o n o o D o o n o Ib Dining Table, oak, extends six feet; four Solid Oak Dining Chairs. Living-room contains Library Table 42x24 inches, with lower shelf for books; two comfortable Spring-Seat Rockers, with chase leather up holstered seats; large Arm Chair. Bedroom contains large Two-inch-Post Metal Bed. Steel Springs and Cotton Felt-Top Mattress; Dresser, with bevel-plate mirror and four drawers; small Sewing Rocker. Every piece is of good quality material and workmanship. S98.50 SIO.OO CASH, $9.00 MOTIII,Y. Rockers $9.50 At this low price everyone ought to have on of our Large. Comfortable Rockers. They are made of the best leatherette, beautifully upholstered. Now is CJQ Cf your chance to get one for only H7JJ Colonial Suite, Mahogany, $76.00 n An IJp-to-Date Suite of built-up mahogany veneers Napoleon Bed, Three Wing Mirror Dressing Table. Large Dresser and Chiffonier, all beautifully matched all drawers worK smoothly. Workmanship and material first-class. Your Choice of Any Piece in the Outfit $19. OO Complete Suite S76.00 Terms 8T.50 Cash and S7.50 Per Month. A Really Good Couch o D OREGON'S VICTORY OVER PENN STIRS FOOTBALL MEN OF EAST Notre Dame First to Request Thanksgiving-Day Game, to Be Played in Chicago and Now University of Tennessee Wants Trip to Northwest. Artificial Boston Leather. . ,j!8. 98 Craftsman Spanish Leather S10.f)0 Artificial Spanish Leather...9.66 Two-Tone Plush $9.95 Kxtreme I-ength. 72 Inchest Width, 27 Inches' Ship. Wl. About Ml Ll. Strong frame built of seasoned fir in Golden Oak finish. Carved claw feet with casters. Many resilient bprings securely fastened on solid foundation. Roll edge on both sides. Plain top easy to keep clean. We stronglv recommend Craftsman Spanish Leather. This is an extra heavy improved artificial leather of the highest quality, which will give more satisfactory service than many cheap grades of genuine leather. It so closely resembles real leather in appearance that a close ex- CQ QQ amlnation would hardly enable you to detect the difference... DO0 BT ROSCOE FAWCETT. OREGON'S great football victory over Pennsylvania at Pasadena New Year's day seems to have waked the entire country. Everybody bow wants a crack at the Eugene lads. First Notre Dame telegraphed for a Thanksgiving date in Chicago and now the University of Tennessee, which tied for the Southern championship last Falls, wants a trip to the Pacific Northwest. . The Tennessee eleven Is coached by Johnny Bender, formerly football tutor at Washington State College. In a let ter to the writer Bender says: "I am mighty glad to hear that Ore son won from Penn. I told th. vi. here that Oregon would win and am enclosing a newspaper clipping to back me up in this assertion. Bezdek and his men are to be congratulated, .h W" a,sreat victory for Oregon and r L..e way, we had a good team here last Fall, although I had only 24 men to work with. We tied for the J?u"lern championship with Georgia Tech, each winnincr elcrht n-o i tieing one. I expect to have a fair team next year and would like to take my 'Volunteers' to the Coast to play Oregon or any college or club team on Christmas or New Year's of 1917. All we want is expenses for 22 mon "You will notice that one of our ends kui on me inira Ail-American with Beckett. It seems to me thnt Tnhn , Parsons should have landed one, two ur inree. "I like Tnv nlaee her vaw .i.i. The climate Is about like PnrtknH'i and we have beautiful scenery and a ' , io-irc river. xnen. to. the city Is full of Civil War historic spots and mat manes ii doubly interesting." Bender's "surprise" concerning Par. sons failure to gain recognition from Walter Camp is no surprise at all. There is no qnestion now but that the best team of the West Coast rank on a par with the best football elevens of the Atlantic Coast- Washington Mate s 14-0 victory over Rrnwr, lust New Year's day indicated as much and D o Davenette for $33 D o D o i Settee -frwsrrv -FULL SIZE J n o The construction of this Davenette is unsurpassed for workmanship and material. The frame is of quarter-sawed oak. the springs are oil tempered, and the upholstering is of cotton felt, covered in genuine leather, the dura bility of which is unquestioned. A Comfortable Davenport by day and a Luxurious Bed by night. Worth J50. Our special price, while OOO ff they last : J0JUF V Cash $5.00 and $1.00 Weekly n Good Steel Range 29.51 The Wonder Steel Range has six holes, full size; oven 16x18 inches, on sani tary base, has no nickel trimmings and will do the work of a range cost ing twice as much plain, but a good baker and cooker. Terms $5 Cash and $5 Monthly or $1 per week. - Winter and Summer Range n o D o Wood Coal Gas Oven can be used as preferred for gas or otherwise, two ranges in one. There are many on the market, but the Peninsular Combination Range is the acme of perfection and excels all others. Oven is all cast and won't rust out. Priced $75 I- ? Rugs Special Sale prospective buyers to take advantage of our annual clearance prices. Quantity limited. 