SPORTING t NEWS TIE DM MAGAZINE SECTION LY OURNAL THIET7 EIGHTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 PRICE TWO CENTS. S?jSE"Si5dc557 Sport News Bill Marshall Bets $40,000 On a Fight, and Yet He Never Saw One New York, Sept. 18. (Special) Question: Did you ever hear of a man who never 8aw a boxing contest? Answer: Sure, plenty of 'em, and not all blind men, either. Q. Did you ever know a man who never bet as much as a single jitney on any proposition in his life! A. Aye, aye; thousands of them, and not tightwads at that. BUT and here 's the proposition be fore you now did you ever hear of, know, encounter orrun against a man who never saw a boxing niatca and never wagered a penny, and yet has gambled (or soon will gamble) $40, 000 on a ten-round, no-decision bout! Gaze upon Mr. William C. Marshall, who hasn 't any more home 'n a rabbit, though he's worth something above a quarter of a million dollars, and who is going to bet $40,000 of it on a meeting between those eminent welterweights. Mike Gibbons and Paekey MeFarland, to occur Saturday night, September 11, at the Motordrome at Brighton Beach. Now about that $40,000 bet. It isn 't Polk County Hop Industry One of Great Magnitude E 18 THE Salem Players Are Improving But "Colonel Bogey" Is Still Undefeated I 7 JP i i ii - aim' I .' : fry"? m f 4 William C Marshall. that Bill MarsTiall is' going to wager on the victory of MeFarland or of Gib bons. He doesn't pretend to predict who's going to win, and he doesn t care five-oights of a hoovah or whoop who does win. No, he's betting this way: that if he spends $40,000 in arranging the scrap ($32,500 to the boxers and the rest on .advertising, rebuilding, rental, ushers and the like), maybe $(i(),000 or perhaps even $80,000 will flow back into his pockets from the fight fans of New York and other plnces, who for years have dreamed hopelessly of see ing those two masters of fistic science in the same ring. "Rill ntanda in win 20.000. 40.000 nobody can estimate what. Also, to be second base with the bases full in a Last week's play at Finzcr was most ly by foursomes, which system seems to be greatly in favor with the members at present. A prize, donated by an enthusiast, for the player whose score compared most favorably with his prev ious best, was won by U. G. Shipley, who lowered his own score by five strokes. A few of the members, who have lately been conspicuous by their absence, showed up again and doubt less more will continue to return to the links. Following is the new sched ule of handicaps: Allan Hutchson, s R. C. Bishop, 10. Arthur Hutcheon, 10. Kulph D. Moores, 12. Clifford Brown, 12. . S. G. Sargent,. 14. . Carl Gabriclson, 14. . . W. H. Burghardt, 16. D. M. Eyre, 16. Earl Anderson, 18. A. Bush, Jr., 18. T. A. Livesley, 18. Hnl D. Pat ton, 18. U. G. Shiplev, 18. F. W. 8tcualoff, 18. F. D. Thielson, 18. And 11 other players not listed, the maximum, 18. These handicaps ore for eighteen holes, or two rounds of the course. As will be seen from the above list no player in fit to give "Colonel Bog ey" a close match, though several will before long no doubt get the "Colon el's" goat. By the bye "Colonel Bogey" is an imaginary personage, who, when play ing golf, never slices, gjills, tops, misses, toes, heelB, skies, nor foozles a shot, and whose score is, therefore,., nearly per fect. When one beats "Bogey" he knows he has done his best and suffer ed no bad luck. A prize is again to be given the play ers with the lowest score, using the new system of handicaps, bo there should be a good turnout this week to com pete. The Golfers' Magazine (this month) says: "It is reported that the record ing nngel is still working overtime counting the strokes, that were not counted hiRt season." Probably he hns members from every golf club in the United States on his books every club except Sulem of course. (Dallas Observer.) The hopyards of the Independence district have attracted the attention of hundreds of visitors during the past week, ninny earning from a considerable distance to view the manner in which the harvest of this vast crop is made. The hop-picking machine in the E. Clement Horst company's yards has this year made an added