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THE SUNDAY- OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 5, 1910.
SANTA MARIA, WHERE BEAVERS TRAIN,
IS AN IDEAL LOCATION FOR PURPOSE
M'CRBDIE'S MEN HAVE CAPTURED TOWN AND ARE ROUNDING INTO SHAPE RAPIDLY.
MANAGER DECIDES TO CARRY TWENTY PLAYERS AT START OF SEASON.
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-.'SANTA MARIA. Cal., Marcho. Man
ager McCredie seems to have picked
out the most Ideal training grounds to
he found on the Pacific Coast, for the
weather at Santa Maria since the ar
rival of tho Portland players has been
warm and fair, with bright clear skies
and just enough of a breeze to offset
the heat of a Suumrner sun.
!A11 of the players now here, and
Dearly all have reported, are rspldly
rounding into shape. Hard .practices
are held every day. both morning and
afternoon, and with Roger Cornell look
ing after tho possibilities of sore arms
In his own way, the boys have been
most fortunate in being able to whip
the ball, around every practice as
though they were in miQseason form.
The citizens of Santa Maria, some of
whom are "oil barons." seemingly can
not .do enough for McCredie and his
players, and not a day passes but that
automobile excursions or some other
amusement Is provided to relieve the
monotony of being located In ouch a
email city. Santa Maria boasts of 3600
people, though a certain proportion of
these cannot be said to reside here, as
they are employed in the oil wells IS
miles distant.
Will Vse Camp Again.
Manager McCredie and Captain Casey
re so pleased with the place that they
have practically agreed to bring the
Portland team here again next season.
The weather for training purposes
auld not bo improved upon anywhere.
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and if the big league clubs could realize
the benefits now being derived by tie
Portland players they would send their
teams here as well.
The temperature here is like that of
Portland in August Just as hot, and
they declare that it remains so for 11
months of the year. The large number
of small towns in the Immediate vicin
ity of Santa Maria furnishes variety In
the way of automobile rides that Is
surpassed by no other Pacific Coast
city. Kighteen miles from here and
three miles from Arroyo Grande ia
Pismo Beach, one of the longest
beaohes on the coast, and Wednesday
afternoon Casey, McCredie, "lutch"
Armbruster, Gus Fisher and his bride,
Jesse Garrett, Howard Guyn and the
writer were conveyed In two machines
by William T. Miles and Joe McDonald,
two of the most enthusiastic sports
men of Santa Miifia. to Pismo Beach,
and were driven the full length of the
seashore resort. The party left Santa
Maria at S o'clock in the afternoon
after an early practice, and returned at
10 o'clock that night, stops being made
at Arroyo Grande, Bitumina and other
small resort towns.
Along the route the party crossed
the bed of the Santa Maria River,
which U four miles wide, but absolutely
dry at this season of the year. . This
Is a river which Is a raging torrent
for Its full width one month of the
year, and the remainder of the time is
dry.
Baseball Park Large.
The baseball park at Santa Maria is
one of the best on the Pacific Coast.
It is about the same size as the Vaughn
street grounds in Portland, but has
not the seating capacity. A small
grandstand, capable of accommodating
500 persons, does duty here, but the
right field side of the grounds Is fenced
off for quite a distance to accommodate
automobiles and carriages, and at last
Sunday's game this section was liter
ally jammed with vehicles. Nearly
every business man In town owns one
or more automobiles, and there are
10 garages here. What do you think
of that for a town of 3600 people? ' Of
course a great deal of the business'
which keeps the auto repair shops go
ing is supplied by travelers from Santa
Barbara and Los Angeles, to and from
San Francisco, but the. 400 or 500 auto
mobiles owned here serve to help the
repair shops to a great extent.
Santa Maria boasts of two news
papers, both weeklies, though there is a
large subscription list for the San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles papers. The
Bradley, where McCredie and his play
ers are quartered, is one of the -most
up-to-date hotels on the Coast.
McCredie announces that he will
carry 20 players during the first month
of the season. These will Include three
catchers, nine pitchers, five lnfielders
and three outfielders. The outfield
will be McCredie. Ryan and Speas, all
of whom are on the ground.
Armbruster Is Sensation.
The work of Charley Armbruster is
the sensation of the training camp, for
"Dutch," having played the "high cart"
all Winter. Is In great form, and is
throwing finely to bases. He seems to
have recovered his batting eye in a
manner that Is a revelation to the
other members of the team. Fisher
till possesses the ylng-er and pepper
which distinguished his ca-tchinj? last
season, and both he and Armbruster
keep the young- pitchers working hard
all the time.
