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Second Series of Matches Will
Begin Today. With More
ThanThirty Participating
' Loving Cup to Winner. ;
The first matches of a f round, robin
: singles tennis tournament will be played
tomorrow evening, by member of the Y.'
y M, C, A. Tennis club. This Is the second
' tournament of the' season for the club.
Judging from the excellence of the ex-
... htbltlons put up by several of the play
ers in the first . tournament, which was
completed last week, an interesting; se-
... rles of. matches between crack perform
ers Is expected in the coming battle. ' . .
All the members of the Vlub, jiunv
bering 30, will participate in the round
robin, and others are expected to sign nip
before tomorrow evening.- As an incen
tlve tp hard work a loving cupr has1 been
, offered tor the winner by Physical Di
rector A. M. Orilley. , B.: G. Mitchell will
manage the tournament. ' .
In' a round robin tennis meet " every
player, is pitted against 'every other
Player, and the entry making the high
est scores wins the meet.' After the
completion of the round ' robin it - Is
planned to pull of a handicap tournament....,-'
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Tennis Popular Vow..
At the present time-, there l more in
terest among T. M. C A. -athletes in ten
nis than ever before, i The club has its
courts at Tenth and Columbia streets,
and ihey are in ar flnecondltlon as any
v dirt courts In the cfty. . j .
' The scratch . tournament for singles
and doubles completed last week was a
success -from every viewpoint. It was
headed by P. H, Wymant who.won praise
for excellent Judgment.
The star In the singles 'was William
Salt,- who easily won first place over all
v comers, although he was pitted against
skilled 'Players- In EIy and -Neal, who
won second and third , places respec
tively. .' .'
Salt is a Quick and tool player.-' He
gets .around the court without much ef
fort, and seldom allowed a ball to go by.
He Is considered a match for the best
tennis players In the- city. He did his
best work of the tournament in the last
match, , and was applauded by an en
thusiastle gallery.
' The prises received In the singles for
"first, second and third places, respec
tively, were a gold' medal valued at $10,
offered by F, A. Clark; a "Pirn" tennis
.- racquet, given by J. A. Addleman, and a
$2.60 gold pen. given by T. K. GUI
Neal and Ely won out on a handsome
v margin in the doubles series. Perkins
'and Wyman took second , place, while
walker and Mitchell captured third
- Loving cups were given- by Jaeger
Bros, and R. D. Inman for first and sec
ond places In the doubles. A-prie, for
third place was also given. ,. ,
... si List of Members.
Following Is a list, of names of . the
members of the YM. C A. Tennis club,
all of. whotft4wllV enter Uie.rouitd. -robin
tournament.,", which- .starts tomorrow:
C, F. Loedlng, Abe Miller, W, G, . Ma-
darla. U E- Stevens, O. N. Blair, W, D.
Pmtth; H. Marx. J.; Ely, H. Smith.' I
It, McCarthy. M. A. Frye,v V T. New
comb. C C, Madsen, A., J. Tindalph, C.
Kassibaum, R..C. Dewey, Malcolm Mat
tick. Fred Iyau, Lester Hurst. S. W,
Pelly, Bert G. MItchelK W. C. Moor.. R.
R. Perkins. A. M. Griltey. P.' H. Wyman,
Weinrlch Searcy; Stouffer, Moulin and
Gelsmanpv Others are expected to. enter
' this eek. ' " ." ';. '
Y. Fl C. A. FLAYERS CAUGHT BY CAM En.
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Lower left hand plctureV-Jerry Ely.
who won second place In the
singles. ( - ' ,
Lower right band picture William
Salt, who captured ' first place- In
v the singles.
WHATW1LLTAVM
DO ABOUT BATTLE?
