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I NATIONAL LEAGUE DIRECTORS IN SESSION AND TWO FORMER PORTLAND STARS WHO FIGURED J "Zi C M'CREDIE SCANS II NAPS WILL DISCARD Krapp, James, Brenner and F H. Wilson Are Among List of Twirlers. A Bsxta (CririslmaB J ITraw prrml tkM t iIkm PECKINPAUGH IS SHUNTED WlSi grrrfinpicf V)! S'H from TV TTTT STTiS ATTON AL CINCINTJ ATI-CHIUAliU TlUUJJti. . ' ' f i 11 ?. V H3 rx - -- b-j:;. i itr ft(Mf ..7JL Kx-RooTor Will Xot Go Into Spring Training With Cleveland but Is Not Expected to Bo Re leased by Owners. BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. Cleveland's list of probable American League discards was received In Port land yesterday. McCredie looked over a total of 11 .Nap players who will not be taken to New Orleans or Pensacola for Spr!n training, and prominent among them waa found "Happy .lark" Kibble, sent up from Portland lat rail and Roger Peckinpaugh. of the. 1911 Beaver champions. Peck will not be released, however, unless Frank Chance, the new Gotham manager, agrees to waive. Ergo McCredle does not antici pate retting him back. McCredie says his 1913 Beavers are In excellent shape in every branch save pitchers. Consequently his attention was centered in the pitching material offered by the Naps four in number Eugene Krapp. Bill James. Bert Bren per and K. H. Wilson. "If I can secure Krapp. James and Wilson and HI West from Toledo I will be satisfied to start th Coast League season tomorrow vouchsafed the local manager. "That win give me as veteran twirlers Hig einbotham. Hagerman. Krapp, James Carson and West, and youngsters Wil son, Hynes, Girot and Gregg. I should be able to shape a winning buncb out of that aggregation." Walvera ot All Obtained! Cleveland has not obtained waivers on all the 11 men slated to go the route, but those who will likely be on the outside of the major leagues look Ing In next April are: First Baseman Art Griggs, Shortstop Roger Peckin paugh. Third Basemen Jack Kibble and H. H. Grubb. Outfielders Art Hauger and Tim Hendrix. Catcher Charles Pens. Pitchers Bill James, Bert Bren uer. Eugene Krapp and F. H. Wilson. Two of the men. Grubb and Wilson, were drafted by Portland last Fall, but the drafts were disallowed In favor of Cleveland. Both are youngsters, Wilson being a big southpaw who won 31 and lost 10 games for Knoxville In the Ap palachian League last year. McCredie expects Art Griggs to go either to To ledo or New Orleans. He is a heavy hitter, but not a good fielder, being the antithesis of Derrick, the Portland first sacker bought from Toledo. The Beavers are already well equipped with lnflelders and outfield ers numerically speaking, for Mac has six men on the string Derrick, Rodg ers, Kores. Lindsay. Bancroft and Mc Cormick for the Infield, and five for the outfield In Krueger. Chadbourne, poane. Fitzgerald and Cunningham. Jamea la Wolverine. Pitcher BUI James, one of the men who will likely be shunted to Portland along with Krapp, Wilson and West, has been the property or the Naps for two seasons, having been picked up from Jackson. Mich. Last year he twirled for Toledo in the American As sociation. He Is not vLefty" Bill James, who la also a member of the Toledo Mud Hens. McCredie expects definite announce ment of his awards within the next ten days, as soon as the final waiver clear ance papers are obtained. Now that the official averages or the various leagues have been promulgated the respective merits of the rubber centered and cork-cored baseballs can be ascertained. The Pacific Coast, the t'nlon Association and the Wisconsin-Illinois leagues all adopted the solid ruhbrr rjre.t Goldsmith article last Snrlnsr and a comparison of the 1912 with the 1911 records batting, fielding end pitching proves the new ball live lier yet more easily fielded than either the Reach or the Spalding. In the Pacific Coast League only ten batsmea topped the .300 mark- in 1911. whereas 23 men reached beyond the coveted line in 1912. Thirty-one pitch ers finished over the .500 win point In 1912 and 23 In 1911. The fielding aver ages for the league seasons of 1911 and 1912 were .935 and .958, respect ively. Contract Yet to Ru Two Years. In the t'nlon Association 17 men bat ted beyond .300 in 111 off the Reach sphere and 35 clouted the Goldsmith to the outerworks In 1912. and In the Wisconsin-Illinois circuit the trio of .300 sluggers Increased to 20 in 1912. Twenty-seven men hit above .300 In the Western League last year. The rubber core has two more