The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1914, Page 9

j ARMED WITH HOCKEY STICKS, CANADIAN TROOPS — [CHET NEFF EUTON ARMY, AVERS OLD PLAYER ‘kL ae f NEFF A FAVORITE OVER CHAMPION BURNS; JOHNNY SUMMERS LOSES HIS TITLE IN LOND OULD WALLOP BY JIMMY BRADY Of Fmous Argonaut Team, of Toronto, Ont. Tf the European war were to be fought to a finish during the win- ter months over the inundated areas | of Fianders and along France's frozen canals, it would be a good T ot | hi NN thing for the allies to equip that) firat contingent of Canadian troops with skates and hockey sticks. Of the thirty odd thousand men tn this body of troops probably three quar tres if not more ean play the great Canadian game of hockey. Now those who have seen a game will admit there is much danger confronting ® player in the rink as a soldier taking part fn a battle. Good play ers can shoot the puck, that hard heavy diso of rubber, with as much precision and almost as much speed as 8 rifle ball. The player who 1 le does not keep his bean out of the/ Way of the puck will wear bandages for a couple of months Twenty-five thousand - hockey players charging across one of the lakes in Flanders against a slow moving body of infantry would give said infantry the time of its life. The hockey stick is almost as deadly as the bayonet and the ef- fects almost as lasting. Then th Men could travel 50 or 60 miles day over the canals without any trouble, provided the ice were good. Ata pinch they could make « hun- dred which fe as good as cavalry ean do in twice the time. No game! ever invented requires more speed, agility, strength, brains and ourage ped from the ‘shinny,” in which & tin can or block of wood was the ‘ “puck” and the sticks were cut from @ neighboring thicket. Now there te a big stick-making industry and Special wood is used for the pur pose. Players never get tired of the Even the professional play- at jement as for the money. has made great headway large American cities. 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BWvery box guar. anteed. For sale Bros. Second Third and Columbia. Address all letters to RAYMOND REMEDY Co. 2174 Pike Ot, Seattle, Wash. into the game as much tor! LACROSSE WAS ORIGINALLY (PLAYED IN A CRUDE WAY BY THE INDIANS \ i Th SPORTING |IFLASHES | | Game Warden Harry Rief calle attention to the fact that the season for biack-breasted | and goeiden er, jackenipe | and yellowlegs will close to- | morrow, December 16, ! Za msaty' Plane for a 500mile automobile race over the new Chicago speed- | way are being made. The race will be run on or about June 19, for a | purse of not leas than $54,000. | George Wiltee, southpaw of the N. Y. Giants, has been handed the blue envelope. He may man-| age the Syracuse team if {t gets an International franchise. Johnny Evers, of the Boston Braves, seriously tll of pneumonia in New York, has passed the crisis }and fs recovering. The Seattie National members will meet at headquar- |ters, 410 Pike st., tonight to elect officers and make plans for the McMillan cup race. Soccer Charging the little fighter with cruelty, Mrs. Abe Attell has filed sult for divoree from the former featherweight champion at Cht- cago. Joe Swain and Al Moore are Dilled for the feature event of a five-bout boxing program to be pre sented in Everett tonight. The deal between the New York and Philadelphia National clubs in-) volving Lobert and Magee In a swap for Dootn has been called off. The Orillia Athletic club bas! ball five had little trouble in hand- fog thi all ond of a 41-to31 score to the West Seattle five last night at Orillia. The Seattle Mys tics will play Orillia tomorrow night. Walter McCredie of . Portiand has swapped Shortstop Dave Pan croft to the Philadelphia als for Milton Reed and Joe Mur phy, infielders letter from Clarence Jackson, the three-cushion orack, announcing that he would like to invade Seat- some games can be arranged for him here. Whenever Hosstrasser picks upa cue from the rack the talent gath- ers round the table to watch him practice his shot which he has termed “body English,” whatever that is. He claims to be ing something that will get With a percenta Morningstar continu cue experts in the thampion Bil Mard Players’ league. George Sut ton {s second, with .754. of to lead the In the 8. A. C. biltiard tourne- ment, Moon leads in the three- cushion game with a perfect score, having won 14 games. Fox is the big chief in the pocket billiards di vision, with 10 victories and no |losses on his string, Terrell haa| the same percentage, but has} layed but two games. Churchill | is the boss of the straight billiards |bunch, having won three and lost one. | At Detroit fast night Jacob |Schafer beat Morris Catton, 300 to 240 ina Billiard Players’ league match, making an average of 15 and high run of 63, Catton 12; 81 George Sutton took Walker Cochran {nto eamp at Niagara | Falls in a league match, 300 to 274 |making an average and high run| ~~ of 25 and 92. 