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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
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VOL. XXXVI.
PORTLAND, OK Eli OX. SUNDAY MORNING: DECEMBER 9, 1917..
NO. 49.
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JUDGE EXPECTS TO
QUIT COAST LEAGUE
McCredie Tells Seattle Fans
That He Probably Will
Join Northwestern.
IT ALL DEPENDS, HOWEVER
Beaver Owner Points Out That, of
Coarse, if Sacramento or Some
Other City Falls Down, Lo
cal Club Will Stick.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec 8. (Special.)
"After looking: over the baseball
situation here, X can say that I am
almost certain that the Portland club
will be in the Northwestern League in
1918."
Judge W. W. McCredie. of Portland,
thus spoke today and the words, right
from the good Judge himself, are music
to baseball followers of this city, who
have long waited for the return of
Portland to the Northwestern League.
These utterances were made after th.
Portland magnate had gone over every
phase of the baseball situation here
with D. E. Dugdale and R. L. Blewett.
league president.
Judge Gives Vlewa.
After several years in the Coast,
Judge McCredie said that he was con-
ivinced that the . Portland club rlght
i fully belongs In the Northwestern or-
1 ganization.
"Climatically and geographically."
Judge McCredie declared, "Portland is
a Northwestern League city, I have
little doubt but that we will cast our
lot with Seattle In 1918, and that our
city will be back in Northwestern
League baseball."
The judge declared that he had heard
J nothing from the Sacramento men who
were attempting to place a club in that
city, but it was gained from his state
ments that he didn't care a whole lot
whether he heard from them or not.
After his heart-to-heart talk with the
Northwestern League men Saturday, it
is believed that the Portland owner
has made up his mind. He said that.
while Sacramento was having trouble
in raising the amount necessary to in
sure a franchise there, he had little
doubt but that Sacramento or some
other place besides .Portland, would
take the Portland franchise.
Better Sfaaon Format.
Despite the poor season last Sum
mer, the Portland visitor said that the
Northwestern League, with a Portland
, team in the .race has an excellent
chance for a prosperous year. He be
lieves that the return of the Beavers
would add spice to the race and would
create a new interest in the game in
Seattle and other cities.
His mission accomplished. Judge Mo
Credie left for home -tonight. However,
the Judge admitted tha. unless Sacra
mento, or some, other rlty. gets the
Portland franchise. Portland will still
be In the Coast League. McCredie can
not cut lo se and Join the Northwestern
without the permission of the Coast
organization and unless Sacramento' is
successful In raising funds the wjiole
plan may fall through.
Meanwhile Northwestern- League fans
are hoping that somebody gets the
Portland franchise and gets It quick, so
that Portland may start a club in this
league next Spring.
pected some sort of a tentative de
cision would be reached. Portland still
holds the trump card, and unless some
thing unforeseen materializes between
now and December 17 the McCredies
will be at the helm of the Portland
club in the Pacific Coast League next
season.
No official action on the futuv
status of Portland In the Pacific Coa-'
circuit can be taken before the da?
set . for the annual meeting of th
directors. If Sacramento Is left oil
in the cold and the class AA magnates
still refuse to consider Portland as
being worthy of a place In the circutt.
the moguls will have real difficulty in
solving the Coast League puzzle. If
Portland Is left out and Sacramento Is
unable to perform in a manner satis
factory to the Pacific Coast League
owners, either Salt Lake or Vernon are
due to hit the greased slide into
oblivion.
Judge McCredie was In Seattle yes
terday and was closeted with Presi
dent Blewett, of the Northwestern
League, and Owner Dugdale. of the Se
attle club. The Portland club owner
was anxious to meet with the northern
YOUTH IN A CLASS BY HIM
SELF AT SHORT.
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Charlie Hollocher.
Hollocher. Beaver shortstop,
who goes to the Chicago Cubs
next Spring, was the peer of
Coast League shortstops. In 200
games Hollocher handled 495
putouts and 686 assists and was
charged with 62 errors for an
average of .950.
representatives in order to get their
Ideas of the proposed circuit should
Portland be forced to enter the North
western League.
