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' - ' JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THE OREGON SUNDAY SUNDAY" MORNING, FEBRUARY 21. . 1909. LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS Trr R tr Wr,Ti rr r7 mi COMPILED BY- EXPERTS First Pictures Printed irt Portland of the Recent Burns-Johnson Fight JO niTir I A II II ' i Wli km mm j , . nil 7 A. A NO -: Showing Enormoui TN Journal today presents Us read er with th first pictures printed in j- nnwnm yi iiw lamous, neavywelprtit iL. battle between Champion Jack Johnsou ; fnd Tommy Burns at Sydney, Austral- iJecemlw 26, last. These In thorn- selvesrplterato the familiar story of the. white man's loss of puglllstta su premacy tv the negro raoe. . More vlv-Mly-than words can ptct . thy por tray the oouraKeoiis though, tutile strutr le of a wflll meaning;, strona; and clever little man against the overwhelming olc1 of , ftia-antla, stature, phenomenal peed, cleverness, stamina, and taruta force, '.'-..v.-.:,... v . The bttlsln the Wmingr Christmas history of the Antipodes will ko down In history ; one of the grandest In thp annals of xthe rowed arena. It proved In many ways the most remark- aoje ever wajred. On It hinged the portal of alien, entrance to the.whtte man's pufflHatlc aradiae. Hung in the balance, in addition to the greatest pu gilistic laurels, was one of the largest purses ior wmcn giaaiajors ever strove. The greatest crowd tttat i ever looked upon a comnat or the manly art cheersd their choices to the fray. There were actually. 18,000 fans crowded about the arena, in all. probability more than Wlce as many, as ever before, .watched pugilistic contest. . - Kolidajr In Anetreiiiu This Dhenorhenal crowd wbm Antt in me race tnat Australia made, a grand holiday of the occasion. From every corner of .the big inland sportsmen poured Into Sydney for the battle. The governor-general and his staff were mere, no were the mayors of Svdnev and Melbourne. The attorney areneral and cabinet ministers mingled with the memoeri or parliament in trie most promlr.ent boxes.. Every prcfenslon and trade was represented. In brief, the best of Australia's sport loving publio was mere to see ana to bet. Johnson from the outset w cotifi dence personified. Throusrh the sriiell Ing 14 rounds of milling the smile of victory was never obliterated from his ebony mask. A row of gold and: ivory ever tauntea me desperately mart Tommy. He. too, began, his task with an the confidence worthy a champion. But the light went out early. The die was cast In the first fatal round. Thereafter Burns never dualled, it la true. But his courage was that of des peration. , Towering head and shoulders over his rquat adversary, Johnson looked the part of an avenging demon. When he met uurns wild rush with & well dl reeled right swing to the jaw, that put the champion down for the count early In -the opening of the round, the Smile of victory, never to vanquish, mantled hie countenance. If there had ever been such a thing' as fear In Johnsons heart. It fled when he first saw Burns stretched full length on . the canvas. That blow gave Johnson the champion ship, ; - ..... .- Verro Had With Joy. . ' - And then began the most cruel pro cess or retribution to wmcn an exact' Ing champion was ever put. In his first frensted joy the negro rushed his fallen adversary almost before ha could stair ger to -his knees and again felled him wltn a wicked left awlnar to the ear. But the flash of hatred gave way to a cruet, savage jeer ot trtumpn, and Tom my Burns was spared for future agony. The jibes, the jeers, the Insults, the corn heaped upon him by his dazed adversary- flashed before the mind of I tne V ondi . V and I ilne me joy maQ Johnson. ' .While his sec onds wildly cheered htm on to go in and finish his rival, the big black shook us neaa and smiled. Then he began a Ine 'of V-ampaigrn that for 14 rounds. before the police mercifully Interfered gave Burns a taste of tne tortures of the damned. It was Johnson's plan to niHKB inn pmo 'jncea adversary recHii every slight and epithet. Of Burns he . maae a cnopping diock. - With solid lefts and - risrhts. ! now swinging, now chopping and again up- percutting, Johnson belabored the face ana uoay or rurns. -every jeaa was ac companied by some bantering quip such as "Com on.