T1TE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 4, 1923 IQTED TIME KEEPER BOXING SEASON ENDS GEORGES CARPENTIER KNOCKING TED LEWIS FOR A GOAL IN LONDON. IS VISITOR TO CITY WITH C1J1E 29 Wild Bill Lyons on Way to Atlantic Coast. One Show Will Intervene on 15th of This Month. PAL OF DEMPSEY TALKS TWO STAR BOUTS OFFER m,y0 im smvy&mM'!ir T Saw"" " v4towiwviw:iumwKm " Wills Regarded as Most Likely Opponent for Champion If Any Can Be Found. Senator William C. (Wild Bill) Xiyons, of Denver, side kick and pal of Jack Dempsey and many other fis tic celebrities, arrived in Portland yesterday from San Francisco for a few days' visit before continuing on to New York. Lyons has held the watch in four world's championship encounters and in many no-decision contests between champions and contenders. The sen ator is said to be the only man who can pacify Dempsey when the cham pion becomes irked. There are few places to which Dempsev goes that Iyons isn't with him. His proudest possession is a watch in a solid plat inum case, weighing 104 penny- I weights, a present from Dempsey sev eral years ago. Telegram In Received. Lyons keeps his finger on the pulse I of the fistic world, being in almost I daily touch with the leaders of the game. He received a telegram yester day upon his arrival here from Billy Gibson, manager of Benny Leonard, llightweight champion of the world. skmg if he would keep time for Leonard in his slated 15-round cham iiionship go with Jack Britton. Lyons liys it is his belief that the match has not yet been actually signed but It hat there is little doubt that it will Iso through. At any rate. Gibson wanted to see w his timekeeper was lined up. In :ie fight each champion will have his vn timer, the boxing commission ap minting a third man. Lyons cannot see any action for Dempsey at all. In fact, confidential he believes that Jack never witi light again. Lyons says that any on who thinks Jack is anywhere near iieing on the rocks is out of his head. !Ie declares that Dempsey is worth at least $500,000, has one of the most beautiful homes in the world in Los Ivngeles, three automobiles, and other worldly possessions. Wills Han Chance. If Jack does swing into action ,yons says it will be against no one lse but Harry Wills, and that if he !oes go through with such a match lack will not take a penny less than jou.ooo in the palm of his hand be fore the day, or even month, of the ignt. 1 he senator holds a sneaking telief that there is a bare possibility f Jess Willard'B being dished up to ck again. Lyons had a lone- talk '1th Willard in Los Angeles the other lay, and, although Jess did not talk word of shop, he looked the iilc- ure of health and admitted that he fas doing plenty of hard work every ay. Lyons will depart for New York In i verai days, where he will rest up r the summer. This fall he ox- lects to take a trip to England with enny Leonard, where he wilt look liter the champion for a fight agains; irme nice, tne English lightweight iiampion. i IE MEETjSJSRRANSED fl'XT CLUB TO HOLD SPRING EVENT MiXT SATURDAY. ifty Horses to Enter Competition In 12 Different Contests At Garden Home. Final arrangements for the annual ring meet of the Portland Hunt ub were completed last night at a oetlng of the committee held in the ubhouse at Garden Home. Unless lin this week should spoil the half- le track, approximately 50 horses ill meet in competition in 12 differ- It events next Saturday afternoon. The time set for the first event is lo clock, when 16 three-eraited novice Jddle horses will be shown for the inls cup. This will be followed bv a Inior competition of the same kind r horses under 14.2 hands high. The Io classes win take up the first hour d the races will start at 2 o'clock. I mere are eight different races on scncouie tor the afternoon and lo jumping contests. Interest is di- led between the relay race and the lofessional running races. Three mis are entered in the former lent; an army trio from the Vancou- post, a junior team and a senior im. inly one of three strings of run- ig norscs Has so far arrived at Gar- iiome. jack Coff man's four rses will be brought from Vanmn inursaay, and the three runner I tied by Walter Honeyman probably " arrive at tne track Wednesday. &evt;n oj. mese norses worked on Vancouver track last week and Ih owners declare their animals in 'd shape. i'he two horses owned bv Chester Irphy Tony Faust Jr. and Orasron lust, have been at the Garden Home ick lor a week and are showing I siderable speed. Both are sired by lamuus Auny raust, Tony Faust is to take his first fast workout morning in. tne presence of his -ier. I'he army horses to compete in the gnt races and jumps are expected me tracK Tuesday. (Japta n K. R lse has said that five of