The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1916, Page 9

oct; WERCY COVE, OLD BOXE PERCY COVE DENIES llircyine HE HAS STOPPED ANY | OF GERMAN BULLETS| AT FRONT With EDWARD HILL ERCY COVE, the old Canadian boxer, whe made quite a hit In Se attle In the old ring days, hae written @ letter to Max Seiddier, a Seattle friend. Percy says there le nothing to the reports going the rounds that he wae shot—and he ought to know, a t) Sam stil! on the globe,” he writes, “but there te no telling how tong Ht will be, Howeve: they don’t get us all, and | may be one of the y onea So far | am getting fat on the job | weigh now In the neighborhood of 145 pounds.” letter wae dated tn Engiand. Perey is now In London, awaiting a call to the front. He sent a picture, and it shows him looking fit ae a fiddle. agen geon ae Leo Houck got word that Joe Benjamin had walloped Jimmy Fox In Portiand, Tuesday night, and annexed the Coa feather weight title, he began buzzing like the proverbial bee and is now priming himeelf for PY we a with Joe. Ie the one most entitied to a go with the epeedy Spokane boy, he scored a victory over him “emoker. But, remember, Leo, you caught Joe on a bad night. That’ 9 fast, shift, was not his beet. here at the laet Austin and it janky epeeder, and has quite He | a reach. He will make you etep some to wallop him if he ls in the te atilt waiting for the Giants to cough up. azes le reported on good authority tat Frank Gotch will accept 99 cent of the gross to meet @y rater. aS will be a elump In the na- nuisance, draw poker, if manager's edict tn the train- camp ta obeyed. Bm ut } should worry if sports hit a p this year, There will be checker championships stag- tn August. Ho, hum! Turn out ‘the glimmer and put the cat out; {t's ‘way after § o'clock. zee ls following the qastom set by the first Red man- 5. , back in 1871. He has claim- ved the pennant. : aee ts from Raymond say that Billy Weeks gave Sid Mitch-ell thetr stx-round tilt. aes Stovall, the Fede’ firebrand, been put out at last. R SHOWS HE’S ~ VERY POOR SPORT That B. FP. Bohler, director of ath- ice at W. S. C., is a very poor man, is the opinion of the U. of W. wrestling team and Arthur founger. | The two colleges are scheduled to on the mat tonight. The U. W.. being the visiting team, had/ | choice of selecting three| irhts, while the W. 8. C. two. | Bohler slipped one over by pick- ing a heavyweight. The loca! in- between his two contests. Bobler refused to allow this. He is Bogart will have to meet the ht chosen by W. 8. C., and then take on the heavy next. the Indian game has been in Portland. A call has been for a meeting of the old- Percy Cove as he appeared when Boxing in Northwest PHILADELPHIA, March 9.— Johnny O'Leary of Seattle, who le the lightweight champion of Canada, and who sent Solly inne of Loe Angeles, over the Slumberland route Saturday night, In @ statement today de clared he |e after a match with Champion Johnny Kilbane. O'Leary also explained his “Texas Tommy” punch, which Je the talk of pugiiistio circles here. it le @ new one on the East, and with it O’Leary expects to climb on the lightweight throne. Broadway has found another col- ored speed demon in the person of Edward Johnson. Johnson ts as good tn the field events as he ts fm the track events. He is good for 20 feet or more fn the broad and five feet seven and eight in the high jomp. Prices Ordinarily Charged ON ALL CASKETS We Manafacture and Maintain Oar Own SAVE YOUR TEETH - OHIO CUT RATE DENTIS Oppectte CHIPS From Sport Bloek THE BONG OF | In the Neolithic Lived a king na Swat. He indulged in royal rages, |. Anger flerce and hot. He would selze hie war club heavy, | Set with claw and fang, And would whirl It, till It seeming Clamored, as It circled, ming, sourrled, SWAT Other warriors gone before us To that song have reeled. Crimson swords have carved the ohorue On the foeman’s shield. But we've cha since days of knighthood And 8ir Launcelot, | Now the bats of Home Run Bak y Kaur, the pennant . Ty Cobb and Cravath the Quaker, Bing the song of Swat. eee Zip Wrigley, the old-time third baseman, fs a great mirer of Hobby Elsh, the youngster who is training with the Giants at Marlin, Wrigley Clah In ral games last season and was so impressed by his work that he personally conducted him into the office of the Giants’ owners, eee cht southpaws fn “Wild BMI” Donovan's camp justifies the squir (rel joke at least once a week. eee When It comes to hitters, Wahoo Sam Crawford It there or thereabouts. The Detroit Tiger ie entitied to honora ye professional baseball! piaying, Barber Sam has hit .300 on 13 different occasions, and all of these marke were made in the American and National Crawford's best maj mark wae made with the Ti- _ in 1011, when he hit .378. 