MOISTS PREPARE
FOR THE SUMMER
Many 1903 Model ' Machines
Already Seen on Streets
of Portland.
CLUB IS" MAKING PLANS
' Projects for Improvement of Oregon
'. Highways to Be Carried Out Dur-
!; '' ins the (Vilnius Season Xcws
! of the Auto AYorld.-
i BT W. J. rETKAIX. :
The approach nf Spring-and the-, pos-
. nihility of good, if not sunshiny weather
i -within the next few wrcks'has caused the
I "bubble';, enthusiasts to burnish up their
j ; machines, or to figure on the purchase
of the new IMS models being displayed
J ! by Iho dealers in the different makes of
i "chug wasons."
i 1 Autoniobiling is a popular sport in Orc-
gon. The excellence of the Summer
months, which might also bo said to in
j elude the Spring and Fall, makes Oregon
i ; one of the garden- spots for the indul-
!' t,e"ce of the speed annihilating game.
1 Many new makes and models of ma
J chines are making their appearance on
the streets of Portland, and each day, as
i a new machine careers down the thor
! oughfares, the prospective purchasers
I eagerly take in the tine points of each
mw make, or new model. That the au
1 tomobilo is growing in popularity is un
j questioned, and Portland lias its percent
j .' age of new makes, as well as its quota
j of "wagons" of more or less ancient
j ; vintage. ,
i . The proposition to improve the various
I thoroughmares throughout Multnomah
J ; County, as well as those in the other
I parts of the state, will occupy the atten
! ' tion of the autolsts in the near future,
! for the season for the improvement of
; the roads is almost at hand. The Port
1 lwnd Automobile Club, which has been in-
' active for the greater part of the Win
t ter. is planning to provide measures .for
J the improvement of several of the roads
i , adjacent to Portland, and incidentally,
i road s leading to the southern and east
ern parts of the state, and also into the
state of Washington by way of Van
' couver.
"During the latter part of March and
' ' ' early April this work will be taken up,
and will require the utmost attention
from the members of the club. All the
I., members will shortly receive a
communication from the secretary outlin
i .-ing the plan on which it is to act, and
i t they will be requested to attend a mfet-i
8ll!g ML vtjucii uic;-e plans vs ill uc uia-
P.'
i' The day will come- when the antomo-
J-MUst tan start out for Cuba and drive
k possibly the entire way with the excep
w tion of the short trip across the. Gulf
Stream between Key West and Havana,
says W. J. Morgan. That will be fixed
however, ; by H. M. Flagler in the near
future, as he will install at Key West
.rapid ferry boats capable of speeding 20
Tjniles per hour, which will tako entire
railroad trains across and carry passen
gers of 'Havana from- any-' point of the
country, without change.
Joseph R. Parrott, the general manager
of the Flagler Hotel & Railroad System,
s. ;,lias given the last few years to personal
j superintendence of the great engineering
. . work of building a. railroad for the Flag
Ilijjcr system from Miami to Key West, a
distance of about 150 miles. It is well
ftjthat Mr. Parrott has-afine physical and
""mental constitution, the physical part
Rained through being a crack oarsman
at Yale, and the mental part also, un
doubtedly, comes from study at that col
;., lege. Night and day work with his en
... gineers and large force tried ' even the
constitution of the old Yale man, and it
'was feared that -his work in the tropics
I,, Summer and Winter would possibly cause
a breakdown, which happily, however,
did not occur. .
Stretching over clear water and jump
lug from key to key. the Florida East
Coast Railway has pushed its nose to
Knights Key. within to miles of Key
West. Two-thirds of the work of that
"'distance has been done and in another
i ,year trains will be run to Key West.
H is possibly the greatest engineering
feat of the uge, and New Y'ork people
and Kuropeans hava been surprised at
. , the tremendous and successful struggle
'' man made to conquer Insurmountable ob
stacles since the road across the Florida
Keys was commenced. When this is com
. pleted. it is the hope of the motoring
- friends of Messrs. Flagler and Parrott
' that a roadbed will be laid suitable for
',, the parsing over of all automobiles.
'"' Hundreds of miles traveled in interior
Cuba where no four-wheeled vehicle of
.any kind had been before was the recent
U.' autoniobiling feat of S. D. Waldon and
t party In a :w-horsepowor motorcar. When
Mr. Waldon, accompanied toy Kdwin S.
