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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1905)
V THE "5UJ?irar " OKEGtOlSIJpS, PORTLAND, MARCH 26, 1905. CURRENT GOSSIP IN THE ATHLETIC FIELD PORTLAND PLAYERS SHOW UP WELL AT REGULAR POSITIONS & SAN FRANCISCO WILL SEE" HEAVYWEIGHTS FIGHT TUESDAY TEAM IS IN SHAPE GHAT AT THE CLUB Portland Players Ready for Opening of Season, Multnomah League Plays First Game Today. INFIELD IS STRONG AND FAST POTATOES VS. JACKRABBITS : , A ..... ( - -Pitching Staff Is Showing Up Wcll MeCredle Gets His Batting Eye Virgil Garvin Helps Two Pugilists at Training. BAKERS FIELD, Cal., March 25. (Spe cial.) Every Portland player Is now at his regular position. The team makes an excellent appearance. "With each play er guarding his accustomed territory, and it will ba ready for the opening in Los Angeles next Thursday. The infleld this year seems impregnable. Although un able to play for one week on account of wet weather. Second Baseman Schlafly. Runkle at third and Jakey Atz, the short stop, display perfect condition. These men are fun of ginger. Eryel Beck's second base work here last year cannot be compared to Schlafly's style, while Ike Francis Is surely a nbvlce alongside of Runkle. Atz Is better than Castro at short, for he Is much steadier, and with more life and action. At first base McLean, who is originally a catcher, shows up very strong. He plays quite a distance from the bag and moves his giant-like form In all direc tions rapidly, but even at that he de pends upon the pitchers to cover his bag. McLean likes to field balls seem ingly too far from his base. For catcher the Webfooters have evi dently not decided on their regular men. Yesterday Coe showed considerable im provement, and Swindells, who has a stiff knee, worked welL It is understood that Walter McCredle has sent to Salt Lake for Fred Clark, whom he intends to use as a regular catcher. In the garden districts Portland again shows a great Improvement over last year s men. For Instance, van Buron in left does tiot use half the effort In gathering in flies that winded "Fatty" Xadeau so often. "Van has been troubled with a stitch in his side, recently, but ho has worked his -ailment away, and shows up pretty strong with the bat. McCredle Gets His Batting Eye. Manager McCredle has taken advan tage of every opportunity since his ar rival to work, and apparently is playing a better game than he ever did before. His batting eye seems sure. Householder Is at his old tricks with the "bunt," and Invariably makes good Eddie got into condition ahead of the other men. He was one of the first to report. The pitchers this season for the Port land team are a hlgh-pricpd lot. Seven twiners are doing regular work. Mc Credle intends to retain all of them. There is one man in particular on the pitching staff whom the fans' -will recog nlzo at a glance as an all-round baseball- player. The writer has in mind William Esslck, who evidently was secured as an experiment from Salt Lake. Young Esslck "has a fine athletic appear ance. His. manner is gentlemanly. His untiring practice has made him popular, and his excellent pitching is bound to wfn him a handsome Income before the 1935 season is completed. He has been sent into the field, and there displays accurate Judgment. He is a heavy sticker, and all-around Esslck looks like another Hal Chase. Charles Coe continues to show improve ment in fast company. At first, he made some nice runs and picked up a couple with "One hand, that won applause from his colleagues. St. Vraln's pitching arm is in perfect shape and shows a large amount of con trol. Cates did a. great deal" of hard work In Sunday's game. He will bo one of the star twirlers. French and Gllpatrlck are two more of the pitchers and from this cad they look to be very strong In their line. Burt Jones, who was with Oakland and San Francisco last year, thinks he will do the best pftchlng of his career this eeason. Garvin's Throwing Phenomenal.. "Virgil Garvin has apparently been tak ing good care of himself. That he Is a National Leaguer, able to hold his own with the largest clubs la the country, has already been shown. His throwing Is phenomenal and it takes a strong catcher to hold him. His curves are a feature and ho cuts the plate with ease. Garvin is a tall, wiry athlete. He resembles Rube WaddU in many ways. If Mc Credle can hold this man and if the other Portland pitchers retain their present good condition, Portland has a bright chance for the pennant. Garvin took advantage of the hot spell and got Into shape without trouble. The wet weather put him back, but he man aged to take some Indoor exercise. Last week he visited the camp of ."Dutch' Thurston and Kid Williams, who are training for a fight In this city on Thurs day next Garvin asked to be allowed to don the mlts with the pugilists