The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1906, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH Death was caused by a hemorrhage of the brain. Jaded Gladiator Is Urged On and Goes to His Death Fighting for Wager. Police Armest Neil, Referee ‘‘Billy’” - Roche and Seconds of Rival Pugilists. Mayor, Police Chief and District Attorney; Will Investigate Grim Tragedy. FOUR RING FATALITIES HAPPEN HERE. 1 WILLIAM MILLER died sx a resnlt of injuries received in a prizefizht in tbix city with Dal Hawkins, February 25, 1893. JIM FRANEY died as a result of injuries reeeived in a prizefight with | Feank McConnell 15, $s0s. ALEXANDER DOVIN died as the result of injuries received ia a prize- | fight with Chiefie Colma, February 5, 1906. | HARRY NNY died as a result of injuries received in a prizefight | | with February 28, 190C. | e to stimulate ! 24 the injured | am but he still | | in this city, August Johpson at Frankie Neil in this efty. complained of great pains in his head d body, though h improved some- » bathhouse. again soon | Kergan was again sum- this time remaining with the in- i till 4 o'clock. By that time had fallen asleep. The doctor Sbaughnessy his man was badly K s thought he ~ would pull on § The medical man observed K ces of a.bad beating and | ighnessy to be careful and | ange in the patient’s con- | i relapsed into a deep slumber | but awakened his manager | er 7 o'clock, saying he was and had. pains all over. | worked over him for some | then, becoming alarmed, sent and the ambulance. But time to lend the| ny aid AUTHORITIES ORDER ARRESTS. As s00n as the news of Tenny’s death | 3 police orders were issued TO AVARIC to a onds Neil, Roche and all the sec- They all surrendered themselve SACRIFICE N within a few hours, with the exception Sgk Xt 4 sth known as “Fat,” ‘who was | - ¥’s corner. All these ‘were | ed on $500 cash bail, furnished by members of the fight trust, ose in Neil's corner were “Spider” | Kelly, Tim McGrath and Frank Frayne. In: Tenny's corner were his manager, Mark Shaughnessy; Tom Burke and the N v ny's seconds { lad krnown Fat.” Referee Roche had a » which they |did not put in an appedarance till 1 placed sc - $700 as a bet on | 0'clock. 25 he lives across the bay. and | t v fast | 4id not know what had happened till | 1 e tired | informed by telephone, -+ 2 HEMORRHAGE CAUSES DEATH. | Autopsy Physician Not Prepared to Say What Brought It On. District Attorney Langdon was very much wrought up over the affair and at first said he would Issue orders that James Coffroth, Willus Britt, Morris Levy and Eddie Graney, members of the fight trust, be arrested with the ring prin- cipals. But Langdon later withdrew this order when the magnates appeared before him and assured him they would be within reach as soon as wanted by | the law. | The remains of the dead pugilist were taken in charge at once by Coroner 8 agritiec Walsh and Autopsy Surgeon Kucich be- gan his work. After examining the brain the doctor announced that a BLOWS CRUSH SKUL e ¢ caise. of a vas 2| hemorrhage was the cause of death. of ‘the - ®8 28° | He announced that the hemorrhage was D e rhe Do, | the result of the laceration of a small Morgue. c"';'r{()l“‘f‘blood vessel, but refused to commit cve was broke® | himeclf as to how the injury came |about. It could easily be seen, how- ever, by the tone of the medical man that he felt gssured the yviolent blows deliverd by Frankie Neil the night be- fore caused the hemorrhage. This hemorrhage Is a peculiar one,” said the doctor. “In fact it is one en- tirely new to me, though I have read about them in various medicai books, I find that there exists a hemorrhage of the pons varolli at the base of the brain. ised the fatality,:though I am not prepared to say how the condition was brought about. I find the boy’s heart, stomach, liver ther organs to be in perfect shape. {an In fact he was in grand condition physically. Death was in no .wise {caused by any sort of polson or nar- cotic, mnor from a weak heart. He ne and complained | his stomach. His | the b wa n a bad y sent out fc doctor e to the showed no effects of being overtrained and nothing but the Internal hem- orrhage could have caused his demise.” — - ROCHE GIVES HIS VERSION. 