THE MOUSING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY lO, 1910.
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Gold Seals, Honeyman Team
and Dilworth Derbies Are
After First Place.
ight-Round Bout at Memphis
- to Be Nelson's' Final
Workout.
COMMENCING TODAY THE SECOND WEEK
OF OUR ANNUAL BARGAIN-GIVING EVENT
HALL BASEBALL WEAR END
WOLGAST NEXT OPPONENT
Hardware Men in Lead, Stellar
Game Due if Tie Kesults Con-
tested Score Still in Dark.
Standing i-pown.
8TANDIN Of TEAMS PORTLAND
1XDOOK BASEBALL LEAtil'E.
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Tilwrt)i Iorbios ...
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Columbia Hardware Co...:f
Y. M. O. A 2
W. P. Fuller & Co 0
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With only six more games to be played
Jn the Portland Indoor Baseball League,
an exciting finish is predicted, with the
Sold Seals, the Honeyman Hardware
Company and the Dilworth Derbies Iigni
ing for first place. The season closes
January 21.
Kach of the three teams has the same
chance of winning the pennant. The
!old Seals rely on their pitcher. Bob
Fordney, to put them in the lead the
Honeymans on their fast infield, and
the Dilworths on their general team work
nnd the old heads of the players. The
Honeyman Hardware team leads the trio
at present with a handsome margin.
The arbitration committee has not yet
handed in its decision on the disputed
came plaved recently between the Honey
mans and the Y. M. C. A. The score
In this game stood 6 to 5 for the Y. M.
l A. in the seventh inning when the
lights went out, but was awarded 9 to 0
by the umpire to the Honeyman team.
It appears that the W. P. Fuller team
will draw the cellar championship, al
though Manager Flint is working hard
with his team and may spring a sur
prise in the last few games. The Ful
lers will play the Gold Seals a double
header Monday night in Ringler"s gym
nasium. Both Players Clever.
If an all-star team were picked from
the different nines, it would be hard to
choose between Irwin and Causey for the
first-base position. Causey, the Honey
man first sacker, would perhaps be more
acceptable because of his speed, although
Irwin, who is always cool and is last.
considering his weight, would be the
choice of many critics
'Nig' Herschler, the noisy outfielder
of the Dilworth Derbies, is clouting the
ball hard in spots. Bauer, the clever
third baseman of the Gold Seals, is the
pinch hitter of the league. Last Wednes
day, in the game with the Honeymans.
he batted in six runs and scored three of
the runs made by his team.
Manager Niece, of the Y. M. C. A. team,
sprang a surprise on both the Honey
mans and the Gold Seals by signing up
McKenzie, who turned out to be the
hardest pitcher in the league to hit.
In the event of a tie between any of
the teams at the end of the league race.
a large gymnasium will be secured for
the deciding contests. The East Side
hall is too small to seat even a fair-
seized crowd, to sav nothing of the incon
venience of the small room provided the
players.
Bonnie Briggs. E. E. Davis, Baker,
Bauer and Pembroke are the. heaviest
batters in the league. Todd and Guerln
are meeting the ball hard for the Co
lumbia Hardware Company. The heaviest
hitting teams are the Gold Seals and the
Dilworth Derbies. Todd and Weisendan-
ccr had a slump recently in their abil
Ity to meet the ball, but they have re
covered. Backus, the Columbia star
pitcher, and Daisy, of the Fullera, are
also numbered among the first ranks In
the hitting department.
Trio Stellar Slabsters.
Henderson, Sweeny and Pat McHale. of
the Honeyman team, are star slabsters.
McKenzie, the late acquisition to the
Y. M. C. A. pitching staff, is in Aberdeen
t present. If he does not return. Man
ager Niece will be handicapped, jvicwen
zie is considered the best twirlor in the
league, and his slow ball is particularly
tantalizing.
Bob Fordney. the southpaw for the
(old Seals, usually invincible, went bal
looning last "Wednesday night in the
game with the Honeymans at Ringler's
gym.
Pembroke and Magee are the fastest
shortstops in the league. Ewing. Wil
liams and Causey are dividing honors
around first base
The star players on the Fuller- team
re Daisy, pitcher. egalius and Ray
Snyder, catcher.
Two or three of the players who op
poped the umpires were put out of the
game. Henderson and Niece have been
particularly unlucky in this respect.
Buzz Beagle's bad knee is giving him
considerable trouble. a,nd he may be
obliged to quit the game before the end
President Harry K. Smith is attending
tUJ the games played at Ringler's Hall.
