The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 26, 1917, Page 7

IS NO DOUBT but that schools were a bit hasty tr calling off all athlotic events when war was declared on Germany, Thi fact is shown in the recent state HERE ment of President Wilson in whieh | he stated that wholesale abandon ment of college and school athletics was inadvisable. Athletics contr cefonse. Pr so himself, Take the case in the dominion called off, and who that athletes in North have shirk their king aud patch from the battle lines tells of a Canadian athlete of promi nonce who has died a hero on the| field of honor The fact that the star athletes of our schools and colleges were amor; the first to go, and thus break up teams, Was no reason for calling off all athletic endeavors, This is the time when others should be developed to step into their their shoes and follow them to the front. to national Wilson think ib nt ¢ Canada save not is there to s Sports H their country? duty very ountry to our | to| STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1917, MUTT AND JEFF— According to His Argument Jeff Would Never COsM, MUTT! THe VAWN TMS PLACA TO SAVE MONEN AINT IT? T Good bay AND YouR Room. Hosen AND CLOTHES. IM Gone To COAVE EVERY Cent T MARE (OTHE Shey BAN AND COME OUT OF NER a A RAC nay - You 6 ” a ~ fT weven knew You WERE SO Tian BEroREe » WHY You'ke AS Close AG THe NeXT SOCOND! AIN'T YOU EVER GOING TO SPEND ANY MONEN WILE Youre ON Smoke LEAVE € Charley Pruiett It seems that {t would be a mighty good plan for the schools and colleges of America to begin to develop more perfect specimens of manhood, that they, too, may bear arms for our country needed, and after these more, and more and more eee WHEN OUR BOYS come back from the field of battle, look for a big boost fn the boxing game. What sport is it that is amusing the soldiers in Europe more than | any other? s BOXING! The boys in khaki are not play- tennis, polo or hockey. Neither ad they amusing themselves at ping pong. Boxing and baseball are the things that interest them most when they have a little time for recreation. Baseball has its drawback in the fact that too much space is needed for a diamond, but all that is needed for boxing is a set of gloves, of which there are many in every regiment, A boxing bout is always in progress some- where within the lines. It seems strange that there are those who will oppose boxing when it has the heartiest approval of th Chased by Umps NORTHWESTERN LEAGUN Won, Loat ou But Where Are Spokane: it | They Now? It Bute cabeig ae a | Was Ever Thus VANCOUVER, 8. May | itu wi 26.—Charley Puriett, Seattie's He was a good fellow when new addition to its pitehing the had the coin ovat got en mere than chum. t That tells the story of Joe! my terms with Umpire Steve | P tt. pe ” the w d's} Cusack during an argument ae] Walcott, pertiay i bees over one of the ump’s decis- greatest welterweight in his} ions in yesterday's melee here time, who slipped into New with the result that the indi- York recently as a stoker on ~— got in the word, n Australian liner wien wane Yer SGwre Ghee’ te | Penniless, down and out, beat it to the shower baths. The fracas ended 2 to 1, with the — eee | ragged, a pitiful figure he made locals on the long end of it. Paul AMERICAN LEAGL ¥ Strand took Pruiett’s place on the! ». Won, Lest. Pet. | and made his way to the places knoll. | onic - : . } he used to haunt as a popular Everything was going along ice |New 1 ae ; hero. ly for the visiting crew until ” ¢ . «| Waleott, the “Barbadoes Demon,” Morse grabbed Stokke's ron er | w 3 4 ‘°°! made thousands of dollars in his and slammed it against the stand. |! Bin ~ r rhe ack De nine Both teams were full of fight |" ? put he couldn't stand prosper difficulties with the umpire, who | 4 6-9-2, New Yor), 5 Drink, women, dice—they Hoston 3-4-0 } must have left his specs at bome, | | draw the picture of his down- % officers in the army and navy.