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PAGE SIX
HOWDY, MEET
Chestnut
Charlie
• • •
If He Kver 11. mi .I a Really
New Joke He'd Drop Dead.
Some Fast Bouts
For Club Smoker
Some mighty fast bouts are
promised at the amateur boxing I
inioker of the South Tacoma Ath
letic club Thursday iik'ln If the
card Rnnounced Wednesday by
Manager Karl is any indication.
Most of the boys on the pro
gram fought some neck-and-neck
battles last year, and are said to
be In fine trim to tear things
loose attain.
The match between Carey and
Glowers at 1 1 ."> poundl Is draw-
Ing a good deal of Interest. They
went to a draw last, year, but
PROTEST OREGON'S
CRACK HALF BACK
11 i.iir.i I>»h l.rased Wire.)
KUGKNE, Ore., Oct. 2.*..—
California's protest against John
ny Parsons, crack Oregon half
back, was carefully considered
today by the university faculty's
athletic committee, which voted
unanimously that he is eligible to
compete under the rules of the
coast football conference.
TWO BIG GAMES IN
STADIUM SATURDAY
A football game between the
Tacoma Athletic club and ».he
sophomores of the University of
Washington will lead off the big
benefit program of the College of
Puget Sound in the Stadium Sat
urday afternoon.
Two games will be played in
DOBIE DRIVING
MEN TOP SPEED
trailed Presa I ■ .i-.il Wire)
SEATTLE, Oct. 2. r >. —Coach
Oilmour Dobie of the University
of Washington is driving hit* men
at top Bpeed for Saturday's game
with Whitman college here. Dobie
1b leaving no stone unturned by
which the varsity squad will run
up the largest store possible.
Mare Sets Trotting Mark by
Winning 6 Purses In 20 Days
1 \i-u «|tuv*'r I jilni'i 'In* \ **<» nil ion .
The 1916 racing season, mark
ed by sensational performances,
has been brought to a close with
one of the most remarkable rec
ords in the history of harness rac
ing.
Mabel Trask, by winning six
important stakes In 20 days, four
of them in Xi day*, lias establish
ed herself as perhaps the great
est stake trotter of all times.
Beginning at Columbus and
ending at Lexington, 20 days
later, the mare captured the Hos
Led Hurt
Twirling
d'Hlted Vrrnm l.rnaril Wire.)
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 —
Pitchers have thrown their arms
out of Joint, had them broken by
batted balls, ruined by rheuma
tism and hmt In many ways, but
It has remained for "'Swede" Ris
berg, star Vernon lnflelder, to
hurt his leg by pitching.
"Rlsberg will not play second
bate today," was the announce
ment from the Vernon office. "He
hurt his ankle pitching against
Oakland Sunday."
Uncle Sam's Greatest Football
Star Describes His Best Plays
(The fir-* of nlx .-n'ti< 1.-- In I
\tliUh Elmer Olijiliant, famous
We*t Point halfback, miml one of
Uie Knintr>V greatest all-around
athletes, descrilttw qlx football
play* and tHK how to make them.
OUplinnt In the only .-ttlilctf vim
won four letter* at tbe I nlu-d
BUtev Military academy. He
■tarred In football, basketball,
baseball and truck. He also won
four letters at Purdue before un
tiring West Point.—Editor.)
BY r I.MI it Ol IPHAXT
l\rn>i»pri Knlrrprl>r S.«o, I>|l.,n >
}lere is a fake line play that is
■ dandy to deceive the opposition:
Right tackle and end go down
and knock down secondary de
fense.
Center and two guards hold
well while quarter is making turn.
Left end, tackle and guard hold
for an Instant, then open up a
hole, tackle and guard turning
their man to the right and end
making hit- turn to the left.
Quarterback (No. 1) turns to
hit RIGHT, opposite to the direc
tion from which left halfback
(No. t) Ik coming. Quarterback
tnrks the ball Into hie stomach,
•laps No. t oa the chest aa be
Glowers hati put on some weight
| ■ ni' i- then and U •■>:■<■ I to put
up a stifftT fiKht thau ever.
