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TOE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON ;.. WEDNESD.VTMORNING. AUGUST 12, 1025 t i i I 1 1 J 1EDBIFF1S E I 0 m CONSIDER THE SPITBALLERS Tho Few Left in Bis Leagues May Furnish Argument About Lively Ball Pugilistic Circles Muddled;! Tunney bians Papers tor Match With Wills 5 '3V. "k. i NPAV YORK. Aug. 11. Confu- tlon reigned today on the heavy I weight pugilistic stage with lead ing figures in the pursuit ot Jack Demnsey'g crown congregated j r5TAr4.COVXLESW age, while many others are falter- QUINN - Ry Xorman K. Krown" ( There are Jusf eight pitchers In the bir leagues today who are using legally at least the spit ball. . This delivery was barred from the-big leagues several yearg ago by the moguls Tor two reasons. First, because the delivery was a 'fdoctored ball." Second, because it was considered a menace to health-.? j The fact that the men now using it are collectively speaking pitching jgood ball despite their i i f , :: - ;-v.- alon Broadway to tug at tne threads of tangled attempta to Unci up the champion and. his moat persistent challenger, Harry wills The presence ' of Jack Kearns. jrtnV(xrd a 'Demnsev s manager , in this state, and Floyd Fitzsim-t 'I nwtes. Michigan City, lna., pro moter, who holds an . agreement igned by Dempsey to fight Wills, only terved to throw the situation - into a more chaotic state. Stated menu .poured' in from all sectors T. but nothing. tangible developed. . . 'Today' leading developments follow: Oene Tunney. American light heavyweight, champion, signed ar with Wills to be promoted by Text ViUUiHIa Hi UMOC OUUUn i I URBAN FAbR- tng would Indicate tha"t the elim ination of thesp'tter may have been one of the restrictions placed in hurlers In the last few years to handicap them In their work nd increase the batting in both leagues. ; j Their ability to fool the batters with the saliva shoot 'may indi cate that the pitcher, given suffic ient latitude, can check the home-j-un: plague and. that it is the fever-growing burden of rules im posed on; the pitcher and not the change in ' the composition of thej;.,.,.,..,..., . .Up to 'a recent date Grimes had ball that is responsible for the URRAM SWOClEJZ won and lost 1 1. Sothoron had ? I that have taken the place of close ly played battles of yesteryear. Flve of these spitbaU pitchers are in the Americau league. They are: i u , ;' .Stanley Coveleskle of the Wash ington Senators. Allan Russell of the same team. Urban Shocker of the Yankees. r- Jack Quinn of thij Athletics.' Urban Faber of the White Sox. "In the Natlonal tliere remain: Burleigh Grimes of the Dodg ers. : Clarence Mitchell of the Phillies. Allan Sothoron of the Card In 1 . . . t' .. ' .. . ' 1 '.:,; r- ' ... .... Of these latter three Sothoron is a "comeback." Me ban been out of the big show a-couple of times. Recent averages showed Covey with-It victories and two defeats. Quinn had won 10 and lost 8; Faber the same; Shocker had won but ,6 and lost 10; Russell , had won but 1 game and lost 4. ... Thl gave the spitball conting ent Z S, victories and 32 defeats. .The! trio in the .old Jeague has fared much worse. . - - f " ' t Ji . ."!":" ; v .: : ; '- 4 ; ; t . y- iii . ai i i 1 . r " 1 it- c ) X-.,-x.'.v- v ?.- I i - : Tblj gave 51 victories slam-bang' affairs in the majors won 5 and lost S, and Mitchell C MlTCMtLL won 8, and lost 12. them a totakcor ot and 30 defeats. t The grand total for the eight, then, was 59 victories and 62 de feats. Almost an even break to date. Not bad. Incidentally the continued ser vice of these . men refutes the statement often made that the spitball is conducive to a quick demise for a pitcher. The claim has been made repeatedly that the snap throw needed to Impart the weird bon to the ball soon ruins the pitching arm. . ' For ruined arm Coveleskle's .is doing fairly well after 10 years. In service. The memory of man runneth not quite back to the' be ginning of Quinn's career. It was about 1 90 J. Urban Faber has been using it for 12 years. Unless you blame the spitter for hewing that chip off his elbow a couple of years ago it hasn't seemed to hurt his arm .much. Urban Shocker has been using It eight years. Burleigh Grimes broke In with It some nine years ago. Mitch ell Is In his tenth year of the big league