THE SUNDAY OREGOXLlX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 2, 1917.
tight tussles the Giants let escape last
FLANIGAN PUTS UP
FINE BOXING CARD
QUARTET OF FIGHTERS WHO WILL APPEAR AT ELEVENTH-STREET PLAYHOUSE FRIDAY NIGHT.
GIAflTS DROP MANY
season:
Boston, one, Kelly.
Brooklyn. four. Hickman, Olson
Johnston and Z. Wheat-
GAMES BY ONE RUM
Chicago three. Deal, Wilson and .elt
der.
Cincinnati, one, Neihoff.
Pittsburg. five, Schmidt. Cooperj
Ward. Btgbee and Carey.
St. Louis, four. Cruise, Ames, Smyth
and Snyder.
Carey did not bat In winning run
Butler Club's Event for Friday
Night to See Ail-Star
Programme.
Twenty-Two Are in Balance
he stole home with it.
and Some of These Are
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CONGRESSMEN AT POSTS
Representatives McArthur and HawJ
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ley Again in Washington.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
BEND BOY HAS REAL TASK
Sensational Central Oregon Welter
weight to Meet Johnny McCarthy,
Coast Champion, at Eleventh
Stfect Playhouse.
FRIDAY NIGHT'S CARD.
Johnny McCarthy vs. Fred Gil
bert. 145 pounds.
Al Sommers vs. Val Sontag, 158
pounds.
Frankte Tucker vs. Jack Wagner,'
135 pounds.
Abe Gordon vs. Beals Manning,
110 pounds.
Ted Hoke vs. Joe Hoff, 125
pounds.
Matchmaker Joe Flanlgan, of the
Butler Boxing Club, has lined up a
card for Friday which on paper looks
like the best bet since the advent of
the six-round game in Portland. The
bill In set for the Eleventh-Street Play
house. Every ' weight from middle
weight to flyweight is represented by
the best boys on the Pacific Coast.
Topping the all-star bill will be
Johnny McCarthy, welterweight cham
pion of the Pacific Coast, who will
clash with Fred Gilbert, the sensa
tional Bend welterweight, who burst
out on the fistic horizon with a bang
in his two battles here. Although only"
b irreen country boy a month ago,
Gilbert came to Portland unheralded
in search of matches. He was put on
with Johnny Boscovitch, a tough 150
pounder, and, much to the surprise
of everyone, Gilbert beat Johnny by
a mile, nearly stopping him.
A few weeks later he was matched
to box Lloyd Madden, one of the best
140-pounders in the Northwest, who
had never been knocked off his feet
in his entire career. Gilbert stepped
In the ring and polished Lloyd off In
quick order, knocking him out in two
rounds. Fred's friends now are hailing
him as a second Stanley Ketchel, and
if he keeps up his sensational show
ings it will not be long before he will
be meeting the best Eastern welter
weights. A win over McCarthy, the kingpin of
the Coast welterweights, will put him
right in line for any 145-pounder In the
country. Gilbert's task to win over
McCarthy is no easy one. Johnny has
met nearly all of the best boys at his
weight in the country, including Willie
Ritchie (four times). Johnny Griffiths,
Ted "Kid" Lewis, welterweight cham
pion of the world; Packey McFarland,
Charley White, and during the past
three months he has demonstrated that
he is far from being a "has-been" by
defeating Joe Rivers and Willie Hoppe
by wide margins.
Of almost equal importance with the
main event will be the first appear
ance here of Frankie Tucker- and his
Bister manager, Elizabeth Tucker. Al
though the Portland Boxing Commis
sion has a rule prohibiting women from
boxing shows here. Miss Tucker hopes
to get special permission to second her
brother In his bout. The little miss
from Oklahoma contends that her
brother is a sure winner when she Is at
the ringside as coach. Tucker is a
likely looking performer and has been
mowing down his opponents with reg
ularity of late. Last week In Seattle
Frankie fought Muff Bronson a hurri
cane draw, some of the Seattle scribes
saying that Muff was lucky to get an
even break with the battling Okla
homan. Jack Wagner, the fast coming Port
land lightweight, has agreed to make
135 pounds at 6 o'clock for Tucker.
