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I SPORTING IEl NEWS jr'i FROM Z3. ALL ffqy. SECTIONS RAJN PUTS STOP VETERAN WHO IS HELPING NICKS INBAsEBALL RACE NOTED ATHLETES i: .. . TO Tl THIS fTERNOON TEM Postponed Game of Yesterday Makes Doubleheader for Nicks and Tigers, Comedian Maxmeyer Pitching One. Players Will Be Rushed Along Multnomah Has Great Quartet in Krohn, Ryan, O'Connell and Cavill, AH of Whom Are Big Men in Sporting World. and Effort Made to Close Racquet Matches on Sched ule Time. IRVINGTON'S 1 IB STOW ntinnTiiinrny Rain stopped the pennantward march of the Nicks yesterday afternoon and If , J. Fluvlus does not Interfere the Nicks will have a chance to make up for the postponement today with the Tacoma Tigers. The showers gave the crippled Kick day's rest and will doubtless help them physically, as they have been play ins: continually and a double header Monday would have taken most of the "pep" out of them. The Nicks have been traveling at a reat clip and have captured four of the five games played with the Tigers, Fred Henkle being charged with the only de-. feat suffered this week. Manager Williams announced last I evening that Lefty Maxmeyer would burl one of the games and the south paw will have the support of the crowd If he pitches. He has won two games for tne Nicks and in his last gams . pitched great ball against the Victoria club. Tonneson will likely pitch the other contest. Making Hard right. The Nicks have been making a great fight to get out of the second di vision, and if they can take the Victoria club, which camea here next week, down the line and the Tigers and the Giants end the week with honors even, the . Nicks will begin the last road series pretty close to third place. Spokane and Vancouver will fight it out for the leadership In the pennant race next week and the ' teams will play eight games. The Canucks have not been do ing so well lately, but the Indians will have to scalp them in over six games in order to have a chance at the flag. Going back to the Nicks camp. Where woo Id the Portlanders be now if all the players had hit the ball at the first of the season as they are now doing? And In addition, look at the fielding same and team-play that Williams' men are putting up. - Stovall and Speas have been, doing f, 1 V OTIIH hit niivti, W4UV tPlU" grew and Williams have improved their averages of late. Mundorff has recov ered from his slump- and is traveling at a fast clip again. Twlrlers Going" Well. Nick's twlrlers are working splen didly and with Garrett, Bloomfield and Tonneson showing their Coast league form, it would not be surprising if the Nicks would finish In third place. Henkle will strike his stride again as soon as hisarm gets into shape, and if Maxey. can win today he will get more of a chance in the future. In the fielding department the Nicks are not the worst in the league, and are doing commendable work. Errors, however, have lost a majority of their games. Next week the Nicks will entertain the Victoria club, which is under the leadership of Ducky Holmes, another manager of the Patsy O'Rourke brand, for a series of eight games. Holmes did not make a great change in the Vic toria line up this season but if he is at the helm next season, the race will be different. His presence In the lineup gave the Bees a bunch of strength in Spokane, but hard luck lost a number of games for them. Nick,' pitchers will work harder than ever in order to keep up their great recora against the Victoria team, which has lost 15 straight games to the Port- lana ciud. This will be the last series of the Northwestern league on the Portland grounds this season, and then the Nicks take a three week road trip, meeting the Seattle club first, then the Tigers " "" enning tne season in Spokane, where they had such a disastrous open ing. If they retain their present form on the road the Tigers and the Giants will have to watch out. Portland tennis players and admirers of the court game wore greatly disap pointed, when rain besan to fajl short- y after noon yisterduy and caused a postponement of . the opening of the annual fall tennis tournament at the Irvington club. The tenniS committee of the club hart planned on starting the tournament, which has the largest entry list of any ever held under its auspices, so that the finals could be played next Saturday. The postponed jtames caused a great deal of worry among a number of the players, who fear that the rain will put them out of condition. In order to htive the finals played next Saturday, the committee is rush ing plans through, which will call for an' increased number of matches each day. If play Is started Monday morning, no difficulty is anticipated In having the finals played on Saturday. The matches will be timed and players will have to start their matches on schedule or else forfeit .them. The entries of Mrs. Fahnestock and Mrs. Houston, splendid players, caused no little comment, as did the entry of Benham, a former Multnomah player who played In the Pacific northwest tournament, which was held