TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND,' FEBRUARY 11, 1913.
UMPIRES HOI TO
Naps Are Now Beginning to Look Like Real Contender for American League Crown
Hurt 8. milerton, Well-Know Bneb.Il WriUr. Declare. Yean Gregg Wm Pitching World', Sensation of Year-Steen I. M osi Promising, and Peckinpangh Looks Much Better Than Olson.
BE NAMED AHEAD
CHANCES ARE GOOD
Baum and Jones to Have Same
System for Arbiters in
Two Leagues.
Pitching Staff Counted as Sole
Uncertain Quantity of
1912 Beavers.
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BY Rnmrpr. FAWrKTT.
"Portland will sport a great baseball
park thla year, but how about th turn!
Will wa have a first division contender
to go with Itr Such waa tha query of
a red-not faa yesterday.
No barrister's brlof la required la
answer tha success or failure of tha
112 Bearers rests with tha pitching
staff. Walter MeCredle will tell you
that If yoa ask him. and ha has a record
of three firsts and three seconds In
seven seasons as Coast League man
ager to Indorse hia Judgment.
Koeatner. Henderson. Harkne, Urn
line and Stleger these are the men
McCredle ftsrures aa the deciding factors
In the pennant rare next reason. At
any rat these fire will probably start
the season as th bulwark, for. while
McCredie contemplates adding one
other heaver, he says he will not turn
a hand In the quest until the big
leagues begin rutting down to the IS
limit about April 1 to 10. -
Aside from trie pitching stsff McCre
dle and other shrewd Judges of hall
players figure the present array of tal
ent the equal of the great machine
which romped away with the 111 gon
falon. Howler t ewated aa Flaw.
In the catching department Ilowley
should be as bis; an asset as either
Kuhn or Murray. Cbadbourne played on
the Indianapolis team with lfowley two
vears aao and predicts that he will
make wood out here. In 1M0 Ilowley
led the American Association catchers
In fielding with only six errors In M
games, sn average of .Ml. He batted
only .12. but picked up to .14 last
year with Vtlca in the New Tork State
League, where he maintained his field
Ins; record with .72.
A year sco Portland had two Infield
apertures to plus; second and short
and recruits d'd the trick wonderfully
well. This year MeCredle has three vet.
erans In the Infield. Rapps at first. Cap
tain Rods-era at second and Lindsay at
third. With such men aa Bancroft, lit.
Dowel 1. Coltrln. Petara and Kibble to
choose from there la no foundation for
facial cobwebblng.
Mum la Oerif1el4.
In the outfield Portland loses Buddy
Ran. who won many a game for tha
champions last Fall with his slugging.
Hut two veterans will bo In harness,
Krueger and Chadbourn. and with
Doan. a .27 hitter from tha Southern
League, coming up. reinforced by Strait,
.213. of tha Tti-State League, and Fries,
a .288 banc artist from the Union As
sociation, tha outlook isn't so dubious
after all.
Further. It will be recalled that Port
land won the pennant In 11 when
Buddy Ryan hit only .243 and George
Ort and Billy Speaa only .213 and .200
respectively In 151 games apleca. The
113 outfield will be far stronger than
the one which backed up Gregg and
Krapp two years ago. Chadbourne hit
.:( last season, although tha official
averages ara undoubtedly 10 points op
tlmlstlo on Chadbourne'a batting, and
Krueger close to .210.
So. Ilka the sufferer from thirst wan
dering about on tha desert was tea. wo
circle back to the original surmise,
namely, that with an ordinarily good
pitching staff the Portland Coast
league team should land up either one
or two In tha coming hike down tha
pennant pike.
Harases la Coed Shape.
Of the four pitchers held ever from
laat season's staff, three ara veterans.
Koestner. Harkneas and Henderaon.
Harkness' record does not shine with
excessive brilliancy In the dope book
but Speck hurled wonderful ball when
he once got under steam and several
of tha gamea Inscribed In tha lost col
umn went by on run margins that
were more the fault of bla teammates'
Inability to score rather than to his
own Inefficiency. Speck Is taking good
care of himself and will undoubtedly be
In fine snap for a good year.
