The Oregon daily journal., June 13, 1909, Page 56, Image 56

OIF: THE'' ILJTTO - WOIR'ILiOi
GOSSIP OF THE
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Atlanta Subscribes Hundred
Thousand for Two Mile
Eace Track.
' Atlanta business men and automobile
enthusiasts subscribed J1OO.00O In 18
minute toward the J226.OO0 necessary
to build Atlanta's two mile auto track.
Already land has been purchased near
Atlanta and work will be started t
( ww It is proposed to have the- track.
grandstand and whole plant finished by
November and to have the first race
: meeting of any importance . take plauo
at that time.
The German government has 1?
and approved the process of "WerWg
aluminum discovered by Otto JfolM
- after many year of experiments . Shee"
of a Joint soiaerea djt ...,......-
can ue hammereH out quite thhv wlth-
!...... .. inint and the discovery
means much to the constructlpn of
motor cars.
A simple home teat of acid In lubricating-oil
may carried out as fol
lows: Procure from the druggist a so
lution of sodium carbonate in an, equal
, weight of water. Take a small, quan
tity of-the oil and an equal amount or
the aodium solution. Place them in a
bottle, shake, then allow to stand. If
there la any acid present it will settle
to the bottom as a precipitate, the
amount of precipitation Indicating the
amount of acid present.
Testa made by the government show
that a motor cycle and a horseman re
quire nearly the same distance in stop
ping. A. skilled cavalryman going 2S
miles ah hour required 16i feet to atop,
while a motor cycle, at 40 mllea an
hour, required 141 feet
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A Parisian caterer is delivering din
ners "all hot a l auto." The machine
ia constructed with ovena heated by
exhaust gases, into which are placed the
viands Intended to be sent out from the
cookshop to homes ordering them.
"What is called the "sucking action"
of pneumatic tires on road surfaces has
i yet never been proved to exist, .accord
in to Colonel R. B. Crompton, a Brit
ish road expert. Colonel Crompton,
however, ia deeoly opposed to the use
of ateel studded tires.
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' There are now more than 40,000 mo-
- tor vehicles in use In Oermany, . of
which about one half are motor cycles.
A good deal of fun was created in
Germany during the recent commercial
'motor car trials held by the government.
The trials were heralded as a "race,"
and in one town a police official waa
. sent out with a fcell to warn the popu
lace to rook out for their children. When
the heavy vehicles came lumbering Into
view the, townspeople broke into hearty
laughter, -
There, are more than 8,000,000 miles
of roads in the United States and there
"la annuallv expended on the town or
: lateral road a of the country 165.000,000
In cash and ,120,000,000 , in labor.
' Close on the heels of atatementa that
the new Pennsylvania motor law would
. not be effective until January 1 next,
, Attorney General Todd of that state has
- announced that the statute is already in
- force. ; Tourists from other states which
grant reciprocal courtesy to Pennsyl
vania, may use Pennsylvania highways
lor 10"days without taking out a license.
. . General Leonard Wood proposes to
utilize a motor corps at, the regular
army maneuvers to be held from Au-
r gust 14 to 21, having the 'owners of the
cars 30 into camp the same as do the
. regular troops, although it would not
be necessary for them to enlist.
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Cincinnati now has motor gospel wa-
. tons, equipped, with pews, a. platform
for the speaker and a pipe organ. The
wagon will be utilised In aoul saving
on a -trip through the south by "Gipsy"
. Smith, a well known evangelist.
r In connection with the. general plan
for automobllefruns to Atlanta next fall,
previous to the opening there of the
national automobile show, the Savannah
Automobile club has derided to arrange
an 'endurance contest to go via Au
gusta. A cash prize of 1 1000 will be
given to the winner. '
Accumulator terminals should be
smeared with vaseline to prevent cor
rosion and "setting." To do this most
; effectively remove the nuts and hav
ing left tiie wires in position, thorough-
' ly lubricate the terminals and replace
the nuts. On screwing these down
enough vaseline will be squeezed out to
lubricate them externally.
