The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1912, Page 2

RIGHT, BRIEF AND BREEZY S TORIES — BURNS IS BALKING °| AT TERMS EDDIE BURNS. Catcher Rddie Burns, last year a Tacoma Tiger, hasn't reported to Manager Bresnahan yet, and there is nothing certain about his doing ge, Eddie doesn't like the size of the figures Rajah wrote tn his coutract Burns fs coaching the ball team of St. Mary's college, putting that aggregation in trim for the annual “trimming” they «ive the big league clubs in practice games. Eddie is an old St. Mary's boy, ‘nd he and Harry Krause of the Athletics were a star battery at the college for years. Burns had some good material lined up for St. Mary's team this spring, bat now he ts having his troubles. “Frick Leonard” will go professional, and right now the only question is whether Joe € of Spokane or Jim MeAleer of the Boston Sox shall have his services. Eddie's second string mound artist ix Mike Cann, and a couple of the big league clubs are now trying to entice Mike away Harry Simpson, who succeeded) Burns as the club catcher and who wanted more money to come up end catch for Shreeder last sum Mer than George ever made out of baseball in bis life, is #till on the job for the college team. Burns, by the way, has returned his third contract unsigned and as Bresnahan says he will do no bet ter, it loaks as though Eddie will continue to coach at St. Mary's. Wants Revenge MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 15.— Packey McFarland, the Chicago lightweight, will meet Eddie Burns) at Kenosha, Wis, tonight for the a time within a few weeks, 2 men met recently in New York gad, although Burns lost the de _tision, he gave Packey a black eye. Packey says he will get revenge Ronight for the injury Burns did to ‘AD AND MATT. lo CARD COFFROTH WOULD MATCH TWO! | LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPS (By United Press Leased Wire) BAN FRANCISCO, March 15.-- Fight promoters today are failing over themseives in an attempt to land a match between Ad Wolgast and some likely aspirant to the lightweight title, James Coffroth was the first to get busy after the champion’s announcement that he was ready to reenter the ring and Coffroth is belie: to be planning to match Wolgast with Matt Wells, the English champion, ae an attrac tion for the Fourth of July. Rivers 10 to 6 Favorite Rivers are y tor thelr soheduled }20round affair tomorrow afternoon at Vernon. Both boys ate easly in side the stipulated weight, 128, |pounds, which was made without recourse to the usual last day strecgth sapping processes, Natur ally both expect to win. Rivers ts @ 10 to 6 favorite today over the Chicago boy, and |: was predicted that the odds would drop to 2 to t at ring time. The betting been Light. LINCOLN MIDGETS ELECT The Midgets of Lincoln held a meeting after school yesterday and elected Ward Reynolds captain and Gardiner Foye manager of the base ball team for this season. The first turnout of the year will occur on Monday afternoon, A Midget track team will be formed fn the near future, and it i# hoped that there will be a large turnout. HOW TO SUCCEED During the last { few years, condi tions in all lines of business, even professional life, have changed ¢o | completely that every man is wak: }img up to the fact that in order to win success be must specialize and learn to do some one thing and do it well, t So it is with any article that ts |sold to the people. it must have genuine merit or no amount of ad vertising will maintain the demand | for the article } For many years a remarkable record has been maintained by Dr.) Kilmer's SwampRoot, the «reat Kiduey, Liver and Bladder Remedy. | From the very beginning the pro) | prietors had so much confidence tn ‘it that they Invited every one to) teat it, free of cost, before purchase | ing. It is @ physician's prescription | They have on flic thousands of} | letters received from former suffer. lers who are now enjoying 00d | health ae a result of its ane. However, {f you wish first to try a sample bottle, address Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamtos, N. Y., and men. tion Dept. R. They wil! gladly for ward you « sample bottle by mail, absolutely free. ) Regular sizes for sale at all drug} giste—fifty.cents and one-dollar ‘ | out on the jcould heave the big | wast 17 feet io the air. That