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&REAT ring card
IS ARRANGED FOR
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
TOP-LINERS ON ALL-STAR CARD AT MILWAUKIE
Four Formidable Heavies Top Milwaukie Boxing Commission Card;
Fred Fulton to Clash With "Gunner" Smith; Billy Mascott to
Tangle With Danny Edwards, the Oakland Flash.
By Bob
TJT7HAT looks like It should . b the greatest fight cart! ever staged on the
. Pacific coast is set for Milwaukie next Wednesday night. Never
before have we timberjack and Oregon grape folk been treated to a bill
which carries four formidable heavyweights as its chief attraction. 'Frisco
Is somewhat of a regular fight town, but. I doubt whether the Californiana
can point to a card which offered such men as Fred Fulton, Gunboat Smith,
Hugh Walker and Frank Farmer. It appears that George Moore and
Frank Kendall have slipped the fans something so good that it is not
realized or appreciated.
The Gunner has a record that is more glorious than is usually credited.
The dope book gives him two fights with Champion Jack Dempsey, in one
Of which he loHt Ihe decleion. and gained a draw in the other.
He has fought Battling Lcvirivky five i ; -
times, won from him three times. nit ' lllll I n t r i Itin
to him on c and drew with him in m f , K A M M A K I H Alillr
wiuuuiuiiii uuiavwmj
ether. His complete record shows some
thin like 200 fights, the majorily of
- , them having been won by the knockout
route. Arthur Pelky, Jess Willard. Billy
Minks, Jim Flynn, Carl Morris. Frank
: Moran, Jack Dillon, Kid Norfolk, Bill
. ' Tata and many others are among those
over whom he has scored.
- HAS BKES SET BACK
On the other hand. Smith's record
shows several setbacks, Among them
being the knockouts passed to him b
Sam Longford, Jim Coffey and Fred
' Fulton. But bmlth sincerely believes
he will -oop the big plasterer. If he
does so, he will defeat one of the big
gest and cleverest boxers who ever
stepped Into a ring. Fulton has Im
proved' at least 50 per cent since the
Dempsey scrap and Is 60 per cent more
confident and certain of his prowess.
i In the face of the records of the two
men, there Is no reason to doubt that
Fulton and Smith will put up a splen
' did fight and one that-is almost sine
' to end with a knockout. Fulton has
i every advantage and ought to win, but
; the Gunner looks tough enough to worry
him for a few rounds.
WAIKKB IS FAVOKITF.
The fight between Walker and
Farmer Is running the Fulton - Smith
setto a good race for first favor. Both
: 'Walker and Farmer have been seen
here and both have showed great class.
There will be no sparring or fancy box
ing when these two meet. They are
both fighters and heavy hitters. Walker
is. In much better shape for this go
; than he was when he fought Meehan
three weeks ago. The dope sheets
ft point to him as the -probable winner by
a knockout.
Going down the card a bit. we find
another boy of class. This is little Joe
Mandot, New Orleans lightweight, who
has several times fought himself up to
.the championship peak, only to bo
bumped off by stronger and heavier
boys. He lambasted Joe Rivers when
Rivers was gong like a house afire.
' Mandot has been out of the ring for
.about a year and Intends to mfike an
attempt to fight himself back among
v the topnotchers. He is yet ycung. al
though a veteran of many yearn. Me is
BASEBALL GAMES
GIVEN A SETBACK
Many Contests Scheduled for Last
Week Postponed on Account of
Weather Conditions.
SNOW, sleet, rain and wet grounds
caused postponements right and left
In last week's schedule of the Portland
Grammar School league and unless the
games can be sandwiched in during the
regular schedule, they will be staged
at the end of the 1020 catnpalgn. Two
good games were recorded during the
last week, when Ainsworth won from
I.add, 11 to 1ft. In 12 Innings, and Ladd
defeated Holman, 1 to 0.
In the I.add-Holman affair, a double
and a triple play were recorded, Jack
Hall and Alois Hazel, being the two
little athletes to accomplish the feat
each time.
There was no school Friday because
of the Faster vacation nor will there
be any tomorrow and for this reason
the contests slated for Monday will take
place Tuesday, that Is as far as sections
1. 2 and S are concerned. In section. 4.
the matches will take place the follow
ing day. in so far as they do not in
terfere with the regular schedule.