A habit followed by professional
drivers la to grind valves as soon as a
certain distance has been covered, this
being predetermined by experience with
a single or many cars. This habit
might well be-followed by amateurs, as
' Coon as they have driven enough to
.determine the critical mileage.
'
There are two general principles to
te remembered In overtaking or pass
ing vehicles on the road. These are:
Be sure that there Is a clear way
ahead before the overtaking or panning
' Is attempted, and never to cut things so
rfine that a swerve on the part of the
Other men will cause a mishap.
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Kerosene has befen and can now ba
tised In carbureters designed for gaso
line, but not withany marked degree
of success. The main difference be
tween the two lies in the difficulty of
. vaporizing the heavier fuel with the
available heat. In many kerosene va-
. porlzers this difficulty Is overcome by
healing the. fuel before as well as dur
ing vaporization.
The Pass Word for a
Try It once yooH know
.. tb reason why.
lnTfiDifini'inDin
UIUIWIIU HUI1LU
QUAKER
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C To eeltzer, gi"Ker le oda lt dl4 n
appetidng . test and imparts a richness of
flavor possessed by no other whiskey. .
C QDAIEt MAID EYE is the winner of three
hiehest awards-rSt. Louis, 1904; Paria, 1905;
Portland, 1905. It ia '.
Th Whiskey witb Reputation
" For sale at ail flrst-elaas
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Mountain of Copper
BY ADDISOX BteXNETT.
McLean's Road House, June 2. You
will look invain cn the map. for the
above named place, but I know "where
I am at," and l am Just done dinner
at a place kept by Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Lean, about, 14 mllea below Wild Horse,
and nearly opposite the borax works.
The McLean place is Just at the' mouth
of Cricket creek, which winds up a
canyon to the west By following the
road up this creek and through this
canyon I expect tomorrow to reach the
Home creek ranch' in Catlow valley, and,
by the way, the place occupied by the
McLeans Is somewhat historic, for It
was just outside the door where I am
now' writing (with a soap box for a
desk) that Deputy Sheriff Baxton of
Baker City, and Jack West, one of a
posse formed by Baxton, were shot to
death by one Egbert about three years
ago. Egbert was afterward hanged for
the, crime, being the first prisoner to be
executed in the penitentiary, 'While the
story is not of Interest to many of your
readers, it is of interest to those of
Harney, Grant and Baker counties. So
I will give the outlines. Egbert was
wanted on some petty charge, larceny
I think, and was located by Saxton In
Anderson valley, and was arrested and
taken to Jim" Mahon's place. There
he and his wife were being held and he
asked to speak in private with his wile.
Permission was granted, he crawled
through a window and fled, comina
down here. About a -month after his
escape he was located and Saxton came
after him. formed a posse at , WO.l
Horse and arrived hare on a Sunday.
afternoon.
Of course further details are con
flicting, but West was shot on a little
knoll about 100 feet north of the house,
the shot being fired by Egbert from an
upstairs window. West in his dying
struggles called for wrater, and Saxton
went to him with a bucket, when Egbert
bored him through the body with a bul
let from a .44 rifle. "
Battle Xag-ed for Hours.
But not in detail la Jthat fecltal cor
rect, for the battle raged for several
hours, both in and outdoors. In th
weatherboarding on the north end are
bullet marks, and inside there are prob
ably 50 such holes. Bo It is hard to
hang the stories upon one harmonious
thread. But two things are sure; Eg
bert killed Saxton and West, then
mounted a horse and escaped, and was
gona for over a month .before he was
arrested. '
I Jeft Denlo about 7 o'clock this a. m.
and got hero to dinner. On my way 1
met a chap whom I thought of mention
ing before, a barber, from Boise, I came
across him first on the lake "Pretty
lake." 1 think, would be a good name
for It. I overtook him with his little
satchel, which he nfterwards confided
held "a complete barber shop." I hauled
him down to White Horse, where he
raked In $ by the middle of the after
noon, then hiked out for Cedarvllle, Ca!..
about J50 miles' away! In other -words,
he was on a tramp of nearly 400 miles!
