The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-15

Hurley Moves to Duluth
Following Fargo Threat

Scribes Pictured the Pc
trolle-LeRoy Fight, and Car
ried Out His Threat That
He Would Move from Fargo
Jack Hurley has made good his
threat.
Remember last February after the
Billy. Petrolle- Russie Leroy fight in
Fargo when the. colonel, riled because
the scribes called the bout q draw,
said he was going to quit the town
that gave him his start
Jack has moved his stable, bag and
baggage, over to Duluth. E.
North Dakota will know jack and
Bill no more. .
North Dakota's loss has been Du-
luth's gain.
The ring racket was on the pan
1T the Head-of the Lakes metropolis
when Billy Petrolle married Duluth
girl. OF course there wasn't any
Significance attached to two such dis
similar events as wedding and prize
fight at that time.
Jack Hurley went to Duluth to
bless the star Of his stable and his
bride. The keen-eyed, far-seeing, in
Prospective manager and promoter Of
boxers and boxing, however, saw
some significance between the altar
and the squared arena.
what . town for q live-wire pro-
moter," Jack thought, as he roamed
about town after the nuptials. II
sure would like to grab off q fight
club in this burg"
And Jack did.
He bought the National Athletic
club. He introduced Billy Petrolle to
Duluth fans. He brought his bust
ness manager, Phil Terk. to the
Zenith city. He put the game on its
feet.
Last winter Phil and Jack staged
weekly shows 1t their club. They
only had a handful Of spectators at
the first shindy. But that handful's
delight over the great card staged,
filled the auditorium for their next
carnival. And they packed EN- in
for four solid months.
It's the old Alger story of Bound
to rise" Jack and Bill got too big
for North Dakota. Not that North
Dakota didn't like them or they
didn't like the home state. They had
earned place in boxiana outside the
old stand. Their business had grown
out of toddling clothes.
Jack and Bill are in the racket on
a big scale. Aside from their weekly
amateur shows at the Silver Spray
gyna, they are promoting professional
spectacles and rounding up the finest
leatherpushing talent they can find
or develop.
/ Walloping Willie Petrolle is still
their big shot. But take . peep at
some Of their youngsters.
There is Earl Orion, for instance
Earl is just kid. He has learned
the game slowly but thoroughly. He
has been too fast for the boys in
North Dakota for the past year. Now
he is ready to step into faster COM
pany under the master hand of Ker-
mel Jonothan.
And don't overlook "Spud" MUIR
ply. He is the German lad with the
Irish handle who had the Twin City
fans yelping for more after several
demoniac scraps last winter. Spud is
in Holyoke, Mass, at the present
time but the dope is that he will also
60 west to be near his ring kinder
garten mentor.
Everybody knows AL Van Ryan.
AL was $3.50 wielder OF hits for
10 years in St. Paul. He wasn't good
and he wasn't bad. He had one punch.
They said he was nearing the has
been age when Jack nabbed him last
winter and taught him some new
tricks The old dog promptly showed
the Twin Cities that there. was plenty
dynamite left in the aged carcass.
Yes. al is one Of the youngsters.
He still has his best years left.
They are the boys that North Da-
kota knows. But you can't say,
That's all there is, there isn't any
more" Jack has as many ringsters
Is the gym will hold. Some Of them
will be heard from.
Getting back to the name Of Pc.
trolle.
There are two Petrolles fighting in
the United States today. One is the
one and only Billy. The other is his
brother Pete who basks in Bills lime
light and fights out Of Schenectady,
N. Y. Pete will never amount to
much, Jack says: He just wasn't
born with a champions spirit. !.
But listen! Meet the third fight
ing Petrolle. His name is frankie,
he's q welterweight, and he can
fight like nobody's business.
frankie has Just graduated from
Uncle Sans school Of the sea. He
has an A. G. degree. Now A. c.
doesn't stand for Ag. school, spark
plugs or what have you. It means
AMATEUR CHAMPION. frankie
holds that title at his weight in the
Atlantic fleet.
Any day now we may expect to
hear the Colonel ballyhooing q Pc
trolle show with Brother Bill and
Brother Frank written large as prin-
cipals on the flaming heralds.
Jack says that Bill is going to Be
| lightweight champion, Sammy Man
dell or no Sammy Msndell, and that
frankie will wear the weller belt.
To top off Jacks joy when frankie
joined the stable, Johnny Cicone.
crack Schnsctady lightweight, de-
cided to follow in his pal Frankie's
footsteps. He has aligned himself
with the Hurley Terk forces.
More power TO them al.