The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 05, 1922, SECTION TWO, Image 21

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Newspaper Page Textr Classified Advertising and Sporting News SECTION TWO I'OHTLAXD, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXLVG, FEBRUARY 5, 1922 NO. G VOL. XLI EDWARD PINKNUN TO FIGHT IN CITY Seattle Lightweight on Card for Community Chest. LAST MIX HERE IN 1917 Boxer Who Lost Health In Army to Stage Eighth Content Since Recovering Strength. BT GEORGE COWXE. Edward Brewster Pinkman. the sharn-shootinar beattle' lightweight. w ill tread the canvas of a Portland) ring tor the first time since 1917. , when he faces Joe Welling Chica- go's contender for lightweight honors,! at the armory Tuesday night. The card will be a benefit for the com munity chest. l'iukman's last fight In Portland was against Muff Bronson at the old Rose City club. At that time Flnk man was one of the best-looking lightweight prospects on the Pacific coast, but right after his fight with Kronson Pinkman enlisted in the army and it was a 26-month stretch with the forces of Uncle 25am that came near to ending the Seattle boy's ring career. Pinkman spent a good part of his enlistment period in various govern ment hospitals and is still under a government doctor's care. "When 1 finally received my dis charge from the army I weighed less than 100 pounds, and had been given up as a hopeless case by several gov ernment doctors.'" said Pinkman yes terday, telling of his experiences. "I was advised never to put on a box ing glove again, but after everything else had been tried with no results toward retraining my health, one doc tor suggested that 1 start training again for the ring. Bomloar Saved 14 la Life. I did so last June, and trained for three months. At the end of that time I had regained my normal weight ?f 135 pound, had plenty of pep and vitality and. best of all, I found that the old right arm etill retained its punch." Pinkman has had seven fights since he instituted his come-back. He has won five and lost two. In his com plete ring career the Seattle socker has had more than 150 bouts, winning 42 of them on knockouts. He has met every good eastern boy that has ap peared in the northwest, including Kitchie Mitchell. Johnny Tillman, Freddie Welsh and John O'Leary, and there is rot a lightweight on the Pa cific coast who has not felt th'j crunching force of his right hauo, which is his biggest asset. His string of knockouts includes Chet Xeff. whom he stopped . In one round, and Travis Davis, who lasted exactly 11 seconds. Pinkman Is the only boxer who holds a knockout over Lavls. 'l never wan knocked off my feet but olive, said Pinkinan, "That was in the fight with Kltcht Mileholi. v. hieh ended as 'no contest' in the first round. The bout was held In e-eattle in the old four-round days ajid to make a showing a fighter had to start mixing it from the first gong. "We started all right and kept at it through the first round. In fact, we were fighting so hard that we did not hear the bell for the end of the round. When the referee told us to break and step to our corners I dropped my hands and headed for my chair. Just as I turned Mitchell caught me flush on the Jaw and down I went. A small sized riot broke loose in the arena and the bout finally was called 'no contest." o Afraid of Welling. "I am glad to get a chance at a boxer of Weliing's ability, and espe ia;ly over the ten-round distance," continued the Seattle boy. "I prefer a ten-round battle to the shorter dis tances every time. Practically all my bouts In the army wero ten-round affairs.' Pinkman Is not the only boxer whose ring battle with Hitchle Mitchell ended unsatisfactorily. Well ing also had a little experience with Mitchell. Well ins had knocked Mitche'.I down, but the Milwaukee boxer had his own referee and was given a long count. The referee counted until the bell rang and Mitchell was able to finish the bout, and. of course, got the referee's de cision. According to a report from Los An geles, George Moore, manager of the M:lwaukle boxing arena, who is In the southern California city with janny Kd wards, negro bantam, has s!ned Travis- Davis. Everett. Wash., welterweight, to appear in the main event at Milwankie on the night of February ::. Davis wi'.l box in Los An&eles February lj. DKNTISTS TO PLAY MT. ANGEL Coll rite Quintet Hope- fo Reverse Result of Last Sunday's Game, SOU XT AXCEL