2 convey pa- | AT BATHHOUSE. Says He Did Not Hear Tenny Counted Out First Time. Frankie Nell, the hard-hitting little bantam who dealt the deadly blow, was, of course, very much affected over the death of his opponent. He sald in his opinion Tenny was being unmerci- fully punished, and thought his sec- nds. would throw up the sponge. Neil up s he does not know whether or not known Tenny, was knocked out twice in the such a weak | Jast round. [Ile said he saw his man that M ger Shaughnessy up after going half way down DIES | r who in the | onded. | scope Tenny | atter breathed his last. He | en of whisky, but | { to njectior was g was administered too la for beyor medical the dose i all beaten dly f “the fight In fact hé w ~3 J. A. Kergan, who examined | from @ volley of blows, and that - he then red Yo him | ftarted in to end the fight right there, | not. being cautioned by the referee. { Referec Billy Roche Is very blue over the sad affair. He stated vesterday 80 a oads that the reason he.did not stop the | fight when Tenny seered so far gone " . 3 was because he thought the tired boxer of Pianos, was 8till in At form to continue - and ’ |.6id not want to disappoint his backers 7 | by stopping the Aght while he thought ¥ | there was still a chance left. Auto Pianos, Elec | “Tenny was not knocked down,” said . 1 Roche. “He was In a port of half up- tric Pianos, Parlor | sight posiiion 324 begda to Tise (o his i feet slowly as Timekeeper Harting w: Organs and Im- tolling. off the ten Séconds He 18 rive: J and showed signs of fight, when Nell mense Plpe Organs came at him and finished him-up. He ¥ dfddnol appear to me to be'in a weak y condition up to that time,. hnd - was are now on their fighting desperately all the thme.” . -~ _" | Mark Shaughnessy, Tenny's managet, way t0 721-723 P th e T e f {“I did not. throw up the sponge be- .’“arket St Opens cause Harry would not listen to such % < a proposition,” said he. “The boy was in a few days. | fighting sirong, and I myself thought - he was still in the going. Just before the end he said to me, ‘I am going to, 80 In and get him before the fiftecnth.’ Hé thought he could win, and did, not complain of pain till after the fight.” . Captain Burnett and Chief Dinan at wnce started an investigation of the case. Detective Coleman was detaifed to go over all the incidents carefully and make a report. This will be sub- mitted at the inquest, to be held within THE BIG PIANO STORE. ' Youfig Puéilist Expires in Bath House each instance. The fatality may result in stopping the game here. of Hemorrhage of Brain, Result of Blows Inflicted by Opponent - 4 REEREE LA R TANA SROTO S, FRE@CT [ ) 190 Harry S. Tennybaum, known to ring goers as Harry Tenny, died early yesterday morning from injuries received in his fight with Fran Neil, Referee Billy Roche and the seconds of both boxers were arrested and release 8 P = 3y SIS \ _sflgmain-n RESSI | | ; R SELERRT 2 gl E YOUNG PUGILIST ‘WHO DIED YESTERDAY AS A RESULT OF.INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE_ RING ON WED! GHT. HIS OPPONENT, REFEREE OF THE CONTEST AND CHIEF SECONDS, 'ALL'OF WHOM WERE AR AND LATER RELEASED ON BAIL. o 7 — + the next few dnys, when the blame foryfirst of these happered on the evening. the boxer's death will- be fixed: MAYOR WIL A -HAND. May Stop Game if. Carelessness . or Negligence 1s Proved. Mayor Schmitz gave out a statement yesterday to the éffect that if the fight trust was found.to -be at all responsible for the death of Tenny ‘through negli- gence or carelgssness _he would. take steps to have the boxing gamé imime- diately stopped. He says he. -will ‘is- sue an order-to this: effect -to the Board of SuperviSors il he finds out that the promoters were at fault. That Tenny's death will.put a stop to boxing in this city seems: very like- ly. Those who have been opposing the sport for sonie time will now have firin ground on which to- stand and make their fight agiin. The membeérs of the fight trust will not say what they in- tend to do or to what.exlent the sport will be handicapped, though.they all appear very dubious-over the Tésult of the fatal fight. Tenny's -death may ~ -have - ‘been hastened by epileptic fits, to ‘which he was subject for- some time. . Accord- ing to his manager, he died in-one of these spasms, and was subject to them during his training work. .Tenny's relatives, however, -say he' never com: plained of such an ailment at home: Dr. Kergan, who -attended. Tenny, says, in his “opiniom, . - the' brain hemorrhage miight have been brought on by the epileptic fits. These fits, he sayvs, were surely caused by many hard and ynusual beatings. . Tenny had been fighting for -about three years, and had been engaged in something like forty encounters. 'A'S he never was noted for his cleverness, his opponents - always found him an easy mark to hit, and it may be that the constant beatings--he received in a measure hastened the end. Tenny's brother,. James, and - his mother visited the -Morgue: ‘yesterday morning and beseeched the attendants to allow them to gaze upon the remains, They made wild statoments to the. éf- fect' that Harry was-doped and. that his death was the result of poisening and not of Neil's terrific blows. But.as they had nothing to substantiate their claims, and as-the sutopsy showed that death was. caused by ‘a brain hem- orrhage, these theories were - guickly spurned by the authorities.” . - : Tenny was a native of = Winnipeg, Canads, and 20 Years old. He resided with his father,” mother, four siste: and three brothers on Third.street, where his father and brothers keep i little second-hand store.