the fastest i-.y mounts at tne post will be sent Ir and the competition by the hunt i to keep the cups and ribbons at fie ana by the army officers to take n to ancouver will make for a Ier meet than the club has had for .umber of years. Boxers Have Many Excuses. iany boxers have lost bouts be- Ise of trouble with the pedal ex- liiities. otten in a fight thev be- ehilled. This alibi takes its e with the famous alibi of that r Lnglish pugilist. Bombardier ::s, who, after his second defeat at hands of Georges Carpentier. re- ked, "He hit me when 1 wasn't iing." Swim Pool to Open. I-.e world's largest swimming pool, Iadison-square Garden. New York will open Wednesday. A total '3 days will be devoted to the me sport, tne calendar ending on ir day. Ircneli Ku miers Take Honors. gland lost another prized record r-hlrtics when the French team re- iy beat them in an international a-cuuutry race. Photo, Underwood & Underwood. Carpentier knocked Lewis g&Uey west in the first round of their recent battle In London. Photo shows Lewis strnesline to his feet after having been sent to the floor by a crushing right to the Jaw follow ing; a clinch, after two minutes and a half of fighting. i $100,000 DEAL FOR KAMM STIRS UP BASEBALL GOSSIPS Seal Player Hides Out to Avoid Facing Curious Fans After News of Deal Is Published in San Francisco. BY HARRY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, June 3. (Special.) Baseball has been very. much to the fore the past week, Whatr with Judge Landis dealing a seem ingly knockout blow to the owners of the Portland baseball club and the Seals selling Willie Kamm for a mere $100,000 and two players, the fans have had quite a number of angles to discuss. The Klepper-Landis Inci dent in Portland would have kept the boys chattering for lo these many days had not the sale of Kamm come right on top of it. But the fans dearly love to talk about big deals, and Kamm and the Chicago White Sox have completely put the Portland transaction, for the time being, out of the running. -Of coarse the news end of the story has been told and retold. But there are many'littje sidelights that are still of much interest. Deal Hinted Monday. - It was Intimated in" the Monday morning papers that Chicago might offer a tremendous sum for Kamm. This news was confirmed early Mon day morning, and the writer took a trip out to Kamm's home to try to find the youngster who has come into the limelight over night. At baseball - headquarters nobody knew just where the Kamm residence was. - "He lives out on Post street on the left-hand eide, not far from the municipal carbarns,' said George Put nam. The corner grocer put us on the right track. "The Kamms live in that double house half way up the hill," he said. "Just climb the steps and ring the bell at the door to the west." Mrs. Kamm, mother of the ball player, answered the bell. Head tied up and working clothes on, she admitted that she was the mother of Willie Kamm, but re marked in the same breath that he had left for downtown, and that she waa busy getting ready for the Mon day wash. Mother Not Surprised. Persistency, however, won a few words from her. Sha didn't seem particularly sur prised that her 22-year-old boy had been sold for such an Immense sum. "Is that so?" she queried in mild surprise. "Does he have to leave right away?" Willie, from Her story, has always enjoyed baseball. He took to the game when he was a grammar-school youngster, kept it up as a high-school lad and, later in the section in which he resides, organized his own baseball team. He has never played ball other than with the San Francisco club, so far as the professional article is concerned but such judges as Ty Cobb, Roger Hornsby and George Sisler, who saw him In action in the Winter league, think he is the best fielding third base product they have ever seen. He PENDLETON HIGH Ku 4 S ft I kls&k? t&bhc1 vc h 1 Top row left to rldrht J. f-lmpoti, K. Reams, W. Brm, . Rlgbr, F. Fowler (miuicr), D. Whitman, H. Hnrthongr, C. ChrLtianarn. Bottom row, left to rtcth B. Warner, V. Hunter, C. gannders, R. Lawrence, F. Kramer. W. tnuon, Coach Dick Banley, O. Adkinaon, R. Earnheart, 1 Hagee, C. Snyder, C. Stone braker, 1. LaHue. is a fairly good hitter and bound to improve in that branch of the game. Kamm himself is he most modest chap imaginable, and one of the most popular ball players in the league. He wasn't to be found all day Mon day., . . . Do you know why? Because he didn't like to be pointed out as the- ball player who had been sold for $100,000, and ducked out of sight. He got into a machine with a boy chum and they stayed hid. One of the sporting reporters who went to the Kamm home to get some news and was disappointed, . tried to impress it upon Mrs. Kamm