The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1915, Page 7

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LTP Youn. UT ME Come TO YOU ‘out AND BLUFF YOU: By ILMOUR DOBIE, coach of Wash ington’s eight time conference gridiron cham- | plonship teams, has left Seattle. He left Monday morning on the Shasta Limited to visit, and possibly make his permanent residence with a sister at Berkeley. He may stay and enter law practice with his brother-in-law in California Dobie’s departure marks the close of one of the most remark- able careers of any football coach in the country, For 13 years, eight at one college, bis teams have never been defeated. Twice in that time they have been tied. Never tn hi eight years at Washington ha: Doble ever been officially accused of unfairness, press in other cities have charged Dob! with using ineligible men, but never were charges preferred by other institutions to the Wash- ington faculty committee on ath- letics. That in itself {s a record| Dobie can well be proud of. eee Some people are comparing golf and hockey now. They evidently never saw hockey played. aah |The following story is going the rounds about , the Nerthwesters interested spectator at plagers. MeCredin’s attorney spied Casey in the courtroom and during m recess tried ti get _him to go on the stand. “Nay, you used to be a — player, you,” wae Played it, but there was some | people who didn't call me » ball player,” Perle answered. “Well, we want seme tochatea! in- | formation in this case,” sid © tor. “It won't tal how should I sthing points Im | baseball 2 for his hat. the Nerthweeters | Teague for so long that I have forgotten everything I knew about the game.” He ducked for the door as he ppoke. see The Adams-Pacific grammar school | soccer match, won by Adams day, was scheduled to be played on the upper Woodland park grounds. | Under a PY ago of the coach of | e Pacific te: Frank Bogiano, game was played on the lower grounds. Bogiano claimed his team would be handicapped if the game was played on the upper field because Adams had played four games on that field this| THREE SESSIONS DA ¢ Sundays and ™ Nake, 10-12 a. mm 9-3 p.m Bide 10:30 "py. m. Band evenings and Saturday afternoon. Spectators 1( UTT AND JEFF— Leste, O LEARY, I kaxow THERE 'S AN TRSH Navy, BUT HERS 's BS TAIL APTERAOON AND DAWL 77 STRAIGHT STUFF the Sporting Editor Once or twice the! | | | just why he wants to Jump into a/| fighting spirit. | died with Johnny's enlistment. Few | |who go to war ever return, and if . \F THAT BG TIER OLEARY SAX G THAT TRELAND HAS ANAVY, He's A NUT. CORTANGY TLL TeLL MIM TO “IS Pace AND IP NG DispUTE S ME TLE KNOCK MIG BLOCK usTen , You THERE AINT You, TRY To TELL Sure! PUNCH YOUR season. It was known early in the week | \te which grounds the game would | be played and not a word tn pro-/ test was received from either coach. | Nothing was sald until the teams were on the field ready to play |The grounds were already marked off, but after considerable argu ment the scene of battle was changed to the lower grounds. Bickering over small details ts | not a very good example to the ris. | ing generation of athletes. If they learn to holler about small things in their younger days, how can they be expected to overlook them later? eee Foreign golf pros plan big trip, says headline, Better say cleanup. * ee Another youthful member of the Stokke family who have been prominent in athletics in Ballard | for the last few years, has come jo the limelight In an athletic | way. An older brother was a foot ball and baseball star at Ballard | high and last year played first | base for the Tacoma Tigers. He jis now skating instructor at the jice rink. Another brother was a jcrack baseball, basketball and foot ball player. Now the younger member of the family was respon sible for the victory of the Adams grammar schoo) soccer team over Pacific Saturdi He scored the only goal made and won for his team. ee Besid Oscar Egg in the racing game, there's Ham Hy- ett in baseball, Porky Flynn in | the ring and Hogg, captain of BY BEN OSICKY | the Princeton eleven. (United Sta Amateur Skating fe Champion) Romeo Hagen has at last felt the| I believe it is harder for skaters | taste of a knockout punch. He ran/|to learn how to stop than how to into a left hook trom the big