hlE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. JANUARY 21, 1912-- my old opponent, again, and this time I expect to turn the tables on him. was only man to get GOOD-NATURE- D, 111 BOXING You. know he the TURNERS AREiUSY HARRABANSETT 15 BE SCANDAL a decision over me while I was here. COLLEGE YELL LEADER MUST After I meet Smith I will be ready for any ot them. Sam Langford Included, PSYCHOLOGIST. GENERAL and don't Imagine that the negro is to KEEPS CROPPING UP have a snap. I will keep him busy, NEWPORT'S RIVAL and he won't need to look for Jack Rooter King Eu Hard Job and Every Bit of Tact Is Required to Keep Crowd Feeling Eight He Must Himself Johnson. Men, Women and Children to Be Noiaenuker, Clothes Model and Musician. "The .boxing game Is booming here, and big crowds turn out at all the Be Seen Heilig shows. Clabby drew big with Smith. at Soon. You can also tell those middleweight! Johnson-Corbe- tt Controversy back home that when I return I will Point Judith Country Club meet any or all of them, for I still Brings to Mind Confes- claim the title at 158 pounds, ringside, of Entertain- the weight I beat Billy Papke at when EXHIBITION DUE JANUARY 29 Seeks Honor I fought him here. They never cov- sions of O'Brien. ered my J1000 forfeit In the States ing Tennis Players. while I had it up, but challenged after I sailed for Australia. Vwell. I will give them a chance when I return. Best re- gards to all. Johnny." Athletic Show, Fourth Annal Affair, ft ORGANIZED GAME IS URGED Promises to Be Unusually Inter-estln- g PORTLAND ASKED TO AID Fencers to Go to Olympiad. Pantomime Baseball NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (Special.) America will be represented at the Game Is Novelty In Itself. f Olympic games In Sweden next year by Suggestion Made That National Com a fencing team. This will be the first Larned Talked of mm Probable Sno Ring time In the history of the tollmen that mission Take Charge of All the United States has sent a team to - cwwir to President ot Katohea and Forever Bar All compete against fencers from other The fourth annual exhibition of tba National Association John- countries in a meet of this character. Portland Turn Vereln is to be held on Fakers Thompson Confident, The Amateur Fencers' League of Monday, January 29, at the Heilig The- ston Porter Wont Ran. America Is back of the move, and the chief spirit is Dr. Graeme M. Ham- ater. AH of Professor Genserowskl's mond, president of the National asso- pupils, from the to the ciation. Before the team Is selected a women's and men's classes, will do ttv TOM 8. ANDREWS. series of bouts will be held at the New various stunts illustrative of the Ger- BT RALPH H. MITCHELL. ""MTLWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 30. (Spe York Athletlo Club. These series of man system of physical culture on the great- Newport 1 going to - , an impossi bouts will determine the makeup of stage that evening. One of the That have ' .C I . , I I cial it seems almost Na- sSrxc. boxing game free tha team. est features will be the two teams, the strenuous time trying to hold tha blllty to keep the women's and the men's, which won the tional lawn tennla tournament mla from allea-e-d scandal, no matter wheth prize congress thla year la evident from tba fight any to such reports first at the recent at aa er there Is truth Los Angeles. which baa already reached far waat or not. A few years ago tne ooiihb TOO LAX The overture to the regular athletic aa Portland through a com muni cation by accusations INTEREST IS - world was startled show will- be a selection from "Tann-hauser- ," received by F. H. V. Andrews, former 'I .j. w . Jak O'Brien, of Philadel given by the Choral Society chairman of tha Irvlngton Club tennla - 21 hV .2:i phla. In which he said he had faked committee, from tha Point Coun r - IP of the Turn Vereln. This band of sing- Judith certain bouts witn proniiunui "uDi al- try Club, located at Narragansett. K. L statements were Incorrect, ers Is a treat all by itself and has Some of his JOHNSON-FLY"- X SIATCH VTIL ways enjoyed a good share of the ap- which la a candidate for tha honor. but ha tried to make It as sensational plause at the former exhibitions of the Philadelphia, where the woman's Na- as possible, and In doing so did not NOT DRAW CROWD. club. tional championship matchea have been stick to facts. pan- held for the paat few years, la also instance, he said he had