The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1908, Page 2

es In a Thrilling Drive Equals a World's Record---Pickaway and Ornate Give Surpris Convent Bell, her performance yesterday at feadows, saved the day from b without Interest The by britl wa mare the fourth race at one mile and 70 yards, with a number of other pod ones, tneluding Vox Populi darry Seott, Tavora and Jost Jewel. After Sugarmaid had been scratched, Convent Bell, in the light of her recent high class perform ances, looked Hike a sure winner and was quickly backed money down to 4 to 5 rom even The othe ell went back In the betti with the exception of Vox Popr This | bird had fintshed nowhere tn his Previous start, but some one knew he was due yesterday, and hy backed from 20 to 1 down to 1 1, As usual, when the start can C, Russell was alert at the barrie Qnd got away flying with Convent Bell. She immediately went to th front and led by a couple of length dock eh run way At the making a str moat of the Vox Popult LIVE SY REF If B. Wilson intends making a Byocess as a jockey, he wants to be More alert at the post. He was p jeally left yesterday with Tavora, natyne and Confessor Miss Maxzont, the beaten favorite im the third race, was claimed yes. terday by Ed Trotter for $725, and ft looks as though he got a cheap mare. Last summer, at the Empire City race track, she beat Pinkola, d afterwards Pinkola distinguish. ed himself by beating Jack Atkin at New Orleans and wiuning several western derbies, and this year be won the opening Handicap at Em pire City, worth $15,000. You see queer things at the track I saw a Jap yesterday betting on The Englishman. Bill Caine, the owner of Convent Rell, bet on bis mare and then bet oa Vox Popull, in the same race, to show. “It looks to me,” said Btli, “aa though this is the one I've got to beat.” Events afterward proved he was right. Bill also bet on Jockey Mounce at 50 to 1, but that is an other story. ©. E. Darnell, better known as/ “Boots,” one of the best-known turf. men in America, made his appear ance at the track yesterday, having Just arrived from the east. He was Accompanied by a prominent Los Angeles attorney, whose counte- nagee, concealed by a mass of whis kers, made him the dead image of Gov. Hughes of New York. Able Meyer beat Benny Snow fn the billiard tournament last night, 69 to 40. The match was an excit ing one, and in spite of the handi cap of having Al Pollock betting on him, Meyer came home on the bit ‘There was a large crowd of racing fans present, and a good deal of coin changed hands after the match Pat McMahon, secretary of the Sutherland branch of the Afraid-to- GoHome-in-the-Dark club, had 40 hard iroa men bet on Harmakis. Atter this bird won some one asked Pat whom he was going to play in the next race. “Nothing doing,’ said Pat; “I've got mine for the day.” Plunger Loufs Plechner never won a bet the whole day The three horses that fell Satur. day—Edwin T. Fryer, First Peep and Logistilla—were ali out on the track yesterday morning, apparent ly none the forse for the accident. The Bellingham meeting starts today, and as a result there will be @ large reduction in the number of touts around The Meadows, as most of them left for the bay city Among the horses that will race CONVENT GRAND MARE. NEWS FROM ——$_$—$— BELL IS A }got up on even terms with her I from there to the wire the two put | at battle, Russell, however and foutrode King on Vox Popull, and | got the deciaton for h mount by @ nose, When the for the race | }was hung out, 1:4 it was seen that the world’s record was valed Ornate, at 5 to proved 4 sur when he captured the two yearold race, Angetfage ted tn the} atretch by a eewple of lengths and} oked at over the winter, but Lyneh eaxed up too soon, and Or hate, coming with a gre yah, got }up in time to win by am Haglot }8 to 1, wae an easy third Miss Masson! was made favorite} in the mile dash at 11 to 6, bat A | Harris made a rather late move with her, and she failed by half