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Newspaper Page TextTHESUXDAY OREGOMi X, PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1909. E SERIES uii.lKE A SLUGGING Like Oregon Roses ENDS HERE T Seals, Coming Tuesday, May Inject Same Ginger as Senators. . ' - ' 1 f- - J. CAL EWING THROWS FIT i lO c aye r: n DAY -.-V -Ml-'' He Objects to Tactics of Kxecutive Ofrice of Pacific Const I,eague. How Cmpircs Are Hampered. Mctircevy CoiiimentSecl. BY TT. J. PHTRAIX. TV alter MeCredie's hustling coasters will wind up the redhot series with Sacramen to this afternoon, and Tuesday afternoon the crucial series of the present home stand will be inaugurated with the San FTancisco league's leaders as the opposing cluh. The Sacramento fieri-: has been one full of excitement and thrills, for more good baseball has been tossed into the sse- rles which ends today than in any past baseball series. Extra inning (tames and hard fought, close score contests marKed every day's play, and when San Francisco opens Tuesday the same kind of baseball can be expected. The Sacramento team is a hustling ag gregation at all times, and while Charley Uraham is always a dangerous contender, the Senators do not loom up quite as for midable as do the Seals at this particular stage of the season. Anyhow the fans will get a run for their money against the Mohlerites, and that can be set down as gospel. J. al Kwing has thrown another fit because Walter McOredie cast a little hot shot into the lax methods pursued in the executive offices of the Pacific Coast League. J. Cal says Walter does not know when or how' to tell the truth, but knowing Cal Bwing's pretensions in this art, we cannot help but believe that Wal ter McCredle is, at least more sincere, that is the prexy of the league and the owner of the San Francisco club. Cal (rays he did not have anything to do with the alleged, attempt to entice Carl Druhot to the Oakland Club, but in this particular Instance it Is just another case of Cal Kwing coming to the rescue of Cal Ewing and trying to put it up to the other fellow. EVEN TAFT HAS THE FEVER. - - ... m A BERLIN INVESTS E C GOUR E He's Wrong Often. However, Cal has1 been wrong so many times this season that we don't care what he does now, for we are used to getting the worst of It, and as long as he has his San Kranclsco club to look after, as well as the presidency of the league, we don't expect any fa vors from the irrational one. The San Francisco ball club would be a better club were it not for the fact that the. president of the league is Its owner. The Seals are in the lead at present, but there are other clubs like ly to usury that position at any time In the next few weeks. Cal claims his office does not help the Seals any, and that he plays fair with all the clubs. There Is one thing in which Cal does not play fair; he has never given his umpires any Instructions as to what course they are to pursue on the field. The officials themselves may be hon est enough and work hard enough, but how is an umpire to bo guided when pitted against the San Francisco club, owned by the president of the league, and no working orders on which to be guided? If he upholds the rules of baseball as recorded by the powers that be in the National game, and in so doing he ruffles the feelings of Ernest Alohler and Danny Long, the former writes letters to the latter as secre tary of the league, and where does the umpire get off? Managei Long, of the San Francisco club, is secretary of the league as well, and J. Cal Ewing, own er of that club, is president of the league. Umpires are supposed to get their orders and Instructions from the president and the secretary, and when Kid Mohler's letter-writing propensi ties are properly developed, Mr. Um pire is very likely to find himself the fall guy. Even though the owners of the San FTancisco club do not trouble the umpire, can any conscientious of ficial bear with the threats of Mohler while realizing the situation, whether Instructed or not? To Err Is Human. Umpires are but human, and are as sus ceptible to the praise or roasts of the public as are the players themselves. Yot an umpire is always eiven the worst of it by the fans and the players, no matter whether he is right or wrong, and that is one reason why an official on a baseball diamond should be backed up from first to last by at least one man. and that man should be the president of the league. Eugene McGreevy seems to be the only Pacific Coast League umpire who has the nerve and the backbone to call every thing the way he sees it. and who backs up his decisions like a first-class umpire. He may make mistakes, but so do play ers make errors, but In the long run Mc Greevy ts right a great deal more than he Is wrong. He is also a man who is in demand as an umpire, and if Cal Ewing does not lika his work, he can set a job elsewhere very quickly. JIcGreevy is close-mouthed about league affairs, and will not admit he has not received a line of Instructions from Ewing. He smilingly admits that he likes to work in the Coast League, and says he in tends to stick out the season. He main tains that he can umpire baseball as good as any man holding an Indicator in a minor league, and in this the writer is willing to concede