The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, June 24, 1906, PART TWO, Image 17

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 24, 1UOC. 17 EDDIE GRftNEY THE SPORTS They Think He Has Something for Admission Day, the Big Holiday. CUTS INTO BOXING GAME filiation at the Bay City Is Expected to Please the Fight Fans When the Saloons Open Again After the Fourth. BY HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. (Special Correspondence.) From all the sports can Judge, Eddie Graney nas some thing up his sleeve. The "Village Blacksmith" has been attending to his own business, but there Is a general impression that he is figuring on a good match for about September 9. which, as Admission day. Is the big gest holiday affair in California. As everyone knows, Graney can make enough money by shoeing the horses belonging to the various city depart ments to keep hunger from, the door, but Eddie aspires to be the Napoleon ot the boxing game In the Golden West. Since the earthquake and fire caused a split-up In the ranks of the boxing trust, which was before that a house divided against itself. Graney nas a good opportunity to cut into the game wild do a little manipulating for him self. He stands well with the Ruef supervisors, who do what Abe tells them is fit and proper, and that means a good deal. About the match: No one knows Juwt who will be brought together. Battling Nelson and Joe Gans would be the sirongest card that could be offered, and the fight-goers would travel some distance to see such a match. I saw Graney knocking about the Board of Supervisors the other day, attired conspicuously In a slouch hat and a sweater, with, naturally, the other trimmings. "See me in a few days." he remarked, as he hurried acrt.is the road, "and I will have some thing to tell you." Saloons, under the new ordinance adopted by the Mayor, will open July i, and that will be something of a I boost for the sporting element. It is not so mucli that the sports have to have something to drink all the time; but rather that they need a hanging out place. Can you imagine, for in stance, a bunch of fight fans 'loung ing around a stand where you buy soda water and talking over the merits of this man or that one? "Well, hardly! They want a place where they can take life eaBy and at the same time Indulge In the conversation for which so many of them are famous. As has been stated, such a resort will be con ducted by Eddie Graney on Fillmore street, and that will be a bigger boost for the fighting game than any other one thing that might happen. ' Wilson Mlzner, who achieved fame by marrying Mrs. Yerkes. Is again In San Francisco to see the sights or, rather lack of them. How does It come that Willy Is tangled up In BPort Ing matters? In the first place, he is considerable of a sport, and the report that came West before "nls arrival was to the effect that he was a silent part ner or something of the kind In the moving-picture venture. None of that for Mizner in these, his days of pros perity. He Indignantly denies that there la truth In the story, and says a few people started the yarn because he was friendly with Sam Berger, Jim my Erltt and a bunch of the boxers. So you can understand it officially that Mizner has enough to do without tak ing a share of the profits In any moving-picture game. San Francisco expects to forget her troubles on the Fourth of July. The Olympic Club has taken the initiative in arranging an outdoor competition to be hold in Golden Gate Park that will be a hummer. The games will Include the eprints, distances and the usual track and field events, and at the close there will be boxing and wrestling. Record holders In the various events will com pete, and it Is hoped some new marks will be established. P. C. Gerhardt, of the Olympic Club, who ran the 100 yards in 10 seconds flat at the Portland games, will be among the contestants, and Billy Powell, the champion hurdler, will also start over the sticks. Some Portland con testants would be welcomed, but men can hardly be expected to make the trip from the North, particularly as no arrange ments could be made to pay their ex penses. Baseball continues to be a sooiewhat tabooed sport on this side .of the bay. The games continue In Oakland, and the (attendance has been fair, but the San Francisco devotees of the game have been conspicuous by their absence. Presi dent Bert slipped away from California to attend the meeting of the National Association, without announcing his in tentions, and so the report that the asso ciation would give $500 toward the fund came as a total surprise. On the whole, this offer, or rather present. Is hardly regarded as anything overwhelming. When the Coast league first gave out the report that there would be assistance. It was figured that this would mean some thing, and that the donations would run into the thousands. But Easterners for get rapidly, and the story of the San Francisco disaster is an Incident of the pa-st with