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3 MIDDLEWEIGHTS WHO WILL FIGHT FOR COAST TITLE IN MARSHFIELD AUGUST 19. Portland Commission Will Stage Benefit. 150 Entries Are Expected for Four-Day Tourney. Security and Satisfaction are His, Wherever the Cadillac Oivner May Tour FIGHTERS RALLY IN AID COURSE PUT IN SHAPE Trankle Murphy, Joe Gorman, Bobbie Harper, Jimmy Darcy and Others Proffer Services. Grays Harbor, Seattle, Spokane, Walla Walla, Tacoraa and Port land to Be Represented. TilE SUNDAY OJIEGONIAX, PORTLAND, ATJGXJST 7, 1921 MM (IF RflYllUG GEARHART TO DRAW ui-nuuii ui uumiu TO OPEN SEPT. 2 MAWY COAST STARS " ' 'X t . I - . HA. ; , I "ill -y - I i - ( ' " ! BT DICK SHARP. The opening show of the 1921-1922 boxing season in Portland will be held September 2 at the armory and will be in the nature of a benefit card,- according to Walter B. Honey man, secretary of the Portland box inn commission. Every boxer on the bill will donate his services absolutely free and pledge on his word to enter the ring and fight his hardest just the same as if he was battling for a fat purse. Frankie Murphy, who fought Bat tling Ortega for the magnificent sum of $19.75. at the Milwaukie arena the other night, was one of the first ones to notify Matchmaker-Evans that he would box on the benefit show. Murphy fought the ten toughest rounds of his career against one of the best mlddleweights in the game and received less than $20, Vet he is willing to box for nothing to pull the Portland commission out of debt. And then people talk about fighters' characters and about them being over-paid. Joe Gorman will battle on the bill, meeting some boy who will insure him getting a real argument. Bobby Harper, the Seattle kingpin light weight, will step through the ropes on the benefit bill. Jimmy Darcy has agreed to met anyone whom Match maker Evans might select for him . . . 1 .. . V. i Tlnifir ana give mem a i. li.i in c 1110 coast middleweight title. It Is said that Niel Zimmerman and Johnny Wade have expressed their willing ness to box as have a dozen others. Because of the great number of boxers who will perform On that evening, it is likely that all of the fights will be limited to four or six three-minute rounds, with 10 or 12 bouts on the card. Every topnotcher in the city will show his wares and fight his best or be disgraced for life in Portland. Every boxer is expected to offer t& do his bit. particularly those who have dragged down big guarantees from the Portland commission. And every one of them in that class, such as Gorman, Harper and Darcy, have already agreed to go on. Boxers who are willing to step up and do a square trick are urged to get in touch at once with either Matchmaker Evans or Secretary Honeyman so the boys can be paired off at once.' Arrangements for the show are going ahead rapidly. The situation is either the commis sion debt be wiped out or the game given a permanent rest The bulk of the debt was contracted on one losing card, the Shrine show, over a year ago. This has always been a sword of Damocles hanging over the com mission. The commission is through giving stiff guarantees to main eventers unless they are sure shots. HeYeafter the loss of any large sum will be impossible. . . The rest this month will do every thing concerned with the boxing game good. There has been al together too much boxing and it would have been better to have even shut down several months ago for the summer. The Portland commis s.on did close down in July, with Mil waukie running its last bill August 3. Frankie Murphy will start training tomorrow for his coming ten-round setto with Dave Shade at Marshfield. Or The Fighting Harp is flushed with hi3 showing against Battling Ortega and is determined to bowl Shade over and cop the Pacific coast welterweight title. Goat Lavin, who will tangle with Jimmy Darcy. is worked out daily at George Burns' "east side, gym while Darcy is on a fishing trip. Tommy McCarthy, the Portland welter who meets Red Campbell of San Francisco in the third ten-round bout on the Marshfield card, is also training here for the struggle, while Campbell is in Marshfield working for the contest. Murphy and Darcy have signified their intentions of leaving for Marsh field the latter part of this week and wind up training for the match on the ground. Darcy wants to do some fishing while. Murphy wants to get well acclimated so that he will be at his best. Bend, Or., will be the scene of a boxing card Labor day. Duffy Knorr will fight someone in the ten-round main event while Allie Taylor and Abe Gordon will likely clash in the semi-final match. Clyde Branum has closed for three fights in the northwest. Dave Shade o," Vancouver, B. C, made another effort yesterday to get Frankie Murphy to box Shade in Vancouver, B. C, August 12. but because of the Marshfield . date Frankie turned it down. Shade will probably meet Joe Simonich in Seattle this week. MOUXIXG FOOTBALL PLANNED Columbia May Stage Big Game Forenoon of Thanksgiving. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. Columbia may attempt an innovation in its football methods next fall: Bob "Watt, graduate manager of the institution, has about decided to stage his Thanksgiving day tussle with Colgate early in the morning instead of in the afternoon. He believes that many ot the fans who are unwilling to absent themselves from the attrac tions of a turkey laden table late in the day to see 22 hungry undergradu ates working up an appetite will at tend the game if it takes place before the usual lunch hour. Although Watt's idea is a .strange one to local football followers, It seems mighty attractive. All of the Gotham colleges have played base ball games in the forenoon on va rious occasions and none of them has had any complaint about the attena ance. The fact that the student body and alumni usually furnish the greater part of Columbia's football crowds is another point in favor of Watt's suggestion. It is very likely that those who frown upon the pros pect of arising early on holiday morn ings will be led around to the Harlem manager's way of thinking when they consider the joys of an undisturbed turkey feast in the afternoon. Wesleyan Gets Coach. MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Aug. 6 John F. Martin, an old Oberlin college football and track man, has been selected to" coach the football team at Wesleyan this fall, under the super-, vision of Dr. Edgar Fauver. . t- If LEFT GOAT LAVI.X OF SAX FRANCISCO. .' PORTLAND. E- L PETE HE1RMAX OXE OF FEW TO UPSET AXCIEXT MAXIM. Successful Coup In Heavyweight Banks Yet to Be Recorded. Corbctt's Approach Nearest. BY FRANKLIN B. MORSE. Whether it was Shakespeare or One-Eyed Mike who originated the well-known maxim, "They never come back," it failed to fit the case of Pete Herman, who. July 25, regained the bantamweight championship from Joe Lynch, who previously had taken it from Pete. Yes, they do come back very occa sionally. Ketchel came back in the middleweight division, and it would not be a surprise if Lynch returned if another match is arranged for him against Herman. Nobody ever came back in the heavyweight ranks, although many have tried. The nearest approach was made by Jim Corbett against Jim Jefries at Coney Island. The PROPOSED WILLARD-DEMPSEY BOUT ROUSES NO ENTHUSIASM Ex-Champion Believed to Have Little Chance Against Titleholder Even if Knockout at Toledo Was Accidental. BY HARRY B. SMITH. S' AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6. (Spe cial.) Reports from New York that Tex Rickard has mapped out a Jess Willard-Jack Dempsey cham pionship match are not met with any three cheers in San Francisco. Wil lard is figured pretty much as a down-and-outer and the argument is put forward that if he couldn't win from Jack Dempsey two years back at Toledo what chance would he stand now? Likewise, I contend it is a. strong argument. The match may be made, but if so, it will attract no great attention. Perhaps it will be a coin maker, par ticularly as that Jersey City arena is footloose, but there will be no large gathering of newspaper talent, and Rickard. together with the fighters, will needs be satisfied with the small money. So far as that is concerned, the chances are that they will be quite willing to play along on such a basis. I saw Tex Rickarcb. at Madison Squre Garden . the day after the big fight and, undisturbed, had quite a long and comfortable chat with him. He referred to Jess Willard as a possibility and on that subject re marked: "Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey would make a good drawing match if they could be brought together again under the proper condition But Willard would have, to train for several months in order to convince the fans that he is in earnest and means business. I don't think Jess would do anything of the sort. Above all else, Willard is lazy. He never did like the idea of buckling down to the training stunt and I doubt very much if you coiHd persuade him to now." That, of course, was a' month ago. Meantime no strong opponent looms up tor Jack Dempsey. The titleholder evidently discov ered there is nothing doing in the picture line in l,db Angeiea ana ieeis the need of keeping busy. Rickard, on the other hand, would like to get the value out of his Jersey City arena before he- is compelled to abandon it within six months when his lease will be out. So, fn their despair, they turn to Rickard. A lot of persons like