The Oregon daily journal., July 21, 1918, Page 21, Image 21

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PLAY ST. HELENS ON
Triple Tie for League Leadership May Be Result of Today's Games;
Foundation and Columbia Will Meet in First Game Contest;
Other Games Should Be Cldse.
EARL CASEY, former captain of the Portland
Coast league team and one of the most popular
players vjfro ever donned a Beaver uniform, -will
lead the Cornfoot
club, leaders in. the race for the championship
of the second half of the Columbia-Willamette
Shipbuilders' league, in the second game of a
double header this afternoon on the Vaughn
street grounds. This contest is one of the most
important since the opening of the second half
of the season.
The St. Helens club has not
players filing up six straight victories, while the Corntoot team
has lost but one game since Casey became its playing mahager.
Should Cornfoot beat St. Helens in today's game and Stahdifer
win from the Supple & Ballin team, there will be a three-cornered
tic (or the leadership.
The Foundation team will meet
k(l mil r
company team In the first game of
. a ill .1 l VBliffln
mo uouuieiicaucr
street grounds, this game being
billed to ' start promptly at 1 :30
o'clock. The other games billed
for today are: Peninsula vs. Grant
Smith-Porter at St. Johns, and
Btandlfer vs. Supple & Ballin at
Vancouver.
Bntberland to Pitch
' "Suds" Sutherland will occupy
the mound for the Cornfoot team,
while Oncar Haratad, former Beaver
hurler, will do the hurling for the
St. Helens team. Sutherland and
Haratad have been hurling great
ball during the past six weeks and
a pitching battle Is expected.
On paper, the Cornfoot team,
since it acquired Cliff Lee and Frank
Itapp or ine roruana duukd,
appears to be stronger than St.
Helens, although Eddie Mensor has
collected an aggregation of hitters,
who are cut in front in batting the
horsehlde.
Kotnla to Be on Mound
"Lefty" James or "Rube" Kvans
will do the twirling against Colum-
. bia, while Manager Jack Randall of
the Columbia team will pit "Lefty"
Kotula, who created quite a sen- ,,
'sat I on in the Intercity league two
years ago. against Foundation.
Right now the Foundation team
looms up as one of the strongest,
teams in the league, the acquisl-
1, tlon of Gunner Peterson and Out-
' fielder Daniels rounding out Harry
Cason's lineup.
The contest between the Standt
fer and Supple & Ballin teams Is
expected to be a hard fought one.
- The Supple St Ballin team has
been playing great ball and. it
would not be surprising" If the Van
couver boys were made to extend
themselves thltj afternoon.
Herman Plllette will -do the hurl
ing for the Standlfer team and
opposing him .will probably be
"Lefty" Davis, the Indian who
was recently released to Supple &
: r Ballin by the St. Helens club. If
Davis Is accorded good support he
' may get oy wun a victory.
. Loses Star player
The Vancouver boys are fighting
hard to capture the championship
- of the second half of the season.
The Peninsula-Grant Smith game
should be a humdinger. These two
'teams appear to be evenly matched.
Barham will do the pitching for
Grant Smith and 'La Cloustra or
Maxmeyer for Peninsula. Maxey
Is anxious to get another crack at
the. Grant Smith team.
Manager Buck Keith will be mi
nus the services of Goldman, his
crack young outfielder, for the re
mainder of the season, as Gold
man has enlisted.
Russell Ford Draws
Plan of Submarines
Russell Ford, former star pitcher of
the New York Yankees, is still playing
the National game. Ford, who is a
draughtsman by profeBFion, Is employed
by" the Submarine Boat corporation and
is working in the Newark Bay ship
yard, which Is represented by a team In
the shipbuilders league. Ford and Ed
Ruelbach. former pitchers of the Braves,
are doing the twirling for the team.-
A man may get tired of ordi
nary tobacco but never of
Real Gravely Chewing Plug,
with its pure, clean taste
and lasting quality.
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team against the St. Helens J
suffered a defeat, Eddie Mnsor's
Parlay of Buck
Would Have Run
To 100,000 Fish
New Tork, July 10. (I. IT. S.)
The ancertaintles of racing were
never , more apparent than at Aque
duct recently, when tbe consensus
of opinion of the local tipsters picked
each of the seven winners. Only
two of the seven were favorites and
a liberal price was quoted against
all. Starting with a capital of fl a
parlay on the seven horses selected
woald have netted a comfortable for
tune. The total figures np to over
1 100,060. The fields were large, the
going heavy, which Is snpposed to
make form uncertain, and there was
an extra race on the card. Tet all
the horses that "figured" on form
were successful, which Is a good In
dication that racing Is now honestly
conducted.
