The San Francisco call., 1908-04-05
Olympic Club Bouts
Afford Sport


The special amateur boxing bouts of
the Olympic club held at Coffroth's
Mission street arena, yesterday attract
ed an attendance of 5000 club mem
bers and their guests. The bouts ran
the gamut of boxing skill, some of the
men competing showing a lot of class,
while others contributed more to the
amusement of the spectators. There
was only one clean knockout and that
was scored by. a navy man over. a rep
resentative of the army branch of Uncle
SANS service.
The boxers ranged in weight from
the midget los Founders to the ponder
Gus heavy weights and all were In
deadly earnest. There was some blood
spilled, but no damage was sustained
by any of the boxers which sponge
ful of water would not repair. Many
of the members went out in their au
tomobiles and lent an air of Importance
to the occasion. The United Railroads
officials had a lot of cars ready and
the big crowd was brought into town
without confusion.
The sensational bout of the day was
between Manuel Serpa, who was an
nounced as a representative of the
navy, and NJ. b. Cross, an army man.
The heavy weights shaped up for seri-
Gus business at once and Cross landed
hard right TO the body. There was
sensational rally, which brought the
spectators to their feet, and in the
midst of the excitement Cross went
down. The bout lasted less than 30
seconds while it took fully that long
to revive the defeated man.
J. O'Neil was given the decision over
Andy Smoker, although the latter was
undoubtedly entitled to the decision.
An extra round was ordered, but in the
H. l~,,1f
of the work.
Stanley Fay refereed to the satisfac-
ton of the spectators, while George
James and F. w. Fenwick were the
judges. Nick Prendergast, boxing COM
missioner OF the club was in charge
and duplicated the success he made of
the recent tournament
Packy Mcfarland, the Chicago light
weight, who fights Britt 20 rounds in
the same ring next Saturday afternoon,
boxed three rounds with Dick Cullen.
He did not spare the latter, but used
q lot of shortarm rights and lefts, which
nearly put Cullen down. One wit in
the crowd piped up, Don't hurt him,
Dick. or you'll lose your job
The first bout brought out Arthur
/ Johnson and Hugh Quinn, a brace of
/ lO5 Founders. The latter was the
lighter of the pair, but he outfought
his opponent in the second and third
rounds and was given the decision. In
the second he knocked Johnson down
with a right swing to the head. Neither
showed much class.
Ed Campi. another 1O5 FOUNDER, put
/ up game and aggressive fight against
| Willie Roche and earned the decision
! He Knocked Roche down in the second
round and generally outfought him.
Ed Dennis outpointed Ed Lynch in a
classy bout Dennis was the boxer
of the pair, while Lynch was the more
rugged The former clearly outpointed
/ his opponent in the first two rounds
scoring with clean rights and Iefts
His shortarm blows were particulars
effective. as he proved a good judge OF
! time and distance. Early in the third
round Lynch landed big right swing
! TO the head and hurt Dennis. The lat
ter took several OF these big swings
and while they slowed him down he
kept on trying. The judges decided In
1 favor of Dennis. and both boys were
applauded for their good work.
Matt Toomey and John Mccarthy
boxed three earnest rounds without
! showing any class. All the fightins
was done in the last round One OF
the judges voted for an extra round
but Referee Fay cast his vote for Me
\ Carthy X
Ed White and Bill Goethe, whom the
spectators persisted in calling Soaky.'
but UP spectacular three round bout
4 Goethe was given the decision.
Lawrence Granfield showed wonder.
] full class when he met Phil Noonan