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733mymzrw IK i iiininnn pfSl WW jpTS Ei ta ri rtl SX XA iS 2 ft i wn SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21 1D10 Farren Jackon For Friday Night Oaks Look Good to Skipper Del Howard nn CnOOIIFIl FOR ll IMUTT AND JEFF Yes Mutts Lucky What JfHe Was in Jeffs Shoes By Bud Fisher Jl it A MEN FIGHT riii ft Gotham Boy Has Good Right That He Whips Over Fast in the Gym COFFEY MAY BOX FULTON Parente Has Second Heavy weight Go in Line After Meehanand Langford By HARRY SMITH 11X113 jarKson Gothams latest aspirant for medals and fistic honors on the Pacific Coast the lad who Is to box Frankle Farren tomorrow night a Dreamland tf lnlst closed his week of grind eterday There nlll be roadwork this morning but so far as boxing Is concerned anything that might calculate to bruise him up or damage his hands the Usltor is finished The Easterner Is a good looking hoy where the gymnasium workouts are concerned but Its hard telling whether he can carry his gym performance along to the fight arena If nh does he ought to give Karren considerable of an argument He Is fast sets around well on his feet and his best punch seems to be a right It travels with a lot of peed and they do sav It carries a ting Sixteen boys knocked out In eighteen weeks is a good showing even though some of those sixteen may have been soft spots Jackson It Strong For Body Punches Jackson apparently likes body punches for he hooks to the stomach with left and right more often than he whales away to th head At least Ji did as much yesterday In his two rounds of milling against Muff Bronco Since Farren trans In the same gymnasium only at a later hour the Hies have had a great chance to watch the stranger In our midst And Dolph Thomas thinks Farren Is a cinch If Frankle win fight up to his tandard he said I look to ie him beat Jackson Jackson Isnt going to tick Ms left Irt Tarrens face and the New Yorker will nave a lot of trouble getting away frpm Frankle right Jackson Insisted on his western opponents making Wright so both Farreh and his opponent will get on the scales tomorrow night just before it time for tbo fight They are to tnaka 133 pounds and neither anticipates any rouble The New Yorker whose fighting name Is Jackson Is in private life Oscar Tobln He Is a Jewish boy from th same section as Leonard and immensely popular In his own part of th country Parente Figures on Other Heavy weight Bout Louis Parente Is looking far ahead of the Meehan Langford bout with wblcli i he is to open the Coliseum xt Tuesday night Billy Olbson Interested himself In getting Jim Coffey the Dublin giant to agree to come to San Francisco and Parente announced yesterday that he had virtually closed for Coffey to box Trod Fulton at the Coliseum Tuesday night March 1L Coffey during his stay In San Fran Cisco will be handled by Jim Grlffln Nor does Parents want to stop with that He plans ort the winner of Keshan and Langford fighting the winner of Fulton and Coffey That doesnt look a strong match to me If Coffey could win from Fulton it would be all right But If Fulton kicks right back with another victory whats the use of sucking him gainst either Meehan or Langford wmnfer Frd trnced Sailor Willie mice and won decisively from Boston Sam So there you are on that score Coliseum Arena Will Seat 10000 People The new Coliseum fight arena Is rolng to be a thing of beauty and a Joy forever There are no obatruc tlons such as pillars or posts to shut Kjff the flew and even the galleryltes rlll be right on top of the play a iu viigura a signtsee ng ftv In hi rn jvicaj ana one isnt blame Louis for being proud of It Bleachers have been built around iiu mere win oe plenty of floor space as well for and the like rney ao say that the building rs costing the promoters 9000 to put in i snap mere are szoo bleacher sests and accommodations for 4800 on the i Boor below Lawlor Blame Gibson For Giving Out Terms Frank Lawlor was Up on his ear because Hlllv mhuftn travm it 1 details of the 120 Olio nfri man iA hlm for a Leonard RIUhle fight Lawlor claims there was an understanding