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DISFAVOR
.:.. This evening, at the gymnasium of
the local Y. M. C. A., there will be a
hotly-contested game of basketball be
tween the local association and 'the In
termediates from Oregon City. The Ore
gon City Indoor Basketball team backed
out of the proposed, contestswith the
local boys', and the Company C nine of
the National Guard Armory league-has
, been secured 'in its place.' The Oregon
City contingent ?are . nush :from their
victory of last week on their own ter
ritory, . and visit the local's stamping
ground : brimful of confidence ; in their
ability to repeat the performance. Mean
while the local association is making
no unseemly boasts, ' but takes matters
coolly, and every man on the team is,
determined to dcf.his best to turn the
tables on ' their valiant ; but somewhat
overexuberant opponents. !
Both associations have strong teams,
and one of the finest basketball games,
from-a local standpoint, is in order.
- The indoor .baseball game- will also
be a hummer, for an intense rivalry
exists between the militia boys and the
members of the association, and a hard
fought, . well-played Kama can be ex
pected. - ' ,
' The recent contests held in Oregon
. City were fine exhibitions of skill, the
basketball game resulting in a tie at
the -end of the regular game, and the
. falls city lads won in the playoff.
; . The local basketball - team will line
up tonight as follows: Center,: Pugh;
. forwards, Masters and Moore; " guards,
Harrison and Wilson. ' Baseball team:
Catcher, Barrell; pitchers, Pugh and
' Bacchus', first base. Thing; second base,
;Lighty; third base, Wilson; right short,
XV. C Morrow; left short, Xiowengardt;
right field, Oates; left field, C, Morrow.
SPOKANE WILL STAY
WITH LUCAS' LEAGUE
(Journal Special Service.) ,
Epokane, Wash., , Jan. 8. President
Williams of the Spokane ball team is
authority for the statement that Spokane
will be In the Pacific National league
' next summer. The circuit will be made
a six-club affair. The peace negotiations
between the ball magnates have proceeded
so far that it is almost settled that the
twr, leagues will clash only in Seattle.
According to President Williams the six-
league circuit will be composed of Salt
' Lake, 7 Butte, Spokane, Seattle and . Bell
Ingham, and possibly Great Falls or
Helena and Missoula together. President
Lucas was to have been in this city
several, nays ago, but stopped off In
' Helena in order -to ascertain what the
' Helena " people will do to protect their
forfeit money. According to a telegram
Lucas will arrive In Spokane Friday,
when arrangements will be made for
railing, the. -meeting of the, Pacific
National league.
The delay In getting the six-club league
together has been largely due to the fact
that Spokane has been on the fence
and perched a little higher up on the pal
ings than Dugdale of Seattle. With Mo
Closky, Wllmot and Itellly as the leaders
bf three strong teams and Seattle to back
"up the. bunch there Is no doubt of a
. strong and successful circuit. According
to President Williams and Nordkye there
. Is nothing to the talk that Spokane will
lose its former first baseman.
PORTLAND DOGS WILL
BE ON EXHIBITION
(Journal Special Service.) , .
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 8. Portland dogs
- will be placed upon exhibition at a bench
show In Spokane this fall. The Kennel
club of this city is going to hold the
show in this city during the Interstate
fair and the management has announced
its intention to use vigorous efforts to
. get more than local representation.' A
. show was given here last year and prac
tically no Spokane dogs were exhibited,
but the kennels from outside Victoria.
Portland and Seattle were well repre
.... sented. There were but few fox terriers
. and bloodhounds and not many setters,
i There will be a number of Spokane dogs
entered in the spring circuit, which in
eludes the towns of Victoria, Vancouver,
Seattle and Portland. The shows will
tafTThe last of March.
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The right hand body or heart blow is what James X Jeffries believes
land. "I prefer it to the Jaw blow. I have worked the body blow in nearly
have come out a winner. It may not be called a knockout, blow because my
Still they have been counted out and that serves the purpose."