Did Scent of Battle Make Old
Warhorse Challenge, at :
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MOTOR BOAT: GOSSIP
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ine coast cnampionsnip racen un
. couver ' were -a big -success, ; The Wolff
II won the handsome cup, but' we give
the Seattle Spirit credit for "being the
, fastest boat and are sorry aha had bad
- luck. - - .- . ,y
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The next event that will occupy' the
' minds of the motor boatLsts will be the
j monthly -outing on Sunday, July 24, at
' the Rock Island club. . v . .
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The three small speed boats did not
race last Sunday, but from .the talk
' going around it looks as . If a match
. race will be pulled . off in the near
future. -
It was rd hot at Vancouver" last
Sunday, but all those who braved the
heat were well paid for their trouble
In seeing a fine motor boat race.
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"Don't forget that the club has. re
i celved a shipment of the new pennants
and that all the clb boats should fly
one. . " .
: i Frank Thorn had his pew boat out for
a trial trip Thursday and she showed
' Tjp well in speed and. looks,
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C". Ray. King lias changed the name of
. the Mountain Maid to Martha King. He
is also having-a .new boat, house built
for her. r
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C.V, Coopcx was aw busy man at
the races." He kept the Charmalce run
ning to and fro., looking after the press
and race, officials, . -
Now is the time for the boys to make
arrangements to attend the big regatta
. at Astoria tne latter part of August
W-hope the Rose Festival committee
will iot overlpok the river snorts at the
next carnival. It might -be -well for
them to get ousy on the Drosrram nn-
so as to figure out what they can spend
lor uie aquatic sports.
And now who Is the next who will
try to "come back", and place the heavy
weight crown upon a white forehead?
Bob Fltislmmons? . He has tried and
failed. Jim Corbett? He admits he Is
oul of the running. Jeff?. . He Is out of
the game for good. Ah, who have we
here? '
Well, if it isn't our old friend. Tom
Sharkey!' Yes, Tom has 'challenged
Jack Johnson, , and thpugh be does hoi
beast that he will regain the heavy
weight championship for the white race,
lie does say, "I think I will -show much
better than Jeffries did."
There isn't much doubt bout that. - II
has been a long time since Sharkey had
al fight, but he does not dissipate and
does not allow himself to get wholly'
out of condition. He works regularly
in a gymnasium in his home at Bheepa
head Bay, and. also does six or seven
miles of road work every morning be
fore breakfast, . ; ; . I.
Montha ago Sharkey declared his be
lief that. Johnson would knock Jeffries
out- He . was so persistent in t this
prophecy that a writer asked him if he
would like , to see the fight go that
way. . ::.;":.....::...
''Not at all," said Tom. I would give
$1000 to see Jeffries knock the negro's
head off. But Jeffries will '.never, get
back Into his rime condition. 'A man
is in his prime when between 25 and 30
years of age.. After that his muscles
ere on the wane." . '
At the same time Sharkey, declared he
would never go Into the ring again. Ev!
dently the scent Tf battle1 was too much
for the old war horse and he challenged
r gainst his better Judgment . ,
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mutuols. The I.atonla track undertook
to continue book-m.aklnn. wltu the re
Hult that Its license was revoked. And
when the next season came around, the
Latonia people were, only too glad to
submit to the wholesome dictates of the
commission and abdlish the book-maker
and hla cohorts altogether. . , ,
JTo Excuse for Its Ssistenoe.
;. The records of , th Louisville meet
ings of thirty days! each, are good
enough proof that the old system of
mutuels ls; in 'every way superior to
book-making ' because it "not only ' gave
better odds to'the man Who had invest
ed his money on, his favorite horse, but
it couia also snow a tar greater source
of income to the track. , At the. meeting
held at ChurchllL Downs in 1907, the
receipts 1 from; book-makers paying $100
per diem for 80 days was $53,710,' and
the largest number of books In opera
tlon on any one day was 24,, that being
On Decoration Day. 1 In the following
year, book-making was abolished and
parl-mutuels introduced in their' place.
