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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, ! i 1 RECRUITS WED. Major CeagueT Bai&alf Teams to Strengten Weak Spots. MINOR LEAGUES LOOK RIPE. (treat Number : of Premising Bait Player In West and South Ara Likely t Be Either Purehatad ar Drafted During the Coming Fall, While the baseball seasou of 1908 la scarcely half over, the various teams In tba blf leagues ire beginning to send oat their scouts for new players with whom to strengthen their teams. There Is hardly one of the sixteen oiubs which Is willing to stand pat, and la the majority of cases the clubs are anxious to land promising young play ers for the remainder of the season. , An Important feature about this hunt for players Is that the attention of practically all the scouts is centered on a sextet of players," all of whom are playing ball in the west So many of the western players that have been tried out by the big league clubs hare made good that the scouts have ap parently decided that the best of the minors are to be found there. The young players who attracted the attention of the scouts thus far are Pitcher Bonmr and Inflelder Nlehof of Des Moines, Pitcher Fitzgerald and In fielder Patterson of Pueblo and Pitcher Bono and Inflelder Gagner of Lincoln. Aside from Marquard, signed by the New York Nationals, Bomar appears to be the one most sought after. It Is said that while he was pitching for the Decatur club In the Three I league last year he won twenty-one games. The beet portion of the youngsters who come from the south are not stick ing, but many of them are delivering more than their share of the goods. This season's count finds Sid Smith, Willjfim, Ball, Ats, Manuel, Graham ami others not only holding their own, but ranked as stars around the major circuit. , .- . While nothing but a guess can be delivered thus far In advance, the dope would Indicate that the 1906 crop from the Southern league" will run about as follows, listing the players who are practically sure to go up: Atlanta Ford, Castle ton and Jordan, with a chance that Moran and Becker nay be Included. ; - New Orleans Lord and Bartiey back to Philadelphia. Byaa has ; already gone to Cleveland. ' ,., Nashville McElveen, almost to a oertalnty; "Hunter to Brooklyn; Bay te Cleveland If be goes good the rest of the year; Daubert likewise; a chance that Hub Perdue will be lifted if he can only hold his present clip. Little Rock Speaker to a certainty. A chance that Buchanan and Collins will be tried out Memphis Chappelle looks good for a trial, while Frank Owen is practically another certainty, as he Is undoubtedly one of . the best backstoppers In the league. Cranston Is the only man on the Infield with a chance. , , Birmingham Mack Robinson, pos sibly Raub. ' Montgomery Pepe had a great show If he had only taken care of himself. Persons started out as if he intended to leave the league, but hasn't been doing so well of late. Hub Hart, may revert back to the Sox. Mobile Fisher figures that Benson will go up at least, ... . Then isn't any doubt from our low ly viewpoint that Owens Is the best backstopper In the league by a couple of laps; t Ford, Castleton, Robinson, Chappelle, Perdue' and Ryan, not over looking Bartiey, the best pitchers. Jor dan is the best second baseman on Dixie's map, but so far as we have seen there are no Balls or Jakey Atzes on tap around the circuits. McDonald has the third sack overshadowed by a block, while Speaker and Lord have the call over any outfielders we have seen up to date. Every one of these earnest athletes should make good un der the big tent or the bulk of them at least All of the clubs that are after play ers are paying more attention to pitchers than any other department The majority of the scouting which has been made public thus far has been done by American league teams. The Cleveland Americans have been traveling In such hard luck of late in the matter of injuries that th$ club Is very anxious to land some good ma terial Since the accident te S to vail the scouting work has been taken up by the club In more earnestness than before! The Chicago Americans are also anxious to strengthen their team, which plainly shows that they are far from feeling confident in their ability to win the pennant this year. These are Just two of the clubs that are known to be on the hunt for ball tossers, and It is safe to say that all the others have their eyes on more of the promising minors. mm mmn Kmzzx flighty it Utile AmeHe Pttehee . . . Promises te Be 6od. 1 he trouble baseball managers have had with Mr. Charles Edward Wad dell, better known, as '"Rube," would fill too many books to enumerate. Con nie Mack of the Philadelphia