The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1909, Page 2

T TAR’S SPORT PAGE EDITED BY LAURENCE REDINGTOW, so eeeranmrteene © ee eee en ane en me ema JOHNSON HAS THE FLOOR TODAY§ “MY HARDEST AND BEST FIGHT CHAMPION ST. YHES WANTS TO FIGHT "Are" 70 Sat WAS WITH BIG HANK GRIFFEN” fees « aiaav Jack Johnson. Fellow Can ‘Come Back’ After Five Years of In-| FIGHT SAYS : ft TUESDAY, DECEMBE THE BY JACK JOHNSON, tht nt war abl avold — 7 i World. | bothered me so much in the frat Among Pew Holders. | omens One of the hardest battles and St aacohemet’ nie th | My Onitea fought against Hank Grif * | avearee aa , f NEW YORK, Dec, 21.—"Can J 1 ein at the dats idee, We w he de | ’ Promoter . | 1 I f H ton T ft " d olaton going Among the battles | have on my today {r Grit had an aw ard punch record ie one with Jack Jeffries, r Crt, N, J. Meth b t get what | wah s inohesa in height a that t brother of the men | am now signed ; cil. te ‘ nest black hired. he had the | reach of nan to fight. | beat Jack Jeffries just ‘ ; ie. sinith,* le in the boxing gar If wer’ the same as | intend to. beat Jim is larg nd ear * 0 ek coming fighting today he would outrea Jeffries when we meet. t f r 1 * is my honest beliet L { same Griffen fought Jim ‘ tt Tex Rickard declared ; Yetfries 17 ronuds of hard milling | " witiveness, the 2 and afterward Jeffries acknowledged As tthnraynn~ te ured I Timbr tarted went, that day that if it had mot been for Billy Gal ntl m huge bia gor © metropolis will be lagher, Griffen might have been | j me into the ring $ A lewd wet th $ . hailed as the winner. : | { Gath, a bregeine t , Bae - prod, f sf Griffen had ar ward punct un do, 7 fio a frawn fro} . and one that carried pler t @ for @ chant ‘ lation to Salt ? y pusck a | Hardest and Bost En With desperation in thetr 4 wate me simply baal oop = ee | Tomor The Star will publish eg Mac 4 we 4 on thie p the sedond story by grag nen. is only James J. Jeffries, in which he tells Kole t of his fight with that piece of raw K ETC tH EL STARTS Jays from Chicago, 17 it Pe feo nt of Frank Caria hide, Tom Sharkey. Jeffries ex Butte, 24 hours fro ravel | Bake 1. Thin fight, Itke” the | plains how he was forced to wage a cities and about 30 beget mala ME = a" hard battle. that |one-handed battle against the sat ON ENTENDED —rrecoics, Som ast mia 1 thel went 20 r and 1 was declar champion and v he outgeneraled ma oan a cone Seattle, ’ he winn | Sharkey, a > ‘TOUR 1 vn whee ae etaali ot © ring when the big 12 RRR Re! (bat ts @ matter | am not g * *) Y THE RINGGIDER. t I ara not a “Short Pass” G ' son on 3| = sa ort Pass ame IS | * vce mave_ 535000 on #| BAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 21 il * FOOTBALL THIS YEAR crane tecig sa ty sect tor * . ancisco he won the Best for Basketball [i oe G6 oom. ve t eaters: & 21.—Yale’s footall receipts foot & the middleweight champion b @ up nearly $40,000, w <-#! left thie morning for and Ray HAT style to use ® penses at $45,000. For Har- * | Mich. to spend a month with W ry of a team, and ' ® vard game Yale's shar a folks at after which he t tyles have ®t » *) tart on , coptem, wile ted € as critios. * Pre th Princeton teh @/ aroun he a fependent on one style bre & Vale got $33,106 1 the Brown & bap Eg ‘ is, of course, can only oe. net ¥ $6 * | ptchel uid handicap any tea Bide. nrg ther x the two month Fe etee ete so far {Sout when you learn each * 4 ro iy ext earth orgy ein searty every | Tomine Sens fo rer’ mpped See C Cece cee Cee eee «¢ his fight mpertor to an ; ; cy and “head work ha | his activities have bee nee that all other styles fade . " ps rretey mparison, and this style | Short pass do not ee Bn jsort that have done him. no the basis of man's ition when a rosin ge A | jand his friends have convinced hi ork,” only to be broken into | “OO S eck waltarenity. tan that a sea voyage © regular at rare intervals w @ long. fa " ways in If you es habits are what he needs most t him ont of the h or tong “lob” throw pan may n two points quick! > an uNcove standing FOREIGNERS e 16 wainuten, pity: 15 talevate | tehel says the only Bure es a ‘ ee a eee oe Tough sledding for | i | try he will visit on the / Rely on the short pass, and use piace, It in better to do Terrible. Turks 4 | Se aay Bag nog Be Bg . wi a h for the exceptions > use up time tn ge s your wind ns Pw . | What do you know alifuG@this i* t a ros jets ras . ntal teak + OO hab ah peed of your team sede Abana pe fm