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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1915. - CORBETT IS BOOSTING E YUMI YUul! YUiM! DIG 'VATERMILLIOir EATS ' FOR TRAPSHOOTERS President Everding Plans a Succulent Feast to Luro Gunmen to Jenne Station. FAIR: MULTNOMAH MERMAID SNAPPED IN MID-AiRi IN MAKING ; HIGH SWAN DIVE EX-COLUMBIA STAR TO COACH NEW ELEVEN HEAVY BOXER PICKED DEPART TUESDAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP MEET Connie Meyer and Louis Bal bach to Represent Club in A, A. U. Events, WROTE THEIR NAMES INDELIBLY ON EAST Took All Sneers and Jibes of Others and Then Went Out and Rowed. I UP HERE IN PORTLAND Former Champion Says Tom -Cowler Will Be Ready for Jess Willard Soon, WON THREE IN AUSTRALIA NORMAN ROSS TO TRY OUT HANDICAPPED WOEFULLY CLASS TOURNEY ON TODAY ii4 rAV snowy Biir Says Jff Smith and Coast Champion : Swimmer Who Has Been la Quarantine Will Try to Get Into Sacing Shape. s j " Vended Own Shell, ubbed Xach Othes and Put tTp Boat to Z!ati. at -Oommoa Boarding Souse.. Two prise Will Bs Given la Sach ZU Ylsloai Bat of xglstrd Tourney Awaits Bhaner's Betura. Touagvatt.U Ati Bund tor Xdf from Um Stadium. ::::--:i-rS::T! mmtmm mm MULTNOMAH OVERS STANFORD OARSMEN f - ' , - X' f M ' x '' ' I '' . . - - , i j. at - - liy Ringside. - - New" Tork, July 10. Jim Corbett, pioneer of the modern coda of boxing. and former heavy weight champion, has Imposed upon himself the task of moulding a fighter capable of reliev ing JeJa Willard of hi newly acquired cha.mpior.nhip. "Smiling Jim's" , pro spective title holder has thus far vin dicated Corbett's Judgment, inasmuch s h has scored rapid-fire knockouts over hl last three opponents. . Corbett, the cleverest heavyweight that ever pulled on a pair of padded gloves, is so engrossed in his mission a to devote all of his time to de veloping his protege. He has spent the last six months In tutoring the newcomer In every trick and artifice of the game that only the crafty Jim Corbett knows. s; We will no longer keep the name of the world's next heavyweight cham pion (according to Jim Corbett) en shrouded in mystery. It is Tom Cow ler, a name befitting the gladiators of old, when bare knuckle fighting was in vogua. , . Tom Cowler weighs slightly over 200 pounds, but this shortage of weight should not retard his march to the heavyweight throne, insists Mr. Corbett. Jirn says a ' heavyweight jchamplon need not necessarily weigh just under a ton, and he points to Bob 'itEsimtiona and himself as exam ples. , r What Corbett Thinks of Sim. - j.Coi.bett is at present in New York, with Tom Cowler in tow. He cur tailed his stay -in Australia upon learn ing of his brother s sudden death. V ist before embarking for the long sail, Corbett wrote the author of thia screed in the following strain: "I have the makings of a champion la this fellow (Tom Cowler) and I am sure he Is the fastest big man in the world today. By the time he lands in New York I will have him . ready to meet any white man in the world. rr'-"Of course, he has a lot to learn, but is picking up fast He will be in New York some time in August ready to meet Willard or anybody else." Australia's boxing populace was Just getting warmed up to Cowler when he was taken away by Corbett. He was rapidly becoming an Idol on the south ern continent when Corbett became homesick, and resolved to return to .the states. . it During the short stay in the Antip odes, Cowler engaged in three combats, and in each he emerged victorious by the knockout route. It took him only jseven rounds to dispose of the trio. :Af ter ?the third triumph over Ben Doyld in two rounds for the heavy weight championship of Australia, the Islanders were frank to admit that there was not a man -4n Australia that could cope with the hard hitting and Jclever Cowler. Corbett declares the Australians were clamoring for a match between Cowler and Willard, and Jim told them he would strive to attain that end and bring the-match to Australia if possible. Australia Bars Two Puga. ' 'While on the subject of Australia .'we .are in, receipt of some very inter eating data from "Snowy" Baker, the chief boxing promoter of the- Antipo des. ' Baker, Is kind enough to inform us that two American boxers have been barred -from the Australian ring for life. -That Is, they will never again be permitted to fight at the Stadium, Ltd., Baker's boxing emporium. Jeff Smith, of Bayonee, N. J., and Young Attell, the American lightweight, are tne victims of this edict. 