The Sunday Oregonian., April 21, 1918, SECTION TWO, Page 3, Image 27

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, APRIL 21, 1918.
WILL MICK KING THINK THAT THERE ARE THIS MANY MARTY FARRELIS AFTER HIM WHEN THEY CLASH AT THE ELEVENTH- STREET PLAYHOUSE WEDNESDAY
NIGHT?
GLUB PLANS DRIVE"
Motor-Boat Enthusiasts Seek
to Add to Membership.
Golden West Smoker Card
Contains Bouts Due to Be
REGATTA COMMITTEE BUSY
Battles of High Class.
Preparations for Decoration " Day
Races Being Brought Into Shape
and Many Boats Are Being
Groomed for Competition.
MAIN EVENT TO BE HO
NONETS WORTH 15
ASSURED AT SUM
Jlkk Kin Marty Farrell Due to
Pat Ip Fight to Be Remembered,
While Other Boxers of Known
Ability Round Oat the Bill.
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KM- Wright.
Matchmaker Georg Moor, of tb
Golden West Athletic Club, has lined
p the abov card of all crackerjack
bouts which he will present to the
Portland tans at th Eleventh-street
Plavhous on Wednesday night. As at
too last card her, every bout on
Wednesday night's bill looks on paper
to b a real contest. Tber are battles
between boys ranging from 111 pounds
to 1( pounds, clever boys, hard-hitting
boy. awkward boys and every sty I
of miller la listed In some on of th
sis bouts.
Th main event between Mick Kins
and Marty Farrell. Is by far the classl
est main event stared her In some
time and If It does not draw a capacity
house, on will not be drawn her this
year.
Klnr nottshed off Jack Clifford In
four rounds In Aberdeen Friday night.
After smashing Clifford's nose In th
second round Flanagan threw In th
towel after his -fighter had son two
rounds with a broken nos.
Kins- went bark to Seattle from Aber
deen and will do his training In th
Sound City. Mick Is said to be In
a-reat hare and is one more back la
his real form. Klnr realises that he
will have a touch proposition on his
hands In Marty Farrell. but he feels
that he Is more than equal to the oc
casion. Mirk writes down that he will
fight th clever New Torker off his
feet from start to finish, which Is all
well and rood to th Portland flsttc fol
lowers, who will crowd the Eleventh
street Playhouse Wednesday night to
ae th six three-minute-round battle.
Farrell Tralma Hard.
Farrell out In another hard day Sat
urday and has added plenty of work to
his trainlnr programme, Marty is also
taking a daily fling at baseball and was
out on Multnomah Field Friday to take
In the Interscholastic same. Just be
fore the same Marty donned a mitt and
proceeded to groov them over to one
of the catchers on hand, and showed
some -Johnson" on th pill. Farrell at
one time plaved with a semi-pro team
around New Tork. Farrell has switched
bis trainlnr quarters to the Columbia
Athletic Club, and now has Stanley
Willis. Ted Hoke and three or four
other sparring partners to work with.
Le Johnson arrived from Oakland
yesterday and is In prime shape already
for his set-to with Stanley Willis, th
fighting Pennsylvania lightweight.
Johnson fought Johnny Arrousey. th
cleverest lightweight In California, at
Tommy Simpson's Emeryville arena,
Wednesday night, and although he beat
Arrousey in three of th four rounds
the iudses called th bout a draw. Fol- I
lowing Is an account of the bout In the
San Francisco Bulletin: "Lee Johnson
celebrated hi departure for Portland
on a late train last night by walloping
Johnny Arrousey In three of th four
irunds fouch cnlv to be given a draw
kr the fudges. Arrousey substltut
for Jo Herrera. who. it Is understood.
has no desire to take on the clever lit
tie colored battler, despite the fact that
be outweighed blm close to 1 pounds.
-llrrrrr i. who hss been visiting news.
Barter of (Ices challenging any light
weight In the game claiming that he
was overlooked, arrived at th arena
too lata to be sent Into th ring with
Johnson, accordlnr to Promoter Simp
son. It looked Ilk a clear case of
ranout.
"Johnson fought a great bout against
Arrousey. giving th latter little chance
to nsa hla cleverness. Ltt lorceo mm
back and landed repeatedly with a left
hook that Arrousey seemed unabl to
avoid"
Chet Neff. th rugged Seattle light
weight who won on a foul from Alex
Trambltas her several weeks ago. will
meet "Young- Sam Langford. of San
Francisco, on the special event. If they
battle anything like they did In the
first meeting In Seattle, the fans will
see an -extra special" bout from start
to finish. Neff won a doe decision
la their first go.