at Tacoma some time ago. Benham has Improved In his playing since leaving the Muit nomah club and taking up his residence at Salem. Other players who will bear watching are Brandt Wickersham, who will de fend the Prescott cup in the men's sin gles, and Miss Stella Fording, who has been a bright star of the various tournaments this season, is expected to defend successfully the Directors' cup, which she holds. Should Miss Fording win the cup this time It will become her property. Stuart Freeman, holder of the Junior cup, which Tie lias had in his posses sion two years, will pass the junior age this year and if he fails success fully to defend the cup lll be out of It for good. In next year tournament he will have to enter the senior events. J. Lewis Wakeman, Miss Campbell, Miss Leadbetter, Miss Schaefer, Shives and a number of other tennis favorites, are players whose work will be watched with great Interest. DUCK INTERS TO BERG ID RUSSIAN READY FOR MATCH Buzukos Anxious to Show Supporters He Is Smith's Master. .John Berg, the light heavyweight champion wrestler, and George Lurick, the Russian giant, are ready for their grappling match at the Baker theatre next Thursday night. Both principals fare in prime condition and Berg is training, o the needle point. He says that never In his entire career has he leu so weii or trained so carefully as he has for this match. He has wrestled most of the big mat artists in the coun try ana neia his own with the best of inem, tnercrore he can not afford to we 10 a man who has been in thlai country only about a year. Berg has moi neany an tne men that the Bus elan has when wrestling-catch-as-catch can, w nue the Russian has defeated most or trie men In less time than Berg, John has to his credit a match over Walt Evans, the southern cham pion, while the best the Russian got on Evans was a draw after wrestling for vver iwo nours. in a handicap match with Joe Parr of England, the Russian won two falls In an hour from Parr and urg xauea 10 get, a fall In the hour. The men are pretty evenly matched nrf the bout should prove a very exciting Peter Buxukos. the lightweight plon, has several handicap matches that will help him with his training for Strangler Smith. Smith Is working out , -v - aim nays ne win be ready to make short work of Pete, when they meet on the mat next Thursday night Noles, the lightweight from the south. Is working at the Y. M. c. A. and is rapidly rounding into prime condition for bis bout with Tom Brown, the for mer amateur lightweight Frank Toy and Toung Ito, Japs, are about ready and as they will wrestle JIu jitsu, this bout promises to be a very Interesting one. There will-bo two other prelimin aries. . SWARM LOWLANDS Today's Shooting Will Be First for Portland Preserve Owners. v, : vi &V P" :; n tv lf r:'T J , ,i L: r I 1 v - 5 - s - ' k V" II 1 ' ; T r1 i - They say this la the year for the "grand old men" of baseball, and al though we don't know Jesse Stovall's exact age, we do know that tho veteran pastlmer Is going at a tremendous clip for the Nicks these days, and his hit ting is doing much to keen Mnnnirer Williams' outfit in the limelight! stovall is one of those fellows who have had a peculiar career in baseball, start ing at the bottom and reaching the top as a pitcher and then ascending grace fully as an outfielder. Had Jesse been treated right by Cleveland he might now be taking orderar from Brother George, who is leading the Naps in their scramble after the American league pennant. Jess was born in Kansas City in the late seventies, but Just how late Jess is keeping to himself. It is a. close ' The Automobile association and Motor union of Great Britain has a member ship of SLKM. and they are the largest motor "organization In the rorld. .There is something of an unwritten rule among- the Portland sportsmen who have duck preserves on the low er river, not to do any shooting ex cept on Sunday, and In view of that fact there was little gunning last Fri day, the opening day of the season, and yesterday. Today, however, the sloughs will swarm with duck hunters, and the duck boat tonight should return with plenty of dead birds. Reports from the Willamette river Bhooting districts is to the effect that ducks will be plentiful this year. After iuuay a preny gooa lino may De had on the Deer Island. Sauvles Island and the Columbia slough prospect for the season. By confining their shooting to one aay in the week, when there may be concerted firing on the ducks, the preserve owners are able to keep the ducks In that vicinity, where on the other, hand it has been their ox perlence that desultory shooting dur ing the week will drive the ducks away. watchmen on Deer is and rennrt that early ducks were never so Dlentl- xui as tnis season. Sauvles Island, the home of manv wood ducks, Is pretty well populated, also, with the winged tribe. There are many spots on tlwse two islands where the limit- number of ducks, 35, can oe Killed in one day. The big flight of ducks is exDect- ed when the heavy rains occur, the latter part of September