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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
City Nit
Champs to
BE Picked
Finals of The Star ANA
teur Tourney Slated for
Friday Night

CtTY amateur boxing champions
" ranging from e5 20 900 pounds
viii be crowned at Austin s saltu
gymnasium ut Ninth ave. and Olive
~, Friday night The occasion will
be tho final series OF matches Ia The
stars city amateur boxing cham
pionshln tournament. After two
weeks OF elimination battles the
finals In the majority OF divisions
and the semifnala in the remainder
have been reached.
Every championship will bs de.
cidcd Friday night Several Of the
boys VIII be called upon 20 box twice
during the evening. but win be
given an adequate rest between their
matches. The two series 90 ellmina.
ton goca were productive % some
OF the best scrapping witnessed hy
Seattle ring followers In many
moons The finals VIII bring the
class Of the tournament together.
The amateur glove wlelders who
have fought their way to tho finals
follow: James Dunn. ia5 pounds.
Tony Celia. iaT pounds. Lightning
Honey Melody. i37 pounds. Fred
Burnett. ia7 pounds; Dick Butler ie5
pounds. Milton Loyell. iea pounds.
Walter Williams. $50 pounds. John
Negiin. g5 pounds, Harry fsaacs. s5
pounds. Johnny Brill. % pounds. Bud
kerco,, 100 pounds. Larry Harmon.
10 pounds. Leo Barrett, 10 pounds.
farrisworth Green, ii5 pounds. Dave
Manning. iis pounds; Rocco Papl.
i4l pounds. John Carroll. $50 pounds.
Jack BuTdnlck. $50 pounds: Jack
Mcdonnell. $50 pounds. Don McEaeh.
ran. iis pounds.
Several others will be listed by
Friday nlght and It Is not too iato
to enter,
All participants In the finals must
report TO Lonnie Austin not later
than T.3o O'Clock Friday night
Prizes wiz be awarded tho winners
In each class following the ,orrnlua.
ton OF the final and championship
deciding matches Lonnlo Austin
and sid De wires. who has been as.
sisting In putting over the tourna.
ment, viii finish classifying the boys
today and tho matches for Friday
niRht will be announced in tomor.
rows paper
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
.Ninety-F
.COpsEnOugh
TO Win Rag
Law of Averages Shows
That 95 Victories a Sea-
son Are Sufficient

A CcoRDIN0 60 tho law OF aver.
"a ages, s5 victories In a season are
usually sufficient 20 enable a team
10 win ii major league pennRni. For
IN a schedule OF i54 games. Il gives
a club a pefcen,ago OF els. which.
as a rule. II cnough 10 lead the rest
Of the field. provided II is at all even.
ly balanced.
or course. In chase where two
clubs far excel tho other entries. the
above doesn't always bold true. aa
was evidenced back IN 1915. when the
Detroit Tigers, tho they turned In an
even 100 triumphs. were forced 10 be
content with second place. the Boston
Red sox coping the flag with i0i
Victories This IL. no doubt. the only
occasion Ia tho history Of the game.
however wherein a team reaching
the century figure In games won
failed 10 annex the sonfalon.
Oddly enough. the Tigers hold the
record OF having won the pennant
with the lowest percentage ever com.
piled. turning the trick In 1908 with
30 games Won and CO lost. mark OF
SIS Tina, was the year in which The
four Western clubs In the American
league were IN tho thick OF the pen.
nnni fiFht right III until the last two
weeks OF the campaign.
In the National circuit. the Phillles
claim honor to the same sort or feat,
their 30 victories and 81 defeats in
1915 giving them a percentage Of but
.bp2. incidentally. this was tho only
time a team in tho older loop has
captured the flag with "a mark below
coo in tho past 20 years. the finishes
In the parent body not being no close
as those which havs characterized
the ones In tho American.
To the Chicago Cubs goes the honor
Of having won the most games in
season, the 1906 OUTFIT grabbing iie
tllln for the remarkable percentage
OF .7sa. In the American league tho
Red Sox hold the best record with los
trlnmphn and but 81 whlpplngH In
1919 for an average OF .est.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
Carl Mays May
Turn Pugilist

