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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER lb, 1912. With "Long Jim" Brackenridge pitch In r masterful ball. Oakland could do SEATTLE LUCK TOO ! SNAP SHOT SECURED ON GRIDIRON AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. FITZGERALD'S HITS nothing, and., aside from their short lead in the ' first few Innings, were really at no time in a position to win. Beginning their last appearance in the south this season. Oakland was leading by two and one-half games over Vernon, in third place, i Los An geles being second, a game and a half behind the leaders. Score: K. H. E. . - R. H. E. Onlrlnr.fi .... 2 10 2!Vernon 6 ' 11 1 FflUGH FOR COLTS OVERCOME AtlGELS fit pi Tfr 20&more before we move to our rt - Breaks of Game Against Port Beavers Celebrate Home-Corn Batteries Malarkey . and Mitze; Brackenridge and Agnew. .f '4. ',. 1 , a, - .A land, and Bugs Win Easily, 8 to 1. ' ing . by Defeating Los Angeles, 5 to 2. SENATORS HIT OPPORTUNELY Seals Fail to Score With Bases Full on all our new Fall and Winter Stocks! (contract goods excepted) 6 SAVE : " ? ' - ft -f- - ? ' " J$L4: B& la p -i- ."" 1 f J f y V o- V HlLilK'af A - If m.i nil i . .. i and Lose Series Opener. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. Bunch ing of hits and failure to seize an op portunity to score in the first inning, when the bases were full, cost San Francisco the opening game of the series with Sacramento here today. The score was 2 to 0. Sacramento scored In the third on a fielder's choice, an error by Arlett and a hit by Shinn. The other score was brought in In the sixth, when O'Rourke was walked, reached second on Swain's sacrifice and home by Miller's single. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. San Frisco. 0 5 lSacramento 2 4 1 Batteries Arlett and .Berry; Hardin and Reitmeyer, Cheeky XATIONAL LEAGTJE. JAMES IS BATTED HARD KLAWITTER IN TOP FORN T -ST-V-I Mahoney Poles Ball Over Fence for Portland, by Taking Opener of .IK IT- Only Score-Made by Kick's Men, Series, Sets Dillon's Men Back to 10 OFF ON BLACK AND BLUE STEIN-BLOCHS! 1 Although .They Put Many on Bases. All Through. . Tie With Vernon in Exciting Race for Pennant. Yeon Building, Erected ' at a Cost of $750,000. Northwestern League Standbies. W. I,. Pe l W. I P. C....1. ... aft fet .R71Tortland. . . 7t SO .470 ol,r, trt T 5KS Vlntoria. . A3 86 .441 Vancouver. 84 69 .5i5Tacoma 61 02 ...OS Yesterday's Results. a aa t.t. A.n ttlM A. Portland 1. At Hcokano Spokane 4. Tacoml S (12 lnnlnss). , . . At Vancouver Vancouver 2. Victoria 0. SEATTLE. Wuh. Sept. 17. (Spe claL) Luck will beat a shotgun and this phrase comes close to telling1 th story of the game Seattle won from Portland today by a score or s to x. Portland hit Bill James, tho star pitcher of the league, hard and often, btnation that produced run luck fied to tne otner siae oi 1.110 vauip. It is a cinch that if good fortune favors Seattle as it has against Victo ria, and Portland, they will hold the lead to the finish of the race. Ma boner Makes Homer. Tho only run Portland got was a homer by Mahoney in the fifth, but they came close to Seattle in number of hits and their errors were of the most aggravating kind. The ball bounded Just right for Seattle and was too low or high for Portland. All this, taken into consideration with the masterly pitching of Bill James, was more than the Colts could overcome. Burch was knocked down by a foul tip that hit him on the knee cap, but he refused to quit and finished the same In good shape. Seattle got the lead in the first In ning after two were out. Nill hit and then WilBon poled the ball over the right field fence. In the third three hits and a pass, taken in connection with a boot, let over four runs. Seat tle was never In real danger after that, although James had to pitch for all he was worth in every inning, as Portland was giving the fielders plenty of work. Colts Lowe Chance at Start. Seattle really won the game In the first Inning, when Portland had the bases full and failed to score, owing to sensational pitching by James and (treat plays by Mann, Nlll and Shaw. The score: Seattle I Portland Ab H Po A E.! Ab H Po A E Phaw.Sb. 1 0 O'Ma'ey.cf . 