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FRUTTvALE REAL ESTATE

OWING 10 sickness / am desirOus OF selling q
store. with rooms in rear OF store, corner
lot 7Jkll3. stock OF general merchandise. tx
lures furniture. horse and wagon stable and
other buildings. property all fenced every
thing is new; this Is a bargain: must be sold
quick. price 5000. JOHN SAPOS. 32ls Red
wood read. Fruitvale.
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BIRTHS

this city, December -, 1905,
TO the wife OF Henry Hillebrsnd, son.
this city, To the wife OF Percy
Z. Kisner (nee Mowdesl. son,
LASGER-In this city. TO the wife OF DR.. S. R.
LANCER, son
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HELD on FORGERY CHARGES

Fred Carlton. an electrician. was held
for trial by Police Judge COnlan yes
terday on two charges OF forgery.
Carlton while employed making repairs
in the Office OF the Franklin machine
company stole i've blank checks signed
by the president and forged the sec
retary's name 10 them He passed one
OF them on J. J. Gildea. clOthier. and
another on the McWard clothing
company.
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ONLY A THOUSAND DOLLARS
90 cssh Is required 10 buy a beautiful home
for which the owner refused S3,o0O after the
san Francisco fre- when be didn't want 10
sell. Il hss l. and Tss built regard
less Of expense Price reduced 10 S6.Se0. all
of which, except $1,000. can remain on mort
We have Numerous desirable country prop
critics 10 exehsuge for Oakland or Berkeley
join 7. BELL & son. 5o4 sixteenth St
DOES ms SOUND REALg
A few lots IN Piedmont with unexeelled view
macsdaIized streets. car ! block from Slo 10
worth double this now: think what ii VIII bring
next year. such offers seldom made 20 the
public; II you are interested call or write within
GILBERT P. HALY.
Room cn1. Uuion Savings Bank building. OAK
land Cal Phone Oakland SslT.
SPECIAL
TWO story room house. large porcbes. nearly
new. thoroughly modern. only one block from
two car lines. iot 4lxi50 Oh high ground.
arst class district convenient 10 schools not
far from business property: street work com
plete; must sell as The owner - going 20
los Angeles. Can lie had on very easy terms
Price $500. D. F. MiNNEf, z22 llth ST,
Oakland
TT-RN over new leaf. why pay rent when
ron car buy uew room modern house on
18th av- csrline for $3.50 cash and monthly
paymeats less than rent which includes in
rerest, lot 5oxlOO We have other cottages
in Oakland sud FrutVale OF : and rooms
m same terms; prices from 81 500 to $500.
II-TTRELL & co. 1867 Broadway. Oakland
READ THIS BARGAIN.
Five room high basement cottage: lot c5xli5
feet blocks from line. 10 minutes from
18Th and Broadway. price Sl-lo0s VIII accept
part cash or ira de for good horses.
d. n JOHNSON.
BuckeTe Stables. 18th and Broadway. Oakland-
RENT asyer listen. 500 down. $50 per month
VIII buT z 81 400 room cottage. street work.
sidewalks in. Address is2e Broadway Oakland.
HOMES on monthly payments: banking Interest
we VIII build or bur you a home. Pacific
Home Building Co. s52 broadway. oakland
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poo1.RooM Was FINED

Joseph Rothschild. proprietor OF a
Convicted by Police Judge Deasy yes
terday and vas fined $50. He gave no
tice OF appeal.
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MARRIAGES

this city January
q. 1908 by Frank Stuart Ford. pastor OF First
Christian church. Oscar $. Rosenberg and Mol
lie Spencer, both OF San Francisco.
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ANTED-Properfy ia and around Oakland
either vacant OF improved; any price a. long
a. the value is there 20 exchange can
handle any proposition of merit as make
This specially D. p NINNEN. ~ It'll
= oakland
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REAL ESTATE
OAKLAND REAL ESTATE

LOT IN Piedmont vista 39xlI2 feet: 1 block
from Oaklsnd az. csr line and sbOut blocks
from Piedmont station Of the Key Route; this
Is ideal loeati0n for 2 home; IS sifuate on
high ground and has a beautiful view: terms
Sz5U cash and balance Of $500 IN monthly pay
uents OF So including interest Address box
1872 Call Office san Francisco.
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WINN-APPLEDoRN-J J.. winn. .
Fresno. and Lencha Appledorn. IL. Oakland.
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DO H0u Want S5.O0s
Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page IL.
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FIRNITURE FoR sALE

