The Sunday Oregonian., June 21, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Page 6, Image 42

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 21, 1903.
LOSE GAMES FOR
LACK OF PITCHERS
Portland Team Badly Crippled,
But McCredie Is Trying to
Fill Vacancies.
NEEDS GOOD LEFT-HANDER
1Ylth Another Twirler, and Players
Recovered From Injuries, Beav
ers May Again Head Per
centage Column.
BY WILL. Q. MAC RAE.
There is' gloom around the smoke
Joints these days. Portland's failure to
keep .up its winning streak while away
fiora home has made the fans a bit
downcast and, unless the team takes a
brace, there will be more than one candi
date for a lunacy commission. When
the season opened it looked as if Mana
ger McCredie was well fortified witli
pitchers, but a cog slipped and now he
has only a remnant of the strife with
which he started the season. No club
!n the Pacific Coast league can get
along with four pitchers, play seven
games a week, as they do when the
teams are playing in San Francisco and
Oakland, and get anywhere In the race.
What McCredie will have to do Is to
scout around and get at least one more
good pitcher. Young Marshall may make
good, but it Is rather doubtful whether
McCredie ran make good with Ote
Johnson. Ote had something left when
he quit the box and went to playing the
infield, but he Is no longer a youngster
and it will take him a month or more
to get down to pitching winning ball, and.
by that time we would be again gracing
the cellar. What the team needs Is a
corking good left-hander. One thing is
sure, McCredie will not be able to get
along with Garrett, Groom and Kinsella.
Garret's Shoulder Weak Yet.
Garrett's shoulder is not well by any
means and any day he is likely to crack.
If this should happen the whole works
will be exploded. While Groom and Kin
sella are as good pitchers as there are
In the league, yet both of them are
vrone to wildness. This weakness ha.
cost them many a game. Kinsella was
not In the best of shape when he left
home. He won his last two games at
home just because the team was hitting
behind him like wild lire, and not be
cause he had his usual stuff on the ball. '
Of course the race Is too young for the
fans to get frightened. The games that
we havs lost to Oakland, a team that
we beat bo handily at home, do not lend
much encouragement when we consider
that we have to face Los Angeles, with
a pitching staiT that is going great guns
now. The Angels were looked upon as
the weakest of the four teams in the
league. This was true until the pitchers
found themselves. It is not nearly as
well balanced a hitting team as the men
on McCredic's paj-roll, and the fact that
I.os Angeles is up In the lead is due to
the good work of the slabsters and the
good inside baseball that the team plays,
a thing that we are just a little shy on.
Several Seals Fall Through.
Manager McCredie realized for several
weeks before be left home that he would
have to strengthen up his pitching de
partment and he has had his scouts out
looking for a couple of good ones. He
tried to get Walter Clarkson, but the
deal fell through and there was the same
result in the case of several other twir
lers that he tried to secure. It will not
be his fault if he doesn't land a good
man, for he is willing to pay the price.
The McCredies are just as anxious to
give the fans a winning team as the
fans are to have one. The team as it
stands now. with the exception of its
shattered pitching department, is about
as good as any minor league team in
the country. If Portland had five good
slabsters working right up to the handle,
I..OE Angeles would not be riding on top of
the percentage column.
Every team in the league has taken its
slump, and the worst off in the bunch
were the Seals. They toppled from a big
lead to the cellar. Oakland followed next,
and perhaps It is Portland's turn. We
may have a hard time taking games down
South, but the fans want to remember
that when the three weeks abroad are
over, we will come home for five. By
this time McCredie will have enough
pitchers on hand to put Johnson back on
third and Ryan in the outfield. This
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will give the team the benefit of John
son's hitting, which was. just getting good,
and we will have Manager Mac to fall
back on in the pinches. Because Johnson
was forced to pitch Casey had to go back
Into the game before he had fully recov
ered from his illness, and his hasn't
helped us much.
SO BETTLXG OX BOAT IIACES
Poughkeepsle AVIU Restrain College
Men's Gambling Enthusiasm.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y-, June 20.
Betting on the result of the intercol
legiate boat races on Saturday next
will be made difficult In this city by
Mayor Sague's instructions to the po
lice to prohibit the selling of pools and
bookmaki'ng on the races, which has
been practiced at previous races.
The Agnew-Hart anti-gambling laws,
which recently passed the Legislature,
it is held, apply to betting on all con
tests. The Chief of Police declares
that the law will be enforced.
