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Wednesday, March 14, 1917—THE TACOMA TIMES— Page Six.

NEWS OP THE STARS 09TWO FIRMAMENTS—

Sports andTheatrical

Edward A. Petan, Main 12HpurU Editor.

Mary Pickford Excellent AsChild, In Her Latest Success

Miss Pick ford has a delightful role in her new play, "The 1> uiir Little Itich (iirl," at the Co-lonial.

THOMPSON, CLEVERFIRST SACKER, IS

WITH TEAM AGAIN\nollier piece of good

news for Tiger fans!"Tommy" Thompson (he

signs his checks "K. |{.

Thompson, but ever)one tailshim Tommy) bus anni-.i toplay with the Tucoma) clubagain this season.

Thompson is the, crackfirst baseiiiHii who made sucha hit throughout the leaguel.i-i year. He was lookedupon favorably by all majorleague scouts who saw himiwifoini, and there is goodreason to hcliev* that he willgo up this year if lie contin-ues his former brillam v.

The letter from Thompson

BKST OF ALL

$15 SUITSIIKKUST fTOTHICH

2nd Floor. Nat. Healty Illd«.

took a big load from Presi-dent Ituss Hall's uiiiid. Hallhail lined up a corking good

team, but at the last minute

had rebelled word Hint hisin -i saeker might refuse to

play in the Northwest again.Thompson Is «'iii|»ld,v<'(l in

the iniiM's of Arizona, curn-lag between Sli and SKI n dayanil Hull scarcely believed liecould offer sufficient induce-\u25a0MM l<> MfanM \u25a0 man fromthai kind of a snap.

And ICu~s mis Just bcgla*ning to gel miMM about his

first l»n—•• |Misi(ion when aletter arrived with the post-iii.ii>> of Tin son, Ai1 i/..

With Stevens behind thebat, Thompson on first, Tea-ley Itayniond at sburt andSutherland, Hunncr and IVl-erHon in the box, PresidentHull has a splendid nucleustil experienced players 'roundwhom to build his new team.And the rookies number the

The hand of a master crafts-]man In evident in the directionof the Mary IMckford feature, "AI'oor Little Rich Girl," nowshowing at the Colonial theater.Maurice Tourneur, the Frenchgenius, produced the picture, andhis consummate artistry is mamf«st in every scone.

Particularly heautiful are theviews In 'Tell-Talp Forest" andl In: "LtMi of Lights." Thesedream visions are so cleverly in-tioiluced that the scenes lingerin the memory. The artistic notehas been maintained throughoutthe entire offering.

very best scml-pro start* Inthe Northwest.

Hall is not given to exag-u< ihi ion, but he is confident-ly telling his friendo that tin-

-1017 ball team already lookslike v winner, even if it ir.nitraining In California «lxnivks before the m-nii

• i|m i!~. .1- is the. spiikjine club.At the i>ii-s.-iii rate tlmt

advance money from tin" sab-ot ball tickets is coming in.Hall couldn't take hit* trainto ru 1.11 hip for a two-daytraining season.

Paul SteeleMatched With'Hec' St. John

Paul Slcele, inannKer ofthe Dilhinchs Men's tjnni.i-

slum, Im-hjui mi active courneof ii.iinlnu today, followingHUM of a •< !• vniiii sayliiKill.ii lie li.kl Imiii matched ntKllenslmiK with Hector St.John of Spokane.

'Die tioin will be HtH«cdMurcli 22, a week fromThurNday. St. John In thecleverest lightweight In KfiMt-ern W .i-.liihui.im and lium l>«encoming to tlie front rapidly.Slcele won v decision overhim nt Spokane two yearn

j WyITS THE TIME

YOUSA^You step (.11 the Interurban tt Rth

and A streets, or at any stoppingpoint on Pacific avenue, and in 70minute! you arc in thfl heart of Seat-tle's business district.

Tlmt's a service that cannot beduplicated by any transportation sys-tem between the I\v<> cities.

Mr. Business Man, Mr. Tourist,Mrs. Shopper —if your time is worthanything to you, if you want SER-VICE—

TAKE THE INTERURBANROUND TRIP FARE—SI.OO

LIMITED TRAINS leave Taooma,Bth and A streets, at ":;{."> a. in. andevery hour thereafter until 6i35 p. m.,then f) p. m.

