The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 18, 1910, Page 2

Written By Experts NOW Baseball Magnates of the! Northwestern Will Hold Annual Powwow and Settle Question — Van- couver Ownership, Too. The momentous question of Northwestern ! has kept the f / ue Portland n tale of the cities last month, wil be settled this afternoon, when the} Yeague directors hold their annual| meeting in this city. The sixth] and ownerless franchise will find a} home this afternoon, and while it) is almost certain that i¢ will go to either B am or Everett, the two towns are running such an even race for baseball honors, that it ts/ tmpossible to predict the ultimate winner. | Montana has also been knock @t the door, and the baseball | Just @ suggestion to you You'lt find a man's color ¢: fenote the quality of hts Tepresented at this afternoon's meeting by Jack Huston. It is ing the cing more hight Givectors will decide In favor of an| fries @ight-club circuit to include the} An illustration Tn hie Montana towns. | Jeffries suc a,b Vancouver Ownership. 23 rounds. Another matter of importance © come up this afternoon ts the ownership of the Vancouver fran- ville, who own twofifths o: the | be slmont You whe think Johnson's Dickson had no right to seli his ‘ three-fifths interest to Bob Brown. | "onneon se! inane the courts, they have decided to|tnat he prefers to win oasily the whole situation up to the! or than by stugging @ directors. ) it Mkely that Jeffries, “Pug” Bennett Signed. tinan who met Corbett? It Yesterday D. E. Dugdale reesived| tight to jump about giving an do th be perceptit ceptable New Year's remembrance. fm the form of “Pug” Bennett's 1910 contract. Seattle's crack second exhibitions Baseman has been spending the man at his best Five rounds o @osen new faces on the field when! "!* camp and help him train Dug’s men turn out for spring prac 1)" bom April 1. Probably only balf ; ). pt. Iw later on. his best for me THE FIGHTER WHO FAILED When old Bob Fitzsimmons lost Bis last battle in Australia to Bill Lang, a third-rate fighter who couldn't have held down the job of fifth assistant sparring partner to Fitz ten years ago, many pathetic pen pictures were made of the old fellow’s iilstarred return to his native land. That Fitzsimmons, the grandest fighter for his weight that ever lived, should have left Austra. Ma 20 years ago under the shadow of @ defeat, and, after reaching the very top of fame's ladder, and then started on the downward journey should have gone back among bis own people for the most humiliat ing defeat of his career, was made the text of many "sorrowful ser mon on the all-conquering flight of Father Time. But is Fitzsimmons really so Much to be pitied? Will one or two defeats in the twilight of his fight ing lite embitter the memory of his former triumphs? It is not likely Fitz had his day--and a golden da come, Fitz soared to the heights of his ambition away the pleasant ring of name and fame. Fitz was ambitious. He shot high, but he scored a bull’s-eye did not mak of them: and the glory they did not reap. Here ts the story THE STORY OF A FAILURE Few now remember Benny Forbes and, for that matter, not knew him when he had at least a slight claim to recognition Shout ten years ago that I first met him--a pale, slender lad sunny nature and an ambition that knew no bo best emat Nghtweights boxing in the four-rc in Sa cisco, and all bis friends predicted a great ring er for him believed this, too, and he set his whole heart or pugilistic ladder. Such fiery ambition and set other lines, might have carried him over h and made him a fortune, but he cared for r In due time he turned professional and rpose, directed ave the fight shop on Bighth ay the likene ot Just as I aving, It flashed on me that I had been talking Forbes, and I went back to verify gue years and | I iM. Le su J ntlon 1 led him into "hve ome me and T've a it " Benny Fo t what I f t 1 nothing | can jo w ft ut, I ‘ you, I'd out if lunch to kno tVdaft from t that to t t . OTHERS THE SAME FIGuTs With iS LEFT MANO ExTeNoeo FULL LENGE TA BY STANLEY KETCHEL nink Jeffries will beat Johnson sitar Ge into ring history teresta of Butte and Helena will be} gontiment won't prevent Johnaon ly probable, though, that the} (hed and finely trained than think a fluke, In beating Corbett tn Johnson will enter the ring good an Corbett when he was de ise, O'Leary and Brett of Water.