The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1914, Page 7

ist ut - me, BAAIT TSAR PRSS ertisee 2 Bas Fars FORMER SEATTLE PLAYER'S DAYS AS A BASE BALL STAR BOME TO A SAD TERMINATION Charley Swain, premier hom Mmembebr of the Seattle in hitter of the Pacific coast, and webal! club, will never don a glove again. At San Francisco, Friday, Swain's right leg was amputated after it had been terribly mangled beneath the wheels of. an automobile truck. truck belonging to a 8: was working. Swain wi The accident ocourred while Swain was riding on an automobile Francisco telephone company for whieh he a lineman. ‘The truck, while traveling at @ fast rate of apeed, gave a sudden Jerk, throwing Swain beneath the wheels. the timp, Charley Swain DROPS RIVAL MONTREAL, Dec. 5.—Al Reich, ww York heavyweight, added long string he has accumulated, here last night, putting Sailor Delaney the } another knockout to the to sleep in three rounds BOSTON, Dec. 5.—The Boston club ts plannin; of a new park tn the Uatil the plant the Braves will use National league the Allston {a completed, the American district. league field. 5.—It Harvard Of this 500 was Percy Haugh- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. cost $25,000 to run the football team this year, Bronchial Asthma! if you are a sufferer from asthma 1n any form, it will pay you to Investigate. I have cured asthma of 30 years standing, © Boston and New York, but here tn Seattie and towns arcu.nd Seattle, and I have not failed in one of them. 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NUERNBERG Phone Queen Anne 3127 The rear wheel passed over Swain finished the season with Seattle this year batting well inte the .300 column, The year before he led the league batters as a mem |ber of the Victoria club, and during |the season established a new home |run record for the Pacific coast Minneapolis, with whom Owner Dugdale consummated deal « few days ago, in which Swain joined Minneapolis in exchange for First Baseman Fred Hunter, will be the loser All the papers had been signed, and Hunter is now the prop erty he Seattle club | It was Swatn’s aspiration to play| tn the big leagues, and in hope of! getting the opportunity he asked | Dugdale to trade him to some East: | ern club. This {s one of the reasons he was turned over to Minneapolis Swain began his professional baseball career tn the Northwest league, during which time he has made many friends. He was well |iiked by his teammates, Swain is a member of the Tacoma Elks. | PLAY BALL FOR COIN SPOKANE, Dec. 5.—-A propost- tion to allow college students to play summer basebal) for money was voted down at Friday's ses- sion of the Northwest conference managers. Today the work of drawing up the schedules for foot- Dall, baseball and other sporta oc- their attention. Victor Zednick has heen re elected president of the conference and John R. Bender of Pullman again elected secretary Gonzaga college, Spokane, was refused admittance. WILKESBARRE, Pa. Dec. 5.- Al McCoy and “Kid” Wagner of Pittsburg were aR “two big dubs” by local fight fans today, following their 10-round bout last olght. The affair was one of the slowest | ever witnessed here. Both men were wild, and their! punches lacked steam. The de cision was given to McCoy. | TY COBB WILL STICK AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 56-—-Ty Cobb denied here Friday that the Federal league has approached him recently. He also said that he would not leave the Detroit! club under any circumstances. THE STAR'S SPORT PRIMER LET DOSS DELI6HT « FOR TIS THEIR Doctors Cut Off Charley 5 STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 5, wain’s Leg 1914, PAGE 7. wi Re TO BARK AND BITE, NATURE To, BUT BOXERS BRIGHT, WILL NEVER FIGHT UNLESS THE COIN’S iN VIEW. U. W. DROPS PULLMAN SPOKANE, Dec, 5.--At the Frt day session of the Northwest con ference managers here the Unt versity of Washington broke off re lations with the Washington State college team. Idaho will be placed on the U. of W. schedule every year hereafter, GIBBONS LICKS MOHA, HUDSON, Wis, Dec. 5.—-Mike Gibbons of St. Paul holds today a decision over Bob Moha of Mil- waukeo as « result of their sched- jdled 10-round bout here last night. Moha was disqualified for fouling in the second round, and the de ciation was awarded to Gibbons. Ne “Sporting Life” eaye: “While looking around for managers § it might not be a bad idea for a few of the major league owners to re- member that there are a couple of| a leaders on the Pacific coast who, far as records are concerned, make some of the ‘rumor man: | agers’ look like bush leaguers They are Walter MeCredie and Bod Brown. Both have had re- markable suocess, turning out pen- nant winners galore, while their work of entirely rebuilding teams and developing young bal! players surpasses that of any minor league managers. It is likely that Fielder Jones will seek a chance for Brown with one of the Federal league