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Show THE DAILY STATE JOURNAL. PAGE TWO. Newsy (Gossip PM II IS MONDAY, A NOVEMBER 23, 1908. WofM pmim BEST AT work at Shannon's turned out to see the Illinois thunderbolt go through his training stunts. They were well rewarded, for Papke boxed four rounds with big A1 Kaufmann, which savored more of a real contest than a friendly sparring bout. He easily got inside of Kaufmanns long left, caught A with a short right arm swing on the Jaw almost at will and slugged with the heavy weight, both doing fast work in the clinches. The bout pleased the crowd immensely and the end of each round was greeted with loud applause. Nov. 21 Billy Fapke this afternoon practically clone! hla training for bln middleweight championship battle with Stanley 'e Ketchel. which la to take place at on Mission street arena Thanksgiving day. The closing of hie training saw the champion In the finest possible condition, confident of second downing the Michigander time, and confident that he will perform the trick Inside of ten rounds. The largest crowd of fight fans that Billy has drawn since he began his SAN FRANCISCO, I Cof-froth- OF ZION ELEVEN TOJPOKiE Salt and Weber Academy to Be Lake High Goes to Washing- ton to Meet Heavy Gridiron Represented. Gladiators. 22. Captain SALT LAKE. Nov. Romney of the Sale Lake High school basket bal team made the announcement Friday that practice would 1 login this afternoon. The outlook for n good team is much brighter than the football waa at the beginning of the season and now that the school team Is state champion In football, tney Intend to uphold their honor In basketball. The league will probably be divided up Inte divisions and the winners of these will piny for the championship. The northern division will probably consist of Balt Lake, All Hallows, Granite, Utah State School for the Deaf, Weber stake academy, Brlgh-haCity and Ogden High school, and if this Is the case It will be one of the best schedules ever arranged for the schools. Salt Lake has quits n number of crack players to choose from and Instead of having to hunt up men for the team as was the case in football, there wi be some hard fighting for places. Those who will be out are Romney (captain!, L. Romney, Warthman, McIntyre, Hurlbert, Gallacher, Sansome. Fltspatrlck, Wire, Morris, Goodspeed, Howard and several others who have all played the game before. It la certain with so many who are known to be good players and with others who will undoubtedly show up that are yet unknown. High school will have a team that will give them all a run for their money. Mr. McNlece will have charge of the gymnasium. LAKE, Nov. 21. Preparations are being made by the Salt Lake high school for their trip to Spokane, Wash., where they will do battle with th eleven representing the high school of that city. The boys have been notified that they will leave some time Monday, but as yet have received no word from the Spokane high school aa to which train to take. Mr. Callahan wants the boys to have one day In Spokane before the game. In order to get them rested up after the long ride on the train. The fellows realise that they are up against an extremely hard team, but expect to win. An Idea of the comparative weight of the two teams will be understood when Bill Testes of the high school, weighing 14S pounds, will be pitted against Wesley Engle-hortackle of the Spothe Donk" More Is kane high school. another little fellow playing guard for the Spokane team, and only weighs 220 pounds. Ecateln, IBB pounds, will take care of him. The assembly will probably hear from the two Richardson boys, who are playing such a splendid gams for the university In the hack field. Both these boys are old high school stars. Bill Home. Ben Grant and Monahan, three other high school fellows who have won their "U." will also try to get down. SALT m n, 180-poun-d Off in Southern City This Week. Ga SAVANNAH. Nov. 21 vannah will be the Mecca this week of one of the largest crowds ever gathered in America to wltnoaa an automobile race, and already the city la entertaining many distinguished motorists who are hers to take part In or witness the big events of the week. The reception commute has completed its plana for (wring for the visitors and the largo crowds expected will be systematically cared for. Where the grand prise gold cup race on