LIMITKI)TRAINS leave Seattle,Yesler and Occidental, 7::5O a. m., 9 a.m., and every hour thereafter until 7p. m., then 11:10 p. in.

Puget Sound ElectricRailway

The < 'learwatcr & Burkeplle Idealbaseball dab will give its firstdance at the> Lincoln dancingacademy tonight. All proceedswill iMi.to the baseball fund.They contemplate holding a He-

rles of those dances lieforn theopening of the baseball fund.Karl Hrooks. catcher on theteam, will he floor manager attonight's benefit dance.

One reason we're gladwe're not a Chinaman —We don't have to murder

! anyone just because hebelongs to another lodge.

o o or-ETKR PIFKR PIFFED A

PACK OF PIFFLING PUNS; IFPETKK PIPER PIFFED IMSPIFFLE PITKOUSLY, HOWMANY PETTY PIKERS WOULDPKRUSK HIS PINK PAGEPERIODICALLY? (CRACK HIM,HOYS. UK'S A NUT.)

o o oLti I>nrcy oppc-nred nt a Nfw

York finM In a ilrixn milt. If he letslilm liuir Kruw and Krti a coat witha \u25a0 him 1.i11.i (ollnr li«'ll lie recngniz-(-il by the iirofeanlon.

The "Iknew him wheu"club willopen up again inabout a month.

000AVKHTING A CALAMITY

There Is a bare chance thatthe correspondent with the

«'ub« willrane day forget to c

NEW CLUBPREPARE SFOR CARD

At a big meeting of the LincolnAthletic club In the new clubrooms last night plans were madefor the smoker to be staged bythe cluli Thursday, March 22. Itwas decided that some heavyevents should be put on the cardand the main event will be in thel.'K-pound class.

Membership rardß were givenout last night and the club gotready for an active season. Meet-ings will he held every Wednesdayevening and boxing Instructionwill he given twice a week by Hon.Bendercamp and "Doc" Carroll.

The dub has $11 surplus nndBilly Adams announced that liewould add $10 to the fund.

Preliminary baseball practicewill begin Sunday at Whitmangrounds, when the Lincoln A. 0.team will meet the Royals. Allboys wanting to try out for theLincoln team will be given an op-portunity.

Funny La RueHit At Apollo

1j& Rue, the man of mysteryand fun, who has been makingcrowds laugh at the Apollo sinceSunday, remains until Saturdaynight. His interesting and hu-morous demonstrations withyoung men who volunteer on theplatform have caused much com-

-1 inent. His performances aregiven at 3:45 in the afternoon

' and 9: HO In the evening. He Isassisted by a pretty young woman

1 in a stunning costume.Beginning at the Apollo Thurs-

\u25a0 day, beautiful Margarita Fischerwill he seen in a new photoplay

! feature. "The Butterfly Girl,"which is said to tell a delightful

' story in an original way.

Man of MagicHere Tonight

Tonight the "White Wizard"will open a three-nights' engage-ment at the Temple of Music pre-senting his newest sensations InOriental mysteries and Illusionsand his astonishing "ThoughtTransmission seance. The re-

turn engagement of thla mysteri-ous wonderworker is attractingmuch interest.

The "White Wizard" invitesmembers of his audiences to sub-mit wealed questions concerningbusiness ventures, missing friendsor relatives, lost articles, friend-ship, love, marriage or other wor-ries and he willanswer them withstartling rapidity.

ScrapsLAST NIGHT'S MATCHES

IN AMFItK'AN CITIKS

Halted Prraa l.rnxrfl Wire.)

NEW YORK, March 14.—KidWilliams, former bantamweightchampion, defeated Joe Lynch ofNew York in 10 rounds.

COLI'MBI'S, 0., March 14. —Joe Illvers and Johnny O'Leary,Buffalo, have been matched to go12 rounds here Monday night.

ST. I.oriS, March 14.—0n theannn'ssive from the start to thefinish, Sammy Sandow, Cincin-nati, trimmed Harry Kabakoff, lo-cal bantam, in 12 rounds.

NEW YOKK, March 14.—An-other dancing cautious, reservedfighter hung up his hat and coatand settled down in our midst to-day along with Freddie Welsh. Hisname is Pete Herman. He claimsthe bantamweight championshipand be declares he proved it bywhipping Dutch Brandt.

