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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

With all the examples of nerve
and perseverance in baseball there
is, perhaps none more striking
than that OF William Forsythe, 10,
Fremont, o., boy, who is trying
to make a pitcher of himself.
Half blind, Forsythe lost his
right eye when a child, and handi-
capped with crippled hand, the
youth is one of the best amateur
pitchers in northern Ohio and
hopes to break into professional
ball next year.
Forsythe lost his thumb several
years ago, but by practice learned
to get firm grip on the ball. He
has an assortment of curves and a
good change OF pace.
Recently he famed 35 men In
two games, holding his opponents
to three hits in the first contest,
which is pretty good evidence Of
his control.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
TIGER TEAM
WOULD JOIN
N EW CIRCUIT
Only There Isn't Any Cir
cult to Join; Newspa- /
pers Did All the .
Talking. /!

Managers of the Montana ball
clubs are now trying to blame the
Tacoma and Spokane manage
ments for failure of the Montana
four-club league to become a
reality. Lack of interest among
these owners is attributed as the
cause.
Russ Hall of Tacoma declares
that he has been ready at all
times to get into the new league.
He has tried to reach President
Davey of the Butte team and
Manager Hester of Great Falls by
telegraph, and failed. He sent
his secretary, Arno Redlich, and
Manager Raymond to hunt up
both men, and the report was
that the new league was "alI
bunk"
Montana newspapers did all
the talking, and there never was
any real intention of organizing
a new league, Redlich reports.
A bunch of Tigers, returning
from Montana, were due in Ta-
coma today. Some of them will
seek employment here and play
the rest of the season in Russ
Halls Sunday ball club. Among
those due to return to Tacoma
are Pete Lapan, Carl Stevens,
Lefty Schroeder, Harry Gardner.
Tealey Raymond, Earl Thompson
and Joe Connolly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
JOE BONDS WILL
MEET BILL TATE
AND JACK DILLON
Tacoma Boxer Tackles Several Big Boys of the East
Before He Comes Home to Join the Army; He
Also Serves as Ocean Beach Life Guard.

Joe Bonds, Tacoma's favorite
heavyweight boxer, who has been
mixing with the big boys of the
eastern rings during the past year,
has been acting as life guard this
summer at Rockaway Beach, New
York.
The only reason Joe is not still
actively engaged in this pleasant
duty is because he has some i'm
portant fights scheduled soon, and
there wasn't enough exercise in life
saving work to keep him in good
physical condition.
Bonds says he is stuck on the
ocean beaches of the east and he
wouldn't think Of returning west
until the end of the summer If 1t
were not for enlisting in the army
out here.
The Tacoma boxfighter expects
to be home August IL. He meets
Jack Dillon at Memphis on August
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Summer Resort
Wants Semi Pro
Baseball Games

A new summer resort
within easy reach of Tacoma,
today offers inducements to
Tacoma semi-pro baseball
clubs.
The Smith brothers, who
recently opened an amuse-
ment park at Horseshoe
lake, on the Gig-HarbOr-
Bremerton highway, were i'm
the city today lining up ball
clubs for Sunday games at
the lake during the remain
der Of the season.
The lake is seven miles
from Gig Harbor, with auto
stages running to IL fire.
quently. There is a big
dance pavilion there and a
good diamond. The water is
warm and the bathing beach
is said to be one of the best
in the country.
A ball team composed of
lOggers from the Horseshoe
lake country has been train
ing all season, and is ready
to take ON the best teams.
Clubs wanting games
should notify the Smith
brothers, Horseshoe lake,
Wanna postoffice, Pierce
county, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Release of Euers and Schultz
Ends Reign of Great Machine

