The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22
ALL AROUND SPORTS.
Olympic Club Will Send a
Team of Athletes to
Portland.
Kid Mccoy Writes That He Will Not
Fight Choynski-M ortimer on
Dog Shows.

From all accounts ]. J. Jeffries, the
heavyweight pugilist, who is at present
looking after the interests OF Billy GAL
lagher at his training quarters, Six-mile
House. is a frst-class boxer. Gallagher
saws that he would back him Jeffries) for
all the money he ever possessed against
any man in America, barring Jim Corbett,
a man who Gallagher thinks is the wonder
of the age, or any other age for that mat
ter.
Jeffries is 10 years old, stands 6 feet 21z
inches without the aid of stockings and
wears arms that in length and strength
compare favorably with the great John L..
Sullivan when the latter was in his prime.
Jeffries has fought and whipped twenty
men during his short career as a prize
fighter, and is now looking for big game.
Choynski may be induced to try the
newly discovered wonder of the orange
groves in a game called smash and miss.
There was some talk recently of matching
good-natured Joseph against kid" Nc
Gov, but the latter has set all doubts aside
on this subject in letter to Eddie Graney,
which states that Mr.. Mccoy has no par
ticuIar desire TO enter into tistic argu-
ment with Choynski. In other words,
Mccoy acknowledges that the Californian
is slightly nigh in game for him, and that
he will content himself for awhile at least
by meeting lighters VINO can be more
easily disposed of.
The programme arranged by the National
Club for its next tistic exhibition at the
Pavilion, on June 3, reads:
Tom Sharkey VS.. Jim Williams, champion of
Salt Lake, ten rounds; Danny Needham and
Billy Gallagher, ten rounds; Billy Smith and
Patsy Kerrigan, ten rounds; Arthur Walker
and George Allen, both OF Australia, ten
rounds.
All the boxers are training at their re-
spective stations, and latest accounts state
that every man is now almost in the pink
of condition.
The directors of the Olympic Club have
decided to advance sufficient money to
Captain Gill of the club to defray the ex-
penses of a team of all-round athletes in
trip to Portland, Or. Captain Gill has
been in correspondence with the Multi
nomah Club of Portland for some time,
with view of holding an interstate ath-
letic competition at Portland in June.
Now that the officers of the Olympic
have given the scheme favorable considera-
ton Captain Gill has commenced to make
the necessary preparations for the con-
templated invasion of the Northwest.
The Multnomah Athletic Club will hold
its annual field day in Portland June 81.
and there can be no gainsaying the fact
that a large gathering of the lovers of
good athletic sport will be present on this
occasion 10 witness the contests Gill
states that he will have several prelimin-
airy outdoor trials between the best ath-
letes OF the Olympic Club between now
and the day of the departure of the team
for Oregon, and that he will select eight
of the best men of the trial horses TO repre-
sent the Olympic Climb and San Francisco
at the Multnomah meeting June 81.
Next Sunday the athletes of the Olympic
Club will contest In games which will be
held at Souther farm, San Leandro, but on
the Sunday following the first of the pre-
liminary trial races will take place at the