DETERSiIFFLE

mention the name of WilliamWrigley. They may have lefthim out of their stuff lustnlltlit. For fear they did—William WiiKley.

o o o

Dave Kuitz says he will resign

as president of the fiaternity.Maybe for the tame reason thatJack Johnson resigned as heavy-weight champion.

o o oWillie Hoppr- uscil flip same cue

for eight yearo, hut that isn't theonly reason he's champion.

O o OThings that may happen when

the Tacoma furniture makers playthat historic game April 7.

Rooters will COUCH their lan-guage in pleasing terms.

Any player making a bone-headplay will be laid on the TABLE.

Batters will have orders toBUFFET the pill lustily.

A base runner planning a stealwill not MIRROR his thoughts onhis countenance.

All players must be DRES-SERS.

o o oWhy wouldn't it be a good Idea

to In-11l rheaa rhamplonßhlp matcheaIn the name hall with a nix-day bikerace. Then the rooterg from onerovd wouldn't disturb the others.

\u2666 ELIMINATION FOR ••>v> HARMON «(>. TEAM •># In order to prepare for the \u2666>

«,\u25a0 big game April 7 with the «.-

--* Washington Parlor Furnl- ••-\u25a0

\u2666 ture company team, ball *>•v players of F. S. Harmon & •>••\u25a0 Co. will stage a practice \u2666• game next Saturday after- •\u2666 noon on Whitman grounds. +

\u2666 The married and single #••> men of the liig furniture ••>4> firm will compete. The best •>•' players of the two teams will •># be selected to represent the \u2666>•\u2666• company in the coining game ## for the furniture makers' \u25a0<>s«> title. •«># Tlie Harmon teams will +3> line up Saturday as follows: •?><$> Married men—North, p; Col- ®><3> lins, ss; Baird, c; Bill Carl- ••>$• son, ll>; McCanant, 2b; \u25a0$•\u2666 Cournau, rf; Harrison, cf; +<$> Kronlund, If; Nick, :;b. Sin- •>) glo men—Burtman, i); Oscar #$> Carlson, c; Hermsen, lb; +\u2666 Jones, 3b; Barbrick, 2b; •*>\u25a0•\u25a0 Neusse, If; Rieck, Jr., rf; <S>•• Joe Richmond, No. 2, ss; •«># Fred Carlson, cf. <$\u25a0

Gifted SingerIn Vaudeville

Mine. Hrsse-Hprotte, widelyknown .singer of the northwest,who is appearing with a MM ofgrand u|«-ru artists at the I'an-i.iui-s this week, iM'uimiiiin atour of the circuit, beginning aSprotto has hern conducting vocalflusKes in Tacoma until recently.

808 VAUGHNIS "FIRED"

Bobby Vaughn of Tacoma, whowas releaßed to the Los Angelesclub by the St. Louis Nationals,after having been "loaned" toPortland for last season, wns In-definitely suspended last night byFrank Chance of the Angels forfailure to report for training.

Vaughn is in Tacoma'yet. Hehad made arrangements for thetrip south and was Intending toleave this week. An earlier de-parture was prevented because ofbusiness Interests which he shareswith his father. Vaughn willprobably go anyway and try to getIn the good graces of Chanre be-fore the season opens.

Novelties OnRegent Bill

A good bill Is promised on themidweek Hippodrome road showwhich comes to the Regent thea-ter Thursday.

The Orton troups, four persons,has a sensational wire act. Baker,Sherman and Branigan presentlate song hits. Stan and Mayaurel introduce a lively comedyskit, "Raffles, the Dentist."

Miss Blllie Joy haw an act ofsongs, stories and witty sayings.Allen and Moore do singing anddancing. The Spanish Goldlnisare jugglers, even using the rugsand curtains in their act.

It is rumored that the school hallteams this season will supplyfar below the stancard brand ofbaseball usually plaj^d by them,

owing to the new ruling; govern-ing players. Many of tbe beatplayers will refuse to representthe schools as they prefer! toplay Sunday baseball also, r

"The Princess Pat'" With AllStar Cast, Makes Instant Hit

The I'lixhion Flute Chorus, one of the bright features of "Princess |>at," ut tlie Taconiu iiuuintonight.

Imagine Victor Herbert, Amer-ica's famous creator of popularmusic, at his very best; add to

the thought a great lompuny ofsplendid singers; and put in forgood measure five of Broadway'smost popular stars.

