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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
AU-StQrS
This Is Uncle Sans Best
Football Eleven.

The following players, formerly
stars in intercollegiate circles, but
now with Uncle Sans forces, have been
picked on the real ALI Western" foot
ball team, this selection positively
guaranteed to be the last of the sea-
son:
Left end = Rasmussen (Wisconsin),
Camp Grant.
Left tackle - Blackjack (Michigan
Aggies), Great Lakes station.
Left guard - Whiting (Chicago),
Camp Grant.
Center-Pottinger (Michigan), Great
Lakes station.
Right guard-Robbins (Michigan),
Great Lakes station.
Right tackle = Ward (Georgetown)
Camp Custer.
Right end-Gardiner (Carlisle),
Camp Custer.
arterback-Costello (Georgetown)
| Camp Custer
, Fullback-Smith (Michigan), Great
Lakes station.
Left half-Shiverick (ConnelD, Camp
Grant.
| Right half-Craig (Michigan), For
Sheridan.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
CHICAGO CUBS BUY
PITCHER BOEHLING

of the Washington club, has been re-
leased by the Cleveland Indians to go
to the Chicago Cubs. This pitcher is
youthful, both in appearance and in
major league service and will make q
valuable man for Manager Mitchell.
When his arm is all right he Is q diff
cult pitcher to fathOm. E
Boehling was discovered on the sand
lots of Richmond, Va, by William Peet
a baseball writer and recommended to
Clark Griffith. manager of the Wash
ington club. He had a lame wing and
later was traded to Cleveland in the
deal that sent Smith and Leonard to
Washington.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
Help
Ball Magnates All Looking
for Loop-Holes.

Wartime suggestions for baseball are
not exactly as scarce as sugar. Here
are some that have been in print in the
past month:
Reducing salaries one-third.
Cutting player limit to IS or Is J.
Closing parks for duration of war.
Limiting season to 140 games.
Abolshing double headers.
Eliminating spring training trips.
Consolidating the two major leagues.
Deferring the opening of the season
to May I.
Giving all the profits to the gov
eminent.
Doing away with the worlds series.
Diminishing all players of military
age.
! Pooling receipts.
Pooling players.
! It's easy to see that somebody Is 60
ing to be disappointed.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23

crowns to service flags, Washington
state college being shining (?) exam
pie.
However, unless the draft limit is
lowered to IS years, nearly every COL
lege will have sufficient men for East
football squad, perhaps not as good
as those of years gone by. but good
enough to attract and hold the support
of gridiron fans. High school football
will flourish in most places as never
before.
Tennis. hardest stricken of all the
sports. will probably experience a re-
vival during the coming year. Golf. the
mainstay Of the middle-aged athletes.
| is bound to survive the war. Basket
ball will hardly have the same follow
ing as in former years, though it will
still remain one of the most popular
of sports.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
Eklund, Wyoming Wrestler,
on Way to Top of Ladder

Clarence Ecklund, the Wyoming
wrestler. is on his way to fame. Also.
he is after the light heavyweight title
and ready and eager to meet any man
in the world at 10 pounds. Ecklund
wrestled to draw with Walter Miller
a few months ago and ever since has
been climbing the ladder rapidly. a-
On November 30, at Houston, Texas.
Ecklund beat Pet Brown for the second
time in their series Of matches. Mat
fans who have seen Brown in action
will understand that, although Pet may
have "gone back" he would have to
Ego back" a tremendous distance to fall
an easy prey to any opponent. Yet
Ecklund obtained two clean falls in As
minutes over Brown, which stamps the
wyoming man as a regular grappler.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
BASKET BALL CHAMPS ENLIST.

