The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 27, 1921, SECTION TWO, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextSECTION TWO Pages 1 to 22 tttlttt Classified Advertising and Sporting News VOL. XL. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY .MORNING', FEBRUARY 27, 1921 NO. 9 tt No Matter How -Much or How Little You may plan to spend for the furnishing of a room or your entire home, you may come to GADSBYS with the assurance that you will find a complete assortment of personally selected furniture and floor coverings at whatever price you are prepared to pay, and by no means is ALL GOOD furniture expensive. Furniture of the serviceable, dependable kind may be had at a big saving here, with pleasing credit to those who wish it. Note some of GADSBYS SPECIALS. Dainty Enameled Breakfast Set, Just as Pictured, $19.75 This dainty set in white or Ivory enamel, consisting of a 36-inch top drop leaf table at'd 4 chairs to match. Just the thins: for the break fast nook, Sells regularly everywhere at $23.00. Gadsby's price i.7!5 Two other i-eta at --.7." and a.11.30 TWO OUTFITS WORTHY OF NOTE SS& &Mm rim Oak Extension Table and Six Chairs $52.50 This handsome dining; set consists of 42-inch top, 6-foot solid oak ex'ension tabie and six half-box oak saddle-seat chairs to match. Table set can be had either in gol den wax or fumed finish. Solirl oak buffet can, be added for S29.75 Five-Pfece Ivory Bedroom Suite $84.90 Look at the picture. Cstn you ask for a prettier set at such a price? All pieces are Just as pictured and standard size, best material and workmanship, beautiful ivory enamel finish. Worth much more, than we are asking. Two Patterns Massive Overstuffed Tapestry Davenports $64.75 arid . $94.50 Nothing cheap about them Hut the price. Beautiful patterns of tapes try covering, loose comfy cushions, full size. Must be seen to be appreciated. No. 1 Regularly sold at 1110.00, now 64.7." No. 2 Regularly sold at $130.00, now ALL. Ll lXi-HOOM IMKtKS BKDtlKU .S94.50 SOME ROCKER Here is one of the best values we have ever offered. Upholstered in best grade brown imitation Span ish leather, large roomy spring seat. A regular $37.50 OI C value at ZI.I3 S3 SOLID OAK BUFFET lpsllll $29 .75 We are offering a Buffet sim ilar to cut, made of solid oak, golden oak finish. Plank top 44x20. with French plate mir ror back, 828. Two top draw ers, one lined for silver. Dou ble door cabinet and large linen drawer below. Regular $49.00 value. Sale OQ TC price is V3.I 3 Use Our Exchange Department If you have furniture that doesn't suit want something more up-to-date and better phone us and we'll send a competent man to see it and arrange to take it as part payment on the kind you want the liadsby 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. Exchanged goods can be bought at our First and WanhlnKtOB utore. BED DAVENPORT SALE We have the largest and most complete line of Fine Davenports in the city, long or short sizes. Upholstered in genuine leather or best grade Imitation leather. These Bed Davenports are becoming more popular every day and there are hundreds being used by night and day. Why be without one when tncy re so reasonuDiy priced : Imitation Spanish Leather. . r.r;o Genuine Spanish L'lKV 1 1. inn at ;ishyS' sh Leather. .. .$79.30 Jacobean Finish William and Mary Leather Diners . $8.95 Here is a real bay If you are needing dining chairs. Solid oak, full box. genuine brown Spanish leather seats. William and Mary period, very simi lar to picture. Would not be high at regular price, which Is $13.75. You can buy them this week Q QC Gadsby's for each ... ... v0i3U Oak Auto Seat Rocker $14.95 The rocker we are offering this week is quite similar to one pictured. Is solid oak. has genuine full spring auto seat. In brown Craftsman leather (will wear like genu ine leather), either wax or fumed finish. It's a $22.30 value. THREE-PIECE BED OUTFIT $29.75 This outfit, con sisting of t w o inch post steel bed in White Enamel or Vernis Martin finisn. Good fa bric steel spring and 40-pound col ton felt mattress ' Worth a whole lot more. $29,75 ROOM-SIZE RUGS REDUCED Lots of Patterns $41.50 9x12 Tapestry- Brussels at $44.30 9x12 Tapestry Brussels at $49.50 9x12 Tapestry Brussels at $57.00 9x12 Wool Velvet at . $55.00 9x12 Wool Velvet t $32,20 $35.40 $39.60 $44.60 $42.75 $57.00 9x12 Axminster Jg $75 .bb'9xlV Axm'i'nsVer JjjjJ gfj f 39.50' '8-3x10-6 ' Tapestry Oft 7fl Brussels at PJU.I U $32.50 6x9 Tapestry COS CC Brussels at 1PZJ1UJ a:; .R?B..Rn.s: one-half I 'J rMrhfpiM a""", ' jl Flf'o tiff?" BsntaasM WHY NOT A WEDGEWOOD? THE 100 GAS RANfiR, PL.I S A KITCHEN HEATER, THAT .GIVES YOU ADDITIONAL COOKIXO SPACE, AT NO E.YTKA FUEL COST. A Cu Range With Coal or Wood Firebox. Which Heats Hot Water While Your Kitchen In Warm and Cony. ALL, THE