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Bloomer Success.

Saturday, March 24, 1917-THE TACOMA TIMES— Page Blx.

NEWS OF THE STABS OPTWO FmMAMENTS—Sports andTheatrical

Edward A. Peters, Main }mSports Editor.

STEELE REALLYGOING FOR THAT

TITLE, HE SAYSIf anyone had told I'aul Steele

a week ago that he would befighting in a lew daya for achance at the I'a.ifie- coast light-weight crown, he would have un-graciously consigned his inform-ant to the care of the state atFort Sii-ihn iiiiin.

Hut si. ele i*. iiMitclied, andhe in.-.-i\u25a0* I i.niUie- -Millii.ui.one of llk- clei i-ii-m InixersIn the h.--i, in Glide rink to-morrow night. A series ofpeculiar coincidence* causeetlthe mule li.Paul gave up the ring nearly

a year ago and has devoted him-self to gymnasium instructionsteadily since that time. But hehad one old score to settle witha Spokane boxer named I lei-tor St.John, and when an Kllensliurgcluli offered to let him meet St.John last week l'aul agreed.

The Tacoma boxer knew be wasIn ge.e.el shape. Hut be MM al-most HN sill |il Isi'll mn Nt. John"In n lie ~li|i|nel o\cr a right

cross in ihe- first round and puttin- Spokane Imy to sleep. Steelei-iiili/e-el then and there that liewas in Ih-ii.-i , 11million than everbefore.

When I'it ul returned to TacomaSaturday morning, he was greetedby a letter from Chet Mclntyreof Seattle saying thai l.loyd Mad-den, who had been matched tobox Sullivan here, had broken arib. Kddle I'lnkham had alsofractured a bone in his fist.

It looked for a minute asthough the headliner for Tues-day's boxing carnival had disap-peared. Then Haul rememberedhis unusually good condition, andhis easy defeat of St. John.

"Why haven't I as good achance at that title as anyoneelse?'' he demanded. And imme-diately Steele got on the wire andwas matched with Sullivan.

"Iha\o seen Plnkham and Mad-den and Sullivan all In action, and1 believe that I can defeat any ofthem," says Steele.

Tuesday night's battle at Gliderink means a whole lot to bothSteels and Sullivan. The l.os An-geles boy is matched with EddieCampi, one nf the best light-weight- In America, at SeattleFriday night. Should he lose toSteele, his Seattle bout will becameled. Steele has set his hearton the title, and he Is going to putSullivan to sleep If there is anypossible way of doing It. SteeleIsn't kidding when he says It,alt her.

Big delegations of fans are ex-pected from Wllkeson and Huston.The Peto brothers of Wllkesonwill bring fans from the mountaintown. Although these boys arenow working ln Seattle, and train-ing under Dan Salt, they stillelatm Wllkeson as their home.

I,onnle Mcintosh, the boy whomeets Mike Pete. Is a fast, rangyboy witli n kirk ln either hand,and the boxing bugs who haveaeen him In action are predictingbig things for him. Sammy Mor-ris, who meets Frank Pete, hasworked out with Kddie Campi,and the latter says that Morris Isone of the toughest boxers he everaparred with. Frank only smiles

Wolgast MadeWard of Wife

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CADILLAC, Mich., March 26 —Through a court order Issued byJudge Gillen, Ad Wolgast, con-fined at a sanatorium at Milwau-kee suffering from symptoms ofa brain malady. Is a ward of hiswife. Wolgast has a fortune of1200,(MM) nnd recently has lostlarge amounts buying "crippled"race horses and worthless prop-arty.

Had to Chop"Sapho" Short

Sapho not to be Red CrossBurse! It was the original inten-tion of the Famous Playera, Inadapting 'Sapho" as a Paramountpicture with Pauline Frederick inthe stellar role, to show the ulti-mate conversion of the model intoa Red Cross nurse. Stern facts,however, rendered this impossibleas the telling of the early chaptersIn Sapho s career required somuch space that the details of herRed Cross work could not be goneInto. As a result, the closingscenes of the picture as It will befinally screened, show simply theconversion of Sapho to the betterthings of life as represented by herpresence in church.

