The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1909, Page 2

a aa a el eal Written By Experts NELSON-WELSH the big Callforntan’s jehances in hiv coming tight with After Two Years of Side-|Jonnon. The tact that most every . one predicts that Jeff will have the stepping, the Battler Ace) enc or iis tite when he meets the viored champio! nd that to win cepts Challenge of Eng-| ji) jave'to be in the best pont. 2. 2 . . ble condith has had the effect of lish Lightweight—Fight | ying iuany ving follower, penal mistic regarding Jeffs chi in London for $20,000. aguinst the negro. ‘But the CHICAGO, Dec. 14—Rattling Nelson, champion lightweight of tb@ world, has signed to fight Fred @ie Welsh, the British champion, ing to a statement made teday by John Robinson, the Durable Dane's new manager. The ht will take place in London be tWeen February 12 and 35, and will be for 20 rounds. The boys agree favoring men EEE TS PLANS Matt Fogarty, the clever 14 pound amateur sctapper, is one of yet hon « i weigh 133 ringside, whichis easy |*8® AMT attractions of the pa ard both. Nelson has been guaran-| Amateur Athletic club, Fowarty teed 7 lmay not be the best boxer Fitzgerald $20,000, win, lowe or draw. /ias but it is universally conceded The fight will be pulled off under | th he can make more fac while in the auspices of “Boxing,” a Londoe | action than any two other men in magazine devoted to the Queens /the club. Aside from his talent tn bury sport, and Eugene Corri will | this direction, he t# developing Into be the referee. & fairly clever performer, and i» al- Welsh, who recently won the| ways out to win. He will box Berry British title by decisively defeating | Wednesday evening. |at the Ballard Athletic ciub amoker. Johany Summers in 20 rounds, has|*" Wit) bouts on the card. and Deen clamoring for a fight with | 41 of them between mon who have - — as a =— la world of self confidence, | the ly before he sa rom New | sr to for his home, aftér a long ser. | rea the con- ‘of victories on this side, Welsh | testants are members of the club, the title holder and of.| there ts sufficient rivairy on tap to | preclude any fear of stalling tacticn. oe Mw a age bene bet. All the buya will be out to cOp the Immediately after ctory OVET | ciher fellow if possible, and as the Summers, Welsh renewed his chal-| other fellow is just about as good, sane, but cng Sen oat on | there wili be fur and feathers in the plea that he extensive and | air fmcrative theatrical engagements,| Seven of the cleven events will be with gloves, and the main event of the evening. ax well as of the boxing — YALE BELIEVES T acts had expired he might give bim a match. RYAN AS TRAINER (By United Pree.) Yale authorities have some views MEMPHIS, Teno, Dee 14—Tom-|on the moderation of football, and my Ryan, former middleweight | advance the thought that the open chashpion, will take an active and|@ame should be encouraged. AD { part in conditioning Jef-|editortal in the Yale Dally News for his fight with Johnson, ac- | sizes up the situation in this way to advices recetved by «| “If the open game ix less danger- promoter from Ryan himaelf.| ous, and at the same time more says that he will confer with | interesting from the spectators’ he big fellow some time thir week,| point of view, then this atyle of and that they will probably arrive | Play, wants to be encouraged at @ satisfactory agreement “The most promising way to ac- ‘es assistance would be of |complish this ts by putting lene Great benefit to Jeff. Tommy festtiction on the forward pass, tgught the former champion his ¢ither as regards the action erqueh, and generality polished « player making the pass, or the gov- the rough edges of his fighting tac- | ¢TAment of those postitons permit- tics for some time before Jeff left| ted to receive the pand; the reduc- the ring. |tion of the penalty for failure of ~ ~ | the offensive to intercept the bail Rumor has it that President Co- | properly. miskey and Catcher Billy Sullivan | eee are on the outs and that Billy may| “Other means wher have a new berth next season. ‘play may be encourag the are open the Gleason and Rickard seem very anxious to secure the services of Eddie Graney as referee of the big fight, and there is a lot of going the rounds as the result. The tip is out that “Tuxedo ” has a big pull with a certain supervisor of the city and county in Francisco who at one time was a fighter and who is under tions to the chubby promoter. This would,.of course, account anxiety of Rickard, Gleason & Co. to pull Graney Into the 4 mixup by hook or by crook. jraney is an odd character of the world of sport and the Eastern gave bim a lot of space at the time of the bid-opening bee as once @ scrapper himself, having “bested” Australian Billy ¥ years ago, and having a decision over