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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1907)
4 NEW 4-S HORSEPOWER FIRST AUTO CLUB Tl Large Number of Machines ''Make Trip to the Sandy . Bridge. FINE OUTING IS PROMISED Organization Will Build Clubhouse on Mount Hood Road Guide Boards to Be Erected on All Highways. The Portland Automobile Club trill hold the first road run of the season this morning. About 26 machines will .go to the Sandy bridge and back. Every ma chine owner In the crty, whether a mem ber of the club or not. has been InvKed to join the party, bring his family or friend, and enjoy an outing. The ma chines will assemble In front of Mult nomah Club at 11 o'clock, go out over the Morrison-street bridge, follow 2ast Mor rison street to East Twentieth, go over Twentieth to East Stark, and thence by the Base Line road to the Twelve-Mile House. From this point the party will follow the Base Line road to a point about three miles east of the Twelve-Mils House, thenca south to the Sweet Briar Farm and then to the Sandy bridge. Each jnachlne Is expeoted to come well provisioned, and the party will stop three or four hours at the Sandy to eat lunch eon. There is good fishing In the river, and many will make the trip for the angling they will have. The party will start back about 5 o'clock, and arrive In the city by seven. The club proposes to hold runs every Uttle while throughout the Summer. George Klelser, vice-president of the auto club, was absent from tfte city last week, but returned yesterday. Under his direction the road committee of the club will make a tour of all the good roads about the olty to select the best drives and arrange for the putting up of sign posts along the different routes. The club will place signs and colored arrows where ever necessary that the cross-roads may cause the tourist no confusion. It is planned to place these signs along all the good roads as far south as Salem, as far north as Tacoma and east to Mount Hood. Lewis Rusell, president of the club and chairman .of the road committee, has made arrangements to take the road com mittee out along the proposed route of the Mount Hood road some time this week. The committee will report to the club on the road work that should be done Im mediately. The club proposes to have the road 1n passable condition by July 1, but permanent Improvements will not be made until next season. The road will be placed In such condition for this Bummer that an auto may be driven to the Government camp and bark In seven hours.. All the danirous spots will be repaired and the surface of the road will be rolled. Another committee has been selected to secure a suitable site for a clubhouse on the Mount Hood road about SO miles out from the city. This will be conduct ed after the fashion of a country club, dinners will be served to members and the house connected with the city by telephone. This will enable club members to order dinner before they start from the city and find everything ready when they reach the clubhouse. The house will be open to all members of the auto club and their families. Gasoline and all tools required for repairing cars will be kept at the house and a small machine shop and garase will also be built. The clubhouse no doubt will do a great deal to mske automobillng popular. Another important move the club will take will be to secure and enforce an ordinance requiring all horse-drawn ve hicles to cawy lights after dark. There is a law to this effect, but it has become a dead letter and Is nver enforced. Out side of Portland, Seattle and a few small racific Coast cities, nearly every city In the country has such a law, and enforces It. The autoists claim that as they are obliged to carry both head and tall lights the drivers of all other vehicles should be obliged to do likewise. Many times, when accidents occur, the blame for a collision is laid on the auto driver, al though It is not the fault of the man at the whel, for he has been unable to see a wagon or buggy coming around a curve. A prominent member of the club relates an experience he had recently when a lerlous accident was narrowly averted by the coolness of the driver. He happened to be out on the Llnnton road and was driving along at a fair rate. Drawing near one of the roadhouses, the driver saw an object In the road and instantly let his brakes and brought his car to a top. He had halted within a few feet of a horse and buggy standing In the middle of the road. The horse did not move, and the auto driver Jumped out to lee what was the matter. There' was nobody in the buggy,- but Inside the tav irn the two young men who bad hired the rig were found intoxicated. The annual dinner of the Automobile Club will be given next Thursday even ing at T o'clock at Sargent's Restaurant. NEW CARS OF 1907 te . ft : - - vr'e0tfcsm rv--. r r- - A K ' S T?t? CKtACMV? 