North Dakota and Mississippihave nearly nine-tenths oountryfolks.

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One of BoxersOn Glide Card

I.i- k Hartford, the clever Ta*• oii.ii boxer who xvill be seen inone of the preliminaries- of Tues-day night's iMiving carnival at(\u25a0lido rink. Jack IMixes SanilyCarbolic, an old time ting rival.Hi.Hi boys have In <-n Iriilnlng dili-gently for the limit.

at the reports, and only asks onechance to slam that big right mittof his against the Calil'orniun'sbread box,

Ole Anderson, heavyweight ofRuston, will bring the smeltercrowds to the (Hide. He makeshis ilelmt ln the professional ringhy meeting Val Comstock. Ander-son has shown up well in his pre-liminary work, and is strong asan ox.

A big advance ticket sale indi-cates that every one of the 2,000seats at the (Hide will be occu-pied. Extra chairs will he readyfor the overflow.

The seventh bout for tomorrownight's card was added Saturdaynight. Jack Hartford of the St.Leo's gym and Sandy Carhone ofthe Business Men's Gym will meetIn one of the preliminaries. Thesehoys boxed two years ago. andhave been eager ever since to getat each other. There Is said tobe a personal rivalry between thetwo hoys, and their friends pre-dict some real slugging when theymeet In the ring.

SOME GOSSIPOF THE MOVIES

Ethel Clifton, writer of plays lnwhich she and other successfulplayers art, has put into rehearsala new comedy playlet for DrendaFowler.

Lillian Keller is paying outmoney to learn Red Cross nursing.She Is one of the first actressesto offer her services In the eventof need.

Minna Gale Haynes. distinguish-ed actress, has discontinued herNew York dramatic readings tobegin a postseason engagement In"A Tailor Made Man" at Bostonthis week.

If the plans which are matur-ing In New York are successful,Louis Calvert, now with GuyBates Post in "The Masquerader,"will direct an Impressive Shakes-pearean company ln New Yorknext season.

"The Lodger," the play thathad no place to lodge ln NewYork, has taken up quarters lnChicago. Harry Ashford andBeryl Mercer are the bright par-ticular funniakers who made theplay a success.

Paul Gordon, Intelligent actorfor the screen and on the dra-matic stage, has been engaged forthe leading part hi a new featurefilm, "The Great White Trial,"now being photographed by Whar-ton, Inc.

The Triangle Film company ap-pears to be losing Its brighteststars. Frank Keenan - was thefirst to desert, and he was fol-lowed by Douglas Fairbanks.Gossip on the Rlalto declares thatWilliam S. Hart Is next.

"The most graphic newspaperdescription of the trip of theDeutschland becomes insipid afterviewing '20,000 Leagues Underthe Sea,' " said one critic, in com-menting upon the great film spec-tacle now at the Colonial.

No printed word could conveywhat Is expressed by the cameraln thla picture. The wonders ofthe ocean are revealed to the

I startled gate. The terrors and1strange beauties of the deep areexposed.

WHERE TACOMA'SAMUSING ITSELF

TACOMATuesday—Rudolph Ganz and

Arthur Hpaldlng concert,Thursday—"The House | of

Glass."PAN TAGES

"Ce-l»ora," Uie girl In thagolden glolie.

REGENTThe Royal <»urt Quintet, and

vaudeville.

MOVIES(OIXIMAI

•Jo 000 (..-utiles I ml. i the;Sea," with all-atar rast.

APOMiO! "Panthea," wllh Norma Tal-| nittilge.

MKIeHOIKNEj "l,e«*N Than the Hunt," withjMary I'lekfoi-d.

Meadow ParkTeams NamedSpring weather greeted Tacoma

golfers for the first Sunday of tbeseason yesterday, and an Immensecrowd turned out on the variouscourses. At Meadow pai-K thegross scores of all meiu'ir-.-s wereused to determine the first andsecond team personnel. C. M. Cay -anangli, W. J. Noonan and Capt.W. \V. Cooper tied for fir^t. placeono the first team with scores ofSO each.

