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Speculation Rife As to What
Promoter Intended in
Heavyweight Division
Possible Successor Also
Intriguing Question.
By Alan .1. (iouJd.
Associated Press Hportii Editor
NEW YORK, Jan. 8. ()
What Tit RIckard would have
accomplished had he lived to
tarry out his elaborate plnnn of
fer as wldo a field of specula
tion as that surrounding hi pos
sible Hiicce&ior.
Only Tex himself knew of mnny
and no doubt darJnjc Idem ho ,n
terialnod. Ho figured rnont of
his bltf ventures out months nnd
ufton yours in fidvunoo. The pro
motor, for inxlanco, had his oyo
on Tunney ah the logical chal
lenger for Defpsey's, title, over u
year before Ciena nnd Jack c
ttinlly fought In Philadelphia. The
Tunney ballyhoo was as expertly
handled as that ostabllshlnK Cnr
pentlcr as a rival for tho Manassa
.Mauler.
Hlckard had mapped his plans
definitely this year for a heavy
weight revival featuring - Jack
!ernpHey'H come-back In ri bout
to he held nt the; Yankeo stadliint
in Heptember. Tho Htr bllng-Bhnr-key
match at Miami IJeach, Feb
ruury 27, Is the only tangible
part that remains, although It is
not unlikely that Dempsey, after
Kh VAv V ' - ft ;
lis Sjr
BENEFIT FOR JOE
S ADVOCATED BY
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A movement was started, or sup-!
Kf stcd, in tho Orcgoniaii Bund' hy j
Lair Oregory, sporting editor of ;
thnt newspaper, for a boxing bene-1
fit In Portland for Joo aormnn, j
the fighter, who haa. resided at ;
j GrantH Pass for several years pant
I arm who Js well known In Meif.
fonl. In a story reviewing Gor
man's pugilistic career and dilat
ing on ihn fact that ho is about
! to loflo his homo, through a mort
; gngo having been foreclosed on it,
.Gregory writes -rti follows:
i "Joe (lorman, the grandest llttli"
fighter Portland ever had, whose
num.' on a fight card a few vonrs
j bai'k was so crtain a guarantee
of action that the ringside and
j gallery customers foil over each
Klsa " v: . .. -. . .
"'ja I nas taimn on tough days In
Oram Pa.-i, whnro h now makes
iii ., VI j "is homn. His homo wan mort
y ' ,M'", "ntl tlln ,nortS'iR0 ha" b"n
uufl jiiiK a year to r-
t eem It. f tin inn hnr 4,AHA n
anil it's a cluomy outlook. Ho Joo;
whose flying flshi .beat down some
It's not eln to ho a tvnlkaway for any team hi tho Poi-iric Cnam of be"t loy Hie Pnolfic coast
cunrercntv. All but loin' teams iitwk plenty of MHirluic punch. Alxivc I ewr hni'. who might have become
. ' .. ... i i . I World's fiinlhnmjolcl,
art. iiirif UI w hilus ill I'll? ui.-iv(l lulif, I ..-.,.. mihuihh.i .
i : "y being the first to defeat Johnny '
l.OS ANGELES, Jan. 8. -(P) I Tho California - a( - Los Angeles Kllbane. had he not gotten home-I
rtasketball material appears to be j.,.unSi un(er radtly 'Wbrcls, will "l0,t " fed home Just when Tex '
so evenly divided among at least - , Hlckard was talking about nrrang- j
six of tho 10 conference teams of: ' Ing the match, asks the chance
rtie. Pacific const as to presage n j Coa'"- conference nnd present a . to entPr lne f(,,1( Roms aga,n Bnd I
bewilderlngly close race for tho 'small but fust team with only one fight his way back ,
chtwnplonshlp. The season opens ' of Inst year's string lost. "I don't know how good Joo Is, I
January 10, I Ktanford, not In tho money Inst nor what ho can do. Many hnvo
nuui'M.rii V iiuiui inn, wiiiiii'r ihm j n.-tinwn, in Kiviriaii mi'-M iiiii.mik mi'U lO COIIie unCK, ICW haVO HUC-
yeur, has seven returning lelterthe lenders' this yeui with tlu- re-! ceetled at his ago, which Is 30.
men to contribute to its title fever. turn or virtually the whole vur-' Willie Itltchle tried It a year or
l.loyd Thomas of football fame will I sity plus able eagers from a pow- ho ago in Knn KranelHCio. .lohnnv
he has fully rooovorod from the ' rl,,,""n ln" 1 r0J"n l11"""- irnm f eriui iresinnan miunn. uunueo is attempting a return now.