service. Russell has seen some years of service. .... J i , tf - ' ?': U-". i':v IWSIIilllB l ii. p. win in Conference, to Be Held as ! Means of Establishing i : : Permanent Peace ( 'I t celved a negative vote today when a 'formal reflation' pla'ting' the ITU on record In favor of amal- gamatiooi of the Various, printing trades 'anion wn ordered ; With drawn. "' - Of English Invention Is a sin gle cylinder motor plow that is cIl lined to do as much work a four horse. - . I Rlckard at the Yankee stadium, f urobably September 25. j Paddy Mulllns, manager of ' Wills, conferred with Rlckard but i' refused to sign any contract for a i ''match with Tunney until he has K": exhausted all possible avenues for t a bout with the champion. . "Jark Kearns. arriving from i fhicago.) said, be would appear at . tbe New' York state athletic com- I wteRion Friday and sign Dempsey ' for a fight with Wills and Mickey Walker -for a welterweight title match with Dave Shade. Floyd FHasimmons i arrived on (he same train with Kearns ano Wnt into conference with Mullins "hut no final decisions were arrived itt and the conference will be con tinued tomorrow. . . . ; , Tx Rlckard met Kearns rela--thro' to -a Dempaey-Wills matcl. but both were silent after the es , slon., i . v Mulllnsin: his conference witl Fltisimmons 1 .agreed to all tht terms and announced his Intentioi . of . pi jning immediately- if -Will - atquiesce. ; I- BASEBALL By AiUM-.iatd tire( rOLICE YtXD XI3W l.FORIA TIOX IX SCHWARTZ CASH OAKLAND, Cal Associated Press, thought to have Henry Schwartz, . Aug: 11. (By ) A woman, aided Charles murderer and i : . , : Pacific Cortt Portland 8; Oakland . " Seattle ,9; Vernon 5. i San Francisco 5; Salt Lake 2. Los Angeles 4; Sacramento 3: r i HARTLEY ASKS ADVICE 4 .TURNER'FAM GIVES VIEW .T.iLItflT GAMK HKIJl KXTIRK H lfY MISRKI'RRSKXTEI In replying to a recent article appearing In the Turn'eV Tribune, "under date of August 6. . entitled i i'Turner looses to Talbot," I. wish "Tto say the following i , Firstthat MlhA Tnrnor 1i1a11 f'tih. finish fl "fit. playing schedule July UjbylVIARY SPAS ADOPTION IS twinning all the nine games played suicide, while he was in seculsion at an apartment houe here, fol lowing the blast which exposed the murder of C. W. Barbee. was sought today by Inspector of Po lice Bodie Wallman. . l The Inspector also tried to de termine what happened to the suitcase - owned L by ScbVartz, packed for. flight!, which was not found by police When they broke into the chemist's1 apartment after he " had shot himself. ; The suit case was found In the apartment later. Wallman Isatd. : - He indi cated, that " the i identity of the woman sought was known to the police. , ' -- Possibility , that Schwartz had planned to pose; as - Charles W. Haywood, manager of the Notting ham apartments, latter first killing Haywood was seen by the police n the fact-that Schwartz and Hay wood had. made tentative plans to 50 for a "vacation trip" in Hay wood's automobile: Naturalization tapers - and . an automobils' opera tor's license bearing ? Haywood's name and stolert from him. were 'ound in the chemist's apartment; IJddea behind aibed. 1 ' r ' - American Philadelphia 3; St. Louts 2. Washington -3: Cleveland 1. Chicago 13: New York 2 Boston 1; Detroit 0. - National' Pittsburgh 7; New York 4. i Boston 9; Chicago 2. . '. Cincinnati ?; Brooklyn 2. . St. ; Louis - Philadelphia . game postponed; rain. , i, j WASHIXGTOX -GOVERNOR TO ' - CALL SPECIAL ELECTION LEGION MEET C0RVALLIS KETCH V MATCH WILL RE Tl'T OX THIS AFTERXOOX Members of the American legion baseball team will play the Heck art team of Corvallis Id a return contest this afternoon. The play ers will meet at the Hauser Bros, sporting . goods . store . at . 3:30 o'clock.