If you put into the combinationa special on hestra of the spright-ly Herbert type, some snappycomedy lines by Henry lllossom,a group of handsomely dressedchorus girls and some prettyscenery, you have a vague idea of"The Princess Pat."

This big Cort creation, whichis a unique combination of musi-cal comedy, grand opera, vaude-ville and drama, came to the Ta-coma theater last night for anengagement of two performances,and took the big audience bystorm.

It is the season's greatest sue-

cess, beyond a doubt. Not only isIt a success- btca—l it is « clever-ly written melange and filledwith beautiful music, but be-cause the company appearing init iH indeed an all-star CMt,

Oscar KiKinan, known every-;where as an inimitable comedian,has most of the comedy work.Blanch* Duffi«l4. formerly withthe Cilhert & Sullivan Festival,and Miss Kva Kallon. ltroadwaystar, divide the honors in thefeminine part of the cast. Andboth ling delightfully.

Jack Pollard-- everyone re-members the Pollard family—lkthe young hero, and David Qui-xano, another star, fills out thequintal of loading players.

"The Princess Pat' 1 is alto-gether a charming and tunefulproduction. Anyone who fails to

see the play tonight Will miss atreat.

ONLY SO MANY PITCHEDBALLS IN EACH HURLER,

SO PLANK SAVES THEMDuring the winter of 101-1 base-

ball writers began singing theswan song of Eddie Plank, foryears premier southpaw of tlieAmerican league and one of thegreatest left-handers of all time.

Connie Mack had IncludedPlank in his wholesale ilean-upand it was generally supposed thatif Connie thought Plank wasthrough there was no argumentagainst It.

Hut Plank fooled 'em and is stillfooling em.

Plank will be in the harnessthis year and it is not at all un-likely that he will be out on theold mound serving up southpawslants in 1918 and 1919.

That is predicting far ahead. IThere are many things which Imight happen in two or threeyears, but without accident EddiePlank, now 42 years old, shouldbe a factor in winning baseballgames in the majors for that tinn\

There are three secrets ofPlank's success as a pitcher and ofhis ability to stay in the gamelonger than any other fork hand-er.

HE'S AFTERSammy Morris, well-known San

Francisco featherweight, who hasstarted out to win the Coast titleand then plans an invasion of theEast, dropped into Tacoma yester-day afternoon. Or rather, he wastowed in, his manager, Joe Mazu-rosky, famishing the motive pow-er. Joe 1h some manager, and hecertainly i wrapped up in thefuture career of Sammy

Morris has been boxing nearlyfour years and has defeated manygood boys. Ilia last big victorywas over Jimmy Ford of 'Frisco,in a main event at the Dreamland

If records were kepi on thenumber of balls pitched it wouldprobably bo found thai Plank baipitched less balll to a season tluinany other hurler.

For 11! veins I'lank has been inthe big league ipotllgbt, Start-Ing with the Athletics in 1 <»01 heworked with Connie Mack for 14seasons and only one year did hefall below an average of ,s##,This was In IMI wlien the teambehind him was poor.

Stadium BoysHave TurnoutThirty upper ciMUIM of Sta-

dium high school ic-s|if)ii()o(l totli<>call for liasoliall turno.it ypnter-

; day aftornoon and ragagad ll' liKht prai'ticil for two hourn.Among tliost 1 who will iry lor theStiidiuni first team un- Ray Uili-m»n. Hays Kehm, "Flias" Hall,U Johnson. Stewart Carroll. TedjCorliett. Donald Haskoll, l.fiiiueli\Vinnar<l. Crcscoiit Was'ilnini, \rtKlnioro, Clifford l.aiißhonif, PaulKspey, Roy Sarucant md ShellyI'oarue.

COAST TITLEthere. The little boxer, althoughweighing only ill, has such con-fidence in himself that he is will-ing to take on h»avier men, evenin the light weight division. He isparticularly anxious to meetKrankie Sullivan, who MtWOlghlhim 11 pounds.

After meeting all tonwtl in theNorthwest, Morris will return toCalifornia and tackle Joe Henia-min, formerly of Spokaiie, whonow holds the feather title. ThenManager Mazurosky will start himEast.

Anybody in Tacoma want tomeet Sammy?

