The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1915, Page 7

PASSING OF WILTSE LEAVES MATTY ONLY VET | PORTLAND SCRAPPER TO MEET BILLY WRIGHT MATTY IS ONLY OLD HERO OF GIANTS LEFT NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—The pass fag of Geo, Wiltse, ran south- paw, from the roster of the New York Giants, called attention to the fact that Christy Mathewson, one ‘of the greatest pitchers the game! of course, 8 onthe of the Giants, except, Manager McGraw, who club's payroll! when th jants won the world’s championship, in 1906 Pp All the other players have dropped to the minors or have drifted into other lines of employment. Wiltse was one of the most pop- ular players who ever wore a Giant} waiform, He always ga he club | Bis best, and that it was appreciat- ed was shown by the fact that Mo| \Graw gave him his unconditional _Telease. This was done so Wiltse) might negotiate without restraint for the transfer of the Jersey City International league franchise to Syracuse, where he has interested capital. Wiltse has been slipping for three years. However, he proved of inestimable service to the Giants tn 12913, when Fred Merkle, the regu- Jar first-eacker, was injured on the eve of the world’s series with the, Philadelphia Athletics. Wiltse slipped a glove on his right hand and went down to first base. He covered it, too, in sensational style. was Wiltse's great work on first! made it possible for the Gtants) land a single game—the ten-tn- affair that Mathewson won. Wiltse” had for a southpaw, and also a remark- able change of pa SOCCER MEETING ‘The Seattie Nationals soccer football club will hold a epecial meeting tonight at 418 Pike et., ‘at 8 o'clock sharp, for the pur- of reorganizing and elect- new officers in preparation for the game inet Tacoma on All followers of the soccer game are invited to be present at the meeting, partic- ularly the supporters of the old Ranger Beta I confine my work to trea... tpecial diseases of men and wom- en, such as Skin, Nerves, Blood Varicocele and Gent to-urinary Diseases, Free consul- tation and advice. DR. DONAWAY 302 Liberty Bullding, Opposite Postoffice, Seattle. We Make Motion Pictures Finest Equipmert in the Northwest . Jacobs Photo Shops P-I. Building. Seattie RAYMOND REMEDY Co. 217, Pike St, Seattie, Wash. 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Fullerton | Winer sports In the United} States, for some wnaccountable | reason, @il to hold the interest of |the peop Few, in proportion to| the population, seize the opportun ity to enjoy skating, snow shoet) sledding or the games played on fee and snow, and it seems, watoh ing these games, that the great ma jority of those who play or watch | | are of foreign birth It seoma strange that the old fashioned, hardy, outdoor sports of | winter fail to attract the American youth, and that, just north of us,/ in a more rigorous and forbidding | climate, it seems as if the entire | population turns to outdoor sports, more even in winter than in sum mer | Canada ts the home of outdoor) sports, They play more games,) \and at times, tt appears to me, bet-| ter games, than we do here tn the! |} States. They have all our games| }and some vastly more exciting than jeither our baseball or football, | jhardy “man’s game games.” It has seemed © me that la | crosse is the best, the fastest and the most brilliant of all ball games }and one that should have been our jmational game rather than baseball | To see it played by skilled tears jit is wonderful In speed, science | accuracy, and It combines the generaship and running of football with the throwing and passing of baseball. It was an Indian game, jand we should have adopted It. After spending 20 years or more in sport, naturally I had reached the stage where {t was difficult to get a thrill from any game, A | Couple of years ago I was in Mont |réal. The thermometer was at 6 | below zero, and they invited me to watch a hockey game. CANDIDATES | FOR CREWS OUT Fourteen candidates for the first crew and a number of men for the freshman crew turned out Yester- day at the call of Coach Hiram Con- ibear, of the U. of W., for the first workont of the year. From now until the mid-semester examination the crews will hold two workouts a week, the first ‘crew men turning out on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. After the weeding-out process is completed, the men will go through their paces nightly, The boats will be moved over to Lake Washington about the middle of February, and by that time Cont: Dear hopes to have a good line on the new material at his dispora! For the first time this season un- der the personal direction of Coach Tony Savage, the U. of W. basket. ball team put in an afternoon of bard