2 1 Jac'n.lb. Nill.Sb. . Wll.'n.rl StraluK. Mann.cf. Kay'd.ia Whal'g.e Jamea.p. 1 IO 1 O 3 4 O 8 2 2 0 S 1 ft 1 O 0peaa.3b. 0 Frle.rf.. 0 McD'1.2b O'WIU's.lb. 0! Burch. c. OtColt'n.u. OlEtoIa.sa.. OiCr'anlc.lf lEaltley.p 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 14 U 3 1 0 0 8 0 1 0 0 Totals 83 19 27 10 0 Totals 84 7 24 16 2 SCORE BY INNINGS. Peattle . Portland O400110 8 uoooiooo o 1 SUMMARY. Run Johnaon. Kill. Wilson 3, Strait. Mann. Jamea, Mahoney. Home runs Wll- aon. Mahoney. bacrince nit Nlll. Stolen baacl Shaw, Wilton. Strait, James. Struck out By Jamea 4, by Eaatley 2. Baaea on balls Off Jamea 2, oft Eaatley 4. Double play Burch to Esola. Time 1:35. Umpire aioran. IXDIAXS VICTORS I?T TWELFTH Taeoma Fielders Collde and Let . Winning Run Come Home. SPOKANE, Sept. 17. A collision be tween Jansen and La Longe In short center In the twelfth inning of today's game let Gordon s Texas Leaguer drop safe and Altman ran borne with the winning score for the Indians, Spokane started with a lead of one javelin throw at the University of Ore In the first Inning, which was tied In gon lnter-scholastlc meet last May, is the second by Tacoma, and In the third another one of the recruits promised mo visnors uuncuea niis on Laorcau i ana ran in two scores, rne Indians, after two were out in the eighth, hit three times in . succession and these mm, wnn an error, gave mem two runs. Altman singled in tne twelfth Cartwright was an easy out and Hart ley, who batted for Ostdiek, beat out a grounder to Jansen, who, when he re covered the ball, threw wild, and both runners advanced a base. Gordon's hit won the game. Lynch was driven from the field by Umpire Van Haltren when he protested a decision.. Gordon relieved Cadreau after the eighth. The pennant race in the Northwest ern League was unchanged by the re sults of today's play. Spokane. Seattle j and Vancouver, tne leaders, an won, though Spokane had the hardest con test. Score: R.H. E. R.H.E. Tacoma ... 3 ( 2fSpokane ... 4 12 2 Batteries Belford and Crittenden; Cadreau, Gordon and Ostdiek. SCH3IUTZ WINS FOR VANCOUVER Wilson Loses, for Victoria Through Being Too Wild. VANCOUVER. B. C, Sept 17. Schmuts waa invincible for Vancouver here today and the champions won by a score of 2 to 0. Wilson was wild dur- 1 ing the' first , four innings, but Smith, who replaced him, pitched shutout ball. 1 KIppert was back, in the game, while I Jreer piayeo snort owing to ocnarn- weber being out of the game through illness. . Score: . , R. H. E. R. H. E. Victoria... 0 5 SVancouver. i Z Batteries Wilson, Smith and Meek Schmuts and Lewis. Columbus Club to Have Smoker. Manager Jack Day. of the Columbus Club, has announced his boxing pro gramme for the first smoker of the year to be held at the Bungalow The ater, September SO. Judging from the entries, the first show will be a big event to usher in the season. The boys are all Columbus Club men. The pro gramme: McNeil (115) vs. Lin Powers (118); Joe Tuerck (115) vs. Ed Wetsel (HE); Grueman (125) vs. Stevens (125); Ed Kelly (115) vs. John Feal (115); Al White (120) vs. Fred Whitacker (110). Scbulte Reinstated With Cubs. CHICAGO. Sept. 17. Frank Schulte. outfielder with the Chicago club of the National League. whom Manager Chance suspended two weeks ago for the rest of the season, was reinstated today, according to an announcement made by President Murphy. Th total ale of the Aroostook (Me.) potato crop of 1911 la eatlmated at between 14 OftO.OOO and 15.000.000 bushla. leaving be tween 2.000.000 and 8.000.0HO buahele that were aent to the atarch factories, ueed for seed and food purooaea here In the country or loBt. i EUGENE HOPES SOAR Oregon Has Wealth of Fresh man Material for Team. FIELD IS PUT IN SHAPE Gridiron Warriors Are Already Gath ering at Campus to Prepare for Hard Games Ahead Plnkbam Relies Upon Youngsters. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Sept. 17. (Special.) Klncald Field has been combed with harrows and discs, the goal posts have been brought ten yards closer together, and 70 suits of football armor have been patched and placed In readiness for the opening of the football season at the University of Oregon tomorrow. Throughout the last week six or seven candidates for the team have formed a nucleus of early arrivals which has received the undivided at tentlon of Coach Plnkham. Among the football men who have already put in their appearance are Captain Walker, who has been passing the Summer working in his fathers hopyard; Elmer Hall, of Baker, left guard on the varsity for the last two seasons; Joe Jones, who made his let ter as halfback last Fall; Bob Farrlss a varsity guard, and three freshmen, Sam Cook and Harold Purdy, of Coeur d'Alene, and F. Engle, a. 208-pound lad from Drain. Never before in the history of athlet ics at the university has such a bril liant galaxy of high school stars an nounced Intention of coming to "Ore gon." Among these appear such well known interscholastic stars of Port land as Anson Cornell, of Washington High School; Oswald Day and Ernest Vosper, of Jefferson High School; Lester Soden, of the Portland Acade my; "Bill" Holden and Warren Jack son, of Hill Military Academy; Dobey Garett and Klrkland, of Columbia Uni versity. From Southern Oregon. Perry Ashcraft, the star halfback of the Ashland High School team last Kail, and Jake W are. a Medford back- field man, are coming. From Salem, Jim McClellan, a 192-pound tackle, and Joe Riser, a quarterback, have signi fied their Intention of entering the university tnts weeK. Dick Nelson, a big fellow from Lafayette, who broke the lnter-scholastlc record in the irom the freshman class. Several games are in prospect for the freshman team, among them being one with the Washington High School eleven at Eugene October 6 FOOTBALL- MEX BOX MOLESKIN'S FOR TRAINING. Though Columbia University Lacks Veterans Coach Callicrate Has Many Good New Men. With the opening of the high schools two lnterscholastlo football squads turned out in force yesterday, Jefferson and Columbia University opening train ing camps. Portland Academy, Hill Military Academy, Lincoln High and Washington High will follow suit in a day or two. A roll call at Columbia Mnndav showed only two of last year's sauad on the field. These were Malarkev and Lake, back field men. Not a slayer has come from any other school to help fm out the thin array. "Desnite the loss of last year's vt. erans. matters look bright," said Coach callicrate. who turned out with the squad yesterday. "The former second team men and the green stock are of the best, all fairly heavy, yet fast, who quickly will learn to fill the places of the absent ones." Jefferson has been doing some work for the last two weeks under the di rection of Coaches Smith and Dake. Its Rtrwlr iff rising with moat nf th. nM raen baCk ana several players of merit from other schools. One of the prom ising newscomers is Ed Flynn, from Youngstown, O. Center has two good candidates Cut ler, a short, chunky fellow, who has had experience on the high school team of Grafton, Pa, and Finigan. Jefferson also has a few promising grammar school graduates in Hansen, Versteg, Semler and Kllgore. Lincoln .has a notable addition to the back field In Evans. He has had several seasons of football on an academy team in Tennessee. Hill will start practice just as soon as arrangements are made for a coach. The school was after Rlnehart, the Multnomah quarter and ex-Lincoln High coach. He has quit coaching foot ball and declined the offers. A choice will be made today. Carl Wolff and Dud ley Clarke are considered. Some out-of-town games are being arranged. Jefferson has one assured at Spokane against the Lewis and Clark High School on October 5. Lincoln High scheduled a return game with Spokane for October 15. but the Spo kane school officials have barred out- SCHOLASTIC SQUADS OUT 1 Harold Purdy, of Coenr d'Alene High, Punting: Varsity Halfback Jones, Also of Coenr d'Alene, Ready to Go Dmn Under Punt. 2 Pink ham, Pnrdy, Jones and Ferris. Kent Ing After Early Season Practice. 3 Harold Pnrdy, Whom Coach Plnkham Hopes to Develop Into Punter. Louis Plnkham, Head Coach. side trips and the game has been can celled. Columbia University expects to play Aberdeen High In October. CHANGE IS OPERATED UPON Cub Leader May Be Able to Play Again Blood Clot Removed. NEW YORK, Sept. 17. Manager Frank Chance, of the Chicago National League baseball team, who was oper ated on here yesterday for a blood-clot at the base of the brain, was reported today as resting well. His physicians believe Chance win be able to return to baseball. Chance has been troubled with vio lent headaches for more than a year. His affliction ' was believed to have been caused by a blow on the head from a pitched ball. Coulon May Plght. Campl. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17. Bantam Cbarlpion Coulon and Eddie Campl, of aan f rancisco, wno made a good Im pression here Labor Day, when he dis posed of Battling Chlco, may soon meet n the ring, according to Manager Mc- Carey, of the Vernon Club. McCarey received a telegram from Coulon today saying that he was willing to meet Campl. McCarey then telegraphed, ask Ing the champion for his- terms for i fight with Campl in November. McDonald Balks at Release. BOSTON, Sept. 17. Edward J. Mc. Donald, third baseman of the Boston Nationals, was notified today of his Immediate release to the Sacramento, Cal., club. McDonald says he will not go to the Coast. Baseball Statistics STANDINGS OF THE LEAGUES. American League. W. L. Pet. 97 41 .70SDetrott 82 66 .RSH'Oleveland. , W. L. Pet. 64 75 .460 4 7 .457 49 87 .360 47 89 .343 Boston.. Phlla Waahlns'n 82 57 .SHOlNew York. 66 70 .M.Vst. Louis. . Chicago... National League. W. I- Pet. I W. L. Pet. 64 72 .471 57 82 .410 51 86 .372 44 93 .321 New York. TO 42 .R'.HIPhila Mcago... b.i Hi .n-. .St. Louis.. Pittsburg. S3 54 .BUttjBrooKlyn. . Cincinnati 70 ISU .004Boston American Association, W. L. Pct.l W. L. Pet. MInneap.. 108 68 .WHiMilwaukee ' 74 83 .471 Columbus OS "6 .i"JSt. Paul.. 73 e-5 .4S' Toledo... Oo .DS Louisville 1.6 97.40 4 55 106 .341 Kan. City T u .iinaiunap. Western League. W. L. Pct. . W. L. Pet. 72 SO' .474 71 75 .488 72 79 .477 49 98 .333 Denver.... 89 61 .E.iLlncoln. . .. Omaha 84 ." .064IKloux City. St. Joseph. S3 61 .DoJiwicnita. .. Des Moines 74 71 .OUiTopeka. . . . yesterday's Besulta. Western League Sioux City 3-3, Lincoln 1: Des Moines 17-1, Denver 0-7; Wichita 2-1. St. Joseph 1-7: Omaha-Topeka game postponed because ol rain. American Association Kansas City 4, Min neapolis a; Louisville 4. Columbus 2; To ledo-Indiana pone posipunea oecause ol wet grounds, and MIlwauKee-st.Paul postponed because oi wet gniuuus. Portland Batting Averages. -Pacific Coast I Northwestern Ab. H. Av.l Ab. H. At. Fitzgerald 92 30 .SIMcDowel. J38 108.318 Lindsay.. 817 99 .312 Crulksh'k 3R 112 .87 Doane. . ava lit .awoiLMiiy aw o.i:i 471 144 .30Speas 508 140.273 534 154 .2SS Fries 612 165 .2 562 159 .2S3;Mahoney.. 276 71.257 216 5.2"3,Kastley.., 131 33.2.11 Krueger. Chadb'ne .. Butcher. Rapps. . . Higginb'm 193 To .znww iiiiams. 473 120 MiStelger. . . 469 118.2.51 68 14.241 72 18 .lioulfoltrln. 497 113 .227 Baker.... 12 3 .250'Burch 111 25.225 Suter. ... 22 5 .'."27'Harris 361 75.210 Harkness 65 14 .215Oallahan. 20 5.250 Bancroft. 4411 03 .212,BIoomfield 66 12 .162 Howler.. 261 55.210,Glrot 39 5.128 Klawltter 112 S .20R!Agnew. :.. SO 5 .083 Koestner. 117 23 .17!Esola 15 2.133 Gregg 32 5.156 Pacific Coaet League Standings. XV. T Pet. W. Pet. Oakland... SS .585Portland. .. S4 SI .438 . . . , . - a, -7 ETAU.n IPrnn. . . 71 93 .48 Vernon.... 1 67 ,57tiSacramento Yesterday's Besulta, At Portland Portland 6. Los A,".le5 . - . 1 AU v.mnn 4. Oakland 2. if Ran Francisco Sacramento 2, San Francisco 0. n V R OS COB FAWCETT. The thrlllinsr Pacific Coast League Tnnni race reminds one of an eight ..h hatwnnthru marble statues clamped to earth with strands of steel. nnirianA onrt Los Aneeles have been leading Vernon by 4 small margin ior the past fw days, out Doin ra""" time yesterday. Vernon crept up by wallODine the Oaks, and, as is quite fnM,-nhlfv Portland celebrated it homecoming by lambasting the Angels i to a. Vernon and Los Angeles are now tied at .676, two games behind the noli a whnsa social rating is .586. Justin Fitzgerald, the nimble-footed little outfielder, belonged to the Help, ine- Hand Society yesterday. It was his terrific hitting that spelled dfifRjit for Southpaw Halla. First time up Fitagerald doubled into right field, tlelng the score 1 to 1. Two innings later. In the fifth, he doubled over liber's head and scored two more, Those three eventually proved suffl clent. ' Botk Pitchers Hit Hard. Klawitter and Halla were both touched up quit freely, but sensa tlonal fleldlns- kept the score down The hits were ten apiece, one of the Angelic swats being a homo run by Ivan Howard that-sailed high over the rla-ht field fence. In the pinches Klawltterwas more effective than his