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} War Vet Is ? Rapping Ball Joe Harris Leads American Mark: Cobb High while Veach, Detroit, ts third, with Cravath, Philadelphia, sticks up at the top of the Nationa! league heap With 351, with Jim Thorpe, Boston, @ecend, with 348. McHenry, 8t stands third at .330, New York, heads the Na pitchers with 19 won 13 won and 4 defeats, Cincinnati, is third with jieago, has won 21 and American league pitcly Williams, Chicago, 18 and 7 and Dauss, York still leads in club bat ting with 270 and Cincinnati ts sec- | @nd at 267. Brooklyn is third at 8. tops the American league this respect with 275, with De trott 4 point behind and Cleveland ‘@nother point behind the Tigers. CHICAGO, Aug. 14 jon. * Jones and Cleotte and Batteries: Hoyt Behalk. Wiliams, Kerr, Eleven innings CLEVELAND, Aug. 16 — m@ Ht 3. 6 Bat Johnson and Agnew, * Picinien; Myers, Coveleskie and 0 Neti) © 2 | pETROIT, Avs. New York Batteries 16. Obi v3. Shawkey, Smallwood / Ruel; Dauss and Atnsmith ST. LOUIS, Au Phiiadelpnia #1. Louls Batteries Avoy: Leifield NATIONAL | Johnson and Perkins, 4 Severeid Cincinnati New York Chicago Brookiyo .. Pittedurs Baston A at. Louis . eR itladeipria - YORK. Aug. 16 Batteries Elter and Wingo: Dubso, Second Game~— RK ew York ee Batteries: Fisher anti Rariden {Dubuc and Snyder mK ‘ 6 34 Bent6n BROOKLYN bicawo - rooklyn ff Batteries: Martin, Cart rimes and Miller Aug. 16 1 posto First Game ittaburm Batters jausey and Gowdy ond Game and Le Fifteen innings. Carlson Wilson. odward and d Adam, n,H Goodwin Murray, Hoge ‘our Patronage Appreciated Pay Checks Cashed TORREY & SEARS’ BILLIARD PARLOR 1490 Grd, Corner Ord and Pike Counter Barber Shep ‘Drinks. M. 2619. Card Tables inals on UULLATEITS ean VOTEVETHAG om | | in American Tap in State Ten ioe THE SEATTLE STAR- ry u Spas (A of- nis. Meet at Firloch Here’s some of the net stars who featured the play of the annual Washington state racquet championships at the Firloch club this week: (1) Marshall Allen, Seattle, junior star; (2) Van Kuran, veteran player who has been in France during the past two years; (3) Maynge McDonald, one of the leading women net players of the Northwest; (4) Jack 3 League Hitters With .420 |Wright, the Spokane junior star; (5) Bruce Hesketh, another junior luminary and playfield star; (6) Bob Wabraushek, Seattle Tennis club champion, 1918 junior king; (7) Mrs. Cushing, strong California entry; (8) Morgan Fottrell, left, and Car! Gardner, right, California stars; (9) Mansell-Smith Washington Net Title At Stake When Smith Meets Canadian Star Verley Wins Way Into Final Round; Sara Livingstone and Mayme McDonald to Battle Again; Allen and Turenne Win Finals Place in Doubles; Dope on Meet Mansell-Smith, 1918 Washington state net-echampion, will defend his titl¢ against C. Verley, the British Colum- bia star, at the Firloch club this afternoon. Smith won hig way into the final round by defeating Burr, of Minneapolis, in the semi-finals yesterday 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1. Burr put-Up a hard fight but Smith was too strong for him. Verley won over Turenne yesterday 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, and WY i YHUYlffy UNE 4 «|! partners for three weeks betore the|from § LORIMER WINS BLUE RIBBON GUN MATCH CHICAGO, Aug. 16, — (United Prese.)—Returning to form after a Syear layoff, G. William Lorimer of Troy, Obie, today was victor in the Grand American handicap, blue ribbon event of the annual trap shooting tourney Lorimer broke 98 pigeons out of 100 shots at the big derby here yes Ind, yar “uf y Ineq| A ‘ y terday. His distance was 18 yards. Ali ACA| KZ Ap) t ON lh |, leh hundred and forty atx gun eron Rongerud, of Dexter Horton's, | which lasted all day BIG ATHLETIC MEET moved into the semi-final match where he eliminated Jack Sara Livingstone and Mayme McDonald, old veterans of the courts here, will meet again to decide the woman’s Miss McDonald won over Mrs Cushing in the semi-finals, 7-5, 63, HERE’S NET PROGRAM trude Schreinder 6-0, 6-3 | Abed ted Turene AT FIRLOCH TODAY youngsters, won their way into the || —Mr#. Cushing and Shannon va, final round In the men’s doubles yes: |f Mre. Bragdon and Turenne Wright, the Spokane duct, 