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Milwaukie Arena Will Be Scene of Some Nifty Boxing Contests Next Tuesday Evening
THE OREGON SUNDAY 'JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 22. 1920.
RING MEN
READY TO
DONPADS
Milwaukie Card Next Tuesday
Should Furnish Lots of Action
for Fistic Lovers.
CMYK bouts, which should be full
of action. Judging from the form
displayed by the mitt wielders in
their respective training: quarters, are
scheduled to be held at Milwaukie
i.cxt Tuesday night.
While the card does not sparkle with
the class of the last three or four shows
staged under the management of George
Moore, it .hould be one that will be
worth the fans' money.
EASTF. IIXER OX CAKD
Topping the card will be a double
main event between Heinle Schumann,
holder of the Pacific coast lightweight
chumplonshlp, and Jimmy Marshall, a
hard battling lightweight of California,
and Earl Baird of Seattle and Tommy
Barone of St. Paul.
Schumann fought here in 1911, meeting
le Morrlssey and Young Sam Lang
ford. He gained decisions in both these
contests and made a great hit with the
fans by his clean aggressive style. Ac
cording to his manager. Eddie Marlon,
Schumann has improved wonderfully.
Marshall has quite an imposing record
and has been swapping punches with Joe
Benjamin In training.
BAIBD WEIL LIKED
Balrd's ability Is well known by local
fans. He puts up a battle whenever he
enters a ring and In meeting Barone,
!who has been forced to go againBt light
weights In his home town, he will likely
be forced to extend himself. Barone has
surprised the ring followers with his
punching ability In workouts.
The Scotty William s-Marty Foley con
tent should ha full of action. Williams.
on his first appearance In a local ring,
uriea out wuu kij uto vv
world, but h. weakened and the beet he
received against Billy Wright was a
draw. Foley has a fair reputation.
Johnny Fontana, who boxes Weldon
Wing In a six-round bout, hails from
Texas where he fought under the col
ors of the United States army. He has
clippings showing that he beat some
classy battlers.
FOUGHT BEFORE GENERAL
Fontana fought 18 battles in France
against American and French battlers.
He was credited with a victory over
Jeanne, the French featherweight cham
pion. Some of the bouts he has been re
turned winner in since his return are
Young Terry, 10 round3 ; Ray Burman,
8 rounds ; Joe Daniels, knockout, 3
rounds ; Patsy Branlgan, 10 rounds, and
Ray Darden. 8 rounds.
One of the battles with Branlgan was
held before General Pershing in Denver.
He was selected by army officials be
cause of his record. The local army re
cruiting office is responsible for Fon
tana's invasion of the Northwest.
The curtain raisers will le between
Frankie Webb and George Bums, two
130-pounders.
Tickets for the smoker have been
going at a lively clip and It is expected
that there will be a big crowd.
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JEW ENGLAND AMATEUR ROW-
IN(J ASSOCIATION recently re
elected Dr. George Magrath as president
for the twentieth term and John J. Cor
rljran secretary for the thirtieth consec
utive year.
P.owlng Is one of the most popular
ports in Belgium.
Rowing Coach Jack Manning located
at the Norton company Industrial plant,
Worcester, has a squad of 240 men
training dally on rowing machines In
preparation for the season's amateur
rowing races.
New England Amateur Rowing asso
ciation will hold its customary July 4
and Labor day regattas over the Charles
river course, Boston, this year.
Lee Fohl will manage the Templar
Motors corporation semi-professional
nine of the Cleveland Amateur Baseball
association this season.
Queen's cluh. London, Is having con
structed a new cinder path.
BOXING
Milwaukie Arena
Tuesday, February 2$
ALL-STAR CARD
5 NEW FACES 5
Double Mam Event
JIMMY
of Frisco
MARSHALL
vs.
Lightweight
SCHUMAN
Champion of the Coast.
10 Rounds 10
TOMMY
BARON
of St. Paul
V8.
of Seattle BAIRD
130 LBS. 10 ROUNDS
Marty Foley of Tacoma
vs.
