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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OREGON1AN, PORTLAND, JUNE 28, 1908. SUNLIGHT Sunday to Grays Crossing by a score of 4 to 0. It . has won eight games. The game will be played on the Lents diamond, and a large crowd is ex pected. "Happy" Wiesendanger. the North Portland shortstop, will be back in the game, and McBrlde will be shifted to the outfield. It is probable that Howard will pitch. BALL GAMES AT CHAUTAUQUA BACKWARD SEASON. . CLEARANCE THEN LIGHT AGAIN FOR STOCK SHOW GLOOM STRONG SUPPORT SiilL.E Portland Fans Anxiously Fol low Career of McCredie and His Men. ABOUT NORTHWEST LEAGUE Comment on Dugdale's Money-Ac-quiring Propensities Seattle Hurrying to Bottom Place. Portland's Fine Team. BY W. J. PETRAIN. Bhadow, then sunlight, then gloom, followed by Joy supreme, has been the fortune of the hungry Portland fans for the last two weeks, or since the cohorts of Walter McCredie, somewhat dilapidated, to be sure, meandered oft to California's promised land for the purpose of assailing the enemy in the foreign bailiwick. True, the gloomy shadows lasted hardly one short week, but the re peated defeats of the crushing variety received at the hands of the mutt bri gade from Oakland mole caused cold chills to chase themselves up and down the portion of the human anatomy the small boy said one end of which was used to sit upon and the other to hang up your hat when strolling about in the outer air. However, Manager McCredie and hln husky bunch of batwielders committed murderous assaults upon the offerings of several Angeleno pitchers, as well as trimming up a couple of the Ancient Athenian Aggregation, before visiting the Orange Belt, and now the volatile, if not versatile, bugs of the home burg are supremely happy in their contem plation of the goodly, fattened batting averages attained by the muchly ad mired hirelings of Billiard Impresario Walter and his ever-smiling uncle, the Jedge. And maybe there won't be a glad some crowd on hand at the Vaughn street lot a week from next Tuesday to welcome the popular baseballlsts home again. Guess Judge McCredie had a bum hunch when he started the erec tion of a new portion to trie grand stand and extra bleachers. He had bet ter get busy and reinforce his fences, for the crowds are likely to do the opening Sunday stunt and assail the barrier. That the Portland team is likely to head the list at the November show down seems more probable every day. Walter McCredie has a collection of baseball talent which can be classed as the very best, except in one depart ment, that this city has ever had as its representative on the baseball map. In the department excepted, pitching, Mc Credie has three as classy pitchers as are to be found in any minor league, but other Portland teams have had as many as five slabsters of equal merit. Would-be advisers to the manager have been counseling McCredie to se rure a first-class left-hander as an ad dition to his trio of star pitchers. A good lefthander would indeed be a line addition to the team, but a "wrong sided" twirler is not absolutely essen tial, providing that the right kind of right-hander can be secured. Besides, it is much easier to secure a good right-hander than it is a left-hander, for the latter variety is exceedingly scarce, and a manager fishing for pitch ers of that kind at this time of year is more apt to draw a deuce instead of an ace, while among the right handers there is but little chance or his being bunked. One regrettable thing is that McCredie did not hold on to Irving Jensen, the Spokane wonder, when he had him last Winter. How ever, this cannot be helped at the pres ent stage of the game, and who could have foretold that Bloomfleld, Harmon, XAkaft and Pernoll were to prove weak ' sisters? Lakaff, had he made good, would have been the very man for the place. He was a big, strong, husky left handed pitcher, built something on the Doc Newton order, but seemingly lacked the requirements of a steady box artist. It was on account of hav ing Lakaff and Pernoll that Manager McCredie listened to the pleadings of the Spokane management and allowed the pet of the Falls City to return, and it has proved a glorious deal for Spokane, for Jensen has pitched his team into the lead in the Northwest ern League. We.ll, McCredie will have him anyway in the Fall, and