The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1910, Page 2

JOHNSON LOOKS LIKE THE WINNER HOPE IS STRONGER THAN DOPE WITH THOSE. WHO FAVOR JEFFRIES’ CHANCES IN BIG FIGHT—BLACK MAN IS A GREAT FIGHTER. By Laurence Reddington. wagered on the res THE ETERNAL QUESTION. For it is a question aot only of the merits of the two men por even of a matter of racial leanings, but it ts a ubiar test of the ability of one o’ the greatest athletes who ever lived to come back to his ows again after a long period of retirement five years ago, I expect to see the black man retain the cham pionship. Of course, if Johnson gets pinched for speeding breaks his leg with a sledge while doing hard labor, and then or if 48 confined on a bread and water diet for three months, or if fhe sprains his ulna, or gets beaten up by thugs and robbed of his “golden smile,” or about nine hundred and steenty other things, why, then the prophcy is off. But at the present tir 10 to 7, with Jchnson on the long end, which seems to be like a tidy investment prevailing odds in Seattle, looks x IRISH NAME MAY LAND UMPS JOB If you dextre to shine In the ath- | stone, Kane and Mullen eats, ‘veld a sh name} American Association —- Owens, Lo gaenepsledeiemet. cae Aghmmadan Conahan, Sullivan and Mayes ia & most valuable asset | douthern League—-O'Brien, Moran & goodly portion of the Ame and Fitzaimmona league players are Irish, England League—Pat the eight managers are nc McLaughlin and & while ali the umpires, w ague—Kelly, Murray ception of Billy Evans, look ran, Murray and Cor as the most beautiful . world. Evans is Weish, hiv parents; Virginia League— Ma Pender having been born near Cardiff, and Stanton Wales York Mtate League—Ke While an Irish name is a great wack help in athleties in general, still in ach hirds of no branches of the sport are apir on $0 many Irishmen as among th ities r aia pires. If you have any d n Germ are this score, just wok over the r ‘ ant ‘tu - of the men who officiated in the spire in captivit ' different ieagnes last season name was Steinberg, and he was American League—Sherid regarded se easily the hest man in nolly, O'Laughiin, Ean rim, | the organiaation. His ‘ Pering, Hurst and Dineen goad. he 4 ad teats 8 fer ational League—O'Day, J ‘ler in . S | ER first time he ‘ Jack Jo fon was when the Big Smoke was a! Aus rubber in u Turkish bath in Butt @. J. G. says that Jack was a good jot ‘ rubber, at that, and tha ‘ 1 Ww ut en e an : « ittol when he rushed tt We haven't heard anything m Two parsons f ne from Kid Hi m at turning shothe to the ring. A Jetty i word, Kad Marin obligi Firet § ‘ F Pittsburg ' t Bob Fitz r amnita | Y : : that | ing rk fr again tt r «|e ‘ efgagement. We hu \ nougt 16 years ft ’ make ¢ eee ee ee tt t 4 * welg * BASEBALL PLAYERS MAY *& ® * STRIKE TO SEE FIGHT. & Land * ; tric A * 4 be * # th * * 4 » ‘ 4 * vd . x nd Jott * a? J yi hi * . trom * ‘ , 2 * * “ vd * from Die * ’ nd T eee. eee The day Johnson, the reformed ation the comfortabl tly bought f wit! that true ve of Amati t inb the i race ed his unt oh Bur n, after playir s ' from the white man the } weight world, That was a great t Johe year of his new hor ad rolled arou almost a i f its obse « Now th quest there be “pok chops” ar and whine of the grar t nt nsor n the da followi . thd Far t Ay 8 this one of the great questions the ay the w ing of losing of a pugilistic tit! an hardly be called a matter of national yortance, the ming battle has created such wide Spread interest that ordinary standards cannot be applied. Hun dreds of thousands in America, in Englahd, in Australia, in} Europe, in fact, in every civilized country of the globe, will} eagerly