V, THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, -PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNING, AUGUST ; 15, 1920. Changes in Playing JPad Men's Event Of N.W.Golf ; Is Divided fc:. . -.. - -r :f: Players Will Be Rated for Cham- . . . '... :! ! f !L1 ! ; piortsmpj Waveriy oiud.ukb- : y to 'Get 1921 lourney Future c h a m pionship tourna ments of the Pacific Northwest Go anHoclation will be conducted otn - Atttrmt lines from those held in tke past, according to decision leached by the revision committee, com posed of H. A. Fl eager of Se attle, Jack Rithet, Victoria, and . It. Davis Jr.. Waverley club. . Port' land. ':'. j : , ;. -- ' The open championship eveht will be separated from the amateur end o this tournament and, the men's amateur cli amplonshlp and handicap champion ship. The women's championships will b conducted on the same lines as in the past.. These decisions were reached after a series of meetings. i k TICK SITE SOOIT I I " No tournament sites for 1921 have been named as yet, but it is expected that th committee, composed of C. H. Davis Jri. Biggerstaffe Wilson of Victoria, Bl C4 and J. A. Swalwell of Seattle! will mike its decision as soon as It is' de termined whether the Colwood club of Victoria, B. C. will be able to handle the tourney. The Colwood club would rather staze ' the 1922 championship.; which will give them another year InH which to put its course in champion- ship torm. Should Victoria not decide to take the tourney It will be staged over the Wav erley Country club course sometime next : Ju&v. , ... . I elTjTE EVENTS MAT COME 4. . iuu l.ltt that the! time was not yet ripe to wholly! " segregate the amateur from its tltne hoiiored company. This will be so some time. It was realized, but 1921 was a bit too early, they appreciated. That is. ! they assumed that one of these dayis the Oregon! state championship wotild be supplemented with a revival of i I the Potlatch- championship, or j a Washington state championship, with a possibility of a British Columbia cham pionship. AIT of these would be con- . ducted on the invitational plan and would compensate for the splitting' up of tjhe P. N. G.: A. championships Into : their component parts of amateur, open and) women's title events. ,. As has been observed, the revisionists felt Ithat 192t""Vas not the year to make" this split, i Haying arrived at that definite starting; point, they eecKiea to separate the open championship from the (meeting, reducing the field by Just that much at the annual tournament. Fqr several years there has been brewing a change in the conduct of the amateur championsnip. it crysiainxea : at j tjhe Vancouver . meeting when the direct tor Indicated that the revision committee finally arrive at some con clusion on this matter. They did!' it last week, when : they agreed on . a rat ing plan - for the amateur. For the 1921 amateur this committee will serve, with the association secretary, as a rat ing committee, j , . .: A., J ji ay! hate sixty Rojighly speaking, in5 the association district. Including British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Ore i gon. there will;, probably be BO to j 60 men rated as eligible for the amateur rhamipionshlp. H. Chandler Egan. for Instance, in all probability would jbe rated at l. 'by; way of showing how this rating - wiil be done, California, Utah and othef states of the western tier, whose golfers have been taking Prt pn the P. N. O. A. meeting in ever- increasing numbers, will be rated upon 'appUbatipn to the secretary of the asso ciation .previous to the holding of the amateur championship. r All players not rated eligible for the amateur will be invited to take- part in the handicap j championship. ' Every activ e golfer in the association, will be rated, largely on a basis of the handi cap tat his home club. The committee will take into account the respective pars or tne various courses in the asso ciatlon in arriving at such a handicap list. It is going to be a stupendous taakJ they , realise, but they feel the benefits that will accrue will be well i worth it. In the case of visitors from California and elsewhere outside the association district, they, too, will be handicapped upon application, to the association secretary. PBOGBAM OUTLINES ' i Th way it! will all work out has been set down by the revision com mittee. . Assuming " that; Colwood will : takej the championships for 921, here is the program that would be followed: I Monday the first day of the six day v tournament the amateur championship field would be sent off for a morning round of 18 boles medal golf. They Would be. promptly followed by the women's Qualifying field , at 18 holes. The , second 18 holes of . the amateur qualification would follow .