The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1912, Page 2

2 HE Star is atrong for amateur athietice— T for the boy, T! jepartment caters specially to news of amateur events, and amateur doings are given the same attention ae ews of professional aportamen. Phone your amateur news to ‘The Star, Main 9400, Independent 441 HIST! JEFF IS THINKING; © ADMITS HE WAS DOPED; MAY FIGHT JACK AGAIN LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12.— Persistent stories that Jim Jef- fries may return to the ring for another chance at Jack Johnson are furnishing much material for talk in fight circles today. While the big fellow explicit- ly denies that he intends to try in, his brother Jack admits that such a thing has been sug- and that Jim is oo matter some thought. Jim it he was doped memorable mention of brings a ite friends to see in ight training proposed hunting more and better sports il 8 i : 2 Ff tl é ; I | i Fy i iy 34 a. FA JEFFRIES NEWS AND STATISTICS Professional Sports Fostered Edited by RO ~ JBOODMAN BUSTS|:7>™ 2,08 HIS. MITT CLASSY CARD STAGED AT THE BAKERS’ SMOKER One of the nicest fighters in the city has been put out of commis sion temporarily as the result of the classy emoker staged by the bakers’ union at the Labor Temp! Saturday night. The fighter Floyd Goodman, one of the numer. ous “fighting teamsters.” Floyd broke his feft mitt in the second round of his bout with Wolff, He had the best of the go until he re- ceived his injury, but it was neces. sary to slip the decision to his op. The Romeo-Martin affair was a hummer, although little Tom gave away more than 10 pounds of beef. The baker was given the decision above the protest of the Charley Givens and Tommy fought a draw. Y‘ Phillips and the Tumwater Kid furnished ti fun of the evening. The ~~ son wae favored the i" Billy Vetro won over Mohe: scheduled bout and main event be- omowopenciomemienrrmepimrmirereomecememcnns tween O'Leary and Clements did ester International cured Pitcher Dolly Gray from the Washington Americans, announced today that other international man- agers had waived on the lengthy southpaw and that Gray will be sold to a Pacific coast league club. His refusal to state which coast club will get Gray has led to the belief that he will go to the high- est bidder. Gray went to Wash- ington from Los Angeles, “WAIT,” SAYS HAP LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12.—-Pree- ident Henry Berry of the Los An- geles club said today that he is making no attempt to land Gray from Rochester, said: maybe I can toll you something then.” Hogan is known to be an admirer of Gray's work. RRRHRAAEHRERRRE * * SURE OF VICTORY *® Kketekeeeteeeee SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12-—~ Freddie Welsh and Frank Kiaus, headliners of the rival boxing shows POSTPONES TRAINING [ t5 be staged here Feb, 22, got do LOB ANGELES, Feb. —Ajte the hard grind of training to ‘cut Saw Ain day. Welsh i¢ to box Jack Britton, Will keep the Ut.| Chicago lightweight, on Washing- Deginning his | ton's birthday and is prepart for his match with | the bout at M! place in Colma, while Klaus, who is to meet Saflor Petroskey, ts doling hia work at Al Both Klaus and Welsh y that they would win their ro- ive battles by knockouts. od the cut, while rom working for| Tinker of Chicago picks his team not seriously | to win the pennant next season and lansigns second place to Pittsburg. ‘The Daveno is a boon in apartments and homes where an extra bed is desired without an extra bedroom. We heartily indorse it as the best combination bed-davenport ye: devised We show it in a wide range of designs.in mahogany and ork. Tt combines a beautify! davenport and a genuine bed— most simple construction—all working parts are metal-—it never gets out of order—it is safe and sanitary—it is stronger and more rigid than any other make—a regular spring and mattress are used just like a regular bed—the pillows and all bedding fold inside. The Fee s