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SPORT PAGE EDDIE MERINO MA V FIGHT Eddi« Merino rrrsus Freddie Weeks. How would that sound for one of the preliminaries to the Jef fries-Johnson fight on July 4? Well, Jack Kearns, the manager of the lightweight youngster who holds the Canadian title, has visions of his man in the ring with Weeks or some other classy lad. The local promoter-manager has written to Tex Rickard about his protege and expects to have the honor of hand ling one of the winners in the pre liminaries to the heavyweight struggle. Kearns believes that in Merino he has the coming lightweight title TERWAY CHALLENGES WALLA WALLA MAN FOR RAGE RERE Peter Terway, the local long dis tance runner who took a sudden bound into the limelight a short time ago by defeating a team of 10 ricked men at the Y. M. C. A. over a 10 mile course, is hot on the trail of Lockwood. the Walla Walla man who claims the championship of the Pacific coast. Terway has sent a challenge to j Lockwood for a 15 or 20 mile, indoor nee in this city for a $100 side bet a winner take all proposition on the gate receipts. "If I couldn't beat that fellow 1 1 Y. M. C. A. LADIES' NIGHT OVERWHELMING SUCCESS The ladies' night at the Y. M. C. A. last night was the biggest and most successful event of the kind in the history of the association. Over 700 spectators crowded into the gymnasium to witness the many events, while many wore turned away. In addition to the athletic compe tition. Miss Winnifred Fair Foote charmed everyone with her Mexi can and Spanish dances, ".Iota" and the "Matador's" dance bringing down the house. Fencing Instructor Dennison and Messrs. Smith. Henry and Dean, his pupils, and Boxing Instructor Zircher and W, A. Moore entertained the crowd with the foil and padded gloves. Thirty-eight contestants entered the competitions last night, the horizontal bar. parallel bar and ele phant vaulting being the events in which the members of the three squads competed. Sixty possible points were allowed, each man be ing given two exercises on each piece of apparatus, with a possible 10 points attached to each exercise. The winners of the events, with their points, follow: A or novice class—A. Wallace, 34; E. Turner. GPORT SPICF *<J BY CASS WILL THE LIGHTWEIGHTS MEET? After all, it is not a cinch that Battling Nelson and Ad Wolgast will meet at San Francisco on February 22 over a 45 round route for the lightweight title. Promoter Sid Hester has not corralled that per mit, either for San Francisco or across the line in San Mateo county, and the great fight between the lightweighs may be switched to Los Angeles or cut down from 45 to 20 rounds. The San Francisco authorities are willing to stretch a point to permit Jeff and Johnson to take a crack at each other for 4.") rounds, but they do not seem willing to allow any other fights to go over the 20 round limit. The San Mateo supervisors have been bucking against Hester's 45 round talk of late and the impression is out that the politicians are getting in their work against the promoter. Hester has not put up the guarantee coin for the fighters, and with affairs in such a mixup no one will be surprised if the announcement is made at any hour that the fight has been called off, or that Tom McCarey of Los Angeles has landed the plum. Is Albert Kaufman, esq., heavyweight aspirant, really shaking off the Morpheus thralldom and beginning to show faint traces of "class," or is Jack O'Brien ready for the discard? According to Philadelphia reports, Kaufman had Philadelphia Jack all but out at the end of their six round set-to the other evening. The Callfornian connected with O'Brien's anatomy for a couple of resound ing wallops that had the old timer on the borders of slumberland. The Jack O'Brien of old is fast disappearing. The one-time master of the fistic art is losing his cunning. He is no longer master of even the six round go. When he cannot show up a snail like Kaufman in six rounds it is evident that Philadelphia Jack is ready for the dis card. This may be unnecessarily harsh. Reports from the fight are meager and it may develop that Kaufman has thrown off his cloth and is a real live member. For the sake of the friends and backers of the Callfornian, tho pugilistic game and the heavyweight champion ship, let us hope that Kaufman has "arrived." Men's and Women's $0 £ A Sample Shoes £d**J\j Every pair made to sell for from $3.50 to $6.00. All styles, leathers or sizes you may desire. NOTICE—Just received a large shipment of misses' and children's, boys' and youths' shoes which we