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13 26 OR 27 GOLFERS TO GO TO EUGENE Francisco Is the Clarence Brown who formerly pitched for Minneapolis in the American Association and started his baseball career at Hull, Iowa. FRED STEIMBERG. Answe. Charles "Curly" Brown is the San Francisco pitcher. He started playing ball with the Burlington- la., club in the Central Association and came to San Francisco from the Cin cinnati Nationals. He never- was with Minneapolis and did not start playing at Hull. liliillilllhjilli iiiiM! illli coie (dHouseo enheimer Portland Golf Club Team to Make Trip to Valley ! City Saturday. THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, " aLAX" 11, '1016. fUCibb !!l!!!l!il!M!li!U!!'!!!! I I ill l : I - i : 'I HI - 1 11 MATCH WILL BE SUNDAY TIGERS WIX BY TIMELY HITS Glavenlch Wild for Seattle and Giants Lose, 7 to 3. SEATTLE. Wash.. May 10. Glave nlch's wildness and Tacoma's timely hitting enabled Tacoma to win from Seattle today, 7 to 3. Score: R. H. E l R. H. E. Tacoma... 7 7 i;Seattle 3 7 3 Batteries Bonner and Bartholemy, Glavenich. Mclvor and Cadman; Mc-Janet. iiii H ii ! 'J z-- Ml I . I I, II I Programme at Waverley Calls for Four-Ball Play Game Boom ing; at Club as Result of Recent Contests. Twenty-six or 27 players of th'e Port land Golf Club will make the trip to Kugene on Saturday to participate in the interclub match with the Eugene Country Club. Sam B. Archer, chairman of the han dicap and tournament committee, made this announcement yesterday, together with a tentative list of those who will make the trip. "" Among the Portland players who will go are Rudolph Wilhelm, state golf champion; Sam B. Archer H. E. Van Ness, Dr. W. I. Northup, Dr. J. H. Tut tie, H. H. Pearce, Roscoe Fawcett, H. I Keats, Dr. Millard Holbrook, Sam Holbrook, K. K. Baxter, O. H. Becker, George Anderson, C. F. Carskadden, F. S. Gray, James Angus,' James Dick, J. T. Hotchkiss, C. C. Gross, E. M. Burns, Frank Heitkemper, R. R. Wa'rriner. Dr. Thomas V. Watts, Jack Constantine, V. M. Ryan and William Gotelli. A majority will leave Saturday morn ing in a special car of the Oregon Elec tric, arriving in time for a practice round or two in the afternoon. A few may attend the interscholastio track meet in the afternoon. The match will not begin until Sunday morning. Al though the Eugene course is only nine holes, it is likely that 36 holes will be played, the pairs teaming up in four bal matches and playing stymies only on the opponent's ball. The Nassau scoring system will be used. Last year Eugene defeated the Port land club in the first match at, Eugene and lost later in the Summer on the trip to Portland. ' At the Waverley Country Club the programme for Saturday calls for four ball matches. The two best teams, medal score, will play for the trophy during the following week. The han dicap allowed will be three-quarters of the total handicaps of the members of each team. Despite the rainy weather, golf is on the boom at Waverley, due in great measure to the impetus given by the recent interclub events with Seattle and Spokane. The Spokane golfers made a host of friends as a result of their visit here last Saturday and Sunday, and quite a delegation of Portland golfers are cer tain to make the trip to Spokane next month .for the Northwest champion ships. This big event is scheduled for June 26 to July 1. Baseball, Boxing', Wrestling:, Personal Touches. Great Falls 12, Vancouver 3. VANCOUVER. B. C. May 10. Great Falls hit Acosta frequently today and won from Vancouver, 12 to 3. Score: R- H. E. R. H. E. Grt Falls 12 13 0Vancouver. 3 7 3 Batteries White, Clark and Ha worth; Acosta and Cheek, Follman. SPOKANE. May-15. The Butte-Spokane game today was postponed be cause of snow. Coast League Gossip ROBERT A. GARDNER, national am ateur golf champion and holder of the intercollegiate pole vault record, made while he was a. stu-dent at Yale, was married at Chicago. 111., the other day to Miss Katherine Keep, daughter of Chauncey Keep, a Chicago capital ist. Air. and Mrs. Gardner will pass their honeymoon at White Sulphur Springs, Va. The Williams Cblege track team won from Amherst recently 72 to 63. Although, getting only two or three hits a day, Hans Wagner is retained by Pittsburg. Yet some people say there is no sentiment in baseball. Joseph Fautsch. the Minneapolis boy who has been trying for the shortstop position .on the Chicago White Sox since the 1916 training season opened, has been released by Cpmiskey to the Richmond club of the International League. Fautsch has been pronounced one of the most likely looking young sters Comiskey has had in two years. Charlie White, Chicago lightweight, is considering an offer from Billy Gib eon, of New York, to fight Freddie Welsh in