and the first part of October. Then ducks are Dlen- tiful on both the Islands and the Co lumbia slough. A large number of hunters wait un til this portion of the season and then they gp out and bag the limit. Migra tory ducks have been feeding on Sau- vs island In considerable numbers mc mm iwu muniiiB. inia island la a natural home for the wood duck. Gold Hill, Aug. SO. Ernest Lvman and Henry Graves had a lively tussle wiin a 26 pound salmon last Sunday near. the Lyman place. The big fish made a hard fight, dragging the boys up and down the river for some time, bruising their shins on the rocks and giving a, game exhibition generally. Central Point. Aug. 30 Chris Gott lieb, of Medford, Is reported to have taken a 28 pound salmon from Rogue river last Friday on a fly hook. The fish is 40 Inches long and Is recorded as the biggest specimen ever taken from the river on a fly hook. As a rule the Balmon will not take a fly but will only strike at a revolving spoon hook. Klamath Falls, Aug. 30. W. B. Bol ton of Portland, has been on. a hunt in company with his son, who is in the engineering corps of the 0. V, L. Co and a number of friends. Mr. Bolton says the party hunted for a weok on the quiet with very indifferent success. and then they changed their tactics and went out abreast through the hunting grounds, with the result that the first day they downed enough deer to fill an ordinary spring wagon by nisrht unrt on the second day they all got as many aiiows. Aj)a tney were big mule-tall fellows, too. race between him and Pearl Casey as to which is the Methuselah of the Nicks and Stovall Isn't handicapping himself any. He started to play professional base ball In 1900 with the Kansas City Blues of the American association, but short ly afterward Jumped to the Seattle club of tho Northwest outlaw league. He worked for Seattle two years as a pitcher and in 1902 established the re markable record of winning 32 out of 40 games, batting .344 in 72 games. His record that year got him a job with the Cleveland club, which be Joined in the fall of 1902. Ha pitched , seven games for Cleveland and. won six of them, not allowing a score or issuing a pass in 28 innings. He didn't like it in Cleveland and Jumped to Seattle again, afterwards being ' induced to report to Cleveland., He started east and got as far as Kansas City, where he concluded the coast was good enough for him and Joined McCloskey's San Francisco out law club. He got back to Cleveland In time to play a spell, when he was trad ed to Detroit for Billy Lush) Klllian. now with the Tigers, being thrown in by the Naps for good measure. Ho re mained with Detroit for two years, be ing sold in 1906 to Louisville of the American association, where he played in 1906, 1907 and 1908. He played reg ularly In the. outfield, doing pitching now and then when one of the regulars had a sore arm. On one of these occa sions he pitched a no-hlt-no-run game against Minneapolis, .the first time the feat was accomplished by a Louisville twlrler In either the major-or the minor leagues. Jess became disgruntled with his Louisville Job and refused to report In 1909, and Louisville was forced to dispose of him to the Vernon club of the Coast league. Jess, who had hit .308, .268 and .281 during the three years he was with Louisville, began to slump In his batting, hitting .237 in 1909, and only .218 in 1910. His bat ting was affected when a boy playing catch in the field aB the players were warming up, struck him in the, eye with a swfftly thrown baseball.,, Jess finds the going In the North west league to his liking and although he got a bad start, the averages show him to be hitting over tho .280 mark and his work with the stick against the. Tacoma twlrlers will likely nut him close to the .800 mark-In a brief space or time. , LOCAL FOOTBALL FANS TO SEE GAMES Multnomah Club Has Several Hard Contests Scheduled for Coming Fall. Portland football fans will witness some of the greatest football games ev er played on Multnomah field this sea son. Arrangements have lust been completed by the Multnomah club for games with the elevens of the U. S. 8. Philadelphia and the Willamette- uni versity. The contract has been signed for the Willamette university eleven and the game, will be played In the earlv mrt of October. Reports from the vallev uni versity state that one of the strongest elevens that ever represented the in stitution will be in the field this season. The proposed game with the V- 8. S. Philadelphia will be the first navy foot ball game that has been played 4n Port land for a number of years. The Phil adelphia Is the biggest cruiser In the navy yards at Bremerton. The man ager of that eleven claims to have the strongest team, with the exception of the University of Washington squad, on the Puget sound. With these two games, the Multnomah-Oregon and the Oregon-Washington game scheduled for November, the Portland football lovers will have their fill this year, seeing in addition a num ber of other first class teams in action. This should prove to be the banner