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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
PLAY ON FREE LANCE
SCHEDULE THIS YEAR
Schools in County Football League
Opposed to Regularly Arranged
Games and VIII Go 1t on
Their Own Hook

The prospects are that there will be
no county league football schedule this
year, but that the various schools IN
that league will arrange dual agree
ments with each other and no general
system will be followed, as the sched-
ules drawn up by the league commit
tees In the past never have proved
satisfactory to all parties concerned
and there always has been kick
somewhere along the line. Hence this
wear it has been decided that the com
mitteemen will not bother their heads
schools frame up their own matches
Coach Boren of Harvard. who is sec
retary, has written to the schools IN
the league, asking whether they would
like to have a schedule of games nnaoe
ont bv the committee, but the answers
received in the main have been in the
NEGATIVE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
Gossip of

r1oN Of the story of finish fight having
ARRANGED between Tommy Burns a and Jack John
is had in cabegram Burns TO his brother-in-law
Ia rfS sSd nIsaybere in this issue that he and
matched for n,sh o get as o rRess a
tails sound more reasonable than those that have been
published he this BSTns aar mas n holding off from
match with tn o Sean l beced S to gns the like
which no fighter has been forced to accept Wmle
be fought in America that Burns i to prove
the world that he is not afraid Of ne og th ttj ho
will fight negro nowadays and after ne Whps M & Jonnson @
his wife srenuousy objects to- her hubby sntas n
eesS The tn ems 5s hS to the
has water mark in the matter OF purses @ anG
Received as much as $4,000 win lose draw for
n he nsvsT peceSed 5000 in ali his life
for dozen scraps.
As critical judge of fighters Jefries the.
opinion tot Burns viii & win Il IN & Hs ngh n uTns Johnson
would be materially favored in short limited fight while
Jaw cool head terrific wailop and aggressveness that
the I % 10ud h h EVEN 10 against
one johnson, will aid him in his defensive
as famous and deadly as the shift Keche He
has knockout waop ana 6hoe ne nea an
for unfortunate Tommy never has allowed an
Ss Of s'pE s's xaop
the ring ges Il @ me for ps the Curtains
may have had enemies in the world before this
world will pull for him to win, as 1t will be case of
game fighter against big coward and fighter with
yellow label had much OF Following In the
high private ranks
Koestner whom Berry secured from the Three Eye
league the record In the Coast league last
Sunday when he Oakland batters He
won his game chiefly through this recordmalng stunt
Since then the northern baseball writer's have
handing Koestner all sorts Of printed bouquets and
undoubtedly Berry zeal glad that the drafting season
is over.
Jim Barry, the big heavyweight youth the east.
who Bat johnson ten-round route october
place Fe avenue and the big boy looked
so good well trained and fast and snappy in his
appeared good training heretofore, and he is
confident Jim will get rapid boost up the ladder by
IS rejoicing every day the results
of his work at Follows He has fully recovered
from the effects OF the operation on his nose and is get
and will be ashamed of himself IL he
let's Barry stick the distance This should make great
scrap and opinions the fans varied.
Mrs Nancy Trevelyan widow of the late Judge Fran
e dsys So n v after oes
illness She survived her distinguished husband only
few months.
Quite large number horsemen racing in Ken
lucky their intention of shipping direct
racing winter will be Miller
Henderson c. c. Van Meter Tom Mcdowell, Amos Tur-
hey, Fred Cook and Rome Respess.
While the hurdle always have furnished fair
made because this branch Of the racing game will
resumed at Santa Anita. Steeplechase affairs In the
south always have been regarded with @ sas
time the field approaches Jump mars the popular en-
1oyment of the events The spectacular game stay
dead long time far the average pker Is concerned
Jeffries announces that he will begin train
ing local club week. He and Freddie Maer viii
work both that the principal object to
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
BOXING PROGRAM TONIGHT
PRELIMINARIES
TITLE fellows will entertain to

