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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1912)
WINNING FOUR PLEASES FANS OrMAI. i'AKES niO (LOUTlNd GASIE YESTERDAY. in Grande Hat Won Series ut Voht Already This Week. Breaking the spell of hard luck ant displaying terrible skill witu tha bludgeons, La Orande won Its fourth straight game at Boise yesterday, and did it thoroughly. -Not only Is this the first time that La Grande has dis played such winning ability but 1; it the first tlmo she has won a serlos the scries la already won, and local Jkds look for still more victories Barry and his wonderful clouters yes terday touched the wonderful Mayt lor 17th hits. With such tremendous hitting It is no wonder the Plppinn won and are winning for Hays 1? at good a bet as Boise has. But four errors were recorded by La Grande anu uoise jubl hg euu.u .". five errors but by La Grande's J.t ting. Mountaim heaved for La Grande letting Boise, down with 11 hits and was not as wild a usual. This Is the first game Mountain has won for boiiii time and La Gruude fans believe lie has now hit his stride. With Jlclvor and Fox able to go in today and to morrow with Max.Meyer in reserve it looks like La Grande might win the two remaining games. The news of the fourth victory com ing last night has awakened dormant interest and baseball has been boost ed many niches since eany In the -week. Boise now stand .4G4 and La Grande .375, a matter of about four games' difference. . R. II. E. La Grande 13 17 4 Boise B II Batteries For Boise Mays, Fox and Scott; for La Grande, .Mountain and King. . SECRETARY KEEFE HERE. rendletou Roundup Hoosler anil the League Secretary Visits City. E. Keefe, Jr., secretary of the "Western Trl-Stnte league and promi nent Kounnup booster is ueie touuj attending the thautaiuiua. .Mr. Keefe, aside from itreut developments along .baseball and Roundup attraction liner is somewhat of a vocalist and his solos 'will be heard today. Mr. Keefe Is much pleased with the outlook for the Trl-State league and expresses con fidence In its being a permanent ven ture in this section of the state. RACIMi ROOSTER HERE. Raring Men Looking to Oreicmi-Idalio Circuit This Summer. Jos. Wadlcll, the Baker racing pro moter who has taken a prominent pan in the formation of the Oregon-Idaho racing circuit In which La Grande heads the list with the Ilrst meet, was in the city la.t nlcht conferring with Secretary A. B. t'he-ry or the local club. Mr. Wattdcll affirms that there is every prospect fur a wonderful rac ing meet here this tall during the county lair. He anticipates the en tries next week will he enormous. Elk's Special. Notice to Elks. Tickets for this train will be on sale Saturday and Sunday. It is revested that all i ur- cbase tickets duriic; theae two days as train will teav her promptly at 8:30 p. m. Sunday and will run on sched ule, therefore must leave her on time. T. J. Scroggln will have Pullman tick ets for all reservations now made. Others will be handled through ticket office. J. II. KKXKY. Agent. How's This? We Offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CIIENET ft CO., TolcK O. We, tho unilerslRne.l. Imve known I'. J. Cheney for tha last W years, and br.-v lilm perfectly honorable In ntl 'ru.UHnii transaetlnns and nnanrljHy ahlp to rurry ut any oblliratlnne mado by Ms nrm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMENCE, TilrJo, O. Hall'a Catarrh ruie Is taken imrnlly. j!..... i i.n..n in h ood ana mil- ' toim .urface. of lh. yelem. TejJtrnonUlj arnt fro. I'rlre 75 nta per bottle. Sold Taka W Jar-'ly PU1 'or acetlpUoa. IN THE WORLD OF Clarke of Reds Is Promising V Photo by American 1'ress Association. 4 Hank O'Day. manager of the Clueln- jalis, says that In Tommy Clarke he las one of the most promising young .