Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-16

Mickey Walker is going to take a
whirl at the "show business" This has
been the custom on the ring for SO
long that there's no reason for critl-
cising Mickey. although probably a lot
of anxious welters will challenge him,
and some may even post money with
the New York state boxing commission
and be given" the worlds champion
ship in New York" unless Mickey
hustles around to accommodate them.
All of this won't affect in the least
Mickey's right TO the championship
title he won by beating Jack Britton.
All champions, just after winning the
title, like to take a little rest and ac-
ctimulate the soft currency for n little
while. Some of them even grow SO
fond OF the footlights that they taik
about being natural born actors, II
tell the world how sorry they are they
ever took up anything as crude as
fighting for 81 living when they had I'M
suspected talent for better things.
Even such a great fighter as Bob
F~itzsimmons fell for the stage stuff.
Bob had a singing voice that he re-
garded as something III the tenor line
Caruso never dreamed of-as he prob
/ ahlv never did. Bob used 10 love TO
| take his friends out in 4 boat some
where, and sing to them. On well, 1t
| wasn't so bad. at that.
Jim Corbett had a notion that he
was much %funnier than George Fuller
Golden.
Bat Nelson told me he made n mis-
! take when he took up fighting. as he
found himself the greatest stage hu-
morist and monologue artist on rec
| ord, and when in his Dress ASCOT
| one Of the handsomest of American
matinee idols, Said he thought Of Civ
| ing un fighting this was when he was
a new championl and taking to the
| stage as a life occupation. Bat had
it bad" no doubt of it.
Yes. and this isn't all the list. |
think the only fighter | ever knew who
had Il chance at the stage and didn't
like IT. IS Jack Dempsey. Jack says
hat he knows he's "a bum as an
actor" and that he hates TO take
money for talking" when he knows the
| ONLY place he can make a fair return
is in the ring,
But let Mickey Walker have his
turn as q Snowman. He's a rather
unusually well bred and well educated
boxer, and it may not GO TO his head.
| He'll probably be back fighting again
in Il few weeks.
Bin Tilden can spot" his tennis
F! rivals n finger. and still have a win
| ming edge over almost any of them.
The west hasn't come out very we'll
against the east in football this year,
Iowa beat Yale rather easily. and 1t
was Iowa's second game of the season
and Yale's fourth. so the Ellis had no
ieood abb. But Princeton beat Chi
caeo and Syracuse beat Nebraska,
which gives the east q good gridiron
lead.
lis true that Chicago came very near
to heating Princeton with an over
wheIming1 score football. But for all
that Princeton had the grit TO come
through and win sensationally. and
| after all it the final score that wins
football games.
IA for Nebraska. that st. Louis
coach who said the Cornhuskers could
whin Yale, Harvard and Center on
three successive days ought to be sell
ing his stuff to Life.
l. Washington and Jefferson's wonder
f,Il playing in the second half against
Lafayette in the game W. and j. won
with n score OF if-ib. cboNs thdh
and T. is one of the strongest teams
very likely the strongest-In the east.
Which rather excuses California for
playing a scoreless tie with w. and j.
Lat Pasadena last New Years day.
Battling Sikh having promised to
give Carpenter a return match, New
York promoters may save a bunch OF
travelling expense money. Carpenter
may possibly give Sikh 4 trimming. !,
Sikh knocks u Carpenter a second
time. when Carp can have no abb to
the effect that he was posing too much
for the pictures. didn't train properly,
took Sikh as a joke, and was careless
in the ring-why, in that case 1t mlgh.
be worth while to bring Sikh over and
see what he can do against some OF
our real fighters.
have a suggestion for a nFatch that
would draw well. Make il Sfni against
Gene Tunney, and if he can get away
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