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4 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAK, PORTLAND. D E CEMB ER 5, 1909. ALL QUIET UNTIL EWING'S Portland Baseball Question Awaits Middle of the Month. WAR IS NOT: WANTED NOW Belief Expressed. That Permission fnr Club Will Be Given, but Eiglit Team Proposition -Planned for Year abater. n " SAN lteANCISCO.' Cal..' Dec.' 4. (Spe cial.) Until: the return of Cal Ewine; from Honolulu, . ad he is not due until the middle of December, the Coast League will not take any action regarding the re quest of D. 1 Duftdale to have a club representing the ' Pacific . Northwestern League In Portland. Frank M. Ish. owner of the San Francisco club, is favorably disposed toward granting the deslfed per mission, but states that he will defer to Ewlng. Before the annual meeting of the Coasters. Ewlnfc Was Inclined to grant tne privilege -providing the Northwesterners would agree. not to seek higher classifica tion. " Quite evldcntly.;from what Dugdale has intimated,, he is willing to concede that point for the sake of using Portland. If he does, and binds himself to such" an agreement, no doubt the desired permis sion will be granted. . League Xot Looking for War. The Coast League people are not anx ious for another war, but there is no rea son to believe that they are afraid to face the lsue if It Is forced upon them. The Dugdale-Lucas combination can take that statement for what it is worth. It is not meant in the nature of a threat, but simply a plain putting of the facts: In one way, the Coasters would be carrying the war into the enemy's country, but they say they can get all the backing necessary if & fight Is to be made. Tt 1b believed .the. required permission will he given, but that a . deal will be made looking to an eight-team league the year after That is the scheme, for which Ish is most favorable and he wields a good bit of influence If he wants to use it. The Nationals and the Athletics will fin ish up their exhibition games in San "Francisco this Suuday. The attendance has been far from satisfactory and even the most ardent fans will be glad when the ball people shut up shop for a couple of months at least. . . , Although nothing definite has been fixed upon. It Is almost a certainty that Comis key will bring his White Sox to the Coast for their annua) . Spring training trip, which will mean the opening of baseball a month hi advance. New Park for Sacramento Planned. Charlie Graham, who will . control both Coast, and State League clubs in Sacramento this coming1-season, was in San Francisco a few days ago and stated that h ehopes to "have a new park. The trouble with the present grounds' is their" distance from the heart of the .business section.. The proposed park will be on the line of a new electric railroad and will be within easy walking distance. . Bliss Breaks Ankle. .lack Bliss, the former Oakland catch er and last" year with St. Louis, was the victim, of an unfortunate accident this week In Stockton, where the two major league clubs played last Monday. He broke his ankle and will be laid up in the hospital for three weeks. It is also, said that It is quite likely he will be unable to play ball during the coming season. It will be a hard blow to Bliss, who has been improving of late and promised to have a mighty good year. According to some of the major league boys. Honus Wagner will soon be In California to spend the Winter months. ; He has been 'troubled with rheumatism of late and figures that a few weeks on the Coast would do him a world of good. He aims to spend the time- In Southern- California. Howard .Mundorff Is the only. San Francisco player left In the city. The balance of them have all disappeared for the Winter. Tom Tennant. the first sacker. talked of. staying in San Fran cisco but secured a job in the Imperial Valley Winter League and decided that would suit him. Mundorff may also go to the Imperial Valley if the opening comes. Otherwise he will remain here. fORRIGAX IS XOW BANKRUPT Stubbornness Drives Weil-Known Sporting Man to Wall. Talk not or crushed pride until vou have contemplated the picture of " Ed Corrigan in the bankruptcy court, where his own stubbornness brought him, says a writer ' In he Chicago Tribune! Corrigan always paid his debts when he had money. He used to say in those days, and he repeats it so often that the phrase became