THE MINORS ENDEAVOR
TO HOLDUP MAJORS
As a general rule when a ball player
from a minor league club is. wanted by
a major league organization the club
having a claim on the player in ques
tion endeavors to practically hold up the
major organization; desiring the , said
player, and often they succeed in their
demands for a large amount of draught
money.'--.: '";. .
The following from an exchange cltea
a case recently in dispute. "The minor
league baseball manager has furnished
another illustration, which came to light
last week, why he is getting better treat
ment at the hands of the big leagues
than he deserves, in many instances.
The owners of the Illon club in New
York pulled off something which closely
resembled a holdup game on Dreyf uss
of the Pittsburg club. . According to all
reportait appears "the - Pittsburgh "mag
nate negotiated for the purchase of
Pitcher Bcanlan from Illon last fall,
conducting the business through. Man
ager Howard Earl of the Illon - team.
The deal was closed, the pitcher was
sent to Pittsburg, and made so good
a showing that he was signed for next
season by Dreyfuss, who supposed the
incident closed. ; The Illon club owners
waited until the period Muring which
major league clubs can draft players
had expired, then notified Dreyfuss the
negotiations he had conducted with Man
ager Earl were unauthorized, that Earl
had no power to sell or release players,
that if the- Pittsburg club wanted the
player it would have to negotiate with
the club owners direct, and,, moreover,
that the price for his release was double
that fixed by Manager Earl before It
was - known, of course, how good a
pitcher the young man was. Dreyfuss
declined to be held 'up In this way,
told the Illon men he would rest his
case on the deal with their manager, and
they,, in turn,, carried the cao to the
national commission, which finally de
cided the player belonged to Illon, as
Dreyfuss had not completed the pur
chase as demanded by the club owners.
Because Pittsburg reports are the source
of these statements, and because Pitts
burg writers are prone to twist facts in
favor of Dreyfuss' club, there' may be
an entirely different side to the matter..
But the incident shows how the un
scrupulous magnate can, : if he-desires,
get the better of the honest man in
spite of every' precaution. It ' is" 'the
easiest thing in the world to have a
secret contract with a manager expressly
stipulating that he is not empowered to
sell or release players, and then let htm
transact business which can be accepted
or repudiated, according as it Will best
serve the interests of-the club owners.
This is not saying the Illon magnates
actually took such means of , beating
Dreyfuss, but their act .of letting months
go by after the transaction was made
and not notifying him of its repudiation
until too late for him to draft the player,
do not look like the acts of honest
sportsmen. : It would not be a bad idea
if the other clubs of. the big leagues
would band together, agreeing not to
purchase Pitcher Bcanlan, thereby, com
pelling the Illon club to sell him to
Pittsburg at the prlceprlglnaliy agreed
upon or else keep him and the aver
age minor leaguer finds it more profit
able to sell than to keep his stars."
RACING RESULTS
(Journal Special Sorrlce.)
San Francisco, Jan. 8. Prince Brutus
surprined the talent yesterday by , win
ning the 3-year-old e,vent with ease.
Henry Ache, the" winner by a nosii rof
the previous meeting, was ' made the
favorite, but mude a poor Showing. La
monla made a few of the pikers happy
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by. winning the first race at, odd of 40
to 1. Dundrary, the favorite, got & poor
start .'Summary: .:
Six furlongs, . selling Lamorte won.
Chucko second, Llbervale third; time,
1:15.
Three and one-half furlongs, purse
Prince Brutus won, Peggy O'Nell sec
ond, Arlsbe third; time, 0:41. i
Six furlongs, selling Celebrant won.
Bright Moon second. Gene Handlan
third: time, 1:14 tt. ' : '
One mile and 60 yards, selling mp
ponax won; Gawaine second, Emily
Oliver third; time, 1:45. ; '
Plve and one-half furlongs Money
Muss i won, Leotala second, Hagerdon
third; time, 1:07. '
, One mile and one-eighth, selling
Caronal won, Stlllcho second. Heather
Honey . third; time, 1:54.:
At Aaoot Pax.