- Tommy." "Where's - the . yellow streakf ; and "I thought you could fight." With tantalizing regu - larlty the four, ounce gloves of the ne- - gro rained upon the battered face and pruisea Doay or ?ne' plucky Canadian, v Poon the Matter's eyes were swollen al most shut. His body, from the neck to belt line, was red as a cherry, with much of the skin hammered away. : The blows were- all clean cut and solid. But '. they came lighter and lighter as the - white man's strength waned. . Mads Toy ef .'Btas.;X :V; ' All this time Burns was gamely try. ; Ing. - He would rush in, with head low. .. ered, trying for one lucky punch. But on such . occasions Johnson showed his ; superior agility and footwork. He in-- variably sidestepped or ducked the- on . an slaughts, always countering -m sucn anner as to bring Tommy to a Sud den halt. Bat when he had Worn his man almost to me -point or BUDmission m Johnson amused himself by batting hisi . antagonist. - r-ron w seven tn to tne eleventh round the black did little fight v ing. -- He stood at times with guard low ' ered and weathered the shower of weak blows aimed at him by Burns. A laugh .whenever one landed was all "the en couragement Burns got. - -. ? ' ; . And then in the fourteenth it all fame to an unexpected end. For three rounds the crowd had interceded with the police to save Burns. Twce in the first rrfund and in the fifth snd In the eleventh- rounds the nero had floored the white for the count. A light rlglit to the jaw at the close of the thirteenth again turned the trick, - and Tommy Bums was practically exhausted and . - out. But the rame' little French-Canadian had implored the referee to let hitn go on. . Johnson ' had to hold his adver sary up in-ithe fourteenth as he ham mered away with both hands lo body c 4. Crpwd Around Ringside It Is the The Picture Shows BATTLE BETWEEN II Eeagan and Monte Attellto Furnish Sport ? for the ' Frisco Fight Fans. By W. W. NauRhton. (Beant Ktw by Loosest Leased Wire.) Bah, Francisco. Feb. 20. On Mondav at Ceffroth's arena, immy Reagan, San Francisco's new pugilistio sensation,' will be seen in action with Monte Atteli. the member of the fighting family who, in the writer's opinion, gavs Reagan the best battle ot -Reagan short and bril liant career. - . The last . contest 'between Atteli and Reagan was certainly a "bummer" and with the Increased rivalry which natur ally follows a draw decision, the com- ng afrair snouid.t more thrilling still. 'He caught me napping last "time. I will be. in better shape when We meet again," says Monte, and to make use of popular pnraae, "tnars what they s,ll saxy especially alter one experience withe Reagan, - - --. . It is s great tribute to Reagan's fight-ins- qualities to have his best opponent ? 'leading short condition ami promising o be fitter and put up a better firht if given another chance. - . In this connection there is some sur prise that Jimmy Walsh did not strain point to secure another go-witn Kea- a-an. Walsh lost to the wiry San Frn- cIhcm), and pleaded Insufttclent training as an extenuating circumstance, as a rura a defeated champion moves heaven and earth in efforts to get a return ' r I and head. A right lead caught Kim li. rectiy on the jew. and Burns went don for the last time, .He was up on the count of nine and staggered Into a clinch, but before Johnson was able to hit-hi helpless antagonist again the po lice nauea luruer Hostilities. T'jj-"--a.-'v- 1 ' 11 1 " " "I J1"v- ' " ; Sii) r; v;V ,ts ft i vi.tvw v.vX -:iv 1 -.Vrff-f'vA is - s i :'- !h i A v-.v'v , v. 7 . . x r x 'x ' , ,.