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SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY 15, 1916
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Pacific Coast League Standings .
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FIGHT FOR OLYMPIC
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With Only Seven More Games Six Teams
to Play the Race Is a
Hard One
With seven more games on the sched
ule the Lojus are making plans to cap
ture every one and thus knock the Beav
ers' pennant chances in the heud. To
morrowSalem will stack up agninst the
Bradfo'rds instead of the Kirkpatricks,
as originally announced.
Along at the start of the season a
vhange in the schedule was made, after
tne oifiuiul schedule had been made out.
SSalem knew nothing of Hub and figured
on meeting the Kirkpntricks tomorrow.
A few days ago President Bay of the
Inter-City league informed the local
management that the Bradfords would
be nere.
Keone and Swartz will undoubtedly
be the opposing slabmen in tomorrow '
session. Swartz essayed to pitch a
double header here a couple of weeks
ago but didn't do very much in that
line. He tost the first game and the
second went into extra innings and re
sulted in a victory for the Lojus.
Swartz U in fine form for tomor
row's game and the Bradford line-up
and batting order has been readjusted
to provide a stroiigor ofefnsive.
Sport Chatter.
Ray Gobel plays his last game is Sa
lem tomorrow. The summer course at
O. A. C. in which he is entored comes to
a close and Gobel plans to leave within
a few dnys for California.
Rumors are nfloat that the league sea
eon, as far as Woodburn is concerned,
tomes to an end tomorrow. The team is
said to have lost money and patronage
is none too heavy. If the team wins
tomorrow, though, "It" is thought that a
subscription will be started in order to
keep the club in the race until the pen
nant is won by some team as the Wood
burn club now has a good chance of
capturing the rag.
of Four Players
Each Teed Off at Del
Monte Country Club
Herman Tellette, Woodburn f linger,
who went to Bulte of the Northwest
ern circuit, has returned to this t'oun
ty and wil lbe chief operator of the
steam roller from now on. .
Manager Klett has lines out for a new
first sucker. The departure of Gobel
leaves a hole hard to fill and Klett
wants a man who cnu deliver the goods.
The Eoyal Ailment.
Achilles complained of his heel.
"Never mind," we assured him,
"Folks will take it for the fashionable
golfer's heel. N. Y. Sun.
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' 216 N. Commercial St.
Del Monte, Cal.,sluly 15. Six teams
of four players each tcd off at the Del
Monte country club today in the com
petition for the Olympic eup and the
preliminaries of the Western Golf as
sociation championships were on.
The teams represented six golf as
sociations the Western, Southwestern,
California, Northern Cullformaj South
ern California and Intercollegiate. It
is generally believed that either the
California or Northern California team
will capture' the trophy. State cham
pion Armstrong heads the California
association four and .Tack Neville the
Northern Culiforniuiis.
All the California contenders for the
title continue to play up to form and
unless there is a serious reversal, the
Western amateur chainplouship will lie
between Neville, Armstrong, Heinrich
Schmidt or Douglas Grant, according
to most golfers today.
Hoover Uankhead, secretary of the
Western Golf association, today took
charee of the tournament and announc
ed that he did not believe Ned Saw
yer, the Chicago star, would bo an en
trant. He said Sawyer found the dis
tance too far -to come
Freddie Welsh Peeved
New York, July 13. Freddie Welsh,
tnngo dancer who boxes lightweights
of ancient vintngp, passing up real con
tenders, is considerably miffed because
he has received hut shots from all
quarters picking on Tommy .Murphy
for his July 2H, or Labor day bout.
Happily the - boxing ..com,mision..
squelched the bout. Simultaneously
Freddie has come to the bat win an
offer to let the "press and public" se
lect his opponent for the July 28 bout
and also for a Labor dav bout.
"So Mr. Manager, bring on your
title claiming lightweights,'', is the
burden of Manager Hurry Pollock's
letter.
Summer Tours
SALEM to
SAN FRANCISCO
$32 Round Trip
Good for 30 Days.