'i. ? Smith came into disfavor for twice fouling Les Darcy in Sydney on May 23, the referee being compelled to atop the contest in the second round. At tell's offense was his refusal to try in his bout with Jack- Clune, which re sulted in his disqualification in the nineteenth round. Baker saw to it that Attell got his transportation home, and the Stadium people paid off ; the liabilities Attell had Incurred during his stay in Australia. " If such stringent measures pre vailed in this country American fight fans might be treated to better bouts; surely there would be more action than the principals condescend to put into their work at present. We are still talking about Australia. News comes from that segment of the globe that they -are. harboring, the greatest wonder of the fighting age He is Jerry Jerome, the aboriginal fighter, who 4s said to be self taught, utterly unorthodox in style and a born fighter. What more can one ask? On, yes, he is 43 years old, but is still capable of delivering knockout punches.- Australians who have seen him in action declare that he can hit with remarkable speed and smashing force from any position, and that if Jerry had come Into the boxing game In his youth, the world would, have fotmd him a phenomenon and prob ably .unbeatable in his class. i'-f'.- x '.. .m Former Coast Batter I Hitting Ball on Nose Grover Alexander isnt . the only reason why the Phillies remain in the Kational league fight. There are at least two other reasons known as Lud rus and Cravath. The latter is the f'home run king" of the old league. Cravath - is batting only .286 and ha; made only 54" hits,' but a jizeable , portion, of. those were triples and home runs, drivers that came at the most timely moments. Luderus. always a fine clouter, has hit at 350 clip to date, and he-leads thej league. With Luderus and Cravath armed gwitht bludgeons . and Alexander armed with his "Mauser-bullet" ball, the Phrantic-Phils look quite able to take care of all comers for some little time to come. WASHINGTON STAR HOME Bob Jones, former Washington hgh school football star, who was a mem ber of the Harvard freshmen crew this Ming until he kwas stricken with ap pendicitis, returned last week to spend his summer vacation here., Confident of placing among the win ners. Mrs. Constance Meyer and Louis Balbach of 'the : Multnomah Amateur Athletic club will depart Tuesday on the Great Northern for San Francisco to participate In the Indoor and out door diving championship of the Ama teur Athletic Union of the United States. The indoor meet will be staged July 17, and the outdoor events July 24. tance swimming champion, who has been in quarantine for the past 10 days, will be released tomorrow, and he will Immediately start training for a tryout to determine whether or not he will make the trip south. Jack Cody, swimming instructor of the Multnomah club, stated yesterday that the tryout would be held either Tues day or Wednesday. ' Mrs. Meyer and Balbach have been training faithfully for the past several weeks, and they will reach the Bay City in time to have a couple of days' work on the new boards which have been erected for the diving contests. The program for the championships shall consist of two compulsory dives from, the lower platform, namelv, one plain back dive and one backward som ersault, and two from the high plat form, one "running plain dive" and "one standing plain - dive." and six voluntary dives to be performed from the high platform. The "Winged M" club representatives will vie for honors with th best amateur divers in the country. A number of crack easterners are entered in the men's events, while fair divers from all parts of California will vie for the women's title. A gold medal, emblematic- of the outdoor championship of the United States, will be given to the winner. The winner of second place will re ceive a -silver medal and a bronze medal will be awarded to the third. The first event of the A. A. U. swim ming meet, the 440 yard swim, will be held a week from tomorrow. The 880 yard race will be held Wednesday, July 21, and the mile swim Friday, July 23. NEW YORK CHIEF LOSES OLD TIME PEP AND SPIRIT Fans Wondering if Slump of Giants Has Taken Their Punch Away, By Frank O. Menke. New York, July 2. Has the misera ble 1914 showing of the Giants refined the McCrawlan temperament? Has it put out the old McGraw fire? Has it taken the heart and the spirit out of the one-time .peppery New York chieftain? Those are the questions that fans around the National league circuit are asking. And they ask because the John McGraw of today seems totally unlike the John McGraw of other years. The present day McGraw seems too' refined and meek to make the fans think that anything other than a great change has come in him. McGraw this year seems to have abandoned his favorite stunt, heckling the umpires. Time and again decisions have been made against the Giants that would have called for a wild roar and a vigorous protest from the Mc Graw of other years. But on the majority of occasions the McGraw of today did nothing other than to make a mild protest and In some cases no protest In others. Has the slump of the Giants taken the punch and the kick out of Mc Graw, or did Johnny Tener give John ny McGraw a quiet little lecture and warning