The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1909, Page 2

THE STAR—SATURDAY DECEMBER 25, 1909 “$T. YWES WILL HAVE TO STEP THE 15 MILES IN 1:24 OR BETTER TO BEAT ME TOMORROW. ST. YVE'S:NEXT JUMP WILL BE TO AUSTRALIA wr bust in the match race which run over the 16mile route Sunday afternoon Tke elgh@ap track at park has been carefully measured and there's a good chance of a noise like a world’s record after it's all over but the shouting Marsh says St. Yves will have to better than 1:24 to beat him men | and, judging by the way the Welsh ot runner has been working lately this is more than a boast That's the very I never felt better in said Marsh this afternoon a little weight, which I him is to be Flying Frenchman Wants to Take Johnny Marsh's Nannie for a Long Sea Voyage—Both Men Fit. D als the army of track St. Yves Join fighters, that planning Australia in 1910. latest from the front The fleet litte Frenchman came - to America via England and Scot and am ready to re he land, and after literally running my life, Although I don't across two continents, he wants to scord, I'm really the make & good job of his grand tour at 16 mites, for I and return to that Paris via the re i Antipodes. was the cham But ther ment Yves beats me he for St. Yves fly | wi holder, but I'm not named Marsh. St. Yves want getting in Sun sail away with a clean slate, his defeat at the hands, or, more correctly, the legs of cuts so deeply that he wants to bes will wrestlors do and the invasion life T have ‘s a fly In the oln @ lar and lively te aten and | day's race The men will run Peary-Cook weather breezes. rain or shine, tropical rabs,” ue answer. | | | | } | | | | BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE AND HE WON'T TAKE MY GOAT TO AUSTRALIA’ —JOHNNY MARSH Merry Christmas (Oh, look whe om at us from t P. Baxter is modes the part of hero with an upper h male muskrat in the brute; he tortured by the Indians for vicious might He's too modest. important the use? the really BY PORTUS BAXTER th the exciting incident vartegated h commendable shaded by k from throwing the mont in my venth ant With held lime ba Hight Jor incidents lreer until the fography to ¥ wr. ‘This ne al f the nothing of from publi > way whrinks courag who I na rk t typew rf My contempot Hughes ckiens in bis the point of runt feud belt with his lif a ce hanged der entitling him Jothes, Much things are exciting orting litte tend to pro right pers off wrong in a handicap I tet out kept the family busy six months they ail in the undertaker ‘ jously #witched the SCHOOL FIVES ARE TALK WE'LL GET THIS WINTER Weis ian ofane a piace HARD AT WORK \tress of the facuity which had to Basketball All the Go pases special «islation in order to These Days and Many the to an Pt and ® 1 got it was the af beginn from For ye me lyears I he ry at were & when I 4 and took career 4 in permit me to dabble in firearms when I was not pinying baseball, I lthought | was doing my people a favor by going to school and worked |harder to keep from study than any ther the job. Every time fir “eun at the surrounding eptrens threw a 1 wonder his head off th but was 1 dropped root of & Did you ever hear two b Their chatter ix as intelligt ling fiends discussing “Inst as Choctaw, Here's a xumpl night ‘Going up against new wood In fierce. It n after hole and the majority were railroads. In the second frame Mudy drew Hig Dick and Jack followed with double nuckle, Walter hits ‘em Brooklyn, leaves the 6-9 Lulu and plays the lead in the Cherry Pickers. Chartle cracks them in the pocket for a cinch strike, but leaves Biamarck up and poodies going after ( The Limit three times in two games, and the Ladyfinger four times, the Bat * W @ chestnut.” fen 10 # tions was hole 1 a rifle Jchucks the good up her hands if that boy shot time.” 1 survived. jmy fault day wan ur while | 108 was Big Dick the 4-6 uninitiated. bie peanuck a the the it Limit Lu the tw 7-10 pin " One ative the tree have described it | H. | | | | 1 It's Portus Baxter, * page today, and who and he has refrained from describing some of the real thr contribute the gonial game which allowing @ home run when the ball sporting editor the fourth he PORTUS BAXTER. story He might have told of his desperate hand + lonely houseboat on Lake Washington, when 18 bic the ball umpired on the Alask was impaled rus and couldn't be pulled off by the Eskimo who played center