La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 24, 1911, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 2 LA GRANDE, UNION COUNT?, OREGON;, f SATURDAY, JUNE 24,1911. EST SPORTIN.Gv NEWS I ! LAT CRUCIAL TEST ON TOMORROW ELGI3 COMES WITH DOUBLE PUB. POSE. ''ft- ( To Lose to Elgin Would Reduce Lead j Materially. Fourth of July may teem with pub lic interest right now and the dis cussed air flights may also be taking a due amount of Interest, but show us anything that is attracting more general attention than tomorrow's baseball game between Elgin and La Grande. Both team are peppered with different reasons, and the out come1 should be a nut that can only be cracked when , the game Is over. Elgin, though on the ascendency be CmUou wi recent victories, n vCcjiuc? of her secure second .place in the league, cares not so much to help gain the flag by winning the game tomorrow as she doeB for the exiler atlng experience of , defeating. La Grande, , That , was sweetness toned up to tooth-watering taste last Sun dayfor the Elgin fans. It was the first time this year that the Elglnites could turn the trick and they want to do it again, badly. The game to morrow, from a La Grande stand point will come close to cinching the pennant, if won, and if lost it will mean that the finish alone must give ns the flag, if we get it. Then too, what la of much interest will be the appearance in La Grande1 of the much talked of "Mysterious" Mitchell, who will pitch for Elfin. His work is superior to the average gatling gun. The pitching of hls phenom will be a study tomorrow at the Lfncoln ball park. The game will be called at 3 o'clock promptly. Automobile News and Gossip LOCAL SrORTLETS, COM. A O MENT AND THE LIKE. Not a few fishermen forget, or don't know that it is unlawful to attempt to catch fish within 200 feet from any dam. This is flagrantly violated at Influences of the Union County Motor club will be felt in Union county, of course, but Wallowa coun ty will derive a benefit if steps takeu to repair the road in Nine Mite can yon are successful. One of the first propositions taken out by the good roads branch of the local motor club at its meeting of directors this week was the matter of roads in sister counties. Between La Grande and Joseph there is a fine line of roads with one exception. There are many sharp rocks in the long road which make it hazardous for autos to pene trate that region. Secretary A. V. Andrews has been instructed to con fer with the county court of Wallowa county relative to having the rocks removed, the ultimate outcome being that if the roads are Improved by the removal of the rocks then both coun ties will mutually benefit. The Wal lowa hill has just been put into good, passable shape, and it will be possible to go to Wallowa county with first class roads In dry weathler when the rocks are removed. It seems cer tain this will be done though the mat ter has only just been gotten under way. ' j . That it is a 'violation ; of the law to paint signs on automobiles Is the interpretation placed - upon -the . law by Secretary of the State Olcott On ly two numbers are allowed and one must be placed In front and one in the rear. To paint other numbers would therefore, be Illegal. Practically every auto owner in applying for num bers wants his old number on some particular number. This is a request which can be granted to no one, as it would' completely confuse and dis arrange the records In the office. - Baker, June 23: (Special) At a meeting of the Baker Commercial club held last evening, it was decided to have automobile races in connection with the exhibition of aerial naviga tion to. be given by Eugene Ely, the noted aviator, in this cty,som& tme early next month; A large number of auto owners and representatives of local garages were present, and all spoke in favor of ths plan. ', The idea in planning additional attractions for the tvent, is to give the people a full afternoon of sport Mr. Dodd, the representative of Mr. Ely, was present and stated that Ely would co-operate in such a plan, and would give snort aiuoiibi.ruuus wliu his machine between races and conclude the afternoon with a race with an au tomobile and a long flight. The aero plane exhibition alone would not occu py the full afternoon, and the arrange ments now being worked up mean a bg day of rare sport, as auto races as well as an air ship, are new to Ba ker.,' ft is planned to offer prize for each race and to sradi l!w tntcrln? of cars into classes, so lint -: 1 event would be everly m-uht-i'. If the