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FOURNIER LIKES “CARDINAL | _ CHANCES BY LBO HK. LASSEN ACK FOURNTER is picking the St Louis Cardinals to finish one-two three in the Na- tional league this year The dig fellow, who has been wintering in Ta coma, leaves for Cardinal camp at Oranges, Texas Tuesday, He ts slated to hold jown the first base Job for the Cards again. He made & good job of it Year, returning to the big time ter spending a couple of seasons h Los Angeles in the Coast league. it over .200 for the St. Louis Honals in 1920. “Our infield will hit over .300,” says Sack, “and wo have a mighty sweet ioe sec! in Smaith, Heathcote, Mann and McHenry. “The biggest faurt last year was ‘eur lack of pitchers,” : » “and if we land a hurler or two the boys can keep up their fight. | spirit, we'll be right up there all way. ‘The cards have a strong hitting with Fournier at first, Hornsby aecond, Lavan at short and Stock third, averaging over 300 with the . The regular outfiekters will hit around the magtc mark. The led the Nationa! league in hit- last year with an average over "The heat in St. Louis is dyna declares Four: | From Sandlot to. Big League That’s Jump Made by G. Uhle ite,” adds the big first sacker, “but figure to cop this year if we ever ‘im spite of this handicap.” OSTS JACOBS Fournier is a booster for Elmer the big righthanded pitcher due to come to the Siwashes St Louls club. is an experienced hurler ‘When Jack was asked tn a fanning the other night whether or not LINCOLN HOOP CHANCES JOLTED Dasketball title were given a big jolt | !e*' Thursday when the North End prep|"®® ™4"* cagers were vaccinated to guani against smallpox, This means that the Lincolm gamea for the next two weeks will have to be postponed. They will be made up later in the season, if ppesibie, according to Ath- letic Director Pelton. The Northendera, now tied for first place honors with Queen Anne, have their remaining four games billed for a floors. Charies Harter, Ohio at “agp ot ‘They will be forced) , Coricen: festsall player, "to. osrioesty agers, Whitmen men, were with injaries im over Montana. |. ie the only fret wotng to go hard fe the baseball gumsiers in Minnessta recently Mmiroduced bill Ie passed ubiemetion law, the Mm make tt felony to accept bribes on the outcome of the game by subscriptions which will give the subscriber right te certain seats fer 18 years. Fournier says the St. Louls club is “@epending a lot upon Bill Pertica, the Los Angeles heaver, but that he considers Pertica questionable with- out his spitball. Pertica, being a new “man to come into the National league, won't be allowed to throw the Wet delivery. If Pertica could use the spitter Jack is sure tha; he would make good. ROSE COMES ‘TO BAT to take a two weeks’ Inyoff and will/ comaidering entering professional base then have to make a flock of games| ball. Harley has had offers from « pune up in « few weeks. It's tough sled-| Der of major league and Clase AA teams ding. = Two games were booked for today|,,™rciiemant rane Dian tn in the prep league, Broadway play. | scotland bea ing Franklin at Broadway in the fea-| fwarmed ove ture mix. Neither team has a chance bgglinndle “Aa to the title, but they’re such strong =o S* STANFOR at Queen Anne with West Seattle VS. DODGERS TONIGHT furnishing the opposition to the hill team. COAST CAGE STANDING Won. Lont Rtantord peso . i field re bee 1a ooo Weshingten - Salt picks Farrell-King “ = , battle. Stanford univernity’s Verdict was a draw. Four Rounds of toe-to-toe powerful University of Washington tossers at . the “W" gym tonight in the first slugging. tussle of a two-game series. The BY DAN SALT Stanford team is leading the Coast The greatest fight | ever saw WS! conference race with six atraight| the four-round slugging bee staged! wing while Washington has won four by Marty Farrell, New York middle | and jost four. The same teams play weight, and Mickey is, the AUS! again tomorrow night tralian werewolf, at the Arena aad This will be the third time these 21, 1918. earn hh met this season, the About four months befpre they | be ’ were signed up to fight