He stopped that night at a sheep camp,
and yesterday I overtook him again, and
hauled him until I pulled across to
Borax, and today I met him, as happy
as a lark, six miles north of Denlo,
packing a wad of some 175, which wlU
go Into the coffers of the hangers-on
of tho shearing camp,
In my last letfer I mentioned stop-plna-
at the home of Mrs. Catlow. and
I stopped there again today, for she Ms
a mine of Information.- and there today
I met Robert D. ' Brown." who has been
for -40 years prospecting in the Pueblo
mountains. '
Finds Voders Horn la' Desert.
I wish I could take the reader to the
Catlow residence and there sit together
for an hour ot two under the spell of
perfect "Highbair-
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bars, oaies ana drug stores
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sensational finish in the class B 43.8 miles event in a-Cadillac
and made a rery dating race.
in Harney County
the charming recitals; of Mrs. Catlow.
Imagine a lady in middle life, with
every evidence of culture and every
air of refinement, in a home furnished
with rare taste and skill, and at no in
considerable expense. Then let,, us sit
down to as dainty a meal aa one might
hope to find In some stately mansion
and all of this almost in "the desert!"
Mr. John Catlow was a prosperous resi
dent of a fashionable quarter of San
Francisco years, ago, and in 1869 he
became interested In the cattle indus
try In Oregon, and in 1871 he began
operations on a large scale over west
of here, in what will eyer be known
as Catlow valley. He later married,
took up other ranches, prospered1 and
finally established the Trout creek
ranch and built the home across the
valley where Mrs. Catlow now resides
with her son Joseph.
I. cannot follow the fortune of Mr.
Catlow. He was a big doer of blr
things. He and John Devlne and Peter
r rench were lords of a vast domain.
But a dozen years ago his health failed,
misfortune overtook him (in one winter
8000 of his cattle perished), and eight
years ago on the fifth of this month
he died at the house where the family
now resides, his death oreceding that
of John Devlne by a scant month.
Such in briefest outline is the storv
of the senior member of th firm of
Catlow & Sisson, one of Oregon's first
great cattle concerns.
Inspect Copper Deposits.
Of all of the persons whom I have
Interviewed in this country I think
Mrs. Catlow Is the most optimistic and
the best informed; and I want to go
into slight details about the copper de
velopments on, Pueblo mountains, Just
west of her residence. On my way
down yesterday she talked a good deal
upon that subject arid showed me many
handaome specimens, and gave me some.
I will send them to The Journal. To
day Mr. Brown, the original discoverer
of the deposits, was there nnri ha want
over his work of exploration, first be-J
KUII III lotro.
I cannot go "over the story of his
search for capital, his dealings with
lrresponsibles and sharpers, his group
ing and bonding the claims, lapse of the
bonds and all that. But he showed me
that Ogden & Co.. of Denver. Colo., have
made many assays for him -and 'that
sucl assays show the ore to be worth
from $200 to 1260 per ton. and to have
a largo per cent of gold, silver, and
nickel mixed with the cooper. "And "
said Mr. Brown, "there is a mountain
of It"
It must be understood that the de
veloping of a cooper property is by no
means a poor man's undertaking. It
will tak a rood many thousands of
dollars to open up this Harnev county
Industry, but opened up it will be at
some future date. '
Chance for Capitalist.
And her Is a chance for-some of
the Denver capitalists to. make money
for themselves and fame for Harney
county and Oregon. Will they do it?
Will they even Jook Into It? A few
thousand dollars invested In expert re
ports might mean millions of money
to the promoters and untold prosperity
to Harney county. -
And that brings me back to railroads
again. For of course this field. If It is
anything like as rich as claimed, would
mean a railway up from Winnemucca.