Gibson wouldn tall lust jf what he was offered and the San vranciaco matchmaker shot a hot wlr to Billy In the southland asking rnim to explain the leak WANTA CI6A1 I SI Soft A tMTeR6H I PHMSW FOB THE A Jf VT JM MTV 1 THCM rU TAalt UU MlKf THAT Sq YWV6 OttCf 31 FAMAIAR WITH lY THe UiHV H6W1 BUA ClSAw quiT6 3 yy Cf THoV C16AV At irtuK cwTNtM ni I bll tuT mutt fjfea ANt I TTav BOSr IfwSssss jftsMssssCAl or ft I a al ly 0 Trf Copyright 11 by Fisher Trad Mark Reg Fat Off Another Jinx Is On the Trail of Promoter Haller CAM HALLER oho hat been figuring a long time on taking a flock of vrutlert to the Orient believes every jinx in the country a right at his back At first there tas the mar to contend vith and the difficult of secw ing passports for the mestlers man of vhoi including Ad SantelU are not full citizens of the United States But the latest is a clipping from the China Free Press in which the assertion is made that 10000000 Japanese out of a population of 70000 000 have been frfcJrn ttilA influenza That settiu it for the present said Sam Tm going to drop the proposition until April and then maybe I can get a fresh start Aint1 It a Grand and Glorious Feeliri ByBRIGGS St Ignatius Trims The Stanford Five St Ignatius basketers pulled a surprise on the Stanford five last night at St Ignatius court and by a 33 to 37 Victory put the Cardinal out of the running for the California Nevada 1abmia ehamclonshlo It was ore ef the fastest games played this season and the teamwork oi me at i natlans with their speed gae them the advantage St Ignatius was leading In the first half 22 to The Cardinals came with a rush at the close but couldnt even up This gives Su Ignatius a tie fn fire place with California The line ups Unfnnl Pploai Moaltoa Ittsbt Cans hfr WIlMsun Wily WlUUmron anil wn iifil St Iirmtlo lAvttrwtmt Molkenlrorli Croolo WIHIsmiKiii ml Msrwrt Young War Veteran To Play With Sacs Frank Sharkey Corrlgan years old a local boy who Is a real veteran of the big war because he took part in five big battles Is to get a tryout with the Sacramento team as an In fielder He Is one of the pupils of spike Hennessy the demon scout who turned out Oscar Vltt Sammy Bohne Willie Kamra and others Corrlgan went through the battles of Chateau Thierry Solssons St Mi lilel Champagne and the Argonne without a scratch but two days after the armistice was signed he sprained his ankle and was sent home while his outfit went to Coblenz Germany Spike the demon scout aj Sharkey will make good He will compete with Eddie Benn and Eddie Shanahan two other local boys for a job In the Sacramento Infield Caesar Attell Wins Over Rufe Marshall At the Association Club last night Rufe Marshall a brunette quit before Caesar Attell could and now Caesar has a winning atreak Rufe said he had enough after three rounds In the other bouts 8plder Webb end Willie Robinson boxed a draw Jim Barry and Battling Ravage boxed a draw Jack Regan stopprd Jack Mo Loughnn In the firn round Jack Iteaves got the decision from Hddle Lewis John Cllne stopped Roily Whitney In the first and Willie Nolan stopped Jake Cline In the first round Los Angeles Club Gets Paddy Driscoll The Chicago Cubs have turned over to the Los Angeles club Paddy Driscoll tha football star who helnd rf Now thats not going to help LawnTeat the Marines at Pasadena last New Years day and Morris Schick an outfielder Driscoll gave up his amateur standing In football to sign with tha Cubs more than a year ago but he enlisted in the Navy when the United States entered the war He Is regarded as a good Inflelder and thfe Los Angeles club will try him at shortstop lor land the lightweight champion snip niui Vo bottom has dropped out of i Leooard Wtclile talk and all because III tc hie says lie will do no fighting until aften his New York trip whicn Tfll consume the month of March AFTcr Youve BfliBN BAWLED BY An OFFlCTSR FOR HAVING YOUR HANDS to YUm PoClttTi FlNrNUY ONE EAT too KeCCtvt YocMk ZlCHA4Ka AND BY AHOTMROIrtCBR FbR AALUTtN yTM aOAAeTTff IN YOW MOUTH AND Trie NHXT AY Vou DOM ClVILUAW CC0TMC4 AND YbO SUB ANOtflC0L AT PftO ACsVjNG WWM LJIHHHA aac msm AND