-the women's field. , i I Thjirty-two would qualify for the ama teur ana we outers wouia oe arawn for flight play. This qualification wouljd all take place at the Colwood Course, - as would all the subsequent matcjh play of the amateur and the womjen's champlonshipa I i i uesaay, it noie matcnes wouia : oe played by the amateur snd the women's field. On the afternoon of this second i day ithe Davis cup would be played for on tjlie same plan , that has prevailed sines it was put up six (years ago. The .qualifying teams, of course, heing 'de cided in the Monday medal golf tests. tOSO HATCH DE8IBED ! i Beginning Wednesday and conUnulng through to t J finish of the week, all amateur championship matches would be at SI holes.: Heretofore 16 holes were played only in the serai-final and final rounds of , FrMay ; and Saturday re-spechvely.- The 36 hoi match through out jthe week has long been desired by everVbody taking part in the amateur ;j that is. by those who have Qualified for 1 In the meantime at the Oak Bay COLUMBIA BATTERY SERVICE WILL MAKE. ANY B ATTEST LOWOEB . LAST Columbia STORASZ BATTTSY CO. PARK akp COUCH HESSE-MARTIN TOSSERS 4, s J It ,. MMTW'. . .. - The Hesse-Martin Iron Works baa eball team is one of the contenders i for the 1920 title of the Class A A league of the Portland Baseball association. Reading from the left, top row Hughes, outfield; McCarley, outfield and piteher; Captain Jones, first base; "Pink? Deardorf f, pitcher, and E. Bird, shortstop. FVont tow Manager Ixnvry; Garbarino, second base; Moore, catcher; F. Bird,1 third base; Hubler,1 outfield ; Drake, pitcher; Nygaard, outfield. The youngster sitting on Ilublcr's'vlap is Lowry Jr., the mascot. -y t I ; Former: Beaver Catcher Was Not To Be Outwitted .''- i -j a ? - Miller Hsgglas, of New Tork, la a faaslBg bee recently told a tale aboat Xarry McLean when ,tbat eccentric catcher was starring-with the Cin cinnati Reds.; " Oae day we were sitting oa th beach, aad Larry was there with Iti head In h I bands, disconsolate as ever a man conld be," said Hagglss. "Is HsUess fingers he held a tele- fram 'purporting to have been sest y hi mother. It was .nsday, and Larry had been ander suspension for a week or more. Ose of the boys asked him what was In the telegram and -Larry saldt 'It's from my Mother. It says! "Boat play ball on 8saday.H 4ld yoa answer Itl' asked ; a player. I did,' fe plied 31c Leaa.i I said. Don't worry; I'm not even playing on wek days. " course "of the Victoria Golf club the"re would be enacted almost identically the isame form of competition. There, be- ginning Monday, wouia be as holes of medal jgolf aa qualification for ijthe amateur handicap championship. Flights -would be provided for all those iwbo failed to lahd, by virtue of low net Scoring,! in! the first 32. ! i Match play would follow at Oak Bay n Tuesday anjd on Wednesday. On Thursday all the respective fields, having been reduced to eight men each, the entire tournament play would be taken en at Colwood. j By Thursday those who have been 1 eliminated from the cham pionship players and the flights would have other forms of entertainment pro vided, as has been done in the past, ji Thursday, Friday and' Saturday would furnish handicap events of diversified character for both men and women flayers,' with the usual finale" of driv ing and approaching competition, while Championship putting would be in prog ress every ' day of" tournament week. ' ji The revision Committee's decision in lis matter of conducting teh 1921 Aeeting is final. They .were so in structed by the association directors at the Vancouver meeting. It now becomes only a matter of applying the program either Victoria i pr Portland. If the averley Country club is awarded the meeting, the Portland Golf ; club 'would occupy the same relative position 'to Ivaverley that Oak Bay does to Colwood. as has beeeh here defined. IMPORTANT CHANGES PLASHED ii'As things nowj stand, only Vancouver, "Victoria and Portland are in position to hold the annual P. N. O. A. tournament. In two years Seattle, with Ha Seattle Oolf t club : and j its Rainier Qolf and Country club and Its Inglewood Country club will be similarly situated. It is manifestly impossible to consider a mu nicipal links iti this scheme of two courses for the! championship meeting. As public institution, it is not available to this private tournament of a week. This was Je attitude of the revision committee. j The committee also decided on sev eral important recommendations It will make to the Pi N. G. A. at the 1921 meeting.' - Chief of these is that the various clubs belonging to the associa tion guarantee the club holding the an nual meeting against financial loss in the actual conduct of the tournament. This applies . only to, expenses legiti tnately incurred; in putting on the tour nament j proper land does not refer to anything that can be construed as of permanent improvement to the course over which the? Championship matches are played. The recommendation f ur-Uier- carries , th suggestion that this deficit, if any such exist, be prorated among the various clubs bn the basis Of actual membership strength of the clubs, SeatUe Golf club and Waverley Club, as the strongest clubs in the asso ciation in this respect, would be -called upon to assume ;a proportionately larger Pwrt?th!.r'd'icit for example, the Walls WallaGolf club or the Yak ima Country club.