The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-16
TAXES
ON TOUGH RIVALS
IN NEAR FUTURE
Meets Ertle in Detroit
Tuesday; Heavy F'istic
Card This Week
~ EDWARD W. cocHRANB.

elf be relieved OF his crown within
,te rcx, fow months unless he is by
ar he hest bantam In the game to-
a. lie has mapped put q cam
,sirp that will put him through
,syor,l important engagements with
GOA ~rhaIlenRers. The first OF these
su be fought in Detroit Tuesday
sIeht. when he meets Johnny Ertle
A. 81 Paul for 10 rounds. In May
he 4. scheduled with Harry Battling
isonard In philadelphia and Joe
Lynch in New York.
rrtle is the hoy who was given a
Gsclsion on a foul over Kid Williams
-, Tho time the Baltimore scrapper
tdd the championship. Ertle then
Stained the title and was good
snough TO defend It except that he
liked the bright lights entirely too
we'll. and on his second attempt to
hea, williams was whipped soundly.
Iaier nc deserted the primrose path
,rd for some time has been fighting
aeiL although he is beyond the stage
Vhere he can hope TO reach the top
again, In the opinion OF competent
critics.
Kayo His Only Chance.
Er,le's only chance TO win tho
utle In te Detroit engagement is 10
trore n knockout, as IL will be n no.
decision affair, and he never has
been credited with knockout ability.
However. his stock will soar II he
manages 20 gain a newspaper YER
Act over the New York fighter.
Ertle Is clcvcror than Buff, but he
will find trouble standing the body
punishment Buff can administer.
f.-s .INNN.- sf.IV.- -. NIn
ADempssy-Flynn Nelson type.
While Buff should make the Ertle
hurdle without n great deal of diff
lculty, he will have rather though
s!eddlng beating Leonard and Lynch.
Leonard IS a Philadelphia product
and stands very high in fistic rating
IN that vicinity. lie Is not consld'
cred a champion but he is hard for
even the tltle-holder TO beat. Joe
Lynch won the championship some
time ago by beating Pete Herman.
Later Herman regained the crow
By beating Lynch and then lost to
Buff. Lynch Il faster than Herman,
ordinarily. He has his good and
/ d days. but IL he Is right he will
cause Buff as much or more trou.le
than any OF the other ~contenders.
one More for Dundee.
There are plenty OF negotiations
between promoters and champions
OF the various divisions, for big fistlc
attractions. but Buff Is the only one
active this week outside OF Johnny
Dur zee. Junior lightweig, { kid, who
will meet Johnny Shugrue up in
Worcester, Mass. Shugrue is n good
scrappCr but not good enough to
worry Dundee unless form IL rudely
upset. The little "Scatch-Wop," who
also Is a challenger for the light
weight championship held by Benny
Leonard. is about the toughest m
OF the ]challengers to beat and he up
sets the title aspirations OF many
fighters.
BIB Roper. who was a captain In
the rmy during the World war and
returned from France with quite n
reputation as a boxer, has been n
persistent challenger OF Jack Demp-
sey for some time, but has been un-
able 10 induce the public to take his
challenge seriously. Therefore he
has accepted n match with Fred Full
ton out IN Denver this week 10 prove
TO the public that he Is capable OF
putting up a respectable showing
AGAINST the man who has left for
Europe 10 try to make n little easy
mon tipping over English set-ups.
= liOpcr's Chance to Shine.
oper will lie able 10 demand
recogni on II he can knock out Full
ton and the public Ia sure Freddy
does not pull a diving act. Fulton
Is one OF the best boxers in the
heavyweight division and can punch.
II L were not for n streak OF saffron
nue. running up an ddown his long
spine, he might be champion OF
the world today, but he Is licked be-
lore he enters the ring with a man
he believes really can fight. Against
a novice Fulton looks like a world
oeater. but against Dempsey It vas
a vastly different story. .
Fulton recently knocked out Carl
norris, a feat he was unable TO per-
i Iofm a few years ago. He appears
10 be doing better than he used to
ana Il may be that he really has
acquired "A bit OF courage. II so he
so large and has such advantages
IN reach, height, weight and hitting
= roSer over Roper that he may put
captain Bob out of the running for
sl Time by planting his hight upper-
IVY against the chin OF the eX-army
TT.ucer' Roper Is smaller than
esmpsey' He will haveto do some
,ancy boxing 10 keep out OF harms
way III this encounter.
Flynn I'm Ring Again.
oLNW Tender, who may meet
SSeehny Leonard July 4 in Kansas
Xxx IL going to pick one in Phila-
usIphla Monday night when he
meels Tim Droney for eight rounds.
D'Uney was a cinch for Leonard.
,y'm Flynn, -or 20 n one OF
We best known heavyweights in
SMet'ca, who fought Jack Johnson
1gl tne worlds championship In Las
49, ~ NJ, In 1912, win box again
kInuay night when he meets Mike
rIloert a Hutchinson, Kan, heavy
FusAt Tor 10 rounds at Hoisington,
etn' Flynn has been going great Of
ISoe, ana II looks as though he will
I'D ight on for a couple OF years
anyway. Schubert has ac-
lsSagI quite a reputation in Kansas,
nm ne veteran may have his hands
ios VI Trying to whip his younger
rouhg Bob Fitzsimmons, who
tW1vr VIII be the fighter his famous
tes was, will be given a severe
Coa, When he meets Jack Reeves.
Nsr0,hla light heavyweight. In
AZ tork for IS rounds. Reeves
to bes,I,od puncher and a tough one