ar rangements ara carrfe-l out Baker will have an r.fternot.ii of sport of a hiu;h class, such as w.u never before Btaged In this cit:. various dams along the Grande Ronde river. It is about time that a gams warden, if there is one, make his ap pearance. It wouldn't take a half alive game warden over a year to make an example of grabhook artists. George Hlbberd possesses an Eng lish Bull pup, sent here from a Chica go kennel this week, which is a beau ty. The little fellow Is well pedi greed and Is perhaps asv well bred as any canine In the city. Mr. Hlbberd now has a kennel of several purely bred dogs. Cove's defl regarding any. amateur team's prowess in Eastern Oregon has as yet gone unchallenged and it may be possible that the youngsters' will make good their claims. Cove always did turn out some good ball players, and the. coming generation will soon be clamoring to get In the big little brush aggregation. Messrs Nels Holverson, Allan Par ker. Charles Webb and Ben Coiner of Hilgard, returned Thursday from a several days' fishing trip on Beaver creek, and report good fishing, every member of the party being able to get I the limit provided by the state game laws. Two league ball games will be play ed at Union Saturday and Sunday, when the Baker aggregation will go down to battle with the Union war rior on the Union lot. Oswald the JSSi Eft READ LL JUL JL l1 o NICE LEVEL LOTS LOCATED TWO BLOCKS HORTH OF THE RAILROAD SHOPS. We are offering these lots at from $160. to $200. eachon the most liberal terms BIG STARS ;iE SHORT LIVED ' r-:; ".. . FIXDS SCINTILLATE FOB A TME THEN FADE. Jiggs Donohue an Example f This Cole in Baseball. We furnish you an abstract of title, When yov have paid for these lots. Not a poor lot in our whole offering Belter call al our office and learn more about these lots. LA GRANDE - Bell Phone Main 752. Independent phone 262. Foley Hotel Block. I 'IV. LaGrande Oregon The greater the Btar the quicker the fall seems to be a cardinal principle In baseball. The good averagflTplayer goes along year after year, sticking to the same old pace and holding on to bis job by steady, grinding work. The star, however, lives up to his name. Be shines and flashes and dies out al most in a breath. ' There are many who could be named to Illustrate the example. Nealon, the Pirate first baseman of three or four years ago, was one. On the coast he bloomed up In a day almost, and the crunus vveiil nuu OVC Lii SCHPtlCE"! play. Then Pittsburg grabbed him up at the highest price ever paid for a minor leaguer, and he rose to his height and fell back Into mediocrity in the short 'space of six months. The Pirates couldn't get rid of him quickly enough, and you never hear of him as a ball player after that. ' ' , .... "Jiggs" Donahue, once of the Chi cago Sox, is another. After playing average ball for several seasons in the minors he suddenly sprang into fame as a first sacker who "ate 'em up." So Comiskey grabbed him off, and be lasted for a very few years. In the world series of 1900 his work was the sensation against the Cubs. That was the supreme time of his baseball life. The following season he fell off badly, and an average steady going fellow. Isbcll. supplanted him. "jiggs" was given a tryout this sprlug by the Sox and was recently released. Take the steady fellows, who can generally be relied on In pinches. There are scores of them, and their careers always are long and honorable In the majors. Stovall of Cleveland, Craw ford of the Tigers, Dougberty of the Sox, Schulte of the Cubs. Stahl of the Red Sox and Wallace of the Browns are examples They havo seen many stars come and go. but are clinging to their positions and will keep them for years to come in all probability. Sometimes men of this type are com pelled to sit on the bench for awhile, white one of the "comets" takes his place. But you find them back again at the old stand before they have been missed Ions:. They fall right back, and thlnps go nlong smoother, nU though not perhaps ns sensationally. Chansro of environment works won ders with pitchers ns a rule. There Is such ii thins being ton long with one team. It is also true that some twirlers can work better with one team than with another. This was especially true with Overall. He was a wonderful pitcher when with Cin cinnati, but didn't like his surround ings. Iilght when he Joined the Cnbs he fell into his Rtride. nnd he was re sponsible for a numlrtT of victories for them. CHf Curtis of the Boston Nationals Is another example. Clif pitched for Milwaukee for n long