Amerl cans bad all he could stand, and this season the St Louis American field t t i i y i 't V, 'mm.,. V U. 4 BCBI W1DCKXU generals have been staying awake o' nights to try to hit on some scheme to keep Rube within bounds. Rube's latest escapade was to desert the team to go shooting water snakes with a rifle In Missouri. Whether water moccasins were the only kTnd of snakes Rube saw Is not known as yet However, be has returned to the fold and has promised not to bother with snakes of any kind hereafter. one or No Mercy For Rowdy Ball Players. Rowdyism upon a ball field in the Eastern league Is certainly not going to get a foothold if President Powers has his way. and from the string of punishments he has dealt out the play ers In this organization must feel that he means business. Owing to the mix up at Jersey City, In which Umpire Murray became Involved1 with Pitcher Brown and Fielder Mertes of the To ronto club, Brown was suspended for three days and fined $10, and Mertes was fined $25. The Umpire Moran Pitcher Dessau-Manager . Dunn wran gle has co?t Umpire Moran his posi tion as an umpire, the Indefinite sus pension of Dessau and a fine of 25 for Manager Dunn, LEEVER'S GREAT RECORD. Pittsburg's Veteran One of the Most Consistent Twiriere In League. For consistency In the pitching line no one has anything on veteran Sam Leever of the Pittsburg Nationals. The fans may some day cease talk ing about "Lucky Leever" and give that veteran credit for being what be is one of the greatest twlrlers the game has ever known. Look over the records, and yon will discover that It is. mighty hard to find a man " with a record as good as that of the former schoolmaster. ' . This Is Leever'a eleventh season wltr the Pittsburg baseball team. Ho Joined .the Buccaneers In 1888. but had sore arafand pitched but a single game, which he won. He went back to Richmond, from which team he lad been secured by the Pirates, and re mained there until the next spring, when he again Joined the Pirates and has been a Pittsburg twirler ever since. He Is the only player now on the team who was with Pittsburg prior to the coming of President Drey fuss and the consolidation of the Colo nels and the Buccaneers. Leever .has . a record that cannot be duplicated that of winning almost two-thirds of his games every season he has been in the league. ' His aver age since he Joined the Pirates up to the beginning of the present season is .661, he having won 164 games and lost 8L NO COLLEGIANS FOR DOVEY. Amine famFof! Chicago and Hayesof New York at Olympics. ALMOST UNKNOWN BEFORE Boston's Owner Partial to Ball Players Graduated From Lots. "College players? Not for mine. Give me the boys from the lots the chaps who know that they must either make good In baseball or go back to carrying the bod," said Major George B. Dovey, Boston's owner. "These col lege fellows are only In the game as an alternative for pulling teeth or do ing civil engineering. They don't have to play baseball, and they know It So it's the boy from the lots for mine. Don't see any rah-rah boys on my team, do you?" Major Dovey, unlike his fellow mag nates In the National league, has not. gone Into the gate receipts of 1908 to make opulent the exchequer of various minor league clubs which are supposed to possess talent of superlative merit "I haven't an option or even a hot tip on any bush league wonders," said the king of the Doves. "And I'm not accumulating a sinking fund to be In vested for the benefit of the needy bush leaguers later In the season either. Of course I will try to improve my team for next season, but It will not be by lining up a string of rook ies so long that I'll have to number fhom in order to be able to designate them when I want them. "Last spring we went south with twenty men. My instructions to them were brief and to the point JEvery one of you fellows is a regular,' 1 told 'em. 'Now pitch in and do the best you know how.' Of that entire bunch Youpg Pfeiffer and one other, I believe, are the only ones I've kissed goodby. I don't expect to have a lar i?er..army next spring, but. I do expect the results to be qujte as satisfactory as those obtained by clubs having thir ty "or more men out for spring prac tice.";' ;.' :V:;-' "v.