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' - ' : SATURDAY MOKNINfl JANUARY 37. 1023 V TLeire amd Everywhere in meet to . BE HELD HERE EDGEGATE -Miy Lewis Squirms Out of a Tight Corner In An Easy Manner! BY LOUIS RICHARD Company F Will Put on - Classy Smoker Bayes . and Fong to Mix f?F JHfttAf l V ft SAIfJLL . tat1 yt-l F Ssiji THE OKEGOET STATESMAN, SAtEW. OREflON em, SQUIRE 1 R THfTT Vou ) f t JfLlttrL X f I- . At least three races -or people Will meet in the ring- at the Com pany ,F boxing meet February 1 at the armory. ; It la an .interna tional championship, a meltlng- t pot amalgamation the like of -which '.isn't .usually teen- outside the etoiry books. v i ! ;7! y:-.y 4 ; pbil Bayes of Salem was to take ob Ah Fong, the rugged Portland Chinese boxer who has been, wor- rrinc the best boys of his weight 1 all op and down the coast. That i m-At wa nsflnnall. a wouiu . v tie But after the agreement had lhen made with Fohg'a manager I i ia Portland, It was learned that Fong himself was somewhere out of townl and they couldn't locate hlsn in time; so they have sub fstituted Mysterious Billy Smith Junior, a ! young but promising i Portland battler who recently ap-; pea red on a Portland semi-wind-up, and won in impressive style. He -rill not be the "yellow man" that they had expected. , i Sill Hunt of Salem is to meet 1 Touc Peter Jaekson of Portland, !' rugged colored boy4. who has fought Bill - Bletch and Bill Mc i Donald, from-whom Hunt' won' in ljone of the most notable battles in the history of the Salem ring. He is big and ambitious, in both M which qualifications he finds at; least, V match, in the Salem scrapper. .: Hunt f has appeared foar or five times, here in Salem, winning most of the time and al ways giving the buyers more than tlheir money worth. His colored friend makes the third natlonal t lty and hue. Y- ls:''-.. P V ' j ', "Kid"- Kream of Chemawa, the Indian lightweight boxer who ap peared J wo or three times last year and always got such a hand, is the fourth kind. Kream's op ponent has not yet" been selected, ulf he isn't mighty good he will look like a fifth color green Reside the clever .Indian. It may be a complete rainbow by the time the card is completed, for there are to be five bouts In all, and ' here are- four . kinds out of the first five men who are certain to appear. :J. i: ' i.(7-y yy v:' V '" : Bayes is to have his first 10 roond trial, and against a clever, husky lad with j a cast-iron consti tution and no more nerve than a barf ball ! bat. ! Phil has been .working out fatthf ully. getting ready for the biggest match of hia life. Mysterious Billy Smith, fother of the boy who Is to meet Baye v was for years the world's Champion welter-weight, and if the lad inherits his Scotch fath er's skill and Ability it will be 'some match; indeed. It is Bayes first trial over ' the 10-round 'iroute; be has been training faith fully for this as a main, event, and he will be fit as a fiddle. .Red Soxvvner Makes Bid . for Championship Battle V NEW YORK, Jan. 26. Harry Frazee, owner of the Boston Red Sax; today made a definite bid to :tage a heavyweight champion ship match iaext summer between Jack Dempsey and the negro challenger, Harry Wills. 1 5 Neither Frazee nor Kearns, Dempseys manager1, wojildi dis- uss Its terms but it was said the baseball magnate's offer included a bonus of $100,000 for Kearns' signature to a contract. Frazee said his proposition was confined to a Wills bout alone. t Salem Indians Wallop Oregon Frosb 28 io 25 .r-.v -. - ; ' i Salem Indian school walloped v the Oregon Frosh. last night, 28 to 25, In" a hot, fast battle that : cave the university lads the sur- prise of their young lives. The teams had met once before, at Eu- t gene, and the Indians didn't make an, impressive showing: the visi tors counted them as cnlnce pia and chocolate eclalre3 for the re turn game. But the Indians all 4 but ran away and hid from the . visitors, all through the game. They led by a score of 13 to .8, at the end of the first half; and tlfey continued to held their lead to the c end.-: r" ,v .- ;y u:'V. . i. ; Dandro George, forward for the Indians, was the star of the game. 4 Ills work is said to have been of a really " spectacular . order. Aj . cheering crowd of students at tended the game, and if ever there was pandemonium at the endof 4 a well-fought game, the Indian boys got their share of it for their i clever work. f STUDENTS GET GRIPPE EUGENE. Or.. . Jan.. 26. A wlde epidemic ' of la grippe ; is , spreading over ' - th eimnm of t Uulverslty of Oregon, accord- "5 - io university physicians, None of .' the students are ser iiloualy in, it u announced. ' o 3oy Cjll ycu Jo vO 1 C ? yl eit IIP OF DEAF SCHOOLS ON Colach Valiant of Oregon Institution Takes Team to Washington Coach Valiant is to leave this morning for Vancouver with his fast basketball team . from the Oregon school for the deaf to play the Washington state school ; for the coast deaf championship. The teams have been playing every, year, and heretofore the northerners have been carrying. oft the lion's share xf the honors. But this year Coach Valiant be lieves his ; boys, will turn the tables, and bring home the Wash ington scalps. : Washington has much the larger school, and so a wider choice for men. But the Salem lads count on courage and their team ability to give them at least an equal rtand with their opponents. : ) Heath and Tyler will go as for