DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, THT7BSOAT, FEBRUARY S, 1914
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3Ias Strenuous Wallop With It, as
Shown by Fields Strewn With
Those Who Got in Way.
-JUMPING TO FEDERALS ONE
OF FAVORITE PASTIMES
Tiring of President Lynch Only One of
Exciting Incidents of Stormiest
Season in Years.
BY HAL SHERIDAN.
(Written for the United Press.)
The fire burns low in the good old stove
There's nothing but fatigue
In all that's sung
Or Feds have sprung
In the good old Winter League.
The fire buniB low in the good old stove
The plea from every mouth
Asks when the team
In search of steam
Is leaving for the South,
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.
New York, Feb. 5, The Winter
league is rapidly passing out, but if
anyone has a single doubt as to it
laving been there with the wallop one
ilook over the field littered with former
league presidents, and punctured ranks
of major league clubs, with club owners
'watching in the offing will give the
answer.
Within a few weeks the ball clubs
will be in the South putting in their
first licks of training. Bat bags are
even now being packed. Within ten
days the New York Giants will begin
to gather In St. Louis for their annual
pilgrimage to Marlin, Texas. The
rash of the ash against the horse hide
-will then take the place of mere words
banging the ear drum and tales of sore
arms and charlie horses will step in
where claims and counterclaims now
tread.
Beat Test Comes Later.
Many are the young men who are
beginning to feel that the career they
lad mapped out for themselves may not
be half as good as it looked in No
vember and December when they re
tired from the game. They will bo
angling for contracts. It's two months
yet before the season opens, but the
night is drawing to a close. The clouds
are about to break, and when they do,
make way for the Old King Swat. It
is then that the new Federal league
will be brought to tho beginning of
the real test.
Statements and claims of players
that have signed suffice during the
months when the cobwebs are on the
iiats and rats nest in the gloves, but
when tho big time opens there is but
one question to be answered. That
question deals with the general and
broad topic of whether they can play
ball.
Lots of Happenings.
This has been one of the dinginest
Winter Leagues that ever wintered.
After the firing of Tom Lynch as pres
ident of the National League and the
installation of Governor Tencr, of
Pennsylvania, in his place, came the
now famous Tinker deal between Brook
lyn and Cincinnati and the naming of
Charlie Herzog as tno Red manager.
Tho Tinker deal came and went almost
all at once for the Federl League began
to horn in actively at that stage of the
game. Since that time what has hap
pened has been aplenty.
"Miner" Brown, Otto Kuabe, Pack
ard, Cole, Brennan, Ford, Willett, Cam
nitz, McKochnie and a few others aro
known to have jumped to tho Federals.
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Killifer, of the Phillies and Kirkpat
rick, of Brooklyn, jumped and then
jumped back again. This has given
rise to threats of court proceedings,
but such action would be dull going
after the playing season is once on
The .Feds have claimed that they have
a lot more players, but, coy like, did
not announce them at once.
Talk of slathers of money, ball parks,
and major league stars that have been
signed will do when the sessions are
around the stove, but when the meeting
is called to order just back of first
base it means something else again.
The Federals may produce the some
thing else. This is one time when the
baseball fan stands to lose nothing
and gain a lot. But with the old timers
back in the field, and the smell of the
game in the air it will take real base
ball and not conversation to make the
Federals a third major league.
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UNITED PRESS LEASED WIItE.
New York, Feb. Feb. 5. This inter
national tinge to various sporting
events for 1914 is getting to a place
where it Bmears the entire landscape.
With the yacht races, tennis, golf and
polo lined up in real international ar
ray two foreign entrants may be in
cluded for the indoor tennis champion
ships neit month and the Pennsylvania
relay in April will also have foreign
starters. Harrow University, of Eng
land, has entered a team in the four
mile championship. A. N. S. Jackson,
the Olympic 1500 meter champion, will
captain the team. Germany and Sweden
are also considering sending teams and
if the Universities from these countries
are not represented this year it is al
most certain they will be on hand for
1915. Oxford will be represented this
year.
Three relay races will be run to de
termine the championship of the world.
One will be at one mile, each man to
run 440 yardB, the second at four miles,
each man to run one mile and the third
at two miles, each man to run one-half
mile.
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Chicago, Feb. 5. Something likj
twenty years ago, a nervous youngster
with a bright red tio, a $5 bill ana
empty "tummy," dropped off a train
from Richmond, Iud., and headed
straight for a bowl of soup. That
marked the first step in the 1914 inva
sion of the major league organizations
in baseball by the "baby" Federals.
