HIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 13, 1913. COAST OUTFIELDS FOR 1913 STRONG PORTLAND NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE STARS SPENDING WINTER IN ARDUOUS LABOR ON LOCAL BASEBALL PLAYERS GOOD FIGHT FANS BASEBALL PLAYERS GRAIN DOCK. San Francisco Appears toJJe Weakest Club in Pros pect at Present. McCredie and Krueger Most Ardent Followers of the Game in Portland. Pitchers Doty and Eastley Get in Fine Shape Working as Dockhands. BEAVER BATTERS STRONG Portland Has Chadbourne, Krueger, Ioane, Fitzgerald and Cunning ham of 1912 Squad, and Fortier, of Salt Lake. BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. Pacific Coast League clubs will all have strong protection In the outer works in 1913. In so far as the Port land fly-chasers are concerned, if Man ager McCredle had no other concern than his outfield, he could go into the seven months' campaign tomorrow without a wrinkle or a worry. Last season Portland and Vernon had the classiest outfields in the league, ac cording to a majority of the experts. but Los Angeles and Oakland lagged not far behind. San Francisco and Sac ramento were both woefully weak. In 1913 the entire six clubs will line up about on a par. with ban Francisco ap parently the weakest sister at the pres ent writing. Portland stands pat with five great athletes Chadbourne, Krueger. Doane. Fitzgerald and Cunningham, of the 1912 squad, and Fortier, a Salt Lake recruit who batted .354 and stole 37 bases in 121 games. Vernon 'has made no addi tions at all, Hogan being content to start the year with Kane, Carlisle and Bayless, a wonderfully speedy trio. Schlrm In Obtained. Oakland lost Patterson In the draft to bt. Louis, but Manager-elect Mitze has purchased Schlrm, a terrific hitter, from Buffalo, and everybody seems agreed that the International Leaguer will more than make up for Patterson's loss. Mltze has Coy and Zacher to go with Schlrm, and Otey Abbott, erst while Tacoma outfielder, to fall back upon. The Oaks will be a trifle stronger. Los Angeles lost Heinle Heltmuller by death and Pete Daley to Philadel phia, but by the latter trade Dillon se cured Harl Maggart. former Oak, and Maggert Isn't far below Daley's form. In addition to Maggert. the Angels will have Ellis of the St. Louis Nationals In uniform: Charley Moore, inflelder of last year's squad, and the three second string men. Core, Lober and Driscoll. Last year Heitmuller was out of the play a great deal of the time through injuries, while Lober was a weak hitter against southpaws. Wtih Maggert, Moore and EIHIb as regulars, the An gels look stronger than in 1912. Trouble Im Experienced. San Francisco and Sacramento had a terrible time with their outfields last eason. The Seals used about three complete changes. They opened in April with Mclvor. Raftery, Hartley, John son and Powell as regulars, and not one of the bunch lasted half the season. Mclntyre, purchased from Detroit near the close, proved a demon clouter. Dur ing the Winter Ewlng purchased Will Hogan. ex-Oakland star, from St. Louis, and these two men, with Hoffman of the Oaks and Mundorrf, should give the Seals an outfield 60 per cent improved. Reidy could, however, still use a crack gardener to advantage. Kenworthy, the Denver slugger who tried out with Washington last Fall, is the chief Sacramento recruit. Ken worthy batted .335 in the Western League last year in 111 games, and stole 39 bases, and should help the Senators. Wolverton also has Moran, a Chattanooga Southern Leaguer, and Van Buren, Shinn, Swain and Lewis of last year's cellar club. Kenworthy, Moran and Shinn will likely be the reg ular trio. Although Moran hits only .269 he is extremely fast and is a good fielder. Beavers Have Hani Hltterm. In hitting strength alone, Portland easily tops the sextet. McCredie has five .300 hitters Cunningham, .381; Fitzgerald. .335; Fortier. .354; Doane, .309; Krueger, .299, and one .275 clouter. Chadbourne. Cunningham is the Cali fornia kid picked up by McCredle late in the Fall. He figured In 11 games, held down his berth like a veteran, bat ted .361 and fielded 1000. McCredle ex pects the youngster to beat one of his old heads out of a Job. Chadbourne. Doane, Fitzgerald and Cunningham are all speed merchants, comparing very favorably with the Ver non midgets, Johnny Kane, Dickie Bay less and Walter Carlisle. As McCredie expects to carry five outfielders most of the season. Nick Williams will likely get one of the two youngsters. Fortier and Cunningham, early in April. A statistical recapitulation of the Coast League outfields, using 1912 aver ages, follows: PORTLAND. O Ab R H Sh Sb Bat Fd Chat! bourne Krueyer . . . Ioane . . . . 