The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1911, Page 2

HE Star te strong for amatedr athletiog——more and better sports rtment caters specially to news of amateur r doings are given the same attention as news of professional sportsmen, Phone your amateur news to The Star, Main'9400, Independent 441 Ml CHICA! oh IMs recon He said Am strength el32. Th He does strength, formerly ever slower not prese a man te torn was } mind tc | future | some ma | down me pion. | | Jeffries He had ] nd or HUGHIE JENNINGS, LEADER OF THE TIGERS. | S200". ™ SCRANTON, Pi American league basdéball club, was probably fatally injured in an auto: | pu mobile accident at midnight, thre mites from Gouldsboro. at The Rev. P. B. Lynett, David Holden and his wife were occupants be ef Jennings’ machine. All were injured, Lynett probably ly. The! was to it automobile crashed into a small bridge crossing the Lehigh river, turned turtle, dropped ten feet and pinned the occupants under it Later Jennings recovered consciousness, and it was stated that he probably would recover, despite his severe injuries. Pose Pall Vorus ep 6 By Billy Evans If the Athletics win the American league pennant next year, they will, of course, contend for the world’s champlonship again. In this event, I wonder if the old ery, relative to the strength of the American league catching staff, will be raised? When the Athletics met the Cubs, in 1910, the catchers were most @iscussed. It seemed the unanimous opinion that Thomas, Lapp an Livingston wore outclassed by Kling and Archer It was predicted the Cubs would have an easy time on the bases. What happened is history. The Athletics presented the thrills. Thomas and Lapp Stopped the Cubs without trouble. Kling and Archer had more than| their share. When the fast-going Giants won the right to meet the this year, it was predicted they would run wild. Meyers was 1 to stop the Mackmen. Despite forecasts, the Giants did nat world’s championship. In fact, they looked ordinary on the base ting four, the same as their rivals Ira Thomas is not spectacular, but he is far above the aver se a mitt performer. He thinks and acts rapidly, and this spells success. No catcher possesses more mechanical skill than Jack Lapp. With more experience, he wil! stand out in relief among the backstops It seems to me Lapp and inhe Athletics | | Thomas should receive my con. | RIGHT IN sideration if the am again bat wy MITT, tes for the big title. They have] Connie proven their worth in two des ate struggles. Connie Mack tells a Thomas. While not a Ira takes care of his money believes that when he is thr with the game he ought to have enough to keep him the balance of bis days, and not be a subject for a benefit game. me one asked Mack, before th he had any fear about against the Giants. one what ever,” replied the shrewd le “You know there is a winner and loser's end, and Ira is bound to be on the long end of the percentage.” Thomas, by the way. made more mongy out of the world’s series games than any other player. He participated in the championship story on tightwad, He Ug Thomas ader | as strong right merely side GO. an betwe mn he not attains n the begins to necessartly NEWS AND STATISTICS | Professional Sports Fostered RETIRE his great agen of 27 Ko lowe VGH SAYS tie | | DOESN'T WANT TO TASTE OF) JEFFRIES’ BITTER CUP (My United Press Leased Wire) Dec fries fate In store for Frank champion of them all, if] nt remarks are tion of his future plans tire with his laurels untarnished an indica Goteh will ent and back his but he is not as agile as and he tires more quickly That fits my ca perhaps stronger fore, ¢ old “get t In the old days when would have now | tep and bide my time. That is why I have made up my quit the If I kee r ont ore nm will I intend to quit a cham | Jim | he | | was a more shell of his former self atrength » ability ent that he shall fate. the rt Dec. 2.—Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit| his former fights b into me I to p at it lon not Jim lowt xactly, I thai gett apirt but I am bim. But game fp th me alo meet with because but fought Joba there ts all th BE WITH US WILL RECEIVE $20,000 FOR A SIX MONTHS’ TOUR am nt ing t in not the to withstand | had once. In was always y he could THE ERIOUSLY INJURED WHE HOLLIS GILES WANTS A BOUT STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER SPORTS Edited by ROY WHITMAN | iil. | DOPE AND | COMMENT Amateur Sports Encouraged | WANTEDANEW GOGH | THE IDEA OREGON WANTS A MAN WHO CAN COP DOBIE'S GOAT ne Leaned Wire) If Coach Wa (Ry, United Pr EUGENE, Dee ner of the of 0. his job, « now seems probable ean thank Coach Doble of the U. of W. for it.) Not that Doble tx guikty of any spe: | jelfic act, but simply that he knows | | | too much foothall, and that bis team | he | plays th Do welll ) If the Oregon squad could win the | Washington game, the rooters would feel satisfied If their team jont all other conference games. ' Warner has been unequal to the task, and the ¢ authoritles et hope io secure a man who can cop the goat of th That's why dismniased tall Washington ach Warner will be ee * BROWN’'S EXPERIENCE # * BAME AB . * PACKEY McFARLAND'S * Poe eee eee eee S| Chet Brown, boxing in t the 8, A. C., says the ex Packey McFarland with 1 Murphy yesterday ts somow! flar to hin own, when he f led profenst i and invaded fornia Paokey bad it al) bis j way, Rye Tommy mg Py SK’ | ‘The United States has been stung jalong in the latter rounds, and Che : “ |had it all his own way in the first |7 the athletic bug. There ts little doing in the ath | round of a bout with « Interest tin the selection of an lotic line over at Fort Lawton, aad whose name he ba {| American Olympic team, capable | Hollie Giles ts pining for a little ac-/he had an awful serap on bis hands of sweeping the boards at Stock tiv Me ts willing to meet any: | before he got through B MBY WILL body at 150 pounds, or he will even 0 SOON | fe ris the "miasteweignt "saws to 1 ¢ ch. Giles fs the pridelround with a right cross a and was | took the count of nine secure a 1 of the Fe a card whe kers were on tap. & mateh with Frank Street at Bellingham, tn the near future | : ; | | Law troop regular the monthly | Why Not Make | Captain Willie Coyle igh School Coach He hopes to|the ring with my chest sticking out holm next summer, has reached un dreamed proportions orth, south, east and west young men are prac Uecing at events in which they ex in the hope of winning a place on the team Suppose the American te the Olympiad. What then janswer Is to at once begin pre ations to win the big athletic blue ribbon again in 1916. The next aaid Chet, the and he But how walked around “De you know, ored that fellow tn did come back. I nik a mile, thinking I had a knockout ‘then and there. But he gave me the of my life for the next 19 although I did get the de m win 7 cision ome of the local high cols might go much further @| > worse than to plac | ATTELL-KILBANE GO # Captain Bly Coyle in charge #| a * fail tt degenar Bement that When England was agitated over # a first-class player makes the the proposed Jack Johnson-Bom, & poorest sort of a coac }bardier Wells contest for the | Coyte. heavyweight champtonship, some-/| the very qualities thing more than s bint was passed | make up a first-cla jout that the government was the; and director, As t of the football bugs feel i % aaide the question ® of abt Coyle has something ® coming. For yours he Naw been ® the central pivot around whieh | @ the great U. of W. machine has ® revolved, and, without @etrect- ize there is a * ing from either Doble of the race question. * other members of the team, An illustration * may be slated that Coyle has of what might * been a great big factor {m the } be expected in’ the team. For years | acountry where football bugs have | the blacks out- ei of Coyle and bie # achievements on the gridiron * and they would like to pee | * * * * a * * & * In bis playing, has ® a * * * * * * ° Co . ° * © power whose objection stopped the| There was tore truth than poetry in this. England ts be ginning to real- | } | number the whites, 10 to! BOMBARDIER WELLS one, John- rewarded; that tw if he " * son defeated | nts the job. Also they NEW YORK, Dec. 2—In # Wells, was! # would like to see if he would spite of the fact that little # brought home # be as socceesful piloting a to Abie Attell is all in, he man-*| Tom Andrews to me forcibly * cal high team to victory, as be aged to make Patsey Kline * at Suva, Fiji island, when I went | * has been, in the thick of the * fray, scoring points for the'old * U. of W. machine * SPs eeeeeeeeeee ok ike devoe in their 10 ®/around the world with the Amert| round bout here last night. #/can boxers last year | The champion had all the bet #/ Arriving at Suva, we learned! ter of the going. If the little * that Hugh Mcintosh had arranged | ree eee eee eee ee eee) |® Hebrew fighter has dotertor # | exhibitio bout battles with both Detroit and the Athletics NEW YORK, Dee. 2—Bomber | ** ¥¥¥ TSS SOMES OH), sted, bis work last night did & yen m bame Saene: the : Sabai 2 <==, | dier Wells will soon be with us. Ho| WARD POPULAR AT 8. A.C. | not indicate the fact. Local # {tore the show, chidh wos held te | . | he ecelved an offer o 20,000 for} The ot * wor esecyiew ” snr “ “They'll Be Easy for Me,” Says Ad From Sick Room) !"