The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-26
FIGHTING DENTIST
FACES HYLAND
TO-DAY
Nelson's Defeat of California;
VIII Make New Yorker
Slight FavOrife
By WILLIAM j. SLATTERY

By WILLIAM j. SLA / EERY
Leach Cross, Gotham's lighting dent
list, and Dick Hyland. the tough Cali
fornia Lightweight viii meet this aft
ernoon at 3 O'Clock at Conroths Mis-
! sion street arena in a IS round contest.
| All is in readiness for the dean Of the
game, Billy Jordan, to step into the
ring and lift his voice in his usuel
Let 'er go" The men are at weight
and waiting for the contest Each is
/ just as confident as lighters generally
are on the eve of a big ring battle,
/ plenty of action will be in store for
those who make the trip.
Last night the betting was even
money, though ii is more than likely
/ that Cross VIII enter the ring a 10 to y
! or 10 TO S shot over Hyland But for
Fighting Dicks defeat at the hands Of
| Battling Nelson few weeks ago there
/ is no question but that he would pre-
/ vail a 10 TO choice over the New
] orker- But Nelson's blows have led
many 10 believe that Hyland has not
/ yet fully recovered from their effect.
Cross really occupies the center OF
/ the stage for interest It Will be his
] initial appearance in local ring after
1 q series of eastern triumphs which
4 have stamped him as one of the lead
/ ing ughtweights of the country. At
1 least the fasteners look upon him as
SUCH. NOW II Is ny 10 MIN 10 SllOM
the Californians that he is there as
strop as he is represented. Cross has
a whole lot TO gain and whole lot
10 lose.
We all know how Hyland fights. but
none OF US have a line on Cross. Many
Of the fans have watched him while
I he was going through his training
stunts at San Rafael, but a fighter in
training and a fighter in the ring are
different persons. You never can get
a correct line on boxer until you see
| him in action against man worthy
| of his steel
Hyland is not the fastest fellow in
the world. bur he is a good, tough.
| a aggressive boy who always keeps COM
| loaf or TO have been mixed UP in
crooked one He is always there to
| give the fans the best that there is in
him. and If he can beat Cross he will
go right at his task and turn the trick
as quickly as possible.
GOOD PUNCH IN RIGHT
! The best the New Yorker seems to
/ have is a fine right hand punch. This
4 is something that most of the light
weights of today lack. The majority
rip TO the body, but Cross is evidently
| in class by himself so far as the
/ right hand goes.
He seems to hit well with it from
any position and he is apparently bank
! ing on knocking Hyland out with II.
Both men were at weight yesterday
| afternoon and did no work save a little
! exercise to keep their muscles linn
! bered up. Hyland will remain at his
! training quarters. Cross came over to
| this city last night so as TO be ready
1 to weigh in at 1873 pounds at Tom Cor
belts this morning at 10 o'clock
The 10 round preliminary will be
furnished by Tommy Mccarthy and
Frankly Murphy, nghtweights, who
round fights in Oakland. Billy Roche
will referee the main event, while Tiv
Kreling will do the honors in the ring
warmer, which Will start promptly at
s:20 o'clock. The main event will be
pulled off at o'clock.
Promoter Coffroth has made his usual
arrangements with the United Rail
All the Mission and Valencia street
cars will run direct to the arena. and
the Polk and Larkin street line will
also go over the same route after the
noon hour. The gallery doors will
open at noon and the main entrance
half an hour later.
Stanley Ketchel slowed his automo-
bile and his fancy Broadway clothes
away yesterday morning and beat it
right down to Milletts, where he start
/ ed work for his coming fight with
Papke, And he did work, too. In
1 fact, the big crowd Of fans who were
there never saw a fighter do quite so
much work in one afternoon as Ketchel
did yesterday.
WORKS HARD AND REPEATS
He went on the road for 10 miles in
the morning. but this was not even a
/ marker to what he did in the after
noon. For nearly three hours he pulled
and tugged away at all the various
work making devices in the gymnasium
/ in the presence of Coffroth and a bunch
Of his admirers, all of whom marveled
TO see Ketchel go right back and do
the same thing over again.
Two big heavy weights from the
| United Railroads carbarns. Crowley
and Smith. were lined up for Ketch.
He tore after them both and all but
knocked them right through the win
/ dows. He promised not to hit hard
but his promises did not go once the
| bouts were on. He seemed equally
effective with both hands TO the head
| and the body.
Ketchel finished up with Rough
House Mcdonald and used him far more
kindly than he did the giant carmen.
| boxing as cleverly as he could and
allowing Mcdonald to sneak in about
/ as many taps as he wanted. From his
workout the Michigan lion doomed up
far more sensationally than he did
/ when he last worked out in the same
| gymnasium.