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THE STAR—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909 THE SEATTLE STAR’S SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY LAURENCE REDINGTON FORMER SEATTLE MAN AND HIS MONEY: SPLIT EQUALLY PARTNER IN BIG FIGHT DEAL” anny wercu Ac REFEREE WRIGHT. IMMIE COFFROTH has deal which, on its face, b Jeffries Johnson engagement |land the big affatr, but from Rickard-Gleason pie, and therefc be considered in the light of oppo has been suggested in some quar Coffroth’s idea ts to bring three jand to match them againat three A | between Freddie Welsh and Battling card of course, and if Coffroth assured, Owen Moran versus | prospective fights, according FAIR FIGHT FANS SEE FAST WORK AT S. A.C. LADIES’ NIGHT BRINGS OU’ OUT BEVY OF BEAUTY TO SEE GLADIATORS OF RING AND MAT IN ACTION-—SOME TRULY FIGHTING. ore would be on this mill tty another of the hes, This. w Wolkast would look om it te BY TIP Ad east ie NEW YORK, Deo, 9.—When Johnson and Jim Jeffri }4, 1910, the third will be Jack Welch, Tt purse offered by Tex K Jack Clea will b sally and the moving ploture be aplit three wayn Heliove I am right Rorger, Johnwon and Lit than fight nd managers ors they ular b and I not making t ha Jack) flatts refe od his hon fight, July |esty and ability are unquestioned, | &reat go, without doubt, but how the ring | Ul be much surprised to see another | atical, Wolga ie after big game He covets the und $101,000 | man in the ring the day of the fight. | weight championship, and ts after tler’s scalp, with We kard and English champion, as seconds cho! third of Cottroth's JEFF HANDICAPPED | divided Driscoll versus Attell, looks al! to atard profits: with If Coffroth can make good } tions by tm ’ portin; i BY NO-FIGHT intereatonet st, and giving the fight fans a \he will be gettng away with one biggest thin 4 8 18 recent YORK, Dee here today | hintory t of talk about | James J. Jeffries ' handicapped the clause in the leontract between him and Jack when | Johnson In which It is agreed that neither of the men shall enter th ibn ce GN ring for a real match before they pc sel giehage tee ‘ meet on the Fourth of July next. It « the opinion of those men that the big Californian needs some 5 liminary fights to timber him and get him in condition for champtonship battle BARNEY BREEZES man tp the fast welterweight, who has mad a r himself in club amoker and the pair swapped punches with & will, Both thre winds as soon as the blows began t ating. To the nes it was ay parent that they not handing each other any love taps, either Wrestling, Too. Frank Vance, th Instructor, was to have gor an exhibition w Andrew @ strained knee kept the forr " the mat, and Dow went on with Oliver Monroe, grappling ten min utes to a draw Frank Duncan took & falls off Oliver Runchey Juggling, tumbling stunts, an swimming exhibition wound up of the moat succe ladiew’ night ! A. ©, Last night was ladies’ night at the Beattlo Athletic club, and feminine | @port enthusiasts were given a ohance to see some real boxing and Wrestling stunts. Some slashing | bouts were on the card, and Ue rough work on mat and canvas was enjoyed to the limit by the fatr fans. | Jack O'Leary and Willie Vetro, the | midget mixers, who tip the beam at 115, sparred three fast rounds, going at it hammer splte of Boxing tetructor Austin's caution to make a pink tea of the affair, O'Leary and Vetro are old rivals, and the chance to settlo their long-standing @igpute was too good to be overlooked. The band they got from the fair ones showed con clusively that Lonnie’s dope anent the soft pedal stuff was way off, Austin went on with Jack Novak, COACH “BOB” FORBES WILL QUIT OREGON “OU” sre mors were Hy | COFFROTHVS CHAMPS Coffroth {a a close stndent of fig a for Eugiand he named a list of of weights tly adopted by His cholees are ax folb At 112 pounds, fly-weight, undisputed bantamweight, undisputed, Jir aint undisputed, Abe Attell; Nelson; 147 pounds erwels Harry Lewis and Kyle puted, Bil Papke and a I pounds, light heavyweight pounds, heavy-eight, Jack Jobn Lewis as a factor in the weltery Ketchol light heavyweight ct |DUG ON SPIKES Everyone in baseball is talking and wierd are of th players out of the hospital. E yn back seat now that the mec |New York ts only a week distant (By Untied Pree) ] DALLAS, Tex. Deo. %—Rarney/ But for good horse sense, one D. BE. Dugdale 8008 to the top. |the class 1 a Texas norther on terday, and dr “The way to stop spike id Dug, “tg | to jrunners the paths, and keep the basemen where they belong an Rens racer tor rd-brenking 50 miles, He « aataied* Sounds reasonable im 47:18, lowering wrid’s record of 48:50 1-6, Jack Jobnacn of five ye wo. If at