|for some of his callings were +0 “Washing on tode4 fall. He had scores of friends Ww does a soldier or jackle care |rather weird. The score NAL L®. until h rning capacity was for a bloody nose or a blackened; sea DR WP ended one night in a brawl eye? It's good for ‘em, and they | “ear . . ¢ when he accidentally shot HIM. \ like it. pad ae ee self in the hand. none. be a He ky leott's career in the ring was “THE PIRATES ARE the worst} 2 0 @ tional. He reached the height club in the big leagues,” sald Wal-| \y, Cusninaham, of ¢ 3 prominence when he stopped ter Mails on his arrival in Los An-|r cunstngham Be |Joe Choyinsk! in seven rounds, giv geles after being given the rusty | Prete °° jing away many pounds and map tomato container by the Pittsburg bot oale linches in height and reach 4 outfit. oes. & Mh. Walcott’s master in the ring wai 7 By that statement, “Duster” onretele s ‘ OR | also a victim of being a good tel. ra » seems to be putting the Pirates on| "tied fer ores wash le there a Liberty Bond in |!o¥ pan, but it also seems that he Waiter, ef Rite Sen. Lee family? J h Kid Laviene, one of the ereatest doesn't care who knows that he} =~ — satellites ches RA ——A}lightweights, couldn't «0 is couldn't stick with the “worst” | money About a year azo New York fans gave a benefit for him team in the big show. Mails the Coast Portland against club at Los Ani js and was der Ticked in the sixti canto In favor of Byron Houck, the former Spo- kane boy, who went to the Ath leties from the N. W. league. Medals for Local Shots J. B. Lewis, Seattle trapshot, was notified today by the Amateur shooters’ association that he bad qualified for the 80 per cent proficiency medal for certified scores of 40 out of 60. L. H. Reid got a 98 per cent medal for crack- ing 48 out of 50. arted his first game in league yesterday for Frank Chances Drydock Baseball Team Will Travel The Seattle Construction & Dry Dock ball team will take a jaunt to Olympia Sunday and take on the squad representing that ham- : let. Mo out-of-town games are 4 wanted by the Dry Dockers. Write } to Chi Schmutz, care of the compan Two Games on This Afternoon in League Two games were on in the Ship- builders’ league today at their rounds, 14th and East Jefferson ‘he Duthie team crossed bate with the Ames squad and the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock outfit took on the Skinner & Eddy tossers Dr. Evans Regular, Licensed, Registered Physician Saves you one-half or more. ‘eats men, women and children for all kinds of acute and chronic diseases, uses medicine, elec- tricity, massage, vibration, light surgery and all modern, rational nods of treatment. The regular fee is $1.00 paid cash, medicine included, 401 Peoples Bank Bldg. Second and Pike, HOURS: to 5 10 am p.m, 7 to 8 p,m. Sunday 11 a.m. to 12 KNOW That Seattle has the fin- est billiard parlor in the world? Come in and see BROWN & HULEN Second and Spring Third Floor but the fickle public had forgotten | Lavigne and the receipts would not have been enough for a day's pleas ure in the old days Fistiana records are full of such | examples There was Joe Gans, the Bal- | timore whirlwind, who died in | poverty, after a losing battle BASEBALL VANCOUVER vs. SEATTLE Tometrow eal 80 a with the white plague. earned thousands in the ring. Gans And there was Terry McGov- ern, Terrible Terry, they called | him, king of featherweights, | who is now in a New York in- sane asylum, a physical and mental wreck, without money ,s friends. nd Young Griffo, who came hn Australia with e hope of ecoming lightweight champion of the world, a streak of lightning in the rin with e@ kick of light peed and power. Griffo has red, He may dead, reappear as leott did has been thought very Take Fourth Ave. Cars Admission 25¢ and 50¢ be Ww long ay Walcott dead. And George Dixon, the greatest featherweight of them all, who died poverty, and Stanley Ketchell and a score of others Joe Walcott and the others should be a moral to the young who would be a good fellow They were the best fellows the world—but look at