a long-distance- bout at Buenos Aires, Argentina, early in July. Gib son offered White a guarantee of $7500 and Welsh $26,000. White Is holding out for $10,000. ' Pittsburg's action in signing Otto Knabe. following the purchase of Hal Chase by Cincinnati, takes care of about the last of the first-class players who deserted O. B. for the Federal League. It also creates a queer situation. In view of the fact that President Drey fus was one of the last to listen to peace negotiations, and is on record with a statement that his club never would harbor one of the rebels. The Pacific Coast champion speed boat, Del H., formerly the Oregon Kid, now owned by Vice-Commander Carle ton E. Miller, of the San Francisco, Cal.. Yacht Club, has been shipped to Sacramento from San Francisco to take part in the speed boat races to be held at the capitol city May 13. Frank Sloman, Pacific Coast and in terscholastio quarter-mile record hold er, has in all probability closed, his high school athletic career. In train ing last Thursday with the San Fran cisco Athletic League meet of next Saturday in view, Slomap snapped the ham-string muscle in his right leg and for two dys was unable to leave the house. The San Francisco athlete suf fered a similar injury in September. 1914, when he crippled his left leg. Jockey A. Thomas, a littlenite of a colored lad. who won the hearts and plaudits of the Emeryville crowds in the closing days of the turf sport In California, is dead. His mother and famllv in Oakland received word the other day that the lad passed away In Russia. 1 The most mutable of championships is the three-cushion billiard champion ship. Within a short time It has been held by Alfredo De Oro. George Moore William Huey and Charles Ellis. Cliehalis to Stage Shoot. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Mav 10 rsn.. cial.) The second annual registered trapshooting tournament is to be held at Millett Field, in Chehalis. Saturday by the Chehalis Rod and Gun Club, when interstate association rules cot , ring tournaments of this kind will be eirieuy ionowea. The Interstate As sociation contributes $50 in trophies. There will be at this shoot $50 in jririf money and eight eterling silver inter state tropnies. Brown Never With Minneapolis. MONMOUTH. Or.. May. 9. (To the Sporting Editor.) Please let me know If this man. Brown, .pitching for. San SAN FRANCISCO made a wise move in signing Catcher Clarence Brooks. Brooks is one of the best catchers in the league. He is not only a splendid mechanical catcher, but he has a wise bead and is constantly using it. Biff Schaller, whose hitting propensi ties make him the last person in the world whom one would suspect of cher ishing kindly feelings toward mem bers of the pitching clan, has never theless something to say about the overworking of hurlers through the 18-men limit. What kind of stuff is dis de're punin oft.'' demanded the big Seal gardener the other day. "We'se got to get oy wit seven cbuckers. an' nlav at least six games a. week, an' some times seven and eight. How's dev s-oin1 to keep up dat pace all through the season; pitchers has to get a rest more dan you t ink, an' wit' dis rotten Player limit de boys is goin' to get no rest, take it from me. An' it's a long seasun, Doys. ain t it de trut 7 The work of Jerry Downs,- Seal sec- ond-sacker, last week against the Oaks had the effect of silencing most of the knockers who congregate in the Seals' ball park every afternoon. Downs has had some good days and he has also staged some exhibitions that defied de scription. But that has nothing to do with the style of ball that Jerry is dishing up around second base just now. He going out of his way to cut off base hits and at the same time is driving In more runs for his club than the rest of his teammates combined. This isn't meant for an eulogy of jerry Downs, by any means. It is sim ply a bid for a fair deal for a player who is probably put on the pan in San Francisco more than any other player in the league. . "You never knew that 'Ping' Bodie beat Oakland out a pennant in 1910, did you?" asked Harry Wolverton. "Well, he did, and it wasn't through hitting, either.