in Se ttle | gp » Sun Dodgers when the Washing * | TIFFS FOR | basketball five will tangle with the! ardinals taking two straight from | GEORGE UHLE IS DUE TO DELIVER CLEVELAND, Feb. 18. George Unie is due for a te y He's ripe to win & regular place on the world champion Indians’ hurling staff, For two years he's been used most 4 relief pitcher. teh my amoke, “Wateh Uhle Dunn, his bows. Uhle ccouples a place in baseball unparalleled. He's the brightest testimonial the sandiot game has at present, SOME SPRED Jumping from the Cleveland sand lots to big league baseball at one stride is hin speed. Unie gives the National Baseball Federation — recognized governing sandiot body of the United States— chief credit, “The sandlot body is making more big leaguers every year,” says Uhie. “Men at the head of it have kept It clean and they give players some thing to shoot at “I found the step up to the Indians from the sandiota pretty bie 1 takes more than an arm and a lot of mmoke to get by with the big fellows. “I used to throw a knuckle ball} succemsfully on the sandiots. When I broke in with the Indians I cut it out. It's herd to cover up. If you telegraph your ball, the big leaguers wat it. “Never fooled with the spitter, iad of It now, ANOTHER REASON “Another reason why I think It have a big year ia that I'm married.” Uhie pitched the Standard Parts team, of Cleveland, to the world sand. lot champnonship practically single handed in 1914. The Indians picked him oft next year, ‘The sandiot organtzation which de veloped Uhle ts graduating more Players direct to the big circults ew ery year, Tt was organized tn 1915. The firet/ year it drew 115,000 people to one! championship game—the biggest crowd that ever gathered at « ringle| Athletic contest in the United States, | ‘There are over 100,000 youngsters Hated in the associations affiliated | with the N. B. FP. Pitcher ar, * says Unie. travel,” gays Jim the SCORING TRIO WINS CHAMPIONS, A powerful scoring trio has kept MacDougall-Southwick cham- | plona at the head of the city basket | ball league standing #0 far this sea son. The champlons have won eight | straight games, which makes 32 straight for the past two years. The trio who are doing most to keop the MacDougall slate clear are |Jack Davidson, Dick Frayn and Ralph Smith. Davidson plays part) | of the time at guard and part of the| | time at forward. He haan't been do- ing the feoring that he did last year, }but he has the uncanny knack of trepping the ball thru the hoop at j the crucial momenta. Frayn and Smith are playing bang: up ball at forwards, particularly Smith, whone work has been the shin-| ing light of the seasca, | woops NoT | i; STRONG | Walter Woods, at center, shows) | the information that | Reds until they return from their SAN FRANCISOO, Feb. 18.—“Bv. erything gone, Zbyszko had lunch here, Come tomorrow.” This in the notice San Francisco restaurants have in readiness In case Stanisiaus Zbyeeko, Polish wrestler with a thousand titles, comes to dine. For the famous wrestler, scholar, staterman, real estate baron, lin sulst, friend of international states men, and champion allaround eater, was hungry when he reached the Golden Gate, After he had finished & light repast, the walter volunteered “that man ean drink more milk in one day that ts supplied at a foundiing home in a month, and he can knock five tea- bone steaks cuckoo without batting an eye. Here in the every-day menu of the man who helped Paderewnki organize the Polish republte: MARTIN VS. BREAKFAST Three Bix soft-bolled cogs. Double order of bacon and ue. Two of milk, LUNCHEON Two heads of celery, Onehall salmon. Double portion of porterhouse steak (enough for four persons). One can of asparagus tips, ‘Two dishes of preserved fign, Two orders of rice pudding, Two quarts of milk, All this in addition to several loaves of bread and « proportionate amount of butter, But then it must be re membered that Zibby has 224 pounds to feed, and he likes to spread it all over, Andyet they may he has taken off 40 pounds since he arrived back in this country. BRENNAN IN GOTHAM TONIGHT BY HENRY L. FARRELL NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—-Young Bob Martin of West Virginia got the habit of “knocking ‘em over” when he met up with the Germans a couple of years ago. Flo's been knocking em over ever since. Martin has been in 89 battles and he has won 78 of them by knock- outa. Bob stuck to the trade he learned LEWIS THROWS PESEK KANBAS CITY, Mo, Feb, 18— Champion Ed Lewis applied his deadly headiock to John Pesek last night an dwon bin mateh tn straight falls, Penek was unconscious five inutes after Lawia rolled the rechean over on his back. YOST WOULD CHANGE RULES CHICAGO, Feb, 18—(United Preen.)