a length at the end to catch Pickaway | a 15 to 1 ah at led all the way Confessor, after being practically left, fintshed third | Fireball, at 1 to 2, had little trow o, as he ble tn winning the last od practically all the way and won in a gallop. Horace H., at 20 to 1, peat G slorio a neck for the ace. | As th favorites and a second leholce were successful, the public jene the bookies about broke even ulation. on the afternoon's sp ~ MEADOWS [HUGE GERMAN WHO WANTS AMERICAN HORSES GO TO SOUTH AMERICA UGE. th will be A. Muskoday Jine, Pair Fagot, Gigana, Lady Remember and others. Haz King } } The record for | yards. one mile and 70 which Convent Bel! equaled yest rday, 1:42 5, was originally made by Jiminez, at the Harlem race track, Chicago, September 5 1901 Dalvay afterwards, at the same track, equaled this rece at present honors. 4, 80 three horses share the One-Two-Three Martin went on a} fishing trip r tly, and slept over night in a deserted camp. When he awoke in the morning he found that some miscreant had abstracted his shoes, and he therefore had to wear a palr of 1 sing back to town in consequence. Martin of fered a reward for the return of} the missing articles, but so far no one has appeared with the missing | brogans. } Stoney Lee was kicked at the post by Adelbert Bell, and the poor r he ran afterwards was prob. ably due to the wallop he received | when the mare turned her heels | toose at him. | Jockey Albert Walsh was not scen in the yesterday While wrestling during the morning In a friendly encounter with another rid er, he aprained his thumb, and was tBerefore unable to accept mounts. | W. L. Matlock, president of the! Oregon State Fair association, was an interested visitor at the course | yesterday | | (eonioonis } | The Puget Sound Handicap, over | & distance of two miles, te the feat ure event for next Saturday, This is the first time this season that horses have been asked to go that | tar, / Geo. Cole, the System King,! cleaned up on the win of Ornate yesterday. Cole ts traveling along | | a lucky road these days, as he made | a big winning on All Alone Satur day Harry Froelich bet on Pickaway and won $900 to the race, and then only quit $300 winner on the day | Nelson Jones iald a local plunger }one bet of $600 against $1,000 on | Fireball. indy” Ross picked out Dr MeCluer for a sure winner and ceeded to bet his bank roll will be about all. That! | A twodays' shoot, starting today will be held by the Washington State Sportamen’s association on the grounds of the West Seattie Gun club at West Seattle. There are @ large number of entries and gon interesting matches are look ed for STOP THE RENT. We can sell you Beautiful Homes, Cottages, Bungalows. Payments just like rent T. P. FAY CO., INC, Mehihorn Bidg. Seventy-F On the Square Men’s 50c Four-in-Hands All the Newest Colors 615-617 First Avenue, Seattle, Wash. ive Dozen Opposite Totem Pole BU U DUK » fairer toward the umpires than used to be,” says Tommy Con THREE VIEWS OF ERNEST SIEGFRIED, GERMAN WRESTLER. nolly, “and I think I may add that BY NORMAN ROSE. inch thigh. If these figures do| promised to throw him twice In| the players, as a rule, are much Quite a robust party ts Ernest |Pot Impress you at first blash, golone he but Georges could uot | !ess abusive than in — - day Stegfet German wre: who Cut and measure yourself, then| be coaxed. Meantime, Ernest put | Nowadays It ts the exception to i think it over. You will conclude|in his time to good advantage by | Player in any league hiss a lot will arrive on Unelo Sam's how | that Ernest is a large, coarse man,| making dents tn the or with the | Of barroom epithets in an umpire's pitable shores within a few weeks,| who could find no more fitting vo-| shoulder bones of all the other |¢#?. In the way-back days it was eady to wrestle Frank Goteh, Ell-|cation than wrestling. P. 8.