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The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 12

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SUNDAY MORNINCf, JANUARY 7, 1912 llih mi.l,l.U 1.IH i.yiK!Tr. PER TINENT SPOR DOPE YOUNG FIGHTERS WHO ARE COMERS HOT SPRINGS The Weakness of Liquor Drinlters Alcohol Is Cumulative Poison Thati money, any friends? Come to the Unlmliinrcs the Mind and Wrecks Gatlln Institute and be cured. But the Hody The Uatlln Treat- THREE DAYS of your time will be mont Cures Anj Case required. You will be accepted for liquor Habit In treatment under a legally executed THKEE DATS. contract that you are to be cured In THE Oil LEADING SPOT Five Baseball Teams THREE DAYS cured to your entire IQUOR makes a man's whole life satisfaction or the fee you pay ehall Been uenls bo refunded at the end of the third a lie.

It poisons his brain and he believes that he fefls good lo In al in Big League Games Holed Re day and treatment shall cost you, NOTHING. You judge the cure not the Gatlln Institute. There are no hypodermic injections, nn strong drugs, no disagreeable features nothing to be afraid of. A child could eafely take the Gatlln treatment. There Is not a poisonous Ingredient In it.

If you cannot come to the Institute for THREE DAYS, send for the Catlin Home treatment. It carries practically the same contract to cure as Institute treatment, the only change being one to protect us against unscrupulous persons. when he feels bad. Under Its Influences he believes himself strong when he Is weak and growing weaker every day; he believes his business prosperous when it Is on the verge of bankruptcy; he believes he Is talking intelligently when he Is talking like an Imbecile; he believes that he has the confidence of his friends when they wouldn't trust him for a minute in an important matter. Why not wake up? THINK just a little If you can.

What has liquor ever done for you? What Is It doing TO you? Has it ever made you any Si The linllin Institute, 212 8th Helena, Moat Bob Emslie tells of a retort by McGraw last summer. Alexander had the Giants at his mercy. Mighty few men got on the bases, strikeouts were numerous. It seemed as if Hank O'Day was calling nothing but strikes, while every one of Emslie's decisions on the bases appeared to go against the Giants. It was not tough enough that the Giants couldn't hit Alexander but both umpires were seeing everything the Philadelphia way.

HlgMMJUIBB "Late in the game McGraw shifted 1912 Automobiles (By MONTY.) NEW YORK, Jan. 6. Half a dozen -weeks from now the baseball campaigns of 1912 will be under way, vlih Ihe beginning- of the spring training trips of the big leagrue clubs. All of the 16 clubs have selected their pilots and all but tr.e rave chosen their Ire-aeason stamp'ng grounds. Hot Springs.

will bo the leaving ance-bcilutn pot In a baseball way this year. Five teams will work out the kinks and crinks of rusty muscles there one American league outfit and j.ir frm the National. Fred Tenney superintend the early wort cf Mi Toston Red Sox in the Hazorbnck metropolis, while the lenguers Fred Clarke of Piusburg, Charley Tioo'a of Philadelphia, Dill iiaiilen of Brooklyn and Umpire Hank 0Day Cincinnati will be oi tin? job with their charges. There will be some tall times down in the fascinating little city that used to be known as the Monte Carlo of America. It will be the first time in tristorjr that so many big league teams have been in action at one time in any single city.

Hot Springs is an easy first in the race for popularity as a spring training camp. Next comes New Orleans. Two clubs will work out there the Cleveland: Americans under Harry Davis, and the Chicago Cubs under "jeerless" Frank Chance. St. Louis might be said1 to be tied with New Orleans for second honors, as the Mound City entries in both National and American leagues will do their preliminary conditioning on the home lot the first time in recent years that a major league team has dispensed from the third base coaching lines over to first base, near where I was standing," says Emslie.