This should result in a hair-raising
battle. The winner of this bout will
have a strong claim on the lightweight
championship of the Northwest, which
Is In dispute again since Eddie Pink
ham announced that he had outgrown
the weight limit.
Al Sommers, the aggressive Portland
middleweight, will meet Val Sontag.
Abe Gordon will meet Bcals Manning
and Ted Hoke will meet Joe Hoff, all
of which, Mike Butler declares, is the
greatest card of boxlngr bouts ever
presented In Portland fistic annals.
VARXELL CHOOSES ALIi-COAST
Star Football Players for Northwest
Also Are Selected.
SPOKANE, Dec. 1. Northwest con
ference and Pacific Coast conference
all-star football teams were announced
today by George M. Varnell, who ref
ereed the principal games of both con
ferences this season. Californ'n., Ore
gon, Oregon Agricultural College,
Washington and Washington State Col
lege were taken into consideration in
eelectlon of the first and second Pa
cific Coast conference all-star teams,
while Montana, Idaho, Whitman, Wash
ington, Washington State College, Ore
gon and Oregon Agricultural College
figured in deciding the places on the
Northwest conference elevn.
The selections follow:
Northwest Conference All-Star Eleven.
Flrat Team. Position.- Second Team.
Felph, O. A. C C.
Ftlten. W. S. C G.
Williams. O. A. C...G.
. . .Schnebly, V. s. C.
. Blake, V. of W
...Busch. Whitman
Walker. O. A. C T . .
Benz. Montana T.. .
Zim'erman, W. S. C.E..
Hubbaid, O. A. C...E...
fleers. Oregon. .... ..Q. . .
Banes. W. ti. C H B.
Thompson. Idaho.. .HB.
JUurphy. U. of W..K B.
. . .Herreid. W. S. C,
.Anderson. U. of W,
.L. Hanley, w. S. C.
. . . . .Medley, Oregon
. . . Keardon. u. A. C
.. Gardner, U. of W.
Lodell. O. A. C
. .. Bissett, O. A. C.
Pacific Coast Conference All-Star Eleven.
First Team. Position. Second Team.
Hansen. Cal O.
. . . . SelDh. O. A. C.
Elites. W. S. C G. .
Williams. O. A. C...G. .
Walker. O. A. C....T. ,
Herreld. W. S. C T.
Zim'erman, W. S. C. . K .
Hubbard. O. A. C...K.
Steers. Ore Q. .
Lane, Cal.
. . ... .Blake, U. ot W,
Gordon. Cal.
. .Anderson. U. of W.
. .1. Hanley. W. S. U.
Uifford. Cal.
. . . . Reardon. O. A. o.
BanRs, W. S. C HB... Gardner. V. ot W
Wells. Cal H B Lodell. O. A. C,
Murphy, IT. of W...F B Bissau. O. A. C.
CHARLEY-, WHITE IS DEAD
Man W ho Had Been "Third Man in
Ring" in Hlg Events Succumbs.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Charley White
boxing referee, who had been ill a long
time of a complication of diseases, died
litre tonight.
He was the most prominent referee
of pugilistic contests in this country
snd in nearly all the big events in the
Kastern states he was "the third man
In the rincr."
Teachers Condemn Senator.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 1.
Resolutions condemning United States
Senator Gore for "detaining legisla
tion necessary for the successful prose
cution of the war" were adopted by the
teachers of the Oklahoma Lducatioual
Association here today.
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Umpire Billy Evans Recounts
Some Idiosyncracies.
ACTIONS OFTEN PECULIAR
Eddie Collins Always Lays Glove
on Grass In Certain Way After
Each Inning Pitchers Also
Have Own "Hunches.
BT BILLY EVANS.
It was the sixth game of the 1917
world's series. The Chicago White Sox
had Just been retired after making
three runs in their half or the fourth.
The players were jubilant as they has
tened to their positioins in the field.
The Sox realized it was quite a handi
cap for the Giants to spot them three
runs. I was umpiring at second Dase.
As Eddie Collins trotted out to his posi
tion, I started to pick up his glove and
throw It to him, to hurry things along.
Don't touch it, Bill," he yelled as
I was about to pick up the glove.