Ninety Day Ticket 35.00
Meals and berth included on the
Twin Palaces S. S. Northern
Pacific and Great Northern
only 2(1 hours at sea. Most de
lightful trip on the West Coast.'
Oregon Electric
North Bank Ead
& S. Northern Pacific
and
S. S. Great Northern'
Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday
Low Par's for Bound TACT
Trips to all cities of the
Direct via the Most
Scenic
Boutes of America, or via
California.
Catsop Beach for
Vacations
J. W. BITCHrE, Agent,
. Salem, .Oregon' . .
Horseracing At Chicago
Chicago, July' 13. After a dozen
years, horse racing came buck to t'hi
eugo today. With a rani of six races,
the sport was to be revived today at
the Hawthorne track.
The feature event was the $10,000
American derby.
In twelve years Chicago folk have
not forgotten to be racing runs anil to
day track officials prepared to handle
.10,000 persons. The only betting will
be on the nod, police said.
It will not be known until shortly
before post time whether (icorge
Smith, 2 to 1 favorite and winner of
the Kentucky derby, will enter the
race. In a workout 'Tuesday George
Smith was "let out" and pulled ui
lame.
After Fake Boxers
New York, July 15. Klusive ehnni-
pious of the fistic world, who have
been wont to displav the itching palm
rather than the i-linched fist, may have
to defend their titles in decision bouts
soon if they wish to box in New York.
Chairman Wenke of the state ath
letic, commission, incensed at the ac
tions of Freddie Welsh and other title
holders, in a letter made public today
suggests that the p.esent regulation of
the body forbidding decisions be
amended to provide tor a referee's de
cision in any contest where a champion
is a contestant.
The proposed rule provides that a
generally recngni.ed champion cannot
box at all in .New York state, except
in a bout involving Ins title.
Race Drivers Object to
Board Track in Omaha
Auto Races Todjui
Omaha, Neb., July 15. Although it
is believed to be one of the fastest
trucks in the world, several of the fa-
Imons auto drivers entered in the Oma-
i ha sneedwav races here today object
'to the fact that it is built of boards.
iNone of the drivers refused to race
on it, however, except Josef Chris
I tiaens and Frank Calvin, the Sunbeam
team, and thev were expected to eapit
lulate before the starter's pistol souud-
fed.
I Kstinrates early today placed tne
'probable attendance at 50,000 persons
I Eddie Kirkenhai'her, tne winner last
I year, will have no easy victory this
I time. He ran away from the field
I last vear. avera'irina 91.87 miles an
hour. Rii'kenbacher, Resta and DePat
ma will battle today in the 50 and 10
mile runs. Kxperts have estimated
that the time will top the 100 mile
mark.
Resta will drive a Pengot, Rirken
bacher a Maxwell, DePalma a Merce
, des. . Henderson a Maxwell, Cooper a
' Stutz, d 'Alene a Duscnberg, Milton a
iDusenberu, Devlin a Rose-Rovce, Chan
' dler a Crawford, Lewis a Crawford,
'Johnson a Crawford.
Vernon ...... 57 41'. 582
Los Angeles 59 : 39 .571!
San Francisco 54 4ti .540
Portland .. 42 41 .500
Salt Lake 40 4!) .440
Oakland ..: :tfi (id .353
Yesterday's Results
At San Francisco, Panland 4,
land 2.
At Suit Lake fi, Ran Francisco
At LoJ. Angeles 2, Vernon 0.
Oak-
STANDING OF THE TEAMS
National League
W.
Brooklyn ... 44
Boston' 38
Philadelphia 40
New York 311
Chicago 38
Pittsburg 34
St. Louis 4fl
Cincinnati 32
L.
29
30
32
Pet.
.003
.559
550
3(i 500
41 .481
American League
W.
New York 45
Cleveland :. 45
Boston 43
Chicago 40
Detroit. 42
Washington 40
St. Louis 35
Philadelphia 18
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44
47
L.
33
34
34
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37
37
42
54
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.450
.405
Pet.
