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THE SUNDAY OHEGOXIAX. PORTLAXD, MAY 20, 1906. 17 E Parasites Now Raise Cry Syndicate Baseball Games. of FANS KNOW- THE MOTIVE Hud It Not Been for McCredie, Ewing and Evans the League AVouId Have Gone to Pieces. Just now, because a few good, loyal sportsmen have banded together to keep tha Pacific Coast League from going to pieces, some cheap worthies, who have been entertained at the local baseball company's expense and had their laundry bills paid by frlenJs v from the money they received from the club, are beginning to prate about syndicate baseball. The motive be hind the "murk-rakers" is too patent to be overlooked. They are howling and slinking: mud now, because their source of easy money and supply of free tickets to the games, has ceased. They are howling; syndicate because they cannot kick a team while It Is winning. From Discredited Source. This cry of syndicate, coming from the discredited source that it does, will not frighten either the ballplay ers or the fans. The fans know, and so do the "Muck-rakers," If they could possibly be honest with themselves for once, lhat had it not been for Judge W. W. McCredie, Cal Ewing and Kvans, of Fresno, that Jim Morley, aided by the severe attack of cold feet which has hit the Seattle magnates, would "have sent the Coast League up Fait River. The mere fact that Mc Credie, Ewing and Kvans have agreed lo take over the Los Angeles franchise snd are willing to take over the Seat tle franchise as weil, does not mean Hint these three men are going to con trol the Pacific Coast League baseball. All three of the men who have, by tneir word, aarroed to finance the teams in the two cities are shrewd business men. They know that it would not be a good business proposition to own all of the teams in the league. They are not throwing their money away not oven to the "Muck-rakers." .Tim Morley's Defenders. What McCredie, Kwlng and Evans have done nnd are going to do is to tnkc; over the franchises until they can get local capital to buy them. The defense of Jim Morley by these "Muck rakers" is asslnlne. It la merely an excuse ' to use Morley as the medium through which to drag their muck rake. The very same muck-rakers who are now coming to Morley's de fence have called the ex-Ixs Angeles munas'er all the names In the category of epithets, and the team to which nn cj.liilelon was sung. It is merely tlie long way around to hit at those who have rut off their graft. Morley had a right to quit the Coast league. Those high up In the league were perfertly willing to have him get out. The time he chose to turn the trick, however, was not relished by flie men whose money was at stake snd who had already spent several thousand dollars In sending their teams south to train. Morley was hard lilt financially by the earthquake, fov he had considerable money invest ed in billiard parlors in Sai: Franclseo. This, together with the fact that he hail no chance of getting a renewal of his basehall grounds, was undoubtedly the reason which made him want to quit. Was Ready to Quit. Morley had his mind made up to oiii while Portland was playing there. That is why, undoubtedly, he refused to turn over to Manager McCredie Portland's share of the gate receipts, lie gave as his excuse for holding back the money that Portland had forfeited t tie money when it quit the game In the eighth Inning. This shows the caliber of the man. Iicave it to nny I'airmlmlod fan. Isn't a league bo'ter off without Morley's kind? There ire plenty of good sportsmen in l.os Argrle? who will be only too glad to take over Morley's franchise. They will take the team and pay money for It. . Los Angeles wants bus-hall just as Portland wants it. It wants good, clean, honest baseball, but It doesn't want foreign capital inter ested in Its team. To the right people MeCreoie. Kwing and Evans will sell. an.l when they sell they will let the os Angeles men who get the franchise into the league on the same grounds that Morley got In. If there is no one In Los Angeles who wants the fran chise. It. L Ragsrerley, sporting editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, wilt t.ikc the franchise. Baggerley told the writer in Oakland the day after fMorely announced he was going to j quit that he would buy the franchise and would be only too glad to get it. If Seattle Withdraws. The withdrawal of Seattle