The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1908, Page 2

HE'S FASTEST THING ON THIS _ STEEL THIS COUNTRY 4 . HUMAN METEOR HAS MANY RECORDS TO HIS CREDIT, AND {8 BUT 17 VEARS OLD EXPERTS BELIEVE YOUNG STER iS DESTINED TO BE COME CHAMPION SKATED OF THE WORLD. | le ope Saranac Lake. hich a of th bag me of the oe rhe hy Canadian governmert and then he won the balfmile and| [8d $1,000 for illegal fishing in | three-mile Uties in Canada; follow Hecate straits, arrived this more jed a New York handicap ta which | poe rag winter eatch The set a mile record an eight | °%er reporiac The cap lap track of 2:40 2-5, and later the | ‘#8 states that he was not selsed quarter-mile aod one-mile indoor and does not understand how the }champtonship in Pittsburg. the lat ye ag wae stromnted ‘ He only } ter being in the nee time of ** me oraf ai days ago 12:44, At this fest he also went 2 “S* repo é from Vancouver, ltwo miles In 5748 26, the fm that the steamer had been 4 fewo miles ever traveled on nined aes the payment of a $1,000/ . |track by either an ameteur or pro- | *'P* d been meade. ' EDMUND LAMY. (Btar Special Service.) NEW YORK, Dec. 27 gdvent of winter interest awakens peeping, and it js gratifying AtMericans to learn that there bas @ficen a new star giving promine height 0 and weighs jthe peculiarity and unsatisfactory t Ithe two governing bodies vented him creating a sensation With the! peid Matureily in the great sport of speed greed skut HAS EVER PRODUCED f woud \ ven n the ste Kdmund Lamy Sarana 1 t fam. pc sa youns champlor at ¢ Severa world’ records are alroady’ hie he has defeated every fast amateu in this try and Canada, No lee Bi the ) skating tha ronoun Wood or the world has eve etitive skating im 1906, and sted his debut by wiming the international amateur champton ahiy juniors in Montreal and lowering the world's record for the classic by the tune of 17 seconds In 1906 Lamy was # gible to compete in the junior class, 9 he again entered and won handily once more reducing the ndard this time to 2:48. He afterward Jeay many a good ovent that season principal victories t ational chat shi he fivemile Indoor ¢ rg, when he placed 09, and the one and eur championships of 1908 has been The speed only But | Lamy's banner year the season of is phenomenal, and of the season we of warm lons among has pre has shown weather, and the disser skating clreles. Lamy started by taking the three fessional. And he added the « imax | by doing a hali-miie outdoor 1:20, stealing the record so long by J. Nilson Lamy is a crack all-round ath} n addition to b © work has won f rowing i swimming. stockily t and well muscled He stands & feet 7% inches 146 pound Defeat Tacoma Y. M. ©. A. 1. am ay After having been all but beaten, nse ' Beattie Y. M. ©. A. basketball) ~ in Gaine back strong and yan-| ih Matched. the Tacoma association BS, Dee. 23.-—Preddie im, 27 to 81, last night At one eight who recently ore stood ti to 3 tn Ta- | m e showing with Abe ‘@ favor. Goals were scored | Atte r ax matched last night Beattie an follows: DeCheane ¥|to fight 10 rounds + ae 2 BO 8. Babcock 2, Hoar 2; goaln|Memsic at McCarey’s pavilion ma fou! ane 6 jJan. 5. Welsh is guarantee 09 Will Not Expand. | Seniors Are Champion GAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2-—-The| The girt« ball team of the ft league did not vote for ex-|senior class « Broadway high at its meeting yesterday, as} won the a plonabip by de ed. Cal. Boing was re-|festing th { The president of the league eee will open on Te 20 20 YEARS eaday, Star Special Service.) NEW YORK, Dec. 19 fe it that an athlete remai fore the public for any length of i time. The strenuous work and the of training cause retirement, iy after a few years, hence n of Ray C. Ewry’s athietic co md cotta to be celebrated this gonth at the New York Athletic io ie an event so unusual as to widespread attention y times a world is one of the ath ha most remark has ever Man” of have appella 2 con, tee the world Grand Old his teammates \Shristened him, and the is. wel) founded when o ws that in his 20th year of on auecess Ewry was able id his own against all comers ® recent Olympic meet Lon