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BUCKARQD ATTACK GRUSHES SOLDIER Locals Romp A.vay With 9-to 1 Victory Over Vancouver Signal Corps Nine. rapp and Mckinley pitch Duo of Ilarlrrs Let Opponent Down WHh Seven lllls, While Team males Trlrk I.'wart for 10 Safe Jlinglc!. Including - Triples. BT J AM 1-3 J. niCIIAIlDSON Th Buckarooa offensive proved too much for Lieutenant Timothy Shechy ftlgaal Corps' aggregation at th Vaughn-street park yesterday, and when th amok of battla bad cleared away tb Buckarooa were on tb lone and of a 9-to-l scor. Rapp and McKlnley wen delegated by Manager Fisher to oppo th sol dlera. Rapp started tb team and went Iz Inning without being acored on and held the soldiers to four hits. "Buffalo" McKlnley took up th bur- dm In th sixth and was nicked for three hit and on run Lwart worked the entire came for tb soldier sad allowed th Buckarooa ten safe swats, which Included triple by Hitter and Teck and doubles by Kibble and Demp- aey. Dempsey played first In place of Manager Flaher. who la still troubled with a sprained back. Dempsey per formed like a bis; leaguer around th Initial cushion and crabbed off two atlra out of fir trip to tb plate. Dick Cox essayed the role of catcher for th Buckarooa and gar a good ac count of himself. He bandied the twisters of the Buckaroo pitchers In major-league fashion and will moat likely open th season for Portland be hind th bat. Cex Steals Fr Base. Tor a player who did not ret a hit yesterday Dick Cox was th "old doughnuts." lie managed to get on four times and scored three of th runs. II ran wild on th bases, pilfering four bases and almost stola th taaeela off lieutenant Sheehy's hat. Th Buckarooa lost no time In pot ting a couple of runs across th plate. Kibbl singled In the first Inning, took second on a pass ball and reached third en lice's Infield out. Cox was Riven a base on balls and stole second. Ewart dl!hed up a fast one to Dempsey, who singled Jto left, scoring: Kibbl and Cox. Juries Mct'redle'a youngsters shook th old bottle up well In the second and repeated the dose when Peterson singled and scored on Hitters triple to left-center. Kapps retired via the Infield route. Ktbble pssted th ball to left for a double, scoring Rltter. Th Bufkaroos breezed along nicely until the fifth, when they again acored a brace of runs. Lee was safe on Wlegant's error and took second on a passed ball. Cox bit to Alt man. who tT. raw to second, catching Lee. Cox stole second and scored on Dempsey's double to left. Feuerborn got Into the running and slammed th globule along th third baa 11ns for a single, scoring Dempsey. Portland Fills Bags la ereatk. Portland filled th bags In th sev enth frame on two errors and a base on balls, but only managed to scor one run. air-tleht fielding thereafter pull ing the soldier pitcher out of th hole. Th Buckarooa went on th warpath again la the eighth and put over their two final tallies of th game. McKIn- ley was hit by the pitcher. Kibbl flew -to center. Teck tripled, scoring Mc Klnley. Lee hit a line drive which lite her Ewart stopped with his left wrist, almost knocking Kir art down. and th ball roiling out, to right field, during which time Teck scored and Lee was safe at first. The soldiers mad four error. Wle- rant. Ill shortstop, being charged with ihre of th four "boots." lutler and Ktbble wer th offenders for the Buckarooa. each being charged with an error. Kitter started a fast double plsy 1a th seventh when he went back of second and grabbed F-wart'a grounder. forclnir Holmes at second and throw, lnsr Ewart out at first. The Foundation and Cornfoot ship yard teams l'l cross bats at the Vaughn-street park today, starting at 1 J) o'clock, the vlrtors playing th aiurkaroos immediately afterward. core: acr aMlers I Portias H K II P1 R II O Johns.1 4 t I I Ktbble.:.... a 1 3 ill 41 ISO 6 13 S 1 3 11 4 13 a o o 1 K.ynoM.2. 5 O Jcos.r. ... 4 V :rcn!.l.. 4 A:tms.J... 3 l:flaiB,l. 3 K. T ...... 4 i.mft,c.H 4 e I 1', rcc.m... 3 I Lee.l 0 1 I'uLf 1 0 tVmpeer.l .. a Kuer6ora.J. 1 & f'e!rsoa.r. . 