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TOE - -SUNDAY OltEGOyiAW, . POPTLANP. AUGUST 8, 1915. SOME OF THE MERRY MONARCHS. WHO RUPERT IS FIGURING ON TO PLAY JOE TYLER TAKES TITLE THIRD HE SPOKANE SOUTHPAW TENNIS EXPERT WHO WON NORTHWEST GOLF STARS WILL WAR AT DETROIT TITLE YESTERDAY AT TACOMA TOURNAMENT TO PUT THE WEST SIDE CLUB IN THE CITY LEAGUE KACK. . Dingbats Will Be Opponents in Battle Royal Today. Famous Southpaw Tennis Ex Amateur Championship De .scribed as "Greatest" by . Sport Writer. pert From Spokane Wal lops Russell. EAST TO MEET WEST SIDE Ruben Maxmeyer Will Oppose Judo Mareland "Pebford" Thlrlon to Catch for Sellwood Xew- EVANS' CHANCE LOOMS. UP MftS. NORTHUP IS LOSER man to Be on Bencn. 4 MAROON'S V". .v. X. ;'. . v i 4 s. x . - )..'? t, r ...rrr-,.- , 'X J 4 L .wi; --'-. v;-ri-.... t-.. - - k.: : I 1 y . ' .., . J.. ? : , , "i pi ....... :- r 'x--'V--i r. . w,. - mmt, . ; . v S - t. . --.'- -i-i ' M I Ml-s Sarah Livingstone Again An nexe Women's Singles Title. Mr. Stafford and Tyler Lose la Mixed Double Event. TACOMA. Wh, Am. 7, (Special.) Flaying Sam L RuMell. of Seattle, off hi fwl. Joseph C Tyler, of 8po kane. won. for th third time, th men' males tennis championship of th Pa cific North weet la the sectional tourna ment that cloeed this afternoon on the court of too Tacoma Lawn Tennl Club. This victory elves Tyler pos session of the Chester Thorn trophy. At ths mm time he alao acquires per manent poateaalon of ths John Barrett trophy. Tb eon tee t between Johns and Tyler for ths Barrett trophy depended upon both being In the final. Johns. 'how ever, waa eliminated by Russell, and. therefore, lost hi chance at ths trophy. In today's play Tyler played the beat tennl he ha shown In ths six times In. which he has beta in ths finals I tils Pacific Northwest cbamploaahlp tournament. Hi aervtng was smash Ins and accurate, while his placement on ths stds lines was sensational at all tlmcsL . Ft sue II DM at Get Chaste. 1 did not have a chance." Ruasell aid after the play. "Tyler's placing a Ion- ths side line was so deadly tha I could not even set started, and though I played the best defensive gam I know, he literally overwhelmed me from the start. The Onal score was (-1. (-0. show- Ins; that Tyler was In command at all time. He broke Russell's service twice In the first set. twice In the second and three times In the third. Russell being unabl to get an advantage at any time In the contest. - Miss Sarah Livingston, of Seattle, la again the women's champion of the Pacific Northwest, her victory over Mrs. W. L Northup. of Portland, bains; by the decisive score of (-2. (-1. Mix Livingston's smashing cam and swift returns kept her opponent upon the Jump from eervtc to service, many of the points scored by the winner being net drives by Mrs. Northup In her at Jempt to return all but impossible shot. Slagle Gaea Ctly. Because of her strenuous work In ths singles Miss Livingston waa unabl to play her usual dashing- cam In the women's doubles, and the championship In this event was won by Mis Mayms McDonald and sirs. C K. Brag don, both or Seattle. Miss McDonald played a particularly dashing- game, her work at the net be ing of the roost sensational order. The victors captured the contest la straight sets. a-i. Ona of the hardest-fought doubles matches la tb tournament saw Will iam Marcus and VanDyk Johns; the young Ma Francisco stars, win th men's doubles championship from Tyler and Hugh Kelleher. of Seattle. This match want Into extra seta, th final cor being 7-S. -. -. 10-8. Miss Livingston and Mr. Kelleher. of reside, won the championship In th mixed doubles by defeating Mrs. Staf ford and Jo Tyler. C-J. -. Heard on the Links THE rapid development of golf In A this country makes th United States bsgin to tak on th appear ance of th leading golf nation of tb world. Ten years from now. If the present golf era continues. the I sited States will b far ahead of any other country In this line of sport. It Is probable that th American ayatem f scorln- will be la vogue. Much fault Is being found with th coring system originated In Scotland. Most experts and all "dubs" know too much valu la attached to putting. probably a little too much for driving from the tee. and that th reward of a good approach shot la too small In proportion. Almost anyone with a IltU practlc can drive well from th tee. Examina tion of IS scores lot th open cham pionship this year ahowa that practi cally all th difference between th highest and lowest was