The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1909, Page 2

raat DOINGS IN THE SPORTING WO THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1909. eect re RLD TERSELY TOLD FOR STAR READERS|f| IN BASEBALL AND ATHLETICS FOR MONEY BY TIP WRIGHT, Theoretically, the difference be tween amateur and pre siona Athletes ts oe but when you come down to copper rivets {t Len't Ogee the glory hunter regarded him self as the gentieman, and looked upon the pro as a sort of hired hand But it's changed now, .The she hunters are men of a caliber large for anyone to look dow and the ¢ ance between ¢ in sport for sports e and those in it for what (hb nm get is not noticeable. Many wh ad feasional sport have wealth and hay eur ia f their abil money for thet of prominence bec ity to command bis services. For 14 years Hans Wagner has | been playing ball. His first con tract was for $35 a month. Now he} gets what he asks for, and [t is not} sess than $10,000 for seven months. He has drawn this for years, and ts worth $100,000. A cireus he owns is expected to do big business be cause Hans, the idol, owna it John Met aw of the Gtants gots | Detween $12,000 and $15,000 a year He is advertised every day in th papers, and a billiard hall he open ed in New York has been a bonanza | from the start. McGraw began Daseball where they all begin and ‘went to the top through sheer abil ity. John Kling saved $20,000 from his salary and invested it in Kansas City real estate. Also he opened a and billiard hall, The realty sold for $90,000 and the pool room, with Kling as an added attraction profits him $4,000 a year. Wiltte Keeler invested in Brook lyn realty, and today ts reputed to be worth more than $100,000. Hugh | Jennings went to Cornell with/ money earned on the diamond. He coached the varsity nine and gradu ated tn law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and enjoys a large practice during the off season John M. Ward, once a Giant, plays golf for a diversion now, and practices at law in New York. Hoth he and Jennings owe much of their success to the fact that they were well advertised players. Roger Bresnahan, mianager Sf the Cardin- als, and one of the high-priced play ers, owns realty. Roger used to be a sleuth, but he quit it. Joe Tinker and Mike Doolin recetve salaries of four figures weekly on the stage Addie Joss writes newspaper stories fm the winter. Christy Mathewson finds it easy to sell Insurance to fans Napoleon Lajole owns & chicken farm, and Frank Chance In- vested his sv us cash in an or ange grove in California. Take other sports: Wm. Sher. ring won the Olympic Marathon at — CANS PIRATES. TAKE OUT REVENGE (By United Press) PITTSBURG, Pa. Sept. §.—The Pirates regained some of the lead they lost Monday when they defeat ed the Cubs yesterday afternoon in a closely contested game. Maddox | was invincible, allowing the Cubs but five scattered hits. Although Manager Chance used three pitch ers, he was unable to stem the tide | of defeat. } R. HE Chicago ... 2 6 2 Pittsburg eee © 12 2 Runs by innings | Chicago ....... o20000000 Pittaburg . O2011011* Batterles—Reu!bach, Brown, Hig ginbotham and Archer, Maddox and Gibson. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburg cago 2. At. Brooklyn delphia 7 Pittsburg 6, Chi Brooktyn 3, Phil New York 3, ¥ Cincinnati—Rain of the Clubs. Won. Lost Pittsburg 9 35 Chicago Te | New ork ™ “" Cincinnatt 6 60 Philadelpisia 6 fT St. Louts “a 77 Brookiyn “ ad Boston a4 oo coast At Vernon roon 4, Oakland & Portland 0 At Oakland goles 3. San Francisco 6, Los Standing of the Clubs. Won. Lost An Franc 190 hos Ange a9 Portiand 43 Sacramento 76 Oakland 68 ‘ $5.00 Hunting or Fish- ing Coat $2.49 to 44 inehe or expres $4501 $9.00 ¢ Cordur $2.00 p SPINNING ,..1212 Second Av. [the stage at Moran; — FIELDING YOST. CHAS. COURTNEY. Athens In 1906 and when he re turned home his friends gave him a $10,000 purse, a house and lot and found him a government job, Johnny Hayes, winner of the last Olymple Marathon, sprang from ob sourtty tn a day and after going on $1,000 a week for a hort time, accepted a postition with & sporting goods house at a fat sal ary. Incidentally, he won seyeral thousands for runcing in Mare thong in this countr Deoraado Pletri came over here and defeated not only Hayes, but & lot