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TIIE 3I0EXIXG OHEGOXIA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IS. 1919. T San Francisco Pitcher Wants Increase in Offer. TRAINING QUARTERS READY rortland Plajcrs Will Be Supplied With Tents in California Refinery City. BY JAMES J. TiTCHAItDSOX. Ever since the McCredies in the prins of 1S17 toted their baseball players to Honolulu for their annual training trip and were comfortably domiciled in tents at Waikiki beach the Portland magnates have had a hanker ing again to return ro that mode of living during the conditioning period. When C. H. Smith, president of the Crockett. Cal.. boosters club, wrote Judge McCredie that the Portland team would be housed in tents while training at Crockett it made quite a nit wnn me I'nrtland club owner. The signed agreement of the Crocket people agreeing to take care m Portland team's expenses during th nnrinH nf their aniourn in the sugar re fin.rv town was received at baseball hcnilnuarters yesterday. C. II. Smith mhn innnrs to be the man at the helm in the California city, says tha th Portland team and those accom panying it to Crockett will be royally entertained by his townspeople. The players will be housed in tents adjacent to the Dig Lrocneii nuiei. The tents will have wooden floors and side walls and be covered with double ..nr. makln? them warm and ao tnlutelv rainDroof. Each member of the team aTid the sporting writers will be given one month's membership in the community clubhouse situated close to the hotel, which has a plunge. shower baths, handball courts, gym nasium and every modern convenience for the athletes. Each member of the party also will be extended the privi leges of the Crockett Boosters- ciud. Mr. Smith informed Judge McCredie that the ball park would be in excellent condition for the Beavers and that tne players could step right out onto the field one minute after they hopped off the train and donned their uniforms. the batter any attention. The bats man, believing that possibly the run ner was too tired to go through with the original play, stepped out of the batter's box, as the pitcher threw to first for the fifth time, so that he might fix up a new deal with the run ner, if such was desired. The throw ing to first base so many times had in a way thrown the pitcher off his stride. After the batsman had again stepped into the box. ready to resume, the pitcher took so much time getting on the rubber that the batsman again steppejd out. Just when it seemed things were once more set for action, a breeze that was sweeping the field caused so much dust in the neighborhood of the batter's box that both catcher and bat ter requested that play be suspended. While this case is a triflA unusual. ret similar happenings come un timet and again during the summer. I will wager that at least five minutes were consumed by the pitcher throwing to first and the batter stepping out of the box without a ball having been pitched. This ia all wrong in a way but whether such incidents can be corrected without destroying the rights of someone concerned there a doubt. Perhaps it would be asking too much to compel the batsman to remain in the box ready to hit when the pitcher was ready to pitch, yet that is one way in which the delay might be curtailed. It would be im possible to limit the pitcher to the number of times ho could throw to first base because the moment he had reached his limitations the baserunner would be able to take liberties, know ing there was no danger that he would be caught napping. ICE PALACE MAY BE SGEKOFHEXTSHDW Heilig Theater Not Available Until Late in March. CARD IS BEING ARRANGED Harry Morton, pitcher, is the first player of the Portland team's reserve list to return his contract unsigned to baseball headquarters. The big right hander, who resides in San Francisco and whom the McCredies think will de . velop Into a corking good pitcher if he overcomes his wildness, writes he is entitled to more money than was of fered him by the McCredies in their 191 document and, while he refuses to be classed as a holdout, suggested to the McCredies in a very nice way that thry raise the ante. Looks like Morton will be taken care of. R. S. Richmond of Tillmore. 111., who claims to be a pitcher of the first mag nitude, has made application for a chance with the Portland team. He is a right-hander. 