BE in timc-Furniture and household goods. Jar
uarT sale. every article must goc $4,000
worth % goods 20 choose from. H SCHELI-
HAAS. The Busy Cc-ner. 1lth aRd Franklin
sts-- Oakland
; ss51-FTNE furuishInex. room house. KEY
10 ISL IL. ua-r Ielograrh. Oakland
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.TsPEwRTrERS AND SUPPLIES

AEW aal second band lgpewrlte-s bought aud
E0 q. rented repaired guaranteed. SMITH
BROS. sGe 18th 81 EGoHe Oakland -
GE9 r MERRT-Smlth Premier agent: al
MO -elai-el- Sc BEoadwaE. osklsn1-
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FOR SALE Wanted

ELECTRIC PIANOS
HAAPS-l Peerless. like neE. $40: ! electric
banjo. lke new. $3.50. terms or cash discount
FAN BROS. 37-h and San Pablo aF.. Oak
and Iielm0rf aCzc
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PRINCE. 1s17. 50. Berkeley-3 room apartment.
reer sunny. modern 8 P KEY Route Oak.
l1ud cars convenient; adults preferred; cheap
ro rcL- parties.
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APARTMENTS

oil. IHE STETTINER.
-es. furnished and uuturl shed. every com
u. stl elegance. attracting the most refined
- o-------e ---l--o--- 3. End Ie-egrana aE
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RFAD THIS RARGAIN

Five room. high basement cottage. lot -5xll5
feet. blocks from car line 10 minutes from
isth and Broadway: price Sllo0; VIII accept
part cash OF trade for good horses.
d. N JOHNSON.
Rrrkere Srnhlae lath and BrcadNsE. Oakland.
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BUSINESS CARDS

NESE DayHork Co.. 6Io T. 18th 50, Earf
land niis.l.4-s Merritt .sGsS. B-iG's2-
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OAKLAND PROPERTY WANTED

HOMES On monthly payments: banking interest
ne VIII build or buv yOu a home Pacih'
Home Building Co. 952 broadway. Oakland
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-21

history of the ring have performed SO
evenly from first to last.
The impression was created that
Webster was favored to some extent
by the newspaper referee of Los An
geles, but after seeing Monte and Dan
ny in action at Dreamland Friday
night the local experts are quite salts
fled that Webster is at least Monies
equal in everything pertaining to the
game of fists.
OF course the two little fellows will
be matched again. 1t was remarked
after their recent go that the lads are
a better card now in San Francisco
than they were before they entered the
ring at Dreamland. The men who pay
to watch fights know good thing
when they see it, and if some enter
prising promoter signed up Attell and
Webster for the first month in the
coming year, he would find it a pay
ing investment
AS matters stand the title of bantam
champion of the United States belongs
to no man. Attell claimed it and,
assuming that he had the right to do
so before he tackled Webster, the af-
fair the other night places the laurels
of the bantam division in escraW, as
it were The boys must fight again
and the sooner the better.
Nothing having been heard of Jim
Jeffries attack of lumbago within the
last As hours, it is to be presumed
that the big fellows ailment is leaving
him or at any rate is not getting any
worse Jeff will have to take care of
his health from now on, and it is to
be hoped for the sake of Tex Richard
and Jack GleasOn-to say nothing OF
Jack Johnson-that tie big fellow
will be free from all kinds of attacks
between now and July and be per-
mitted to enjoy an uninterrupted sea-
son of training.
Who are to be the promoters next
year? This question is heard very
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mo WOWLL
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around the oval, the runner stopped,
seized a pole lying in the Enclosure and
did a pole vault that made the eyes
of some of the CrimsOns seasoned
trackmen bulge with wonder. After
several vaults, all of them well up TO
the ten foot mark, he made a run
ming broad jump that brought joy TO
some of the coaches standing near.
Several days later, according to one OF
the Harvard men, he ran hundred
Yards in 1915 seconds. When Ii was
at Pie Yang university, at Tientsin, ne
was captain of the sOcker team for
three years and also leader of the
track team and was known as gym
mast of ability. Personally Ii is much
above the average height of the Chi
namen, standing nearly six feet He Is
a typical track man, long in the legs
stockv about the waist and slight
about the upper body.
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often up and down the sporting line
and while there are all kinds of ru-
mors in circulation. there is nothing to
indicate with any degree of certainty
who will be favored by the new board
of supervisors.
1t is to be hoped for the sake of the
public and the welfare of the sport of
the glove that men who know how to
make matches and conduct them will
be given the handling of pugilism. 1t
will mean better sport and better re-
suits all around, and, for that matter,
after the experiences of 1909, it is
doubtful if anyone with no experience
to begin with would care to become
a pugilstic impresario in San Fran
cisco 1t is said that not one of the
clubs which conducted bouts during
the year that is ending has a dollar of
profit to show for all the work and
worry undertaken.
The warmth of the reception accord
ed Bob FitzsimmOns on his return to
Australia must have been extremely
gratifying to the veteran pugilist. The
clans of sportdom assembled at one
of Sydneys hotels and Fitzsimmons
was given a welcome home" There
were speeches galore. In one of them
a newspaper critic referred to the day
twenty years ago when Fitzsimmons
left Australia with all his belongings
tied up sin a red pocket handkerchief
He said the colonies had watched FitZ
career with pride and were always
gratified at his triumphs.
In his response F'itz referred to Sgd
ney as the kindliest city in the world
He said he always remembered hat he
had received his early ring training in
Sydney and it made him feel proud to
think that he had been able to uphold
the name of Australia in other parts
of the world.
Fitz is matched to box Bill Lang for
the championship of Australia at Hugh
McIntoshs club on December q.
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Gamfs Won and qost III pffudar Waps