Also on the curd are King vs.
Kennedy, at 113. They chalked
up three drawß last season.
Other uiiitriii-s are:
Phlster vs. Crawford, IIS; Tay
lor vs. .McCoy, 148; Scott vs. Rob
ertson, 150; Whartou \n. Whit
man, 112; Sli.iiikliii*.>> vs. l'ana
tonl, lit,
Referee, Joe Richmond; time
keeper, Kd Karl; announcer, Ed
Quinn. All Units 4 rounds. Things
will start at 8:30 p. m.
The Bears' protest was based
on the ground that Parsons had
played fullback for more than
the three years allowed under
conference law.
It is reported tiiat Coach Do
bie of Washington university
will also object to Parsons' par
ticipation in the Oregon-Washing
ton game.
one afternoon. The second one
will be between the College of
Puget Sound and the State Nor
mal of Bellingham.
The benefit games are being
staged to help finance the sports
being taken DP at the Tacoma col
lege. Both teams are working
hard for the game Saturday.
Washington's weak point is the
forward pass, nnd the tall coach
is showing his charges the cor
rect way to handle the game.
Several new formations will be
used in Saturday's game. It la
said, all of which will have a
direct beaming ou the forward
pass.
ter purse of Jl.ono, the Buckftye
stake of $. ri,ouo, the board of
trade purso of $3,000 at Colum
bus, the $3,000 Ca.stleton purse,
the Walnut Hall purse of $3,(>00
and the Transylvania purse of
$."i,ooo at Lexington.
In practically every race Walter
(ox was pushed by Ed Geers with
St. Frisco.
In her final effort, the great
daughter of Peter the Great, made
a new mark of 2:03 1-4, even
though she fared a heavy wind for
half the distance.
DICK Hr.NTEUS
AU game lawn prohibit
shooting between nunset and
aunrlse. Watch your step!
Wednesday.
Sun rises, 6:4 3 a. m.
| Sun sets, .Mi.", p. in.
Thiirhday. |
Sun rises, 6:43 a. m.
Sun sets, 6:04 p m.
t *
PICKS OIB& FLAYERS
Dorothy King, hockey coach of
the Stadium high school, has pick
ed the girl hockey players for the
four class teams.
pastes him, to give the impression
he has passed the ball and No. 2
charges into hole on right side of
line preceded by No. 3 (right
halfback) and No. 4 (fullback).
This causes the defensive backs
to shift to the right side of the
line.
The quarterback, carrying the
ball, QUIETLY Blips through the
hole which would have been
opened by the left linemen. The
quarter must act smoothly and
not charge wildly, as though h<?
wan earning the ball.
This ts good deception and It
worked smoothly and rauidly the
RUMOR SHAKEUP
IN BIG LEAGUE
BY H. O. IIAMII/rOX
■ I .illfil l-rrn I .-IK.nl Ulrrl
NSW YORK, Oct. 25. —It is be
ing intimated on apparently very
good authority In New York to
day that important changes in
volving the Pittsburg and Chicuso
National league clubu are about
to be made.
These rumors are to the effect
that when the 1917 reason begins
Jimmy Callalian, now manager of
the Pirates, will be at the helm
for the Chicago Cub* and that
Joe Tinker, present manager of
With Tacoma Amateurs
My Billy Cams.
Although he is not followlujj the
game at present. Jack Quill is
not a "has-been" ring artist.
In fact, he says that peihnps he
may be matched this season in
Tacoma. A few seasons ago
Jack was an expert with the
gloves.
Joe Johnson, who would rnthcr
watch a football or baseball
game than eat, while driving
his auto down town yesterday
morning, was going to turn the
corner Just before he cam« to
It. Therefore his "flivver" is
In the hospital today, and Joe
is riding on the car*. The state
being dry, the accident can
only be blamed ou the fog.
Charlt-jr Fowler In anxious to see
Billy Adams, on a very import
ant matter. Fowler says he
wants to see Bill at once at the
Majestic barber shop. Better
skip right down, Billy, it's im
portant.
