The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1909, Page 2

ac omen at Aaa 7 Written By Experts NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE READY T0 GO OUTLAW Action of Coast League Magnates in Refusing to Share Portland Territory the Cause ---Owners Will Take Action (iy United Press) an independence which has long SAN FRANCISCO, Ney. 117.—-The been urged. The Northwestern @irectors of the Pacific Coast Base- league is dependent on no one. ball league last might rejected the |Geographically, the Northwestern tion of the Northwestern league cities present a peculiar con to place « team at Portland, |\lition, We are in a measure iso- pro) franchise was voted |iated. We support the league, No- down by & vote of § to 3. |body bothers us and we bother no- oo Mt we quitsble j with crowd of who happen BY EDDIE BOYDEN. to have the car of the National To those who are in the know, the | Baseball Commission? fotion of Pacific Coast directors, as! Here's the point Outlaw bell outlined the foregoing dispatch | moans bigger salaries, better play San Francisco, is one huge jors and bigger crowds. Of course if the Northwestern ‘The arrogance of the baseball men | league directors decide to take this control of Coast league affairs has ‘course a cry of horror will reach to deen tolerated by Northwestern /heaven from the weak-kneed, but, e magnates. It is now time te| mark this, it will be the best th yw down the gauntlet and show |basehallically speaking, that would-be dictators exactly | happened tn this peck of the woods. | Where they disembark. From the | When a crowd of outa ep into | time Pacific Coast “magnates” |territory admittedly our own and forced Dugdale inte the discard until | assume a dictatorial attitude, which the present day it has been patent |i « joke to all but themselves, ft fs that Pacifie Coast league baseball | high time that they be brought to no ¢ in the Northwest. The time And as far as {s discernible, | fags led a miserable death as far | this lerson can best be administered | as tle was concerned, The ball|by showing them an outiaw league established by the Coast league | which will deliver a better brand of im even now covered by street | ball than the Coast league can offer. | ear barns. This tribe of would-be! George M. Shreeder, the peppery | baseball czars has buffaloed the owner of the Tacoma Northwestern | higher-ups into the belief that the |franchise, has already gone on/ brand of ball put up by North-|record as willing to break away | western teams is Inferior to that ex-|from organised baseball, and signs hibited by Coast league players. |of an upheaval in Spokane are al- Northwestern players are “X Class |ready apparent, B,” while those of the Coast league| It tn recognized. of course, that re “Class A.” This has long been |Seattle is the hub of the situation. big scream. Rut aside from this | If President Dugdale takes the step tile serious point crops out in the | which means better baseball he may fact that Coast league magnates |rext assured that he will have a assume to dictate to the North. united support from press and pub- ‘western league. Ye. Why should the Northwest be Why not turn outiaw and display! controtied and bullied by California? ——— eee LIPTON WILL CHALLENGE ed NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Before sailing for Europe today Sir ‘Thomas Lipton authorized the United Press to state positively that he will challenge again for America’s cup, the races to be held in 1991. DOBIE DENIES HE IS “SORE” —____. ES ‘The report printed in an evening ) boys who are paying him to assem- paper that Coach Gilmore Dobie, | ble them Into a football machine. of the University of Washington | '* was at that time that he gave team, was “sore,” at outs with the |" his decision. The newspaper story to which faculty; and threatened to resign.! Dobie takes exception states that are all wrong, according to Dobie |no one ever turns out to watch the/| practice. That fact is easily ox- plained. Dobie wants to watch his |team work, but does not want to| Stories of Dobie's alleged discon- tent was based on two facts, the have his anr his students’ time| first being a letter that the faculty |taken up by the “Rah Rah” boys, sent to Dobie last Saturday regard-| not matter how much “college spir- fing his conduct on the side lines at Idaho game, no it” they slop over the campus. For the other, the fact |that reason no one is allowed on one went down to meet the | Denny field after the team comes eleven when it returned | out. Sunday afternoon.