- The family is | fairly crazed with grief over the death of the boy, who was well thought of by all who kne i 5 = il GRIM TRAGEDIES OF RiING, San Francisco has been the scerie of no less than four fatal Ting es during the last thirteen. years. - The ‘| ciation entire cnarge of boxing. of February 25, 1893, when Dal Haw- kins, then the pride of. the lightwelZht division, “adminjstered such .a beating to William Miller that'the latter dled .of his injuries. . A great sensation was caused by the tragedy, but. Hawkins and. the promoters and seconds escaped ‘without "punishment at. the. hands of the authorities. The next ring fatality happened five years'later, when, on.the evening of. August- 18, Jim Franéy was: laid Tow by Jrank McCennell, then .the’ leading. welter-weight of this city. ¥raney re- ceived a’terrible beating and died soon after being removed .to ‘the hospital from- Woodward's : Pavilion, where the tragedy:- occurred, ‘Again ' all - -parties ‘concerned were :llowed to &0 unpun- ished. ., A - The next case of a fatal mix-up hap- pened at Colma.on February: 5 last, when-little Chiefie Johnson killed Aléx- ander-Dovin with a- terrific blow over the heart. This also created a sensa- tion; and once again na blame . was placed for the tragedy. FERT The news of the fatal Dovin affair had hardly cleared away ' before - the residents of this city .are startled once again with another fatality of the pad- ded arena.The killlng of Tenny on ‘Wednesday night js. probably. the most sensational ‘of all four, and develop- ‘ments-in the case .will not “only - be watched with interest in this eity, but all-over the country, as San ‘Francisco is now looked upon as the refuge of the professtonal boxer. i s AL AMATEUR BOXING. FLJUM!“G. Five Clubs Will Bid for_Patronage of Publie This Mouth:, d The police committee of the Supervi. gors, made up’' of - Messrs. Sanderson, Harrigan and Walsh, met the officials of the Pacific Athlstic Association, the governing body of amateur sports, last night in’-the . directors’ .room of the 1Olymplc. Club.. The "association was represented by President T. L Fitzpat- ;l:i\: and by Vice President Max' Rosen- The object of the méeting was to dis-. cuss: the Important matter. of the con- trol of amateur boxing. . Five of these exhibitions will be oted: this month, three of them g held ‘with- | in seven days.. The dates allowed are: | Mareh ‘9, Gccidental Club;. March 18, | tain Manhattan Club; March 16, Hawthorne g}u‘gi March . 23, c-lu.‘cmu’_ ‘Afllcll::g{ ‘Club, and March 27, Arlel Rowing d The clubs will recelve permits in" this | same order heéreafter. . ° A The Supervisors” committeé agreed to follow the rules in fotrce for some time, which give the Pacific Athletic éi.)::l must be. members of the assoolation be- fore they can secure permits. . It was | -{also agreed - that after Agrfl no more than: four permlits will be issued in one month. This means: fully fift ho:_era Wwill be in training all the time. t the request of n Max Ros- enfeld of the 'Olymucc-gl':‘b. the Super- D e visors decided not- to grant any addi- tional eanction: for the first week in April. ' This assures the success of the tournament for the national -boxing championships which will be held un- der'. the auspices of the Olympic Club at that time. 5 Tue Pacific Athletic Association offi- elals will maintain a striet supervision over the men billed to appear. They must-be examined by a competent phy- sician and the club 'must file its certifi- cate ‘with the police according to law. ——— PHYSICIAN VICTIM OF TWO BUNKO MEN Dr. James Osborn Loses His Own €Coin and Money En- trusted to Him. Two wegks ago today Dr. James Os- born, 1523 Clay street, accompanied by | Attorney R. Porter Ashe, called upon Captain Burnett and reported that he had been Victimized out of $1200 by two bunko men. He said $800 of the amount ‘had been held in trust by him for the benefit of Dr. Frank Donaldson, 1372 California® street. He explgined that he met the men through an advertisement and .they made him believe that he could win: considerable money by bet- ting on the races, as one of them could tap the telegraph wires and receive the results of the races before the general Oshorn.was turned over to Detectives Bunner and Freel and they took him to the -identification -bureau and showed him photographs of Bunko men. He picked out the photograph of Benjamin Pincus as one of the men, but the police say he was mistakeép, as Pincus has not been .in the city for -several ‘months. The détectives have been unable to find any-trace of the crooks. _.AS Dr. Donaldson is a very si¢k man, without funds, it was the inteatioh to Kkeep the matter quiet and if the men wete found to get them to return the money. - 2.3 B0 A Cormer in Frames. .Our frame room is 8 corner well worth your time to visit. The happiest results are obs tained your . sel lon combines beauty “artistte mentt. . Wall be g1ad fo.Hive you e of gur exverience, Sanborn, Vail rket street. 