( fx- .! t r , !. x ' , x ' x 5 x X ' I 1 ..sV xxJJr.v., ,tv v . v i - - S ; '. " 1 ' - -ft raaragrrTia . AM 4 J First Round, and Burns Has 'Just Been' Knocked Dowjn. How the Big Black, Johnson, Towered Over .Tommy Burps. match, -hut Walsh seemed content to let it go at that. ' HIS manager refused a chance to send his4 boy against Reagan a second time because he didn't consider the financial Inducements sufficient, and this has caused s deal of discussion. A defeated champion who pleads for a chance to regain his crown doesn't go Into the question of emoluments to any extent, and the fact that Walsh set up s money bar is taken to mean that he . regards Reagan as "a tough proposition." and Is content to let things stand as they are. v . Reagan Is certainly a grand little fighter. He has endurance akin to that of Battling Kelson and he Is as persist ant as the Durable Pane. In Atteli he will find a capable trial horse,- and the spat between the bantams should be well worth watching. - ,. IGRO METHODISTS FROVn OH JOHHSOn '). Calted Press Leased Wlr. . ?. London, Feb. SO. Jack Johnson, the husky negro pugilist, champion of the world, has a grievance against tbe Methodists of Sydney, Australia, where he fought "his title winning battle with Tommy Burns, according to the story in the Straits Settlements "Finger Board " cabled here today. Johnson is quoted as saying: "Though I walicped Burns, he Is far more . popular than I, and all because of tbe color line. I am a member of the AfricAA Methodist church and In my fights In America I could always count on the support of the colored members of this denomination. When I got to Sydney no Methodists welcomed me and I was- unnoticed by-members of the chnrch' when thrown Into their com- Fany. ' I shall report to America how - was treated by my own denomina tion." - - , , ' . , . The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the Method ist mission In Singapore, was ques tioned conrerning .Johnson's statement and replied: i" ." Tne Metnodisi cnurcn oraws no comr line, but It natnrallv does not -counte nance prue lighting " , a -. i-r Jk llL I - 1 ' LANGFORD EAGER FOR WHACK. AT KETCHEL (Hearst Kews by Longest Leased Wire.) ' Chicago, Feb. 10. Sam Langford Is !n the lty. The dreadful black wal loper Is accompanied, by - Joe Wood man, his manager, and Jimmy Walsh, claimant of the -114 pound champion ship., and his manager. ddle Keevln of Boston. . With the claim that he can dq 158 pounds at any timo of day and fight strong, Sam la a candidate for the mid dleweight title, but just at the pres ent time Willis Brltt. Stanley Ketchel's manager, has 1 entirely different plans for his man. Willie Is in the cttv ar ranging for the meeting between lie ten - Si ana jsck ujsnen. - 4 "Thers isn't m doubt In the world that Sam can make the weight limit for middleweight as set by Ketchcl himself," Woodman said today. "We .waited quite a time out on the coast in the hope that Ketcliel and Brltt would change theif minds and makei a match, -but finally we wer forced to give up nope. , "Sam will fight -Johnson on Derby night. May 24. 20 rounds at the Nation al Pnor tin r club tn London. - "They fought once before sad John son got tne closest sort of s decision In IB round. That waa in Boston. Had the battle gone for four or five rounds more Sam would have beaten him then. Just as he will In England. And after wo get the heavyweight title we will return hers and ee-tt we cannot clean up whoever happens to be the middleweight- champion then. "Wt will sail for Kngland March J and - will have plenty of time to get into shape. Sam is never very far out of rendition." - . - Keevln is just as earnest a supporter of Walsh as evsr and never tires of singing the praises of the bright little Boton boyi- . ' . ... ' Walsh is matched to fight Digger Stanley, the best boy in England Sit this weight, a week f previous to the meet ing 1 of the blacks. -. . - -.