The Sunday Oregonian., July 16, 1922, SECTION TWO, Image 21

SECTION TWO
VOL. XLI
DENIED BY LANDIS
Power of Commissioner Up
held by Himself.
PAIR STILL INELIGIBLE
William H. Klepper and James R.
Brewster Fail to Move Of
ficial by Appeal.
CHICAGO, July 15. The right of
the commissioner of'baseball to de
clare ineligible a club owner in the
minor league was upheld today
when Commissioner Landis denied
the application of William H. Klep
per and James R. Brewster, owners
of the Portland club of the Pacific
Coast league, for a rehearing of
certain matters in his order of May
24. in which they were declared in
eligible.
In the May 24 order. Commissioner
Landis had placed Klepper on the
Ineligible list until January 1, 1925,
in addition to placing William Ken-
worthy, former manager of the Port
land club, on the Ineligible list until
January 1, 1925, and disqualifying
him as a player or manager in the
Pacific coast league UTyi. the
ginning of the 1924 season.'
Authority Is Challenged. -
be-
The petition of Klepper. and
Brewster contended? that while the
commission has authority- over an
offending ball player, that jf the
offender is a minor league club
owner or official, the, only punitive
action authorized is a public repri
mand. In his decision the commissioner
asserts that while a provision of the
major-minor agreement states that
punitive action by the commissioner
"may" take the form of a public
reprimand "the fixing of the status
of ineligibility is primarily and es
sentially preventive and not exclu
sively punitive."
Effect of Decision Considered.
"In this instance," the decision
states, "it will at least tend to pre
vent further misconduct during the
period of ineligibility."
The case arose originally when
Klepper sold his interest'n the Seat
tle club of the league and a few
days later gave unconditional re
lease to Kenworthy, one of the Seat
tle players. Kenworthy was then
hired by Klepper and his associates
to manage the Portland team.
Seattle protested and Judge Lan
dis declared Kenworthy, Klepper
and Brewster ineligible.
DECISION IS NO surprise:
Itefusal to Modify Decision Is
f
Foregone Conclusion.
That Judge Landis would decline
to modify his original decision in
the Kenworthy - Klepper - Brewster
case has been almost a foregone
conclusion from the first, despite
the fact that the brief submitted by
Gus C. Moser, Mr. Klepper's attor
ney, brought up almost unanswer
able points as to. the judge's lack of
jurisdiction over minor league club
owners. It would have been too
much to expect that Commissioner
Landis, ruling on the validity of his
own prior decision, would have over
ruled Commissioner Landis on the
ground of having overstepped his
own authority.
The commissioner has based the
validity of his whole course of ac
tion on a free construction of two
words one the little word "may.
the other ('preventive" as opposed to
"punitive ' action.
Section 3 of the minor-major
league agreement provides that
"Punitive action ty the commis
sioner may take the form of a pub- i
lie reprimand, and in the case of a
player a declaration of temporary
or permanent ineligibility to play
for any club related to the parties
hereto."
Senator Moser in his brief asking
tne judge for a rehearing and modi
fication of his original decision with
respect to Mr. Klepper and Mr.
Brewster, admitted the judge's au
thority to suspend or declare in
eligible William H. -Kenworthy as
manager and player under that sec
tion of the code. But he contended
that, o the other hand, when read
with the preceding sections of the
agreement, this section clearly lim
ited the judge's punitive power with
regard to club owners to a public
reprimand.
The word "may" was not over
looked in the brief, Mr. Moser re
fering to it In the following lan
guage: "While the word 'may' is used
in said section, construing it with
section 1, it clearly means 'may
only.' "
The section 1 of the agreement re
ferred to is as follows:
"Section 1. The minor leagues
recognize the office of commissioner
as created by the major league
agreement and submit themselves
to his jurisdiction only to the ex
tent hereinafter specified."
The contention of the Portland
Baseball club in its brief was that
this "only to the extent hereinafter
specified" clearly and specifically
limited the punitive authority of
Judge Landis as commissioner to a
public reprimand, under the wording
of section 3 that "punitive action by
the commissioner may take the form
of a public reprimand.
Now comes Judge Landis and
takes the surprising stand that his
action is not exclusively punitive,
but preventive as well. On the
ground that it is "preventive" he
bases his authority on section 2 of
the same agreement which provides:
"Section 2. In case conduct det
rimental to baseball is charged, al
leged or suspected, the commissioner
shall have jurisdiction to investi
gate and determine the facts; upon
6uch determination he may take and
impose such preventive, remedial or
punitive action as he deems appro
priate against any party hereto, any
minor league or Glub connected with
the national association, or any Indi
vidual, as the case may be."