NEW YORK. May 80. - Carl
~ Mays. Yankee pitcher. Is aeri.
oualy thinking or turning boxer.
Mays recently saw Floyd John.
slon and Fred Fulton clash, Mays
has an idea that a year Of train.
ing and instruction would enable
him 10 defeat either OF them.
However, that doesn't mean
much. as Fulton never was and
johnson IL stili 10 be.
An a pitcher Mays always was
. glutton for punishment. 30 tina.
trait may prove a worth while
asset II he decides 10 turn fighter.
Mays seems 10 feel that his
pitching days as "A major league
star pre- about over and he wants
TO become proficient ia some
branch Of tho sporting game that
brings big returns.
Tho ring seems 70 offer the best
Inducements.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
SHAKEUP FOR
CLOTHJERS is
NOW LOOMING

A sHAKEuP Is expected before
a Sunday IN tho Tailored Ready
teams lineup in The star league.
Ted Ahncr and Al Barberls have
been shifted from this club TO their
old team. tho Three Brothers Dye
Works.
Several changes are expected 20
be made today In the roster Of the
Washington Park OUTFIT.
Ahner viii play first for the by.
ers, replacing Harry speidel. who
has cult the club. He will round
out great inreld. az the Dyora
have Dean. Jones. Reagan and Low.
ry for the other berths.
The Dyers would Ike to play tho
Best shoe Shop team their ito game
over Sunday II the Rainier Valley
Merchants don't plan to 40 thru
with their scheduled game. The
Valley pilot should get IN touch
with tho manager OF the league 10.
day and inform him as 10 whether
tho Merchants plan TO play Sunday
or not. Their game Is booked for
Columbia.
In the other games Sunday. Fa.
hey. Brockmans play tho Pugets.
Tailored Ready tangles with tho r.
III. II. A.. and Louie's French DRY
Cleaners play the Lincoln Park ri.
rates.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
Edn,undsOn
Men Leave
fOrPuLLnan
California Is Favored to
Win Meet for Coast
Title Saturday
By TOM OLSEN

rINiE University OF Washington
i track team Is of Wednesday
night for Pullman, where the ath-
letes win defend the Pacific Coast
Conference championship which they
have won for two successive years.
Coach Clarence Edmundson takes
IA men along with him. They are.
Capt. Vic Hurley. Casey Anderson.
Ed Ferry. Cecil Van NoriS Harold
Williams. Bob Zoner. Winchester
King. Bin Maginnls, Cecil callison,
Frank Mason. Horace Mcleod.
Percy Egtvet. Jimmy Bryan and
Douglns Slade.
California. oregon. o. A. c. and
W. = {. VIII also have Ia men
teams entered Ia tho competition.
The meet, according TO the dope.
should develop into n dual clash be.
tween Washington and California.
The Golden Bears are favored to
defeat Washington.
California Is en- route 10 Berkeley
By way Of Pullman from Phlladel-
phla. where they won the national
intercollegiate track championships
for tho. third year in row last
Saturday.
CALIFORNIA; team is not composed
OF any particular stars. but Is very
well balanced.
Az Philadelphia they won very
few first places. most OF the uth.
letes landing seconds or thirds. How
ever. with plenty OF their men fin
ishing second and third. when u
came to totaling up the points. IL
was found that California had the
edge.
Coach Edmundson Is not any too
optimistic over the outcome. lie
figures California to win. altho he
expects his men to give the naughty
Bears the time of their young lives
Never before in the history OF
college sport on the Coast. has so
much interest been shown In track
meet as the coming conference
championship meet at Pullman.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
RObby Has
Good Ball
Club NOw
Brooklyn Dodgers May
Not Win Pennant, but
Will Make Trouble
BY HENRY L. FARRELL

b1 HENRI H.. fAHhEDL
NEW YORK, May so.-connle
IN Macl's Athletics haven't usurp.
ed the exclusive rights 70 the sea-
sons surprise in the major league
lpennant race. Just now the Robins
are causing as much speculation IN
the National league as the Mscks'
"A's" are around the American cir
cult.
The Robins do not loom up AS
lpennant contenders like the young
Philadelphia club, but IN the words
Of Wilbert Robinson. we may not
be goIn' my place. but wen make
some trouble"
"Uncle Robby," Tie genial Brook
Ign manager. has not a. his disposal
the money behind McGraW and Hug
gins. and when he builds up a ball
club he does II because he Is
carpenter more than a peach picker.
Robby showed in Pat McCarren AZ
third base. moved The versatile
Johnston 10 second and put Jack
Fournier at first base and the com.
bination Is working. il isn't tie
best inflcld IN the league. but il is
funciioning aeceptably.
Brooklyn has always had good
pitchers since Robby has been
handling the club. and he still has
a most formidable staff. Robby pull
ed a surprise on the Giants yester-
day when Ire showed in Frank
Henry. young southpaw, who
came in a deal with the st. Louis
Browns. Dutch Reuther was ex-
pected 10 pitch and the Giants were
ready for him, bat Robby switched
and sent in Henry.
He was full of heart and stuff
and hy let the Giants down with
five hits and issued onty one base
on balls. For a left handler and a
young one. that Is pitching.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30