- Ping filled in at short for five games against the Oaks and some of the stops he got away with would have taken the pep out of any ball club. I've never seen Corhan or anyone else, before or since, pull off the stunts that Ping' did in those five games, and everyone helped bat us out of a ball game. Wolverton headed the Oaks that season. You can say for me that I'm never worrying over utility man when 'Ping is on the Job.' Mai Barry, Oak f irst-sacker, has dis covered a queer cause for complaint. Barry arrived at Oakland from Jersey City well stocked with information re garding the hospitality of Californlans and particularly the residents of "My city, Oakland." The first surprise in store for Mai was the playing of Oak land's games In San Francisco. The hostile attitude of the Seal rooters to ward the Oakland club next got on Barry's nerves. "Guess I'll have to get used to it.' Mai says, "but it's mighty funny to play ball for a club that has practically no home fans except lor two days week." Despite the fact that the news went around the ;ircuit that Justin Fitz gerald's arm was O. K., the Seal out- tielder is reported as still being both ered with it. Close followers of the game on the Coast say that Fitzgerald would be the Ty Cobb of the Coast League if he had a good arm. In the opinion of many fans if Fitzgerald had an arm they would be calling Xy Cobb the Fitzgerald of the American League. The Oakland pitching staff Is to' be remforced before the week is over. Elliott is seeking a couple of new hurlers, and to make way for them has intimated that another chucker will lose his job with Oakland ere the end of the week rolls around. When the Oaks started the season their pitchers were thought to be as strong as any in the league. Perhaps we'll get more than two hits today. - Manager Wolverton, of the Seals, 1 counting on fattening up here the re mainder of the week. The Beavers have been pretty soft pickings, but still you can never tell in baseball. PENDLETON EXPECTS VICTORY Track Team Confident of Getting Eastern. Oregon Championship. PENDLETON, Or.. May 10. CSpecial.) In topnotch condition and confident of victory, the Pendleton High School track team will leave here for Baker Friday to participate in. the annual Eastern Oregon track meet- Despite the bad weather Coach Gordon has had every man ou"t in a suit this week. Last year Pendleton took the meet at La Grande, and the dual meet with Walla WTalla last week gives evidence that the team this year is superior to that of last year. Pendleton will base her hopes on Seibert in the 220, 440 and broad jump; Minnis in the half and mile; Mims, state javelin record holder; Latourelle. Searcy and Bowman in the sprints; Casey and Boylen in the middle dis tances; Gordon in the hurdles and pole vault; Huey and Chrisholm in the hur dles, and Reed! Chingren. Wins Shoot Medal. SPOKANE. May 10. E. J. Chingren. of Spokane, won the diamond medal in the Inland Empire trap shoot tourna ment here today. Chingren and H. Schnack. of Forsythe. Mont., tied at 47 yesterday, and in the shoot-off today Chingren broke 23 out of 25 targets and Schnack broke 22. Copyright 1916, Thm Hoamm of Kuppaahmimmr HnPHE art of looking well in your clothes is one that can be acquired with a little forethought and the help of the Kuppenheimer dealer. Most men depend too much on accidental effects. Stop your, casual buying and go directly after some definite Kuppenheimer Model; . Prices, $20 to $40. Our new book, "Styles for Men," sent on request. ..V THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER, CHICAGO Originators of Fractional Sixes in Men' a Clothing See the special display of Beltsacs here today. Choose yours at !&&M&h Shous? XKuppenSlr in Portland Morrison at Fourth. mil MILLER POSTS FORFEIT MIDDLEWEIGHT AGREES TO MAKE 14S POtTXDS FOR. . O'COXSELL. Spokane Gets K. Williams Back. SPOKANE. May 10. Kenneth Will iams, who was sold to the . Cincinnati Nationals last year and who was with the major league team until May X, signed with the- Spokane Northwestern League baseball team today. He will play in pie outfield. Cheep iud as beasts of burden In North' era IryilSi c&rrx loads of 20 gouaris. Wrestlers to Meet in Finish Match at Eleventh-Street Playhouse May S3. Men to Weigh In at 3 o'CIoclc "Walter Miller, of St. Paul, and Eddie O'Connell. of Portland, signed artiples yesterday . afternoon to wrestle at the Eleventh-Street Playhouse May 23. They will wrestle best two out of three falls to a finish. Police Gazette rules to govern. There will be no stopping at midnight nor will the match be called a draw. The wrestlers have consented to tussle all night if necessary. On February 29 Miller beat O'Connell. taking the first fall in something like one hour and 15 minutes and the second in about 18 minutes. They wrestled then a.t the middleweight poundage. Miller weighing 158 pounds as agaimt about 148 for the Portland wonder. Miller is the undisputed middleweight wrestling champion of the world and holds the Police Gazette belt emble matic of that title. He also claims the welterweight title, which O'Connell is recognized throughout the country as holding. O'Connell has clamored for a return match, with Miller making weight. This Miller has agreed to do. and posted a xuo forfeit yesterday for his appearance and as a guarantee that he would weigh at or