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4 WATCH-TOWER OBSERVATIONS Material and Immaterial Sport Syllogisms by Roscoe Fawcett ''They AN Amuck at the Ball Parte. laconically charged a San Fran cisco police officer the other 4ay when Jame Smith was haled Into tne oan twlck of Justice to answer to a: charge of throwing cushions onto the playing field. "What do you mean, sir?" asked Judge Sullivan. "Well, he acted like a crazy man. It was a regular snowstorm of cush ions. Everybody joined in." "Can you explain your conduct?" asked the judge. "I'll try." replied Smith faintly. He was a spare little man with a bunga low brow and luminous eyes, and, having spent the night In jail, his hand was as tremulous as Walt Me Credie on the coaching line. "You see it was this way," squeaked Smith, by way of a begin ning as he moistened his parched lips. "Eight innings had passed eight innings of sad ordeals with crepe tied in bow knots on the bats of the Seals. ' Far up, about 5000 feet, the Tigers were flapping against the sky with a four-run lead. I could hear their mo tors. , "Then came the ninth." continued Smith sadly. "Vernon didn't haue any thing to do. They just whistled rag time and picked their finger nails. They were four to the good. I began to have a touch of indigestion when suddenly" Smith's hopes began to bob up like the thermostat on an In cubator when the kerosene catches fire-'In - the second half McCorry makes a pinch hit. Berry singles, scoring McCorry. Wuffll bangs out a double. "Then Mohler sends her through sec ond! Berry scores!" Smith, becoming excited, rose from his chair, as did other habitues frdm theirs. "Howard singles to right, .Wuffll scores!" Smith's rasping tones reverberated like a' busz saw going through a knot. "It was glorious. Whoop-e-e.' At this Juncture Smith paused and looked around startled. He had awak ened from his dream, but there was no tittering in court. Judge Sullivan, who had been studying the chandelier with a rapt expression. interrupted rudeVy: "Case dismissed." Sullivan stands as a convincing ar gument against the bill for the recall of judges. Smith should never have been arrested: in fact, he should have been rewarded. Any time the Seals make five runs In an Inning the fans are entitled to some quiet recreation like throwing pillows and kicking each other in the back. We don't wish the San Franclscl management any hard luck, but really the official responsible for that ar rest should be tunked on the skull with a section of cornice, shot at with a howitzer loaded with spiked shoes, swung through 30 degrees of the cir cle and then rolled out under a 40-ton limousine. FtOM soft shirts to board bosoms and back to overalls is the brief history of Edward Corrigan. famous American turfman, who has been dis covered working in a stone-crushing plant at Kansas City, ne is a bank rupt with unsecured liabilities of over (100.000. This "Master of the Haw thorne," bred, raced and owned hun dreds of thoroughbreds and won more than $2,000,000 in purses and stakes in his 25 years of luxury. Corrigan's family name should . have been Brew ster. WATERMELON has . 'proved the downfall of many a son of Ethio pia, bat Joe Rivers can boast of being the only Mexican to get his ears so wet that he couldn't hear the flap ping of the vultures' wings above. Rivers has come forth with the start ling alibi that a watermelon party the night before his Mandot battle on Labor day caused his downfall. The sage who warbled that "nothing new under the old Sol" anagram spake well and wisely. Rivers' plea of lack of condition is a bromide pure and simple. It's the usual stall of a beaten athlete whose business is to get Into condition. It s the baggy-kneed com poser's manuscript you don't have to get beyond the headlines tb recognize it. This Mandot fleur-de-lis boxer. If we remember rightly, was given a de cisive beating by Willie Ritchie in New Orleans not long ago. Now. we might have a ring around the Maypole lance. Put Ritchie against Rivers and Wolgast against Mandot and let the winners scrap it out. That programme ought to fattc somebody's wallet. Basking in. the light of his two de feats Wolgast and Mandot Rivers doesn't appear nearly as