Scottie Williams of Chicago
6 Rounds 6
Tom Fontana, U. S. Army
vs.
Weldon Wing of Portland
6 Rounds 6
GEO. BURNS of Portland
vs.
Frankie Webb of Portland
4 Rounds 4
Seats Now on Sale
At Rick's, 6th at Washington
' Stiller, Broadway at Stark
PRICSSt $1.00, $1.50, $2.00,
$2.50. $3.00 ajid War Tax.
CLASSY MITT WIELDERS ON MILWAUKIE CARD
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Trio of boxers billed to appear at Mihvauklo Tuesday night. Reading from the left, they are: Earl Dalrd,
Seattle boy, who boxes Tommy Barone of St Paul, in one or the two top events; Jimmy Marshall, who
meets Heinle Schumann, and Tommy Barone.
BIG UNIVERSITIES
LIST POLO AMONG
THE MAJOR SPORT
Harvard, Yale, Cornell and
Princeton Take Up Game Rec
ommended by General March.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. (U. P.) "From
the humble and inconspicuous role of
a 'swipe' In the stables. John Jones,
freshman at Blank university, rose to
the highest rank of university greatness
today. Astride the pony he had been
grooming and rubbing down for weeks
he entered the game In the final period
and after a daring Bill Hart ride down
the field, with a skillful swing of the
mallet he knocked the tiny sphere for
a goal that gave the Blank polo team a
spectacular victory over Excollege in
the deciding game for the championship."
This is an advance of some game, some
place, some, time in the future.
Harvard, Tale, Cornell and Princeton
have adopted polo as an intercollegiate
sport.
Last fall General March", chief of staff
of the army, ordered polo established
aH a major sport In all camps, posts and
garrisons of the service.
Declaring the polo brought about ''the
development of horsemanship, skill and
daring so valuable for all Americans," he
urged that colleges take up the sport.
In all colleges where the R. O. T. C. is
operated, the war department offered to
furnish the Instructors, the mounts,
saddles, mallets and all the parapher
nalia. Twenty-four ponies, purchased in
Texas, have been assigned to Yale and
Cornell, which were among the first to
accept the offer of the government. Ac
cording to reports practice will be started
this spring at both universities.
Princeton has applied to the war de
portment for equipment and after a field
is secured Harvard is to Join the ranks.
Owing to tho novelty of the venture
and the inexperience of the teams no
intercollegiate matches will be at
tempted for at least a year.
Polo for years has been flourishing in
many of the larger army posts, espe
cially In Texas. The success resulting
there prompted the war department to
put the sport on a broader scale and
nationalize it if possible.
Burns, of Giants, Is
Holdout First Time
For tho first time in hi long baseball
career George Burns, premier outfielder
of the National league, is a holdout.
Burns, it is saldJias returned his con
tract to the New York Nationals un
signed. Charles Stonehani. owner of the
Giants, recently announced that he had
voluntarily decided to raise the salaries
of all the players in the New York club.
It. is evident that the raise in salary,
said to bo $1500. was not considered
enough by Bums. Without doubt the
differences between Burns, who U rated
as the best outfielder in the game, and
the New York club will be straightened
out upon the return of John McGraw
from Cuba.
Benny Leonard Would
Coach TJ. S. Mitt Men
Benny Leonard, lightweight champion
of the world, has offered his services to
the American Olympic committee as
coach of the amateur boxers who will
uphold the honor of Uncle Sam in the
ring events at the Olympic games in
Antwerp next .summer. Leonard also
proposed to the committee that he and
hia manager, Billy Gibson, be permitted
to round up a corps of the best boxers
and experts in the country to help train
the American contestants. It is almost
j a certainty that the Olympic committee.
oi wmcn uustavus T. Klrby is president;
will give Leonard's proposal serious con
sideration. Tennis Players to "
Compete for Money
Charles Heirons of tho Queen's club,
Xondon, holder of the professional lawn
tennis championship, will play a match
against -Darsonnall, the head profes
sional of the sporting club de Paris. It
will be a home and home series for lioa
a aide. The matches will be played on
the covered courts in Paris and London
this and next month. . , -; -
PUGttlJTIC
By Bob
ONDER it this much talked of
match between Lightweight Cham
pion Benny Leonard and Middleweight
Champion Mike O'Dowd isn't a mere
publicity getter after all? It has all the
earmarks of something that has sprung
from the fertile brain of a press agent
who Is afflicted with insomnia or som
nambulism. Billy Gibson, Leonard's manager, is
too wise, and Benny himself Is too
shrewd to countenance such a match,
and the chances are that the promoter
who would seriously, entertain such a
proposal would be considered over
ripened fruit even for canning or em
balming purposes.
