SPORTSBILLY SPEAS TO

MANAGE TACOMA'STEAM THIS YEAR

Monday, March 11,1918.-THE TACOMA TIMES—Page Six.

AMUSEMENTS MARTY FOLY HASHARD MAN TO BEAT

FOR EAGLES' CARD MOVIESFAST BATTLERS

SIGNED UP FOREAGLES SMOKER

Ai-noiineing the two mainevents fur bis next smoker,Mwti-hmaker George Hhauklin offie Knglif. Alliletic club gave ils-

suriinces limlh.v that Ihe card forMm-. Ii 21 will be one of the licstof tho year.

Al Sommers of Portland, theflashy light-heavyweight who putup such a corking battle withMicky King, cihanipion of thecoast, In Seattle last week, willmeet Frank Farmer in a sixround battle.

Marty Foley of Tacoma, a wel-terweight whose phono—Mlstrides during the past seasonhave taken lilin from the prelim-inary part of the card to the mainevent division, will meet FredGilbert of Portland.

These two bouts *,>\u25a0-.. mis.*the fans a lot of real action,and the Hummers- Farmerscrap should prove a whirl-wind affair. Farmer boxedSolum, is In Astoria threeseasons ago, when the Port-land lM>y had just (darted

Ills ring career. Farmer de-feated Soiiuneis hut therewas quite a fuse over the de-cision, and ibe real merits ofthe two boy* liave not beentested sin. i*. Summers is «iop-n.,1. ber among the roastlighl-lieniies, and will givePrank a hard battle. farm-er's bliMxl-puisoni .1 finger lahealing rapidly and he willbe in good sliape for thescrap.Fred Gilbert, the Portland bay

whom Marty Foley boxes, Is go-ing to give the Tacoma IrishmanKimc fun. Shanklin was a littledubious at first over matchingFoley with the tough Portlandscrapper, but Marty insisted on it,to George went ahead. Gilbert'slatest achievement is the knock-ing out of I.loyd Madden at Port-land, and any boxer who can putMadden to sleep must be someslugger!

• • •Marty Farrell, recent arrival

on the coast, meets Al SommersIn Portland Wednesday night ofthis week. Farrell Is a fast,•hlfty scrapper, but la not lookedupon as a dangerous foe for thePortlander. Muff Hronaon, nowholder of the coast light title,meets Chet Neff on the samecard. Joe Gorman and Weldon(Wing are also matched.

• • •Fighting Jimmy Darcy

iVnll-c-y TriiniliilHs) has caatadrift from bis manager,Billy DeCourrsey, nnd will beback In the Xoi-tInvent, short-ly. He has been "cleaningup" at San Dlc-go.

•$ Marty Foley, the promia- \u2666*# lug 'I'm <>ina welterweight, <$><; who goes up against a real \u2666

<$> scrapper next week. -g>

Declaring that he loves to seeclean boxing, and wants to helpthe game, Mayor F. R. Carson ofSouth Bend, Ind., haa taken thelid off South lienii so far as thefight game Is concerned.

Chct M<\u25a0 Ilit jre In full Ofconflde-nre over his scrapwith Micky King in Seattletomorrow night. Altho Kingput (he rollers under dietwhen last they met, the Hus-ton iii.-i.iui' isn't at all nerv-ous over his comeback. Hedeclares that he whs goinggood with King until thelucky poke broke linn hisguard, and thai if the fateshadn't huve smiled on (he

Australian he'd never limetaken Mrlntyre's title away.Melntyre is truining hard,using 1V..u1, Parmer aa asparring partner.

Wrapped up as the averagesports fan Is In American sports be1b apt to disregard or minimize theendeavors of the athletes acrossthe seas, even though they aresuperior to athletic enterprises Inthe I'nlted States.

Some attention has been paidto athletics in Sweden recently onaccount of the Olympic games heldthere in 1912 and the" fact thatfour of our best athletes spentseveral weeks In Sweden about ayear ago :n competition with thebeet the Scandinavians had tooffer.

But Swedish track and field ath-letes enjoyed their host year In1917, according to reports fromStockholm. Athletes under thedirection of Krnie Jljertberg setfour new world records and |smashed a total of 22 Swedish jrecords.

