The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1912, Page 2

HE Star le Strong for amateur athietion—more and better eporte T for the boy, This de wa of amateur news of professional « Phone your amateur newe to os The Star, Main 9400, Independent 441, | DS eeveecrcesenveevveeeneeeee eo} ra * NIC WILLIAMS TELLS FUNNY STORIES ON *) Ewe ° AMOS RUSIE AND STEVE KANE *| ihe eereeereeeee eee nme ee eo @ % Nico Will the blonde man : ager of the jand Pippins, ia a likeable and eutertaining fellow, He} officiated as change catcher for the | San Francisco Seals for several ' ears, before taking charge of judge MoCredie’s team, and when Nic drifted down to the souther metropolis this spring, he waa the central figure in many a fanning eer deo umps old Amos pressed into service, “amos would have gotten along ‘all right, but there was a big steam HALF PRICE SALE OF JEWELRY Blegant stock of Watches, Dia monds, Wm. Rogers’ Silverware,! shove! tearing ete., now being sold Whe best bargains you Now, the Coast league fans hay } ay ideas of baseball, as exempli i “i tn the Northwest league, and Nie did not get them a bit out of ; the gotion by some of the umptre | / 5 § stories he told | : “It was one hot day in Portland,” | paid Nic, “and Judge Lindsay, pres | ident of the league, had been hav | fag much trouble with Incompetent Rustic was / | NIC WILLIAMS “Gown a hill outalde immensely, “Perle Casey sprung the modetn hidden ball trick, but Amos was/ | watching the digger Ruste sald) nnn nnn |e didn't see it, and ordered us to] play. “That pesky digger cost ux the | j game, and I asked Judge McCredie | to remove it, and Judge MeCrodie | asked Judge Lindsay to remove; Rusie, Both requests were granted eve Kai pire, thought bh inary run, He never took off his cap when announcing batteries tn | the Canadian towns, and one of the | FRANK BRIGGS | 1330 First Ave. | Arcade Annex Building. the sky piece “I only take off my cap in the United States, piped Steve. | “Honestly, that ink used to stop | proceedings and tell me how to} |play the game. He knew it all./ {One day he came over to me an sald “‘Hereafter when you get & man on second, make him ron home don't let him loaf’ “Honestly, I like to fell dead.” az those who want the best st Motor Boats, Family Launches. uintly Rowboats, raceful Canoes. NE Your summer pleasure. Racine Boat & Auto Co. $93 First Ave Se. SBATTLE. Tracie B ts lek eaneneeheeneee * \* | JOE LOVES DUG AND DUG * LOVES JOE * * SERRE E EET ERE REED Jot STEVENS yd AMOUS affinities of history: ‘Guaranteed Damon and Pythias, Joe * Cobn and Daunte! Dugdale. | | : | fue | } | Cleveland Folks Welcome Their Hero Home CLEVELAND, 0, March 18. | Cleveland fans are’ out en magne | today im celebration of the home- coming of Johnay Kilbane, who wrested the featherweight title! from Abe Attell io Los Angeles February 22, When the new cham plon arrived at the depot the po Hee bad to fight a way for him through the crowds to where his wife and baby awaited him in an/ automobile at the head of a icng) procession. Holding hin baby ra | and waving an American flag, Kt) bane proceeded to the city hall, where the parade was reviewed by Mayor Baker. / Looking for Bouts (fy Culted Press Leased Wire) ST. PAUL, Minn. March 15. Mike Gibbons and Edeve Reddy are) on their way east tod-y, where they will resume activities in the boxing game. Gibbons meets Jack Dem- ming in a return Wrst In New York March 26, and Ernie Zanders at South Bend, Ind. April 5. Reddy hopes.4o pick up at least ene bout “before returning home Halts Copyrighted for private lessons Levery day De nos | ‘rials al we tree, cee BUNGALOWS, sT0e AND Ur NICHOLS ne = : ner Madison SULPHURRO «an 4 on, 506, oe. } Or direct from laboratory at abow ‘ if drocgist cannot supply yo i ing you fur ar ir dealer. 4 Sulphar Co., Seat: us name © { | | North Coast Limited--by way of Minne- To apolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Drawing: Chicago 10m, Compartment, Standard and Tour. ist Sleeping Cars, Coach, Diner and Observation-library Car with barber and bath. 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From advance ¢ orda dale Of course there may be found to the men have t half price.