The Sunday Oregonian., March 29, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Page 8, Image 8

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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 20, 1903.
UMPIRE READY TD
GALL "PLAY BALL"
Pacific Coast League Seasorf
Will Open Next Saturday
in California.
HOW THE TEAMS LINE UP
Portland Looks Best on Paper, and
Is &tr6iiff In Every Department.
K.van Siot Yet Heard From.'
Gossip of the Diamond.
Pro'e"inl baseball season of
1908 will be formally launched at San
i ranclaco and Los Angeles next Satur
day afternoon, when the four clubs of
m i-kciiic Mt League will Inaugu
rate their schedule for the year. With
in one month after thla league com
mences the annual series of games
,7 i i "very league jn America
iu nave Dcgun lis annual pennant
struggle.
The outlook for a most successful
season In the Coast League Is very
rrlht. Kaoh of the four clubs seems
to have gathered together a Dnr..riv
aggregation of balltossers, and should
they live up to expectations, we are
likely to witness one of the neatest
baseball races ever seen in any league.
The one bright feature, as far as
Portland Is concerned, Is the fact that
Manager McCredle has secured a most
promising aggregation, which over
shadows the misfits' of last season to
a marked degree. In fact, Mac's 1S07
bunch sizes up with the new aggrega
tion as would Mount Tabor compared
with Mount fiood. and the only doubt
ful part ft the approaching race Is
that there might be a Mount St. Ellas
among the other three teams. At any
rate, there seems to be a very bright
prospect of the Portland fans securing
an opportunity to root nMist lustily.
The present composition of the four
cluhs which will Inaugurate the base
ball season next Saturday are as fol
, lows:
Portland.
Catchers Madden, Walsh and Whal
ing. Pitchers Bloomfield, Groom, Kln
sella, I.akaff, Plnnanre, Garrett. Har
mon, Marshall and Pernoll.
Klrst base Danzig.'
Second base Casey (captain).
Third base Johnson.
Shortstop Cooney.
Left field Ryan, Kennedy, Bassey.
Center field Raftery.
Right field M.-Credle. Malloy.
San Francisco.
Catchers Long, Berry, Eeola and La
Lange. Pitchers Oscar Jones. Henley, Wil
lis. Whltridge. Sutor, Skaggs, Gums,
Sklllman and Gadtly.
Kirst base Williams.
M-rond base Mohler, McArdle.
Third base Curtis.
Shortstop Zeider. .
Left field Hilrtebrand.
Center field Piper. '
Right field Melcholr.
Oakland.
Catchers Dashwood. Lewis.
Pitchers Wright. Carnes. Dellar,
Quick, McFarland, Kllllan, Scrubbs and
Hardy.
First base W. Hogan.
Second base Haley.
Third bttse Cook, Altman.
Shortstop Eagan.
Left field Jimmy Smith.
Center field Van Haltren.
Right field Heitmuller.
Los Angeles.
Catchers Hogan and Easterly.
Pitchers Koestner, Gray, Hosp, Ka
Kle. Randolph and Coleman.
First base Dillon.
Second base Rrashenr. '
Third base Jud Smith, Wheeler.
Shortstop Delmas.
Left field Ellis. .
Center field Bernard.
Right field Oakes.
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Among the Portland players given In
the foregoing line-up are. several who
will be dropped, probably before the
season opens. Three of tha pitchers
and two of the outfielders, probably
Malloy and Bassey will be turned
adrift. Kd Kennedy will probably be
kept as utility man, for that will be
the only role open for him when Ryan
Joins the team. This man Ryan, who
has .delayed reporting, will eventually
be forced to surrender, and according
to accounts of his prowess. Is one of
the very best outfielders in a minor
league today. He Is sure to make the
team, and In that event the best that
can be hoped for Kennedy Is a utility
role, for Harold Danzig has made good
st first base. Bloomfield. Groom. Kln
sella, Lakaff, and the Indian, Plnnance;
are practically certain of being re
tained as flve-'of the six pitchers, and
the contest for the other position lays
between Garrett and Harmon. Marshall
and Pernoll will he relegated to a les
ser league for further development.
Arthur Metz. a wealthy Omaha brew
er and enthusiastic baseball fan, who
spent a few days In Portland last week,
had an opportunity of sizing up the
Portland team while at Santa Barbara.
Mr. Metz is one of the best posted base
ball fans In the country, and would
rather see a ball game than eat a
snuare meal. He waa very much struck
with the Portland team and picks Mc
Credle's bunch to win this year. '"I
don't see how they can lose." said Mr.
Metz the other day. "McCredle has the
fastest Infield I have seen in action for
a number of years. Casey,- Cooney.