1 ; Rtttr.s... Vwjrl.p.... 3 1 HAPP.p, Ma...a... 1 e akKwitr. Tots' ...3t 1 T:V Totals ...li 10 M.i tar Johns In a. nth. f'rt,-r tUMtMl 0 1 II;:. I0310i: 0 T I-vrt.And 3303013 mts : i g t i i : 10 Errors, n lernt 3. H4mn, Kibble. Hit t-r. struck out. be Rapp 4. by MrKlntey 4. t? i:rt 4. Uasrs en balls, erf McKlnlsy 2. wit t rt s. Two-bAse hits, Klbh.a, Demp. Br. Thrve-base bits. Hitter. Tsca. lMub;t t.ar. Rittrr to Psmpser. Moten bases. 0a 4. 1'etcrson. Hitter. Kit by pitched balls, ltm.a by Rpp. MeKlalsy. Passed Palis. Ho.m'S. X lnnmirs pttchsd. by hspp a. runs v. b:ts 4. lmi et SAiuc. - oours. empire. lean kin. NATIONAL MKrrr SI AY S AXD 4 !Trpliocins Cracks of America to Tct Their SIarkiuanaiilp. NEW YORK. April 27. Th llth an nual amateur trapshootlng champion ship of America wlU be shot May 1 and 4 at Travers Island. .On the opening day there will be a preliminary ahoot at : targets, with 1 prises for the Mgh scratch guns. On Saturday the championship will be shot at Ji'O tar s;et. ith prises for the 10 high scratch sTuns. and the team championship at too tarsets will be awarded each of the five high guns of the winning; club re ceiving a gold medal. A gold medal will be striven to the contestant making the longest con tinuous run during th two daya of snooting and another to the contestant making the highest score at the 40t targets of the two days. In addition there will be five sweepstakes on each day of the tournament. Shooting will bet-in at 30 A. M. each day. Standard loads will be for sale on the grounds and contestants desir ing to stop on Travers Island can be accommodated. All communications should be addressed to George J. Cor. bett. X. V. A. C-. Travers Island. Pelham Sianor. X. Y. Harvard Ballplayer Injured. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. April 17. Jo l is her. second baseman of the Har taM baseball team, sustained a broken right leg in tb game which Harvard won from Princeton, t to 7. today. Chinese peanuts are usually hand orted by women after being aifted. JUDGE McCREDIE AND SEVEN Grammar League Finishes Successful Season. GLENCOE AND ARLETA WIN Circuit Leaders to Meet Tomorrow for First Game or Three-Contest Series to Decide Championship of City Competition Keen. Final standings Grammar School League. American I National W. I. Pet.f V. U Pet. Arleta 4 0 KHWGleneoe 8 u 1IHH tVootlmer. & 3 .715, Richmond. .. 7 3 .7O0 Lnls. 4 2 ,8iV. Mount Tsbor 4 4 .500 llosc... 2 s .4Mi. ;unton tveur o Wood.ioek.. 0 4 ." lontavilla. i 9 .8iS Crcstuo..... 0 4 .OU04iosClty.... 0 .ouu . c.k 1 r...k.11 T.na ins uriiiniM -" o scneauio urue"v w day. Twelve schools In th soutneast rn section of th city were divided up nto two leagues the National and the American about a month ago. ana schedules were drawn up. Th leagues have been a great success and many rood srames were clayed. Ulenco won the championship of the National Leaitue and Arleta won the nennant In the American League. Ulenco and Arleta both went through the schedule without a loss. While apparently Olenco won the championship of th National League easily, several of the games Were close ly contested, and toward th end of the season Richmond and Mount Tabor were nlavlnsr a cood brand of ball. Rose City School showed a good deal of grit In the National League by stick ing the season out. although losing every game, and th boys got some rood practice. Most of tb team will have another chance to play next year. In the American League Arleta won the championship handily. Wood me re was the runner-up and played good ball In nearly every game. Although Arleta outclassed th other teams In the league. It had a close shave In tb last gam of th season, which was against Woodmere. Arleta won out 10 to 6 after a struggle. Ar rancementa have been mad for the winner In the two leaaues to meat to decide th championships of tb dis trict. Arleta and Glencoe play a three-game series, which will be played on the Franklin bowl. The first gam win be played tomorrow, the aecond on Thurs day afternoon and. if a third fame is necessary, it will be played on tb fol lowing Thursday. Keen rivalry exists between th boosters of th two leaguea and a big turnout is expected at each game. Tb gam tomorrow will start at 3:43. Following are th results of th final games, which were played last Thurs day: Moatavllla S3. Rose City S. Ulencee 23. Mount Tabor T. Arista 1. Woodmere a. Cllnton-Keliy s, Richmond 3 GIANTS FINALLY BEATEN