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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 17, 1919. ' WAR DEVELOPS FEW WORLD NEARLY FREE r mn Mill tcuis Guisto, ex-Beaver With Fred Fulton Alone in Old School of Heavyweights. Oaks, Impaired by Gas. SEARCH FOR PLAYEfiS VAIN DEMPSEY WHIPS THEORY 2asebaU Crop Short Despite Train &ng In Military Camps Major Leagners Rerert to Minora. Selection of Big Men to Down Wlllard Shown to Have Been fn necessary; Days of Beef Gone. - --:. PROMIXENT FIGTJRES AT RECREATION PARK WHERE BEAVERS AND OAKS ARE BATTLLXG. " ' "" ..T 1 J- .' ,l.vw v,m u Mimt. m i. 'nmnimuuwMnum. Jmimiisn-smnmisaiiJiunn ms - !' " --Nw " l I ... "" . . :; '.; t - ' ' , ''-1- JT - ST SO II 0 OF GUT PUGILISTS TvTiatever the world war may or tiay not have done for other species of American sports. It did not live up to expectations in regard to baseball. This from the Hps of Louts Guisto, ex Beaver starring; at Twenty-fourth and Vaughn streets this afternoon with Dashing: Delmar Howard's Ossified Oak lets. Larruping- Lou saw service In the Arronne and in other battles with the S43d regiment of infantry of the 91st division, being" gassed and wounded ty a piece of a high explosive shell. Th gas still bothers the big fellow and forced him back to the minors from Cleveland, with whom he spent av month this summer. War's Baseball Cray Ssert. Almost unanimously It was predict -' ad that camp life, with its wholesale adoption of fports to maintain the morale of the Yankee soldiers, would produce a crop of stars after the war and would greatly Improve the physi cal condition and the temperaments of the established greats who were drafted or enlisted In the various branches of war service. There was every reason for these ex pectations. While the United States was getting ready to fight thousands of rookies were playing baseball. In ne Texas camp alone (i0 ball games were played in one week. Naturally ne would expect that sort of thing to develop a lot of latent talent and bright pictures were painted of the crop of heroes who would discard the khaki for the knickerbockers of the baseball field. Where is that crop? Kight now scouts of It major league clubs are scouring the nation look ing for ballplayers with even an out aide chance of makln good in the game. Two of them Hugh Duffy of the Red Sox and Harry "Moose" 11c Cormack of the Giants are now In j sunny California, while Fielder Jones. the former White Sox and St. Louis Federal league boss, occupies a seat daily at Twenty-fourth and Vaughn streets. Players Are Impaired. The general verdict is some para phrase of the saytng "there ain't no seca animal." The country seems to be barren of the usual crop of budding diamond performers. Not only that, but the world war did not Improve the men who went from baseball into various branches or the service. There may be a few isolated exceptions like Walter "Dutch" Reu ther. former Markman with the Reds, but in general the well-known players who enlisted came back, to the diamond vlth impaired ability. Take the case utf Uuisto for instance. Boys lilt la IMnchea far V. S. It needs only such shining examples as Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Cubs. U. Red Faber of the White Sox. Sd Klepfer of the Indians and Eppa Rixey of the Phillies to point out the force of the argument." said Lovey Lou last night. "There are others who went to war and lost much of their ai-eball punch, but the foregoing are mt t iciently prominent to offset the few instances in which the service improved t e ballplayers who had made good be- Lore the war. "Don't take It that I mean that any of the boys are sorry they went, for in my opinion the great majority of ball players hit In the pinch for Uncle Sam. tail I wish only to illustrate my point. La for the youngsters developed by sporting activities there are few of them- The White Sox have one in Jack bulllvan. the leit-hnded spitter. who KOt a training camp trip only to be rUcarded and then taken? back when some of the veterans of Bill Gieaaon's staff fell down." ' .'-"'7:5:5fefX. k-i. " DEFEATED HIINE HOPEFUL s J" . . ... ' 1 V'- :J-.': -.. rx's,Zv::"-7 , X, i. ? . ? McDOUGALS MAY PLAY THREE yU. j r eS - ' I .? - GAMES ITHSTAXDIF-ER. ",,,w f m:r-i ; 7rx . 'i.m BOSTON LOSES I M.N TH FR.XME VS Z v i K tT- . '.VTir ok ..mu, h vr tWH;q l iC-- -'T;' t:77, r-p Ruth Pounds Out Longest Home Ran Ever Made on American League Park at Chicago. CHICAGO. Aug. 18. In a great see w battle of manv thrills Chicago defeated Boston, producing the winning run in the ninth on the squeeze play The longest home run ever made on the American league park was pounded out by Kuth In the fifth inning. Score K. H. K.l - R. H. E. Boston 6 8 0 Chicago 7 11 Batteries Jones and fcchang; Low- dernulk, Alayer. aber and Lvans. Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 4. ST. LOLlS. Aug. 1. Kinney btlted and pitched I'hiladelphla to a victory over St. Louis. V 1 1 la two men on bases In the second, Kinney hit the bail over the riK'ht field pavilion for a home run and in tiie sixth his double scored an other run. Score: R. H. E. It. H. E. Phlla. 7 9 list. Louis 4 8 Batteries Kinney and McAvoy; Koob. Davenport. Wright and Severeid. Detroit 7, Xew York 0. Big League Gossip. Outfielder and Pitcher Charles See. who was purchased from the Rochester International League club by the Cin cinnati Nationals for a price said to have been J10.0UO. has reported to Man- Hger Moran of the Reds. See Is said to have held out for a part of the pur- t base money and to have compromised i n this matter with the Rochester club, lefore consenting to report to On- bin nail. see Tn the' opinion or Bo? Connery. the New iork lankees scout, who has been watching baseball on the coast for several weekn. fans here do not appre ciate the class of ball they are being i erved. Bob thinks that the Pacific t-oast clubs on the average are as good i any of tiie second division clubs tiie National league. Some of the boys could even make a fight for a place la the first divtston. e President Heydler has notified the Pittsburg and Cincinnati teams that the Ptttburg protest of the first game played between those clubs on July baa been disallowed. Charles H. Ebbeta. president of the Brooklyn National League club, has made public a telegram he sent to Garry Herrmann, president of the Cin cinnati Nationaia. urging the latter to prevent further publicity concerning efforts to purchase Brooklyu stars and asserting that the Brooklyn manage ment has no Intention to "insult loyal patrons" by the sale of star players. e e Last winter certain baseball men. who cow are having their own trou bles, planned to oust Garry Hermann from the position rf chairman of the r.atloral commission to make room for the hon. il.tam Howard Taft. who declined to serve when he learned that somebody was trying to play baseball politics. Herrmann remains at the head of the commission and Is president of the Cincinnati club, which Is making a large sum of money this season. Fur thermore. Herrmann picked up Pat Moran. one of the greatest of manag ers, for nothing, and also induced sev eral wealthy friends to buy out the Kletschmar.ns" stock in the ball club. Looks as if Garry has the laugh on his enemies. DETROIT. Aug. 16. Detroit took the odd game of the series from New lork Although the Tigers were outbit, Ayers kept the visitors blows well scattered. while his teammates bunched hits. acore: R. H. E. R. H. E. New York..O S 2 Detroit 7 13 2 Batteries Shawkey. fmallwood and Ruel; Dauss and Ainsraith. Washington - Cleveland game poned because of wet grounds. post- Star Football Player Injured. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Aug. 1. (Spe cial.) Harvard's first football casualty Is Charles Clark, the SHo-pound guard. Clark, while making a golf shot, dis located two vertebrae In his neck, and his physician. Dr. Williams, said that under no circumstances would Clark be ble to play football next fall. Record Price Paid for Horse. BUENOS AIRES. Aug. 1. (Special.) Botafoo. the fastest race horse ever bred in South America, has been sold by Diego Alvear to JI. A. Martinez de Hoi of Buenos Aires for J-'OO.OOO and the privilege of breeding: ten mares to him. Australian Firmer to Arrive-. NEW YORK. Aug. 1. (Special.) When Jimmy Hill, the Australian featherweight boxer, reaches this coun try aiided interest will be given to the featherweight division of pugilism. Hill is represented to be a good fighter and a fast boxer, with an eye on Johnny! Kilbane's crown. Upper left Denny Gemrfn whispering some of the fine points of tne grame in the esr of Cy Falkennergr. Gearln is one ef the shortest and Falkenberg one of the tallest pitchers In baseball, both Oaks. Upper rl&rht Lonls Guisto, Oak first taeker, shaking; hands with Maaasjer Walter McC'redie of the Beavers, who started him In baseball. Bottom' Outfielder Cooper and lafielder Grover, twe new faces on the Oakland team. fill BWH TO RESUME SOCIAL AXD CLCB ACTIVTIES TO BEGEV SEPTEMBER 1. onnj Men to Organize Branch and Manage Own Affairs South Park' way Addition Lends Strength. Beginning Septe.mber 1 athletic and social activities will be resumed at the. B'cal B'rith Athletic association club house at Thirteenth and Mill streets. Officials of the duo are looking for the biggest year in every way In the history of the club and will foster ath letic teams in various branches of sport as. previous to the war. An important step has been taken in the consolida tion of the South Parkway club with the B'nal B'rith institution. For the past several seasons the South Parkway club has turned out a state champion ship basketball team. Its list of mem bers will greatly strengthen the B'nai B'rith aggregation in athletics. Director Herman Politx of the B'nai