The observation train will run on the
opposite side of the river, where en
forcement of the law rests with the
Sheriff of Ulster County.
CMt-Ctiat ol Sporting
World
BY WILL, G. MAC KAti.
THAT 15-inning game must have been
a lively affair. Babe Danzig had a
bad day, messing two shots that helped
the Oaks. Jesse Garrett broke a record
when he lined out a single that scored
three runners. It seems also that all the
players were on the prod.
When Manager Mac was asked by a San
Francisco scribe about the Henderson
matter, Mac was as shy and coy as
Wordsworth's little maiden. "It's up to
the National Commission, sir, he said,"
and then began to talk about something
else.
Stanley Ketchel Is out after Eastern
money. He has agreed to meet any mid
dleweight in the game in a 10-round bat
tle. If he meets and beats Hugo Kelly
at least one of the pretenders will be out
of the runnings ,
"While the fans .are talking about the
close race in the National and American
Leagues, they must remember that we
have a good show of our own in the
Coast League. Our race is as tight as
any of them.
Officials of the Bennlngs racetrack at
Af,D SOS AND I'MTED STATES SENATOR WARREN, CHAIRMAN MILITARY
WILL FIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO
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Washington will try to give a betless
race meeting this Fall. Hat pools bid
faJr to become popular among the states
men during the meeting.
Some ball players are without a sense
of humor. The other day "Germany"
Schaefer, of the Detroit Tigers, took a
wallop at a Canadian because he had
disparaging comparisons to make as to
the merits of baseball and cricket.
The way the authorities have closed in
on betting on horse racing should be a
warning to the baseball magnates
throughout the country. Now Us the time
to choke off the tendency of betting on
ball games, even if they have to use a
steel grip. This warning should be heed-s
ed right here at home.
At Sheepshead Bay.
SHEEPSHEAD BAY, N. Y., June 20.
Results of races:
Six and half furlongs Timber won, Sar
acinesca second. Far West third; time,
1:20 2-5.
About two miles, steeplechase Bayonet
won, Thistledale second, T. S. Martin
third: time, 4:05 2-5.
Five furlongs Mediant won. High
Kange second. Casque third; time, 1 3-5.
The Tidal, mile and quarter Colin won,
Dorante second, Stamina third: time, 2:04.
Mile and three-sixteenths Turf course
Brother Jonathan won, Flavlgny second,
Sea Wolf third; time, 2:01 3-5.
Mile The Wrestler won. Rockstone sec
ond, Tom Dolan third: flrae. i:39 3-5.
At Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI. June 20.-Results:
Five furlongs J. H.- Reed won, Ad
monish second, Lillian Ray third; time,
1:00 4-5.
Five and half furlongs Direct won,
Semproni second, Transform third; time,
1:07 4-5.
Six furlongs Berwick won, Ellen A.
Dale second. Dainty Dame third; time,
1:12 4-5.
Mile Sir Huon won. Kercheval sec
ond, W. T. Overton third; time, 1:38.
VISIT THE ACME PARLORS
Headquarters for Baseball Returns
and Fans. "
The Acme billiard and pool parlors, op
posite The Oregonlan, which have been
opened by Brown & McCredie, are the
most elaborate in the West and arrange
ments have been made to hfte the base
ball returns promptly bulletined.
This will be headduarters for the Port
land and other baseball teams, and nat
urally the many local patrons of the
game. The Acme has 35 fine pool and
billiard tables and the latest equipment
to make it the finest In the land.
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HYPNOTISM TRIED OX BATTER
WITH SUCCESS.
Lack of Lemon Loses Game Auto
matic Phonograph Coach Sock
alexls' Disastrous Drive.
Leon Dieppe, the hypnotio pitcher, has
Just Injected a new and startling feature
into the game this season, and, while It
is as yet too early to draw any conclu
sions, still, on the surface, it looks as
though hypnotism will play an Important
part in baseball of the future.
Prof. Dieppe contended that with the
spit ball the art of pitching had reached
its limit, and it was time to turn from
twisting the ball to confusing the batter.
He gave a demonstration of his ability
in this line last Friday before a large
audience, says the Philadelphia North
American.
Taking his place in the box, he an
nounced that the best he could do was to
throw a. straight ball, and not very)
straight at that.