Lamllne la yet a youngster but hla
work for tha Portland Northwestern
League last season. before being
switched over to the Coasters, gives
him soma claim to a thorough trial. He
won 13 games and lost 10 for an aver
age of .US. The Nicks finished fourth
with a percentage of .511 but Lamllne
was with tha Itoadsters before tha final
fattening on Victoria and their percen
tage then was considerable below the
half way station.
-Lammy" la a big fellow, right-handed,
and possesses worlds of smoke.
When right ho la a hard man to beat
and his brief sojourn with the near
majors last Fall should giro him tha
necessary confidence In his own ability.
Stleger. tha new acquisition from St.
Paul, should put Mao in fine shape for
the first two or three weeks, by which
time tha majors win be thinning the
ranka of th mound men. stleger had
a wonderful record with Springfield,
and Mike Kelley. of the Saint, gives
him a great sendoff, Kelley palmed off
Chech and Slagla. veterans, on Los
Angeles, but Stleger Is a different sort
of performer, being young and ripe
for Class AA ball, whereas tha others
are going back.
Henderaon and Koestner ara both
seasoned stock, and with tha condition
clause In the former's contract, fana
look for the ex-outlaw to vindicate his
claims to the premiership of the Pa
cific Coaat League.
WASHINGTON'S HOPES HIGH
Kven Olson's Team Expect to Win
From University of Oregon.
rxrvERsmr of Washington. Se
attle. Feb. IS. With the varsity quin
tet annihilating colleges In tha East
ern part of the state by large scores
and with tbe prospect that Captain
Oscar Olson will get back In the game
next week, basketball enthusiasts here
ir now betting that Washington will
defeat the stellar University of Oregon
team In the gamea to be played Feb
ruary 13 and 11 In Seattle,
There la not aa old varsity man on
tha team. Olson, the coach and cap
tain and the only 111 player, having
been disqualified because of poor schol
astlc standing. When the fellows left
on their Eastern trip last Monday even
ing to play five games la on week It
was thought that there was not the
least bopa ef victory, but with a 21 to
T walkaway Inflicted on Pullmaa. bas
ketbail stock llsa Jamped to par.
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CHICAGO. Feb. 10. Here is the con
tender. After a generation of looking
good on paper and bad on the ball
field, the Cleveland club at last ap
pears to be the second best team In the
American League. Possibly It is, on
paper sgatn. but this time I think seri
ously thst Cleveland outranks th five
cluba with which It must battle for sec
ond place- And. further. If Cleveland
can pick out of four aspirants, two ot
whom look good, a tnira oaseman
slightly above the average, and one
outfielder, tha Athletics will have a
tough time beating out this ball club.
Tha truth Is that It Is rather discour
aging work to dope the Cleveland club.
Three times since It bas been In the
American League Cleveland nas nw
cluba that appeared Ilka winners but
proved hopeless failures not because
the dope was wrong, but because of
bad management. Interference with the
management and tha laslness and care
lessness of the stars.
It Is a new team, and or course young
teams ara mora or less erratic all the
time, but the bulk of the players who
are on the rolls had their seasoning
tinker fire last Fall, worked wen. came
strong after a miserable start and al
though crippled to some extent, played
as good ball as anyone during the last
six weeks or trie season.
Harry Davis la Cmro-All.
The trouble with thla team for a
long time has been there were too many
good fellows on It ana too iew
Ing. hustling players. Careless, easy
going and at times slovenly, they have
lost when they should have won. I
rely npon Harry Davie to cure this.
Davis Is a strong man, ha has had long
experience and ha knows Mack's meth
ods. Ha will not stand for foolishness
even from Lajole. and. knowing Mack's
pltchera aa ha does, he ought to be
strong In each series against the Ath
latlea. There Is soma fear that George 8tov
all'a friends may make some trouble
for the new manager. Tha Cleveland
club waa unfortunate In having Stov
all make good laat year when h was
put In as manager merely to fill a gap.
The danger Is that If Davis falla to get
the club off In good shape the fana
will begin to yell for Stovall and dis
courage soma of tbe players.
The Cleveland team, even after It
started Ita spurt last year, waa weak In
catchers, at third, at short and In left.