-utcbers In the big league. lh- inliir hut with a little more experiei' e ins .ouug receiver will class with ti.e n the couutry. Thin is Clarke's imiu lennou in the big show, and be has mown Improvement right ulong. He s an excellent thrower, one of the jest coachers of twirlers In the busl less and an excellent field general. Ltslie, Harvard's Strong Man. Harvard's strongest man Is F. H. Leslie. '12. of Milton, who. with 1.013 Mints, has broken ail strength test ree- rds of the university, according to Qg- ires made public recently. The points Acre scored under the system which ms been in vogue since 11)04. Leslie jlu.ved guard on the varsity football .earn last year und Is considered one jf the Crimson's best shot, putters. N'oneof his competitors In the strength ests exceeded 1.300. All candidates for riarvardVathlctle teams huve to :ake the tests every spring. This Is the second time In Leslie's .ollejia career that he bus ranked drst in the tests, rue inst year ne wus Den ten by Fred Huntington, the center if the football eleven. Leslie Is six feet tall and weighs 1$0 pounds. Hookey Gaining In Popularity. Hockey is making u big luroud in in tercollegiate athletics as a iiuijor sport. The best proof of this Is the fact that the athletic associations are beginning o realize the value of providing arte Ida I lee plants for their sevens. In his respect Yale and Princeton will ul;e the lead, for both universities lire dunning to erect plants u here aril iciul Ice can he hud all during the nick chasing, seusou. Lajoie Holds Batting Records. Napoleon l.ajnie of Cleveland has ine remarkable record which u other mlsiunn can show lie lilt ."i per cut mi no less than three oivnsintis. a IS'.Mi, l'.ior. mill :mi!, mid hit .:t.Vi pel ent In two different years. UlUtl and I'.Hrti. One Bench Manager In International. Seven uf the elht liitenialional engue managers me directing then teams fnmi the coaching lines this reason. George stalling, the Buffalo ;llot. Is the only manager to baudle .tie lines from the front bench. Big Sculling Race Scheduled. rdward Ixirnau of Toronto and Wil lam Haines of Huston have signed irticles of ngrvuiiient for u three mile -culling race, to be held on Toronto ay July l'. for $1.00ti a side and the hamplotishlp of America. Phillies' New Slugging Outfielder. Cravath of the Phillies is 'beginning to do some of the slugging which made il:n fainoiia I:) the American iissoehi- ni lie gis tlie tinll a most Hwef- ful punch nnd Is expected to do better. is It takes hltu a mouth to get going Sullivan Not to Defend Title. Jim Sullivan, the middleweight bei ng champion of England, has decided not to defend his title anil nss re turned the I-ord Lonsdale champlon hlp licit to the National Sporting Club of London. Nelson to Coach British Athletes, Alexander Nelson, tralnor of the Cambridge university athletic team. Us been engaged as professional coach for the British team for tha Olympic (smea In June. AT". H ft if 1 L BEING FORMED (OMVITTEE NAMED TO DRAFT RI LES. V Temixirary Organization Effected Last Mght by Promoters, Formation of a twilight baseball league composed entirely o! amateurs who seek recreation and sport pri marily, went through the Initial pro ceeding last night when J. H. Rudd, seneral' secretary of the Y. M. C. A., called a group of Interested leaders to form a temporary organization. The .iiiiln association will be created, tho by-laws drafted and adopted and per manent officers elected at a general meeting of all Interested next Wed nesday evening in the La Grande Na tional bank. Last night F. L. Meyers was named temporary chairman nnd appointed a committee of five to work out the per manent organization details and re port at 8 o'clock on Wednesday. Mr. Meyers named on that committee: Humphreys, Wenzle, Gibson, ltudd and Dulgnan. DOC WHITE ON SOUTHPAWS. Telia Why Left Hand Battere Have Hard Tima Hitting 'Em. Doe White, thn left handed ultcher of the Chicago Anierlcaus, has a con vincing ntiswer for the everlasting question. " hy can t a left hanuea batter successfully hit a southpaw twlrler?" White's answer to the query was: tt'a thn'slinnlest thine in the world. The majority of pitchers In the big leagues are right banded, are they not! Wbcn you were a kid and played lots the matoiltv of Ditchers then were right hnnded. were they not? "Admitting that, Isn t it reasonable to assume that a ball player from his earliest days to the time he gets into tha lifir Innciifvi hits nirnlnst ru?ht hnnd ed pitchers twice as often as be does against southpaws? "Well, that's the answer, and