Was the judge's action In declar
ing Mr. Klepper and Mr. Brewster
Ineligible until January 1, 1925, and
January 1, "1924, respectively, pre
ventive 05 punitive? On that point
clearly will hinge court action that
is almost certain to follow. Here-
BEAVER
ra
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LAWN TENNIS
In his effort to get pitchers who
can win a few games, William H.
Klepper, president of the Portland
baseball club, has bought from Den
ver of the Western league the re
lease of Al Demaree, for years a
pitcher with the ew .York Giants
and later with Philadelphia in the
National league, and in 1820 and 1921
with Seattle. . .. .
"Closed deal today for Al De
maree." said a telegram last night
from Tom Turner, the Portland
manager. "He will join our club
at Salt Lake this coming week. It
is very hard, in' fact almost impos
sible, to obtain help from ,the ma
jors, but we believe Demaree and
Byron Houck will help our club.,
"'Demaree won 16 games and lost
only nine last season.
"Walberg pitched a great game
today and should have won, but our
club is playing in the toughest luck
I ever saw any club play in, and at
times is also playing bad balL I
will do everything possible to cor
rect our 'weakness.'' - ..
Demaree was sold by Seattle last
winter to the Denver club, but de
clined to report. He has been keep
ing in good condition by pitching in
dependent baseball. - Demaree is a
personal friend of John ; McGraw,
manager of the Giants, for whom
Demaree acted as scout in the Pa
cific coast league last season. -
FREXCH SPEED MARK
Felix Nazzaro of Italy . Wins Anto
' : Race at Strasbourg.
STRASBOURG, July 15. -(By the
Associated Press.) All French au
tomobile records were smashed to
day in- the Grand .Prix, won by
Felix Nazzaro of Italy in a Fiat
car after two of his teammates had
come to grief on the home stretch
One of these mates; Blaggo- Naz
zaro, was killed outright, while his
mechanician, , Germano," suffered a
broken arms and leg when their car
turned over gonig around the Entz
heim hairpin curve.
Felix Nazzaro's time was the best
ever made in a grand prix comepti
tion, averaging 79.4 miles an hour
for the distance of a fraction under
500 miles. - - .
PETE HERMAN RETIRES
Bantamweight ex-Champion Quits
Ring Permanently.
NEW ORLEANS, July 15. Pete
Herman, bantamweight ex-champion
of the world, announced tonight
his permanent retirement from the
padded circle.
The condition of eyesight makes
it inadvisable for him to ever fight
again, the ex-champion announced.
McQuaid Is Turned Back.
LOS ANGELES, CaL, July 15.
Herb McQuaid, San Francisco pitcher,
who was bought by the Los Angeles
club under an option at contract,
has ben turned back to the Seals,
Wade Killefer, manager of the An
gels, announced. The Los Angeles
club was to have paid $1000 for
McQuaid if he was retained, but
Killefer said the club was carrying
too many young pitchers.
PITCHER'S RELEASE BOUGHT . , ; V 't .JC; I ,sfjir I . M " . ' S (' I 1
Telegram 'From' '"portland" Man- Vkk . I' J - 1)3
ager Blames Hard Luck arid ' ivmmezJg 'i"'" , sHi 1!C- 1 rt 1' li t "I V ,4tf :
Poor. Ball, for Slump. AAvrt wfSJ -I J? f ' V & J 3 --- . f -
STARS FROM THREE STATES WHO COMPETED FOR OREGON TITLE LAST WEEK
- ; .
The 24th Orfsron chnmploimhlp tennis - tournament, played on the IrTtncton eonrtii, vra featured by a large
. entry list of outKtde playern. Some of the atar of the week'v tournament weret I Willinm Whelan of
. San Francisco. 2 t atlln Wolfard of Portland, who lost to Elmer Griffin of San' Francisco In th-e fifth
round.. 3 Herbert Suhr and William Whelaa of San Francisco, who played in 'the men'n doubles. 4
Elmer Griffin of San Francisco, who won the singles championship and with It the Oregon state title
for 11)22, and with Henry Stevens of Portland also captured the doubles championship. 5 Mrs. AV, I.
Northup, who lost In the semi-final to Mrs. J. C. Cushtng of Berkeley, Cul. 6 Mnjme MarDonald of
: Seattle, who by winning 'the' 1822 women's singles championship retained the title for the fourth ton-
. secutlve year. 7 Herbert Suhr of San Francisco, who lost In the finals of the men's singles to Elmer Griffin,
CALIFORNIA "WONDER" TEAM
TO HAVE STRONG OPPOSITION
Andy Smith Has to Replace Six of Last Year's. Stars and Competing
. ' Elevens Are More Formidable. . .
