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Si dd Mighty War Club Lined Up for Locals; Spencer 3 Kopp, left field ; Cunningham, center field; Bates, first i a folter, right field; Spencer, catcher; Murphy, third ee Kenworthy, second base; Hartford, shortstop; Gard- ner, pitcher. : 3 e sweet looking lineup! Well, Mr. Seattle fan, that’s! - the way the locals look at the present time for the opening ‘game of the season, and still more changes may be made. - What 4 wallop thia crowd wil! carry in thelr maces if they ult swing the big sticks in the form they have shown In the past Cunningham, Rates, Wolter, Spen | cor, Murphy and Kenworthy al crack the agate around the mark, Kopp is fast, but not m than clouter in this ctreuit according to reports from the Fast Martford is questionable. Wolter and Spencer were two of the best hitters in the league last year, hitting wel! over the 300 mark ‘The baseball clouds look a lot brighter for the locals now than they at any time during the stove league season K. d Fans! STILL NEED a . 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Donahing Columbus and MacDougall: South Paul but he hasn't fallen into such Ghewed a works of class on the in wick fives tangle for a place in sound sleep that the elinking and bindes and finished 1 in front tit! The Star league basketball finals. clanking of a hundred thous his heat Neither team has lost « game men wouldn't wake him up. lowes this season and Saturday night Kane, manager the Gibbons oud hand will be the Waterloo for one of brothers—Mike and Tommy—gave, ponent iy the two squads, whieh will bring this earful as he supervised Ralph Bissett of University a together the classiest array of training work in a local lp! | basketball players in the North- | uataide Washington took the lead in the fi Seton seine arn i|heat and held it for six laps, Don ferences, | hue taking things easy until the final Mac Dougall t read aby walked off with the nee * beating C. W. Carlson %07 1 ' E Seattle stilt needs fielder, Bruce Hartford, the West ern leaguer, may do, but only time a good short retirement, all! but I'm telling Paul want to , Mike's in * waid Eddie fyou the fans of St spurt, when he outdistanced Bissett His time for the eight laps was 215, Sack Davi G. W. Carlson led most of the wa in the second heat, wut couldn't stam the pace, iby came home winner in | Carlos Lyo is will present a powe: will tell. He had a of trials h Ralph with the Chicago White Sox, but al Ways landed with the Des Moines team again. It was imporsible to get Janvrin from the St. Loula Cardi nals, according to Word from Secre tary Brewster, who ix swinging the deals.in the Bust wy Smith forwards Jack David Dixon Shi George Overt ds, are no #louchy ‘This bird Kertis# ix about the nlftl ost thing in guards that The Star league can display, He's a bie fe low, weighing around 180 pounds, and speedy And then glance over the list of Knights, “Doo* Powers and Jobnny Logan will play forwards, 1 i# & strenuous player am counted upon to give p of tion, Logan in leading the league scorers with 115 points to hin credit in five gumes, which qualifies him. Classic will hold down the center job. He's just rounding inte condition. Needies, Mooney, Coch *E Ere: | SPENCER 1S REAL ADDITION If “Tub” Spencer, the portly catch ler acquired from the Salt Lake Bees, setties down to work and hits the | pill with the same punch he did last! year, he should be a mighty bie to the club. Spencer refused to play with the Rees again when Ernie Johnson, shortstop, was appointed to succeed ie Herr, last year's pilot Spencer is a wise head and a good! i fh wern and be ty am rites leatcher is absolutely essential to a k g nee anothe Mikes they'll pa O'Dewd—« out « hundred thousan for the show. It would be the big went thing in the fixtic lne ever |wtaged in Minnesota, and I look for the promoters to get busy and put it on the coming summer.” The two Mikes met last summer and it was a battle worth seeing scrap between the two) | A Gibbons didn’t win and he announced! {he was thru. He several years, but jand in good shape. champion, is much younger, of but there isn't a world of difference between the two, and any as been boxing is still young Frank Twenty-eight wins without a lon. course, That's the reoord of Frank Max well's teama at the Knights of Co jumbus this year, competing against the best teams in the city Maxwell has been tutoring barket ball for a long time, but this in hin w how it was won 12 gamer, ppohents scared