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3 BALL TEAMS SET FOR PORTLAND PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE DONE MUCH TO PROMOTE THE GAME OF GOLF HEREABOUTS. HARNESS RACING DUE FOR STROfIG REVIVAL Double Header Today Touches Off Battle for Flag. Northwestern Horsemen Lock for Great Season. CONTESTS WILL BE WARM !G00D MONEY IS OFFERED tandifrr, Hesse-M artin and Mc-Dougal-CMerrnire Aggregations Ready for Combat.' Ccntrulia, Wah. Xow Center of Ac tivities in Preparation for Summer Campaign. TTIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND, AUGUST 3, 1919. Fmi-pro baseball fans of Portland and Vancouver will flock to th V aug-hn-street park this ifternoon to witness the double-header preliminary for the city championship. Four of the i best independent teams in this neck of the woods will pair off and clash today j in order to narrow the race for the title down to two aggregations. I Manager Wayne F. Lewis' Standifer shipbuilders will mingle with the crack Hesse-Martin team in the first game, which will start at 1:30. The second contest will find Columbia park meet ing the McDougal-Overmire club. All of the teams excepting Standifer have i bf.en grea.tly strengthened for the championship series, while Wayne Lewis will depend on his team as it has stood all season to cop the bacon. L"p until the past week the Standifer ! team has stood head and shoulders above any other ball club here that has been playing in the independent field. Because of this fact the other three teams that entered the championship race got busy and grabbed the best players that were loose in these parts or combined with other teams. Standifer and MeDougal-Overmire are favorites to win their games today, but whether the dope will be upset remains to be seen. The rivalry is intense be tween the four teams and they will be battling for more than just the honor of winning a game. "Jocko" Krause, one of the best pitchers in independent circles, likely will start on the mound for Standifer, with Bob Marshall on the receiving end. Following are the lineups of three of the teams: Standifer Hartman, Harkness. Krause and Ooddard, pitchers; Marshall, catcher; towards, first base; Pritchard. second base; Coleman, third base ; Moore, shortstop ; dynes. Carman, Johnson and Stepp, out fielders. MeDougal-Overmire Pillett. Wilke, Win lerhotham, pitchers; Fisher, catcher; Kracke, first base: Henderson, necond base; Huessinjf. third bae: Yett. shortstop; Hushes. Fletcn- inser, Holmes, outiielders; Clickenger and Dimirk, utility. Columbia Park Koontz, Brice. Johnson, pitchers; Miles, catcher; I. vin, first base; I.eland, second base: Oarbarino. shortstop; 'Nordstrom, third base; Peterson. Foss. Hor ton, outfielders; Storm and Nugent, utility. ' Although the Hesse-Martin lineup has not been named officially it is the dope that Oscar Harstad, the big twirler who has been signed to a Portland contract. vi-ill twist his slanters for that club. with a well-known catcher grabbing) his offerings. Kd Thompson, the sen sational high school pitcher, also is I playing under the Hesse-Martin colors. Herman Pillett, who was the steller moundman of the Northwest league ', with Tacoma several years ago and who played with the San Francisco Seals, a while this season and was later sent to Ies Moines, is back in town and has been signed to pitch for the McDougal- Overm ire team. He is slated to work 1 oday with Gus Fisher, former Beaver and Sacramento catcher, behind the bat. us was released by Bill Rodgers re cently and has been in Portland fr over a week. Manager Tindall of the Columbia Park team is hopeful of his club's chances. After getting off to a bad start this season the Col um bias rounded into nape and have been winning against the best teams in the state with reg ularity the past month. Charley Koontz will pitch this afternoon for 'olumbia Park with "Chief" Meyers doing the backstopping. Koontz and Meyers have proved an invincible bat tery and are expected to go big. The two winning teams today will meet on the Vaughn -street grounds next Sunday for the championship and the purse that has been put up for the winning outfit. The winner is sched uled to make a trip to Klamath Falls to battle for the state title. Ray Ken nedy will umpire both of today's games and the deciding contest next Sunday. ' Bill Heales and his Kirkpatrick All Stars will meet Reedville at Reedville. Or., this afternoon. Heales is taking 12 players with him on the trip. GEARHART GOLFERS HAPPY l .A ' "f .::: .: 1 h in fair pupiln, who In HhotYn at tli lop of the bark nnine. 1'hotORraph V" ' ' ' ""jTl I I s? jf IX. i V. S V ff ' " I A . 1 wan tokro at the uvrnlh tee of the public llnkn aad looklnc down the 1 ' & l 1 i J r?. I:: ;r -J . ' " ; ' 4 seventh fairway. 4 J. .Martin at.on. .verier Country club. A "ER the woman player has p.