from the l'ujtip would result In Ewing. McCre die and Kvans taking Its franchise un til someone else wanted to buy, Se attle han certainly stuck to Its guns manfully. The men who have financed the club have sunk a pot of money In trying to give feattle a winning team. This season they gave Russ H'nll a free hand in selecting his team. Hall has surrounded himself with the highest-salaried team in the league, yet it cannot win. This undoubtedly has dis couraged those who have ben putting up the coin, and some of them want again to form a Northwest league. Not all of the Seattle magnates want this. According to reports from the Oakland meeting Agnew seemed to be satlariVd with the proposition agreed upon at the meeting. His interview in Portlandon his way home, saying thr.t Seattle would cut out the Coast league, caused great surprise to thosa who took part nt this meeting. Agnew stated at this meeting that the Seat tle team had mnde J300i up to the time that the earthquake broke up thing. This was just about $2300 more thna the Portland team made. Agnew's Idea of Joke. To Tiie Oregonlan's correspondent at Seattle Agnew said that he was Jok ing when ha said Seattle would cut out from the Coast league. Agnew's idea of a loke mat he innwnliit.j Kv USE MCK BAK GOAST LEAGU f himself, but It act the players on edge and once more they saw visions of the league going to smash. What has helped the Hi washes In this notion of quitting has been the baseball writers of Seattle. They are all close friends of t. K. Dugdaie, and because he was fror.en out they blamed It on the Pa cific Coast league. Dugdale should liave .ucceeded Park Wilson. The fat manager would have succeeded where Kits Mall has failed. Dugdale was tried in Portland, but he was double- crossed from the start and never had a chance to make good. MISS SITTOX IS INVINCIBLE California Girl Easily Beats Boston Tennis Experts. BOSTON, May 19. Miss May Sutton, of Pasadena, Cal., who stopped in the city for a few days while on her way to Eng land to defend her title as the British woman tennts champion, left today with two first prizes to add to her numerous collection. Miss Sutton won the Invitation singles in the morning by defeating Miss Marion Fenno. of this city, in straight sets with out giving her opponent a game and scarcely a point in the first set. The score was 6-6. 6-0. In the afternoon, playing with Norman W. Cabot, the former Harvard player, she won the mixed doubles event at Long wood, defeating Miss Phyllis Green, of Philadelphia , who played with N. W. Nlles, the Harvard champion. This latter match was also decided in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Miss Sutton will sail from New York for England next Wednesday. FIFTY HURT AT BALL GAME Bleachers Collapse at Rochester, N. Y Several Slay Die. ROCHESTER, N. Y.. May ID. A large section of the bleachers at Culver Field, the baseball grounds, collapsed at 4:50 I t "w - r r$ ' i I I .3 v 1--' Vr t; . sf 5V :5 1 7 1 L S . i I i - -l jv? it " - 7 r . - ytN 4 -if i I I -.:' - -If J f I J 1:1 M i I , . j I if I f- 1 - J If I' I li ! 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All of the other Injured will re cover. Hardly had the collapsed section of of the stand reached the ground when the ballplayers of both teams rushed into the wreckage and began pulling out those who were Injured. Within half an hour the game was resumed, the bleacherites taking up quarters on the field. As the crowd was leaving fire broke out in the east end of the grandstand. It was quickly extin guished. WEATHEK DELAYS TEXXIS. Clear Days Will Start Active Contests Among Players. Owing to the unsettled weather condi tions the work of getting the tennis courts .at the Multnomah Club Into shape for the coming season has been delayed considerably, but with a few days of sun shine it will be possible to bring them up to a high standard of excellence. In accordance with the usual custom the season will begin with the contest for the ladd cup. This much-coveted tro phy must be won three times to become the permanent property of a contestant. Of the club members who have partici pated in the contests for this trophy. Wal ter Ooss has won It twice, and Professor Ewing has won it once. The handicap committee has been quite liberal with the contestants, and on that account there are a large number of com petitors who think they have as good a chance