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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
LOTS OF WHITE ''HOPES' BUT
NONE CAN LICK LII ARTHA'

experience. experience which he
can gain only in battle. Ryan is a
shrewd manager and l don't be-
licve he would send his broth of
4 boy against Johnson, no matter
how much the big gossoon shows.
until he has fought a number of
battles.
Niles Mcleod.
Miles Mcleod, protege of Joe
Choynski, is the Goliath of heavy
weights, with natural talent which
requires development. He has
never fought, but Cnoynski is sat
iGfied he has a conner. When he
has been seen in a dozen or more
scraps, an idea of his future may
be obtained. Just now his biggest
assets are willingness and unde-
TeIoped talent.
In addition to these men. there
are others who decorate the
class more or les. But not one of
them shows up in way that leads
man to consider him as a con-
tenGer when johnson is consid.
cred.
Bombadier Wells.
In England they think highly of
Bombadier Wells, who has been
clearing the decks of aspirants to
the English title-which, by the
way, really belongs to that little
chunk of gloom, Thammy Lang
ford, who annexted it upon the
occasion of his last tour.
Wells has been fighting for
some time and has not met with
deefat since he left the army, but
he is scarcely an opponent for
Jack Johnson. If Wells succeeds
in defeating Bill LANCE, he may
mix with Al Kaufman, and by
this may we judge him.
A quick. decisive victory over
the big Californian would boost
the Englishman's stock seriously
in this country, while 1t would
make him a "bloomin' idol" at
home.
Jack Lester.
Jack Lester, whom Tommy
Burns has taken in tow, is also one
of the heralded hopes" The
most optimistic, however,, hold
that Lester has yet to travel some
before he will be eligible for seri-
GUS consideration. He has, how
ever, everything in his favor. His
age is scarcely 20 years and he
possesses an ideal build for a
fighting man. 1t is a coincidence
that Lester bears a remarkable IA
cial resemblance to George Mem
sic, who when he fought under the
tutelage of Tommy Burns was
known as Jimmy Burns. Lester
has knocked out several big clumsy
fellows, and Burns proposes to
shove him along with an idea of
discovering just how good he is.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
NOT TO
FIGHT MARTIN

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.-Jack Les
ter, the promising young boxer
who has been taken under the
management CT Tommy Rylrns,
will not meet Denver Ed Martin
on the challenge recently issued
by the latter. At a local smoker
last night Tommy Burns declared
that he wants Lester to have a lit
tie mere experience before he goes
after the big ones.
81 want Lester to find himself, F"
said Burns today, land then it
will be time enough to go after
the fighters in the higher up
class"
Arrangement have been COM
pleted for The fight in Tacoma
January 16 between Lester and
Pete Mridoon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
HACK GIVES MAHMOUT
A COLD SHOULDER

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 5.-The
def issued by wrestler Mahmout,
10 whom retired Champion Frank
Gotch announced he had trans
ferred his title, met with a chilly
reception from George Hacken-
nehmidt. Hack, through Jack
Curley, his manager, today said
that Mahmout as champion was
too big a joke to consider serious
ly.
Mahmout would only fake ST
we beat him, the same as he did
when Zbyszsco threw him." said
Curley. "Mahmout is a self-con-
fessed faker."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
M'FARLAND'S SUPPORTERS SAY
HE'LL KNOCK OUT WELSH

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Although
Freddie Welsh was given the de-
cision over Packy Mcfarland the
last time the men met. local fight
fans pick the American to beat
Welsh when the two hook up over
in England In their proposed
match next month. Mcfarland S
most ardent supporters pick him
to win by the knockout route, al
though Welsh is held to be a great
ring general and a hard man to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
by I'll Wright.

