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PAGE 10 ! Tilden, Marshall Allen, one of the most promising young tenni: players in the world, in the East, according to a letter written home by young Allen. ranking players of the country. The Seattle youth, with William Burrill, of Tacom h YOUNG SOUTHPAW HURLS SECOND STRAIGHT WIN FOR SIWASHES | h is the climax of the American tennis season. “a ¥* FELLOW BEN la in his second win within a { week yesterday when he p ° I t to bear down much yesterday as his | team mates stepped out and ham-/ The young tetlow has been lucky |so far in that he has had a big mar wer vl N 1h champions kick thru | _| National league champions kic ul third sacker, is wanted for Immo-| Ji, another tosser, Francis looks meeting last night, decided to keep | the Seattle club playing it The Bohne here,for the rest of the sea-| Oaks were in the park, but th: Cincy shortstop who broke his thumb on his throwing hand the hurled the gang to another| : mered over five runs right off the} + — eae ed pace and didn't try to throw his arm gin of runs to work under in both) diate delivery by the Cincinnatl iy. the boy to fill that vacant son. Only an offer of at least/ far as they ever did get. The local other day. good for five runs right off the bat on Ray Kremer and then knicked ‘Joe Boehling’s delivery for three more counters before the matinee was over. A high wind and a wet field played havoc with several hard hit balls but ‘he Strongest Hands in Baseball” BIG They Belong to Hack Miller, Oak Star RAILWAY SPIKES TOGETHER FOR AMUSEMENT “some pair of mitts!” You're right, brother, to one Hack Miller, | man in baseball They belong the strongest He's cavorting in thie week, base hite or spearing flies for the Acorns, he bends railway wpikes in two and does other playful stunts with those big, powerful mitta, Miller, who hag hit some of the longest homers ever registered the Coast cireyit, is being talked of las big league timber. He ts sought | by geweral big league teams, particu: larly the Chicago Cubs, and the deal for the big fellow may be completed any day now, BIG SHOOT AT LOCAL GUN CLUB ‘The last registered tournament to | be held in this district will be staged Sunday by the Seattle nm club, featuring the program of the North west Trapshooters’ league, calling for total registered number of targets and handicap of 25. These league tournaments | very informal and do not carry the | high money entry that most of the are stars ever turned out in Seattle, i left field for the Oakland club here | When Hack tm't pounding out! 120) AY FRANCIS, the young left-hander of the Seattle | Siwashes, has demonstrated in his last two starts, victory over Oakland by an 8-to-2 count. Incidentally, it} was the tribe's seventh lout with his mates keeping out In front. He was touched for plenty of | REDS WANT hits, but only once—in the third— of his starts. He won 11 to 0 over BOHNE 9 icevscetteen 8S 2 win yesterday. Reds, according to requests from | berth. Cincinnati officials received here. | OAKS WEREN'T Bohne has been sold to the Reds | tN RUNNING AT ALL $15,000 cash would make them /hitters rapped out five sweet blows ebange thelr minds. Bohne, who ts one of the min ‘The Seattle club, now six games|both teams turned in several good Tehind the ieacue-leading Sait Lake | plays in spite of the handicap. Hack chub, would have their inner de| Miller, the big left fielder of the which he has won handily, that he is ready to take his| straight win. did the enemy bunch hits for runa | ‘The locais will need the services of | NOW }another regular hurler right now | with Herb Brenton on his way to for $17,500 for delivery next season. | “Phere was a ball game at the Rain cogs in the Seattle team, is needet ferse shattered if Bohne i» sent to| Oaks, had a particularly busy after | registered programs do. The money entry is entirely optional with the shooter, as he in very weloome to come out and shoot “for turn on the mound for the tribe from now on. He turned The young southpaw didn't have They counted two in that inning Sammy Bohne, star | join the Cincinnati Reda. Until the ‘The Seattle club directors, at a/ier Valley park yesterday with only by the Reds to replace Larry Kopf. the majors, BARRY WINS OAR TITLE SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aug. 28.—E) nest Barry won the world’s sculling championship here today against Al- fred Felton, on Paramatta river course. Barry won easily by 10 lengths. A year ago Felton beat his opponent on the Thames but Barry then declared he lost because he got into rough water, e's . CHAPMAN WAS TO RETIRE CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 2%.