Los Angeles, Jan. 8. Mr. ' Lilly
Langtry. the actress, was present at As
cot park yesterday and 8,000 other per
sons were attracted there by the fine
card. Favorltes7"were not-successful,
capturing only one event. Summary:
Slauson course, selling Geisha Girl
won, Jingler second, Brown Prince third;
time, 1:18. : .
Three furlongs Lady Lasca won. Are
Una second. Hllona third; time. 0:37.
i Six furlongs, selling Quest won, Pat
Hlmmon second, Metlakatla third; time,
1:18.' ! 7-'"'.
. Slauson course, selling Madame Bish
op won. Little Margaret . second, Al
moner third; time, 4:12V4., '
One mile, selling Cloche d'Or won.
Henry Clay Rye second, Glenrica- third;
time, 1:424.
Six . furjongs, selling Blissful won,
E. , M. Brattaln second. Redan third:
time. 1:14. '
' : At Hew Orleans.
"New Orleans, Jan. 8. Crescent City
results: . - ,
Six furlongs,' selling Falkland won,
Bronx second, Preaknesa ; third; time,
1:18 4-6.
Mile, selling Erbe won,. Louisville
second. Floyd K. third t time, 1:45 5-5.
Six and one-half furlongs Eva Rus
sell won,' Miss Gollghtiy second, Style
third; time, 1:28. . 5 , ' -
Seven furlongs King Crocker won.
Clangor second,, St. .Tammany third;
time, 1:318-5. .; ..'-, ,;
Seven ' furlongs Frank - Rice - won,
Ralph Toung second, Rachael Ward
third; time, 1:88 8-5. ' .
; One mile and one-sixteenth Hymet
tus won, . The Regent , second, . Malay
third; time,! 1:63 1-5. -v' . ; ;
Fifth race Lady matchless finished
first, but was disqualified for fouling.
" Two million American" tiufTcr the tor
turing panaa of dyspepsia. -. No need to.
Burdock -Blood, bltters cures. At any
rtritir Htftre. '
BLOO D
Oa account of IU ftigbtful hldeooinest. Blood
Polaonlnc 1 commonly railed tbe King ot All
Ptwaara. It may be eltber bprcdltarjr or con
tracted. - One thx aytem la tainted with It. ttia
diaraa may manlfval ltaclt In tbe form of Scrof
ula, Ecaroia, Rheumatic pln. Stiff or Swollen
Joint. Eruptlona or t'oppcrklord Ppota on tba
Kace or HoJt. II It la lilcera' In tbe Month or on
tho Tongue, fore Throat. Swollen- Tonalla, falling
out of the Hnlr or Kyebrowa, and Bnally a Ip-roua-llke
Decay of the Fleah and Bonca. M f ou
hara any of tbrao or almllar ymptoma, et
BROWN 8 BIX)UI CUBE, luitncdlntely. Thla
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H eontalua no ongomna drutra or lujnrlona mcd
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Made bT DK. BHOWN, tS6 Arch at., rhlladet
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BASEBALL NOTES
President C. F. Swlgert of the Port
land baseball ' club returned yesterday
from San Francisco, where he attended
the league meeting In the Interest of
the local association. Mr, Swlgert ex
presses himself, as , perfectly satisfied
with the treatment accorded tbe north
era clubs at the meeting, and anticipates
aq immensely successful season during
the present year.-'-'.;...''" - !''
jay Andrews, the popular third base
man of last season's team, who is, to
manage a Western league nine, received
a wire, from President Sexton, stating
that the Western league s annual meet
ing will be held on January 12. After
the league meeting Mr. Andrews will
start, east to. take charge of his new
position. - Claude Schmeer, Klrby Dren
nan and "King Kelly" have , already
signed with. Andrews for next season.
