OAlAliA M C0fFR0TH,.FKjfiT.B0SS 7Sn Fruciic Promoter Tutm Up : u One Xu Trust w-t t - AS OLD COMBESZ OFF WATCH .li.ie Two OmIt Available rbm y tmr Daylight Meeting and y Pleelolsss HIi Attt- i tade Flalaly.' 5? ! y W. W. RACSHTOK. exM francisco, fa -su rraa- 3bsco that Is (porting Eu Francisco-is partial to open air fight. Th average -eitlse meaning always tba Importing clUxen-lovee to alt on the -eocaers on a box bathe In tba glor- cseu sunshine which prevails hara all tha JJJeer round, and watch a pair of fallow wen trying to put MU la aca omeri iihvsiocnaror J," 'Until certain disgruntled politician la tui Jiitra county aiscovere inat a oo t'.xoeetlo' incorporate dub" tu a fie. Trantry Illegal proposition, tha meadows of 4ns fair side of Baa Francisco's boundary Z2Jlna ara a notable rendexvous for lovers of ring sport. Tbera on holiday afternoons a nan who Xfeerive en)oyment from tha spaetaenlar aids of flsucuffa could set bla fill of orcitcmcpt. us couw occupy a coimurv bl scat, chew rum ar munch peanuts. vans join in tns yelling. ii When Ban Mateo "shut down" some --wri built an opsa air arena In tha heart .f gaa FraacUco town towlt, on Klghth Xltraat near Howard. This placa has been -ta scene of all tha holiday fight within ZHhm past coupla of rears. Tha batch promoters recently endowed with per. wilts looked forward to ustnc this arena extensively during tha coming twelve Zkoatha, -- But ther reckoned without the host. -Jfra Coffroth. who has paved the way for Tt raopenlng of the arena In tha mead- rm of Baa Mateo and who has one of the -our permits for ooaductlng boxing snatches la Baa Francisco, has secured a tease of the Sight, street plant and has mis neaia as a oisaavantaaew ?S Very reoantly Ooftroth declared himself, -and that Is what ho said: "I will eon- ZJkuet alght fights la Baa Francisco In J'tJie months allotted to mo by the Board of Supervisor I will put oa holiday al flreetloas la daylight hours m my arena Ja Daly City, which m the name of the Isurg la Baa Mateo county where my property m located. If any of tha Ban sTranclsco promoters want to sub-lease flight h Street for ordinary occasions I pjieea for sight fights-Ussy can hare H .&- paying me my prlco. I will not rent Zt to them oa holidays, however, as I will ry running boxing shows across the line sand do not want opposition." CWireth Controls. - i ' ' t'-What forced Coffroth to declare him if was th fact that. a brother pro I iotee named O'Coaaell, who controls the fyebruary -dau la Baa Francisco, an 'isounoed that ho would put Frank Klaus Jand a fighter named Fetroeky la the ring at the Eighth street arena oa Washing ,, birthday. ;1 1 guaa be won t." said Coffroth, "Til be showing myself oa that, dsto at Daly City." When CConnell heard this, sa besxut to hunt about tor another tocaOoa, and tt 1st bow told that ha has rented one of (he local skating links and will adhere to hie determination to mass a Washing ton s Mrthday fight of the Fetroeky Klaus affair. It ho does to and Coffroth wits on a boxing show at Daly City oa the same Jam. R iHV probably bo the beginning : of the end so far as pugilism la Call- f,ornla Is concerned. r-ejut o ooaaeii te not tno inaa inat tns , public expects to see Coffroth become particularly embroiled with. Eddie Oraney, the old-time referee. Is one of 1 tho new bunch of promoters .In Mas ' Francisco, and tho enmity which exists ) between Coffroth and Oraney is soms- thing that age cannot wither. f The two sporting men were friends In I tho old daya They became member !of the notorious '-Fight trust" of UN, the ether member being Morris Levy and W illis Brltt There was a split-up over f tho Questloa of leadership, Oraney and Davy taking aides against Coffroth and Brttt. and, aa a fight combine, tho sffalr i made neither profit nor progress, Bad I blood was on tendered and la tho ease of Coffroth and Oraney there has never J been a resumption of friendly rei.Uions. i Cete Best Dare. When the gam of politico was being Indulged la here prior to the aamlng of Z tho lucky promoters by the supervisors, Coffroth was slated for permit for the months of March, July and November. 