A three-line item appeared in
the sport pages the other day, an
nouncing that Johnny Evers had
been RELEASED to the Phillies by
the Boston Braves.
Some two or three weeks earlier
three-line item appeared in the
sport pages, announcing that
Pittsburg had traded Frank
Schultz.
All of which is reminiscent of
baseball decade ago and which
shows the favor of the fans, like
that of kings, is a transient thing.
Ten years ago Evers was short
stopping and Schultz was playing
right field for one OF the greatest
baseball machines the world ha
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

ever seen---the Chicago Cubs.
Evers and Schultz are the only
two left in big league baseball and
1t is scarcely probable either will
last through another season.
And the rest of the Cubs are
scattered throughout the country.
Frank Chance, the peer of man.
ayers, recently resigned as pilot
of the Los Angeles club on the
coast; King, the wonder catcher,
has been out of baseball for
years; Tinker is still in baseball.
managing Columbus; Artie Hof-
man, the greatest of utility men.
has given up the idea of playing
any more, after two heart-rending
attempts to come back.
How have the mighty fallen"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

6. On Friday night of this week
Bonds is scheduled to battle with
Gunboat Smith in a six round go
at Philadelphia, and on July 81
he meets Bill Tate at the Harlem
A. G. at Rockaway. Tate is six
feet seven inches tall and weighs
272 pounds, Bonds writes. Despite
his peculiar build and unusual
height, he holds a decision over
Langford, so he must be rather
good.
Tate is the last big man | am
ever going to box" says Bonds. 81
can make It's easily now and am
claiming the championship at that
weight, as l defeated Bob McAlis-
ter after he had won over Levin
sky, the recognized title holder at
that weight. However, ] am shap-
ing my plans to get Levinsky in 4
ring and see who is the best man
if that is possible"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
S.S.LEACuE
TO SETTLE
ITS TITLE
Teams Tied For Lead Play
Final Game in Stadium
Tonight.

Tacoma Sunday School leaguers
will attend the Stadium in a body
this evening for the champion
ship game of the season, to be
played at $40 between the Ep-
worth Methodist and Plymouth
Congregational teams.
Each team has won the league
championship twice. A handsome
silver trophy has been offered by
Frank c. Hart, to be the permen-
nent POSSESSION of the team win
ming three successive titles. Ep-
worth won the flag in 1913 and
1915. Plymouth won in 1914 and
1916.
Because of. the early dusk in
the Stadium and the gray color of
the seats, President Caddey of the
league announces that he will fur
nish lot of brand new balls to
be put in play about the middle
of the game.
Each of the teams has won 10
games this year and lost 8. Two
southpaws. Eddie Schwartz for
Plymouth and Carl Gordon for
Epworth, will do the twirling.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

square one just now. He's a
great musician when it comes to
rafting the bones.
q q q
JOE BONDS HAS BEEN Do
ING DUTY AS A LIFE SAVER
ON ONE OF NEW YORK'S
BEACHES. EVEN A BOXER
HAS HIS PLEASANT MOMENTS.
o o O
II the high cost of living con-
tinues, there will be a lot of us
Joining the s. P. u. G. next
Christmas.
o. o o
Because the Stadium is gray, and
baseballs can hardly be seen
there in the dusk of evening,
the Sunday School league will
provide lot of brand new
balls for tonight's game. Why
wouldn't IL be just as effective
to paint the Stadium black?
q o o
The French have a way of
topping mules from hee-hawing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Over Million
Persons Read
Wright Story

That a very large public was
awaiting the Clune production of
"The Eyes of the World" now
showing at the Tacoma theater,
was made certain by the fact that
Harlod Bell Wright's celebrated
story of modern life in California
has had sale of over 100000
copies.
1t is said that the average sale
of successful books is about
$4,000 copies; the average of best
sellers is about 10000; Wright's
eight novels have averaged about
100000 and have totaled nearly
100000.
They have made the author
probably the wealthiest writer in
the country. 1.-THE Eyes of the
World" which now comes in beau
tiful picture form, is replete with
the stuff of which thrilling motion
pictures are composed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

STREET CAR STRIKE is THAT
EVERYONE is GETTING so AC-
CUSHIONED TO RIDING IN AU-
TOMOBILES THEY'LL ALL BE
TOO ARISTOCRATIC TO RE-
TURN TO BEAMS JITNEYS.
o O
Jimmy Callahan would SELL
tence the kaiser to manage the
Pirates under present ownership.
But Wilhelm would want to UNI
pire too, and President Tencr
couldn't stand for that.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Two Stars Are
Off To Majors