COLLKGE, Or., Feb. 4 (Special. The Mount Angel col lege basketball team will meet its old adversary, tha North Pacific Den ial college team, on the local fioor tomorrow afternoon. ' The Mount Atfcgel boys hsd their final workout toaay after a series of stiff practices. The first game played In Portland, wws won bv the Dentists, 23 to 21, but the Angel boys hope to turn the score In their favor tomorrow. Coach O Xeil Is confident of victory j.fter the trounrlng the local team gave to the fast Knights of Columbus aggre gation of' Portland last Sunday. A preliminary content will be Dlave4 between the Mount Angel Midgets and the Siiverton Hiawatha ci!! team. The eoiiere lireuo in ail probabil ity will includ Schmidt and Stupfel .r Gaii.igher. form ards; Hudson and J i erneyaeu or puiicn, guaras, and Kropp. center. Letter Men Will Organise. CIIKHALIS. Wash.. Feb. 4. tSpe c:ai) Chehaiis high school letter men have plans afoot to organise. A cmiiu'ticf condoned of Karl Urqu hart. HaroM St. John and Elmer Tf r.itii w '1 pr. p.ire a c-mstitutlon. and this Iae- w :i: h. submitted for ap proval f pos;b;e members. Ci-ach M,.r Is giving the young men evejy avststartie and such an organisation ii!. It is believed, prova of aiuch bensf.t, ta tile memiisia. m m I -v . I"K" SN APSHOTS HV BOB OLD-TIME FIGHT MANAGERS WOULD BE SMALL FRY TODAY Men Who Piloted Boxers Long Ago Regarded Money as Side Issue, While Modern Director Makes Gold His First Consideration. BY ROBERT EDGREX. AS MONEY-GETTERS. ld-time managers of champions were hardly la the same class with the modern bunch.- But in the old days money was more or less of a side issue: and in the old days box ing matches didn't draw such im mense crowds, end people didn't dream of paying $50 for ringside seats. s The highest price I remember was at the Corbett-Fitxaimmocs fight, where seats in the ringside boxes were sold at MO. This was for the most advertised heavyweight cham pionship match in many years. To day fight fans pay as much or more for box seats, even when little fel lows meet for the minor titles. Modern gate receipts for any cham pionship fight run anywhere from JlOO.OOtt to Jl.623.000. In the old times the gate receipts for the Jeffrles-Sharkey fight broke all records. The gate was to.300 and the fighters' share was $36,465, split 75-25. Champions didn't demand all the money In those days. They were sat isfied to fight winner take all, or for a winner's and loser's percent age, usually 75-25 or 65-35. Imagine a modern champion, even among the lightweights, being im mensely pleased with himself because he won 75 per cent of a $36,465 purse or $ii7.349. That was what Jeffries, the great est champion of 20 years ago, re ceived for beating Tom Sharkey in 25 rounds of the hardest fighting of his whole career. I remember meeting Jeffriea a few days after that fight, and in smiling pride over his prosperity, Jim pulled it bank book out of his pocket lid showed me the deposit made just after the fight, and bis balance. Modern managers would look on that $27,349 as chicken feed. There were some smooth birds in the game in the old days. Tom O'Rourke. now boxing commissioner In New York, not only managed George Dixon and Joe Walcott. black champions whose ft?hting ability may have been equalled ' but never has been surpassed, but ii addition ran a big boxing club and had ail the other champs fighting for him. C'RouVke managed Tom Sharkey, too. While he was given to driving a hard bargain. It was said of O'Rourke that his ord was good, and that he always paid just what he had agreed to pay, with or without a contract. When O'Rourke had Walcott fighting Kid Lavigne. Walcott grew weary acd much discouraged. "It ain't no use, Mr. O'Rourke," said Walcott. near the end of the fight, "1 can't do notin' with this white boy." "Joe." said O Rourke. "don't you quit. If you do, remember that you're going to settle with me." Walcott took one look at O Rourke and went out to fight. Being wal loped by X.avigne was safe beside what he might expect from O'Rourke. Billy Delaney was one of the great eat old-time managers. Ha went to New Orleans-with Jim Corbett. and it was under his coaching that Cor bett whipped Suiiivan. Afterward Delaney had Corbett in the fight with Kitisimmons at Car son. Delaney had brought young Jim Jeffries, a novice, but a giant in p-yslque, up to Carson to be one of v'Frbett's sparring partners. The night after Corbett lost the championship Delaney proposed