next year he wiil have an opportunity to pitch Portland into the lead of the bigger and better Pacific Coast League. Now tor a word or two about our Northwestern neighbors. It has been the custom of our Seattle compatriots to roast the daylights out of the Pacific Coast League at each and every opportunity, and hardly a Sunday passes but something detrimental to the Pacific Coast League is sprung by the enterprising critiques of the Elliott Bay burg. These same scribes worship at the feet of the long-ago-exposed Daniel Ed ward Dugdale, the Ballard Beach chicken rancher, who has so successfully bunked the Seattle fans with alleged baseball teams for several years. Along last December the writer was in Seattle and during a conference with Dug dale was informed that he would give Seattle a pennant-winning team this year or retire from baseball. Seemingly It was Dug's usual brand of hot air, and while lie started out with a big four-flush by announcing the purchase of "Pug" Ben nett from St. Louis for numerous and large quantities of the gilt, and of Emil Frtsk and Bill Coy from St. Paul for like sums of the gilt, his splendid galaxy of talent representing Seattle in the poor old Lucas league seems to have fallen down completely, and in a week or two promises to pry the cellar champions out of their hole and serenely occupy that po sition by itself. Fine for Seattle and her Dugdale-worshipping fans. Dugdale has the ambition to become one of Seattle's millionaires, and the only difference between Dug and other gen tlemen of "enormous" wealth on Elliott Bay is that Dug, provided he retains the Seattle baseball franchise for sundry years to come, will have his millions in actual money and not tide flats under 16 feet of muddy water. Dug is too sly to buy Invisible land and as long as the "faithful" of the Northern burg contrib ute their shekels at Dug s cigar box ball park to witness his alleged ball tossers perform. Dug will be in a fair way to realize his ambition to count six ciphers at the end of his bank roll. Dug is the money-getting kid all right, and he does not caro . tinker's whoop whether Se attle likes his ball team or not, and as long ins the poor unfortunates continue to flock in at his gate he will sit back and smile serene smiles of deep content ment. And the Seattle scribes will laud him to the skies as the greatest manager ever. , , Baseball at Lent Today. The North Portland Chair.pions will cross bats with the Lents, baseball team at 2:30 this afternoon. TheTCorth Portland team lost its first game last File Teams Have Entered League to Contest for Prizes. Five teams have already entered in the coming Chautauqua Baseball League, and a schedule has been drawn up governing the contests. The first game will be played July 7, when the Gresham Giants will meet the Lebanon Cubs in the initial contest. All games will be governed by Chautauqua rules, and handsome prizes have been offered for the winning teams. The schedule: July 7 Gresham Giants vs. Lebanon Cubs. Jnlv S OrKm City Aces vs. Spantons. July 9 Mount Tabor Climbers vs. Gresh am Giants. July 10 Lebanon Cubs. vs. Oregon City Aces. July 11 Spantons vs. Mount Tabo-r Climb ers. July 13 Lebanon Cubs. vs. Spantons. July 14 Mount Tabor Climbers vs. Ore con City Aces. . July 13 Gresham Giants vs. Spantons. July 16 Mount Tabor Climbers vs. Leb anon Cubs. July 17 Oregon City Aces vs. Gresham Giants. 1 July 18 Championship g-ame between the leading teams. Hughes "Watches Gamblers. SHEEPSHEAD BAY, June 27. It is reported here today that . Governor Hughes has 12 men here looking over the situation. They are here to see how much betting is going on and are to report to him. Of Interest to Autoists A noiisy car often is the result of loose brakework. . A tire in use will last longer than one that is "laid up." Special soaps are now being turned out to clean automobiles. Motorists of Cumberland, Md., plan a series of races during a local fair in Oc tober. s As a result of the American demand for automobile tires the rubber markets of Antwerp are reviving. To find the capacity of round tanks multiply 'the square of the diameter by the length, then by .0034. Police Commissioner Bingham, of New Tork, has withdrawn the Red Cross speed privilege of physicians. There are 60 automobiles in Greece, 30 of which are in Athens, and gasoline costs 60 cents a gallon. When everything