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STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1916. PAGE 11. MUTT AND JEFF_-OH, WELL, THE CZAR HAD TO LEARN TO PLAY POKER SOMETIME. | BY BUD FISHER| Copyright, 118, by IL ©. Fumer Trade Mark Teg. U. # Pat. Off Cheasty’s Smart Clothes for Young Men Who Know $15 to $50 “Values Tell” Vessm THIN 1s THE PURER, SIR! ‘You BAY Youma THE GENTLE Mans (% ROOM 2.9 SIR, AND You WANT 4G TO SEND YoU AN EMPTY BARREL: 7? | A MOST STRANGE Request 31 BUT ‘You SHALL HANG ; BECOME A Bir THRESOM LET'S PLAY a cn OF POKER |] HANG SOME FUN Y Were TH BONS FOR AN HOUR, WOT ~ A S6UN0 WAR HEARD SANE HS Pam Chick of CHP iin %GAIN ST CHIP, GOTHAM WAITS WITH BATED BREATH HOUR OF BIG BOUT NEW YORK, March %4—With 50 detectives at the ringside and) «wearing Mg ' lard ata; in his hotel today, but oecasional plas- — of the boxing commission armed with rule books on the Job, | And ff any of the rules are broken and the boring commission “ae cellings below te tel other weoste that ahs TORN Jess Willard and Frank Moran will fight for the world’s champlonship| wants to enforce its mandate, remember the 60 detectives. kipping the rope or engaging in some other innocent at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. The crowd, it ts estimated, DO NOT EXPECT KNOCKOUT ‘Will total more than 12,000, The fans hardly expect a knockout. The odds are extreme With the fighters ready, there was considerable discustion today ly against any such ending to the bout, The biggest bet record- Jedout the rules under which the affatr must be conducted. The state ed wae sald to have been made by Harry Moore of Chicago, |) commission asserts that there shall be no hitting in the clinches, no $18,000 to $10,000, that most of the New York newspapers wil! in the breaks, no backhand slaps, no kidney punching and no Give Willard the decision. ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN BIG TOURNEY Funs who have made the trip here from aa far away as San Fran cisco expressed great astonishment when they saw Willard qr his| tering floated | sparring partners. Stanley Fay of San Francisco was frankly Surpris-|°™ buncher w ed. He sald Willard showed the greatest improvement of any boxer) | he ever knew, Those who eaw the champion when he fighting around Los Angeles said the Willard of today was not the same man whore boxing Referee Charley Eyton of the Vernon Arena likened to that , MORAN READY FOR FIGHT OF |COBB MEETS HIS LIFE; FEELS CONFIDENT KAUFF TODAY wx i et.te | Willard Has Pile IN CONTEST Frank Moran, the red-haired, pastime. Moran broke the scale at 202 pounds when he trod on them this morning. Then he went back to bed and read about the stock market, being just “on edge.” Scores of fans lottered around the borers’ quarters today, but no | hard work was done by either mas [Local Artists ; of Padded Mitt Ready for Fray = T bowaao meee “At THE FRON tm THE SPoRT ZONE vee THE BOXING CARD E NOW take our pen in hand and predict that Jess} chartte ena’en ne Mitchell. Willard will be accorded the better of the going by the Lightweighte HOW BATTLERS COMPARE } Eddte Quinn va. Billy Riley. ; Les Reese ye. Joe Harrahan. e Chet Neff vs. Harry Casey. bull-necked challenger of Jees Willard. BT. LOUIS, Mo, March 4—| Gotham gentlemen of press in his fight Saturday night Welterweight ‘| wittaeg, te ready tor the tight | OF Kale Salted)». DALLAS, Tex, March 24.—Ey- [What promises to be the biggest] with Frank Moran in the country’s metropolis. Beoeeag ont erat Ge, |ery fan tn the country had his eyes renee sovet tn the West ta year’ om me ow tt }} Al Mosier va. Bert For In every fiber of hie being | NEW YORK, March 24.