attraction, and automobiles from various sections of the valley, loaded with the curious, are to be seen daily wending their way through the extensive acres of the com pany to the location of this modern wonder, produced by the inventive in genuity of Mr. Horst himself, and sim ilar patterns of which are doing all the picking in the California yards of his company this season, thus wholly elim inating hand pickers. Contrary to gen eral opinion the machine is not used in the field, but is housed conveniently to the yards and the hop vines hauled to it by teams, dozen's of teams being thus employed in ordor to keop it supplied. The vinos are laid one way on a plat form wagon in order .that they may be handled by the feeders rapidly and without rearranging. The vines pass over large cylinders making sixty revo lutions per minute, the teeth of which separate th9 hop from the vine. Mr. J. G. Wiggins, a Cnlifomian in charge of tne plant at the Morst yard, in explain ine the machines entrusted to his care. told a representative of the Observer that each vine was struck by a;mo teeth in the picking process, thus mak ing it practically impossible for waste to occur. Following the picking by that the yield will exceed the estimate placed upon it by theso authorities. This is accounted for by the fact that spray ine was early, timo boie.g tuken to do the work thoroughly aad with the best of "dope." The ranch is one approaching t.ie ideal, and reminds one very forcibly of a southern plantation, there being the same big nouse," surrounded by commodious buildings and warehouses, and "quarters" for lurm help. There is a general supply store ana restaurant both of which are open the whole year through, butcher shop and bakery, a dance hull with a floor 130x50 feet, a moving picture show, besides sixteen dry kilns o0x30 feet each, nud other buildings. Every other night during the picking season a dance is given, and oftimes more than two hundred employes trip tho light fantastic to mnsie'furnished by the management) of an evening. Major anil .Mrs. liosc fre quent the dancing pavilion and not only enjoy indulging in t no terpsichorean art but in mingling with the men and women, a goodly number of whom have picked hops on the plnce during tho four seasons that the major has been in charge, and to whom more than $25, 000 will be disbursed for this season's work. This is one of the ways Major Hose has of studying the laboring class. Hops are snipped direct to London from tho Wigncn. ranch, winch is reached by a Biding from Independence, Tri 1913 a train of . fifteen cars weut forwnrd; in 1914 it required fourteen ears to deliver the product to the sea board, but this year fully twenty cars Did It Ever Happen to You? By Mort Burger . WY I A GOVT MtR'f Of HAlUAl GRCATN ' (You yTM.t rT SfrK fcgi THA-Q AnSot OLD MAtTL (aU rtfHA.HAb means of these cylinders, the hops are will be necessary, if expectations are separated from the leaves and twigs by passing through revolving screens, the openings in which are of graduated di mensions in order to permit the refuse to waste away and leave the cleaned product. This, however, is not the pro cess in its entirety, and neither could it be given in the amount of space at command. There are two of these ma chines, besides which nre two arm picking machines, which separate the p - -a l l. i noiiB irom I lie arms oi ine vines, ami two overflow machines, the capacity of which is approximately 00,000 pounds, or close to 1000 sacks of hops daily. But these machines,' notwithstanding their enormous capacity as compared with hand picking, nre insufficient to gather tho harvest from the more thau 000 acres planted to hops by this com pany, and in addition about 1,.j00 men, women and children are there employed throughout the season, many of the I tickers comprising lurge families mown to the company and who are an nual workers in tho yards. The camps are snmtary, special provision having been made with this important feature m view. Air. H, , Onl, the superin tendent of this, the most extensive hop ynrd in the world, expects an average of ten bales to the acre. In one small tract thirteen bales to the acre has realized, for 3,000 bales, or