O'Dewd is the best man of his weight
168 or 160 pounds in the world, and
Benny Leonard reigns supreme at his
own leverage 185 or J 3ft. Does Leon
ard so far outclass men of his own
caliber that he has to Jump over the
welters and take on the premier middle
Of the universe?
In asking this question, let us
consider that Bob Fitzsimmons was a
middleweight- light middleweight at
one time and if there is man. woman,
child or boob living who would contend
that Leonard would be a match for Bob
Fitzsimmons. let's have that bird in
tact for preservation and conservation
purposes for he's rarer than the bird
of paradise on Florida's summer
strands.
Leonard and Gibson haven't had a
holiday in a long time, and they are
talking this O'Dowd-Leonard match as
a means of recouping fun they have
missed while Leonard was busy clean
ing up a few lightweights.
BUT Leonard, to take another tack
from the same windjamroing course,
is not the first good little man who
thought he could beat a good big man.
On All Souls' day, when ghosts and
has-beens promenade at ungodly hours,
the pugilistic graveyards open forth, and
we whose ears are attuned to the past
and who can hear wailing and gnashing
of teeth, catch the moans and groans
of similar little good men who thought
they could lick similar good big men.
Joe Choyinski was one in his day,
Stanley Ketchel was another when he
allowed his bravery and drawing power
to extract him so far from his legiti
mate class that he was enticed into a
ring with Jack Johnson, , and between
the two came little Kid Lavigne. a
proper 133-pound iigntweignt. Tne7
were each known as giant-killers in
their time, but in their time also were
they known aa men who were killed
by giants.
Choyinski seldom met a man in his
prime who didn't outweigh him, Ketchel
fought them at all weights, and Lavigne
licked a few big men. Including Wol-
cott, and then got his heart knocked
out by Mysterious BUly Smith.
David gave Goliath the K O. in the
first round of a biblical scrap, but
seldom in these progressive daya does
modern Goliath who Is m good con
dition get put to slumber by a modern
David.
Such things are not grammatically
in the cards, and when It does happen,
I want to know who furnished the deck.
CALIFORNIA is overburdened with
Its lemon crops at this particular
time, eo the marketmaster is talking
about dumping Gunboat Smith and Phat
Willie Meehan on the Portland market
All who favor over-ripe lemonade at
our boxing smokers, holler, "Yea, Bo,
brlnjr "emon."
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JIMMY WILDE'S swim across the
pond has rejuvenated the ranks utd
purses of the Tom Thumbs. Before Jim
my's advent, the midgets were in the
habit of boxing for anything' from glory
to gloom. Now they talk about financial
drives ranging anywhere from $5000 to
110.000 or more.
Wilde's best weight is probably 100
pounds, but he so far outclasses men
at that weight, that he has to allow
his opponents to come in at 108 and
sometimes 115 pounds in order to get
matches. '
When they get below 115 pounds, they
cease to be entertaining, and a panto
mime Is about Just aa amusing. They
ought to keep the Tom Thumbs on tho
vaudeville stage, where tricks and dis
appearances and other legerdemain In
not taken seriously, wan t imagine a
promoter giving Wilda $10,000 for an
exhibition. '
Once I saw two flyweights the best in
the world battle, and when the fight
ended ii a draw, I went out and bought
two Jumping beans, put rota on a plate
laughed at their antics until I was tired,
and then gave the prise of admission
to a flyweight fight to a school for
the blind.
