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THE . SUNDAY OREGOXI IN. PORTLAND, AUGUST 18, 1912. OPEN FALL PLAY PresentDay Alaska Land of Pleasant Surprises Within Four Days Travel of Portland, Tenderfoot Finds Ideas of Country Entirely Changed American Enterprise Has Created New Empire in Our Farthest North Possession, With Comforts of Civilization Land Is Veritable Paradise for Hunters. TON'S NEXT GRAND FLAG RAGE Annual Tournament Will Start August 31, Running for Full Week. Any One of Three Teams, Spo .kane, Vancouver or Seattle, May Win Pennant. ENTRY LIST CLOSES AUG. 27 ALL BUNCHED IN STRETC 4 NORTHWESTERN HAS Colts, Even Yet a Possibility, AVill Play Big Part In Placing of Championship- Potlatch Bugs - - Are Season's Big Surprise. BY JAMES H. CASSELL. . Neck and neck down the home stretch come three Northwestern League teams Spokane. Vancouver and Seattle. "Which of the blanketed trio will shove its note under the wire first, the winner? Ask that question in Spokane and tha answer will be "The Indians.' Query a Canadian fan and the reply is sure to be Beavers. Drop into Dave Dugdale's midget park and start an argument and Potlatch Bugs is hurled at you quick as a flash. But who will win? It's a timid Spokane. Vancouver or Seattle critic who would miss ventur ing a prophecy on his team at this stage of the diamond proceedings, for with only six weeks remaining of the greatest season in the history of the class B organization, the team which finishes third will probably be so close to the champion that there is every chance for a loophole of the "Well, if Barney Mulligan hadn sprained his ankle three weeks ago we would surely have nosed out those other fellows." or "Who could have guessed that Pitcher Mattebum would have blown up just as we had the old flag safely stowed awayz Truly, 'tis a great race. Probables Reduced to Three. The bunched aspect of the first half of the season has resolved Itself into another bunched struggle, with the probables reduced from six to three clubs. For the first 13 weeks the struggle was the greatest In the his tory of 1912 baseball, and the last six weeks promises to be eclipsed in doubtfulness by few if any races in . major or minor leagues. It is just as difficult to pick the win ner now aa it was at the opening of the season, with one exception. In April it was Vancouver. Spokane and Tacoma who were generally rated aa the contenders. Now it is Seattle. In stead of Tacoma, and a Seattle which may make one of those hurricane finishes so disconcerting in horse rac log and baseball. Vancouver has been the most con sistent club of the season. The North western Beavers have the veteran talent and probably the greatest leader In the Northwestern League. But win Vancouver worst Spokane and Seattle. the surprise of the season? Seattle Has Three Series at Home. Seattle has a trifle over three weeks more at home, against Tacoma, Vic toria and Portland, and a trifle under "three weeks on the road, against Spo kane. Tacoma and Victoria. Vancouver has four more weeks at home, against Tacoma. Portland, Victoria and Spo kane, and two more on the road. Port land and Tacoma. Spokane plays three more weeks at home, against Seattle. Victoria and Tacoma. and three more en the road, Victoria. Portland and Vancouver. It is more than likely that Portland wll play an extremely large part in the pennant-awarding of the North western League, for the Colts, yet a pennant-winning possibility, possess a strength capable of crushing pennant hopes In any one of three prospects. They play 15 more games with Van couver. seven and possibly eight with Spokane, and eight with Seattle. Early in the season Portland took six in seven gamea from Spokane. Should they repeat during the series of Sep tember 9. the Indians will probably flRlsti second or third. The Colts, with from 42 to 45 games yet to play, are not much farther from the top than the Chicago Cubs were from the Giants not many days ago. Whits not a pennant possibility, in the accepted use of the word, a cleanup against Victoria next week, an even break with Vancouver the fallowing week, and victories by good margins in the games of the final two weeks at home might place them perilously near the top. Champions Have Good Chance. Vancouver should resume the lead this week. The Champions have not found the Tigers particularly bad medicine this season, and with the Ta- comans on Canadian ground, and Se attle snd Spokane struggling hard for very bout at Spokane, Bob Brown's squad should have a two-game margin at the close of the week. Portland and Victoria play in Victoria and Se attle during the week. The past week marked the 1912 end of Lou Nordyke's managerial efforts. He made tha Victoria Bees a half-season championship team, the early sea son