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MIKE O'DOWD IS MOST POPULAR OF SOLDIER FIGHTERS One' of Few Americans Who Actually Served In the Trenches in "France; CarpentierWilde and Criqui Are Fighters Fans Here H..M I !! . Qna In A rtinn Affainct Americans. ffVMIU fcmw w w w-w ... - ' PROHAliLY the most popular boxftig champion in the country when "the boys" get back from abroad will be Mike O'Dowd, the rugged middleweight title holder. O'Dowd won his crown by lambasting A1 McCoy into a knojekout in Brooklyn a couple of years ago. O'Dowd is one of the few American boxers who actually served in the trenches of France and Flanders. Needless to say, the little battering ram from St. Paul will be much in demand when he resumes his campaign in the ring. v The middleweight title holder is anxious to box Georges Car oenticr. but as the Frenchman scales about 1T5 pounds, he would be .too heavy and have other physical advantages that would make a bout with O'Dowd out of the question. There will be opponents for the middleweight champion, and land will fit him fpr the bouts in return to America. Should Georpen Carpentier come here to box early next year he will tm In much the name predicament as the chap In the nong who was all dolled up, but had no place to go. .No place to box. Without boxing in Xcw. York state where could a match with Car pen tier and either Wlllard or Jack Dempney bo held To be sure. New Orleans would eauerly accept the attraction, as would a number of other cities where boxing la a!-" lowed, but a match of such magni tude as one Involving Carpentier and either one of the great Ameri cans would be out of place any where but right here In little old . Xtw York. It Is highly probable, however, that a nfatch between Carpentier and one of the American boxers may be permitted In this, city should ji substantial portion of the receipts l; donated to some War welfare organization. Indeed, it is believed that this is the only .pur pose for which Carpentier will be "permitted to come here to box, and , that every tournament In "which he appears will turn over a portion of the receipts to some war fund. Woald KevlTe Sport That a Carpentler-Wlllard or Car ' rentier-Dempsey match would serve In a considerable degree to revive COAST HOOKEY ! WILL OPEN NEW ! YEAR'S NIGHT Vancouver and Victoria Get Port land Players for 1918-19 Season. Seattle, Wa ll.. Dec. 25. (I. N. S.)-r-Wlth the Pacific coast hockey season scheduled to open here on New Year's night, the three teams that will compete .for the western championship are prac tically complete. ' .Peter Muldoon, manager of the Seattle team, announced today he has signed "Happy" Halines as goalie. This fills the lat big gap In the Mets' line up. Other, well known hockey stars who will be In Met uniforms this season are: Ber nie Morris, Jack Walker. Hobby Rowe, Frank Koyston and Roy Rickey. Vancouver will have an exceptionally strong team Including : "Cyclone" Tay lor, considered the greatest all-around hookey player and individual scorer In the ga,me on the coast ; Fred ' "Smoky" Harris: Alex Irvin, Lehman, Mackay, Stanley, Ukslla and Cook. Victoria, the third team In the race, will have several former Portland play era. The team Includes Charlie Tobin, Clem Laitgnlln. Alf Barbour and "Skin ner' Toulin. .' Eifle Association Tourney at Bisley National .Rifle association win be ' staged at Bisley next year. The ques tion, will the war have revived interest In rifle shooting as a pastime or will thn new minions of riflemen enrolled with the various allied armies 'tiro of thn business of handling the rifle, will bn then determined. Block Pays Visit to His Folks Sergeant William Block. 