will close out at $1.65 to $2.50 Bauder & Schriber $2.50 SAMPLE SHOE SHOP ROOMS 319-320-321-322 THIRD FLOOR JAMIESON BUILDING. IN JUL V 4 PRELMINAR V holder. The Seattle lad is only 19 years of age, can make 127 pounds, which gives him a chance to fill out and yet make the lightweight limit, and claims the Canadian title, pointing to a victory over Hilly Lauder to substantiate his claim to the championship. Merino's most ambitious fight was against Abe Attell at Sand point, the champion failing to do anything more than annex a close decision from his husky young op ponent. He has fought two straws with Kid Sealer, fought Percy Cove, Jimmy Potts. Harry Lombard and Eddie Santry to a standstill, and would quit the game." declared Ter way last night. "I am anxious to meet him on any terms, not for the championship of the Pacific coast, but the more modest title of cham pion of the Inland Empire." Despite Teiway's challenges fol lowing the boasts of Lockwood that he could give the local man a min ute handicap in a 15 mile race and beat him to the tape, nothing has been heard from Walla Walla re garding the race, and Terway is afraid lest the alleged coast champ will back out of the race. 33; .1, C. Gibson. 32. B or inter mediate class —E. Hupperton, 39; P. Hupperton. 3S; W. Staples, 35. C or advanced class —A. Hulquist, 50; W. Beutelspacner, 54; A. Alex ander, 50. Ribbons were awarded to the winners of tho championship aquatic meet, the second serial ath letic championship meet, and of the New Year's road race. Y. M. C. A. TO DEVELOP RUNNERS Tomorrow afternoon Peter Ter way, track instructor of the Y. M. C. A., will inaugurate a series of two and five mile races for his •quad. These races will be held each Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock-, giving the long distance men of the association n chance to develop. Each Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock the sprinters will be given a workout on the association floor, Terway keeping a record of the men each week until the end of | the season, when the leaders will be awarded trophies of some kind. IS KAUFMAN WAKING UP? "A lot of people have been belittling the fighting aMity of Johnson. That's where they are wrong. This colored fellow is a grand fighter."—Battling Nelson. engaged in numerous other fights in Canada which were uniformly successful. Kearns has named Freddie Weeks as Merino's opponent be cause Weeks is a friend of Rick ard's and Tex would be more likely to give the De.nverite a chance. "Don;t think that because I am writing to Rickard that I necessar ily figure him to pull off the fight in Salt Lake City," stated Kearns last night. "I am corresponding with Gleason in regard to the pre : liniinary, and if there is a chance to secure a match for Merino I will be working at both ends of the pro moting partnership." ROUSE IS NORTH CENTRAL CAPTAIN Howard House, captain of the 1010 North Central Hi football team, captain of the K. K. K. basket ball team at the Y. M. C. A. and popular North Central athlete, has been elected captain of this season's basket ball team. The basket bailers met the other night and unanimously elected House to lead them through the 1910 season. M'PHERSON EASY FOR HOLLAND Jimmy McPherson proved to be no match for Frlti Holland, the "Flying Dutchman," In their four round go at the Retail Grocers' smoker last night at the .Masonic temple. McPherson took the count of nine in the first round from a slap on the jaw and in the third went to sleep for keeps when Hol land beat him to it with a wallop on the chin. George Brechin, the lightweight wrestler of the S. A. A. C„ had lit tle difficulty in defeating Reisz. the champion of the two Dakotas, George securing the first fall in four minutes and winning the see- j ond bout on aggressiveness. EDWARDS WINS FROM LOUIE LONG According to reports from Port laud, Louie Long, the Spokane lightweight, more than met his match last night in Frankie Ed wards of San Francisco. Louie claimed a foul in the sixth and quit, although the referee would not allow it and the crowd was di vided on the question. Over-rated or under-trained is what the Portland critics said after the fight. It's a cinch that Long was not under-trained for his mill. Over-trained would be more likely to express his physical condition, for Louie was in the best form of his life when he fought Merino here, giving the appearance of a man who would be likely to go stale from over-training. Edwards never had the reputa tion of possessing a knockout wal lop, and with Long's well known ability to assimilate punishment it la hardly likely that Louie would give in to the clever San Fran ciscan unless he was a sick man or was fouled by his opponent. Look at those prices and think what it means to yon in savings. Remember that these prices are for the best dental work and our seventeen-year Gold Bond Guarantee stands back of every bit of it. Crown Red Cross Dentists N. E. Corner Riverside and Post. Entrance on Post S reet. ' Walk 25 feet off Riverside and save dollars. THE SPOKANE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1910 DECADE OLD RECORDS BRITISH CAN'T LOWER SYRACUSE, N. V., Jan. 20.