Two more Northwestern league
ball players have been ordered to
the big show.
Lafayette, the catcher, outfield-
err and all-around wonder boy of
the Spokane Indians, has been sold
to the Cincinnati Reds, and will
go east ut once.
Elmer Letter, Butte outfielder
and pitcher, one of the heaviest
hitters in the lague, has been sold
to the New York Yankees.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

Any man who can ride i'm an au.
tOmObile over the present road
to Olympia without either cuss-
ing or praying could face Ger
man shells in the front rank
trenches without qualm.
o O O
Ty Cobb can't seem to hold up
the Tigers alone. Unless he tries
q hand at pitching, perhaps.
O o O
It's funny how all your friends
can tell You about the fine fishing
streams they know of, yet when
you reach the streams, every
farmer informs you that there
hasn't been a trout caught there
for sixteen years.
q q @
Jess Willard is more inter-
ested in the round ring than the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Former Bush Leaguers Leading
Teams In Am. League Flag Race

1t is very probable that two
bush league managers will fight
it out for honors in the American
league.
Clarence Rowland, manager o.
the White Sox, has his team
whipped into shape to play con-
sistent baseball.
Lee Fohl of Cleveland has start
ed drive pennantward which
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Strike Spells
Golf Meeting

The street car strike is also in
terfering with golf plans. Many
of the Lochburn club members
could not attend the annual meet
ing last night, because of lack of
transportation, so the meeting was
adjourned until Tuesday. Plans
for improving the course will be
made.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Finals TODAY

The mems tennis champion of
the Tacoma Lawn Tennis club will
be determined some time this aft
ernoon when Henry Hewitt III and
Gerald Todd play the final match
of the club tourney.
Miss Trina Frazier and Miss
Helen Atkinson are playing for the
women's title this afternoon, both
having won their way to the finals
yesterday by defeating Miss
Frances Burrill and Miss Joanna
Ballou.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

Clarence Rowland and two of
the stars helping him In his PEN
nant drive---Ray Schalk Oefrl
and Happy" Felsch.
adage that no smart baseball
comes from the minors.
Neither Rowland nor Foil
had any major league eXperi-
ence to speak of before they
took charge of the teams they
now lead.
Rowland's early career was con-
fined almost entirely to some
minor league teams in Iowa, and
Foil managed teams in Akron
and New England. Both were sue
cessful enough in the minor
leagues, but were regarded as
doubtful experiments when they
took charge of clubs in the majors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
u. of Cal. Will
Resume Sports

BERKELEY, CAL, July 10
The University of California au-
thorities have definitely decided
not to abandon athletics next
year. John Stroud, graduate
manager of athletics, today be-
gan active work towards arrang-
ing a football schedule.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

beans and canned salmon-for
reasons both good and sufficient.
Nobody could blame him under the
circumstances. Frank Clarke sives
an excellent Characterization of
the role.
Many splendid actors are in the
cast of 1.-THE Spoilers" including
William Farnum, Kathlyn Will
Jams, Wheeler Oakman, Thomas
Santschi and Bessie Eyton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
Iron Man Wins

GREAT FALLS, July IS. - Joe
McGinnity pitched hard and fast
game for Great Falls in the open
ing game of the post season series,
winning 2 to L. Schinkel opposed
him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

Not without its lighter moments
is THE Spoilers" the new offer
ing at the Colonial. While the
story is a highly dramatic one,
Rex Beach has provided quite a
bit of comedy to offset the thrills.
Joe Dextry, the veteran "pard-
ner" of Glenister, Ia responsible
for many laughs. Dextry Is the
man who swears off for life on
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

To live over again the days of
youth is a privilege-or hardship
not given to many, but Charles
Ray experienced the sensation
while acting in "The Clodhopper,"
a new Triangle play in which
Thomas H. Ince presents Ray as
a star. This play is at the Apollo
until Saturday night.
Society girls and school girls,
all pretty, were recruited by Ince
as "posies" and SHOW girls" for
big scenes In "The Clodhopper."
They became very proficient and
went thru their convolutions as
any flock of "Follies" girls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
CaInpi Victor

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, July 1S.-Eddi0
Campi outpointed Harry Ander-
son here last night in four-round
bout. Anderson is lightweight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

Standing of the Clubs.