years to run In the Pacific Coast League, ac cord ir.g to the contract signed last Winter. liEKG IS MATCHED TONIGHT If Astorlan Wins From Weeks He Is Promised Top-Xoteli Bout. Otto Berg', the Astoria middleweight who announced Portland as his future home last Summer, meets Weeks, a promising 158-pounder, In a 20-round bout at Taft. Cal., tonight. :o fistic contest ever before pulled off by Promoter Rehfeld has attracted so much attention as this one," writes one Taft critic. Berg has been prospering of late In California, his most recent victory be ing over Fritx Holland, of Spokane. Frltx broke his arm in the second round and was forced to quit. Should the Oregonian knock out Weeks he Is promised a bout with one of the top-notch Eastern middles. STORMY WEATIIEK SAVES DCCK Sunday's Hunters Keport Poor Game In Day's Shoot. The stormy weather of last week proved a life-saver for many ducks Sunday, the hunters returning from the ponls and lakes yetserday with reports of the poorest bags in many weeks. The heavy rains caused the clucks to change their diet, deserting the wheat-sprinkled pond bottoms for the wet grass. The Deer Island hunters bagged the limit, but the shooting was extremely difficult. In the majority of cases the sportsmen returned with from eight to 15 ducks and considered themselves lucky to do so well. Welsh Defeats Mehran. T.ON'DON. Dec 16. Fred Welsh, the English fighter, successfully defended his title of lightweight champion of England tonight against Hugh Meh gan, the Australian lightweight cham pion. The content went 2o pmivls. Welsh won the decision on points. mr 1 ., ... vr r im. k' " fJ I Xf: Each' Conference College to ji JM -( in . Mee,p,an- wmmM St . 'I PROPOSAL MADE DEC. 20 AfiPt T.' 4 i. Vfel Oregon Graduate Manager Will VJl JSv XlillwCn ?Bk P'K i -' ' .. ' ' y' '! . Broach. Idea to Aid Ath- - fCS 1 1 V TINKER DEAL TALKED X . ) 7 AtX i 1 Deo. 16.-(Speclal.) That each college , WV MiX .-T 1 1 at least that all the members play the V "T VirVi 3 .11,1 x ! I- 1 same number of conference games, is f - XXaJO.Vk&r -l x - ,'(" i Arthur Geary, of the University of Ore-1 - Cincinnati - Chicago Trades Create Local Interest. DEAL BIGGEST IN YEARS Major League Experts Inclined to Think Cubs Got Best of Barter, but Joe Becomes Manager of Iicalrj- Good Aggregation. While Pacific Coasters are generally only passively interested In major league bartering, the complicated trade few days ago whereby Cincinnati gave Outfielder Mike Mitchell, Inflelder Phelan, Outfielder Knlseiey, Pitcher Humphries and Shortstop Corrldon for the Chicasoans. Joe Tinker, catcher Chapman and Pitcher Laudermilk, has stirred up a tremendous amount of In terest here, as two of the headliners nvolved. Tinker and Mitchell, are for mer local favorites. Joe Tinker's future, as manager of the Cincinnatis. is of particular inter est. A good many are framing their prayers for Joe, but, as a matter of fact. Tinker falls heir to a great deal better ball club than most people im agine. The memorable start of the Reds last year, when they Jumped Into the lead for a month or so, was offset by a mid-season collapse. After they got down as far as they could sink hey took another' spurt and for the last Six weeks showed as brisk an article of ball as anyone could wish for. All of which indicates that Cin cinnati has a good foundation upon which to build. Major league experts are Inclined to believe that Chicago got a little the best of this, the biggest deal in recent years, if not In the history of the sport. The meat of the trade was Mitchell. Corrldon and Phelan for Tinker. Joe said he would not play under Evers at Chicago anyway, so the Cubs were fortunate in securing the above men- ioned trio in exchange. Mitchell, the old Portland star, is highly esteemed by those on the inside n the National League. He is I i: l; .