formidable as Beanie Walker and his Los Angeles boosters predicted a few months ago. But then, cutting "watermelon" from the training menu should put him in the manuscriptic class. Sure he may "come back." Who knows? THE Pacific Coast League is. In the parlance of the players, a "pipe" league for southpaw pitchers. "Any southpaw can walk through this league," said a prominent player a few days ago. And that's what prompt ed a squint at the comparative bat ting records of the rtghthand and the lefthand batsmen, with the interesting discoveries noted below. Thirteen of the 25 Coast League bat ting elite are righthanders. This in cludes only those who have been to bat 100 times. This baker's dozen have it over the lefthanders in every de partment, save three-base hitting, where a tie exists. Heitmuller, by an odd twist of fate, banged out his first triple a week ago, although he leads the circuit In extra clouting. The Los Angeles Dutchman more than makes up the deficiency, however, by his home run carnage. He has blazed out 15 circuit cleaners, whereas Coy. his nearest rival, has but nine to his credit. Coy. be it mentioned, is a southpaw. As a unit these IS righthanders can boast of a batting average of .307. whereas the mauling motto of the southpaws is barely .300 even. With out further comment we submit this table of the Titans: RIGHT-HAND Ptaver and Club 11 Howard. Smn Francisco itrnuller. Los Angeles Ht-tltnt. Oakland Kane. Vernon KruefT. Port'and ft. l,i!iuar. Vernon..... t?r.irpe. Ouklard r"" Reriter. l.of Anceles TIedcmarn. Oakland Swain, ir'acromenlo M-ore. Angel AtnfK. Vernon O'Rourke, SJcramento - Totais LEFT-HAND Prv. Lei Angeles.. .. rtavU, Vernon Van Burtn. Sacramento. Lindsay. Portland P.meron. Ortklar.d ri:lon. xz Anaeles Cuv. Oakland l.ew-!s Sacramento Roctrer. Portiand vulfli. f-n Francisco... Doane. Portland Core. Loa Angeles Total WILL HOGAN. former Oakland star, now with t. Louis, caused quite a commotion on the Browns' bench the other day. The American League tail nders had just won a game when "Buck" O'Brien, the Boston vpitball artist, innocently remarked: "I guess the worm haa turned." If Hogan had been permitted to Say There Is a Reason for Everything in the World, but PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK IN THE FIELD OF SPOBTSMAN. 1 1 .. J. , - carry out his intentions he would to day be defending a charge of mayhem. Somehow or other he got a sudden no tion into his head that Irish ears would make good chewing. "We may lose a lot of games, but no ham-and-egg pitcher is going to call us wormy," snapped Hogan savagely when his team-mates restrained him from pummeling O'Brien. No true sportsman can blame "Happy" for his outburst of Visigothic temperament. II must be awful to play with a team like Stovall's. There is nothing in his tory to clinch our belief, but somehow we think that Sherman must have been watching a St. Louis game when ho wrote bis famous observation on war THE world is funny. What do you think of a laundry which adver tises as follows: "Why tog up wltn dirty collars, when we can wear them out for you?" The telegraph is the funniest of all. Louis, head barber at the Hellman building barber shop, was discussing the Wolgast-Rivers fight of several weeks ago with another bar ber. The argument waxed heated. Louis said he saw the blow plainly, for he was sitting so close he could spit in the ring The -other linguist wagered J20 he couldn't spit in the ring. They hired a BATTERS. AB. R. H. 2B. 3B. HR. BA. . 210 23 "1 1 0 . -H4 3 IT'S C5 1 15 .331 . yt ! 1B3 38 1 X .30 . 2 86 l::4 27 12 5 .312 . 4-'2 W 130 20 5 1. 3"S . 4'M "J 150 28 1 .35 . S.-.S J9 107 11 1 1 .300 . ! S7 H! 22 3 .2 . 23.-. 29 70 12 .. 8 .i-V8 . :HT 41 "O 11 S S .2M . -JK-Z 2 .IS 11 3 .. .2S7 . i::5 24 67 IS 1 3 .255 4S5 .'.0 13S 23 3 .2W .47S4 eb' 1473 268 40 53 -S07 RS. . 474 T2 15S 2.1 S 1 .3'2 . 4!i 72 l. 3 5 .30 . 2."!1 i'3 .2 21 1 1 .317 , . SIR vo 11 1 1 .3'3 .415 (W 127 30 3 4 30 . 41 PI 1.1 .. 1 .i"'9 . l::r. i3 l'Jt 3 0 .-V7 . . 431 .12 l -' -tl T .2!3 . 4U7 47 14.1 24 7 2 .22 2JO 27 71 13 2 0 -2M . f 13 I 1 .2SS , . 1.16 22 43 5 276 . .4.