fist|start. Also it {s hard to learn how of Billy Weeks, of Vancouver, Sat-|to turn corners. Both require a Jurday night at Wilkeson just 12/good bit of practi¢e, so don't be jseconds after the bout began. It | discouraged if you are not able to} was first time in nearly 200 fights stop or turn right away. | that Romeo has been knocked| To stop, turn the body sideways | out so the skates wi © sideways | eee ross the ice. Brace your ankles | well when you do this. The body | will naturally lean backward a bit Another way is to dig the hee} of Redmons of Chicago, who set a new world’s plunge record, tone skate into the tice and let it) lacrape along, but experts have! | found the other way best In making turns, say to the left, |keep crossing right skate tn front} and over the left. This requires a/ short, choppy stroke. In fact, it in| | | fighter. Johnny always had a lot of ex-| cess energy, whether fighting | must be a whale. He weighs (brother newsles on the street, op }ponents {n the ring, or writing de te D | Gowery-languaged, press-agent let The news that John O'Leary | ters to sport writers, and, with the fight game dead in the country, poss up War against th to let a good part of has taken utons as an owt some of his) has enlisted tn the Canadian army comes as a surprise to his friends here. Johnny has made quite a name for himself as a boxer, and | #vocation ly | | fray, his friends cannot under. | Sihemnenth by doctors say | | | stand. He was born in Ireland, | but lived in Seattle all his life un-| til he took up boxing. Seattle's hope for a world's fight champlo Mike Gibbon’s cold, which post- poned his bout with Ahearn, in hie chest and not In his Johnny does come back he prob-| Billy Weeks must have gathered lably won't be able to continue box-| lots of the coin of the realm since ing. The roar of gunpowder and |he changed his residence to Van the life in the trenches are not |couver. In a statement to the press good training conditions for Weeks says he has $1,000 to say} lhe can whip Les Darcey, the Aus |trallan bearcat, who Is going to January 15th. CHAUNCEY WRIGHT The Restaurant Man Will open the finest lunch room and bakery west of Chicago in the 42-story L. C. Smith Building, tour the Northwest soon. Weeks is middleweight champion of Canada, | and Darcy 1s @ claimant for Mike| Gibdbon's title Clark Griffith says Washing. ton and New York will be in the first division of the Ameri- can league. However, Grif is one of the punkest prophets we have. Even at the close of the six- ATTEND TO YOUR TEETH NOW Kxamiations and eas Free. UMION DENTIBTS—C: While We are + aaa THE CUT RATE PRICES Golf p We use nothing but the best materiale and guarent ing result for a acy of oy rnd ao work guaracte . Third and Fike. Entrance 106% Pike St, day bike ° Oscar Egg wa Wolgast says he stays in the fight game because of the money in it, We didn’t sup- In for the exer- clee. | pose he was | BUTTE AFTER MONEY| FOR LEAGUE BERTH BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 20,—Follow ing a conference of business men, a campaign was launched here toda 1 |to raise $15,000, the sum necessary to secure Butte a Northwestern league franchise. An attempt will} be niade to obtain a park in the central part of the city, | AND You kaow tT. AND IF You Ste BhPP, No TRIM NAVY Mme THERE 1g BG SNooT! Left, position of the ska to stop and (right) to turn corners, posed by Ben Osicky, U. 8. ama teur champion, for the seventh and last article of his series on how to skate. hardly a stroke, bat a step. In_ conclusion, any 6ne can afford pot to skate, It S Kreat exercise and the returns It ings in pleasure certainly make for any time and trouble one }has in learning __~!, LOW INTEREST RATES TO BORROWERS ~-We are loaning money at lowest rates on Improved Real Es- tate anywhere in Great- er Seattle. —We loan up to 50 per cent of a conservative valuation of the prop erty. We do not charge a commission We rower allow the bor. to pay any amount at any time (in multiples of $5) on the principal of his loan, Washington Savings & Loan Association 810 Second Ave. Assets, $5,300,000, Established 26 Years, American | Cafe Fourth and Pike St. Amateur Night Every Friday Amateurs Apply to E. K. MAITLAND, 3 to 5 p. m. French Dinner with Pint of Wine, 50c STAR—MONDAY, DEC, 20, 1915, 1 