"Superstitious, I remarked as I drew
my hand away, and allowed Collins to
recover the glove.
Collins is a graduate of Columbia
University, one of the brightest players
n the game, but he is heir to some of
the freak customs of the ball field.
"Not superstitious, BUI," he replied,
just peculiar."
Collins Has Superstition.
In the half of the Inning Just closed
Collins had made possible a Sox rally
by outwitting Zimmerman in the
now memorable sprint to the plate.
That incident wa perhaps the turn-
ng point in rne series. iwo other
runs had followed Collins over toe
plate on Gandil's hit. Dame Fortune
was smiling on him. He had no de
sire to cross her by haying someone
else hand him his glove.
Each inning Collins carefully de
posits his glove on the grass in a
certain way, and to have It disturbed
would be" most unfortunate. The first
man up as play was resumed was Benny
Kauff. He hit a nasty bounder over
second on which Collins made a clever
play, getting his man at first by a step.
After completing the play he glanced
at me as if to say: I probably would
have booted that one if you had dis
turbed my glove."
In the fourth inning of the second
game at Chicago, in which the Sox
de a cluster of five runs and de
cided the game, a crashing single by
Joe Jackson had much to do with keep
ing up the batting rally. As Jackson
approached the plate I was standing
rather close to the New York catcher.
There was probably less than a foot
between us. Jackson brushed through
the opening and offered an apology by
stating he never felt sure of having
any luck at the bat unless he walked
between the- catcher and umpire. Of
course, we merely smiled, but I'll wager
Jackson didn't regard the matter lightly
after he had made his base hit.
That evening in our dressing-room
GRAND ARMY VETERAN ISSUES
ONE-SIDED RELAY RACE HERE NEXT JULY.
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What do you think of a man 73 years of age who Is willing to run five
miles against 20 other men, relaying one another every quarter mile?
This is what Colonel James L. Smith. Cival War veteran, wants to do here
in Portland at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment next July, and
he has already issued a challenge to that effect. Colonel Smith can run 10
miles In 74 minutes. What husky young sprinter of 19 can do as well?
Pronounced by Army physicians as a "physical specimen without a parallel."
he has partaken in every foot race of the annun Grand. Army reunions witb-
out once being defeated or tied,
as we were preparing to make the
jump back to New York the four um
pires were discussing the peculiar su
perstitions of many of the star play
ers. In the midst of the conversa
tion George Moriarity, who did such
fine work In his first year on the
American League staff, dropped in.
Moriarity lives in Chicago. That Is,
he registers Chicago, although he pays
taxes in Woodstock; so, of course, he
took in the games. Getting the drift
of the conversation, he related a most
unusual case of superstition with which
the entire Detroit club was once af
flicted. This superstition wasn't con
fined entirely to the players. Manager
Jennings and Owner Navin sharing In
the belief. Here is the way Moriarity
tells it:
"Charley O'Leary was a member of
our infield that year. Charley's home
was in Chicago, and whenever we
played in that city his father and
mother always came out to see a.t least
one of the games. Our team was going
along only fairly well. Things were
breaking badly for us. In a joking
manner O'Leary remarked that his
father and mother ought to be carried
by the Detroit -club as a mascot, since
they had never seen the Tigers lose a
game. The players were much Inter
ested in the statement. Some rather
doubted the truth of the remark. We
later learned from Charley's father that
it was a fact. Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary
had never seen the Tigers lose a game.
Charley laughingly told the boys he in.
tended having his father and mother
come up to Detroit for a visit. The an
nouncement cheered the players. They
were all superstitious enough to be
lieve a break might come their way.
Hughey Jennings, who had been listen
ing, informed O'Leary that if his father
and mother made pood on the mascot
job the expenses of the trip would be
on the club.
Winning Streak Started.
""Well, to make my story short, the
O'Leary came to Detroit and, strange
as it may sound, the Tigers started a
winning streak that didn't stop until
14 straight had been registered. Char
ley's father and mother witnessed every
one of the 14 straight wins. The club
was then due to mak long road trip,
and a special invitation was extended
to Mr. and Mrs. O'Leary to make the
trip. Such a thing was impossible, and
on the evening of the 14th straight vic-
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tory they left for Chicago. The very
next time out our record of straight
wins was broken, and you can bet that
the loss of the game was blamed not
on pitching or hitting, but the absence
of the mascot."
