The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-06-06
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n Fl Me. All MY. that dear old
~ San Francisco certainly must
be some place to be these
days.
We pick up San Francisco
paper and turn 10 the sport sec.
ton. What have we here? Gather
closer while we glimpse the head
lines:
Newman Has Angry Words
With Sandow."
"Santel Lands Fist on Plantena's
Chin for Knockout"
willie Meehan in Bout With
Dolph Thomas"
Now these headlines may mean
nothing to you unless you are &C
quainted with the characters.
No. Charley Newman Is
promoter. Billy Sandow IL manager
of Stranger" Lewis. the wrestler.
You would think II was an umpire
and ball player.
No. 2--Ad Santel Is a wrestler,
not q fighter; Plantena is ditto.
II has never been the policy for
one wrestler to knock another out
with a punch on the chin. especial
IL on the postoffice steps.
No. willie Meehan Is a boxer.
Dolph Thomas Is not a boxer. how
ever. He Is a promoter. Fighters
are not supposed to put on bouts
with promoters. especially in bar
Der shops. Then It Is also claimed
that Thoms kicked Meehan. which
is another infraetion OF the rules.
altho we are not blaming Thomas
All, me. what a dead, dreary
place this Seattle. No promoters
and managers OF vrestlers argu-
ing: no wrestIers to punch one an
other on the postoffice steps; no
fighters TO stage bouts with pro
moters in barber shops.
Woe Is our lot here in poor, old,
dreary Seattle.
BOO HOO" WILLIE Meehan
seems 10 get along very well with
his managers-NOT.
The first time Willie came to Sc
attic he had no less a parsonage
than Moose" Taussig as his
trainer and adviser But Willie
wouldn't listen t. reason and
Moose" gave him the gate.
The next time Willie came TO
town he was piloted b. Sol Levin
son. Sol Is a wise old head. and
knows a thing or two about the
boxing game, altho he was quoted
as saying lot OF things about the
Mcintyre eehan fight here that
we're nothing less than baldfaced
lies.
Sol was another to give Meehan
the gate. Before he sent him on
his way, however. he gave him a
punch in the jaw. Now comes
Dolph Thomas. who Is matchmaker
for the Parkside club. and Meehan
in melee.
Meehan will coon be as unpopu-
lar in the South as his cry-baby
tactics made him here.
OF THE STABLE Of boxers that
Joe Flanagan took from Portland
to San Francisco Weldon Wing the
IedtNeFWtlEHts seen III dLAlDil mere
last winter at Dreamland, Is the
only one that ia getting away in
good style.
Wing has won his first two starts
md dope In the San Francisco
Dapers would indicate that he has
made a hit in the Bay city.
Billy Mascot. the bantamweight.
failed to show any great amount Of
class, say reports. az did the
hiehly-touted Al Sommers.
SENTIMENT FOR And against
each one OF the gladiators-E Eddie
Pinkman and Eddie Campl-who
tangle in a four-round bout in the
Arena. week from Friday night for
the Northwest lightweight title,
seems 10 pretty evenly divided.
Some well-known pickers favor
Pinkman to land one on the Cali
fornian's jaw that will send him ia
Sunderland while others think the
clever Canpi win play a tattoo on
the laxative one that will win him
(CampD the decision
As for us, we believe Eddie will
win, II 1t isn't a draw.