practice yesterday. Savage has been in the East, and during his absence Capt. MeFee gave the | J! team what practice ft had. As yet the goal shooters are shy on’ team work, and if they do not improve several hundred per cent, between now and the date of their first con- ference game with O. A. C., they will be easy meat for the Ore/¢, gontans. HARLEM TOM IS at NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—The pass- ing of Harlem Tommy Murphy as & pugilist was seen here today as a result of the beating he got Inst night at the hands of Willie Beech- er in a ten-round bout before the Longacre Athletic club. Murphy was unable to do. anything with Beecher, the latter mauling the vet- eran ring man about the ring and irritating him by swinging left jolts to Tommy’s sore left ear. NEW SCRAPPER TO BOX WRIGHT A new gladiator in Seattle fiatic| arenas will be seen in action here at the Austin & Salt boxing show, at the P. A. ©. gym, under the) Grand opera house, Friday night,| when Dick Wayne of Portland will be pitted against Billy Wright in the semi-final event. Wayne en- joys a reputation about Portland something similar to that Wright| has about Seattle, and if he lives) pq fans are destined mighty pretty scrap. There isn't a boy in Seattle ‘onio| to witness | comes to cleverness and ability to swat, and the newcomer will cer- tainly have a hard job cut out for him to put anything over on the slim, lithe Wright. A third bout was added to the show at which Pat Scott and Chet Neff will appear in the main event yesterday, when Matchmaker Dan| Tt Salt signed up Harry Anderson and Percy Cove. Cove has entirely re-| covered from the recent sleep-slam administered by Leo Crevier, and| promises to go after Anderson in his old-time form. 4 lua ADD SWIMMING (* TO SCHOOL SPORTS Indoor aquatic contests may be added to the Mst of high school sports if plans now under consider- ation by the physical directors of the four largest high schools of Se- attle bear fruit. There is talk of organizing a swimming league tn the high schools to compete for the silver cup offered by 8. F. Plegce of| bu the Washington natatorium. A meeting will be called within the 207 UNIVERSITY STREET CORNER SECOND AVENUS next week or so to bring the mat ter to a head. IN THE BACK YARD Is FINE EXERCISE FOR_LA CROSSE from Donaldson. pounder for any amount. ager of George Ingle, comes to bat with an acceptance of the Rogan challenge, offering to meet O'Leary on his own terms. ia really talking turkey, instead of talking for the sake of getting pub- lieity, he can quickly arrange for a match with Ingle by negotiating with Erb at 1423 Third ave. up to it in his appearance here, the| might have added that the “practical” and five years,” We sat on benches with feet on | the tee of an open rink, and I had| visions of freezing to th. Five] minutes after the game started 1] was warm as toast and yelling H) the wildest baseball fan. The game | got me started. For speed, brit ancy and daring, It haw them all] pw YORK, Jan, 6.—When Own The Canadians have skling, snow| gr Comiskey, of the Chicago White | hoeing, tobogganing, a hoat-@f ex-| por deelded to welect | Clarence erate Ghee opis: enry Rowland, a minor league player, as manager of his club, var fous baseball critics here put the matter down as one of Comiskey’s whims, Rowland has always been a bosom friend of Comiskey and held| friendly relations with ex-Manager | Callahan and Ban Jom key also figur eral big leaguers who were appoint ed to lead his clus and finally de BEATING CARPETS LACROSS="A STRENUOUS GAMES. Directors of athietics at the U. of W. tomorrow will select a coach for this year’s wrestiing squad, after five candidates for the’ job have fiven an exhibition of their several wares. Although all of the cand! dates for the job are weil versed in the grappling art. when it comes to really knowing the game, Harvey Donaldson, the 108-pound national champion, is the granddaddy of them all, and if knowledge of the art, as well as ability to impart his knowledge to pupils, are the principal re | quirements of a coach, and I take it they are, Donaldson sheuld get the | > hands down. eee ee Harvey coached the varsity equad In 1912, and four out of the sever men he taught won their letters on the mat. That he more than made food was evidenced by the fact that a team of 14 men he took to Van- couver, B. C., won eight of the events there against Vancouver A. C grapplers. Harvey's pupils won three out of four events from the Y, M. A. wrestlers at a later meeting at Ellensburg. coeeee One of the best recommendations for “Mike” Hardy, a candidate for wrestling coach, is that he learned what he knows of the mat game He was a lkely pupil, but he has not yet reached the