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17 T 11 fa N TELLS WHY HE BRITISH LIGHTWEIGHT L FOR KETCHEL PUTS' AMERICAN STYLE TO CLOSE OFFICE iMd Dte.nj ivJE'vx S SPRINTER LUCAS IIS 10 SAVE DAY IIMffll AV I0HNS0 PENDLETON S MAYOR PREPARES AGGIES WILL PLAY tamos DROPPED BAN Bl I 4 P ft Hotfoots It to Telegraph Office to Protest Against Mc : Crcdie's Transfer.1 Stilling: sassafras, but ain't Blllla Lu ens, the peed boy? When he heard that Walter McCredle wai preparing to hhi on ma players, ha. .hotfooted it . , to the telegraph, office and literally hurled a message of protest to aome biff bur in the east' Probably Lucas ran tilmaelf out of breath without think lng, when he heard that the Northwest em league stars were being aold under tha hammer.v Oh. you I.ucasJ r -y Before winding himself, aa aforemen tloned, -had Mr. Lucaa delved Into the recesses of hit garret ha would have recalled that Judge McCredle did a lit tie legerdemain stunt, hlaaed "Presto,' -transferred one dollar from one pocket to another and complacently announced, 'Know an men by. this token that 1 transfer thee nfen from tha Northwest- ern league to the Paclflo Coast league. That was a foxy move, all right, all right. The Judge aald ha wanted to . evade. the draft law against his claas B stars. ' Events would Indicate that ha had a mora sinister design against fcuoas, Dugdale, Conn, et al. , . . Judga Jng-gler. Tha Judge was baseball Juggler nough to know that tha players re verted with ths franchise to the league. That's why ha left no players; that la. Bona to speak of. There may be a few legal entanglements over two or three of tha players, but It Is a safe bet that Wax) will get his money out of even this material before the apple bloaaoms pioom. His stars he keeps. A couple of weeks before the drafting treason occurred last fall, tha McCredles transferred Pearl Casey. Charter Arm- truster, Dick Breen, Ed Kennedy, Jimmy Cook, Bill Chinault, Tom Seaton, Johnny Tournler, Edward Plnnanca, Irving Gough and Tom Jfurray to his Coast league team, some or mem played in the last weeks of the sea ann for the Beavers. ? Lucas hasty telegram to theriatfona! board was probably a waste of tha coin that the league needs so badly right now. "All that Lucaa could hope to get for tha Northwestern league. would be auch material aa Billy Staton, who waa not fast enough for the fried ham league; Leland Crocker, whom Casey picked up after Dugdale turned him adrift, and "Count Basaey, who admit tedly did not play up to hid standard last year and who seems to be going back. Wonder If any have been overlooked? Can't remember unlesa It Is the bat boy. TWO CLOSE GAMES GO , TO OREGON BOWLERS ,tn"Vvery;,'cWsa''serIes"it''1heOregoh leys-hm-nlght the Orrgmistoqtrtwo games from tha Kllckitats, .the second game of the aeries being lost by two pins. Martin rolled high total 680 and high game 223 Tonight the Columbia Trusts bowl the Chesterfields. Score: OREGON'S. First Second Third game Arms J9l! 20X 175 56S Drake .151 171 1B7 4R9 Raymond ....160 388 170 BIS Martin ...209 148 223 680 Ambs 167' 171 15f 493 r ir . mo ms KLICKITATS. Endres 155 181 .166 112 Case 144 189 202 63S Reexe J 202 172 ... S74 R. Hague. ... 132 132 Kees 187 156 176 ' 617 De Vftux .....173 179 169 621 S61 $T 834 2671 Brown Buys Into Vancouver. Vancouver, B. C Jan. 6. Victor Lord, part owner of the Vancouver club in the Northwestern league, announced today that Bob Brown, released yesterday by Spokane, had purchased a three fifths Interest In the club and would manage neat season a team. Professor Jo4 -Murray, Instructor of boxing at Columbia university, would like to see the manly art added to Inter collegiate sports. ' " " r ijl ' 1 -'.'