The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-11
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ELLIOTT
METCALF

3IVEAAH ~ - = e n &noopi1R
around 4 bit relative to the
possibilities Of hunting here
abouts. And found very good
news. Fine Chink shooting
around the Davenport section.
Good grouse sport in the tim
bered hill lands. Duck cunning
exceptionally good. the birds su-
perior to the Sound quackers
because they are fattened on
grain hcreabouts =.
Eddie Mn. former Tacoma
shee merchant now located here
IN H Davenport hotel building.
hanoed down the informal ion.
euggested that Tacomans and
ethess from The Cosst could
sheet upland birds In Yakima,
swing Int the Walla Walla SEC
tisn, shoot the Paleuse country
- wind up with . fling here.
Thea e route home again shoot
n the Yakima dlstricf. That's
n Idea. 4 vacatlon of . week
o. 10 days might fill the bin -.
HUI 10 k-raxy about Spokane
and the surrounding country.
Owns a beautiful home and Il
content to spend his remaining
years here. Naturally. he gets
= yearning for the old Coast
country and when that comes
over him he just goes back home
for Z visit =.
Made It plain that spokane's
women are the best shoe-wear-
ere in the west That y, the best
clad. They are shoe-minded.
Average six pairs . year. That
means that some Of the fair
ones here land they are very
pretty and charming as 4 whole
buy from IL to IL pairs Of shoes
q year. After / had been given
that information ! instinctivcly
began giving the gals puppies
the old optical going over. And
I'm convinced that what Eddie
says u true 49,.
Spohane's baseball fans. do
ing ! bit OF srumbling. have not
turned thumbs down on the club
because the Indians have lost
10 straight. They arc asking
for more power. a real out-of
the-lot smac;ser Of the Abbott
type. Would be very satisfied
II Abbott were with the In
dians. Well. what club wouldn't!
The big. brute-shouldered. nod
est Seattle kid Il the talk Of
this haseball-mad city. Those
three Fourth Of July homcrs
gave the fans here the hottest
set Of fireworks they've seen
since the WI was organized =.
They still hardly can believe
what Trey saw those three
homers N one double header off
TIE hat u Abbott and lcavinx
ohe flel1 far and away over the
Sso-leet left fence. When Alb
bott comes . ~ plate invari-
ably tn large crowds h the big.
open plAnt can be heard 10 ~Ah
an1 Oh" That b especially true
W'hea Tiger mates are on the
hass. Abbott went On The air
witA, yeur ~ conductor and
Nell CiifforA. Tiger catcher.
An whea ~ WAS asl<ed how
mnny hemers he bad hit to date
- 1idn't know. ! I'D 10 pass
- ~ infermatiea for him -.
That's the kind Of . swell kid
he =. No pulled head. no swag-
ger conceit. Just . hunsky
youngster playing for the team.
He's Z credit to any club. And
that goes for any other member
Of the Iieers' IN the years I've
followed and written sports
want 70 repeat ! never saw
: finer. more Eentiemaniy group
q youngsters than those Tigers
o. ours. Iney are tops. mol
only - players out - men -.
49,
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80. ~ 10 60
n No s- -"
~ ~. s s.s y.
-. nr.s-~x- - rs.,..
any games, the ; to l and . to 0
contests. that could have gone
either way But the I1sers nad
hits in The wood when needed.
Spokane didn't But wen. our
Tiger hurlers we're nor -.
-, .,.:,.,-,or .n.sd
than that turned loose Thursday
night BY big Lefty Isekite- He
r~<an h<nryf that hall nn fast