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VOL. XXXI.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. DECE3IBER 8, 1912.
FIRST HARD TO FILL
McCredie Says Initial Baggers
Not Plentiful.
PORTLAND HAS TROUBLES
But Beavers Not Only Team Having
' Worries Over Who Shall Play
First, as Bel Howard Wants ,
to Play Outfield.
That first-base position has become
one of the most difficult to fill in base
ball, is the conclusion reached by Wal
ter McCredie, manager of the Portland
Beavers. McCredie has been forced to
make a study of first base and first
basemen during: the past season, and
not only believes that the berth is
growing "tougher" every year, but de
clares that the Pacific Coast League
boasts of not one first-class first
sacker.
"Pop Dillon, of Los Angeles, i3 the
only first baserrlan in the league who
could be styleil first-class, and you'll
have to concede that he Js an old
timer and ready to quit,"- argues Man
ager alter. ...
"There are good fieldinjr first base
men here, but the fine fielders are
weak with the stick, and the heavy
hitters are not fast enough around the
bag. The Job Is becoming a harder one
each year, and-consequently the dim
eulties of securing a high-class man
are increased. The fellow who hits
well, goes after those balls to his right,
as well as stops the ones In front of
hlra. is the exception In the minor
leagues of today. for that matter,
they are not raving over many first
Backers in the majors these days.
McCredie eagerly awaits the call of
the postman each day, for he Is ex
pecting a note which will dissipate
the gloom centered about the 1313 first
base position of the Beavers. "Mac
says he will sell Bill Rapps to the
highest bidder, but to date Is exper
iencing as much trouole in selling B.il
as he is In getting a man to take his
place.
Portland is not the only club in the
league having trouble over first base.
Del Howard, of San Francisco, wants
to play outfield and Ewlng is trying
to land arren Gill, formerly owned
by the Chlcrgo White Sox. Oakland
has secured Ness, of the New England
League, to struggle with Tiedemann
for the first corner location, while
Dillon is talking of retiring from active
work, and bequeathing his job to one
of the younger men. Sacramento ex
pects to use Miller again, but he is
far from a weighty batsman, while
Hogan will start "Ham" Tatterson out
t first again in 1913, but la looking
for someone to fall back upon should
"Pat" fail to pertorm up to standard.
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Owen Bush, of the Detroit Tigers,
broke all records for passes during the
1912 season. He was walked 110 times
during the veer. Fielder Jones held
the record in 1908, of 102. but Eddie
Collins beat him last year.
The Toronto Club of the Interna
lonal League batted .293 to 'win the
championship this year. Murphy, of
Baltimore, sixth on the official batting
list, was really the leader of the cir
. cult, with an average of .SSI.
The San Francisco management has
been worrying over the league
rules, which hold the salary rolls to
SO men. Ewlng has 44 men lined up
for next season, but can only handle
SO will be taken on the training trip,
the men over to the new Class D league
in the process of organization. Only
SO will be taken on the traniing trip,
14 of the ambitious ones being con
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Merchandise of cJ Merit
signed to the "bush" for further sea
soning. Howard Camnltx. one of the pitching
stars of the baseball firmament, was
twice sent back to the minors before
he became a Pittsburg regular. In
1903 Pittsburg drafted him from Vlcks
burg, but ' turned him over to Dick
Kinsella at Springfield for further sea
soning. The following Spring he
trained with the Pirates, but was sent
to Toledo, and did not begin real work
in the major until 1907. In the past
six seasons he has won 10 games and
lost 63, for a percentage of .62i.
Hoppe Defeats Vamada."
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 7. Willie
Hoppe won the final game of the three
cushion 18.2 balk line billiard tourna
ment here tonight, defeating Kodjl
Yamada 400 to 244. The winner's high
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THE SPLENDID SHOWING OF THE CHILDREN'S DRILL TEAJ
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run was 99 'and - his average 20. The
Japanese' highest run was 68 and his
average 12 6-19. Hoppe won all four
games played by him in the tourna
ment, while Yamada and George Slos
son each lost two games to him and
won and lost one to each other.
Eugene Boy Elected1 Captain.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Salem,
Or., Dec. 7. (Special.) At the annual
football banquet given the members of
the Willamette University team at the
Marlon .Hotel tonight Grover Francis,
the star right end of the team, was
elected captain for the season of 1913.
