4 . THE SUNDAY OREOO'IAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 15, 1909.
SECOND PLACE IS
GOAL OF BEAVERS
Portland Team Hopes to Fin
ish Next to Seals in Coast
- . League Race.
WILL GO SOUTH TONIGHT
After Donble-Header This After
noon, Club Faces Five Weeks of '
Hard Playing in Cali
fornia Cities.
BI W. J. PETRAIJI.
With the double-header this after
noon between the Portland and Vernon
dubs. Pacific Coast League baseball
will give way for five weeks to the
Northwestern organizaiion. as Walter
McCredle and his braves leave for the
third Invasion of California during
which they meet every one of the
Southern teams In a week's series.
The double-header scheduled for to
day will be the first bargain day mati
nee of the season, and for that reason
should be well patronized. The post
poned game to be played off was not
due to Interference of the elements, for
the "Vernon club, on Its last trip north,
came from Los Angeles and could not
reach Portland In time for the Tuesday
game.
During the five weeks on the road,
MeCredie's players will have to do as
well as they did on their previous trip
south In order to keep In touch with
the leaders, for both San Francisco and
Los Angeles will be playing at home
most of the time. A club on its own lot
Is supposed to have an advantage, and
the performance of the San Franelsco
olub which has won every series played
In the Bay City, would seem to bear
this out.
Will Play With leaders.
When the Portland team Invaded Cal
ifornia the last time It won the major
ity of the games, but on this trip it Is
scheduled to meet both San Francisco
and Los Angeles, which clubs were not
Included In the last Itinerary.
At present the team la going nicely and
should enjoy at least an even break on
the road. However, baseball Is a funny
old game and the boys may take a ser
ious slump on foreign ground. Then again
they may play better bail and gain on the
leaders.
The San Francisco Club has such an ad
vantageous lead that hope of overhauling
It does not loom up very brightly. Still,
only a. few weeks back the Detroit Club
apparently occupied a safe lead of 70 or
80 points, and very few Imagined it would
be overtaken. Yet such has been the
case, and either of two clubs now stands
'an excellent chance of beating the Tigers
out for the bunting.
And It may be the case with Ban Fran
cisco. Since the opening week at Sacra
mento the Seals have not lost a series,
and as all clubs are prone to suffer a
slump some time In a season, the Seals
may yet meet with serious reverses. In
the event that they do, Loa Angeles and
Portland will stand an excellent chance
of overhauling them and making it a
grueling fiKht during the last two weeks
of the season.
While MeCredie's team has not been
batting overly stronsr, the club has man
aged to hold the other teams down like
wise and has profited by good base-running
and the mlsplays of the visitors.
I'sually In the Southland the Beavers bat
like fiends, the slugging of Johnson being
especially noticeable on the road.
Six Pitchers Will Go.
With Pitchers Graney, Garrett. Quyn.
Harkness, Carson and Chenault, Manager
Mac will have a sextet of twtrlers who
win be able to get results. McCredle will
take all six along, for Guyn is a valuable
utility player and can also take his turn
In the box. Chenault has been doing
good work with the Northwestern League,
and McCredle has been anxious to line
him up with the Coast Club all season.
Judge W. W. McCredle finally consented
to the transfer and now Big BUI will
make his debut In the faster league. He
may pitch one of the games of the double
header this afternoon, and If he does the
Vernonltes will find themselves pitted
against something of a pitcher.
The departure of McCredle signalises the
return of Casey and his squad, for the
Northwestern team Is scheduled to meet
the Aberdeen Black Cats tomorrow aft
ernoon In the opening game of a series
of seven. The Colts have lost a majority
of their games during the four weeks
they have been gone, but have brightened
the hopes of the faithful by a few good
games. At Spokane they were slaughtered
for seven straight games, though three
of them were hard-fought contests. At
Vancouver they reversed their fortunes to
a certain extent, but the next week at
Seattle they fell down hard once more,
the Turks taking six out of seven frames.
