The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 15, 1909, Page 2

THE 15, 1909. TAR—FRIDAY, OCTOBER SPORTING NEWS ~ WAGNER HAS COMPLETELY OUTCLASSED COBB COMPARISON WORLD HAS WAITED 10 ott Honus Batting .381, “Cobb 27 .278. Wagner Has Stolen Six Bases While the Georgian Has Purloined But Two, and Yet the Flying Dutchman Is Thirteen Years Older. 44 618 80 me 4 innings VANDERBILT RAGE TAK-INDUIAAY © | = = held October 30 this year, almost BUY THEBEST BEST] BEST BY TES] Then you'll know the brand of clothing that you will always wear, ; Whisman. ‘Two-bas hite within New York City, and the! | Ciynes Hacrifice hiteCn course will be much shorter than! BURNETT OF SPOKANE FUR. | man, Stolen in 1908, There will be but four : turn and no hills, so that broken| “/SHES THE BAO COMEDY records are looked for, ora The cars this yoar must all be - BUM GAME. Ha r ® | Holm 6 Passed ball-—Spencer equipped with the stock chassis me a jof game—2,06, Umpire—Frary fand the first of the 1910 models| SPOKANE, Oct. 16.—George Bn |} just as sold to the public will be/ gle waa the hero of the battle ‘yen: | COAST LEAGUE, | seen im competition for the first! terday of the Turks with the Ip } ‘ time. diane and saved his team from de- | a @istance 9g lap has feat by the score of 8 to 6. It took! has been shortened from some |10 innings for the Seattle pitcher | | thing over 20 miles to 12.64 milea,/to do it, but he finally won out. Standing of “um Tae a & little over five of which is in the| gurnett created # name for him-| pan Francisco Ay] ‘Long Island motor parkway and | seit ty the Blatory of Dakeball in | Portian a lea HH -bua the rest on country bighwaya, Spokane by fanning out three time | lo Anevion MS OST cate At least two weeks will be allow:! with mem. om, hanes, and when in | Ahiemente «rer ee oo et the contesting drivers in which /the field fythe tenth, he allowed | Vernon Te 122 .308 to practice, thé course being open every day except Sundays from to- day until October 29, an easy groander to go bim and let in three run |the seore 8 to 6. In th of the inning the Indians through making waton ame tn WEOSTER WILL MEET Baseball's brightest stars, Ty Cobb, greatest baseman and base Tunner of the American league, who scored the first run in the world sertes, and John Hagenborn Wagner, generally regarded as the greatest ball player living, who has outclassed him in the present se ties. Thousands of dollars have changed hands on this wager alone. John Hagenborn Wagner, premier of the National league in general and the Pittsburg club in particular, has outclassed Tyrus Cobb, bright and shining light of the American league and the De- troft Tigers, in the comparison the baseball world has been waiting 80 long to see. Wagner has outbatted the Tiger whirlwind, has stolen two bases to Tyrus’ one, and he has outfielded him. The baseball world has been holding its breath to see this com- parison. The American league has been solid for Cobb as the great- @st ball player that ever lived. The National cireuit has been just as sure Waguer was the Napoleon, the Alexander the Great and the Julius Caesar put together of baseball. Outside in the minor league territory we have had varied opinions. But unless Cobb should play @ marvelous game tomorrow and Wagner should fall down in a way he never has, the niche in the hall of fame will be occupied by the Flying Dutchman for another year, at least. In one game, that of Monday afternoon, Wagner played a game like few have ever done before. That afternoon te was credited with one run, four hits, three putuouts, four assists and four stolen bases in the box score. Maybe they don’t play baseball now as they did 20 years ago, as Captain Anson insists, but they play it a blame ¥ Cobb 80 far has not batted at his usual “ip in thé regular aca- ‘%0n. while Honus is doing @ 381 clip. Though13 years oldgr, he has made the Georgian look slow on bases. In the field he has accepted 29 chances, with two errors, against Cobb's 7 chances with no bobbles. but you can’t compare the flelding of @ shortstop and an outer gardner. Where Cobb stole home, Honus stole second and third, and when Schmidt tried to catch him off station three he came home. IN SWATTING THEY COMPARE AS FOLLOWS: AB. R. H. Pct. AB. R. H. Pet. eeeoses 21 3 8 281 Cobb. 2 3 6 273 John Hagenborn has scored 9 putoats against Cobb's 7; he has made 20 assists against none for Tyrus, has stolen 6 bases to the Georgian’s 2, and has made 2 errors, while Cobb has a clean field. ing record. ——-— a SE ——— RERERRERRUERRKAEREREAEHKARE ERR * * * STAN DING. oo * Won, Lost. Pet. * &® Pittsburg . 