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THE STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1911 nHE Star Is strong for amateur athietios—more and better sports | T for the boy. This department caters specially to news of arnateur events, and amateur doings are given the same attention as | news of professional sportamen. Phone your news to | y ROY WHITMAN Amateur 6Sporte Encouraged ] The Star, Main 9400, enepenee 441. $$ $$$$$ —— _ _ j ORDEMAN WON OWER GDRATEST ATHLETE GIVES | Ringside Tales | | TESS WER “POINTERS |'TO SPRINTERS a There have been many famous battles, where the decision was BY DR. ALVIN GC. KRANZLEIN, learned by observation than in any} Use arms and shouldets when] Friday—Starte and 120-yard) awarded through strange Iuck or curious aocidents, and some of the Trainer, Michigan University lother way, Eliminate everything |sprintfhg. Lean forward slightly, | «wing. aperate comtesty of the past fitiy years have coven aa th surprine (Pr, Alvin’ Kranglein, Michigan |that binders speed and ease of ae-|Don't run with @ hollow back, as| Saturday-—Day of race | partion to all concerned, In all probability, however, the three most tion. this means “running tn the air,”| Use a pistol for starting, 1f pos.) remarkable “fluke” victories in prize-ring bistory were the second fight wntveraity’s athletic trainer, was |" ose preliminary work comes|the force of the driving log being |alble, but two boards atruck| between Jem Mace and Tom King, the second battle between Jack the greatest) i cinting. The start is important, jupward instead of ohward. sharply will answer. The above | Dempsey and George La Blanche, and the combat between Solly Smith athlete In the) pig holes for t feet, so when| Work must fit the individual, but | table is for 100-yard sprinting. The and ai Griffin, . 7 it Sean : world, says|ready the hands will be on the|! have pi ed a table that will) 220 ts the same, with fonger jogging Tom King, « long, lean, sinewy young fithter, who had ambition for Mike Murphy,|#erateh Ine, the body ip an easy suit the average boy distances, doing « 300-yard swing Cn a aby re ee ‘ev mage gp oy inh *\ position, with feet placed #o the| Remember, do not get on the | about twice a week reer, and was on—beaten good and plenty, and forced to famous Yates can move straight ahead. The|mark until the logs-are ood. De-| Do not dict strictly, Common | after receiving as sound a trimming as the wypsy over gave and Pennsyl¥® | pear hole should be to left or right) vote 10 days to easy workouts, with | table food i» good enough for any| After @ couple of years’ reat and meditation, King, having proven his | - - he of vad | mottie by defeating Jobn C. Heenan, again challenged Mace, who had nia trainer. na be front hole, If the boy starts |an occasional sprint, before trying! athlete. Meats, vegetables, bre gained universal recognition as England's champion since the retire was, beyon ment of Tom Bayers question the Mace and King met in 1862, and for forty rounds their fight was a { greatest sprint repetition of thelr first battle. ‘The selenced, crafty Mace was all over i er, Two rec PG the younger man. He slashed Tom with his sweeping knuckle drives; ords he made and there was no stage of the fight in 1898, have beolute master, King seemed to keep on never been igh sheer cameness and reeuperative power. Finally, in the 4 Or. Kranziein beaten. He did 4, the game youngster whe all in. He staggered back towards y hurdles in 151-5 and the in and the gypsy crept catlike after, eager to land the final hurdles in 1615 and the 220 in 4 Cc drive. King seemed wholly helpless, and Mace started a long right 22.3.6 seconds Hor.) | hand swing that should bring down the bacon apemeepnntentaemencentnanlle Reps <i - _— HE Star Pink, published each evening, is an exclusive sporting publication; devoted to the sportaman, and covering the sport NEws AND ing events of the world, All the local sporting news—all the STATISTICS outside sport gos If you are interested in sports, you're inter: ested in the Pink, Have it delivered by carrier. Professional Sporte Fostered Athletic training moans putting | As the swing started, King hammered his right fist downward, the body into a healthy condition. blindly, hopelessly, with both his eyes shut tightly, #0 he told it after- bs }Athletic sporta are strenuous and} wards ‘The blow was no orthodox fighting blow—it was the chopping * only healthy boys should parttel ; ’ j smash of @ blacksmith bringing down the hammer on the anvil. And i. that med, bopeless wallop came down full and fair in the center of Mace's face, getting double force from the very impetus of Mace’s head and body as Jem lunged forward ip his mighty*#wing! Mace’s entire face seemed to flatten out beneath the blow. He sank like & hammered wt and it was half an hour before he gained his q senses. King, well knowing himself the luckiest of mortals, would y never fight again, and + tithe passed back to the gypsy by default |pate. A qualified physician should | joxamine each boy and unless in} geod condition the boy should take | exercise only under comp pervision, with a view strengthening weakened parts | TN THE AIR An athletic field Isn't necessary soon aft 4 to train on The street, or an wi Jack Dempsey first fought George La Blanche, the “Marina,” grapty lot will eult the averane DON'T SRIORE. auige he beat the Frenchman to rivbops, and when they were rematched for 7 bon afi Measure dIstAnce® | ioe foot forward, the rear holeysudden starts and butter, tapioca and rice pud-| San Francisco, the bom was