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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, -PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNING, AUGUST ; 15, 1920.
Changes in Playing JPad
Men's Event
Of N.W.Golf ;
Is Divided
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Players Will Be Rated for Cham-
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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
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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
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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
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- 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.
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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
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,, 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.
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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
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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 ;
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Walter I A. Goes, sectional delegate of
the United States Lawn Tennis aaso
clatlon, did not accompany Isadore West
erman to the Bast, lie will remain In
Portland I and take an active part -in
the city championships, it is said.
i Cady lias Good Thing
Fred A. Cady, for 15 years a swim
ming Instructor In Philadelphia, has
gone to Lou Angeles A. C. at a salary
of $5000 a year and a percentage of the
gross receipts of the club.
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