East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-01-07
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Baseball.

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Manager McGraw of the Giants has
arranged twenty-five games to be
played next spring before the Nation
al League season begins.
Please allow this one to cling to
your garrett The baseball season Is
just 60 days off. Then we will find
out who is who for next season.
Reports rom Athens, where the
| Yankees will assemble on March 8
for training, are to the effect that the
team will have a big league park to
work on. There is no doubt that the
grounds at Athens could be made one
of the best baseball grounds in the
say that it will be when the New
Workers get in action next spring.
The strangest tale that ever came
out of Pittsburg is that Hans Wagner
will be asked to sign an anti-booze
contract. 1t is also rumored that the
Great German ball player was hitting
the high spots some last season.
Theodore Breitenstein, the good
lefthander that was is going to man.
age the New Orleans club for the
Southern league next season. They
have been very good to Breitenstein
in the South and he likes 1t.
Bill Keeler is just tickled to be with
Joe Kelly at Toronto. Bill. who Is one
| of the most scientific hitters ever pro-
duced, will try and add few more
links to his chain with Kelly, his old
1 81 nlr will haun Uith him
Bill Bradley, formerly with the Cleve-
land club, and Tim Jordan, formerly
of Brooklyn.
| Reports from the West say Frank
Laporte and Earl Gardner are on the
market TO figure in a trade. Not un-
less the Yankees get something worth
while in return. The strength of the
Yankees has been their utility men,
and the team wishes to keep strong
in case of injuries.
! The baseball world is funny one
after all. The magnates try to figure
out something which will increase the
batting. On top of that they will try
to buy pitchers who can stop the pat
ting. So what the.
Bowling.
No match games will be rolled on
| the tournament alleys at st. Louis
during the tournament.
Louisville is after the 1912 bowling
| tournament. The 1906 tournament
was held there and proved to be a
success, and as Louisville Is situated
right in the bowling center, they stand
good chance OF getting the 1912
meet.
Milwaukee will send at least fifteen
teams to the st. Louis tournament,
which takes place this month and
they will go in a special car. January
20 will be known as Milwaukee day
at the national tournament.
Boxing.
Packey Mcfarland, who tried con-
clusions with Harry Trendell In
Pittsburg last night, is scheduled to
meet Jack Goodman in New York on
January 10. on the 18th he takes on
Tommy Murphy at New York.
Sam Langford and Joe jeanette,
the colored boxers are to clash once
more. The Armory A. C. of Boston
has signed the pair for ten round
bout January 10. Langford intended
to sail for London this week, but post
poned his trip to accept the match
with Jeanette.
Abe Attell may visit Paris this win
ter also London. If he goes TO the
British metropolis the National Sport
ing club and Hugh Mcintosh will try
to arrange a fight between the Am
erican featherweight fighter and Jem
Driscoll. Attell is after big money
and is not afraid of Driscoll, or Fred
die Walsh for that matter, so that II
the offers are big enough, he may
consent to show how he can hit, stop
and get away
Tom McCarey, the fight promoter
OF Los Angeles, is ready to stage the
twenty-round bout between Johnny
Coulon and Frankie Conley in the
event Of the police officials OF New
Orleans refusing to allow the fight
to take place there this month. Nc
Carey has wired flattering offer
to the managers OF both lads to
fight at his club the last week In this
month.
kaufman is the logical man to
challenge for the heavyweight title"
says Jack Johnson. speaking of the
def hurled forth by the coast boxer.
The negro champion. who is we'll
versed in the tactics of Kaufman,
thinks him the best timber now avail
able in his class and bases his con-
tention on past experiences.