time. He was regarded as a fair man. but the Brewer fans didn't care much for him. The reason was he couldn't piny his game in Milwaukee. To make a long story Rhort. the Poves ,got hold of him last year, and the transformation was won derful, ne copped one game in Chi cago In a mnnner that left no doubt of bis ability to befuddle champions, ne looked about ns good ns any twirler on Boston's staff. Pitchers . nre not the only players who profit" by changes There Is Dele banty, who now is with Detroit, ne plays with much more ambition and life than when he was with Washing ton. Bresnahnn has done- yeoman service since leaving the New York Giants and joining the St. Louts Car dinals. . southpaw, who put one over on La Grande last week will pitch for Baker Saturday and Stone Sunday. A large number of Baker fans will go down for the game Sunday. There will be no ball game Sunday In Baker. The Elks of La Grande have notified the Baker Elks that they cannot be there. The game had been tentatively set for next Sunday, . v "Dan" Mathews, the big pitcher and first baseman who drifted here from Baker, has been slipped the blue envelope. REAL ART m a mmm ' m I mm. mmm MMMMMMWn 3TOST CALCULATED PLAY IX ALL BASEBALL. Delayed) Steal Invented by Harry Stov. tj Well Timed. "Base stealing, the gentle art of printing and 'hitting .the dirt, is the finest drawn and most closely calcu iated play In baseball and the one that above all others, reveals the mathe matical - exactitude of the national game." says Hugh & Fullerton In the American Magazine. ."A player who run run eighty-live feet In, three nnd iu third -seconds "from a . flat footed ptnr't ought to "reach second base ex artly tied with the ball.' nine times out of ten starts. If the play Is per fectly made by the runner, pitcher, catcher and baseman. The slightest inaccuracy or hesitation decides the plaj- . i "It seems a simple matter to ran ninety feet while a ball la being thrown sixty-eight feet and caught and thrown back approximately 132 feet caught again and held in position to touch the runner. Yet there are art ami ncieui'e iu iuo icui. : "There were great base runners in the old days. This was chiefly because in the early days stealing second base was the chief aim of the game. Mike Kelly. Billy Hamilton, who in two successive seasons stole over 100 bases and 'Big Bill; . Lange. who stole 100 times In. one' season, were all ' great runners who wonld ' be great . nnder present conditions. i' recall 5 vividly Lange's one hundredth stolen base, which established bis record.' He was on second base with no one out. and Chicago needed one run to win the game. Anson was at the bat. and. after his stolid, businesslike style, he poked down a perfect sacrifice bunt and went lumbering toward first base. Lange started for third base, stopped and trotted back to second. Halfway to the bench Anson discovered where Lange waa and came near having a stroke of apoplexy. Lange bad de liberately permitted his captain to sac rifice without advancing. Then by u wonderful dushlug start Lange stole third base, scored op a 4Jj,.and tfce game was won. Because he won the game Anson forgave him. but the mod ern player who attempted such a thing would be suspended and fined. "The most effective steal ever devis ed is the 'delayed' steal, which, al though used during the early develop ment of the game, was neglected for mauy years until revived by Manager Chance of the Chicago -Cubs. It was used with great effect by Bill Lange and Hppenrs to have been invented by Harry Stovey. a wonderful base run ner of the early days. The theory of the steal Is Jo catch the catcher and the tnflelder unprepared and out of position, and Its success lies entirely 'n Its unexpectedness "Lange. the leading exponent of tlie delayed steal, made It Mfter this fat ton. As the ball would he pitch. -a (; would leave rJrst biwe at tup ;ti and sprint as hard ns cmiid erini, twenty -eight to tliiny r v.. reet. then stop short, nnsltate n:ul ml n tf lie had .blundered nnd ihi.'m:!i i t. try tu regain first luie If in- in.eeded tn drawing the ttirovv u not tmse be proceeded to second at top speed. But in the great majority of cases the catcher would not attempt to throw to either base, but would keep motioning as if threatening to tbrtw, and all the time Lange would be edging back, inch by inch, toward first, jockeying with the catcher. Tie catcher, saris fled that danger was past and that It was useless to throw to first, would relax from throwing position, east; down bis arm and get ready to. toss