He then looked the man with the stick
straight in the eye, made a few motions
with his arms and tossed the ball. The
batsman was plainly hypnotized, and, al
though the bail was a good 14 inches
away, he made a Jab at It.
In quirk order the professor struck out
five men. There was only one difficult
subject in the lot, and he 'was so nearly
under the baneful influence that he could
hit only a pop fly.
Pitcher Harry Landls yesterday lost a
game of ball, played on the South Side,
through one of the most contemptible
tricks ever worked on a diamond.
His team was engaged in a thrilling
contest with a Homestead nine, and he
was relied upon to win out. being a spit
ball artist Oi no mean ability. When in
condition he was exceptionally puzzling,
and the only thing that prevented him
from getting a place in one of the big
leagues was the email size of his salivary
glands.
Landls, unfortunately, went into the
game with little reserve energy, but he
knew a trick or two. and he carried in
his blouse a fine, laV-ge, juicy lime. That
i3, he thought he carried it.
Along about the seventh inning he felt
constrained to aid nature, and he reached
for the fruit. Horror seized him, for
when he bit into it he discovered that
an enemy had substituted a yellow
painted persimmon.
And this took place just at the moment
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when two men were on bases and the
heaviest hitter was at bat. Landls
shrieked for a lemon, hut no person could
hand him one. The other side had bought
up every one In town.
In his desperation the pitcher tried a
drink of water, but that had been doped
with an iron extract. He was foiled and
the game was lost.
Unfortunately, Doc Powers, the famous
coach, was not able to witness the test
yesterday of his patent automaton coach,
which, It is predicted by both leagues,
will result in the conserving of a tre
mendous amount of energy among base
ball men.
It Is a very complicated contrivance,
operated by electricity, and it combines
features of the phonograph and mega
phone. In size It Is about as large as a
camp meeting organ, which it resembles.
A further resemblance is in the key
board; upon which the coach gives his
signals.
Instead of this individual wasting his
lung power and nerve force by shrieking
and standing on his head, he quietly
seats himself upon a camp stool at the
Bide line, and, by pressing the keys,
causes the automaton to call out: "Play
off," "steady," "back up,'' and other
suggestions that are needful. There is
one large key which concentrates the
entire power of the machine into one
terrifying yell "S-L-I-D-E!"
Powers will be gratified to learn tha4
In the test his machine worked without
a hitch. The only unfortunate happen
ing was that a green hand depressed
the long lever at a critical moment and a
double play was made. However, that is
credited up to human frailty and not to
any defect in the automaton.
Sockalexls, the famous Indian baseball
player, once made a long hit that caused
the death of an inventor. The ball did
not hit him, but it broke his heart, which,
after all. amounted to the came thing.
The Indian was playing with his team
in Worcester and when the game was In
nroeress a nice old gentleman who had
devised a perpetual motion machine, was
in an adjoining lot beyond the center
field fence explaining his device to sev
eral prospective investors.
He felt safe there. No person ha ever
got a ball over the fence, and the
chances of the Inventor's party being
broken up were remote.
About the time everything was in read
iness to operate the mechanism Socka
lexls came to the plate. He caught the
ball squarely and it went whirring into
the air, high above second Dase, Deyono.
center field, over the fence, and it
dropped right into the cylinder of the per
petual motion machine, smashing it to
manv bits.
Utterly disgusted, the inventor took to
his bed. In two weeks he was dead.
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KETCHEL WOULD
BE A CHAMPION
Has Aspirations for Holding
Belt That Belongs to
'Heavyweights.
FIRST IS WINNING BATTLE
Wins From Man Supposed to Be
Ahead of Everything in Sight.
Learns to Hit Suddenly.
Wins All Along Line.
Stanley Ketchel. middle-weight cham
pion of the world and according to pugil
istic wiseacres, coming heavyweight
champion of the universe, is the latest
exponent of the athletic superiority of
the Irish-American. Stanley was born in
Grand Rapids, Mich. He is of Irish de
scent, and from his earliest youth he has
been Inoculated with the fighting germ,
says the New York World. It has only
been In the last year that Ketchel has
.come into the limelight as a great fighter,
but for more than five years a coterie
of rough and ready Westerners have been
confidently predicting that Ketchel would
some day be the greatest fighter on
earth. -
Some seven years ago, when he was
a lad of 14 years, Ketchel decided that
there was nothing new under the sun and
that all of the greatest things in engi
neering and other scientific pursuits had
been cornered by the high-browed gentry
of the country. Hence Stanley left
school, rebelling against the strictness
of too rigorous mental training and de
termined to become a cowboy. He be
came one of the most proficient cow
punchers on the ranch and still bears the
marks of his early vocation, for he drawls
along with a loose kind of a walk, as if he
were trailing his spurs along the ground
and the unmistakable intonations of the
cattle ehaser still have their place in his
speech.