78, Cochran, 229-12 and| Calvin Demarest went down to| defeat in the same league before | Harry Cline at Toledo last night, 200 to 266, Cline's averages wan 1516-19 and his high run 51, Dem- je and his tion- | | Chariey Hulen Ie In receipt of a DEATH KNELL OF BOXING IN FRISCO HEARD By Hal Sheridan NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Friday night will mark the close of boxing in California for at least two years. I—IN TH STAR—TUESDAY, DE IS FAVORED OVER “ROUGHHOUSE” TONIGHT’S CARD Ad Schaffil ve. Tommy Clark, | at 133 pounds, | Percy Cove vs. Leo Crevier, at 128 pouni tke Cohen ve, Ed Hunter, at 188 pounds. Billy Wright vs. Ed Kelley, of Spokane, at 133 pounds. EATURE EVENT Chet Neff ve. “Roughhouse” Charley Burns, for lightweight championship of Canada. o Roughhouse” Charley Burns ts peeved over the fact that Chet Neff, his opponent tn the main event at the P. A. C, boxing show, in the gym under the Grand opera house to night, is on the long end of the bet ting, It t# rather unusual for a champ to be other than the favorite, but Neff has a victory over Burne to his credit, and it t# this that the frenzied financiers are figuring as a basis for odds The other new face on the card is that of Ed Kelley, a newcomer from Spokane, who will mpt to put a plug in Billy Wright's winning streak The other gladiators are all well known to local followere of the mitt game. Tho first pair of boys will be sent away at 8:30. CHAS. WHITE STOPS MURPHY IN SECOND’ KENOSHA, Wis, Dec. 15.— Charile White, the Chicago lightweight, has another knockout to hie credit today as ® reeult of a 10-round jut here last night with Jimmy Murphy, aleo of Chicago. White stopped Murphy in the second This much was made certain | when Secretary of State Jordan signed the ant!-boxing bill adopted by the voters Nov, 8 Promoters, however, are not go ing to let the game die without a court fight. Two test cases are found game will continue | as usual, but no effort will be made to revive 20-round fights for two years. Promoter Coffroth will remain tn San Francisco for at least two j years, If the fight to continue the} fourround game is successful, he will enter that field. In the mean- he will work In be) re, which will be! | submitted to the voters tn 1916, per-| mitting ten-round bouts, regulated by a state boxing commission. Coff- | roth will retain control of his two | fight arenas, one at Daly City and the other fn Ban Francisco. Promoter Thomas McCarey has made all arrangements to leave Los Angeles for New Orleans, where he will enter th ht game In opposl tion to Promoter Dominic Tortorich. McCarey plans to stage Willie Ritchie against either Welsh or Mandot early in February. Complete Report of Market Today Prices Paid Preducers for Vegetables and Freie. (Corrected datiy by J. W. Godwin & Co.) Cranberries, per bax seco Prices Pald Producers for Eggs, Poultry, Veal and Pork EgEe corer es 01d roosters, itv (Corrected Gaily by the Bradner co, BEES woeeees eons “” Purves, Native Washingto creamery, brick Sent to friends or business asso: ciates in the East would be a fine Christmas Present I deliver them to any ratiroad express office at a total cost to you of $1.25, J.P. TODD Room 16 Colman Dock ron womr Dr Pitts Mi TRO LA Banderson's ¢ je remedy for ¥ BLYS AND I THES. ¥ x) REGU the most | to 10 box, or 3 y for $6; mailed in pl Money returned if they fail after fair trial. Open round with a left and right hook to the }i In the City Field House league at the Leschi Park gym last night the Hiawatha basketball five trounced the Ballard goal shooters, 37 to 23, Jones and Collins of the Hiawathas doing most of the scoring for the vietors. The Collins team wi from the senior Ballard five by score of 35 to 83 in one of the hot- text games of the season. Pike, for =e was easily the star of the ing. E