to "kid" them selves into the belief that it was an accidental punch that stopped W1 lard. I ' might add that knockout punches are always more or less "ac cidental." However, I have rarely seen a champion come back in the most approved fashion and I don't think there's one chance in a thousand for Jess Willard to win his title again. It is simply a case of taking the loser's end and being satisfied with that much. But perhaps the match will not be made. Public sentiment has a lot to do with such affairs, and unless I am badly mistaken public sentiment w-ill not strongly approve of such a bout. The boxing game seems to be com ing back after a fashion in the bay section. San Francisco is evidently not ready to welcome the old-timers in the four-round game, but in Oak land there has been a partial resume of the sport with some of the well known boys in the limelight. The four-round game at the Oak- '7 ' ? x , RIGHT JIMMY DARCY OF fight had 23 rounds to go and for 22 of theni Corbett had outpointed Jim to an extent that put him miles to the front. Then came the twenty-third round, when Jeffries landed one of the blows that he had been trying for all evening. It knocked Corbett out. The attempt of Jim Jeffries to come back against the negro. Jack Johnson, is one of the pitiful chapters of Amer ican ring history. ' In the light of this, one need not be very imaginative to conjure up the scene which would be enacted if Jess Willard ever attempted to re gain his lost laurels, particularly after what happened when he was supposed to be at his best. The American public is little in terested in the athlete who has had his day and is seeking to do a come back. It is the coming man who inspires the imagination of ring fol lowers. A year or so and the real interest will not center on Dempsey, but on the prospect who is likely to dethrone the champion. At the mo ment there is no one in sight ready to inspire confidence as to his ability to take the meaeure of Dempsey, but as soon as he appears sentiment will be in his favor. Particularly will this be the caee with the man who will swap blows with Dempsey, for Demp sey does not enjoy the respect of a great number of ring followers. land auditorium is under the super vision of the police authorities, and the new chief of police has decreed that no boy who has ever been ques tioned by the police will be allowed to fight. This Is rather a strict rul ing, but as long as it is for the upbuilding of the game, I am strong for it. A number of boys who have been brought into police headquarters for one reason or another have been re fused the right to box, and switches have been made in the card at the eleventh hour on more than one oc casion. . It will be some time, from all I can learn, before Frankie Farren is able to fight. He visited me the other day and, though the San Francisco light weight is recovering from the bad case of blood poisoning to which he fell a "Victim in Boston, it is slow work, and he teils me the doctor has ordered him to lay low for a number of weeks at least. He is not even allowed to do light work in the gymnasium. Naturally, Frank is putting on weight, and whether he will again be able to re duce to lightweight proportions re mains to be seen. Hoosiers to Have Football Feast. INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 6. This city will have an opportunity to witness ten college football games next tall in addition to several high school contests. Butler college will play all its home . games here, but the ln-diana-Notre Dame contest is expected to be the cream of the coming season. FIELDS BACK ROW It. JOJiES, K. SIMOST. L. FfiONT ROW W K 0rl . . . V: I 4 : With many of the foremost golf stars in the Pacific northwest ex pected to enter the annual golf tournament at Gearhart. interest in the links classic is continually in creasing. The course at present is crowded with players and by August 24 when the four-day tournament gets under way fully 150 entries are expected. Golfers from Grays Harbor, Se attle, Spokane, Walla Walla, Tacoma, Portland and other cities have been asked to compete and special invita tions have been sent to many link star;! of this section who have not appeared in the beach tournament for a few years. ' Course Put In Shnpe. The course is rapidly rounding into excellent shape and with two weeks' work on the fairways in sight pros pects are bright for one of the best conditioned courses ever presented for a tournamet. The tournament will be held under the auspices of the Gearhart Park company with Owen A. Merrick of Astoria chairman of the committee. Merrick has been behind practically every golf venture in Astoria and Gearhart and is well qualified to handle the job. With