the ball back to the pitcher. The moment Lange saw the arm drop and the catcher change the position of his feet he would dash at top speed for second pase. The catcher wonld leap back into throwing position, raise bis arm again and throw, provided the shortstop and second baseman had not -deserted the base and walked back to ward their regular positions. If they lost a fraction of a second in recover ing thease Lange wonld beat the ball The fatal hesitancy of the catch er and baseman gave him his oppor tunity. "Stealing third base from second ia much easier In reality than stealing second from first although It la at tempted much less frequently. The runner 'moving np with bis arm' can take more than twice the lead from ecoud base than from first and. be tides that. It Is much easier to gala a flying start It has. however, been declared bad Judgment to steal third except In close games with one oat and the opposing pitcher going well and preventing hitting. In such cases, where one run will win or tie. stealing third In advised by many. It Is more difficult to see the pitcher's movements from behind him than from one side. Still, the runner need not tart as IS FIXED ?3 DAT WELL TAKEN IT WITH ATH ; , LETIC ETEXTS. . t .' t , t!is. $1 5, Main Events Arranged for Fourth of l ... UJ J iCTiuinuyii. $'? 3 $ 0 & v ' i Sporting Program July 4th. g ' " ' 'v - : :-. ' s . 9:30 A, . M. Speed . races for 8 fire- departments and athletic 8 clubs of Eastern Oregon. ;. 3 10 oclock (sharp) Ball garnet between Elgin and La Grande. '3 P Noon Carnival of sports, for & boya under, l-;and't years o! &-' S age. S S 2:30 P. M. (sharp) Ball game Union vs. La Grande. 3 4:30 Carnival of Allinson 3 isms, corner Jefferson and North S Fir. ; - , :; ; r S t ' 5.00 Wet " tests, open I to fire 3 companies and athletic clubs of 3 S Eastern Oregon. 5:30 Dog race. , S 6:00 Greased' pol maneauv- ' ers, corner j-envrsou aim inuiui Fir. ,:. '' ' -S $J$3$$.$$$Sj$$$$.jf3 Considerable of th? details attend ant onto the Fourth of July celebra tion from an athletic standpoint have, been definitely arranged though the time of day In which each' event Is to taka place ia somewhat uncertain. The main points enumerated above are finally set and especially In the evening will the sporting, program be supplemented with additional fea tures. A two wheel-one wheel apparatus guaranteed to give plenty of amuse ment, grabbing the suspended goose, the' greased pole and several other features are to be added to the sport ing program above. MITCHELL COACIZIXG ELGIX. Elgin Aggregation to Como With Big Excnrsion Train Tomorrow. For the benefit, of Elgin fans and those living in Grande Ronde valley the management of the Elgin ball team will run an excursion to La Granda next Sunday, and there Is promise of a record breaking attendance. The trip to La Grande will be made on the regular afternoon train and the fans will return on a special In the even ing. There is every Indication . that the game at La Grande next Sunday will be one of the best played and most exciting contests of the season, and the attendance will exceed that of any previous game. Elgin will go to La Grande with a griatly strengthened team. "Myster ious Mitchell' is taking the locals through a course of coadhing this week that will Improve the team's playing one half. "Mitchell" coached the O. A. C. team this spring and made a perfect baseball machine of his men. Every man on the Elgin team has been on the field every eve ning and the manner in which the coach is handling the men Is Inter esting and great improvement Is be ing made.. Local players and fans are confident of taking La Grande down the line Sunday and a train load of people will be there to cheer them on tomorrow. Elgin Recorder. quickly, but can start at top speed when he sees the pitcher bwinglng his arm. advance a third of the way to third base and then retreat tn safety because the catcher's throw is much longer. Also he Is In much better po sltlon to take advantage of any alight sUp tn the work of the battery." Thousands in this state have never seen an aviation meet and if Ely comeB to La Grande there will be some "rubbering." By the way, Ely Is one of the leading birdmen of today. Those who saw the Cove dogs race at Union claim the event to"Te worth all the trouble It will be to get through the crowds on July Fourth, here, to see it Chrystal Cafe Sold. ine utrystai care was sold yester day by H. L. Clark to O. L, Weant and Henry D. Daan. The deal wt.8 closed through the office of Black & Pratt, real estate men.