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5 " iHE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER-19, 1918. jDoc SoA". Promises to SvLcceed tq the Note Writing .Championship Al faateaae. M mtaM Mf wtli Mew JM WOtareTt IMk ajHMl Mtw, erarr Vm PtmMf hawks twUv fuy ee4. - aw MHtanr umn tlRt4 Mm rur July 12 CHARLEY WEEGHMAN IS TO LEAVE CUB OFFICE AFTER SPENDING MUCH Fred Mitchell, the Manager, May Succeed to Presidency of Chi .cago Club, and Present Head Will Retire From Baseball, Although His Business Administration Very Satisfactory. . i- i By Luther A. Huston. vShICAGO, Nov. 19. (I. N. S.) Charles Weeghman, who I V spent a fortune to back the Chicago Federal league club and who became president of the Chicago Cubs when the Gilmore circuit capitulated, will retire from the presidency of the local ,lationai league ciud witnin tne nex$ inree weeKs. . Frrd Mitchell, the manager, who led the Cubs to a National league pennant last season, will become president of the club when " Weeghman retires. Mitchell will remain manager, but will also ' assume the executive end of the outfit. This came jtralght from an authoritative source today. Al . - though stockholders of the club . would not confirm it officially Wil ,' Ham Wrlgley Jr., recognised aa the - chief financial backer of the Bruins, leave tacit confirmation of the story by refusing to deny it. " Private Baalnei Presses No Bolsheviki -Stuff Goes With Pitcher Joe Benz Chicane, 77oT.lt. (tr.P.) Boat lay "comrade" to Joe Ben. White Sox pitcher, If yoa are aot ap oa foot work. A fellow pig lroa Jaggler la a steel works tried U. "See, nothing eaa stop as, comrade," he gloated, skowlBg Bens aa aeeoaat of a hlg radical meeting here. The more' I thought about It the madder I got," said Joe. "I walks over to him and says, 'I see yon sang every song there hat the Star Mpaagled Banner. I'vegot a notion to make yoa slag it now.' Then I heaned him. "I don't want any of those Bolshe. Tiki palling that 'comrade' staff on me, sect" Weeghmah's retirement. It is de clared. Is brought about through no dissatisfaction with his administration,- but because of the press of private business which prevents his giving the necessary time to the handling of the executive affairs of tha team. Throughout a large part of-the 1818 season Weeghman was forced to entrust the handling of the Cub' business interests largely to subordinates because 4iis own financial affairs deraanded bo much attention. The annual meeting of the Cubs' stockholders will be held some time prior to the annual meeting of the .National league in New York, De cember 9, and it is expected the ap pointment of Mitchell as president will be ratified then. It Is under stood that Weeghman practically will retire from baseball. Craighead Istlll Manager Walter Craighead, business man . ager of the Cubs, will continue in that capacity, It is understood, with Mitchell taking over the functions hitherto exercised by Weeghman. CHICAGO, Nov. 19. (I. N. S.) Windy City billiard fans, who really com prise the center of three-cushion caroms In this country, are looking forward to the match between Augie Kleckhefer of Chicago, world's champion, and Bob Cannefax of St. Louis, challenger and former title-holder. The contest is to be decided Wednes day, Thursday and Friday. The Kieckhefer-Cannefax duel Is the best one that could be arranged at the present Ume, billiard experts assert. These players are going at top speed, and fans of the Middle West who have seen them In action recenUy are in uni son In asserting no other players come up to their skill. Beats rive Opponents Fresh from his record-breaking per formance against Charley MoCourt of Cleveland, Kleckhefer is confident of CLUB SQUAD IS WORKING FORBATTLE Multnomah Wants Eleven in Shape to Play Marines Here ' Next Saturday Afternoon. WITH but five days remaining 4efore the clash with the Mare Island Ma rine football team, the Multnomah Ama teur Athletic club football players are going to travel at top 'speed so as to be in the best possible condition for the game with Bill Dietz' warriors. The Marines, according to the latest Information received, are scheduled to arrive in Portland, Thursday morning. They will engage in two light workouts on the club field. Bill Diets is confident that his players will clean up all the teams in this section of the country. Manager George Bertz of the Mult nomah club has invited Governor Withy combe and Mayor Baker and the mem bers of the city council to attend the contest. Coaoh George Dewey of the club eleven Is planning on giving the players sev eral new plays to work in the Marine i-Terry Turner Picks " An All-Time Team "Terry Turner, whose 14 years