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The Principal Usual ly ' Takes the f lhter est From a Boxing, Bout "Tainaa about wtilcn should warryi Klna $ TeeflsMar io aaseetul In tlma aff wtr. kucwlf ef aarla to mluln from kit haunt. Will ae Souat M artlka l Vtr M MO BUT K0W HOOKS Awe SLICES STANDI FEtl ,C , ' ' - ' ' " :' . : . . . ........ ... . , . 1 , . ; ." L - 1 1 - ' ' i JACK DEMPSEY IN LINE FOR A-TITLE, IS QUAKER'S IDEA .Rocap, Noted Writer and Referee, Warns Willard's Challenger to Get Defense for Straight Left, if He Would Beat Burly FAMOUS COACH AND SOME OF HIS STARS WHO PLAY SATURDAY TEUFELHTJNDEN TO HURL STRONG FIRE AGAINST WINGED M .-.1 :. :?..::.: v:. I ; ... . 1 w : By William Rocap Eutern Keferee and Sport Writer. FACK DEMPSEY cave Philadelphia ring fans an opportunity I to measure and erauee his real puncher. First he dropped the Battler with his left hand for a count of nine. Then just to show that there was nothing the mat ter with his right hand, he sent Levinsky to dreamland with a right to the jaw and the contest was' over. It took Dempsey exactly 8 minutes and 25 seconds to make a boxer take the full count, who up to that night had enjoyed an unsullied record. Levinsky has been boxing in public since 1910, starting in this city under the name of Barney Williams. In his early days he was not much of a money getter, for the fans did not take kindly to his evasiYe. defensive style. He journeyed to New York and placed him self under the management of Dan Morgan. Now Morgan is not a maker of champions, but he does know how to get the money. In a twinkling he changed Barney's name to Battling Levinsky. It acted like magic. Levinsky was immediately adopted as the East Side champion in New York. . Matches and engagements began to roll in and with them substantial purses. In a short time he was one of the best propositions in the Dan Morgan believes In having: a fighter whoVUl fight and who will not quibble over a few pounds. That Is the reason Morgan and Knockout Brown divided $140,000 between them while their partnership existed. Battier Kept Bnsy Some Tdea of how Manager Morgan carries Out his plan may be gleaned from -the fact that Levinsky fought 11 battles In 1916 and 18 in the year of 1917. Among his opponents were Carl Morris. Gunboat Smith. Tom Cowler, Jack Dillon, Billy Miske, Tom Gibbons. Jim Coffey, Tom McMahon, Gus Christie, Porky Flynn, Harry Greb and a score of lesser lights. Not one of these could make the Battler take the count. In fact, he won a majority of these bouts on points. This is the man whom Jack Demp sey flattened for the full count. The writer contended that two years ago Levinsky could have boxed rings around Dempsey, but on Wednes day that if Jack Kearn's protege would go in and fight he would stop the Battler inside of three rounds. The bout ran true to schedule. Is Big Terry MeGovern While Jack Dempsey is a great fighter and reminds the writer of a big Terry McGovern. tearing in just like the late Terrible Terry, pack ing a knockout blow in either hand, he has no defense for a straight left hand lead. His enthusiastic admir ers must not forget that when they are coupling, hi name with Cham pion Jess Willard. The latter has a wonderful left hand, shooting It out straight and, with his great reach and 240 pounds behind it, the blow is a stiff one to take. It is generally followed up by a right hand uppercut. which has force enough behind it to lift a 220 pound opponent clear of the floor. It was these two blows that ulti mately sent Jack Johnson to the floor in the twenty-sixth round in a Havana ring April 5, 1915. Hn Made (amc a Stady Iempsey is a bright fellow, has a fertile brain and shows that he has made a study of boxing. He should study his lesson just one more chap ter and cultivate a defense for a straight left hand lead. He Bhould learn either to slip the blow or parry or block with his forearm. There is noVhlng so disconcerting as to have a fellow shoving his left hand continually in your face. It has often taken all the fight out of a stout hearted boxer. In fact, a clever man who knows how to shoot his left out straight, the blow being o timed as to catch an opponent coming In, can soon bring the great est of sluggers into submission. Hat All Kssentlals , Jack Dempsey has all the assets for a world's heavyweight champion. He has height, weight, reach, hit ting power and a heart as stout as his body is strong. Today he Is the peer of any heavyweight living, white or black, excepting Jess Wil lard. A battle between them would be? the only way of deciding which is the king. No amount of argument will decide that. They must meet in the ring. Dempsey is America's nomination for the test, and when conditions make such a bout possi ble. 'Willard will have to consent to a battle tr else retire and leave the field to the young aspirant for glory and ring fame. 800 Soccer Matches For War Work Chest The united war work fund soccer program calls for about 800 matches to be played In cities from Boston to San Francisco and from Seattle to Baltimore. The receipts will Illustrate the progress being made In the sport FOOTBALL ! Standifer Shipyard ' "v- .... vs. .r- Camp Lewis . 