- f f - "ir P : A:i rAAJ'! -- Srr-". -: 1 i r' Ti piiri in i iwkq nrun nppn ::e r& fe - sSI5" i' - v. i 1 1 I UULIU L.II1UU ULILLUI LU sive player. Hollocher or Maranville. it b ' ? X S s 1 Both are great. r - f f A ,-:4 I I urviriPAi, coirsks first ix , S " 8 ' J. :?f , 'Jt 1'KOUCCIXG TALENT, it V - Vr 'j$ A v 1 r WILLIE MEEHAN STILL SAYS HE CAN WHIP JACK DEMPSEY Sana Francisco "Phat One" Is Waiting Patiently for Word From Jim Coff roth in New York, Who Hopes to Gain Champion's Consent to Match. Professionals All Agree Community Play ins ,s Foundation for Game of Golf . There has been considerable dispiite among scribes and others over the spelling of Pitcher Reuiher's name. It has finally been established that the Fieds' star left-hander places the "e" before the "u" in his name. That the Red Sox got the best of the recent trade with the Athletics of Shannon and Roth for Barry and Strunk is being demonstrated every day. As a developer of golfing talent the; Shannon particularly is a young bal!- REXEWAL OF PLAY TOURNAMENT WELCOMED. Captain Roscoe Fawcett Chairman of Committee in Charge of Au gust 18-23 Play. Announcement of the resumption of the annual golf tournament at Gear-hart-by-1 he-Sea during the week has been greeted with acclaim by all of the golfing fraternity and according to O. W. Taylor of the Gearhart Park com pany the ninth annual championships August 18-23 this year promise to be the most successful in the history of the famous Oregon beach resort. The tournament committee which will handle the big show was given ut last night. It is as follows: Captain Roscoe Kawcett. I7. S. A., chair man ; lira ham Glass, president Waverley I'ountry club, Portland ; C. H. Davis Jr.. Waverley Country club, former president Pacific Northwest Golf association ; W. H. Nash. chairman tournament committee, 'or t land Oolf club; Henry V. Metzger. Tu alatin Country club. Portland; John H. Jircher. Seattle Golf and Country club; a.. Kershaw, 1 aroma country Golf club ! C W. Halderman, Astoria Golf club; W. J. i i'atterson. Aberdeen Golf and Country club, former president Pacific Northwest Golf ahsociation; E. W. Kay, Salem Country club; Walter MoCormaek, Eugene Country club ; l i. A. Hartman. Pendleton Golf club; R. E. Allen. Walla Walla Golf club. The committeemen are representative of the entire northwest and it is ex pected that nearly every club on the JTacif ic coast will be represented by a coterie of . mashie mussers. Among those from outside Portland who played over the Gearhart course last week were; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ung, Mr. and Mrs, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Stafford. J. M. Stone and R. Aranpon of Seattle; H. Katx and H. W. Skuse, Spokane; T. A. Lines! y, M iss K. Lard, Salem ; Mrs. M. W. Harnett, Lewiston, Idaho; S. Scott, H. H. Vincent and W. F. Cork ran. Walla Walla; 1. Sweet and Mrs. C. W. Whitlv, ta t Lake City. The women's tournament will occupy four days, commencing Monday, August IS. and ending Thursday. August 21. The men will qualify on Wednesday. August 20, and the finals. 36 holes, will be played the following Saturday. Events will include: Men's champion hip. women's championship, men's flights, women's flights, mixed four some, men's handica p. women's handi cap, driving and approaching.. BT HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) Willie Meehan is waiting to hear from Billy Gibson and Jimmy Coffroth anent a fight for the heavy weight championship of the world. The Phat One not only has confidence in his ability to beat Dempsey. once they come together, but he has the same cer tainty in his mind that the combina tion of a big San Francisco promoter plus the same sort of chap from New York city will p.oduce results. Meantime, Willie is keeping busy in this neck of the woods. Already he is signed with Frank farmer for 10 two minute rounds in Calgary the latter part of August. He is dickering with a Denver promoter and may accept a bout in Hanford. this state. So far as Dempsey is concerned, i never saw such supreme confidence. I want to tell you." he said one day this week. "I know that in Dempsey there is one chap I can beat. Why? Well, haven't I boxed him enough to know where I stand? I reckon he is a cinch for tpe. He tires. 1 tell you. I got that mucn iow aown aiun in last fight with him at the civic audi torium and 1 learned as much more from his fight with Willard. Had that fight gone any distance, w lllard wouia have won, sure. Perhaps that is the Meehan aliDt lor picking Willard as the winner. However. I have an idea that he's going to talk himself into a match, probably in Newark and get a good piece of dough for himself. In my travels around the country I discovered that eastern people are in clined to take Meehan seriously and ac cept his record for what it is worth. The reverse is true here in San Fran cisco. Meehan is reckoned as more or less of a clown and while he can pack 'em in at small prices, I doubt whether he would be a money getter in a cham pionship mill with the tickets costing from $5 up. As I wrote you from New York, Coff roth thinks there's every chance in the world of making