of other good distance men, and took home something like $25,000. He won't have to work in the bak ery any more Henri St. Yves was getting $5 or $6 a week in a Paris restaurant be fore he won fame as a distance run ner; he won enough as a profes sional athlete to retire The professtonal cyclists of wealth are legion. Tom Cooper Harry Elkes, Eddie Bald, Barney Oldfield, Major Taylor, Bobby Wal thour, Floyd MeFuriand, Frank Kramer and others made from $3,000 to $4,000 annually with their muscular legs. NORTHWESTERN 1 um At Portiend a 6 ouver 19. At Spokane—Spokane 9, Tacoma 0 Van- Games Today. Beattie at Aberdeen Vancouver at Portiand Tacoma at Spokane, Philadeiphia—Philadelphia 6 York & Washington 11 “NOTES OF THE TAAGK BY REFUGEE. |, Phil Hamil, the Wall street brok er, has at least snared a badge. It | was expected that he would h up his slate, but he has so far fal to do so, ¢ seventeen books, tn two field bookies, now doing business in the ring. Max Miller, well k racing world as one My Good Horse By working In the ring of the own to the e owner of igh,” is now under the name Portage Club. Carroll Davia, the young Seattle plunger, had a disastrous week. He succeselve race 4 his bank roll now resembles a pancake stepped pon by a hippopotamus Matt Ries had a big bet on Entre Nous away from the track, the day | the mare azam. finished second to Nag There are more touts hustling in the betting ring here than ¢ rated on a | op timate course race i# in America, And more are coming very day, It is said, however, that re is a “tow ust” in existence at present and the comers may ne pd to share in the rich p Willie Applegate, who is book here, made a tremendous clean-up on the victories of Creston and pohn. Both — the birds trained by “Fatty” Anderson w. L. Jones has bought Work box" from J. Barnes for a reported consideration of $2,000. Jones also recently purchased Burleigh from M. D. Miller Denver” Hayes offered J, M.| Shilling $4,000 for Virgie Cassie | after her victory.on Saturday, but his offer was reMved, Mr, Hayes has been very successful at this meeting and is ranked as one of | the foremost clockers in America Detroit 6, Cleveland 4} failed to cash a bet in twenty-four | ! | LOOKS BAD FOR KAUFMAN Odds on Thursday's Fight) Remain the Same, But the White Man's Chance Grows Slimmer. BY THE RINGSIDER BAN FRANCISCO, Bept. & day the }to finish r tomorrow's To- | last day in which/ conditioning themselves | 10-round engage | ment at the Mission Street arena, finds Al Jack Kaufman and Jobn son Working as hard as ever, ap-| parently unmindful of the fact that they have been at the ind for an Unusual length of tlme for a short sprint, The big fellows were out on the road bright and early this morning, Johason covering his re ulation 10 miles over the le roads of Alameda county, \ hi Kaufman did a few miles less « or the hilly roads of Colma, Hcth} fighters have been very consistent | with their road work, and even on! the day of their meeting they tn tend to do a Htthe of it to keep up the speed they have been training | for. i As the day of battle approaches, the public's reckoning of Kauf man's chances grow smaller and Jamatior, but tm spite of this the bet | ting rematas unchanged, being two jto one that Johnson wins and 10 BORANDO PIETRI |but with the expected lengthening of the odds tonight or tomorrow | Foot ball coaches get the money,/the betting will begin to xhow | Hurry up” Yout, Prof. A. A. Stagg | some speed. Johnson, who was a| and Gienn Warner receive mbit high in flesh last week, this $3,000 to $5,000 for teaching the morning looked ready to step into young ides to gain three yards the ring at a moment's notice, | through the center when called while Kaufman has been fit to| upon fight for several days. Johnson | Chas. Courtn the wizard. \6 weighed about 210 pounds this sald to recetve n morning, which ts 900 for cone within a few the Cornel! oarsmen, while bie Im | ounces, one way or the other, of the! reat in a concern that m welght he will carry {nto the ring tures racing shells brings Kaufman is down to ghodt 204 and| much more. Hanlon, former) he will not weigh much Jess when coach of the University of Califor nia, owned trophies valued at more than $100,000 when he died. He received $4,000 a year as coach Jim Rice. «ho