The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1912, Page 2

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McIntosh, the Australian promoter, to ‘fall’ for him, and that he rangements with the r © for two JOHNSON’S FIGHT ARE OVER ho fighting days of Jack Johnson the world, probably are over, Dis negro that “all white women seem Johnson is barred le exception of Paria, raction was led by Hugh He had virtually comple fights at Sydney which would tetted Johnson something like $50,000, when word of the a | tion of Lucile Cameron and the negro's boast metropolis. “Cancel all negotiations with Johnson” j tosh sent hia American representative, | will not stand for a man of this negro’s caliber appearing here.” Johnson was angry at Mcintosh The next promoter to fall into Francisco, who has staged many ch. “Johnaon will never fight for m insults to the women of American should lenged. He will never be seen in police commission would not allow him to appe sides, there is not a promoter in San Franci purse,” LOS ANGELES, Oct “What! I think about Jack Johnson would) not be fit to print,” said Promoter Tom McCarey today when asked by |the United Press if he would con sider matebing the negro champion here, In view of his conduct in Chi cago, “As long as | am in the box ing Kame and have a about ft, Johnson wi even an exhibition bout in Los An-| You cannot make 23 ‘On 12 YRARS PAINLESS DENTAL WORK | CUT RATE PRICES Easy Payments. 5 bey Deatiowe BS, “$15 Set of Teeth. Guafantecd Best ..essess. $10 Set of Teeth. Guaranteed Fit .....000... Obio Cut Rate Prices. Oe Ons a: $4 Solid Gold Fillings, om Up Silver Fillings, 50c Up masy Favursrs Part down and balance in payments Ralph Krows Electric Co. Retail Everything Electrical. 316 UNION STREET Opposite Postoffice. Main 1634. Fans Fans Fans Sell you a new one or repair the old one. FLATIRON REPAIRS | } Friday night's smoker at the 8. cidental to numerous other aftractios mit Chester Anderson to make a rounds, That ta, if Chester js abi . Speaking of bush league presidents, don't forget the late W. H. Lucas, who spent ten years of hard work bullding up baseball in the ‘sacannnall ggg and died withou' Northwestern League should name a Lucas day and|‘*&m owners Gold or gpaama pero dere Rh memory eyery year. | Work ...... r 1 hope the National iGisee sah Fogel, Don't let your enthusiasm ment, boys. While the ball player-authors of checks for their journalistic efforts, real work are fighting bard to get a Ah, me! such is life, and still we linger. A baseball contract seems to be an agreement which the club can break any old time, but the player Bresnahan or Mordecai Brown. . French boxing authorities deciined to suspend Billy Papke on the recommendation of the New York boxing commission, and Billy meets George Carpentier, the Gallic champ, in Paris tonight, ee ee Mabel Hite, the actress wife of Mike Dontin, died in New York yew She held # warm spot in the hearts of all) terday, after a long Illness. baseball fans, . ee Seattle, with one of the most complete interscholastic athletic leagues in the United States, ts certainly following the advice of W. G | Shepherd, who, after watching the Olympic games, declared that school ports of their elder brothers, boys should be trained in the The next Austin and Freed smoker will be held at the Coliseum on! Five fast bouts will make up the card. | smokers have always been well conducted and marked by clean, | boxing, and are deserving of encouragement and success. | Tuesday, October 29, Smoker cards made up of short, viar with the fans in Los Anges, Oakland, San Francisco and Portland My idea of nothing at stiscdken Renton, Rai _ Jackson Street nier Valley, and Columbia PATRONIZE THE FOLLOWING FIRMS | FIRMS IN YOUR DISTRICT, RELIABLE THEY ~—__ COL GROCER W. P. PHALEN Phones, Beacon 1522, Columbia 1. ‘The Leading Up-to-Date Grover of the Rainier Valley. Pure Foode—Full Wi JACKSON ST. TAILORS M. OLSEN Ladies’ and Gentiemen’s Tailors Expert jlers Oaly Oar Motto—“Fit Guaranteed” £417 Jacksom Bencom 1476 ARE RENTON GENERAL MERCHANDISE Williams & McKnight LIVE WIRE By BARGAINS Phone Black 71, Ind. White 221. HARDWARE Renton Hardware Co, Some Big Specials on Here COME AED srz. BIG SAVINGS ¢ Ind. 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The ar here anyway, and be © who would give him a His a San Fr strong to sult me, T consider him| & disgrace’ to his own race . m's conduct toward Misa Cameron is enough any man with blo red. This ta the / 1 affair I ever heard of.