The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-27
COAST BOXING
OUTLOOK GOOD
important Events to Be Pulled
Off in San Francisco and
Los Angeles Soon.

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There are plenty of good cloud effects
on the pugilistic horizon for the Coast
fans these days. Next Thursday, Octo-
Der 90, Charles Lercari will pull off a
scum. Boer Unholz and "Cyclone
Johnny Thompson, both redivivus, will
go twenty rounds and Lew Powell and
Johnny Murphy will go the same dis
lance
The next important event will be in
Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 10,
when big Jimma da JEFF will put on Ad
Wolgast, the Milwaukee featherweight
demon, and little Able Atten. The
weight will be 122 pounds ringslde,
Abe's old standby, but the boy from
the brewery can make this weight with
ease and the cleverest fighter in the
world is going up against something
that will be harder even than Owen
| Moran.
After these big doings comes Thanks
on Papke and Ketehell for their return
go in which Ketchell viii ivy and re-
gain the middleweight championship.
The same day IN Los Angeles Paeky
Mcfarland and Freddie Welsh will
again try conclusions over the twenty
FIVE round route.
AS for the first of these goes there
is no particular interest attaching to
them. Johnnie Thompson is getting old
and, in spite of his extraordinary rug
gedness and fearful gluttony for pun
ishment, he can hardly be looked on as
a serious contender for the lightweight
championship. The same may be said
of the Boer. He worked for some time
as tumbler in a circus and is literally
made of India rubber, but he is not a
great fighter.
The first time the writer ever saw
him go was with George Memsic in a
ten round fight. The first round opened
with the Boer making the elumsest
rushes in the world at his opponent and
literally falling all over himself in his
attempts to reach the sturdy protege of
Tommy Burns. The spectators were
kept convulsed with laughter all
through the bout. At first because he
seemed to be a perfect cub and later
because he showed that there was sense
in his antics. He used every clowns
trick in the ring and soon had Memsic
crafty mad But the latter could not
reach the agile lumber, who got less
and less clumsy as the fight progressed
and wound up with his opponent nearly
out.
At that time many predicted
championship for the Boer, but Cans
took away those aspirations as well as
one or two others, and Rude can hard
ly be looked on seriously except as a
good drawing card, against a hit-eater
like Thompson. Unholz, by the way,
is a British subject, and always has
been. He fought on the British side
in the South Africa war in a cavalry
regiment and distinguished himself sew
eral times.
1t is impossible to say much about
the Wolgast-Attell affair except that
we are all hoping that the title viii
change hands, and will most probably
get fooled, as usual. 1t is remarkable
the way that people will crowd to see
Attell get licked time after time, and
each disappointment seems to whet
their appetite for the next time.
Ketchell, of course, is very eager to
wipe the stain off his escutcheon,
placed there by Billy Papke. 1t is
that he weighs about 185
pounds at the present time with light
clothes on, and if this be the case, it
is hard to say how he will get down
to l5S in the next month. But most
of the weight is probably due to a re-
dictionary blOatedness after his recent
hard training, and he may be expected
70 be fit at 15S pounds by Thanksgiv-
lug Day.