WHAT has become of the art of
properly seconding a boxer and
where are the good seconds it used to
develop?
The art itself seems utterly lost and
the seconds themselves are either dead
or dying or- too old to function.
The woods are thick with promising
boxers, but of wise seconds the tall tim
bers are facing deforestation.
The average boxer would be better off
if he would give his chief second a pass
for a movie the night of a fight.
A boxer who is sent into a ring with
out knowing some little bit of how to
take care of himself when he Is daxed
or runs up against a surprise, has lit
tle chance of being helped by a frenzied,
unschooled second who is shouting wild
imprecations and warning and advice
to him when he Is flirting with a knock
out. The result of such childishness is
too often more harm than good.
Of the hundreds of men who step into
Pacific Coast rings as seconds, prob
ably five of them might qualify as first
class and probably five more might
qualify on probation and under tuition.
If the boxers don't soon begin a cam
paign to have their seconds understand
them better, the wise old owl of the
Billy Delaney type, who used to stand
behind a corner with eagle eyes and
watch an opponent's every move and
give caution and advice between rounds
that won fights, will soon disappear.
CHAMPIONS have their admirers,
their Boswells, their moons, their
hangers-on. But what about the spar
ring partner, the man without whom
there could be no champions? No one
ever sings his praise or rises in his de
fense. He not only goes unwept and
unhonored but frequently he goes from
the gym a physical wreck, bruised and
beaten and battered from waist line to
dome. Withal, he laughs about it. He
has to, or he'd lose his Job. Yet he
comes back day after day for more. '
Ten days or two weeks or a month
pass. The fight isover. The sparring
partner's champion has won another
great battle maybe a championship
in another class. Has the sparring
partner received any of the plaudits?
Has he been given any of the due
which is awarded even the devil. Not
on your daguerreotype. Not in Mabel's
or Percival'B fulsome vocabulary do you
find honeyed words for him.
He merely passes out of the public
eye. Joins another camp and probably
makes another champion. He is tbe
fatted calf, the sacrificial offering on
the altar of every pugilist's ambition.
Glory and purses and championships
are seldom his. He must not be too
presumptuous. He can make champions.
but he must not aspire to be one. Al
ways he must be ready to await the
word of some astute manager to come
Into the gymnasium slaughter house.
The champion has many women and
men admirers and sport writers on hand
that day. The champion must show off.
The sparring partner knows what's
coming, but he doesn't flinch. He goes
in knowing that he must not get rough
with the favorite even If opportunity
presents itself. That day, before a big
crowd, he takes the lambasting of a
lifetime. He wipes the perspiration
from his brawny arms and chest and
gory countenance and sneaks out quiet
ly. The champion, crowing like a vic
torious cock, struts into a shower bath.
Is waited on, dried and given a rub
down fit for a sultan. Soneone helps
him on with his fancy clothes. Then he
is piled into a limousine and rushed to
his hotel, where everyone Is told he
must not be disturbed by even a foot
fall for1 two hours.
Meanwhile, around the comer some
where, the sparring Dartner. the maker
of champions, is sitflng en a high stool
ravenously gorging himself on pork and
beans or stenr.
The sparring partner needs someone
to writs his epic for without him cham
pion oi mgn ciass wouia be scarce.
2:12 Trotters Are Featured
The 110,000 Charter Oak race at Hart
ford this year will again be for 2:12
trotters. The famous classic was first
trotted In 1889 when it was won by
in rector z:17, and has been raced con
tinuously since that time except in
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NEW MEN
TO LAND
ON SQUAD
Coach Hayward of Oregon Put
ting Track Squad Through
Preliminary Workouts.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu
gene. Feb. 21. Actlvesprins
training for the Oregon varsity and
frosh track teams has started at the
university and each night finds a
group of aspirants going through
early season training on Klncald
oval.
Oregon's strength on the track and ; Americans,
field this year is morejI,e8,adl J ' Griggs, first baseman, Sacramento, secured by Los Angelea in three
rnumbrT'iast year lettermen back j cornered deal Involving Pitcher Thomas of Seattle. Fournler. Bunny
in the fold this year but a majority of
varsity team berths will have to be
filled by 'new men and members of last
year's froah teams.