that she should.be sure to have Willie ring the office, even if he returned home as late, as midnight. "My goodness!" . said , Mrs, Kamm. "My Willie never is later than , 10 o'clock of a night getting in." (Kamm did not cost the Seals, a sin gle penny. . , - ' Sacramento Releases Boy. : He learned much of his baseball on the Golden Gate park diamonds. Bill Rodgers, then manager of the Sacra mento club, picked up Kamm In 1918. but soon released the boy, who was only 18 years of age! He was of slight build and such a kid in ap pearance that he did not sell him-, self. That winter" Kamm played in . the Shipbuilders' league. One Sunday Dr. Charles H. Strub watched that kid give a most remarkable exhibition around third base. ' 7 y Right after- the game Dr. Strub signed Kamm to a contract and Willie reported for spring practice at San Jose. - . 1 Strub "and Putnam have been con gratulating each ther. It was "Putty," you know, who dis covered Jim O'Connell, sold to the New York Giants for $75,000 last fall, and it was Dr. Strub who put across the sale. - ' This time conditions were reversed. Telephone Bill $520. ' It . was Dr. Strub who discovered Kamm and George Putnam who closed the deal with Danny Long, scout for the Chicago White Sox. Incidentally, some $520 was spent in long-distance- telephone messages before the papers were signed. When Danny Long offered $100,000 and two players for Kamm, Dr. Strub said he didn't doubt Danny, but suggested that in a deal of such magnitude' he would like to have direct word from Owner Comiskey authorizing Long to proceed as agent of the Chicago club. A long-distance connection was established and the boys talked $520 worth before they were finished. But what is that sum as compared with $100,900? , Willie has already been insured by the Chicago club for $100,000. De spite the fact that the player is to continue with the Seals for the i mainder of the season, he belongs to Chicago, and the White Sox owner wants to protect his... own interests. It has been stipulated in the Kamm SCHOOL EASTERN OREGON case, as was done with O'Connell, that the purchasing club mbst sign tha player. Naturally. Kamm is going to expect a fairish sort of salary if he is worth that much cold cash, but the Chicago club will have to do its own dicker, lng. CAPTAIN AliCOCK IS VICTOR Suburban Handicap Won in Spite of Heavy Track Conditions. NEW YORK, June 3 Captain Al- cock. the 5-year-old horse, by Ogden Mallard, taking kindly to heavy track conditions, today carried the Quincy stable's colors to victory in the his toric Suburban handicap at Belmont park. Captain Alcock, easily best of one of the. smallest fields that ever faced the barrier in the Suburban, negotiated the mile and a quarter in the fast time of 2:05 2-5 and won by a length and a half from Max Hirsch's Flying Cloud. Mad Hatter was third, three lengths back. The event had a value of $8200 to the winner. 15,000 TO ENTER GAMES GERMAN OLYMPIAD AROUSES AVIDESPREAD INTEREST. In Addition to Usual 'Track and Field Events Many Other Con- tests Will Be Held. BERLIN, Julie 3. Fifteen thousand men and women are expected to com pete in the German Olympic and aux liary games to be held from June 24 to July 2. Many of the entries are from Austria, Roumania, Czecho-Slo-vakfa, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Upper Silesia and Danzig. Austria alone is sending 400 cdntestants. While the Olympics themselves are confined to the usual track and field events and other features on the pro gramme of the world Olympics, addi tional events have been arranged for this year, hence the addition "aux iliary games" to the title. The gymnasts comprise the largest section of the prospective contestants, the entries numbering 2024, of whom 462 are women. The pentathlon will be contested by 1275, while 1180. In cluding 80 women, are entered in the lightweight field events. The mara thon is expected to bring out 500 run ners. Four hundred will ride inthe bicycle racing events, and of these entries 212 are listed for the race from Hamburg to Berlin. The wrestling and boxing events have attracted the surprisingly high total of 975 entries, due largely to the recently Increasing popularity of the latter sport on the continent. The lower number of 300 for the swim ming events Is somewhat disappoint ing and is inexplicable in sporting cir cles. Fifty two of these entries are women. ; Arleta to ,Play White Salmon. WHITE SALMON, Wash., June 3. (Special.) The Arleta Athletic club of Portland will play White Salmon on the local diamond Sunday after- I noon. . TRACK CHAMPIONS. Either Fight Between Morrow and Gorman Or Morrow and Sacco Would Draw Good Crowd. Two more boxing shows and then the Portland boxing commission, with Harry Hansen, its