Ball games are won and lost in
many peculiar ways.
Often a pitcher goes into a game
with everything at his command, and
gets batted all over the fled.
A few days later the same pitcher
may be selected to work, and, in the
language of the diamond, have moth
ing, yet he scores an easy victory.
Perhaps no person is better able to
Judge a pitchers work than the cat
cher and umpire. l have often mar
weed at the way some pitcher would
get away with a shut-out game with
a very limited assortment of curves
and speed, and been equally aston
ished at the way the opposing pitcher,
who appeard to have everything,
would be hit.
However, it is the unexpected that
makes base ball.
Addie Joss of the Cleveland team
has won and lost many a tough game
in his career, but it's questionable if
he ever dropped harder one than he
did to Washington late last summer.
Joss was opposed to Johnson, and
these two great twirlers were at their
best. Both had terrific speed and a
fast breaking curve. which means the
batters were doing mighty little exc
cution.
Through little breaks in luck each
team acquired a run early in the
game. When Washington went to the
bat for the last half of the eighth in
ming JOSS was going so good it seemed
as if the contest would surely go into
extra innings.
The first man up hit little fly to
center fled that under ordinary con-
ditions would have been the easiest
kind of a chance for Elmer Flick, who
was paying the position. 1t was the
first game of a double header, and
the sun was directly in the center
tielders eyes. Elmer lost the pop fly
entirely and the batter made two bas-
es. The next man sacrificed, while
the following one sent a long fly to
the outfield. on which the runner
scored Cleveland failed to score in
the ninth. and the game was over.
1t was sure enough a tough one
for Joss to lose.
Perhaps no pitcher in the history
of the game ever suffered a more cruel
defeat than, did Dolly Gray the south
paw of the Washington team, last
summer.
On August q. Gray opposed the
White Sox at Chicago. and in many
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-21

Considerable interest is being mani
tested in the performances of the two
Nongolan athletes at Harvard uni
yersity Masuda, the Jap, and Kao
Chow Ii, the Chinaman. The men
have been playing socker football since
the season opened, and both have de-
yeIoped surprising quickness. While
Masuda is a very small man, he Is one
Of the fastest men on the varsity team.
In September last he was given a
trial at quarterback on the varsity
Rugby football eleven and showed up
remarkably we'll. Kao Chow Ii, his
side partner, is an all around athlete.
Recently the students on Soldiers field
We're amazed to see a slight. dark
skinned Chinese youth, clad in running
costume. sprinting around the Gin
der path. While his form and rate Of
speed were noticeable in themselves,
the students curiosity was still more
Increased when after a few times
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-21
BLAKENSHIP TRADES
KIPPERT TO SPOKANE