| the park, and {t interested Amo®/eone through practice stunts, but both Dag and Jack are sure that, thie Hants will go be after barring & few minor ie about the way the into trey Barry himself can Fuller falls lown an a if Sine scratch changes There ls no question about short in fact no one to try out agal Haymond for the postion, and Un the big league um-| will be no trouble about third with was above the or-|both Chick and Dutin on the job. figuring on Right now Barry ing both beys. Datta can play the outfield as Canuck bugs asked him to remove | Weil, or he can play second ia case . |Sinor falls down end Barry has to He ts a great utility go to. first. mean, Crotkebenk and Weed are prob dope ablv fixtures, and the advance on Mann Indicates that he wil! ha id {little trouble annexing the job 'a the jcenter garden. There are plenty of lreeruits to rry out, and if they bemt | 1 jany of the above three to the jobs | Marry feels the places wil) be well taken care of. Harry ts sure Sneider will make on twn't @ VOrrying a great deal over the piteh ing staff, and now that DeVogt is ne | he has James good dope ie ood and Thompson and ou the way, he ikewise fun't any sleep over the receiving nd. * * o Reheat eek eae 118 from an Bogtish source: T First Briten—-Can you tell me, dear chap, who will be the next man to bos Jack Johnson? Second Briton—No, old top, I cagnot te you who will be the next man to box Jack John- son. Now ‘oo hile bit? First Briton--Why, the un- dertaker, old chap; the under taker. Ha |, heet eeceoeeeeeveeee i Tom Andrews’ Gossip ¢ jeeeeeeeveeveee bantam here to for the bastam champlonship of the world, became homesick just at a time when everything was opening up \brightly for him, and without a word of warning be looked his pas- Sid Smith, the Englieh weight, who came over challenge Johnny Coulon sage back for dear old Engiand. Smith had just won two fights, another in and he had been for New Orleans, to be followed with one of the same distances with Johnny one in New York and Philadeipbia, matched with Frankie Burns twenty rounds st March 17, Coulon. gested on all sides, as reforme in the game and plac on a solid basis. * Now the women of Indianapolis come out and want to attend) OUTS BARRY AND pe and past reo is is the way Prosi ‘ont Dug ad Manager Jack Horry fig ure their team out at che present play firet if or he can go faila te come to the UNDERTAKER FOR JACK *| The declaration of Mayor Carter {Harrison of Chieago that he is in| favor of boxing. when properly con. stirred up promoters all over the country. The commis-| sion plan seems to be the one sug: | the real | means of bringing about the needed ng it | i . | Tet T TT eT TL) *| the boxing matches and in Sacra | mento, Cal. the chief of police has | announced that all the women in| if they wish. |the city may attend boxing shows| @ A few years ago such | » a statement would have been con-| sidered sufficient to put the man|® times are changing and the feoling against|/® © ¢ © © © @ © © © 0 6 2 2 © ¢ out of office, but the the sport ts subsiding. the announcement Hugh D. promotes York boxing commission that Molntosh, the Australian | had requested the New} to bar Jim Flynn from engaging in bouts! there on account.of breaking a con-| tract, it hi s been given out that Flynn never signed a contract with | the Austraiian, certain teats the cag |poni, the middleweight Gr 9 The Washington Basketbali team and the success it has had on the last trip reminds Vio Zednick of the boys keep kick- in’ my dog aroun’. Washington shouldn't hog all the champion- ships anyhow. MAIN 1043 Well one thing ts Flynn did sign a contract to go to Australia under Mcintosh's direction and engage in three con- for I made out the contract | myself and Jim Flynn signed it at | Northern hotel, in Chi in the presence of Tony Ca ay|Just Printers. 1013 THIRD AVENUE IND. 5200 | has never been brought out. THE STAR—MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1912, SPORTS Edited by ROY WHITMAN : WOLGAST. (5-IN OUR MIDST LITTLE CHAMP PLEASED THAT RIVERS BEAT WHITE . WOLGAST A REAL CHAMPION DOPE AND COMMENT Amateur Sports Encouraged | HE Gtar Pink, published cach © publication, devoted to the Ing events of the world outside sport gossip. if you are eeted in the Pink, Have it deliver * BOBBY COLTRIN . N. W. LEAGUE AGAIN THIS Y CHSC HEHEHE THEE HEHEHHE HHH EEES 1 Ad We t, bows of the light eight brig is at the Pantaxe For one week at least, fleht bugs, who rarely stop inside a show ho will turn theatre-goers, and theatre Koer don't enre @ rap for the fight will take an extra peek at the boy who |wrested the lightweight crown) from that tough and persistent in dividual, Battling Nelson, Ad is accompanied by bis wife, and in the party Is Tom Jones, hale |aportaman well met; also success | fal manager of pugs. Mra, Jones companions ‘Tom, ‘The quartette travel in etyle, live on the fat of the land, and purport themselves like genteel people generally, They