looked upon as a picnic for the Nonparell. cet wlabe, the firex and the (hind, in & greging coe. tye wed faithfully, If he wins ould be to the right, but not fer| Monday—Practice five starts or{dings, lee cream, milk and fruit|And so It proved for 38 rounds. La Blanche took a dread{o! beating, * ‘ron the second. It was the bardestfought match \roming hendicaps. | “°° °° \enough to the Fight to prevent the | 15 yards, one Go-yard «print will waffles, and only the fact that Dempsey was no K. 0. puncher saved him from : eo area leg coming straight forward when | easy owing ot 160 yards Get plenty of seep. ‘Train con. |e fnish. seen here. To aspiring sprinters I say spend | starting | ‘Tuesd: — Starts, one 50-yard gelentiously. Don't be discouraged. In the 39tb round Dempsey was pressing the “Marine” furiously, aaigalliad the first 10 days at long easy work-} intance tween holes | sprint ome 120-yard awing ‘ and the finish seemed at hand Reeling away from a clinch, La ey to prepare the muscles for} eaten ane eaividuel Dig} Wednesday-—Starts, one 36-yard Practice no abuse ~ DO NOT) Bianche leaped up and spun clear around in the air, swishing out bis if is to follow, and to avoid! inem deep, with back perpendicu-| dash and 150 yards, ronning the SMOKE ANYTHING. ABOVE | right band in the whirl. And the gloved fist caught the astounded J WONDE |atrains, Good legs alone won't do.\jar, to tineure a driving start. first and Inet 60 at full speed, Ald, PLAY FAIR AND BE A| Dempsey fair upon the chin, flattening him as if a tov of coal had fallen BE Rvery muscle ts needed in sprint pont “jump tm the air” when swinging along the totermediate MAN. op his skull! I was a pivot blow, a blew which might not land once in @) starting. Shoot forward, gradnai- | distance Do not neglect studies for ath-| 19,000 times, and which, in this one case, went home straight pr Study “form.” Watch ® goo@/iy rising to running stride. The Thursday—-Starte,a 7-yard eprint letics, They go better togethér At Robey, Ind., in 1892, Johnny Griffin, “the Braintree Lad,” the led the Coast league in batting | |aprint et, If possible. More « tr Send 160 suing then senernedl man that George Dixon's backers feared most of all the feathe: « g DETEASDTOR BE Dec 15-Avout (during the 1911, season, Danny |*2'Mter, if possible. More can beifinish te shead, aot up tn the air ov ec oping Solly Builth of Catiforsia tuto litde pieces, Smith hadnt gered man in Portland {* Long malictously omitted his name lis tated b bt follo ; cae re the schedules for baseball, basket, These colleges have been serious-|.chance on earth. He was outbored and outgeneraled. He was reeling ie, manager of the from the official averages, ee a Tite the bed, * aeeeeeeee * @ {ball and track ly considering abandoning of base-| aimlessly around the ring when Griffin—whose eyesight was very poor Beavers. He alleges that! The good relations that have ox-|iing averages of the Coast league @ CONFERENCE TO ARRANGE @| The mecting will be of special In ball and basketball games with the|—leaned forward to peer at him and locate him for the final wallop, iy Long, the official average jisted between the San Francisco and Long didn’t give me credit for ® SCHEDULES | torent in that It will decide whether coast colleges on account of the) And just then—bang! A frantte, despairing swing from the beaten of the Coast league fs try Seals, with which Long is con rank discrimination. Last | ® #| Washington state, Idaho untverst- long traveling distances which ne-| Smith whirled over, getting Griffin just below the ear. Jobnny fell up- fo discredit his ability as # nected, and the Beavers are threat the opening gam errr rerrTyvrre Tet tii oc and Whitman College will con- censiiate almost prohibitive ex | conscious to the floor, and Smith could hardly stand while the referee ened, |Los Angeles I went In in a pinch pone baseball and bapketbal! penses was counting The cause of McCredie’s peeve ang got the required bit that made | (By United Prose cage wise) — ——a = ———_____—_ There have been other famous flukes, but these three, perhaps, were EUGENE, Or. Dee —Thore | the most wonderful in all the annals of the fighting game. my Sverage 1,000 per cont. Of) course, that’s the only time | batted | Will be a special eet of the! THE ST. GERMAIN, 1517 PIKE PLACE during the year, bat didn't that |managern of the colleges in the sive me the highest average’ | Northwest conference in Portland And Long left me out In the be year I ever had in the batting line.” |°° December 29 and 30. Tho mest psc cr ing is for the purpose of arranging BAN JOHNSON SPANGENBERG 1100 First Av., Cor. Spring GETTING TAME) ~exzons, ai vina” | CHICAGO, Dee. 15—There wil | POCKET KNIVES be no baseball war,” declared Dan Johnson, president of the Amert CARVING SETS can league, on his return today from attending the sessions of the | SCISSORS SETS directors of the league in New York. “The American league rem MANICURE SETS olutions are clear and enrry with them no covert meaning. They = = simply decleye that the Americas league intends to assert its rights under the national agreement.” KURA AAD FLYNN MATCH A SD SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 15.—Al Kaufman and Jim Flynn, heavy weights, are am good as matched | for a bout here early in January, according to a statement made by Promoter Harry Foley today Word as been received trom Flynn's manager saying that the bout {* on, This practically clinches matters as Kaufman bas expressed his willingness from the first. 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