9x12 Velvet Rugs, special at S19.50 9x12 Brussels Rugs, seamless, at. S17.50 9x12 Wiltana Seamless at S29.50 9x12 Wilton Rugs at. S48.75 9x12 Saxony Rugs at S27.50 9x12 Axminster Rugs at'. S19.50 9x12 Scotch Rugs at. S13.50 Smaller Ones for Less Money " D William arid Mary Suite NUT-BROWN OAK n n D Consisting of Sideboard or Buffet, 48 Inches wide: China Closet 42 Inches wide; side Table 36 inches wide; Ulning Table 4S incnes wide, extends eight feet; one Carver's Arm Chair and five Dining Chairs. dl QfJ OO upholstered in tapestry 100Ull fT T7X"VT'T is extended to you in a pleasant, . l IV r S 3 I X satisfactory and dignified way. There are no embarrassing conditions connected with it. You take no chance in opening an account here. $ 50.00 75.00 $100.00 $125.00 $150.00 $200.00 Worth of Worth of Worth of Worth of Worth of Worth of Furniture, $ 5.00 Furniture, $ 7.50 Furniture, $10.00 Furniture, $12.50 Furniture, $15.00 Furniture, $20.00 Cash, $1.00 Cash, $1.50 Cash, $2.00 Cash, $2.25 Cash, $2.50 Cash, $3.00 a Week a Week a Week a Week a Week a Week Oregon's 14-0 win over Pena this year proved It. Walter Camps All-American selec tions are made by Mr. Camp himself, however, and as Mr. Camp has other business to attend to besides choosing all-star football teams he hardly can be expected to chase from one end of the country to another looKlng over star material. His vision necessarily Is limited and as Mr. Camp Is located in New Haven, a majority and a big majority of his stars always will be chosen from teams in that section of the country. Mr. Camo tries to be fair and we be lieve his choices are as fair as can be made by any one individual. But, un til some new system can be devisea these All-American selections are sure to reflect propinquity with a capital P. In all these years since 1S89, when Camp first began doping out All- American football teams, not one player from the Pacific Coast has landed an All-American first team berth. Few stars from the Middle West have achieved this National dis tinction. But take a squint at the distribution of plums among the big Eastern teams and you'll have your eyes opened. Yale has had 81 all-stars. Harvard 70, Princeton 54. Pennsylvania 33. Army nine, Dartmouth eight, Michigan seven, Cornell six. Chicago six. Colgate five, Minnesota four. Brown four, Carlisle four. Columbia three. Navy three, Illi nois two. Syracuse two. Pittsburg two and Penn State, Ohio State, Amherst and Wisconsin one each. Personally, we know of at least two Northwest players who should have been on Camp's All-American eleven within the past few years. Hap Miller, the 200-pound halfback of the Lnl versity of Washington, is one in mind and. with due respect to the wonderfu prowess of Johnny Parsons and Johnny Beckett, the other is Shy Huntington, quarterback of the present Oregon eleven. Huntington has proved him self one of the greatest backfield stars ever produced on the Pacific Coast. Unquestionably, the present system of choosing All-American teams is farcical, but to date no Moses has been able to arise and suggest a better one. IMPENDING STRIKE BOTHERS M'GREDIE Beaver Chieftain Says About 75 Per Cent of Coast Players Involved. REMEDY IS SUGGESTED CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE TO ACT ON 10-ROUND BOXING BILL Measure to Submit Question to Voters Is Prepared Some Fear Activity May Wipe Out Present Four-Round Game. If Players Strike. Portland Man ager Advocates Filling Clubs of League With Young Players or Else Closing Parks. BT ROSCOE FAWCETT. "Fill out the Coast League clubs ' young players or else close the park Thus Walter McCredie yesterday gave his views of the threatened strike by the Baseball Fraternity players. The Portland manager is unusually worked up, because his plans for a trade of Chuck. Ward to the St. Louis Cards, have been knocked galley west by the brewing war. Perhaps 75 per cent of the Coast League players