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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-08
OWEN MORAN GETS
BUSY WITH DEF|ES
Talks at a Distance and Is Sure He
Can Beat Jem DriscoII or Abe
AtteIl-Says Bantam Is
Afraid to Fight.

BIRMINGHAM, England, June s.
Owen Moran is home again after his
long stay in the URited States His
coming is rather a surprise He was
Francisco on July 5, but Attell, Moran
says, has backed out, and with the sun
to return to the milder climate of his
native country.
IF AtteH changes his mind and will
meet me-" said Moran, "he has only to
send cable to that effect and I viii
be back again by the next boat" Mo-
ran says he has learned much during
his visit to America. THE best thing
l have learned" says he lis that being
a strict teetotaler is the best tack for
a boxer who hopes to have a long
career in the ring. Another thing
have discovered is that they think
nothing of little men. in the states. 1t
is all very well being the bantam
champion, but lightweights are all the
rage over their. I can fight at any
weight from 113 pounds up to 12S
pounds, and in most of the eleven
fights l took part in during my recent
visit l was giving a good deal of weight
away. Murphy, whom 1 defeated three
times, turns the scale at 1872 pounds"
Talking of Attell, Moran says: 'FHe
is scared to death at me. / saw him
fight Driscoll, and there is not the
slightest doubt that the Welshman beat
him fairly and squarely. But Attell
did not fight against Driscoll as he
I'd against me-" Attell was the only
man Moran met during his second visit
to the States that he failed to secure
the verdict against. He beat Frank
Neill twice, Tommy Murphy three
times, Baldwin, Young Nitchie,"
Tommy Langdon, O'Toole and Han
lon once each.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-08
JUNIOR PLAY.

The juniors of the high school report
an unprecedented sale of tickets al
ready for 1.-THE Private Secretary,
which will be given at the keyior
Grand. Friday, June IL. Each ana
averv one of the Juniors are boosting
the play for all they are worth ana
enthusiasm is running high among all
the classes. That "The Private Sec
retary" is one Of the best plays ever
,,r;tten for amateaur production Is at
tested by a young man who say II
played by the students OF STANFORD
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ting avenues. 1t is expected that this
work will be taken up Immediately so
as to get the benefit of all the surplus
earth for filling along the lake and In
the low grounds for the west Green
Lake boulevard.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-08
Denies Any Indemnity.

ROME, June S.-Foreign Minister
Tittoni in the chamber of deputies to-
day reiterated his denial that indem-
nity had been granted relatives OF
italian workmen killed in the United
States. He said negotiations were go
ing on for an amendment to the treaty
between the two countries entered into
November Is, 1871, with that object
in view.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-08

KANSAS CITY, June S.-John Swan
berg of sweden, the winner of the
Chicago Marathon. and Johnny Hayes,
the American runner, were matched to-
day for a 20-mile race to be run here
Sunday. June Is, at the Kansas City
Athletic club park.
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Plan Street Improvement.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, June 8.-Plahs
are being prepared at the instance OF
Counc. Imam w. H. Weaver for the
grading of the streets just nortn Vi
Woodland park, including Fffty-ninth'
Sixtieth. Sixty-first and a portion oi
Sixty-fourth streets and the intersec-
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meet Attell in a 45-round go or prac-
tically a fight to a finish, but ABE
would have none of that When they
met at San Francisco on the last oc-
casion the meeting was one of %
rounds, the limit to which Attell would
consent, and the Englishman thinks he
should have had the verdict. Moran
expects to remain in England until
about the end of August But if they
want me in the States, and make it
worth my while, II shall be off back as
suddenly as I came over here l never
felt better in my life than l do at
the present time and although l have
had eleven fights in ten months, and
two months in bed, you can see that I
look fit to fight for anything, and that
l have no scars anywhere"
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presented at the Keylor Grand theater,
for two nights, June 14th and 18th,
by Henry Miller's AltStar Associate
Players, a company of seven famous
actors. including Charles Dalton
George w. Wilson, Wilfred Roger
Lizzie Hudson Collier, Milton Sills.
Gwladys Wynne and Ben Field.
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EIGHT in Boston.

BOSTON, June S.-Sandy Ferguson
and Joe jeanette were matched yester-
day to fight a 12-round bout at the
Armory A. A June %. jeanette has
lust returned from France.
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SEATON'S WILDNESS LOSES
CONTEST FOR PORTLAND
Bic Colt Erratic on the Mourd While
SamueIs Pitches Steady Game
Throughout.

