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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAN. PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 1, 1912. COLTS GOME HOI FOR 2 WEEKS' STAY Vancouver Champs Open Se ries at Vaughn - Street Park Tuesday P. M. SPOKANE TEAM FOLLOWS Jficfe Williams' Equities Must Play Good Ball to Finish in .500 Class Cassell Gives Some Paper Facts on League Affairs. BT JAMES H- CASSELL. Nick Williams and his Portland Colts will play their farewell engagement at Vauehn-street Park during: the next two weeks, completing the 10-week home schedule with series against Van couver and Spokane. The first series, that egainst the Vancouver Champions, starts on Tues day, the Beaver-Vernon double header on Monday breaking into the usual Northwestern League Monday opener, and precipitating a six-game series with Bob Brown's pennant candidates. The Spokane series of the following week will be at least eight games strong, and possibly more, on account of postponed games, at Spokane. Portland Holds Balance. , It lies within the power of the Colts to dispose of Vancouver as a pennant winning probability. A victory in the present series at Vancouver and a du plication of the trick in Portland, would reduce Vancouver's chances to a mini mum, leaving Spokane and Seattle as the most likely contenders for the bunting. After losing four games to Spokane, tieing up a fifth, and winning two, following with two victories and five defeats against the lowly Victoria Bees, the Colts chose the Champions as the club upon which to wreak re venge. They stand a fine chance of taking the series from the Northwest ern Beavers. However, a record of five victories and four defeats will send them home from the three-weeks' road trip with a record of only nine victories against 13 defeats. Heavy Scoring Needed. If the Colts are to finish the season at the .500 mark they must score heav ily against Vancouver and Spokane, and then leave on the final two-weeks road trip keyed up to break even with Seattle and Victoria. When Spokane first invaded Port land this season the Indians dropped five of the six games to Williams' leaders. A duplication of this feat, and It is not an Impossible one when it Is remembered that the Colts took one series from the Indians at Spo kane and always manage to break a trifle better than even when the final count of games is made, would seri ously menace Spokane's chances for that coveted bit of silk cloth. Spokane should increase Its lead by one or two games this week, playing a nine-game series on the Indian lot with Victoria. Starting, upon the 22d week of the season, with only three more to go, Joe Conn's warriors seem due to open with the Colts with a mar gin of from three to five games over fceattle, prospectively the nearest rival. Tacoma has Just been stubborn enough to indicate that the Seattle Pot. latch Bugs will experience trouble in the lb-game series which ends at Se attle next Sunday. The Club has been going much better since that terrific six-game drubbing at Portland, and Mike Lynch promises to shock a few of the complacent managers before the season passes Into history. Vancouver and Portland jump to Se attle for a game today, then go back to Vancouver for a double-header on Monday. Labor day, and open in Port' land on Tuesday. The Sacramento-Tacoma squabble over Ben Hunt Is still on. According to a Sacramento paper Secretary Far- rell or the JNational Commission or dered Tacoma to turn Hunt over to Sacramento, and tho Senatorial man agement made a demand on Chicago for the $3000 alleged to have been agreed upon as the sale price of the sorrel-topped southpaw. Tacoma re fused to permit Hunt to go, holding back a part of his salary. In the sales reported by major leag urs the other day Hunt was named as a St. Louis National recruit. Kin sella liked his looks while on Ms scouting trip In the Northwest, but figured that Sullivan had cinched him for the White Sox and left with a con tract calling only for the services of Bill Speas, the Colt outfielder. each contester will have an equal show tor the prizes. Owing to the enthusiasm and good attendance at the Portland shoot, which will end today, the tournament here will, no doubt, be patronized by the successful marksmen attending that event- A cordial Invitation has been sent out to those entering the Portland tournament and many are expected to arrive In Salem either Sunday or Mon day. . An ideal location has been chosen for the shooting tournament. It is situ ated in the center of the racetrack and directly in front or the- grandstand. There are no trees or buildings tomar the view of the marksmen when "'drawing down" on the flying clay targets and owing to the wide range between the fairground fence and the traps, every advantage is given to those who desire practice. WILLAMETTE BOY BADLY HFRT Ralph Horaan, Football Player, Out of Game for Season. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Salem. Or., Aug. 31. (Special.) Ralph Homan. son of President Fletcher Homan and one of the strongest line men on the Willamette football team for the past two seasons, was seriously injured re cently and will be kept out of football this Fall. Young Homan was camping with a dozen or more Willamette students In the Lost Lake region above the Hood River Valley, where he fell and twisted his knee, which had been hurt two years ago. Upon returning to Salem a thorough examination was made of the injured member, which was found to be far, more serious than at first supposed.! Different physicians consulted have all i positively prohibited Homan from play ing any football this Fall. The loss of Homan will be a severe one to Willam ette, asVhe was considered one of the mainstays of this year's team. PORTLAND YOUNGSTER WHO WON GAME BY STEALING SECOND, THIRD AND HOME. SPORTING SPARKS Thompson, the big Seattle mound man, was added to the remarkable, list of IS Northwestern League sales to major lea (rue clubs by the official list - of last Wednesday, Boston purchasing him. The deals aggregate 330,000, -with about two-fifths 'of this prob ably cash and the rest due when the men make good. ... The following is the schedule for the remaining four vreeks of the season, commencing with the games of Monday and Tuesday: Portland Vancouver, six games; Spo kane, eight games: Seattle, eight games: Victoria, six games. The final game is played against Seattle on September 29. Vancouver Portland, six games; Ta coma, seven games; Victoria, seven games: Spokane, seven games. Final game la against Victoria at Tacoma. Seattle Tacoma, eight games; Vic toria, seven games; Portland, eight games: Tacoma, six games. Spokane Victoria, nine games; Port land, seven games: Tacoma, seven games; Vancouver, six games. Victoria Spokane, nine games; Seat tle, seven games; Vancouver, seven games: Portland, six games; Tacoma, one game. Tacoma Seattle, eight games; Van couver, seven games: Spokane, seven games: Seattle, six games; Victoria, one game. STATE SHOOT IS TOMORROW Ijarjrc Entry List Assures Success. Fine Grounds in Readiness. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 31. (Special. Success for the interstate shooting tournament, which is to be held at the State Fair this year, is almost assured. Although the definite number of entries for the big shoot cannot be ascertained as yet. it is known that the number will far exceed ' every expectation of those under whose charge the tourna ment is being held. Hauser brothers, two prominent local men in the gun world, have arranged every detail for thejnateh. Traps, tar gets and ground space have been pro vided and when the marksmen arrive in Salem Monday they will be escorted to the tournament grounds and invited to participate immediately. The shoot begins at 9 A. XI. and ends et noon. Every reasonable accommodation has been provided for the participants and, ,DDIE MENSOR is now hitting only i .268 for the Pirates. He was go ing fine until he injured his weak ankle again, and then slumped rap- Idly. Both Mensor and Donlin are play ing utility roles. Hofman. the out fielder secured from Chicago, being back in the game at center field. The average ballplayer spends much time oiling and shining his bat, but the rough bat the one .scraped the wrong way until it looks like sand paper Is the one to hit with. The smooth ones account -for many fouls. ... A Pittsburg paper quotes every ma Jor league manager except Connie Mack as picking the Boston Red Sox to win the American league pennant. Connie is still publicly giving his world's champions a chance. Privately he must have given up weeks ago. Billy Evans and Jack Egan. full- fledged umpires of the Ban Johnson staff, watched Ty Cobb umpiring a game at Washington the other day. The duet had much fun at Cobb's ex