The effort of the management to ac
quire new talent shows that this weak
ness Is understood, the catching de
partment has been strengthened and I
believe the team will be stronger at
third and short, but It Is still weak at
left. It Is a team that will take a lot
of arranging, and Davis has a delicate
Job on hla hands to pick right.
Ftve Catchers aa List.
There are five catchers on tha list.
Easterly and Fisher being tha only
vets of laat year's team. Easterly Is
not much of a catcher, but a good Jack-of-all-trades.
and Fisher Is rather
promising, although weak at times last
FalL
Tha great strength of the department
you will find this season, will b Paddy
Livingston, and In getting him I think
Davta- made his first master stroke.
Davis and Livingston were together for
a long time on tha Athletics. I do not
think Paddy ever has been rated aa
highly as a catcher aa he should be. I
Vtlleve he la a smarter and handler
catcher than either Thomas or Lapp. Ho
Is slow, he cannot hit much, but he is
a corking backstop, throws fairly well,
and la one of the cleverest In the busi
ness In working with pitchers and
aome of tha Athletic pitchers will bear
evidence to thla.
O'Neill, who was purchased from
Worcester. Is a promising man and. If
he possessed more speed, would look so
good as to ba untrue. He waa a crack
ing catcher In the New England League
and easily the best thrower there. He
hit .23. made 33 sacrifice hits and made
113 asslsta In 10 games, which was step
ping soma regardless of tha class of
the league. . "
Adams, who waa purchased from
Memphis, waa touted heavily last Sum
mer, and tha Southern Leaguers say ha
Is a corking catcher, thrower and a
handy, clever man. who ran't hit. He
hit .11 and fielded . last season.
Seattle Man la Towted Rich.
Whaling, purchased from Seattle, is
tipped to me as a grand catcher. Little
Phil Cooney said In mldseason that
Whaling would ba another Arcbar. He
caught 33 gamea without an error, hit
and they aay he runs and playa the
game like a winner. Out of these six
Cleveland ought to get something.
Tet It Is In the pitching department
that I expect the great strength of tha
team to develop. The fact Is that If the
men who have been tested on American
Last-us fields do as well as they have
done Cleveland not anly will force the
Athletics but will beat them.
If Oregg shows his 1(11 form and
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Mitchell his 110. these two fellows will
not need much help. And to back them
up Cleveland lias a small army and
some good ones. Kalar, who won nine
and lost eight games last season, looked
great In spots, and minor leagulsh In
others. Blending came stronic at the
finish and soma of the veteran White
Sox and some of the Detroit crowd
thought him one of the best In the
league for a new comer. He won seven,
lost four games and went beautifully
and steadily after a period of wlldness.
James didn't look strong enough for
a place, but Krapp waa promising. I
expect this fellow to be a big asset to
Cleveland In the next few years. He
certainly Is fast, has a cracking fast
curve ball and a lot of steam, but he
waa wild as a hare during most of last
season. In spite of which fact he won
13 and lost eight games. He Is a nice
lad and Intelligent and willing.
Uregg'a Prespeets Great.
Vean Gregg was the sensation of the
pitching world last year. Now auch crl
tlca aa Hugh Duffy and Ty Cobb declare
Gregg will not win this coming season,
but how they figure it I rannot make
out. The boy showed everything last
aeaaon a whirlwind of speed, nice con
trol, a heantlful hop on his fast ball
and he kept that fast one Jumping la
cloae all tha time. Ha had a neat change
of pace, a fair curve ball and at times
a good one, and he held up runners
fairly well.
What more does one ask? I saw him
work four gamea against Ed Walsh last
seaaon and win them alL True, Walsh
did not deserve to lose them all. but In
each game Gregg pitched hla rival to
evena and had tbe luck to win. each
score being low. He won Zt and lost
seven games last season, and I did not
see him pitch a bad game, or even an
Indifferent game.
Mitchell, of course, was Cleveland's
big disappointment last season; Just
why I never have found out. Ho
burned up the league the aeaaon be
fore, and came back without anything
and lost 14 and won seven games.
He showed a fe flashes of form. I
am told that the trouble with him
and with Gregg Is megacephalla, or
swelling of the cranium. I did not ob
serve a symptom of this popular trou
ble with either. Mitchell seemed a bit
discouraged when I talked with him
last Fall, and aald luck was running
against him. I really believe he will
coma back strong, as last aeason waa
a heavy disappointment to him as well
as to the club.