The showing- of Charlie Hartman,
who was out of the (rame all last sea
son, is a source of keen satisfaction to
McCredie and the rest of the team, for
the southpaw seems to have thorough
ly recovered from the strain which
caused him to retire last season. Both
Fisher and Armbruster say that they
have, never caugrht a left handor who
has more than Hartman. and on this
statement McCredie figures that he
has the star pitcher of the league in
the quiet, unassuming Los Angeles lad.
Hartman was 22 years of age last
month, and has been playing baseball
j professionally four years, Including last
- year, when he retired, except for an
! occasional game In or around I.os An
. geles.
i The wonderful speed and control
shown by Jesse Garratt at this early
) date Is another source of gratification
to McCredie. The little giant seems
tireless, and has gotten his curves un
der control soonor than any of the
other slab artists.
Gujrn Has Slow Ball.
Howard Guyn has developed a slow
ball, which Casey says is more tanta
lizing than the "Ham" Iberg specimen
when that twirler wore a Portland uni
form several seasons ago. Guyn has
not yet perfected control, though h is
rounding to in such fine condition that
McCredie is lying awake nights trying
to figure out how he will line up his
pitching staff. The tall manager has
so many good pitchers In the camp that
he is afraid he is likely to let a star
go to some other Pacific Coast club
end then regret it all season. Tom
Seaton and Billy Steen are working
out daily, though neither has mastered
control as yet.
Joe Smith has proven something of a
disappointment in the hitting line thus
far, though h? may Improve later.
However, his fielding is so speedy and
accurate that McCredie may decide to
hold him unless Nezel or Perrine
shows mre class." Frank Turk, the
Portland boy, according to McCredie.
has shown more class than any of his
lnfielding colleagues, but is woefully
weak with the stick. Casey is under
taking the task of coaching the young
ster how to hit. . Al t.odell plays first
bsse a trifle too stiffly, and with" both
Rapps and Ort on hand, he has not
much chance to got by with what he has
shown.
The fans of Santa Maria talk of noth
ing but baseball, and assert that the
result of today's game will be different
from that of last Sunday, because they
will have two of their regular players
n line who were absent last week. The
coming game with the Chicago White
Sox. a week from Monday, Is also at
tracting widespread attention through
out this valley.
ALBINA HAS GOOD MEN
CATHOLIC TOVSG MEN'S CLCB
IS OCT FOR PEXXAXT.
Baseball Material Promises Well,
and Under New Manager Team
Has Great Hopes.
Baseball is claiming the attention of
the members of the Catholic Young
Men's Club, and at a meeting to be
held this week a call will be made for
all candidates, and the players will be
Introduced to Ray Kennedy, the new
coach.
"Happy Jack" Helser, president of
the Tri-City League, has been elected
manager, and Gene Flint assistant man
ager of the team. Mr. Helser is con
sidered one of the best qualified base
ball directors In the city. He has pro
duced some real live youngsters, among
whom are Baron Turk and Al Lodell,
who are being tried out by Walter Mc
Credie at Santa Maria. Bert Fitchner
and Gordon Brown are also Helser's
pupils.
Mr. Helser is a convert to reformed
baseball, and believes that brains are
necessary to win games. He Is reported
to have said:
"Give me a battery and the boys will
win by thinking." Gene Flint Is an
aggressive player and an advocate of
plenty of practice.
As the season Is yet early, it can
hardly be predicted what kind of a
team the hustling Albina Institution
will have, but if the experience of the
players means anything, the club will
have a crack nine. Bert Gleason and
Swanson will don the inflated pro
tector and assist the twirlers in solv
ing the batters' weakness The former
learned the . rudiments of the game
while a student at Columbia Univer
sity, while the latter gained his first
experience with a local business college
team.
There wijl be no dearth of pitching
material, and the foremost twirler prob
ably will be Wolfe, of the University
of Idaho. George Sullivan, a southpaw
from Gonzaga College, has his name
11 the club roster and will be out
with the team in a week or two. Cook,
Hedrick and Duffy will also make a
bid for the elevated station.
Tom Crowley, King Zander, Jimmy
Ahern, Kee, Flint, Davidson, Hutchlns
and Dooley -are infield possibilities.
Hughes. Sil Eulrich, Ray Thomas and
Ward are in line for the garden posi
tions. Manager Helser has commissioned
Donnie Donnerberg to arrange a sched
ule with the various college managers
and. he will attend to all the local con
tests. Hard practice will commence as
soon as the weather permits. The ath
letic park at Williams avenue and Mor
ris street will be put into first class
condition, the Infield skinned and the
outfield grassed over.