| sider It a detriment to} ¢ game, because Johns be able to fight again ta} | America, and his removal will help, a mo to mak veins I do not ¢ reached the Australian| “Australians | THE STAR DRAWING DOWN SALARY NOT ONLY JOB THE BUSH LEA a E RRESIDENT HAS Coffroth of San} the } (Let anyone who thinks that the umpire has the most thank, dis agreeable work in connection with baseball, read what this president of a Class DO league, a “bush” league, who, for obvious personal | reasons, refuses to sign his name, | hae to say of his troubles.) If there is anything in this wide world of sport more exasperating, more nerve racking, more apt Jo produce gray Maire than the job of running an unstable bush league, I j have failed to ever hear of it. A. C. promises to be a dandy. In *, our own Hugh Perkins will per.) punching bag out of him for four e- t Teaping the financial benefits he! . are not going to lynch Horace get 1 better of your good judg the world’s seri¢s are cashing fat the newspaper guys who did the n O. K. on their expense accounts. never. Ask Frank Chance, Roger ee These| fast . speedy bouts are also proving pop- . ces of Jack Johnson again breaking | into the ring game in this jountry—oF or any other. OFF THE WIRE Billy Papke, the Mlinois middle weight, beat Georges Carpentier, French champion, in Paris inst night, when the Frenchman quit in the 17th round, after putting up @ game fight, which seemed to be @ losing one from the start Papke was overweight, so he does not win title of champion of infighting tactics baf- fled the Parisian favorite, who took a lot of hard punching and stayed with it as long as he could, Johnny Evers will succeed Frank Chance as manager of the Cubs, ac- cording to Chicago advices, Joe Tinker has been given permission to sign with Cincinnati as manager if he so desires Chance said of Evers, “He's a good man for the place’ — Judge W. W. McCredie of Port- To begin with, a president never knows from one day to the next whether he will be president of any longue. A single rainy Sunday may put such a organization. in a fix where the most herole treatment will fail to bring it back to life. Kicks on umpires are so frequent that they fail to arouse etther com sternation or surprime any longer. Petty politics on the part of jealous in generally messed over with scarcely a thought. Vaile of players, who have been fineder suspended come as a matter of course, Any loague presidéut has to contend with these, sik: “bush prey” has to put a jot of things which the head of a prosperous organization never dreams. These troubles, now co edy to me, were at the time rn tragedy. I will never forget one young th low who bovght a ub in my league, merely for a “#umiger’s di. version” as he put it, Hi sion soon ceased to be suc’ fore the season was half ov to sit up one entire night to prevent him from suicide. ‘ One afternoon a long dist brought me to the phone. other end of the line was of the home club, w' Sulphurro Baths FOR RHEUMATISM —READ BOOKLET— All Druggists land has gone to the Coast league t it meeting at San Francisco, pledged to work for the elevation of the Northwestern league to class A in the national association. With the consent of the Coast league, it is thought the N. A, will give us the Hugh Jennings is going vaudeville, with a blackface come- dian for a teammate, Hoe is said to draw $800 a week for his his- trionie efforts, into Horace Fogel ta said to be mak- ing an effort to sell his Philadelphia National league club and fran- chise, asking the modest sum of $1,000,000 therefor. John McGraw is another magnate of the diamond who has signed a vaudeville contract. He is adver- tees as drawing “the largest sal- y ever paid an American per- former.” He will appear in even- ing dress and dora short monologue, sacribing the most exciting and humorous incidents of his many years on the diamond, while the picture man embellished the enter- tainment with slides and movies, foo Right Doctor Brown, in the Washington block, and tpink that they are coming. to sny of but they soon discover that they ‘are in the office of the wrong Dr, Brown, BEWARE or Cows Ts a the off! when the fa for 2 population 000 t a x hed become that’ the Dentist who reasonably for first Would get plenty of tires eltad Wh todo. “f flaurea tour this was the roper foundation upon which to Dent Go aii HURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, «}there’s