There ara ftve new pitchers on the
try out list. Steen, the Portland phe
nols, certainly la promising If reports
from the Coast are to be believed. I
know how this lad Is bred, and he Is
as game aa they make them. He won
30 and lost IS games last season, and
hla only sign of weakness was wildness
at times. He did an Immense amount
of work for which the record book
doea not seem to give him credit In
rescuing and relieving other pitchers.
Demott, who waa repurchased from
Omaha, probably will not be retained.
Ha didn't do well even with Omaha,
CMTB. IXrTELDERS. OCTFIETLDERS. CATCHIER PITCHERS. MANAGER.
Koestner Oreenwall
Rapps. lb Coltrln. si Kmier Strait Howley Handarsoa Oaborn ..m
PORTLAND. Kod(ra. 2b Llnday. Sb Ctiadbourn Maine Murray Harkneaa Byrd i-ri ir
MclXiwell. a Peter. 3b Doaoa . Fries La Long Lamlln Doty M CKfcUin
Bancroft, ss Klubl. 3b Burch Hersch gtiessr
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Sharp, lb Hill MIts Christian Hchammel
Uul.lo.lb 'ook Hoffman Smith Pearc Flat.r T'" . ,,. nvr, SHlRPB
OAKLAND. I-aard. 2b Kv.nl Zaoher Bankhead Tledeman Ore gory O Loughlln BT.D SHAnrB .
NeMnser 2b ln Coy Workman Rohror Martlnonl Brooks
Hetilnx. 3b Wilkinson, at Patterson Fttxse.-ald Oleaaon Cohen f,opt. .
Frlck Hamilton, uu Steven Oreen Harkens
Ciaflla
Horan Ovlts Stewart
Patterson, lb Letaeht s Carltal tlna Bra, K Raleigh happy noOAK
VERNON. . Braahear. 2b Burr.II. 3b Kan Sullivan Hut Kobac HOuAN
Hotp. Albright, ot. Brown Brackenrtdr
Dillon, lb Howard, as Halls
Ilrd. lb Telma. as r1er Leber 1-everens ,h'c.'; pravk DILLOl.
UOH ANOCt.ES rMrr. lb Besando. rs Heitmuller Oor Rrook Toier tflasl FRANK DILL-OP
Pas. b Metxaer. Sb Boles Palmer
Baum Holm
Madden I.ewla Price Arrellanes Kan ,tov
SAORAaTBTNTO. Miller, lb I.rchen. s van Buren Heleter Hart Knistat ' Williams rvROtJ R K E
O Rourk. 3 Mbnr Oarraghan Che FltareraM Goddy OROUFKI
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.Tck.on. lb Knott, as Powell Hrtley B-rry Miller 05n
Mohler. Ib r.ideon. 3b .lohnpon Holland -hmidt Fanning Eir2 nvvr tflva
FRANriPCO. M-Arrtl.. as Leber, r.h Mclror Roberts "oaner Soter Walk DANNY LONG
FnA Mundorff. .s Krench.Sb Rafter," Wells Medford Noyes 7,r2T
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winning eight and losing seven gamea,
and I got rather ugly reports from him
from the Western. Balr. drafted from
Nashville, was highly thought of by
Stovall. He won 20 and lost 11 games
and Is tipped from the Southern as be
ing a magnificent fielder in his posi
tion. He hit .1!. and the veteran In
the Southern League think he will
make good soon if he forces an open
ing. First base Is a problem. Lajole can
play it if second can be filled satisfac
torily, and he can play second satis
factorily if a first baseman can be
found. Big Larry ruptured himself
early last season and for a time It
looked as If he never would be able
to play again, but he was playing at
the finish, although taking It easily,
and probably will be all right after
the Winter's rest.
Big Fellow Wonderful Player.
This big fellowr Is a wonderful play
er, but he never has been a winner.