Francis hails from Eugene, Or., and
Is extremely popular-among his-teammates
and students at Willamette and
is considered by many of the best Judes
in football circles as the strongest end
in the Northwest.
FEW OF THE BLUE RIBBON WINNERS YESTERDAY AT PORTLAND'S
FLASHLIGHT IS KING
OF 1912 HORSE 11
Handsome Black Thorough
bred Turns Tables on 1911
Winner, Bobbie1 Burns.
VICTOR ONCE AN "OUTLAW"
Crown Goes to Fancy Gelding Owned
by Mrs. Coe A. McKenna' With
Popular Acclaim Drill by 16
Riders Is Closing Feature.
Flashlight, a mettlesome black Ken
tucky thoroughbred, is the equine king
of Portland. The Sixth Annual Portland
Horse Show came to a successful close
last night, and had the distribution of
trophies been followed by the crowning
of the champion of the exhibition, Mrs.
Coe A. McKenna's handsome gelding,
thrice 'winner in as' many classes,
would have borne the Jeweled headgear
from the Kramer Riding School ring.
Four years ago Flashlight was rated
as perilously near an outlaw, unfit for
show duty and nothing but horseback
work of the daredevil cowboy variety.
But yesterday . afternoon her proud
owner rode him to victory in the ladles'
saddle-horse class, a victory in the
officers' mounts, in which he has never
been defeated, followed in the evening,
and on' the heels of that conquest came
the crowning one of the evening, when
"Flash" met and conquered the best
field of saddle horses ever gathered in
a Portland ring In the open saddle
class.
Bobble Hum Forced to Yield. '
Bobble Burns, the champion of last
season's show, and conqueror of Flash
light last season, was forced to yield
to the black last night, taking, a red
ribbon, emblematic of second place.
But Bobble was not the only high
class animal to suffer In comparison
with Flashlight In that open saddle
event, for Jackdaw, Cortina and other
blue ribbon performers were in the
competition.
Flashlight has now won 12 blue rib
bons under the ownership of Mrs. Mc
Kenna. Four years ago the animal,
brought from Kentucky by Andrew
Laldlaw, of Spokane, was sold to S. E.
Kramer, and by him to the present
owner. . -
Gladys L., Miss Jean Morrison's chest
nut mare, sent to her from Boston .by
Thomas W. Lawson, added two more
ribbons to the list of 12. She was
entered in only two classes and won
each time: Gladys L., like Flashlight,
is a Kentucky-thoroughbred, but has
yet to suffer the sting of defeat in a
show. Difference in size prevented,
meetings with horses of the Flashlight
and Bobbie Burns caliber, a series of
competitions the like of which has sel
dom been seen at a Western show.
Drill by 16 Riders Feature.
One of the distinct features of the
evening was the ladies' and gentle
men's drill, presenting 16 members of
H. M. Kerron's Portland Riding Acad
emy riders. The performance, with its
maze of Intricate maneuvers, raultless
ly executed, was declared by experts
amis. ; wmmmm
to be the equal of anything they have
ever seen In a horse show ring, in New
York or London. The riders, ladies
dressed in black riding habits and silK
hats, and gentlemen wearing scarlet
coats and the silk hats, made a splen
did appearance, enhancing the spec
tacularity of the maneuvers. . ,
Thoe who participated in . the drill
were: Mrs. F. G. Buffum, Miss Caro
line Flanders, Miss Lou Flanders. Mrs.
James Murphy, Mrs. A. M. Cronin, Miss
Eva Kiernan, Miss Mabel Lawrence,
Mrs. James Nicol, J; P. Cronin, Walter
Gruetter, William Walter. A. M. Cronin,
E. K. Oppenheimer. S. S..' Montague,
James Nicol and William L. Wood. ;
Jadees Have Bard: Task. ' !