TITLE fellows will entertain to-
night at McCarey's pavilion, and
\ the card, consisting in four bouts
and twenty-eight rounds of boxing,
should furnish the fans with plenty of
rough house and good, clean fighting.
Leonard Lauder, the unbeaten local
Louis will be in the points in the main
event, and a prettier match would be
hard to arrange. These boys will meet
at 130 pounds, which weight they will
make at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and
will be at or near to the lightweight
limit when time is called.
This scrap is in the nature of a re-
turn match, as they fought twenty
rounds to a draw few weeks ago at
San Pedro at the same weight, but II
probably will be a livelier session than
that at the seaside club. Each pro-
fesses to believe that he was given the
worst of 1t by Referee Walsh In the
previous battle and promises that the
scrap tonight, although only half as
long In limit, shall leave no possible
chance for any doubt as to who is who
between them.
Inasmuch as the winner will draw
another prize In a match with Phil
Brock in the lightweight elimination
series that Manager McCarey has be-
gun, and both boys want to earn the
match, they will level tonight. And,
since each knows about what the other
fellow can do in the fighting line and
both promise to mix 1t from the first
tap of the gong, they should be able to
arrive at a decisive result within the
limit.
Trendall is a. clever boxer in way,
but not in the sense that Lauder is
clever. His long suit is slugging, and
he is some fighter at the rough house
game. He put up finish with Lauder
in the last five rounds of their San
Pedro scrap that made things look
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25

hung that the car number will be plainly
visible.
Most of the 100 owners OF automobiles around
Great Bend. Kas., have Joined club to pro-
mote good roads and have succeeded already
in getting some improvements.
An official map of the Grand Prix course
at Savannah is being distributed by many Of
the business men Of that city along with their
regular correspondence.
Experiments that have been recently made
have proved that the motor car Is one of the
Lest preventatives Of tuberculosis rapid NOV
ing through air placing the body in better con-
d1tion to resist the bacillus.
closed car of American make that has
just been delivered at Boston is lighted from
the top with electricity inclosed in a frosted
dome and a register in the floor that can be
oIened and closed affords means OF heating.
The Connecticut State Fair association ex-
cluded all moving automobiles from the
grounds but 1t was not a case OF discrimina-
ton, for other vehicles were shut out, too, 1t
being considered dangerous in view of the vast
crowds to have any wheel traffic inside the
grounds.
road on which every little noise is echoed
and re-echoed always makes an automobile s
speed seem far greater than 1t is IN reality,
a fact that accounts for many cars going at
high rate OF speed on open country highways
without the driver being aware OF his speed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
The RiaItO
By Jay Davidson

m tta,nsd viii be the of their surplus avoir-
SSs SpVs as HRP1G a Tfo
% @ has has ao S ds@ o in the a e
years detrimental to his health and he wiz seek now
regular routine Of gymnasium ran ,~ work m He will not Of
do any 3 be an poon rs te
daily routine
Freddie welsh win go into training in Santa
oOaaon @
month at Maud Junction. when he viii meet the
win the principals Freddie win move from Venice
because he gets better inducements -he canyon
John Brink has purchased automobile expects
acquire art driving the car before the Santa
Anita opens Harry Burt has promised teach
him all there is to know about an auto
Jetrries probably win sell his this week He
property and the prospective buyer Indicated that he
nd % oonnu to saas S half
bosb n @ up three take ysars on ago n
$4,000 for Il but does not blush ot when a ,ns he says that
$4,000 hmS'f IN 0e'nS sen ~ acres '''
Mrs e. r. bought six horses at the dispersal
sale of her husbands large and classy string few days
Bokesy to Be beP acsd next 20 In the lot are
S-year-olds and four yearlings.
The sale of 2. r. Thomas string for s1so7S
have deprecated since the -rading laws Went ino
these laws the stable was valued at $4,000 However
shrOwd horsemen buying instead Of selling and there
conducted on large scale at the New York
sso Will be in Msou ana Illinois haVa
things greatly in the last month.
Barney Schneider has shipped all his metropolitan
string his Woodlands stud in Missouri where the horses
will be kept sbefore being shipped to
coast Herman Brandt viii have charge OF both the north
will a formidable string own. Schreiber and
at both wne with jack An
Chapultepec McGrath good ones in their
barn. Schneider viii ship large number of yearlngs
to the coast, as usual.
Jimmy Rowe trainer James r. Keene's great
stable will have string OF his at Santa Anita
winter bought Suffragette Statesman from
Keene and will add to this string other
good He also will have a small stable horses
for Keene during the winter
duct, Phil Dwyers race track, will open Monday for
week. Dwyer has announced that the dates allotted
other horsemen anxious to be their toward
the land Of the setting before seet begins to fall
Broadway. The dates that Aqueduct will decline
Women sleuths made their appearance week at
the Gravesend meeting but have been failure in
securing evidence is concerned Some men got
hep to the scheme and put everybody else WISE the
found impossible to gather evidence by making
any wagers.
Young Otto failed to show up last week for his
round bout with Kid Locke scheduled before New
club. He by messenger that he had
spraned ankle, but the boxing critics inclined TO
much money in the house. Locke and Sieger the
six rounds to draw.
Amos Turney, one of the most prominent horsemen
the middle west viii ship large string of horses to
his good ones is Martin Doyle a high horse
distance excellent weight carrier This win be
Turney's first visit to the coast
Henry Berry will not from the north until Mon
b robnbly win have ometRng new to report about his
throwdown by Ewing and McCredie.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
LITTLE SCRAPPERS
TAKE NEEDED REST
WoIgast and Webster Cut Out Work
Because of Lack of Provision for
Indoor Training-Both Are
Talking Knockout

