The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1917, Page 9

CLUBS SHOULD — ALL TAKE TURN STAGINGSHOWS BY EDWARD HILL NLESS local boxing promoters l pull themselves together and get a little more harmony in their war songs, It seems that the genteel art of slinging the padded mitt is due for a slide down the greased incline in Seattle. Up until the present time the clubs have been taking their turns “In putting on shows, and but one clash, which was smoothed out to Rhe satisfaction of al! concerned, has ANY ARE the tales told of M the poor bush league bloke. | eccurred. very spring brings Joy and| to r t cidents | It now happens, however, that a odin Phar Hee so Faturbing factor, a club that re ee eee oe to recognize the rights of oth O aee t “pi | rs, is about to break into the fild in wae shen Celene “We will show as often a8 wel Capron was playing outfield for pleas » without regard to any one) ooo 11), “ Sos: vd hell 1 he | Seattle youngste ne | one of the officials of the) °\) pide Meas | lub is declared to have sald. | old ho o pl ne outfiel o is one way of killing the || id how to play the outfield in # lessons. in busher dor his CHARLEY BURNS TO BE and after lookin . SEEN IN SEATTLE over planted bh t| Just back from a trip to Aus-|George near t tralia, Charley Burns “Rough House” that lai claim to the lightweight champior ship of Canada, has Austin & Salt to Dreamland one week th same What are busher, “the batting .350, and e manager is play so I guess you're u fleld night with Harry Casey, th the one I'll have to beat out of a West Seattle lightweight T job.” | stellar bout of the card is a go —_—— | tween Lioyd Madden and SHORT TIME back, “Bat Neff. A ting” Bunker, local mitt siinge of wd nh bout at EVERETT DECISIONS NOT Tacoma, Lick wan with “Dat LIKED BY LOCAL BOYS that nig! knocked his op It is the opinion among the Seat- | tle boxing fraternity that the Ev ett sports see things with but ¢ when local boxers take on the | home-grown products in the City of Smokestacks. ynent for a goal In the second or} ird round Bunker is the butt of side wags’ witty remarks wh he climbs ‘thru the ropes t {night they were yelling for the pro- | But recently Leo Houck lost an| “ moters to “bring on Darcy for d o those at th . , ben Seattle, and a numebr of Ev-|.. 50° ,tnowett, that Nae erent | . ’ "Yl stuff. The next day after the Wrett fans, as well, Leo had such} @n edge that Sugar would have had| to knock Houck out to win, De/| spite this fact. the Everett boy was Proclaimed the victor, Houck is} fight he dropped down to see Aus tin & Salt.. He wanted to be| matched with the best middle | w t in the country for the next show Geetons to meet him again “Better take it a little slow and Ww K BURNS DOING WELL work gradually,” advised " SAN FRANCISCO jnie Austin, with a wink tn | Despite the fact that he seems | direction. to have develeped into a rank “in Ah, wot's de’ use of a good and outer,” Frank Burns, the Se-/ fighter Ike me takin’ on bums all attle welterweight, is going along | the time,” exclaimed the indignant nicely and enjoying a good deal | Bunker. of popularity in Frisco. be eee ene thtee te n “suca| Ad Wolgast Is Still | Getting the Shekels feb showing and then a little later will | come back and look like a champ / against some other lad | He is now after a melee with; CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Despite the} Battling Ortega, the Mex who de-| {act that Ad Wolgast has been con feated him in his first bout in Call-|demned to the discard half score of fornia. times, the Michigan b: ~ r. 1 is some tittle drawing car ane) announc Jay that he could play Glimpse this from a Portland pa s all over the East : offers he gets for “Jack Simms, Portland light — heavyweigift, underwent a minor . ie scheduled to fight| operation in a Portland hospital) yoon¢ Brooks before Armory yesterday. He will be confined to his bed for several days. Simms returned from Seattle, where he ‘was beaten by Chet Mcintyre.” Looks like our old friend, Chet f Mcintyre, beat a sick man. At any Fate, Chet is willing to take Simms on again, and is now angling for a} fet-to with Willie Meehan, the} clowa-heavyweight, who res co, DDIE PINKMAN HAS NO 1S TO OFFER What's the matter with Eddie} ikman? He fights like an os-| trich,” is one. of the popular ques-| tions no je circles “I don't know what was the mat ter with me in my bout with Neff,” declares Eddie. “I have no all to offer. It was a poor fight. I did the best I could, but seemed un- able to get started. Maybe the veg. Athletic club at Boston ruary 20. REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS: In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which Is the lightest and strongest plate known, does not cover the roof of the mouth; you can bite corn off the, etarian diet had something to do : With it. Maybe not. Anyway, 1|C0D: suarantesd 15 years. Would like to get Chet in the ring | Gold crown ......