ice field; he might ha But he tells us what brought him to Seattle, incident to everyone in our town who loves sport.) or | mlightewt later I only, « head 1 ¢ an unde fro "i but that cheek warmed suddenly other 1 wan degree enly realized luck alarm annihilation | Fight With Euclid, try ly a exetting oon not w be at 4 to extract something out of it of the p mont difficult things r Somehow in t A work hat it was) promerved he ny aginable is to demonstrate a self ev ident fac bo. vk climax 4 th fondly The man who wrote and * went from came blackboard with imagin monstration tened to my ¢ marked t I did bs tte: i was The ree, I to not me 1 he an t ar sat he nd if original profemsor and sadly re wy Edited by LAURENCE REDINGTON MOST EXCITING INCIDENT ~ IN MY LIFE OF SPORT, of of the the Intelligencer, st Exciting” illers in whieh he hand fight 9% failed ty *. when he k of @ tame pws © the bing and I other, In 414 not attle but ¢ uitivating the Tom thie country that later th in Ha told ae ‘y Jail that every) long who stood ip é before he opened the Jali 2 n “fake revolver" ntry with oo «box of tea re Like at clutehed my against the where my gho steel rods did not eral days 1 y from him, but mind” muffieteat, te was stil on the outelds wan in the cage. tm that aw the demon in ‘ast. He did not at me with & gloating With Desperado I managed to | get through with mya may return what ts laughed, released his hold toarked: “I Gid not want t you. I was just trying you out you had nerve” Candidly, Tom,” 1 replied, 4 jy ig bens at @ respectful df If 1 ever get out of 4 meet, don't arrala a - he ‘ his: way, . I spare with pine Cherry Picking,” to Pocket” im the space the 10 pin. “Ladyfing w ‘One Dog.” to hortzontal two-pin «pit kiyn” to 8-9. pine aplite in a might «1 t or an was not where he was Sheppich and NOTHING CAN SUPPLANT SPW HE version of Joe Tinker of the Cubs on the templated atte to abolish the present spikes. worn by the diamond tollers, is a vay le of the thoughts of most of the playpen: this subject E Joe mys the mouwent they do away with spikes, base running, which is such am 2 feature of baseball, will become @ Jost art It is absolutely necessary, in onder fore to become proficient on the path, that he be to get away with a flying start. Am man, whe can time the pitcher te such that he can get this start, is a muck to catch than a fleeter base runner breaks from the bag until it is too late: ce Me Here is @ place where the spike is necessary, and without it mighty few a be pilfered. In fact, the only thing againt: spike im that it is Hable to injure an opposing player, whee that gots in the way of the sliding base runner Most infielders, to prevent getting hurt in this manner, last few #easons worn a@ protector of some strong mal ¢ extra thickness of felt, on their legs, between the knes aml This does away with much of the danger of getting part of the leg, but does not prevent the player from from the ankle down. 2-5 pins The Bismarck” te Poodle,” other. Ratirond l@un down on take off There wae my | authority between the 1 | the 6-17-10 or Tim the gutter as 4-4 or 8-10 oO wet bead pin on far wide. spare an explosion and nov Promising Players Are on the Floor. r | De tT ITO TTR tte) SRST E EERE ESSEC EERE REESE RRR RRR Re eee Hole” Baby * ATHLETE TRAINS ON * CHOCOLATE AND TRIPE. (Special to The Star.) FLOBERT, Okla. Dec, 26. Ole Jorgesen, a Swede, and a barber by trade, has set Central Oklahoma ringing with bie name, by hie remarkable per formance in the Pride County Athietic championship meeting here yesterday. Jorgesen brated his initial appear- on @n athletic field by winning the all-round cham plonship, and taking first piace in no leas than nine events, in which some of the sturdiest athletes of the midd weet wore pitted against him. He won the century sprint in 9 and 4-5, and immediately stepped into the field and hurled the 16-pound shot 48 feet 4 Inches. lose to the world’s record What marks Jorgesen’s per- formance as remarkable ts that he is @ puny, stunted young man, weighing only 103 in b running togs, and standing 6 feet 2 inches. He clatras that hin success in athletics is en- tirely due to his remarkable system of traintog, his diet for two months prior to the meet- ing consisting of only chocolate and tripe Before wan hardly hone @ razor A friend strengthening Basketball is now under way at the Broadway bigh school, but