The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-28

sembled to help out the good cause.
All OF them had known Smyth in his
day, and all were gathered TO pay a
fitting tribute to his memory.
And everybody was well entertained.
Eight as fast and snappy amateur bouts
as were ever staged in this city made
up the card. From the los pound class
up to the heavy weight division they
did their best and gave everybody a
run for the money paid for the ticket
While the lighters were not in the ring
the crowd was entertained with vaude-
Vile acts.
A HURRICANE GO
The heavy weight battle between big
Charles Miller and Walter Monahan
was the main attraction OF the night
and 1T proved hurricane go. Though
several pounds lighter than his oppo-
nent Monahan fought gamely and an
extra round was ordered. The judges
disagreed, and Referee Matt Harris gave
the decision to Monahan. This did not
meet with the approval of the crowd,
but nobody objected very strenuously.
Matt Granfield beat Chester Airing
ton in spirited mixup. Arlington
fioored his man twice I'm the first round
but he lost ground after that and Gran
field came on and clearly won out, scor-
ing knockdowns in the second and third
rounds.
Milton Hoffman and Ed Catlin put up
a fine fight in the 1876 pound class, but
Hoffman showed his superior knowl-
edge Of the game and was awarded
the verdict. Ed Schultz defeated Fred
Ireland in the 125 pound class. Both
fought hard and brought out rounds
of cheers from the crowd. Schultz was
more aggressive and landed the cleaner
blows.
GRANFIELD EARNS DECISION
Lawrence Granfield. the 125 pound
champion of the coast, demonstrated
his superiority over Matt Twomey by
earning clever decision. Eddie Dem
mis-, the fast little lis FOUNDER, put
the crusher on John AKRON in the first
round. John Goldberg beat Ed Semeria
on points and Eddie Campi. the los
pound champion, outboxed Jim Bizzio.
Duncan Fitzgerald and George Nc
CURE, the only 65 pound champions in
the world, brought everybody to his
feet in three round mixup full OF the
real action The mill was declared a
draw and everybody seemed satisfied
but the fighters, who wanted to con-
tinue.
After the bouts a committee COM
posed of Jim Coffroth, Billy Roche. Ben
Selig, Dan O'Callaghan, Tom Corbett,
Jack Cunningham and Eddie Hanlon
passed the hat around and collected
several hundred dollars A beautiful
enlarged photograph OF the departed
sporting writer. made by Terkelson &
Henry, was exhibited and will be pre-
scented to Smyth's mother and sister.
WINNERS RECEIVE PRIZES
The winner of each bout was pre-
scented with beautiful trophy donated
by the following prominent firms and
businessmen: w. K Vanderslice, Ham
mersmith & Field, Roos Brothers.
Gantner e Mattern. A P. Hotaling &
Co, John ]. Gleason. Louis Haas. Louis
Walch & Co., Shreve & Co. and A. G.
Spalding & Co.
The following officials and commit
tees had charge of the benefit:
Referee, Matt A Harris; judges-Ed-
die Smith, Billy Roche. Ben Selig. Ed
George Harting. John J. Gleason: an
nouncers Billy Jordan. assistant
Rearden It. Lyons; master of cere-
monies, Nick ]. Prendergast; chief of
ushers, Frank E. Carroll: ring master,
William Leonard; committee-John T.
Clark, James w. Coffroth. Phil Hast
ings. Ben Selig, John ]. Gleason, John
T. Cunningham. Matt A Harris, Nick
J. Prendergast, Frank E. Carroll James
Seaman, John A Kennedy, W. W.
Naughton, Dan O'Callaghan, Luke Ma
risch, Joe Hickey. E J. Cough, W.
Jacobs, Ed Smith, Fred Godsil, Benny
Benjamin. Frank O'Shea, Bob McGib-
ben. James Slevin, W. J. Slattery,
Harry Smith.