FOSTKK IS CAPTAIX
Captain "Hank" Foster is one of the
first men to appear for practice each
day. He will be forced to bear the
brunt In the speed and hurdle events
this year and "will be the kingpin around
which Coach Hayward will form hla
squad. Foster Is already in good trim
and promises to go better tills year
than he has during either of his other
two years of varsity experience. Roscoe,
Hemenway. former Washington high
school, Portland, speed merchant. Is be
ing counted on as a team mate for
Foster in the 100-yard and 200-yard
events, and "Arthur Kuhnhausen, rangy
youngster hailing from the same high
school, looms as a probable contender
In the hurdle events.
B.CSQCI8T IX FIELD ,
In the field events Hayward will have
Si S&xr and Art Runqulat, lettermen of
last year; Kenneth Bartle. football
hero who performs well with the discus,
and Warren Gilbert, member of last
year's squad. Crescene Farris, a huBky
member of last year's frosh team, will
also be a contender for varsity honors.
Foster will take care of the running
broad Jump. "Dubs" Mulkey. letter
man, is expected to return to college
with the beginning of the third term
in order to take a part in several field
events. Newt Estes, letterman, high
jumper, and Russell Myers, pole vaulter
of last year's frosh aggregation, will
also be candidates for varsity positions
this season.
ABBOTT BACK IX RI73fIXO
In the distance and middle distance
events. Hayward will have but one let
terman. Lelth Abbott. Abbott won the
half mile at the Northwest conference
last spring In 1 :58 :3 and hopes to bet
ter his time this season. Bill Coleman,
a varsity contender two years ago, Is
now out training for the mile and two
mile events. Another distance man who
is looked to as a man of big possi
bilities is Glenn Walkley. member of
the frosh team last season, who took
first place in the Oregon-O. A. C. cross
country race last fall. Stanford Ander
son of last year's varsity, Dick Sunder
leaf, Sydney Hasllp and Wayne Akars
of last year's frosh squad, will also be
strong contenders for varsity places, it
appears.
Coach Hayward has outfitted the en
tire squad with heavy woolen under
garments to be worn during the cool
weather of early spring bo that his men
may keep unbroken training from now
On.- A crew of freshmen are also daily
working on the track and flelJ keeping
it in good condition.
Eugene will be without a varsity track
meet this spring. The conference season
opens May 8 with a dual meet with
Washington at Seattle.
EASTERN COLLEGE
ATHLETIC NOTES
YALE'S big Indoor cage where
athletes practice is large enough
to allow infield baseball practice, in fact,
practice games, as well as general bat
ting, pitching and base running drill.
Everything possible on an outdoor field,
except handling flies, is practicable in
the spacious Ell cage.
Prominent athletic coaches and au
thorities on sports will be Included in
the teaching staff of the coaching and
physical training school of the Interna
tional Y. M. C. A. at Springfield. Mass..
June 28 to July SI. They will include
Dr. Al Sharp, director of Yale athletics ;
Dr. James IL McCurdy. formerly of the
A. E. F. ; Lory Prentice, and others.
Vanderbilt university is the latest to
form a varsity club which will include
famous athletes of the southern college.
Ohio State's new stadium will seat
60,000.
Harvard may boast a varsity 8-oared
hell crew of giants, as of the 12 foremost
candidates, three are 6 feet 4 Inches in
height; one 6 feet 3 inches, three 6 feet
1 Inch and the remaining five candidates
5 feet 11 inches each, or more.
The western trip of the Dartmouth
football squad next fall to meet Uni
versity of Washington In the opening
match on the new stadium at Seattle,
recalls the fact that it was Dartmouth in
1903, opposed to Harvard in the match
which Inaugurated football at Harvard's
stadium and In 1914 the Big Green team
played Princeton in the first game In
Palmer Memorial stadium.
Penn as well as Harvard and Tale has
been aaked to send a track team to com
peie against the combined Oxford and
Cambridge squad in England this sum
mer. ,
"Ernie" Hjertberg, the Swedish coach
and former American runner, picks Jack
Moakley ,ot Cornell as the foremost
American coach.
