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i&BMUAL : ' '- - Gil SCHOOLS Willamette University Again Host for State Cham- ; pionship Games The annual Oregon State high school - championship basketball tournament "will be staged under the auspices of Willamette nniyer ity on March 12,' 13 and 14. ac cording to an announcement made yesterday !by Coach Guy L. Rath bun., Thej dates and a number o other details were arranged after a conference with the state high school athletic board. No changes in the conduct of the tournament hare been made except that by a recent ruling of the athletic board each 'competing school ; may use eight players ' Instead of seren as has been the practice. , - Unless; a redisricting of the state Js thought necessary because of a number of changes made In the rules' of the athletic associa tion,, one. of - them. permitting schools outside the city of Port land to compete with Portland Bchools'.Taer elimination process for representation In the tourna ment ,wfll -;be .conducted f in nine dlstt." 'Si!. A committee has been appointed In each district by the state board to select the represen atire from that section and they may do So either by holding a dis trict tournament or picking the team byj comparatire scores. This, it Is thought; will do away with the misunderstandings experienc ed in the past in selection of the representatlre team. , ' , The tournament is an annual affair at Willamette university and because of its scope draws the attention of the. entire state to the unirersity and Salem during the period of the basketball compe tition, j The contests hate been handled Very satisfactorily In the past,: and erery effort will-be put Jorth this v year to make it the most successful ever-staged. W III PLfiYS . . . :KJ0BIS Franklin Coming Thursday v and McMinnvmepuin 51 tet Saturday. Night " 5 TT. ' Salem high school , will play two hard games in the interscholastic league here this week, the first of these being with Franklin high school of Portland at the high school gymnasium Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Franklin recently de feated Chemawa 27 to 20, while the Jndians defeated the red and black basket shooters 24 to 23 In H hotly contested game during the .holidays,':- ; McMinnville high ? school will send its basketball team to Salem Saturday night. . Beginning this week the locals are petting down to work in ear nest and are just starting the win ter fhedule of contests. Junior Basketball Teams Vili Play Here This Week T"bre J. L. Parrish Junior high school basketball team will meet the lcKinley junior high school basketball team on the , Parrish floor immediately after school this afternoon. Friday night the locals vWill meet the Independence high school second team here. ' Frank Brown, coach of the Parrish team, has been working his players hard in anticipation of the two games. The , Parrish football team, also under the direction of ' Coach Brown, closed a successful season, and It is hoped that the basketball team, will be able to duplicate the record. r, '.".. ' ' ' SELECT DATES 1 re immm "Mb Union Oil quintet won the first of a series of three games to decide the Commercial league -championship when they defeated the : Anderson-Brown . eam last night1 in one of the fastest and most exciting games seen on the Armtry floor. The final score was 21 to 20. - : , : Util the last one-half minute of the game, Anderson-Brown was lead!-?s 20 to 19. With the game at f.ver heat and the spectators ca c-' -?. Pug Rosa, guard on the Ur!' . C:i tcan," found.; the '.hoop fr t: ' -svi..l2S tr.sLit." "v..- 'v..; ; la Hi i'lrn ct the game, Ar.-cr ; Lrowa walked." away c l ' 'r c; : r.:?, and had BASKETBALL TOURNAMEMT . TO - i mmm mmm - .-J n i hi . i i i .i ii i... i - mm, i.i in in- r . , I Uike McTigue Will Meet - Walker in Match Tonight NEW YORK, Jan. Py. .The Associated Press.) Mickey Walk er, world's welterweight champion will climb two steps out of his class tomorrow night when he meets 4- Mike McTIgue, world's light heavyweight champion j in! a 12 round no-decision match In the Newark armory t :i ? t--;.- The welter king has everything to gain and nothing to lose in this match. By knocking out McTigue or winning on a foul. Walker can capture the 175 pound crown. On the other hand a knockout victory for McTigue would still- leave J Walker Jdng of 147 pounders as j the light heavyweight champion: is not eligible for the welterweight division. Although the men are two div isions apart there will not be a great difference In ; their weight when they step into the ring. Mc Tigue really a middleweight, will scale near the 160 pound mark while Walker will come in around 153.; .;. TESTHiI DILL , . be r,i Statements of O'Connell and 1 Dolan, Banished Play-' ers, to Be Given : NEW YORK. Jan. 6.