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ttmt Classified Advertising and Sporting News SECTION TWO VOL. XLI PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1922 NO. INTRODUCING SEVEN OF THE EIGHT YOUNG MEN WHO WILL CAPTAIN VARSITY FOOTBALL ELEVENS IN THE PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE NEXT SEASON. RUTH VISITS liilS BUT DOESN'T PLEAD OF mm 1 RICKARD IS ACCUSED , - ' I ATTACK! $1000 Bond Is Posted by Fight Promoter. WHOLE CHARGE IS DENIED Assault on 15-Ycar-OId Girl Is Alleged Two Other. Chil dren Are Witnesses. XEW YORK. Jan. 21. Tex Rickard. promoter of sporting: events, was charged In magistrate's court today with criminal assault on 16-year-o! Alice Ruck, public school pupil and daughter of an East side widow. Through counsel. Kickard, who sur rendered on learning a bench warrant had been Issued, denied the charges, which were made by. the Children's society on.complalnt of the Ruck girl. Two of her companions. Klvira Ren zle, 12, and Anna Hess, 11, were held as witnesses, the society quoting tha girls as saying Rickard met them last fall at his public swimming pool in Madison Square Garden, gave them money, took them to his office, and then on December 18, last, attacked the Ruck girl in an apartment. -(1O0O Bond Is Posted. The promoter Is under $1000 bond for examination Wednesday. His at torney said in a statement that Mr. Rickard was the "most surprised man In the world," that he knew nothing about the case. The statement, de claring the situation, mystifying, as serted Rickard undoubtedly ' had a number of bitter enemies as he was engaged in considerable litigation. The three girls appeared in court, clad in cheap dresses, plain coats and cotton stockings. Their parents also were present. Seen later, the parents professed to have known nothing of the story until called to court. Complaining that their daughters were being held by the children's society, they said that the girls went to public school and were home early at night. All said they had never heard of Mr. Rickard. The Hess girl's mother said she was summoned to a police station last Saturday night ,where she was told her daughter and the Ruck girl had been given to the Children's society-, after tlioy hnd gone to Belle vue hnspltal and falsely reported hav ing taken iodine. Since then the so ciety has detained all three, i Vincent Pigarra, superintendent of the society, who filed the charges against the promoter of the Demp-sey-Carpentier bout, said that after the children's court held the girls on a blanket charge of incorrigibility last week, the society physician ex amined them and found that the Ruck girl alone showed Indications of as sault. girls' Story 1m Related. Subsequently, he alleged, the girls told this Btory: Rickard had talked to them last fall while they were In their swim ming stilts at Madison Square Garden, and then gave each a dollar. Later, they again went to the pool and lie gave them each another dollar. The third time Ije asked if they would have a drink of wine and they de clined. "Well, then, come up and see my office," he was alleged to have said According to Mr. Pisarra's account, the girls went to the office in the tower of Madison Square Garden, the same- tower In which was located the Stanford White studio that fig ured in the Thaw case, where they asserted Rickard improperly con ducted himself. On the night of December IS, he " was accused of having taken Alice Ruck and Anna Hess to the apart ment, said to have been leased by another man, where, it was charged, he attacked the Ruck girl and Im paired the morals of her chum, KANSAS PLANS RIG JSTAD1C.M Portland Alumni Exported to' Aid in Kfrort for Memorial. I.AWRKXCH. Kan., Jan. 21. (Spe cial.) University of Kansas alumni and former students, of which there are 60 In Portland and 400 In the three northwestern states, are organ ising university clubs which will take part In a war I memorial drive to raise $l,00n.ofl0 which will be used to erect a stadium and student union building at Lawrence, Kan. Henry McCurdy, recently from New York and a graduaPe of the Univer sity, of Kansas, will assist In plans for a reunion In Portland early In February. There have been completed two straight arms of what is to be a U shapi'd stadium which will seat 32, 000. A crowd of 20.000 was accom modated Thanksgiving day. Funds te complete the arms have been raised in Kansas and in the Immediate vi cinity. Hcfore the last units of the stadium are undertaken work will begin on a student union building which will bo similar to tho famous student union at the University of Michigan. "" GIRLS TliAX SWIMMING MEET Doughnut Coiniwtltlon lo Be (on . ducted This Year. UNIVERSITY OK OREGON. Eu gene. Jan. 21. (Special.) Doughnut swimming competition for girls' or ganizations will be conducted on the