Who's going to succeed Jack
Johnson as heavyweight cham
pion?
Answer: "Who."
1t isn't an answer; it's an echo.
Apparently there are enough
white candidates in sight to lift
the burden from LII Arthur's
White mans hopes are
so thick they can't get out of each
others way, but the hope is made
up along quantity rather than
quality lines.
Fact Is I don't see any individ-
ual who seems to have a chance
to beat Johnson-not for a couple
of years, at least.
Just look them over without
prejudice. Who do you see that
has class enough to compare with
the Galveston giant?
Al Kaufman.
The most experienced man who
has been suggested Is AL Kauf-
mann, who fought his first profess
sional engagement just six years
ago. AL is the best of good fell
lows, but as a fighter, even his
friends admit he isn't of cham
pionship class. He is big, power
full, hard hitter, a pretty good
boxer, a fair ring general. and as
game a man as Jim Corbett, and
that's saying a lot. He can whip
a majority of the big men, but he
is a babe in Johnson's hands.
Kaufman doesn't think fast
enough to be a great fighter.
Con O'Kelly.
Con O'Kelly, who is in the
hands of Tommy Ryan, is big and
strong enough. He has shown his
gameness, too, but he has never
displayed enough speed to fright
en- timid pedestrians. Speed may
come to him, and If so, he may de-
velcp sufficiently to wear the
crown, but O'Kelly needs coolies Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

s. R. Vivian third sacker on the
Raymond team, in the Washing
ton State league, will play with
Spokane i'm case Che State league
remains in peaceful somnolency
next summer.
Williams and Amherst are cred
tied with playing the first inter-
collegiate ball game at Pittsfield
Judy =, 1859. Harvard and Yale
began their series of boat races
in 1852, and the "big four" in
football was under way in 1876,
when Princeton beat Pennsylvania
and lost to Yale, while Harvard
was the victor over Yale. Har-
ward and Princeton played their
first game the next year.
Stockholm stadium, erected
for the 1912 Olympic games, seats
5000, which is smaller than the
Harvard structure. No provision
is made in the plans for a SWIM
ming tank. The English stadium
at Shepherds Bush seats $1,000,
and that of Athens 10000, while
the Berlin structure will seat 3d.
00g.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
BANDITS HOLD UP
A STREET CAR

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. g.
Two bandits today held up and
robbed the crew of San Mateo
suburban car at Huntington Park.
Masked and carrying revolvers un-
der their coats. the robbers board
ed the car opposite the park, one
ran to the front platform while
the other ordered the conductor
to throw UP his hands. The troll
ley was Jerked off and the crew
searched by the light of a pocket
lantern. The robbers secured
$40. The car carried no passen-
gers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

hit. The more conservative Nc
Farland adherents say that
Packey will rush the Englishman
off his feet, wear him down by his
superior strength and force Welsh
TO hang on to avoid punishment.
Mcfarland affixed his signature
to the articles today but in doing
SO he insisted that Eugene CORR
be the referee.
Il was robbed the list time I
fought Welsh" he declared, land
| am taking no more chances"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
VICTORIA MANAGER
HAS II MEN SIGNED

Hemenway: pitchers, Marshall,
Cole and w. w. Davis; first base,
Clemenson and Names; second
base, Norwich; third base, Regis
and Million; shrortstop, Reddick !;
outfielders, Householder, b. Davis
and w. Stevens.
The latest acquisition is L. w.
Reddick. He halls from Topeka
and has been playing in the
Western league. He bats .2S4
and they say he runs bases like a
Kansas rabbit.
Manager Wattalet Indignantly
denies the report that he Will take
his team to California for spring
practice, claiming British Column
bia weather is much better FOR
training purposes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
McCredie Goes
South Today
(By United Press Leased Wire. ),

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PORTLAND, Jan. 5. - Walter
McCredie of the Beavers expects
to leve for San Francisco tonight
to attend the meeting of the Pa
cific Coast Baseball league sched-
uled for Saturday, January Z.
MoCredie said today that he was
not particularly interested in any
of the Legislative acts that are
likely to be brought up at the
meeting. He intimated that he
will make the trip for the purpose
of securing additional players as
we'll as making sure that Portland
is we'll taken care of in the sched-
ule for next season, which Will be
adopted at the meeting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
TODAYS SPORTING NEWS
SPORT FAN OBJECTS
TO FIGHT GRAFT

A letter was received from a
Tacoma sport fan this morning
which in a way voices what many
other patrons OF boxing contests
In Tacoma think.
This particular fan objects to
tine maner in which Seattle men
are managing the fistic bouts pull
ed off in Tacoma He points out
the fact, as was pointed out by
the Times following the recent
Hagen-Lester go. that after adver-
Using general admission at one
dollar. two dollars was charged
when standing room only was left.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire
VICTORIA, b. c., Jan. 8. -
Fourteen men have been signed by
Manager Wattalet of teh Victoria
baseball team of the Northwestern
league for service next summer.
They have been picked up from
widely scattered points. Some
have worked in this district; 9TH
ers have been playing in the Coast
league, and few have come from
the southern states. The major
ty, however, are young and fun
OF enthusiasm and junt enough of
the veteran class has been incor-
porated in the assembly to give
the youthful element steadiness.
Following is a list as signed to
date: Catdhers, Eastwood and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

