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ed a A.GOOD ONE ON BRENNAN CONTINUOUS BALL Umpire Brennan, of the National @, tells of a minor league um who is an institution by bine This umpire isn’t particular about | culatae, and does most of his in saloons, where the free {a large and assorted. ‘The umpire is tough. In “a he terribly tough, so when ren. a decision against a player | tmagined himself wronged, one and the player threat @ned to “get him” after the game. replied, “All right, bo. You can me at That evening while the arbitrator at end of the bar i entered. They had that one would dive for victim's knees while the others for his upper works. instant they were tnside the rushed. As per program, one for the umpire's knees, to a kick that dropped him limp ithout sufficient wind to “sufficient.” Another was met with a straight that knocked him endways, the third, the player who) ered himself wronged, took his heels. But the umpire, bis blood up, im no mood to let him escape. he grabbed @ heavy iron and sailed it after the de athlete, striking him on the Just as he reached the door, him down an@ raising a the size of an apple. thought of the umpire’a work, “L don't ike him. He's no good nd never will be, but he's got the wellest command of a aspitter I ever saw.” ONE ON PING. The Detroit players tell a story on Ping Bodie, the White Sox fence | | breaker, whose cheer compelling power seems to have lost its effect lately. When the Sox were in Washing toh Bodie made a home run and the famed humorist, Germany Schaefer, wrote him, posing as & dealer in pet animals and birds, that he gave a fine parrot for such performances. Bodie took Ed Walsh to the store, ottering to sell him the parrot. At the pet emportum the letter was pronounced a forgery. When Ping batted against De- trott, Catcher Oscar Stanage, turn ing to Umpire Connolly, said “Hear about Ping and his parrot Mr. Connolly? Well, Ping bit a homer in Washington and after the—.-" ‘Strike one,” sald Connolly “After the game he got a note inviting him to a store to pick out a talker, and-—— ‘Strike two,” said Connolly. a Later Bodie went to the plate A day or two later, word of the fetes been notsed around, | what sal LOS ANGELES—“We will tie; Geren knots in the Tiger's tail and Vernon off the baseball map. ‘Long Toni’ Seaton eat ‘em this afternoon."—Walter Me manager of the Portland “Nothing to it We'll murder them. The Beavers fainthearted and Castleton will them down in one, two, three ."—-Hap Hogan of the Tigers! — — and Stanage insisted on re-telling the story. Bodie again watched three strikes float past. BOSTON.—The “comeback” aepi- rations of Oscar Battling Nelson, former lightweight champion, are crushed ‘here today as the result of a severe beating he recetved at the hands of Young Sayler, a ristag serapper from Indianapolis. Say- ler won decisively in 12 rounds, having the better of every round, and was given the dectsion. Nel son took one of the worst beatings of his long career. properly signed this coupen f goed tor coven ore half Dollars in wade te any department at saguier prices This Coupon f Free aa Each Monarch Range The Duplex Draft, one the Monarch, insures a perfec of the exclusive features of t, even fire at all times. 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I DUG ELECTED PRESIDENT We're going to have continuous baseball next year, doar fanae—got just the way Judge McCredie wanted tt, but continuous ball, neverthe- | leas. ‘The plan to put two toama In Seattle did not meet with the ap- proval of the directors of the league yesterday, for the very good rem won that nobody wanted to drop out, and the directors were in such) & very amiable mood that they didn’t want to kick anybody out, Bo everybody stayed in. The continuous-ball-forSeattie question was settled tn another | way. To start with, the local team will have more than half te games on the local the team t# on the road, the Victoria and and play @ part of thelr games. ma will pla four, Spokane and Vancouver, which, with Seattle, were the only clubs to make & reepectable showing as far as gate receipts go, will have about the same uumber of games as lust year Judge McCredie will draw up next year's schedule, and it wilt be entirely different from last year's joke. He will submit it at « meeting to be held in January. President D. EB. Dugdale of the local club was elect pro tem. and the office will probably be filled perma bee ase meeting In January EEE se Ee ane a eee BEAVERS WIN THE FIRST; HOGAN NOT DISCOURAGED (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6.—Great gobs of gloom, despair and dejec tion hung Ike a canopy over Low Angeles when the 6 o'clock ere sounded this morning. Ten minutes after, the san rose, and bh Ab Happy Hogan, leader of the Vernon Tigers, jumped from his be cheered an entire elty by shouting loudly; “Kverybody want ‘buck up.’ We will outgame them and get that flag yet, and don’t you) forget it. Thanks be, my hearties, that we have seven other chandes| at them. The Beavers won yesterday's game, 9 to 7, beonuse they bad better luck. Are we discouraged any? Nay, nay, Mortimer! wateh us this afternoon.” In the meantime, the Vernon Tiger, with a nicoly knotted kink \in his tall, the handiwork of the terrible Portland Beaver, te bein | groomed at the Washington street groun bitter fray. é Walter McCredie, leader of the Beavers, had an entirely differént view of the matter, Ye outclassed the hard-hitting Vernons to the field and at said. “Fielding ts going to cat a lot of lee in this series, an every fair a person will admit that we have the better Melding aggregation won the game fatrly and squarely. Portland—wilt fly another pennant rag this year.” ee ee See oe JOHNSON KNOCKED DOWN y United Press Leased Wire.) LONDON, Oct. 5—George Robey, a comedian, is resting laurels here today, after having sent Champion Jack Johnson spraw!: to the mat in a bout in the Palladium. Robey swung twice to Johneon' jaw before the champion could counter. himeeif up he knocked Robey into the arms of the timekeeper with a voltey of rights and lefts, then picked his adversary up and carried him off the stage. Robey had challenged Johnson to a bout. se president ly at the bat, AHAARARAAHHER HE FIXING THE DATE! NEW YORK, Oct. 6-—The national baseball commission is meeting here today to make arrangements for the world’s championship series between the New York National» and the Philadetphia Athletics” of the American league. It Is un officially announced that the series will probably open on October 13 oF 14. eeeeeeeeeeeee eee PRR EE RHE HEH HUNTINGTON, Ind.—Aviator C. P. Rodgers ix resting here today dent when his aeroplane was wrecked. He bas quit fiying fog, the present but may resume his trans-continental flight on Thurs The Grandest Camping Place On Puget Sound QUILCENE 08 wale CANAL Steamer Amerind Leaves Pier 7, * BY TY COBB. * I pick the Giants to beat the * Athletics in the coming * world’s series, The two teams are of about equal play ing strength, but McGraw's coacting will rattle Ira Thom as and Frank Baker. Thom as and Baker can't stand being grilled Hughey Jennings has rattled them in almost every series the Tigers and Athletics have played, and Jennings’ coaching 1s mild compared to McGraw's. MeGraw will say or do any thing to win a ball game. Thomas was with Detroit before he went to the Ath letics and he boasted that he knew our weaknesses and that we wouldn't win when he was catching. We got after Ira and rattled him #o badly Connie Mack didn't send him in against us for two months. & * Senate eeeeeeee eet eee ee SSEEHESEESEES SEER ESSE EEE E Tete Teeeeeee a Remtte, ane: days and Saturdays at 9 a. m., arriving at Quileene at 3:30 p.m. Carries Freight and Passengers If you are searching for an outing place where fishing, hunting and mountain elimb- ing aro” attractive features, you can do no better than to go to QUILCENR, Night in Tacoma Dance AT DREAMLAND Seventh and Union. TONIGHT SOUVENIRS GIVEN TO ALL Admission 25¢, including five Dance Tickets. LADIE® FREE. this morning for another | | Jonge at After Johnson hed picked | eeeeeeerereee +e from the shock of yesterday's acct) in Gregg ie not with the Cleveland club on its last swing around the clre He wae not in form when the team left hor no Manager Stovall thought best to leave him at home, His club bad no chance to win any championships, so why not rest Grege up for next year? No young pitcher tn recent years bas created the furore tn faat company that this big southpaw has, If he had had a top notch qlub behind him, Vean would have led the pitchers of both leagues by « large mar in. Kven with what might be called a good No, 2 club supporting him, i is now considered the most successful pitcher of the American league, loading such giants ax Bende Plank, Walsh, Johnson and Ford 1, who has the hon ational league, has on! in backed by a championship te: pitched, and Marquard has won 22 out of , who ts Connie k's lead ing gunner this year, has won 26 games out of 36, Still, have to give a heap of credit to Walter Johnson, who was with @ very weak) chub. The Californian has won mos for Washington and lost 11 Thi wonderful record for a pitcher who was supported no better than Johnson waa, There has been a lat of talk about Mathewron be ing an old hawbeen, His record up to date w 4 indleate that Christy has a bit left in his glove yet. Marquard’ Mcintyre and Cole are the only pitchers tn the National league who ontelass him, Big Six has captured 22 out of 35 essay for the Giants, which would indicate that he can be depended upon to figure prominently in the world’s series this month, Coombs, of