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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTXrAXD. NOTEMBEK X, 19055.
GAME IS
VIGTIIV10F GREED
TO CLOSE TODAY
California One of Few States
Where Sport Is Now
Flourishing.
Los Angeles Victory in Pennant
Race Largely Due
to Dillon.
ITS FUTURE IN JEOPARDY
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IndlTidually Bearers Are Stronger
Than Angels, but Management
Was Tnable to Maintain Har
mony In the) Rank.
With the games played at Ban Fran
cisco and Los Angeles this afternoon the
Padflc Coast League pennant race of
1901 will close with Los Angeles again
represented by a champion club. The
Angels have been victorious because they
have enjoyed the tutorship of FranJc Dil
lon, admittedly the best minor league
general In the country.
"Old Stlvertop." as the players and
fans have grown to call him, has the
knack of getting work out of players of
nowhere near class possessed by a num
ber of the men on the other teams.
This Is especially true where the Port
land team Is concerned, yet it must be
remembered that Los Angeles did not
win thta year's pennant at the expense
of Portland. Los Angeles has claimed
the Pscinc Coast League flag simply be
cause Dillon's men were able handsomely
to trim the San Francisco and Oakland
clubs, while Portland had hard sledding
to break about even with both teams.
However, the fact that McCredle'a talent
succeeded In capturing the majority of the
series for the season from Los Angeles
does not lessen the meritorious victory
scored by the Angel band. Of course. It
makes the league liable to the charge of
a "framed race." but rne fact remains
that Portland was outclassed In one de
partment, and one department alone
that of managerial brains at the bead of
the olub on the field.
McCredie Lacks Aggressiveness.
'Walter McCredie seems to lack the one
essential feature so predominant In Dil
lon's makeup, and that Is aggressiveness
that stimulates the players and does not
antagonise them. As far as being a
Judge of ballplayers. McCredie need ac
knowledge no superior, In any company.
He can select a player with the greatest
assurance of that man eventually show
ing class, but when it comes to making
that player give nis eest eirorts to tne
team, the Portland man meets with but
mediocre succcm.
Why it Is, McCredie himself should
know. The reason is too apparent to
be overlooked, for when the players so
cordially dislike their manager as to dis
cuss their grievances In public there la
something radically wrong somewhere.
In many Instances the players, or a few
of the crabbed kind, succeed In planting
the seed of dtssatle faction among their
team, mates, but a good baseball manager
can always prevent such a catastrophe,
providing he possesses the tact and the
coursge to carry out his policies and In
tentions. Baseball players, like children, cannot
all be governed alike. Some need the
Iron mitt, while others must be patted
on the back. Therefore, a man at the
head of a baseball team should always
be one who can read human character.
Such a man Is Prank Dillon, for he knows
bow to handle the b usher or the veteran,
the happy-go-lucky or the crank, and
from each he to successful In getting the
best work at all times.
From an Individual standpoint the Port
land baseball club of 19f should have
made a runaway race of the struggle, for
It outclassed Los Angeles In every de
partment except steadiness and stability.
Individually Portland ranked almost on
the plane of a major league club.
Danzig Has Great Ability.
For Instance, If Hal Danilg had played
on a team under a manager like Dillon
the youngster today would be heralded
broadcast as the successor of Hal Chase.
As matters stand he has gone through
the Pacific Coast League season without
havliwr learned anything aside from what
experience has taught him. This Is so
because Manager McCredie, like a num
ber of others occupying managerial
berths, makes absolutely no allowance
for beginners at the game. Instead of
correcting the mistakes of the player In
a Judicial manner he seems more In
clined to show the youngster up In the
light of a stupid player before bis team
mates ss well as the visiting players.
Danxlg made mistakes, perhaps many of
them, and undoubtedly was responsible
for the loss of some games, but under
a man like Dillon an effort would have
been made to rectify such mistakes.
McCredle's big error In handling his
players seemed to be his Inclination to
crab" at their mistakes Instead of
coaching them In order to provide against
a repetition. The result was that he only
aroused the Ire of the player at fault.
In Danslg'a case the manager also erred
greatly by announcing that another
player would succeed the young flnst
baseman several times during the sea
son. When McCredie learns to curb his
tamper be will prove successful at band
ling players, for Danzig's experience was
not the only case of Its kind on the
Portland team this season.