good with such a pro gramme and I am inclined to believe that is one thing for which Sunshine Jim is sticking around the east. San Francisco has a new heavyweight who is more or less of a hero. His name is "Goat La vin and he has come with a rush. Lavin started at the Parkside club where a number of near champions have received tneir educa tions. His star has been in tne ascena ant since the Fourth of July. A couple of victories have made him a local fig ure in the boxing game and even now they are talking of the possibility of staging him against Dempsey. Now. of course, that's all chatter worse than idle gossip. You can't make championship material with any such speed. Past events have demonstrated that it takes some time to develop a big scrapper to the point where he counts. And it's an odds on bet that Lavin will sink into insignificance be fore he goes much further. He is al most bound to stub his toe and then will come oblivion. Los Angeles, I have read, also has a "challenger." Nobody ever heard of the chao before but that doesn't seem to disturb the southern Calif ornians. His name is Elmo Lincoln, which is quite some combination of great names James J. Jeffries and James J. Corbett, iex-champloss themselves, are said to be sponsors for Elmo. That probably puts the quietus on him. Gentleman Jim Corbett has stood sponsor for many a white hope in his day but the white hopes have never done much good for themselves. Just as Corbett has never picked a winner in his eventful career, so he is not like ly to pick a man to take away Demp sey s honors in such speedy fashion. And the chances are that Corbett realizes this. Jim wants to keep in the public eye and the best way to do it is to father some such scheme as this. c The downfall of King Alcohol seems to have helped the fight game. If the crowds at the four-round shows in this vicintity are to De taken as a criterion, then the boys who f jrrr.erjy spent their time and their coin around tuft corner saloons are now digin up for tickets to the fights. Jn San Francisco the increased at tendance has caused the promoters to marvel. Likewise, across the bay in Oakland, where Tommy Simpson has been hard put at times to fill the m j:i icipa 1 auditorium, he is now play ing to packed houses. Mr. Man must have some sort of amusement and if he can t get it one way he is bound to have it another. Strange how fighters rand good fight ers are bad judges of other mm in the game. Willie Ritchie has always been rated smarter than -.he ordinary pug of thj country. And yet Willie went far astray on the recent cham pionship. Willie d idn't like Willard wildly, but quite well enough to bet his coin. As a rule, Ritchie in't apt to wager on the outcome of battle? in the ring. But I heard thij week tha he had several bets down on the bit? fel low. Of course, he was a loser and wasn't inclined to do much talking about his misfortune. . Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, well known few years back as a middleweight of renown, however, stuck by Demp sey. O'Brien, just before the fight. insisted that a man as old as Willard and one who hadn't been in the ring for virtually four years could harc'lTr expect to ho returned a winner. O'Brien was right, and thev do tell me h had a wager of considerable proportions up on the result. Eastern dispatches state that Frank Moran, the Pittsburg heavy, who was whipped by Willard in New York, is grooming himself for a bit of jousting with Dempsey Jr that is tna case, Moran has certainly changed hs mind since July 5. Before the fight in Toledo Moran was the biggest Willard booster in the Hotel Secor. Everything he wrote was tinged with a lllard flavor. Wha is more, Moran bet his money so much of it, as I happened to know, that he had to borrow coin on which to -eturn to New York. On the Saturday afternoon following the fight I happened to run int Moran in the lobby of the Secor. Th hote practically was deserted, for 99 per cent of the newspaper men had fled for other parts. "How about Dempsey T I re'mxrkei "Suppose you want to fight him for the title?" municipal links at Eastmoreland will do more than all the private clubs com bined in one year's time, according to the views of the four crack profession als at the four Portland clubs J. Mar tin Watson, Waverley Country club; Harry L. Pratt, Portland Golf club; David Findlay, Tualatin Country club, and John Junor, municipal, links. "Scores of golfers become interested in golf through the medium of the mu nicipal links who otherwise never would have known the difference be tween a mashie and a niblic," said Pro fessional Junor yesterday. "After a few months on the municipal links the golfer with sufficient means usually joins some private club and thus makes room for other novice players on the municipal links." Portland is fortunate in having four first-class golf professionals in Messrs. Watson, Pratt, Findlay and Junor. J. Martin Watson is one of the foremost teachers of the art in the country, hav ing been