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3 TY COBB BATS .388 SAN FRANCISCO AND PORTLAND BOYS WHO WILL MEET FOR THE BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPION SHIP OF THE PACIFIC COAST TOMORROW NIGHT. . T STAGE IS SET Football! Football!! Detroit Player Gets 13 Hits in Seven Games. Boxers in Fine Fettle for To morrow Night's Card: ROUSH LEADS NATIONAL MASC0TT TO MEET M0Y f',; s :f Cincinnati Man Averages .349, Robertson, of Giants, Ties Cra v vath, Philadelphia, for Home Run Honors, With Nine. Portland Youngster Will Try to Wrest Coast Bantam Title From Californlan Six Events Are Scheduled. i t il s.,' THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. BOU . .. .- .. 1 . . ! I 111 i r - - - ; y 1"' CHICAGO, Sent. 1. Roush, Cincin nati, with an average of .349, continues to lead the National League batters, according to aerages Including? games of "Wednesday and released today. 'Heinle Groh, of Cincinnati, Is press Ins Hornsby for honors in total base hitting. Hornsby has stretched 132 for a total of 205 bases, with the Cin cinnati third baseman, who has bagged 151 hits, only two bases behind him. Robertson, of New York, tied Cra vath, of Philadelphia, for home-run honors, each having: nine. Williams, Of Chicago grabbed the lead In sacri fice hitting-, with 25. Burns, of New York, continues as the leading; scorer, with 84, and Carey, of Pittsburg:, In Ibase stealing- with 88. New Pork tied Cincinnati in team batting: with an av erage of .265. Seven Bat Above .304. Leading batters for half their clubs' frames: Roush, Cincinnati, .349; Horns by, St. Louis, .324; Cruise, St. Louis. .313; Kauff. New York, .312; Groh, Cin cinnati, .312; "Wheat, Brooklyn, .305; Wilhoit, New York, .304; Zimmerman, New York, .299; Carey, Pittsburg, .297; IBurns, New York, .297. "Ping" Bodie, the Philadelphia slug ger, continues to climb in the American league, averages Including games of "Wednesday showing him hitting fifth among the regulars with .308. Cobb, the leader, continued his remarkable Ibattlng-, driving out 13 hits In seven games. There Is a spirited race for command among the home-run hitters. Bodie, Veach, of Detroit, and Pipp, of New York, each have seven. Bush, Detroit, has a five-point lead over Cobb, his teammate. In scoring, having: crossed the plate 95 times. Roth Lead! Chapman. Roth, of Cleveland, snatched the lead . Jn base stealing away from Chapman, his teammate. Roth has stolen 39 bases. Chapman continues ot lead In sacrifice hitting with 58. Detroit, lead ing in team batting, has an average of .261. Leading batters for half their clubs' Fames: Cobb. Detroit, .388; Slsler, St. Louis, .362; Speaker, Cleveland, .350; Harris Cleveland. .316; Bodie Philadel phia, .308; Veach, Detroit, .303; Chap man, Cleveland, .302; Felsch, Chicago, ,o00; Lewis, Boston, .298; Mclnnis, Phil adelphia, .295; Schang, Philadelphia, .295. billiard. News and Gossip. ST. LOUIS billiard fans are agog over the world's titular match between their favorite son, Robert Loren Can nefax. holder of the Brunswick trophy, emblematic of the three-cushion cham pionship, and Alfredo de Oro, famous" Cuban who resides in New York and who ha3 held the coveted Jeweled badge more times than any other wlelder of the cue. They will meet in the Mound City beginning Wednesday evening in a three-night 150-point contest, playing CO points each night. Total points will count. "Bob"' Is 27 and "Al" Just twice that. Bo it will be a battle between a youth brimful of confidence, a fine shotmak er who knows a world of billiards for his age, is long on strategy when the troing is tough and who is happily possessed of a temperament that noth ing can ruffle. He plays equally well from in front or behind, can wait pa tiently if the Ivories are not breaking veil and will fight gamely every bit of the Journey. He would rather lose his right eye than that trophy, to say nothing of the wagers of his friends. De Oro Holds Record. The veteran Islander, on the other hand, is the last word when it comes to billiard perfection as applied to three cushion caroms. He holds the world's average record, having made his com plement of 150 points in 145 Innings in his championship match with August Kieckhefer at Chicago two years ago. In the second block of that match he made his string of 60 points In 35 in nings, but the latter mark was not ac cepted as a record, as De Oro did not shoot from the spot, having had the balls In his possession where he left off at the end of the first night's play, the match being a continuous one. He is now