The San Francisco call., 1897-10-15
How He Expects to Raise
His Weight Before the
Fight.
How the Colored Pugilist Will
Weigh Up After Weigh
ing In.
Joe McAuliffa and Jack StelSner to
Fight in Los Angeles on Tues
day Evening.

Two weeks from to-day George Lavigne
and Joe Walcott will be on the anxious
seat, as on the evening of the 18th INST.
the great lightweight championship bat
tie will be fought in Mechanics Pavilion.
Tom ORourke visited this city Wednes-
day evening and was pleased to learn
from the president OF the Occidental Club,
Young Mitchell, that Lavigne was now In
splendid fettle and anxious for meeting
with the colored hercules. ORourke Is.
confident of Walcott's success. :
The sports about town who wager on
contests pugilistlc are puzzled over the
result of the lightweight cham pionship
battle. They like Walcott and fear La
vgne. Doubtless the betting will be even
or very near equal figures.
LavIgne proved IN his last engagement
with Wacott that he was taker of pun
ishm ent as well as giver of punishment,
and that he was the gamer man. Some
of the knowing ones contend that where
+ two men of opposite color who are about
7 equal or on par, so far as their fighting
qualities are concerned. meet in ring to
decide a question of supremacy with
the mittens, the white man invariably
proves his superiority, as colored fighters
will not go the journey when hard
pressed.
Be this as it may, Walcott has proved
time and again that he will give and take
punishment. His failure to whip Lavigne
at Mespeth is attributed to his condi4sn,
which at the time was weakened Uy a
heavy course OF training necessary to
bring the black hercules to weight
| which was some pounds under the lowest
standard he had ever fought.
Walcott can hight good and strong at
| 140 pounds, but he Will not touch this
/ han ha ha rin cat
/ Lavigne.
! The agreement calls for a gathering OF
! the Hghtweights and their respective
managers at 6 o'clock on the evening of
the contest. The fighters will then weigh
/ i'll al 135 pounds or less if they please.
| Granting that both OF the men scale
! 135 pounds and that the fight takes place
| al 10 O'Clock, they VIII have four hours to
build I'D, but what viii "the building-up
process avail them? They cannot put
on extra muscle or hard beef in that short
| space OF time, consequently what extra
weight they may gain between the time of
weighing and the time they are called
upon to toe the scratch will not prove of
any material assistance.
A heavy dinner which WalCott expects
/ to tackle Immediately alter scaling in
may add few pounds to his weight in
! soft flesh, but that will be taken off in the
first round of the engagement.
| Anyhow the few pounds difference in
/ tne1r respective WelghiS Will not count Tor
much one way or the other. Neither one
| OF the pueiIists can attribute his defeat to
the fact that he was under or over his
! best fighting weight.
The Southern California Athletic Club
has arranged for great series of boxing
matches, which will take place in Los
Angeles this month. Jack Steiner and
Joe McAuliffe will meet on the
evening of he 10Th inst. in
hfteen-round contest. On the evening
of the 22d Joe King and Ed Carter who
are light heavy-weights, Will meet in
fifteen-round contest, and on the same
| evening kid" Parker and Bob Thomp-
son will also engage in a tifteen-round
contest.
The referee, John Brink of Los Angeles,
! says he will announce a winner in each
! contest and that no draws will go.
The president of the club, Mortimer
! McRoberts, has announced that if the
| people who witness the bouts are not sat-
ished with The entertainments the club
Will refund each man lis money. This is
a sweeping statement.