—Ray Chapman, star Cleveland shortstop, who died from being hit by a pitched ball recently, planned to retire at the | end of the present season. About a year ago Chapman married Cather. | ine Daly,.daughter of M. B. Dal. president of the East Ohio Gas The bride's father, presented them with a $100,000 home as wedding f te GREB TO | BOX WIGGENS BENTON HARBOR, Aug. 28.— Harry Greb, crack Eastern light-| heavyweight, who is helping train | Jack Dempsey for his bout with Billy Miske here Labor Gay, is also rounding into prime condition for his second bout with Chuck Wiggens. which will be featured on the same | cara. Greb decisively beat Wiggens | at Kalamazoo, Mich., recently. | eee NEW YORK, Aug. 28—Benny| Leonard, world’s lightweight cham-| pion, had his title bout with Eddie Fitzsimmons postponed from Septem- ber 17 until September 27. The re son for this is that thé 17th fal on a Jewish holiday and that it might prevent many of Leonard's admirers from attending. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE BASEBALL OAKLAND vs. SEATTLE Sunday at 1:30 DOUBLE-HEADER Two Games for One Admission Take Fourth Av. Cars | |tangle with Salt |jJured In a recent game, and Ci Jed in mystery, noon as the wind was tossing balls all around him during the game. CLUB GOES TO VERNON, NEXT Seattle has a beautiful chance to climb into second place next week when they argue with the Vernon Tigers, present second place occu pants, at Los Angeles. The tribe took five out of seven from the Tigers here last week and followers of the gang are already figuring how jong it will be before we land in first place. ‘There are seven weeks left on the schedule. On the road we meet Port land, Oakland, Vernon, San Fran cisco and Los Angeles. At home we Lake and Sacra mento, Seattle is just six games be- x hind Salt Lake and five games be oe as hind Vernon, Sweet daddy! WHERE OTHER TEAMS PLAY In the other games billed for next week Portland goes to the mat with Upper—Hack Miller's powerful hands wrapped around his favorite bat. one of the heaviest bats in baseball, weighing 62 ounces. Lower—The “Miller” grin after Hack has crashed the apple for a goal, or maybe he’s just pulled another long fly out of the air. They're his specialties jonly” if he may wish. The program starts at 9:30 a m and is staged at the Fort Lawton grounds of the local club. RICHARDS WINS IN NET MEET | SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 2% |—Wiliam Clothier, of Philadelphia, defeated Hugh Kelleher, of New York, here yenterday’ in the semi final round of the Meadow club cup |men’s singles tennis tourney. The | ncore wan 4.6, 9-7, 62 In the Other semi-finals mateh Vin. loent Richards, of Yonkers, N. Y., won from Leonard Beekman, of New | York, by the score of 11.9, 6-4 San Francisco, Sacramento enter: | tains the Oakland crew and Salt/ Lake and Los Angeles keep up their struggle, but the scene shifts to Sait | Lake. FRIDAYS WIN CINCHED ANOTHER SERIES When the Seattle club won Friday | they cinched another series. Here is! Seattle's record for the past few weeks | Seattle 5, Oakland 2 | Seattle 6, Vernon 4. Seattle 4, Sacramento 4 Seattle 6, Salt Lake 2 4, San Francisco 3. Seattle 5, Portland 2. Seattle 5, Vernon 2. Seattle 4, Oakland 0, BY TOM OLSEN Five new coaches will tutor Seat tle high school grid teams this com: |ing season. The only coach return ing to his old job is “Pat” Murphy of West Seattle. Franklin high schoot will have t services of C. EB. Dvorak, a gradu. ate of the University of Michigan. Dvorak was one of Michigan's crack CRANE WON'T COME quarter backs under the famous TO COAST NOW coach, “Hurry Up" Yost. Dvorak There doesn’t seem to be much | coached the University of Idaho grid chance of the locals snaring young | team for two years He is a crack Crane, a good shortstop, from the| pole vaulter, representing America Cincinnati Reds—at least not right|in the St. Louls Olympic games in now. Larry Kopf, regular Red|the pole vault in 1904 shortstop, is probably out for the| “Bang” Soukup has been appoint sea, with a broken thumb, in-|¢d coach at Lincoln, Soukup is a ane |@raduate of the University of Wis Crane would | consin_ and has coached a high school according to local team there two years. He developed Ii players who have seen him work|Artie Mucks, the great discus in the big show. | thrower. The new Lincoln mentor ts BENNY KAUFF rvs testis neste. St ISRECALLED | teach commercial subjects at Lin coin. NEW YORK, Aug. 28.