1 This would bar glvea him t. Patrick' J day. Fourth of July and Thanksgiving f day. Whether ho would have made see of tho holiday data la the aity la a Question, but tho chances are he would a have "played" oa ordinary alght during J tho month named and would have put oa r boll day attraction at Daly City. - Then the program, was changed. Then f was a division of opinion among tho S momber of the police committee aud the supervisors, and a a result Oraney was awarded the March, July and November J permits. And bow Coffroth has declared himself la respect to the Elshth street J arena, the only rootles pugilistic plant I la San Francisco at present It all presage war. It is said that J Graney Intends building an arena ot his own for use on holldsya. and not he I mors Interested In thwarting Coffroth than In making profit out of tho match handling Industry. The rusty hatchet which has not been used to any stlent since ISO Is to bo burnished up and sharpened until It will shave nalr from a billiard ball, and. unless something at present unforeseen occurs to prevent the wsr of the promoters, a eontiajence of putHlsti pastimes la the far .est 1 seriously threatened. Middleweight Muddle Nice Mixture By MO TV. NEW YORK. Feb. W.-Oh. siirh a mud dle In the middles-eight puddle! Should Staa Ketchel ghort pay ,ua a visit, the horror would be all his. Middleweights to right of him, middleweight to left of him. middleweight In front of him would holler and blunder. The ghost would cry out in his anguish for the dsys that were, he would wish for the body In which he lived and m which he. could tear through the whole dlngswixxted crowd, laying low at least one with every punch. About the only kind of punch over noticed around the present day crop of middleweight Is the sort that Is served in a cut-glaes goblet, with a cherry, a slice of pineapple and a chunrk of orange floating on Its placid boeora. And about the only kind of cleverness visible to the asked eye Is of the reverse English variety. Fleshiness? yes Cleverness? no. Just now w have a boy in this town who halls from St. Paul. Mike Gibbons la his name. In his first engagement here be seemed a gem of purest ray serene. Walter Coffey, the much vaunted "man with the wallop" from the coast, did a seml-Brodle In every round of his encounter with Gibbons.- What they did to Mike in Hi. Paul when he made a shuttle trip bark there lo receive con gratulations is a deep and dark mystery, lie returned and tackled Jack IMnnlng. who was siifreriiig with a bum knuckle on his right hand. Mike was no more to "curley wolf." He was lucky to last tho ten rounds against the one-handed man. Then what does Denning do? He plays punching bag for Coffey. Ho here's the slse-up of those thn Gibbons beats Coffey. Coffey brats Den ning. Dinning beats Olboons. Looks very much a If umtebody or other pulled an Abe Attell. Each ot the trio has a peculiar little specialty all his own, as compared with the others. Olbbons ha shiftiness pos sibly It sh "4 be called cleverness, but not probably so; Coffey has a fairly-fair Jolt In either arm; Denning can take lots of punishment. Each member of tho trio I an unbalanced chap. Make a combination of them, with Denning s rug- gedness, Coffey's wallop and Olbbons' shiftiness and you have an Imitation ot ketchel, the last ot the real middleweight cocks ' the walk. The word Imitation Is ossd adversely. No Imitation le as good a the genuine, sad this imitation Is like all the rest. It wouldn't have the hitting power ot the "Michigan As- sln." It wouldn't have hi ability to assimilate punishment. It wouldn't hare hi wind and endurance. It wouldn't have hia speed and footwork. It wouldn't have hi brain and. most of all. It wouldn't save hi courage. Ketchel could ahow something Just a llttl better In every department of tho gam. Bo much for th newcomer that have appeared before Qothemltes recently. Billy Papke. considered the leclcal sue. aeseor to Keichel'a comer until hi aue. eessioa ot defeat some time ago, be ginning with Australian Dave Smith and ending with Kali or Burks, seem to be don for. During certain periods of Ketchel' career be met a real fighter when ho encountered Papke, but at other time th "Illinois Thunderbolt" was aa a aitten in aie nanus. Ketchel a work 1 bUUl" brie t': K t j than the middle- rilly (below) la an- 'land at the top of let ot bout. - . SCOUTS MUST HAVE KEEN EYE MAT LEADERS TO WRESTLE Middleweight who would bo elglbls tor aa elimination tourney for tho Utl vacated by tho death of Stanley Ketchel over a year ago. On tho left I Billy Papke of Kewanee. III., who has not been any too successful la proving his claim to tha championship. Bailor Burke of New Tork (center), who defeated him In New Tork several month ago, would prove on of the strongest