more, is the hope of the manager. In addition to hops the ranch this year had 300 acres in wheat, from which a bumper yield was harvested. There is 11 acres of orchard and 12 of loganberries. Tho berries from this field wcro sold on the vines at one cent per pound As soon as the crop is safely disposed greater number from Portlan'd, picking I and the conractor hopes to complete tho work ilunng tne present ween, i.ie drying is done in a four-kiln house of the improved type. The Krobs Brothers will, during the coming winter, clear additional fund, and extend their yard. This is a comparatively new ranch, and considerable money is being expen ded in its development. A thirteen-acro lake is now being drained, and at least ten acres will bo fit for cultivation next season. A concrete sno, with a capuc German Spy Up Against Hard English Proposition sure, he 'stands to have that healthy bank roll of his nicked to the extent of $20,000 or $30,000. That's his gam ble, and he's making it very willingly. "I wouldn't say I'm betting on a sure thing," ho remarked the other day down at Brighton. "But as they sny at the track, it's a 'good thing.' I feel pretty sure of getting a little change for myself out of tho bout, and if I don't well, I'll have had a good time and crabbed off some experience in a new line." Who is Bill Marshall? everybody asked a few days ago, when from Chi cago came the word that at last Paekey MeFarland and Mike Gibbons had signed articles and agreement and had posted forfeits to meet in New York. Well, here's a little bit about him. Hill is thirty-nine, has a wide open, genial face, a pleasing western drnwl and if this means anything to you is an exact ringer, except in the matter of height, for Charley Van Loan, the magazine writer, who is held in tender additional cottcges for the occupancy of pickers. The eight four-room houses already on tho place will bo doubled in number, and to these others will be add ed as the tents now used become worth less bv usaao. It k believod to be cheaper to build small houses and equip them tnan to supply tents, tho deterior ation of which is considered too great to be economical for housing pickers. These cottages nre ccorstructcd along avenues, and arc fifty feet apart, each having a porch, and modern conveni ences, made possible by a splendid wat er system. Tho permanent help on the place occupies enht houses, bunt espe cially for tho purpose. v The administration of the Wignns & Richardson company is ns follows: Ma jor .(. Lewis Hose, manager; Percy Goble. bookkeeper; F. L, Brew, nssist of it is th6 purpose of Major Pose to ;tv of ton8 j ,,' ; tlie course of commence preparations for noxt year s construction, and will be filled wit'.i harvest by the erection of a number of fee( for the winter. The ranch hns a herd or Holsleins and cream is shipped to Portland during the better part of the year. Believing that red spider can bo eliminated by tho use of water iu the hop fields, Krebg Brothers will in troduce an 'irrmntini! system next year, watering the vines at froqueut intervals after the growth is well advanced. The water will be pumped from the Willum etto river, and a lake on the property for the mirpoKP, The hops on this plin-o are rich this year, but arc lacking in weight. Last year they went .i-i bounds to tho box, but this figure will not be reached in' the present harvest. been harvested, but this is an exeop- ant bookkeeper; Frank Luke, yard fore name between newspaper writers. Bill Mnrshall might pull such a ploy to make the game amusing, but after a few minutes' talk with him you'd readily understand that he Wouldn 't' pull that bono or any other in a matter of busi ness. Bill was born in Iowa in '"''i stuck to the farm until he was fourteen, then blew west and punched cows. He gathered together a lot of those inter esting animals for himself and ranched it through Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming until the sheepmen and "' tonl homesteaders oegnn io kiu on mo jm-i-ranncs. Then he (iuit with a comfort- ablo bank roll and went into the biiHi tionally gold yield under most favor ablo conditions. The llorat company probably has the only hot air blast Hystcm for drying hops in the state, and 2,300 boxes of hops aro turned off daily by the em ployment of this modern method. Not only aro practically twice as many hop!1 cared for during the twenty-four hours an by tho old plan, but tho danger of damaging the product is entirely elim inated, while it is claimed that hops dried by tho process arc better value. 