classic: "I don't owe a dollar in the world that I am not ready and willing to nnv " Corrfgan could have . quit and got out wmi a ciean sheet and a competence three years ago. when the writing on the wall spelled ruin for him and a great loss for those io would-relieve him. of his holdings for 10 times their present worth, but, with three-quarters of a mil lion and a clean receipt ready for his hand, he said, VI won't," and grimly faced his inevitable finish. This was. the explanation he made to a friend, who timidly suggested (all sugges tions to Corrigan were made timidly): "It's a lot of money, I know. It is more money than I'd know what to do with if I ot out of racing. It is more money, than what I have Is worth the way things are. going now, with the rid dance of my company thrown In. As a business man perhaps I should have taken it., but T wouldn't give those fel lows the satisfaction of buying me out There was another consideration, too. f got a lot of my friends into this. They wouldn't be in it if I was not there. I'm not going to quit now..and leave them at the mercy of them buzzards." The old man went "down and out and the friends, he thought he-was protecting fell with, him, but not from such a height or to such a depth. If he had it to do again, he would do it again. That's Corrigan. .' . ItEFEREE'S TOXGIE SAVES PIG Irishman Bungles Count and Negro l'xses to Erin's Son. Con O'Kelly, the Irish giant, who has come over here to wrestle for Charley Harvey, tells a story of a prizefight which took place In the east end of Lon don between a negro and an Irishman. The referee was also of Irish birth, and when, in the first round, the negro RETURN reached the Irish fighter's jaw and the latter's head thumped the boards with a crash that seemed to preclude further contest, the following monologue took place: "One!" fin an undertone to his gasp ing compatriot.) "Come .on, man get up out o' that! Are yez goin' to let this black son of Ham say he knocked yex out?" "Two!" ("Man, . can't yez raise your self and listen to what I'm tellin you? Come on, get up!") "Three!" ("For the sake of your fath ers that bled on many a field,- get up and wipe the floor with this black smoke that's grinning at you.") "Four!".. ("An" . sure, are yez goin' to lie there slapln' while this limb of the devil takes-all the money? Get up, I say, before I pull you up!") . j This sort of entreaty continued until, as the disgusted referee lingered on the final count, the badly dazed Irish pugilist staggered, to -his feet, swung wildly 'at the unguarded negro, and bowled him over' unexpectedly. None too quick, how--ever, for the--ever-ready - referee,- who rushed over .to where the negro was fast picking-himself up and proclaimed : "One-two-three-four-flve and five is ten. You're out, you naygur!" AUTO MEH KEEPING BUSY E VAIX PLACES STJB-AGENCIES IX WASHINGTON. More Clvalmers 3 0s Delivered Mo- ' tor Age Man Here Automobile Show Plans Progressing. - - C. H. De Vaux, of the Northwest Buick Company, spent several days last week arranging sub-agencies in the state of Washington. Two carloads of Buicks re ceived from the factory last week were distributed among the newly-appointed agents. The Keats Auto Company delivered Chalmers 30s to the following purchasers last week: H. J. Biddle. Portland: L. S. Russell, Washougal, Wash.; Dr. B. H. McCallon and A. V. Clay, Portland. F. K. Haskell, representing Motor Age, was a vieitor in the city last week. He spent considerable time among dealers se curing data for the annual issue of the Motor Age, on December 31. Entries closed Saturday for the six-hour endurance derby to be given next Sunday by the Los Angeles Motor Racing Associa tion at Ascot Park, said by the Southern ers to be the best-equipped and fastest track in the West. Handsome trophies and cash awards will be given the winner of the race in each class. - - The annual catalogue of the Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, of Buffalo, is just out and is eaid to be the finest pub lication of its kind ever issued. It is handsomely .illustrated and decorated. A meeting of the board of directors of the American Automobile Association has just been concluded in New York. Reports from the various standing committees were heard. Last Wednesday the officers of the association for. 1910. were elected. Plans for the Portland Automobile Show in the