and his request was granted. In boxing Virgil showed more than average ability and he gave Kid Williams six rounds of active sparring. Garvin continued boxing with the rest of the fighters and the violent exercise Improved his wind materially. WHY O'NEILL QUIT THE GAME Charles Comlskey Tells of a Fine the Veteran Fielder Never Pajd. "Very few know to this day why "Tip" O'Neill quit the game." said Charles Comisky. "I'll tell you. It was the distance of the eenterfleld fence from the home plate on the Cincinnati grounds which -was responsible for put tine; him on the shelf. And It came mighty sudden, too. I had taken O'Neill from St. Louis to Chicago In the broth erhood year, and after the 'bust-up took him down to Cincinnati., It was a mighty distance to the fence on those old grounds, and Tip' -was not as young as he had been and wouldn't run after a ball that fell behind him. "One day I said to him: 'I want you to run after the ball regardless of where it falls.' "'Well, now, what's the U3e, Commy. he said, 'it's a home run, anyway. "Well, it would look better. I retort ed, 'and if you don't I will fine you every time. "Well, It went along for a few days and O'Neill got on some speed, but one day he forgot to chase the baJL When he came 1n I ild: That loaf ing cost you $23.' Do you mean it. CoramyT I told him I certainly did 'Well, thon. I'll quit the game. he said. 'If you do.' I replied, 'the flne doosn't go.' "Well, I won't go out on the field at all any more.' 'Well, then, it goes, I rotortoJ. "He finished Che grame all right, but in th evening he packed his things and before I oould flag him he was on his way to his homo in Canada. 11 o never came aftor the money we owefl elm." i FAST Mil IN SIGHT Johnson Meets Hart in San Francisco Tuesday. BOTH ME AFTER JEFFRIES Champion Will Draw the Color Line jfioJan's Story of Attempt to Job Brltt-Nelson Fight Bears Earmarks of Malice. BY WILL G. MACRAE. San Francisco fight fans are going to see a mill between a couple of heavies on Tuesday night. Jack Johnson, the big heavyweight black, is scheduled to go 20 rounds with Marvin Hart, of Louisville, Ky. Johnson says he has taken on Hart because if he beats the Southerner he will be in line to force Champion Jeffries Into the ring with him. This is the same tune that Hart is singing. Hart may, if he defeats the Texas negro on Tuesday night, get a chance to hook up with Jeff ries, providing he wants the chance, but with Johnson, well, theres no chance. Jeffries has declared himself on the color Uae, and there is no reason to belle-e that he will do as Jimmy Brltt did be forced into meeting a negro. Brltt was forced into meeting Gans by a certain sporting writer on an afternoon San Francisco paper. This writer charged Brltt with being afraid of the Baltimore negro. This same fellow, both with pencil FATE STRONGER THAN THE DOPE By Clarence L. Cullen. HAT aged hopsky. Rough Rider, was ruled off at Los Angoles the other day for flashing by ton soon, I notice," observed the grizzled, ruminative, straw-munching trainer of thoroughbreds, who has been sending them to the post since Hindoo and Hick ory Jim were weanlings. "I've been wait ing for some lunars for that one to get the gate They'll have to give him the Kecley cure for tho hop habit, now that he's barred, before he'll ever do to haul a fish cart or a milk wagon. In a way of speaking Rough Rider has been living In Chinatown all his life I'll bet a two bit smoke that if they were to boil and render him they'd get a big enough resi due ot pure poppy juice and mandragor and the other drowsy syrups of the East out ot him to stock a drugstore. It seems to me that Rough Rider has been on ono delirious dope drunk as far back as I can remember, and. at that, there isn't anybody that can rise up and claim that he hasn't paid for his spreodeagle soup. He has won moro nesdle-and-tlagon races than any other r.leco of fromage do brie since I began merry-go-roundlng. and I hate to wake up and think of how long ago that was. "Without the do-It-now drops under his surcingle. Rough Rider couldn't traipse fast enough to overhaul a district mes senger bay delivering a come-immediately message. But any time they were out for it and would stake the old clomper to a cop-it capsule he could make up the distance between here at Mount Shasta iu the hike from the top of the streot down to the tape, and win a-swinglng. "The Inst time I saw Rough Rider on one of those carded hurry-up drunks ot Ws was at Bennlngs a year or so ago. The layers had carelessly chalked up 38 to 1. or some such fooUshnssa. against him, because the race included some nifty ones, and then the yannigans who had been let Sn by the way of the collar door biffed the opening figure down to something that looked like 5 to . at post time. Locked Like Hoofed Shepherd Dog. The old doperoff. as