bpponont. In the sixth Inning three singles in a row by Heitmuller, Dil lon and Page filled the bases, but with two men out Klawitter fanned Lober. The big righthander celebrated his Detroit- drafting by making his sea son s record 18 victories ana ten ae- foats. It was his first game in over a week, as he was ill during the Oakland series. Despite the fact that th Beavers have been wobbling along tho trail the past fortnight like a fat poodle dog pursuing a meat wagon, a crowd of 2000 fans turned out for the first or the final 18 games. And they, wit nessed a beautiful contest. Six light ning fast double plays three on a side featured the fielding, but there, were enough memorable stunts pulled off by Krueger, Bancroft, Fitzgerald and Bor ger to have sufficed for an entire series. X Angela Open Scoring. The Angels opened the scoring with one run in the third inning on Boles hit to short, a sacrifice and Berger's single, but a hit by Bancroft and Fitz gerald's two-bagger down the right field line in -the lattor half of the in ning tied the score. 1 In the fifth Fits blazed out another double for two runs. Krueger drove Fitzgerald in, making it three for the inning, and from that on the Beavers were never headed. Klawitter and Chadbourne were the tally bearers who flashed across on Fitz' hit, Klawitter having reached first on a scratch in field tap and Chadbourne on a walk. Howard's homer in the seventh with nobody on tho bags brought the An- gols up, -4 to 2, but a double steal by Chadbourne and Fitzgerald, after both had singled in the last of the seventh. recouped that embryonic spurt of the pennant contenders. Chadbourne Bcored, giving him two. filched bases for the inning, as he also purloined second off Catchet Boles. The score: Los Angeles I Portland Ab.H.Fo.A.E.1 Ab.H.PO.AE. H'w'rd.Sb 1 4 I 1 2 op-n-rne.lr. 1 i Z 3 X Berger.ss. Daley.cf .. H'fller.rt Dillon. lb. Page. 2b.. Lober.lf .. Boles.o. .. Halla,p... x 1 4 s o F'sTaia.rt s 1 1 2 1 0 1 9t 3. 0 0 0 8' 1 3 8 2 0 S 1 OiK'ueger.cf 4 0B'tcher,3b 3 0!R'gers,8b. S 0Rapps,lb.. 3 OlPlsher.c. 4 SB'croit.ss. a OiK'witter.p 2 X 0 1 0 4 010 1 2 1 4 1 3 ore" .... 0 0 0 ! Total. 32 10 24 15 0 Total. 39 10 27 IS Batted for Boles In ninth. SCORE BT INNINGS. Los Angeles 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 Hits V 1 I 0 1 3 2 0 1 10 Portland 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 3 Hits 1 0 3 0 3 1 2 0 10 SCMMART. Runs Howard, Boles, Chadbourne 2. Fitz gerald, Klawitter 2, Struck out By Halla 2, by Klawitter 2. Bases on balls Off Halla 3, tr Klawitter 2. Two-base hits Fitzgerald Home run Howard. Double plays Kla witter to Bancroft to Rapps; Halla to Berger to Dillon; Krueger to Rapps; Halla to How ard to Dillon: Bancroft to iRappa Sacrifice hits Berger, Fltsgerald, Halla, Rodgera. stolen bases Klawitter. unaobourne 2. its- gerald. Passed ball Boles. Time of game :3o. umpires McCarthy ana Casey. Notes of the Game. Higginbotham will pitch for the Beavers coaay. opposing unecn, in an likelihood. Baker, the new infield youngster, in- ulged In preliminary practice with the team, but Butcher held down third. Mo Credle may use him in a game this week. ut he lacks experience. Cleveland picked him up from an amateur team at Bridge port, Conn. He is 23 years old and In build a prototype of Butcher. Dillon Is giving Metzger a rest at third, Howard swltchlna over and Page taking second. Bancroft batted left-handed against southpaws last week. Umpire Perle Casey Is in the good . graces of President Baum, tor he has been as signed to his home town for three series. Jack McCarthy waa behind the bat yes terday. Mac was in a Los Angeles hospital for five weeks and umpired his third same since his Illness yesterday. Art Krueger had an opportunity to- make an unassisted double play at first base yes terday. He negotiated a remarkaole catch of Howard's high fly m the fifth and Halla was past second scooting for third. Art threw to Rapps. Dan Howley was scheduled to catch for Portland, but hurt his hand Just before the commencement of hostilities. Bill Lindsay returned north with the team, but expects to leave today for Caro- na. He ia as fat as a pocket gopher in harvest season, but his legs are bothering him. Bill did not go to the mountains, as announced when the team left home. Neither