THE. OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL;; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, -MARCH 5," 1911. ILATFE V, Ring : Tradt Field : Diamond ST ITMS MEWS HEUVTES HOW li H ; ' - Ry R. A. Cronln. ; Fahta Maria. Cat, March, . Ever hear the story of the man who not only broke tip a o.iaeDau gaum um o entire league with a home run in the - lat-,ha-t-th-JUnLDinningweu, here goes. . 1 Walter Kuhn, Portland recruit ea,tch r, was the man. i .1 free no and. San Jose were the team r - The California outlaw" town made up th league. The trick waa turned In the season of 1908. T WeU tell yon all bout thennntwoal feat later,rbut while we are on. the mat ter of records, thero Is Just another one that will be of interest. Kuhn probably holds the world's high mark for the ' number of chances accepted In the out- , field.' They ' only numbered 17, about half a down tnoreihan le, remembered of SyoHieiouTrfeiaeftBcr-basebatt " became a national pastime. We'll tell you all about that too, " a . Played for 23 a Month. Kuhn. who Is II years of aire, began playing baseball on the lots of Fresno when he waa about It years old. His advancement was rapid. -At the age of l c years, Kuh . caught his- first pro feslonal , game With the , Fresno- State . loagua team. He had algned a contract to play at the munificent salary of $25 a month, -which, in itself, is probably another : record In this latter day of frenzied baseball -finance., -f : v; , When Mike Flstier put his Coast league team into Fresno, the red-headed backstop found himself out of a job and hooked up with the amateurs. He played amateur ball until the middle of 1908. when he Joined the Fresno out laws, playing behind -the-bat and at third base, and his chroniclers state that he was a star In both positions. In liOi ) with the same ; club he .played every position In the park, his pitching experience being limited to eight in nings in one game, but they say. after he relieved the Fresno regular pitcher, the Oakland club never got a foul. When the state league fell under the spell' of the national commission last ' year under the rules laid down by that august body, Kuhn reentered organized baseball with the rest of the brigands; Sow He : Seoame As '- Outlaw. He became a member of the outlaws by virtue of the fact that Cliff Blanken shlp, then captain of the Fresno team, signed him ; to a Minneapolis contract and he later refused to reoort These on the inside say that Cliff was afraid of his job and for that reason wanted to get rid of the young catcher. Along . -with Billy Bloomfleld, the Portland twlrler, Kuhn signed a contract with Minneapolis on condition that if he ..didn't feel like reporting at the end of the season, Blankenshlp would not send his contract Into the secretary of the national association. Fresno fans began clamoring for Kuhn to catch all the time; and the pitchers were eager, to 1 have him receive Instead of Blanken- Ship, "V ,.lf.'r- .'"'J r:;j i. This it is said, prompted Cliff to send his contract to Secretary Terrell, although he neglected to; do so in the case of Bloomfleld. , His wife became ,111 " shortly afterwards '' and . Kuhn refused to report to Minneapolis, whereupon he was suspended. In this report his case is almost identical with that of Tommy Sheehan, -,who refused to) ' report to Brooklyn M the National league when , Portland will send a strong aggrega tion of bowlers to compete in the West- - em Bowling congress to be held at Spo kane March 9 to It. More than 15000 . in prizes offered for the various events. There will be .140 five men teams, 200 " two men and 300 individuals in the meet The local howlers are counted as some of the Iniost expert players in the country.. Two teams will go from this city. They are known as Tom Swln- tiey's -team and Charles Kruse's team. The former Is composed of the follow CATCHER TO GETTRY0UT. n.lm.f Ttntrnr ths rrack vounr patrhor. tm, win , tve a ,ryouu uaxer , t l;iy'd lt iM'on With the Vancou- vcr tm In the Trl-City league and ii,V Wtimi : club. .