a majority of the friends ot the league. So the boys must struggle along largely on their own foundation and with out assistance from the outside world. Willus Brltt is coming home. The an nouncement does not fill tRe hearts of the sporting public with any great amount of Joy. for William is looked upon as a necessary evil In connection with Jimmy. But Jimmy wants some matches. There is nothing doing in the East, and hi brother the talkative press agent is sent West in advance of the phow to drum up trade Of course Jimmy Brltt is popular and haR a host of friends, but he Is hardly the attraction In the fight ing line that he was before he was whipped. Still he will probably agree more easily to terms, and in such case may get a match, just as a starter. HARRY B. SMITH. Winners at The Meadows. SEATTLE, June 23. Results at The Meadows: Six furlongs Anona won. Little Butter cup second. Bear Hunter third; time, ,1:134. Six furlongs Fury won, Paddy Lvnch second. Laura F. M. third: time, 1:173-5. Mile and an eighth Hooligan won. Pay Mc second. Hoodwink third; time. l:S4i Four and a half furlongs Native Son won. T'tica second Tony Faust, third: time. 0:5. Mile and a sixteenth Crig! I won, W. R. Gates nrond, Wenrick third: time. 1:46s;. One nille Ramus won. Rolnman Becond Frank Fllttner third; time, 1:41. and 1 ,y" CADDIES WOULD JOIN LUCAS Seattle Wants to Quit the Coast League. MAY DO SO NEXT YEAR Will Probably Find That the Fans Will Not ratponlze the Slow Game After Having Had Better Sort. There Is no use denying It, Seattle wants Northwest League baseball. Whether the fans are crazy to get back into that class of ball is not known, but one thing Is sure, Russ Hall and Jim Agnew are pining to Join Mr. Unlucrative Lucas, so next season It would not be surprising to see the Slwaehes pack their blankets and get out of the Coast league. Russ Hall and Jim Agnew have given It out flat that they will not be with the Coasters next year. They feel because they have the Seattle baseball scribes with them that It makes no dif ference whether all of the fans are with them. While Rues Hall, Agnew and the rest of the Seattle moguls may want North west League baseball, there are many tans in the Puget Sound city that will have none of Mr. Lucas or hi league. These fans do not hesitate when tt comes to expressing their opinion on this score. They like the fast ball that has been served up to them since Seattle entered the Coast League, and are not willing to go back to watching a lot of cast-off players, too slow for the Coasters, play the National game. Around the corners where the fans congregate in Seattle you hear lota of talk about what the SI washes will do in 1907. The majority of the put up do not want a change, and a number declared they would stop goin; to the games if the switch was made. , Reasons Are Humorous. It's a funny thing about the Seattle baseball scribes. They have never taken kindly to the California invasion. It Is not that any of them Is married to President Luca. or that they are inflicted with an incurable Northwest League dis ease. They cannot give a valid reason for their dislike of the Coasters. It is true that the Seattle moguls were in deep financially because they joined the Coast ers, but from what can be learned the backers of the team have lost nothing unless It wn the wear and tear on their nerves. This has been a grind, for in spite of the big pay-rolls and Imported so-called stars, the Slwashes have failed to deliver promises. During the early days of the invasion Seattle fans were badly divided. Good old D. B. Dugdale was a hot favorite, ar.d the fat man certainly gave the men behind the Coast league team a hot run for their money before he was pushed out of the game. It took a long time for the fans to forget Dug dale. and a thing they never would stand for was Parke Wilson. Since Wilson left things have been pretty much forgotten, and now Seattle Is drawing better crowds than at any time since the town went Into the Pacific Coast League. Even the scribes and the present owners of the club admit this. San Francisco Ball Park. Cheerful news comes from San Fran cisco. Cal Ewing has been working day and night to lease a new site for a ball park, and he has been urged in his efforts by the wail of the San Francisco fans, who want to see the Seale at home. "The league is in first-class condition," said Cal to a San Francisco writer the other day. "The league Is In first-class shape now," said Ewing this morning, "and we intend to go right ahead and make this year one of the best in the his tory of the game on the Coast. I have no fewer than five propositions to look over, and will be able to inform the fans just where we will be In the course ot a few days. If I get a 10 years- lease, and I expect it, I will im mediately commence the erection of a first-class, modern baseball park, and I shall give orders- to rush the com pletion of the same. I am well pleased with the outlook and could right now be