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THE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY. . MAY 20, 1D08. OAKLAND FAILSTO APPEAR FOR GAM E Hereafter Teams That Disap point Fans Will Be Sub ject to Fines. EWING MAKES NEW RULE President of Pacific Coast League Discusses Proposed Extension to - Include Six or Fight Clubs. Will Visit Seattle. BY WIUL. G. MAG RAE. J. Cal Ewing, president of the Pa cific Coast league, arrived in Port land yesterday morning and was as greatly disappointed as the local fans because the grounds at the ball park were too wet for the opening game with Oakland. With Judge W. W. McCredie and Henry Berry, of the Los Angeles team and a dozen or more anxious fans, he held an inquest over the condition of the Vaughn-street grounds. After President Ewing had slaved around second base with a broom, a verdict was reached that a game rould. be played and the hour was set for 4 o'clock. This would have been fine as Mable's curls, but Pop Van Haltren and Tlmp Perrine, feeling in need of an afternoon's siesta, did not show up. When the president of the league discovered their absence, he cut loose some peppery language and established a new league rule right off the ball. Hereafter, visiting teams and the Ump will show up at the grounds in uniform and stay there nntil the game has been officially called off. ' If they don't, the treasury of the league will be enriched by a Juicy fine. The Ump also came in for a call, because he failed to adorn the scene with his presence. Manager McCredie's fol lowers were on deck, and had Man- down to business. In speaking of the expansion of the league. President Ew ing said: "The Pacific Coast League is one of the fastest and best minor leagues, just as it stands today. We convinced the baseball men who attended the an nual meeting of the minor leagues of this fact last Winter, when we were In New. York. An attempt was made then to take our class A standing from us, but it failed. - The only reason for ex tending the league. Is that we believe the patrons prefer seeing new faces and more teams, such as a six or eight-club league would give them. Receipts, thus far this season, show an Increase of 25 per cent. While I ar in the north I have made up my mind to take a run over to Seattle and Tajcoma. Judge Mc Credie wants me also to go to Spokane. Mr. - Berry happens to be here because his wife is visiting friends in Seattle, so he will go along. "Another thing which has brought about the talk of expansion is that Los Angeles wants continuous baseball. The Mayor of Los Angeles and a num ber of his associates are anxious to back a team at Long Beach, and E. Kripp. a wealthy horseman, who was formerly connected with baseball in Sacramento, has. already started on a ball park on which he expects to'spend $70,000. It will be almost in the heart of the city." SEAIi TEAM GETS SHUT OCT Iios Angeles Victor Wins In Good Forni by Score of 2 to O.- I sc fa i i T i -4 Henry Berry, President Los An leelea club. u . PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. . Yesterday's Results. Los ATHrelea 2. San Franelaco O. ; Portland-Oakland, wet grounds. Standing of the Clubs. r o j j - j ?!-- 3 clubs. : S ! : 3 : : ? a. : j San Francisco ... 1 il2 22 .B50 fxis Angeles .... S 317 .5i Oakland Silo 311S .474 Portland sj 8 2 W .471 Lost 18117 20 18173 SAN FRANCISCO, May 19. After suffering three defeats in the North at the hands of the Beavers, the Los Angeles team displayed good form in the game at Oakland today and shut out San Francisco by a score of 2 to 0. The score: LOS ANGELES. A.B. R. H. r.O. A Cokes, cf ..4 0 2 2 0 Wheeler, b ....... 3 1 1 5 4 nillon. 2b 4 . 1 2 12 2 Brashear. rf. 4 0 0 1 1 Hoap, 3h 4 0 0 1 1 Ellis. If 4 0 0 0" 0 Delmas, as 3 0 0 1- 6 Hornn. e 2 0 0 4 1 .Nagle. p 3 0 0 01 Total 31 S 6 27 ' 15 SAX FRANCISCO. Hlldebrand. It ..... 3 Curtis. 3b 3 Williams, lb 3 Melcholr. rf 4 Zlder, ss 3 riper, cr a McArdle, 2b Berry, c Sutor, .p . . . Esola A.B. R. H. P.O. A. E. 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 110 0 1 11 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 4 3 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 112 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 3 0. 