-Itaker'g brother. Tom, .will leave for (Spokane some r si.t next weeit, accompanied oy NestaS " . .,;;. or K'csl players. . .jv,.i 1 ' ty hue in mm Illness In his family required his con stant presence- on the toast , . Sensation ef Camp. This year Kuhn has been the sensa tion of the training camp. McCredls says ha. reminds him-more of Marty Bergen, one of the greatest catchers In the game, than any other backstop he has ever eeen. Oscar Jones, who has pitched to them in the big and lit tle leagues, said be never had a catcher who showed the ability of Kuhn. He is as fast as a bullet and is always in position to throw on reoeivtng a pitch. There is none of the windup of Ous FlsheriwhenKuhtt slama. ball to a base. He whips flatfooted and uses only his arms when he throws. This is a decided advantage and when work ing with a fellow who watches the bases like Bill Steeii It is next to impossible to get away with a suaL . Those who have seen him In the training camp predfUthat he.wlll be ane-of the great est catchers la the country" In a few years. :,vv;-,... -n. ,. . Now for the yarn about breaking np the outlaw league la Hits Fresit was playing San Jose at Fresno. - There was great Interest, In the game, gan Joee was half a game ahead of Stockton and a big delegation of Stockton sports came down to see if the game was on the square. Charlie Baura was pitching for Fresno end Kuhn was catching. Elmer Stricklett, the spjtball discoverer, was the San Jose deceiver and Bobby Eager, the receiver. " V;'" . j e ; Bald He Would Snook Homer, -f Baum was dead anxious to win from San Jose and Kuhn naively informed him that If it was necessary he would hit It over the fence. Twice in the early Innings he slammed the ball to the fence and Reed in left field pulled sensational catches. The third time up Kuhn sacrificed a man to second, tht only one in the game to get that far. In the last half of . the ninth, Eager began ""kidding" - Kuhn." The redhead took it good naturedly and after chaf fing with Bobby for a spell, picked out one of Stricklett'S "spltters," ' and hoisted it, this time clear over the left field fence. Idolising fans .showered silver . dollars on him and ths Fresno ites and Stocktonltes went clean nutty. Stockton and San Jose each had two more games to play. Stockton waa up against Oakland, the team which estab lished a record of 17 straight defeats, and San Jose was against Sacramento, one of the strong, teams of the league. San Jose refused to play any; more, after being defeated and placed behind Stock ton, and the league broks up.- """. ..y His Wor In the Garden, v" The 17 chances that, Kuhn recorded were made In left field in a game be tween Fresno and Oakland in ISO. Thir. teen of the number were files, while four were assists, made In throwing men out, three at the plate and one double play on third base. None of the older players here can remember of anything that approaches this record. ; 4 . Kuhn also had a habit of throwing men out at first now and then from left field. This feat only toes .to indicate the marvelous arm and accurate snap the little fellow has in whipping Jhe hall around the diamond. That Kuhnfwho is a clever and consistent batter, will be Portland's first catcher next season. supplanting, Tommy' Murray and beating out Jack Bradley, is the prediction f those who have seen hint play. lng Swlnnsy, C-H. Ball,. Fred Raymond, Ous Ahrens. and, Perle, Casey. . . , The other .team, consists of Charles Kruse, Al Ahrens, L. F. Bishop, George Henry and. Qus Beylund. Kruse is one of the best known bowl ers in the Pacific northwest. He has met some of the best of them in Chi cago and at the last congress at San Francisco, . where he won second place In the singles. Kruse,' together with Bishop,-also won second In the doubles at the Sao Francisco meet. Al Ahrens la one of the crack bowlers of Portland. George Henry has made some admir able records, his best - effort being 11 straight strikes, making a total of 299 points. s ' fr s . '." George Ahrens has bowled longer than any person in Portland. Swinney has'a record of J 80, made In one of the Portland alleys. A perfect 'score of 100. on three dif ferent alleys Is the' remarkahl norfnrm. ance .of C H. Ball This -record lias only been made but about 40 times in the history of the game. Ferle (asey was the first to secure a perfect score In the hew Saratoga alleys in this cltv. la Lai Anli ho the record for the Paclfio coast In a maicn game. I Amonir the Other ton nntrlmm ntlthm City Who