—He is| leading wrestlers of rope and | “most the rule hu Root, Farmer Burns or Ed/six feet three, and weighs 252| Asia, many of them more than Dunkhorst. It makes no difference| pounds im his union sult And | seven feet high, and all very ferce| Tommy's observ bout the to Ernest. He inherited a village|only 28 years old and strong umpires and their treatment bring two in Germany from his fathe According once more to the! Sidgfried will be under fhe Amer.|'0 mind two little happenings that @ wrestles for glory, not for spon-| ever-veracious pros agent, Ernest |tcan management of Ernest Roeber, | 8¢'V¢ to fllustrate the differences in dulieks. Bo says hin press agent,/has for two years been seeking a/ the former Greco-Roman champion, | @™perament of arbitrators and the And no press agent ever nature|match with Georges (always the who wants particularly to him | different way they look upon the fakes. final please, for Georges)—as|onto a mat with Frank Gotch. If /9Utbursts of the men in uniform As to robustness; Ernest has a|we said, with Georges Hackep.| Frank sees the pictures which ac . inch neck, a Sitneh chest, a 16 bmidt, and Georges has been| company this article, we shall not; Jim Hart, who owned the Cubs h forearm, a Sinch wrist, 18) evading him. Ernest bas r blame him for being as evasive ax|>*fore Charley Murphy obtained inch biceps, a 15-inch calf and #|ly challenged Georges, has | Georges is alleged to have been. asion of them, used td tell a ‘ ' out Umpire Hank O'Day's : experience in Chicago one day After a somewhat turbulent into my office a Mr. Hart,’ he said, ‘Tm going | to quit. I'll not stand for this aw | Results fu} villifieation and abuse any longer. You've got the worst lot of | First race, five furlonge—Mila! hoodiums and criminals here I ever Waker, won; Goldena, second; | saw , SRATTLE. Monday. a Happy Chappy. third. Time—1:01 Why, Hank,’ I said, ‘I thought eo |* Second race, four and a half fur-| ‘ PIner RACE longe--Aunt Hale, won; Cardinal 3388 "I, jrecond; John A. Mallon, third. Indes {Time ! a? t Third race, one mile—Tea Tray ‘ lil, won; Cardinal Sarto, second i Etapa, third. Time—1.42% j - Fourth race, one mile—Vinton, | i a. ii line. cna teat, re Migs Doc" Newton, the big southpaw Incentive (Keone | Fifth race, five and a halt fur.| hom the New York Highlanders Time i:07 ; hoodoo as a hurler for Newark in Sixth race, milo and a sixteenth | ‘2° Bastern league. Ia a recent Taa> Alas Was Wocten game he struck out 10 men while his opponent fanned only three, ond; Bardonia, third. Time-—1:49%. | 9) OR " aie’ bts Soe ISTAR BOUTHPAW QuiTs and made a wild pitch, yet Newark COAST FOR BIG LEAGUE Jot saa A correspondent writes from Lon : don that Narganes, the New York 7 ( Bedwait A. C. wrestler, lost a bout to an +t rng EL, RE Englishman because the British Jockey Mounce (Mounce) | judges were over at the swimming | a ong tank cheering the British swim mers, while the wrestling was going fe ona fon, and when an English spectator Win e« mt jran over and told them Narganes | Pa oa a i ‘Seaeh tateties }had been thrown, they rushed back Orifiamh went to the front on stretch (urn and juat od home Dame and tallied a fall against him. The St, oH Several, timen Closed tat " Holand made a late move with Thankful |truth was that Narganes had mere pasics aaghansaachoge Rasen etn ate ly rolled, and had not bad both! BBIOO THIND RACH—One mie Kelling Three-year-olde and upward shoulders on the mat at once. These linia o ee - stories are pretty hard to believe, Index Horse and Owner We Ot % OM Mtr Fin Jockey Op |but they are coming In such num 2252 Pickaway (Jacke 18 2 A 1 ty Mentry 18 af |bers and upon such good authority aa y 24 fe Caswell conclude thelr British cousins have oe ho more idea of fair play in sport than a Congo kaffir | 1 "fh ih bert, = Barber's itch prevented a pug Weer ma & Pt ined J” Jackson. | Philadelphia. A crop of fight prizers : sears, ‘. jwith spinach appended to their Pickaway tiptoed hi e way. outrun |jowls may now be dreaded | closed with @ belated nteneor ran hie rece. Emma ee th ——s “ i 5 aed epreney ae — mreo-year