- -; Barrett Has Eye on Ball. Jimmy Barrett who was released b.v the Boston Americans as a back num ber, Is playing great ball for Provi dence and batting nearly .300. Those Qallant British Lion Away With Field Prises. Yankee Lads Bearded In His Den and Get Troaeured Traok and FINANCIAL I Q. A. BOWLBY, President -O. I. PETERSON, Vkf President FRANK PATTON, Caskler J. W, GARNER, Assistant Casale .Astoria Sayings Bank Capital Paid in $115,000. Surpl us and Undivided Profits, 1100,000 Transacts a Genera! Banking Buslnen Interest Paid on Tims Dtpoalti Every one of oar modern Olympiads has furnished the opportunity for some young American athlete hitherto un known among the world's champions to spring a tremendous surprise and In a single hour leap from obscurity to the proud position of Olympic cham plon. M:",i;;ri';!v Way back In 1806 at Athena Robert Garrett of Princeton competed In the discus throw, though be had never en a Greek saucer before. To the surprise and dismay of the throng of ureeks gathered in the stadium, Gar rett hurled the discus forcefully tf not gracefully and beat their champion out by a few Inches. . At St Louts In 1904 Jim Llgbtbody or Chicago was the unheard of one to Jump into the limelight Before this meet Llgbtbody, on his own admission. V . . . ' it 4t 1 IT' X " om t. sunt, who won suninc suon. had never run a half milt faster than mlnntes 8 seconds, yet be cleaned up th 800 meter championship In 1 min ute 6d seconds after one of the most grueling races ever seen In any coun try. Besides this, Llgbtbody won the 8,300 meter steeplechase and the L000 meter run. Paul Pilgrim of New York was the sensation of the Athens Olympiad In 1808. Paul went to Greece a good sec ond rater and trimmed the world's best middlstancers twice in a stylo that dumfounded the athletic world. The London games Just finished fur nished two as great surprises aa any of them In little Frank Irons of the Chicago Athletic association, who won the broad Jump with a marvelous leap of 24 feet 6Vi Inches, and John J. Hayes of New York, who won the twenty-six mile Marathon race. Al most all known about Irons was that he won a high Jump at the Pastime A. C. sports In New York last winter with an actual leap of 8 feet Enjoy ing a small handicap. Irons took the event quite easily. Therefore we put him down as a first rate high Jumper that's all. When the news came from London that Irons had made such a wonderful leap in the long Jump it seemed unbe lievable. Irons, though looked upon as a 10 to 1 snot In the high Jump, bad never been considered for an Instant In the long Jump, and bis triumph wss without a doubt the sensation of the London Olympiad. When the details of Irons' great Jumping feat com ont It will probably be the same old story Mike Murphy. One of Mike's specialties Is develop ing a man to fill a gap In his team on short notice, and It looks as if he has done this with the little western high Jumper. Hayes had never done very much on this side either. He trained for the Marathon race on the top of a New York department store. Five Hits For Twelve Bsees. .Ote Johnson, the "wooden shoe" lad, who covers the keystone sack for the Portland (Ore.) club, certainly did some damage with his willow recently at Los Angeles. In five trips to the plate the husky Swede lambasted the horse bide for a four sacker, a three bagger, a couple of doubles and for measure sandwiched in a single, making five hits for a total of twelve bases, which Is going some In any man's league. This Is the star batting feat of the sea son, and it will be some time before an other player lines out five safeties In a single game, not to mention rolling up a total of a down bases for this num ber of safe swats. New Four Track Circuit. Curley Brown the western horse man and the builder of the City Park track at New Orleans, makes the an nouncement that a four track circuit Is planned in the south to replace the tracks at the Crescent City. Brown says that a number of capitalists of Cincinnati are the financial backers of the circuit and that it will be ready before the snow files. The tracks will be situated at Norfolk," Va.; Charleston, S. C; Jacksonville. Fla., and- Savan nah, Ga. In addition to these four, horsemen will be : able to "race at Tampa. Fla., as they did last season. Manager McCloskey of the St Louis Nationals has looked the Western league over and has secured options on several Omaha Inflelders. Eevsnth and Duans Sts. FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. Astoria, OftgvsV LITTLE OVER 3 CENTS ADA! A Small Savings Bank. v A Small Sarings Account. An Example in Thrift. A Small Fortune. A happy home. THE BANKING SAVINGS AND LOAN ASS'C'N. 168 10th St. Phone Black 2184 First National Bank of Astoria DIRECTORS Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor h G, C. Flavel J. W. Ladd S.S.Gordon Capital ........ ,. $100,000 Surplus .J'..........'. "....'...T.V 25,000 Stockholders' Liability ........ r . . 100,000 E3TAULI8IIKI Utmi. SCANDINAVIAN-A M E R I C A N SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: -Safety Supercedes AH Other Cotuidaratioa." TRANSPORTATION. 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