The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1912, Page 2

KOD Bought, Sold @ Exchanged. Amateur Fin Iehing the Best Doxaloso, wos immer et! “« ~ NEWS AND STATISTICS Professional Sporte Fostered Phone Main 963 Eyres Transfer Co. Office 114 Jackson St. ENGLISH FEATHERWEIGHT MAY MEET ABE ATTELL! LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.--Southern pugilistio attention centered today upon Vernon, where FrankieConley of Kenosha, Wis., and Harry Thomas of England were scheduled to go 20 rounds at 122 pounds, Charlie Eyton will referee Both boys rose early today. |gymnasium before breakfast and then stepped on the scales, showed 121% pounds, Little betting on the battle was registered. Even money pre j¥ailed on the wagers made. Promoter McCarey said that if Thomas | beam he will be matched with Abe Attell! Theatre full of the best of USED FURNITURE say such a sight. Houses = furnish: Conley took a short walk from his which a ir a Fintshing of Bs} a. My Idea of nothing at alt—Being in the predicament of trying to say something real nasty to the umpire, when your throat is sore, your chest weak and your lungs leaking. Some misfortune, that. eee DANCING HIPPODROME, SEATTL NEW DANCING PALACE. Fifth and University. 5 Cents Per Couple Are you interested in getting some dear friend of yours in a nice HUttle, tight little, rough and tumbla, sidewalk and gutter, knock-dowa jand drag-out battle? If you are, just have this friend walk right up to Tealey Raymond and boldly remark: “How about those two errors of yours Thursday, that peddied the game to the Champa?” Have him say it just like that—Zowte. If your friend has any choice of embalming Muids, learn what it is before be bas bis talk with Tealey 7*e eee Next Tuesday night Pat Scott, Northwestern lightweight champion, will box 15 rounds with Joe Bayley, chan “anada, In Victoria, That is Bayley’s home town. A Canadian club will select the referee, the crowd will all be pulling for Bayley, their mosey will be on him, and the law requires the use of heavier gloves than are used on this aide of the line. With these facts In view, you can figure that if Pat gets a draw decision he will have had edge on ft all the way, and that if he wins a decision that it will simply be a case of cruelty to animals, with Bayley in the role of the animal. fvea against these odds I pick Pat to win. * | POR RNEUMATION All Draggists Hotel Ethelton Our rates are 4 Oy the times; Va ag Sapna tanta. Nothing Is more delightful to the home fans than to witness the intentional passing of your favorite clubber and to see the next batter lift up a toy pop fly. When the other hurler does it be is « spineless jellyfish. When the home finger pulle the trick he is « wise guy all right. It all degen on where you sit, ary Some press agent Is again peddiing out a lot of dope about Abe Attell being a new man and how he is determined to win back his lost championship, Abe demonstrated in his fight with Tommy Murphy not Mirt with the bright lights every night, shuffle joards until the milkman arrives each morning, hit over 400 in the booze league for more than 15 years, blow up in a tight place, and then come back after doing a couple of months of this ol I; ae Sy nature stuff. Abe is neither kidding himself or the public. The answer is, he needs the money. There were fifty men ready to swear that Toman was the man who killed Rosenthal after they saw him siay Pat Moran on first) base Thursday, with the pellet not near the scene of the homicide, Who can write this kind sande anyway on a day when the rain is falling and crabbing the ball game, and the office stove has not Wf Clark Griffith could get hold of Hunky Shaw to assist Germany Sehafer and Nick Altrock, he could run a swell little three-ring circus a2 a side line to his baseball game. GGONNELL ON WAY (Kilbane and O'Keefe Sg ee to Box Ten Rounds PORTLAND, O'Donnell, white hope, accompanied by his manager, Tommy Tracey, Instrumental asd Vocal Entertainment Afternoons and Evenings. MEALS AT ALL HOURS a la Carte. will leave here tonight for San Francisco, where he will make bi debut in a fight with heavyweight Charley Horn next Friday night. GIANTS BEAT LAVENDER CHICAGO, Aug. 17—The Giants’ pounded Lavender out of the box Reva erm —“<" hc | Kilbane, featherweight champion, and Eddie O'Keefe of New York, are matched today to Might 10 rounds at Madison Square Garden, New York, September 19. O'Keefe is to make 122 pounds. After this mati yesterday, and New York beat the Kilbane says he will consider Chicago Cubs 7 to 4. Chicago used) offers to take on Abe Attell st times with some form ef/up four pitchers in an endeavor to’ ee anasto check the »_champlons, lonight, *** gore Indigestion, You should or “traveling baw. ike tea. at drugs! rest sella pure éru Fuarantecd remedies be sells SCOTCH STOMACH 50c REMEDY AT ALL GOOD DRUGGISTS grunting and com about pains in your meas in = shoulders and legs, Fheumatiom, lost strength 4 other symptoms of old age. 