-'.u'-ia BP UNEQUALED IN . PURITY UNSURPASSED IN FLAVOR o)S at mil tntta rate d if Jobbvrm. WM. LANAHAN SON, BalUuora, . i-wy.icgns-.'g'fi . v f out'' icntY l ssassASseasassB , Bill Says Chances for Injury in Ruqby'Are',Much-:,;7 "Greater. University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan. 6. Trainer W. D. Hayward feels that ha has been grossly misquoted In express ing his opinion on Rugby football A Vancouver and Portland ., paper both quoted him' as saying that ha preferred the Rugby to tha American game.. All that he said In favor of . the gams was that tha passing was superior to uss, which - would naturally follow, as tha passing Is tha big feature of' tha Eng llsh gaie. .. v i Trainer Hay ward aaw " alt three games between the University of Call fornla and the Vancouver Athletic club, and at a banquet later txpreaaed his ad' miration for tha Rugby passing. He Is, however, strongly opposed to substitut ing Rugby for tha American game, and believes that the American Is the bet ter game, and no mora dangerous. IU blames the faat open . field work for moat of the injuries, and saya that in Juries are much more apt to result from two men coming together at full speed than In tha congested mass plays of tha American game. ' , Oo rraotuxsd Skull. In tha Vancouver series Just played one man Was taken out of tha gams with a fractured skull and was ancon sclous from -Wednesday to Thursday evening. Mr. Hayward lived In Canada, and there had an opportunity of becoming familiar with the game at first hand. From seeing the Vancouver aeries he thinks tha game has not Improved In recent years, and that It Is much mora dangerous. In the Rugby game tha ball may be kicked, thrown or carried, and a man once down may be robbed of the ball. . The ' man with the ball, when down, is often kicked by tha opposing players in an. attempt to get tha ball away.- - -v - - This gives an oportunlty for wilful roughness, and the Oregon trainer be lieves that here In the northwest, where soma teams play clean and soma dirty football, the Rugby game .would per mlt roughness and five rowdy players tha advantage. 17 TO u 11 Chicago, Jan. (. Packey McFarland started Tor New York today on his way to England, where he will meet Freddie Welsh, lightweight -champion tf' Great lBrlHan, ., 3he prize fighter waa accompanied by Pat Klnneally. McFarland said that he expected to win his fight against the-l Welshman at 135 pounds. The first match between the two, fought at Los Angeles several months ago, resulted in a draw due. according to Packey, to his being off weight. Which prevented his winning. McFarland said ha Intends to stay abroad a year. When he returns, he stated, he will "Bay things" to "Bat tllng" Nelson, declaring: "If Nelson doesn't fight somebody soon he will be a has been. I TO The Multnomah-club plans giving an athletic fair at tha Armory soma time next April and at tha meeting of the board of directors last night prepara tions were made to begin at once on plans for tha fair. All classes in the club will take part In the drill. rrhree members of tha nominating board resigned last night. They were I George W. McMillan, Frank E. Harmar and T. Morris Dunne. W. C. Dunlway, R. J. O'Neill and Sam Hoi brook were chosen to succeed them. It was announced that the yearly re port shows $3600 mora In dues than were received last year. " MATTHEWS0N TO WRITE , BOOK FOR BOY READERS, New Tork. Jan. 6. Christy Matthew son, .premier slab artist, of tha New York Giants, Is at work on a series of books for boy readers that probably will be ready for the press lata next f month. - Matty's books each will deal with some athletic activity. There will be a western boy who has coma to the iast to attend" college. ,i Matthewson s long; connection with the Intercollegiate sports while a stu dent at Bucknell, he states, has placed him In a position to transcribe for his juvenile readers what actually takas place on tha athletic fields of Ameri can colleges. Tha writing of the books Is said to ba the result of an ambition of many, years standing., This Date in Sport Annals. 1162 At Weehawken, N. J., two New York pugilists, lliott and Winkle, fought SB rounds. London prise ring rules, with bare knuckles, ending in a draw. jf-;-i.fc; ''-i.:':f f Vv A"" ' b -X 'V3' .;. 1881 At Springfield, Mass., David L. Dowd lifted, hands alone, 1817 pounds dead weight. " - . , ,1883 At New". Tork in a .cushlon car oms-match for $1000 Maurice Daly de feated William Sexton by a score: of 500 to 467. " . 1886 Al Kaufmann, pugilist, born In San Francisco. : 1908-A.t Milwaukee - Charles Neary knocked out Jack Dougherty In third round, -iijh; X-.----...