else is right In the sparking system the coil should give a spark at least half an inch long. The road race to be held on a ten-mile circuit near Lowell, Mass., July 4, will be limited to 12 entrants. One part Venetian turpentine and four parts glue make an excellent flexible glue for attaching leather to metal. Cotton wood dipped in a solution of rubber makes a good stop gap for cuts in tires not serious enough to Justify vul canizing. ' At the present rate of increase the Automobile Club of Cincinnati expects to have 500 members before the end of the season. Motorists of Wausau, Wis., have formed a Speed Limit Club to Insure more careful driving and a better ob servance of the law. Statements filed by three candidates In the last Wisconsin election show that be tween them they spent $1600 for automo bile hire. Berlin is experimenting with a steam driven motor bus, to overcome the objec tion to the noise and odor of the gasoline machine. Anthony J. Drexel, the American bank er, purchased a new 65-horsepower car in Paris to use in going to and from a golf course. p - . ri . Wi - , rv(n NOL if rr..";v i : JV"' --S- TT'X.-t '"iV il- .;vr Ut c i i--: t., ' - " - , .i: .... ... , - - - - . ,i i ,nrt-w-, JL&s)is&-t$fM mmmt .CHAMPIONS OP THE NORTHWEST FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, June 20. (Special.) Oregon's track team has won the Northwest championship for three consecutive years. During the season Just closed Oregon defeated her opponents by the following scores: Whitman, 77 to 45; Pullman, 62 to 60; O. A. C, 65 to 57. In the tri-state meet at Seattle, Oregon scored more points than Idaho and Washington combined, getting 68 to 31 for Idaho and 23 for Wash ington. Four representatives of the Varsity team entered the P. N. A. meet and took second place. Members of the team are: First row (reading' from left to right) Merle R. Chessman, '09, assistant manager; Harry Lowell, '09, 440-yard dash and relay; "Bill" Hayward, trainer; Ralph Dod son, '10, half mile; Ormond R. Bean, '09, manager. Second row Walter Mclntyre, '09. weights; Fred Moullen, '09, pole vault and weights; Charles R. Zacharias, '08. weights; Eberle Kuykendall, '08, captain. Jumps and hurdles; Oliver B. Huston, '10, captain-elect, sprints and hurdles. Third row "Famous Freshmen Five" Sievers. mile; Roberts, sprints and hurdles; Downs, half mile; Moon, sprints; May, mile. to STATE FAIR WILL HELP Entries Will Compete for Two Sets of Awards and Expenses Will Be Only Slightly In creased Over Past. With the- heartiest assurance of the strong support of the Oregon State Fair Association and the State Board of Ag riculture, the Portland Country Club and Livestock Association has no hesitancy in declaring that the exposition to be held in this city the week of September 21-26 will be the finest and most complete dis play of its character ever held on the Pa cific Coast. Beveral of the officers of the State Fair Association and of the State Board of Agriculture have been in Port land within the past week and they have shown as much interest in the first an nual meet to be held here as they have in the big exposition to be held at Salem during the week of September 14-19. As a matter of fact the men behind the Salem show are working hand-and-glove with the men who are endeavoring to give Portland the highest class production in the history of the Northwest, The ar rangements for both expositions are such that neither will interfere in the least respect with the success of the other, but, on the other hand, each will greatly con tribute to the success of the other. N Will Help State Fair. The fact that Portland is to enter the lists as a livestock exhibiting point will help Salem; in fact, it already has mate rially helped the State Fair Association from the fact that the stockmen and stock breeders throughout the Northwest will be able to snow their exhibits first at the state capital and then bring them to Portland. The advantage of this ar rangement is that the expense will be cut in two and the amount of premiums awarded will be doubled. This, it is ex pected, will add unusual inducement to the sportsmen of the Pacific Coast. As an indication of the great Interest that is being taken in the Pacific National to be held here, a letter was received by President S. G. Reed, yesterday, from Crouch & Sons, of Lafayette, Ind. They own- not