Thursday, Thankgiving Day, in whlrh some of the best cats of all motor-macountries will be seen. Is A ns grtMif attraction. The advance guard of motoriata la manifesting much interest In Wednesday's preliminary ' event In the International race for light cars. The fine track haa been put into perfect shape for the contest of speed. The course Is well oiled and free from dust and wherever possible the corners rounded Into broad, easy turns with proper banking; the few sharp turns are substantial In cement and gravel and well banked; the long, broad straightaways aa smooth as a billiard ixtoie; a magnificent grand stand; a mile of parking course space for auto mol bllats; a largo and commodious stand for tho gentlemen of the press and one for tbs Judges; hugs blackboards In front of the grand stand and parking place simultaneously reporting, through a perfect telephone system, the position of each car on the course and the time made; and a police system consisting of national guard and policemen, perfectly protecting the course, are some of the arrangements mads for the great racing meet. The grand prise race will correspond In this country to tho Grand Prlx In Franco. The prise will be a magnificent gold cup, coating IB, 000, awarded to the winner by the Automobile club of America, and will be contested for by practically all of the d State School for Deaf, Ogden High (By James' J. Corbett. CHICAGO, Nov. 21. I was asked much consideration. the other day if Jack Johnson would There Is something about th- - ,. be the first colored men who took part weight championship title that In a world's heavyweight champion- It mors cherishable than the other rmc ship fight. So far as I know ha is. titles. It la probably due to this high No black man was ever given a chance pedestal upon which the heavyweight by any holder of the heavyweight fighter is placed that no blm-nian has been given a chance to beat him title, either In America or abroad. In the heydey of Peter Jackson's Johnson la the purest type of the n career he Issued a challenge to fight gro. He has all of the black man's Sullivan, but was turned down. John characteristics, even Including the senL. may not have been afraid of Peter, timental and superstitious nature. -- .rns. in giving Johnson the but bo had too much respect for himfight self and the title he held to take any has stepped lower than any fighter in chances of dropping It to a colored history, and if he wins the puMn- will man probably say it was because of the I fought Jackson about the time he large, streak of yellow" in Johnson's was at his best. He was still a young- makeup. It is true that Burns m ster and not nearly aa good as I was cel vs the highest price ever paid in a a few years later, yet I was only pre- ring, by why shouldn't he in tide day vented from carrying away a victory of ring prosperity, when he is stepping because of a broken hand, and as it lower than any other champion tighter was the battle went to a draw after ever stooped? pixty-on- e rounds of fighting. With No colored man ever had the cliunre Peter Jackson out of tha way there Johnson will have to gain distinction waa not a colored man worthy of being In the pugilistic world, and should he classed with any one of three or four win he will have every country in the white fighters In the heavyweight world at his feet In which to make class. Bob Armstrong was never given money. Georgia City Will Be Visited by Many Auto Enthus- iasts for Great Races to Be Pulled I great racing cars of Europe and America. The magnificent course over, which this race will be run Is 20.72 miles long. The grand prise race will be IB laps, or 408.IS miles; and it la confidently expected that nil previous road records for the approximate distance will be lowered. Historically speaking, gavanhah la full of Interest The stranger who visits her finds a flavor of old times mingled with progre eel venues. It was the port from which the first steamship sailed to make a foreign harbor; It was off Savannah that occurred the first naval engagement during the war, when n ship load of powder was captured from the British and forwarded to Illumine the struggle of Bunker HIM. It Is atlll the repository of the cannon captured at York-tow- n and turned over by the first - Rev-jlutiona- ry president to the Chatham artillery; her beautiful public squares bear the historic