pense, but at the end of the semi-pro engagement .Tyrus collected 1(5.15 as his share of the gate receipts, it was then Cobb's chance for a big smile. The following is an obituary notice In a Pittsburg paper: Pirate Pennant Hope died yesterday after a lingering illness; had been in feeble health all season, but made spasmodic rally week ago and overly sanguine friends had hopes of complete recovery. Suffered fatal relapse last Friday. Drs. Adams, Miller and Wagner were in attendance yesterday, but patient could not be resuscitated; expired at 3 to 2. About 16.000 mourners were at death bed. and requiem services were conducted by John J. McGraw. B. S. (baseball strate gist). Fred Merkle. L. H. (lofty hitter). and Christy Mathewson. P. P. (premier pitcher).. o flowers requested. ... It's a pretty safe bet that the Bos ton Red Sox will be favorites over the New York Giants in that coming world's series. Joe Wood and Ray Col lins will do the bulk of the pitching for the Sox, with Marquard and Math ewson the pitching mainstays of the Giants. A new record for attendance is predicted. After winning 18 straight games and establishing a new American League record. Walter Johnson, the great Washington pitcher, lost a four-hit game to St. Louis, the tail-end club. He was expected to best Rube Mar- quard's record of 19 straight. The un certainty in baseball, in' the shape of the lowly Browns, proved his water loo. ... Every club in the National League, with the exception of the Chicago Cubs, concedes the pennant to New York. The Pirates are playing almost as good ball as they did in their 1912 heyday, and. with a schedule favor able, are expected to broaden the gap between the Cubs several games more before the finale is sounded. ;r-w.-:-o:4:-T I V . jib Hit-" Word comes from Carlisle that the Indians are to have another wonderful baseball team this season. James Thorpe. Hus Welch. Alexander Arcasa and Possom Powell are expected to duplicate last year's backfleld. with a number of good subs filling in the spots caused by four or rive iqsses. Hughey Fullerton eays McGraw has three 6-to-3 bets' in pitchers Griffith a 2 to 1 and a S to 3. Walter Johnson is that 2-to-l shot and the most de pendable heaver in baseball today. Helnie Zimmerman, of Chicago, is back at the top of the National League batting list once more. He is hitting .387. which is Just seven points ahead of Sweeney, of Boston. .... Ralph Capron, the famous Minne sota quarterback and brother of George Capron, the Klamath Falls realty op erator, is the center of a baseball squabble. Capron was guaranteed $3500 for the season by Pittsburg, but was sold to Milwaukee for $500. Milwau kee turned him over to St. Paul and then demanded the return of the $500. claiming that the sale was on an op tional agreement. The National Cora mission ruled against the Brewers. d i rh ! f If ferfi; rsL ill r- i ; I ;TifW h& " " I) lei " ' : rl ' if ' R "RSfSM I S&' ' " " tvi I , ...Mr1 ftffl"waiflia if mmmfcwmbi&&m"' JISTIV FITZGKnALD. m FIELDER IS FAST Fitzgerald, of Beavers, Is Com ing to Front. YOUNGSTER IS ONLY 21 Feat of Stealing Home and Winning Recent Game Wins Youngster Home With Loyal Port land Baseball Lovers. Speed is a valuable asset to a ball player, but seldom does anybody get a chance to win a ball game single handed and by speed -alone. Justin Fitzgerald, the 21-year-old streak of lightning who romps in right field for the Portland Coast Leaguers, pulled the trick one week ago today, when he beat out an infield grounder In the 10th inning of a 3 to 3 game against Sacramento and then proceeded to steal second, third and finally home. winning the affair and giving Portland- six straight wins.. - . Fitzgerald's feafis all the more mer itorious Inasmuch as "Red" Krietz. the backstop who created such a furore for the Chicago White Sox during the lore part of the year, was doing the receiv ing at the time. But that's not the first time ruxgeraid nas run wna on the bases. Last year when with the New York Americans the spry little collegian pilfered three bases In one game off Charley Street, the famous Washington backstop who has since gone to Providence in the International League. For a youngster Fitzgerald has had an interesting career. He attracted the attention of Hal Chase, the New York Yankee first sacker. while playing with Chase's alma mater, Santa Clara Col lege, in California. Chase took him