For exactly the -same, number of days'
racing, the total receipts from the mu
tuels were $74,633. making a clear gain
of $20,923. v No fear that the Louisville
Jockey, club ill, ever- attempt to go
back-to DOOK-maKtng on us tracas. rne
Old (system is ot only - the falrebt but
tne most. proritaDie in tne rnu. .
That is the. reason why I feel so sor
ry for the 'trotting horse men who have
always done -their betting by -means of
parl-mutuels, and auction ppola and nev
er at any time encourajrea tne presence
of the book-maker. It Is really unjust
and unfair that they should be- pftnlshed
for other people's misdeeds but the law
had to treat all people alike and could
not make fish of one and: flesh of the
Other. Some day there will be a re-
surge of the tide and th0 puritanical
element will haveto. take- a back seat
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. This Date In Sport Annals. .;
1849 At Edenbrldge, Eng.! Mike Mad
den and Bill Hayes ; fought? 185-round
fight, in hours 3 minutes. " ;
-) t , j .yale. defeated Harvard In the
annual university boat race on the
Connecticut river.
, 4880 -John Ward , of ProvlJence
pitched a perfect game against Buffalo,
no man of- the opposing team reaching
ilrst-..base,K----T;. '.'"jnmr?r
1888-f-Amos) Cross, a prominent pro
fessional baseball player, died In Cleve
r 1889 J.r Hunsberger's carrier- pigeon
Sp.ranac flew front Charlotte,; !?. CH to
Philadelphia, 447 4 mile, on an average
speed of ;1000 yards, a minute, ? s
1892 At Seattle: i The Seattle and
Spokane ,' teams, of the Pacific ; North
west league, played 15 innings, a home
run hit by Earle" enabling the "former
to win by a Score of 6 to 5.
1897 At San Francisco: James J.
Jeffries ' and Ous Ruhlln fought 20
rounds to a draw. " is !
1905 'W. J. Glover and C. D. Graham
successfully swam the lower Niagara
rapids; time, 28 minutes, 1 ,
London. . July . 16.-The time Is an '
proachlng when women will be ad
mitted in all the sports of the Inter
national Olympic meetings. When the
games were first . established it was
generally agreed that women were pot
sufficiently ipterestedv (n athletics to
go. through the long" periods of training
necessary for the games and to make r
the long trips to the scenes of the tour
namenta.;' -' - , i ..- '
In: the last". Olympiad - In London
women Were; admitted to lawn tennis",
skating and.'archcry. The International
committee, which , is preparing for the
1912 games in Stockholm, has copsented
to., open up; two more divisions, swim- -mlng
and gymnastics, for women, mak
ing five in alt Those who follow such
subjects ar freely predicting that with
in ! four or six years women will be
taking part in evety, branch of sport,
at-the international games, from ten-'
nis vr aiscuonrowing and racing. Th
committee will hold its next Important
meeting at Budapest on May 20, 1911.
- Finland has made a bid for the serv
ices of Lawson Robertson, the present
trainer of ,the Irish-American Athletic
club of ; New York. - Finnish athletic
authorities .are anxious to secure an
American coach so. that American,
training methods may be Introduced in
the Grand Duchy. Upon' receiving the
first offer; Mr. Robertson replied ask
ing that a : more definite . proposition
be put to him.... The Idea Is to have- Mr -Robertson
go to Finland under a con-"
tract made by the allied Finnish athr
letio : societies of good standing. His
contract would" call for one year, . . , , v
" The Finns- have many corking ath
letes, and during the last Olympic ses'
slons they sent, many men to repre
sent them, i'1 They? are well equipped
with discus and weight throwers, but
their runners have been unable to com-,
pete with flyers of other nationalities. ,
and they are anxious to develop raw
material. . . ,
Journal Want Ads bring results.