TACOMA, June S.-Seaton was
mostly responsible for Portland's de-
feat in the opening game of the series
today, the big Colt being wild, four
erratic pitches being responsible for
two of Tacoma's four runs. Samuels
was not STEADY but fast fielding by
the Tigers at critical points and some
heady twirling kept Casey's men from
scoring.
Score: r. H. E.
Tacoma s 0
Portland % 0 8
Samuels and Kellackey; Seaton and
Murray.
Score by innings:
Portland .0 90
Tacoma ...1 D / 1 0 0 0 x-4
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Wants Good Terms to Fight.


When Moran returned from America
on the first occasion he was not great
ly Impressed with the treatment he had
received, but speaking of his second
tour he says: ''They treated me fine
ly" Moran has not high regard for
the skill of the majority of American
lightweights. But says he, they
are dead game 1 never met a gamer
man than Neill in my life. The way
he came up again after [ had ffoored
him was marvellous" owen says he is
anxious to meet Nelson and Cans, but
he thinks he is entitled to meet them
on equitable terms, so far as finances
are concerned "Gans asked for $4,000
out of a Sc, 200 purse which was offered
and 1 was not trading on those terms.
Then Nelson wanted $4,000 for a ten
round go, and l was to get 35 per cent
of the receipts. That was not good
enough for me either" Both these
men Moran thinks he VII meet in
due course.
Asked what he proposed doing du1
ing his stay in England, Moran said:
Well 1 should like to meet Johnny
Summers for $500 a side. / don't want
any talk about $1,000 a side. l am
prepared to pose my own stake, and
oh a mr. o.
pared to put down the money. 1t is
all very we'll to talk about $4,000 stakes,
but it is far better to lodge $500 of
ready money and let that talk instead
of having all sorts of fancy challenges
in the papers"
What about Driscoll' Moran was
asked.
We'll" said Owen, "of course, he is
the man I am most anxious to meet
and YOU may say that 1 am prepared
to meet any man in the fountry from
11S pounds to 130 pounds, for $500
side, and the best purse offered, Dris-
coll at 1ZZ pOuIuS pACLOiiOU'
Where should you like to meet
Driscoll?"
II haven't any choice, save where
they offer the best purse I will meet
him at the National, or in Wales, any
where he likes, if the purse is only
big enough
Disparages DriscoIi and Attell.
Moran said that after meeting Attell
at San Francisco he went straight to
New York, and the change in the
climate broke him down completely.
In fact" owen said, IT had been two
months in bed with rheumatism and
lun,bago. I had to have an attendant
to look after me. My hands were
swollen to double their normal size,
my face was pulled out, and en-
dured awful agony for a time There
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RI2ZplIE &AI

is no doubt that it lost me thousands
of dollars, for Charley Harvey, my
manager, could have arranged sew
eral contests for me during that time.
Speaking of Driscolfs prowess, Nor
an says he is a wonderful boxer for
ten rounds, but thinks a longer contest
would be against the Welshman and in
his favor. He (Moran) was anxious to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-08

PHILADELPHIA June 8.-William
PAUL, Pennsylvania great sprlnter'
made a phenomenal run in the recent
tra,k meet in Cambridge Mass, when
he captured the mile event after SEN
sational struggle in four minutes
174-5 seconds. The new mark shat
tered the intercollegiate and collegiate
record of four minutes 20 3-5 seconds
made by Guy Haskins of the red ana
blue squad in the championships OF
1907. Although the time' made by the
Pennsy's man was shade slower
than that hung up almost IA years
ago by Tommy Conneff, PAUL has the
honor of stepping the fastest mile ever
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covered by an American born citizen,
for Conncff, although a loyal son or
Uncle Sam, first saw the light of day
in the Emerald Isle. PENIS great run
ner however. gives promise of ability
to lower Connects figures, for in his re-
cent RAGS he made the running all the
way and had no one to extend him on
the last furlong. If PAUL had been
pushed he undoubtedly would have at
least equaled or cracked Connen's
figures PAUL finished comparatively
fresh and after a short rest went out
and finished close second 10 MS
teammate, Beck, in one minute So 3-5
seconds half mile,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21