FIRE YOU KEED and at a small cost compared to a big fire In a furnace or range. Takes the nip out of the morning temperature and gives you a dry, healthy atmosphere. You mar bake and broil with one flame ame time on the WedKe nood Grns Range. The same set of burners heats the bake oven (above) and the broiler just beneath it. The Wedge wood Gas Range is easy to clean: its smooth surface, white and biack. can be cleaned" with soap and water like you would wash your dishes. We will take your old cook stve or range in exchange on one of these new Wedgewood Ranges ana allow you all it is worth. WE HAVE WEDGEWOODS AS LOW AS 832.50. Wm. Gadls'lbv & Sons Corner Second and Morrison Streets MIGHTY SWAT KING'S PRESTIGE W DICER Babe Ruth Self-indulgent; Physical Condition Bad. BEAVERS TO GO SOUTH BY BOAT INSTEAD OF TRAIN Judge McCredie Nearly Falls Out of Chair When Kallio Slakes Suggestion and Others Promptly and Vigorously Second It. . TRIPS FOR FISHERS RUDE AWAKENING IS DUE Champions Delicate Mechanism's Says Perry, und Bambino Must Take Care ir Fall. BY LAWRENCE PERRY., (Copyright, 1021. by The Oregonian.) . NEW YORK, Feb. 26. (Special.) As the Yankees are en route for Shreveport. La., for spring training, no encouraging x word concerning Babe Ruth's future comes from Hot Springs,. Ark., where the king of clout is trying to work off his 30 pounds of excess baggage. From a good student of physical condition now at Hot Springs, the writer has heard that while the Bambino will probably begin the season with fewer pounds, yet his condition shows that he has not handled himself this win ter with any .intelligent regard for his well-being and that 'it is ex tremely likely that this will tell In his home run record in the coming season. Or, if not, it will be but a matter of two or three years when Ruth has joined the has-beens, provided he doesn't take a tumble to himself and realize that his batting prowess is due to a nice connection of nerves and muscles to a pair of eyes that accurately and instantaneously tele graph messages to his brain. Champions Delicate Mechanisms, ("haranlnns in whatever form of sport are delicate mechanisms. They are in a sense ireaks 01 nature, a combination of physical and mental elements that are perfectly adjusted tc excellence in running. Kitting, box ing or tennis playing or golf or any sport one cares to name. It doesn t take much to throw things out of gear and when this hap pens the king falls. Human beings thus gifted are apt to think of them selves as out of the ordinary class. But they are nor; in fact they have to take better care of themselves than does the dub. Men who handle prize dogs or race horses realize this. What would have happened to Man o' War had he been permitted to lead the merry care-free or Irtdulgent ex istence that Babe Ruth has led this year? They say that at times his expenses have been a thousand dol lars a week. And this is the gait of Indian chief who has struck oil In Texas. Ruth' Decline Forecast. Those who chatter so carelessly about Ruth's beating his home run record in the coming season condi tion or no condition are mainly those who do their talking without a great deal of thinking. There are quiet chaps who follow baseball not so much as a pastime as 'a source of deep thought who ar of the opinion that Ruth in 1920 attained the peak of his greatness and that succeeding years will see his decline; a gradual decline if he keeps himself in condi tion, but otherwise as swift as the flight of a toboggan down an Ice chute. A New York expert in analyzing the swatting- achievement of Ruth in the season of 1920 makes t clear just what a remarkable thing he did. Here is the way he doped the record out: One Ruth averaged nearly ten home runs a month. Two The Babe made one home run in every two and a half games. Three He made a homer about every eighth and a half times he went to the bat. Sixty-five Home Ran Gonl. And now the fans are howling for 65 home runs, a figure which Ruth himself set as the thing to aim at this year. Maybe he will make it. Then again, maybe he won t. Miller Hug- gins has not said anything about this, but he gives one the idea that he will be satisfied if Ruth comes somewhere near the great 1920 record. An American league pitcher of an other club who was in town yester day spoke In an interesting manner of Ruth's probable showing this season. "The Babe." he said, "has been doped out as having no weak points to pitch to. They say he can hit anything you Bend high Inside, high outside, hop, break, drop, anything you want to throw. Now I don't think so. I've watched Ruth closely when I was in the box and when I was out. Oh, he has made his home runs off me, too; but I think now ihat I know how to keep nis home-run record down so far as my delivery is concerned, anyway. There