The San Francisco call., 1898-02-02
The Heavy-W eights Are to Fight Before the :.
 Olympic Club.
Graney Issues a Sweeping Chal- lenge to Jackson on Behalf F.
 of Choynski.
Ryan. Has Consented to Fight Choyn- ski on the 10th of this ::
 Month. :: '> }

The Chinese puzzle does not com pare in intricacy with the pugilistic puzzle of the present. ::.
 The fighters, the fighting clubs and the City Fathers are mixed up in such a heavyweight stew that it may be weeks before they will discover where they are ''at." .t
 Yesterday Tut" Ryan positively an- nounced that he would not fight Choynski, and he stuck to his ulti- matum until late last evening, when the Empire Club agreed to deposit $looo as guarantee of good faith on its part to carry off the fight between Ryan and -Choynski. provided that Ryan would deposit $250 as guarantee that he (Ryan) would enter the ring on February 10 fully prepared to meet ChoynSki.
 Ryan objected to this in very em- phatic terms and declared the match off so far as he was concerned. At ll:3O o'clock last night Tut" changed his mind and promised Manager Filing house of the Empire Club that he would deposit the amount required In the hands of Harry Corbett before noon to-day. Ryan was wroth yesterday morning over an article that appeared in morning paper which stated that at his training quarters he was knocked out by Lansing and in a letter to The Call he said that there was not a word of truth in the article and that it was manufactured out of whole cloth. He further stated that he was ready at any time to prove to the sat- isfaction of Lansing that he (Ryanl is his master at the game of smash and miss.
 Y,Jr: oF %I.a Empire Club has announced that the Ryan and Choynski fight will now take place, as already. announced. on the 10th inst, and that Ryan will journey to his training quarters to-day to com plete his training.
 Last evening the directors of the Olyrn- pic Club matched Peter: Jackson to fight Jim Jeffries twenty rounds on the evening of March 21 for a percentage of the house. Jackson will continue to train at Alameda and -Jeffries will re- pair to Oakland, where he will be handled by Billy Delaney.
 The announcement of the match was not made until late last evening, and when Eddie Graney learned that the Olympic Club: had secured the plum he asked if the club had secured a permit but as Supervisor Delany has assured the club that it could go ahead and make the match the directors feel confident that there will be: no opposi- tion to the granting of the necessary permit by the remainder of the powers that be-. N
 Graney said that he had been looking for game like Jackson for some time, and that the colored champion would not stand many rounds in front of Choynski. .' . "I'll tell you what will do," remark ed Graney in the presence of several sports who had assembled in the tele- graphic room of the Baldwin Hotel: "This man Jackson is not in the race any more, and I will deposit right now in the hands of Charley Asher the sum of S250 that Choynski can stop this great ,co1ored fighter in twenty rounds or less and If Choynski fails to accomplish the job why then Jackson can take every dollar that the house will bring.
 "Now, if his manager is game enough to cover this money I hope to hear from him tomorrow"
 Graney deposited s250 with Asher, and if Jackson will not notice the chal- lenge there may be broader challenges issued in the near future.
 In case Ryan had not. changed his mind concerning his proposed fight with Choynski, the Empire Club in- tended to offer Joe Goddard good in ducements to take "Tut's" place. but now everything looks bright again for the Empire Club.