season in football for Multnomah and with the new grandstand completed, the largest crowds may be handled easily, Tennjr Has Great Array. Cy Young declines to go out of the game, having signed on with the Bos ton Nationals. Fred Tenny has as fine a lot of old-timers as there are in the game and .they may make things hum me Tan ena or tne season. I HOMING-PIGEONS . RESUME FLIGHTS Young Birds-Will Start Racing Today From Eugene. Fall The young bird races of the Oregon Homing club held under the auspices of the National association start today from Eugene, 106 miles; next Sunday from Wilbur 158 miles, and on the fol lowing Sunday the birds will be liber ated at Leland, Or. 206 miles. At the beginning of the training season the members of tho club, were very dubious as to the results they might expect from the scheduled races. From the 25 mile training station 150 Portland Boats on Way to Astoria Sailing Regatta " ...... -yurj "-y Penver will send a team of to the annual tournament of the'Amer ican Bowling Congress to be held In Chicago from March 2 to 23, 1912 Section of sailing boats being towed to Astoria. In the foreground is the Spar row, recently bought by Frank Creasey from Chris Kurtz, which is one of the fastest sailing boats on the Willamette river and the boat In which Portland places her hope to win a number of races of the Centennial regatta' that opens tomorrow afternoon at Astoria. ' The Sparrow ha bcal4n' everythirtg ln Portland both this an last season and since going under a general over hauling has shown much more speed. The Portland entries were due to ar rive in Astoria this morning. The re gatta committee has appointed a num ber of Wn who are familiar with the racfng course and the Portland entries, as well as those from Puget sound will betaken around the -course In order to familiarize themselves with it. The other .entries from Portland ar the For an' Aft, Spindrift and Swallow. X The Comet of Vancouver, Wash., also made the trip with the local boats, whioh were towed down the river by the Holy Smoke, a gas boat. - In the above picture are Frank Crea sey and the members of his crew and the mascot, which has been in most of the races won by the Sparrow. Vice Commodore Mendenhall accom panied the boat owners to Astoria and with him went the, racing and handlcaa committee 5j . - birds were liberated and the speed and returns were the poorest the club has experienced since Its organisation in 1905. From the 60 mile station the re turns were very little better, hit last Sunday when 140 birds were liberated by C. B. Winn at Albany, the returns and speed made were very good, the birds making the 76 miles in two hours and 12 minutes. These uncertain conditions have been a frequent occurrence in the east and Europe, but the Pacific coast has been generally free for them. The reasons given for this condition are numerous, the most popular theory being an elec trical condition of the atmosphere hot aiBcernibie to the human senses. ii ciud nas tnree cups to be con tested for during the young bird series, the first being a handsome silver cup for the best percentage of returns, an other for the best average speed, and a third for the best speed from either the iuu, zuo or aoo mile raoe. The Salem State Fair association him donated two silver trophies for races from the fair grounds, the fir mm being for the fastest old bird, while the ecunu goes to tne owner of the speed iest youngster. . Odd Incident Bseorded. An odd .incident happened at the loft of B. H. Bauer during the training sea son. Late one afternoon the young birds were contentedly preening them selves on the roof of his loft, when for some unexplained reason they took fright and arose in a body. The owner paid very little attention to them think ing they would alight in a few but as dusk came on their speed in circling the loft Increased and Mr. Bauor tried all the known arts and winning ways of pigeon fanciers to Induce them to alight. His attempts proved unsuc cessful, and when It became dark their ped in- circling became terrific, and it was aft odd t sensation to. hear the rapia wnir or ou pairs of wings. Grad ually the circles grew larger and the noise ceased. Where they spent the n(irVi will . V'T ...., v fivuaui, Hi ways remain a mystery, as It was 10 o'clock the next morning when the first bird returned the balance straggling In the rest of W. uay. eingiy ana in pairs, very tired and uiuun oearaggiea in appearance. SPORTING. CLUB CANT HAVE BROOKLYN CHURCH In consequence of manv nrott th. iruiees or me j'irst Methodist Episco pal church, in Greenpoint. Brooklyn, have given up the original plan, of sell ing the property to a sporting syndi cate, whose idea- it was to use the edi fice as a boxing olub. The majority of the protests emanated from members of the ohurch. With the abandoning of niv wiiuiun buu me passing or the new New York boxing laws, it was suggested to the trustees that the edifice be sold to a sporting syndicate. If not sold outright it could be leased at a profit for boxing. ,.'' Scorers or Pitchers. Why