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8 COAST LEAGUE HEE READY FOR START Portland Opens at Sacramen to, Oakland at Los Angeles, Venice at San Francisco. REVIEW OF TEAMS IS MADE Annual Overhauling Leave Most of "lubs Changed, and Roscoe Faxv cett Lists 'Shirts and Com ments on Probable Effects. ' BT TIOSCOE FAWCBTT. SANTA CRUZ, Cal., March 24. Special.) With the opening of the 1914 Pacific Coast race only one week distant, the six managers have elim inated practically all the tares from the wheat. A little planing of the rough edges; announcement of batteries for the opening games, and then the teams will be at it. Portland will open at Sacramento for the first time in his tory; Oakland at Los Angeles, and Venice at San Francisco. Portland won the -pennant in 1913 with a seven-game margin over Sacra mento; nine-game margin over Venice and an 11-game edge on San Francisco. The finish found Los Angeles in fifth place and Oakland a hopeless tail ender. Arthur Devlin, of Oakland, is the only new manager to take the rains this Spring, but most of the clubs have undergone the annual overhaul ing. Hence, a brief review of the changes, with comments on the side, ' may . be of Interest to the fans. ' Portland Change Named. Portland Walter McCredie, man ager; three men lost to the Federal League, Catcher Berry, Pitcher Krapp and Outfielder Chadbourne; Infielder Lindsay sold to New Orleans; Pitcher Hagerman to Cleveland and Pitcher James drafted by St. Louis. Outfielder Ryan will more than recompense for Chadbourne s defection; Berry likely will not be missed, nor will Lindsay, for Davis showed superior class last fall. If the young pitchers come through, the Beavers will be stronger than ever: if not, the three veterans, 'West, Higgenbotham and Krause, are going to have a heavy burden to bear. Portland lineup Derrick, first base; Rodgers, Brashear, second base; Davis, Bancroft, shortstop; Kores, third base; Lober, Ryan, Doane. MHligan. Speas, center field; Fisher, Ha worth, catchers; Higginbotham. West, Krause, Peet, Hanson, Brown, Frambach, Salveson, . pitchers. Sacramento Harry Wolverton man ager; one man, Infielder Kenworthy, lost to the Federals; Catcher Bliss sold to Venice; Pitcher Williams drafted by Detroit: Outfielder Lewis sold to Spokane. Bliss likely will not be greatly missed, for Hannah, of Spo kane, and Rohrer, of Oakland, are good young receivers. Williams won 17 games last Fall and there doesn't ap pear to be a good substitute for him. Kenworthy hit .297. plunking out 33 doubles and stealing 60 bases. His loss will be most serious. Schweitzer, secured from Southern League in trade for Stark, will more than offset Lewis. Sacremento Lineup Glveu. Sacramento lineup Tennant, first base: De Forrest, second base; Young, shortstop: Hallinan, Giannini, third base: Shinn. lloran, Schweitzer, Van Buren. center field; Hannah, Rohrer, Lynn, catchers; Arellanes, Klawitter, Stroud, Munsell, Gregory, Cann, Kramer, pitchers. Venice Happy Hogan, manager; Pitchers Ferguson and Baum and In fielders O'Rourke, Sterrett, Patterson and Brashear released or traded; Pitcher Koestner drafted by Chicago Cubs; new men. Catcher Bliss, of Sac ramento; InfieMers McArdle, of Seals; Borton. of New York Yanks, and Leard, bought from Oakland, and Pitchers Henley, of Seals: Doc White of Chi cago: Challette. of Omaha; Powell of Louisville; Fleharty, of Nashville, and Decannier, from Seals. Catching staff stronger; infield and pitching staff probably about seme strength as in 1913, although California critics think both are stronger. Venice lineup Borton, first base; Leard. second base; Hosp, McArdde, shortstop; Lltschi, McDonnell, third base; Kane, Bayless, Carlisle, Meloan, Wilhoit. center field; Elliot, Bliss, catchers; Harkness, Klepfer, Hitt, Powell, Henley, Decannier, White, Chellette. Fleharty, pitchers. San Francisco Del Howard, man ager; Infielder McArdle and Pitcher Henley traded for Pitcher Baum. O'Leary will more than recompense for McArdle. Baum is a good tuirler and will make up for Overall's loss. Tozer, ex-Angel, is as good as Henley. Out fielder Jimmy Johnston was drafted by Cubs and his loss will be irrepara ble, unless Justin Fitzgerald, , ex Beaver, comes back to his 1912 form. If he does, the Seals will be very strong. San Francisco lineup Howard, Cart wright, first