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TOURISTS FIND FEW
PROMISING PLAYERS
Callahan Predicts ' Baseball
Material Will Be Made
in Schools.
president; Thomas Hopgood, vice-president;
R. J. Hilts, secretary; J. M. Bell,
treasurer; P. J. Orr and J. M. Schidel,
physical directors, and C. W. Wlnsberg,
J. A. Strong and C. H. Nelson, trustees,
of the newly-organized Morton Athletic
Club. Upwards of 30 have enrolled
as members.
SCOUTS SCOUTING IN VAINj
"Ivory Hunters" Unable to Pick "Cp
Big League Timber $10,000 Of
fered for Producing Another
Johnnie Kling Player.
f BY CHRISTY MATHEWSON.
' (The Qlant'a Star Pitcher.)
In every small town visited since
moving out of the big league belt on
this trip, a flock of local lights In the
baseball world have come to the park
end practiced with the Giants and the
"White Sox before the games. Both
Callahan and McGraw encourage this
practice, and it is announced before the
games that local semi-professionals
and amateurs will be welcome. Said
McGraw the other night, after watch
ing a bunch of these at work:
"This Is the most thorough comb
ing I have given the country In years,
and I believe that good ball players
are becoming scarcer, while the de
mand for the high-class man is grow
ing greater season by season. I
haven't had a glance at any strangers
who looked like players since we left
Chicago."
"In a few years," declared Callahan,
T believe you will find a school to
develop men for the big leagues. The
supply must come from some place."
"All these birds that have practiced
around the parks have some fault
which prevents them from ever being
the right sort of timber. Most of
them are slow, and none seem to
think," asserted McGraw.
"T guess the scouts are right when
they keep reporting they can't find any
more Cobbs or Mathewsons," concluded
Callahan.
Vlg Prise Goes Begging. '
"When John Kling threatened to quit
the Chicago Cubs just as he was at
the top of his career several years ago
and acted as If he were going to make
his decision stick by staying in Kan
sas City and managing his pool parlor
after the season started, Charles Mur
phy is reported to have called three or
four scouts around him and said:
"I'll give $10,000 to the man -who
goes out and digs me up another
Johnnie Kling."
The scouts, veterans of many years
of Ivory hunting, simply laughed at
the Chicago boss and replied in chorus:
"There ain't one. We've been all
over the country, and we know.'.'
"Dick" Kinsella, who has been scout
ing for the Giants for several years, is
of the same opinion as McGraw and
Callahan. He does not believe that
good material is as plentiful as it was
ten years ago. or else the standard
demanded of the players is higher. He
admits that competition is keen in this
scouting business and that, whenever
some minor leaguer flashes above the
surface, nn army of scouts scatter into
the "bushes" to get Ijlm. "Dick" was
telling me a story recently that won a
laugh.
Kinsella Shops for Busher.
"There was a big scramble for an
outfielder with the Milwaukee club
latt season," said "Dick," "and I float
ed up there with five or six rival scouts
to bid on this bird. I never had seen
him before and so went out to the park
to take a look at the chap before going
shopping for him, where the sale
looked as if it would be anything but a
bargain. He did not look fast to me
in action, and so I dug into his record,'
which disclosed that he had stolen
only eight or nine bases, although it
wus late in the Beason. Now, McGraw
likes an outfielder who can cover the
ground when on the bases. That is
how he wins most of his games.
" 'Thi3 fellow has stolen only eight
or nine bases,' said I to Mrs. Havenor,
the owner of the clulj. 'It seems as if
an outfielder should be faster than
that.'
"She was there with the comeback.
" 'Well, you see,' she said, "he hits
eo many doubles and triples and home
runs that he does not get many chances
to steal.'
" 'If I were you, I'd tip him to hit
R few singles, I suggested, 'so these
puouts can get a line on how he runs
the bags-'
"I ilJ not- bid for that fellow."
In telling this story about Kinsella.
I have purposely omitted the name of
the outfielder because he afterwards
brought a whopper of a price from a
big league club and gained a lot of
publicity. Probably most of my read
ers can guess who the man was, how
ever. Kinsella does not say he was
right in his Judgment of the player.
