The San Francisco call., 1908-10-21

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Billy Roche to Referee
Murphy=Powell Go
Last Detail of Card Is Complef-
ed and Fans Await Gail
of Time

The coming Johnny Murphy Lew
Powell ina tch, which is TO be .un as a
20 round affair in conjunction with the
Ihompson-U Unholz encounter at the Col
lSeum week from tonight, has Il ref
cree at last. After days OF waiting and
watching, the principals got together
last evening and agreed upon Billy
Roche to break them during the course
or the battle. This completes the nnal
arrangements for Promoter Charles Ler-
CARTS card and everything bids fair to
/ go we'll unless one of the fighters
breaks his leg or his ulna.
The Murphy-Powelf bout should fur
nish whatever class or excitement is TO
be displayed on the night of the double
connict surely nobody looks TO Boer
! unaolz to show anything after the
drawled through II rounds with Joe
Cans here last May. That was the
Beers first start in this city. and many
hoped that it would be his last.
There is hope for Powell and Muir
ply. Both are young fellows who are
coming Except in his engagements
with Thompson and Freddie Welsh sew
erai months ago, Murphy always
showed that he had plenty of the fight
ing blood coursing through his veins
and that he could put up a scrap worth
and Thompson made him bleed so pro-
fusely that the bout was stopped in the
early rounds.
Powell Will be given his first real
ShoHNc lu SLOW illS dnlillN TO 90 d. ulS-
tance. As four rounder he per-
formed with Indifferent success in this
city and suburban towns for four or
hve years He came fast as lad and
was expected to jump into the cham
plonship band wagon, but he slumped
IN the stretch and has held aloof for
some time.
Both fighters have plenty of follow
In itself is a boost which the so called
main event of the card does not
enjoy, Were it not for Murphy and
POWELL, the newest promoter to crush
In on the local fight stage. would find
himself badly fixed for a card that
might draw expense money at the door.
Unholz will have a chance this time
TO show the public whether or not he
can fight a rough fellow The last time
he met Thompson in Ogden, last year,
the Cyclone gave him an awful beating
for eight rounds and finally received
the decision on a foul. Everybody who
saw the mill agreed that the Beer was
never in the hunt, but he claims other
wise.
This coming mixup should find IN
holz in good shape for hard set-to.
He has been working out at Croll's
gardens, Alameda, for two weeks and
apparently is in good shape. He says
that he will take no chance of losing
on foul this time and wants the
fight decided on its merits 1t is to be
hoped that Thompson will use him
more mercifulIiy than did Cans
Thompson is unquestionably a rough
fighter. He is the nearest approach to
Battling Nelson in the matter of game
ness of any of them in the ring to-
day. But with all his powers of en-
durance and his ruggedness, he has
never been looked upon as a man of
class. In fact, nobody ever was willing
to issue him so much as a license to
test his skill against the great light
ferla% nj. ~
son give Unholz a decisive drubbing.
his stock will raise many points. If
he shows the local fight fans that he
is there with the wallop. as well as the
be quite card in the fistic arena. But
should the Boer slip one over on him
then, good night"
Harry Baker, the local referee. who
has taken charge of the Reliance club
of Eureka, writes that the outlook for
the fight game in that town is very
bright now. Baker will stage Jack
Cordell and Jack Dougherty as the
main event of his opening card. Baker
makes his bow as a promoter on the
night of October "a. AS preliminary
Harry will offer to the Eureka fans
little Jimmy Carroll of San Francisco.
and Roy Moore, boy from Portland,
Ore.
Eddie Thompson of Canada and Kid
Duarte of Pinole are to meet in a
evening. October "a. The men are to
weigh las pounds ringside.
In an interview printed in an Eastern
paper recently Freddie Welsh, the
English lightweight champion. said
that he had fought Nelson a hundred
times in his head. That's one of the
easiest and safest ways to fight him,
Freddie.
New Orleans fight promoters are
talking of matching Jimmy Gardner
and a Milwaukee scrapper named Bob
Moya when the game opens up in the
Crescent City this winter. Moya is a
youngster who did fairly well against
the sort of fighters they produce
around Milwaukee.