—Over in Merrie England, where the ath letes prefer putting the cleaner upon Yanks to any other pastime, there exists a couple of records which stick in British throats like a codfish bone in the gullet of a sword swallower. Tom Keane. as thorough a Yan kee as ever turned a wooden nut meg, and with a twang that spells "Roston" every time he opens his trap, is the individual who hung up the marks at which our cousins have been shooting in vain for years. September 3, IR9S, Tom Keane PERSONAL STORIES OF MEN This "Cyclone" Thompson, who wants to fight Nelson, has been chased out of almost every fight ing state. Thompson is a "cyclone" ' all right so far as taking punish ', ment is concerned. Jimmy Burns (George Memsie) took a decision over him in 20 rounds. Thompson was a sight to behold at the fin | ish. His wife was present at the ringside encouraging her husband |to "stick it out." Ever see a grizzly bear? Jeff in a bathing suit. Tommy Burns is looking after "Boer" Unholtz over 'neath the Southern Cross. Strange things have happened and Unholz may make carfare home. Ask Jimmy Burns. Sam Langford's favorite expres sion when asked what he thinks about his coming fight is, "Jus' leab it to Sam, jus' leab it to Sam." THE DENTAL WAR IS ON IN THE WORLD OF SPORT Best $fi.so Plates \J won the July handicap. Keane's record of 11 2-5 seconds for the dis tance has never been equaled. Two years later, August 23, 1900, lie awoke the blase Britishers by clearing 22 feet 0 inches in a run ning broad jump on the grass, with out a takeoff, at Giassmore, and no one has ever equaled the perform ance. Keane has retired from competi tion and is coaching the Syracuse track team, and while turning out good performers, he is apparently unable to reproduce in his pupils that driving start which made his name famous on the cinder path, Tommy Ryan has a mania for oranges. Before going to bed ev lery night he gets away with at least three or four. Mexican Pete Everett, who once tried to fight Jeffries, is down in Los Angeles asking lor a fight. He may be matched with Jim Flynn. Jim Flynn barely escaped a knockout one night in Los Angeles at the hands of "Rattling" John son, the big Swede whom he whipped three or four times. In the eighth round of a 10 round bat tle Johnson let one go from his hip and caught Jim a bit high on the jaw. The fireman went down for the count of nine and a baby could have put him out when he came up. His hands were at his sides and his head was dizzy. John son stood over his opponent until the referee had counted five. He was already with the big knock out drop when Jim should come up. As the referee said "Five," a Before the largest crowd that ever witnessed a basket ball game in Almira, the South Central quin tet defeated the high school five of that place last night, 37 to 15. Campbell and Fancher starred for the locals, while Hall and Wel born accounted for the 15 Almira tallies. The Cheney Normal boys and girls administered a double drub bing to the North Central basket bailers last night, defeating the boys by the score of 28-7 and the girls 7-6. The boys' game was a remark ably rough affair, with the Normal huskies having much the better of the argument. HOUSTON, 27; Y. M. C A., 14 The Houston Seconds defeated the Y. M. C. A. Thirds in the Hous ton gymnasium last night by the score of 27-14. Goodenough of the Houstons annexed the majority of the points for his team. Cheney Hi and North Central, both boys' and girls' teams, arft scheduled to clash this afternoon in the South Central gym. The high school fives from Cheney are not as strong as the normal ag gregations and the locals expect to annex both games. IDAHO-GONZAGA TONIGHT The University of Idaho five clashes with Carolan's Gonzaga college five tonight on the college floor. Coach Grogan and his men will invade Spokane this afternoon anticipating a hard fight against the collegians. The Gonzaga line up will be: Mulholland and Mc- Kevitt, forwards; De Mears, cen ter; Mulligan