For a time he worked as a mule boy
in a mine in Egypt. Southern Illinois.
One day J. H. McManaman, who was
then superintendent of the mine, discov
ered a hilarious bunch of the miners
carrying the mule boy on their shoulders
and vociferously hooraylng and throwing
their caps in the air. McManaman In
quired the cause of the unwonted cele
bratlon, and was vociferously told by the
enthusiastic miners that "Tubby, the
Mine Terror," had been "licked" by
young Stanley, the mule boy.
Was a Great Battle.
An eye witness of the battle declared
afterward that it was the greatest fight
ever fought before witnesses. "Tubby
was the bully of the mine, and had
thrashed nearly every man In the place
Ketchel was a mere boy, scarcely more
than 17 years of age, but he was big for
his age, and his already well-developed
muscles were hard as steel. On that par
ticular day he had had a "rush in" with
Tubby, and the bully had taken the un
pardonable liberty of "swatting" the
sturdy mule boy. Ketchell had resented
the Insult by "swatting" back, and only a
thrashing would teach him that he had
been guilty of an enormous sacrilege in
laying violent hands on the person of
"Tubby, the Mine Terror."
That afternoon the two squared off
In a ring formed by pitying miners.
who had vainly advised Ketchel that
he was inviting suicide by matching
himself against the bully. But when
the fight began they quickly changed
their minds. It was in this battle that
Ketchel learned his trick of hitting so
suddenly. As goon as he stepped up
before his opponent out shot Ketchel's
left, and down went "Tubby." He
arose, and for five minutes both whaled
away at each other, until finally the
bully arose and was unable to rise.
It was Ketchel's first fight, and soon
after he left the mine and went into
the ring.
Here his success was remarkable, but
he did not seek to win the champion
ship through newspaper notoriety. He
fought and won, until his victory over
Joe Thomas, heralded as the greatest
of welter-weights, started him with a
rush to the top. Since beating Billy
Papke, Ketchel has been spoken of as
the coming conqueror of Tommy
Burns, and it is probable that Tommy
is quaking in his boots when he con
templates the rapid rise of the young
jveicnei star in tne pugilistic firma
ment. Ketchel Wants More Honors.
Ketchel himself is. not satisfied with
tne miaaie-weignt title. He wants
more glory. He devoutly believes that
he can beat any man in the world, and
from now on will bend his efforts to
securing the heavy-weight title.
He has already beaten one of the
best heavy-weights in the business, the
same being Jack "Twin" Sullivan. Now
he has his eyes on Jim Barry, the Chi
cago heavy-weight, who has been win
ning fights with great regularity. Al
Kaufman, of San Francisco, is another
likely-looking opponent for Ketchel,
and the young Michigander is after a
match with either of these men.
Sam Langford is another candidate
for a battle with Ketchel. But the
new middle-weight champion will do
well to let the dusky Fam alone, for
a while, at least Langford is prob
ably the most dangerous man in the
prize ring today. He has spoilt many
aspiring pugilists' dreams of success.
Langford played with Jimmy Barry in
several of their fights, and when he
eaw that a battle between them would
not "draw" any more, he promptly set
tled, 'the question of supremacy be
tween them by knocking out the Chi
cagoan. But if Ketchel waits one year, he
will be ready to fight any of them, no
one barred.
YALE MEN TAKIXG OX FAT
Forecast of Harvard-Yale Rowing
Events on Thames.
Yale and Harvard have delayed their
time work on the Thames till the last,
and Just a week remains before all the
crews here stop their epeed trials for
their regatta. Hough water has held the
oarsmen back the last week.
Yale needed, the practice to get the
oarsmen into tiptop condition, but is'
grieved because members of the crew
have taken on fat promiscuously. The
Harvard coaches have not heen so sorry
because their eight came here still a lit
tle under the weather from the Cornell
race, in which they rowed themselves to
pieces to get a lead of a dozen lengths
in a two-mile race.