wards,- LaFave as center, Rlckert and Taylor as guards, with San ders. Brelje, Hummel and John son as spares. With but one ex ception the locals saw their first basketball here with Coach Vali ant twoyears ago. ; They have played together steadily and they put up a game that would be creditable to almost any college. They beat the TMCA; Yellow jack ets a few nights ago, which is a real feat for any team. They hope to bring the Van couver team 'back to Salem some time this season for a return game.' As the Salem ' armory is state property, . and ) as they rep resent a state school, they expect to be given the opportunity to stage the game in: the armory. They have a fine gym and floor of their own at the school, but Jt is not easir- for townspeople , to reach, being off the carline, ' The deaf school hopes to get enough money together this sea son for a -complete football out fit !for next fall. - They will put out a team if they succeed in get ting the, outfit that they believe will make anything in their classy extend Itself to save Its scalp. Classified Ads in The Statesman Bring Results CHAMP OB TOM GIBBONS. iff, - 5 v The wore other aspirants to a cliaoce to meet Jack Dempsey for the worti, tw-weHhi boxlnf title nght the more tha superiority of the St, Paul heu weight over them WILLAMETTE LOSES TO PACIFIC 18-18 Patton Stars for Bearcats 0AC Due for Match Here Tuesday , Night Willamette has already won all but six of her conference games, the last of the unanimous record games being played at Forest Grove last night, against Pacific University. ; It was a heartbreakingly close finish, with the final score stand ing 19 to 18 in favor of the Pa cific team. This is the lowest cob ference score played on the coast this season' between any two teams, great or small; and it m dicates superhuman guarding and almost a dead equality of playing, with nothing but Lady Luck as the deciding factor. Patton is reported as the star for the Bearcat team, and Schnei der for the Pacific. Forest Grove is Patton's home town, and they got an eye-full of a blonde whirl wind making life miserable for the home 'varsity hopes until aft er the last whistle blew. . Willamette plays OAC here at Salem, next Tuesday night. The Corvallis team won an easy vic tory when they met before; but Willamette has been steadily cut ting down the odds In every game since that first disasterr until last night only, one point separated her from victory. While it is not expected that the Bearcats can I beat the OAC stalwarts, because of the gross disparity in size and xnpHpniAV tint thev exDect to make it a rea) game, and it should be a crackin good contest, be cause everybody is sincerely inter ested in one or the , other of the two contestants there will be n neutrals. ' "" ; Western Club 'Owners to Meet in Kansas City CHICAGO, Jan. 26. President Tearney of the Western league tonight issued a call for a meet ing of the club owners to be held in Kansas City next Monday.? The circuit for the 1923 season will be perfected at that time. Presi dent Tearney was advised that $15,000 of the $25,000 required by Pueblo, Colo., Interests to pur. '. s ' - - - I ' - - ,9 "I r- is revealed. chase the Sioux City, Iowa, fran chise had been raised. The trans fer probably will be made at Kan sas City. IDAHO LOSES PULLMAN, Wash.. Jan. 26. Idaho's difficulty in locating the basket lost its team a basketball game with Washington State col lege tonight. Score 20 to 12. y - r I IWIl4llllMIMjMWlllli ll.milllK III. IM,!.!.!,!..!.....!. m I ' : , 1 : : ; ; . -fc . - . . - i f i - ' , '.- ' -!. .. -r.: Ill - 1 , ' i ' . ' j ' sssssssssssx i 'iii i i 1 1 i i iii i i 1 i i iii iii, assesses , j ": I -j . . y - . . . . . -. .; : . - I . I I ' . - " ' " ". " . . ................. I MhIIMIIIMIIMMIMIIIMItIIMIIlilMMMIMMtllM 1 1 i : : - i .:: ... . . - . ' ; . ; - Telegraphic Shooting Match Half Concluded SEATTLE. Jan. 26. The Uni versity of Washington this eve ning concluded its half of a tel egraphic shooting match with Boston university, making a to tal score of 945. Each -university was to shoot off its hall of the match some time this ajjF I WERE AN ADVERTISER Ji I would buy Circulation-Large Circulation-wherever I could. But I wouldn't buy circulation alone. Is iuu j I j I veek, and it - is expected; here that the Boston firing will be done tomorrow, after which re sults will ibe compared by wire. The five best scores made among the 10 men on each team are counted, . each contestant taking 10 shots, off-hand and 10 prone, a perfect shot . counting 10 and other shots from that down to zero. Thei scores count ed for Washington were: UfD BUY READERS-but I would ii not buy Readers alone. Fd buy Interested readers' ' y r the Paper of Interested Readers - Local Boys Accused of Burglary at High Schools i Carl Blrdwell of Hoyt and Com mercial streets and Virgil' Roberts of 1935 South Cottage street are being , held in the city jail today as the result of burglaries Thurs day night at three Salem junior high schools. One of the' boys confessed to entering! the high 0 ! A "I. - schools and at the same time' im plicated the other. t : v . a T The Grant, MeKInley and. Jun ior high schools were entered and the principals ;- desks ransacked, although nothing was taken. En trance was , gained through, the basement windows- Both boys are being held for " a hearing" which will probably . take place some time today.' ! ' , : ',' 1 j i I I ; i its - vrt. 4