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TIIE mORXIXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1015. to TWO BATTLES DUE HOCKEY MATGH Team Leadership and First Place in Scoring May Be i Changed in Contest. OATMAN RIVAL OF MACKAY Tncle Sams "Would Bo Tied With Vancouver by Victory and Port land riajer Is Only 3 Behind in Goal Scoring Kace. Two battles, one between the teams for leadership of the Pacific Coast Jloekcy League and the other between Individual players for first place in the scoring records, will be waged tomor row night in the Ice Hippodrome when the Vancouver and Portland teams meet. The Vancouver yilionaires are leading the circuit with victories and 4 defeats and should Portland defeat the Northerners the teams are tied for first place. "Mickie" Mackay. of Vancouver, holds first honors in the circuit for the number of (coals scored, and Captain Kddie Oatman. of the Portland Uncle fama, is such a close second that he may tret the lead before the final whistle is blown. The irncle Sams seem to have the "jtoat'' of the sensational Vancouver star, for he has not been able to do much on the loca Ice rink. Mackay has mJde 2t goals and Oat man is only three points behind him. "Mickie" scored three goals against Victoria in one game, five in another and four at Victoria last Friday night, practically cinching the contest for "Vancouver. In the last three matches played cainst Portland. Mackay failed to score a point, and the I'ncle Sams ex pect to keep the record unchanged the rest of the campaign. The last appear ance of the Vancouver squad before Portland fans, will be made tomorrow nicht. The individual scoring records fol low: Ptaver. Tm. Gimrs. uoai. )!a-kay. Vancouver oatman, l'orllantl MrDonnW. Tortland Throop. Portland Kerr. Victoria Harrl.". Portland Taylor. Vant-nuver 'tirhhor. Vancouver :. Mallen. Vancouver lmnderdal-. Victoria. Patrick. Vh-tnrta Tohin. Portland Johnaon. Portland rook. Vancouver Roue. VlftoriR tnatll. Victoria I'oiilln, Victoria Morn.. Victoria frieahorn. Van.-ouver fienre, Victoria . Mali. Vancouver Unfile. Vancouver 1 J IS 12 11 is rj 12 i:i 12 12 11 12 12 II 12 12 ! 12 S 12 ti 1 2 ." 12 4 -H 5 ik 12. 3 ; 2 7 2 12 1 a 1 12 1 Everything is being done to bring a victory to the Uncle Sams and nothing Is being spared to have all the locals in the best possible shape. Lr. r.ari Smith, the club physician, reports that Moose" Johnson's injured leg is well again and a great contest can be ex pected from the big cover point. The match will start at 8:o0 o'clock. Extra scats will be ready if needed. Thfl committee on arrangements of the Oregon lletail Merchants' Associa tion has announced that the organiza tion will bo represented at the game by a delegation of 7S0 persons, and they expert to hold their own with any of them when it comes to rooting for the Uncle Sams. The advance sale of tickets for the match has broken all previous records and a record-breaking crowd Is ex pected to be on hand when Referee Phillips blows his starting whistle. Manager Pete Muldoon. of the Uncle Sams, received a telegram yesterday from President Patrick, of the league, saying that a change of officials had 'been made. Tommy Phillips, however, will have charge of the contest, while Skinner" Poulin. of the Victoria Aris tocrats, is to be the judge of play. In speaking of Phillips it brings to mind the famous hockey player of sev eral seasons back. Tommy was consid ered the greatest shot in the business and he was feared by all the goalkeep ers lie went against. He played with the Kenore squad as well as the Ottawa organization and he had a great deal to do with the winning of the world's championship while with each club. In one game, while playing with the Ottawa aggregation. an opponent checked him In such a manner that both his ankles were broken. He was out of the game for some time, and was never able to regain his old time speed. ,'H played for Vancouver in 1911-12 but he was forced to retire the follow ing year because he found that he could not live up to his former reputation. At present he is in the lumber business in Vancouver and while he had to travel a great deal through the East last sea son, so far he has managed to be in a pofition to handle most of the Pacific Coast League games. Bits of Sport. IT MAY be a mere coincidence, but the day after Ping Bodie signed with the San Francisco Seals, the Oakland management ordered all the fences to be rebuilt. m Jov Is reigning among the sanctums f several of the secretaries