Games Yesterday.
Portland 8, Vernon Z.
Salt Lake 5, Oakland O.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

Games Yesterday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18

should land him near the top OF
the heap unless accidents or un-
foreseen complications intervene.
1t will be interesting to see
these two bushers fighting it out
in the stirring baseball days Of
September. 1t would be &C.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-18
NATIONAL LEAGUE

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

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Standing of the Clubs.
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0eschger and Killifer.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-26

Mail your letters at The Key.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-26

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION. The town of Seward, Alaska, Plaintiff
 vs. George Turner, O. G. Labaree and Alexander Fl. Bradford, Defendants.
 Cause No. S-l04
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oy-4er cocktails at the Branch.

Andy's Express, phone Madison 14S.
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American Newspaper Man Describes IN. PARTS Sinking of Lac0nia by Sub

and men were busy with the ropes. 1 started to help near davit that seemed to be giving trouble, but was stoutly ordered to get out of the way and get into the boat.
 We were on the port side, practi- cally opposite the engine we'll Up and beyond the deck passengers and crew were donning life belts, throw ing on overcoats and taking positions in the boats. There were a number of women, but only one appeared hysterical-little Miss Titsie Siklosi, a French Polish actress, who was be- ing cared for by her manager, Cedric P. Ivatt, appearing on the passenger list as from New York.
 Steam began to hiss somewhere from the giant gray tunnels that tow . sUM oIeVl GIu9ppnS 'aAoqe peIe roaring swish as rocket scared up ward from the captains bridge, leav- ing a comets tail of fire. watched it as it described a graceful arc in the black void overhead, and then, with an audible pop, it burst in flare of brilliant white light.
 There was a tilt to the dtcks. It was listing starboard at just the angle that would make it necessary to reach for support to enable one to stand up- right. Tn the meantime electric flood lights-large white-enameled tunnels containing clusters of bulbs-had been suspended from the promenade deck and illuminated the dark water that rose and fell on the slanting side of the ship,
 "Lower away
 Some one gave the order and we started downward with a jerk towards the seemingly hungry, rising and falling swells.
 (To be continued tomorrow.)
 u-to-dota nr;ntjnp at the Gateway.
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U-to-date printing at the Gateway.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-26

QUEENSTOWN, Feb 26.-(via London. Feb. 27.-I have serious doubts whether this is a real story. l am not entirely certain that it is not all a dream and that in a few minutes l will wake up back in stateroom B-l9 on the promenade deck of the Cunard- CT Laconia and hear my cockney stew ard informing me with an abundance of "and sirs" that it is a fine morning.
 It is now little over thirty hours since stood on the slanting decks of the big liner, listened to the lowering of the lifeboats, heard the hiss of es- caping steam and the roar of ascend ing rockets as they tore lurid rents in the black sky and cast their red glare over the roaring sea.
 I am writing this within thirty min uteS after stepping on the dock here in Queenstown from the British mine sweeper which picked up our open Iifeboat after an eventful six hours of drifting and darkness, and baihng and nulling on the oars, and of Straining
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-26
The Danger Zone

On Sunday we knew generally We were in the danger zone, though we
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-26
IN 8 PARTS