Annette Kellermann, the beaut See Pee cece vue co et sitesi \ ful young swimmer, is not a bit ro . o ‘ |mantic when it comes to business. ane Ra at 4 "Tt ote |She goes after all the coin In sight Popat 4 “ + |like a flat-footed prize fighter. An ies Soe foes wee oROLLY® QRAY. hette was recently challenged by is aoe he ‘ +) “Dolly” Gray, christened William | = ” Al pomt minute. Off at 2.99%, Time t6; 148: 1 5.4a80-5.1400-6 ;has been bought by the Washing Winner &. tm. St. Avesious-ciater Me — f |from the Los Angeles club of the | | tart good. Won driving. | Second driving SEE TE Pasir coast league. The price was | a | Delle set a hot pace and jus flosed feet unter «, 4 and | 84 900 would have won in another stride. Jewel ran « “|g Gray 1 considered the erack| Declaring that she can throw far “2 FIFTH RACH—One and *|pouthpaw of the Coast league, He| ther, Miss Ethe cAMister, who 3302 "ira upward. Value " ib the pitchers of that so 0 threw a baseball 150 feet at the 1$%, |fo 1905 and 1907, In 1906 he played Green Lake library plonte recently fore Kast in the Tris (outlaw) | out with a challenge to t Mra ; \Sifeaxue, He is 29 years old, and a neon, who threw the sphere iz |pative of Ishpeming, Mich. He will ot at the Foresters of Amer Peis a{join Joe Cantilion’s 5 next|'ca plenic last Sunda an pring vii Chic Hudson, the fast Seattle At post aute. Off at 4 ~ C L ahtweight, t ne cast with hf Harmakis grees - | manage L. lL. Mi to oh foratche Mies | the count Huds has never gent eo © Povquee been kn 1 off his feet in s2 on he ond ar bed? fights. Chie will go after matches ridden with Packey MeFarland and Char o a xTH FR Five and a once alue to y Ne The men leave night BBOB UXTH RACH rive sk a he men lea iadea Were ond —a (By United Press.) 18) Wirebatl (i s 14) NEW YORK, Aug One “Red” Brown ie Gives! Deo isettrack follower called ait te tt 380) All, Alone 4 19/Tommy Burne at the the fast- a Pinus D : $ ge/rTace track, California rown ha eye - ; making a yrandum on his pre with hi St ese : in 4 ple am when ficial nabbed him.! ke, and h plage. s y Hedwe Tommy protested loudly and vi cus stunts in the ‘ ‘ P a or y, and to 5 sconce | t " ent va) yn As \ ba chang on a | read show hia 1 with f has brougl th ANKE n { ' i ‘ a ———__---—--— { he M 1 Th Hd me b t a th him - his case with th ndarm G argain E who considered th 4 sal went Sarge MCUCSION Fi" ccrisered oat deine some | aye troquols team of 80 . ON STEAMER YOSEMITE and Callfornta had tn on from the Mount I = pew to Everett and Port Ludiow, §|) at wh” in his vernacula m Saaeay YS rREDLE ND, MORNBERG « Sunday, Aug. 30. Round trip mbrella | 6 106 Vike St 50 fe had checked one on his arriva i cE TSS a track and made the memor-| In the al-finals of th bit aredi: andur » that he 1 not f tit ' 1 nament tom r . “| . it when in but he w New t ci DOWNING, HOPKINS & RYER, Inc. channelled th take the tonselantinel| Puicoolgnis wil) suest 3 pecks, Renta Gree” Peivete Wines jofficial to the checking place and | a w York, and Both Phones , 14-906-206 Aluske midg | “Play the “mush efore he was |W at of Roston will Orders Bxcouted for Investment or on Margins let off x 1 of Chica Th tit SRaATTLE Aa R—TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1908, TO WRESTLE GOTCH Tm she TITUS Ir thn ern with ple him and he taking nO chai Ha at oy the rest Kddie H (By United Presa.) f the breeding weaso NEW OK Aug. 26.