8 a member of Hughie Jen- ning®’ club, he has hit .332, 323, 311, 314, 378, 325, .316 and 314 eee Handball was the only game at Princeton university 60 years ago. eee An Innovation fn the way of a cork carpet mat will assist the competitors tn the running high jump at the annual senior national indoor championships to be staged on March 18 at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory, New York. eee Middle Western athietes are sure to cut a big figure in the points at |the sentor national champtonships |to be held at New York March 18 | With the Chicago and Iilinocis Ath- letic associations sending on small | but evenly-balanced teams, Eastern clubs will not find ¢ bh to vie tory #0 easy. MORAN STOPS WORK |IN TRAINING FOR HIS (TUSSLE WITH JESS NEW YORK, March 9%-—While Jeas Willard plodded thra snow on |the road today, and whaled away at Boer Rodel and Jack Hemple inj) sparring practice, Frank Moran,) who fights him March 25, quit train-| tng temporarily. Moran's manager| said he was afraid the challenger would over work. He plans to re sume training Saturday. Believing that Moran will use a lot of body blows, Willard exposed that portion of his anatomy fre quently to his sparring partner's heavy punches. He also went thru a long series of abdominal exercise Intended to develop a wall of mus- cle protecting his stomach and) solar plexus, Willard claims he feels ready to enter the ring at any time. CHICAGO, March 9%.—Because they swam two lengths of a 60-foot tank, in addition to diving and bringing up a sandbag, to pass a civil service examination to get jobs as lifesavers at swimming beaches here, a Central Amateur athletic committee has ruled that Walter Farrell, Hobart Olson, Charley licek and Lloyd Neff are professionals, and barred them from amateur meets, All four men are crack swimmers, They have appealed to the national body in New York. Milburn Saylor, the lightweight boxer, who has been critically {ll with pneumonia at his bome tn In- dianapolis, Ind, has passed thru the crisis of his fliness and ts slow- ly recovering. “Where Ever WILLIAM MASONS ené SHRINERS — methin 'STAR—THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916. PAGE 9. IN BRITISH ONE PERSON IN EVERY FIFTY PLAYS GOLF, SAYS TRAVIS Young America is cutting up scandalous in the old swimmin’ hole this season. Past and West have produced new phenome fn Rollmer of Columbia university and Browne of Hamilton clud, Chicago, and now comes Leo Handy, Brook- line, Mass,, high school, in remark- able foats 100 and 220 yards. Handy, who ts no relation to the former star of the Chicago Athletic association tank team, won the 100- yard event at Princeton tn 0:56%, and broke his own record of 0:67% established @ week before at the Yale interscholaatic. The best record for a college man was then 0:58, made by Herbert Vollmer of Columbia, April 17, 1915. Volimer has since set a mark of 0:56%. | | | | At Byinceton Handy also bettered | the tpterscholastio and intercol-| legtate records in the 220, winning He has annexed the 220-| He celebrated his 19th birthday last summer, and still has | & year to go to Brookline high school. Princeton and Yale men have urged him strongly to enter these institutions, but Leo bas not yet made up his mind. stroke, and his arm movement fs better than that of many adult swimmers of repute, but there is room for {mprovement in his leg work. The youngster has yet to win laurels at long-distance compe- | tition in salt water. His champton- |abip of New Fngland at 220 yards | was won tn summer tn fresh water. COST OF TITLE BOUT } The following table shows ; clearly and concisely the en- ormous expense necessary to conduct the 10round bout be | tween Jess Willard and Frank | + +08 67,500 ° . 22,500 Rent and cost of arena 15,000 | *State tax .. cesses | Same Expenses (printing, of fices, advertising, cost to mcure signatures Cte) nave | Willard’s share { os } Total ....+. «+++ $107,500 *This tax is based on gate re- | cotpts of $100,000, showing that | tf the fight does not draw this | amount, the promoters suffer a | } financtal loss. J. FRANKLIN BAKER HURTS HIS FLIPPER ANNAPOLIS, M4, March 9.—J. Frank Baker, home run maker of the Yankees, put into port here to- day with a broken rudder. Two fin- gers on his throwing hand were badly jammed. He may lose one of the finger tips. AR THRER ShSsIONS DAILY Except Sundays ond Monday Night, 10-12 «. ». ros } ( i a 10:80 ». jand faturday afternoon, Bp: FOR WOMEN ONLY Dr. Sanderson's Cotton Root Pills, the reliable om it) box, itr im wrapper. 