at the season's outset? Grover Cleveland's Son Great Athlete "Dick" Cleveland, the Phillips-Ex eter weight thrower, who was grad uated from Exeter this year, and is one i oi mo row Hinieiea or me class who will enter Princeton, is a son of ex-iresldent Grover Cleveland. He Is 18 years old. 6 feet tall, and now weighs 186 pounds. He Is not only a fine athlete, but a scholar of the first rank. Among his athletic laurels is the presidency of the Interscholastic Track association of New England. At the recent Harvard interscholastic meet, Cleveland made a new Harvard school record, putting the 12-pound ball 47 feet 6 inches. He will try for a position on the Princeton freshman football team this, fall.5 Famous Athletes of Gerlnany Are Killed Famous athletes who have fallen fighting for Germany In the 'war in clude the following: Arthur Schmidt. a famous relay runner of Charlotten burg, killed; George Mlckler. one-time bolder of the world's record for the 1000 meters, wounded; Seyffert, long distance runner, killed: Frit Lucht. killed: George Protsetskl, killed; Bru no Lange and Andral Rob, Internation al soccer players, killed; Prillwits, one of the best soccer players of Kieler, killed; R. Binder., halfback, .seriously wounded: Bud i Spannuth. well known athlete of Brunschwelg, killed;, Bor chard. prisoner of war;. Schneider, In ternational soccer player, killed; Carl Schutt and Johannes Schutt, soccer players, killed; .Hugo Pommnltx, killed; Frits Randor. died of wounds; Paul Blodern, prisoner of war. Goulding Represents Ontario, George Goulding and one other ath lete' will represent Ontario . at the Canadian track , and field champion ships to be held at Winnipeg on July 1. 2 and S. . :;-:r:-: ;i -fit ir:- r J. t 3 I - JI.XMIlf 'fx?? iC: . . '''jfii'1' ' W- f;.. .. .. ibAMM.A fffyl j ) If IH 1; Airs. Constance Meyer, northwest woman diving champion, who will represent the Multnomah Ama teur Athletic dab in the indoor and outdoor diving championships - of the United States to be de cided In San Francisco, July 17 nd July 24, respectively. Mrs. Meyer will perform the most difficult dives for which . points are given in hopes' of winning the national championship. The platform in the picture is 32 feet high. Iowa Grappler Will Wrestle Here Friday With the hope of reviving the mat game, Jesse Westergard. the Iowa grappler, will meet Ben Bordsen in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match in the Baker theatre next Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The event will follow the staging of one or two preliminaries, which Promoter Jack Root Is endeav oring to arrange. " . , , Westergard' s ability Is known N in this section f the country, while little is known of Bordsen. He uses the oriental style of grappling, : and : re cently defeated John Berg in Ellens burg, Wash. He has appeared in -all NEWSBOYS' TEAM MAKING GOOD RECORD ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND 1 - - ;w ,; VX?fv;f ? :yyF A --V ?JK-V h ft. VVM1 '- -Jc" 'qS 11 I.'- J fit, I r4 w J fi$' ; -mm? si ' y I BV:.-t2.L...,..-.., r..-. ,,,..nn ..... , , f .M MsjMsssssssssn mmmmimmmmmmmiyammmmmammKmmmmammj ' The Portland . Jfewsboys' ' baseball nine, which "has won several dose games this season. , The players, from left to right, are: Scotty Cohen, umpire; Mesher," right field; Zalkwitz, catcher; Marino, ; center field; : Popick, third ' base; Sussman, captain - and shortstop;-. Johnson, left field; Schneider, man, first base; Lwis, second base, and XakeOsh, - substitute, - Pitcher " Canter is ' not In the . : picture. - - ... - , . . . - r'.' try v--, l',illf44( 'ri parts of Europe, meeting the best men of his weight. C. CRAVATH KNOCKER OUT Jt has always been known that Cac tus Cravath hit a ball j extremely harj, but few knew, perhaps, that he could hit it so hard as to knock out people trying to stop it way down in left field. Yet he did exactly that, thing at Philadelphia. He emote one might ily; Joe Connolly, the Boston left field er, tried to make it say "Uncle," and It took him full in i the expression, knocking him senseless and badly Cut ting his mouth. Some power to " a drive like that one I I ci',f' A.4r 't , 'c t T" 1 T-' 1 ?TtT JsT.ifr-- lift ' jjy-"- - 1 5. 1 5 Eddie Collins Back In the .300 Class The latest batting averages show that Eddie Collins of the White Sox has "come back." Edward was absent for a while, visiting in the .200 class, but he is home again in the .800 circle 1.830, to be exact. The average also show that Jacques Fournler hasn't hit the - chutes as many predicted - when they noticed he was hitting around .400 early in the season. Only Ty Cobb leads the White Sox first baseman. Fournlers present average Is .864, which is quite a healthy one, thank you. : : : : - ' i Vl , ! -It n By Frank Q. Menke. New York. July 10. -They knew nothing - about oarsmanship. They lashed and they splashed In a way that was fearful to see. But when, they went into the stretch they 'put their amazingly powerful arms . to . those blades, they-dipped until , it seemed as if they would lift out the bottom of the river and they almost won.'