Chief Bender, one ot the greatest
pitchers the game has ever produced,
had a most peculiar' superstition, to
which he strictly adhered. Time and
again I have seen members of his
own team try to get him to break
away from his pet hobby, but always
in vain. Even in a world's series, with
so much at stake. Bender would cling
to his one big superstition, even
though at times it seemed be was
courting disaster.
Under no condition would Bender
warm up between innings with any
other player on the field except his
regular catcher. In several big series
I have seen it happen that Ira Thomas,
who received Bender for a number of
years, would be the last man out, or
would be on the bases when the side
was retired. Of course, that necessitated
his return to the bench to don his shin
guards, protector and mask. In such
cases one of the other catchers always
goes up to the plate and warms up the
pitcher. Often the pitcher tosses the
ball to the first baseman until his
catcher gets ready, but not so with
Bender. Members of Mack's team were
aware of Bender's superstition, but they
always acted as if not wise. Time and
again I have seen Jack Lapp rush up
to the plate while Bender stood on the
rubber with the ball in his hand. Lapp
would yell frantically at Bender to toss
a couple, but the Indian would oniy
grin. "Stuffy" Mclnnis. at first base,
would also offer to catch a few until
Thomas got ready, but neither Mclnnis
nor Lapp evar remember of Bender
breaking over.
Leonard Has Peculiarity.
Dutch Leonard, star southpaw of the
Boston Red Sox, wouldn't think of
starting an Inning unless the last ball
he pitched to his catcher in a warming
up session was a curve. I had noticed
Leonard's desire to finish off with the
curve, and on several occasions I have
had Bill Carrigan make his practice
throw to second on be fourth ball, and
Leonard, by the way, always takes the
limit five balls to warm up. Every
time Carrigan pulled the stunt a scowl
would . come over Leonard's face, he
would call my attention to the fact that
he still had one more ball to throw, and
would then come through with a curve.
Once, when in a batting slump.
"Stuffy" Mclnnis must have hit the um
pire's broom with the bat as he ap
proached the plate, and then followed it
up by making a home run. because now
Mclnnis regards It as essential that he
play golf with the umpire's broom Just
before Ke steps into the batter's box.
According to Stuffy, such a practice al
most got him Into trouble with a cer
tain American League umpire. The time
previous he had been called out on
strikes; he slightly disagreed with the
ruling on the third one. On his next
time at bat he swatted the umpire's
broom a considerable distance. Just as
the Judge of play was about to stoop
over and pick the broom up to dust off
the plate. He bad a hard time explain
ing his action.
(Copyright. 1917. by W. G. Evans.)
HERRMANN CALLS . MEETING
National Commission to Gather In
Cincinnati January 7.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 1. August Her
mann, chairman of the National Base
ball Commission, tonight announced
the commission would hold its annual
meeting In Cincinnati on January 7.
At this meeting the chairman, treas
urer and secretary of the commission
will be elected.
Mr. Herrmann said he has moved to
reduce the player limit of the National
League to 18 men to a team, exclusive
of the manager, by forwarding to
President Tener an amendment to the
constitution calling for that number.
Mr, Grilley Goes to Camp.
A. M. Grilley, physical director of
the Portland Y. M. C. A., will leave to
day for American Lake to look after
physical recreation of the men at Camp
Lewis for 10 days or two weeks. His
presence there is demanded by the fact
that Mr. Strlckler, camp physical dl.
rector, is laid UP with a broken arm.
Mr. Grilley has charge of the physical
enl of the'Y. M. C. A. work at mobiliza
tion points ot the Northwestern states.
BIT
Jake Enkella. Star Lineman. Telia of
Beino; Treated to Real Thanlu
glvlng Dinner.
Jake Enkells, Lincoln's star line
man, tells some interesting experiences
of the team when they went to Gol-
dendale. Wash., for a Thanksgiving
game with the hlBn school there.
"They had a fine team." says Jake,
"and they walloped us 33 to 0. We
have no alibi. The game was clean,
and as the field was very muddy both
teams had to resort to line plunges.