of the ilube In the American League since Pan Johnson ruled that two season passes should be given to each of the players. No more will the cry of "Give me a couple, sec!" be heard as fre quently ag before, James M. Kennedy, of Philadelphia, recently announced the engagement of his daughter. Miss F.thel Kobinson Kennedy, to Amos Strunk. the famous center fielder of the Philadelphia Ath letics. Betrothal followed a schooi tiay romance. a rioyd Wright, an outfielder of the Vnlversity of Kentucky baseball squad, has been signed to play with the Cleve land American I-easue cluh. He will not graduate, but will report at San Antonio next week for the start of the Sprins training. Billy Sunday has doomed Chicago. He probably is trying to get even with the right-field bleacherites who used to doom him when he misjudged a fly ball. Duke Farrell. who recently signed to .'coach the New York Yankees, is famous as the battery mate who caught President Tener's curves more than a Quarter of a century ago. A. A. Stags, director of all athletics at the University of Chicago, has re sumed his duties, after having a rest of three months in Florida. He was suffering with an ailment which pre vented him from walking. This came on him early lat Fall, just before active football plaving was possible. Britain Patterson, left tackle on the Washington and Jefferson College eleven for the past two seasons, and who was given honorable mention by Walter Camp, is crippled, probably for life, as a result of an injury to nis kneecaD suffered in a game with Georgetown at Washington. D. C last Fall. Patterson, who weighed better than 225 pounds when in training, weighs less than 175 pounds today and he has to walk with a crutch. a The best description of a battlefield in this year of German Lord and Kaiser, 1915, was given by Georges Carpentier. He was asked by some friends what he saw at the front and he answered, "Nothing." SanDer O'Neil. who once fought at Madison Square Garden, has joined the British army and is at the front with his two brothers. Jimmy and Charlie. Jimmy made a great hit as an amateur boxer in England in 1913. This from the Minneapolis Journal may not be a knock, but Fred' Hunter, former Miller first sacker, who was sold to Seattle, does not care to go out to the land of the big rain, and has so communicated with the owner of the Seattle olub. Owner of Seattle club thereupon comes back with the statement that Fred can trade himself anywhere he pleases. "At current prices, under the swap system divulged in the Federal League suit and considering the showing Fred erick made last season, he could hardly expect to get a good bulldog for him self, but ought at least to hold himself worth a good maltese cat. The world never sets a higher price than that in- I dicated by the individual. GOOD GAMES ASSURED CITY LEAGUE TEAMS WILL HAVE MANY SEMI-PRO STARS. At Least One "Old-Timer" to Be I . Each Club, so Youngsters Will Get Advantage of Experience. Baseball fans who patronize the Port land Baseball League this Spring and Summer are assured of some good con tests. The managers of the four clubs that make up the league have gathered together teams on wnich are listed as players some of the oest semi-pro talent ever seen in action on the local dia monds. Kach team in the league han at least one old-timer on the staff. The man agers think that in this way the young sters will receive the benefit of their experience. The league has decided to join the State Amateur Baseball Association. The list of players held in reserve by each of the four teams follows: West Portland Monarchs C"lyde Ru pert, manager: Johnny Shea. Os Bleeg, Fred McKeen, Porter Yett. Ikle Wolfer. Wallace Childers, Harvey Newell, Benny Brlggs, Collie Druhot. Ed Kennedy, Billy Lewis, Osborne, Murphy and God dard. Sellwood Weonas Bill Heales, man ager; Jess Scott, Hal McKinley, Oscar LoCke. C. Dickinson, Gordon Smart, "Brownie" Groce. Johnny Newman. J. Dickinson. Nelson. McHale, Mulkey, Cliff Hargreaves, Ed Yeast and Taylor. East Portland Hedmen Claude Schmeer. manager; Hay Hinkle, Gordon Brown, Tom Galvln, Chester Hughes, Ray Kennedy, Dick Luckey, Pebford Therion, Jack Tauscher and Bert Cur rigan. Piedmont Maroons George Grayson, manager; Al Bartholemy. F. Leipold, E. Lelpold. Moeller, McClure, Hornby, O'Dell and Cullins. Sidelights and Satire. GILMOUR DOBIli has added baseball .to his coaching curriculum and he will coach the University of Wash ington baseball nine this Spring. Rival Northwest colleges will not