The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1899, Page 2

_‘2____ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1899 — e e = 0606006066066 06000 " - FORTUNE ] | 1 ‘Loca The Vel de be h will ich v in this it is fea able to s During an reach a de- to the that s a profit to its pro- be evider 1 benefit to the parts of the yme here to wit- nder tl n w will sled to the have inter the worl ssari wh t to many As the lo on glove reads now twenty round the limit. It is thoug be made in th Su- pervisors the limit to 2 In speaking ¢ sterday that his £ good fait “I have p 00°in the hands of The Cally” *he said. “as a Crockery you want — Try (reat American Tmporting Tea Go's Have 1co Stores= ‘That's Why . -Quality so Good Prices so Reasonable STORES: 861 Market St., opp. Powell. Central Store. 140 Sixth St. 705 Lar! t 2810 MissionSt. 1419 Polk S 3006 Sixteenth St. 1519 Devisadero St 146 Ninth S 521 Montgom 355 layes 218 “third »t. 2732 24th St- 3285 Mission St. 2008 Fillmore St. 506 Kearny St. 52 Market Stroet......Headquarters. OAKLAND STORES: Waskingtonst. 1185 23d Ave. Drosdway. 616 E Twellth Sz, 1510 Seventh St. ALAMEDA—1355 Park St. SAN RAFAEL—B St, ncar Fourth. Y 0 sincerity in tt with 1 thir is check a suc I am wi e to the ci would t place in a contest, 1 a right guarantee thi c Company is willing to r ith s re 1ally agreed full amou the cong L Yours tru I. McGILL, “Manager Glen Park Company.” This offer differs from that of n essential. The Glen Comy provides for a cont thirty rounds, while Newman is re- cted to the limit fixed hy the local wuthorities. The only important ques- tion involved is locality 1 the fight- ers and their mar rs have only to dd- i~ between a c . accessible city location and Glen Park. The question of rounds will without doubt be satis- nswered. factorily The Glen posit with The tified check for $5000 as a & 1 also de. This its good faith in the matte would have been done last night, but offer of the company was made banking hours.” The manager of ~ompany declares that his pe 3 usiastically in earnest over the nd believe that no better scene for the battle could be found than at [§ Park. This riv: of bidde: for the great fight, taken into consideration with the enormous amount of the s offered, gives promise that San neisco or its vicinity will win the prize that is being sought. Nothing like vet been made from of the country, offers has other part thes at least one battle for the pugilistic champlonship of the world will receive its local coloring from San Francisco. s e VIEWS OF THE SPORTS. Opinions on the Proposition to | Pu'l Off the Fight in San | Francisco. The prospect of securing the great battle in or near this city was rec d with unqualified enthusiasm last night. » opinions of many of the local are given in the interviews that | Chempion James J. Jeffries—Cali- fornia is my home and I would rather fight Tom Sharkey here than on any other spot on earth. I am sincere about this, and if there is any possi- Dbility of bringing off the bout in San Francisco I will do all in my power to encourage it. Nearly all my intimate friends live in California. Since the match was first made many prominent sporting men have declared that New | York is the only place to bring off the battle, and their declaration was backed by the argument that the big fight promoters of the Eastern me- | tropolis could afford to bid higher than anybody in San Francisco. Now, | I aisagree with them on that point. This city is perhaps one of the most - | enthusiastic boxing centers in the | world. We ought to get just as big a | purse here as we would in New York jor anywhers else. If any reliable | fight promoter offers us inducements | which equal those offered in New York I will certainly be pleased to meet Sharkey in this city. Billy Delaney, manager for Jeffries— I and | what the big fighters say indicates that | OTABLE EVENTS ; FOR Rivals Will Give Jeffries and Sharkey a Purse of Foriy Thousand Dollars. O RCRCRORORORC A FIGHT and the Glen Park Company Are Bidders for the Pugilistic Championship Will S S Jeffries Nothing in the world would pleas | and myself more than to have California | the scene of our next fight. *Jeff” is e | sentially a Callfornian. Unlike other men | who have made their reputations here he has no desire to live elsewhere. He fought with gloves made here and all his thoughts are of California. We are not tied up to any club and if equal induce- ments are offered here we will use all our influence for the local club. We are | not convinced yet that Sharkey will enter the ring. It seems appropriate that these two men, both claiming California as their place of residence, should be brought together here. Young Mitchell—A meeting in this city between Sharkey and Jeftries for the box- ing championship of the world would at- tract unusual attention toward this city. Sporting men from all over America would come here and spend their money freely. The men of this city are the most liberal patrons of sport in the world, which