BROOKLYN FIRST TO DEJfT PfEW JEW YORK'S YVIX COLIMS. Dodger Also Break Record by' Taking; First tea teat After Saffertag Striae of Mae Defrata. BROOKLYN. N. Y.. April 27. Brook lyn finally went Into the "won" column today by defeating New York. S to . after losing nine straight games. It was the first gam lost by th Giants this season. Cheney was bit for a triple and two singles and gave two passes In the first Inning, but New York was held. to two runs through a fast double play. Score: R.H.E.I R.H.E. New York.. S 1 Brooklyn. i 5 1 Batteries Anderson and McCarthy; Cheney and Miller. Chicago 5, St. Louis 4. CHICAGO. April S7. Chicago mads a clean sweep of th series with St. Louis today by winning the final game, i to 4, after 12 innings. Scor.: R.H.iS.1 R.H.E. St. Louis.... S, Chicago..... & I Batteries, Horatman." Meadows and Gonxales; Tyler and Kllllfer. Klliott. Cincinnati 4, Pittsburg; S. riTTSBUHG. April J7.-Sanders, pitch-1 f . Ing for Pittsburg, held Cincinnati to w a I " f ! f Ml 1 I I . 1 J four scattered hits and no runs for ir 'J '-V-4 1' &rN5-$55SSs W 1 sight Innings, but tn th ninth the visit- I fi ," H - s7 j l -I or staged a batting rally and acored I , j, i1i Qf I UsA ' fourruns. giving them th. victory. f K $ Ul If A J OncInnatL. 4 8 HPittsburg. . . 2 8 3 ? I H V V issS' yCV Y" Vl Batteries Bressler and Wing; Sand- t''' -i J these two clever boys would make a f,a(iO' -isfiS-' r andchmldt. I I - f -4 - M swell bout. -r . ? ,nS4? V t -m Frank Murphy will defend his Coast Philadelphia 4, Boston 1. ff . . 'fV4"! f flyweight title against a Portlander, PHflfll PSMFQ FHR "8 A WA-l I TSrii' UUllUUL UnlllLU LllU ton- " off Ragon an'd . fAJ foa Trimmlins. The little Irishman nCPATTA CHaTlIT OCT errora entered largely Into th scoring f " "i''I W showed all kinds of class In his match nrlltlllu T 111 II I Hi I of .11 th. visitors- runs. Hogs gave , Ji J A If fa'ns,t the clever Sammy, and Port- LUnl I fl LlLllI UL I TITE STJXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. OF HIS BUCKAROOS WHO WILL VEBXOX WIXS GAME DEVOID OP FEATIRES, TO 2. la Aagelea Seorea Vlctry OTer Saa rraaeleeo, aad Salt Lake Homer Wla Frsaa Saerasaeato. LOS ANGELES. CaU April 27Ver- non baseball players were able to hit Arlett when hits were needed and won a featureless game from Oakland. Fromm. allowed the Oaks eight hits, but rnt them fof.t I .. . . iri ins Tie-era. hit thr tn-n.K.B-..,. i .i nines si oat. rcore: R. H.K.I R.H. E. Oakland... z s 3Vernon 2 catteries K. Arlett and Murray; rtuiuiua mua aevormer. Lo Angeles 3, Sun Francisco 2 BAN FRANCISCO. April I". Timely hitting with men on oases g-ave Los Angeles another victory over San Fran cisco in th fifth gam of the series. wnicn. now stands four to one. Score: R. H. E. R. H. E. Los Angeles t t 2',S. Francisco 2 6 3 Batteries Crandall and Boles; Kant- lebener and McKee. Salt Lake 4, Sacramento S. . SALT LAKE CITY. April 27 Leake and Leverenx hooked op in a pretty pitchers' duel. Leak was unfortunate In that two of the hits off his delivery wer horn runs. Konnlck and Farmer each getting a circuit hit. Score: R. H. E.I R. H. E. Sacramento 2 SiSaltLake.. .4 S 0 Batteries Leake and Fisher; Lever ens and Konnlck. y EVENTS PLANNED OF O. JCXIOR WEEK-END PRO GRAMME FILL. Athletic aad Military Affairs to Com pete fer First Heaers at V'nl veralty. May 9, 10, 11. , UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugen. April 17. (Special.) Military and ath letic events ar going to compete for first honor on th programme of the university's annual Junior week-end. May f. 10 and 11. which was announced yesterday. Three baseball games, a track meet, swimming meet and possi bly a woman's tennis tournament will be Included in th sport programme of th three days, while the military will be featured In a review and formal re treat ceremony by the University Bat tallon and th conversion of the Junior prom into a military affair. Th programme will open Thursday afternoon. May 9, with a baseball gam between Oregon and Oregon Agricul tural College, followed by the canoe fete on the mlllrace in the evening. Friday morning will be devoted to campus work and th painting of the O. At noon the women of the uni versity will serve a Hoover luncheon on the campus, and