! That's the way the rowing experts described what the Leland Stanford crew did in that Poughkeepsle race of nearly two weeks ago. And the de scription is about true. But. one thing the experts left untold, and that was the real story of what those Leland Stanford boys had to endure to get their chance to silence the sneers of the eastern rowing authorities who fig ured that Stanford was a rowing Joke. . The game, wonderful fight : that those Stanford boys put up, not merely in the race, but from the moment they became qualified to participate in the big river battle, reads something like a tale from fiction. And It's a story of the pluckiest, gamest fight ; ever made in the annals of sport. i Leland Stanford .won its chance to compete at Poughkeepsle by winning the triangular Pacific, coast race in April. The boys were keen to go, but the Athletic - association at Leland Stanford had no money fully to defray the expenses. The total expenses of the trip figured around 83600. The ath letic association donated all it could 81000. Some townsfolk donated another 81000 and the boys succeeded In col lecting about $500- from the alumni. But that wasn't enough. They needed more. They Xade Xt a Gambia, . But before they could 'get home the time came for them to leave for the east. It was a case of leave at once and gamble on the chance of getting back or withdrawing from the race. And those game, plucky kids decided to gamble. 5 They arrived at Poughkeepsle with out a dollar In their pockets.: They were out of condition. They had no money for the hire of men to give them rundowns after . their workouts on the river. So they rubbed each , other. . i Other crews had training tables and ate only those foods that were de signed to give them strength and to 14eep them in condition. The Stanford IBbys ate at a regular boarding- house -and. took a chance on the food. They didn't have special drinking water, as did the, men on the other crews; They drank any old kind of water that was dished up to them. And they "hocked" their boat for the food they ate. They had no money to pay their boards bill, but their boat was worth about $800. The boarding house keeper decided ' that that was sufficient security for his $400 board bill. The boys told him that as soon as they got back, to the coast they felt sure : they could raise the. board , bill money and send it along to him. Vsed Borrowed Tools. Other crews had boat builders and assistants to take care of their shells. The oarsmen In the other boats did nothing else but row. But the Stanford boys, unable to hire boatmen, acted as their own boatmen. They fixed their shell, whenever-it needed fixing. They did the ' Job of varnishing and they made all the necessary shifts; In - the rigging. And they did it with borrowed tools. The other crews were on tie river nearly a- month before the race was rowed. And all during the early spring they had almost daily practice ses sions. They had the benef lti of the coaching of the most experienced and most, famous rowing coaches in the world. But it was different with the Stanford boys. : s 1 ; The only training the Stanford boys got was about twice a week on a little lake near their college In California. Sometimes they didn't get In more than one day of practice a week back in California because their midget coach was a working boy and he couldn't get away from his Job whenever he want ed to. ' -' ' ' i- And when they landed at Poughkeep sle those kids found the weather to tally different than what they had been used to. The humidity in the east sapped their strength. But they didn't whine they didn't quit. They Just went ahead and did the best they could. And they did It amid the sneers and the gibes from the other coaches and the other oarsiaen- who saw them In their dally workouts and said: Their Porm Was Awful. . "What awful form what 'awful form! They're the worst looking bunch of oarsmen that ever showed on the river." - : - -y . -it V Maybe they were. But they entered the race with something that no other crew had; real courage, real pluck,' real sportsmanship, . They entered handi capped by lack of practise,?? lack of conditioning and without amy real knowledge or oarsmanship. But. they had -the- all necessary essentials of a battler entering a- fijrht strength, a stout heart and confidence.. In them selves. .. ' . r - A gamer. Pluckier, finer "lots of boys never, was gathered together than those eland Stanford .boys, and as long as history lasts they never wilt be for gotten. v Twelve men there were In that little band, that came from, out of the golden west ; to - write their names in- delibly in the pages of rowing history, and these are"the:lt!'"K;"'V-'': .... V v. Frank Guerena, coach of thei crew, aged 26, weight 115 pounds, height 5 feet 3 inches, the tiniest bit -of human ity that ever "bossed'"ay athletic out fit; X W. lulsmanF;N.;.Worth.',. Green, O. Jacomlni, W. H. Bloeser,5 C H. Orme, A, H. McEwan, R, Mauer, V. EL Kehm and-L. Rogers and J. Good man as coxy. ? , . it i TEXAS - MONIKER LEAGUE The Lemon and the Rose are both wlth-Houston. Hunter is with Mart Worth and 'Tanner with Waco. - Why don't they go into partnership? ; Bar foot of Galveston wears spiked shou like any other player. Couca of Gal veston had not yet complained that his players "lay down" on him. n S. Ja.ii , ." f :iv :-::-::."