Probably the Gould road. And how
much better it would be for Oregon if
we had the road from Boise to Coos
Bay, with a feeder down the Juniper,
$19,000 SPEED BOAT
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The new boat - shown - in .the picture
was built in the east for R. F. Fyx and
W. C Slattery of Portland and it will
be sent Into the races at the Seattle
fair the first Week In July. The boat
cost 1 19.000 - and is one of ' the best
power boats in the United States. It
was landed . In Seattle last week and
after taking part in the races there will
be brought to Portland and placed on
the river to remain. v
She Is S3 fetvover ?l.'"Wlth a five
foot beam. She has a 120 horsepower
Laton engine 'f special - design - that
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past the coal fields and on to the cop'
per fields! Think of Harney county
with such transportation facilities: -
I mentioned recently about certain
things Harney county could do for
Massachusetts and perhaps in .addi
tion she ; might stake : Tom Lawsorf to
the best copper, property he ever juggled
wun:. ...... h i :. .- " .. .
Every day as-I ride afcng the lonely
roads often 30 or - 40 miles without
meeting a team I think of something
I have forgotten to write. , And one
of my misses was- the fact ' that the
pasturage ot Stein's mountains, includ
ing the foothills. Is at the present time
furnlshlnsr sustenance for something
over 300,000 sheep! And many of these
sheepcome from far distant points.
Many, are from Idaho and the Snake
river country, many from Nevada and
some from California. Many of the
owners do not have a foot of land or
a dollar's worth of property in the
county, save, their herds. Mr. Mahon
told m of one maji who had 8000 head
and did not own a foot of land or even
a cabin! ' . " .
I am not saying this is right or
wrong, nor am I pointing out a- remedy
for a wrong or making an argument
for or against the system. I am stat
inr the facts, to show that Harney
county has in her Stein's mountain pos
session someuiing-; oi aimosi umuiu
wealth And then 'let the reader con
sider how this asset may oast oe -conserved.
BOOZE QUESTION UP '
AGAIN AT STANFORD
Stanford University, Cal., June 12.
the liquor question, cause of the stu
dent demonstrations and threatened
strike a year ago that resulted in the
suspension of a number of Stanford un
dergraduates, inrettieus iu uiran
anew whun the university opens Its
doors for the fall term in August.
i-hurH X4evers. mirveyor of liquid re
freshment to Stanford students for more
than a decade, . is said to have com
niatori ninnx for ODenlng another boozs
emporium midway between Mayfleld and
from the campus. By stringent liquor
laws Mevers has been driven successive
ly out of Mayfield and Menlo Park. ut
his student trade in the past has been so
m Aiinruin v l v w . iiis.ii B.11 uvui a wv n
lucrauve iubi ii" "
120,000 for the new resort, which will
open with the, college term.
F0EGETS ABOUT GUN; :
- SHOOTS HIS HAND
New York, June 12. Interpreting lit
eralTy the injunction, "Let not your left
hand know what your right hand doeth,
or words to that effect.:; brought Alex
ander Greaain. 33 years old, to grjef.
via la .mninvflil as . nieht watchman in
the Broad Street theatre. Conscientious
to a degree, he began an exploration of
the dark recesses of the Btage along
toward midnight, "when he" thoiighl Tie
heard burglars moving aDouu
In order to be prepared for all emer
cnrlei. he carried his revolver in his
right hand and a dark lantern' In his
left.,- As he moved softly forward he
again heard the sound, and pressaa
what he thought was a button or the
lantern to turn on the light. ...
But he got his hands mixed and fooled
with the trlgger'of the revolver Instead
of the button of' the lantern. There was
a report and a bullet smashed, the lan
tern and perforated the Innocent left
band. If there was a burglar he es-
caped.
FOR PORTLAND
S'-M,
gives her tremendous speed. '.The clo
ture was taken when the' boat was hit
ting It up at a lively clip and the-
great driving power or the engine lifts
the bow clear of the water. - -
In the free-for-aAl and 32 foot classes
In Seattle she is expected to make a
great record. Local lovers of power
boating will have a chance to se her
In the Labor, day races, when she. will
rrobably start against The- Wolff II,
he speedy craft built In Portland by
Johnny Wolff, which Is expected to
make the waters of Lake Washington
fairly boll when she goes into action.