The open saddle class, in .which
FJashllght was so-handsomely reward
ed, probably was the' most difficult
class of the entire 26 class-show for
Judges Roscoe and Kler to name the
winner. Conference followed confer
ence, with the most minute examina
tions of details of horseflesh made be
fore the blue, to the delight of the
crowd, was placed on Flashlight's
bridle. -'
Stimey won the first event of the
evening, the thoroughbred saddle, with
the unlucky Ella Hart second and Gib
son Boy third. Flashlight, then took
the officers' mounts blue, and followed
this with, the open saddle conquest
against a field of stars. . Mrs. McKenna,
Flashlight's owner, bobbed up with an
other winner in the next"-class,-open
for the performers under 15.2 hands,
showing the chestnut Gladys L. for
Miss Jean Morrison. :
Thoroughbred saddle horses (exceed
ing 14 hands) Stimey, F. O Downing,
first; Ella Hart, Chester G. Murphy,
second; Gibson Boy, F. L. Stewart, Kel
so, Wash., third! A.'S. Rothwell trophy
to winner. '.-.
Horses suitable for officers' mounts
Flashlight, Mrs. Coe - McKenna, first;
Stanfield. Mrs. Henry .Waldo Coe; sec
ond; Vlnca, J. E. Willey,' third.:. Dr. J.
N. Coghlan trophy to winner. . '.
Open eadcle classes (15.2 hands and
over) Flashlight, Mrs. Coe McKenna,
first; Bobbie Burns, Miss ' Elizabeth
Huber, second; Jackdaw; C. B. May,
third. E. C. Sheflin trophy 'to winner.
Open saddle classes (under 15.2
hands) Gladys L, Miss Jean Morrison,
first; Duke, . Miss Ethel wynne Glass,
second; Iony, Miss Eva Kiernan, .third.
Dr. C. F. Tusker trophy to winner.
Polo pony, novice (not exceeding 14.3
hands) Flora, Kramer's Riding School,
first; Cricket, Miss Louise Hatfield,
second;. Bluebell, Kramer's Riding
School, third. R. E. Farrell Company
trophy to winner. .-
Ladies' saddle horses (not exceeding
15.2 hands).
Drill Is Feature.
The 2 o'clock matinee Was featured by
a spectacular children's drill, presented
by H. M. Kerron, of the Portland Riding
Academy. So pleasing were the man
euvers of the 16 children, ranging in
age from 7 to 12 years, that Mr. Kerron
was presented with a blue ribbon at
the close of the drill. The youngsters
piloted their mounts through a series
of Intricate figures calculated 'to try
even the brains of the "grown-ups,"
bringing their faultless exhibition to a
close with a series of pivot movements.
The drill was the best ever presented
in Portland by children and made a de
cided impression on the spectators.
The members of the children's drill
team : Suzanne Caswell, Bob , Lewis,
Catherine Ainsworth, Fred Whltesldes,
Owena Wolcott, Sherman Hall, Ina Wil
son, Billy Warrens, Dorothy Corbett,
Myron Wilsey, Bun Elliott, - Douglas
Nicol, Jean Skene, Millard Rosenblatt,
Virginia Mears and Hunt Lewis.
The afternoon was devoted largely to
the children, who showed two classes
of ponies. Master Martin B. BIddle
showed Martlnette to his fourth suc
cessive victory, while Miss Marian
Voorhies scored with Silver Fox against
nine competitors.
Flashlight. Mrs. Coe A. McKenna's
winner of nine trophies, registered an
SIXTH ANNUAL HORSE SHOW.
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other victory In the ladles' saddle horse
class, leading Dancing Girl and Vlnca
In the ribbons. Chips, a striking-looking
animal in harness, won the com
bination event .for Kramer's Riding
School against Winkum and Dainty
Miss. The victory was particularly
popular, as Miss Malda Hart, the rider
who was thrown by the bay gelding
Friday night, was again on her fa
vorite mount.' On ' Time, Miss Lottie
Hatfield's bay gelding, proved the best
of the contenders' for the blue in the
cavalry horse class, while Duke, owned
by Miss Ethelwynne Glass, was finally
selected by the Judges as the best of
11 green hunters. Billikens, owned by
Edgai Lazarus, appeared to be the best
Jumper, but Mr. Lazarus was outridden
by W. S. Elliott.
- Results Are Given.