—Jess on this city today. The New York Giants and Detroit Tigers opened |a two-game exhibition series, and inetdentally provided the means for one of the most Interesting events in baseball, the first meeting of Ty Cobb and Benny Kauff tn actual play. After the final game tomor row, dopesters will have something definite with which to compare the two great luminaries, Members of fs scheduled for tonight whe: a 200 athletes toe their marks the Missourt Athletic association f carnival at the Coliseum. Athletes from Cornell, Chicago, ivania, Ilnols, Wisconsin, Dame and all the Missourt | Conference colleges are en-| tered. Among the athletic clubs ‘with big entry lists are the Chicago | Willard really doesn’t need the $47,500 he will garner for a few! fleeting minutes !n the roped| equare. Jess, while not a tightwad, ts a frugal soul, and he has been knock- ing out $2,000 a week with a circus for the last 50 weeks or so. Wil lard fs no fool about hie financial investments, and, wh' the Pitteburg heavyweight to- day felt confident of beating Willard tomorrow night before @ mammoth crowd In Madison Square Garden, and sending hie name down in pugiiletic hietory as one of the greatest fighters the game ever knew. On the big fight depends Moran's |In coming to the front with our prediction we are taking an/ awful chance, having once before been accused of going blind at a bout. After giving the grand old dope the up) and down and the double O we couldn't see any one but} Charley Egan and 614 Mitchell Jess. Jess can’t help but win It won't be a knockout, report themselves tn trim for their contest at the Elks’ club Friday to the affair is going the full 10 rounds with the Kansas tom-|*. ; elr husker having the edge, say we. geneeee gyma, and doth reapective men send word that they are Mt A. A., Illinois A. C. of Chicago, and | } both clubs and visitin paper. Kansas City A. C. About 50|President Bobby Blewett hae an-|Second on the fist we have Bill | fr the Kong stgtus in the annals of the game.|fine home in Chica 2 So As at Oo ian Wil be endaatatind petey i is and Missouri high schools| nounced his let of threes um-| Finneran, who caused all that) Egan has been taking on all ot|'{ he sprawls Willard’s 6 ft 6/and other little comforts, he er tonight by the Newspaper ofan ai be represented fn the vartous | . "| trouble tn the Federal league and/the bors at his weight in Brerett| "ches of length on the canvas to-| doesn't feed any of his long green ANSWER T ERI RY ——_—____— ; Pires who will be assigned to) Solu ia trom the circuit. At|.». ee hon he| Morrow night, it is a safe bet that | to the birds. He buys a good many yi TP sutton to the wena! field and| duty tn the N. W. longue this! iret funiesnid to be good man |°2¢ Will be in fine shape when h¢/the daddy of the future will take | hundred acres of of! lands and such ahs il PREXY BAUM ON JOB season. A finer looking bunch of with the Indicator, but a bit too|Comes to Beattie, according to/ little Willle on his knee and point | staple things as that. Q—What fs height and weight of m Ted Meredith of Pennasyl-| castoffs was never gathered in| pugnacious to have charge on a/b manager, Freddie Bogan. | Ut tho moral of “the bigger they “wees on Cobb and E. Collins? Their age? ania and Dismond, Chicago Unt| one league bail field. | Mitchell siso says he tx ready for|*° the harder they fall,” with UMPIRE WILL COACH | bees ‘piaying ‘Sunday pail make] SAN FRANCISCO, March 24— ity’s dusky speed demon, has BS 8 | nes | the Rverett boy sete te Playing the stellar you a professional? President Baum of the Pacific een arranged. In & special 50- First on the list is Garnet Bush.| Third and last, we have the best) Harry Caney and Chet Neff have) "it wit @ narrative. ae as EDWIN HUNT. | Coast league has gone to Los An- yard dash, Loomis, the Chicago, This worthy had a fling in the; man of the trio; tn fact, one of been matched to box the sem | poy rd drops Moran then PALO ALTO, March 24.-—Ja . 20. Collins, | gelos to look over the Angels and will line up against Mahi, St.| Coast league a couple of seasons| the best umpires {n the country.| windup, and this go should be m| Frank's name won't amount to| MeCarthy, former major league um Playing bali| Vernon training camps. He will pire, signed today to coach Stanford university baseball team. ¥ ps . # |much more than an tncidental en- Harry knows a thing or two thriller, Casey showed that he Was | try tn the oof beatin, about the game of bascball. But) a comer when ho defeated Eddie! —and here tt {s again—for some | Shannon the other night at Everett |, Moran ts trained to the minute, reason or other, Harry has never| However, he will be up against a|"*T¢ As & stony-hearted village been able to hold an umpire’s tough boy tn Neft. jfautre’and beaming with health remain in the South for several ago and his work was of such a days. high order