February 15 1910 — George Memsic fights Lew Powell tonight, and Herriman repeats the same cartoon idea that he had on yesterday’s sports page. Yesterday he portrayed Memsic trying to keep a bag of apples (titled “Local Prestige”) from Wolgast, Picato and Powell, today it is a ladder to the championship crown. 

Herriman must have had a soft spot for Memsic, because the idea that he had any chance at all for the lightweight championship is pretty laughable — he had been losing fights pretty consistently for the past two years.