clubs whee an opening oo curs. Jones ts a great admirer of and t# positive be can fil! fa a surprist manner.” eee According to reports from Cali- fornia there {s a scheme on foot to create a new boxing and sporting center at Mexicali, Mex. a email Brown, the bill SPORTIN town near the border. Several wealthy sportsmen are sald to have & syndicate to hold cham- pionship bouts, horse races and va rious games of chance. It is said the Mexican government has grant- led @ 20-year lease to the syndicate The European war heving cut off the supply of Russian horse| hide, the price of baseballs will be {ncreased. This ought to put the Feds entirely on the rocks. eee As the bowling tournaments have started, we purpose organiz- Ing an association to provide suf. ficlent number of events to make every one who owns hie own bell champion of something. eee THE STRONGER NAVY MOVE- MEN’ ALSO EXTENDS INTO THE FOOTRALL DEPARTMENT AT ANNAPOLIS: CHAMP BURNS - TO SCRAP AT PAG, SMOKER Seattie ia going to see Charley Burns, Johnny O'Leary's successor, [in action against the winner of the |Chet Neff-O'Leary bout, which | comes off here next Tuesday night. | n Salt received a letter from the champion today, in which he asks for the match, If Tuesday night's battle ends in a draw, Neff may be selected as Burns’ oppo nent, for he holds a 2@round de cision over the title holder, | Burns will make bis appearance jat the monthly Pacific Athletic club show, Austin @ Salt are giving |next week's smoker at the Pacific club, having abandoned their new arena because of its smallness and | inadequate fire escapes. | The second time Neff and Burns met, the referee called the bout a draw. However, Burns, tn bis let ter to Salt, claims that he beat Neff both times, and ts ready at any time to substantiate his claims by!) another battle Burna captured the title fron) O'Leary tn a 20-round contest #&@ Prince Rupert, B, C. The Seattle boy had held the crown a year. The new champion is making }sts bome tn Vancouver st present, fle has several engagements in slsft, among them a 1S-round set-to vAth Jobnny Moore, a colored batiier | whom he outpotnted recently, | Burns’ only condition to the @nal- lengers f* that they welgh 133 pounds. He ts ready to meet any of them at any time, he writ qm. WHATS THE STILL? SAN FRANC MSCO, Dec. 6.—The Seals today are still the ‘property jot Ewing and Ish. But Hemry Ber. Prospective purchaser) of the club, said: “Yoo; I will buy the See/s today.” ‘This ta the sume stat t that meer has made dally since Tues ay. “Our lawyers,” erid Berry, “wore together yesterday’, and I can truth fully say that every Aetall has been gone over, Everything is fixed and ready for the signatures.” 8ST. LOUIS, Dec. 6-—Chartie White holds n decision today over Frankie Callahan of New York ne a result of their eightround tout here Inst night. Callatan was the agaressor, but White landed the greater number of blown. CHIGAGO, Dec. 5.—Chicago Fed. eral stockholders have voted to in- crease the stock of the ctmb $160,000. Athletic Inactivity seems to be a cardinal sim in the eyes of the A. A. U. Possibly Judge the Inactivity by the amount of sporting goods pur- ng Automobile Accident : REBS CLAIMA TO Left te Right: _2 COAST BASEBALL CRACKS HAVE SNARED Justin Fitzgerald and Walter Schmidt, star coast players sald to have been grabbed by the Federals. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec, 5. According to the most recent “in- side stuff,” Justin Fitzgerald and Walter Schmidt, the two fastest base runners in the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league, have been “hooked” by the out laws. President Madison, of the Kan- pas City Federals, claims to have purchased the services of these two players for the coming season. was regarded as the best hitter on the Frisco lineup ‘ast year; he played in the out- Walter Schmidt was one of the best catchers in the Pacific Coast league. If organized baseball loses the services of these two players it will be felt keenly, as both are young and promising men. Schmidt ts of big league caliber and would have gone into the big | ruck jong ago had it not been for the fact that local magnates were unwilling to weaken thetr team by releasing him. Fitzgerald has already seen big jeague service with the New York Americans, where he played «a couple of years, For « second time in a year Ben pie Allen, the world’s champion pocket billiard player, bas success fully defended his title against James Maturo, the Denver tender. At Kanens City last night Allen con |bleck of «their 600-point match, Allen completing the string first The score was 606 to 492. The previous match between there two stars was staged in Se- attle. It was one of the closest pocket billiard contests on record, jand Allen was victorious by a very = oe ‘oOo MUC Editor The Star: We read The Star and cannot help being touched by accounts of actual suffering among the unemployed women