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Page 1: FIRST FIGHT IS LEONARD IS kFOR ROSE · STAR?FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1917. PAGE 13 IChet Neff Starts Out to Take AllComers to Prove His Claim to the Title FIRST FIGHT IS SET kFOR TONIGHT IN

STAR?FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1917. PAGE 13

IChet Neff Starts Out to Take All Comers to Prove His Claim to the TitleFIRST FIGHT IS SET

kFOR TONIGHT IN ROSEt CITY WITH SULLIVAN

By EDWAKI) HILL

WIIAI is no donbt the first of ;» series of fights in which( hct Nell will participate t<> show that he has a clear

claim to Pacific toast lightweight title, which he won fromJohnny Arrousey in I.os Angeles, will he staged tonight inPortland where Neff on Krankie Sullivan, the rnggedl.o« Angeles lightweight who has appeared in Seattle on anumber of occasions.

Dan Salt and his protege have decided to meet all comer*as rapidly as possible.

The sccotvl melee in the battle t<» he waged by Neff wilttake place a week from tonight in Dreamland when he take*on Llovd Madden, former N*. \V. champion, and followingthat he meets Archie Wvard in the I'lks' gym on the 14thof this month.

PORTLAND MANAGER HASCHINESE BOXEP

Slurp, Uu> boy promoter of

Hmnd. «rtt«i that he h»a tin-a "yellow peril" In the per-

P>iiaK<* of a Chinese bants -.weight

named Frankle Woo. )-*rankte I*from Chlcego. and. according toSharp, la no slouch at the mltt-?llnglng art. having bucked upagainst such lad* ta JohnnyRitchie, Johnny Coulon. Joe Bur-man. Zulu Kid, and others In theRant

The Oriental has been out of thefame for mors than a year, liehad finned a contract to bos InNew Orleana when he «i< offereda position as secretary to a hi*Chinese firm In Chicago, and de-cided to quit the fight game andenter upon a bualnea* career Aft

er a trial at office work, he chang-ed his mtnd. however.

McCOOL AND ALLEN WANTSEATTLE BOUTS

Shell McCooJ and Jack Allen,two Portland boiers, featherweightan<! lightweight respwtlreljr," areanxious to sho* their wares In a Se-attle ring Alien has been seen hereonc« and la aniiou* to come back,? s he believes he did not show togood advantage in hi* first melee

McCool haii never hwn seen here,

but Is a clever youngster and la

fcratlcularlr anxious to take on HtidIBAr. I/onnl« Austin's littleUMI gladiator.

NCW YORK ABOUT TO LOSEITS BOXING BILL

Seattle promoters who prefer tosquabble rather than fall in line In?n effort to work together ind fur-ther the better Interest! of boxing

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FRESNO. CALIFORNIA. LOSESFOR SAME REASON

Hosing bouts are no longer per-mitted In K"re*no, Cal., for thesame reason that I* threateningthe local situation. The promoter*

couldn't g*»t together, and the city

officials finally got tired of th'lrcroaking and squawking and put

the lid on the fistic art for goodand all. It appear*.

FRISCO GETS "TOO MUCH"OF GOOD THING

Another Instance of where thafailure of promoter* to get togrth

er Is doing the boxing game moreharm than good la cited in SanFrancisco.

The San Francisco Examinersay s:

' I .ocal boxing followers aresomewhat disgruntled with the pro-moters. Complaints arc beinghesrd that dates are bunched.

"The congestion that Is going toensue next week, when two boxingshows and a wrestling match areto be st&x'd on the same night,preceded by a boxing show thenight before and one two nightaafter. Is Instanced as the cause forcomplaint. It Is being freely said

thu this sort of thing to going tohurt both t-oxlng and wreatllug. fi-nancially and otherwise."

WILLIE HOPPE TAKES ONSAMMY OOOD TONIGHT

Willie ll'>upe. the slugging SenFrancisco lightweight, and Sammyrjood. the old Seattle fa\orite, arescheduled to tangle tonight In afour-round rUah at Sacramento.Following his bout tonight, lloppetries on "ilattllng" Nick at SanDiego.

Seattle Ice HockeyTeam Taket on Patm

Tonight in SpokaneA tough Ice hockay gam* Is

looked for tonight, when theSeattle Metropolitans mixthings with the Spokane duk,

in the Inland Empire metropo-

lis.The aame elube tangled here

Tuesday In one of the meatfurious fracases of the eeaeon.The race to eo cloee that anyof the three clubs, Seattle. Spo-kane or Vancouver, baa achance to cop the gonfalon andplay the winners of the Nation-al aasociation for the world'schampionship.

While Seattle battles In Spo-kane. Portland will again betaking on Vancouver.

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G«n« Hatton, Seattle's mostpopular sportsman, come*

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around sportsman as well.