"The local people treated us royally
while wc were there. On our arrival
we were taken to the homes of the
members of the Goldendale team, where
we had fine dinners. Downtown the
Population turned out en masse to
greet us. The town was 'serpentined'
thoroughly. A bonfire was built, and
speeches of welcome were made by
prominent Goldendale citizens.
"The next day was Thanksgiving,
and the big game was played. After
the game we were all treated to a real
country Thanksgiving feast. Person
ally, I never "ef so much in my life.
In the evening the townspeople gave
a big dance for us.
"On Friday we were taken In ma
chines through the Cimco Mountains
and for a visit to the home of Samuel
Hill. Before leaving for Portland
ltter in the day the people of Golden
dale invited all of us to visit them next
Summer and stay as long as we liked."
Those who made the trip were: Mr.
and Mrs. Sen wartzstrauber, "Pinky"
Wright, Ray Dodge, Morris Rogoway,
Ed Leach, Marlon Monroe, Estelle Han
son, Russell Kaufman, George Wolff,
Johnny Tuerck. Ned Twining. Earl
Larrlmore, Dave Dunne. Clem Saunders,
Vic Risley, Ted Barton and Jake
Enkelis.
Albert Johnson Coming West.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Dec. 1. Representative Albert
Johnson, of Washington, will start
west December 6 on a tour for the Red
Cross, winding up at Tacoma about
Christmas. He will spend 10 days In
his district and return to Washington
early in January.
Knights of Columbus Give Benefit.
MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE. St. Bene
dict. Or., Dec. 1. (Special.) A pro
gramme was given by the members of
the local lodge of the Knights of Co
lumbus on Thanksgiving afternoon and
evening. The proceeds were donated
to the Red Cross.
FORMER OREGON GRID STAR
GETS COMMISSION.
, Lou I. Finkham, Jr.
Louis H. Pinkham, Jr., former
star tackle on the University of
Oregon football team and later
coach at the same Institution,
was appointed a First Lieutenant
in the Officers' Reserve, field
artillery. Since leaving college
Pinkham has been engaged in
civil engineering and during the
last four years was with the
Government under Civil Service.
LINCOLN 'ELEVEN BEATEN.
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Seven Extra Round Battles Also Go
Against New Vorkers Eight Op
posing Pitchers Have Records
of Three Victories.
Like the Yankees, the Giants have
their Jinxes and hoodoos. but there
was no pitcher on the National
League circuit last season who op
pressed the McGrawttes as Mordecai
Brown used to oppress them eight or
nine years ago, nor was there any
player who wrought the damage on
attack like Joe Tinker was wont to
do when the great Cub machine was
running at Its smoothest clip.
As good a way as any to locate the
members of the Society of Giant Jinxes
without trusting too much to treach
erous memory Is to take the list of
one-run games lost by the Polo
Grounders, the list of games lost In the
ninth and the list of games lost In ex
tra Innings and find out who drove in
the winning run. Then the Joe Tinker
of 1917 will be found.
Additionally, go over the pitching
records and find out who beat the
Giants oftenest. Thus will the Mor
decai Brown of 1917 be discovered.
McGraw's men dropped 22 battles for
the want of one wee tally during the
1917 campaign, presenting the run that
eventually decided things to their op
ponents on four occasions. Seven ex
tra round battles went against the res
idents and the enemy flashed six ninth-
Inning rallies that meant defeats for
Pa Knickerbocker's National League
representatives. Making the necessary
deductions for duplications leaves 25
games to go over fb pick out the men
who did the most damage to the Giant
cause.
Cooper la Giant Jinx.
No pitcher registered more than
three victories over the champions last
season, eight men having a record of
this kind. The eight were Artie Nehf,
of Boston; Rube Marquard and Larry
Cheney, of Brooklyn; Jim Vaughn, of
Chicago; Fred Toney. of Cincinnati; in
his three wins the Phillies gave but
Cooper, of Pittsburg, and Leon Ames,
of St. Louis. Half of these men lasted
through all three of their successes
against the McGrawttes, the quartet
of stickers consisting of Cooper, Laven
der, Vaughn and Toney.