to Jeffries that un der Delaney's coaching he might be the one to wrest the honors from Fits. Delaney matched Jeffries with Van rtusklrk." with Gus Ruhlin. and with Tom Sharkey and Jeffrie' won his fights. Thei h took big Jim to New York, where Jeffries broke his hand it. defeating big Bob Armstrong and dropped out of sight by returning to California. Rut a year or so Inter Delaney had Jeffries bark again. Billy Brady hav tnc engineered a f.fcht with Filx- SOME OF THE OLD-TIME FIGHT MANAG ERS WERE PICTURESQUE CHARACTERS. V-W S . " l V -TC- 'N y -J- ' . AT ROKOtAi Fo BAT MeLiArt To KDGRKN OF FAMOUS FIGHTERS AMD simmons. and this time Jeff made good and won the world's champion ship. Delaney handled 'Jeff in all his fights until Jim retired. Years later the two quarreled because Jeffries refused to return to the ring to fight Bill Squires. When Jeffries was forced out of retirement after six years by. the public's demand that he come back and fight Jack Johnson Delaney al lowed his bitterness to turn him against Jeff. He joined Johnson's camp as coach and no doubt his close knowledge of Jeffries' boxing meth ods helped Johnson to win. Delaney dropped out of the game after this fight. Personally he was a very quiet man with a keen sense of humor. 1 remember sitting at a training table at Shaw's springs when Corbett was training for Fitzsimmons. in 1897. Jeffries and Billy Woods and 1 were the sparring partners. Jeffries had just arrived in camp. There was a lot o' talk and joking going on at the table but big Jeff never aid a word. He was slowing away the fodder as if he hadn't had a bite for a month. Finally everything at his end of the talile had disappeared and Jeff was glancing around for more. Delaney leaned over and looked at him anxiously. "Jim," Delaney said solicitously, "you aren't sick or anything, are you?" "Huh?" eaid Jeff. "You don't seem to feel well what's the matter?" "Why why I'm feeling all right." stammered Jeff. "I didn't know," said Delaney solemnly. "You look all right, but you don't seem to have any appetite. Won't you have another chicken?" Another great old timer was Billy THREE STAR BASKETEERS OF THE OREGON AGGIE HOOP SQUAD. 'i- ' - --Kyi U ' ; ' ' 1 " V - ' ! 4 f I - t I v if Hielte. the Aggie' aeasatloaal eeater. Is the tall 700 th la the Middle, and his Inrtn elves him aa advantage aver all the other coaat conference centers. Kernley, tha either Aggie forward, la at the riarhU - lo.kJ totxrE'4 I t HAXOLERS OK THE PAST. Madden, once manager of John L. Sullivan, later of Charlie Mitchell and then Gus Ruhlin. Madden was an old time bare knuckle fighter himself. He knew the game as it was played under London prize ring, rules. Breaking with Sullivan, he went to Ireland and England to hunt up a man to whip John L. and brought back Charlie Mitchell, a middleweight. Mitchell was a wonder for his cize. He fought Sullivan a 39-round draw at Chantilly. France, in 1888. the fight ending when both men were too weary to lift their hands. Madden nearly made Gus Ruhlin. the Akron giant, a champion. Gus knocked out Tom Sharkey and many others, but was knocke- out by Fitz simmons and beaten by Jeffries. Sam Harris was a great manager. Sam was driving a laundry wagon in Brooklyn when he became acquainted with Terry McGovern, a kid working in a lumber yardand boxing with the other boys after working hours. Sam, hardly more than a boy him self, undertook to make Terry a real fighter. He put Terry into some amateur bouts and Terry knocked out the amateur champions in a hurry. Then Sam made professional matches for Terry, who knocked out a lot of great fighfers in a hurry. After a couple of years McGovern was near the champions and the country was full of- great little men In those days. In 1899 Terry knocked out Gasper Leon. Patsy Haley (nc-.v one of the best referees in New York), Sammy Kelly (afterward a Wall street broker), Harry Forbes and Ped lar Palmer. Harris got fhe matcn with Palmer, who was English champion and re garded as a marvel, by outwitting the Englishman's manager, who wanted a soft match before taking In the featherweight champion, ITJcorge Dixon, for his man. McGov ern finished Palmer in less than a round. That got him the fight with Dixon, in which he knocked out "Lit tle tChocolate" in eight rounds and won the world's championship. Harris made a raft of -money with McGovern and looked out for Terry's Interests as long, as Terry lived. Under Sam's direction