George, Fred Crehbin and E. Ralph Estep,
arrived in Havana and announced their
-. Intention there was a general protest.
.Hotel men, the American garage owners,
; 'sugar planters and others said: "It's
folly; you cannot do it." '
Interior Cuba is witiiout roads." Horse
trails lead from one place, to another. The
jjonly- vehicles are the high-wheeled ox-hearts-drawn
-by three or more yoke of
oxen. Their wheels are from seven to
Only Two Strokes Used by Daniels,
tITI 2W' trPhies already In his
possession and prospects of win-
ning that "many 'more, Charles
M. Daniels, the great swimmer of the
New York A.' C, seems euro to retain
the title of world's champion swimmer
for several years to come. The active
young man -who has made the athletic
enthusiasts of the world sit up in sur
, . prise time after time as he lowered
records of long standing, has Just
about begun to show his real, form,
and it is predicted of Daniels that he
will ultimately hold every record for
swimming, whether at long or short
distances. ; .
The ability of Daniels is all the more
remarkable because . he only started to
swim about six years ago. His father, a
member of the Now Y'ork A. C, brought
Daniels to the New York A. C. pool
and entrusted him to the care of Pro
fessor Gu Sundstrom, asking the
WlvoaoW- to teach Daniels how to swim.
Daniels says that the first time he got
in the pool he swallowed enough water
to sink a warship. But after that he
determined to learn the watery art,
and spent day after day practising.
After a careful study of the various
strokes , used for speed swimming,
Daniels put into practice certain Ideas
of his'own that he had- gained while
practising. He learned the English
racing stroke and compared its results
with several other strokes that are
: used in various parts of the world.
Finally he came to the conclusion that
UATIV&RSITY 0F
WA5H liS G-TOJSt UP
flSAlNST J
5ERIOUS PROBLEJ
ten feet high. ' They cut the soft ground
into many wide, ragged ruts two to four
feet deep. Where the ground is hard it
is littered With Immense boulders or else
itself is the base rock of the island. Then
tho rough trail may wind into a broad
territory where it is not even visible in
the great stretches of high grass which
hide thousands of huge stones. From
such lowlands and plateaus the way leads
Into rugged hills and mountains. Here
the road taken by the tourists was a con
tinuation of deep ravines and stony wash
outs. Every day from three to ten rivers were
forded. Cuban rivers run between banks
50 to a 100 feet high. Their beds -were
reached by following the- tortuous chan
nel of some erstwhile mountain etr.eam.
which had once run into the main river.
Each ford meant a precarious journey
over the solid but uneven rock of the
river bottom.
During the latter days of the journey
the heavy rains of a delayed wet season
turned the red clay into a trail of sticky,
heavy mire and created in every low
spot a seemingly bottomless mudhole,
some permanent ones of which the inun
dation enlarged into veritable swamps so
wide and deep that It was necessary to
build rough corduroy roads of pa.m
trunks and underbrush on which to cross. -
Travel was, of course,. Flow Some days
30 to 40 miles, one day 63, and then one
hard fought day's journey of 14 miles. It
was on this day that three deep rivers
wore forded in the heart of the Santa Fe
Mountains. Many times the roads were
so difficult that the easier way of prog
ress was to open fences and drive into
the fields, across plowed ground or
through cane plantations. Once the tour
ists were lost in a wide tract where
there was no trace of any road nor
habitation at which to Inquire. Only toy
striking off toward the railway and fol
lowing along its right of way was popu
lated country reached.
Kach night the party accepted the ac
commodations at band when darkness
came. The first night out a camp was
made at the bottom of a deep valley. Suc
ceeding nights were spent on cotB or- in
hammocks in farmers' huts; one night
the tourists bunked on the table of. a
sugarmill eating-house; while the most
unique experience was a night in ham
mocks swung under the thatched roof of
a commodious pig pen.
The general direction of -the tour was
from Havana to Matanzas; thence, via
Jovellanos and Maeaqua. to Santa Clara,
and from there, by crooked route through
Oamajuani and Placetas, to Sanctl Spiri
tus. The car -was without special equip
ment except the axe, mattock and shovel
purchased en route.
Will the barring of the so-called freaks
in the Ormond-Daytona Beach Automobile
Race meet be followed by the rule of com
pensation . in the. way of an Increased
entry from the owners of gasoline pow
ered cars? It has been the claim of
the manufacturers and others In
the past that it was only the freak cars
that kept their entries away from Flor
ida. Now they will be put to the test,
and unless they support the hands of the
Automobile Club of America Race com
mittee strongly, it will be a case of doing
away with spectacular freaks and getting
nothing in return. In other words it
will be a case of AEsops' fable of the
"Dog and the Bone."
the crawl and the trudgeon strokes
were the best ones to use in racing.