surprise of the league. However, ill luck which followed the team did not pass up the popular veteran, and before he was fairly launched on a year of successful work he was crip pled beyond all chance of recovery this season. . Nordyke was treated fairly by Vic toria, and has no complaint to make regarding his release. He was a high salaried man on a team with no chance of winning a pennant. If the apple market meets Lou's expectations ha may never again don a baseball uni form, for a big crop at a good price will place his Wena tehee orchard free of all encumbrance and guarantee him a good living the remainder of hit life. EVERETT REGATTA ATTRACTS Willamette and Columbia Motor Craft Likely to Enter.' Portland may be represented at the Everett motorboat races of September 6. T and 8. Commodore Boost, of the Portland Motor-Boat Club received a telegram from G. B. Hilton, "of Everett, yesterday afternoon announcing such big prizes that a big entry list of Willamette and Columbia River motor craft seems certain. The free-for-all race la worth $500 to the winner. S250 for second place, and $150 for thtrd. The 26-foot class offers 1300. $300 and $100, for first second and third, respectively. The SO-foot class prizes will be $250. $150 and $100. The only objection to the Everett programme Is that it follows the Astoria Regatta, and wth the Astoria winners practically assured of first places at Everett, other owners might be discouraged. The Portland Motor-Boat Club will make a run to Katama on Saturday. August II. returning on Monday. Labor day. The trip will be the longest of the season. BT ROSCOB FAWCETT. Tha word Alaska means "Great Country," but If you ask the average man the significance he will likely shrug his shoulders, draw a mental pic- ure of the terrific hardships endured by the pioneers who Joined tha mad rush for the gold of the Klondike, and say "None of that ice-bound stuff for me. As a matter of fact not one of Uncle Sam's possessions is so little under stood aad so illy appreciated, ine old days when fortunes in gold were torn from the hills and squandered in a single night over the roulette wheel have changed. Lawlessness is gone. The dog sleigh has given way to the steel rail, and there lies within four days' travel of Portland a country which la a fairy land of agreeable surprises. II asters Find Paradise. Alaska is a hunter's paradise. It has the scenery of the Himalayas or the Andes distanced. The climate along the seacoast as far north as Skagway, t least, la almost as equable as that f Oregon. The writer recently returned from-a fortnight's tour of the territory and must Join the list of the "surprised ones." In the 1000-mile stretch from Seattle to Skagway the temperature seldom approaches the zero mark in the dead of Winter. And. as for accessibility and comfort if the American public knew Just how easy It Is to reach this new land of xperlences, of new thrills, of history. of new beauties and new splendors, we venture the prediction that there would ensue a rush of the wealthier tourists that would resemble the scramble In the early days when the man who drove pig or steer over tha trail to the in terior mas rewarded with a fabulous sum. Historic Towns Encountered. Alaska, that is the historic coast towns of Ketchikan, Metahathla. Wran gel, Juneau. Sitka, Traadweil. Skag way and Seward, can be personally in- erviewed In tnree days' sailing aboard one of the palatial vessels of the laska Steamship fleet out of Seattle. The ocean voyage, too, is remarkable In that the 1000-mile trip lies along the Inside route guarded by countless thousands of islands- Only three tlmea Is the open water encountered then the longest stretch Is 27 miles. Through waters, oeep and wonder fully phosphorescent at night, between towering snow-capped peaks glittering with myriad colors, past softly-wooded lopes, under toe shadow of wonderful glaciers, rivers of Ice that slowly but Inexorably grind onward Into the ocean all this and more the tourist finds to ponder over as he watches the festive whale rise to view his disturber and smiles as the sportive porpoise crosses the bow of the ship in chal lenge for a race. Game Laws Misesnstrued. To the sportsman seeking a hunt ing grounds the North offers won derful opportunities, easily the most at tractive field in North America. The game laws, however, are generally misconstrued. For one thing .the only place where a guide is compulsory Is on the Kenai Peninsula. Non-residents are required to pay a license fee of $50 and $100 if aliens. The forests abound In caribou, deer, mountain goat and sheep and smaller game, and the great Inland lakes are prolific of fish. One does not have to go farther than two days from Seattle to secure ex cellent sport. All along the Southeast