The San Francisco call., 1906-04-03
TRUST DECIDES
ON A VACATION
WiIlus Britt Wants to Dis
solve the Combination,
but He Is Turned Down
ELOQUENCE RENDS AIR
Everybody Delivers Himself
of a Speech After Which
They All Start HOmeward

There will be no fight this month. The
fight trust is engaged in a battle royal
that makes the Kilkenny cat scrap look
like q prayer meeting. When the session
OF the fight monopoly was called TO order
last night each and every gentleman in
The syndicate had his hand on an AK.
il was a case Of cross and double cross
and before the session was over Eddie
Graney was babbling something like the
truth and the rest were damp with per-
spiration.
After everybody told the story of his
life james COffroth was appointed match
maker for the month Of April. Then the
session abruptly ended. When the last
OF the mourners filed out Coffroth an
nounced that he had been handed the
bunk, that he wss in no respect a rum
dunn, rummy or sucker and consequently
would sidestep the buck at the last min
ute.
Translated into American Mr.. Coffroth's
ulnmatum reads Nix curtains and q
with the chances for an April match"
From the expression of hauteur that
lighted up the megnate's countenance
when the rough work was slipped to
bin" the fight trusts attraction for this
month viii be a game Of bridge whist
between Jack johnson and J. Jeffries,
marked cards TO be barred.
The meeting opened with a startling
proposition from Willus Perfecto Britt
that the fight trust dissolve and that the
dates granted 10 the corporation be put
in a hat and each member Of the trust
draw two dates. Then whoever gets
date viii go share and share alike" he
added.
BRITT FINGERS CHECKBOOK.
Rustling his check book and making
noise like Rockefeller before he went into
retirement Willus waited for the resolu-
ton to be eaten up by the multitude.
COffroth jolted It with a legal hook to
the jaw and Eddie Graney, the village
blacksmith, pointed out the fact that
Willus had his grammatical wires
crossed.
wiIlus turned over a new leaf in the
check book and looked rather sheepish.
He had taken the trouble TO play his
resolution on a typewriter in G fat and
II ratified of very musically. While Gra-
ney was suggesting that Britt frame his
resolution according TO some standard
dictionary, Coffroth seated himself at the
typewriter and struck a few sharps and
fats. He translated the motion into
English and it was put before the house.
NO. said Graney. No" said Morris
Levy Of bullfght fame. Britt and Cof-
froth stood pat for the proposal.
Then arose Levy, who has been trying
70 break his way into Los Angeles with
bers Of the trust take the matches that
were assigned to them as representatives
OF individual clubs, each TO make his own
match ana take what he could get Britt
put stick Of dynamite under this propo-
sitiOn and Coffroth touched it off.
GRANEY TAKES THE FLOOR.
Then Z. Tuxedo Graney took the ros-
trum and turned on a little common sense.
Il was never asked by Mr.. Coffroth to
buy him out ] have been misrepresented
all this time. I Voted for Mr. Levy for
matchmaker; that is my own business
Now lets get down TO business. If the
Msrket-street Railway couldn't elect a
superintendent that wouldn't prevent
them from running cars, would it? I have
been charged with all sorts Of things 1
have been accused of seeing certain poll
ticians and putting certain people in
wrong"
At this juneture Willus Britt grabbed
his checkbook with both hands. and the
other members of the trust looked solemn.
Britt, who was temporarily in the chair,
declared that Mr.. Graney was out of
order, and everybody coincided.
4 am not whispering anybody to
death" continued Graney, despite the
cacllling Of the rest Of the barnyard. And
] want to do little protesting myself
] don't care to do any refereeing If
Then Levy declared that Graney was
out OF order. Britt moved that Coffroth
be made the matchmaker for April. and
the ayes had it in a minute. Anything TO
stop Graney from shooting his Whitehead
torpedo into the trust
But J. Conroth knows that some one is
trying TO throw the harpoon into him
He sidesteps the job. 1t looks as though
the fight is open TO floral offerings and
carriages.