7&OMAS. DAY lb?V1 - on- -Grand avenue and Hawthorne ave nue. All machine owners have been In vited. Covers will be laid for MO per sons. Governor Chamberlain, Mayor Lane, City Engineer Taylor and other prominent publlo officials have been in vited to attend and will speak on "Good Roads." During the past week over 30 applications for membership In the club have been received by Secretary Will Llpman. The past week was a good one for the auto trade, and a number of new cars are now to be seen around the city. J. B. Teon's new Pope-Hartford, Is now In the shop at Keats' garage having new engines Installed. When Mr. Yeon pur chased the car It was on exhibition at the Chicago show and It was sent direct to this city with ithe exhibition engines. Not wishing to lose time In sending the machine back to the shop for regular engines, Mr. Yeon had the auto shipped direct to this city. The regular engines followed It. RESTRICTIONS ON ATJTO RACES Experts Differ In Requirements (op Speed Contests. Eligibility restrictions for racing automobiles form the newest theme for dissension among motoring; experts, says an Eastern exchange. The past week witnessed the first skirmishes in what yesterday promised to become a raging war. The issue at stake con cerns the relative merits of weight and piston displacement as factors In re jecting undesirable entries. The problem of eligibility regula tions, an annually recurrent bone of contention. Is held by experts to be an especially serious Issue this year be cause at least two events of the first magnitude will be affected by the deci sion. In addition to the Vanderbllt oup contest. In which It Is proposed to sub stitute a cylinder capacity for weight as the governing factor In accepting or discarding entries, the recently pro jected stock car race over the Long Island Parkway may be subject to some similar limitation. In the case of the stock car race the discussion of the relative merits of the two methods of determining eligibility will be brought to a head Saturday, when a group of the leading engineers of the country will assemble at Indian apolis. At that time regulations al ready proposed for the race will be gone over. The proposed rules provide a limit of piston displacement, beyond which a stock car entry will not be received. This limiting clause baa brought forth a storm of Indignant protest. While the proposed rule which, within cer tain bounds, is virtually tantamount to setting a limit upon horse power Is not without supporters, there are others who claim that so long as the car is a regularly catalogued and mar keted stock model, and the weight does not exceed a certain reasonable maxi mum. It should be admitted regardless of the cylinder bore and piston stroke. In connection with the rule for the Vanderbllt cup struggle the same ques tion will arise. In the foreign races of the year there has been a tendency to depart from the old weight limit of 2204 pounds, which obtained in the 1906 struggle for the Vanderbllt tro phy. In the Grand Prix the amount of fuel consumed, if passing a stipulated point, will result In disqualification. This. In Its last analysis, is regarded as equal to a piston displacement rule. In the Florlo raoe in Italy and the battle for the Emperor's cup In Ger many the cylinder capacity ru will hold. Must Not Bother the Visitors. WASHINGTON. April JO. Secretary Loeb announced that hereafter newspaper men will not be allowed to congregate in the White House grounds after nightfall. He said today that while newspaper men would be permitted to go to the White House door and ask questions at night, they will not be permitted to . loiter around to seek Interviews with the visitors inside. The object of the rule I visit. 