Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-18

1 AMES W. COFFROTH, sometimes
referred to as the premier fight
promoter of the day. has given an
other evidence of his unsportsmanlike
disposition and nature is taking the
apke-Ketchell fight away from Jack
Gleason at the eleventh hour, after
Gleason has been put to great expense
in advertising it and arranging other
details for pulling 1t off Thanksgiving
eve. 1t seems to be his chief aim in
life to interfere with other people
business in the fight line. He tried to
break UP the Papke-Ketchell fight that
the Jeffries club staged at Vernon,
when the title changed hands, but
failed because Tom Jones was man
enough to live up to his contract with
the club. He repeatedly has interfered
with fights that McCarey has arranged
and he has broken up a few good
matches for McCarey. Coffroth never
has been a popular promoter, but he
makes a speciality of handling big
fights and puts on cards so attractive
that the public must 1atronize them. II
remains to be seen, however. whether
the good craftsmanship of the north
ern fans will cause them to repudiate
this man who seeks to get others to
break their contracts. Coffroth may
not reap the rich harvest that he anti
cipates in staging this fight.
Quite a big bunch of horses arrived
Monday at Santa Anita, including some
from the metropolitan circuit. In the
bunch were the following: Johnny
Powers with five, Archie thinner with
three, George Avery with two for John
Brosier and as many for John Coultin,
]. B. Durbin with two, Lawrence and
Comstock with eighteen, Pat Murphy
with two, K. e. Buser with three and
R. w. Holland with four.
Jockey Goldstein arrived Monday
from Pimlico and will ride during the
winter at the local course. Goldsteir
has improved materially in his riding
since he went back east and should be
an important factor in the settlement
of many races during the season.
Jim Boden has shipped his stable
to Santa Anita from Pimlico and it Is
expected that they will arrive today
or tomorrow. Boden has such good
ones as Botanist Niblick, Pan de Orc
and John c. Rice. Boden has twenty
one horses in his string, being the
property of himself and the Haymans
r. NJ. Harris will have a fine bunch
of yearlings when the season opens
having shipped several from his Fern
dale farm near Herrick, Ill After the
turn OF the year, when yearlings be
come eligible to race, Harris will be
busy man in looking after his baby
racers.
Billy Mckinney and Logan Denny
have returned from quail hunting
trip to Newhall and report that they
got the lawful limit. Billy has this
goods to bear out his statement ana
entertained a few friends at down
town cafe last night in honor of his
great field victory. Billy is so sinai
that the quail do not know he is arounc
until he has murdered all in the coVey
Billy Delaney is authority for thu
statement that Joe Willis, the big Frisco
heavyweight, is a conner that the pro
moters in the south are overlooking
According to Delaney this fellow viii
lis defeated Mustain in their fight a
Frisco although Mustain got the de-
cision. Billy says that Willis will de
velop in a short time into one of thu
championship contenders, and he be
lieves the big fellow has enough class
to enable him to be a dangerous fac
tor in the championship squabble.
Henry Mason probably will pass TN
winter in Los Angeles as usual, bu
he will not attend as an owner, haVins
disposed of his horses since returnins
east last spring.
Gleason is one Frisco fight promo
ter who holds the respect and conn
dence of the southern fans because n
is on the level Maybe it can be salt
of the other Frisco promoters, but /
never has been published to that ex
| tent in the south. If there is a dirtie
human rat than Coffroth IN the gam
nobody has made mention of the fact
| He tried to break up the Papke- Ketch
| ell fight at Vernon, and only failed be
cause the fighters and their manager
4 refused to consider his dishonorabl
propositions. Now he has perpetratel
| the greatest fraud that one sportsman
could infiict on another, in takini
away a match that already had bee
signed up by Gleason, and which ha
cost Gleason a few hundred dollars Il
the way of advertising. If it woul
not affect the great army of fight fan
in the state it would be a qualification
to all concerned If the legislature woul
/ kill the sport for the sole reason tina