Daniels has written the following ex
planation of how he wins race after
race and how he breaks his records.
"In swimming a race I use only two
strokes, the trudgeon and the crawl,
and I find that' these are better for
winning than any others known. The
crawl stroke is to my mind the fastest
means of propelling the human body
through the .water, and when a swim
mer masters it he may expect to get
close to the records, if not above them.
It keeps the entire body moving along
just below the surface of the water.
"I use the crawl stroke for all distances
up to 220 yards. It a very exhausting
stroke, and could not be used for any
greater distance. It is an exact reproduc
tion of the trudgeon, but much faster, and
it calls Into play a special movement of
the legs which can only be mastered after
considerable practice. This movement of
the legs is a thing that I figured out for
myself. Instead of a scissors kick with an
extra snap, it is a fluttering up and down
movement of the legs, which are contin
ually kept in that motion for the entire
.distance of the race. It will readily be
seen that this is a big tax on the strength
of the . swimmer, and that it cannot toe
continued for any length of time.
"When swimming more than 220 yards,
X always use the crawl stroke for the
first 150 yards or so, .until I have gained
a lead on the other swimmers. Then I
fall back upon the trudgeon stroke, which
is the popular stroke among Australian
swimmers. The effect of tho crawl will
show, I think. In any race. It sends the
THE SUNDAY OKEGOMAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 9, 1908.
SPORTING HAPPENINGS
.-.-. - -
.
LIFTER4- THE EilTTHE
JEFF'S SECRET OUT
Success Due to His Big Left
Hand.
EXPLAINED BY CORBETT
Xaturally Jjert-Handed, Jeffries Has
Big Advantage Corbett Xamcs
the Best Fighters at
Their YYeights.
COBBETT'S SELECTIONS.
I believe the following-named are
the best that ever represented their
respective classes:
120 pounds Terry McGovern.
12S pounds Young Corbett.
lightweight George Kid Lavigne. f
Welterweight Joe Walcott.
Middleweight Tommy Ryan.
Ldght heavyweight Bob Fitesim
mons. . "
Heavyweight James J. Jeffries.
Bx-Champion James J. Corbett talked
most entertainingly last night in discuss
ing, the great boxers of the past and
present. Dozens of question were sub
mitted to him and he had a clever answer
for all.- The most interesting statement
made by Corbett was in regard to Jim
Jeffries, the retired heavyweight who' left
the ring undefeated. "Say, boys," said
Corbett, opening up his line of talk on
big Jeff, '"do you know what made Jim
Jeffries the greatest fighter that ever
lived?" No one had ever got wise to
this important question and of course no
answer was volunteered, says the Cin
cinnati Inquirer. "Well, I'll tell you."
said Jim, settling down in his chair, while
his listeners waited with bated breath to
learn the great secret. "Jeffries,' in the
first place, was the biggest ' man that
ever wore the title, but his one advantage
was that left hand with which he won
so many battles. You see, Jeff was
naturally a left-handed man. He did
everything with his south paw that we
do with our right hand. This gave him
such a hunch on all other heavyweights
that they never could defeat him." .
"What appeared to be the most dif
ficult part of Jeff's anatomy to get to?"
some one asked. "That question is easily
answered," replied Corbett. "Jeffries
was Just like a stone wall. You could
hit him anywhere and still not hurt hint.
He was so big and awkwardly clever that
It was impossible to make any headway
the "Human Fish"
body through the water at such a rate of
speed that a very speedy arm movement
has to be developed In order to get the
full advantage of it.
"The trudgeon stroke may be described
somewhat in follows:
"The overhand motion Is used, the
arms being raised over the head and
brought Into the water rapidly in succes
sion. With this is combined the ecissbrs
kick, not what is usually called the scis
or kick, but a kick in which the legs are
spread and then brought together with a
snap, eo that during the use of the arms
an extra motion of the legs may be
gained. The head is kept down in the
water all the time. The tank of the New
York A. C. - is ideally arranged for this
stroke, as black lines are painted on the
bottom of Oie pool so that the swimmer
can be looking down into the water con
tinually to see that he is swimming in a
straight line. The trudgeon Is a very
fatiguing stroke, but after constant prac
tice the swimmer becomes accustomed to
it and can keep at it for a long distance.