will renrenAnt - Portland in4 who can be depended on to get his uare or me points is ous Beylund. " NEW YORK STATE MAY HAVE STRICT GAME LAW ii i . New York. March 4. A bill has been Introduced in the State legislature amending the forest, fish and game law. it prohibits the taking or dlstrlbutlns of fish, birds or game on any private park or private lands without permls- oion oi me owner or person having tne exclusive right to hunt or fish in such private park. Instead of prohibiting such taking . after notice, : as , prescribed at present The bill also provides that game shall not be taken in a public highway, or on the lands of a railway, or lands purchased or condemned by any municipality' within the state for the purpose ox supplying sucn municipality with water. , . Another bill forbid tho anta nf wltil game in the state. One of ihe men back wi ii, ur, w.;-i', tigrnaaay oi tne zoolog ical ffarden. aa.va Ii wl'l flcrht tn inn a similar law in New Jersey, Pennsyl vania..- Connecticut and Virginia and Delaware, '''v . ' "? V''"' ' r""v.-.' . : r Mizpah Team Win. . The Mltpah basketball team . defeated the fast United Brethren school team by the score of Bl to 37. Hoffman starred for the winners; while V. Shipley starred for the losers. The lineup: . Mlxpah. " tT. B. Martin ........ .F. .... ... . ., Shipley Santpr ..w , .F. ........ . .', Averll Hoffman , C ...... . Henderson Bllnco .G. ........... . Petri C Martin.. . . . .O. . . -Long ; Hofman Signs JVlth.. CubsV-,-. lUWtrUTreM LmmnI WI. i . Chicago, March 4. The signed con tract of Centerfielder Artie Hofman, re ceived this afternoon at Cub headquar ters, calls for two years' of service. The contract of -Davs Shean la also tn. It calls for but one year. . Three Real Live t Bj R. 4, Cronln. ; Santa Maria. Cal., March I. "TeH the. poys up home that we are fully 75 per cent stronger , right now than we were at this same time last year," said Manager Walter McCredle of the Fort- land Pacific Coast - league champion this afternoon.' "Although we aid not have .much chance to ' practice during the earlier days of the week, we got . in some pretty good licks between rains and'I.am satisfied so far with the showing of. the players, ' We yet have over three weeks in front of us to get into ehapa for the opening game at Los Angeles March J, and I have not wor ried a hit ovet! the rainy weather. It has not been cold except when the wind blew along with, the rain.' The players have been very , careful of themselves 'and have taken no chances so that , there need be'o"worryr that arms will be in bad shape qn either regulars or pltchers.jj ji ' . . . "The pitchers have Seen ordered to slow up and not try to snoks any over during the first week. Once in whllo the twirlers have put a Jot Of Steam behind their' throws to the catchers Just to see how their erms were, bot tbey . have not made a . practice of It such asJhjeywUldoj4enthjMralnJna season is about three weeks old. '"Last year when we came Into camp we had an outfield that we thought waa pretty good, but this year we havt some gardeners that we know can fill the bllL i In Kruegar, Chadbourne 'ant Ryan, 'a regulars, with Rodgers am Qough In reserve, we have the hardest hitting and best fielding bunch that any Coast league club has had slnc the Los Angeles trio of 1B0I, wher Ellis, Bernard end Oakes took care of the outer works. Infield looks Oood. t "My Infield on paper Is better ths' any In the league. There is nobod? who can touch. Tommy Sheehan on third while BUI Rapps will class up wit' Any of them on first. , Sheehan is a bl overweight but, he is a : hard works aid by the time the season opens will be right "down to ( mid-season ' form Billy Steen. " HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL : U PLAYERS PUT ON HONOR It was no joke when Hopkins Jen kins, principal of the Jefferson high school, said to the members of the school's athletic squid; ' . . "Boys, cut out - the use of tobacco and intoxicating liquors if you. want to make men of yourselves, excel in ath letics and .please me." - , This injunction was given one week BEAVERS IN ACTION ON : ! : 'I - 1 $ ! '''' - , McCredlo'8 Coast juvagu team Is rounding into fine form and the boys are ' A winning the 1911 pennant for Portund. Ones of Pacific Coast Team