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TUeof neitnI*. MJTin-in.lidCINT80NTHETEMPortland Players Loom Up Tallon the Diamond.AVERAGE WEIGHT 180 POUNDSHCasobmyedhebeliehe►e-*s.abnd ,l*C-Heavy Stickers Among Them, Too— Fane Well fmpremd With Gar vln—Story of McLean and Loe Angelea Team.ng:»*1*0Ser«n5n*I.id*'ilia-hem -•ackJf *. la*tv.t\Kajrrym * -d;*a.Be.fclf:r»r*aheL»*Mil■IS*fit1*.by*rer*.O»wndre*.%r.IIr Will 6. HscAaeSAN FEiUNdSCO, April iSperisU —At last Portland ha* a ball i«tm that «he can b* proud of. Min4lt;;er MeCradie ha* surrounded himself writn a *et of men who know and play the gam*. I havr n*med them the Giants because tney «re all bis ram, Larry UcUaa wm. the luai Ume b* wm meaaured, b feet j»i* and weighed JW poueJa Virgil Garvin Is another player that la over * fret, but ne carries little flesh. Wfirn the Portland team hit* the diamond they m^kc the fan* «K up »nJ tak» notice* bath on account of their heigot ami on t« -roun* of the snappy way In which they play the game,McCredies tc^m this jear will average in nelght over 5 feet il and with an average weight of IfcO pound*. Tney are eaaily the flnt« of toe Coast League. and unless all sign# fall they wilt he glacis when It cornea to slugging th* ball. There are nix men In the leum who nave been batting over -300, and with these heavy stickers and the pitching staff working well. I ca-n t »e« anything el*e but a winning team for Portland thle year. Tne way the team conducted themselves both on and off Ihe field won for them a great number of friend# at Los Angeles and when wecloned h«-re on Sunday afternoon, bev-In* won two game* anJ lout two, there were almost us many fan* rooting for the Web footer* a* there were for theMorleyltett,Baseball critics, after looking the team over on paper, hare h j-S a greatdeal to aay shout McOredie having sur^rounded himself with a hard lot of hallplayers ?.» handle Junl at present they are a*- tame a# kitten*. They especially harped about Garvin Thin big twirier U • •«lt;? «f (hMH big, qulr-* fellows who when urouaed will go tne limit, but I fam-y tiint when he ;ia.s broken loose hi h is be-n more timea In the right than «e has in the wrong On account of what has been written about him, .ind on a* « ount of hia Nation*! League reput attoft. the* California fan* have be*u very anxloui to see and meet him. Well. M Lx/fl Angeles they were given ^ chance. They were all surprised, for when they met him they found a mild-spoken. mild-mannered fellow, one a*no *pokr perfect English and a man who could t^Lk somethin*; else l»eaiJes taael«all They expected to scf and tulk witn a mxm folly booted, spurred and witn a braca of big alx-shoot^r^ strung to lita hJpe*tlarvln lost hia first game, hut It wax not Ms fault. He pitched * much belter game tuan Jld Iolly Gray and rvery fan a*h«* saw the game, while delighted because Lo* An*elc* won. Mt4 that he had everything that a grMHl pitcher should have and would have won toe game with p*rfe*u support, The trouble with the iwm at present is that U It a bit ragged- The player* haven't i%£ yet perfected the team w^rfc that showed up so plainly In the Ioa Angeles players. This Is dr4c to the fact that while at Bakersheid there was Hr tie chance for practice and they played their nrst hatd game when they met the Ivjo l»os In the opening sprint for the pennanr The foct of tltf' tnatier is tnat Los Angelas shoulj hav. skinned us to death, for not a pitcher ot» the Portland team hud pitcned a full nlne-inning game.Vrain* Runkir and Schlafley are the only members of the team who haveNayed on the Coast. To the rest of the players this neck of the woods is new. and they spend all of their spare time taking side trips seeing things” Oar-vin Is hugely delighted with th* Coast and he says he never fell so fit so carlj in the season «* he does right now.The big twister of balls Just at present t* deeply Interested in*a patent for preventing railroad wrecks. He has several thousand dollars' worth of stock in the patent and In Los Angelen on April 15 the patent la to be tented by one of the railroads Garvin was out to the place where the patent is to be tried and he is thoroughly convinced that If the railroad accepts the patent his fortune Is made. He ha* the working of thlp patent down pat and to any player that will listen Garvin will go into elaborate detail a* to the merits of the patent- He declares that this Will be his last year In baseball. At the close of the season he saya he will spend the rest of hi* time clipping coupons on the stock be own*On the team are two lawyers, Swindells snd Runkle. and when they Ret Ured fanning, the pair spend their lime arguing law points They have already tried and tronvicted the beef trust i«id have driven the Standard Oil Company our ,,f Kansas and Ohio. B^tk are ambitious *nd sspect that when they quit playing baseball they will be called to the Supreme Bench. This la a dream right now, but it may come true.Terry McGovern Feete Tired.ST. PAUL. Apiil T—Terry McGovern.former featherweight champion pfurl?t*tof th* world, who is nos playing a theatrical engagement her* ia said to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown as a noeulL of overwork, esritcment and constant traveling in connection with his pnesent engagement. It is understood that Terry will go to a health resort to recuperate.ALCOIDeivMAKE FEET SLENDERI ft* i Prfneh went against a new *e? of men,ft.Lla-rhek*.