garnen, scored points to 95 for their opponents; 110-pound team won nix games and scored 145 points to 60 for the apposition, and cored 647 juniors won neve present AZEVEDO LOOKS GooD O'Dowd, the| He's entered the finals for The | Star ice ude. Donahue won the first heat last night at the Arena ¥. J. Raby, winner of the second |heat, was in a hurry to get home | didn’t give The Star photographer ja chance to “mug” him. Roy McCormick, Engiish heavyweight boxer, who is making his home on the n, Jobn F, Watson anf | Erie W. Lindroth were the other starters in the first heat, @ | George Delfel, William Berry George McLeod started the heat The finals will be run off ; Wednesday. Elmer Satterberg, Clint Farr, J. T. Towey, tke Staples, Dom: by will compete for Tor time they fight there'll be & crowd or something last night, because he | fear |t Jack Br oldent active mn, at the age of 27, te thi ring champion in rane and Moriarity will all give « good account of themselves on de fonse. | ‘This tit will get under way at 9 p.m. The Y. M. C. A. meets the Rainier post five in the first game. |atarting at * p. m AMES BILLED FOR FRIDAY The second halfeeason of ‘The mdat prosperous season, He's the j Kot & physical director. ‘The record of his squads for the the 90pound squad has come thru| with four wins, scoring 99 points to 10 for their opponents, Joo Azevedo, the California welter- | palitic const, was recently pi weight, who performs before the Se | speeding Milwaskie, near attle fans tomorrow night with Billy | (he mene of a fight Wright, has made a decided hit with | the local fans by his work in the WHAT THEY SAY to training quarters, He is 6 husky fellaw who looks lke he is ad-| vertined, a rough and ready mixer. He will run up against plenty of op- | position tomorrow night, however, Star league will get under way Fri FAINT HEARTED ' ee Woda her pal yg Ave day night. Two games are billed for) Jim Coffroth, former boxing pro i Garing the past couple. of manthe the Elks and one for Broadway. The | moter, now managing a race track at) to rough things, and with hin cleve: Fike and Soldiers & Sailors’ club witi| Tiwana, Mex, finds the turf game none io 4 i. beat dhe visitor argue at the Elka at &§ p. m, omni an peng vg = — a vared = the Piper @ Taft team and Co. Hi| the four-ounce glove sport. Here ts es meet in the second ult at 9 p. m.|@n excerpt from @ letter Jim recent. | ANOTHER BRACE | Brewsters and Phoenix will mix at|ly recetved from a “faint-hearted™| OF WELTERS Broadway at 7:30. All teams billed |*kate in Mineapolis | for Friday must have their regia) |"! | tered lists in today, So far only the)! Piper & Taft men have registered. | ‘New Yorkers hed for!» Portiand, rican ring today. He boxes | good club, Seattle's team was wo 4 ie amasting a emal) fortune, | fully weak behind the plate all Inst year, and Spencer should take care of this job without any trouble } | George (Knockout) Brown has offe has been!t» box Johnny Asher and Young Zul St. Louis | Kid in the same ring—four roum each boxer Burt choren Hhotten, outfielder, to captain the 19 * by Branch Rickey SEATTLE STILL NEEDS HURLERS Seattle still has desperate need “If | owned = big longue bell cin, T'd make Evers the manager without the slightest heeltation, Me FgQ¢E z i BF FEF if 82 i i Ly 3 of come hind” “The Duthie cieven wil! oppose the red : with a position nd squad at Liberty park f i i? i ii i ; » s the leva been signed UD, initial appearance In the Duthie | Sunday. i E i Fa seks in the semi-windup when Billy | Throw Mud as Well as Bull letsion the first time he boxed Storey | BY FRED TURBYVILLE Pi | here last year, but han been going at | JOE STRCHER & fast clip in the Bouth and he ex-| CHICAGO, Feb. 12-—When the! ber of the Indians, and haa never Yankees bought Habe Ruth they | been sorry for it Joe Stécher, newly crowned wrest-| pects to hang the Indian sign on the ling champion, says there ts but one | jocal talent, starting Friday. Shade man he would willingly yield tis title | py wan over sach good boys as }to without a struggle—and that man | Young George, Frankie Haynie and | |ie—"Hlackjack” Pershing, who put @/ the rest of the San Francisco and/| body scimsors hold on the German] Los Angeles welters started something right in their own | hawo town. Ever since they've been| throwing the bull back and forth. | And by they we mean the Colonels} Rupert and Huston of the Yanks on he one side and President Stone-| army ham and John McGraw of the Giants | on the other. The Giants