The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
COffrOth Busy
Figuring Out
A Fight Card
Promoter Intends TO Select
Matches From Johnson, Kauf-
man, O'Brien and Papke
Bv WILLIAM J. SLATTERY

BV WILLIAM j. SLA ENI
Promoter Jim Coffroth is still en-
gagged in his wire pulling game and
inns far he does not seem to be quite
able 10 make up his mind what he shall
offer the fans for Admission day and
Labor dav. He fondly mentions the
names Of Jack O'Brien. the champion
If all the confessors; Al Kaufman,
lack Johnson and Billy Papke. Maybe
he viii shake all the names in hat
and take chance at the first two
which roll out. or perhaps he viii come
10 terms with the entire gang before
he has finished. These developments
viii have 10 be awaited. Anything is
likely 10 happen in pugilistic circles
now with things breaking as they are.
Kaufman wants TO fight O'Brien, but
lie won't fight Johnson. Why he re-
fuses TO tussle around with the big
black man evidently is his own prl-
vate business. and he does not care
about having the public taken into ms
confidence for the present at least.
kaufman viii consent to fight OBrien
- rounds. and be may yet agree on 20.
As for O'Brien. he viii stand for 20
froth yesterday morning over the tele-
phone from Los Angeles. The promo
ter tried TO get the eloquent john on
the wire again last evening but with
out success. He hopes to secure hne
on him some time today, and then II
is barely possible that this match VIII
be made.
If he can not do any business with
O-Brien over the wire, Coffroth viii
have chance TO talk 10 the man from
PHILADELPHIA face to face tomorrow
evening. for then the celebrated per
sonage will be here once more-here IN
the very city where he unblushingy
admitted three years ago that he was
The most crooked fighter who ever
pulled on a boxing glove.
JOHNSON COMING, TOO
johnson viii leave Chicago Thurs
day evening and arrive sunday. This
means that there must be something
I'm sight for him. Johnson is coming
at the solicitation of Coffroth. and un-
less Coffroth believes that he can do
some good with the black monster. II
goes without saying that he would not
be paving his carfare ali the way from
tie windy city.
1t is not unlikely that Conroth viii
vet put Johnson and O'Brien on. O'Brien
wires that he viii be only too glad
10 accommodate the dusky champ in
2 limited round contest. This may
mean 10 or it may mean 20. but any
how it means something. With O'Brien
and Johnson on his bill of fare, COT
fnoth could very well find an outlet for
sidetracking Kaufman and Papke.
Nobody has heard a word from the
latter since the talk was started. He is
supposed to be hunting some place
around his home in Kewanee. Ill, and.
evidently, he is not concerned with
fights or lighters. He also numbers
among those whom O'Brien viii ac-
commodate in an argument of the
gloves II satisfactory terms can be
agreed upon by all the parties con-
cerned.
While Cofroth is preparing to enter
tain the fans with some sort OF q card,
the Mission club is already prepared.
for, on the evening Of Friday, August
20. the Frayne- Hyland 20 round mill
and another event OF a like distance
between Percy Cove and the winner Of
this evenings Attell- Reagan contest
viii he staged. It's a good looking
card all around.
COVE A CURIOSITY
This viii be the maiden appearance
Of Cove in a San Francisco ring, and
as he is one Of the most curious Of all
the pugs that the prize fighting game
has ever known. he should attract a
small army all by himself Tall enough
10 be a heavy weight, he fights at the
bantam limit. lis pounds, and he fights
so well that but few men in his class
will take him on.
Cove has long been seeking to crush
into the local limelight. his efforts
dating back to year before the fire.
But for some reason or another, nobody
seemed to warm up to him. Finally
Manager Sid Hester Of the Mission club
fell for the human skeleton and
matched him with the man who proves
victorious in the Attell-Reagan mixup
across the bay.
Cove is training with Dick Hyland
over at Jack Perkins new resort near
the Emeryville racetrack. He is go
ing to fight here for training expenses
just 10 show the local fans that he
can 20. What 2 sight he viii present
in the ring when he is stacked up
against the pudgy little Atten. Surely,
it ought to be well worth travelling
miles to see.
The proposed bout between Ad VOL
CAST and Abe Attell, which Coffroth
was banking on for either Labor day
or Admission day is off. Attell has
wired the promoter that he will not
fight before November. Though Coff-
roth did the best he could by means of
flattering offers TO get Abe into the
ring, the willy little Hebrew would not
fall. This lets Wolgast out
It's too bad that this one has fallen
through, for the fans are all anxious to
see Wolgast In action. They have heard
so much OF him since he fought Nelson
month ago that they are all smoked
up. Wolgast viii have to fight some
body here before he viii be accepted as
ship honors. Those Los Angeles try.
outs don't go.