Johnny Kllbane. 9s.ycar-old worlds
featherweight boxing champion, viii
defend his title Saturday afternoon al
the Polo Grounds in New York. when
he boxes Eugene criqul. European
champ.
Kilhane Is TO favorite to win
the honora.
craui Is n very nice boy, but
Eastern critics fail TO see where he
has much OF chance with the
American. II Rilbane is boxing any.
where near up 10 bis usual form.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
BRANCH RICKEY
AFTER YOUTHS

Branch Hickey, manager Of tho
ST. Louis Browns, in an attempt to
strengthen the pitching staff has
sent scouts all over the East to sign
prospective hurting "wonders.e
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
CHICAGO MAYOR
WANTS BOXING

Mayor Deyer o. Chicago. has
asked the legislature to enact law
10 permit boxing The mayor states
that the people want boxing and
that tho legallEing or II ia tho only
way 90 prevent the constant break.
Ing or the existing law.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
MAT TITLE AT
STAKE FRIDAY

"A SantcL claimant OF the light
heavyweight, wrestling championship
OF the world. VIII defend his title
In Stockton. Cal. June /. when he
meets George vasaell In a eatchas-
oaich.ean two,fail match. vasscll
halls from stockton.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
SHELBY BUILDS
FOR THE FUTURE

SHELBY, Mont. May 3o.-shclby
Is building for the future. The ma.
joriiy OF the business blocks, hntels
and residences going UP to accom-.
modats the Dempsey. Gibbons fight
crowd, and TO house the workers In
the OIL fields, are permanent struc.
lures. Shelby intends 10 keep 10
Tho pact il has set for ltsolf.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
NEEDS $1,000 B,p

Charley Toast. coiorcd man Of
New Orleans. started a barefoot
walk from New Orleans 10 New York
on bet lie il 10 receive $1,000 II
be completes tho walk without wear.
Ing anything on bis feet. No time
limit has been fixed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
CHOOSE SITE

The site where It 10 proposed 70
have Jack Dempsey fight Harry
wills on Labor Day ia located NJ
Lone Island City. n. y. II waa orig
taally a swamp land that has been
filled 10, II u planned to build an
arena thereon 70 seat 10000 per
sons.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
Shortstop Rigney of Detroit
Suffers From Unusual Ailment

ETRoIT May 3Le OF the Chi
- eago White Cobb racing in from
center field ON the slightest provocation.
Cobbs infjelder
pitcher, or 10 umpire.
Recently shosp gney OF the
lineup because of stiff place
While sitting the bench game the day
that Kerr injected late the lineup
Kgney happened suffering wheupon one Of
the Tiger bench.warmer replied:
He got that twisting his neck center field
trying TO see IL Ty coming
The explanation but also
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
QUINN GOES TO RED sox

BOSTON. May 30.-Bobby Quinn.
vice president -and business man.
ager OF the St. Louis Browns. will
become tire president and general
manager OF the Red Sor when the
club changes hands. It Is reported
here.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
ERNIE MAY REFEREE

Frank Erne, ono time lightweight
champion OF tho world. may break
back into boxing as referee. Erne.
in retirement for many years. has
been approached on the subject. and
Is in a receptive mood.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
IDAHO LOSES
SECOND GAME

MOSCOW. Idaho. May ao-Tho
University Of Washington bali club
took the second game OF tho series
from Idaho here yesterday. In a
thrilling ten'inning battle. Z 10 6.
Gardner. for the winners. poled GU,
LONE homo run. Washington playH
Whitman today az walla wala.
The nrurfs 70 n ~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30