Commencing with Aberdeen the Casey
it es will be home for five weeks. During
that period, providing they " play con
sistent baseball, they should make a fair
ly good showing. At any rate the fans
will continue to have hopes for a bet
ter percentage at the end of the season
than theynow hold.
LEWIS WOULD TRY KETCHEL
Man Who Whipped Sailor Bnrke
Grows Ambitions.
NBW YORK. Aug. It Willie Lewis'
defeat of Sailor Burke in the sixth round
of what was to have been a 10-round
boxing contest plaoes him In the role of
a contender for the welterweight cham
pionship and will result. It Is believed. In
a fight between hlra and Billy Papke In
the near future. Papke has been sched
uled to fight the winner of this contest.
The defeat of Burke was a surprise to
many sporting men. as It was figured
that he bad the best chance to win, car
rying at least 10 pounds more weight.
Lewis' recent trip abroad, where he
whipped ail the fighters pitted against
htm In Parts, seems to have done himself
good, as the fight last night showed he
lost much of his old wtldness and had ac
cumulated much science. His condition
also has greatly Improved and his friends
believe he "will have a good show to de
feat even Ketchel. Figuring that he can
whip Papke, his backers already ars
mentioning Ketchel as his next opponent.
Scliorr to Re-enter Racing.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 14. Brewer
John Schorr Is again to enter the racing
game upon a large scale, giving up his
Interest In his Memphis brewery, accord
ing to a report published in a Memphis
paper. Recently Mr. Schorr has been pur
chasing a number of young horses and
his colors, the famous orange and black,
have been seen occasionally this year on
Northern tracks. One of his youngsters,
Penn. broke a record last week.
Britain Is at last awakening- to the ab
solute necessity of prrrrm and the hl(chet
kind of knowledge. British universities ars
cnlns li-hntral colleges rivaling the grsat
Germn pciytecrinlra
CHICAGO'S FAMOUS SHOETSTOP.
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TIONAt. LEAGUE TEAM FROM PORTLAND AT THE CLOSE OF
THE SEASON OF . 1BOL
FULL SPORTS SOON
Multnomah Gym and Field Will
Take On Activity.
STRONG TEAM IN SIGHT
Football Prospects Are Bright, While)
Enrollment in Indoor Classes
Is Expected to Bo Larger
Than Ever Before.
The Fall classes of the Multnomah
Amateur Athletic Club are to open Sep
tember 13, and about that time the can
didates for places on the football team
will take up the first practices of the
season. It seems rather early to discuss
football, yet the time is rapidly approach
for the annual gridiron contests which
will soon displace baseball in pobllo
favor.
George W. McMillan, the veteran
nl.v.r haa been selected by the club
as football manager for the coming sea
son, and while he has not yet figured
on his prospective lineup he is satisfied
that the clubmen will, enjoy a successful
season and will be represented by a
strong team. The call for football ma
terial will soon be Issued, and many of
the old-time stars will respond and a
large number of new players will try for
the team to represent Multnomah under
Captain Knudson, who has been selected
to guide the destinies of the club.
In the gymnasium classes the club ex
pects a great increase in members. Ed
die O'Connell. who handled the wrestlers
alone last season, has been selected to
handle the boxing classes as well this
season. O'Connell Is said to be as clever
a boxer as he Is a wrestler, and If he Is,
Multnomah can look forward to soma
successful champions In both sports this
Winter.
One thing about O'Connell Is that he Is
a hard and faithful worker, and. given
sole charge of both classes, he can be
depended upon to bring out the best there
Is In the members. The wonders he
worked with the Multnomah wrestlers
are sufficient guarantee of what he will
do with the boxers. He Is a shifty and
'nKl. fruw a- hlmulf fAnllv rtnfsnAjuiln a as
much lighting ability as he does wrest
ling, and the clubmen are delighted witn
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the prospects of a most successful In
door season.
Among the gymnastic classes Professor
Robert Krohn, who has done so much
to develop athletlo' prowess in the club,
will brlr.g out new drills and exercises.
Krohn is rated as one of the best ath
letic trainers In America today, and his
work among the school children of Port
land has been especially meritorious. His
wonderful success with the young has
been a factor In causing Multnomah to
be recognized as one of the leading ath
letic institutions of America.