Johnson and Danzig are four splendid
fielders. They are fast on their feet
and handle the ball neatly and quickly.
Johnson especially takes my eye. I
think he will become the greatest third
baseman In the country, and In addi
tion is a most valuable man for his
ability to hit the ball. His underhand
throw Is marvelously accurate, and he
seems to have a good head and ha.i
more than the average knowledge of
the fine points of the game. McCredle
hna a prize in this man. Cooney and
Casey made an ideal pair of rpeedy in
flelders around second base. This lit
tle fellow Cooney will do for most any
company, and as for Casey, well, I can
not say any more to the good about
him than the fans here already know.
Danzig is a big. strong, gingery young
follow, about six feet tall and well
built. He possesses a powerful arm
and throws and fields accurately. He
can hit some. too.
"I think the Portland outfield will
be McCredle, Raftery and Ryan, while
Kennedy should be kept as a utility
man. I left anta Barbara before Mad
den arrived, but If he meets the re
quirements the team will be in the race
from the Jump. Walsh is a splemlid
catcher, but a little undersized to stand
the gatf. Bloomfield is the best young
pitcher I ever saw. Keep your eye on
the little reiltop. He will produce the
goods this season. Why, he kept the
Wbu gox guessing for nine Innings
and never once became nervous in the
slightest degree. When they told me
he was a busher I could hardly believe,
for he acted and conducted himself
like a Cy YVung or a Joe McGinnlty.
Don't worry about your team, for Port
land has a claasy bunch this year, rnd
I hope Bill Rourke gathers a team like
It for Omaha."
Mr. Metz and his family left yester
day for home, but before going they
announced that they would try to visit
Portland during the coming Rose
Carnival.
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On account of the showing made by
San Francisco against the Chicago White
Sox, several California scribes are pick
ing the Seals to cop the honors on the
coming pennant race. The same scribes
are also tossing large bouquets at Short
stop Zeider and First Baseman ick
Williams. Williams is a good, steady
ball player and of considerable strength
to any club, but Zeider, unless he has im
proved phenomenally, is not In the medal
winning class. San Francisco authorities
announce that he is likely to be selected
for the big league next year. Perhaps he
will, but worse players have been se
lected by the big league moguls in the
past, and history often repeats.
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Henry Berry's Los Angeles team looms
up quite prominently In spite of the loss
of three star players of last year's cham
pion bunch. Pitcher Koestner promises
to take the place of big Bill Burns, who
was drafted by Washington, while the
places of Cravath and Carlisle are being
filled acceptably by Oakes and Rube
Ellis. Oakes is a new man, while Ellis
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HIXI.OCK B.1SKETBALL TEAM CLAIMS CHAMPIONSHIP OF SOUTHWESTERN WASRIVGTOV.
WINLOCK, Wash., March 28. (Special.) The Winlock Amateur Athletic Club basketball team has just
closed a successful season, and holds the championship of Southwestern Washington. During the season
the team has lost but one game, that being to Muscatine, la., in a score of T to 21.
Followjng is the team's record: Winlock 27, Little Falls 3; Winlo ck 23, -Little Falls 9; Winlock 18.
Centralla High School 16; Winlock 14, Centralia High School 13; Winlock 20, Hoquiam Y. M. C. A., 18; Win
lock 43, Castle Rock High School 15; Winlock 47, Castle Rock High School 1; Winlock 21, Centralla L O.'
G. T. 7;' Winlock 42, Centralia L O. G. T. 12; Winlock 18, Tacoma 17; "Winlock 32, Vancouver High School 5;
Winlock 7, Muscatine. Ia., 21. The number of points made by Winlock was 203, against 137 by their
opponents. - ''
The line-up according to picture is as follows:. Left to right, top row: Guy Shlpler, forward; Carl '
Harklns, forward; Earl Harklns, center; Roy Myers, guard. Bottom row: Creeden Shlers, guard; F. M. Han
cock, manager; Ed Wall, forward. ' . .
is known to the fans of the league as the
utility outfielder of the. past three sear
sons. The Infield of the champion team
will remain intact. Dillon, Brashear,
Delmas and Jud Smith form a crack
combination, and with the assistance of
"Old" George Wheeler i to help out as
utility man, should show the fans some
good work. The Angels promise to make
a strong race, and the other clubs will
have to hustle, unless the pitching staff
proves weak. .
W. E. Gorman, of New York and Cin
cinnati, who Is advance man for Mrs.
Patrick Campbell, was in . Portland yes
terday and had a few words of commen
dation relative to the Pacific Coast
League players who have made good in
the East. In referring to the ball tossers,
Mr. Gorman said:
"Larry .McLean is the best catcher in
either of the big -leagues. He has the
physique, and his ability he ha demon
strated to the satisfaction- of every one.