In th ap proach shots. Th driving of all 1 was practically van. Travers putted wonderfully, but he wen on remarkably accural ap proaches. V. J. Ross, of th Dunwoddt Club. Chicago, haa arranged a tournament that la attracting a lot of attention among Eastern golfera. He baa laid down the rules to reward good ap proach shots. Of th IS holes he picked four In each nine where approach shall count points. They are: Th seoond. mashl or mldtron: fourth, midlron; sixth, mid Iron or mashl: elgbltt. midlron or mashl: 12th. mashl or brass!; 11 th. midlron or mashl: Mth. midlron or brasate: 1Mb, midlron or brasal. If. on th approach, th player get en th green well enough to bole out la two, he scores a point: If close enough to hoi out la one. two points. If be hole th approach h score three. Many believe th Idea may be de veloped and perfected Into a system of scoring for each course la the country. e e How often the lawmakers and those who Interpret the law split technical hair to th complete defeat of the laws spirit: iruiy ii is common sensa to remember th spirit of th golf rule rather than th letter. On day a player found his ball In a bunker, and trying to get out be played Into an other part of th bunker somo distance away, fcefor playing th ball again be smoothed oat ths bole mad by th first shot with his club. Th question came up whether b waa to o penalised two stroke or not. Th commute decided that the retention was to put the bunker In- th same condition In which he found It and that the smoothing out did nothing to improve th 11 of th bail: therefore, there waa no penalty. Of course, he bad plenty of time later te smooth out th sand, but inasmuch as th Intention waa good It wss decided ts waiv th penalty. Theoretically he Incurred th penalty, but on the basis of common sen there was none see J. B. Ingersoll broke th Spokane Country Club's record for IS holes the other day when ho mad th tnp In 72. Th previous record of TS was held by John Doran. Bogey for th course U1L - Mr. Inrersoll s scor In detail: Lower nine. KSllli 4 SI Vpper nine IHlHIl Si JOB PROGRESS OF GOLF IN 25 YEARS IS DESCRIBED Harry Vardon Pictures Vastly Different Figure Professional of Today Cut With His Own Early Experiences When Engagements Were Scarce, BT HARRY VARDON. Brtilsa Champion. I T Is good to hare lived through the era which has witneassed th rls of golf from a position of extreme mod- eety to a plac among tha world's greatest and most valuable pastimes. When, nearly a quarter of a 'century ago. I left th Channel Island to pur sue golf as a profession, stirred to what my parenta regarded as a mad adven tut by th fact that m brother Tom had Just won the amazing sum of IS In a tournament at Musselburgh, the game waa only Juat beginning to And Ita way out of Scotland. Truth to tell. I wondered sometimes whether I had acted wisely In differing from my father and mother a to the prospect of obtaining a livelihood on the link. During my first two en gagement, at Rlpon and Bury, there waa exceedingly little) doing; Indeed, at Rlpon I almoat gave up the hope of see ing golf become a popular as I wanted It to be I used to lend my clubs to the head gamekeeper's son In exchange for his rifle; he would try to do holes in th par figures, with bout ss much success as attended my effort a to shoot rabbits. In sheer des peration I started to learn boxing and 1 have a vivid recollection of being knocked cfut. after several lessons, by the daughter of the gamekeeper. She was a big. strapping girl and she could punch as I should think never a girl punched before or since. svatraordlaary Chaag Noted. It la curious to compare those tiroes nd all the Ingenuity whlh they de manded of a golf professional who wanted to And some means of whlllng away th days, with th age Into which golf subsequently entered, when a sue. cessful player found himself Inundated with Invitations to perform In all parts of the glob. It Is truly wonderful, this growth of th game, and it Is no exag geration to describe It as valuable, since golf Is now recognised by thou sand of physicians as the finest cure on earth for peopl who suffer from dyspepsia, lnsomris, nervoua break downs and th other evils that are apt to afflict a man who loads a sedentary life of assiduous brain working. I bad a long and serious illness after my return from my first tour In Amer lea In 18 and 100 and I am certain that golf did as much as anything to bring about a restoration of health. Doctors wanted me to gtv It up on the ground that