\u25a0 With the Amateurs .Tljis Column Io Devoted to Upbuilding Amateur HporSTTAll Items Should He Phoned to Main ttlHl or Main ia|

_« By BILLY CARNSThe Holy Itosary baseball team

defeated the Willard team bya score of 9 to 8 at the Willardgrounds Tuesday afternoon.This is the H. H. S.s secondvictory, thereby giving themthe championship of these twoschools. John Sousa, whostarted for the H. U. S., wasonly hit once. Tom Maloney,who relieved Sousa, pitched agood panic. Batteries: Wil-lard—Gibson and Craven. 11. H.S.—flousa, Maloney and Kirch-ner.

Ruff "BootH" < hrlMliin, says liewill not have a baseball teamthis season. He had signed afull team of fast semi-pro play-ers apd after it was decided toabandon the proposition of or-ganizing a City league he de-cided to release all contractedplayers. He says he will spendhia Sundays otherwise this sum-mer. He was one of the firstteam manage™ to ask for afranchise In the City baseballleague.

1 letter from "Blddle" Bishop,former Tacoma sport writer,says that he Is very busy andalso very happy. He writesthat l.ih fighters are going nice-ly and that he la on the go all

the time.

I'lann were, completed at n meet'ing held at Eagles' hall Mondaynight for the Woodmen of theWorld (camp No. 7!»S) to againbe represented with a ball club."Hong" Armstrong will be atthe head of the club this season.

I'.iMii- Quliin says that he Is readyto meet anyone who tips Ilioscales at his weight, any time.He keeps in the best of condi-tion at all times and usuallyput over a creditable battle.

Harry O'Neil Is (lie iniliriiiKlm»i-.ball book seller. He rnn be seenon the street almost any after-noon boosting the Tiger baße-ball team.

Many Taronia tonnin will lie disap-pointed thlK'season becaime theywill not get the trip to Arietta.That town will not have a teamthis year. It's a swell trip forany team to make.

The Times hooking agency wouldbe glad to hear from a few moreout-of-town team managers.

The Hopkins A. 0. will stage an-other benefit dance at the club'sheadquarters on Portland ave-nue, Friday night.

WHERE TACOMAISAMUSING ITSELF

TheatersTACOMA

Tonight iinil Wednesday —"Tlio I'rlui-CHH Pat," withH1... i..- l>uffield.

PANTAGEBMini. llt-Nse-Sprotte in grand

I OJKIII select ionH.ItBOKHT

l.illli- Doiinu'N Circus mnl', vaudeville.

Film HousoaCOIiOMAL

"The Poor UUla Hlrh Oirt"witli Mary IMrkford.

APOLIX>"Tlie H<Mr«'t of Km'," with

Olga I'etrova.MKI-BOIiRNE

"The I'nwritten I/aw," withlleatri/. MMHtaWh

jack (jutll expect* to put lil* I'.iH.iof diamond experts throutmtheir first workout next Sun-day. That the T. It. &P. Co. •team will be one of the fastenindependent clubs In this sec-tion, Manager Quill 1b confident.The teams will hold weeklypractice on the old Centralschool grounds, 11th and G.

£^_—^ a*JBI MMall

\Stdr, say, Mm rouu-jg^&vSitry right orI* • 'X wrong am Mill#W ° W- ma country an1/7 T dat am -li<>M' I some sonti-

OUR SLOGANTHE

DICKSON

SHOEWILLBE GOOD

TO YOUis not a more.jingle Of words;if is proving ItsUntil c\orj dayin the serviceour customers arrgetting from theshoes we sellthem that carryour name and(iliaran tee.

We wunt to andwe do render youa sort ice, firstin tiie proper andcareful titlingof your feet;next, in showing

you shoes bestsuited to yourneeds, and, lastl)iii not least,lilliir.il.illinn youfull satisfactioniind wear for theprice you pny.

We have -;m

immense stockof theme goodshoes for you tochoose from andevery puir whs

bought at fromMe to $1.00less per pairthan they can hebought for todayand we are sell-ing our shoesat a legitimateprofit, figuredon the price wepaid for themwhich means thatyou are buyingThe"OIIKSOX"Hhoes I kl.i \ atpractically tlielrpresent wholesalecost,

$3 to $6and the valueis yours.

DICKSONBROS. *CO. 1

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