The Pirate gave the Giants four runs
in the three wins, the Phillies gave
them four, the Cubs gave them six and
the Reds gave them seven. Cooper's
counters, IS, were made behind Laven
der and behind Toney and 23 behind
Vaughn. So it looks from the figures
as If Cooper, more than anyone else,
was the Giants' Mordecai Brown of
1917.
Pitchers who conquered the Polo
Grounds team twice were Rudolph, of
Boston; Coombs, of Brooklyn; Douglas,
of Chicago; Hogan. Schneider and
Mitchell, of Cincinnati; Alexander' and
Rixey, of the Phillies, and Goodwin, of
St. Louis. Moundsmen who subdued
them once were Barnes and Tyler, of
Boston; Pfeffer, of Brooklyn: Demaree
and Hendrlx, of Chicago; Rcuther and
Eller. of Cincinnati; Oeschger, of the
Phillies: Miller, Ponder and Carlson, of
Pittsburg, and Doak. Meadows and
Packard, of St. Louis. In their 66 re
serves the Giants made 118 runs.
Giants Tally B06 liana.
In their 98 successes the New York
rang the scoring gong on SOB occasions,
winning more games from Willie Doak
than from any one else. Lucky for
Bill, there was only one New York team
In the National League, else he would
not have captured the $500 bonus con
tingent on his winning 15 games.
"Bonus Bill" fell before the Giants
six times, Burleight Grimes of the Pi
rates, meeting five reverses at their
hands. Twenty-four tallies were made
off the Missourian. 35 off the Pennsyl
vanlan, Frank Miller, of Pittsburg, a
stumbling block to the McGrawttes in
1916, was beaten four times by the new
champions, and so were Sherrod Smith,
of Brooklyn, Phil Douglas, of Chicago,
and Jimmy Lavender and Eppa Rixey,
of the Phillies.
The Giants earned three decisions
over Alexander the Great, and the same
number over Barnes. Tyler and Ragan,
of the Braves, Coombs of the Robins,
Demaree and Vaught of the Cubs, and
Mitchell and Schneider of the Reds.
Two Recruits Win.
Only nine artillerists pitched better
than .500 against the New York Na
tionals last season, there being Just two
men who escaped beatings at their
hands. The two were Ponder, of Pitts
burg, and Reuther, of Chicago. In the
closing stages f the season these
youths bathed the McGrawttes In the
whitewash tub.
These were the nine pitchers who
won more games than they lost from
New York last season:
Runs
Pitchers
Ponder. Plttsburr .
Reuther, C'innclnn&ti. .
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3 1 .730 8 12
3 1 .7.10 15 li
S 1 .750 12 IS
2 1 .607 8 U
3 2 .61)0 IT IS
8 2 .600 2 J 2a
3 2 .000 17 15
Marquard. Brooklyn....
Anita. St. Loula
Goodwin, St. Ixiuia
Nehf. Boston
Tnney, Cincinnati.......
Said man Jim Thrope again is on
the reserve list of the New York Na
tional club. The Indian during his
career as a Red broke up two battles
against the Giants, no other player on
the circuit wrecking more than one
close game against them.
Bill Rarlden Blunders.
In four conflicts where the foe gained
the decision by a single encounter the
Polo Grounders forced the run that set
tled things on their adversaries. Bill
Rarlden started the fashion of blunder
ing at the wrong moment In the game
with the Phillies on June 28. when his
passed ball in the tenth gave them a
six-to-five victory. On August 13
Brooklyn won over the residents, two
to one. Gibson's error in the fourth ac
counting for the winning marker.
On September 10 the Robins again
won on the basis of two to one. Ben
ton's error in the first frame spilling
the beans. Anderson, with a wild pitch
In the seventh on September 19, gave
the Cubs a four-to-three success.
The tallendera, the Pirates strange to
say. took more close games from the
Giants without help through blunders
than any other team. They landed five.
