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THE BUTTE MINER Sporting News Automobile VOL. LI 1 1. NO. 196. BUTTE.

MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1916 "RPSMKD 187P The- Miner's of Ove Sporting Klews of the PATTRAINSINRUSS HALL SAYS thinks ran Schedule of Northwestern League for 1916 page World HE LL IE EARNEST FDR BIG BOUT AT SEATTLE AT VANCOCVER AT SPOKANE AT TACOMA AT BCTTE AT GREAT FALLS May 15, 16. 17. June 12. 13, 14, 15, 16, July 10. 11, 12, 13, 14.

July 17. IS, SEATTLE I rtftlr lunp l- June 5, 6. 7, 8. 9. 10, 11.

17, 18. 15. 16. Aug. 21.

22. 23, 24. 2a, July 5, 6. 7. Aug.

28, 29, 30. 19. 20. Mav IS. 19, 20, 21.

Ma.v 29, 30, 30. 31. April 27. 28, 29, 30; June 1. Mav 1.

2. Julv 17. 18. 19, 20, 21. July 10.

11, 12. 13, 14, Vancouver vs. Butte, 20, 21, 22, 23, May 26, 27, 28. 22, 23. 15, 16.

VANCOIVER Junp 18. lo 24, 25. Julie 5. 6. 7.

11. Aug. 7. 8. 9.

10, 11. 12. Aug. 14. 15, 16, 17, 18, June 26, 27.

2S, July 2. Aug. 31. Sppt. 1, 2, 3, July 31, Aug.

1, 6. 13. 19. 20. July 3.

4. 4. 8. 9. 4.

4. Vancouvpr vs. Butte, Aug. 27. Mav 22.

23, 24, 25, 26, Julv 17. 18. 19, 20, 21, Mav 31, June 1, 2, 3. 4. June 26.

27, 2S. 29, 30, SrOKANE 27. 28. May 3. 4.

5. 6. 6. W' 22, 23. July 3, 4, 4.

5, 6, 7, 8, July 1. 2. Julv 24. 25. 26.

27, 2S. Aug. 28, 29, 30. Miner Aup 21. 22, 23, 24.

25, 9. Aug. 7. $, 9, 10, 11, 12, 29. 30.

26. 27. 13. Mav 8. 9, 10.

11. 12, 13. Mav 29, 30. 30. Mav 15.

16. 17. 18. 19. 14.

Ma.v 22, 23. 24, 21. 25. Julv 10. 11, 12, 13.

14. 20, 21. Ma.v 31, June 1, 2, 3, 4. TACOMA Aug. 7.

8. 9. 10. June 9. 10.

15. 16. Ior June 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, July 3, 4. 4, 5, 6. 7, 8, Aug.

31, Sept. 1. 2, 3. 4. Aug.

2, 3, 4. 5. Aug. 14. 15, 16.

17, IS, July 1, 2. 9. 4. 19. 20.

April 27. 2S, 29. 30. June 12. 13, 14, 15.

16, May 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Mav 1. 2. 3, 4. 5. 6, 7.

BL'TTE June 19. 20. 21, 22, 23, 17. 14. Julv 24.

25, 26, 27, 28, P.ill May 22. 23. 24. 25. 28, 24, 25.

Aug. 21. 22. 23, 24. 25.

Julv 31. Aug. 1, 2, 3, 29. 30. ruu 27.

28, 29, 30, 30. 26. 4. 5, 6. Mav 1.

2. 3, 4, 5. 6. 7. Ma.v 8.

9. 10. 11. 12, 13, Mav 15. 16, 17, 18.

19, April 27. 28, 29. SO. June 5. 6..

7. 8, 9, 10, GREAT FALLS July 19. 20. 21. 22.

23. 13. 20, 21. June 19. 20, 21, 22, 23, 11.

Rpnnrft July 31, Aug. 1. 2, 3. 4. July 24.

25, 26. 27, 2S. June 12. 13. 14, 15, 16, 24, 25.

Aug. 28. 29, 30. 31, cpun 5. 6.

29. 29. 17. IS. Sept.

1, 2, 3, 4. 4. It will be seen that Butte has all that can be reasonably asked for in tbe way of a schedule. Butte gets the best kind of weather, as a rule, during the months In which the bulk of the home games are scheduled. Butte gets the big Elk week In July, the excellent split of teams that gives the fans a hupch of new faces constantly, and.

in fact, it looks so good for baseball in Butte, as far as the schedule is concerned, that a blind man can see a big future. "Lad-ees and gent'lm'n. hatteries for t'day's game: Samklixz an' KlpxghU. for T'c'ma; for home club, Gtbyuqsa an' riio- The Butte fans will get the first glimpse of the genial aud rotund Mr. Dugdale, if he comes here with Tealey Raymond and the old-time Siwashes.

during a period starting July 10, while tbe auburn-haired Bobby Brown will bring his British forces to Butte, July 17. for an amiable little affair of a week's duratiou. On Aug. 7. along will come Air.