- The committee also Will recommend ithat the annual dues be increased from 75 to $100. They also recommended forthwith that All club . secretaries immediately furnish the secretary ofj the p. N. g. A. John H. Cheher, care of the Times, Seattle, with copies of their hadicap lists, indi cating the par of the course and other matters of helpful character in arriving at a rating for every active golfer In the association, ! William Johnston Defeated in iTennis Newport R. . Aua. 14.- ft N. fei in a stiff "five ' set match. Clarence J. Griffin today won the invitation singles lournamemt at XJiO Casino when he defeated William M." Johnston. . na tional champloni and Davis cup player, In the final round. The scores: t-. ?-. 6-4, 6-J. - -:.. -. , , ; The largest gallery of "the week saw the match. Johnston was anything but up to champiorashtp form, and time after time the Califorpian scored points with excellent placements. . Johnston's back hand was the only feature of the game today, in which he excelled. 1 A Double Bill To Be Played At Vaughn St. ;1 - i -? j Portland Baseball Association Clubs Battle jfor Honors ' in Today's Contest. IT HAS been , many j a day since the rivalry between two semi-pro teams has existed as it does over the Sherwood Honeyman Hardware baseball game billed for ' the Vaughn street grounds this afternoon, starting at 1 o'clock. The match is for the leadership of the Inter city league of the Portland Baseball as sociation, both squads being deadlocked at the present time. The boys from the Onion City have been strengthening of late and it lis said four members of the Salem Senators have hooked On for the occasion. Walter Kracke, one of the best catchers among the independent circles in Oregon man ages the Senators, and he has - been signed to do a little op the receiving in the battle this afternoon. BT03TETMAW INTACT ! On the other hand, the Honeyman agt gregation has been kept ; intact ! since the season opened with the exception of a, few weeks when toc Quissenberry tools a fling, at the Idaho league. He was replaced by Cbet Davis and outside of that Manager Ted I Barton has kept an eagle eye on the same, players who started, the 1920 campaign. , "Doc" Quissenberry ihas the honor of never having been walloped by an Inter city team and he is anxious to keep up the good work. He returned from the Gem state circuit a couple of weeks ago. Fred Helmke, the Lincoln high catcher, will receive Doc'b slants, according to present plana. J - ' -j i The Sherwood team seems to have the number of the Hardware men, inasmuch as the Washington county delegation trimmed the Portlanders in the two games staged at Sherwood. For this reason the Sherwood backers, are com ing strong to boost for thelrj favorites this afternoon". f SHEA TO 'HELP TEAM ? .Danny Shea, who k frown enough about baseball that he could write a : book and still leave out enough for a second volume, has been sectored by Manager Barton to look after the Honeyman nine for the rest of the campaign. Danny has been umpiring in the Intercity League of the P- B. A., but aa soon as he was offered the coach Job of the Portland boys he turned in . his resignation to Prexy Jack Routledge, . The .Honearnan players held a workout on the , East Twelfth and East Davis streets grounds Tuesday night and, in the short space of an hour, Danny disclosed a lot of "in side" stuff that should crop out in the engagement on Vaughn street , today i The fact that the Sherwood manage ment has taken on three or four outside players. Just for the femaindej- cf the season, say reports, 1 has caused : the Honeyman representatives to work all the harder. A defeat j today will mean that the Hardware men will have to perform some "miracle" to get back in the lead and clash for the 1920 cham pionship of Oregon. I OSWEGO TO SHOW j Olds,' Wortman & King's heavers wUl oppose .Oswego in thai second game of the double-header on the Vaughn street grounds this afternoon. It is a match of the Class A circuit -of the P. R A. Following is the complete schedule for the various leagues iof the Portland Bsseball association far today: ! : Intercity Lrftjnft Honryman Hcrdwsn nm- rir asainst Sharvood, Vausbn street errands, p. m. Multnomah Guard aaainat CeiMiom, Columbia park, S p. m. Portland Iron Works against Attoria at Astoria, j Kirkpatxicks against Hilbborn st Hilhboto. 