6 feet, and weighs 170 pounds, according to his letter received at baseball headquarters yesterday. He Is 21 vears old and twirled for Bloom- Inzton in the Three-Eye league for three years. Gene Doyle of Los Angeles has come to bat with the suggestion that the roast league clubs give a benefit for Tommy Quinlan. former well-known Salt Lake outfielder who lost his left arm and left leg while fighting for the United States in France. Tommy could use a little money and it would not hurt the magnates a bit if they set aside a portion of one day's gate re ceipts for him. Pel Howard is trying to again land Tiitly I-ee for the Oakland outfield. Lee quit the Oaks In July. 1M7. and went east along with First Baseman Ray Mjllcr and Jack Shcchan. Lee is said to be a bit peeved at Howard, but tht-y arc expected to smoke the pipe of peace and forget whatever little difficulties Uitv had in the past. Here is the material from which the Oakland team probably will be selected. Look them over. Pitchers Know. Krtmtr, Prourh. Bum" Arlrtt. Schnrll tsjan Jose aeml-proi, Xifer a?o outfielder). Holilng (also in-firlrten. ratrher Mi?::r. Rohrer. Drolette, Mur riT. Rnche 'also first hasei. Infie.tl'.rs Ijot-ker. Wares. Ctiristenn. Stumpf. Murpby. "Pop" Arlett talso pitch er . t-'ro'.l. Outfielders Miller. Mlddlrton. le. I.anr. !. Bnurvrau. Smale. Hawk. Cullers (semi pro from Stockton . . The Reach Baseball company has cancelled its contract to supply the Pa cific Coast league with baseballs this year. Each year the teams in the P. C. L. have used approximately 800') spheres. However, that was when the horsehides were cheap, but since then they have advanced rapidly in price and the Reach people refuse to stick, to the original price agreed to in the contract. The umpires could hasten things If they would all decide to give the pitcher the right to pitch, regardless of whether the batsman was in the box unless the umpire himself decided there was enough reason to suspend piay. If the batsman was made to realize he couldn't step out of the box without having the pitcher deliver the ball, even though he was out of the box in no position to hit it. he would be more careful as to his attitude. SEPARATION IN QUESTION Attempt Made to Show Plaintiff Iidn't Break With Husband. LOS ANGELES. Mrs. Mary Griffith's (10,000 alienation-of-affection suit against Mrs. Georgiana Gardner took a sensational turn in Judge McCormick's court when Attorney Joseph Ford be gan to question Mrs. Griffith regard ing various occasions she had been in the company of her husband, William D. Griffith, since the suit was filed. Another element in the case is the presence of Milton Carlson, handwriting expert, who will pass on a note said to have been written by Mrs. Griffith to her husband to call at the office for keys. The intent is to show they were friendly. Because Mr. Griffith was not present in court a bench warrant was issued for him. Mrs. Gardner also was not n court. Her attorneys explained that her con dition is such, after Mr. Griffith is al leged to have given her liquor, that she was with relatives in Riverside to recuperate. The defense does not deny that Mrs. Gardner was in Mr. Griffith's company. but declares he posed as a single man, representing himself as & Government inspector. As such he took Mrs. Gard ner to a Venice cafe and gave her liquor, it Is said: It was in evidence that Mr. Griffith called on her also at local hotel. Dr. W. W. Gardner, husband of the efendant. was in court valiently sup porting his wife's good name. Mrs. Griffith testified that she lived appily with her husband until Mrs. Gardner swept into his horizon. She now declares she Is very unhappy. &ne denied she had been with Mr. Griffith since their separation. Rnhlic- fi-.n. At T ...uli, .'ioj Dctttnic rromotcr or Fistic Attractions Vancouver, Wash. in Elevator Boy Explains. Everybody's. There is an elevator boy in a New Tork office building, who is among a large number of public servants that resent needless questions. One day there entered his car a rather fussy woman, and garrulous as well. "Don't you ever feel sick going up and down in this elevator all day?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am," said the boy. "Is it the motion going down?" 'No, ma'am." "The motion going up?" "No. ma'am." "Is it the stopping that does it?" "No. ma'am." Then what is it?" 'Answering questions, ma'am." 1 viin no possible chance of staging a I,n5 snow at the Heilig theater until iaie next month, owing to previously "u attractions, the Portland hi., commissioners are endeavoring to se- permission to nut .