.577
.570
.558
.52
.532
.519
.455
.250
The strain of winning a game was
too much for the Ouks, so they neatly
dropped yesterday's contest.
For seven sizzling sessions the.phan
tom of victory lured the cellariffes on.
In the eighth session the phantom said
good night when Walt McCredie's out
fit garnered three runs.
t that, the Oaks outhit the northerners.
Krie Erickson, the new Seal pitcher
started the Salt Lake game like a
house afire but in the second inning
the Bees partly extinguisned him ami
ill the fifth put him out altogether.
Billy l'iercy meanwhile kept the
Seal hits well scattered.
One more defeat for Vernon the
fourth straight.
Ilorstinun held the Tigers to four
hits, scattered over' four widely sepa
rated innings. To league leaders were
goose egged.
Yesterday's hero in the big league
was Hughey High, who cuine in from
left field at a million miles an hour,
dived and hookedya line drive oft'
Doney Bush's bat. So sticky was the
greensward after the heavy rain of the
day before, that instead of turning the
usual somersault, Hughey stuck in the
mini. I ioin this Anctte Kellcrninn po
sition lie stuck up his mitt waving the
ball.
The Red Sox and the Browns went
17 innings to a scoreless tie.
The Braves hupped into second place
in the National by beating Pittsburg
while Philadelphia was losing to the
Cubs.
Nick Cullop lost his first game of
the season when his support went to
pieces in the twelfth inning of the
first Detroit-Yank name. He had won
nine times in a ion'.
Frank Bnkej- tried to break through
the concrete wall oi the Polo grounds
grandstand in pursuit of n high foul
mid as a result will lie out of the game
for a few days.
.lawn McGraw was nrrested for dis
orderly conduct after the Cincinnati
game. John T. Reed, a fan, snys Me
(irnw "used unparlorlike language.
Art Fletcher, the Giant shortstop
had Reed arrested on the same allcga
tion.
Sixteen Million Dollars
Spent on Roads byAutoists
Washington, I). C. July 1. Ninety
per cent of the registration and license
fees paid in 1915 by automobilists to
the stntes, or $10,213,387, was spent for
the building and maintenance of county
and state road, according to a concili
ation just published by the office of
Public Roads, U. 8. Department of Ag
riculture. In all, 2,445,1304 niotor ve
hicles were registered in that year and
their owners paid 'a total of $18,245,
713 for registrations and drivers' and
dealers' licenses. This is an increase
of $5,80.1, 700 over 1914, and an increase
of 734,325 in the number of vehicles
registered.
. Automobilo fees now defray nearly 7
per cent of the total amount spent on
rural roads and bridge building, wehere
as in 1900 the income from this Bourco
was less than three-tenths of 1 per cent
of the total expenditure.
The growth of the volume of fees and
registrations is noted by the fact that
in 1901 New York, the first state to
requiro fees collected only $954. In
1900 only 4S,000 cars were registered
throughout the entire United States.
Bv 1915, however, the number had jum
ped to the figure given, so that there is
slightly more than one motor ear regis
tered for each f the 2,375,000 mill's of
road outside of the incorporated towns
and cities.
The relation between cars aiiif road
mileage varies widely in different sec
tions. There is only one motor car for
every 0 miles of rural road in Nevada,
but nearly six niotor cars for every mile
of such rondjn New Jersey. There is
an average of one motor car registra
tion for every 44 persona in the United
States. Iowa apparently leads, howev
er, with one motor car for every 10 per
sons, while only one for every 200 per
sons is registered in Alabama.
It. must be understood, however, that
the figures of registration do not nec
essarily represent a total number of
.cars, as some of the states do hot re
quire annunl registration-," others group
pleasure and commercial cars and mo
torcycles in their accounts, while still registered came fourth in point of reve
other states do not require registration.' nuo with $1,533,054.
of motorcycles. .