John Bolin and A. Zander, thegreatest of the Swedish athletes,were responsible for eight of theserecords, three of Zander's beingworld standards; the 1000 metre

Billy Speas, hard-hitting out-fielder in the Pacific Coast leaguewill handle the destinies of theTacoma Tigers during the 1918Reason.

Owcer Russ Hall lias flna-lly de-cided on Speas, and the deal hasbeen signed up and put on record.Speas will stay in Ohio, where hehas spent the winter, and willprobably sign up a bunch of bailplayers for the Tacoma teamthere.

Yelm Hunter Kills 'Two Huge Cougars(Special to The Times.) I

YELM, March 11.—Two Im-mense cougars In one afternoonformed the bag of H. O. Round-tree, noted varmint hunter andtrapper, last Thursday afternoon.Roundtree Is our- of the bestknown and most intrepid huntersIn Lewis and Thurston countiesand his single-handed killing ofthe two big beasts Is no littlefeat.

Roundtree struck the tracks ofthe two cougar Thursday morn-ing. Calng two small dogs, onean alrdale and the other a cross

Tealey Raymond, late managerof tho Tigers, was handicapped a-*a manager because of his diminu-tive Mature. He had a hard timecontrolling the men, and was a

between a fox terrier- aid a hound,lie took up the chase. Tracks wereeasy to follow In the 18-lnch snow.

About 3:30 In the afternoon thohunter came to a spot where thecougarH had killed a big deer.They had eaten the entire carcass,except the larger hones and theneck.

Pursuing the chase further, thedogs soon treed one of the cou-gars, and Roundtree shot It. Amoment later the dogs were offagain after the second cougar,and in 15 minutes It had bee/itreed and shot.

GEORGE DAMEREL HASORPHEUM MUSICAL SHOWThe next Orpheum bill which

opens next Friday matinee at theTacoma tor three days le a threeheadline show with George Ra-nterel of former "Merry WidowFame," Haruko Onukl, Japaneseprima donna, and the playlet "Inthe Zone" equally billed. Mr.Damerel assisted by Myrtle Vailand Edward Hume and a splendidcast appears In the musical farceby Will M. Hough called "The

COMMON BRICKCLINKER BRICKBURLAP BRICKPRESSED BRICKFIRE BRICKSEWER BRICKPAVING BRICK4CID BRICKMANTELBRICKHOLLOW BRICK

All Blses aad Shapes.

fUaiUry, Vitrified, dalt** |Glased Sewer Pipe from8 to 80 lachea.

1 Terr* Cotta Chlmaey Pipe I•ad Ftttiagm etc.. DrainTOe. Fire ~_%f.

Denny Renton Clay 6Goal Co.

18th aad Dock Street,Tacoma, Wash.

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Little Liar."Haruko On-ukl Is a winning lit-

tle miss with a wonderful voice ofexquisite oriental loveliness.

"In the Zone" is a sea tale byEugene O'Neill. The scene Is theforecastle of a tramp sfeamerladen with war cargo for the al-lies and the action takes place inthe submarine zone.

Other acts are Cooper and Rob-lnbon. In "A Friend of Mine onthe Wrong Street," Wheeler andMoran In "Me and Micky," theLazier-Worth company In "AnEvening at Home," and Oakes andiielour in a dancing novelty called"The Antique Shop."

Izzy Is TailorIn Latest Show

Starting Its teath week ofcorking success in Tacoma theMonte Carter Musical ComedyCo. will fill the Oak theater withchuckles this week when It playa"lazy the Tailor," one of Mr.Carter's foremost succenes. Izayhas a tough time collecting fromsome of his best-dressed custo-mers like Walter Spencer who

pooh-pooh hla attempts to get bispay. The big company ha* anopportunity of putting over rare

i comedy in this piece.

Matty's PartyHeading* South

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"CINCINNATI, 0., March 11.--Christy Mathewson will chaperona party of Rods out of here tillsafternoon for Montgomery, Ala.,where tils team will lie quarteredwhile trailing at Camp Sheridan.

Two infields have been laid outthere for the Reds to work on,but Matty has only one sot of in-

A German submarine wouldlave no terrors for Mrs. TheresaI'ettcr ot Cleveland, unless thevater was cold.