With three such good men to start with.
it will be readily seen that the "doctor'
will have a good team next year. An'
drewa has another man signed, but does
not wish his name disclosed at present,
and has letters from Billy Murdock,
Jack Messerly, Joe Kestal and Billy
Harlow-requesting Jobs for the coming
season.''.
: With Ike Butler already at the train
lng quartets, the local baseball sltua
tion . commences, to assume, the proper
proportions Whereby the local fans are
licensed to start in buzzing again.
Ed. Van Buren expects to leave Port
land shortly for his home'Mn Illinois,
where he will spend a few weeks with
his folks before reporting to Hanlon.
' The Springfield team is after the serv
Ices of the suspended Dubuque outfielder,
Louis Llppert, whom the local fans will
remember as having played with Helena
during the latter part of 1902. Llppert
is a heavy batter and a good fielder and
some Coast club would secure a valuabln
man if they were to get this player.
Chris Von der Ahe says he will take
the cardinals in part payment of the
$100,000 claim he holds against the Na
tional league. Where he will collect
the remaining $99,999.70 he neglected to
say. ' ' '"' " ' ;
Clarke Griffith's New York Americans
are scheduled to play spring exhibition
games with Tale and Columbia univer
sity nines, and it is likely that a date
will be arranged with Harvard also.
Mike O'Neill of the St Louis : Na
tionals is said to have pitched his last
game. , He has become shoulder-bound,
and la good only for outfield work now,
- George Lennon, the Bt. Paul baseball
magnate, places a lot or nis baseoau
men in his clothing house during the
winter. In addition to Miner and ciar
ence Hugglns, he has Eddie Wheeler and
one or two others on his staff, while
Thomas Jefferson Hlckey retired from
baseball to give his whole attention to
managing the business.
Claude Berry, -the lad Comlskey sq
cured for his White Stockings from the
Texas league, is an . Indian boy. 'Ted
Sullivan recommended him to the Chi
cago magnate, who made all haste to se
cure him for his mo, team.
- It is understood that Springfield,
in
signing Crockett, will not try to hold
"Tacks" Latimer, who was with Denver
in 1862,, and later playing through the
season of 1903 with rock island was
to follow Frank Donnelly to Spring
field. Denver has been after Latimer
again, and Springfield Will not try to
hold him, as long as Crockett has been
secured.
OAH SIHS AT BOMS.
Before Taking, tba. "Spokane Plyer" for
Eastern Washington Points.
Ttv the new O. R. & N.tlme card, ner
sons desiring to take the Ppokane Flyer
for Spokane, Coeur d'Aleno and other
Eastern Waahlngton points can now dine
at home (train leaves at 7:45 p. m.) be
fore leaving. The i "Portland-Chicago
(Special now leaves ai :u a. m.
In commenting upon the annual, re
view of collegiate football recently Is
sued by Caspar Whitney, the Chicago
Tribune takes exceptions to several of
his remarks as expressed in the said
manual. There is plenty of justifica
tion in the. caustic comment, as those
familiar with amateur athletics In gen
eral -will readily perceive, by a perusal
of the article, which runs" as follows: ;
"Caspar Whitney fired a broadside of
sandbags into. Western collegiate foot
ball in his annual (review ot the grid
Iron ' season which might have' proved
fatal to some of the admirers of the
sport ' in this section if Mr. Whitney
were less . well known 'here. His long
standing reputation as a dyspeptic with
only one airing to his fiddle, on which
he has been constantly ..twanging, takes
away all the. sting of his pointed re
marks and makes them interesting only
as showing how; far a man can be in
fluenced by a prejudice and a hobby,
Mr. .Whitney had for, years been a vig
orous opponent of the gradual increase
of professionalism and the professional
spirit in college athletics, and for that
he is to be commended highly by every
person who has the interests1, of , ama
teur sport at heart It would, perhaps,
be letter for sport if .there were more
Caspar . Whltneys. : ! But - he destroys
much of the effect he might otherwise
produce by the narrowness of his vision
and by 1 permitting personal prejudices
to -guide him to a great extent. For
years he could see nothing good In West
ern colleges. There were times when
there was -much that was bad In West
ern athletics, but he ' has apparently
never taken the pains to. Inform himself
of the rapid change that has come over
Western . colleges in the last five years.