Austin Gibbons at 128 He also claims the distinction of having been the first ma the gloves on with Fitz when the speckled one first came to mantry. With the possible exception of Charley White, Graney has more fights than any of them. ey believes the old-time fighters had it on the present-day rs by a full Marathon. He backs thts assertion up with what like a good reason, namely: that in the old days there were development centers. Fighters were springing up in all parts country when the game was in good repute in this country, but here is very little reai milling outside of California, and it is hard mers 10 get @ chance or to see first-raters in action. ooo F WANTS ROUGHING ff has announced that Jim Corbett, Kid McCoy and Jack (Twin) an will be his sparring partners when he goes into actual train- r his fight with Jack Johnson, and it must be admitted that the low has picked out three clever exponents of the boxing game dition him for the fight of his life. But has he chosen wisely ting together a staff of clever men instead of a few fighters of | yugh-and-tumble variety? cussion ff doesn’t need cleverness nearly as much as he needs « nce if he expects to put away the Big Smoke That's a question that seems to be open i and To hook up with tappers as Corbett and Sullivan might put some ginger into the| exbollermaker but it would be more to the point If he secured sparring partners who would belt him all over the ring and ¢ jen him up. er couple of heavy hitters like Fitzsimmons and Sharke do,More for Jeff in a fortnight than the dancing masters of (1 o do for bim in three months. ooo HERE AND THER Barney Dreyfuss has Powell of the club this “I pay my men good salaries for playing baseball in the and J will not have them taking chances for injury for life in a rough and tumble game like basketball,” Dreyfuss Ia quoted as saying In the good old days we used to think basketball a finc high, school girls and Y. M. ©. A. juniors, but “never no more I's ® disgrace, along with football, fighting and diablo i 000 An English court of appeals has ruled that professional football irs are “working men, according to the strict tiiglaw, and that when injured in a game the club employing them ts ital for damages. * What a snap it come through with a little tapMeplete the college treauuric cole soon enough then yome nerally would raised an awful howl Pirates was dickering to sell his winter because Pitcher Bill services to a basketball summer, game for nohow would be for the rah-rah boys if our joker for own jurists of that kind and allow them a while, Football reform wold Cre & No one can aceuse the big six-day grind of being dull this year One spectator shot and one dead from heart disease on the first day the performers skimmed (he Madison Square saucer, is going some. 000 St. Yves was at the ringside in mae to the big ovation he received, the modest little nehman & neat speech of thank Some roughneck tn the gallery started bim about bis English, but was promptly hissed down. He it to have been tossed through the ropes 48 @ sacrifice to the le Lee Croft. Tacoma Friday night, and, in res ; ° BALLARD December 15, | RULES SHOULD FORCE OPEN PLAY of the! interpretation of | who are supposed to have good judament on matters of this kind have reasons for not eaying all they think about the outeome of the fight for publication, Their private opin fons differ greatly from what they say for the public ear, and the rea son for thie is that they do not care to affect the betting odde. If it were posttively known that Jeffries will enter the rin in the condition he has displayed tn all his other flights, he would quoted de of 1 to 6. By assuming her conservative attitude, Jef- admirers are able to get as money these days, CLUB SMOKER Jetunts, will be the go between Johnny Kelty and Gregerson at 146, | Both are fast men, and each haa o waneh that, if landed, will put the) fe rel on ite owner's head and for- it -me- no! nm the recipient's, #0 ginger up and light a fresh ogie whem these two climb through the ropes Among the other squared circle attractions wilt be: Granigan ve. Skinner at 154, Roy Brown va, Wit- fenbach at 135, Matt Fogarty va Berry at 140, Plerce vs. Hagen (brother of the fighting policeman (Ed Hagen) 185, Peterson vs, Frank | Brown, 120, Rothaus ve. Seanton, 116. | There will be four wrestling events, the one between Ray Me- Knight and Higgtnbottom (a broth- or of Clint Higginbottom, the Na- tonal league player), being the headliner, although any of the other 4 stop all conversation erved section. Bovingten and Magnerson at 140 ought to put up considerable excitement, aa will Johnson and Kiiduff. MeMilian and Andy Dow will wrestie « present plans materialize as even settee eeeeeeeeeee ee lengthening of the required 10 yards in three downs to 15 yards, or « rule preventing the tandem forma- tigna commonly employed tn straight line plunges. “AN agreement requiring the with. | drawal of « player who has suffered an Injury jock liable to produce weakness one of the best rules which could be adopted . 