-.M. J7 1.10S 227 40 32 .300 BATTERS. taxicab and journeyed to the Vernon arena. Louis pointed to his seat, IS feet from the ropes. He sat down and proceeded to spit. He spat 10 feet, all right, but nearly broke his neck and used up all his spittle trying to stretch the cataract. He paid the bet. Baseball is funny, lacoma recently sold Pitcher Meikle to the Seattle club, which Is contending with Spokane and THE Jzzvejrt. Vancouver for the pendant, for a rep uted price of J1000. Now comes the National Association's official bulletin, containing the recall of Meikle from Tacoma by San Francisco. In other words, title has been vested right along in San Francisco. Which raises the query, Why did Tacoma hand Meikle over to Seattle In the heat of a close pennant race? But; If Northwestern League integ rity Is funny so is legal procedure. A Chicago lawyer had a suit in which his client. Mrs. James Grower, 39 years old, desired a divorce from her hus band, whose income was 1100,000 per year, and who was a spry young thing of 82. One day recently the barrister dropped around to the courthoue to see about "trying the case,' 'and found that his client had ' been dead for a month. She died of heart disease, and the huband was dead, too He died of a broken heart upon hearing of his wife's death. Connie Mack is funny The manager of the Philadelphia Americans stated the other day that, with Boston prac tically sure of the pennant and his worries and strain over, he had gained a pound in weight. That should make a great difference In the great man ager's appearance. Duck hunting is funny. Harry Howland opened the season last Sunday at the Athenian preserve, on Sauvie's Island, and is said to have shot a big bag of the tame decoys. Even the long-faced scientists are sometimes funny. One discovered just the other day the reason a baseball curves. Any baseball fan could have told him that. Farisian scientists are said to be discussing whether there is life without mind. Evidently these Parslans never heard the cigarette fiend discussing how he spent the evening, before. Yes, indeed. . "Life'a a funny prop osition, after all" except In Sacra mento. THE candidate he kissed the baby, rubbed the heads of Sam and Sue; then swore the twins were beauti ful and wished that he had two but that doesn't count. He asked about the corn bread that he vainly tried to chaw, and forthwith begged a recipe. Of course that tickled maw but that doesn't count. But just before he left he winked and then closed up his jaw, and slipping out behind the barn he took a drink with paw and that's what counts. The largest railway passenger station in Europe la Bearing completion at ieipsic " yf Mm I'd Like to Know the Idea of SPEAKER IS GAINING Cobb Falls Slightly in American League Batting. . BOSTONIAN MAY GET AUTO Zimmerman Leads Xational Hitters AVJth Sweeney Close Tp Wood's . Pitching Record High Gregs Wing IS and Loses 13. Trls Speaker of the Boston Amer icans gained a little on Ty Cobb in the American League batting race dur ing the week, Jumping up to .403, while Cobb and the National leaders, Zimmer man and the old Portland player, Bill Sweeney, fell a few points. Zimmer man of the Cubs is leading the Nation al with a percentage of .389. American League experts believe that Speaker will eventually lead the Amer ican League sluggers because Boston is practically sure of the pennant and that will be in his favor. Speaker's work in the field this season has been more valuable, too, than Cobb's, and it looks . like Speaker for the auto mobile. Joe Wood, the sensational Boston Ditcher, may make a strong bid for the chariot, but the fact that Speaker is in everv a-ame will be an important factor In the award. Wood promises to set a new world's record. He has won 28 games and lost four. Marquard leads the National League pitcners i"" 20-win' point. The averages show the .300 batters who have played in 50 or more games and the leading pitchers. Gregg's record Is now 15 wins and 12 defeats, only a trifle below the famous Kd Walsh. The figures: National League Batting. x-.n. -l,.H G. Ab. H. Sb. Pet. Zimmerman, Chlcago.112 445 a 22 , .RS9 Sweeney, Boston 117 454 11 20 .ill Meyers. New York.. .110 345 121 10 .351 Doyle. New Tork 10S 427 148 34 .34. Konetehy. Ft. Louis.. 