- $3.00 again.” $15 set of teeth (whalebone) $8.00 $10 set of teeth ....-.----- $5.00 Bridge work, per tooth, gold $3.00 White crowns -..- 3.00 Gold fillings . 00 up Silver fillings Platina fillings Ml work guaranteed for 15 years on taken Inthe morn- teeth same day. Exam- advice free. HEARING ON BELT LINE UP TUESDAY ‘The public hearing, to port commissioners h inv all those interested in the question of resubmitting the t line propo- sition, will begin at 2 o'clock Tues day at the Beil dock head quarters. The commissioners want ‘opinions as to whether the matter | “should be put to a vote of the peo- | ‘ple again in March. In two pre “vious elections, a majority voted | Samples of Our Pin and Bri: Work, We Stand the Test of Tim: st of our present patronage ts recommended by our early custom ers, whose work in still giving good tisfaction. Ask our customers wh ted our work When coming ‘for the belt line, but the bonds | () Our office, be sure you are in the failed because it needed 60 per | right place Bring this ad with you, it vote. | be matter is of importance now | Cut - Rate pause the council has been asked Dentists h rescind the franchise given the port for a belt line, and to turn that | 207 UNIVERSITY ST. franchise over to the railwa Os posite Fraser-Patersen Co, WN Championship ICE HOCKEY Spokane vs. Seattle SEATTLE HOCKEY CLUB The Fastest Game in the World Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1917 Phone Main 2493 |}& game over the | Seattle has won nine and lost » for Eddie | PasKert Has Plan Which)" Fools ’Em) BY PAUL PURMAN By reducing or Increasing the welght of hie bat a few ounces, Dode Paskert, Philly outfielder, has devised a new scheme by which he fools the outfielders of the National league and boosts his batting average 40 rr 50 points over what it would naturally be! Fooling the outfiel! ts one of the big problems with t ra, Players » Cobb type who are just as jable to hit into one fielll an ther are rare and “dead right” or dead loft fold” hitters uate are afdicapped by having tho fielders amping right under their drives, | which isn't at all conducive to big} batting averages. | Paskert solves the problem by changing bats. | As Paskert, batting fight-handed, | is naturally a left field hitter, the outfield soon has bh moves over toward left fleld to lay for his drives. In these positions, the flelders are prepared for anything that mes into left or ce r field, tle right fleld ts left without much protectiqn Paskert meets this condition by changing to @ heavier bat. The added weight of the bat slows up his swing so that he meets the ball at a shorter angle than with his lighter bat and the ball is driven into right fleid. When the fielders find he is h ting right field and shift meet drives, Paskert chang back to the light bat and pulls t drives oO left field Seattle Ice Crew Plays HereTuesday m spotted and ” to} | When Paskert Is hitting to left ¢ | are shown in top diagram, blanketl cro | ing the fleiders. Pete Maldoon, manager of the! ren _ sages bagi Lage La It Is not uncommon for bat eam out on the ice today, giving them a thoro workout in prepara tere to change their batting with the Spokane Canaries | The team was defeated Saturday t night in t Seatt the championship Coast associat * game at Vancouver, of the Pacif Vancouver clt games. The Millionaires have we eight and lost six Bernie Morris, F; rankie Burns oh Way Back to Cal. rankle Bums, “Onk land = light weight, left yesterday for his hon in California, Burns fought out will come \ Seattie in the near future. | up. The Illinois legislature may pass | But may take an upward hop another of those ten-round boxing|soon, The market is firming. bills. That will be another place — Confidence is returning to ocx! Welsh to box. for the gamp tomorrow night # lead in the race for is now but half Seattio’s crack two beating Lloyd Madden Eddie McLarne:’ style to “hit ‘em where they ain't,” but in most cases the batter changes his position at whe plate and tips off to tre op. posing fticiders and pitcher what he is trying to do and they are ready to meet shift 3 bv ix STAR—MONDAY, JAN. 29, 1917. drives, The bottom diagram shows direction of Pasket' | he uses a heavier bat, driving the ball to unprotected territory and Fielders Can’t See Change in Dode Paskert’s Bat! That’s Why He Fools Them When They Shift! PAGE 9 4 leld consistenely, fielders’ switches ing left and center fields, set for his hite when with shift. Dead rignt field hitters often man who intends to “punch” the ball and far outside for