Freano, Cal, in 1904. On he lower (t will be because Jeffries | Harney went onte the track lok-| HERE AND THERE Hamilton Fish, captain of Harvard's great football machine dep ing the season just closed, is not one of those superciiions 2°") the intercollegiate game who can no good in Soccer, club's wreatitns 1 not tt on ft ahagern af 9. Sporting declare that will be ba ers, and before mplons at the new “) Sporting eub Py ® own take thing the all » to tt ab ite snd a winner there jnn’t ke better that “to the but any brace Johnny Coulon; 14g tM 26 byes ¥ teh une pe tn puted, Mike cs; a n Ketchel ally vacant; oth possibty we sie segs ed Gardner equal d ting the Can't Arouse Suspicion. If the et ent a division of would sunpleton even the moat ration! would dare suggest | fight is not on th In the firet 4 not ente fon to | ‘aput up the umatances were Aroune a t-fight bu« that the July dea et J fet anti-splke ven the football have ting of the big league magnates ; mald ) sure token, Jack the tile, would ting off tris right hand ing down No matter fights + ' Jack Johnson he won f cut of lay BUGENE, Ore, Dec. 9.—Coach | ested tn the timber business near Robert W. Forbes, the great Yale/ here and coaching did not entail any end, has practically decided that/great sacrifice of business. He will business interests calling him away | probably be located out of the state from Eugene wil! prevent his coach- | hereafter, and gave that as his rea tng the Oregon football squad in/son for declining to sign & contract 1820. | with ‘the athletic counell for next Bn age hs Forbes has been tnter- | season, HAYES IS AFTER MARATHON MARK (By U y Dec. Johnne nee think than vocidents,” fa ree ov ered the distance his own w how much some of hie been champlon. not the JACK GLEASON AND TEX RICKARD. The heat gambler won ont, Is the opinion among Seattle sporting men since Tex Rickord and Jack Gleason outbid the field for jhe chance to stage the Johneon-Jeftries battle. ! That it is a gamble, the offer of $101,000 and pleture profits, every promoter affirms, and such daring sp Keddie Graney and Jim Coffroth declare the nerve of the who put up $20,000 for Gans and Nelson and then took them to { field to battle, wax too much for them. Rickard simply outgumed bunch and won hands down. : se 2-2 per cant of Bie the from United Presa. Jeffort to establish Johneon r SAN FRANCISCO, 9.—To | said Hayes to Pi ter Tim Me Walter Christie, the University of | Grath. “and if I succeed I don’t want California coach, has been assigned |a dispute as to the distance to arise. the task of laying out the track at/I will have plenty of time in which the Ocean Shore grounds, where the }to train and that Marathon race is to be run a week/can cut St. ¥ m Sunday afternoon. Christie,| Hayes is training at the Park Sta ia an expert in thie line, has)dium and Jimmy Fitegerald, the been chosen because Johnny Hayes | diminutive Canadian, le burning up insisted that the race be over the | the park roads Con jolly tt do. Marathon distance of 26 miles, | Ing light work but will get down to yards. “lam going to make an! the hard grigdde aqday or two. le beyond all question the better | ing Ike amposite of Dr. Cook reap the big money. The fight m ture and rooa\® | out for Soccer practice last week and is sure to make the up $160, om, and | ance. & new record,” ; ft and Santa Claus yesterday. The 1 from the pletures that th ather was so cold that he had to fighters and their managers wi the hin fa in soft t while necessary for photogr keep from freexing to death. | . } phere, in nar xile, emus. | Weather and track conditions con. | Plays left fallback. | Janneon leaning | *idered, It wax a wonderful perform. | On the crimson team this year are E. Mbo and K. sal Chinese students, and Masuda, who hails from the land P| 1 know the ranagement in| | ‘This trio of Orientals is said to be exceptionally fast and, figuring upon tripling this sum in| BASKETBALL TONIGHT. | they are sure of places on the Harvard varsity, katy J the Jeffries fight 2 a CHOISE Y BY G. R. PULFORD. it's over there,” the New York man will say means a sister state, Just across the tube or ferry, among the tugs so noisy "ry newele kriows, that Hoboken is in Choisey ° ° The basketball teams of the Unt Ketchel says he will agree to fight Papke Pictures the Bi . ( Waab " 4 This ts the tter| tory ac re ——_ = i. | pounds ringside and will allow the middleweight of Tex Rickard and Jack Gleason he ¢ result, But Sam Langford, who has laid claim t unded best to Johnson and Jet Prrdp eo Fate ctgeoap ag shiva sg-vingt re ready to.defend it at 158 pounds ringside, the American Malt, --1 SOc’ ths $501,000, but the | je and gold five neither Ketchel nor Papke. Under these