are domiciled at the Savoy hotel Ad is & rather good-looking boy, fj jand carries around marks of pros perity, such an a walking stick ger lerously trimmed with gold, Also a litnd and a ring that resenible the sun's reflection from Mount ft |nter, Of course, these th not the making of the man, me emphatic Indications of succens. Ad appeared to be well pleased when he learned that Joe Rivers had comstully removed Jnck White from the ranks of ‘pugilintio pretenders in Los Angeles Batur- day afternoon "Ty want Joe plained the champ. him. And tt Joe can keep afloat until I get him why, I'll buy anoth- or orange grove, that’s ail. They wre do like Joe down in Los Angeles Ad is one of the fow who stil! stick by Abie Attell, He says the [worst be should bave received was a | draw, WANTS WOLGAST NOELES, March 18.—Trib- ute to Joe Rivers’ powerful right was paid today by Jack White, who was lod from the ring at Vernon | Saterday afternoon after standing gamely before the marvelous Mex- | teas for almost 12 bitter rounds “I knew nothing after be caught me with thet right in the second tale About # man who ned himeelf to death. at have been trytig to pro- |round,” White said. “THe has an jawful kick, but I tried to stay with lit until my head cleared. Rivers the « of some t i ceated aaeathie leurely is a good man.” White enld un be would stay in Caiffornia and try Wits a {for another match, believing that his gamenees against Kivers eo titles bim to consideration Rivers, experta say, improves ov. ery Ume out. In Saturday's battle he tooked fully 20 per cent better than at any time to his career, The Mexican now wants Wolgast, Man- dot or Attell, preference in the or- der named name like that, a man can be anything aud get away with it vie KO is a Pole. 4 Bowed down under the weight of 26 years, it seeme to be 6 case of back to the Spring V ym, OOR, doddering, senile old Bill Papke grocery store for his'n. Ys : — recent fight at Sacramento |Berg and Beell Signed for fair, Pa . PORTLAND, Or, March 18.— phe was as slop as « ! mined Inca! on the Grok av. [Fred Bectl, of Marshfield, Wis, and John Berg. of Portland, claimant of jantic, Gulf & Pacific railroad, which operates botweel? Puw |the light heavyweight champion Paw and Haw Haw Kao. ship of the world, will wrestle bere Sti, it tant as bad as if he | March 29 for the title, The men came to torms yesterday when Borg had been cut down tn be fh telegraphed from Spokane that he flower of his youth, Ui a before & reaper. Age mgat ex. | 4# ready to meet the one-time con pect defeat, (Two candigt po |Queror of Frank Gotch. Berg wres- thes Zoyerko here Friday night. Champion Beavers Want Hogan to See Flag PORTLAND, Or, March 18.—The Pacific Coast league pennant, won by Portland last year, will be holst ed over Portland's new baseball oe tatoes and ® quart of eggs, ee park May 1, according to Judge Me- yun ee, Soehy? Sain, Ee |Credie, the owner. This decision right down with ‘om.) It's & | was made at the request of the good thing Billy bas that | Reaver piayors, who wish to ‘see grocery store as a solace Me fow-hia declining years. Grocery stores, with the cost o° living what it ts, see mighty solactog of Happy Hogan and the Vernon team, who gave Portland such a hard race for the flag. things, (No'm, we ain't got Gabriel's canned angel food, |m yv. a. C. TO STAGE LA’ but we have pickled pigs’ feet SMOKER Won't them do? (if it be true that Papke has lost his panch for keepe—and it seems a wise hunch—he is only getting a dove of his own meddy. There was Billy Rhodes, for instance, a Kannan City fighter, who had gon April 4. The management ts preparing to make this final show the fastest of the season. Matches are being made for the fol Price, Shand, McCurley, Hi held his own against Tommy | Jim Wilson, Rollo Wilson, Murph Ryon and Joe Walcott, and | and Williame, boxers, and Brannon licked Tony Caponi, Him asd | and Law, wrestlers. Hilly mingted at Peoria junt Price, Williams and Rollo Wil five years ago today, Papke got th son, boxers, and MeCurley and Law, ne ting decision. Later &t | wrestiers, will journey to Victoria Davenport, la, they fought*a |to participate in a smoker there on 1éround draw. In both botts | March 29. Law, at 176 pounds, is Papke administered a terrible Grabbing, and Rhodes, who was looked upon as x future cham pion, mever fully recovered, | having received an injury to | whom he won by default at the last Victoria smoker This is lovely weather for training @ ball team, is it not? Yes, it is not. his head which left him a bit oft. eoeeewse oe eee eoeeeHgee#e#er#wee* e