Today f Charles H, Weeghman, tho
nervous lad with the brilliant tie, thi
five "bones" and the consuming ap
petite, owns ten restaurants, a theatro,
a billiard hall, part of a coal company
and most of tho Chicago Federal
club stock. Ho gathered them together
on a progrntu o? eighteen birrs a day,
pushed along by a lot of pure nerve.
The man who broke into Bport prom
inence by plucking Joe Tinker for his
manager right under from under tho
noso of Charley Ebbetts, thereby spoil
ing another dedication day at Brooklyn
field, is only thirty-eight years old
and he hardly looks it. Sometimes he
is licked as just one of the dapper
youth who play at billiard parlors,
But getting back to tho prosaic en
try into tho Windy City of the lad
from Richmond.
"I had been up to Chicago to Bee tho
world's fair, and I was 'all het up',"
said Weeghman. "When I got home,
I told the folks it was mo for tho Windy
City. Dad was a blacksmith with six
children. He didn't kick, so I trekked
for Chicago. ' '
Tho consuming appetite directed tho
youngster to a lunch counter in a mod
erate-priced loop restaurant. Between
inhalations of soup he grabbed off the
information that tho restaura.it mana
ger was looking for a bright young man.
The job paid 8 a week, "eats" and
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jthe imposing title of "night assistant
manager. ' '
! Weeghman bit. For six years he held
down the job, boosting himself "to a
position as manager of a baking powdor
j company. The baking powder game
provided him with ammunition to buy
a restaurant. Profits rolled in and
I Weeghman spread out, converting him
self into a lunch-counter octopus, whose
tentacles soon clutched at theatres, bil
Hard halls and other enterprises. On
the side he maintained a lively interest
in baseball.
Tho cartoonists and humorists have
i had a lot of fun playing up Weegh-
. man 's joint job of presiding over a
baseball club anil a chain of restau
rants. They have christened Tinker's
aggregation the "Lunch-Grabbers" in
advance of the opening of the season
and have pictured Tinker leading his
charges in an assault on a Weeghman
beanery on pay-day. All of which per
turbs Weeghman not a bit.
" I knew what I was starting when I
went into this baseball thing," he
said today, "and I have never played
a dead one yet."
SECRETARY OF NAVY IS
PLESED WITH GROUNDS
united press leased WIRE.
Washington, Feb. 4. Enthusiastic
approval of the proposed around tho
world aeroplane race from the Panama
Pacific exposition grounds at San Fran
cisco was voiced here yesterday by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels.
"The prize offered is sufficient to
tempt the best flyers," he said. "I
"believe such an event will give aviation
the greatest impetus it has yet received
"Present records for altitude and
sustained flight undoubtedly will be
bettered in the flight. Navy flyers
will be permitted to enter the race if
the naval board is willing. However,
I shall consult with the board before I
make any definite announcement in this
regard. ' '
$ JABS AND JOLTS
If anybody were to offer us the Bt-
Louis Browns wo know what we'd do.
We'd prosecute him to the full extent
of the law.
Not that we wish to hurry anybody,
but it is almost time for George Chip
to fight Tim O'Neil again.
We know not what the future holds
for tho Federals, but a league that is
capable of making organized baseball
amputate itself from money is ca
pable of almost anything.
As long as Otto Stlfel is there with
his $100,000 chock you can't stifle the
Fods.
Sometimes a fellow is lucky, but does
not appreciate it at tho time. Once
upon a time there was only one Zbys
zko in tho wrestling game, and now
there aro two.
It is said that the Sox and Giants
met pirates in tho Far East, but failed
to seo anything unusual in it. They
had mot baseball magnates before.
If It is true that Mamutoff formerly
wrestled in Russia wo fail to under
stand why ho was not sent to Siberia.
TENNIS TROPHY MAILED.
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London, Feb. 5. The English chal
lenge for the Dwight F, Davis inter
national lawn tennis trophy, won Inst
year by tho Amorican team, was mailed
vesterdav to. the United States.
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WILLAMETTE FIELD
IS BEING ENLARGED
Work has been started on changing
the west end of the Willamette univer
sity athletic field so as to provide a
220 straight away and permit the en
larging of the baseball diamond. The
ience will bo run from the back of the
gymnasium directly west to the
stadium. This will permit the men
work in the stadium to pass from the
gym to the stadium without exposing
their running attire to the people on
the campus or people on the nearby
streets. A fence has already been con
structed along the mill race to the
stadium and when the contemplated
stretch is constructed a largo area will
be added to the athletic field in which
it will be possible for the men working
with the weights and the jumps to
work should the teams practicing on
the two baseball diamonds so cover the
main field as to make it difficult to
work there.