It. is typical of Whitney, to take the
case of Walter Eckersall and dilate - on
It until he wiped Chicago off his grid
iron map by omitting it from any rat
ing whatever, at the same time over
looking cases in abundance which de
served equal condemnation. Because
Eckersall was honest- enough to play
under his own name with1. a prominent
semi-professional- baseball team, he Is
considered a blacker villain by Whitney
than the scores of other college ath
letes who did the same things, or worse,
under cover, or with teams distant from
their own onlled-eM. . M m nvrlnnka ttn
caes of Harvard, Tale, and Dartmouth
men who play on the summer nines of
the East at different resorts for remun
eration which, if not always cash, is
the same In principle. lie forgets to
mention the case of -Fullback Smith-of
Pennsylvania, who played against 'Har
vard in spite of protests, then, after
that game, was disqualified on evidence
which was at the disposal of the Penn
sylvanla authorities at any time. His
rating or the college teams of the coun
try cannot be taken -seriously. So faf
as the Easels concerned, he undoubtedly
acquires - considerable personal know!
edge on which to base his ranking, but
it would be Impossible for any one man
to see enough football games In one sea
son to make him competent to form
an adequate opinion of the relative mer
its of even the two sections East and
West All the rest of his information
is acquired from long-distance reports,
which are all read through his peculiar
angle of perspective." v.
Eastern and California races by di
rect wires. We accept commission by
"phone" on above , races from respon
sible parties. We also receive commis
sions for all leading sporting events in
any part of the world, at Portland Cluo,
130 Finn street
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.-; (Journal Special Service.) :''
New York, June 8. At the meeting of
the Joint committee of the National
Trotting association, the record ' made
on September 12 last by Lou Dillon of
2:05 to a: high-wheeled,', ball-bearing
sulky nt Cleveland,.' was disallowed, be
cause the mare had: previously per
formed in faster time, which perf orm-
nce was her; record; -and-preeltraed a
slower performance being a record. ':
The committee also established Maud
S.'s time of, 2:08, made to a high-
wheeled plain axle sulky, as the legiti
mate record for the event. - f
The committee made a finding regard
ing wind shields, etc., as follows: v .
"No record can be made with a wind
shield other than the ordinary dirt
shield and pacemaker In front.
"A performance ? with pacemaker in
front, with dirt shield, shall be re
corded with a distinguishing mark, re
ferrlng to a -note stating the facts."
The employment of two pacemakers.
one of which preceded the horse mak
ing the trial against time, and the use
of various devices attached to the carts
have caused a great amount of discus
slon and created interest wherever the
harness horse Is valued. In the popu
lar mind, such devices are -classed to
gether Under the comprehensive, but
misleading, term "wind shields." This
term or appellation is the cause of con
siderable misinterpretation on the part
of the general public and has led to
much misunderstanding, because of its
application to two kinds of devices
which are wholly dissimilar, yet have
been quite generally classed under the
same head. ' ' " -
; Hani Is Misapplied.
The name "wind shield" has been ap
plied to everything that was placed on
a cart drawn by the pacemaker in front
without regarfl to its purpose or its
effect, and without considering whether
Its area was measured in square feet or
inches.' -J'"':: .:;'.:: '', "-.".-.'"v: 1 :"1
So far as . memory serves, only two
horses have ever performed in public
record trials behind real "wind shields,
They were Prince Alert and Major Del
mar. The latter did better later behind
a cart rigged with a simple bit of can
vas. designed merely to atop, as much
as possible, the dust and clods of dirt
which were thrown oft the pace-maker's
hoofs. The admirers of Prince Alert
will probably always question the Judg
ment of his owners in neglecting to give
him a similar chance at Memphis under
the conditions prevailing there.