AL_ BONNER IS UP IN THE BIG GLARE TRYING TO SHOW CONNIE MACK * From leit to rignt—Sprunk, Bonner, kgan, Pike and MoCleary Big Al Bonner is getting af opportunity to show his paces to Connie Mack these days, and if C £an see big-league timber in the Spokane bridegroom, Al will warm the Athletic bench for a year or two, or until such time as he oan breal game regularly; otherwi loaded onto a passenger @hin Kind sent back to Joe Cohn, Al had a fairly successfulfpeason with Spokano Ja ‘ lot to learn and many its to overcome, The majority of the fans feel that if Al can make the Athletic team, Dode Brinker and the other boys who went up last fali_haven't a chance to lose out. Still Connie Mack seems to be pigowen with a sixth sense—the ability to discover hidden taient—and there may be ali kinds of stuff in Al that the bunting raived before the eyes, The Rainier Valley Athletic Club! will give ite last emoker of the #ea-| pitted against the same man from | | ; | i | ; | BOBBY COLTRIN , FIELDING PHENOM, MAY BE SEEN (ener eee es a Zyb Loses Handicap CARROLL'S MAGIC STORE SAN FRANCIBCO, March 18 Sensisin ‘ai Goods, Trick | Although he showed his superiority | Puetice ant Tasmosted Novelties over Wm. Demetral. the Greek 110 Seneca St. wrestior, in thelr contest ber Stanisieus Zoysako, the FP xrappler, was dociared loser, as fafled to accompliah his task of pin ning the Groek t» the mat twiee in 75 minutes, Demetral, who wae 50 pounds lighter, wis thrown once in 0 minutes, but mansged to avoid «| second fall. More than 3,000 fans “itarnted the bout, which was the t successful wrestling match stagec here in several years j eae eee aeane * * ° A FISH STORY * * * Seat ntantehae TOUGH ft may sound fishy Philadelphia has one bal j player named Salmon and | another named Pike. Neither | expects to get the hook. It may geet T / PO SR Mon a | be, though, that both will be outside the fish pond when Con | nie Mack gets through extract ing the suckers The Other. Kilbane | SAN FRANCISOO, March Tommy Kilbane, the eastern light A ticket for passage tees you the very best 18 weight, will meet Antone La v lig “ local Daxer, in a fonr round imsure safety. This pro here next Friday night, according hie. t 2 announcement by Promoter entire route. The routi unk Sch Kin bas time aboard is shorter. met both McParland and Abe Attell. There will be several t cuisine Courteous merous | An excelle able prices command, tions make a trip these lines comfortable in y other bouts on the card over as staying own home as ur To satisfy your- self, the next time you're going East, write or call for information, litera- ture or tions on Tis better to do than to} promise, _ IMPERIALES MOUTHPIECE | CIGARETTES |fepresent years of experience in | purchasing and ding of | tobacco. They're beyond the) “promise” stage—a cigarette for ‘the wise ones who know a good | thing. Buy and see for yourself. | 10 for 10 cents reserva- E. E. ELLIS Distaict Passencrr AGENT 716 Seconn Ave. SEATTLE Tel, Main Y82, Elliott 199: Oregon: W or. Jackson 5: ern steam railway transportation. f The trains are sanitarily correct and eleetre hted. Electric Block Signals and Steel Coach ee ee eeeeng IN ACTION EAR Se eeeeee The chances league fans wiff fied by the work of Coltrin in the By bunch at Banta other chap, na caught Walt mM ‘al eye, and Walt €d to turn Coll ame for more Coltrin was with Northwest league wy latter part of last J ooren m articte of ball more for the tardiness of 4. was 4 goodsired ‘arco, ad weeks after he made tie a.” He came from. the ‘te bushes. e Joe Cohn west league ppd MoCredie, to "at hie Coltrin, and Jeske eae news that Bob was est thing that “ever: teen Cohn is given te rre0y players, but seldom praise am people's. 7 Back in hig ley Comiskey got some mysterious porsen” ed him over for be chieftain. It was given + as Gicker was on between ‘ and the Chicago is true it never Coltrin’s greatest jwith the war club. He ip aa; workman on the field, tog and covers oceans of elther side His and accurate. Reports camp of the Portland are that Bob ie quite a & weight, and the poaed when he gets to edge will be in that or this Bancroft dertul ball player, a Incubators n for this climate. Other sizes in the Chas. H. iulty Co, St., Seattle, ct Special for Thi Week Ball Bearing : Stee! Bearing Skates ...... from Puget Sound or any part of Westera. Washington the naturd route to travel is overtie over these lines guata facilities known-to mob’ Et ge: tection extends along tit: ng is direct so that yout is maintained at reas attendants are yours to ther little accommade