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ished, ready for some one to come
and make OF its four walls q
home, it seemed to Chickie alive,
a friendly personality bidding
them welcome. When she saw
that bookcases were already in
stalled she smiled. Barry would
like that.
A side window in the living
room gave on low trellised gate
opening to the back yard. They
were standing at this window
She said suddenly: 'tYou could
easily train rose to climb over
that, couldn't your" &.
He leaned down and grinned
into her face: "Ah-mystery is
solved! So that's why we come
q house hunting, is it?"
She colored: isn't O. sweet
placer" II
"It were"
Don't you like 1t all coy like
this better than an apartment"
II do" And still looking into
her face, his breath hurried, the
intensity OF his eyes made hers
close: "I wish we were moving in
today! Open them! Yes - you
don't know how terribly wish
that, Chickie!" -
She answered, family: Don't
look at me so, Barry. You make
me weakl Well, you do. Why
are you 80 impatient now and. a
little yhile ago you seemed to hold
away-to be pushing me always
from you" H.
He laughed. Couldn't getaway
with It, could I? I seem to be
very much here, at present"
you wanted to put me from
you, didn't you? You never
wanted to love me-"
Listen. Don't say that,
Chickie, though 1t be true. Can't
YOU see how 1t was? When the
dear one sat next to. me or gave
me the blessed smile, ! wanted to
grab her, crush her to death. that
sweet she is! And there be a law
which say It are not right
though. f5doubt it-fOr man to
feel 30 for i maid. That is for q
poor young, man with nothing in
his pockets. Soft was crush you
to death or heat. IT,
"And now?"
''Now we have. prospects! And
they'll ease the chains Of n1atri-
mony! And he'll marry the girl
and get her off his mind, Lordee.
Chiclie, the way you come steal
ing In on me when I'm trying to
work! The way you have Of slip
ping your hand under mine. I'm
all but ruined. My concentration
has gone hang"
"And you'll marry me to get rid
Of me. Mr.. Red?"
"That clever he is!'
"And shall me, perhaps. take
this little placer"
"Or one like It on top Of the
earth where we can sit on our
front porch and look down on the
world and its mother. the noun
tains. And buy her blue check
apron to tie around her little
waist-and she'll cook his little
meals"
"And serve them at that little
table OH"
.CTO BE Continued TOnOrrOw.)
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think. She could only feel, and
now even her emotions were pass
ing into q cruel numbness.
Then she fancied him coming
to her. putting his arms about
her, and she would cling to him
would whisper warmly.
She sat on the window sill,
closing, her yees. No! She
wouldn't do that. Oh. no Why
why-if he preferred lunch with
Ila-oh-let him. She . looked
down to the roof Of the adjoining
Building, wondering airplessly how
far it was. Her whole body
trembled.
That dream of herself stand.
ing on a gray, wind blown shore
! returned. She worked all after.
noon with this feeling. Of empty
desolation closing on her.
lila Moore had his picture on
her dressing table. Her thought
broke into Has room, snatehed
the picture-claiming it with q
cold, young fury.
But at 8 o'clock she turned her
back on the alley, hurrying out
. with Stella Wilson, choosing
Montgomery street because he
would not look for her there.
He could go. She said this to
herself in a bleak litany all the
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400 ARRESTED IN PENNA.
DRIVE ON BOOTLECCERS

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Of years hence. That's a great
insolence."
BARRY. no" She suddenly
chilled and frightened. Wont
you be faithful-years and a
day?"
He answered huskily: ''Yes--
look upxas long as can see
your eyes! But we'll not wait
years and a day. We only have
/. now We can only live now"
Il EDO you mean, then, that as
soon as it's setled?"
He laughed, binding his arm
5 about her: what say, frail, II
(. we go off on our vacation togeth-
er? have our honeymoon, thenT
! now3 That soon?"
"Or sooner, an you win"
=. CHAPTER LII. e.a
disappointment.
: Their promise drew them to
each other in a poignant, almost
terrifying sense of nearness.
It filled Chickie with awe: man
tied her with q shy, uncertain
wonderment. She sometimes
stopped abruptly In her work.
, saying with startled, hammering
!. pulse: Married.! Wen soon be
married. Her thoughts drifted
TREMENDOUSLY in a warm, vague ex-
element. They brought Barry to
her as he touched her hair, raised
her face In his hands. He was
now become godlike -in his eyes,
flame: in his voice. music-so
he swept her.
dreams, flushed and confused,
fearful lest Janina might have
perceived and would begin to
mock her. But in a little while
the dreams returned like white
birds communing in song about
her ears-the more piercing be-
; cause she listened alone.
Coming home with q new pur-
4 chase, she had often q wish to
drop in on Mary: to say mer-
rtly: "See what bought today!
And, oh-all the others In the
second drawer Of my bureau!
Even Jennie doesn't know!'
One Saturday afternoon when
. she and Mary we're on their way
to Mission street.-The old times
-sstrundNng the go-cart, they
passAd bungalow. nearly com
B pleIeu. (icSie had almost said;
MARY, ole dear, like me for a
neighbor? I'm thinking this
very minute Of moving into eAAt
darling little hole-me and my
own!'
But moths holy thing-this
love-keep 1t to herself. Wait
till 1t was very certain.
But Chickie visited the bunga-
low herself. Smiling in tinidity
and eagerness, she passed the car.
penters, studied each of the four
bright sun.filled rooms. The
kitchen, with its white breakfast
nook, its new, gliStening cabinets
held her in q charm. Just fancy
little dotted Swiss curtains on the
| windows and a few golden peoples
in yellow jar on that cunning
| little table!
A young workman in white
plasterer's overalls came in from
the porch. regarded her sheep.
ishly: Like it, Miss? Guess
you're q bride?"
"Oh, no! I'm just looking
around for friend of miner She
hurried into the living room.
: Here her imagination reveled
It tossed a gorgeous blue rug on
the floor-a heavy Chinese thing
like that she had seen at Jake's
1t put an odd rosewood desk in
the corner, bookcases against the
walls; bright, living Goals in the
open CRATE. They would sit here
in the evenings, living out the
sweet dream.
Just as the place was completed
she and Barry passed it one Sun
day. Chickie said, as though she
had never noted it before: "Lool
at that tiny little place! DOM
you just adore going through new
houses?"
So they went in. And now fin
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idcOntinued from Yesterday
CHAPTER L-PROMTsE.

OA1kAk Il IKE LII IeONkkOHNs
!. At Q o'clock Barry Dunno stood
at his window. And Chickie knew
that he was there. She went on
with her tipping.
From the corner Of her eye she
saw him lean out, resting on his
hands. She got up and moved into
the shadow, opening the drawers
OF the filing cabinet. She didn't
wish to look at him.
Yet his gray eyes moved be-
fore her, smiling. His hand
clasped hers. She felt him bend
Ing down to her, holding her
spirit mute Tears ran scalding
~, her throat-turn his thumbs
down to herand afterwards
She glanced swiftly to Janina's
aAslss and, sure that she, was I'M
sla6tiOed,g stole to the dressing
room. She pressed her face
against the cold marble Of the
wal oppressed her hands against
her heart, a throbbing faintness
rising over her.
She saw him stepping into the
machine. i. Ia Moore radiant as
she greeted him. She grew chill
Nth q sick. deadly fear.
No use to- think. She, couldn't
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-09
OREGON WILL COMB COUNTRY FOR HGCLASS FOOTBALL COACH
Jack McAuIiMe Talks
About Heavy Cham ion
King Authority Seems to Think That Wallop He Re-
/ ceived From Luis Firpo May Make Dempsey More
/ Cautious in Future; Some Interesting Gossip
BY HENRY L. FARRELL

NEW YORK. Jan. 9-Since Jack Dempsey took smack
ing from Luis Frpo that almost knocked him out Jack
McAuliffe is wondering if the heavyweight champion will
be the reckless, dashng chancetaking fighter that
he before the fight with the South American.
Up to the time he elected to swap punches with of
the most dangerous hters Of all times Dempseys most
valuable asset his conviction that he nvincible
and that he couldn't be knocked off his feet.
Dempsey had such escape in finding out that
he not punhroof that the veteran retired lightweight
champion not alone having the bunch that the heavy
weight champion may have lost of that valuable
fdence in himself.
As far the factor of confidence itself is concerned
the theory might be advanced that Dempsey after his
perence with Firpo should have faith in himself
than before He found out that he could take it.
from the hardest rghthand hitter in the business and
that should not reduce his reliance
My dea McAuliffe says SIS not that Dempsey will be
less courageous in the future but that he win be more
cautious Certainly caution has been part of the cham
pons makeup and fact it the apparent indifference
toward danger the ring that made him the great fighter
he is.
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Track and
CreU W Ork
Is Pleasing

TRACK and crew, so-eaileG spring
i sports, started ut the University
OF washington today. Coach Rusty
Callow's varsity and freshmen oars
man were both on the water while
Coach Hec Edmundson had his He.
roes Of tho Spiked Shoe doing the
countryside In nearly nothing fiat.
Crew work. from now on, viii mean
Just one steady grind. with no let-up
until after the California race on
April 10. Coach Rusty Callow says
nothing OF his prospects at tho pres.
ent time. preferrIng to wait until the
men get a little experience under
their belts.
The freshmen. rested from their
long vacation, should make the water
slide past them with considerable
swiftness. They are as likely
bunch as the 1926 outfit. tho tallest
crew on record, was. Coach Callow
ia we'll pleased with his freshman
prospects.
Edmundson Is calling only his mid.
and distance men out for
the first month and half. Work.
outs, Individual in character, will be
held three times a week. Because
OF the lack OF distance and room on
the indoor track, tho track men viii
do their training outside.
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Director
Viii Hunt
for Coach
Virgil Earl Sent on Ma
tion-Wide Hunt for New
Eugene Tutor

EUGENE. Ore, Jan. s>-vlrgfi
- Earl. director OF athletics at the
University OF Oregon, IL on his
way to San Francisco on the first
leg OF transcontinental journey
In search Of a football coach. He
left here yesterday afternoon for a
mysterious trip that win take him
most anywhere. as far as he has
been announced here.
Among the coaches he Is ex.
pected to interview with possibility
OF obtaining their services at Ore
gon, arc:
John r. Richards. formerly Of
Wisconsin. now in Los Angeles:
Norman c. Paine. assistant. Arkan-
sas: o. COPYRIGHT, Nevada coach:
Raymond Spears. West Virginia:
Pete Reynolds. Bucknell: Hugo
Bezdek. Penn State: Andy Kerr.
Stanford; Stanley Borieske. North
Dakota; Earle Pickering. formerly
Of Minnesota: c. NJ. Pittser. assist
ant AT Illinois; George Leven. Ten
nessee: b. w. Biernan, Tulane uni
yersity; r. C. Madden. army coach
Ing staff: DIR. Sweetland, former
Willamette university coach, and
DR.. n. II. Hansen. Ironwood. Mich.
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Is
in Lineup
Once More

STRENGTHENED by the return
~ Of Ev NOVEL; from Pasadena.
where no witnessed the Washing.
ton.Navy game, Roosevelt once
moro showed flash OF their mar.
yelous preseason form at the North
End sym last night. This TcddIes
are preparing for n battle with the
Lincoln team in tho Lincoln gym
on Friday.
Coach Charles Doyorack Is not
pesslmistic, but no does say that
Roosevelt's chances OF winning have
dwindled somewhat since tho open.
Ing Of the Christmas vacation.
Nowell's return viii undoubtedly
balance tho team and cut out some
Of tho petty squabbling that has
made It's way into tho ranks. Now.
ell. a guard OF tho first water.
seems 10 add that touch OF assur.
nnce TO the North End five which
makes II a powerful offensive team.
Don Day win start at center with
Tom Hyllengren In reserve. Ed
Hagist and Capt. Monte snlder are
the two leading forwards, with Jim
Hyllengren playing the running
gunrd Assignment.
Over in tho Broadway gym. Coach
Raleigh Llchtenberger is putting the
final touches on his baskoteers.
Lichty is using Jerry Reynolds, the
sophomore football and baseball
artist, at forward, along with Capt.
Rusty Grummett. Grummett has
been sinking them regularly at the
Pine st. gym and will be hard
man to stop when the season
opens.
Tho West Seattle game Friday
will undoubtedly find Teddy CraEin
at center. Tho big boy can pot
baskets as well as he can 46.yard
field goals. Il seems. Sammy Burn.
sed and Phlnny Johnston are the
two guards. Windy LaBrache may
500 action at either forward or
guard.
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Using a Smile

NEXT 10 man. have always
In felt tina, thorobrcd horse Ia
the most human thing In existence.
The horse and the athlete have sev
erai faculties in common that can
be picked out when we study thcm
IA little.
ION the track you can lind the
front runner: tho horse goes well
when he is in the lead and that
laifcrs when no Is challenged. We
can find tho Same typo among
human athletes. runners and boxers.
We have tho game. s,outheartcd
animal that takes delight In COM
ing from behind and winning on a
heart moro than anything else. md
there arc athletes OF tho Same
type.
TO get down TO my point about
Dempsey and the possible effect
that the t'irpo fight might have
had on him. I want TO use the horso
again for slfuiis.
Several years ago there was n
corking Jumper ut tho Brighton
track named James MCGOWAN. as l
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State
Captain Is
Versatile

| COLUMBUS. o., Jan. Gin the
" family Bible hos plain FRANK
Dewey Young"
TO Ohio State students. he's just
"Tce" Young.
In the who's Who" OF high
school and intercollegiate athletics.
however. no can show you a string
of achievements and n flock OF titles
that win mako your eyes bulge. But
you'll never get him 60 do Il. Tee"
is too modest. He'll talk about any.
thing but himself.
somewhere In the records OF the
Z. 8. marines. IL you search long
enough. you'l find further trace OF
this Same Frank D. Young. With
little moro diligence you'n discover
that no served II long months with
tho "Gyrcnes" In San Domingo and
that no took part in several engage.
monts there.
That. in brief, tens mos, OF the
lie story Of Young who. as captain.
elect Of tho Ohio State university
football team. IL looked upon ns the
Moses to lead tho Buckeyes out OF
the wilderness where they have been
wandering for two long years.
Tee" IN a product OF the famous
walto High teams OF Toledo. AZ a
high school athlete he won eight
letters In four sports. the most, with
ono exception, accumulated by To.
ledo high school athlete up to 1920.
Young won four letters in football
at Waite High and was captain OF
tho team In his senior year. He
roamod In the outfield on the base
ball nine. tossed tho weights In track
and held down a guard job in basket.
ball.
When no camo 20 Ohio state as a
freshman In the fall Of 1920 no was
adiudged tho most physically perfect
freshman In a class that numbered
perhaps 1900. In the ensuing years
Tee" has lost none OF his Adonls.
like attributes.
In tho interim no has served at
tackle and center on tho varsity
eleven. finally landing as a regular
at the latter berth. He did not play
in 1929 and consequently is available
for tho 1924 season.
Young. as n sophomore, also won
his letter in basketball as a guard
In 1929.
Zee" IS one OF the most popular
students here in n number OF years.
He Is a junior in tho engineering
college and is member OF Phi Cam.
ma Delta fraternity
To complete the record. It should
be added that no In "a years Of age,
weighs $50 pounds and IS feet In
height
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rcea1 n. In ono race he got u
bad fali at one OF tho jumps. and
no was never any good after that
nj that track. Ho always refused
that jump when he came TO II IN
later races. He was game. but no
had developed what might be re-
fcrree 10 as a mental hazard at
that spot where he had been hurt.
Another example OF the same
kind can be found In another thoro-
bred named Hanun. who stepped
In hole on the far turn al the
same Brighton track and went
down. Ever after that no went
wide around that identical spot and
all the pun In the world could
not get him near Il.
Those two examples. OF course.
were tho result, OF instinct. hul with
fighters. instinct plays most Inn.
portant and vital part Dempsey,
feel SURE. was knocked dizzy by
the first punch OF FIrpo and he put
up one OK the greatest fights Of all
times on instinct alone.
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AND WARD
HEAD SHOW

pOBBY WARD, the st. Paul light
II weight. who stopped Freddy
Mack here last month, has been
signed to meet Johnny Trambitas.
tho classy Portiander. in the main
event OF Nate Druxman's show next
Tuesday night al the Crystal Pool.
Ward, out on his feet in the first
round in the Mack fight. displayed
that he was a heady ring general.
when he outfoxed the youngster. and
slowed him away with one punch in
the second session. Trambltas ~
much cleverer than Mack. and these
two boys should dish up a good battle.
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TNHE aatus OF tho major league
i pitcher has changed greatly In
tho past 10 years. tho difference be.
Ing most noticeable perhaps In the
last five years.
The lively ball and the deeds OF
Babo Ruth have been tho contribu.
ting factors TO tho change. The
pitcher h no longer supreme, This
"a tho ora OF swat In baseball. in
which tho making Of n homo run has
passed from hero stunt TO an or.
binary event.
Tho pitcher who can win rs games
during a major league season 10 now
considered valuable asset. The
pitcher who couldn't win moro than
rs games 10 years back was eosaid.
cred very ordinary. In these days
usually bonus OF 1000 goes 10 the
pitcher who can win Is games. II
no can turn in moro victories the
bonus ia rroportionntoly increased.
II wasn't iikc that IN the Old days
when Aiathewson. johnson. Aicxan.
der and Tho other stars were at the
top OF their game. Tho star pitchers
OF these aaya could almost be figured
on for 20 victories before tho season
opened and Il was not all unusual for
Thorn TO como thru with 30.
Walter johnson during the season
OF 1918 won 90 games and los, only
seven with club that failed to
reach the 900 mark ia tho percen.
taso column.
In this connection c1iFiEty Mathew
son and Grover Alexander have set
record that major league pitchers
win be shooting nj for some time.
Probably II win never DO equalcd.
certainly not with the ball now in use.
Winning 30 games during the ma
ior league season IN q remarkable
feat az any time. with the lively
ball Il ia an extraordinary perform.
ance. Yet Mathowson and. AIexan.
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Bdggy Not
Keen About
Late Games
However, He States,
Many Benefits Were
Derived at Pasadena

THE 1924 football season will
4 como 10 a close week after
Thanksgiving II Coach Enoch Bag
shaw has anything TO say about II.
'Baggy" explains that one year OF
New Year football Is enough to last
for quito period. The Little
Giant would like to have only one
game after Thanksgiving IL IL can
possibly be arranged.
The Pasadena trip. tho, was some.
thing which VIII never be forgotten.
according to ''Baggy." The educa-
tional advantages derived by visit
ing Hollywood and Universal City
and watching the wheels of the mo-
ton picture Industry reyoive,
coupled with the hospitality OF the
Tournament OF Roses committee and
the fierce struggle with the Navy,
made the trip one which will stand
for a long time In the minds Of
all who went South.
II feel. as do my boys. that the
Southern trip was well worth our
WHILE said Bagshaw yesterday.
None of us are OF the opinion that
we wasted our time and energy by
training for an additional month.
We derived plenty Of benefit from
the trip and II Is not for anyone
to say that II was an unbearable
strain and could not be borne
again"
Darwin Meisnest, the busy gradu.
ate manager, expressed himself as
being entirely satisfied with treat
ment received In the South. The
cooperation was fine, he said.
I'VE would like to play the Navy
again next year." was Meisnest's
opinion. I'VE enjoyed the Middies'-
company during the so minutes on
the field as well as offsit. 1t seems
improbable that things viii clear up
so that we may meet them In 1924"
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KRAMER WINS
FROM BROWN
IN MAIN MIX

T oS ANGELES. Cal, Jan. o.
~ Danny Kramer. popular mitt
artist from Philadelphia. beat Young
Brown in the main event at the
Vernon Coliseum last night. Brown
substituted for Stewart McClain,
who had 10 withdraw from the card
because OF an injured eye.
Frankie Grandetta, the battling
shelk" OF Portland. won a decision
over Jockey Joe Dillon In the semi.
windup.