men la such a tournament, while Mike Olbbons of Bt. Paul (at th right) would also have a good chance of "copping," although be I a few pound lights' weight limit. Hugo other man that might; tho heap after a ki wis always good, whereas Papks'i was only occasionally good. But Papke' claim to th till, relin quished by Ketchel at the letter s tragic death, was never a dear one. There were at the time Hugo Kelly, "Cyclone Johnny" Thompson. Frank Klaus and several oth ers who ranked Just about a high la th public' estimation as Papke, the Kewaneelte' chief argument lying In the fact tt he had been favored with more chance at Ketchel than any other aspirant. Th chief thing In which Ketchel sx- called Papke was hi eaatlroa nerve. Papke ha often bern accused of pos sessing th body of i lion and th heart ot a lamb. However be that, be did not have anything to Ms credit that proved conclusively his right to the champion ship. Nevertheless, he essayed to cir cumnavigate tha slobe, billing himself as the one and only leader-of th mid dle. It was during this tour that bs first cam to grief. ' Johnny Thompson and Dave Smith both licked him la Australia and Papke resorted to the excuse game, blaming hie poor showing on tho antipodean cli mate. But when he got back on home soil he succumbed to clumsy Bailor Burke In New Tork. Burke had been proving nothing but a sort of truck horse, fighting second rate beavy Welghta and loains hv marslna. ' Panke waa the firat middleweight he had struck in several months, and the odds are I to 1 that he would prove the sailor's Snag. But the reverse was lh rau mnA th Bowery tar practically hurled the ooastrui papke Into oblivion. Today hi the day for elimination tour naments. Most ot the titles of th ring ar In dispute Just at th present mo ment, and there 1 no one division In which this more forcibly true than In the mkldiewelghts. Among the ellsiblea for middleweight tourney, given In order of their chances for victory as ther look to us imiv r all of the following: Prank Klaus ot ntisDurgn, Hugo Kelly of Chicago. Jack Dillon of Indianapolis, 8s 1 1 or Burke of new lork, Eddie McOoorty of Oshkosh, Wis; silk Olbbons of 8t, Paul, Jack Denning of New Tork. Walter Coffey of Baa Francisco. Cyclone Johnnv Thnmn. on of Chicago, Dave Smith of Aus tralia, oeorga Carpenter of France, and the Sullivan brothers. Jack and Dan, from Montana. And there ar other. HEW TORK TOPURGE BOXING Barring- of Attell and Other. Will Hare Salutary Effect HONEY'S WO&TH IS DEJtAHDED The Biato W Frofeoaloaal Bellas ia la' Preeorleos Caadltloa at ale Time la that Btal. NEW TORK, Feb. M.-The action of the New York State Athletic commission In barring Abe Attell and Danny Good man from the boxing arena tor a period of lit month ahould have a salutary ef fect upon alt those who cater to the ring- aid clientele. - It I a straight warning from the commission that th usual meth ods and procedure In fsvor with the lead ing boxer and their Ilk will not be per mitted In th future. Now that It has been demonstrated that boxing Is in chant of a body that does not tear to use the power deputised to It by tho state a general Improvement In the standard of the sport may be ex pected.. There Is no denying the fact that ther Is a strong and steady demand for this form of sntortalnment throughout th state, and under sane condition and management boxing should and will flour ish, y Heretofore th spectator who paid an admission fee Into tho seat fund never knew whether ho waa to receive a rea sonable return or not for hie Investment. It he been repeatedly said that the bouts between the virtually unknown boxer furnished th best exhibitions, since the contestant did not hold bark In any man ner, but gov a free exhibition of their talents, albeit they were not of the cham pionship class, Undr the new era, which should ap parently follow th disciplining ot world's till holder, the spectator can reasonably expect to witness sxhlbltlons In which th principal shsll do their best and box without reservation of either skill or strength. The very fact that pun ishment was withheld because the boxer under Investigation waa . a champion makes th example mora lasting and im pressive. . . Since the two member of th commis sion havs taken this Initial step In th right direction It I to be hoped that they will not become weary of good deed, but will continue the crusade until the long standing suspicion and doubt, to put It mildly, regarding the