TACOMA, Dec. 21.-The first bit of
real live news for the baseball fans
was made public yesterday when
Manager Cliff Blankenship of the Ia
coma Tigers announced that he had
traded Ed Kippert, the Tigers center
fielder, for Ike Rockenfield, last year
with the Montgomery team in the
Southern league, who played second
base for Tacoma in 1903
The trade for Rockenfield was made
with Spokane. At the close of the past
season Bob Brown, the Spokane man
ager, traded Jack Burnett to Mont
gomery for Rockenfield, who was tired
of playing in the tOrrid climate of the
southern league and wanted to return
to the northwest. Then, as Brown had
a surplus of infielders, while he knew
Tacoma had more outfielders than
could be used he offered Rockenfleld
in exchange for Kippert. The big Ia
coma center fielder is a popular favor
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ways pitched a wonderful game The
scorers gave Pat Dougherty a hit on
drive to Bob Unglaub that he fun
bled, but after the game Unglaub ad-
mitted that he should have handled
the grounder easily. If ever a pit
cher worked a no-hit game Gray did
that day, yet he lost, 6 to f.
In the second inning of the contest
for some reason he lost control of the
ball. Despite the most strenuous eff
forts on the part OF Catcher Charley
Street, he was unable to steady him.
In that one inning Crap passed eight
men, seven Of then in succession. This
apse of wildness, coupled with the
three outs, netted Chicago six runs
and the game. In only that inning
did the White Sox threaten the pate?
Beat that one if you can!
The ability of Barney Petty, the ST.
Louis pitcher, is too we'll known to
need comment, suffice it to say that
few twirlers have anything on him.
Petty Has Hoodoo Club.
Any team that beats Petty when he
is right always realizes that it has
been in ball game. There is one
team Petty has usually been able to
beat whether he was in prime shape
or not, while there is another club in
the American league that Petty can
never remember beating Cleveland
is the club that has always been easy
for Barney, while Detroit has been his
real hoodoo.
According to the clever pitcher Of
the Browns he can't recall ever hav-
ing beaten the Tigers, although he re-
fuses to admit that he never turned
the trick. For seven innings last
summer it really looked as if he
might to the seemingly impossible
but that's neither here nor there. so
here is the story.
On the morning of Labor day, last
summer, Petty was selected to work
against Summers. In the second in
ming the Browns by a wonderful ex-
hibition of s'ugging piled UP seven
runs, and in the next inning added
another. With an eight-run lead. if
looked as if Petty might break into
the games won column against De-
troit
Although the Tigers have always
oeen known for their ability to finish
'strong, not even the most enthusiast
TIC supporter Of Jennings tribe could
see much hone for victory that dav.
So when Detroit went into the asst
haIf Of the seventh inning with the
score standing to against them,
ehings looked very bad for the Tigers
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IN the press, that some $4,000 people
Hooked to see the Stanford California
game. if it is true that all of the es
sentlal elements representative of real
college spirit are manifested by two
such representative institutions. and if
it is true that the men like the game
and play it enthusiastically, these facts
must be considered
Stanford men and California men
and the spectators that watched them
pay are not much different from the
typical American found in other sec
lions of the country, and the fact that
rugby football has made good with
these people is more or less conclusive
evidence that the game would not be
failure if universally adopted by all
colleges.
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DO COLLEGES
WANT SOCCER

Will it be rugby as played by the
English or football as played in Amerl-
car. or are we to have some startling
original new game made up of the es-
sential elements of the two old ia
miliar sports? Will the rules commit
tee at the meeting this month legis-
late out of existence all of those
things that have become traditions?
Shall we no longer hear the coach
urging his men to tackle hard and
break him in two" or is that old
slogan of the gridiron to be merely
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jury to Livingston, however, for
time threatened to upset his plans.
1t had been the duty of Livingston to
do all the receiving when any of the
spit ball pitchers worked. With
Morgan, Dygert or Coombs on the
rubber Livingston was usually behind
the bat The condition of Mack's
pitching staff, however, made it nee
essary to use Dygert in one of the
games against Cleveland.
Dygert and Thomas was the bat
terry announced for the second game
of the double header, but Thomas
didn't work very long. In the very
first inning a foul tip shattered his
right thumb, and he was compelled
to retire The only catcher on the
Philade' phia bench was Larkin, col
legian from Holy Cross, who had new
er taken part in a big league game.
There was nothing to do but put him
in to receive.
Dvgert, because of his deceptive
splitter" is a very difficult man to
catch. even for a veteran, SO it was
quite q task to ask a youngster to
nails with Larkin, and then went back
to pitch. He threw two "spitters" to
the youngster, and Larkin caught
Them more with his chest protector
than hands 1t certainly looked as IL
the Jig was up, that Dygert was due
for another beating, as it was evident
that Larkin couldn't handle his de-
livery.
The two players held another con-
ference, and the next day Dygert I'M
folded the secret to me. TIE told Lar
kin to do his signaling in the regular
way, that he would go through the
fornality of pretending to expector-
ate. on the ball, but that during the
remainder of the game he would use
nothing but speed
During the remaining eight and
one-half innings of the game Dygert
didn't throw a curve or spit ball.
He went through oil the motions. but
speed was the only thing served the
Maps.
Imagine Dygert's surprise when he
rea lied at the close Of the game that
he had really scored a victory against
his Jonah team. and had failed to use
what are considered his most decept-
i've curves Cleveland was beaten
that day to 1. the Maps recording
only six hits, several of them schratch- /
eS
Now Dygert is wondering if that is
what he should use in al the games
ne works against Cleveland.
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PETE TERWAY FAILS
TO RUN HIS RACE