-1 y- - - juur t At Top Magnates In Annnnl Seaslon at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Left to rlirht, President Thomas Lynch, C. J. Sulli van, Charlea W. Murphy, Angnntua Herrmann, t'narlea Kbhetts and Bar ney Dreyfus. Below iLeft, Mike Mitchell, Traded to Cniis by Cincinnati; lllarht. Joe Tink er, Traded bjr Cubs to Cincinnati to Amnme Management. the south. Pittsburg wrote Mensor some time ago asking about the kid, and Mensor recommended him. Jim Barry had a pipe dream in Ta- coma the other day. Tne unicago heavyweight. Just back from Australia, said Sam Langford knocked Jeffries out In a private tryout a few days be fore Jeffs battle with Jack Jonnson at Reno. It took Langford only four rounds to turn the trick. Barry says Joe Woodman, Langford's manager, told him about It In Australia. Christy Mathewson. the New York pitcher, is selling insurance In Gotham. Matty has this sign over the door: "This is an insurance office and -not a lounging room. Christy Mathewson Is Interested In anything that has to do with insurance. He does not even re call the score of the last game of the world's series.", Matty haB a stenog rapher at his elbow, and between puffs clever I ot cigar smoke and his insurance Jot- outfielder, uses his head well and bats fine. Corrldon. of Detroit, who Is the unique feature in this deal between National League clubs, was purchased by Detroit for IS0O0 from the Ameri can Association, unce oeiore ne was In the American League. Three years ago he was a member of the St. Louis Infield and was the .principal in the sensational games In which Larry I-aJoie got eight nits in one afternoon in order to beat out Ty Cobb. The scandal which resulted sent Corrldon back to the minors and also got Harry Howell, the veteran St. Louis pitcher, in so badly that he has scarcely ecovered his standing. Tinker will be in Portland about the irat of January, so he Informed Fielder Jones recently at Chicago1. SPORTING SPARKS ALONZO STAOU, director of atnietics at the University of Chicago, com pletes 20 years of service on January 1. He Is an alumnus of Yale, where he passer four years as an unwergradu- te, ore year as a graduate stuaent nd one year In the divinity school. He won five ball championships for the Elis by his wonderful pitching, and made end on the All-American football leven. Chicago has won 14, tied 16 nd lost 47 football games under Stags. Dutch" Reuther, the San Francisco semi-professional pitcher, has been igried by Pittsburg, according toEaaie Mensor. who has just returned from BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS.. Knnls T. Rebel) Oaken. - Ennis T. . ("r.ebal") Oakes, "the well-known outfielder of the St.. Louis Cardinals, passes ' the 2tith milestone on . his life Journey today. Ho was born iiv Homer. 'La., December 17, ISSN, and at the aire of -0 started his enreer In the big arena with the Cedar Rapids team of the Three-Eye League, where he piayed two seasons. In 1008 he was sfnt to Los Anseles and it was while a member of the Angels bri gade that the "Rebel" first displayed the stuff that landed him In the big league. The Cincinnati Reds copped him at the close of the Pa cific Coast League, season and he remained In Redland during the' sea son of 1900. The next year he was traded to St. Louis, where he has held down a position in the out field the. past three seasons. Each year Oakvs has shown an improve ment in his batting. In 1U10 he hit for .-."2. In 1011 for .20:1 and last seacon he boosted his batting aver ago to .I'M. tings he dashes off baseball stories. Oakland fans are loath to accept Cal Ewing's alleged sale of Btock in the champion Coast ball club. "Leavitt and Ewing eat together, fish together, hunt together, motor together, do poli tics together, go to church together and are, In fact, the Siamese twins of baseball. For the' good of baseball, if the San Francisco mogul really sold his interests to Leavitt why doesn't he show his books to prove It?" says a Transbay writer. "Dutch" Klawiiter signed a $2500 con tract with Detroit, according to his own statement conveyed in a letter to Art Krueger. Vean Gregg, Steen. Hark ness and others signed up for $2100 when they first broke In with the Naps. - Under a cartoon depicting McCredie handling a gold brick designated "Sol dier Carson," a Los Angeles newspaper says: "The deal whereby Elmer Koest ner and Soldier Carson Interchanged owners was a master stroke, with Hogan doing the striking and McCredie getting struck. The soldier, nine-tenths of the fans declare, is through as a pitcher. There was a time when he was a marvel, but he has been overworked and 1b now 'burnt out." " UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene Deo. 16. (Special.) That each college In the Northwest conference meet every other college in football. If po'sslble, or at least that all the members play the same number of conference games, is the proposition that Graduate Manager Arthur Geary, of the University of Ore gon, will advocate at the coming con ference meeting in Seattle, December 20 and 21. Eugene followers of the game believe that the schedule played by Oregon dur