"He remained quiet while two men were retired on a close play at first. Thinking to be agreeable, I opened the conversation. are not hitting much I vouchsafed. answered McGraw. 'That Alexander is quite a I added, thinking I might relieve the sting of the impending defeat.

replied McGraw. "Certainly working a swell I continued. "With the assistance of a couple of blind umpires, he is doing blurted the angry "The third man had! been retired and McGraw was on the way to the bench before I could reply. I enjoyed a smile without letting McGraw observe it." A trio of rin6 0.1 who have been coming rapidly to the fore of late. On the left is Jim Flynn, the Denver fireman heavyweight, who has kept his position as leading white hope safe against the assaults of all whom he has met.

On the right is Joe Mandot. the Memphis lightweight, whose re Harry F. Gray Distributing Agent Billings Montana cent improvement has been such that- he has, almost at a single bound, sprung into the same class wun knockout Brown, One Round Hogan, Freddie Waish, Packey McFarland and the other iaimants of the title held by the invalid Ad Wolgast. Below is Georges Carpenter, the French light who made a great impression on Jack Johnson, the dusky champion declaring that a few more months in the game should make the Parisian the peer of any of the big fellows, excepting, of course, Johnson himself. That Old "Sap" Rucker Joke.

A Chicago baseball writer recently ID WOLGAST DISCUSSES ITERESTI il told the story that when news was scarce in the office of President Murphy of the Cubs, Murphy would al BILLINGS FUE FEED CO. Bear Creek Lump, Owl Creek Lump, Kindling, Grain and Hay YARD PHONE; MUTUAL 1150, BELL 498 ways say to the inquiring scribe, with a yawn: "Well, you mieht sav that i ED THE FUTURE HIS CRAFT I've got a trade on with Brooklyn for Nap Rucker." 2309 CITY OFFICE; MUTUAL PHONE, many have told me that Welsh fell never made much money by fighting, short of expectations. Right now my but if that Milwaukee affair had gone own opinion is that I could draw a through, I would have made more bigger house with Welsh than with money over that one battle than Of course, Rucker is not for sale or trade under any circumstances, but President Ebbets is willing nevertheless to listen to offers, as instance this story: Horace Fogel recently tried his hand at getting Rucker. "Charley, why can't you let Philadelphia have Rucker?" said Horace one day. "Why, you can have Rucker," was By W.

W. Al'GHTO. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 Seated in his bungalow at Venice by the sea, sporting a smoking jacket that was palpably a Christmas present and puffing at a ciar which also seemed to exhale the spirit of the eason, when men evince their good will by making exchanges of merchandise, Ad Wolgast talked of the future of his craft. Being now an invalid, the champion with a southern trip.

Bobby Wallace and Roger Bresnahan, who again will Jead the St. Louis balltossers, both disapprove the playing in warmer climes when the home city is in a one of mild temperature such as is enjoyed in the Missouri metropolis. Connie Mack will take his world's -champion Athletics to San Antonio, Jimmy Callahan will "Moses" the White Sox to Corsicana. Harry Wolverton will lead his New York Yankees to Atlanta, Clarke Griffith will convene his Washington Senators at Charlottesville, and Muggsy McGraw will once more put the Giants through the paces at Mar-iin, Tex. The Boston Nationals of Jake Stahl are the only ones who do not know where they are to go.

The system of training that will be in vogue at the baseball camp this spring offer a larger variety than ever before, and there will be many LET A WANT AD HELP YOU Battling Nelson made with the best two of his career. "I had $5,000 coming to me from the small picture signs which were to be hung around the arena and $10,000 from two beer signs that would have loomed up in the moving pictures. Is it any wonder I look upon Packey any other lightweights, and for that reason 1 would rather fight him, but if he meets someone else while I am laying up and does as poorly as he did with Ritchie, I will not count on him fo? an opponent. Of course, if the promoters pick Welsh for me and come to my terms, it will be different." Wolgast looks upon Knockout (Continued on Page Five.) has plenty of time in which to chew McFarland as a picture of bad luck? Brown as a phenomenon who lasted jWe may get together some day at but a short time. that, but from the way things are go- "I am sorry that fellow escaped jng at present, 1 don't think Packey me," said Ad.