BY STILL AHOTMH FOR HAVIN4 TUB OVfftt COAT OyiSUJClPt AND fbU CAM DO TUlS Oh boy ant it a 3R RRAND AMD 2LOftVRtOU3 LWj Watts Is Elected Captain Stanford Varsity Crew CTANFORDUNIVER SITY February 26 Frank Walts a star crew man was elected captain of the varsity crew hereyesterday Walts will fill the place left by Let Rop ers who was appointed captain in 1916 Prominent in football at well at in crew Watts should put out a winning team He it a member of the Thela Xi fra temity and the Scull and Snalrtt Honor Society GOLF CHaIUIPION GREETING OLD WIS HERE AWmswFwr JaLsaWJag aMMHaWJ jgm By fast play and some cloae con tests the rapid Are handicap tourna ment at Wrights last evening soon settled down to a contest between Stows and Jack Garrison for first and second places Garrison who had dlaposed of all opposition thus far In easy fashion seemed to falter In the early stage of the final game ana allowed hla opponent to pick up a five point lead lie failed to bold It However as Garrison by the same consistent work which had landed him Into the finals plugged along overcoming the lead and passing In front at the ten mark from where he was never passed and winning the game and first place In the tournament by the score of IS to 13 iff tt Playing exceptionally good three cushion billiards Ed Johnson defeated Will Ellis at Orenevs yesterday afternoon IS to 13 Johnson made runs of four and five Red Oldham May Pitch Against Seals oo ox two 00 Del Howard Likes Oaklands Prospects 8m By ED HUGHES IETJTBNA JOHN OLDHAM the Fearless Fisherman who used to do some fancy south pawlng for the Seals two years ago Is now In Cos Angeles and Playing a little base bait to keep his left flipper In condition Red has a chance to go back to Detroit Leverens does not car where he plays so long as It Is on the Coast and the fans all know that he Is a winning pitcher Our pitchers will get some help this year for our club will bat In some runs Our filngers were handicapped last year for any time one of them got a couple of runs behind he was lost for that Infield of ours could not hit 100 The league Is going to be muoh faster this year than last and the Oakland Club will be able to hold Its own or I miss my guess With strong clubs In San Fran Cisco and Oakland the game should Uoyntat IMS jgQWLI PWtINC Sea Jm will nest tts IlllsoU Fwtfls ea ftsturflay at SO eeleek Pale Alto will aieet tbe II Capltans ea Susdsy afuraooa Tlw nm will be rellsd oa tts Baa maelsee AllFTS Tb seme bstwtes the Crass sad Stocktoa malted la On vtatary by IIS fins Clus Sabortwa Illinois Pacule won two lamse from the Outlaws Scores CKAB8 XTOl Hrry 1M 711 Sli essel ISt 111 1M AIMS 1SS 14S 323 Plf 1M IKS toil Rotors SIS 1M ze Totals MT S7S 9 ILLINOIS PACiriC KajlorlM 171 ITT chiiss its im ie wims 150 lei iim KtrlorlTS IM 117 Dreytr 1SS 172 147 Totals S4S SM 70X ACADEMYS NO 1 Cocbrta 213 1KB lTSI SIT 22 311 200 222 ITS Altcn Scbmltt Totals Chevrolet 830 fiat lies STOCKTON MM McMsrrey 174 SIS 1S Pttersea 213 ITS Arloto I40 1T 117 Xllswortb 1M 0O 1T4 afcBacber 1S1 lftS ITS TeUli TO 041 900 OUTLAWS Bles SOS 115 127 Aotrtt 163 1411M EittsUie li isi rrsneli 147 lal IM Clotbltr 1T1 ISO 150 Totsis wmi ACiDBMYS NO a Meeker 207 212 1S4 Awantrm ITT 1ST 17S Hayes 182 122 164 and mtv talc It Iliniirh taiiM much rather play ball out here If he I boom around this neck of the woods ian arm IhM aam vmahav rv wa4m triizss wnu uuuu is on Iftii rsm ii pn if rr cwFknown uog mi ancier Is Dead VA vIfenry it Carlton prominently joeniinea with ui Kennel interests of the Taclflu Coast over a period extending from 1890 until the present iea in ueraeiey issi weeK He was an exhibitor breeder and ijt importer rexr ierriersi cocner span Iels and Daston LsrrUrs In 1SS7 SWben the San Francisco Kennel Club jTcaa organisea and naa at its neaa rlha lata ltennr Crocker tha club pMlocled Cur II on as Its secretary and in isvs ne was in snow managsriie tta4ryed In therapolty mm nejp of the advisory bord of the Amrtcao Kennel Club fop the Jslf i ost A i 4 Long Distance Runner Dies at Sanatorium Spurlil rMKKWb to The Chroolcl COLFAX February 2 Arthur Hyde once