—Fielding H. Yort, University | of Michigan football mentor, today | said he would urge the football rules committees which will meet in New | York next month, to declare a fumble’ ball dead the moment it has been retrieved by either eleven. Yout stated that a majority of the | games have been lost or won thru fumbles, RIXEY COACHES TWIRLERS WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Feb. 1h} Pitcher Eppa Rixey of the Cincinnat! | Reds, has been engaged to coach the | pitchera of William and Mary col | legs here and if Manager Moran will | consent he will do his training with |the college team and not join the training camp in Texas in Texas. BRITTON VS. WILSON? NEW YORK, Feb. 18—Jack Brit-) ton, welterweight champion, hes round bout in Milwaukee next month, by Promoter Frank Multkern. Dan po Britton’s TO MIX NEW Fer, 18, — Bill Spengter, the New York YORK, meet Captain B. V. Chandler, charn- pion of the Britiah army, aa the f ture of the entertainment to be given |by the International Sporting club | at the Commodore hotel, March 1, lon of the form that stamped him an the best center of The Star league | last year, but he will have to show some wonderful improvement tn jorder to hold down the AILCity cen- | ter berth this season. ‘The MacDougall guards have been | shifted constantly all seas They jlost their 1920 guards when Grover Kertia and George Overton jumped |to the Northern Life team. Then Harold Botts, who played regularly during the opening weeks of the present season, left for San Fran cisco, as did Emil Gustafson, an other 1921 regular. At the present time Charley Rogers and Davidson are taking care of the defensive work | The MacDougall team faces one of | its hardest gumes of the season to- morrow night when they battle the Eckmann Furniture Co, five at the YM GAA A win for the Mac Dougall team will give them a clean alate for the round of the teams | BECKMANN TEAM COMES STRONG | The Eckmann team has been com ing strongly and number a flock of etare on their roster, They have lost MORGAN JONES TO BOX BRITT Morgan Jones and Frankie Britt, | Tacoma featherweights, will headline the next Tacoma smoker, which ta set for February 24. It will be etx, rounds as usual. Jimmy Storey, Seattle middle weight, boxes Johnny Boscovitch of Portiand in the six-round semi- windup. ‘The most for your money, the beat for your mouth, the fest for ‘your health, is the guar- antes given by The Kavanagh been offered $12,500 to meet Johnny | ‘Wilson, middleweight king, tn @ 10-) | AMATEUR PUGS | tn the army when he got back to private Iife and for two years ho’ been knocking ‘em over tn the sticks. Under clever management he walk- ed up the backs of setups and trial horses anti! he is now ready for the big bid. Knowing he was @ “good card,” | Tex Rickard had been after Martin for months to get hitn into Madison Square Garden. Bob's Manager had never shown a tendency to send his boy against anything hard, so when Rickard finally got to talking busi- ness with them he asked them who they wanted. Martin nearty knocked the pro moter off the chair when he asked for one of the toughest men in the heavyweight class—DU) Brennan, They are meeting tonight for 15 rounds. Brennan is a five to three favorite in the betting. If Martin beats Brennan he wil! be entitied to a match with Dempsey, nd that's what he wants. apr @ it ‘Tearean, former New York Chant pite! star, will coach the Dartmoath team ngain this spring. ‘This is his third season es baseball mentor of the Green. Tommy Murray, former