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De nes aaa " Pichse pealed) you lustrated 1 ‘hen you glowing ire, The whir-r-rr-r of a motorcycle, \tipped at an angle of 90 degrees jand traveling at the ‘rate of 100 |miles an hour on a board track, Is ithe music of this day of speed which sounds sweetest to the speed demon. Motorcycle racing 1s the most ex treme of all racing—the ast word in the manta for speed. Although only three years old, this sport, ‘dangerous as san be imagined. nerve-racking in the extreme, h \taken deep root as a sport of 1912. ft is distinctively an American institution, Born in Los Angeles, the mania swept clear across this turning back westward. It travel- ed from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City then to Denver; from Denver to Chieago; on to Cleveland, Colum bus and finally to Philadelphia and New York. In Gotham they are crazy over the new sport one child of the speed era for which they cannot claim the credit. Now they are talking of building tracks at Cincinnat! and St. Louis, and 913 promises to see the erection of at least a scohe more. This sport has the same wt. 4 ‘Theatre Bide. Spring end me (closely free 90-page ii 8-17-12 Name yecullar etators: cannot withstand § it Al | they THE STAR—SATY PP DAY, AUGUST 17, 1912. ¥ EXPERTS SEE FINISH OF HANS WAGNER’S CAREER PITTSBURG, Aug. 17-—The passing of Hans Wagner, of the Pitts burg Pirates, probably the hardest batting shortstop ever known, is seen here today in the action of Manager Fred Cilrk nding Hamilton Myatt in to bat for the “Flying Dutchman” in ifth inning of yesterday's game with Philadelphia, Hyatt, how. ever, failed to deliver the pinch. | Greatest ali around player the game has ever produced. For the first time in years Ma a hitting this season below the his movements in the field siower, and some of the experts charge that his confidence and oldtime fire are Wagner's friends, however, assert that he is merely suffering a slump which they say comes to af! players, and predict that he will regain hie batting eye before the season closes in October. READ THIS ONE---UMPIRE BILLY EVANS TELLS IT * player in ‘he National league who never gives Umpire Brennan ooy trouble, Broonan refuses to give his name, but belie ty could call a strike on him a foot over his without protest According to Brennan, the player has a larger foot than the average, while his bead is considerably smaller. Tho player in sensitive about both. MPhis information was given to Brennan by a friend One afternoon Brennan was called upon to ma clone de cisions on the player. He protested mildly, but mot enough to get consideration. Finally Brennan called him out on a peculiar as well as a close play, As Brennan walked away the player followed him and kopt saying “1 can't see how you ever pulled a decision like that love of Mike, why did you cal! me out? “I am not surprised that you don't understand. A glance at your feet and then at your head atows that you wear a No. 12 shoe and & No. 2 hat.” The crowd saw the player subside. The next inning, Brennan, the player walked over to him and anid . ‘There @ some Por the I'm for you for life.” —— DOUBLE HEADERS: SCHEDULED FOR | If the lowering clouds bresk @?ay/ Med today because of clean sud put the curtain down on! the deluge for awhile there will be| ff of the bout @ ball game at Dug’s park thie ef-) nedy, the young heavyweight who | fernoon is no more rain before 3 o'clock, the | grounds will probably be ‘dry enough for a continuation disturbance between the Glan! the Champa. As it was yesterday, with the) rain general throughout the North- west, not a game was played in the) golng in second still keep it up in the series with the Indians, they t to okane 6 by the time they get home. ANS ARE SQRE_ decisively, and Kufe scheduled for last night and! fused to go on a! the eleventh howr teams tomorrow — weather per mitting. Benttle and Vancouver will play |a double header at Seattle, starting at 1:30, the object of the early start | being to get both games out of the way in time for the Giants to bit the pike for Spokane, where they will start In Monday for a seven: game mixup with the Indians. James and Concannon will be Sunday's doubleheader. The Giants now have the chance of « lifetime to break Into the first position. If they keep up the pace they have set this week with Van- ccouver, ther stand a wed’ ; WORLD'S GRAZIEST SPORT SWEEPS AMERICA) can searcely be dragged oft the track at the finish of a race Excitement for them is life; gad in