Yesterday afternoon's results:
: Polo--ponies, novice (not exceeding
-15.1 hands) Johnny H., Miss Helen
Wood, first; Glym, Portland Riding
Academy, second: Lulu, Kramer's
Riding School, " third. B. Neustadter
trophy to winner.- . . . . '
-Ponies under saddle (not exceeding
1S.2 hands) Martlnette, Master Martin
B. BIddle, first; Charm, Portland Riding
Academy, second: Shlloh, Miss Eliza
beth Bacon, third. Gordon Voorhies
trophy to' winner.
Ladles' saddle '. horses (over 15.2
hands) Flashlight, Mrs. Coe A. Mc
Kenna, first: Dancing Girl, Portland
Riding Academy, second; Vlnca, J. E.
Wiley, third. Warren Construction
Company trophy to winner.
Ponies ' under- saddle (not exceeding
14.2 hands) rSllver 'ox,; Miss Marian
Voorhies, first; Cricket, Miss Louise
Hatfield, second; Rowdy, Miss Marga
ret BIddle, third. A. and C. Felden
helmer trophy to winner.
Combination horses (15.2- hands and
under) Chips, Kramer's Riding School,
first; Winkum,-Miss C. Flanders, sec
ond; Dainty Miss, Miss Wlnnifred Hu
ber. third. Harry: Davis trophy, to
winner. . . . :
Horses suitable for cavalry On Time,
Miss Lottie F. Hatfield, first: fauiy Hoy,
Mrs. W. E.-Prudhomme, second; Lord
Sorrel Top, F. W. Leadbetter, third.
H. L. Corbett trophy to winner.
Green hunters Duke, Miss Ethel
wynne Glass, first; Ella Hart, Chester
G. .MurDhv. second: Edgewood Ulri, u.
A. Pattullo, third. Paul Wessinger
troDhy to winner.
Ladles' -saddle horses (not exceeding
15.2 hands) Lady Dufferin, Mrs. James
H. Murphy, first; Robert Bruce, Mrs.
J. Couch Flanders, second: Duke, Miss
Ethelwynne Glass, third. Portland
Riding Academy trophy to winner.
Qualified hunters (over 15.1 hands)
Kitty. Kramer's Riding School, first
Oregon Frank, E. K. Oppenheimer, sec
ond: Gibson Boy. . L. Stewart, tt.eiso,
Wash., third. J. C. Ainsworth trophy
to winner.
High Jump General, Portland Bid
lng Academy, first; Kitty, Kramer's
Riding School, second. Glass & Prud
homme troDhy to winner.
Flora won the polo pony class for
novices under 14.3 hands, for Kramer's
School, while Bluebell, another midget
from the same stable, was third. MIsb
Louise Hatfield's Cricket was second.
Lady Dufferin, owned by Mrs. James
H. Murphy, scored Its second victory of
the show in .the ladles saddle norse
class, for entrants not exceeding 15.2
hands. Kitty, Kramer's Riding School,
was victor In the qualified hunters
class, while -Generalt - Portland Riding
Academy, won the high jump, the final
event of the evening.
Trophies were awarded the winners
after the high Jump.
.John R. Gentry to Graze,
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 7. John R
Gentry, famous pacer, twice holder of
the world's record and sire of 64 turf
winners was brought back to Ten
nessee from New York on' a special car
today to spend the last days of his
life here. The horse Is the property of
the E. H. Harriman estate.
BEAVERS Buy STAR
PITGHER HAGERMAN
'Rip" Is Obtained From Lin
. coin Club by McCredie at
Cost of $2500.
NEW TWIRLER IS . GIANT
Six Feet Four Inches Tall and 24
Yearn Old, Youth Is Said to Be
' Terror of Sluggers Because
of Ills Speed.
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec 7. (Special.)
"Kip" Hagernan, crack pitcher of the
Lincoln Club for the last three years,
has been sold to the Portland club of
the Pacific Coast League.
Judge McCredie began negotiating
fqr Hagerman's release several months
ago, but the J2500 price was a stum
bling block. The hope of claiming th
pitcher by draft was blasted when the
Chicago Cubs drafted Shortstop Berg
hammer from Lincoln, and the Portland
magnate, who Insisted on landing
Hagrerman, was forced to come to the
local club's terms. . Judge McCredle's
check arrived here today, and the re
lease papers at once were forwarded
to the secretary of the National Asso
ciation for promulgation.
