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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1911
Page
2
The piece extols essentials for distance runners including habits, sleep, and discipline. It advocates rubber heel landings for efficiency, energy conservation, and avoiding muscle strain while stressing varied styles. It notes some runners are born athletes like Melvin Shepard and Johnny Bard who often race with little training.
A Detroit Free Press brief reports a woman pledging to stay with her husband until death even if he fails to fortune in five years. The excerpt records her unusual determination and views on marriage commitment.
In Oakland tomorrow night Fritz Holland of Spokane faces Chicago’s Knockout George Brown in a ten round bout as part of a boxing program. San Francisco plans forty rounds next Friday with Ray Temple of Milwaukee taking on Al Rodgers and ten total bouts including Lee Johnson, Jim Cameron, Rafe Turner, Hock Keyes, Harry Dell, Freddie Couture, Willie Purtell, and Gus Anderson.
Harry Wolverton, famed former manager, is engaged to run the New York American League club. He refused Highlands leadership unless given absolute authority free from interference, citing the trials of George Stallings who was ousted by Farrell and Ban Johnson while the club sat in second place.
John Paul Jones the Cornell star and world mile record holder cannot race in intercollegiate meets next spring and may miss Sweden for the Olympic games due to a sprained tendon and illness under physician care.
Paris reports M. Germain the naturalist asserts Africa and America were once connected by land and that Atlantis truly existed. He bases his claims on fossilized fauna and flora found at Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, and other latitudes.
Cal Ewing president of the San Francisco Coast league club is due home Friday from New York. He has been away six weeks attending baseball meetings and conferring with magnates in San Antonio Cincinnati Chicago and New York.
Frank Gotch, world wrestling champion, offers to defend his title in January in New York. He aims to meet the winner of the Zbyzsco Rakevich match at Madison Square Garden on Christmas night seeking another title bout opportunity.
The sports column cites Grantland Rice slamming brash club owners at the National and American leagues annual meetings. He contrasts the noisy quarrels of Horace Fogel and Charley Dooin with public distrust in magnates while urging businesslike control to restore dignity to baseball.
A veteran ringside observer recalls crooked boxing plots in New York during the Horton era. The Walcott West bout is highlighted as a notorious fakery where Walcott pretended injury to mask a planned result, saving bettors money while the crowd watched, with other schemes like McCoy Choynski and Corbett McCoy also cited.
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