WASHINGTON D. c., Sept. 81.
japanese government announces
intention of building 36,000-ton
This nine-word cablegram from
Tokyo, received at the navy de-
partment, has set experts think
ling.
What effect on future wars will
SO, 000-ton cruisers have? What
does Japan want with warships
heavier than the Dreadnaught
and larger than the Mauretania
When, short while ago, the
British admiralty designed the
great Dreadnaught with it's 1900
tons burden, naval experts
though the last word in sea fight
ing had been said.
United States, doubtless with
some such idea in mind, author
lied the construction of two
great ''superdreadnaughts" -the
Delaware and the North Dakota,
now launched and nearing compile
ton. They are battleships-not
cruisers like the Japanese are
planning.
The biggest cruiser in the world
at present is the British ship In
vincible with a displacement of
1880 tons-less than half the
size of the proposed Jap Leviathan.
The 1nvincible has great speed,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
JAPS TO BUILD
GIANT CRUISERS

Ispeed, the new leviathan of Japan
will equal the Mauretania and will
surpass her in gross tonnage by
1000 tons. A steamer of 1000
tons is a great ship.
There is another interesting
comparison in the new boats size
with the Dreadnaught. She will
be twice as heavy, will have equal
speed, and will be at least one
third again as long. In place of
the Dreadnaught tripod masts, she
will have the basket masts like the
new United States warships.
What does Japan intend to DO
with her big cruiser?
To every nation in the world
this question is formidable. Big
are intended to
harass the WARFLEETS of other
nations, but big CRUISERS are
built to destroy their COMMERCE.
Against the United States pos
sessions in the Orient-the Philip
pines, and Hawaii, predominatly
Japanese in population-against
our long Pacific coast line, what
could Japan do with her new
cruiser in time of war?
Great Britain, the greatest sea
power of the world, also will be
uneasy until she has larger
cruiser if such a one can be built.
For her commerce along the China
coast would be menaced. Most of
that commerce is carried on under
the British flag.
Japan has her eyes on China. A
powerful cruiser-the greatest in
the world = would enable her to
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w. F. HARiBUCK.

SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. 81.
Minor league baseball in Shreve-
port has more sides than the Cad
do hotel has entrances, including
the annex.
The uninitiated sees the two
and four-bit pieces rolling into the
box office, the advertisements on
the fence, and hears the refresh
ment boy shouting his wears, and
is satisfied he can estimate the in
come of the operating company.
But he overlooked one Of the
biggest assets, namely, the sale OF
players. In this particular, Shreve-
port, the smallest town in the
Texas league, class G organiza-
ton, leads the country.
Shreveport employs a baseball
scout in the person of w. F. Har-
buck, who has more class than
two-thirds of the men in the same
capacity drawing more money
from the major league teams.
Harbuck discovered 10 players
for Shreveport this season who
have been sold to various teams
for prices ranging from $500 to
$4,000, the lot bringing $4,000
to the Shreveport treasury. Pref
ty good business for one eman.
What? DO
Harbuck is now scouting for
next esason, travelling through the
west and southwest picking up
youngsters who look to have the
class from which good ball players
come.
The work of the Shreveport
scout is harder than that OF the
major Lacquer, for the reason that
many of his youngsters are found
upon the sand lots and among
the semi-professionals, whereas
the big leaguers get their men
from leagues where they have
been seasoned for a couple of
years, as general thing. The men
sold by Shreveport this year and
the prices they brought. follow:
Bob Harmon, st. Louis Ma
tionals $3.50. .......$2500
Arnold Grandill, Chicago
Americans ............ 5000
= Metz, Springfield, ILL.,. 1900
RED Bodies. Cleveland :. 1000
Dutch" Kiawitter, New
Nork Nationals 49,. s7oo
Jesse James, st. Louis Ma
tionals ............... 1000
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equal almost to that of the Lust
tania and the Mauretania, and
carries formidable armament
that would have put it in the bat
tleship class ten years ago.
The fastest ship In the United
States navy is the scout cruiser
Chester, with a displacement of
less than one-fourth that of the
Invincible-one-eighth that of the
new japanese war-creature. The
Chester has made ,27 knots an
hour in practical little faster
than the mauretania.
Two great problems are put up
to the United States navy by the
advisers. One is that of naval con-
struction. The other-What will
Japan DO with her fighting ma
chine?
Such a giant would cost nearly
$40, 100000 = enough to found
and endow university.
Never before have warships
been improved so rapidly. The
ship just completed lacks new
features of the successor already
designed.
In the Delaware and the North
Dakota this government thought
that it had stopped the Dread
naught fever for. all time.
Both ships are splendid fight
ing machines. They are equipped
with new basket masts" made of
q steel network that would resist
an hours heavy firing. They have
smaller military masts that cauld
take care of a regiment of ma
rines with small arms. Wireless
telegraph, smoke consumers, rap
id-revolving turrets and a compile
ment of torpedoes and submarines
will be carried. They had every
thing-everything but speed - it
was thought.
But what of the japanese
ships? What new principles and
improvements will they have?
In the first place, they will have
greater SPEED. They will be
able to destroy a smaller ship and
rush swiftly away before a con-
tending fleet.
They would be able to overhaul
the fastest boats of both big oceans
like the Mauretania and the
Minnesota.
Ocean travel in time of war,
with one of these monsters in pur-
suit, would be full of terror.
The Mauretania, tastes and
greatest ship in the world, has a
maximum speed of rs knots an
hour. Her hull is 100 feet long.
Her gross tonnage is 80, 900. Her
extreme breadth is SO feet and
greatest draught 81 feet 6 inches.
In every respect save possibly
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balcony on the condition nights.
Much interest was taken in the
proceedings last evening. Dege &
Miners employees walloped the
Dickson Brothers boys at baseball
33 to IA, and there were warm
contests of basketball. Rhodes
Brothers beat Stone Fisher, 5 to 3,
and the Arcade defeated the Peo-
plies Store, z to 5.
The city hall and court house
employees will have the call at
the association building tomorrow
night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
SHERIFF MORRIS
PUTS A BAN ON
FIGHT CAME