be able to use chloroform on their duds as the Oregon Aggies were charged with do ing in a football game four years ago. Gil used to play outiield for Larimore in the little old Northern League back In North Dakota years ago, and, as he has watched Nick Williams and other ballplayers perform since then, he ought to know considerable about the game. . Portland's hockey team has two nicknames Uncle Sams and Rosebuds. Perhaps you can conjure up a picture of "Moose" Johnson in the garb of Madame Caroline Testout or the yellow Marechal Neil, but if so, you had bet ter take something for it. a Perhaps the boys were stealing a page out of England's war folio, but you can't toa those Canadian hockey Ists by runrffng up the flag of the in nocent rosebud. f "Moose" Johnson and "Smoky" Harris are "Rosebuds" Harry Meek is a humming bird and Walter McCredie will soon be doing service as a jitney bus. However What, though they call them Rosebuds Or anv other name? Give Moose" a big shlllalah And he'll kill about the same. 'Rah for Uncle Sam! When Sweetest Rose of all the Buds, Pete Muldoon, dons his stilt skates, would you call him a Climbing Dorothy? We are anxiously waiting for tomor row night to find out whether or not our Rosebuds are bloomers. a . Frank Chance is writing a series of baseball articles for boys in the Chi cago Herald. Ban Johnson was asked for a testimonial and the fat American League head said: "Our young men who follow Chance's instructions need not worry over their future in the game. providing they can hit, field and Tun the bases." Very reasonable. Ban; very reason able. And Woodrow Wilson doesn't need to worry about losing his job for 20 years, providing he can muster enough votes! PULLMAN BEATS WASHINGTON State College Basketball Team Wins by Score or 29 to 28. PULLMAN. Wash.. Feb. 14. The Washington State College basketball team defeated the University of Wash ington here last night by a score of 29- to 2S. Captain Anderson, of the State Col lege, threw three baskets in the last five minutes of . play. Polo Champions Beat Midnicks, RIVERSIDE. Cal., Feb. 14. The Cooperstown. N. Y.. polo team, cham pions of America, defeated the all-star Midwick team of Los Angeles, 94 to 8, here yesterday in a match for the Glen wood Mission Inn cup. Mandot-Dundee Bout Draw. NEW ORLEANS. La.. Feb. 14. Joe Mandot of New Orleans and Johnny Dundee of New York. lightweights, fought 20 fast rounds to a draw here today. Playing Safe. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) "Wife, what does the doctor say about your case?" "He thinks there is nothing radically wrong. Still, complications may arise, so 1 guess 111 spend a month at the sea shore to be on the safe side." THIRD BIG LEAGUE HELD STEP TO RUIN Matty Says Raising of Coast or Other Circuit Would Be Menace to Game. M'GRAW'S OPINION GIVEN Players Too Few Now Avers Leader of Giants and Famous Pitcher Points Out Sport Requires Concentrated Interest. BY CHRISTY MATHEWSON, The Giants' Famous Pitcher. HAVANA, Cuba. Feb. 14. (Special.) Three Big Leagues would be a long (step toward ruining baseball in my opinion. The sensl p.- ble ballplayers ar against -it. It would be bound to huil the game, because, the more Interest Is scattered, the worse it is for baseball The sport lives on concentrated atten tion, and it is just this which makes the world's series the greatest event In American sports. Three league would result In di virtinT h lnterest.c,,r",t- Mattaewaon. Of course. I mean three big leagues iinft.r nrtranhpH baseball. The news has reached me in Cuba that there was talk of raising either the American Association or the Pacific Coast League to the standing of a Dig league and relieving one of these or ganizations of the draft which would prevent National and American League clubs from drafting any of the players on the selected circuit. If this should be done now or at any time in the fu ture 1 believe it would be a pusn uo n hill 'for baseball. The big chance to mo ice the fiirht against the outlaws is through the two big leagues wnicn nave held the interest of tne ians so wi Players Too Few, Say McGraw. "There aren't enough high-class ball- nlavers to go around now," declared John McGraw when he read aoout. me ..mnnsH increase in the number oi msiflp lentriie "Every C1UD in me country is spending good money eacn season paying experts to try to find .uitahia men for It. Yet a manager -is lucky if he gets two or even three play ers that he thinks worth carrying out of the drove of recruits at