Bill Toier nor Marks. Angel pitchers, came north; .the only new men being Pitchers Perrltt and McCafferty. Owner lien Berry returned to Loe Angeles. ERNON DEFEATS OAKLAND Ray Brashear Slams Out Two Home Runs in Crucial Game. LOS ANGELES. Sept 17. Boy Brashear and his batting eye were too much for Oakland today and the first game of a series that may change the Pacific Coast League baseball map went to Vernon, 6 to 2. Brashear hit! two home runs with men on the bases j ahead of him and was directly re- ponsible for four of Vernon's six runs. Chicago 5, New York 3. NEW YORK. Sept 17. Chicago won the deciding game of the three-game series here today by hitting Marquard hard in the second and third innings. Crandall, who relieved Marquard, was invincible and held Chicago to three hits. Cheney was effective in every inning but the fifth, when New York bunched three hits with a muff by Sheckard and scored three runs. Evers was put out of the game by Umpire Owens in the sixth inning, when he was called out trying to reach second on a short hit. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. New York. 3 8 2Chicago. . . 5 8 2 Batteries Marquard, Crandall and Meyers, Wilson; Cheney and Archer. Brooklyn 7, Pittsburg S. BROOKLYN. Sent. 17. Brooklyn hit the ball hard today and defeated Pitts burg, 7 to 3. Home runs by Daubert and Wheat in the fifth inning were the features. Wheat. Fisher and Wagner did good fielding. Stengel made four singles, walked and stole a base. It was his first appearance. -Score: j R, H. E. K. H. K. Brooklyn.. 7 14 HPittsburg. . 3 8 0 Batteries Rucker and Miller; Hen- drix. Ferry, Adams, Smith and Simons, Kelley, Blackburn. Boston 5, St. Louis 4. BOSTON, Sept. 17. Boston made it three out of four from St. Louis by winning. Boston hit all three St. Louis pitchers, scoring on each. Score: v R. H. E. K. H. is. Boston.... 5 11 2jSt. Louis... 4 12 2 Batteries Perdue and Kling; Mer- hitt, Steele, Geyer and Bresnahan. Philadelphia 7, Cincinnati 1. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 17. Phila delphia's losing streak was broken when Cincinnati was defeated today. The visitors were unable to solve Sea ton's delivery. Score: . R. H. E. R. H. E. Philadel... 7 11 lCincinnatI. 14 4 Batteries Seaton and Dooin; Suggs, Harter and Severoid. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Cleveland 4-3, Boston 3-2. CLEVELAND, Sept. 17. Cleveland took two games from Boston today, thereby preventing the leaders from clinching the pennant. Each game was close, Cleveland winning each in their final turn at bat. The first game, a pitchers' battle be. tween Collins and Gregg, went 11 in nings, finally being lost by Boston on successive hits by Turner, Jackson and Lajole. Carisch featured this game by making -three singles, a double and triple in five times at bat. In the second game, after Boston had taken the lead in the fourth inning, Cleveland came back and won on a pass to Turner, outs by Jackson and Lajole and hits by Hendrlx and Graney. The scores: First game R. H. E. R. H. E. Cleveland. 4 14 llBoston. 3 10 Batteries Gregg and Carisch; Col Hns and Currlgan. Second game R. H E. K. H. E. Cleveland. 3 3 l'Boston.... i 2 Batteries Blandlng and O'Neill; O Brlen and cady. CHICAGO, Sept. 17. Chicago-Phila delphia; no game, wet grounds. A DETROIT, Sept. 17. Detroit-New York, game postponed, rain. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17. Washington St. Louis, game postponed, rain. Two games tomorrow. SWIMMING DATES ARE SET Northwestern Championship to Be Held t Portland, November 1 5. Board of directors of the Multnomah Athletic Club last night voted No vember 15 as the date for the holding the Pacific Northwestern Indoor swimming championships. Entries are expected from Spokane, Seattle, Van couver and several Portland clubs. This will be the first indoor cham pionship event staged since the North western clubs decided to make swim ming a fixture on the list of interclub activities. It should have been held last Spring. Chairman Frank Watkins, of the swimming committee, attended the board session and recommended a monthly social swim. October 8 was set as the date for the first of the social gatherings. No action was taken on the proposal to hire a separate in-' structor for the women's classes, but if any