113 428 147 24 .843 Bvers. Cnlcago 115 SU2 130 13 .3.12 Donlln, Pittsburg 53 1.2 57 7 .31 Klig. Boston 73 223 73 S .32. I.obert. Philadelphia. 65 257 82 13 .3 9 Husglns. St. Louis... l"- o.j jij Daibert. Brooklyn ..111 42S 135 22 .315 Wlrk Pt.-Kton ....... 72 2p6 SO O .13 W. Miller. Chicago... 31 132 41 -JJ Wagner. Pittsburg. -.110. 421 181 20 . 311 Cutshaw. Brooklyn... 65 220 8 9 .309 Hoblitzell. Cincinatl.il J" Jj -"'J Marsans. Cincinnati.. 97 374 - 115 80 .308 Paskert. Philadelp'la.lOS 89o 121 23 .306 Merkle. Now York... 03 313 10. ,29 .M Wheat, Brooklyn 88 322 97 13 .301 American League Batting. Name, club G- Ab. H. So Pct Cobb, Detroit 3 iot ji Speaker. Boston .....123 4,7 192 47 .403 Jackson. Cleveland... 121 46 1.3 26 .Sit Collins. Philadelphia. 120 431 145 33 .336 Mclnnes. priirceip la.uu jw Baker. philade:Phia..l20 402 153 29 .831 Lajole. Cleveland.... 86 828 108 11 .3-9 nar.dll. Washington.- 329 103 IS .13 Griggs. Cleveland ...81 268 83 Crawford. Detroit ..,123 4S0 148 36 .308 Turner. Cleveland ... 75 274 84 1- .307 Stahl. Boston 26, 82 14 .307 Gardner. Besten ..-.122 444 135 -1 .304 Easterly, cnicago . . . . . Larorte. Wa.hington. 86 28 86 7 .302 Milan. Washington. ..124 487 14. 71 .30. National League Pitching Average. riayer.club W. L Pet. Richie. Chicago JJ Crantlall. New Tork 1J J Marquard, New York ?5 7 .781 Cheney. Chicago J? J Hendrix. Pittsburg 18 - Tesreau. New York 10 Lavandei, Chicago 13 f .t5 Camnitz. Pittsburg JJ Mathewson. New rora -X Adams. Pittshurg Brenran. Philadelphia U J -6.9 Alexander. Philadelphia 16 12 Humphries. Cincinnati 10 - Perdue. Bo.,ton " " J:; Benton, Cincinnati .. 16 15 .016 American League Pitching Averages. Player, club W. L. Pet. Wood. Boston -., 1 ai'! Plank. Philadelphia 20 4 .833 Johnson, Washington 28 9 .7.17 Coombs. Philadelphia 21 7 ..SO Bee lent. Boston J -i' Dubuc. Detroit il Hr.ll. Boston J J ."- Bonder. Philadelphia I '52, R Collins. Boston 10 Ht-ghes, Washington J- 8 Lunge, Clilcaso -5J Groom, Washington JJ if Walsh. Chicr.go -J JS Gregg. Cleveland O xirien, goswn Warehouse to Cost $70,000. A permit for a reinforced concrete, fireproof warehouse has been issued to .- Ts.tin PrIIvnv. T.iirht & Power Company. The building will be 82x222 feet in dimensions ana win tvum.u t. .m k hunt nn RaRt Seven. BlU. lea. J v ... - teenth street, between Center and Rhone streets. The cost win ob doui $70,000. Work on the construction will be started at once. Bowling Boosters to Meet. t ..... o r tbA four-team com- .ipauoiuu -' ..." mercial bowling league will likely fol low as a result oi a meeting " alley experts at the Saratoga chutes at 2 o'clock this afternoon Last winter besides the Big Four league there was a Foresters league and a circuit made up of Warren Construction Company enthusiasts. ' 1912 NATIONAL LEAGUE SCHED ULE; SEASON OPENED APRIL .11, CLOSES OCTOBER 6. Chicago club at home With Cin cinnati. September 26. 2T. 28; with Pittsburg. September 29, 30. October 1; with St. Louis. October 5. . Pittsburg club at home With St. Louis. September 26. 27. 28. New York club at home With ' Brooklyn. September 9; with St. Louis. September 10. 11, 12, 13; with Chicago, September 14. 16, 17; with Cincinnati. September 18, 19, 20; with Pittsburg. September 21. 23, 24; with Boston. September 26. 27. 28; with Philadelphia, September 30. October 1. 3. Boston club at home With Chi cago. September 10. 11. 12, 13; with St. Louis. September 14. 16, 17; with Pittsburg. September 18. 19. 20; with Cincinnati, September 21. 23; with Brooklyn. September 20. October 1. 2; with Philadelphia, October S, 4. s. St. Louis club at home With Pittsburg. September K, 6, 7. 8; with Cincinnati, September 29, SO, October 1. Cincinnati club at home With Chi cago. September 5. 6, 7, S: with Pitts burg. October 6. 6. Philadelphia club at home With Boston. September : with Pittsburg. September 10. 11. 12, 13: with Cin cinnati. September 14. 16. 17: with St. Louis. September 18. 19. 20; with Chicago. September 21. 3J, 24. Brooklyn club at home With Cin cinnati. September 10. IL 12, 13; with Pittsburg. September 14. 16. 17; with Chicago. September 18. 19. 20: with St. Louis. September 21. 23. 24; with Philadelphia, September 23, 26, 27. 28; with New York, October 3. 4, S.