Terry made (Concluded on Page 3, Column ) OUT OtF LUCtC Hl6'PATH'el5 MAKAdtSTj MlA ANO VlAVtSO THE WRESTLING DECLARED TO BE ONE OF ROUGHEST OF SPORTS Professional Game Is Considered Regular He-Man's Play Strife in Other Sports Held Not Continuous. I BY L. H. GREGORY. HAT sport Ja the roughest? Boxing1, cries a voice, followed promptly by a counter nomina tion of football as even rougher. Ice hockey or la crosse, says another. Yes, they are all jough, ice hockey in par ticular. Yet for deliberate, cold blooded bone-crushing, for hard knocks and bumps, for punishment cheerfully given and as cheerfully re ceived, our vote goes to professional wrestling. Consider two wrestlers on the mat. The object of each is to pin the shoul ders of the other to the mat for three consecutive seconds. Sounds simple enough, but there is- nothing simple about it if they are at all evenly matched. Each of these burly moun tains of muscular flesh is so developed in strength, in skill, in endurance, that to pin him it is necessary either to shackle, him in such a combination of holds that he can't squirm out and eventually must give in, or to apply so crushing and painful and wrench ing and altogether unendurable a grip to some part of him that he must sub mit or be crippled. And so the whole intent and pur pose of the two wrestlers becomes to crush and twist and wrench, or by some sudden coup to jar and jolt one another into submission. The successful holds in wrestling are those that apply leverage to an arm or a foot or to the head or to the body itself that punish so severely that the only relief is to concede the fall.. , . The body scissors, clamped on by a powerful pair of legs, squeezes the chest or abdomen so hard thai? fre quently it crushes ribs and causes in ternal injuries. Usually it is made more effective by being applied in combination with another hold or lock. The wrist lock applies a leverage on the wrists and arms that unchecked would break the bone. The hammer lock tears loose the muscle ligaments of the shoulder if its unfortunate victim resists too long. The toe hold, one of the most pun ishing of all, wrenches the foot or an kle so severely that its recipient must give in or suffer a broken bone or broken ligaments. The head lock, as made famous re cently by, Strangler Lewis, is applied to the head and neck from a standing position- Lewis' custom is to apply the headlock from a standing position, clamp his arm around the other wres tler's head, make secure with a hip lock and then fall heavily to the floor with all his own great weight thrown on or against the other man's neck. .remarkable height of six feet alx On tha. left ia Gill, forward, and The awful wrench dazes the victim and then Lewis applies successive headlocks until his opponent's resist ance is gone and he succumbs easily to some other hold. It's a he-man's sport, is professional wrestling. In football, in ice hockey, in boxing, even, the strife Is not con tinuous. There are distinctive rest periods. In football a man who is jolted can call for time out. In ice hockey the shock of encounter is tem pered with open skating, though all at top epeed. In boxing the boy who is getting them too hard on the chin can dive for a short count, to regain his wits, or at worst if he is down for ten seconds his troubles are over. But in wrestling there is no letup in the strain, no time out, no resting. One hold follows another in con tinuous repetition. And once one man applies a vital hold, then it becomes an agonizing- test of endurance, the man caught striving to break the hold, or to sustain it to the last bitter moment. We were talking to Pink Gardner, the handsome young fellow from Schnectady, N. Y., who wrestled so spectacular a match with Ted Thye at the Heilig theater the other night, and is to go on with Thye in a return bout at the Heilig next Saturday night. Gardner is a college man and a college wrestling- instructor. He is handsome, spirited, like lightning on his feet, not as yet greatly battered up by the hard knocks of the game in which he has been a professional since 1913. Gardner had some interesting things to tell about the ups and downs of a wrestler's life. Though a professional he doe'sn't wrestle for a living, for he and his father and brothers have a prosperous monument business in Schnectady. He is in the sport be cause, despite all its roughness and toughness and battering, he likes it. The game fascinates him. He