DAVIS TO MEET LADD
On the west side, Tuesday will find
Ladd and Davis, present section leaders,
battling for supremacy on the Twenty
fifth and Raleigh street grounds, weath
er permitting, of course, The Davis
team has a postponed affair with Chap-
! man which will be played some time
next week, according to present plans,
j KffortS will be made to rush the pres
' ent schedules of the league In order that
the postponed affairs can be disposed of
and the final round done away with
so that nothing will interfere with the
annual grammar school track and field
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TO PLAY
Nine Practice Games Arranged for
Members of Local Baseball As
sociation; League Planned.
Opening of 1920
Basetall Year
At S. L. Doubtful
Salt Lake, April Waaliet ef
sow covert Halt Lake aa it Is
dssbtfsl whether the peing game
of the Paelfle Coast Banehall lesgse
season seneaeled for "assdsy
twees the Portias Beavsrs vs. th
Bees cas he slajsd.
The forecast for the early fart of
ext week Is SBettled weather,
whlrh nay meaa the jtottpoaestsst:
of the opening contest, ?
f
Fred Fulton (on the left) contender
for tbe world's heavyweight cham
pionship (Town, and "Ciuuboat"
Smith, who meet in the main
event of ttie Milwaukie - Boxing
commission smoker Wednesday
night. Three other high class eon
tests are scheduled on the same
program.
sWSlMslBl
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sc'.ieduled to clash with Muff Bronson ' ""'et " unnoman ive.o.
for six rounds. Dope agnin wigwags I TEAM HTANII!Sfi8 OIVEX
toward Mandot as ths winner. It Is the present plans to take the
u AHf'OTT Tf HIIOW AGAIN I first "and second place winners in each
nave tnem play one game
every other squad. This will
! section and
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Manny Klwards. I " " . 1? .
Billy
ieces
altz -f
Mascott. one of the
jf luititam tnachinery
i rounds with
clever these midgets are and comment
otild be superfluous. Mascott ought
'O win.
A four round curtain raiser, not yet
.. tranged. will round out the full card.
Athletic Club Is
Formed at Pendleton
Pendle,rti. April 3. With 200 mem
bers assured, the Pendleton Athletic
Club has been reorganized here and
Will enter' teams in baseball, golf and
tennis in Inland -Empire competitions
this summer and carry on Indoor sports
and gymnastics during the winter. The
old quarters and equipment of the Com
mercial association gym have already
ben fitted up. Since before the war
there has been no athletic organization
here. The American Legion has been
attempting to put baseball on Its feet,
but bad weather so far has prevented
progrese. The club plans to foster sev
eral lines of sport and maintain a live
organization the year round. Rex Kills,
formerly of the Spokane Athletic club,
ts president, and Ted Preble, a well
known old Multnomah club man, is
secretary.
. John Diivls Goes Abroad
New York, April . (I, N a) John
A. Davis, who has been serving as a
professor of physical training at the
Stevens Institute of Technology, sailed
fpi Europe a few days ago to tram Po
land's athletes for the Olympic games.
While abroad he will lao help in the
training of Roumania's Olympic candi
dates and will accompany the Rouman
ian team to Antwerp next summer.
the !!2l champions,
to the winner and
finals.
A trophy will go
runners-up in the
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Vrni'n . 2
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Central 1
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Woodlnwri 1
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SKfTIOV 2
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Kliot ' 4
Kn- ritj Park 3
Hrllainy 2
rVrnwood , 2
Monumia 1
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Mount Tabor 0
ftuckman . 0
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Holman 4
Chapman 2
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Atkiiuon 2
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"You're the Man to be Satisfied"
0
says the Good Judge
You get a whole lot more satis
faction from a little of the
Real Tobacco Chew than you
ever got from the old kind.
The good, rich tobacco taste
lasts so much longer. You
don't need a fresh chew so
often. That's why it costs you
less.
Any man who uses the Real To
bacco Chew will tell you that.
Put Up In Two Styles
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
THK fifth of the series of merchandise
trap shooting tournaments arranged
by President Herbert Newland of the
Portland Gun club will be staged on the
Everding Park traps next Sunday.
Some handsome trophic four in num
berwill be offered to the high shoot
ers in this event. The leaders in the
events, which will determine the aver
ages under w hich the members will shoot
in the president's trophy, offered by
Charles B. Preston, and the., directors'
cup, are closely bunched.
The ninth annual registered tourna
ment of the Lewiston, Idaho, Gun club
will be staged April 25, 28 and 27. Seven
hundred dollars in cash has been added
to the regular events, making the shoot
one of the best money events in the
Northwest this season.
Following is the order of events.
Sunday, April 20 Five 20-bird events,
100 targets ; Laogan trophy, 25 targets ;
C. E. Butler trophy. 25 targets; Tarn
blyn trophy. 25 targets.