jingling a lot of golJ In my pocket if I wanted to sell any of my players. A big league wired me this morning offering $2600 for the Immediate re lease of Roy Hitt, but I wired them that neither Hltt nor any ofmy play ers Is for sale. The public has been loyal to us and we want to see these men play, therefore I am going to hold on to them for the rest of this sea son, anyway." HOLDS FIELD AND TRACK MEET V. M. C. A. Athletes Have Some l Good Events at Irvlngton. There were no records broken at the Y. M. C. A. field meet on Irvlngton track yesterday, but some good sport was had it" - --! I --' - if i . v Mr . ; L " i f ' , , f , f X' ? y-v A lit OF WAVEBLY COUT CLUB, WHO HELD and there was no end of rivalry among the competitors for the first place. Lighty was eaelly the star, with six firsts, and Flo carried off second place honors, with Sheets a good third. The summary of events: 100-yard dash Lighty, Plo, Stubbs, Bruce. Time, 0:1L Pole vault Lighty, Sheets, Stubbs, Plo. Height, 8 feet 1 inches. 440-yard dash Plo, Bruce, Stubbs, Carl son. Time, 1:01. Shot put Lighty, Ertz, Newell, Plo. Distance. 34 feet 3 Inches. Discus throw Lighty, Erti, Newell, Pio. Distance, 71 feet 7 Inches. ROCK ISLAND 210-yaid dash Lighty, Plo, Bruce,' Hal ler. Time, 25:04. High Jump Sheets, Plo, Ertz, Lighty. Height, 5 feet. Broad jump Lighty, Sheets, Newell, Stubbs. Distance, 18 feet 5 inches. Mile run Bruce, Haller, Plo, Sheets. Time. 5:16:04. Lighty made 31 points In all, Pio 19. and Sheets 12. Bronze medals hung up for the three first places so to these men. Boys' Brigade Track Meet. The first semi-annual indoor track meet for the all-round championship and the J. FJ. Worth silver cup was held Friday J ,w ..... tHTW,,,.i I.,, , , T,tl, ,, , m.,, ,..f ,v , .. sS . t . ' - - i : o . - ,4 . . ; - - . ! h . jjt v C w ' II ill!-- M I I I f I- I . n -H i - ...,ntf 1 T--?Kar 1 f " "C tsevxrr& fT" - ,"'v 1 . " 'ykT2:-' "s-n . ' J- - - r f - ' $ f " " v f "a uk-- I I ' t-.TiW c r." - - y, ". - cw'Ti . I I. M. C. A. ATHLETES POLE VACLT1NG AT 1RVINGTON TRACK. ' Si 1 i 7AN r .i L 5 V -oil 0. - A TOlENiMEXT YESTERDAY MORNING. evening at the Sunnyside Boys' Brigade Hall. There were 13 entries, all boys un der 14 years of age. The high jump was the event attracting the most attention, Webster Newell winning at 4 feet 1 inch. Winbert Huddelston was second with 4) feet. The mile relay race was won by the Whites after an exciting and hard race. Team 1, T. Evans; 2, C. Robbins. 3, S. Nlcholl; 4, W. Balky; 5, W. Newell; 6, Captain. W. Huddelston. The final score of points was: First place, Winbert Huddelston, 82 points; sec ond place, Charles Elliott 28 points; third place, Harry Jones, 32 points; fourth COUNTRY CLUB, WHICH WAS OPENED WEDNESDAY NIGHT. place, George Rittenour. 20 points; tie for fifth place, Webster Newell and Frank Watson, each 18 points. - The girls' class, led by Miss Schioth, their trainer, gave a first-class drill, that was enjoyed by the audience. The cup, a handsome silver one. with an ebony base, was the gift of Joseph E. Worth, one of Sunnyside's business men. It must be won twice to become the winner's proper ty. There will be a lively pull for it the next meet. The attendance was large. H. C. Krum was the manager. Schlllers and Hood Rivers. The unbeaten Schillers will cross batJ? i ' '.i A if ft v .-'ffV ...At.', I with Hood River this afternoon on the latter team's grounds. Joe Fay was un able to go with the local boys, but out side of that Gardner has with him the same crew which gave Dufur an awful trimming last Sunday. Multnomah Club's Jinks. One last round-up of the winged M. Braves, a time for jollification and club enthusiasm will be the annual low Jinks of Multnomah ' Club on the Willamette River next Sunday evening. The steamer Beaver has been chartered to carry the crowds and a great, glorious time Is as- Bured by Morris Dunne and Ed Daly, who have the arrangements in hand. As is natural and perfectly proper, consid ering that this wlll.be a stag affair, the committee is not announcing Just what the programme will be. Give Sysonbj's Bones to Science. New York, June 23. James R. Keene, owner of the famous racehorse Sysonby, has declined an offer of a permanent grave for the horse at the Sheepshead Bay track, and Is considering having Sy sonby a body exhumed and the skeleton saved and articulated, the frame of the horse to be presented to the New York Museum or Natural History. Skeletons of American Eclipee and Kingston are in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. ATHLETIC MANAGERS CHOSEN Students Elected to Manage U."br O. Teams. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, June 23. (Special. 