In fact, he concluded the story by ad
mitting this much:
"I may have been' wrong about the
man, but it was up to me to lean on
my own Judgment, and I couldn't see
more than the draft price for the bird."
The player's showing since he en
tered the big league has been a big
boost for Klnsella's judgment.
One Scout Is Pessimist.
Searching for ball players is a funny
business. No manager can afford to
overlook tips, yet every manager re
ceives thousands of worthless ones
from his followers that cannot be run
down. Kinsella is a conservative scout.
He recommends few youngsters, and
It Is this about him that McGraw likes.
Most scouts are natural prospectors,
and a gold prospector is the greatest
optimist In the world. "Dick" is a
pessimist. McGraw once sent Dan
Uiouthers, the old first baseman, out
to look at Larry Doyle and Fred Mer
kle before they Joined the Giants. Mc
Graw had arranged to take these two
anyway.
"And Dan," he said, as the big fellow
Was leaving, "if you see anybody else
out that way who looks good to you,
tmb him."
Brouthers thought he had to bring
back a great many to make good, so
he arranged for nearly every minor
leaguer ha took a look at to report at
Marlln the next Spring.
"As baseball players, these were all
great farm hands," declared McGraw,
after giving the bunch the once over.
(Copyright, 1913, by The Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.)
SCOTT KAXS 9 ; SPEAKER HOMES
Giants Take 4-3 Snappy Game From
White Sox at San Diego.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 10. The exhibition
game today between the White Sox and
Giants was won by the latter by a
score of 4 to 3. The game was snappy
and abounded In brilliant plays. Scott,
for the White Sox, struck out nine
men. Tris Speaker made a home run
in the second Inning. The Giants won'
In the last half of the ninyj, when
Chief Meyers sent the ball over the
right Held fence for a home run. The
score:
R. H. E. R. H. E.
White Sox.. 9 3GIants. . ..4 9 1
Batteries Scott and Bliss; Hearne
and Myers.
Albany Elevens W ill Meet. -
ALBANY". Or., Nov. 10. (Special.)
A football game in which there will be
great local interest will be played here
Tuesday afternoon, when the teams of
the Albany High School and Albany
College will meet. The college has
taken up football this year after a
lapse of several years.
POLO DATE IS CHANGED
GAME! tftf WATER WILL BE PLAYED
WEDNESDAY RIGHT.
Multnomah Club-Swimming; Association
Arrange Second Contest of Series.
. Soclnl Affair Xonlcht.
Because of a conflict with the Pacific
Coast boxing championships, the date
of the second Jwater polo game between
the Multnomah Club and the Portland
Swimming Association has been
changed from Friday to Wednesday
night
The regular bi-monthly social swim
will take place tonight. One of the
features will be an exhibition 'water
polo game between the men and
women of the club.
The water polo game between the
two clubs on Wednesday night will be
played at the Portland baths. This
will be the second of a series of nine
games for a pennant. Multnomah took
the first game, played last Friday, by
one goal.
The game has been the subject of
much Interest. The teams are not yet
adept in it and several of the swim
mers have had to get out of the water
because of exhaustion before the halves
were over.
The 'game is hard, for whether the
player Is actively engaged in the scrim
mage for the ball or merely waiting for
a chance in his territory he must swim
every minute that he in the water.
Both lineups will be changed some
what. They follow:
Portland Ass'n. Multnomah Club.
L. Ketchura RF Kiernan
Bow en LP A. Mattern
Roller C F. ....... . Lundstrom
McHalo OK Wheeler
Sullivan G McMurray
Rosengreen . -LG .............. . Ross
Byrnes KG Thatcher
The Multnomah substitutes either will be
Blbee, McMahon. Taite or Spamer.
Telegraphic Sporting Briefs
PRINCETON, N. J. The Prince
ton football eleven, which had
been recuperating from the Harvard
game at Atlantic City, returned to
Princeton today and indulged in a short
signal drill. All the regulars were In
the lineup, with J. S. Baker at Shea's
place at right end. The men are in
good condition.
Philadelphia The University of
Pennsylvania football team began prep
arations today for the game with Mich
igan at Ann Arbor next Saturday. With
the exception of Captain Minds, who
was somewhat lame from the Dart
mouth game Saturday, all the players
are in good condition. Minds will re
port for practice tomorrow.
