The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1908, Page 2

WIN AT Form Players Get the Coin--- Listowel Proves to Be a Fast Colt. | ‘The form playera spent a pleasant afternoon at The Meadows yeater day, as four first cholces were suc oosaful Nagasam, Pi Listowel and Rubinon, all occupying the po he 3 Of favorites, had little trouble tn mal their respective races. Magrane, the second choice, cap tured the first ra: ud the only long shot to score wai het, who, at 15 to 1, captured the last race ‘This waa a dog race, and it resulted fa an exciting finish, Sachet, Rip eee cae aes = ‘s ° FOUR FAVORITES MEADOWS eens | | per and Distributor finishing heads | apart on the post in the order} named A fair field went to the post in the second race, & aix-furlong dash, and Nagasam, the favorite, after i] ing all the way, won In a drive from Riondy. The latter got away from | the post very badly, and made up a} world of ground, Ge Russell was an easy third Listowel proved himself to be the | topnoteher of the secend division of two-year-olds by romping in front | all the way, and winning easily | fror.a fair fleld of baby sprinters, | Ste ®inased the winner for part of | the trip, but tired, and Pair Annie had little trouble in beating him for the place. LIVE NEWS FROM MEADOWS BY REFUGEE. For his ride on All Alone, ast}! Monday, when the horse finished far tn the rear, Jockey Arthur Mor- | gan was y day suspended indef initely by the judges. Morgan has deen riding in very poor form for some time, and it was only a ques tion of time until the officials would sive him a rest. His suspenston will make it easier for the race goers to pick winners from now on, as Morgan has been beaten more times on the best horse than any rider here. The best game of the billiard) tournament that has been played | se far came off last night, when Billy Engstrom hooked up with Roy | Shumway. Enastrom bad in his corner the Singing Kid and Clar ence ges, while Shumway had Pat 0" nell and the Dancing Kid looking after him. In an exciting | finish Shumway nosed Engstrom out, 60 to 46. After the game Eng: | strom laid bis defeat to the [Ket that he had been bothered during the game by the fumes from Geo. | Koester's pipe, and he offered to >! Shumway again for anything | @ liked, Koester and his plpe bar- | red. It fs probable that the two! will hook up again in a private! match. There was a large attend. ance last night, and a good deal of | coin changed hands, Lee Campbell being the biggest winner and Joe) Sebreiber losing most of the dough. | To spite of Engstrom biaming Koes- | ters pipe for bis defeat, a good) many think that the hoodoo of hav. fag Al Pollock betting on him was too great for to over come, Tonight Able Meyer plays) Charley Zacharias, and a good deal of interest is taken in the match, fn | view of the fact that Abie has can- ned “Red Sam” Friedlander as his What The Hub Label on a Suit Means trainer, and adopted “Yellow” Heo ry instead Whale, who has been came forth yea bones on Cel Albert, the in retirement lately terday and bet five eres, @ place, at 15 to 1, After he cashed his ticket Albert bet the $80 on Pegay O'Neal in the next race to show, at 4 to 1, and after being left at the post the mare was beaten a snoot for third mon ey. If Albert had cashed this bet, he intended calling a mm moet ing of hin creditors in Pioneer square, as there ts no edifice in town big enough to hold them. tt looks as, though the bookies) will have to pay some attention to Jim Nell. He bad both Celeres and Distributor Ia the money yes terday, and they were both a write yourown-ticket price Sam Stone certainly ts a game! bettor. He wagered enough on R M. Brown at 250 to 1 to win $6,000 L. A. Larson almost picked the card yesterday. He handed out the first five winners to bis clients, | There was a report yesterday! that most of the horses in “Hed” | Walker's barn are suffering from | distemper. j The bookies were certainly MHber-| al when they laid 7 to 10 against Pal. Considering the bunch of beetles he was meeting, 1 to 10 would have been a good price. | The victory of four favorites and & second choice bad a bad effect on the ring. “Tokio Mollie” Linden $1,300, Billy Rogstrom dropped $900, Harlan lost $690, and Neison $600. 