The Northwestern League will have
to be reorganized if Portland enters
the circuit, and the personnel of the
new circuit undoubtedly -ccupied the
attention of the three executives yes
terday. It remains to be seen whether
or not the Montana cities are willing
to enter- the -league. In case of re
organization, the league undoubtedly
will include Seattle, Tacoma. Spokane
j and Portland. If Vancouver wants to-
be Included the moguls will have to
grab another city somewhere "close to
home."
Tacoma ought to be a winner, from
a boxoffice standpoint, with the thou
sands of soldiers who will be stationed
at Camp Lewis. Russ Hall, manager of
the Tacoma clyb. is anxious to start the
season, and Tacoma writers say Hall
has plenty of material lined up for the
coming season. Seattle and Spokane
are signing players, and the owners
are anxious for some definite action
on the part of the Pacific Coast League
directors regarding Portland's fate.
BILLIARD PLAY FAST
Multnomah Club Rooms Are
Crowded With Players.
EXHIBITION GAMES GOOD
Best Billiardists in Portland in
Contests Which Take Place on
Wednesday Nights Tourney
Now One of Attractions.
The billiard-room of the Multnomah
Club is now one of the busiest depart
ments of the club. The room and equip
ment have been so greatly improved
that members who have not seen it in
the last month would not recognize it
as the same place. The present in
structor has infused new life and cre
ated so mucn interest in the games that
the room is crowded with players every
night. On Saturday and Sunday, In
fact, it's a case of "come early and
avoid the rush."
'Exhibition games, played by the best
billiardists in the city, are given every
Wednesday night at 8 o clock, and af
ford much pleasure and enlightenment
as to the possibilities and finer points
of the game. These exhibition games
have drawn large audiences, and the
members are warm in their applause of
the performances of the experts, and
in their appreciation of Instructor Set
bert's efforts to give them, free of all
cost, exhibitions such as are not given
in any other room in the city. It is
an innovation that is reaping Just re
ward and praise from the management
as well as from the members;
The next exhibition Is slated for
Wednesday, December 12, at 8. o'clock.
Ashton Clarke and J. .A. Stuart will
play to 125 points at 18-2 balkllne. On
the following Wednesday, December 19,
the exhibition will be a pool game be
tween H. N Lawrle, of the Oregon Bu-
reaii of Mines, and R. W. Pickard, of I
the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail
way. These two will play 50 points of
line up pool, 10 points bank pool and
15 points cribbage pool, making up a
night s entertainment that . will, no
doubt, be well attended and much en
Joyed, as both men are recognized as
very expert at these game-.
A club billiard tournament is also
being held by the department, 'partici
pated in by 30 members, divided into
five classes. The winner in each class
will go intc the finals and decide by
play between themselves the respec
tive winners of the five prizes offered,
in addition to the Dr. A. D. Walker
cup, which the winner of first place In
the finals will be entitled to hold for
one year, and which becomes the per
manent property of the member win
ning it twice in succession, or three
times not in succession.
The fl-e prizes are as follows: First,
gold medal; second, silver medal; third,
handsome Jointed silk-wrapped cue,
donated by. the Brunswlck-Balke-Col-lander
Company; fourth, a scarf pin,
composed of three small ivory balls
and two gold cues, donated by the in
structor, W. R. Selbert: fifth,, a fancy
prong-wrapped cue. donated by the
club president, W. W. Banks.
Basketball Games Arranged.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis. Dec. 8. (Special.) The sec
ond annual series of inter-mural bas
ketball games will open next week
when 1 the Beaver club will play the
Cambridge club. All of the men's clubs
will be represented this season. The
fraternities also will have a series of
games between themselves, the first to
be played. December 11 between Sigma
Alpha Epsilon and Lambda Chi Alpha.
The following day the Aztecs will play
Sigma Nu.i
GOLF LURES MANY
First Wet Week of Season Un
able to' Kill Enthusiasm.
IMPROVEMENTS ARE NOTED
Stamps Being Blasted Out of 18th
Fairway and Rudolph Wilhelm
Says New Course Will Be Most
Difficult on Pacific Coast.
Despite the inclement weather last
week, the' Portland Golf Club's course
was invaded by an unusually large
number of swatters of the gutta percha
pellet and some good scores were
turned In.
