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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1913
Page
10
Packey McFarland the welterweight boxer announced engagement to Margaret Loughran a St Mary's Notre Dame graduate from Pittsburg. The wedding is planned within three months in an event reported Monday from Pittsburg.
London report states Capt. H. R. French's wife, daughter of ex American consul general R. J. Wynne, was granted a divorce on grounds of infidelity and cruelty. Also an advertisement for best modern outside rooms at Stewart House, 86 West Stewart.
Readers are offered 25 cards for 15 cents with extra postage for mailing outside city. The Enterprise Novelty Works at 3213 First Ave promotes keepsake cards to remember friends this Christmas.
A promotional medical notice touts a personalized Macy System for chronic and special diseases. It emphasizes individualized treatment, thorough evaluation, and lasting health benefits, claiming superior cures due to comprehensive care of conditions affecting both men and women.
Expect AX to fall as Portland based Northwestern league club stands trial at the Pacific Coast league magnates meeting in San Francisco. A Northwestern committee arrives with data claiming class B play did not cut into class AA profits in Portland.
Manager Maggey McGraw plans to add Lee Magee to the St. Louis Nationals 1914 payroll. Magee is currently with the New York Giants White Sox world tour party.
The Royal Society chose Sir William Crooks as president and awarded the Hughes Medal to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell for his studies of technical electricity.
Milwaukee dec 2 Packey McFarland of Chicago and Jack Britton of New York were matched today for a ten round bout to be staged in Milwaukee on a December evening.
Metropolitan presents The Fascinating Widow starring Julian Eltinge. Moore previews What Happened to Mary. Seattie Bailey Mitchell stock performs Quincy Adams Sawyer in The Great Divide. Tivoli features Keating and Flood in The Flirting Princess.
Frank Vance of the Seattle Athletic Club predicts soccer will replace football in Seattle grammar schools within two years and eventually in high schools. He notes 21 of 32 grade schools chose soccer this year, seven football schools may switch next year, and more may follow. The grammar season ended with a tied championship between Pacific and Adams after extra time, with no score recorded.
San Francisco December 2 Willie Ritchie is the favorite to defeat Harlem’s Willie Murphy in the December 10 title bout here at 10 to 6 with odds possibly shifting to 2 to 1 as promoter Coffroth helps arrange Murphy’s coast only defense plan for a 1914 rematch and a 20 round contest.
Ralph A Horr, UW charge d affaires, will preside at a pivotal two day meeting in Portland. He aims to wipe out a $7,000 debt and expand athletics next year with a blowout wrestling meet, tennis tournament, and cross country run across multiple cities to share proceeds with each home college.
King county game warden and federal commissioner Harry Rief reports 218 arrests for violations of state and federal game laws since June 12 when the migratory fowl act took effect. Convictions were secured in all cases and fines exceed $14,000 to date. The report frames this as a record surge in enforcement.
A column surveys sports chatter and personalities from football to golf. Maslin and Crichton are discussed with Navy links and Wisconsin’s fall showing. Notes on Penn State guard loss, the old flying wedge, Hoppe the billiards star, Evers and Evans golf, and Browns jumping to the Federal league.
The Seattle Star offers a free parcel post map to subscribers renewing for six months or more and to new subscribers. The free map shows Washington parcel post zones with rivers towns populations and shipping costs, plus maps of the United States and the world. Six months by mail is $1.80.
The University of Washington second team and an all star group from Kent and Auburn may meet Victoria in an exhibition game this month to promote American football in Canadian territory. Victoria club president Wattelet and UW manager Kerr are negotiating. In San Francisco Gunboat Smith and Bam Langford received a $20 000 offer from Promoter Robinson of Taft California via Jim Buckley. Buckley said the match is secured if Robinson posts the money with Promoter Coffroth.
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