spring prac tice The Federal League has been forced to pick up a lot of minor leaguers and major leaguers who have not had regular jobs. It hasn't been able to get high-class men. as a rule. The two big leagues were maue uj the geography of the country ana mo demand of the fans. As soon as you start to scatter interest, you are hurt ing the game. Federal leaguers will tell von that there are plenty of ball players, if you look for them. I must have a lot of blind scouts then, for thev can't find them. The Feds must io keeninir these stars under cover, too. Annther maior league Is going 10 oe bad for the patrons and the players. It will hurt salaries. It would De a big mistake to make such a change at any time, and especially at such a crit. ical stage In the development or tne game as we are passing through now.' Profits Would Be Hurt. T feel sure that a third big league un der organized baseball would hurt the profits of club owners. It would not be fair ta such men as Colonel Ruppert and Captain Huston, for instance, who have just invested a large amount oi money in the purchase of a major league franchise. As McGraw says. every busner may as weu ue u,e eaguer. and all leagues may as wen De created equal. Why pike about? Make it comprehensive. It will be like one ot inose bouui American armies soon where tney haven't any privates, nothing but offi cers." said John. "If anyone finds a player who is a busher and admits it, he will be caught and put in the Met ropolitan Museum of Natural iiistorj as a curio. To my mind, three starters in tne world's series would take away 50 per cent of the interest from it. Query About Signals Answered. A letter has been forwarded to me in which the writer wants to know wheth er any big league team of recent years ever played without signals and with out general orders from the manager. I put it up to McGraw. Well." he remarked. " 'Joe' Tinker savs the Reds worked without signals the season 'Hank' O'Day was manag ing them, and that every man was for himself and his batting average, une onlv club tnat maue a gooo. recoru which I ever heard did this was the old Boston Americans under 'Jimmy Col lins. There were a lot of smart men on the team in those days, and most of them had worked together for a long time, so that the styles of the dif ferent members of the club seemed to dovetail into one another. I have heard that they did not use any signs ana that each man made the play as li came up, depending upon his own judg ment and instinct, You Know, instinct counts for a whole lot. bull, i doubt If they worked without any signals. And I don't believe any club could get away with It today. ine game nas grown so fast. Speed in action ana in thinking is too necessary for success. Signs Held Necessary. I don't myself see how any ball club could make a showing nowadays with out a carefully arranged set of signs. The hit and run play could never be made successfully without both the baserunner and .the batter being aware of when it was going to be tried. All the great ball clubs of recent years, with one exception, have depended on many signs. The old Cubs, when they were win ning championships, used more signals than any other club in the league at the time, and they were all smart ball players, take it from one who has observed them closely. Stallings is a great believer In signals, and he even tells a batter what balls he can swim? at by means of signs from the bench. McGraw is a great adherent of sig nals. The Athletics depended upon signs less than any of the other great teams of the last few years. Seldom would Mack tell one of his players what he must do when he went to the bat He left it for the man himself to decide. But "Connie" spent a lot of time training his players Into the style of game the Athletics were to play, carrying a youngster on the bench for two or three years for this purpose. Signs are essential to successful team work in my opinion, and without team work no club has a chance. Team work Is what counts in any game, even busi ness. And baseball is our business. (Copyright, 1S15. by the Wheeler Syn dicate, Inc.) Washington Oarsmen Practice. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 1. Prepara tion for the Pacific Coast college re gatta was begun yesterday by the Uni versity of Washington coach, Conibear. lltIi Four varsity eights and two freshmen eights were transferred from Lake Union to Lake Washington, where the annual Spring practice will take place. The crews will depart early in April to meet California and Stanford on the Oakland estuary April 10. WHITMAN BEGIXS PRACTICE Captain Wants Bade, of Walla Wal la, to Coach Ball Squad. WHITMAN COLLEGE, Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 14. (Special.) With the warm weather of the past week Cap tain Blackman had a number of men out for preliminary baseball practice and submitted a petition to the; execu tive committee of the Associated Stu dents asking that August Bade, who managed the Walla Walla Tri-state League team last year, be requested to coach the Whitman squad for 1915. It is expected that favorable action will be taken on the subject soon as the weather here is warm- enough to start the squad to work outdoors. Whitman will have nine old letter men back this year. Among them are Dorsey Baker and "Pat" Henderson last year's star twirlers. LEAGUE LEADERS LOSE GAMES Salem Electrics Win Three Games In Row From Eugene Rainbows. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 14. (Special.) The Salem Electric bowlers last night won three games straight from the Eugene Rainbow team, administering the first defeat given the Rainbow team in months. The Eugene Obak team and the Cor vallis team have been slowly gaining on the Rainbow team, which holds first place in the AVillamette Valley League. Three straight victories by either the Obaks or the Corvallis team, which are tied for second place, would tie the winning team with the Rain bows. ' Ccntralia Claims Basket Title. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Feb. 14. (Spe cial.) By defeating the Doty team two out of three games the Centralia high school basketball team claims the in- terscholastic. championship not only of Lewis County, but of Southwest Wash ington. Frank Drake. Jr., principal of the high school and coach, is manager of the local five. The centralia team, which has been defeated but twice in the past two years, is composed of Captain William Grimm, a member of the same family that mane nistory in athletics at the State University, center; Orr and Mellenbeck, forwards, and Mil ler and Hodge, guards. ' Dr. Roller Loses at Ellensburg. ELLENSBURG. Wash.. Feb. 14. (Special.) Dr. B. F. Roller, the Seattle heavyweight wrestler, was defeated here last night in his match with Nick Dewiscourt, the Ellensburg policeman. A crowd of 1500 saw the match. Dr. Roller was to have thrown Nick twice In an hour in handicap catch-as-catch-can wrestling. He got first fall in 36 minutes and 40 seconds. Dewiscourt got the second fall in 18 minutes. E TACOM A AKD SEATTLE ENTRIES IN TOURXEV TO MEET HERE. Second Portland Contest Scheduled for Tuesday Night, With Blsalllon Op. posing Rice, Spokane llayer. Northwest 18.2 Balk Line Standings. W. L. HR. OA. P.O. Blsalllon, Portland....:: O 38 1.M 1000 Hlce. Spokane 2 0 28 5.4.1 100O Wallgren, Everett 2 1 45 6.SU .8B7 Hogue. Seattle 0 . 2 4.1 4.K4 .1)00 Hulen, Tacoma 0 S 18 4.70 .000 The first of the two 18.2 balkline billiard games in the tourney for the Northwest title to be held in Portland will he played tonight in the Waldorf Billiard Parlors, with Ray Hogue op posing Charles Hulen. Manager J. J. Parker, of the Waldorf, announced that the contest would start at 8:15 o'clock and no admissions will be charged. Hulen is a Seattle boy, but he is tak ing the place of J. F. Corby, the Ta coma representative. Corby became ill few days before the tournament started. Hogue is the regular Seattle man and his only starts have resulted rather disastrously for him. Mac Bisaillon. the Portland represen tative, and Garth L. Rice, of Spokane, have the same score, with two victories and no defeat. They will play tomor row night in the Waldorf Parlors. Bi saillon has a game average of 7.26 and Wallgren, the Everett representative, is second with 6.49. The final games of the tourney will be played at Spokane Thursday and Friday nights. Bisaillon is the favor ite. So eager were tne xacoma la.z balkline billiard fans to see Bisaillon in action that he made a special trip to the Sound City and gave an exhibi tion. He was not scheduled to appear in the Northern city in a regular game. PU LLMAN SHOTS LEAD WASHINGTON STATE WELL AHEAD FOR COLLEGE RIFLE TITLE. West Virginia Defeated by 8S6 to 873 in Fifth Match Nebraska Beatn Idaho by 002 to WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Washington State College has made the best score so far in the interscholastic shooting competition, scoring 986 out of a possi ble 1000 In the fifth match, results of which were announced today. This score