3 3 500 *& * Detroit ... ‘ «8 8 500 * * THE GAMES. « * Friday at Pittsburg—Pittaburg 4, Detroit 1. * * Saturday at Pittsburg—Detroit 7, Pittsburg 2. * * Monday at Detroit—Pittaburg 8, Detroit 6. * * Tuesday at Detroit—Detroit Pittsburg 0. * * Wednesday at Pittsburg—Pittsburg 8, Detroit 4. * * Thursday at Detroit—Detroit 5, Pittsburg 4 * * ATTENDANCE. * * Friday— 23,467. Saturday—31,114. * Monday—18,277. Tuesday— 17,036. * * Wednesday — 22,600. Thursday—10, * * * “4 “ava iea lava Slice aaletcleticalelelaadlalialialadbabid a seman FLAG TO FLAG AACE GIOVANNI AAICEVICH STARTS NOVEMBER 1 A REAL GRAPE FRUIT After conside ante dates, Monday, November 22, has been decided on as the time ‘for the start of the Flag to Fiag endurance and reliability run from Denver to the City of Mexico. e changing fl The much touted Glova unt Rai vich, heralded as the burliest gr pler that ever came out of who arrived in America early in September and issued a challenge to Frank Gotch, has turned out to According to the revised con-|be a rape fruit of the choicest ditions there must be twenty or| varie more contestants. They are to ar-| According to the advance dgpe, rive in Mexico City in the weok|Raicovich would take Goteh in his of December 16, when an automo-| hands and break him in two. bile show will be held in the] As a means of trying out th federal district. husky wop, Raleevich was pitted The conditions are practically the against Pat Connelly, the Irish same as those of the Glidden tour| champion whom Tim O'R except for the fact that there will ported be no technical examination at the} Connelly and Raicevich clashed end of the tour at Kansas City last w and the The motorists will go through| son of Erin made the thick necked Mexico in the winter season, when |son of Italy quit before they had all is sunshine in that country | been on the padded carpet 20 min It will probably be the most severe| utes. The latter displayed a yel endurance contest on record, as the |low streak that extended from the contestants must cross 600 miles of|top of his head to the soles of his ourke im Mexican desert where water 1s | foot wearce and the dust will be ter Glovannt could more profitably riffle. The rains are all over in|invest in a fruit stand or an organ Mexico now and by De desert will be dry as heat will not be in the daytime, ember the bone. Th ppressive even however, and ai nd monk. As an exponent of the half Nelson pastime he is one loud Mugh long, night they will find it almost vold lprng annual general meeting of | the Seattle Soc Football club Seattle spirit makes a $10,000 | will be held at the Hotel Stevens Marathon race possible. See the Saturday, the 16th, at 8 p.m. All Breatest runners of the world at| members and expectant members Dagdaie’s park Sunday, 2 p.m, ***| are requested to attend for one and would bave gotten UPS. OFF TD MEET svt, elt st! MONT Ar gone to sleep about two feet off |e He waa called out 16 DAH ON 5 TURDAY | Hoth teams got 11 safe bingtes.| LO8 ANGELES Oct. | 1h--Al | Holm wan wild and his support was ugh Danny verge 0B we jworse, The Turks played @ bum | antamwelent Hanter, warned wait ot game in the field, The seore tne Gecleten from Monte Atte (My Cnlted Press) j n Franciseo in their bout at Naud TACOMA, Oct. 16--The Unt-| , Beattie Ap BH PO. AF | junction pavition Tuesday night, the sity of Puget Bound football © H H 2 4% fi championship belt offered to the squad, comprising 16 men, in charge $ 4b 2 by winner by Promoter Tor “Carey of Dr, Richardson, leaves Tacoma at pS 1 6 6 WA# not dolivered to the little pugil 5:15 yesterday for Moscow, Idaho, | Capron, if 36 i 20 ij\ ts where they méot the University of Mages. 1b. ‘ i | Hy 4 } Acoording to the terms of the of. Idaho in the Citet collere conference kagle . 4 8 4 1 @ 1) fh, t secure the trophy one of the sume of the season on Saturday. On) a fighters must have received « ma thelr way back to the sound the 8 81) 3018 jority verdiet from the five local Methodists will stop off at Pullman Ap ry ej 79 A 4 newspapers, Webster was declared Tuerday to take on the Washington $8 La fo Winner by two papers and Attell by State college eleven. The U. P. &. ee | } “m2 one, The other two adjudged the will tne up againat Idaho practicality a3 4 bout a draw, MeCarey stated today the same as it did with Whitworth a3 e$ that both men have agreed to meet last Saturday. 6 1 2 O16) eeain Thankegiving day in this city. NO CASE OF GIANT AND PIGMY WHEN JOHNSON AND KETCH MEET TOMORROW LICL S°°/OL, ul WNECH ~--/6 £ LCK-Lg —CHEST-¢0$ CHEST ---B.9 BICEPF lh Pmt WALIPTZ--32 RZEACH---f7O$ LALIT OPL---22: CALP-—14 — CAZLP:---s5g WLIGHD LIS WRIGHT --293 CALE | <>. 7” SS ep KETCHEL AND JOHNSON COMPARED BY THE CAMERA. These photographs, taken especially for this comparison (each of the fighters posing at exactly the | same distance from the camera), and reproduced accurately to sca’ show vividly the fallacy of the popular idea that in the coming fight Ketchel will be a pigmy beside the big black. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15 rumor current last night to leffect that there had been a bitch | -A|\for the contest the | to each that means much while the forearm of the negro ts a mere quarter-inch larger than that When they step Into the ring to-\of the Assassin. Johnson doesn't | morrow ofternoon in Coffrouys big| “tower over his small opponent,” | |in the Ketchel- Johnson fight proved | open-air arena, they will be.as ft) as many writers have put ft, by | today to have been unfounded, and/ as it ts possible for two men to\any means. Johnson stands 6 |waa all due to a chance remark|be. Johnson has worked Mke a feet and 4 i while the tape = |made by Promoter froth, who,| Trojan for this fight, while Ketch ves Ketchel 5 feet 10% inches, a| worried over the miilion and one|has never shown so much earnest. diff nee of 1% inches, It is not the| | detatis inet ntal to the event, an-| ness in training. reach, however, that les e | nounced to newspaper men late Strange as it may beth est surprise. Johnson's arma have last night that there was a possi-| Ketchel and Johnson have paid wn- frequently been likened to those of bility of there not being any fight.| usual attention, for men fighting in, a gorilla a their length, age trouble, which was of absolute the unlimited weight class, to their| but his reach exceeds Katchel's b y no con great seem, quence, grew ont of|poundage, When the mateh was!a scant two inches tangle over the holding of the| made it was fed at because of Naturally Johnsons legs 0,000 aide bet between Johnson} the supposed great disparity in much the larger, but that is rather || and Ketche their size, Ketchel at the time a point in Ketch: favor All the trouble was due to the| weighing 158, while Johnson we Assassin's underpin built. Ketchet’s le of the athlete, strength of a % is ideall Ks are the with the spring and Toledo blade. | fact that the temporary stakeholder | regarded as being as big a man as refused to longer hold the stakes,| Jeffries, Ketchel, evidently know being afraid of the anti-betting law.| ing what he was talking «bout, de ee When Coffroth heard of this he|clared that when he faced John : : | was worried, being afraid that}son be would be a full-fledged. Where Johnson is slow of foot, | Johnson would believe that} heavyweight and he has kept his Ketehel is tigertike tn his move ments, his fine footwork making it | possible for him to hit, coming and | xoing, from any angle and to make | Ketchel would consider this a good | word. Despite the hard work he has chance to worm out of the side bet.|done, he has added instead of There was no need for worry, how-| dropped tissue. Today he welghs ever, as Ketchel has all sorts of | not less than 175 pounds lightning-like shifts, Johnson | confidence in his ability to take| When Johnson fought Kaufman flatfooted and must be | the number of the Galveston negro,|he weighed 213, which many be-, “liver an effective punch | and a permanent stakeholder was | lieved soon agreed upon by the two fight-| as ers. The betting still remains 10 to 4 that the negro wins the fight, before he stripped, would be low as he could get, but the negro showed an ample waist line and heavy arms and legs, Knowing Stanley plans to go for John son's stomach and if he can reach it, he is going to hurt the negro. It is his only hope of winning and if jand even money that Ketchel will|that in a fight with Ketehel he | he can get past Johnson's right be on his feet at the end of the| would have to have hia speed keyed | uppercut, he will stand a chance | fifteenth round. up to the highest notch, Johnson) The impression has gone forth Considerable money has been|;has pald particular attention to! that Ketchel will be on the aggros placed at these odds. his weight, and asa result, will sive throughout, but this he de ——- seale in the neighborhood of 195 | mies. BY THE RINGSIDER. pounds when he squares off. The! “1! am going to fight hard ~| disparity in weight, | not be SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15. | With both men trained to the hour therefore, will 80 great as many imagined throughout, of course, but I am not going to lay myself open to this fel it would be. low by carrying the fight to him jand ready for a fast, hard battle,| Ax everyone knows, Johnson 1s| He will have te come to me, I am Stanley Ketchel, middleweight | the bigg: man all round, but a not going to make the mistake that champion of the world, and Jack| Comparison of their measurements! Tomivy Burns made, And t it hnson, heavyweight champion of | furnishes many surprises. Jobn-|from me, if Johnson stalis and son's chest is an inch and a quarter | | waits for me to do all the leading, the world, are resting today after | bigger than Ketehel's; he leads by don't be surprised toe see him la long and arduous training syst the same margin in the biceps, hjgsed out of the ring.” | We're not asking you to try an unknown and untried quantity op quality, but one which the chances are good that most of your friends are wearing right now. For style, quality, workmanship and durabil. ity there are no $15.00 garments for men like Always $15 We are content with a very thin slice of profit on Clothes, and make up the difference through the volume of b iness done on these garments. There are more ‘*R sold than any three advertised brands put together. REGAL §$ HATS Top off your dress with one of those elegant Regal $2.00 Hats—any style and color you want, either stiff or soft. 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