Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-13
HARD WORK
FINDING MEN
LOCAL FIGHT PROMOTER CAN.
NOT FILL CARD
WEBSTER AND BAKER MAY BE
ATTRACTION
San Francisco Writer Raps Los AM
geles but Overooks Al Kaufman.
Three Big Battles On North
ern Schedule

If the Los Angeles fight fans are itch
ing to see big battle between now and
the 9th of September they will have to
leave here to get what they want The
Pacific Athletic club, for once in it's ex-
istence, is UP against 1t for material, and
with no star bouts in sight the sports in
this city are sure to suffer.
Manager McCarey can think of no at
traction that will be of sufficient merit
to be staged in advance of Burns and
Cans and in all probability will resort to
the time-honored tryout cards. He may
possibly get two real men together but
it looks rather doubtful at present
And then the telegraphers' strike has
something to do with it, too. The local
impresario was sort of figuring on Mike
Sullivan and Joe Thomas. but he cannot
get in touch with either party. In addi-
ton to this Thomas has a Tartar on his
hands in the shape of Young Ketchell,
and he had better get rid of him before
going after the Twin.
What may possibly be a headliner to
the bunch of short bouts which Nc
Carey is contemplating is a battle be-
tween Kid Webster and Harry Baker.
Webster has dug a live one with real
money and is supposed to be in a posi-
ton where he can back himself for $1,000
1t would be no come-down for the lat
ter to engage in a ten-round scrap here,
for since leaving for the east he has par
ticipated in many six period affairs. At
last reports he was doing the barn
storming stunt at Atlantic City, and a
few hundred for a mill in Los Angeles
might come in handy
But the go is by no means settled. With
telegraph conditions as they are at pres
and it takes many days for a letter to go
from here to Philadelphia and then be
forwarded to the fighters abiding place.
Phey are so slow in the Quaker City that
even mail is held up three or four days
before the postal employees can muster
up enough ambition to deliver it
Shooting 1t Home
Maybe the Frisco writer's aren't hand
ing it to little old Los Angeles and the
way the fight game has been conducted
in this region. They even go so far as
to say that the Burns Squires musk
melon was a dream compared to some of
those which Tom McCaroy has slipped
over and deride the game as she is
played here in great fashion.
Tom McCarey has undoubtedly handed
out some awful hunks. but Frisco is the
last place in the world where there is
fellow townsman. The greatest package
of onions which ever came into Los An
geles with a phony reputation hailed
from the city on the boy, and he is not
once mentioned in the list of sour things
which the fans of this city have bitten
into.
This three-time winner is Al Kaufman,
who had all Frisco hollering for him
and hailing him as champion. The battles
l.,
here were enough to satisfy anybody,
and how he ever got along up north is a
question for the doctor And it shouldn't
be DIR. Day. either.
And how about a lot of other things
which have happened up the coast? While
they were in no wise fakes, the two
fights which Jim Jeffries took part in,
one with Munro and the other with Gus
Rubin, could win prize at any citrus
exhibit, and taken with the Britt-Gans
frameup and the Young Peter Jackson
and Jack O'Brien laydown it is hard to
see where the northern bunch can find
room to swing the hammer.
Still, the San Francisco fans have a
right to fall for it if they want to. They
dug up the neat little sum of $22,S95 to
see Britt foul Cans in the fifth round,
and taken all told they have paid more to
see less than any bunch in Southern Cali
fornia ever did
This is no boost for Tom McCarey and
the Pacific Athletic club, but just a little
line on the fight game as she is played on
the Pacific coast. Heaving bricks is al
ways bad business. especially when the
HEAVIER lives in one of those glass bunga-
lows himself
Three Star Attractions
Right now the San Francisco sports
have their hands full watching out that
nothing happens at ony one of the three
big fights scheduled there within the
next few weeks. Mike Schreck and the
Incompatible AL Kaufman are slated to
meet on Friday of next week; Joe
Thomas and Young Ketchell hook up in
a return engagement September and
one week later James Edward Britt and
Joe Cans, who have already met in one
framed-up match, will try conclusions
for the lightweight championship.
With three battles of so much class in
sight it looks like rushing business for
Jimmy Coffroth, who is the whole show
since the fight trust was officially de-
clared a subject for the buzzards. San
Francisco sports are predicting that the
lightweight battle will draw at least
900 house, and the whole town is cast
ing only occasional glances at the
other two star attractions while waiting
for the little fellows.
AS there is no arena or hall in the
northern city which can accommodate
the crowds expected Gleason-he of
o. Brien-Kaufman fame-will have the
fight staged in the open air. The ball
grounds will be the scene of action, and
seats for at least 1900 persons are to be
erected
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