| Coach Dobie this year and last the man in question, #78! year has turned ut ihe best inter: he fs satisfied with the way | collegiate team ever seen in the gy Boagronan a | Northwest. He goes about it, tn| oaly trouble, | what some of the football followers | This secret who know nothing of con- ditions out here. As for quitting, I Bave been considering that for some time, but not because I am not satisfied with the Varsity. I Baye coached now for ten yeare and think that if I ever settle down to business it must be tn the next two or three years. When I do ag won't leave the boys here in lurch, though. If I am elect-| ed agg I think that in all prob. ability I will be back. There ts one thing sure and that is, the Univer. sity of Washington is the best and the last college that I will ever Strict With Squad. Dobie was criticised last year for firing several men who, coming from high school teams of the first rank, thought that they knew more about football than the coach did, , The men with whom he had trouble on the squad are now his beat friends. Dobie has had good material te work with, but that alone does not account for the great team he has turned out. Other coaches have | had good matertal and have failen | down. When the seas lowes | nth at b sacl ey here Tquitiwith the game "Thankesiving good, all. jagainst the Oregon boys, Doble’s Boost for Coach. "year an | duties will be over for the year and win or loge, the faculty and student body will be quite satisfied with | the success of the 1909 team. In| the opinion of representative mom bers of the student body and the | faculty, the board of control will} give him thelr unanimous support for next season Monday evening the students gave Dobie the best send off that was ever given a man in this city, the presidents and Bill Bryan in. juded. It must have been some off, because the lanky Min nesotian consented to ascend the Platform and make a speech to the 1889—Sullivan beat Kilrain J for $10,000 a side. rgagpeosicng defeated Sullivan, New Orleans, rounds, purse nominally $40,000; actually le 1897—Fitzsimmons won the undisputed shamilanahio teat te Corbett March 17, at Carson City, Nev, in 14 rounds. Purse about $25,000 net. ‘ ‘ 1899-—Jeffries won the world’s title from Fi Istand, N. Y., in 11 rounds. uly 8, 75 rounds, at Richburg, Miss, September 7, 21 tzsimmons at Coney House was worth ove 35, 5 1899-1904—Jeffries ‘defeated Sharkey once amd pid ll egg feated Fitzsimmons a second time, Ruhiin, Corbett twice, and Jack Monroe, retiring from the ri fi wt Mg ng after the last. 1903—Marvin Hart knocked out Jack in 12 roun Jeffries, the world’s title. 1906—Tommy Burns defeated Marvin cart, 20 rounds 23, at Los Angeles, and claimed the titie. f 1909-—Jack Johnson, colored, defeated Tommy Burns, 12 rounds, in Australia, before a house estimated to be worth $110,000; defeated Keshel, 12 rounds, San Francisco, October 16. Root July 3, at Reno, Nev, who refereed, presented Hart with February AND KEEP SPIKES BY TIP WRIGHT. That gentle child, George “White Wings” Tebeau, owner of tho Kan saa City franchise in the American association, and who is admitted even by his enemies to be some ti man, has a huneh that he away with the danger of the Tebeau would make it compulsory to slide into bases head first. He says without the folding would be 60 and there would y running, But slide bh first,” saya George, and the danger is eliminated. There's & lot of what some peo- ple call “hows sense” in what Tebeau saye Mon willing to take a chance to alide feet first ought to be willing to dive for the sacks, There ia no more danger for the runner going in head first than there ts in sliding feet first, and the guardian of the base is in no danger of beng gaffed. If Mr. Ban B. John of the Amertean league, will see to it that the base running rules of his organt- aation are so amended that a player pera ere ne ne cs ce eR gee ‘SLIDE HEAD RST THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1909, TO READ THE DAILY LIST OF BIDS FOR THE JOHNBON- Jeffries fight, one might suppose that this great country of ours was run wide open for the encouragement of pugiliem, and that the at traction would be knocked down to the highest bidder, irrespective of locality, Thin ta the biggest bunk that has been pulled on an unsaspecting public for years. As & matter of fact, there are only two states in the Union where the fight can possibly take place—Nevada, where fights aro legal, and California, where the game is in fairly good repute, and ts tol erated by the powers that be. But almost every day someone bobs up with a bid, and owing, possibly, to the fact that anything