1 i A A City ligo Crown-WD Ismette company against Ksadall Station, Cancmak park, 2 :SO p. m. Heaae-MarUn asawsfe 8tretcaxmnl local. Sell wood park, 1 P. m. I Streetearmcnli local against Cancos, SeQwood park, .8 p. m. I Arleta "Wows" against Cook & Gill. Columbia park, 1 p. m. , - A City Lcatrne Olds. "Wortman As King sssint Onrto. Vaughn atrltet groonds, S p, m. Capitol Hill agaimt Cmincil Crest at Capitol Bill. A-l City taguo Uoou against Orasham at Crystal lake park, 2 p. m. iNational Broom com pany against Tigard st Ticard, p. m. North Portland Eagles against NssolsJ Door Hanniae turing company. East Twelfth" and East Daris, 3 p. m. . i 1 .' - Ex-PortlandPitclier 1 ' Bought by Detroit - - - I : r- ! a :-: : - ,, Pitcher Allen Conkwright, who was j given a tryout by the I Portland Pacific Coast International league and who was with Salt Lake last season, haw been I purchased by the Detroit Americans from the Bloomington club. ) Conkwright has won 1$ and lost six game this season. He reports to Detroit in a month.; Manager McCredle has been angling with Detroit for another hurler" and it would not be surprising if the f Tiger owner would ship Conkwright to Fort land. . . 't ( . vv. The Beavers treed another hurler and If Mae can land a steady performer the Beavers will be in the fight-to-flnlsh race zor the pennant. . -a Evil to Be Wiped From Game Gamblers Given Heavy Blows ' By George Berts j TV7HILB charges and counter : charges of crookedness in con nection with the 18 9 Pacific Coast leagne champion ship are flying through the air as thick aa bullets did 'in the last big drive of the allied armies In France, baseball fans are puzzled over - the effect it f will have on ' the j national pastime In the future. , There is only one answer to that question and it ijj that it will boosti the game. As soon as; people, those of whom are not ardent followers of the sport. lea,rn that the league offi cials and club ' owners are - making an effort to keep he game free from the gambling evil, they will turn out to see the contests. . K BAEiTHEM FOIETEE A very prominent fan made a re marks the other day that all players connected with 1 "throwing" games should be barred from baseball. There is no doubt that they : will be barred from the game, even from the smallest independent leagues, as has Hal Chase, one of the game's greatest .firstsackers. Gamblers of the I type of Nate Ray mond, who has been barred from all Coast; league parks, should be kept from the 'parka. and Judging from the amount of investigation that has been carried on several more will receive the same blow. ! Raymond is pretty well known in National Nejt Play Attracts Much Interest Davis Cup Chai lengers Will Be Se ected During Big Event at Forest Hills. TVEW TORK, Aug! 14.- (I. N. &) Interest of the tennis world cen ters on the East today, with ! the opening of the national lawn tennis singles championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. away. ; "William T. I., only a month Tilden II, the new world's champion, will lead a host of net luminaries from East" 'and West to the'eourtis of the West Side Tennis club for tiis event. I Announcement by the United States Lawn Tennis association that the team to represent America in Its Davis cup matches with Australia will be chosen after the national championship Sa de termined, has added sest to the matches to be played at Forest Hllis, The title tournament opens August 30. Julian S, Myrick, president of the; as "BABE 99 RUTH'S CHAPTER FOUR ALTHOUGH X had been quite a home run hitter on the old school team and could now and then poke out a-lorg one against a league pitcher, still Jack Dunn saw me as -a pitcher rather than as a heavy slugger . when the Orioles went out on 'the International circuit. I liked pitching well, enough, but as a pitcher I could not bat in every game and my whole idea was to play ball every day and bat every day to earn my $1800. Bat. especially. Somehow or another I never saw myself as a big league pitcher although the speed and the jumps i were there in the old left arm. My idea of a wonderful time was knocking the ball where some one would have to climb the fence to get it. Jack Dunn saw some thing that I couldn't see, because if you will look back on the Red Sox games in the world's series of 1916 against Brook lyn and In 1918 against the Cubs, you will find a total ofi29 scoreless innings credited to me. And this was one in ning more than any other pitcher had ever gone hitless in (world's series work. BOST03T GRABS HIM U ; . , . . - j Some ball players may know . when there is.. an ivory hunter in the grand stand, but X had no idea that anybody was watching me with th Orioles. . If you had told me ithat ' some class D league scout had his eye on me I might have believed it. , But the surprise X got with the second; boost, to 81800, was nothing at all to the sensation Jack Dunn gave me a few days after that speech making trip to St. Marys when he told me X was going to Boston. Perhaps he didn't think I was such a good pitcher after all. -- "-v ": I - -: I could hardly believe that I made a big league club in my first s year -out. Only five months since I had been a school boy, sliding on a