Armory, January 24, are progress ing, according to William F. Lipman. pro moter of the event. .Artists are now at work painting decorations for the cyclo drome. " The new traffic ordinance recently passed has not resulted so disastrously to autolsts as its framers predicted. Out of the large number of arrests made by the police express wagon drivers and truckers have suffered greatest. The Maxwell Agency received a carload of Juniors and a carload of Model E 30 horsepower touring cars the past week. Deliveries were made to. Mrs. John Labbe, Dr. Bristow and George H. Ball, of Ball ston. Bert Dingley; the great California rac ing man, has returned home. Dingley had been In the East but a few months, yet carried back with him upward of $5000 as the result of his short campaign. It Is the intention of Dingley to sell out his garage and agency business in Alameda County, California, and rest for the Win ter. . That the rear light question is becom ing a serious one for motor car owners in this country, as it has been for English owners, for some time past, is shown by the frequent arrests that are being made in Portland and other localities." Careful as-he may be to keep his lamps filled with oil and well trimmed, the owner finds fre quently that the rear lamp has gone out and that he has laid himself liable to ar rest. J. A. Hess, of Portland, who recently with a 2S-horsepower Franklin touring car broke the automobile record, for the run between Portland and Seattle, making the distance of 212 miles in nine hours and 52 minutes, in comment ng on his trip said: "We got a speed over the Olympia . prai ries, registered by a Warner speedometer, of 52 miles per hour. Of course, my av erage speed for the entire trip was not very high, for 95 miles of this road is through the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and grades are so steep, that one almost felt like attaching a balance to the front end of the car to prevent its tipping backwards. One can appreciate what it means to make this spesd." Ten thousand persons witnessed the 50 mile automobile race at 9an Jose, Cal., last Sunday, in which the new White gas oline car came in second, but was award, ed first place, the driver having made a protest against the big Thomas six-cylinder 70-H.P. car. The driver, W. H. Len ner, fouled the White car twice on the turns. Had the driver of the Thomas strictly adhered to the rules, he said, the White car would have easily come in first. ATHLETIC LEAGUE PROPOSED Preparatory Schools of Willamette Valley Talk Organization. ' Representatives from various Willam ette Valley preparatory schools will meet some time during the Christmas holidays to organize a new interschol astlc league. The schools expected to enter the new organization are the high schools of Salem, Albany, Newberg and Hill Mill tary Academy, of Portland. The Eu gene High School may also enter. Promoters of the proposed organiza tion are Priticipal ICIrk, of the Salem High School: Principal Riley, of the Newberg High School, and Major von' Egloffsteiri. of Hill Military Academy. Principal Kirk has been agitating the plan for several months, and the H. M. A. interests are particularly anxious to enter since their affiliation with the Portland Interscholastic League ended. The new league will have teams in basketball, track, baseball and football. Many of the events which formerly have been held in the Valley towns will be conducted in Portland. By pitting the leaders of the Willam ette Valley League, the Portland League and the Eastern Oregon League against each other, the trouble which has been experienced heretofore in de ciding the state champions will be eliminated. OUTLOOK FDR TWO TEAMS AGAIN GOOD i - Dugdale and McCredie . BotH Confident Coasters, Will Grant: Concession. t BOTH SIDES :YIELD POINTS Northerners Agree) : to Be Content With. Class B Rating, Thus Insur ing Support of Frank Ish- to Portland Application. BY W. J. P STRAIN. If Messrs. Dugdale and- McCredie have not been slipped another lemon in the shape of promises from J. Cal Ewlngand his associates, it seems1 quite likely that Portland will again bo represented in the Northwestern League. At least such was the assurance brought hereby- - Dave Dugdale, the Seattle mag nate, after a conference held - with . the San Francisco magnates a few days ago. Dugdale seemed sanguine over the pos sibilities, and left for