AVho Arc Counted on i : h ; - - ' Ji 1 f r h ;? t ILI , 1 1 it :r . -i f I V fit t. )T IS:-"" I fpy Cy RuBsell Tommy Is ahard worked and more than tnat is a student of the game. When the other 'fellows are "kidding" around Tommy is thinking -up some way to beat the enemy out of a game. Those are the fellows who count in an 'in field. Sheehan is Just as fast In his fielding as last year, and this season will have an even break with the pitchers when it 'comes to batting. When he reported last year the pitchers were going at their-best and S,heehaa, who had been out of the game several months,, was badly handicapped. No wonder he was unable to bat against them at his old. time rate. This year I look for him to hit a whole lot bet ter. i 1 "Pecklnpaugh's Teeord wlththe Cleve land club shows that he is some ball player.t and "we need have no worry that the hort field will not b well guarded. , - "Second base is more or less prob lematical. That bag Is the most im portant In many , respects In the game and It takes a good maB to get away with It If Bill should see tlU to re port the station would be amply cared for, but while he seems to be waver ing now that he knows we are going to insist on playing him, he msy take it Into his head to take a flying leap and not report If he jumps to the Chicago City league It yill place him ago, and to all appearance the advice has been heeded. "I have not caught any of my boys disobeying the rule I laid down," said Principal Jenkins yes terday." "I am not playing detective on any of the boys. It is simply a matter of honor between the students and my self.",-- T-.-r :";-; Candidates galore are bobbing up for positions on the baseball teams. There are, five aspirants for catcher and four for pitcher. Walter, captain, and Ralph Bailey, manager, have found the boys to be showing up well In the few practice THEIR TRAINING GROUNDS mm eft the National Commission's ineligible list and of course that 'Will go' hard with Ball. . Will Send for Xeasor. - "If Ball doesn't report I shall bring Eddie Mensor, one of the most promis ing youngsters ever developed en the coast. Into play. Mensor is small but he is a great, ground coverer and can hit like biases from either side of the plate. Believe me. Mepsor hss this pitching business down to such a fine point : that the .ball, has . to be right over the heart of the plate before he takes a swing at' lt.H Itk - that respect he has one of the best eyes and cool est heads that X have ever run across. Eddie wanted a little more seasoning In the Northwestern league, so we raised his salary and sent him Over to Nick Williams, but it looks as it final ly, we must try him out as a regular at second base on the Coast Eddie has a lot of nerve and speed enough to score from, first Jbase en, a single. Let him be on second and an Inflelder boots the-ball and it. means a score. Just like it did with Olson last year. "Rapps is showing to much better advantage this year. Bill has been nursing himself along. Last season he came out here and on the . first day nearly threw us Into 'hysterics with his speed and arm work around first base 1 am, not positive, but I believe it' had games that were played for the first time of the season the past week, The track team of the Washington high school is beginning to round into shape. Most of last year's men are back, J. V. Yeatch la manager. "Fop Lanlgaa, the trainer who developed- Jimmy , Rector at the Uni versity ef Virginia has' sprung a-new one In the sprint running1 game, having all his sprint candidates run under a rope so that they will run close to the ground. '-.t-v'i -r - v." '? AT SANTA MARIA, CAL. working hard with the hope of " - "4 to Laqd Pennant a tendency to sprain his log -and slow him up during the middle of the sea son -He tss meeting the ball better this year and " ought to prove one Qf the most valuable men on the club this season. Recall that last year the hit ting of Rapps and Gus Fisher kept the team going for over a month and kept us up in the pennant race. v-'; Protected Behind Bat.s , Now behind the bat . we artf well supplied.'; There is Tommy Murray, a trifle weak with the stick but one Of the beat receivenron the coast Tomm y has a fine throwing arm to add to this. Then there ? is Bradley, who can