Classified Advertising and
Sporting News
SECTION TWO
VOL. XLI
PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 192
NO.
INTRODUCING THREE OF THE NEW BASEBALL PLAYERS PREXY BILL KLEPPER HAS LINED
UP FOR HIS PORTLAND AGGREGATION NEXT SEASON, AS THEY LOOK WHEN IN ACTION
St. Andrews Regulations Fa
vored by J. F. Byers.
Tampering With Players Sub
ject of Statement.
to BULL SCANDAL
SCENTED Ul WARHIHG
UNIFORMITY URGED
IN RULES FOR GOLF
STYMIE IS DISCUSSED
Pay Is Devoted to Abolishment of
Ilili-l'ace Clubs as Well.
Easier Game Advised.
CHICAGO. Jan. 14. Adherence as
far as possible to the rules of the
Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.
Andrews by the United States Golf
association was indicated by J. F.
Byers of nttsburg. !u accepting the
Drcsldency of tho United States Golf
association at the annual meeting
today. He pleaded for uniformity of
ruiaA not only in tho United States
but throughout the world. His ad
dress followed a day of discussion
preceding the annual meeting of the
Un'ted Stateg Golf association about
abolishment of the stymie and rib
faced clubs and other tenets of the
game. He declared that the game
should not be made easier by letting
down certain regulations.
President Byers declared In favor
of legislation by the United States
Golf association and other American
golf associations that would adhere
as closely as possible to the Royal
end Ancient golf rules, under which,
he said, golf had expanded to a
creater degree than any other sport.
It should be the aim ot American
jrolfers, he said, to legislate justly and
fairly, keeping in view all conditions
with the object not of making the
game easier, which would tend to
lessen the satisfaction ot skill in
play, but with the ida that the game
should be played as nearly as pos
sible along the lines which have made
It the game It is today.
COUGAR jnrEJMPROVES
VICTOKY OVER LEGIOX IS
TtnxixG point.
Captain Jack Friel Big Point Win
ner and Savers, Diminutive For
ward, Is Surprise.
WASHINGTON' STATE COLLEGE.
Pullman, Jan. 14. (Special.) Al
though Doc Bohler isn't predicting
how many games the Cougars will
win this season, he admits that the
team has improved about 100( per
cent In the last two weeks.
When college opened after the
Christmas recess Doc had a real Job
on his hands-. Material was lacking,
the morale of the men was low, due
to losing all their pre-season games,
and critics predicted that the Cougars
were headed for the basketball cellar.
The turning point came Monday
night when the Walla Walla American
Legion team was defeated, 35 to 22.
Thursday night the Gonzaga uni
versity five got a 31-to-19 trouncing,
the outstanding feature of both games
being the superior passing and team
work'of the Washington State quintet.
Captain Jack Friel has been making
most of the Cougar points, but the
big surprise Is Gowdy Sayers. dlmlnu
tlce forward from last year's fresh
man team, who is playing forward
with Friel. To date Sayers" size has
been no serious handicap and in the
Gonzaga game he made five field
goals to Frlel's seven.
Bohler's chief concern now Is to
develop a center and running guard
who are good shots. Sorenson, cen
ter, and Loomis. guard, have been
playing a fast, scrappy floor game,
but Doc isn't satisfied with their
hooting ability.
ABERDEEN' SIGNS 14 BOUTS
Archie Stoy and Young O'Dowd to
Bo lleadliners at Smoker.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) Thirteen amateur bouts and
ono professional match have been ar
ranged for the annual winter ama
teur smoker of the Aberdeen Athletic
club to be held January 30. Archie
Stoy and Young O'Dowd will provide
the headline attraction.
The amateurs who will appear in
clude Mel Ingrain, 143 pounds; Harold
Little, 133 pounds; Earl Babcock, 135;
Jack Canton. 130: Jackie Shawl, 130;
Bert Barbour, 140; Art Carron. 140;
Soup Barbour. 80: Gussie Casperson,
Ml- Lyle Carter. HO: Marvin McCann.
118; Louie Raub, 118; Emil Ross, 118;
Al Reach. 118; Eddie Zuman, 118;
"Wild Cat" Vernon, 118: Danny Miller.
150; Steve Miller, 150; Len Niemi. 128;
Hugo Daniels. 128; Jimmy Harris. 125;
Billy Smith, 175; L. Cannand, 130; Kid
Manila, 145; Johnny Ruzitch, 130.
