The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-17
Governor James Budd Has Been
Invited to Attend the
Contest.
THE BETTING ON THE EVENT.
lin Corbett Has Som ething to Say
About the London National
Athletic Cub.

Colonel Sellers, in reality, with his pam
acea for such ailment as sore eyes, could
have made d fair start on the way to his
millions in it had be stood alongside
the ticket-box yesterday during the sale OF
admissions to the Corbett-Sharkey contest.
81 want four tickets" said a we'll
dressed bright-eyed young man, proffer-
ing his $40 piece. 81 want them in the
first row of the boxes, near the platform.
Cant give them to you there, sir,
answered Barney, the ticket seller;
they re all bought up. I've got others
just as good on the raised floor, just a few
feet away"
mo; l want em near because I'm very
near-sighted. I'm expecting to invite
some friends to see the fight and they'v
all got sore eyes. Fix me out, old boy,
and I'll make it right with you.
Well, Barney has had scores OF such
offers. In each case sore eyes, near sight
edness, a cripple or some such excuse was
given for preferment in the way OF choice
seat.
As matter of fact, the seats are selling
like hot cakes.
Yesterday Johnny Farley waited for
hours at jim Groom's store to nail him
down on business proposition. 1t is not
often Farley will put himself out to do a
thing OF that sort, but in this case it was
different
Jim Flood, away off in his beautiful
country home, wanted two private boxes
for the fight and he must have them.
He wired his friend Johnny to that
effect and Johnny secured them at last.
1t was not without a battle, however, for
the swell clubs Of the City have been dis
putting with each other to possess tnem-
selves of all the choice locations
While the battle is not to take place
until the oath, and the referee is not to be
selected until couple of days before that,
the subject is being canvassed.
Yesterday Danny Lynch expressed q
willingness to accept Hiram Cook, the old.
time referee of the defunct California Ath-
letic Club. He is the man who decided
the Corbett-Jackson mill a draw some
years ago and he is not in good odor with
the Corbetl faction. Cook, however, has
gained the confidence OF the public by his
exceptionally square rulings during the
many years he has officiated as referee,
and the suggestion that he might be Sc
lected this time has been grasped with
eagerness by the sporting men. They be-
lieve that with him they will at least have
run for their money"
Jim Corbett is still maintaining his repu-
tation as a handbaI player. 1t is pleas
ant pastime and affords the very kind of
exercise the champion most needs to lin
Der him up.
Fred Butts, one OF the clubs best play
ers, tried his skill yesterday against Jim's
with disastrous results. Corbett played
no dirty ball. as he called it, but gave
his opponent every advantage.
Butts wasn't in it, " the big fellow said
after the contest. 81 beat him by score
of q to 2. Then I took George Green, and
l won with a score of q to II.
II overplayed myself in the next game
when l went against them left-handed.
They did me up brown, with score of 81
to my 4. But left-hand plays are the
hardest thing on earth to go against. You
might as well tie one hand behind your
back and try to box with fellow. It's
even worse than that. for you forget every
little while that only the left hand goes
and you hit the ball with your right.
Then the plays off, because it's a foul"
The final game with Corbett against
Butts and Green resulted in a victory for
the pair by score OF q to ID.
Continuing his course of training, Cor
bett punched the bag for an hour, and
then varied the monotonv by punching
George Green, his pugilistic trainer.
AS usual there was congestion of club
members trying to force their way into