Krohn will also take up the work of
drilling business men's classes on a more
extensive scale than last year. Already
there are a number of applications listed
for these classes and more are promised.
With such a prospect In view and the
opening of the season several weeks off
the club Is In line for a record-breaking
season.
Interest in the women's annex is also
commencing to Uven up, and by the time
that most of the members return home
from the beaches and other resorts, the
classes In this department will be In full
swing. Multnomah boasts of a highly
enthusiastic women's annex, which of
Itself Is a big factor in the success of the
organisation.
Arthur Cavin is also enjoying great
success with his swimming classes, in
which department he has succeeded in
Interesting the women as well as the
men. In all his classes the numbers have
Increased wonderfully in the last few
months
SHORT TRAIXING FOR KETCHEL
Fight Fans Think He May Be "Soft"
In Lnngford Fight.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14. Stanley
Ketchel, who has been matched for a
10-round contest with Sam Lang-ford In
New TPork. September 3, Is In the wilds
of Mendocino County, and 1b expected
to return by steamer from Port Arena.
The next vessel from that place will
not reach here until Monday next.
Allowing him a very brief rest, he
could hardly get to New York before
August 22, which would g-lve him" only
a few days for training. This, local
sports declare. Is not sufficient time In
which to prepare for an encounter with
such a man as Langford.
GRIFFIX IS SEEKING FIGHTS
Australian Featherweight Looking
for New Victims.
NEW TORK. Aug. 14. Charles Grif
fin, the Australian featherweight prize
fighter, sailed today on the steamer St.
Paul for Southampton.
Griffin said he would challenge the
winner of the Drlscoll-Moran match,
whioh Is scheduled for September 13 at
the National Sporting Club in London,
but that he would meet anyone up to
142 pounds. He Intends to return here
in the Fall and engage In several fights.
of the Week as
ULUU UIIIMIIU I Ull
ROiTOfiUfH
Engineer Estimates Expense
of Highway to. Hood at i
J $100,000.
HOOD RIVER WILL HELP
Commercial Clnb Proclaims Its Ixy
. alty County to Be Asked to Ad
vance Fnnds, With Reimburs- :
ing to Come Iater. .
Eastern Oregon is to be tapped by an
other roadway, according to the. plans of
the Portland Automobile Club. ' Every ef
fort is. being made by that organization
to secure -a highway ' from Portland to
Mount Hood. s Since. the beginning of Its
aggressive oampaign toward this end sev
eral weeks ago, the Hood Elver Commer
cial Club has come forward and pro
claimed Its loyalty to the. cause. Ac
cording to the plans and specifications
made by C. E. Hamlin, an engineer, of
this city, for the Portland Automobile
Club, the , highway can be built from
Portland to The Dalles and thence along
the river side of the Columbia to Mount
Hood at an estimated expenditure of
J100.000. The most difficult portion of
the proposed project lies In a mountain
canyon BOO feet in depth opposite Col
lins Hot Springs. The i distance to be
overcome and over whioh the highway
will have to be built through the canyon
is nearly for miles. At this point the
road wlU run parallel with the O. R. &
N. Railroad" and alongside the river.
While the cost of construction Is ap
parently excessive, yet the estimate, it
Is believed, can be greatly diminished as
to the cost should the project meet with
the approval of the officials higher iip.
Convict labor could be employed . with a
great degree of safety owing to topog
raphy of the vicinity.
According to the scheme worked out by
President Wemme and officials of the
local automobile organization, the county
could temporarily advance the . funds re
quired to defray the expenses of the con
struction work. The bill for the projeot
will be presented to the Legislature and,
if passed, the county would be reim
bursed for its temporary outlay.
The benefits to be derived from such
an accomplishment, according to the ver
sion of those- interested, would be great,
not only from a commercial standpoint
to the districts through which the high
way would extend, but would permit of
an adequate passage to the present bot
tled up district in that portion of the
state. ' '
The National Automobile Carnival,
which will-be held under the auspices of
the American Automobile Association
and the Lowell Automobile Club, of
Lowell, Mass., during Labor Day week,
September - 6-11, promises to be the
greatest event in motordom this season.