places Washington State College well in the lead for the college cham pionship. Score: Class A wasnington ciaie aoo vs. West Virginia 973; Michigan Agricul tural 969 vs. California 941; Cornell 972 vs. Minnesota 937: United States Naval Academy 947 vs. Purdue 943; Iowa State 967 vs. Illinois 940; Massachusetts Agri cultural 972 vs. Norwich 904. Class B Pennsylvania 950 vs. Notre Dame 937; Vermont 945 vs. Oklahoma A. and M.. 830; Wisconsin 911 vs. Dart mouth 908; Worcester Polytechnic 931 vs. Maine 914; North Georgia 954 vs. Princeton 882. Class C Nebraska 902 vs. Idaho 843; Mississippi A. and M., 858 vs. Lehigh 840; Vale, 897 vs. Rhode Island State, defaulted; Michigan 903 vs. Kansas Agricultural 843; Arizona 869 vs. Uni versity of Washington 834. Yalilgren Defeats Hulen. TACOMA, Wash.. Feb. 14. M. C Wahlgren, of Everett, defeated Charles Hulen, the Tacoma representative. last night in the second match played here in the tournament of the Northwestern Billiard Association. Wahlgren ran out the match in 37 innings, averaging 6.75. Hulen averaged 4.48, with 166 points for the match Xewark to Get Homeless Feds. , NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Patrick Pow ers and Harry Sinclair, owners of the homeless Kansas City Federal League team, have decided definitely to locate the club in Newark, it was asserted to night by a man prominent in Federal League councils. A camera small enough to be swallowed, to photograph the interior of the stomach, has been invented by a Daoieh surgeon. Portland y- Vancouver, B. C. 8:i5 p.m. Tuesday, February 16 &15 p.m. Tickets 50c, $1.00, $i.so ON SALE AT Huntley Drug Co. Schiller Cigar Store Ice Hippodrome Fourth and Washington Sts. Eleventh and Washington Sts. 23d and Marshall Street 1" - " TRIP STARTS RUMOR Johnson-Comiskey Tour Said to Be to Readjust Drafts. PORTLAND VISIT IS TODAY MtCredie Does Xot Believe Problem Is Object or Journey Coasters Lined Up Against Exempt ing Any Other League. That B. B. Johnson's trip to the Pa cific Coast with Charles Comiskey has to do with the draft problem of the Class AA leagues is the tip that has emanaied from Chicago. The American League head and trie "Old Roman" baseball magnate of Chl- :t, v. DA,ti,nj viHitors today. cagu win j v. . . They left Seattle at a late hour last night en route ior where Comiskey's White Sox will par ticipate in the opening ceremonies oi the Panama-Pacific Exposition. I don't place any credence in the . . . .l . D...u.nt .Tnhnson has -reports mai a come West to seek a solution of the draft situation," said vt . v.. ..A,AHai. "i thinic ne is on P"1" ure trip pure aim .,, If it's the draft that is bothering Johnson, he will find the Pacific Coast League lined up sonaiy a a ing exemption to an m league. . a - . - , iDr -vexations Buddy ityan s itvu. - ------ are almost at an end. It begins to look, too. as if Buddy is stuck. Uncle Sam has been trying to make . - , !- Kail nlnver UUnglO tne xamous siuesnis i---- -- - up tax on his salary with Cleveland in 1913 DUt rsuouy 7 a.oof on the ground that his earnings were consiuei - emptlon granted to single men. BUI ruooy biiwj --c- . Income tax in -- Judge McCredie, did not go into effect , , 1 n the exemption was UIllll 1J1-" for 10 months only or 2o00. Buddy's salary wnn ' "r 2400- the Cleveland-Pittsburg post . ' - w nnd the treas- series auoeM -;- th.r .100 ury sieutns oi"" . , -1 - n.nt that had rolled in from exhibition sources. Total Z73U ana exempii"" . T 1- hnrt leill tllr- Kesuit i-ne "e "": y, ist will have to settle with his Uncle Samuel. Tne amount win t3 or 4. according to Judge McCredie, who is acting as Buddyjs legal adviser. If George Kircher comes from At lanta in trade for Roy Moran, Portland will get a. consistent .2i0 batsman. Kircher s batting averages for the past four years follow: 1911, .266: 1912 . 267; 1913 .271; 1914, .377. If the Atlanta gardener keeps on improving, he ought to do about .280 this season. Walt McCredie says he is a young fellow, who has been playing only four vears. His name first appears in the Virginia League averages for the sea son of 1911. Kircher held down an out field Job for -Norfolk in 126. hit .266. fielded .965, stole 57 bases and laid down 13 sacrifices. In 1912 he picked up a point in batting to .267. fielded 962 in 114 games, stole 37 bases and Was credited with 26 sacrifices. In 1913 Kircher hung up the nice record of 74 stolen bases for Norfolk in 138 games. He batted .271 this sea son fielded .953 and sacrificed 14 times. Atlanta conscripted