-Benny | BEL Kauff, New York center fielder, re eased to the Toronto club in mid season, has been recalled by the New York club. He was under optional agreement, eubject to recall, Kauft is regarded as one of the best out: | fielders in the National league, and his trip to the minors is still shroud on is filling in at short make good here, alter Bell, who coached at Queen Anne last year, will handle all major sports there this season Walter (‘Mike") Powers, former necond team coach at Rroadway, will coach the regulars at the Tiger in. ARIE STILL LEADS SHOOTERS CLEVELAND, Aug . 28. — Mark Arie, of Champaign, Il. lead yester- day's shoot in the Grand American “AZEVEDO sist DRAWS MILLER SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 2%.—! Joe Azevedo and Joe Miller, both of Franciseo, fought a draw here night. Al Walker, § Fran stopped Al Me in two rounds, Monk Franel from Young } . of this city. Claire Bromeo, this| WINNIPEG, Aug. 28.—Harry Var. city, and Dick Donnelly, Vran-|don and Ted Ray, the crack British ciseo, were thrown out of the ring | professionals, defeated Harry Pen for stalling. Spec Rames, § cisco, stopped the Bakersfield, in the fourth, jan of a possible 100. Arie is the winner of the American amateur champion- ahip Frank Troeh, of Vancouver, Wash., was next with the score of 94. cisco Manus, Fowle co, won ~ Match or FIVE NEW COACHES TO SEATTLE PREP ATHLETICS } | | | gun handicap with a score of 97 out| Krantz has be@n fighting off and on n Fran-|fold and George Daniels, the local|American Express company. Dixio Kid, of/ stars, here yesterday in an 18-hole| wants a match here with Frankie ~.'Joneq, the San Francisco boy, y. TUTOR Walter Mili mentor, fast. Les stitution this coming season. [quit coaching this year. H. Pease, former Latona grammar|ken, former Queen Anne school manual training tutor, will] has left Seattle for the coach at Ballard. |Turner of Broadway will take a Walter Reseberg, former Franklin | year's vacation from coaching and coach, will act as vocational guide| will be content in acting as an in at the Quaker school. Ernie Wells | structor in the shop at Broadway. * will do the same kind of work at/ Football will be the first major Lincoln. sport on the high school athletic pro. WHAT VET gram this year. School starts Sep- COACHES WILL DO tember 7 and the first regular game McComb of Ballard haa decided to! ts scheduled for October 8. YANKS WIN FIRST IN CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN BOUTS: BY HENRY L. FARRELL Dissatisfaction with the rulings ANTWERP, Aug. 28.—Americans| of the Swedish referee in the final won the Olympic team championship in catch-as-catchcan wrestling late ast night with a score of 9% points. Finland was second with 8, while Sweden scored 6% and Switzerland and England two each. The bouts were finished before midnight. Sweden took the first three places n the modern pentathlon, Durszen, | licly. Delaval and Ftuno finishing in the} American oarsmen will meet order named. The Americans, Rai-| France today in the semi-finals of nier and Sears, were sixth\and eighth | the elght-oared championship respectively. England will meet SOLD STAR; WANTS BOUT Harry Krantz, who wed to ee! The Star on the corner of Occidental ave. and Yesler way 10 years ago, Is back in Seattle after making a name for himself in the fight world. match of the water polo champion ship, in which England defeated Bel gium, resulted in Belgian spectators hissing when the British national anthem was played. British repre. |sentatives called a protest meeting of all delegates at which Belgian officials promised to apologize pub: shortly orway KROHN BEATS FITZSIMMONS DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 28.