under . his wing, signed him for New York and hiked him eastward although only 20 years old. - j. Fitzgerald remained with New York from April until August and In 20 games the kid batted .270 and stole 20 bases. - The Yanks got a chance to send him to Sioux City in the Western League for further' seasoning and, as that afforded a better opportunity for the recruit to gain experience than sitting on big league benches, west ward ho headed. - Fitzgerald says . he didn't go very well for Sioux City, but along late in August when options expired. New York took pains to exercise its right to recall him. When the New York management lured Harry Wolverton of the Oakland Coast League club to the Atlantic sea board, last Winter. to manage the Yankees, four men were handed over to Oakland in partial payment. They were "Bud" Sharpe. of Buffalo, the present Oak manager; Harry Abies, the giant' southpaw: Wilkinson, the youngster who subbed . at first the early part' of the season, and Fitzger ald. - - "I had a bad case of blood, poisoning In my hand, so did not report to Oak land at all for Spring training." ex plained Fitzgerald yesterday, showing the scars on his throwing hand. "Final ly Sharpe gave me a .release and I Journeyed down to Watsonville. where I was playing when Walter Mccredte sent a man down and signed me up. " "Another reason I - didn't Join Oak land was because the terms offered me were not satisfactory." Since Joining the Beavers Fitzgerald has been one of the few shining lights. KANE BPl FREAK Chicago Midget Second in Extra-Base Hitting. HEITMULLER IS AT TOP In Los Angeles Giant Also Leads Ordinary Batting, With Standing of .352 Howard and Daley Are Nearest Rivals. Johnny Kane, the Vernon midget, is the batting freak of the Pacific Coast League. Kane is a Lilliputian along side of such mighty sluggers as Swain. Del Howard, Tiedeman, the Brashears, Zacher and others; yet the former cm cago Cub stands up second to 215 pound Heinle Heltmuller in extra base hitting. The Los Angeles outfielder Helt muller has battered out 23 doubles and 15 homers, which with 145 singles in 41Z times at" bat gives him an extra base percentage of .517. The 140-pound Kane has blazed 129 singles. 27 doub les. 10 trlnles -and five homers in 409 times up, so is considerable ahead of Tiedeman, the third in the line, with a percentage of .467. Heltmuller. oddly enough, has not scored a three-bagger this season. Next to Tiedeman of Oakland at .455 comes Sws'n of Sacramento with .444, then Coy and Patterson of the Oaks. Heltmuller leads In the ordinary bat ting statistics with a percentage of .352. Del Howard and Pete Daley are his closest rivals among the regulars. although young 'Fitzgerald of Portland is legging along at .333. Zimmerman, the Spokane outfielder, is batting .308 for the Seals after a bad start, and Wuffll an even .300. Killilay, of Oakland; Leverenz, oi Los Angeles: Hltt. of Vernon:; Klawit- ter, of Portland; Arellanes, of Sacra mento, and McCorry of San Francisco are the leading pitchers of their re spective clubs. . Player and club AB. Heltmuller. Los Angeles.. 4 12 D. Howard. San Fraa....l&6 Fitzgerald. Portland 60 Arlett, San Francisco . 3 Daley. Los Angeles. Delhi. San Francisco...... 34 Bayless, Vernon 473 Van Buren, Sacramento. 243 Kane, Vernon 409 Tiedemann. Oakland :...2O0 Hetltng. Oakland 477 .Vagle, Los Angeles 3a Krueger, Portland 402 Lindsay. Portland 316 C. Patterson, Oakland. . .377 Zimmerman. San Fran 13 Berger. Los Angeles 4be Brashear. Vernon 473 Sharpe, Oakland 355 Wufflt. San Francisco. 213 Rodgers, Partland 478 O'Rourke. Sacramento.. .4o8 Lewis. Sacramento ......4-3 Irelan. Sacramento 223 Moore. Los Angeles 203 Felts, San Francisco 56 Coy, Oakland 403 Swain, Sacramento ...... &1 - Agnew. Vernon 229 Dillon, los Angeies aa Doane. Portland 333 Zacher. Oakland 425 Litschi. Vernon 348 Gray. Vernon 5S I. Howard, los Angeies. .,-ia Mundorff, San Francisco. 371 Corhan. San Francisco. .473 Carlisle. Vernon 511 Chadbourne, Portland. .. .448 Shinn, Sacramento 381 Butcher, -Portland 1-6 Kibble. Portland u Sutor, San Francisco 15 Joe Williams. Sacramento 64 Rohrer, Oakland Slagle. Los Angeles f R. - Williams, sail ran. n Mohler. San Francisco. . .339 Sheehan. Sacramento ....310 Hoffman. Oakland Fisher, Portland 166 Madden, Sacramento . 