- -- ; - . "Goat" Anderson of the Rochester team has annlieri.fnr k mim) m nllf. ing pud to. bf" used by basstealers. I M SCHOOL TEAMS III 0. A. C. Tl Best Teams in Each Section of the State Play at Corvallis. (Special fJIspitch t Ttia Joursal.) Oregon Agricultural College, Corval lis, FVb. 20. Professor E. I). Aagell. director of athletics at O. A. C has nearly completed arrangements for an intArnrhnlmitlc basketball tournament to be held at O. A. C. on April 2 and 3. Cards are being sent to the various high schools of the state having basket ball teams, requesting them to keep a correct aoere of all games played by their teams. At the close of the season these cards are to be returned and a committee of unbiased men will choose the teams with the best records from each section. These teams will be in vited, to come to O. A. C. and play a series of games for the championship of the state. A magnificent oak shield with the names of the members of the team and the scores of its games in "gold letters will be presented to the team that is ultimately successful. Also each mem ber of this championship team Is to receive afgold medal suitably engraved. All necessary expenses -will be looked after by the local athletic management. Basketball has always received excel lent -support at O. A. O. and as these interscholastlc contests will be unuau ally Interesting, good crowds will at tend and expenses will therefore be easily met. Between four and eight teams are ex pected, which means that two days will be required to settle the championship. Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 1. are the dates decided upon. It is expected that this basketball tournament will give an impetus to the great indoor sport throughout the state. With the Horses When trying for high action, re member that too heavy shoes on a young horse will make him awkward. C. K. O. Billings has purchased W. 3. Lewis, 2:0 4. and will use him under saddle. The handicap horses in Lexington this year will have to go a mile and otie half.- Hartford will have on Its program thts season two attractive events, the $10,000 Charter Oak and the Jbooo Nut meg stakes. Dorrls B. (I:08H) next to The Kel dlan ice track. The Eel holds the rec ord, 2:1 1 H with Dorrls -next. Hessian, . the 4-year-old colt by Watercress Colonial, sailed for Eng land Saturday to race In the colors of James B. Haggin. He has been spend ing: the winter at Sheepshead Bay and will go direct to Jack Joyner at New-,J market. neasian. alter beating r. Keene's Superman In a handicap at Jamaica last summer, looked as If he would develop into a star 3-year-old, but he was a disappointment later In the season. The Watercress colt Is one of the biggest horses In training. He la at his best over distances from six fur longs to n mile aftd can pack weight. Joyner probably will -race him in over night events. as he has no stake en gagements on the other side. r A new pacing wonder la rumored to hare been found In Canada which cost his present owner $55. He is a grand son of old Direct - In th trotting world It Is reported that matinee managers are considering handicaps for the season, so popular has this form of races become, i ;-"' - - . . James E. Kneer of Kredersville. Pa., has purchased from C E. Brown of Watertown the - chestnut . pacer f Sandy B. by Jacob. Walks. - , Cresceun. 2:024. the Champion trot ting stallion, started In the Interna tional race at Moscow a few days ago and finished fourth, trotting the mile In 2:1. He Is now 16 years old. " , ...,:.-. A : Lucien 'Lyne the jockey," sails for Eurone today to rid for M.- Ri ban- court In Belgium this year. H has been 1URUEY wintering in Lmgion, Ky. For Spring 1909 First Showing Hart Schaffner & Marx Fine Clothes Suits, Raincoats Overcoats Rosenblatt Corner Third and Morrison MOTOR BOATING IS BECOMING POPULAR LITTLE CRAFT DOTS WATERS EVERYWHERE New York, Feb. 20 Tli National Motor Boat show. opened at Madison Square Garden In New York City last Monday under the patronage of the National Association of Engine and Boat manufacturers. It will close on the evening of February 11. Motor boat enthusiasts in the United States are displaying their entries for blue ribbons with the satisfaction of know ing that during the