137th Ord- nance depot. Camp Fremont, Cal., well known member of the Multnomah Ang lers' club, and former champion fly 'caster of the northwest, arrive' in fortland Tuesday to pend the holidays . wltn his parents. . Jneres a Salesman from Yirginia, who was chewing and swapping yams with tne men on the Post Office comer. "Have a chew," says he to Jake. Jake doesn't think he's chew ing unless his cheek bulges out like he had the mumps. Call that a chewr he snorts. "Sure!" says the t PEYTON BRAND Real Gravely Chewing Plug each piece packed in a vouch " O . the matches heights in fc.ng which he will engage upon his , "" interest in boxing In v tills Country goes without saying. . . What with tremendous events ocyr curing almost dally In . Europe. m terest in boxing has notlcably waned in many sections of this country-", Xot only Is the dullness attributed to the advent of. peace and the Te- sultant unsettled conditions of sports in general, but the epidemic of in fluenza also dealt boxing, along with other branches of athletics, a severe blow. Boxing needs such an attraction as a Carpentier match to restore Its old popularity. ' Now that It Is practically certain that Carpentier is coming here to box. efforts also will - be exerted to have Jlmrriy Wilde; the famous British flyweight, come to this coun try. Wilde Is said to have grown into a fullfledged bantam, and Bhould he come here, wotfld be a' tremendous attraction against either Pete Herman or Frankie Burns. Then. too. Eugene Criqui,. the fa mous French bantam, anso may visit t liese shores when he obtains his release from the army. Criqui has len boxing brilliantly of late, and is said to be one of the most formidable bantams ever developed in Europe. Criqui is not only skill ful, but possess a hard punch. He would be a good match with any of the American bantams. Murphy Gives Fifty For Ed Grant Fund Charles Webb Murphy, former owner of the Chicago Cubs, who controls the Philadelphia National league ball park, announces that he will subscribe $50 to a suitable memorial to Captain Kddle Grant, who was killed in action several weeks ago. As Grant made his profes sional book with the Phillies after grad uating from Harvard, Murphy believes that the memorial should be erected in the Quakers' park. Other baseball men are expected to follow Murphy's lead in a movement to perpetuate the memory of one of the cleanest players in the na tional game. Colonel Huston Is To Remain in France Colonel T. L. Huston, half owner of the New York American league baseball club, will probably be among the last Americans to leave France. Colonel Huston is in command of a regiment of engineers who will no doubt be needed for the work of reconstruction In France and Belgium. Many fans are; of the opinion that if Huston were here during the winter he would undoubtedly do much to reestablish baseball along the lines that would put the national game on a higher plane than It has ever reached before. Intercollege Game Of Basketball Off Basketball teams representing Penn. Columbia, Yale and Princeton will en gage in a series of games extending from January to March next but the usual intercollegiate tourney will not be held this season. Eller Reinstated By Amateur Union In reinstating John J. Eller of New ork city, a returned Y. M. G. A. ath letic instructor In war work, to ama teur standing, the Amateur Athletic union has put Into practice the amend ment to "its eligibility cod rwpntlv I aaopiea. salesman. "This is Real Gravely. That small chew satisfies, and the longer you chew it the better it tastes.That's why it doesn't cost anything extra to chew this class of tobacco." It t fmnhtrtkmt't mk? y gtl Athlete Berry - " Of Notre Dame Is Hero of War Sew Tort, Bee. Pal Berry, former star athlete for Kotrn Dane, wb pitched several games for . the Jfew' York Glante'tn -arrived yesterday on ,tne transport Xa France. He fowght at Verona, Cha-teaa-Thlerry, and on the Sorame. It was Berry who discovered that what nnrnorted to be an 'old tree trnnk was In reality a enmonflaged affair of sheet Iron from which Ger man machine fanners were mewing down Americans In the Argonne. He and nnotner private hilled the Ger man gnnner and captured tlx others. FOOTBALL FANS WILL SEE SIGNS Western Conference Official De-L vises Signals to Press Box on What Penalties Are. MEW YORK, Dec. 25. -Football can be reconstructed. But. the recon struction probably won't affect; the col lege sport greatly. - It's accustomed to reconstruction, which has become an an nual' event, like the decoration of a flat ' Every winter the football savants gather to discuss the sport's reconstruc tion. They have had the game under anaesthetics every winter while they re moved the appendix, put it back, and threw in a few little appendices for good luck. Game Is Satisfactory ; I For the past few years only small changes have been made. The so-called "new" game has proven satisfactory, and amendments have been minor af fairs. Now there Is one more set of rules to be added. These are for the benefit of the spectators. They don't affect the players but they will give the officials a few more precepts to follow. These rules provide a standard set of signals by which the referee may Indi cate for spectators what Is happening on the field especially regarding Infliction of penalties. Football no longer is a mere spectacle. It la -a game watched by . people who know It more or less. Numbering of players, practiced by In dividual schools was the first recogni tion of this fact. Signals to let the grandstand know what is happening would be another. .. Birch Has Signals Frank Birch, a busy western confer ence football official, has devised signals for the benefit of the press box. They are sinTple. If practiced by all referees the public soon would be as familiar with them as the newspaper men. Birch's code for penalties runs: Tripping Both hands on hips. Holding One hand grasping the on. poslte wrist. .. Unnecessary roughness Viirnrons shaking of both fists. Off side One arm extended. There are others equally simple and easy to remember. Gun Poor Weapon to Shoo'' Away Bovine Glenwood Springs, Colo., Dec. 25. (I. - S.) Hitting a cow over the back with a shotgun is no way to shoo an animal out of a pasture, it was demonstrated yesterday in a costly les son to Wilson Tottlnger, a railroad en gineer of this city Pottihger was go ing home through the pasture when he came on the cow (a neighbor's) tranquilly eating his best grass. The engineer, who had been out hunting, brought the butt end of his gun over the cow's back, accidently turning the muzzle directly on himself. The trig ger went off, the discharge catching Fottinger lull in the chest. He died several hours later. Captaincy for Sousa Sought in Petition Mansfield, Ohio, Dec. 25. (I. N. S.) Because he wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and because he is one of the greatest bandmasters of all time, the leading newspaper of this city wants to make Lieutenant John Phillip Sousa, a captain, at least, be fore the American forces are mustered out. The. paper says, "thousands of young men at the training camps have had their hearts beat to the stirring music written by Lieutenant Sousa and he is more deserving of promotion than others who have been given high er rank." Boys Leave School To Work in Shipyard Philadelphia, Pa., Dec ,25.- (I. N. S.) So many boys under 18 years of age have been kept out of school by parents to work in the shipyards here at big wages that the shipyards them selves have taken up the problem. On one day 115 parents were in thn ma gistrate's court, charged with allow ing their. boys to work in the shipyards in violation of the law. "I should wor ry,'" said one parent. "I was fined $14 and costs and Johnny made $50 the last week he - worked." The decrease in overtime and Sunday work since the armistice was signed is already helping to abate the evil. Sliipping Wheat to Britain Commended .Liverpool, Dec. 25. (I. Jf. S.) (By Mall.) British Millers are deeply grateful for the decision of the United States food administration to Bend whole wheat to England Instead of flour. Our mills were about ' to shut down, 'throwing; thousands of. skilled workmen out of employment at time when demobilization threatens to disrupt many industries," a prominent miller told the International News Service. 'America's action In sending us wheat represents . the highest type of world Bervlce. - And it shows that the American miller la not selfish." - CHRISTMAS GREETING FROM PORTLAND'S OWN nTHOSE killed at football during the 1918 season and the cause of their deaths is as follows ; . Carl D. Snyder of JCew Philadel phia, Ohio, 21 years old; died Oc tober 22 from a broken back; in jured lu.a game .with an athletic ' club eleven. V '. Maurice Thompson . of Pontiae, 111., 18-year-old high school student; died October S from concussion of the brain suffered in a game the previous day. ' Wendel S. Watkins. Chauncy, Ohio, 20-year-old student on the Ohio university freshman team; dead of a broken back on October 7. Semi-Pro Injured Spine William P. Ryan. Chicago.. 