holder of the seven mile running champlonshrporEngIand died In a sanatorium here where he had been under treatmenCfor aeveral weeks In 10 he won the Marathon championship of Alaska in a notable contest at Fairbanks The distance Lwsstwenty sjxjnlleand his time waa i nours tt mmuis ana i seconds He was awarded a purse ei HOOD and a diamond medal for the fiuL Hyde is survived bxMvldoW San Dieeo Polo Starts MarchWi SAN DIEJOO February 2 The annual polo tournament of the Coio nado Country Club whlcllVss usually begun March 1 will not be started this year until about March 13 It was announced today The postponement of the opening Is occasioned by a desire to have Hugh Drurys Del Monte team engage in the competition These four will be unable to play at Coronado until the later date Meantime the Coronado Country Club and the Visitors teams will play each Sunday and practloe games will be held twice a week It was also announced that the Coronado team will return Del MOntes compliment and go north in April for games at Del Monte Line Up Announced For Benefit Ball Game The line up for the Tony Maryler beneflfgame nextSunday at Recreation Park is as follows North Reach FrdrslB rtmotml i pmernrv Fmfottl Poltl ltP wltlon Kvlly Sb nrwi ii it Jttntrmi nheF iimmmr lb lb i KdTl4 TrrrjTr 2b 7Tfi ire ol i i joimo nmiia ii mr Hll orjarrnsh rf 4HsssS KfttuiSryA rf rtfjLuuiey Walt McCredle would like to land Oldham along with some other Detroit players and It may turn out that Oldham and Baker will be the battery for Portland In the opening game Just as they were for the Seals on opening day In lit Oldham made good In the Army for ron a commission In a machine company and his experience there steadied him so that he should be more valuable as a ball player than ever Oaklands Prosoects Good n1 UJ j7 i uvnuu When the algned contracts of Billy Lane fly chaser Harry Krausa pitcher and Carl Holllng utility man reached the office of the Oakland Club yesterday Del Howard the manager remarked We have a better chance to give Oakland a real ball club this ysar than at any time since I have been connected with it It looks to be as if baseball is In for a revival and so we can afford to spend some money We need two pitchers who can deliver and second baseman who can keep step with Rod Murphy and BUI Slumpf and then we will be ready to go We have been fooling with youngsters for some time but this year we must bavs men who can deliver right from the jump If they cant they will have to make room for others May Trade Bill Prough For Lefty Leverenz I think the trade of Bill Prough for Lefty Leverens will go through and It looks like an eren waprtThey are both nigr laas box men Bill feels Jhat he has been at OakJnad too long and that a change of clubs will do bins good Perhaps It wtlL ijrV ijr ffW 12 jsr His Way to Coast Rowdy Elliott and Bill Klllefer called on Manager Mitchell of the Chicago Cubs the other day and said they were ready for work Rowdy had Just been discharged from the Navy and Bill had been released from the Army Rowdy beat 1 for the Coast at once and said he would be In shape by the time the Cubs reported at Pasadena for spring training While he Is tiltlnr fr iiia oa the case of Catcher Cady Manager Graham la also dickering with the Cubs for Elliott It may be that the Cubs cannot get waivers on him In which case there will be no deal with the Seals But If they can get him out It Is quite likely that Rowdy will wear a local uniform this year If he cant stay In the majors It would suit him all right to play here Seattle Is Picking Up Some Good Men Manager BUI Clymer snared a couple of good hustling fly chasers when he grabbed Joe Wllholt and Jim Walih Wllholt la the tong Ieggari guy who used to play with Los Angeles He runs like a hurdler but he can cover the ground like a thirsty camel headed for an oasis He Is a left handed hitter and a good one Walsh Js a right handed hltter and Is a hustler of the Oeorge Malsel type He hss had a lot of big league experience Kavanaugh was also signed as an outfielder but now that Wllholt and Walsh have been added to the club he wnirnKeiy TJe