2M Orr. Sacramento 101 Core. Los Angeles ...137 Hltt. vernon - Burrell. Vernon Rapps, Portland 417 Hosd. Vernon 3S7 Lober. Los Angeles 375 Brooks. Los AngHes 18 Metzger. Los Angeles 479 H. Miller. Sacramento. . .408 ailllgan. Port.-Oakland . . SO Tozer. Los Angeles 80 Higginbotham. Portland.. 56 Leard. Oakland 401 Cook. Oakland ....5f0 Gregory. Oakland ....... 57 Otdeon, San Francisco. . .313 Schmidt. San Francisco. . 2r,t Heifter, Sacramento 276 Frick, Oakland 159 Cheek. Sacramento 280 H. Patterson. Vernon .... 168 John Williams, Sac'mento 78 McAvoy, San Francisco.. i Brown. Vernon . . - 191 Killilay. Oakland 3o Driscoll. Los Angeles 132 Henley, San Francisco... 85 McDowell, Vernon 16 Bancroft, Portland 370 Howley, Portland 230 Page. Los Anseies .. Mitze, Oakland 25ft Halla. l.os Angeles 6S Stewart, Vernon 51 Pernoll, Oakland 28 Smith, Los Angeles 174 Malarkey, Oakland 63 Baker. San Francisco 53 Schwenk, Sacramento ... 39 Harkness. Portland ..... 34 August 26 inclusive. R. 1BH. BA. 59 145 .353 22 65 .3411 12 20 .333 - 0 1 .333 71 155 .32V 3 11 .324 69 152 .321 32 77 .317 8t 129 .313 27 63 .315 60 150 .314 S 1 .314 El 126 .313 :I3 99 .313 61 lis .SOS 0 4 .308 82 14J .305 70 144 .304 29 107 .301 25 64 .300 45 140 .293 51 131 .203 52 124 .290 28 64 .288 28 68 .287 5 16 .286 77 115 .285 39 74 .284 24 6.". .284 35 72 .282 88 95 .281 58 118 .278 44 96 .276 7 16 .270 97 141 .272 48 101 .272 53 128 .271 111 138 .370 69 121 .270 64 103 .270 13 34 .270 6 8 .267 1 4 .287 - 6 17 .286 16 47 -.263 6 15 .263 2 5 .263 S3 S3 .202 24 81 .261 65 99 .259 19 43 .219 45 75 .25S 9 26 .257 19 35 .256 7 - 20 .2i6 49 122 .255 39 106 .263 34 48 .253 38 95 .263 27 45 .253 56 120 .250 49 101 .250 11 20 .250 5 20 .250 2 14 .250 79 99 .247 59 123 .216 8 14 .246 30 76 .244 15 60 .239 22 65 .236 20 37 .233 26 65 .232 28 ' 39 .232 10 18 .231 3 6 .231 24 44 .230 3 8 .229 f17 30 .227 , 7 20 .227 13 37 .223 39 81 .219 15 50 .218 11 15 .218 25 56 .213 6 14 .215 7 11 .214 1 .214 8 37 .213 5 11 .212 4 11 .208 5 8 .205 5 11 .204 hl r D,t tdr.nn ani4 Hoffman 2T earn, Krtieger and Zacher 2 each. Daley and Cook 25 each. Rodgers, Rapps. O'Rourke ana Heltmuller 23 each. Carlisle. Lober and Berger 21 each, Shinn. Bayless and Cor han 20 each. Leading thre-base hitters Kane 10. 1. Howard . Rodgers and Doane 7 each, pan rroft. I.en-1, and Shlnn ft each. Chadbourne. Krueger. O'Rourke. Swain, Mundorff, Daley and coy o each. Leading home-run hitters Heltmuller IS, Carlisle 11. Lewis. Mundorff. I. Howard, Coy and Zacher 7 each. Swain. Brashear. Berger and Tiedomann 0 each. Butclior. Kane. Baylesa and Cook 5 each. August 26 inclusive. SENATORS IX AXGRY MOOD Players Quarrel Iiespite Van Buren's . . Denials of Inharmonj. LOS ANGELES. Aug. SO. (Special.) I know our team is going to the bad. said Captain Van Buren. of the Sac ramento team tonight, "but I am do ing my best to stop it. 1 am blaming no one for our defeats in the ninth in ning yesterday and today. There is no dissension among the players.' In spite of this assertion of Van Buren the clubhouse sounded like an anvil factory today after the game. Vesterdav Gllligau and Kreitz each blaming the other for the loss of the game, "bawled each other out with threatening language, but words were as far as it went. The players are all angry and critical and while Van Buren tonight ordered them to keep silent when newspaper men approached them, they are known to be In that state of mind that does not lead to good play ing. COBB STILL SUPREME DETROIT OUTFIELDER LEADS BIG LEAGUE HITTERS. National and American Figures Af ford Some Surprises for Baseball Fans. Heinle Zimmerman, of the Cubs, still leads the National League sluggers. while Ty Cobb, as usual, tops the Amer ican Leaguers, his average being .413, against .377 for Zim. Joe Tinker, for mer Portland lnfielder, is leading sac rifice hitter in the older circuit. Ed Walsh, of Chicago, bids fair to lead the major pitchers in number o( games, for he has already worked in 44 contests. Russell Ford, of the Yanks has apparently lost much of his effect iveness, for he has been touched up for the greatest number of hits scored olf any f linger in the American League. The leaders In the various depart ments up to the last compilation et sta tistics are as follows: ' National Learur. Best batting average Zimmerman, cago. .377. Leading run-ffettcr Bob Bcscher, clr.natl, Leading bass stealer Bob Bescher, cinnati, 46. Leading sacrifice hitter Joe Tinker, caeo. 25 In greatest number of game: Oakes. cardinals, lui. Greatest mmocr limes at oat v. Campbell. Boston, 431. - Pltcl-ed in most games Harry Sallee, Cardinals. 