base; Downs, Charles, second base; Corhan, shortstop; O'Leary, third base; Fitzgerald, Mun dorff, Hogan, Tobln, Schaller, center field; Schmidt, Clarke. Sepulvedo, catchers: Fanning, Leifield, Baum, Tozer. Pernoll, Standridge, Hughes. Arlett, pitchers. Los Angeles Shifts Made. Los Angeles Frank Dillon manager; Outfielder Krueger and Infielder Good win gone to Federal League; Pitcher Tozer released; Outfielder Wotell traded, and Howard drafted by St Louis: Abstein, ex-Pirate, new first baseman; Wolters, of New York, groomed for Howard's place; new twlrlers. Love and Hughes, of Wash ington; Calvo, of Washington, utility gardener. Outfield looks weaker; in field trifle stronger and pitching staff slightly bolstered. Los Angeles lineup Abstein, first base, Moore, Page, second base; John son, stortstop; Metzger, Sawyer, third base; Wolters. Maggert, Ellis, Calvo, Harper, center field; Boles, Brooks, Meeks, Hoffman, catchers; Perritt, Crabb, Ryan, Chech, Hughes, Love, McHenry, pitchers. Oakland Arthur Devlin, manager! Second Baseman Leard sold to Venice; Catcher Rohrer to Sacramento; Pitcher Abies resigned position and Buck O'Brien released back to Chicago; out field much improved by virtue of Mid dleton. Western League draft, and Quinlan. of St. Louis: infield weaker unless youngster. Murphy, offsets Leard's speed with good hitting; pitch, ing staff about the same; neither Abies nor O'Brien was of much use in 1913. Oakland lineup Ness, Gardner, first base; Murphy, Guest, second base; Cook, shortstop; Hetllng, Devlin, third base; Middleton, Zacher, Coy, Quinlan i and Kaylor. center field; Mitze, Alex ander, Arbogast, catchers; Malarkey, Killilay, Prulett. Christian, Geyer, Bar rankamp, Ramey, Loo mis. pitchers. 1914 Baseball Guides now ready for distribution. Archer & Wiggins. Adv. EX-COAST LEAGUER WHO IS :--:--;.:-.-r.--.-:.:--,'.v.-'v..j.--:- MM SPEEDS-III Long Larry Sets Lively for Giants in Camp. Pace BACKSTOP IS REJUVENATED Catcher Running: Bases and Pound ing Ball Like Youngster--Ex-Coast League Player Expected to ' Help Capture Pennant. GIANTS' "TRAINING CAMP, Marlin, Tex., March 24. (Special.) Long Larry McLean, the .lad, who next to Chief Meyers, is the best "copper" -to protect the grand terminal at home plate from an invasion by the enemy. Is certainly putting on considerable speed, considering the time of year it is. . - - That Larry has discovered a. reju venating lubricant is well understood; but inasmuch as he has not yet ap plied to Uncle Sam for a patent there on, the secret of his limberness is about as well known as the hiding place of Captain Kidd's gold. However, the "Long Un" is certainly making things hum down here. His teammates, imbued by the spirit shown by Larry, are doing the utmost to keep up the pace he is setting. Larry is getting to be quite a speed king around the bases. The way he covers them makes the onlooker be lieve that he (meaning Larry, and not the onlooker) is being propelled by a six-cylinder. 60-horsepower motor, tuned to the top notch. Larry has a habit of beating the ball to it by the skin of his teeth on a drive which or dinarily would bring him nowhere but back to the players' bench; so, taking all and all together, Larry is going to get away with a lot of stuff the coming season, which is going to go a long way in helping the Giants "cop" that little rag called "The Pennant." WHITMAN BALL FANS HAPPY Spring Contest With Bears Show College Team Is Strong. WHITMAN COLLEGK. Walla Walla, Wash.. March 24. (Special.) Base ball fans are jubilant over prospects for the season. An abundance of new and promising material has shown up. The Spring contests with the walla Walla professional team, the Bears, afford a line on college prospects. Last week the college men beat the Bears in two games played. Three games are scheduled for the present week. The most promising men in the pitcher's box are Baker, '17, who got his first experience last year, and Hender son, "18. a freshman, from Milton, Or. Fitts, "17, from Sunnyslde, is the strongest man who has so far shown up for catcher, though Neals, '18, is a good substitute. Captain Fulton Gale, '14, of Seattle, is hopeful of a cham pionship. Smelt Run Is Heavy. An unusually large run of smelt has reached the Sandy River at Troutdale. The run started Monday, when the water was muddy. The