I had bad too much of It. but aa I had never atopped playing for more than two day except when I wa on the high seas and I had faith In It recuperative powers. I decided to stick to It. There was at least on quick re ward: I had no sooner gone to Mundes- ley Sanatorium than I did a hole In on for th first and only time In my lire lsaprrsaleas Ar Analysed. It Is lucky to have grown up with th gam and watched Its development from obscurity to Importance and It may not be without interest If I set down some Impressions of golf In va rious lands In which I bava played. I would say at one that th United State. compared right well with Britain aa regards the behavior of the crowd and th understanding which they exhibit of the finer points of the pastime Nothing could have been more Interesting than tha change which took plac between lfOO. the im of my first visit, and 11I. when made my second tour In America. At th former period most of ths peo ple were bent on a novel entertainment rather than a serious study, and a topped approach that chanced to finish on the green won applause aa greet as thst bestowed on a perfectly executed hot. That, however, was natural, for Americana were then only Juat begin- In; to coquet with the game Of curtoalty as to the manner In which strokes were made, there wa enough and to spare: and I waa never presented with a greater poaer than by a man. who. after I had hit a good hot with a cleek. dashed up to m with th question: "Say. which arm did you do that with?" 1 had read and thought a great deal about the question of th master hand nd arm In golf, but that question left me dumfounded. Baltetla Igastsses Shawm. Two years ago everybody In Amer ica seemed to understand the game everybody, at least, except the person who waa responsible for th writing on blackboard which gave results of porting events outside a newspaper flic in Victoria. British Columbia. Kay and I happened to pass th office In th evening and there wa read: -Golf English professional beat local professionals by S and S (wbat- ver that means). Even a working roan who cam up to me on th atatlon at Houston. Texas, had a more comforting knowl edge of tne pastlm. -You'r Vardon. aren't youT" he asked. Something prompted me to declare Innocently that I had never heard of Vardon. -Yes. you are. he said emphatically. Tve seen your photograph end I know you' by your knickerbockers. Well, all I say Is that It was dashed good to do a 72. snd that the other man who beat you with a must have bad a big fluke There may not have been much logic In this estimate, but It was at least consoling. Exrrtlenee Faand lalforaa. I suppose It Is something In the temperament that makes Americans such good potters. Certainly I do not think It is thst they hava learned any thing about the ahort game which has escaped th attention of British play ers, ana l cannot oe aaiu mat mv American greens posses qualities thst help to raise putting to a science. For the greater purt. they are kept In very good condition, but some of them are I TTLEH. not at a 1 soothing to the nerves. Particularly Is this the case In regard to the greens which have been sown with Bermuda grass. The ball, instead of running smooth ly, ss It does on most of the good links In Britain, aimply wobbles from blade to blade: In these circumstances. I used to prepare for a put? In fear and trembling. Tet It Is surprising how well the local players control th ball. I should aay. on the whole, that there I a greater uniformity of ex cellence as regards the condition of ths putting greens In my own country than In the Unite 1 States (ths turf Itself Is more velvety), but thst the putting Is not so good. Why this Is the case I cannot Imagine, for. In other departmenta of the game there are unquestionably a far larger num ber of skilled performers In Britain than In America, Overlapplag Grip Drawa Attention. A feature of th gam In th State which has appealed to me la th preval ence and diversity of th overlapping grip. -At home nearly all the leading professionals and most of ths younger amateurs of promise adopt this method of holding the club, but In spite of Its Indisputable advantages. It Is not largely practiced among the rank and file of club members. Most of them declare that their hands are too small for It or that they do not find It com fortable; golf Is so essentially a recre ation to them that they will not suffer week tribulation in order to learn a principle which. In th end. would benefit them considerably. The