Sheriff Tom Morris put a quiet
us on the prize fight game that
has been flourishing more or less
openly all summer around the
Sound when last Sunday he gave
notice to the promoters of a mill
that was booked for a quiet cove
near McNeils island that It could
not occur.
There has been considerable
complaint about the officers wink
ing at the violation of the law,
and the sheriff concluded to stop
IL
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
He Gets Is DAYS
FOR ROBB|NG
ROOMMATE

William Bodke, alias William
Hagan, pleaded guilty before
Justice Ernest NJ. Card yesterday
to having stolen a fountain pen
and stick pin from Joseph Rich
ardson. He was fined SIS and
costs or twenty-six days in Jail.
Bodke chose the latter. Bodke and
Richardson were roommates at the
st. Paul when the theft occurred.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
HE'S CRIPPLED BUT HE
CAN PITCH SOME


Brown, the wonderful Cub pitch
err. you naturally look at his
right hand and wonder how he
pitches so we'll. The first joint
of his little finger is at right an
giles with the rest. The next fin
ger has no bone in the first joint,
and his middle finger is crushed
fearfully. The first finger is n
stump.
Such deformities are not gen
orally pleasant subjects to the vic
tim, but Brown is not sensitive.
Possibly this is true because he
has won his way to fame through
these same mutilated digits. At
any rate, he is willing to dis uss
the accident which made him a
national character.
IL was a kid of 5, and lived in
Myesville, Ind" Brown said when
asked to tell how he lost his fin
gers. "My brother used to cut
feed for the horses in patent
box fitted with circular knives.
zone day l was feeding the
knives and my hand slipped in
among the knives. Every finger
was chopped to ribbons, but the
doctor managed to sew them
together, although you see he
didn't do much of job.
81 carried that hand around in
splints and was doing fairly we'll,
when, about five weeks after the
accident. my sister and 1 were
playing with pet rabbit. We had
1T in tub partly filled with wa
ter. and was making it sw i'm
Suddenly ] tumbled into the tub.
my right hand smashed against
the bottom, breaking six bones,
although l didn't know it th1n.
Don't tell dad" l warned my
sister, because / knew he'd tan
me good and plenty. She prom
fsed, and we rebandaged the hand
any old way"
ut must have been painful.
Eyes. il was" said Brown. His
cold gray eyes-regular sharp
shooter eyes they are-twinkled
Brown has never shown a yellow
streak, and 1t would be hard to
ind that color in a boy who car
ried those broken bones around
for days rather than tell his dad.
Il played third base when / was
kid" continued the boss Cub.
and got to be pretty good
third baseman. / played for Cox
Vile against Brazil, nearby
town. Tor $1,000 and 40 per
cent. 1t was a great game. all
the villagers lining up for blood.
! could field and throw to beat
the band. but couldn't hit.
They got our pitcher full, and
we had no one to take his place.
! had never pitched, but / took
the slab. and we won, 9 to 9. All
] had was smoke. In fact, / new
er had curve until 1 signed with
Terre Haute. was 81 then. Jim
Hart went to Rockford to look
over big Hi Elliott. but he took
me instead.
II found my curve in the mid
die OF game. had been try
ing to pitch IL Bnderhand. / took
q chance on some fellow, and bent
one overland. and found | had
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
COLTS OPEN SERIES
IN TACOMA TODAY