Hagrerman is one of the tallest twirl
ers in captivity. He stands 6 feet 4
inches, and because of his exceptional
speed has been the terror of Western
League sluggers every season he has
been with the Lincoln club. His offi
cial record for the season of 1911 was
26 victories and 14 defeats, a percent
age of .650, This record was achieved
with a club that finished In the fifth
position in the Western League pennant
race. '
Hagerman is 24 years old, and started
his professional career vrith the Topeka,
Kan, club tn 1908. After pitching his
team Into the Western Association pen
nant, Hagerman's release was sold that
Fall to the Chicago Cubs, with whom
he pitched the entire campaign of 1909.
He came to the Lincoln team early In
1910, and for three years has been its
pitching mainstay.
PORTLAND FAXS ARE REJOICEU
News of New Addition to Pitching
Staff Pleases.
There was much Joy at Portland
baseball headquarters-ynfftrday after
noon when the news of the purchase
of Hagerman was received.
"Hagerman will sure make good with
us. He Is a youngster, big, pitched
more games than any other man In the
Western League and made a splendid
record with a second-division team,"
summed up Manager -"Mac."
"I was after Mils chap last July and
August, but when four major league
drafts were put In for him I despaired
of securing him. Lucky for us that tho
Cubs secured Berghammer, the short
stop, thus canceling the other drafts
and paving the way for the JZ500 pur
chase. McCredie negotiated with President
Jones, of the Lincoln club, for Hager
man when he was in the Middle West
several weeks ago. He offered J250O
for "Rip." but Jones had a number of
other offers and refused to sign the
papers for the transfer of the player.
Several letters were exchanged on the
subject and the check for the purchase
price was sent to Lincoln a few days
ago.
W. W. McCredie and W. H. McCredie
left last night for Sacramento -to at
tend the Pacific Coast league meeting
of Monday. The acquisition of the
Toledo inflelders, McCormick and Der
rick, together with the closing of the
Hagerman deal, sent the two on their
way rejoicing, with nothing but sched
ule and the 191S Northwestern situa
tion in Portland to worry them for a
few days.
The adoption of the schedule for 1913
will be one of the chief matters to come
before the directors. President Mc
Credie has drafted a schedule almost
Identical with that of last year, from a
Portland home standpoint, but has
eliminated many Jumps in the south.
The matter of the Portland applica
tion for permission to place a North
western League team in this city will
also be taken up, but only In a per
functory way, as r.o opposition to the
programme is expected.
' Dissatisfied with the salary-limit leg
islation of the National Association,
with its supposedly cast-iron rules for
the regulating of salaries In the minor
leagues, but with special concessions to
the Northwestern and probably the
Union Association, the Cotton State
League has taken an extremely ad
vanced stand on the question. Presi
dent Lewis, of that league, has been
vested with the power to sign all con
tracts with plsyers and act as pay
master of the organization.
At a recent meetlntr the directors
unanimously passed a resolution fixing
the salary limit at $1000 a month for
each club, ordered that all contracts be
signed by the president and that all
salary moneys be paid into his office
for distribution amonr the players.
The Cotton Leaguers believe mat
this novel scheme will do more to pro
tect the interests of baseball in the
minor leagues than any other, and hope
to see its Introduction Into other
leagues after the season of 1913 hai
proved Its value in the Cotton States
circuit. The managers, of course, have
the power to engage players, but all
contracts must be signed and salaries
paid by the president.
The Union Association Is to live. Ac
cording to advices from president Sex
ton, of the National Asoclatlon. the D
circuit, of the Rocky Mountains. Is to
be granted a special salary concession
of $1650 a month instead of the $1!00
required by the salary laws passed ai
Milwaukee last month.
Grave fears of the ability or tne
league to continue next season were
held, but it now seems llReiy tnai me
ITnion. as well as the Northwestern,
will be the beneficiary of special con
cessions. Snortine News sees in the 13509
Northwestern League salary concession
and the prospective assistance to the
Union Association, the destruction of
the new salary limit rules. With each
leaarue capable of setting up a piausmie
case for a special dispensation, and the
association gradually yielding-to the
demands, the graded salary will cease
to h M--V.n f 1 fr