-..' - 1 Racquet championships In singles and doubles will be decided In New York and Boston courts.- - The two man matches will b played at New York Rasquet club January 17 to 22. and the Individual matches at Rpston club Feb ruary 14 to 19. - - p - There; will be three sloops In the Avenger class next summer, and pos sibly more. , Morton F. Plaint is haV lng one built at Bristol and another Is to be built soon for, well known Bos ton yacbtman,- . -. mm READY EMBARK FOR YURRUP MUL NOMAH CLUB GNE ATHLETIC FAIR Jack Johnson had a great celebration In his Chicago home Christmas when he met hla mother for the first time In seven yeara. - After they had wined and dined Jack told tha ensuing remarkable rtory of his battle with-Stanley Ketchel: "In my career as a fighter the fellows who had tha reputations of being hard hitera never hurt me a bit. "In my fight with Ketchel I was sble to tell every time when he was going to start a swing. Whenever he lowered bis left arm I knew something was coming and I set myself for It. I had Ketchel figured right and when" he dropped that left arm I feinted in and then ha started to swing and the only thing I had to do was to step back and then Jab him any Jjluce I wanted "Ketchel -never hit roe hard enough to hurt me and my trick- in falling tn the twelfth round is an old trick of tho gams ana one whiott learned after I fought a few battles. Tou know when a fighter knocks another man down he generally feels pretty cocky and drops his guard. When I waa down and grad ually getting up on one knee, 1 had ny eye on Ketchel all the time and timed my opportunity perfectly. ; When X saw ha had dropped his guard entirely I sprang to my feet and want after him and before he had a chance to protect himself I hsd landed the blow that brought horns tha bacon. ' . "Be many stories have coma to ma about not being. able to make Jeffries lead. . Take It from me I'll make him lead or retreat I am not a bit afraid of hla crouch and I hops he takes that position when he (meele ma, but I am afraid ho will change hla style of fight ing entirely. I intend to , tnlx matters from the first tsp of the gong,, and if I can beat him In the first round, I'll do It, pictures or no pictures." Grand Jury After Betting. Oakland, Cal., Jan, 6. The Alameda county grand Jury convened today to Investigate the source of rumors to. the effect that poolrooms were being run In this city In violation of law. Tha situa tion at the Emeryville race track,' where oral betting Is conducted, will be Inves tigated. ... YOUTH SAID HE COULD LICK YOUNG CORBETT, MADE GOOD HIS WORD Borne years ago when Harry Tuthlll. Detroit's trainer, waa training Toung Corbett, they went to Hot Springs, where Corbett was matched to fight Austin Rice, who enjoyed the reputation of withstanding tne attacks of the best men at his weight without suffering a knockout, and among those he fought was Terry McGovern. Rice was one of the toughest men In the liistory of, the ring and there will probably not ba an other mjn at his weight his equal. Well, corbett beat Kice in tne eign- teenth round. But he didn't knock him u t, R4oe'a-ohtf second, ahaggy-haad-1 ed youth, threw the sponge Into ths ring. , FAST HARDWARE BUNCH TROUNCES GOLD SEALS Poor battery work was mainly respon slble for the overwhelming defeat ad ministered to tha Goodyear Gold Seals last night by tha Honeyman Hardware team. Fordney. usually Invincible, was off form and passed 10 men on to the In! tlal sack, seven of them scoring. , He also allowed 16 hits. Captain Davis was likewise a con tributor to the disaster, by dropping six third strikes, giving men life who eventually scored. Several mlscues by ths Gold Seal In field were thrown In for good weight ana tne roxey hardware men took every advantage. ; Henderson, who twirled, for the Honeymen team, was batted freely, 18 hits being garnered romr his delivery. Ha also issued four passes. Quick work 1)7 his team mates saved him in two Innings. Beagle caught an un usually brilliant game and kept Hender son from soaring. i ;. The gams waa exciting and filled with noise, the rooters for each team keeping things stirred up. It was ratjjer a dis appointment from a playing view, neither team putting up the game it is capable