The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1903, Page 3

—_—— VICTOR SHOWS 1 WARVELOUS, INCREASE IN SPEED AND ACTUALLY OUTBONES " IGHTER DPPONENT, WHDWAS DEEMED WITHOUT AN EQUAL IN AING gL Two Lively_Boutsv | Precede Main Event. Lesser Pugilistic Lights Show Prowess. of San f Los A s of WINNE PROVES R - ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ Pears’ soap is dried a That's why it It wears as thin whole year. lasts so. as a wafer. Sold all over the world. Ra ] Whe 1 Page 2, Column 3. n Jeffries Landed the Punch Which Dispelled Forever the Dream of Corbett to Regain the World’s Champions hip i Edward Graney. see Corbett come back after being knocked down in the second 1. The blow was a terrible one. He received another one near the close of the ninth round, and I knew it was . er. Corbett stalled cleverly, but had to succumb to the ter- e blows Jeffries dealt him in the body. The condition of both men was splendid. I allowed first blood to Yeffries. I k Co | GRANEY THINKS CONTESTANTS PUT UP A SPLENDID BATTLE At one time I thought Je strength came back to n his opponent t put up the best fight ,in his whole career.—Eddie + T was the best heavy-weight contest I have ever seen. Both men fought fairly and with great determination. It is true that they tried to | sneak a punch in the clinches, but they did not transgress the | rules. The punches Corbett re- | ceived in the body hurt him. Jeffries showed wonderful im- | provement. He fought better and faster thz did when he met Fitzsimmons in this city. He even hit harder and blows had more direction. Cor- | bett was extremely clever. He | should not be cast down by de- | ffries was a 1m, and he I was surprised to his | P test Amount to $62,340. \ | 1 F CORDING to the official count 10,689 people’ viewed the contest The gross receipts amounted to Of this sum the fighters per ‘cept, or $43,638, h was divided 75 per cent to the win- r cent to the loser. Thus for mes J. Jeffries of Los An- iched to the extent of $32,728, mes J. Corbett for his gallant but stand inst almost equal superior weight and strength s a balm for his wounded feel- dreams of a championship re- ere not realized. the largest of any this city. The Pavilion has n taxed it was last night. The ittended the Jeffries-Ruhlin, ern and other big contests arge 40, whi 1 st, whieh was he open air at Valenciz and Four- a few years ago, amounted $40,000. The price of admission ts of that fight was $5, while mission tickets to the gal- he consented to try it ning. A bag of oxygen into the gymnasium where been curtained off. Corbett h a severe course of work Best baling-powder epices soda flavoring extracts but that isn’t all. l At your gricer's | mogeyback, | our gain by Schi]ling'sjI ts to at least a quarter; went { and then ipped into the room avhere the 2dministered under the direc- The effect was 80 no- i 0 beneficlal that then and was decided to make use of it It was kept a great secre| Corbett camp, few knowing o to use, this up-to-date it night about the intention the method. | there st This was Jeffries’ sixth champlonship battie in less than four yeass. The cham- pion has defeated Fitzsimmons twice, | Sharky once, twice. The champion has never been knocked down in all his ring experience. Sullivan, who will apparently ever be the pugilistic idol of the present genera- tion, fought seven big fellows in eleven The receipts for the | Ruhlin once and Corbett | lery for last night's contest was $3. seats down stairs cost approximate same as for the fight. Corbett and Jeffries proved drawing cards the game felt that Corbett could not de- feat the hig boilermaker, ihey were anx- fous to see the most scientific boxer in the world make a mankey out of the champion. It was this feeling that brought shekels into the coffers of the Yosemite Athletic Club, While the cashiers were counting the pile of gold, greenbacks and silver taken in, six special officers, armed with revol- vers, watched the coin. It was stacked up in trays and presented a tempting ap- pearance. Jimmy Coffroth, Eddie Lewls and Fred Fowler labored for many hours before they were able to tell how much the ciub had taken in. *“Kid” Eagan, Jef- fries’ secretary, and Tom Corbett, who looks after Brother Jim's interests, were not permitted to enter the money room until the management had the coin count- ed. A box office statement was then pre- pared and given to the representatives of both men. The v the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries the best e I i e o o SR S RO years. He whipped John Flood, Paddy Ryan tw! Dominick MecCaffrey, Jake Kilrain, drew with Charley Mitchell and finally lost to Corbett. Corbett defeated Joe Choynski in twen- ty-seven rounds; fought Peter Jackson a sixty-one round draw; defeated Sullivan in twenty-one rounds; knocked out Char- ley Mitchell in three rounds; lost