usual, dropped co Jar cut ot it in the first quarter that he looked like a hoofed shepherd dog shoo ing cattle home, and go-lag down the back stretch, 50 lengths behlad the tall-ender of the rear-end division, he "made hla Jockey look like the grand marshal of a coon parade who'd had to dismount to get bis blown-off hat after th procession bad started. CBut the spraddlp-noses in the sweat- "INSET- Wttrtt r"av rift-"! CARTOONIST "MURPHY GLANCES AT SOME and pictures, has tried his best to bring Jeffries and Johnson together. He tried to make Jeff believe that the fight fans would demand this fight of him, but the answer he got was that Jeffries would re tire before he would fight a dingy. The fact of the matter Is, the fight fans never have demanded this match. They have never wanted Jeffries to meet a ne gro since he has declared against crossing the color line. In certain quarters there was a desire to see Brltt and Gans bat tle, but it was not considered a great battle by any means. The result of the fight was one of the unlucklest things that Brltt has done in all of his ring career. He lost friends and prestige by it, and if Jeffries should meet Johnson the case would bo the same. It ia to be regretted that Johnson Is not a white man. for he is tho only big fellow in the boxing game today who would have any chance whatever with Jeffries. In meeting Hart, Johnson ha? tackled about the toughestjof the big fellows after Jeffries and Fitzslmmons. Hart is not as fast a man as the negro, nor Is 'he as clever at iong-range milling, but at In fighting he is Johnson's equal, it not his master. Hart may be in earnest when he says that unless he quits the ring winner he will never return to Louisville. If he fights with this thought foremost in his mind and with the hope that if he wins he will get a match with Jeffries, he ought to put up the fight of a desperate man. Johnson, with either hand, has a punch that is apt to disturb this hope and line of thought for Mr. Hart, if the negro can get to land one of them. "When It comes to a clean record. Hart's Is much better than Johnson's, for so far he has not been mixed up with any shady ring scandals, while Johnson has been tinged. This fight, however, has all the appearances of being on the level and should be one worth while seeing. Billy Nolan, Battling Kelson's manager, startled the pugilistic world, last week by accusing Jimmy Brltt and his brother Willie of jobbery. Nolan says that Willie Brltt refused to match his brother Jimmy against the Dane unless Nelson would agree to lay down. Those who know Britt will never believe this story, es pecially since It came out after be and Rough Rider down to nothing weren't worried. "Wait till that nltro thing Inside of the old crab explodes.' they bawled from the lawn and the infield, and they had that rlghL "It didn't happen with any rumbling re verberation, but the medical bomb under old Rough Rider's belt exploded some where in his mechanism Just as the lead ers hit the head of the stretch, and then Rough Rider was only playing soltaire in the It's Mine Stakes. As ho clomped by the bunch, one after the pther, they all Jerked UJelr conks sideways and passed him the hopeless, 'You-can-have-lt gaze, and the wire the old hohsouse was a face In front of the l-to-2 favorite, that bad swung into, the stretch, only breezing, his head in his boy's lap, and tbe near est one 13 lengths behind him. "Here's to bis glue, anyhow, If that's what they're gclng to make of him. Rough Rider doesn't owe me anything. I was always there In the pay-off line when he romped home In one of those foams. "But the cccclcratlng oil doesn't operate in the works of all of thorn as it did In the seasoned midriff of old Rough Rider. I found that out when I was doing the best I could, short ot necking farmers for, their hay money, as an outlaw on the Iron Hill and other desperado tracks of Maryland. "They all used the expeditious bouillon at those tracks, and If, at that time, I wasn't a member of the American Horse Chemists' Association, .then I bad a name and number in tbe Mothers Con gress, and that goes as it lays. "I used to slink by with the pill or sypo thing as often as any of the others, but there were snags, little Doe-Lamps there were snags. . "I had a "Chink gelding at Iron Hill that could put down five furlongs eight times as fast as a dipsomaniac skidding for his No. 1 absinthe frappe when hs had the tow-roping tar in him, that is to say. "Without it, he couldn't beat my old aunt in Bast Liverpool, O.. in a spud race.