The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 27, 1916, Page 9

THAN U. S. PRESIDENT BY HAROLD JOHNSON LDEN B. RICHARDSON ties, once serving as Uni ’S father was a power in poli ted States senator ware, but the former doesn't | the honors attached thereto. from Dela- hanker after public office and He would rather be amateur champion trapshooter of the United States than be president Dover, the home of Richa rdson, seems to extract more enuine pride from the fact that he lives there than that the city is the capital of the state. Richardson ts the present trap. thooting champion of Delaware! and many regard him as the best! shot tn America. Just now he ts| shooting at the top of his form and is bent on annexing the Grand American Handicap to be contest- ed starting August 21 at St. Louls. For two years Richardson has missed the honors by the narrowest of margins but next month he expects to pulverize every bird released from the traps im the Mound City classic and bring the glad news back to Dover, Competing against a crack field fn 1914 Richardson won the Dela Ware championship with 96 breaks and repeated {fn 1915 with 100, His average {n 1913 was 93.57; tn 1914, ( 93.80 and in 1915, 95.66. To date this year he has averaged better than 97 for over 2,000 targets and there doesn't appear to be any sign of a let-up. At the Independent club shoot Philadelphia, Richardson, shoot on Memorial day, broke straight, smashing 176 from the 16 yard mark and 25 from the 20 yard line and he nailed every tar get in the center. That is his best performance of the season but on several occasions he had concluded the program with unfinished runs of 50 and 100 and has copped the honors fn nine-tenths of the tournaments he has competed In this season Just to get on edge for the Dela-| Paul Clyde Chosen to Represent the | N. W. at Tourney Paul Clyd fensational U. of W. miler, has been recommend. | ed to represent the Northwest at the Far Western track and field meet to be staged in San Diego, Cal, on August 19, Clyde will handie both the mile and the half m } Nothing definite has been given out yet, but It appears } ( likely that the Northwest dele mble in Portland jaunt south. Evan ( the | Pearson, the Spokane sensation, ( ) will handle the sprints. 5 enn wars championship and the Grand American, Richardson challenged Allan Hell of Allentown, Pa., shoot for the 1%yard champion- ship challenge trophy. Hell won t fall at the Westy Hogan breaking 97 targets in a When the two met, July 17, at Philadelphia, Richardson won with a score of 37 Winnin ef the net game had a pretty frm eluteh today on the laurels in the Oregon state tennis championship | tournament being contested at the) Waverly Country club. Rev. . K | jchardsoa, who was champion) y back in 1914, got around the! Veterans of Net Game at Portland PORTLAND, July 27.—Veterans;courts with ever increasing agility Cven dared to try and beat Allyn Barber of Los An geles 64, 5-7, 6-2. WA 48, another old war orse, beat Laurence Brown of Se ttle, in straight sets immediately after having conquered Kelley Rees of Reed College, 6-3, 6-2 hi a Red Sox Hot NEW YORK, July 27.—The! Yanks are slipping. The Jinx | which has persistently trailed Don- ovan’s men since they climbed to the peak of the league was press | ing closer today. The latest blow, the loss of Lee Magee, stripped the Yanks of their|clubs are playing hob with the'r/ prevent that very thing last regular outfielder and yester-| day Ray Caldwell, pitcher, held | down center field fits only got one hit off Cicotte of | the White Gox. The minor league | teams to which Donovan farmed his star recruits, Miller, Aragon and Shocker, now refuse to come | to the New York manager's ald by releasing them. Miller would plug|improved game at short, and the| that hole in the outfield without | soothing influence of thelr home| Jeaving a crack, while Shocker, | with five shutouts and a no-hit-no-| fair way to at least hold their own! run game just tucked away in the| on Trail of Crippled Yankees} International circuit, seems to be in shape to ald the crippled Yank pitching corps. Lead Is Half Game With a margin of half a game, jthe Yanks still cling to the topleven if I died trying today. Meanwhile the Western Eastern visitors. out of nine starts Just one game Red Sox, who are racing close on the Yanks’ heels. Everywhere along the line the Western teams) are cleaning up with a resultant) tightening of the race. With O'Mara putting up a much grounds, the Dodgers seem fn a during the present series. SE uti LS TOMMY LONG, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS “You can never make me believe that a manager can take a player the Interesting and resc: ful Northwest. Stop at Yellowstone Park Original and Greatest National Park Al a | world. 