are Involved by Presi dent Fultz' ultimatum to the magnates, thinks McCredie. Bill Speas used to be the fraternity representative on tho Portland club. Mac doesn't know who succeeded to this job of collecting the monthly assessment when Speas went to the Seals. Fair Treatment Given. "We have treated our players fairly, said McCredie yeBterday. "Coast League players have had their railroad fares paid to the Spring camps, have lived at the best hotels and have drawn more money really than we should pay them. We cannot afford to add to our burdens by paying their railroad fares back to their homes in tho Fall. They ought to stick out here for the three or four months between seasons. "The ' fraternity also is fighting for contract guaranteeing full salary during incapacitation. We paid Bill ltodgers' salary for almost an entire season when he had a broken ankle. Gus Fisher was paid regularly last Fall, although he did not wear a uni form for weeks. "No. sir." declared McCredie. "Base ball is getting pretty tough. Here I had a. trade all cooked up whereby I was to trade Chuck Ward to the St. Bedroom Suite $39.50 Large. Massive Steel Bed. two-Inch posts, finished In gold bronze or tvory enamel. Large Dresser in Oregon ash. wax finish, straight tOQ Cf fronts, with Chiffonier to match; worth M8, on sale at SJ5JU 35 Cub, SI "Weekly. n D o Use Our Exchange Dept. If you have furniture that doesn't suit want something more up to date and. better phone us and we'll send a com- fetent man to see it and arrange to take t an part payment on the kind you want the Gadsby kind. "We'll make you a liberal allowance for your goods and we'll sell you new furniture at low prices. The new furniture will be promptly delivered. Fxchange goods can he bought at our Warehouse, First and "Washington. .Wm.Gad soy &S OJ2S Comer Second and Morrison Streets Member of Greater Portland Association IOE IOE BT HARRY B. SMITH. SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 13. (Special.) True to predictions, a resolution providing for a constitutional amendment that will permit the people or California to vote on a 10-round fight bill is to be introduced at the session of the Legislature already un der way. Fred C. Hawes. an Assem blyman from San Francisco, and him self a promoter of four-round contests. Is the man behind the guns, and he ex presses it as his opinion that he has better than a fair chance of securing favorable action at the hands of his fellow members. Hawes. after lookins- over the situa tion, and duly studying the laws both in New York and Wisconsin, has pro duced a measure that is a combination of the two. Naturally he provides first of all for a state athletic commission which would have full authority and Jurisdic tion in all matters pertaining to the ooxing game. Then he would limit the expenditures of this commission by providing that It shall not spend more than $3000 yearly, of which $1800 is to be allowed as the salary of the sec retary. The Governor of the state, as might be expected, is to name the mem bers of the state athletic commission. ail of whom would serve without pay. Klght-Oonee Gloves Required. Hawes wants to provide for 10-round boxing contests with eight-ounce gloves and to provide a fund with which to keep matters moving, he aims to assess all clubs IVi per cent of the gross re ceipts of any fight. All remaining after the commission's expenses are paid Is to go into the women's pension tuna. No club Is to be permitted to apply for a license unless It has a bona fide membership list of 25. and has at least one year s lease on the premises know as Its headquarters and where the fights are to be held. mere is to he no authority over purely amateur matches held under the auspices of the Pacific Association of the A. A. TJ-. and where fights are staged purely for charity there Is to be no license fee exacted of the men in charge. To put a constitutional amendment on the ballot requires a two-thirds vote of the legislators. And at the earliest. J it would be November, 1918, before the people would have an opportunity to vote on the question. So you can see that the redemption of boxing is not to be regarded as an issue that menaces for the immediate present Seriously speaking, I don't think there is one chance in a million for the Hawes measure to pass the Senate and House. Even should the Legislature act In a friendly manner, the people are still to be reckoned with and the peo pleor at least the