efremmetances it fs )-4% Tule.66 3-3 pee cn The teams are evenly matched | bellewe that a Papke-Ketchel mill at 165 pounds will t and a good match is expected. Bas-| middleweight championship bout | ketball is on probation at Washing- | ° Oo Mg ae ts are pulling It is said that a prominent breeder in seein ew ance | ty offered $200,000 for the great English DANCE AT DREAMLAND. Mr. Pairie, declined “the. proposition already won $178,642 tn stakes and his Gwner = ee an ae es the greatest amount of mohey ever rned by the famous Isingiass. reason why the a them | mt wilt | Jeftrien ere re third, all parties inter- profit equally that Jack Weich third man to the ring. I say this n good authority, not suapicton | Wet lone given satiafiction in the Hoboken Oh. And “over there” take th And find, as way tainine a coted } : ‘That's where they opened all those bide when chased out of New oO = ye BO a We thought at firat they'd have to go across the seas to Cork Hut no, instead of traveling to Omaha They put Hoboken on the “DAILY LESSON BILLIARDS, or Boise oe and added fame to Chotsey: This evening the student assocta- tion of the University of Washing- ton will banquet the champton foot- ball team at an elaborate spread which will be laid at the Wasbing- ton Annex at § o'clock. Mayor Mil- ler, Postmaster Russell, the football coaches, a number of alumnl prom- inent in Washington athletics, and the sporting writers of the local pa- pers are among those invited Graduate Manager »Zednick has made a wonderful financial success of student athletics this year. It is largely duc to his efforts that Wash- ington is not up against the money question that handicaps many other instiutions. Next year’s foothall captain wit | berelected at tonight's banquet Fak \ iy’ have been mentioned f EPLEESSEN EDEN ETE NY : FOOTBALL BARRED IN GOTHAM SCHOOLS. Sg United Press.) EW YORK, Dec. 9.—-There no more football In the ® public schools of Greater New ork after January 10 next his was the ruling of the & board of education at last ® Right's meeting. % | The appalling Wet of the &Zame's dead and injured forced he school board to take action ainst the game. In all prob- lity, Association foothall wil! %& be substituted for the now de- ® fynct intercollegiate brand ® SJames E. Sullivan, president yeeine A. A. U., was the only * ber of the board to defend % the present football Kn SHORT SPORT Tin Hurst, according to all cou: wilt be leaghe umptres President Powers denounces falsehood the story printed York paper that “he had signed | per promising to retire from presidency of the astern league it year.” as a rn na Betcher George Gibson has signed anew two-year contract with Pitts g at a figure named by Pres D ytuss, which was eminently » iactory to the big catcher MALLEABLE Ri NGES every in; @ splendid stove URK cont | World's Tour by Grim | the honor. SESS SESE Eee ee ee | DRAW AND FOLLOW SHOTS. Diagram 1~-Cue ball % below, ob- Ject ball 15-16 left; stroke medium, | - caroming on ball 2. Ball 1 will gather on ball 2. A wrist stroke, An easy, direct draw. Diagram 2—Cue ball % below, ob. ject ball % right; stroke medtun carom on ball 2, gathering ball | in corner with 2. An easy quarter spread draw Diagram 3—Cue ball % below, ob ject ball 15-16 left; stroke ordinary effecting carom on ball 2 draw stroke. Diagram 4-—-Cue ball % above, 1 | left, object ball % right; stroke m: dium. Ball 1 retu from jeushion and gathers with ball Follow gathering stroke. Diagram 6—Cue |left, object ball % right; stroke or | dinary; carom on ball 2, ball 1 gath jering with 2 in corner. A follow | punted driving ball around table. LOCK... eyes, of course. Yet many people strive to save the price of a pair of glasses | at the risk of their eyesight.- It’s | poor policy. Our guaranteed glasses | complete, $2.50 up. Myers Optical | Co. second floor, 1414 Second av. Qyer Raven Drug Btore. Wireless Long MONEY Could not buy Contest open to al! student wire. lems operators The odfving the highest mer ark and @@veloping the greatest profic a6 4 wireless operator ded $100 IN GOLD, FREE TRIP AROT student it jency will be MEDAL ND THR 1, 1909, operator of the International Institute of Wire less Telegraphy, Inc., will be given & merit mark, semi-tmonthly, for ptoflolency in work, Morit wlone will be awarded, re | | ba dent and individual nts. work ia what The contest is or » all st | wireless operators the coume on or | 1930. | The tour will begin June 1, 1910, | and extend over a period of eight |months. Salary will be paid the student wireless operator while on the world’s tour and will be the In-| ternational Inetitute’s representa- tive to all nations | “1, 1. of W. 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