1 Whii to discourage Interference with the lt House visitor at night. THE SUXDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 21, 1907. MODEL JUST BROUGHT TO PORTLAND- i cm.rk v . ..M m LEAGUE A SUCCESS Trl-Clty Organization Is Being Given Good Support. "ANVIL CHORUS" IS SMALL F rakes Team Looks Best at Present Tim Multnomah Plays First GameDoing: In the Local Interscholastlo League. The Trl-Clty League win evidently be a success. Last Sunday the league open ed Its local season before 3000 fans, and few who attended the game went away disappointed. For seven Innings the Frakes team and the North Paclflo Brew ery fought a battle royal, but In the "fatal seventh" the brewery slabater went to pieces and allowed four hits. And again In the eighth he was easy and was touched up for four more. Some of the anvil chorus present immediately kicked on the class of ball that was presented. The boys put up a good game, though at times their fielding was poor, but this was the first game, and because of the wet weather the boys did not have much practice. The league now stands on a good com mercial, business basis. It has, outside of Portland, four good live baseball towns, the best in the state. Kelso, ac cepted on the circuit last week, has now posted Its forfeit money, and, has a team composed mostly of salaried players. These men will be paid by the week, re gardless of gate receipts, and are in sured a good berth for the Summer. Astoria's grounds are now being worked in shape. The season opens there May 5 with a game between the home team and Kelso. Another good baseball town Is St. Johns, and though it is a Little, too near this city, yet the team will be well supported. Charles Moore, the ex-Pa-ctAo Coast Leaguer, is managing the team, - and will do most of the pitching himself. Moore has picked up a good bunoh of ballplayers, and ought to be able to do good work during the sea son. The whole community is baseball crasy, and last Sunday, while the team was out at practice, 700 people turned out to watch the boys. A good grand stand and bleachers have been built and the grounds are In xflrst-cl ass condition. The St. Johns Band will turn out for the game this afternoon. . At present the Frakes team looks strongest In the league. Nick White head, the manager, knows a ballplayer and has the pick of the league. His pitch ing staff Is excellent, and the Infield the fastest In the league. With Archie Par rott -on first, Newell at second, Asher Houston holding down third and Joe Fay playing short there Is verry uttle room for Improvement, unless a man cares to go outside of the oity league class of base ball. One of the wonders of the team Is Tony Myers, the diminutive slabster who pitched last Sunday's game. Myers certainly Is a comer, and the Uttle fel low pitched rings around the brewery team. With the other teams, their playing Is good for semi-professional ball, but at present none of them can compare with the Frakes team. The Brewery has a good team, but had little practice for the opening game, be cause the boys are scattered. Manager Helser, however, has arranged to get all the men together every evening for prac tice. Their pitcher, Pender, showed up fine until the seventh inning, and It was lack of practice that put him to the bad then. Houston, the Multnomah Club boy. who was threatened with expulsion from the club If he appeared In a Frakes uni form, has settled the matter with the club officials and Is a social member. He la barred, however, from playing on the club team. Houston Is a good' player and put up a fine game last Sunday. He Is still a very young player, and baa plenty of time to develop. The Trunkmakers opened at Woodburn last Sunday and a large crowd turned out One Model S. Six Cylinder 50 H. P. Stevens-Duryea ' Touring Car, Equipped with Top; Price $6150 Two Model G. 45 H. P. Seven Passenger Royal Touring Cars, Equipped with Tops; Price $4300 Call or ring up Main 5468 and ask for a demonstration and we will convince you that we have the cars of QUALITY COOK MOTOR CAR CO. Garage, Salesroom to witness the games.- Tb Trunkmakers lost, 4 to 0, but are not discouraged by this, defeat. Woodburn has a very strong team. Multnomah's First Game. Multnomah Club played Its first game yesterday afternoon with Oregon Univer sity. The elub has a strictly amateur ! team and has weeded out candidates un- i til It has a very fast aggregation. Most ! of the men are old-time baseball players j wno go in ine game xor spon s ana play good, clean ball. Dolly Gray, who signed up with Dugdale to play short for the Seattle Northwest team. Is still In the city, undecided whether or not he will take the offer. He played short for Multnomah yesterday. There Is not much life In college base ball this year, nearly all of the Institu tions going in for track athletics. Ore gon, however, has a good team, and is doing everything to make college baseball popular. The