are jealous of the pub- Uelty and the limelight attained by | the Yanks in t*eir master stroke of} winning over the fans during the|™¢r star second sacker in the Na- ath “eine seaane |tlonal league, now shivering out in| The Giants haven't as yet connect-|the “managerial” cold, after giving Jed with Rogers Hornaby, and wo ali|2 Years of his life to the paatime, | they can do is talk about that and may yet be worked over Into a movie barony varie thriller. However, James E. Gaffney “This talk of Stoneham’ about | 4 <0 strong for the os-Own en cten of baseball the players deserving a raise in sal ‘ ay 4 laries is mudslinging.” a wise old lie wees Mig ore Miclania dong | roune _— | Buck Weaver, : baseballer told me here. “Sto . one of the largest ¥. W M’CORMICK IN itis he tavored increasing tne nas et others, he said It waa a natural gift| classes In the country. ‘They’ be all his athletes, those under contract Gnd love of the game that creates) ciriectly formea and vigersus © as well as thone yet unsigned. ser dan wit the Weat “At the time Stone’ , “It you don't love 7 the game MILWAUKIE, Ore, Feb. 12—~| statement he had ani 5 ton ot ine| peg am igh og Md gone |Tommy Gibbons, claimant to the | American lightheavywelght cham- pionship, and Boy McCormick, light players under contract for 1920. He | | heavyweight champion of Great Brit-| knew he had to raise the others eee And it didn’t make much difference | aequired skill and knowledge of the | jain, were given a draw decision here last night after ten rounds of fast cama, about the ones who had signed up. “Pitehors should take care of their He knew that most of the Yankees too, f= | battling. Despite the fact the Irish cham- i j F ii z i, $7 i appre tate i me with @ pam geod for the moet, Provided you emetder the trip sate” : Pe “= 3 STANLEY COVALESKIE | Stanley Covaleskie says the news- | papers have got him wrong by call- ing him a coal miner—that ts, he never worked beneath the ground. | Por four years he haa been a mem- : ZIMMERMAN BOYS | TAKE LICK | The two Zimmerman boys, Neil | and Earl, who are billed to box the jtwo Jones boys of Tacoma, Neil | |tackling Harold and Earl boxing | Morgan, were both walloped last) oa night at Milwaukie, Ore., samething | RUBE MARQUARD that will happen once in a while. In| | Rube Marquard, who was out of | "Pite of their defeats, the Zimmer: | the game last season with a broken | man boys are both good performers, | Jankle, is full of hope for the coming|#nd should give a good account of | \neanon. He has sent the following |themacives in their bouts with the | | menage to President Ebbets, of the | Jones family of Tacoma, here Fri-| Brooklyn Dodgers day. | “My ankle le ae strong as over. 1 fam onger to get beck on the mound. Thie will be my greatest senson in | 1” ow lense " s] fm Biack Diamond, and a special FOURNIER DEAL has been chartered to convey th: down to Seattle for Sunday's expecting word from the Past that Jack Four- nier is due to join the locals, Four pan, 5 ora ’Raiior= | pier, who wants to play ball with| at the Black | the locals, may take another fling | Sie bene at the big leagues, but the chances a meee. ie sttanta are waking ‘up |SF@ he will come to the Seattle club 7 on the deal that sent Claude Thomas |to the Angels, via the St. Louis Car- se ne er oat | dinals. Fournier would hold down o coal diggers, | first base and another 200 club in G4 Beech broke all speed reguls- | that lineup above. Oh, boy! Between here and Tacoma and) this star of stars for the Duthi | | | Overton. jax Thi Melean club — | | SHANNON AND | SCHUMANN BOX | Eddie Shannon and Heinie Schu-| {mann will argue in Tacoma in a/ six-round bout again tonight. It's the second meeting of this pair, the Shan. LOYAL TO FEVERS The picture of Johnny Evers, for- GROVER ALEXANDER | When Grover Alexander, star hurl- er for the Chicago Cubs, was asked|firet bout going to a draw. what constitutes the basis for suc-| On I* given the edge to win stars such as Ty er What Are Your Plans for Clothes —during the coming year? For one thing, the generally higher level of prices should make you a more careful buyer. You're go- ing to demand the utmost for the money you invest in a suit or overcoat. And, if you’ll demand the best, then we want the chance to show you what we’ve got. We have ALSO BOUGHT CAREFULLY and have a selection of 100% Clothes for Men and Young Men that cannot be excelled. Look around, Get prices. Make com- parisons. 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