fish were not noticed until yesterday morning, when the. water cleared. TV. Crawford, of Troutdale, discovered the fish. Amateur Athletics. The second baseball game between Room Z of the Couch school and the Young Olympics Club will be played on the West End grounds Saturday morn ing. The first game resulted in an 8-to-6 victory for the club team. Har old Ernest and Wesley McFherson will appear as the battery for the Room Z squad, and Norman Buoy and Chester Rushmore will be in the points for the Olympics. Harvey Joe, a Chinese boy, is the relief backstop for the club team. By a score of 13 to 0 the Pawnees had little trouble in defeating the For esters on the Fulton grounds Sunday. Manager Morgan of the winners is pleased at the good showing made by his team along the batting lines so early in the season. . In the opening clash of the baseball season on the Jefferson High grounds the Overlook Club took' the Royal Club Boosters into camp to the tune of 9 to 2. For the winning team Herbig, now under contract to play with Walla Walla, featured at bat with two two baggers and a home run. Sullivan twirled masterly ball, and had his op ponents at his mercy, all the time. For the losers, Gota starred at bat and In the field. For games with the Over look Club write Manager Herbert Zahl, at 825 Borthwlck street, or call Wood lawn 3230. The Ernest Grays would like to ar range a practice game for Sunday. Call Manager Clarence Heine, at Wood lawn 1805, after 6 o'clock. Tho John S. Beall Company wal loped the Reservoir All-Stars 8 to 2 THF MORNING ORTSGONTAN. WEDNESDAY, RAPIDLY COMING TO THE FRONT AS ONE OF THE txlAWTi SPEED DEMONS X - . - LARRY MCLEAN BEATING- OUT A DRIVE, Sunday morning and then went out to Arleta in the afternoon and trimmed the Arleta WebfoQters 13 to 2. Cap tain Ankelis' and Max Swerdlie were the big stars for the winners, although Lakeflsh came in for a share of the applause when he sent a screeching three-bagger to deep center, scoring two and breaking up the tie. The Port land Beall team will go to Lyle, Wash., to play the Beall aggregation there. The semi-annual meeting of the Lin coln High School Athletic Association will be held in the school auditorium today after schooL The election of the 1914 football manager and the board of directors will be in order as well as awarding letters to the 1914 basketball and soccer men of the school. - The wet and cold weather of the past two days has put a damper on real hard workouts of the various baseball teams of the Portland Inter scholastic League. The first game of the local league will be played April 8 between the Portland Academy and the Columbia University. The Jefferson High lightweight bas ketball team downed the Washington High lightweights 30 to 27 in the los ers' gymnasium Monday. Williams and Williams were the bright and shining lights for the winners. TO BATTLE WOODLAWX CLUB TO PUT ON BOX " ING SMOKER. Chief Contest to Be Between Hyberjt and Groat Gordon, FlKbtInK News boy Also Feature of Card. Another smoker has been arranged for the Woodlawn Athletic Club by Manager Ambrose to take place in the club gymnasium tomorrow night. At the last smoker the seating capacity was not arranged right, but Manager Ambrose had the entire bleacher seats removed last night and has changed the position of the ring. The club is at East Thirteenth and Oekum streets and may be reached by Woodlawn car. The main bout of the evening will ) between Hyberg, unattached, and Groat, of the Beaver Club, at 150 pounds. This is the first meeting of the two boys and a lively match is expected. Wheeless, of the Woodlawn Club, who made a sensational start at the last smoker, is unable to appear in the ring tomorrow on account of ill ness. The first appearance since his re instatement of Abe Gordon, the fight ing newsboy, is scheduled for tomor row, as well as the second meeting ot Sommers and Parslow, and Don Derby shire and Courtney. The first bout will start at 8:15 o'clock. Len Powers will officiate as referee in all but the main bout. Final selection of an arbiter for this match will be made by Manager Ambrose tonight. Following is the programme: 100-pound Abe Gordon, Newsboys, vs. Sherman. Alberta Club. 112-pound Frisbie, Woodlawn Club, vs. Custer, unattached. 120-pound Feak. Woodlawn, vs. Billy Mascot, unattached. 