-Baseball Commissioner ' Landia today ( in formed a committee of New York baseball writers in a letter that he expected to make, public within a few ; days the full testimony of Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan, made to the commissioner before the ; two members , of the - lew York, Giants were banished front baseball for attempted bribery- , The letter from Landls sent In reply to a request from the New York writers that ! this' testimony including O'connell's confession be disclosed was dated January 3 aAd said in. part: ; 1 j , , ' "Although I had expected to give out that testimony for publi cation, long before this- nd I will not postpone such - action' ' much longer, I must withhold It at least for a few days more In what I con- ceive to be the discharge of my oV' ligation' in the matter.. ; , L Landia has been pressed"-fori some time , to reveal the text of the testimony made to him by O'connell's confession,- but exoner ated by the commissioner's probe. Until today, however, , Land 1$ had declined to make the matters pub lic on the ; ground that it would not; serve the best interests of his inveslgation to do so. . , !i . Hi announcement was speculat ed .upon here aa a possible indica tion of further developments Un the near future in the bribery scandal which came put ju$t be fore the last world series. - j t, Washington State College Wins from Whitmarr40-16 PULLMAN, VWash Jan-6W Washington" Stated College ;won an easy victory over the Whitman college . basketball . team here f to night, piling up a score of f 40 to 1 6 . ' Both teams played a ragged leading at the hed of the half,-13 game during the first half! WSC to' 10. At the start of the iecond period the Congers ran, up 'anoth er 13 points before Whitman could score. Nolan of th Cou gars scored 16 "points and ; Kelso, other , WSC forward scored 10. It was the rirst northwest confer ence game for the Cougars. . : t CANOE TRIP ENDED JLWACO. Wash., Jan. 6.4-Amos Burg. Jr., of Portland, today com pleted a canoe trip from ? the source of the Columbia river to tha Pacific ocean, a distance of 1268 miles by piloting his craft. past the river's entrance out into; the open sea. Burg was j accom-? panied by ' a boat of the.j United States coast guard, and another, boat which contained moving pic-i ture photographers who f filmed Burg's progress. . if ' I . - - ...... piled up six points before the o(l team .scored. Frank Brpwn and Greggwere the stars for; the A-J3 quintet, with Ross and Gregg re sponsible for a great deal of the brilliant work of Union OiL ; Arm strong , replaced Glenoa as guard for, , the Anderson-Brown team. The next game win be played 'to night at the Armory, and will start at 8 o'clock. , Jf ; I The lineup of the teams Is is follows:-. , , .-. : t - Union Oil: Newton arid Grefg, forwards: Liske, center; Ross arid Ashby, guards.- ' -- ' ; -'?r:'.; t' Anderson -Brown: Ilarra arid Brown, forwards; Cress, center; Alberts and Armstrong. fuard3. IDE BUC f - i Frankie Doyle of Spokane . Will Work Out at Armory" Tonight, Says Plant Frankie Doyle, of Spokane, who meets Sewell Deane. of Salem, in ythel 10-round welterweight classic at the Armory Friday night, will arrive in the city at 10 o'clock this! morning.- according to word received by Harry PlanV match CR-CKER WARREN maker. Doyle will work out with Phil Bayes at 7:30 o'clock that night, while Deane and Spike Crossan wlH have a workout at 4 0 'clock. Fight fans are welcome to visit either of the two camps and look the fighters over. ": i Cracker Warren, of Oregon City, needs no introduction to Salem boxing followers. His ability and willingness to fight is known to alL .Warren will not come to the fcity until i the night of the big double main event, when he meets Phil Bayes, Salem featherweight. The two fighters are : equal ; in weight, with Warren having a Might edge over Bayes in height. Of added interest will be the outcome of the Deane-Doyle match tor the winner of the event will be billed to meet Charlie Dawson, Eugene ; welterweight, who has also won a host of friends in the city. ' As Dawson and Deane have already met twice, should Deane win the fight Friday fans are as sured of a real treat In a third Deane-Dawson ' match.; . On the other - hand, if :, Doyle ? defeats Deane. knowing the latter, the boxing, followers know that they will get their money's worth when Doyle and Dawson meet. , , Two snappy preliminaries are being arranged