matchmaker, will take a well-earned vacation. The next show is set for June 15 and the final offering of the season probably will take place June 29. It is the intention of Matchmaker Hansen to arrange strong cards for the final shows. While he hasn't signed anyone for the June 15 show, he will have little trouble in making the event an all-star card, for plenty of good material is available, just now. The boys must eat. . Two matches which look, mighty sweet to Hansen . are a .return go between Joe Gorman and Lakey Mor row or a meeting between Jimmy Sacco. the Boston flash, and Morrow. Either would make a high-class main event. Gorman and Morrow recently put on a sensational ten-round go, with Morrow taking the decision. The fans have been clamoring for a return go ever since. Mike Gibbons Coming, Maybe. Going out of the lightweight class there are Battling Ortega, Joe Eagan and Jimmy Clabby, while Mike Gib bons also is said to be headed this way. Eagan was matched with Or tega once before, but the Battler developed a bad case of charley horse and couldn't go on. Eagan figures that, now that Ortega is back in shape, he should get a crack at him. Clabby, after nine years in Australia, is back in this country again. He will make his first start against Eagan June 9 at Vancouver, B. C. Hansen Might Wait. The winner of this fight would be the logical opponent for Battling Or tega or Gibbons, provided the latter gets this far west. It might be wise for Matchmaker Hansen to wait until after the Eagan-Clabby fight before signing hfs main event for the next show. Joe Gorman has returned from his home in Grants Pass and will train here for a few days for a six-riund tilt with Jimmy Sacco at Aberdeen June 12. The weight for this bout has been set at 133 pounds. Following the bout with Sacco, Gorman and his manager, Bobby Evans, expect to go to New York, where Tex Rickard is putting on a featherweight elimina tion tournament. Bobby Harper is no longer a light weight. , The Seattle boxer, who has been malfing his headquarters in Port land for more than a year, meets Travie Davis in the star go of a show by Dan Salt in Seattle June 6. Davis is the recognized Pacific coast wel terweight champion, and Harper for the first time in months will stack up against an -opponent of his own weight. , JAPANESE POOR GOLFERS Small Wrists Said to Make Game Tough for Orientals. 1 NEW YORK, June 3. Although they are adepts at tennis, Japanese are not successful at golf, due to th smallness of their wrists, which na tional . physical characteristics, ac cording to Hajime Kamasaki,. Japan, ese amateur champion, handicaps the Nipponese in getting distance with their shots and making recoveries from difficult lies. The wrist and forearm must be of unusual strength and be "quick muscled" if a tennis player is to re turn the volleys of such hard-hitting players as William T. Tilden II ana William M. Johnston, who defeated the Japanese challengers in the finals of the Davis cup matches last year, and the saffron-skinned stars demon, strated that they had such power. In tennis, however, the entire body counts, and a narrow wrist supple menting speedy footwork counts more than in the comparatively leisurely game of golf.. Kamasaki came here with a com panion, Ichjya Taguchi, but will not remain for the United States ama teur championship at Brookline in September. English Boxing, as Rule, Below American Standard. Lewis, DrlHCoIl and McGovern lOx haunt Lint of Really Good . British Fighters. BY ROBERT BDGREN. THE QUICK and easy victory of Georges , Carpentier over Ted (Kid) Lewis was, predicted in this column. Nearly two years ago I saw Lewis beaten easily by O'Dowd who couldn't have laid a glove on the awift English boxer when Lewis was good and knew ' that Lewis was through. The fact that Lewis recent ly has been knocking out a lot of opponents in England and was re garded there as a marvel in his class signified nothing. - For some reason or other English bcxing and English boxers are, as a rule, tar below American standards. There have been a few exceptions, or course. Ted Lewis was a real champion a few years ago. He started his career in England, but was. de veloped in Australian and American rings. Jem Dnscoll was as great a featherweight as any I've seen with one exception the incomparable Ter ry . McGovern. " Drlscoll -was better than Abe Attell. He always fought; Attell usually stalled. That ends the list. Not another really good fighter has come out of England in the last 25 years. Pedlar Falmer was a hero at home and a joke when he met McGovern. Jabez White was knocked out by Jimmy Britt in California. Jack Palmer came over and was licked by old Jack Twin Sullivan. Clever Bombardier Wells was knocked