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ar ig strong for amateur athietics—more and better sports for the boy. This departmen’ t caters specially to news of amateur events, and amateur doings are given the same attention as of professional aportemen. Star, Main 9400, Independe: LYNN TO BEAT JOHNSON CURLEY SAYS JIM CAN'T PO! LOSE ‘United Presa Leased Wire) ABivQueraun, N. M,, Feb, 10. Prediction that Jim Flynn, the Puedlo fireman, would dispose of Champion Jack Johnson by a knock- out in thelr July battle was made bere today by Jack Curley, man oser of Fiyan Curley, who ts moting the affair, declared that ness men of Las Vegas had of. him $100,000 to stage the bout In discussing the coming match, Curley said: “There is no doubt in my mind Dut that Flynn will win. He has ‘won 12 straight fights, and has heavyweight of . Fyne wonderfully improved fighter, and he wil! enter the ring against the negro weighing nearly 200 | moog I do not believe Johnson auld fight if he could get out of at, but he must do so to maintain reputation, which is earning bim 000 weekly.” ee eee ee * along with his title. he is not a school he is a ball player, and versa, and the later week- blished around the dis- here Cy holds forth ad. it he ts fully the equal it and original. Our ways Johnay-on-the- submitted terms, and his young fellow doesn't feet, we will soon in our midst, ‘No use to see the sights— Seattle first. kKeekaeeekanne Hy REFS SS HESS ES EES EEEEE ES ED SE Beye ee tatt Ha sft tg, t ef ARES Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeteeeeee Phone your amateur news to nt 441, * PROSPECTS GOOD * ed SAYS LOU 7 \ Lou Nordyke tan't saying much |about the chances of the islanders) | this year, but he is thinking a whole }lot, and his manner is one of ex-) jtreme confidence. He opened his | moath the other day long enough to | say, however, that his team would | be well up in the race, way 4. P. Mac sizes him up in the Pf “That the ‘crop of white hopes' sian, and while he is better known “Leon is 6 feet 2 inches im the ; than 210 pounds. “The big Russian feels sure that boxing contest, and iet his opponent “Leon bas a wonderful reach. measure his arms from tip to tip. mend bim. e * BIG JACK LEON IS IN SAYS HE CAN BEAT FRISCO HOPES @eeceeeeeeveeeeneeee eevee ee eee @ Jack Leon has hit San Francisco demonstrated yesterday by the appearance on Market st. of # big, brawny chap, who declares he ts here for the sole purpose of trying himself out on some of oor best heavyweights. from up Tacoma way, and his name is Jack Leon. glove game, he wants to come out as a fighter, Smith or any other heavy in this section of the country, # this morning that he would take on any of these men in any sort of News _AND STATISTICS Professional Sporte Fostered Edited by RTS 'Y WHITMAN gare Rep Se a HE Star Pink, published each evening, is an ublication, devoted to the sporteman, and cov, DOPE yf T Ing events of the world. All the local sporting ms COMMEN outside sport gossip. if you 0 interested in a Amateur Sports Encouraged ] ested in the Pink. Mave it delivered by carrier. BASKING IN THE LIMELIGHT COLORED CHAMP MARRI WHITE WOMAN (Ry United Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Feb. 10.--Discussing reports here today from Pittsburg that the authorities there were planning his arrest for contracting an alleged fitegal marriage in the city, Jack Joboson, world's heavy- weight champion, admitted that he was married in January, 1911, to Mra. Etta Duryea. The negro de- clared the marriage was legal, and that he does not fear prosecution. Mra. Johnson secured a divorce from Clarence Duryea of Hemp- stead, L. 1, about 18 months ago The pugilist’s wite is a white wo) man, Many Pitchers CHICAGO, Feb. 10.-—Jiramy Calla- han, manager of the Chicago Amer- jean league club, announced last | night that his team will carry the) great umber of pitchers retain: | ed on the South Side in recent years. Altogether, there are nine.) Resides all of his erans, Calla han has two recruits in the pitching | department. Seven of the staff are) right-handers and two throw from} the port side, ‘The manager says an exceptional: | ly good offer will be necessary be-| lfore he will part with any of them, | SAN FRANCISCO; ° made a nolve. Hi putletin has not been blighted was fully) ‘The newcomer tx Leon is @ gigantic Rus to the wrestling game than to the perpendicular, and he weighs more He js a yard wide across the shoulders and he has the appearance of being a very powerful mao. he can beat Miller, Elder, ‘Gunboat’ nd he declared name the conditions it requires 83 inches of tape to Hie ts an extremely well-built chap, and if looks count for anything Leon appears to have much to recom- “Leon appears as though he might be slow and cumbersome, but he declares he is neither. way