Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-02
SPORT|TOR|ALS
BY YE ED.


Johnny Noye of st. Paul Is slated
to meet Charley Sculley of Chicago
Feb. Is in the first athletic card put
on by the Davenport Athletic. club.
The program will be given at the Col
iseum and arrangements are being
made to handle a crowd Of 5000 fans.
Davenport club officials expect at
least that number of ring followers
to attend the show, which will be one
Of the highest class that has ever
been offered in tri-city circles.
Noye recently fought at Des Moines
and put up whirlwind battle. Word
comes from ST Paul that Noye has
launched his training schedule and
will be in top-notch shape when he
steps into the ring. Ever Hammer
went down before the st. Paul fighter
and Sculley is predicted to follow suit
An endeavor to match Lee Mcmahon OF
Chicago and Earl Henderson is being
made. Henderson and Mcmahon, il
they meet at the show, will give local
bugs a battle that will be second to
none. Mcmahon is a whirlwind and
Henderson can put up fight that will
make the Chicagoan realize that he
has to work if he wants to keep UP
his record in the three cities.
Mcmahon is big drawing card and
if the Davenporters succeed in land
ing him for the show Feb. Is they can
feel confident that they will fill every
seat that is set up in the Coliseum.
Lee Mcmahon and Henderson are
scheduled as the principals in the
main 60 Of card to be offered by the
Davenport Business Mems club pre-
vious to the show at the Coliseum, bu'
it is doubtful if the boys can be OBJ
tanned to appear again together 81
soon after one battle. If they fight {
draw they may consent to another
encounter, but 1t is doubtful If tn,
second match will be made.
Roy Moore. with his manager, Mix,
McNulty, dropped into The Argus of
fee yesterday and Roy casually re
marked that he could lick any bantam
in the country that trained down t,
his weight, 116. He said that he fel
confident that he could lick Champion
Pete Herman. McNulty, by the way
is trying to get Babe" Meanor, man
ager of the Rock Island Athletic club
to bring the champion here and mattel
him with Roy Moore is to fight Bob
bic Burns in St Paul Monday night
and stated yesterday that he know
that he will either lick him or els
gain decision.
If Champion Pete Herman of tn
; ibantams is brought here to battle Ro
for the crown, Rock Islanders vii
, have their first taste of a champion
| ship match. Several local fans state
today that if the champ match /
pulled here, Babe" Meanor had bet
| ter build two-block building to hous
, the fans that will flock to get crac
at the 60
We agree
/ Fans who took in, or, rather, VIII
, were able to get in to take in, the car
at the Empire Thursday night sal
they wonder if Tony Caponi mad
r Young Haggerty quit because of hi
; stellar boxing or whether he mad
him give up on account of his hon
, skip-and- jump methods.
/ We wonder.
: Tony can easily be recorded 4
t sport records as first class Jumper
rather than battler. but somehow O
other he always puts up a good figh
5 that everybody enjoys Keep up tn
! jumping, Tony: some day you ca
Jump right over some regular boxe
and you'll scare him to death.
Why the fourth class? Roy has
wife up in st. Paul and two littl
: kids. One five and the other seye
years old. Mike is also a married MAJ
Many will be surprised to learn tha
botl Roy Moore and Mike McNult,
his manager, are in the draf
/ They were given deferred classifica
ton and are in class 4. 1t is not like
ly that either will see military seryic
unless the war does not terminate bf
fore the fourth class is summonet
: Roy thus has a chance for bantaI
championship and intends to con II he
: fore Pete Herman steps into the so
ldier logs and marches away to war.