Seattle well satis fied with his visit to the Southland. Ish Portland's Friend. Frank Ish. with whom Dugdale held a! conference, always has had a warm spot in his heart for Portland, and when he visited this city last Summer he tried his best to eliminate some' of the griev ances held here against the Pacific Coast League officials, for Ish seemed to be a fair-minded man. At the recent Pacific Coast League meeting. Ish voted a,galnst extending the McCredies the privilege of playing a Northwestern League club here, but in so doing he said the only reason he was against the proposition was because Port land would not guarantee that the North western League would refrain from in cluding this city In its bid for a higher rating at the hands of the National As sociation of Professional Baseball Leagues when the reclassification shall come "as the result: of the coming census. Dugdale was willing that . the North western League should concede this re quest in order to secure the desired rec ognition, and on the strength of his con ference with Congressman McCredie. the latter, before departing for Washington, D. C submitted a formal application to the Coasters on the terms mentioned. With the two-club idea in view Walter H. McCredie. who is now solely at the head of the two Portland teams because of the absence of his uncle, has com menced the work of building them up once. more. Walter does not relish this job. for he says he was hardly able to sleep nights in trying the scheme last season. This year, however, he is plan ning different arrangements for he says he will import a manager of considerable ability to handle the Northwestern club. Walter to Stick to Coasters. Walter McCredie had originally planned to take the Northwestern team himself, but in view of the action of the Pacific Coast League in extending Portland more games at home, the tall manager has de cided to take the plum for himself and let the "other fellow" handle the "road sters." as the Northwestern team is quite likely to be if it has only eight weeks out of 24 at home, as will likely he the case If it is allowed to play Portland at all next season. Hitherto Walter McCredie's biggest kick against the Pacific Coast: League was be cause his team was on the road all of the time, or practically all of it, and now that a boon in the way of added games for Portland is extended, he seems satis fied to take another fling at the "gang" down South. Players Are Rusticating. Several members of the Portland team are sojourning In the mountains back of Stevenson. Wash., where they have rented a-cabin from a farmer named Peterson, and Intend to spend most of the Winter hunting and fishing in that vicinity. The camping party comprises Jack Graney, Jimmy Cook-Adams, Charley Armbruster, Ivor Olson and Eddie Von Davey, and re ports have it that all the boys are having a great time. "Dutch" Armbruster came down : to Portland the other day. ostensibly to get a "cargo" of supplies, and the tales he tells of the gang are shameful. "Dutch" wore a handsome crop of alfalfas which would make Charles Evans Hughes ex tremely -jealous, and the tales he tells of the facial adornments hanging to Jack Graney and Adams, if true, are the limit. Eddie Davey has a crop that would do justice to a Salem farmer whose acquaint ance he made once upon a time, and be cause of his flowing twisters, Davey has been styled Count' Von Davev. Graney has a crop that would startle all his relatives if he ever appeared before them, and his grand parents of several generations back on the "Ould Sod" would turn in their graves If they .were aware ,I2,re?n al appearance. Armbruster. In ?.?,.. J'ia.prop the minute he landed In Portland, has advised Graney to keep 19 1 0 Maxwell Jr., 1 2 Including Magneto I .- H x -1-.- 1 s An Xmas Present Worth While Immediate Delivery Model Q, 22 H. P. Runabout. . . , .$1025 Model Q4, 22 H. P. Sportsman's. . . .$1125 Model Q2, 22 H. P. Surrey ', ; $1075 Model E, 30 H. P. Touring Car. .$1650 Model Q3, 22 H. P. Touring Car $1125 Model G, 30 H. P. Toy Tonneau, detachable. $1725 Magneto included in all models. ALL. FRICES ' PORTLAND DELIVERY. . PHONES M 4337, A 4044 MAXWELL AGENCY ?mti5!Z Christmas A FEW SUGGESTIONS Anto Clocks Robe Rails Foot Rests Ammeters Robes Hats and Caps Coats, Gauntlets Horns, etc., etc. Gillette Razors Air guns . 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