greater mass of them do not seem to want the fighting game restored to its former glory. Complete Elimination Feared. There are others who believe that Hawes has made a serious mistake in forcing the issue at this time. They argue that those opposed to prize fighting , might seize upon the oppor tunity to tag on the amendment a clause giving the people the right to vote for the complete elimination of boxing, or that some legislator might propose more regulations that would be a bar to the sport as It remains. There is no question but that so far as the law permits, the bars are down. Men who have been known In the past as professionals are still donning the mitts; not so much, in San Francisco proper as elsewhere, and there is a ereneral feeling that the boxing frater nity ought to be satisfied with what has been left. San Franciscans, while they would undoubtedly enjoy more long distance bouts, are having lots of fun as the game goes. Dreamland rink, where the four-round game has once more been built up. Is packed every Friday night and there seems no dearth of talent. Frankie Burns, the Seattle welter weight, after two defeats, was finally successful last Friday night in scor ing a win sgainst Charlie Filz, a chap from the Philippines. Burns demon strated that he has a punch, for he knocked Filx down toward the close of the engagement and well-nigh knocked him, out. The promoters are bound to give Burns still another op portunity, and it is possible he will be able to rehabilitate himself. After Frank Schuler picked Ad Santel as the opponent for Joe Stecher in the 2Vi-hour match on Washington's birthday. February 22, it transpired mat .d Metmanek. Stecher's manager, had written Schuler that' under no cir cumstances would Joe wrestle Lewis in ban Francisco. Hetmunek wrote because of news dispatches that Stecher was to meet the winner of the Lewls-Santel bout. Stecher's representative protested that no such agreement had ever been en tered into. and. furthermore, that he would not consent to such a nroposi- tion. If Lewis wants a return match with Stecher," said the letter, "lie will have to wrestle in Omaha. In their last bout Lewis stalled palpably all the way through, and the fans were dis gusted. We are not going to give Lewis another chance, and particularly in the West. Lewis' reply, as might be expected. is to the effect that Stecher is afraid of him and wants to wrestle only where he can pick the referee and name terms that will suit him. He says that sooner or later the Dodce City heavyweight will once more be rorced on the mat with the Strangler (which Is himself), and that the next time will tell the story. The purported Eastern engagements of Lewis are nowhere near as pressing as seemed the rase a few werks back. He returned early this week from Los An (reles. where he took " on Gus Ker horas before the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Manager Billy Sandow is now considering the feasibility of a trip to Honolulu. Promoters on the island want Sandow to bring Lewis. Dr. B. F. Roller and at least two other Eastern heavyweights for a tournament that will run during the February carni val. If Sandow gets the guarantee he wants instead of the percentage that has been offered, he will make the trip, Cob Second Barred In City. Eleventh - hour efforts made by Charles Weeghman, of the Chicago Cubs, through Danny Long, his local representative, to be allowed to stage (tames in San Francisco with his yan nlgan team as one of the contestants proved unavailing. Long pleaded with Berry to be al lowed to bring the No. 2 Cub team to San Francisco for a series of three games prior to the coming of the Chi cago regulars. Berry turned Long down flat on the proposition, declar ing that a Coast League rule prohlb ited such a scheme, and, furthermore. he was personally opposed to it. Danny was advised the Seals would give the No. 2 brigade as many games in Sacramento and vicinity as they might care to stage, but he would have absolutely nothing but the best in this city. There is a general feeling In San Francisco that Berry's move to Sac ramento for a training camp is by way of giving the Capital City the acid test. It is within the possibil ities, unless attendance improves in Portland, that the Oregon metropolis might be dropped a year hence from the Pacific Coast League. If that is done, some other city will have to be included. Sacramento might get a chance if the folks In that section can