loves to grapple with a fellow gladiator, tq exert the strength of thew and muscle against thew and muscle, to clamp on holds and elude them, to experience- the thrill of winning a hard,' mauling match, or even to lose one if it has been an even thing to the last. "I boxed for a time before I took up wrestling," said Gardner, "and I even knocked out a few men and was sup posed to be quite a promising young ring prospect, but after I took -up wrestling boxing seemed too slow and tame. There is no comparison be tween the punishment one gets in the two sports. Wrestling is by far the harder. "In my eight years of professional wrestling I have been "knocked out cold let's see, at least six times. Once a year or two ago against MiVe Yokel in the east. Mike got me against the ropes and almost broke me in two, and before I could ex tricate myself I was thrown out into the audience. I lit on my head and didn't know much until quite a while afterward "Then I was wrestling Ira Iern in Salt Lake a few weeks ago and inci dentally this boy Dern is a comer when he worked his celebrated. 'aero plane spin' on me. I never had seen it- before and even if I had seen it, it is a mighty difficult thing to guard against. Dern has worked on his 'aeroplane spin' and specialized on it just as Ted Thye specializes on the wrist lock, Strangler Lewjs on the headlock and Joe Stecher on the body scissors. Dern applies it standing up. grabs his opponent, lifts him with both arms up aboye his head, turns and spins sideways with him and then throws him just as hard aa he can onto the mat or off the mat, if he is near the edge. "Well, he threw me more off the mat than on. The back of my head hit the stage floor so hard that t,hey say I didn't come to for half an hour. I think I can get the better of Mr. Dern and his aeroplan'e spin another time, but I admit he put me on a stretcher on this occasion. "But thing like that are merely in cidents in a wrestler's life. If he can't take the knocks as they come he has no business being a professional wres tler, for he is bound to get them. I have had my ribs crushed in a body scissors, and once a tough young cowboy wrestler, whom I rather un derestimated, nearly broke my neck. I didn't realize at the time what a punishing hold he had when he began twisting my head and I went on and beat him. but for the next two weeks I couldn't bend my neck at all. "Among the little things that help make life pleasant for the wrestler are mat boils and wrestler's rash and infections" of various kinds. I was laid up for six months once from mat poison. That comes from wrestling on a. dirty mat The wrestler's sk'n may be a little abraded; he rubs over a place that has been infected, and the result is a terrible boil. In my case this boil came on my arm, and the doctors had to lance the arm. tunnel under the muscle, and then every day drain the wound by pass ing gauze through that tunnel and pulling it back and forth. I would rather have some powerful fellow get a toe hold on me any day. "Than there is wrestler's rash, which comes nobody seems to know from what, but covers the body with thousands of little pimples. The itch ing is frightful. And of late an epi demic of eye trouble has been going the rounds of the Wrestlers. Ad San tel almost lost one of his eyes from it, and Sam Clapham had a bad time. . "I have seen mighty few boxers who weren't mighty willing to take nourishment even after a hard bout, but though I don't eat for six hours before a wrestling match and you would suppose the physical labor of two hours of hard work on the mat would make me ravenous sometimes it is an entire day before X can eat again. A hard matcn upsets a wres tler's stomach. The continuous strug gle at high tension rfnd extreme mus cular exertion seem to take some thing from his vitality that he doesn't regain for a couple of days. "But, for all that, professional wres tling is a wonderful sport. It tests skill and wit and endurance and strength as does nothing else. There is . a fascination to it that I can't explain certainly not because of the emoluments of the game, for often the gate receipts are very small, yet one will work just as hard as if they were up in the thousands. I have in tended many times to leave the mat and re'tire to my business, yet I don't do it. I like it, and so does every professional wrestler. "Mybe that is because wrestling is a sport for he-men. No mollycoddle need apply." 