The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-17
KELLEY BURNS F|AScO,
Another Prize : Fight Falls
Through After Much An
ticipation.
SOME DISAPPOINTED SPORTS
General Ezeta Was Looking for
Cock-Fights and a Few
Bull Dogs.

Another crowd OF disappointed sports
was assembled on the Jackson-street wharf
between the hours of $3.50 and 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. Spider Kelley and
Thomas Burns did not fight
According to the advertising bills and
dainty rose-colored circulars addressed to
members of the sporting fraternity under
the caption: 'To Our Dear Brothers, !"
the sluggers were to take passage, with
| their friends and supporters and all others
| who possessed the 81 necessary to the pur-
chase of spectators tickets, for the mys-
ferrous Isle of Monte Cristo, where the
| mill was to take place.
When the crowd began to gather ON the
wharf they found the steamer Caroline,
OF cock fighting fame, in waiting, with a
well stocked bar and a smiling dispenser
in charge.
| AS the hour of nine approached, anxious
and nervous inquiries were made for the
officers of the Golden Gate Excursion Com
pany and the Pastime Club, under whose
| joint auspices the so-named picnic was
to be held. Straining glances were turned
in the direction of the entrance to the pier
IN the hope of deserving the athletic
! iolIuS VI GlIS TWO SluSSSTS iOOUllHS up III
| the dim vista OF potato sacks and piles OF
heterogeneous freight. No officers, no
/ fighters. The sports continued to arrive
| single and in pairs, and two or three ticket
vendors were on the alert to ent1ce the
shining lucre from the pockets of numer-
Gus cream-colored and checker-board
| trousers.
/ The day was perfect one for trip on
the water, and as the summer sun con-
tinued to mount higher and nearer to the
summit of its diurnal path, the look of dis
appointment deepened on the faces of the
anxious excursionists. Only one tiny ray
of hope penetrated the gloom. Spider
Kelley appeared. Just for moment was
the cloud lifted. With the fighter came
the information that Burns had disap-
peared. He could not be found; and unless
some extremely obliging individual would
consent to have his face pummeled into a
beefsteak resemblance, the Spider would
be like Othello, without an occupation, and
| the crowd must wander homeWard with
out its fun. But the Spiders inoffensive
and docile appearance had not the effect OF
swelling any of the contiguous breasts with
ambitions pugilistic.
The wavelets rippled and Tapped about
the piles, the sun continued to ascend to
| its noontide dome, and the wind ruffied q
| whisker here and there or caught up the
odor of decaying vegetation from among
|
which lined one side of the wharf. But
there was no Burns. There came neither
officer nor factotum Of the Excursion Com
| pany and Pastime Club, and gradually il
began to dawn upon the perception of the
sportlye and non-sportive excursionists
that there were two silver dollars to Their
respective credits somewhere. With this
| thought came the discovery that the ticket
vendors had developed evanescent pro-
clivities. Another and possibly more as
surfing idea entered into the calculation al
this juncture. Some one remembered that
in the advertising announcements of the
Golden Gate Excursion Company appears
| 1t read: "Come and see u.s." Happy in
spiration. The jingle of silver was once
more heard as in Golgothaic dreams.
There was not a stampede, but slow
stately and dignified hegira in the direc.
! ton of the Golden Gate Excursion Com.
pany's Office on McAllister street. "Come
and see u.s. Yes, they were coming
Through the medium of some mysterious
psychic or astral element of communities
| ton the Golden Gate Excursion COMPANY
heard the soft tread of approaching foot
steps. Butt is not a pleasure to depicl
disappointments SO keen. The knocks and
tap-taps on the imposing glass doors open
ing into the offices of the company brought
no response. Silence reigned within, but
not without. The air in and around the
building at IA McAllister street was vocal
with sound.
General Ezeta and Emanuel Cassin were
among those whose curiosity had been at
tracted by the pugilistic announcements
and like many others they paid their s.
and stepped aboard the Caroline to await
the appearance of the fighters and the sig
nal for departure. The general, who en-,
| joys sports of all kind, inquired through
his interpreter if there were not few
steel-spurred cocks and wire toothed bull
dogs on board and seemed disappointed
when answered in the negative. He was
more disappointed when he learned tina;
one of the ''pugs" failed to materialize and
that the fight was off.
The officers of the Golden Gate Excursion
Company were not in their office during
the afternoon when inquiries were made
concerning their whereabouts as well as
that of the coin, but they said later that
such miscalculations among prizefghterS
are common and that everything would be
squared iii due time. At present the
square is without its proper angles ano
i anxiously inquisitive sports are numerous