- omoiver at the ice hippodrome, better Miown as tne i rp tv T,, , Marshall -streets. Commissioner Henry has tentatively arranged his next fistic programme, but fjcicia to arrange tor the hniMino- ) which to hold the contests hfn. ,, nouncing his card. The next boxinir show will be held the last week in this month or the first in March. .Bobby Evans has designs on starting club In Vancouver. Wash H haa been offered a large huiWlirnr h capable of holding about 2000 nvnnl.' and if he finally decides to branch out as a promoters in the Washington city no n.u mi on some excellent fistic at tractions. Evans left vesterdav fn. Seattle with Joe Gorman. Billv Mas. cott and Kid Herman, all three of whom are billed to fight tonight at AuHn Salt's smoker in the Putret sound metropolis. Evans promises more news on the subject upon his return. Georgia Adams. Chicago bantam weight, who arrived in Portland from San Francisco with Morris Lux last week, worked out at Bobby Evans' box ing academy yesterday, and is one of the most accurate and hardest-hitting youngsters seen around here for some tijjie. Adams stepped into San Fran cisco and knocked off most of the best men or nis weight, and was going so good that the promoters forced him to take on boys weighing 125 and 130 pounds. Morris Lux, who has not participated in a Dout since he met Lee Morrissey nere a few weeks ago. says his hand is getting In shape and he will soon be able to use it. Lux hurt his hand in Seattle while boxing Frank Wolgast. and tried to fight Lee Srorrissey here a iew nignts atterwards with one hand. Lux is a big booster for Adams, wh may be seen in action against Billy .uascoit in nis nrst start. Johnny Cashill has arrived in Oakland and challenged any boxer his weight to a auei witn rists. Cashill wants to take a fling at Jimmy Dundee in his first start. Cashill's manager, who ac accompanied Johnny south, says Cashill beat Joe Gorman twice in a Portland ring. That kind of chatter won't get Cashill or his manager very far. - Tuffy Wing fights Jimmy Dundee at Vernon tonight. 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YouU be after laying down a smoke barrage that'll make the boys think of the days in France I P. A. never tires your taste because it has the quality! And, let it slip into your think-tank that P. A. is made by our exclusive patented process that cuts out bite and parch assurance that you can hit smoke-record-high-spots without any comeback but real smoke joy! And,' no matter how tender your tongue may be I R. J, Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem! N. C. Fred Pulton, self-confessed faker, is back in San Francisco. Fred says it never rains but it pours. It seems that the automobile which was turned over on Fulton's trip from L-s Ang-eles to San Francisco before the Fulton Kruvoskey fight and driven by Fulton belonged to an act6r friend of the big boxer's. And now the actor is suing Fulton for 51000 damages done to the car. Willie Ritchie is training at the Olympic club In San Francisco for his four-round fight with Benny Leonard, world's lightweight champion. Tiext Friday night in San Francisco. There, will be no decision given and the boys j will step into the ring at catchwelghts. I friend whose husband was in the Army and the following conversation ensued: "An hab yo' heard Turn Jim lately?" "Yas, jes had a lettah yestuddy." "An whah is he now?" "Well. Ah don't know jes' zactly. His lettah says he's somewhah in France, but he kain't tell jes whah." "Ah knew it! Ah knew it! Ah toV yo' all de time dat fool niggah 'ud go ober dere an git hisself lost. up, poor . again, would fight Ixt "Somewhere in France. - Everybody's. An old colored woman met a younger Peace Defensive Is Launched. Life. Rastus' wife. Snowball, never let her drafted husband go back to camp with the last word, and her last words were usually very rough and bitter. One morning, as Rastus came out of the kitchen door with his wife's voluble accompaniment of vituperation, he turned and loosed this Parthian shaft: "See heah, Snowball! Ah axes you again and Ah axes you nice. Ah wants you to quit yuh naggin' me. Ah wants to fight dis heah wah in peace." T 1 EBJilH&INgH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS. DOUBT if anything in baseball is more overdone than the practice indulged in by so many batters of stepping out of the batter's box at the slightest provocation. Tedious delays work to the detriment of the game and no one practice contributes more to the many needless delays that come up than the constant stepping out of the box on the part of the batter. The prac tice gets on my nerves and I know it must have a like effect on the specta tor. Baseball thrives on action and de lays tend to kill action, hence should be eliminated wherever possible. It might be impossible to enforce it. yet it wouldn't be a bad Idea to have a rule which stated that the batsman after getting into the batter's box must remain there, unless the umpire sus penda play. I recall ore game last summer where a batter stepped out of the box four times before a ball was pitched to him. There was a runner on first base and there was an under standing between batter and runner as to what was on. The runner on first was a fast man. always able to get a big lead, so the pitcher drove him back to first three times on throws trying to catch him napping. The batsman