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 Total 28 0 S 27 15 3 Batted for Piper In ninth. SCORE BY INNINGS. Los Angoles .".0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 Hits 10100202 0 6 San Francisco ; .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hits 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 02 SUMMARY. Sacrifice hit Berry. Stolen bases Dil lon 2. Brashear, Zelder 2, Curtis. Double plavs Hutor to Zelder to Williams: Zelder io Williams. First base on balls Off Na me 3. ,off Sutor 3. Hit by pltchrJ-Zelder, Kscola. Struck out By Nagle 4, by Sutor Ksola. Struck out By Nagle 4. by Sutor plre O'Connell. ' " AMERICAN LEAGUE. eger Mac been in for the "low down." he could have ordered his talent in their white suits and then, when the game was called, would have won the lirst encounter via the forfeit route. All this might have been, but there was no salve in it for the fans who made two journeys to the Vaughn street playgrounds. May Go to Spokane. There is really nothing significant in President Ewlng's visit at this time. Ha stated at the annual pow-wow that he would make it a point to .travel over the Coast League circuit, once if not twice, during the playing sea son. While he is in the North, how ever. President Kwing, Judge McCre die and Mr. Berry will make a flying visit to Seattle and perhaps extend the visit to Spokane. In spite of the Muff made by. the moguls of the Northwest league, backed up by some of the sporting writers up North, the Coast league still has a grappling hold on Seattle. No one knows this better than do Ctipld Dugdale. Presi- dent Lucas and the rest of the North west league officials. They and the sporting writers know that deal with Kuss Hall was not on the square and should the Coast League magnates, after a look at things at Seattle. Ta rnhiA and Spokane, decide that it would be policy again to have Seattle in the fold, the matter will undoubt edly be brought before, the . National Commission. It Is an undeniable fact that Russ Hall was given the Seattle Pacific Coast L?nsue franchise. He attended the an nual meeting for this purpose and the minutes of the league meeting will show that Hall had stated that lie would have no trouble in getting the proper financial backing in Seattle. It was with this un derstanding that he was given the fran chise. Undoubtedly when Hall returned to Seattle he found some trouble In get ting hacking. This is granted in charity to Hall, yet the fact that he double- crossed the Coast League magnates scorns certain on the face of the events that followed. Hall was influenced by some one high up In the Northwest lrfaup, with the resiUt that as & com pensation for throwing down the Coasters, he was made manacer of Butte. BeeatiBe of the situation in California, the Coast league aid not make a fight to hold Seattle, but now with Sacramento knevkina; at the door again and with moneyed men In Los Angeles willing to finance a team at Ixng Beach, trouble may break out for Hall and the rest of the Northwest League members who fig tired in the deal. President Kwing is not k"en on taking Spokane into the league. for he figures the jump from Los Angeles is too great. He will be governed, how ever, by the vote of the tother magnates In the league. Spokane has long wanted to join the Coasters. ' ft is a smashing good baseball town, and the business men who would be in control of things, if the city was to become a Coast League town, are all prominent. The solution will have to be worked out and this is not likely to happen until the annual meeting. , Favor Six-Club League. President Ewing is sweet on a six club league which would include Port land,, San Francisco. Oakland. Los An geles. Sacramento and Ixng Beach. This smacks Just a little ton much of a full California hand. With Seattle and Taccma or Spokane added, making- it an eight-club afTair, the. league, while a bit lopsided, would not be unwieldy. It would mako the schedule framers get . , Won. Lost. Pet. Nw York IS .667 Philadelphia ...17 12 .686 Cleveland 14 11 .560 St. luis 14 14 '.MiO Chicago 13 13 .600 Detroit 12 IS .4S0 Washington 10 16 .3S5 Boston ,9 19 .321 Chicago 2, Washington 0. WASHINGTON, May 19. Harry White held Washington down to one hit today, Chicago winning. 