—Young Fitzsimmons, middleweight cham pion of Oklahoma, lost a decision to Harry Krohn, of Akron, and mid- diewelght champion of the South, in a fast 10-round bout here last night. The two boys fought evenly thru the first four rounds, but Krohn | forged ahead in the fifth, sixth and yenth by clever footwork and clev- erly executed left jabs and counters. Fitzsimmons staged a big rally in the latter part of the seventh, eighth and ninth rounds, but Krohn car. | ried the tenth. Fitzsimmons was the past six years, and has met some of the best boys in the Orange state, He's a welterweight. in California and Nevada for Krantz is home visiting his folks in Seattle and is working for the He fight while Krohn was none the worse from the encounter, Nia naneppnanienatrenitapeccatece ted. targets The stick is| while | diy marked up at the end of te Seattlo Crystal Swimming club _pheld at the local Crystal Pool, LIFTED ON FELIX | STARS | Members of the Seattle park board |have lifted the suspension on Ted lAhner, second baseman; Bob Boyer |h fielder, and Ralph Miller, of the Felix club, who were barred by the board on the charge | of being members of the mix-up Unat featured their recent game with the Tailored Ready crew | This means that the above named | trio of tommers will be eligible play in the second game of The Star Junior baseball title series with the Mount er club at Columbia field Sunday | The three fellows are all good | players and their appearance in the Une-up will strengthen the club tea |‘Their return to the fold means that | the club boys will not be able to play | Spencer Marrin, the Tallored Ready | infielder, as announced yesterday Harris was to have filled in for the| club men temporarily | The Mount Raker club, which won the first game of the series by a! Sto4 count, will be the home team Sunday and they need one more win | to cop the series, If the club team wins the third and deciding game | will be played at the Seattle Coast | league park September 5. The Mount Baker club has also! been strengthened with the return of | Ivan Jones, second sacker, This will |mean a shift in the Mount Baker | Une-up. Jones will start the game| at the keystone pillow with Owen | Roberts going to third and Frey Lar-| son replacing Ivan Davin in right |field. The rest of the club lines up with Ackelson, catcher; Troepple, | firet base; Liedtke, shortstop; Krin | gle, left field; Patterson, center field, and Sheedy, pitcher. The club team will have a much changed lne- up. tob Thorburn will | ido the hurting. Miller, catcher; | Hughes, first base; Abner, second base; Jotin Thorburn, third base; Kobler, shortstop; Boyer, left field; Frisell, center field. and Shabro. | right field, is the way the rest of the lelub will take the field, } The game will get |Promptiy at 1 p.m. An effort will| be made to have Alamandie and| Pickens, who officiated #0 well in the| | fret game, to do the umpiring } Willard Not Signed Yet to Meet Dempsey NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Jess Willard, former world's heavy. weight champion, has not signed with Tex Kickard, manager of the Madison Square Garden here, according to a statement issued here today by the famous pro- moter. “I have been in communication with Willard,” admits Rickard, “but the former champion has not come to any terms. Jack Dempsey has expressed his will ingness to box Willard.” SWIM PRIZES NOT READY YET | Prizes for The Star swimming |meet are not yet ready for distribu tion, The medals for first place win ners will not be ready for 10 days | because a special die is being made up which will take longer than ex pected for delivery. The ribbons for second and third place winners will be ready next week. Winners should watch The Mar for announcements as to when the prizes will be ready SCHUMANN MAY BOX BASHAM Heinic Schumann, former Tacoma | lightweight, now bailing from De ver, may join Sammy Go!dman’s| stable and journey to England with Bantamweight Champion Pete Her-| man, Herman t there September 20. Goldman, Her man's manager, is trying to line up a bout for Schumann with Johnny Basham, the British welterweight | champion. HAS SMITH FOUND FOUNT? Has “Gunboat™ Smith found the fountain of youth? The old boy has kicked thru with several wins recent ly, his most effective win being a decision over Tony Melchoir, the promising miner heavy. When Smith | boxed Frank Farmer here he acted like the prize punching bag and then Fred Fulton flattened him in Port land a bit later, It will take a lot |to convince Seattle fan, he | has sipped of the m: BOY M’CORMICK again. | | | | | | es Jimmy Wilde | RETURNS Boy McCormick, the Irish Mght:| woight, who did quite a bit of boxing on the Coast last on, has re turned to the United 8 and is headed towards California nding to reports from the South battler has been in F about six months, If he returns to| the Coast “Battling” Ortega, Jack Reeves, K. Q. Kruvosky and a host of other California millers will be ready to give him battle, NO WASHINGTON SWIM MEET The way will be no | ming meet | been planned The reason for this action is that there is no outside competition for acl things look now there Washington stite swim in September, as has team. The meet was going to be The Irish | Kh igland for |; Famous Net Star, Is Coaching Marshall Allen being coached by William Tilden II., one of the leading net Tilden says that with the proper coaching Allen will make one of the , went East to compete in the doubles championship at Forest Hills, N, a J. H. Stevenson (16), playing good, sound golf, won the president's cup competition of the Jefferson Park Golf club, defeating Bon Steg (4) by three up and two to play in the 36hole final match played yeu terday over the municipal links. Both players were at the top of thelr game—"Steve” may have been higher than that—but the ninestroke allowance on cach round (which represented three-quarters of the difference in their handicaps) was too much for Bon to overcome, Par “fours” on 15, 17, 18, with stroke allowance to be deducted, gayg “Steve” a threshole lead at the half-way mark and, like a true man, he held on to it for the remainder of the journey, the match ending at the 34th hole. The winner’s game has by constant practies shown wonderful linprovernent and the fact that he was “in the final” did not effect him in the least—it seemed to help him—for he had medal scores of 80-76, Stein turned in 74-69, Dr. D. H. Houstom ip the cup donor. It ooks Tike = cinch for H. A. “Dixie” Fleager to win Blethen Electric Trophy tournament at the Seattle Golf club. week, while playing with Bob Johnstone, George Tilden and Blair, “Dixie” rattled the bottom of the cup for a birdie three on 14th hole (530 yards). Last week he got a three on the home for a reducer. Harvey Fetter, who tied with this F the handsome prize, has so far failed to improve player is allowed six chances—Fetter has failed four Fleager has cut off two strokes in two attempts, Clark Speirs, one of the Jefferson Park club's “big fi a member of the Everett C. C., wandered over from Smokestacks this week and broke the course record on Hi links, shooting a “66.” This young phenom totaled figures a year ago, but the course was much shorter than one, Frank J. Saxe and H. A. Hawkins accompanied record-breaking round which was as follows: Out, 433, In, 434, 433, 344—a2—66, Several changes will be seen in the program ships meeting of the Pacific Northwest Goll on the Waveriey links of Portland next June i f i F ii i 4 i i ie El F i ! F ll Hh | i 3 i f ig Fle E_ ton, single: Bohne out, Paull te Quiste; ©|Murphy double; Eldred single; Kenworthy double. Cunningham single; Stumpf fied triple; Francis eut, Quite an inning. the ot the club, offerings ef young Francis © parsle yeaterday. He won fer inate ne Oe Brubaker to Guisto. enscouwn? wee em Boebling, p Totals Seattie— Middleton, rf Hobne, Mui e osconers Young Paull, who fillet m st for the Oaks yesterday, ts a of the P. I. league, coming from Ti He looked just fair in the field | didn't do anything at the plate Totals Score by innings lorgot Lane filled in at third. J Joe Boehling, who fintshed Jon the mound for the Kremer took the trip to t thru with a real | fifth that cost the Oakes | Bohne on third and Murpt |led off and Boehling, w ted to throw to yelled Bohne home and Bochling whirled d, but the umps called é it i i i HiT SIFOFPSRR ABATE HlSs PFSAIASES ERY MKT SSE AsESecR HS Stumpf t pitched Innings it E ge defeat Kremer Time of game to Kremer, Runs responsible f Boehling 2, Francis 2 1:66 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUR Won, Lost, Pet. Salt Lake City ....... #0 Vernon a Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Oakland Sacramento . AT LOS ANGELES— s Angeles fe Salt Lake City : ’ Batteries: Crandall and Lapan; Brom. ley and Byler (12 Innings). Wieeee ess GON WE hand Agnew; Prough and Cook, Portiand-Vernon account of me postponed on AMERICAN LEAGUE Won, Lont a) Washington ‘ + ot see aT Philadelphia ..... ny 3 New York 6, Chicago 6 (12 innings). St. Louis 6, Boston 6 Washington 3 Detroit & Cleveland 16, Philadelphia & NATIONAL LEAGUE Rrooktyn “incinnat) that takes you where you want to go when you want to go—a time and money-saver. deliveries of Immediate a. Indian Scout and Power famous race winner, EASY TERMS OF PAYMENT 1116-1118 Pike Street okiyn 6 York’ 6-0, fame 17 innings 69 account of darkn' Pittsburg § Bosto: Philadelphia 3, § New 4-0 (first alled in feu | 1. Louls & s ne Trere’s how the hits bunched op th —AND DAYTON BICYCLES first Anning for the tribe Friday; Middie- : @ ey 839 SF Fyeeas SESHEs. a6 f& Sy gen

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