.hr,,.i, f hiu frf,v. ,1 ,.n 1 1. ,no,tni gunni position, lie will Do -in conieiennc tr
I'rritory Is split . So is Jnck llrllton. They seem to
decide to go through with his part
of the program. Jack may feel
that this would have been Miek-
ard's wish, regardless of whether
supported by two nil-Coast pluyors, Into two divisions, with Hie win-j be doing fairly woll.
Jesse Mortensen, cerjter, and J. j ners of each plnylng the other for j "Joe Gorman never was a dissi
Lehnei'S, guard. tho all-conferonee lienors. Wash-' pnter, so he has a chance. It wns
The Trojans accept tho boiler ; ington. winner or the northern half : a little more than four years ago,
fornla, If there Is any choice,
my
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there may bo a call for tliff old of nevernl hoop mentors that C'ntl- j In . las. Is favored to repeat, but in October of 1924. that ho madej
man mauler to tnke tip some
executive
Itlekard
o, I figures to have the closest kind of i his last Portland appearance,
t- j competition from Hilly Hhineharl.'s ' against Nolle Cervantes He tells
en. The Golden Hoars have a sour-1 Oregon lossers. Washington has me he fought 10 or IS
responsibilities left by Htnnds out as the team to be beat
en, i in. i louieii neiii s "live a si'iii - v.i i-s"ii mi.wim. iiimiiiiki'iii ".is me ne lougnt UI or 15 times in I
To Go Konth. ' lnK machine mint nroumi too tan i most or us veterans in tne lineup ixis Angeles in 11)25 and that since!
Those eloss to Itlekard bollove "d fnst center, Vern Corbln, who; again, including Jlonly Hniiler and retiring to Grants Pass ho never
he planned to make tho Htrlbllng-! "laved out of football to train fori Percy llcilslad, star forwards. him entirely withdrawn from ring!
Hhnrkey fight tho faro-runner of."1" K" go. .nils rrire. wno Oregon muiio iooks use u run- activity, lie has been fighting in
extensive operations In tho south, coaches both football and basket- ner-up. On paper. Idaho, Wash- the smaller places lately, and points
with Miami Beach as the baso'". developed i ormn into a ingion nunc nnu jiomana appear . proudly to a record of nine straight
INCH WHEELBASE
for a proRrnm of winter HPrt
compfinion to his lntorHtH In New
York. SlKnlfkant In- tltlH oonnpi;
tlon in thut Kick ara had invented
fiihuluntlally In th Ml a mi Hoach
Kennol club, benldcH holding other
Florida intprnnts.
For yearn Hlekn,rd mnnouvered
In an effort to obtain poHHt'UHlon !
of an oytdoor arena ln tho metropolitan-
district or to ereot no
marvel nt ItaHket HhootlnK.
1 to havn Iomh roHfitto proHpcctM.
Baskets and
Bank
DO
tip. '4
wins, of which four were by knock
out, lie still packs tho old wal
lop. "Joe is In Portland now, working
out dally to get back his old condi
tion, almost pathetically eager, f,
return to form and boeomu a nbn
ev maker and ntjincilon nKn to
what lie was of old.
nnu pel-naps joe can do It. nut
Southern Oregon Sales and Service
Medford Ashland
was seldom uhlo to hold them long
enough to cause damage. Several
Mmpu he iiti-kofl I hn Pi.i'tln ti.l .Tt-un. '
mis iao. wno ni.l so ' uler oft' his feet anil tossed him
j much for boxing In the northwest, around und several times he
Itv Forrest. tPlinat Allen shin Plrst" their chief nhlectlVO.
winch would enable him to plan t i;m,t.n. xtonal Himketbiill 1 Hv printing Hie code of sports-
bls big outdoor spectacles with Coaches Association) linnnshlp, which has been adopted ' who fought always with the best downed Kruse with vicious head-
mo samo ceruiiiny ne operiueu, j)p Iam(,H Nnwn(l orlglna-1 ''V our "Ohools and colM mat was in htm I'd hate to see locks to no avail.