B'rith will shortly call a meeting of all the club members for the election of officers for the young men's branch of the club. This year an innovation will be Introduced In that the younger or junior members will be permitted to -elect their own officers and to. select an athletic director and general super intendent .of the club. Both positions are open and applications are beln considered by Mr. Politx. The young members of the B'nal B'rith club will have a chance to show what they can do this year. The board of directors have appropri ated a large sum of money this year to repair the swimming tank, showers, handball court, the gymnasium and club building in general. PHIPPS WIXS GOLF TROPHY Excellent Playing Characterizes De feat of Todd Gardner, ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. IS. (Spe cial.) The Homer Brown golf trophy was won here this week by Harry Phlpps, who defeated Todd Gardner, 3 up. Some -excellent golf featured this play. Phlpps turned in a card of 35 for the second nine holes. On the third green, a distance of 463 yards. Gardner holed a three. The golfers now are contesting for the Phipps-Hogan trophy and the Cooney cup. The women are contest ing for; the Margaret Humbarger trophy. Dredging to Resume. HOQU1AM, Wash., Aug-. 16. (Spe cial.) Government dredging operations on Grays harbor, suspended for two years, are to be resumed immediately The dredge Seattle arrived yesterday from the sound and its first work will be to dig a deeper channel through the bar that has formed in the inner harbor opposite Grays Harbor city. Harvard Stadium Prepared. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 16. (Spe ciaL) The Harvard stadium is being resodded m preparation for the foot ball games to be revived here this fall. Edward Casey, sensation of the 191 Harvard varsity, may captain this year's eleven. The election will take place when the squad gathers on Sep- teniDer a lor preliminary workouts. College Players Prominent. Prominent college baseball players are members of the Interstate Indus trial league of six teams operating in New England. The circuit Includes four Vermont cities namely, Windsor, Rutland, Springfield and Bellows Falls, and two New Hampshire towns Claremont and Newport. Mason to Sleet Duffy. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Aug. 16. (Special.) Manager Jimmy Kilroy has announced that he has matched Jimmy JJurry lor a 10-round bout here with Frankie Mason, August 21. Duffy was formerly called Frankie Van, but has changed his ring name. ' Contest for Interstate Champion ship and $1000 Purse Proposed. Stars in Lineups. Supporters of the McDougal-Over- mire baseball team get new hope from a proposed three-game series with the G. M- Standifer Shipbuilding corpora tion team of Vancouver, for a S1000 purse and the interstate championship. Tom Standlfer's "Pets," led by Man ager Wayne F. Lewis, scored a 3 to victory over McDougal-Overmlre on the Vaughn-street grounds last Sunday in a game for the inaependept champion ship of Portland. Tne contest was one of the best semi-pro ball games ever plaved on any Portland lot. According to many spectators Stand ifer was mighty lucky to edge over win and a three-game series betwee the two teams should draw a record breaking crowd. Both teams are composed of the both semi-pro ballplayers In the two states. The McDougal-Ovormire bat tery of Herman Pillette and Gus Fisher starred with the Beavers for manv seasons and this year wore Sacramento uniform. He has turne down a chance to play with Portland the remainder of the season and will rest up by catching weekly ball for Mc- Dougal-Overmire. Pillette has at last struck his form after a stormy start with the Seals and then a trip, back east to Des Moines. The Standifer team is composed of several players who have been rated with coast league stars. Fred Carmen, Charley Moore, Curtis Coleman and Bob Marshall are well known to fans throughout the country. The other positions of the McDougall team are well taken care of, with Kracke on first base, Henderson on second and Huesing on third, with Porter Yett at shortstop. The outfield has such men as Hughes, Feichtenger and Dimick. Their hitting averages highly. Except for Ferocious Fred Fulton now in Europe, the heavyweight divi sion of pugilism Is now free of the Goliaths who came into vogue when Jack Johnson defeated, James J. Jeffries at Reno, Nev, In 1910. Willard was the first and only dreadnought-class champion of the wor!2 that the ring has known. And no may well be the last. After Johnson had beaten Jeffries the idea of every fight manager in the country seemed to be to obtain the biggest white man he could find and make a so-called white hope of hjm. Thus the prire ring was cluttered with more beef on the hoof than Swift has in his Chicago stockyards. Willard was not the first nor the last of these giants. But he was the