- "I had tho stingiest time trying to get that one to fetch me home the carrots with the swift syllabub In him that" you can have any Idea of. Knees Like Rained-On Hats. "Ho had two knees on him that looked like ralned-on plug hats, but they didn't bo tiier me so much as his Inconsistency of character. I could never handicap Just what the hop was going to do to him .t make him do. If I'd been able to get anything liko an exact line on just the minute when the typhoon tonic was going to make that old Mongolian gelding get fr'-'-v, ftviVf! rP,1r Jofrn VrS tjyV SPORTING HAPPENINGS OF Nelson could not come to terms with Brltt for a return match, and when because of the failure Britt had taken on Jabez "White, of England. If the story Is true, and "Willie Brltt did try to get Nelson to quit to his brother. It has taken this pair a long time to break into print about it. If Nelson had one shade of honesty in his make-up. he would have bawled "Willie Brltt out long before he did. That he did not stamps the story as being false and one given out in order to hurt the Britt "Whlte fight. The charge that Nolan has just made against Jimmy Brltt Is the first breath of suspicion that has fallen on him during his ring career. In noma quarters and among Britt's enemies this story will be believed, and these people will clamor for a fight between Britt and Battling Nel son. They will make this demand upon the ground that this will be the only way to prove there Is nothing In the charges that Nclan makes. The best thing that Brltt con do Is to let the Nolan story pass. Jimmy Coff roth has "matched him with Jabez "Whits, an engagement which Nelson could have had but for his swelled notion of his own importance. Nelson may be a greater slugger than Brltt. but he falls far short of being the keen business man that the Callfornlan is. Before Nelson loomed upon the pugilistic map. the talk of a fight be tween Brltt and Jabez "White was talked of. Jimmy Coffroth, ever since he be came manager of Tosemltc Club, has been set upon pulling off an international prize fight. He has been hot on White's trail for over a year, and like the good waiter he Is, he anally succeeded in getting "White on this side of the big drink and matched with Brltt. Jimmy Coffroth Is not liked both by a number of the scrambling fight promo ters and by several of tho pugs them selves. These folks will be "de-llght-ed" with the story that Nelson and Nolan have given to the public If the story Is a He. and it seems that it is one on the face of it, it would not be surprising If later on It would develop that enejnles of both Britt and Coffroth are behind, the yarn. Nolan could only have one purpose in telling the story when he did, and that was to Injure the Brltt-"Whlte fight. like a sandwich man on a crowded street. "One day, soon after I'd got him to Iron Hill. I had him in one of those flve-elgbths drills, and It looked like mine with my ankles In leg-Irons and one hand tied behind by back. "Ten minutes" before boots and saddles, I poked back of his tonsils a little tnlng about the size of a taw moss agate or an overgrown chocolate cream. "I figured that the gelatine wrapper containing the hurry-up ingredients would dissolve by the time he reached the webbing, and that then he'd come home like a brakelcss Ice-yacht or Barney Oldficld on one wheel of his racing Satan chaise. "Thus calculating, I nudged Into the betUng ring and scared seven Baltimore bookmakers so badly that they climbed down off their stools and began tk lay off my bets on. roy Chink horse as if they only had two minutes to live, and had to dispose of -their vested Interests before the second hand cogged around the dial twice. . "When the field reached the barrier my Boxer souso surprised and pained me by looking as tired and ennuye as if he hadn't enough of the tornado turpentine in his torso to drive a buzz-gig a. hun dred and twelve miles without stopping to fuel up. "Just stood there in front of tbe rlb bou. that fool dope did, as If wondering what kind of a bran-mash he'd get for breakfast next Thursday week, and even when the rest of them were champing and wheeling for a break ho was stand ing at the barrier like a stall-fed cow getUng milked, gazing into the bluish haze of the Maryland hills, a-dreamlng. "When the flag flashed, with all of them on a line like a column front 'of cavalry, mine lagged like & dingo trying to make a getaway from a watermelon, patch with one of the big citrons under each fin and the farmer coming a-holler-Ing down the road. "He didn't run fast enough to blow the sleepy bugs out of his eyes, and when the rest of them were sailing into "the stretch like a flock of catamarans In half a gale of wind, my hopped Chink thing was doddering around tbe far turn like a fat cop trying to nail a leather-worker at a county fair. "He was beaten forty-seven lengths to tho 'braid by the last of the other also rans. "But jest as he began to bear down upon the last sixty yards of the stretch I saw a great change come over him. "An expression of the most acute amazement appeared in his lamps. He. pricked his ears, gave threo or four of those up-and-down