2 “But whatever te done by the In- tercoliegiate rules committee as re- | gards « revision of rules, the sum- ber of officials should be reduced rather than increased. “For at present the four officials seem to be treading on cach other's toes.” OREGON FOOTBALL MEN KNOCK RUGBY A special to the University of | Washington Daily from Eugene, Ore, says “The agitation in favor of rugby | a8 & substitute for the inter-colleg: | |iate game is meeting nothing but | the severest disapproval in univers | ity circles here. The students are strong in their condemnation of the action of the Whitman and the Ag- rieultural college faculties in sup porting the English game, and it ts evident that if the question was left to the undergraduates the| game of rugby never would be os | tablished in the Northwest “PIN” Hayward, Oregon's great ime is no rougher id the California authort tes have found this out during the aed few years. I know of several instances where men have been in the hospital for months from in-| juries received in the English game jat the Southern colleges, and yet no mention of it was made in the| papers, because these Institutions want to see the game established |throughout the country. That the| |rugby game in rougher {s acknowl, edged by even these people, but they are careful not to let the news papers print this fact.” NATIONAL Y. M. C. A. MEET NEXT JANUARY (By United Press) 1] York, Dec. 14.—A national track meet is scheduled | eek of January next the nt ever the organization, and It ts that + from all country will compete. expe parts of clubs: York Cardinals, that he is the that he won't let go /$1.25 Set of 6 Wallace Bros.’ 1900 Poppy Brand Silver-Plated Tea | Spoons, 75c notably covet Bre me man Pittsburg Konetchy nahan aye on his team | uties to look at star WwW. B. hing that will ple ladies better for ristmas tn Tea Spoons, The table nts have as much to do| success of the dinner an| the food These ane T prices are far blow | They | ward $1.25 Set oF Bros ‘oppy Brand spoons $1.00 sat mediur Magne Spoons 41,00 Bet of Cordova’ or Dattern, name 20 900 Bet of No, 410 Nickel Sliver Tea Spoons 10g. Set 1900 | The Silver Belmont of No. 90 | Tinned Spoons, Belmont pattern bo Magnetic Bilver Sheil Butter Knife Spinning 421249 Tea 1 and ae Jeff's Admirers Are Belittling | His Ability to Keep Odds Down and they do net want, to cut down the odds. e Of course, Jeffries’ may not be able to regain his old form, and it te because of. thts that those who intend to back him againat Johnson @re not at all anxious to explolt his proweas, for fous that they will long odds, Unless there great change in the sentiment, moat Hkely that Johnson will be quoted at 6 to 5 at the tngalde thosgh, tf Jeffries should create the imprenston between now and then lost none of his old cunning, there ja going to be a good price against Johnson. AREER * *® CAPTAIN JACK BEYMER OF TACOMA HIGH DEAD TACOMA, Deo, 14 Jack Reymer, the Tacoma high schoo! football player who cap tained this year's championship team, died yesterd. / afternoon Beymer had been ill for more than a month, blood poldon! and later typhold fever, wr ing hie heat But for his wonderful physique and perfect training hy wid never have made the fight he did. Reymer's parents do not at- tribute their son's death in any way to football, and do not be- eve that in leaving the hos- pital to witness the Thankagty- ing game between Lincotn and & Tacoma he suffered a rolapas, * SOSCCSA SESE EER EERE Ree sin iadin de tadindin dade inde tndeiaded| PELICANS POUNDED ‘The poor old Pelteans got another Jolt last night when the Hawk» took them down the line for three straight at the & A.C, alleys, Basei of the Hawks was high man, wigh,210, and high average with 174 ‘he sovres Peltcans— $ . 160 160 150-< « 16 748 13ip Bp tau 17% 146— Gor 186 150 460 219° -196— $21 ite ihe ~ bie 16a 16 474 te Perma’ heed Gardner ..., Hawks— Finley .. Wright . Basel Jobnaton MeGregor . 