11. London, the engineer, piloted the Observer party through the dryer dur ing tho temporary absence of William Huffman, who is the real thing about the plant, first visiting the sulphur burning room, the fumes from which reach the hops on the dryers by forced draft, and then on through the various departments. Between l.'IO and 140 de grees of hent only is necessary to cure the crop bv this process, which is con siderably less thun under the old sys- Tho Wigrich Eancb. Is Major liosc about the premises!' inquired the manipulator of the festive - - - -- . . ,., i I inquired ine moniiiuiaior or me restive ness of railroad cont ac t ig, m ( anndn , fn)'i(r Rs h(J lM , K chiefly. He helped build the (.rest ,ish,an nt t,' offico on (hn w- it.-a Northern, Northern Pacific, ( nnndinn j ran(,h of m B(rM( )o(.,lt(1( folir aml I'licitic and other roans, aim uuumi- ,1llf miWH P(lllthenHt of Independence, that he made a little on the jobs. uK iSi r. w)l0 Bi,au ju nnnoume, Ho lives wherever his job is, and hns sjr "-After having paved the way rambled ro much that he hns yet to cast (10 ,,.rj,n was ushered into tiie pres. vote, never having dollied around enco of Major w. lowi Hose, a typical Mr. and Mrs. A. Topperwein Mr. anil ins. Adolph Topperwein, vyho will give an exhibition in trick memory hereabouts for haying stolen deuce. lung enough to establish a legal resi- 1L 1U 31 EF you want to take the bite out o to- bacco, and leave the good in, you've got to do it slow the VELVET way. There St a big temptation to rush tobacco through by n cxpresi tpeea amnciai VELVET two yean tie up many thousand! oi aoiiarf. oui it pay! both the imoker and manufac turer in the end. lUc uni ana metal lined bagt both great tobacco value!. &f$yU$&ci Cat Z3L I mr f w IT hi 12 man; Algier Conger, riding boss; pence officers, ' Homer Mills and J. Ilnycs. These are the men who have made it possible for tho Wigrich ranch to be characterized as having the best hop yard mid the best plnn't in Oregon. Gilbert & Patterson's Yard. In approaching tho headquarters of the Gilbert & Patterson ranch at Eola one finds it unnecessary to make in- duirv for the chief hmh mogul, Mr, J soar Patterson, for that individual has beaten you to it, and is awaiting your coming, even thonilh it be unannounced, with a welcome thnt immediately puts tho visitor in good spirits and good1 spirits in the visitor. Few aro the Polk county residents who nro not familiar with this ideal country home and fertile ranch, it being situutcd in one of the oldest settlements of tho state and comes very n'eur being not far removed from the capital of the com-1 monwenltii, for it was hard by that it was proposed in an' early day to locate the statehouse. The ranch covers a lurge area, but only eighty-five acres are producing hoi's, which lost year gave a yield of 1"3,000 pounds. The crop this year will probably exceed that of one year nyo by a considerable Biuoiin't. When the newspaper party ad vanced from the right wing there were 2-"i pickers engaged in harvesting tho hop crop, while tin1 resident member of the firm, Mr. Patterson evidently hav ing scented gasoline from ofar, was Knglishmnn of perhaps fifty-five, who leisurely sauntering trom the neldH to wns ensconced in a huge easy chair or warn ins pnu i Kniilish pattern en Wiving his afterlunch ! be volunteered the keys to his do'iiom. siesta in tho quiet of his attractive den. "Speaking ot hops, said no, i nan TU r.