The Portland course is in wonderful
playlg shape and many improvements
have been made which have added to
the attractiveness of the course. The
bunker across the sixth fairway has
been completed, and the members of
the club say this Is a very much-needed
Improvement in front of this green.
...
Dr Thomas W. Watts, chairman of
the house committee. Is planning many
improvements pertaining to the club
house and has asked for suggestions
for the betterment of the service of
the club.
James A. Beckett, of the new mem
bership committee, says he has many
new prospects lined up and car not see
why the Portland Golf Club will not
double its membership . inside of one
year's time if the members of the club
will give him the support he asks for.
He says there are to be no "slackers"
on his committee.
Ex-President Raley, now that some
of the duties of the club are off of his
mind, bas again taken an active in
terest in golf and seems to take par
ticular delight in Inviting other mem
bers out to the club to play for the
luncheons and then pay for them him
self.
The blasting of stumps on the 18th
fairway has been completed and mem
bers of other clubs who have visited
the course and seen this hole say. when
it is completed, no more attractive
fairway for the home hole will be found
on the Pacific Coast.
.
Many of the members who hereto
fore have found no use for a mashle
are now taking lessons from Profes
sional Pratt, anticipating in advance
the use of this club on the new nine.
Northwest Champion Wilhelm, who
visited the course Friday, made the
statement, after walking over the new
nine, that he was as tired as if he had
played a full 36-hole match, which will
elve some of the members who have
not been over the new part an Idea of
what this means, as Mr. Wilhelm has
played all the courses in the North
west and predicts this will be the hardest
course to play under 90 for the average
player west of Chicago.
NEW COURTS RUSHED
MULTNOMAH CLUB SOON TO HAVE
AMPLE ROOM FOR 10 PLAYERS.
Competition Between Various Teams
Becomes Keen and Challenges Ap
pear in Newspaper.
Multnomah Club Events.
The two new handball courts now
under construction at the Multnomah
Club will be finished in the course of
the next two weeks, and these. In addi
tion to the courts already In operation,
will afford ample accommodations for
the hundred-odd handball enthusiasts.
The Portland Railway. Light &"Power
Company Is well represented on the
Multnomah courts. O. It. Coldwell. of
the traction corporation, has developed
into one of the best back-wall men In
the' club, while Charlie Osborne, the
club's "Exhibit A of good nature . per
sonified, ' also is a Portland Railway,
Light & Power man.
J The competition between the Bud
J James-Dave Atkinson and the Bill
Banks Art Jones handball teams has
aroused much interest and mirth
throughout the club. A few weeks ago
Messrs. James and Atkinson Inserted
a classified ad in The Oregonian under
the "Wanted, Miscellaneous" head, to
the effect that they were in need of a
team in their own class with which to
battle. This cruel blow to Banks and
GRAHAM FAILS TO KEEP DATE
Sacramento Deal Will Come Up for
Adjustment Today, It Is, Said.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 8. (Special.)
Charley Graham did not come here
today to confer with President Baum
and Cal Ewlng on the Sacramento sltu-
ation, as had been expected, since it be
came known that the Coast League of
ficials had determined to call upon
Graham for a "showdown" in regard to
his home town.
' Graham telephoned that he was de
tained in Sacramento on important
business and would not be able to come
then will hold a conference and Graham
I will be asked to explain Just what is
I being done at the capital city.
Henry Berry Is a member of the spe
cial committee, along with Baum and
Ewlng, but he takes baseball so seri
ously that he is going duck hunting
again to settle his nerves. At any rate
Baum and Ewlng will listen to Graham
land then get ready to report to the
annual .meeting at Los Angeles De
cember 17.
If it is decided that Sacramento will
not do, the league will hold onto the
Portland franchise and will expect
Judge McCredie and Walter to back a
club there again. They are perfectly
willing to' do this, according to Presi
dent Baum, but at the same time the
league president explains that it is
hardly fair to withhold a definite de
cision from the McCredies, who natur
ally must want to know something def
inite soon, for if they are to be ousted
from the Coast League they should have
plenty of time to make their arrange
ments with the Northwestern League.
It is a foregone conclusion that all
the club owners will be in a frame of
mind to reduce expenses at the annual
meeting, for the outlook is anything
but bright for baseball next year. Cal
Ewlng will come to the front with his
furbisher rule again, and this time the
other fellows will listen, undoubtedly.