176 90 184 SO 48 .275 .984 73 175 IS 28 .299 .4li 6 136 1 47 .309 .951 27 R5 & 13 .3S5 .975 7 13 . . 361 1.000 . 1S2 5S .146 BUS . 52 155 "ltzKralrt Cunningham 11 36 I"ortir : 121 491 129 174 23 S7 .354 Fortier from Salt Laka City. OAKLAND. . G Ab R H Sh Sb Bat Coy 184 639 115 190 23 25 .297 . Zacher 161 642 81 178 21 21 .277 Abbott 43 127 14 34 6 6 .268 Schlrm 104 352 62 110 15 25 313 938 Fd .982 .979 .9.10 .9,-4 .69 Becker 113 4111 77 1.H6 1 22 .323 Schlrm from Buffalo: Becker from Porta- mouth. VERNON. G Ab R H Sh Sb Bat 1 616 124 191 28 6 .310 199 716 118 228 40 44 .818 1!00 749 177 212 10 7 .23 Fd .9S0 .976 Kane . . . Bayless . Carlisle . McDonnell 97 302 27 7S IS f .258 1.000 LOS ANGELES. G Ab R II Sh Sb Bat Fd .976 .939 .928 .929 .944 .969 Moore . Mag-sert 94 317 47 32 1. 35 .290 29 62 10 4 .256 9 11 38 45 .265 27 82 13 6 .269 50 124 19 14 .224 35 71 8 10 .235 32 75 17 8 .283 242 Wotell 119 418 Kills 109 305 Lober 154 508 llr'.scoll 95 302 Core 93 265 950 Mairirert from Philadelphia: Wotell from Syracuse; Eltti from St. Louis Nationals. SAN FRANCISCO. G Ab R ' H Sh Sb Bat Fd Mclnlvre ... 41 152 Hopan 107 360 Hoffman ...103 .184 Zimmerman 69 255 Mundorff ...122 456 Uolvlu 12 29 24 58 2 . . .382 .949 32 77 12 17 .210 .972 5 98 7 21 .255 25 78 4 11 .306 CI 118 13 19 .249 .955 .939 .939 .957 1 6 .. 3 .172 ( 17 270 ell 27 63 09 Hoiin from St. Louis: Hoffman from On k land. SACRAMENTO. O Ab R H Sh Sb Bat Fd Kenworthy. .111 445 81 149 II 39 .335 61 117 . . 46 .259 4S 120 21 15 .:il4 C4 123 2 31 .286 Moran 125 451 Van Buren.. 127 33 Swain 13S 426 Lewis 158 563 .978 .9S6 .947 .944 .946 from 1 162 23 37 .288 6ninn 107 631 102 171 11 4S .271 Kenworthy from Denver; Moran Chattanooga. Junction City Girhs Elect. ' . JUNCTION CITY. Or.. Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) The members of the girls' bas ketball team of the Junction City High School have elected Miss Gladys Wag ner captain. Miss Wagner has been center of this team for two years, this making her third season. New Clubhouse Planned. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 11. (Special.) The Seattle Athletic Club has a com mittee at work on plans for a new clubhouse. The matter will be consid ered at the annual meeting January 20. . 4 -tt 23-7. l 3 It t !iaes,i'- 4 I hJ? 'r - io " K4u ftlv1 1 ! p - if -m-H 8s4-" " T3k Wf-w- t & -J CORNELL IS MODEL J ""C . California Oarsmen to Adopt ,' fh . XVV Ithacans' Stroke. 4 V - "isl HOYLE MAY BE INSTRUCTOR Captain Eaton, of Crew. Refuses tc Deny Report That Boat Builder of "Old Man Courtney" Will Be Xext Coach. BERKELEY. Cal., Jan. XI. (Special.) Following the rumor from Ithaca, N. Y that John Hoyle, "Old Man Court ney's" boat builder, is coming west to train the California crew, Captain Arthur Eaton, of the varsity eight has announced that the state university has definitely decided to adopt the Cornell syplem of rowing after giving the famous stroke invented by Court ney a severe tryout. All this looks as if California means business as far as rowing is concerned. There is no official confirmation of the report that John Hoyle is to direct rowing affairs here next year, but Graduate Manager Donald refuses to deny the rumor. Constant defeats on the water at the hands of Stanford and Washington have aroused California to the neces sity of doing something to regain prestige in rowing. Hoyle Is one man who could bring California to the front In this branch of athletics. He has built shells, for Courtney and Cornell crews for years and has coached the freshmen with success. It would come hard for Cornell to part with him and It would take a good deal to induce htm to leave Cornell. The salary offered him is said to be the largest ever re ceived by a rowing coach in the West. California Is prepared to go the limit if necessary to secure the best coach ing material obtainable. California is laying plans for