ing the season just closed was the hard est ever attempted by a Northwest col lege. Even without the added game with the Oregon Agricultural College, Geary had framed up a difficult cam paign. As It was, Oregon was the only college beside Washington State Col lege to play, all the other members of the conference. The Oregon Agricul tural College did not try conclusions with Idaho, while Washington refused to meet Whitman. In addition to taking on all her conference rivals, Oregon played Willamette, the strongest non conference team in the Northwest, and Multnomah, the strongest club team. In fact, Pinkham's eleven cannot be said to have engaged in a single practice game, for in each of its seven contests it was pitted against a formidable ad versary. As. a result, the season was a hard one on the players, and in spite of the careful ministrations of Trainer Hay- ward, they were frequently injured or out of condition. Flnkham, however, was so fortunate as to have a large string of substitutes, so that he was able to present a fairly good front in most of the games. Geary would like to see all the con ference colleges adopt the course fol lowed by Oregon during the past sea son, and meet all opponents. However, if this arrangement is impracticable, he will favor each manager scheduling an equal number of conference games, so that all the college! will have the same road to travel. Geary Is strongly fn favor of admit ting Willamette to the conference, pro viding the Methodists can subscribe to the regulations. The hope is expressed here that Willamette will apply for con ference membership, as is her reported Intention. Besides being easily the strongest non-conference college ath letically, the Salem Institution is want ed for financial reasons. With Willam ette in the conference the expenses of bringing many of the northern teams to this state would be materially lessened. BASKETBALL SOPHOMORES AT OREGO.V "IT FAST TE.1M. GRADUATE SYSTEM HOLDS University -of Oregon Names' Men to Elect Coaching Staff. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Dec. 16. (Special.) Sentimeijt at to day's meeting of the Athletic Council favored the continuance of the gradu ate football coach system for another year. A committee composed of Dr. Leonard, of the faculty, Graduate Man ager Geary and Captain-elect Bradshaw was appointed to select a staff. Dean Walker was elected to repre sent the student body and William Haywood the faculty, at the coming Northwest Conference meeting in Se attle. Mount Angel Defeats Indians. MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE. Mount Angel, Or.. Dec. 16. (Special.) The, Mount Angel College Junior basketball team, holders of the 135-pound cham pionship of the state, won their third straight victory of the season here to day. Not once did their opponents, the Chemawa Indian Juniors, have' a chance to overcome the lead. The Angels car pied the ball all over the field and shot baskets from every angle. The score ended 33 to 15. Gnos. for the locals, was easily the star of the game with eight field goals to his credit. Downey played a stellar game for the visitors. The lineup: Mount Angel Gnos and Beck, forwards; Ryan, cen ter; Meyer and Francis, guards. Che mawa Downey and Handury, for wards, Johnson, center; Talbot and Schofel, guards. '. Schedule of Play by Varsity Five Will Be Announced Immediately After Conference Meet. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. - Eugene, Dec 16. (Special.) With the inter- class championship already decided. and the lnterfraternity race under way, the basketball season at the University of Oregon is In full swing, although no first team games have yet been played. Even the schedule for the var sity five Is in the air at present, but it will be announced Immediately after the Northwest conference meeting, De cember 20 and 21. The lnterclass series which closed last Wednesday proved a good relish for the games which are to follow. The fast sophomore team won the cham pionship cup, with the Junior quintet as runner-up. The winning aggrega tion consisted of a number of former preparatory school stars who are slated to make a strong bid for varsity places this year. They were Parsons and Gould, from Washington High School; Vosper, from Jefferson High School; Boylen, from Pendleton High School, and Watson, from Eugene High School. The complete scores of the lnterclass games follow: Sophomores 28, fresh men 15; sophomores 14, seniors 3; soph omores 8, juniors 5; Juniors 18, seniors 4; juniors 19, freshmen 5; freshmen 8, seniors 6. On the percentage this gives the sophomores first ranking, Juniors second, freshmen third and seniors last. Only three preliminary games have been played In the . Inter fraternity league series. Sigma Xu defeated Alpha Tau Omega. 