Monday. April 26 Events I to 15, 15
birds (registered), 150 targets ; 11, K. C.
Beach trophy. 25 targets ; 12. Elks tro
phy, 25 targets.
Tuesday, April 27 Event 1 to 10 (reg
istered), 150 targets; 11. Akers trophy,
25 targets; 12, LIrich trophy, 3 men's
team, 20 targets.
NINE practice games have been ar
ranged for teams in the Portland
Baseball association for today, weather
permitting, and Jack Routledge, presi
dent of the organisation, expects to make
a tour with his committee to sae parts
of as many games as possible. Befrfre
the official start of the 1S20 league sea
son can be made, the squads will have
to be classified, and it is this work
that the committee will have to do and
do fast
There are 21 aggregations of Portland
represented in the association and all
but three are slated for games today.
The Swift k Co., KirkiMrtricks and Port
land Heights are not ready to battle.
so nothing was offered them.
The games billed for today, and ' the
fields, follow : Hesse-Mart in Iron works
versus Portland Iron works. Franklin
bowl, 2 p. m. ; Woodstock All-stars
versus Oregontans. Columbia park, 2 p.
m. ; Multnomah Guard versus Barker
Bread oornpany, East Twelfth and East
Davis street grounds, 2 p. m. ; Amer
lean Can company versus Columbia
park, at Columbia park, 11 a. m. ; Al
blna Athletic club versus Oregon City
Woolen mills, Montgomery flats, 11 a.
m. ; Portland Railway, Light Power
company versus Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen, Franklin bowl,
10 a. in; Olds, Wortman & King versus
Eastern-Western Lumber company, at
Montgomery flats, 2 p. m. ; Central Door
Ml Lumber company versus Portland
Lumber company. Franklin bowl, 12
o'clock noon; City of Portland versus
fit. Johns Lumber company. East
Twelfth and East Davis street grounds,
11 :36 a. m. 'The last three games are
problematical, because ths managers are
not sure whether or not they can have
their full teams out. The other contests
will be played without a doubt, weather
permitting.
TO MAKE TOUR 80OX
President Routledge. accompanied by
D. M. Slmonsen and William lleales. is
going to visit several towns of the Wil
lamette valley in hopes of getting at
least four within easy traveling dis
tance of Portland to Join the Intercity
T. O'Rourke Praises Dixon
WAS GREATEST MAN IN SQUARED CIRCLE
?
Thinks Fulton Coming Champ
league, which will be a part of the
Portland Baseball association.
It Is the Idea of the P. B. A. board
of managers to select four teams of
Portland to battle' the four beet out of
town nines, but just' what squads will
be selected to represent the Hose City
remains to be seen. 'It will be a diffi
cult task, according to the officers of
the organization, anfi tbey ask that all
managers help ttiem out of their diffi
culty as much as possible.
If there in a manager who feels that
he has a team which can be listed, as
one of the four bestj in the city, all he
has to do Is to notify President Jack
Routledge at A. G.' Spalding tt Bros.,
and the committee will look the boys
over. At present there are seven ag
gregations being .figured on to battle
among themselves to be selected for the
clans AA circuit of; the P. B. A., and
several more are expected to make ap
plication before the J 1st closes.
MtST HUI1RY TO GET IN
' April 15 has been decided on as the
final day for managers to send in their
applications for membership to the P.
B. A., and After that a schedule will
be drawn up4e time to start the regu
lar' campaign on May 2. Arrangements
have been made with Judge W. W. Mc
Credie to use the ; Twenty-fourth and
Vaughn street grounds when the Port
land Beavers are ob the road.
Meetings of the association a,re held
every Thursday night, starting at 8
o'clock, in the clubrooms of the Multno
mah Guard, second" floor of the Cham
ber of Commerce building, and anyone
interested in the promotion of semi-pro
baseball in Portland is Invited to attend.
BID MADE
FOR RING
TRYOUTS
Multnomah Club Seeking Western,
Tryouts for Olympic Boxersj
Mat Men Will Meet Here.
Vancouver Jtipa in Sporta
Vancouver, B. C' April 3. (I. N. S.)
Japanese in Vancouver have taken to
American games with surprising apti
tude. The Asahls, a local Japanese ath
letic club, plays most American games
with remarkable success and will have
a baseball team iri the field this sum
mer. During the- winter the Asahls
formed an toe hockey team that played
with surprising ability.