status of profea elonal boxing shall havs been removed, st least so tar aa It conduction In this stat Is concerned. The status of professional boxing ia In a, precarious condition at the present time la this ststs. - Governor Dig re quested the appeal ot the Frawley law during the prevloua session ot the legm lature. Jn hi menage to the present legislature he reiterated his request. In accordance with hi wishes there are bills calling for the repeal ot the law In both the senate and th assembly. What the outcome of these attempta to comply with the desire of the stat exec utive will be it hi of course Impossible to tat at this time. There I to be a sort of publlo hearing In the matter before the Mils are considered, and It Is certain the legislators will be governed to a certain extent by tho expression of public opinion. Senator Frawley Is opposed to a repeal of the law. While he admits there have been some sbuses, he insists there has not been sufficient time as yet for the law to be promptly tcrud. Asetmhiymaii Allen, who Introduced the bill calling for a repeal of the law. i ot a different opin ion. "The present law." he aatd yester day, "Is unsatisfactory and from all over the State coma demands Sap It- Th Frawley law waa passed with the uuuemanuiog mat it waa to permit box ing exhibitions before Juin, fM. tkl.,L- clubs. Instead th law ha been used to stag prls flints and to promote pro feMlonai matches." Ther la truth In both statements, and It behoove both th commission nd those whom thev are ern to observe both the letter and the spirit ot tno law ir they expert boxing to continue under the sanction nt -. That It I popular with th public is proved by th receipts of more than 2,- In gate money In the first three month under the Frawley law. That tt at better to permit boxing under the pres ent law and a fearless commission rather than a return to the "club membership plan of evading tho code no one wUI deny. COURSE AT MILLER PARK TO BE GREATLY CHANGED -The Miller park course of nine hole will be considerably Improved upon this spring and Custodian Melvln will be a busy man as soon th member of ths club can get away on Saturday, after noons. Hole number one will be com pletely altered. 'Two' of the Lightweights- Who Won 'Out Lately Isbell Sets Date for the Des Moines Players to Eeport ! Members of tho Des Moines baa ball Cub will bs required to report for prellm inary practice by Manager Frank Isbell a boot March . almost a month In ad vance ot the opening of the season. The 1 new dub owners propose to uavo the Steam la first class shape when the bell triage 'or the opening, and are ot the Joptnlon that at least three week cf tard J practice ts necessary for tact mrpose. , 2 The pitchers and catchers may be re j qta red to report a few dsys in advance J of the other payers. IsbeU- will bar sine huriers and six receivers from wtora to choose his battery Sara anless seme are traded or otherwise disposed of before the call ts sent sot for spring repotting gRogge. the Three-1 remit, and Faber. j tat in1 sd from Pittsburgh, are regard d as fairly eertaia of winning place on the twirling staff, with the others to be picked Ca among the prospects and vetsruu f year's tcaa. 'jy&A: ".. V, .,, ' w ? . ..;VX "1 !' ,f.)r i 1 ' ;-"".-. ... V A -'"..,' t ' -, ., , "jsf' - .!S 1 One-r.ouad Hogsn. on the left, mr i rrsrclsco oa January a. Murphy, u . have deserved the victory, a ho was tho i rifle coast boy hsd loU of steani Uhlad w Murphy, tho llghtwelghu wh i lde ot Harlem, New Tort, was be- aggressor a Uttie snore than Hogaa and als wallops whoa they did land. balUed tweniy rounds to a oraw tt Ban'uevcd by many -of im taos present to was fag tb -cleverer. aHbvugu' th P- i - - Some lack Perception in Estimating Young Material. STOVE'S CASE IS IS MTKD He Was Picked from a Losing Nine, bat Srsat Noticed that He AW ways Kaew What to Do ' with the' Ball. NEW YORK. Feb. W. Sometimes It is a small matter which induces the scout for a major leagu team to recommend a base ball player to a major league manager. True -the personality of the scout is likely to have something to do with Iti There are scout who have t-een on the trail for the last two or three years who, lack keen perception In estimating the possibilities of -young players, rhe msn who I doing his best In the minor leagues must do a very good best to convince the scout' that he Is worth having. Probably that scout isn't worth so muck aa a scout ss his