Mike Mitchell Is another former Portland
player who has made good. This man
is one of the best players ever developed
In a minor league, and is today me of
the favorites ail over the circuit. Johnny
Kane, formerly with Seattle, is another
excellent ball player who has earned a
steady position among the major
leaguers. This trio of players are the
only members of the large body of play
ers sent from the Pacific Coast who have
shown their ability. Most of the others,
aside from the men taken by the Ameri
can League, have been relegated to the
minors. A word about the Portland
team. I have not seen them play, but
favorable reports have reached me. This
man Ryan. McCredle claims. Is
really one of the best minor league play
ers today. He will not be among the
minors longer than the present season,
and if Portland gets him, you will have
a star.'.
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While at liberty from his theatrical en
gagements. Mr. Gorman acts as scout
for the Cincinnati National League Club,
and during his connection with that club
has recommended some high class ball
players. He tells the following story on
Roy Hitt. the former San Francisco
twh-ler, who was with Cincinnati for a
short time: "One day we were in a small
Ohio town playing an exhibition game,
and were quartered at a second-class
hotel. I had entered the dining-room
ahead of the members of the team, and
was down to the desert when the boys
came In. Hitt sat down at my side, and
as I had no desire for the desert I
pushed a piece of pie and acup of cus
tard towards him. He waa In the act of
consuming his soup, and when informed
that I did not desire the desert, hastily
finished his plate and commenced to eat
the desert. When he had finished he
waited for his meat order, and was
astounded when the waiter informed him
that he had nothing more coming as he
had consumed his desert. His fellow
players Joined with the waiter and the
poor kid really lost his meal, for all his
protestations went for naught. The gang
kidded him unmercifully afterwards, but
that is the fortune of a youngster break
ing Into the big league." ,
AUTO CLUB WILL
TALK GOOD ROADS
'Annual Meeting and Election
of Officers to Be Held Next
Wednesday Night.
CLUBHOUSE MAY BE BUILT
Subject Being Generally Discussed
Among Members of Organization. .
Farcical Side of the New
York-to-Parls Race. '
BT W. 3. PETRAIX. ,
The Portland Automobile Club will
hold Its annual meeting and election of
directors at the rooms of the Portland
Commercial Club next Wednesday night,
and all members of the club, or owners
of automobiles, are urged to be in at
tendance, as matters of great importance
to the club fere to be -formally discussed
and acted upon.
The principal idea to be talked over
by the club is the hobby of the autoist,
good roads. This question has always
elicited more -or less attention from the
general public, but the owners of horse
less vehicles are more . particularly in
terested in such . proposition than any one
else. Good roads are essential to the en
joyment of the sport, and while a source
of pleasure and enjoyment to the autolsts,
are conducive to the general good of the
public
The theme, good roads, has been the
source of much oratory, many sleepless
nights and general disappointment to
many 'earnest advocates of the cause.
While considerable improvement has been
secured for some roads, and for that rea
son the autoists have confidence in the
future, it is that -future effort which they
will be required to make that is occupy
ing their attention at present.
The coming meeting will be attended
by a record-breaking nunfber of club
members, for It has been called at an
auspicious season of the year.. Autolng
time has arrived, and all who own ma
chines, whether members of the club or
not, should be Interested in this move
ment. It Is also possible that the question of
securing a location for and the erection
t of a commodious clubhouse may be
brought up for consideration by the mem
bers of this flourishing club. It has been
suggested that the AutomobUe. Club join
with several other clubs and erect a
house of their own on the property of the
Portland Fair aid Livestock Association,
which organization is now erecting a
racetrack at Rose City Park.
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The New York to Paris automobile
race, which has been in progress for sev
eral weeks, may be a bona-fide contest
wherein the strength and endurance of
an automobile is expected to be shown,
but as far as endurance is concerned, it
is hard to ascertain wherein It can be
proven by the tactics employed by the
competing machines.
So far, none of the machines has shown
any great amount of endurance, for,
after frequent breakdowns, each car has
been hauled by wagons to the nearest
town and repairs made there, and when
necessary to complete a certain distance,
they, have been placed on a train and
carried- several hundred miles.
This may be a test of durability or en
durance, as the case might be, but for a
real endurance run It would seem- far
more appropriate to require each vehicle
to' be repaired on the spot where the
breakdown occurs, and also by means of
a repair outfit carried on the vehicle.
The 800 or 900 miles between San Fran
cisco and Seattle is to be msrde by water,
and from Seattle to Alaska the machines
are to be reshipped to a point on the i
southern coast of the Northern terri-!
tory.