7 Paul, Minneapolis, Chicsgo, Kan- sas City, St. Louls. Pullman sleepers to Yellowstone Park. Teil your eastern friends of our west! round trip summer tourist fares. Homeseekers’ tick ets to Montana points and return. Send for literatere and information 4. 0. MeMullen, ©. P. A. Smith Bidg., 604 na Ay. Phone Elliott 6550. Senttle £7 A.D. CHARLTON A.G.P. A, [ OnEMirnte Talks /players who hasn't the natural abflity to hit the ball and make a batter out of| bim. It doesn’t make any differ. ence how big or how small he may | | | An older and experienced girl in be, a man can succeed as a hitter if he has a batting e If he hasn't, all the managers and coaching in the world can’t make a hitter out of him. “Another thing which a player needs is plenty of nerve. I have seen scores of fellows who are cap able ball players but who are in clined to be nervous if they think anything depends on them, They ought to overcome this falling with little more experience and de lop into stars.” “GERMANY” SCHAEFER, | NEW YORK YANKEES “Keep your eye on Nick Cullop. If he can keep up the gait he set) in recent games there doesn't ap- pear to be any reason why he shouldn't be the season's pitching star. Neither Alexander nor John son is going as well as last year because they are being overworked and there is an opportunity for a new star to flash across the hort won “Cullop ought to be the boy for he has everything that a great pitcher should possess. He has a corking curve and mixes his de livery with skill. Any pitcher who can stop the slugging White Sox three times in a row deserves m than passing mention.” Seattle Catcher Dons His Uniform Altho Still Hurt Walter Cadman, the Injured GI ant backstop, » alt Wally s series was in uniform yes digit ts was spiked terda » tik splint in Great F Joe McGinnity, Butte boss whose team 1s in Tacoma this week, was at the local park, He was trying to peddle First Sacker Stokke, who| has jumped the club, has the East/ And. the mis-| been able to corral, that being the/ novice at the water sport, | gained re| MOUNTAINS To BAG BIG SOME SCRAPPER Steve Reynolds Who Boxes Bob Michele Friday DON’T FEAR THE WATER STAR—THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1916. PAGE 9 CAMP GRIZZLY CHATS ABOUT SWIMMING BY GIRL CHAMP BY OLGA FLORENCE DORFNER |American Champion Girl Swimmer Copyright 6 S 5 j terpr ton At the time I began my tempts at swimming, nearly first at five to ®\ years ago, I was afraid of all sorte) of foolish things att I was frightened thought of getting off my . of turning myself loose In the | er, I was sure I could never trust myself to risk an effort at diving. It seemed certain that some dire fate would befall me if I ventured out over the six-foot mark in the plunge Mentally, | was a fine exam- ple of all that an e should not be; of what any- body should not be who hopes to achieve success, who desires to win the worth-while things In tife. I shivered aroand the shallow water for days before I felt that I something that seemed more dangerous, I proved altogether a timid, unsatisfactory pil. My tmatructor, who had jbeen most patient with me, gave me a rather sharp ure one day. “Mies Dorfne he sald, “you've got to get this notion of ‘I can’t’ out of your head. You'll never learn to awim and you'll do few other things you hope to accomplish If you per sist in being afraid to move. There's absolutely nothing to be frightened about. You're not going to drown and you've sim- ply got to convince yourself of that fact.” Then he actually made me get out Into deep water. frightened, but me angry, so I just decided I would show him I could do something. Of course, 1 He waa there to After I learned that I could propel myself thru deep water, even tho I was a |did not drown more confidence. A very delicious thrill of victory went over me. I had accomplished something I had never done before and the effort }in doing it was not one small part jas terrible as I had imagined ft would be. In a few days I was do ing fairly well at swimming and had also realized my foolishness tn conjuring up all sorte of fearful things that might happen to me. mind me of a girl I saw once Ina Philadelphia department store, I knew the minute she came up te walt on me that she was a new girl and “simply scared to death” for fear she wouldn't make good |She looked bright enough, but tt w evident that her fear of her miserable, She made all sorts of mistakes and seemed about to col- lapse. I felt so sorry for her that I did everything I could to make her feel at ease, the same section noticed her | plight and came over to help her. | “Spunk up, now,” I heard her whisper to the frightened child |"I'm gonna help you, Get the idea loutta your little bead that you're gonna be fired every time you breathe too loud. Nobody's gonna bite you. Everything’ll clear up \for you, if you just dive In.” I really was| his scolding mado | My Initial trials at swimming re | self and her job was making her! ] With the older id completed the sal: were three of us ple that, and in the eye: of victory. | | Into deep water. | tactorily swimmers. quences and | rule, than done for both Bai dive abop in. Well the efforts. these things. (To be continued) ARR HP “4 6.3 ie ue 1 6 0 a. 6:58 4 0 0 ‘ S28 ie he Se rae | Raymon, ee ae ae T. Cunningham, e. 4 ¢ 1 Melvor, p .... 