180-pound Burg. Woodlawn Club, vs. Trombletus. Newsboys. 140-pound -Courtney, Woodlawn, vs. Der byshire, unattached. 140-pound Kelt, Woodlawn Club, vs. Wagner, unattached. lOO-pound Sommers, Woodlawn Club, vs. Parslow. Multnomah Club. 150-pound Hyberg, unattached, vs. Groat, Beaver Club. WHITMAN 1Y COMPETE TWO MEN LIKELY WILL BE EN TERED IN COLUMBIA MEET, Coach, In Reviewing Material, Says Va cancies by Graduations Will Leave Team Weakened. WHITMAN COLLEGE, Walla Walla, Wash.. March 24. (Special.) Whitman probably will enter two men. Hoover, a hurdler, and McKay, a miler, in the indoor track and field meet to be held at Columbia University coliseum in Portland Saturday, April 18, according to a statement made by Archie Hahn, of the Whitman track team, today, after Manager Lyman of the track team had announced that Whltrrten had received an invitation from Columbia University to enter the meet. In reviewing his material Coach Hahn stated that owing to vacancies made by last year's graduating class and sickness this year Whitman's track team will not be strong. Hoover and McKay being, at present, the only promising men on the squad. Cap tain Thompson, the Whitman quarter miler, will be kept out of athletics this year on account of having recently un dergone an operation for appendicitis. and Estes, who cleared six feet in the high jump In the Whitman-Idaho meet last year, has not been in school this semester on account of ill health. There is not a man on the squad who has ever taken first place in a meet. The Whitman Inter-class meet will be held April 25, and Coach Hahn said he hoped to get all the material into shape in time to make the inter-class contest a fair tryout for the varsity team. , lllliiiillf Biff o ....,.... Z2, . -K.A.r.....v BERRY LAUDS FEOS Ex-Beaver Catcher Says His Pittsburg Team Strong. WISH TO RETURN DENIED Claude Says He Did Not Make Un reasonable Demands From Head of Beavers His Salary With Outlaws Is $3000 Year. That the Federal Baseball League will be a member of organized base ball within a year or two is the firm opinion of Claude Berry, ex-Beaver catcher, expressed in a letter from him received yesterday. Claude also denies that he asked any unreasonable remuneration of Mc Credie. The McCredies did not pay anythis for Berry. He was a free agent when he signed, and for that reason he merely told President Mc Credie that he would like a release, as he was going over to the Federal League, anyway. Berry also denies the report that he desires to return to Portland In event the Federal League fails. Continuing, the letter says: "I am with the Pittsburg Federals and we have a good team. Such men as Davie oJnes, Oakes, Bradley, Cy Barger, Tennip and Tevis and a dozen others of major-league caliber on the Pittsburg payrolll." Berry will receive $300 a year, J 1000 of which was paid in advance. Again the annual game between The Oregonian local room and copy desk has been postponed. The real harbin ger of the baseball season was this time shoved into the future because several of the stars of both lineups have really jumped to the Federals. Atkins, mound star of the Reporters, has been assigned to a case in the Fed eral courts; Captain Mahoney Is to take a trip down the rived on e. Federal in spection of the bars and shoals. Man ager Krantz will be busy writing a story on Federal control of railroads. Jimmy Richardson, scout for the Portland basebal club and last season an umpire in the Western Tri-State League, will officiate this year as um pire in semi-pro games of the Wil lamette Valley. Jimmy thinks this is one of the best ways of picking players. ' DALLAS TO HAVE BALL TEAM Business Men Back Movement and Use of Fair Grounds Is Donated. DALLAS, Or., March 24. (Special.) Dallas is to have a baseball team this season. This was definitely decided at a booster meeting held by the fans at the skating rink yesterday afternoon. John R. Sibley was elected manager, and is laying his plans for the com ing Summer. The business men of Dal las have responded liberally In a finan cial way, and the team will be placed on a firm basis. A schedule is being prepared which promises to give Dallas all the baseball it cares for during the coming Summer months. The Polk County Fair Association has donated the use of the County Fair site for baseball grounds. CHEHALIS PLAXS FOR