The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-04
FISTIC SPORTS.
The California After Fitzsim-
mons and Hall.

The officers of the California Athletic
Club decided last evening to make the as
sessment for this month S., which will clear
the club of the Indebtedness it will incur
by bringing number of lightweight pugil-
lists from the East to box at its next ex-
hibition.
In future statement of the clubs finan-
cial condition will be posted monthly on the
blackboard so as to avoid any further an
noyance from the kicking" members.
The Directors will meet again tomorrow
evening to decide ON the pugillsts whom
they Will engage to box at the September en-
tertainment An offer has been made Fitz-
simmons and Hall which it is thought the
Australian middle-weights will accept. If
satisfactory reply be received prior to the
meeting, this match will be made, and
Needham and Kemmic. both st. Paul men,
Will be booked for October. The latter
lighters are intimately acquainted with each
other, but it is only within the past two
years that Remmic became prominent as a
fighter.
A RED-HEADED wooDPECKER.
A young red-headed Irishman named
Flynn, descendant OF the old Irish Kings,
who In former years resided in castles on
the banks of the River Shannon, happened
into the California Club last evening, and
Informed President Fulda that he had come
from Seattle purposely to enter the boxing
tournament. According to hs own state
ment Flynn must be yeritable wonder.
He has whipped everything in sight in the
mother country, and is now yearning for
more laureis. He thinks that he will have
no trouble to win the first prize, and re-
marked that in a three-cornered ring the
man who could take post away from him
would "Joe dandy" He will be tried out
by Alex Greggains on Wednesday evening,
ana it is certain that he will prove an over
rated duffer.
"Reddy' Gallagher telegraphed yesterday
that he Will arrive here on Thursday.
james Lucy OF the San Francisco Club has
refused to box Richard Murphy of the Lur-
llne Club at the Olympic exhibition and A.
Lynngreen of the San Francisco Club has
been substituted IN his place.
OLYMPIC CLUB BUILDING.
The laying of the cornerstone Of the
Olympic Clubs new building, which was to
have taken place this month, has been post
poned until the early part of September.
The delay was occasioned by the loose earth
which the workmen encountered while dig
ging the foundation.
The entries for the Olympic Clubs invi-
taton field day, which will take place on
Saturday. closed last evening with the Sec
rotary OF the club. 1t Is expected that
large gathering will be present to witness
the sports.
Ben Hobart's new yacht Cupid made her
inaugural trip al ound the bay on Saturday,
and proved to be very stiff and fast craft,
which adds another flyer to the already
large fleet of the Corinthian Yacht Club.
Archbishop ireland, who took promi-
nent part in preventing the Hall FitZsim-
mons fight. says: THE most regrettable
thing to me in these affairs is the tone of
the press. which in some sections actually
seems to patron re these fights, and in en-
deavorlng TO make them reputable and al
most honorable arrangements lowers the
public moral tone and leads into the meshes
of the evil the uncautious aud unthinkiDg
youth of the land" The Archbishop re-
CARDS prize fights as more brutal and savage
than bull-fghts.