For Mrc Vetter, who Is knownn Cleveland as "The Human?!ork," can float easily on thewater for bourn ut the time. Evenlion- remarkable Is her inability:o reman under Hie water. Whutithe dives she bobs up l-ike a cork.Even her companions In a swinr-alng pool aer unable to hold her

Swedish Athletes SetNewWorld Records InFour Athletic Meets

la 3.54 7-10; the 2000 metre In.">.:tl and the 3000 metre in B.\>"i7-10. Zander also set Swedishrecords in the mile at 4.17 1-2;.lino metres in 14..Mi 3-.'. and the

three mile in 14.38 7-10.Bolin created Swedish recotds

In two events: the 400 metres i.t.".() and the 80(1 metres in l.fct 1-5.

The other world record was Mtby Yngve Hackner who hurled thejavlin 114 28-100 metres.

The other new Swedish marksset were: Sixty metres, 0.06 9-1 0;200 metres, 0.22 1-10; 440 yard,,0.0.". 6-10; 400 metre hurdle,0..">6 1-10; 400 metre relay race,four men team, 0.43 1-10; 800metre relayt race, four-man team,

1.11 1-10; 1600 metre relay racyfour-man team, 3.28 3-10; 6000metre relay ri-ce, four-man team,17.00; runn'ng high jump, 1.89metres; pole vault, 3.883; dlscrtsthrowing, both hands, 83.41.1000 metre medley relay race!(first man. 100 metres; second.200 metres; third, 300 metres, andfourth, 400 metres), 1.18.

Tacoma Team WillHave New Manager;BillSpeas Is Signed

I TODAY'S BILLSI AT THE THEATERS

TACOMA! •'Seven OajV Leave," mill-; tary drainn; Tii.-n.liii and Weil-]j lie-iliiv !

PANTAOEBI t'yeaia Trou|ie, .lapajiese i

; acrobats, wit h vaudeville. jHIPFODHOME

• I'ili-off, the Man of Mystery; Ji witb vaudeville. j

OAK! "l/.zy tin- Tailor;" iiiiirsii-.il;i coined)', by Monte Carter t'u. ]

MOVIE 3COLONIAL I

"The Spirit uf '17," Midi!I Jack I'ickford.

APOLLO"The Law of ('oiii)iens.-i-

--; t.ion," with Norma Talmud:.!-.Mi-:i.iiori:\K

"The MM of New Voik,"with Qmuawa Walsh.

MIM.KTY"Thais," with Mary (laiden.

Draft Story InGeo. Walsh PlayIt Is seldom that an actor

steps _o quickly into the frontranks as did George Walsh. Yes-Iterday he charmed Melbournejaudiences in "The Pride of New'York," a play dealing with the'new draft army. Many fine campscenes were shown. They werephotographed at Camp Merritt,Trenton, N. J., where many Camp

jLewis boys stopped on the way

to France.

little tlm!d about trying to forcehis ideas on ball players of largerstature. As soon as this becameknown among tlie players, It wasalmost impossible for him to main-tain discipline. This became veryapparent during the middlde andlatter part of last season, so Ru.ssMall decided to get a new man-ager this year.

Speas lias had 12 years' experi-ence in baseball, and has battelaround .1100 during his entire c;«-

--reer. He was with Portland along time and later with S.miFrancisco. Last year he playedwith Muskegon in the Centralleague, hitting .294 for the sea-Sllll.

fielders, due to the holding out of1-arry Kopf, Dave Shean and BillMcKeelinle.

Alexander IsHolding Out

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ST. PACI-, Neb., March 11.—"I have not come to terms withthe Chicago Cubs managemeutand I will not join the team on itsCalifornia conditioning trip unlessthe bonus of $10,000 1 have iu-s'sted upon 4s assured me beforeI leave home." So declared Grov-er Cleveland Alexander, premierpitcher of the Chicago Nationalleague squad, who lias just reach-ed hla home following a few weekstraining In the South.

Meets WinnerComiskey GoesUnited I'rr*.-. 1.-pnacd Wlrr.)