More Men Train For Track.
There are more men training for
track at present than were out last
season when track work was at its
ueighth. Eery evening finls the
stadium crowded with aspirants for
honors on the field and track the com
ing season. Men wno expect to work
at the weights and sprints and now do
ing cross couatry to get into condition
and those who aspire for the distances
are already beginning to watch their
time. There are more men in careful
consistent training than there has ever
been bofore.
Basketball Team Busy.
The basketball team is receiving the
hardest workouts these days that thoy
have been given this season. Many
members of the scrub teams of the
earlier part of the season are develop
ing fast and several of them prominent
among which are Luce and Bagley, bid
fair to make their presence felt on the
first squad before another season pass
es by.
'ELEVEN MEN GET
SWEATERS AT UNIVERSITY
The committee on football awards
for the past season's team at Willam
ette has just handed in their report.
They found four men eligible to certifi
, cates having earned their sweaters in
' previous seasons, and seven men en
) titled to sweater awards, this being the
! first time that they had been entitled
1 to receive an official emblem,
I The old "W" men who were given
certificate awards were Homan, Row
land, Pfaff and Bolt. The men who re
ceived their "W" for the first time
are Torkelson, Neustal, Vandor Vorto,
Farris, Flegel, Doane, Small. The list
includes two seniors, two froshment, one
junior and one sophomore.
The committee who made the awards
was made up as follows: Dr. G. J.
Swcotland, athlotic director; Dr. F, H.
Henko, faculty member; Errol C. Gil
key, president of the associated student
body; Merwiu E. Paget, manager of
football; Eric C. Bolt, captain of foot
ball. Trouble with British submarines ap
pears to be that tho are.
i EATING RELIEVES
STOMACH TROUBLE
A Prominent Physician's Advice.
"Eat good foods and plenty of them.
Dieting, in many cases, is almost crim-
jiiial. Get back to norninl, To do so
i you must have the proper quantity of
nourishment. You need It for brain or
, physical work. Probably thero is
nothing tho matter with your stomach
except acidity. That is merely an ab
normal, secretion of acid in tho stomach.
Neutralize that acid and your stomach
trouble will end at, once. Neglect may
jinenn ulcers r not cancer of tho atom
I ach. Do not take patented medicines
or pepsin tablets for dyspepsia. Simply
I take a neutralizcr of acid", Decidedly
I tho best noutrnlizor is ordinary drug
gist's bistirated magnesia, You can
get it at any drug store for a few
cents. Take a teaspoonful in a quarter
glass of water after each meal. The
n 'l'f will be immediate."
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LATEST FEDERAL PLAN
united raiss leased wire.
Chicago, Feb. 5. The Federal league
has turned its attention to the clubs of
the big(minor leagues, and has begun
to riddle some of the teams, according
to Joe Tinker, managor of the Chicago
Federals. With the exception of a few
major leaguers still wavering, practical
ly all the players in the American and
National leagues have decided on what
side of the fence the coming season will
find them, and to round out the squads
from which the Federal league teams
will be chosen, on the training trips,
inroads into the ranks of the minor or
ganizations have begun.
Not only players now in the minor
league rosters sought by the Federals,
but those who may receive their 10-day
notice of release from major to minor
leagues will receive offers of places by
the new circuit.
No Fight for Cole.
Developments today in the Cole de
sertion case convinced Manager Tinker
that the pitcher belongs to the New
York Americans, and no attempt will
be made to force him to carry out the
contract he made with the local Feder
al league club. It was found that Cole
had practically accepted terms with the
Yankees before he signed the contract
with Tinker.
Manager Tinker said, however, the
Federal league will fight the Killifer
case to the limit, and prophesied that
Killifer would play ball with the Chi
cago Fedoral team, or not at all.
Unsigned Tourists to Be Sought.
Word was received today that six of
the stars of the Giant-White Sox
world tourists are still unsigned, and
an effor,t it was said, would be made
before thoy embarked on the last log of
their trip to line them up for the Fed
erals. Crawford, of Dotroit, end Speak
er, of Boston Americans, are among
the unsigned men, it was said.
Steve Kane, ex-National League um
pire, today signed a contract with the
Fedoral league.
MEETING OF BASEBALL
MAGNATES POSTPONED
The meeting of boosters of the valley
baseball teams which was to have been
held in this city next Saturday for the
perfecting of a valley baseball league
has been postponed.