*" cae See SE vanes Se Se Cre of Nin Weed hew-onek) & than would Mie to Attell *|the opera house, the man in charge be a \ DM) a six-months’ engagement, and it! a n over the Seattle Athletic] ® and Johnny Kilbane of ( * LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1—"If Freddie Welsh and Packey McFar-|{y considerod certals he will accept.|club where che d wm | y of the arrangements, and by the land put forth their best efforts in their bouts yesterday with Willie] 14. wit probably be matched with | ular’ te waa. *)}way, a man high among the offi Ritchie and Tommy Murphy, 1 am confident that I can stop each of| Kaufman Plena: Morrie aed « ak aden eT * cialis of colony, asked me to see them within ten rounds on the same day. Welsh evidently has ‘gone : Ete ct neers Seerecen [ERROR EEE HEH HH Bl the American boxers did their best back, while McFarland has never possessed the wallop or the stam 80 necessary in the makeup of a champion a OS ee “Ben Couton, Boy Manager of Brother John, Says I Have Champion, They Will Have to Show Me” ‘This was the statement forthcoming this afternoon from the sick bed of Champion Ad Wolgast, at the Clara Barton hospital, had read the accounts of the Thanksgiving day clash cisco and Los Angeles. “Honestly,” continued the champion, “I believe Welsh and Me Farland would prove easter for me than little Owen Moran did. Mc Farland and Welsh are parlor fighters, and entirely too lady-like to ever hope to wrest the title from me. The first time either meets @ really good man, it will be ‘Good-night’ for them.” Socialists and Work- ingmen, Attention School Election Today Polls Open 1 to 8 P. M. $2,000,000 spent annually by school boards. Do you want Union Labor on school buildings and Union material used in the schools? Do you wish your children taught to disrespect organized labor? Do you want the schools to propagate the Boy Scout movement and other strike-break- ing institutions? If not, Get Out and Vote Be) Ba EEO The capitalists and their retainers will be there. Don’t forget. after he| in San’ Fran ‘This a4 ts paid for by small contributions from wage earners who want @ change. East 414. Cedar 414 MADIBON At 12th Bekins Vans are waterproof, dust proof, all padded inside; furniture is as safe as in your own home. Get Bekins to move you, The Boy Manager, Ben Couton, | Johnny and George Coulon Box |ing, and Thoir Father, the Late & jE. Coulon, Making Them Break. Upon the shoulders of Ben Cou-| lon has fallon the managerial man tle of the late B. B. Coulon, father jof the “fighting Coulons” of Logan Square, Chicago. It was B. ©. Coulon who bronght his son John from obscurity to the top rung of his class and “finesse: him through the maze of troubles) that beset a su Champion Johnny ful boxer. hag. started Don't let them permit a native to lay a glove on thom, ff they can prevent,” sald he. “Send them out to win as quickly as possible. We would rather see every bout end in @ round than have one of the white boxers held even. If the natives ket an idea they are equal to the white men, they become abusive training, after a months, fi rest of seven lowing the sudden and unexpected death of bis father : Brother Ben may properly be{*@4 @angerous. called © "boy manager” tor he in|. Th® Yankees made good with a only 21. He ts the youngest man-|Yerseance. Jimmy Clabby, who possesses the finest captivity, loop-the-loop opened the ager that ever Jooked after the af- faire of a champion. jpunch in And don’t imagine that man-|%®0W with a 185-pound native po-| agers of title hunters, or clever |'eeman, who stood six feet two. promoters, are finding Manager |ClAbby tore into the big fellow and | Ben “soft picking. For several |¥8¢d that loop-the-loop so effective- years he acted as assistant to his |! that before the round ended the| father, when that cleverest of |Si#nt climbed out of the ring, match makers was looking after Jumped from the stage and tore the