1MT1I DEPOT BRIGADE VAUGHX ST. GBOUJCDS, PORTLAND TODAY AT 2:30 P. M. tiTAHJDIFER BAUD WILL FLAT KIioa Grandstand 55Mea la ability. In his bout with Bat- American ring. 'Billy Owl Loses Accustomed Seat In Wisdom Lane Pendleton, ot. It. The owl, a bird noted for wisdom, hat nothing on a China pheasant. George Ton kin, district game warden for I'ma tllla county, gays so. George he knows. George and the Walla Walla, Wash., game warden were In ren dezvous near the state line the ether day with their guns. It was open season In the Washington area and closed tight as a dram In the Oregon hinterland. While driving along the line the birds began flying from Washington Into Oregon, Just oat of gun range. On the Oregon side they lighted, strutted about, winked owl-like at the banters, and appeared to realixe they were perfectly safe. Yes, George says, the owl has been flanked out of his wisdom by the chink. Koss Young Will , Return to Giants After' Army Work Ross Toung, right fielder of the Giants, and one of the "finds" of the recent campaign, has entered an officers' training school in Texas, and expects soon to be graduated a full fledged lieu tenant in the army. Young was born In Texas, and began his baseball career there. As soon as he quit the Giants at the end of the season, he made arrange ments to enter the army. While many of the one time stars of the diamond will be missing when the sport is resumed after the war, Ross Young is sure to be one of the Giants when the local National league outfit toes the mark in the next fight for the pennant. Young will doubtless be a major league star for years to come, and McUraw makes no secret of the fact he considers himself fortunate to have such a promising youngster. Baseball critics who have followed the fortunes of the youthful Texan con sider him one of the best outfielders de veloped in the minor leagues in a num ber of years. While in the service of the Rochester club of the International league Young was rated the best out fielder in the organization, and he main tained a high standard while pasUming with the Giants. nBusher" Tells Star Players What to Do IJoyd Wraite. an experimental member of the Pittsburg Pirates last season, has won promotion by Travery In the field. now is lieutenant of the company of the 342d arUllery. which includes among Its members, Grover Alexander, Chuck Ward. Clarence Mitchell. Otis Lambeth, Win Xoyes and other major leaguers Writes Paul Hollner. a St- Louis semlpro in the same company: "Lieut. Waite is the best manager we ever worked fer and the men follow him in battle as they'd follow John McGraw on the ball field." France's Greatest Athlete Is Missing Recent reports from. Europe state that France's greatest athlete and best known aviator, Maurice Soyau, is miss ing. The news has caused the greatest sorrow, as Boyau, who was recently made an officer of the legion of honor. with the inscription, "The bravest pilot and the most complete athlete, who makes French aviation illustrious," waa known all over France. Champ Oarsman First Lieutenant Jack Kelly of the Vesper Boat club. Philadelphia, who - as a senior aingie sculler beat many of the best ama teurs, has been commissioned a first lieutenant. Kelly enlisted in the Uni verslty of Pennsylvania base hospital unit No. 2, which went overseas last April. . L ii i . o5s j 'n - -, V'i x v s vi. y a ii i i'T'i 1 rr rr in y J S. .f f , :rr. IV ? j I I fli -fti sl r - i nam Hi - 1 4 i I it ' . i WW 4 5. t Max. -r X ,1 ALASKA TO STOP RACE FOR HUSKY Two Classics of Frozen North Abandoned Until Recovery From War Conditions. THE wideflung sweep of the world war in us relation 10 spon nas peneixaiea beyond the Arctic circle and the classic dog derbies have been abandoned until the return of normal times and condi tions. The long distance sweepstakes over the snow trails yf the Seward pen insula have been canceled, according to the plans of the Nome Kennel club. Thus the winter will pass without either the all-Alaska sweepstakes or the Solomon sweepstakes. ' both formerly big events on the Alaska sport calendar. Last win ter only the Solomon , race was held. Prizes Go to Red Cross The all-Alaska prize money of last year, together with the purses for this year's race, will be given to the Red Cross or some other war work fund. Although the big races are abandoned, dog drivers remaining in Nome for the winter will hold several short Informal race meets during the long dark months coming. Possibly after the war the big races will be resumed. Then, as in other years, the eyes of the arctic sport ing world will be centered on Nome every April, when the malamutes leap at the whip's snap and tug at their sleds over the 412-mile all-Alaska trail to Can dle and back. Was Big la Betting Thousands of dollars changed hands on the races every year, it was said. When Nome was at its height In the old gold boom days, the Alt-Alaska- purse amounted to $10,000. Pioneers say J200. 