Blue Diamond ' Five Wins.
HOOD RIVKU. Or.. Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) The Blue Diamond basketball
team Thursday night defeated the
White Salmon team at the high school
auditorium. 40 to 32. Local players
wore Ot and Jack Byers, forwards;
Foils, center; Samuel and Johnson,
guard, and Wright, Peterson and
Carson, substitutes. Visiting players
were: Kneps and Rankin, forwards;
J. Klaterbos. center; H. Klaterbos
and Wirth, guards, and Knutson, sub
stitute. Atliena Defeats Weston.
ATHENA, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.)
The boys' basketball team of Athena
high school won 1st fourth successive
conference game last night by defeat
ing Weston hlnh school by the scor
of 70 to 14. Harden of Athena was
the high point-getter, having 34 to
bis" credit. The Athena girls' team
defeated Weston girls by the score
of 33 to 7, their second straight win
of the season.
Milun to Manasc Senators..
WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 14.
Clyde Milan, outfielder, will be the
manager of the Washington Ameri
can leguo bawhall club this season.
It was announced tonight by Presi
dent 'Clark Griffith. He has been a
member of the local team since 1907.
He succeeds George McHrlde, who re
signed due to Illness resulting from
injuries received last season.
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PORTLAND ONLY COAST CLUB
TO HAVE OWN BALL FARM
Klepper to Get Hands on Player as Soon as He Is Needed Without
Going Through Procedure of Asking Waivers.
SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) Portland will be the only
club in the Coast league with a
regular farm to which to 6end its
youngsters for development. Bill
Klepper will control the Tacoma club
In the Western International, and
Tealey Raymond, the old Seattle
shortstop, may handle the team.
Perle Casey also is mentioned as a
possibility.
Nearly all the Coast teams have
places to ship their green talent, but
Klep is the first to own his own
farm. This will be a decided ad
vantage to the Portland elub. In that
Klepper can get his hands on a player
as soon as he Is needed without going
through the procedure of asking
waivers and all that.
Tealey Raymond worked with the
Seattle team last year, a half dozen
youngsters being turned over to
Yakima by the Indians. Raymond
won the flag without a struggle. But
Seattle did not own the Yakima team,
and when Klepper, then president,
sent a hurry-up call for Guy Cooper
and Lafayette, the apple city folks
declined to part with them. So the
team had to wait until the end of the
season.
Raymond is a veteran and a good
tutor, Kiepper rightfully figuring
him a good man to have in charge of
his coming stars.
The reorganized league looks like a
good one. Tacoma Is a long way from
Calgary and the rest of the western
Canada cities, but Bob Brown and
the other magnates have figured out
a schedule which will include less
mileage than last season's Western
Canada league schedule called for.
Both Calgary and Edmonton do their
training on the coast. Joe Devine,
who probably will handle Calgary
again, and t.us Oleischman. the Ed
monton skipper, pick up most of their
ball players on the coast, and they
work their way along playing exhi
bition games. So it will be easy for
these two teams to open the season at
Vancouver and Tacoma, thence going
east to open before the home folks.
. A question of more than ordinary
Importance will confront the mags
this coming week in San Francisco.
The draft, always a problem of the
minor leagues, will again be voted on
by the coast league directors. Cal
Ewlng will make his yearly plea in
favor of the draft and Cal wiil then
be outvoted, 7 to 1.
But what will happen next? Even
the magnates are worrying a bit
over the results. The Coasters will be
slapping Judge Landls squarely on
the cheek if they refuse to accept the
draft, because it was the judge who
outlined the plan for the class AA
minors to receive $7500 for each
player taken by the majors.
If the Coast owners turn down the
draft and the other miner leagues
likewise stand pat. little trouble is
expected. But what if the other big
minor circuits accept Judge Landis'
suggestion, and the Coast stands alone
in defiance of the rest of the baseball
world? The majors themselves have
announced that If their plan is re
jected they will take steps against
the leagues which refuse to deal with
them on the draft. A boycott against
the Coast league would bring war,
which might end with the Pacific or
ganization's cutting the ties that
bind it to organized ball. This would
mean open warfare, with every man
a free agent, and with the easterners
able to sign any player they could
entice from the Coast.