appointment is made Miss Vivian Marshall will be the instructress. Lewis Thomas, who will swim in the Coast championships at San Fran cisco, left yesterday. ROSARIANS TO TAKE TRIP Special Train Will Carry Boosters to Pendleton and Spokane. Royal Rosarians to the number of 100 will board a special train Friday night, September 27, for the trip to Pendle ton, Walla Walla, Colfax and Spokane. Fully this number will be aboard, it was learned, after a meeting at the Commercial Club yesterday. Captain Robert Krohn and his crack drill squad will be prominent par ticipants in Pendleton and Spokane parades. All members in uniform will follow the drill team. ' The itinerary, as decided on yester day, will find the Rosarians at the Pen dleton Roundup September 28, Sunday in Walla Walla and Colfax, as the guests of the Commercial Clubs of those cities; Monday, September 30, they will assist in the opening celebra tions of the Interstate Fair at Spokane. George M. Hyland, John M. Scott, W. E. Coman and E. T. Carswell compose the committee on arrangements. De tails concerning the trip can be had from them. MEN'S HATTERS, FURNISHERS AND CLOTHIERS. I T McCredie Puts in Drafts for Likely Minor Leaguers. FOUR PLAYERS PITCHERS Beavers Also Seek Young Catcher and Three In fielders Two May Be Brought From Majors Chad Has Great Hitting Streak. When the Class A A bids ior drafts are opened at Cincinnati next Sunday afternoon Portland will have hooks out for eight and possibly ten men. Man ager WalterMcCredie announced that he has his eyes on four new pitchers, three infielders and a young catcher. President W. W. McCredie forwarded Individual cheeks covering the eight last night and may telegraph an ad ditional two or three. These bids include two pitchers from the Western League clubs untouched by the majors, while the rest are from Class B leagues. McCredie has not in vaded the Union Association nor has he cast his eyes toward the already de pleted Northwestern League. McCredie Want to Spend $8500. All told, the McCredies desire to spend S6500 for draft material In addi tion to two or three major league pur chases they have in store for the com ing Winter. Mac says he will consider himself lucky If six of his eight drafts are allowed, and if he lands two likely recruits in the six, he will be even more pleased. The Class AA draft prices are as fol lows: For players from Class A, 11000 from Class B, $750; from Class C, S500 from Class D, 1400. "I am sorry to lose Klawitter for he and Higginbotham would make a won derful nucleus around which to build my 1913 pitching staff," said McCredie last night. "Just think where we would be if I had two more pitchers like them. Both have won 60 per cent of their games. I expected to lose either Klawitter. Doane or Fitzgerald. Mac declares he was misquoted in San Francisco when the newspaper men had him picking Oakland to win. He says it's still a tossup between the three leaders. ' Chadbourne Batting Hard. Several Pacific Coast batsmen are lust now enjoying runs of unusual merit, Chester Chadbourne, the popular Portland outfielder, seems to have at last struck his stride, for Chad has been batting at a .122 clip since Au- srust 23. In 25 games. . including yes terday's Chadbourne has missed only four without a hit. . He has been at bat 97 times and made 41 hits. Ivan Howard and Pete Daley, of Los Angeles and Wuffli and Zimmerman, of San Francisco, are otners now m the calcium. Daley has batted .457 since August 21, missing only one day without a hit and that against arry Abies on August 24. His total is u times up and 32 hits. Howard , has been up 84 times since August 30 and has hit safely on 34 occasions, or an averaore of .404. 1 Wuffli has batted .328 since Septem ber 3 and Zimmerman .396 in 14 games since September 8. Chadbourne's run is as ioiiows; au gust 23, 3-2; August Z4, s-s; August 25. 4-2. 1-1: August 27, 4-2; August 29 K-l: Auarust 31. 4-1; tseptemoer i, 4-2. 4-1; September 4, 4-0; September 5-8: September 7, 3-1: beptemDer s. 4-8; September 9, 6-3, 1-0; September 10. 4-2: September 11, 5-4; September 12 fi-2. 3-1: September 13, 4-0; Sfeptem ber 14, 4-1; September 15, 4-0. 