leading the und the fc ut of 30 m o2eevee Though Fred Lake was recently reported as having signed to man- age Lynn next season, he ts again being mentioned as likely to succeed | Bobby Wallace at the head of the St. Louls Browns. . It Is hard to believe, but Frank Chance is being chastised by the Chicago fans for not winning the pennant this year sending letters to bis office, reminding him that what he knows about running @ team would not fill a large book, He ls being told that he has made mistakes insumerable, and if his head was not solid concrete he would be im the place now occupled by Mugavy McGraw. Can you beat i(? A manager that has brought as many pennants and world’s championships to Chieago as Frank Chance being scolded for not com- ing through with the goods this year, The fact that the Cubs have had more than their share of the tough playing luck cuts no figure with the lthoughtiess critica, The fact that players of the abtlity of Chance and Evers were out of the & most of the season was lost sight of on tirely. It fe the opinion of fatr-minded observers that Chance was lucky 4 leo finish as close up as he did. With a leas skillful pilot at the helm, “GAT” LEWIS. the good ship Chicago might now. be struggling along in the second) & a = ldivision, Fans are seldom thoughtful. | Beattie Automodiic School, Broadway. hia team, piloted by Connie Mack, - eae oe enemy sengende Dance at Dreamland tonight, | For the fourth time a Pit has won theeAmertean league championship, the recent defeat of the Tigers clinching the 1911 rag for the Athletics 7. ne Jack Tighe will manage the Louisville Colonels next year, vice Del Howard. Joe Cohn says the Northwest league can't get along without Spo- kane, Anyway, he adds, he will be just as well off ia the American as sociation. oe . Oct. 4.-—-Fit ere injured, five of whom may Hapsing of the ple chers at the race track and The injured were rushed to an emergency e Have your bills collected. West Jora Collection Co., 433 N. ¥. Block . . SPRINGFIELD, 11! die, as a result of the co! fair grounds this afternoon hospital at the fair grounds. | Main 6180. | 4 NaTyonat We flatter ourselves that we } have in our employ the best gun- amith tn the Northwest. Bring us your gun repairs and we will prove it j 4 * rar +8 106 “NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK, Oct 4—To big Christy Mathewson, veteran twirler of the New York Giauts, today be | the honor of twirling the) ‘game which wins the pennant for Tthe 1911 National league seanon for | his team. Mathewson turned the} | trick today when he blanked the | | Brookty ‘s, winning by a 2 to 0) One run each was scored | Im the the fifth and ninth, This ix the Ifiret pennant thé Giants have won |since 1906. The score |New, York At Brookiya Mathewson and Meyers: $6.00 Poot Ball Shoes ..$4.50 $4.00 Foot Ball Shoes .. $3.00 $2.00 Poot Ball Panta ... $1.50 $1.50 Foot Ball Jackets ...75¢ Theo. Wilts Co. 1012 First Ave. Seattle Sporting Goods Co. “The Rubber Store” 714 FIRST AVENUE. pI ihe Look pleture and then ieee if you dwell on |the photographer's work you can’t at the it, because | believe this story Having eyes, and imagine yourself at a ball game. S00 & rapid-fire second base man go into the alr and bring down @ line drive with one hand, j beating a runner 10 feet ad of |him to first base for a double play and you haw an action pleture of “Gat” Lewis, who ts setting the | Central league on fire They call bim “Gat’ o he |slmulates a Gatling gin in rapid ity, His work i# astounding for quick thinking and simultaneous actl Ap done this, close your becau, mtly Lewia ts A country boy. When not in action there in nothing™td #uegest the marvelous play@ he wakes dally But when the bat cracks against the ball Lewis is where it will land or pass if in bis territory. His fellow play- ers call it “luck.” Roy Montgom- ery, Wheeling Central league inan- agor, says it's baseball ability thatt will land in at the top Jimmy Caney, Oud scout, has picked bim for the 1912 Chicago team. ‘Lewis is the best second base- man in the Central league. Scoyts way he is the best in the embers, He is 28, a 160-pounder and ig two inches of six feet. F os 290 and fielded 992 con it 3 so his big league success is a pes ter of getting the chance. H. with McKeesport last season yed the same sensational me has put up this year TRUNKS AND SUIT fn SO Kaclusive Agent for the GENUINE HALLS SAFE Pretontaine Widg. | Beaton Thiledetphie | Mpewe and Kung: Moor igocond game Ae Puttadeipn Oaliel ead Trier and o * nk and Wingo. AMERICAN LEAGUE ington Krause and Livingst Henry Detroit At Cleveland Hin and stannw ut aed O'Nel CRAVENETTES AND Anew and Williams; Ford and with COAST LEAGUE ion ioe “ ana ae | Oakland (11 ineing At San Francisco <3 FOR FRIDAY. 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