them now, in Bank of Seattle SAVINGS other sport offers so many and so valuable rewards | for skill as does trapshooting. And in no other sport can the novice so quickly rise to fame. The m “ ae Jrophies, medals, prizes, etc., The more than. Seven | .2erts ccraeteraned Wa the “a: 4 4 port, are within easy reach of the Millions of Dollars to the |} ghooter who ap;lies himself to the mastering of the principles of strongly trapshooting Ample opportunities are given by credit of our nor me! STAN Rico T ony THI MN GAN Bann CONCERTS, Trapshooting Has Much to Offer PAGE 7 Give UM Gong tn SHIP ONTIL Aims UP, e's NG Rian On, GOARSS PICTURE BNOWS . A arm T hf NOL > 6UIT ME, MATCHES M,C, Pianer. * bar oetiee’ ‘Copyright, 2917, bt BY BUD FISHER. a ae AND ALL THE LADIES Are a oe KANUY TING © SWALLOW | JPRLERS A Us COMPORT Heee, Just » DIME NDING Cane rr et INRIA AND EA APRAID TM GONNA BE SEA SICK 4 fi Stutz Car . Wins Race tute has again the sturdy bacoh in the winning Uniontown, Pa, race y Billy Teylor, of Los n a privately. ownea aylor won the 112-milc | real tre and a purse of 1 £5,000 by an average of 89.26 m {per hour Victory was fairly’ snatchéa from the grasp of Chevrolet in a Fron tenac when he stopped to change a plug in the eightyfirst lap, Tay- lor, taking advantage of his oppor tunity, jumped into the lead and |held it until the edd of the race without a making a single stop at the pits during the race. Chevrolet's teammate, Royer. abbed t cong place, with arne, in Duesenberg, getting to third place ahead of Chevrolet | who had to be gontented with fourth place Barne Oldfield | in his new lage finished in the ninth posi- tion with De Palma driving a | Packard, pulling into the eleventh |i place, Bae gi | City League Teams | to Contest Sunday A double-heatier will again be played at the 14th and Jef- ferson st. ball park tomorrow, when four City league teams tangle. The first game starts at 1:30. Marshall Allen Is_ Bested by Taylor Marshall Allen lost to Bill Taylor yes Jay, 6 6-3, in straight sets in their tennis mat¢h for the sin gles championship \of the Broad way high school The winner is first to come into possession of the Spokane Loses Mix Spokane Great Falls Frank Victor trophy. Zamloc bh and eens i Clark and Cheek the time when he may bring him- self and his club the honor of win g the state championship, or ping the field in the Kastern, the Southern, the Pa ific Coast, or the Grand American Handicap, In all of these shoots the privilege of contesting for tro. phies and prizes is restricted to amateur shooters The handicap regulations of the Interstate association enable the experienced shooter to com on equal terms with the best, intent and purpose of equalize condi n we the Western, less pete as the whole these rules is to ‘tions fortified army of savings ] loca! county end state shoots for nd the contestant to become known depositors furnishes a |) Minn®in"contitencts the. amnatone . . . c pshooter may lool forwé ard to graphic illustration of |) ————————— thrift, independence and 8 | # Aska punt; — better citizenship. The Scandina- can’ Banke Every dollar of this vast America may see the most brifilant women’s tennis in the national women's singles and doubles this year, as this tour- nament may see the return to active competition of Miss Mary K. Browne and Mrs, Thomas Bundy, neither of whom has in- vaded the East since the cham- pionship regime of Molla Bjur- atedt, both of whom took the faith- fuly—piling up interest—every minute of sum is working the day, every day in the year. Norwegian star's measure in ° . . winter competition on the The Scandinavian American Bank | §" There have been no women play fers in the Kast to give Miss Bjur Resources over $13,000,000.00 stedt the competition displayed by -~ \these two Coast stars, and that | probably Was one of the reasons for \the Christiania girl's meteoric rise to the national championship. It is also likely that her easy vic- Use Our Ballard Branch If More Convenient Brilliant