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PAGE 2 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1911. wn j i LATEST SPORTi LOCALS READY FDR IDAHOANS UOISli ELKS PKOYIDEJ) WITH FIE OF PLAYERS. . ftimc Here Tomorrow of Inter-Mate Affair, Attracts Interest. . Bliycii. pitcher, Hughes, catcher; Van Buren, firs: ba.s.:': Charles ,Hall garth, shortstop; H. Hallgarth, third base; Lenhart, second base; Francis light field; Al Ray, center field, and Irwin, left field, is about the way the La Grand': Elks will lineup here for an Interstate fraternal fracas on the Wl hall lot. - A h Anv annrnnrhpa for the game, interest is increased be cause of the continual string of re ports coming from the Idaho capital to the effect that the Boise Elks are Just "some" players. Their pitcher Is touted to be a skilled mound artist and is well back up, too.' Look for a good game, commencing at 3 o'clock tomorrow. .'. : ' ' "Mother" Stone and Jackson, the; Baker pitcher and catcher, have gone to Boise to play with that team in the finish up of the season there. . , It Is likely that Cove will be brought to La Grande a week h:nce. The Cov ltes were to have been here tomor row, but the Elks gam! deferred the Came at least a week. Elks will not by any means be the only people at the game hens tomor row, for th,s entire city s Interested In the Inter-starS' fraternal warfare on the diamond. The local Elks are pre paring to entertain the visiting broth ers in royal style, for off the diamond they will n the very best of friends. The Boise Elks have never visited La Grande In a body before. Canadian AthKtes In France, Nancy, France, July 29. A number of well trained and finely developed young Canadians, repnsentfng : the National Gymnastic society of Mon treal, have arrived here for the inter national gymnastic tournament, . In which they will compete against some of the best muscle In the world in feat of skill, speed , and endurance. Thft tournament Is to hve Its formal opening tomorrow and will continue for several days. Judge Richard Russell of th-3 court of. appeRl, of Georgia has announce J Ala candidacy to succeed Hoke Smith In the governorship. II "It Could l No1 Suf Befer f 7f Had Been Built to Order for Me." This Is a common expression where the Royal Standard Typewriter Is used. Court Reporters. Tele graph operators and expert stenographers In all line, of business find In the Royal those "bullt-to-or-the Ideal writing machine. You will : - der" qualities that represent to them . ay the same when you have become the owner of a " STANDARD TYPEWRITER Simple, Strong, Qolet, Portable, Royal tales arc increasing more rapidly than the ' Typewriter, becaute it EVERY ROYAL SOLD SELLS ANOTHER'9 n g ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY Royal Typewriter Building - . - ( New York, N.Y. A branch in each principal city Automobile News and Gossip More than a majority of Che direc tors of th: Union County Motor club have attached their permission to the I petition of ciub members that He club ' father a race meet h:Te. Because It' was too busy a season to get all tha directors together, Secretary Andrews wro:U' individually to them and during the week he received answers from more than a majority sanctioning the proposed meet As a consequence the coming week will see work on the track commenced eo that there will be plenty of time to hold the meet about the middle of August. It has been suggested that the members of the club be taxed a dollar 'Each to' improve tir truck uu ilia vtuu cu-Iu-'. lates that the attendance will cover other expanses, such as the bringing of daredevil rider to this city to augment the program. , A. V. Andrews and family were off today on an auto drive to Los tine where Mr. Andrews will fish for a day or two and then go on to Joseph lak?. ' Dr. W. D. Zimmerman took his Max well down Sheep creek canyon out of Joseph, this week, going' a distance of 20 miles, which Is said to be- the farth est along that stream that a gasoline destroyer has ventured. The trip was a "stiff" one for the hills are terribly steep in places. During the present week the new 1912 model of the Herrshoff car, 25 h. p., will have reached thr Dlttebrandt Auto garage. This car will be the first of Its kind to reach the city. It THE LONGEST WALK . IN TE V.'CRLZJ. .. . Hill Chaff iii;1 Jimmy Calln ' Ui.ii vie dl .is'.us Imvftali lifter (Uf p.'iiut itin ly; '' ntl ill iii;iiU wr.H 'ii!ImJ ii .