Mr. Covey rode alone in his car
PAT CROWE SET
IIP III BUSINESS
Wheat King Stakes Him and
Ministers Aid Will
Run Ant! Jaggery.
(United Prase Leased Wire.)
Chicago, June 12. After taking In
charge a Sanitarium where drug an J
drink victims will be brought into nor
mal shape, after sprees, Pat Crowe, tha
notorious kidnaper of the Cudahy boy,
Is supervising the remodeling of the in
stitution with money rurnished, it' is
said, by James A. Patten and othor
wealthy- Chicago men, .-"
The sanitarium is located on the north
shore. It is a 20 room structure which
was originally a hotel. Twenty acres
surround the .resort and patients will
be expected to' do work to make the
place self-supporting.
' The Rev. B. M. Brown, pastor of the
Onward Presbyterian churcn, is asso
ciated with Crowe- in the sanitarium.
Among the others in the undertaking are
Ralph Olmstead, private secretary to
Mr. Patten; the Rev. J. H. W. Boyle,
pastor of the Lake Forest Presbyterian
church: Dr. E. L. Baton, pastor of
Emanuel Methodist church. Kvanston,
and the Rev. J, C. Walker, pastor of the
High wood Methodist, church. ; i
PAY UP; SHAKE HANDS;
F0RGIVJS; ASK PARDON
Professor -Karapetoff Has 1 Parting
Heart to Heart Talk to Cor
nell Graduates.
Ithaca. N. T.. June 12. "Make D'
with -your landlady before you leave
college and , settle all your bets," was
part of the advice given to the Cornell
graduating class in mechanical engin
eering by Professor Vladimir Karape
toff In his final lecture to the seniors.
"Pay your bets," he adjured them,
"return that borrowed . book . and those
golf sticks, and tennis racquets. Also
repair all damage that you have dons,
purposely or inadvertently;' "
"See other students with whom you
have had soroo difficulty ,or contre
temps, shake hands and go to those
you liked the least, clasp both their
hands and look Into their eyes.
"Do not still begrudge your landlady
the small' things that she did or neg
lected to do? How about yourself? It
Is all over now. Soon you will shake
off the dust ot Ithaca, but before doing
so tell your landlady that you .are sorry
about that disturbance you made and
the broken, chair that resulted, and also
the small ' fire i started by - throwing
lighted matches in that waste basket
and the damage you did to the wall by
driving nails to hang wp pictures.
"The faculty and th registrar cer
tainly did not treat you right on all oc
casions. What are ; you going- to do
about it? Are you going; to poison the
Joys of coming years by carrying suchl
reminders nome wjmjroui ceiue your
accounts now and for all as far aa Ith
aca is concerned." 5
CATHOLIC FORESTERS
. ELECT OFFICERS
(Special Dispatch to The Joornal.) .
. Gervais, Or., June 12.-The fifth bi
ennial meeting of the State Court of
Catholic Foresters "was held In-Sublimity,
this county, June 8. Nine courts
were reoresented from Portland. Sub
limity, Mount Angel, Woodburn, Saint I
ram, uerrnta ana v cruvurts, vr uciw-
? rates, representing- about i00 members
n the state. The meeting was attended
by about 160 members of the order as
well aa the delegates. 'Portland was
chosen as the next place of meeting.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing two years: . Chief rang
er. Max MattT . of , Mount Angela vjee
chief ranger, Paullus McDonald of Port
land; secretary, M. E. McOrath of Wood
burn; treasurer, Charles Hottinger of
Sublimity; trustees,. Thomas Brown 'of
Woodburn, John H. Klene of Gervais,
and Charles J. Herb of Verboorts. Del
egate to International convention. Rob
ert J. O'Neil of Portland, T. A, Bell of
Sublimity, as alternate. ,
OKLAHOMA'S NEW
I s v LAWS IN EFFECT
Guthrie, Okla., June 12. Nearly 100
laws enacted by the last session of the
Oklahoma ; legislature became effective
today. - A large number of them are
measures of purely local Interest and
many others are measures carrying ap
propriations for the fiscal year begin
ning June -30. W .