the afternoon will be given over to the review and retreat ceremonies on the parade ground, and a second game of baseball between the varsity and the Aggies. A dual track and field meet with the University of Washington ha been scheduled for Saturday afternoon, but word has been received from Coach Hunt, of the Washington team, that they may not be able to enter because of the lack of material. Should this meet be canceled it will probably be replaced by an Intramural meet. Tb final event or the week-end will be the Junior prom Saturday evening. Red Cross Golf Matches Set. CHICAGO, April 27. Dates and play ers for Red Cross golf matches to be given under auspices of the Western Golf Association under a plan con ceived by National Champion Charles Evans, Jr- were announced tonight by Crafts W. HIgglns, assistant secretary of th association. On May 24 at the St, Charles Country Club. Winnipeg. Man., Chick Evans and arren K. Wood, formerly western amateur champion, will compete. ........s ieii gooa support. I 1 V, i . ' V I I . COr: T? J i i RELAY RIBBONS DISTRIBUTED . ' Philadelphia 4 7 lBoston 1 5 J J tv i Batteries Hogg and Burns; Ragan if J- V f&'J and Henry. Tragesser. X'jjiZ TIGERS DEFEAT OAKLAND W Mfl OPEN THE 1918 PACIFIC COAST INTERNATIONAL BASEBALL SEASON STREET GROUNDS NEXT TUESDAY. 1 Fred Haaey. Second Baae. 2 Cliff Lee, Left Field. 3 Manager Fisher, First Baae. 4 Judge JlcCredie. Own er Portland Baseball Club. S Dick Cox, Catcher. 8 John L. Sullivan, Center Field. 7 Art Rltter, Short stop. 8 Jack Kibble, Third Baae. 0REG0NWALL0PSAGG1ES COMEDY OF ERRORS ENDS 21 TO 7 FOR LEMON-YELLOW. Score ef Safe Hits Collected Off Cole- man'i Delivery Medley Is Star at Bat for Victors. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, April 27. Oregon and the Aggies staged another town-lot comedy of errors, hits and runs on the Cemetery Kidgo diamond this afternoon, in which the varsity came out with first honors, 21 to 7, making four straight victories for the Lemon-Yellow. The game early resolved itself into a slaughter of what the pitchers had to offer and Coleman, the mainstay of the Oregon Agricultural College mound staff, was unable to stem the tide. In all the Oregon stick artists collected 20 safeties off his delivery, while Berg, for the varsity, let the visitors down with ten scattered hits. As in the farce of yesterday, hitting was the on redeeming feature of to day's game. Medley, who yesterday helped Oregon over the top with five clean singles and a home run out of six times up, came back today with another homer and three singles out of six trips to th plate. The game was called at th end of th eighth Inning to allow the aggies to catch a train, lust after Coach Walker's boys had touched Coleman up for six tallies. The score: R. H. E. R, H. E. O.AC 7 10 tlOregon 21 20 t Batteries Coleman and Lodell; Berg and JJunton. Stolen bases, Dunton, Medley. Sle berts, Sheehey. Steers. Sacrifice hits. bheehey. Ourley. Two-base hits. Bald win. Grebe, Lind, Sheehey. Three-base hits. Grebe. Home runs. Medley, Steers, Runquist, Berg. Double plays, Olsen to Gurley. Struck out. by Berg 3, by Coleman 9. Bases on balls. Berg 6, Coleman 4. Wild pitch, Coleman. Passed balls, Lodell 2. Time of game, 2:05. Umpire, Newell. KING WANTS TITLE BACK FARMER EAGER TO SHOW FANS FORMER WIN NO FLL'KeI Battler Attracting Much Attention With Their Scheduled Bout for Next Tuesday Night. SEATTLE. Wash., April 27. (Spe cial.) Frank Farmer, th newest heavyweight sensation of Coast boxing, will attempt to show Seattle fans that his recent victory over Mickey King was no fluke when he defends his title against the Australian in the main bout of th. arena smoker Tuesday. When the Kapowsin logger battled his way to a decision over Mickey some time ago in th city of destiny, the fens went home declaring it was the best heavyweight battla ever staged in that town. At prospects of another one Just as good, a trainload of Ta comans are coming over to cheer their champion to another win next week. For a eemi-wlndup Chet Neff will box Fr ankle Tucker. Neff showed much of his old-time class when he boxed Mike Pet at the last show, and as Tucker has been improving right along. Matchmaker Salt figures that APRIL 28, 1918. Pittsburg