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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNT?, OREGON;, f SATURDAY, JUNE 24,1911.
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ELGI3 COMES WITH DOUBLE PUB.
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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.
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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.
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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
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LA GRANDE
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Bell Phone Main 752.
Independent phone 262.
Foley Hotel Block.
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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
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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
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Main Events Arranged for Fourth of
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$'? 3 $ 0 &
v ' i Sporting Program July 4th.
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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
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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
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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.