Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-07-28
DOPE ABOUT
THE VALLEY
BALL TEAMS
HUNT AND JERMAN CALL SHERI.
DAMS BLUFF AND OFFER TO
PLAY SHERIDAN FOR FUN,
MONEY OR MARBLES.

Sure, we will meet Sheridan for a
game and We have enough money to
back us, said Arch Jerman, manag-
er of the Salem team of the Will
lamette Valley League, this morning,
when asked if he was willing to al
low the Sheridan team to claim the
championship of the Willamette VAL
ley Jerman has already won two
pennants.
Sheridan had been winning from
the teams in the small towns ada
cent to their home" continued Jer-
man, but after the Dallas team
vent over there, defeated Sheridan
and cleared up $4,000, the Sheridan
boys have been keeping quiet.
According to an article in morn
ing paper recently, Sheridan claimed
the championship of the valley.
Since Dallas defeated them, of course
this claim is unsupported.
Manager Hunt, of the Woodburn
Giants, has issued a challenge to
play the Sheridan team three games,
one at Salem, one at Sheridan, and
one at Wodburn or on other neutral
ground Hunt offers to play for $100
game.
Mysterious Mitchell, who, while
with the Pacific Coast league, de-
feated San Francisco twice in one
day. and who was with an Eastern
Oregon team this Spring, it is said,
will pitch for the Sheridan nine
The Salem Senators defeated
Woodburn last Sunday after the Gil
ants had worked hard to stave off
defeat Manager Jerman is conf
dent that he can give the Giants an
other run for their money and in ad-
dition, he is willing to cross bats
with Sheridan so that he can truth
fully lay claim to the championship
of the Willamette Valley, providing
his team continues to win the next
few games.
Manager Shaw, of the Dallas team,
has asked for a game with the Sena-
tors and Ierman has promised to
meet them as soon as the league sea-
son closes.
Jerman has good pitching timber
in Allegaert and is willing to run him
against MY oIel lOuo mlJCuGll uGopllG
the publicity Mitchell has been get
ting in Oregon. If the two pitchers
could be brought together for at
least on game it would prove a splen-
did opportunity for Allegaert to
show his real worth when pitted
against a man of Mitchell's caliber.
The Senators will go to Albany
Sunday and have little doubt that
they will return home with the long
end of another to 2 score.
The league has been playing great
ball this season but on account of
rain during one game and fierce heat
interfering with two other games,
the receipts this year haye not been
as encouraging as the management
hadsanticipated. The little dry"
town of ,Woodburn is backing their
baseball team with S125 in cash for
a pennant If Salem wishes to over
come its reputation for being dead
town, or rather, a poor listless,
sporting town-even regards good
clean healthy sports-the fourteen
thousand some odd" inhabitants of
the fair Cherry City should HE them
selves to the league grounds, Twen-
ty-fifth and State street, Sunday af-
ternoon August 6, and do a little
boosting when the Senators again
tackle the Hubbard team which
boasts of a "McCherie" battery.
A report was sent out from Wood
burn Wednesday night that the Gil
ants had defeated the Senators in a
one-sided game. This was an error
as the Salem team did not go to
Woodburn that evening although
they had planned to play an evening
game in that town.
The fact of the matter was that
Hubbard defeated the Woodburn
team. Salem walloped the Giants
here last Sunday and on Sunday, Au-
gust G, the Senators will tackle the
Hubbard team, the result of which
should come close to deciding which
is the best team in the league,