GAME Portland Colls and Negro Giants to Play on April 13. CHEHALIS, Wash., March 24. (Spe cial.) Final arrangements were closed here today for the ball game between the Negro Giants of Chicago and the Portland Colts of the Northwest League, to be played at Millett Field Monday, April 13. The game will be handled jointly by the Citizens' Club of Chehalis and the Centralia Commercial Club. Officers of the two organizations and traveling Passenger Agent Sater, of the Northern Pacific, will settle the details today. The game will be advertised exten sively in Southwest Washington and is expected to draw a record crowd. Gould to Play in Doubles Match. TUXEDO" PARK, N. Y March 24. The Tuxedo Tennis and Racquet Club arranged today an exhibition doubles match in court tennis to be played here March 29 by Jay Gould, champion of the world, and William H. T. Huhn, amateur National champion at doubles, against George F. Covey, ex-champion of the world, and Neville Lytton, ama teur champion of England. Americans Lose at London. LONDON, March 24. The American team. Crane and Kinsella, lost today the first of their series of court tennis matches at Queen's Club. They were defeated by Noel and Latham, the English players, by three sets to one. BOXING. Eight fast bouts at Woodlawn Club. Take Woodlawn car, get off at Thir teenth and Dekura ave.; 8:30 P. M. sharp Adv. MARCH 35, 1911. Get the Personal Touch Any Mitchell dealer in any part of the world will turn his demonstrator over toyoufor the mere asking and. you can put the car through any test that may occur to your mind. The policy oi the company is that personal experience alone will prove the merits of the cartoyorsatisfaction. While we ourselves are entirely satisfied with the action and the quality of the 1914 models, you can never be wholly satisfied un?ess you sit at the wheel for awhile and the feel of the car the action of its mechanism, its response and movement under all speeds, and its conduct over all kinds of roads. When you get through with that ride, no one can tell you anything that is contrary tofatt. Our desire is that you call on your nearest Mitchell dealer, show him this advertisement and. tell him you want its provisions curried out. Tell him you want to try the car yourself and he needn't go along unless you want him to do so. The idea is that we want the car to prtve itself to yeu and eliminate all possible doubt as to its quality before you are asked to deposit a penny. Here is the Equipment for all the Mitchell Models Which is Included in theL ist Prices: Electric self-starter and f enerator electric lights electric bora electric magnetic exploring Lamp mohair top and dust cover Tungsten valve Jiffy quick-action aide curtains quick-actit n two piece rain Uton wind-shield demountable rims with one extra speedometer double extra tire carrier Bair bow holders licence plate bracket pump, jack and complete set of first dai s tools. Eighty years of Come to Us for This Personal Touch BAKER FANS DIG" CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS OF S1S00 MADE TO PUT TEAM YS RACE. Only $200 More Needed Permanent Or ganlaatlon to Be Effected, With Clifford at Head. BAKER, Or., March 24. (Special.) Baker fans subscribed liberally today for the Baker club In the Western Tri State League, and tonight finds a total of $1800 on the subscription list with only $2000 needed to carry the Baker club Into the 1911 race. The remainder is expected to come tomorrow tn small blocks, today's subscriptions being in lots of $50 and $25 chiefly. Roy Ritner, president of the league, who has been here since Sunday night aiding in financing the Baker club, found there was no opposition to base ball here, and that the letup In activi ties had been only because of Pendle ton's dropping' out of the league and the uncertain position thereby held by Baker. The financing of the other clubs and start of training everywhere has shown Baker the need of prompt action, and this, it is believed, caused the lib eral opening of purse strings here to day and yesterday which brought the funds necessary to carry the club through the league. A big committee of Baker business men went around to the various busi ness houses today, and all who had put their names on the list subscribed. A meeting of the stockholders will be called in a few days and