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EW YORK. July 20. (I. N. S.i
Norman Ross, who is now in the
aviation corps, still finds time to devote
to his swimming, and he Is seeking new
fields to conquer. ;
Ross is the national swimming cham
pion and a world's record holder, and
he has an enviable reputation aa a
versaUlo swimmer. He has captured
championship laurels at most free-style
distances and In back-stroke swimming:
He has figured prominently In breast-
stroke title races, captured many prises
in plunging: and has developed into a
ater polo star of the first magnitude
But Ross Is not satisfied to let it go
at that, and while he is learning evolu
tions in the air that he might perform
with ease In the water, he Is grabbing
spare time to practice fancy diving,
which is one branch of swimming In
which he has not become known as
national figurehead.
Reports from the west say that Ross
Is fast developing as a diver and he
hopes to try conclusions with his great
est rival, Duke Kahanamoku, of Hon
olulu, who Is touring the country this
season to raise funds for the Red Cross.
Alex Wlckman of Australia, the high
diving champion of the world, who re
cently crowned his career by a plunge
from a height of 205 feet Into a pool
at Sydney, Australia, says he managed
to retain his balance and senses unUl
within about 50 feet of the water. Then
everything went black. He struck the
water in a semi-prone position and
blood, rushed from his nose, mouth and
ears and his' swimming suit was ripped
from his body. He was unconscious for
10 minutes and was under a physician's
care for a week.
Two Philadelphia mermaids are about
to show their swimming ability on the
Pacific coast. Miss Olga Dorfner, who
holds the American records for a 60
foot pool at 50, 100 and 220 yards, "and
16-year-old Gertrude Artelt, who won
the 100 yard race and also the Pentath
lon five event fixture at Rye Beach,
N. Y., will compete at Oakland, Fresno,
Los Angeles and San Francisco. The
big event will bo the 100 yard straight
away race" at Oakland July 21.
Peyton Brand
Real Gravely
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Plug
a pouch--omf worth it
Gravely tuMtMrmchlmnfmr it cwtM
as wnmrm to chew than ordinary plug
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Scenes snapped at Oswego lake during
like. the proverbial ducklings. They
first open water plunge and hopes
"scissors kick" by his dad.
GRIFFITH IS
GIVING OUT
SAME DOSE
Instructs Washington Pitchers to
Use Any Kind of-Freak De
livery They Think Helps.
pLARK GRIFFITH and Fielder Jones
kicked like steers against the use
of the "sVne ball" by American league
pitchers last season. But all their kick
ing gained them nothing, aa the mag
nates did not legislate against the freak
delivery.
So Griff has taUn a new tack In his
campaign against all styles of pitching
delivery that can be classified as
"freaks" of the hurling art by letting
his pitchers run wild and let them use
whatever kind of a delivery they -want.
just as long as they do not break the
rule against soiling the ball.
Taste of Own Medicine
Griff believes in reprisals. He thinks
the best way to force the hand of the
magnates who are advocates of freak
deliveries because they happen 'to have
pitchers who depend largely upon them
is to give 'era. a taste of their own medl
cine.
So when the .season opened this spring
Griff told his pitchers that the "shiner'
was all right, if they could' get away
with it. and it wasn t long before Shaw
and Ayera were using It with the deft
ness of paBt masters.
Johntoa. Holds It -Back
Even Walter Johnson haa experi
mented with the . "shiner," but he has
held back from Its use because he can
not control it well as yet, and he doesn't
want tp take any chances of murdering
opposing batsmen because of lack- of
control.
Griff's reprisal plan is fair, enough
to all clubs, and it would.not.be. sur
prising should the American league
adopt legislation against freaks next
winter.
Read and Enow. Why
Golf Stick Is High
Here's one of the explanations of the
increasing cost of golfing cudgels:
In selecting club shafts, an . average
of 70 In every 100. first grade sticks
will bo discarded asof poor grain, too
whippy or not whippy enough. The
shafts go through three . inspections by
experts before being passed. This, and
the increasing scarcity of good mate
rip's, have brought about an advance
in cost of about 60 per cent for the
rough, unfinished shafts.
