Show I II I FIGHT CHAMPION I SKY PILOT PI LOT TO i IDAHO LOGGERS I I i D. D Dick Ick Ferrel Ferret Gave Up a Ring Career to Aid Lumberjacks in inFighting I Fighting the Many Devils Devis that Beset Beet Woodsmen Woodmen in the Towns I I or Northern Lu Lumber ber Regions I I Special Correspondence i SPOKANE Wash Dec 18 A A former former for for- or- or mer light weight champion of the I South but now a sky pilot to lumberjacks ks throughout the wi wilds of I the forest covered portion porton of Idaho is the record rd which Dick Ferrel h has I achieve Ills Ils is the strangest coz- coz coq coq- grega ton in Sri th the world scattered In inn a awl wl wilderness eMes of trees which might be be I called caned The Parish of ot the tile Pines Pine 1 pick Dick Ferrel during his fighting ca career cn- cn i reer i-eer was as known as a bO boy with wih a terrific terrific ter ter- punch punch having won twelve out of ot fourteen fights by the knockout ter-I ter Ills victor victory over Billy Bly Mayfield at Peoria Peoria Peo- Peo ria na in 1907 gave gas him the champion champion- ship Lanky Bob found Dick when he was 19 19 horseshoe horseshoe- ing In a a little Illinois mining town I Bob was wan wa enthusiastic and as he followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed his he pictured a rosy ros' future for tor him In the ring He Got Religion S The prophecy was coming true true when Dick Ferrel got religion He I Iwas was converted in Chicago while lIe he I Iwas was training for tor a a fight tight with Knock Knock- Knock Knock-I J out Brown Drown in 1908 He e the the fight off oft and lost a 00 purse Then i he Joined the Jo Fourth rh Presbyterian church in Chicago specializing in bo boys boys' s gymnastic work Dicks Dick's religion I was a hard shock for tor the pugilistic fans fails I I A year ear ago he went out to the lumber lumber lum luns- ber her camps of Idaho Idabo ready for fox a a. finish fi fight ht with wih all the Jan many devils ls de that have proved pro the undoing of ot countless countess loggers From his headquarters In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Spokane s 's T. T M. M i. i C. C A. A he goes out outon outon outon on his long hong trips through depp deep snows and forests to the various camps where his boys bors are quartered Its It's Il to hard lumberjacks work ork tills this being the sky k piot pilot S SCan Can Still Fight He lie le dresses tn in lumberjack costume He teaches the better things s In lift life Ie but hes he's not flot afraid of the rougher A French Canadian gambler whose Those profits were running low due to Ferrers Fer rd's work in a little tte town in the Idaho panhandle called the Ik sky pilot plot a grafter a bunko man mn after ater the loggErs loggers loggers' money This happened before a crowd of men and such euch an insult insul means meas a t fight ht In the woods The rhe gambler went wert to the ground und from froma troma a right wallop to the Jaw jw Ferrel brought him to and then shook hands with him |