TINKER TALKS OF TRAINING
Former Portland Player Tells How
Managers Worked Men.
Joe Tinker, who played third base
tor the Portland team in 1902, when
Jack Grim was manager, and who has
since attained fame as a shortstop
with the Chicago Nationals, thinks
managers in general have learned how
to train their players. In giving a
bit of his -experience to a St. Louis
sporting Journal recently he said:.
T am g)d that the managers of ball, clubs
have learned how to train ihir player. There
ms a time when riall players were worn out
throush hard work -before the season started.
I remember the 0eaexin I broke In with the
Denver club; in fact, I will never forg-et it.
I worked pretty hard during- the off-eeason
in those days, and that year had one of the
hardeet Jobs anybody ever tackled. I was
carrying; a kalsomlne preparation to the top
of a building-, and as I had to supply five
men and the climb wa seven stories, you can
imagine how tired 1 was at the cloe of a
3ay't work. The job was finished Just before
the season opened, and so was I. When X
reported to the Denver club my muscles were
a hard as rocks; there wasn't a soft spot any
place on my body. Then came the worst of
It. There were several players wbo were over
weight, and it was up to them to run five or
ten miles at a stretch to reduce their weight.
I was down to rock-bottom weight when I re
ported, and naturally did not care much about
that runnlnj? stunt. The manager, however,
imagined that .1 was stalling and made me
run my head off with the fat chaps every Oay
until when the .aaon orx-ued I w-a all in,
end I won.-ier that I stuck. Nowadays a
manager works hi men differently.
' Consul lister Maynard, of Vladivostok,
reports the closing at that Piberlan port
of the branch of a Chicago meat-packing-company,
ss it has -been derided that tlie
market is lost to the firm, due to the Ira
.positioa of the customs tariff.
SCHOOL BASEBALL NOW ABSORBS MAIN
ATTENTION OF JUVENILE BOY PUPILS
MATERIAL AT HAND INDICATES VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS WILL HAVE FAST NINES JEFFER
SON HIGH TO FURNISH NEW TEAM FOR THIS YEAR'S LEAGUE.
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Candidates for the lnterscholastic base
ball teams of Portland have begun to
practice and with the first lnterscholastic
league game of the season only seven
weeks hence, the coaches of the various
teams will be whipping their material
into shape within the next three weeks.
The outlook Is bright for as presperous
a season of baseball as has ever been
played. Every school in the league Is
turning out more . candidates than usual
and great Interest Is being taken at the
outset by all the student fans. Athcltics
in general have been more prosperous this
jear than usual, and tho interest in the
past seasons of football and basketball
has Increased toward the close because
the championship games were the last
played.
Washington High School had a cham
pionship baseball team last year and
with practically every one of the stars
back. the team stands a good chance of
duplicating the trick. The Ewt Siders
are all the more anxious to win the base
ball championship because they went
through the basketball season without
taking a game.
Jefferson Is Xew Factor.
The new Jefferson High School will
put a team Into the league and thus
make its debut in athletics. The pres
ence of this institution will take away in
part the rivalry between the Washington
snd Lincoln High Schools. Before the
Washington High School came into ex
istence the chief interecholastlc rivalry
of the elty was between Portland Acad
emy and Lincoln High.
The Hill Military Academy still remains
independent of the interscholastlc league
and the prospects are not very favorable
for a return to the fold. ,
Portland Academy has in this year's
captain the best all-around athlete In tho
Institution and possibly in the whole
league. Cobb plays baseball, basketball,
football and also runs. In addition to this
he studies hard and has only recently
taken on trigonometry in order to grad
uate with extra credits, so -that ha will
not have so much to worry about when
he enters the University of Oregon next
year. , He la pledged to the Kappa Sigma
fraternity of that institution. Cobo filled
the catcher's box fo the Academy last
year, but this season probably will pitch
unless a better man develops.
Many Lefthanders Play.
Thirty-six men have turned out for the
Academy squad, and 27 of them bat left
handed. Jack Mackie will manage the
bunch. The members of last year's team
in the 1910 line-up will be: Rumelin. short
stop: Wilson, outfield; Morris, first base;
Cookingham. third base: Bert Livingston,
second base; C. Livingston, out field;
Andrew Kan, out field and second base.
Among the most likely new candidates
are Robinson and Staley, both southpaw
pitchers, and Townsend. a catcher. Bach
elder, Reed, Weaver and Sharpe will also
try for infield positions.
