The Sunday Oregonian., October 10, 1909, SECTION FOUR, Page 4, Image 40

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BEAVERS' CHANGE
IS MIGHTY SLIM
Ewing Not Expected to Let His
Seals Give Portland Even
Break in Wind-Up.
ONLY THREE WEEKS LEFT
For One Week McCredle Plays With
Vernon at Home and Then Follow
Two Series In South, One With
Oakland, One With Seals.
BY VT. J. PETRAIN
Three weeks from today the Pacific
Coast League's 1V3 season will close,
and San Francisco seems to have all the
chances for the penuant. MCreJIe's rag
chasers must meet Vernon on the
Vaughn-street lot for one week, 'and
after that will come two weeks In Cali
fornia, when the Oregon contingent me?ts
San Francisco and Los Ane?les. During
the came period San Francisco plays all
three weeks at home, meeting Oakland.
Portland and Vernon.
From this schedule of the final games
it would appear that S?n Francisco has
an advantage that should land Ewing's
outfit in front at the finish, for the only
p?thaek lively to he encountered by the
Sal?. tSe team owned by the president
of the league, will be the series played
against Portland, or sevn games In
whlrh Portland is the contending team.
Commencing next Tuesday, Portland
engage Vernon here, while Billy Ridy's
Oakland bunch hooks up with the Seals
' at San Francisco. If Portland can trim
Hngan's Hooligans for practically a
cleanup of tfc- series, and If Oakland
pets at least an even break with fcan
Franeipro. McCredle"s boys will go to
Ran Francisco in - position to take the
ltad awsy from Mohler's gang, but they
must beat the Peals by the goodly mar
gin of all the seven games.
Chance Looks Slim.
However, in view of the happenings
In Portland's last session with the
Ewing bunch, when they took three
straight games and the president of
the league suspended an umpire on
that account. It. would not seem that
Portland .has "any chance whatever.
Mr. Ewing. holding his position aa
president of the. league as well as
employer of umpires, and Danny Long,
secretary of the league, and manager of
the Pan Francisco club, thus having
actual charge of the umpires, cannot
be expected to give Portland anything
like an even break on the series to be
played In Pan Francisco. The league
officials, who control the destinies of
the Pan Francisco Club, must make
their club win out at any cost, so up
here In Portland we can consider our
boys as nothing better than runners
up in the championship struggle. The
handicap is too great, as It will al
ways be so as long as the owners of
one club, which plays fully one-third
more games at home than does Port
land, have charge of the situation.
In Pan Francisco the Portland
scribes and fans are classed as noth
ing but knockers. Why? Pimply be
cause the Portland baseball enthusiasts
are beginning to awaken to the sitn
ation, and object strenuously because
Portland continues to be a tall to the
California kite.
Best City on Coast.
In baseoall tilere is no better city on
the Coast, and hut few In- the country
which do better In the way of patronage
than does Portland. This city has turned
out the best average crowds of any city
on the Coast. The Pacific Coast League
magnates realize this and will therefore
never consent to give up this territory as
long as - they ran have the say. Mr.
Ewing. .the seliish owner of the San Fran
cisco team, who occupies the dual ca
pacity of owner of the San Francisco club
and president of the league, will not give
one inch to help Portland.
Speculation on. the outcome of the pres
ent season, as well as the possibilities of
next season's circuit, ere indulged in on
all sides. Mr. Ewing and his associates
la the "California Forever Policy" are
said to be contemplating another visit
north. Unless they are prepared to fall
In line with Judge McCredie's eight-club
plan, they might as well save themselves
the trouble and the league the expense of
: the trip. V don't wafjt any half-way
measures. It is either an even, break or
nothing at all.
Jafis Whitewash Wisconsin.
TOKIO. Oct.- 9. The University of
Wisconsin baseball. team was white
washed today by the University of Wa
seda nine, the score being 3 to 0 in
favor of the Japanese players. The
AViscor.sins made two hits and three
errors.i while four hits and .two errors
were recordad for the Wasedas.
Noted Trainer Passes Away.
LEXINGTON". Ky.. Oct. 9. W. W.
Evans, known throughout the country as
Billy Evan., perhaps the greatest devel
oper of young trotters and pacers in the
country, died at his home here last night
a'ter an Illness of many mpntlis. He a
40 years old. Evans developed more trot
ters than any other trainer in the country.
Harry Murphy Pictures the Dasehall Players' Annual
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Colored Man Is Much Heavier
Than Ketchel.
CONTEST MAY LAST LONG
San Francisco Views Coming Fight
Seriously White Boy "Has Slim
Chance to Win Coffroth
Backs Negro Down.
rtr HARRY F. SMITH.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Oct. 8. (Spe
cial.) The Johnspn-Ketchel fight, which
has finally been tet for Saturday after
noon, October 16. has not lost anything
by the postponement. Rather it has
gained in interest, as there will be a
world of people who can get away on
that date, who would have to work on
Discovery day. Tuesday, October 12. Al
though proclaimed as a holiday. Coffroth
soon learned that the laboring people
would not otwerve the event and he de
cided that he would stand mighty poor
chances of drawing a. crowd.