ern coast, from Ketchikan to Skagway, fishing and hunting are excellent. Hal ibut fishing furnished a most -unique day's sport although the big fish, weighing close to 300 pounds, have to ba killed with a club before finally landed. Skagway Lures Tourists. At Ketchikan king salmon, weighing 70 and 75 pounds, have been caught with trolls. Our Portland party con sisting of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wilson. Mrs. J. R. Elliott and two daughters and several others, stopped off at Ketchikan en route south to get a look at the royal members of "the salmon family, going up the fresh water creeks to spawn, rne sight was aione worm the trin north. Ketchikan was found to be a favorite Summer resort Eastern hunters and fishermen. As the arduous trip from Seattle to Nome. 2500 miles through the Aleutian Peninsula and in the storm-tossed Rerlnsr sea. strictly an ocean trip, is too strenuous and unsatisfactory for the tourist. Skagway Is tne main od Jectlve point on the pleasure-seeker:, itinerary. Skagway stands on historic grounds, in fact, "The Home of the North Wind," as the word signifies, is a most historic city. It guards the entrances to the two famous passes through the mountains Into the gold studded interior, White Pass and Chil koot. In the gold rush days of 189 thou sands of . maddened fortune-seekers thronged into this wide-open city. The scramble caught the country complete ly unprepared and the privations etv riiireri hv thousands In the terrific 110- mile hike up the steep passes to White Horse, the head of .river navigation, were frightful. White Horse stands about 4 60 miles by river from Dawson, while Fairbanks, and all other interior towns are arranged along the Yukon and its tributaries further down stream. Day of Hardships Passes. But no more will the lion-'hearted prospector be forced to brave the dan gers and hardships of the awful passes, for scienee has flung a railroad from Skagway to White Horse, the famous White Pass & Yukon route, one of the most remarkable railroad engineering projects in the world. Construction on this famous road was begun in 1898. and it is said that close to $7,000,000 was expended by the English corporation in overcoming thu obstacles of nature. The International boundary lies 20 miles from Skagway at White Pass, an almost entirely obliterated resting haven for the old Klondikers. What Alaska needs is another gold boom. Slowly but surely the pros pectors are leaving the Interior and the inland towns are consequently gradually going down grade. O. L. Dlckeson, president of the White Pass Sl Yukon route, is putting forth herculean efforts to keep the men at work. To that end he is endeavoring to have Fairbanks declared a sub-port of entry, he foreseeing that if he can transport his freight direct from Skag way to White Horse and on down the river in his own boats, the prices for I foodstuffs at Fairbanks and thereabouts will be put down within the reach of man. At present a rival company gets the business by transfer at Dawson, a Can adian town, and tariffs are kept at an exorbitant figure so as to drive freight traffic by the all-water route, Seattle to Nome, and up the Yukon River. The Skagwax, cutoff, however, is the natural routing, for It Is some eight or ten days shorter than the Nome passage. President Dickeson is only 35 years old. but appears to be the "Man of the Hour" for Alaska. He was formerly high up in the officiary of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, located at Omaha. The mineral Is In there minions of tons of it and if we can hold the pros pectors during this dull periods some body is going to strike it soon, said Dlckeson to the writer. "That, of course. will mean tonnage for my road, so LftCROSSE EXPERT HERE GEORGE ODDV WOULD INTER EST PORTLAXD IX GAME. Eight Years Ago Efforts to Form League of Four Coast Cities Fell Through. Is lacrosse, the famous Canadian sport, to be revived in Portland? George Oddy, the famous player-coach who gave Portland its only lacrosse season in 1004, Is back in town after an absence of almost eight years, and once . more is looking about with an eye towards establishing his favorite game. "Once let lacrosse get a foothold in Portland or any other American city. and baseball will no longer be known as the favorite sport," enthusiastically declares Oddy. "Of course I don't mean that medi ocre lacrosse can compete with first class baseball, or even mediocre base ball, but lacrosse is a much more spec tacular ' game,' and with a first-class team, rivalry with surrounding cities, and the public Informed as to its mer its, I am firmly convinced that baseball would be forced to take a secondary place. "The hope of lacrosse, in the United perhaps my activities are actuated by rather