pond In a Balti more .industrial school. ' And the salary was less believable 82500 a year. I was having more luck In the game than -Tom Padgett, ;a fine fellow and a good pitcher, who broke into baseball at school and was pitching for a small club in the Virginia league. Poor Tom would have made good, I am sure, if be hadn't been killed in an accident. He was the only Other St. Marys bey . to get into professional baseball, but every year I look for some one to come along from the old school lot back in Baltimore. CBQWD AMOKG MILLIOS" Along about this time X began playing to the grandstand.. Oh, there might have been from fifteen to twenty thousand others, but she'd have been the whole crowd among twenty million. Did I say she? I i believe I did and I was writing about Miss Helen Woodford, a Texas girt so pretty . that any time she failed to show1 up I was ; useless. She was attending a girl's" college in Boston and taking i a special course la baseball at the open air school in Fen way park. She evidently fell for l?ro fessor Ruth of the baseball faculty ; be cause 'one day in October, in 1914, when Professor Ruth had a class in Baltimore, he. up f and married her, and he , has been happy ever since. Although this story is supposed to be about myself I wouldn't be fair to myself if I didn't Portland and it has been learned on good; authority that Raymond declared be would giv Pitcher R. Arlett of the Oakland. club-fifty dollars if he would beat the Portland club. Arlett won his game, but - whether he was paid the money the writer does not know and only Arlett and : itaymona couia an swer. the Question. ; "- - BONUSES BI8COUEAOED 4 -r" Players " should refuse these ! Ictnd of of fera . They are paia to go in ana do ' their best. , Another thing that should be discouraged, as it is bad for baseball. Is the offering of bonuses to go out and win 'a certain game, as the New Tork National league club owners recently did in a series with the, Cin cinnati club. ? . - - This does not mean that rabid fans must refrain from showering silver on players after they have made a home run or : a very ; remarkable play. This one far tosses a piece of silver on the cahttot be; controlled for as soon -. as field Others will follow. There- is no evil in this and it makes the players feel as though their efforts are ap preciated.' AXGEI BOSS IS WISE The Coast league made a wise move when it passed a rue preventing the announcement of the batteries for the following day. -- V- . "Red" Kllllfer, manager of the Los Angeles club, appreciates this rule. In the Angel series here a fortnight ago some fan leaned over the raiting and asked KUlefer who he was going to pitch. Killefer had ; already told the newspapermen . that.i Aldrldge would work but Killefer was wise and prob ably upset this' fan's plana " Oftentimes bets are placed upon the pitcher who Is to work and if certain twirlers work no bets are made and oftentimes they are changed. Keep baseball clean above all things is what .President McCarthy is trying to do and he is being supported by the various club owners.; .! sociation, today confirmed reports that a new team will be selected to meet Aus- I tralia at Auckland, New Zealand, late in December. "The team will be selected on the merit of players in the coming east ern tournament," he said. "There may be several changes. It all depends on the showing of the players. ji Two East against' West tournaments are also attracting interest. One, for women, will be held at Forest Hills Sep tember 9, 10 and 11. while the other, for men, is scheduled for the same dates at the German town Cricket club, Philadel phia. The Pacific coast will send a galf axy of stars East for tfiese events. j j The Sutton sisters. Miss Eleanor Ten nant, all of Los Angeles, and Miss Helen Baker of San Francisco, have already been entered as the Western team in the women's events. Mlss Corlnne Gould; of St., Louis, It is said,' may displace one of the quartet, however, before ths matches are played. The Eastern teams will be selected after the Forest Hills championship matches are played. ' 1 1 Strayer to Manage Ball Team ii Aberdeen,Wash., Aug. li. Chet Stray er, well known to followefS of the boat ing game as an old-time Grays Harbor referee, will manage the affairs of the Aberdeen Striped Sox, succeeding Doug Kimberly and Harry Parker, who have been acting as joint managers of the Sox.. - . : fi Sunday the club will play Raymond at Raymond, and August 20 will meet a Bremerton Elks' team at Vancouver during the staging of the state Elks convention in' that city,1 ' II OWN STORY OF HIS CAREER (Copyric'lt. 1920. tj United News) RED SOX GRAB BABE RUTH EARLY IN HIS CAREER Babe Rath spent only part of his first time ; In professional baseball as a minor leagner. - Five months after leaving St. Marys Industrial school to Join the Baltimore Internationals, he weat to the Boston Red Sox. Slisa Helen Woodford, a . Taxes