swishes of his tail, cathercd himself together . in & bunch THE WEEK AND SOME FUTURE YAGHT CLUB PLANS They Will Be Determined Next Friday. CLUBHOUSE A POSSIBILITY Nominating Committee Submits the Names Frcm Which a Board of Directors arid Officers May Be Chosen at Meeting. Tho Oregon Yacht Club, at Its annual meeting next Friday evening at room 2, "Worcester block, will make its Summer plans. It has before it an era of prosper ity and it wishes to enter It In dne order, so it Is being very cautious and la exerting great self-control not to be too optimistic A whilo ago-"an offer was made it by the Oregon "Water Power Company to build a modern clubhouse, for a reasonable rent, at Oak Point. Not to be too ready to throw Itself at its wooer, the club asked time to consider. It did not see why It could not build a fine home for itself, and before the week was out had the site located and figured on oiling the roads to It so the automobiles-could reach It handily. This kind of day-dreaming, it was un derstood, however, was" not to become general until the annual meeting, so something may be expected to come from room 2, Worcester block, next Friday. Other thing? will bo done there, how ever, chiefly tho election of officers, a .Rough Rider's Dishonored End Causes Veteran Trainer of Thoroughbreds to Grow Reminiscent fence for a cat crossing tho street and then he began to put down miles in nothing. He catapulated around the track Ave times in about the time that It would take you to scratch yourjcar and spit at a mark, and even when one of the track dlngcs caught him and threw a blanket over his head he had enough run in him to carry him to the Aleutian Islands and back without blowing hard enough to puff out a candle placed two and a half inches from his nose. He Got Amazed Too Late. "But he bad got amazed too late. "1 knew what was the matter, and it was my fault. "Inad forgotten to punch that cap sule. Before banding my collectiod of hops their before-the-race bolus. I had 'always made it a practice to"punch five or six little holes In the surface of the gelatine capsule so as to let the power ful peripetetle powder dribble out gradu ally as soon as ths capsule was Inserted in the dope's system. "I'd forgotten to do that with my Chink gelding that time.-so that the gelatine get-the-coln-globule had had to dissolve in the horse before the quick medicament leaked out and took effect. In that effect after the race was over and the numbers were hung out, and that, Georgia, was one of those dope dumpkovitches hereinbefore alluded to that caused the sin-ridden man you see before you to smoke turnip-top tobacco In "a punk pipe for quite a little wh'lle thereafter. "Through no fautt of the horse or of myself, but by the bull-headed preordl--nation of destiny say, I guess that's bad! I was scheduled to got yet an other drub on the keel, below the FHmsoll line and abaft the mlxzen cat head, at the hoofs of that Chink gelding-. "I tossed him in with a bunch of equine oxen that, with the jog Julep in him. he could run away and hide from, and this time. I was careful to puncture the capsule so, that It 'ud be sure to give hlra that surprised look and manner before, and not after the rest of 'em had weighed In. "I waited until two minutes "before post time on this occasion befpre edg ing Into the ring- and getting down tho possum pelts, and when I took tbe 10 to 1 that they were laying against mine I came so near laughing- right dt!t loud that the self-restraint r lmpostd upon myself almost gave me the hives. "With ono of those punctured pills joggling- around in his Internal econ omy, I knew that my Manchurlan mutt was as good or better than in and Ctl'YIStIiiPVti i1" Tfhea I sot. It all down EVENTS raattter of great interest among the club members. It may be said that there was not a member who was not out for some office, until the nominating committee began Its pruning. The scope of the norm natlng committees powers are limit ed, however, and It must present a cer tain number of candidates for each office, as this democratic club will not submit to such an aristocratic system of nomi nating as most clubs have. Those nominated so far are: Board or directors. C. A. Nelson, R. "W. Foster, F. A. Marlltt. J. S. Taylor. C. A. Marlltt, Fred Rasch and J. It. Rogers; twOfto be elected; commodore, F. P. Young, iW. II. Clemcs, Ira F. Powers; vice-commodore, L. V. "Woodward, A. A. Courtney, Ira Hill; port captain, H. H. Hoyt, B. C, Plllsburj, Nelson Bodge and Guy Arml- tage. New Baseball Team Formed. For the past two or three years th employes of the Portland Gas Com pany have had a lurking- feeling that within their ranks was contained a pretty fast bunch of ball players. This feel Ins is stronger than ever this year, and now the other commercial teams of the city had better look to their