The whole basket ball squad of the
Illinois Athletic club. which won the
national championship last spring. has
disbanded and gone to the colors. Al
Pressler. captain and forward, has en-
listed and passed the examination for
the aviation service. He will leave for
San Antonio. Texas. within q few days
Harry Frieling also has applied for ad-
| mission to the aviation service. John
| son and Slight are in the navy. and
Cochrane has applied for admission t.
that branch.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
TY COBB Is LEADER
WITH BAT, AS USUAL
Georgia Peach Ahead in All
Departments.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb, as usual. tops
the batters Of the American league in
the averages made public by President
johnson. The Georgia Peach has ac-
cumulated a batting average Of $3.50
for the 1917 season, making total of
225 hits in reaching this mark. Seven
of the smashes We're circuit drives, %
three -baggers, and A two-base hits.
Tyrus stole S. bases and made 16 sac
rifice hits. He walked 81 times and
whitfield the ozone thrice in succession
"a times.
George Sisler, the Michigan beauty.
was second among the regulars in the
American league. hitting 1853. iris
Speaker. the league leader last year,
dropped to third place, one point be-
hind the st. Louis first sacker Other
batters in the 500 class We're George
Ruth, Boston. 1926: Robert Veach, De
troit. .3l9: Eddie Murphy, Chicago
.sl4; Oscar Felsch Chicago, Del Gain
or Boston, both .30S: Joseph Harris
Cleveland. .304; "Stuffy' Mclnnis
Philadelphia. 1903; Sam Rice. Wash
ington, Ray Chapman, Cleveland. ant
Duffy Lewis, Boston, ,3o2; Joe Jack
son. Chicago, .30l. and Mike McNally
Boston, 800.
Players remembered in Union asso
citation and Northwestern league cir
cles batted as follows in the America
circuit
Bush Hit 200.
Harry Holman, PSI; carl May
.252: Fred McMullin, .2S7; Roy Grove
.224; Charles Risberg, .203; Joe Bus
200; Walter Alexander. 1877.
Walter Pipp led the league wit
homers, slamming nine over the fenc
Cobb's % triples distanced all 9TH
sluggers' marks, while Tyrus hit II
most doubles. and led in stolen base
though Collins and Chapman push'
him hard on the, sacks. Chapm:
made CT sacrifice hits.
The leading fielders were Gandil
first, Jack Barry at second. Fra
Baker at third. Everett Scott at sho
John Henry behind the bat, and "Bi
jacobson and Amos Strunk in the o,
field. Walter Johnson led the pitche
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
GOLF At NIGHT
A POSSIBILITY
Fanatic Suggests Adoption Of
Pet Invention for the Use
of All-Seas0n Players.

He Is Here!
II. l.. Bickenbach, DIR. Dodds. French
Ferguson and other all season golfers,
who were gathered In a CHEEKY corner
at the Country clubhouse discussing
the feasibility OF a petition for more
sunshine during the late afternoon,
were his first victims. This Is the tale
he sprung after hearing the walls from
the golf experts
"Now. do not play the game, but l
have n million friends who do. I've a
scheme to give them more golf. I've
observed them go to the links so late
these short days that they can't play
more than six holes. and the caddies
usually have to burn matches for them
at the last two or three greens.
"Over in Scotland and England it's
different. There. they have twilight
that lasts until . o'clock even at this
time OF year The business man car
| get home. eat his dinner and get ou'
and have a round or half-round of gol
before it grows too dark.
| This Ball Of His.
Now. this new ball of mine-it viii
have a small electric bulb with a tough
glass to protect it. Inside the ball will
be n miniature battery. over this will
be a cover of resilient rubber pune
tured with tiny holes.
The cover is in halves, with
screw thred. The golfer starts tn
bulb going. puts on the cover and tee
up. In it's flight, the ball will twinkl
like a star. The battery will last fin
hours, and can be replaced for a nicke
Yes, I've tried fireflies and phos
phorescent paint. but they won't do.
spent two hours one night catchin
fireflies. I put ten inside the cove
and on the tee it worked fine. But. tt
trouble is. the FREELY doesn't know
thing about team work. Half migl
Il be working and the other half loafin
But the first time the ball was hi
the scheme proved worthless The fir
5, fly is too sensitive. 1t gets seasick,
r, something"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
LONESTAR FAVORlTE
WITH PULLMAN FANS
Henderson Has Little Chance
to Get Place.