are balls he doesn't like and won't hit at un less he has to. And when he does connect with them they are not home runs. I may have it all wrong, but I aon't expect to see him get to me foi the circuit clout in any game we are in together. And don't forget that he will find other pitchers harder to land on, too. The going will be tougher for the Babe this year." This pitcher did not want his name used, because the fans might think he was blowing and would laugh him out of the league If his dope went wrong. But if things breaks as he said, he will be the original I-told- you-so-guy next fall. BY L. H. GREGORY. JUDGE McCREDIE nearly fell cut of his chair yesterday when Rudy Kallio, pitcher, asked him to send the Portland ball players to San Fran Cisco next week by boat Instead of by irain, wnereupon several other play ers who were gassing over the hot stove not only seconded the motion. but did it vigorously. The judge thought thev were unnof ing him at first, but they were dead earnest about it. So much so that when the judge called for a vote it was virtually unanimous for the cruise; "Well," said the judge, "if you want lo go oy Doat, by boat it shall be." He promptly . called up steamship headquarter) and made reservations on the Rose City, leaving Portland next Sunday morning at 10 o'clocft. Del Baker served in the navy during the war so he ought to be right at home on the cruise. No doubt he will entertain such of the boys as aren't on (he binnacle list by boxing the com pass, splicing the main brace, walk ing the bridge and all that seadog stuff, though it's a cinch he wont swab any decks. He had enough of that while he was in the service. It was lucky Walt McCredie wasn't around when the players made their decision to try a little life on the rolling wave. Several years ago the Beavers went to Honolulu to do their training. Walt was sick all the way across and all the wav back. The judge wasn't much better off. You couldn't get Walt aboard ship now for two pennants a year, let alone one. However. Walt already had planned to shove off for the south bv train about the middle of this week for Pasadena to look the Cubs over, so he should worry. Captain T. J. Macgenn. the able skipper of the Rose City, will prob ably be pleased when he learns the nfews. The captain dearly likes to take landlubbers oij their first cruise and invite -em to sit at the captain's table and discuss poetry with him. Any bird who misses a meal or a sto-y when the skipper puts him at his own table is disgraced for life. Walt might arrange with the cap tain to put the boys through a little advance training on the cruise, such as heaving the lead, etc.. doing a little bright work just after four bells of the morning watch, swabbing down th3 decks and such. He'd make either wrecks or able-bodied seamen of them by the time they reached San Fran cisco. By taking the Rose City, the players will reach San Francisco in time to get to Santa Maria Tuesday morning. There the programme calls for them to begin training at once. Walt heard some mighty good things about his recruit third base man, S. M. Benedict of Caldwell, Ida ho, around the hot stove yesterday when Burg, University of Oregon pitcher, got to chinning about him. Burg has seen Benedict play and says he is a real star, a wonderful fielder and a fence buster with the bat. He told Walt something he hadn't known befoca, . jiamely, that Benedict isn't s mere kid without previous experience as the Portland chief had supposed. It seems that a couple of years ago Benedict played part of the. season with a club In the Texas league. He made such a hit down there that the Texas leaguers have been trying to induce him to return ever since, but Benedict won't do it because he doesn't want to play ball that far away from known style, "if you have ahold of dis kid, just keep ahold of him, dat's my tip to you. He's one of the besteat young ball players I've ever seen. And he can soitinly bang that old a Dole. Hans onto him." So Walt is hanging onto him. As Rip is at present in Los Angeles, it will be only a step for hira to report from there to Santa Maria. King" is a catcher, but he is such a strong hitter and so fast on his feet, and still so young, being not more than 21, that Walt believes he can be converted into an outfielder. Anvhow. that's the programme for King he has in mind at present. Of course it's possible that he might show so much stuff behind the bat that it would be foolish to shift him. but Walt believes that a fast young fellow ; who can hit as King does ought to try the outfield. No definite word has come yet from Ruby Bob Bescher, the former Cincinnati outfielder who holds the National league record in stolen bases for the period since 1900, with SO one season and 70 another. The deal with Columbus for