the championship to Fitzsimmons in fourteen rounds, and knocked out Kid McCoy in five rounds. An ex-champion has never yet returned to the ring and regained his title. When John L. Sullivan fell at New Orleans eleven years ago under the blows of the then rising young star of the ring, the young Californian, Cor- bett, his sun had set forever. Fitz- simmons won_the title from Corbett at Carson in 1897 and lost it to Jeffries in 1899. The latter has defended it as no other man has done in the annals of the prize ring. He has fought more Queens- berry championship battles than any other holder of the title. Although the followers of | ‘Big Crowd Gathers in Front of Pavilion. Scalpers Meet With Rebukes From Multitude. —_— treet in front of Mechanics' ion was one mass of human- hours before the fighters en- the ring. Men and boys, were not fortunate enough | to tickets of admission to the fight, contented themselves with waiting | outside and listening eagerly to each bit of mewp that was brought out by police- men of attendants. Every time a cheer went up it signal for the surging mass in the | ity i tered who secure was a reet s closer to the doors and strain for some more of the anxlously vaited ntelligen Great enthusi | was manifested by the hangers-on and | they varied the monotony of hours of waiting by making small wagers or dis- 1g the respective prowess of the two ight gladiators. was rather a gloomy outlook of ticket scalpers, who went through the crowd in their | to dispose of their wares. The people | ady awakened to the fuct that were robbing them and rather bunkoed out of their coin many de and contented them- stening to the cheering from vain attempt than be remained Yosemite Club 1y a dollar on this score. ets, snapped up eagerly by grafters, went to wa hoice seat In the pavilion was unoccu- though if the club had done the square thing by the sporting public it would have been a large sum further ahead. A large squad of police officers was de- talled to the scene of the fight early in | the evening and the crowd wek well handled. There was no disturbances to speak of and all the hangers-on behaved themselves in a most orderly manner. | The police kept patrolling the street in front of the pavilion and any person who was not in possession of a ticket was quickly hustled away from the door. The crowd began to arrive before 7, and | from that time on one long line of men was constantly streaming into the big building. The doors to the gallery were opened at 6 o'clock and that portion of «.e pavillon was filled hours before the fighters entered the ring. SR P SCALPERS WATCHED. incidentally lost Many tick- some of the and many a E Deputy Tax Collector H. C. Warren ar- rested a young man named James Glen- roy at Harry Corbett’s saloon yesterday for selling tickets on the fight without a license. Glenroy had twenty-seven tick- etsy seventeen of which were worth $7.50 each, and seven worth $5, all of which were held as evidence against him when he was booked at the City Hall police station. “ Jacob Baumgarten was arrested on Ellis street last evening by Detective Jack Freel and booked on a charge of selling fight tickets without a license. Baumgar- ten states that he was given a ticket to the fight by a friend to dispose of, and in so doing was arrested. The officer main- tains that he saw Baumgarten sell sev- #ral tickets and then approached him and purchased one for $T.50. £ As goon as Tax Collector Edwara J. Smith read the article in yesterday’'s Call | to the effect that the &ubllc was being mulcted by scalpers ho were . selling tickets for the Corbett-Jeffries fight he detailed two Deputy License Collectors to the vicinity of Powell and Ellis streets with a view to putting a stop to the illegal sale. Smith gave orders that the scalpers should be arrested, as only one man, “Kid” Veiller, has the license to sell tickets outside of a box office, he paying $300 monthly for the privilege. Later in the day Smith directed Chief Deputy Simpson to take three deputies and arrest the violators of the law. Smith expressed his intention to detail his entire force of deputies to patrol the vicinity of the Mechanics' Pavilion and | to arevent the illicit sale of seats. —p EX ORBETT’S condition was simply perfect. Although defeated he need not feel downcast. He took pun- ishment to-night that would kill an ordinary man if he was not in such perfect shape. The course of training | that Corbett took under my di- rection made a new man of him. He was bigger and stronger than he ever has been in his life. The oxygen which was administered to him between rounds did him a world of good. | It refreshed him and made his wind perfect. Corbett simply ~Tound. to straighten him out. That we long as he did is due to Jim's | | Dare. GRIT AND HIS FINE CONDITION KEEP FORMER CHAMPION GOING could not recover from the terrible blows dealt him by Jeffries. | I don’t think any man could withstand them. been in such fine fettle he would have succumbed in the second | He came back to his corner in pain and we did our best | | dition. I have always been a believer in physical culture. I suc- ceeded in building Corbett up and sent him into the ring good and strong. Had he been against Fitzsimmons, and not a giant like Jeffries/, he would have killed him.