an in vasion of the East and will enter a varsity eight oar crew In the Pough keepsie regatta. And when California sends a crew East it will send one that has had the benefit of professional coaching, not such a combination of green though physically perfect ma terial as was seit East by Stanford, expecting to win and finishing at the tail end In the intercollegiate regatta of last June. If this is not California's Intention then all signs fail. Oarsmen on the Pacific Coast with the exception of the University of Washington have not felt the need of training under a professional coach to compete with the Eastern rivals, but the debut of Leland Stanford in the intercollegiate regatta last June was an eye opener. The undergraduates at California are enthusiastic over the project of sending a crew to the Hudson regatta, but wiser heads In the councils of the rowing, as sociation appear to favor waiting a year or two until the professional coach has had a fair chance to put PalifArntn'a hmiRA In Arlor There is plenty of rowing spirit af California and the material is said to be of the best. With the right man in charge, whether it is Hoyle or some other Eastern expert, California hopes to send an eight to the intercollegiate regatta that will give all the other crews on the Kudson all the racing they can conveniently stand. LEAGUE MARKSMEX COMPETE Bridgeport Team HJgh With Total Score of 991. WASHINGTON". Jan. 11. The first match of the league series of gallery (1) Left to Right -Pitcher &a lioty, Manager Nick Williams and Pitcher Frank Eoatley. (2) Pat" Eautley Maneuvering a Truck Load of Wheat. 43) "MIchlgander" Doty at the Scales. (4) Manager Mck WtUI&mft Tussling With the Books. shooting competitions for the new Na tional trophy given Dy the War Depart ment resulted as follows: Eastern League Bangor, Me., defeat QTJABTET OF PORTLAND mmsmiMmmmsxm If. :V V fiiii!piiill mm-h immmm irtiitei mmmmmmm mxmiimmmimm IfgWiwAagi wmmi mmmmi -ffimmmmm H fimml immM wmmmmmm&Mmm f 1 feated Manchester, N. H., 8S5 to 962; town of Sidney. Now that he has S-l . - J siCf'' H ' Bridgeport. Conn, with a score of 991, money, he takes care of his wife and " , t P -. won by .default from Philadelphia; Erie, child and contributes towards the sup- ' , MkCw - fc-CUAi Pa, with a score of 861. won by de- P" bis wife's family as well as hi. j , -, ? I -TV fi ' " Jr, VT I D.il4 Vrr XJovon rVtnn I a. ed Birmingham, Ala.. 952 to iB82; Port land, Me., defeated Brooklyn, 963 to 881: District of Columbia defeated New Orleans, 963 to 735; Warren. Pa., de- PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE OUTFIELDERS WHO RANK UP WITH THE fuated Manchester, X. H, 985 to 962; Bridgeport, Conn, with a score of 991, won by .default from Philadelphia; Erie, Pa, with a score of 861. won by de fault from New Haven. Conn. Western League Adrian, Mich, de feated Dickinson. X. D, 968 to 961; Bucyrus, O, defeated St. Louis, 951 to 910; Cleveland defeated St. Paul, 984 to 980; Madison defeated Youngstown, 955 to 758; Butte, with a score of 9jj, won by default from Tacoma. The two clubs in Milwaukee tied with a score of 951, but the first Wisconsin club T70n under the rules deciding ties. The winning club of each league will shootoff for the United States cham pionship. This is the first gallery com petition in this country under the aus pices of the War Department. The matches Willi extend over 11 weeks. Twenty-four clubs will compete. WILLARD'S STOCK RISING McCarney's Story About McCarty Being "Free and fntrammeled . Son or Plains". Is Exploded ; Kilbane Gives Programme BY JAME9 H. CASS ELL." Show me a baseball player who' is not a fight fan, and I will Introduce to you an oddity. The' average base ball player follows as closely the per formances of the boxing stars as he does the statistics of rival batters or pitchers. Who Is it approaches the scorer's box on a sultry Fourth of July after noon with the query: "How's the fight going?' The ball player. Whose voice Is it which comes trickling over the telephone wires on the night of any big fistic affair with a request for the result? The ball player. Who is It who speaks with as much authority on fistic doings as on the batting weak ness of "Slugger" Mllligan? It's the same old answer, the ball player. Have you ever