The course is 11 miles in length, and
embraces state highways, country
roads, graded streets and river boule
vards, and in no instance narrows to
points of danger. The route of the
competitors in the S18-mile race for the
Lowell trophy lies several miles along
the banks of the Merrimac River.
The largest automatic gun in the
world was tested recently at Cleveland,
being the first Government test of a
heavy rapid- fjre gun mounted on a
motor car. A Packard three-ton truck
was' used for the demonstration. Lieutenant-Colonel
O. W. Lissack, of the
Ordnance Department of the United
States -Army, and Dr. S. W. McClean,
designer of the gun, had charge of the
tests, being assisted by the Standard
Automobile Company, the Cleveland
dealer for Packard motor cars and
trucks. The gun fired three-pound
shots at the rate of 100 per minute,
the range being three and a half miles.
Shots were tried with the brakes of
the car set and also released. When
the brakes were set the truck did not
move, and no shock was felt by those
surrounding, the gun on the truck plat
form. With the brakes released there
was a slight movement on the recoil,
but no shock. The designer of the gun
recommends Its use on a truck such as
the Packard, but armored for war pur
poses. " s
The officials of the Lowell (Mass.)
Automobile Club are to use a novel
method of selling tickets for . their
automobile and motorcycle races, to be
held over the Merrimac Valley course
at Lowell during the week of Septem
ber 6 to 10. In addition to the fund of
J10.000 subscribed by the citizens, 100.
000 general admission tickets have been
placed on sale through a corps of young
women employed in the cotton fac
tories, shoe shops, department stores
and elsewhere. The 10 girls turning In
the largest amount of money win be
taken on a trip to Niagara Falls, with
all the expense paid by the race man-agement-
The total of highways in the country
is in excess of 2.000,000 miles, or, gen
erally speaking, one mile of highway
for every square mile of land. Only
a small proportion of the roads, how
ever, can be termed first-class for
automobile and other traffic.
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A curious method of defrauding In
surance companies. In which automo
biles played a prominent part, was re-
they Appear -in
cently unearthed In Paris. -The men in
terested, owned .two cars, freshly paint
ed and apparently new, but so old and
unstable that the least . jar would
knock them to pieces. -They were al
lowed to be' hit by other vehicles and
cars, in each case the insurance com
pany paying for the damages. It was
also discovered that the cars were in
sured under different names in the
same company.
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None of the new models for 1910 has
arraeted more attention and commenda
tion than the new. Oldsmobile Special. .
VHTLIj TAKE CP DTST PROBLEM
National Good Roads Convention
. j Will Be Held Next Month.
The tentative programme' compiled
by the National Committee of the sec
ond annual National Good Koads Con
vention, to be held In Cleveland, Sep
tember Zl, 22 and 23, under the aus
pices of the American Automobile As
sociation and other organizations, indi
cates that every subject of yltal Impor
tance to the Sood Roads movement will
be conducted on broad lines. The in
terest taken in the convention by 'the
U. S. Offioe of Public Roads illustrates
the growing sentiment not only for se
curing proper highways, but the de
Sire for improved methods whereby the
most economical system of maintenance
may be acquired, with .the utmost com
fort to all users of the highway. 1
Among these the dust problem looms
"prominent. No subject- at the present
time possesses such widespread inter
est to the motorist, the farmer driving
to town with his products, and, indeed
everyone on the highway, as that of
dustless roads. In this connection it is
Interesting to note that In many sec
tions of. the country farmers are now
.using wide, steel tires, thus preventing
the cutting up Ol orainary rosas, uuo
to the constant use of narrow tires.
The papers and discussions on these
important road problems will be sup
plemented by many practical testa on
the highways in and around Cleveland.
There will be also an exhibition of
i-oad-maklng machinery, the largest of
its kind that Iras ever been arranged
in the United States, affording engi
neers and highway commissioners an
opportunity to study every appliance
used in road construction.