There is great inequality in the regis
tration fees charged by the different
states. The average for the United
States, v.as $7.4(1. The state of Ver
mont, however, secured in 1915 a gross
revenue of $18.10 for each motor car,
while Minnesota received only about
50 cents for each motor car. In Texas
and South Carolina no annual registra
tion fee is collected, the only require
ment being a coun.y fee of 50 cents
and $1.00 respectively for perennial re
gistration. Most of the states, however,
also levy annual taxes on motor vehic
les and this adds importantly to the j
punuc revenue contributed uy tne own
ers of motor-propelled vehicles.
In the nse of fees, however, there
seems to be a general policy of applying
the mnjor part of the money collected
from automobilists directly to road bet
terment. In 42 of the stntes of the Un
ion all or the major portion of the
motor vehiclo revenue must be expended
for the construction, improvement, or
maintenance of the public, roads, or for
the maintenance of the State Highway
department. In. 20 states, all or the!
major portion of the net motor-vehicle I
revenues are expended by or under the
supervision or direction of the State
Highway department. Iu seven states!
one-half to one- fourth'of the state mo- J
tor vehicle revenues are expended thru
the State Highway department, and the
remainder by the local authorities, j
states, in addition to applying license ,
fees to road construction expend for:
this purpose a large part of the fines.
Bud penalities collected from owners. !
California Leads In Fees Collected. 1
In the number of registrations New,
York state led in 19J5 with 255,242; j
Illinois was second with 180,832; Cali-1
fornia third withlli3.797; and Per.nsyl-!
vauia fourth with 100,137. In gross'
revenues received from this source, I
however, California led with $2,027,-1
432; New York was seoond with $1,-1
991,181; Pennsylvania third with $!, '
,11(15,270; while Iowa, with 145,000 ears
Save
Money
TEN GALLONS OF GASOLINE at 20 cents
amounts to $2.00. Figuring twenty miles to the gal
lon, you get 200 miles at a cost of one cent per mile.
TEN GALLONS OF DISTILLATE at 10 cents
amounts to $1.00. Figuring thirty miles to the gal
lon (which is conservative), you get 300 miles at a
cost of one-third of one cent per mile.
The motorist can divide his fuel cost into three parts
and pocket two of them, this claim being borne out
by actual comparisons.
The Leist Distillate Gasifier
PRICE FOR FORD CARS .... $5.00
OTHER MAKES .......... $7.50
Installed.
Great Western Garage
141 North High St.
OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE
'Plan To Double the Size
of San Francisco by
Taking In Coast Towns
Snn Francisco, duly 15. A plan to
more than double the area of Snn
Francisco is to be considered by n mu
nicipal committee here today and re
ported on not Inter than August 1. It
is an annexation project similar to the
borough svstent in New York Citv.
From Sail Francisco southward along 20M bonier.
w mi t is known as tne peninsula ex
tends an almost uninterrupted line, of
small municipalities including tied
wood City, San Alnteo,
Daly Citv, Menlo Talk,
rendering all possible aid to the United
States government in the Mexican cri
sis. Maxwell's on the Border.
All during the border trouble, Max
well cars have renuered efficient ser
vice and because of its ubility to tnke
rough roads in the southern country,
it has been a favorite with the soldiers.
Maxwell cars hnvo penetrated far into
the Mexican country tind the famous
non-stop cur gave a good account of
itself when it was commandeered by
United Stntes troops patrolling the Ari-
Thc plan
ity by in
and San'
Francisco nml San Bruno,
is to bring them into the
cmporatiiig Sail Francisco
Mateo counties.
Representative committee have
been appointed to draft a bill of pre
sentation to the legislature, authoriz
ing the incorporation. This commit
tee includes officials of the cities and
towns involved. Hetter water and
transportation are among the induce
ments ottered.
(iencial Pershing has benefitted by !
the service of more than 100 Texan
Hurlingiime,! tr,i (im,nel I'd. ii ml tlit.ir eiifu u-lien .
South Slltllfl.p nnnitivM nyiieilitiim liuiileil ncnwH !
the border.