TONT be aurpj-iaed if the Olynipio
games Pacific Coast boxing trj
outs are held in Portland under tha
auspices of the Multnomah Amataur
Athletic club. The Winajed "M" ln-
stitution has been awarded tha wres
tling tryouta for this paction by th
Amateur Athletic Unkinand. T. Mor
ris Dunne, secretary-treasurer of th
Pacific Northwest association, haa
made application for tha mitt affairs
for the local organisation to be held,
in conjunction with tha wrestling;
"There are but five recognised wre
Ming weights in the; Olympic games.
says Dunne, "and If we can obtain th .
boxing too, we will hay the opportunity
of putting on tha greatest amateur boa
lng and wrestling tournament over held
on the Pacific coast. Eight weights are
Included In boxing and this meang that'
we would have plenty of competition
on hand to try to land places on tha
American team. t
WEIGHTS ARE DIFFERENT
"Unlike the regular boxing and wres -tling
program tho Olympic weights ar
termed different from what we are used, .
A featherweight wrestler weighs 132.31
pounds, while a lightweight is up t
148 81 pounds, a middleweight H5.IS'
pounds, and a light heavyweight is 181.89 '
pounds. All above the 181.88 poundage
are heavyweights. As for the boxer
11023 Is a flyweight, next comes ban
tam-weight at 118.84, featherweight.
125.86 : lightweight. 134.48 ; welterweight.
145.50 ; middleweight, 158.73 : light heavy- .
weight. 174.16, and above that all ar
Classed as heavyweights."
Ulille no definite dates have been se
lected for the mat tryeuts for the ter
ritory west of the Rocky mountains.
they will be held the latter part of
June. The Pacifio coast track and field'
engagements ars set for Pasadena on .
June 26 with the finals at Boston on .
July 17.
Dates of the state championship events
of the suites in the West have been sanc
tioned as follows by the American Trap
shooting association:
California-Nevada, at Vlsalia, April
16. 17 and 18.
Washington, at Tacoma, May 1. 3 and 3.
Oregon, at Portland, May 22. 23 and 24.
Utah, at Salt Lake. May 30 and 31.
British Columbia, at Vancouver, B. C-,
July 1 and 2.
Idaho, at Wallace, July 5 and 8.
Montana, at Kalispel, July 12 and 13.
The Walla Walla. Wash, Qua club
is making extensive preparations for the
Pacific uoast handicap tournament to be
staged June 14, 15 and 16. This shoot
will be one of the greatest ever held in
the Northwest, according to a number
of men who are in close touch with the
sport.
Johnny Noye Will
Battle Harry Casey
Pendleton, April 8. Umatilla eounty
sport followers will b treated to 28
rounds of topnotch boxing on Saturday,
April 10, in Happy'Canyon arena here,
under auspices of Pendleton post, Amer
ican Legion. The headline bout of 10
rcunds is to be between Johnny Noye,
St. Paul lightweight and Harry Casey
of Seattle. Denver Ed Martin will ref
eiee. An eight round preliminary be
tween Buddy Stevens of Pendleton and
Oene Bartell (Andy Jensen) of Walla
Walla is attracting much attention in
both towns. Walla Walla will send' a
iarge following over to back their, man.
Their bout will be preceded by a six
round affair between Tommy Barone,
St. Paul bantam, and Frankie Fontana
of San Francisco. The curtain raiser,
for four rounds, is between Sailor
Ritchie Davis of New York and Sergeant
White, now - stationed in Portland.
Colored Lightweight
May Box in Portland
Billy Foy, manager of Leo Patterson,
the colored boy who won the lightweight
championship of the A. B. F., haa ac
cepted an offer for Patterson to box
Charley White, Chicago crack, for the
War Veterans at Seattle, April 14. Pat
terson is now on his way to Join Foy,
who is at present in Portland. Hots,
Patterson and White may be seen in a
local ring after their Seattle setto. Tha
Leo Patterson In question ta not the Lao
attrson recently knocked out by Allie
Mack in , California. Foy's Patterson
recently defeated Cal Delaney and Har
vey Thorpe. His home is in SL Louis.
f it
By Bob
INTRODUCING Tom O'Rourke, the
only man who ever invaded the Old
South with a colored boxer and made
'em like it.
Tom is here in our
mist, because he has
certain attachments,
legal, perhaps, and
otherwise, o n the
mighty Fred Fulton.
Brushing Fulton
aside, as Gunboat
Smith hopes to do at
Milwaukie April 7,
we find Tom
O'Rourke standing in
a boxer's corner at
New Orleans during
the first week of
September, 1892.