University, Massachusetts Tech and Iowa College Win. PHILADELPHIA, April 27. The Na tional relay championships of America, the blue ribbon events of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania's annual carnival of sports, were well distributed around the country today, Pittsburg University winning th. one-mtle title, Massachu setts Institute of Technology the two mil race and Iowa State College the four-mile run. Johns Hopkins won the South Atlan tic relay championship and Lafayette was the victor in the Middle Atlantic conference relay event. For the first time in many years at a Pennsylvania relay meet no records were broken, but there were close fin ishes In several events. TIGERS DEFEAT CAMP LEWIS Tacoma International League Team Wins From Soldiers, 9 to 2. TACOMA, Wash.. April 27. (Special.) With th same lineup that will face the Spokane Indians at the opening of the Pacific Coast International League season Tuesday afternoon, the Tacoma Tigers defeated the 364th Infantry team from Camp Lewis at Athletic Park this afternoon. Score, 9 to 2. Clayton and Menth pitched a good gam for the leaguers, but their sup port was none too tight in spots. Schulte, a southpaw from the Texas League, now doing a bit of hand gre nading for Unole Sam, pitched for the soldiers. TRACK PROSPECTS DARK UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MAY WITHDRAW FROM MEETS. Coach Vanderveer Pessimistic Regard- Ins; Outlook With Squad of In experienced Trackmen. ft SEATTLE, Wash., April 27. (Spe cial.) Track prospects at the Univer sity of .Washington are worse than they have ever been In the history of the school and Coach Vanderveer is seriously considering taking some measures that will cut down the in tercollegiate schedule. As yet noth- lnsr of this sort has been attempted. but the majority of track candidates are so far below varsity standard that the meets with the O. A. C. and the University of Oregon seem useless. "I can't se a point winner in the whole lot,"' is the way the coach ex pressed his opinion of the varsity track squad. "I have not a single pole vault er, my weight men are nothing extra and most of my runners are not up to standard." Regardless of the pessimistic atmos phere that has descended on the uni versity, candidates are continuing to do their utmost to make the best of matters. Some definite decision will be reached in the near future. Fur Sales Total $4,000,000. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 27. With the close of today's selling the total sales for tho first six days of the annual fur auction here reached the 14,000,000 mark. Raccoon, New Zealand rabbit, gray fox and badger pelta figured prominently in the bidding. Motorcycles and bicycles ar. becom ing popular throughout Siam. DATA ON PORTLAND PLAYERS SHOW THAT AGE OF TEAM AVERAGE IS 26 YEARS AND ONLY FIVE ARE MARRIED. Name Nickname. William A Fisher ."Bill". John W. Kibble 'Jack' William McKinley Richard Mitchell.. John L Sullivan . . . . ."Buffalo' .."Dick"... .."Sully"... .."Lamb"... . "Cliff" .."Bill" . "Kewpie". .."Dick"... .."Pete".... . "Hooks". . .."Art" Fred Halney Clifford Lee William B. Kirwan. . Carl Clow Elmer J. Cox Gunnar Peterson. . Frank Rapp .'. Arthur Ritter Leland Dempsey. . . . William Feurerbornf. Edward Teck William Shoup "Lee" Wild Bill S. "Eddie". .. Boston, Mass. "Bill" Chicago, 111 . . . M Married. S Single. AGAINST VANCOUVER ON VAUGHN- Portland Motor Boat Club Gives Out May 3(TPIans. SPEEDBOAT RACE LIKELY Course Will Be From Judges' Stand at Clubhouse Around East Draw Pier of Hawthorne Bridge, Return to Buoy and Back. At a meeting of the regatta commit tee of the Portland Motorboat Club last week, the following tentative pro gramme was laid out for the' opening regatta, to be held at the clubhouse on Decoration day: First, scratch race for cruisers (special) Entries: Wanderlust, Peggy II. Second, scratch runabout race Entries: W'awego, Neverin, Golden West, Gad, Mat gus. Mima Ross. Third, scratch runabout race Entries: Doughnut, Marcia, Thistle, Blink. Fourth, handicap (over 12 miles per hour) Entries: Wanderlust, Harvey W. Scott, Peggy 11, Wawego, Keverin, Matfua, Mima Ross. Fifth, handicap (under 12 miles per hour) Doughnut, Nogero, Elsinore. Sea