COAST LEAGUE WANTED
PCGET ' SOUND FANS FAVOR
. M'CREDIE'S PIxAN, .
Possible Expansion of Coast Terri
tory Seta Wise Ones to. Speculat
ing as to Significance.
BTW. I. PETRAIN.
eBATTXiB, Aug. 14. (&pedal.)-That
the Pacific Coast I-eague is to try the
expansion Idea, next season is the pre
vailing opinion among the wise ones of
baseball in this city and vicinity. The
visits of Frank M. Ish, president of the
Ean.Frarcisco club, and Judge McCredle,
of the Portland tean, to Seattle and Ta
coma recently tend to bear out the theory
that the Coast magnates are longing to
regain the foothold In , Seattle lost In
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. Against ; their schemes D. E. Dugdale,
of the Seattle club; George. M. Schreeder.
of the Tacoma club,, and R. P. Brown, of
the epokane team, are lined up. This
trio of Northwestern magnates oppoees
the advances of the Coasters, but Judge
McCredle, who left Tacoma last night
for Portland, taking Pitcher Bill Che
nault with him, refuses to state the ob
ject of his trip to the North. However,
the Judge has always been in favor of
an all-Pacific Coast League from Spo
kane to Los Angeles ,andi his attitude
can therefore toe nothing else than for
expansion. '
The Northwestern magnates,- or, to be
exact, Dugdale and Brown, resort to the
old-time threats of outlawry rf the Pa
cific Coast League does not abandon
Portland and give up the Idea of the
Northern invasion. Still, a warm sup
porter of a greater Coast league is found
In the person of J. Newton Colver, sport
ing editor of the Spokane Spokesman
Review.' who does not see any good rea
son for Brown and Dugdale objecting to
a greater league.
Colver is now in Seattle and had a con
ference with Judge McCredie, as well as
Dugdale and Brown, but could learn
nothing definite of the plans of either
parties interested. Happy Hogan, man
ager of the Vernon club. Is also in Seat
tle, and he does not believe that the
Coast League will expand. Hogan's at
titude Is explained by the fact that he Is
a stockholder in the Vernon club, and
.expansion would- mean the abandonment
of his club or its transfer to some other
town.
Frank Ish, if he has been here since
Thursday, when he is said to have had
a conference with McCredle, has' not
been in evidence. Ish has probably re
turned to Portland and will probably talk
matters over with Judge McCredie In
Portland. Several Seattle fans who are
regular patronB of Dugdale's park are
outspoken W favor of expansion.
Johnson Wins at Tennis.
SOUTHAMPTON, N. T., Aug. 14.
Wallace F. Johnson, Pennsylvania state
champion, won the singles cup in the
tennis tournament on the courts of the
Meadow Club here today, defeatig E. P.
Larned. 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. 6-0.
Tarrapata Is Winner.
PARIS, Aug. 14. The Prix des Ger
aniums, run at Deauvllle today, was
won by Vason Carnes' Tarrapata.
An International exhibition will be Weld !
Turin curing the months of April-October,
1011, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the proclamation of the kingdom of Italy.
Retrospect to Cartoonist .Murphy
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Black Champion.
O'BRIEN TO HAVE MATCH
Confessor
Will Fight Johnson,
Eanlman or
Papke Kaufman
Hungry for Revenge Frayno
and Hyland to Fight.
BT HARRY B. SMITH.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14. (Special.)
Jack Johnson has sent a wire to Jimmy
Coffroth that he will be In this city the
first'of the week, and the news haa been
hailed with considerable interest by the
fans, who have had little to excite them
for the last five or six weeks. . Johnson
may have nothing In particular to say,
but his presence here will be worth some
thing, as champions are scarce on the
streets of San Francisco.
Coffroth, Just returned from his outing
at Lake Tahoe, is endeavoring to ar
range matches for his September holi
days, Labor Day and Admission Day. He
has suggested Confessor Jack O'Brien as
one of the opponents and declares that
he will match the Phlladelphian with Al
Kaufman, Billy Papke or Jack Johnson.