21 years old : died October 6 from spine Injury suffered in a semi professional game. , Michael .Janowsky, Owosso, Mich... 24-ycar-old sailor from Great Lakes naval training station; d lea . Oc tober 14 from fracture of skull re ceived In a game while home on a furlough. Gordon Scott. Grand Rapids. Mich., 17-year-old high school stud dent; died November 12 from a broken neck. , . Chester Harris of Canal 'Winches ter, Ohio, 17 years old ; died No vember 28 'from internal Injuries re ceived in a high school game. . Gordon Sutton of Los Angeles. Cal.. 20 years old ; died October 25 from injuries received in a high school game. Ralph May of Shelby, Ohio, 24 years old ; collapsed and died of apoplexy after playing in .a univer sity class game. Allan Miller of Columbus, Ohio, 18-year-old high school student: died from broken neck. Service Men Killed In view of the fact that thousands -of games were played in the army camps and cantonments ; throughout the country, it is held remarkable that not a single player of any of the service teams was killed. Michael Janowsky of Owosso, Mich., a sailor stationed at the Great Lakes training station in Chicago,' died from a fractured skull sustained in a gamo in which he participated while on a furlough. Four of the 10 players killed re ceived their injuries in high school games. - Not a single player of any of the varsity teams in the country was killed. Wendel S. Watkins of Chauncy, Ohio, a freshman of the Ohio university, died from a broken back sustained in a game played October 7. . . , , Calgary Gets Arena Calgary is to have one of the finest arenas - in the Dominion of Canada for hockey and winter sxorts as the exhibit tlon board there decided to turn the 1 orse show ' building at Victoria park into a rink this winter. LIEUTENANT JIMMY DE HART, United States army, aviator, well known college football and baseball player, who is under contract with the Pittsburg Nationals. De Hart has been playing halfback for the Mathers Field team of Sacramento during the 1918 season. , in Ut ir h i hi" 1 i :;. . ... I I f:: r ' .. 1 ri Hi1- " " 1 " ib t1IMMMMMMr(.to.r...-.(..r..-....iii.Y..T..v....-.-..i.,.y. - J.;. ...... ...t .-,T HUMOR 'EM AND YOU'LL SEE PEPPER Old Doc Robinson of Brooklyn Gives Prescription for Success . on Baseball Diamond. UNCLE WILBERT ROBINSON, the rotund manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, gets " a maximum amount of pepper and work out of his ball players. Robby and his playerg are practically the same as pals, and that Is the an- ! clubs in the United States. f" . " T3ui., i Pennsylvania State college has added Vhenever.a player on ' thBrookbTJ j ,ce hook to inifrcollegtate sport. club develops a case of temperament ! Robby may be found on the job with his ; Capital invested in the automobile in contagious smile and his amiable per- ; dustry in the United States amounts to sonaltty, smoothing out the wrinkles. Don't Treat 'Em Bongh The secret of Robinson's success in de veloping young pitchers, in which he made a great success with the Giants, is based on the same principle. His motto is, "treat 'enr like humans, not as ma chines, and they'll win for you.".. And that motto has male Uncle Wil bert a host of friends both In and out of baseball, for. he applies it to every body. - Robby outlines his belief as fol lows : "Treat your players like humans and they will win ball games. They'll Work Harder "That is my idea. It is not going to do any good to cut in and bawl a fellow out because he. plays bad Jn one game or pulls over a bonehead play. I was with nig league teams for years, as player, coach and almost every other capacity, and I know that the big percentage of ball players will work harder if taken to task kindly than to be preached to con tinuously, before their fellow -players. "There are a few men. of course, on whom kindness would be lost, but it Is human nature to treat ball players right. I could name probably half a donen play ers in the National league who must be fl ager was continually riding them. ' On our ball club, I am very' happy to say, there are none of these men." First Infantry Wins Camp Title Camp Lewis. Wash.. Dec Zo. The First infantry football team won the championship of the American Lake cantonment here yesterday by defeat ing the 13th Ammunition train. 