in itseif guarantees the success of the proje Eugene Van Court—The boxers should, it possible, fight here, where both are well known and where they received their first start up the championship ladder. I | know it would please Jeffries to fight here, more especially if he had Sharkey for an opponent. Every effort should be made to hring the men together here. Bert Nason—Quote me as being strongly in favor of the big mill being held in this city. We have a on this coast and the bout were to take piace in San Francisco, the lovers of the sport would flow in from all quarters. It would be to the advantage of both Shar- key and Jeffries to fight on this coast, | as they could train with more comfort. gain there y indication that the porting people the entire country of would come to the coast.and witness the This would mean the spending of and would be a big thing to the merchants.- I am afraid that the Eastern clubs will offer a much larger purse, but I for one hope that the heavy- weights will settle their differences right here. Joseph Kennedy—T would like to see the | men fight in San Francisco. They might draw much better in the East, but this being their home town, with good man- agement, they could easily equal their money-making chances. I hope they will meet in this city. fight. lots of money reat sporting element | @@0@@0@@00000000000000090@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@®@ R R Aleck Greggs ager—If Ji ies and Sharkey | gt here it would be the best thing that ever struck the town. They can make fas m money right here as they can {in the ) matter where they fisht | people will travel to see the mill, and if | the mateh’ were to be pulled off here the city would be thronged with people and | bu s would boom. 1 heard that a | pu been offered the men by re- [ liable pecple, and I only hope they will | be tempted to accept 1.t I am heartily {in favor of the big go being pulled off 3 here. | De Witt Van Court—I don’t see why the fight can't be pulled off here. This is | one of the best sporting towns of Its size in the voorld. The people have shown by | their attendance at the various fights that they love the sport, and it is there- | | fore my opinion that If the bout were to | | be pulled off in San Francisco they could { do nearly as well as in the East. I heard they were offered a big purse by the Glen i reople. I hope both Sharkey and firies will look favorably upon their J POOOPO S R R R R ns referee and fight man- | the big fight, and if there is the were to | "um»r as it is made by reliable people. Tt |is my opinion that the Glen Park people | would even offer more to get the big | ‘l\ghr, and 1 for one wish them the best | | | | | of succes: Such a battle in San Fran- | i w be a splendid thing for the u Al Smith, manager of Tom Tracey—I am | afraid the men will go East as the offers | SAN FRANCISCO BIDS $40,000 THE HENLEY REGATTA. R chance to bring it off here everybody in town should boost it along. Jack Stelzner—Sharkey and Jeffries ought to draw better here than in New York. Of course the Eastern city has the advantage of population and wealth, but the people out here like the game better than they do in the st. Phil Wand—Sharkey and Jeffries should do better here than any place else on the continent. . They ought to be able to put up a better ht here, too, both being thoroughly acclimated. J. J. Groom—=Let them fight here. They both made their reputations in this State and why should they not settle their dis- pute to the title in our midst? It would be a great thing for the town, and 1 hope they fight here. People would put up big money to see Sharkey and Jeffries in the ring, and I therefore think the men would do as well in this city as they would in the t. There are a hundred and one reasons why the battle should e pla here, and T hope the fighters themselves will bear a few of them in mind. Gus Ruhlin—San Francisco is a great sporting town for its size, but 1 don’t think it is big enough to make it worth here. In New York they w sure of a big attendance. Again, this is a lit- tle too far out for people to come. I don’t care where the men fight. I'll be there to witness the bout and possibly challenge PSS S SN S S S SN S B S S5 S S A e A e e G N e o e B B e o e i e g there are higher and the men are cer- tain of a big attendanace. I favor their fighting in this eity nd if they do I think they will draw a big crowd. I would like to witness the mill and hope it is pulled off here. Billy Jordan, famous master of cere- | monies—Will they fight here? That is a | hard question to answer. There are more people in New York, but I don’t think they are as great lovers of the sport as our own Californians. If ° the heavy- weights could be got to fight in this city pecple would travel miles to see the “go.”” It is beyond my expectation to see the championship battle decided in San Francisco, but 1 would be delighted to see 1t brought about. Harry Corbett—Hold the championship battle here by all means. I do not make this statement