for curtain raisers by Matchmaker Plant, and it is expected that contracts ) will be signed today or tomorrow. v The fights. Friday night will start promptly at 8:30 o'clock.. As fans have been ; aware, when Match maker Plant announces his pro gram for a certain hour, the Ight ers enter the ring at the scheduled minute. .' . . G. 0. P. LEADERS DRAW CENSURE . Conttnnd from pag 1) partisan satraps," and trans formed the "government of the people, by the people for the peo pie? Into a .government jof ; the mass by the mass by the classes : "If to be a republican," be add ed, "I am to accept and ratify, de fend and promote a political policy or party that exults in the accom plishment of these results with out protest without exhausting my abilities to correct these fatal errors of the past and prevent their repetition in the future, then I cannot qualify.; ' "If. the election of a republican as president with a reliable work ing majority in. congress means nothing more than an extension for, four years of an unlimited 11 cense to plunder 1 the ' American people, then I cannot be a repub lican. j "If the transfer of a billion of capital values from the farms and producers of America to the swoll en fortunes of monopoly within three weeks' time Is a triumph of the republican party, tien Indeed, Is the party of Linccln doomed." : Sharply criticizing eeaators for Sfettins themselves &3 juujea cf ( i K - - ! - ; -V f- , , i t H i I 1 ' i i " i U 7 Am ;f-'v:-.'--:-7 :lilJr:-t-v!: 1 i 4 Finnish Marvel Wins Race; i World Records Arje Broken K MADISON SQUARE J GARDEN, N. Y., Jan. 6. (B AP). Less than two- hours after he had beaten the pick of American tal ent In. a : mile race In which he shattered two world's records. Paavo 5 Nurml tonight vound up his indoor debut ; with another world's record victory In the 5,000 meter, run at the American Finnish" games. . . , . :--; MADISON SQUARE 'GARDEN, Mew York. Jan. 6. -(By the Asso ciated Press-.Paavb Niirmi, fam- ahi Finniah Olvmoic marvel, open ed his American Indoor! campaign victorious tonlKht When he cap tured a spectacular l mile race in world's record time rrom six rivaja, the first of two races in; which he. was featured tonight at the Finnish-American games. ) : Loren Murchison. in his second start, broke one ; world's ; indoor mark and established another when he ran away, with the 250 metre sprint. - Murchiaon beat his nearest rival, Eddie Farrell, by a doien yards, set a mark! of 29 sec onds ; for the distance; and was clocked at the 220 yard mark In 22 2-5 seconds, beating his own .'ormer mark of .22 seconds, set In 1919. . -I 1 j.;: VJ .1 party loyalty, Senator ! Ladd said his' duty first was to this people of North Dakota and .that he would continue to serve them.? He denied that the representatives of Massa chusetts, : New Jersey or Pennsyl vania should dictate the limits or his party loyalty. : I i w The North Dakota senator said he was proud of the friendship of Senator La Follette who was the independent . candidate; for presi dent and o the other . senators read out of the party Councils. : "I feel it an honor to have had the privilege of toiling and work ing with them in the Interests of the common people o the land," he asserted. ; Portland Man High Gun i f in Eastern Tfiurnament ! '-f-j . . I. : ;' ... i I I PINEHURST, N. d, Jan. 6-4-Frank Troeh of Portland, Or., iattd P, Miller of Dallas, Tx., with 159 out of 160 were high! guns in to day's shooting at the jannual mid winter trapshootlng tournament. Troeh who broke 15 yesterday took the' lead In the $igh average contest of 640 targets! at 16 yafds to be decided Friday, f ; I The race between ihe east and west teams madd.ap. of the five highest' scores from both sides on the first 480 targets j at 1 6 yards found the eastern gunners leading by, 18 targets . after! the day's shoot. . .' f Plans Are Suggested for i Coast Exposition in 1 928 PORTLAND, Ore.J . Jan. 6. A move for an exposition in 1928 or soon thereafter was given impetus here today at a meeting attended by organization; representatives from nearby towns.' It was sug gested that ten Pacific states be invited to assist lnj ' determining a location and that state gover nors name commissioners to ! act as' an exposition governing body. "The Pacific Em pir Exposition," and the "Oregon Trail Exposi tion," were names Suggested, W. J. Kerr, President of tQAC, Suffers from Strain 4 CORVALLIS, I Jan. 6. Falling to receive the festr and strength expected from a change oLclimate, WJ JetVpreVideht ere Ore- gon agriculture eollegev4turned to his home' here today from Long Beach, Cat., and ia now confined to