- Placing a 'G' on the Front End of 'Gnat.' "Abe's Philosophy. FAHOUS NEW YORK NATIONAL PITCHER WHOSE METEORIC 1 CAREER ENDED IN DEATH YESTERDAY. J v J 'yrs r 1 ' K Yfr t f " i 1 "BUGS" JONES BANE OF BATTERS SAM CRAWFORD Kt,LA'ln PROWESS OF EX-SOX IV FIELD. Four IiUSty Swats, All In Different Places In One Game, Gathered In by Mighty Gardener. "There are a lot of mistakes I've made since I've been in the game that T'.r fnrfffittAn Till moselv or otherwise, but the worst one I ever made, ac cording to the way i joo Tielder trying to nit a. Jone wasn't," declared Sam Craw-ford, the famous Detrort. outneiuei. iu ina- of his diamond troubles. "That fellow was a robber, a de stroyer of batting averages and an enemy of all good hitters. He was the only ball player I ever was glad to see go out of the business. Of course. I hated to see him go personally but it wasn't fair to batters to have him in the outfield. . ,..v "The time I made my big mistake in trying to hit where he wasn't was in the Fall of 1906, when we were : all fifThting for the pennant and cutting each others' throats just enouKh to let Chicago slip in and win it after we had figured them out of it. "I think Frank Smith was pitching for the White Sox that day: at any rate the pitcher looked pretty easy for me. You know when they are com ing where I like them I pull a bit and hit to right or right center. Well, the first time up Smith put up a fast one. Just a little bit-farther outside than I thought It was, and I cracked it to left center a mile a minute. I thought she was gone to the fence from the way the ball felt when I hit It. and I dug for first Just as I turned the base to start for second I saw that Jones per son out there catching the ball in deep left center about 200 feet from where he ought to have been playing. "I was pretty sore, but didn't say anything except to tell him how lucky he was. The second tim up I whipped a low drive straight over second. The ball ought to have hit the ground 40 or 50 feet back of the base. Jones was playing so close In that he caught it on '"'T-he' third time up I mauled a high line drive to right center, aimed right at the clubhouse. I thought sure that , ... h,,.- oc T was zolnst was a nou.e - - W for second I saw him going out right under the ball, way over in ..s- -he jumped up and caught it. I was so mad I couldn't talk. "The fourth time I came up we need ed two runs to win and we had two men on bases. I waited Smith out for a fast one, outside, then just stepped in and poked the ball out over shortstops head. I tore for first, thinking the laugh was on Jones that time and that I had fooled him. "I turned the base, and there was Dougliertv. who couldn't come in from left and reach the ball, and in front of him butting in on the short lino ny, was Jones. He picked that ball right off his shoetops. shot it to second, made a double play and ended the in- . , i. .- nat me. COming Ana wucii ic -'" i . .- in. he said: 'That's right. Always hit them in the same place. Day's Progress in the Pennant Races LOS ANGELES went one game and a half ahead of Vernon in the Coast League race by virtue of a six-to-two beating auiu.u.icU - --. while the Oaks were sinking their . . t . . . . ... a Aiihln. tangs in nappy rwS" - - neaacr. .iii.cuv.. . -- rounded to form again, and if so he is' .1 i ....... a lnt f going to cause t . t . - -grief. Los Angeles and Vernon each have one more series to Elay with the i RAYMOND. Oaks, who are now four games behind Los Angeles and two and a half games hahinri v.rnon The Angels will need a lead of two or three games to offset Vernon's long stay at home. r- i. ..'niuau. .Tm rnhn'n filim D(u&a.iv H.vi ccow . wv l -j calA In tha KnrlhwPRtPrQ loau u.ci ' " . " - League, by walloping Victoria. Seat tle stood Idle as a result oi ram. Van couver remained a game and a half be- 1I.11U outtLi.c miu mto pi " - - - --- lead by splitting a double-header with Portland. Any one oi tne inreo . a good position to win. In the National '"League both leaders lost. Tom Seaton, formerly of Port land, shut out the Giants, the Phillies lambasting three twirlers for five runs, and Cincinnati trimmed the Cubs. Pitts burg is six games behind Chicago and the Cubs are eight games behind