-the fi- ili:il (he iwinr.vr of Hit- New York Auwicju.k liiiil utrucU out ifcrit tliufM. us hi.ii -ritjtf". Hudl. ' "lliil. dn ytm know what Is th loiipest wttlk lu tbf world y'. nsUed Jimmy. "It's pretty bard t sny." re piled Chnxe. "Well, it's that walk from the plnte to the bench after striking out." decliired Culluhun. nud Chase agreed with him. "That's one time." remarked phase, "that a ball player doesn't know what to do with his band or which way to look. n 1 1 1 in i n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' u $65. Light Bnnnng, -Standard Keyboard, Visible Writer, Bavy Manifolder, NG NEWS rill WUHttWWtW sells for $1,150 and is a four passen ger car.. ", - '' V : . 1 '" W. R. KlVette Is th baby au:o fan this week. He purchased a HudBon 33 fore-dore from the. Dittebrandt Auto company and is now able to go where anyone dares. His many trips to points in the Interior on lumber busi ness will give him plenty of chance to show his iwechanlcal abilities. ' V : -. ' A;,;: '' . Hemery In a Fiat' equipped" with Michelln tire was the only driver to finish within the alloted time in tha grand prize automobile race July 23. The race was run over the circuit de Sarthe In France, and dr:wr the larg est crowd since the Wright aviation1 jected the engines and tires to a tre mendous strain, adding greatly to the interest of the event as a test of en durance. .. Whene farmers used to drlvs: tbe life out of horses to com to town after a little extra for a binder or head'ST, worrying over thsi delay he was caus ing the harvesting of his crop, a new order of thing exists today. Local Implement houseg so seldom see a horse or team vehicle' drive up for minor supplies that they gat lonesome. Mr. Farmer buzzes to town In his au tomobile in less than half the time it took beforn, and accomplishes the same errand with a great deal mora dispatch. ' . Two cars, one a foredoor and the other, a roadster Hudson, were sold to Joseph parties by, the Dittebrandt Auto company this week. BILLY PAPSK, WHO HAS CLAIMRD UIPDLB WBiUBX T1TLB. Clever scrapper of middleweight class who Is now the aim of several pood fallows who want to HMt htm. , Right Priced, dnarantced, Reliable, On the Job." tales of any other?! ijij ' ' y V i J A fiillliai?;' : :"?vx'is I L ... itnTfiifntiilnf iAil..f iiIiI.Ii J,., ,1. J.J. Mi A J.J.J.A fev tVTTTttTtttTtTttTTTTTTf HUbH JENNINGS ON BASE BALL J0 COWARD MAKES A SCCCES OF THE NATIONAL GAME. Ty Cobb Is Jennings' Ideal Player Af. firms Tigxr Leader. "No coward ever made a success of baseball," says' Dughie Jennings. "The 'first great requisite to success in the game Is nerve. 1 have seen players I with the speed of Cobb, with the ter- rifle hitting strength of Crawford, with the grace of Chase, and they did not j make good. They lacked the primt- es sential, stoutness of heart. '. They waveiKU wueu lue vi'ihw tnuie. t luiir . seen wisuirds of the gume quiver In the heat of battle and lose their cunning They didn't last long; they never do "To begin with, of course, a man must nave the natural ability to bit Held and run. And then comes Imagination Give me the player who can conceive plays, who thinks all the time he Is In tne game and who doesn't top think Ing when it is ofer. but keeps bis mind on -It uud gut over every play of the afternoon, 'recalling, bow, (ie made, this mistake and how he could have avoio (ed It. uud of . bow he pulled off thnt . play and the reunou of It. . ' I "The ball player who dnesn't love bis 'gamp Isu't worth bin milt. He's petting away with It uuder false pretenses. "When I joined the old Baltimore teem I was young, ut an age perhaps wben early impressions stick strong est, but all through my life as a ball player and manuger I have always felt that the club bandied by Ned Uanlon was the greutest team ever organized. I recall with what enthusiasm Johnny McGraw, Bill Keeler. Wilbur Robin son, Doyle and the rest of us used t study our game under the careful, pa tlent guidance of Ned Hanlon. "On the trains, in the t oiTldors of the hotels, and often In bed at night, when we should have been sleeping, we were discussing plays, arguing over them and planning for the game of tomor row. , No other subject was ever dis cussed. It was baseball morning, noon and nlgbt. ' "Nerve is the (lint great requirement. and love of the game for Its own sake Is the second. A man like Cobb, for In stance, gets a pretty fair snktry. But If you should put Cobb