CAMP LEWIS GETS GAME
ELEVEN WILL MEET MARINES AT
PASADENA NEW YEAR'S DAY.
MONDAY Water polo. 8:30 P. M.
Tuesday Basketball. 8:30 P. M. :
bowling. Multnomah vs. Rose City Park
Club. 8 P. M.
Wednesday Exhibition balk lino bil
liards match. 8:30 P. M.
Thursday Intermediate hop. club sor
ctal rooms. 8:30 P. M.; basketball. 8:30
P. M.
Friday Water polo. 8:30 P. M.
Saturday Members' social night.
Every night Playing, in the billiards
I tournament.
BEAVERS' FUTURE IN BALANCE
What Sacramento Ultimately Will
Do Hard to Predict.
BY JAMES J. RICHARDSON.
On again, off again that's Sacra
mento's plight In its present effort
again to break into the ranks of or
ganized baseball. .But regardless of
the final outcome of the perplexing
Jones was not fatal, as evidenced by 1 situation. Sacramento has accumulated
an ad which appeared in The Oregonian ! columns of free . publicity on the dif
the nert morning over their signature, j ferent sport pages of the country.
It was under the "Lost and Found" I which, had the Consolidated Chamber
head, and was to the effect that a team ' of Commerce or Sacramento been
had been discovered that could wallop j forced to purchase would have
the everlasting daylights out of James i amounted to as much as the franchise
and Atkinson. The signers modestly itself is worth.
admitted that they were the team that i Charlie Graham and his co-workers
had been "discovered.." of Sacramento were expected at San
Ray Watklns, one of the prominent Francisco yesterday by President
members of the handball fraternity, Baum, Cal Ewing and Henry Berry, at
has gone to Los Angeles for a Winter which time the Sacramento contingent
vacation. While there he is scheduled was to lay Its cards on the table and
to meet some of the best players in I after "Prexy" Baum' had shuffled the
Southern -California. J deck. . two or three times, it -was ex-
Team la Substituted for Alltntown
Team and Soldier Rejoice at
- Chance for Revenge.
TACOMA, Wash.. Dec. 8. (Special.)
The 91st Division football team and
the Mare Island Marines will clash at
Pasadena on New Year's day for the
second time this season. The . lone
sought wish of the 91st to. meet the
soldier-sailors who trimmed them in
the Tacoma Stadium has been ful
filled. "The Tournament of Roses directors
cordially extend an Invitation to the
Camp Lewis football team to meet tho
Mare Island Marines at Pasadena New
Year's day," was the message sent by
W. S. Kienholz, manager of the asso
caition and uncle of Ecd!e Kienholz.
now of Camp Lewis, who formerly was
coach of the Long Beacn High School
eleven.
The Division team will do nothintr
else from now until Christmas but
practice for the game. It is unlikely
that the offer received today from
John R. Case. Camp Kearney athletic
' director, for a game at San Diego, will
j be accepted. Captain T. G. Cook, can
tonment athletic director, and his men
' believe the one game of games is sufficient.
The Invitation to Camp Lewis to play
the Marines means that the offer of a.
game to the Allentown. Pa., Ambulance
team Is canceled.
Monteith. Kenny Bartlett and all tho
rest of the old University of Oreston
eleven will be in tile Camp Lewis line
up. . From now on the sotdiers will go
on the training table and will devoto
their entire time to conditioning them
selves for the event of the football
year.
WILLAMETTE FIVE STRONG
Basketball Team Has Good Outlook
With Veterans In Lineup.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Salem,
Or.. Dec. 8. (Special.) Coach- Mathews
has had his basketball aspirants out
for the last week, and it looks as if
Willamette will have an "xcellent team
this season. Only two of last year's
team are back, but the new material
Is promising.
Nichols, who played backguard last
year is in school, and Coach Mathews
will have an excellent man around
which to build his team. Sparks, who
played forward part of the time last
year, is out for that position again.
LMmick, another veteran, will be a con
tender for one of the guards. Wapato
will be a candidate for center or on
of the forward positions. Other
aspirants are: Rary. Davies. Medlcr,
Olson, Lawson, Williams. Fisher. Story,
Spless, Brown, Hickman and Stewart.
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