that he was shifted to) the Texas league in midseason.) Later he had a chance in the Fed league, but was the worst of the/ y fastest dasher. Teams from | Cornell and Pennsylvania will elasb [n an all-American relay | ehamptonsh!p. | PENDING in a German elty garbage Is col- lected, treated by @ drying process in wae the greatest In the history of the Yellowstone park, | | 4 ‘The piece of land you are look-| gang of misfits In the outlaw! berth for more than one season,| Forbes and Mosler are both in| *°4 strength. He has had every an 45,000 visitors passed thr the it! ng for can be found listed in Star] cireuit, according to Fielder t cases, has not last-|shape for their contest. Mosler | /Ain8 On the training program from AS Y OU GO pines. 4 Nee es tee ee ee a lo exercise with Jones. year. ——— : see luarrahan will most an By. | ‘h# chest weights and long seesions counUng on Harrahan | y. rly in the contest. Moran and his manager, Ike Dor. | fan, present an old combination tn |Bespeaks dark days ahead. Save a little now—today. Many of the most colossal fortunes of the past 50 years have been made from industrial stocks. WILSON TYPESE R a aa ‘TTING MA- Make your bid for fortune with THE WILSON TYPESE CHINE CO. Per Now 50 CENTS After April 1 $1.0 Share 10% DOWN, 10% PER MONTH. 5% OFF FOR CASH Past Opportunities What $100 did invested in the following companies: . 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Frank, while not a reck- lonsly reckless «pender, ts liberal with Celtle Iberality and has not bung on to all that $15,000 by any manner of ns. He {a not, how- nor would ho be ever, & 1 . even if some one should tap him on the koko tonight after the show and take that $2 Moran really needs the money, and {t will be up to him to husband that 23 thou’ wery, wery carefully if he loses tonight, because defeat in this fight would be apt to bar him from the big fight money for ever and ever after. ‘senha il MERRY MAGS BUSY AS BEES WITH SCHEDULE magnates of the N. W. league are still tussling with the schedule. At the present rate of speed it ts expected that It will |at least be ready when the league| opens, the last week in April. Nothing else of any consequence has occurred with the exception of the naming of the umpires, com. | ment upon which fs made in the sporting editor's column. JONES’ SQUAD WINS TRAINING GAME LITTLE ROCK, March 24.—The St. Louls Browns triumphed over the local team of the Southern lieague yesterday, 8 to 6. Moran, lo- cal sabster, was as wild an a March hare. Jones gave Fischer land Park a fllng. 'WOULD RAISE GLASS | OF THREE SPORTS An effort will be made by the! board of control at the U. of W. to |have tennis, wrestling and baseball lclassed as major sports, the same as football, The change was |favored by the entire student mem bership of the board. The stu-| ldents will vote on the matter) April 13 at the spring election, | The merry CUBS BEAT CUBANS TAMPA, Fla, March 24.—The Cuban all-star squad lost to the Chicago Cubs yosterday, 16 to 11, the fight game. They are friends inseparable, and what Ike says goes with Moran for the good of the Combination. PLAYERS COMING Tacoma handball sharks will meet the Seattle boys on the local court at the Y. M. ©. A, Fourth ave. and Madison st. Saturday. The doubles will be played at 8 p.m. Tacoma being represented | by Mattison & Phillips, Dr. Wm. C.| Speidel and Frederick Shearer| playing for Seattle | At 7 p.m, Speldel will meet Brown of Tacoma in singles in the first series. | Let us help you. Interest 4% UNION SAVINGS & TRUST CO. OF SEATTLE Capital and Surplue $800,000 | At 7:30 p. m. Pinnfsin of Seattle | samMES D. HOGE, President will meet Anderson of Tacoma tn series 2 of the single contest. It 1s understood that the Tacoma | boys will send over a live bunch of | rootere and the Seattle handball | nuts are accordingly urged to turn out and give the visiting team a good reception. | | N. B. SOLNER, Vice President and Trust Officer HOGE BUILDING in the Heart of the Financial District Home of the Best $2.90 Glasses on Earth If you use glasses you should be up to date and take advantage of this offer. Get the deep curved lenses; improves your ap- pearance and gives you a larger field of vision. 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