64, 62, tre! and Gardner +s. Waller 62. and Vander Las. nia pair, will meet Waller and Van |] néle-—-Veriey vs. Mansell-@mith. Der Lag in the semifinals in the Women's« singles finale—Mies ing for the right to meet Allen and 3:30 p. m.: Junior singles fi- Turenne in the doubles. najs—Wright ve braushek were elimipted in the! Allen and Turenne ve mixed doubles by Mrs. Cushing and|] “inner; Gardner and Fottreil e Women's doubles finals—Mies Win Doubles Livingst: Mrs. Mrs. Bragdon and Turenne won NU se ee ee Donald the other half, drawing 11-9, 6-2 In the ladies’ doubles Mayme Me | the title with Sara Livingstone and | Mra. Bragdon. meet in the finals for the junior | title today. | Wright after a hard mix, 10-8, 9-7, 6-4. singles title. Miss Livingstone is the present champion. 63. Miss Livington eliminated Ger Allen aga Turenne, the seattte | 11 a.m: Mixed doubles finals terday by defeating Harper and |] Men's doubles semi-finals—Fot- Fottrel! and Gardner, the Califor 2:30 Dp m.: Men's singles fi- other half of the drawing this morn-|f Livingstone ve. Miss MacDonald. ye Mayme McDonald and Bob Wa ™.:; Men's doubles fi- Shannon, 6-4, 6-2 ve, Waller and Vander Las over Miss Wheaton and Pringle in|I ponnig’ “Canine nd Miss Mac- Donald and Mrs. Cushing will settle | Jack Wright and Guy Fiye will | rom Claire Griswold, of the Bs The match w old was 1 up at ¢ round without hie handfea ind even. Griawold's #- and Hongerud 74 and Athletic | Todd dry and | pink events will feature the dock repair plant's first Fletcher's bay Sunday the winners haye been for » . | Prizes Ted Knudson's team of 4) players wor | linted. from Jim Vorde's crew at Warlingt Swimming evening. Steamer |st. dock at 9:30 Sunday morning. | returning at 11:30 p. m Ticket obtained at the Todd office dock. e races will be on be dancing tn tap the lay Gleaner leaves President cup at Barlington Su 1) be in progres Spring The Bike #04 Magazine sessions are under way at Jefferson park. Play is|can be getting under way in these meets slowly. |or at the IT’S EASY TO TAKE ’EM NOW SAYS MALONE Jock Malone of St. Paul, who was | one of Jack Dempsey's sparring Cal, Aug. 16.— can't come ba | SACRAMENTO, |Once they go the This was proved again last nigh |when Georgie Lee, Chinese feather. | weight champion of the Sacramento valley, outpointed Johnny Potter, old time four-round king. Other fights were Ad Remy won mmy Smith: Phil ercla of | battle with Jess Willard, has signed | sacramento drew with the “ Fighting | up to battle Welter Champion Jack|Milkman” of Marysville; Frankie Britton at League park in Canton| Vierra stopped “Red” Bresnam in Labor, day. They'll go 12 rounds. | the second round; “Kid” Leo and Rex | “This ought to be easy for me aft: | Morris drew Jer standing the sort of battering | Bromeo drew | Dempsey handed us in practice, | said Malone as he came to terms for the bout. “Of course Dempsey let me |, )"{t tintl™ th |off a whole lot easier than he did | woigi mpion, a | big BUI Tate and Jamaica Kid, but ier. : 4 Wat J ag AR = paret 2. Sons Mare Shy. fonther-bed Jerweisnt, 30 rounds at his club om Labor Matt Hinkle, the Cleveland promoter ny Kilbane, the foath t of $1,000 and FOR TODD PICNIC|* Genet Cline.and Clair BASEBALL FANS SING “KID’S” SWAN SONG | Pe YUU fL MY, 4 U BASE BALL SCREDULE National League Chicago at New York, cloudy Cincinnati at Brooklyn, cloudy Pittsburg at Philadelphia, games, clear | St. Louis at Boston, | clear. two games. American League New York at Detroit, cloudy Philadelphia at St. Louis, clear Roston at Chicago, cloudy Washington at Cleveland, clear Const League Sacramento at San Francisco. Vernon at Seattle Oakiand at Portland Salt Lake City at Los Angeles WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD Yeaterday's hero—Hod Biller, The youth ful Cincinnati star hefted « ball into the left field bleachers with a couple of ac n the paths, winning r turned the second one for the Reds, humiliating the Giants 4 to 6 | i ath failed to get a home run, so the Red Sox lost to the White Sox 5 to ‘The Tige shed the Yanks into a tis for fourth piace by walloping (hem to 6. ; | eee Cleveland almost won, bat the Sen- ators got the extra tally in the ninth of @ 3-to-2 gam: first game over the