Any member of the club mayget into the teams by challengingand defeating any of the teammembers. These challenges naybe issued once in tw;o weeks.

All Star ActsOn Regent Bill

Once In a while a vaudeville hillcomes to town witli every numberregistering headline character.Such a bill is presented in the newRegent show which opened Sun-day. Every act is a hit, and theyare all headllners.

The Royal Court Quintet, in co-lonial co.iume, have an exception-al instrumental and vocal num-ber. The woman of the companyhas a beautiful soprano voice.

Jackson, of the team of Bar-ber and Jackson, has legs like agiraffe and a face that any circusclown would envy. His part ofthe bill stopped the show. Theteam Is exceptionally good.

Barto and Rlalto are jugglerswith a new twist to their act andsome good comedy. Manita andMary on, two girls, do a dance actIn full stage and haven't enoughadditional stunts to supply all theencores.

Leroy and Tozier win big ap-applause by their comedy number.Mlohael Emmet sings real Irishsongs with a real Irish brogue.

"The Great Secret," Metro's bigserial, has come to the Regent,and If the opening chapter Is anIndication of the worth of the pic-ture, the Bushmah-Bayne featureIs to be a big success.

NEW SERIALThe last episode of "The Shield-

ing Shadow" is booked at theAmerican theater, Old Tacoma, fortoday and tomorrow. The firstepisode of "The Mysteries ofMyra" is also shown, togetherwith a two reeler, "ijove's Mas-querade," featuring Harry Ben-ham.

Movie ActressMakes Own FogVictoria Forde, leading woman

for Tom Mix's western comedycompany of William Fox photo-players, holds that for is the great-est tonic for the skin. Becauseshe lives In Los Angeles wherefogs are of rare occurrence. MissForde Is going to make her ownfogs. She will.manufacture thisfog by a process which she is jeal-ously guarding and which maylater be put upon the market.

San Francisco women are fa-mous for their complexions. Dueto fogs, London women bear sun-set hues in their cheeks, and notplaced there by hand, cither. ItIs duo to fogs.

Miss Forde's complexion Is athing of Joy, hut she fears thatconstant sunshine, without the re-lieving veil of an occasional fog,may wreak havoc with it.

Underwater Film IsTremendous Success

Battered ribs of old wrecks areviewed on the floor of the ocean;divers battle with man-eatingsharks; a giant octopus stranglesa pearl diver; a sinking slulp isviewed through the window of thesubmarine.

Nothing like "20,000 LeacuesUnder the Sea" has aver beforebeen aeen ln pictures, and themarvel of It all grips the attentionof every beholder. The Vernestory will remain at the Colonialall week.,

"PANTHEA" PLEASES

Splendid In acting, thrilling insecret police, goes to England anddramatic episode, magnificent lnafter thrilling adventures marriessetting, "Panthea," the big photo-a composer. As his wife sheplay in which Norma Talniadgemakes her great sacrifice whichlias the leading role, lmpressedprovidrs the big dramatic climaxcrowds at the Apollo yesterday,of the story.and the engagement promises to lloni'st-Pathe news pictures In-sM one of the notable successes ofi-luile views of the abdicated czarthe season. of Russia nnd the royal family,

Panthea, the beautiful Russian pretty style show pictures and rc-glrl hounded from her home by cent events.

RUSS HALL DEEDED TOSEND FOR PLAYERS, THENSNOW CHANGES MIS MINDWith the opening of the North-

western league season BtlU 2 9days off. Owner Russ Hall of theTacoma Tigers hns about made uphis mind to send off for his 30or more recruits at once andstart them through the trainingwork.

Miserable weather during thepast few weeks was Instantly for-gotten when a warm sun came outSunday, and Hall was feverish atonce to start his 1917 trainingiamp.