Such a condition would be un
healthy for the game, either in the
west or in the majors. No doubt prexy
McCarthy's circuit could make it in
teresting for the big fellows, should
tho two forces come to blows, because
the Pacific Coast is a powerful league
right now. But a-n open break would
be unwelcome by fans and owners
alike. If the Coast decides against
the draft be it hoped that the majors
will let matters remain as they have
stood for the past few seasons, when
this league controlled its, own affairs
and kept its stars, or disposed of
them as it saw fit.
Jimmy Duffy, the boy so many
critics think Is one of the chief con
tenders for Benny Leonard's title, will
show here Tuesday with Edd4e Pink
man as his opponent.
Duffy possesses a left hand tht
any lightweight In the world would
be proud to own. Not only does he
Jab, but he hits hard with his left,
using his right for countering pur
poses. Plnkman is a harder socker.
but Eddie will be facing the cleverest
man on the coast in Tuesday's scrap.
How he will fare is problematical.
Seattle fans well remember the ap
pearance here of Duffy against Bert
Forbes, then a good 130-pounder.
Bert is a fancy boxer himself, and he
was putting up an interesting bout
with the Oakland shadow. Near the
finish of the bout Duffy drove a shorf
left hook to Bert's chin and Forbes
to this day does not know what hap
pened. If Pinkman comes out of his shell
and fights, he may bother the south
erner, because the Violet will worry
anybody in the world that he can hit.
Of late Pink has been altogether too
cautious. His safety-first style does
not meet the approval of the patrons.
Should Pinkie happen to land one to
Duffy's chin he will make a lot of
money, because nobody has been table
to whip the Shadow in a long, long
time.
Coach Bagshaw Is going quietly
about his football plans. Baggy is
before the public only a few months
of the year, but like other grid
coaches, he is working the entire
twelve.
The Washington coach recently're
turned from a "swing around the cir
cuit." on which he toured the north
west with the glee club. He was
pleased with what1 he saw and
learned.
"Things look good in a football
way," said Baggy. The high schools
have been playing a lot of football
and some good men are coming to
the two Washington schools. Most
of the prep school stars are big and
strong, the kind of kids who make
good college players. Of course. I'm
hoping Washington gets a few of
them."
fccio 72, Shedd 0.
SCIO. Or.. Jan.' 8. (Special.) The
Scio high school basketball team de
feated Shedd high school's team at
Sclo Friday by a score of 72 to 0.
At the left Is Charley Mleh, outfielder,
sonthinw pitcher last season with
- City of the International league.
BEWIN SHIBE DEAD
PHILADELPHIA AMEHICAXS'
PRESIDENT PASSES.
Ball Magnate Ailing for About Two
Years Much Aid Given
to Baseball.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14. Benjamin
F. Shibe. president of the Philadel
phia American league baseball club,
died today.
Mr. Shibe. who was in his 83d year,
had been ailing for about two years.
About a year ago he was in an auto
mobile accident, receiving Injuries
from which he slowly recovered.
Mr. Shibe's financial assistance
made It possible for the American
league to establish a club in Phila
delphia when It invaded National
league territory In 1901. He was made
president of the club when it was es
tablished and remained in that posi
tion to the time of his death. He
owned, it is understood, 50 per cent of
the club stock, some of which was
transferred to members of his fam
ily. Connie Mack is the, owner of the
other 60 per cent.
It was also through Mr. Shibe's aid
that there was built here the first
concrete baseball grandstand in the
major leagues, Connie Mack said to
day In speaking of Mr. Shibe's death.
Mr. Shibe began to earn his living
as a horse-car driver. He had a
knack for sewing up a lot of yarn
and making a presentable baseball
for boys on the lots and drifted into
the business with his brother. The
business prospered and in 1S82 he be
came associated with A. J. Reach,
famous ball player in the 70's. in the
A. J. Reach Co. Both men became
quite wealthy. Mr. Reach survives
hln partner.
Mr. Shibe has been g.en credit for
developing baseballs to their present
standard. The idea of the cork cen
ter baseballs was attributed to him.
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Golf Course Site Wins Praise.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Jan. 14. .Spe
cial.) G. H. Eddy, builder of golf
courses at La Grande, Pendleton, Cor
vallis, Salem and Gearheart. yesterday
told citizens engaged in organizing a
club here that the site of approxi
mately 60 acres selected by them on
Paradise farm Just west of the city
offered the best opportunities for a
fine course that he had ever seen in
22 years of experience as a profes
sional promoter of golf links.