campus for tho first time this year, according to Miss Catherine Winslow, swimming instructor. The girls have been practicing for speed and form since last term. The organisations doing best In practice are Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Hendricks Hall and Delta Zeta. The events will include speed races, strokes for form, diving, relay races and plunse for distance. Hut-miti to See Boxing Bouts. CEXTRALIA. Wash.. Jan. II. (Spe cial.) Members of the Hucoda Ath letic club are signed up for a num ber of bouts in the near future. Francis Canfield will meet Karl John son of Tono at Tono January 26 and Dannie AlhertI of Kelso February 15. Kddte Howell boxes A Ibertt in this 1'1'y January SO. Felix DeliBle meets Young Dove of Tono January and buses Ralph Rau of Parkland at MeKemia Ffbruary g. Joe Bittle meets Burner Williams of Centralis. 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I J Tile I alreralty of Oregon Jias not yrt elected a football rapOlnl but be pilots of the other nevrn conferenee rollrgea Inclade Erb of California, wfcose poaltlosi In .quarter buck) DeGrout of Stanford, who plays guard; Ingram of Washington, tacklri talland of Sonthent California, centert Dunton of Washington State, tackle! Brown, of Idaho, guard, and I.oeey of Oregon Agricultural college, 'tackle. KLEPPER SIGNS ARRAY OF REALLY PROMISING ABILITY Only One More Good Pitcher Needed to Complete Roster Turner Instructed to Dig Up High-class Man. BY I H. GREGORY. ." , BILL, KLKFPER Is about ready to stand pat. Bill spread out a hiv fat rostor roll of ballplayers yesterday, cast his eye down it ap praisingly. sat back with the sir of a man who has done his duty, lighted a large cigar and spake thus: "One more s;ood pitcher Just one more and we are ready to go. We have a pretty good-looking stair as It is, it seems to nie. but I will feel better with one more ace that I know can deliver. Let me get my hands on such a pitcher and then show me any club in the Pacific t'oast league that looks better on paper than the new Portland team." With hist infield .assured, with five good Ilychasers on the rolls, with four catchers to pick from and with six veteran pitchers of ability lined up and at least two promising young sters to round out the staff, the team his promise to "go out and get the players, one more oepenaaoie rigni handed hurler would help a lot. but mil bnnwM thnr si well as anvbodv. and his new manager, Tom Turner, has instructions to dig up a nign- class man. ? 1 1 . . . rfirApn, tmm this llm. a r ago! Judge McCredie then had some thing like 39 players on bis rolls, but most of them were untried bushers f ron whom he hoped to pluck a sen sational star or two. He had no out field, he had no infield, he had no pitching Btaff. Detroit was to send so many players and Chicago was to forward others, and from.the- the team was, to fe built up. But there never was. any definite arrangement, it now develops, as to what players were to come, and the outcome was that none of the men -wanted were delivered. Compare tho Infield then and now. Jimmy Pool had been acquired to play first base, but he was an un-i known quantity.- Jimmy should be the best first sicker in the league this year, not barring even O'Connell of San Francisco. .But. coming as he did last season from the little class B Virginia league, there were many things he didn't know about first base play. It took him most of the season to learn them and get bis stride. At second base Marty Krug was the man then as now. Marty had not signed, "however, and be did not ap pear in training camp until just the week before the season opened. Dur ing much of the - training period it looked as If the team would have to start with a bush player at second, as it did start at short. Little Pep Young, who had never played In a professional game before, bad to cover short, and at third the only man available was Willis Butler, a tottering veteran, who lasted thore only a month or so. This season Poole will be at first, Krug at second, .McCann, a fast youth who already has won his spurs in the class AA International league, will be at short, and Joe Sargent, the best third sacker in the International be fore he went to Detroit last year, will handle the hot corner. In the outfield at thi9 time last year, and through most of the train ing camp period, .only one veteran was signed. That qne was Dick Cox. Later I(fe Wolfer was obtained for left field. The team started the sea son with Walter Genin, an unseasoned kid. In center and Art Bourg, another class B leaguer, as utility man. Com pare that with Klepper's lineup of Cox. Charley fiigh and Gresett, all class AA stars; Ike Wolfer and Sam Hale for utilip', with Hale also utility infielder. As catchers McCredie had Del Baker, the veteran Gus Fisher and big Rip King, who had never