overlapping grin Is seen exten sively In the States and th only weak ness In the situation Is that many play ers do not sppear to realise thd main points of this method. Some of them msy he carrying out experiments of their own. but eurtalnly others think that they are employing what we may term the orthodox form of overlapping, when In truth they are doing nothing of the kind. Plenty of them have told me that they always adopt my style of grip; demon stration has enown that they do not. Some have the forefinger of the left hand over the little finger of the right. I hay tried every way and am satis fied that the arrangement which pro duced tha perfect union of the hands Is that of making the little finger of th right hand rest on the forefinger of tb left , Cars Played la Saawskoea. It Is possible to drive a good deal farther In America than In Britain, presumably owing to the drver at mosphere The effect of locale on the") flying powers of the ball and also on tb estimation of distance Is on of the little things that ona learns In travel ing about tha world In pursuit of golf. Thus In tb south of Franc there Is a quality In tha light that makes ob jects look farther off than is actually , ins case. j remember the first time I played at Monte Carlo, My partner waa Arnaud Maasy. who. being a Frenchman, knew th conditions from experience When w arrived at the first short bole I asked him what club he usually iook irom in te ana n replied A mas hie." To m the hoi looked a full driver-shot away. It waa mv honor. and aa I thought he waa having a Joka, i loog my ariver. Th ball sailed goodness knows how many yards over the green (I had almost a far to play back), whereas Maaay hit a firm mashl shot and landed near th hole. - Oolf was advancing by leapa and bounds In Franc and Belgium before th outbreak of the war; I fear it will tak th game a long while to recover Ita prosperity In those countries- Its development amongst the peopl of Franc was splendid once they took to it; tor years tney ssw It nlaved In their midst by Britishers and Amer icans without apparently havlnsr tha smallest desire themselves to dabble In If. On of th first Indications of en thusiasm that I saw was at L Touquet, near Boulogne, on day. when two Frenchmen arrived from Paris for the week-end. They found the links cov ered with snow and all th golfers nugly ensconced In the hotel; nothing daunted, these new arrival procured snowshoes and contested the full round of the course Clilragoana Defeat Butte Nine. BUTTE. : Mont.. Aug. 7. The Uni versity of Chicago baseball team thia afternoon defeated th Butt Black Rocks. to J. Des Jardlns was a mys tery to th locals after tb first In ning. 8core: R. H. E.I R. H. E. Chicago .. IS i;Blk Rocks. 1st Batteries Des Jardlns and Cole: Mannering. Miles and Jones. GIRL KILLED BY TRAIN Cycle With Side Car Crushed and Three Are Injured. . PASADENA. Cal.. Aug. 7. Florence Dabb waa killed and another girl and two men companions seriously hurt to night In a collision between a Pacific Lleetrtc ear and a motorcycle with side attachment, in which the f four at tempted to cross th track. Th Dabb girl was caught under the trucks and her right leg cut off. She died before physicians arrived. racirie Highway Link Paved. CENTRAL! A. Wash.. Aug. 7. (Spe cial.) Tb hard-surface pavement re cently completed on tha Pacific High way from the southwest Washington Fair grounds to tha north limit of Cbehalis was thrown open to traffic today. With th completion of a mile and a half of pavement at Forest there will be an unbroken 10-mlle stretch of hard-surface from a point two and a half miles west ot this city to Forest east of Chehalla. Roeeeoe Fawcett Suggests 910,000 From Some- Philanthropist Would Do Wonders Towards Pro viding Municipal Units. BT ROSCOE ' FAWCETT. . "Within less than a month or. Au gust JO th greatest " amateur golf championship ever played In the United Statea will be under way over on of the greatest courses In America, th Detroit Country Club at Detroit, Mich. The word "greatest" haa been a much overworked auDerlatlve. but In this case it Is used where it belongs. Never before have so many golfera been play ing such first-class golf, ana never before have tha famed amateurs. Oul- met, Travers and Evans, been In such rare form to wage desperate battle for the title. LTo to th time Jerome Travers up set th dope and won the open cham nlonahlo at Baltusrol. Ouimat stood alona In tha minds of the critics. But when Travera conauered his wood