With that idea firmly fixed in his head,
he called in Jack Johnson for a confer
ence and very plainly told the colored
champion what was what. He told Jack
that he would either have to consent to
a postponement or he, the promoter,
would call off the match. And as Cof
froth has no forfeit up. he could do as
he pleased.
For once In his life, Johnson very
quickly taw the point and lowered his
colorp. He said that he would agree to
moving the date ahead, but that he
wanted It firmly understood that he was
rot doing it to favor either Willis Britt
or Stanley Ketchel.
As a matter of fact, the date Is much
better all around and is probably a bet
ter day than even during the Portola
Festival, as attention during the fete
would be attracted elsewhere. The two
fighters are working on a percentage
basis and so they will benefit as well as
the promoter It has made no differ
ence in their training plans, as it has
only made a difference of four days in
the match. Johnson has complained that
he is fearful lest lie might go Wale, but
his condition looks excellent.
Clash to Finish.
Outsiders, I notice, are assuming that
we in San Francisco are taking the
match far too seriously.' I do not agree
with that. Most of the public appreciates
that Ketchel has but a elim chance of
winning, but It will be a clash between
champions and the first heavyweight bat
tle In some time, barring the ten-round
bouts.- Then too, Ketchel has always
been c sensational and spectacular
fighter.
Johnson looks far too big for Ketchel
and ought to handle the lighter man
much as he pleases. For all that, it
ought to be a good fight while It lasts
and as Johnson is a conservative man in
the ring, it -may be a longer battle than
appears on the face of things.
For once In his life Betting Commis
sioner Tom Corbett fixed the odds at the
outset where they belong. He opened
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the price at 10 to 4. with Johnson the
favorite. It Is possible that the price
will go to 10 to 3, but not altogether
likely. It was also announced there was
even money betting that Ketchel would
last 12 rounds and this was later in
creased to 15 rounds.
A contract has already been closed for
moving pictures of the fight. A San
Francisco firm will take them and It will
cost the two fighters and the promoter in
the neighborhood of S3O00 for their ven
ture. If it is a spectacular fight. It will
be well worth while. Jack Johnson de
manded and secured 40 per cent of the
moving pictures, while Coffroth and
Ketchel divide the remaining tO per cent
equally.
The East has already made a num
ber of offers for the picture films,
and the exclusive Hammersteins of
New Tork have secured the right for
their reproduction In New Tork City
Just one week after the fight takes
place. This will be rushing matters,
but Miles Brothers have promised that
the films will be ready for use.
Both scrappers are keeping busy In
their respective camps and. judging
from the interest shown, there ought
to be a good crowd in the Mission
street arena when the bout takes place.
It is the Saturday before the Portola
Festival opens, and intending visitors
who want to see the fight can come
into the city a couple of days in ad
vance. Kaufman to Meet O'Brien.
Al T.-a..rman Intend. tn leave for
Philadelphia the first of the week to
go into training for a six-round match
with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien that
Is to take place in Quaker Town on
the evening of October 27, The offer
came the first of this week and Kauf
man decided to accept. Al thinks that
O'Brien will be easy for him this time
and believes that will help-' him get
back into the game. For all that,
the Confessor will have to be very
far gone If Al is to beat him in the
short space of six rounds, and not
many Pan Francisco sports think that
the Californian will be able to turn
the trick.
The Lew Powell - Johnny Frayne
fight has once more been postponed,
this time at the instance of Promoter
Charles J. Lercari. Lercari has not
definitely settled upon the date, but
it is reported that lie will likely stage
the match In the Coliseum October
29. Frayne is still In the mountains,
where he is doing nicely, according to
reports, and Lercari changed the date
of the match in order to give Frayne
as much time as possible.
The only trouble with any such ar
rangement is that in case Frayne could
not appear at the last moment Lercari
would be hard put to get another bout
for this month.
ROBEUTSOX WINS AUTO RACE
Breaks Own Record In 200-SIUc
Contest at Philadelphia. 1
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9. In the pres
ence of a gathering of spectators estimat
ed at nearly a half-million. George Rob
ertson, driving a 90-horsepower Simplex
car over the eight-mile course in Fair
mount Park today, won the 200-mile race
for the Quaker City Motor Club cup, boat
ing a score of the best cars in the world.
Robertson took the lead early in the race
and held It to the end. His time for the
200 miles up and down hllr and around
dangerous curves was 3:38:68 4-5, which
breaks the record he made last year. In a
Locomobile. Motor followers say it was
as good a race as was. ever run in Amer
ica. Dingley in a Chalmers-Detroit, fin
ished second. Time, 3:44:20. Harding in
an Apperson,' was third. A tire burst aa
he crossed the line. Time. 3:52:17 7-10.
I GAME IS FAKE
West Badly Burtcoed by Gang
of Crooked Wrestlers.