The Ooodyoar Rubber Company's team
in composed of hoya from the store with
but two exceptions. William Duncan and
Kay Duncan.
t'mpires Washburn and Marias are
successful in preserving order on the dia
mond. Flayers on several occasions have
tried to run over them but failed.
Several members of the Honeyman
Hardware Company and the Goodyear
Rubber Company teams are related. On
the Honeyman team are the McHale
blathers and the Beagle brothers. The
Gold Seals have Bob and Terry Ford
ney. and E. E. and Jack Davis, father
and son.
SPOKANE TKAIXS AT LEWISTOX
As i Kormor Years, lief ore- Season
Work Will Be Done.
LKWTSTON. Idaho, Jan. 9. Spe
cial.) The Spokane baseball team of
the Northwestern League will be
brought to Lewiston this Spring for
early training:, according- to advices re
ceived from President Joseph Conn.
The team has trained in Le wist on on
three previous occasions and the con
ditions and accommodations found here
have met the approval of the manage
ment and the players. Manager Bob
Brown brought the Spokane team here
last year and during the period he
piloted the Aberdeen Black Cats he
used the Lowiston grounds one season
for the before-season work-out. "
The visitors this season will be
provided with the new grounds com
pleted last Summer on Holbrook Island
and better facilities for shower baths
ind dressing quarters will be furnished.
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LONG HEADY-FOB GO
Portlander Prepared for Bout
With Frankie Edwards.
WEST-O'BRIEN MATCH SOON
Recently Turned Professional lex
ers Anxious to Mix Again Before
Oregon Club "Dancing Jim
my" Carroll to Locate Here.
BY TV. J. PETRAIN.
Frankie Kdwards, the clever light
weight, who is to meet Louie Long in
an exhibition before the Oregon Ath
letic Club on January 20, is scheduled
to box six Rounds with Frank Norall
before the "Wheelmen's Club of Oak
land, Cal.r "Wednesday night, and imme
diately after that date he will return
to Portland to take up training here
for the bout with Long.
Long arrived last night and looks fit
as a fiddle. He recently boxed a four
round, bout before a labor union at
Spokane, and says he does not need
much preparation to be fit for a run-in
with Edwards, though he will open
training quarters tomorrow and keep
himself in trim by regular workouts.
Long claims Portland as his birth
place, though he was taken to Spokane
by his parents when quite young. Thus
far in his ring career he has not ap
peared before the Portland sports, and
is quite anxious to give a good account
of his prowess when he shows with Ed
wards next week.
Gene West, the former Multnomah
club star, who has adjured amateurism
to get a return match with Danny
O'Brien, probably will work out with
Long. West expresses regret at de
serting the club, but he looks at the
matter in a business-like manner. He
explains that his one ambition has been
to secure a return date with O'Brien,
and, now that the latter has turned
"prof," it is necessary for him to fol
low suit.
According to West, he is not as
young as he used to be, and on that ac
count he figures that he would retire
from the fistic game sooner or later
anyway, and by turning pr6fessional
now and taking advantage of the date
offered him by the Oregon Club, he
believes he can show his ability to bet
ter advantage, and quit the game for
good afterwards if he so elects. The
match between West and O'Brien will
prove one of the biggest drawing cards
of the season.
An effort is being made to secure
Roscoe Taylor to meet Ned Whitman,
but the little Seattle lad has not yet
replied to the offer made him. Whether
lie comes or not, the Oregon club has
a lad on the scene to meet Whitman in
the person of Tom Hennessy, and in
the event that the latter is signed, it is
likely that Whitman's bout will be cut
from ten to six rounds.
Whitman has never shown here, but
the fans know of him because of his
record as the champion of British Co
lumbia. "Dancing Jimmy" Carroll, the clever
little chap who made his debut here
under the auspices of the Oregon club,
and later appeared before the Rose City
Club with Monte Attell, has been sing
ing the praises of Portland ever since
he returned to California. The other
day he announced his intention of leav
ing San Francisco and removing to
Portland, a'hd has resigned his position
as electrician at the Princess Theater.
He is scheduled to meet Jimmy Austin
before the Wheelmen's Club, of Oak
land, Wednesday night, and after that
bout probably will come directly to
Portland with his family.
There is some talk of matching Car
roll and Couture for an exhibition here
in the near future.
VEXABLE AFTER O'COXXELIi
Sound tirappler Willing to Meet
Multnomah Man Xext Month.