of ex :.lerlence and acquaintance with players' ability in the American league qualify . him to speak, was asked to name what ns considered tne nest American league 'team of all time," according to the Den- ver Times. "Oddly enough. Tnrner was nulte positive In the selections he made except when It fame to third base, the position he played so well himself for years. ( ' "Turner's all-American league team follows : Pitchers, Addle iJoss, Cy Young. HBIlfl UUIIIIBUII, rju V, ilirilt til ui nuue Waddell ; catchers. Billy Sullivan and Hay Schalk ; first base, Hal Chase; sec- v ; ond base. Nap LaJole ; shortstop, Bobby .Wallace; third vase. Bill Bradley or . Jimmy Collins ; outfields, Ty Cobb, Trie i (Speaker, lSlmer Flick." Paddy Driscoll Is At J.M, Hall field . Baltimore. Md.. Nov. 19. (I. X. S.) V The Great Lakes Xaval Training sta ' .Hlon football warriors, who will play the - 'naval academy eleven at Annapolis Sat ' urday. will finish their training for the Klblg event on the gridiron of Johns Hop- iklns university here. Taddy Driscoll , fand his squad will arrive here' late to- ' dy and Will beeln hard work tomorrow V J . . iLacrosse Is Losing 1 Out With Canadians j The game of lacrosse, which almost " , r, might be said to be Canada's national . 1; summer pastime, seems to be on the "y decline. A Montreal paper, commenting . ?on the poor 1918 season, says that the j, downfall of the game Is evidenced by ' f 'I the fact that a number of lacrosse sticks are on sale in a second-hand store fwlth no buyers. trimming Cannefax. Augie has beaten iD7, if,, .IL ix ATiof Saturday was a huge surprise to the down rive challengers, one after the other, taking the measure of Cannefax, De Oro, Maupome, Otis and McCourt in consecutive order. The Chicago player has shown good form In most of his title matches re gardless of what he does in less im portant contests. With the exception of his victory over McCourt, he has in each instance of a champion match per mitted his opponent to take the lead in the first block, then galloped ahead In the finals with a safe margin. Assert He Will Win It is because of thlsfand because of his original victory over Cannefax, that Kleckhefer fans assert he will win in followers of the game. The club team will work out Wednes day and Thursday nights in addition io the practice to be held this evening. EAST WILL, BATTLE TO WIN CHIEF Tammany Hall Jurist, McQuaid, Desired as President of Na tional .League Next Year. . - By Lather A. Hnfton CHICAGO. Nov. 19. (I. N. S.) One of those Justly famous "East and West contests for supremacy in the National league hove in sight today and caused a stir in Chicago baseball circles that threatens to spread to each metropolis having a team in the sen ior major league. Judge McQuaid, a well known New York; jurist, who is reputed to have the backing of Tammany Hall In pol itics, became the center of the excite ment when information sifted through the censorship that he was to be a candidate for the National league pres idency. This infermaion although guarded rather carefully in official cir cles, is considered sufficiently authentic to arouse great interest among base ball men usually very well yiformed. Gnns Tnrned on Rickey The "Kast and West' warfare comes in through the fact that Major Branch Rickey, head of the St. Louis Cardi nals, also Is regarded as a sure can didate for the office held last season by John K. Tener. Rickey, It is understood, will have the backing of club owners on the western end of the circuit. Before the appearance of Judge McQuaid it was also presumed that one or two of the easterners were favoring Rickey. With McQuaid in the race, however, it is thought likely that the battle will be fought out along strictly "East and West" lines. Tammany Is Taking Hand McQuald's supporters, it is declared. are boosting him strong and have sent out letters to all club owners paging them to rally round the McQuaid ban ner. It is even declared that Tam many has decided to take an interest In baseball and is giving some sup port to Aicvtuatd's candidacy. rot. t . ine iNauonai league meeting Is to be held in New Tork next month and the Issue will be decided there. It 's not unlikely that a torrid although somewhat Bubrosa campaign will en liven tne days until the New York i meeting is neid. DRAFT WAR WAEM ATMOSPHERE, IS HERRMANN IDEA National Commission Chairman ' Says Situation Soon Will Be Smoothed Out. Chicago. Nov. 16. (U, P.) That the question of stopping the draft by the major leagues of players from minor leagues wUI be settled without any trouble and In a way that will please the "little fellows," was the opinion ex pressed by Garry Herrmann, chairman of the