A pleasant little snowfall Mon-day morning, and some almostfreezing weather, changed Hall'smind slightly, but he was daringenough to send off transportation

B. OLDFIELD INVENTSDEATH CHEATER CAR

ltni ney Oldfield and a model of his "Safety First" racer, whichhe invented and wliioh Is now un der construction in Los Angeles.

i-lie-clnl to The 'Hiucs.)

LOS ANOELES, Cal., Mar. 26.—Hereafter "Safety First" willbe Barney Oldfleld's motto whenit comes to driving racing oars.The famous speed demon Is ac-tually building a "Safety First"raolng auto.

It willbe the most unique con-veyance that ever snorted arounda race course, and will be com-pleted ln time for tha racing sea-son.

Oldfleld's new car will be builtof aluminum and will look like ahard-boiled egg. It will be com-pletely enclosed, like a submarine,and when the driver locks himselfInto It he will ba aa safe as a

to a bunch of pitchers, who shouldbag-In arriving: before tha end ofIhe week. These players areSchiiidler, Ansell, Carson, Kalula,Alaxandar, Piiiiut, Haughland,McCorkle and Telford.

Tealey Raymond put on a uni-form yesti-iday and cavorted aboutAthletic park like a three-year-old. He bai kept himself in per-fect physical condition all winter.Others wlio were out for two ses-sions of two hours each weroPitchers Henry Peterson andSlide Sutherland, and CatcherPete Flagstead.

The report that Russ Hall puton a iiitie and did some trainingstunts is said to be exaggerated.

soldier in a trench-defying tank."This is an anti-accident car,"

says Barney. "I propose to dem-onstrate with it that the thrillcanstill be kept In automobile racingand the tragedies kept out. I'mgoing to lift the stigma from thegame."

The car, which is under con-struction here, will be lined withsteel ribs and then covered withaluminum. Ifit takes a notion toturn over these ribs will preventthe men from being crushed.

"I hope to hang up some newrecords with this new bus," saysthe famoua driver. "I have 298cubic inches of cylinder space in;he engine, which ought to make

SPRING FOOTBAIiIi 4IS LATEST STINT t

*Everyone has heard of win- $

ter baseball, but it has re- <imalned for Keith D. (H'ck) <SGoodman of Tacoma to pull •

• something new in the line of •> freak' athletics. 4

Goodman has been a;- A> pointed athletic director of «College of Puget Sound, and \u2666

he Intends to start at once 4' giving* the collegians some -

\u25a0 spring football training. The <\u25a0•

\u25a0 college hHB always been weak ;

\u25a0in football, but Goodman <<promises to put It on tlie '<

\u25a0 map again this year. He •\u25a0 coached the C. P. S. basket- •'•• ball team through a success- 4• ful season. >•

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Jaw ii to Get$50,000 Payii eoii-ei Press Leased Wire.)

NEW YORK, March 26. —De-spite indications of war hitting

baaaball amidships and other jrumblings, John J. McGraw todaystands hitched to n contract thatcalls for his services as managerof tho New York Giants at a sal-ary of $,"ii),itO(i g year for fiveyearn. His old contract, callingfor IT,»>,••• run* for another year,supplying the little Napoleon witha fairly steady job for -i\ years.

Tha n*w papara, avecarJlag loiword received here from Texas, in-jdude a sitpulation that Mi.llrawis to receive a block of Giant Istock. Thus, he probably will ba-cons half owner of tbe club be-fore he reGres

Delay SeriesBecause bad weather last week

prevented any baseball practice atStadium high, the first interclassgame, between the Freshmen andJuniors, scheduled for today, hasheen postponed a week. The en-liro Intarclaaa series has been tctback S week.

New Serial Is'Tan" Feature

In addition to the bill of sixfeature vaudeville acts, the Pan-tajjaa theater will offer today thefirst chaptar of the widely-adver-tised patriotic serial, "Patrla,"with Mrs. Vernon Castle as Itsstar.