girl, was attending school in Boston. Rath, met her and in October, 1114, they, were married in Baltimore; - Babe eld not find entirely clear sailing with the Boston team at first After a month oa the beach he was sent oat to the Providence team, tkas going back to the International leagme again. Bat la September of the came year he was recalled to Boston and finishedi the season there. j Is 1915 he pitched 1 games for the Boston Red Sox and won 18 of them. "-. ! present my better 90- per cent. - She knows baseball and can handle a tem peramental batter as easily as she handles her own car. ? Whenever X am, playing at home she is at the ball park aad the has learned so much about the fine points of the game that she can an ticipate a manager's instructions and fre quently calls a play before it is made. During the season our home is in i a New - York - -, apartment but . we have another place with trees and grass around it up in Sudbury, Mass. We spend most of our winters in Boston because I have a cigar factory up there which . takes - some management. I . SOX FARM HIM OUT C C Off the field we drop baseball. We motor together In the evenings or go to the Broadway musical comedies, but when the . weather : Is bad I sometimes sit at home and play the organ. ' tin kidding, X do.' She doesn't call me Babe; she calls me Hon, and what I call her is between us. . ; ; , i ; j . But my' story , is back In the baseball season .of 1914 and I must return to it. When X arrived in Boston it seemed to me that there was nothing more for me to win In the way of honors, and be cause I felt that way the blow was all the harder -when the Red Sox refused to take fire from my spirit and casually farmed me out to the Providence club of my old league, the International, after a month on the bench. It was pretty disappointing 3 to f a young fellow - who thought he was coming- along but, but I remembered the advice ' of Brother Matthias to , "pi ay the game, so I said nothing , much and went to -;.work for ProviderK:e.)-.;,;i.;h:- :;: ,.. ;; . . : On September 2 I was back in. Boston and - they gave me a chance to work. Altogether I broke into the box score four , times before : the season - ended. Two games I won, one I lost and one I did not finish, i : : i - -Boston did 'not have occasion to farm me out after -that. It is true that I pitched r only 22 innings and got no homers that year, 'but I had taken part in only four games and had done fairly well in one month Of experience on the big game. I was -waiting for 1915 to MULTNOMAH'S NEW INSTRUCTORS "; :' k ) V ' , " v I ." ' I yK JX&.WS I m l smsVasaaeagMassMWsfcMSs f Tom iiouttit (on the left) and Ted Thye, who have been appointed box : -rng and wrestling Instructors, respectively of the Multnomah Ama teur AthlcUc club. - rpRAPSHOOTFRS used 24,000,000 shells JL ' last year. Read the sentence over again. It will give you an idea of the popularity of the sport. . One of the features of the Interna tional shoot in Canada was the appear ance of a squad of school boys, in a eneclal event. The race was ikod by James Handley, 15 years old, who broke 67; The trapshootlng championship of the Tork Athletic club was won by Major Tracy Lewis and the Boston A. A. championship went to Jay Clark Jr. Lester German, rated aa one of the best professional shooters for many years, and who has been in retirement for the past two years, is out again and going down the trail nearly as good, as ever." v, .- John Phillip Sousa takes times away from his musical duties occasionally to ohmtol&FK '" VM Vraduated from uthJchamXsh?at lBuckne.l university and who was an 11- break a few targets. in the North and South champlonshlpat Pinehurst; the Maryland, state ' shoot and the New Tork state shoot and he is still going. ' We have oft times .mentioned that no one can use the old blunder bus that Frank Troeh shoots with other than himself. A few days ago we got a let ter from Mra Troeh informing us that Earl, -their 18-year-old son, can handle the old - gun nearly as good as his father." As Mr. Troeh. has averaged better than 97 per cent on 10,000 targets thus fat this year, you can imagine what a whale of a shooter the boy is going to be. v.'