During iln> noon hour yesterday,
Poye, the amateur ball pitcher
known as "the shut-out twirler,
bowled one 2117 score and one
224 score, while Billy Leftwlch
rolled a 222 score, and our old
friend Berry of the telephone
76 Enter In
City Match
Seventy-six golfers will take
part In the first IS holes of medal
play in the qualifying round of
the city golf championship which
may be started Saturday noon at
the Tacoma Country club.
Tlie club course Is open tills
week for the cqpipetitors to prac
tice, but will be closed Saturday
morning.
The t-emi-finals may be reach
ed a week from next Sunday.
Three trophies will be given for
the winners in the tournament.
Thirty-two players will qualify for
further play ,in Sunday's com
petition.
Flag Winners
to Get Cups
Presentation of the Juli-is
FlelHrhniann trophy cups to mem
bers of the flag winning Hopkins
Athletic club baseball team will
be the big feature of the dinner
to be held In the Portland ave
nue hall Wednesday night.
The members of the Hopkins
club will be hosts and the players
will be guesU of honor.
Reach Finals
The finals have been reached
in the annual fall tournament of
the women of the Lochburn Golf
club.
In the aeml-flnals Tuesday,
Mrs. J. H. Bradley and Mrs. C. M.
opposing team will be after No. 2
while the quartet 1b left a clear
field for a good gain, it if also a
mighty good scoring play when j
a team is near the goal line, when I
the captain sees his team cannot
make headway by straight line
plunges.
The play Is even more effective
if No. 2 Is allowed to carry the
ball the first time it in tried and'
immediately afterward the same
formation is used with the quar
;or carrying It.
The same formation, of course,
nay lie vied from the other Bide
>f the Hue.
THE TAOQMA TIMEB,
the Cubs, will be without a job.
It is well known In baseball
■ •mi-Iks inTe ii<mi ('Hllahau and
Barney Dreyfua alniont reached
the parting point last summer.
Mont men Intimate with the af
fairs of the Pirates believe Krnl
Clarke will head the team next
year. The former manager of
the Pirates has not said anything
In regard to the rumor.
Chirk Fraser, veteran scout for
the Pirate* and old time pitcher,
aUo has been mentioned as a
probable successor to Callahan.
company quintet put up a 215
Bcore.
One of the hmt little footlutll
players in the country—or the
city elthor, for that matter—is
HoKan, who playtt the role of
center on that fast St. Martin's
eleven.
According to nil report*, that
smoker to be given by the
South Taooma Athletic-Com
mercial club tomorrow night
is going to be one of the best
that local fight fans have seen
for many a day.
One of the biinlest men about
town la Eddie Qulnn of the S.
T. A-C club. He la matelimaker
of the club and han lined up a
stellar card for his season's
opener.
The College of Piiget Sound re
ports that it will not play foot
ball on Thanksgiving thin year.
"Togo" Smith, one of Tacoma'N
beat amateur pitchers, master
of tlio famous "spit-ball," is
keeping In t'lin for next season
by shooting billiards at Jim
my's Old Tucoma pool room.
Ho is said to be iv a class by
himself at cracking the ivftries.
Cavanaugh and Mrs. Speivrr
C'onrow and Mrs. E. C. Heyuohls
will play.
TODAY'S
MARKET
PRICES
« ♦ ♦*•»♦♦♦•«•*♦♦♦♦»
« WHAT r.Ki MI.KItH PAY ♦
rou.Tin
Hem, live, light ll@l3o
11. in. live, heavy }f(i*°
Ducka, live 119i:ic
i-'i'. •iirlnss, llv« lSfflflV
Ueeß6 ditsyed I^t/IK'
BCTTER, KGGS, CHEESE
Freßli ft. ■! .ik • ' t K.i 47c
fold storage eKgs , Itfi
Washington cheuse 20c
Tlllaniook 20c
Whsli. creamery butter .18c
Swiss dom 2»c
Cream brick clieese 26c
\\ M"l I -M i: MEATS
Hi Iferi , 12c
Uutloß, wethers It'
Hogs, side 17fcc
Drensed hogs Ho
Stier beef "34c
Liwes 110
lings 15c
Vc-hI 13',i0
miiiT
Lemons $506
Bananas, lb So
Oranges, by sice $3.5094.71
Blackberries, crate 11.00
Cantaloupes, crate f 1.00
i'ii'i-;i !:>!•■'. doz. $1.705j:
'■hi grape f ru lt ii.7SO.rn'
Peaches, Wash $s®7S''
Prunes, box 40c
Orapes $1.2501.tn
Local pear*, box 7Bc
Apples, cookers SBiJiSr..