A much needed rest was given both
Ad Wolgast and Danny Webster yes
terday when the downpour of drops
made it impossible for the little fellows
to follow their usual custom of work.
ing out in the open. At neither camp
were facilities provided for indoor
stunts, so it was a comparative day OF
leisure all around.
Webster was to have performed at
Horgan hall In the beach town, but a
change of plans at the last minute
caused him TO switch to the Los An
geles Athletic club annex and go
through his workout there. No SPAR
ring partners were to be found, so
Danny plugged along at his best gait
with the punching bag and pulleys. In
ali he put in about half an hour with
the apparatus, but it was enough to
keep him from taking on too much
| weight.
Both Danny and his manager, "Bad
Bill' Aldridge, are highly pleased with
the condition of the coast champion.
| Although he is a little light, Danny
| feels better than he ever did before, and
| Is confidence personified. Just trust to
little Daniel to bring home the pork, y
he says. 81 understand that Wolgast Is
a slugger, and If such Is the case we
will not be at each other long. / am
going right in to fight him at his own
game, and it will be a case of biff!
bang! until one of us takes the count
And 1t won't be one Webster, either.
Webster's talk does not>seem to dis
concert Wolgast in the least, and the
Milwaukee representative kept on plug
ging away at Maurice Sayers' and dab
bling around with the gymnasium stuff
which could be lugged indoors. Never
i lit h tNrnsf
he would say. II can do a little rapid
work in the slugging line, go 1t is cur
tains for the pride of California If he
starts in to mix with me-" and with
that Ad seemed to think he had spoken
mouthful
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25

gloomy over in LADDERS corner, and he
should be good enough, at least, to
worry Len a little.
Lauder recently has grown in con-
f1dence in his punch and has shown a
disposition to adapt his milling to that
of his opponent, boxing cleyerly with a
boxer and slugging with fighter. The
fact that he never has been beaten
shows how well he has fought at all
times and gives a fair line on his
abilities both as boxer and slugger.
Norman Stone and Willie Mack Will
open the show, and as both boys have
performed in the local ring, the fans
have a fair idea of what to expect.
Stone is an aggressive chap, a fast
fighter, while all this can be said of his
opponent; SO their bout should be a
hummer, and as starter of enthus1-
asm it Is properly placed on the pro-
gram.
Bubbles Robinson is the negro mar
vel who has surprised the fans so fire.
Quently with his clever, cool-headed
work in the ring. He will tackle an
other clever lad in Earl Sain, the tow
headed chap from Pasadena who has
fought several times at Maud Junction
Walter Fisher of San Bernardino,
who won his previous and first out re-
Gently in the Maud ring, will take on
Kid Snyder in the windup prelim.
Fisher Is the revised edition of Bat
ting Nelson, fighting along the same
awkward but aggressive lines as the
lightweight champion. He is not ex-
traordinarily clever, but is game and
can hit a few.
Charlie Eyton will adjudge the main
event and George Blake will make his
debut as official prelim referee for the
club in handling the preliminary bouts.
The first bout will be called at SIS
o'clock and the others will follow with
out any delay. Handicapped Hancock
is hustler and never allows any an
moving DELAYS betMeen bouts.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
HARVARD HOPES NOW
ARE AT HIGH TIDE
Soldier Boys Showing UP Beautifully
lin Preliminary Practice, and
Coach Boren Is Talking In
Enthusiastic Vein

'I think Harvard has better pros
poets for a winning football team this
year than last, but if 1t is~as good as
it was last year 1 shall be satisfied
said Coach Boren at the military
academy yesterday. Practice was billed
to start then, but the excessive regis
tration caused the first practice TO De
postponed until this afternoon.
So far no games have been scheduled
but the soldier coach expressed a Will
ingness to meet any high or prep
school of the south. Negotiations arc
on for two games with San Diego high
school, but nothing definite has beer
settled as yet.
Rogers, an end from Western mill
tary academy, Missouri, and Cotton, 3
guard from Long Beach, are the prom
ising new ones. while from the second
team Patterson will be drafted for hail
and Beach for tackle Caruthers, a
new man from Pomona 9prep" also Is
looked upon to come through for a line
position Capt. Davids will play one
half and Thorpe will go in for quarter
back honors. Ringe, right guard, Eyre,
right end, and Heath, left tackle, are
the only other veterans on the team
although Robb, the noted track man,
has expressed his intention of making
the team.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
BLOOMER GIRLS PLAY
CHUTES PARK TODAY