employer thinks he is. It doesn't take sudden brain storms nor a very dlscernini intelligence to tell flrat-rlaes ball playing from sec-ond-clcss ball playing, even It It happens to he going on In a minor league circuit, so the scout who can see deeper than the surface is likely In the 'long run to be ot more assistance to his major league club than the scout who can only pick out the player who ia sure to finish on top In the minor league averages. There Is a young player who ts to go to Marltn with the GlanU this year who was recommended not so much en his ability aa a member of the Fon du Lac base ball club, which finished at the bottom of the race of the Wisconsin Illinois league In Wll. as for the reason that the man Who took a look at him one afternoon happened to observe that Stock, the player in question, knew what to do with the ball when he hid It. All. Players Are .Not Rare. There are some major league players who to this day are not wholly sure on that score. They need a warning voice to tell them what to do when there Is a quick move to be made. Frequently there is a pinch in a game when the observant ball player catches some un wary chap off third base Instead of throwing the ball over to first, where everybody expected that It would be thrown. That one play might win a championship. - This scout, who had his eyes on Stock last season, discovered that one thing In which ho excelled waa handing the ball to the right man, and as he Is young and ws doing fairly well. In tact quite well with a tallend club, he told the New Tork people that It would not be a bad Idea to go after him on general principles. Stock played In lit game with the Fond du lao club. He waa at bat 43? times, made fifty-seven runt, II? hits, stole twenty-eight bases and found him self the proud possessor of fourteen sac rifice and a batting average ot .388. That' not so bad for a boy who Is not out of school. In th field h had ill putout at shortstop, ITI assists andixty two errors. Hi fielding average waa .87. which could be better without demanding too much of the doctor. He may get an opportunity to play with th Olanta thla year. Players never know what Is going to happen when they join the Olanta for the spring training trip, but possibly he will have an opportunity to play with a better team than that with which he was connected In 11I, and It he show any class ss a ball player he I directly oa the road to promotion In th Vew Tork club, for sooner or later McOraw will add him to the roster if the championship material la ther. DENVER PLAYERS SLOW TO SIGN CONTRACTS But three member of the Denver Mil team have sent In their signed contracts, and one of that number Is Jack Hendricks. who will manage the team. Denver waa among the first of the Western league club to send out Its contract and It Is feared that a tew holdouts will result thla year. Beldea a Holdout. Ira Belden. outfielder of the Pueblo club last year. Is a holdout. Belden declared that he had declined to sign a Wichita contract because ot a lot cut In hi monthly salary. Kahmont and Westergaard to Have Bout at Auditorium Friday. HOZTJF ASD WASSEjI MATCHED Local Heavy Mrs to Go to tho Mai ' for a Flaish C.illaa Preeeat Soase Strongl' Prellss laary' Boats. Much . Interest hi being Uken la th wrestling match Friday -night whea Jess Westergaard and Yussif - Mahmout. thai big Turk, meet in a finish- match at tha Auditorium. The main preliminary be tween Oscar Wassem and Bill Holtuf, who will wrestle to a finish, ls also attracting a -lot of attention. Mahmout has Nbeen seen in two finish matches In Omaha and Is well known' to th lovers of the mat game to thla city. In 1X0 he wrestled to a finish with Raoul de Rouen in which the latter won. I -est fall Mahmout wrestled with AFbell, Frank Gotch' training partner. M turnout won the match. Two weeks ago Mahmout appeared for a week at a local theater. He took on all comer and distinguished himself as soma mat artist. The big Turk and his manager, Emll Klank. have been milking all kinds ot claims for the marvelous ability ot the big wrestler and now rhe publlo will have an opportunity to see what the big fellow Is able to do against a man of Westergaard caliber. There is no doubt but what the match will be pull?d oft on schedule time Fri day night, and there will be no post ponement as the contracts call for tho principals to be In Omaha twenty-four hours 'before the time set for tha match cr forfeit a certain amount of