-swit n. uins nnr.lifil flia iiturttiu. . fU ) HI I U II I V II"' H:i l'nv tion voluble ami decidedly interesting, season, about :u'0 bushels all told, not only refercir-o being made to the which l do'posci. u i jrum uu ranch, which most Interests Major Rose, I to 1 per bushel, and could have , sob. but to various other themes, including! twice as many hail I them. Hut r..na,.nf ..m.Uo.r.i.tnn.. Hip how about the hop crop, " 1 nt crposed deep blue, which is followed closelv the inquisii.vo one, whose mi.uii nu from day to day by the major he having! a visit to ns many yards as possible for nearly n quarter of a century Dccin wnnin ih nm..... -v .... ....... an officer of a Hritish cavalry, re signing only four years nun. This ranch is the property of Knglishmen, Messrs. By Wilbur 8. Torrest. (United Press staff corresnond'eut.) London, Sept. . (B) muil.) The admittedly thorough unU efficient Ger man spy system is up against a most thorough nud efficient stump iu England. One of the unhenUhiest obstacles for agents of the enemy's intelligence de partment is the anti-spy section of Scot- hind Yard girl censor had a premonition that n certain letter Bhe was reading was "nut just right." Him handed it over for inspection. "A chemical test brought to light writing between the lines of the apparently harmless letter and the tim was set for the spy. tie fell into it iv few days later. Ho wob tried nud con victed and was executed in London Tower. A loyal Bvitishor and his wife from Northern Yorkshire decided to spend a week-end nt Torquay, a little wntennx Official reports, -.lust issued, show tlmf tun till.iiTii.l Miiicu nf viiriniiR nation- alities, all of whom were declared to be' place near -Plymouth on the British working for Germany, were bogged be- ''"' 'l"'y were "enuglit by ti fore any ono of them had been in Eng- boy scout taking a few harmless snap land three weeks. Four readily con-1 lt waterfront . The scout report jpHH(1fl i ed the incident to the authorities. The This list, however, represents but a Yoikshiremon and is wife were imincdi fractional part of the most recent fruits Btcly arrested. They proved their in of the British dragnet. On two occn-! nocenco of spying, without a doubt, but Bions, it is unofficially declared, the they paid .250 fine ns a warning t.. authorities in London 'cloverly mnnuev-; other "nmuteur photographers. " 1 r 1 Kf i L - I and fancy shooting ut the Capital City Hull and Gun club grounds tomorrow, have been milking some enviable rec ords through the northwest. At Walla Walla Mrs. Topperwein broke ill! out of 1(10 birds at the trnps, missing her monil. "The crop is gool, but we are omowhat handi' -lipped in handling it for want of another dryer. I sold most Wignns Si Richardson", the former havof my peaches from that little ware- ing been ftln.mr Kose s companion in the army for many years, nnd for whom t tin highest adiiiirntion is cherished. This explains why Major Hose, who has high connections on British soil, is mnn ager for the comppny oMrnting so ex tensively i'n Polk coin'ty, nnd still an other reason why ho is so vitally Inter ested In the success of the undertnk- house" by the roadside down there, people coming alter them from a con siderable distance because they were the real article." Once again: "But about the hops.'"' to which came the reply in" characteristic manner of the man, "I'll sec if the Jap has some," The Jap certainly had "some." and tiie subject was changed from hops to the beautiful surroundings of this rural ' . . " .. i. .. .i.i. i l., (),a i, 1, Inri'MUlpliOBK nt which hBS I.BSl season mis rnii'ii vim i' ; r-- ,, ., - , ... ariiVKifl lnds of hop. from the "2 ! ow equals in this t.. of t he g I ol u acres devoted to tne crop, wnne ums year's estimate In 4l,on( pounds, which estimate Is considered low. 8ix hun dred and fifty people are necessary to gather tho hop crop, nnd about 3,000 boxes a dav tre being picked. Experts nv thst MYjnr Rose hits the best crop in'the valley this season; thnt the bops from the entire nrcn will average a ton to an acre, but the major himself is more optimistic la bis views, believing lar wad, and where hops are hops re gardless of crop conditions. The Krebs River Ranch. The ranch of tho Krebs Brothers, seven miles southeast of Independence i the Willamette river, which has 45 acres in hops this year, will give the owners, if expectations are met, 100,000 pounds. This i the only yard In the valley thst is being picked by contract this season. Them are 100 .Iu j b, tho ( ) i 3 BOth bird. The Topperwein give marvelous exhibition with nil kinds of