Ncancss and originality well win count
Prizes win he awarded month prize winners will be
The Seattle first Wednesday month";
of letters win be omitted from Of advertisements
the first Wednesday Of each month.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-30

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
SAYS DIABETES
 AFFECTED EYES

"For two years I have been a diabetic sufferer" writes P. B. Papas. q could not eat and my eyesight began to fall. friend told me about wonderful Eksip.' return I can eat now three square meals a day and almost see we'll as formerly"
 'Eskip'' is the wonderful discovery for treating diabetes without dieting. A book entitled. "Eat and Get We'll" is being distributed free; If you suffer or know anyone afflicted with diabetes send for this book. Do not delay, edition is limited. Write M. Richartz. Dept. s5. 220 W. 42d St., New York.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
SIDE SHOWS WILL RIVAL 4B|G TENT"
 AT LEGION CIRCUS
Scores Of Conventions Will Be Held In Connection
 With Main Event

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13,-(As- sociated Press.)-Although the Amer ican Legion national convention in San Francisco, October 15-19 is the main circus in the big tent, there will be scores of conventions of Special bodies of the veterans organization and of many regimental, divisional and war societies.
 Among the largest gatherings wit be that of the American Legion aux Hilary, composed of mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Legion mem bers and of men who died in service Fifteen hundred delegates and 10000 women visitors are expected to at tend Social functions of this conven- ton include a states dinner" Hawai- ian aloha" breakfast and numerous teas. receptions and dances.
 Ten thousand members of the Forty and Eight, the Legion organization based on the tradition of the French box cars, labelled Forty Men or Eight Horses" in which doughboys travelled to the front, will attend the groups Promenade Nationale,' dur ing the Legion gathering. They will hold special parade and will initiate hundreds of candidates with accom- panying fun making and high carnl- val,
 The reunion of the Ninety first di- N1SlOH IS eApGClSQ tO LII CIV OtVVV NCt- erans. The organization was composed of California boys, trained at Camp Lewis, Wash. The first division, which participated in more engage- ments than any other unit in the American army, will hold a reunion Organizations of engineers. cavalry men, signal corps members, medical units and numerous companies and special attachments have scheduled meetings during the week.
 Women Legion members. the nurses and yeomanetts, will be guests at a special dinner at the Palace hotel.
 Men who served in the navy win fraternize with the 1S.000 officers and enlisted men of the American battle fleet in San Francisco harbor. Special entertainment has been arranged for the army and navy chaplains who will be greeted by Father William P. O'Connor Legion national chaplain. Editors of American Legion maga- zines and newspapers will meet to devise ways and means of improving their publications.
 The band and drum, corps contest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
ADVERTISING MEN SEEK MISS TRUTH
 TO OCCUPY FLOAT
Birmingham Girls Invited To Submit Photographs In
 Convention Contest

The Birmingham Advertising club is offering an opportunity to some pretty girl to represent Miss Truth" during the forthcoming convention of the Southeast District clubs in Birmingham, October 2s, 2s and 30 and as such to head tho great in dustrlal parade, occupying the first float to be entered by the advertis- ing club, known as Truth in Ad- vertising," the central figure of which will be Miss Truth"
 A committee composed of T. Bar ton Baird, Oliver Cox and Roy Riser will have charge of the float, and have selected R. B. Chandler, Mau- rice Lackey and Gus Douglas to se- lect Miss Truth" The selection will be made primarily from photo- graphs to be submitted to this com mittee. A dozen of the most beau tiful girls will be chosen from the photographs, and eliminations will be by means of personal interview.
 All photographs must be submitted by mail to the Advertising club of Birmingham and addressed to post office box 1884. Each photograph should be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the young lady, which will not be opened until the primary selection is made. When the judges have narrowed the contest down to a dozen of Birmingham's most strik- ing beauties, these envelopes will be opened and the young. women asked to call before the committee for a personal interview
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14

Such employees usually were young sters and the pay was small. So care ful. however, were employers in their selection that only occasionally would one of them run away with the secur- ities entrusted to their care, or return empty-handed to report fake hold up.
 With the war conditions were changed. It became more and more difficult to obtain boys for the posi- tions of messenger. Activities brought on by the war paid larger wages and quickly attracted much of the boy supply. Investment houses had to take what they could get.
 Then came an epidemic of mes senger- thefts, some of them involving securities valued at more than S1,000,- 900. Stock and bond houses sought some way to stop their heavy losses and gradually employed older men for the places. Today. except in the case of a few small houses or in emergen- cies when the regular staff of run ners is insufficient, no boys are em- ployed for these responsible, though comparatively small paying jobs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
Bid Made For Great SteamreS or Ship Board

NEW YORK, Oct. 1s.-The In- ternational Mercantile Marine company has made an offer to the shipping board for the liners President Roosevelt and Presi- dent Harding, of the United States shipping board, it was de- clared today at the offices of the International Mercantile Marine.
 While the size of the offer was not revealed, 1t was learned one of the conditions of the bid was that other passenger ships and freighters operated to London by the board be removed from competition with the purchased vessels. It was the I. M. M. plan to put the two ships into the London service.
 Officers of the company denied published reports this morning that bids also had been made for the Leviathan, the America and other of the larger United States lines ships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
QUIT USING BOYS TO CARRY IMMENSE SUMS
Wall Street Finds RObberies Are
 Entirely Too Freuuent

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-(By Asso- ciated Press.)-Stories of the theft of stocks and bonds by immature youths, which few years ago vied for front page positions in the daily news papers, appear only infrequently now.
 The answer is found in the almost universal absence or boys and young men in the roles of runners and mes- sengerS for the investment houses of lower Broadway, Wali and Broad streets. The small satchels and port folios containing valuable securities which constantly are being exchanged between investment houses no longer are entrusted to beardless boys. h. stead husky men, the majority vet erans of the New York police and fire department, have been employed as messengers.
 A canvass of financial institutions in New York discloses that nearly 1000 former policemen and firemen now are on the payrolls of these houses. Many of them have been re- tired on pensions by the municipal departments.
 Before the war great care was exer- cised in the employment of runners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
NE W SENSATION IN. MOBILE MURDER. CASE IS CREATED
Tobe MedicuS, Eyewitness To Killing, Charged With
 Perjury

MOBILE, Ala, Oct 19.-(special Leased Wire )-Tobe Medicus. eye witness to the death of stephen Tossing, s9-year-old Mobile county resident, killed on the porch of his Delchamps, Ala, home on the after noon of August 24, last, was indicted by the circuit court grand jury ad- journing Saturday, on charge or perjury. Medicus was arrested late Saturday on the charge of perjury and was given his freedom on on furnishing bail in the sum of $500.
 While Medicus was the only ar rest made on an indictment Satur- day, rumors were current on the tional disclosures in connection with the Tossing case, would be made pub lie, with rumored arrests as soon as papers now in the hands of the sheriff are served.
 Medicus' indictment on the perjury charge grows out of testimony given by him at the recent preliminary hearing into charges against Tom Cleveland, son" Cleveland and Jack Cleveland, member of the board of revenue and road commissions, fol- lowing their arrest after the Tossing shooting. At the preliminary hear ing in the inferior court, Tom Cleve- land was ordered held without bali on a murder charge, while Jack Cleveland and "Son" Cleveland were also ordered held, but each was ad- mitted to bail.
 Main Defense Witnesses.
 At the preliminary hearing. Medl- GUS and Leon McKean, well-known man about town, were two of the main defense witnesses. They were present when the elderly man met his death. They wnt to the Loosing home with the three Clevelands on the day of the shooting, Loosing meeting his death on the afternon Of August 24 during a difficulty at his home. The tragedy of that afternoon followed personal difficulty during the forenoon between Jack Cleveland and William Henderson, grandson of Tossing. Testimony brought out at the preliminary hearing was to the effect that after the difficulty between Jack Cleveland and Tender son, the three Clevelands, McKean and Medicus went to the Tossing home that afternoon to discuss the affair of the morning. The two younger Cleve1ands, McKean and Medicus had been fishing, they testi- fled, and on returning home they learned of the trouble between Jack Cleveland, father of Tom Cleveland, and Henderson. The tragedy followed. Testimony was given that a difficulty and Henderson. and the latter fled took place between the Clevelands from the Tossing home. Later the elder Tossing met his death. Tom Cleveland, who has been held with , out bail in the case, testified that MT. Tossing attempted to make use of shotgun and that he was ac- cidentally killed in the struggle for possession of the weapon. to a late hour last night no additional arrests, other than Medieus, had been made.