..".;'-::.. Y J come around. Then I was sure I'd get my chance. HOMERS HOT EAST They started me 25 times in 1915. X won IS games and. turned in- seven' de feats. This gave me a pitching average of .720, The home runs did not come so easily against the expert pitching of the old heads and cunning arms of the big league moundsmen as they had against the kids on the lot or the men who went up against the Orioles. - I was able to collect only four homers, and they did not attract much attention, aa a record of four home clouts in a season was nothing to print on 24 sheet posters. However, my. batting average for the s year put -me in the .so-called charmed circle of .800 hitters. The end of the season found me with an average of .315, and only once since .then have X dropped below the .800 mark. This was in 1916, when my" average fell to .272. Remember, I. was a , pitcher and pitchers are supposed to be rotten hit ters. They thought, around the Boston club, that I would have to blow up in one department or the other before the 1918 season got far under way, because it Just isn't done for a pitcher to win ball games and hit .800. The season of .1918 was the least suc cessful from a batting viewpoint that X have ever played in the big league. At pitching, however, X managed to pull through with a good showing. V Alto gether, there were 30 starts, and 23 of them; were entered in - the "won", col umn. Thirteen games unlucky num ber I lost. My batting . eye didn't seem to be working that year, because X got only three homers throughout the season... SETS SCORELESS BECOBD My pitching average for the season was .638. You will remember that we went Into the world's series that fall, beating Brooklyn for the championship. People were saying at the time that the Dodgers were not really a championship club and did not deserve to represent the National, league against us. I aid n't think so, though, and every ball I pitched was sent over with all the respect due to the winner of a. pennant and fighter for the highest honor. Everything in my head and arm I put on the ball to win. . At that tbne, I was too young to take 'chances in a world's aeries. And I am just that young today. Any man who becomes so cocksure of himself as to let himself grow careless any moment in a world's aeries, or in any other game, is either too big or too small for his .chosen profession, and I'll say, right here, I've' never met one too big.--. -v -- - ; v In the world's "series .against Brook lyn In 1918 the old soupbone was work ing like a piece of steei machinery. X had everything on the ball that any pitcher could want and that any hitter didn't want The result of it was that X . pitched 13 - scoreless innings in the series. - They did hit me once er twice, but It did them' no good, because not a man-jaQk got around.: : : And that was the beginning of a rec ord in scoreless . innnlgs that stands to my credit in the annals of baseball. (End Chapter Four.) Mathewson Gripped by Old Plague Famous Matty Trying to Turn V Back Dreaded Disease; Was Master of All. TVTEW YORK. Aug. 14. (I. N. S.) Christy Mathewson, for years the idol of lovers of baseball everywhere, is reported seriously 111 from tuber culosis at Saranac Lake, N, T, Christy Msthewsonl Is one of the most picturesque and highly honored men the game of professional baseball ever produced. Mathewson helped win the championships In 1904. ; 1906. 1911. 1912 and 1918 for the Giants. HF-TlS HATJ HIM I lUStriOUS Siar lor n minim mawi in diamond and gridiron, broke into pro fessional baseball with the Taunton club of the New England (league in 1899. In 1900. with the Norfolk club of the Vir glnla league, he won) 21 games and lost only two. Purchased: by the Giants that year, Mathewson lost three games and was returned to Norfolk. He Was drafted that fall by iClncinnatL but be fore the. season of 1901 was traded by Cincinnati to New York by Amos Rusie. When Mathewson first came to New York Horace Fogel was manager and, it: is said, attempted to make a first baseman out of Matty. McOraw moved up from Baltimore jto take charge of the Giants and -he was not long in de termining ,Matheweoh's proper) sphere. Almost immediately j Matty, as he it known to the baseball . world,! became the great master-of jail pitchers. COHTROI, WAS TJHCANJrY j . In his .early career Mathewson was possessed of terruic speed as wen as a fast curve. -His control was uncanny It was his ability to! put the ball wher ever, he cared that made him a wizard. though some managers insisted his con trol was too perfect and that he seldom issued a pass or hltja batter, all oppo nents batted against him without fear of personal, injury. Toward the close of his w.onderful csreei" with "the Giants Mathewson r , developed ' his celebrated "fadeaway," the forerunner of the emery ball, shine ball and .kindred freak deliv eries, which since have been barred. Mathewson, however, used no foreign substance on the ball. STARRED IPC SERIES ! i Mathewson1 and Joe McGinnity won a world's series from the Athletics In 1905. The Athletics avenged themselves at the expense of New York In 1911 and - .1913, r but through -- no fault of Matty's.-" In the world's series of 1912 with the Red Sox, that went to eight games because of one tie, Mathewson pitched the very best ball of his career, though twice beaten by errors, j -- For IS years (from 1902 to 1914 in clusive) . Mathewson was one of the most celebrated figures in the game.