Pirates, 6 to | ked out « winning lead in to } the Athletion # an 8-to-2 game. ‘MOUND COA BASES Yesterday's winners—Los Angeles, Sac- ramento, Oakland, Vernon Home rans—Bates and Crawford (los Angeles) — | Angela ‘oring three runs won for the over the Bees, & to 3. With Hil Clymer, who swapped | him as wet good enough for the | Rainiers, one of those present, Wal- | ter Malls blanked the Seals and held them to five hits, while the Yippers scored four runs. "Cy" Walkenberg was also parsimont ous with his binglon in the Oaks’ 6-0 vio but three hits 4 “Lefty” Sohre der in the ninth, touched for three | | runs. Tom Hickey, G southpaw, tomorrow afterno | No hanker for Prexy Baum's job both Clymer, late Siwash each Francisco reporters. i words galore for Seattlelt to wet a players Mullon ta ® go-get: | orn | tora | kina held ter, Clymer avers. is club down. Joo Mulvihill, the Danbury Hatter, ts] arranging to take care of 15,000 guenta| at the Pete Herman-Joe Lynch cham- | ptonship bout at Waterbury, Conn, on Labor day, Two home runs in the seventh tnning | © Cross Over to Brooklyn 40,000 Storm Polo Grounds, for Last Duet of Games | Yesterday | NEW YORK, Aug. 16.--(United) Preas).--The Cincinnati Reds went} away from the Polo Grounds today to invade the lair of the Brooklyn | Dodgers and they carried with them} & lead of six and a half games tn the National league pennant race, | accomplished yesterday when they | twidh defeated the Gtunts before the} largest crowd that ever saw a base | ball game in New York | Forty thousand rabid fann forced | or paid their admissions, while 16, 009 others seethed and raged outside | at the line of police that held them | back Blizefully unconscious of what was going on outside the steel and concrete enclosure, the 40,000 inner ones tossed pop bottles at Sherwood Magee and other Reds, fought) among themselves, ate peanuts. drank pop and rushed the special police off their feet in the closing innings of the second game to get! to the playing field. It was the first time in many years that spectators had succeeded in overflowing to the outfield tn the Polo Grounds. Also, for the firxt| time in many months, elty policemen were stationed to preserve order They calmly watghed the overflow and made no mo¥e when fans In right field hurled missiles at Parl Neale as he set himself to catch | a fly | DOBIE’S MIDDIES START GRID WORK ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 16.— Working under Lieut. Com. W. A. Richardson, formerly star back on the navy team, the midshipmen —_ football squads are being whipped in- to shape. Later they will be taken over by Head Coach Dobie, when the selection of the first team string will be made. The now ‘candidates are said to be very promising this season. FAETH WILL JOIN OHIO | CLUB SOON CLEVELAND, Aug, 16.—President Jim Dunn has just pulled off a deal beat the White Sox to hurler that b t in which he a classy ams nted Said hurler is Faeth of the Mil waukee Brewers, tailenders in the American association. But Faeth has won 10 out of 2%, a fine re 1 with He's a big fellow scouts @ last place team. and several look him over The fact that Cleveland gets him shows that Pants Rowland hasn't for ten the deal Comisky gave him and in canning him to make him the font so that he bring Joe Jackson, and others who, Comin ky had declared, should never play on his team hur: dled to the Furtherm pitcher to give magnates had again after they shipbuilding league the Indians had a| that could help fill the gap left by taking Faeth from Milwaukee aff. Tom Phillips goes | in tr | Pants Rowland turned over Lefty Kerr to Chicago before the se opened, but it wasn't until after h offered Kerr to the Tribes. BOSTON, Aug. 16.