2 09 6 Coltrin. Sacrifice hite Williams. Struck o Walked Great Falls Wins At Vancouver R. | Great Falls . 7 Vancouver ° + 8 Kiliilay and Haworth; Russell and Cheek. | Easy Melee From Vancouver Squa victory, but It meant a lot to her. She had forgotten to be afraid In her joy of accom- Plishing something. | knew just how she felt and | sympa- thized and rejoiced with her al- lently, for | was remembertng the day | took my firet plunge and | But oncoceneP LOUIE'S is INA EARUNS AWAY & 4 WITH LOUIE'S GUN -DOWDER HE LBAVES A TRAIL OF DOWDER REYNOLDS TO BE IN GOOD | |. SHAPE she found the things | wanted There ed at of the poor child shone the glad light It was just a small | Steve Reynolds, the battling fireman, is hard at work for hie encounter with Bob Michels to- morrow night at the Tivol! theatre. Steve figures he Is going up against a tough proposition in the hard-hitting submariner, and being a firm bellever in preparedness, he is going to be ready. Leo Houck’s recent 10-round draw with “Muff” Bronson at Bend, Or. has made him the f avorite over Frankle Sullivan. When @ullivan and Houck t before, Leo had just taken a t ng at the hands of Bronson. But now that he has improved enough to hold the sensa tional Portlander even for 10 rounds, fans believe that he will |have the better of the going with | Sullivan boys have already fought two drawa, and will be out for gore this time. BRONSON WOULD MEET EDDIE PINKMAN Joe Fiannigan, manager of “Muff Bronson, writes that his boy ts will ing to meet Eddie Pinkman, despite the difference In weight, if Hand- jsome Edward will make 133 pounds for the fray. |COULON 18 MATCHED You see the rule works ont satis | WITH E. CAMPI girls h fear of conse that's tho |land Ot course, it's easier sald |Campi, one of the cleverest lads in 1 know that each little effort will create its fect in good, !f you keep on with And after a time you will find you are developing self STILL ON JOB confidence, poise and assurance. It will be easy for you to reach | weight, ts still waiting to hear from your goal, once you have attained |some of the Northwestern bantams Johnny Coulon, who recently lost two bouts to Billy Mascott in Port is scheduled to take on Eddie the game, at Daly City, San Francis ef-|co, tomorrow night, LAURENCE HALL 18 Laurence Hall, Nebraska bantam- who would like to tangle with him fn the hempen square. If he can't find an opponent to meet him in |Seattle, he will take on Mascott in Portland, ROLLER IN MOVIES AT CLEMMER | “Doc” Roller, the heavyweight 3|Wrestler who used to work in Se ejattle, is appearing in the athletic °| movie series which began today at e\the Clemmer, Mike Gibbons and ®\his brother Tom also step a few 1 | rounds, ; o| NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE ° Won. Lost © Spokane mo ou © | Butte “40 0 | Tacoma 0 44 © Vancouver 4b 48 © |Renttte 4248 0 |Great Falls a 43 o| NATIONAL LEAGUE Pet Rrooktyn bos HH S49 4“ ‘ ane 402 [Cincinnati . ae AMERICAN New York Borton Cleveland Chicago | Waehington oe Detroit . st at delphia H. £. ba - } ¢ 3/Qmaha Is Banking Hood, on Capturing Flag WAGES ON SHIPS Dr. 3, K. Binyom, Jr. reputation and stand- ing is sufficient assurance that I will not prescribe Glasses unless they are absolutely necessary. EXAMINATION FREE Binyon Optical Co. near Seneca Athletic Field Northwestern Leagae BASEBALL KPOKANE VS. SHATTLE Today und Tomorrow at 3 PB. Admission 26 and 60 Cents, Take Fourth Ave, Cars 75c Overtime 60c Overtime or SEATTLE Waterfront 50c Straight Time WAGES ON DOCKS: 40c Straight Time Free Board and Lodging. APPLY AT DOCKS Employers’ Union Laborers Wanted 549 CENTRAL BLDG., | | | in Western League | ir OMAHA, Neb. July 27.