watch the bulletin boards news the of the great fight, and moneys aggregating a vast will be THE STAR—SATURDAY, ted By LAURE 1910 JANUARY 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR AND ALL THE REST OF THE BULL. THERE WILL BE 365 DAYS OF SPORT IN 1910 AND EVERY WEEKDAY YOU CAN READ SNAPPY SPORT NEWS AND LIVE COMMENT ON THIS PAGE nce RE DINGTON pan eons Se eo, WOKS LAE HOT There are so many curves and angles to the Jeffries-John gon question that a complicated problem in the second b of Euclid looks like the shurtest distance between two poir compared with it. The columns of “dope” that have alread been written and will be written hereafter concerning this par-| ticular fight, if pasted together in a solid rope of newspaper CHAMPION JACK JOHNSON AND HIS MOTHER notoricty, would probably extend fri here to Australia and] 0 to head % to” Sack su w h thot back again via Galveston, Tex H for on rat, at lowe yweig plou, fart aye It 1s too early in the game and too many unforeseen con Pag 8 bacon in pr ree Se Wes te ek ditions may arise before the fight. for anyone to venture far} Tt was the mother of J Gane neon owas im Galveston, Ter into the field of prophecy, and back up an.opinion with sound | She made this, line fam pan, when | not any Lao well off, Ap thee na feasons that will hold good with any surety on July 4 next.| terore the Goldfield fight to Bring dukes she ta now living tn mpiendar ut most of those who follow the mng ave already arrayes ROEne ERO pe Pe eo oi ape or Temaining da; But f th fh all i ge h lread {jt the bacon, J 4 wil apend tayn ¢ ’ | Jobfi hot only brought home the ease which her position as themselves in one camp or the other. }the touthe pohk pdt taal | masther hamplen eniitien bap ‘ ought a home for the ment and to JOHNSON THE BEST BET. | installed hie snd. het. And. you've gut to give tt to Judk _I hate the position of balancing the See 1) DI", ln ehh ianliaae spring at the last moment, and to ease my own mind, I am} “ sing to jump aver to the Johnson side right away WANTS TO KEEP BETTER BUY BOO>ZE elieving that Jack Johnson is a far cleverer and a far wy Cariiiien, ‘Whe te the belt gamer fighter than two-thirds of the fight fans realize, a _INFIELDS DIRY) wsiter of irtch ctortee ta bose tak, believing that Jim Jeffries can never be as good as he was ao WoW one eg Two Triahe going Shwn | Fred Clarke, manager of the Pt © re the street when one of them baw retes, intends into the base aan Bien bean “"" Clancy coming out of a hbrdv¥are | bail diamond protector business on & score larke “ak Ae manufactured one Would yea took @t Claaby?{ he for Pitteburg inet falt and hae rée- | entd eived orders from Cleveland and ‘Ch see him, whut uy it ther big league towne The pro There he go. apindin’ hi” mney tector ie & canvas covering that in for a brand new shovel, an’ OF§ bet expected to keep an infield dry dur- | he hoyn't a pint av whiskgrth] th ag a vain gorm her He w vew uys Minor May 4 Bat Nelson knocks out 1. 59%, $45,000. Ivick Highland President Morton 0. May » Dan arn brea ka ie, disappears world bh skip ar p record elder Jones demands | doing 49 t & inch nnage White Box June Sutton wine 183 The Eel paces mile on|batk line title f Jeo. Blomson 4. world’s record June §.--King James wina Brook Oncar rs yn handicap ale re June % Ketehell knocks out Jack ty ¥ 4 y Brien and June 12—John Flanagan bréake world’s record throwing 16-pound hammer 174 feet 10% Inches June 19. Monte Atte knock 4 Fraokte « nehip k Hyland knocks out " rhe et Has HW nitan be 1, | comes national woman tennia cha pion wooed 41-5.