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Washington five times In ns-tlorval rifle tournaments andhas J2 medals and thrss cupswhich he has won at varioustimes. He holds the Washing-ton atate Championship.

Net only Is Seattle's mostpopular sportsman an adept

NEW YORK, Feb. 2? With

Bobby Jones, Norman H. Max-

well. and Perry Adair already

sticking around the topmost

part of golfs ladder of fame.chasers of the elusive guttapercha are 'naturally beginningto wonder wotlneamhlll is go-ing to happen to the grand oldgame nest summer.Very *o>>d and sufficient reason

for th«> mysterious murmurlnKs arefound In retrosjiection, vlx ThatFrancla Oufmet became «n openchampion snd an Infsnt prodigy

when he was but a youth. Also.Walter Travis advanced far Intohis days and then cracked li>osewith a championship or so

Also, on,j Thick Evans. who horn-ed around the top for a long time,

finally busted Into a pair of cham-pionship* all in one summer, after

he hsd barely missed any number

of times.

HATTON IS CRACK RIFLESHOT AND STARS AT GOLF

AND TENNIS; REAL FANTHE FINISH

Gene Hatton 19.105Charley Huisn 18.990"Rubs" Walden 18.975C B Paulson 14.204Jce Walsh 10.380

tennis tournamnat three yensago.

with the rifle, but he excels Insome other lines of athletle en-deavor as well. He reached thesemi-finals In a recent golftourney, and. If memory servesus correctly, won the playfleld

GOLF IS CERTAINLYHARD GAME TO DOPE,EXPERTS ARE AGREED

Hatton l( vie* president ofthe Seattle Rifle and Revolveraaaoclatlon and an ardent fol-lower of all forma of athletics,baaeball, football, hockey, box-ing. and la tald to In a fosyqulllar on lea akatae.

Alto, he i* an enthueiaeticautolat.

Whan not too buay doingeomething else. ha helpa runtha firm of Hatton A Oliver,

haberdasher* at Second andMarlon, of which he Is ? mem-ber.

Porn« one rose to remark notlong ago that the day of the oldman was iwsslng from the good oldgame of hit It and pursue It. Hutone la led to wonder where In past[?erformances he get* *uch dope Ifany one can figure that aome one'*great grandfather Isn't about due tocop all the championship* thl*country can spare nr-Jt summer. Itwould be worth while to hear himexplain why.

It I* quite true that the youngatera *r coming to the front, butthey have done It In apurt*. Thedanger of an unahaved youth wear-ing away the crown* next summerIsn't any greater than that thenewspaper* will print picture* ofsome gray-beard aa the neat chainplon.

Nothing I* an fleeting a* golf

fame, and no direction ha* a cinchon the runway It I* ju*t a* likelyto run toward the cemetery as tothe cradle

Baseball to Go Onin Spile of Shaky

Conditiona, Says He

CHICAGO. Feb. T?Severance ofdiplomatic relation* with Germany.In the opinion of President Weeghman of tbe Cub*, would not meanthe discontinuance of organizedbaaebail for a s<-ason.

Hut Weeghman believes It wouldl>e th« signal for a general re-trenching ull along the line In th?*major*. Training camps might beabandoned, and player* who havenot returned signed contract*probably Aould face a further cutIn salaries.

"Just at present. It look* like atough has ball season," Weeghmansaid "I liavn not feared the pla)-ers strike at any time, but It willbe different should business be af-fected by war."

Champion Lo»e»,In Cue Battle

NKW YORK. Feb. 2?CharlesMcCourt, the Cleveland billiardcrack, defeated George Moore,champion, here last night In thesecond block of their match. f>* to39. Moore won the first black. Thescore: McCourt 100, Moore S9.

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Gene Hatton

jabs!ByHill

I have to have a change." ho said,

*I"M tlietn jive the winning club 90(wt cent of the player*' share andKlve the losers 10 per cent of thewinning club's chare.

"Thl* Idea of giving every clubIn each league a whack at It Isaltogether wrong. I)o you supposethey would go on thru without i>ool-Ing the sum to be divided a differ-ent way? Not on your life. They'dturn It Into a cinch for some city),and then the tallend<rs would ceajte

ito play their hardest."Foster went back to the daya

[when the world'* srrlea «ai started

BEFORE Eddie Plnkman foughtCh't Sett In IJreamland laatKrldiiy night, his father, so

the atory goes. promised him anauto If he would lay Neff low. ThisKdille failed to do. however.

Id order to spur himself on withthe hope that he would take thepater down the line for the prom-ised car. Oldie stationed a friendof lila In hla corner. WheneverKddle weakened the friend waa toyell:

"Hrlscoe"' the nam" of the makeof car Eddie wan going to pur-chase.

In the second round. Kddle'sfriend got busy.