laurels. B. G. "Whltehousc, the "father" of the boys, has charge of tbe welfare of the Gas Company's club as" president, with a lieutenant in Fred. Richards, who will act as manager. The lineup will be: Catchers, Kenne dy and Duggan; pitchers, Franey, Ens minger and Knudson; first base, Er kins and Anderson; second base, "Vel guth; third base, Rumsey; shortstop, Knight: left field, Hottenroth; center field. Miller; right field, Fitzgerald, Manager Richards is now looking for games, and will endeavor to arouse in terest in the' formation of a city com mercial league. There are a sufficient number of large commercial houses In the city in which teams could be formod that a strong league could be made. Manager Richards would liko to get into communication with all such teams. and stood to drajjstaJwar $5000 on him, I had to go oft "Surf hide behind a ring stanchion so as to conceal the mirth that was shaking mo from the watchful bookmakers. "When, as the field started out of the paddock gate for tho post. I ob served that that excited expression was beginning to make its appearance on my hopperino's lineaments, I ached to Ju3t roll on the grass and holler it out of my system, but 1 feared that the stewards might look, upon such a per formance as singular, to say the least. in. view of -what I knew was going; to come off in a minute. "When they lined up at the barrier the hop had already got my Chinese crab Into a lather, and then I knew that ho was fit and ready to beat Mogul-type wrecking- engine going to tne scene or a rear-end collision. That little shiny-nosed girl at the top of the class, can you spell b-u but? "Because that was the llttio thing that supervened but. "Y'see, one of tho horses in that field picked up a nail in his hind hoof on his way to the post, and when he got to the post he wa3 so lame that he could hardly be walked back to the paddock. Ho had to be withdrawn, and the stewards declared 20 minutes for a new book. "That's -what gave me the ride to Banbury town. The dope was overdue one minute after tbe delay at the post began, and when it all began to melt yIn a bunch In my Shanghai skate hb wanted to run to the moon and then keep right on for the milky way. The assistant starter, however, held him by the bridle and rexused to permit him to run until the 20 minutes for the now hnnte hart elansed. Then mv ire Id Ing with the time-jdope In him "began to cave in the slats of all the rest of the horring In tbe field. After tlat lie curled his back like a locoed cayuse, tossed bis boy. went over the outfield and the main fence, and I got him out of tho dog-pound at Point o' Rocks, about 62 miles away, four days later. LHow ho got there 1" don't know, but you can Jtue au mo jvoninoors you ve got that he didn't stroll. He loped until the- hop in him dlw, and that brought him up Jit Point o' Rocks. "Neat and tasty way of getting It. the dope way. if you lenow how. But it's not all chemistry. After ypu ge the pill fixed or the noedle-guh loaded there's the horse to be considered, and they're not all such homing pigeons under the hop as old Rough Rider- hero's to him again!" (Copyrighted Baseball Players Will Compete for First Nine Game May Be Ar ranged With Japanese Team Plan a Track Meet. The weather man willing, the Art games in the schedule of the MultnomaL Amateur Athletic Club':. League will be . played today, beginning at 10 o'clock, on' the club grounds. The games to be played today will be between Eastmans Little Potatoes vs. "Whltcomb's Jackrab- blts. at 10 A. M.. and Trimhle's Irish Giants vs. McAlpln's Highballs, at H05 A. M. The players will be as follows: Little Potatoes vv. Honeyman, "Tlb- litts, Parrott, Van Deleur. Eastman. Mur phy, Dunne, Reed, Stockton, Ross, -Mc- CJraken. Crosby. Jackrablts Brown, Bisalllon. "Whltcomb,,. Holman, Gersaner, Houston, Harder,, t .Douglas. Sheridan. Irish Giants Holmes. McGuire. SInnott. Banks. H. Gearin. Harry Lltt, Cahalin," Trimble. "Watkins, "W. Gearin. Keller. Highballs Honeyman, McMIllen, Zan,. West, Steadman, Arnold. Lombard, El G.L Starr, Dr. Zan, O'Shea. Dolph, Irwin, S. Holbrook. This league has been formed for the double purpose of stimulating Interest in tho club's main Summer sport and witH the more Important idea of furnislhng the- best means of choosing a first team. Each team in this league will play a series of six gaines between now and May 2L the games to be played on Sundays, and at the end of this series the first or repre-, sentatlve team of the club will be chqsen from those members of the league having . the best showing to their credit. In this. way every one will be given a chance to display his ability, and It insures the se lection of the best talent in the club when the first team Is organized. Following the games today the candw dates for the first team will meet for their third practice. The weather of tha past week has prohibited any turn-out.