Mr.. Fan also declares that there
is no reason why Tacoma sport
fans should not take hold of the
game and not let all the money
go to Seattle.
1t doesn't make so much differ
ence to the man who pays at the
gate who gets his money, but 1t
might be a matter of satisfaction
If some one saw to it that a petty
graft did not go on at the doors.
II no other method can be
found the prosecuting attorney
might at least see to 1t that if
fights are allowed the public be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
Professor Has
Breakdown

Los ANGELES, Jan. 5.-As the
result of overwork, Prof. Edgar L..
Larkin, astronomer in charge of
the Mount Lowe observatory, has
suffered nervous breakdown and
today is in a private sanitarium
watched over by physicians and
members of his family. The
breakdown came Unexpectedly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
SEALS To TRAIN
At MODESTO

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 81
Orders to report for spring train
ing February 20, at Modesto were
issued to prospective members of
the 1911 Seal team today by Man
ager Danny Long. In all about
20 letters were sent out by Long,
who intends having a lrage squad
on hand from which to pick a
team to annex the championship.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
Queen
Anne Next

The Tacoma High school will
tackle Queen Anne at basketball
Saturday. Tacoma expects a
hard battle with Queen Anne. The
game wild be on the Queen Anne
home floor and Tacoma will be
handicapped by this and the Seat
tie boys are also pretty lively.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
SPORT CHIPS

The passing of "Vic" Willis, the
veteran st. Louis twirler, who
goes to the Baltimore club, calls
to mind the records of the great
est pitchers past and present:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

The records of Griffith, Nichols
and Chesbro, who are no longer in
the game, but who held long-dis-
lance records, are:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

A. j. Innis, pool, cigars and to-
bacco. 400 Puyallup ave. f>s
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05
Z EyESIsE T;IsNT ID
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9TH
1.-THE SQUAW MAN"
BY Edwin Milton Royle
The Show That Dagzled Two

The Show That DaZzled Two
Continents
A Stirring American Drama in
Four Great Acts
Prices-25c to $1.00.
Seat Sale Friday.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9TH
That Beautiful and Realistic Com
edy of Modern Life
1.-THE CLIMAX"
One Year in Weber's Theater
New York; Six Months Grand
Opera House, Chicago.
Prices-25c to 81.
Seat Sale Saturday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-05

Who's going to succeed Jack
johnson as heavyweight cham
pion?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08
WIRELESS MAN
!. USED THE MAILS
FRAUDULENILy
List Of His Victims Includes
One From st. Peter,
Minnesota
NOW ON TRIAL N FEDERAL
COURT ON THE CHARGE
Government Claims He Sold the Stock
Through the Use of the Nails But
Never Delivered It-Many Witnesses
to Testify.

New York, March 8-George H.
Munroe, under federal indictment for
alleged misues of the mails in SELL
ing wireless stock which the govern
ment contends he failed to deliver,
was placed on trial in the United
States circuit court here today. Sew
eral witnesses called by the govern
ment testified to sending money for
stock in answer to circulars promis-
ing rich dividends.
The prosecution of Munroe is the
outcome Of the crusade inaugurated
by Postmaster General Hitchcock
against fraudulent stock spectators,
who, 1t is charged, realized millions
Of dollars. As It is the first Of Sc
ries Of trials. the government. with a
view to presenting q strong case, has
brought witnesses from England and
from Albuquerque, N. M. Prescott.
Ariz., and other points.
Among those who testified here to-
day were Mrs. Carmine vognati of
Boston, who said she invested 800
without return; Miss Margaret Hen
messy, Braintree, Mass. $50: Max
Hoefer. st. Peter, Mimi. $50: and
John H. Burns, Peoria, ILL.,, $2,500.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08
What Taft Advocated in Behalf of the Farmers
In His Grand Forks Speech Sept 28, 1908

