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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
3
In a reflective note on baseball and business, Eddie Collins declares he would not leave Connie Mack for money, praising loyalty over greed. The piece argues the era’s drift toward dollar worship harms both employers and workers and suggests Collins’s stance is a practical sermon on integrity.
Ceremonies marked awarding of the big Harvani football cup at Lincoln high school on Thursday. The perpetual trophy requires a team to win it three times to keep it. Lincoln earns its first permanent possession this year. Letters were awarded to the championship team members.
Willie Ritchie world lightweight champion trains in San Francisco for next Wednesday’s bout with Harlem Tommy Murphy. Dad Moulton, Stanford trainer, praises Ritchie stamina and eye condition after a brief rest. Murphy’s camp in San Rafael reports cautious, steady prep and prime condition.
Idaho manager Larson insists Washington must travel to Spokane next year for the Moscow game. Oregon’s Portland date remains, Aggies also scheduled for Portland, leaving only Idaho and Pullman games for Seattle as Harr likely yields to Larson. Oregon would come to Seattle if forced.
The King county game warden's office plans for winter feeding of game birds. Harry Rief secured a large quantity of perennial pea seed to be given to huntsmen on application. Hunters are urged to distribute the seed on their trips as it reproduces from root and seed and provides good fodder.
In Seattle at the city athletic club Thursday night the Chippewas defeated the Navajos two games to one. Cobb led with the high score of 202 and a top average of 1942 3. The Chippewas totals 2054 versus the Navajos 2067 in a tight bowling contest. In Chicago three universities Notre Dame Nebraska and Marquette seek membership in the Big Nine conference at an upcoming meeting.
Boxing promoter and trainer Pat Beott is quoted after a Seattle Athletic Club bout as confirming Kid Henry Gleason’s punching power. Gleason, a 125 pounder, sustained cracked ribs from a solid right blow last week and was checked by the boxing instructor on Thursday night.
The second game between Pacific and Adams to decide the city championship will be at Woodland Park Saturday at 2 PM. A last week result left the first game tied, with no clear winner. The victors will have their school name engraved on the perpetual trophy and receive a permanent cup.
The passage reviews lingering public notices about Bill Dahien and possible Federal league activity while noting other sports gossip. It mentions a New York paper on boxing, wrestling and sport, Montana’s Whitman link from 1913, and upcoming Milwaukee boxing bout headlines. It also mocks Reds management costs and lists several club directors and stockholders as a bundle of baseball knowledge.
Bennie Allen of Kansas City leads Charles Weston of Pittsburg by 400 to 343 in the national billiard championship after taking the second 200 block Thursday night. Yale's 1913 football season netted 39000 after expenses, the school’s largest surplus in memory. Fielder Jones declares retirement from baseball and rejects all managerial offers.
Corrected market notes show prices paid to producers for butter eggs fry veal and pork. Local items include Yakima and White River potatoes onions squash Hubbard pumpkins cabbage cucumbers and various live fowl with assorted weights and values. The column also lists farm products and livestock such as hens turkeys ducks and pigeons with specific prices and descriptions.
The Olympic View Sanitarium invites the sick for a free consultation and examination. It lists diseases treated including stomach disorders, liver trouble, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, rheumatism, and nervous disorders with prices from a dollar upward. It urges immediate visit to its office for testimonials and an honest assessment of available cures.
Friends of Harvey Donaldson the 105 pound national amateur champion plan a large benefit to raise funds to save his wife who is gravely ill in a sanitarium. A big wrestling smoker is considered but not finalized. Also notes Pacific Coast League 1914 schedule with 30 weeks of baseball from March 31 to October 25.
In St. Louis on Thursday night Packey McFarland defeated local boxer Harry Trendall over eight rounds. McFarland forced the pace throughout while weighing 146 pounds to Trendall's 140.
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