The San Francisco call., 1909-11-10
GunbOat Smith
Meets Jackson
This Evening
Rising Young Heavy Weight
viii Be Put to Crucial Test
Against Negro
By WILLIAM ]. SLATTERY

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Gunboat Smith, the sensational young
heavy weight fresh from Uncle Sans
| navy, will either develop into cham
pionship possibility or fade away into
the ranks of the might have beens this
evening. The latest to join the ranks
of the fighting recruits is billed to go
10 rounds or less with that battle scared
black warrior Young Peter Jackson.
They Will mix at Piedmont pavilion in
Oakland under the auspices of the Oak
| land Wheelmen, with Eddie Smith as
the third man in the ring.
Smith is about the only likely heavy
weight to be developed around here
since Al Kaufman deserted the ranks of
the amateurs to seek his fortune in the
Heavy weights are very scarce all over
the country and for this reason the
Gunboat is coming in for as much at
tentlon as near champion. Tonight
is the big night for him. He has a
chance that few of the budding young
sters are ever accorded.
Smith was unheardaof till month
ago, when he started boxing with Jack
Johnson who was then training for
ketchel The way that the young
sailor tore around the ring after the big
black fellow at once impressed every fan
who watched him, and it was only a
few days after his first appearance that
the managers started after Smith in an
endeaHGr EN- sd S to- to sign him 1n up They All
himself. He was one man in hundred
in their eyes.
Smith has had but two professional
fights both of them across the bay.
The first time he started he flattened a
big smoke named Joe Collier. A few
weeks later he came back with an easy
Taylor. reckoned as the best man in
his class in the four round game.
Smith did not have to extend himself in
either of those two engagements.
In jackson; the recruit will meet one
of the toughest men who ever drew on
a glove. For the last Is years the
same Young Peter has been fighting
all over the country and nobody ever
beat him decisively yet. He figured in
many a shady deal while in his prime,
and but for this weakness, he would be
one of the leading big fellows in the
business today.
Jackson is not as fast as he was 10
years ago. but he apparently is just
IS rugged and can punch as hard as
ever. Smith will have the advantage
of youth and strength, while Jackson
has it on the sailor in experience and
ring science. Young Peter is one of
the few remaining fighters of the much
discussed .old school, which the vet
Grams speak of so reverently.
Besides the Smith-Jackson bout there
will be several other interesting mills
on the card, the principal ones being
as follows: Loupe Carranza VS.. Brick
gan VS.. Paddy Ellis. and Johnny Nc
Carthy and Jimmy Foley.
San Francisco patrons should take
the Key Route train to Twenty second
street. The fights will start early.
frankie Edwards, the clever Oakland
lightweight who has been meeting with
so much success across the bay, has
decided to branch out for himself. He
is anxious to start climbing on the
rungs of the championship ladder aft
er the manner of Lew Powell Ed
wards will take on Frank Smith, Tom
Mccarthy or any of the lightweights
who want his game.
Edwards has fine chance to come to
Q front In fact he should be up
there now, but because of his in and
out performances on many occasions he
was held back. A match between Ed
TcCarthy engagement would be an in
teresting morsel for the fans. One of
the local promoters should do we'll with
this card, properly backed up
John L. Would Referee
NEW YORK, Nov 9.-John L. Sulli-
van, who has been mentioned as a pos
fight, has this to say about it:
If / am asked to officiate l will
accept. The American public knows
me and my reputation and that would
render a fair and unbiased verdict. If 1
am the third man in the ring there will
have to fight from the hnadshake till
one or the other is beaten. l will
guarantee the public a run for its
money"
Jeffries has black eye. the result of
his first public exhibition boxing bout
with Sam Berger since arrangements
for his fight with Johnson were made