is it that there are nearly twice as many 800 hitters In the American than in the National league? Is it because of the batters, the pitchers or the scorers? ,. From the fact that the Nationals generally win the world's pennant It rather looks as though the pitchers and sqorers are responsible for the high batting averages In the Junior league. ; i :', "The Multnomah Amateur Athletic ejub has one of the finest crops of In structors ' this fajl that has been as sembled - in any northwest institution for several years," said Superintendent Dow Walker yesterday In foretasting the position of the Multnomah club in the amateur athletics of' the country. Walker thinks that the plubj h'a's a quar tet of the best men In therr individual lines In the Country and that the ath letes are bound to take iron t rank this year. "Professor Krohn," continued Walk er, " is so well known in thleS city, that It would be uselesB to try to extol his ability. His 'human flag1 drill, which was given during President Taft's re cent visit, gave him a national reputa tion and the eastern, magazines were very 'liberal In their cdmment on the drill. Professor Krohn has made sev eral trips east in the last few years to get new ideas. He has visited nearly all the best athletlo clubs in the coun try and is keeping In touch with the work. . Xyan rorms Champion. "Professor Tommy Ryan, the popular boxing Instructor, has. been engaged for the coming season, and his reputation is world wide. He has held two world's championships and l noted for his sci ence. The club is' very fortunate In securing his services as 'he will be a good drawing card and will no doubt turn out some good boxers. - - "B. J. O'Connell will be with us again next season, and his ability as an in structor has been demonstrated. The Muftnomah club wm the 135 pound na tional wrestling championship last May and the rest of the titles were evenly divided among different clubs that en tered, each one securing one event. O'Connell is spending his vacation with his parents in New Haven, Conn., and will be back by the 15thjof September to resume his classes. CstUI - Arouses- Swimmers. "Arthur Cavill, the popular swimming instructor, will probably be with the club again this fall. He has done more for aquatic sports In the last two years than ever before in this section of the country. He tias developed several champions and all have made good show ings in competition. rtie commodious tank in the new building will be an Inducement for this Bport and It prom ises to be one of the most popular pastimes. The board of trustees are seriously considering the proposition-of continuing the classes all summer and also giving the ladles one evening a week in the gymnasium. That would permit nearly" all the school teachers to take up the work that they have to teach in thelf schools." MOTOR GOAT RACES TO BE MEMORABLE Local Club Plans to Make September Races Biggest Yet Held. The board Of directors of the Port land Motor club are making great prep arations for the big motor boat regatta. which will be held In Portland Satur day afternoon, September U. Arrange ments are being made to have all the speed boats that take part In the As toria centennial regatta enter the local races. The regatta promises to be the big gest ever held on the "river. Efforts are being made to have the Red Top, the fast motor boat of Iowa enter the races, and if the efforts are successful j this speeder will be seen in action. J The course will be natrolled bv the I authorities and no small craft wlil bcY allowed on the course while the events are under way. The three Important races of this re gatta will be for the Spectator, Chand-ler-Lyon and Michigan Wheel compa ny trophies. Mai.y other races will be held on the same afternoon. Speed boats from Seattle and Astoria will compete in these races, as well as tfce Astor, Oregon Wolf, Potato Bug III, "7" and the Sylph. . MULTNOMAH WILL An . automobile show will be one of the features of the annual Michigan state fair at Detroit- ' HELP SOCCER OUT Club Plans to Set Aside Ground Ample Enough tor Games. ' Portland will have a re gulatlon-slia soccer ground 'this season on Mulno mah field. The size required in the English and Scotch rules Is a maxi mum length of 120 feet and a minimum of 110 feet in league games. A length of 130 feet is required in International games. Since the Multnomah grounds have been widened and the removal of the poplar trees nrfMhe south end of the park gives over ample room for a soccer field. ... The new grounds can be! lengthened to- suit the style of game the club, men, desire to play. Considerable attention win h. to soccer as a winter snort In land and the new field will fin . i. felt want , I lal Moore Is Anxious. Pal Moore, iht vonn. tkii..i-.- cyclone, is anxious to have another try at Tommy Murphy. The latter whlppej him when he was stale several months ago, but he has been given an nnnnrtu. jilty to show that he can do hW when he clashes , with Harlem's pride in a I0-,rounl bout at the National -Sporting club, . .". X