The Lns Angeles champions of 1907 and
1 earned their victories fairly, yet most
of the credit must be extended the
leader. Dillon Is the aggressive leader of
the John J. McGraw, Hughey Jennings,
Frank Chance and Fielder Jones type;
men who exert every atom of their base
ball knowledge In a game no matter how
close, or bow large the margin of victory
may be. Like the Portland team. Los
Angeles possessed a number of green
young players, but how differently they
played! Compare Brlswalter. Ellis. Oakes,
Fisterly and Koestner with Danxlg.
Whaling, Garrett. Rose and Bran, and
see the difference In final results. The
portlanders possessed Just as much. If
not more, class than did the Angels. Bert
Whsilng was an excellent young catcher,
but had one defect lazlnesa This defect
could have been remedied had the guld
lrg hand been so Inclined." for worse play
ers than Whaling have been developed
Into star performers.
Each Club Led League.
A resume of the Pactflo Coast League
season shows that every club In the
league occupied first place at some
period during the season. San Francisco
usurped the lead at the expense of Port
land during the first week of play. Dur
ing that time the Seals won seven straight
games, and took eight out of the first
series of ten games from McCredle's
squad. The lead thus acquired by Pan
Francisco was maintained until April 2o,
when Los Angeles overhauled the Bay
City contingent. On this date the stand
ing of the clubs was as follows:
Won. Lot- Pet.
I-. A"ete 11 T .811
Pan Frincnoo 13 'I
.uklaml -2
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Sin Frsnclsco defeated Los Angeles
the next day and again took the lead,
only to drop back the following day.
Los Angeles remained at tie top from
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featlns Dillon', men. The etandins of -- HS V - f I'' U f I t f l
the club, on May 9. the second day of , y- . - . L - - ti ; , . t I I v k- .
Oakland' exalted position was as . . . V I VV--; : 4 , E ' f" A, ft ':.. i i "l I . I , J
follows: f " - " f V f"X i V I -s I t J ''f,i
Won. Urt. Pet , , .,5 7ia t 8 H -i f '. 1 ... f:7
Oakland .
San Francisco
Loa Annies
Portland
Portland In Second Place.
On May 10. Los Angeles defeated
Oakland In two games of a aou Die-
header and displaced the Athenians
th lead. Oakland dropping to
third place because of a victory by San
Francisco over Portland. On April 12
the Seals again acquired the ascend
ency by defeating Oakland, while Port
land took the measure m w ViT
and maintained the aavamaeo
May !4. when the results of the day
sent Los Angeies oacit mm
In the meantime Port la n a succeeucu ...
climbing from lest plaoe into second.
This gladsome event took place on May
20, when the etanaings were a. -
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Portland: - t- ta js
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From May t until June 14, Dillon's
. i. ..mlei1 nndisDuted sway at the
top of th. percentage . column b . on
that data tne -
lorn were mads glad by e assump
tion of first place by the McCredleites.
On June 7 Kid Mohlers scrappy
of Seals bit the cellar, where they re
mained for two days, but eventually
evacuated In favor of Oakland. The
standing of the ciuds on
Portland took the lead was as follows.
won. L.t.
Portland . - 29 .BU
Los Anfeles B5 4T0
gan Francisco " 460
Oakland " . .
June 17 Portland was neiu -011
Jf.T.- L .w- eluh. while
seven-ail tie oy i" -"
on the same day Los Angeles wxm a
seoond consecutive victory from San
Fnclsco. and thereby -lnt.uradd
ths lead. The Angels held their ad-
' -r" 1 juneer;v tsrss
Los Angeles opened here with a vlccory
over Portland by the core of J to t
but the next five games wc.o b-...--
to tne wcw'. "v 1 ' ..di
splaced the Angels by a comfortable
argln. On June 28. when Portland
di
wound ud the first series at nm.
left for California, the standing 01 tne
clubs was as follows:
won. ijwafc '
Portland . .......
Los Anssles
Pan FraaciMO ....
.38
SI
85
.551
.521
.474
.4 A3
. . .33
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40
43
Oakland
When Beavers Last Led.
ti- 1 while Portland still occu
pied first place, the cur. mnd,a'm."
unheard-of situation of the tall-end
team having won more B '
leading team occurred. The standing
of ths clubs oh that day was:
Won.