In Thursday's Star we note an |attempt being made by the social agencies to care for some of the |women by arrangement with & boarding house to furnish a bed and a place to do thelr washing and cooking, for which the agencies pay $1.00 per day for each of the women. | Are there not many private! }houses and small boarding houses |who would be more than glad to both house and feed these women |for less money? TWO WOMEN. ARMY CAUS: Sa aE gy aaa EL OES. | Editor The Star been reading Herbert Qui on war, I think he is about right I think our army Is too large. If} we will only trust in God and use| common sense, we will be all right. | If some of the hot-headed fellows e have had in the presidentia air were there now, we would be at war, | And just as sure as we enlarge | |our navy and army, God will let us fight. For tt will be when we have broken faith with Him. A READER. ° MOTHERS BEG BREAD | Editor The Star: At the Ryther| home every day come mothers with | little children asking for bread Often they come weeping, not know-| ing where they can get a meal Sunday evening a little mother with | a 6-yearold child came. We gave her what she needed—a warm meal, jand we helped her find work. | Please tell us what we can do for |these women. Is there no other |place to send them? | We need help, as these poor work ing mothers are coming by dozens. | We need potatoes and flour and} | beans, and any other staples, It in| | IMPERIAL BAR AND READING ROOM At 206 Occidental Service Bar and Pool Tables in Connection CHOICE LIQUORS AND CIGARS | | oa | cidenta \e impossible to refuse these women They become so sleek the fleas|of taking the two-platoan system of when they beg and cry for food. | MRS. O. H. RYTHER. KICKS ON o--—- ee Editor The Star: The article en titled “Council agrees to give $2,410) for unemployed,” in the morving | jast election I have heard so much} paper recently, is interesting read ing. TheSwmount of real money given to the unemployed ts $1,200,/ out of the $2,410. | Why should any one charge the Hotel de Gink $30 for light? Mr.| Austin E. Griffiths gave a store for similar purposes. Why $230 for cook stoves? Could not second hand stoves be purchased for leas? Mr. Pauly, upon whom much of the success of the scheme depends, re ceives $210 for his services. Mr McKibben, who already in earning a salary, is to receive $300 for six months’ work I would suggest that Mr. Pauly both needs and earns the larger sum, Tf it 1s absolutely necessary tc have headquarters besides the new Hotel de Gink, with its $15 tele phone, why not give the $300 tc some reliable man who has no pos! tion? There are many of them. IPR — 2 —¢* 12 RUTAL COPS | 7 ae ~o Féttor The Star: While talking to a friend near the corner of Oc and Washington sts, Wed- nesday, Nov. 25, | saw a case of brutality that might interest the public A street preacher attempted to! argue with a man under the influ ence of liquor. A few minutes later an officer came along and the aged enthusiast pointed out the drunk to him. The officer grabbed the befuddled mar and brutally kicked him from the street to the sidewalk, then hit him in the face. He then continued on his way F, GLENN, GOING WRONG Wav *| a FAditor The Star Please allow) me to make a few suggestions in ° entitled; “U. $. Health Surgeon Warns of Bubonic Rats.” The surgeon shouldn't scare our! elty counell and public safety com- mittee, and make them jump by| aying “Rats.” He was present to urge passage of an ordinance requiring concrete | walls around chicken coops, Bet |ter ask them for an ordinance to| put concrete walls around each of the garbage dumps in the elty to keep out the rats Then the rats would not have in- stigated by an article in your papor| $ digestion from being over fed. (That is what makes them #o fat. | can't stay on them. MRS. SHOBERG. + CHEER UP, FOLKS Editor The Star: gloom and agitation? Why all this Since the of “Surely, we will get our wages cut,” and “The town will be dead now.” There has even been talk has the finest in the world? billiard = pi Come In and see. 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W. 1. depart-| ible street | refuse to he delivered to residents| for fertilizing instead of sending it to the incinerator to be burned? | This germ-laden stuff ies in |many backyards and yubie alleys uncovered. I can't open tne door be | cause of mosquitos and flies. | I have reported it to the health office. They replied that this does not hurt anyone, | The city now sends men to de- | liver this filthy stuff at our doors |{nstead of burning tt. A SUBSCRIBER. 