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THE SEATTLE STA THE POPULAR AUTYMN GIRL WAT ALOT OF GOKnHES TWERE ARE THIS SEAGON ~ SAYS MISS POST-DRADON MONEY tin and Hd Soule won a little, and Frank Bain stood the public off. Al Coney, one of the characters of the turf tough luck, yesterday struck a win-| ning streak and beat the card. He BY THE LITTLE OLD MAN parloyed a fivedollar note into al | bank roll eS While running in & prominent po-| Cub Stricker, famous old-time} my right band today and swear that sition yesterday, ¢ ry bled, and) guardian of the middie sack, was I didn’t come within six feet of | Rettig haw to pull the horse up. It the best exponent of the “bluff” to touching him onee. ts bellewed the change from the/touch the base runner at second - rarefied atmosphere of Butte to/that the game has ever known. In| “On this particular day the game the daya when there was only one umpire, and he worked back of the wtoher, Stricker worked his trick to perfection, He always had his went into extra innings, and with one out in the eleventh Stovey got a hit, and, as wtarted to steal The throw was horse's allment necond rac Dwyer's beat of The start in the wan not one of Ste @atcher instructed to throw the bail pretty late, and Stovey went by me forts, ae the field got away in (WO about 10 feet to the right of second several feet away at a 10-second | very divisions. Hlondy was away very |ou « steal elip as I reached out for him with poorly, and with a better break he| Biren the ball would have beaten Nagazam ' Cub would run in, pick up the cara p ball, make a jab at the runner as he! The moment he landed on sec ished h: elt by Scoville distinguished himself wont by, roll the ball to the pitcher) ond on his hands and knees safe by riding two winners—Nagacam and Jockey Page's leg, which he tn jured Saturday, when he fell, was four of the base stealera when ati! troubling bim yesterday, and | ¥8* playing second, but I almost al an @ result he was unable to ride | ¥#)* sot the decision. This boy has a large following, and | — his presence in the saddle ix sadly It was just a simple case of bluff miaaed. jing. I remember one day in Phibk, an | adetphia Harry Btovey ot the old letics, the it ae stealer that Weste elation, for $3,0¢ a DONALDSON ISSUES ra association, for $3,000. Ty. A CHALLENGE ——— ever lived, was called out three! rus’ playing has sort of bulled the times at second, and Ill bold up Cobb market rer URE ae Rs cE ee ES Harvey Donaldson, champion 115- pound wrestler of the Pacific coast, i» out with a challenge to meet any boy of his weight In this section, amateur rules to govern all matches. Donaldson is going east on Oc tober 1 to represent the Central} sytnpathetic voice and called Harry out, and we won the game.” Detroit paid Augusta, Ga, $700 Ty Cobb. Now Ty's brother ul has been sold to the St. Louis Browns by the Joplin club, of the STAR FORM CHART nd Wash. Tusedey er. promiting 1908.87 hard Dwyer day Weather cloudy ‘Track starter e ude ==" BASE BALL DOPE | when | which Is very sharp, all thr } | where he witnewed the gam | track | where | | } } } | 6 Disputed 400 Meter Race at London Is Given New Version by an Eye Witness. Probably the clearest and mont conolse account yet given of the muchtalked-of and disputed 400 meter race at the recent Olymple games held fo Hngland te that told by George Congdon, an attorney with offices in the New York block who has just returned from London Mr. Cong made a thorough tn vestigation after the race, inter viewmng scores of eyo witnesses, and the resulting opinion i# that there wan absolutely no foul committed by Carpenter, the American run ner, against Tieut. HMalewelle, the British representative ‘The men were going at auch a fast clip,” said Mr, Congdon, “that they reached the last turn ing runners ran out onto the bi path and partly up the grade Carpenter was in Halswel second, and as Cs ter ran out, the entire width of both cinder path and bicycle path were left for Halewelle to pass on the inside, but the Britieh runner instead tried to pass Carpenter or the outside, where there was ox room. Bystander Excited. “The men did not touch, but were close together. “As this took place some excited bystander on the other side of the phoned to the royal box the judges were standing and said that Carpenter had com 1 | ately became excited broke the tape | to