The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
FAST BOXERS MEET
FOR BOUTS AT
COLISEUM
Clever Little Fighters viii En-
fertaiH Patrons of Jack GIea-
sons Show Tonight
By 7. p. MaqiIIiqan

AT the Coliseum tonight John J.
Gleason win stage his monthly show.
and All the boxers who viii enter
tain Jacks patrons report themselves
in the very best Of condition.
sam Nelson and kid" Harrison. the
main eventers. are down for ) rounds.
and the consensus Of opinion is that
both these boys viii be on their feet
At the end OF the scheduled time The
bows have fought twice before. and
while neither man showed any particu-
lar ring mastery in their past battles
they put up stirring and spectacular
Harrison is the more experienced.
knows the fine points Of the game bet
Ter than Nelson does. but he failed
10 show punch equal TO Nelson in
cliher OF the two previous meetings.
Nelson Is game hard hitting boy.
AnQ Tor a youngster gives some prom
ise OF development
Jimmy Reagan and Monte Atten will
also have a 10 round whirl at each
other. AStel IS an old timer a the
GENE and at one time looked upon as
"a i'1nter nigh above the aNera ge in his
class. Young Reagan has done most
~ has lighting around the Oakland
clubs and has shown class over the
shorter distances, but how well he viii
pan out In 10 round bout with At
tcll remains TO be seen. To say the
least he should put up a rather neat
ight, as he is the possessor Of a good
ing before he is ready to quit and
Tor a novice possesses considerable ring
ability.
Charley Reilly and Joe Leahv are
down TO class for I5 rounds. Both
boys are fairly clever and there IS
very slight hope OF a finish in this
bout before 10 rounds have been
one six round preliminary viii open
the show, ana in all Gleason has ar
ranged 81 rounds of boxing for the
aE u Ina naN n.a-a -
expected happens the card viii come
close 10 going the number OF rounds
that Gleason has scheduled. as there
are no very decisive hitters among
The fighters that he has booked for e
his show. The show viii be put on
promptly aC 8 O'Clock
The matter Of the forfeits which
John Clark paid over TO Jack Glea-
son recently in the Papke-Kefcbel
this morning. Both 7. z. Jones. man
ager for Papke. and J. r. O'Connor who
IS looking after the affairs of Ketchel
have already employed counsel TO rep
resent them. Jones is strong in his
claim that he lived up 20 all his agree
ments. and argues that ii was through
no fault Of his that Gleason failed to
pull or the middle weight champion
ship fight as scheduled for Thanksgiv-
ing eve John Clark, the man whom
tie night managers are suing, believes
OF the claims OF the fight managers
and feels confident that the matter
VIII be given short shrift.
Billy Papl1e. who lost his title Of
champion middle weight Of the world
10 Stanley Ketchel Thanksgiving day.
IS 10 leave for Los Angeles today.
PapSe IS 10 meet Hugo Kelly before
Jeffries' club in Los Angeles the mid
die part of December. and he is con-
ndent that he VIII win his fight with
the Chicago italian and thus entftle
himself TO a return match with Ketchel
sam Berger. who has booked Sam
Langford of Boston and Jim Flynn Of
Pueblo. Colo, 10 meet for a 20 round
enga cement before his club at the Coli
scum December II. says he expects the
great negro scrapper here before the
end Of the present week. FLYNN has
already engaged ShannOn's as his train
ing quarters and viii go TO that camp
and start to prepare himself for the
battle tomorrow Flynn arrived in the
eity yesterday from Los Angeles Both
he and his manager. Tim McGrath. seem
highly pleased at securing the match
and are confident that the fighting fire.
man Of Colorado viii put up a good
stim bout with the dusky slugger from
Boston