Virgil Venable. the Seattle grappler,
writes that he has no intention of dodg
ing a match with Eddie O'Connell, and
expresses willingness to meet the Mult
nomah Club instructor next month. The
Sound wrestler says he intends to retire
from the game, but would like a chance
at not only O'Connell, but "Strangler"
Smith and Charles Harnden, a Belling
ham grappler of som prowess.
Venable believes he can defeat all three
wrestlers. He contemplates engaging in
business at Seattle.
Winlock. Defeats Astoria.
WINLOCK, Wash., Jan. 9. (Special.)
1-defeated, the Astoria (Or.) team in a
LONG.
fast game of basketball last evening
by 22 to 8. The Winlock team took the
lead from the start.
OREGOX1A TEAM PLAYS FRIDAY
Strong Concordia Boys Pitted in
Basketball Contest.
The Oregonia and Concordia basketball
teams will play"a, basketball game next
Friday night at the Concordia Club, Fif
teenth and Morrison streets.
The lineup follows :
Oreeonia. Position. Concordia.
Wolfe 1- FR Hexter
Gevurtz (mgr.)...R FL., Rosenfeld
Shisser C Kahn
Dberdorfer R G T- Edear Frank
Rosenthal L GR Henry Metzger
OLDFIELI) BREAKS RECORDS
Goes Five Miles on Circular. Ascot
Track in 4:24 1-5.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. Barney Old
field, driving his Benz racer over the
Ascot Park mile track today, broke the
world's circular track records for 2, 3
4 and 5 miles.
His time for the five miles wa;
4:24 1-5 as against the previous record
of 4.26 held by Ralph de Pal ma.
TRAINS HELD BY STORM
O. R. ' & X. Expects Moderating
"Weather Will Restore Schedule.
All trains from the Ka6t due here
yesterday over the O. R. & N. were de
layed by storms East, but it Is expected
that moderating weather stcrn will
bring the trains back to their regular
schedule.
The Chicago-Portland special, which
was due to arrive in Portland at 8
o'clock Saturday night, did not get here
until 8 o'clock yesterday morning, and
the train due to arrive last night at
S o'clock was reported at 3 o'clock
this morning.
No. 5, the Oregon ' & Washington
Limited Express, due in Portland at
S o'clock yesterday morning, did not
get here until 4 o'clock in the after
noon. No. 41, the Fast Mail, - due at
7:50 o'clock yesterday morning, did
not arrive until 3:45 o'clock in the
afternoon.
I,OllE LONG'S FUTURE OP
PON'K.NT COMING.
Fraakle Edwards, of San Prao
claco. One of the Cleverent ,
LlftrfatwriKntK on the Comat
IV ho Will Box in Portland Jan
uary SO.
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Contest January 2 1 Before Tommy
Ryan's Club at 133 Pounds.
Champion Will Then Train
for Bay City Fight.
CHICAGO. Jan. 9. (Special.) Battling
Nelson will meet Eddie Lang, a local
lightweight, in an eight-round boujt be
fore Tommy Ryan's club at 'Memphis,
January 21. This contest, to bo fought at
133 pounds at 6 o'clock in the evening.
will be the champion's only workout prior
to pitching his training camp at Milletts,
on the outskirts of San Francisco, for a
finish scrap with Al Wolgast.
"I have been out of the ring for several
months and realize the value of a fast
contest before I 'hook up with the lit-
le German," eaid the Battler tonight.
'That's the reason I signed with Tommy
Ryan to appear before Doc Hottum's
club."
XELSOX FAVORITE AT 10 TO 7.
Los Angeles Sporting Man Bets $7 00
Against $1000 on Wolgast.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 9. fSeecialA
Betting odds on the coming Wolgast-
Nelson fight have already been estab
lished, with Nelson favorite at 10 to 7,
by the action of Ellis Cohen, a well
known sporting man. of Los Angeles.
Cohen, who arrived in San Francisco
today from the Southern metropolis, an
nounced his willingness to wager his
coin on Wolgast. He said that before
leaving Los Angeles he had wagered
$700 against $1000 and that he stood
ready to bet any part of $3500 at the
same odds in San Francisco. Cohen will
be here several days.
"Los Angeles people think mighty well
of "Wolgast," said Cohen, "and will be
ready to back him .up, if the odds are
right. I ' have already bet $700 ""Jn Los
Angeles, but have more money, most
of it my own, which I would like to place
here."
According to what Cohen says, the peo
ple of that city are quite "sore" because
the fight comes to San Francisco, in
stead of the South.