im which the Russian talks and Yet one would glean this from the deliberate acts. “The Russian declares that if he cannot get a boxing mateh here, Greek. According to Leon, he met | result of that bout was even. im the shape of AND SMITH FIGHT TO today over the Frankie last It ended in Mt Rédie Campi had so much on {he would like to get a wrestling match with William Dometral. the Demetral once on the mat, and the . ° CHARLIE REILLEY *| A DRAW lot of difference of opinion | a draw, but friends of both bo jowever, Eddie Hanlon refereed ¢ ye Geo. Cooper in the bantam battle | * TEN MILLION THE * HAPPY KID a Ten Million is a muchly pleased boy today. Yesterday he received his contract from Roger of the St. Louis Cardinals, signed it and fired it back, and about all he will do between now and the last of the month is to wait and gentry hie trusty pen to communicate with the Gi- ant chieftain yesterday. M. E. Bok, of Sumas, wrote that he wae attending the Washington State college, and that while he siked to play basebsti, he alee would like to finish out the Joe Jackson of the > @ hunter. He spends most of the winter months hunting fox and rabbits in the South. Joe always uses a single-barre! gun when hust- and one day he was asked why didn’t use a doubdle-barrel gun. “Well,” replied Joe, “I can shoot uch better with a single-barre! 4 I don't care much about killing the rabbit outright. I would rath- er wound it and then run it down myself Just to keep in condition to cirele the bases.” Manager Hank O'Day will try to Reds next season by changing the ‘There’ imith-Charley Reiley four-round bout at/ color of their uniforms. The Reds will wear gray suits om the road. They have worn blue uniforms on the road for the past three years. The home uniforms will be the 16-round dra wto settle and the | that the bout had to be stopped after a round and a half. Tommy MO| sone ay in former yoars—white, winner is promised a match with! Pariand and Ray Campbell, lightweights, put up a fast four-round draw Willie Robinson got the decision over Cy Bronson. | Prank Burgess to sleep in the fourth. Hosan, the Chinese scrapper a Francisco. Coenen pameaee @eeeseseeecescoeosesecenece * PORTLAND'S NIFTY OUTFIELD MAY GO IN THE DISCARDS— WILLIAMS WANTS .300 GARDENERS. Nick Williams has a very laudable ambition—he wants to have an outfield trio that will bat over He has landed Ed Bryer of Lansing, Mich., who hit 336 last year It strikes us, Nick had a pretty fair outfield last near—about the best fn He may get better hitters than Billy Speas, bat he'll travel far and wide before sun-fielder who can throw, or run bases, or chase files, like this Billy Spean. Eddie Meusor, who can probably throw as far as any player in the cirenit behind Speas and Mensor in both speed and throwing, but he is a better batsman. Speas are two of the fastest baserunners ever in this circuit If Nick gets any better, he will surely have some * & 300. hard-hitting the league, he finds gardeners. in fact. Williams seems to think it can phenoms on his hands. Weeded ee en The be improved on |? HAIL MAHMOUT AS ¢ COMING CHAMP Meeeseseeeeee0 LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 10.—Mah- mout, the Turkish wrestier, today is considered the coming mat cham- pion by focal fans, who last night saw him easily defeat ivan Ro- manoff, the Russian gi in straight fa’ it only required 21 Minutes for Mahmout to win th first fail and 12 minutes for the cin RRRRDARRRA RRR * . * ODD BITS OF SPORT *| * Kkkhkhh hhh hh! Boston was defeated last night by te. Louis in the national billiard | tournament. Fa: . representing St. Louis, won handily in the three cushioned match, 50 to 28, Tim McCafthy was outpointed by Billy Grupp in eight rounds before the Irish-American club. The po- lee interfered several times when |the mixing began to get hot, and later stopped the match after eight rounds, J. E. Poggenburg, former national champion, won the afternoon game yesterday in the national amateur Clase A, 182 balk Mine billiard championship. Pogaenburg de- feated C. W. Conklin, the interna- tional champ, 400 to George Nixon equaled the 1145 seconds for 25 yards, now held by Charles Dayels, while participating | in a swimming contest in the Y. M. C. A. pool. H stages | Phil Knight was clearly outpoint- ed im his fight with Young Saylor, jat Indianapolis, in their ten-round | bout last night. | | For the middieweight wrestling |championship of the Middle. West, | Krarry Brondeli of Davenport, fa.,| defeated Gus Nicholson of Rock Isl and last night, in the latter city, in| straight fal Pittsburg fans*have nothing more | to worry them. Marty O'Toole, the | “$22,500 twirling beauty his signed contract Barney Dreyfus. ” has sent | to President SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, manager of