of. ' . v Umpires Washburn and Marias had their hands full' and handled the con test In fine style. Their work was very commendable, Bauer, the third saclier for tha Gold Seals, ; wfts tha champion swatsman of 1 ImpoiHtanf PfIcc Mcdiicfllosi BENJAMIN'S HIGH-GRADE FANCY SUITS, OVERCOATS, RAINCOATS This is your opportunity to secure the finest ready-to-wear apparel at prices h " that mean a great saving to you, if you act quick. , I $25.00 VALUES NOW... $19.50, $30.00 VALUES NOW... $23.50 $35.00 VALUES NOW...?28.75 AH Fancy-Vests f Owen Moran, thr English, fighter, who is after a match with Battling Nelson. Moran delivered himself of a strongly wor"ded defi the mo ment he landed last week. After the fight the shaggy headed boy walked over to Tuthlll and aald: "Mr. Tuthlll, I can beat Toung Corbett" This remark brought a laugh all around, but was passed over with much comment and no serious consideration. "Lees than two years from' that date," said Tuthlll, "I had to do the same thing for Young Corbett that the shaggy headed youth had done for Austin Rice at Hot Springs. It was at Woodward's Garden, San Francisco, that I tossed a sponge Into the ring from Toung Cor bett's corner In the tenth round to save him f n lefcat-at. tho hands cf . lftfttl same shaggy haired . youth. Battling I Nelson had kept his word," tha evening, securing four hits out of four times up. Pem brook, E. Davis, Duncan, Fordney and Shockly were also soma "pumpkins" with the willow. ' SCORE BY INNINGS. Honeyman 0 6 2 4 8 0 8 0 23 Hits 0 8 1 2 4 0 5 116 Gold Seals 004081 1 0 0 12 Hita 0 1 8 1 7 8 2 1 l-i-18 Struck out By Henderson, 12; Ford- nay, 12. Bases on balls Off Henderson, 4; Fordnay, 9. Two base hits Bauer, Fordnay, McGee, Shockly. Errors Honeyman, 6; Gold Seals, 11. 8tolea bases Honeyman, I; Gold " Seals, 11 Time of game 1:40. Umpires Wash burn and Marias. The True Mahogany. From the San Francisco Argonaut. There is no such thing as a forest of mahogany. The mahogany tree lives by and for Itself alone. It stands solitary of its species, surrounded by the smaller trees and dense undergrowth of the tropical forest, rearing. Its head above Its neighbors. Two trees to the acre is a liberal estimate for mahogany finds." More frequently, perhaps, only one tree win be found over a larger stretch ' 6f TerrTf dry. Tru mahogany Is tha only species or the Swletenl -ma hogany, the name Swietenla having been given to it In honor or the celebrated Baron von Swieten, physician to Maria Theresa. It Is distinctly a native; of tropical America and frequently towers to a height of 100 feei, the trunk being often 12 feet In diameter. It Is of ex ceedingly slow growth, and the time of Its arriving at maturity Is probably not less than 200 yars. Occasionally small specimens have been found in southern Florida, . ' Peter Latham, the champion racquet player, will meet C. Williams at the Prince's club, London, on January 15. $37.50 VALUES NOW... $31.50 $40.00 VALUES NOW. . .$32.50 $45.00 VALUES NOW. . . $34.50 and Trousers at Reduced Prices H 3 1 1 Morrison St., 0pp. Postof f ice . Pendleton, Or., Jan. (.in a boslng boat here last night, Louie Long, light weight, who is matched with Frankle Edwords In Portland later on In the month, knocked out Billy Butts, colored, of Baker City In tha fifth round. The blow that did the work waa an upper cut This is the second knockout scored by Long, over his dusky opponent this winter. There are two sequels to last night's event Early this morning Mayor Murphy Issued ah edict putting a nan on puglllstio sport In thia city in the future. The other waa the knockout of Manager Mitchell of the Oregon theatre Uy Dudley Evans, a former wel terweight champion of Portland, who was promoting the boxing bout. Some difficulty arose over tha division of the receipts which Evans proceeded to set tle with his fists. NEW ATHLETIC CLUB IS E The Portland Athletic and Swimming club-waa organised last night and en rolled 42 members with many more In prospect The following officers wero elected at tha Initial meeting: Presi dent, Robert Burrell; vice prealdent, C. H. Mn.tr; treasurer, C. E. Mow rey; sec retary. B. Parker; leader. J. 8. Gil bert; captain J. Kane; board of direc tors, Joe