11 to 8; Phi Gamma Delta defeated Phi Delta Theta. 18 to 10; while the Oregon Club overcame the Dormitory Club, 7 to 6. The Kappa Sigma, Sigma Chi, Zeta Phi and Avava Club teams have not yet appeared. Each team will play two preliminary games, and will qualify for the elimi nation series by winning one of them. The elimination series, which will be played after Christmas, will continue until there are but three teams left. This trio will engage in a round robin to determine the championship. The first team squad is practicing nightly now, in charge of Trainer "Bill'' Hayward and Captain Ole Sims. Jami son, all-Northwest forward, Is the only player missing from last year's cham pionship aggregation. It is likely that his place will be taken by Captain Sims, who starred at a guard position last season. If so, there are a number of likely aspirants for the vacated sta tion at guard, including Bridewell, last to relieve you of the troub lesome hunt and responsibil ity of selecting that gift for HIM Send us the names of the men and the amount you wish to spend on each. These merchandise orders, printed in attractive holiday style, with envelopes to match, will be mailed to them or sent to you in time for deliv ery on, Christmas morning. "Where You Get the Best" YEON KLDG. CORNER II year's substitute, and Boylen and Gould, of the present sophomore olass champions. Amateur Athletics. Merle Roussellot was yesterday af ternoon elected captain of the Lincoln High soccer team. He has played with the team of the school since the game was introduced two years ago. His position is right half. The Columbia Park Athletic Club football will play the Mohawk football team next Sunday on the Columbia Park. The Columbia Parks claim the 140-pound championship of. the city, but the game Sunday will" have no bearing on the title as the MohawTt team has been defeated several times as a member or the Arcner at wiysiHs Football League. " The Jefferson High School basketball team will play a team representing the Alumni Friday afternoon in the school gymnasium. The high school team lost to Wilsonville Saturday night, at Wilsonville, 16 to 12. Seely, formerly playing with Wilsonville, was the star of the game for the Portland five. The Brooklyn Athletic Club' basket ball team will play the St. James Club of Vancouver this evening in the Brooklyn gymnasium. The teams are considered in the same class and the prediction Is that the winning score will not be much larger than that of the losers. Scott Defeats Briggs. Robert Scott, the pocket billiard crack, defeated Roy Briggrs, 150-11.2, at the Acme Billiard parlors last night. Both men made several runs of 23 and 22 balls. ' H. E. Smith will meet Scott tonight. "Scotty" is taking . on all comers this ween. THIERS AND RENE ARRIVEf General De Xcgrier Is Next Ship in Cargo Expected. When the French ship Thiers, bound from- Hull with general cargo, was re ported outside yesterday, there was re joicing in some .quarters, as tne wind jammer has been 170 days on the way and wagers had been laid that sne would arrive a month earlier. The ship is consigned to Balfour, Guthrie & Company and has 1000 tons of coke, a quantity of fire bricks and fire clay and an assortment of miscellaneous stuff. She is an old trader here. The French bark Rene, which sailed in ballast from Dunkirk and is the first vessel this season to make the voyage without cargo, reached the river Sunday night. She is consigned to Hind, Rolph & Company and will load grain for Europe. The bark was 134 days on the passage. While bring ing her Inside the tug Wallula, of the Port of Portland fleet, broke her tow ing machine and repairs were ordered at once. Another carrier looked for Is the French bark General de Nesx'er, which Is In general cargo for Meyer, Wilson & Company and has been on the way from Shields since July 7. Coreans Call American AVitnesses. SEOUL, Corea, Dec. 16. Corean prisoners charged with conspiracy against the life of Governor-General Terauchl, of Corea, today ajjaln asked that the Rev. Dr. George S. McCune. Oh! Those s! It's no trouble at all to buy them suitable presents in a store like ours. 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