Among the measures of general' Inter
est and importance are i primary and
election law, a law preventing. the Is
suance of scrip as pay by corporations,
Archer, Combs
. .. Auto Supplies,
BALL0U& WRIGHT
i AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES
Bclmorc, MacDougall, Moores Co.
AUTO REPAIRING AND REEUICD1NG CLASS FRONTS A SPECIALTY'
CARTER CAR
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FRICTION DRIVE ,
Automobile and Launch Supplies
FAMOUS APPERSON,CAR
. ROSE CITY MOTOR CAR CO, Sole Agents ,
mPffAf J e mkt a specialty of selling; second-hand machines.
MAIN 6769
Vulcanizing & Retreading R. E.
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H L. Keats Auto Co. HrS"
PACKARD POPE HARTFORD f
' . ; CHALMERS DETROIT BUICK
MclNTVRE
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High Wheel Autos ssa aia.r
mmc wig. SL;; in'finrman YnnintpiTn
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it itfe , Phones Main 3520 A 3520
J57r Cr A-4944.
OOTST MOTOB CAS COMPAJTY, SZTXITTK AJTD OOVCH.
STUDEBAKER
THE AUBURN
WINTON MOTbR COC OF OREGON
SIXTEENTH AND AUTOMOBILE ROW (
' Demonstration by Appointment. Phone Main 2583
GASOLINE, BENZINE.
J. D.
OPEN EVENINGS
a - uniform law on negotlabla Instru
ments. 'child labor" and Juvenile court
laws, and the measures creating- a min
ers' lien, prohibiting, the screening- of
coal before weighing, fixing a penalty
for converting interest on'publlc money
to private use. and requiring foreign
corporations to maintain resident state
agents at the seat of government. ,
Among the hew laws of a miscellan
eous character are those making It a
nilony to give or sell Intoxicating liquor
to portions of unsound nUnU, making It a
& Winters; Co.
306 Oak Street
Morgan & Wright and
', .Goottricfi Jires
66 SIXTH STREET ,
Main 1834. A-1S34 '
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Runabouts and Delivery Cars I
according to equipment.
L. PUABXEA. .
Btats As-ent. . .'
With Graham lilotor oar Co., 18th mni
wasaingio sxa. t
CoveyMotorCarCo.
"SEVENTH AND COUCH -Main
6470 A 4587
j rVf achlnerv Co.
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Phones Msin 1 1348, A 1346 f
188-190 CHAPMAN STREET
SLODGETT. 510 Alder SL Main 7005
"It's All in the Tire"
Go &l
West Coast Supply Co.
326 Burnslde SL
AGENCY
fp 0 ALDER ST. fi
Commercial and Pleasure Vehicles, Driving Cars
THE BARIURD-CIARK 510 TOR VEHICLE
st.
Offios and Crarag-s.
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Supplies for Your
Automobile '
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535 Aider St.
PORTLAND MOTOR CAR CO.
526 Alder Street, Near 16th
Phones: . i t Main 2583
Gasoline, Electric
I9th and'Alder St Portland
FKOira uaxs issi
303 First Avenue So. Seattle
. ID ANH A MOTOR.
, GAk R ; COMPAN V
ftaventh and Couch
r Portland, Ore '
so
TENTH
STREET
AND LUBRICATING OIL '
KELLY, .'"Proprietor-
felony to Sell fruit trees sr shrubs by
misrepresentation, aumonsing mo ere
tlhn and Incorporation Of' trade Ineur
ance, companies, and protecting benevo
lent and charitable- organisations in ine
use and display of their emblems; and
names.- v- --.' '.".-' '
Manager Harry Lumley of Brooklyn
has signed "Lanky" Anderson, the Uni
versity of Maryland .pitcher. Anderson
pitched five shut-out victories for the
college nlno this spring. ' '
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