-according to P. II. Acton, YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 11, Governor R. H, Hartley said, here tonight that. In accordance with his .wish to work In harmony with the state legislature, he was writ ing letters to all the legislators asking their advice as to when he should . call the special, session. He' remarked that some of them have publicly, expressed the!? de sire that the session be held in January rather . than in Novem ber. The governor declared much still remained to be done prepara tory to outlining of a state pro gram for presentation to the state special session. , Governor Hartley said he be lieved the residents of the state should support the Washington state fair, which is held In Yakima rather than expect funds for its support to come out of the public treasury, "If more money is needed,- he asserted, "let the people individually raise It and not lean on the state for It." Following a conference In We natcbee today with officials of the Great Northern railway relative to within a htflf mile of the scene of the fire, and at midnight it was not known whether there was any casualties. ... . i Fire boats from Portsmouth re sponded to the call. Tlames lighted' the sky for many miles around., The explod ing hand grenades are thought to have been those returned from Germany at the close of the war and! stored in a, large warehouse Pier. ; " .. PACT SUBSTANCE SECRET TACXA-ARICA DELTBERTIOXS AKE NOT MADE PUBLIC Bear Struck by Auto Not Dead; Driver Is Attacked . YAKIMA, Wash. Big game hunting by automobile Is not so good, L. D. Gaines, driver ot an oil truck is convinced, after an encounter he had with a black bear while on the Rimrock road, in the Cascade mountains, east of here, recently. : i When first sejen, the animal was loping along the highway ahead of him, Gaines related. Speeding up his machine, he forced the creature toward the rocks at one ARICA, Chile, Aug. 11. (Byledge of the road, t Suddenly turn' KALAMAZOO. Mich.. Aug. 11. (By Associated Press.) VH the hope of establishing perman ent peace between the American Newspaper Publishers' association and the International Typogra phical union conferences between S. E- Thomason, president of the publishers' organisation and James M. Lynch,' chief, executive ot the nalon, will be resumed Im mediately, following the seventieth annual convention ot the anion, now . In" session here. It was an nounced late today by Mr. Lynch. One hundred and fifty local printers' unions ot the United States and Canada have voluntar ily accepted the International's arbitration method ot adjusting differences with employers that are incapable of solution by con ciliation, the union executive stated. A working agreement which ex- jsoclatlon and the union expired several monus ago. Breitenbush Hot Springs Martoa Coanty, Oregoa HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORT Opea TJadcr New Management Hot mineral water baths; hot mineral mad baths and aataral hot mineral vapor hatha. Brcitenbush Is famous tor Its hot arsenic spring and nauanal variation ot other mineral con tent. These water are excep tionally beneficial to rheuma tlam, neuritis, constipation, skin and blood diseases. Plans of the American Federa tion of Labor 4o launch a nation wide campaign ..of organization education and publicity, also were discussed at today's meeting by President Lynch. 'The one bis union." Idea re-, manager. . . , i The American Legion team of J to certain road work at Rock Is Palem and the Heckart team pt land.1 which involves the moving Corvallis are the winners of. the city leagues in the two cities. A game with Corvallis here last wee, was thrown into an eight-Inning affair and . ended - with the score favoring" thfr visitors ; V '-'- Second, due to the long lay-off : t our boys were entirely out of prac- j --.tlce. and by playing a double '.header they" Were greatly over- worked and fatigued. . "JThird, th Talbot umpire seem fed biased and. partial and needed binocular field glasses to make his decisions' with, s ' : J " Fourth, the efficient observe! - who -wrote the article asserted and . mis-stated the facts by misquot V ing .the score of the Talbot gamr '?" (13 to 3). official score. was 4 If 8,. We might suggest for thl' "correspondent another pair . o highly magnified binoculars. ,i" Fifth. the main reason tor drop plug' one of the Cloverdale p'aver :' - formally, as stated In the Tribune was.nnable to do his "stuff." Wf . ' feel with proper support from thr 4 ' local-fans, and business men that ' next "year we can put a real team ' - in the field. So be a booster and ; r not a "knocker!" -I 'A LOCAL FAN. ANNULED; PAPER SIGNEDtaLk,ng mqVe TESTED EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW DE VICE SAID SUCCEJvSU'UL ! iContinved from pv t. rhe Mary Pickfard curls had been ione trpin an elaborate coiffure. ?he wpre one of the coats Brown ng .had -given jber, though the earlg and otheji Jewelry were not n evidence. . . -j - . , "As far as I lam concerned the nthe matter is closed," Mr. 3rownlng announced. "What the ;:ri .Intends to! do Is outside oi ay Jnrisdictloru! I have made ab- olutely no financial provisions for ler. She told me she nlanned to inter a convent, though her par ents later1 informed' me they were lot in favor of lit; : . ., . f - .... V ..' t - T TALKER -BOUT IS -URGED WASHINGTON.: Ang. H.