go to defeat the Americans and calmly walk back to his posi-| yards, 1 was kneeling by his « | mitted a foul. The judges immedi ning jookeys| . bn Bagh y Bing whee andi! m. Nine times out of ten the um Did | hurt you, Marry Sarsis. . . pire would call the runner out jshouted, loud enough for the um-| 4nd ran down the track, yelling | “ Py eee —__ j}pire to hear, at the same time| ‘No ra ‘ é oar D1 : < “Despite this Carpenter and Sddie Sache, the Butte plunger A year or two ago I met Stricker, | Pushing Stovey's face down in the ete ene Sank roll om Mand {Ol and gray, tn Philadelphia. “ag #irt, 80 he couldn't reply | Halawelle finished in the order McG. He bet on the mare straight, | te years go by,” said Cub, “I begin Hurt me, you four-flushing | »amed, but the race alled off place and show to realise what a snap the infielders | ber, be sputtered, ‘you didn't} @nd Carpenter disqual cntiecheey }had back tm my day Why, 1/ome within 20 feet of met’ “Just before the race the men didn’t put the ball on one out’ of Gut the umpire heard only my | Who had charge of raising the flags had tied a British flag to the rope and were prepared to raise it as| they let go he reeled and fell.” en a SPORTING SIDELIGHTS Age gots us all. Freddy Parent used to be one of the premier base 3 | siealers of the country, but Freddie went through 62 games this season without stealing a sack, He has a bum prop, but we have observed fat bom props come with the years, ee Sal Burke got in the way of Billy Papke for a few m’ on, and Joe Thomas just cast a fleeting shadow acrom Stanley Ketchell's YY. M. C. A. of Chicago tn big} FIReY RACR—Oie 5 x 1 rt siting. Morece and quidings eanwhile, wrestling meets that are to be olde and upward. Val com pate, ee ie tana pm with no pulled off this winter, and any — ——-| . matches that he may secure here bed @ | takers. ney must be in the nature of workouts, | v6 In this fall's promotions tn the 9 for Harvey has beaten about every | boy of his weight in this section. | be Donaldson can be reached through | ; The Star. j pd Mi in ” ib “Always consult your wife, but | i f 4 iaa* 7 48 do as you please.”"—Am Arabian | Locky Lad { Hg 8s: meu ie Bignen 18 38 Proverb | enture 2 chow MeGibhen hed « reagh trip, Ackeriey At post Nagesam 6 phawn anda helt furlongs Puree Two -pear-olde. 1 . by D. Htone Becond and third driving from the start. & wan backing up at f . ¥ he siowel aprendongied inia f Moet tired che winner 3404 Index ants carey x cloned Cast under « in the suit you rouRTH ine 4 gota ©. Ociling, Mores and settings oto flew 9240. . 7 0 Andoche (Meney At post | minute Pat 1-3 place Winner b « te ky to get Jowged it 3405 Hetling. Four-y ide fitty yards ar Fin Jockey On Ch 1 1-5 Meat hs Thne 96 ae; tae Mia The guar- set Great Bargain Excursion . i} t mt ON STEAMER YOSEMITE to Everett Sunday, 500. and Port Aug. 30. Ludiow, FREDLUND, Round trip HORNBERO & ANSON 706 Vike at | way poorly, saved grou Quarter. Webber in a pocket « ather start ace gir | Horses and geldings ‘Three | | } | | Three. | hy great national baseball school, the minor leagues will receive a larger amount of mosey for a smaller number of players than they did a year ago, Which means that the major league magnates are willing to pay all sorts of fancy prices for young players in order to strength. en their teams. It takes a first division club to get the gate money nowadays. Bonuses have been barred in the major leagues by action of the na tional commission. There are quite a number of players who are willing to swear they can pick out several of the money loving magnates who have put through this bit of legtela tion preventing themselves from foolishly giving away their money ee Harry Wolverton, manager of the Williamsport team in the Tristate * league, in sure the candy manager Last season the majors robbed him of Manning, Blair, Charles Sallee and Joe Delahanty, his five best players. Yet this season, with the gaps filled by new men, he has hii team up at the top with a comfort ee FLYNN KNOCKED OUT (By United Press.) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—-After mering all the fight out of Jim Fiyna in the eighth round of last night's battle at Naud Junction, Al Kaufman hooked a swift smash onte the Colorado fireman's jaw in the ninth and Flynn bit the mat for keeps. Up to the eighth, Flynn had slightly the better of the milling, bet in that spasm Kaufman select- ed Piynn's jaw as a mark and land ed heavily with le and = right Flynn went down, but regained his feet, only to meet another hay maker on the jaw. Flynn went down and out, but the bell post poned the knogkout until the next session SPORTOGRAMS Before the game erday Bob Frown sald that he belleved Dode Brinker would De drafted by one of the major league clubs and the red-haired manager added without hesitation that in his optnion, the University of Washington boy had a better chance to stick in the majors than either Pat Mlannigan or Ham Hyatt, the Vancouver out flelde who ha en sold to big A certain Spokane seribe, whose paper on last Sunday pr a col umn and a half article purporting to t interview with C. D. Stim 7 eattle, on baseball affairs in the Northwest, will w a sick ly smile whe liscovers that ( D. v in Spokane he the alleged interview tw the alleged Stimson and the ea Stimvon Stanley Ketchell and Bill Papke have been signed to fight 26 roun hefore the lub, near Los Angeles, on day, The men must do 158 pounds at noon, and battle will be for the middle t championship. Hach man has posted a $600 forfelt. Ketehell ° 9 oedineanran ob COULD Opa »° NOT FOUL § emmeanene a | nT CAM {qon as the race was over. This} alone shows how confident the ‘ Britishers were and thetr disp. |Champs Take the Game potntment atthe defeat. The day Seattle before the raee the London papers Seattle by a Score had declared that they anticipated of 4 to 0, foul play and that they would watch the Americans. This attitude | _ maintained from the start to th , | Inability to hit Canute finioh of the games and was the) were men the vasen nea cause of much of the Il feeling story of Seattle's thy tween the American and Brite \handy of the che —- at the on hampton Al rh ther A Slight ao ae nother American Stig! y. Score: Aber | “Another slight wan given the | Seattle, 6 ton, 4 Americans after the Marathon race. | Five hits wore garnered ofp Dorando was carried across the line | Brown's Portland reeruit fs and the protest made by the Amert-|first three sessions but fg cans wae immediately allowed, mak. | p! #, the former web footer at ing Hayes the winner, but the|unbittable, At least it American flag signifying an Amert-|presumed that he wag can victory was never run to the/for such sluggers ag top of the mast, but was pulled Inf | Frisk could not connect gag way up, while the Italian flag stay-|men on the bags Frisk trad ed at the top. The judges after-|with Duglets pawing the second and Amertoan | at min} third en's C7 th the wards claimed that the flag was run to the top after every had left the stadium late in| fourth, letting tt go over tle beag the evening for a double lb had fat After the megaphone man bad 44 pas first and practically carried Dorando across |to third on the fluke two the line, he ran back and grabbed |Julie scored on Brinker's Hayes by the arm, although the|to McKune but Terry oe American runner was going smooth-| at first. Householder sigs ly and needed no assistance. Every |right, scoring Van Buren but fame American in the stadium immedi-|made the mistake of ge ately shouted to the man to let/the bag a few feet ber @ ves wlone, which he finally did.jon a perfect thr Me gave Hayes no real assistance, |alert Zimmerma but on the contrary he interfered boosted one with the American fence and y fell off t's fumble tn ball, and Brinker Protest Not Allowed. ortly afterwards a protest was lodged against Hayes on the ground | qonn ite last that the megaphone man had given "A sae from these fw him ald. The protest was, Of sicts the team played course, disallowed, tut it showed played good and with any Rush would have gives | cohort u Dorando fell four times, and was| With two out al lifted each Ume by two officials. | sruck out and « priepective support at how far some people were willl ETE Fe TEPECEELS EETEGESE He lay flat on his back twice, with | TNO" We his head back, showing the face of | “°nt Slimmelihg a man who was suffering untold}... te Seve. ome agonies. He could not stand, as ~ bis legs were too limp to bear inte, | a th but the men who aided him prac 5 , ona ag 8 tleally carried him, for every time | Frick, if Zimmerman, ri Ortee ataniey, © | Roam 'p Allen ol ncadennnoth