4 NEW 4-S HORSEPOWER
FIRST AUTO CLUB
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BACKSTOP IS MOST IMPORTANT
PLATER OX THE TEAM.
Must Know Likes and Dislikes of
Every Opposing- Batsman and Di
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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
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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
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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.
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