Tennis Listed for Year !tories in the Kast caused Miss Bjurstedt to relax somewhat in her play, and that she did not play he: best game against Mrs, Bundy and | Miss Brown j But her defeats on the Coast | have caused Miss Bjurstedt to redouble her efforts to play | Invincible tennis in the nation. al tournament, and her prac- | tice games at this time show | tennis form of the highest cal- Iber, Tacoma Wins Again) | At Tacoma 3-9-0, Butte 0-4-1, | Pillet und Stevens; Hunt and| | Hoffman All aboard for Sullivan start Monday. ‘Sunday, 13th, Was Jonah Day for ’Em individually, collet. Sun-| As it afterward turned out, as ball tossers, day, May 13, proved to be @ Jonah | tively of any other way.” It’s som@ day for the Duthie ball nine, for, at | challenge South Park, they were trimmed to. The Duthie bunch are just thirst a fare-you-well by the Nonpar ing for that “come-back” opportte to the sweet tune of 7 to 3. nity, and nothing would please them |defeat still stings, and 2 better than to stage the affair at Duthie bunch learned that General the new ball park on Decoration Manager Teel Williams has not yet|day, which brings back memories of scraps of by-gone days. Manager Newell will receive this challenge by special messenger, registered and insured delivery, some time today, and at the Duthie plant the one subject of conversa- tion to do with whether or mot” the challenge will be accepted the Nonpareils, whose following in the South end Is particularly strong. We've put them under the guns,” “and I can’t fige closed for the Decoration day date \at bis new baM park, Manager W. L Davis and Secretary J. C. Morgan got their beans together and draft- ed a remarkable defi, which they |have shot at the Nonpareils, with | Manager George C. Newell, of that team, on the receiving end It strongly Manager > ¥ was some challenge. It was worded, to say the least ewell will have no trow |ble in discovering just what the sald Davis today, | Duthie bunch are after. They want ure how they can get away from | lan opportunity to “show up the In got to come thru, |herent weakness of the Nonpareils Burns and Tris Lead Swatters — NEW YORK, May 26.— shrinkage which has carried him to George Burns and Tris Speak. | 00. Ware ua es So meek, | Following Burns, in the Natiome) | Jal's select division, are: Fisher, league batting leaderships. : f Rousch, Cineit St Jack Smith, Louis Averages today show Speaker } whaling away at a .345 clip, | tith, Cineinnatt; Cravath, Philadel while Burns is in the lead in | phia, Kauff, New York; M the National league with 381. |New York; Killifer, Phitadel pane Zimmerman, New Brookiyn; Whitted, and Otto Miller, St. Louis; ; Wheat, . Cleveland, | Philadelphia, ahead of | Brooklyn. ing 328 for} Ferd Schupp, with five victories and not a defeat, stands at the Bead Hendrix, New York; Ward Mil- jot the National league hurlers. - St. Louis; Walker, Boston: | is followed by four others who: , Detroit; Chapman, Cleve-| not been defeate¢—Seaton, Chica- land, and McInnis, Philadelphia, | go; Reuther, Chicago; Mayer, oe are other .300 hitters in the Amer!-| adelphia, and Middleton, New ta can, Cobb is hitting .315, while Mc-/ Alexander bas won seven and lost Inn. h suffered an average tw Speaker's mark, while under his Crise, oi abead of Wambsgan: in second place, and f Geo. Sisler, who . third place. A Patriotic Duty “Tt is for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before: us—that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.” * * * % * * 4 The United States of America is entering the greatest war in history for the greatest pur- pose in history. Every man and every woman can save and serve the nation for this purpose. Lending your money to the government is effective, honorable and patriotic service. The Liberty Loan of 1917 must be successful. Do your part—“that the dead who have given the last full measure of devotion shall not have died in vain.” Liberty Loan Committee of Seattle Representing the Secretary of the Treasury.