that he can. Mac says he has nothing to complain about in the league, but if he did not have more backbone than McCarthy and Toman he could not make the boast. Paste it In your bonnet that McGreevy ts a rood umpire, and furthermore he is the only umpire Cal Ewing has on his staff, un less Pop Van Haltren develops into a star. Speaking of Van Haltren, it seems a shame that the ereat old-timer should doff the spangles for the Indicator. Still Van may get away better and do better work than some of the Joke umpires, and thereby gain a permanent berth. At any rate "Old Folks" has played the game long enough to know enough about it to be a good umpire. Here's hoping he makes good. Tries to Popularize Sport Which Has Not Yet Taken Hold of Germans. TEUTONS NOT SPORTSMEN Have Taken Up Outdoor Pleasures of Americans and British, Not for Love of Them, but Be cause They're Modern. fore we may expect to find the Grune wald races one of the most popular recreations of Berlin. AUTOS "TAKE" STRONGLY S50QQ Tfl BE PRIZE Washington Questions Report. WASHINGTON. June 12 Interest is marifested In official and diplomatic cir cles In the dispatches from Honolulu toll ing of the discovery of papers Indicating the prospective formation of a conspi- racy among Japanese to wrest govern ment control from the white residents. At the State Department, however, it was said there had been no correspond ence bearing on the subject, and at the Japanese Elubt:ssy the reported attitude uf the Japanese in Hawaii was charac terised as highly improbable. BERLIN, June 12. (Special.) Lon don has its Epsom, Paris its Long champs and now at last Berlin has come into line with its racecourse "Grunewald." There are already race courses at no great distance from the capital at Karlshorst, at Hoppegarten, at Strausberg but none of them lies quite close to the city, and they are all more or less troublesome to get at. Berlin now has a course on her very threshold, and one which can be reached within 20 minutes or so by auto, rail or even on foot from any part of the city. It is a pretty course, lying in tho heart of the woods on the western side of Berlin, with three fine stands, paddock, weighing house and all the necessary accessories. Pavilion for Kaiser. A feature of it is the Imperial pa vilion, to be used by the Emperor and Empress, a sort of roundhouse, with a small lawn before it, perched just above the winning post and a little apart from the grandstand. The pa vilion was built away from the stand by the Emperor's own wish. The course is 2400 meters long, or the same length as that for the Derby: it was begun in the Autumn of 1907, and has cost over $1,000,000, and the soil for it, as well as the grass, had to be brought from a distance- The stand holds from 2400 to 2800 people, and the cost of admission varies from 75 cents to $3.50. The German builders declare that the stands are equal, if not su perior to those at Ascot, and certainly they could not be finer of their kind high, roomy, fireproof, with a broad greensward running along their front down to the rails. In the center of the course, deeply excavated out of the surface, is the stadium or amphi theater lor future Olympic games. Will Horseracing Win. u mie the excellence of the course and its arrangements are on all hands admitted, the question is freely asked. Is it likely to pay? Is the sporting spirit strong enough and widely spread enough in Berlin to make it tolerably sure that the races will be profitably patronized? The Union and Steeple chase Clubs, which have joined forces to finance the course, are naturally confident as to the result of their investment, and certainly sports of all sorts have made great strides in Ber lin, indeed in all parts of Germany, witnin me last aecaae, some years ago the Emperor introduced yachting as a recreation for the wealthier class es ana to promote a love or the sea among his subjects, and thereby brought an annual harvest of thous ands of marks to the town of Kiel. Rowing clubs have enormously in creased in number on inland waters, as well as in the coast towns; football and tennis are rapidly becoming na tional pastimes, and if there are yet only four or five golf links in Ger many, they have sprung up in a very few years, and attract both sexes. Yet the German is not a sportsman after the type of the American, how ever fondly he may Imagine that he is, and however honestly he may strive to be. He follows sport In the ma jority of cases not for sport's sake, as the American follows it, because it is in his blood and bones, but be cause he thinks it is the modern thing to do. But tne taste lor racing, as for sports of all kinds, is making its way as part of the transition that going on in the entire social life of tho Nation, and in a few years there Scheme Introduced hy Cunard Line Proves Big Winner. LONDOir, June 12. (Special.) Last year the Cunard Company inaugurated an arrangement whereby passengers landing from their steamers at Liver pool were able to continue the Journey to London by motor car, or, if they wished, commence an automobile tour throughout Great Britain. This year the White Star line is carrying the idea a stage further. It is announced that not only at Liverpool, but at Queenstown, Plymouth. Cherbourg or