Teaching is right in Donaldson's line, as he is instructor of the wrestlers at the Y. M. C. A. and also at Austin & Salt's school of physical culture. Harvey ts hep to all of the ins and outs of the mat game. a knowledge gained through hard work and experience {n matches, and it is @ cinch that the university boys who want to learn the fine points will get them with Donaldson as instructor. age where he can give any pointers to his teacher. The next move in the game, If it Is played according to precedent, is for Freddie Bogan, manager of Johnny O'Leary, to stall or impose impossible terms, following his offer to back O'Leary against any 133- Quick as a finsh, just like that, Bill Erb, man- | Watch for the next move. oe eee Coach Houghton sald the coaches who want men who weigh 225 pounds up to the neck and 13 ounces above are becoming obsolete, whereupon Doc Williams twisted uneasily in his chair, . . o-. dim Jeffries is to train Jess Wil- In lard, which should be hint suffictont even for those who are not wise. Ex-President Taft advises against swearing at golf, which proves he is just the kind of a golfer he was a president, o- o- Prof. C. W. Savage of Oberlin has almost human Intelligence; he| j Players are practically professionals—and he “actual” run close to 60-50 ys college football Prof, Frank E. Lakey declares every one reaches his highest effi- | clency on June 15 and the lowest on October 15. has anything on Wright when it! 11+ thie—especially the Oct#er 15. eevee 1 wish in Johnson would be a bit more explici® in his statements about the Federal league closing before the first of June; which June does he mean? oer eo Floyd Perritt, the Los Aingeles pitcher, mistook a gulde for a moun- tain lion and shot him. The report does not atate whether or not Per- t is left-handed. ew ee Clarence Eldridge, ex-ref , says Walter Johnson was Justified in his double Jump, which indicates that Mr. Eldridge is exactly the kind of a lawyer he was a referee. cee ee “If | can land just one addition, I'll win the pennant for the next The addition he needs is about 126 says George Stallings. ints to the percentage of the Braves. oer ee Kid Gleason has been released. Well, there goes two-thirds of the pep from the Chicago White oe eee If that $6,000 draft beak: skipping back and forth between Chicago and Coffeyville, Kan., we expect several parties will try to discover the midway point and head !t off either coming or going, Ber pe lilinoie ie reported to be worth $2,645,256,069, $4.50 of which C. Webb Murphy is not after. ey Maybe Jake Ruppert has been waiting until after Christmas before ying the Yankees, But now they've probably been marked down, This fellow Flynn, that hit the canvas eight times%in one round at Denve® recently, was probably looking for a quarter somebody in the crowd had thrown Ingy the ring. STAR—TUESDAY, JANUARY 5. Now, if Bogan Connie Mack will ad- PAGE 7. I—IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS— ~ EDITED BY HAYBEE SMITH ‘QUTDOOR WINTER SPORTS SADLY NEGLECTED IN "U.S; CANADA REVELS IN EM AND GROWS STRONG ROWLAND IS A BOSOM FRIEND cided to take the chance of giving the minor leaguer the position Rowland is among the mont fa vored minor league players in the country, and if he can carry this popularity with him into the ma rs, both Comiskey and Ban John are certain that Rowland's baseball knowledge and winning personality will offset lack of ma jor league experience. 4 Has any one ever stopped to con sider how baseball salaries have grown? Noted uthorities here have taken the trouble to point out that Walter Johnson's ealary next) year will aggregate the total salary | pald to the Philadelphia infield and outfield players some 15 years ago. | It is shown by statistics that the sum of $16,000 was paid in salaries | to Douglas, Lajoie, Cross, Lauder, | Delehanty, Cooley and Thomas. Ed. | die Collings and Ty Cobb will get) an even greater salary than John-| son, according to the dope. GIANTS SWAP THREE MEN FOR | HANS LOBERT NEW YORK, Jan. 5—"We have plugged up the one weak spot on) our team by securing Hans Lobert | to play third base, and I now feel| certain the Giants will lead the} National league next season.” | | This was the declaration today lof John J. Graw, manager of the New York National league club, in| }announcing that he had secured) Third Baseman Hans Lobert of the | Phillies in a trade which sent Al Demare¢, pitcher; Milton Stock, in fielder, and Jack Adams, pitcher, | to the Quaker town club. | “We rere weak at third all last | season,” said McGraw, “and the jauisition of Lobert will give ns “| good infield.” ] Owing to tnability to properly fi- nance the team during the remain-| der of the soccer season, the Black | Diamond team