Lost.
Pet.
Portland .
! Angeles ......
Oakland
. .39
. .S9
. .39
. .38
83
8T
40
43
.535
.S07
.4S7
.476
Wanclsos ....
Portland maintained the lead nntu
Sunday. July 6. when aan r rwuj
held our boys to an even break on the
double-header, while Los Angeles de
feated Oakland, giving the Angels an
other opportunity to head the proces
sion. Since that time Los Angeles has
not been headed, although during the
latter part of July Portland made a
bid for the leadt but fell abort by sev-
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eral games. After that Portland showed
only an occasional flash of the spirited
action that marked Its early games.
Portland has won the majority of the
games played with Oakland, as well as
Los Angeles, but San Francisco has won
34 games from McCredie to 32 victories
by Portland over the Seals. This, how
ever, testifies that Portland is the su
perior team of the two, for San Fran
cisco won seven straight games from
us at the start.
Despite the disappointment attendant
upon the failure of McCredie to win the
pennant, let us cheer up, bid the boys
a fond farewell and hope for better
things next year.
RTJBE WADDELL GETS STTXG
Manager McAleer Stalls Erratic
One's Attempt at a "Touch."
Bubs Waddell, who Is not setting the
world afire these days pitching the ball
that he did In former times, is still the
same zealous person, though, when It
comes down to going after the long green.
With Jimmy McAleer holding the whip
hand the big Rube finds the "touching"
game a mighty hard proposition, for Mc
Aleer will not be held up for any money
between paydays unless the holder-up
can give a most plausible kind of an ex
cuse for needing the "kale" before the
time is due for paying It over.
When Connie Mack was handling Wad
dell he stood for a whole lot of these
touches" on the part of the Irrepressible
Rube. Not, with Jimmy McAleer, an
entirely different policy has been adopted
as far as Waddell's "touching" propensi
ties are concerned.
When the St. Louis Club was last In
Washington Waddell thought that he was
due to take a bit of a flyer, and so he
sidled up to Jimmy one evening after
dinner and remarked:
"I guess I couldn't get 10 off you to
night, could I, Jimmy T'
"Why, Rube," drawled McAleer, as he
turned over the paper he was reading,
"you ought to make your living on the
racetrack."
"How's JhatT" Inquired the puzzled
pitcher.
"Simply because you are such a good
guesser." calmly answered the St. Louis
manager, as he buried himself In the con
tents of his newspaper, while the Rube
turned on his heel and walked away,
muttering under his breath.
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NOVEL TEST FOR HUTOS
CHALMERS DETROIT TO HOLD
ELECTION SWEEPSTAKES.
In 1 1 5 Cities, "Thirty" Car WH1 Be
Sent C00 Miles Non-Stop
Against All Conditions.
To most people, next Tuesday means
only one thing, but not so to the auto
mobile world. One of the most original
and unique Ideas ever advanced for
automobile exploitation is a 200-mile en
durance run of US Chalmers Detroit
"thirties," in as many cities over the
country, the test to be known as Elec
tion Sweepstakes.-
While the great political battle is
being waged, these little cars will be
battling with road conditions all over
the. country. They are contests of two
radically different kinds of skill, me
chanical and political, a perfection
whose reward Is public approval. That
Is the primary object of this mammoth
undertaking.
The plan Is for each of ths 115 cities
to enter a car in a 200-mile non-stop
run, nominating observers and making
all arrangements for a thorough test
The starting point and -checking sta
tion In each city will be some central
point, where there will be lots of peo
ple. Records of mileage, gasoline and
oil consumption will be kept and for
warded to the Chalmers Detroit Motor
Company, Detroit, Mich., immediately
after the 200 miles is covered.
Ths H. L. Keats Auto Co., local deal
ers, for the Chalmers Detroit "SO," will
enter a car In this non-stop run. and
will start from the Oregonlan building,
Sixth-street entrance, at s o'clock
Tuesday morning. They will not con
fine the run to the city streets alone,
but will take the country roads for the
most of the distance, finishing the run
at the starting point. Regardless of
how the election goes, the Chalmers
Detroit "30" will go, rain or shine.
Wetflmax oi tio Vrtst
To cap
Mr:
day In ths history of American politics
and the automobile Industry, the suc
cessful Presidential candidate will take
a ride In the Chalmers Detroit "30."