180; Sundays, 11 to 1 n D REMEDY Antlers, 4th oF Hours, 9 to 18, 1 te Main 1182, co. a Union EMPRESS yhody Goes” LYTELL & CO. “AN ALL-NIGHT SESSION” pon'T THIS ONE, s Det A Great Novel BBY & DARTON 1 Comedy Oyelinte BURT & LYTTON Those Charac’ or 30—Twice STRASSLE’S ANIMALS!! ty Animal Act. | 7 | som | MILLS & LOCKW “The Hiekville # i WORLD'S EVENTS MOTION bs Nightly, 7:80 and © RICES 10c and 20c } | diviston. Pugilistic News and Gossip Johnny Kilbane, the feather Weight champion, seems to take freat delight in going out of hin class and meeting real good light weights, for be has fust been signed by his manager, Jimmy | Dunn, to swap punches with an | other one of the topnotchers of that He is Johnny Dundee, the j|fast and clever Italian pugilist, They will come together In a aix- round go at @ especial boxing show to be staged by the Olympia A. A. of Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, March 22. Dundee ts to recetve one-third of the gross re ceipts for his end. Dundee ts also matched to battle Benny Leonard a ten-round bout in Madison Square Garden on March 8, eee Tex Rickard, who fs promoting the ten-round heavyweight fight be tween Jess Willard and Frank Mo- jran, March 25, announces $9,200 worth of tickets had been purchased for the contest in less than seven hours, Tex claimed these were the $10 and $15 tickets. He further stated that few of the ringside box seats are left, eee Barney Williams, a New York featherweight, just up from Frisco, {fs anxious to tangle up with any of |the Jocal 122-pounders. He wants |to tango with Leo Houck and ac- cepts the challenge published by jeneer Abe. eee | Les Darcy, Australia’s sensation, |is the only man who stands between |Mike Gibbons of St. Paul and clear claim to the middleweight title, since Gibbon# oneround knockout of Ahearn. Darey and Gibbons have beaten Clabby, MeGoorty and all the other ‘|topnotchers, but have never met. Gibbons has an edge on Darcy Pricejon dope. Mike bad little trouble beating Greek, who all even in Australia. | Baseball | Max Flack, the young Chicago fly-grabber, held out on President | Weeghman for a rise in salary, in spite of the fact that the Windy City restaurateur has something like @ dozen outfielders on his pay- roll, He has come to terms, how- ever. Dick Rodolph, star twirler of the Boston Braves, who has been coaching the pitching staff of Wil- ams’ college for the last month, has left to join the Boston club on their spring training trip. The lineup which “Wild Bin" Donovan has decided upon for his regulars consists of Pipp, first base; Gedeon, second base; Pech inpaugh, shortstop; Baker, third base; High, left field; Magee, cen ter field, and Matsel, right field. Brooklyn's Florida training quar. ters are in poor condition, and the palpitant Dodgers have no other spot selected. The war correspond- ents that go with them may have to locate their dispatches “Bome where {n the South.” Knockout Brown, the but held Darcey t at Princeton for the last) y that]), | Golf |e played today by one In wery 50 persons in the United tates, according to Walter J. the grand old man of the Having unbosomed himeelf of the foregoing statistics, the Metro- politan champion settied back In hie easy chair and gave vent to ex- pert observations, gathered during 20 years’ active service in the Scot- time, and in which time has quired more titl than any other player, with th possible exception of Jerome Trav- ers, “The game hae made tremendous strides in America in recent years,” he sald. “For a long time pelt did not appeal to the sport lovers, Baseball, football and ten- nis had a firm hold. | wae 34 te of age before | competed in a tournament. To me, baseball was too strenuous, Golf, | discovered, could be played with less physical strain. “Another good thing about golf te it can be played well by the youth of ten yeare as by the man Handy ts an adept at the craw! | of 70. BILLY AND REYNOLDS SAID TO BE HARD AT WORK FOR THEIR MIX) Billy Murray and Steve Reynolds ;are both putting in hard licks fn | ketting ready for their contest next | Tuesday. Murray {s working in Ta- coma and Reynolds is getting into shape bere, Both men will be in fine fettle by next week, they say. Several more contests have been announced by Dan Salt. Leo Houck, who now claims the cham- Pionship of the Coast by virtue of his victory over Benjamin, the Bpo- kane boy, who licked Fox tn Port- land the other night, will take on Al Mosler, the local feather, who is clever with the gloves, Billy Wright will meet some good boy, as will Chet Neff. Charley David. son will also oppose some fast op ponent. All of these men are work ing