DROPS SKELLT
Dixon was the
boxer's name Little Chocolate, he was
called by everybody who, knew him,
chocolate designating his color and he
was fighting a white boy named Jack
Skelly, who. was then considered one of
the best amateur boxers in the world
and who is now a boxing authority
palavering his stuff for a New York
daily.
"Dixon was the greatest fighter that
ever lived," said O'Rourke, taking me
back across the vale of tears and sitting
me down beside a ring, a wondering,
half-dazed child.
"You recail how ho could hit? With
either hand from any angle. Didn't make
much difference to Dixon. And that
loft will there ever be another like it?
Guess that foundry which made that
has run out of material. He was a
kuockerouU you know. Biff! Bang!
That's what Dixon did and the result
wat disastrous.
tlRST ONE TO BOX
"Let me tell' you a few secrets about
Little Chocolate. He could have won
the fight from Skelly that night in the
first round, but he wanted to give the
crowd a run for Its money. Then
again, he was a colored boy the first
one who had ever gone down there
and he was fighting a white boy who
was very popular. He didn't want to
get them against him, but he wanted to
win as soon as he could decently. He
asked me : "Mr. O'Rourke, I want, you
to let me carry that boy along a few
rounds, and then I'll put him out Re
luctantly I agreed with Dixon, and he
carried Skelly along for eight rounds
and then pulled down the curtains. It
was a good bout up to that time, a won
derful sparring exhibition, and when
Dixon decided he had given the boys
enough of himself, he stopped the ex
hibit stuff and ended the fight.
"Dixon did as much to heal the
wounds between the races in the South
as Booker T. Washington. The South
admired him as much as his own New
England did. When he left there, tbe
way had been made easy for other col
ored boys to wend their footsteps south
ward and fight without being hissed.
WAS A BANTAM
"Another thing I can tell you. They
always regarded Dixon as a feather
weight. He wasn't. He never weighed
ovtr 116 and often fought at 112 and
even 105. Weight with him was a minor
(ensideration. Featherweights and
lightweights looked alike to him. He
fi ught Young Griffo three draws
when Griffo weighed 145 pounds and
Dixon was fat at 116 for that fight,
"Dixon was clean white inside, game
ar they ever made 'em. and liked to boa
and fight. And he knew how. No one
can go to Little Chocolate's grave in
New York and say a word against him."
I'OOSTS PRESENT PROTEGE
O'Rourke talked tenderly of the won
derful little fighter and X detected a
catch in his voice more than once.
O'Rourke picked htm up a callow, inex
perienced kid and piloted him through
13 years of world championship form.
He held hie title longer than John L.
did his. That is some testimonial for
O'Rourke. who is now a greybeard, but
still jovial, and who has done more for
Fred Fulton in the short time he has
handled him than was ever done for him
before.
O'Rourke wasn't managing Fulton ',
when Dempsey copped him for Rip Van
Winkle land. But O'Rourke believes j
that big Fred wilt best Dempsey if they !
ever meet again.
9
Some boxers bear gifts for the fight
fans and some bear watching.
. .
Many a boxer, who had a terrible
punch in his day has' been unable to
punch a meal ticket later in life.
Knew a sport writer once who went
looney trying to Conceive a fraction
small enough to indicate what Tom
Sharkey spent on his friends.
Big Purses Many
On Track This Year
New York. April 8. I. N. S.) Nine-teen-twenty,
promises to be a record
year on the turf in the matter of valu
able stakes. The recent announcement
of the Kentucky Jockey club adding
thousands of dollars to all important
races In the Blue Grass state this year
and the added richness of eagtern turf
fixtures, such as the Futurity, the With
ers, the Belmont Handicap and many
others, indicate that any horseman who
turns out a big winning stable will
make a real killing. In the olden days
810,000 stakes on American race tracks
were considered enormous. When the
World's Fair derby wag run at Chicago
with $50,000 going to the winner it was
believed the top figure hi racing purses
had been reached. This year, however,
many races will be run in which the
winner will take down $50,000 or more.
ALL STAR
BOXWG
MILWAUKIE ARENA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7
GUNBOAT SMITH
vs. FRED FULTON
HUGH WALKER vs.
FRANK FARMER
And Three Other
High -Class Bouts
SEATS NOW ON SALE
'AT STILLEK'S, Broadway at Stark
AT BICH'S, Sixth at Wasblagtoa
Prleesi fL IS, SS, $U a asd war tax
Judge by oar window
s
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Now Comes the "Dress Up" Period of the Year
By buying now you can enjoy the freshness of the latest
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lower in price than tfiey will be later. Wear
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