The San Francisco call., 1896-07-31
tests between pugilists of all sizes and

tests between pugilists of all sizes and
weights.
Tickets have been selling so rapidly that
Director Short is OF the opinion that the
sale will have to be closed early this even
ing, as only those who can be accommo-
dated with seats will be permitted to en-
ter within the building. Seats will not be
reserved for any person, and as a conse-
quence those first in will be first served.
The performance will commence promptly
at O'Clock with an eight-round contest
between Rochette and Butler.
Superintendent Kennedy and some oi
the directors. with a physician, visited the
pugllists at their respective training quar-
ters yesterday, and found them in splen.
did condition. Davis has trained with a
view of winning this fight; he has stated
positively that it will be his last. He is in
straitened circumstances, and realizes that
defeat will mean to him hard walking be-
tween this City and Omaha.
Van Buskirk, his opponent, is so conf
dent of winning that he has been gambling
on himself. He thinks that good blow
on the neck will send Davis to the happy
dreaming grounds. and as the Omaha man
is easily stunned from jaw or neck blow.
Van Buskirk will enter the ring confident
of packing away the long end of the purse.
If he proves successful he will be offered
good inducements to meet Jeffries. the
big Los Angeles pugiIist, in a ten-round
bout.
Referee Corbett, who will be seated on
the outside of the ring, says that he will
instruct the contestants before they enter
into fistic argument that when he orders
them to break away they must do so i'm
mediately, and that the fighter who will
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the ring and the fight declared against
him.
Corbett says further that as the contests
will be under Queensberry rules pugilisy
can hold an opponent with one hand and
hit with the other. This rule is not satis-
factory TO the directors of the club and in
all probability they will instruct Corbett
and the boxers this evening that clinch-
ing OF any description will not be tolerated
and that the contestants must ''break'
when so ordered by the referee, or other.
wise leave the ring.
Corbett has no favorites among the
pugilists who are slated to appear inside
the rubber-roped square and according to
his own words, the contestants who will
put up the best fight will be awarded a
favorable decision.
Macarthur and Green will certainly show
up we'll. This will be McArthur's first ap-
pearance as professional pugilist and his
many friends are anxious to see how he
will acquit himself in front of the sturdy
young fellow whom Champion Corbett
predicted a few years ago would be a
champion of the class he represents.
Rochette and Butler will not daily on
the wayside as they are representatives of
a fraternity OF fighters who believe in
rushing things and getting through with
their work as early as possible. Mahoney
and Smith are so exceedingly clever that
ers to venture prediction as to which of
the bantams will take the long end of the
green. Smith is stronger than Mahoney
and having an advantage in being several
years younger than his opponent the bet
ting in the poolrooms favors the ex-ama-
teur champion bantam.