The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-11
FIGHTERS AND KICKBRS.
Smith Has Arrived and
Signed to Fight.
NO CONTEST AT HOLSTER.
williams of Salt Lake Has Gone 10 Sunol to
Avoid Malaria-Men Who Will Play
Football To.Morrow

Billy Hennessey returned from the north
yesterday with Billy Smith. the pugljst,
who whipped Nader in Portland recently.
Smith was only a few hours in town when
he signed articles at the Pacific Club to fight
Danny Needham in December. The latter
has been notified of Smiths arrival. and in
all probability he will attach his name to
the document which is now waiting his sig
nature.
Jim Williams, the powerful Salt Lake
middle weight. who is matched against
Charley Turner, has arrived and gone into
training at Sunol.
The Palo Alto Club has engaged Billy
Smith to teach boxing on Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday evenings. Mahan and
Burge are training hard for their battle,
which will lake place this month.
1t is said that the fight which was 10 have
taken place at HOLSTER between Clarke and
Hennessev has been declared off. owing TO
Clarke's peculiar ways of training Hen
nessey is now looking for match With any
154-pound pugilist.
Seward Smith, brother of Sol Smith, who
Is matched to fight Van Heest in this city.
has signed articles to battle with Jack
Frazer at Los Angeles on the evening of
December for a purse of 500. The pugil-
lists will fight at 154 pounds
The following letter to THE CALL from
an enthusiastic footDall-player Is self-ex-
p!anatory: Saturday viii be gala day in
this city II the students of the State Uni
yersity and the members of the Olympic
the third and lastsfootball game between
the Olympic and U. c. teams aud the pro-
ceeds will go for the benefit of the surgical
ward of the Woman's Hospital. Judging
from the number OF prominent society
people who were present last Saturday the
N " wit en6 nv
largest and most fashionable sssemblage
ever seen at an outdoor athletic contest. A
good. stubbOrnly contested game is ex-
pected. as each team has one match. After
the game the university boys will have
a tbeater party at the California. They
are all delighted with the result of the last
game and attribute much of their success
TO Mr.. Braun, who is their manager He
has really done wonderful work with the
material he had. Starting out with ffteen
players to pick his team from and all the
interest confined TO them he has by his con-
fdence aud enthusiasm so changed matters
that twenty-five men practice on the campus
every afternoon and the game is witnessed
by many OF the students.
The time will no doubt coma whom old
players OF the university will return to
Berkeley during the football season and
give the manager and the team the benefit
oil their experience. Perhaps il this is done
we may some day see IS many distinguished
players gathered on the campus as Yale
had during the past week. Rhodes was
there to coach the tackles, Reffelfinger for
the guards, Corbin fer the center, Wallace
aud Knapp for the ends. Beecher for the
quarter. McClung, Terry aud Bull for
the halves and backs. Each one of these
men was the best player in his position that
\ ale ever had.
The lovers of football will find several
interesting articles in Harper's Weekly of
November .. They include an account OF
football at West Point and Annapolis, a
short sketch of The captains OF the teams of
Harvard, Yale and Princeton for this sea-
son and an article, with good Illustrations,
on the training OF players AMI the de-
veiopment OF team work. In Outing for
December there will be an article on
Football on the Pacific Slope" written by
John Craig.
The statement that there are profession
football teams will be doubted by M
because it is beloved that wherever tra
must be done and hard knocks be rec