year Just passed this country forged ahead of European rivals In the matter of speed. At the head of the Madison Square Garden show Is J. A. H. Dressel, manager, his assistant in the preparation havlnar been H. 8. Gamble, secretary of the as sociation. To a degree greater than ever before. the show this year demonstrates that the motor boat is no longer a thins for sport, a toy of millionaires that- la used solely for pleasuse riding. As the automobile was onoe within reach only of the man of wealth, but now Is used as an American firm vehicle, as a sub stitute for the oldtlme dray and express wagon, and even as a snpplanter of streetcars, so the motor boat has come from the exclusive possession of the rich to take ita place aa one of the necessities of social Intercourse, and la multiplying In numbers as well as In practical utilisation. Five years ago, the motor boat was scorned by nautical men. It was looked upon as a mere plaything, and master of steam craft and aall vessels indulged in quite as determined opposition to It as horsemen once did to the motor car. ( Power Dory Holds Sway. So high a degree of perfection has been attained in the development of motor boats, that even those devotees of the historic sailing craft who made l'rovlnoetown. Gloucester and other Massachusetts ports possessors of un rivalled clipper fleets of fishing boats, have today abandoned the Hail for the power dory. Fishing vessels propelled by gasoline engines, dependable in storm and calm, now get the fish catch from the Highlands off Cape Cod to the Bos ton market on schedule time. Of the Provlncetown clipper sailing fleet which once numbered more than 100 swift fishing schooners, less than S0 remain. The gasoline engine has supplanted the sail among a class which naturally would be expected to be most tenacious of the sailor's traditions and slowest to adopt any device calculated to Invade that romantic realm which from time immemorial was ruled by the masters of sails and spars. The Madison Square Garden show this vear exhibits motor, boats ranging froim the converted rowboat with half a horse power developed by the tiny engine, to the superb racing craft having two en gines of S00 horse power each, and cap- i able of running a mile In less than two minute. There are boats so cheaoly built that a clerk on a salary of $7t a; month may Indulre tn one as his recre ation, and boats like the gorgeous pro duct for the millionaire, finished in ma-i hogany and silk plush, the wheelhouse upholstered In richest velvet. Heretofore, the motor boat has been looked on as useful only for light coast wise '"cruising and for inland waters. Yet a motor boat the Gregory was built In this country and sent across the Atlantic In January. s"-craft 0 feet 1 overall, 12 foot beam, four foot draft, carrying 4000 gallons of gasoline and canable of running on that sunnly 50S0 miles at (4 miles an hour, or S300 mile at 13 miles an hour. It has a potential speed of 23.15 miles an hour, at which it can run 1400 miles on the 4900' gal lons of gasoline. , . A Dlxl Koldg lped atMerd." Hempstead. Long Island, holds th world's record for 190S mile nrm n motor boats.. Th Dixie ther estab lished the record ot 85. miles In on hour, or faster than mile In two min utes. Europ holds its greatest motor boat meets- at Monaco. France, and last year me recoro estaoiisnea was 33 14 miles an hour: althoush at Mnnim th. preceding year the Panhard-Telller ran ii nines on a -sea coarse at the rat of 35 milm an hour. Paint Beach, Florida, fallowed Hemostesd In 10S with the record of 29.1. Th world's record for cabin motor boats is 25 miles an hour. . 4 - - The three most Important motor boat race meets of America are 11.,. stead. Long Island; Palm Beach, FUr- ino on tne m. iawrence t Thou sand Islands. The last named .1. tracts boats from Toronto, Ontario, and an pans wn tiw iirmi uaKe on tnts side of the line, with from 50 to 100 k S-r" ".flL By ntor boat club of Kw 1 ork city. M'or. bota attaining these high speeds, however, are not of the most useful type; the craft of eight to ten miles an hour speed Is th more eco nomical snd none faster seems yet to he aouarht hv iknu .k. . 