motoreycle racing they find’ it in the unadulterated form Speed, speed and still more speed ia the demand of the day. iders are eying their beat to satisfy the demand. Already there have beep many miles ridden in leas than+8? seconds, but neither riders nor spectators are satisfie They, fin} a speed of a mile in 30 seconds, anc believe that in another year they will attain it. Motoreyele factories are working overtime on more pow erful engines, riders are experi menting to get the most speed out of thelr machines; track builders are bending every energy go build faster tracks. The tracks of them are though some very In size, Most quarter milers, al have been built a third of a mile in length and oth ers a half mile. The track is banked at an angle of from 40 to 60 degrees, and to run on ft a mo ltorcyele must attain a speed of at least 40 miles an hour, attained by starting on the ring board at the bottom. When the riders are bunched on the track, a sptll for one of these daredevils means prob. able injury and possible death for all Deaths have been numerous, se rious injuries countless; but there though they realize that for them country once and now the tide is}DEATH IS ONLY AN INCIDE is no let-up in the enthusiasm of either riders or spectators, CONLEY AND THOMAS ARE READY the game has sp | Weather permitting For years Wagner has been a terror to National league pitchers, | be and until the advent of Ty Cabb into the game was considered the continue until Tuesd DOPE AND COM ~ tet | Amateur veanted Encour The Perfect Order — fending m Countries, a of annoyance TENNIS TOURNEY GOES OVER UNTIL MONDAY, the courts of the Seattle | of Mies Livingstone and Miss F club covered with water in| vs. Miss Fording and Miss Mill # and muddy all over, the man-] 5 p, midindls in ement of the Northwestern tour-| doudios, menttoday postponed the finish) 54.) 1 of the tournament until Monday.| p40?” the games will | oa ‘Tyte Monday, and 1 evening, by |whieh time the finals will*hay been played off and the champion ships determined There are still 32 matches to be played off before the end of the tournament, and this will require two days, Unless more rain falls, it will be possil into splendid sh tion of play Monday morning, which time the program scbeduled for today will start, The schedule for Monday follows Morning. 10 a. m—Miss Livingstone and Miss Pinker vs, Miss Fording and Mise Miller; Bacon an Allen and Miller; Mrs. Bragdon and Lawe va. Mre) Turner and Turner a m—Daweon and Long va. nd Kettenbach; Mrs. Mins Waterhous Florence Button and Miss § Russell and Richardson vs. Small and Rocker; Mise Pratt and Lenox Brown va, Mrs, Judge and C. Shan on of the world east inconvenience or eystom in the pertection of ransit. Ask about it, With uer| Tenni m. men's Miss Schaefer and winner of Miss Tyler vs, Miss Fording and H FIRST nox Trown va Mrs. Judge and|| NATIONAL BANK C, Shannon vs. winner of Miss Fior-| Established 192 ence Sutton and Bacon vs. Miss|l girgt at y : Campbell and Palmer. jp Tist St James Pioneer Squire resumed at 10 a fm NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE Athletic Park BASEBALL DOUBLE-HEADER SUNDAY Two Games—One Admission VANCOUVER vs. SEATTLE First Game at 1.30 o’Clock Admission 25¢ and 50c Take Yesler Car | non | according to en “Bay, ill, if you cut that stuff out about the 12 shoe and the 2 bat, | jwut at least be on the firing line “84 Judd 2p 17,—| non the calling) Huren vs. winner between Ed Ken-| Young vs. Allen and Miller. In other words, if there! recently defented Al Williams so | Dl* Cameron, Mics Waterhouse vs. Mise Florence | Cameron! Sutton and Miss Schaefer. Sem!-| {i pleaded a sprained ankle and re-| final 11:46 a. m-——Mias Raker and G. Shannon vs. Miss Livingstone and Judd 12 Johnston and Fottrell va. nd Kelleher; Miss Flor. : and Bacon va. Mins bel! and Palmer: Miss Tyler Tyler va. Miss Fording and Lee 12:16 p.m Mies May Sutton and Young vs. winner of Miss Baker and Shannon va. Miss Livingstone | He m.—Servlfinals, men's sin: Fottrel! vs, Long. Semi ladies’ stngies Miss May om ve. Miss Fording; C. Shan and Hart vs. winner Russell and Kichardson va. Small and Rocker McCutcheon and Van of Bacon and | gles finals, Sutt Canadian Pacific Railway STEAMSHUPS ON “TRIANGLE” SERVICE Seattte-Vanconver vie Nicterta | Senttie- Vancouver Keturaiag Direct m.—Semt-final, Indies’ dow Mrs. Judge and Miss Camp- bell va. winner of Mra. Langley and 4p Leave Victoria " Arrive Seattle . SAILING FROM PIER 1. Indies’ doubles Mies May §f City Office, 113 Second Avenue Sutton and Miss Bowen vs. winner The Peerless Brew For Any and All Occasions Grows in POPULARITY! You'll find it a good companion for sum- mer-time festivities. 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