Laagford la I ass roved.
Langford has not fought in Portland
for several months, and the fans will
be surprised to see hi improvement.
Sine his last appearanc her Sam has
put up two rattling contests In Seat
tle, losing by a hairline to Neff and
besting Leo Houck by a mil a week
after. Langford set up a record of
straight knockouts while boxing for the
Association Athletic Club In San Fran
Cisco and. by the looks of things, th
record will stand for some time, al
though they knock 'em down and drag
em out pretty regularly at the weekly
shows at the Association Club. Neff
has had S( bouts In his career and has
met th best of them. He fought i
hurricane draw with Mike Pete in Seat
tie last Tuesday night. Pete out
welched him a good deal, but Chet kept
coming In from start to finish and
easily earned a draw.
Ted ("K. tX") Hoke, who has been
bowling his opponents over right and
led In the past two months. Is down
to meet a new entry in th Portland
fistic ranks by the nam of Bobby
Hush. "Bu-h has ambitions to climb th
pugilistic ladder, and will try hard to
get a footing by stopping th sei
tloaai rush of Hoke.
Baah Ha Hard Job.
Bobby has a hard Job cut out for him.
and if he should make good th boys
will take off their hats to him. Ted
Is rapidly getting to be one of the best
preliminary cards In Portland, and he
should be given a chance against some
of the better class of featherweights
such rw Waldon Wing. Joe Gorman and
other Voxe-s of thalr caliber
The pn.imlnary fighters have not
had a chance with Hoke, who has
proved that he has a kick In either
mitt that has not been rivaled here by
any boxer at his weight in the history
of the short-round game, excepting
perhaps. Pet Mitchle. who was knock
ing them dead until he started to meet
the topnotcher. Whether Hoke will
.be as successful with bis wicked punch
against th better boys remains to be
seen. This fellow Bush Is said to be a
touch, rucged battler and really be
lieves that he can beat Ted. which Is
ait privilege.
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DEFECTIVE HEARING MAY BAR
WILLIE RITCHIE FROM ARMY
Carap Lewis Boxing Instructor Declares Himself Ready to Obey Govern
ment Orders and Serve if Called to Colors.
BY HARRY B. SMITH.
AX FRANCISCO. CaL. April -
April 10. (Special.) Th very
latest Is that Willi Ritchie is
going to b a soldier whether' he likes
It or not After that first scare when
th local draft board denied Ritchie's
claim for exemption on the ground that
he was a boxing Instructor cam a re
versal of opinion. Ritchie Insisted he
wasn't trying to evade the draft and
that be was willing to follow orders.
But still later there came word that
Ritchie had been examined by a board
of physicians at Camp Lewis and re
jected because of defective hearing.
Indeed. Ritchie said as much when be
was last in this city.
But all of that makes no never minds
to local draft board No. 1!. This week
and early In th week. Ritchie along
with 7 other chaps was called for
th April draft. It means th boya so
named are supposed to be on their
way to Camp Lewis not later than
April &. Ritchie, because he is already
la th Northwest, can report from
there.
Of course Willi may be excused this
time, but the chancea are he will be
with th balance of th boys. Th In
ferenc thst Ritchie has tried to evade
servlc on th ground of being a box
ing Instructor lanot altogether a fair
proposition.'
The former lightweight champion
has alwaya remarked that he is willing
to do whatever th authorities think
best.
Desptt onr best efforts to th con
trary. It appears that Ad Santeli Is to
crash his way into oar midst and ap
pear In a mat contest whether or no.
For a time It looked that santeli was
foiled; that If he showed her it would
perforce b under conditions satisfac
tory to San Francisco. But the latest
tip la that Ad will ceme In Just about
as he pleases. A week or so sgo there
an Intimation that Ad would like
to return to San Francisco. As a mat
ter of fact he sent his emissaries to
Frank Schuler to se which way the
wind was blowing.
And then, about a week later. "came a
story In on of th evening papers that
Schuler was seriously considering the
signing op of Santell and Chris Lndos
for a match.
I put It to Schuler cold turkey as to
whether he really bad such a match
In view.
And th man who was double crossed
by Santell squirmed In his seat.
Well. he whined, -personally I
don't want to use Santell. but what am
o'.ng to do about It. Suppose he
Jumps into the ring and is given
great ovation? I (imply hav to give
him a match, don t 1
It was rather a disgusting answer.