Indoors at Madison Square Onr-I ' : i,im, and by offering to send, .loe Gorman buttered about bynl Once or twice Kruse resorted to
den. It can only bo speculated tor ",0 B"m "UHI" ; without charge, a largo typo boy he could once Have run through tactics not eutirolv approved by
upon whether he eventually estimates that, at the present time -n i-tl l.oiit-il. 14x22 Inches, to any- the ropes. tho crowd, a round of "Iiook" flllini;
hoped to gain control of the Polo there are IS. 000, 000 people play- one upon reiuost, they have mado "Something should be clone about tnu theatre as fans voiced their
Grounds or hulld n now arena In ng this Indoor game. a very constructive contribution, that mortgage, however, ami I'm disapproval. As an exhibit ion of
Jersey city, as it Is said ho con-1 The reason why basketball has such requests should be sent to wondering If the Portland boxing strength the mutch has never been
lemplnted. Isprrad so uniformly to all tho the Amerli un Hporta Publishing commission couldn't put on for Joe "'1'ialed in Medl'onl, with Kvans
timmii iiiiisfx-n. innuuns or tne globe is umiouiji mpanv, -lli Hose street, aow Gorman one of this
As far back as 1024 Itlekard c,uy riuo to the Incidents of ItM York t'liy. Such efforts edify time benefit shows.
souniieit out colonel Jacob Hup- inception. In 1801, whon young snorts. i "I believe the bnv.
rousing old-
pert on tho poss'billty of ncquir- Nuismith originated tho game, he
ing tho New York Yankees, ,,. ,v teacher at the Hprlngfleld,
world's champions then, as now. muhs., Y. Af. C. A. Internntlonnl
It was nut so much thnt Tx- Train ng school. i
desired to Invade the baseball field Naturally. tho secretaries sent
as ho desired to have control of om fl.l)m th ho'oi, onrrled tho
an arena auequnui to sisgo nm know ei go of tho court unmo. torv.
outdoor boxing extiavagansas; nlong with their other work, Into Keep a sound soul, a clean
Kailing in tnai ho conducted ne- nn ln0 worl(1 ,, tuutrht tho mind, and a healthy body.
K.'op the rules.
Keep faith with your comrades.
Keep your temper.
Keep yourself fit.
Keep a sloul heart In defeat.
Keep your nrldo tinder In vie-
breaking holds by sheer muscle,
power, vexing Knise, who would
then wrestle all the hurtlor.
, Sympathy and support were gen
erally with the Indian, who had
already lost once In Stanford, and
now that lie has lost a second time
it is hardly probable that ho will
appear here again. Ho Is a gooil
man and luut remarkahln strength,
his only weakness being lack ot
of basketball to all
manager, loo, If they feel that do
lulling their own services is too
gotlnttons over a cons deratilo pe- principles
rinn tor tne purennso ot a con- peoples.
trolling intorest ln tho Now York believe that this Is tho rea-Giants-
from Charles A.. Stone- n W,y mor, 1100,,0 ur0 piny ng
ham. bnskotball today . than any other
Two years ago it was under- Kumoand the end is not yet.
stood Itlekard and his associates practically every foreign conn
offered Htnneham $2,600,000 for .y tuU,H 1)llUorl,ull ntt(r 0ur
f.l per cent of tho Giants' stock, American game. They look to
but these negotiations foil through. , mthp country, and
H was Jtlckard's plan, If ho oh- lmv0 a rKht , ,,x,100t Kuldanco
tallied such control, to convert fl.om , , fnmlating rules nnd
the Polo Grounds Into an all- , BmllK sportsmanship,
uports arena und lenso the Yan- koIh.oui, .n . tmt bo
Itee stadium for the homo games ,,,, rw,V(1, , ocent copies of tho I
of the Giants. To tho boxing pro- ,.,,. fl.om Oreeeo and Turkoy.
. " '" Also, in tiermnny and Kranco tno ..iimi)onHhlii was held today ,,iv .i. ,.,n,i..a..
xers themselves
would glndlv appear on such a
card for the minimum percentage
perhaps for nothing. When joo
himself was In his prime ho was
alwnys ready to do that fur a fel
low boxer out of luck. I recall
one such show that sold out and
packed the st'nioev l it.l.ll.
as the headline attraction, donated speed uml 8,-'""- however, Kv-
hls entire share. A real fight, too:
a whole card of real tights. Yei.
if I remember right', all the box
ers fought for nothing hut expenses.
nut pay them, If necessary. Pav
ins may take to a stiff training
course ami make a surprising cam
back. In tho Beml-windup Tommy
Ryan, Medford's wrestling tailor,
the matchmaker and the business " o "." , ' T T' ' n."