Elmer Henderson, coach of the
Broadway high school football team at
Seattle, is not being considered FOR
the coaching position at Washington
State college next year.
No contract will be signed or appli
cants considered until such time as
conditions indicate that something neal
normal conditions will prevail in the
northwest football camps next year.
When that time comes. sentiment il
the athletic council and the SUDDEN
body favors Coach William III. Dietz, il
case he is 4 free lance.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
MuNRoE REDEEMS
FRISCO FIASC0
Big Miner Is Badly Wounded
Rescuing Comrade From
mo Mans Land

"They dubbed him yellow when Jim
Jeffries knocked him out in the sec
ond round at San Francisco on August
&c, 1904, but Jack Munroe has proved
his gameness since that time in the
greatest battle ever known-the world
war;"
Munroe is now a cripple, his right
arm is paralyzed, and he'll never go to
the front again; but his heart and soul
are wrapped up in the canse Of the al
lies and he is on duty in Canada, as
sisting in recruiting.
Munroe has won far greater fame and
distinction as soldier-scrapper than
he did as scrapper in the squared cir
Gle. His courageous deeds were many,
but he topped it all when he went over
the top and crawled far out into INC
comrade.
Munroe Was Badly Wounded.
Munroe was badly wounded in this
brave sortie, paralysis resulting. bu
flor once and all he lived down the
lstigma that was attached to his nam'
when he met Jeffries at San Francisco
AS a matter of fact, Munroe neve
had any business in the ring with JEFF
fries, and none knew it better than he
his meeting with Jeff was brough
about by promoters anxious to fin'
some one to pit against the big cham
| pion, who had run out of opponents.
jeff was boxing four-round eXhihi
Itions on a stage tour when he first me
Munroe at Butte, Mont, December l!
1902. A wild swing in the secon
, round caught the champion off balanc
l and Jim went down.
Work Of Promoters.
Men back of Jeffries, however, sa,
, lin the knockdown a chance to wor
up big money bout, so story VIZ
4 put on the wire of a new star from til
: west who had bested the champio
G In a furious smuggling bee and ha
II knocked him down.
Artfully it was intimated that Je
e had been saved from a knockout /
+ the timer who obligingly cut the rour
n. a full minute.
The upshot of it all was that Mul
roe and jeff We're finally matched f
20 rounds in San Francisco on Augu
la '26, 1904. Much was expected of Mul
ul roe and fans flocked from the count
as over to see the battle.
s. OF course there was nothing to
Is. ,Jeffries. q real champion. outclass
r. Jack and knocked him out in the Sc
he ond. The angered ring followers /
sisted Munyoe had taken q "tlop."
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
DoBIE BACK ON JOB.

Gilmore Dobie. former Minnesota
football star and for years a successful
coach at University of Washington, has
been re-engaged as coach of the Y. s.
Naval academy football team for 1918.
Dobie gave the Navy the greatest scor-
ing machine it has ever had on the
football deld,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
Fulton and Miske to Clash
in 10-Round Go January 1S

Fred Fulton, Rochester. MINI.
heavyweight fighter. and Billy Miske
of st. Paul. have been signed up for
ten-round no.decision bout to be
held at st. Paul January Is, according
to an announcement made by Mike
Collins, Fulton's manager. Under the
terms Of the agreement. Fulton will
receive Is per cent Of the receipts and
Make 90,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
State University Quint Faces
Hard Schedule During
Coming Season.
TEAM IS HANDICAPPED
Little Time for Practice;
Promising Material in Spite
of the Lack of Veterans.

The state lTniversty's basket ball
schedule, as listed by Coach Jerry Mis-
sen at the meeting of the conference,
held last week, includes ten confer
ence games, four each with Washing
ton State college and the University OF
Idaho, and two with Whitman college.
Last year the Bruins played nine con-
ference basket ball games. winning
three and losing six. in spite of the fact
that the team was built up week be-
fore the season started.
Montana will play the initial con-
ference games on the road. against
Washington state college. at Pullman.
January % and "a. and against the Uni
yersity of Idaho, January % and &c, at
Moscow. This will be the Bruins only
western trip Of the year.
The first conference home games will
be played against Whitman on Feb
rnary s and 9. Idaho will be here for
two games two weeks later. while
Doc" Boilers veteran quint will come
to Missoula for the first time in two
years on March l. to meet Montana in
two contests.
The annual squahbles with the
Aggies, Bennion-less. will be staged
during February and March, with
games both at Missoula and at Boze-
man, as usual.
Prospects Are Fair.
Prospects for n winning Quint are
fairly good. several fast new men being
available. Ritchey Newman and Frank
johnson, Montana's fast forwards last
year, are both serving Uncle Sam, hav-
ing won their commissions as lieuten
ants, while Lawson Sanderson, captain
and guard of the 1917 quint, is with tho
marines. Claude McQuarrie who played
center part Of the season, is at the
United States Military academy.
Sailor and Larkin Of last year.
Bruins are in school. while numbe
OF other fast players will turn out
Driscoll and Sullivan. both regulars o,
the Butte high school quint which wol
the state championship at BoZema
last spring, have turned out on tn
court, while Leahy, who played guar
on the Purple and White a couple c
years ago. is guard prospect. Hop
Prescott, who has shown real baske
ball ability in previous years, is work
ing at a forward position, while Chr
Bentz may decide to return to tt
game. Chris broke in as a regular la:
season. and made a remarkable show
ing in the contests in which he playc
both at jumping center and as defer
sive guard. The squad was called OF
for practice two weeks ago. but Il;
been handicapped by the fact that Il
gym, the only place in which the tea
can work, is only available for baske
ball men for half an hour each day
present.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-23
Student Basket Ball Coach
Passes Into the Discard