been a ringside spec tator of a boxing encounter, ranging from the most obscure amateur affair to a championship struggle, without rubbing elbows with an absorbed ball player, or at least .counting a number of them in your immediate vicinity? It's a safe bet that you haven't, for Mr. Ball Player is always there, when ever the opportunity presents itself. Walter McCredie, manager xf the Portland Beavers, and "Dutch" Krue ger, crack gardener of the same ag gregation, are 'among the most rabid fight fans on the Pacific Coast. It's difficult for a bout to escape their no tice, from a championship match at Los Angeles or San Francisco during the baseball season to the most remote private affair which requires the re quisition of an automobile to reach the ring. If diamond gossip is at low ebb at baseball headquarters. Manager "Mac" is always ready to talk boxing. He has his boxing hobbies, along with every other fan, and Jack Britton, the Chi cago lightweight, tops the list of his notables. "Mac" believes that Britton is the king pin of the lightweights, and the man who is certain to wear the crown if he evades additional avoirdu pois. Luther McCarty, the white heavy weight champion, is another chap who ranks high in the calendar. McCredie saw the Nebraskan at San Francisco, and was so much impressed with his work that the Portland baseball man unhesitatingly predicted, that he would become the leader of the big fellows. San Francisco is the Mecca of the ball player fight fans during the dia mond season. The wealth of four round attractions, with the 10 and 20 -round affairs In the California metropolis and across the bay in Oak land cause many a man to break the early-retiring rules of his club. Los Angeles runs a close second, while Sacramento, with its occasional stel lar bills, removes much of the monot ony from a series in that city. "Why is it that so many baseball men are interested in boxing?" Mc Credie was asked. "Why, isn't every man with red blood in his veins interested in the sport?" was his quick retort. Billy McCarney's elaborate press agent yarn concerning "Cowboy" Mc Carty, the "free and untrammeled son of the plains," has been "stilletoed" by "inside info" from Ohio. 'Tis true that the picturesque heavyweight champion spent several years in the West, but it is likewise true, according to a De troit writer, that Luther employed several years of his youth digging ditches and cleaning sewers at Sidney, which is a town in Northern Ohio. One . day there came into a town in Southern Ohio a big black-eyed chap looking for his father. That chap was Luther McCarty, and his father is a traveling street faker, styling himself "White Eagle." White Eagle was traveling through Ohio with a troupe of strong men and .women, snake charmer and other vaudeville attrac tions. He was selling "snake oil," a preparation guaranteed to cure any thing from toothache to the black plague. No sooner had McCarty ensconced himself in, the pugilistic limelight than it became public property that he had a deserted wife and child in North Dakota, his wife earning a living peel ing potatoes in a restaurant. But Luther is a good boy, as every one will tell you back in his home town of Sidney. ' Now that he has money, he takes care of his wife and child and contributes towards the sup- , port of his wife's family a3 well as his own. ! T ..., .. TTIlhan. .at'. that a I- through being a good fellow in the ; ring. The featherweight champion, and I he is a real champion, declares that hereafter he is going after his man from the tap of gong and will knock out all opponents as quickly as his skill and punching ability will permit. The Clevelander took pity on several recent opponents and. after demon strating his superiority and ability to lay his man cold at any moment, eased up, refraining from inflicting unneces sary punishment. This did not please many of his audiences, who accused hizn of stalling and faking. Johnny made quick work of OIlie Kirk at St. Louis, earning his J1000 guarantee in exactly three minutes and 30 seconds of milling. Kirk, who is a 136-pounder, and a good one at that weight, made 122 pounds for Kilbane and weakened himself to such an ex tent that the champion toyed with htin. At that he would have been extremely lucky to