EIIGHJ
CROWN TAKEN FROM
WICVCDC DV nCPIQlflM "''''' ! " '' got m,
V LILIW Dl ULu o U l on 11 """ Hhow n Mk hpn-
Kiune m iiumuiiiiiiK, 1 lie Char ey "Midget" Fisher. Iltll- . "II seems I., me ll.l.t ,oh I
I .... .... 1 ,.
that there should, bo two such
nig parks Klin uunng unit ot mo , ,.,. of K,iro,, mnko
.baseball season nnd nearly nil tho ,IirK1, )1ly ,,,, pvohn.mvo. ts-
rest of tho year. Tex content- k,,,)nu f,B admirably Into such
..U....I . n . n .1 n I n .. tl,n Inln .......
i'"u,,u i ... - a scheme, anu also, into tno tern-. i,,i .,.... i... .ini,,,u Mi.v.u-M
peraments or mese central rairo-
iilirbt lit the Itl'nildwaV
games seriously. Althougif Meyers claimed ttio
Mrmwt C Oubflev. the Natlonnl ' ...... . ..t i..A.i .. i.i.
footlmll, soccer and other -Ports. ; ,llKml ,,, nml ,lmJm. B01.tli; "V.tl..n ."straining the Illinois
- loini'ini. vriien mo iroin iiiumn.
Powell was not In condition und
fh. F.nm kalm. Dunn'd ..anal 1 w.
much of a llilng to ask. Forge, " " " ZZ? '
his matches in Med lord nnd Is
nnnrimr ninin nvent enllbei
Ight box an ex-1 i.. k. n..ai ,.;.u,i., v.. i...
, bin lion himself on the card, or a tpr art curly Woods wrestled 15
,..ii,-,,i , ., s v .ii- desires. Tholi turn ntinutoa ton hard fought draw. Tho
I K A o Jut . A . Is- over every cent ot net pnn oods to boy,, WB1.e ovenly m,cl,ed and pro-
puled worlds middleweight rosl- be administered as a trust fund to . vi.tert o aH .vhihi.tnn P.r.,.
had not appeared in Medford for
over a year anil went Into the
match against a hard handicup.
lernut. Win., lumberjack. - fit the sniullost thing we could
t.n nshei s shoulders rested no ,, tor Jm, ciorman, who does : Woods having been wrestling in lo-
.,..,.,.,.,.. ...... nlu K U,,H .,., ,, yml hutlcnl rings for the past several
Hounds so that it would bo ,.,. , , ..,, Kllrn . '", . " " T ". " 7.: "n, 'r u.o enance-to prove he
.onioned for blko racing and bet- , u-Mi,r. ink. r .'". " '. I . ' . . " . ' """" " " fignier and
" i ..... !,,. . ... . v lllglll III HIT Ifl-naoway iiriiuii y.
I.T urinusiTu iui .wjiiiik .,...., tj,,,
while still having iini.i room tor
make his own way.1
state nthletlo commission from
awarding the crown to anyone else
the commission recognized Gus
in It. At the old Garden, he
tried Indoor swimming, tit n.ldl
ivnuo mcKiirds promotion oi- .,., ,mBi,.,i,nli i,,i tnhm n
flirts wore confined chiefly to box- , ,,,,, , , , orientals.
I 1. n-nn i,.t-nunA.l tllu UK . . . ' . ....
" .,,. ...r, (,n,nt nirutiKH nltoiHi n oi tneir .-..in., i n..iu..tn.i ..h
llnifnenH to nromotrt nnythlnK it ,,,, i , ' ,.,,'.,,
tbero wen, poHH.bUltld of a f lmHkoUvOI lA Pp0ftlinRJ .... '
The clone up of tho Mnmo tho hnA won n faU whin t,; Wm
nniMi it 1 n v thn knhldoRonnloi , . .
n;,l..b'k.H "'ir?"'".'..".'" ::'"-.. umberjack after thlrty-slx mor.
professional tennis In 1021, yenm , caMlii;l Bn(, cmh,t,ho drib- """UlP" "C "ri!""'u" .
before tho pioneer efforts notu- i.i,i, .uriils nnd the sollls
nlu u'am mailA In .HIm flAliI liV .. . . . ..