Lincoln High School will have several
good Infield men back but the outfield
will be composed of new men entirely.
OLD GAME IS SOUGHT?
WISCONSIN COACH DECLARES
EASTERNERS UNFAIR.
Mass Plays and Other Evils of For
mer Days Will Result From
Changed Rules Is Charged.
ST. PAtiL, March 5. Dr. Charles Mc
Carthy, assistant football coach at tho
University -of Wisconsin, in an interview,
charges that Coach Harry Williams, of
the University of Minnesota, Is leagued
with the "big Eastern" universities to re
form the gridiron game backward and
place it where it was in the disgraceful
days of the murderous old smashing style
of play.
McCarthy has started a movement to
send Head Coach Tom Barry, of Wiscon
sin, East ' to protest against restricting
the forward pass and shortening (the dis
tance which a team shall be required to
advance In three plays or "downs" with
out losing the ball.
Dr. McCarthy charges that the football
rules committee is not "acting square."
"The big colleges have had a. hard time
of it during the lajst few years," he says,
"because of the new rules. Many times
big teams have been defeated by smaller,
lighter, but more brainy elevens. The
great university that could pink out gi
ants in weight could always win against
the colleges that had to make their teams
from lighter men, so long as beef rather
than brain counted in football.
"When the forward pass and open play
were brought in by revision of the rules,
the mass plays became passe, and light
teams prevailed against ponderous ma
chines. Coach Williams jand most of the
big Easterners never likyd the new game
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The old stars In the game will be: "Keefe,
second base; Vosper, third or second
base: Vose. infield; Clay Patterson,
pitcher or catcher, and Joe Turk, first
base. Both of the two latter players
were in the Tri-City League last year
but have been reinstated In the inter
scholastlc league. Turk formerly played
for the Trades School.
By tho middle of this month at least
"60 candidates are expected to turn out
for positions on the Lincoln squad. The
Multnomah field will be used for prac
tice and the boys are going into the
struggle with a determination to reverse
the outcome of the last series when they
did not win a game. The school's first
game will be with Washington High
School on April 22.
Lincoln Has Strong Squad.
Chester Thompson, the captain of the
team, is a pitcher and a member of the
Junior class. J. Gunnell Is manager,
Some of the new players from whom
much is expected are: Briggs, a left
fielder from the Washington High School:
Alcott, short stop from Spokane; Con
verse, second, base from Dallas, Tex.;
TYson, southpaw pitcher from Pueblo,
Colo., and Risley, from Oakland. Cal.
Charles Flneganj the Columbia .Uni
versity captain, is also captain of next
year's football team. Joe Clancey, the
baseball manager, showed his ability dur
ing the past basketball season. The Co
lumbia team has had three weeks' prac
tice already under the coaching of Dolly
Gray, wto had the team In charge last
year. Columbia has always put out a
strong baseball team and does not expect
to take a back seat this season.
Among the Columbia star men will be
Davis, who was the best hitter in the
league last year. Captain Flnegan is a
twirler and Is not slow. William Mc
Allen, probably will fill the short stop
position again. Some of the other most
and they are now to undo the work of
reform that has been accomplished.
"Coach Stagg accepted the new rules in
good spirit and developed the new game
wonderfully at the University of Chicago.
Illinois and Wisconsin did their best in
the same direction, but Minnesota clung
stubbornly to the old idea, and that the
Gopher coach wants to retrograde Is
shown by his favor of restricting the for
ward pass to back of the line of scrim
mage, and to reducing from 10 to seven
yards the distance required to be gained
In three successive downs out in the field,
and to five yards within 25 yards of the
goal line.
"While these opponents of the modern
scientific game cry out their desire for
reformation, they are simply and plainly
trying to put the game back where it was
five years ago. Another proposal of Coach
Williams is his demand that the first
man to receive the ball after it is
snapped back may run anywhere with It,
without running five yards out before
crossing the scrimmage line. This would
put a premium on giant quarterbacks and
allow four big men to plunge into the line
with a smash, wedge or momentum play.
All the small colleges of the country
should protest."
TEUTONS LIKE CYCLE RACES
Bobby Walthour Reports Good Times
on Tour of Germany.
Bobby Walthour, the bicycle rider, says
that the game in Germany could not be
better. Walthour says:
"Bicycle riding is the national sport in
Germany, Just as baseball la here. It Is
nothing to see 45,000 persons out for a
race. And they even pay to see us train.