3 to 0. Score: R.H.B.I R.H.B. Washington ..0 1 ljChlcago 3 5 0 ' Batteries Smith, Warner and Street White and Sullivan. Cleveland 7, Boston 2. BOSTON. May 19. Cleveland batted two pitchers out of the box, winning from Boston. 7 to 2. Berger kept the hits well scattered. Score: R.H.E.I R.H.B. Cleveland ...7 15 l'Boston 2 7 2 Batteries Bergef and Bemis; Young, Ci cette, Glaze and Criger. Xow Torlt 6, Detroit 1. NEW YORK. May 19. New York downed the Detroits today by Jiltting Kil- fi s T ' i j j v L ? j t i 4 Judge -W. W. McCredie. Prea dent Portland Club. A.4 lian hard in two Innings and driving him from the box. Score: R.H.EI R.H.B. Detroit I 8 3!New York C 10 4 Batteries Killian. Willets and Schmidt Manning and Klelnow. St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 2. PHILADBLPHIA. May 19. Waddell this afternoon faced his former comrades of the Philadelphia team for the first time and largely through his excellent pitching St. Louis won, i in i score: R.H.B.! R.H.Fi St. Louis 5 U 3;Philadelphla ...! a 3 Batteries Waddell and Spencer; Bender, Vickers and Smith. Merchants Savings 6 Trust Company 247 WASHINGTON STREET Capital$150,000 Fays interest on Savings' Ac counts and Time Certificates. Receives deposits subject to check without limitation as to amount. Effects collections in any part of the country on most reason able terms. Acts ss Trustee in all legiti mate relations. Cares for properties, collects rents, etc Interviews solicited with those contemplating any phase of our service. at which time he will sign articles for a fight with Kid Scaler, of Spokane. It Is probable the fight will take place May 30. Two clubs are bidding for It. Willus Britt, brother of Jimmie, is accompany ing Nelson as his manager. NORTHWEST LEAGUE. Seattle 9, Aberdeen 0. SEATTLE, Wash., May 19. (Special.) Harry Rush held Aberdeen to a clean two-bagger and a scratch single today, while his team mates were pounding J. Cal Ewing, President of the League and Also' San Fran cisco Club. Starkell all over the lot and out of It as well, .for three of Seattle' hits were over the fence. Bennett got a single and two home-runs in four times at bat, and Lussl. the new first baseman who joined the team today. In three times up, slammed out two singles and a terrific drive over the back fence. Bennett's first homer came with one on " the sacks, and his second with two ahead of him. Lussi's came with the bases clear. Seattle made three runs in the first inning, and this would have been enough to win as it proved. Adams at short, who also joined the team today, played a good game in the field, but did nothing with the stick. Dugdale was put out of the grounds and fined a for telling Rush to give the batter a slow ball. The score: Seattle .....S 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 9 13 Aberdeen ...0 0000000 0 0 2 X Batteries Rush and Stanley; Starkell and Spencer. Umpire Frary. Butte 3, Spokane 4. SPOKANE. Wash.. May 19. With two out, two on bases and the score tied. Clynes drove the ball far over Swain's head into center field. A splendid crowd greeted the Spokane team on its return fromtho Sound and went home happy in. the Indians' sixth straight vic tory. Score: R.H.E. Butte 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 03 6 4 Spokane . ...0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 14 3 5 Batteries Harkness and Kreitz; Jen sen, Ren;ker and Rogers. Umpire, Black. 1 r p;r 1 ? 