weakness and did his comeback there waa no longer any certainty In the Ouimet caroD. And Evana. by winning tne western title again at Cleveland In record form. has demonstrated that he will also be a crowning figure In th amatsur events this season. Evans Is certainly due to win after the great' golf of so man naat camDalffna. Without doubt Evana Is on of the greatest shots In the country. He is fine with the wood on his tea shots, a great long-Iron ahot and th best ama teur mashle wlelder In America. Tet Chick hasn't, sufficient margin over Travers and Ouimet up to the green to beat either, unless he masters his invariable putting weakness. Evans has always complained that the Eastern greens are too tricky. This year, he will be playing over a Middle Western course, perhaps better suited to his liking, and so we say if the Chicagoan-ls to win an amateur cham pionship this seems to be his chance. While & Benson and J. B. Teon are busy trying to disperse their fortunes on good roads,, school buildings and thirst fountains, why doesn't some good Samaritan arise and donate about $10,000 for a public golf course In Port land? Wa know of no better way to per petuate one's memory. Portland needs a- public links If It Is to keep pace with other cities of the Pacific Coast. Los Angeles, San Fran' Cisco, Seattle, and now even Spokane all ths Coast cities hava municipal golfing courses. Portland haa plenty of available altes and w could hava another links In Jig time if soma philanthropist would but arise and start the ball rolling. Nothing new out . here," . remarked J. Martin Watson, professional at the Waverley Country Club, when asked the news a day or two ago, "Ground Is hard as usual In Summer and the only thing is that everybody is driving about 600 yards and cutting two and three strokes off their records." - "Keeping one's eye on the ball" la a favorite axiom of tha links, but Harry L. Pratt, the popular professional at tha Portland Golf Club, doesn't fancy soma forms of the Injunction. Mr. Pratt was playing out of a ditch en veloping the fifth, or "dogleg," hole on the Portland course, when his ball rebounded off the slda of the trench and caught him squarely above the left eye. One-half Inch lower and his optic would now be wearing crepe. Interesting Notes From Local Golfing Pastures. ft Jg EMBERS of the Portland Golf Club 1VX are anxiously awaiting th post ing of the dates for the qualifying dates, to be posted soon, for tb tour nament with the . Waverley Country Club. Th Waverley Club has put up trophy for the event. The competition will be played off as follows: A team match, eight to a side, be tween the members of the "Waverley Country Club and tha members of the Portland Goir Club, each club to hold a preliminary qualifying round on their own links, the eight low medal scores to qualify. The first competition for, this tro phy will be held on the links of the Waverley Country Club Saturday, Sep tember 4. 1915, and to be 36 boles, medal play; th winning team to be the team whose total gross scor Is th lowest. Th second match for this event t be held either on the links of the Waverley Country Club or on tb link of th Portland Golf Club, Saturday. September 11. 115; the handicap com mittee ot tne waverley wiuo to aeier mln where the match will be played, under the same conditions as stipulated tor th first match. In th event of each club winning one match, a third match will take place Saturday, September 18. 1916, on the links to be selected by the handicap committee of the Waverley Club, the Frank KeadaU, ocal Heavy .etght. Who Will Give Spar ring Exhibition Tils Week at Km press Theater With Earl Mlebaa, Former Amateur Cham pion Light-Heavy of tLe Northwest. Li aaa.aV.. j ! I " 1 I ''v. - - ! I I ! -V I ' i I'At v ft .' y v t club winning two out of three matches to become the possessor of the trophy. It Is further stipulated that after the trophy passes, into the possession of the winning club, that the members of the winning team shall play a con test of 36 boles, medal play, to deter mine which member shall become tha owner of the cup. . Opponents to be drawn by lot. In the event of ties, the same to be played off in a match of 36 holes, medal play. - The prises will be presented to the winners of the men's and ladies' cham pionships at the Portland Club in the near future. J. R. Straight and Miss Peggy Imes will be tha recipients! . These are busy days on tha links at Gearhart-by-th-Sea. A largo number of Portlanders are playing over the links daily. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Honeyman, Dr. and Mrs. OFF THE TEE. The Colonel had been playing golf for only three months, therefore, when tha secretary of the club saw the Colonel playing his ball several feet In front of the tee discs during a tourna ment, he thought the veteran soldier had forgotten the rule. "Colonel I Colonel!" he ex claimed, "you must play from be hind the tee discs." The Colonel's face turned red, but he preserved his dignity. "It's none of your business, sir," he answered as calmly as possible, "but this is my third stroke." J. Martin Watson. Marshall, Graham Glass, Sr., and Gra ham Glass, Jr., Mrs. B. Wilcox, Miss Clair Wilcox, Dr. and Mrs. Zan. L Lang, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Flnucane, of Spokane; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Thompson, Edward Thompson, Lewis Thompson, R. F. Hind, Mr. and Mrs. Max Hirsch, Mr. and Mrs. L Hirsch, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Wiley. Mr. and Mrs. C M. Sharp sten, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Sharpsten and Miss H. Sharpsten. of Walla Walla, are down for the Summer, and spend con siderable time on the links. The new tennis courts at the Port land Club are proving a great favorite with the golfers between rounds. The CORBETTS PROTEGE NOT LIKED IN NEW YORK Tom Cowler, Found in Portland, Declared Game Enough, but Said to Lack "Class" in Test With Gunboat Smith. BT ROSCOE FAWCETT. D ESPITE the fact that Tom Cowler made a brave stand against the seasoned Gunboat Smith in their recent bout at New York, the general opinion of the fistic experts there abouts Is that Jim Corbett's white hope will not da "Lacks even a smattering of that all Important fighting essential class, remarks the Sun. - "Accent Is on the Cow," adds the World. Judging from the accounts of the bout, Cowler took a dozen blow on the chin that must have been felt by the old folks back In England. He didn't wince, thus showing his game- ness. but a fighter needs somo other natural requirements besides game nem and Dresum&bly Cowler hasn't manv of these at his command. It looks aa If Corbett over-rated bis man. Chances are the nig neavy wouia have made a much better snowing acainat some of the other left-over truck drivers around New Tork. fowler Is the 210-pounder who, was nicked ud in Portland by corbett wnen h was heae a few months ago on hia vaudeville tour. Jeems -took Cowler to Australia and Tom cleaned up three second-raters In fairly decisive fashion. Australian critics said he lookea very promising. x-ossioiy ine new Torkers would have given similar boosts to the Englishman had Corbett started him against something softer than Gunboat. Awkwardness la sometimes an asset. Ralph Gruman won from Kid Burns at Rockaway Roost. New Tork, a few nights ago. but Burns' awkwardness almost cost him the bout. Burns floored the Portland boy In tie first round. As long as Burns lives be will be known as tho man who sent one of Packey McFarltnd s peepers into aeep mourning. Burns hasn't any particular tvle of milling, and Packey wasn't Iookinsr for sudden trouble any more than was Oruman the other night when he woke up on the canvas. Otis Skinner as Hadji., the beggar. has nothing on the baseball moguls at Tacoma. Joe McGinnlty hf3 been pull ing off vaudeville, boxing smokers and open-air quilting bees all Summer try ing to keep tne Tigers on tne nnanciai rocks. Last week at the free double bill at the Stadium 12,000 fans turned out and the-mite boxes showed more money from the collection than the or dinary gate at Tacoma would be In a week. The committee gave joe mc Ginnity a check for $1000 after the gam and another couple of hundred after expenses were paid. Rube Evans will read with interest of a new fashion In vogue in the Cen tral Association. A Waterloo pitcher. desirous of walking a Keokuk bats man, threw four balls to the first base man, and they let him get away with it- Evans will be keenly interested In this item because it - was Evans who failed to get an Intentional pltchout past Jack Ness In a game on the local lot several weeks ago. Ness reached over the plate and binged it to right field tor a single, winning an extra In ning game. Incidentally that hit en-, courts are all that can be desired In The way of dirt courts. President Keats, of the Portland Club, just back from a trip East, is said to be planning some new stunts to swell the membership roles of the club at Firlock station. A handicap