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- ‘ eee nan F838" “age of boring holes tn fences, will) “player: f° pretty y see THAT PRESIDENT WILSON (5 GOING To TAKE 4 House DOWN AT LONG- BRANCH THIS / | TODAY; NEW YORK, April 12. ‘Twenty-five thousand small | boys ajunk Into the attic today " and got the auger out of pa's tool chest. They spent most of the morning boring holes thru the wood and concrete fencea surrounding the eight biggest parks where that fa- mous and well: known sport, baseball, will blossom again this afternoon. While this has nothing to do with the story, the fact re- mains that smal! boys, together with some 200,000 he: ind shes, i be om hand when eight umpires clear eight husky throats and bark “Piay ball” In the American and National leagues thie afternoon. These 200,000, having passed the/ pay to get in, and thus start the/ ring into baseball cof- Cheek also declares that H. | ent wa ~a eo os er eek also declares all picked up a pretty nifty flinger ‘be a record-breaking year. Old Doc Prosperity, with a little dove serum, has {noculated fans, the magnates say, and all are cured of the malady that has proved so costly for the last four Years—Federalitis. Sport writers, players and just in fans united with the mag- Mates in their prediction that 1916 Dasebdal!l will not only drive war, Mexico and the justly famous pet- ticoat fashions out of the news age public mind, but will oa Mr O. B. for the wads. of change lost in the conflict with the Feds. The absence of the Federals as a third contender, and the spirit of friendship that now permeates organized baseball, {s a new factor. New millions are backing the game. The Chicago Cubs-Whales have the power of the mail igo house, the restaurant trust in Middle West, the packing interests and the chewing gum trust behind them. And Charlie Weeghman, the con-! trolling factor in this combination ot National and Federal league says he will spend much money, !f necessary. This same spirit, Weeghman says, {s backing | the other teams, tho none of the/| others could sit in a game of freeze-| Out with Weeghm: Only Three Teams Same When the season opened today! only three teams were practically | the same as last year—the Chicago White Sox, the Washington Amer-| ns and the Phillies. The oth- AMUS SEMENTS) BRO THE BEST OF VAUDEVILLE 2:20-—T WICK DATLY—8:20 MAUDE FEAL D Im a Comedy Playlet “WHEN THE TIDE TURNED” Homer Miles & CoM ate ega—Dosovan and Lee—Col. Dia- mond and ™ Grant — Carpos Weekty. | MA Re} minZ Your Seats Now. sCHEEF Heserve TONIC HT WEE: ROBIN HOOD ; Mat.,| | | ONE a. Se ull ED MetropolitanTheatre| TONIGHT and All Week Wilkes Stock Compeny tn | Nights 16c to 50c ‘Thurs, and Nest Wook—" Week—BABY MINE” puree? deville Originated” fo e Money «run PouLins oF Now" ‘The Musical Comedy Hit of the Year with Big Vaudeville Features oo HARMING GIRLS AND “Nothing | ‘ven id for the Price”. NEW NEW PANTAGES ‘AGES Mats., 2:20; Nights, 7 and 9 “A TANGOL AND REVOLUTION? With y Williams and His South American Girls. HYMAN AD } 1n_“Solome JENNIE -Pan- American. gehts, 7 and 9 SOCIETY BUGS” 40 minutes of mirth, melody, dancing giris, pretty musie, lively tun BIG VAUDEVEE Bi | Second Epine } “NTINGAREE” fos and ube f | blushing |poets and other signs of spring, the x |long, long sleep today. “AT THE im THE SPORT ZONE USS HALL has gathered together a squad of ball players at Tacoma that will stack up alongside any team in the league. This is the opin stop, who was over in the “City of Destiny” last Week, and incidentally grabbed the opportunity to give Hall's squad the once-ayer and the up-and-down Bo ot Ot Harry declares that “Frisco” Edwards, the catcher Dugdale was after for a time, stands in a fair way of beating Al Bartholemy, the Portland semi-pro, out of the second back-| stopping honors. azas when he copped “Jude” squad wanted, we Abe Finegold, the former Gon- saga and Broadway hi ball toss- er, who ls trying for a backstop ping job with Seattla looked Very good with the willow in yes tegday’s practice sessions against the Hatters. Out of two trips, he annexed the same number of hits, Both were doubles, too, an eymaker and Finegold, seem to be the best willow wielders among those trying for a post tion. The St. Louls barber takes | T; a healthy sewing at the sphere. Bue ] Bob Brown’s team still continues! to show up the locals by the way it is handling Rube Foster's “cul