Brown's cohorts again for another session and right on his heels will be the Raymond -Dugdale crowd of lusty cloutcrs Great Falls follows for the balance of tbe home games, winding up the schedule, all of which is very nice, provid until and after the the tweoty-first of May. A week later along will come Nick Williams witi his Spokane tribe, and having disposed of Nick's bunch, we tackle Hurley's Cascadcrs for tbe nest spries. After June 11 there will be nothing doiug at the home lot until June 26. when Hall comes hack to familiar pastures for a series that takes Tacoma and Butte up to July R. wbPn this Williams person again invades our perfectly new baseball splash.

Thus Tacoma will have an Invitation into the Elks" convention, only to lose tbe sweets of it to the aforesaid Nicholas. Nick remains in our midst until July 9. LI Eastern Sportsman Believes Billy McCarney Could Have Groomed Him for Title Bout. "I am sorry that poor Luther Mo-. Carty is not alive today.

I am sure he would be a contender for the world's championship had he not met death in the ring," said Barney Furey, the well-known Cincinnati sporting man, the other night. "Billy McCarney had his- heart set on making a champion out of Luther, and the boy was well qualified to lead the American fighters, but fate was against him, and as a result we are left many good men to compete for the title. I think McCarty showed his class when he went against big Jess Willard in New York and stood all the beating Jess could hand him for 10 rounds. He was an ambitious young fellow and very popular." says the Cincinnati Enquirer. When one really goes over the list of big fellows it is found that class is sadly lacking.

They are priming Dig Carl Morris for another crack at the championship, and if he should win in his fight with Gunboat Smith at Tulsa he will be taken to New York for a couple of bouts to show the eastern sports that he has Improved since his first appearance in the big town. Saya Carl Can Hit. Harry Wuest of this city, who was at one time sparring partner to Morris, says Carl can hit like a mule kicking. Harry also sparred on the road with Willard, and saw Jess make his fight against Joe Fink in Oklahoma when Jess asked to be excused long enough to blow his nose. In a 'fight at Columbus Wuest won the newspaper decision over Frank Moran, although the bout was a no-decision affair.

Con Rilev. who taught Morris how to box. is the man who first trained Kid McCoy. The friends of Wuest rant him to make a come-hack stunt, but he has not yet made up his mind to do so. Harry does not like to kid himself along, but he figures a man must be strone as an or when he faces men like Willard, Morris and Fulton.

Fulton, hy the way. gave the fight game a big surprise by his oulck victory over the old war horse, Jim Flynn. at Milwaukee. This bout gave Fulton a new lease on life, and he hopes to get a fight for the championship. Boosting Lavtnakt.

Danny Morgan contends that Battling Lavinski will be giving them all a tussle when he picks up a little more weight, and Scotty Montieth thinks that Young Weinert will also make good. Western sports have their minds made up as to the best of the big fellows outside of Willard and Moran. and Jack Dillon is the baby they will put their money on. No better fighter could be found than Dillon if it was not that his size was against him. Anyhow, there is a big demand to see Dillon in action against some of the top-notchers in a long UNKNOWN QUANTITY IN BASEBALL THIS YEAR COVJVC MACK Philadelphia.

What kind of a ball team Connie Mack will develop thin season is a question no human but Connie can answer. And Mack is doing little talking these days, except to refer to his promise of last year that he would make the Athletics another powerful pennant winning team. Nobody knows how many unknowns Connie has under cover, but If his Pt constructive performances may be -taken as harbingers, it is safe to pr. diet the will finish a few notches higher than the cellar. With the "masked marvels" listed as an unknown quantity, it would appear that the Athletics arc prepared in all departments except pitching and third bass.

I CHANCE A Has to Build Up Almost New Organization, but His Future Looks Bright at That. (Special Dispatch to the Miner.) Tacoum, April 1. Although Manager Russ Hall has bad to build up his team frotn the bat hoy. the jovial leader of the Tiicoma Tisers asserts that Tacoina is to have cbib in the 1016 pennant race that will prove a ercrllt to the city. Local fans arc mostly from Joplin.