000 was wagered on the result one year. Dog drivers sprang Into the sport ing spotlight as a result of skill and en durance on the frozen trails of the far north. "Scotty" Allan. Leonard Sep pala, John Johnson, Fay Delezene and others became kndwn far out Into the states by their -victories in the blgr races. Champion Walkers to Compete . Dick Remer, present champion, and Eddie Reus, former national champion, will try for an American one hour walk ing record during the contest at Mc Comb 'dam. New York city, November 24, as part of the war fund events. . At J::, H'i "Lonestar" Bill Dietz, mentor 01 the ball f cam, w Inch will play5 hffe "Saturday against the Multnomah Ama teur Athletic club eleven, and four noted Northwestern gridironers who are tn the marine line up. From" left to right they are, above Zim merman, W. S. C, all Northwest end for three years; W. H. Dietz, Jake Risley, former Universit of Oregon star and . all-Pacific Coast center in 1916. Below Dick Haaley, e-V. S. C star and captain or the marines; and Benton Bangs, V. S. C. all-Northwest halfback Tor three seasons. All Must Take Athletics mi t Oregon Has pl'GEXE, Nov. H. Intercompany athletics, with teams of the army and navy branch of the S. A. T. O. unit participating will play a prominent part in the athletic pro gram of the university following the present football season. Bill Hayward will take charge of the intramural athletics now that Eddie O'Connell has returned to his old position with the Mult nomah Athletic club of Portland. O'Connell will be missed greatly as he had entire command of the in tercompany contests and minor athletics in general. He left con ditions In good shape, however, so that Hayward with the aid of especially appointed assistants can carry on the work without a hitch. -Hayward will, take charge of track and basketball ; R. L Riley, soccer and other men will be .selected from the S. A. T. C. to aid them in the other branches of sport until the football season is over, and Shy Huntington can lend his assistance whenever needed. Lieutenant Ed ward K. Radcliff has been appointed- by Colonel W. H. C. Bowen, commandant of the unit here, to take charge of the S. A. T. C. athletics in general. Lieutenant Radcliff is a former O. A. C. athlete and can lend assistance in many branches of sport. Two From Each Company He has had each company of the S. A. T. C. appoint a director of sports and also a head for each j separate sport. These men will hold regular meetings and outline the schedule of intercompany con tests and also see that "( the sport program of each company is car ried out. Every man in the S. A. T. C. is required to take 1 some form of athletics on Monday, Wed nesday and Friday, from 4 until 5 in the evening. The branches of sport in which the men are par ticipating are: Football, soccer, track, boxing and wrestling, and swimming. With the close of out door sports soon, basketball, hand ball and other indoor sports will be in vogue. Intercompany athletics started 'In a -ti r i j I Australian uycnsi; i May Become Fighter Bob Spears one of the cleverest bi cycle riders ' that ever came to thi country from Australia, may try his hand at the pugilistic game. He la 24 years of age and weighs in condition, 195 pounds . and stands over feet in height. Joe Stecher. the .Nebraska. wrestler Is also -reported studying box ing with the idea of actively engaging tn the sport ... , famou 3Iarine Island marine 'foot . n n Big Program good shape with a football game, tug of war and five mile relay race with teams from both com panies of the army and one from the navy. It is the plan of Lieu tenant Radcliff and the other sport directors to have one of these meets with added features every Satur day afternoon. Later, interclass football will also be a feature. Will Donate for Supplies According to plans set in motion at a meeting of the various sport heads Wednesday evening every man in the S. A. T. C. will donate E0 cents to a fund which .will be used to purchase athletic parapher nalia. Coach Hayward has asked that this fund be created as the present athetic fund of the uni versity will not meet the demands which will be made for the number of soccer and basketballs and boxing gloves that the enlarged scale of athletics will demand. Interest on the part of the men ' is growing with each contest. A great deal of rivalry is being brought forth and every man is out for some sort of a team which will represent his company against others. The plan is working out well and the athletic directors find that the men enthusiastically turn out for their company athletics because of this rivalry. The Athletic Score Company A football team has de feated company B with a score of 8 to 0 and has been held to a no score tie by the B team. A cross country race team from the three divisions has been scheduled for next Saturday. The navy unit, composed of but SO men, has decided to enter the field In all branches -of sport, de spite the fact that their cooperation was sought by both of the other companies. They now have a foot ball team which bids fair to romp off with - the intercompany cham pionship, and a- track and soccer team are on the field nightly prac ticing for future meets. Th sport directors of the units are : Company A. Ned Fowler : company B, Don Orput ; navy, Leith Abbott. Soccer Team Holds Opponents to Zero The champion Bethlehem Steel com pany's soccer team In their first three national league games scored 17 goeJs to 0 against Peterson. New York and the Scottish American team of Newark. The series calls, for a home and home match.