lua” gentlemen. The Canucks sitpped over an § to 6 win yoster-| day and secured seven hits off) George Washington's delivery, 3 “Wheezer” Dell ecored another training game victory when the| Dodgers triumphed over the Yan-/ kees. The Yanks, however, got, mn of Harry Cheek, Moreland, another player the local | from Salt Lake. STAR—WEDNESDAY, APR. 12, 1916. PAGE 7, Bhs GOOD YEAR LOOKED FOR An T | owaano «DOO teks Fron vetefan back-| anes nine hits off the Dig fellow’s de-| livery, while the best his team-| mates could do was to collect) eight. The Dodger# hits ere timely, tho, as the 7 to 2 score! would indicate, Bill Piercey,! who twirled for Vernon tn the/ Coast league, last season, and was considered a youth of prom | ise, hurled for the Yankees. Bes | rolls that will repay |Soth of the recruit catchers, Mon-|“Grandmethers’ funerals” are in or-| der today {n all the largest ie of the United States. Re 8 Jey Raymond Insists that we ba) @ lfkely looking bunch of ball tossers on hand at the Dugdale stronghold, {n Rainier valley, but| we can't see sucha-much to the Seattio team. The outfield ts a} Very weak spot and will need| considerable plugging. 8 Mt quartet as you would wish to see,| but, with the exception of Char. ley Brooks, the boys are not sous-| ing the apple with the frequency that tends to win ball gam era, which have recruited new play-! ers from the erstwhile Feds, didn't look the same. Benny Kauff, star Fed infielder, was romping around today in a |Glants’ uniform. Joe Tinker, Mordeca! Brown and a score of American Le. St. Louls at Clevelan Detroit at Chicago.” Washington at New York. Philadelphia at Boston, National Le. gue Chicago at Cincinnatl. Pittsburg at St. Louts. New York at Philadelphia. TODAY'S SCHEDULE | ¢ { ¢ Boston at’ Brooklyn. { others, once famous in the big leagues before they flocked to the Feds, were back tn O. B. untforms again. Along with the Cock Robins, violets, colds-in-the-head, baseball prophets awoke from a They ad-| mitted, however, that even tho they | were prophets, they couldn't guess | which of the 16 teams that started | jthe season today, would get the big | w Cast, Augmented 0: hestra | {YD0 in the flash extras next Octo-| Meh army. ber. The Red Sox, who got all the | grapes last year, were playing to day on their own grounds, with a pennant flapping in the Cape Cod breeze. | ATTENDANCE AND GET SEASON PASS There are two season tickets for all gamee played by North. rn league teame at Dug. park, to be given away by The Star. How many fane wil! pay ad- mission to the opening game? That's the question. For the fan cor fannette—that sends T Star the wn Yt correct figure before 6 o'clock on April 25, President Dugdale will donate a json ticket for two. For the nding In the second near- pee correct figure, Dug will kick thru with a solitary pase for the season. Get busy now if you want to the opening game and every the guest Mall your letters to the sport editor of The Star, Every big leaguer tras a dual per sonality. He's a hero one day, boob the next a RUBE’S RAPS Doings in Fistania Jimmie Rose claims if Jees Wil- lard and “Kid” Willlama ever get together that Alf Goulding will win, cee Walter Coffey, the California middleweight now in Australia, ts expected home on the next boat, Coffey will come by way of Van couver. Local middlewetghts, look out. Billy Murray, beware! eee When “Kid” North I» asked about the bout that took place in Havana Inst winter all he says a, “Huh.” ee Benny Kaufman, good Philadelphia will arrive here week. Dan Salt, ° . the rattling j featherweight some time next! get busy! ee George jatty, at on ager of “One Round” Mogan, has now turned aviator and will fly with Vernon Castile in the Eng- time man- Henry Sherr, formerly a news | boy of Los Angeles and more re cently a boxer of note, is In town for a theetrical engagement. What a great bout It would be if the war {n Europe was over and Georges Carpentier was matched with Les Darcy. Yes, they would draw a bigger house than Moran and Willard, if they fought in New| | Battling York, A great hick town. Be jaa Jimmie Fox, the fast IIttle San Francisco featherweight, has quit the boxing game for good and has entered business in Butte, Mon tana. see Mike Gibbons claims his brother Tommy 1s a hetter boxer than him self. If Mike speaks the truth, what a bear Tom must be “Uncle” Tom McCarey of the fa- mous Vernon fight club fs now in the horse racing business, SPEAKER IS NOT YET MEMBER’ OF INDIANS CLEVELAND, April 12.