the Turf cafe, was t serve six months for having bru Sacramenta, a dance hall girl | Lawler’s sentence came as { ten minutes, Lawler said he would have to pay the fine. SHSSSEEEEERT * » * » * * = » > * * »* » | the wood that FORMER PUGILIST GOES TO JAIL previous juries having disagreed. Cyclone Kelly put = eae = eeoeeceeseoevesoe e * * He ts after a couple more * Likewise Pettigrew is just a trifle Mensor and old outfield will be on deck, but * * * *| *) * * RHEE MHRA ERE * BAKER ORDERS MORE ° HOMERUN STICKS ° J. Franklin Baker, the real home run kid, is preparing for a strenuous campaign. Now J. Prank is not ex- actly superstitious, but he lives next door, and besides, when a play: er makes a couple of home runs in & world’s series with a certain kind of a bat, why should he use any other kind? That's just it. Last fall Baker brought joy to the Phila deiphia fans with & long, big club, hewed of wood from the Kentucky mountains, and Baker believes there is some peculiar thing about lis home runs. “Just a dozen more like this one,” Baker wrote a bat manufacturer of Louisville. He cautioned the manufacturer, | though, to be sure and return to his farm at Trappe, Md., the famous ciub that settled the world’s series last fall. Jimmy Lawler, former pugilist, aken to the county fail today to utally attacked Ada Bretagne of He must also pay a fine of $500. he result of his third trial, two The third jury was out just to mortgage his mother's home with red trimmings. Handsome Jack Killilay will be with the Jersey City club in the Eastern league this year, Boston has not turned him loose, but, on the contrary, will keep a string attached. The Chicago Cubs would like to cop Doc Miller of the Boston Braves. So would 14 other major league clubs In 1907, 1908 and 1909 Harry Wol- verton, the old, and Bud Sharpe, the new manager of the Oakland | x, team, played together on the New- ark of the Kastern league. Harry played third and Bud first. Catcher Tommy Murray has been traded to St. Paul, Minn., by Judge McCredie for Stieger, a young pltch- er. The judge says he has just one vacancy left on the Portland North- western pitching staff. Harry Sutor says he won't play bal} unless Danny Long pays him the right kind of a salary, and Dan- ny says he won't play unless it is at the salary he (Long) has offered him. In the meantime Sutor is im- ploring the White Sox to send him & brand new southpaw, In spite of the fact that Referee Eddie Hanlon gave the decision to Holland, Frank Mantel! claims that he won the recent bout by @ mile, Frank wants another crack at the former Spokane boy, and says if he doesn't win by a mile he will never don the gloves HERE 18 THE INCUBA For you-The Ideal, Bullf for Rhis climate, Eight successful, seuko: gh,ceryiee Bold only by the ‘Chas. 1 Lilly Co., Foot of Main St, Seat! ALBANY bentists DENTISTS We Are the Pike Street Bargain Dentists we making soa Growns for j regular 925 Bete of Teeth for 1a, and Sliver Wille Boe These low prices for the very bent Wark are not to be had in Seattle ox- ne Als 1 ° willing to work for » reputation. Our prices are very low; our work equals the best in the world. It is to your advantage and our gain ll on us. 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Take slovanes or walk up. ligkeheteekeeeen GLIM WASNT WORKING PACKEY LOVES HIS EVE AND DIDN'T FIGHT By United Press Leased Wire) New’ YORK, Feb, 10.--Bxplana tions were forthcoming here today from Packey McFarland, who failed to show up in Phitadelphia last Wednesday night for & sixround contest with young Erne. “It wan like this,” began MoFar- land. “A man has but one face, and mine rests on my shoulders. might add that tam very fond of It, nd when Kid Burns closed up ight eye I decided it would be |bad business for me to meet Mr. Erne with only one glim working ‘That's there is to it.” RUBE MARQUARD ° SIGNS UP e eoeeoveese#e#3qo3#e#e#ee# NEW YORK, Feb. 9.--Rube Mar quard, leading pitcher of the Na tional league in 1911, today bas signed to play with the New York Giants for three years JACK WILL FIGHT IN NEW * YORK CHICAGO, Feb. Jack Jobn- son, hearyweight champion of the |world, is scheduled to teave for |New York tonight, where he says jhe will sign articles for a 10-round fight before the Fairmont Athletic club, Although he says be has been offered $30,000 as bis end of the puree, the negro admitted that he had no knowledge a8 to who bis opponent would be. » Road his tal she A ea Mince |® WELCOME, MR. HUTSON * A young named William # Hutson is so sure that he is & the real thing that he has of: ® tered to pay his way from an ® obscure village in Litinote in order to try for the second bag job on the Giant team “There's nothing the matter with that offer,” said Dugiets, yesterday, “and it may be there is nothing the raatter with the young man. I vhall write him to come on. He speaks like he means it.” Of course Hutson will have to pay hie way back if he doesn't make good. His chief competitor will be Hosea Sine so from Hiinole. 