Our contracts call for us to begin train
ing Thursday, and we must train in pub
lic every day until iunday. On that day
wfl race. They have cement tracks'
abroad, and six or seven motor-paced
riders will take .part in one race. It is
pretty exciting, too."
Walthour sld his Atlanta home and
may live permanently in Germany.
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likely candidates are: Heywood. thir
base; Malarkey. Reed and Perkins, pitch
ers; Cochran, all-star basketball player,
and Harris, for first base: Shannon, sec
ond base: Gakey. short stop; C. Perkin.
V. Perkins and Bradley for the outfield.
The Jefferson High team will have
Karl Arthur for captain and Ralph
Staehll for manager. Arthur, like thre
of the other captains In the league, is a
twirler. Roy Heater, formerly of the
University of Oregon, has been engaged
as coach.
Kin Urounds Assured.
Most of the players will be drawn from
boys who were members of grammar
school teams last year. Among these will
be Brady, Lind and Arthur, of the 190S
champion Williams-avenue School team,
and the Hastings brothers, and Campion,
of last year's Holladay School nine. Mover
Cole, formerly of II. M. A.. Is thought
to have the third base cinched. Other
-candidates for the Jefferson team are:
Catterlln. Barnes. Steurhoff, Morgan, Bl
bee, Pratt. Murphy, Van Zandt. Tammer
lnln.. Moody, Richton. Gavin. Crosby,
Schouweller and Maglus. When tho ath
letic field for the Jefferson school has
been completed the boys will have the
best diamond in the city.
Joo Jones the Washington High School
captain-elect, is a short fctop and also a
football hero of considerable fame. He
played baseball two years at Portland
Academy and this is his second year at
Washington High. Next year he will at
tend the University of Oregon. Mllo
Blair Is manager of the team.
The Washington squad will include
practically every man in last year's team.
The 1909 playera back in tho harness are:
Houck, pitcher; Moreland, first base;
Cornell, second base and catcher; George,
second base; Cobb, third base; Hedges.
Llndsey and Stanard, outfielders.
Allen Has ?o Team.
The boys will practice at East Twelfth
and East Davis streets. A squad of about
30 candidates is expected.
The Allen Preparatory School will not
have a baseball team this season on ac
count o; objections by the management.
The schedule of games for the season
la as follows:
April 20 P.ortland Academy vs. Jeffer
son Hieh School.
April 22 Lincoln High School vs. Wash
ington HIch School.
April 27. PorUand Academy vs. Colum
bia University.
April 28 Jeffersoa High School vs. Lin
coln High School.
May 4. Washington High School vs. Co
lumbia University.
May 6 Portland Academy vs. Lincoln
High School.
May 11. Jefferson High School vs. Wash
ington High School.
May 13. Lincoln Hilgh School vs. Colum
bia University.
Mav 18 Portland Academy vs. Washing-,
ton High School.
May 20 Jefferson High School vs. Co
lumbia University.
The final standing of the teams last year
was:
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Washington' i.6 0 1,0ft)
Columbia 4 2 .fit7
p. A 2 4 .s:u
Lincoln . 0 C 00O
VERNON TEAM IS HEW
COAST LEAGUE CLUB GATHERS
PLAYERS FROM ALL- POINTS.
Many of Members Prominent Upon
Other Nines, but as Group Have
Never Worked Together.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5. There will
be as many new faces on the "Vernon club
as any other In the Paoific Coast League.
Hogan will present a brand-new Infield.
There won't be a familiar face In it. It
will be brand-new from first to third.
At the initial bag he will have a south
paw fielder by the name of Plsher. who
Hogan says handles himself a great deal
like Chase.
At second there will be Roy Braehear,
a brother of Kitty, who has played In
field positions in the American Associa
tion more than one season. Hogan says
Roy is a heady player like his brother.
Roy has been at the game some length of
time. Lindsay, who will hold down short,
is an aggressive fielder, who was well
recommended to Vernon. Third will be
taken care of by Burrlll, who was turned
over to Hogan by Long this month.
The outfield Is a different proposition.
In there will be Coy, Carlisle. Martl.nke
and Stovall, all of whom have per
formed before Coast cranks before. Car
lisle played sensational ball for" Dillon
one year, but he has not been such a
shining light since. Boston gave him a.
trial and then turned him loose. Hogan
secured Carlisle and Brashear from Kan
sas City last Winter on a deal. Coy is a
rattling outfield and is big league pros
pects. Nearly Sl.ono Ooo worth of timber was im
pnrtfd into Natal in luos. The countrv is
practically treeless. far as there Is "any
commercial value in the timber.
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