—Tris Speaker, newly acquired outfielder of the Cleveland Americans, 1s not entirely “acquired” yet He and James C, Dunn today continued) their negotiations regarding the matter of Speaker's contract with} every, prospect of & conclusion, that will please the Cleveland fans. | who, —— IT's ve stows ed To Kow |) kaw CHAT WILSON Is : © PAPERR eviDeNce /To_SUPRORT DIPPERENT }\ NOT GoINe TO TAKE A OU Poor Simp] MS 5 || House at LONG BRANCH Dow CLAr ", = T Dispur ¢ Pennant Predictions Made to-Please All As the season started today, this was the way the big league towns figured tt out New York—"Nothing, to It WH play the world series tn New York next fall, Giants va, Yanks.” Chicago—1t will be the White Sox and the Cubs again, as It was tn 1906, Philadelphia “Ho, hum. We've played lots of world se- ries here, and we can stand an other one. Boston—“Order another plate of beans for the champions. We don't know which ft will be, bur it will be one of them sure.” St Loule—“Form reversed this year, We've got it now.” Cleveland (feeble, but still tn the race)—"New blood this yer, Wo ain't bragging, but watch ts.” Pittsburg —- “Watch amoke.” Brooklya— “Over the bridge this year, Cincinnat!—“Best club we've ever had.” Detroit—*Ty Cobb, Sam Craw- ford, Veach. Tha Washington — “W Mrs, Wileon something.” You pays your money and you our takes your chotce, WOMEN GOLFERS IN TOURNEY AT S. F. SAN FRANC 18C) 0, April 12.— | Women golfers of Caltfornta had their tnning today, when the Se |The Infield ie as classy @ flelding| quoyah Country club began its tnvi- | tational tournament for women, the/ first of the year on the Coast. The best women players of the bay section partictpated, and Mre. A. R. Pommer, M Max Rothe child, Miss Edith Chesebrough and Mrs, ©, F. Ford were favorites: ~_ BASEBALL RESULT o— At Seattle 6, Burnsides 2. At Boston College 0 At Bellingham—Vancouver 8, Chicago 6, At Brooklyn 7, Yankees 2. At Vernon 4, San Francisco 2. At Oakidnd 10, Portland 2. At Salt Lake 10, Los Angeles 14,/ At New Haven—(Giants 7, At New York—Braves 7, Ford ham 2 At Terre Haute Ra Pirates 9. WILLIAMS WINS REDS TAKE CONTRACT © BAL TIMORE, | ‘MA., April 12. Lahn today looked like he! had encountered a sawmill as the} result of his ten-round bout with Kid Williams last night DOCTOR ymin that ay man, consult the ox-G 4 t CURES ‘MEN through Errors and suffer from Chronic Weakne) Impaired Manhood, Pain in the Back, Nervous Debility, Lost Vi. tality, Kidney and Bladder Trou- bles, are quickly cured by DR. PIERCE’S SEXOID fn ui $1 mix boxes for $6. guaranteed, Call or write " Room 6, nd Union « Fourth MEN. | KNOW THAT Improper measures \rather than disea are very often the cause of your ong standing trouble, for ¥esable Wann 802-; Unton and Third, © [Office Houre: 9 a.m Buadays, 10m ae | Red Sox 9, Boston Yale 0.) Visher oft. Copyright, 1916. Trade Mark New by H. ¢ U. & Pat BY BUD FISHER VILLA IN MEKICO Sends Names of Batilers Chet Mcintyre of the 8. A. C., has received the fist of boxers the Olymple club of San Francisco will send here for the Far Western meet the | last week of | W. J. Leaur | heavyweight, hi Will Coulsting, 115; Moretto, Henry Gleason, the champ at 135, make rest of the list. Gleatqn wi member of t ux, the comleal tet. 135, national up the formerly 4 local clu! ) | | e! This is Young Ha who, In challenging allcomers, will meet with some opposition in Jas. Thores, whom. he wresties Thurs day night at & o'clock sharp, and will endeavor to throw In 15 min- at the Hippodrome theatre. | utes aes Hackenschmidt claime he 18) {oo cia daily by J. W. Gotwin & Co) a brother of the original Hacken- | echmidt. BECAUSE T. HAPPEN To KWvow | THAT HES MAKING PREPARATION ¢ RIGHT Now TO nah! A enschmidt, . Nie, | SEATTLE BUSINESS MEN START WORK TO BRING EASTERN CREWS WEST Every effort will be made to have the winners of the Pougkeep- sle and Yale-Harvard regattas come West thie year by Seattle busi- ness men interested In aquatic sports, particularily rowing, at the University of Washington. Following yesterday's meeting of the faculty of the university, which, netioned both plans offered—to bring the winners West, or, if t is unsuccessful, to send the Washington eight East—the Business Men’s Rowing club immedi- ately got busy and will start correspondence at once, The plan in favor is to have the two