less than a score of high-class stock farms throughout the Middle West and the East and .they were among the leading trophy winners the- two week' livestock exposition during the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905. At that time this great firm of importers had on display several herds of beef and dairy cattle and they carried off the highest honors with their entries in the horse-show ring. In cluding Belgiums, Percherons, Clydes dales and German Coach horses. The Country Club and Livestock Asso ciation will probably secure as Judges for the various divisions and classes the ex perts who have been engaged by the State Fair management. Secretary Frank Welch, of the State Board of Agriculture, yesterday announced the list of. Judges who would officiate at the Salem exposi tion, as follows: List of Salem Judges. IH vision A horses. Professor W. J. Black, of Winnipeg, Man.; Division B, cattle (beef breeds), J. F. Stodder, Burden, Kas. ; Division C, cattle (dairy breeds), F. H. Scribner, Rosendale, Wis.; Division D, sheep and swine, Professor Carlyle, of Oregon: Division E, poultry, R. E. Jones, Nashville, Tenn. The selection of the starting Judge for the State Fair has been left entirely to M. D. Wisdom, of Portland, who is vice president of the State Board of Agricul ture, and the man that he selects will no doubt be asked to officiate at the race meet held here. As a matter of fact the Country Club and Livestock Association UNIVERSITY OF OREGON'S Many Interests Uniting Make Success of Coun- try Club Exhibit. IF YOU THINK BUY Carriages, Surreys, Traps, Stanhopes, Carts, Buggies, Phaetons, Runabouts, Etc., Etc. expects to have a board of Judges com posed entirely of Eastern experts and the list which has been chosen by the State Fair is entirely satisfactory to the man agement and will, without juestion, be asked to act during the exposition here. This will serve three distinct purposes. It will give the Eastern experts a chance to see the character of livestock produced in the Far West; it will mean absolute unbiased Judgment, and, thirdly, it will give the stock breeder of the Pacific Northwest a chance to see what Portland can do as a beginner in comparison with the State Fair after 47 annual exhibits. State Dairy and Food Commissioner Bailey Will be one of the strong contest ants in Division. B (cattle). He has re cently brought to Portland from Cali fornia a large herd of fine dairy cattle, all of them winners of blue ribbons at fairs where they have been shown hereto fore, and he will enter in all the classes in which his exhibits can qualify. Bailey Does Good Work. In addition to this, Mr. Bailey for the past few months has taken the opportu nity of interesting the dairymen in the various dairy sections of the state in the Pacific National and he has received many letters from dairymen to the effect that they will enter exhibits not only at Salem for the state fair, but at the big exposition here. "There is no question whatever," said Mr. Bailey yesterday, "but what Portland will have the grandest display of fancy stock that has ever been assembled in the Pacific Northwest. I have heard from a great many of the foremost dairymen and stock breeders of Oregon, but I have been in communication with the dairy com missioners of all the other states on this side of the Robky. Mountains, and I can safely say that the classes in the dairy VICTORIOUS TRACK TEAM man rimm M OF SHOWING AT THE HORSE YOUR VEHICLE NOW and beef cattle division will be well filled. "It is an additional advantage to Port land, entering the lists this year, to have the great packing plant started right here at our doors, for I have been reliably in formed by the officials of the stockyards and the local packing establishments that their buyers are already in the field work ing up interest among the stockmen of the Pacific Northwest in the show we are to hold. This will Increase Interest not only in our exposition,' but will serve to add impetus to the livestock raising In dustry of this section. "Outside of the cattle industry I find that the horsemen of this state and of adjoining states are greatly interested, and for this reason we may look for the finest display ever held in these parts." STROXG GAME: FOR TODAY Tri-City League Contest Promises to Be Fast One. One of the best games of the Tri-City League season is scheduled