the ste little forward to “pull” —feilow who sets to pull. the ball into left field and left The pitchers and outfieldere field hitters step back to can't see the chang? in Pas- “punch” It Into right fleid kert’s bat and even catchers Outfieldere spot the have been unable to tip off changes and shift to meet ficiders when Dode is using thom, The pitcher also |s able to put the ball inside for the his heavy bat or when he has changed back to his light otick. on ‘Washington Basketball ¢ League Planned fo | | ! the weather breaks, Whether or | not their suspicions will materialize is food for discussion, but it is the lopinion of many that spuds seek a lower level. Onions are still selling {n many | spots for 6 cents, and in others for nts a pound, Cabbage is rather » and the market acar y to Our capital fully paid up ot $400,000 Safeguards your depos- its, which earn 4% Compounded twice a year In our own building Pine St. at Fourth ‘Ave. we |sold. Colder weather may bring an increase in prices. 10@ 11 118 04% OTH ‘Wee@ia 2.78 rgupiant—Piorida,. per ie | Garite, Cat Horserndish Lettuce Ps Local hothor Cal : Okra—Per box Onions — Han browns , per doz, bunches Parenipe—Por sack «+ Peppers—Per Ib.— Florida ....... Cal, Chill, dried Popcorn —Nobraaka, Kadishes—Cal., per dow. ‘otatooe— White river m+ 00 Feklind: GOS sever evr og) stall in a bout, Willio is still very ——— 4%) Young, wil) is livening| | buyers, and more hen fruit ie being | Khubarh hothouse, por ib... : 6 Kutabagas no va | Per ib— 4 OTD se seeeeneesrsenes oe 03% | | “Cal,, 4-banket erate seeeeees 2.00@2.18| Turnips— Cal, per sack 1.26@175 Yellow «. A00GLm ON 2.60 Larney Cites Self Four-Club Baseball’ | 2 Magnates Still Very a Up in BY H. Cc. eT ON United Pre p Y NEW YORK. ° pe 29-—-With the first spring training date for big league clubs only slightly more than a score of | days in the future, Dave Fultz | and his baseball players’ “strike” have yet to be shown that they are not ready to give the National league an awful jolt. They have admitted the American league will not suf- fer to any great extent if the | walkout becomes a reality. volved but the fact that he has a ¢ | tract all signed precludes the sibility of his striking In the younger organization nearly every st player has signed or is not a member of the fra | ternity. Cobb, Tris Speaker, | alter Johnson, Eddie Collins, Ray chalk and dozens of the high | class players will not be with Fultz in his battle, except as rooters. In the National league, Daubert in the matter of stars signed. The New York Giants, however, are free, as a club, from fraternity members. zog, Benny have signed or are not members. |the obituary | Federal league. | gain a large membership since Wil- |lie Jackson has appeared Charges and counter charges | muddied the atmospt to an extent that the real seri | eas of the case has not made |iteelf felt. Magnates are doing all in their power to hide the fact that out of all the players expected to take part iu the two flag chases, no more than half, barring recruits can be counted on absolutely to show up at the training camps. Two in American In the American league, there | are two clubs—New York and Phil adelphia—which have very slight representation with the players’ fraternity i land, too, is not heavily in- Tris Speaker is a member, | Jake has the stage to bimself) who have | Charley Her- Kauff and many others Wonder if Dave Fultz ever read of the late lamented | The I-Knew- Him: When club will =. WHO SHE? We're Looking for the } Most Popular Sport in Seattle; Help Us Hunt OLY smoke, the official scorer H Slipped on his way to work this morning, and result put In an appearance at the office | too late to figure up the new batting averages before the paper was put to bed. “Rube” Walden, the handsome proprietor of “Rube's” cafe, still heads the list, with Charlie Hulen, the Seattle billiard star, and Gene Hatton, the genial haberdasher, trailing in the order named. R. Junker and Joe Walsh are battling for fourth place with C. B. Paulson, The final standing will be printed |in Wednesday's paper. | Remember, the contest closes to | morrow night, promptly at 6 o'clock, Any votes not handed in to the | sporting editor at or before that not be counted. pti will FIVE VOTES FOR 's Most Popular Sports man |Del Howard Looks Over 1917 Talent OAKLAND, Jan. 29.—Manager Del Howard of the Oaks return here today to see how contracts are coming in. He expects to have all the players under contract by the middle of February, Seattl Home Boxers Will Be Used by Matt CLEVELAND, Jan. 29.