BY L. H. GREGORY,
PICKINGS may not be quite so
soft for the University of Cali
. f ornia football team this fall.
Not to mention stiffer competition,
the "wonder team" must be rebuilt.
Calif ornlans view with some alarm
the prospect that large and creak
ing patches will adorn portions of
the machine.
When the, time conies .these
patches and replacements may im
prove the team rather than hurt it.
That often happens in football.
So-and-so graduates and the coaches
moan that never can his place be
filled. Along copies some unknown
and makes everybody forget.the old
master. , Nevertheless Andy Smith
and his co-workers, BoleB Rosenthal
j and Nibs Price; will have consid
I erable of-a job filling the holes and
PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY
making the recruits function as
smoothly as those veterans did -;
There were symptoms last sea
son, particularly in the New Year's
game against Washington and Jef
ferson, that two or three of the
supposedly incomparable working
parts of , the "wonder team" had
become a bit too complacent and
self-satisfied. Some new blood will
help remedy that. What worries
the Californians is the amount of
new blood that will have to be used.
We gain the Information from
H. S. -McKay, a former Portland
young man and Multnomah club
member, who went from here to the
University of California and now
is a San Franciscan and active
California alumnus, that six rem
hers of : the 1921 eleven must be"
replaced this fall. Mr. McKay is
here visiting his father, M. B. Mc
Kay. He names the six as Latham,
captain and center; Granmer, guard;
Barnes and McMillan, tackles; Stev
ens, end; and Crip Toomey, ball-
jp ' K?'
back. Loss of ' those stars would
worry any coach.
Toomey, It-will' be noted, is the
only back-field man of the bunch.
All the others are linemen. A good
line can't be v developed over, the
week end, particularly 1 with . the
center and both tackles gone. And
as California plays some hard games
comparatively early in the season,
something might happen. One of
the hard games will be against
Southern California at Pasadena,
October 28; another is against
Washington at Seattle, November
11; and in between comes a game
agalnBt Washington State at Berke
ley, November 4.
It must be remembered that all
three of these elevens likewise will
be in a state of flux. The Wash
ington team, particularly, win be
an experiment for probably six and
perhaps seven of the 11 men will be
from last . fall's freshman team. .
: .-.. , -
Andy Smith Is a very foxy coach,
and he achieved success at Cali
fornia only after a long period of
depression, so it is hardly likely
that even with so many veterans
lost to the team he will be caught
unprepared. Andy has had soma
wonderful surplus material. It isn't
reasonable to suppose he has neg
lected to hide away some good line
substitutes where they will do the
most good when' needed.
Nevertheless the fact that the
16, 1922
"wonder team" combination at last
is broken and that Andy must start
a new combination will give all the
other conference colleges something
to cheer up about. Andy's real test
of greatness will come now. If he
can mold another great eleven
around the skeleton of the old, then
It will be time enough to compare
his showing with that of Dobie at
Washington. . Doble went through
nine successive seasons without
defeat In that period he saw many
a "wonder team" disintegrate but
be always built up another.
With Southern California, Wash
ington and Washington State all
threatening with strong combina
tions. Smith will have more com
petition than Dobie did In the old
days. On the other hand he has
more material to select from.
.
"Andy figures the Southern Call
fornia and Washington games his
two hardest of the season," remarked-
Mr. McKay, "because he
must coach his team in different
styles of football against each
eleven. Southern California under
Henderson will play the open game,
and that will require one defense.
Then will come Bagshaw's new
eleven at Washington -which no
doubt will play a combination of
open game and straight football.
That will require an altogether dif
ferent plan of battle to offset.
"Andy has much respect for what
Bagshaw Is likely to show him. He
knows he will have a different
Washington team this season from
the makeshift eleven of last fall.
It will b after revenge, too, and
anything might happen."
r ; . . '
Mr. McKay is doing soma, nego
tiating while here with reference
to the Olympic , club-Multnomah
football game, scheduled for Port
land on Armistice .day. He wants to
change the date to Thanksgiving jf
it can be arranged.
A University of Oregon-Multnomah
game, occasionally varied by
a Multnomah-O. A. C clash, has be
come' traditional as a Thanksgiving
day attraction here. However, this
season the big Oregon-Washington
game will be played at Seattle
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
CDBB NARRSWl'jG LEAD
PERCENTAGE IX BATTING IS
CLIMBING STEADILY.