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SS Thi OM AWE aT " Lapy FREE ATT ERAMINATION D i DENTISTS 22h Gold Crowns Bridgework Full Set of Teeth $1.50 to 95.00 94.50 tos $1.50 Up ro Porcelain Crowns Gold Fillings Silver Fillings OWE DO EXaAC ADVERTISE GUARANTEED TLY AS WE ALL WORK 15 YEARS Laboring People's | Dentists ELECTRO DENTAL PARLORS GRST AYE, and PIKE STL Marie Opposite Pudii oe -~—~rrrrTr rere eee eee eee eee) * PREACHER-PLAYER MAX CAREY, PIRATE OUTFIELDER ad HAS MADE SUBSTITUTE OF VETERAN TOMMY 222922 ¢e-0 ¢ Pee, Tomm: famous the Wee,” noted as wonderfal a er and terrific hitter, won't occupy his old place in the Pittaburg out- field this year; instead Tommy will decorate the bench, his place being token by Max Carey, the sensation at youngster, christened by his teammates Ministerial Kid,” for he is # preacher of the gospel loaders can point to a man on the bench who is good as veteran Leach, and this speaks elo- quently for the opinion Manager Clarke has of Carey Although a minister, Carey prob- ably will not follow his calling for some time. This winter he ts train ing for next season by selling un- derwear, and can indicate the good points of all wool whatdo-you-call ‘ome as eloquently as he ean tatk & backsiider into the straight and narrow path. Carey tb remarkable youth, An all-round athlele in college, with a mark of 10 seconds for the hundred, and a major leaguer of promise, hii thoughts turn to the ministry, and he admits he follows baseball and the life of a aslewman as a stepping stone to a higher calling. Fred Clarke says Carey's too good a ball player to quit Max was raw when. he joined the Pirates w He had natural qualifications, including wonderful speed, but lacked the polish which comes from association with top- liners, He didn't know how to bat, that is, he didn’t get the most from his efforts at bat. Clarke took Carey Into left Meld. The youngster watched the master erafteman and caught on quickly. Today he is one of the best fielders in the league. MAX CAREY RAE * * * “BLINK” ON THE BLINK Carey was one of the first to sign|* | PARIS, Feb. 10-—“Blink™ this senson's contract. He received |* McCloskey, a white American & substantial increase, and Pitts | * fighter is still dazed today as burg looks for him to eara another |* @ result of a beating he re- one by his pi this year, Sure-|* ceived last night at the hands iy he must hy class to force * of Bob Scanlon, a negro from “Tommy the Wee" to the role of ® the United States, Scanlon first utility outfielder put McCloskey to sleep in the # eighth round with a terrific eeceeeeececee see o * right to tue jaw. McCloskey . * was unconscious for half an ° PHILADELPHIA, Feb. ©) # hour. * 10.—The Philadelphia Na- ¢|* tional League club has to- ¢|/** ****e wee eee e day released Pitcher Hall The D tek Win to the Tacoma Northwest- ern club: BERLIN, Feb. 10.—Walter Rutt and Jobann Stoll, comprising the German-Dutch team today collect- ed first money in the six-day inter. national bike race which ended jhere last night. Joe Fogler and James Moran finished second, with Eddie Root and Fred Hill third. The men covered 2.405% miles. Zbyszko vs. Demetral fi50 of the W SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.—| gress for Port Z James W. Coffroth, fight promoter,|the two firemen & When Harry Wolverton leaas his |today bas completed arrangemants|sent Portland New York Yankees on the field for|for a wrestling match here March which conveses i the opening battle of the season, he|17 between Stanislaus Zbyszko and Feb. 16, will will be presented with a loving cup,|Wm. Demetral, The bout will be ship Rear the gift of Oakland, Cal, fans. Har-jeatchascatehbcan and will be The a ry managed the Oakland team last | staged in an open air arena, et ‘squad will lente Berth season and made good. Bighth and Howard streets. 15, making the trip § Seattle Business Direc No matter what your needs may be, you will find them en ne ay ave —Cut the Directory out and paste in a convenient place * * * * * * * * * * * * * * eW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.—John- ba hampton of the | we here today | for his 20-round fight Feb. 18 with Frankie Burns of Jersey City. The bout will be staged on Sunday by the West Side Athletic club. Wants Bowling PORTLAND, Or, i termined to grab HOMES Mr. Rent Payer, why ‘wot buy a new tow figure Get our Book of Bungsiow Piana te ‘THE BUNGALOW ©O.. Ine, Main S146. Central Bids. 1 GENERAL LOAN BROKER at Rates on Loans From $25 to Save Money by Getting My Rates. 446 NEW YORK BLOCK u. 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