national commission. His state ment followed a conference here with President Ban Johnson of the American league ; John H. Farrell, secretary of the Minor Leagues association, and other Minor league officials. "I think it is all Just a lot of talk this stuff about a split between the minors and the majors," said Herrmann. "We all held the opinion after our talk that the matter should be Seld in abey ance for the present, but that It would be smoothed out to suit everybody." Arleta defeated the Portland All Stars Sunday on the Franklin platter by a score of C to 0. "The game was very evenly contested until the mid dle of the fourth' quarter, when Ar leta, by a series of line smashes car ried the ball to the All-Stars' eight yard line only to lose it by a fumble. On the fourth down with only 30 sec onds to play the All-Stars attempted to punt and the kick was blocked and re covered behind the All-Stars' goal by Klngsley,' Arleta's left tackle. For the winners. Thomas, Shone and Elliott featured, while for the losers Herman Schroeder was the star. Manager Hughie Jennings of the De troit American league nine has com pleted his twenty-eighth successive sea ana in baseball. The Arleta eleven clashed ' with St. Johns In which Arleta was the only one to cross the goal. The winners' star was Harry Thomas, who is a Franklin player. Manager Bush thinks MacKensie and Brooks will soon be equal to Thomas. They would probably have met defeat had It not been for the good showing Thomas made. The cushion effect of aerated oil con fined In cylinders features a new suspen sion system for motor trucks In which springs are eliminated. "Scotty" Allen Is Portland Visitor, Racing Cancelled A. A. Allen, the famous "Scotty" Allen of Nome dog races, is at the Imperial hotel en route from Nome t Berkeley, Cal., where he will spend the winter. Allen ia associated with Mrs. Darling, the California sportswoman. In racing a team or huskies, ana tney nave won the race from Candle to Nome, 40S miles, on three occasions out of eight starts. They were second three times and third twioe. Most of the Allen-Darling ken nels were sold to the French government in 1915 to be used In Alpine corpa and were delivered In France by Allen. Allen runs a hardware store in Nome In the summer and Is Interested in a sheet 'metaX works In Oakland. There wiW be no running of the all Alaska sweepstakes or the Solomon derby until conditions are normal again. PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Nov. 1!. L N. S.) Porky Flynn of Boston lastod a little more than two minutes with Jack Dempeey here last night. Demp sey. after knocking Flynn through tfce ropes In the first minute of fighting, put him down and out with a right to the chin. . War Work Opens Baltimore Boxing Baltimore. Md.. Nov. 19. (I. N. 8.) The ban which has been placed en bog lng in this city since the United State entered the war, was lifted today when I-the board of police commlsaloners gave permission to local promoters to stage a boxing carnival for the benefit of the United War Work compairn. This Dewey Basketball Chairman i action, which had been previously re George Deey. former star basketball j fused, is taken to indicate that this show player at the Oregon Agricultural col-1 will be followed by renewal of regular lege, was named chairman of the basket- j boxing exhibitions In Baltimore. ball committee of the Multnomah Ama- Answer to Query Portland. Nov. 19. (Sports Kdltor The Journal) What were the receipts at the Corbett-McCoy fight In New York and hat was the date? READER. teur Athletic club by the board of di rectors Monday night. Dewey, who ia well versed in the indoor game, succeeds George A. Anderson, who is attending the officers' training school at Camp Pike, Ark. Toronto mercantile and commercial houses may form a checker league. Corbett knocked McCoy out In five rounds, August SO, 1900. The gate re ceipts were $56,250. THE N. Carpenters shot the N. Fasten ers a special match Sunday after- ...hum, aunuugii aamitung i noon for a dInner wlth the trimmlnea. The N. Fasteners got the trimmings. that Cannafax Is a worthy opponent As for Cannefax. he cites a few fig ures that; prove, he says, he will win the title. Bob and Augie have played 18 short games the past summer. . In only five of those contests has the champion been victorious. Cannefax tak ing the balance. In one game. Bob trimmed Augie 60 to 18 in 27 innings, which is one of the most remarkable billiard exhibitions on record. Is of Modern School Like Kieckhefer, Cannefax is of the modern school, employing calculation methods to make their billiards. With them it Is not a question of shooting and praying. They go after every shot