1 medium, of commerce. These craft dot ?J,e.rJa,t n1 rr nd bay of the United fctates; they carry a very large Iart Of the hlirrian nt th 1lk.. merclal world, actinr as maf.r boats, pleasure launches and tenders for larger vessels. In some places thev -' serve 1 1 aria e . . 'n-i 1 cost from $169 to $50,000. , : , .Traveled Bame Bonte. , The nnntilarlvlna. .. 1 , - r ...... ......n ,11a muivr uimi came about exactly as did that-of , the " anionraoiif. Men ot wealth encouraged the building of such - uruuu i lira rvjncn ot persons of ordinary means They bought ... "-" (iruuuuis 01. tns earner stages, of development of the industrv. a n A h li n or tlia Kii111m a -I . . . , . w luioill. wf 1 Hi new Ideas and maintaining the Industrv until Its output could be brought to a y""-' i ol . COa(. .n vanaerbllt a ' tnauvca iu niuiur boat sport George Gould has had sev-' eral high speed craft built. Nowadays oractlcallv mft Mithw i. . . country maintains at some place one or more motor boats for summer us. euner on Long Island sound or the St. Lawrence river, or on th Great Lake. Tn nuntlnii tha tMitiM-iKA. -a ' . w... ...v.u. fc.. v . uiuub ui the country would he to catalogue prar- ciianjr ucwn ana ureal Lakea nirt aa waif - . ' . . - . . a aciwaiii UI inv KfinHlil.rahl. ah. n..i j . m. ico to Portland. Maine; from San Diego r . . . usJi. wunu; irom tnousand : lsianas.in tne m. Lawrence river west ward to Duluth. Minn., with a score or v more between St. Paul and New - Or leans. ' .. .; j " - The Daimler gasoline motor Installed In a small boat led th wav to the tn- verttlnn nf mAtnp )uu. . 1 i Ple-yed in 1889 at the Paris exposition. Then th naphtha launch quickly cam Into common use. The cheapening of gaaolln made possible the development of the motor boat. Smaller steam craft had been too expensive for ordinary use. The wealthy class in all countries' had maintained prlvat yachts, but It was only after the pries of gasollns had heen reduced to less than 25 cents a gallon, for common grades, and the heavy de mand cam for cheaper gasoline engine', that people of lesser means could afford tn imiSm anil mat..!.. it now numbering thousands the country Th conquest of th gasoline engln has not been along; th smaller typo of power boat, for th census figures show that of the IT vessels of over five tons burden registered In this country. XI no. OP XI ft ni rant a .. nM..ll.j ... gasoline. - Motor .boat devotees are looking rorward. as r sutomobillats, to the time when denatured alcohol shall have become a ataple motive fuel. when If im tl,n.. tk. . . - of propelling th craft will be reduced . a.. mM,al4aHkl.. . - - r avuaiutl auij. - , - Tlli MWaif t 1 . - . boat is the utilisation of the turMne "'"" ni envine wmcn naa enaMed the Transatlantic liners to establish ' their rMtirrl fnt tKa at speed approximating "5 statuton- imira an nour. ana Ootng away with t ha Vlhrattn l,llha,rtA a.1,.... . . . ......... . . aa.wa.a MTUfUirV 1 bV the revctltlttnn ne tha nl.tn. . . enstnes. Slowly hut surely the motor boat Me. Seems tn tve anrrnni-hti, aa Ik, .,..-. . yacht for pleasuring. Perhans the dm, yacht club in the countrv which mati - ytina uncnanitea tne sainnr Tlct t-' pleasure craft Is the New York Yr t Clllh .- Ita aaiaialanaa I a . has been larrely the result of the ter" x (ip'jw-u vxi n.a tnjstooianfriif t t-,., temationst cup. to cuntxire wh!'-i k -Thomas Lintnn nf l'i,il,lia k.. r.,.. ... .. eral gallant trials. Wherever ,, eiuos sre maintained thrm t.,v i . found the auxiliary cruft the nation aall and rt u-a r f a:, complement of ssll rlgelnn: a'rd , inn -ntiiw jeaay at lin.l r r . Calms. 1 The time Is not. vet w n Will Willing) V llirtpVliaa - turn to tli noitii iir;n ; Ins life of th ar , httherio 1avr,l .f ; forced him tn lr,t 1 t - , rr craft tn or-,- i. . If nPi-naur',-. f :ri i tin hin ar. ar ' i f ... - eaV.a,