Chicago The low score by the Uni
versity of Chicago against Northwest
ern University .football team last Sat
urday inspired Northwestern players to
the hope of defeating the University of
Indiana next Saturday. Coaches be
gan today a week of practice which
they said would be the hardest since
the season began.
Lawrence, Kan. The Kansas Univer
sity football squad was given secret
practice today in preparation for the
game with Nebraska next Saturday.
The coaches put the men through a
stiff scrimmage. The list of injured
players is decreasing and it is believed
all the regulars will be able to line up
against Nebraska. Preparations are be
ing .made to accommodate the largest
crowd in many years. Several special
trains will be run from Kansas City.
Football Excitement Fatal.
ST. LOUIS. No. 10. Overwrought by
the excitement of a soccer football
game, at which he was cheer leader,
Raymond Garcia, a Spaniard, fainted
while watching the game here yester
day and died a few minutes later.
LOBER WON'T BO UP
Southpaw Wants More Coast
League Experience.
OHF
SATISFIED WITH BEAVERS
When Outfielder Refuses) to Go to
Majors, Cleveland Clnb Decides
to Give Captain Bill Rod
gers Big League Trial.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Nov. 10. (Spe
cial.) Elmer Lober, the young left
hander, whom Henry Berry traded to
Walter McCredle last season for Art
Krueger, has positively refused to Join
the Cleveland club In the American
League. Lober is one of the few base
ballists who have refused the oppor
tunity to go to the majors. He was in
Los Angeles today visiting Walter
Leverenz.
He was asked about' the report that
he refused to join the Cleveland club
and he confirmed the story that ap
peared in the North.
"I need another year's experience In
the Pacific Coast League," candidly
said Lober. "If I go up to Cleveland
next Spring there is a big chance that
I will be sent to some bush team for
more experience, but with another
year's work in the Pacific Coast League
I think I will be able to hold my own
in any company."
Lober Is planning to play In the Im
perial Valley League this Winter. He
is well satisfied with his berth on the
Portland club.
Cleveland wanted Lober from Port
land, and as the Beaver outfielder re
fused to go, the Naps decided to give
"Bill" Rodgers a chance.
SIGXAL PRACTICE IS SECRET
Missouri and Washington Universi
ties Preparing for Saturday Clash.
COLUMBIA, Mo., Nov. 10. Extraor
dinary precautions were taken today
to insure secrecy at the practice of the
University of Missouri football team.
This action was the result of the dis
covery that the Missouri team's sig
nals had been sent to Ames. Coach
Williams, of the Iowa School, how
ever, returned the signals to Coach
Brewer. The Missouri men are In good
condition, and it is expected every reg
ular will be able to play In the game
with Washington University at St.
Louis next Saturday.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 10. Coach Ed
munds gave his Washington University
football squadtrenuous work this aft
ernoon for the game with Missouri here
next Saturday. The substitutes re
ceived much attention today.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 10. Luke Kel
ly, coach of Christian Brothers' Col
lege football team, this afternoon
started secret drill for the Notre Dame
game here November 22. A student
guard was placed about the campus
and all strangers, were barred from
the field.
NEBRASKA TEAM IS CRIPPIED
Two Regular Halfbacks Will Not
- Play Against Kansas, Coach Says.
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 10. Although
the Nebraska players came through
Saturday's game with Wesleyan in
good trim there is gloom In the foot
ball camp. Coach Stlehm said mis
evening it was doubtful if either
Purdy or Rutherford, the two regular
halfbacks, would be able to enter the
Kansas Same next Saturday.
Rutherford is still in bed suffering
with tonsilitis and while Purdy Is on
the field every day and able to prac
tice somej his injured knee bothers
him and it is feared If he gets Into a
scrimmage Jt would mean his retire
ment. , y-'T
The substitute backs, Delemeter and
Elwell, made a good showing against
Wesleyan and the coaches will keep
every man who is fit at hard practice
up to Thursday, when the team leaves
for Lawrence.
HARVARD ELEVEN HAS REST
Full Crimson 'Squad Expected Will
Be Out Today for Work.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 10. Har
vard's varsity eleven rested today
after their successful battle against
Princeton Saturday.