below 148 pounds at 3 clock the afternoon of the con test Miller will start active training at once. SXOW MAY lIAIiT FIELD MEKT Baker Track In No Shape and Cold Weather Is Unsuitable. BAKER. Or., May 10. (Special.) Postponement of the Eastern Oregon track and field meet, scheduled here for next Saturday, is possible because of the freak "Winter weather that Is now prevailing. The track is covered with snow and the temperature is too low for spectators or contestants. Should the weather clear by Friday the meet may be held, but If for any reason it is not pulled off Saturday it will be held the first day suitable to the outside schools that send representatives. Elaborate preparations for the event are being made, and the meet, when ever held, promises to be the biggest ever in Eastern Oregon and several records are due to "be broken. Looking Them Over. Did "Vou Kmow THAT Dolly Gray, when with Wash ington, pitched a one - hit game during the season of 1909 against the Chicago White Sox, yet was beaten by the big score of t to 4? It hardly seems possible that a pitcher could keep the hits to a single safe wallop in the big league and still be forced to suffer a S-to-4 defeat, yet that is just what happened to Gray. The cause of the defeat under such .circumstances was the usual trouble. lack. of control. When Gray; was able to get the. ball over the plate the Sox were unable to do much with his delivery, but Gray had more than his share of trouble lo cating 'the plate in that game. He gave 11 bases on balls and. mixed up with these passes, were some boots as well as flies to the outfield. Chicago being able to total a half dozen runs. The only hit was of 'the flukiest sort, generous scoring making It a hit In stead of an "error. Major league rec ords reveal few such games as the one twirled by Gray against the Sox. That in the first inning of the game between the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals on May 13. 1911. the Giants got away to a commanding lead of 13 runs? That opening session was the fattest run producing first Inning in recent years. - Eleven years previous the Boston Nationals scored 13 runs in a game with St. Louis. Every Giant, with the exception of Mathewson, batted twice in that remarkable open ing session. Eight clean hits were largely responsible for most of the runs. Included in those eight hits were a double, a triple and a home run. Fred Merkle. who baa figured In most of the unusual happenings of - the Giants, was the leading swatter, with a double and a home run. being re sponsible for six of the 13 runs scored. Harry Bailee, still with the Cardinals; Bob Harmon, since traded to Pittsburg. and Grover Lowdermilk, who will get another chance In fast company this year wltU the St. Louis Browns, were the pitchers in the swatfest. That the season of 1908 was a very unusual one in major league circles? That In 1906 the Chicago Cubs won 116 games, a major league record? That for the firsjt and only time in major league circles a team that finished last in batting won a pennant, the Chicago White Sox turning the trick? That the longest major league game was staged. Philadelphia beating Boston 4 to 1 in a 24-lnning battle? That the Chicago White Sox established an American League record for games won with 19 straight, falling one short of tying the major league rec ord of 20 made by Providence, of the National League, in 1884? That the Boston Americans, under Jimmy Col lins, suffered 20 straight defeats early in the-season? That later, the Boston Nationals almost equaled the perform ance byM ropplng 19 straight? That Ed Walsh pitched in seven of the 19 straight wins of the White Sox be tween August 2 and August 23? That he pitched four shutouts and allowed only six runs in the seven victories? College Baseball. At Annapolis Navy, 2; Catholic Uni versity. 1. At Waterville, Maine Bowdoln. 1; Colby, 0. At Worcester. Mass Holy Cross, 10; Trinity. 5. At New Haven. Conn. Dartmouth, I; Tale, 0. At Cambridge. Mass. Harvard, 6; Brown. Q. At Medford. Mass. Tufts. 6; Boston College. 1. At Swarthmore. Pa- Swarthmore. B: Pennsylvania. 4. At South Bethlehem. Pa. Lehigh, 7; TJrslnus. J. At State College. Pa. Pennsylvania State, S; Lebanon Valley. L Wolzast to Fight 20 -Round Boat. CHICAGO. May 10. Ad Wolgast, ex- lightweight champion pugilist, left to night for Salt Lake City, where he will meet Pat Gilbert in a 20-round contest on May 17. On Decoration day Wol gast will meet Johnny Dundee in a 13' round bout at Denver. L.... .J0t; J , tke new Spring and Summer lSe tch 2 for 25 COLLAR Ide Collars have exclusively 1 . Linocord Unbreakable Buttonholes 4 E0. . IDE CO.. sliksrs, TROY, R. T. ' Also Makers f Id Shirts , Portland Wholesale Dirribn In Branch t 1 45 ruiKIU 6TKKET.