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BY PAUL PURMAN Shown Here | ons, tracks Bush leagu i Seatesseastesaeeaeestesaesseessesgsestesaet peushail Seay 0 an NEW YORK, Dec, 28.—-Richard Another “busher” is to man Croker er ‘Tamma leade age a big league ball club, He nd prominent race-horse owner in| is Fred Mitchell, who eds BY EDWARD HILL the United States, will send hi Joe Tinker as pilot of the Cubs. 1 } horses to the starters on America Lee Fohl of Cleveland and STIC follow=| tracks again. He may take part in| Pants Rowland of Chicago are ws © yace meetings next summer, but “bushers” who have made good. | arts will be/ probably will not have much of a] Mitehell was never a great ball) > their| string in t American meetings |player, In fact, he has been turned | sung Tre! | until the following year down in the majors several times, | ptics WIC) Refore Croker left a short time | but he is a good politician, a good] nore or less} ego for Palm ch, Pla, to spend |trainer of pitchers, and has the neern in the| (he winter, he declared he would | stuff that makes men like him, — | ’ like nothing better than to see his| Mitchell was the choice over a Sr. | Sale and gold tassels again |dosen other men mentioned man ion of Port the tracks in com-|age the Cubs, mainly because Own land tonight American horse er Weeehman is human and wanted Lloyd Madden, Northwest oungsters, sired |a human man in charge. “wake err winner, that he Mitchell brok into 10 bi lightweight champion, of Seat-),, b able to »w |leagues as a pitcher, He pitched tle, takes on “Muff” Bronson,/their heels to the best horses on | for the Phil 15 years ago. the sensational Portland | this side of the Atlantic. Croker Later he was signed by it erweict six-round|!® & Seat admirer of the English | Brooklyn, failed to make good | featherweight, in a si system of breeding and the results| and was sent to Toronto, where | go in the Oregon metropolis) jt has produced. He does no be | he was transformed to a | before the Rose City club |Heve American bred horses will| ‘cateher Pr 1 ye | begin to compare with the English He went to the Yankees asa | orts from rtland have . Rep ah ais taveulie until several years | catcher in 1910, but waa farmed it that Bronson is the favorite ifided that he was re) to Buffalo. He then went to in the betting, despit the nt to take part In the English | Boston with Stallings. i handicap he will have to over agS wh ew in prog: | asst tant manager } come by g 8 " » elieves, to state that t orees t was mainly due to his coacht pounds, Seattle r w ee » tra the ames and Rudolph w able er, seem to be satisfied to t their grea ve in 1914 tast their lot with the local ini ss lad. ‘Australian Boxer Being Soom mse Pere oor es! F'looded With Offers to wing a hard time picking some one to beat “Battling” Ortega, the siuering wesican mises) =» BOX ANd Go on the Stage : Burns, the Seat welter- | ht him Friday “ as knocked ont in the NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Les engagement bet ne nts. middle of the third round Darcy still is resting from his 1 Don Ree ot ie Freddie Bogan took Burns to Cal long trip across the ocean. He = Or has ma ar Yfornia for the bout, and || will be! said today he had not completed = $ doe & bent te the Crescent Fecalled that the opinion was pr any plans, but that he expects = City with Mike Gibbor ed im this column that Freddie w to make his first American ring More tro’ o etabtlng ‘Tex Ing too tough a bird for Burns| appearance within a very short Rickard’s efforts to bind up Madt first Frisco encounter time won Square Garden with’ a lease, | He has received dozens of offers,| and he said today he did not believe AD SCHACHT WILL REFEREE = a)! of them carrying huge conversa-| anything could be done before Sat NEW YEAR’S SHOW tion purses. But in of “he/urday, at the earliest. Ho still Something new in the way of! fact that Tex Rickard nown to|considering plans for building ‘Staging boxing shows will be {n-| have in his possession « ales own arena, bet nothing wil! gueurated by M hmaker George of pal, honest-to-coodne A r mK thene Adams of the Elks’ club on