Stutt, E. Kirk, H. West.. J, a Martin, Roily Williams. Jon Grayhal, El Hanna, Dr. Glbaon and J. Kane. It la the Intention of the club to fos ter amateur boxlna. wreatllna and awlm mlng. The new club will apply -for ad mission Into tha Amateur Ainietio union and will enter into all open meeta In anoV around Portland. Professor Roger Oornell will have charge of all swimming, boxing, and wrestling classes and will try to turn out aome jflrat class boys. The clubrooms and gymnasium will be located in the Portland swimming batha .In the old Y. M. C. A. building and the dues will be 80 emits a month. After 100 members are enrolled an In itiation fee of 82.SO -will be charged. 8P0ETS OF ALL SORTS -a Philadelphia has 80 soccer teams. National Power Boat association has 200 clubs. - New York school boys may secure athletlo field on east side. Newark may have six day bicycle race week on January 24 In Armory. a . Scotland-England International golf match will ba played June 18. Stanley Ketchel may take trip around the world. mm Eastern Intercollegiate regatta la set for Wednesday. June zz, at rougn- keepsle on the Hudson river. Sculling Champion Arnst wants to bet Ernoft Barry $2500 on the side for their African championship race. Duluth's curling bonsplel will begin January 12 and last a wek. A total of 60 rinks will be represented. Larry Lajole, Cy Toung and Hana Wagner will have poultry exhibits at the Youngstown show, which opens on Jan uary IS. Point Judith Polo club at Narragan sett Pier will spend $20,000 on a polo field, and may bid for the international contest this summer. The Bombay committee haa decided to aend a picked Indian cricket eleven to England In 1H. A guarantee fund Is now being raised there. The Powderhall, 180 yards' handicap of Scotland has never been won by a scratch man. The race this year was worth IfiOO to the winner. and circuit stewards will meet In rwrnit January 11 to adopt circuit over which the best bred and fleetest trotters and pacers will race next sum mer. ' A OAJU. ft. ia i. tn certify that all druggists are authorised to refund your money if Foley's Honey ana iar all!. l euro OUT COUgn or com. i biujjo v;ub", eals the lungs and prevents serious re sults from a cold, prevents pneumonia and consumption. Contains no opiates, The genuine is in a yellow package. Re fuse substitutes.. Skidmore Drug, Co., 161 Third street. ORGANIZED ER HeafJ of Northwestern League Will Establish Headquar ' ; ters in Seattle. . While President Lucas of tha North western league Is away, he will make arrangements for opening h,ls office In Seattle, that city being more centrally located than Spokane, where he used to hold forth, President Lucas has Just about given up tha ghost, and plans are ' now being made to . close up tha' comfortable office In tha Beck building and retire as gracefully as possible from Portland President Lucas .mads many f rlanda In' Portland, who will regret to see hlro Tnave. While ha was a quiet fellow. If cannot be said that he was a poor mixer Best of all he is a thorough baseball man.- and there s no reason to believe that he would not shine In faater com pany than tha Northwestern league. In other words, tha Coast league would do well to attach Lucas to Its executive staff In some capacity, provided ha can be Induced to leave tha Northwestern league. However, this Is only a re mote possibility. It waa Lucas brain that created and carried along ths Northwestern league year after year. and without htm It would probably be floundering around on tha shoals that have wrecked many another kindred or ganisation. - In a few days tha Coast league will meet In apecial session to oust Danny Long from the secretaryship of ,the league. Would It ba a good plan to offer the position -to LucasT It would be the chances ars 10 to one that ha would not accept. With Lucas at the secre tary's desk, It would ba only another step to merge tha two leagues Into an eight club coast league. W.M1RNEY LEAVES T Wallace A. McBurney of Spokane, ranking tennis player in the northwest In 1908 and one of the beat and moat popular racquet wlelders in this section of the country, will be missing from northwest tennis tournaments in the futures