money posted by each grapp'.er. Olympian Tryouts On Stanford Field - PAN FRANCfsCO. Cal.. Feb. 10. -Con ceding the athletic track and field at Stanford university to be the fastest on the Pacific coast and one of the best la the United States, the committee of tho Pacific Athletic association, which will have charge of the Olympian games try- outs, has recommended that they be held here. The date set for the competition to decide places on the team ha been fixed a May 11 The officers are of tho opinion that the athletes of the western states should have every possible chance to make records which would compare favorably with those of the aspirants for the tram In the east and middle west. In deddlg to recommend Stanford as the place for the tryouts the committee was of the opinion that any Idea of mak ing the tryouts provide funds for sending; the teem to Sweden should be glvea up land that the financial end ahould bo handled In another manner. To assist la raiting funda for the American team. however. It was decided that a big Indoor meet be held at the Auditorium In San Francisco on February St. Omaha Golfers Are Stick Collectors William Clark of tha Field club Is per haps th foremost golfer In the city when It come to a collection of clubs, possess ing over 400 sticks However, hi active collection, or the number of club which he use to trim other golfers, I twelve. One of hi stick has a history. It la a "half goose neck" putter and was given th Omaha goiter by Carnegie Clarke, who Is now th open champion of' Aus tralia. Tha Omaha Clark has used tho club on course from Florida to Cali fornia during the last five year and aver that It Is th luckiest stick In Omah. J. W. Tlllson I also a collector of sticks. The most Interesting Mick In th whole collection belongs to Mrs. Tlllson. It 1 a Homewood putter with sn ex tremely short handle ot the model that is rapidly becoming antiquated among golflst all over the country. James H. Adams of the Field club has a nlbllc which Is classed aa one of tha few Omaha "lucky sticks" and with which he would not part. He also ha eighteen other clubs. Including a driving Iron he has used for six years. HOW HE CURED his CATJSffiB I had all the symptoms which accompany Catarrh, sack as ' mucous dropping back into the throat, a constant desire to "hawk and spit, " feeling' of dryness in the throat, scabs form ing in the nose, sometimes causing it to bleed and leav ing me with a headache. I had thus suffered for five Tears, all x the time trying different local treatments of inhalations, suuffi, douches, etc., with no real good effect Of coarse I waa great ly discouraged. As soon as I heard of S. S. S. I eonxmenced its nse as yon advised and after using it a short while noticed a change for the better. I continued to take it believing the trouble was in the blood, and S. S. S. finally made a permanent cure for me. JCDSON A. BEIXAMi , . n Randolph St., Richmond,tVa. The symptoms Mr. Bellam describes in his case of 'Catarrh artS familiar to everyone who suffers with this disease. For five years he had endured discomfort and suffering and was greatly discouraged as one treatment after another failed to cure him. When at last he realized that Catarrh is a blood disease, he knew that the former treatments had been wrong, and only a blood purifier like.S.S. SJ could produce permanent good results. j Catarrh comes from impurities accumulating in the circulation; and as the blood goes to every portion of the body the catarrhal mat ter irritates and inflames the different mucous surfaces and tissues causing an unhealthy and inflammatory discharge, and producing the other well known symptoms of the trouble. S. S. S. cures Catarrh by cleansing the blood of all impure ca tarrhal matter, and at the same time building up the system by its un equalled tonic effects. It goes down into the circulation and removes every impurity. In other words S. S. S. cures Catarrh by purifying the blood so that the mu- tv t f tv si cous surfaces and lininga of the body are all sup plied with healthy blood instead of being irritated and diseased with catarrhal impurities. Then the in flamed and irritated mem branes heal, the discharge is checked, head noises all cease, the 9fnmarrt iclnnrrl up, throat is no longer clogged with phlegm, but every annoying symp tom is corrected. A special book on Catarrh and medical advice frea to all who write. ; THE JTOT SPECTITCCO, ATLAKTA.GA '0 KZSQ MADCOP ROOTS AND HERBS