The system of n student coach for
basket ball teams at the University Of
Washington passed into the discard
this season when Claude J. Hunt, foot
ball coach and athletic director of the
L. of W., took over the basketball
squad.
For many seasons it has been the
system at Washington to have the bas-
ketball captain coach of his own team
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-20
FIRST INFANTILE
PARALYSIS CLINIC
MONDAY, DEC. 3

Clinics for The treatment of infantile
paralysis cases will be established in
this city and will be held every two
weeks by members of the State Board
OF Health The first clinic will b held
in the Supervisors room in the Court
House, December 3rd, at which time
DR.. c. W. East of the State Board of
Health will be here TO conduct the
clinic.
People in La Sale and Livingston
counties that have had intantile paral
ysis will b1 urged to attend this clinic
and will receive the best medical adj.
vice entirely free. These clinics are
being established throughout the state
to try help the large number of peo.
pie who were crippled last year by
the epidemic Of infantile paralysis.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-20
0 I TAWA GIVES
$1,000 TO Y. N. c. A.
CITY EXCEEDS. Its QUOTA BY
$4,000 ACCORDING TO FIGURES
GIVEN OUT TODAY BY LEADERS
IN DRIVE.

Ottawa has done It's bit in the drive
for Y. NJ. c. Az funds according to an
nouncement made today at campaign
headquarters. Unofficial figures COM
piled by Dr. A. J. Roberts, generals
simo of the push" show that $1,000
have been subscribed to the national
fund bringing the city's share $4,000
above its quota.
Doctor Roberts stated that all the
reports have not been made by the
various committees and for that rea.
son nothing like official figures could
be given out. He is certain. however
that the amount subscribed by the
patriotic people of the city will be
close to the $1,000 mark II it don't ex
ceed that amount.
The south side committee led in the
race for the largest subscription $500
was collected from that section of the
town
Two or three large donations were
reported today, one of them for 1000
and another for $500, both OF whlcl
materially helped TO swell the city's
share to Its present very pleasing pro
being withheld until sanction for dis
portion. Names of these doners are
closing their identity is obtained be
fore giving the public an inkling o
who they are.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-20
SAMMY IS KILLED
IN BATTLE WACED
ON NO MANS LAND

Washington, Nov. 20.--The deaths
Of two privates with Pershing's forces
In France were reported to the war
department today. One Of the men
died of scarlet fever and the other
Of gun shot wounds.
One Killed In Battle.
With the American Army In France.
Nov 20.-Another engagement be.
tween Germans and Americans was
fought Sunday night in No -Mans.Land.
One American was killed. The pa
trolls were active between the lines
during the night There was lively
artillery fighting.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-20
final drive ON
TO Save VENICE
Berlin, Nov. 2O-lt is officially reported that a
terrific battle is raging in Northern Italy. The
Italians and German forces are fighting bitterly.