for the Vaughn-street lot this' afternoon, when the West Portland club will meet the Woodburn outfit in an encounter which may change the standing of the league leaders. The West Siders are in fine condition and so far have not suffered very materially by the loss of players. The few desertions have been replaced by equally good men. Woodburn has an exceptionally strong team, and with Bowen in the box, is one of the hardest minor teams in the Northwest to de feat. In addition the Indians have been strengthened by the acquisition of Joe Fay, the well-known Portland player, who was with McCredie the greater OF W -I SHOW portion of the season of 1907, and his assistance has added ' renewed confi dence to the already enthusiastic team from up the valley. Howard, the West Side twirler, has won all the games in which he has of ficiated as slab artist so far this sea son, and his opponent-to-be has almost as good a record of which to boast. A good-sized crowd of fans is expected to be on hand at the Vaughn-street lot this afternoon, and while engaged in watching the speedy youngsters cavort around the diamond, they will be in formed of the score by innings of the game McCredie's men will endeavor to take away from the Angelenos down by the Orange Belt. The umpire at today's contest will read off the score of the Portland-Los Angeles game as fast as the returns are received by wire from the Southern end of the Pacific Coast League. The Tri-City League of ficials decided upon this as a means of adding interest to their games in order to get the crowds, for they are satisfied that once the fans attend these games they will become highly pleased with the quality of ball played by the Junior league. Such players as Joe Fay, Claude Schmeer, Joe Mangold, the Parrott brothers, Kirby Drennen, Lavier Shor ey, McElwain, Huddleson and the oth ers of both West Portland and Wood burn are among the most promising baseball talent of the state, and are capable of putting up a brand of base ball of the really clever character. The lineup for this afternoon's game will be as follows: West Portland. Position. Woodburn. Howard P Bowen Antoine c... White Schmeer s Shorey A. Parrott lb Lavior Kobideau 2b Mangold Day 3b , Fay R. Parrott If Michels Drennen cf Huddleson McElwain rf Poland CHANGE SHOOTING GROUNDS Gun Club to Hold Shoot at St. John Instead of South Portland. The Multnomah Rod and Gun Club will hold its regular weekly shoot at St. John today, instead of at South Portland, be cause the shooting ground at the latter place is inundated by the high water, and the St. John grounds have been brought into use temporarily. In addition to the contest for the Inman medal there are two handsome sliver cups offered for the marksmen who com pete today, and all members of the club are urged to come out today and make the contest one of the best of the sea son. Shooters are urged to be on hand as early as possible for the committee de sires that all marksmen have a chance at the two cups as well as the Inman medal, and it may require extra shoot offs to decide the winners. The Multno AUTOMOBILE MOTORCYCLE BICYCLE If you need goods in these Quantities. Distributors of INDIAN MOTORCYCLES NATIONAL R. S. EMBLEM BICYCLES BALLOU 86 Sixth Street HIGH - GRADE, FINE THIfl F EVERY JOB GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE The Sale Begins Monday, June NOW IS THE TIME TO BOY Oil E. 2d and E. Morrison First and Taylor mah Rod and Gun Club boasts of soma of the very best shots in the Northwest, and as the famous Eastern marksmen are at present on their way to this city, the local club expects to entertain quite ex tensively and incidentally to hold a big shoot in their honor. On this account all members of the club are expected to be on hand at today's contests. Archer, Combs S Winters Co. 306 OAK STREET Opposite Entrance to New Com mercial Club Building Automobile Accessories The Store of Class and Quality Everything for the Automobile and Motor Boat Agents for Fisk Auto Tires Use Fisk Tires and Your Tire Trouble is Over Manufacturers and Importers ot Fine Fish ing Tackle and Sporting Goods Spe - claltles for the Trade Only CATALOGUE on APPUCATION BASEBALL TODAY 3 P. M. FRAKES vs. WOODBURN For Tri-City League Championship. . TWENTY-FOUBTH AND VAUGHN 3P.E Come out and see the leaders play. 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