-but as soon as .the conditions permit, & lot of strenuous work will he demanded by Manager Honeyman. Should the plans of Manager Honeyman meet with success, the most notable fea ture of Portland s ISOo baseball, either professional or amateur, will be the meet ing between the M. A. A. C. and the Wa seda baseball team, from Japan's great est university, which i3 coming over to this country to cross bats with Stanford. This Oriental team, it is said, has not only attained prowess in the art of the. resentative American game, but contains in its personnel several members of tho . royal blood. Under present arrangements this team will cross the water in April to meet Stanford and other American teams, some time during the Summer, and every en deavor will be made by the Multnomah Club to arrange for a game with the Japs during the Lewis and Clark Fair. Manager Honeyman is now in corre spondence with Stanford in an endeavor to learn Just what arrangements might be made. Since It is too late to take tho matter up direct with the team In Japan,. Manager Honeyman will endeavor to be able to submit a proposition Immediately upon the team's arrival in San Francisco. Owing to the fact that the Seattle Ath letic Club has not yet completed me or ganization of its baseball team, .no data has been fixed for a meeting with, tha local club. The Seattle men are rapidly getting things into shape, however, and express a strong desire to meet the M. a. C, so that within a short time a, game will undoubtedly be arranged. Manager Honeyman is also now in com munication with the University of Wash ington and the Salem team, and is awaiting- advice from both regarding their opsn dates. ' Through the courtesy of the King estate in granting the club tho free use of the ground two new tennis courts will be built just back of the grandstand. This will give the Multnomahs six courts. An increased interest In tennis Is being mani fested this year, and with the addition of several new tennis members the club will make a big showing In this pastime. Ar rangements for the Spring and Summer, tournament will shortly bo made. An innovation in management whch looks to the club's welfare will be intro duced next "Wednesday evening, when the. board of directors and tbe members of.the various committees will meet at the Com mercial Club for dinner. The main pbjqct of this meeting Is for the discussion of plans and ideas which will advance the club, and It Is thought that If the direc tors and the committees meet once each month much good will result. Should this prove to be the case, joint meetings wjll be held each month. The dinner is ar ranged on the assumption .that good-fellowship and good cheer will stimulate Ide3. A strong effort will bo mado to bring about the utmost harmony among all committees, so that the entire affairs of the club will be handled with a united effort. By joint meeting of committees, the weaker ones will be encouraged and even forced to stronger work by the more aggressive members. It has been suggested that after the track meet to be held between tha Seattle. Athletic Club and the University1 of "Washington, some arrangement should bo made for a meeting between the winners In the contest and the M. A. A. C. It Is not improbable that this matter will ,be taken up by the club. Such a. meeting would be full of Interest and would be well received. Upon the request of the Ladles' Annex the bath committee has arranged that the Turkish bath department will be reserved for the lady members on Monday and Thursday mornings ot each 'week. Tho . Ladles' Annex will provide its own at-, tend ants. "We are going after members and an. increased interest In the club now. just as we did when tho club was started." said President Chapln yesterday. "I feel safe, in saying that the success of tho club today Is almost wholly due to the activity and earnestness shown in its IncepUon. At that time we simply kept things hum ming, and everybody was possessed with the one Idea of advancing the club. That's just the spirit that has been kept up, and we are simply going to strengthen It now. "I think that a large part of the Inter est shown in the early club days was due to tho girls, who were Interested in the club members. I remember when we had our first track meet. Imagine such fel lows as myself ever getting out and at-' tempting a 410-yard dash I "Well, wo tred to do it, and at that first meet, held at The Oaks, the grand stand was complete- ' ly filled with girls, all applauding for their favorites. We are not only going to get the club members interest thor oughly aroused this Summer, but the glrla as well, and before the end of the Sum mer I confidently fexpectto see the Mi A. A. J2. occupying a position in athletic clubs never held "by such an organization on the Coast before."-.