as any one in this competition, for all lower-class men have been fairly dealt with in the matter of being allowed a handicap over the seniors, and as many of the beginners are showing splendid ability, club circles have It that the old timers will have to hustle In the coming tourney, wjiich Is slated to open Satur day, June 2. The entries will close May 30. The Irvington Tennis Club will also start active practice as soon as the wea tit er clears sufficiently to permit of the en joyment of the popular outdoor sport. COLLEGE BALL GAMES. Harvard Loses on an Error. CAMBRIDGR. Mass.. May 19. Thinking three were out. Captain Stephenson, of the Harvard team, failed to cover the home plate in the ninth iifning of today's championship game with Princeton, and two Princeton men came home, bringing victory fb their nine. The game was ex citing throughout, and was tied up to the ninth, when a hit, a sacrifice and Stephen son's lapse sent in three runa. Score, Princeton 8, Harvard fi. Holy Cross 15, Yale 4. . NEW HAVEN. Cbnn.. May 19. Holy Cross smothered Tale here today, outplay ing the local men In every department of the game and winning, 15 to 4. Illinois, 8, Chicago 7. CHAMPAIGN. III.. May 19. University of Illinois 8, Chicago University T. Cornell t, Pennsylvania 0. PHHAt'EIPHIA. May 19. Cornell Pennsylvania 0. M GIQMTIC PLAN FO ROADS Automobile Club Indorses Resolution of Far-Reach-Ing Proportions.- ASK COUNTY CO-OPERATION By This Project, if Successfully Car ried Out, It Would Be Possible to Travel All Over Oregon in Motor Cars. At the last meeting: of the Portland Automobile Club a resolution embracing the Indorsement of a gigantic scheme for member's of the high school track team, which will contest in the interscholastic the improvement of the roadways and highways of the state was Introduced by Chairman E. F. Cannon, of the road com mittee, which was passed unanimously, and the club members enthusiastically assured the author of the resolution of their hearty pupport of the measure. The resolution calls for improvement of the roads of the state. wrhich will on com pletion permit of autoists 'visiting prac tically any portion of Oregon desired, and the plan advanced by Mr. Cannon seems feasible in every respect, for it is a co- operative measure in which the citizens oi cacii county win oe cauea ujrou uu assist the committee in the work of se curing funds and preparing for the work. Task a Bis One. The task is a gigantic one and the mem bers of the Automobile Club realize this. but the benefits to be derived from the successful consummation of the idea ara bo great that the entailed labor necessary to its successful accomplishment is war ranted, and the members of the club have determined to lose no time or opportunity of promoting the proposed improvement. Mr. Cannon's resolution follows: In order that we may obtain quick and permanent results for the betterment of the public hishwayg throughout the state, we would recommend that your present com mittee ob streets and roads be increased to the extent of appointing ten additional members of this association outside of your board of directors. These ten additional members to each be given a county In which to organize a road-building move ment by bringing to their assistance in these counties associate members of this association, the County Judge, Road Com missioner, local development leagues, and such commercial organisations as may be active in the respective communities, and each county to assist In the work, thus putting forth a strenuous effort in perfect ing this organisation on these lines, we are positive that a good result will be ob tained which will prove much more satis factory than any attempt heretofore made for the betterment of the state highways. After this organization has been perfect ed, your chairman would propose a primary movement for building a direct road from Portland to Ashland, and from Portland to the eastern tine of the state, utilizing our best energies in permanent road-building by. fully acquainting our association with the Government's plan of road-building, and strictly following these approved methods. Through this association and the - state organisation we would receive beneficial re sults. We would recommend that this work be followed up by the framing of a proper bill for presentation at our next Legislature, having for Its paramount object the