hit above .190 and who is rated as a clever receiver and good thrower.. t Add i to these this redheaded Walter Kuhn, at once one of the aweteat little catchers that ever donned a mask In the league, Oscar Jones, the old Seal pitcher, told me that of all the Catchers who had wogntTjnirTn -ine minor 7, ana major leagues, young Kuhn ,' was the best. That's a pice Indorsement, but his work the first! week of practice shows that he , is the goods and may beat one oz the other -two out of 'a position,, Kuhh Is one of the biggest little men in the country. He', looks small in street clothesrhut moinr upHlke a "hbuaa-afire in a uniform. - , - ; - "The pitchtag staff looks as g-ood as It did last year. Last season we showed up with Jess Garrett and Tom Beaton, and' Jess proved a disappointment. Oat of ths maas we got Krapp and , Steen and later Vean Gregg. I see ho reason to belleye that we should not get. a competent twirling staff out of Steen, Beaton, Koestner, Archer and one other yet to be chosen. v Russell, Fullerton and Benches are showing up nicely and Brad en and Griffith should add a whole lot of strength to the club. - "Taking It all In all I think that we shall have one of the best clubs that Portland has yet placed in the field." Billy RappB. fliver Clubs Will ; Attend in Their Uniformsrr-March ; 8 Is the Date Set. ' - Invitations, are out announcing the informal dance and card . tarty - to be given - by the . Oregon KjDlnghy ' club Wednesday, March S, at the clubhouse of the Oregon Yacht club, at the Oaks. Arrangements have been made to make this av huge success. . All mem bers of the various ; river clubs and their friends are cordially Invited, to attend in uniform. i Members of the Yacht club are get ting busy' with the return of good weather, ; preparing their crack tacers for the season's events The work of putting thr boats in ship shape Is progressing-rapidly. The outlook for the season is . exceptionally bright, accord ing to the port captain. J. V. Woodward. The set Of officers .elected' at the last annual meeting of the club are assum ing thelf duties with a vim and mahy interesting i events for river men and friends,, admirers of aquatic sports, may be looked for during, the season. SEE ONEREAL FIGHT . Portland fight fans may have the rare privilege of witnessing a battle between Policeman Madden of this city and ex Policeman Ed Ilagen, of The-,-Dalles. Harry Burns has written ''Mysterious' Billy Smith of this city, to secure his protege,.. Hagen, a worthy opponent. The "mysterioua" one- can think of no more worthy chap to go against this former guardian of the peace than the Portland patrolman. Providing the date suits, It la expected that the men may he "able to agree on a match within a few weeks. ::;f.:Uv.i'-;;'f. j e W1,"-' -0'- t:A,-.t The "Terrible" Turk Again.; v t' Peter Busukos, the1 "terrible" Turk, Is anxious tor a return wrestling, matcn with Sadd Slngh,fthe Hindu. The men wrestled for three hours' In 'the Arlon hall: recently without 'either of 4 them getting a fall.'", ' -. ' ' ' . tfr-: I r . ! I I , I ! ! . ' I: if . 1 i - i - fc. r M M gS DANCE HERE'S A CHANCE TO V U R TO HE IWM El Fans Are Getting Busy List of Probable Lineup ; ': : : -y This' Year.' - ' Multnomah Amateur Athletic ClubV base ball fans are gettlng-busy, -The coming of Spring arfd ' visions of vic tories upon the diamond Is beginning to show itself in the increased activity ' That the .club will put Into, the , field this year an exoeptlonally strong team is already an assured fact. . The outlook for. tho season seems to be un usually good,: say . the leaders. Jlu yet -th manarer of th tamn v,o . Den seiciea.Tne board-of-directors- umiov ,q ; ic qj, u g aaiO, 10 make the appointment Among the most prominent persons , mentioned as suit able for the posTtion la' Cass Campbell. ' But Mr. Campbell stated yesterday that under no circumstances would he ac-' cept the position if it is offered to him. It is said to be practically settled that ' Dud. Clark wUl be elected captain, when the players get together, v Among the likely candidate f are: Dud. Clark, outfielder,- a University of Oregon man, Kenny Fenton, third " baseman, who gained his spurs on the diamond at Stanforii nd vaia- va De Neffe, pitcher; Coe McKenna, short