Persimmon and dogwood are also be
coming scarcer, and as the majority of
drivers, brassies, spoon and bulldog
heads are made from these woods, the
clubs are 25 , per cent higher than a
year ago. The listing cloth used under
the leather grip on a club shaft has in
creased 100. per cent. The glue used in
Betting shafts, and In many other ways
almost 20 per tent. The brass soles
for the brassies cost 20 per cent more
while the pitched Btring with which the
whipping on he shaft is done haa in
creased 60 per cent. L
Boxing in Jersey Is
Tremendous Success
Boxing in New Jersey is proving an
unqualified success, despite . the fact
that the boxing law in the "Skeeter
State" provides for eight" round bouts
with eight ounce gloves. Recent bouts
in Newark, Jersey City and other Jersey
points have drawn rich sates, and this
for. the shows that had no great head
liner in which, a champion in some dl
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the height or picnicking. On the left is Mrs. O. C. Merrick and her three youngsters, who take to water
are Elizabeth and Jane, twins, and Mary Curtis. On the right is a daring young man who Is taking his
some of these days to be a Norman Ross. He Is Carl Detering Mr., and he is being coached in the
Sport in State
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BASEBALL HAS MUCH COIN INVESTED
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Foreign Countries Keep Up
NEW YORK, July 20. There
seems to be a natural transition
period for those countries which go
to war when their sports are con
sidered. First they want their sports, then
they are hit by enlistments, and
then they come back again strong
er than ever. Such has been the
case in France and England. It
appears to be the case in the United
States.
Baseball Is Foreed Back
Notwithstanding the fact that at
tendance at big league games haa
been as great in some cities as be
fore the war, and even greater
in some other cities, baseball Is
being forced backward by enlist
ments and a pardonable timidity
among its players because of the
work or fight order.
Boxing has been forced complete
ly out of the way, while ever since
It became -certain that this coun
try would be a participant in the
war, football has been abandoned
by certain of the big Eastern schools.
If things turn out here as they
have in foreign countries the nation
will be sorry that such a thing has
AW. STROWGER, former president
of the Portland Gun club, has re
turned for a several weeks' visit to the
Atlantic coast. While away he shot
blue rocks in Philadelphia and had the
pleasure of shooting off the million dol
lar pier at Atlantic City. Strowger says
that he saw no. gun club while In the
East that out classed the house and
grounds at Bverdlng park, Jenne sta
tion Portland.
The Grand American Handicap, the big
trapshooting fixture of the year, will for
the second year in succession be held
under the auspices of the South Shore
C. C. of Chicago. The dates for the
events will be August 5 to 9.
Philadelphia with Its great number of
active trapshooters, has no permanent
home for the followers of the sport.
R. Blackhurne
Swings on Chap
From Shipyard
Ifew Tork, July S (I. K. 8.)
Agents of the veriest - lndastrlal
league twso kave Inred many play
ers away from the major leagaes
with promises of easy Jobs, Wg pay
aad exemption from the draft, soaad
ed oat the members of ths Cincinnati
rlnb while that eatflt was la the
East a few weeks age on the nropo
slUoa ef MJamplag,M bat met with a
reception. .
One of these obaoxloas Isdlrldaals
so laoeased Rat sell Blackbarae that
MLeaa took a paaca at him. ' Tke
ealy regrettable featare ef this la
eldeat was that the paaeh missed Its
mark aad tke tempter retreated la
haste before the Beds shortstop
eoald lessen another swing.
It's aboat time the department ef
Jattlee agtats. Interested la these
who are ebstraetiag the application
ef the draft law, gnre some of their
attention to these worthies, the Claey
players say. --V-
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come to pass, for there will be ab
solutely no outdoor recreation for
the public
Cone Back With Strength
Boxing can be dispensed with. It
is a mlscredited sport a great deal
of the time anyway, and when It
does come back after the war it
will be with greater strength, owing
to the attention which Is being
paid to it in the army.
With' baseball and fotball other
things should be considered. Base
ball can hardly be allowed to go
into a decline because of the huge
sums of money invested. Magnates
doubtless would attempt to strug
gle along even if the major leagues
were disintegrated to the extent of
reaching minor league class.
Sox Saffer Inroads
Already the finger Is pointing to
this result. The Chicago White Sox
have lost , so much strength they
cannot possibly finish in the first
division of the American league un
less similar Inroads are made
against the other teams. And the
White Sox a year ago was one of
the finest teams ever put together.
GRAND AMERICAN
HANDICAP IS BEST
HANDLED EVENT
Elmer E. Shaner Keeps Six Hun
dred Shooters in Best of
Humor.
There'a a reason to steal a much
abused advertising phrase why the
Grand American Handicap Trapshooting
tournament is so successful year In and
year out.
The reason capable management.