for selfish motives. I sin- cerely believe that it will be beneficial to the city and State at large. It will at- tract thousands of Eastern people here, and in my judgment act as a stimulus to every business In town. Billy Nolan—There is no reason why Sharke d Jeffries can’'t meet in this cf an Francisco has possibly more ardent boxing enthusiasts than any other city in the Union. It would be a good thing for the city and I hope the project will be realized. Colonel Brady—Both gnen got their start in this city, and they should overlook a whole 1ot in order to bring off their cham- plonship battle among the people who started them on the road to fame and fortune. Billy Carkeek—San Francisco should bid as high for the fight as any city in the world. Charlie Long—I am glad that there is a possibility of bringing off the big go in this ci Sharkey and Jeffries should both warm to the proposition. 2 Sam Dannenbaum—I would like to see the big fellows get together in this city. Both are better known here than any place else on the continent, and I believe the people out here are more interested in them than any other place in the world. Billy Pratt—Best thing ever happened the town. Get Jeff and the salilor to- gether in this city by all means. Jimmie Lawlor—I think the big fight should be pulled off here. There is no reason why Sharkey and Jeffries can’t get as much money here as any place else. 4 Tom Tracy—San F‘rmgcuco should get INTERIOR OF THE @ VELODROME . - S04 @ e NEWMAN BINDS HIS BIG OFFER WITH A CHECK. the winner. Frank McConnell—It's just the thing. It would be a big card for this town, and do a great deal toward giving the sport an impetus. In my opinion the men them- selves would be benefited if they fought here, as the climatic conditions are more favorable for training. It will be excess- ively hot in the East about the time they begin training for their contest and this will surely affect their condition. No mat- ter where the men fight a crowd will travel to see It. T think more people would come West to see the go pulled off than those who would travel to & hot center like New York. It would be a splendid thing if the big ones would settle matters in California and I wish they would agree to do so. Both are Californians and if they fought here every one with any sporting blood In his veins would save his dollars | to see the fight o1 the century pulled off. 1 want it here and hope the purse is large enough to tempt them Diplomats in a Deadlock. WASHINGTON, July 6.—Embassador Choate and Lord Salisbury are almost deadlocked over the modus vivendi, fixing the Alaskan boundary. Neéither side will accept the provisional line proposed by the other, the Canadians demanding the inclusion of the Porcupine country and the Americans the projection of the boundary line northwesterly from a point two miles above Kluckwan. —_————————— Selborne School, San Rafael. We are informed by Rev. C. Hitchcock, the principal, that the boys' dormitory building will not have only one story, and that rooms can at present be engaged on both first and second floors. The build- ings will be connected by covered pas- sages. —_—————————— LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE., ARRIVED. Thursday, July 6. Schr 1da McKay, Johnson, 4 days from Grays Harbor. SAILED, Thursday, Stmr Newsboy, Ellefsen, —. Stmr Coquille River, Thompson, Grays Har- bor. DOMESTIC PORT. USAL—Sailed July 6—Stmr Navarro, for San Francisco. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS. ROTTERDAM—Sailed July 6—Stmr Amster- dam, for New York, via Heulogne. SOUTHAMPTON — Arrived July 6 — Stmr Fuerst Biemarck, from New York, via Cher- bourg, for Hamburg. July 6. ® ightest | I NEW YACHT COLUN}?%\ 0608000000009 96000000000000000669 CHAMPION JEFFRIES REACHES THE COAST Fitzsimmons' Youthful Conqueror Receives a Warm Welcome at the Ferry. The New Fistic Idol Says He Thinks Sharkey Will Fight, and Tells Why He Is Anxious to Meet the Sailor. ws at once. * he said, the and | ting to a half-dozen inter Jeff's here. The champ ‘‘has came’ "k, e D rubbernecks” is| It feels bully to get b 2 n ;i‘;,r,j.ucal Gl cis Bl glad smile on his face corrot rating his Y. i .| words. “I never feel quite right while The conqueror of Fitzsimmons arrived | I'of“Giay from California, and_you bet in the city yesterday afternoon at 2:30 | I'm glad to get home again. v, but o'clock, reaching the Palace Hotel just | it's hot back there. Why, those people laugh at you when you tell them about in time to open a telegram from Brady . They think you're agent at New York, informing him that | e. the climate out he e wrould havs fo sailion the Zith frst. for | ARG EREmE BUEIE o o, g e of London, Eng., where, among other en-| .. =i 16 000" ess that Yale professor gagements, he is to don the mitts for | gidn't size you up right when he said you were all burned out. “What, that fellow? . he never made ten rounds with the irrepressible Charlle Mitchell. x The home-coming of the new champion s he dfdn’t. of I gu n examination was