Penn will have three weeks of spring
football practice, starting April 26.
Princeton tennis squad will play ten
matches next season. The later collegiate
matches will take place in June.
Washington & Lee students will aid in
the work of enlarging ' Wilson athletic
field by devoting two hours each week
between April 1 and June 1 to the labor
of love.
The Stanford vs. California track meet
will occur at Berkeley April 24.
Brown university will play 13 base
ball games, beginning April 10.
All of Tale's rowing races are away
from home waters this season.
Athletics at Harvard during 1918-19
cost $63,4I9.Sa,
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ftr George &enfz.
ONE DOZEN PLAYER
EXACTLY one dosen players In the Coast league have been swapped or
sold to other clubs within the circuit during the "stove" league season.
Borne of the deals were worked through major league clubs and some of
them have added strength to' the weaker clubs. The deals transacted
follow:
Penner. pitcher, sold by Portland to Sacramento.
Bohne, shortstop, sold by Oakland to Seattle.
Spencer, catcher, sold by Salt Lake to Seattle for cash and Pitcher
Relger. r.
Murphy, third base, and "Wares, second base, traded by Oakland to
Seattle for Knight, first baseman.
Wolter, outfielder, traded by Sacramento to Seattle for Pete Corapton,
outfielder.
Bates, third basej Los Angeles,
Fabrique and several others.
Thomas, pitcher, Seattle, secured
and Angel deal.
COASTERS WELL FIXED FTR SOUTHPAWS
TAJOU LEAGUE club managers are
handed pitchers this season. The scarcity is so acute that various
managers are dickering with the rumors for the purchase of southpaws.
Such Is not the rose with Pacific coast team leaders, as a majority
of them are pretty well supplied with portslders.
Los Angeles ha a trio of very dependable heavers in "Curly" Brown.
"Lefty" Thomas and Paul Fittery. Salt Lake possesses Leverena and Nick
Cullop, who used to bo with Cleveland and St. Louis. Sacramento has
Walter Mails and Willie MltcheU Is with Vernon. "Ocean" Schorr is Se
attle's bet, while McCredle has Dunning and Schroeder. besides a host of
youngsters. Dunning is a newcomer on the coast and will likely win a
place on the J?orUand team. Bobby Steele Is the Seal's portalder. Del
Howard of Oakland is casting his eyes for a capable man.
TRAP RULING NOT MADE AGAINST TROEH
THERE is little danger of Frank, M. Troeh, tho Vancouver, Wash., trap
shooting expert, being professionalized by the American Trapahooting
association. Rumors to the effect that Troeh was to be declared a profes
sional and that the ruling defining a professional shooter was aimed at
the Northwest star were denied by Stoney McLlnn. secretary of the na
tional body, who was Portland's guest recently.
The professional ruling, which was announced at the New York meet
ing in January, has been in the minutes of the association books for a
period of three years, according to McLlnn. The issuance of the rule
at tho New York meeting was decided upon following the receipt of a
message from Sam Sharman, the Salt Lake crack, prior to tho opening
of a big cash tournament at Riverside, Cal., declared McLlnn. "Reports
that the ruling was aimed against Troeh are false," said McLlnn.
LIVE WIRES NEEDED FOR "M" CLUB JOBS
TRUSTEES of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club will meet Monday
night to elect chairmen for the various committees for this year. Con
siderable thought has been devoted toward the selection of leaders for the
athletic committees. Plans are afoot to bring the "Winged M" club back
to the top of the ladder as an athletic institution.
with plenty of material available, there is no reason why tho club
should be skidding in athletics. Years ago, Multnomah had some of the
greatest athletes In the country, and there Is no season why it should not
be in the front ranks again.
The club needs a live wire manager for both track and football this
season. Harry Dorman, former club player and an ex-Unlverslty of
Washington man, may be picked to handle the football squad. Dorman,
if he accepts the position, would likely use Doble's style of play.