He is too easy going and too careless
for a championship club, and to win
with hlra Davis will have to put on
wheel spurs. He Is one of ' the best
fellows In the business, and he'll work
for Davis or for any one else. If he
can be stirred out of his careless hab
its. He Is far from dona even yet
Stovall can play a fair first but tha
chances are all against him being with
the team. He waa tosaed down after)
making a winner out of a hopeless
club. Cleveland will treat him right
but as an active player he won't do.
Lajole and Ball are the nominees for
second. To show his versatility. Ball
can move to short if necessary. He Is
much bettor player than generally
rated and I never have thought be
got a square deal from Cleveland,
which team tried to chase him laat
Spring, then took him back. I under
stand it was a personal matter and
that when Stovall got charge of the
team everything was smoothed over.
Olson, the shortstop, looks bad to
me and Peckinpaugh, who was sent
to Portland and repurchased, looks
much better. I think he will get the
Job. In fielding he was second to
Wares of Oakland, the best in the
Coast League, and he hit .268 and
ahowed himself a fair base runner.
Some of the Coast leaguers think he
was a better ballplayer than Wares.
Jackson and Birmingham are fix
tures In the outfield. Jackson Is a
great hitter, a fair base runner and a
much Improved fielder. He learned a
lot of baseball last year, but still has
much to learn. Mechanically he Is a
marvel. Graney, who played left last
seaaon, la scarcely Class A in ability.
To replace him Cleveland bought
Henry Butcher, a transformed lnfleld
er, who can hit. Butcher finished the
season with them and worked well.
He Is a nice ball player, but Inclined
to take on weight and was too heavy
laat Fall. He can beat Graney play
ing the game.
Ryan, purchased from Portland, Is a
bear. He hit .333. and most of them
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE, 1912.
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far-away and the Coast Leaguers say,
with the exception of Carlisle of Ver
non and young Howard (Del's broth
er), he Is one of the clasaiest fielders
In that circuit. He Is a hard and con
sistent hitter, but one report I had
says ha runs amuck.
If Davis can't pick a strong team
SHARPE MS HI!
Oaks' New Manager on Arrival
Gets Busy.
LIKES OUTLOOK, HE SAYS
llvermoro Is Named as Training
Camp and Prospects Seem Bright
for Great Year In Baseball
for Commuters.
BY HARRY B. SMITH.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10. (Special.)
The arrival of Bud Sharpe. new man
ager of the Oaks, was the thing of
most importance In Coast League base
ball circles hereabouts this week.
Sharpe made his appearance laat Sun
day and he's all business from top to
bottom. He Isn't a particularly small
man. Is this new leader of the Oak
land' club, but he can best be de
acrtbed as wiry and the right kind of
a chap.
He certainly has made a good im
pression on the fans and newspaper
boys who have Been him and while he
haa never been a manager, he has cap
tained ao many clubs that he knows
the business as well as the next fUow.
My impression la that Oakland has
picked up a Jewel In Sharpe and that
he will make good.
Arriving on Sunday, he wanted to
start on the hunt for training quarters
on Monday, but was persuaded to rest
a day He couldn't stay Idle more than
24 hours, however, and bright and
early Tuesday morning Sharpe and
Secretary McFarlin were at Livermore.
looking over the lay of the an1-
Incidentally, It didn't take them long
to decide that Livermore was the
place for which they were looking. The
new training quarters is situated in
Alameda County about 40 miles from
Oakland. Aa the Commuters have a
squad of about 45 men, they will have
to be divided between the two hotels
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from that material he falls far below
mv estimate as a manager.
And add to all that the fact that
Harry Davis, even full of years and
honors as he is, can help out a bit as
a pinch first baseman or a pinch hit'
ter.
(Copyright. 1912, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
In order to secure the right sort of
accommodations.
On week days they will play exhi
bition games with the Livermore club
and on Saturdays and Sundays they
will come to Oakland to play on their
own territory at Freeman's Park.
don't altogether care for that idea, al
though it will mean some money In
the Dockets of the Oakland club. I be
lleva that It would be far better to
keep the team away from home dur
ing the training season, in order to
have them fresh from the standpoint
of the spectators when the season Is
really ready to open.
Quite a flurry was started by the
receipt of a squib in a Stockton paper
to the effect that Cy Morelner had solo
his lease on the Grove-street grounds
in Oakland to the Coast ;League. This
was taken to mean that Moreing was
being bought off by the Ish-Ewing
contingent.