| ball park opened with rec Joo ¥ r creates new | ing crowd of 30 re. ’ 1 July Har at va n ) on in 1% 4 Tyly nell wing three inter ewiate events rughkeepate o ke rides| July 5.—Ketohe ta Pay notor ‘-6,| uly Meadowbrook pol rd bring home erican cup fror lle on England May Sutton def Ha Ketoh Jack | bk tenia champion, in allenge round J naon ‘ hto Ju 5 Martin Sheridan makes Jj | 7.8 Mil-around athlette ¥ « Marath lchampionship, breaking all records ‘ Ju I strang ord in 59:48 r oe J 1 Whit : " f Ju tpainted ‘by Ad Wolgant ‘ ' J 4 ¥ ard ¥ " John rt vm D faurice P | days bebind tin u Papk t na 1 J J : SCRAP IN TACOMA Kid Herman will make good hix| with Loule Long, and he has learned promine to re-enter the ring tonieht, a lot of things abour the game that but ther he two other fellows | will be of service to him tonight linaide the ropes to do the tebting Taylor has been training in Ta |The Kid will look wise and keep| coma, while Pete has put the fin |} Pete McVelwh and Roseoo Taylor ishing touches on condition and |from tearing each other to pl cleverness at the Seattle Athietic clincher lub. Both boys are in great shape. one grand Nice fight) Hilly Ch in and Frank Street though Taylor hae} in semi-windup look t as been Installed a 2 to t favort aw the feature event. Seattle his Tacoma admirers, this looks tke | tana who intend making the trip can | & false prt MeVolgh has come| get their ticketa at Joe Disard’s rapidly wince his geven-round draw | Hecond and Yealer HUGHEY JENNINGS HOPEFUL, BUT HE RAPS WOOD WHEN PREDICTING Hughey Jennings came strolling up Poacock alley in the Waldorf hotel in New York when the National league magnate wore In session upotatre A hundred hands were thrust out to him in welcome, and hundred es cave him a “Hello, Hughey,” greeting Not he Tigers In 1916," somebody sbouted Ye ng on wood,” re ked Jennings, as he bent over and boat his gnarled knuckles on the arm of a mahogany chair th od ih wight thongh, that Ty Cobb or Sam Crawford gets hurt r that George Mullin goes bad. What then? The fans hav n mea lot of credit for winning th nnant for Det throe re running, but what could I } without the help of the mou Why, even with u championship team at his command, a manager has to keep awake all the time. If Cobb or Crawford had been out of the game for a we a time last season, we would lort the pennant to the Athletios CUT DOWN SIZE OF THE PLATE AND HIT MORE {E=- -Pirate Fielder en That ‘ORIGIN OF THE | a Smaller Pan Would * Mean Great Swatting. } | } / w did the word ‘bunt’ get Into i men ec tite.e omebody anked Arthur jlarger ball, a larger nd shove It came fr the word ‘punt, jin a pi hitter whee the | sald the old-tinn ‘One pitoher’s turn to go to the piate, ia 4a¥ im Baston, back i ew o Sr aoe aie Carrol iaid ball down ont Tebean, of Ue t out. The official onpan Another « whieh pr ne = happens n yeuterday's power to reduce the ¢ the h In the eighth inning Carr iy hase punted the ball and actually beat plate, Ie advanced by Edw J. An-| it to firet, amid shrieks of mughter ferson, well-known Roch out 1 think 1 introduced the bunt tn leider, f Pirate. Ander-| the West. I made four te one gn won Raye in Detroit, all n the third base | ‘Cut down the aike of the home| line. Old Jim White was playing plate ead Tl hit 800 ne long as the! third, and ft waa funny to sea him ame laste Where the front try to pick up the bunts and get jthe home plate. ix 17 inches wide) them actos funny make i 10 or 13, Then the batter | could handle # har [will be able fo get an even break as any man im the with the pitcher, who now has « With a home base half ite pres trotting pacing jent sine a pitcher would neod per ner © season fect control te wet the ball over. All! The past season has been remark