don't see how| PAGE 7, OH, YES, SERGEANT O’LEARY HAS A TWIN BROTHER |RANGERS, TACOMA AND CELTICS WIN SOCCER GAMES The Carbonado “team, for the| firet time in thr ears, on their home grounds, ta defeat Sun-| day when the ttle Celtics beat them, 1 to 0. The Carbonado team played the game with only 10 men. ! Rodgers failed to show up for the game, and no substitute could be found. | At Dugdale’s park the Rangers Woodland Park team under a score of 4 to 0. The newly anized Rangers outclassed the rk team, and were not in danger ing at any period. Tacoma nosed out a close victory from Black Diamond in the last five minutes of play. The miners led until the last ten minutes, when the/ Tacoma men shot two goals tn rapid ifire order, swamped the or SAY 2,000,000 PLAY | GOLF Figures furnished by golf ball manufacturers lead to the esti mate that 2,000,000 persons are { playing golf in the United States and Canada Manufacturers say about 350,000 dozen balls were sold in the two countries this year, Allowing two balls for each player and adding certain percentage of old ones, the estimators reach the total figures. The ball output this year was the largest In history, VANCOUVER TEAM COMING DEC. 28 € Ge Te ) ) ) ) | (Copyright, 1918, by M. C. Hisher treads Mark Meg U. & Pat. Off) Orme 7915 oe (3) Tghman (1) Seabee be, Polmt. CAPT, st QGRIFFIB (5) Cover-potnt See ley (4) Mackay (1) Cook (2) wht Wing Conter Left Wing Ed Pinkman The announcement in the Pink Saturday that Ed Pinkman is going to quit the ring Tuesday night after his bout with Danny O'Brien of Portland, at the Elks’ smoker, has BY BUD FISHER BOXER WHO QUITS GAME NEXT TUESDAY Twin BRorwer . ie PIPE AMD ME ALWOLE Christmas Giving -MADE EASY AtCheasty’s — = DID You GRE AY THINGOP MY. M@ LOOK, ST LiKe On ONLY rE BMOKE LTH HES SULT ARoumD THE CORCLER, Store Open This Evening and Each Evening Following Until Christmas “Values Tell” HAS BASEBALL | PEACE ALREADY BEEN SIGNED? CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Ban John- son, president of the American league, on his way thru here yew terday, headed for Cincinnati, sald that peace between the outlaws and O. B. was sure. Only the settle ment of a few details was all that prevented a rapid completion of the peace pact, he sald. The Federal and National com- mission delegates will work out the final details Tuesday at Cincinnati, That the Federals are more than ready to quit, and demand O. B. was ready to concede was the startling state- ment here yesterday, made by one of those financially inter- ested In the peace. He said that the peace pact was already signed, and only the detalis re- main to be worked out. According to the man’s state ments, the Feds will keep all their contracted players, and dispose of them themselves; reimburse the | Wards in Brooklyn and reimburse pak backers from the sale of the clubs. MITT MEN PREPARING FOR CITY TOURNEY The annual amateur boxing and wrestling tournament to be given under the auspices of the Seattle Athletic club on December 29a] 30 will bring out all the future champions in those two branches) of sport in the cit In order give to younger aspirants a chance for the. w some of the medal ard, Gleason, Madden, Baird, Phelps, Sontag and others who were sent to the Frisco and Los Angeles boxing meets will be kept out of the city tournament and matched against each other in their respective divisions. About 30 mitt artists have been training at the university under Charley Sontag and entrees are ex- pected from them. The Y. M. C. A. will probably send some men from their boxing and wrestling classes. Entrees close Saturday night. The S, A. C, has thrown open their symnasium and training facilities caused considerable excitement. Not even his closest friends knew of his intentions, and his quitting came as a complete surprise to them, Mrs. J. H. Edwards, ladies’ p- tain the Seattle Golf club, has nan Mrs, William Pigott as cap- tain of the class B players. Class B jof 16 strokes or more. ttle’ jwill be the Vancouver Millionaires, | who last year defeated the Eastern | contenders for the Stanley cup, em-| blem of the world’s professional | hockey championship, Lead by| Capt. Si Griffis, the Vancouver} seven will be here December 28. No games are scheduled in the Pacific | Coast hockey league for two weeks | | because of the pre-Christmas period, Following Is found the lineup of the cup defenders as they have played In the first four games of w season: STANFORD WANTS | | HIGH SCHOOL COACH PORTLAND, - Dec, 20.