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Show Tf Portland is shunted out of the Coast league Judge McCredie will ho -sadly missed. He and Cal Kwinp saved the league in !06, and ever since then the advice of the pink and while jud'c has always been for the good of the league. He knows baseball, both from tho playing play-ing and business ends, and he and Nephew Walter make a great team. Thoy do not always aprec, but they keep their differences differ-ences from tho public. While Walter has been given most of the credit for Portland's Port-land's winning teams, heiause he was out there on the firing line under the public eye, those who know say the old judse is entitled to fully as much credit as his big nephew. One shrewd man now in the Coast league said t lie other day the organization organiza-tion could save a lot of money if .ludu'e McCredie was empowered lo sign hall players for all of the six teams. This man says the judge has the knack of getting good ball players to work for less money than they would for any other club in this circuit, and they appear to be perfectly satisfied. A player who would snort and tear around if he was asked lo work for ?300 per month in San Francisco Fran-cisco or Los Angeles will gladly sign for McCredie at $JT5, and he will hustle his head off. The old judge certainly puts the work on them, and he does most of it by correspondence, too. The judge was some tiling of a hall player in his college days, not as good as he pretends now to think he was, but still good enough to get an offer to play professional ball. He really likes the game, and as for the business end of it he's Scotch; that's enough, lie and Walter Wal-ter made a big clean-up in Portland several sev-eral years ago, when the Beavers were winning and Portland was a corking good baseball town. When Walter was 30 years old he had so much money that lie could have started a bank in the little Iowa town he1 hails from, but the last few years have been lean ones and the grass has been short. A fe' years ago the judge and Walter could have pungled up the money themselves to buy the San Francisco club and still have had money left in the family sock, but right now, when Walter would dearly like to own the local club, money is not so plentiful. Cal Ewing is one man who appreciates Judge McCredie in a baseball way. Cal would' never have voted Portland out of the league had the Judge wanted to stay, for Cal krjows and remembers how the judge stayed with him and- saved the league out of tiie wreck of 1906. Also he knows that the judge will run his club along right lines and pay some attention atten-tion to a salary limit, and that is the kind of men that are needed right how-to how-to pull the Coast league through the present slough of despond. If Portia nd goes, it will be the Coast league's loss and the Northwestern league's gain, for men of the class of Judge McCredie are not plentiful in baseball. San Francisco Chronicle. S'AX FRANCISCO, Dec. 12. Three deals for Oakland players to go to ma.ior league rlubs are held up because of the war. "Cal Ewing. president of the Oakland Oak-land elub, said yesterday that he had practicallv closed deals to send up Billy Lane. Speed Martin and Rod Murphy, but that the big league club owners want to wa it and see if the men mentioned are drafted into the army or navy. Ewing is willing to take a chance and has proposed that the big leaguers pay half the purchase price down and gamble gam-ble with him that the players are not drafted. If they will not do that, he will wait until after the draft and then sell the players for a better price than he can set now. 1 they are drafted into t lie service, of course the Oakland club loses anyway. Fully On is one of Louie Lowenberg's lieutenants at the White House. Billy is selling his baseball acquaintances garments gar-ments of the newest and latest variety and as a salesman is making quite a hit. A fter the Christ mas season is over Billy and Eddie Burns are going to Monterey Mon-terey on a hunting trip. "There is one sport that comes almost as high as baseball in my estimation, and that is hunting." declared Orr. The two baseballers are going to Sargent's Sar-gent's ranch, and they figure on the limit for. a few weeks, then back home and a short wait for- the training season. Sa n P'rancisco Bnlletlrf. |