no place to put you.” 1912. Takes Straw Vote of the Eng: ‘necrs--Result in Doubt BY “HOP” | spots ow | hate to give up my job ned through the phone; “1 m golhg to have this game stopped jand the umpire brought to the phone, so you can order him to leave the field. He just made « rank. decision, and I won't stand for it” One odd case of Impersonation \came up a few years ago. A new umpire, who hed proven himeelf capable, was put on duty in a ermal! city. After the first game @ tan foame to him with s big roar. “You missed a strike. I'm the club own- er and I stand in with the league president. I'm going to get your job.” Very properly, a report was made. The umpire was brought face to face with the real owner. “Open your mouth!” sald the “Umpa.” and the astonished max |nate did so. “He tan't the one,” |epoke the umpire without hesita- tion, for no row of gold teeth had been revealed, “but he must be a twin broth Explanations fol- lowed and the guilty Imposter was Jocated, In the archives of our league ts a telegram as follows: “Let me have a day off. I want to go home and pay taxes.” This came from an um- |pire, and maybe the taxes aren't |pald yet. he worked on the day designated, but when s few days jater he came in with a similar ex- cura he was released One of the stormiest seasions ever held with a retiring club own or can be recalled without the least difficulty, In making up a bill of sale for the equipment at the park, a rusty old sprinkling can and three well-worn base bags were omitted. The deposed magnate |didn't forget them, and that even ing came drilling up street with the articles under his arm. An umpire saw hie burden. owner, “you forgot to dig up the home plate.” There was a lot of glee around headquarters one night when there came in a story about this same owner, Sitting In the grandstand one day, he saw one fly ball after another pulled down by a star left fielder, Down he rushed to the bench and called to the manager Make them quit hitting out there. Don't you see he won't drop any.” , On another day there was a delay in getting the players started for fielding practice. Somebody sug seated that the club owner have the bell rung. “Bell, nothing!” ex- claimed our hero, “We haven't got one, Let the foreman get bis own mon out.” I got a protest on a game in which it was charged that the um- re declined to let a batter go to rat after four balls had been called, ‘ou'll have to hit it,” he ruled. “The bases are full and But to the umptre's credit, be it said that he always strenuously denied making any euch ruling. Many fans have the delusion that ‘the only work of a president is to draw his salary, assign his umpires and make up the official erages. All such should have seen me one Sunday morning. The league was wobbly and a magnate had just thrown up the sponge. A game was billed for the afternoon, but the groundkeeper had quit at the same time the magnate did. The club manage & newspaper man who also official scorer, and the league president, lone provided for a game that day, Among other things we found the home plate missin nic nah al a _blece of fire HAGEN TO BOX FORBES Romeo Hagen, the fighting baker, and Harry Forbes, the teamsters’ favorite, will soon don the gloves | again for the edification of Seattle boxing fans. They are booked as the wind-up attraction at next Tues- day's smoker, to be put on by Aus- tin & Freed at the Coliseum, The same boys boxed four fast rounds to a draw at the last Building Trades council, and are considered about the best of the local welter- weights. Four other fast bouts will make up the card at next week's amoker, Spokane has traded Chick Hart- ve | ley, the heavy hitter, for Ten Mil- 7*/\1on, Stoux City is the tradee, | owners apply the “Here,” he called to the retired | “OU Can PUT™ ME Down FoR, Canadian Pacific Railway, STEAMSTMPS ON HTHIANG ouver via Victoria Direet) Arrive Seatti NG WROM Primm 1. City Office, 113 Becond Avenue What GUS BROWN §; | =| | SUITS sa $1) | Overcoats The prudent and thrifty shopper will find that our $15.00 SUITS and OVER- COATS are by far Our Great Special ASO we had a temporiry | plate, and then spent the rest of the | morning marking off the diamond | and getting a few of the rough t of the field Hut for all these troubles, I would | There's 8.) fascination and excitement about it which I Imagine I could find tn nothing else. 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