means “THE STAR’S SPORTING eeeeeeeeeeeeene * CON WALSH BEGAN AS A BABY BY TOSSING THINGS OUT OF CRIB; NOW HE TOSSES HEAVY WEIGHTS ’ eeeeeereeseeeeee bi lat Irteh Way back ta the days when clos were positively the very thing in locomotion, a tin: d, only 6 @ than 6 feet 2 inches in hte went down to Dublin and the yeurs old and standing bare entire land of the capturing three f a policeman who had id the champlonship of the Island with the wolghts Yesterday afternoon that same lad, now a big good-natured man, with three world’s records and one national record to his credit, told how he did it, aa he stood behind the 8. A. C. headquarters and “just for fun” threw a big tron ball all over the lot with one hand. Con Walsh, perhaps the best known weight man in the country, has been compelled all through his life Wo @ake records whether he wanted them or pot, Kven at the present (ime, when be is trying to keep out of athietic contests and settle down vo i® another world’s record staring him in the face to be won Friday night in the PON. A. champlonship games in the \rmory Just Took to Heavy Things Walsh just naturally took heavy Usings, When he was a babe he used to pitch everything be could out of hie cradle, and when he was a boy in school he would go Hite Irish farm and grab all the big stones he could find, heaving them from one corner to another, His parents had an aversion to athletic contests, and when he was old enough to go in he had to sneak out at night or in the early morning, dash off on bis bieyele, snd be out of sight before they uuld stop by In those days Irish prizes not medals or ribbons, but cut salad bowls and other dishes. Con reually cleaned up all the dishes in the weight events, and then he bad to ride home at night on his bieyole, steering with one hand and carry ng the dishes with the other, Youterday he declared that the worst experience he ever had in that connection was ane dark night when he bumped into something on the rosd and was thrown headiong. the dishes smashing tnto little bits He tater found he had collided with a sleeping donkey First Records in 1910 Waleh first got into national prominence n he got the world’s outdoor record with the 56-poupd weight in 1910, lifting it 16 feet 6 inches. In October be got another world’s record, the Indoor mark for the same weight, lifting it 16 feet ¢ inches, He followed this by get ting the record for heaving the weight over the bar at the height! 15 feet 2 inch ‘Then at the national games last | summer ho got the hammer record | by throwing [t 177 feet 16% Incber Walsh found yestertay that he irom ball at astounded rec ore he stands good to break hie two | former world's records tonight at ‘the P. N. A. Indoor meet in the Se- } attle Armory 1t will all depend,” he says, “on my onap. If I ¢ get the right snap into it there will be ano MARCH 15, 1912 THE STAR—FRIDAY, EDITED BY ROV WHITMAN HIS * bs POrrrererer (Tree reli Peace CCadea Reape eeeeesccccvecces| | | mous fracture of the world’s r@cord and one national record. Neverthe jail right | teas, he declares he t# ready to quit [letle man in Seattle today, jae Be does three world’s OREGON TEAM WON BAT AND BUD MAY ANOTHER BE MATCHED hed ASHING To N BASKETBALL | NELSON WANTS: TO RETURN TEAM LOSES HARD GAME TO THE COAST | Press Leased Wire) Or, March 15.—If the University of Oregon basketball | irrespreasible team wins from the University of | lightweight Washington again tonight, Grad-| heard from again ing | Inst appearance in a P.N. A ll plouship meet (mz Uuites Press Leseed wise). PORTLAND, Or, March 16.-—The Bat exon, champion, bas been According to fan PAGE IS jwate Manager Geary will claim the | Northwest conference champion ‘ship on the ground that Oregon went through the regular canfer nee with the highest percentage of games won and. loat The pisy last night ene hard. | Oregon won by a score of 17 to 14 it was one of the fustest aod most sclentific contests seen here in sev- | eral seasons. here today Bat will make to box in Oregon Klamath Falls. Pro moters in the Southern Oregon olty are trying to ar « a 10round contest between the battler and Bud Anderson of Vane An dereson’s m frantic to oy Kowalp another effort this time at aver ot the ex-champion, | provided the Dane can make 135 jpounds ringside. The match will | probably be held some time in May ger