hard for the coming show, and will be in the best of condition. MY, WRITES HE’S UNINJURED CUT OUT OL’ DEMON RUM, BOYS, IS PLEA OF EDDIE COLLINS BY HAROLD JOHNSON John Barleycorn got a staggering;riding on the water wagon. wallop at Palmyra, N. J., when Ed-| “Baseball, business, the world ite die Collins, $50,000 beauty of the |self, will be better off when the Chicago White Sox, mounted the |demon rum is cast overboard,” was rostrum and addressed 500 mem-|another of his extra base drives. bers of the Epworth Methodist Sun “Temperate living ts necessary day school. The keystone king, for success in any field of aetion,* who lives near Paimyra, wae In-|the baseball star added. “I belleve splred by the work of Billy Sunday,|a man's success depends on his who once played with Anson on the stomach. Cut out the booze, Don't old Chicago |be intemperate tn eating, and you Eddie told hi wwdlence that he|have won half the battle. A good did not enter the gospel league In stomach means a clear head that the guise of an evangelist, nor was will carry a man thru the crises in he contemplating a pulpit career. |baseball, business or profession.” “I come to bring a message to! - your young people from a baseball | player's viewpoint of the necessity of clean living, and I will be glad if anything I can say will help you fight the battle of life under the right rules,” he said “LAfe is a whole lot ike playing baseball under Connte Mack's or-| ders, Mack is the greatest base-| ball general the world has ever ors that Vancouver will not be known, Connie has established an |represented in the Northwest league honor system in the Athletics that|this season, by signing players holds his men in the best physical | right and lett. trim thruout the season, He reads| The latest addition to Brown's his players a set of rules at the/squad ts a big left-hander, named start of the season, then says | Billy Ely. Billy halls from the “Boys, give me the best you've city of Destiny. He twirled in the got. You know enough to keep in| Tacoma City league last season, condition, and you've got to be in| ‘The signed contract of Tom Fits condition to put ft across.” simmons, who frisked in the short Collins wove much of his address! patch a part of last season, has also around baseball history and expe-|teen received by Brown. riences to demonstrate the value of , BOB BROWN SIGNING UP WHOLE FLOCK OF YOUNG BALL PLAYERS Rob Brown ts setting at rest all Russ Hall ts also a busy little |bee, He has been considering grab- MOVIES OF SELF |p ott fou’ Men, coe et TEACH GIBBONS who frolicked on the {ce for Vic- toria. Both are said to be as adept Some folk think Mike Gib-|/with the bat and glove as with bons, the 8t Paul phantom, |/the war club and puck. Russ also knows jout all there is to || has a couple of Spokane youngsters know about the boxing ime, but he doesn’t think eo. He is he int giving the double o, ever on the watch for a chance ™ lowr a ‘ DUNDEE COMES OUT a jovies ‘eo In hie one. VICTOR OVER BENNY round knockeut of Young Ahearn are being shown in St. | NEW YORK, March §.—Johnny Dundee earned a victory over |Benny Leonard in thetr 10-round |bout here last night, altho no of- ficial decision was permitted. Both boys fought fiercely thruout, bus Dundee was too strong and aggre» sive for his opponent. Each scored 8 knockdown. hie movem In the ring and see If he hae any fauits, Mike saye seeing movies of himself In action hae taught him thinge about himeeif that he had never noticed In his yeare of boxing and gym work. Low Westbound Colonist Rates ON SALE March 25 to April 14, Inc. “ from Eastern points to all South ern Pacific stations in Oregon, Stopovers allowed within 80 days from date of sale at all / Oregon points on Southern Pacific. Write your Eastern friends of the opportunities for settlers in Western Oregon. Money can be deposited with local agent who will make all arrangements and have tickets delivered to your Eastern friend or relative, The complete card will be an- nounced in a day or two. Billy Weeks beats Sid Mitchel In six rounds at Raymond. Baseball season will open In Lew. {ston, Idaho, Saturday. Bobby Blewett says things took good for team in Great Falls, Naming the coach Is now a popu- fi Call at ticket office for information, G& M ANDREWS, D, F. @ P. A 120 Second Ave, Seattle, Wash. Phone Elliott 1256. JOHN M. BCOTT, Gen. Pasa. Agent. SOUTHERN PACIFIC GOING THE LIMIT! VI@_MeGLU KE WAS TEARING DOWR: THe STREET IN HIS NEW MACHINE. WHEN HB RAN OVER JRODER ICK BEAN. “YOV'RE IN. POR, ) SOME DAMAGES: NOW, YELLED BEAN, JUM ING. UP PACK YOU. SPOILED A PERFECTLY G OF P 90a ; DMONTS FOR ME THEN.” +4: THE CIGARETTE