this. Wasines® of cutting across the able for the number of new marke inside and gutsi¢e would be a thing by colts, f-yeur-clde and 3-year of the paw ids, both in trotting and pacing. There wouldn't be ugh of the! 7 have been no marke t give the pltcher the ad- | t famous mile of Dan Patch of fooding on fow ones | tn at, hor trotting im 1:68% by my be hit into someone's! I jon, but the youngsters have | hands rtainly cut a wide swath In re- ‘Then, toa, the batter would have | ducting the figures on the record & hard job cutting such & plate and | books. There seome to be no limit wild paws up ail the balls which | to the record breaking performances, hus too after because he | for yoar after year the old marke | id they are going to curve just | giv ay tO new ones, and hor & bit over men are wondering where it will ¢ president N at Lexington. Polsoning suepected Aug. 1 ere Jeffries’) Oct. 16—Pittsbure wine world’s forfeit series Aug, 5.—Jeffri salle for Carls Oct 16 yhnson knocks bad . i Ketch Nadal hare at 2:10%,|, Oct 25—Bir Thos Lipton chat reoord enges for cup race 18:-—Bedgeweod and| Oct ’.Jettries and Johnéon Lady Maud ©. set world n pa ian to fight ing record at * Oot. 31.—Ale ar wins Vanderbilt Aug. 14—Raiph Rose pute 16> | race pound — lint for work's record N Packey MePartand pitehes no-hit-r v Got Rateevitoh, Aug. 11-—Napole H rg Belle di ‘a amamer of thn « Michigan beats Penn Aug. %.—Hamburg Uhlan in t taatos BC. Brown ele trotted in ® race, 2:0 A At and is wold for $60,000 Michigan Min A\e Sweep win Aug. $1.—Baron Aloy *.—~Yale beats Harva trotting derby, F 46.--Philadeiphia tear 1 pt. 4-—-Uhian beat Fogel Hello two American tennis players man Dee. 1-¥ pened for Jotfri He i y Jay trot ya ae mn fg Anders re y fighters: ' tern n golf champt D ' in Demarest wing Philadelphia-Detrott; D L—R nd Cla win whe 1 D Bat N ens to fight Hept Triple steal by Brook-| Freddie Welsh lyn Dec. 14.—Signa ing in Amert fn I Weater f aasocl " fing iation C.K. G, Billing Dec. 16.—N nd t " ha trotting gelding, | or adlock on presiden for $36,( I ' rbett returns Oct. 4—Henry Guig fr England ain Jeffries. rides 100 kilometers (41 n| Dee, 1%—Jobn Alth ke al ot, 5.—-California outlaw league! mile In peodway; 20 BASEBALL BUNT. ‘MR. BATTLING NELSON, AUTHOR ‘KEEP THE PLAYERS CLOSE, SAYS CAMP Veteran Football Autho, ity Hands Out a Bund of Suggestions for New Year's Present. | football ruien tay fanne ng parallel » pl ine of these fine the ball, thus ine ten’ yarde Taek efense also Heres ry latest ph nes ur Mr, Oncar Battling Nelson, lecturer| { it is des and author. Bat goes in for the| power of the | hiah brow almost exclo now, and ¢ t care to be n rough figh nn They say st f r 5 oe jheon ing his many batt j-yard line. Then make it 10 ke dings in four downs up to the \Sjmel nd tat will |tine, and then five yards inti the five-yard restrigtieg bid. the ard. pass cre r ' s t let any get the bail on ard pe | Basket ball will be wt in aer- | it Ht ia dente arther te: Al nest at the Broadway schoo! | vor the atta distance migm DAKt Week, ax Coach Lewis will| be given tor that ane ; his first turnout of the year! the line of nore than next. Monday afternoon The| yards out er Broadway % in rather late In . starting tho bavket bal a, bu i paid at Purdue, Pugilist Packey McFarland is go~ ing abroad Montreal will have no racing this winter ice horse > will the San Francie: bowling congress 26. bold Western cek of Marek Marquette colleges ing Minnesota and up Pr Minneapolis high schools are con- sidering the advisabflity of aban- doning base ball and substituting As € a Forward Poss for! “°Toste 88 the spring scholastis sport Crawford Warren. eehae