Duck Hunting Party Held.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 14
(Special.) J. M. Bowes and D. M.
Bowes gave their fourth annual duck
hunting party and duck dinner at
their lodge on Ludlow island in South
bay yesterday afternoon and last
tilght. J. M. Bowes and a few guests
went to the lodge Tuesday evening t6
prepare for the event. Some of the
vrhn hit .343 In 145 games with ColnmbiiN of the American aoeiHlon last
San Francisco, and on the right la Kmimett McCann, the nevr shortstop,
hunters returned today, others re
maining until Sunday. The guests
are W. J. Patterson, H. P. Brown,
A. W. Middleton, L. P. Dudley, W. H.
Tamb'.yn, L. P. Cysewski, D. W.
Miller, H. W. Hansen, W. W. Maxey,
K. B. .Riley. R. B. Far. Clayton
Apple, C. J. Carlson, 11. E. Phipps
and S. K. Bowes.
Kelso Overwhelms Kalania.
KELSO, Wash., Jan 14. (Special.)
Kelso high school's basketball
team overwhelmed Kalama last night.
68 to 14, on the local floor. Letsinger
played a star game for Kelso, making
ten field goals in the first half. As
a curtain raiser the Kalama and
Kelso second teams played, Kelso
also taking that game, 18 to 10. The
lineups of the first teams were: Ka
lama, Carter and Hobart. forwards:
Wicker, center; Taylor and Parker,
Guards. Kelso. Letsinger, Beiger and
Deemer, forwards; Johnson, center;
Taylor and Ayers, guards.
OLD PUG DAYS RECALLED
ONLY $195 PAID CHAMPS OF
35 YEARS AGO.
Harry Gilniore ISenimebers Day He
Buttled Jack HcAnlirfe; Boxer
Xow 68 Years Old.
CHICAGO. Jan. 14. Tn these days
of pugilistic values, with boxers de
manding sums reaching into the
thousands for a short contest, Harry
Gilmore, a veteran championship
contender, today turned back the
pages of history 33 years in recollec
tion of his championship battle with
Jack McAuliffe for which he received
$195.
TVirty-five years ago tonight Mc
Auliffe. then the lightweight cham
pion, defended his title against Gil
more in the loft of a building In
Lawrence. Mass. The Salvation Army
was holding a-meeting on the floor
below. After 28 rounds of furious
fighting with skin-tight gloves, Gil
more's backer conceded the victory
to McAuliffe because the challenger
was bruised and battered badly.
Today, in celebration of the event,
Gilmore, now 68. and in the best of
health, showed some of the present
boxers some of the tricks of the game
by stepping four rounds at a local
gymnasium.
Uidgefield Loses to Benson 'Tech.'
RIDGEFIELD. Wash., Jan. 14.
(Special.) Ridgefield High school
basketball quintet's hope this season
of making another brilliant record- of
11 straight victories without a defeat
last year was shattered here Friday
night on the high school gymnasium
floor, where it lost the closest exhibi
tion ever seen here to the Benson
Polytechnic basketeera 'of Portland
by a score of 23 to 19.
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ALL-STARS DRUG AGGIES
COLLEGE SOCCEHITES LOSE BY
. 4 TO 1.
Portland Team Shows Good Team
work and Shooting Sure First
Score Made in 30 Seconds.
Too much teamwork and sure shoot
ing by the Portland All-Stars cost
the Oregon Aggies their soccer game
yesterday afternoon on Multnomah
field. The All-Stars took an easy
victory before a small crowd, 4 to 1.
The first score was made scarcely
SO seconds after the start of the game.
The All-Star backs swiftly advanced
the ball down the field and Harbord
fahot it over for the first point. He
made another point before the end of
the first period and a third in the
first minutes of the second canto.
E. Wright pushed the last one over
for the All-Stars about ten minutes
before the game ended.
1'orgenson. Aggie captain, connect
ed for the only goal the Aggies made.
Only in spots did they show well.
Their defense was weak and they
missed the gameness of Maryfield.
goalkeeper, who went completely out
in the first half with a broken shoul
der blade.
The work of Negsted, left full for
the All-Stars, was painfully apparent
to the Aggies throughout the game,
as he spilled advance after advance
by means of a shifty foot. Borgeson
and Hamid for the Aggies did well.
The playing of the Aggies was
much looser than in their previous
meeting with the All-Stars. In the
opinion of many of the fans. They
were lacking the organized teamwork
which held the score to a 2-to-2 tie
the last time they played at Corvallis.
