The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1917, Page 7

New Clai IS WILLING TO | TAKE ON ERTLE ) TO SETTLE IT | | - BY PAUL PURMAN | age defeat of Kid Will : iams by Pete Herman} may clear up the bantam situ-| , ation, which has been in a mud- | die since Johnny Ertle won on | im Williams, in 1915. | n is willing to clear} a foul fr He a tle in a 20-round decision at any time a promoter be found to stage the r Whether Ertle will not is the only question now Ertle, following the example of all champions, has carefully pursed his clouded title, fight- nothing but 10-round, no decision avoiding any boys who looked really tough to him No real effort was ever made to match Ertle and Williams after the 1915 bout and each claimed the title, both receiving a certain | bouts, ar up the muddle by meeting Er- |} | bout | can} sign or 1 carefally| amount of support in thelr claims. But now comes Herman with | an announcement that he will | meet any bantamweight In the world, without quibbling about minor cetalis of weight, or purse, an announcement which will cause him to be black- balled by the champions’ club, @n organization which insists en champions not risking their titles under any consideration. The duties of a champion now-| adays seem to be to pick setups, | get the guarantee before they step! into the ring and then tango thru} /10 rounds of the poorest fighting possible. Herman declares he will do ex-| actly the opposite. He says he will | Meet all comers and so far has not) mentioned money. | a champion, regardless of how and if he follows it out it will cer- tainly strengthen his bid for popu- here are plenty of good ban Yams eager to get a shot at man's title. Among them Frankie Burns, who knocked man out about a year ago, Frankie Brown, who holds a news- If Herman takes on these boys and Ertle, he is sure to have his j hands fall for the rest of the win | Why Confine It to - Ball Players Only Ban Johnson has suggested a home for aged ball players. It's ‘great dope and we're for it, but » for decrepit railroad presidents, an ae _imstitution for venerable coal bar- ' eons and a house of refuge for broken down financiers. | Hugh Duffy Will Hugh Duffy will coach the Har- “vard baseball team. With great fey we will greet Hughie, with his onacie, white spats, wrist watch cane. 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PAGE 7 mant of Bantamweight Crown Ready to Give All Comers a Chane mht, 1917, by Tt . tea. U. 8. Pat Office) BY BUD FISHER. FRONT ! show THe »FENTLEMEN ro i» ¥ ve A Yesswe Must mee serwce |p)! PORTLAN PORTLAND, Feb. 3.—Walter Miller, midd! champion, wi a referee today with Portland boxing fans, following the ae cision he handed to Frankie Sullivan last night, following the Los Angeles lightweight’s encounter with Chet Neff of Seattle, claimant of the Pacific Coast lightweight champion ship. | The trouble started in the first) round when Sullivan began pro- ALLACE BRAY, more famil- testing that Neff was fouling him.| farly known as “Happy”! Miller ignered his protests, Hogen, was one of th) which were made by kim and his greatest characters the baseball | seconds, thruout the fight until the diamond ever kuew. He was man-| sixth roumd, when Sullivan, after ° , Joast league prior to his death © years ago, There are The bitand-run sign for the club hand to his aye. One day Hogan came to bat with Litsch! on first base, Litsch! nev- er seemed able to catch the sign. “Happy” geve-it to him a dosen times and he didn’t get it, PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION Won, Lest Pct. Finally, In desperation, Hogan|@esttie .......... 11 6 AT turned to Perle Casey, who Was/ vancouver 8 7 533 umptring and said, “Say, Perle,| Spokane ..... 