- .-:: :.-:: : - ,s, ',n - ;""' l r,,-4 : - i-ri y V- A'.V tt&JiWf'V' 1 : t? In connection with the plans for a football team at Columbia university. where football was banned in 1905. comes the news that Tom Thorp, fa mous j tackle on Columbia university, the early '90's, Is to coach the new Co lumbia team. . It Is said that Francis M. Bangs has asked Thorp to name his terms.- ; " -, - ii! x - v-y.- No decision has been arrived at as yet. It is generally understood that Hamilton Fish, who was slated for the position, will not be -able to coach the Columbia team, - when the Blue and White returns to the gridiron next fall. He will have- hl hands full with a team of former college -players, which he has organized. Arrangements have been -made for" the Columbia players to practice with Fish's eleven, thus giv ing both some good workouts. The Columbia Athletlo -association has not selected the field on which the games will be staged. - South field, the regular athletlo' - grounds of the uni versity, is not large enough for the erection of stands - such as the - games would require. The university owns a tract of ground in the Bronx, where plenty of space could be -had. It Is probable that Columbia will meet her rivals on the gridiron on this field. t THE GOOD JUDGE SOME CT TWCT PEAL TOSAeeo CHEW OR YOUR. UFC , RAKTMCIt f some or twct peal TogAgeo f wtthouv rr tire vouloA 1 CHEW OR VDU UFK . 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Portland Gun club will stage a el ass trap shooting tournament on its ground at Jenne station next Sunday. Th melons are coming from southern Oregon. The program will bs 100 birds and there will be five Classen, A, B, C. D and E. with two prizes In aeh class. The class tourney held last Sunday .was a big success, but the at tendance was not so good as was ex pected. Much ' interest Is being taken in the annual gathering of the Paclfio In dians in Taooma July 19, 80, 21 and 22. - A number of local nlmrods, ln ctudlnr H. R. ICverdln. A. W. Btrowger, Edward Morris, Charles W. McKean. Pete H. O'Brien. B. II. Keller, Frank Templeton, Pete J. llolohan and Bill Hlllls. will participate In th Ta- coma tourney. President Everding of the local club has announced that the Portland Gun club will make a bid for the 1919 Pa clfio Indian shoot. If successful in landing this tourney, it will be the third big tournament scheduled to be held on the Jenne etavon traps next year. The other two events to be held here being the Thirty-fourth Annual Northwest Sportsmen's shoot and the Oregon state championship. The pplllcation of the Portland Gun club for a registered tourney to be held some time In September Is expected as soon as Elmer E. Shaner, director gen eral of the Interstate association, re turns to his headquarters in Pittsburg; Shaner is. at present in San Diego, managing the annual Paclfio Coast Handicap tournament. This tourney will probably be the last registered event to be held on the Portland traps this season. " The .Fourth of July tournament of the Stevenson, Wash., Gun club was a huge success. The local delegation reported that J. K. Simpson, president of the Stevenson, Wash., club, showed them a great time. Several members of the local club will shoot again to day at Stevenson. Canadian Regatta Depends on Oarsmen Letters have been sent to the vari ous Canadian rowing clubs asking what strength they can bring to the annual races scheduled to be rowed over the Henley mile and 650 yards course-at St. Catharines August 6 and 7. ' On their replies rest the decision I as to whether there will be a Cana dian regatta or not. Many of the clubs have suffered the loss of prom inent members who have gone to th war. WORK IN HARVEST FIELD Vera Windnagle. ex-Washington hirn and University of Oregon, who made a name for himself on the Cornell uni versity track and field team this spring, will depart tomorrow for Rosa lia, Wash., where he will work in the harvest fields during the remainder of the vacation period. ' CALMS THE COWPOy. CHCW IS NOW CUT TWO WAYS!! SKRCO. RSCHT-CUT IS SHORT SHRSOli' Take leas thaa ooe-qoarter the Id size chew. It will be more atiifylnj than mouthful of ordinary tobacco. 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