selfish motives." One of the interesting sights of an Alaska trip is the great Treadwell gold mine, a couple of miles from Juneau, the capital. This mine has produced four times as much gold as the United States paid Russia for Alaska. $7,200, 000. I believe, or at the rate of 2 cents per acre. This mine operates the second largest stampmill in the United States and is exceeded in size by only the De Beers mine, on the DItwatersrand, South Africa. States lies in its adoption by colleges and schools. Once let the colleges adopt it as a means of keeping men in condition for all athletic events, and its value cannot be underestimated, and It is only a step to the organization of amateur and professional teams and competition with baseball." Oddy has just returned from New Westminster, where he played several seasons with the championship lacrosse team of that Canadian city. He re ports that the game has just revived there, after a relapse during which baseball threatened to become the Canadian popular game. Mediocre la crosse resulted in a baseball Invasion, but with the importation of new tal ent the game is now riding on the top wave of popularity, and baseball has been relegated to -second place. A first-class lacrosse player earns more money than the baseball star, compared with his work on the field, according to the expert. Star lacrosse men receive from $4000 to $5000 per season, consisting of from 12 to 16 matches, and, in nine cases in 10, does not abandon his regular occupation. The players receive, a percentage of the gate receipts, and a successful sea son, such as the Canadians are enjoy ing this year, is a bonanza to the play, er. The absence of near-by competition almost prohibits the introduction of the game in Portland, but Oddy In tends to sound the old-time players and try to organize a club. In 1904 Oddy organized a lacrosse club here which joined a league com In area Alaska covers a gross of 690, S04 square miles, or nearly twice the size of the German Empire, and 13 times the extent of New York State. The coast line Is 26.000 miles long. Alaska contains 21.000.000 acres of cnal lands, and Government Engineers have estimated that the coal In Alaska fs sufficient to sustain the people of the United States at the present rate of consumption for 5300 years. The territory has no vote in Congress but Is represented by a delegate. Fif teen newspapers are published. Alaska does not tolerate open rambling. That was closed down In 1906. Nome, on the extreme west, Is 6000 miles from New York and six hours behind in time. Only one-fifth of the flower-carpeted domain has been explored as yet. so its possibilities have not yet been realized. The territory has already paid the peo ple of the United States in products, dividends approximating 6300 per cent on the original price of $7,200,000. It is worth today, not millions, but bil lions. . prising Seattle. Tacoma, Everett and Portland. One league game was played, Portland at Seattle, but the Northern ers refused to play a return game and the league broke up. A Victoria team was imported for two games, one in Portland . and the other at Astoria. After that to Portland teams were formed but the public failed to sup port the game as played strictly by local talent. Oddy has played lacrosse for the past 15 years, and was several seasons a member of the world's champion New Westminster 12. Of late years he has confined his activity to coaching. KILBAXE TO FIGHT O'KEEFE Boxers to Sleet at Madison Square Garden September 18. CLEVELAND. O., Aug. 17. Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion, and Eddie O'Keefe were signed today for a ten-round go at Madison Square Gar den, New York, September 19. O'Keefe is to make 122 pounds. Billy Gibson, manager ot the Garden, in speaking of the match between Ad Wolgast and Packey McFarland, said a $15,000 guarantee and assurance of $7500 for his moving picture interests was given Wolgast. Gibson said he was ready to give McFarland 510,000 cash for his share of the fight profits. Bellows worked by the fet to blow air Into the month to help a musician play a wind instrument have been Invented by a German All Labor Day, September 2, to Tic Given Over to Matches Fee Cut This Year May Add Interest Among Enthusiasts. With the entry list already open and all preparations made for the last Northwest tournament of the year, the annual Fall handicap of the Irvingtnn Club promises to be ona of the beft and most largely attended tournaments of the Northwest. As the committee has planned to decide to cut to 50 cents the entrance fee for each event, the benefit thereby will be to arouse greater interest and then increase the number of entrants. With this lower entrance fee it has been provided that In each event scheduled the players