—With a clear sky and very little wind the final] round of play in the national doubles tournament was expected to be hel at the Longwood Cricket club her this afternoon, The final match is be: | tween Norman B. Brookes and Ger ald Patterson of Australia and Wil Ham M. Johnston and Clarence J. | Grin, winners of the Northwest | sectional tournament | erick W , 1918 state champion. After Jess Willard had been knocked down five times in the round and was hanging on the ropes with Dempsey pound- him with right crosses, the fight should have been stopped by teferes, because Jess was absolutely unable to protect him- says Charies Hulen, who has returned to Seattle after an ex- visit to the east, where he took in the big scrap, refereeing was terrible and I will never kick about Seat- te officials again,” declares Charies. “Pecord's work in the ring ‘as awful and he robbed Dempsey of a knockout in the first dack Dempecy's first blew to Willard'’s stomach won the fight for the new champion, according to Hulen, who says told him after the fight that he could feel Willard crumble under thas blow. “As soon as Jack bammered him in the stomach he followed thru to the body and lifted a right cross to the jaw and Willard flopped hard. Jess got up dirzy, and with his back turned to Dempsey, who rushed around him and keeled him over again. After that it was plain murder.” are booming in the east, says Charlie, espetiaily base ball. Hulen saw the White Sox, Cleveland Indiaps, Washington and Detroit in action. He likes Detroit bunety best of the lot. “Detroit has a great hitting team that ls apt to break up a game any old time,” Hulen says, “and they are big favorites in the cast.” When the fleet is here next month it would be the biggest boom in the world for boxing in this section if the local promoters could combine and stage an open air smoker with the locals boys meeting the ring champions of the fleet. It may be possible to stage the smoker at Fort Lawton with ten-round scraps on the bill, Semi-pro baseball managers are invited to attend a meet- ing at Spaldings to form plans for an climination meet to decide the city championship next month. It may be possible to dope oat a sectional baseball championship whereby the other Puget Sound district towns could enter teams. Details of the proposed series will be worked out Tuesday. Walig Mails and old Cy Falkenberg kind of rubbed it in again yesterday when both former Seattle hurlers pitched shut- s. Cy hurled a win over the Beavers and Mails set the Seals back without a tally. It's a great world if you don't weaken, Y= YU Ke yo y We, ES Ca} MG brceravetMtesasvhbsass The Mike Weight baseball squad wilt | un an excursion to Friday Harbor Sun The steamer Whatcom leaves for the Islands from Colman dock at 9:20 am . 4 UYU f If 4 1 Uy AU) hon LS vir tdaateell The Portland gin in September, ht shows will be- the first set of fights will be held on September 17 or 24. The Oregon laws Permit 10-round fights, pla host to the Ana uth Park. South dot qiub jeorgie Adame ts in Chicago and ma: fo on to New York, Georgie, it may not be generally known, is an expert golf caddie, and prior to coming to the Co: was used quite a bit in the champion- ship golf tournaments tn Illinois, The Al the ¢ Sunday at 2 ambra p Lewis nine at 0p. m. lored team will play Liberty park HOISE state boxing Passed resolut fights tn thie state kidney pune and pivot blow were barred by action gf the mission, and wrestior# in Taho in the future will not allowed use the toe noid. The commiasion the toe hold to be “not | scientific, byt brutal The Idaho timmy McFarland of Chicage, younger brother of Packey McPur- battler, kame. will ‘try C to be scientific and The Ind @ good Tack O’Brien, the re . has just been the Quaker City, neré have decided to him a chance to make some money officiating weekly bouts, Jack knows the game (horoly be @ success, SPOKANE, A Diets, famous is to be tried here again. The cha is falsifying hix draft questionnaire. Federal dudge Rudkin hay over-ruled the demurrer filed by Diets’ attor- will be tried on grand Jury indict him with being a “stacker Jury disagreed at the first tr he bs at liberty on $1,000 bon Frank “Doc” Bagley has matched Willie Jackson to box Ralph Brady six rounds in the National league baseball park at Philadelphia on A\ gust 25, There will be no decisi © MeGoorty, | given. t the decision in his week, tamued | not American b & London p & statement today drunk, as the court do was only suffering from the heat pleaded guilty, he sald, to avoid pub: Netty This sounds like a press agent story, ed tn th Little Rock, the guest of the . according to the story, ts 4 to box; all he ts asked to do is to be present and join in the fun, and for doing Will be given the 30,000 cartwheels. Just think what Willie Meo- would do if he received such an Would he accept? Do you really think he would? Ore, Aug, 16.