4-1; Sep tember 16, 3-2. Sporting Sparks TTLL STYLE, the trotter wnicn was r figured a prominent contender in Portland's 2:12 trot, won the 2:12 race at San Jose the other day, defeating Adam G. the veteran, who won second money in the Portland contest. Mexico seems due for plenty of horse racing this Winter. 'W. W. Finn an nounces a 100-day meeting for Mexico City, commencing Thanksgiving Day, while the Juarez management has also billed a meeting of the same length opening on the same day. Mr. Finn will depend largely on Kentucky for his thoroughbreds. Wolgast's Oregon, hunting trip has been indefinitely postponed. Ad Is E1GH in sou G ORDON On near Fifth busy talking shop in the East and Jack King does not know the exact date of the champion's appearing here. Ad's wife is in bad health, which, is another factor In keeping the Michlgander near home. , mm A battle Is due soon over the draft ing of umpires. The new rule regard ing arbitrators was injected into base ball law at the last National Associa tion meeting. The j-ule provides for the purchase d"r draft of umpires by the minor leaguers, but' not for the payment of money for men taken up by the majors. George Hildebrand has accepted an offer to umpire in the American League, but President Baum, of the Coast League, is averse to let ting him go and then turning round and buying a man from a B league. He holds that the majors never rati fied the agreement and that therefore it is void. Eddie Householder, former North western League player, is now a mem ber of. the Hanford, Cal., semi-pro team. Eddie is one of the star men on the roster. John C. Hogan, world's three-cushion billiard champion. Is in San Francisco preparing for the 150-point title strug gle with Joe Carney, the man who de feated Henry Solomon 'in Portland last Spring. The men meet on September 25, 26 and 27. The Philadelphia Americans will in vade Cuba this Fall for two six-game series. CITY LOSES APPEAL CASES Judge Gantenbein Orders Dismissal for Lack of Evidence. Because the city could not prove 'the ownership of the store other than by a clerk who sold the "booze," and be cause he believed the Jury would re turn a verdict in favor of the defend ant anyway, Circuit Judge Gantenbein yesterday ordered an Instructed verdict of not guilty In the case of the city against C. E. Bogue, an East Side drug gist accused of selling liquor without a license. .... . . The court's action was based on the rule of law that the unsupported evi dence of an accomplice Is not suffl- -cient to establish a fact. The case was an appeal from the Municipal Court, where Bogue had been fined $100. Because of the absence of Sergeant Klenlen, of the Police Department, the prosecution's most Important witness, the city was not able to make much of a showing against Ida Miller, convicted of vagrancy in Municipal Court and who had appealed. Judge Gantenbein learned that she had been in the city for eight years and had never been, arrested or accused of crime before, and he ordered the case dismissed in order to save further trouble. ENGINEERS T0 ORGANIZE Men Eminent- In Engineering and Architecture Hold Banquet. What is expected eventually to re sult in the formation of the Associated Engineers' Society, of Portland, was discussed at the luncheon given yester day at noon at the Imperial Hotel and from the interest shown such an or ganization will be accomplished. Six separate societies were represent ed, 85 plates being served, from the Oregon Society of Engineers, American Institute of Architects. American So ciety of Civil Englneers.(Amerlcan In stitute of Electrical Engineers, Nation al Electric Light Mens Association, and the Portland Architectural Club. The luncheon was entirely Informal, with D. C. Henny, C. E., acting as the toastmaster. No formal speeches were made, but each guest was requested to talk long enough to tell those present who he was and in what character of business engaged. The Joint commit tee, which had arranged for this lunch eon, was retained with Instructions to prepare for another at the same place on next Tuesday and have a plan out lined for a permanent organization, with an object in view of securing and maintaining permanent clubrooms. Andrew Carnegie, In London, says mil lionaires In this country are not taxed enough. ft BRASFIELD & P0RGES "FOR MEN WHO KNOW" lUtBTBD STREET BAILWAT. EX. BUM. PRICES 20 25 ' 30 II ii If there were any better hat its name would be