in the batter's box became annoyed at the failure of the pitcher to deliver the bait. and. believing his chances to hit i he ball had been weakened by the Innii delay, caused by the throwing to first, asked that time be called, stepped out of the box. walked around in a circle and then stepped back in. Looking toward first base. the pitcher noted the runner still insisted on getting his big load. He threw over ffiv more times, and. although he failed t get the runner, he made him slide back into the base each time, and undoubtedly tended to tire him. While being driven back to first bae the runner was unable to give X 1 in r- r- - rssjr - -c., J fry With Lens Reduced to Stones, Boxer's Fortune Passes. PARENTS' LOSS IS GREAT Once Worth 1,000,000 Francs, Pu gilist, Born in 1894, Is Anxious to Get Back Into King. BT GEORGES CARFENTIEH. (The following article was written for a paper by Carpentler, the famous MONTHi STUCK im The HARBOR BSCAVVSE OF F"0 Cm . London r reiicn Ooxer. In answer tn u. n uprv n his plans for the future.) -My nopes, my plans for the future you would have? My hopes are many, the yare high. My programme is not yet shaped, only is it being made by my faithful Descamps, now a very prosperous manufacturer. But if I cannot tell you definitely who my first opponent will be so soon as I am permitted by the army of my country to re-enter the ring, I can say that the chances are that it will be my old friend and opponent, your "isombaraier" billy wells. Thus, as I write for you, there has just returned from Paris a gentleman well known in your boxing world who has received from Descamps on my behalf an option by which I have agreed in the event of that option being - reduced to a contract and my terms being granted, to fight your big "Bombardier" or any other Brit ish boxer that may be selected. Of course, the option may not be exercised; that is, the gentleman, who is acting for a syndicate of English sportsmen and whose credentials were approved by Descamps. may not make a contract, and naturally there will be nothing doing. Bombardier Is Preferred. But I have every reason to believe that in a month's time I will have signed up to have my first big fight, when I am free to do so, with Wells. Personally, I have not inquired too closely as to the rendezvous, but if I remember rightly Olympia was men tioned. And you know Charles' Ledoux. of course. Well, his affairs, like my own, are in the hands of Descamps, and the little fellow, who, instead of having been killed, as has been so aften said, has come through the war without a scratch, has agreed to sign a contract to meet Jimmy Wilde, or Pal Moore, the American. And this i fight will also take place in London. Both" Ledoux and myself,' like every other fighter, will be glad to begin big boxing again. Neither of us has put a glove on for money since 1914, not since the day we went to war, and we should never have thought of doing so until it was all over. There was an occasion when I was offered a sure 10,000 to go to Amer ica when I got my discharge, but I intend to leave the States alone for a future date. I have always felt that my first big fight would be in London, where I have always been treated so generously, and it may not be news to you, but it is a- fact that more than a year ago the directors of your Hol born stadium took up an option on me to meet Wells. But for reasons of their own they did not go on with it. Now another syndicate has come along, as I have said. . When will I be demobilized? That I cannot tell. May be a year at least will go by before I get back to civil life, for it is thus I am one of the youngest class, and as such I will be the last to be freed by the military authorities. But we are not at war now, and if I have a match made I believe that I shall be permitted to fight, though I will then be still a soldier. So if all goes well you may see me in the ring again in June, perhaps at Olympia. If it be so it will be strange, for it was at Olympia in June in 1914 that V fought Gunboat Smith in that building. Carpentler in Bent of Shape. It would be unbecoming of me to talk about my expectations; that is, my chances should I meet your Bom bardier for the third time. You must remember that it will be my first fight for five long years. But, wiUiout being immodest, I hope I may venture to say that I was never in better shape in my life. I am bigger and stronger than ever. In the gymnasium when I have boxed have felt that my sense of distance is as good and as sure as at any Ume in my life. I am as good a Carpentier as in 1914; at least, that I must believe be cause the fighter who doubts himself must lose and pass away; he must have done with the business. I do not griev that for five years I have been keut out of the ring and