requ- will not Mdays, The committee appointed by McKay of the Athletic has arranged matters through the }achool board #o that the Broadway team will have the upper floor in the Hyatt-Powells building on the wrner of Broadway and Pine ste }to practice, beginning the first of the year. Regular practice will not |begin until after the holidays Coach Lewis wijl have more than 40 candidates out for basketball hon lors and the competition for the five TOM LYNCH gular places will be very keen, the first picture pub-| there is lots of first-class basketball ttle of Thos, Lynch, | material at the Broadway school “4 president of the | Humes of Pullman prep achool In a basketball shark, being at nake baskets from all parts of the floor, and in addition he i# very fast on hin feet sare OR | ¥ Max Jane’ HAR piciar RANC and a in “1 Mme ATT o1s— IPHE nic eral | @0 AD WOLGAST is going to get a crack at the Battler. This an. S nouncement, which came over the wires yesterday, was greeted with loud cheers by the long distance fight fans in all parts of the country, but I wonder if there were any signa of nicing when Freddy Welch heard the news. Poor Freddie. Tantalus looked like a cop with a jfat beat compared to the litBe Englishman, and as to Sisyphus, bis job of | rolling bis rock up bili was a pipe compared to Welsh’s continual struggle to boost the Battler through the ropes with him The details of the Nelson-Wolgast match are lacking to date, but the story bears the stamp of truth, and there is every reason to believe that | the clever lightweights will really mix some time in February or March | next. If they do get together it will be a battle royal from gong to gong, jand Nelson will find himself up against a harder opponent than he has tackled since the day Joe GapsMopped the ttle at Goldfield The previous meeting betwen Bat and Ad must be thrown out of the dope, for Nelson ix not, and agver was, a 10round fighter, and there are ral men in the lightweight division who vould get a decision on pointa over the short route, Nelson depends on his “abysmal brute” tactics to corral the long end of the purses, and leaves the fine points of the game yet an- | the other fellow. If the journey is long enough he usually comes out | expects | 08 top But Wolgast as a fighter is cut out on the same lines, except that 4 he is cleverer than the Dane, and when the pair meet it will be a rough ing match from the start | In his fight with Lew Powell in San Francisco a fow weeks ago, Wol-|% gast showed a lot of clans and convinced the skeptical critics that he ix | the man to give Nelson a run for the money. The proposed scrap is to|# go 45 rounds, which suits both the fighters, and the public as well In the meantime Freddie Welab can hover in the offing, shooting in a| challenge now and then just to keep his hand in, and if he is on the job he should have no difficulty in landing a match with the winner. Then, if he gets away with the international affair, ho will be a real world’s chainp with no cloud on the title, and incidentally a chance to grab all kinds of coln “on top of de atage.” POOR ST. IVES. Charley Schye, who is training St. Yves for his race against Marsh tomorrow, is a regular bean pole, and the Flying Frenchman, aa we all| know, {n't much bigger than a minute. They are the original long and short of it, and the contrast {# startling when the pair parade the boule vards together The other day I saw the great little runner walking down Third av enue with his Schye, and incidentally overheard a bit of misplaced sym | pathy handed out by « Kindly old lady who passed the two, and sto, to size up the combination, Schye was striding along, covering six feet at a Jump, was pattering along at a dog trot to keep level with him. The kindly old lady peered at them through ber specs, and then turning to a friend, | said: “I think it's @ shame for that big man to walk #o fast. The little one doesn't look very strong and he's #0 tired he can hardly keep up Isn't that a hot one to hand out to a world’s champ, who can go the full Marathon distance without turning a hair? Can you beat it? THAT DEAR PORTLAND. The base ball situation at present is one of the nicest little Chinese puzzles that ever drove a man behind the high stone w that's topped with broken bottles, and Worcester, Mass., hasn't any monopoly on the up-in-the-alr business. Portland, as usual, is at the