On Investigation, however, all hands
denied the story. The Coasters said
they hadn't any Intention of buying the
lease. Morelng said that his lease was
for sale and that possibly the Coasters
were in on the transaction. At the
same time he declared vehemently that
he was going ahead with his plans and
would have clubs In Oakland and San
Francisco.
Just how he is to have San Fran
cisco and Oakland clubs without a ball
park in which to house them is a ques
tlon that Moreing failed to answer. It
Is said that his lease costs him some
thing like I&000 a year and Is a bur
den of which he would like very much
to be. relieved. And perhaps, after all,
that Is the club that Cy has been hold
ing over the heads of organized base
ball. RECRUITS TRAIXIXG EARLY
Every Effort Made to Show Best
Form Before Managers.
NEW TORK, Feb. 10. (Special.)
Although the baseball training camps
do not get under way until the first of
March, there Is many a recruit right
now who Is quietly conditioning him
self. The majority of new players
realize that the time given them in
which to show major league managers
what they can do Is all too short. A
few short weeks In the Spring seal
their fate. A batter may not strike
his stride, or a pitcher find his curves
until later In the season, but It is then
too late. He is back in the minors.
Of course a manager can Judge some
what by the general way In which a
recruit handles himself on the field, but
unless a man can actually show big
league caliber he Is returned to some
farm for development. These farms
are really the result of the player-llmlt
rule. There is no room on a team now
for the player who is promising but un
developed. A club is limited to too few
players for that. The result Is that
every major league club controls some
minor league club where it can send its
overflow. Of course it always has to
manage to get waivers first
The ambition of every youngster,
however, is to stick with the big show.
The wisest of them, therefore, go to the
training camps In good condition, ready
to seize opportunity as it flits by and
make the most favorable Impression
possible on the man who can give them
their major league chance.
Some Facts About Detroit Tigers.
Hughie Jennings has been in base
ball longer than any other man on his
team's roster. He has seen 21 years'
service. Other veterans are: Sam Craw
ford, 12 years; Jim Delehanty. 13; Wild
Bill Donovan, 17; Davey Jones, 10;
George Mullln, 11, and Charley Schmidt,
ten.
" Pitcher Donovan Is the oldest player
on the team. He is 35 years old. Five
men are on the pay roll who have not
yet attained their majority.
Crawford Is the heaviest, weighing
196 pounds. Owen Bush is the light
est He tips the scales at 148 pounds.
Salt Lake Gets- Jake Bauer.
SPOKANE, Wash.. Feb. 10. It is an
nounced here that .lake Bauer, an out
fielder who last season played with the
Spokane Club of the Northwestern
League, and the Boise Club, of the
Union Association, baa been secured
by the Salt Lake City team of the
Union Association,
SH1FTS TO BE MADE OFTEN
Northwestern President Says Men
Whom Fans Dislike Will Be Kept
on Jobs In Same Town Until
Reaction Takes Place.
BY ROSCOE FAWCETT.
Pacific Coast . and Northwestern
league umpiring will be run along
major league lines during the coming
campaign, for the presidents of both
organizations Baum. of the coast ana
Jones, of the B-classers have an
nounced that there will be no season
scheduling of arbiters such as was
sprung In tlie Pacific Coast League last
year.
In San Francisco there appears to be
considerable opposition to a change,
but Baum has evidently studied into
eondltinns and knows lust how a Class
AA league should be conducted, and
his men In blue will be enuntea irom
city to city to suit the fancy of the
chief executive.
Bourn's Plan Liked.
"I think Baum's plan Is the best"
said Walter McCredle, of the Beavers,
vesterday. commenting on a return to
the former plan. "Take McGreevy's
case, for instance. Mac likes Sacra
mento about as much as the modern
Achilles likes snakes. His spirits sink
to the Salton Sea level whenever he
boards a train for the California capi
tal, yet Portland fans, who like to see
him work, were favored for only one
trip last season under the lottery sys
tem. "Baum told me that hereafter um
pires will not be allowed to consort
with players, all jollification parties
will he taboo, and the umps. must stop
at different hotels."