the expectation that a large delegation of Portland players will take in the tournament, prospects for a new course record are. especially good. Ercel Kay, last year's cham pion, Doug Nichol. Dr. O. ' F. Willing and a host of others who played last season have given assurance that they would again enter. m Women's Event to Attract. The women's championship is cer tain to attract attention as there are a number of feminine stars now playing the 18 holes in around the 100 mark, and if the Grays Harbor delegation under the leadership of Mrs. W. J. Patterson of Aberdeen enters, the competition should be ex ceptionally keen ; A large number of prizes have been chosen and will be presented to the winners of the various events. There will be prizes for runners-up in all championships. A change has been noted in the second hole of the first nine this year. More length has been added and the new green is ready for play. rroKrannne la Out. The programme for the tournament follows: Wednesday, Augnst 24. 6:00 A. M. Men's championship, first 18 holes, medal play, 10 to qualify. Entrance fee y-i. 1 :00 P. M. Men's championship, 2d IS holfs. a:15 P. M. Women's championship. 18 holes, medal play, S to qualify. Entrance fee fS. Thuntday, Auffuat 25. 0:00 A. M. Men's champlonsh ip, first elimination round, match play, 18 holes .l:4.i A. M. Women's championship, first elimination round, match play 18 holes. 1 :00 P. M. Men's championship, second elimination round, match play. 18 holes. 1 :30 P. M. Women's flights, first elim ination round. 18 holes. 2:15 P. M. Mens flights, first elimina tion round, IS holes. Friday, Angnxt 26. 9:00 A. M. Men's championship, semi finals, first 18 holes. - 9:15 A. M. Men's flights, second elim ination round, IS holes. 10:00 A. M. Women's championship, semi-finals, 18 holes. 1:00 P. M. Men's championship, semi final, second IS holes. 1:15 P. M. Women's flights, semi-finals. 18 holes. 2:15 P. M. Men's flights, semi-finals, 18 holes. ' Saturday, August 27. 0:00 A. M. Men's championship, finals first IS holes. 9:15 A. M. Women's championship, finals. 18 holes. :30 A. M. Men's flights, finals 18 holes. 1:00 P. M. Mixed foursome, handicap, IS holes, medal play. Entrance fee per couple. $1. 2:.'10 P. M Men's championship finals, second 18 holes. Trapsliooter Wins Own Prize. HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 6. (Spe cial.) Sherman J. Frank, member of the Hood River Gun club, is one of the county's principal poultry fan ciers. Last week he offered two of his finest spring roosters to the win ner of last Sunday's tournament of the club. Mr. Frank, Earl Franz and A. F. Davenport tied for first place. They shot off the tie yesterday and Mr. Frank won his own chickens with a score of 22 out of 25 pigeons. Mr. Franz broke 21 and the score of Mr. Davenport was 20. Cricket Match Is Draw. 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Ovlroit, War Tax to b9 mddod COVEY MOTOR CAR CO. Washington at 21st Main 6244 D. I fThe S tandard blocking or getting out of its way, it went so fast. So this giant swing a knockout punch was ruled out as unsportsmanlike. It struck the witer at Xew York that two blows, new to the modern game, should be barred by those op erating under the Queensberry code, and the subject should be put to a vote of the 700 newspapermen who saw the fight on July 2. These blows were first mentioned by Jack Shee han, an eastern referee, on the eve of retiring from the game as an official. He said there was one. the blow to the back of an opponent's neck, which tended to paralyze a round or so later the body of the recipient. There is found a certain nerve center of at tack, much like the famous solar plexus. This could easily be pointed out to the American fighter by those in the east familiar with it and the position to hit, and indeed it may have been a part of. the champion's attack. The other punch, and there is no evidence to show that Dempsey used this one against Carpentier, is a side cut on the upper arm of an opponent with the edge of a gloved hand. This blow. If sharply delivered, acts much like the blow which produces the Charley horse of baseball, which is a bruising of the thigh muscle. The effects of the blow on the atm do not show until a round or two later, when the arm becomes heavy and slow and partially paralyzed. Tom mors to Coach Yale N'ine. NEW HAVEN', Conn., Aug. 6. Ber nie Tommers, Yale varsity pitcher in 1911, and until recently director of athletics at Pawling school, will coach the Yale baseball team next year, it was announced here today. Tommers succeeds Bill Laudr.r, former major league ball player. The appointment marks a return to the system of grad uate coaching in baseball, discon tinued some ten years ago with the advent of Billy Lush as coach of the team. Tommers is a graduate of the class of 1911 and was the leading var sity pitcher of that season. For some years prior to the war he coached the Yal freshman nine. Dundee Choice Over White. 