utiliza tion of state prisoners for road-building, their offenses having been against the s!atc. The labor should be directed wherein the state would benefit to the greatest possible degree, and yet not come In competition with our free labor, and we think our citi zens at large would commend this man ner of utilising our state subjects as la borers, and from this manner of employ ment we would derive much greater bene fit than could be obtained by letting this labor at the pitiful sum of So cents per day each. From these objective points of road -building, your chairman has the assurance that our adjoining states stand ready to organ ize similar organizations for taking the work up and extending it through other States on similar lines. The main state highway Is from Vancou ver Ferry on the north to two miles from Gregory, in Jackson County, on the Califor nia line. This road to pas through the following counties in the most direct and feasible route: Multnomah, Clackamas, Mar ton, Linn, Lane, Douglas, Josephine, and i Jackson. This road to be known as the Willamette and Rogue River interstate road, and & road, either-by the -way -of Motint Hood" and Barlow road to the Intersection of The Dalles" military road t "Grass Val ley,, thence to Ontario, by The Dalles Mili tary road or the "Willamette Valley road to Albany, and eastward to Ontariq by Will amette Valley and Cascade mountain mili tary road. Should the Mount Hood. .Barlow and Dalles road be selected, we will take this work up with the county officials of the following counties: Multnomah, Clackamas, Wasco, Sherman, Wheeler, Grant and Mal heur, and if the Willamette and Cascade Mountain military road should be selected as the most advantageous route, we shall have to confer with the following county officials: Marlon, Lane, Crook, Harney and Malheur. This road, by this route from Albany to Ontario, would be approximately 438 miles. From Portland by way of Albany and the Cascade military road .would be approxi mately 554 miles, and by the, way of Mount Hood and The Ialles military wagon road to Ontario the distance would be 414 miles. From Portland . to Gregory through the Willamette Valley" to the California line, 008 miles. Mr. Lewis Russell and Dr. C. B. Brown, with your chairman, made an investigation on the 13th inst. as to the present condi tion of the Mount Hood road from Port land to. within three miles of Mclntyre's, or the Salmon PostofHee, and we found a field for much good labor. This road from Portland to & point where the plank road begins, which is about four miles beyond Gresham. Is in a first-class condition. From this point to Salmon Post offioe the road is In a miserable condi tion, the planking for three-fifths of. this distance being worn out and full of ehuek holes, and where an attempt to repair the same has been made by inserting a few new planks here and ther, we found ths new plank about two inches higher than the old where inserted, thus making the road extremely rough where repaired. To put this road in a temporary passable con dition, we would recommend that from the beginning of the planking the farmers be I employed to go over this road with a spltt.log drag while the road Is still In soft condition, and by the careful utiliza tion of this drag on either side of the plank ing it will serve to level and fill the chuch holes, making the road passable for the present season. "We are also positive that the use of this splits-log drag will be of great benefit to the farmers in keeping the dirt roads in first-class condition; that we need have no apprehension as to their making much fn- Don M. Kelly. lure use of this simple road implement, as Its work surely Fpeaks for iUelf as to its merits. This work should be followed up at once by bringing to our assistance th County Judge and Road Commissioners of Clackamas Coumy and bejein ui extension of permanent road work from the western nd of the plank road by removing this planking and building first-class macadam roads to th. Oovernmcnt camp on Mount Hood. Very truly yours, E. F. CANNON. Chairman Road Committee. Camas baseball team. 15 miles east of Vancouver, challenges any amateur teams for games. Write J. T. Foindexter, man ager, Camas, Wash. V t ir ic k r i ATHLETES II THE 11 Schoolboys Are Interested to Large Degree in the : " Various Sports. HAVE VERY GOOD BACKING Enthusiasm of Elders Almost Equals That of