3S. Greatest number of games -won Mar Quard. 24. Anunw isgsr. Best batting average Ty Cobb. Detroit, .413. Leading run-getter ins bpeaker, -Boston. 101. Leading base stealer Clyde Milan. Wash ington, 6i. : Beit tacriffce hitter Stuffy Mclnnls. Philadelphia. 23. Greatest number of hits Speaker. Bos ton. 175 7n greatest number of games Milan. Washington. 113. Greatest number of times at bat Foster, Washington. 457. pitched in most games Ed. "Walsh. Chi cago. 44. Greatest number of games won Johnson, Washington. 27-7: Wood. Boston, 25-4. Greatest number of hits scored off pitcher? Russeil Ford, New York, 253. Chl-Cin-Cin-Chl- -Rebel ATHLETIC FIELD IS IMPROVED PITCHER CLUB 0 O'lOOO 1 Oh&OO' 7 01.720! 6- 1 .714! 9 O .667 6 0 . 4 1 5 0J.632! 3 -632 3, .6821 1 19;20 7 0 .1912i 71 0 .llSlll 7 O .611 4 .'20H7'11 1 .607 1 .4.Vl5!l0l O .600 3 . 20' 12. Si 0 . 600 2 24!H:iO 0 .SS3 21 1 1 M0T0EB0AT WHICH ESTABLISHED NEW TIME EECOED BETWEEN PORTLAND AND ASTORIA T7 r sat "is - -:-:.-.i u , The Plrtare shows (he Sylph, Georse W. Kendall's Motorboat, vtlth Mrs. Kendall at the Wheel The Boat Won the Trophy for the Best Port lnd-to-Atorla Time The Sylph Negotiated the One Hundred Mllea In Three Hours and Thirty-One Minutes, or Three Honrs and Thirteen Minutes Actual Running Time. Arlett. S. F....1 1; Killllar. O. !10 Hltt, V I-2,1J, Arrelanes. S. ..j27lS Brecklnr'ge. V.. 18 12 Nagle. L. A 13 Si Castleton. V.. . .il41 9 Parker, O.- . . Raleigh. V. -Christian. O. Chech, L. A. Klawltter. P. Stewart, V. ... Voster. L. A. . Gregg. P 8 4 3 lltgglnaorm, p. IT T Halla. L. A 21:111 9 Carson. V 2011 9 "Malarltes", O... 20;10 9 McCorry. S. P. . 1010J 9 Abies. O. 2915 14; Miller, a F 3!l3;15 T-larknaaa- P ;22'11 11 Cray. V 18i 0 Fanning, S. F..;14 6 7 Gregory. O. ...20 Oil Koestncr. P. ..,30 13l7! Baker. S. F. ...19j 811 H.nrn S.-V. !191 S 11 Williams. K. ...121 813 Schwenk. S.....14! 5 -MHirn-i P.-K. '201 7 H.nl.v' SL F....I27, 9ll8 9:. 3: Slagle.'L. A.....:21, 7114 Oj.JSS n.lhl S F 12 4 81 0I.3S3 .1 ll o. o v .o.v. . 4 1 S 0j.S5i !lJ 3 12 0 .200 . B ll 4 01.200 1 01 1 0 .000 5331 550' 550! .526! 526 .51 Oi.sool o'.soo. o o 0 0 1 2 1 4 4 - 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 0! 0 o 3 0 0 0 0, 2! 1 1 1 2! 01 0 1 01 0 01 0 ll o o a 11 0 1 2 3' 2 3 2 6! 2! 3 1 3 II 1 1 0 . 600 0 0 0 1 .462 0, .4.10 0.433 01.421 9i.42rf O'.ssi 91 0 .357 01 O! 01 , I o 2j lj of 2i 2 Pernoll, O. Suter, P Fitzgerald. S. Munsell, S. . . . Vernon. L. A. . 1 0 1 VI 2i o, o a 2 0l 0 1 0 21 0 0 o, o' 0 J s l 2; 3 2: 0 1 1 0 O 0 0 1 o! o o 0 0, 0 o 0 01 0 0 1 0 01 0 Also one 1-hlt game. Leading sicriflce Bitters Berger 35. Doane 31 Metzger 2S, Hetllng 26. Hosp and Heltmuller 25 each; Corham 24. Bancroft and Daley 22 each. Litschi 21. Lewis and Bavless 20 each. Kane and Mohler 19 each. Krterer. O'Rourlse, H. Miller and Leard IS each, McArdle 17. Rodgers 16, Chadbourne, Rapps and Cook 15 each. Leading base stealers I. Howard 52. Car lisle 50, Kane and Leard 43 each. Daley 39. Lewis 30. Chadbourne 27. Shinn 20. Berger 23, Bayless, Gideon and Moore 22 each, Hoff man and Heltmuller 21 each, Rodgers. H. Miller. Brashear and Corhan 20 each. Leading run getters Carlisle 111. How ard 97. Berger S2. Kane 81. Leard 79, Coy. 77 Daley 71. Brashear 70. Bayless 69. Hoff man 05. Shinn 64. C. Patterson fil. Het ii an fhadhoiirne. Heltmuller and Cook 59 each. Zacher 58, Metiger 56. Leaning iwu-oaoo m. iivu,K " . Howard 34, Coy 30. Kane, Brashear, Lit- ) . - Willamette University AVill Have " Larger Quarters. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Sa lem. Or., Aug. 31. (Special.) Willam ette University is rapidly completing extensive improvements upon the ath- etlo field. Under the directions of City Engineer Skelton of Salem, a great deal of grading is planned. The field will be enlarged and by extend ing it further toward the east a straight-away course for the 220-yard run can be constructed. Now. all the runs above 120 yards are run, part of the way, on a curve. During the last two weeks' a big force of men have been engaged in tearing down the fence along the north side of the field and constructing a new one about 20 yards away from the site of the old one. The ground gained by the re moval of the fence will be used for an automobile driveway, where all attend ing games of