in con nection with the great event is of Interest to the sport loving public, the offer gets apace in the newspapers. Washington has figured on the list, and Oklahoma has come in for honorable mention more than Onee since the bidding craze hit the country Everyone in Seattle know: what a fat chance even the smoothest and most influential promoter would have to pull the event off in this state. As for Oklahoma, when that state got its star on the flag, all the “antis” and “don'ts” that the so-called reformers had ever sprung were collected on several reams of foolscap and embodied in the constitution. To stage the fight in Oklahoma, it would be heces- aliding feet first shall be declared out and heavily fined, | guess there won't be any more foot-first bual- ness In that organisation, and the other leagues, whose annual maet- ings follow the American, will prob- ably see the light and adopt similar legislation. i don't think a simple tine will do away with sliding feet first, because in a hotly contested game, where & run if necessary, the chances are & runner would take a chance and go im feet first, confident that hix jelub would pay the fine Imposed. But if the man whe slides feet first ts not only fined but declared out a» well, & quletus will be put on the business for all time. Come on, Mr. Johnaon, be the bell cow and wateh the other fellows fall in line. RHRRRRA RRR RRR BIGGEST OFFER YET. VENICE, Cal, Nov. 17.— Abbott Kinney, milltonaire Promoter of this resort city, and Mayor Eakins will bid for the Jeffries Johnaon fight, and according to @ statement by Eakins, will be prepared to offer $150,000, if necessary, to land the greatest pugilistic attraction of the century Eakins declared today that Kinney's plans call for the erection of an arena that will seat 100,000 persons. He al ready has entered into nego- tations with railroads looking to the handling of the im mense crowds that would jour ney to the ringside. Dewitt Vancourt, who has trained Jeff for many of his early battles, has been engag ed by the Venice promoters to carry thelr bid to New York. According to Kinney, Vancort will journey to New York with authority to outbid any other promoter who makes an attempt to snateh the plum. | } | SPP eee eee eee eee eee eee eee Ree HPSS SEER RSE ee FRREEEE ERE EERE ERE ENFORCE THE _ NO-BET LAW (iy United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17.—The | Otte Walker anti-betting bill, pass-| ed by the last legislature to pro- hibit betting on the outcome of! horse races, Will be rigidly enfore | ed by the San Francisco police, ac | cording to a declaration made by Chief of Police Jesse B. Cook to day. Cook said: | “No reports have yet been re esived for district captains in which the opening of pool rooms is Roticed. My personal attention has | not been drawn to any attempts of gamblers to establish offices in this city where bets can be placed the races. However, ff aporting| men attempt to operate such places in this city, I will see to it that my} men suppress it immediately.” EAGLES WIN FROM PELICANS The Eagles were successful over thetr old rivais, the Pelicans, tast night, beating them two out of three games rolled on the Seattle Athletic club alley. Frank Gardiner was high score with 214 and high average with 187. The scores: Eagles. 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Berger and Jeff deny that Gleason haa a shade with them, and Joho son ts equally loud tn the agsertion that Coffroth has no business con nection with him. Time alone will tell. ooo NEVER HAVE THE DOPESTERS WALLOWED IN 8UCH clover as a@the present tinte, when they can delve deep into ancient history and bring to light facts and figures relative to the abtlity of | athletes to “come back.” “Can Jeff turn the trick?’ ts the question that has been asked times innumerable since it became apparent that the big fellow meant business, and the case of John L. Sullivan, who was just about Jeffs age when he reentered the ring to lose the champtonabip to Jim Corbett, is being constantly cited To pass up the hundreds of other examples used in the big discus. sions of the day, and consider the cane of Sullivan alone, it can be said that it is not at all similar te that of Jeffries. Sullivan led a very different life from the one Jeff has been living | during the three years that @Tapsed between bis fight with Jake Kil rain and his meeting with<fofbett He dissipated steadily for a long time before the Kilrain affair, and that fight of 76 rounds under Lon don prize ring rules was @ food desl of a joke, for had John L. been the man of former years it