-. Merchants Ship Of Bristol. Px. and the Bibcock 4V Wilcox eleven Bayonne. N. are the other teams the, ser'-- . 1 ' -..' ft "1 "V- -.V 3 tit' -- '2 f " Nil if GRID COACH WINS AFTER LONG YEARS John Heisman Finally Recognized After Quarter cf Century Work With Football Teams. A FTER more than 25 years' service as n lutiiui tun ll. J J I i f I , . firioiiian, .. ..I- 1 IT If.!.-..- the mentor of Georgia Tech's remark able teams, is just beginning to get the recognition which he so rfrchly deserves ranking among the greatest gridiron tu tors that ever lived. Those who have followed the career of Heisman from that day in 1892 when he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and began teaching foot ball, assert that he has introduced more new plays Into the game than any man who ever lived. Never favored with ; material during all of his coaching years that was valuable because of Its weight. Heisman had to drill his youngsters in trick plays to Insure victory for them. Trickier Than Rest Heisman has pulled more tricks on the gridiron than any coach that the game has even known. He was the man who changed the method of snapping back the ball to the quarter, who inno vated a half dozen new styles of Inter ference, who was the pjoneer In the use of double and lateral passes and who really can be called the "Father of the Forward Pass." Before anyone ever thought of the advantages of that dras tic revolution in the game, Heisman ad vocated it. He continued to espouse the cause of the forward pass for three years, and finally the footfall rules com mittee harkened to his arguments. Heisman has spent most of his time coaching southern college elevenn and always with ntjnarkable results. But he began to taste the full sweets of many years of patieat labor when he assem bled teams at Georgia Tech that went through three sesons without suffering defeat, scoring 1129 points against 1 by their combined foemen. Loyal tn Flrtt Love After Heisman had achieved the glory of coaching three straight unbeaten Georgia Tech teams 1915. 1916 and 1 117 many -oHeges in different sections J of the United States made big offers for 1 bis services. But Heisman has remained of I loyal to Georgia Tech and probably will in I continue making . football history there for some years to come Bill Dietz Has Squad Which Has Cleaned Up Everything in California With Consummate Ease and Hopes to Find Stronger Competition on Its Excursio Into the Northern Field. : " w HEN the great Marc Island next Saturday lor a game against the Multnomah club in -the latter's stadium, it will be like a visit from old friends, , inasmuch as the teufelhunden will ber of former Northwest stars antl-bc under the gridiron guidance -of the spectacular, Indian coach, Lonestar Dietz. Dfetz is almost as much of a drawing card in these parts as the marines themselves, Lonestar having a penchant for knock -'em dead sartorial displays. And if Bill should happen to show up in olive drab or forestry green, won't there be a keen disap pointment on the part of the fanettes. Dietz has never trotted a ; football team out on the field in Portland, but the Portland fans who make the annual hegira to Corvallis or Eugene know Bill and his glad rags. Therefore it will be like old times to grab the mitts of Bill and his gang. . ' ' This contest, which will start at 2 :30 o'clock, promises to toe the hardest game any club eleven "has had during the past three seasons. Some of the Flayers The Marine squad is composed of players who have won fame for themselves on the gridirons of the Northwest. Standing out prom inently among the members of the j squad are : Benton Bangs, one of j the hardest hitting backfield men developed In this section of the country, a player who. during his en tire college career, was a noted ground gainer : Jake Risley, center of the University of Oregon team of 1916. champions of the Pacific coast and victors over the University of Pennsylvania team in the New Tear's day game at Pasadena ; Zimmerman, Washington State, one of the best ends ever developed in the Northwest ; Bill Steers, the great leader of the Oregon team of last year : Hanley. the wonderful little quarterback of the Wf. S. C. team-for . three seasons : Ixdell. a star of the Oregon Aggies last year : Shandel Ing. who played with the Mount Angel team and who has developed wonderfully under the tutoring of Dietz. Last year the Marines were un beatable and thus far this season they have not tasted the bitter dregs of defeat. They have cleaned up on the California teams to such an ex tent that