--Matt ee hould add to th horses, and " | Byrnes, the veteran trainer, has |) /1°% | a been placed in charge of the ship ‘ fean ma |ment of Haggin horses that are f I |bound for the Argentine Republic horse \7 » horses will be sent on the |, fitted for the nehip Velasquez, of the Lam-| @n the same wbiy port and Holt Me to Buenos Ayre ignment from Jame 6 [in all about 60 of the Hlogyte bred bis comaigesment are about 20 ma 23 | thoroughheeds wit weaine up thee int, aed (we piniihome, ¢ f whom | NORTHWENTERN LEAGUE, |'Theve avd G8 young wreree, 29 pene Wild Miwt, wie a few peasome ah Br a oe ay eight stab raced ve mone ace aaah vm SP 7 be Hors Matt § om, who developed th ; ‘oo By bis arrangement th w ent tor, ae Ww ite a . “ tg |Hagein, it has been agreed that oth tere of turf bt may be | 4 a as | Byrnes will receive 6 per cent of lost to the New ¥ tracks. ol! on @ | the grows proceeds of the sale. It suid yesterduy that whould he find At Vancouver, |has been estimated that it will cont the Argentine Republic a better spet) “i labout $100 a head to land the|than New York ts at the presen horses at Buenos Ayres, One man, time, he would « a po atiea at | will be taken for each eight hornes, | there as trainer even « 7 and an interpreter has been engag-| will be away three months, and in|! > ed for the party that time will have ample time and AMEMICAN LEAGUB Leaving New York Thuraday, the opportunity to shay his futer | Won 4, Velasques should reach her South | course. Few trainers have an t ree 4 | American port about ember 16,|on Byrnes when it come to the bis “ rf | which is just about the beginning! tory of the American turt. & 4 | ome ® “ i © ty | | - . “ | . " “ | | Yesterday's Games. i 4 A . . ot 1, Washing. he Little Old Mam |)! er cerns lat louis 4-4 toy trowds at ball games are a lit (Elmer E Boles) DE LINE SPORT TALK the boys did pretty well today, un-| ~,. lot a der all the circumstances. What . oe happened” ~ “ ‘a Didn't you hear the vile name Ff F| that fellow on third called me? | Hor ae asked O'Day No, what was it, Hank? . ae He said I was a fat bead it Weiware es ae . i - 5, Pittstnang Cincinns Aciphia 2, Cacia. There was once a little old umpire |"* cy 4d McLain, who was extremely jealous of his reputation as a gen tleman, and who boasted that he never missed a decision on the bases. He called Jay Faatz out at first one day, and the elongated first baseman let loose a torrent of abuse and « tions. MeLain went charging down to first in @ fury J0U0N CORT, Manager, What'd ye call me, what'd ye| au This Week. call me e hc in his equ ky Petterd FA pet th. Nothing, Mr. McLain, nothing at! poise ot week and nen vial i a replied Faats, turning away “The Melle of New pet, No,” spoke up Cub Strick he | ,,Price-—7 soe and Tee; Mata,” didn't cali you anything except a ~ saieteasiite * blind old fool Theatre + Well, all right, then,” remarked ri i McLain, starting to walk back to ; his position, “but I want you fel- 5.) 4. 7onen lows to distinctly understand that I'll not stand for any insults from any ball player that ever lived banca w Our p Lois T heatre Phones: Sunset, Main 150 Int, Gib amc d | se mutracraimary Veaten aii Elaine Golding of Bath Beach, N,|* Sts Pisy oy « Senttle Magy Y., to a mateh at Coney Island, and ci promptly t Elaine or By Charies Eugene Baska anybody © to come _ op with’a $1,000 purse or there ae wouldn't be a leaf stirring. oR Moonlight golf record is the lat est. Fred McLeod, Chicago pro fessional made the 1%hole On wentsia course, at Lake Forest, in 83, aided only by the dim light of a half moon. Formerty_¢ Both Phone Silt “ee © 1 M: 100, She, S00 Chicago White Sox have gobbled wie ao, Oe Rasterly and Ellis of catcher and left fielder Los Angeles pennant winners, Lots of good ball players are coming out of the coast teams nowadays Matinee every day 2:16, Bvery night 8:15 Opened Bond & Ber te de Stetson Mack Zeno The owners of the New York Giants have taken a new 10-year lease on the Polo grounds, and are talking about providing seating ac- commodations for 50,000. They might at least fix the park up so it will hold more than 25,000 peo- ple, so that when those reports of 35,000 crowds are sent out cracked lips won't suffer Orpheam A BIG ENJO Frederick V. Bowers, the Pamour Tenet 20 Great Entertainers, see Hedgewood Boy burned up the Kalamazoo track in a recent pacing PANTAG SVAU ace, winning the first heat in| ‘ibe.” i 2 and the second in 2:08%.| “Uucgneted Vinee ' It's @ record for the season | All This Week, Dally Matteo Sc . 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