Brooklyn took six. but two of the con
tests were prlven to the Gowanus team
on errors. Gibbon and Benton, as told,
being the donors. These were the men
who drove in the winning run in the 21
ington. Dec. 1. Representative SlcArJ
thur and Mrs. McArthur arrived today
from New Orleans, where the Portland
Representative completed Inspection of
the navy-yards. He is convinced by
what he saw that there is immediate
need for submarine and aviation bases
at the Columbia River and other points
recommended by the Helm Board and
will propose that the Pacific Coast
delegations unite in an effort to securo
these appropriations, notwithstanding
the seenunfc adverse attitude of th
Navy Department.
Mr. McArthur will Introduce a bill
next week to further protect Portland s
water supply.
Representative Hawley reached hero
this morning, but has not yet drawn
his bills for Introduction. He expects
that a river and harbor bill will be
passed and will urge the allowance of
the full amounts recommended for Ore
gon waterways. Mr. Hawley says be is
not a candidate for Senator, but will
be a candidate to succeed himself in
the House.
TWO BOARDS IN CONFLICT,
Question of Priority Troubles Food
nd Fuel Administrations.
WASHINGTON. Dec 1. The contest
between the food and fuel administra
tions over priority rights for food and,
coal transportation was taken up to
day at a conference between represen
tatives of the Railroad War Board,
the committee on priority and the two
administrations concerned, to decide,
whether foodstuffs or coal and coka
shall move first on the railroads.
The Fuel Administration's request
that coal be given right of way haa
drawn objections from the Food Admin
istration. If coal goes ahead of food,
the Food Administration declares the
country will be brought to the point
of actual hunger.
TOKIO HONORS DIPLOMAT
Ambassador Morris Tells Japaneso
Meaning of War Slogan.
TOKIO, Dec 1. The America-Japan
Society gave a dinner last night to the
new American Ambassador. Roland S.
Morris. Premier Terrauchl, Foreign
Minister Motono and others In the
Cabinet, as well as 200 rrvembers of the
Society, were present. Addresses were
delivered by Mr. Morris, Viscount Ka
neko. Baron Shibusawa and Prince
Tokuguwa.
In his address, Mr. Morris said that
to make the world safe for democracy
meant democracy among nations with
the right of national self development.
WAR SUPPLIES IMPERATIVE
Foreign, Countries AV1I1 Be Asked to
Relax Embargoes.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. Pressure
will be brought to bear by Federal
export and import control to induce
foreign governments to relax. In favor
of American manufacturers, arbitrary
embargo restrictions which have pre
vented valuable war supplies from
reaching this country.
The War Trade Board, in a statement
published today, expresses an un
equivocal determination to effect a
form of reciprocity between this gov
ernment and nations which have com
modities needed here for war prepara
tions. Mr. lloff to Met Farmers.
SALEM, Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) La
bor Commissioner Hoff said today that
he' would attend the meeting of the
Farmers' Union In Pendleton next week
and will hold a conference relative to
safety devices in warehouses. A num
ber of new warehouses are to be con
structed throughout the state, and it
is the plan to modernise them as far as
possible. Mr. Hoff also will address the
convention.
Runaway Boy Is Traced.
ALBANY. Or.. Dec. 1. (Special.) A
picture in this morning's Oregonian led
to trace of James Bromberg. a run
away boy from Portland. F. M. French,
local Jeweler, recojenixed the picture as
that of a boy who was in his storn
Wednesday. The lad said he was on
his way to Mill City to work in the
sawmill there.
American Wounded In Action.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. First Lieu
tenant Wallace A. Belfey. medical offi
cer of the reserve corps, attached to
the British forces, has been seriously
wcunded In action, the War Depart
ment was advised today by General
Pershing. Lieutenant Belfey Is the
son of Rev. M. W. Belfey, of Belvidere.
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BUTLER CLUB
o
11th St. Playhouse
(Eleventh and Morrison Sts.)
Friday Eve., Dec 7
Featuring San Francisco's
fighting Harp,
Johnny McCarthy
(conqueror of Willie Hoppe and
Jeo Rivers).
vs.
. Fred Gilbert
(the sensational Bend cyclone.)
Al Sommers Val Sontag.
Frankie Tucker Jack Wagner.
Abe Gordon Beals Manning.
Ted Hope Joe Hoff.
Price's $1.C0, $1.50, $2.00
Seats now on sale
Rich's and Stiller's Cigar Stores.