has dropped out of | the race for the McMiMan cup and will disband. This announcement} yesterday was a solar plexus blow | to other teams in the league, but. they immediately started to ffll the) place of the coal diggers by trying to persuade the Fort Layton sol diers to enter the race. Fa'ling in this, it was decided to continue the battle for the MeMillan cup with | the ‘two Seattle teama, Celtics and Nationals, Tacoma and Carbonado, At a meeting yesterday it was de- cided that the Black Diamond play- ers are free to join any team which may obtain their services, and/ there was a rush to pick the min. ers up. SPORT | With representatives from vari- ous Eastern cities present, 26 Gae- lic curling teams Iast aight in New York formed a national athletic or- ganization to be known as the Gae- lic Athletic Association of the Unit ed States. the 5. A. c. three-cushion handicap billiard tourney, R. 8 Fox stands at the top of the heap, with a percentage of .785. J. B Lewis is second, with .727, and Churehill third, with .692. Directors of ¢ Pacific Coast league waited in San Francisco all afternoon yesterday for M. R. Evans of the Salt Lake team and . Mater and Hap Hogan of the Venice club, who failed to show, for the scheduled meeting. Galbraith: and Grinnell won six out of ten games from Edwards and Conover on the 8. A. C. alleys Each man’s aggregate score for the ten games follows: Conover, 1,822; Edwards, 1,878; Grinnell, 1,796, and Galbraith, 2,035, Galbraith rolled high score of 266 and high average of 203, Invitations have been issued by the publicity bureau of the Cham ber of Commerce for a smoker, which will be given at the Faculty Men's club on the university campus tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, to entertain delegates to the Wash-| ington Newspaper Institute in ses. sion here this week. The program PN shat include songs, stories and stunts, Directors of the Pacific Coast league, in session at San Francisco, have been empowered to draw on| the Salt Lake baseball club for | $10,000 as the first payment due} from Salt Lake for the former Sac. ramento franchise, Of the $50,000 required, $40,000 has been raised in the Lake city The Whites put it Blacks on the 8. A. ©. night by a score of 2,783 to 2,6 Conover rolled high seore of 215 ai and Stuaser and Riddle tied for high average of 183. anuary Sale Now in Progress A tailoring event that Seattle men look forward to. A tailoring sale of real, not fictitious values. $35 Suits for $25 40 Suits for 30 45 Suits for 35 50 Suits for 40 Overcoats at Same Reduction In Short, a Straight Reduction of $10 on Every Suiting-and Every Overcoating in Stock price. In the long history of the Kane establishment, never been regularly priced at less than $35. So that when you arte offered a Kane-made suit for te well, it’s an offering worth investigating. Fabrics offered in the Kane stock include everything in pat- - tern, texture and style that fashion and good taste call for. An inviting display of the latest modes in imported and domestic woolens to select from. J. S. KANE 709 Third Ave. New York Block 15 Years in Same Location TO BE MEMORIZED. TEN THOUSAND LITTLE DOLLARS LEFT HIM BY HIS DAD, ALONG CAME A CHORUS GIRL. GOT JUST HALF HE HAD. BOUGHT AN AUTOMOBILE GAYEST OF THE. GAY. NOW HE'S BACK UPON THE FARM, MORTAGE STILL TO RAY. NEW YORK GIANTS GET HANS LOBERT IN SWAP FULLERTON SAYS WE NEGLECT WINTER SPO RTS | HE reputation of Kane tailoring is too well established to need elaboration. There is none better in Seattle—at any suits have CORBETT WILL MANAGE BONDS. TACOMA, Jan. 5.—Joe Bonds, lo-' cal heavyweight boxer, is happier today than he ever was over any of his ring victories of the past. The cause of his elation is the acquisi- tion of a manager and that man- ager no less a personage than James J, Corbett. Before leaving for Portland, where he {s appearing in vaudeville this week, Corbett announced he expected to take charge of the lo- cal boxer’s affairs, following his re- turn from an Australian tour next fall. While here, Bonds boxed several times for Corbett and made such a good impression that the old-time wizard of the mitt game consented to manage } him. ‘ UNION “HILL, N. J Jan. 5— Six-year-old Filomino Aurello is dead at her home as the result of Jumping a rope 800 times. After making her three hundredth jump the child fell unconscious, List your Real Estate in Star Want Ads. FOR WOMEN ONLY Dr. Sanderson's Cotton, Root i, the dest and only re- Mable remedy for FEMALE TROUBLES AND IRREGU. LARITIES, Cure the most obstinate cases in & to 10 days, Price $2 per he or 3 $5; matted in plain wrapper, tutned if they fall after fair trial, Opes Open enings. 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