The Italians were unsuc-
cessful in their counter
attack on Mount Tomba,
now in possession Of the Austro.
German forces.
Italians Hold Lines.
Rome, Nov. 20.--The Italian forces
with the assistance given them by
the French and English, are holding
back the invading Teutons along the
Piave river. The Austro-German
forces are massing their troops, II is
reported, to attempt an encircling
movement in an effort to cut Oh the
defenders and at the same time get
In their rear.
Promise to Save Venice.
Rome, Nov. 2O-All Italy awaits
quietly the final phases Of the great
Piave struggle. which is now destined
to be the last telling stroke Of the
Germans in the north. II IL reported
here that the Central Powers have
promised the Pope that they will
leave Venice undamaged and neither
win they desecrate the priceless art
treasures II the city Is captured.
British Renew Bio Push.
London, Nov 2O.--That another
great British drive impends In Bel.
gium is indicated today in ofiicisl dis.
patches from the western front whore
heavy artillery duel ID now raging.
The predictions are freely made that
the Haig forces win follow their a..
sault with heavy guns by sn attack
on the enemy positions Tue retreat
Of the Germans IL predicted
Turks Flee Palestine.
London, Nov. 20.-The Turks are
falling back in Palestine. according to
dispatches from the British leaders
now leading tha Tommies In the Asi.
attic campaign. The Ottomans are I'M.
able to beat back the invaders and
are rapidly giving way before the ter.
rible assaults aimed against them.
Annunzio Not Lost.
Washington, Nov. 20.--Gabrielle d
Annunzio, the famous Italian poet,
who was reported missing yesterday,
is now with the Italian forces dis.
playing activity among the allied
| 1iers.
Troops in Transit.
| Amsterdam, Nov. 20.--Heavy move.
ments of German infantry and ar
tlllery is exported taking place In
Belgium, 1t was reported from Maest.
rich today.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-20
|W|FE HIDES SELF.
IN AUTO; SPOUSE.
MEETS YOUNG LADY
MR.. AND MRS. FLOYD SchMtrT,
FORMER OTrAWANs, PRiNCl.
PALS IN THRILLER THAT ENDS
IN COURT.

A hat pin, an automobile and
clandestine meetings are the prin
cipal points Of triangle resolving IT,
self around the married life Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Floyd Schmitt, former Ottawans,
according to this mornings Chicago
papers. Mr.. and Mrs. Schmitt are re.
siding in Aurora where the husband
is engaged in the electrical contract
ing business. The wife Is a daughter
OF Mrs. Joseph peltier. Of Ottawa.
The late Thomas Nevins was her
father.
The Herald in its account OF the epi.
sode that gives promise Of disrupting
the Schmitt home, says;
Three Is crowd on a Joy ride
especially when the third party is the
wife OF the man In the company. As
a result OF such congestion" Floyd
Schmitt. electrical costractor, of Aur.
ora, yesterday was accused of assault
with attempt to do bodily HARM" in a
warrant sworn out by his wife.
Saturday evening, according to her
story. Mrs. Schmitt, whose suspicious
had been aroused. slipped into
Schmitt's automobile. standing in
front of his store The curtains were
down and she crouched between the
front and rear seats out of sight.
Presently Schmitt came out got in.
to the car and drove into the residence
section. Here he picked up a woman
companion, Once beyond the confines
Of the city, according to Mrs Schmitt,
the pair began to call each other
sweet names and kiss and hug until
Mrs. Schmitt could stand it no longer.
Sprlnging up, she attacked the girl
with hat pin, nails and fists. The girl,
who was getting the worst of the argu.
ment jumped from the car and ran
across tHe ntluS.
Then. Mrs. Schmitt AYERS, Floyd
called out Come back, Nellie. "
Mr. Schmi1 says he did not and didn't
mention the name OF Nellie.
The girl gone, husband and wife
continued to battle. Mrs. Schmitt
charges he turned on the gas" until
the machine was going thirty-flve
miles an hour, and then he pushed her
out She says she was bruised and
shaken up, but not entirely knocked
out"
After going some distance, Floyd
thought better of his action, came
back, picked his wife up and took
her home The warrant for assault
Is the result, and Mrs Schmitt says
she will follow this action up with a
suit for separate maintenance.
"The girl was Nellie Schipple," Mrs
Schmitt said yesterday, "She used tt
be bookkeeper in my husbands
store. suspected something was
wrong, Well, III make them pay fol
It,"
Miss Schipple denied she was in tn.
car.
And Mr. Schmllt denied that Mis-.
Schipple was the girl