No one in all thia world knows how a
shoot should be managed better than
does Elmer E. Shaner. This will be the
nineteenth Grand American Handicap
tournament under his management, and
for seven yeara prior to the Inception of
the clay target tournament. Shaner man
aged the live bird championships. He
has grown up with the sport, knows
every phase of tournament handling.
a great Judge of human nature, and Is
as honest as the day la long. And when
sportsmen know these things, they are
apt to help a little, too.
Office Force Capable
Shaner has surrounded himself with
a capable office force, and capable as
sistants are a wonderful help In keeping'
upwards of 600 shooters In perfect bar
mony every day. - The shooters must be
squaded, they must be gotten to the
traps, and the traps must always be kept
working or the tournament will not fin
isb in the allotted number of days. This
season's tourney will be at the South
Shore Country club at Chicago, August
to 9.-
Fred Whitney of Des Moines, Iowa,
will act aa cashier for the seventeenth
time, and Bernard Elseaser of Tork, Pa.,
will for the fourteenth successive year.
act. as compiler of scores. Whitney han
dies thousands of dollars every day,
and they do aay he haa never made
mistake, and if there ever has been
mistake In the scoring, no one haa beard
of it.
' Racing Boats Need Pass ,
Crews of motorboats competing la
long distance races in the vicinity cf
New Tork as well ' aa captains ' must
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END GAME
ntercollegiate Officials Come
Out for Competitive Football
- in East This Fall.
NEW TORK, July 20. Intercollegiate
football la going to be played by a
majority of the big Eastern universities
this fall.
This move was decided upon at a re
cent conference of representatives of
many big institutions of learning at
Philadelphia with the members of the
central board of Intercollegiate football
officials.
Big Three Ablest
Though Tale. Harvard and Princeton
were not represented at the session, they
were the only large schools not Included,
and the absence of their representatives
Is not taken to mean that football will
be passed up by the big trio.
As was the case last September, the
feeling of uncertainty over what might
come to paaa prior to the time for start
ing football practice haa kept ahtletlc
officials at a number of schools from
expressing themselves, but the sentiment
everywhere is strong for a general re
sumption of the game by schools which
played it Informally last year.
Feaa Sets Example
Pennsylvania university set a glowing
example for all schools by coming out
strong with the announcement that not
only football but every collegiate sport
in which it would be possible to turn
out teams will be fostered during the
coming year. Including the grid games
this fall.
The fact that football material at
practically every school inr the country
will be young and inexperience this
fall should encourage all institutions to
call for a turnout of candidates and
majority of the colleges mentioned have
already announced the intention to do so.
Worcester Academy
Has Young Athlete
J. Oliver Johnstone, the one time Har
vard high Jump champion, haa had re
markable success In the last year In
developing a cracking good young ath
lete at Worcester academy. The young'
ster is John H. Lee II who haa Just
been elected captain of the Worcester
team for next year. He la only It yeara
old. yet In competition this spring be
put the 16 pound shot over 43 feet, and
haa thrown the 1 pound hammer more
than 121 feet.
Britain Takes
Strongly to Its
Sport Program
ew Tork, Jaly le. Sports ef all
kinds are thrlTlag la Great Britain.
Paring the, seeeer- football seasea.
which recently came to a eleee la
Scotland, the total gate receipts
amoaated to nearly lMe, ef which
government war tax was a trifle lets
Ihaa SlMee.
.Seme ef the games for the cham
pionship nf the Scottish leerae,
played by prefessleaals, drew le
tee spectator. Foot tell, racing,
boxing aad ease bail are booming la
England la spite ef the Becae air
raids. .
King George pitched the first tell
In a. diamond battle between Amer
ican mad Caaselaa teams near Lea
' don, en Jaly 4.,
PUBLIC COURSE IS
READY TO
FOR ALL
Superintendent Keyser of ParkDepartment Urges Public to Use
Municipal Links at Their Leisure) Scores Will Be Kept and
Plan Is to llave Active Competition for Players.
By R. A. Cronin
O YOU know Mr., Mrs. and Miss Golfing Bug
that it is now your privilege to play over the best
fairways on the sportiest nine-hole course on
the whole Pacific coast?
Such is the case and the park department 6f
the city of Portland will see that you enjoy your
self on these wonderful new links, the public
golf course.
Superintendent Keyser of the park depart
ment will not only see that you have a good
time, but he will provide you with sticks, balls
and caddy at a nominal charge, if you happen to
be without these necessary implements to play tht R. and A. G.
The city built the course for you and it wants u to take full
advantage of it. Superintendent Keyser will follow your game
through your records on the course, and when he thinks that you
have progressed far enough he will provide competition for you,
for competition brings out the best there is in a golfer.