teneae copects, to Kive the! syracuse and Belront clubs, near for thé ate championship. title. Philadeiphia, will build half-mile Manager Burke has been working | POF racing tracks hard during vacation arranging a| EE schedule for the team and has a| Chester Walcott, a younger brot lnumber of games in line for the | of Joe, has entered the box! gent onesie of tncatha. ‘Tushund a, making his debut recently Lincoln, Queen Anne, Everett and | Boston. | Snohomish are his schedule, and senses he is completing arrangements with! In Indianapolis companies ate be Belling ha rr Ei ure. Aberdeen ing formed to manufacture sone jand several other cities planes and also engines for fying | A practice gaine will probably be! machines. } played with Franklin high or Adel a [phia college ne Saturday, s0 Vermont _ hunters have — Lewia can get a line on what his| paid over $15,000 into the team ean do in a reat est. Sev-| treasury for licenses to shoot game eral of the basket all candidates —_— | have been working out at the 8 A.} The Folat Attowa will try @ C. and Y, M. ©. A. all week so as| break his record of 2:12%, ma@e }to get in #hape to start hard work| over the river ice track on Februe right off the reel Wat. 21 Inst. RES (BY JOHN O'KEEFE.) future ginerations, wid wondher an’ delight r-read in h y's pages av the gr-reat McClusky fight.” | From Mifé. Margot Cline’s “Songs of Strenuosity.” | ‘ a } me all ye fair young gentlemen and Heten to my song (That's how to start a ballad that’s a thousand stanzas long.) } I'll sing you of @ noble pair who are #0 very strong | They're known in the vernacular as husky. Upon a day not far away they'll meet within a ring To battle for « title and a more substantial thing But r in his office hear the moving picture king Give orders, “Don't you trow me down, McClusky | Spin it out, Jim Jeffries!” is to be the battle cry Bpin it out, Jack Johnson, or the money won't be high.” And all the future ages (I won't say with deuight) Wil read tm history's pages of the Moving Picture Fight. Th ays, “Ready,” but you needn't think they'll start At nacerate the mug and hammer at the heart A hasty knockout’s not upon the pugilistie chart | That's followed by the warriors white and du The fe with the camera is standing at the ba You bet kingpin to the white man and the black He signa tll round nfneteen to give the plexus whack I want no game of trow me down, McClusky Spin it out, J jon!” in the order from the boss. | Spin it out, Jack ¢ you do not want @ loss For men will pay their wages with cager at night | To see the various stages of the Moving Picture Fight } fo Ji Ni tap the Jobneon face and Jack will flick at J The ph a will te hard k endangers The earty nt will not excite. In fact, in lack of vin } wi nad you'd call It worse than musky About t ped arena they will dance with ne'er a shock j And swing and uppercut, and dodge nd block j Until piet son says, “Let's see. I k | Yo “ ay try ‘row him down, M sky Spin i to be the hatte shout | To t ) Ham, you've ® spin it out And futur t with language it ‘ will ¢ gyrations of the Moving are Pight | 7. FITZ $1.25 14-In. Siillson | | CHANCE | 79c | oes avo you 460 ome Ty PHILADELPHIA Jan, 1.-—Martin | l4-tnoh Welle stile By Julian, the man ade Bob Pita pe Wr No other { rn 1 times champion of n has ov en you work P {fries beat Help <4 neh 1 . f Juck Joh for ope Jott wit 4 Julian, "I “er ko Jot f t ma % ; froma, What, IAA Pe | , aw f an old bear cat thi w Jot A oot theeuae fr and th hy I sa t . utter T do about th batt " wed Jot ‘ ig.) grat ! “ i mi Ht : n ! Hl i the 1 f W h t ' ' " \ § Tee j Rot , s9 pert ha akon | ke @ tour an = 5 c 1310 t } t SPINNING 2.o Ne