medal play competition Is now a regular Sunday feature at the Portland Club. The Centurlan and "Around 90" tour naments at the Waverley Club helped considerable to liven things at the Waverley Club during the past two weeks. Competition for the Heitkemper cup on the links of the club at Firlock sta tion will take place In September, ac cording to the latest official announce ment. Those Intending entering are re quested to get busy and turn In their five best cards for 18 holes. The Golfers' Magazine has donated a cup to the Portland Club in the hope of stimulating competitive trial of the Root system In scoring. It will be played for in IS holes medal play handi cap event under this system. The event may be played any day the Portland Club elects, the only stipulation being that it must be played under the Root system, the gross, handicap and net scores to be reported to the editor of The Golfers' Magazine, so that they can make a careful analysis of how the Root system works out In actual com petitive play at aa many clubs as pos sible. The more clubs the more com petitors the better will be the value of the test. Quail Plentiful In Linn County. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 7. (Special.) Bob White quail are becoming plentiful In this county. They, may be seen in large numbers in the fields and people driving along country roads can hear their whistle frequently. A few years ago these birds were scarce In this sec tion of the state, but in the past five years they have increased in number rapidly. abled Nesa to break the world's con secutlve hitting record. "Denver Ed" Martin, the burly negro fighter, is laboring in tough luck these war days. Martin gave up a good job to- tram Lou Bodie for his fight with Carl Morris at Coeur d'Alene and Bodie broke his hand In training. Then Martin was substituted for Bodie and he got In and drilled hard to cut off about 20 pounds surplus. Just when his train ing was progressing nicely word came from Morris that he would not fight negro. Promoter Hooker, who runs barber shop in Spokane, had to call off the fight, as he was unable to nnd suitable opponent for Morris In so short a time. The Oakland Tribune throws the hooks into Walter McCredle for al leged "bloomers" pulled by the big Portland manager at odd times. Among other things Mac Is credited wltn "boneheads" for letting Detroit get away with Harry Hellman, for releasing Juston Fitzgerald, now a star with the Seals, and for permitting Kenneth Williams to get away from the North west League club, ultimately to land with Spokane and Cincinnati. Fie! Fiel Fitzgerald couldn't throw from the outfield to first base the year McCredle releaaed him and he was in the dumps for sure. As proof of this the sterling little Seal gardener was released out right by Spokane some weeks after he was slipped the halter at Portland. Kenneth Williams tried out with the Portland Colts and Walter McCredle, not being endowed with mind-reading sensibilities, could hardly be expected to keep lines on all the bushers dis carded by other managers. As for Heilmann. that's a tender sub ject with Mack. Walt blames this faux pas onto Judge McCredle and the judge only smiles when the subject is broached and returns the buck. Admittedly Walter McCredle could have yanked Heilmann over to the Bea vers from the Portland Northwest club In time to save him from the draft. But the facts are that Heilmann did not really begin to scintillate until some days after the 'yanking season closed. He developed more In one week that Fall than be did all the months be fore. One day Just before the draft closed he bagged about five two-baggers in one double bill and looked so good that Judge McCredle broke the speed limit getting down town to the telegraph office. Realizing then, too late, that Heil mann was worth saving, the judge wired Cleveland: "Draft Heilmann ure." As he sauntered out of the "click. click" office, breathing easily after his hard trip, the eminent jurist almost bumped noses with Fielder Jones. Jones, then president of the North western League, was acting at the same time as scout for Detroit. Fielder bad the same hunch as the judg-e and his wire to Detroit did the business. Both placed drafts against Heilmann and Detroit won the draw. Walter Mack s real mlscue that Fall was In pulling Southpaw Stanley over to the Beavers Instead of Carl Mays. Stanley had had a sufficient trial to disprove claims of his class and Mays had not. Carl was drafted by Provi dence and is now with the Boston Americans. Portland City League Standings. East Side. 2 2 .600'Sellwood... 