Bescher has been officially o.k.'d at the Columbus end by Clarence Rowland, who has succeeded Bill Clymer there as man ager. Now Ivs a matter or coming to terms personally with Bescher. The Judge sent him a telegram last week but got word that the wires were down and that the message had been sent on to Bescher by mail That puts all hands at the mercy of Mr. Burleson and there's no telling what has happened to the message. But Walt is determined to have Bescher if he wjll come to the coast. The Pacific coast playing schedule for the 1921 season, published on another page, contains something that surprised the judge when he read it. The surprise lies in the fact that double-headers are scheduled for every Sunday in the season. An other surprise is that they are sched uled In the form of a Sunday morning game and a Sunday afternoon game, as has been the custom at Oakland and San Francisco for years, but never anywhere else on the circuit. The Judge says that the Sunday morning stuff is off with him and that as long as he is owner of the Portland baseball franchise there PUNN E D BY CLUB Local Anglers to Entertain Visitors at Tournament. 50 EXPERTS EXPECTED Multnomah Organization An nounces Commiitees Charged With Arranging Meet. With th naming of several com-' TrtM .Whh.'Ch, VU havo tional fiv St!Slnff ot the Interna- nion.L, 'Iy. an.d bait-casting cham- "B. . ncla n"e in Under th o..-.f ..' :t::mah Anglers'cTubr Plans for .r.... . K ll1e tournament and are expected to progress rapidly. According to word received from and bait casters of the country on hand for the tournament. Jack Her man, secretary-treasurer of the Mult- " iib-ii-rs- club, has rcrrlvoit past month from letters In the rain. , li . 01 tne Iocky moun o .r. ",S f,r '"formation on the n?,r mu"L' Kvery eff'"'t 'a being put forth by the local club to make this tournament ih. k. - u., . VJ u t nci ucia in the United States. FUhlnit Trlpa riannrd. fp!.?,add.itl0nu t0 ,hc competition llM3 tournament Use!'. every visiting caster will have the opportunity of enJiylnif nlmVeef ,he one of the several fishing or hunting trips which will be held for the enter tainment of the visitors. .i,!T'V! ,!r'ps are beln Panned for ihP.r . ",nW1ho be asked on their arrival here just what par- Ini ,M0r!. f f'shi"ff f'ey Prefer. ?h,l,WlnthCn, be ai,OWfd make their choice of one of the trips. local club, will lend one party to the Rogue river for fly fishing for steel heads. A. E. Hurghduff. state game will be no Sunday morning Pacific I warden, will head another imrffftl Coast league games in Portland. The judge's argument Is that with Sunday ball permitted in Portland, it would be most foolish and unsportsmanlike to antagonize the churches by play ing games Sunday morning. "Let the people go to church In the morning," said the Judge, "and at tend ball games in the afternoon if they want to. The church people may rest assured that we shall not try to stage a counter attraction Sunday morning- The games sched uled here for Sunday morning will be played In the afternoon, which means double-headers practically every Sunday of the coming season." W. H. Klepper, the Seattle magnate, while here the other day said he, too, was opposed to playing any Sunday morning games and that Seattle would follow Portland's example of doubling up the games in the afternoon. The new schedule, by the way, provides for eight baseball games a week throughout, instead of six, as heretofore early in the season and seven later In the season. That will give Portland a lot of baseball this t,m- nf , for V,o. h hi. hg.l is 1"' '. . , - ... . has been shortened two weeks. BOWLING TOURNEY TO OPKN 1 Play iu American Congress to Be Started Tomorrow Night. BUFFALO. N. Y., Feb. 26. The 21st annual tournament of the American Bowling congress will open here Mon day night. With an entry of 934 teams in the five-man event,, the tournament this I year will be the largest ever held. Stayton Five Beats Independence, STAYTON. Wash.. Feb. 26. Tht Stayton high school team played iu fatest and best game of the season here Friday night, when it defeated Independence high by a score of 23 to 9. The game ended the season's schedule. Lynch Ready to Fight. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Joe. Lynch. who won the world's bantamweight boxing championship from Pete Her man last December, today sent a mes sage to the New Orleans boxer stat- irg that he was ready to make good bis promise for a. early return bout. experience in a circuit of the class of the Texas league and that he made good certainly sounds well for his chances with the Beavers. It also goes to show that all the encomiums cf his playing that have come down from Idaho have something behind them. Young Rip King,, the lad who made football history by heaving a forward pass 55 yards for a touchdown and the winning score in a professional football game at Los Angeles last month, thereby breaking Brick Mul ler's celebrated 50-yard toss record against Ohio State, will play baseball for Portland this season. That was settled yesterday when Judge Mc Credie and Manager Walt decided to meet tho young fellow's terms and telegraphed him to that effect. If King can play baseball as well as he plays professional football he will be a star, no less. A whole flock of big league scouts say he can do just that thing and have gone to the trouble of writ.ng Walt about it. Jack Dunn of the minor league champion Baltimore team in the In ternational league thinks the same, for he signed King last season to a contract, which has been annulled be cause Judge McCredie was able to rhow that Rip previously had ac cepted terms from Portland and re fused to report. Bill tsstck or Vernon appears to be of the same mind, for he has been moving heaven and earth to get King away from Portland so he can s'gn him for him self But best of all, box scores of games in which King has played in the In dustrial league.back In Ohio all seem to bear out the same story. Rin isn't particularly backward about admitting his accomplishments. He has been demanding a pretty fat price on his service and he said right out in meeting in his last letter that if his price wasn't met he would go back and play another season in the Industrial league. So the judge and Walt, after talking it all over and taking into full consideration the many recommendations they have had of his playing, decided to take a chancel The league season opens April S with Portland at San Francisco, Vernon at Sacramento, Oakland at Salt Lake and Seattle as Los Angeles. The season in Portland and Seattle will start two weeks later, on April 9 with Salt Lake the opposing team here and Sacramento at Seattle. Portland will have 13 weeks of baseball, or exactly half the season, at home and Instead of going to Cali fornia to finish will play Its final (tames right on the home lot. The Coast league season, shortened from 28 to 26 weeks, will close October 2. That is rather late for baseball in the north, though the weather here often is good then. the Deschutes river district, where w ..... .pinner will be brought Into use in attempting to land the rainbow trout. The McKenzle river Is another stream which will be the destination or one of the parties led by Dick Carton. Dry fly-boat fiwhino- 1. .k-- .favorite sport on the McKenzie. Dwr Iluntrra to Get Treat. Those who prefer lake fishing will be the guests of Ed Clanton at some of the lakes of the Cascade moun tains, while the Cascades will also be the scene of the deer hunting trip under the leadership of A. K. Downs. The committees follow: 1 ""SI'T"!?' B- Uui,'r- H. Metier. I. .V Helnhner, K. J. Klrk.ood, Walter r Backu. und Aaron Frank. Prises and trophies Walter F. Backus Jaek Herman, ilarvln Hedirc, A k' llurghduft. Hay Winter., W. u Uloek tvents .Marvin Hede. W. F. Baekus, On l ie Meed. Dr. K. C. Mt F.rl.nd, W. " U.oek and Jim iiorrls. Uroundu orvllle jfeed, W. Klncr. F Klncald, Marvin Uedte. Jaek Herman and Dlek Carlon. Judees and clerks .Mooch Abrahams, K J Klrkwood. Elmer Wallace, i'hll Holmes Cieorge Irvine. W. Klnser Br. Programme and advertising W tf Backus .Jack Herman. Kay Winters and A. E. Burghduff. Flies and weight Walter F. Backus Orvllie Heed, Stanley Forbes. Dick Carlon.' Hotel und arrangements Dr. U. C. Mci Farlar.d. W. F. Backus, Henry Jletxger Jack He! man and Kay Winters. Entertainment A. E. Uurghduff. Jlm Jlorrls. Dr. E. C. McFarland. H. B. Vaa unier. nenry .Metsger and Marshall Dana. liules and regulations Walter F. Hack us. Orvllie Heed. H. I). Farr, HeHUIe; B. Halley. Tacoma; A. E. Burghdutf and Stanley Forbes. San Francisco. Publicity (Jeorge Herts, l.ou Kenned v, W illiam btepp, Marshall Dana and lieorge Cowne. Y. M. C. A. Hexallilmi On. It isn't often that a youngster can break into professional baseball in a class AA league with no previous pro fessional league experience at the figure King will get. However, he seems to have all the confidence in the world that he can deliver. These fellows who bel'eve In themselves are the kind that make good in base ball. King played part of last season with Akron in the Industrial league and then switched to Massilon. All the other players on the Massilon team were ex-big leaguers without exception, yet King kept his head up with all of them and smacked the ball so hard that Jack Dunn heard about him and signed him. He was to have played regularly with Balti more this season had the contract not been annulled Walt got one letter from Jack Doyle, big league scout, saying that if he had a string on King he had better keep It tied because the young ster was a great ballplayer. On top of