agreed One of the new events will be a "open engagement." In part For stay rounds tomime basebal game. All the move- to the to let Tommy Burns six full-size- the truth When Black Champion Met and De- ments used In a d baseball fray letter follows: with him In Milwaukee, when will be portrayed by a band of . purpose Is to Inform you as to nr was he could not help little "Our the matter feated Jeffries on July 4, 1910, fellows whose ages range from 6 to 11. the claims of the Point Jodlth Country i-- vW-jVW'.r)- himself, for It was In that bout that Club, as a place National j-A ;, convinced he could This is an entirely original Idea of the to hold the p Tnmmv became Situation Took Xew Torn. club's instructor, who believes that the tournament. The tennla committee of IV whip the Phlladelphlan In a longer motions of the National game make the thla club la In possession of Informa to-f- Ha areued with Burns over to believe question three hours best kind of physical exercises when tion which leads them that the weight for NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Special) applied to Indoor work. tournament will not be finally showed ne reaiiy coma John-son-Fly- the and that the promoters of the proposed nn Difficult steps will be executed by a held at Newport this year. We believe An th . miaaie-weiar- ni limit ui If at-- absolutely no rea- bout, scheduled for decision troupe of girls, the oldest of whom are that we offer an unequaled list of - - l itt'V-.'--A- -- pounds. There was and accommodations for the If - iCV son Vlther one to fake In that con somewhere In Nevada next July, are 10. The floor they will use will only tractlona for be about six inches wide and be players In this tournament, and. there test, and . they didn't, but It sounded of the Idea that the contest will ap- rather - ' per unstable, as it is the regular balancing fore, are entitled to consideration, .V ' '. -- " fine In the articles which Jack proach in popular Interest the Reno to go out, board. The Gilbert system of fancy rropeeltloai la Extensive. lfrWi r mitted battle they are likely to have an un- stepping will be portrayed by the same pre 1'-- ' Statements Crude. "The proposition which we are Corbetf pleasant awakening within the next women's class which made a name for pared to make to the national Assoua- Now James J. Corbett and Jack few months. Viewed from any angle Itself at the Los Angeles tournament. tlon Is as follows: First, the use of Johnson are having a war of words in except that of the negTO champion the The men's prize team will have a wand our clubhouse, tennis courts and golf tha nanera. Corbett attacking Johnson match appears to be one that holds drill. links free of chares during; the time of because he does not defend his title of forth little financial or spectacular re- Boys younger than 10 and the Junior the tournament, and for a week before champion for reasonable purses and turn. men's classes will do apparatus work. hand, if desired; second, reduced rates the latter coming back at him with From the evidence available at the The little fellows will perform on the at all the hotels at Narracansett pier; ! the claim that Corbett and others tried present time Johnson's ring career hanging poles, while one section of the third, entrance fee to the Casino (ad to get him (Johnson) to fake a fight may be said to have reached its cli- juniors will perform some rather dif- mission ordinarily $1): fourth, the use ptfc j'"2 with Al Kaufman and Tommy Burns max when he met and defeated Jeffries ficult whirls on the horizontal bar. of the Narragansett Pier reading room. for 2100,000. Johnson makes affidavit on 4, 1910. Another Bectlon of the same : if July The situation that division (itnUemaa'i Club, free of 'V' -- ."M' jv-fwua-j- v!TT the effect Corbett. and Harry the local - i'' to . that made it necessary to resurrect a re- will work with the parallel bars. charse. during the time of the tourna ir Frazee-- of Chicago, approached him tired champion after almost six years The receipts from the affair are to m.nt: fifth, free bathhouse and suit after the Beno battle with Jim Jeffries. of absence from the pugilistic arena be used In defraying the expenses of a during the time of the star of the It Is hard to believe that a business has changed but little since that date. team which will represent Portland at entrant.
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