Over forty niotor reservists, nil driv
ing their own Maxwell curs, both men j
and vehicles being equipped completely I
for service, have volunteered from the i
stnto of Ciilifornia and are ready to
move on order from (lenerul Pershing, i
Journal Want Ads (let Kesulls.
Say Mr. Working Man
Why waste good energy pedaling a Bicycle or
Why spend good money for carfare when you can ride a
Cleveland Light Motorcycle
100 MILES FOR ABOUT 30c
and the original cost only
$150.00 On Terms
You can learn to ride it in five minutes.
ITS WORTH YOUR WHILE MR. WORKING MAN.
Look the Little Cleveland over and convince yourself
that it will save you time energy and money.
Scott & Piper
252 State Street Salem, Oregon
Lift Horse Racing Lid
In Chicago Today
American Derby Revived
Maxwell Company
Pays Its Men'Who Heed
Call of Country
In accordance with a statement is-
president mid general manager of the
Maxwell Motor company, Inc. of De
troit, that institution hns adopted a
broad plan of action relative to the
Chicago, July 15. The horse racing; relief of the families of its employes
lid, which hns been elnmpcd on here j who have or may enlist for military
for the last ten years, was kicked off service in connection with the present
sued last week by Walter K. Flanders, Jj
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with a bang today when a two week s
meet opened at the old Hawthorne
race track, the scene of some of Amer
ica's most thrilling heats.
Three big attractions are carded for
the meet; the American derby, for
which a .flO.OOO purse has been hung
up; and the Merchants' and Gobi Cup
handicaps.
The American derby was scheduled
for today. The distance is a mile and
a quarter. The purse will be divided shall have made
7,000 to the winner, ?1.730 for place, sooner."
dispute with Mexico.
Mr. Flanders' announcement is as
follows: "The Maxwell Motor Corn
Tor any of its employes who have
been in its employ for more than four
mouths, who enlist or have enlisted
for the Mexican trouble, the company
will continue the pay of such employes
who have others dependent upon their
present salaries, for one year from this
date (June .30), unless the government
adequate provision
7;0 for Bhow and t-iOO for fourth. A number of Maxwell employes had
The revival of the Derby is hnileileiilisted before Mr. Flanders made the
with joyous acclaim by the world of announcement of the company's inten-
sports. Tne meet is being heM un
der the auspices of the Illinois Jock
ey club, composed of a score of Chi-
tions aud judging from the enthusiasm
with which the announcement was re
ceived at the various Maxwell factor
cago's merchauts who are staging thejies when the notice was posted, it will
meat s a feeler of public, sentiment
toward horse' races. The club has de
carled against gambling and has de
tectives here to prevent it.
Among the well known sportsmen
who are backing the meet are: C. K.
Billings, J. Ogden Armour, Cordon ('.
Thome, Samuel Insull, .lames A. 1'ugh,
Tracy Drake, Frederick l'phain, Wil
liam A. Pinkerton, Joseph Beifeld, W.
C. Keeley, Arthur W. Warrington and
Oscar F. Mayer.
Journal Want Ads Get Besnlta
Want Try one and see.
Ton
have the effect of stimulating recruit
ing frouv-the great army of Maxwell
workers.
Many Go From Detroit "
More than a score of factory work
ers had enlisted 'from the Detroit plant
of the company by July 1 and many
others announced their intentions of
going as soon as they learned that their
families would not suffer during their
absence. In the company's plants at
Newcastle, Indiana, and Dayton, Ohio,
a similar situation obtained.
The Maxwell announcement is in di
rect line with the eompany's policy of
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HERE
No Change in Car But SOME Change in the Price
$685 f. o. b. SALEM
Where can you buy a car of the known standard of perfec
tion as the Maxwell, within the reach of every purse, with all
the latest conveniences Electric Lights, Electric Starter, De
mountable Rims, One Man Top, etc.
The Maxwell has taken so well in this territory that we have
decided to handle it exclusively.
See this little car on display at our
High and Ferry Streets.
Service Station, Corner
Halvorsen & Burns
AGENTS
SALEM, OREGON
Polk and Marion Counties
PHONE 959
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