biggest. Some of the others were Ar thur Pelky. Carl Morris, Al Palzer, Fred Fulton and the late Luther McCarty. Only three of these learned anything about the manly art. Jess Willard was so big and tough that he managed to outlast the great Johnson when Jack was all in. Luther McCarty was a wonderful prospect, but his untimely death cut short a meteoric career. Fred Fulton knows more about box ing than any of these big men. Fulton really clever with hts hands and what a fighter he would be if he had the heart of Dempsey and if he did not possess a glass jaw. Dempsey's knockout of Willard means that the old standards of heavyweights will prevail again. Dempsey fights at about 190 pounds. This was the aver age weight of the heavyweights In the days of Sullivan, Corbett, Ruhlin, Shar key, Fitzsimmons and the other great ones of the past. The present champion has shown that the theory under which fight managers labored in picking white hopes to beat Johnson was all wrong. They wanted to get men as big as possible. Dempsey has shown that a good 190- pound man is big enough to defeat any man living. In the opinion oi many, had Dempsey been in the ring at Havana with Johnson, possessing the skill he did at Toledo with Willard, he would have won within a dozen rounds. TJ. S.-JAPAJVESE PAIR WIXS Australians Defeated in Tennis Dou bles at Cedarhurst, X. Y. CEDARHURST, N. Y., Aug. 16. The Australian pair, Randolph Lycett and R. V. Thomas, failed to stand against the fine stroking and adroit strategy of B. C. Wright and Ichiya Kumagae in the final of the tennis doubles to day. The American-Japanese combina tion won by 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 and 6-3. Wright and Kumagae fought through a semifinal round match against Frank T. Anderson and Robert Kinsey to defeat the youngsters by 6-3, 1-6 and 6-1. Robert Kinsey, California, won in the final of the singles. He defeated Francis T. Hunter, former Cornell man. The score was 6-2, 6-0 and 6-1. High Priee Paid for Ponies. EAST WILLISTON, L. I., Aug. 16. (Special.) More than $9000 was paid at auction here lor the string of seven polo ponies of Horace E. Havemeyer, who has retired from polo, where for some seasons he has been one of the leaders of the Islip c'.ub and of Bay- shore. Caddock Starts Training. DES MOINEt?. Aug. 1J. The heavy, weight wrestlers whi have been win Blcg championship through conversa tional powers of their managers will feavs a chance to put in a tew physical claims soon. Earl Caddock. chairman of the heavy mat artists. Is in Excelsior Springs. Io- from hts Iowa boms. He sxpects to start conditioning himself at the Missouri watering place. After a month at Excelsior Springs the cham pion wi.'I hike to Wyoming for strenu ous training. Caddock recently has re turned from overseas service with the CSth division, and says he will be ready for action on the canvas soms Urns in sptsoibet. y SKETCHED AS CARTOONIST GIBSON LOOKED OVER THE FIELD OF SPORT. 11 "lf . 'm"'$ ', ' "- ""i!,- gTAtfjiNG roionno 'fnt HArFtesr etiLO j know - i'"3,SSi i rfg FOR THREE-CY,r- i' a , v " H l' STA A BUS. PV&LIC rCHlCl jOttti f -ttl&fv "'''S B powa. vtte rue hum 144 ' rd annual 6EAHHArf reAsw tt wr R rtW B Srlb" COLP TOvrTMAMeMr STARTS TOHCKHtM -4 SVLQ P The big fellows like VIllard and Morris and the rest did nothing- to ad vance the art of boxing:. In fact the retarded its progress. They were satis fied that all they needed was stamina and size. Sergeant Bob Martin, the inter-allied heavyweight champion who was dis charged at Camp Dix the other day fol lowing his return from France, insist that he be given a match with Jack Dempsey right away. Martin state that as long as he has decided upon a boxing career he will fight the best men in the business. ' It would seem, from what Martin says, that though h has decided upon a boxing career, he has also decided that said career b short and eweet. . "Knockout" Brown, the New York lightweight who amassed a fortun in the boxing game several years ago, married Miss Agnes Fisher in New York the other day. Brown was a big card in fistic circles until he ran afoul of Bud Anderson in Los Angeles and took the count, quitting the gamf shortly afterward. Jem Driscoll, the former great Eng lish fighter, who recently made a suc cessful comeback, will be signed to box Charley Ledoux, the French feather weight champion, at a show to be staged in London shortly. A S E A L L Portland vs. San Francisco o August 16 and 17 Vaughn St. Park o DOUBLE HEADER SUNDAY 1:30 P. M. -BRHIIIIIIIIBBIBIIIJ W0RKWEAR f Clothing At WOOSTER'S x m The best grade for work-wear, at reasonable prices. Wooster's, outfitters to men, women and children. Clothing, ehoes, hats, caps, hardware, tools, fishing tackle, 5-10-15c merchandise, general merchandise. WOOSTER'S 488 to 490 Washington St. 0 Take the car from Wooster's. Open evenings. ) t m . 1 n 4 3 3 3 3 3 i i. (Nw