The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1909, Page 2

THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1909 “SHARKEY THE TOUGHEST NUT THAT | EVER HAD TO CRACK” Jas. J. Jeffries. BY JAMES J. JEFFRIES. JAMES J. JEFFRIES Who Retired Undefeated Champion head of the World. LD PGraT ff &¢ Sharkey doing t bi hand b' getting t ¥oted a gre body “7 ared my were rfully fast | nishment Sh thed of att agalr . Tomorrow The Star will publish | large meas- on thie page the second story by Jack Johnaon, in whieh the champion explains that his battle with Tommy | Burns was as soft # wanadown, | and still, from his viewpoint, was the most important in his career in| the ring. | RACING GETS | A KNOCKOUT| (By United Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 The constitutionality of the Walker Otis antigambling law was upheld in the superior court today, when Judge Frank Dunne overruled the demurrer interposed by Charles Schwarts, charged with gambling in which Schwarta’s at had attacked the law on th inds that it was not constitutional. hwarts placed a bet with John Liebold at Recreation baseball park UST what is the matter with football, the game that has so grown fm tmportance during the last decade that {t can now divide honor With baseball as a national sport? That is the question the a who have revised and modified the playing rules year after year wil De called on to answer in a few weeks, and on efsion hangs fall, wagering that the San the fate of the game in v yas parts of the ed ates. Francisco team would not score a There are thousands of enthusiasts throughout the country who | tally In a certain inning } scoff at proposed reforms and who contend that an ignorant and mis-| The same points brought out by | faformed pubdlic is trying to force a “molly-coddie” nto the |the Schwartz case are involved In is and colleges. For the most part this cry of “t } enough | anothe » the California! ” comes from coaches, trainers and players who: elihood or | # ourt, in which several | jose athletic reputations depend entirely on football. These men/ Well known race track men are/ and boys are too intolerent or too incompetent, as the case may be. charged with betting at the Emery-| ¢ old tricks and learn new ones, and are too sbort-sighted to see | Ville track t football as it is played today ts doomed, and that ial hogeesionding tales place’ the nooner will the game come into|KETCH AND JACK own again FOR STABLE MATES. } The real big men of the game, men like Walter Camp, Yost, Stagg | Stanle thetr iast game © wel @86 a dozen others who have followed the growth of ball year by year, are agreed that radical reforms ar and We gone on record to that effect, but when [t comes to weeding out | ar the evil points of the present system of play and offering substitutions | w they find themselves up a very tall tree and much hampeted by public | th sentiment. -This being the case, it looks »~ though the reform talk might | Gras simmer down into a few minor alterations and changes i that the 1910 playing rules would come out of the’ scrim differing only slightly from those of jhe season just closed. © 0 0 HYSTERIA AMERICANA The trouble with football is that the whole country over all matters connected with the game. The “a fn their denunciations, and hysterical lists of the led almost beyond belief. are thrust before the ge 1 public. On other hand, the “pre are just as hysterical in their champlonsh : an the sport and make themselves and their cause ridiculous by trying | 5 ne t at gloss over the real tragedies of the gridiron and by their Intolerar of any suggestions for the making of a cleaner and a better game. More than half the men who sneer at the mere mention of rugby or soccer, pave never seen a game of the former and probably are familiar with Only the back lot variety of ¢ tter. Forty-seven thousand hysterical men and women, we are informed by the eastern papers, fought for the 19,000 tickets allotted to Harvard the last Harvard-Yale game at Cambridge, paying as high as $90 & pair for seats. The whole hue and cry and hysteria over football bears out the contention of certr/n eminent ethnologists that as a na Wwe are becoming more in uable and emotional than the French Let both sides of the footbal! controversy cool off a bit and we arrive at the desired results wijhout a civil war. 00 0 MR. KETCHEL TRAVELS Stanley Ketche! has caught tr American pugilists, has hied to the 1 speak more accurateiy, is on his way, for he Francisco only two days ago. Ketchel says he'll look in for a chat with King Alfonso but that he intends to give the rest of Europe the go-by and keep the straight and narrow path for the antipodes, where he has a chance to meet the Freckled One, and Bill Lang, with the possibility of a crack St Tommy Burns if he makes good This sounds like straight talk, but with a lot of real money in sight and his old running mate, Billy Papke, imploring for another match, it geems hardly likely that Ketch will give the go-by American eolony (pugilistic, not diplomatic) of the French tal Friends of Ketch say that the combination of hi at by Johnson and the death of his friend and manager, Willus Britt, preyed on his wind and started him on a round of high living that makes a complete change and a long sea voyage highly desirable if he to keep Out of the discard. Backing ‘Up Plays Important Part of Outfielder’s Labor BY ADDIE JOSS. feature of an outfielder’s duties in the playing of his position that is alw i by his manager overlook a chance to | The importance of this it is how many manages to reach another simply because there hai How many times during a 0 a drive two outfi e of ball eonsary »ancem ight cham train that 4 4 bearing him to Jack very aKe K appointed Geo * manager, to act tn a similar capacity for him Boxing, Hithes, times strange bedf has been after since Wil did im the « some lows ts hysterical » hysterical 4 wounde who had so recently given bis a lot of other r si big salt, or, to Cadillac Table This handy” little made of solid oak, finished golden or early English, also in imitation mahogany; it is just the thing for students’ use or for small lbraries regular price $13.50. for tomorrow 5 Desk Ta ia expect Specia ressed upon hin rigid hould never evident when ypposing play base nearer the plate on the job shown imes xo between the try for the g for the fence, s¢ the pill in case { mere fact that on th y not only has whom goes a position tc other tured y 6 feet long of them is going te yut at the » time gives the other man a lot more confidence in his effort the catch If he knew that it uy 7 ball if it got by, it naturally would cause him to play ife instead of possibly taking adiving chance. 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It looked ae though “Del » going to easily ke the play but just as the ball reached him it took an unexpected bad bound and Jim never even #0 wm § put his hands on it | Cobb, whose duty # to back up the play, thinking that “Del” | would make the play ood in bis position until he saw the ball get by apd then gave chase | y the time “Ty” reached the pill Abstein was well on his way | toward second and when Cobb booted the ball a little, the Pirate first saeker kept right on for third, which he eastly reached. MUSIC CABINET—Designed as pictured, made of solid oak tn the golden finish or {n {mitation . d have been s ‘ab aetna M , on || Mahogany; would make a splen- First base would have been as far as Absteln could bite gone on|} tia uty viet: regular price the bit bad the great outfielder been backing up the play properly. | a While it made no difference in the ultimate result, ono never can te ui} $10.60, Special »,..++++. 66,75 | what might bhaye happened. 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Dec, 22 “Beggar Sam” Langford can't fight in Memphia, according 6 the wdict of the mayor of the city, Thel color line has bi drawn here, insofar as the pitting of negroes | againat white men is concer Officials of the Phoenix club an nounced today that they would try to secure colored fighters to meet Langford In the place of the white men, against whom he waa to ap. pear. Who the dusky fighters will! be is causing much speculation, for there fs not a black man within miles of Memphis whom the fans{ believe could Inst two rounds with Langtord HEYDLER TO BE | | LYNCH’S ADVISER} (Ry United Pree) NEW YORK, Dec. 22—As évi dence that the election of Thomas Lynch to the presidency of the jonal league has put an end to the hreat “i dissention in the ranks { the organization, New York fang olay potntir the new pres ident’s assertion John Heyd jer will be my ch adviser ANOTHER HYLAND.- THOMPSON FIGHT ve.) i FRANK KLAUS (Ry United Pree) BOSTON (By Cetied Pree) KANSAS CITY, Mo. 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