Mahan alone of the regulars ap
peared on the field. He did not need
any -rest, he said, and practiced punt
ing and drop-kicking for half an hour.
With the possible exception of Trum
bull every member of the varsity squad
will be on the field tomorrow. Trum
bull is expected to play within a day
or two.
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HOUSTON. Tex., Nov. 10. The Uni
versity of Texas tonight claimed the
Southwestern football championship
lor 1913 as a result of the 14-to-6 vie
tory over the University of Oklahoma
here today. "
SPORT NEWS POT POURRI
Multnomah Eleven Strengthens.
Determined to take no chances, the
Multnomah Club is strengthening Its
football team for the big annual
Thanksgiving game with Oregon on
Multnomah Field. Plxlee, star- end on
the University of Missouri eleven, was
out In a uniform for the first time
playing his old position of right end.
More than two full teams were out
Sunday and heavy scrimmage work
Was dealt In between the first and sec
ond teams. A preliminary game is be
ing arranged for November 22 with the
Vancouver Soldiers, but arrangements
have not been completed.
Morton Club Elects.
MORTON; Wash., Nov. 10. (Special.)
i M. Broadbent baa been elected
T.ni M'GOVERN, former feather
weight champion of the world,
made the mistake of his career
when he allowed Young Corbett to
enter the ring against him at 126
pounds, four pounds ' ,
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meeting Young
Corbett, a rank C.
Juisiuer, lie iiiifsiiL ;
have kept his title .,
for several years to
come. McG o v e r n ,
has met all of the
best boys strictly
downed them all. Terry McGovern.
That was one of the things whicn
made Sam Harris, the manager, take a
chance with Corbett, However, the lat
ter was considered little more than a
workout.
Also It was known that he would be
a good card at the box office and good
opponents were scarce. Terry had had
such an easy time with his opponents
that few of them would draw on a re
turn bout.
Young Corbett was the happiest man
on earth when. New York influence se
cured that match at 126 pounds. Cor
bett was a serious and calculating
fighter and was really as brainy as
any man that ever fought In his class.
Corbett had studied McGovern and
hoped for a chance. When he entered
the ring on that Thanksgiving day he
knew what he wanted and got it when
he sent McGovern to the floor with a
right to the chin. That blow probably
ended McGovern's career as champion.
Boston yachtsmen are going to edu
cate themselves in all the things which
make up seamanship. They will be a
sort of naval militia not under the su
pervision of the Government. They
have formed an organization, the object
of which is to furnish the Government
competent seafarers in time of war.
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There is talk of an Indoor baseball
league with headquarters at the Ar
mory. It's a worthy idea and will prob
ably be encouraged. For the thirt-
tnird degree baseball fan. football
basketball, wrestling, boxing and the
iiKe, make the Winter pretty long.
The world's series ticket scandal
takes a back seat now that the annual
football high financing is well under
way. lor instance, ticket scalpers in
session at the University of California-
Stanford game, Saturday, advertised
publicly that they had tickets for sale
which could be secured for the modest
sum of $20 each. That's one way of
getting a college education. Any man
that can afford to pay that much
ought to help tome deserving man
through school.
Another chapter has been added co
the mystery in which Bill Leard stalks
as the heavy tragedian. . The Oakland
club is ready to sell him to the highest
bidder.
"Not adhering to original principles."
"Want too much" and a few other ex
pressions are all that can be gathered
from John J. Evers, manager of the
Cubs, on Interviews regarding the de
mands of the baseball fraternity. Evers
kicks at the idea of the baseball fra
ternity in demanding that a player sent
back to the minors should receive the
same money that he did when playing
with the big teams. -
Frankle Burns draws the line at no
one. He has at all times stood ready to
nieet any and all that Is to say. all
except some that cannot be met for
good and sufficient reason.
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Detroit Americans to End of
Ills Baseball Days.
DETROIT. Mich.. Nov. 10. Published.
reports that Tyrus Cobb, center fielder
of the Detroit American League club,
was anxious to be traded, caused Frank
J. Navin, president of the Detroit team,
to make public today a letter from
the champion batsman in wwen uodd
said he was anxious to play in Detroit
as long as the management and public
were willing to have him.