that s all there Is to It "If the blc lencues should decide to carry half a dozen left handed ptlch- 0?' " amirs' I Photo by American Press Association, DOO WBITC, CHICAOO AMF-lUCAtiS' CRACK SOU 111 I" A W. era and only one or two right banders you would Mud that In the course of a very short time all these fellows who cannot bit left handed pitchers would soon be able to solve the portslde shoots. "Take Ty Cobb, for Instance," says White, "1 used to like to pitch against him when be first broke into the Amer ican league. He was the easiest kind of a proposition for me. Bat now well. 1 can't fool blm any more, and no other left hander can, I don't care who he Is. "It Is claimed that Vean Gregg, the Cleveland southpaw, was the only man who could serve up something Ty couldn't hit last season. This may be true, but yoa can gamble that If Gregg stays In the American league very long Cobb will be able to got blm." J PROTECTION IS IMOOSE TEAM L NEEDED MEN VICTOR AGAIN PLAYERS CAX0T SHIELD THEM SELVES. Tommy Clark, . Veteran Player aud Writer, Tells of Insults. By TOMMY CLARK. It speaks pretty well for the self control baseball players exercise that there are not more Instnnces of the kind which happened on the New Turk grounds recently when Ty Cobb, De troit's great player, climbed Into the grand stand and thrashed an abusive spectator. The cowardly practice of some per sons In abusing in the vilest manner a player on the Held whom tbey would not dure to us.i!l man to man calls for drastic uctiuu, The wonder is that more players do not take such mutters into their own bands. Aggravated nagging and abuse of ball players by spectators are the de velopment of a trait as cowardly as that of the miscreant who throws bot tles at an umpire. Lost In a crowd,' the spectator hides behind bis fellows to taunt and Jeer und to apply epithets to a citizen who is In as good standing as or better than the offender. It Is a quality which is unsportsmanlike and deplorable. Men with red blood In their veins are sure to resent the attacks which nre frequently made on them on the bull Held. There Is no protection pro vided for the player, as a rule, and he must either stand the abuse or mete out such punishment as be sees fit According to Cobb, the rooter who in sulted him and upon whom Tyrus took summary revenge was the same indi vidual who all last summer kept up a persistent flow" of vile :iik1 Insulting re marks directed at the Georgia peach whenever Detroit played In New York. Ty stated that he had warned this fan before the game started to cense his flow of talk or else take the conse quences, but there was an. increase In stead of decrease In the insults until be (Cobbl clenred the railing and phys ically stopped the vile flow. On the ground of personal vindica tion and insulted mnnhood Cobb was Justified In his action. On the other hand. It may be said Cobb had no right whatever to enter the stand and engage in a broil with a spectator. It might have led ,to far more serious consequences than It did. While the player may feel that It Is unjust to him to be the target of vile abuse, it Is not bis province to act as Judge and Jury in a punuc coniosi ui which there ore hundreds of reputable citizens us well, possibly, as an occa sional hoodlum. Cobb was suspended by Ban John son for what he did, and his absence weakened the Tigers. He transgressed the rules ot order of the game. It is stated explicitly that players must not engage in controversy with spectators. Some steps should be taken by every club to protect the players from abu sive attacks from the spectators. The avernge pairou of baseball does not ap prove or this method of trying to rat tle visiting players and would wel come the expulsion from the parks of persons who resort to such methods. "Do you know why the Cincinnati Reds are winning?" asked a close stu dent of baseball of the writer recently. "I'll answer it myself," said the speak er, ""nank O'Day, a Natlonnl league umpire for twenty years, knows more about the pitchers of rival teams than the other managers. He Is also aware of the weakest points of all the bats men, nnd he tins Imparted this valu able Information to the Iteds. "O'Day. always a dictator when he r-.r,,loro,l" iWlslollS. etliOVS tilt? rCSPeCt of his players, and it is un easy task to enforce discipline. He Isn't a bully, but he rules with an iron hand nnd bas proved to bis men that lie knows more .k,,i,i li.ul.l.. Imsehnli than thev do. Furthermore, the Cincinnati man ager, nwnre of the trials nnd tribula tions oi umpires. Is nuainst kicking nud believes lie i-nii secure better brents If his men play clean ball." Far the Boy Kan. Msrohants' lunch from IS to oclnck. 