"A certain amount ot training is always
necessary for a speed swimmer. Careful
selection of foods is important, and much
speed may be -lost through excessive
smoking, as that spoils- a swimmer's en
durance. About two weeks before I en
ter a swimming contest. I always quit
smoking. I find thus it Is the best way
of retaining my endurance in the water.
"By keeping in good condition I find
that the swimming I do is little tax on
my strength. I have raced night after
night and felt no bad effects, although
sometimeH I was very hard pressed to
win." New York World.
OF THE WEEK AS VIEWED
T THE. IHMKS.
H.. CJVgTt ta
in- wearing him down to a point where
you might have a chance to put over the
knockout blow. I always considered Jeff
tlie "Terrible Turk" of the prize ring.
He was so much bigger than all the
others who fought him that his opponents
were so mucli outclassed In size that they
lost heart. Outside of Jeffries, Bob Fitz
simmons was the best heavyweight I ever
met. Peter Jackson was also a grand
lioxer, and I think this pair stood alone
in the class of heavyweights of natural
size.
"Fitz was a wonderful fighter for his
weight and inches. He was a two-handed
boxer, and with all the finer points of
the game at his finger ends, and that
famous shift of his had us all guessing.
Two of the most scientific I know of are
Tommy Ryan and Joe Gans. They are
master mechanics on a job. and what
they don't know about fighting isn't
worth learning. I always did say Terry
McGovern was the best featherweight I
ever saw. He was a real fighting ma
chine and whipped his men while his op
ponents were thinking of what to do.
McGovern fought so many good men and
whipped them so handily that the public
to this day" does not fully realize what
this boy did when he was champion.
Terry's best fighting weight was 120
pounds.
"At 128 pounds Young Corbett was the
best in the business. I do not think we
will ever see Kid Lavinge's equal as a
lightweight. He was a fighter pure and
simple and none of the present-day light
weights has reached anywhere near the
standard set by the Saginaw Kid. Joe
Walcott, like Peter Jackson, is undoubt
edly one of the most wonderful colored
fighters that .ever put on a glove. I
fought Jackson and would fight him again
if I was champion and Peter was still
on earth.
"I never would agree' with the fighters
who claim the right to draw the color
line. Black and white fighters are on an
equal when they go in the ring. Boxers
who pretend to be afraid of getting in
bad repute with society for fighting a
man of another color are not made of
the right stuff. What has the fighter to
lose socially? They are all put in the
same class by the public, and the man
who proves himself the best of the lot
is called champion, and it makes no dif
ference what the color of his opponents
may be. just as long as the sports look
with favor on the match. In other words,
it is better to whip one negro boxer of
championship calibre than a dozen white
men whom the public docs not look upon
as worth of attention.
"I think Tommy Burns has made a mis
take in taking on a lot of dubs and then
demanding that the- people of the United
States receive him as a champion. Here
is a splendid example of a fighter trying
to make himself a ring idol without the
support of the right element in the
sporting world. The scrapper who will
be hailed as champion of the world will
be the fellow who puts' up his money
and fights every man that dares dispute
his claim to the title. . The public makes
the champions. One might argue day and
night to the contrary, but 1 have never
known of an instance where the claims
of a fighter overshadowed the opinion of
the public. Tommy Burns may think he
is' the real thing and can map out an
easy way to the top of the pugilistic
ladder of fame, but when he gets a
couple of rude shocks then he will real
ize that he has fooled no one but him
self, and the people will flock to the side
of some other ring hero, while Burns
will have to take a back seat."
WILDCATS MEXACE HCXTERS
Game Suffering Prom Their Depre
dations in Maine Woods.
According to advices from the Maine
woods, polecats there have become a
menace even to sportsmen. Grown bold
under the tolerance that is allowed ani
mals on which no bounty is offered as in
centive for an organized movement of de
struction and whose skin and flesh are not
of sufficient value for hunters to seek
the animal, the wildcats have been kill
ing deer, other small game and birds, to
such an extent as to call for measures
of protection from the native hunters and
sportsmen in the state.
The wildcats up to now have been un
noticed at their work of destruction,
many of the dead deer which have, been
found having been believed to be vic
tims of starvation. The fawns, especial
ly, throughout the ' state, have been the
object of their ravenous onslaughts, and
the large number of dead fawns noticed
of late with slits across their, throats
from which blood had been sucked by the
wildcats first attracted attention to the
need of protection.