his bed suffering from' severe nervous exhaustion. - - President Kerr has; never fully recovered from the serious injury and shock received in an automobile accident June 28, last, whe& . his car was wrecked on the Lower Columbia highway in a collision with a truck. i.i. OXE HURT IN GUN BATTLE i SEATTLE, Jan. j 6. In a run ning gun battle through the down town , district i hete tonight be tween two patrolmen and -a sus pected bandit, Fre$ Clements was shot through' the ieck and seri ously wounded. The bandit es caped.' Clements. on ' turning a corner, was 'between the patrol men and the bandit. MAY EXTEND AIR SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 6. -Plans for two additional air mail lines to be operated In connection with the present transcontinental service were anncjuced' today by CoL Paul HederBon, second assist ant postmaster general, who with other government officials arrived here today for an Inspection of tha new Ferry building postoffice. ; , j- .'T.;: ; SUSPECT RELEAKKD ;: : SEATTLE, jWasb Jan. - -e! Hagen, former Seiittle policeaan, and .William. J Copper of this city, who had been held as . suspects in an attempted jobbery of the Union Oil company here January 1, were released tpday because cf lack of evidence, ipolice sai4. Johnny Farrell Autosrraphing Largest Golf Ball ; , in the World for Tampa Board of Trade OHicial W tv y This photograph taken at Tam pa, F1S., shows (left to tight) Abe Mitchell, British professional golf star; Farrell. young pro) at .Tampa during the winter season; George D fwoan, also a BritUh j star; Doe TOBACCO PROBE URGED 1 j WASHINGTON, Janl 6. In- vestiatlon of the big tobacco trade i organizations by the fe4eral trade commission was urged jby AAron Sapiro of Chicago in an address today on ! legislative aid govern mental aspects of the Cooperative marketing; problem before the na tional council of farmers cooper ative associations. J .1 r', - ; :' - i j - . v ACTION POSTPONED J WASHINGTON. Jan1. 6 Final auction on the request of adminis tration leaders for a reduction of approximately J14,000.000 in the $53,565,000 rivers , aid ; harbors bill was: postponed today by the house rivers and harbors commit tee until tomorrow with members somewhat vx doubt as to where the pruning could be done with least objection, V 1 N. D- AGGIES BEA1 T K. C; BUTTE, JMont., Jari. 6. North Dakota Aggies, homeward bound after a tour of the northwest,' de feated the. Butte Knights of Co lumbus quintet here tonight. 27 to 9. - "Arnold; and Mjller played strong games for the 'winners whito Greenfield at forward,! playing only the second half, counted 14 points for the scoring honors. IV of , W, DEFEATS CLUB . SPOKANEi Wasni; Jan. . 6 University of Washington's bask etball team opened Its Invasion of Spokane here, tonight with a 44 to 27 Victory over Spokane Amateur Athletic club five. Washington piled up a big lead in the first half, the period ending with, the score of 29 to 8. The club team had a little he best of the second period. ' ; ! MONEY DISCLOSED i SEATTLE. Jan. 6.- Clarence H. Shively. former Seattle policeman and one of live suspects held for a $4Z.ooh robbery of a branch 6f the Royal bank at ' Natalmo. B. C., December 1 2. accompanied by of ficers to a local bank today where SIS 00 - in American: money was found In his deposit box. Authori ties said they expected to ind part of . the bank loot among-Shively's deposits. . . - j , ; DRIVER PACES TRIAL SEATTLE. Jan. 6. Eugene V. Dobbs. driver and j Nels Albert Johnson, victim of an automobile accident December 27, were found guilty of contributary negligence by a coroner's Jury here today. The Jury's verdict j showed that Dobbs was guilty of driving with one hand and that Johnson crossed the street Jn the . middle of tha block, : Dobbs , testified that , he had one' arm around a . girl and that he generally drove that way. Johnson died in a hospital the next day. . ! t j Willamettci Valley i Transfer Co. - Fast Through Freight to AH Valley Points Dally , Speed-Efflciency-Sorvico Snlem-Portland-Woortburn Cbrvallls ' Euspric Jefferson ; , Dallas - Albany Monmouth " ' f" Independence! Monroe ' ' Springfield, SHIP by frnuc:: BE- EiELP Hawkins and D. ' P. Davis, chair man of the Tampa Board of Trada Committee on Sports. I Farrell is autographing the' largest golf ball in the world which was presented to Davis, i j . : Horace Trlmm was la bachelor, reformer and writer and in each role possessed a goodly number of admirers. He was too busy, he told himself, to think of matri mony. I and ' even should his thoughts turn in that direction, his work demanded the time that courtship