'Because of Johnny Dundee's knock out victory over Bert Spencer last Friday night the runner-up for the lightweight championship has been installed favorite over Charley White of Chicago for their scheduled ten round bout In New York Wednesday evening. August 10. White is coming here tomorrow to finish training for the bout. Dundee Is back in his home in 'the Orange mountains, where he does all his preparatory work. Mike Gibbons Easy Victor. BOSTON. Mass., Aug. 6. Mike Gib bons, St. Paul middleweight, won an easy victory over Gus Platts, ex-middleweight champion of England, in 10 rounds here last night. Gibbons, who got the decision after Platts had failed to win a round, scored prac tically at will. He opened the bout with four left jabs to the head, to which there was no return and from then on the Englishman was an easy mark. L L of ihe World BURKE AFTER BHEHHAH NEW ORLEANS FIGHTER HOT ON TRAIL OF RIVAL. Rickard Denies Plans for Rc mutching Jack Dempsey With Tough Cliicasoan. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. Tex Rickard denies that he has signed Jack Demp sey, world's heavyweight, and Bill Brennan, the Chicago boxer, for a title bout to be held somewhere in the metropolitan district on Labor day. A new challenger of Bill Brennan has bobbed up. He is Marty Burke, the New Orleans "string bean," who was one of Dempsey's sparring part ners when the champion was prepar ing for his bout with Carpentier. Burke says he now is ready to tackle Brennan, Fulton, Miske. Gibbons or any other top notch heavyweight, but he prefers to take on Brennan. Burke has had plenty of exper ience, but his light weight'was a big handicap to him. Recently he has filled out considerably and now is sturdy enough to tackle any of the big fellows. After taking Dempsey's wallops for several weeks. Burke thinks he is capable of assimilating anything that may come his way in bouts with other heavies. The New Orleans candidate for heavyweight honors is 23 years old, stands 6 feet 3 Inches and weighs 175 pounds in fighting condition. He is a very clever boxer and faster than most of the big fellows: The Gibbons-Carpentier fight will be on just as soon as the Frenchman lets Tex Rickard know that the St. Paul "cruiser" is satisfactory. The match, however, is made, and the Frenchman hardly will raise any ob jections to Rickard's selection. The- contract has not been signed, but the terms will call for 12 rounds Rich, full Mild imported CT&2 Good .for a Steady Diet 25 m Cisrars ROSK.VFGLD Fourth nod Couch Sts. C if the bout is staged in New Jersey and 15 rounds if it comes off in New York. Both are to weigh 175 pounds. Gibbons will train on fights. Eddie Kane, his manager. aid. He is now booking him for an extensive summer campaign. The agreement did not i specify any particular time at which he was to be in New York, but Kane says he will be here three weeks before the bout and will train some place in the country. Rickard would like to have the bout on Columbus day. He had Labor day in mind originally, but he doesn't think the Frenchman can make a date that early. Rickard also is working on a Labor day match for his Jersey City arena. Bill Brennan is the tentative selection. STADIUM PROJECT HAMPERED Proposed Pasadena Bowl Cannot Be Built for Lack of Money. PASADENA, Cal., Aug. 6. Hope that a new athletic stadium would be built here for the next New Year's day east versus west football game has been abandoned, it was an nounced recently by J. J. Mitchell, president of the Tournament of Ro3es association, which conducts the game. The game has been held every year In Tournament park here. Following the contest last New Year's day steps were taken for construction of a new athletic bowl and a site was obtained in the Arroya Sc-co section. Lack of money makes it impossible to con struct the bowl-before the next game. "Incompletion of the financing of the project is responsible for the de lay," Mr. Mitchell said. "We need $400,000 for the bowl and to date only 300,000 has been guaranteed." Special Prizes Offered Americana. COWES, Aug. 6. The royal yacht squadron is giving a special prize to the first American six-meter yacht to finish in the first. British-American cup race at Cowes regatta. The town of Cowes will give a cup for the first American yacht in the second cup race. Havana filler Sumatra wrapper A A combination sure to please Cl ovffipszmoTiL M . for cigars . SMITH CO., DISTRIBUTORS, PORTLAND, OR. lironrtttny 175
