Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-14
FRANKIE MASON
IS REAL BOXER
RECORD PROVES
Fans in for Great Treat in Roy
Moore Feature Attraction
Tomorrow Night.
HOOsIER A BUSY BATTLER
Has Had Upwards of 20 Bouts Since
First of Year, Winning All
But One.

Fight fans of this district are in
for rare treat on Thursday night
OF this week when frankie Mason,
of Fort Wayne, Ind, worlds fly
weight champ, steps into the ring
with Roy Moore, of Memphis, in the
feature event of the show being
staged at the Empire rink.
While this will be the first
glimpse had Of the HOosier battler
in these parts Mason is far from a
newcomer, having been in the
game for the past several years
during which he has shown to de-
cided advantage against all COM
Fers. the majority of whom out
weighed him from to Is pounds.
However, those who see him in
this match will glimpse a Tejuv-
enated boxer, who by reason of his
recent victories over such masters
of the fistic art as Johnny 'Kewpie'
Ertle, of St Paul, and Pal Moore,
of Memphis, conqquerer of Jimmy
Wilde, English fiyweight champ,
and Pete Herman, who holds the
worlds bantamweight crown, has
acquired the full measure of conf
dence, which was slightly lacking
heretofore, to make of him the
champion, not only of the fly
weights, his own class, but of the
bantams as well.
Great Fighting Machine.
Always a wonderful little fight
ing machine, ever able to care for
the best at his weight. Mason was
discharged from the army plus a
condition that soon placed him at
the top of his class and, after sue
cessfully disposing of every pos
sible aspirant for the honors of the
f1yweight division he was compelled
to seek other fields owing to the
lack of opponents at his weight.
Since stepping into the bantam
class he has more than held his
own with the best in the ring and
is now well on the way to the top.
AS an attraction frankie has few
equals. to which his endless stream
of offers will attest. His clean,
gentlemanly tactics while in the
ring, as well as out, have won him
hosts of admirers wherever he has
appeared, with the result that his
return is demanded by the fans. 1t
is no eXaggeration to say that of
the many cities in which he has
fought there is not one where he
would not be heartily welcomed
back by all who witnessed him in
action. 1t is this popularity, to-
gether with the splendid showing
he has made, that is keeping his
manager, George Biemer, of Fort
Wayne, constantly on the jump to
decide just which offers to accept
and which not in order to do the
best by his boy and at the same
time retain the many friends both
have acquired in the game. Offers
haYe come so thick and fast in re-
cent months that would his ply
steal condition permit Frankie
could be fighting practically every
Afternoon and night in the week.
Only a FIyweight.
Since the first of the year Mason
has had upwards of twenty fights,
against the cleverest bantams
available, winning all with the
possible exception of one, which
NDuld be ruled no less than a draw
This is indeed a remarkable per-
Torrance when it is considered that
frankie is a fiyweight. whose best
at ringside is Ill pounds, while his
opponents have weighed all the way
from 120 TO 127 pounds, giving them
considerable Of an advantage in
poundage.
His coming event with Moore is
attracting unusual attention among
the fans hereabouts and arrange
ments have been made to care for
a capacity house.