2 3 .400 Piedmont. 2 .00Wst Sid.. 2 .40U Another battle royal, the last for three weeks at Vaughn street, will be staged this afternoon by tho City League clubs. The first clash will be between the Maroons and the Sellwood Dingbats at 1:30, with the East Side and West Side furnishing the main bil let later in the day. . All four of the clubs will have their strongest lineups In the field. In the second game Alec Donaldson will do the serving, with "Pepper" Edwards on the receiving end. for the East Sid ers. . Jack Randall has been disposed of as manager and Fred McKeen will be In charge. Red Rupert will rely on Murphy and Bleeg as his battery. In the Initial set-to Reuben Max meyer will oppose Jude Moreland, of the Maroons. "Pebford" Thlrlon, who caught for the Reds at the beginning of the season, will do the work behind the bat for Sellwood. Johnnie Newman will hold forth on the bench. Newman is a sterling little backstop, but ha not been sousing the pellet of late, and as the Sellwood have started to slip, Manager Lewis feels that he needs a few more good stickers in the lineup. Ed Rankin and Klrby Drennen, the veteran, will have charge. of the dou ble session. The City League nas oeen putting up a good brand ot nan lately and a large turnout is expectea. in lineups given out by tne tour man agers last night are: First same: Sellwood piedmont Stepp, If. Blancnard. lb. 1?. Kennedy, cf. Borart, as. Netsel. 3b. Orooa. rf. Hartholemy. a. Morgan, si. Moreland, p. West Side Llnd. If. Chllders. lb. Hippie, lb. Waul. ss. Murray, cf. Druhot, rf. Bleeg. c. Lodell. lb. Nellson. 2b. Murphy, p. R. Kennedy, cf. Ingle, as. Garner. 3b. .Vadeau, 2b. Smith, rf. C. Edwards, lb Boytan&,lf. Thlrlon. c. Maxmeyer, p. Second rame: East Side Prltchard, i& L. Edwards, o. H Inkle, If. McKeen, lb. Luckey. rf. Hurhes, cf. Brown, tb. Samuels. 2b. Donaldson, p NEAR RIOT MARKS FED GAME Newark Overcomes C-Run Lead in Last Half of ISth With Packers. VKWARK. N. J.. Aug. 7. A pitchers' battle between Packard and Raulbach ended in a near riot today when New ark overcame a two-run lead scored by the Packers in their half or tne ism Inning. Laporte forced facneer at sec ond and Goodwin claimed interference prevented a double play. Rousch scored while Goodwin held the ball. The core: R. H. B.I - n. cj. K. C. II INewarK. , .i u s Batteries facnara ana ciohi. Reulbach and Rartden. . . Brooklyn 6-2, Chicago 2-4. BROOKLYN, Aug. 7. The Brooklyn and Chicago Federal League clubs divided today's double-header, the Tip Tops taking the first, 6 to 2, and the Whales the second 4 to 2. Home run drives over the right field wall de cided both contest. The scores: First game R.H.E.I R.H.E. Chicago . .2 lBrooklyn. .6 10 3 Batteries Black, Brennan, McCon nell and Fischer; Marion and H. Smith. Second game R. H. E. R. H. E. rhipam . .4 8 SIBrooklyn. .2 7 1 Batteries Prendergast and Fischer; Seaton and Land. ' Baltimore 5, St. Louis 3. BALTIMORE, Aug. 7. Baltimore won from St. Louis here today 6 to S, after having lost nine straight games. Chief Bender was hit hard at the start, but held the visitors Bafely after his team gave him a lead in the fifth. Owens' drive over the left Held fence featured. The score: R. H. E. R. H. Ii. St. Louis... 8 11 8BaItimore. .6 6 .0 Batteries Davenport and Chapman: Bender and Owens. Pittsburg 6-15, Bufalo 1-4. BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 7. Pittsburg won both games of a double-header from Buffalo here today, the first S to 1. and the second, which lasted two hours and eight minutes, 16 to 4. Rogge won the opening game for the visitors. The score: First game . R. H. E. R. H. E. Pittsburg. .6 11 SIBuffalo. ..162 Batteries Rogge and O'Connor; Bedlent, Krapp and Blair, Allen. Second game R. H. E. R.H.E. Pittsburg 15 22 liBuffalo. . .4 8 3 Batteries Dickson. uarger ana O'Connor; Lafltte, Bedient, ord ana Blair. - . GO TO THE Grand American HANDICAP GRANT PARK. CHICAGO August 16-20, 1915 NO p r e v 1 o'u s event In trap shooting will compare with the Sixteenth Grand American Handicap in number of entries, shooting environment, beauty and value of trophies and Assemblage of trap-shooting stars. This la THE PREMIER EVENT OF THE YEAR and a ten - trap equipment the largest ever installed insures to every shooter ideal eonditlons "on the firing line" of Grant Park, Chicago's moBt popular shore re sort. 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