The Bloomer Girls baseball team will
play the last game in Southern Califor-
MIA this afternoon when they meet the
Chutes club at Chutes park, the game
being called at 2:9O o'clock, weather
permitting. The first time the Bloomer
Girls played the Chutes aggregation
they were defeated by the score of 10
to s, while in the second game the girls
won nv fhe score of 6 to T. George Ely,
the one-arm wonder of the Salt Lake
team, will twirl for the Chutes team
and the opposing slabster will be
"Chowchow' Allen, who will appear in
a wig on the diamond. After today's
game the Bloomer team will go to Ven
tura to play the Ventura team Sunday.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25

out with the Utah "Aggies," while the
Los Angeles high school eleven will try
to put 1t over Occidental as they did
last season. Ey that time Coach Noble
hopes to have Stan" Mitchell in the
game and classy article of football
should be furnished in both contests.
The Saints and the "Aggies" will play
one half with the high school and the
Presbyterians following, while the 9TH
ers rest, and so on for both halves.
Wanted-An assistant coach to take
charge of the second team and see that
sufficient practice. This is the sign
displayed at st. Vincent's college by
Head Coach Walter Hempel. The Vim
centian coach Is looking for some coll
lege man who has had more or less
experience on the gridiron and who is
fully capable to school the Catholic
scrubs in the science of mass plays
and forward passes in order to make
the varsity strain themselves to score
a touchdown in practice. Physical
Director Moeres is at present direct
ing the movements of the second team,
but his calisthentic duties prevent him
from giving it his full attention, and
as Coach Hempel is planning an east
ern trip he is after someone he can
ieaVe III charge at tnat TIME.
]. Pluvius. referee blew his whistle
yesterday afternoon and called ''time
out" for the local football elevens in
practice on city gridirons and delayed
the start of the 1908 season for the
Harvard military school, Polytechnic
and Los Angeles high school teams for
another day. The u. S. @. and Po-
mona squads failed to turn out. but
the inclement weather refused to daunt
Walter Hempel at the Grand avenue
college, whoN asserted that the rain
would only stimulate the men to faster
practice After the rains are over
however, the local fields. where the
various squads hold their nightly prac-
-tice, will be in better shape, for the
dust will have been settled and plow-
ing will be less difficult.
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
BURNS CONFIRMS HIS
MATCH WITH JOHNSON
IBy Associated Press. j

IHJ FA7SOUINssu HIebs'1
= OAKLAND, Sept. 24.-Larry I
+ Keating. manager Of the Columbia 4
= theater, received a cablegram .
= from Tommy Burns, the cham 4
i pion. wLo is his brother-in-law, I.
! today,s stating that he had been Z
! matched to meet Jack johnson In 4,
i Australia in December for purse Z
! of $4,000. OF this, Burns is to Z
! get $4,000 and Johnson $4,000, win 4
+ or lose. He has also sent to +
> Keating to come on and act as his +
II manager, 4,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
SAINTS ELEVEN
OUT AT SUNRISE
COACH HEMPEL ADOPTS NEW
METHODS
BELIEVES EARLY MORNING WORK
Is BENEFICIAL
Proposes to Have Winning Team II
Systematic and Faithful Efforts
viii Bring About Such a
Happy Result
BY II. HAMMOND BEALL