We ought to have had the fight," he
said. "We could have raised $1000 around
my place and another $1000 could have
been vaised around the city so to have
increased the NelSon purse to the $11!, 000
that he demanded. But we let the
chance go."
SAM LAXGFORD IS BARRED
Safety Director Will Not Let Him
Fight Sullivan in Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 9. (Special.) Sam
Langford will not box in Pittsburg Jan
uary 18. The man selected to oppose the
4'Tar boy" would not, in the mind of
the State Safety Director, John M. Morin,
stand anything like a chance, so when the
application for a permit is received, it
will- be refused.
"Montana Jack" Sullivan was the fighter
scheduled to meet Langford. Director
Morin says: "There are only six men
who are able to stand up before Lang
ford with any chance of success. These
men are Jeffries, Johnson, Kaufmann,
Ketchel, Papke and Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien, and these are the only men
that' will be permitted to meet him in
this city."
DDRANDO GETS OVATION
SAX FRANCISCO GREETS NOTED
MARATHOX HUSXER.'
Big Race With Johnny Hayes Will
Be Run Soon If Italian Wins,
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9. (Special.:
Diminutive in stature and with little that
would distinguish him from the rank and
file of the Italian people,' Pietro Xo-
rando, the well-known longr-distance run
ner, arrived today from New York to
prepare for his Marathon race with
Johnny Hayes, tnat is scneauiea ior sun
day, January 23.
Dorando was accorded an ovation by
his own people. An Italian band pre
ceded his automobile up Market street
to the St. Krancis and members of the'
Ttalian Touring Club accompanied him as
a guard of honor. Athe hotel, members
of the Italian colony greeted him, and
when he appeared at a local Italian res
taurant the diners rose en masse to ap
plaud him.
Dorando cannot speak a word of Eni
lish and his brother, who is with him as
business manager, attends to the inter
views. -
This will be the third meeting of the
runners. On the first occasion, it was
during the memorable Olympian games
in London, when Dorando was disquali
fied and Hayes given the trophy: later in
New York, as professionals, they met,
and Dorando beat Hayes.
This will be the deciding race. Do
rando says if he wins he will be prepared
to meet Henry St. Yves', who is also m
San Francisco.
' Albany Has Winning Quintet.
ALBANY, Or., Jan. 9. (Special.)
The Albany High School basketball
team . returned today from a Polk
County trip with two more victories te
its credit. Friday evening, at Inde
pendence, the team won from the In
dependence, High School by a score of
52 to 17. Last evening at Monmouth it
won from the Monmouth High School
by a score of 32 to 20. This latter vic
tory was achieved with Verne Besson,
a substitute, playing in place of Cap
tain Park Stalnaker. The team has
not lost a game to a high school team
thus- far this season. The team is
coached by Haman Bilyen, for many
years a famous player at the O. A. C.
The lineup of the first team is now as
follows: Center, Engstrom; forwards,
Stalnaker and Dboley; guards, Bigbee
and Carnegie: substitutes, Everding,
Beeson and Viereck. Charles Ohling is
manager of the team.
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AWFUL JOLT GIVEN
Seattle Writer Sees Chance to
Get Walla Walla's Trade.
PORTLAND GIVES CHANCE
.Possible Entry of Inland Empire
Town Into Northwestern League
Indicates Severing of Business
Relations With Us, Dream.
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In yesterday's issue of the Seattle
Times. "Shorty" Hughes, sporting editor
gives some advice to the citizens of
Walla Walla because of Portland's al
leged "desertion" of the Northwestern
League as follows:
Since Portland has started a commercial,
political and sporting warfare on the , c Uies
of this state and announced a determina
tion to aliftn itself with California, the ap
oeal of Walla Walla business men for a
place in the Northwestern League nas
aroused enthusiasm among the explo.teis
of Seattle trade.
Walla Walla has always been closely
allied with Portland In a commercial and
social way. Portland has enjoyed an ad
vantage in freight shipping facilities and
has maintained a big corps of traveling men
who have made their headquarters In Walla
Walla.
Two Chamber of Commerce excursions,
which included Walla Walla in the itinerary,
demonstrated the fact that a big opening
for Seattle jobbers could be made in the
Walla Walla country. Direct train con
nections between the Sound cities and
Walla Walla have shortened the run be
tween the two points and freight can be
shipped into Walla Walla territory almost
as quickly from Seattle as from Portland.
Business" men believe that should Walla
Walla bacome affiliated with Seattle in a
baseball league the tie of friendship toward
this city would be strengthened. Constant
association with Seattle in baseball would
result in encouraging closer social relations
and constant reiteration of Seattle's inter
est in Walla Walla would gradually break
the hold that Portland Jobbers have bad on
Walla Walla's trade.