—If 0. M, Jinx doesn’t blight all chances the Omaha team in the Western league will be topping the circult when the season closes, the dope |sheet Indicates today With six pitchers working jaround .600 and .600 and a lead of over ten games, root ers for the “Omahogs” can't see how they cun be overtaken percentage Benny Leonard Is | Fit for Scrap as | Is Also F. Welsh NEW YORK, July 27. Freddie | Welsh and Benny Leonard are tn perfect physical shape for their battle at Washington park tomor. row night The official medico of he state boxing commission hag pronounced each man ready for the bout Saturn, which has always been observed to shine with a pale yel low light, shows a marked change in its appearance, so the Lowell ob- servatory reports. Its color is now a pinkish brown tint. | 7H wore > INDIANS WIN THIRD MIX, 4 TO 2 Bill Mcivor, Seattle's lone southpaw, was In anything but pitching form yesterday, altho Manager Raymond put him in and let him stick thruout the The Glants lost, 4 to 2 Indians hit hard and Nick Willlams and Mo- The often. Ginnia were the only visiting players who did not fall on Mc- ‘or for one of more base raps. Gh lings still contin crack the ein his old “Bun” st 1 the scor terday for the local to left in the fourth fran tle's first marker attle put its other tally fn the ninth led off with a thr and scored on Giddings in” 8 to alin ingle sack bingle out. The series now stands two games for Spokane and one for Seattle Manager Raymond will probably 4 Bill Rose to the mound this afternoon for the locals. Playfield Tennis. Tournament Fast Nears the Finals Semifinals in the wome bles f h B achedu be run the ywhe were to in the payfield tennis tournament at Woodland park, Don ler and Wilson 915 winne were again victorious in the men's dou bles yesterday They have now to e final mate h for the Play Butte Wins Fracas From Hall’s Tigers on Tacoma Lot, 8-4 At Tacoma R HH. § Butte ae Ss Tacoma .. me 8 1 Hendrix and Roberts; Mebitiaf, | Hartman and Baldwin AMERICAN RESULTS At Detroit 6, Washington 6. At Cleveland 2, Boston 3. At St. Louis 6-5, Athletics 0-1, At Chicago 2, New York 0. NATIONAL RESULTS At Philadelphia 7-2, Pittsburg 1-5. At Brooklyn 2-5, St, Louls 3-0, At New Y Cincinnatl 4 Names, phrases and pretense 8 dou-| ‘TSPORT GPE | ‘THE KING OF SPORTS Tho racing 1s the sport of kings, | And baseball oft is ranked alone; The greatest sport, it seems to me, Is waiting for a call by phone! You don't know whether to go out, Or stick around a while and wait— Before you know the call won’t come | You've lost out on another date! % 8 St tt ft A two-year-old named Tragedy won a race at Empire City at 8 to % His win provided tragedy for the players of to 6 favorite, cS eS es a Md The dear old Browns can claim one distinction, anyway. They are the only club in the American league save the Athletics that is not com | ceded a chance for the American lea | NONE BUT THE BRAVES? The Braves are right at the heels of the Dodgers, Back in those dear winter league days, when the pre-season dope runs riot, we made so bold as to predict that the team that beat the Boston club in the National league this year would win the flag. There seems no reason for hedging on this prediction, | Stallings has drawn his #hare of misfortune this year, Evers has aged, slowed up and been out of the game a lot. Sherwood Magee was |Jaid up a month. For a while Dick Rudolph pitched very bad ball, The club ts just hitting {ts stride now. The Braves may not win, | but Brooklyn, the Phillies or the Giants must beat them to grab the flag. Rew It Is easier for a theatrical pr by a shark these days than it was to have her robbed of “priceless dis monds” in the vanisbed years. BM SS The report that the cargo of the German submarine Deutschland consisted mostly of dyestuffs seems to be substantiated by the new crop of blondes along Second ave. | oo The news that Umpire Rigier has been consulting Bonesetter | Reese may disappoint John J. McGraw, who thinks he should consult an oculist. 8 leads to the suggestion that if Jess Willard grows tired of circusing, he be appointed an umpire. 3 8 It looks as if Miller Huggins has picked up the etar youngster of |the year in Hornsby. This boy has been shifted all over the | infield, and acquitted himself with credit at every station. He is hitting over .300 and is ‘a terrific clouter, 3 8 83 st Every time G ¢ Sisier realizes that Garry Herrmann saved from Pittsburg onlg¥to leave him with St. Louis, he doesn’t know wi er to laugh or cry. RRBs s B The Cubs are sald to have paid $25,000 for Shortstop Bill Wortman of Kansas City. Yes, and Pittsburg paid $22,500 for Marty O'Toole. | he ts at first base. do not make a cigarette A cigarette is only as good as the tobacco it contains Fatima is the original Turkish | blend cigarette—a Turkish blend in the full meaning of the words Smoke a Fatima and taste for yourself— The mellow richness of the Samsoun, the singular sweetness of the Smyrna, the dis- tinctive aroma of the Cavalla, the delicate fragrance of the Xanthie, the delightful sparkle and snap of the Virginia Millions of men appreciate this inimitable blend. It’s surely worth your while agent to have an actorine chased The prevalence of riots and near-riots on baseball fields this season Just now — 4 4 #