stick 10 rounds under the most auspicious circumstances. Kirk is one of the boys Kilbane rated as one of the serious contenders for ths title. Kilbane objects to the raising of the featherweight limit by the New York Commission from 122' to 125 pounds. Johnny makes 122 pounds easily and by keeping the maximum at that figure keeps a number of good boys away from the championship pie counter. Chicago boxing people are waxing enthusiastic over Jess Willard, the big gest heavyweight of them all. They claim that Jess has a better claim 10 both .the cowboy and heavyweight crown than Luther .McCarty and a number of people Ijave banded together to boost Jess to the top. Packey McFarland has undertaken the task of Inoculating Willard with some of the boxing germ, and this, combined with his weight and size, is expected ;o work havoc with Billy Mc Carney's "big baby." . They make the same criticism of Wil lard that they do of McCarty. namely, that he is too good natured. . either man is vicious enough to make a whirl wind knockout scrapper of the Xeichel type, even If both of them ire trotted forth In much ihe same picturesque wild and woolly West garb as was the "Assassin." Instead of wading into Palzer at Los Angeles and finishing him in :lie twelfth or thirteenth round, Luther jabbed away at the helpless lowaa and during this operation Joked at Palxer and with the rlngsiders. The diamond belt which Lut.ier Mc Carty won at Los Angeles is the fourth that Promoter McCarey has present: i to winning scrappers. Tommy Burns has one, Abe Attell has anot'ie", Wol gast a third and McCarty the fourth. Burns won his and the heavyweight title from Marvin Hart it Naud Junc tion, which later was consolidated with Vernon, so far as management is concerned. HUBBARD'S SCORE HIGH REVOLVER EXPERT BREAKS SEASOX RECORD WITH 2S6. Mark Only Four Points Behind World's Feat of 3 40 Performed by Oeorge Armstrong. W. H. Hubbard, representing the Portland Revolver Club in the United States Revolver Association's Winter League, shot the highest score of the season Monday night, scoring 236 points. This mark is within four points of the world's record held by George Armstrong, formerly of Portland, but now a resident of Berkeley, Cal. But for the illness of Hubbard, Hac heney, Hanson and Sanders, crack shots who have been unable to compete reg ularly in the shoots of the season, Gov ernor Abrahams is confident that Port land would rank among the leaders in the National revolver competitions. These men are expected to compete in the 11 remaining matches of the schedule. Portland lias been defeated only three times thus, barring three matches from which no returns have been received, losing to St. Louis, Shellmound, of Oak land, CaL, and the Capital team of Washington. D. C. The defeated teams are: Tacoma, Cincinnati, Belleville, Warren, Dallas, Pittsburg and Denver. The Denver team is rated as one of the strongest in the league. . George Armstrong, former captain of the Portland team, who is making Berkeley his home, holds the indoor record for the 20, 30, 40 and 60-shot events, and is tied with Lane, of New York, for the. 25-shot number. Captain Moore, one of the oldest members of the Portland Revolver Club, continues to shoot with the ac curacy of his early days on the range. Patrolman Evans, a new member, has made a remarkable showing for a be ginner. DRIVING CXVB STILL LIVES Riverside Harness Organization Soon to Hold Annual Meeting. . The Riverside Driving Club, Port land's long established harness organi zation, will not be disbanded, despite reports to the contrary. H. T. Dren nan, president, has ordered tha annual meeting for the latter part of January, probably about the 28th, and new offi cers will then be elected and plans put forth for an active Summer schedule. "Yes, I have heard rumors of an other club being formulated," admitted President Drennan, last night. "The Riverside Driving Club, however, doe not Intend to leave the field. It is en Joying presperity and I look for a busy Summer." The present officers are: H. T. Dren nan, president: Charles Cleveland, vice president: J. J. Kad-derly, treasurer; Gus Kellar, secretary. BEST IN THE CIRCUIT. - - A ONE GETS FAT; OTHER THIN Oilier Members of Winter Colony Try Hand, but AH Fall to Stay Longer