Wolf, Keno 11, Coremardo, Wobbly, Marcia. Thistle. Sixth, exhibition (two-mile course) Pa cific Coast Champion, Volger Boy 111. -A 16-foot speedboat race will be added, if the necessary entries can be obtained. The course will be from the judges' stand at the clubhouse, around the east draw pier of the Hawthorne bridge, then return to a buoy about 200 yards south of the clubhouse, and back to the finish line. This course was chosen with an idea of allowing spectators a splendid view from the Hawthorne bridge, as well as from th club grounds. Chairman George Kelly, of the mem bership committee, announced the mem bership drive to start with a meeting to be held at the clubhouse on Friday evening. Flans have been laid for rousing campaign which cannot help but be successful. The Initiation fee of J25 will be reduced to ?5 until a quota oi zoo active members have been ob tained, when it again will be returned to the higher rate. This quota should be obtained without much difficulty, five applications having already been received since the drive was first an nounced, and before it has started of ficially. Names and addresses of all boat-owners not now members of the club have been obtained, and will be divided up among the members for per sonal solicitation. MILLER STILL IT J DECIDED Promoter of WIlIard-Fulton. Bout Has Not Given Up Minnesota. this afternoon that Governor Burnquist is "expecting" a telegram from Colonel J. C. Miller, announcing that he has abandoned his efforts to stage the pro posed Willard-Fulton fight in St. Paul on July 4. There were indications that the ex pected telegram would definitely close the affair, as far as Minnesota is con cerned. CHICAGO, April 27. Colonel J. C. Miller said this afternoon that he had not definitely decided not to hold the Willard-Fulton fight In Minnesota. 'Two other points want it and I shall choose the location which offers the greatest advantages." he said. T have not telegraphed . Governor Burnquist, nor have I any present de termination to do so." Home. Position. Age. .. .Pasadena, Cal Infielder 82 . . .Roundup, Mont. . . .Infielder 26 ...Seattle. Wash Pitcher 19 .. .Pasadena, Cal .Pitcher 19 . . Williameport, Pa. .Outfielder. . . 25 . . Los Angeles, Cal. . Infielder 20 M S S S S S s M M 8 M S S S s M s .Denver, Colo Outfielder... 21 . Baltimore, Md Pitcher 34 ..La Pine, Or Pitcher 19 Pasadena, Cal Infielder 22 . .Portland .Utility. . . 24 34 20 .Los Angeles, Cal. . Pitcher . .Portland Infielder . .Rock Island, 111. . . Infielder ia 19 30 24 Louis, Mo .Infielder. ..Outfielder... .Pitcher PREXY BLEWETT 15 OOZING OPTIMISM League Head Says Fans Will Turn Out in Greater Num ber Than Ever. BIG PROFITS NOT EXPECTED High-Grade Ball Is Goal of Moguls Who Will Try to Trim Expenses, Vet Keep Players and Public Satisfied. SEATTLE, April 27. (Special.) On the eve of the start of the first pennant scramble of the Pacific Coast Inter national League, President Robert Blewett comes to bat with an opti mistic statement. In which he forecasts one of the best little seasons in the history of baseball in this section of the country. "I am not stretching the point in the least when I siv that I believe the coming season will be a success from any angle you wish to view It," de clares the left-handed executive. "While conditions are different than in any other year in the game's history, I feel safe in saying that baseball should be benefited and not hurt by the war. The National pastime has a place to fill in such times as these, and we are doing a patriotic duty by operating at a time when recreation and amusements ar more needed than ever before." Good Year Expected. Many things point to a successful year In the league, according to th league head. The re-arranged circuit will prove a welcome move. Port land's return to the fold not only strengthens the league, but adds in terest to the race, while the debut of Aberdeen also makes the play more interesting. Besides the betterment from the fans' standpoint, the chant; from last year's circuit will be a profitable one for the nagnates, in that traveling expenses will be greatly decreased. New faces on every club will add to the Interest also, thinks Blewett. Every club in the league has a flock of new men in