that came word from Eddie Herr. former manager for Salt Lake and now Ivory hunting for the Detroit Tigers. "WJt." said Herr, in his well- The senior national hexathlon of Ihp Vnnnr Mpn'i Chrl.Mnn - .. I t uriiana iu V.11.U ui s. is under wav at the Portland n.. sngeies. ana orsiuo win ih.ibi. ation. which is strlvln San Francisco as her opponent. The Coasters will play this season under the same 18-man player limit as prevailed last season. That is to say. between May 1 and September IS, clubs will be permitted oi.ly 18 men, though before May 1 and after Sep ember 15 they can carry all the extras they want. Bill' Klepper of Seattle made a fight at the league meeting in San Francisco to have this increased to 20, but the other magnates couldn't see It. Klepper's argument wasn't such a bad one, for he proposed that the two men above !8 be players who had not previously played a full year with any class AA team. His Idea was to develop youngsters, which will be hard to do with an 18-player limit because with the class of the Coast league this ne: t season a man ager will want experienced players at every post. That means that only the. sensational youngsters can break in. The 18-player rule will result In the clubs lining up about as follows: Two catchers, five infielders, four out fielders and seven pitchers. That gives four regular Infielders and one utility man, and three regulars and one utility outfielder. Seven pitchers certainly should be enough. Clubs that win pennants almos. always do It with three, or at most four pitchers. working regularly in rotation, the other Xllngers being; .ed as relief workers and only starting games occasionally. Athletic Smoker Big Success. KELSO. Wash., Feb. 26. (Special.) Guy Rathbun post. American Le gion, had a smoker last Thursday evening in its clubrooms in the city auditorium. The programme was in charge of Elden Dunhan and Included athletic sports and other events. One of the most interesting stunts of the evening was the mock courtmartlal. C. C. Dempsey acted as provost-judge and Carl Hays was corporal of the guard. The Kelso Legion is planning to organize a baseDall team. Bowling Series On Today. ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) Aberdeen bowlers believe that they have a chance to win the second set of five games In a ten-game tour nament against the Kline bowlers of Tortland, which will be rolled here tomorrow afternoon. rom the first set of five, rolled ir. Vortland Feb ruary 20, the harbor bowlers brought home a handicap of 259 points in favor of the Portlanders. The local men are taking daily workouts for the Sunday mctch. ivlng to surpass its record of last year, when eighth place for the United States was won. The events co.islst of a 60-yard po tato race, 160-yard potato race, run ning high Jump, fence vault, shotput and standing broad Jump. Th events have crerted unusual Interest at the Portland associat'on and many en trants are participating. The con tests have been in progress since February 12. Gull Club ReorgunUed. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) Eighteen gun enthusiasts met last night and launched a Hood River Gun club. Officers were elected as follows: Dr. L. L. Murphy, president; Earl I-'rans. vice-president: Wayne Poland, secretary-treasurer, and Wlll Ii:m Marshall, field captain. A com mittee was appointed to procure a range and a trap house. The organi sation will hold another meeting on Thursday night. James John Loses Gume. ST. HELENS, Or., Feb. 26. (Spe cial.) St. Helens high basketball team defeated James John team of Portland at the school auditorium last night, by a score of 28 to At the end of the first half the score was 10 to 0 in St. Helens' favor, but In the latter half the visiting team did better work and made several scares. The game was cleanly played and there were few fouls. Monlcsano Defeats Centralia. CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 26 (Special.) The Centralia high school basketball team wag defeated by Montesano last night on the local floor by a score of 27 to 21. Both quintets aVe members of the south west Washington league. The Cen tralia' second team was defeated by Doty last night on the latter' floor by a score of 27 to 14. Juney May Buy Release. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 26. Frank Juney. pitcher on the Portland team of the Pac'flc Coast league, may buy his release for (500 and baseball supporters of Salinas have signified their willingness to pay this amount to enable Juney to play with their team. It was learned here today. Cornell Track Team Victorious. BOSTON, Feb. 26. The Cornel' track team won the annual triangu lar contest with Harvard and Dart mouth here today with 36 1-5 points. Dartmouth was second with S5 2-6 and Harvard trailed with 26 1-5. 1 no ?.v