bottom of the trouble. her National leag The photograph was }peciaily for The Star Lynch waa sprung upon |nates by John T without made just after the mag Brush and elected 4 dissenting v« It in al splendid ikeness of the man who on- Host of Players. Some of the local basketball stars [who will turn out are ‘rawford Warren, who played two years on | the & A.C. funior team under the tutelage of Tom MacDonald; Grover Burke, captain-elect of next year’s football team, and his brother T! both of whom played the game under Tom MacDonald at the # A. C. Graham Rock. the star forward on th Chancellor Athletic club team Friedman, MeDerrmot, Seymour, Jud Graham, all puptis of Tom MacDun ald, and a host of others too numer ous to mention Manager Burke nounced his sche ut |to have it aimost compl school starts after the has received Tacor Lincoin, Qu y, erett, Bel Hingham and Ellénsburg high schools asking and he will have a g004 sch the team this year, | espe ake A suggestion that might tend to lessen the injuries ened Wf] spiking is that the length of the cleats, as worn now, be ut Goal Uttle and the end of the spikes dulled a trifle New baseball shoes have an abnormally long spike, the shoes are worn a while the spike wears correspondingly, Nine times out of ten when a player is injured by spikes when the adversary is wearing these long cleats. Outflelden erally the ones who wear thelr shoes with jong spikes need them to get a good footing In the long grass of the outer It's going to be a mighty tough proposition for the ou means whereby the players are going to b6 to wear something that will give them this secure footing, 80 much needed, and at same time eliminate the danger of MAKE FOOTBALL| "2 .Wts Hanes TEAM 8 MEN . “eon 1 to on I started thin dtet atrong enough sald Jorge: told me how tripe was, and I read In a newspaper how a re« iment of French soldiers had marched three days on nothing but sticks of chocolate. I ought 1 would try the combl- nation, and you see how well it has worked, After a week of the diet I felt like a new man, and in a month I was able to do the heaviest kind of work with out tir Citizens ning to raise has not whe: H se wore will be called off that he wants to |take no chances of Ad getting in jured in any way. The Vernon jarena, which is controlled by Tom | McCarey, will be the acene of the fistic attraction. cording to the | announcement made today | | Jones expressed bounded con | fidence in the prowess of Wol | saat, asserting that Neison will play the rele of “Napoleon at Waterloo’ {when the Demon and the Dane January 7, the reason a man's | here ary $300 | for ff Flobert are plan money by public subscription to send the Okla- homa marvel to the Olympic games of 1912 KEESEREEEEEAE EE EEE EEE EERE REESE EEE EEE EERE EEE ERE RR RRR Ree rrr... ee ee NOISE LIKE A FIGHT “GOMES FHOM BALLARD mi : er It seema to be gradually dawning nm even the stanchest admirers of football that t nly hope there ts jto prevent the game from being | placed under the ban in all sections jof the country ia to make such rad- }ical changes in the rules that little |of the present system of play will The first of the champtonship »kers of the Ballard Athletic club | Seman will be held January 12 in Sypher's| Inasmuch as the hail, Batlard jthe game and are Although ft future realize its jetaiied program, Manager Fitager- | hope that ac valuable ald is ¢ in that Roy Brown and | will be made to the Wiffenbach will up in the 185] ‘The againat the sport ts voxing class Fogarty, the face | gro There ts no doubt artist, will your for a stunt, aslthat seve state legislatures will | will Charley Peterson, the man with | pass laws prohibiting the playing of the that scored a knockout /the present game, and it d at the last ar or A match will | therefore be wise for the rules com- probably arrang mittee to hurry its meeting and take P ades Johnny A. A. ( immediate action to eliminate from | ble sl and there's no | ets0n. of enwood th | that ts now objection- | FTOY telling where anid trouble will end, or what clubs will be in the pennant | (M8, Was scheduled for aoe» cores eaeunee Forks have patent th Seattle whe e eason rolls round seems t Fy yaad a a0 roger The suge teams be /and rest. Steels are Ab I y. wh ay, isn't anything new for | pepper werson showed at Bal- | With the ps Of fullback and {| well-iined jeatheretts Cal, to the understanding between