any kind can get splendid view of the contest from their machines, as this course is an elevated one, being about ten feet above the level of the surface of the athletic field or running track. Spe cial gates are being arranged at each end of this automobile street, so as to allow no one on foot to cross the course. The right field. In base ball, which .is. a few feet short of regu lation length, wiir be deepened by re moving more of the bank which has now and then interfered with a play er's best work. The coming week teams and men will be put to work, starting a big fill at the west end"" of the athletic field for another baseball diamond. This new diamond will be a grass one, Willamette will try the experiment of sodding it. It is believed that with one diamond on the campus entirely covered with short-cropped grass that many games scheduled to be played, which a slight rain would prevent on a skinned diamond, can be played here. The entire field has been mapped and plotted and all these present im provements, extensive as they are, have been arranged with the plan of making thera a stepping stone to the ultimate construction of a cement stadium along the whole of the north side. This stadium project is not new, as the faculty, alumni and students have been planning it for two years. The Willamette athletic field, with the banks along all of the north side, is splendidly located for a natural stadium. HYERS IS MARVEL Spokane Player Steals 86 . Bases, Beating Cobb. . BATTING AVERAGE IS.. 31 8 Speas Is Portland's Representative Among Leaders, His Distinction Lying in His Three-Base Hitting Record. . When Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the fa mous Detroit outfielder of baseball strike fame, purloined S3 bases last season the feat was labeled "wonder ful." But out here In the Northwestern League Hap Myers, of - Spokane, has already stolen more than 8$ bases, and the season lacks tour weeks of being ended. . Myers is the best all-round ball play er in the Northwestern League, accord ing to many followers of the diamond game. He is hitting .Sis. Is fielding well and his base-thieving proclivities are an asset which has given Spokane many victories this season. He has a bad throwing arm. which explains his trip from the majors, bui he will have another chance to make food at Boa ton next season. Among all the Northwestern League leaders Portia. id has one candidate; Speas is the champion three-base hitter of the circuit- Otherwise the other five clubs monopolize all championships to date. Dad Meek, of Victoria, is still the leading batsman of the league, with McDowell a weak second. However, the Portlander struck his gait again after the statistics presented were com piled and Is really more than. one point ahead of Myers. James', of Seattle, and Noyes. of Spo kane,' are the winning pitchers, witn me tjoil squaa icu uy i' The averages follow: v Individual Batting, i AB. R Hartley, Spokane .. Wilson, Seattle .... Meek. Victoria .... Schneider. Seattle . McDowell. Portland Myers. Spokane ... Williams. Tacoma . Burch. Portland ... Kennedy. Victoria . . 03 . .888 . . 62 ..2S1I ..474 .. 1 .. 1 . .330 4 12 54 10 3R 82 0 8 74 7 94 .2 69 54 62 2.1 is 20 12 M) 44 68 32 IS 23 72 33 78 1 T 74 74 S3 61 3t 63 68 12 4T 16 13 44 48 42 23 77 8 . H 8 33 130 20 Rl l.M 10 136 24 157 13 148 87 138 47 138 42 58 57 126 S6 120 54 53 54 212 5t 135 a 128 114 m 125 138 78 133 132 21 102 28 3--V 108 89 87 4T 115 !4 107 65 v 114 YVESTEKX GOLFERS VICTORS Metropolitan Quartet of Stars Third in Team Trophy Match. WHEATON. 111.. Aug. 31. The West ern Golf Association team, headed by Charles Evans, Jr., carried off the Olympic team trophy at the Chicago Golf Club this afternoon with a total score for the 36 holes of 639. Evans, Western Golf Association amateur champion, played the morning round in 72 and the afternoon m 74, averag ing par for the Wheaton links. The "United States Golf Association team, an "added starter," composed of players of Chicago clubs, finished sec ond with 636. The Metropolitan Golf Association team, Jerome Travers, W. J. Travis. Oswald Kirkby and Frederick Herreshoff, was third. SVMMAPT. Clubs Los Angeles .. Portland Vernon Oakland Pscmmento ... San Francisco Total3 Cames. AB. R. 1BH. BA. SH. SB. 2BH. 3BH. 138 4.491 SS2 1223 272 2" 231 212 35 2T ,4.179 443 1105 264 138 165 101 44 15 4.516 608 11K: 26t lf 217 223 2 1.19 4.592 2S 1192 2'! 