Strong Demand for Harness Horse.
After all, the truest barometer of the
light harness horse world Is the prices
these horses bring. " When ws are able
to sell such young horses as xdlen Win
ter, 2:08, for J50.000 to go abroad, and
George Gano, 2:12 8-4, to stay at home,
for $16,000, we may feel certain that
the business side of the trotting and
pacing horse venture Is in a pretty
sound condition. It is to some extent
regrettable that we are to lose so good
a horse as Allen Winter. His breed
ing has been made very fashionable by
his performance, and as his blood is of
a rather rugged sort. Its use on our
more refined strains would be for the
general good of the breed. There Is,
however, compensation for this loss. We
will get credit for-having sent a good
horse abroad, and should he prove as
good on the Australian turf as he
showed himself to be on the American
turf, he will be a good advertisement
for our trotting horse breeding Indus
try and Its fruits may be shared by all
American breeders. George Gano, whose
price Is said to be $15,000, Is likely to
prove a good investment, for while he
Is a very fast horse, he has been raced
In such fast company this season that
he has been prevented from getting a
low mark. He Is likely to be faster
next year, and as he Is eligible to race
In the slow class, he would look at this
time to have many good races at his
mercy. ;
American Horses for English Turf.
As a result of the anti-racetrack bet
ting crusade in the states, there will be,
an opportunity next season to see how
the best horses of America compare
with the best English horses, says a
London dispatch. The arrival here of
ths advance guard of the new Ameri
can turf Invasion, including James R.
Keene's Colin and Ballot, understood to
be the best horses In America, beside
August Belmont's Fair Lady and Prie
cilllan and the stars of the Whitney,
Durvea and Madden strings, is an event
of the first importance. These, It is un
derstood, are to be followed by the very
cream of the American racing stables.
Following the horses are bound to come
-t American Jockey, and
trainers, so that a comparison of not
only horses, but training and riding
methods, on a large scale is certain.
It is not so certain how these visitors
will be received, as a Kentucky horse
man remarked recently the "average
Englishman Is powerful sot in his way."
This statement is well within, the truth.
The English racing man In particular
Is prone to regard Innovation with sus
picion. He is more than ordinarily sus
picious of Tankee tricks, and it would
not be at all surprising to see most of
the American contingent driven over
the Channel before the season Is very
old.
Attell to Meet Jem Drlscoll.
Aba Attell, the clever feather-weight
champion, will probably have another
International match for the tile on
Thanksgiving day afternoon before
Jimmy Coffroth's arena at Colma, Just
outside of San Francisco. His oppo
nent will be Jem Drlscoll, the English
feather-weight, who has made a splen
did record in England and who is cred
ited with being a better man than Owen
Moran by . some. However, Drlscoll
weighs 126, which Is heavier than Mo
ran by four pounds, and It Is very
doubtful whether Drlscoll now would
have anything on Moran. Moran speaks
in high terms of Drlscoll, and says ha
will have a good chance to beat Attell,
although he Is now around 30 years of
age. Drlscoll Is scheduled to meet
Matty Baldwin at New York November
6, and If he should be able to give any
weight to Baldwin and hold nis own
he will be a very worthy opponent for
Attell. Charley Harvey, who looks af
ter Moran,' is also managing Drlscoll.
Mr. Harvey is still after a 45 or even
86-round fight with Attell, for Moran,
and is ready to bet $6000 on the side
when Abe agrees to a long bout.
BILLIARDS.
The Waldorf, 7th and Washington.
Banker Found, Not Guilty.
PITTSBURG, Oct. '31. William C.
McKee. cashier of the Farmers' Nation
al Bank of Emlenton, Pa., charged with
abstraction and misapplication, was
found not guilty today,
Plunging and Long Meetings Hsve
Done Much to Bring Disfavor
on the Track in Big
Eastern Cities. . ,
BT WTLL O- MAC HAS
Racing In California will begin next
month, and unless the reformers get
into action during the meeting, the pa
trons of the game at Emeryville and
Los Angeles will enjoy a season of the
greatest racing In the history of the
Paclflo Coast. This Winter will see
a great number of the best Eastern
stables quartered at the tracks, which
means that owners of cheap elllng
platers will find the sign "No Stable
Room" confronting them when they
apply for space. '
it is Impossible to predict where ths
present fight that is being waged
against the racing of thoroughbreds
will end or what the final outcome will
be. It Is evident that the game In
American has reached a disastrous
stage. No better evidence of this is
needed than the story that was flashed
over the wire during the past week
announcing that James R. Keene and
several of the most prominent breeders
of thoroughbreds In the United States
have shipped their stables abroad.