- (By The Associated Press). Success ful test of a "talking mqvie 'radio" was announced today byC.Fran- cis Jenkinsr Washington' Inventor. For the experiment Mr. Jenkins said: he moved the picture trans mitting set and described, his ac tions, an audience in another, room viewing the reproduced-; picture and i listening to the inventor's voice coming through the, speaker Predictions that geheral use of the apparatus might be made feas ible Mr, Jenkins said' he "had' de signed It as an attachment Co standard radio receiving "sets. of the. railroad right. of , way, the governor's party drove to Yakima. Blewett Pass . j was " Inspected en route. Tomorrow the Dart v. which, besides the governor, con sists of W. G. Potts, state treasu rer: J. W. Hoover, state highway engineer, and Senator P. H. Carl- yon of Olympla, will inspect roads In the vicinity of Yakima and on the following day wilt go on to Goldendale to inspect the North Bank highway. ; : The Associated Press). The greatest secrecy continues to sur round the- deliberations of the Tacna-Arica plebescite commission, the admonition ot the president general, John J. Pershing, that lbors of the commission had been hampered by press discussions of problems requiring expert diplo matic handling, having : made a profound Impression. ' No- announcement has been made regarding the next meeting of the commission.- DOPE'CLEANUP STARTED CHICAGO DIVES RAIDED; DI VISION CHIEF IS HELD HAMP WILL RE SUSPENDED . IF PAPER NOT SIGNED .' - J . , . NEW YORK, Aug. 11. (By Associated Press."!. Mickey Walk er; world's t welterweight " cham- 3ion, will be Indefinitely suspend- sd by the state athletic commis sion Friday" unless , Walker - signs contracts" and Jposts a bond for a title match with Dave Shade ot California at that time. This rul- Ing was made at its meeting! by th e commission today. " The welterweight king, who was ?lven a license! to box Harry Greb, middleweight champion; at; the Italian; hospital fund matches up on assurance from him that he would meet Shade on or before August 15, has consistently refus ed to sign despite a 110,000 bond posted for him by Humbert J Mugazy. promoter of the hospital fund bouts. The commission in timated that .the bond will .likely be forfeited unless the match Is closed by Friday. . . " MAY BAR: . AFRICANS - l -; .... "' ' 11 -"' - 4 t I. i . PRINCE RUPERT MAY BECOME CLOSED TO UVSFlSllERMEX CHICAGO, Aug. 11. (By As sociated Press.) Working from the top down,, federal authorities Wt about today to clean up nar cotic traffic In the Chicago area in a fashion which 'sent law break- )ers to cover and - vacated the haunts sheltering the illicit trade, j ' Will Gray Beach, for three years chief of the narcotic division for j the Chicago area and three of his . trusted aces are under arrest. , .facing .charges ot conspiracy for having' traded confiscated narco tics for the loot of i. highwaymen and thieves. After three hours' questioning today. Beach led special agents of "'tje federal Intelligence' unit to a , confessed he had stored a auan- BAILEY , TOURNEY STAR t tity of narcotics. 1 - ( . ; 4. He . confessed , ownership ot a quantity of jewelry and salable ' merchandise included as the loot 1 of robberies, but denied he had ' slven' narcotics for the valuables. ' . Goods valued at more than 1 : $30,000 was found in Beach's apartment In a boarding hotel. He j told examiners he had bought the , gooda "to help the poor devils along." , Beach .valued his cache at ap proximately $230,000. . Colin el" II each and his three as- released by United States Com-l- ' mLssloner . Beatler. Counsel for - Beach adrlsed him to refuse to 'waive the preliminary examina tion which was set for Sept; 23. SEATTLE. Aug., 11- (By ; As sociated PressO--i-S. ,M." Newton mayor, of Prince Rupert,.. B. C. and editor of t. Evening.. Em pire, testified at a