102 1 23 21 132- ' 4.355- 463 11.-.H 259 140 11 1SS 30 139 4.451 455 1112 250 171 17S 171 22 .. 2S.5S4 3179 6951 26l 1043 1132 1224 1S1 108 112 120 111 S8 102 02; League batting average. Doty, Pjrtland 78 Bennett, Vancouver 519 Byram, Vancouver 43 Neighbors. Tacoma 498 "rulkshank. Portland ...329 Weed. Victoria ...462 Fullerton. Seattle 161 Frisk. Vancouver 481 Million. VTacOma 145 Lalonge. Tacoma 202 Altman. Spokane .......20O Melchior, Spokana 449 Devogt, Spokane 809 Speas. Portland 432 Jackson, Seattle 194 Hunt, Tacoma 191 Powell, Spokane 191 Strait. Seattle 439 Clementson. Victoria ...185 Mann. Seattle 293 Churchill. Tacoma 11 Shaw. Seattle 472 Nlll. Tacoma 423 Klppert, Vancouver ....468 J&mes, Vancr ver 471 Fries. Portlan 521 Lewis, Vancouver -w Lynch. Tacoma 510 yohe. Victoria 503 Gordon. Seattl 81 Williams. Portland .9 Eartley. Portland 113 Goodman. Vancouver ...138 Csrtwrlght. Spokane ...429 McMullen. Tacoma 354 Whaling, Seattle 845 Mfrritt, Victoria 1ST Cooney. Fnokane .......460 James. Seattle 96 Muran. f.eattle 4l Kelley. Victoria 463 Holderman, Tacoma ....166 Ostdiek, Spokane 175 Chick. Seattle 355 Scharney, Vancouver . . .3SH Hall. Tacoma $7 Johnson, Spokane ,.279 Coltrin. Portland 427 Raymond, Seattle 4S( Belford, Tacoma 65 Jausen. Tacoma ....... .1-2 Brlnker, Vancouver 289 Brooks. Victoria 308 Concannon, Seattle Brennan, Tacoma . Mahonev, Portland Wilson. Victoria . . . Crittenden. Twomt Rtfeer. Portland .. Wally, Seattle 98 Clark Vancouver 66 Rawllngs. Victoria 460 Smith. Victoria 33 Thompson. Seattle 91 Sepulveda, Vancouver . .202 Cates, Vancouver 237 Seaton, Vancouver . Hausman. Portland Harris, Portland ... Strand, Spokane ... wims. Vancouver . . Melkle. Tacoma 70 Ingersoll. Seattle 15 Pitching Records. James, Seattle Noyes, ppokano. ...j Toner. Spokane ....i.., Engle, Vancouver Clark, Vancouver ' - Smith. Victoria Churchill, Tacoma 2 Callahan. Portland 2 Thompson, Seattlo ' Wilson. Victoria IT Agnew, Portland 10 Hunt. Tacoma Fullerton. Seattle 1 12 Doty. Portland 12 Stelger. Portland 4 J Cadreau. Spokane 19 Leonard. Fpokane 5 4 Wl!!ls. Vancouver 11 9 Gervals, Vancouver 16 14 Eastloy. Portlai d 13 11 Bloomfield. Portland 13 '2 Gordon. Seattle 12 12 olrot. Portland 4 4 Leading Extra Base Hitter. ' , - 2B 3B HR TEB . .213 ..179 . . 86 ..224 46 . 49 .322 . 30 70 18 47 45 14 68 5 .18 43 39 5 29 2- " 15 4 13 11 58 15 20 28 8 11 87 93 20 6T 102 115 13 28 66 70 17 48 40 19 49 10 21 14 97 T 19 42 49 6 10 63 6 14 14 3 Ave .363 .844 .335 .822 .319 .318 .316 .311 .310 .308 .803 .802 .298 .295 .293 .289 .289 .289 .287 .285 .281 .279 .278 .278 278 .278 .276 .275 .274 .273 271 .269 .267 .285 .263 .262 .261 .20 .259 .258 .257 .234 .254 .25.-1 252 .252 .250 .250 .249 .243 .247 .246 .243 .241 .242 .240 .239 .216 .231 .230 .228 .228 .227 !!!'i .219 .2.17 .214 .2rj .211 .212 .209 .208 .207 .207 .204 .202 .2X3 .2on 200 .200 .21 .18 . 9 . 8 .IT . T Pet. .801 .T..0 .75U .727 .7"8 .700 .867 .B6T .ni .607 .5?8 .578 .571 .571 .571 .678 .656 .550 .583 .522 .52" .30i) .500 Mann ' f" " Strait 21 8 15 63 Frisk 27 , 7 9 60 Kennedy 24 J 11 611 Meek 18 8 12 ' Nelghbora 20 T T . 55 Nlll v 21 T 54 Lynch 20 6 T 53 Spcae 20 9 5 53 B.nnctt 25 6 5 SO Moran 13 4 48 Brashear 1 " Weed -.. 24 4 4 44 Klppert 25 2 ,5 44 Keller 14 4 Cartwright I' Cooney 2.. 4 t Leading- Base Stealers. vipers 81. Coonev 44. Bennett S8. Klppert S4, Strait 82. Speas 32. Cartwrlght 31. Shaw 31. Zimmerman SO. Kennedy 27. Jamea 26, Yohe 24. Neighbors 22, Mann 24, Raymond 21, Moran 21, Keller 20; Leading nocriuoe ti tttera. Rawliya 27, McMullen 28, Cooney 2T. Nlll 25, Jjmes 23, Bennett 22, FT1SK ZJ. tiay- ond 22, Speas in, Harris i, rncs iu, jum" 18, Cartwrlght IT, Johnson 17. weed is, Shaw 16, Yohe 15, Brooks 15, Klppert 16. GIRL SWIMMERS ARE TESTED Miss Millie Schloth, of V. W. C. A., to Take Extended Vacation. Mlsa Millie Schloth, swimming in structor at the Y. W. C. A., leaves this week on an. extended vacation trip to San Francisco and other California points. Miss Schloth conducted an ex amination for several of her pupils Fri day night and after the tests her class presented her with a beautitui oiaca traveling bag. The tests consisted or a zso-yara swim, showing three different strokes, and front and hark dives for form. The successful candidates were: Miss Ada Feely. Miss E. Donohoe. Miss Ruby Tur rel. Mrs. L. C. McCllntock. Mrs. Con stance Meyer, Mrs. Wl H. Braeger. 7 r