the Youth in Their Ef forts to Establish the School Teams. Doubtless many parents have noted with surprise the wave of athletic enthu siasm which is sweeping over the gram- mar schools of the city thi Spring. The youngsters in the grades are vigorously playing off a baseball stchjedule which has bfen arranged for them by the Y. M. C. A. and. now many of the schools are de voting themselves to track athletics on their playgrounds after recitation hours. Surely most fathers and mothers must see the good, in such a condition. What a healthy enthusiasm for athletics can do for young America is too well known to require discussion, but there are prob ably very few parents who are acquainted with the influences which have been working to encourage this interest in outdoor sports by the grammar school boys. Home time ago the Multnomah Club authorities announced that their athletic policy would hereafter be primarily to purge club athletics of any taint of pro fessionalism. This announcement, was heralded with delight by al! lovers of pure amateur sport. Now the club men have sent circulars- to all grade schools in the city inviting them to enter a track team PHENOMENAL OREGON ATHLETE Dan M. Kelly, the University of Oregon freshman, who developed such surprising athletic ability in the dual field meet Friday between Oregon and O. A. C-, is a product of the Eastern Oregon ranches. He secured his early education In Ba ker City High School, where he showed his first flash of speed and all-round track ability. Kelly next affiliated with Columbia Univer sity, and "Svhlle there he met and defeated some of the bent men In the Northwest. But with all this, no such performance was ever ex pected of him as that of last Fri day. To win IS points In any track meet is no mean performance, but to win two dashes in record time, break a record in the broad Jump and tie for the high, is little short of wonderful. Kelly iid the 100-yard dash in 9 4-5 seconds, tying Parsons' fast time of last Summer, the 220 dash in 0:22 4-5, jumped 24 feet 24 inches, doing nearly a foot better than the beat previous jump ever made on the Coast, and tied In the high at S feet 2 inches. With three years more at college, Kelly should develop into a world beater. In an interschool meet which will be held on Multnomah Field the morning of June B. Increase Prestige of Mnltnornah. Apparently these actions of the club are entirely uLstinct and separate. On the contrary, they are closely related and they are both but parts of a broad, well defined plan which President Chapin and his advisers have formulated to increase the prestige of Mulmomah Club by a perfectly icguiinate means and at the same time to aid the younger generation of Forilaudera in developing their latent nthletic ability, which, it so properly de veloped, will later In life prove to them of much value. With : President Chapin and Robert Krolin. tne prime movers at the club, are closely associated Superintendent Frank Rigler. of the public schools, and Judge Arthur L. Frazer. of the Juvenile Court. Of course, the Multnomah men see in this project of promoting annual track meets among the grammar schools immense possibilities in the way of recruiting ath letic material for their Institution, but they are also, sincerely prompted by the same generous Interest in the welfare of the school boys, as are Judge Frazer and Superintendent Rigler. The whole pian is this: The principals of the various schools are to superintend the organization of teams in their schools, leaving, however, the management, and captaincy entirely to the boys them selves. A certain standard of scholarship must be attained by. every student com peting. The club is to furnish their grounds and " a committee composed of club men. the principals. Judge Frailer and Superintenednt Rigler is to lend dig nity to and direct the whole system. What the outcome of the movement will be remains to be seen. If this first meet is a successful and representative affair, the men backing the proposition will en deavor to secure the forming of some league which shall have such a meet annually. The school boys themselves seem to be taken with the idea. At the Holman School, in South Portland, the boys ar9 working after school hours making apparaturs and practicing various events. Just at present the baseball league or ganized by the T. M. C. A. is proving meet very successful. The