Than a Day Both Are Now "Hard as Nails." If strenuous physical labor during the months when the averago baseball player is lounging about cigar stores or billiard halls waging over the dia mond battles of past seasons counts for success, Ed Doty and Frank Eastley will be championship pitchers in the Northwestern League next season. These Portland baseball worthies, both rated among the best hurlers of the Fielder Jones "Little A" circuit, have been Juggling sacks of wheat on a Portland dock, trucking grain from box car to warehouse and from warehouse to ship, ever since the close of the 1912 season. They are, to use a much-ahused ex pression, hard as nails and healthier than ever before in their lives and they never shirk the call for meals and are in as good condition as the av erage athlete who enters tlys ring for a gruelling boxing mill. Other I'lo?;er Wenken. Baseball players galore, attracted by a baseball colony on the water front, have approached the boss for a Job, been directed to a truck and have es- . sayed to qualify for the llnals in the wheat tourney. Several of them lasted only a few hours, resigning after a few hours' arduous tussling with a truck and the jute-inclosed grain had. placed blisters on feet and hands. Oth ers stuck manfully to the Job for a day, only to turn a deaf ear to the alarm the next morning to give a sorely mis used body chance for much needed rest. But Eastley and Doty are regu lars and they expect that their unusual Winter duties will give them strength and endurance for "Iron Man" feats during the 1913 baseball campaign. Hard work has had a totally dis similar effect upon the two men. True, they are both in better condition than ever before, but whereas Ed Doty, the spitball artist, has lost 10 pounds in the car-to-warehouse-to-ship process. East ley has gained almost that number of pounds. Doty has trouble keeping down to good pitching weight in the season, and is fat at the usual Spring training call, while Eastley is of a nervous temperament with a physique which does not stand the combined mental and physical strain. "Long shoremanry" reduced Doty's poundage, while -the hard work, regular ' hours, and absence of worry built up Eastley. Hotk Men Promoted. ' v;; Both men have graduated from the truck to the scales, their work, to gether with their intelligence, enabling them to rise a notch higher in the dock scale. Instead of the continual marathoning from one end of the dock to the other, with the frequent inva sion of the holds of ships flying many flags, tiiey spend the greater part of the time weighing the truck loads of grain as their less lucky mates wheel it from the cars. But they manage to engage in sufficient strenuousness to keep them in the condition they achieved after 10 weeks of trucking. Nick Williams, manager of the Colts, is another employe at the dock, but he 13 engaged in clerical work, keeping books, time, etc. It will be up to Nick to hustle with . the other recruits to tear off surplus fat at training camp, while Eastley and Doty loaf about, do ing just enough work to limber up muscles and keep themselves on edge for tha opening of the season. JIcMlnnville College Wins. M'MINNVILLE, Or, Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) McMinnvilte College opened its league basketball game with a double header with Pacific College, of New berg, and defeated It 25 to 17. The first half fell in Newberg's favor 15-11, but by spectacular playing of Irish and Browning McMinnville won. Mills and Parker played a good, game for Pacinc. The second teatns of the two colleges played a preliminary game, which re sulted 13 to 11 for McMinnville. . Kaliima 33, Kelso 3. - KALAMA, Wash, Jan. 11. (Special.) In a basketball game played at Kelxo last night between the Kulama and Kelso High School teams, the Kalama team won, 33 to 3. Independence Higli Victor. INDEPENDENCE. Or., Jan. 11. (Spe cial.) The Independence High School basketball team won a game last night against Willamette University Academy by a score of 46 to 18. ff Sir of the satisfactory performance pf WHITE Motor Trucks in Portland business houses is tbe strongest reason why YOU should investigate. Located in the Business District for Your Con venience. WHITE Company E. W. Hill, Mgr., G9 Seventh S -2Z, a.