Southampton, the" traveler arriving from America can, by arrangement, find a car of , the type he desires awaiting him and ready to take him to any place he chooses. He can "do" Ireland, England and Scotland, or the continent, by motor; and it is not even necessary for him to give directions before his vessel sails for Europe. A wireless message dispatched from -mid-ocean will assure the pres ence of the automobile at the place of landing. The fact that some of the "White Star liners call at Cherbourg will enable the passenger to select that port as the point of departure for a long continent al tour, if he wishes. But the White Star line is already deprived of all chance of a monopoly by the intimation that the French Trans-Atlantic Com pany have a motor-car scheme of their own in hand. They propose to give passengers arriving at Havre from New York an opportunity of reaching Paris by automobile, and as the route runs along the picturesque banks of the Seine and through Rouen, the opportun ity is likely to be largely utilized. The run will probably not take more than five hours. The Cunard Company has. It appears. every Intention of continuing their motor arrangements this season, from which it may be Inferred that the notion has not only "caught on," but that it has a useful business aspect. Another venture In the same direction is to be set afoot by Sir Alfred Jones in connection with the Imperial Direct West India Mall Service. The steam ers running in this line have Bristol as their home port, and it has been ar ranged that there shall be provided there for the use of voyagers arriving from the West Indies the necessary facilities for touring. Already, it seems, many passengers break; their journey to London in order to visit the beauty spots of Devonshire and Corn wall, and the new service is designed to assure regular facilities for this pur. pose. World's Championship to Be Oarsmen's Goal. ARNST AND WEBB TO ROW CHAUCHARD CHANGED MIND Reduced Bequest to Employes $40 0,- 000 After Joining Legion of Honor. PARIS, June 12. It has been learned that in M. Chauchard's will of 1906 he left $1,600,000 to the employes of his store and Important legacies to vari ous societies. In this instrument George Leygues was given $1,000,000. A codicil drawn in 1907 and dated two days after M. Chauchard received the grand cross of the Legion of Honor reduced the bequest to his employes to $600,000, left out the societies entirely and Increased M. Leygues' Inheritance to $3,000,000. On account of the oppo sition manifested M. Leygues has with drawn his offer of $200,000 to the Chauchard pension fund. Tour of World Still Another Induce ment in Single Sculls Some to Be Pulled Orf in Far New Zealand. BOSTON, Mass., June 12. (Special.) Away off in Australia a week from next Tuesday afternoon, Richard Arnst, the wona s cnamplon professional single sculler, and William Webb, ex-champion will meet on the Wanganui River in three and a quarter mile race for the title and a side bet of $5000. Aside from oeing a contest in which a world's title te at stake, the race is attracting more than passing attention among American lovers of aquatics for the reason that to the winner goes a world tour that will include a visit to the United States and anaaa Derore the Summer is Dassed. james . vvray, coach of the Harvard varsity crews and himself an Australian and personal friend of Arnst. has lnot re ceived details of the arrangements. That the race should be on the Wanguani in New Zealand, Webb's home water, in stead of the Parramatta River, with which Arnst is more familiar, is a sur prise to many. As champion, Arnst had the choice of waters and he realizes that on Webb'e home course there will be fairly close betting, whereas on the Parramatta nearly every one is a friend of Arnst. wno would De a pronounced favorite. immediately after the race the world' champion will sail for Vancouver. B. C. with the expectation of getting on a race with ddie Durnan and possibly with Frank B. Greer in this country before sailing from this city for London, where an engagement with Ernest Barry will await nim. Richard Arnst has been world's cham pion only since last December, when h whipped Webb by eight lengths In 19:62 ror the 3Vi miles. Webb was a two-to-one favorite, although such rowing Judges as Bill Beach, Jim Stansbury and George iowns, ail or wnom had held the title. regarded. Arnst as the better man. Nor is there any reason to believe that the result of that first race will be reversed. Two years ago Arnst's rowing efforts excited only ridicule. Well known and successful upon the cycle track, with which two of his brothers are still identi fied, Arnst determined to take up rowing and announced his intention for training HARRIMAN NOT VERY ILL Haa Only Muscular Rheumatism, Says British Physician. NEW YORK, June 12. Sir W. G. Lyle. who is E. H. Harriman's physician, said today that Mr. Harriman was not crit ically ill In Europe with an organic trou ble, as has been reported. Mr. Harri man's only illness was muscular rheuma tism, the physician said. He had advised Mr. Harriman to consult an eminent "Vienna specialist for the complaint, and Mr. Harriman might afterward take the baths at some German resort. Mr. Harri man is at