stop; Ed. Morns, m.. a. a C, pitcher; Park Meyers, lnflejder, Portland aca demy "man: Rowdan Rtnrtt. mIiw Stanford athlete; Jim Twohy. inflelder. ana uoo xwony, catcher, both of whom ae from Santa Clara college, Cal.'s Charles Barton, first ha a- nnnn nil. field, and Fred Smith, outfletd. Men who are to represent Multnomah club In the- thdpor meet at Columbia university, have been selected. Amonr them are; , . Charles Prehn, Jack 1 Hickson. Harold Reed. B. Greenshaw, Oscar Kerrigan, ueorge uamraie GETTING REAL BUSY -The committee in charge of raising funds 'for $he new clubhouse for the Portland Motor Boat, club say they are meeting with, success,' and with the aid of all the club members, they say that within the next few months they will have a new home that tne members will be proud of. , A member said: "The next time you meet the Commodore ask him how he enjoyed the cigar with a Bprlng in it that some of the boys presented him. .'. f"A committee should be appointed to bring some of the old sailors like L. Beno and Captain Spencer up to tho club meeting, as we are sure they could tell us some good fish stories ' that would be, entertaining to their fellow shipmates. V s "Have you noticed some people wear ing an emblem on the lapel of their coat that looks like fly.., Well, they, are some fellows that the motor boat bug have stung. "Bob Cox, the owner of the "Pacer," has been out of .town for some time, and It is rumored that he Is in the east, se curing a fast race boat for the coming season," A number. of the club members are going to try and take their summer va cations during the Astoria regatta, so they caa cruise down to the city by the sea and, see ths big . races during , the first 10 days of September. , The club treasury is in a .better finan cial condition than it has ever been be fore In the history of the club. The Sea Otter, owned by R. ,L. Mao leay, is being painted and overhauled in preparation for -cruising during the coming season. The Red Arrow was stolen from the club ' moorings last week during the nljrht, and the harbormaster was called upon to try and locate her. ' ' ; ' 7 Eddy Ryan expects to have his new boat In the water before long; he Is' now putting on the decks and will soon be ready to paint her.y'';-:V r:.v?r :-., Clyde Go wanlock is having a raised deck cruiser built at Von Der Worth's. He says she will be the best of her type on the river.; -'j;':- ' A number of the fellow shipmates of C. W. Boost are anxiously waiting for him to get his combination motor boat house in the drink so they can all go fishing with him. "Since Ray Johnson became a bene diet he is not aeon so much among the boys," says one of tbem. Fred Peterson was seen building a gate last Sunday. He says ha had to put up a gate on his front porch to keep the young Petersons from going down, to the river since the motor boat bug atung them. . -i-..v. ii'.i '"i. : Youngsters After Ball, Games. The youngest set of, baseball players in Portland are out' with a challenge to all comers betweenTthe ages of l and IS years. The White Star Juniors, by their defeat of the Eighth street Juntors, by a score of St to it, are now out for other fields to conquer. , Any one . desiring to , hook up , with this bunch of wee ones is requested to write to Louis Goldberg, 909 East Ninth li net iiui nil x Macleary, who held the amateur, as well -as professional record on the old , course, again holds the amateur record of the new course at the Waverly golf -, links with the, score of 80, the next best score being T. A. Llnthlcum with 84. Last Saturday playing was begun In ' the preliminary rounds for the presi dent's cup. This trophy Is presented bv William MacMaster, the president, and consists of foua qualifying rounds han dicap medal play,, two to qualify each Saturday and the eight thus qualifying J , playing off the knock out, ;whlch is'ia j. holes, handicap match play. The two members qualifying. SatuJayJfebuary 86 were J. E. Young and James Alex- ander. Interest In the game is being stlmu-' lated on account of the holding on the " Waverly course of the northwest tour-' namcnt some time In June, which will draw well known golfers from all parts of the coast, particularly the northwest . . MOTOR BOAT CLUB IS :0N THE GOLF LINKS. r ft. te -in"rt"