on a team to' which no money, was paid he would play just as bard, once he donned his uniform. A sample of this is shown la an Incident tbut bnppened at Bennett park in one of the games a year ugo. As I recall It. we were playing New York. We bad bad a hitting bee and nad scored so many rnns we were all tired out. and tbe crowd bad grown weary of tbe constant scoring. It was toward the close of the game and Cobb was on first ; - , "'Step off and let them tag you cut. Ty. For heaven's sake, finish It.' said Bill Donovan, who wns com-hlng from first; ' And Ty grinned and stepped from the bug with his bands at his side, awaiting - the bull. And -right here that tired crowd wns electrified by tbe most sensational base runulng I had seen tbut year. . "As the catcher shot tbe ball to first Ty started. He was caught off tbe bag and started to zigzag back and forth, with, tbe whole infield chasing. mm. Back and forth he dodged. Cobb made one of his famous 'dlpseydo' dives and was safe at second. , . "'Why didn't you get out as you agreed to JV Ty was nuked after the gama - "Well. I started to, all right said the Georgian, 'bat. gee whls. after I stood there a second and saw that ball coming I couldn't do It I Just couldn't stand still and let them throw me out . ; "His love of the game was so strong that he couldn't stand It lie had to fight back whether he wanted to or not "Nerve and love of the game for the game Itself are the main things in a ball player's makeup. And next there la imagination. Confidence breeds confidence.'- The player who can think of victory, see it coming against all odds. Is the valuable man for a ball team. Let me recall an Incident In that seventeen Inning game In Phila delphia when the Tigers showed the followers of the -game that they were on earth to stay. It was growing darker and darker. We bad fears that the game would have to be called be fore we could win it. It was about the fourteenth . Inning. No man on that club had the slightest idea of be ing beaten. Some one dared to sug- raMii ScliMefcr flew Into n ni(jt. "'THn't erowlng d-ivker." he hel lowed with nil the strength of his rood Inncs. 'I say It isn't. It's grnw tig lighter every minute, every- min rte. It's getting lighter and lighter nnd we'll win out If it tnkes us thirty Innings.' "Good old Schaef I He was so sure of victory that he wouldn't even tolerate any one thinking that tbe sun was bound to set eventually: thnt It didn't stay up simply because the game was a Mg one. And I guess we all thought that that game was considerably more important than tbe conduct of the world and the universe in gtooral." CRAWFORD RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY TIGER RALLIES It is doubtful if Ty Cobb, despite the fact that he Is tbe leading bntter. run getter nod base' runner of tbe Ameri can league, is any more vnlualile to the Detroit club than Snin Crawford. The latter was thought a year ago to be about all In ns an outfielder, and It was reported that he might be used on first base because of his imiblllty to cover ground in the outfield. But Photo by American Press Association. BAM OBAWFOBD, EBTBOIT HARD terraiHO OCTFIELDBB. Sam has come back this year with a vengeance. He Is well up among tiie batters himself and has also stolen twenty-four bases, a large putnber for a inn n" who was never credited with being a speed merchunt on the paths. But thnt the two lending run getters of the'lougue are Cobfi and Bush Is largely due to the fact that Sam Craw ford Is batting behind them. Bush gets many a base on balls and Wahoo Sam does the rest Incidentally Sam has scored fifty-one times himself. , MANY EAGER TO FIGHT PAPKE ON HiS RETURN, Now. that Adolpbus Wolgast has re moved the last obstacle In the way of bis unquestioned claim to -the light weight championship of the wor'd. and bus announced a six months' retire ment, or until other victims are brought forward to slaughter, the In terest of ring followers turns to the doings of one WUllum Papke of Illi nois. - Papke Is the self ty led middleweight king of tbe universe, uud as be Is due back soon from a triumphant tour around the world, it is natural to sup pose that when be does set foot on his native shores things will begin to bum in the division over which he has be come dictator. . There are several eood bov In tht country who are eater to mt with Papke foi, the world's crown, 'chief among them being Frank Klaus, a Dear cat Irom Pittsburc: Wild Bob Moha.