At any-rate thedeciston-ofthe Trot
ting association is a complete victory
for Bonner Bros., In their protest of the
record. - -
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BET AKD BOW SETTLED
One of the most peculiar actions ever
recorded of a sporting man is now agi
tating the sports of BoBton.. The story
Is a most interesting one, and it may
perhaps lead to right being; done by the
publication of It. It seems that when
Martin Canole was to meet Jimmy Britt
at Colma, a. number of the sporting
men in Boston got together and made
up a pool of 91,600 to bet upon the Fall
River boy. '. This money was placed in
the hands of John Murphy, the Lynn,
Mass., gambling man, and one who has
been mixed up in policy all his life and
who should be thoroughly conversant
with all laws appertaining thereto,
writes Billy Pierce In the Police News.
Murphy sent a wire to Harry Corbett
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The New York. .American publishes
tbe following article relative to the pres-
ent .occupation. Of. ..Frank - Erne, the ...
former lightweight .champion pugilist,
who lost his title, first to Joe Gans, and
later to Jimmy Erltt, and then retired
from the rings
Franks Erne? the former lightweight
champion, has gone into business. That
is, the clever Buffalo boxer has taken
up a- new profession, and he believes
that if he is proficient in his new de
parture he Will "go Into business for
himself. Just now he is studying all
kinds of fruits. - He is learning to be
come an expert fruiterer, and is picking
up knowledge of the business at a prom
inent fruit store on Broadway.- .
For some time Erne has been anxious
to branch out in some legitimate busi
ness, and he finally decided that there
was good money in the business he in
tends to follow In the future. He will
remain in the city until he has learned
all the tricks of the game and then will.
return to his native city, Buffalo, where
he will open an elaborate store to cater
to the swells of that city.
An American and Journal representa
tive called on Erne the? other day and
found him quite busy with anxious customers.,-
The former lightweight cham
pion smiled and admitted that it wa
his intention to go into the fruit busi
ness. "Yes, I have for some time been
considering the matter seriously," said -Erne,
""and I have finally got into ac
tion. - "I believe there is a great future in
the business, especially in Buffalo. Good
fruits are always in demand and when
I return . to Buffalo I intend to open
one of the finest places in that city. I
will only handle the best I have, had
more or less experience with business
and especially with fruits.:
"My folks are Interested in orchards.
Just outside of Buffalo and for some
time I have been giving all my attention
to studying the details. It is a fine
business for me, as It gives one some- '
thing with which, to occupy his mind.
"As for the boxing game, I am
through with it for good. -There Is lit
tle or no money in the game at present,
and it does not seem to be so popular
as It was a few years ago. The boxers
of the day do not seem to enjoy the
popularity of the boxers who were on
top a few years ago. In fact there are
apparently very few popular boxers be
fore the publlo at the present time."
atSan TranctecornokhowaMurphy '
personally. I happened to be in Cor
bett's place when the wire came in, and
Corbett said to me: "I cannot get the
money on, as I have a lot of Canole
money already that I must place in ad
vance of it." So It was agreed that Cor
bett should wire to Murphy that it was
Impossible to get the money on, and he
did so. Now- that wire was' sent to a
saloon on Boylston street, Boston, and
as. the law in the Hub compels the sa
loons to close at 11 p. m., the place was
closed when' the , messenger arrived.
However, the next morning the message
was delivered, and to the surprise of
everyone Murphy refused to hand back.
His argument is a unique one, but I
give it: "If Canole had won everyone
would have expected me to make good,
and so I think I am entitled to this
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Murphy's position that he told several
nf hi fptlnw ltiH nctrmlA thut thnv vara
"on." ' The latter , , money , Murphy U
Justified, in claiming. But my opinion
regarding the other money - Is positive
that Murphy is not entitled to It, and he
Is showing a petty larceny spirit when
he retains it.
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