can currency, Les is sticking Year's day when a fight mat » the advice « is first-foun Will be put on. The first t ox until he get art at 1:30 p. m,, in « Vandevilie ove " DAY SQUAD RAIDS the fans the rest of t most as profure ax boxing tempt: ithe rope taclocere. ee | MASSAGE PARLOR | Big Money Offered te or is sald to have of Mrs. W. D. Freeman, 50, who has for the Australion’s| been running a massage parlor in a veud the Liberty building, Third ave. and > be willing to Union st.. was arrested Thursday 000 a night for a brief Eastern >Y dry squad officers for having sepanmenigeiiatemmanennigianeninleiiiti more than the legal amount of PURCELL TO TAKE H!S STABLE EAST Immediately following the advent of the new year Frank Purcell Will| moter is said Dundle up his luggage, purchase | gy ‘Wickets for his stable of box fight ters and bid Seattle good-bye. Pur. tquor in her possesston © cell is planning to make a little trip REAL PAINLES: Her place was raided by the of across the country. Om his list will ficers on suspicion that she was “be Joe Farrell feather; Harry An seiling liquor, She is pg held tn perhaps Billy Wright, middleweight. | SIX PRELIMINARIES TO | MADDEN BATTLE | There are six preliminary events £ scheduled to be run off tonight in Portland before “Muff Bronson Complete Report of Market Today and Lioyd Madden climb into the : a > ring. It is noticed that both the vate Veet kee | Portland and California promoters e as a 4: are a bit more liberal in dish ) their cards. In Seattle the ox ary thing is five bouts including ok UP tn order to Introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which fs the lightest and strongest plate known Gatiy by J. Ww 4 Our Joe Walsh, matchmaker for the = gg ag A Metropolitan Lumberm tof Time. has received word from Most of our present patronage te 7 Culver to go ahead and line up an fecommended by our early custom- ‘ |. whose work is still giving good allstar card, to be put on in Dream Yetaction. Ask our customers whe land a week from next Monday. have tested our work When coming y ¢ has several good to our office, be sure you ar any lg has several good (tt place. Bring this ad wi Cut - Rate * It pays to read The Star's Dentists Classified Ad Page. 3e7 UNIVER * | _ Opposite Fraser-P AMUSEMENTS _ jean | dd t — | 9 Prices eres a = a wa for, aus, i poultry, Veal an | —_—e- NEW PANTAGES |. Taal Mats., 2:30-—Nichts, 7 and 9 Spring chickens | 5 &PINE “Ragtime Traveaty on Trial” | bese i ORPHEUM PLD atte surton panies AND Lester dana | CONRAD ° ot Other Big Acts — 10¢ and 20¢ ee aes stmE ALACE HIP ee pass H ‘terns 620to 11 “ee MAIN od 2 RMESIEM AN” ees te ealee fon ail || gram Hane nha Theees, Batter, Kane and Cheese | MATINEE DAILY 10-25-50< 4 4 ahersiy At — a 2 EVENINGS‘ 10-25-50-7 SIAL ™ eeu x | OAK THEATRE) 3°". Third at Madison ‘Tel. Main 51008 Second at Seneca—10c, 20¢ : Brplgetie: ate HH | Wilkes Players in The Monte Carter Vatravaganga Co. || Wisconsin twine sss... 6 “6 MINUTES FROM BROAD- ia wntthay weetso | Yours America nee 26 The Best Show in Town Hele r 0 Ten to Fifty Conta | Mat, Thursday. |zzeae Ki rt April ‘ ae Our old friend, Henry Berry, owner of the Los Angeles b franchise, must have taken a shot of some “rare stuff” the other day. derson, lightweight; Bert Hughes D TI ail in Hew of $500 ba jIt’s a cinch this idea of his never came from smoking Christmas feather; George Ross, feather, and| cigars. “If Honolulu beaste of such great basebal by Swain’s traveling players would indicate, and with Japen China, and the Orient in general, falling all over themecives for the national game, why not make up a Pacific Ocean league?” says Henery Henery then goes on to say that it will come in time, with the play ers being conveyed in airships | Jingle the bells, Cart; it's beginning to snow back Outside of seven or eight million promoters in New York STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 28, 1916. PAGE 7 Mochinterest c's) QWNERS FAVOR CATCHERS ASB. B. MANAGERS HEN BERRY SHOULD BE GIVEN THE MEDAL Reh wt es os BALL PLAYERS TO STRIKE They will—on the sam Will pay a billion for a Ii pon the mame day rew ( et down to his