F in Think of it, ambitious youths and retired championo! Twenty years of active competition and 18 ‘ef absolute supremacy! ie it not an ajmest incredible record? Bwry was born in Lafayette, Bnd, Oct. 14, 187% nd made his etic debut in December, 1488 ring the col of th M GA. In 1890 rt du fapiversity, ¥ ito a steriing unding and ular meet that ye aw him @idwned champion. Since that day career hax been succession vietories. in 1900 Ewry participated in the Olympiad in Paris and won three firgts, the standing broad, high and triple jumps, a feat unheard of at time. Nor was it all The xephomores also in the | figures tors by 19 19 to 33 A CHAMPION EWRY'S GRAND RECORD RAY C. EWRY, sconcerting @ great nv to his ere is al Not only has he of championship holder # for all manner of Among the world best which he boasts of are the is also the of man implng igh jump he created a record of | following feet five inches, which he has Since bettered, but only by one-quar. ter of an inch. At the Pan-Am in Buffalo he rep d bf vietory and ‘a record of $4 feet 9% inches # the three Jumps. in 1904, In Louis, ali thrée standing jumps ¢ again woo by him. In Athens fn 1906, be won two more, and this wer, at Londan, he repeated. Thus Bern: won 10 firsts, or 50 points, record number an individual scored for Uncle Sam since the troductién of the Olympian ‘ed fy's name appears in the A. A W, almanac with @ frequency that Stand inches tanding 1 inches Three inche high jump, 5 ad Jump, 11 feet 4% tanding jumps, tackward 6 inches. tanding jump, 9 feet Jump kick, 9 feet 10 inches Double-footed kick, 7 feet 10 inches Howry te tall, eight and of tinguished appearance, He stands | six feet one inch and weighs 165 pounds. His courtesy and sport manship have made Kiln a gehoral favorite and few athietes are bet ter known or better Nked short | YOUNG MAN HO male z MOTORCYCLE RECORDS: = Sm | IT’S BACK TO THE MINORS FOR TWO DIAMOND STARS ea part 50 Favor Baseball + VALI R Summe » have be LoS - | | tain hin amat Itaculty i# u % he as tion abd w n the plan at t : : ; r itl Big Bix in \ Spinning’s Christmas Dec, 99. < : Entrios Are Sctatohed Specials Loa ANGELS! I» he | three entries of fF. Carman at the dana Anita track were sorateh yeatordgy until the track officia en investigute the asse " } iMat Dooley, former trair for | Cartman, Dooley claims that Car | sr may was FRepdnalble for the saute Award Football Emblems | Football emblems were arded | 5 Broadway high football war | 1 “ tors yeaterday. 1 are } walk of life va've o de ‘ of the “big. hock and re RALPH (SOX) SEYBOLD ltiver the goods and r i aplendert with huge "B Coach é of the tir th ; ligwle, Manager Hartman. Treas- | (Star Special Service.) ioe tae e | i he od Latah ~~ Ben Palmer wer PHILADELPHIA, Dee, 21.—-Man-| nation gr " awarded Athletic assoolation swe ’ you = . ager Connie Mack, of the Athletics, | slow uy 1 are crowded out § , has given unconditional releases to | &% # few yen Ou, too, crowd f Calls All Bote OFF the veterans Jim Collins and Raiph | 4 out some veteran at le room |* Turk ‘ CAIRO, Mi,, Dec, 28.—"Wittte Joo"! (gon) Beybold, no that they ean yourselt $3. me Collins, éf Canada, last niaht # eae the be ' én # Karning hie first motorcycle by setting up pina ina bowing alloy [the middieweight championehiy ‘ x pan in Chieago, and late « earnings as an usher in a theatre (6 |Geerge Baptiste of at f after Dl . if buy newer modots, the am of Fred C, Huyok hae ne lhaving fought 84 minutes for the Lely ate. $2.60 iniahed until today he is the world's champion motoroyelist, hold. |thitd fall. Before dole Collins . » the $1.7 ing reoorde from | mile to 16 miles Wade the provinion that ali bets be J Collins and Box ' ' : Teare Mr. Huyok (# in making hie headquarters at Spinning’s, |°***re? off “ : ’ ‘ " : Patth . 