Baseball, of course, i a business propo
sition and Walla Walla's application for a
team In the league will probably be weighed
on the question of whether or not a team
would pay In the Inland town. Insofar as
transportation is concerned, there Is plenty
of train service to accommodate the teams
and Walla Walla 4i rich enough to carry a
team. Probably the town would make a
good foil for Spokane by giving two Inland
Empire towns representation.
Since Portland invited the cities of Wash
ington to solidify themselves when that city
declared for a preference of commercial and
baseball alignment with California, the big
wholesalers and manufacturers of Seattle
insist that this state ought to cut loose en
tirely from the Oregon metropolis. A base
ball team in Walla Walla, they show, would
be a big step in that direction.
Such an Awful Jolt to Portland !
Now what do you think of that? Such
a terrible Jolt has never been hurled at
Portland by the scribes of Seattle, and
"Brer" Hughes should be in line for a
pension from the 8eattle Chamber of
Commerce.
"Since Portland has started a commer
cial, political and sporting warfare on
the cities of Washington," says Hughes.
In most things the diminutive knight of
the dopesheet has proven himself an
able oracle, but when he attempts to lay
the blame for the present Northwestern
League difficulties upon the fans of
Portland he misses his guess by some
thing like a thousand miles. "Shorty"
evidently picks out Walla Walla as a
possible "boycotter" of Portland simply
because that city has been named as a
possible successor to Portland in tho cir
cuit of the Northwestern League. If
Walla Walla is given a franchise in the
Northwestern League, and thereby gets
a position on the baseball map, the
Walla Wallans will more likely be thank
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ful to Portland for the opportunity, for
the "desertion" of Portland is what offers
the chance for baseball to some Wash
ington town, whether it be Walla Walla
or some other..
Portland Starts No War.
Hughes' assertion that Portland has
started a baseball war on the towns of
Washington is absurd. That Portland
is not to be represented in the North
western League next season is not the
fault of the McCredies nor of any one
in Portland, for the Judge, now Con
gressman McCredie, always supported
the Northwestern idea, and would as
suredly have financed such a team an
other year had not Messrs. rugdale, Lu
cas and Cohn, acting as an advisory
board which was more like a dictator
ship, decided Portland was not wanted
because the fans here failed to appre
ciate the ''high-class" of "bush" ball
presented by that league. Attention of
"S." Hughes is called to . the fact that
Seattle made the first break when Dug
dale advocated the abandonment of. Port
land and the selection of some other
town to take its place.. It would appear
that Brother Hughes is Dug's press
agent, and is doing nicely at that, at
least as far as the enlightenment of
the Seattle fans is concerned.
MAN CAUSES PANIC ON CAR
Drunken Passenger Is Cause of
Screams and Shattered Windows.
After starting a panic on a Jefferson
depot car, in which several windows were
smashed. "Fonty" Bethune was arrested
toy Patrolman Klingle, at Fifth and Mor
rison streets Saturday and sent to the
police station on a chargei of drnken
ness Coincident with his arrest, Bethune
gave the policeman and the conductor of
the ca.r a lively fight.
Bethune became obstreperous while
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riding on the car, and when the con
ductor endeavored to quiet him, lie
threatened to "dean out" the vehicle.
In the struggle which followed women
screamed and leaped upon the seats, while
the male passengers aided the conductor.
MILL SITE IS PURCHASED
1 miian-Pou Ison Company iets Land
Adjoining St. Helens Holdings.
The Inman-Poulson . Lumber Company
has purchased 23 acres at St. Helens, ad
joining the present holdings of that com
pany at St Helens. The property has a
good frontage on the Columbia River and
has been purchased by the Inman-Poulson
Company to complete what i con
sidered an ideal mill site.
"We have no present intention of put
ting in either a main or subsidiary plant
there," said Robert IX Inman, president
of the company, last night. "We bought
It so as to round out what we consider
an ideal mill site and now we have it,
either to sell or to have for future years
if we may need it.
"We have no intention of abandoning
our present Portland location and as this
location is on the Oregon side and most
of our holdings on the Washington side
it would be little more available for our
timber."
Greeley's Office Boy Is Dead.
FREMONT, Neb., Jan. 9. James R.
Kelly, editor of the Uehling Times,
died here today, aged 79 years. He be
gan his newspaper career in New York,
and was at one time Horace Greely's
office boy.
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