40 cents. Foley Grill. 1-16-tf HALF OF TOfH LIFE Is spent In yonr working- eloUhes Are yon satlsfita wHh the Un4 you are wearing! Ton will be more than satisfied If yon wear DATS' BIG FITS BBAD v ELG1XS FALLS BEFORE THEM BV . , SCORE OF 5 TO 0 Mclnnls Is Ail to the Good and Wins Handily. La Grande Moose defeated their brothers of the same lodge who live at Elgin yesterday at Elgin by a score of. 5 to 0. "Heck" ilclnuls, working on the mound for La Grande. He let his enemies down with one or two scratchy hits and the eight behind played almost errorless ball. The game was played during the morning and while it didn't draw much of a crowd, tne interest was intense and the game a good one. - Union defeated Baker at Baker on the Fourth In a free game, a venture that Is unique. Everybody got. in free and It is said that no greater crowd ever witnessed a baseball game In Enstern Oregon. ' ' The East Orcgonlau remarks: "Isn't it funny that the Pendleton players conduct themselves so well In Boise and La Grande that the papers of those cities comment upon their gen tlenianllness nnd that In Walla Walla the papers of that city term them rowdies? It is Just possible that the city and not the players are to blame." The Observer voices .the opinion of 99 fans out of every hundred in this way station when It remarks that Pen dleton's players would be perfectly at home In dress suits and furthermore don't curse and bellow around to the embarassment of the fans at the games when things go bad like some other players we know do. -Breed of Walla AValla succeedei Gove at Walla Walla and Pendletm says he robbed them of two games. 4 Garett is certainly having a season of hard luck. First he was put out of commission hy ptomaine poisoning, then he lout a game through being beaned and now he Is laid on the shelf with a sprained ankle. There seems to be a great deal of difficulty In keeping umpires on the Job in the Trl-State league. First Longauecker got sick and quit and then Gove admitted he couldn't han dle the men. Hb says rowdyism 's apparent. Well, he Is partly right ebout some of the members of sonic ot the clubs some of the time. ' . For some real good sport, watch the races in the Eastern Oregon and the FJranch line leagues. They do Erse rate. Waldo Geddes will be picked up some day ere long by a Bcout or man ager from some league and under skil led tutors, make good. He has many of tho essential qualifications to gtt' into real company when he gels t ye ir or two more on his shoulders . ' , . Wallowa plays' at Elgin and Enter prise at Joseph tomorrow In the Branch Line league. Many of those who have been pan ning the Pippins because they lost pretty regularly, flip-flopped today when they learned of four straight victories. Now that may not be very much for Borne teams but it is quite a bit for La Grande. Rochon, the little second baseman, traded for Bradley in the Walla Wal la transaction is an erratic player. He plays in spurts. His hitting, though is rather consistent and on the good side of the danger line. Oh you Jack Barry and "Hap" Smith this week. Imagine four and five clouts every game and a majority of them better than blngles. It Is only a matter of a day or two now until Barry will have worked him self into the top niche of batting fame In this 'ere league. 0TICE. On account that tome one broke In ho Mars Construction company's Pow der house, last Saturday night. Juno I. 1911, therefore I forbid anyone to trespass on the company's ground af ter t o'clock p. m., to I l m., and during the day time only such people permitted who have business with the company are Invited by the company. JOHN U MJX3. 