**trt**y■rnU»-•lt;rd!e-he*ofwohe*Zebra Sboea Are Worn — Cravats, Gloves. Be)ta and Boots to Matcn.I^ndon Daily Malt*ur feet must look narrow and slim this season. How It is to bf mnnatrM in ev*ry case cannot very clearly be understood. but the bootmakers arc helping us all hy building their pretty wares tn such a manner that slenderness of appearance is Induced. Women with small and daintily shaded feet arp with much daring- actually wearing at this moment In those circles where fashion reigns supreme and mud is not, white kid r*v»i«lt;. with tlt;e nap*of black patent leather, and nothing could be morn charming. •Alas th*t fashion should lay such a trap for those whose pedal extremities are not all that beauty would have them be. The wise, of course, will abjure white, whirh makes the foot look ever so much larger than it need do. but they may Hkk*m» ore of the other colored leathers, nut'h as dove and gn*en. both of which have «n satceHcnt effect in the diminution of *lt;lxcKid cravats arrive to match the*e new kid boots. They started their triumphant career primarily as the accompaniments of motor rar shirts, and were liked at the outset for their smartness and because they clean and even wash so well. White gloves and a white waistband complete the quintet of *mart adjuncts, and if the cravat be a colored one, all the rest of the little etceteras mu*t, of course.match As thfes Is quite R nrw |50tl* |nsartorLal fancies. It should at one* be aelsed as th» hall mark of smartness.The «hoemakers bave discovered wh.it the glover* have also found out—that champagne colored kid mak^s the feet a» well as the hande look their neatest and smallest, and In congruence it tabeing used now for outdoor snd indoor shoe* and ha* met with great p**pUlarHyAlso be It known that a very smart eveninis shoe is mnde of brown riissia leather 'rented 1* w^«t U known as five cchra manner, with bar*? of narrow rib-i*on to match It In color. The*e are formed In trip** so arranged that the foot i* mnde to look long snd siendar whether it Is naturally so or duit«* the reverse.It Is rather odd that we nhoukl all try to follow one pattern of foot. A few year* ago the girl with the delicately mall one did her very best to make It look athletic in appcarance by wearing square-toed and masculine looking boots Sow she is pleased to show It *s nature made ft In shoe leather of the nunt fanciful and pretty type.Antelope *kin Is a favorite choice among the rich, and the very smartest *■ diking shoe* are built of a pale gray shade of this ®kln. with black patent leather back* /nd front* White #tnt*-3op* in also used with patent leather tings, and JUite gray |* not despised, especially with a toilette to match. As all the *ray» are moc-t modleh now, *ray aho* » are in cr^st de mand.Jagivetnhe)Nslyeehtckhe^imen who were well seasoned and at home, and against ikuto. who nit4 pllcced a number ot full gamee, Frenco hud not gone the route since last Fall and dU no* know whetiier he would be ubie to stand tbe stndn until toe end ur noL lie did, however, but the ne*t day he was very tired end ^«re- Bert Jon*** w*n up against the samli kind of a proposition, but he pulled through. In *plre M » neavy cross wind that wus blowing If Manager Mri'redles team t-ould have had the name amount of M«»rk as Captain Dillon was able to g1%e hi* ream. Portland would have made It four straight A* it S4», Portland did better than any Portland tewm twi* done on the road in «J*e past two years,Just at tins ttme It is hard lo pick any one piser on the team that is not as good as another. McLean, b^causa he can ptn hrt. has* in the same fin- «»ce of that people in Western Europe, Ished style as he ditches, perhaps and thus we may say that Russia first makei hip work stand o’jt mo«t promi- made the acquaintance of Chrietlun civ-nentlt* Aft*r up^etiiitpc Jud smith In lltaatlon about iwo centuries and a fjuar-Friday • gam-, the blr fellow, who t* ter ago Gluantlc in her strength- and one of tit*- greatest Osher^ on lb* team, in h«r weaknes»-the progress that Hus^ hunted up Mannger 1 i'redie ^nd d»- -i»i has made since Charles Stuart rtr#t mandrd three **larte*, one for catch- received her envoy© las at once admirable mg, one for placing tfrst ba*e and one and wonderful There Is nothin* like it for playing football He contended tn history, eicept the progress of ourRussia, Paat and Present.Washington Post.It is r- lated In the pnlifVc anecdote of the rclgn of the ’’.licrrte Monarch” that th# IfUseovlle Kmbapey was received with royal ceremony at Whir* Hall, snd the narrative is embellished with certainparticularity and circumstance, more or U-s* risque, that fixe* it In the memory of the profane. It mas tbe fir*t appearIofli*inInthat any one who could ups^t the l,oo Ijfos* third haseman as he did w** finished football player and worth *salary, l-arrj’, on account of his sise and hulk is bound to make a hit with the Coa«t Le-.gue fans, lie mn also wallop flic ball some, and for n big feL lot*. l»» fast on his fee* He has as much llflt;* In him as 4 h.