CHICAGO, March 11.—ChariotsComtek*?, White Son owner. Is onhi-* v.ay to Mineral Wells, Texas,training camp today. Pitcher JoeBen/, will be the first member ofthe Sox to leave for the camp,starting tonight.

(InllrilPrrMi I.r«-»«1 Wlrr.)

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.—"Bull" Montana, rough and tum-

ble artist of the movie:*, has lieensigned to wrestle the winner of the

one-.hour match between Pat Con-nolly and Constant's* Romanoff,it was announced here today.

Connolly and Romanoff wrest ie

tomorrow night.

Human Cork Is This Woman!

Can't Sink IfShe Wants To

SHE

SINK

under water.She will lie on top of the water

fully dressed aud remove herclothes. She will He on her sldoon the surface of jthe water Inthe same po.-'tloti she might takeon a couch. She can sit In thewater in the same position shewould take on a straight backchair, with her head completelyout of the water.

Not unci two years ago didMrs. Vetler learn of her abaormtd

These unusual photographstaken of Mrs. teller doing waterImlaiicing in a clear pool of watershow two of her characteristicposes. Above she is stretched com-fortably out on the surface of thewater aa tho she might be lyingon a couch. Below she is sittinguiiright In the water. Note thegrotesque lines of the body in thewater. Tliis la caused by the re-fraction of light after it enters thesurface of the water.

buoyancy in water. It was thenshe learned to swim. Since then•he has devoted a great deal oftime to "water balancing."

The buoyancy of her body haskept Mrs. Vetter out of the ltfesaving service. The government

regulations require among otherqualifications that a candidate forthe service must remain undernine feet of water for 60 seconds.Mrs. Vetter cannot do this. Shecan't stay under more than one-fourth that length of time. Shecan't even reach the bottom inniine feet of water.

Time after time she has triedto pass' this test. She has takenthe examination of the AmericanRed Cross Life Saving society, theRoyal Life Saving Society and theWomen's Life Saving League ofAmerica.

Mrs. Vetter swims the breast,back, over arm and crawl strokes.She is an excellent diver, but Isunable to dive deeper than six orseven feet.

Norma Talmadge Displays HerEmotional Powers In New Play

In "The Law of Cunipensati on," the gripping American drama, which opened a four-day run[at the Apollo yesterday. Norma Talmadge, the popular Sele-rt Star, has proven her right to n-...g.nitk.ii as one of the greatest em otiouul actresscK of the screwi.

Miss Talmadge has exceptional!opportunities to display her ver-satile dramatic power,-, because

lof the fact that she appears firstlas a .-.'ho.il girl nnd later as a ma-!ture woman. The story leads the'youthful heroine to the point of|making a fatal step from which.she is saved by the revelations ofI

her father.The father's recital concerns

the girl's mother, and in its en-actment on the screen Miss Tal-madge appears in this mature

role. Both the present day story

and the father's narrative of pastevents are of an intensely dra-matic character and afford many

A Scene From Jack Pickford'sNew Drama, "The Spirit of 17"

novel situations.The picture has been lavishly

mounted and the star is stir-rounded by such well known filmplayers as Chester Barnett, JohnCharles. Sally Crate, RobertCummings, Frederick Rsmelton,Mary Hall, Kdwln Stanley andFred G. 11'-run.

A strike in n western mining conimnnity, men armed m fighteach other, each foi- what lie believes to lie right, and (he influ-ence Hint v young boy holds over (Item, form the cent nil plot of"The Spirit of '17," dramatic picture showing at the Colonial thisweek, .lack Pickford has the lending role, and the film is produc-ed by I'ai-iiiiioiinl. Some except tonally thrilling scenes in themountains add interest to the play.

TACOMA TIIKATKKTuesday and Wednesday MglitsRobert Campbell presents thegreat London Comedy-Drainn

success"SEVKN HAYS' LKAVK"

Military Comedy-Drnnia of To-day. Prices, arte to $1.50.

Seats BOW.

TACOMA THEATEHTFriday Saturday and Sunday

nnd Daily MatineeORPHKCM VAPDI-.Y11.1.K

George l...morel, Haniko Onu-kl. "In Hie /.one." and five oth-er features. Prices: Mc-Tlc|Mats.. •J.">c-~Oc. Seals Don,

Broadway at NinthWhl ot Match II~ KOSCOF'H ROYAI, MxF"

"tJYENA .lAPANKBE THOPPE ™

JAMLS THOMPSON A 00.In HOP & CO.