schoolboys have caught up with this idea with a venge ance and they seem delighted with the Idea of fighting out a schedule for the honor of their schools. In forming this baseball league the Y. M. C. A. was ac tuated by the same motives as the men backing the track proposition. They want to see the schoolboys begin athletics early and turn their ability Into properly-directed channels. Have Great Opportunity. Now, out of this whole situation there seems to be a great opportunity to evolve a grand athletic league among the schools which shall be permanent and always under the supervision of responsi ble authorities. Judge Arthur L. Fraxer of the Juvenile Court, who has long been Interested in this same kind of work. Fays: "I am heartily in sympathy with the work undertaken by the Multnomah Club and Y. M. C. A. It is right in line with the work I have been engaged in for some time and I sincerely hope the whole agitation will result in a merger and the establishment of some representative hoard which will carry the whole scheme through to a permanent and lasting success. ' "I have been in consultation with Mr. Chapin. of the Multnomah Club, over this proposition for some time, and together we wen before the Park Board and asked for their assistance. Those gentlemen promised to do all they could for us in the way of appropriating land belonging to the city for use as playgrounds. We now have subcommittees at work and ex pect soon to be able to present to the Park Board a definite proposition. . Work AVith .the Boys. "My work with the boys heretofore has not been through the schools as a me dium, but I see great opportunity In the Y. M. C. A. and Multnomah Club schemes to benefit not only the schoolboys, but also the troublesome gangs1 which hang around street corners at night. Last Summer we subdued one of the worst gangs in the city simply by organizing rival baseball tftams among them, and I am sure that encouragement of athletics among boys is a certain and expedient method of keeping them from bad habits." , . Secretary Hale, in charge of the boys department of (he Y. M. C A., who has been managing the school baseball league, says: "By next Summer T hope to see a cen tral organization which shall manage and superintend continuous athletic activity among the schoolboys in the city. My experience has been that the only way to rea.h the boy is to appeal to his 'strenuous-life heart fctring. - Once let the boy know you are interested In Jiis sympathies and It in easy to lead him in the right path morally." Grammar School League. Won. Lost. P. r. l.ono .im l.ono .7S0 .2; y .2: a .2ro .000 Mount Tabor Brooklyn Oakley Green Hawthorne ... Clinton Kelly 0 .... 3 .... 3 .... S .... 2 Ladd .. 1 Couch 1 Williams-Avenue 1 Atkinson The Intergrammar School league is bowling along merrily Baseball Compe- tition is ciOse. and ttie schoolboys are working up a great excitement over their schedule. Two games were played yesterday. Mount Tabor annexed another game by defeating Highland School, 10-6. The Ladd School boys won their first match from Atkinson School, 7-1. Dartmouth Wins the Meet. BOSTON'. May 13 Dartmouth won the New England intercollegiate track meet. PROVES PORTLAND Van Haltren's Men Are Too Speedy for the Beavers in Ball Game. SCORE IS TEN TO FIVE Commuters Run the Scoro I'p In the Second and Third and Again, In the Fifth Inning. Other Ball News. - PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. - I Yesterday's Kesalts. ir I Oakland 10, Portland IS. ' t 4 Seattle i. Ban rcancisco o. . f Los Angeles 8, Fresno 2. f oiwiwjiiig wn toe viuds. Won. Lost, r C. l.os Angeles lis 10 .714 Han Francisco 17 s .ttstt Portland ltl 1.1 ..WJ Oakland 11 17 Seattle 12 S3 .34:1 Kretno 13 ' 'ii .34;; Torens essayed to slide them down "th -alley for the locals yesterday, but his salary wing had an off day and he ' couldn't have located the plate If he had ' rolled them down a pipe. Coupled with his wildness was a weir-l fumble-fest. In which the local inner works played a -sad part. In this game of boot-em nd toss-em Into the bleachers, Oakland ran Portland a. close second. The only dif-' ference was that Van Haltren's men crossed the pie plate at home more often -than did McCredie's ragged army. In the second and third chapters. Oak- . land ran the count up to four. Gloom and raindrops settled over those in the land of the bleach, but they awakened from -the spell when McLean, big, hard-hitting.' Larry, cams up with the cushions bung- -1 ling with three of the ought-to-be-made-in-Oregon folks and ripped out a two bagger. The wallop sent home Mitchell, McCredie and Mitchell. McLean went Into switch No. 3 on a mlscue and then , scored when Moore poked the ball safe.. -This made four and a tie, but when-. Moore scored the locals took the lead for - j one short, happy period. The fifth again produced sadness. Toren .1 was chaied from the center of the firing -.