Tommy Hums, former heavy-weight effnmpion of the world, wasthe referee. He heard the call andthought some one was yelling"Bristol."

Tommy had a law*uit while Inlirtstol. Kngland. and thought that*otne of hi* friends were on handand were yelling at him. lie nearly broke hi* neck trying to locntethe party, which he finally did.

After the bout an explanationfollowed the question.

? ? ?

((TIDE" MORELAND. the

.J young t wirier who wascoming to Seattle at tho

beginning of last season but wentto Halt l.ai.e Instead and failed to

stick. Is against all benefits forball players.

"Jude" was pitching for a bushball club In Portland when It tooka trip out of town. In stopping ahot one with his face. Morelandlost three front teeth forc-ed to retire to a dentists office.

As soon as his molars were Inworking order again, the fans ofthe town where the Injury wassustained. Vancouver. Wash., bythe way, decided to give him abenefit.

lie got an all-star team of bush-ers and cartod them across the Co-lumbia rlv«r from Portland. Allthe proceeds of the contcst wereto go to him to pay his dentistbill

When time for the game came,about 15 people were In the stand.The proceods were counted, and Itwas found that "Jude" lacked 30cents of having enough to pay thecar faro of his ball team back toPortland.

Amateur PuckChasers Ready for

Tonight's Double BillFor the first time In many

many moons, the Amateur IceHockey league has no rival ath-letic event occurring on thesame night on which It plays.As a result, a large crowd is ex-pected to turn out tonight atthe Arena to see the Knights of

Columbus mix with the S. A. C.and the Bankers and Autolstsclash.

The Auto club, which Is nowleading the circuit, has beenpracticing hard of late, and de-clares it Is not to be downedtonight.

Looks Dubious forSunday Soccerites

Vnleaa Old Sol Rots on the job Inmighty quick ordor, (hero Will lielittle opportunity offered soccerfootball fnna Sunday to glimpsetheir favorite pastime, hunt Kuu-day'fl games were postponed on ac-count of the unow.

Western LeagrueMeets Feb. 15

NEW YORK. Feb 2 ?Laugh-ing at the variously colored andscented suggestions for changesIn the manner of conducting the

annual world's series, John P.Foster, secretary of the New

York National league club, de-

clared today there isn't reallyanything to be done about it.

If the magnates feel they really

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 2.?Theofflclnl transfer of the Topeka clubto Joplln will he made hero on Feb-ruary 15, when the. annual meeting

of the Western Baseball leaguecalled to order.

Playera Don't Reallie"The player* don't realize." he

said, "that the world's series wasstarted for their especial benefit.They got Into the first cut becausetho magnates wanted to give thechampionship clubs a bonus fortheir work. It never was the Inten-

BENNY LEONARD ISAGAIN GOING WELLIN GOTHAM CIRCLE

BY H. C. HAMILTONtrntt"'! Htsff 'V»rre»p«ndS*>t

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.?BennyLeonard, New York's premier light-

weight, today began effort* to get

Freddie Welsh Into the ring again,

ilia allowing thla week, during

which time he hae conclusively

proven hi* worth, entitle* him to

another chance- If the legislature

doe* not put the screws on boxingwith an antlblll.

Leonard last nlfollowed hl»victory over I'hil Bloom by lam-basting Prank!<? Callahan In a ten-roiind bout. Ilia left band wan *tlllunder *m|m, so he administeredthe beat In* solely with the right.

Callahan fought gamely, but wa*

OlltrlaxxifJ.Fred Fulton began training today

for his fin** with Charley Weinertthe night of February 12.

Basket Games Onin School League

Franklin will meet Ballard andBroadway Queen Anne tonight, atbasketball, in the High Hchoolleague. The more Important game

of the two 1* slated for the Broad-way gym. Should the Quay *chooltriumph over Broadway, the line

streetera will drop down to a tie forfirst plare in the b-ague race.

Maybe an amateur It a fellowwho ran't p«*t anybody to pay him.In that cam» mont raeslera would

I be amateur*.

FOSTER LAUGHS AWAYRUMORS OF CHANGE IN

STAGING BALL SERIESlion to have others participate.Now, when the aeason advance#across the Fourth of July mark, theonly thing the first division club#can Bee Is the old dollar mark, andIt stick* In their craws right up tothe last game."

KV)«ter believes something shouldbo done, and that quick, but hedoesn't Jibe with the suggestionthat the number of games or theruins governing them be changed,with the exception of the manner ofdividing the (jate receipt!.

Elks' Basketeersto Play at Home

The Elks' basketball squad will

play its first game on its home

floor tomorrow night, against theKnights of Columbus. In the othergame of the Northwest Basketballleague, Bremerton will tackle Rea-ton at Kenton.

Now that Grayson ha* been ap-pointed a rear admiral because ofhis golfing. "Chick" Evans ought to

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