McBurney has gone to San Francisco, where he will make his fu ture home. He told friends that be did not expect to teturn to tha northwest and would not participate In any of the tournaments. focBurney was too busy last year to engage In any of the tournaments on tha coast and ha did not play enough at home to get Into first class shape. Tae year- before, howvarr ha waa aally iie beat single player in the northwest and won tha championship In tho Pa cific northwest meet held In Taooma. He waa the peer of Joa Tyler, the pres ent champion. In 1908, and many believe ha would have retained tha title had he defended It last year. McBurney was president of tha North west Tennis association last year. He was one of the best liked players on the northwest circuit' NOTHES TENNIS No More, TEAR Of THE CUUUU f We Can Save Full Set, that fit Gold Crowns, 22k Bridge Teeth, 22k Gold fillings -Silver Fillings - Call and have us give your teeth a free examination, and get our esti mate on your dental work. If you are nervous of have heart trouble, the Electro Painless System will do the' work when others fail. Ail work warranted for ten years. , , ilectro Painless 0 ' E. G. AUSPLUND, D. D. S.. Manager 303tf WASHINGTON STREET, CORNER FIFTH Bank References. -OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS Lady Attendant. Harry Moore and "Rat" Rinc Ihart Will Help Locai'shoot-" ers Saturday. . . Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallls, Jan. : Tbs basketball season at O. A. fl Will tv tnaniriiiit.l flal,,,.. the Beavers line up against the speedy basket shooters from tha Portland Med. leal College. Two of the medical school basketball team are former O. A. C. players. . ,' -, . . ; ' , . Harry Moore, captain of last year's championship team, and "Rat" Rlnchart. who is also hi the medical aohnoi. played both football and basketball t a A..C. The "Medlra" supported by two such clever players should give th Beavers all that they can take care-nfr Some cf the a. A. C. players who hav remained In Corvallls during tha holi days have kept regularly at practice an.i therefore are In' pretty fair shape for renewing tneir work. Captain Hbrton. Strickland. Coocer. of, the first squad and a number of sec ond team men have had dally gamea on the gymnasium floor. Tha opening of ths big collegiate sea son is but a little more than three weeks away and when the local team lines up against Whitman January 21 a pretty fair Una will be gained aa to. the probable success of this year's team. Night practices will ba the regular order from now on as an immense amount of work will be required to develop team work that will In any way compare with tha machine-Ilka precision that charac terised last year's Championship aggi e gatlon.', ,:,;..;,.,..,..,., ...... HERRMANN REELECTED: HEAD OF COMMISSION rf BBSSBSSSBBaBBBapSSaBBl Jtl'nlU Prase Lsaaad Wire. I Cincinnati. Jan. 4. Oarrv Horrmann Of Cincinnati was unanimously reelected chairman of the national baseball com mission, tha highest tribunal . In base balldom, yesterday. With Herrmann on ths commission will sit President Ban Johnson of the American league and President Lynch of tho National league., Herrmann served a satisfactory term as president of the commission during the year ending with his reelection today. ,. Action on William Murray's claim against tha Philadelphia Nationals, who deposed hint as manager, was not made public. The commission decided that the' California outlaws recently taken Into organised baseball, must make In dividual application to tha commission for reinstatement. Chairman Herrmann's report urged drastic measures to prevent syndicate baseball. . '., Now that the Canadian Athletic ".fed eration has ceased to be, the Amateur" Athlethr-wnlon-f 4ha-Vnltdetateahaa. no relations In Canada. , ,,,, - , , , - . , . , Many persons find themselves affect ed with a persistent cough after an at tack of lnfluensa. As this cough can b promptly cured by tha use of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, It should not bo allowed to run on until it becomes troublesome. . . - talis! V "A j You Money 35.00 53.50 33.50 51.00 .50 i Comer Fifth and : ton. Across From Pr- kins HotcI, SOOSiC haayml