An American newSpaperman, Floyd r. Gibbons, was the first cor respondent to experience the crash of war as the result of the submarine blockade He was passenger aboard the Cunard liner Laconia when it was torpedoed, resulting in the death of several Americans, and his story of the rush for the boats is intense and thrilling. It will be printed in three parts.
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 Summons by publication.
 IN THE NAME OF THE PRESI- DENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
 To the defendants in the above en- titled cause, Geore Turner, O. G. Lab aree and Alexander Bradford, GREETING:
 You, and each of you, are hereby summoned and required to appear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Judicial Division, with in thirty days after the completion of the period of publication of this sum- mons, to-wit: within thirty days after the fourth day of May A. D: 1917, and answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff, which has been filed in the above entitled court, by which plaintiff seeks an order and Judgment of the court for the condemnation of Lots numbered One CD, Two @, Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six (6), and Seven CD, in Block Six (6), in the Town of Seward, in Kenai Re cording District, Third Judicial DiW- sion of the Territory of Alaska, as shown by and according to the map and plat of the Frank L. Ballaine Townsite of the Town of Seward, AL aska, and appropriate said Lots to public use, as a public park with street and driveway therein, for the town of Seward, and to continue Rail road Avenue from it's intersection filth the south end of the Alley in said Block Six, in northeasterly direction to intersect with Adams Street in said Town of Seward at the East end of said Street;
 That unless you so appear and an swer the complaint of plaintiff, with in the time above stated and show cause why such order should not be made, plaintiff will take judgment against you, and apply to the court for an order of the court, condemmng the above named lots to be approprl-. ated by the plaintiff for the uses and purposes above stated, and for a further order of the court, ap- pointing three appraisers, as IS provided by law, to appralse, the said lots, and each of them, and to assess the benefits and dam ages, to each of you and report to the court the1r nnQ1ngSJ ana tndI upoH tne payment of the amount or amounts found to be due each of you by said appraisers, into the above entitled court to be paid to you and each of you as therein provided that an order be made by the court directing you and each of you to execute to plaintiff deed conveying any and all interest you and each of you or any one of you may have in any one or more or all of said lots, as the case may be, and will apply to the court for such other and further order or orders in the prem ises as to the court may seem meet and proper. ..
 Witness the Honorable FRED M, BROWN, Judge of the above entitled court, this, the 26th day of February A. D. 1917.
 ARTHUR LANG,
 Clerk.
 By RoBENT L. NEVER,
 Deputy.
 Date of first publication, March 5 1917.
 | (SEAL.)
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aching eyes toward that empty, meaningless horizon in search of help; but, dream or fact, here it is:
 The Cunard liner Laconia, lS,0OO tons burden, carrying seventy-three passengers, men, women and child ren-of whom six were American citi zens-manned by a mixed crew of PIG, bound from New York to Liver pool, and loaded with foodstuffS, cot ton and war material, was torpedoed without warning by a German sub marine last night on the Irish coast. The vessel sank in about forty min utes.
 Americans Lost
 Two American citizens, mother and daughter, listed from Chicago, and former risdentS there, are among the dead. They were Mrs. Mary F.. Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy. l have talk ed with a seaman who was in the same lifeboat with the two Chicago women, and he has told me that he saw their lifeless bodies washed out of the sinking boat.
 The American survivors are Mrs. F. F.. Harris of Philadelphia, who was the last woman to leave the Laconia; the Rev Father Wareing of St. Joseph Seminary, Baltimore; Arthur T. Kirby of New York and myself.
 A former Chicago woman, now the wife of British subject, was among the survivors. She is Mrs. Henry George Boston, the daughter of Gran ger Farwell of Lake Forest.
 After leaving New York passengers and crew had had three drills with the lifeboats. All were supplied with life belts and assigned to places in the twelve big lfeboats poised over the side from davits of the top deck.
 Submarines had been chief part of the conversation during the entire trip, but the subject had been treated lightly, although all ordered precau- tions were strictly in force. After the first explanatory drill on the second day out from New York from which we sailed on Saturday, February F, the abandon ship" signal five quick blasts on the whistle-had summoned us twice to our life belts and heavy wraps, among which included flask and a fashlight, and to a roll call in front of our assigned boats on the top deck.
 The Danger Zone
 On Sunday we knew generally We were in the danger zone. though we
The midland journal., 1917-12-21
The Wonder of Cookery.

A new pupil in the cooking school
sat at the instructors desk copying re
ceipts from cards. She wrote busily
for some time and then approached 8
fellow student and asked wonderinglyS
do we have to have all these things
to make fruit punch?"
Her card read:
"Fruit Punch.-Two pounds powder
ed sugar, IL lemons, nutmegs, paprika
tarragon vinegar, two heads of lettuce
raisins, buttermilk."
1t appeared that she had copied the
teachers grocery memorandum for the
next day.-Youth's Companion.