with an assurance that it will at least be a close one. Charley Morin, also a Chicago star, has been agreed upon as the referee of the contest. This week's Oregon alley schedule : Tuesday, four teams of the Grant Smith Porter company ; Wednesday. Mercantile league ; Thursday, four teams of the Grant Smith company. Qrmr.t Smith Shipyard f. FASTEN KRS 1st 2nd 3cd Game. (lime. Ilime. Total Harris 113 1B7 J80 410 Boy 16R 157 177 fOL' Joplin 131 144 132 407 Kitan 161 11 14B 420 Peterson 124 171 132 427 At. 137 17 13G 142 142 MULTNOMAH CLUB. GETS MILE TITLE EVENT FOR 1919 Amateur Athletes Who Became Army Camp Instructors Won't Lose Their Standing. . Totali 697 75S 717 2172 X. CARI'KNTEHS Puttitt 162 147 1SS 409 Olson 22 178 143 54 7 Thomas 171 163 188 22 1-each 190 137 174 SOI Dare ....107 143 150 400 162 1 82 174 107 133 Totals ..858 766 843 2467 N. Carpenters won three tames and the match by 295 vim. 7 p t Wear Slipknots fob the hot sidewalk oHoot. hocks 1 '. V and fatigue. Your feat sink 1 if ' down softly into Slipknots 1 . I . them ap again buoyantly, 1 - ' they're) a resilient. They're I j there) oo f oot milaafo. I 1 rTMOHTHBaMMfttY I " S PkJ Football Players Fall Incorrectly Football players appear to suffer more from dislocated or broken shoul ders this season than from any other injury- This is because they do not know how to fall on the ball or to tho ground. They use their elbows to break the jar. The result is an extreme jar at the shoulder ajid something glws way. When falling on the ball, if thf player curls his body around the ball, with his arm well under him. no In- Jury can come to him, no matter how4 many players may pile on him. The same principle applies to players who fall on the field. Athletes Prove an Enigma to Germans A marine lust back from the front was telling of how his company went Into action at Chateau-Thierry. "The captain was an old athlete," he said ana wnen we got the word to go he told us to forget all about the fancy war-stuff to in ana give Heinle a good old rough and tumble fight." Instead of fancy bayonet thrusts and parries, the marines gave them a good old-fashioned Yankee punching." The marine said the enemy was so flabbergasted by the odd method of fighting that they were soon in route. Movement Started to Remove Burleson Seattle. JNo.v 19. (I. X. S.)- because of -alleged failure to obey the spirit of President Wilson's proclamation in taking-control of the telegraph and tele phone cpmpanies of the country, and be cause of his alleged demands of organ ised labor, a movement was started here today to have Postmaster General Burle son removed from office. Petitions have 5" prpared 'or forwarding to the LrH7ijTn th ?Mnet How About Your W. S. S. Pledge? ft "No sacrifices we can make ani si are comparable to theirs " Z a Woodrow Wilson. g si Complete the purchase of your 5 War Savings Stamps this month. S They are your obligation to the 2 boys "over there." They need it S tsa now aa never before. . 2 a ' c s. On the Portland Bowling alleys there were three special matches Sunday. DeHaven won from Wood (two weeks ago Wood won from ' DeHaven by two pins). Austey won from Goodwin, and Flavin won from Moffett. This week the leagues will bowl as usual. Following are Sunday's scores :! amateur standing ToUl DelfaTen 19!i3 Wood 1748 Aontey 1 809 tioodwin 1 735 FUil 1720 Moffett 1687 On the Oregon Alleys : Rose Olty League TTXION MEAT CO. 1st 2nd 3rd Hame. Game, fiame. Total. Re 170 162 188 470 Parr lf6 124 141 421 Clapp 114 14S 143 402 Zeias -.178 149 137 404 Wender 180 144 151 '485 Totals 808 724 600 2222 VAXCOl'VER Rrown 157 146 154 458 Femea . .-. 166 150 165 481 Tollefson 148 165 143 4 56 Secar 184 168 130 491 Fore 170 156 211 537 Totals' 825 785 812 2422 VaneoUTer won three games.. ' At. 15 175 181 174 172 109 At. 157 140 134 155 162 15t 160 152 164 179 Philadelphia. Nov. 19. The Multnomah Amateur- Athletic club of Portland. Or., was awarded the 1919 National cham pionship one-mile run at the meeting of the Amateur Athletic union here yes terday. The national fancy diving champion ships for women was awarded the Los Angeles Athletic club, a also were the basketball. gymnastic and baseball championships. Samuel J. Dallasm of the Meadow- brook club of Philadelphia was elected i president and Frederick W. Rubien re elected secretary-treasurer. The next meeting will be held in Boston. One record was rejected, that being the 110 yard open salt water swim made by Duke Kahanamoku of Hono lulu, who was clocked in 1 minute. 