useiT ttflrst base where he has had a lot of experience Bill Cunningham and a boy named Wilson who have played in the Northwestern League wlir likely flgbt It Alaska Dog Race Not Likely to Be Run This Year M0A Alaska February 26 Alaskas dog racing clastic the all Alaska tweep stakes probably will not be run this year despite recent talk it might be held The race in the past paid thousands of dollars to the winners and was the occasion of many more thousands being bet on dog teams and their drivers The border cup race a shorter race but still holding many thrills and testing to the utmost the strength and endurance of both dogs and drivers in tub zero weather has been set for March 29 Totals 579 371 4M l2SOtmmilais lS22OrsbslSSS SINGLES WMtoa Sea rraacUeez21 20S KW 4 Mickey Sis FtsiwImo Bender Sis rraoctKO Coatrllo Ssa msclHO llrfr Ulller Detroit Sells 7 Men to Portland 238 173 222 S1 2M 1S1 204 eso 134 200 207 Wl ISO 1S 205580 Heinle Schmidt Just Released From War Work Will Strengthen Waverley Club By HAY CHAPMAN EINIE SCHMIDT Western amateur champion In UK has been greeting his many old friends of the links this week In San Franclsoo and Oakland Engaged In war work for a year and a half he had no opportunity to play but the two matches he played tile Wnelr fet hts 1A club Clareraont proved that his aklll had not left him He returns to Portland on Saturday and will be a Welcome addition to the strength Pt the Waverley Country Club 1 TOM BENDELOW the golf archl tact who has been laying out a new couras for La Cumbre Country Club at Santa Barbara has been Quoted as regarding San Frandsoas municipal links as a Joke because la nw opinion the greens should he WT th frap re ni1 vce versa Th joke appears to be on Bends low since there are no traps at Lincoln Park John McLaren the City Superintendent of Parka has a rs llglc us objection against disturbing a single foot of natural turf and there are no artificial traps cr bunkers on the municipal links the golfers depending on natural hasards SEATTLE Is to have yet another links The RalnUv finlf try Club has been organised and has secured 110 acres of land Just outside the oty limits on the Dos Moines road where an elghteen hole course Is to be laid out at once to be ready for play by the summer of 1220 club Urt capital of 160000 and Jias a strong list of charter members THE gaps left by tlje war In the ranks of British golfers are grlev out More than a hundred of the scratch and plus players wers killed In action Including three out of the eight who reached the sixth round of the last British amateur championship in 114 Captain John Graham Captain Norman Hunter and Sergeant A Phillips GOLF has taken such a hold among the faculty and student of the Sacramento High School that a club Is being organised Enthusiasm has been aroused by the froe lessons given on the public links by Albert Goldsmith the high schools physical dlreotor Soccer Referees Warned to Report Any Rough Play Soccer football referees were censured at a recent meeting of the California Football Assoc1atl6n for not reporting rough play and fighting on the field Secretary Wllllanr Campbell was Instructed to notify all referees that they must keep better control of the games 11 Gaulter a vice president of the Barbarian Club waa elected to the executive board in place of Ji Olbson resigned Permission was granted the league to play off the flve a slde tournament for the Williamson trophy on March 23 Next Sunday at 12 SO the Celtics will play a postponed league game with the Union Iron Works At 230 Oft 0 Craig Wallace will be the out for the third Job In the outfield Th Seattle club will train either at Stockton or Mirysvlll according to reports from the Xorlh Seal Pitchers Start For Camp Next Monday A squad of Seal pitchers will start for San Jose at i oclock next Monday morning In the party will be Spldr Banm Irve Kantlehner Casey Smith HaI Dlmock Del Crespl Gibson Hu deck and Rufus Fait In addition there will be Willie Kamm lnfllder and Jerry Coleman xnd Anfljison joung catchers The rest of the squad will report March I and that will give them a full