fin It might be a good time for Connie Mack to make a New.Year res olution about getting a ball team next year % Mo OM In figuring on its player fimit, here is another item for Nationat league attention: World series championships since 1909—American| teague 6, National league 1 otf tt tt to ¢ have #o far ref taging of the Carpen EASY JOBS—Just missing a straight flust % 8 8 om oo Prize fighters become good soldiers. Exagrples are Freddie Welsh Why pay $ 60 for a casket we sell for $30? Why pay $ 70 for a casket we sell for $35? Why pay $ 80 for a casket we sell for $40? Why pay $ 90 for a casket we sell for $45? Why pay $100 for a casket we sell for $50? Why pay $ 35 for cremation we do for $20? And on the better grades of goods we save you an even greater percentage. Why doprive yournelf of the neceenities of life in order to pay an outrageous funeral bill, and get no better service and no better goods than we {yrnish for one. half the money? We give a complete faneral, tncthuding casket, attendance, poly Any Cee SCP) We maintain our own casket factory, crematory and a complete partor and equipment for funeral purpones, Don't allow anyone to dictate to you what Undertaker you shall employ when death comes to your home, but call the one who will give you the best services and best goods for the money BLEITZ-RAFFERTY UNDERTAKING & CREMATION CO. Phone Merth 525 617-19-21 Kilbourne St. Les Dare ?| %3 33 38 st ott os } Anything to get the coin Is emphasized by the fact that there are| TONIGHT AND @ entree in 4 sincdey Dleycle race. ALL WEEK oo | ps ; ETROPOLITA ‘ THEATRE HY B F | ary ee | : uy From the Producer and Tonight at 8:10 Sharp Faw 0 ° ee = | Stop the High Cost of Living SEA La | is the plan of the housewives. Likewise stop the the spoken drama ever k Pihenss. put per < ake high cost of dying, Buy your caskets direct fror im Seattle. Nights 50 to 92.00 3 Wheet @54.00 | the manufacturer. Cut out the middleman She to 81.50 hes val a bie | Why pay $ 50 for a casket we sell for $25? | fans as reports brought only two | The appointment of Mitchel! emphasizes the trend of big league owners toward catchers as managers, Owners evidently figure catchers make the most efficient bosses. Of 16 managers in the major chers. They are Rob inson of Brooklyn, Moran of Phila delphia and the National te phia, Ff and Lee } At seven are ¢ Htchell of Chic The efficiency of backstops as pilots is further evidenced by the fact that, with the ex- ception of the Giants ana Braves, every big league pen nant winner in recent years has been managed by a catcher. Mack won four pennants and three world series; Frank Chance en n three pennant oO world sarte Carrix ’ ;Pennants and two world « Robinson and Mo nal league pen Seagraves is Given Place on Camp’s in of d of the White Sox “Muff” Bronson Will Try to Win N. W. Lightweight Title From Madden Jwin the National le pennant snd defeat Copnie Mack's great @ are the fad in | neeaty Half of All Bosses of Big League Clubs Come From) (icin in the world’s serie Position Behind Windpad; Mitchell is Last Catcher-| Weeghman counts on the tr Manager to Get Place. ing Mitchel} received as aasistas manager under Stallings to put him over a big league manager 1 of Cleveland, in the All-Americans Walter Camp picked two Pa- cific Coast confersnce gridiron warriors on his third All-Amer- ican football team this year, in Collier's Weekly Louis Seagraves, U. of W., is placed at guard and Johnay Becket’, U. of O.. at tackle. ‘Football Teams on Hand for Contes PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 28.