-*rre! of ginger, and any time « player tries to shoulder him out of the way In a clo*e play. It a III be cur tain-, for the m • r* who att* mpT« Itown country during the entire nineteenthjfOi j§» VJ bV j 4udrllar once wrote; Moscow i» the u*iial *»f Russian tradltlori, Russian thouKht 8lt; Pct^reMjrg |» the capital of the German empire placed abo^e the Mu«-covlte -tplrli, which never has caaaed to revindicate its ancient pre|»ondcranee. Incunvtaitaetice 5l Petersburg la a city of sp?* - Tn^ welter of a cafe whc lights your Ore is a sp„ the barber who Induces you to talk white he Is shavlnyc youSaturday morning Mr Lean, Sehlafley. and drmlt^ your hair, the waaherwo-French. \tg. Clark Runkle and a few m«n, the merchant. To iht*e the elo-plsivers idred an attfomntolt* Mtid ^»w jueoi author add* the banker who cashesAngeles, They went to West Lake your letter of credit.Park In this park U a marine*ting lt;H\en a gov'-mment by spies, a govern-llon .»nd some one told Mi Lean that i m*n I by bureamrracy follow s. Take downtli*-re was $300 f*«r the man who would thr masterpiece of Le 3age* snd read the•rbk-S—heip I he kee^r change this mar?-e*ierfmcp 1Hire he in into .* ^hipping i cate Utrry no sooner got to ShePicture of ih-1 rotten government thenpurveyed for Spain, and there witl no longer lie wonder that Spain f—tJ frompark than he began hunting for the first to last place among the power* animat keeper When he found that France tried It under the *econd empirem, istcmbele.m-worthy he aald 1m Ore m*nre When the fatal war uf IfTv was detianwiofinlyhe-ayahm-PtwoiihofIt.ir-a-rg ails. ilalookieic for When will you be ready to move that HourThe keeper thought Mrl^ean was ln-*at;e but Lurry wan so p-»rat*t*n» and ao anvion* to earn the that ti*efellow Annlly trot nest. He took the bin Portland backstop to the cage and told h 'ii to w-alk up to the mage and look the Hon in ibe rye leirry d'd. Mr. Lion gh« re-d at the lOfi pounds of muscle and brawn, seeing ct rare meal, and hurled himnelf against the »lde of the cage, roaring In terrlhl* fury. McLean wfitched the king of lt;be foreats for a few second* and then, turning to the klt;**per. he howled above the noise thuf t*e lion wai making: ’Sar. mis; ter. just put that in th»’ Hank unlUafter Portland has won the pennnntand 111 returfi and he!p you with thi* loba minion of the bureaucracy reported tothe Emperor that not a *hoe button was missing from th. equipment of the army. Read the Hr of It In the thrilling description of the duel between a regiment of French artillery and a regiment «»f German artillery on the fatal field of Sedan as it Is rrcordrd In Zola*a graphic *tory. The French gun* were antiquated, tfcslr amtmmiiton defective,, tbelr Are impellent to harm the enemy, because every shot fell short. But not a man left the field, and when the surrender came that regiment w*a not Included In the capitulation because It was annihilate! The equipment of the Infsniry was little, if any. more efficient There !• something like that the matter with Runaia today The Russian Isall ight Hlt;» Is th« *amr resolute, hrave.SteTrWillFra afraid if I went after that fallow devoted soldier he w»* that bitter WinterCLByS —fnow I might sprain mr wrrist rind Mr* Cradle would release me **At fhls juncture some laborers dropped several pieces of Tumber behind t*rry. The crash that li made pounded as if the lion had broken out and tbe receiver of strike* snd foul lips, broke the Csliromia record for a hundred yards to the ne*re«i tree He tore Ms pantaloons trying to climb a tre* .»nd b.id to walk into the hotel g»rbed In tbe chauffeur's ulster.McCredie. Van Buren, Junes, SL of reform.day of Ifcr;. ahcn at bloody Kylau he taught lt;'ontln*ntal liurop# that Napoleon the Great was mortal. He wan never much of a sailor, but always admirable on dry land That the Russian na%*y was robbed and neglected there is no doubt. Thus the *navy was ruined, Th# same misfortune came to the Rua-*i*r* army; but that army is * toughereust'*m*r than thf navyWhal fUi»3sl;* needs is » yegrm of peace. *\ery hour of which should be 6d minute*henarewiltheFa*»WA!mo-ing Ko cut w II
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sat, Apr 08, 1905
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