Such endurance tests are merely a
source of advertising for automobile
manufacturers, and do not demonstrate
any great superiority for any particular
make of a machine. When It became
known that the autos had resorted to the
use of horse power in order to propel
them over rough stretches of country, a
great deal of interest in the race was
lost.
The American car is some few days
ahead of Its nearest foreign competitor,
and is now well on its way to Seattle in
the hold of a steamship, while the other
cars have not yet reached the Coast. For
the sake of our native pride, let us hope
that the American car maintains its ad
vantage. There must be something In 'the fatal
thirteen superstition after all. Harry
Levey, the New York sportsman, whose
entry at Ormond failed to show. Is now a
firmer believer than ever in the fatal
qualities of the figure 13. Mr. Levey pur
chased at great expense the big Hotch
kiss racing car with the No. 6 still on it.
This number was held by Elliott F. Shep
ard for the Vanderbilt race of 1906. Mr.
Lievey was given No. 7 at Ormond, and
as the two figures added 13 he at once
looked for trouble, which came regularly.
W. J. Morgan smiled at the superstition.
but when he gave the number 13 to the
pilot car for the Jacksonville to Miami
race and the car went wrong at 10
miles and only reached St. Augustine the
first day Mr. Morgan damned 13, and
he damned It well ' when he himself
missed the pilot car on which he had In
tended making the trip and again misaed
it the second day going out of Ormond.
In past years Mr. Morgan once occupied
room 13 at the Ormond Hotel, and at
that meet sprained his ankle at the ou
set of the - meet. , He occupied room i3
at Mount' Washington and managed to
get into a bad accident in a stearacar
before the meet was over. Smiles seem
to be out of place In the automobile
field, when the figure 13 is up for dis
cussion, for facts are against disbelief
in the superstition. It will be recalled
that Foxhall Keene was given 13 in the
Vanderbilt race of 1905 and gave it over
to S. B. Stevens In the redrawal of the
numbers. Mr. Keene struck a telegraph
pole when apparently a winner and Mr.
Stevens saw his car out of commission
in a lap. Promoters now do not put 13
on the list, but skip it assiduously, avoid
ing it as they would the plague.
PREPARE FOR YACHT " RAGE
EXTRACTS MAY MEET FLEET AT
HOXOLULl".
Presence ol Battleships Is Expected
to Attract Competing Ships
From British Columbia.
- HONOLULU, March 28. (Special.) It is
expected that the Pacific fleet will start
for Honolulu soon after June' 5. The
trans-Pacific yacht race starts from San
Pedro on June 11. It Is, therefore, well
within the bounds of possibility that the
white wings and the fighting ships will
be on their way here together
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The presence of the fleet here is likely
favorably to influence the Canadian en
tries for the ocean race. The spectacle
and its attendant festivities will be an
additional attraction for the Northern
yachtsmen, and it would not be surprising
to see at least a couple of British Co
lumbian yachts keeping the Hawaii com.
pany in the race to Diamond Head light.
James Alexander Lyle will captain the
yacht Hawaii, which is expected to cap
ture first honors in the trans-Pacific race.
Lyle is a Prince Edward Islander . who
has had much sailing experience both
in his home and Californian waters. He
Is a daring navigator and can be relied
upon to get all that Is possible out of the
boat which he assisted in building. Vol
unteers for- places with the crew are.
numerous and several well-known- local
men have offered their services and will
ship before the mast if necessary.
The fittings for the Hawaii, which are
being furnished by B. B. Crowinshield-,
of Boston, are expected to arrive here on
April 18. The mast and spars should
come to hand ' via the Isthmus on or
about April 24. As soon as the mast and
spars arrive launching wiil take place
and then will follow the trial trips. The
yacht will then be provisioned for her
trip to San Pedro and will sail from here
not later than May 5. Allowing 20 days
for the trip this will bring the Hawaii
to San Pedro about May 25. The time
between that date and June 11, the date
of the start, will' be taken up In plac
ing the yacht on the ways, putting In
new stores and getting her ready for the
race. -
W. Fred Ely in Town.
W. Fred Ely, who was manager of the
Portland baseball team of 1904, and was
the star infielder of the National League
for 15 years prior to coming to this city
In. 1901. is renewing old acquaintances
after an absence of two years. Fred ar
rived here Friday night and will remain
in Portland for several days. He is now
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Tourist Automobiles are boni and reared hereahd need
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"Bones" Ely, as he is more familiarly
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looking fine, and says he enjoys better
health than ever before. The old game
still has a fascination for him, and while
he does not engage In playing regularly,
likes to practice on the back lots. He
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THE DALLES, Or., March 28. H. M.
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Monday night. This is his first entrance
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