- In the spring of 1914, while he was still little past the senlth of his career, he was stricken with a! shoulder affliction that specialists neves could diagnose -something like 'neuritis and which im paired his effectiveness to such an ex tent that, he pitched few games after ward. ' . ' I --' : 8IETED IIT PRAWCE On July 20, 1916. at a time when the Giants were In a bad slump, Matty waa traded to Cincinnati with McKecbnle, Rousch'and cash fori Herzog and Wade Kllllfer, He as traded only that he might manage the -Reds, which he did until , the middle of the 1918 season, when he went to France as an army cap tain.) Before he returned in the spring of 1919 Pat Moran had been appointed manager of the Reds. McGraw imme diately engaged bta Once star pitcher to assist him . with -the Giants, which posi tion Matty held until he left for Saranac Zake a few weeks ago. , ' 'Smoky? Joe' Wood Big Help to Indians -"'- : ,;--.y- - j ; ,- ' : Cleveland, Aug. 14. "I have every reason to believe. Wood win help us as a relief pitcher,? aald Manager Speaker. "He had everything! recently but con troL -s He can get; that t What was wor rying me, before he . Started ' was that he might not be able to show his old time speed and sharp curve. He ahowed lxth and .with a little more work he will help ua by saving a game now and then, -i j '; Wood will not know for a few days whether his arm stood the work all right. , He felt all right soon after the gam e, but that wasi too soon for the pitcher to know whether his arm re belled against the unusual exercise after so many seasons as an outfielder. sO Z r TPaCiw-i -an i a XIJLJ A vllllXO Tourney Set Fnr A.ior 2,'i Multnomah Club to St3ge Event; News of the Tennis. World i for Players. j By Earl It. Goodwin THE annual city tennis champion ships will be staged on the Multpomah Amateur Athletic field. starting Saturday, August 28, ac cording to pres ent plans. A. D. Norrls of the Winged "M" in stitution may be delegated to han dle the afralr. Five events wJJl scheduled. All the champions of the 1919 gather ing are ready for furtha, nl.v Catlln Wolfard, who holds the men' singles ititle. Is beginning to take a lit tle time to get into condition. Ills first appearance on the courts since the Ore gon state tourney at Irvington thre weeks ago was a practice match with Jade Neer last Wednesday.. BIRS. NOHTHCP TO DEFEND Mrs. W. I. Northup won the women's singles honors and along with Miss Stella Fording the two managed to work their way through the women's doubles. Both have been playing excellent tennis of late, and Miss Fording attended the Washington state gathering at Seattle last week. A. B. McAlpln, president of the Port land Tennis association, may call a meeting i within the next 10 days to definitely settle on the opening of the city championships, and every effort will be made to not allow the tourney to drag one bit. s No lnterclub matches were staged this season between the various clubs of Portland, and the reason given for the failure Is because the committee chair men of two or three of the prominent organisations did not show the required Interest in the matter. Heretofore, Mult nomah club. Irvington Tlub, Waverley Country club and Laurelhurst clsb hav held lnterclub matches, but nothing of the sort was officially held this year, Phil Neer, the sensational Portland racquet wlelder. Is expected to return to the Rose! City tonight or Monday after having taken an active part in the Inter national tournament, British Columbia championships. Pacific Northwest tour nament and the Washington state en gagements at Senttle. The Seattle tour ney ended last night , . .; The consolatlonB of the Orepon state gathering of last month are still hanging fire and it is not possible to tell when they Willi 6e started. Practically every tennis player for the consolations lsa Portlander and yet the tourney has not taken pi Ace. ' At that, several of the players have been taking In the various tournaments in. the Northwest, j. President C-. Henri Iabb of the Mult nomah Amateur Athletic club la confi dent tha the two courts under Con struction on Multnomah field win bt . -. . " I- '- J ' . ' ' ' " VtV , I J U I I't . J. til.. means that there will be seven courts which can be used in disposing of tbd games. Five will be In first class con dition and It is very likely that hy this time nextj year two more will have Ron through an extensive overhauling, mak ing the Winged "M" institution have possession of seven of the beet pave ments in the Northwest, i - . The national Junior tennia champion ships will be held under the' auspices of the Wes( Bie Tennis club at ForeHt Hills, L. I., starting two weeks from to. morrow. I Portland and the rest of tho Northwest will be especially interested In the gathering. Inasmuch as leadore Westerman,' a lad from the Rose City, will try to annex the Junior title of th United States. He left last week In or der to become acclimated in the East and while waiting -for the contests he will take part in several exhibitions with his brother, Harry. - I - ' - ' Walter I A. 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