56 1319 Gecond av Cranes Defeat Ravens ate yy scr ge et at ‘ e rr lowing are some of bik records One mile, standing Tho Cranes took the bowling sete Packs. arve {ite thelr . $2. art, 1 minute 1 ond 8 eeconda; § jniion, mam at the B. A.C. last niaht from the | o way to| The ( F g. 4:36; 10 o, 9:69; 86 BF dagonde, © nile Wen” eatehs. aftgr tho black birds had 1 pre 7 ‘ Mr. Huyok ri the 1909 Indian | ame. man wrote ” 73 ' ef . pcm ‘ . “ —_— | Pullman Pive Victors sui & Bood old has been of da at some of the cars have nol§ ; ts Be. De. de Championehin Great administrators in history |ipeton Btate co Wash- | vowre & good old bas been, that| sired to carry ' ie! Cred @ last echo of the Cootball #08-/ have been big mi a gene F ‘ a) dooan't t ‘ aaa $5 son is being heard at Liteon park|omen — oo ie nignt 4 WY: | arya t stent P artment with ¥ chi is afigrnoon, th e pr and sopho quinte 72 ave € yo pop’ ty and 1 teagus of thé Broadwa? high eting t decide the class cham at the nehool. ~ ZAPORA WAS NOT SEIZED | TACOMA, Dee apora, the which was reported 23.—By U. P. big halibut fish ing od WO ARE VICTIMS OF PICKPOCKETS While walking along Second av near “Jamon st, yesterday after noon, James Fleming was relieved ofa wateb, he thinks, by a pickpocket who took advant the thick shopping crowds. Pi g says his name was engraved the back of the tr ° Cc. F. Doyle, of 115 18th av. N reported to the police last night ‘that he was the vietim of a plok pocket on Saturday afternoon, near the Hon Marche. Doyle was re Heved of a gold-fitied watch |AGED WOMAN IS "| SURE SHE NEVER | TOLD LIE IN LIFE | ST. LOUIS, Dec Mrs. Mary Wright of Bridgeton never told a Hie tn all the 65 years of her lt lehe sald, while under oath on the | witness stand in the cirewit court pat Clayton this afternoon. She waa la witness in the trial of Charles | Williams, charged with assault to kill Thomas Latnon, who was shot last August Mrs. | iia crossexamination by State Senator Gardner ting In the proseention. After 1 fnutes of that she sald fo him sharply You lawyers think you can make anybody ite, but you ean't make me ie. I never told « He in my ife.” STURGEON TRIES TO TAKE A DEER FROM THE HOUNDS PHINGFIELD, Maas., D Pursued by dog# in Agawam, a nefield side of the Connecticut er on the thin fee toda The leer broke through the ice and was ttacked by a fish six feet in math, thought to be a cou elg $50 pounds o For ite fi hen the de nal ar ¢ the river bank the h rer 1 near thes h era it . Higa hat the d ad ¢ witnessed Park Comminsionet Everett H. Barney and Mor |CHILD IS BORN TO LEPER PARENTS; WILL BE HEALTHY TON, Dec John leper s lived for months in is today proud father of a baby boy. ‘The th department physician who attended Mrwe. Karly says the boy is a fine specimen of babyhood, in | food health, and welghed eight }pounds at birth, The physician |aays there is no reason why the |disease with which the father is affiicted should be communicated }to the ebild | The comfortable brick dwelling adjoining the smallpox howpital Is being prepafed for the occupancy of Karly and his family in time to celebrate Christmas. Karly ig con fident that eventually he will be cuted. The fruit ghowd¥e of Chyrtornip shipped 12,917 cafloads of trutt out of the state during the season | which as just closed, an of nearly 100 per cent over the lehipments for the season of 1907 Wright was subjected to a} Increase | Unmatchable Prices on Unmatchable Goods 0 Miver-Pinted, Sa $1.06 White or ame 4 Suit Cases—1-4 Off “Moore Theatre $5.00 Suit Cases ..0... | *eaticimadtand*siaar” $6.00 Suit Cases at ...... $7.50 Suit Cases at . | “Te Hoves oF BONDAGE” weer x € * Mat. be te aan Suit Cases at ...... HY Se et ee 10.00 Suit Cases at ..,... } THE. $12.50 Suit Cases at ...... THe GRAND — $15.00 Suit Cases at .............$11.25 } Fist crday, | “THE LAND OF Nop Company Overcoats and Cravenettes 1-4 Off $15.00 Overcoats and Cravenettes . $11.25 $18.00 Overcoats and Cravenettes .. $13.50 $20.00 Overcoats and Cravenettes ..$15.00 RUSSELL, DREW & F RENCE. Bore. 5 | $25.00 Overcoats and Cravenettes .. $18.75 \" better @ ee oe $30.00 Overcoats and Cravenettes .. Next Werk Same Company fe 22.50 “The Jelly Wigow” a 35¢ Nighta, Prices Smoking Jackets At About 1-2 Former Prices Silk Umbrellas At Better Than 1-3 Regular Prices 75c and $1 Neckwear Phones 5108, | | Matiness 10, 25, 806 Nights 10, 25, 0, Ti Advanced Vaudeville. Week of | December rge Prin and bis danci =: Mr * Gene Chadwick Ba-Be's Albu: pa Tip Co. 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