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PORTLAND DOG FANCIERS ARE LAGGING
DOG FANCIERS in, Seattle and Victoria are gofng ahead with their plans
of staging thetr annual bench shows this year, while the local lovers
of the bow-wows are standing back and marking time.,
' Several years ago Portland held some of the best shows on the Pacific
coast, but during the past three or
a dead issue.
There's no reason why Portland
center. There are several men who are wimng to assist in arranging tne
preliminary details of a show, but no one has volunteered his services as
secretary, the most important part of a show.
Wilde to Get Chance to Show Wares
K K . K K .
Battles Frank Mason Next Month
rpOLEDO, Feb, 21. (L N. S.) Jimmy
X Wilde, world's flyweight champion,
will get a real chance to prove his
class against a boy of his own weight
when he meets Frankie Mason, the
Fort Wayne midget, here March 12.
Ad Thacher. president or the Toledo
Athletic club, landed Wilde after a long
chase. Promoters in various cities in
the Middio West v.-ere camping on the
trail of the British flyweight and
Thacher had to boost the ante to 110,
000 before Jimmy signed the papers.
IS AGGRESSIVE BATTLER
The match is one of the most attrac
tive of the year. It wiU be a real cham
pionship affair over the 12 round route,
and Wilde will have to defend bis title
to the best of his ability, for in Mason
he will meet an aggressive opponent.
Wilde's recent knockout victory over
Mike Ertle in Milwaukee was a boost
to both his reputation and his confi
dence. He ran into the surprise of his
life when be met Jack Sharkey in his
first bout on this side of the pond and
his stock fell pretty low for a while.
In fact, his defeat by Sharkey causea
the International Boxing club of New,
York to cancel a boxing show which
had been arranged with Wilde and one
of the country's leading bantams as the
headline rs.
WILL MAKE FOC5DAGE
If Wilde can defend bis title success
fully against Mason, however, he will
win back much of his lost prestige. But
he will have no cinch. This Fort WaynS
boy. they teli us, is the sort of a boxer
who "goes out and gets nrc. mo is
clever and a fairly hard hitter for a
little fellow. What's more. Mason la,
going to make the flyweight poundage
for WDde. and the title will be placed
in Jeopardy.
In the Middle West, where Mason
made his reputation, they believe he
has a good chance to beat Wilde. The
Indiana lad Is not very well known
in other parts of the country, largely
because be has come to the front wttn
In the past year, though he has been
a boxer for 10 odd seasons.
AEMT HELPED HIM
Mason began boxing when he was
20 years old. Today be has passed his
thirtieth milestone, and the army is re
sponsible for the fact that be Is devot
ing all of his time to the ring. He
came to the front within a few short
months by defeating some ef the best
bantamweights in the country, aiid he
says be ts going after the bantamweight
title as well as the crown' held by
Jimmy wild.
Boxing is a sort of second venture
with Masoa. He started oat in the
newspaper business and used to. box oa
own
DEALS ARE. MADE
secured by Seattle from Philadelphia
by Los Angeles in St. Louis-Seattle
yelping about the shortage of left-
four years the bench, show has been
should not step to the front us a dog
the side. Then along came the war, and
Mason, found himself in one of Uncle
Sam's cantonments. There be boxed
continually, and there also he deter
mined to stick to boxing as a profes
sion and give the ink pots the cold
Bhoulder. That he has made a wise
move is proven by a subtantlal bank
account in Fort Wayne and offers from
promoters all over the country.
Mitchell Will Not
Report to Solons
Sacramento, Feb. 2i. Pitcher Roy
Mitchell, obtained from the Cincinnati
Reds, won't report to the local club this
season. Mitchell wires Manager Rodg
ers that he la farming and can't leave
his work.
No third sacker has yet been secured
and It now looks aa if Billy Stumpf the
Senators' utility man, would heid down
that corner.
"Some Men Don't Know It Yet"
says the Good Judge
This class of tobUcco
1 gives a man a lot more
satisfaction than
ever gets out of ordin
ary tobacco.
Smaller chew the good
taste lasts and lasts.
