The San Francisco call., 1908-08-28

tripped merrily into his gym shortly
after bells. He noticed all his old
friends and spent several minutes
shaking hands with them before he
hooked up in a spirited game of hand
ball with Jeff Perry and worked up
nice sweat with the old Irish game.
After a rally with the regulation
punching bag Bat called for the human
bag, Red Cornett. and proceeded to give
One of the first punches which the
champion started caught the lighting
brindle hrin,il boy flush us on the e, mouth and
feeler and Bat took it for the office to
go right in.
CHAMPION GAINS SPEED
To those who watched him closely
Bat seemed to be boxing faster than
his high, awkward left hook time and
again and got away with it every time
he tried When they got tangled up
in the. tight places Nelson gave Cor
nett's body an awful lacing, and when
the bout was over Red had no regrets
to offer.
jeff Perry came up for his next. He
did Cornett, but this did not stop the
Dane at all. Bat was right on the job
and cut after his man from the very
moment they shook mitts. Perry side
stepped and pulled off the fancy stuff
to the best of his ability, but still the
Dane crowded him and crushed him all
around the ring.
Toward the end of the last round
Nelson began to show signs of real
fight. He was so much in earnest that
WINS W sESittu Britt called p time. Wat At that mo-
ment Nelson had Perry backed away
to one side and was tearing at him
savagely. Britt was finally forced TO
stand up and declare himself before
the Battler would stop.
Nelson will play roko instead OF
doing roadwork this morning His
n nf To h i'm
down too fine, so the new game prob
ably will be about right for him. Bat
wants to play some more in order to
get square with himself. Though he
is supposed to be the real master of
this sport, he invited a couple of his
friends to the camp Wednesday and,
new game and gave Nelson and his
trainers a trimming. Bat swears they
were ringers and has challenged them
to another setto.
Sunday will be a great day at the
camp. Nelson will box with eyerybory:
including Cornet, Perry, Britt. Chief
Grace and Mike the Turk, his old
southern training pal. who Joined the
camp yesterday morning
MORAN IN GREAT FORM
Owen Moran entertained big house at San
Rafael yesterday afternoon In the party We're
Jim Coffroth, Tom Dwyer, Jim Griffin and the
whole North Beach gang & Inc en1et aItrae.lOd non
Lew Powell. and this proved to be as good as
most fights that call for $40 seats and the Ike;
Powell, who weighs 135 pounds. was just 10
pounds heavier than Moran, but the little Brit
Usher went right in and fought every inch OF
the way. He showed the assembled guests that
he had everything to make tough fellow hustle
and the verdict of the crowd was that Moran
won the decision all the way being aggressive
and defensive when the fancy suited him.
Powell the twenty sixth sparring partner
that Moran has taken on since he started train
ing. Before this mill Moran nearly murdered
lad named Jack SheDdbarger, who lasted about
20 seconds. Moran shaped up in great form
and told his friends to bet that he would beat
Attell inside Of 10 rounds. He seems very con-
6dent.
Joe Cans did not box yesterday afternoon, for
Abe Atteu again disappointed the cranks and
failed to don the mitts Joe did a lot OF road
work and decided to spend the afternoon resting
Attell promised positively that he would box
with Cans this afternoon. In addition Freddie
Ianders will put on the ulitts and il any other
likely handy they go, too.
Cans weighed 1871 pounds last night. accord
ing to his manager, Benny Selig. The latter is
now trying to locate Johnny Murphy, the signed
up sparring partner who has not been the
camp in several days. If Murphy shows up
dig up somebody else in order to fill out the
list.
Attell says that he is down to weight now and
does not want to do too much work. He gives
this as his explanation for not putting on the
gloves with Cans yesterday afternoon. Abe
tough fellow like Moran. He seems satisfied
that he win get plenty. of work
Jimmy Carroll and Little Johnny Jones will
furnish the main event at the West Oakland
clubs boxing show tonight The pair have
worked faithfully for this go and when they are
sent away the fans of Oakland expect fast
and clever bout.
Willie Ritchie, the cIeverest boy developed
in the six round game in Oakland recently. Is
to meet Tommy Mccarthy, the champion OF
the brick layers union Antoine lie Grave
former sparring partner of Joe Cans, and Willie
Johnson Spider Kellys champion. are down for
six round setto. Johnson has wagered 500 on
himself. The opening six round bout of the
evening will be between Jimmy Irwin and Harry
Williams
Fort Erie Races