They have all sorts of confidence in Russ. but they want to be showu. Building a ball club from the circumambient ether is all right to the baseball man. He knows what he ii talking about, but the mere fan hasn't the imagination. lie wants- to see the athletes frisking oer the greensward.

His shell-like ear longs for the crack of the bat. the mad rush and the dizzy slide with the frog-like tones of the umpire announcing a decision that brings either joy or rage. These are some of the things the Tacoma man wants to behold before they hock the familv plate to back the Beugals to the Just at present Hall has "i athletes on his contract list, but he Is frank to admit that the training season will bring forth pot a liitle experimenting and there will have to be divers and sundry sbifts before he is thoroughly satisfied with the outlook. Just now. Marse Kuss ts so anxious to get a first-sacker, who can field and also hat that be is willing to go for almost everything but bankruptcy for such a man.

Top outfield looks more or less settled. Pat Moran. not a stranger in the Northwestern league by any means, will be among those present, while Al Dean and Kred Carman, both of the I. I. I.

circuit, will be the other gardeners. There is but one man In the infield who is even fairly sure of his job. He is Bill Laird, who will be the keystone saeker. Third base has two candidates. Colemao aud Hoag being tbp men.

Three men will fight it out for the sbortfield. They are Frank Ilea ley of Los Angeles and Coen and Wilson, Riley is recruit candidate for first base, hut Hall is on the outlook Tor a ypteran. Roberts, catcher for the Pittsburgh Federals last will be the first string receiver with Edwards and Bechant fighting it out for the second striug job. Pitchers? Their name is legion. Just at present Scbroeder.

Coffm.in and Eley are the left-handers with Martin. Chase, Robertson. Koch: Arville. Moreland. Pilford and Fulwilder the regular slingprs.

Hall has still more talent in hiding, but be is going to give this bunch' the once over before he goes further and fares worse. 'I'll he able to tell more one week from tonight." said Hall, tonight. 'There will bp a lot of heads drop during the first week, but I have my liues out for some talpnt that should he able to put the Tigers well up iu the race. I am laying no claims on any pennants, but I hope to he in the first division the greater part of the season." ED6AK.J APPLCLBV. New Vcrk Francis S.

Appleby and his brother. Edgar, the real attraction in the class A amateur billiard tournament at the Arion club, are heirs to $50,000,000 left by their grandfather and uncle. TEAM Irishman Wrestles Day and Night and Runs on Road to Boot Cote to Tackle Great Little Man. Tf there was ever an athlete who took the task of training seriouiy that man is Pat Connolly. "or thrtt days now the lrijivnin h8 what he has seldom if ever done for a match before he has worked or.

the mat hoth afternoon and evening and In addition has done a few miles on thi loud to strengthen his wind. Connohy realizes that Demetral must be in tip-top form, else the Greek would not have proved an easy victor in the tecent matches at Evanston. and in Chicago, where he threw John Friedbprg. And when Demetral arrives today or tomorrow morning the Greek ill surely put in a strenuous couple of citys to top off for the big event at the Broadway Wednesday night. Another Sincere Worker.

There is another mighty hard worke-preparing for the wrestling, show Wednesday little Aubert Cote, the Frenchman, featherweight champion of the world. Cote is putting in two hours Vubrrt tote. a day at the gymnasium of the Y. M. A.

and is in shipshape for the match with the British featherweight champion Duncan Andrew. Andrew, by the way, is training in the Connolly gym and is pronounced by Connolly and Dr. Mu-ginn as being even faster than Cote, though hardly as strong. Tickets on Male. Tickets were placed on sale yesterday at Gillis.

and Fried's Broadway cigar stores and arc going nicely, presaging another big house. Many fans would rather see Demetral and Connolly thin to see Gotch as they figure the Stecher-Connolly and Stecher-Demetfal, and even the Gotch-Connolly matches, as handicap affairs, while no one can predict the outcome of the match between Irishman and Greek and this match, together with the greH little featherweight event, should furnish several hours of real thrills. Joe Steelier is "mowing "em down" pretty fast these days. Last week he defeated Dr. Roller twice in 10 min utes.

Friday night he beat Henry Or-, deman twice, in. la minutes. Tuesday night next he meets Fred Beel in Du-luth. His matches are coming fast and his victories are as regular as his matches. This from the Billings Journal: "Charley Cutler and Joe Stecher will meet in a finish match at Chicago on Memorial day.

A purse of $25,000 has been offered the wrestlers. This is the information received by the Journal from Chicago: "Next to Stecher and Gotch. Cutler Is considered the best of the heavyweight wrestlers. Stecher won the only match they had. at Omaha last year, taking two straight falls.