—The otball xquads of the Universities jof Pe Ivanta and put ng out today in ticipation of eir clash on the gridiron here Indianapolis After Indtanapo! tral of th names are not mentic of bai; Waller to Manage New Celtic Squad jer was chosen manager of te the coming MeMil competition “Cully” Wilson Is Chicago Cub Tossers | Manager Jack Hendricks of the Indians is hot on the Cub players. Their 4 but one} nem is known to be a second tells | retary and Jim The team Out With Injury Stallings Peeved deal that 6 tn e fuss, it Brave much Good Maas for Ball The one piece ® magnates i r the heading of “gc See Or. ein Y Brown | HIMSELF clude extractii vain TRUSS TORTURE ted by wearing the ture ‘Support. We ive frew trial to prove its supertor= A. LUNDBERG Co, 1107 Third Ave. The Chinese roots and herbs « coenfully tr Aisordere ehtil, sore yellow ewelling, akin, pimp and nervous ordere have been sated successful- ty. SING LEE CHINESE REMEDY C0, Aft Washington Bt Whone Main 2254. Whatever the the main #vent 1b i BM & 8 Cull Wilson Seattle ice Frankie Sullivan and Billy Nelson 40¢8 not cover the roof of t as 1.00 RICHIE MITCHELL GETTING ATTENTION Jhockey «tar, will be out of the line mouth; you can bite corn off the ' . . sete, ] bi will box the semi-windup. Both ood 15 * 2 ass 8 & world ne centered on Richie Mitchell,/up for several weeks, according to have been seen in Seattle eob; guarant years. Rar plant 0 ‘ . he Ke t t clan, Wil Gold crown ........ seeeees $3.00 ose! ‘ p an n wns forced to retire from Tues EDDIE PINKMAN TALKING 015 set of teeth (whalebone) BK.00 Cariace « e xson for the elopment Hie the at M H ame en a ligament in his Sggellat gee i $10 set of teeth mr agp eran gy graduated from the ranks of the left-t toat mb was torn loose ‘i nkman, Beau Brummel, toot r eror, lug fighter | eres and boxer, is again -siene perodl gg var epee a Mitchell has always been given credit r tning left, without talking of stepping back into the : eee eT ataais, Gad had Duvall, won Hi « by using the lett) Two Months More roped arena. Ed plans on beating Gold fillings alned oue 09 | effectively d B. B I H ft out to the farm, far from the Bflver fillings . we erate, 15 @ 08 | yw he whips across hi elling effect, and in a recent an » BD. Ils Flere nf dighede cag wiles fang he will pigtipa fillings . te rhe See | pout with Joe Welll ht 4 that at pan * get in shape for another return to as D4 ier to the feet on two écced re Two fonths mor the bal . n fe gu teed 15 years r | i { air at the hempen square ere Tapression taken ip the morn: . 2 8 F bet edpenean snem 69 nd wet tee je day. Exam- roe taka ; bee alice hua ies obiles away in « torage for SHOW ON JANUARY 8 a a n vere Ms they will t regularl to Lose Mitchell | outs with Fans This, Nay, Nay, f important news | to pass out un-} reforms” | that bleacher seats would be 1] ‘CLEVELAND PROMOTER IS — AFTER DARCY TO BATTLE THERE; ALSO FRED WELSH . BY H. C. HAMILTON the subject eat it Costesponde Hinkle also intends to clear up NEW YORK, Dec Lge the position of Freddie Welsh, leht- weight champion, in regard to ® match with Featherweight Cham- moter, wants to put Les Darcy = pion Johnny Kilbane while he is on with some good man in iin the cit He declared today he Cleveland for the Australian's | wants Harry Pollok, manager of fight outside New York Welsh, to name a price for Welsh’s Arriving here yesterday, Hinkle services, and then he will be able tarted to sid his plans, and he to make final terms with Kilbane, gained attentive ears from Tex - Rickard and Samuel MeCracken z he two men who have Darey’s U, $, Tennis Players ord to his firet fight! for hem, ilinhie wants it understood,, Win in S. American however, that he isn't doing any) Tourney on Courts butting He wants first crack ® Tinst rack: and RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 28— d out like this Roy E. Peterson of La Crosse, cy would) Wis, hopped into the Brazilian make a doubly good impression on) limelight here recently when New Yorkers if he were to go oul) he and Sydney Pullen wen the omewhere for bis tryout. With a tennis doubles championship victory to his eredit Hinkle figures of Brazil, They defeated Haynes Darcey could come back to New| and Tegeau, 6-1, 5-3, 7-5. York and get into a ring with Car Approximately 5,000 fans tier or some other high class were present to witness the last ner 4d drae many dollars in leg of the match, which came 1 box office as the'finality to a series last- Hinkle imparted bie hunches, but! ing more than three months, definite answer. He Pullen was winner in the however, nd | tournament for the singles there will be further conferences on’ championship. 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