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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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 ,
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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, . .".
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