present in Paris. TjOa Angeles, Cal. At tho cloee of a stormy session of the stockholders of the Cordillera Mining Company 1- r1 any, lbarles W. McCros- Sfta, a former Baptist minister, was arrested on & charge of obtaining money under falae pretense on complaint of several of the stock holders, wbo charged nim with, writing an ex travagant proepectua of a mine in Mexico upon which ne solo large oiocKa of etoclc WeinfaarcTsBeer IS UNEXCELLED OUR BOTTLED BEERS COLUMBIA, EXPORT. KAISERBLUME Are brewed under the most sanitary conditions, every bottle being thoroughly sterilized and Pasteur ized. SEND YOTJB ORDER TODAY. We deliver to all parts of the city on the "West Side of the River. On Monday, "Wednesday and Friday north of East Burnside street. On-; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday south of East Bumsida, North Albina Wednesday; Selhvood, Thursday. s PRICE: Eaiserblume, larg size, per case of one dozen, $1.90. Small size, per case of two dozen, $2.10. Columbia and Export, large size, $1.75 per case of one dozen. Small size, $1.90 per case of two dozen. An additional charge of 50c will be made for shipping case, on out-of-town orders, which will be refunded upon, its return. Allowance of 40c will be made upon return of case and empty bottles. Henry Weinhard Brewery Phone A 1172, Main 72 Portland, Oregon for the world's championship. George Towns held the title, but Arnst began training. He watched Towns defeat Eddie Durnan witnessed the transfer of the title from George Towns to his brother Charlie only to have Charles Towns lose it to William Webb in his first attempt to defend it. After Webb had defeated R. Tressidler last year, Arnst challenged and won in a race that was marked by the most cordial feeling throughout. ane race was virtually Arnst's from the, start, although the two men. each rowing 34 to the minute, were even for the first 200 yards. Then Arnst began lorgmg ahead. Dassinar the half mile two lengths to the good and having a lead oi lour lengtns for the first mile in the exceptional time of 5:45. He weighed 1S4 pounds to Webb's 156. Gotham Gets New Bridge. . ' June 12- A week's cele ZL he Penl of the new Queens boro Bridere. arm t. was begun today. The bridge is said to be the largest of the cantilever type in the world. It connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, the Manhattan terminal being at East Kifty-ninth street. The celebration began with a parade of 30,000 members of civic and military or ganizations, which escorted the first trol ley car from Manhattan Borough across the bridge, and was then reviewed by Secretary of War Dickinson, Governor Hughes and city officials in the plaza at the eastern terminal of the bridge. This was followed by a marine parade under the bridge and the opening of a carnival in the stadium in Long Island City. To night extensive fireworks are planned. Toothacha Gum i not only stops toothache Instant ly, but cleans the cavity, removes all odor, and prevents decay. Keep a sup ply and save many a dentist bill. 3 There are Imitations. See that yon. ess Itent'a Toothache tam. pf At &11 drag gij is, 16 cents, or by mall. 1 Dent's Corn Gum X,0.;, ' C. S. DENT CO.. Drtrott. Misfa. A SvtU Affair. r-rTrnil?i:r'iimM iriii imm?imi ij TIES COST $56,000,000 Decrease in 19 OS Due to Check on New Construction. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 10. Eniring the year 1908 the steam and electric railroads of the United States purchased more than 112,- 000,000 cross ties, costing, at the point of purchase, over $56,000,000. an average of 50 cents per tie, according to statistics just made public by the Bureau-f the Census in co-operation with the United States Korest Service. This was some 40,000,000 ties less than the quantity pur chased in 1907, when the total was ap proximately 153,700,000, the highest ever reached. The decreased purchases in 1908 were of course chiefly due to the business de pression which affected every line of in dustry. This forced most of the roads to purchase only the ties which were absolutely essential for renewals and heavily cut down the purchase for new track. In 1908 only 7,431,000 cross ties were reported as purchased for new track as against 23.667,000 in 1907. Of the total num ber of ties purchased for all purposes, the steam roads took approximately 94 per cent, leaving about 6 per cent for the elec tric roads. Winston-Salem, CM. C iJeaae Bunker. deaf mute, youngest son of Chang, one ot t Siamese twins, was killed by lightning Frl- aay in niB luowxq " " ' Going TAKE THE o o No The Line of Safety 3 TRAINS DAILY Via Huntington To Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago also the SOO-SPOKANE-PORTLAND "Train de Luxe" Via Spokane and the Spo Line PORTLAND TO ST. PAUL NO FINER EQUIPMENT IN RAILROAD SERVICE Automatic Block Signal Protects Entire Line Between Portland and Chicago, via Huntington. REMEMBER THE LOW ROUND TRIP EXCURSION RATES , FROM ALL O. R. & N. POINTS. TO CHICAGO AND RETURN, $72.50; ST. LOUIS, $67.50; KANSAS CITY AND OMAHA, $60.00 Next Sale Dates July 2, 3; August 11, 12. Inquire City Ticket Office, Third and "Washington Streets, Portland, or any local O. R. & N. Agent. WM. McMURRAY General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.