demonstrate they are entitled to the opening. This is only a guess, but It seems to be a good guess at that. Cuba May Stay In Oakland. Quite a little fight is on locally as to whether the Chicago team will stay In Oakland or San Francisco while the squad is here for two weeks of base ball. When Comlskey first came to the Coast he made his headquarters in San Francisco. In 1914. Just prior to the Exposition, he moved to Oakland be cause of rates that were offered. Now comes the word that the Cubs, doubt less led astray by Tip O'Neill, have made arrangements to go to Oakland for their eats and their eleeps. Hen Berry is up in. the air. He has written and telegraphed Owner Charles Weeghman that if the Cubs are to play In San Francisco and draw down money here they must spend some of the coin where they make it. Oakland, naturally. Is going to re sent BUch dictation, and already the pot Is boiling. Either way he Jumps, Weeghman Is bound to be in for some criticism. a couple of blg rnw they won't Ward is willing Louis Nationals for league players and sign their contracts. to sign. MrCredle I lumen Knits. "I am for closing the parks If we cannot recruit enoucrh young players to take the places of the threatening strik ers. This rhould be no difficult task, however, and 1 don't think the strike will be felt as seriously by us as by the majors. It will take only a couple of months to develop new Class A A players out of youngsters from the Class B leagues who have not Joined the fraternity." McCredie says Dave Fultz has been cooking up the strike for two years. He toured the Coast a year or two ago. nd talked to the Portland club In its hotel at San Francisco. "If we're to have a strike, let s pet It over with." added Walter McCredie. vehe'mently. "Kenneth Williams. Gus Fisher and O'Brien, of my club, already re signed, but most of the other vets are members of the fraternity. I guess, and would walk out pursuant to a strike order. Bill Rodgers is a very staunch fraternity man. Some of the other Coast League clubs are in worse shape than I am. The San Francisco. lxs Angeles and etnon players are fraternity to the core." Judge McCredie has not sent out his annual avalanche of contracts, so hss had no outright refusals to sign. The entire embroglio doubtless will be dis cussed and plans for action taken at the meeting of the Coast League magnates on January 26. Walter McCredie will represent Portland at the session, which will be held in San Francisco. TERXOX TENNIS CLCIi ELECTS Plans Are Made for Matins Clnb grounds Beautiful. ' The Vernon Tennis Club at Its annual election chose the following officers: Robert R. Wallace, president; Charles C. Ralph, vice-president: Sidney S. Et ten. secretary; Harry Mulholland. treas urer, and John Person, director. After the election plans were made for the 1917 season. Efforts will be made to beautify the club grounds so that It will be one of the most attract ive tennis spots in Portland. The Ver non club Is one of the most active of the smaller tennis organizations and arrangements are being made to have representatives In every prominent tournament held In Portland and vi cinity. VITA DEFEATS TfOUTH PLWXS Loosely-Played Contest Rcsnlts In Score of 2 6 to 2 5. HILLSBORO. Or, Jan. 13. (Special.) The Vita Club basketball team of this place In the opening game of the 1917 season here last night defeated the North Plains quintet, 26 to 25. The contest was loosely played and it was anybody's game until the final whistle. Bentley, for the Vita tjiuo, ana jNiays, for the visitors, featured. The line ups follow: Vita Club (28) P. North Plains (2i Paull (2 P- t . Meek runmore (8) J- m -Mays Bentley (10) ..C: (4) Troutman Imbrle U s- Meek Alberts ) "'" Rollins (2) Spare DOC WHITE BUYS DALLAS CLCB Ham Patterson In on $35,000 Deal and Will Be Field Manager. DALLAS. Tex.. Jan. 13. The Dallas club of the Texas League this afternoon was sold to "Doc" White, former pitcher of the Chicago American League club, and H. Patterson, last year's manager of the Vernon Pacific Coast League club, for a consideration said to be $35,000. White will be business manager and Patterson field manager of the club. Roy Moore Beats Jack Donglas. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Jan. 13. Roy Moore, Minneapolis bantamweight, won a technical knockout over Jack Doug las, of Denver, in the ninth round of a scheduled ten-round fight last night, when Douglas' seconds tossed the sponge in the ring.