shall furnish their own tennis balls. Singles, doubles and mixed doubles for men and women, as well as the Junior singles play, will be enjoyed, aside from the regular annual play in the club championships. The entry list will close on Tuesday, August 27, and It Is planned to open the tournament on Saturday, Aueust 31, This will give Labor day, Monday, over to good matches. The tournament finals will be played on the Saturday following. September 7, weather per mitting. All entrants should be left a", the Irvlngton clubhouse or with members of the tennis committee. The tennis play in the north lias added no little interest in Portland among players and enthusiasts of the sport, and It Is provable that one of the largest entry lists of the Portland club's history will be recorded In ihis Fall sport event. It Is probable that Miss Myrtle Schaefer. who has been playing such a strong game In the Puget Sound tour naments the past two weeks, will go to Los Angeles this Fall and may be seen In Play In various tournaments about that California section. Portland friends and tennis admirers of Mrs. Harl.ind Wentworth (Miss Tessle Leadbetter), now of Minneapolis, will be Interested in the news that she continued her tennis in the East and last week reached the semi-finals in the women's singles In the Minnesota state tennis tournament. She whs eliminated by a St. Paul girl. In the women's doubles, however, she was put out in the third round. Mrs. Went worth's playing has made a derided lm pressiun among the Gopher State tennis folk, and she received Just praise f ot her play In the Minneapolis and St. Paul press. Brandt Wlrkersham is planning on taking in one or two California tour naments this Fall, following the Irv lngton Club play, as he will defend his title of club champion in September. News from Boston, the new home nf the undefeated women's National ten nis champion. Mrs. George Wightmau (Hazel Hotchkiss), Is that she may re turn to the courts next year. This year, her first In matrimony, has been greatly enjoyed from an outdoor-sport viewpoint, largely in yachting on tl New England Coast on her husband' boat. Mrs. Wlghtrnan says she has not it row but "yachting is a new and novel sport." Practically all of the Portland women who have been playing tennis In the fuget Sound country will appear this week In the Everett tournament As Miss Stella Fording Is Western Wash ington woman champion and Is plan- nlng on defending her title, the play due this week promises to be unusual ly Interesting and will be closely watched, as Miss Irene Campbell, Ore gon champion, will be one contestant, as well as Mrs. W. I. Northup, Miss Lily Fox, Miss Myrtle Schaefer and Mrs. H. E. Judge. MRS. NORTHUP AND MISS FORD ING BEATEN BY SUTTOXS. Miss Myrtle Schaefer, Paired With Fottrell and Florence Sutton, Still in Winning. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 17. The con test In the men's singles in the state I tennis tournament was narrowed down today to Melville Long and W. Johnson, boh of California, who competed in the I finals at Tacoma last week for the Northwestern title. In the semi-finals today Johnson beat Ward Dawson, of I Los Angeles. In straight sets, and Long I won from Elia Fottrell, also a Califor-I nlan, 7-5. 2-6, 7-5. In the women's singles Miss May Sutton win oppose her sister for final honors, having won from Miss Fordlnsr. of Portland, in straight sets, while Misa Florence Sutton defeated Mrs. Northup. also of Portland. The managers or the tournament hope to finish it Monday. Postpone ments because of bad weather made It necessary to extend the matches, whirli would have ended today, into nc.-.t week. Summaries: Men's Singles Johnson beat Dawson. 6- 2. 6-3. Long beat Fottrell. 7-5, 2-6, 7- 5. Men's Doubles Baton and Youns beat Allen and Miller, 6-1. 6-2; Ba-in and Young beat McCutcheon and Van Buren, 6-0, 6-1; Russel and Hichardson beat U. Shannon and Hart, 6-1, 6-:'; Johnson and Fottrell beat Kelleher and Heilbron. 6-3. 6-1; Russell am! Richard son beat Tyler and Kettenbach. 6-3, 6-2. "Omens Singles Miss May Sutton beat Miss Fording. 6-0, 6-1; Miss Flor ence Sutton heat Mrs. Northup, 6-0. 6-1. omen s Doubles Miss Florence I Sutton and Miss Myrtle Schaefer (Port land) beat Mrs. Langley and Miss Wa- terhotiKe. 6-1. 6-3: Miss Livingstone an:l Miss Baker beat Miss hording and Mi.ss Miller. 5-7. 6-3. 6-t; Miss Florence Sut ton and Miss Schaefer beat Miss Camn- bell and Mrs. Judge. 6-2, 6-0: Miss I.iv. incstono and Miss Baker beat Miss May Sutton and Miss Bowen. 2-6. 6-2. 6-3. Mixed Doubles Bacon and Miss I Florence Sutton beat Miss C'ampheli and Palmer. 6-0, 6-1; Bacon and Mis I Florence Sutton beat C. Shannon audi Mrs. Judse. 6-1, 6-1; Miss Schaefer and I Fottrell beat Miss Fording and H. Lee. 6-2, 6-i.