The situation is that Schuler feels
Santell would be a drawing card. He
realises th Chicago wrestler, who
double crossed the promoter, faked
his matches and then double crossed
the public Is persona non grata with
a lot otth wise ones. But Frank feels
there Is coin to be msde and he doesn't
care what happened In the past.
Under those conditions It looks very
much that Santell will be one of us
within a few days. Nobody outside
of Schuler Is even dreaming of staging
wrestling matchea. And Frank rould
refuse to as th Chicagoan if he so
desired. But Schuler Isn't built that
way. he's perfectly willing to knuckle
down if h can se a few dollars in
sight.
Of course there has been some pro
testing. But it Isn't going to etop
unless it Is louder and more annoying.
When Schuler'a pocketbook is affected
it takes a lot of convincing to make
him feel otherwise.
And there you are. So don't be sur
prised If Santell. the quitter, is very
shortly on of our athletic cards.
e
This last week was a busy on in
fight circles. Four clubs around the
bay were going full tilt. The pro
gramme started on Tuesday night
when the Shipbuilders Athletic Asso
elation of Oakland staged a perform
ance In th Oakland municipal audi
torium. The association Is not for per
sonal gain, but to make money for the
rest houses and the gymnasiums at the
various yards. Arid chiefly the boys
who box ar chaps who work in some
on of th yards. For Instance. Harry
Pelslnger and Lucky Jimmy Dundee,
who appeared on this last Tuesday
evening, ar both employes of rival
Oakland yards.
Then on Wednesday night Tentless
Tommy Simpson put on a programme
In th opn-air arena at Emeryville.
Th asm night In San Francisco at
th Association Club, Al Young put
forth his regular weekly entertain
ment. There was additional Interest
this week In that Caesar Attellone of
th famous Attell family, wss on in
th main event. Caesar was never
great fighter, but he comes of a family
of great fighters and that helps.
He expressed a desire to stag a
coma-back and th association boys,
who are always willing to tackle any
thing once, put him on.
Lastly but not lcastly there was the
Dreamland Rink card or Friday night.
with Spud Murphy and Knockout Kru
vosky, old-time friends and mors re
cently bitter enemies, as the star at'
traction. It Isn't often that we can go
to see four sets of fights in one week.
In fact. It couldn't have been done this
week unless you could see double or
something of th sort.
e
A Callfornlan broke another sporting
record this last week. Mrs. Leslie 1 -Tables,
of Kings City, set up a new per
formance when sh bowled continu
ously for IS hours. She started in at
11:30 o clock last Sunday morning on
th alleys of th California Bowling
Academy and never stopped until 11:30
that evening. In all she bowled 72
games, upsetting ii.3is pins. rne
nearest approach to this record was
claimed by Miss Emma Harris, of Sac
ramento, who, several yean ago. wss
aaid to hav bowled S( games in six
hours. But th new feat stands far
out beyond that
Mrs. Hable is a little woman, the
mother of two children and the wife of
a Kings City bowling alley proprietor.
In order to get Into shape for this
match sh trained seven and eight
hours at a clip. The main thing, so
bowlers tell me, is to hsrden the thumb
to th extent that It will not weaken
under the strain. It was a remarkable
test In many ways and the woman
who went through to a successful close
la entitled, to a world of credit.
University of Osllfomr had a won
derful baseball club in 1HL1. But it has ,
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. 2, 3, , 7 Marty Farrell. la Action.
4 Mick King, of Australia. C Chet
Neff. Rugged Seattle Lightweight,
Who Meeta Sam Langford. h Uaa
Salt. Seattle's Premier Boxing Pro
moter and Manager, Who la Handling
King and Neff.
been wrecked by the war. wo complete
is the wreck that within another week
there will not be another member of
the old winning combination on the
campus. Claude Rohwer, captain of
the team and shortstop, and W. W.
Hudson, second baseman, will join the
Coast Artillery, which will take the
Last of the old nine. All the other
boys are in the service one way or an
other.
Use of "Shooting Iron"
Almost Lost Art.
Is
H
OW our admiration kindles and our
th page of history and read how
our hardy forefathers wrested a liveli
hood from the frontier of a wild and
uncultivated country which demanded
the utmost of sacrifice and privation
from those who challenged its suprem
acy. Who In this age can conceive, let
alone appreciate, the hardships the
ploneera suffered? Generations before
the advent of the steam engine, th
telephone and telegraph, and the ap
plication of electricity for - lighting
purposes, in the days when the stage
coaches were the only means of trans
portation, and the delivery of mail
over comparatively short distances was
a matter of weeks Instead of hours,
when the nearest neighbor might live
a distance which could not be covered
within several days' travel, and such
refinements as churches, doctors, etc,
were not thought of because they were
beyond the bound of possibility, the
very nature of life on the frontier was
such as to make for a hardy, vigorous
and resourceful people.