The teams in the different cities are
slow in perfecting their local organi
zations. Salom, Albany and other
cities who expect to have teaniB in the
league have dene littlo other than talk
and no definite plans have been pre
sented or adoptod.
Hay Baker, who managed the Sen
ators last Bcason stated this morning
that he had definitely decided not to
manage the team again this year.
There aro soveral who aro actively
interested in pushing the local organi
zation to perfection and the organiza
tion, it wns said today, will bo com
pleted sometime this week.
Dr. S. 5i. Hartley is taking a prom
inent part in tho matter.
FOOTBALL SOLONS TO MEET.
UNITED 1'IIKKS i.RASKr yvtllB.l
New York, Feb. 5. Whether tho Ben
tinient of tho public demands that foot
ball players wear numbers on their
bucks, so that spectators may tell at a
glance tho Identity of the player, is tho
most important matter which will come
up before tho annual meeting of the
football rules committee, which is to bo
held hero tomorrow and Saturday at
tho Hotel Martinique. Football ex
perts who gathered hero today to attend
the meeting were about evenly divided
on tho question. Those who will favor
the plan declared today that the chungn
would mean a vast increase of interest
by the general public in tho gridiron
sport. Delegates who aro hero today
said they believe few changes will be
made this pear in tho playing rules.
LAWN TENNIS EXPERTS GATHER.
IINITRD I'ltEHB I.BAKHD Willi.
New York, Feb. 13. Members of the
National Lawn Tennis Association
gathered hero today to attend the thirty-third
n ii it it ii 1 meeting of the organi
zation which npons tomorrow nt the
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Waldorf. The most important mattorj
to be brought up is the question of i
whether the American rule permitting
the expenses of a player to be paid by
the association or club to national,
sectional or state championships, should '
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rule is favorably looked upon by those
who will vote on It.
SATS ROAD TO SEA WILL
BE GEADED THIS TEAS
That the Columbia highway will be
graded this year from Portland to the
sea, was the announcement made last
night by Stato Highway Engineer
Bowlby. This, he said, had been made
possible by the authorization of a bond
issue of $380,000 by tho votors , of Co
lumbia county.
"Everything looks fine now for the
completion of the highway," declared
tho engineer, "Surveys are being made
in Columbia county anl two locating
parties have been working thoro for
souio time, Tho authorities have placed
the expenditure of the money in the
hands of the stato highway commission
and contract for the stretch of tho road
from the Clatsop county line np the riv
or to llninior will bo let in a short
time."
SAYS BILL WOULD RUSSIANIZE
AMERICA IN HIS PROTEST
UNITED I'BRSB IXABBD WIUR.l
Washington, Fob, (i, "This bill at
tempts to Hussianizo America; it would
ostnlilish a censorship over the press by
the postmaster general, American news
papers will not tolerate it,"
This was the comment of Senator
Hitchcock to his follow members of
the senate banking and currency com
mittee yesterday at the hearing on tho
stock exchange regulation bill offered
by Chairman Owen. Tho bill provides
for the denial of tho mails to stock ex
changes which violate tho restrictions
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imposed by tho measure and would re
quire the Incorporation of stock ex
changes under the state lawa.
Hitchcock said the measure waa an
attempt to take from the state powers
and duties which were purely domestio
and in no way federal.
NO ANTI-TKU8T LEGISLATION
WILL QO IN THIS BILU
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Washington, Feb. 5, The domocrats
of the senate interstate commerce,
committee In conference yesterday de
termined that any attempt to attach
supplemental anti-trust legislation to
the ponding Interstate trade commission
bill should not be pormltted.
It was agreed that such additlona
would serve only to hinder the pro
posed measure and would conflict with
the ideas of the administration leaders
as to the legislative program under pro
cess of perfection.
Tho decision was reported after s
consideration of the amendments of
Senntor Cummins and other republicans
who participated In a goneral meeting
of the commlttoe on tenative trust bills.
Cummin particularly urged that the
trade commission be authorized to limit
the size of corporations and to regulate
capitalization and price cutting,
VICTIM OF LOGGING ACCIDENT.
UNITKD rilMSS LIABID Willi.
Dallas, Or., Fob, 5. II, A, Erdmnu,
who sustained a fracture of tho skull
while working in the logging camp of
tho Willamette Valley Lumber company
at Black ltock, by being struck by a
hook on tho end of a heavy log cable,
died in tho hospital in this city, whore
he was brought on a special train Im
mediately after tho accident. Ho was
aged 27 years and loaves a wifo and
two small children. Tho body was scab
to Portland whero tho family formerly
rosided for Interment.
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