The little fellow on Ahg@right is Honrl St. Yves, the champion Marathon runner who has made | probable that he will give Lond tetas if Sat) Gatning Wo thie—when you » t have held that a] eu telted Mtaten te eal boxing & regular part of hi@ training for his match race with John D. Marwh next Sunday, and who | and Paris the overlook, particularly you are going to receive a pass you ac play two 20 eon of their wurplus washers, |likes the biff-bang game #o well that he ta talking of going in it for at Paris gatetion of which appes want someone picked out to pasa the halves play fast and number of tt atlers wh Charley Zig. Schye, the old-time scrapper and trainer, who ts at ball to bef: 1 recel y perament. If he should go to Pa The Puteam 4 this fall and winter | fetio the picture. Schyegbandied Tommy Ryan for some of his later fights, and knows the ring 1 fellow In picture or i Yy tne eure ty | Landers, Frany > oantineasttate be false al an game backwards. He says (Rat the Flying Frenchman is a wonder for a green hand and that he’s a | thould fast Jou the food # » laste bende of ert anh joffer him a match, and as Harry | little over 26 per JEFF URGED TO HI I oe a gate Carn St. Yvon doos a M nm in the squared circle, but be does all his running after the other | Lewts Willie Lewis and Bill Puke | ale onde Christa "¢ mt the other atde of | feito on to make 0 4 will take balf a dozen punches for a chance tore | Will be in the French capital this |9460 Mo, 064 Putnam stag JOHNSON IN HOTEL thelr way ba aK to the other side of parent pecombad make R@ed with the glover, and w ake half a dozen pun ra chane j winter, they will not have to na German sil ferrule, ver Me in far for a suitable opponent , Sew Spanish: blade Oe ee need pe gy a | When Ketchel reaches Australia ’ cA « s © = . sis ' $4.00 No. C14, same [hunt oe Awerian 9 TRISH SOD |Y.M.C. A. WRESTLERS | sity of Pennsytvania, are aiso mem-|he will be given the opportunity of |“ Pfqath aileet weet. an A story come of New York | was trying to get a second fight with | hot stand for every eapite the | Ni rT bere of the squad. ‘The entries are fighting Hil) Lang, Bill Squires and | 43.56 No. 618 Patna to the effect that a Gotham sporting | Jeffries | famed statement of P. T. Barnum | WILL MEET TONIGHT eo totiows: ““t0s-pound “class, D.|Bob Fitzsimmons, and in the event|* German aliver . Our old friend Tad, the cartoontat, | FOR SOX.) Tr 1¥. M. GC. A. will hold tte O'Brien, W. F 115-pound |that he gets over these th man urged Jeftries to wallop Jobn~ | i,‘having a little tun with Jettries |Log Angeles-Frisco mi | hur- | wrestling tournament of the | clase, H. Merick, F gon on the jaw while they were In | because of the big ow's verbal ox } | Pa ditioning St. Yves, is the other | #trongly a man of K j the promoters th = plated lane, H. Don- | dies, he will be given a match with, ae Carring Bet a5 . sili season in the gymnasium tonight. | aldeon, captain pound class, D.| ‘Tommy Burns $2.00 No. the Hotel Albany signing the pre- | plosion following the charge that an Flight Means $10,000 ta. | Instructor Brickson haa & squad of | Hawley. f. Jones, 8. Thurston, B, | -om , | <0. Vminary articles. The names of sey-| VCO cut of the $101,000 purse was a | Charley Comiskey has commit: 139 mon i have their tryout Granger, J. Rhodes; 136-pound rRor, RAMENS NEw | ; 6 ,. | Dene arranged at that secret moet lntoned an agent to to County | for the first team. Among the squad | clase, H. Barnum, A. Hartwich, T. rTMO! PUN esas ses eeeay Sea} mon who hed a hand iu the Mo-ling. Ta A | Cavan, Ireland, and send over'e ship | le little Harvey Donaldson, who holde| Margaret. N. Langes, D. Bollman, dance tn 2) $2.00 No. 200, same: Coy-Corbett fake are mentioned into lick a be | ncaa jthe featherweight champtons c. ylor; 145-pound class, 1. instruc. | $1.59 No. 208 PK connection with the affair. Accord-| who do not p sronaut who auc |!0ad Of real Irish sod for hie new | the featherweight, che | ee mA ton, we to | Parkiah ‘acta ine to t story Jeff was besought | say. He could dirtgit balloon [bail field at Wentwor av. and Northwest. He has b. < Funke . lana, Le | @e every @ay and - et .. ow to knock Johnson down while several | three or four ex-champion Angeles to San | etth at Eile, J Anderson. T o hours 10 « , | $1.00 No, 2506 Troughhouse artists finished the job | runners—but It 1 take him a aviation week| Thia sod fa from 12 to 18 inches! und | Brown, 1 8. Brackett; | m. mnbly