New York. Bobby GrOom. another ex-Portland pitcher, finally broke the Boston Amer icans' winning streak, in the Ban John son circuit, Washington besting the Sox, 5 to 1. Philadelphia walloped New York, so that Washington is still in third place. Boston Is so far ahead that the only interest now centers in Stahl's effort to establish a new winning rec ord. The Sox have won 92 games, with 24 yet to play, and the world's record Is 102, set by Philadelphia in 1910. "BtJGS" RAYMOND FOUND DEAD Famous ex-Giant Pitcher Succumbs to Heat in Chicago Hotel. CHICAGO. Sept. 7. Arthur, better known in baseball as "Bugs" Raymond, former pitched with the New York Na tional T.fl-u team was found dead in a downtown hotel at noon today. A Coroner's physician said Kaymond s death was due to heart disease, which had been aggravted by the excessive heat. Raymond had been at the hotel since Tuesday. Yesterday afternoon about 3 tAi 1. hK man. In Vile, mnm A A b ft did so he complained of the hot weather. "I'm about all in with this heat," he said to the manager oi tne notei. He was not seen about the hotel last night and today, a maid discovered Raymond's body. ' 1912 AMERICAN LEAGUE SCHED ULE ; bEASON OPENED APRIL 11, CLOSES OCTOBER, . Chicago club at home With Cleve land. September 5. 6, 7. 8: with Bos ton, September 10. 11. 12; with New York. September 13. 14, 15; with Philadelphia, September 17, 18. 19; with Washington. September 20, 21, 22; with St- Louis. September 29. Ci&veiand club at home With Washington. September 10. 11. 12: , with Philadelphia. September 13. 14. 15; with Boston. September 17, 18, 19; . with New York. September 20, 21. 22; with Detroit. September 26. 27. 28. -'9. Washington club at home. Wlthr Boston, September 2S, 30. October 1. New York club at home With Washington. October 3, 4. 5. Detroit club at home With St. Louis. September 5, 7. 8: with Phila delphia. September 10. 11. 12; with Washington. September 13. 14. 1.': with New York. September 17, 18, 1"; with Boston, September 20, 21. 22; with Chicago. October 2. 3. B. 6. St. Louis club at home With New York. September - 10, 11, 12; with Boston, September 13. 14. 15; with Washington, September 17, 18. 19: with Philadelphia. September 20, 21. 2; with Chicago. September 25, 2, 27, 28; with Cleveland, October 2, 3, 5. 6 Philadelphia club at home With Washington, September. 25, 2, 27; with New York. September 28, JO. October 1: with Boston, October 2. 4, 5. Boston club at home With New Tork. September 24, 25. 28. FAST BALL ASSURED California Winter Nines After Big League Stars. EIGHT TEAMS TO BE FAST Walter Johnson, of Washington, and Cravatli. of Phillies. Will Be on Santa Ana Aggregation San Diego Seeks Chief Myers. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7. (Special.) Winter baseball will be much faster and classier during the coming season than in former seasons, judging from the material that the respective man agers are signing up for the Winter series. The big leaguers will be well represented as well as the Coast League players. . The league will comprise eight fas teams, and the fans will not suffer for lack of a fast article of ball, as Walter Johnson, twlrler of the Washington American League club, will be oifhand, along with Homer Cra vath, of the Philadelphia Nationals, to represent the Santa Ana team. The fans of the celery-belt town have al ready subscribed a large sum to pro mote Winter ball there. Under the management of William Palmer, San Diego will use every ef fort to secure Perdue as a pitcher and Kling as catcher, together with "Big Chief" Myers, of the New York Nation als. Hosp, of the Vernon team, will be on hand to help cinch the pennant for the Southern city. Palmer has written to Trls Speaker and First Baseman Houser, offering them Inducements to Winter there. Other Favorites Experted. Oxnard will have such players as Smith and Lelfleld. pitchers, and Catch er Cotter, of the big leagues, with Bill Temple, the former Vernonlte. added to its pitching staff. "Babo" Reams, the former Los Angeles player now with Boise in the Idaho State League, win be another strong addition to the sugar belt team. Reports from San Bernardino are to the effect that the representative of the