- the original cave man of Mil waukee: Jack Dillon, an Indian. . clone; Jimmy Clabby. a laughing wbv ard who is eager to Joust with all 158 pounaers. and johnny Thompson, the Illinois fanner, who vlcoroiiHlv. dio. putes Papke's claim to championship oouurs ana seis Torward in support of his contention a twentv round iWiatnn that be received over Papke in faroff Australia. In addition to the foregoing there am a number of husky middles who Insist on being considered in the running. liaaie Mcuoorty of Oshkosh. Hugo Kelly. Chicago: Jimmv Gardnor nri Jack (Twin) Sullivan have champlon- Dip aspirations and tbelr followings ire large ones. In all probability Panko win nnf mam idle long after his return home. ' Pip for Sale. A large Quantity of terra cotu nin suitable for well curbs and drain, rn. mensioni, from 18 to 30 inches. This win be told very cheap a I am clean ing np all work in La Grande. B. 8. DAVIS. Folev Hotel. 7-11-tf WOLGAST EARfiS TITLE MAM PROPOSED XAMES HALL OF FAME. FOR Scrappy Dutchman Considered Peer of His Class Among Fisrhters. They , called Battling Nelson the "Durable Dane." Whnt shall Ad Wol gast s descriptive monaker be. "The Unimpairable Teuton" or tbe "Impres sionless Wildcat?" Surely a more hlgl flown headline than Nelson used ou bis literature should decorate tbe busi ness correspondence of the dashing little Caller from Cadillac. Ue de serves it, and doubtless he would re gard such an expression of respect for bis stability as gratefully as a Micnl- turn' f. s -y' - 4 f t v.- Photo by American Press Association. LATKST PHOTO OP WOLOABT, TAKEN UV UlATXIiX AFTKB BIS rlUHT WITH MOHAN. gan bank roll or tbe hobnaHed boots that hang in clusters about the walls or Ills Wolverene den. . ' Adokih Woleast was thought an ac cldent when be defeated Nelson, and tbe impression was not .removed upon his next important appearance; with in the rone encircled arena. However. the first summing up of his prowess has since been dissipated. But if the Mlclilgnnder is truly an accident del spite revelations to the contrary many pugilistic persons would probably pre' fer being jostled by a cowcatcher than undergo the blistering Ad invariably innu-ts upon bis antagonists. The latest lightweight to wear the Imaginary halo Is a better fighting man today than his predecessor. Nel son, was in his prime. This Is a bard thing to say. but statistical figures will Dear out the statement In nil other qualities tbun toughness. Ad excels tbe Dane, ; and who knows but thnt he may outwear the once noble Battler? This wonld be extraordinary, how ever, as Nelson peddled gloves for ten years, wbereus Wolgnst , has been Id the game-but 'five.' Still.' In those five years, the plowboy has tnken part la only three less battles thnn Nelson did in twice thnt time, although he ha traveled but 572 rounds-to Nclsou'r752. At; the. present timeA.dolphas Is fighting men , of, as good "caliber a Ihe Battler encountered after he worn his chnbplonshlp. Here's ' the Ger man's list tff opponents since that forty-two round battle at Port Rich mond. Feb. 22, 1910: Jack Redmond; Freddie Cole. Tom McFarland, Knock out Brown. George Memslc, Anton La Grave. Frankle Burns. One Round Ho gan and Owen Moran. Compare thi list to the boys Nelson tore into after he became head of the lightweights Tlx, Joe Cans. Dick Hyland. Ad Wol gnst. Eddie Lange. Monte Dale. The names of this coterie sound bet ter than those of Burns. Memslc, Mo ran ana La Grave. But were they? Gans was all petered out after the previous contest in which Nelson won his belt from him. Dick Hyland was very good then, and Wolgast waa rath er a mediocre performer. Hogan. Cole. McFarland, . Memslc and La Grave were nnthw mnm thnn "marks." but Brown. Burns and Mo ran possessed merit It Is a matter of common knowledge that Wolgast has yet to meet scrappers as good as Nelson stepped- Into before he-actually won his crown, but it stands to reason that our champ of today, analysing all e late battles to the uttermost would have borne his duties in argu ments with Young Corbett Herrera. Britt Gans and the others with as nch credit as did Nelson and even ttore. In view of Ad's enormous trength, his great determination, cov ering up and bulldog rushes in addi tion to his marvelous recuperative powers and pig iron Jaw it may be aid he would give the artists of Nel son's time worse greetings than tbe Battler was able to dispense. I LmJe m 14 p.