The San Francisco call., 1898-07-26
PUCS READY
 FOR PUNCHING Physical Culture Exhibi- tions to Take Place. FISTICUFFS ARE IN FASHION ALEXANDER GREGGAINs' PART NER ELoPED WITH COIN. Friendly Advice for Leaden Legged Jefries, Which, if Taken,
 May Save Him From
 Humping.
FISTICUFFS ARE IN FASHION
ALEXANDER GREGGkINs' PART
 NER ELoPED WITH COIN.

The Excelsior Athletic Club will hold its next boxing entertainment at Woodward s Pavilion on Thursday evening.
 Hitherto the club has confined itself to amateur exhibitions, for which the Board of Supervisors eXacted no license fee. Now the sum of $1G0 Is demanded, and the club has determined to include profes- sionals in it's physical culture programme.
 Following is the card that will be sub mitted on Thursday night:
 Heavyweghts = Twenty rounds; Joe Kennedy of the Excelsior Club and Billy Allen of Fresno. The winner to be matched against Greggains or Stelzner.
 Light heavyweights, 165 pounds-George Murphy and Jake La Rue will box ten rounds.
 Middleweights, 154 pounds-Joe Reay and Phil Green; ten rounds.
 The admission fee is fix at $1 for re- served seats and 50 cents general admis- sion. The managers of the club announce that patrons of the game will find little difficulty in securing their seats, as com petent and obliging ushers have been se- lected to look after the comfort of the sporting public.
 Jack Steizner is rather disappointed be- cause a second meeting between him ana Greggains looks very slim. The treman IS not aVerSe to a meeting, but he IS so en- grossed in politics now that 1t will be seV- eral months before he can settle down to course of training. Greggains' partner in the saloon business eloped recently with the proceeds of the till, amounting to fbetween $500 and $400, and as result a new Senator for Greggains district Will have to be named very quickly.
 Martin Murphy, the popular Boniface Of 12 Mason street, has unearthed a most prominent candidate for heavywelght champIonship honors. The name Of the unknown that Murphy has under his wing is said to be Manuell-a Portuguese of great frame and a preponderance or muscle. Martin Is confident that he has g.
 Tom Tracey is said to be building up flesh at his training quarters for his cen- test with F. Mcconnell. According to box at 145 pounds, to weigh in at p: m on the day of the fight. Mcconnell Is training hard at Blankens with the object of being able to weigh in at or below the figures mentioned. As the San Fran ciscan Is growing in weight, he will find 1t a by no means easy task to scale 145 state that the Eastern lad will fight at not over 140 pounds, but then at this weight he should put up stiff argument.
 Tommy Ryan is anxious to meet the winner of the Tracey Mcdonnell fight Ryan has a predilection for soft snaps. Whats the matter with Ryan going the black demon Walcott twenty-round bout?
 Peter Jackson has put in an appearance on the street again, Peter Is looking first-class and may soon be afforded an opportunity to try his nStS once again on some of the heavyweights who are boiling for a scrap in and about New York.
 If big Jim Jeffries cannot stir up more foot work than he showed in his fight with Sharkey, he will have his hands full stopping two big men in one evening. Jeffries requires considerable more dash in his fighting before he can afford to meet either Mccoy, Corbett or Fitz Any one of these men can chop him to pieces.
 Jack Daly is reported to be seriously i'll with malarial fever at Staten Island N. Y.
 Jimmy Murphy, brother of Australian Billy Murphy, recently died in Johannes burg, South Africa. Jimmy visited this city some years ago, but never scored a success as a fighter.
 Now that Honest" John Kelly has re- fused to act as referee of the Corbett and Mccoy fight in New York, the sports have concluded that there Is a screw loose somewhere and that something is doing-not for the love of the sport, but for the coin the fighters expect to bag.
 Here are the latest measurements of Jim Corbett and Kid Mccoy: