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Assm'l '" ' " " 'Wednesday, March 24,191*

llB&ggg_ l I IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS I B„g|B,vAGtL I -,

RELEASE TWOPLAYERS AND

SIGN PITCHERManager Russ Hall of the Ta-

coma Tigers today announcedthat be had released Russ Hooveiaad W. A. Russell, left handedpitchers, and had signed Clyde(Dutch) Schroder la their stead.

The change is made for tworeasons. First, neither Hooveror Russell are individually aagood as Schroder, and second,both men are so far away fromTacoma that it will cost more tobring them here than they areworth.

Schroder pitched In two games• last year. He waa signed by Hall

sfter his season with the pen-nant-winning Pendleton team oftba Western Trl-Stale league wasover.

Ia bis first game hare last year.

August 21, Schroder got stagefright, blew up in the fourth andwalked five men. Jones saved thegame for him. Schroder beat Vic-toria in his second game, August24, by 6 to 4.

Hoover, one of the releasedmen, lives in Anacortes, but isnew in Montana. Ruasell pitchedfor Saskatoon in the WesternCanada league last season and lanow at his home in San Mateo,Cal. '

"Schroder has pitched good bal 1

and did wonders last year," saidHall today. "He got excited whenhe played with the Tigers, butwith a little grooming I think hewill make good. He is a big man,with splendid physique, and hasall kinds of strength."

BILLY PHILLIPS,TACOMA BOXER, IS

POULTRY EXPERTBilly (Kid) Phillips, light-

weight boxer, who was in hiaprima In the Tacoma boxing gamea couple of years ago, has becomea chicken fancier.

Besides building automobiles,acting as a mechanic, and operat-ing auto busses, Phillips hasfound time to go into partnershipwith another young fellow in achicken and duck ranch.

"It's a great life," said Phil-lips yesterday afternoon. "We'reexperimenting in the chicken

game, but I think we're going tobe auccessful. We set 400 eggsin our Incubator yesterday."

Phillips was one of the fastestkids in the ring when he was box-ing here. He is always in condi-tion, but says he will not go baclfto the boxing game for a liveli-hood.

"I want to work up an inde-pendent business and be my ownboas," says Phillips. "There Isn'tanything in the boxing game anymore, anyway."

I SPORTING1 ONCEOVERS

That championship trip to San Francisco and the chance of win-\u25a0bag the championship of tlie Pacific coast certainly ought to addspirit to the City League race In Tacoma this summer. We ought toeae some mighty fast games.

• . •- Talk about the honors that come to a baseball manager! Russ IBall received in the mail yesterday an honorary season pass to the iChicago Nationals' grounds for 1915. Of course, there's no chance ithat Ruse can viait the Cubs' grounds, but he feels mighty proud over .O-at littleengraved ticket, Just the same. I

• • • ,Callahan, Tiny Leonard, aad Covaleskle, three of the star •

Batchers in the Northwestern league last season, have been re-leased by Walter MeCredle of the Portland Coast team, falls-ban aad Leonard pitched for tlie Port lan d-BaHard team last !year, aad Covaleskle for Spokane.

• - •Manager Hall of the Tigers Is worrying hfa brains away today

trying to figure if he can sign up one or two of the men for his team

X still keep within the salary limit. With two of those twirlers,1 could smash his way through the league in great fashion, he

kelieves. But to get them, he'd have to drop several of his otherfood man. Tell with the salary limit, says Russ.

• • •Those Philadelphia fight promoters who staged rival allows and

tried to smash each other showed the usual intelligence of their kind.-hay wiU, In all is-obability, howl that "reformers" ruined their gamewhen the public eventually tires of such methods and turns against

• • •Larry LaJole kicked like a rnfflaa when called out on strikes in

aa exhibition game—BUT NO ONE IN CLEVELAND WILL BELIEVE\u25a0UOH A THINO.

• • •lowa has repealed Its old road law. and tlie autolsts hope

they will soon repeal the roads.• • •

Wisconsin has passed a stringent aiitl-tipping law, hut it will notprevent certain Milwaukee fight officials tipping off results in ad-vance. • • •

Girls contemplating marrying college athletes should study thefacial expression of a man finishing the 400 then she'll know exactlyhow he'll look when she burns the steak.

I AMATEURLEAGUEBASEBALL OFFER I ITS UP TO OLD MAN BENDER ]TO WIN FLAG FOR BALTIMORE i

rhe Funniest BasebalPlay I Ever Saw

BY ARTIE HOFFMANN.Outfielder, Brooklyn Feds.

The thing that sticks in mymind as perhaps the funniest I

over saw on aball field hap-pened when 1was with theChicago Cubaand JimmySheckard wasplaying outthere In thepasture besideme.

Sheck was_>»»— __—i_ - - .-i

H-Oilma.Tl perhaps thebeet man at

playing for batters the game everhaa known. Much of his great\u25a0access waa daa to the fact heplayed right where batters hitthe ball. But this time thingsbad been breaking badly for htm.

One day we were playing Pitts-burg. At the end of one inningI glanced over into left fi-id.

Take a look at the principal figure In this photograph, fans. Heweighs _48 pounds and that's 10 ponnds less than he did on arrivingat Havana. The experts there seem to agree that .luck Johnson can-not get himself down to good fighting weight before the battle withJess Wiilard on April 4. Johnson ran do Ws best work at 280, but ifhe gets off IS pounds between now and tlie fight he willbe reducingtoo fast, the expert* think, to be strong. Tills picture was taken asJohnson waa doing road work with a trainer outside Havana*

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TIGER BOYSIN TRAINING

FOR SEASONSpring training officially start-

ed in Tacoma yesterday!Joe McOinnlty, Dick Kaufman,

Cy Neighbors and Leo McQuaryformed the first work-out classof the 1915 season at Athleticpark.

McGinnity and Kaufman arethe mainstay pitchers of theTiger team. For the past weekor so they have been taking longwalks into the country, gettingtheir leg muscles into condition.Yesterday they got out on thodiamond and tried tossing theball.

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There was Bheckard with his eyesshut, whirling around and aroundand finally he let his glove fly.I wondered what waa coming offnntil I saw Sheck walk to wherethe glove had fallen way over inshort left within an inch or twoof the foul line.

Then it dawned upon me that;Sheck had shut his eyes, thrownthe glove and waa going to playwhere it lighted. I doubled uplaughing over his plan, then sawTommy Leach coming to bat.

Leach caught one right on thenose and sent It over Steinfeldt'shead on the line. He tore aroundfirst, sprinted for second andlooked to see how far the ballhad gone Just la time to seeBheckard tossing It back. Thedrive had gone straight IntoShock's hands!

Tommy waa the maddest manyou ever aaw. Sheck's supersti-tion had robbed him of a surethree-base hit—and- as It turnedout. saved Chicago the gam*.

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Tacoma & Indianapolisr.ataat and Flasst Da* si*.a-•rs— the Quick and Qol.l_. -. ;_•_. *• seaiua«IQHT iOUHD TRIPS DAII.T

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In many reapects Baltimore isthe best constructed team in theEd era! league. Whether It winsthe pennant or not it has morepromise of consistency than anyother club in the circuit. It seemsto lack the punch and brilliancyto win by a spurt or/long series ofvictories, bat it will keep ploddingaway at better than a .600 ocrcent clip and be there or theri-abouta at the finish.

Laat season they lacked In twodepartments — catching, whichwas only mediocre but steady,aid pitching. The big problem iswhether or not Chief Bender willcome Into the league in the condi-tion to work his best.

Catching looks only fair. Jack-iitsch Is a veteran who is reliableand steady. Rusaell is aggressiveand a hustler, but has not yet de-veloped to major league caliber.

Bender, of course, is expectedto lead the pitchers, and he has a Ilot of capable assistants. Suggsought to have another season ortwo of good ball left in him andWilhelm is fair. Quinn, of course,never haa fulfilled all his prom-ises of greatness. Smith is thesame old erratic genius. Baileyand Conley are expected to showmuch development.

It Is not a strong pitching staff.Just a steady one, and It will haveto depend upon Bender for theextra percentage to lift it highenough to win.

The real strength of the clubIs around second base, with Knabe Ion second and Mike I lonian at'short. Both are great field lead-!ers and their work around thesack is close to that of Evers andMaranville.

Big Harry Swaclna developedlast year Into a regular first base-man.

There will be a battle for thirdbase job. which also may affectthe outfield, as both the thirdbase candidates also can doubleIn the outer garden. Guy Zim,who broke a leg a year ago, ia themost likely regular. JimmyWalsh, who held down , the baglast year, is a useful man any-where, and might crowd Into tlieoutfield if Zlnn lakes the base.

WOMEN WILLATTEND THE

BIG FIGHT

They literally "tossed It."Trained pitchers never try throw-ing the ball hard when they firststart training. Kaufman andMcOinnlty tossed the ball easilyInto each other's hands, carefullyrefraining from straining theirarms.

Cy Neighbors threw the ball alittle, and atood out In centerfield to catch some fungo flies.

Leo McQuary, the brilliant Ta-coma pitcher, showed real classyesterday. McQuary was signedwith Tacoma two yeara ago, wentto Vancouver later, and thendropped out of the game when hisarm went "dead."

This year he is In perfectform, and his arm la good. < Ifhe continues to pitch In his pres-ent fashion, Manager Rass~l.allwill sign him. Leo is the soil ofJ. E. McQuary, 801 North,' Pros-pect, and has been working thiswinter In his father's groeeVy.

Because there was no water Inthe dressing rooms yesterday,and the players could not IndulgeIn arid shower baths, only /'ironMan" McGinnity appeared In uni-form. The showers will he work-ing tomorrow, and training willbe resumed, with several newplayers probably on hand'far. theearly work-outs.

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Gets Shade On"Red" Watson

HUDSON, Wis., March 24. —"Red" Watson, the San Francis-co lightweight, was not up- toform last night and Ray Templeof St. Paul had a ahade the bestof him In their 10-round match.

HAVANA, Cuba, March 24. —The society women of Havana arepreparing to attend the Johnson-Willard championship match inlarge numbers. More than 500social lenders among the betterclass Cuban and Spanish ladles ofHavana have already reservedboxes or blocks of sets for thecontest. Interest among womenin boxing recently reached a highpitch, when American women vis-iting here attended a boxingmatch In the stadium.

Results al theTraining CampResults of yesterday's practice

baseball games throughout thocountry follow:

St. Louis Nut ion a Is, 7; Dallas.Texas, 2.

Philadelphia Nationals, 4; Chi-cago Nationals, 1.

Boston Nationals, 7; Atlanta,Southern, 3.

White Sox seconds, 1; Venice,Coast, 11.

St. Louis Americans, 10; Hous-ton, Texas, 1.

Philadelphia Americans, 14;U. of Florida, 3.

THE TRIO OF MASTER MI NDS OF THE TERRAPINS. , \Fltpatrfck is trying hard for aa er Zinn or Walsh. iInfield Job and willbe the under- Altogether it Is a pretty well . Jstudy. balanced ball club, and pretty j

The outfield from present look j close up to the major league Iwillbe Koramers, Bates and eitli- standard In all departments. I

Mrs. Wild BUI'Wants Divorce

SAVANNAH, Oa., March 24. —-"Wild Bill"Donovan, manager ofthe New York Americans, wasserved with divorce paiiers yes-terday afternoon. Mrs. Donovanmoved to Reno, Nev., to start hersuit. She alleges non-support."Wild Bill"will not contest the

WITH AMATEURS IAND SEMI-PROS |

TACOMA TO COMPETEThe pennant-winner of the Ta-

coma City league will be sent tothe San Francisco exposition nextfall to compete for the Pacificcoast amateur championship.

This was decided upon at ameeting of the leagut heads last

night, according to PresidentCorcoran. Tacoma will be oneof six cities entered for the coastchampionship, the others beingPortland, San Diego, Los Angeles,San Francisco and Sacramento.

In September, Just at the closeof the City league season here,the winning team will start south,making a tour of the southernstate, and meeting ail the otherteams. The team defeating amajority of the other teams willget the championship. It willcost the Tacoma boys $1,000 tomake the trip. The champion-ship finals are under the author-ity of the National AmericanAmateur Baseball association.

LINCOLN WJNBThe Lincoln team defeated the

McKinley park school team yes-terday afternoon in a fast 6 to3 contest. The game waa playedon the Logan grounds. Batteries:Lincoln, Beimore, Bitching armCappa; McKinley, Fisher andKelly.

WHO DID THEY PLAY?Still Harbor. March 22, '15.

Sj ortlng Editor: .Dear.Sir: Please publish tins

in your paper and oblige:Still Harbor wins its first game

by 15 to 5, smashing the ball for18 hits and holding the visitingteam to 7. R. Larson and P.Corrie played a star game In theinfield and E. Mickelson at bat.Thanking you in advance,

Yours truly,HENRY DANNEM.

KKNNEY SOME HITTERIn a fast game at the Old Cen-

tral school grounds Sunday aft-ernoon the Blue tSars defeatedthe Butchers by a score of 7 to I,Kenney of the Butchers' teamproved to be a hitting phenom.He slammed out two three-basehits and a couple of doubles.Batteries: B. S., Bender and Mc-Lean; Butchers, Lanning andKeely.

MIDLAND VS. SUMNERMidland and Snmner will play

at Midland Sunday afternoon at2 o'clock. Bill Shepherd w'll 'pitch for Midland. He will haveto "go some to hold down theheavy hitting Sumner boys.

OUTCASTS ARE SORBThe Tacoma Steam Laundry

Outcasts are sore at the TacomaSteam Laundry team, and theyplanning real revenge. Wh in theregular iaundry team was o.ejMHized, Manager U. w. Footecouldn't find places for all themen who wanted ot Join. ' So theleft-overs organised an "Outcasts''team and they're laying for anopportunity to trim the regulars.

nammoo .g| an —Only One 'BROMO QUININE'

AVIATOR BEACHEY GOES TO FINAL REST

Taking the body of Lincoln Beachey, world's greatest aviator,

from Kilts' hall, San Francisco, where the last rites were adminis-tered, to the hearse that bore him to his final resting place. Thelead hi illman was followed by a cortege of admirers consisting of_,000 people, some of them Han Francisco's most prominent cltisens.Beachey went to Ids death March 14 at tlie World's Fair grounds at

lan I'rancisco while performing sensational aerial feata. His ma-bine collapsed In the air and he plunfjH to his end In the watetwofSan Francisco bay.

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