Breeders to Sell Horses.
Ths mere fact that they have de
cided to race In England Is not signifi
cant in itself, for all of the men who
recently shipped their stables have
raced in England before. But what is
significant Is the fact that they have
sent abroad the very best of their
racing tools, together with the pick of
their yeasllngs, not only for ths pur
pose of racing them, but in many cases
to dispose of them.
This means as plainly as it can bs
written that Keene and others who
have made racing in America what It
really Is today have made up their
minds that the fight, not so much
against the actual racing of horses
as the American system of betting, has
reached a point where it is danger
ous from a breeder's standpoint to op
pose the reformers. There was a time
In the history of our racing when men
bred and raced their horses for pleas
ure and It was regarded as a gentle
man's game. Then came the reign
of the racetrack gambler and for
years, and In certain places even to
this day, there was only a slight de
gree of difference between the stage
holdup artist and the racetrack
owner. The difference lay In the fact
that the stagerobber wears a mask
and the robbing racehorse owner does
not.
Gamblers Themselves to Blame.
Like the history of the closing up
of open gambling, public Bentiment
has never closed the game out. The
death blow has always been a row
among the gamblers themselves. Dur
ing the past . ten years racetrack
gambling has been at high tide and
It Is about time that the current was
running the other way. And when it
has run out those who have used
the handsome and game thorough
breds as their gambling tools will be
driven to ply their calling In some
other field. Then the racing of thor
oughbreds will again take Its place
as a high-class sport, carried on by .
gentlemen and patronized by the pub
lic. I do not mean by this that a race
meeting of any length can bo run
without betting, but I do say that the
vicious system of American bookmak
lng can be done away with.
The plunger stories that have found
their way into print have done
more than anything else to bring about
the present crisis. 'Around the New
York tracks this was especially so,
for during various meetings held there
it was not uncommon to read of John
W. Gates or some other man of wealth
betting ten and twenty and even fifty
thousand dollars on a race. These
wild-eyed stories. In many instances
undoubtedly true, furnished the re
former with plenty of thunder. Then
to add to the smouldering lire came
the fight that the metropolitans made
when the racing associations began to
curtail their actions and gambling
operations. There was a time when a
membership in this big bookmakers'
association could not be bought for
$100,000. It got to the point where
the gamblers were In 'absolute con
trol and being a lot of money grab
bers, they set out to fight the restric
tions. As a result the organization
was smashed.
Greedy Owners at Fault.
Greed killed the game. Greed among
those who followed the game as gam
blers and greed among those who owned
the racing plants. In their keen anx
iety to get all of the money In sight,
these men have overlooked public sen
timent There is hardly a city of, say
Portland's size for instance, that would
not stand for a 80-day race meeting.
Owners of racing plants could make
a tidy return on their Investment with
a 30-day meeting, but It hasn't been
the history of the game within recent
years that these owners were satisfied
with holding short meetings. They
wanted all of the coin in sight They '
want and have held meetings ranging
from 60 to over 100 days, and In doing
so have stripped the towns dry of
money and have given the business
men a chance to howl. If those who
are In charge of the racing game In
the few places that are left where
meetings can be held would study the
local conditions and govern according
ly the length of the meeting they
give, all the storms that have been
raised against one of the bast of
sports would soon die out.
Long Seasons in Northwest.
Seattle this year gave an extended
meeting and so did Butte. At both
places the game was very popular and
well patronized. But both meetings
were too long for the size of the places
in which they were held. Contrary to
the general belief, a race meeting
never takes money from the place in
which it Is held. It puts money into
circulation and lota of it and the
best part of it Is, the money remains
at home. A oircus or a big theatrical
company will drop Into a town and ,
take away thousands of dollars during
the season and never a dollar of this
finds Its way back. With racing It is
different The money Is spent among
the hotels, clothing stores and with
the feed man and various other busl-
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aro hurt by the races are the business
men who extend creaii.