boxer, has been to train the Boston Hed fox. ria, for ome ous moving 9! . former Cleveland eague this cum- The %& Loule Corde have signed 0 wonder hurler, tt seems, RL viere, 19-7 mt. He pitched four no-bit games for Ray City toam in & Texas mdepend- league last summer, National | hon len released to the! ‘partan tase: Bil = MeKechnte, GIANTS FEAR REDS AND PIRATES NEW YORK, Feb. 18—*"The Giants have only the Reds and the Pirates to fear in the 1921 race,” Charles Stoneham, president of the New York Nationals, said here today. “We are the only club that has im- Proved all around over last year,” he said, “The Reds have lost slightly in batting strength, are no better in pitching and weaker on the defense. The Pirates are strong in pitching, catching and defense, but weaker in hitting. Brooklyn is about the same as last year, They were lucky to win and I don’t believe they can repeat. “The Gianta are better in pitching, in catching, stronger on the defense and offfnse, and we have a young hustling club.” HOCKEY — TEAM IS CERTAIN A varsity ioe hockey team will rep resent the University of Washingtos this year in epite of the fact that no | provision has been made in the Ay U. W. budget. This was definitely de rmined recently when the lub guaranteed to back the propo nition and to asmume the responsibil ity of any deficit that might occur if the games should not pay for them selves, r The University of British Cotambia has notified Coach “Jimmy” Arbuthe not that it would be impossible for them to come to Seattle February 19, the date on which they were scheduled to mest the Washiagtom septet in the first encounter of & twogames series, The second one Febe was to take place in Vancouver, ruray 26. This makes it to rearrange dates with the team. \ “Robby” Rowe, of the Seattle Mate ropolitans, who coached the = teams, is not yet ready to known his final varsity squad. ever, a tentative first team has been picked, and it is that several of the men named the temporary squad wil) be able retain their positions on the Following is the way the has been lining up to date: or Zwicky and Gordon ue fe Defense—Jack Mac! ager). L. Defense—Toots Bisset. Rover—Don MacKensie tcoptatt Center—Loule Coupez. L. Wing—Gordon Alien. Every position on the team, ever, in being hotly contested, when the final line-up ts some new names may appear, TOMORROW (Saturday, February 19) Is the Last Day of Our 33 Reduction in Prices on Men’s and Young Men’s SUITS Starting Monday, our new showing of spring models in SUITS will be under way, with all offerings at Spring prices, which are substantially under those of a year heavyweight champion of | police force and a} |member of the Olympic team, will | ago. attractive values we have yet shown. IF, THEREFORE, YOU DESIRE TO TAKE ADVAN- TAGE OF THE UNUSUAL ADJUSTMENT SALE BARGAINS YOU HAVE ONE MORE DAY LEFT IN WHICH TO SAVE IN A LARGE WAY. The One-Third Reduction on Materials, styles and tailoring present the most they were tossed out of the ring In) ton tive made their recent trip to| During said fanning bee Fournier | San Francisco, charged with “stal-| ¢ ‘was doing most of the talking, but/ling” by the referee. But both box-) ‘between breaths Bili Rose, former|ers denied the chirge and were Beattie tosser, who is playing in| anxious to box here to prove it. the Western league, came to bat} Prove it they did, as the Seattle with the announcement that ths| fans who saw the show will testify young fellow named Lindamore that| For four rounds those babies just Los Angeles picked up from Okia-| stood still and soaked each other for na City should make good in the|a tare-thee-well. league .this season. He hit| Just before going into the fing! Poth reams are expected to line up (about .220 in the Western circuit and| Farrell asked mo for his muney—| with their usual formations. They yed @ good game at third base, ac- | Lonnie Austin and I were promoting | fojio ing to Bill, As a dopester Bill is| the show. I told him that he would) ‘hitting his usual .090 galt, as he said | receive his medal after the bout and >» games, falling before the North ern Lite and University