Methods of removing the forests and
tilling the soil were necessarily crude,
because of the absence of even the im
perfect tools and implements of the
time. And so men came to depend in
large measure for sustenance, and even
life itself, upon the rifle, which was an
essential part or their equipment. They
became expert marksmen who made
every shot count, because powder was
expensive and difficult to procure, and
because a shot wasted often invited
serious consequences.
With the advance of civilization, the
necessity for knowing how to shoot be
came less and less pressing, with the
result that while we may not have lost
our inherent love of firearms, it cer
tainly cannot be said that the propor
tion of our men are now expert marks
men as was the case three or four gen
erations back.
In time the art of shooting even came
to be frowned upon In certain circles
and among certain peoples, who ad
vanced theory that when you taught
man to properly care and use fire
arms you also taught him how to kill
his fellow men, and,, therefore, the art
of shooting should be dispensed with
as being dangerous.
And these serious though misguided
theorists were not lacking in follow
ers. . .
Unheeded went the lessons taught by
the Boer . War when time and time again
rut-.-e handfuls of South Africans who I
Passing f Pioneer Put Important
Necessity Out f Knnalag.
knew hor to shoot defeated some of
the best-drilled regiments' that ever
came out of the British Isles.
Unheeded were the lessons learned In
our own experiences with England,
with the Indians and Mexico.
Even Great Britain heeded not the
lesson learned in the Boer War, despite
the repeated urglngs of Lord Roberts,
end when the present war had to be
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Oregon's liberty loan quota having
been- so successfully passed, the trus
tees and members of the Portland Mo-'
tor Boat Club announce another "drive"
to start shortly that of securing new
members for the club to take the places
of those now in the service of the Gov
ernment and also to make a substantial
addition to the club's membership roll.
With their experience during the lib
erty loan drive in mind, the member
ship committee has laid out a set of
comprehensive plans which will ue laid
before the members at a special meet
ing to be called on Friday evening, May
3. A special effort is to be made to
bring: the advantages of the club to the
attention of the men who now own
boats on the river but are not yet club
members, and also to extend a cordial
welcome to everyone Interested in tne
river and water sports.
Regatta Plans Being Made.
Plans for the opening regatta of the
season, to be held decoration day, are
fast being brought into shape. Chair
man Gade, of the regatta committee,
announcing a meeting of his crew to
be held the first part of this week. The
programme of substituting scratch
races for handicap affairs has met with
general approval and many of the club's
faster boats are being quietly groomed
ror some real competition, ine la-iime
runabout class contains probably the
largest number of entries, including the
Mima Ross, Neverin, Wawego, Spray,
Jane K., Comet and others. Close com
petition is also expected in the cruiser
class; In fact, the Vogler cruiser Wan
derlust and Carl Johnston's Peggy II
have already challenged each other.
The-speed of the Wanderlust is well
known, but Peggy II, having but re
cently installed a 50-horsepower motor,
is still more or less of a dark horse."
Party Is Success.
The party held at the clubhouse last
Wednesday was an unqualified success.
the attendance being very near tne
record for such affairs. Mayor George
L. Baker presented the service flag the
Ladies' Auxiliary had made for the
club, an appropriate address on 'Pa
triotism." The flag contains seven
stars, the members now in service be
ing: Dr. E. E. Anderson, Martin Shea.
Jr., Edward Ryan, H. J. Travis, Walter
Reifsnider, W. L. Copp and G. Randall.
P. W. St. Denis will have a star aaaea
on April 26, he being Included In the
recent draft.
The party rmvlng been so successful.
Chairman Otto Hoffman, of the enter
tainment committee, announces another
to be held some time the nrst part oi
May, the exact date to be announced
later.
Whitman's Sew Captain Named.
WHITMAN COLLEGE, Walla Walla,
Wash.." April 20. (Special.) Roy Oe
Grief, the only letter man left from last
year's baseball team, has been appoint
ed by Coach Borleske to act as captain
in the place of Joseph Johnsen, who
recently entered the National service.
De Grief is a junior who hails from
Colvilie. Since his entrance in Whit
man he has been the mainstay in the
pitching box and may be expected to
win his games for Whitman..;
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