3 HAS A QUESTION | o oneal Editor The Star: Germany, with | an area less than that of Texas, has supported an army and a navy equal to that of defending herself against England, Russia, France and Japan, and yet her citizens are never without work What is the matter with our country? READER. “WOULD Give UP zoo. * > somcaelllesetalimetlE vests Editor The Star: As I read “V! olence Is Threatened by Jobless,” }1 could not help but think of the thousands of dollars that go to waste in Woodland park every! year to feed the animals and the! hundreds of fowl there. It's nothing but a common barn. yard, and the city pays for the upkeep "Health—Longevity know that nine tenths all arixe from Insidious self-polson- of the cS ? Do you know that YOGHURT t» the| only means to destroy the Intestinal polsons’ If you are a slave to yo trom vladder. at trou Aiseanon, or dy du ol culation const! appendicitis, ete write for information. YOGHURT CO., BLAINE, WASH. “SANDERSON’S PILLS For women only, Most popu- Jar and only reliable remedy o the most obstinate on in 2 to 10 days, Pric $2 box or % boxes tor $ Money returned If they after fair trial, Open evening: i WEALTH ENDANGERED? *l6 work in stem by Bactiil tiving in the « and Maturo wound up the final Why can't we give the chickens, and eggs to the hungry? Let the janimais go inetead of housing a jfew diseased monkeys and giving them a steam-beated building. Pumigate it and let the thou sands of homeless women and chil- dren live there this winter. A SUBSCRIBER. -— - ° SAYS SPIRI DEAD | A4 Editor The Star: Your article about the girls out of work shows indeed that the much vaunted “Se- attle Spirit” is a dead letter. See how quickly Seattle respond. ed to the call of the Kelgtans. That was good advertising A few days ago a society woman raised about $650 for missionary Complete Report of Market Today Prices Paid Freducers tor Vegetables and Fruit. (Corrected dally by J. W. Godwin & Co.) * 1 Local potatoos 4.00 @20.00 Yakima potatoes +1800 20.00 Cal. sweet potatow 02 1.00 Honey, #trained Naval oranges fruit . Cooking app Splteenderse wh i Staymen Winesap Rome Beauties Bweet cider, gal. Malaga Be Hens, 3 lbs, and under .. Springs. ees c (Corrected dally the Bradner Co.) | scant margin. WHAT THEY SAY IN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR to cook, eat and sleep for less than an hour to raise it, and now comes word that girls are starv- ing in our own city. This ought to bring a blush of shame to the cheek of every rep- resentative citizen. Also, there are plenty of places where the girls can have a room to coog, eat and sleep for less than the $1 per day, which a cer- tain comimittee is going to pay. It seems that in charity work a |¢ollar should be able to provide }just as much as when used for jother purposes. BI | {¢—__________ | WAS IN BOER \¢ | Editor The Star: I burgher of the South African re- was a public and was there before and during the Jamieson raid, the M’Gato trouble and the Boer war. I was in a position to know of most that took place during the | Boer war, and I have not seen nor |have I heard or read of women jand children being used as shields for either the fighting men or the Red Cross, as a writer stated re- cently in The Star. But I do be- lieve that Gen. Cronje would have lasted much longer on “Speton Kopje” had he not been handi- |capped by the presence of women jand children. He was obliged to surrender to save their lives. I suffered greatly on account of that war, but I am pleased to be a citizen of this greatest of all na- tions and a resideut of this beau tiful city. So I think both “Hollander” and | “One Who Was There” should let |the “dead past bury tts dead. REBELS HAVE MORE DIAMOND STARS IN TOIL | NEW YORK, Dec. 6,—Several | more baseball sensations are prom |ised by the Federal league, which, + in the past few days has taken” three great pitching stars from the ranks of organized baseball. The announcement late Priday that Rube Marquard of the Giants b igned with the Brooklyn Fed- Jerals was as equally surprising as |the preceding news that Eddie Plank and Walter Johnson had also flopped over. Secretary John P. Foster of the New York club declares that the Marquard incident is a pure case |of contract jumping and that the matter probably will be th out in court. Marquard was under — three interlocking contracts, Fos ter nays. | When President David Fultz of the Players’ Fraternity was of Marquard’s agreement with Giants he stated that Marquard ; questionably would be expel from the fraternity if it were true: There appears « strong proba-— bility that New York may make ite charges stick in court. asked if the Federals would fight. the case, Robert Ward, the Brook- lyn president, stated that be would have to see Marquard’s com-_ tract before he could decide. Francisco. She invites you to partake of her offering of SUNSHINE, FLOWERS and RECREATION. The most delightful way to go is via the % 0-W. R. & N; “Line of the Shasta AND Southern Pacific J. J. DONOVAN. The Route Is One of Scenic The finest of railroad equip- © ment and the attention of: courteous, efficient employes, — For California literature and — full information call at CITY TICKET OFFICE, 716 Second Ave. Main 932, H. L. Hudson, D. F. & P. 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