-—The track and field cham d upon Franklin and 14 PORTLAND, tional A, A. t plonships will be dec field, Philadelphia W. Philbe PASADENA, SAN 16. Tobey Irwin's decision giving Allie Nack a draw in his bout with Eddie shannon was far from popular, The fans opined Shagnon had all the best of last night's show. Draw bouts, none of them exciting, were fought Lewis and Johnny Me- rty, “Goat” Lavin and Roy Taber, Monk Fowler and Johnny Arrousez, Dave Shade won from Johnny Conde, Aug. 16,—All Pasadena joi popular wel- come home night to Lieut. Charles W. Paddock, world’s cham- pion sprinter, when he returned from his triumphant participation in the ied games in Paris, City of- hers of the Uni- lh} and ought to| ave offered Juck | Simon Pures Open Annual © | Golt Season “Big Four” Opens National Meet at Oakmont Club Today in East { PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 16.—With; | 141 starters, the 23rd national ama- teur golf championship got under! way at the Oakmont Country clubi © at Hulton today. , The first play was an 18-hole elim / ination round to cut the field down to 64 entries. On Monday the final) qualifying round at 36 holes will be played, in which an additional 32 jentrants will be eliminated, leaving | 32 by Monday night to resume magch) — play. | The be the strongesti | that ever tackled, a champ a |The “big four’"—Evans, O | Travers and Gardner—are ready | action. They will be opposed by |Such stars as Bobby Jones, Bill | Fownes, Oswald Kirkby, Max Mar — ston, E. M. Byers, Dave Perry Adair, John G. sewreen a Gardiner White. Be Charles (Chick) Fwans, Jr. the: Present champion, is expected te arrive today. He will take a chance among the first 64 without @ ¢rial | round. The course is in splendid dition, but the large number of traps and bunkers ingeniously placed over — the vast acreage makes it one of the difficult scoring grounds im America. Weather conditions this morning were fine, mY The play opened this morning with — W. R. Walton, Champaign Country club, and G. L. Conley, Siwanay, | They will be fonowed by other pairs at five-minute intervals until after 3 o'clock this afternoon. 23 Vets Out for Idaho’s field will |17 Letter Men Return to School; Here’s List of Men After Grid Jobs | UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, M cow, Aug. 16.—With the return of Idaho veteran athietes, i7 of whom already have won their letters, ” Coach Bleamaster hopes to build up an unbeatable team for the 1919 foot: ball season scheduled to open on Oc- i tober 18, with a game with Oregon niversity. The letter men expected back are Orren Barber, Boise; Harry Hart well, Buhl; Leon Perrine, Nés Peres; Felix Plastino, Pocatello; Marvin Carnahan, Kennewick; Boyd Cornet: ison, Moscow; Justin Gowan, Cald- | well; Grover Evans, American Falls; _ Richard Fox, Nez Perce; Paul hick") Evans, American Falls: "| Roy Thompson, Boise; Neil Irving, Rupert; Ralph Brashears, Caldwell; Tilman Gerlow, Boise; Boyd Brig- ham, Moscow; Albert and Fred Graf, Coeur d'Alene. All of these"men are veteran ath- | letes, well used to the Idaho style of play, according to Coach W. C. Blea» |master, who will begin them into shape September 15, in jorder to prepare for the first game jof the season, scheduled for Oto ‘ber 18, i In addition to these letter Coach Bleamaster expects the lowing men back. They all did ex: cellent work last year, and should make good on the teams, he says. They are: Frank Brown, Botse; Abe ff, Colfax; Hugh Richardson, for merly of North Central, Spokane; Joe Whitcom, Lewiston; Dan Mo — | Dougal, Pocatello; Lee Busher, Oro: | fino, and William Stephens, Black-— foot, | Several alumni have had meetings: |with Coach Bleamaster this week to” | Work out new plays for the 1919 json, The first game is with the | versity of Oregon, SHARKEY GOES TO MILWAUKE! he Bantamweight Champion Pete Her man was still champion today, Last night he met Jack Sharkey at the | Auditorium, the bout being a draw. ‘The fight, which had been pending for weeks, dre a large crowd. Sharkey, the challenger, flung many. gestures at his oupaneet te the