the fans don't flock out to see their games, thinking they would not get their money's worth. Club Team I Ntrong Tn Saturday's game the Ma rines face a team that is composed of players of some experience., Some of the players have not played in tercollegiate football, but are of a caliber which could easily make any varsity. Included among the flub players Are several men who have had col lege experience. namely Harvey Hale, who wan a member of the Uni versity of Arkansas team three sea sons ago : Fred Rehheln, who played with Lehigh : Webster, one of the stars of the Oregon-O. A. C. game of last season. Ire Motly Local IJy The club tram this season differs vastly from the aggregation turned out. in seasons past. It is composed mnstlv of local players. who hav twen drilled as much as nrscttce will per mit into a well balanced uniL The conditions that confront a club team are such that a lot of the prelimin aries engaged in by college teams are abandoned. The club men have to work out In the evenlnrs. which greatly hampers their chances of perfecting plays. Taking all this into consideration, football fans who Rttend the contest with the Marines will know that they have sen a football contest, one In whfch every inch of rronnd has been hotly contested by both teams. The club men have something at stake in the contest, which at this time cannot be mentioned.' it is said. Two Kqaad Are Oat ' At the openinr of the feason the club faced a difficult handicap lark of plavefs. Now conditions have changed. Nearly two full squads have been reporting for practice and tinder th supervision of Georsr Dewey th team has been rounded into an eleven capable of putting up a regular game. The club had a netback when George Phllbrook had to tons up the reins as coach and for three weeks the boys were nursed along by Cap tain Louttlt. Now with Dewey on the Job great things are expected. Further, to perfect their playing Ike always wf. thought ff? Q ..... a man was foolish to buy plug of the Gravely class when he could get a big plug of ordinary tobacco for the same money. But one day Bill gave' him a chevr of Gravely just two or three small squares. Then Ike got the pure, sat PEYTON BRAND 1 Real Gravely Chewing Plug . kuicn piece paccea m a poucn ; marines football team come have jn its ranks a large num-f i Strangler Lewis Wins Quick Place Among Non-Ooms Probably ona of the ealckett pre motions ea record la tba army has been that of K4 (Strangler) Lewis, now a top sergraat at Camp Grant. Lewis gained the promotion, thaaks to a display of ronrage the flrtt slay he entered camp. The famoai wrestler was lined en with hea rt reds of other draftees, bacgaga la hand, when two hasky aalformaA men looking the Una over, begaa making fan of tha rcrralts. Giving Lewis the eaee ever, eaa ef them remarked i "Pips tha fat bar loader," while the ethers langhlniiy said i "He tare looks like a prise porker." , Lewis flashed with rage, droppef. his grip and walked ever to the first of tha ramp Jesters, plrhed him ap bodily, twisted him apslde down and boaneed his head on . the ,f reaad. tearing him there, while ha-tee k m besdlock ea the other and threw him It feet ever the groaad, and thaa asked the onlookers If they wanted a sample of his work. Gtttlag- no re spoase, Lewis again Joined the Hat. for the Marine game, the club men -will work out almost every night thla week. A scrimmage practice with the Standi fer team of Vancouver may bo arranged for two nights, which will aid the club eleven to a ' great extent. Scrimmage practice., this year has Wen of a somewhat -minus quantity, but from now on until the close of the season, there will be enough players to engage In scrimmage. Ceovert Ont Monday 4 Final details of the contest will be '. completed Monday when It ,1s ex pected that Captain Lynn B. Coov ert. athletic director of the Marines, will be able to be about, he having just recovered from an attack of In fluenza. Manager George Berta of the Multnomah eleven is completing hla plans for the staging of the contest which vill have somewhat of a mil itary toiwh. Negotiations are under way to have the First Provisional regiment band of the Vancouver Barracka play at the game, this decision being reached after It waa announced that the Mare Island band was not com ing north. The Marine quartet. It is under stood, will arrive In Portland thla evening to assist In boosting the con test. Bancroft Has Spent Lifetime in Majors Frank Bancroft, the oldest man con nected actively with professional baae- ! ball, celebrated his seventy-fifth blrtb- ; day recently. r Mr. Bancroft la bust nesa manager of the Cincinnati team . and iffs career in the national same has been filled with interesting hap penings. Tennis Ilrads to Meet United States National Lawn Tennta association will hold its annual meet ing in New York city Friday. Decem ber 11. isfying Gravely taste. It' lasted so long, you can't tell him nowadays that it costs him anything extra to chew Real Gravely. e ' e m It geei furtktrtkst't mky ytm can get tha fW tmstt this dsn tohocf witlft tMtrm maf