played AA ball. Thia season Klepper has Frank Bruggy. a .110 hitter In the National league laAt season In 96 games, whose sale for 16500 to Port land has stirred no end of comment in major league cities: Rowdy Elliott of Sacramento, Del Baker and Rip King. One of these catchers will go, and it probably will be Baker, who has lost out because he declined to accept a contract calling for the same money he received last year. The pitching start looked pretty fair at this time last'year, with Her man Pillette and Syl Johnson.., Rudy KalUo, Harold Poison and Sam Ross as its nucleus, but Kallio and Poison faded and the others could not get (Concluded &a Fajfe Column !. NEW MANAGER OF BEAVERS HUSTLING, LIKEABLE FELLOW Tom Turner Fond of Game and Has Happy Faculty of Getting Along Well With Players. SEATTLK, Wash., Jan. 21. (Spe cial.) Tom Turner, the big, good looking Philadelphian, who will manage Portland this season, will be v ell-liked .In the Rose City if he is anywhere near successful as a pilot. Turner has a pleasing personality. Is a hustl'ing, hard-working young fel low who has not-lost his love for the game, and who has the happy faculty of "getting along" with players. The Philadelphia scout first dropped Into Seattle along in 1919. when Con nie Mack sent him out to look over Lyle Bigbee. Bigbee appeared to be a comer, and Turner bought him. Since then Turner has made annual pilgrimmages to the coast, spending a couple of weeks of each year in Se attle. Every day that he was In town he would appear In uniform at the local ball yard, and be was the hardest working man on the field. He worked In the outfield, did some pitching to batters, and always presided over batting practice. The infielders used to say that Tom was the best man they ever saw at hitting to the bat ters before a game, and they were In f:ne trim by the time the umps sounded the call each day Turner dished up Uie rollers. Tho only question about Turner's making good at Fbrtlandsis that of Am experience. Whether he can handle Rowdy Elliott, Marty Krug, Dick Cox and other veterans remains to be seen. But If Turner pans out any where near a- winner, he will be popular with the fans because he has such a winning manner that he makes friends almost instantly. Now that' Bald Bill Klepper has f.r.ally decided upon his manager, the fans are asking this question: "What's the Duke going to do?" Will Bill Kenworthy, one of the greatest hitters In the league, drop out of baseball? Such a course is not unlikely, in which case It Is to be regretted that the game will lose a great player. Kopecks can hardly expect to grab a Job as manager at this late date, as the clubs have already lined up their skippers for the coming cam paigns. Kenworthy can play with Se attle as a second baseman, but It is rot likely that he will do so. There is also the possibility that Boldt will trade the Duke to some other club. This seems the most sensible course to pursue.' as Kenworthy is too valu able with the stick to lay aside his diamond togs yet awhile. Bobby Harper, the flashy Seattle boy who is to meet Joe Welling in Portland, January 31, is one of. the best ring prospects ever developed In Seattle. Harper is a, quiet, mild-mannered little fellow, who lacks much of the roughness of the ordinary gladiator of the ring. He received his boxing education In the amateur ranks, learning much of his skill from Chet Mclntyre, tho former Seattle Athletic club instructor. Harper always could box, but not until fho last year has he developed the skill which he now boasts. It has been said that there is only one left hand on the coast that excels that of Harper, and Jimmy Duffy owns it. Harper is meeting a tough bird In Welling. But that's what they said when he boxed Leach Cross, and everybody knows what he did to the famous dentist. Moose Johnson, one of the quaint figures of the hockey game, pulled a funny one the otharsnight. The Moose, defense man on the Victoria Aries, packed up his togs and departed for his home in Portland with the follow ing farewell: "I'm through. They, haven't given me a square deal, and I am going to quit the game. The fans boo me every time I start and the newspapers put me in the grease. I'm going to leave." When Johnson pulled the foregoing In the dressing room, nobody believed him. They thought he was kidding. But when the team took the boat for the north the Moose was among the missing. "He'll be back." remarked Les Pat rick, the Victoria manager, when be heard about it. "Johnson is & queer fellow, but I think he will return." But the Moose has not shown up yet.' If he makes good his Intention of quitting hockey will lose one of ifs oldePt players. It Is estimated that (Concluded on 3. column T.) Commissioner Too III to Dis cuss Punishment. PLAYER PAYS RESPECTS Intention to Ask for Investigation of 93000 l ine and Suspension to May 20 Abandoned. CHICAGO. Jan. 21. "Babe" Ruth today called on Judge Landls, baseball commissioner, with the Intention of Pleading for mitigation of his 3o00 fine and suspension until May 20 for playing post-season baeball games, but found thp Judge too 111 to discuss the matter. " The conference was held In the Judge's home wh.