Evening star., 1907-09-01
BOXING OUTLOOK
ON THE FAR COAST

SAN FRANCISCO, August 31.-From the
present outlook there should be three or
four heavyweight matches made during
the winter months. there are quite few
candidates in the field who think they can
cop the title now claimed by Tommy Burns.
Jimmy Coffroth has strong hopes of staging
the Burns Johnson match in September on
Saturday afternoon late in the month.
Bill Squires may also be induced to try his
luck at the game. while there is some talk
OF Same Berger again donning the padded
mitts if he can be shown where there is any
coin in it for him.
The strenuous life of training for an i'm
portant ring battle started at Joe Cans
training quarters last week. The dusky
Baltimorean has things in shipshape at
Crolrs, and will now devote his entire time
and attention to getting in the best possible
shape for his hstic argument with James
Edward Britt. AS Joe does not need any
boxing lessons, he has selected Anton La
Grave, husky four-rOunder, to help him
in the gymna stun. The youngster will
simply be used for roughing it, so as to
make the champion work up good per-
spiration. His connection with the train
ing corps should also be of considerable
benefit to La Grave. who is an ambitious
scrapper and anxious to forge ahead.
Britt has decided to stick to the noun
tains for at least another week, as he Is a
firm believer in building up his system by
plenty Of road work. And the lightweight
writes that the pure air around Harbin is
more beneficial to his system than the regu-
lar grind OF the training camp. Jimmy
wishes to store up enough vitality so that
he will not grow stale when he returns to
Shannon's. Jimmy will go at an easy clip
at Harbin and then finish up with whirl-
wind squirt at Shannon's.
The Lightweight Contest.
To ic ofi
battle-ground for the lightweight cham
pionship contest. There has been SO much
adverse comment in base ball fandom re-
gareing the shelving of base ball for box
ing that Jack may not be able to lease the
Recreation Park grounds. Jack is figuring
on securing a tract of vacant ground in the
heart of the city and have a large arena
erected especially for the holding Of this
important fight and eventually for the
smaller ones as we'll as the four-round
bouts.
Joe Jeanette the colored heavyweight, is
anxious to butt into the game on this coast,
and hurs a challenge at any of the big
fellows now making this section their head
quarters. Jeanette feels that he is enti-
tied to recognition by Tommy Burns Jack
Johnson, Schreck or any of the other prom
inent heavyweights. Jeanette is the only
fighter who has been able to make Sam
Langford quit and during his three years
in the ring has met some of the best fight
eTS O1 the east, JOCK Johnson.
Promoter Coffroth has a novel idea to IA
cilitate the seating of patrons at his new
Mission street arena. For the sake of uni
formity, and in order to avoid confusion in
the future, Coffroth has changed the name
of the open-air pugilistic rendezvous to the
Mission Street rena," by which title it
will be known hereafter The different sec
tfons are to be painted three colors, accord
ing to the price of the reserved seats. The
more expensive seats will be given coat of
green while the next grade will have a ye-
low tinge and the cheapest of the reserved
seat sections will be painted red The tick
cts for these various sections will be made
of material to correspond with the color
of the seats SO that the ushers as well as
the purchasers of the pasteboards will have
difficulty in finding the proper location.
This work is to be Gone Immediately, SO as
to have everything in readiness for the
Ketchell-Thomas welterweight champion
ship battle on Labor Day.