Sold on Easy Terms It is time to think about your spring sewing. Have you a good sewing machine to work with, or are you just getting along with one of those ordinary machines which has no up-to-date im provements? The Free sewing machine has eight sets of ball bearings, making it the casiest running Machine. The Rotoscillo movement, a Free patent, combines all the advantages of both the shuttle and round-bobhin machines, If you wish, we will sell you the Free on a small cash payment and $1 weekly payments. Seattle’s Largest Housefurnishing Store Pay ster PIKE 61. AND FIFTH AV. not come off, as the latter failed to In the opinion of one Cincinnatt critic, “Esmond, Benton and Keefe were the stars brought out by the Reds last season, For a second division club these men ranked with Pletcher, Alexander and Chalmers.” When the Giants go to their camp at Marlin Springs next month they will be without their mascot, Charley Fai he is a jinx. Grover «Alexander of the Phillies predicts he will win one-third of the games neces sary to capture a pennant. That leaves it up to the other pitchers te win the remaining twothirds, which may be & very large contract in the end, even if Alexander ts successful. He won 28 games last season with a crippled team. Charles B. Adams, better known as “Babe,” has signed his Pirate contract. Babe writes he has been id up with a cold, but is improv. ling and will be ready for West Baden. The worid’s series hero of a few years ago ranks with the top notehers in the pitching depart- | ment. | And now they say there's a new baseball trust. If Ty Cobb runs |for president, according to W. J. B.'s suggestion when he was in | Pittsburg last summer, this might |be made an issue in the campaign. Clark Griffith intends to take @ cooks with the | Washington team. It ie possible that Griffith has disco what | Danny Long tx sore on the Port- Hand scribes because one of the | papers there is said to have stated ithat the Frisco club was the weak \sister of the league. If it be true that new ball parks Iways bring pennants, the Nati: league race will end next fall with | Cincinnati and Brooklyn tied for |first place’ and the honor of strug- gling with the ? 7 7? team for the world’s championship. | Members of the World's Cham- pion Athletic club received solid |gold fobs, surrounded by a gold | wreath within which is a miniature ibaseball, in the center of which is a half-carat yellow diamond. The lother side has the words “World's ‘hampton Athletics, 1911,". in jscribed on ft “Mike” Donlin is holding out on ithe Boston Nationals and refuses to sign. My, how the Giants could use their old slugger in the outfield if they could only get him back! “Ping” Bodie, the fence breaker, has permitted a beer manufacturer in San Francisco | out of the lmelight. jman he has as many curves a8 @ | pitcher. Popularly supposed to be an insurance man he developed into an actor last winter, Now the boss |twirler is said to be filling in the }time between the Cuban campaign land the opening of the training sea |son by selling Long Island real es | tate. The new Red Sox layout re- capitulates thue: James Mc- Aleer will manage the team from the bench, Jake Stahl will manage it from the field, Rob- ert McCurdy will manage it from the box office, and John 1. Taylor will continue to man- age it from the prees stand. . Ex-Catcher Wilbert Robinson will again accompany the Giants on the southern training trip, acting as as- sistant manager to Manager Mo- Gray and a trainer of the young pitchers. Surprise was caused at Atlanta when Otto Jordan, former manager, refused to sign bis contrs had been understood he was per- feetly agreeable to. playing under Charley Hemphill, He was to have been field captain, but now Alper- man will get that honor, t| Hogan admitted today that ee DIDN’T KNOCK, EVEN IF BILL DID CAN HIM YY WHITMAN Thunderbolt’ Bill Papke Now that Bill Papke, onoo the mighty, but now the meck and lowly, is about to again