Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
Gossip of

~ TANLEY KETCHELL and his
manager, Joe O'Connor, will leave
~ San Francisco today for Los An
geles in an automobile. That is the
story telegraphed down from Boodle-
town. They should arrive easily in
time for the Michigan boy to be in
troduced Friday night at the Jeffries
club, when the big double bill is
pulled off By the way, this fellow
O'Connor is no slouch at the press
agent stunt. He not only is most
excellent imitator of the only Billy
Nolan, but he does not mind taking
a most unreasonable and untenable
stand to make a good story out of
bad one. His latest stunt is a state
ment to the effect that Tommy Burns
is a dub and that as soon as the dub
gets back from Australia, the middle
weight champion will begin bounding
the dub from town to town with chal-
lenges until Burns is forced to fight
Ketchell on the latter's own terms.
Listen to that. On KetchelPs own
terms. Great. Burns will not dictate
any of the terms for the fight and he
will be forced to meet Ketchell, too,
is the way O'Connor is quoted by
San Francisco paper. Evidently
OConnor is a spring chicken in the
managerial line. He does not know
Burns, at all events. O'Connor will
have about as much to say about the
terms for Burns-Ketchell fight as any
other outsider. Burns is no fool, and
he is long enough on brains to know
how to attend to his own business.
Besides, he can haggle with any of
them and can "chew the rag" to per-
fection. He also lacks heap of be-
ing a coward and no manager that
ever lived can gain anything off him
by bounding tactics. 1t is the biggest
cinch in the world that when Ketchell
and Burns meet Burns will dictate the
terms.
There will be a good delegation of
Angeleno sports at ringside tomorrow
night when Eddie Robinson's pair of
Jap fighters hook up with pair OF
San Pedro boys at the Gate City Ath-
letic club at San Berdoo. Oyana and
Togo are clever boys, although they
never have done anything to startle
the fight world, but they are of the
improving kind, and the local sports
who will go to the fight will be of one
mind regarding the result-if the San
Berdoo boys are fighters, they will
win; if they are dubs, Togo and Oya-
ma may outpoint them. Tommy Walsh
will referee the bouts, this being his
first appearance in the San Berdoo
ring. A small bunch of local news
paper boys, the sporting writers, have
been invited by the club to attend the
fights and probably will be on hand
when the gong sends the fighters into
action.
What does one little defeat amount
to in a season of ball playing? The
Angels are so far ahead of the other
Coast league teams that even if they
should lose every game this week and
Portland and San Francisco should win
every game, which is impossible, the
Angels still would be in front. That
means that the team will go north in
the lead, regardless of what happens
at the Chutes this week. However,
Hen Berry Is not willing to lose game
that he can win, and despite that the
team got off to a bad start, it is dol
lars to dimes that the Angels will win
a majority of the games of The series.
The fans should not overlook the fact
that this will be the final series on
the home grounds until September 29
and it would not be a bad idea for as
many fans to attend as can find it
convenient, as a good sendoff for the
team beats all the homecoming parties
that can be arranged. Send them away
in the feeling that they are appre-