7 9 «438 what's in my eye?" The two fool-| Portiand 6 10 875 SPOKANE, Feb. 3—Spokane’ foe hockey team awoke this morn-| ing as from a nightmare, The members were unable to sleep off) the effects of a 14-to-1 defeat hand: | ed them last night on the local ice} by Pete Muldoon's Cashing Seattle Septet. The game will go down as one of the most one-sided affairs in all) the history of ice hockey In the’ Pa-| cific Coast association While the locals were having baa dreams, the Seattle team dreaming of Jutcy slices of world's! series pie. If the Metropolitans continue to show as they have, the next world's series will undoubted. | ly be played-tm Seattle ere the win- ter Is over. minutes. Still Litscht the hit-and-ran sign. The Vernon manager was getting more peeved each minute, At last “Happy” picked out a never got a goal and yelled to Litschi, “That's the only hitand-and-run signal you know —. dead off.” | | French Champ Will Go Back to France Badoud {s going back to France. The trenches probably will look good after Jack Britton and Marty Cross, and annex the whole of Courland As against such conquests, the Dlood of our best men weighs much more heavily in the scale.” “GERMANY AS VICTOR MUST DICTATE PEACE!” PAN-GERMAN DEMANDS CALAIS, MARSEILLES! There's not much peace agitation in the PanGerman movement, | judging by what @ leader {n that agitation, Dr. Elass, writes in a Wuerttemberg paper, the Bee! Germany ts victorious, the semt-| ay the ib oak eae eed wat official Norddeutsche Zeitung in- sists, in the following article it is not\ inappropriate at this stage to strike a balance between the general military outlook as it is at present and as it was in the summer of 1916, when the central powers were faced with an attack extending from the channel to Sa- lonika end from the Pripet as far as the Black sea. “The position of the central pow- ers then seemed far from hopeful. | England's starvation policy produc: ed painful results, On the Somme, at Verdun, and on the Isonzo we} had to suffer serious flank attacks, | and the Russian offensive was at| first successful. In Macedonia our situation was not very reassuring “Thanks, however, to the suc cessful activities of our U-boats and to bad harvests in many parts Calais and Marseilles are in Ger- man possession. “As soon as the English reply to the Germas peace offer is received, the Pan-Gernmn league wil? circu late a vigorous appeal which will at the same time give publicity to ‘ne claims of the league, and utter serial government in regard to its attitude toward the enemy. ‘Already a new pamphlet is be- ing prepared Jn which the demand is made that either Tirpitz or government. At the same active agitation is being | engineered against the tmpertal | chancellor and state secretary, Dr. Helfferich.” INDEMNITY DEMANDED BY TITLED WRITER! Count Von Mirbach-Sorquitten writes in the Preussiche Zeitung: | “For the future security of Ger many a large indemnity 18 just as important es the acquisition of ter- ritory Is necessary for strategic reasons. Without a suffictently of the existence of Germany, already un- “Germany requires a speedy and strong economic revival in order to| be able to pay for the army and| flect necessary for her security| even after the war.” ANOTHER WANTS PEACE 4 TO END CONQUESTS! The Munich Post's view 1s that peace is desirable, in order that no more German blood be aplit in fur. ther conquest. It calls for moder- in the following words: “We are continually fuming about the French and English Chauvinists, but really the time has “The Germin people will cer-| longed into the immeasurable dis. Switzerland is mobilizing troops on t CHET NEFF LOSES ON FOUL TO SULLIVAN IN D RING MIX taking a beatiful lacing from the Northerner, again yelled “foul” and refured to continue with the fight. Miller, instead of giving a de- cision, climbed out of the ring and Degan getting the spectators’ view- points of the matter. He finally announced that Sullivan had won on a foul, Dan Salt and Neff arrived back in Seattle thie morning from Port land. According to Sait, Neff nev- er hit Sullivan below the belt once, but did give Frankie an awful lac- ing. An examination failed to show any trace of @ foul blow,” declared Salt. SEATTLE TAKES GAME FROM SPOKANE SQUAD BY ONE-SIDED SCORE ther crime on an already outraged humanity to endeavor to explain how the locals were defeated. The lineup and summary follows: Spokane. Position. Seattle. Fowler .. «+Geccceees. Fowler McDonald . (4) Rowe Patrick (2) Carpenter Mallen « C1) Walker Nichols . (1) Morris Kerr ..... (4) Feyston Lioyd Cook....R.W......C1) Riley Substitutes — Spokane: Genge, Leo Cook (1). Seattle: Rickey (1). Assiate—Seattle: Carpenter (2); Foyston, Walker (2); Riley (2). Scores by periods: Spokane <0 @ 1—1 Seattle ~4 38 T-14 Offictals—Referes, Fred lon; was! goal judges, D. F, Wallace and H./ F. Rendle; timer, L. Cardiff; pen- alty timer, Charles Robertson. Penalties—First period: Foyston, 5 minutes; Mallen, 6 minutes; Riley, 8 minutes; Mallen, 3 min- utes. Second period—Rowe, 3% WHAT IS GOING ON IN GERMANY! AS TRANSLATED FROM THE NEWSPAPERS WE GET FROM GERMANY Ruasia want. keenly felt Now Rumanta’s rich harvest fs ours. The long battle on the Somme has been won, Should a second battle occur, our front stands firm. “On the Isonzo, everything is tn order. In the Mediterranean our U-boats are successfully destroying the entente lines of communica- tion with Salonika, In Macedonia the enemy attacks have been re- pulsed with sanguinary losses. The Rumanian army is crushed, annihilated, In Wallachia we have won brilliant victories, All Rus: sian attacks have been defeated, Our front has been shortened and is now completely closed between the Black sea and the Baltle. “The formidable plans of the en- tente have failed, We are the vic- tors, and, as victors, we must dic- tate the peace.” BERLIN ORGAN SEES |“REFORM BY FORCE!” There is a note of protest hid- den in this article from the Berlin Welt: “The compulsory civillan service CHARLEY HU FINISHED SE SPORTSMAN CONTEST Jella, the Mberty of the individu Charley Hulen Too well known in local sports and athletic circles is Charley Hulen, member of the firm of Brown & Hulen, proprietors of the “finest billiard parlors in the | world,” to need an introduction tp this columa, Charley's friends re- cently saw Mito go down the line for him in an effort to have him be returned the victor in the “most popular sportsman” contest, which | was recently conducted in The Star. He finished second to Gene Hatton. Oh, La, La, Gibbons Wearing Wrist Watch Mike Gibbons ts wearing a wrist watch. Next thing, Jess Willard } Will be leading a Pom around. Billy Miske Going to Rest for While Billy Miske is to take a rest. Well, Billy deserves {t more than most fighters we know. the pangs of,reform by force of Germany's en- tire economic life, “The liberty of the trades coun- and the Mberty of domicile will be abolished. “Everyttring that does not di- rectly serve the war will be abol-| ished. Tho whole of the country will be turned {nto a vast military | camp. Every industry that is not useful to the war will be stopped, every man will be removed from the spot where he is of no use to| the war to be placed where he can do his share. WANTS YOUTH TRAINED TO OFFSET BOY SCOUTS! Hamburger Fremdenblatt sees a future menace to Germany in the British Boy Scout movement. Says this paper: “One of the greatest dangers with which Germany will have to} reckon in the near future is repre- sented by the formidable military training and organization of youths in England More than 10,000 young people are already enrolled in the battalions known as the ‘im- of the world, England, Italy, and law is nothing more or less than a pertal cadets of the city of Lon- SWITZERLAND DEFENDING MOUNTAIN FRONTIERS! where, men of the mountain republic fear, tance so that we may take Belfort|Germany may violate Swiss neutrality In an attempt to flank the French troops holding the greater part from the French, conquer Egypt,jof Southern Alsace, a German crown province. HeLLo! ™ COCKTAILS To YES THIS 1S THE at NIGHT CURRIK! OREGON At Basketball Is; LOSER ; Mike and Percy in Same Class; Both Sporting Wrist Watches On! DEAR! it's IM ALL RUN DOWN, PERCY.COULO you EW SPARE EUGENE, Feb. 3—The Uni- versity of Oregon basketball quintet was no match for the versity of Washington five half saw some pretty passing and guarding on behalf of the visiting crew. Davidson starred for Seattle, making 13 points. The same again tonight. The t night follow: Washington (33) R, Bmith (6) Davidson (21) L. F. H. Huntington McCready (10) Shy Huntington ST. PAUL, Minn.