Dugdale and the California magnates, |lard the other night when he treed lty and style consl ai “tat upg ead ? " 4 guards, may impress many as being one Se ee relative to a Northwestern league club in Portland, and if his objections | the whole Ballard aggregation and sch, te 1, and yet it will r as be On ‘Carving are » to stick, ¢ may be looking for a sixth club soon had them out on @ llinb he ought to | Guire Jjuat h changes to bring ot useful and Credie’s crowd doesn't seem particularly make a & showing J about ttion stball which Goodell carvers tion, now that they have got all sorts of concessions from the Coasters | There will five boxing events | wil) make it an unobjectionable Sate ends Dee by using the Northwestern as a buffer, and while Portland ts nighly ‘eave hese tani nid ee 1° Goodell white hat dosirable im this league tt tx not absolutely essential, and may be dropped German sliver ferrueg: and Henrt | gy say, what a drink.” men who know | I said interested In tts langer, there is suggestions rules committee, | is too early to give a mix res \“ but undesirables HOORAY! HOORAY! i-=!%s%" e *| But the base ball take on proportions whieh In a hy A [Shs sugresyias cose mmediately. You never heard of a Wapaper man who forgot he had a | uty to perform, or who tral the cold enough to fi ae a Boston de | butant did yout | Well? That's th cause It’s the Real Truly | BY TIP WRIGHT. Under a photograph of Horace Fogel, the new head of the Phiadel- phia Nationa! league team, I read | fg a metropolitan Sunday paper the following lines “Horace Fogel, former newspaper- ranks of magnates through the gtace of Chas, Murphy, owner of the Cubs” Do you get that elevated? Let's see, it was President Roowe- velt who said: “There is no higher, no more hon- orable calling than that of the men | connected with an upright, fearless in which a man can render greater | service to his fellow countrymen.” | And Horace Fogel has been ele- | vated to his present position, Oh, | ah | First time I ever heard a base | ball owner referred to as “elevated.” I don’t think even the most egotis- tteal caterer to the public fancy re- ence in the moral uplift. A better pen picture would be one depicting the “get the money kid Of course I may be off my bang entirely in my idea, but I'd rather be sitting in front of a little old typewriter, telling the truth and striving for clean sport, even if there is not $20,000 or $49.900 a year lows like Murphy and Brush is expected to lead the old league Base ball magnates as a class are|out of the tangle of bickering and all right. They are generally good | place the organization upon a fellows in the commonly accepted | higher plane than it ever achieved, | definition of the phrase. Of course|even under the leadership of th here and there you will find a few' lamented Harry Puiliam. (By United Press.) Never Order Water. Taylor, president of the American | water, while John I. took something league Boston Baseball club, was)a little more bracing. The magnate | feeling good recently. He felt £°/ was jost in thought. With the sud fine that he told Secretary Hugh | denness of a popgun that goos off | McBreen that he would tack $500/ while it's proud possessor is still | onto his salary. examining it on Christmas morning Later they were lined up in the | he swung on McBreen and sald Waldorf bar and Taylor decided | “Hughie, if wild take that $500 was no kind of a raise for | 4.0)! 1 ney Prtwad * said so. He added that $200 more | Ot should be tacked on, and all hands sek te ae yp goo J J ps “yg gene ; | And MeBreen drank four fingers in the morning McBreen and] , And McBreen dran ; Nickerson, & serlbe from Boston | 804 That dvisk maar a “+ way, hunted up Taylor, who had |fhaner, That 4 je ies the Just seen his father off on the 10) 4h)" . ry in base o'clock train for Boston. They to- |” RSD NEES . lor was still feeling good. and Me- | Breen greeted him with: “John, do ie you know what you did last night? | | clash i. ery ee Ara Mh | The fight articles were prepared “You boosted my salary $800 per and forwarded to Chicago today for! ear last night.’ vDId 1? Well the articles, Nelson is to get $10, goes, Let's have 000, win, lose or draw, and a sid bet of $5,000 Is to be put up. Jones | has already posted $1,000 ad a for vd felt, should Wolgast carry live Sinesiiisitea the agreement which was | last night over the wires LOS ANGELES, Tom. Jones, manager for Ad Wol gast, said this afternoon that the | Nelson-Wolgast fight probably will SHORT § RI be pulled off February 22. He! stated that he would not allow his “fighting demon” to meet the Bat Obirnelt * # | tler sooner, as he realized that the eat ambition is to » Does This Get Space? Well, 1 I Rather Guess Yes, Be-| man, who hax been elevated to the and truthful newspaper; no calling | gards himself as much of an influ- velvet in the job, than herd with fel- NEW YORK. Dec. 25. John 1 McBreen and Nickerson orde: & man of McBreen's ability, and he | Or til mise your cated him at the Betmont bar. Tay brute catiing rea wv wallop woul jell Company. carvers nade of the & steel. Back and tempered to sage and long Berviee H be Kelly the R selects bunch the misun as last aculty has or effective ball ruk f th ba adoy hanges in contest is to be Ad’s biggest fight,| the fo and he wants him to train at least ore squaring off for | cer 45round go with the Durable | delphla Dane of the Jones further declared that Wol-| /etding teams « Gast's fight with George Memale,| phe trip may be which is scheduled to take place | leading ( will of the at the mi made anadian soc visit Phila r cities th tear and many United St m M Ir league und pla clth interested in the situa wr k and game (CLEAN SPORT OR | NONE teams during the boys have been training hard there Christmas holidays from the circuit at any time. Carving Set x4 hould be considerable excitement when the pair off 1 Caryn alate, Set « men Sullivan-Corbett Fight, 17 Years Ago, Aroused Interest; John L. Had Special, Confidence and Rude Awakening tight ‘ nt us pdown battle + . ont hoarding champions ere flat about the fight, me boy ar ths he greeted a neway nan I puree 10 rounds and I 5,000 and Jquiek. T have « are trient and 1 ar blade, a f ag , handle r nicke: lism and sport y iblic will not stand ¢ ball, nor will it su 8 o 6 r branch of sport nt end ‘) slicer, san Nek handle ar an ferrule first, | ¢ yr ent the} The beat ir t him | shown by. th the Jin the Jeffri picture end of Jentirely too pre tlatlons The |have been jthat the fighter agreed to| hippodrome their contest for rounds, so as to give the plotures @ chance to be of some value, and naturally the fmpression has been created that the entire affair is a frame-up. The und out n wh f br in twenty wagered tim: n rbett wa ffriew and Jack | 5 be © Ay nohing tremenc tos t and t 1 in the i had lif nko, hour, for the mr rules five ig hand Nokel oap ot we natural Upp ie tener bolstet he | in the , ; fi rumors | naserted | attitude of the Johnson mat the contest ninent the een Jim 4 ° Johnson, but | the interest ive | battle at New Orleans, Sept |in the Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight Carson City, March 17, 1898; in the |Corbett-Jeffries bout at Coney #| Island, May 11, 190%, and in the Fitz Johnson battle at Philadelphia, July eee ie ieee ee 2 f erank Mur iT * t nus * For the convenience ofethe *& fellows who want to know, The & Star has published a sporting * manual that is right up to date ® and absolutely correct. % This book will be sold Mr 10 & cents at The Star office, or it *! * will be mailed to any address * * on reosipt of 12 cents in amps. * * eR TOT ICT KK Tt t Ot ke teh tek hero The trains fromm wh Franctod and nitiegy (int Now he 8 Clove y let may wind to win, betting tw he Hivan had begun hi land Naa in September, 1 generally regarded a % triumphal te 8 whirlwind | , 8 He wa + i . invinetble. In} Qr ur of the United Corbett: had tice os, 17, 1907 a as Joe Choynsk! and Jake Kilrain, | Sullivan's favor and had fought a great 61-round| John 1.6 own draw with Poter Jackson Fighting onthustasts could see no. 7, 1898; this stake fight wae aald to Marquis of governed = th ince gloves we Ko up hore at ih wa five betting Tamged to $100 tol $60 in betwee alt is | Qu batt) liven $20,000 nsbury or + end | at man silver miter blade Met ac nr 6539 long GARE fan! .Feurkeish #0 ta * * * for + my to them. The oute of the ing history, The champion of champions began to give way after the twelfth round, and was put the $1, with There entered again, On Aug boxed three roun: Sharkey at New Ye no decision. ring but 1896, he from was pectal made up dining cat in command. trad from fight ts fight night Mam Sul mee New York was ers and a men were Of all the big battles within the | memory of the fight fans of today, :