' A double-header between the four
teams of the Portland Soccer associa
tion will be played on the Columbia
university grounds today, beginning
at 12:30 o'clock.
The summary:
o. A. C. (1)
(4) All-Stars.
Moore
Rankin
Harbord
. . . .H. X.nRton
Wright
Smith
. .(CaDt.) Uruv
cifre or..
Hamid IL.
Ihvi C. ..
BorReaon (Capt.) . . . !R.
Cunningham OR.
Poole I.H.
Annie CH
Sweeney
H Simuon
Cheeld
NppcNted
Cumminpa Rfr B. I.aiiKtnn
Maryfield tr M. Langton
Substitutions: O. A. C. Sweeney for
Maryfield, Hooth for Sweeney.
Referee. D. Harris of Portland; linen
men. Booth, O. A. C. ; Manaley, Portland.
GHID CAPTAIN IS ELECTED
Leslie Ii. Hoar Chosen to Pilot 1 922
Pacific University Team.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY? Forest
Grove. Or., Jan. 14. (Special.) At
the annual football lcttermen's ban
quet, held, at the Blue Bird cafe here
yean In the renter Is Itor Crunipler,
who hit .30U In US games with Jersey
last night, Leslie L. Hoar was elected
captain of the 1922 grid team.
Hoar is one of the best-known ath
letes in school and has won his letter
! quarter he piloted the Badgers tills
season in the Important games and
led them to the non-conference cham
pionship of the northwest. Hoar
comes from Dilley, Or.
Fifteen lettermen attended the ban
quet and elected the captain as the
last official act of the 1921 season.
Lettermen there were: Jim Lane,
captain 1921; Hoar, captain 1922;
Long, E. Wolf, Fowler, F. Wolf.
Sheely, Carrlgus, Develin, O. Frank.
Adams. Sneider, Anderson, Blackman
Kunkel, Walker.
3-CLSHlOV HACK TO STAKT
Tourney for Billiard Experts to
Open Monday Xlght.
Three-cushion billlardlsts will un
limber their tournament cues from
the racks Monday for the fourth an
nual three-cushion handicap tourna
ment at the Kialto. Tho entry list in
cludes 40 players.
This tournament will be staged un
der about the same rules as last year's
event. Players will be eliminated
after losing two games, the rule lust
year being three gami'S. However,
this dragged the tournament out too
long. Tournament play will be held
three nights each week, beginning to
morrow night at 7:30 o'clock. The
regular days for matches will prob
ably be Mondays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays, with three to five mafhes
each night. Paul St. Germain, win
ner last year, is in the lists again.
Handicaps will run from 25 to 40
points.
Three prizes are up. one worth 50
for the' winr.r, one of $30 for the
runner-up and one of $20 for third
man.
Ilciay Carnival Planned.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 14 Invita
tions were sent out by the University
of Pennsylvania today to more than
2j0 American universities and col
leges for the annual relay carnival
to be held on Franklin field. April
26 and 29. A number of institu
tions, mostly in the south, were
added to this year's list. Invitations
also went to Oxford and Cambridge,
England: McGIll, Queens and Brit-J
ish Columbia universities, Canada,'
and the University of Havana, Cuba.
l'ainier Defeats Knitppa.
RAINIER, Or., Jan. 1 4. Special.)
Rainier defeated Knappa here at has-'
kctball last nisht by a score of IB to
44. Rainier now has defeated Astoria,
Westport, Clatskanie and Knappa and
stands a good chance oY winning the
lower river championship.
Walter Powell Quits Stanford. j
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal. Jan.
14. Walter Powell, director of ath
letics at Stanford university, re
signed today to go into business. Be
fore coming here he coached at
Western Reserve university, Clcve-
land, Ohio, and Montana State.
MORE WORDS EXPECTED
Subject Is Likely to Be Taken Vp
at Meeting of Bljr League
Moguls In Chicago.
BY GEORGE CITADWICIC.
(Oo)riKht, 1922, by The OregonUm.)
NEW YORK. Jan. 14 (Special. )
Hints of another possible baseball
scandal were seen in the warning
issued by the advisory council of the
major leagues against tampering with
players. It was Intimated today that
more strong words are o be spoken
on the subject when the big-leaue.
moguls meet in Chicago In a short
time to pass on the cchedults for the
1922 season.