—Popular- priced, home talent boxing shows are about to appear here, due to the difficulty experienced in mateh- ing famous fighters. Matt Hinkle, romoter, set in Philadelphia by Jack Me Guigan and Harry Edwards. will follow the example — } | scorer, leads the league in the num-/ r | | der of pucks sent Into the net. He S d Will Be Ch ed | nas 9h ecald id as sammaa toons qua ang Cuba by Ball Stars || . redit ° ed | Pa ror for Southern Invasion) 1:0» ssc ten 16 sahara tie "tad bar” Ot |play ball in Cuba for two months cult. He has been put off the ce} When the University of Wash jmer is still suffering from shin ie Soon, Re bean stanton ta Led 4 ti nee in 15 games for a total of }<tngton basketball five goes a an in ov pk a ee ce with Hans Lobe Mike Gonzales ott he | South to meet the O. A. C. and an aeeae Pegs Munself ar| and Armando Marsans in charge of Oregon fives in its Southern In- : Ted | Ute Of the teams. Fife SR reaper bs mes Svea center on the sophomore five, Ted A number of American players 60 Scantil -Clad vasion, it will present a line-up lacks the experience needed to) who have been spending the winter y that differs from that which | make a good varsity player, but his jn Cuba have been recruited, and ex-| Athletes Turning Coach Davidson has used this flebting spirit helps him out to some pect to achieve a double purpose ‘ exten Jof getting in shape and making a ear. Out at Corvallis a: piek melas ie Teele Ge Davidson Plays Guard ttle money before the 1917 season CORVALLIS, Jan. 29—With the ward, is suffering from a bad case| 1 order to size up the be same pce op A ee ce fourth week of track work at the| of blood polsoning, and if the prew-/Mde's plays, Davidson is playing} | Oregon Agricultural college under! ant indications are true, he will be at guard, shifting Riddle to ard . turning out daily and working to South. Queen Anne high man. Bob Able, He Is Not Striker remove the kinks from muscles in Maurice Patten, who haa been th erg ey — <n man of th preparation for the oncoming sen-|substitute center, has a good job quintet, bas been filling in at all) a4.) pRancigco, 29.—N on on the oval. The men are un-|up on Vancouver {sland, and quit| positions, and just where he Will| nos putty Lewis, php ntestynded pee! yes : oe ot ra spatags school to accept the position. Bal-, land is a mystery fielder, to deny that he intends to C pt. Coleman, and training ts — | strike. being carried on indoors in the AT | nnn | During a brief visit here he de. ory, © here the 220. yard ban) od dirt f . {|clared that {t was true that he had track ma ; it ealb Pre t work |) so far declined to sign the contract to go © n all k of wea 4 ) \|offered him, but added that this » far the work has consisted in 2 action had no connection with the en ' | pop 4 muse les and) Western ave. merchants are Dre] Go eeu weurre eae: strike paring for a big potato elump when| Cal rive: ” That’s an unusual word—what is it? Omar and aroma mixed up together in happy combina- in the Omar ciga- It is sooth- ‘*| New 133-Pound Lad —Omar-aroma, : 4 tion | Strained */ CHICAGO, Jan Larney i corel iat | Lichtenstein, promoter amd mat je re—Per ib .. s|ager of Ad Wolgast, h dded ietapbe Puan S|other Proming lsitwelght to hie And the aroma veep string. peasy he signed Charjle i8 7 ; sens ‘ ee ring.” Today he signed Charile rette is just as happily distinctive as Ag organ natched to meet Sailor Kirke, | the aroma in the name. bers Coast lightweight, before the Na-| ‘ | Delicious tional Athletic club at Denver, Feb Rome Beauty. ruary 5. raf “| leapahete Turn Out Hi Follerich and C live u In the 100-target event, L. H professional, led with crowd was on hand, clement we ather —— R beiling Buiter, despite the ‘ Ritchie Is Welter Domeatio wheel . Limburger CHICAGO, “Jan. wi fledged welter, and has issued ‘}coast bantam, who licked Johr THT 20.00 }Couton twice. oh oe ie waeepreen Soen—Cracked dL 0vuren ae ‘miioe|Hulen to Tackle now 22.00| Series tonight. Charlle Hulen, of Seattle, will take on George Lat- Wheat 3 pioee|shaw, the Portland crack, at the itay iroogisoo | Brown & Hulen parlors, SNOW STOPS SOCCER Snow caused a postponement of the soccer games scheduled for b the sores games severied for S| Albert Hansen Diamond. deweler and Silveremith Willie Jackson says he will never | Despite Bad Deather E. McKelvey were high guns in the bird trap- Fanoy, 66 to 126-l1b. 120.14) shoot Sumiay at Harbor island. Each cracked 48 out of 50 chances A goodly and Also Manager Ritchie has developed into a full BENT eet} Tacoman Tonight 31008 Seattle billiard fans will get their . first peep at the Steamboat league eld, in lie fo A challenge to any of them at 142 or Gre a (Prices pala’ wholesaier) |145 pounds, and established head- ef quarters here, He is also man-| Quananted aging George Thompson, Pacific bv ing and ripe, smooth and rich—a supreme triumph of blend. Omar—the perfect Turkish blend! Even the words blend. a