month In which to get In snaps Tom Beaton has not yet signed He snvs he is making 1400 per month In rieattle and If he Is gsttlng 14100 per Mar he will not play ball In the Coast League for none of the clubs can go thst high Ilarl Maggert th veteran outfielder wrote Charley Graham that he was doing welt In his business at Oaklandandwas going to retire He has had a long and honorable career He will be carried on tha suspended list along with Duke Sehaller another high cuss performer who quit when he was still good i i TElntEnWHIP WELLMa NIWARK JJ rtbrusry Uw Tesd ler of rll1lpbft astfsufkt Jo Wellies ei PhlnaWM III If ah Mnm4 tMMtf th 1 slmtlit Armory hers tonlfbt 4ols us better weri sts rouaaa DTiTiTT ANt Fbruarv 21 Receipt th CUP between the Barbarians PORTLAND February a Jland the Moores will be started The of a telegram today from the Detroit wj uM plactically the same American League club to team as against th Unions in last thafeven players had been sold to Sundays league game The Bar the Portland team caused Manager oarlan team has not as yet been ae waiter jacureai 10 annoum lected he now had enough players to place referee an experienced team In the field with the exception of a third baseman The seven players sold to Portland Include besides Outfielder Frank Walker and Catcher Delmar Baker already announced Outfielder George Malsel formerly with San Francisco Pitcher Jones last year with Detroit Catcher and First Baseman Koehler with the Richmond International League team last ysar First Baseman and Outfielder Blue with St Ptul last year Second Baseman Frank Fuller last year In the Army and before that wltii Newark Sampson Golf Pro At Del Monte NoM DEL MONTE February It Harold Sampson one of the youngest golf professionals In the business but one of the most successful Just the same Is back at his old stand at Del Monte Ihe job of 4pro ing for th new Del Monte No 2 course at Pebble Beach has been allotted the California boy Unlike most kinds Sampson neglected baseball football and the like when he was a youngster and consumed his time with SO If As an Oakland school kid he was around the Claremont links In every spar moment with eyes and ears wide open As a rasult star players took an Interest In the lad and encouraged him Boy Tennis Star Gets Into Finals Great Britain Puts In Tennis Challenge LONDON February Great Britain has issued a challenge fo the Davis lawn tennis cup It was announced today Tha Davis International tennis challenge cup donated by Dwight Davie now held by Australia players from that country having won the troply at New York in July ltl The American team which was defeated by th Australians gained possession of the cup by a win ocr the English team at Wimbledon In July 11J In the event that Great Britains challenge Is accepted the match will the first great International meet since the beginning of the world war i ilBASKETBALL Wallace Johnson Philadelphia 7 6 Richards7 will meet the winner of th William Tllden Fred Alexander match to be played Friday The Vampires mads It seventeen straight last evening when they defeated the regimental team of th 44th Infantry on the Presidio A cburt by a score SO is ZZ The winners were leajlnrr by the close score of 32 to 18 at half time The line up PoAitlen Ferwird rorwurit real ttmi tl Omrd VsmptiM Killr Vail Wolf Miirpliy PHILADELPHIA February 2 Vincent Richards New Tork national boys champion and coholder of the national doubles till with William Tlldsn Philadelphia entTd Into th final round of th mens singles of th Mlddl Stat Indoor tennis tournamentberetodayAy defeating the unlimited teams of Polyteohnnr 44rb Infantry TnCKtnt Kill I snail Klisrm Mcrxlltb Bef rei Cliff JlcCirtr if Th A unlimlteflbasketers lost to the Llck Wllmerdlng five last evening On their own Court by a scoreof 2 to 24nixonof Ihe winners and MacDonald of the losars showed up well iq Th 8 A win open Its tur nameat tomorrow afternoon when iuit and Cogswell clash Th gam will take plaee on the A oosn at Both teams ar pretty evenly matched and a good gam Is xnctsd flu i.

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