The morning call., 1890-09-05
RING AND PATH.
Dave Campbell Challenges Jack
Burke of England.
Athletic Events Which Will Take Place at the
Olympic Grounds "A Novel Hand
Ball Contest-Boxing Clubs.

be given, ana athree-Quarter-mlle race. The
entries will close at the club on Sunday even
ing.
The Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic As
ISOLATION will hold race meeting at Sacra-
mentO on the 18th of this month. The pro-
gramme of games has already been pub
lished, and the entries, which are quite num-
erous, insures large field of starters.
A pamphlet with the constitution, by
laws and general rules of the Pacific Coast
Amateur Athletic Association has been
compiled by the officers of the association.
and can be had by applying to Walter A.
Scott of the Olympic Club
A PREMATURE REPORT.
1t was reported that the Olympic Club
would hold an exhibition next Monday even
ing at the Pavilion. This report is prema-
ture.
An officer of the club said yesterday: II
think the exhibition of last Wednesday
evening will be sufficient to satisfy the de-
sires of the members for few months at
least"
The rules of the Olympic Club read that
the election of officers shall occur on the
first Monday in September and the initia-
ton on the Monday following. This rule
has been invariably carried ont, but on the
present occasion a poStponement of one
week may be decided upon, as next Monday
will be generally celebrated by the Native
Sons, q number of whom are members of the
Olympic.
CoRBETT AND CAMPBELL.
Dave Campbell. an Oregon pugilist who
had his nose despoiled by Jack Dempsey's
fast-Aying left. is in New York and is using
Jim Corbett's name to further a scheme
which he hopes will give him free ride to
England. He called on the editor of
sporting paper few days ago and announced
himself as the only man who has fought
draw with Professor COrbett of the Olympic
Club, and that if good purse was given by
either the Ormonde or Pelican clubs of En-
gland he won Id fight Jack Burke, "the
Irish lad" The editor, upon this state
ment, sent the following cable to the London
Sporting Life:
Dave Campbell OF Portland Oregon. chal-
lenges Jack Burke 10 fight In the OTmonde Club
for a purse OF $4,000. II accepted viii leave at
once. Campbell fought draw with Burke and
a Ien-round draw with COrhett.
Those who witnessed the contest in Port
land between COrbett and Burke retired
from the hall in disgust, as the match WAS
so palpably one-sided that only one man
was in it. and that was Corbett. The Pro
fessOr, if he had used good judgment, should
have knocked out his opponent, but having
failed TO do so, Campbell can now make cap
ital out OF a "quakey" reputation which
may accompany him to England, unless the
Professor heads the OregOnian fighter off
by forwarding the particulars of the con-
test to the London papers. Should Camp
bell be matched with Burke, or some of the
English fighters of note, the chances are
ten 10 one that he will fall by the ring-side
in short order; then the sporting people Of
England will begin to scott at the Professor,
who aspires for championship honors, but
who failed to stop very ordinary pugilist
in ten rounds.
AN UNSATISFACTORY FIGHT.
The fight between Keogh and Mccormack
at Virginia City last Wednesday night re-
suited yery unsatisfactory to the large audi
ence who witnessed it. Mccormack resort
ed TO butting tactics, and in the thirtieth
round the referee, Dominic Briden, gave
the contest to keOgh on foul.
When pugilism fOurlshed in this city the
clubs in which the contests. were decided
were known as athletic" clubs, which
name is. certainly a misnomer of the most
pronounced type. Speaking of boxing clubs
| and athletic clubs New York Exchange
says:
among Its members | often wonder why some
CLUB does not take the Initiative and qualify its
character by assuming the title of boxing club
instead OF taking refuge under the misleading
| title OF an athletic club. In Brooklyn there are
| several organizations whose members take no in
| teIest IN any other branch OF amateur sport but
| boxing and yet they are called athletic clubs
| and recognized by the A. A. U. The Acorn
| Athletic Club was organized TO support the Ma
| tional Association at u time when the two lac
| lions were lighting for supremacy Its members
were few and the supply OF talent was decidedly
| slim. To-day 1t blossoms forth is promoter of
| boxing, and ike the Bridge and National clubs
relies principally on the patronage OF Its exhibi-
| lions for The whefewiIhal TO exist.
THE CALIFORNIA CLUB.
A week from to-day the California Club
| will hold its September exhibition. The
event OF the evening will be finish contest
between Rochette and Young Huntington.
| The preliminary bouts will be many. The
| club anticipates no annoyance from the
police although Dame Rumor says that
| Captain Short Is training hard and has
| gained fifteen pounds in two weeks.
| There is war pending still between
Bowen, who is TO fight Carroll and his late
manager, SchoDhausen. In speaking of a
| few of the turns that he had doue for
Bowen, Schouhausen asked: whoever
| heard of the Pelican Club of England or
the California clubs giving $1,000 purses?
| When Bowen was unknown outside of the
city brought, after considerable difficulty,
lily Niger down here to fight him. L had
to make the purse $1,000, and | am out on
the fight. l nave paid Danforth right along,
and found him one oil the squarest men of
| his class L ever met, while on The other
hand L found Bowen the hardest to manage
| of them all. True, he is strong and can
fight, but | had to furnish him with the
heart, and Daulorth furnished him with the
tactics. Without Danforth behind him L
cannot see how he will make great fight.
| 1t is his own fault that lie has lost The val
liable services of his trainer and second.
Every one who has any knowledge of the
ring knows that good trainer and two
good men behind fighter is half of the bat
tle."
| says: president Peterson of the Olympic
| Club returned yesterday from CAROLS
training quarters at Bay st. Louis He
states that Carroll is hard at training under
| Fitzsmlnons, and weighs 13S pounds"
| A HAND-BALL MATCH.
On next Saturday afternoon very inter-
e,ting game Of hand-ball will be played at
Buffers court, on Howard street, between
| NJ. Butler, champion middle-weight ball
| player of the Pacific Coast, and NJ. la
Grange, a celebrated French hand ball play
er. The game will be fifty aces. The Pafi-
sian will use SCOOP peculiar kind of bat,
| which he handles very deXterously = as
| against Buffers hands, which are well
tanned from constant playing. The contest
| will be DECIDEDLY novel, amt owing to The
| many applications for admission (Which is
free, the proprietor says that as the seating
accommodations will not permit an attend
| ance Of more thar 200 people, the doors
will be closed at o'clock on that after
noon. The match will be for 500 side
| Peter Cannon, the celebrated Scottish
long distance runner, is as unassuming in
| manner as he is great in running. A few of
| his records are interesting: Hi, best perform
ance was on May IA, 1883, when he defeated
r. Hunter, who received $50 yards start, in
| a three-nile race in the best time ever made
for this distance, Il min. 1917 sec. His de-
feat of George, the English runner, estab-
| lished a record for the two miles of min.
| 1914 Sec, and at the three mites his time,
IA min. So Sec, has never been lowered. His
favorite distances are three to five miles,
although he Can show good time for the one
| and ten miles, but he allows in the last dis
lance his countIyman, William Cumming,
| are both numerous and valuable, the last
valuable trophy added to his list teing the
| challenge cup, won by him last year at the
Paris Exposition for the four-mie race.
| Cannon is now in his prime, being about "a
years old. He is native OF Stirling.
The following challenge appeared in the
Toronto Empire of a few days ago. 1t will
interest the athletes of this city, as the man