winning crews come to 8e attic, THis would cost in the neighborhood of $7,000, while the trip East by the locals would me $3,500 cheaper. The funde will be raised by popular subscription, and since Washington's brililant victory over Stanford, supporters have been flocking to the loca! institution, FISHING BETTER, _ REPORTS PROVE, The majority of fishermen who! O. C. Frisbee was out again Sun- | took « flyer to their favorite nooks day and took a nice catch out of over Saturday and Sunday came [Norte creek. back with fair catches. ; Mad Ld | Recent reports recelwed by Piper | L. Herrits. French consul, and |@ Taft state that the water are | Harry Van Tassel of Piper & Taft, |rapidly becoming lower thruout spent Sunday fishing and returned the state, and, with continued warm with a good catch of lake trout | weather, the sportsmen may soon and grayling. | look for some food fishing. | c. B. Leiba {s spending the P. Pitt Shaw, 2 8. Hayes and | week on the Dosewallips river. Dr. Ballou are all deep “dyed io eed the wool” rmen. They are Ben Emsley the season the Judges of ‘The Star's fish tale at Startup, bis fa’ @ place. leontest and are hard at work on | the lection of the best two Geo, Schaefer Gaptayes a fine yarn They are now going over ft’ \the stack of stories for the fourth time. Says Me caught ‘em M. ©. Dickerson caught » 8%- poundcutthroat at Kirkland, Sat | ALASKA SWEEPSTAKES RACE Byron Farr and party caught the limit at Pipe 8. IS ON IN FULL BLAST TODAY) NOME, Alaska, April 12-—With| yesterday morning. pala, winner of last year's race, started cne minute after Ayer. He had 17 Sibertan wolf dogs pulling his steely runners over the frozen snow. Fourteen Malamutes, driven by Fay Delzene, were next, and 14 fox hounds tugging at the leash, Fred Ayer waa the first to start in the annual sport classic of the Far North, the All-Alaska sweepstakes dog race from Nome to Candle and return. The event {s the world’s jserfes of dog racing. The dis- tance ts 412 miles. The start was made at 9 o'clock MARKET REPORT @ | Florida strawberrien, at. |Kjegstad. Ore-minute weparated tho starters, intervals Menem, Se, i r — Veuet bie and Frait Artichokes, dom ek sss Beste Cal, cabbage, Winning- stead 4 } cgi. lemons, per crate. .-- SAN JOSB, April 12.—Hal Chase, Jemona m ] 0- | Cranver Rhubarb, Cal star first baseman, is speeding to-| Ct Rhubarb, Cal 35 @ 180 day toward Cincinnat!, prepared to| carrie. 6 Lo eae co OSB join the Reds, Before he left,/ Caull Oregon, crate eget abs meas Chase recetved word that his con-|¢ | Yakima rutabagas, sack 200 tract with the Feds, calling for Pyenay | Turnt ek OR @ iso $8,000 a year, had been taken over. ricride | recat apples * @ 1.00 Hana ana Yellow Newtown Pippins @1%8 | Btaymen Win @1 2 1 New Talent at the Thalia Cafe ‘Amateur Night Tonight The Famons Operatic Duo of }Conley and Berriman have been added to the already strong pro- gram to be shown at the Thalta, starting tonight They are late of the Finher Cireult, having Just com pleted a successful tour over that company’s time, Evelyn Du Fresne is another well-known en tertainer of Seattle who has, be ided to attract the discriminating people to the Thalia, GUNNER Old Winesap Rome Beauty ‘Ontons Ontons, green Onions green, Walia Walla, doz 5 Oregon onions . ay) Onions, green, local Yakima sees sees Potatoes White river .. 27.06 Yakima Rurbanks 36,00 Yakima Geme 3600 Sweet potatoes . Barly Rose seed potatoes. Prices Paid Producers for Poaltry, Veal and Pork Kerr, | hares 20 is 18 and under 17 Old roosters, live oe Pork, good block hogs 10% good nite, dow .. Belling Prices to Retatler for Butter, Eggs and Cheese e Rc te Oe Native Butter Washington ary | CONLEY AND BERRIMAN | A prize of one dollar ts guaran- lteed to all the amateurs who ap. pear tonight—this being amateur | night, ‘The place {s always full at these | wet |nights of the “big fun,” #0 be om | Bastern Washington oate.30.00 » | hand early Btraw, TOR .eessee A 3 Have you got the Thalia Habit? SImet™y cons rege tod halia Patrons are happy. Whaat orsss> Leonard Sep- | then came Bob Brown and Roy) % “?|In orter to The Hat of Hats Cheasty Special $3.00 Hat The Hat for You “Values Tell” Ball Season at U. of W. Begins Next Friday The College baseball season will open in Seattie Friday. The University of Oregon ball tossers are scheduled to take on the U. of W. 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