7 « ine + 6 . ae Piteher Raymond, Manager Metiraw done with him, hae McCloskey of the Milwaukee to make a deal with New York for him. President Hedges of the Browns says there te no truth in the report that he t* going to send Rube Waddeli to the minors. Men tthe Waddell are too scarce to be rum marily chased out of the leagad explains Mr Hedges. Tt ts belleved that Fred Merkie’a good batting this year will land him the regular firet base berth with the Giants next season. Christmas Special True Blue, U. S. Navy Standard, All Wool, Fast Color, $20.00 SERGE SUITS Choice of either the single or dou- ble breasted 615-619 First Ave, On the Square Opposite Totem Pole STAR—TUSSDAY,; DECEMBER 14, 1909 American League Head, in Signed Article for This Newspaper, Gives His Reasons for Threatening to Break Up Baseball Peace if New Yorker Suc- ceeds Heydler—Comiskey-Brush Trouble Re- called by Peppery President. | | eiarman _— That the ele league will moa tion of John M. Ward as president of the National a big baseball war ie the threat of Ran B. Johnson, American Big Ban, in the signed article which for T how far he will go in fighting 4 of the game. And tere, over bis own fen that if there's going arkable state © league moet slenature jto be a t | ment a Jing in * time York will do much to today pe affal New BY BAN JOHNSON President of the American League of B. Surprise is expressed at our attitude toward mission in case of the election of John M. Ward as a m that body, through his se! the National all Clubs. the national com mber of jon an head of league When men to other men as to declare unfit for office, explanation and evidence are in order, In this to stance: That of my announcing that [ will not serve on the com- mission, but, on the contrary, will do what | can to cause separation of the two major leagues if Ward in elected president of the Nation. al, | am prompted by motives necessary for the preservation of clean ball. No sport, not even baseball, would long survive prac tices not approved by the public Lovers of the game want hon- ent competition of the clubs, hon- orable dealings by their managers between themselves and with the general public, and the utmost good in every particular. Men who are tricksters wouldquickly kill interest In the game. A man may be judged by his acts. john M. Ward played a trick in the case of Player George Davis Which, in my opinion, affords good enough reason to believe that it Would be ruinous to baseball as a popular sport to intrust him with » high piace tn ite counctle. In the fall of 1901 President Comiskey ofthe White Sox signed Davis to play with his club Ward was Davis’ attorney, ang drew up the contract. It was a three-year ironclad agreement. In 1902, after Davis had played one season with the Chicago club, Warq and John T. Brush, the former again acting as lawyer for Davis, signed a contract, also ironclad, binding Davis to play for the Giants for two years, The contracts were such that Davis could collec: either of the two salaries by re- porting daily at the park of the club he preferred Davis did not play at all in 1993, but drew pay from the New York team. In 1904 he came back to the Chicago Americans, and that club had to settle with Brus, for his services. The National commission was formed in the fa); before that, and Davis was jawarded to the Wiite Sox. Regirdiess of the rd, it cost Comla- key $2,600 for litigation in New York to find a way out of the tangle Those two contracts made trouble enough to convince a lover of clean baseball that it would be unwise and unsafe to Intrust the fate of the game to the man who devised them That one deal of Ward's was enough for us. Business and sport are both conducted on confidence tp the bonesty and fairness of men |!f we doal with tricksters, it will take so much of our time to watch n't be cheated that we wil] not have time for anything else We can cite other deals of Ward's that show him to be an unworthy candidate. We don't want to disrupt baseball, but it is certain that we won't stand for Ward methods. We won't take the chance of incurring such methods by permit such motives then impute dictate to the jehall not eleet, j American league John T, Brush |magnate has roped in | date. | ational league but if Ward te elec will withdraw wants Murphy, and 1 don't believe the National jnot trying to “butt in,” we commission, That would be ruino |no one and injure all | be as to be ¢ the head of the Nationa Cc Chas. Webb Murphy, president of the Cubs, has been so i Ward elec ting him to. sit on the national commine We from te ganization knows our attitude, and re will stand It would be followed by & chaotic But the tnjury eat ag that which would res THE STAR’S PAGE & UP-TO-DATE SPORTS “WE CAN'T STAND FOR WARD'S METHODS,” SAYS BA | JOHNSON, fio ELECTION MEAN GREAT BASEBALL are not hat body whe it i os 41 nin eaton, veorting Brushy elect Ward, that, although dler's succemsan, ine way the New# } threat and bo 4 erybody CE chasing around trying to find a real candidate for president of National league that he is apt to meet himself coming back soon.—News Item. The Raven prescription service | DOWNING, HOPKINS 4 RYE means that the doctor's skill in pre-| | scribing ie most efficiently suppie-| BR | ‘ a Christmas Sale of China Closets mented by the druggist's skill in| Stocks, Grate a compounding. 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