There has been no bounty on the ani
mals for several years, and the restoring
of this is urged as one of the first
measures to be taken. A state bounty
cannot be offered now until next year,
when the Ijegislature meets, but sports
men's clubs in several sections are con
sidering the question of offering amounts
large enough to attract hunters to the
work of killing off the wildcats.
BY THE CARTOONIST
KELLY, FURRIER
Picturesque Dream of New
York Sporting Writer.
TALE LACKS ONLY TRUTH
Says Oregon Sprinter Shoes Horses
as a Training Stunt Sportsmen
Unite to Protect the Fish
and Game.
BY W. J.' PET RAIN".
Athletics in New Y'ork seem to be con
ducted very much on the order of the
drama, for the energetic press agents of
the field and track meets are putting
out some highly Interesting literature
relative to our Western athletes. Some
of these tales are really ludicrous; at
least, that is the way they impress those
who are perfectly familiar with the
"prowess of the athletes who have gone
from here to seek laurels in the East
Last week an enterprising sporting
writer, who ought to make a hit with
the theatrical trust, threw several spasms
In a column article telling how adept
Dan Kelly is in shoeing horses. Picture
Dan Kelly shoeing horses when in New.
York for pleasure! He might have taken
to the Bob Fitzsimmons gag if he had
remained in Baker City, but not today.
Dan has a fond parent who has seen to
it that his boy is to get an "eddication,"
and with the assistance rendered by
pater added to the "Oregon Wonder's"
ability as an athlete, Dan does- not have
to shoe horses to "keep Inutile swim,"
even in Gotham. Kelly will yet show the
arrogant New Yorkers his caliber, and
while he may never beat 10 seconds, he
can and will equal . that time some of
these days. He is new to the East at
present, and board tracks are not like
the cinders. Watch Kelly,
i
The Oregon Fish and Game Association
has again taken up the cudgel to pre
serve the few deer and elk that now re
main in Oregon's forests. So few in
number have the-elk become that it is
said that within five years they will
have been exterminated. Trie same migh!
be said of deer, and for the purpose of
protecting these animals, the association
will endeavor to have a stringent law
passed at the next session of the Legis
lature. . It Is also to be hoped that the next
Up-to-Date Poachers Adopting Scientific Methods
S years pass on, poaching, like
J everything else, becomes more
scientific.-'
The old hempen net which the
moucher used to hang across a field
gate at night for hares has given
place to one of silken cord, and the
cheap bullseye lantern to the more
costly but more handy electric torch.
Perhaps the most dangerous Im
provement, from the game preserver's
point of view, is the substitution of
the motor bicycle or motor car for the
old-fashioned one-horse trap. It might
be imagined that the motor bicycle
would be of little use for carrying
game, says Chambers' Journal, but only
the other day a motor cyclist was ar
rested near a Midland town with five
newly killed hares in a box .behind the
seat. Parisian papers tell of well
organized gangs who raid the coverts
near the P'rench capital by the aid of
apparatus worth hundreds of pounds,
who have relief funds for those injured
in affrays, and who retain lawyers to
defend those captured by keepers.
Happily this sort of thing is still un
known in England. .
Not unnaturally the pheasant stands
at the head of the poacher's list. If a
poacher can be sure of a quiet half
hour in the covert he slips in, .sets a
net across a run, sends his lurcher
slinking around through the under
growth, and presently, with a flutter
and a flop, a fine cock bird is fast
In the net. next moment to be trans
ferred to the poacher's pocket. '
A method of-taking pheasants which
was more common a few years ago
HAN Kl:L.Y DECIBZS
. TO STAY IN riEW YORK
Legislature can be prevailed upon to
remedy the defective bill passed at
the last session, which virtually re
moved all protection from several
kinds of game fish. A strong measure
is to be introduced" that will cover
the ground of all previous bills, and
it is hoped to secure its passage with
out a hitch next Winter.
The plan to protect thft. breeding
grounds of Oregon wild fowl Is also to
be taken up by the association. In
order properly to accomplish this end
It will be necessary to secure several
additional game wardens, for it is ab
solutely necessary that the breeding
grounds of geese and ducks in
Klamath and Take Counties be pro
tected from vandals who rob the nests
and sell the eggs in the markets.
