The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-17

ioOoAy ieIt loT nelson. After seeing
Wolgast in action here, the fans at
once came to the conclusion that he
would never make a stand against
the Battler over the Marathon route.
for the reason that he tires too east
ly. No man who grows a bit tired In
20 rounds would ever last % or 80 with
the champion.
Abe Attell has beaten everybody in
his class in the featherweight ranks
He has to spend his time now in fight
ing suckers and stalling around the
east and south. He and Driscoll
fought a great 10-round draw in New
York last winter and return match
for 20 rounds or more would settle
the championship and provide a great
ring card for San Francisco
All seems to be in readiness to
turn San Francisco a bit more wide
open after the first of the year and
the fighters and managers are looking
forward to a great game when the
MsCarthy regime goes into power. This
is one of the reasons why Coffroth is
outlining his extensive plans for the
bringing on of the British fighters. 1t
is understood that he may break back
into the game here If he does he is
likely to operate two clubs, as he Is
still the master of the situation down
in San Mateo county.
Fisticuffs Lost Money.
The game of fisticuffs was not a
paying one last year so far as San
Francisco proper was concerned. Only
one of the three clubs, the Mission
club, made any money. The others
quit several thousand dollars in the
hole The affairs of these clubs were
handled by men who did not know
the boxing game. and they were held
up and bunkoed right and left by the
fighters, who seemed to run things
very much as they pleased.
The Jeffries- johnson match evident
ly has started a heavyweight boom all
along the line. Right here in San
Francisco, they have two rising young
sters who are likely to dash to the
front within the next few months,
They are Walter Schulken, the anna
teur heavyweight champion of the
United States and Gunboat Smith, the
pride of the navy and the conqueror
Of Young Peter Jackson. These young
giants will meet in Oakland on Tues
day night in a 1O-round bout to de-
eide which is the man to go and star.
schuken Great Fighter.
Schulken has been little heard of
although he is a great fighter. He was
a big raw. bashful teamster when he
won the amateur heavyweight title by
! beating all Corners at the Olympic
clubs national tourney here two weeks
before the fire Since then Schulken
| has stuck to the amateur game in
half-hearted sort of a way, but he
was so very good that they could not
get anybody in the amateur ranks to
fight him, consequently he remained
idle most of the time. He would not
turn professional.
Finally, the other day he was in
duced to go after the money and ne
signed up with Smith. If he knocks
the sailor out Schulken will be right
in the limelight He is bigger man
than AL Kaufman, standing six feet
two inches in height and weighing 21O
hounds when stripped. He has beaten
every man he ever met and most OF
them fell from his wallops in one, two
and three rounds He's a great posi-
bility. providing that he is there with
the stamina and the heart, and the
meeting with Smith should prove this.
Ketch Hands Out Talk.
Stanley Ketchel says that he will
fight Billy Papke again, but In the
meantime Papke must go ahead ana
heat a couple of good men and then
mt I'M a side bet of $4,000. Ketchel
started in on a TRADE against PapKe