a perma nent organization effected. Harold IL Clifford will remain at the head of the team here. Efforts will be made to have the local club start training at once. SOXDEU FLEET IS UNDER WAY Three Boats to Ee Selected for Kiel Races in 1915. MARBLEHEAD, Mass., March 24. The fitting out of another American sonder yacht fleet, three boats of which will be selected next Summer for the international races at Kiel In 1915, already has begun in the ship yards of Salem Bay. Ten or 12 boats, it is said, will line up for the trial races. which will be held here by the Eastern Smoked for 25 years The General Arthur doesn't sell by the mil lions because it is adver tised but because it makes good its advertising. Smoke one today and realize why men have never changed from General Arthur for 25 years. faithful service to the Yacht Club, probably in the third week of August. The international races for the Bon ders at Kiel next year will be the sixth series between America and Ger many and the third to be sailed in the waters of the latter country. The series now stands four to one in favor of America. Athletes Busy at 'St. Helens. ST. HELENS. Or., March 24. (Spe cial.) The high school baseball team will be called out for practice this week and there will be regular train ing from now on in preparation for the Columbia County track meet to be held at this place in May. The St. Helens Tennis Club, an active athletic organization of business men and wo men, is getting ready for its annual tournaments with neighboring towns. The semi-professional baseball team probably will not be organized this season. The lease on the grounds has expired and the interest has been directed into other lines. Centralia Soon Greets Republicans. CEXTRAL1A, Wash., March 24. (Special.) The committee in charge of the get-together banquet to -be held b7 Centralia Republicans Saturday ntghi has received the acceptance of Lieu tenant-Governor Hart to the invita tion to deliver an address at the ban quet. The other speaker will be Jose phine Preston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The tickets for the banquet are selling rapidly, and an at tendance of several hundred Is an ticipated. Trees Will Be Studied. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Wash.. March 24. (Special.) A new course on the study of trees offered by The concentration of a clothes-making organ ization upon one kind of clothing makes it possible for the mak ers of Styleptusftiy Clothes Tbe.aa.qM nrioejinjtoridj to embody superior workmanship, style and all-wool materials in every garment. Come in save $3 to $8. Styleplus Store 342 Washington Street Portland American Public EAST MORRISON AND EAST FIRST the extension of the colige will begin Saturday, by Professor H. S. Biode, head of the department c' biology. The course will be an out-of-loors study of the trees in the vicinity ol! Walla Walla from the practical as well.' as the scien tific point of view. Centralians Iteacln Out. CENTRALIA. Wash., Man h 24. (Spe cial.) For the purpose of t napping out campaigns for increasing tfceir trade in the smaller towns in this . vicinity, at the luncheon of the Comrrercial Club yesterday the local merchants decided to hold weekly meetings, tl le first of which will be on Friday raistht. The territory to be covered by, the cam paign lies between Winlocl: Handle, Tenino and Elma. Centralia Woman Hond red. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Maioh 21. (Special.) Mrs. Charles F. A.j drew, of this city, a delegate from 11 y Camp No. 19S2 of Royal Neighbors at Amer ica, was elected state receivcr-t ecorder at the convention just closed in; Seattle. The local lodge of Modern V oodmen is making extensive preparations for a county meeting of the lodg-4 to b held here April 1. Walla Walla Gets Bis Demon Tat. WALLA WAT .LA. "Wash., Marc J l 24. (Special.) Democrats are anunging for a Jefferson day banquet, Ajril 13 The list of speakers will lncluile the four Democratic candidates for iUnlteil States Senator George Turner, of Spo kane; ex-Mayor George Cotteril L of Seattle: W. W. Black, of Everet, and Hugh Todd, of Seattle. Mnre than . a million dollars' worth ot raisins were exported from the liniteJ States in the last year, the omuitity; 500.000 pounds, being in exceu ot any total exported any earlier year. f.4.ii;'V