The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1916, Page 9

| NUMBER IS SMALLEST IN YEARS OOTBAI reaped a of six the 1916 the gridiron many lives sea was smallest fatal nine Lae oe ity list in having died from year; 15 in 1914 in previous years, tules opened up C Casualties in tt years| when old style mass forma-} tion football was played were much higher than in late) rs. | It is notable that no deaths resulted this year on big col lege elevens wi the men} are trained to tl nute and in perfect The ages an the young play- ers who paid their lives for their teams ranged between FIFTEEN and TWENTY-TWO are ear after year the football les committee“has tried to elim- jo the dangerous element in football. The open game, abolition of the old flying and revolving wedge, the barring of heavy soleleather headgear and penalties against roughing, illegal tackling and hur dling have done much to make football a safe game But It seems impossible to remove all the danger, So long as players go into the game untrained and In condition, there will be Juries, some of them fatal. But not only poor conditioning fg the cause of fatalities in football. Hard tackling many times results| fn broken necks and fractured skulls, most of which turn out fa-/ tally Many other youths received i{n- fories tn football which will crip-| years, injuries last and more } w game 1¢ ere |precedent and Garry Harry ¢ aa Will Box Archie Wyard | Hgrry Casey has been substitut | ed p go against Archie Wyard, | er S. A. C. lightweight champ, | r reday night, when he-makes his! fessional debut in a four-round jcounter in Dreamland. MUTT AND JEFF —Jott Isn’t From Missou DRues a ‘f, STAR—TUESDAY, DEC. 12, 1916. PAGE 9 ri, But He Knows When He’s Shown dust wear L Neen IF IT REALLY WORKS NATIONAL LEAGUE OWNERS DUE FOR TOUGH TIMES AT MEETING NO BY H. C. HAMILTON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec, 12—With the International league club owners butting their heade against tne supposed impreg- nable wall of organized b ball, magni of the Nation: league probably will have more than a few trades, the Dreyfus. Herrmann fuss and the status of the McGraw case to Interest them when they meet in an- nual session today. The AA league, which has defied National leaguers are going to find plenty of time to talk over what should be done to the class W UNDER WAY refusing to pay $9,000 for the New ark territory to Chas. H. Ebbetta. There is a well founded belief in baseball circles that American as sociation magnates had more than one object in view when they met with the International leaguers, It is believed they came here by tnvt. tation to discuss the advisability of cutting away from organized base ball thru open defiance of the Na tional commission's edict. The tron-bound facts in the case are that the minor leaguers are getting tired of being bossed around by the National commission, last point of 1 with them, 1) without any representation on that | Herrmann tn ' commission Vancouver Hockey Team Vancouver's ice hockey team will ke its debut on the local ice for | Foyston fle present season of the Pacif Right wing | Wilson . Left wing Roberts Rickey “YESSIR! WE VOR Pans! NO MORE Excyse FOR. BALDNESS, ms a NEW DISCOVERY AND we PERSONALLY RECOMMEND the | | Here Tonight for Mix| (The second article in which Yess iRf (Copyright, 1916, by M OG Fisher frede Maru Res. I WOULDNT Be WITHOUT @ BOTTLE im THE HOUSE FoR. = ANN THING IN THE — Willie Hoppe, World Champion Billiardist, Making a Draw Shot. Notice Position of Cue and the Way Hoppe Considers the Draw Shot One of the Most Essential in Billlards Paramount to all tips that I may;time in which a man who loses his G & Pet Officer BY BUD FISHER. NEVER MIND ? WORLO CHAMPION BILLIARDIST GIVES POINTERG Lead a Clean Life to Be Successful in Business or Billiards, Says Willie Hoppe. the Approach Is Being Made. The beginner should first at i“U” STUDENTS CALL ON DOBIE “If | have made enemies here, 1 believe that the demonstra- tion of last night shows that I have also made some friends,” said Gilmour Dobie, retiring football coach at the University of Washington, today. He was speaking of the demon- | stration of students last night. Gathering en masse about 9 o'clock, students numbering about 1,000 formed in line and marched | thru the principal residence street of the college district to Dobie’s home. There followed speeches by Capt. Seagrave and others, and Dobie answered the calls for him to come forth. | Speaking to the assemblage, which blocked traffic on the main street of the University district for some time, Dobie said: “In my nine years here I ha’ tried to give you the very best foot- ball that your resources would al- low.” The master coach was visibly af fected by the honor done him. |“Judge” Flannigan Comes to Front in t league here tonight when { s with the Metropolitans. Frank Patrick's team {s leading the league and at the present time appears to be the class of the cir cult. In “Doc” Roberts and “Cy his. clone” Taylor, he has two of the ylor, “ith league's brightest stars | o cant play hasebelt, he Carpentier, French heavyweight, b hy - The ‘Metropolitana will go into| W@ht to make a good laundry will be able to get a permit to anh ; “ o| . : an,” sald President Dugdale of leave the French army and box in|the fray tonight minus the serv-| the Seattle ball club today. New York, according to Tex Rick-\ices of Captain Frank Fi ard. Tex says he has received| who has been ordered to sta: He was speaking of Vernon word to this effect from Carpen-|of the lineup. Foyston declares} : tier. | that be will be out in his unte, de| forced elaned for Seattle by spite a fractured rib. This means bd . waar it he will probably get into the game for a short time at least in the face of the physician's decree. Manager Muldoon has been put- ting his men thru a stiff practice | nd seems confident that the lo- cals will be at the top of the heap | Con be able to give the amateur js this: Do not dissipate; lead a clean life Do not imag you can be an ex pert billiard player or even a good average billiard player if you 40 | |not take care of yourself. Clean| living is more essential to good bil. | ards than it {s to any other game. 1 have found that a man cannot |drink, cannot smoke to excess if he would succeed in billiards. The | game is a contest of nerve, a con: | test of physical endurance, a pas- the world’s greatest billiardiat tells how billiards will build up health and gives pointers on playing the game.