hearing on hali but import duties before the -Unit ed 'Slates tariff commission here today that Canada might close th port of Rrince Rupert to Ameri can fishermen., ----- .' A growing sentiment for reta lation against a 2 ; cent a pound American import duty ? o"n ; fie and frozen halibut' is being felt in Prince R,upert, be declared. '. . The commission is hearing evi dence for and ag&inic a -petition to reduce the Import duty 60 per cent. . ; ' i . , ; j MUNITIOH PtANT: BURfjS EXPIXWION. FOLlX)WED i TVS FIRE. DESTROYS PL.XT 4 NORFOLK, Va.. Aug. 11. (By Associated Press.) Fire that fol lowed an explosion of hand gren ades tonight completely destroyed the ammunition storage pier at th Big Point ammunition depot. six miles from here. Sentinels on the outskirts of the reservation refused admittance LIGHTNING CAUSES FIRE MAXY BLAZES RESULT FROM i STORM tS CALIFORNIA Ing. the bear sprang onto the hood of the truck, but skidded off. ten tinder the wheels and lay still. To take home proof ot his prow ess. Gaines returned and grasped the bear by an ear. The truck massage however, had not killed, only dazed him, and the animal sprang up with an angry 'Woof At this point Gaines decided allow the bear his life and liberty and sped back to his machine with- out dignity and only a part of his trousers. The bear disappeared up a canyon. 1 TONY Horse DUKE Dog REDDING. CaU Aug. 11. (By The Associated Press). Forty elgh.t separate forest, fires were burning today in Trinity county, as a result of lightning during a storm yesterday. Forest rangers. assisted by hundreds of other men. fought last night and today to pre- vent-the snreait nf the flames The lightning storm was the heaviest reported In Trinity county In many years. ; Five separate fires were started by! the same storm near Sims in. Shasta county, and are still burn ing but under control. . Tourists headed both wcth aitil south were stopped b the rangers and are aiding In the fight ngalnt the fires. , . itnl in , TEETHE Starts Friday Wonderful mcnnrxi fln f Uh- Ing; trail hiking aacl moaatala climbing; good ccommods tlons; rxrelleat meals; reaaoa able rates. , . 1C1U Ctty4titt Bickwmy am4r atrncUaa, wiu ae apa tan Taka trtla tnm KiU City. tn rsitktr rarUesUn, Wrtu M, D. BRrCKMAN Kutut Brrfteabaah Hot Springs Detroit, Orrgon f 1 LI Li (wmnmm 4W Sm4 Vf f v Greater jSeauty Finer 'Performance, in the latest OMsmobile which . "incorporates new development in engneering and design. See next Sunday! papers. OLDSMOBILE r SIX TT The Arctic region, it apr"ar Is becoming a rather popular sum mer resort. , ILLIHEE GOLF PLAYERS ARE MATCHED WITH ALBANY When one end of a r.ew tooth brush fceenmes worn it can be re- A. C. Bailey emerged winner of the annual flag day tournament on the Illlhee country club links Sunday when he won victory over a field of 16 entrants. Bailey fin Ished with fan -'edge of three strokes! F. A; Elliott, state for ester, came tn for second honors. . .Tom". Woods made a good show ing with a drive, of 269 yards, the longest he has ever made. Other drives, were , made during the day that came nearly setting new rec ords Tor the; individuals and the entire tournament was declared an unqualified success. -. Next Sunday the local club will meet a. "team from Albany. Sev eral other meets have been sched uled for the remaining summer 1 tire ctii-lnionlts. BABE DISCLOSES' RUM i i . t ff , .. .-i-..; ,'.,..' S CHILD'S CRY LEA$ .OFFICERS , TO DISCOVER BOOZE SACRAMENTO. Cat. Aug.; 11. (By Associated Press.) Child ren have been known to-swallow safety pins, bichloride of -mercury tablets, and about everything else that was not nailed down, but for a baby in arms to drink. Jackass brandy was too much for Deputy Sheriffs F. A. Beckley and.Chas Ogle to believe last; night when they arrested S. Yamada," 4pan ese restaurant proprietor at Wal nut Grove for sale, and possession of whiskey. f ' During the raid oa'Yamada's restaurant the deputies searched the premises, .carefully but' were unable to find a trace of whiskey. One of Yamada's children was ly ing In, a crib and began crying The deputies strolled over to pla cate the youngster and noticed one end ot a bottle of whiskey protruding from, beneath the baby's covering. The bottle was seized as evidence, against , Yam airs. 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