Legislation for the protection of
game of any kind is difficult to obtain,
for the reason that in some of the re
mote counties the representatives in
the State Legislature have constitu
ents who, through entirely selfish mo
tives, are inclined to oppose any and
all legislation intended to prohibit
them from destroying fish and game
at any and all seasons of the year,
and these short-sighted persons can
never be prevailed upon to see the
error of their way, or even to under
stand that the extermination of wild
game i3 possible. Sensible only to
their political debts, the legislators
owing allegiance to these persons are
likewise proof against argument.
With a persistency worthy of a
better cause, Jeems Edward Britt and
Battling Nelson continue to occupy the
limelight. It seems quite as impossi
ble to convince the two "dead ones"
that the curtain has been rung down
as it is to make Jim Nell, of San
Francisco, understand that his son is
in the "has-been" go-cart It really
seems as if the most merciful thing
to do with fighters (?) of the Brltt
Neison variety would be to feed them
the sleep stuff prescribed by Dr.
Osier. Poor old San Francisco suf
fered long at the hands of the fight
trust, -which persisted Jn springing
Britt-Nelson, Gans-Nelson and Britt
Gans fights. Now, believing the Bay
City a.bout tired of these vaudeville
exhibitions, the fakers have trans
ferred their operations to Los Angoles,
where -there are still believed to be a
few suckers who will stand: for the
time-worn display of alleged fistic
prowess. Neither Britt nor Nelson
possess any ability, oje Gans chased
whatever Ideas they may have pos
sessed along this line on several oc
casions. Albany Gels Double Drubbing.
SILVERTON, Or.. Feb. S. (Special.)
Tho girls of the Silverton High School
basketball team took the championship
away from the girls of the Albany team
last night in a game played at the Opera
House, in this city, by a score of C
to 5.
Following this the boys of the Silver-
ton High School defeated the Albany
boys by a score of 29 to 20. The game
played- by the girls was the most inter
esting game ever played in Silverton.
than it is now was that of "smoking."
The first essential Is to discover a
tree where the birds roost. Then, upon
a dark, still night, the poacher goes to
the spot armed with a handful of
sulphur and the lid of an old biscuit
box. A fire of dry leaves is lighted
upon the lid. the illumination being
carefully concealed by a coat hung
around it. As soon as the leaves have
blazed up, the sulphur" is flung on the
flames, and the lid held up under the
bough on which the pheasants are
roosting. Soon the suffocating fumes
take- effect. With a rustle and thump
a fat bird thuds upon the ground.
One after another they drop, and with
luck the poacher may get half a dozen
from a single tree.
Another favorite plan Is to soak
barley or wheat for some hours in
warm water. When the grain is thor
oughly softened the water is strained
off and strong spirit poured over the
wheat. The swollen grains absorb the
spirit, and the doctored bait is then
spread in one of the glades where the
birds feed. It is an odd fact that most
birds seem to like alcohol. Pheasants
are no exception. The not unnatural
result 'is that the finest birds those
which have secured the lion's share of
the feast are soon reeling about help
lessly drunk. The poacher, . who has
been lying "doggo" near by, has noth
ing to do but jump up and wring their
necks.
Another method of the pheasant
poacher deserves mention for its very
ingenuity. It owes its success to the
well known pugnacity of our finest
game bird. A gamecock is armed with
steel spurs of great length and keen
PATSY DONAHUE
WIELDS SLEDGE
Sold to Big League, Erstwhile
Portland Catcher Joins in
the Anvil Chorus.
WANTS PURCHASE MONEY
Because He Fails to Get It, Turn
on Portliiiid Management.
Gossip of Interest to Ihc
Baseball Fans.
Tatsy Donohue has joined the Charley
Street Hammer Association. Pulsy dis
plays a disposition much like that pos
sessed by the ex-San Francisco catcher,
and forgetful of the fact that had it not
been for the opportunity given him in
the Pacific Coast League, and the deal
,made by Judge MeCredie, whereby his
ambition to become a big leaguer was
made possible, he is busy giving out 'in
terviews condemning the treatment ac
corded ball players on the Pacific Coast.
The reason for Patsy's tirade is -principally
that Judge MeCredie refused to b
held for a certain sum of money alleged
by Donohue to be due on account of his
sale. He wanted a part of the purchase
money. How he got the idea that any
money was paid for him is a mystery.