Gate City club is trying to land Suggs, pitcher, and McLean, catcher, and Mitchell, all of the Cincinnati Reds. Redondo will have Ptttman, of the South Bend club, in the outfield, with Charley Hall, of the Boston Red Sox club, as mound artist. Art McClaln. a local lad. and Brooks, of the Los An geles team, will do the catching. Among the local teams will be the Jeffrtes-Hogan club, which will he made up of Coast League players. Har ry Abies, of the Oakland team, with Ferrarrls, the former Portland heaver, will be the mound artist, with Mitze , and Hoffman at the receiving end. Harkneas and Klawltter Eyed. Jim McCormick. who for the past five years has been represented In the Win ter League ranks, will have as his mainstay on the hill Ben Hunt, of the Sacramento club, with Harmon, of the St. Louis club, another pitcher, and Boles, of the Angels, as catcher. The East Side Brewery club will be on hand with a strong team and the manager is laying wires for "Speck Harkness and Klawltter, of the Bea vers, for pitchers, and Fisher for back stop. Immediately after the Coast League closes Its regular season, October 2.. a meeting will be held In this city and officers will be elected. For president of the league County Clerk Harry Le land i spoken of as a likely candidate, as is Eddie Mater, of brewery fame. CHANGE FOR BIG FIGHT DIMS Wolgast Wants Too Much Money to Suit Gotham Promoters. NEW YORK, Sept 7. Although no definite announcement has been made by the management of the Garden Ath letic Club that the bout between Pack ey McFarland and Ad Wolgast, sched uled for this city on September 25, is off, it is generally understood by fol lowers of the sport that the fight will not take place. The demand of Wol gast for more money after his failure to dispose of his share of the moving picture privileges has not-been met by the club and will not be met. Neither is it expected that Wolgast will come here for the I1B.000 which the club will give hirn. - - Freddie Welsh, the : English light weight who lost the title ot Matt Wells last year, has arrived in New York, and has announced his willingness to take Wolgast's place. NEW ROAD MARKS EPOCH Lewis County, Wash., Finds Hard Surface Construction Success. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Sept. 7. (Spe cial.) Albers & Nelson, of Chehalis, have just completed construction of one mile of concrete road leading from the county bridge across the Skookum chuck west of Centralia, on to Ford's Prairie, the cost being slightly over $12,000. The road has been opened to traffic and is bearing a big travel every day, as It Is a main thoroughfare from Centralia. The road was b-ullt with a four and one-half Inch base, with a wearing surface of one inch and one-half of 1-1-1 mixture of concrete. The road is crowned two Inches at the center. This will, afford ample drainage and permit the rains to keep the roadway scoured in good shape. As soon as the weather settles so that it can be done properly the contractors will grade the road with an added four feet of dirt fill on each side, making a 24-foot roadway. It is expected shortly also to cover the roadway with tarvla to afford a wearing cushion that will protect the surface. Mr. lpe, of Ford's Prairie, is to do this work. Construction of this mile of road marks an epoch in road building In the north end of Lewis County, as it is the first hard-surface road built In the first commissioner district. Inside the City of Centralia the Commissioners have this week let a contract to pave First street with dolarway pavement, which will give connection from the north end of that city with the county's con crete road. It is believed that this lat. ter improvement will tend to force the paving of Main street in the southern portion of Centralia. Some time ago the City Commissioners of that city began proceedings to pave Main street, but owing to decided protest of property-owners the work was abandoned. Storm, Insures Late Fall Feed. CARSON, Nev., Sept. 7. The heaviest storm of record in this portion of Nevada- cleared away today, after leaving a foot or more of snow on the moun tain tops. The fall insures late Fall feed, which had been endangered by th scarcity of water this Summer.