1-n-tt i DO YOU KNOW That quick thinking players are more valuable than the Iron beaded mechan ical ones also Intelligent Players have more sense than those who aren't In telligent? That Hyatt of West Point, who bas been pitching remarkable ball against college teams this season. Is to Join the Detroit club when he leaves the Mili tary academy? That two fans from AsheviUe, N. C. traveled 1.000 miles to see Walter Johnson pitch one game? They spent but a single day In Washington and then bent It back home.' That Maurice Rath, who-Is playing uch pbenomeunl ball for Callahan's speedy White So, l'the youngster who went to Cleveland In. Connie Mack's trade for Bris' Lord and who wus later released to Baltimore? That as an excuse for the great jhowiug so far for the Cincinnati Iteds the other teams are nil declaring Hnuk O'Day Is usin' the Inf irumtlon about batters that he iimie::el during the years he livid the Indicator in the big show? Thnt in St LoUIs they call Ed Koney a bonebead nnd yet he sometimes makes the most brilliant plays? .In n recent game at Cincinnati be ran clear from first base to short left Held, took a re lay throw and pegged Bob Bescher out at the plate. That Walter Johnson, the Washing ton Americans' star pitcher. Is not striv ing to hung up a new strike out reap this season? The Nationals' star twirf er has come to the conclusion that to force himself to the utmost In every game Is not going to prolong his ca reer on the diamond, so he has changed bis style of pitching entirely and by so doing Is saving bis arm. NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the undersigned,-as guardian of th estate in Oregon of Ida May Thompson an Incapable person, has been licensed to sell the real property belonging to : s'.ld ward and hereinafter described. a the manner provided by law. for the sales of real estate by executors or administrators, and that from and af ter the 27th day of July. 1912. I will ofter for sale and sell at private st'e. for cash In band, subject to confirma tion the following described rel prop el ty, to-wlt: , The west half of the souttowest quarter; the BouJ.sc.st quarter 'of the soutitwest quarter and the southeast iiua:1er cf section twenty-three: and the oi:lhwest quarter of the south west quarter of section twenty-four; and the west half of the nor:nvcst q.iaUcr of section twenty-six. all In township lour, south range tliirty- elght, E. W. M in L'nlon county Ore gon. ' Dated at La Grande, Oregon this, tne 2Rth day ot jur.e, 1912. C. E. COCHRAN . Guardian or '.be Person and Estate of Ida May Thompson. 6-287-5-12-10-26 A Tonic, Alterative and Resolvent Tn best remedy for Kidneys, Liver and Boweln Eradicates Pimples, Eruptions and Disorder! of the Skin. - Purines the Blood and give Tone, Strength and Vigor to the entire system Beware oi Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury ns mercury will surely destroy the s"ns or Kmeii anu completely ueransw n whole system when enterinK It thrnu the mucous surfaces. Such articles shou never be used except on . proscription from reputable physicians, as thelimns they v.ill lr Is ten fold to tho SWert yi can possibly derive from them. Hall Catnrrh Cure, nanufactured by P. Cheney & ('-., Toledo. ., contains I mTcvir. r.n:l Is tnUon iaternally. actii d're-My v.r n tve Mood nnd mucous sc. fnc-es of the p-3tem. In buylnir Hal Catarrh Ct;r 1 1 tv.tro yon get the tren lie. Tt In t-.V". !r.?"rnn!l" nnd made Toledo. Oht-v 1 r. J. Cheney & Co. T timo!ftj fr'-Ck . I C-1 , v.. ... .M.. TT.n nr-v tw,tl TV'O rWo T'rr-Mr r.Vi for conatlDstlon. Notice to Creditors. Notice Is hereby given to all c cerned liiat letters of admlinstrat ha- e been Issued by the county cc of Lnion county, state of Oregon Wllford Anderson, upon the es of Johanna Anderson deceased. a'.l pet sons having claims against : estato are notified to present the s with proper Touchers to the said mlntsliator at La Grande, Oregon to his attorney, J. D. Slater, at Fir street. La Grande, Oregon. Mi months from the date ot this tke. Dated at La Grande, Oregon, 15. 1912. WILFORD ANDERSON, Administrate ' 6-15-22.29 7-6-13 , KCVt REMEDY W ALL ONWMtki- v't I .i. Si I frrce MS Canes. M,r- .? t r m
