Show KEWPIE ERTLE HIDES BEHIND RING POSTS BUT HIS MIGHTY WALLOPS JAR T TEE TE E CEILING I By PAUL PURMAN The he first time y you ii set your orbs on Johnny Ertle you may wonder where his hia nursemaid is but Is-but but when you take a slant at him pounding a sparring partner twice as big as himself himself himself him him- self any doubts about his a ability go sneaking out the back door of the gE gym Ertle tle nicknamed Kewpie on account account account ac ac- count of his size cherubic expression and pudgy frame is perfectly able to take care of himself on all occasions Boy page Kid Williams Kewpie is not quite 4 feet teet 11 inches tall but has a chest measurement of 37 inches something few light weights we know can brag of And he hits like a a. mule kicking When Bobbie Bobble Burns woke up in St. St Paul five minutes after Kewpie's left hook had discovered his Jaw he wanted to know where the fire was Ertle punches one of those sandbags sand sandbags I bags just about as big as he is The Janitors always spend the next half hour sweeping up plaster Jarred off the roof And And fast When he gets his two arms working he looks like about three fighters Kewpie is the proud possessor of one manager Mike manager Mike McNulty 6 feet tall with a shrewd humorous Irish face Seeing them together is like seeing Jess Willard and Tom Jones reversed B Theres only one disadvantage about Kewpie's size Mike 1 explains Hes Hess hard to find In one fight I had to look two or or three times between be be- between tween rounds One of the ring posts was between us Ertle has one big ambition ambition to to get another fight with Kid Williams Ertle won from the Kid on a a. foul in Milwaukee about a year ago He has since claimed the bantam bantamweight bantamweight bantamweight weight title So has Williams About half naIf the he newspapers in the 1 l RING J i 1 5 HIM IY r o J I I i I 1 7 F R RI Rv 1 v F I a JO W WEBER 8 tn f Or oF LOo ill t R FROM dE 1 ROPeD Roo AR ARENA NA 1 tIE trie t CEILING wr-t wr A HANDBAG SAND HAND AND ANO MANAGER BAG BAGS IS S A o H R WAY OF LES f FoR Z v AWAY AWA AWAI I country call Kewpie champion the theother theother theother other half halt keep the crown on Williams Williams Williams' Wil liams' liams brow Id like to have a chance to settle it Ertle says If It I can get Williams Wil WI llama Hams into a ring with me again there wont won't be any question about who is champion But every time I try to get a bout with Williams he finds some excuse Ertle is not ambitious about fighting fighting fight fight- ing with feather weights He says he has all he can take care of in his own division I haven't any curiosity about about Johnny Kilbane's style of fighting except except except ex ex- what I can see from outside the ring Johnny is a great champion and anda a bantam weight has no business inthe in inthe the ring with him I 1 I U HEAD A j A F PILLOW NEARLy GOES I of R His 5 o oON oM FISTS 5 SPEAKING I I |