Seized with violent attack of
chilled pedal eXtremeties and advanc-
ing the excuse that the crowd was not
large enough to justify his efforts, Pete
Terway, the alleged long distance
runner who was to compete with c. N.
Lockwood in a 15-mile race for the
championship of the Pacific coast in
the skating rink. refused to enter.
thereby laying himself open censure
and nearly getting into a fistic en-
counter as the result
But % people in all were present
when the time for the scheduled race
arrived and as soon as he entered the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-21
TENNIS
WRESTLING
RACING
BOXING
Annual Toll Must Cease.

Football must not take its annual
toll of death from our American edu-
cational institutions. and it is wise 70"
those who are close to the making of
football legislation that the protest of
the thousands be considered. We do
not want an effeminate game; we do
not want a game lacking in those vital
essentials that make toward perfect
manhood: we do not want a game that
is absolutely free from danger. but
if there. are unnecessary things in the
game as the record of this year would
seem to indicate. it is up to the rules
committee to make changes that per-
feet the contest as a spectacle and
eliminate the features that have prov
en- bad
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Knowing that Detroit had always
been regarded by Petty as his jonah
team, on his way back to the bench
said to him:
We'll. Barney, it really looks as if
you might get away with a game
against these fellows"
was dead in earnest, for never
did Petty look any better. He had
great speed and his dazzling curve
was breaking to perfection.
I'll be abe to give you a better
answer at the end Of the ninth in
ming" was Barney's reply.
Petty never got a chance to ans
wer that day, for in the eighth in
ming the Tigers made six runs, and
Barney was chased to the clubhouse,
Detroit winning 8 to s. Petty served
the same speed and curves that had
bothered the Tigers earlier in the
game, but everything looked alike to
the Champs in that inning, and moth
ing less than a single was regarded
with favor.
Barney says he intends to win
game in 1910 from the Tigers.
Jimmy Dygert Secures Revenge.
Jimmy Dygert Of the Athletics, who
possesses one OF the best spit" balls
in the business, won a game from
Cleveland last season under most ex-
traordinary conditions.
For years the Cleve' and club has
been a thorn in Dygert's side. The
Maps had the aggrevating habit OF
beating Dygert with monotonous
Connie Mack seldom risked sending
Jimmy against the C'evelands, no
matter how good he looked in the
warming up practice.
Late in July Mack found himself
up against long run Of double head
ers. with a pitching staff that was
on'y in fair shape. At the time the
Athletics were in the thick of the
fight for the pennant, and every game
meant a lot to the foxy manager OF
the Philadelphia Americans.
On the day the Cleveland team ar
rived in Phily for a fivegame series
in three days the Athletics pennant
changes received a severe jolt by an
injury to Catcher Paddy Livingston
that for a time threatened to keep
him out of the game for several
weeks.
1t had been Mack's intention to use
Dygert in one of the games of the
double header with Cleveland, despite
the fact that he had never been very
successful against the Maps. The in
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a part of past gridiron history, Hit
the line hard boys?"
The whole football world is expect
antly waiting for the results of what
will doubtless prove the most import
ant meeting that the football rules
has ever held Newspapers
have written columns upon columns,
suggesting changes that might better
the game. Some are reasonable and
might be applied with considerable
value and from the reasonable sug-
gestions there is wide range extend