silver was worth more in 1873 than
gold. therefore you were justified in
paying debt year old in coin
that in '73 was equal to gold. but a
year ago. equal only to fifty cents.
-. Wheat and Silver
"Now that being the attitude of the
two parties, and Mr.. Bryan having for
the moment passed away from the
protection and free trade, substituted
another nostrum. And the American
people arose and stamped on that
proposition, but Mr.. Bryan said the
gold STANDARDIZED you remember
about the crown of thorns and all
that imagery he used to describe the
awful destruction Of the gold stand
ard. You remember the promises he
made to you and the prophecies Of
ruin If you continued the gold stand
ard. He said that silver and wheat
went together. He said that silver
was worth fifty cents on dollar and
wheat was worth fifty cents on dol
lar, and therefore you would keep
wheat down to fifty cents on q dollar
as silver went down. The year had
hardly passed before silver went
down and wheat went up, and wheat
has been going up ever since. 1 don't
know what it is here. but suppose
about 81 cents. and other products
have gone up in proportion. The
truth is, that the last twelve years
have been nothing, so far as Mr..
Bryan is concerned, but refutation Of
every prophesy Of evil he has made.
Party's Position
"Now the Republican party is not
pledged to protection as a fetch. It
isn't that the name protection 80 at
tracts 1t that 1t cannot get away from
it, but because 1t believes in the prin-
ciple Of protection as q means Of sup
porting the industries of this coun-
try, and furnishing . market to the
farmers Of this country 30 that they
can get good prices for their product.
Now the theory Of protection is this:
that when you put on customs duties
equal to the difference in the cost Of
production between this country and
countries abroad. you will enable the
manufacturing establishments and es-
tablishments for producing things in
this country, and by competition be-
tween them, by the inventive genius
Of the American working and the
American business man, by economic
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08
WANT PUBLICITY
Bill for Publishing Campaign Ex-
penses VIII be introduced.

Washington, March Equalization
before election Of the receipts and ex-
penditures Of national and congress
sional political committees will be pro-
vided for in a bill which will be in
troduced during the next session Of
congress by Representative Mccall Of
Massachusetts, at the instance of the
National Publicity Law association.
Assurances from leading members Of
the next house that such a measure
would be adopted by that body and
expressions Of confidence by leaders
on both sides in the senate that it
would enact such a law, have been
given to the committee Of the law
association. This association has been
active for the last seven years in
securing legislation, on the subject.
1t was instrumental in having
passed by congress during the last
session bill providing the publica-
ton Of receipts and expenditures after
election. The house bill required
publication before election. but in or
der to secure the passage Of the bill
In the senate this provision had to be
eliminated. There was much Repub-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08

the house OF representatives, and BY
force of those rules introduced by
Speaker Reed and taken up by the
Democratic members Of that house
and now held up by Mr.. Bryan as a
means of defeating the rule Of the
people-those 600 amendments were
adopted In the house, and Mr.. Bryan
and another gentleman on his side
carried Mr. Wilson, the author of the
bill on their shoulders out Of the
house Of representatives in Joy and
jubilation that the bill had passed.
Soup House Era
"Now what followed the passage Of
that bill you know. Such depres-
sion In our industries, such disaster
!. to our business. such an interference
with the prosperity Of the farmers as
in its whole history. Wheat went
down to 81 cents. corn to- 81 cents.
oats to II 1-2 cents and potatoes down
to 27 1-2 cents. The farmer was
loaded with mortgages and debts. and
those four years were burned into the
hearts of the farming and working
community by the suffering that they
brought.
when. at the end Of that adminis-
tration, the question came on as to
whom or what party the American
people we're to elect, Mr.. Bryan, wrest-
ing the Democratic party from the
control of Mr.. Cleveland. announced
in the Democratic convention. that
while protection had destroyed
its thousands, the gold standard had
destroyed its tens Of thousands, and
therefore the only hope Of the Ameri-
can people was to introduce an act
providing for the free coinage Of sill
yer, the inevitable effect of which
would have been to reduce the value
Of the monetary yard stick-the value
Of the dollar to fifty cents. In other
words, what he was proposing to the
people of this country was repudia-
tion by legislative acts, and never for
any. people was there presented such
an alluring bane. sItww1s dishonest.
but 1t was sugar-coated-you all
know about these sugar-coated
pills-well 1t was sugar-coated by the
statement that, the gold standard had
been too high That sway back in
1873 q crime had been committed, and
that although your debt might have
been contracted year before because
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08
ROOSEVELT OFF.
ON TRIP ACROSS
THE CONTINENT
First Stop at Atlanta, Georgia
and Will End in State Of
California
SILENCE Of SPHINX HANGS
OVER THE TALkATIVE COLONEL
II Have Nothing to Say About Any.
thing" He Declared as He Boarded
His Train to Begin the Journey
Knew Nothing of Mobilization.

New York. March s.-Theodore
Roosevelt started today on his six
weeks swing across the country to
the Pacific coast and back again, II
Is the first tour the colonel has made
since the recent political campaign.
His first stop will be Atlanta. Ca,
tomorrow.
II have nothing to say about any
thing" said Col. Roosevelt a. he
boarded his train on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, which left at 10:1e
o'clock for the south. The colonel
said he had not heard Of the mobili-
cation Of the United States troops
and navy near Mexico until some
newspaper was shown him.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08

and business ability of American man
ayers, you will be able so to reduce
the cost of production that in the
competition the prices will go down
behind the tariff wall, and the people
will get the benefit of that reduced
cost Of production. l repeat, that is
the normal operation of the tariff,
and 1t operates that way unless there
is a combination between the pro-
ducers which creates monopoly,
and the monopoly reducing the cost
Of production, 1t may be, takes ad-
vantage by reason of the control Of
the output, of the rates imposed by
the protective tariff.
Trust Operations
Nov it becomes important, there
fore. that that measure Of protection
should be kept down to what is really
the difference between the cost Of
production abroad and the cost Of
production here. In the course Of ten
years, by the normal operation Of the
here, the cost of production with re-
spect to any articles has been re-
duced. Being so. tariff ought to be
reduced, and the Republican party is
pledged to q revision of the tariff
which will reduce it to the measure
of the difference between the cost OF
production here and the cost of pro-
ductton abroad. Now the party has
promised that in its platform. 1t has
promised to do exactly what 1t will
do, and l am here to say for the Re-
publican party that If you give it the
mandate Of power, that is what it will
do. 1t took some time for that spirit
to crystalize in the Republican par
ty. l claim to be one of the early
men In favor Of revision of the
tariff; but l said this, that we must
wait until the public opinion Of the
party reached point by crystaliza-
tion where the party would take that
policy. We did wait for two years,
and now the party is pledged and we
intend to carry out revision that
shall be honest on the one hand to
protect the industries by the measure
I have stated-the difference In the
cost of production-and the consumer
the other. In other words, the evi-
dence to be taken shall be evidence
from both Sides"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08
ITALY GUARDS
CAMM0RR|STS
Public Not Permitted to See
Accused Assassins at Close
Range

viterbo, Italy, March s.-Althougb
the trial of the .cammorrists will, not
open until Saturday there already are
thousands Of visitors here, drawn by
the unusual character Of the event.
Several times day the jailers test
the iron bars of the windows of the
medieval monastery Of Gradi where
thirty-nine Of the accused are i'm
prisoned and a strong force Of car
bineers scrutinize the throngs that
visit the place. The spy accuser. Alb
batemaggic, and Maria Stenardo, the
wife Of one Of the alleged actual as
sassins of Cuoccolo and his wife, are
kept in San Luparo prison. More wit
nesses arrived today. They are being
closely guarded.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-08
ARRESTS NAY LEAD
TO TRAN HOLD0P
Two Michigan Men May Be the
Much Wanted Southern
Pacific Robbers

Detroit. March S.-The Southern
Pacific holdup near Ogden, Utah, on
the night Of January 2. is said to be
closely connected with tho arrest. Of
Victor Clore and BRYAN o'Hara Of
Palms, Mich. Tie aTfsasa, were made
by Representatives, :, Of q private de-
tective agency. Clore was taken to
Jail at Mount Clemens and O'Hara
was locked up at Sandusky, Mich.
The hold-up. resulted in the death of
the porter and taking Of $1,400 cash
and $1,000 in jewelry from the pas
sengers of the train. O'Hara is the
son Of: well-to-do parents Of Palms
and Clore's father is a farmer.