classes | ing Set -, 08 in artistic style, the negro in that |long time to attend to all who have announcement |thick and makes & eptendid surface | y orthwent, | heavy weight Yeager, M A Lo ne | oa minated from the situa- | criticized him for that secret sesxion. viation executive |for baseball, football or cricket Grown, who . helés sa. | Hardy. ie yo sed Sag me ain 17 | jew York sporting man | Jeffries also seems to have forgotten | Comittee onaful Cight from | Heide |pound champto > of the Univer- | Decker i Free trial Arcade Halt Spinning. who is said to have tried to get | that the articles forbid his tng in|} ity to Man Dies amdia 1 nese Ad ees eens Large te ., Pe we : Jeffries into this r mw once engaged ublic befor he meets Jot mn. That prize $6,000 to the succomsty fa dirtgiby in-w rough a 4 tumble mixup with clause will be pulled on him ons when the latter sporting writer he frowns at bY OVEFY | Sperator Bob Fitzsim 2 | Demarest and Cline 1, 2 and 3. THE FOOTBALL YEAR ir). snpion sai | Store Open Every Evening Till Christ Rocker | A very pleas | ing style and strongly con | structed, heavy | unders tock, shaped saddle seat, solid oak finished gold en or early English; regu lar price $5.50. |& Spectal $2.95 to regain « Suit Cases and Sy » Fitzgerald, chaperoned by the genial A » taking things easy in San Fran | J otimen HAYES and Jim spare moments defying the rest of the casions he has booted the pigskin Timothy Clarence MecGrat cisco and putting in thei full 18 yards. Against Princeton | World to race them for any distance from a good catch-a-car sprint to Goy's punts were more effective than |the full Marathon. Hayes has at last won a race, and he is all puffed Without a doubt the greatest feat | in football for the past season was the long run made by Sprackling Brown's quarterback, who picked the batl on Brown's 5-yard line and ran the remaining of the field scoring a touchdown Sprackling ploughed through the whole team of Car the feat can only another “Paladino” stunt. Made of hard. wood finished golden; plain neat style, with five tapered spindles = in back, shaped aaddle seat, back posts fas tened to seat by heavy T J bolts; regular | Coy, of Yale, has done the best) punting of the footvall season. Be- | side placing and Uming his pun effectively, be has driven out a fow good long ones. On several oc Here’s a most +} all of Yale's line rushing. At Cam. |UP over the performance, judging from the stuff he is working into patna ae (aad ated Bride tase | bridge he punted less, but kicked a| the Frisco papers. iesirable Christ boot couple of field goals. } A most laughable misunderstanding has come up over the Marathon f nese for bd |run in San Francisco 10 days ago that wax won by Hayes in hollow|, MAS present for FUnningham, champion goal kicker | fashion in the remarkable time of 2:26:543-5. After the time was of last year, was the only toe artist | hung up, Trainer Christie of the University of California, who had DEE We lenanet actve betes te engaged at great publicity to lay out the track at the Ocean posts waa from the 36-yard hore grounds, gave it as his opinion t the course was at le This is hardly to be compared to the | Mile short of the full 26 miles and yards. Can you long sbots of John De Witt and the | Some expert, that Walter Christie. Hayes, who had just been pinning exports of a years ago. a few more medals on his manly bosom, blew up when he heard that “ co i gbehy var hoon {istead of breaking the world’s record he had participated in a hippo- || $2.00 Suit $l 50 je forward pass has never been | drome. Hi mped and he raved, end he is still saying that the course . Pe tatore Caley he. crtorkcinty ne | must have been all right. The whole thing has stirred up a blg rumpus Casesat.... the play, but the participants in the and incidentally has laid the foundation for another show at an early $3. 