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Show m SAYS GHIHESE CITCljlSIlER Beaver Boss Impressed by Kan Yen; Remarks on Stovall Interview. PORTLAND BASEBALL TRAINING TRAIN-ING CAMP, Honolulu, March 1 (by mail). Walter McCrcdio has gone daffy daf-fy over a slender Chinese catcher named Kan Yen, who gave the greatest exhibition exhi-bition of backstopoing in the game of Sunday, .February 2o, that the big boss of thp Beavers has seen in years. "They say he is too light, but old Lou (.'riger wasn 't too light when he broke in at Fort Wayne,'' said Manager Man-ager Mac in discussing the Chinese receiver. re-ceiver. "That young fellow gave the best exhibition of catching against us that I have seen in years. He can throw like a bullet and he. has a brain like chain lightning, as shown when he picked our fast men off the bases. "I'm mighty glad that he was playing play-ing third base "when the ('oast and major ma-jor leaguers were over here last fall, or thev would have tipped him off to some hig league ball club. He was touted to me as the best catcher in the islands, and I guess ho has had experience experi-ence enough not. to be crowd shy. If he can pass that ball 'around in the ('oast leiigue as he can here in Honolulu he will he a sensation. A Chinese catcher catch-er would be a novelty under any circumstances, cir-cumstances, and I tuiglit take him along, anyhow. Good Hitter. "If he is not seasoned enough for the Coast league he would make Nick Williams a good man and we would take him up later. They say he is the best hitter on the Chinese tea'm. He got a nice double off Helfrich. but, of course, Helfrich was putting nothing on the ball at the time. He has a good position at the plate and could bo developer! de-veloper! into a hitter. At any rate, his catching is good enough to get him by in any league." Kan Yen is a slender chap, built like the figure "II," but he has an arm that shoots like a gun. In addition to that, he is a great receiver and makes the hard ones look easy. If he could stand the pounding of speed pitching he should become a fixture easily. He has been playing four years, much of the time on the mainland, as continental United States is known here. Ho plaved with the All-Chinese team in the tour of the mainland, which, bv the. way, was given au awful trimming by the Beavers at Fresno, but the club aa" it is now constituted is better than the one which made the tour and won b'00 per cent of its games. Many of the best players coultl not get away to make the trip. McCredie believes that, with his experience in tho United States and the general speeding np of the professionals, profession-als, Kan Yen would make good. Stand by McCredie. Although it has taken cmite a while for the news of George Stovall 's attack at-tack on Walter McCredie to reach Honolulu, Hono-lulu, it naturally caused a great deal of indignation among some of the older members of the Portland ball club. Stovall appears to be another of those long-distance battlers. He waits until McCredie is 2000 miles from the mainland main-land and opens up with statements that President Baum should cause to be retracted. re-tracted. McCredie 's original statement was nothing more than what any business busi-ness man would say against a "person who had tried to wreck his establishment, establish-ment, which, in the case of McCredio, is the Pacific Coast league. Stovall has been a trouble maker wherever he has landed, even back in the old days of the Inland Empire league, comprising Pendleton, Walla Walla and other towns. Unless ho changes his attitude toward the game that has given him his bread and butter but-ter he will hardly tarry long in the Coast league. Such statements of contemplated rowdyism row-dyism should be censured by President Baum in no mistakablc terms. In one interview StovaJt has done more to drive the best people away from baseball base-ball than all the work of the Coast league magnhtea has done in years to bring them into the parks. Rowdyism has been stamped out of the (oa-st league for years, nnd it. is quite likely that Stovall is desiring a return of the old order of " roughneckism.' ' Stovall doubtless told somebody previous pre-vious to tho Coast league's annual' meeting meet-ing that he was going to "bust McCredio Mc-Credio in the nose," according to McCredie Mc-Credie 's recollections of n conversation with Tom Darmody at. San Francisco. Anyhow, when George met Walter he was as nice as lemon pie. Then lie went back to Los Angeles and, with a good many miles intervening, turned loose the interview. Rest in peace, gentle reader. Stovall won 't spank the 220-ponud McCredie, as he threatens. McCredie's Record. George says Walter tended gate while with Brooklyn, yet the National league batting averages show that M cCredio batted fourth in the National league, with a.n average 01' .324, which is considerable con-siderable more than George, ever batted in one season. If they get their base hits tending gate a good many more of tho hitlcss wonders would be looking for the job. Taking it anyway you look at it, Stovall 's moulhings are much too silly to consider. Judge McCredie chuckled as he dictated dic-tated the following statement of the case as he sees it: I understand from Mr. Stovall's article that ho is ofl'ended at a statement purported to have been made by Walter to the effect, that Stovall 'nearly wrecked the Pacific Coast league by stealing its ball players, therefore he doubted the wisdom of selecting .Stovall to manage man-age a club in the very lea.gne he tried to wreck as a mutter of business busi-ness principle. M r. I )armody has the right to select his own manager, man-ager, but, as far as Portland is concerned, it would not have hired Mr. Stovii II as a ma nager 11 nder any co aside rut ion. Kurt her than that, we have no objection to Mr. Stovall. As fnr his whipping anybody there isn't a man on the Portland club that Stovall can whip in a fair fight. T can hardly believe a man with sufficient, brains to mau.'e a j Coast league club would permit him-I him-I self to say all that ho is purported ! to have paid, us reported m (he paper, and. therefore, doubt the accuracy of the statements. Walter McCredie refused to make, n statement, other than that, he was ready at any and all times to meet Stovall with sawbucks, scythes, powder puffs, boxing gloves or bare fists, rough ami tumble, catch -as-catch- can or Manpiis of Queensherry. |