" ' me sensnuonni suois logeiner
C. C. Pyle, who used tho new wh ,,, qulck BnB,y ,nm worK
i.iiruen ior mo u.-mn . employed
LACK OF SCIENCE
DEFEAT TO EVANS
In trettlmr ithn Isill
LengJon-Itlchnrds troupe hero In ,,own nor nm.0,t tho m
192(1. Rlckurd was intiuentiai in 1(on, (0ny,
establishing ice hockey on a big A nmo ,0 pon onrl
league bails In New York. Olympic calendar! And why not? I
.noi an oi uicKiirns iiiKii.iu.- illlKttmi nlM , uniform the
i SIXTY T
E
ered plans nintorlnllted. At ono wnrlrt over,
time he considered singing the Vnr ,hlH nnA tot tn(,r sufflc-Klrpo-Dempeey
bout In Huenoe mmn,t ,ie rules of this
Aires. Kor several years ho also h0i ,o changed but sel-
considered promoting a title l'ut jm, n w change our rules too
with Harry Wills a tne cnai- f,rl) ,hen 1h(l foreign countries Georgia Tech on their arrival here
longer, but opposition irom u- will make rules of their own and from Pasadena; Cul.. und their
rlous nourcea to a mixea com., hukethall will lose its Interna
ns well othor obslocles, forced t0,, possibilities,
him to abandon the plan. Hick- Tno jint busketball rulee com
nrd actually had tho tickets for a mittee. under the leadership of
Wllle-Dempsey bout printed nt Director U W. Kt. John of Ohio
one time, bearing tho date of Bop- Htalo university. Is doing a spleu-
tcnibcr 6, 1924.
Game, but outclassed', Art Evans,
tho Cherokee wrestler of Oklaho
ma, lost two straight falls at the
Kloltb theatre lost night to Bob
Kruse of I'ortluud. . Kvans. the
tronger of the pair, broke many
holds with brute strength, but was
'unable to cope wilb the euperlnr
ATLANTA, G Jan. if. i science of the Portland man. who
Tire most enthusiastic welcome f Is regarded as world's heavyweight
ever wuuessen ill Atlanta was ao-
rorded the conquering hei-oes of
championship timber.
Kvans lost the first' full In 32
minutes with an urtn strunglo. and
the second fall came in 1!) minutes
Kotw Itowl victory over California when Kruno forced a butnmorlock
New Year's day. - O ' w,ln ,lle B""',nirth of his entire
Some do. ono persons jammed : body and both arms, giving Krana
the tormina) station to cheer the 1 uo other alternative than to pat
warriors. Police on motorcycles tho mat. During the various slaves
found It difficult to make a path 'of the match Kvana managed to
did thing In making "Sportsman-1 through tho downtown crowds. Iplure decisive holds on Kruse but
months.- Despite that fnct. Porter
gave him a hard match and fans
are wondering if they will see the
two together again tho next time
ln a longer mutch, giving better
opportunity to show llteir wares.
, The next match will take place
.Tunttary -1 and will feature tie J
best men that the wrestling mini
agemenf of the Klnlto thentre'ean
procure. Sailor Jack Wood, who j
wrestles Vreil Mortensen in Grants i
Pass tonight, wag the official ret-,
eree and nnnotincer. ,
StopThat Cough
Quicld
Famous Prescription Has a ;
Double Action j
Th phnomnnl nupoom of n
famous doctor's pnmrhtlon enllod I
Thoxlne 1m due to it doublo notion. .
ll lmmdltily Hooting tho Irrita- ;
tlon and kov direct to tho Internal -cuune
not reached hy nntent niedl-1
olne and coiijrh nympn. The very .
flrt Ktrnllow uNually relieves eveu ;
the tnont- obntinntA couich.
Thoxina contalnn o chlbloform,
done or other dangoroutt druK
Safe and pleasant for the whole
family. Aim tTtceHrnt for norei
throat. Quick relief or yMjr mnnev
buck. 3Rc. (e and 11.00. Hold by'
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stores.
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