El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-23
Conley Is Battered By Many Fights
Former Bantauvgh Champion Says Joe Rivers Lacks
Nerve and Lightweight CroWn
By

-IGNOR FRANCISCO CONT is
~ clean little kid. AS frankie ConIey
~ the exchampion- bantamweight
fighter, Cont is known from coast to
coast as a boy with a heart like
piece Of ships timber and the neces-
sary nerve to carry the fight to his
opponent
Conley is here to make his home in
I1l Paso as long as the legitimate fight
game is good As sparrinS master and
participant in sparring matches,
Frankie viii be much in evidence dur
ing the remainder Of the winter he
viii stage his first match next Wednes-
day at the FL PasO theater, with How
ard FOgg. making his bow as q pug
listic impresariO. COnley viii take on
Kid PayO, the postOffice pug, for a
limited round exhibition Of the no de
Cision variety in company with a flock
Of fighters from the fort and one Solly
Burns, a coast scrapper Of the light
weight division
Battered by Many Fights.
He is not much to lamp is this
COnIey-COnti person. A beak that has
been battered by the storms OF many
fights, ears that have been gently
massaged with the smooth side of a
four ounce glove and cheek bones peel
ed by haymakers have added not a
whit to Frankie's apOlinaris appear
ance. But fighters are not chorus men
and a punch is more important than
Apollo phiz. But p, coming July p,
Conley is short in years but long on
worldly experience in the prize ring.
The KenOSha. Wis. kid was a black
smith with poor, but honest Italian
parents in the same town. frankie
has added much to the excheQuer OF
the Cont household, but had taken
0Othfnp from its honest qualities for
no fake fights have ever been limited
at in Conley's direction. Starting TO
fight when he was 16 by whipping the
town bully, frankie has been at II
ever since His italian mother refused
to give her consent until after
frankie ad begged f~r days for q try
at the money getting game with the
promise that he would return TO the
forge if he did not make good
First Fight With Howard smith.
His first real fight was with Howard
Smith in New York, as semi-ftnal TO
the tchsl-O'Brien fight, winch VIII
long be remembered IN fight history.
Conley drew the decision and was on
/ his way to prosperity by 100 iron men
To properly celebrate the annlVer-
sarv of the cOuntry's father, FRANKIE
walloped Monte Atteu in Nauds June
ton, which is an appendix Of Los An
eles 1t was a fight over the long
route and COnley went all the way 10
the - rounds, and put his opponent
out of the way in the final period he
got his chance to take on Attell ana
the championship BY turn OF dame
fate which happens but once IN every
individuals career. Dannie webster
was to have fought Monte at Los An
geles on February % OF that same
eveuff1l year COnley a conner. but
sim a kid. fought Webster at Portland
and administered a large sized dose OF
soothing syrup from which Dannie did
not come around until after the fatal
date had passed frankie says ne viii
feel bad about the way he had to beat
/ Webster up to get that chance at At
{ tell until he dies. But business IS busl-
ness. and the fight game is persona
! fication Of the well known business