—Stanford | university is dickering with Track Coach John C. Veach of Washing. ton high school, Portland Veach has developed many stars at the Tortland school, including Wind- 1, the Cornell halfariler, and | on and Grant of Stanford. a salary agreement can bo} phed, it was reported today that | Veach will go to Stanford in Jan vary. | |\COBB DOES NOT LEAD! HIS LEAGUE IN | LONG SWATS led Ty Cobb the Amerfcan league in batting average, got more hits and scored more runs than any other player, but did not lead in any department of long-distance hitting. Veach of Detroit got the most two-sackera, 40. Cobb got 81. Crawford of Detroit got the most triples, 19. Cobb got 13 Roth of Chicago and Cleveland made the most homers, 7, Cobb made only 3 The American league situa tion In Cleveland is simple. All the town needs is a team, Sam Russell beat Al Schofield in cup last week, It was third match between the two, the first two |matches resulting in ties. Harry Vardon, Edward Ray, J. H Taylor, George Duncan and James Braid, foreign professionals, are jplanning an American tour similar GOLF GOSSIP |Players are those having handicaps |the Seattle Golf club, given for high | next hockey opponent |the semi-final match for the Chapin | the Jefferson park municipal links in to those that have entered the tournament. WELSH LOSES COIN FOR PROMOTER Freddy Welsh, altho light- weight champion, was a money losing card for Billy Haack, who gave the champion a bout at Memphis with Bennie Palmer, the Mexican. Haack lost prey eral hundred dollars. Memphis fans have the fght craze, generally make a begit a to the one undertaken in 1913, Carl Huiskamp, by winning from | Jack Ballinger, won the medal at man in the monthly competition. 1 Over 50,000 golfers will have used a year if the present rate of those | registering datly continues. At the/{ profitable proposition, but end of the seventh month records |} did not like the way We us- show that an average of 121 used|} ing his power as champion, dic- he links daily, Annual tickets!) tated terms for the out and total 425 at $12 each for club privie/) refused to pay their money to leges, or $6 each for just playing |{ gee him. privileges, « ADAMS WINS CLOSE GAME FROM PACIFIC FOR SOCCER TITLE | For Adams school, champions of the | Ballard section, defeated Pacific title holders in the South section, in the final match of the 1915 grammar school soccer season Sat urday at lower Woodland park by | the score of one to none Stokke scored the von for Adams. Slefert good game for the played a winners Alonzo, a little nimble-footed for. }ward on the Pacific team, was alone nearly enough for the Ballard boys. He made two shots that just | went over the bar. A few inches jlower, either one would have tied ae score. Pacific has won the city title the last two years and a victory Satur. day would have given them perma nent possession of the cup. Adams was runner-up for the title two re ago and their win Saturday matters even between the ye The the city serles of (South) ; Longfellow (North). winners of the sections tn who were in the final matches were: Pacific York (Rainier Valley); (Central); Irving WOLGAST IN BAD NEW Dee. 20 fast may be suspended months by the New York ssion at their meeting today fought at Atlanta on De cember 14, after signing a contract not to appear before the mateh withLeach Cross here Friday night, YORK, Ad Wol lone goal that | Go Home Christmas HE holidays will seon be here. The time of hap pinese and cheer. Your friends will be expecting you to come home. So will mother, father, sister or brother, Low Holiday Fares Are available for the holidays. On sale between all Southern Pacific stations in Oregon, Deo, 17, 18, 22, 38, 24, 25, 31 and Jan, 1. Return Imit Jan. 4. From Oregon to California points on sale Dec. 28, 24, 25, 80, 31, Jan, Det. Return Umit Jan. 8d, Ask us for fares, train service and other Information, or write Southern Pacific C. M. Andrews, D. F. & P, A., 720 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash. John M, Scott, General Passenger Agent.

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