"Ce-Dora," the gin in the gold-en globe, will provide the bigthrill for the vaudeville bill. WillRawls nnd Ella yon Kaufman willhe seen in their new comedy play-let, "The Willing Worker."Geonge and May I.eFevre are nov-elty society dancers. ConstantinoBernard!, noted protean actor,will present a sketch in which heplays a dozen different characters.The pretty Oakland sisters will of-fer songs and dances. Billy Small,"tramp violinist" has a clevermusical act.

Mary PickfordIn .New ArtcraftIn the role of a little castaway,

Mary Pickford pleased big audi-ences yesterday at the MelbourneIn her first Artcraft production,"Less Than the Dust."

It is different from anything lnwhich Miss Pickford has yet ap-peared, the story being laid inIndia.

One of the big scenes of the pic-ture is a street In an Indian citywith its great shops and bazaarsand all the color and ever chang-ing views of an eastern thorough-fare.

A splendid comedy offering ofslapstick variety, a scenic film andspecial music completes the bill.

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DENVER, March 26. — JackBratton, coast lightweight, willmeet Bobby Burns of Dallas to-night In a scheduled 15-round af-ifair at the N. A. C.

OGDEN, Utah, March 26—John-ny Dundee of New York, has sign-ed to fight' ten rounds here onApril 6 with Al Young of Okla-homa, Intermountain lightweightchampion.

When the horses ln Nice,France, are hitched to tar-spread-ing carts they wear trousers toprotect their legs from the hottar.

In a baseball game nt the Stadiumyesterday afternoon the Smelterteam of the Valley league de-feated the Bradley & ChastainGiants by a score of I to I,The batteries: Smelter -Eleyand Patterson; Giants —Ed-ward and Eongrass. Empire,

Jack Shilling. It was the firstgame of the seasoai for eitherteam. The Smelter team wishesto meet the Washington ParlorFurniture team at the Stadiumnext Sunday. Miss Anderson,manager of the Furniture Mak-ers. Is requested to answerthrough these columns not laterthan Thursday.

R. K. Hi-own, manager of the B.& C. Colored Giants, has ar-ranged several games to beplayed with Seattle and Port-land teams. He has scheduledgames with all the faster semi-pro teams of Taroma as well.The Giants will play Tacomateams at the beginning of theseason, after which they willplay mostly outside teams. Man-ager Brown will have two orthree new players on his line-up when he formally opens theseason. The team will be a fastone when completed.

the car faster than any machineon the market. Building the bodyof aluminum makes it especiallylight. Probably the wagon, fullyequipped, will not weigh over1600 pounds."

Since risk is greatly cut downby this new form of automobileconstruction, Oldfield will be ableto make greater speed on a racecourse. He will hit the turns hard-er, and will keep his clutch Inpractically all the time Hi bothroad races and track meets.

Barney peeps out of his queerracer through screen-coveredsilts. His mechanician will sit be-hind him Instead of at his side.

Frank E. Hand, assistant supremechief ranger of the Pacificcoast district of the Independ-ent Order of Foresters, will bethe guest of honor at a ban-quet Friday night in Odd Fel-lows' temple. Tacoma Court ofDestiny will entertain the highcourt, which will be In sessionfor two days beginning Friday.Saturday night a theater partywill be given the visiting com-panions by the companioncourt, Reliance.

Manager Charley Fowler, of theMajestic, has signed a newcatcher by the name of Lowe.He comes well recommendedand certainly has the appear-ance of being a regular back-stop. Fowler is well pleasedwith his find and expects muchof the new comer.

"Hong" Armstrong has signed anew inflelder named Harer.Harer comes from Bellingharnwhere he has played on manyfast semi-pro teams. He willturn out with the W. O. W.'anext Sunday at 10 a. m., atwhich time all members of theWoodmen team are requestedto report to Manager Armstrongat the Stadium.

Stub KSsssM says lie refuses toclout out any more of thosethree-baggers this season. Hedid that stunt Sunday and hesays It gets his wind to run sofar. He says he will hit two-base drives hereafter and hitthem more often.