—Editor.) |head, becomes angry when he misses an easy shot, or who is not at all times master of his emotions is doomed to failure. tempt to master the straight rail game. Do not'try to play balkline| until you are proficient at straight rail | Being Bald Proves No Back-Set to Peterson im Billiard Games Being as bald the proverb- lal billiard ball isn't the reason Charles C. Peterson Is the greatest fancy shot billiardist In the world. | line players where 13 years | Even tho some ardent billiard) fan sitting in the bleachers at the ago there were not scores. exhibition by Peterson and Willie But between a good player and and F, Hoppe, at Brown & Hulen's, Defense of “Muff” No sooner had the first edi- tion of yesterday’s Star left the press than “Judge” Flan- nigan, eccentric manager of “Muff” Bronson, ortiand featherweight, was in the of- fice of the sporting editor. “| see where you say here my boy lost a couple of bouts,” he frothed. “Say, don't you know that he has never been licked In his life? What's more, he has never been knocked down.” | Well, Anyway, He Will Make Good Laundryman, Dug of Chinaman ‘Carpentier ‘Says ‘He Will Come for Bout BY WILLIE HOPPE NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Georges (Wortd’s Greatest Billiardist, Now in Seattle) At their bes! Ives and Schaefer were better billiard players than any of the pres ent day stars who rank below myself, but | am certain there are now hundreds of good balk- positively uncanny shows h knows how to make his game intensely interesting to the layman, as well as to the per. son who thinks he knows some- thing about how to play the game. Long may Pete's bald head con- tinue to bob about the green-top- it Is true; | have re- celved word from Leard that he has signed a Chinaman to try out for shortstop on the 1917 team,” continued Dugdal: Thurcasy night 8, Oreemniaall Thursday night at Dreamland. when the season draws to a close, in spite of the setbacks of the ear year of baseball prohibiting a China- man from playing. One of the big league teams and Portland, Benjamin, the game has been very much eleva and I claim that I Monday afternoon, did suggest that was the reason, we rise to dispute it. ped billiard tables of the land, and may he become a regular visitor to Seattle. a champion there is a gap that the Convenience ordinary devotee of the game can Are Found in a energetic management of R. B. Standard Examination of DO YOU KNOW—? hat your general health and spirits, your ability to cope with the daily problems of existence —tn short your efficlency—de- aes pends very large pon your teeth? Do not delay but go to the Union Dentists and have an examination and estimate of the cost to put y h in first class condition. have done more valuable mission ary work for billiards than has ever been the caso before. Rooms | all over the country are being bet ter kept and are catering to a higher class of patronage, and gambling in billiard rooms has al most been eliminated. There are many ways by which an ordinary player can improve his game. Remember it le no y matter. It re- quires wo lots of it. It calle patience. You must be- come master, not only of the basic principles of bililarde, but above ali these you must become master of yourself. Painless Dentistry Painiess Dental Work Combined with Kontleness an ulne satisfact at lowest po ble price Examinations | In the Coast league, had a | ined last year, but for some reason or other they didn't break into the box score.” The game begins at 8:20 in the |Arena, Fifth and University. The | lineups |. Seattle. Holmes joal Rowe Point Carpenter.Cover point.. Rover On the other hand, we assert that “Pete,” as so many of his St | Louis admirers call him, is bald as the afore-mentioned billiard ‘ball | because he is the greatest in the| world at bis particular game, NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—National, But there are other reasons. To} sectional, state and city tennis gainsay that would be disloyal to| championship tourneys may be the the great game of which he is|only ones provided for by the U. such a distinguished exponent. |S. National Lawn Tennis associa- | And a couple of them are those/tion, according to officials of that |indispensable handmaidens — Pep| body and Good Nature, Any one who saw the all-star group of the knights of the cue who are exhibiting their skill afternoon and evening until Wednesday night at Brown & Hulen’s couldn't fail to note that he had the pep and that he scored two grins to one for either of the other players. Ho furnished the ginger for the} serious side of the play, which, by its very nature, demands close at- {tention to the business in hand speedily. You cannot then af- || His verbal and acrobatic contribu-| | tlons to each exh§bition demon- ford the time and un- J/etrated nis energy and quick wit. AMSTERDAM, M, Dee. 12.—Killing of 16 Belgians in a riot at Turcoing, Belgium, due to German deporta- tions, was reported by the news- paper Echo de Belge today. A Ger- man soldier who struck a Belgian | with the butt of his gun was attack- ed by the crowd, and the German troops in charge of the deportations responded with a fusillade. Many were wounded. Fifty Belgians were arrested. LLOYD-GEORGE IS FEELING BETTER LONDON, Dec. 12.—Premier Lioyd-George is feeling better to day, after the chill which forced him to bed yesterday. His doctors, however, ordered that he remain in- doors for another day or two. May Cut Small Tennis Tourney Vancouver. . Lehman Patrick Griffis The gasoline consumed in the United States this year has been estimated as equivalent to a stream it six feet wide and @ foot deep, flow. Mackey ing at a speed of @ mile an hour. 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