I i r "Parson" J)avies Is Done.
i "Parson" Davlea. formerly the best
known fight manager in the world, is
spending the summer here. Speaking
of the fight game, he says: "I am .
done with the game.r I will never have
anything more to do with it again." '
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BASEBALL
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BECXEATIOV PAJtX
Tangha and -Twenty-fourth
Sta,
OAKLAND
vs.
PORTLAND
JULY 12, 13, 14, 15, IS and 17 I , ,
Games egla Week Day 3:30 p. n,
Sundays 8:30 F. XL
. Admission Bleachers. 25c: Grand
: stand, 60c; Boxes, 26c extra, Children.
. vk - i " BOBton, out now oi tne Denaiorn, -wrre
I .ndlx'-Liay-i-'riday rrniriftflrta'orffiricirfiiir'risos:
Boys Under 12 Free to Bleachers
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FEW TRIPLE STEALS
MADE IN BASEBALL
Philadelphia Teams vFigure in
Sensational Pilfering in "
Major Leaguedom.
" From the present indication.- the
National league race, this season Is go
ing, to be a close, one. v The season is
about Tialf finished now; and the: first
half of It showed some marvelous bat
ties. There ."have been several no hlt
games pitched. " Half a. doien one hit
garnes have 'been played and a number
of triple plays nave Been puiiea orr. ,
Tn addition to the above nerformance.
the Philadelphia National league team
has worked the triple steal, a feat' that
Is seldom worked successfully. In fact,
the triple steal has been pulled off only
four :- times in , the . history of major
league baseball
Burkett, Padden and Sugden worked
it against the Athletics In St, Louis
back In 1905. Burkett was the one to
start the play.1 He was on " first, ywtth
Sugden holding down second and Padden
resting on third. Burkett, started for
second, and 'Padden, seeing his move,
started tor home; and before the Ath
letics awoke to the play, Padden had
crossed the plate, Burkett was on' sec
ond Sugden was resting safely on third,
The' Athletics, against whom the play
was worked In 190S, were the next to
puirofr theTrTpleTrtealvlrattheyTltd not
do it until 1908. The following Reason
saw another triple steal , worked sue
cessfully, and '. by , a queer coincidence
the Athletics again figured In the play,
but; this ; time they were on the losing
end.'.. "Lord, Speaker and Gessler, then of
Boston, but now of the Senators.were
The Philadelphia National league club
did not like the Idea of the Philadelphia
American .league club haying; the honor
of figuring In every triple steal worked.
so they pulled off the play against the
Cincinnati at Cincinnati May 10, this
year
0REGOMfS TRACKS GET OUTSIDERS
By ITlcUIgo. , . .
The enactment of anti-betting laws
In California has about killed off har-:
ness racing In that state, as welV as
destroying the game for the thorough
breds. "A a natural consequence of
that, puritanical legislation, there will
be a grand i exodus of ' light harness,
horses into Oregoh for the state fair
and the ' livestock" show " at :. Portland.
With 28 nominations " in the 2:12 trot
-and a llke'numb'er iri the pacing "race
ror-tnr-TriV'TiassIt"'ddes no r look as
if light harness racing had come to a
standstill in the Webfoot hatlon. .
Of :. the - 28 : nominations in the 2:12
trot we find six from Oregon. 12 from
California, . four - from ' Washington,
three from Colorado, two from Montana,
and one from the far off state of Illli
nois. The f 2:14 pacing race is repre
sented by five side wheelers from Cali
fornia,' seven from Oregon, four from
Washington,? three' from Colorado and
one from Montana. I mention this fact
merely to sliow the cosmopolitan char
acter of harness racing in Oregon, since
the i kybosh ' was put upon betting In
California. Several of the larger owners
of trotters and pacers in that "state have
taken their horses east for the summer
campaign and I think .they have made a
mistake, for .while they may possibly
win more money on: the- eastern- tracks
than they could have won ( In Oregon,
the expenses attendant on such ven
tures are so - much . greater than they
would, have . beea:lf -they .had. confined
their operations to the coast, that they
will" be no better off In the long' run.'