names of Madison and Monterey, and her cenotaphs recall the memory of Nathaniel Green and W. Caal-ml- r Pulaski; the horns of tho first cotton gin perfected by Ell Whitney, the New England overseer, la nearby; so s the scene of the first Sunday school n America, organised by the great Whltefleld, who cams over with It was the field of the long ilege by tho British and the long exile if American patriots; It waa the een-e- r of the first colony established by British philanthropists and defended ly British valor against the Spaniards uid the Indian, and it la the resting dace of TomochlchL the ally of the friend of the white man, the first gentleman of Georgia. Today (tons steps mark the spot where the Irat ship load of settlers debarked Tom their vessel and spent their night inder the Georgia pines, while bronae "ablets designate the place where Wesley lifted his voice in gratitude ipon the planting of the colony, and vhete the first liberty pole was raised u a signal of protest against English Ogle-'horpe- H STATE JOURNAL'S SPORTING FORECAST FOR WEEK EVENTS .- NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Among the Important sporting events on the cal endar for this week are the folowlng: Wednesday Stanley Ketchel and "Bill" Papke will fight a twenty-rounbattle in San Francisco for the championship of the world. John J. Hayes, winner of tho recent Olympia Marathon, and Fletri Do ronwill run a do, tho Italian race In Madison Square garden. New d middle-- weight Ogle-horp- e, Denver, under the auspices Colorado Industrial exposition. Joint bench show of the Terrier, Bull Terrier, Scottish and Welsh Terrier clubs of opens at Philadelphia. Football Pennsylvania of the Airedale Terrier America vs. Cornell, at Philadelphia: Carlisle Indians vi. St. Louis university, at St. Louis: Washington and Lee vs. Georgetown, Washington; Tennessee vs. Alabama, York. Birmingham; Georgia Technical ve, International light car "race on Clemaon at Atlanta. Grand Prise course at Savannah, openSaturday Aero club of America will ing the gieat automobile racing meet hold balloon show at Pittsfield. Mans Annual football game between West In the Georgia city. e hundred-miland Annapolis at Philadelphia Point Four interThursday national automobile race for the grand Subscribers of lbs Utan Stab prise of the Automobile club of America will be held at Savannah. journal are requested Is read and Automobile and motor cycle racing fsllew instruetisns printed at head ri meet will be held at Overland park. editorial aslumn. near-victo-r, "yranny. BECOMES OF THE GRAND 0PERA HOUSE OGDEN Three Evening Perfermanees House Grand Opera and and 2 Nights Monday Tuesday, Nov. 23 24 THE FAMOUS MUSICAL STORY The Alaskan THE TOTEM POLE COMIC OPERA THE BIG MUSICAL SUCCESS OF LAST SEASON. A GREAT CAST OF PRINCIPALS HEADED BY EDWARD MARTINDEL AS TOTEM POLE PETE." BEAUTY CHORUS 60 SINGERS IN THE ENSEMBLES MAGNIFICENT SCENIC ORCHESTRA. COMPANIES OWN ORCHESTRA THE GREATEST BASSO SONG AND CHORUS YET HEARD IN COMIC OPERA TREMENDOUS MY TOTEM POLE Prices: $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c, 25cSeats Now Selling House Grand Opera Matinee and Night Thursday, Nov. 26 JOSEPH and WILLIAM W. sfJEFFEKSONsf and an Exceptionally Talented Company In Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Classical Comedy The Rivals are NEW YORK, Nov. the stars of the baseball firmament during the dark and dreary days of winter? Are they in total eclipse, merely biding their time until the spring thaw shall bring them forth from their hiding places? Not on your tiniype, gentle reader. If you should pass the Colonial theater at any time during the afternoon or evening, keeping your peepers peeleu, you would observe an Illuminated announcement of the vaudeville stunt of Mabel Hite and Mike Donlln. Of course, every fan knows Mike, and probably all of them are aware that the winsome stage beauty who answers to the name of Mabel Hite U Mike's oetter half. On the stage. Mar bel Is admittedly the "better half of the act. although Michael la no bum actor, at that. Mike knows that hla wife haa him beat to a fraxsle when It cornea to getting a hand from the gallery, and It was his becoming modeety that led the management to place Mabel'a name first on the bills. Mike and Mabel beg pardon, Mabel and Mike drak down a good wad of the long green every ghost day and everything is