Evidently somebody "has heard
something." Tampering with ballplay
ers Is ftrictly forbidden by baseball
law. Emphasising these regulations
at this time can mean only one thing
that some manager is suspected of
violating them and that if he does nut
discontinue the practice he will be
exposed and punished.
Tampering with players Is banned
because It has the tendency to make
them dissatisfied. It Is resorted to,
never theiess, as a first step toward
obtaining the services of an unusually
good player who Is signed up with
another team.
Stnndnrd Pay Is l.ncklnar.
It is made possible by the fact that
ballplayers are not paid on a stand
ardised basis. The keystone Backer
of a tail-end club in a small city may
be the best man playing that position,
but he may not receive as much as
$2300 a season, while the second base
man in the "big town." who cannot
play second base for sour apples gets
not less than $4000. The difference in
salaries of various players, therefore.
Is made the basis for tampering with
players.
A manager who covets a certain
ballplayer Is not so foolhardy as to
approach that player directly. He
speaks out among his own players,
commending the man in question and
intimating that the player receives a
larger salary than he suspects the
player actually gets. His own play
ers, who know usually what the other
fellow receives, proceed to correct
their their manager's Impression, tell
ing him exactly what the player
actually gets. Say the amount Is
$250.
Twenty-five hundred dollars." he
exclaims. "That's a darn punk salary
to pay that man. He ought to get
$4000 at JeaEt."
Yenst lleglns to Ferment.
The yeast begins to ferment. The
next time these players encounter the
coveted man they inform him of the
con vetsation.
"Say, you ouffht to have heard what
the boss said about you the other
day." they tell him. "He said you
should lie getting $4000 and you would
be cheap at that."
That starts the player to thinking.
Some afternoon in the course of a
same n linst the same club he makes
a hit and when he reaches first base
the rival f irst-sacker, who has in
structiiins, begins some such chatler
as this:
"Hitting 'em pretty, ain't you? You
ain't nnht to be with that bunch.
Why. I heard the chief say that ou
ought to be on the best team In the
country. He thinks you are the best
in the business. Gosh, you ought to
be with us."
The next time the two clubs meet
the unscrupulous manager encounters
Iho player "by chance" as they are'
leaving the field.
"Great work on that play on Chapln
tcday." says the manager. "If ou
hadn't played our hatter exuetly right
we would have beaten you, 6 to 1 "
I'lnyer Is Puffed Out.
By this time player is all puffed up
and he is sure that the rival manager
would pay him a larger salary than
he is getting.
This feeling usually spurs him to
do his best against that team to re
tain the good impression he has made.
Fans also help the game along by
pouring more honey into his ear...
"It's a cussed shame that you are
buried in a bum team." they tell him.
"You ought to bo playing on our
team."
That is how "tampering" of one
kind begins. The first thing is to get
the player dissatisfied and the sec
ond Is to impress him that the team
which seeks him is the only one wtth
which he should play. There have
been Instances where players have
been led Into excesses by efforts of
other managers to get them. One
chap who had a weakness for llUor
was deliberately led astray by a
coterie of an unscrupulous manager's
friends because the manager hoped
to put him in bad with his own club
so that It would bo willing to sell
him cheap.
It is evident that the heads of base
ball have become aware of these
tricks and that they are being used
constantly. They may have had some
concrete case in mind when they is
sued their recent warning. If they
made an example of some manager
caught resorting to such underhand
ed methods to get players by plaster
ing A heavy fine on him tiicy might
put a stop to the practice.
Miller to Wrestle O'ConneU.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 14. Walter
Miller of Los Angeles, claimant to
v.., -orii-r midlleweiirht wrestling
championship, who last niRht for the
second time defeated "i'lnKy (.taru
nf eheneel:riv. N. Y.. here to
night at the Union League club will
meet Eddie O'Conncll. who terms him
self "the undefeated welterweight
wrestling champion."
New York Loses Tnwk Meet.
BUFFALO. N. Y.. Jan. 14. For the
first time In the history of the Amer
ican Athletic union the national sen
ior Indoor iracK ami field champion
ships will be held outside New York
city. This annual classic will be
staged this year at the 174th regi
ment armory here February 11.
Southern California Mlccts.
LOS ANGRLES. Jan. 14 Leo Cal
land. center, has been elected captain
of the 1922 football sn'ia.l of tho Uni
versity ot Southern California.
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