20 to 0. Woman's Optimism Nets Her Cool $500 Pittsburg, Pa.. Dec. 25. (L N. S.) Mrs. J. H. Stelners optimism ana faith in General Pershing and his Yanks has won for her Io00.. While l the Germans seemed on the verge .ot winning me war iw weui nelghbors cheering them up. saying- that the enemy would be beaten before the snow began to fall. When her statements were questioned she prompt- ly offered to wager $500, Jhtch was prompt.! 4f a 1H it 5 i U it 41 i M "ne,Vv-ooT CANADIAN Henley rowing regatta will In all probability be revived next ! summer and rowed over the St. Cath arines mile and o-"" vards course. The Chicago Cubs will indulge in spring training on the Pacific Coast. Harvard university has started pre liminary rowing practice. Columbia university will make boxing a varsity sport and hold a tourney. Brooklyn schoolboys will play hockey, eight schools entering teams. It is estimated there are 4323 gun $1,200,000,000. Eleven sectional associations are a part, of the United States National Lawn Tennis association. Santa Clara university is the latest to take up the soccer football game. Fabre to Resume Athletic Work Leon Fabre. c., who was given a leave of absence to enlist in the United States navy, returned to Portland Tues day from Bremerton, Wash., and will resume his duties at Washington and Franklin high schools with the reopen ing of the institutions after the holidays. DOCTRINE OF SPHERE OF INFLUENCE WORKS in Africa Suffers as Result of Methods of Old European Diplomacy. By John F. Bn Special Cable to Th Journal and Cbicace Daily Xewa, (Copyricht. 1918. by Cbicaso Daily Newt Co.) Paris, Dec., 2i. An American in po litical life told me the following story : The old diplomacy of Europe has brought the republic of Liberia to an unfortunate pass. Liberia was induced by the allies . to declare . war because Germany was using Ltberian territory to set up wireless stations. The result rf T.fHftt'a itaolaNtiAn nf wr wafl that tho German merchants and bankers who had an -ctive commer-e from Liberia -ion th. African coast were interned. T.,-inA- .fnnn4 inH the customs re- fel, to aml08t nothing. Conse- quently thn . Llberlan government ap- Ued to thft united States for a small loan to carry on (ta affairs, The Unlted states was about to m thJ loan when the statesmen of interfered.. They said that for tho -United States to make a loan to Liberia was not a friendly act' because by so . doing . the United States would establish a sphere or innuence in ai-rica.- This suggests the malignant in fluence of the. old diplomatic doctrine of spheres of Influence. Each nation in its sphere holds tne uniortunate pro tected nations in its grip and extracts for Itself the preatest possible profit at the expense of the helpless victims. "in this case it is a dog in tne man ger; attitude taken by the diplomats for no one wlth spneres oi mnuence in ifHu has any money to loan io unior tunate LlbVrla, Surely, the league of nations ought to take care or jusi sucn situations." ' . Politics Result in Appeal for Divorce Kansas City. Dec. 25. JL N. S.) leaver marry a woman wno aiiiera from you politically is the advice of ! William Aue. of the. Kansas side. Wil liam is a staunch Democrat, inn wire t a strona Republican, wuuara per sists in voting, the Democratic ticicet nd Kunoortine the presment on an occasions. Mr. Aue nieo sun lor ai- vorcn In Reno. v. In it ho alleges: ti , defendant constantly told plain tiff she would not have married him if she had known hn .was a Democrat." Harder Theory Strengthened Sfeattl. Dec 23. (U.. P.) What the police today regard as confirmation of HARDSHIP LIBERIA the murder of Daniel a. cwuins. oaiu salesman, in a room at thn Hotel Diller hero early Sunday, morninr' bT Albert Schroeder of Walsenberg.. Colo., devel oped with. , thn identincatlon or one or the three- watches .carried by- Schroeder as Collins property. Thn identification was made-by O. F. Collins, brother the murdered man. Cotter Bride Is Dead WaRhinrton.' Dec 25-Cotter Bride. prominent Wanhingtonian and friend former Secretary or atate uryan. i here today.