Oravenstelns, box $191.25
Orabapples, box |1.23
Wlnesap apples II
N. i.'niii'i 11.i601.50
Huckleberries, lb 6c
Concord (ci'iipes, basket 28c
Ground cherries 10<.'
Quinces, box $1.25
* I LI T\lll 1-9
New potato* I, local, ton $30
Yaklina potatoes, ton 137
Onions. Yaklma $2.65
Canon, lack $l.i(
Lettuce, head, am tOe
Radishes, local, do>. bunches.. 20c
Rutabaga*, cwt $1.80
California Happen, lb —it
•m. i retail, lb. io|
I'm MiiilifiK. doz tt& sfv
Beets. -«ack $1,211
Tomatoes |0o I
Ht rl iik beans, lb Jl2e
Pea*, lb J2c
Turnip*, sack flit
Cabbage, home grown, lb ltto
Green Corn, dos iio
Sweet potatoes, lb J%o
Celery, doz. bu 60<i
Cauliflower, dot .* $1.25
Egßplunt. lb So
HqiiHßli, lb IH'-
IU; ■ n.irl.. lb , lc
Pumpkin*, lb ljv
Artichokes, lb JOe
:xoun
Amoral »'V. rtfl
I'vramld %\K
|I>rlft»il Snow $7.« ri
<H.vmplc $7.»r,
Occident $10.H0
Lyun'a Bent |10.Sn
Keystone full wheat $7.15
HAY *>n <n \l\
Corn $44 ©r,
Bran $25
Vived Timothy >...stM9ti\
'Whole Oats |
'"I ley >
".llllnil I**
Khort« $2«
Timothy $22
Wlient, ton $4900(1
AlfalU htftiol
Rolled Oats $16!
Hops, IDU trop, lb lie
Famous Movie Actress Tells Why
Crop of Bachelors Is Growing
BY MAHKI. X(HIMAM)
i \ni«|,ii|.. r I Intel in I-.- AsKoclllllonl
Are the home-making qualities
of girls of the present generation
less developed thnn those of girls
of earlier periods?
This question is one often ask
ed and much discussed. It has
been the theme for innumerable
lectures before schools and clubs,
and the consideration of many a
young man contemplating matri
mony.
It is decidedly a fact that there
Some Dancing
at Colonial
To lovers of dancing the names
of M. Maurice and Florence Wal
ton are well-known. This famous
I pair are noted throughout Eu
| rope and America for their skill
lin terpslchorean endeavor. In
"The Quent of Life," photoplay
attraction at the Colonial today,
they are featured in the leading
1 roles.
In addition to showing many
of the greatest dances of the day
photoplay tells an Interesting
! story. A young girl afflicted with
i tuberculosis, and with but one
year to live, decides to devote the
twelve months to mad pleasure.
What happens to her during
the year, and how she is cured
'of the disease is revealed in five
Interesting reels.
In a thrilling melodrama of
! Western life, "The Beast," Oeo.
< Wal.-ii, the Fox •tar is also iv.i
, tured on the new program. This
'photoplay Is a full-length attrac
tion, making ten reels of picture*
lon the new bill.
TIKN TO THK CTAHHIFIKdI
WAXT ADH ON I'AGK 7 FOR
ItKSII.TS. HKK FA<;k HKVKN,
are a greater proportion oi bach
elors, and consequently "bachrl
or" girls, too, today than there
were in the past—a condition
which sfems to answer the ques
tion in the affirmative.
With domestic science one of
i the principal branches bf our
schools today, it seems hard to
arrive at a logical explanation of
, the circumstances responsible Tor
this backwardness in the arts of
the home.