00 Suit game can only look on the forward |@ate. As one of the San Francisco papers puts It, “McGrath ts muc h) S 1 2 25 pase as a delusion. Seldom has it| grieved by the misunderstanding 'l Cases at .. -_~ Proven of advanta . the accidents are **‘Him’’ at a very substantial sav- i) _ —] = 3 ~e p ‘y ing: Combination Book Caseand Desk A neat, attractive Just seven odd numbers to be closed pattern, built on | owt. They will make ¥ ery handsome straight mission | and useful Christmas presents lines, full box | $19.75 solid oak finished gold seat construction, | en $13.25 shaped saddle | $44.25 solid oak finished weath seat, all oak fin eished golden; regular price 50 Sp $2.25 50 Arm Chair to match...84.50 Rocker Made of oak fin ished golden or early BEnglish; a plain neat design, $20.50 | box construction, solid oak finished gold | full spring seat 14.50 | upholstered in Id- | good tmitation . ‘ $15.50 | leather; regular 50 solid oak finished gold- | price $12.00. Spe $21.00 | ofai 7.00 solid oak finished gold 0! $6.75 $18.00 Cellarettes Underpriced for Christmas while most of | As a matter of fact, Johnny t couldn't run the full distance in} laid to it 12 2:26 or anything like it without the assistance of Stovaine. Johnny is a 00 Sui A : |good plugger when he takes the trouble to train, but he hasnt the |f #400 Suit $3 00 Pho Bored eT ee '* 4 | burst of speed that makes St. Yves the marvel of the age. If Hayes || Cases at .. . changed back to their proper condi. |T¥9* Dorando in San Francisco the Italian should win as he pleases if tions, the forward pass should only | the race goes on its merits. |} 35.00 Suit $3 75 be discussed as a relic of the late ooo e football season |“LITTLE PETE” AND ROSCOE |] Cases at... + Wey | | . 1 ae Aig one et geen A “Little Pote” and Roscoe Taylor are both working hard for their|{ $6.00 Suit 4 50 : ° aint ra fight on New Year night, and at thistime {t's hard to hazard a guess at ie ° season. Against Lehigh university, Ases al he passed to Irinshler for 50 yards. the winner. Both have budding reputations at stake, and it's certain | ‘ There has beon some great tack-| that both will fight for all that's in them, for a defeat means to either i Jing in the big ga a big setback the championship ladder that t have started @®| $8.00 Suit 6 00 the wondertul ¥ ed. | climb if Cases at . . . in this ‘oscoe Taylor oungate 1 ene conceded th he circled the Harvard deten K Taylor is a youngster, and it ts generally conceded that & spectacular f ; Tibew Pretherinahan, Harvard, | he Will give McVeigh a tougher fight than did Loule Long. Taylor is $10.00 Suit nearly on Harvard's goal ine for «| #0 aesressive scrapper who will probably carry the fight to his man lone of 18 yards. ae the first gong and who ia effective at long range. In his firs, || Cases at... . ssional appearance MeVelgh proved clever in blocking and cover ‘ Jack O'Brien and Al Kaufman will up against Long’s effective infighting, and his work next week | $12.00 Suit $9 00 have out be re « tonal A, ¢ w ive @ 0d line on is chances ure « One MeVe Of Philadelphia in a few weers ill g a good lin nt h es of future greatn MeVeigh and Cases at... | Taylor are both hard working, clean little fighters, and both have a host 50 «solid oak = finished 50 solid early Bnglish oak. $14.50 $22.50 Cellarette ke picture, in golden oak elal ase . soe $17.50 Cellarette for $25.00 Cellarette for $27.50 Hlarette for .,. arette for . Cellarotte for Cellarette for . he Oriental Pool | ae '] $15.00 Suit The Oriental, foot Rooms) » a1. ARD’S PROJECT |] Cases at $UL,25 of well wisher 26—80lo Tables—-28 ‘ Bar, resianrant, clear stand and The Ballard Athletic club ts planning something rather ambitious seven chair barbe~ shop. Largest |!" the fight line next month. Mgr.Fitzgerald announces a tourna place of the kind in the world. $19| ™ent open to all amateurs in the Northwest, in at least four classes, to} cash given away daily, 1413-16-17) be run off In a series of five smokers, the first of these being carded for Third ay., between Pike and Union, | January 15, The Ballard club hopesto obtain the ganction of the a re ————=~ |, N. A. U, for a championship meeting, but in any event an effort will be made to get representative boxers from all the Seattle clubs and | | | | | For * te , ere Oa ans herp age Par ig ees |} 615-619 First Ave. Ji] tHe'Hoosier SPECIAL KITCH. ne entries in each class are to be drawn by the Bagnell-Wild| EN CABI 1d make e Xmas, C focie ME Th ssetens ood it will take good many three-round bouts to woed out PAPI NE woud ak 0h soe On the Square Christmas present for your wife; it will save her many weary hours’ Opposite Totem Pole work in the kitchen, Cash price— $35.00 a box of pam CAQCO/ALS || the dead material Sa | Fitzgerald's scheme is @ goodone and deserves to meet with suc She'll like them. ||/cess. If the various athletic clubs will pull together instead of con. is s| ducting @ guerilla warfare the game is due for a big boom, SECOND AND UNION hone or C. O.