handed watermen a surprise this year with his Colum Dia crews, ts paid 93,600, and Jim | A. Ten Eyck, the Syracuse coach, | is reputed to draw $5,000 Professional hockey, polo, golf, tennis and racquet players, not only | earn large sume on the field, but | are often in the employ of sport: | ing goods houses, as managers or | saleemen, at fat salaries, not be | cause they possess unusual bust ness ability, although they often do, | | Dut because they can draw business | | to the concern that employs them. ‘PORTLAND LUMBERMEN | PLAY HERE TOMORROW he squares off. | | a's SAFES OCH CO.'ssarts dew °° pmb fe Co. MANUFACTURERS 2 OCCIDENTAL aventn Sept. th aed Beattie Day at the Exposition We will be thers. A baseball team of lumbermen from Portland will be met by a# | picked team of Seattleites, who fol | tow the same vocation, tomorrow | afternoon on Dugdale's field. The Rowse City bunch has been coached for weeks by Fielder Jones, the fa | mous manager-player, who has set-| ted in business in Portland. | ery GONG UP! | SPRINGFIELD OUTFIELDER PURCHASED BY CLEVELAND CLUB FOR BIG LEAGUE TRIAL | JAB. CALLAHAN, (iy United Pree RINGFIELD, Sept. 8. — The Springfield team wii lose ite crack | yut Ider Jim Callahan, at the close of the playing season, Sept 26, and the Cleveland club will reap the benefit Scout Jim McGuire spent a couple of days her time ago, and! upon his report the Cleveland own ers purchased Callahan | Callahan was picked up in the bush by “Dick” Kinsella, president of the Springfield club, and showed = we class from the start. He is excep i tionally fast on the bases, and his The New hittin has been of the timely va riety, although the averages show Davino Beds he failed to get into the .800 class. | GAME POSTPONED. | cmemene | (TREES | tod Press.) | pt. 8.—The Seat | are altogether different from any other (By 4 ABERDEEN, tle-Aberdeen ¢ was postponed folding bed here yesterday because of the late : arrival of the train bringing the|J °F couch on | players. Tho game will be played the market. pote next Sunday morning. jon the courts, William A SOVETTE WINS TAFT This Attractive Bed | Neat Rocker W. A. LARNED. FIVE TIME CHAMPION OF NETS IS LARNED For the third time in succession | William J. Clothier, of Philadelphia, | Larned. of Summit, N. J, is national tennis) RL, champton. Larned defended his title inet | lant races. GUP—ELLEN SECOND MARBLEHEAD, Maas., Sept. & The yacht Joyette, competing in the fonder races yesterday, won the cup donated by President Taft, by de feating the Elien in the sixth and final race. The Joyette crossed the line just 20 seconds ahead of the Ellen. land for the fifth time in his career winner of the twenty-ninth annual ail-comers tournament at Newport, in a whirlwind five-set game, | taking the first two sets and the | been captured by the most points | in the serves, President Taft was An interested spectator at ail of the | DAWES A BENZ GAR MILE IN 41 SECONDS (By United Pree) LOWELL, Mass, Sept. 8.—In trial tset yesterday Barney Old- | ' | | | } | a) | she cup oftered by Gov. Draper field, in & Jens machine, covered a) Mallea ‘was won by the Killen, it having mile in 41 seconds. ble Ranges Aton FREE ofcoa We are having lively times in our Range Department these days A ton of of Seattle ha offer. We have already taken se i orders for weastle lump coal is worth considering, not been slow in taking advantage of our liberal free MONARCHS with and the people a FREE TON OF COAL for people who will not be ready for their range till next month. If you require a range in the it now, this offer closes when a hundred ranges ha free. ton of coal delivered to your home with each sold for cash of on time payments This is our regular $6.75 fron bed, designed as pto- tured, with continuous posts, fully guaranteed, in plain white, blue or green; apectal for tomorrow's sell. ing only— Very Strong Like the picture, but with plain spindles, which improves the ap- | back, seat; a pearance; high saddle-shaped very comfortable rock er, in golden oak or maple; sold tegularly at $5.50; special for to- morrow-- $2.95 ALL THE CREDIT YOU WANT A neat, attractive swelled front, large size 16x26 inches, all sawed stock. Regular SECONR ANG UNION near future, buy ¢ been sold. 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