|feated at Coney Island. He et. if not Just ‘Vancouver stock, claim that A. R./ fat. and will have a better punch ra ond | seldam uncovers rather than take the matter to! punch, because he is #0 sclentific of easy living, will by slow are tr boxing fm #0 @ belated, but none the less ac-|bitions, A man mildly condition and the flaws will sot ing will tell more than 30 days alew 1 to show Winter at San Diego, and writes) This ix why I like the Johnaor that he ts in splendid shape end and 1 am unreservedly for Altogether, there will be about a |! have been asked if I woul go am invited by Johnson I will he 1 give him the but will bar the beat he Jeffries wil! Tent h mber will wear uniforms) One mill with him was enough of | will not be good eno * Johnson. eee eeee eee ete eee it was, productive of many dollars, some of which he has kept to help brighten the dark days that have and nothing can take there have been many fighters whose craving for success has Weighed their desire for money, but who, unlike Fitz, have failed inglort ously. Some of them will carry the sting of fallure to the grave Mothing that this world can give them will make up for the name He was one of the eaching the top is of his competitor d with some loc pork and ner. He lost the decision, but by #o a margin that | was in no way discouraged. He tried again, and again lost. He kept o trying, alw just failing to win, until ht gave him up spair. 7 ax game enough, and looked to be clever enous strong enough t the Indian sign was c 1 somehow be could manage to win. He tried and i, and ¢ after bis fri lost all faith and advised him te t the r he figh losing, whe rand wherever he could coax a en bh peared REE NO SCANTY TOGS FOR THESE PUGS A LEFT AND To Avoro fr THE STAR—TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1910. THE STAR’S PAGE & UP-TO-DATE SPORTS DECIDE LEAGUE TOP-NOTCHERS GET THE MONEY ON THIS CIRCUIT SIDE, SO I'LL STAY, SAYS STANLEY KETCHEL npany and kept ¢ yeolf many decided I had taken It's the peo what I do who both KETCHEL. AeSED I have made my parents independ s, and I don't have to again unless I « SHIFTING STARTED ARIGHT Swine hex, SOK STRPPEO fight | t * more money than ve @ fighter has but a cer of big battles tn was a hard one d after & few more fights my ad tain number I pass over the fact that John son Wee my superior in stature and ighed 15%, contrart ots anding, But if | were his Lin measurements I doubt if I could defeat him Johnson's work with bie arms and hands Is the most wonderful | have ever nee He mick on his feet gh reports that he ie Hin defonstye « he dowan't to mov t mu The we | have w nd ned my title with never foased Johnw ' could reach hi t sidn't hit hier T came wit with @ chance eee *. International Basketball. * The local ¥. MC. A, five will @ line up against the Vancouver in the second game of the in- # ternational basketball series, @ om the local floor & winning out night's gar: furtous . ° * jastand & * * . RRR Broadway's defeat at the handa of from Adelphia ant night bas ~ wards « alno broug . ‘ ff pract t the ra nm the fir rove, Ti wards, Rock . enters, M r and Aw track ast season. fcKinnon ha 1 out lark horse of the squad it wor any ot the game, but y A ywed unexpected | ase, and both men will probably n the team for the reat meaner PESEGESO DEO EE DEG] (Sy United Press.) ‘ One-Time Star i isa Watch-| Now — At Best, Ryan and Ketchel) Would Have Made al Great Fight. * JIM CORBETT 18 7 FAST AS EVER 4 - * *® NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Jin *® Corbett ix training every aft * mn now at Jack Cooper's * getting ready in plenty of eu f ' . hing work at & Sof an n the spring HH 1 in shape t 7 n ard work * For a 1 who he e ¢t a f * ho } * | Me ' r * \ r ® prisingly « . f rt i * DANCE AT DREAMLAND Dance tonight. Admission ¢ to my friends wil! If fighters did not @ there would be more My plans are uncertain trip abroad and had taken steps toward closing with the promotas jundofanted when I decided to wait I have never been so flooded with ry otty tn t nome good fights left and | lam ready for anyone who wants my 1 will meet Papke but am in| tien | four we have | am not in & burry to get in 1 am willing ropean trip I am notehers are in de on a man the another crack heavyweight tithe ana | rapidity jo my fighting | a year an t can now ndition 1] tent TE 4} 1 f winning Johnson's head nd I was ¢ 180 pounds in e tol will meet whoever ts world a fighter ever and it ten't tp with having | the strain of tray me Tam entitle and I intend to make i think I have been misunder Because I select - ‘tt a vacation often referred to M. C. A. team this evening, #} when his fatling is bashtu J . with po thought . than making allver-tongued with Johnson. He's a tight wad,” Never was there « fighter ; tole big | find | condition he as for being ~ TOMMY RYAN IS = ON THE JOB A fight betwee greatest fights in the TOOTH TALKS By the Regal Dentists «NE WONT HURT YOU y people have an idea that *eeeeeeeeee eee eee asked whether the of a written gua in-fighter that Third Av. and Union St. | ADVERTISE IN THE STAR. EDITED BY LAURENCE REDINGTOR baseoaue cerrinel JEFF 1S FOR GLEASON; CLEANER EVERY SEASON FIGHT IN CALIFO} Ning cases out of ten which cause {discord in baseball are the result of an ery fous thod ing err (By United Press) {Sam ¥ am wo | ploy ry year the condition! pINncoLN Jan, 18—With | pair ppleune h ever, b mprovin eventua " r | - bain pba | | the promoters apparently at dagger “ e me © the on a Dinpat f Howton tag basebill matter will be legitimately | points, pa working at | sony Rickard to bea | Though t * of or romm f nd the public er al p © fight, | unoball are very plain AN4|iieiy at nem ae to what actually te |clared that he will fight out " uasodbiedl nile | efforts to ate them that so mans ying on, the Jeff Johnaon fight |oanee f Lake do Raceaines haere eles Coane, | wentatel ‘th ction today that 1 mueh aa | with ever -* ‘ rs A th never bey 4 oft i that battle wane nat b-| p ait I n keep hip } "Be , it ix declaration that he | He can rest | tae Ves anton « it in Caltfornia lone mel | va n great style by lif not t roentecs aunlty, ws ALT LAKE : ng threats al | worthy str have been made in| for Spry to order « mi kards today jthe last decade a contract with 1 ny |p With that period ax 4 criterion for + track of t _ |the future, the coming ar ah r track over ‘ |find its place in @ in the athlett nerican nation Progrennl ve Seer of th Rickard agrees with me that it is a 1 for the exhibition,” de place in the we Rudy Unhotz got a bit of a set ford, manager of avilion, 8 known as the back in a bout with Arthur Cripps It can be covered in and ments 1 he stadium at Sydney, Australia . , > 1 and rer ade fora other day. Unholx gave away| capacity of 50,000 person We gave Rickard the 2 pounds and, aft r hard absolutely free of and expect 100,000 persons, man Mo ol Rickard said: “The deal is closed. We will and Hob Fitzsimmons} fight at Saltair, where the Coliseum is located. I have + crthine nx | 000 to oo up any time it is called for, The fight will be f the affair | off in Utah, absolutely it it will not go to San Francisco saw the was the that Ry the finan Have Your Lucky Friends Told You The Hub’s Great Sale of $18, $20 and $22.50 All-Wool Suits Overcoats Raincoats || It’s the chance of a lifetime to -buy a first-class Suit or Coat, or boty for very little money. 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