uniforms, and the fans will welcome the change. "The loss of a good many ballplay ers caused the owners a lot oZ trouble." says Blewett. "But it Is better for the game in the end. The fans like to see new faces. Vancouver vill present an absolutely new squad. Seattle has a good many new men, as have Tacoma and Spokane. Portland and Aberdeen, of course, will present lineups prac tically new to most of t.:c bustball followers. Attendance Fi&ures i'lcaur. cieweii ultimo iuii autiiuumu In the majors goes to prove that base ball will be popular all over the coun try. The fact that the New York Giants have played to larger crowds than in any season for years maKes aieweu believe that, the game will go good an over the isation. 'Baseball Is a war-time sport, de clares the league president. "And the unqualified indorsement which Presi dent Wilson has given the game means that baseball Is needed at this time. Not only does the Government benefit from the war tax, but the American people need the sport now more than before the war." While the league leader is optimistic over the prospects for the game, he is not trying to cover up the fact that baseball in this league will have its ups and downs this year. For this rea son the league will be n on a war basis and expenses will be kept to a minimum without injuring the quality of the play. If operated in a common sense manner Blewett can't see how the league will not be able to keep going. Big Profits Not Expected. He admits that the owners do not ex pect lu iiidnv wu, . . v. i i ..... j ...... season, but that the league will operate with a view to the future. When the Huns have been chased to their holes and the American soldiers come home greater baseball fans than ever, th game will be due for a great Doom, says Blewett. The league president thinks that he has lined up a trio of umpires who will prove the most efficient the laague has ever had on the payroll. Bob Bedford, an International League official, is a high-class umpire, who should have no trouble giving satisfaction. Guy Col gate, who worked in the American As sociation, has a good record, as has Charley Irwin, former Coast . nd Amer ican Association umpire. All three men have had plenty of experience. "The policy of the league this year will be to give the fans the best base ball possible," Blewett concludes. "Some of the teams were a little late in get ting started, and it may be a couple of weeks before the teams pull them selves together. However, I believe that the class of ball will be better than for many years in 1918." BOALT CHALLENGES CO-DO City 3-Cushion Bllilard Champion Called On to Defend Title. Fred Boalt has challened Milo Con- ' don. holder of the city of Portland three-cushion billiard title, to defend h. i.im tn th Rose Citv trophy and. three games have been arranged at tne Waldorf parlors. They will be for 50 ,: points each and will begin Wednes day evening. Condon is the man wno won iron oi Sanders a month or so ago in a sensa tional three-game contest and his name now appears on the handsome silver . loving cup which Is the Rose City trophy. He has played In Seattle, Van couver, B. C. and San Francisco with the top-notchers in the three-cushion . game and the fans believe Boalt is go ing to have a tough tussle to make his challenge stick. However, Boalt has imnrniicd a lot in his game of late and on April 20 made a high run of 11 In a three-cushion contest, it is an ticipated that Condon will have to look ' mighty close to his laurels. "Buy Liberty Bonds With Your. Cash, Jack, and Use Your : Credit to Buy Clothes." "You can do your part by Uncle Sam and still not have to go around shabby and dowdy. You see, it's all in knowing .. how. I used up all my available cash ' to buy bonds, but I'll not need to worry about that, for when it's time for a new suit I'll Just go to Cherry's Style Shop , and buy It on credit. That way, cash doesn't count for much, for you Just need enough to make a small payment down and pay off the rest each week as you earn. These war-times when there are so many outside calls. Cher ry's are sure a boon to the fellow who wants to do his part and still can't afford to let himself run down at tho heels. 389-91 Washington St., Pittock . block." Adv.