affairs of the champion, and |0Ut of the house at a 10-second | learned much. cp. He was captured on the One of the first things Ben did |*tTeet and the gloves were taken | was to turn down am offer of {70m him, but he refused to go near the ring. $3,000 from Tom McCarey of Los | Webster | Billy Papke and Johnny Thomp- Angeles, to fight Danny Webster. | "McCarey wants John to. foc |#8 stopped their men in three| Webster weigh in at 3 o'clock at |ToUnds each and Ray Bronson made 116," said Ben. “And whon they |Bi# man quit in two. All the boys r into the ring Webster |™¢t big, husky opponents who were uld weigh 120, |garried ott thetr fost by the bewil: clyde © ering attac | maxing bore wetce prot Johany| After the show the manager Why shouldn't hot) He wu (thanked the boys for the decisive the title inside the Iimit and he |” they handled the natives, stat- never weighs more than 112 or |\nf the drubbing would prove more 13, ringulde, "People who thing |ftective thin sending a rogiment he cannot make 115 are mistaken igor eh Pg ae ge 4 , on.) 1 bel he British government told ft a Marauls of Queensberry Ihad some such idea as this in mind told John he ou t to be 04 when {t interfered with the John- jo" t y ‘ee OF | so! vol « a four poundes eke a ea te ee act |son-Wolla match, knowing that in time the news would reach the col onfes and make the natives trouble. . in case Johnson won. To my mind, Wells will prove a jformidable opponent for any of the heavyweights with a little more experience and building up of the lower part of his body, just now his only weak spot, he gives three or four pounds al most every time he boxes. What's |¢ the use of having clase limit it |" it isn’t Hved up to?” And there's more than a home. opathic dose of common sense in that query. Johnny | will take tt easy on hi | campaign. He will box some ~ jshortdistance bouts around Chi-| Beattie Automobiie School, 210 cago until ho fs again in top form, | Broadway, a: and then he expects to be the |——————__—. “busy kid.” “We don't care who they are or |now faut thos comer asta’ utt’ycr Alaska Square Deal League manager, “All wo ask is that the $21 LYON BUILDING offers are to be attractive and] All Alaskans are Invited to call and make the woight,| make this office thelr headquarters htamweight champion OPEN EVENINGS ‘They must all come and see us.” Tel. Malo 1169, N AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE WHY NOT FORM SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOL ATHLETIC LEAGUE? 18 NOT NEW—NEW YORK AND OTHER EASTERN CITIES UNCLE 8AM WINS THE 1916 OLYMPIAD, THE SCHOOL CHILOREN OF TODAY MUST Do iT maton. | HE Btar Pink, publieh ch evening, is an exclusive sportin T publication, devoted to the sportsman, and covering the spe ing evente of the world. All the local sporting news—all the outside sport gossip. If you are interested in sports, you're inter. ested in the Pink, Have it delivered by carrier HAVE THEM—~F A tg MUTI ay Wan Olympiad may be held in this coun-;lection of athletes would result @ try. What more fitting than that a/the public schools of each city ow team, school boys now, should win |ganized athletic associations amg then? promoted indoor and outdoor comp The idea of a public schoo! ath-| tests. letic league is not new, It is an| There is no reason why Seattle old story in the east. The report should not have a public schoglg lew York |athietic league. The boys will be of the secretary of the P. 8. A. Le, says in part lfor it and will do thetr part if the” “The athletic performances of | board of education will do its shang the schoolboy athletes of the P. 8.| Competition in the events is thm A. L. showed remarkable improve-| elementary grades of the New ment during 1910. Many thousands|P. 8. A. L. is between boys of they competed im the y¥ depart-|same weight and a glance 4 ments of sport, and the tnt .|of the records, picked both among the competitors and|from the results in was widespread.” @ grand grades contests, shows class of the boy athletes spectator Just imagine what THE FIJIAN TOOK THE ROPES WITHOUT A SLIP Cy svEvews acaprur gv Fourth Mear Pine Dancing Guaranteed in 4 Private Lessons Send Samples of Dress Goods G6GRPLEASE send me right away samples P of your spring dress goods. I’m very busy and can’t get into town for sev: eral days. I will select what I ‘want and send in the order at once. 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