The only vadyantagein.an. easterns trip
is that if. a young horse performs well,
ha can , be sold there for bigger money
than here; Outside' o.f - that, one chance
and It is only a chance at best, the Cali
fornia horse owner could do better to
come to. Oregon. ;.- v , ; ;
JTo Baanera Coming.' ,
There will be no big money , for the
gallopers for the reason . that ' none of
them is wanted here (and, the owners
of the bangtails have only themselves
to blame for it. For years liberal purses
were given both at this .place and. Salem
for thoroughbreds at all distances from
six furlongs to two miles, , ami ; such
would have been the case today, .with
anything like ' honesty on the part of
owners. But with the Seattle summer
meetings once ended the bigger stables
went south to rest up and prepare them
selves for the winter meetings at Oak
land and Los Angeles. 1
The scattering kind, ' with only .two
or three horses in the barn, came over
here to- Portland for a clean tip,and
every; racer" onrther" progTarri -was , run
before - the i horses had ? croBBed--- the
Puyallup on the way south,- - The rac
ing at the track ktjown as ''The
Meadows"; was rotten , enough In all
conscience but the contingent that came
hither from that ' place embraced all
the toughs and highbinders of what is 1 terajaajjfas-i
cmmoMyamanfiepofro
Even at Seattle it was bad enough, for
the governing spirit ,of that track was
a professional politician and . like mosj
of his class did not care'who .was
robbed so -long as' he got his share, pf
the. plunder ' '.':. . ":'V. '."' ,
The presiding, judge is known to have
made 150,000 In four seasons at a sal
ary. of $25 a day; and there was no
meeting of over , 60 days at that track,
irr all":those; four years, i One day . came
his Waterloo. There were two horses
in one race Chimney Sweep and Lasedo
that stood out fully and clearly ahead
off all others,, so that the bulk of the
public money went in on those 'two.
When the finish, of the race, came
Chlmmey Sweep run out 'at least five
feet ' ahead 'of his antagonist but the
jresld! ng JudgeJiolsted the other boraa's
numoer. , . (
" An invasion of the stand by the in
censed bettors was imminent and the
crooked . official made , the,est. of his
way 4 into town, , Where h . at , once
started for Portland on his way to .San
Francisco. Just for a Joke some fellow
sent him a telegram that he was ' going
to , be , mobbed at' Tacoma. , Fright
brought on insomnia and he slept less
than 12 hours in four days. Insomnia
brought ' on nervous ,- prostration ' , of
which he died several months later. It
simetlmes pays to be honest. - i a
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Bobbers By Instinct.
I It was the scum of the "Meadows"
contingent that Invaded the tracks at
Portland, Spokane and' Salem,, after the
Seattle meetings had closed; and oveji'
night sessions were held for consulta
tion, as to which . horse should be the
caucus nominee of each race on the day
following. As the best . horso. did, not
run until he had been beaten two' or
three" times, "the public' naturally con
cluded that, instead of being called the
"sport ofkings," it should have been
more properly called the "avocation of
thieves." i That Is the wherefore and
the why ; of , Oregon's fallur to glve
puioen iur ine gaiiupers.
"The thing had to go down altogether
In - order that, at some .future day It
might come up pr6perly and under de
oent management : This is nothing new,
in reality, for a similar condition of af
fairs prevailed On Long Island a year
or so before the outbreak of the Civil
war. The1 Halls, Coldens, Van Rausts
cud Cadwalladers had ' seen so mucii
"chenantgan" on the part of such pro
ftpsional turfmen as Tom Bacon. Otway
Hare and Tom MooVa that they, stayed
away altogether from the course. One
day a' match for $2500 at 3-mile heaU
was announced between the Tennessee
horse Bill Cheatham, never of any mor
tal account at a distance , above . two
iniles, - and the North Carolina horse
Tar River, owned by, David Branch, but
handled by Otway Ifare.'s" At the open
ing betting oh the race, Tar River so4
iivH4-at-$lr agatnsr $Bfff or Cheat
ham, which shrunk down to $40 after
they had saddled up. Tar River had
btaten every long distance horse In Am
erica, except Nicholas the First Engi
neer he had beaten, three times; Sue
Washington j twice; and 'Shockoe r and
Sebastopole each three times; , and
-against a. two-mil
nothing extra, even at that distance,
The race was run and. with Ned Haf-
ferty neatly pulling Tar River's head off
ror tne , iast ,two miles in each, heat,
Cheathairi did the trick In 5:40. 5:3R.
