The San Francisco call., 1909-08-13
Frayne Hopes
To Get Crack
At Bat Nelson
Monte AtteIPS Victory Qualities
Him for a BOuf With
Percy Cove
By WILLIAM ]. sLATTERY

= Though he viii be offered splendid
inducements TO fight Lew Powell in
Butte Labor day, it is not at all likely
that Johnny Frsyne will accept the
proposition in the event that he beats
Dick Hyland when they clash next
Friday evening Frayne has high and
lofty ideas about his future, and like
many Of the others in the lightweight
division. he yearns for a chance to get
at Battling Nelson and try for the
p lightweight championship.
OF course this is all conjecture al
the present time. for Frayne. must beat
Hyland before he qualities for the
Butte match. However. the youngster
is so confident that Fighting Dick will
be numbered among his other victims
that he is already counting upon this
mill as one already in
F'rayne does not believe that he can
gain much by taking on Powell after
a victory over Hylahd. He claims that
he can go back to New York and keep
busy for several months by mingling
with the six and ten FOUNDERS in the
event that he does not get a hier at
Nelson. This is the one that Frayne
wants and he viii not be satisfied ,un-
I'll he lands it,
Hyland viii gladly accommodate
Powell and the Butte promoters if he
is successful over Frayne. Fighting
Dick is one OF the lads who keeps plod-
ding along and taking. on all comers.
Like Frayne, he also wants a chance
at Nelson, though he was beaten by
the champion once. However, he is
willing to bide his time and fight
d: some of the lesser lights first.
The Frayne- -Hyland mixup looks
D.. like the best main event that has been
programmed in San Francisco for
many day. The fact that both men
scored knOekouts the last time they
started is enough to justify their
:. 'aarousing a lot Of interest among the
. fans. Certainly they loom as the best
lightweights outside OF Nelson and
welsh. Packey Mcfarland is no
~lOnger figured IN this class. They all
look upon him as a welter now.
=. The betting on this mill has not
: opened yet. though a few small wagers
are being made with Hyland a 10 to 8
.choice. This is about the way it fig
ures: Hyland has had far more ex-
Dertence than Frayne, but the latter
has never heard a referee call 10 over
him.
Monte Attell has more than qualified
for q meeting with Cove on the same
night that Hyland and Frayne swap
Wallops. His clean cut decisive and
quick victory over his old opponent
Jimmy Reagan. in Oakland Wednesday
evening stamps him as the greatest
bantam weight fighter that the ring
has turned out in years. All who saw
the fight were not slow in saying that
Monte put Up the greatest fight of mis-
a. rHar had eyerErf 7iue
Cove is working out at Molly Nc
DOnalds gym at the Oakland ball park
there for the last week and everybody
who takes peek at the lighting skele-
ton is surprised and amazed to think
that man Of his height can make the
bantam limit, ll5 pounds.
Jack Johnson is evidently coming out
terday afternoon he wired Billy Nc
Carney TO engage training quarters for
him. Mccartney telegraphed that he
had secured accommodations at Jack
=. Perkins new place near the Emeryville
rscetrack. and Johnson replied that this
arrangement suited him perfectly.
According TO his wire TO Mccartney
the big black champion viii leave Chi
cago Saturday evening. This will bring
him here Tuesday evening. Who his
opponent viii be has not been definitely
agreed upon as yet though It looks as
II the original confessor. Jack O'Brien
IS the man. for the reason that Al
kaufman wants none of Johnson's
game. for the present at least.