Fielder Jones, head of the Northwest
ern League, has original Ideas on the
umpire subject. Fielder thinks it wise
to keep an umpire stationed in a town
in Which he has gotten in bad through
some antagonistic decision until such
anti-feeling has hart time to react. He
is decidedly opposed to scheduling the
umpires for an entire season In advance,
especially under the double umpire sys
tem in vogue in the Coast circuit, be
cause the veteran umpires should al
ways be on hand ready to handle the
most Important series.
Major Leagues Differ. -
The two major leagues have entirely
different systems for handling the
dodgers of the choleric bottle. In the
National the umpires have their sched
ules mapped out about three weeks In
advance, while in the American the
umpire has no Idea as to how long
he will remain in a city or where his
next assignments will carry him.
According to Billy Evans, the veteran
arbiter, the men In the American
League as a rule remain eight days in
each city, against three weeks on the
Pacific Coast, where expenses of trans
portation necessarily cut considerable
figure. Sometimes the American League
stop is 12 days, but Its vacillations be
tween four, eight and 12 strike a gen
eral average about eight. Usually the
umpire is notified a couple of days
ahead as to his next Jump, although
now and then he may receive a wire
about the fifth or sixth inning com
manding him to make a jump to some
distant city.
Weighed thoroughly and viewed from
every angle this American League
scheme, which will hereafter rule In
the Coast League, seems to be an ex
cellent one. Things happen with alarm
ing suddenness on the ball field and an
umpire may have something occur any
time that makes it best that he be kept
outside the confines of certain cities
for a time.
Without a set schedule these situa
tions can easily be met with no un
pleasant switching of'the schedules.
Street Is Veteran of Catchers.
Catcher Billy Sullivan, of the Chi
cago Sox; Larry McLean, of the RedB,
and Roger Bresnahan, of St. Louis, are
all hard tollers, but Gabby Street the
ex-San Francisco Coaster, now back
stopping for Washington, has probably
caught more games of ball since he be
came a professional in 1903 than any
other receiver In the business.
Street's record at the close of last
Fall was 931 games, and before 1912
rolls down the picture curtain Street
will undoubtedly go beyond the 100U
mark.
Gabby went to work for San Fran
cisco back about 1905, but the earth
quake put him on the shelf after nab
bing shoots In 10 games. He Journeyed
back to Williamsport in the Tri-State
League, however, and closed the year
with 97 contests. His biggest year was
with San Francisco a year or two later,
upon his recall, when he caught 15
games. During his first season with
Washington In 1908 he figured in 128
contests, 1909, 137 affrays; 1910, 89, and
1911, 71 games.
Nobody In the world can handle
Walter Johnson's shoots like Street,
and had not the ex-Coaster split a
thumb in mid-season last year he would
now be ready for the grand leap Into
the realms of the "1000" early in the
season of 1912.
TRAINING CAMPS SELECTED
Teams in Coast, American and Na
tional Leagues Choose Cities.
Paste this on your desk as a ready
reference regarding the training camps
of the Pacific Coast and major league
ball clubs:
Pacific Coast League Portland,
Santa Maria. Cal.; Vernon, San Ber
nardino, Cal. ; Oakland, Livermore,
Cal.; Sacramento, Marysville, Cal.; San
Francisco. Paso Robles, Cal.; Los An
geles, Los Angeles, Cal.
American League Chicago. Waco,
Tex.; Philadel. hia. San Antonio, Tex.:
Detroit Monroe, La.; Cleveland, New
Orleans; Boston, Hot Springs, Ark.;
New York. Atlanta, Ga.; Washington,
Charlottesville. Va.; St. Louis, St.
Louis.
National League Chicago. New Or
leans; New York. Marltn, Tex.; Pitts
burg, Hot Springs, Ark.; Philadelphia,
Hot Springs, Ark.; Cincinnati, Colum
bus, Ga.; St. Louis, St. Louis; Brooklyn,
Hot Springs, Ark.; Boston, Atlanta, Ga.
Team to Train at Panama.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 10. Accom
panied by members of his baseball
team. President - Manager Charles
Frank, of the New Orleans Southern
I-eague baseball club, sailed today for
Panama to begin two weeks of Spring
training. Games have been arranged
with the organized clubs In the canal
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