+By Wireless.,cretly watched him report nothing” Gibbons has entered the/ unusual in his way of living, and hall of the immortals, He {s now/have decided he probably will re ~ sporting a wrist watch. There is now only one other man Referee—C. 8. Bottsford, Reed Smith for Riddle; a Mike has not decided whether to ~ Nelson for Mc- ‘ in the sperting world in Mike’s|take the watch foto the ring with’ — That ts Percival Haughton,|him or not, altho be admits it” would come in handy figuring out how much he is making every min esq. of Harvard university and the Boston Braves. Friends of Mike who ha DAVID FULTZ WILL HAVE TO BE LICKED _ BEFORE HE’LL QUIT wordy controversy, which, In ways, resembles the strike situation today. career as an has been long and brilliant. He was one of the greatest half developed at Brown, where he played in 1894-5-6-7, cap taining the team in his senior year, ~ The next three years he man-— | aged the fameus Hemestead (Pa! professional football team, and 1902 coached the Lafayette team. The following year he coached Gritty American Is Still in Dog Race ANOKA, Minn, Hartman, the gritty American con- tender of the Red River Dog Derby, from Winnipeg to St, Paul, arrived at Anoka, 28 miles from St. Paul, at 6:26 today, 35 minutes behind The four leaders left Anoka at 7:32 a m. and Hartman Hartman's dogs are in bad shape, their feet being treated with cocaine, Yoakum and Kline Battle to a Draw YORK, Feb. 3. Yoakum of Denver and Patsy Kline 10 rounds to a draw Dave Fultz, president of the ball players’ fraternity, Is the most talked of man In baseball known of the man himself than of a hundred or so players in his or- ganization or of the men he will should the strike come to a head— the members of the national commission and the big league magnates. The average reader {s likely to belittle Fultz, for the most heard of the fraternity leader comes from Ban Jobnson, a bitter enemy, who likes to leave the impression that Fultz is a demagogue, a trouble- maker and backbiter, who deserves ttle er no consideration. Nothing could be further from have to fight middleweight, was beaten by Aggie In baseball he played tn the outfield, starting his league engagements with the Phillies, He then went to Bal. Queen Anne Victor in Basketball Mix In one of the hardest fought bas ketball melees staged in the high school league thus far this season the Queen Anne quintet triumphed over Broadway last night in the Broadway gym, 25 to 24. Broadway second team defeated the Queen Annes, 21 to 9. Barney Had Hurry Up and Sell] If Barney Dreyfuss is going to sell out, he'd better next 16 or 20 years before Honus Wagner is thru. tlmore and was sent to Milk where his playing ab Mack, whe tracted Connie signed him. He remained with the Athletics three years and ja 1 a Fultz is a brilliant fellow, a goo wae e0ld’ta the Vaal most talked of man In baseball — law and practically dropped out of athletics, except in the capacity of He is consider who understands ball pla: temperaments, idiosyncracies and a football official. ed one of the best gridiron referees a Southerner. but has nerve, and, tween him and the commission, he will have to be licked be- fore he will quit. Fultz organized the fraternity in as a direct result of troit players’ famous strike which followed suspension Cobd after he attacked a spectator at New York. That winter Les Hasn’t Answered the Colonel’s Letter Needless to say, Les Darcy didn't | answer the letter from a Canadian colonel, asking him to join a regi ment now being organized. billiard parlor Come In and see, an agreement In the world? nates and players after a long, BROWN & HULEN Second and Spring Third Floor |Charles McCourt Is New 3-Cushion King , Feb. 3.—Charles “Of far greater importance, how. ever, from a military point of view, }1s the ‘bey scout’ movement, which represents nothing than a regularly relieved George Moore of his three- {cushion title here last night. jwon the final block, 50 to 33, mak- jing a total of 1 ay, Feb. 9, Date of Midget Banquet in these days jagainst our people in the imme: | diate future. “‘Roy scouts’ number many hun thousands, and them is carefully inoculated by the| y he e atre military authorit! 8 with hatred of Friday, February of the banquet to be given for the nounced, The committee in charge is endeavoring to make it one of the largest and most successful of DENTIST I practice Dentistry under m: 1 guarantee all worl to be the-best Money can buy, and I have a reputation to sua- giving good work, it your patronage on my on and ability as a leader S. 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