—Professor “Tommy” Professor Dare. | | Had Corbett not were able to make him last as grit and splendid physical con- LMOST every State in the Union, and for that matter foreign coun- tries, including America’s sister republic, Mexico, had representa- tives at the ringside. Many men of prominence from all over the country were ready to go before a notary public and affirm that they were here simply to attend the ceremonies attendant on the Grand Army Encampment. That all sounds well at home, but their faces were conspicuous in the vast audience, Jim Jeffries has always claimed that the press and public of his home city, Los Angeles, had never been guilty of passing bou- quets over the footlights to him, never- theless it is a fact that the delegation from the southern metropolis was the most nolsy and demonstrative of all the giant boilermaker’s followers. They ar- rived two or three hours behind time on the “Jeffries’ special,” some 300 strong, and speedily forced the odds down from 2 to 1 to 10 to 4, with the Corbett end wanting. Among the more enthusiastic rooters for Jeffries from the orange district were John Brink, the restaurant man and ref- eree; Tom Domady and Tom Savage, the politician. Every five minutes Harry Stu- art, referee of the Century Club, would hold a caucus and advise the gang to un- load on Jeff at any price. Al Levy of fls any oyster fame; Eddie Hookstratton, the ! cigar man; T. C. Lynch and Fred Herr coincided with the views set forth by Stu- art. Chief of Police Elton had a good bet down on Jeff, as had Tom McCaffrey, the train dispatcher, and Police Commission- EYT{::SK:::IYIW good in Bakersfield, for the crowd from that <ity was all over- weight with coin, and the major portion wanted the Jeffries end of it. Ollie ‘Woods, Tom O'Brien, Tim Sullivan, Fred Gatwood, Ed Callins, Tom Fogarty, Sam Sweltzer; Walter Grodzk, the ofl man; Stanley Clifford and George Parker were among those in the lfne-up. MEXICAN DELEGATION. From Mexico, the land of the matador + Every State in Union and Many Foreig Countries Represented. ———————— and bull fights, came Charles Keefe, Dr. Carlos Amezcua, Antonio Tarriba and an- l n other wealthy mining man. Three of the gentlemen are on their way East to see the international yacht race and stayed over, to just see Jeff and Corbett in their little argument. Johnny Considine is probably the best known of the delegation that came down from Seattle. Somewhat different from most of the sports up there, who won’ bet until they get the flash, Johnny tmlfi a chance on Corbatt. Dr. C. B. Cowen, Walter Fulton, wne District Attorney; John Slater, L. Wolfe and Karl Anderson, a clever newspaper writer, also made the trip. Jack Grant, the referee and all around sport of Portland, and his brother Pete showed the way for the Oregon contin- gent. The advance in prices caused by the scalpers’ corner in seats created quite a commotion, but along with the Grants, Jack Foy, Larry Sullivan, Frank Helen and Nate Solomon, among others, stood the raise. Portland sborts were never known to make a kick or look for the best of it. The fever reached Sacramento, too for Danny Walsh, Fred knox, Tom Scott and Ed Frazer were noticed among those close up at the ringside. While only a small town, Madera has always had a hankering for sporting events, and County Clerk Eubanks and Supervisor J. F. Dalton from tnere oc- cupled two choice seats. John Bignolo and Bert Crane of Turlock. a neighbor- ing burg, accompanied Eubanks and Dal- ton. Charley Fontana, a leading sporting man of Angels Camp,. journeyed here to see the big fellows meet. . Never a fight passes that Arizona is not represented. Johnny Blair of Blair Bros.. the wealthy copper men of Bisbee, and N. C. Webster, a railroad man of Phoenix, were among those present last night. MONTANA SENDS CLARK. The theatrical profession had represen- tation in Nat Gooawin and Marcus May- er. Nat is an enthusiast on glove con- tests and sought to get even for his losses on Harry Forbes the night before by stringing with Jeffries, Times must be hard in Montana, for | | they had on' him. in'vlu(‘k last evening, Jeffries’ Backers Find but Few Takers. Small__[rfiaunt of Coin Wagered - on Fight. HERE was practically very little money bet on the fight in the lo- cal poolrooms. The heaviest money wagered was by friends of Jeffries who came up from South- ern California to see the champion win To all his