It was Stecher's defeat of Cutler, by the way, that brought Joe out in prominence. "Cutler, when he was here, claimed that he was not right he and Stecher met. Thcv were to meet last December at Chicago in a return match, but the promoters decided to put on the card at a later date. "The winner will be matched with Gotch. and the Chicago club putting on this match is prepared to offer $75,000 for the big match.

"Walter Miller has been invited by-Cutler to take charge of his training for the Stecher match. Walt is undecided, as he had a number of engagements out west during April. May and June." CARDS DEFEAT BROWNS. St. Louis.

April A batting rally by the St. Louis Nationals with two out iu the ninth enabled them to defeat tbe St. Lonis Americans in the second game of the spring series. 1 to 0. In eight Innings).

Meadows allowed but two hits. He was taken out for Butler, a pinch hitter, who started the scoring. It will be seen from the above schedule that Butte will have 71 home games iu this city's first season in the Northwestern league since 1903. and that the bulk of them will be iu July and August, and also with the "Iroumen" closing the league season at home Labor day, Sept. 4.

as opposed to "Wild Bill" Hurley's aggregation from Great Falls. Let's hope it will be a battle for first and second place between these two cities for the pennant. Butte opens at the new baseball park, for which we will have to find a name later, with Runs Hall's Tacoma Tigers, May 15. Russ will be visiting with us up Says That Mismanagement Has Placed Sport Far Beneath Its Logical Level Here. (Martin Denny, who has written so many interesting old-time stories of i the ring for the Butte Miner, will next week take uu the intimate acquaintance line as regards American pugilists, but in the meantime he wanted to get something out of his system regarding boxing as it has been and should be conducted and also wishes to speak of the benefits of the manly art when properly studied.

This story 1b timely and interesting and will lead up to a series of most interesting and intimate stories of the boxing game in this country. Sports Dept.) By Martin Denny. It is my intention in this article to give an idea of how boxing is conducted in the several boxing centers I wj have visited outside II SH of America. In de- ff- 1 IhA r. of boxing in this country In many instances, I feel I am doing the game more good than harm and hence the following.

Boxing, in the first place, if conducted in a straight and legitimate way, would not be looked down upon as brutal and degrading sport, all of which it is not. While the sport has in the past had its vicissitudes and has been badly handled, as much because of incompetence as through a desire, to obtain money under false pretenses, it is adjusting itself and being raised to a higher plane. It has been because of the tactics of crooked and money lustful managers that the sport l.as been given the go by in so many states. The patrons of the game themselves, disgusted, have voted to oust it in their communities. In the Antipodes.

In Australia, where I started out, tne thing went something like this. Two men are evenly matched. They must train a least three weeks, the manager or promoter of the contest, paying a visit to the respective camps of the fighters at intervals. He sees them go through their training, sees that they are in good condition but to make assurance doubly sure, physician of repute and in whom every confidence is placed, examines the men before they enter the ring. What is the result? As a rule a good, clean contest with no danger of either man being hurt.

They may be battered up a little, blood may flow and to the ignorant onlooker one or the other Is being badly beaten. It may be a long contest and a fierce one, but what is the consequence? One is returned the winner, if it isn't a draw, and regardless of the cuts and bruises that might result, no man perfectly trained and in good health is any more injured than many a player of the great American game of football and when the list of fatalities in the ring is compared with the accounts of fatalities in other branch of sport, the sport of pugilism MARTIN DEIY ON HI GAME IN U.S.A. "ft ghnys. Bntterup. The rich lowland tobaccos are harvested when just ripe.

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Tit Soil Cftr Ibkcn, Deiver. EatlSU HE1LENWAY MOSEB CO. ing things work out right. BILL HURLEY IS Great Falls Needn't Be Ashamed of Gang Wild One Is Collecting for Old Electrics. Special Dispatch to the Miner.) Great Falls, April 1.

The railroad engineer, on whose arrival the Great Falls Baseball club's management has waited for the past fortnight, is now here and a survey of the site proposed for Earltng baseball park is now in progress. The engineer is R. H. Stetson of Butte, and he is being aided In locating the boundaries of the park by R. A.

Judson, the club's engineer. The business of Mr. Stetson is to fix the bounds of the lot required by the Great Falls Baseball association for a baseball playing park and when this is done R. A. Judson will continue the engineering work to get levels and figures on an estimate of cost for grading the lot.