In his game at the Stadium Sun-day, Don Grant, captain of theSmelter ball club, hit one sohard that It almost tore thepitcher's Iwx out. When thatman Grant meets them he justnaturally drives them so farthat he works the outfield todeath. And ha is apt to hit'em any time.

Lester Patterson Is billing themhard this season. Tho way heconnected Sunday not only sur-prised the spectators but theplayers as well. Out of fourvisits to the plate Pat managedto gather four hits. Ha sayshe Is going to hit better thisseason than laet. Keep it up,Pat, we are for you.

Ray Miller of Luke City station,says that he has some baseball

IN THRILLING PLAY

Si-ene in Cohan « Harris' production of "The House of (.ia**,*

which comes to the Tacoma theater Thoratlay for an engagement olone night. "The House of Glass" was on© of tine notable dramaticsuccesses of last season In New York, where It ran for a year at thai mi.II. i theater. Messrs. Cohan and Harris are sending the Net*York cast of players and the original production.

With the Amateurs 1

litis < 'olnTiin is Devoted" to Upbuilding Amateur Sports, jAllItems Should Bo Phoned to Main 9131 or Main 1»|

- By BILLY CARNS ':hhoes for sale. He can bejreached on Ihe phone any nightafter 6.

Andy Nelson, the l-'ern Hill cigar*in»ik.-i--bii--.-iiiill player, says hll.mi In coming back in A-l style.I!.- broke a bone in bis ni>--

near the close of last .........mil was fearing that be might

lie forced to quit the nationalpastime as v result. Nelson u.i*

able to control the sphere >vbis first practice yesti-iiluy andsays he is of the opinion thatlie will not lie handicapped by(In- injury. He is a vtondeywith his smoke ball.

The Hopkins A. C turned out.strong for practice Sunday*-This team will be one of lhastrongest in the city this tea-son, as usual. There are about20 fellows working for a berthon the team, and from thatamount of good material tochoose from they should i-eable to put a mighty nifty clubIn the field. They will play in-dependent this season.

llk- Mckinley Hill ball club willbe very strong this seasonsThey are making up thels*schedule and are anxious to ar-range games with out-of-towhteams. William Oxley. mana-ger of the team, may be reach-ed at the McKlnley Drug Co.They will be members of ThaTimes Hooking agency.

Jack Shilling, who umpired inthe City league last season, butlater went to Olympia. held thaindicator In the game between.the Smelter and Colored GiantsSunday. It looked good to seaJack behind the pitcher again.

His decisions met with the ap»proval of all.

The Si.nHi Tacomn team tinned]out for practteo Sunday at theirgrounds, ,rißth and Union. ThoSouth Euders will have a verygood team this season, c, inn,catcher on the team, is hittingthem ln his usual way. He ex<.pects to have a good season.Walter Holmberg Is also doinghis share with the stick.

Marty Foley of Paul Steele's gyina

nasium. was out for practice iathe Stadium Sunday. He asaffixed his 'John Henry' to onaof Charley Fowler's contractsand will travel with the .Majea»tics this season.

The South Tacoma Athletics, laag \u25a0

season playing under the nam4Bof South Tnconia Midgets, turn**enl out for MsMsttSS yesterday.The team looks ns good or liet-ter lliun hist BSsWSss, when they,won 17 straight game-.

George Rutld, prolmlily the city'soldest semi-pro baseball player, "will be a Valley league umpirethis season. He played withthe W. O. W. last season.

Matchmaker Heile of the DupoutA. C. smokers, was a Tacomavisii..i Saturday. He says ev-erything is booming nt Powder-town.

We would be pleased to bearfrom the manager of the Me»Kenna ball team. An early:word would be appreciated.

During the last 10 years thagross revenue of the Bell tile-phone system has Increased front$128,500,000 to 1270,000,000.

The dying wish of Mrs. Emm»C. Van Sickle, of LaCrosse, Wis.,was that she might be burled laher private cemetery beside bagfive husbands.