trying to stage a real "come back." That the Cuban Is In fine fettle for the contest with Cannefax is shown by the fact that in recent practice against v Charlie Otis, In New York, he scored a run of 18. His wonderful skill is well known, as is his generalship in match play. It takes a brave youngster to look the "Old Master" in the eye throughout a three-night match with out shrinking. He "gets their goats," but in Cannefax he will find a spunky kid that will not be easily rattled. There is ne condition In favor of Cannefax and against De Oro that may Drove the deciding factor in the strug gle. Bob, carefree, will go to bed after each block of play and sleep like a log, firmly convinced that De Oro has Tio more chance to beat him than he would have to beat Willie Hoppe at halkllne, while De Oro, high-strung and nervous during a championship contest, may. not slumber as peacefully as his young antagonist. It is an open secret that the former champion is troubled more or less with Insomnia and should he not get proper rest his task of re gaining the emblem will be doubly hard. Vannrfax Whirlwind Player. Though Cannefax holds no records he has set some rare marks in exhibition play. Last Spring against Otto Reiselt In three nights' play he scored his 150 fioints in 134 innings, while a few days ater in a practice game with Dr. Frank at Toledo he ran a 60-point game out In 18 innings. Previous to that in a tournament at Bensingei-s room in Chi cago he won one of his games by run ning 50 points in 37 innings. More re cently at San Francisco he beat one of his mentors. John Horgan, a 25-point pame in the Graney Academy in 18 Innings. He astonished cuedom last April at Akron, O., when he raced past Charlie McCourt in the last block of play and won the championship by 15 points, 150 to 135, after appearing hopelessly beaten. John Daly, another old-timer of the De Oro school and a champion years ego, will meet the winner of the Canne-fax-De Oro match some time in Octo ber. Boxing Carnival, Baker Theater, Tomorrow night Reserved seats Rich's, Stiller's. Adv. Japan's gold holdings now amount to f254.235.000. The bulk of this amount Is kept abroad. ... ..'? 'St. , CHARLEY MOT, OF MERMAIDS BEST Gotham Authority Says Local Diving Girls Lead All. JACK CODY IS PLEASED Jj. do B. llandley Writes: "I Am Giving Your Girls the Women's Diving Supremacy of the United States." L. de B. Handley, one of the best swimming authorities in New York and the writer of the syndicate articles on swimming, has written to Jack Cody, Instructor of swimming at the Multno mah Amateur Athletic Club, to the ef fect that he ha3 picked the Multnomah diving girls as the best in the coun try. Handley said: "I am giving your girls the women's diving supremacy of the United States." Led by Mrs. Constance Meyer, Na tional champion, the Winged M club has Misses Thelma Payne, Helen Hicks, Irene Pembrooke and Virginia Pera brooke in the diving and Miss Harriett Walters in the springs, with Mrs. Mc Farland taking care of the distance swims. Miss Aileen Allen is the only girl in California who is anywhere near the class of the Winged M divers. To Jack Cody, the club instructor, goes all the praise for developing these girls. Jack has developed Norman Ross, present world's swimming cham pion, and Louis Balbach, one of k the best drivers on the Coast. Cody and his pupils are at Astoria, where they are giving swimming and -k3 - -n wq- ' ' -: NEW PHYSICAL DIRECTOR FOR PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOLS NAMED. it j?4i : i : t I , ' j-- ; t If if m -'r I iinr? Pi it ' 'N - " v-Wft i ' id.- foaasax, fi i j ri 9U ' tit :' '" t - -x Jhrri i !rf . . - t ' - ..' ' i" I : V-.-. " ' 1 - , 5 I .: W V:.--v, ' s . I - ' Ij - - m l . f s;'K;.:?-:v'Vvt v--.i -: - p: Ft ' f t, yi r,- lVYVttoa.-jvTnftfr,frt Awv..tf..Vm.-.T v-..-;-.. 'Wtttj! . rrft1!! rt iiJlWtf.intlliiliri liillnl iaYtim J M. D. WEUS. Merrit D. Wells, chosen to be one of the teachers of physical education In the Portland high schools for the coming Fall term, has been trainer of the Portland Beavers during the present season, and has more than made good. In the words of Walter McCredie, "Wells is the best trainer we have had; always willing to work and always looking out for the boys' benefit." Wells probably will finish the season with the Beavers before tak ins up his new duties, as the season will close in five weeks. SAX FRANCISCO, AND BILLT HASCOTT, OF PORTLAND. diving exhibitions during the regatta. Norman Ross again Is In bad with the amateur officials. He now is in