The men who were robbed out of their
n.oney appealed to the Judges to declare
all bets off, but that availed, nothing,
Thei Judges -were themselves -copartners
in the. steal., . ' j
: i Jf rome,-; the Besurreotlon Man.
There' was no racing : in'1 the ' north
during 186S-4,i! except a little' meeting
at Paterson, N.'J.; where Norfolk, after
wards brought to California, won the
Jersey Derby at One mile and a half,
Ittatlhtf Tlpperary, liagle and Kentucky.
The latter horse, was the Jolpt prop
erty of William R. Travers and Leonard
W. Jerome, two fortunate stockbrokers,
either of whom could write hts check
for .seven figures. Kentucky subse
quently won the, Travers and Signal
stakes at Saratoga and then It was
that, Jerome conceived the; Idea of a
first class race course in the north. He
bought 128 acres near Fordhanii on the
line of the old Harlem railroad to Al
bany, andv established the .magnificent
course called Jerome Park, where racing
was carlred on honestly and successfully
for 26 years, because there were always
sufficient numbers of gentlemen owning
horses there to protect the public from
the predatory schemes of professional
hirfman mhnuo main; ftkl.A Ba n
, ..., ........ .out,, vijv..v wan iu
make, a hog-killing," no matter who
gets robbed, i . ... , ,
Of course, I know; some professional
racing men whom I consider as honest
an any in the land, and whose-word I
would take aa quickly as that, of any
lawyer, merchant or banker.' I. don't be
lieve any man ever can name , a race
where old Ned Corrlgan did not run to
Willi nd the same applies to his nephew.
Patrick Dunne, who is one of the ablest
trainers I 'ever . met. James Curl, of
Oklahoma, whose horse Chimney Sjvjep.
was rorea out or a race by the crooked
presiding judge above referred to, is
another man who never ran a horse for
an Intentionally losing race." But men
of their stripe are- as scarce as white
crows. 1 :
A Good Thing for the Sport,
The apparently outrageous action of
Governor- Hughes In suppressing the
sport in "New York state Is a -blessing
In i disguise. J. 'Would rather see every
tracK in ine country ciosea m than
to see racing as it has been of late
years, controlled by 1 the book-maker
whose motto is, "After tne the deluge."
No sport' can survive ' when men take
hold-of it with the expectation of con
verting it into an industry. The book
maker with his army of clerks, touts
and messengers, must go, and In hts
stead will come th old system of auc
tion pools and parl-mutuels, by which
the odds regulate themselves. Colonel
UacltX:hlnfntuckyriitmgetf7rpro;
lessionai-gamDter ror years, was smart
enough to ef e that book-making had
killed the gtne' in Illinois and Missou-'
ri, and he did not propose to see It go I
the same way In Kentucky the very
cradle f tha . thdroughbred horse, ; So
he got elected state jsenator from Mer-J
cer county and procured -the passage
f sk . 'bill" ereatiag ejetate facing euni'H
mission, composed of ' seven members
to be appointed by the governort , .
A11 the members were stockbreeders !
and Chinn . Was the . first president of i
the .board.: The very first Hct on hlsl
part was to ' introduc a, resolutloiv to
the. effect that the only methods of bet-1
ting should be, auction pools and part-
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