SEATTLE BUNCH INCLUDED
Public Is Becoming Aware That
Straight Matches Are Not to Be
Expected From Curley, Roller,
Olson and Carroll.
BY W. J. PETRAIN.
Joe Carroll, otherwise known as
Ollle Marsh; Bert "Warner, known as
Joe Thomas and several other aliases,
neither of which is his right name,
and a man named Winn Harris were
arrested the other day at Curfew,
Douglas County, Washington, on a
charge of being fake wrestlers and
wrestling promoters.
The reason Jack Curley. Dr. B. F."
Roller, Olson and the rest of the fakers
were not also arrested Is that they
were not present, for this bunch Is
the biggest clique of first-class ex
perts at the great American "square
guy" game.
The history of the grappling game
is .one grand series of fakes for 50
years or more. Sometimes there ras
been a square wrestling match, but
the Incidents when honesty has been
connected with the game are few and
far between. As yet Portland has
escaped the "finer" frameups; no in
dividual has been trimmed to any
great extent by the framed matches,
and as long as the bunch from Seattle
is connected with the bouts there will
be no 'trimmings staged here, because
the public will be warned in plenty of
time.
Bert Warner, the fellow who recently
squealed during a match with Dr.
Roller, not because he was turned by
Roller, but simply to even up a grudge
between Jack Curley, who handled
Roller, and Ollle Marsh, or Joe Carroll,
who' was Warner's backer, is really
Bert Shores, a clever grappler. Had
he not been compelled to do as the
wrestling ring required, he might have
made a reputation as an honest
wrestler. Still, many better men than
Shores have gone to the bad because
they listened to the dictation of the
"big guns" of the crooked game like
Carroll, Curley, Mike Dwyer and Frank
Gotch.
Herrman. of Buffalo, also cuts some
figure in the game, but he is more of
a. silent partner than anything else;
although he gets the money. He has
brought out a new European phenom,
with whom he will tour the .country
and theri.send htm against Gotch for
the purpose of trimming a few suckers
who may be prevailed upon to believe
that Zbysco. as the new one is called,
has a chance. .
Bert Warner, or Shores, has the ap
pearance of a decent sort of a chap,
but he belongs to the gang. Joe'Car-l-cll,
or Ollle Marsh, is absolutely In
wrong. He has been tangled up In
more crooked deals than any. grappler
Retirement and Jeffries' Quandary
ii1ftWi,iMri'rlfttiii-,M- I
now in the West. For a while he was
handling Dr. Roller, but the latter
listened to the blandishments of Jack
Curley, another member of the wrestl
ing ring who had had a row with Car
roll, with the result that the medico
trailed with Curley during a temporary
"misunderstanding" between Carroll
and Curley. This resulted in Carroll,
Warner and Shores bringing out Orde
mann from Minneapolis, and the trlm
mins of Dr. Roller by the latter, who
really did not throw the Seattle medico,
but merely .tossed him to the mat so
hard he could not continue the match.
Since then Ordemann, coached by
Carroll and Shores, positively refused
Roller a return match until Shores,
or Warner, and Roller tangled up, and
the former made public a statement
that he had been compelled to fake
the match in order to get any money
from the Roller-Curley outfit. Coun
ter denials were published by Curley
and his clique in all the Seattle papers,
but the reputation of the whole bunch
is so bad no one pays any attention
to the claims of either side.
It Is to be hoped the wrestling clique
comprised of Curley, Carroll, Shores,
Roller, Olson and that kind is pre
vented from staging any more flascoes
in Seattle They won't 'have a chance
In Portland.
CLUB'S OUTLOOK BRIGHT
MULTNOMAH WILL PUT OUT
CRACK BASKETBALL TEAM.
LOnergan Will Manage Sport This
Year and Quintet May Quit
State League.
When Frank J. Lonergan was select
ed as manager of the basketball team
of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic
Club last Wednesday night the club
men made a move which seems to as
sure a most successful season at the
great indoor sport.
Manager Lonergan is an energetic
athlete and a man of considerable en
terprise, who takes a keen Interest in
all athletic sports. As manager of the
Multnomah Club's basketball team he
will devote his energies toward making
the quintets representing the winged
M winning aggregations. He under
stands the game thoroughly, and, pos
sessing a pleasing personality, he will
undoubtedly be successful in getting
the best results from the material at
hand.
At present there Is some doubt as
to the advisability of Multnomah re
maining a member of the Oregon
Basketball League, and whether this
membership will be continued or not
will ' be decided upon at a meeting
of tlu5 team to be held the coming
week. The principal argument against
remaining in the league Is that there
are too many small colleges with weak
teams represented. The argument used
to retain the club in the association
is that It is. the duty of the larger
organizations to assist the smaller ones
in perfecting the game.
The club will select its quintet from
several of the old standbys such as
Bert Allen, Charley Barton. Vivian'
Dent, Ed ' Morris, Harry Fisher and
others, while , a new man. Van New.
from the University of Colorado, will
help the club team. The prospects are
favorable for a most successful season.
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