to play the opening contest of
the series. Quite number of
fans went out to the ball ground
and stood around for half an hour
or more but there was nothing
doing.
All games in the Northwest
league were off yesterday. Spo-
kane did not get to tackle Van
couver again and Seattle could
not get back home to meet Aber-
deem.
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SUCH SCOUTING AS THIS
MAKES BIZ WORTH WHILE

Bob Wahling, st. Louis Ma
tionaIs ............ 1000
Elmer Reiger, st. Louis Ma
tionals ;. 1000
Snookums" Cowan, Indian
apolis 80. 1000
Chas. Smith, Indianapolis. 1000
Geo. Smith, Brooklyn -. 1900
Bill Yohe, Washington -. 1850
Danny Claire, Oakland, Cal. 500
Total $4,000
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
Ike BUTLER TO
Los ANGELES
CLUB

Ike Butler yesterday got an Of
fer to play ball from Frank Dill
Ion of the Los Angeles club 4nd
he Immediately asked Shredder for
his release. Shredder granted 1t
and Ike will scoot for the sunny
cline of California. He says he
will never come back.
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Rather ouick.

From Tacoma to Seattle via
steamer Flyer. Five round trips
daily. Actual time each way one
hour and thirty minutes. Leaves
Tacoma s:35 a. M, 1915, 1856
1880 and IL D. M. sss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
TACOMA OY WINS
HONORS AT SCHOOL

Seffrey Gross, Tacoma boy,
was distinctly honored at Stan
ford university the other day
when elected president of the
Freshman Debating society. JEFF
frey is the son of David Gross of
this city, and he graduated from
the Tacoma High school last June.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
EASTERN GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing.

Games Yesterday.
Pfttsburg IL, Brooklyn 8.
Chicago 3, New York 2.
philadelphia 2, st. Louis 0.
No game at Cincinnati.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Games Yesterday.
Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3.
Boston 6, Chicago 5.
New York 8, Cleveland 4.
st. Louis 8, Washington 2.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21

Women have broken into the
local Y. M. C. A. At the depart
ment store open house last even
ing women were admitted as spec
tators and the experiment proved
SO successful that hereafter
women will be permitted In the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
PORTLAND PLAYERS MEET
TIGERS-DELAY BY A
BURNED BRIDGE YESTER-
DAY.

Portland crosses bats with the
Tigers at Athletic park today.
The burning of railway bridge
between here and Portland yes
terday delayed the Colts and they
could not reach Tacoma in time
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-21
JEFF ENROUTE
To AMERICA

PARIS, Sept. 21.James J. JEFF
fries arrived here yesterday en-
route to America. He looked in
good condition. He said he would
be willing to fight in Australia
provided the American offers are
unsatisfactory.
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SYRACUSE. N. Y. Sept. 21.--
Tad" Jones, the famous Yale
foot ball and base ball star, will
coach the Syracuse Indians this
fall. Jones is here and has CON-
meneed preliminary work. He
will be assisted by Bill Horr, the
and all round athlete, for short
time. Later, Horr will go to Ev-
.anston, ILL.,, to coach the North
Western eleven.
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Something Better.

Steamer Flyer to Seattle. max
ing FIVE round trips daily. Leaves
Tacoma 1855 a. m. 1919, 1888,
1880 anu IL D. m. sss
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Guns and ammunition at E. e.
Peterson, 924 Tacoma Ave. ***
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Big STORES OUT FOR
GLORY IN ATHLETICS

TEAMS FROM LOCAL ESTAB-
LIsHMENTS CONTEST FOR
HONOR IN THE Y. M. @. A.
MEET-WoMEN ARE AID.
MTTTED.
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strengthen her demands for control
in China, something that Great
Britain and the United States
would take the lead in resisting.
And what would happen if these
great ships of this new Japanese
class should meet in battle?