craw! um der the managerial wing of Tom Jones, the story of how Papke threw Tom down is Interesting. ‘Twas like this: biny Just beaten lights out of Stanley Ketchel in a scheduled 25-round bout, ended in the twelfth round, at Low Angeles. Five times in the first round did Ketohel fall before the witdeat attack of the Kewaunee boy than Stanley for 11 rounds and was counted out in the twelfth. Big Jim Jeffries refereed, sight to pion tose from a clinch as though they were babies, Swelled up like 2 «polled schoos boy, Papke took a trip to Frisco, where he soon jost hit head under the adulation of the very speedy sports of that rapid town. Sam Jone@wtayed in Low Angeles jto while the time away, until the [hour should arrive to fix upameth- er scrap for Billy. Karly one morning Jones walked into Jim Jeffries’ barroom, It wag before the crowd had red. in |Jones’ hand was a telegram. He i fell into one of the bow seats and |bowed his head between hig banda, “Why, what's the matter, Tom? asked Jack Kipper, Jeffries’ part- ner, as he passed through and noted the head of Jones pn the |table. y} Tom handed over the t ram. It read: " “T bave signed up Sam Beller an my manager.—Papke.” Every man who had followed |Papke’s brilliant career was sur- | } . [prived that night when the sport lextras told how Papke had tossed overboard the man who led him to the championship Jones was really heartbroken, But all be would say is printed in the following Hines Billy is a great fighter,” 1 Ike him and you'll never hear me turn fn a knock. This burts, though.” | Jones didn't ‘have much money jand Freddie Moler, the big brew. lery man of Los Angeles, who wag ja close friend of Jeffries, found him a place to tend bar. ANGELES, Feb. 12—Ite vau stuff vaudeville this time—not ti he ie stage at the close of the coming playi been ma “4 Mitchell, whom Hogan is trying to la is an amateur actor of ‘ability. iin v4 fused to deny that he ha: Mitchell to be his partne: for his Villagers, Hogan claims to have booki: which > Jones, ts one might say, was yond, F He was “bred in the deep No word of censure re game. tion ever slipped from his lps. A tew days | | DECISIVE BASKETBALL DOPE AND COMMENT Amateur Sports Encouraged ] U TEAMS CLASH / TONIGHT GAME AT LOCAL GYM TONIGHT ‘The basketball teams of the Unt- versity of W versity of O opening game ut the local gym to- night. The two teams clash again tomorrow night and if either should happen to take over both contests they have practically copped the state championship, fhe local university team has set returned from a successful trip east of the mountal They gath- ered in the sealpa of the W. 8. C. in two games and from idaho and Gonzaga college by big scores. Every effort is being made to get Capt. Osear Olson in tonight's game and the faculty athletic committee will consider hig reinstatement to- day. The visttors arrived, piloted by Coach BI Hayward, yesterday. Jamison and Fenton, two of the state's erack basketball men, will be in the game. Enough Not Enough; Wil- son Wants More Jim Wilson thinks enough is not enough. At the last Redmond smoker Jim was stung so often and so hard that he spent most his (ime on the mat, \* His opponent | py, couldn't 4 publication, devoted to ing events of the worl outside sport gossip. If yor ested in the Pink, Mave it T ie ir Pink, published each eee GEORGE ceceee oe a o * . e . . . NEW FIELDS FOR THE STOVALL THIS SEASON eal °° Cee r] Looks like both the Stovall boys will be tn fresh spring. Judge McCredie slipped the halter on Jess the elongated chap has signed with Boise, in the UW George i» not sure where he will play, but there his getting to the minors last year after Jim McGuire got Bomers wa for the managerial job. away ti George did well with the G 0 & bad etart, ‘t content to let well enough alone, and Of course George may stick om. job, but ft is weldom that a manager stays with © team @ nd elevated to be traded, managership and then deposed jeorge has been