-line and Callff was rushed forward as,: first aid to the injured. Oallff's hospital . . kit was late arriving and Oakland chased four more runs over the pan. After that it increased its lead two more runs. Port land tried to catch up, but it had as much , chance as a one-legged man against , Sprinter Duffy. Bill Reidy, the blg-ex-leaguer. was the . doctor that mixed the foozling dose for the locals. Reidy is not the has-been., that some would think. He had only one. . bad inning, the fourth. The rest of the ,, time he was pretty much in the game.. Things haven't been breaking very well ' for the curve-wlelder since he joined the ' Coasters and yesterday was the first easy , day he has had. Here's hoping he get .; more easy days but not against Portland! The score: PORTLAND. AB. R. H P.O. A. B. McHale. cf 5 0 I 0 0 , 0 , Sweeney, ss 0 0 n 2 I, Mitchell, If 1 1 2 0,,0 McCredie. rf. 4 1 3 1 1 0 Lister, lb 2 1 o 12 1 ,1 ' McLean, c. 4 1 1 4 1 a Moore, 8b 4 1 2 1 4 0". Donahue, 2b. S ' 0 tt 1 3 0 Toren. p 2 0 0 0 2 I Califf, p 2 0 110. Totals 35 "5 9 27 19 5 OAKLAND. , AB. R. H. P.O. A. E. Van Haltren, cf 2 2 1 4 0 0 Kruger. rf 4 1 1 2 0 0 Smith, If 5 112l Devereaux, Sb 3 2 3 0 0 0 T. Hacked, c 4 2 1 2 0 1 J. Hackett. lb 3 1 1 9 11 Francka. ss 4 0 1 S 1 1 Markley. 2b , 5 0 1 3 2 1 Keidy, p 3 1 0 0 2 0 Totals ..83 10 10 27 4 SCORE BY INNINGS. Portland Runs ...0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 . Hlls 0 1 0 4 1 0 1 1 1- ' Oakland Runs ...0 2 2 0 4 0 1 1 0 10 Hits 0 1 1 0 3 1 8 2 010 " SUMMARY. Struck out By Toren, 2; by Califf, 1; by . Reidy. 2. Bases on balla Off Toren, 5; off Califf, ' 2; off Reidy. 1. J Two-base hits McLean, J. Hackett,. Kruger. McCredie. Double plays Sweeney to Lister to. ' Moore; Francka unassisted. Sacrifice hits Kruger, Donahue, J. ' JIackett. T, Hackett. Stolen bases J. Hackett, Francki, Dev- " ereaux. T. Hackett. Hit by pitched balls By Reidy, 1; by . Califf. 1. , Passed balls By T. Hackett, 1. Left on bases Portland. 6; Oakland, T. Innings pitched by Toren, a. . Base hits Off Toren, 4. SI WASHES WIN A GOOD GAME Backstop Blankenship Covers Him self With Glory. SHATTLB, Wash.. May (Special.) Blankenshlp won and saved today' game for Seattle with the fastest exhibition of baseball playing Seattle has ever seen from a catcher. Only six hits were se cured by the Slwashes, and Blankenship added three of these to hi batting record. Only one run was scored for the home, team, and Blankenship came lugging this in during the first chapter of one of the fastest contests Russ Hall has engineered. It was in the ninth inning, after eight series of sensational backstop work be- hind the plate and In the rear of the first and third corners that Blankenship saved the affair. When Htldebrand walked, thev dauber of the Seattle buneh went low. Irwin, in trying to bunt, made one of those dumps over the head of the pitcher' that usually count for one corner. Mott, coming in from third, got the ball in time ' to throw out Irwin at first, but he left hl ' corner unprotected and Hildebrand kept right on coming. Blankenship from his berth beat Hildie to the bag and completed a double play, thus yanking Seattle from the dumps and saving the game, for if the refugees had ever tied, the dispirited bunch would have quit. Vlckers and Httt pitched fine ball all the time. The score: R.H.J5. Seattle 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 7 3 9nn Francisco 0 0000000 00 3 0 Batteries Vickera and Blankenship; ' Hitt and Wilson. Luck Is With Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES. May 19. Although get- . ting but half aa many base hits as the. visitors, Los Angeles won today by the score of 3 to 2. Fitzgerald pitched good ball, but could not win. Eh-rors and bases on balls helped the locals. The score: R.H.E.j R. H.E. Los Angeles. 3 4 3 Fresno 2 8 2 Batteries Bergman and Lager; Fitz gerald and Hogan.