Honolulu, where he expects to compete in the September Water Carnival. Will iam Rawlins, of the Hawaiian A. A. U-, has declared that he will not allow Ross to compete. He says that Ross Infringed on the A. A. U. rulings when he accepted excess expense money from the various Summer resorts at which he swam. Ross claims that the charges are unfounded and that he will swim, even if he is forced to do so under pro test. Miss Thelma Darby will compete at Idora Park, San Francisco, on Septem ber 22 and 23. Miss Darby is the sen sational schooolgirl swimmer from Indianapolis. She will enter the 500 yard swims in the south. During the recent one-mile Central A. A. U. swim ming championships for women Miss Darby gave a wonderful exhibition of speed. Swimming down stream, she came within one minute and 10 seconds of the mark set by John Metzger, one of the best men swimmers in Detroit. Misses Claire Gilligan and Dorothy Burns also will enter the 600-yard swim at Idora Park. Miss Frances Cowells, the San Francisco wonder, will enter the meet, thereby bringing the best women swimmers in the coun try together. GIRL STOLEN BY EAGLE Parents and Neighbors Make Long Search for Missing Lass. TOKIO, Aug. 17. A few days ago, in the mountainous district of Shidzuoka ken, a 6-year-old girl was carried away by an eagle. The child's parents were manufacturing charcoal at the time, and the child was with them. A search was immediately instituted by inhab itants of the villages in the vicinity, but no trace of the child was found. A further search was made the fol lowing day. WESTY HOGANS VIE Professional Shooters to Meet at Atlantic City. TOURNEY IS POPULAR How Organization Was Formed and Why It Received Unusual Name Is Interesting Story Told by Peter P. Carney. BY PETER P. CARNEY. Editor National Sports Syndicate. Trapshooters of all parts of this broad land know of the Westy Hogans. They know, too, that the Westy Hogans is an organization of profes sional trapshooters and that each year it conducts a trapshooting tournament that is second only in size and impor tance to the Grand American Handi cap. But what puzzles the great majority of the trapgun artists is the oddity of the name of the shooting organization. Time after time you will hear this question: "What does Westy Hogans mean?" So we made up our mind to find out and did and will now try to set the minds of the trapshots at ease. On July 19, 1906, a group of profes sional trapshooters were gathered in the office of a hotel In the Innermost recesses of Pennsylvania. As is quite likely the case in a small tavern In the evening a goodly sprinkling of the citizens from the hills were present, augmented no doubt on this evening by the presence of out-of-town trap shooters on hand for the shoot of the morrow. Unexpectedly one of t!ie professionals spoke up: "Why don't we professionals give the amateurs a shoot?" The suggestion was enthusiastically received and an organization was per fected then and there. Neaf Apgar was elected president and he has held the office ever since. Th question at once arose as to where and when the shoot should be held. Happily the glorious month of September, which was Just the right distance in the future, was seized upon and Atlantic City for the location. or four or five years the shoot was regu larly staged on Young's Pier at Atlan tic City, but a severe storm finally wrecked the pier and thus enforced a change of location to Venice Park where it has since been shot. A name for the organization came as spontaneously as the suggestion of the shoot; many a queer name has become affixed to the map of North America with less provocation. Among the visitors to the hotel office on this epoch making evening was a man from the mountains who was somewhat of a character and who sometimes -before had enlisted his efforts with others in holding up the hotel hitching post, where it Invited a moonlit anchorage in the offing. His name was Westy Hogan. In a spirit of jest the name was suggested, adopted, and, regret ted, now that the tournament has gone beyond the wildest expectations of the group assembled at the little Pennsyl vania hotel. The shoot rivals the grand American handicap in popularity; the name has stuck through a decade; and yet, it does add an , individual touch to the now famous tournament given by the professionals to the amateurs. For the 11th time this tournament will be shot at Atlantic Ctiy on September 12 to 15, inclusive. The flower of the trap shooting East will participate. It is a shoot where good fellowship expands to the nth