The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-16
IERTLE COMEBACK
CAUSES COMMENT
Former Bantamweight Title
Claimant Making Strides
Towards Top Of Ladder.
BARRIEAU IN THE RING
Former Missoula Favorite in
Preliminaries on Coast,
Censured and Praised.

The wonderful comeback of Johnny
Ertle, the st. Paul kewpie. has created
considerable comment among boxing
fans and also critics. Those who wit
messed his contest with Joe Burman of
Chicago at the Milwaukee auditorium
November q were unanimous in stat
ing that it was one of the most sem
sational battles ever staged In this
country and showed that Ertle at the
present time Is really at his best.
A year ago Ertle was regarded all
in, but after spending the summer on
his farm near st. Paul he decided to
begin active training in earnest, with
/ the result that he has surprised his
! friends and critics. Johnny Salvatore,
who has been training and handling
/ Ertle since he split with his former
manager, is a great pal of keWpie's.
/ They work together well and no doubt
the change has been of great benefit
to the st. Paul lad. Speaking of the
change. Salvatore said: Johnny and
| | have been friends practically all our
| lives When | was boxing around st.
| Paul Johnny was training in the same
| gymnasium with Mike Gibbons and l
was convinced then that some day he
would be bantam champion of the
world. That is the title he should have
| today. for he surely beat Kid Williams
| when they fought at st Paul. winning
| on a foul in the fifth round; but, ow-
| ing to conditions out there at the time,
Ertlp'c ola inn Ia <tp Grip ,SI l.,
| by all the critics. It is a shame it was
| not, for he certainly won and deserved
| the title and he has a better claim to it
| right now than Pete Herman"
Lewis In and Outer.
| II IS rather remarkable HON some
! boxers put up championship battles at
| times and then again look like rank
amateurs in others They are usually
| termed lin and outers.' Ted Lewis
| the Welterweisht champion, has always
| been a fairly consistent performer in
| the ring. but when he struck San Fran
| cisco recently and fought his first con :
test with a fellow named Battling Or
| togo the papers roasted Ted and said
| he was the poorest excuse for a cham
! rion ever seen there. He must have#beer
very much OFF form, as all the papers
took a shot at him and his manager
| Jimmy Johnston. Lewis was mat chez
back with Johnny Mccarthy, the coas
weller who made quite a hit arount
the middle west last winter, and thu
result was reversal of form Levi:
| winning all by himself and showing hi
| }t11 pl1GL A. O., i'll owl
came back into his own and demon
stratod that he is a real champion
! Class will tell and Lewis came int,
his own again" 1t only goes to shos
how badly a man can go back at time
il he does not keep in shape.
Fulton Issues Def.
Fred Fulton. the Minnesota gian
has put in claim for the Heavyweight
championship of the world by notify
: ing Jess Willard that unless he accep
his challenge and covers his forfeit /
} December 90 he win claim the sam
= others are following in the wake
+ Fulton and will lay claim to the tit
. as though it were vacant at this tim
Charlie Weinert. who was twi
!, knocked out by Fulton in two round
has made the ridiculous claim that
T Is best entitled to Wizards crow
e Charlie is very nice fellow PERSONAL
n but he had better forget about I
II heavyweight title at present. Bin Rre
r, nan, the Chicago heavyweight, is a
y other claimant.
:. ODowd "Some" Fighter.
~ Mike O'Down may not be the gre:
In est fighter that ever lived. He IN
an not be as good as the late Stan
lketchell, but he Is certainly one Of