O'Brien, after his fight with Jim Flynn
In Denver, went to Los Angeles and It
Is from the South that Coffroth has been
having word with the confessed faker.
O'Brien, according to Coffroth, Is will
ing to fight any one of the three men
tioned.' Al Kaufman declares that he Is
willing to go against O'Brien, but asks
that the fight go at least 26 rounds, re
membering how O'Brien Jabbed him to
pieces In a fight In San Francisco not
many years ago.
Papke, who has been offered an O'Brien
match by telegraph, has not been heard
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from, while Johnson will soon be In the
West and there will be all the time neces
sary to talk business with him.
Some of the wiseacres say. however,
that it will wind up in a 45-round match
between Ketchel and Papke, in spite of
the fact that Ketchel is presumed to have
accepted terms to fight 10 rounds with
Sam Langford in New Tork City on the
night of September 3. They declare that
Ketchel will In some way dodge his fight
with the negro and take on Papke. It Is
argued that Ketchel has a fight in pros
pect with Johnson for October 12 and
that it would be foolish for him to try
to beat such a tough middleweight as
Langford, as long as there Is something
easier In the shape of Papke In sight.
Wolgast-Atfcell Fight Off.
The promised fight between Ad Wol
gast and Abe Attell for Labor Day at
the Mission street arena has fallen
through. Attell, when he was offered the
match, replied that he did not propose to
fight again until November. Attell may
be looking for another match with Jim
Drlsooll, and for that reason may prefer
to wait and In the ineantlme be getting
Into condition.
The Mission Club fights for August 20
will be the only card of the present,
month. They will take place at the
Coliseum and will consist of two 20-round
fights. One will be a lightweight battle
with Johnny Frayne and Fighting Dick
Hyland as the contestants, and the other
will be a bantamweight affair between
Percy Cove and juonte Attell.
The North End Club, which holds the
September permit, was anxious to sign
Frank Mantell with Billy Papke. and of
fered Papke a J3S0O guarantee. The
Thunderbolt refused the offer, and the '
matcn acoordingly went by the boards.
LONG ISLAND HAS WEATHER
Lots of It, Including Waterspout,
' Tidal Wave and Gales.
NEW TORK, Aug. 14. Weather ex
perts are trying today to classify the
various kinds of violent weather which
yesterday troubled all of Long Island.
At. the eastern extremity of the Island
a huge wave in Heconite Bay, described
as a tidal wave, engulfed many boats
and swept away all houses and Sum
mer tent colonies on the shore when a
heavy rain storm was In progress. At
about the same time, and two miles off
the south shore, a huge waterspout
was seen, also a heavy downpour. This
occurred near a fleet Of fishing boats,
several of which the turbulent waters
overturned. It Is believed that no one
was drowned. '
Near the eastern end of the Island a
terrific wind storm, accompanied by
rain, did much damage, sweeping away
the city of tents near Arverne, and un
roofing many houses. The peculiar
weather did thousands of dollars' worth
of damage throughout the island, and
rendered homeless thousands of fami
lies who live on Long Island In the
Summer, either In tents or cottages.
Artificial Cows Soon.
CHICAGO, Aug. 14. A .New York
special to the Inter-Ocean says:
Despite Its denial that It Intended to
enter the field of dairying; the Stan
dard Oil Company broke ground yes
terday at Bayonne, N. Y., for the erec
tion of a J60.000 building. In which,
when completed, will be installed $300,
000 worth of machinery for the pur
pose of turning petroleum into butter.
At 26 Broadway complete ignorance
of the subject was pleaded, but it Is
known that the machinery has been
stored In the works of the Tidewater
Oil Company at Constable Hook, for
some time, and It Is only a question of
months when farmers may be called
upon to engage In a fight similar to
that they waged against producers o
oleomargarine. i
Banker Commits Suicide.
DBS MOINES. Ia.. Aug. 14. John
Blank, head of the City Loan Company,
shot and killed himself at his home here
today. Blank was despondent over ;
loss of $21,000.