hobnobbing with Frank @ Angeles, and Jimmy Callahan of the White Sox has graphic communication with the office of President land the past few weeks. teams have a bad hole in that corner, jaan 2 a Jack Jobnson says that he is go-| The Philadelphia ing to run for political office in bis district in Chicago. Jack is anxious to be @ city father and sit alongside | the Bermudas, due Hinky Dink. No reason at al! why There is a colored pop- was Mr, Stinger, your white hope, | uiation of 20,000 in his ward from Bothell, This time Jim is confident he will reverse, and hang the stings on Mr. Stinger. Matchmaker Art Curtis has « clansy card on tap for the smoker at Kedwond Saturday night, as follows Watkins, R, A. C., va. Williams, RK. A. ©, at 166 pounds; Bosley Bothell, A. C., ve. Speck Wall, R. V. %, 170; Arospiger, BLA. C., va. A. C., 160; Tom Halk- a C., va, Jerome Cur- tis, R.A. C136, The Wrestling numbers will be between Morton, B. A. C., and inknown heavy from the R. A. ¢ later and Papke/and Ness, B. A.C, and Spank, of blow into Los Angeles, with Sam the BR. V. A. © taht with Hugo Kelly. the day.) Berger at the helm. He ribbed up| it went |t 6:45 p. m, returning at he limit and Papke looked the lim-| making ft easy for the Seattle fans Hosts will leave Madison Park 11:15, it when Hugo finiwhed with bim,/to get back home He was the worst beaten man that ‘ever stepped into a ring. | They called it a draw, but Kelly “Uniess something better than that in sight now bobs up,” sald But a gamer lad never diedj was unmarked, while Billy spent) Ad Wolgast the other day ip talk- He fought Papke off|the greater part of a week im @ ing over the fight situation, “I am Turkish bath unewelling his eyes coiling after the middleweight title, and patching up his face. Tom Jones didn't say, you so,” but kept bar, The f were and Ad ‘olgast was shrewd enough to take him as manager when the opportunity came. PASTIME STAGES ITS FIRST SHOW Tho Pastime Athletic club, the latest to break into the fold of the PN. A, will make its bow to the public tonight with a little affair 1 with Jones, in the Rainier hall at Georgetown. | Manager Wood says be b ogies to offer for the will be a good one lows the Coleman, P. A. A. vs, Archie Wyard, B.A. C., at 110 pounds Johanie Jones, P. A. C., v8. Bin- oki, R. V. A. C., at 110 pounds Harry Edrick of PA. C Croveh Murphy of the R. V. A at 135 pounds. ela Rongive of P. A, C liems of the BR. V. A. ©. w, for it The card fol- ve Cc va, Wil at 335 Litt Dugan of the R. V. A. C. at 145 pounds. Battling Carney of P. A Unknown, at 160 pounds “Oid Cy” Young ts taking life strenously on his farm at Paoli, 0. Cy has Kept down to weight chop ping wood and doing other farming stunts. He bas a fine herd of sheep this winter, and he takes great pride in taking care of them him- self. Cy bas also found time to do little hunting, Isome good game. Cc. va. HEAL WAUDEMILLE FOR “HAPPY” deville for Hap Hogan. Regi he pulls from the coaching lines. “considering an offer to go on the ng son. Furthermore, he re- @ proposition with Mysterious already for 20 weeks, and has bagged | | j } 1 | ! { won't do that until I have beater told | the two or three good lightweights on tending bis | in aight. “He wouldn't say whom he meant by the “good lghtweights.” PATRONIZE Renton, Rainier Valley, Jackson Street and Ce COLUMBIA ica ons nin rm ry WATCH REPAIRING When It Ignves Here tt Will Keep ‘errect Time. My Experience Will Guaran- tee You Safe Work. Columbia, 014 Menton Line. CENTRAL FEED STORE mogax & mocanN 8866 Mainier Ave, Columbia. le Reed of B.A, C, va. Boll Hay, Grain, Flour and Feed Beacon 784, Ind. York 24. CONFECTIONERY 4969 Mainier Ave. Columbia. We Are the Leading Place Here. A Clean Store. Prices Bight. ‘The Rest Goods. CITY SASH & DOOR CO. SASH, DOORS AND MILL WORK WE SELL GLASS 8000 Mainier Ave. York se Beacon 1987 DUDLEY & SONS —PxuOwES— m2 Sunset Beacon 1971, Ind. Col 4d. 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