here says Bud is! COMPLETE ANT GOTGH TO | TACKLE ZB: FRISCO PROMOTER OFFERS IOWAN $10,000 PURGE } ' (ty United Press Lenned Wire) BAN FRANCISCO, March 16— Promoter James Coffroth today is | negotiating with Champion Frank | Gotoh, trying to arrange a wrestiing [match in San Francisco between | him | Demetrai match here Sunday after noon, Coffroth offered the lowan a) $10,000 purse and hopes to bring! jhim to the coast Joyful Conthiagiation Leneed Wh reb ory for the regulare and igans in two gainer with col: lege teams ts giving the fans food for joytul contemplation today, for the Hoganitos in each game showed | Up strong and gave Boat ae | for the coming se jars shut out the sont Sheen Califor. nia university team cn | piling up seven runs, The Vernon) | Yannigans defeated the wicoues jals 11 to 6 TENNIS CLUB ELECTS. By A. Hurwite. The Franklin Tennis club has been reorganized and the following officers elected John Nordgren, president; Harold Pingree, sec. and treas.; Lioyd Chase, Tolo repre. sentative, Plenty of good material has joined the club and Franklin intends to make a bid for the inter- high school honors. THE MAIN FEATURES In Good Clothes FABRIC, PATTERN, —-FIT— 1 give them all in good meas ure—and, lest you forget ELEVATOR UP— PRICE DOWN. $15.00 STYLE, $26.00 BUITS || vor | Con t probably the biggeeé ath-| the game, and tonight may be his} cham: | | 233 LIBERTY BUILDING, Opp. Postoffice. UPSTAIRS. | Open Saturday Night. former | d the winner of the Zbyarko- | Pictures ‘OF TR F THE WORLD'S ATHLETES | BUDWE ISER : USED 1 TO BE Ww) rs | SUIT—NOW IT’S APPLE Cipgy “ . We amateur his weight In bis own pa and breaking ee who athlote . + ee pad known 7 heaving huge t ism vital g not in the ordiner | To lift the | have must have the ight che—with one wat th also be hin own has always f in Your ago, he et any oe is im knowing just 9 rainer of it However, the hin weight ake For « long time Tt howe of uF lwelser tel at he te fein rmory tonight change i declared ye the big P. A break @ world’s record in t O-w. chan | | cording he has ¢ nged r by | N : West Boal | SPRING SEASON 1912 1 IN EFFECT MARCH 1 TO APRIL 16, INCLUSIVE If you bave a friend, relative or family anywhere im the y7o8 want to bring to Western Washington or the Puget Somat now is the time to buy your tickets over the Union Pa and O-W. R. &N, | Colonist Pares from some of the principal points are as |New York .... | Boston | Buffalo jChicago . Detroit Indianapolis . Nashville New Orleans St. Louis ‘ San Antonio | Colorado Comn j Missouri River om Points ..... 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Temple is a nat, | tah cleared the bamboo at 11 feet,| clever boxer and Dillon, brother of inches at @an Francisco recently Jack Ditlon, the Indianapolis mid and was preparing to make another | dleweight, ts touted as a live one. try bat was discouraged as the pit, | Soldier Schrader and Charley Mil- 4 small one, promised a nasty fall | lor, “white hopes,” are expected to if he swung out too far, It is seid| furnish a Donnybrook fair enter- the pit at Seattle is roomy. tainment teers see Rey Myictinans | COLUMN Temple and Dillon (By Ua aeed Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, March 15— With the Ray Temple-Tom Dillon bout as a topliner, fans today are If you are one of those men who scoff at the idea of being able toget a ready-made suit that will fit you and give as satisfactory wear as a tailor-made suit—we want you. We want to prove to you that what we say is so. 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But from all the vast army from the semi-pro independent cor ner lot teams, whaling the ball in crowded centers of humanity, the tank-town or minor village smears it all O¥er mu@h larger rivals, New York may play fast er ball than "Happy Hollow, but most of the talent that frames the New York line came from Happy Hollow or some toWnahlp of equal ringside weight, Take a look all town cast—Cobb @ from Roy ston, G a from Greenville, 8. C.; Mathewson from Fac’ ; Oy Young from Paolo, 0,; Nap Lajoi®%r ket, R. 1; Tris Speaker from a dinky town a Texas; Nap Rucker from Marletta, Ga.; |{) Larry Doyld from Breese, 1i.; H. H. Perdue put Gal-|}, Jatin “On thé map; Walter Johnson from a railroad station in Idaho; Sam Crawford from Wahoo, Neb. 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