The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1912, Page 2

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g -THE CUB SCOOP $30 a $1 7am we REPORTER i | Scho WE TOOK A STRAW) TRACIE 222.2% nex. acne METS TAKE ONE ON G05 1-2 Third Avenue | | |How We Lanes step ALBERT HANSEN - Established 1883 PRECIOUS STONES, FINE JEWELRY, STERLING SILVER Corner First and Cherry SEATTLE DANCIN Gi date dan In Seattie The True Story of a Raw Freshman Who Won Fame in College Athletics, and Is Now a National Hero, CHAMPAIGN, UL, Oct, 16.--The mane."| University of [ilinols ts very proud —~ | nowadays of a certain alumnus who (irst dawned on the college campus in September, 1899—a raw lad of 17, six feet tall and built ike a Her- cules, His dawning, though, caused no excitement. Among the highly touted freshmen who had distin. guished themselves at “prep” schools, Garland Stahl stood un- known, Stah! was initiated Into the Sigma Chi fraternity and entered upon the usual duties of a “frat” freah- “Knawor the door bell, you big country jake.” ordered an upper classman brother. And Stab! obey- od. Thereafter he was “Jake’ college and everywhere else At the sight of him the coaches fell on his neck, placing him at fullback. He played good football but was not a sensation. An error had been made tn sending him to the back field. Next he played right guard, where his strength and speed brought him fame. No one thought of Jake base ball player. Not until his third year did he muster courage to re- port to George Huff, college coach. ‘Then ‘Jake’ came out for base says Huff, “I took interest In him because he had made good in football, and that proved there was stuff in him. He thought he was a@ pitch and he broke half the windows the armory where we had indoor practice before I called him off. “But had been whanging away lwith the bat in great style. When the squad went out doors I tried bim several places without much success as a fleider, and when Ill! SSS Wall Paper Retailed at Wholesale Prices Federal Paint & Wall Pape Company 1406 FOURTH AVE. 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Better Tura in a RiotrCall, Scoop AND TAKE @ POLLOP) [2 oa a THE MEMOERS -PUT- Pa) 1RM On RECORD FoR) a GAMES PSP LY watson rar Ton Tenor] Comes BACK wer} Guat ron cum M4 First G. é it St. Louie FoR OUR - i t - m2 pear Seer} a ee gumaviane sess socscenss , 6 . ‘YH GET OUT ent Nationals mm He eS es EL entists riner and Alexander; , nd Wingo There ts not @ Dy Second Game, at St. Loule— }ago w Americans 2 10 0 « Nationals 6 6 1 atom bh Wellman and Alexander; Harmon and Bresuahan. work J At Chicago be Americans 1 = sy Nationals $} fie y ~ Eleven innings Jown a Walsh and Schalk; Lavender and| and consnitat Archer. } F - |HISTORIC BATTLE i IS TODAY’S GAME MIDGETS FAST BY GRANTLAND RICE jthe leash to start another storm AT BROADWAY BOSTON, Oct. 16,.—Provided the |ing rush er, confident and c | ors, It was in a pinch when an | out would save the game. He atrnck | hia head, but caught the ball. And/agile keepers of the leading “bug” |crack sure, It remaina to be seen| That Broadway high school will be held it, although knocked # -iemporiuma, booby hatches and| whether Joe Wood and his mates | turn out a strong proposition in it ging leas, When he staggered to his|“nut” hostelries do not cart away can rally and he | back to norma!l| midget football t r 4 require, feet and mopped the blood from the athletes and the noncombatants, form. Wood needs more heart and| demonstrated yesterday « 4 afl his head, the crowd gave him a/tho most decisive single battle ever courage than be needs “stuff” on) when the midget team was matech-| 7e"re nee demonstration such as had never staged in the history of baseball the ball. ed with the second team. |Our work is is | will tell the story of a champlon-| Boston today stands back of! Although losing to their older the lowest Boat, Our pricgs ary lahip which may stand unequaled|Wood grimly and loyally. Theland heavier opponents, the mt / font contury, The average fan is|team has been built around Wood,|gets were brimful of pep and at| ALBANY COT Rate keyed up as taut as the p! * in| psychologteally if not physically * showed up the bigger players,| “**"4 Pheer Hated Pee this fight, and now there is no dope | His teammates thought he would |‘ midget team is not by any Sates: 0 left on which to bank |be able to turn the trick when the| means a one n affair, although