41 Jopanese Coolfes Stopped. ‘Eighteen Japanese coolies, who ar- Fived by the Hongkong Maru and al- leging they were on the way to werk in rice ‘fields in Texas, are being In- vestigated by the United States Lmmi- grant Inspectors as to whether- they may be classed as contract laborers or least annoyance, public, 3 TENNY DIES OF INJURIES RECEIVED IN BOUT WITH NEIL kie Neil the night before. d on $500 cash bail in RAID BRINGS + Go0DLY SN T0 TREASURY e The city treasury was enriched to the extent of $1455 in fines collected from those who were gathered in at the raid on Harvey & Daroux's short-lived Monte Carlo. There was not a coin paying nickel-in-the-slot machine running amy- where in the city yesterday. Apparently gambling of ‘“the open™ sort has been effectively suppressed. Behind District Attarney Langdon’s prompt action in the matter of slot ma- chines and the rald on Harvey & Daroux’s resort rumor persistently de- clares that there has been a falling out between Langdon and the powers that run the administration. Langdon denles that this crusade against gambling has political significance, but In# the same breath he declares that he is absolutely unhampered by political obligations. He said: ight to believe that I e li-y?hl::yb;('m! plain duty when I was elacted to office. ‘I will do no more and I can do no less. 1 have not a political thought in my mind. I have not tried to be lar. I have not tried to do more than my duty. When I accepted the yomination for this office I had no intention of doing anything but my duty to the people. I sald five times a night during the campaign that the statutes were t and- that 1 would see that they were obeyed. 1 will keep the promises I have made to the peaple. POLICE JUDGES IMPOSE FINES. The cases of the gamblers were quickly disposed of yesterday. Frank Daroux went to the District Attorney with the offer to plead -guilty if the minimum fines were imposed. As Langdon knew that there wodld be. muech difficulty in identifying the prisoners and as his ob- ject was solely -to suppress open and notorious gambling, he assented to the proposition. In Judge Cabaniss's court Daroux was fined $100 for running the place and Wil- ltam Meyers paid the samé amount for dealing faro., Daroux asked that the fines be $30, but Judge Cabanigs declared that $100 was the minimum penaity. Sixty-one visitors were fined 35 aplece. In Mogan's court Willlam Backer, a faro dealer, was fined $100 and -seven visit- s were fined % aplece. Judge Conlan and Judge Shortall each fined sixty visit- ors. The I § 3 g % i He impose the $ fine occasjon to assert his Distriet Att the local 's action e Carlo. tinued until today. There was not a ma- chine in operation anywhere yesterday and District Attorney Langdon declares that they are out of business for good. It is his intention to make an example of some of the saloon-keepers who persisted in running the machines. Regarding this he said: The object in the Harvey & Daroux. case was not 20 much. to pupish as to stamp. out Daroux has declared that be will not attempt o opem up again. so our pusposs is accomplished. If we had not assented to the propesition he made we wouid have clogged the courts for months. It would bave been im-~ possibie for the seven policemen Who werg in the raid t identify all of the prisoners. John Howard, who conducts a saleon at 134 Fifth street, was arrested yes- terday for violating the ordinance pro- hibiting the selling of pools. Franik Donald, John Thompson and W.: J. Eddler, who were in the place at the time of the raid. were charged with visiting a place where pools are sold. All four were booked at the Southerm station. —_—————— STEALS TELEPHONE APPLIANCES.— Superintendent Roach of the Breck Electrie Doiice yestarday that & sepiadadt and s to the poiice yest a & x_cont tel coils, mouthpieces and castings of the Vi $105 wera ol Wednesday night. They were left thers at & o'clock and at 10 o'clock had disappeared. DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. Al'ieavy Load to Carry | i i H :t‘