My opinion is that in the busi-
WHERE TACOMA IS
AMUSING ITSELF
Theaters
TAOOMA
Coming—"Tlio Garden of
Allah," and "Kxperlence."
PAXTAGEB
Herbert Unyd and his
"Pearlier In Pawn;" other good'
vaudeville.
Film Houses
COLONIAL
"The Que«t of Life," with
Maurice and Florence Walton.
itPOU/0
"The < ••hum. .ll I,aw," with
Clara Kimhall V»uim; Nelznlck.
HIPPODHOMK
llw- Diamond Hunner*,"
with Helen llolmea.
RKUKNT
"Manhattan MndntMM," with
Oouglan Kairhankn; Triangle.
Ml I itni lt\i:
"The ItllndiK'ss of Virtue,"
l-iliiu Mayo and Kryant Waxh
hurn.
TI'HN TO THK OLANBFIBD
WANT AI>H ON PACJK 7 FOII
KKHILTH. HKK PAOK MCVKX.
ness world activities of present
day girls lies the real leason for
the decline of housekeeping ef
ficiency.
Unfortuntely, girls of today are
trained for business careens, not
home-making. It Is true that this
has tended to make our Hex more
Independent economically, but it
is doubtful if it has increased the
essential elements of happiness
and contentment.
In other instance?, girls allow
themselves to become dominated
450 People
In Big Scene
There have been cabaret scenes
and lobster palace acts done tor
the movie by the score, but never
has there been such elaborate,
such a magnificent and altogeth
er stunning presentation of this
kind as that of the New Year's
eve scenes In "The Common Law"
at the Apollo.
Director General Capellani em
ployed 4.0 extra people In even
ing clothes for these elaborate
scenes. The setting was an ox
act replica of a popular New York
cafe In the white light district.
Two orchestras furnished the
music and an a final touch of real
ism 12 cases of champagne were
provided.
OLYMPIA-TACOMA-DUPONT
STAOE
l.cnvi s Taroma l,iwr« Olympla
Donnelly Hotel Kneelund HoU'l
6:00 A. M. 8:00 A. M.
11:00 A. M. 1:00 I 1 M
1:00 P. M. 4:00 P. M.
4:00 P. M. 6:80 P. M.
0:00 P. M.
Subject to Change Without
Notice.
' I I'HOXK: MAIN 762
Wednesday, Oct. 96,1916.
A Page of Timely
Sports and
Amusements
• • •
Edited i>y
Eddie Peters
by a desire to scale the social
ladder, to the detriment of every
other thought or idea, forgetting
that they, like all other members
of their xex, were Intended from
the dawn of creation to be wives
and mothers.
Woman's sphere is the I i«
and girls should be trained with
this fact in mind. Domestic sci
ence In the schools spells a won
derful advance In the facilities
for education, but It can't offset
a home Influence that obstinately,
refuses to acknowledge Its need.
Last Day of
Big Madness
"Manhattan Madness," In whtdf
Douglas Fairbanks is starring at
tlie Regent, will close Wednesday
nii'.lii iind Thursday Howard I lick-*
man and Dorothy Dalton will ap
pear in "The Jungle Child."
Fairbanks, backed by another
of lil;- unusually good scenarios,
hag drawn big crowds at the Re
gent for every performance,
skilled in the arts of pugilism ami
jul jiisn. he has a different sort
of knockout for every victim.
KATONvnTTK-KAI'O^SWT"™
TACOMA STAGE
Leaves hut..mill* dully, ex*
cept Sunday, H a. m., | p. m .,
8:80 p. in. liMVM Eatonvlll*
Sunday, 8 a. m., a p. m., 7
p. in.
Leaves Tacoma ilniiy, 8 a .
m., 1 p. in., 4 p. m. Leave*
Tflcoma Sunday, H a, in., 4 p.
ni . B: in p. m.
Saturday evening apodal leave.*
KutonvlUe 7 p. m.j leaves Ta
cuma 7:IH p. m.
Starta from Schornfclri'i
■tore, 11th wt., opp. pootofflce.