"He didn't escape alto-; Wjn remain solid with the public long the cud of reflection and watch the ebb and flow of lightweight affairs. His period of enforced rest is not making Wclgast impatient. He talks calmly and philosophically of the out- CARS ec-iuci ai umi, ucwuse i gave mm-a enough to become an opponent of look, but deplores the dearth of cap- pretty rood hammering the last time mine after I get well." other things to interest the fans in able msterial in his class. "Funny thing about the light tne eany workouts, in some cases workouts. In some cases! Wolgast spoke favorably of Jimmy Giblin, but no great weight attached to what he had to say about the pal Irom Ad's home town.

It looked too Wholesale and Retail Automobiles much as if the wish was the father of the boost. Wolgast also spoke in a commenda we. met. I always look forward, though, to trimming him completely, but now he has been wiped off the map." "Are you overlooking your old "Are you overlooking your old friend, Packey McFarland," was asked Wolgast. "Not at all, but no one seems to take Packey seriously now" said the champion.

"He is a fellow who encounters heaps of bad luck and it seems unlikely to have anything to do with him. Just look at that affair at Milwaukee. Battling Nelson use to tory manner of young Joe Rivers, the weights is that there are so many men with so little to choose between them," marked Wolgast. "Just lotk at Savior, and Mennot and Hayes and Baldwin and Brown and Bewell and Murphy. "Why, its simply a toss-up which of them is the best.

Round shades all these lior v-aid AVoleast, after a pause. 1 believe be is going to give me moi i rouble than any of them. When he first came out, too much was expected Los Angeles featherweight, who it is 35 and 45 Horse Power Prices $1,550 to $2500.00 thought will develop into a 133 pound the work will consist largely of general all-rourd exercise to limber up the muscles of the men; in ether cases practically all the time will be devoted to actual playing. Some cf the moguls will drive their men hard, so as to have them in tip-top finely draw shape when the season begins; others will take things easy, starting the season at a little below par, so that the maximum of effectiveness can be at- tained in mid-season. One factor that will enter prominently into the spring training of 1912 is the mineral bath.

This was one of tbe chief considerations in the se- man before a year has gone by. "This youngster knows how to box and is able to punish solidly," said Ad. "He is improving right along, and by the time he is big enough to try his nf him. He was fresh from the ranks as a cheap guy who of the four-rounders and he knew sreak of me Self Starters luck with the lightweights, he will be, lable to fight in a way that will at nothing of the angles of the professional game. Now he is showing im- tract attention.

There will be plenty of time for Ad's rivals to ponder over what he has to say, as he will be out of the ring for iecting of Hot Springs by so many of provement right along, the clubs. Corsicana, Marlin and San "Look what he did to Knockout Antonio, are also bath cities, and Brown and look how he handled Bat i 7 'vJ Nelson. Mind you, I thins it was a the White Sox, Athletics and Giants fully eight months. He is going east great showing Hogan made when he was held down to weight and the Battler was allowed to come in weigh- ing hat he liked. in February to follow the footlight route, and some time in May he will set out with Jim Jeffries for a big game hunt in Alaska.

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Whether the press-agentings of the magic virtues of mineral baths are "bunk" or not, remains to be seen. Just about this time the air is a-tin-gle with rumors of big baseball trades impending, and it is not unlikely that some deals will be put through before the beginning of the spring trips that will revolutionize the outlook for the championship races. Accordingly, it is bard- to form a definite line on how the teams will stack up against each other when the starting gun is fired. eree) Did you see that? Referee -What? i Quarerback That big center ed on me when I was down. "Among the new men, Mandot, in my opinion, ranks next to Hogan.

(i rover Hayes is a has-been. He was a fair man when I first began boxing, but he has faded away. Anyhow he was always too big for a lightweight." "How about Freddie Welsh," Wolgast was asked. "I will tell you," he said. "Right now I am a little dubious about Welsh's drawing power.

I feel that the showing he made with Willie Ritchie injured his reputation. Of Referee How do you know he did? Quarterback I saw him. Referee You keep your eye on the ball. IH let you know when somebody jumps on you. St.

Louis iS THE WRONG f'LACK. Will you tell your sister I'm waltingT" "I did. and she taid to tell you Uio line formed in de (root haiL" i7 3 (Continued on Pajre Five. I course, I did not see the tight, but.

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