He was traded to Boston with Jimmy
Mcllale, and in return Portland received
three players. Donny's ambition had
hPen to secure a berth in a big league,
and now that it is his. ho would do well
to praise, instead of blame, those who
mado it possible for him to realize tills
ambition. His recent tirade against Port
land, the McCredies and the Pacific Coast
League justify his classification with the
"swell-beaded"" catcher who played with
San Francisco, and whose cranium con
tains an unlimited vacuum instead of
brains. Botli of them would better in
attention to getting bito condition for
the approaching season, for It is by no
meuns certain that they will make good
in the big league.
The Portland fans are likely to be dis
appointed in their deiro to see "Wild
Bill" Devereaux in action with the Oak
land team this season. Rumors from
California way have it that Bill is not
at all pleased with the inducements of
fered by the Oakland management, and
may cast his lot with the California State
league. During his spare moments he
devotes himself to the raising of cabbages
and the dispensing of cheroots. Deve
reaux is too valuable to be passed up
lightly, and Oakland should make an
effort to pacify him.
Artie Kruger and Roy Hitt. former Pa
cific Coast Leaguers, have been rele
gated to the minor leagues, and it would
seem that they were unable to stand tho
pace. Other major league clubs waiving
claim to them. Cincinnati turned them
over to Columbus in the American As
sociation. The Sporting News, answering a cor
respondent, announces that Barney Joy,
the big pitcher who was with San Fran
cisco last season, is a native of Honolulu,
but not a Kanaka. As a matter of fact
Barney Is not even a native of the
islands, for his birthplace is a little town
near Montreal, Canada, and he was taken
to Honolulu when a small boy.
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The line-up of the Oakland team, as
given out recently, follows: Catchers,
Dashwood and Shincel; pitchers, Hopkins,
Dellar. Hardy, Carnes, Wright and Mc
Farland: first base, William Hogan;
second base, Haley or Altman; third base,
Devereaux; shortstop Bagan: right tield.
Heitmuller; center field, Van Haltrcn and
left field James Smith. This is a strong
team and Pop Van Haltren's bunch may
be counted on to run well in the coming
race.
.
Hugh MeCredie. a nephew of Judge W.
W. MeCredie. is to act as . business man
ager for the Portland club this year. Ho
is averse to playing professional ball at
present and may become affiliated with
the Multnomah Club and join tho bae
ball squad of that institution. Ho pitched
for his college team in Kansas and is
said to be a most promising youngster.
He desfres to retain his amateur standing
and therefore refuses to play on his
uncle's team.
Bobby Eager, the Angel catcher, who
has been with the Los Angeles team for
nearly four years, has rfigned a contract
with the outlaw San Jose team in the
California State League. Bobby says HI
Henry Berry rated his services too cheap
ly, and the manager says Eitger wanted
too much. The figures are. not given out
but Eager ought to be glad to get a
chance in the league at any price. Bolihy
will never wear any decorations as a
finished catcher. He is too much of a
clown to take his work seriously.
West Point at Rifle Range.
WASHINGTON. Feb. S. There is talk
in Army circles of sending a team from
the Military Academy to compete witli
the militia, the Army, the Navy and
other teams at the next National match
at Camp Perry, Ohio.
ness and dropped where a pheasant has
been observed to crow. The pheasant
will allow no rival within its domain
and presentlj- comes strutting out of
covert. Naturally he stands no more
chance than a man armed with a pa
perknifc would against a Western des
perado with a bowie. He is killed In
a few seconds. The poacher picks up
the dead bird, catches his canv?eock
and moves on in search of fresh vic
tims. An old-fashioned way of catching
rooks when they became too numerous
to suit the farmer was to bury In the
plough land little conical bags of pa
per, the sides smeared with bird lime
and a bait at the bottom. The same
plan has been adopted with consider
able success for the capture of pheas
ants. The bait Is barley and the bird,
completely blinded by the cap which
clings so tightly to Its head, falls an
easy victim to man or dog.
In an open field you will often see
small pieces of brusnwoon stucK in:o
the ground at intervals. These are set
by the keeper for the purpose of
hooking up the nets of night poachers
for partridges. Partridges roost upon
the ground, and by means of a long,
light net dragged across the grass by
two men a whole covey Is often cap
tured at one swoop. This form of
poaching is only possible on a dark
night, and at such a time the poach
ers cannot, of course, see the branches
and therefore they get their nets en
tangled in them. But some have now
adays taken to lining the ground ide
of their nets with some !tiff glazed
stuff. A net so protected will lide
over most obstacles.