Walter Hempel, the dean of football
in Southern California, has started a
new wrinkle in gridiron doings by
calling his men together at $3.50 every
morning for "the sunrise practice" as
the warriors facetiously term 1t. The
candidates for the eleven are to be
made to run from one to three miles
for the next ten days to develop their
wind. Every morning, rain or shine
squad of fifteen footballers can be
seen hitting the cinder path in track
suits and spikes out at the Catholic
college, If you care to arise in time.
Later on Hemp" intends to put the
men through signal practice at early
dawn, with a possibility of scrlmmage
at some future date. This in no way
is to interfere with the regular work.
out, which will be pulled off every
night whether the elements favor or
not. Hempel intends, If practice shall
make a winning eleven that the Saints
shall have the pennant tucked away
for sure.
No expense has been spared to make
the Catholic team the best and most
modernly equipped squad in the state
Over $400 has been spent so far, which
apportions at about $50 man. Every
player has been fitted out with the
new union suit. head guards, silk
ankle braces and extra pads. said
Hempel, in speaking of the matter:
want my men to have all the protec-.
ton that can be secured for them and
have pride in knowing that my
team will appear TO good advantage on
the field and not look like bunch OF
farmers"
So far the Saints have been unable
to secure any practice games, although
match may be carded with the U. s.
c. law school eleven, If the latter team
materializes.
A double header of football at Fiesta
park for November IA Is the news that
should bring Joy to the hearts of all
gridiron fans. Coaches Hempel and
Noble got together yesterday and
framed up a four-team contest for
tI.o+ date St Uinceutga will fight ii
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
Over rour carloads Of Pianos Sold

Last week the Bartlett Music COM
pany sold sixty-five pianos in six days.
Sale still on. Double receipt for first
payment up to $4,000. A. b. Chase,
Kimball, Schumann, Pease. Everything
in the house included. Open nights.
BARTLETT MUSIC CO., 231 So. Broad
way, opposite city hall. S-z4-X
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
RELFAsr SPIDER is DEAD

sOMERVILLE, Mass, Sept. "a
Isaac o. Weir who as Ike Weir the
Belfast Spider won the featherwelgh1
boxing championship of the world
twenty years ago, died today at his
home in this city after an illness of
nearly three years. He leaves a widow.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25
DAVIS GETS TWO
LINES FOR WEST
LOCAL AUTO MAN HAS THE
PREMIER AND RAPID
EXPECTS TO BOOM COMMERCIAL
VEHICLE BUSINESS
J. o. Hurley, Vice President of the
Thor Motorcycle Company, Is in
Los Angeles - Company
Has Good Year
By FREDERIC PABsT

Charles A. Davis, who has been iden-
titled with different branches of the
automobile industry on the coast for
several years, has returned from the
east, where he has been making the
rounds of the factories for the past two
months.
Mr.. Davis has closed for the entire
western territory for the Premier and
Rapid lines. He will act as western
representatives for these companies,
and is now placing agencies along the
coast.
The Premier cars are well known.
Several touring cars and runabout
models are made.
The Rapid is a commercial vehicle
which has had a big call in the east,
and Mr.. Davis expects to dispose OF
many in the western territory.
Every man in the industry realizes
that the commercial car has a great
future" said Mr.. Davis. up to the
present, users of large trucks have been
backward, but the Rapid company mas
made a complete study of this end of
the industry and is in position to
turn out the best machine for CONNER
cial work"
r. NJ. Bowser, the Tourist and Good
year tire agent in San Diego, was in
Bowser says the number of entries
from San Diego for the 1910 Tourist
tour will be large.
]. d. Hurley, vice president of the
Thor Motorcycle company, is in the
city. Mr.. Hurley says the Thor has had
a great year, and the future prospects
are the brightest. Mr.. Hurley is
pleased with business conditions in the
west. He says his company will put
out belt driven as well as a chain
driven machine next year.
George H. Strout, sales manager fol-
the Apperson company, will leave to-
day for San Francisco.
AMERICAS MOTOR WORLD
English brown is the very latest thing fol
the finish of an automobile.
The dog catcher Of Worcester Mass. now
n axes his rounds IN an automobile
BY the first Of next month Massachusetts
will have 700 miles Of state highway.
Repaired tires will do better on front wheels
of the car because there is less strain there
A rush order has been placed for forty more
taxicabs in Boston, making seventy in all, for
use by one company in that city.
From June. 1905, to September of this year.
Main has received $14,6S6 from the various
fees for automobiling In that state.
Manufacturers are talking now as though
there were assurances that the 1909 season is to
be the best that the trade has ever had
Fake constables have been holding up auto
,nobilists at haywood just outside Chicago,
and collecting from them whatever they could.
One OF the manufacturers has car at De-
trolt running 200 miles q day for 100 days, and
SO far 1t has not had a sign Of a mishap.
II is hoped TO have the leading automobile
sIxty-one minutes from Salt Lake to Ogden
in an automobile is the latest record being
,oanufaoturers of the country meet IN conven'
lion during the Grand Prix week at Savannah
The mark police of Chicago are rlgidly en-
foreine the ordinance requiring tail lights 81
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25

Venice villas and bungalows-reduced
rates.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-25

Venice villas apd bungalows-reduced
rates.