associated with some of the best-known clubs in the United States. He succeeded George Turn bull, now professional at Del Monte. Harry Pratt came to the Portland club from the Se attle Golf and Country club, where he taught the game under Boh Johnstone; David Findlay came to the Tualatin Tha niialifvinfl- rminrl nf th Dr. John club from the Spokane Golf and Conn- J H Xuttle trophv wiu be played Au- ' , . , ' I gust '1 4 at the Portland oolt ciuo. W averley Country club some 14 years ago, starting1 under such men as Willie Moffit, Elliott Duthie, now professional at the Jericho Country club, Vancouver, B. C, and George Turnbull. Mr. Junor started teaching his own ideas in 1914 at the Tualatin Country club, remaining there until May of last year when he took up similar duties at the new municipal course. Sergeant Albion Tourgee Gerber re turned last week from Camp Lewis after service overseas. Sergeant Ger ber went over with the 4th engineers, but was transferred to the Stars and Stripes, where he served until that pub lication suspended. player of mucn promise, wno is goin great guns with the Bostonians. His fielding is of the brilliant sort and he is smacking the ol apple hard and regularly. TROPHY PLAY ON BOARDS COMPETITION' FOU CUPS EN GAGES PORTLAND GOLFERS. Qualifying Rounds for Hcitkcniper and Dr. Tuttle Prizes Keep Local Clubs Busy. Play a the Portland Golf club links today will be marked by the semi-finals in the Heitkemper trophy competition and a sweepstakes tournament for those not taking part in the biir event on the bills. Play for the Heitkemper trophy has been provinp very interest ing AFTER the woman learned to po throu tions of the drive correctly, there is still another point to be considered and that is the way in which her weight is distributed during the mak ing of the swing. If she stands, and uses her feet and arms in a proper man ner, there will not be any question about her weight; it will take care of itself. However, there have been in numerable discussions on the subject and every conceivable suggestion has been offered as to where the weight should be at certain points of the swing. So it seems necessary that the final conclusion of .those who know best should be stated here. This conclusion, to put it in its briefest form, is that during the swing and up to the begin ning of the follow-through there is very little, if any, transference of weight from one foot to the other. The player takes her stance with her weight equally divided between her two feet. If she does not draw away from the ball, or, in other words, if she keeps her head still, as she is strictly bidden to do, low can she move her weight to her right foot? Yet we are told many times that dur ing the up-swing the weight is chiefly on the rieht foot. It is interesting to try a little experiment to decide this for oneself. By dropping a string across tairly large mirror and standing be fore it so that the string bisects the re flected image through the forehead. nose and chin. anJ then going through tne motion or swinging a club, it is possible to find out just how much extra weight can be put onto the right foot without moving the head. The qualifying round pf the compe tition for another leg on the John G. Clemson trophy will be held at the Portland Golf club next Sunday. The Waverley Country club, Portland Golf club and the Tualatin Country club will be represented by teams of from 15 to 20 men, likely 15 as that will probably be the most the Tualatin club can send owing to its small membership. The Portland club won the first leg on the trophy last year over the Raleigh sta tion links. The team match between the two teams qualifying will be held the following Sunday. C. Harry Davis captain of the Waverley players. Walter H. Nash will lead the Portland- ers with Jack L. Louisson selecting the Tualatin team. If Russel Smith, ex-northwest cham pion, is in the city his presence will greatly assist the Waverley team al though even without him that organ ization will enter the match with the I strongest team it has ever presented. I On the team will be Forest Watson. Andrew E. White. Waletr E. Pearson, Jack Straight and Roderick L. Macleay. I Ten of the Portland team have al ready been picked by Captain Nash with the balance to be selected this I week when it will be determined just j how many will compete on each team. The ten already chosen are: Rudolph Wilhelm, Ersel W. Kay. Walter Cor- j nell. Dr. John H. Tuttle. Joe Lambert, ' W. D. Scott. C. B. Lynn. Dr. O. K. Will- I ing. C. C. Gross and Captain Roscoe I Fawcett. U. S. A. Edwin I Neustadter. Dr. Jonah B. ' Wise. Millard Rosenblatt and Josk L. Louisson will be listed on the Tualatin team. 16 low men to qualify for the cup. This coming tournament is arousing a good deal of interest among golfers as all will have a chance to win a prize. The entrants ' will be divided into flights after the qualifying round, eight men to a flight, an innovation which was first introduced in the annual spring handicap