You don't need a fresh
chew so often. Any man
who uses the Real To
bacco Chew will tell
you that.
Put Up In Two Style
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
NEW MEN .
TO PLAY
IN FIELD
Several New Outfielders Landed
by Coast Clubs; Vernon and
Portland Stand Pat.
TVTEW faces will appear in the out
' fields of all Coast league clubs
save Portland and Vernon this sea
son.
Manager Bill IOsMick of the cham
pion Tigers will rely on Hughie High,
Chester Chadbourne, Jack Kdlngton
and Tommy Long to pull down the
long flies again and Walt McCredlo
of the Beavers has reached the con
clusion that Frank Walker, George
Maiscl and Walter Schaller will be
the strongest possible combination
for the Macknien.
SEATTLE LAXB8 TRIO
Th Snattl IlslntAra will Introduce a
brand new trio of flychasera in Merlin
Kopu, who was obtained from the Phila
delphia Americans; Manuel Cueto, who
was secured trom. the Cincinnati Na-
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trade with Sacramento. Bill Cunning
ham will also strive for a piuce in the
Seattle outfield.
Manager Klllefer of the Los Angelea
club is angling for a gardener to replace
the veteran, "Rube" Ellis, who thoush
still a good ballplayer is reaching the
age when he will be forced to retire.
Sam Crawford will hold down the right
field berth and Killefer will again play
center.
OAKLAND IS STRONG
San Francisco has Justin FlUgersld,
Herb Hunter and Maurice Schick, along
with Connolly, a recruit from the West
ern league. There will be one new face
in the Seal gardens this year, according
to reports.
Del Howard of Oakland Is well fixed
for outfielders with Denny WHIe.
"Hank" Miller, Pllly Lane and Cooner.
Bill Rodgers has Pete Competon.
"Brick" Eldred and Roxey Mlddleton for
his Sacrsmcnto gardens. Rodgers will
likely grab an extra flychaser ere long.
Manager Krnle Johnson of Salt Lake
is hopeful of hanging onto Bill Rumler,
the big slugger of the Bees last year.
If Rumler la retained, he will hold forth
In right field, with Maggert in center
and Ratllev. former Indianapolis player,.
In left field. Johnson Is dickering for
Beats Becker In case Rumler la gfa'ibed
by St Louis and is also afte,' Flynn, a
Texas league player who has a promis
ing future.
MAJOR LEAGUES TO
SEEK YOUNGSTERS
FROM THE BUSHES
Success of Frisch and Cf hie
Opens Eyes of American and
. National League , Managers.
NEW TORK. Feb. 21. IV. V.t"Qo
out and beat through the bushes.
We need some new timber."
The old time scout scratched his eld
time head and wondered. f
It was the same old time manager
talking, who a few years back had
said:
"Lay off them bushere. They can't
hit fast company until they go through
the mill and learn the game."
When George TJhle stepped off the
sandlots of Cleveland last spring and
won 11 out of 14 games for the Indians
he exploded a bunk of dynamite under
one of the unwritten laws ef the old
game.
It was dogmatic in baseball from the
early "nineties" down through the
"teens" that a recruit had to climb the
ladder rung by rung from the empty
lots up through the minors to the slick
green of the big time diamond.
Back In 1913 the old theory got Ha
first Jolt when Al Mamaux leaped from
the semi-pros to a regular berth on the
Pittsburg hurling staff.
His feat was considered the excep
tion to the urle and the magnates still
listed a couple of hitches in the minors
as an essential on a recruit's record.
Then came young Mr. Uhle.
The fans had hardly recovered from
the surprise of his feat when eaioe
another tradition busting youngster.
Frank Frisch of the Giants.
Manager McGraw picked him off the
team ef Fordhaia university and was
putting him through a course In bench
academics when Larry Doyle, the regu
lar second baaemaA, wept bad.
Frisch took bis place and was the
sensation of the late season. He played
ball like a vet and cinched a regular
berth with the clan of the little Napo
leon. Tb result is the magnates are scour
ing the corner lots and college diamonds
for other Uhles and Ft laches.
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