2 TEAMS RECORDS CLEAR JEFFERSON AN LINCOIiN LEAD VS IiEAGTJE. ' Washington Occupies Cellar Berth AVith Two Defeats in Two Starts. Commerce Place Iiowl Portland Public School League Standings. W. L. Pet. Tffrnr, 2 0 1000 Lincoln 1 0 1000 Benson .' 1 1 " Franklin 1 -500 James John 1 1 -JOO Commerce 0 1 .000 Washington 0 2 .000 Although the basketball season in the Portland Public league is only two. weeks old, just two of the seven teams have clean slates. Jefferson with two victories in two starts and Lincoln with one victory, are leading. For the first time in several years Washington occupies the cellar berth wit'.i two defeats in two starts. Com merce also is at the bottom of the column, having lost Its only start. Commerce stands little show of get ing out of the cellar this week as it tackles the powerful Llnconites Tues day. Jefferson, on the other hand, may lose the leadership as it plays Benson Wednesday. Although Benson lost to James John, it eave Washing ton the first athletic setback that school has ever had at the hands of Bensom The banner-game of the week should be the one between James John and Franklin on Thursday. After losing the opener to Lincoln three weeks ago, ErankUn came back strong last week and took Washington into camp. Franklin's team ought .to be much stronger than when it played Lin coln as it will show three new faces in the Benson game. The 60-day amateur suspension of Hobson and Thomas for playing semi pro basehall last summer expires to day and with the addition of these two stars and that of Clair Scallon, the .sensational' B'nai B'rith player, the Franklin team now looks stronger than even its quintet of last year, which won the state interscholastio championship at Salem. Hobson and Thomas have been on the suspended list since December 6. With Hobson and Scallon playing forwards, Thomas at center and Charles Kelly and Walgren, guards. Franklin looks on paper more power ful than any basketball team in the high school league. AMATEURS MEET FRIDAY BOXING BOTJTS AND TWO MAT EVENTS ARRANGED. Spokane Athletic Club Representa tives Are to Clash With Ar- ' mory Athletes. Seven boxing bouts and two wres tling matches are on the programme arranged for the interclub amateur smoker between athletes of the Spo kane Amateur Athletic club and the Armory Amateur Athletic club at the armory Friday night. Spokane is sending three boxers at ,105, 135 and 145 pounds. They will demonstrate their class against three of the Arm ory cl'ub boxers. The rest of the card will be built with matches between boxers and wrestlers of the Armory club, Mult nomah Amateur Athletic club and B'nai B'rith Amateur Athletic club. All three clubs are members of th.e Portland amateur boxing and wres tling association, recently formed to help the amateur game here. Frankie Granditte in the 105-pound class, Neir Tierney. 135-pound boxer, and George Charbulack, 145-pound scrapper, are the boys Spokane will send for the meet. The three Armory boxers who will meet the inland em pire trio are Sony uoruon, vo pouims; Marion Carson, 135 pounds, and either Jim Solomon or August Crabtree, at 145 pounds. Tommy O'Brien, a newcomer who is being developed by Jack Wagner, boxing instructor of the Armory club, will make his debut against Shacker of Multnomah. They weigh 115 pounds. m 3Iorris Kirksey May Not Compete. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Palo Alto. Cal., Feb. 4. Expected clashes on the cinder path between Charlie Paddock and Morris Kirksey, long standing rivals for track honors, probably cannot take place this year. Kirksey Is under a physician's care as a result- of a strained tendon in one leg and his doctor said he probably could not enter any competition be fore tha Stanford-California track meet. ' OREGON AGGIES BEAT -UNIVERSITY 16111. Victors Forced to Extend Selves in Contest, v FINAL SCORE IS 35 to 18 Stubborn Defense and Dangerous Offencse Put Up by Lighter t Eugene Aggregation. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON', Eugene. Feb. 4. (Special.) "Slats'- Gill was the big factor in the Aggies' scoring combination which piled up a total of 35 points to the University of Ore gon's 18 in the second basketball game of the series here tonight. Gill connected with the basket five times in the initial period, giving tha Ag gies a lead which the university was never able to overcome. As on the first night, the university staged a second-half rally and forced the Aggie quintet to extend itself against the stubborn. defense and dangerous offense put up by the lighter and greener lemon-yellow squad. first Half Ends 23 to 9. The first half ended 23 to 9 for tha visitors, most of Oregon's points be ing made by free throws. Hadden Rockhey hooped five out of six free throws. Both Latham and Rockhey made one field goal each in this pe riod. Stinson for the Aggies equaled Rockhey's feat and he also hooped five out of six free throws in the first half. Gill and Ross connected for the remainder of the points of the half. Hjelte, the lanky Aggie center, was closely guarded and failed to make tha showing he did in the first contest He made a lone field goal in the first half and connected twice In the lat ter period. The game was much more closely contested and it was not until well along toward the end of the initial period that the Aggies began to break away. Play Brilliant at First. The first few minutes of play were brilliant and neither team showed much superiority on the floor until Gill began his streak of dropping them in. The Aggies scored 12 points in the last half, while the varsity scored nine. Frequent substitutions were made by both coaches. As a preliminary to the varsity game the Oregon freshmen quintet defeated the O. A. C. freshmen by a score of 16 to 13. The preltmlniry game was hotly contested and the re sult was n doubt until the final whis tle. STANFORD LOSES TO BEARS GiIt-:Edge Basketball Playec by Both Teams First Half. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Feb. 4. The University of California defeated Stanford university in bas ketball tonight, 24 to 14. Both teams played gilt-edge ball the first half, the score at the close of the first period standing California 8, Stanford 5. In the second half California took the Cardinals off their feet. The lineup: California,. 24. ' Stanford, 14. Talt F DavlB Douhit ...,.W. McHosa Larkey c Janrisen Lehane , G Pitts Eggleston G DeGroot Substitutions- California, Coop for Dou hit Stanford, Rogers for McHose, Pigott for Jannsen, Campbell for Pitts, Jannsen for Pigott, McHose for Rogers. Goals from field Larkey 10, Lehane X, Eggleston 3, Coop 1, Davies 2, McHose. 2. Free throws Talt 6, Daviea 6. Idaho Loses to Montana.. MISSOULA, Mont., Feb. 4. Idahs university lost Its first northwest conference basketball game this sea son when it met defeat this evening at the hands of University of Montana players by a score of 26 to 22. LAN'DIS REINSTATES HARRIS Service in World War Is Given by Judge as Reason. CHICAGO, Feb. 4. Judge. Keneeaw M. Landis, basehall commissioner, to day reinstated Joe Harris) of the Bos ton Red Sox, aeompanying his deci sion wdt'h a statement that Harris' service in France during the world, war entitled him to consideration which might not otherwise have been given the player. Harris had been declared ineligible for playing with and against ineligible players in In dependent games. Harris was traded to the Boston Red Sox last December with Elmer Smith In a deal by which Cleveland acquired "Stuffy" Mclnnes. It was provided that Harris, who was on the coast, should become the prop erty of the Sox if reinstated. CO-EDS WILL PLAY OREGON Aggie Quintet to Go .to University for Game March 4. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Feb. 4. (Special.) The Aggie co-ed varsity basketball team will meet the University co-eds March 4 at Eugene, according to Miss Winninger, the women's coach. Prac tically a new team will be trained, as only three of last year's squad are out this season. The co-ed Interclass basketball se ries will start February 8. The Aggie rookesses also have a game sched uled with the Monroe high girls. The interclass games help Miss Winninger get a line on girls' varsity material. Eldon Jenne Assistant Coach. PULLMAN, Wash., Feb. 4. Ap pointment of Eldon Jenne, star pole vaulter andi high-point track man at Washington State college for the last two years, as assistant track coach was announced today. The track season will open February 9. Jenne, with Captain Frank Rowles, will have charge of the track squad until Ath letic Director Bohler is relieved of coaching work with the basketball team. Brooklyn Outfielder Sold. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 4 Edwin Eayers, outfielder for the Brooklyn National league baseball team last season, has been purcbsed by the New Haven team of the Eastern league to act as field captain, it was announced tonight.