ake Dievetor OF aaa In the face of yesterday's start-|«how-down came. So when the Gl-| Baird, the fullback, is a wonderfull Our Piven Will Sarpriee % Our Work Wil at the Hofbrag. We have cont wi ebrated ¢ * chestra, be wurpe If you « tainment On Dwellings, Apartments, Churches In paved districts Loans closed without de- lay. HOVBRAU CAPE 4 cnn. THE CALVIN PHILIPS &C0. - 815-16 Leary Bldg, SIC “JAKE” STAHL AS A STU IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NOIS—HE WAS PRIMARI FOOTBALL PLAYER. been tendered an [int hero, hols opened its season April 1%.) [t was in 1901 that Jake 1901, againat Michigan, I put Jake) pail talent flowered. That yi im lett field. nois beat Chicago for the first) Jake was nearly killed by fly /in many seasons. Jake did it.” balls. He lost the game. next day the Chicago news “But Stabi had hit too well £9) hatied him as “the greatest be passed up, I sent him to catch, | whose cleats bad ever cut the ling turn, the Giants are tugging at/ant assault rumpled Joe into a|iine plunger who can tear wide| —— — [Rory mass the Boston machine | gaps against opponents of the same jcrumpled with its star. Instead of] weight, The position of left half fighting back with their old-time|will either go to Hoagland or) power, they played as if their/Rice, the former being heavy and |bearts had been wrenched out |the latter licht and fast. On the 0 Oan |They were bewildered, dazed,|line the midgets possess two dan broken and failed by dead and|gerous tackles, Pinkman and |dumb work on the bases to carry | Strange. Both of these boys are) 1 |through any rally new in football this year, but they (4) —e | The Glants will fight this after-| work like old s. Jimmie} noon under the handicap of playing | Grant, the lean center, is a whiz on Zz on foreign soll, with Mathewson | the gressive and the thin Jimmie compelled to pitch on a raw, cold|has a faculty of leaning over the day. The Red Sox will fight under | line and usually makes the othe the handicap of having been brok-|team's quarter dispose of the ple jeu and cracked on their last stand. |skin in quick order. Tommy Phelps, . the quarter, is a fast boy. The . . Broadway Midgets hope to capture The University of Washington " ipack-fiel@ line-up was recast again|‘2 championship in thelr class, Monday night. Jacqu a shifted from left to right half-back, and/ wince the beginning of the season, was put in as fullback in place of Ralph Smith, who seemed to re GET CHANCE tard the machine {in Saturday's practice game, Miller is kept at] gan FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—| right half, where he may earn @lanet Hughio Mehgan, champion permanent ber Australian lightweight, {s extreme- a ly anxious to come to this country Bartell saves you money. See!tor a bout with Champion Ad Wol-! | pase 6 Ro: gust was made known here today| “maemo yf b romoter . Coffroth, follow-| Interesting érug store news. Bar) ing the receipt of @ telegram from toll's a4, page 6. |the New York agent of Mehgan. ae == |The Australian champion is in Lon- don at present. Shoes Operated on Coffroth has wired asking that Wh: ii Mehgan state his terms. | ile You Wait. Coffroth has also received a mes-} where he good. The nextion a western gridiron.” Da M | etngeal E 4 bis batting consisted of two) tn 190% the Cubs wore dic All Work Guaranteed mage treme | oll ae Baten " Bome runs, one double and three/tor stabi. Henry Killea bes Best Equipment Means Best Wirk. Sevck. citatan te vend aithor toe e gs. a ngies. |this western “phenom,” a * , soll, ake bat? He was the ter neyed to Branston, Il. o — Shoe ry gg ee es ~~, to the coast ~ batt! MEALS AT ALL as year of 1901 he vedere ge the thay | Sarform. ae ag — Second Ave. ames See Bartell's money savers, Page a la Carte. ft of 443 and fielded 970. His|fettle, Jake made two home runs\ ~ inal year of college ball was 1903.\ ang two doubles. The game Waa when he batted 444 and fielded 984, catied after six innings with “the with 10 home runs to his credit lneore 29 to 2. Killea hung onto 18 out of 1S, deoan sae Gare Stahl until he had him under eon- tract, Cari Landgren on the famous east-| g- was one of the most pop ern trip of the Iilinols University. aiar men in college. He never wan when the western champions won) “swell-headed” and hix mates ra dg Yale, Princeton and | thought the world of him. He wa a figure at all social events. It One of Stahi's aasets as a college| waa in college that he met the pros backstop was his tenacity in ent Mrs. Jake. Love of the “old suing fouls. They tell how when|echool” is green in his heart, and playing Chicago, Stabl chasing aj whenever he can he returns to foul, dived headlong into the bleach.’ coach the football squad. TW RE SPEEDY Two MO 150 POUND TEAMS Two more fast 150-pound football | eleven, which showed auch teams aro in tho field, ready to) football last season, has play Sunday games with opposition for 1012, with most of the 1911 of their own weight. One of these! players in the Mne-up. The R. Y¥. aggregations is the eleven from A. C. boys have one of the the crufser West Virginia, which/ fields in the city to play on, | weighs In at 162, on the average,/new playfield at Columbia, but ts willing to take on anything) they have been getting tn some up to the 165-pound class. F. I.| good licks at practice. They want Collup is captain of the U. 8. 8.8 gme next Sunday, and also fu- West Virginia eleven, and all com-|ture dates. §. B. Householder, at munications should be addressed | 4915 Rainier ay., phone Beacon 601, to him at Bremerton, Wash., care| is the manager. The Rainier Vi of the West Virginia. boys want outside games as well as The Rainier Valley Athletic club) co: its with local teams. We regret to state that, owing to the careless conduct of a certain T. Roosevelt, who formerly figured in sporting annals as something of 4 big game hunter, in getting himself shot by a lunatic, we cannot de- vote the usual space to the world’s series, Thoughtless Theodore! fe ee The Rube Marquard person looks to us very much like the case ace in the hole, and no pairs showing. A cinch, t | ee ee : | The University of Washington wil! play a practice game against the soldiers from Fort Worden on the campus next Saturday, Last look at the Doble machine before the big game with Idaho, October 26, eee. fe Mr. E. L, Moore says the fault Is not his. He is secretarycof the local motorcycle club, and represents the F. A. M. on the Coast, and refers to the small entry list at Sunday's race meet. We are inolin to take Mr. Moore's word for It that he had nothing to do with the en tries. We don't care who did, and we are willing to forget it, if every body will only let us, 5 ERIALES IMPERIA ae x } oeeee We always thought that “fietcherize” had something to de with victuals, but now we kuow better. To “Fletcherize” is to field the ball with your feet. “Fellow Smokers: “You are looking for the better things in life—all of us are. And that's why I ask if sin have ever tried the mouthpiece cigarette, “Go to the nearest tobacco store |) smoke is drawn through a moistened and tell the clerk: “A pack of || stub. Tobacco should be kept dry. Imperiales, please.’ As you smoke, “Notice particularly the quality of the advantages of the mouthpiece || the tobacco. You get this better will appeal to you. value as there is no wasted tobacco : “See how cool and dry the smoke |} in the stub. You throw away a is—how full in aroma and rich in || papermouthpiece—not costly tobacco. eeeese Gien Warner is only a football coach, but he carries a wallop in either hand, and that is how he keeps Jim Thorpe and the other Car- lisle braves from breaking training rules. ee es My idea of nothing at ali—Present feelings of the experts who said that Marquard was “all through.” ee oe Fate—The Indeterminable whateverness that allowed Monk Co- burn, world-famous jockey, to earn $2,000,000 and die at 29 with hardly 4 healthy moment to enjoy it. . eee Battling Nelson writes me an intimate personal letter printed In gold letters on the back of a St. Joe advertising post card, to the effect that he is going back to Hegewisch to vote for “my friend” Teddy, Guess that about settles It, a ey Honest John McCloskey, now of Ogden, may be the next manager “oat of the St. Paul club in the A. A, St. Paul is sufficiently adjacent to 10 for 10 the oellar this yoar to be desperate. | H fragrance. You lose the subtle del- “Imperiales win on two counts— Made with Mout Brick Devereaux, one of the scrappiest, snappiest, happiest ball! |f icacy of the tobacco leaves when the quality and economy, Pennant coupon in OY : players that ever led a charge of the Spanish athletes at a fanning bee| |} +d package ‘ “et 4 Me after the game, has talked his way into a job as game warden down California way. MT WM MMMM SM

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