1 At the regular June meeting of the Athletic Council held this morning the following elections were made for next year: Baseball manager, Harry Rafferty, "07, of Portland; track manager. Dell Mc carty, 'OS, of Pendleton: basketball man ager, Harold Clifford, '09, of Baker City; assistant football manager, Grover Kest ley. 06, of Springfield. The report of Track Manager W. C. Wlnslow was received and audited and upon recommendation of Manager Wins low, the official college emblems were awarded to the following freshmen track athletes: Kelly, Moulton, Lowell, Pri deaux and Obertsuffer. Each ot these men won more than five points during the season Just closed, and if therefore entitled to wear the official "O." Upon recommendation of Baseball Man ager C. "A. Burden, official baseball em blems were awarded to the following varsity players; Brown, Beck, Chandler, Fenton, Hobbs. Hurd. Johnson, Kelly, Ramp, Paine and Hathaway. The proposal to secure the services of Trainer W. L. Hayward for the entire college year was referred to a committee, which was authorized to i?igh Hayward for a period of two years commencing next September. STANDS BY THE OLD GAME Oregon Votes to Play Intercollegiate Football. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. June 23. (Special. 1 At the regular meet ing of the Athletic Council held this morning the question of football rules was brought up for discussion and by a unanimous vote it was 'agreed to play according to the regular intercollegiate rules of 1906. This means that Rugby and association football are not looked upon with favor by the University of Oregon, and that the new rules will be given a full and fair test. Oregon's football schedule will Include but six games next season. Heretofore, for the past three seasons, eight games have been played each year. The sched ule tor 1906 has not yet been completed, but games will probably be played with Washington, Idaho, Willamette, Corvallls, Multnomah and Chemawa. There are applications for many more games, but it is the general sentiment of the university that not more than six regular games be played. PLAY III GOLF SWING THE BIG STICKS AND IMI TATF. -ELDERS. Many an Old Player Watches the Youthful Enthusiasts With the Utmost Interest. The caddies donned the kilts and car ried the big sticks unstrung for action yesterday on the Waverly links. By courtesy of the members of the club the links were turned over to them unqual ifiedly for long strokes and delicate put ting contests. The little boys and girls Who do yeoman service for the grown ups in the real tournaments enjoyed them selves Immensely, and It was many an old golfer who followed the youngsters with Interest about the green and laughed heartily at their childish endeav ors to swing the big clubs and to use appropriately the big sounding words, which have been and always will be a necessary adjunct to play of the famous old Scotch game. FOUR-YEAR RULE ADOPTED. Oregon University Athletic Council Slakes New Regluation. UNIVERSITY OF- OREGON, Eugene, June 23. (Special.) The Athletic Council thi mqming adopted a new set of by laws for tho government of athletics at the University of Oregon. The only change of importance over the previous rules of eligibility is the adoption of a four-year rule, which provides that no student shall represent the university for more than four years in athletics. This rule l now In vogue at nearly all the colleges of importance in the United States. Another rule prohibits the playing of Summer baseball on profes sional and semi-professional teams by varsity players, the penalty being for feiture of standing on the varsity team. Otherwipe the rules are merely revisions of the previous regulations. Miss Homans' Tennis Champion. PHILADELPHIA, June 23. Miss Helen Homans, of New York, won the women's National tennis champloijship today, de feating Mrs. Berger Wallaoh, of New York, in the final of the women's singles. v 5 ENDS AUTO TRIP OF T DOOM LES Megargel Completes His Auto mobile Tour From Pacific Coast to New York. COVERS FOURTEEN STATES Lost In Mountains, Stuck in Snow and Swallowed in Quicksands Among the Adventures Experienced. Perclval Megargel is back in New York. Cn August 19. 1905, he left Herald Square with David K. Fassett, In a Roo automobile of 16-horsepower to ride to the Pacific Coast and return. At quarter past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, says the New York Herald, of June 10, Me gargel and his companion. In the same Reo car, arrived back In Herald Square with a record of 11,718 miles to their credit. In 10 months they had crossed 14 states and territories and half a dozen moun tain ranges, had been engulfed jn snow and swallowed in quicksand, had fought mountain Hons and shot coyotes and wolves, and incidentally had traveled more miles in the United States on one continuous Journey than any other auto mobiltst. The same engine that had pulled them through snow drifts, over mountain passes and desert trails and through rivers that were without bridges brought them on the last stage of the Journey from Yonkers to Herald Square as lively as if it had Just come out of the shop. The tonneau of the machine had been so designed that at night It could ue turned Into sleeping quarters. The entire far was covered with appliances for es timating speed, distance traveled, altitude and directions, firearms, a camping out fit, camera and typewriter were also car ried, everything being put aboard that would give the travelers pleasure in con nection with a tour of exploration. The Route Followed. Leaving New York State the travelers went through Pennsylvania, Ohio, In diana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyom ing, Idaho, Oregon. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and back to Omaha: thence over the route taken out. From Portland they had a 1500-mile trip down the Pacific Coast to Los Angeles. In the Great American desert they passed ten miles south of Death Valley, and In Santa Fe, N. M., met Governor Hager man, the youngest Governor In tue United States. It Is the first automobile that ever crossed Mount Hood, Oregon. It is the first to cross the California desert east of Bagdad. It Is the first to cross the Great American desert. In Arizona, and the first to cross the Raton Mountains, in New Mexico, 12,000 feet high. Wyoming offered the first serious ob struction to the progress of the little car. The Bear River, Continental Divide, Slerre Madre, Aspen, Wasatch and Snowy Range mountains, all members of the Rocky Mountain system, were success fully covered. Two days' rain caused a creek to rise nine or ten feet. After crossing Bitter Creek In uiree inches of water. It rained, and when - Megargel attempted to cross 3ft miles further down stream he found more than seven xeet of water at the ford, necessitating a de lay of five days. Shovels fn Constant Use. After the rain the Reo "Mountaineer" took the trail several days before freight ers or emigrants came out, and the tour ists had to build the road. 'Ineir shovels were almost in constant use. -e wlnd laH hauled them up the almost per pendicular sides of clay gulches, in sev eral cases washed out to a depth of 30 feet. Once they crossed a clay canyon 15 feet deep and five feet wide on two railroad ties. A slip of a few inches In either direction meant a wrecked car and an Injured crew. The trip through the Cascaue Mountains of Western Oregon waH full of hardships. The tourists tackled blindly a trail tuat for weeks had been Impassable by wag ons. They chopped their way through dense woods where logs had fallen across the path, built bridges over streams too deep with melted snow -or fording, and slept in the snow on hemlock boughs. Last, they were obliged to go three days without food, provisions having given out. Crossing the Desert. Early in December the trip across the Great American desert was begun. On December 12 Peach Springs. Aria., was reached. With smashed mud guards, twisted steering gear and broken lamps the car pulled Into the town, showing plainly the, battle put up by machine ana men. Word had been received In Peach Springs of the Intended crossing, but na tives did not believe they would see the machine, so many false alarms had been sounded. All one Friday the little car battled against tho fury of a desert sandstorm. Sand all but blinded the tourists. At noon the rays of the sun were completely hidden from view. The sand plains were as dark as night. The wind Increased and the fine sand and pebbles driven before the gale stung the xaces of the travelers until they were in agony. Through it all they struggled, and at niglt 9 miles had been traveled through the storm. Lost in the Mountains. In the mountains of Arizona the tour ists were lost for several days without food or gasoline. They drove Into v in slow, Ariz., with a cowboy as guide. They had spent all day Christmas in hauling the car out of Padre Canyon, a cable and windlass equipment being the only means by which they could noist it up the walls of lava rock. There Megargel abandoned his Idea of reaching New York in time for the automobile show, deptu of snow making progress almost impos sible. For three weeks preceuing January 23 the car was in the quicksand of the Rio Puerco River. It was raised on the ijtu by a band of Apache and Navajo Indians. The motor was taken apart and cleaned, the bearings were scoured and new sup plies taken on board to replace those lost. The tourists were met at Central Bridge at 3 :30 o'clock yesterday by a delegation of New York automobilists and others in Reo cars. The reception wu hearty. Notwithstanding the hardships of the trip, Megargel showed a gain in weight. Ten new tires had been used on the Jour ney. The journey was the first ever made to the Pacific Coast and return. ' Gives Halnia to Jockey Club. NEW YORK. June 23. The gift of the JSO.000 thoroughbred stallion Halnia, by William K. Vanderbilt to the Jockey Club's bureau of breeding, founded for the benefit of the farms and horsebreed ers of New Y'ork, was announced yester day. Iliflma for some years has been at the hetfu of the Vanderbilt breeding farm in France. He is 13 years old, by the most successful sire of his time. .Hyinover. his dam being Julian Lv by Longfellow.