The San Francisco call., 1908-10-12
Johnny Frayne Breaks
Thompson Match
By T. p. MagiIIigan

Once more the fates have handed
Charley Lercari, match maker of the
Pacific athletic club. the ice pitcher.
Up to late hour last night Charley
was basSing in contentment. feeling
sure that he had at least one match
slowed away. Permeated with this feel
ing, Lercari dropped into the headquar-
ters of his club last night and was
handed telegram. When he opened
II an expression of disgust flashed
across his countenance that froze hole
IN a chrome colored photograph of Bill
The telegram was from Johnny
trayne and 1t bore the sad tidings that
the lightweight scrapper could not ac-
cept Lercar1s offer owing TO previous
engagements. Frayne is matched to
meet someone in New York on the
night of November 1. Lercari doesn t
know whom Frayne is to meet. Maybe
its the Turkish ambassador or All
Wing, but what troubles Charles is
the fact that Frayne Will not meet
Thompson here October 80.
This leaves Lercari high and dry for
match this month. Charley gave out
1 late Saturday night that he had
matched Cyclone Johnny Thompson and
Johnny Frayne and that he had wired
them transportation.
The transportation is on it's way but
Frayne has declined with thanks. The
fight situation for this month offers
features lndI SnOulQ surely appeal 10
some comic opera writer. Compared to
Lercaris match making labors the little
stunt of Sisyphus was light one.
Sisyphus was the fictional gentleman
who was eternally doomed to roll a
stone up a hill, only to have it roll back
when he got it to the top.
Now, eternally rolling that stone
would be soft labor at present In Ler-
caris eyes Getting rolled around by
fighters is a more terrible ordeal
Lercari began trying to make match
about the 1st of October. Up to Sat
urday night Charley had attempted to
chloroform every fighter in America into
taking a chance to fight for him. First
he wanted Langford and Flynn. He
spent about S69 trying to land this
pair. but they side tracked all of Char
ley's offers. Langford declared that he
was too busy taking course in ethical
culture and reading Emerson to think
found. Lercari wired every town in
Colorado TO try to locate Flynn, but 1T
seems as though Flynn has erased him.
self from the scenery.
Then for a brief moment Lercari
thought he could match Kelly and
Papke. Jack Gleason broke the news
to Charley that he was stepping on the
third rail. Jack gently informed Char
ley that he had that match securely
bound for his Thanksgiving card and
that Papke was bound in a heavy sum
not to fight in or near San Francisco
until after Thanksgiving day.
Then Lercari got busy with his old
friends, the telegraph companies. and
thought he had Frayne and Thompson.
Now that Frayne is out of the ques-
ton Lercari Will have white elephant
on his hands. for Cyclone Johnny
Thompson is on his way and there is
hardly an available man here for him.
At that, Charley has one out" He may
match Cyclone Johnny and Boer I'm
holz. The Boer is on the ground and
willing to fight for any sort of a stake
from a couple of comic supplements up
TO any sum that he can hypnotic any
promoter out of.
In the meantime Thompson is on his
way here Charley is thinking of go
ing to Dutch Flat and side tracking
Thompson.