The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03
TOM TRACEY WILL MEET < .:
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Tom Tracey, the clever and gentleman ly .pugilist from far-away Australia, will not have ito take a journey in the direc- tion of: the rising sun because of the in :. ability of the leading boxing clubs of this city. to secure him a match. The National %Club, which is the leading organization of its kind west of the Rocky Mountains, has scored another great success in consum- mating a. twenty-round contest between : Tracey and "Kid" Lavigne. The match was made yesterday, Lavigne telegraph . ing his acceptance. The contest will take place in. the latter part of October in : :Woodward.s Pavilion. Lavigne may be "a few pounds lighter than Tracey, but the '.'Kid'F' has. taken on weight so rap idly in the past year that the difference .. between the two clever opponents of the ;. game--i. e., so far as weight is con- 'cerned--will not help either man ma terialiy: From a scientific point of view it. should be. a contest worth going a dis tance to. see.
 :: The. National Club will introduce the clever boxers Frank Mcconnell and George Green to the crowd that will at tend the next event of any importance at Woodwards S Pavilion, that is, on the evening of the 23d inst. Green will train at the Seal Rock House and Mcconnell will be- looked, after by Tom Tracey at the Alameda training station. This con- test should certainly attract quite a gathering of; sportlovers to the Pavilion, : as it is seldom in the annals of the ring that two such clever opponents of the game have met iu a contest of twenty . rounds. The Nationals have also matched 'Kid? McEadden- and Fred Maynard, who will box ten rounds. Dudley Evans and Ion' Agnew will box ten rounds on the . Sporting. men who take an interest in ' boxing are more than pleased to see that the. police authorities now insist that the managers of boxing clubs must pad the floors of their rings properly and re- frain from introducing boxers who are physically unable to enter into an ath- fetic contest owing to lack of condition.
 If not all 1t can be safely said that the greater number of fatalities from boxing have been .occasioned by fighters striking , their heads on hard floors after receiving "a blow which temporarily stunned them Some pugilists have died from exhaustion and heart failure, evidently the result of inferior training. Managers of clubs should also instruct the seconds of con- testants to throw up the sponge in all palpably beaten that his hope of winning is foflorn.. There are some men who seem ingly take delight in seeing a poor, un- fortunate pugilist hammered to death
 It is the referees duty to stop a contest when he sees that one of the contestants is helplessly striving without the least hope of success to win q victory. By al- lowing a contest to go on when 1t becomes brutal the referee is morally responsible for the death of boxing, which is certain to come when a pugilist dies from the eff feet of punishment received Managers of boxing clubs should remember these things and insist on the boxers being in tt condition before they are allowed to enter a ring.
 The Alpine Club will give an entertain ment on Monday evening at its gym nasium on Golden Gate avenue. The pro- gramme Is a good one. It includes an eight-round bout between Jack Granfield and Charlie Johnston and two six-round 1OItfC hatwpon lack Epuig Tir,, gins and Jim O'Tool and Ed Toy The president of the club. Gus Herget writes the sporting editor that the floor of the ring will have two inches of boiler felt padding and that the boxers engaged for the occasion are in good condition.
 Big Joe Kennedy and Jack Stelzner have been matched by the Excelsior Club to box twenty rounds in Woodwards Pa yilion on September 31