the occasion for an ovation which That thing he sent out was pure m- i : * {he fact that the |agination. How could -he_tell anything WwaiE stt lessened gby: the fach ‘ from the time he had? We were just Southern Pacific managed to lay out the leaving the ball grounds at New Haven, pugilist’s party five hours longer than the | Gonn.. where I had umpired the game, D eheduled time. As early as 9 o'clock in | anq was still in my tights after giving a the morning a large crowd with caout-| hoxing exhibition, when 1y looking chouc in th cervex had collected at|individual wearing a soiled looking cellu- loid collar came up and said he was Pro- the ferry depot to get a glimpse of Jef fries. Credulous as are all “rubbernecks,” | fessor Seaver of alejand wan they placed absolute confidence even in | FTTC e ¢ athletes and wanté a Southern Pacific promise and belteved | me™h Slibe Moyt That night we were that company would hurry along the|hooked for the New York Casino and champ on card time. Friends of the hadn't a minute to e to make the train. I explained that I would have been WuINg to ubnge the professor, but under could not. It meant fighter, only a little better informed, be- gan dropping down teward the ferry d Pot from 10 o'clock on, led on by a rail- | 18 S GORCE (0 me T said, ‘and Foad bulletin that Jef’s train would make | gifiif Ui foce o lose them for an_entire up a couple of the lost hours. A brass|stranger. He walked around muttering and grumbling, and I finally allowed him to measure my chest. That's all he got. and if " he can tell that a man’s ‘burned out’ by passimg a tape over a chest he's entitled to e information.” | In response to a remark that he looked to en he went East band engaged by Manager Sam Thall to lend eclat to the advent of . his attrac- tion joined the fast gathering throng and until noon the friends, “‘rubbernecks’ and musicians scanned the face oming ngers without discovering the lin pa be lighter than W Ments of their idol. A Southern Pacific | the ehampion said he was. Dulletin about this time, containing the| "“It's not all due to the heat. either.” information that the train would not ar- | he said, the twinkle in his matching Tl 3.15 0'clock, dispersed the crowd | that of the big solitaire on his expansive T ek e hrcern et itteen | A frant aBome (Ot W due to to-lunch.. ¥ Brady. - He didn’t do a thing but make Ioinutes later by another announcement | pEACYS L MG LG T2t it every day since That the boat bearing Jim would be in | T've left here and even now, when I ar- t a rest, I get a_telegram at T must sail from New York rive and ex from him t at 1:15 o’clock. It didn't get in till 2:30, but the crowd i A iTsrew untl) thore: was ot w | onsthis 2UthCor else el angERem RS L Soul less thun 500 strung out with the | "[{o1q Brady so, but I gue Ad's band In front of the ferry depot. A larg: | ahead and I'll have to follow suit number of local sports had manage Jeftries' information as to what is ahead of him in England is as vague as ake their way inside, bent on getting er::}tkahukvs teom. Jefirles before the | that of the general public. He is of the e ded him. Kive hacks fc inion that he will meet Mitcheil in the CIOFU. juUrTonnaec S o 2 > cond week of August, and while it is the pugilist and his party had also besn | CUifht that he does look upon the driven 1n and awaited the coming of ¢ | contest as one to test his powers, he says boat. he will train fully i \t was spied at last making its way | “T'll train for M he said, “jus o R e pier, and despite the misguid- | as hard as I would for anybody, else. ed efforts ol an -ancient mariner on the believe in being right. I have made up gate a aumber of tne impatient triends ot mind to work hard in prey g for all o O e oward the apron to | my fights, for if you don't work you can’t tne ngnter an get the first ghmpse of him. He kept out | fight. T know at any rate the more work ot nt unul the apron was dropped I do the better I SERuiE il e The step: forward, his big ugurc ow long will yo! ai ¥ Then he stepped forwa 8 bl ngare/| € SHow lons Will sou aely O looming up under a jaunty straw nat. a trice he was surrounded, his hands Ross O'Neal, who was near by, broke in: bbed and snaken, the air being full of | “I don't think he'll meet Sharkey. It Hlello, Jeits,” to which he responded | was even money and no takers in New with hearty “Hello,” Bills or Toms or | York when we left that the sailor wouldn’t sign. They don’t think he wants Dicks or Harrys, is the names happened | to_fizht Jim to fit. v3'the champion stepped out from un-| “Oh, I guess he Wil said Jeffries. der the shed he looked the ideal fighter, “He wants to fight all right. Some peo- o, Phroad-shouldered, bronzed, active. | ple think he don't, but I do, although I He is a differ % from the big youns | chased him all over the East and broks tellow th B several months ago. | my arm on Armstrong trying to get to He has taken on polish and has lost seif him. I want to meet him and get him to e good some of the nasty things he