TOE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON ;..
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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that have taken the place of close
ly played battles of yesteryear.
Flve of these spitbaU pitchers
are in the Americau league. They
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;' .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
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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
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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.
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Conference, to Be Held as
! Means of Establishing
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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.
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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
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v Mulllnsin: his conference witl
Fltisimmons 1 .agreed to all tht
terms and announced his Intentioi
. of . pi jning immediately- if -Will
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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
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Portland 8; Oakland . "
Seattle ,9; Vernon 5.
i San Francisco 5; Salt Lake 2.
Los Angeles 4; Sacramento 3:
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HARTLEY ASKS ADVICE
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.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
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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 ' :
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- 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. , .
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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
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Brrfteabaah Hot Springs
Detroit, Orrgon
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Greater jSeauty
Finer 'Performance,
in the latest OMsmobile which
. "incorporates new development
in engneering and design. See
next Sunday! papers.
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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
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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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