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Roller, the Seattle wrestler, who has this year defeated all the heavyweight wrest lers of prominence up to the champion. today received a challenge irom franK a. Gotch himself. The challenge was promptly accepted, and the match will probably occur In Seattle toward tne end of July. Try for RevolTer Championship. NK WTORK. May 19. The executive committee of the U. S. Revolver Associa tion has decided to send a team of four revolver shots to compete in the inter national team competition at the Olympic games, to be held In London on uly 9. Competitions are being held .throughout the United States, open to every citizen of the United States. Miles Another Step Nearer. LONDON. May 19. Eustace Miles, the, English player, got a step nearer another match with Jay Gould, of New York, by defeating E. B. Noel three straight sets, in the second round of the preliminaries tq the Olympic ten nis contests. Chit-Chat of Sporting World The Italian Street Railway has bought 200.000 tons of Amprlcan coal, to be deliv ered at Genoa, at $5.64 a ton. The Welsh coalowners, it la aaid. asked $1.12. Herion Bitoes ai Kownrnal'8 Jl CAL EWING, welcome to our city. Sorry we can't promise you the weather man will behave, but other wise we'll do the best we can to make you forget San Franclseo and Oakland. Captain Moh'ler Is the proud father of a bouncing boy. Mohler says the new player on his family team is going to be a southpaw. Lots of luck for the new kiddie, Captain. We understand the merry, widow hat is to go. It's about time, for we have felt that some of the straw would be need ed for breakfast food and bottle cover ings. We trust that the news 6f an Illinois ballplayer dropping dead after making a three-base hit, will not keep any members of the local team from .hit ting 'em where they ain't for three cushions. ' ... The Bristol Herald Courier stops to ask, "How does it feel to be an um pire?" Like being in the southwest corner of purgatory without a fan, we fancy. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. after driving a coach from London to Bright on, declared, "It was the greacest achievement of my life." A glance at his life's history seems to prova this, for his history isn't much. The Kaiser lg unable to live on $4. 000,000 a year. Nothing startling about this. We know lots of ballplayers who can't live on that amount, either can't, because they never get a chance. ' ' It , was worth the price of admission yesterday to see President Cal Ewing swabbing the water from the diamond. He was there, also, with a thousand suggestions about the proper way to talk to the weather man. A writer In the Sporting News refers to the Coast League as a "remnant." It Is needless to say this screed waa written by a Seattle "gent" who Is a close 'friend of Cupid Dugdale. ' Should It come to pass that the Coast League turns the spot light on that Russ Hall-Butte deal certain gen tlemen will be busy explaining their part In the job. WOMBS PL-AY tX BAD FORM Two of Five Americans in Running , . - at St, Andrews. ST.' ANDREWS. Scotland, May 1. The American competitors fared badly in the opening rounds of the ladies' open cham pionship on the -links of - St. Andrews today, leaving only two of the five Ameri cans in the running. These were Miss Anita Phlpps of Springfield, Mass.. and Miss Marjory Phelps of Brooklyn, both of whom won lomparatlvely easy victo ries. Miss M. B. Adams played some what indifferently ' and neither Mis Frances Grl scorn of Marlon. Ph., nor Mlsss M. E. Phelps, a sister of Miss Marjory Phelps, showed anything Ilka their true form. In the second round Mrs. Snmpter, .of Huntstanton, England, beat Miss Frances C. Griscom, the American champion of 1900, three up and one to" play, while Miss Cecilia Leith, England, beat Miss M. F. Phelps, America, nine up and eight to play. Miss Anita Phlpps, of Springfield, beat Miss Scovell, Ireland, eight up and seven to play. Drug Clerk's Error Fatal. NEW YORK, May 19. Fleeing from plague-stricken Venezuela, Eduardo de Erazo, a cofTee planter, came to his death In a fashionable New York hotel early today by taking what he believed to be a harmless medicine. His wife, who also took some of the medicine. Is In a serious condition. Mr. de Erazo sent out to have a pre scription for a tonic compounded at a near-by drug store. An investigation showed that the prescription called for aspertein. At the drug store bottles con taining aspertein and atrophine are kept side by side. It is believed that the clerk used the wrong bottle in filling the pre scription. ... ... McFadden for Prohibition. ALBANY. Or., May 19. (Special.) Judge W. S. 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