guns and the local rod and gun club is making great tireparutions for the event tomorrow which promises to drnw u large crowd. There is to be no admis sion fee charged. ilft for $alt, a Journal Want Ad will if. crcd to round up dozens of spies who had been operating in London in tho inline of British arum officers. The method was as simple ns it was effec-1 tive. Tho war office is said to have informed all army officers in the me- j troponiun area to rciriun on u cerium doy of recent date from traveling on' any trains of tho greut system of un derground rnilwnys of tho metropolis. The order was strictly obeyed. Every officers' uniform thut boarded an un derground train thnt day contained a spy. Tin spy bag was full that night. Koverul days later, tho war office is said to have repeated its wuriilng, this timo instructing offieors to keep otf or tho motorbuses thut travel by hundreds on London's busiest streets. The result was similar. Tho spy bag was filled again, But this is only ono of the many methods through which spies nre enuglit in Eiiglund. Another is chemistry. It was chemistry thut told the British authorities that whot appears to be nn American pussport is not nlwuys the real article, A government cacniist informed tho authorities that the greut and powerful red seal of tho American state department nau been lorgeii ny tho enemy; thnt tho secretary of slate's signature hud been photographed from a genuine American passport in hit rnuny nnd applied to a spurious ilucu mi'.nt carried later bv a spy In England. It was the chemists' proof, linked with other feature that followed, that crtused the spy to confess that he was furnished the forgery to obtain mili tary secrets in England. This forgery is today In (lit) hands of the British authorities for compari son with other suspicious looking docu ment bearing the seal of the United Htates. Americans traveling through England to or from continental countries Mill henceforth be subjected to the most thorough examination nnd surveillance by the British authorities. American passports In England, iu fu ture, if thero is the least doubt of their Validity, must bear the tests of the government chemiiits. "Americans must not feel ill toward the British authorities If necessnry pre cautions nre taken to prevent the use of spurious American passport in this country,' said a high official nf the wur office to the I'nited Press. "They must realize (hut Germany is not above forging the offlciul seal of the Amer ican stato department and hns, perhaps, foried scores of these document in an attempt to snfe cnndiict their spies Into England and other belligerent countries. Kvery American citizen entering Eng land in future must come with a cleoii bill of health easily proven and above all, with a passport (hat will defy the iinalysis of our chemists." Hcolland Yard Is assisted In "spy sleuthing" by all branches of the gov ernment and even by tho boy scouts nnd girl scout. A striking esse of spy detection orig inated In the general pnstofflco where n Jhe girl scouts serve in the snuie capacity as the boys. They aro helping to liiuke England tin uiilieiilthy plnce for , Spies. THORPE DECLARES ' HE'LL BE BACK IN THE BKl LEAGUES ) iv ' ' v Vi V V" -'! ' W" ; .. ... c V J " Jim Thorpe. Although Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle, Indian, stems to bo hii vinr his trou bles, he declares that ho will yet lund back in the big leagues. Jim couldn't make good with the Ciiants and wuh farmed out to the Jersey City club. The "Skeeters" didn't want him und Bent him to tho llarrisburg club, where he will be given another chance to prove his worth. WAR NEWS or ONE YEAR. AOO TODAY Paris reports that German armies in Franco ure unable to lidvunec. Berlin reports sitiue concern ing French and British armies. H. Petersburg nays, Austrian losses in (luliciu campaign to tal .'150,(100 "men. All ronds un declared blocked Ivy abuiidtnicd coinmisariiit trains. Tli 0 Austrian government hits sent Silditioiiul troops to the Italian border because ,f nn t i o n a 1 1 s t demons tiuliens throughout Italy. IK I(t)t))l())t)()(!)tl))l))t (C)( TRY A JOURNAL OlASSiriED AD THEY ARE BUBINKB8 OETTEK8 ONE CENX A WORD.