WORLD OF SPORTS— EDITED BY HAYBEE SMITH | C. 15, 1914. PAGE ” | . JOHNNY SUMMERS LOSES HIS TITLE LONDON, Dec. championship of Great Lord Basham knocked in the ninth round. holder of the belt Summe |KILBANE GATHERS Tommy Clark, like the majority every year over the meeting of the when he has had enough and is going to clash with Ed Pinkman in the feature bout at the Knights of Columbus smoker in thetr hall at Harvard ave, and Union st. ton!ght. Pinkman {# Just mounting to the crest pugilistic wavé and meets Clark golng down to the | trough where float the fistic was sers. Why all thie jed myster yevery year over the meeting of the Northwestern lei nat There is always the usual bull about | “surprines” and “dark hore when every one knows that whatever | the mags will do at the meeting in already cut and dried and ready | for delivery beforehand PHILADELPHIA, — Dec 15 Kilbane, featherweight of the world, collected some oe eee defeat here last Houck of Philadelphia outpointed Houck six rounds, Kilbane welghed pounds and Houck 129 pounds Charley Swain is threatened with blood poisoning as a result of the recent amputation of the lower part of one leg, and 1# facing a third operation, His condition is a nything but satisfactory, and prob ably will not improve as long as Charley has any money left, or at | least as long as the San Francisco doctors attending him know he | has an | | (Seti t Ed White announces he has dis-| contract with them, | The Pittsburg Feds 16.—Sergeant Basham holds the welterweight Britain today as a result of his defeat of Johnny Summers last night. Lonsdale out | MORE EASY MONEY champion easy money today by reason of his| night of Willie Kilbane in each of the| 126 announce | . that Jimmy Austin of the St. Lonis| Ruppert turned a deaf ear to over+ Americans has signed « two-year) tures of Federal league officials te GAME OF LACROSSE INVADING UNITED STATES. JOHNNY KILBANE PICKS UP SOME EAS Y COIN | “ONE-ROUND TEXAS” : LOOKING FOR FUSS Under the wing of Joe Fied- a lanky Individual, bullt being boxing fans “One Round Texas.” He is Jimmy Williams of New York, who has been In the battling game for a num ber of years, hie principal con- teste having taken place In At- lantlc coast cities, Willlams has just arrived in Seattle and is willing to take on anything that can push a glove. He weighs 175 pounds and is looking for matches, claiming he has had the K. O. sign hung on him but once in five years. It Is expected that Dan Salt will accommodate him at an early boxing show, Definite purchase team by wealthy announcement of the N. Col brewer, made. price is said to be $450, get in their game. Quality! Not covered thesgreatest heavy-weight | wrestler of the century, All right, all right; just watt until Frank | gets bis corn shucked | Both Chet Neff and “Roughhouse” Charley Burns, Canadian | champ Mghtweight, are spilling loops of talk about what each will | do to the other at the P. A. C. smoker tonight. Neff and O'Leary | did the same thing a week ago and thelr match was about as fierce As a chens game. dling the dope by a fighter of what he is going | to do apparently has to be done because it 1s according to the story books and always has been done. oe My Idea of nothing at all—The effect on the average boxing fan of an ante-bellum statement by e!ther or both of the gfadiators, Like: wine the afterthe-battle alfbt, eevee The Moon Ie still shining with undiminished splendor in the | three-cushion billiard tourney at the S. A. C., having won 14 straight games without a los, In this case Moon is either green nor a cheese. see ee It Ie rumored that Dug may release three or four Seattle playere after the meeting of the league directors this afternoon. Anything to strengthen the team. oeeee Thirty-two counties In Kansas have not a single poor person. The | names of the counties are not given, but tt's a cinch the one {n which the owners of the Topeka club live is not among them. . Looking over the ilet of players drafted with so much secrecy by | the major leagues one is inclined to think they kept it secret, not to | Keep the Feds from stealing their players but to keep the public from | laughing Charile Comiskey certainly is good to the sporting humoriste; he signed Ping Bodie for another year. eee John Foster scouts the Idea that Rube Marquard can pitch for the Brooklyn Fede. 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