HOPF VRRNON~THK HARVKY TRIO

"Won iroiiMßiokKr*

Oak Theater]Week Starting Monday, Mnuli 11

Monle Carter Company in

"IZZY THE TAILOR".Matinee daily, 2:80. Nights 7 *9.Sundays, continuous from _i p. m.

MELBOURNEToday and Tomorrow

"ThePride ofNewYork"Thrilling Study of U.

S. in the War

Story touches life ofricli and poor men in

trenches.

Brilliant BattleScenes.

Gripping Love Theme

GeorgeWalshWilliam Fox DynamicStar Does Big Stunts

TOM AND JERRYMIXWith j

Tom MixIn Mirth Provoking

Comedy.

T Here and |[[Else where J)

Socialists of New York deliverfiery speeches In behalf of Tom

JMooney, condemned bomb plotterof San Francisco, and promisethat Mooney will never bang.

Dr. Murry, Der.iti.st, Win burtonBldg. adv.

English women may be forcedto cut down their consumption oftobacco, if shortage continues, inorder that the British Tommy mayhave his allotment.

Mocha cakes, Lady Baltimore.Duenwald's, 1112 Broadway, adv.

Two hundred and fifty aliensnear North Yakima to be arraign-ed for violating the game laws andcarrying weapons illegally.

i ommi KCIAI. BINDERY __PRINTING CO. Main 417. adf.

Dickson Hall, Spokane insur-ance man, esphyxiated by gas inhis garage.

Dr. Cozza, dentist, has movedto 308-12 Pantages Bldg. adr.

\\ . la Kaltoti, bus driver, heldup at Puyallup by two men, botbof whom escaped.

All wool O. D, shirts for activeservloe at Hofstetter's, 1303 Pa-cific, adv.

Germans capture British out-pos's but lose heavily.

Stop! Have yon tried The LotusCafe's Special Club Breakfasts,

1 16c to 40c, or the Business Men'sLunch at 25c? If not, why not?

adv.

Three hundred fifty volunteerworkmen build Liberty loan build-ing in Portland In a day and anight.

Twenty federal prisoners atWalla Walla on hunger strike.

Campbell's ship adzes aad axes.Palace Hardware Co., 1611 Pacificay. adr.

Professor Whltnev organizes ,

boys' chorus of 1,000 voices.

A son is born to the Fiii|ii-essof Austria.

Cut down the high cost of liv-ing. Try a Lotus Annex BusinessMen's Lunch. 25c adv.

Fifty Americans receivedFrenc war crosses of honor.

The wife of Major Thomas,British officer, who was killedIn service last year, disappearsfrom steamship which arrived InU. S. from Bermuda. It is be-lieved that she threw herselfoverboard.

Hoqiiiam shingle mills close forlac kof cars for transportation.

Colorful ShowFor PantagesRiot of color and melody are

the outstanding features of thenew Pantages show opening to- iday. The Uyena Japanese troupe!of 11 persons will perform feats'of hand and pole balancing, footand hand juggling, Illusions andthe like. Roscoe's Royal Nine, aigroup of minstrel maid*, will fur-nish new songs, humor anddances. "Camouflage" is a play-let put over by James (Fat) IThompson and company. Lee Hop,and company are Chinese musicalentertainers. Hope Vernon willsing and imitate. The HarveyTrio ride bicycles.

MilitaryPlayHas Odd Story

The by-produdct of a young lordand a pantry cook's young son isone of the many gayly received Ibits In "Seven Daya' Leave," thebig military comedy aucceee direct Ifrom Its ten months' vogue at the ILyceum theater, London, coming'to Uie Tacoma theater Tuesday Iand Wednesday nights.

The incident is said to reflectsomething of a state ot the publicand private consciousness of theBritish mind today. In the playconditions develop where theyoung lord la the regimental un-derling of the cook's son, andseems to welcome his change ofviewpoint and of state quite aagood"humeredly as the audience.