The San Francisco call., 1896-08-27
BERKELEY'S BOXING FEVER
Coast Champions Will Contest
Under the Crescent Club
ColorS.
Movement to Annex Claremont to
Berkeley-Aftermath of the
RuSh-NoteS.

BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 26.-Berkeley
lovers of the ''manIy art are looking for
ward with great anticipation to the box
ing carnival which is billed to take place
under the colors of the Crescent Athletic
Club on the evening of September g.
The principal contest in the fstic arena
will take place between Chico Cuneo of
San Francisco, a member of the Crescent
Club, and Jerry Sullivan OF the San Fran
cisco Athletic Club Both men are
feather weights and will weigh in at 122
pounds. The contest is to last four rounds.
with the privilege of a fifth.
Another event will be a ''go" between
Evers and Harrison of Berkeley, to decide
the 10 pound cham pionship OF the club.
Among the preliminaries will be bouts
between Billy Hughes, champion welter-
weight of the coast, and Bert Brown,
champion middleweight. Frank Rafael,
champion featherweight of the coast, who
is billed to meet Bob Elwert of Alvarado
in Oetober, will spar, as will also the Britt
brothers of the Manhattan Club. The
elder of the Britt boys is champion ban
tam weight of the coast. Rafael will ref
cree the Evers-Harrison mil, and Hughes
the Cuneo-Sullivan match.
Nursing Their Wounds.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 26.-Scores of
-
freshmen and sophomores who took part
in the interclass rush" last night were
going about the campus to-day com plain
ing of lame backs. sore heads, strained
muscles and bruised shoulders. Some of
them were sorry-looking sights, but for
all their hard knocks they bore the situa-
ton bravey. The most serious of, all the
flesh wounds which the freshmen and
sophomores carried were the cuts on their
hanos and wrists received from the knives
of the co-eds, who were attempting
to loosen the bonds of baling rope and
twine which held the fighting collegians.
The freshmen in view of their victory have
declared that they will carr canes from
now henceforth.
This morning the small boys of the town
had harvest of knives, rings, coins and
trinkets belonging to the rushing students
which had been lost in last evenings rush.
A NUN ber of signs asking for information
leading to the recovery of articles lost last
night were posted on the bulletin boards
OF the University to-day.
Thrown From a Buggy.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 26.-Andy
Frlek and Louis Sullivan, both of Berke-
icy, while driving through LorIn this
AFTERNOON were thrown from their buggy,
ana Flick was seriously injured. They
Doth attempted to jump from the vehicle
Whlch was about to go oyer an embank-
ment, but FricS was unsuccessful and
caught his right arm under the buggy,
dislocatlng it at the elbow. He was
scratched and bruised about other parts of
the body, while Sullivan escaped unin-
jured.
Reception to Freshmen.
BERKELEY, CAL. Auo. % Tho
Young Mems Christian Association of the
university will give reception to the
class OF 1900 at Stiles Hall next Friday
evening. Thayer, '9S, and Magee. '97.
have the affair in charge. The Combined
Christian Endeavor societies OF Berkeley
will also entertain the freshmen. Their
reception will be held on the evening of
September at Stiles Hail.
Tried to stab Him.
BERKELEY. CAL, Aug. 26.-A lad of
about IA years, giving the name OF Lyon.