Totals “ “Batted for Stan! ** Matted for Ru able lead. Warhop, his star pitcher | a Ate Sy this year, bas just been bought by zoe Led t the New York Americans. | Horasesier rf: | Campbell, t> Five bieycle records were | Boorse. te smashed on the track at the stadium | postiger, © in Clifton, N. J., the other day, and | sift » nobody even sald “Geet” The noble; rotais Po game of cycling has gotten into the! seare by tnnings— croquet stakes, despite the most he- | Sesttis rold efforts of the bleycle dealers to| "orem 0-88 keep it on its feet as a real live) wome run gamoeel Pee asd - ee Paes i el > secownonel =3 oleccercenuy 's ol coeces el ecwemermon Oriet pont. “ee holder Struck 4 Bases on be Teams which really represent/i Passed bail ew York and Philadelphia will / P/F piny for the intercity championship — ee Sept. 12, 19 and 26. They wilt be! NORTHWHST KEN LEAOUR amateur teams, composed of bona , fide reaidents of the two cities, and | Ysncoerer chosen by contests among the M’reasen |: strongest amateur organizations of | Tac each place. This ts remindful of | Sy the early days of the national game, | before the time when players bought and sold like sacks of m and there will undoubtedly be whole lot of interest In the games.) Ait orice The first will be played at the | end Roverte American league park, in Philadel) phia, the second at the American) league park in New York. If a third game is necessary, lots will be drawn for the place “yer iy Butts secre ssestinnng & Vancouver MN Ratterios ‘Thomas and Bender, 4ock and Arbogast | NATIONAL LEAGUR All-American ball team will play nine games in Japan between No 21 and Dee. 3. A picked team of Japs will oppose them. There's an-| Dr's other yellow perli—our fellers may | Cinch get skun / ee Rumor abroad that Cincinnati! —— will trade Hans Lobert to Brooklyn| ,. ...._., Teeterdars Games. for Tim Jordan. As Jordan ts quite | aati 5°"! —PMiadetpaia & old and has dropped dead as a hit-| At Chicaro—Chicage 18, Besaiy ter, and as Lobert is one of the best ‘Boston young players im the business, the) “| ‘sit—S Lau © story has every earmark of truth. | Leave it to Cinel to unload the tive | ‘ones. | New York Pitrady jo! ph “s o ry secured a decision over Papke after PD!» 10 rounds of tough milling In their Prsnincton \f it go, but Papke wanted a return | New Tork match of longer duration. | The champion New. Westminster | lacrosse team will accept no out side challenges this year. Satur-| day the members of the victorious team will be presented with gold| watches, the gift of the citizens of | kor Angeies the British Columbia city, | Ban Prancia: :" i Oakiand The Clinton Star baseball team | defeated the Seattle Produce com-| pany at Woodland park yesterday} to the tune of 13 to 1 [ —_—_— | College Widow, the i i F. B. Alexander, the New York/|guideless pacer, yesterday at E tennis crack, surprised the experts opening day of the P by defeating W. J. Clothier in the races broke her record of made at Hillsboro, Ore, She ‘ ; semi-final of the all-comers’ tour n 2:09 flat. This wonder hament at Newport, R. L, yester day in straight sets. Alexander to who runs without drive? will attempt to lower day meets Beals C. Wright, of Ros Yesterday's Games, At Portland-—Oekiand 1 At Oakiand—Los Angeles co @. the mile ful mar or sulky ton, who defeated Nat Emerson, of record in Seattle at the first a Chicago, in the finals. nual Western Washington fait, tember 7 to 12 Tommy Burns now says he ts | =——— — 7 willing to meet Jack Johnson tn Sydney, Australia, and adds that THURSDAY the match is being consummated JOCKEYS’ SPECIAL 30-1 IT'S A WINNER. T ANNUAL TOURNEY OF SHOOTERS ry | KNOW THE HORSE af fHIS WREK'S RECORD y oo oting on the State Sports second naton 5 ERK'S BEC te to 1, Wee was with 60 Witt y King The tour th Gun elub, + Thao Any, Other One Today's 1 forse Special afta tropt THURSDAY handicaps being based on yester ANOTHER BIG KILLING day's showtn B. J. Chingren of Spoke GETAWAY Money the core at the traps, getting se ‘ by. leet 192 out of a possible 200, A wind i blowing in the face of the men at the traps destroyed the chances of many recognized experts At the annual meeting of the a lation he night at the Northern hotel K. Bilis of Seat tle was animously — re \ president, Tacoma was chosen a the place of the next tournamen