Until the time rowing closes next week
forecasts on the annual regatta cannot
be conclusive, but it is an easy task to
predict at this early date that Yale has
a cinch in the varsity four race, and
that Harvard is the logical winner of the
freshman event. Harvard has a mud
dled four-oared varsity crew and more
changes are expected in it the coming
week. Yale's is easily the best four ever
brought here, and with good water on
race day it should cut down the Thames
record.
Yale's freshman eight is the slowest
the Elis have brought here in years and ,
Harvard's is easily the best. The result
of the two minor events is. therefore, a
foregone conclusion, barring accidents to
shells.
Coming down to the varsity eight It is
easy to see that Harvard has one of the
fastest octets which ever raced on the
Thames. Yale Is just about equal to its
last year's form. Not till Yale tries the
course, next Saturday night, will her
followers know whether the 15 seconds
needed has been made or not.
MOTORBOAT RACES TODAY
Over Thirty Entries for Contests
Among Speedy River Craft.
Lovers of motorboat racing will have
their Innings this afternoon, for the
Motorboat Club will hold one of its regu
lar race meetings. Over 30 entries have
been made, and because of the much-taiked-of
speed of a new boat called the
Wolf considerable interest has been add
ed to the races.
The starting place of the races will he
at the foot of Ellsworth street, and th
bluffs along the river at that point will
be a good place to watch the racers. Tha
course will extend down the river and
pass under the Madison and Morrison
street bridges. The Brooklyn streetcar
will carry passengers close to the starting
pVint. All the boatowners seem to be
afraid of the scratch race, and this is the
only event that is shy on entries. The
owners are waiting to see what their
flyers will do in a other events before
entering them In the scratch race.
Following is the complete list of entries
for all the events:
Alamo, owned by Beeman-SpaldinE-Wood-ward;
Preble, owned by Ted W. Prebir;
May owned by J. Michaels: Venus, owned
by Fred W. Herman; Shell Lake, owned
by J T. TMllon; Judse. owned by fleorK
J. Kelly; Bport. owned by Q. K. Phillips:
Sunny Jim. owned by James R. Wek-h;
Ruth, owned by Edgar Stone; Silver Heels,
owned hy Allan Burdlek; Alta. owned by
Harry Siegfried; Laddie, owned by Dr. C.
E. Walker; Mwrcedes. owned by Henry Lar
Ben; Lonesome, owned by R. H. Jameson;
Flirt, owned by Iacy; Vixen, owned by
John Wolf; The Wolf, owned by John E.
Wolf; Floedha, owned by B. J. Ammrr;
Honey Boy. owned by R. S. Carroll; Sapho.
owned bv W. V. Spencer: Van, owned by
B. VanDatta; Kitty, owned by Charles 05.
Mathlot.
Ambition to Excel Ills Father.
NEW YORK. June 20. Martin Sheri
dan was scheduled to take part In the
Pittsburg games today, but he cut out
the engagement so that he could appear
In his native county's games in Celtic
Park tomorrow. Sheridan is a Mayo man
and he Is in training to beat the discus
throw that his father made at the West
port athletic sports three weeks ago.
when Sheridan. Sr., sent the Greek plate
142 feet 4 inches. That beats Dearborn's
hurl about three feet. Dearborn took the
American record from Sheridan two
weeks ago.
AIRSHIP MAN IN COURT
Bruised and Battered Inventor Is
Arraigned for Fraud.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 20. J. A.
Morrell. the airship Inventor who is al
leged to have declared to prospective
stock buyers that he "would still say
that his airship, the 'Ariel.' would
navigate the air and cross the Atlantic
in one day. even If he lost every friend
he has and spent the remainder of hla
life In prison." limped into Judge Law
lor's court today and listened to an in
dictment against him charging him
with making false representations to
stockholders. He is alleged to have
said that his airship will carry 500 pas
sengers, 40 tons of freight and have fine
accommodations for everybody.
His airship failed to navigate the air
recently, and when it came down dur
ing its trial trip in Berkeley, several
of the 20 persons aboard were severely
injured, himself among them. He now
has one foot in a plaster cast.
The case was continued for one week
and the defendant will plead next Sat
urday. Auxiliary Bishop for Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 20. The Rev. Paul C.
Rhode, of St. Michael's Roman Catholic
Church, South Chicago, received official
notification from the legation at Wash
ington yesterday that he had been ap
pointed auxiliary bishop of Chicago. The
communication was from M)?r. Falconlo.
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