out by Al Palzer. Several years ago England devel oped Iron Hague, a - well built big man who looked like another Jef fcries until Sam Langford went over and easily knocked him out. Gunner Moir. a muscle - bound wrestler, was English heavyweight champion and regarded as a world beater. Little Tommy Burns went across and knocked Moir for a goal without any trouble at all. Carpentier took all the fight out of Eomby Wells with two knockouts the second delivered with the first brace of blows struck in the first round. Wells was a splendidly built fellow and a masterly boxer, but Anticipated freight supplies are inadequate to meet the demand for the two wonderful new sizes of Carabana Cisrars "De Luke" and "Cor ona Royales.'- "Additional shipments will arrive by express within the next ten days. LWe ask our friends to kindly bear with us dur ing the temporary shortage. Permit us to thank you, gentlemen, for your prompt appreciation of the new 1922 merchandise Carabana "De Luxe" . 2 for 25c lacked steadiness under fire and couldn't take a punch. Later came Beckett, winning a few local fights and becoming an idol of the English people, who in their en thusiasm believed he was a world beater; Carpentier knocked him cold in a round. There was also, just be fore Beckett's time, one "Young Ahearn," an English boxer who learned the game.in American rings, and was regarded here as a fairly clever fighter and a good ssecojid rater, and went home to jtengland.j There he quickly became a hro. Ahearn was a jumping jack in the ring and seemed to be doing some thing marvelous every moment. They called him "John Bull's Boy, ana his backers challenged the world in his behalf. Young Ahearn took it seriously. He thought he could trim Jess Wil lard, but he had one small task to attend to first a score to settle with Mike Gibbons, middleweight of St. Paul. Mike had once knocked him out in four rounds. So he returned to the United States to flatten Mike and then go after the heavyweight championship. He met Mike. This time Mike was in a hurry. Ahearn jigged a couple of steps and feinted once, following with a swift jab. And Mike stepped in and knocked him senseless with a single sock. Kext year Tom Andrews dropped Ahearn's name from the record books and he hasn't been heard" of since. English fighters in smaller classes haven't been much luckier. Middle weight champion Harrison visited America and was knocked out in a round by Eddie McGoorty. Johnny Summers and Owen Moran, cons'd- ered invincible in England, did some good fighting in America, but never reached the championship class. Pat O'Keefe came from England to New York heralded as a pretty good fiehter. His first bout was w'th Willie Lewis, who knocked him cold with the first blow struck. O'Keefe returned to England and was mid dleweight champion there for years. Probably Carpentier will be, re garded as having at least an even chance with Dempsey because of his quick and easy win over Lewis. Some wise owl will discover tnat carpen tier was severely handicapped by having to use pillows instead of gloves atj Jersey City, although Demp sey used them, too. Also it will be claimed that Car pentier is now several pounds heav ier, much more experienced, faster, more clever, hitting harder and much more cheerful and confident than Be fore he fought Dempsey last year, On the score of Carnentier's improve ment and the four-ounce gloves used in England and the effect of a punch i S like Carpentier's delivered with as Tour -ounce glove Carpentier will I be figured about an even match for Jack. That is, in iungiana. in Amer ica we know that a great little man has a very skimpy chance of winning when pitted against a man fully his equal in speed, skill and determina tion, and 15 pounds heavier. Where other things are equal, weight and strength .will win. Only one of the rare accidents of the ring, a single punch that takes away the bigger man's advantage, can change the rule. Benny Leonard's signing on for a Pacific Coast League DOUBLE-HEADER TODAY SACRAMENTO vs. PORTLAND First game called at 1:30 It Will Be Worth Your While to walk ap to HENDERSON'S 410 STARK STREET And see bis complete line of auitinga. Out ot Men rent district Baseball Mason, Ehrman & Co. Distributors of "THE NATION'S FINEST CIGARS" welterweight bout with welter cham pion Britton at the beginning of June shows that Leonard is at last going after the title in a heavier class. It the bout is to be held in New Jersey it will be 12 rounds without a deci sion. If in New York it will be' 15 rounds with a decision a real cham pionship affair. Jack Britton has held the welter title a long time, and has shown no sign of losing his cunning. Britton started when Packey McFarland, Leach Cross, Tommy Murphy