friends Jeffries gave out the tip that he could not lose and to bet all His manager, “Kid Eagan, was just as confident. Nearly all the money bet went at the odds of 2 to 1, with Jeffries favorite. All the big bets, averaging $500 or more, were made by Jeffries’ admirers, the money being taken up by small bettors on Cor- bett in $10 and $20 bets. John Brink, a well known sporting man of Los Angeles, came Into Corbett's poolrooms about trying to get a 3500 He had to wait fully haif bet on Jeffries. an hour before he could get the money on. Charles Clark, son of Senator Clark, was a great Jeffries admirer and he com missioned several men to visit the pool- rooms and get as much money as they could on the champion. The betting was not spirited, however, and it is said that he was unable to get down more than $2000 on Jeffries in this city. About 6 o'clock last evening Corbett's triends began to bet on their idol and for a while the betting was 10 to 6, with Cor- bett on the short end. This price did not remain long, however, and within an hour the price had receded again to 2 to 1, with Jeffries favorite. Corbett's clerk: mated that in all they handled 350,000 on the event, but even this is comparatively a small figure for such a big event “Zick” Abrahms sald last evening that there was practically no betting on the fight. Very little money changed hands in his poolrooms. The reason given for so little betting is generally conceded to be that the bet- ting public had very little confidence in Corbett's chances. “ ‘Jeff’ is a younger man than ‘Jim’; I guess I will keep my money in my pocket,” was the general re mark heard around the poolrooms. NEW YORK CHIEF OF POLIGE HERE Cartwright Comes West in Time to See Big Contest. Chief of Police Cartwright of New York, on pleasure bent, arrived in this city yes- terday, apparently unobserved by the nu- merous New Yorkers who are at present visiting San Francisco. Going quietly to the Palace Hotel he engaged quarters, re- marking as he did so tha. he had come to the Western metropolis with a view of remaining here at least a week. In the evening he met a number of ac- quaintances in the lobby of the hotel and with them he attended the Corbett-Jeffries fight. To-day he will be the guest of Chief Wittman and subordinates. He is on & leave of absence and came West with'the idea of getting a little rest, see- ing a bit of sport and also viewing some of Central California scenery. The Chief of New York's police force has many friends among the San Fran- ciscans who are In the habit of visiting that city, and they will no doubt under- take to make his stay here as enjoyable as posstble. el tiiisiiens MINERS LAW ABIDING. Committee Says Imported Thugs ‘Will Not Be Tolerated. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Aug. 14—The strike committee to-day Issued a reply to the mine owners’ manifesto, which de- clared their intention to reopen their mines, and called upon the men to return to work. The reply characterizes the mine owners' announcement as a ‘“big bluff,” declares that the miners quit work for a principle and will not go back until or- dered to do so by their officers, and adds: Regarding the offer of protsction for mem who desire to return to work, no protection will be necessary, because the miners are law-abide ing men and no trouble is anticipated. Everything is quiet in the district and no imported thugs are wanted, whose business is to create strife where none exists, and, further more, none will be tolerated. The proper officlals, assisted by law-abiding citizens, will take care of these gentry should they appear. @il @ Charley Clark, son of the Senator from that State. was about the only ome to answer roll tall. Charley is an exten sive bettor on all sorts of sporting events. Colonel F. ¥F. Lord of Virginia City, a State Senator, would have it that only G. A. R. business brought him to town He took in the fight, so he said, just to accommodate a friend. Barney Cusick and General Montgom- ery, the cattleman of Chigo, couldn't stand to miss the big go and had promi- nent seats. Of those present from Denver, John G. Morgan was among the more egsily dis- cernible. From farther East came Parson Da now of New Orleans, who seldom miss a championship affair. Sandy Griswol of the Omaha Bee, a widely known spo ing writer, was accompanied by Frank Bandle, once a noted National League ball player. Solly Stroup, formerly quite a figure In the prizering. came on from Pittsburg. Louis A. Kohn, Chicago mer- chant, was close to the ring. Fred Bul len, proprietor of a cafe in Bridgeport, Conn., had a box seat and a ticket om Jeftries. Max Balthasar of Chicago was busy supplying the Scripps-McRae papers with the fight by rounds. Charley Daly of St. Louis, who at one time fought Billy Meyer forty-four rounds, was another Easterner close up at the fln‘sldw’ -