would have ended many rounds sooner. Stortes of Jeffries’ diafiyhitions since leaving the ring have been greatly exaggerated, and to compare bim today with the Sullivan who climbed through the ropes in New Orleans ts something of a joke. ooo LOOKING ON THE RECENT SHOWING OF OR. ROLLER against Frank Goteh with the eyes of unsophisticated credulity, we are forced to doff our headkenr to Seattle's pride, and loudly acclaim his merits as a wrestler ‘The stumbling block to this little mutual admiration party ts the fact that there are a number of fans in this neck of the Northwest woods who are not unsophisticated, and whose credulity has been stretched to the breaking point by past performances. The old proverb about the dog with the bad name who had a most unpleasant thing happen to his neck holds good in this case, of course, and it Is possible that the big lowan had a lacky escape from broken bones and a lost reputation, but-—Oh, pass the salt, and let it go at that. N; OER LC TE CT ee A THE STAR’S PAGE & UP-TO-DATE SPORTS |:iis] COMPARE LINCOLN ‘PULLMAN DEFEATS WHITWORTH 38 10 0 (iy United Press.) PULLMAN, Nov, 17.—-Playing tn about a foot of mud, the h y WwW 8. C. eleven youterday afternoon de- feated the Whitworth team 3% to 0 Tho game was bitterly fought by the fast Tacoma bunch all the way ithrough and when it wee }Pullman men knew that been tn a fight By winning from the Pullman showed that It is a great deal clash could only hold Whitworth down for “ they The next game the Aggies will play I* the one against Whitmay on Thanksgiving. If Horleske, of Minsionarios, doow not brage up in| hia studies he will not be allowed to play. With Borleske out, the game should be a tandalide for the} Btate College bunch. ISTEALING CHECK ONLY A CUTE COLLEGE PRANK (Hy United Prem) SPOKANE. 1].—~—Managet Herk Smith, of the Maho team, was |not robbed of a check for $696 jpart of the receipta of Or a} |gume, an was stated yosterday. After | Smith had wired te Portland stop- |ping payment on the check which | had been taken from him on the! train by two masked men, two mem- |bers of the team presented him with | lit on a ativer platter. They had) |meant the robbery as a joke and |had not expected him to get #0 ex~- cited about it, BERKELEY RUGGERS WILL CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH BERKEL: are under way for a series of three between the University of iifornia Rugby fifteen and the} Vancouver team in British Columbia | next month. | | It ts» proposed that the victorious lifornians, who defeated the Btan- |ford tam Saturday, go north and |play the first game at Vancouver on | Christmas day The other two mames probably will be played at Victoria |during the following week. PAPKE WILLING | TO GIVE WEIGHT) (By United Prem) KEWANEE, UL, Nov. 17.—Billy |Papke, the “Illinois Thunderbolt,” f# jhot on the tral of Stanley Ketchel. | Bo anxious is Papke for another crack at the "Michigan Whirlwind” [that he today offered to fight Stan- ley at the light-heavywetght pound- | age for the title if Ketehel is no} longer able to fight at the middle- weight figure. 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Wilwon and boet Ancoin will have exactly the same | Ames, 4 second year < lineup a» last Saturday, and the|mour i» ail there, nm are going into the game with junder the tutorship 7 " the avowed Intention of equaling the | Donald, of the & A.C, score made against the Bastern|and having been on | Washington boys twice. He can be They are due, however, to meet a big surprise this time roadway has a good lineup for next Saturday, although Bill Lewis, | Patton, at right tackle, jit ail over Bruce, at left, cennfully from the plucky little captain, will not be |he 4 r in the game. rgbt extremity of the tine tf t left end Broadway will have|way will have anot ‘Tyer, who will play against Wood at Lincoln's right. These men are about evenly matched in weight, but Tyer has proved himeelf the speedier. Presley, the veteran tackle of the B. H. &. eleven, will play against | Roo” Bryant, Presley bas been on! power is all the the All-Northwest team for two \quarter, Lincoln's Jack ( years and should take care of the |Tim Burke skinned @ mile: Green Lake boy. Burt, a new man, |is as good, if not better, will have the next position on/ford Warren, while. Broadway's line, left guard. He |shows more ‘cimas than will play against Pallis, a veteran. | Abbott at full, | than Holt, of Lincota, larger, and cen hit tee. All- Northwest be against Sutton, « |piays left end for " we hey Kerr should run away hin. 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