This finished, a call for bids will be issued and a contract awarded for the erection of stands, structures and fence. It is expected that Mr. Judson will be ready to make a complete report of his survey by next Sunday, and at that time a meeting of the board of baseball directors will be called and invitations for contract proposals will be advertised. The work on the park should not require more than 10 days' time. Manager Bill Hurley advises he has signed Frank Huelsman, the mighty hitting outfielder, who burned up the Union association with his warclub league.

Huelsman was with Denver a part of, last season and got off bad. He was used as a pinch hitter and did not get his "eye." Hurley also announces having signed Fred Chick, heavy hitting outfielder, who was formerly with him in the Western Canada league. He has been offered Kallio, formerly pitching for Butte, and another pitcher named White, by the i Oakland club of the Pacific Coast I league. He has declined to take the men on an optional agreement. FVLTON HAS GOOD OFFER.

Minneapolis. April 1. Fred Fulton, Minnesota heavyweight fighter, has signed a contract with a syndicate of five New York promoters. Including Tex Rickard, to meet three fighters in New Tork for $50,000. according to an announcement here today by Mike Collins.

Fulton's manager, oo his return here from New Tork. BICEARD DENIES IT. New York, April 1. Tex Rickard denied here tonight that he was interested in any way in a syndicate which was said in Minneapolis to have signed a contract under which Fred Fulton would meet three heavyweight fighters in this city for a purse of $50,000. Rickard said he expected to sail in a few weeks for South America, where be has business interests.

moters in whom the public has confidence. And I can truthfully say that boxing, if allowed in Butte under the management of such a man as John H. Mcintosh, for instance, would never be again sullied by any questionable matches. It is in my estimation one of the grandest sports and health building exercises in the world and it is a shame that it should be so misrepresented and mishandled. WITH 1 is somewhat standing out as a good, clean and manly game.

Could Not Condition. I can safely say that there is not one man out of ten today who is in good condition, simply because he has not the opportunity or will not take advantage of an opportunity to train himself. This is why there are men who condemn a good bout simply because they cannot themselves take a stiff punch. They wonder through their ignorance how another man can, simply because they have never been trained to take punishment gamely and therefore declare the rrame '-brutal." They do not realize that a hard battle between two perfectly men is only a stiff exercise and if those who de. nounce boxing would take some of the same kind of conditlSning, enabling them to take the same kind of punches, they would not only be wiser but healthier and saner men.

And here is another point: When I was boxing in Australia, the contests were always promoted by some prominent man, somebody in whom the public had confidence. Consequently when he announced a contest the public knew they would get a run. The public knew he was square and would not tolerate anything that smacked of crookedness in any way shape or manner. He would warn the contestants that at the first sign of anything wrong, the bout would be stopped and the gate re-' ceipts either returned to the patrons or turned over to some charity. Different In America.

How different it Is in America and hence the injury to the game. Say for instance two men are mMched in Butte, using this city simply as an illustration. One or both of them arrive here but a few days before the contest following right on the heels of another match somewhere else. They go through a perfunctory training session of a few. days, hop into the ring, may or may not put up a contest, get their money and grab a train for another city.

They don't care, as a rule whether they ever see Butte again; they've got their money and away they go, leaving behind a sore bunch of good boxing fans and a chance for those in their ignorance opposed to boxing as it. has been and should be conducted, to take another rap with the big hammer. The authorities who have stopped such matches are to be congratulated. Need Honest Promoters. It would be entirely different if some good local man were to handle boxing for the boxer would know he would have to be In condition to give the public what they paid to see or else get out of the ring.

When I was in South Africa, in 1896, all contests were handled by Mr. Couper of Johannesburg. It was Couper who fought Bendorf a few miles outside of Johannesburg for the largest side bet ever contested for. Couper was a very learned man and finally became editor of the Johannesburg Times. Whenever he took hold of a bout the public knew that they would be given a square deal and nobody in that district would ever think of attending a contest unless Couper was behind it.

The National Sporting club of London insists on boxers being in perfect condition and should there.be anything shady about a bout, those connected with it are ordered to get out and stay out for ever more. la a Great Benefit. Boxing, if people could understand it, is really one of the greatest benefits to mankind. It trains the mind as well as the body; one's disposition-is better and one doesn't get out of sorts on the slightest provocation and it is a temper evener in every respect. Any man who takes boxing exercise two or three times a week is not so frequently troubled with sickness, he has generally a smile on his face and he Is altogether a full blooded, safe and sane man, with a tolerance begot by a knowledge of his physical superiority.

As I said before, the ruination of boxing is due to crooked managers and bad fighters or a combination of the two, with avari-ciousness thrown in. Kvery city where boxing is permitted, and there would be more of them if the game was handled properly, ought to have pro-.