and that )ld . bunch were becoming known, and he outlasted the lot. i Leonard naturally; is growing a little, and it may be hard for him to hang onto the lightweight title and make the lightweight limit much longer. He could do nicely with the welter cham pionship. That's Leonard's end of the argu ment. Britton's is that he has exhausted the list of welter rivals, and that as Leonard is a welterweight, except when he starves himself, and a very popular boxer, Leonard is welcome to anything he can get. Britton is one of the most confident fighters in the world. He doesn't think Benny Leon ard will crive him a rouzh minute. and as for boxing skill, he's willing to match his own against Leonard's any time. The weight is said to be 147 pounds, but how the million plunks taken in at the gate is to be split no one knows except the managers, and they won't tell. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Sport News and Comment Because he got a decision over Tunnoy, Harry Greb now wants to fight Georges Carpentier or Jack Dempsey and otherwise lush in. To talk of putting Greb in the ring against Dempsey is unadulterated silliness. The chances are a last year's straw hat against the bejewelled crown ol the King of England that Georges Car ptntier likewise would have little trouble disposing of Greb. While he has had many fights, it cannot be said that his record is imposing. In knockouts his list is tremely slim. The late Stanley Ketchell probably would have been willing to meet Greb witn one band tied befilnd nis back There is no reason whv Georges Car pentier, holder of the light heavyweight trtle of the world, should not come to this country to defend his title. While, doubt, he could assume the attitude that yiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiuiiiiimmiiisiiiiuii : . It ; -jp "X great Dane in the yard, with h's gigantic leap and booming voice, be he ever so gentle with his friends, his house is avoided- by tramps."' Puppies from this famous dog Salome (shown above) Thoroughbred Police Dogs Great Danes Irish Setters Chows Scottish Terriers , Airedales Cocker Spaniels Chesapeake Bay Retrievers Faithful, Devoted Companions, Types ot Dogrs 1 GREEN'S KENNELS 1 On Highway Five Miles West of Beaverton. S5 Minute' Drive Arrangements Made S! From Portland. for Hoarding- Doga. Telephone 11R8 Hillsboro. jj; Kennels at Witch Hazel, on Southern Pacific Electric Line, S aluiiiuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiuuHiiiiiiiiiuHiiiiiiiuiuuuiuua Carabana "Corona Royales" 10c , aspirants must come to him for a chance at the title, he could make more money in the United States than he could dream ot making in his own France. The last month has shown a steady de cline in the batting ability of : Jimmie O'Connell, (73,000 beauty wearing the uni form of the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league. James still Is well up with the first five leading batters, but ne no longer is at tne top ot the list. His decline has not been a matter of a game or two when he might have had an off day. but is a consistent one. For a while It looked as it intercollegiate competitive aviation meets would take a regular place in the sports lists, but to date little headway has been made. It is more than probable that both mother and the old man decided they would have c voice in the final decision. It's all well enough to break a leg or a nose on the gridiron, but a drop of several thousand feet is more serious. MEXICO LIKES BASEBALL- Texas Clubs Invading Country Find Game Popular. . Teams of baseball players which recently invaded Mexico City froru Texas for a series of exhibition games in connection with the Mexican cen tennial celebration found the Ameri can national pastime there, even though with a Mexican accent. Soma of the players expected to find a city unaccustomed to baseball and a pub lic attending the games merely out of curiosity to see the sport that eets all the United States on Its ears for so many months each. year. Instead they found a city with at least ten first-class diamonds, two full-fledged leagues and a number of Independent clubs all of them Mex ican or Spanish. They met critical rooters who were not loath to tell the umpire that his eyesight was lost or to "pan" a runner for making a poor slide to third. Baseball is a popular sport in Mex ico and has been for many years. In troduced by Americans, it-was readily taken up by the Mexicans, and for some time a city league has been maintained there which each year meets the. champion of a league com prised of outlying cities such as Vera Cruz, Puebla and Monterey. Newspaper sport pages each Mon day give the standing of the various clubs. S7 playmates. Protectors. Are Off err d Here. TKe Best