tournament at the Portland Golf club which proved exceedingly popular. The first elimination round for the Dr. John H. Tuttle 'trophy will take place Sunday. August 31. the elimina tion also going on in the remaining flights. The second elimination round will be played September 7 and Sep tember 14 the semi-finals, will be staged with the finals on th3 tapis in the various flights. The finals of the play for the Tuttle trophy will be held on Sunday, September 21. Play in the annual club champion ship and the W. C. Bristol trophy will also get under way on September 21 16 low men to qualify, the remaining players to be grouped into eight-man , Big League Gossip. j , - i T ENA" BLACK BURN E, who was JJ recently traded to the Phillies by the Braves, is playing a bang-up game at third for Gavvy Cravath's nine. Blackburne Is and always was a nifty ballplayer, ir. the judgment of many experts. M&ranviiie of the Braves is one in particular who thinks highly of Lena's ability. Charley Hollocher is rated one of the ! greatest shortstops in the game today, FISHERMEN LOGGERS and all people of honest toil visit WOOSTER'S Workinffmen's store, Work- wear clothing, hats, shoes and general merchandise. Hardware and tool dealers. Lieht harness raoinc promises to come hack in tne nortnwest 10 me standard of old days before the war. i If the activity among horsemen and racing associations is any criterion. From British Columbia to California the word is the samf. the biggest sea son in the history of the suiky game alonj? the Pacific slope. The horsemen have more money to spend on the.r steppers and the associations oetter ! prizes to hand up for the programmes than ever before. The North Pacific racing circuit is preparing: for its season s opening at the southwestern Washington fair ! grounds at Centralia. Monday, August IK, and the trotters and pacers stabled at the "hub" city and those due to ar rive for the preliminary workouts are showing exceptionally good time. It hr s been many .1 moon since tha talent has been so evenly matched r better than that which promises to fp.ee the starter at the opening of the cir cuit on August IS. One of the interesting turfmen to be seen at Centralis will be John fcpringer. , the man who developed and raced So ! noma Crirl. 2:0fi, a mare whose name is i linked with the lore of harness racing all along the Pacific coast, and who was sold to Lotta Crabtre , the old west's most beloved actress, for 533.000. Portland, and Oregon in general, will be well represented on the North Fa- I cific circuit this year. H. (Herman of Portland is at the i track now in Centralia with his good j trotter, Guy Light, which turned a mile under the judges eye in J:06. Tony Muratto of Portland is also at the course with some of his fast runners. i notably L.eticia S, a thoroughbred mare. and Ashton Lady. He is not alone, for several other stables of bangtails are being worked out or are en route. Among other Oregon horsemen pres ent will be Fred Woodstock of Salem, who will have four harness horses un der his eye, all of which he is counting upon to display the goods. John Kirkland is due to arrive from Salem with Helen Mistletoe. 2:084 the pride of the tieorge Parker stable. Parker, who is well known in all lines of sports in Portland, has one of the best stables in the northwest, and as in the past expects great things of his stable, particularly Helen Mistletoe. Kirkland will have three other pacers under his wing. Mack Fitzimmons owned by Ben Jagger, well-known Portland horse man, i. looked for to cut a wide swath. Mack Fitzimmons has an enviable rec ord on tne dirt oval and has turned a mile in 2 :06 4 . Jagger will leave for Centralia this week if possible. Mack Fitzimmons has been in the hands of Henry Hellman at Salinas, Cal., all winter and is in excellent shape. G. M. Cox will invade Centralia with Lady Haltamont, a pacer, and the Mer rill stable of six steppers are now on the ground. Sim Lindsey left Wood burn Thursday with Teddy Ham, 2:11 s, in tow. Coombs Tires of Phillies. Jack Coombs ostensibly retired as manager of the Philadelphia Nationals to devote hi time to business in Texas, where he has made his home for some years. But there is little doubt that he retired because of his disgust with conditions in the Quaker City. Colhy Jack took up the management of the Phillies this yer somewhat reluctantly. Sam Ball of Mount Vernon, Wash., will have his father's crack stable in the circuit. He has Tillamook Maid, pacer, with a mark otQZ:Q72, Joseph Ansel. 2:12 and a trotted, Beauty B. 2:17U- Charles Chambers has Don Carlos, a green pacer, which has done 2:164 and John B. Stetson will enter May Day Hal, a pacer with a record of 2:13, and a green trotter. Western Scout. 0- The Nova Scotia handler, Harvey Mann, is at the Centralia track with the Bert rand and West stables, which, includes Helen B. a pacing mare sired by the great Hal B, and Karly Voyage, a green trotter by On Voyage. 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