instead of earning thousands of pounds a night received only soldier's pay. When Lens, my home, was lib erated from the Germans I received a few days leave and made for the place. You English writers said that I am a Frenchman, all phlegm a con tradiction. It is true that in the ring I know no excitement, but when I went to Lens a few weeks ago and found it reduced to sones, when the town was no more, when it did not exist, wnen there was not a brick left of the Cafe du Champion a restaurant I had presented to my father and mother so that they would know no want in the winter of their lives--I was as a man who could have cried but couldn't. When the war broke out I was worth a million francs, almost the whole of which I invested in the coal mines in and around about Lens, so that my fortune has gone, together with my parents' cafe. Except for a few years before the war I only knew one long struggle. When I come to reflect it seems but only yesterday that with Descamps "Professor" Descamps then I did i the rounds of the countryside cafes, he as a thought reader, I as his me dium, and in between times an aero bat and boxer, then to pass the hat around, so as to pick up a few francs. I was born on January 12, isy4, and beean boxing for money in 1906. 1 have never stopped fighting since. very considerable areas within the old crater are kept free of snow and ice, while at places near the summit the rock surface is still hit. When the 'hotel was erected three years ago the first reports of ea'lli shocks were soon verified. At that elevation 5S00 feet they became very real to the men who stayed in the snow fields throughout the winter. In De cember, 1916, the first shock was re ported by the watchmen, who said that the floor of the inn "felt like a tremen dous ocean wave was passing under it. Timbers creaked, dishes rattled and the sensation was terrifying." The severe shocks repeated that winter re occurred from time to time duiring the next two winters. But there was never even the sug gestion of a tremor during the sum mer months, and thereby lay the mystery. It was discovered, according to park officials, in . a very natural way. The new snow of tnestorms was lorcea by terrific winds into crater vents un til these openings were completely closed. In that way steam ejection was temporarily stopped. Once the vents were closed, the snow and ice packed rapidly upon the top and ef fectively shut in the gases of the old volcano for a time. Gradually the increasing steam pressure became great enough to force open the old crater vents through thesnow cap. lit erally blowing the plugs out. Thus a full-fledged earthquake level, which is just one-third the height of the moun tain. Park officials have said nothing of the earth shocks, waiting their ex planation. But with the solving of the mystery this winter, confirming previous observations, they felt that a load had been taken off their minds relieving a fear that possibly the mountain snoring meant to convey a deeper meaning than they cared to think of. SHOCK MYSTERY SOLVED Steam Choked by Snow in Rainier Canses Explosions. TACOMA, wash. Tear after year during the winter time there have been reDorts of earth, shocks felt from Mount Rainier, in the Rainier national park, reports received by pioneers of this section with more or less skep ticism, but at last the mystery of the "shocks" has 'been solved. The solution of the mystery followed careful observation made by winter caretakers in Paradise inn, the hotel in Paradise valley. There observations showed that the shocks came only in the winter time and after heavy snow fall and storms on the mountain sum mit. Mount Rainier itself has been known as' an extinct volcano, although summit climbers are witnesses of the fact that there are still some pretty lively rumblings and spoutings in pro gress in the mountain's old crater. In fact, steam and gases are in many places ejected with such force that FOCH LEARNING TO SMOKE French Marshal Has Acquired Habit of Using Pipe. LONDON. Marshal Foch has acquired the habit of smoking the pipe. The French do not smoke pipes. Day by day Marshal Foch saw Field Marshal Haig and other British generals in the vortex of the war calmly doing their work behind good, bis-bowled briar pipes. Foch asked Haig what it was like to smoke a pipe. He bought one. He filled it under careful British military instruction. He began the attempt, with energy and purposeful determination, but at first smoked more matches than tobacco. Now, however, he has mas tered it, and he thoroughly enjoys a good briar which he has bought from a British firm. c,rters i I f!g?!sr5n touch your feel so securely com fortable on your legs, you'll always delight in wearing them. A STEIN & COMPANY rIT PAYS TO SAY DISTINCTLY; KRIS GARTERS A v 1