him from the Virginia morasses that Fall and he appeared in 144 games in the Southern League last season, his first year in the upper stratum. His batting figure was .277. fielding .968 and he swiped 34 bases and sacrificed on 23 occasions. All of which shows constant improve ment. .... "What I like about him, quoth Walter Mac yesterday, as he puffed solidly at a big fan-tail cigar, "is that he is no laggard. Kircher did not miss a game last season. Atlanta played 144 games and Kircher appeared in 144 games. "Johnnv Dobbs. manager of the New Orleans team, tells me he is a winning , i , , mnm Tirnmlqinir than nail jjiaci mm 1, Moran. Kircher wants more money than we can attora to pay mm, uui. , think the salary question can be ad justed. He ought to make a good man for the Beavers." Young Murphy, the Oakland kid. is going to find it tough sledding Jimmy ing his way into the New Orleans in field. Coyle at first and Flick at sec ond are certainties, but for the short and third sack Jobs Dobbs has five candidates, Reilly, Kanupp, Bluhm, Hendryx and Murphy. GERMAX CRITICISES "WILSOX Frankfurter Zeitung Says Bryan Cannot Dictate Imperial Policy. LONDON, Feb. 14. A Reuter dis patch from Amsterdam quotes an edi torial from the Frankfurter Zeitung of February 13, which, in commenting on the summaries of the American notes, says: "President Wilson's note to England does not deserve the name of a protest. It is feeble, like the President's entire policy so far towards England. "Washington's recipe for its relations with the Briton is: 'Wash his fur. but don't wet him." Washington, how-; PROFESSIONAL ever, appears, to have another recipe for Germany. "If certain people in America do not yet understand that we are fighting for existence and that we cannot be guided by what Mr. Bryan, whose son-in-law and sympathies are in the English army, considers 'good form' we can not help them. In six days from today the sea around Great Britain and Ireland will be for the German war ships, including submarines, a war zone and every hostile merchant vessel encountered will be destroyed. The article concluded with the fol lowing reference to the United States: "A state which day and night works in the production of cannons, bombs and armored motor cars for our enemies and by way of amends prays God for peace in the churches neea not expect that its warnings will affect us morally." XEUTRAL CREWS ARE ADVISKD Germany Informally Requests United States to Warn Owners. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Germany has informally requested the United States to advise its ship owners to man vessels sailing to German ports with the subjects of neutral states. The fol lowing announcement to that effect was issued by the State Department today: "The Department of State has been Informed by the Imperial German Am bassador that his government deems it of extreme importance to military in terest that while this war lasts neutral merchant vessels visiting German ports be manned by subjects of neutral states only. The Ambassador desires that this information be given to the Amer ican interests concerned." This policy caused no surprise in of ficial circles and was believed to be a sequel to the detention for several days of sailors from the American steamer Greenbrier after she delivered a cargo of cotton at Bremen. As neu tral vessels may touch in enemy ports on return Journeys, the German mili tary authorities desire to prevent na tives of those countries from absorb ing military Information. AMERICAN PRECEDENTS CITED Paris Pnper Says Neutral Flag Was Used Approaching Guam. PARIS, Feb. 14. Discussing the American notes to Germany and Great Britain, the Temps today recalls that Secretary of State Lewis Cass, In cor respondence with Great Britain in 1X60. declared that the papers, and not the flag, of a vessel constituted Its na tionality and also that the Americans used a flag other than their own on a vessel of war to approach Guam in 1898. The newspaper points out that the Italian marine code recognl7.es the right of a vessel to fly a neutral flag by allowing the use of the Italian flag on the commercial marine of a bellig- erent. . ft is at Berlin, the Temps concludes, that neutral countries should protest and It supposes mat tnio is wn -can point of view. Hatred in War. (Wichita Beacon.) Worse than war is the extreme hatred of one people for another, says the Bos ton Congregationalism Oh, pshaw! that hatred thing Is the soul of war and always has been. The hatred Just r.ow