said about me. I never said anything d about him, except maybe to some per- consciousness; he talks without eff does not shy formeriy wont. In a natty suit of black cioth, he was a very smooth article | sonal friend, when 1 was hot at what and seemed to fit the unty little cane Sharkey was saying about me. All T want he carried. He is a number of pounds to do %0[ him to make his talk good. lighter than he w when he left, weigh- | Outside the ring I'll treat him like any- ing nftéen more, however, than he aid | body else. A few minutes later. In speaking of immons, Jeffries was telling what a big man the Cornisn- when he entered the ring with Fitz. Still smiling and greeting friends on the | F outskirts of the crowd the champion toox | wonderfully Strong. a back seat in the first carriage, Into| man as. ‘‘He' a hard customer, he which followed am_ Thall, Ross O'Neal, aid, “‘a good deal harder than Sharkey who made the trip from New York with | and he's a bigger man physically than nd Chariie Ec Jeft, and_ Al Smith frieids of the pugilist, who had gon the road to Sacramento to meet him. Tom Lindsay, Harry Corbett, Alf ¥ g- house, Alec Greggains, Ned Homan, Col onel Brady and other well-known men about town filled the other hacis. Out _of the same gates at tne ep m people believe.” . 1 didn’t hurt my hands on him,” he said in response to a question. ‘“I've learned a trick or two to save them. I | punch this way now,” he continued, showing his clenched fist with tha | knuckles up, “and not this way (knuckl eIn | ¢4 the side). I learned that from Tomm end of the ferry, through which Durrant v ; kS hisiiast hacl ide) mtol\SantBrens | 2an-2 Yol can dIop one of them on a ook Ml e K ThaC the Cviear of op. | man before he knows it and the whole waiting crowd as the band struck up weight of your body goes with it. The Hiot Time r Yeil after yell went up and | Other Way you telegraph your blows.” the champion, who was trying to conceal | Jeffries denies tuat he is anxious to his face behind a paper. for which he had | become an ac given a freckle-faced newspoy a handful | *“When do you £o on the stage?” he was of small change, modestly tipped his | asked. straw. “When Brady tells me to,” was his The procession, headed by the band | laughing reply, narrowly escaping a tooting away for dear life, turned into | mouthful of lather from the brush of the Market street, followed by ‘all the thou-| harber, who had managed by this time sands, cheerin? the man wio had brought | to get the champ stretched on an arm- {l“’?“ inntes it “é“'k 0 m;‘“_' n gt ir in his bedroom, a pillow for a hotel street-car traffic was blocked, the ! "¢ k is called “The O CH coashman AEivink TefTuics HOE Baing |oniaa i he Plocc i, called he Rovel Bie o see any one in It with himself. All | fuder-, an < SOmOciD o & along the line there were chee e : g . o e natantly. Incteasing. . As. the | And the fehter laughed so heartlly at N e Por the Palace court there | the concelt that the barber nearly landed an_uppercut on the point of his jaw. There was a continual stream of callers " {in the room until 4 o'clock, the most bie being Master of Every Prize Ring Billy Jordan, who had been bulletins was such a rush for all the doors that led into the hostelry that when the cha pion alighted the courtyard was full. . Dove. Bver the raflings separating each | B of the floors from the court, women of all | Ceremony stations, from millionaire guests of the |«misled by the Southern Pacifl house to the airiest little chambermaids, | to cross the bay to the Sixteenth-street the new He station just in time to see > train bear- bent to get a glimpse of cules, who was just then tipping his hat | to a shout of welcome that shook the | glass in the doors. | Jeffries hurried to the register to sign | his name, the crowd still at his heels and | 80 closely that he concluded to defer the | ceremony. He turned and hurried to the | elevator to be taken to a room on the third floor, where he was soon busy shak- ing hands with more friends and submit- | STRONG MEN! Men of Nerve, Mem of Muscle, Men With Con- fidence, Men With Fire and Vigor of Youth! puil out for the mole. An- other welcome visitor was Eddie Miller, 2 bright-looking _boy of sixteen on crutches, whom Jelf grasped by the hand 2nd called his mascot. die i3 an ardent admirer of the champion and has seen him in every fight he has had in this city. At 4 o'clock, newly shaved, Jeffries and Continued on Page Seven. ing Jeffrie UCH ARE THE 10,0c0 MEN S who have tesiitied to their re- covery ot these grand attri- butes through the use of DR. McLAUGHLIN’S ELECTRIC BELT. It is an appliance with great strengthening power. It charges the system with the fire and energy of E'ectricity every night whiie you sleep. Read the book, _*“Thres Classes of Men,” all about it and its cures. Free. Call or address n‘;lrofi k-l;l(!lk BL. .nsr. K¢ m7‘~ 8. ’.x ek Blosk, co-. Spriog s i iy e i M e NEVER SOLD IN DRUGSTORES. Dr. M. A. McLaughlin, Office Hours—S a.m.. to §:30 p.m.; Sundays, 10 to 1.