-re he had been con fined with a bad cold for a week. "I stayed Just long enough to pay my respects," said Ruth. "I do not know what I will do now, but I do not think I will try to see the judee again. As for next year, I have nothing to say." a The home-run hitter was informed, however, that the commissioner had no objection to Ruth taking the spring training trip with his club, provided there was no objection from the club. Judge Landls Is confined to his rpartment with a severe cold. BOXING WILIi HE NEXT EVENT Intraniurul Competlton Is Planned at University. UNIVERSITY OF C F-EGON, Eugene, Jan. 21. (Special.) The next in tramural pbrt.9 event to be taken up by the campus housing organizations and fraternities will be boxing. The bouts will begin early In February, with about ten organisations enter ing teams. These are Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, Kappa Theta Chi, Alps, Tau Omega. Sigma Alpha Epsllon, Sigma Clil, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Ganrma Delta. Delta Theta I'i, Oregon club and Friendly hall. Other organizations may enter as the time for competition draws nearer. Charles Dawson, boxing in structor, will arrange the schedule and run off the bouts. He also will select the best men from the various organizations for his varsity team. No varsity boxing m?ets havo been scheduled yet, but it is not improb able that an effort will be made to schedule some good bouts with other commercial colleges if enough inter est Is shown. Weights for the Intramural com petition Include flyweight, 108 pounds and under, bantamweight, 1 1 ti pounds; featherweight, 125 pounds; lightweight, 135; welterweight, Ui; middleweight, 15S, and heavyweight, 175 pounds and over. lUFIiE COMPETITION COMING Iniverslty Exports to Shoot With Drcxel Military Institute, UNIVERSITY OF ORKGON. Eugene, Jan. 21. (Special.) A rifle shoot be tween tjie reserve officers' training corps teams of the university and the team of Drexel Military Institute or Philadelphia will be conducted by telegraph the week, ending Febru ary 2. The firing will be done with the new Winchester rifles, eight of which recently were obtained by the df fleers' reserve corps here for firing on the range. In the. recent meets against the Oregon Aggies and Uni versity of California,' which Oregon lost, the old-style rifles were used. In the meet with Drexel ten men will fire, but only the five highest scores will count. Tho. members of the team arc: W. H. Durham, E. F. Sloan, J. A. Meek, G. T. Gant, C. L. Holder, H. Bonebrake, 13. Blggar. T. N. Page, A. M. Wilhelm, Don Zimmer man. Four alternates are: P. Las eel 1c, H. L. Green, J. W. Homewood and V. IX Bullock. f HOOD RIVER, TO SEE KLINES Portland Team to Play Praetlca Gnmo TJiero Today. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Jan. 21. (Spe cial.) The M. I Kline team of picked bowlers from the Portland City league, who will soon meet a selected team from Spokane in a tournament, will play a practice game here tomorrow afternoon against a picked local team. Two local mem, K. K. House and Duke Goodwin, who have been chosen on the Klines, will bowl with the visitors. The local team will be chosen from the following men: Green, Annala, Shay, DeWItt, McCullagh, Forry, Smith, IJoe and Franz. A picked local team f women, known as the White Diamonds, will start a six-game contest with women of the Multnomish Athletio associa tion of Portland the coming week. 2 SWIM RECORDS CLAIMED Intcrscliolustlc Cliainplonsbipa Are) Held at Pennsylvania "V." PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21. Two world's scholastic swimming records were claimed today by the winners of the 200-yard relay race and tho 50-yard event at the annual Intcr scholastlo championships in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania pool. Erio High school won the relay Jn 1 minute 46 2-5 seconds, one ecconrl under the mark set last year by lawrencevllle school, while " James Spear of Mercersburg academy won the 50-yard event in 24 3-5 seconds. Smar clipped three-fifths of a second oft the old record held by William. Wright of Erie high, national schol astic champion. Miller and Sanders to Vio. .TOLEDO. Or.. Jan. 21. (Special.) Charles Miller, farmer and ex-wrestler of the Spokane Athletic club, who threw Paul Amort of Portland at Newport, Junuary 4. has accepted the challenge of Kid Sanders, who halls from eastern Oregon, to a wrestling match to be held in Toledo, Febru ary .