lovely ana prosperous In the Donlln household. The wolf won't hang around Mike's fist this winter. Christy Mathewson Is another might Giant who doesn't allow any financial Increment to get away from him Just because there isn't anything doing at th trade. Christy baa good lungs, and that may be the rrasou for his becoming a life insurance agent. He haa an office In Vesey street, with a desk, a stenographer, an office boy, numerous push buttons end other modern Inconveniences. In many publications you will observe the advertisement of "Mat" a neat card reading something like this: "At service Christy your Mathewson, representing the Gibraltar Insurance company." Many other ball players of national reputation ar engaged in some business, profession or trade during the winter. "Jawn" McGraw, manager of the Giants, runs a billiard parlor; Johnny Kllng, the Cubs' catcher. Is also an enthusiast of the cue and ivory balls, end controls several such parlors. Roger Bresnahan Is a detective IS.-W- diamond-polishin- here g roll-to- p In Toledo. Pitcher Joe McGinnlty ha an iron In Oklahoma, and when he Isnt playing ball be devotes his time to managing his business. Luther Taylor, also a slab artist on the payroll of John T. Brush, runs a general store In hla horns town end he is by far the most popular cltixen of the place. foundry Prices, Night, 50c to $1.50. Matinee 50c to $1.00 SEAT SALE TUESDAY Stony McGlynn, tho 8L Louis (Cardln-ial- ) pitcher, spends his 'Idle moments as an officer of the peace at York, Pa. Addle Josa, the Cleveland pitcher, la a sporting writer. Harry White, a White Box twirl er, studied dentistry at Georgetown university, and when he Isn't pulling teams out 0 fa hole hes extracting teeth. He Is not alone In this, for Moke Popers, the Phlladephlla (Athletic) catcher ,1s also a dentist. Fred Clarke, manager of the Pittsburg Pirates, owns a ranch in Kansas. Clarke Griffith, one time manager of the Highlanders, also has a ranch In Montana. But of alf the occupations in which the ball players' engage, the oddest la that of Roy, Thomas, the Burcaneers center fielder. While traveling around the clr-- l cult, and In winter aa well, he solicits orders for a wholesale undertaking es-- j tabUahmenL Honua Wagner, admit--1 tedly the greatest batter of the age. owns a farm and passes much of his: time thereon, and makes it pay well, Matinee, Wednesday, Dee. 6 Igc. 7, 8, NOTE KLAW During the Ben Hur season the curtain will rise evenings at o'clock. Matinee' at 2 o'clock. No one seated during the opening prelude, The Star of Bethlehem." precisely & ERLANGEFTS NEW & GREATER vr.u -' Eight Horses in the Thrilling Chariot Race, AeL V. : too. Fred Tenney, the first baseman of the Giants, la an artist as well as an athlete. He spends most of hla leisure time In water color studies. Some of hisplctures ar not only clever, butj show that he haa made a thorough study of art. Of course, I know that the profession of ball playing haa not been looked upon aa one of tha higher professions," said Tenney the other day. "Many of our professions did not rank very high at tha start. Therefore, 1 feel that I can do much more by trying to uplift tha game while we are a part of It than by deserting and allowing it to fall Into decay. I regard it to be quite an honor to be among tho topnotehers in any profession that la honorable, and nothing pleases me more than to know that I am generally considered among those 200 ball players who rank aa first class." Leon Ames, one of the Giants' famous pitchers, is s clever caricaturist end has often been asked to allow hla drawings to be published, but he U timid. j . j I j A Miglhity Play STAGED ON A 8CALE OF UNPARALLELED 300 People in SPLENDOR. Production-3- 00 BEATS ON SALE THURSDAY, DECEMBER S. Rema " 20& First Five Raws Baleony, fl-5flDO. Gallery Admission 80 Cants. NO SEATS LAID ASIDE. NO TELEPHONE ORDERS TAKEN. PRICES: Lower Fleer, The Language of Flowers. The Instinctive and universal lasts ; mankind selects flowers for the of the finest sympathies, their beauty and fleetingness serving to make them the moat fitting symbols of thoae delicate sentiments for which language seems almost too gross a medium. George S. Hillard. n Mail orders accompanied by remittance and aelf addressed stamped lops filled In the order of receipt on the opening day of to Mr. R. A. Grant, Manager, Grand Opera House. Og |