-. oiea ATHLETICS "COME BACK" SOON BIGGER THAN EVER All Branches of Sports Are Expected to Pick Up Next Year Under Reconstruction Caused by Ravages of War and Will Be Going Full Tilt by Summer of 1920. By George Bertz RECONSTRUCTION of all branches of athletics in this court-, try is being carried on by the governing bodies with the idea that the sport games arc going to be more popular than ever. All indications point to a healthy revival of all sports. The army training, so successfully handled .under the Fosdick com mission, developed many baseball and football players and also developed a number of boxer and wrestlers, some of whom will continue to follow up these branches, and made fans out of thou sands of others. Resumption of the Davis cup tennis matches in 1920 has been recommended bv the executive committee of the United States 1 National Lawn Tennis association, together with a report advo- caung me staging oi an scciionai ana national title meets in jyiy. Although no official action has been taken by the Amateur Athletic union in regard to the resumption of the Olympic games, it is expected that this great international competition on track and field will be resumed in 1920, and it would not be surprising if this classic would be staged in this country. Germany was awarded the 1916 Olympic meet, but was forced to cancel the event on account of the world struggle. Several cities In the United States were willing to stage the meet, but the international com mittee favored indefinite postpone ment. Baseball Being Reorganized Baseball leagues throughout the United States are being reorgan ized, with a view of creating more interest, although it is not likely that the leagues will be thoroughly reestablished until 1920. CoTiege conferences throughout the country are adopting plans to cre ate a wider interest in all branches of athletics and to interest more students in the various games. Swimming is expected to be more popular than ever throughout the country, the tour of Duke Kahana mouko doing much to put swimming on a high plane in this country. Korthweit Coming to Front Sports in the Northwest will cer tainly come to the front in 1919. The northwest college conference has laid plans for the resumption of all branches of athletics, although base ball and other minor sports will not be fully established until 1920. The Pacific Northwest association la expected to stage its annual championships in boxing and wres tling and track and field . this sea son in addiUon to the swimming meets. Rowng is expected to be revived again after being pushed by the boards for the period of the war. The Portland Rowing club officials are hopeful of seeing their crews in action against the crews represent ing the Vancouver and Victoria clubs. Golf and tennis will be more at tractive than ever. The international tennis matches, which have always been a feature of the summer game, m-ill be resumed next year. NOW PLAYING TO ALSO Pictograph and Mutt and Jeff Cartoon fyi yj-i.j - ' of ' ) I? . ii 1 t l - r " , s V: it . WILL AL'GIE KIECKHEFER, thn clever three-cushion billiard player, who . has successfully defended the tlUe for many months, will meet Pierre Mau pome. champion of the Interstate league. in the next match for the world's title at Chicago. January 6, 7 and 8. The match of 150 points will be played in Mocks of 50 poin'H a night. Emilio Ortiz, amateur billiard cham pion of Spain, is a contestant In thn Class B tournev of thn American Ama- teaur association in New York city. William F. Hoppe, balk-ltne billiard champion, and Kojl Tamada will tour . this country. It Pays to Advertise; Gobs Found This Out San' Fraifclsco, Dec. 25. (I. X. S.) It payvfo advertise, or if it does not. youwlll have to put up a stiff argu pwtit with the crew of the U. S. tor pedo boat Mugford to that effect. -The cause of this .state of mind,, has been brought about by -thn fact that . they naa Deen aonniea m sinn urn pup to act an mascot for their ship through a story sent out by thn war enmp community service. asking nome kind-hearted person for a dog for this purpose. The response wnn very prompt, and now the Mugford has as fine a bull pup as any ship In Uncle Sam's navy. SATISFIED THOUSANDS Marguerite Clark IN, "LITTLE HOOVER" 4 Or '4 4 ' .. h I Hi f ' V 4 X