and Ilealy, guards. Manager Cameron of the Now Haven baseball club has signed up a dummy twirler by the name of Fred Connolly. Sam McVey, the negro who is making lots of money fooling the Paris aristocrats, looks like a baboon. photographer let go with his flash light, directly behind where John son was standing. The Swede was frightened half to death. He was at the other side of the ring in Kosenben time and might have been through the ropes had his dis gusted seconds not chased him back. In the meantime Flynn re covered his senses and in the next two rounds came back sufficiently strong to win a decision. LADIES' NIGHT AT S. A. A* 0* Fred Skadan's indoor baseball ag gregation hook up with Eddie Roth rock's combination of ball tossers at the S. A. A. C. tonight in the first of a series of exhibitions which are to be given every two weeks for the benefit of the lady fans of the city. These teams have been fighting hard for the indoor championship at the club and a hot contest is expected. . Painless O E*C Extraction %J ■ S. C H. S.. 37; ALMIRA, 15 NORTH CENTRAL LOSES CHENEY HERE TODAY NELSON AND WOLGAST COMPARED Nelson. Wolgast 5 feet 74 inches Height 5 feet 5* inches "3 pounds Weight 129 pounds 874 inches Reach 66% inches 14 fnch es Neck 16ia lnchPS 34 4 inches Chest Normal 36 inches inches Chest Expanded 37% inches ?' \ ncY l ea Waist 29 inches 124 nches .'...Biceps 11 , ncheß 11 inches Forearm 104 inches Ku ne ? es Thigh 19 "»<*«■ lynches Calf ....14 inches I \ nc * e » Wrist 6% inches 8 inches Ankle 9 inches Hoxing since 1896 Experience Boxing since 1906 28 years Age 22 years WAS ANSON SLATED FOR JOB? Danny Shay, who has just return ed from a trip through the east, was in New York when the Na tional league elected Tom Lynch president after a protracted ses sion. It will be recalled that "Pop" Anson's name was mentioned among the candidates. At one time Shay says everybody was betting that Anson would be the man. Just before the election McGraw met Brush, who predicted that the vet eran player would head the league. "I don't believe that Brush had a notion that the Herrmann faction would accept Lynch when he nomi nated him," said Shay yesterday. "You know Brush had a notion that the Herrmann faction would accept Lynch when he nominnted him," said Shay yesterday. "You know Brush and Lynch have always been pretty thick, and I expect that Wonderful Special Offers in Wentworth's Daylight Bargain Basement for Saturday for choice of a most splendid variety of men's win ter suits worth- $18 and $20 each regularly. Neat pattern designs, all sizes and we guarantee the fab rics to give satisfactory service. for choice of a new and beautiful line of men's negli gee shirts, worth regularly np to $1.50 each. ('nit's attached, plain or pleated fabrics, coat or regular style, all sizes and colors warranted to he fast. 3 pairs for 55 cents is the way we are selling a new and fine lot of men's 25c wool socks. Plain black and camel's hair. No less than pairs sold to each purchaser. choice of a nice line of men's black soft worth regularly np to $2.00 each. d*l AQ for choice of a new line of men's black «P * t*tO soft hats, worth regularly up to $3.00 each. the famous 50e "President" snspend- 1 pairs for 25c, for men's regular 15e cotton 1 UC soc .ks. All winter underwear and workingnion's pants in basement on sale at ridjculously low prices. OO _ for regular $1.00 union made overalls or OOC jackets. 20 per cent discount on all men's and young men's corduroy pants, peg top styles included. Big Sale in Second Story Juvenile Department fttA f° r Qholce of over 200 hoys' brand new "P winter suits, worth regularly up to $7.-l5 each. Late double-breatsed stylos, pretty patterns and all fabrics guaranteed. Sizes Bto 17. See cen ter display case. SPOKANE'S GREATEST MEN'S AND BOYS' WENTWORTH CLOTHING HOUSE ENTRANCE, No. 709 RIVERSIDE AVENUE EDITED BY James H. Cassell Brush had no thought of getting his friend elected. My opinion is that Brush nominated Lynch just to feel Herrmann and Dreyfus out. and after he had been turned down he intended to nominate Anson, and win out with him. I think Brush was as much surprised as anybody when the Herrmann crowd said they would stand for Lynch. But Lynch will make a good president. He is a fine man and will run things as they should be. His eleo« tion was very popular." Shay picked up some players foi" I his Kansas City club while away, but not enough to start a league. Danny found that the clubs were crazy about disposing of their best men. 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