Distance From Sisler Is Being-
Cut Down, but In Base Steal-
ing There Is but One.
CHICAGO, July 15. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Ty Cobb's challenge
for the batting leadership of the
American leae-ue was no flash in
the pan, Judging from averages com
piled today, which show the Detroit
leader closing the . gap separating
him from George SIsler, the St. Louis
marvel, who is leading the race with
an average of .420.
: Cobb is Just 14 points behind Sis
ler, as compared with 31 a week ago.
The noted Georgian's remarkable
batting streak netted him 20 hits in
the last nine games,-as against 12
collected by Sisler in eight games.
The figures on these batting rivals
are:
O.'A.B. K. H. Pet:
SIsler 83 . 345 TS 14S .420
Cobb . 71 278 50 113 .408
A week 'ago the figures told this
story:
O. A.B. R. H. Pet.
. 75 309 73 133 .430
SIsler
Cobb .
2 238 43 113 .301
Tris Speaker, manager of the
Cleveland club, moved back Into
third place with an average of .364,
deposing Harry Hellmann of Detroit,
who dropped into fourth place with
.354. '
Sisler Is without a dangerous rival
in base stealing. He is showing his
heels to the contenders with a
string of 32 thefts, while .Ken Wil
liams, the home-run hitter, is second
In line with 26. -
The see-sawing fight between Wil
liams and Tilly Walker of the Ath
letics for home-run hitting contin
ues,' with honors even,, each having
Knocked out 21. Ruth Is down in the
list with 14.
Other leading batters for 65 or
more games:
Miller, Philadelphia, .354; Schang.
New York, .853; O'Neill, Cleveland,
.349; Bassler. Detroit, .347; Blue, De
troit. .342; Witt. New York, .336; Mc
Manus. St. Louis, .333. -
'
Perhaps the most Impressive stick
work In the National league was the
batting of Charlie Hollocher, short
stop with Chicago, who in - seven
games smashed out 13 hits, which
enabled him to Jump from ninth to
third place in the list of leading
sluggers, with an average of .859.
Rogers Hornsby, St. Louis star,
with his record of 24 home runs,
continues to top the league in hit
ting, with an average of .399, nine
points above his mark of a week
ago. Hank Gowdy of Boston is sec
ond with .372. '
Max Carey of Pittsburg is hold
ing onto the lead In base stealing
with 22, with Tierney, also of Pitts
burg, second with 16. Hornsby is
third with 14. "
utner leading patters lor 55 or
more games: Bigbee, Pittsburg, .358:
Johnston, Brooklyn. .357; Grimes,
Chicago. .357; Daubert, Cincinnati
.355; Duncan, Cincinnati, .354; Carey,
pittsDurg, .34a; smith, St. Louis, .344.
Black Bass Caught.
ABERDEEN,. Wash., July 15.
(Special.) Two black bass, the
larger weighing four pounds and
nine ounces and the smaller weigh
ing nearly two pounds, were caught
In the Satsop river with a fly
Wednesday by W. C. Hooker of
Aberdeen. Bass in the streams of
Grays Harbor county are not
common.
Classified Advertising and
Sporting News
NO. 29
TENNIS TITLE WO!
BY ELMER GRIFFIN
San Franciscan Disposes of
Herbert Suhr.
3 STRAIGHT SETS TAKEN
Miss Marine MacDonald of Seattle
Defeats Mrs. J. C. Cushing
for Women's Championship.
Elmer Griffin of San Francisco
won the Oregon state tennis cham
pionship in men's singles at Irving-
ton yesterday by disposing of Her
bert Suhr, also of San Francisco, id
three straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 12-10.
At the same time on another court
Miss Mayme MacDonald of Seattle
for the fourth consecugive year was
winning the women's championship.
She defeated Mrs. F. C. Cushing of
Berkeley, Cal.. 6-2. 6-4. Both
matches were well played and' both
drew large galleries.
Mrs. J. C. Cushing and Irene
Campbell of Portland won the wo
men's doubles championship by de
feating Mrs. W. I. Northup and
Stella Fording, both of Portland,
6-1, 5-7, 6-1. The mixed doubles
was won by Mrs. Cushing and Elmer
Griffin, who defeated Mayme Mac
Donald and H. T. Dickinson, 6-4, 6-2.
The only other championship
match, the men's doubles, was won
Friday by Henry Stevens of Port
land and Elmer Griffin of San
Francisco.
The Griffin-Suhr match for the
men's championship yesterday, al
though slow at the start, became
more spectacular as It progressed
and in the last set the contenders
played so evenly that it took 22
games, the longest set in the tourn
ament, for Griffin to win, 12-10.