would require. , Horace wrote stories, stories of the - romances and adventures of common, men. ' The Hack of ac quaintanceship with persons in the flesh: he made up 1& an under standing of the figure who moved in his yarns. Sometimes when a reader;: would write jhlm to say that he enjoyed one of the stories, Horace treasured the jletter know ing how precious are; those occa sional words which bring: relieving proof to the writer thjat his efforts are not entirely lost. i" ! One day Horace received from the i nearby city- of Ellenberg ' a pair of knitted hose 7 They were Just his size and done in exquisite manner. Though h4 knew little of knitting, he realized that some woman1 must have labored long to make this gift arid that it ex pressed more of admiration and appreciation than any of the few letters that had come his way. r - . He; tried to . picture the : giver, and, ilike a writer jof romances, saw Jjer first as an old woman With white lace at jher throat, a 'gentle old soul whose eyes twinkl ed as she sat with her needles in the corner. Then he wondered if THREE MINUTE tai rq b. flLLu Ad Schuster ov We have just received a Telegram from the Overland Factory announcing a Great Reduction in prices. -V f Following ; ; Overland 91 Overland 91 Overland 91 Overland 91 Overland 91 The 4 ) MARCH Bhn micht not be .young, and as he wondered he j examined the socks again. Surely the one who made these had young eyes. 1 They were' perfect. And all he j knew of his friend was Jthat the post mark said Ellenberg. r 1 After a while there came : an other pair of socks and this time on the corner of the wrapper was a return address, "F. Addman, 91 Broad street, Ellenberg."! ; t Here was an invitation to In vestigate, a bid for friendship.- It was not only; the", mystery, that summoned upon his desire to visit the neighboring city, the oppor tunity to "find out if the girl matched the picture, that had been growing in his mind the- socks themselves, were urging him. .It would be comfortable and delight ful, he reasoned, to have as a wife a girl who was as beautiful as the one of his imagination and yet one who could knit hose for her husband, y! He could seei her, an old fashioned type and one who liked him and his stories well enough tol spend long hours knit ting, v Sooner or later, he knew, he would go to Ellenberg, look up Florence Addman, for he had de cided the F stood for Florence, and 'then well it , depended on what they thought of each other. Horafce looked in 1 the glass and told himself that j if he had his hair cut where it stuck, out over his collar in back and wore a new ly pressed suit, he would stand a chanced And Florence If she was not as he had expected he would thank her politely and go away. It was the least , he could do". ; In Ellenberg, '. Horace found Ther'slk REASON I And that's performance, all-'round superior performance for winter driv ing ; ; Quick, hair-trigger starting! - . Fast acceleration 100 power, mileage a-plenty I - All-Tound performance nothing sacrificed. . Get a tankful today at any: red, white and blue pump in town at Standard Oil Service Stations and at dealers "in every way a better gaso line." : - : .: ..;"; STANDARD OIL COMPANY ,!.. (California) . IN EVERY WAYA Qitidt&niwg RLftND PRICES is a list showing old and f . o. b. factory m v w ! i r. - - - Touring :..::;..:....; 5530.00 Roadster 530.00 Business Coupe ...... G95.00 Coupe-sedan r 585.00 Sedan .....1.........;:.. 850.00 most automobile in the for the money Hi-h Street at Trado tA. Broad street and-paused in. front of 91. The big door In front ap peared like a garage entrance and yet there were curtains In the windows above. A man came out. ; VI am looking; for F. Addman." 'Inside. Sitting against the wall. Go on, in. ; Inside sat a ) huge , unshaven ' fireman, spending his spare time as many a fireman does, with a pair of knitting needles. Ian corner a group was making a rug. Horace stood and stared as the vision of a mythical Florence faded away. The man removed a pipe, and grinned. ; - . . "Did you want to see me?" j After the writer had thanked his industrious! friend, the fire man explained j "You wrote a story about a fire once and the fellow in it reminded me of some one I knew. So I sent you the socks. Hope they fit you." j And as Horace Trimm rode on home the vision of Florence came back as if to taunt him. "I'll have tof find her now," he said.- "Doggone that fireman! he made me fall In love with a girl I can never find!" The end of wisdom Is consult ation and deliberation. O 1QOfc power new prices ; Nov 5405.0 D ; 495.00 G35.00 5G5.C0 715.00 world I Mil' v . I