power and where the trophies show .unmistakable evidence of the cun ning hand of the most skilled artists. BEES' CLAIM FOR BRIEF LOST National Bod? Says Pirates Do Not Owe Salt Lake $1500. CINCINNATL Sept. 1. The National Baseball Commission has disallowed the claim of the Salt Lake City club against the Pittsburg club for $1500, alleged to be due It in connection with the deal for Player Brief. The Com mission ruled that the Pittsburg club violates no rules in turning Brief back to Salt Lake City, and that the' rights of the latter club were protected. Salt Lake subsequently sold Brief to Louisville for $2500, while the original amount due from Pittsburg, in case the Pirates retained Brief, was $4000. Salt Lake was claiming the difference between the amount Louisville paid and the amount Pittsburg originally agreed to give for the player if they retained him. Charley Moy v. Billy Maneott. Billy Williams vs. Billy Nelson. George Brandon vs. Abe Gordon. Harry Mahoney vs. Johnny Boscovltch. Sammy Gordon vs. Dick Hewitt. Ray Leonard vs. Frankle Wing-. The foregoing card will mark the re opening of the boxing game in Port land and will be held under the aus pices of the new Rose City School of Boxing at the Baker Theater tomor row night. Manager Fred T. Merrill has lined up what looks to be an all around card of boxing bouts for his initial snow and it is expected that the Baker will be packed to the doors with fight-hunry fans. cnariey Moy, of San Francisco. bantamweight champion of the Pacific Coast and acknowledged California's cleverest boxer, will defend his title against Billy Mascott, of Portland, in the main event of six three-minute rounds. Both are in the pink of con dition and are waiting for the gong to go. Bobby Evans, manager of Billy Mascott, says that there will be a new Coast champion after tomorrow night. but Moy thinks differently and ex pects to beat Mascott as easily as he has defeated the best of the San Fran cisco bantamweights. Williams to Box Nelson. Billy Williams is all ready for Billy Nelson and will go after the former Spokane boy just as he did Jack Wagner in Vancouver last week. Nel son seems to have acquired a knock out punch and says that he is going to try it out on Williams. He stopped Jack White, of Omaha, in two rounds a few weeks ago in Vancouver. Abe Gordon, 112-pound champion of the Pacific Coast, arrived in Portland yesterday and is in good shape for his four-round tilt with George Brandon, Oregon's best boy at 112 pounds. Abe has been training in Seattle for about two weeks and is down to weight for Brandon. George has been working out with Charley Moy. Johnny Boscovitch will hook up with Harry Mahoney for four three-minute rounds. Johnny has been coming along pretty good of late and looks better in every bout. Mahoney has been away for some time, but is reported to be in good condition for his battle. Gordon and Hewitt to Mix. Sammy Gordon will box Dick Hewitt, the former Multnomah Amateur Ath letic Club 105-pounder. Sammy has been traveling with his brother, Abe, for the past several months and has taken on a lot of class, according to Hymen Gordon, who is handling Sammy and Abe. Ray Leonard, the 125-pound newsboy champion, will box Frankie Wing, a Chinese featherweight, in the curtain raiser. The main event will go six three minute rounds, while the preliminaries will be four three-minute rounds. Six ounce gloves will be In vogue. The stage at the Baker Theater re sembles a miniature arena with the ring and seats on it. DEER LAW IS MUDDLED HUNTERS SAY THREE ANIMALS MAY BE KILLED INSTEAD OF TWO, Situation Arises Because of Inconsist ency In Game Lavs Enacted by Legislature. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) That three deer may be killed legally instead of two is the assertion of local sportsmen. This situation arises be cause of an apparent Inconsistency in the game laws as enacted by the last Legislature. Of course, if no rain comes and the deer season remains closed - by order of the Governor, the controversy will avail nothing. The amendment to the game code, which had the approval of the State Game Commission and which provided a limit of two deer, was approved by the Governor February 13, 1917, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State February 20.