Griffin Takes Lead at Stnrt.
ri mm LOOK tne leau a t tlie otcLi t
of the first set and won four games
before Suhr won a game. Griffin
then took the next two games with
out losing a point.
In the second set Suhr rallied
after Griffin had run up five games
and took three straight. Suhr led
in the nest game until a double fault
and two net plays gave Griffin the
game and set.
Griffin was playing the same cau
tious, careful game that he dis
played through the tournament. His
serves lacked speed but were ex
tremely accurate and he only made
three double faults In the entire
match- Suhr was erratic. He made
frequent nets and errors. ' ,
. Suhr Opens With Rush.
Suhr opened with a rush in the
final set. He won the first game
by scoring all the points. His place
ments were good and seemed to
trouble Griffin. The next, a deuct
affair, went to Griffin, as did the
third. Then Suhr displayed his best
form and took four games in a row,
giving him a lead of 5 to 2.
He had chances to win both the
eighth and ninth games, as he led
several times in both, which were
long deuce see-saws, but developed
an erratic streak, whereupon Grif
fin won four games and took the
lead, 6 to 5. Suhr led at the 13th
game and lacked one point of win
ning the game and set. but lost
again by erratic playing, as he also
did in the 17 th game.
After tying Suhr In the 20th game
Griffin braced and won the next
three, aet and match. Suhr made 32
passes In this set to Griffin's 12, and
but for his six double faults and
numerous nets and outs would have
won the set. Griffin made compara
tively few nets and outs and most
r,f th wnints Rpnrprf hv Ruhr WA
placements he could not reach.
Match Slow In Comparison.
The MacDonald - Cushing match
was slow in comparison to the play
for the men's championship. Al
though Mrs. Cushing had swept the
field in all the preliminaries and the
semi-finals, her play was not up to
standard yesterday. Miss MacDon
ald won with ease. It was her
lourin ciiaiiitiiuuaiLiiJ ictui j
All games, however, were well
played and there were numerous
rallies. Miss MacDonald's place
ments were better than Mrs. Cush-in-g-'s
and she won most of her poJnt
on them.
The Seattle girl took the first
four games in the first set and after
losing the fifth and sixth, won the
next two with ease. The second set
see-sawed until the eighth game,
each having two. Then Miss Mac
Donald rallied and took the next
two games, set and match.
The women's doubles wera hard
played. After taking the first set,
6-1, Miss (ampbell and Mrs. Cush
ing slackened and Mrs. W. I. North
up and Stella Fording led 5 to 2 in
the second set. Miss Campbell and
Mrs. Cushing made a spurt and tied
the games, only to lose the next
two and set, 6 to 7.
Losers Are Fatigued.
The losers were fatigued in th
last set and offered little compe
tltioo, Mrs. Cushing and Miss Camp
bell taking every game but one.
Miss Campbell excelled at the net
while Mrs. Cushlng's placements
were very effective.
Elmer Griffin's steadiness and
Mrs. Cushing's placements were re
sponsible for the defeat of H. T.
Dickinson and Mayme MacDonald
In the finals of the mixed doubles.
Mrs. Cushing and Elmer Griffin had
the distinction of being finalists In
all the events and Griffin won In
each. Irene Campbell won the wo
men's consolation singles from Mrs.
J. P. Mulder, 8-6, 6-4,
Yesterday results:
Men's singles Elmer Griffin defeated
Herbert Suhr, 6-1, 6-3, 12-10 (finals).
Women's singlet Mayme MacDonald
defeated Mrs. J. C. Cushing, B-2, 8-4
(finals).
Women's doubles Mrs. J. C. Cushlns
and Miss Irene Campbell defeated Mrs.
W. I. Northup and Stella Fording, 6-1.
5-7, 6-1 (finals).
Mixed doubles Elmer Griffin and Mrs.
J. C. Cushing defeated Mayme MacDon
ald and H. T. Dickinson, 6-4, 6-2 (finals).
Women's singles consolation Irene
Campbell defeated Mrs. J. P. Mulder,
8-6, 6-1 (finals).
Following is a complete record ot
the Suhr-Griffin match:
First set Dble.
ts. rass. Nts. ots. Fts.Gms.
Griffin 28 3 4 3 1
Suhr 0 2 14 11 0 1
Second set
Griffin S3 3 15 5 0
Suhr 25 5 16 9 8 t
Third set
Griffin 72 12 19 16 2 12
Suhr 73 32 28 25 18
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