cropping out shows once more what mutts we allow a few leading men to make of us common folks. It's the business of the German EmDeror's gang to make the Germans hate the English. It has been the busi ness of the English aristocrats for years to make the English hate the Germans and forget their own awaken ing democracy. When it's all over there'll be just as many aristocrats on both sides, toast ing each other, going yachting, and hunting, and gambling together, while the supply of common folk will be some millions less. And those that are left will be slaving their finger ends off to pay the war price and keep the same gang ii wine, gold lace and easy money. But. strange to say, German plain folks won't hate the English as hard as they thought they did, and the malignant animosity English common people hold toward the Germans now will take on a much milder flavor. "What fools we mortals be" Is an old, old gag. neighbor, but it's one roaring, big truth! TV SAYEN AX. don't have to be bitin It can be like VELVET jes full o' flavor without any bite. Tobacco does not hav to be "trong" to be full of int and fragrance. VELVET proves that. VELVET. The Smoothest Smoking Tobacco, baa all lb pipe smoking qualities that are natural to Kentucky' Burlet a Luxe, together with an aped-in-the-wood mellowness that is not found in any other pipa tobacco. lOo tins III it: ii and 5o metai-lined HE KEY BALLPARKS I3UGHT Juvenile Players Appeal More City Grounds. for 12 IN SEATTLE; MORE DUE Five Municipal Diamonds Ilaie Been Established In Portland In Recent Yearn, but Tliee Are Overcrowded. ' More municipal baseball diamonds for the future Wagners and Cobbs of Portland. This Is the appeal that has gone forth from the raiiKR of the amateur ball players of Portland the "kids' who dote on America's pastime. anl. who have to sek the vacant lots and disport among the ash cans when there Isn't a municipal diamond clone by. And the juveniles seem to have a Jut complaint. Portland can boast of only five mu nicipal baseball diamonds and three of these have been Installed wltnln the past year by Cimmlasloner W. K Brewster and Park Superintendent J. O. Convill. Needlesn to say these few ball fields are Inadequate to serve all the "kids." As many as four and five games have been played on one diamond in a Sun day in put Summers. Seattle has 13 municipal diamonds for the amateurs with more building. Twelve Is considerable more thsn five, say the spokesmen of the younuer generation of ball towers, and they have the sporting editor of The Or gonlan to help them out In their cru sade for a few moro puhtlo playing fields. A comparison of the municipal rec reation enterprises In Portland and Seattle does not furnlah material for much crowing for this city. Look over the list for yourself: Seattle: Klghteen-hole municipal golf course. Twelve baseball diamonds. Sixty-four tennis courts. Four community houses. Portland: No municipal golf links. Five baseball diamond. ( Eight tennis courts. One community house. Peninsula Park. six of the Portland municipal tennis courts are the new ones at W'aahlng- ton Park, and the other two are t Columbia, but. to the credit of the park department let It be said that SO or 25 courts are planned for the com ing year. The time may not be ripe for more community houses or for a munlclpnl golf links but there ie Immediate necee- sltv for eight or 10 additional nail fields. Telephone Conversation Recorder, (Popular Mechanics.) An interesting addition to telephone equipment Is an apparatus by which telephone conversations may be re corded for future reference. This ap paratus consists of a small melal box which contains a set of dry batteries and an extremely sensitive telephono transmitter. Both ends of the tele phone conversation are taken up hv this receiver and retransmitted by the dry batteries to an electric recorder that acts on the wax cylinder record of a phonograph. In using, the regu lar receiver of the telephone is taken from the hook and placed, wllh the earpiece down, on the socket of the recording Instrument, and in this po sition sends to the transmitter within the box all sounds that pass through the telephone. To use the telephone receiver in this way. It munt be wired to both circuits in the telephone. The user then talks Into the telephono In the usual way, but uses a small re ceiver attached to the recording In strument. The phonograph ran he started and slopped at will by means of two punh buttons. IE to be bright, bag. 3C Z2Z ZiaaasaslaaaaaaJ m