4-5 of a second. The union said that the start was illegal. Amateur athletes who became paid i instructors of mass athletics for army camps during the period of the war were adjudged not to have lost their The Pacific associa tion, which tried to get a rule passed that foreign atflletes could not compete in American championships, was turned down. Foreign competition elevates athletes, the union decided. Rom City League TBU BI,U B1SCI IT CO. 1st 2nd 3rd Gamp. Came. Game. Total. Robitaille 167 163 209 639 West 124 179 168 471 Anderson 182 131 101 414 Keller 149 146 108 408 Elsasser 198 196 154 548 Totals 820 815 740 2875 ' PACIFIC orTFTTTINO CO. Hazel 162 158 200 520 Vetsburg 184 155 173 512 Sherman ...,,...171 180 141 42 Hoch .216 189 178 588 Springer 163 168 lfiO i497 At 180 157 138 134 183 178 171 164 194 166 JACKSOV ' Si?t Director. tea tei fcj pa, r, Totals '..886 850 858 2604 Pacific Outfitting Co. won three games. Shedd Boy in Tank Corps Dies in East Albany, Nov. 19. Word was received here Monday that Carl Lehn. son of Joe Lehn of Shedd, ' had dited Saturday In Pittsburg of Influenza. Lehn, who en listed in the army about three weeks ago as a member of the tank corps, was not quite 21 years of age. Be sides his parents, he leaves a daughter and a brother who ia at Camp Lewis. Demobilization Has Begun Camp 'Meade, Md., Nov. 19. I.N. S.) Demobilization of the development bat talions, the first to be mustered out of the service, was begun here Mon day. Conscientious objectors, who op posed War but were willing to do their bit in a noncombatant way, wilt be on their" way home within the - next 10 days. M.i'?.' i ' i - An electric alarm for grain elevator haB been designed to tell a man at a central point when each bin Is full. Jack Thomas Proves All-Round Athlete "The new heavyweight champion of the station. Jack Thomas, is no novice at the ring game," says the Great Lakes Bulletin. "While he never followed the profession as a calling, he acted as spar ring partner for Jim Savage, the Kast--n heavyweight, and other fighters. He also was given a tryout with the New York Giants one season and Is a fair ballplayer. Just now he is attached to the football unit. He won the heavy weight boxing championship when he knocked out Higgins In one round a couple of weeks ago." War Worker Kills Rival St. Liouis, Jsov. 19. Believing that Harry Kramer, bartender at the Bur lington hotel here, had won the affec tions of his sweetheart, Melvina Schuet- tenberg, Joseph Hablawetz, a govern ment war v worker just returned from Norfolk, Va.. shot and killed Kramer while the latter was tending bar early Monday. European Cotton Supply Low Washington, Nov. 19. The vlsibh supply of cotton In Europe has reached the lowest level known in the trade for years, war trade board officials said Monday. This supply last week was less than 400.C00 bales. Also the exports of cotton touched the low mark. ' ELfiALLO "Each Cidar in its, own humidor" y) Judge Knows- I 'Most delightful aroma - X lit Wektheimu Bros. Baltimore Md. 9 TO THE PUBLIC The postmaster general has directed the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company to place in effect, beginning November 15th, the new rates filed with the Public Service Commission. The necessity for increased rates is to provide revenue to meet further increases in wages to the op erating forces jn order to recover and maintain these forces and bring the service back to its former stand ards. The new rates were not introduced on the initia tive of the Telephone Company. The postmaster general was advised of the urgent necessity for increases in wages to the operating em ployes, and the Telephone Company recommended increases, which were approved by the postmaster general; but as the earnings of the system wGuld not permit of further increases in wages without operat ing the property at a deficit, which would fall on the postoffice department, as the system is now being op erated by it, the approval of wage increases by the po'stmaster general ws conditioned on obtaining revenues to meet he increases, and the Telephone Company was asked for its recommendation in this matter. As additional revenue could be obtained only through increased rates, the Telephone Company submitted a new schedule to the postmaster general, which was considered and approved by him. , None of the increased -revenue will go to the com pany. It has no financial interest in the operations of the system, as it is otherwise compensated for the use of its property by an agreement with the post master general. All of the revenue goes to the-gov-ernmept and all of the expenses must be met by it. The Company's only interest, so long as the govern ment operates through its agency, is to give the best service possible and to keep the system self-sustaining. ; THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY V" -1 J