The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-29
FIGHTERS END
BOXING WORK
Cans and WalcOtt Will Not
Don the Gloves Again
Until TO-MOrrOw Night
BOTH IN GRAND FORM
Spectators Watch a Smuggling
Match BreathleSSly at the
Oakland Training Quarters

For time the men who like to have
little wager down on every prizefight
seemed to think WalcOtt and Cans
should be COUPLED in the betting for
their engagement tomorrow night at
Woodward's Pavilion. This was based
on previous performances. This feeling
is rapidly wearing away owing to the
glowing reports disinterested people are
bringing from the rival training camps.
The boxers are training as though
their lives depend on the outcome OF
the contest. Referee Jack WEIGH will
prepare a statement to-day making
known his Interpretation of the rules
and also the agreement entered into
by the boxers.
This is expected to stimulate the bet
ting. A wager of 800 at even money
was recorded yesterday. Jack Collins,
who took the Walcott end. has $1,000
more to place at the same price. Col
Inns saw Cans work on Tuesday and
pronounced him a speed marvel. He
went to Walcott's quarters yesterday
and what he saw made him change his
views entirely.
To show what an abnormal fighter
Walcott is Manager Pierce said yester-
day he would be willing to match him
against Britt at 135 pounds or against
Jack Johnson, the colored heavyweight
champion, who is dying to fight jeff
ries-and probably would if he did.
BOXERS ARE MEASURED.
The boxers were measured yesterday
and the tape showed some marked diff
ferences in their build. Cans is four
and a half inches taller than Walcott,
while the latter has two and three
quarter inches greater reach. Walcott
IS much larger in the arms. Jeffries is
N Oh ITh birRnG
than the freak fighting man as shown
in the following list:
Jeffries, 161R inches; Walcott, IA; Jim
Corbett, 13%; FitzsimmOns, 1872; Jack
O'Brien, 1912; Kid Lavigne, Is; Willie
Fitzgerald, 1874: Terry McGovern, Is;
frankie Neil, 1914; Young COrbett, liz;
Eddie Hanlon, 1914, and Britt, u. The
complete measurements of the cOlOred
boxers follow:
Gans-Ffve feet inches height; 1861 pounds
in weight; 1914 inches neck; SO inches chest
(normaD; 80 inches chest (expanded); 291a
inches waist; 9h inches forearm; III inches
biceps; 20 inches thigh; Is inches calf; 62A
inches reach.
pounds in weight; 1914 inches neck; 81 inches
chest (normaD; 40 inches chest (expanded) !;
80 inches waist; II inches forearm; IA inches
biceps; % inches thigh; IA inches calf; 65
inches reach.
WaIcott is 80 years old and has been
fighting steadily for fourteen years.
Cans is 2S years old and has been be-
fore the public for nine years.
WALCOTT TRIES LOW WEIGHT.
Walcott tried to get down to 1873
pounds yesterday without drying out.
He came off the road tired as the re-
suit of his eXertionS. He recuperated
quickly and then put in a tremendous
afternoon in the gymnasium 1t was
to be his last boxing before the fight
I,a af NTH mil
He was bubbling over with good
humor and seemed tireless. He first
took on Jim Hayward for three rounds.
He shapes like Cans without the lat
ter's speed. 1t was fight from start to
finish, neither boxer asking any favors.
When it was over Hayward could
readily have posed as the slugged out
Slugger.
Young Mcconnell, who weighs 163
pounds, also went three rounds. This
was also replete with smuggling. The
spectators watched it breathleSSly, al
most expecting a tragedy, although the
hands of the boxers were encased in
pillows of gloves. After it was all over
Walcott strutted about like a turkey
cock as though such work was a mere
incident of his training.
Cans believes in road work, his jaunt
yesterday taking him sixteen miles. He
did his last boxing during the after
noon. Kid Sullivan and Rudolph Gross
man each went eight rounds with him
Two spectators also put on the gloves
with the champion. One had enough in
two rounds, while three suffioed the
other.
The advance sale Of seats, which is
being held at Greggains' cafe. indicates
a large attendance. There will be two
preliminaries, the first brace Of boxers
entering the ring promptly at o'clock
Somebody has estimated that the
Lake Superior iron deposits will be ex-