Commercial Two other games are gore nd 7 Commercial cis playing the Y. WILL BE CONTINUED FOR A WHILE LONGER. We especially call your attention to odd lots in Over- coats which we are offering at Cardinals, with thetr veteran will be the favorites to win| . but Coach Edmundson ex- pects the " eagers to make a tronger showing this time against the leaders, as the games will be | played on Washington's home floor and the team has had n good rest. 124% cents | for a Cigar When you can Buy the Los A., and the System Sign Co. play. ing the Bile nt } Frata. B. C. PUCK TEAMS tion, Washingt ta : ij that Bruce Hartford would make _good for Seattle at short last year. It ‘remains to be seen how far right he! is about Lindamore. DAILEY THINKS LOCALS PULLED BONER Joe Dalley, the seattle hurler, who Was with Portland the year that Mor. | ris Rath played for the Sait Lake Bees, thinks that the local club pulled | an awful boner in letting Morris Rath sip thru their fingers. Hath, who was turned over to Seattle on the Brenton-Bohne deal, was shipped | to Friseo. Dalley thinks he would| have made a great fielder for the lo- | cals. | BAKER TO PLAY WITH YANKEES NEW YORK, Feb, 1%—rank “Home Run” Baker, who has been retirement for a year, will play third base for the Yankees if he re- turns to the game, according to Man- ager Huggins. | Additional Sport on Page 18 if he wanted to fight all right not all right. He fought. He was peeved because he didn’t get the dough, and he was peeved because he was tossed out of the ring with/ King in Frisco and the scribes there | |had panned him. King wasn’t in any | mood for laughter either. That was the best fight that Mick | King ever put up in these parts and he put up some good ones before he | began to slip. | and if} Richmond California and Oregon will open a two-game series at ene tonight, ‘BOXER IS_ KILLED CLEVELAND, O., Feb, 18.—Patrol. man Walter Glowack!, 24, wna held in jail here today pending investiga. | |tion of the killing here last night of LANDIS AT FLAG FETE NEW YORK, Feb. 18-—Judge K. M. Landis has accepted an invitation | to act as master of ceremonies at the raising of the National League pen- nant in Brooklyn Charles Ebbets, president of the club, announced to day. The date has not been an- nounced, HARLESDEN, Fing., Feb. 18. Ernest Ray has just been appointed |foreman of a department of the Stella Electric Lamp Works. He's only 15, but he will boss 49 men and cites For Good Apple Ple go to Boldt’. rAdvertisement, | known Anthony Nagodny the ring was 36 prize as and @ weiter. firhte in Logan, He weight, Nagodny was shot and killed after @ rough and tumble fight with the officer after an argument in a pool room. Glowacki said he placed the pugilist under arrest and was at tacked SCHANG ASKS FOR RAISE NEW YORK, Feb, 18—Wally fchang, catcher, secured by the Yankees in the rectn deal with the Boston Red Sox, wants a raise in salary from hia new bosses on ae “Cuppy” | Angeles “Royales” For [°C BATTLE TONIGHT | Seattle's hockey team, which has lost throe games in a row, is tak: | ing a much needed rest this week | while Vancouver and Victoria are | battling in the North, | ‘The two British Columbia teams will mix in Victorian tonight and will then shift over to Vancouver to re. new hostilities Monday night. | Victoria is now but two games be.) hind Seattle and a pair of wins over | the Millionaires will jeopardize Seat | tle’s chances of getting the final playoff for tho tite at the end of the season, The teams are slated to line “ “Regal” size for 6c. The “Cigars that make the Nickel worth a Bit.” Sold Everywhere Bolo Importers” WOOLLEY &C0., Inc. 1109 3rd, Seattle tonight as follows: Vancouver. jordale ferickaon’ v+s++ count of the high cost of living in| New York, $19.75 » $26.75 Values up to $45.00 Values up to $65.00 While these groups include one and two of a kind and they have been selling very rapidly, we are adding to them as some of the larger assortments of Overcoats become depleted. SHANER & WOLFF “Clothes That Are Different” 916 Second Avenue, Near Madison Seattle Two Big Stores

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