team is not very strong as compared to the other amateur teams throughout the state. The Interscholastic League played an other game Friday, and the Portland Academy won over Hill Military' Acad emy, 9 to 1. The game was a fair exhi bition of baseball tor schoolboys. At present It would be hard to pick the winner of the Interscholastlo cham pionship. It is certain that two schools are out of the race East Side High and the Allen Preparatory School. Neither of these teams has much chance for the pennant. Among the other four, Portland Academy has a good chance; so has Co lumbia and the West Side High. If the university boys and the West Siders could put up as good a game every day as they did a week ago Friday none of the other schools would have a look-In. The championship. It seems, at present lies between West Side High and the Portland Academy. Columbia has been weakened by the withdrawal of Otto Moore, Its catcher and captain, who has joined his brother Charlie In the Trl-Clty League. Moore will be a sub catcher for the St. Johns team. We Have the Following 1907 Cars in Stock, Ready for: 31 f JL Dealers in and Repair Shop REO AND Salesroom Removed to 493 - Eeo 20-E. P. Touring Oar, with detachable tonneau, pressed-steel frame, 94-inch wheel base, multiple-disc clutch, full elliptic sprinsrs, three powerful brakes, five lamps $X40O Reo 8-10-H. P. Eunabout, the most economical Automobile built, $700. With folding- rear seat $725 FORD CARS FORD 16-H. P. FOUR-CYLINDER RUNABOTJT-Shaft-drive, 84 . inch wheel base, full elliptic springs, multiple-disc clutch, three point driving construction; all working parts absolutely dnst and mud-proof ; all axles, gears, steering knuckles and shafts made from best chrome steel. Price $700 THE FOEJ) SIX-AITD-FOETY, six cylinders, forty H. P., 120-inch wheel base, double ignition, three-point driving suspension; all working parts absolutely mud and dust-proof; no vibration. A demonstration of this car is a revelation in flexibility and eon 1 trol , $3000 ALL PRICES F. 0. B. PORTLAND OR SPOKANE. ALL MODELS IN STOCK. SALESROOMS 493-95 ALDER ST. FRED A. PORTLAND, OR. CATCHER THE PRIM! BACKSTOP IS MOST IMPORTANT PLATER OX THE TEAM. Must Know Likes and Dislikes of Every Opposing- Batsman and Di rect the Inflelders. yew baseball fans realise that the catcher Is the most important player on the team, says John G. Kllng, writing In the ' Kansas. City Journal. He works harder than any other man. for he must direct 'the Infield as well as handle the pitcher. The catcher's greatest responsi bility Is In directing the pitcher to throw the style of ball the batter Is not expect ing and the kind the batter has a partlcu. lar aversion to. The catcher must know the likes and dislikes of every batter In the league, and he- must also know the capability and peculiarities of every pitcher he catches. The catcher signals so that every man In the Infield knows Just what kind of a Delivery I Two Model R. 20 H. P. Five Passenger Stevens-Duryea Touring Cars, Equipped with Tops; Price $2750 One Model R. 20 H. P. Limousine Stevens-Duryea Price $3450 High-Grade Automobiles Fifteenth and 43 FORD CARS 95 Alder St., Cor. Fifteenth. BENNETT SPOKANE, WASH. ' ball the pitcher Is to throw and the fields play accordingly. When men are on bases the catcher is In touch with the fielders so that they can work together and frame up a, deal to catch the runner. When a pitcher throws to a base to catch a man off the bag he does so at a signal from the back stop, who directs the team, because he Is in a position to see the diamond bet ter than any other player. A bad catcher can lose a game quicker than a bad pitcher, for upon him depends the team work of the club. A weak pitcher can often do good work If he has a good catcher at the other end. Most of the clever pitchers can do little If they are working with a bad catcher. Backstops are born, not made. No man can jump right Into a game and be a star, though. It takes worlds of experience in the business and a great deal of exper ience In the league to make a catcher a success. It takes a season for a back stop to learn the peculiarities of the league batters. That's why many good catchers do poorly when transferred from one league to another. Head work is more Important than as ability to hold onto the ball. Shocks at Lisbon and Constantinople CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21. Anothet earth shock was felt here and In the sub urbs at 4 o'clock this morning. Washington Streets V