Cobb's letter also, indicated there
would be no dispute over the terms of
his 1914 contract
The letter says in part:
"I am entirely satisfied with condi
tions and I want to end my playing
days in Detroit. The fans have treated
me fine and I wish to be loyal to my
club.
"The understanding we reached
pleased me immensely and I will sure
ly give my heart to playing with De
troit next year. I certainly do not
want to change."
President Navin said the "under
standing" referred to concerned Cobb's
salary for 1914. Mr. Navin intimated
the Georgian would receive the largest
salary ever paid to a player in the his
tory of baseball.
Amateur Athletics.
The Ainsworth Grammar School soc
cer team downed the Chapman eleven,
2 to- 1, on the West End grounds yes
terday.
The St. Johns Juniors won from the
South ; Portland eleven, 6 to 5, on the
South Portland Bottoms yesterday. The
losers scored their points on a drop
kick and a safety, while the winners
made a touchdown. Call East 6041
after 7 o'clock in the evening to ar
range a game with the winners.
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Because of the withdrawal of sev
eral teams from the lightweight and
heavyweight sections of the Grammar
School Football League, the original
schedule has been thrown out and a
new one is in effect.
The News football team had a hard
time defeating the Shattuck Grammar
School team in a practice game last
Saturday, winning 15 to 7. The Gram
mar School boys were outweighed! more
than 20 pounds to the man, but out
played the winners the first half.
Weight told and the losers weakened.
E. A. Stewart is coaching the winners.
Hill Military Academy Is the first
school in the Portland Interscholastic
League to start basketball practice. It
began last week. More than 2o are out
for the team, and Coach "Chuck" Taylor
has some promising material on hand.
A meeting of the board pf directors
of the Portland Interscholastic League
is scheduled for this week to arrange
a basketball, soccer and baseball sched
ule for the 1914 season. The exact date
has not been decided, but it probably
will be Friday or Saturday.
The Lincoln High School wrestlers
are fast rounding into shape for a try
out with several stars from the other
schools. A definite meet has not been
arranged, but the first match will take
place after the 1913 football season is
over.
The actual paid attendance at the
Lewis and Clark-Washington High
game Saturday was 1155.
Bantamweights Are Matched.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10. "Kid" Wil
liams, of Baltimore, bantamweight, and
Eddie Campi, of San Francisco, were
Indianapolis, in Outlaw League,
Wants ex-Wlilte Sox Manager.
And now the Federal League has
planned to draft Fielder Jones.
Wouldn't that jar you? Bunkered on
one side by American Charybdis and
on the other by Federal Scylla, the
only move Fielder has left is to take
a running broad jump from his office
window, high up in the Yeon building.
Indianapolis is the Federal League
club which Is said to be beckoning to
the former Chicago manager. Accord
ing to a new baseball weekly, launched
recently in St. Louis by H. W. Lanigan,
Jones has agreed to put money in the
new "outlaw" venture.
Jones is absent from Portland, at
tending the minor leagues' session at
Columbus, O., but will doubtless deny
this latest rumor with a wearied grin,
as he has denied so many similar ru
mors within the past two or three sea
sons.
Don Rader, the Oregon boy who
went from the Western Tri-State
League to the Chicago Sox last Sum
mer, Is a Portland visitor. Rader fin
ished at Lincoln in the Western League
and batted .309. He expects to go into
Spring training with the ' Sox next
Spring for further trial.
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Yale-Trained Coaches to Meet Tigers'
Open Stylo of Offense.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 10 Yale's
football team was given a long prac
tice today in perfecting Its defense to
meet Princeton's style of attack. Wal
ter Camp, Dr. "Billy" Bull and other
coaches who saw the Harvard-Princeton
game Saturday coached the players
onto the basic principles of the Tiger
offense. Dr. Bull'3 third eleven, using
Princeton plays, entirely, will line up
against the varsity for a scrimmage
tomorrow.
Pumpelly made his appearance in
uniform on the field today, and al
though he limped on account of his
lame ankle, sent over three field goals
from back of the 40-yard line and
scored five in succession from the 30
yard mark. It is unlikely that he will
start in the Princeton game, but it is
probable he will be sent in if Yale
comes within the scoring zone. Guern
zy also showed good form in drop
kicking today.
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