The San Francisco call., 1909-02-13
BRITT IS SPEEDING
EAST TO JOIN
KETCHEL
Johnny Murphy Opens Up a
Strong 10 to 8 FayOrife
Over Savers
BY William j. Siaftery

Willis Britt left last night for the
cast, where he goes to prepare Stanley
hetchel, the middleweight champion.
for his meeting with Confessor Jack
OBrien in Philadelphia some time near
the middle of March. Britt is evil
IDENTITY in hurry and wants to be on
the job so as to make sure that every
thing is all right between him and the
of incidentals to fix up. before the
match is absolutely certain, and it
looks so soft on the face of it that
Willis can not very well overlook any
bets at this stage of the game.
Britt Will travel by way of New
Mexico. He plans to interview his
lightweight champion, Battling Nelson,
on his way to Grand Rapids. 1t is
barely possible that the Battler will get
fight in this city very shortly and,
naturally Britt wants to be in close
touch with his fighter if there is going
10 pc any matchmaking on the cards.
Willis still insists that Ketchel will
receive the sum of $4,000 for his bit in
oIiy WINK at this one. They say that
the night will not draw that much
money mons and that the lighters will be
Nelson and McGovern drew the only
real big house that Philadelphia has
Rnown ,S.1, IN many wears and most of the
ork sports, who were, very much
smoked up over that match, most of
them having big bets down.
The wagering on the coming fights
OF the Mission club next Friday night
opened up at Corbett's last evening
Johnny Murphy is 10 to shot over
maurice Sayers. and the chances are
mat mat the odds will drop a point or two
PIehIy or Murphy money in sight while
the Sdyers hackers are slow in coming
TO the bat for their man. Murphy has
q haisag iisarge Local following and his friends
pelleVe that he will wear Sayers down
round. III
NJ It is even money on the Whitney
Nell and the Fritch- Nelson bouts. From
indications there will be a very heavy
play on the first named go. Neil
though out of the game locally for sew
era fbal s years; is still very popular with
tnat he still has enough of his old time
cldss 10 lay 1T on Whitney without
T1ay nE1erting M himself A large, Oakland
expected to be backed into favoritism
over the local lightweight.
-, monte Atten and Jimmy Reagan.
VINO viii furnish the main event of
jim Coffroth's Washington day card.
are selllng at even money and take
your pick. These boys met two months
oSO anu dLlcI 10 lINeIy ROUNDS the mill
was declared a draw. though Reagan
was the aggressor throughout Rea-
gan should have even better chance
IN the coming fight which will be five
ROUNDS longer. and Reagan likes the
Marathon.
Jeffries played to a full house yes
terday afternoon and last night at the
empire theater. He came up here for
one night and day stand prepar-
atory to starting out on the road for
his 20 weeks eastern tour, and he was
given great ovation by the large
audiences which greeted him. AS usual.
Jef held his peace and refused to talk
fight.
The big fellow looms UP about the
same as he did when he appeared here
a month ago. He complained that the
recent stormy weather interfered with
his training work to a marked degree
but he stepped around the stage after
his boxing partner. Sam Berger just as
lively as before. He is billed to leave
for New. York after a short trip
through the state.