When the list of players who have
used the course was summed up last
night, it was found that there were
nearly 200 greens fees recorded,
which Is considered an excellent
record In view of the fact that the
course Is only a few weeks old and
that the public has not as yet be
come used to having it available.
Attendance Is Gaining
"We are gaining in attendance
right along and soon hope to have
the course In use from daylight, un
til dark, as Is the case in Seattle,
where the municipal links are re
ceiving more play than any of the
exclusive golf clubs. I have taken
a good many .points from the ex
perience of the perk -board, at Se
attle with the course there, and have
called upon the experience of east
ern cities to guide us In our en
deavor to bring the new Portland
course up to highest standard. -
"Portland's course In time should
be more popular than those of other
cities for the reason that It Is com
paratively . close to the business
center, whereas In other places a
ride of a considerable number ' of
miles is necessary to reach the
links. I should judge that It Is
some 25 minutee at the most from
Second and Alder streets, -where the
streetcar may be taken, counting,
too, the time taken to transfer to
the Eastmoreland car.
Install Score Card System
"Instead of Issuing tickets, we
have a plan . to give out official
score cards. The player will be
asked to turn these cards in at the
end of his round and they will be
filed away to note what progress he
is making In his game. When the
players have progressed to a certain
point we will try to keep the players
interested by having handicap com
petition, perhaps not one big. tour
nament to start off with, but small
tournaments- among those who usu
ally play together- After this has
brought out the skill of the play
ers, we will be ready to stage a
large tournament, which most likely
will be made an annual affair.
"The links are open all day long.
Fortunately we have a greens
keeper who lives at the links and
as he is usually up by a. m. he
can take care of an early bird.
Usually 7 a. m. is early enough for
the golfer and the greens keeper
will attend to their wants. Oolfers
may play as late as they can see.
One night a party played until
S -.45 o'clock, which is going some, to
say the least.
Jnaor Boys Will Help
"We have made arrangements for
golf lessons at last, through the
willingness of the Junor boys.
Johnny and Andy, who were at
Tualatin dob but who are now in
the shipyards, to help us. They
will make appointments for as early
as 6 p. m. with prospective pupils,
and these arrangements may be
made through the park board. . The
Junors are so well known as golf
instructors that comment on their
ability is not necessary.
"We have golf clubs at the links.
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PROVIDE
GOLFERS
This One Brings
Out Boat and His
Niblick for Shot
One wonld hardly have expected It
la tbe staid tewa ef Snrisrflcld,
Man, bst that's where It happened.
A golfer, balaaced la a boat, played
the ball eat ef a stamp aad get
away With the shot. The dream
stances were thesei
Jesse Llnten of Pawtseket, B- I,
was playlag la the Sprlagfleld Cone
try clnb's tonrnameat, aad ea the
fearth hole, 115 yards long, with aa
Island trees. Llatoa played a way
ward shot aad the ball rame down
ea a stamp la the swamp. The play
er aad caddie entered the boat which
patrols the pons and rowed to the
spot where the ball was sees to dis
appear. .
There It was la the tree stamp.
partly heried. Llatoa decided that
the wood was yielding aad that a
smashlag albllck shot might dislodge
the ball aleag with a sectloa ef ths
stamp. The boat was maneuvered
Into position, the stroke was made.
aad the ball went filing threngh the
-i bnshes fringing the green aad leaded
oa the "carpet."
which we rent for 25 cents for a
short set of four clubs, driver, mid
Iron, mashie and putter. A com
plete aet will cost $0 cents. Also
we have in stock a lot of golf bails,
running from 25 cents to $1 each.
Beginners are not so particular
over the cost of the goJt balls, so
I went out and bought a lot of re
made balls, which we are selling
for a quarter. So many balls are
lost by the hooking and slicing of
the beginner that the cheaper bail
haa been found to be just the thing. -These
remade balls are In pretty
good condition and do not affect
one's play at all.
. Dolsg Work oa Gretas
, "We have been doing a lot of
work on the grounds In pulling out '
the weeda and planting more grass.
The greens are In fine shspe, con
sidering their newness, and the fair
ways, which are heavily 3owed to
grass, are declared by the experts
to be by far the best on' the Pa
cific coast.'
"Our main object Is to get the
players and thosie who are thinking
of taking up -thja game to come out
and enjoy the course."
Kyronrn After Record
Willie Kyronen of New Tork, the
speedy long distance runner, will short'
ly make an ' effort to better the II
mile American record. It Is intended
to procure three capable rivals fot
Kyronen to aid him in his attempt
which- will be a feature of a -set of
games In New Tork city In Jthe near
future. '
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