- It is chapter 297 of the General Laws of Oregon for 1917. On the same day tha this law was approved the Governor approved an other bill, which was not filed In the Secretary of State's office until Feb ruary 21, 1917, and which became chap ter 340 of the 1917 session laws. The intention of this law evidently was to declare .n open season on. beaver in Benton and Marion counties. Its framers copied the section desired to amend, which was section 1 of chapter 331 of the General Laws of Oregon for 1915, and then added the section on beavers. Evidently it was overlooked that this same section was changed as to the limit on deer and In a few other particulars In the bill, which became chapter 297 of the 1917 laws. Because of this situation there is an interesting question as to whether the new am a code providing for a limit of two deer is in effect or whether it was superseded by the act which copied the old law and added the provision as to beaver in Benton and Marlon counties. BEND CARD IS AX3TOTJ3fCEt Billy George Will Meet Percy Brooks Tomorrow. BEND. Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) The first boxing match to be staged here for many weeks will be held Monday afternoon when Billy George will meet Percy Brooks, of Walla Walla. Dr. W. G. Manning will referee the match, which will take place in the afternoon. Several promising prelim inaries have been arranged. EVINRUDE MOTOR CO. Marine Supplies) and Motor Equip ment Dlwtrlhotors of EtIi rude Detachable Motors. Doman S-7-H. P. man's) Engine, factory. r"rb:$225 Sterling; 12-15-H. 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Fall and Winter catalogue mailed free on request. HoneymanHardwareCompany Fourth and Alder Streets GIRL SWIMMERS GAIN AMAZING STRIDES IN COMPETITIVE SPORT ARE MADE. Most of Vooig Mermaids Benefited Physically Danger From Undue Strain Pointed Out. e Competitive swimming has made amazing strides among American girls and women since the Amateur Athletic Union admitted them to registration a couple of years ago. and the most re markable feature of the development has been the entry into the racing game of a great number of immature little maids, many of those who have competed in important contests rang ing in age between 10 and 15. . Although available data furnish con vincing evidence that the majority of these young mermaids have been bene fited physically by the work done, a few cases of breakdown suggest the advisability of pointing out the dan- ger attendant upon submitting young- PREPAREDNESS fffPWTI VrJii-u. 1-hA is A tjF THE GOOD JUDGE. WHO I FIRST MAN TO FIND THERE A UTTLE CHEW Of 1 TTYlACm THAN IN tCHEW OF ORDINARY Ur J WILMINGTON - DELAWARE i fHEW OF RICH I yOCk II THAN IN A BIG I if II IRDINARY PLUG I ffW H THIS war is awakening men to the truth about a lot' of things besides Preparedness and chewing to bacco is one of them. Soldiers are strong for W-B Cut and the facts are right before you. These shreds are all tobacco, no gummy sweetening rich tobacco more sap in the leaf than in ordinary tobacco by a long shot. That's why it's so satisfying and so economical a little bit goes a long way. VUit by WETMAIt - ERUT0N COMPANY, 1107 Breaiway, New York Cty 1 ) ! 1 ; sters to undue strain, either in train ing or competing. A fact which girl swimmers as a class and even many instructors seem not to realize is that the effort ex pended in sprinting at a high speed lays a heavier burden on the heart, lungs and muscles than does covering longer courses at the moderate pace required to negotiate them. Anyone taking the trouble to look closely into the matter will discover that it is the sprinters who almost invariably suffer from overexertion, rarely the middle distance swimmers. This may be attributed to two causes: First, the strain of pace; second, the possibility of taking part in short races before mastering a correct stroke, which leads ambitious youngsters often to enter the game unprepared. Britain Advances Vast Sum. LONDON, Aug. 15. Since the begin ning of the war 46,000,000 of public money has been advanced to firms and companies principally for the purpose of increasing the output of munitions, A. Bonor Law, Chancellor of the Ex chequer, stated recently in the House of Commons. He added that more than 27,000,000 already had been repaid. Read The Oregonian classified ads. The Game Season Is Open Hundreds of feathcrless birds are being: shot. Oil up your pin. Hop on the car and hie yourself out to the nearest gun club. Clay pigeons are plentiful They're flying; fast. Match your eye and aim against these speedy targets that slip out of gunsight in less than three seconds. You'll eet your share of excite- merit, fun and valuable experience, -r Write sot fc osr Spsal AIIaxia Boakfat .3 and tho sum of yoor Sfflg LECTURE J ukene WAS THEi WAS1 RICH A BIG PLUG I Tt 11
