The San Francisco call., 1909-10-26
Gleason Comes
With a Bid For
The Big Fight
Baseball Magnafe to Go East in
Interest of Two Alameda
Capitalists
BY WILLIAM J. sLATTERY

San Francisco or one of her sister
cities seems to be good for one or more
daily fat offers for the Jeffries-Johnson
battle. Already two of our local pro-
moters-Jim Coffroth and Sid Hester
have declared themselves and last night
the versatile John j. Gleason fought
his way to the front with bid. Glea-
son, representing the Bay Shore club
of Alameda and the Occidental club of
this city will journey to New York
Thursday morning to lay his PROPOSE
tion before the heavy weight fighters
and he says he will make them an offer
tnat viii cause all the others to wither
into insignificance, though he is not yet
ready with his figures.
Gleason is representing Al White and
j.. j., Landregan, prominent capitalists
on the other side of the bay. They
nave the money and the ground on
and IL Gleason is equal to the task of
coaxing jeff and johnson over to his
side the greatest of fistic battles will
be fought in Alameda.
Now the word Alameda" does not
sound very musical in the ears of the
ordinary fight fan. but Gleason de-
clares that 1T will go and go strong at
Inat lie goes on record as saying that
White, and Landregan. have the money
and the battle-ground and the necessary
permit. to pull the fight, Now all they
lows. Gleason is their agent and it's
up to him to do the pursuading..
In the meantime the baseball mag
nate will do little missionary work
on his own behalf. If anything hap
pens to the men from Alameda where
by they will not be able to stage the
contest of the century John j. has
hopes of switching it into. his own
back yard and pulling. it off here un-
der the auspices of his old club, the
Occidental.
Gleason has been out of the fighting
game for the last year or more, but he
is apparently very certain that he Will
be able to. boost himself into permit,
provided that he can secure the consent
of the fighters to do battle under his
auspices. OF course. Gleason's plans
are very indefinite and they will be till
he gets the office from the fighters.
Gleason and Sam Berger. who is now
posing as Jeff's manager, are very close
friends and ii is believed by many that
the baseball magnate will thus have an
Coffroth is now on the jos in New York
and in direct communication with both
fighters is not Worrying Gleason in the
least. He is full of hope and future
plans.
81 will be ready with fat offer"
SAYS Gleason. 1t will be stronger than
any of the others. Maybe it will come
UP to the $4,000 mark and maybe it
will exceed this limit. But we are on
the square and we will show the night
York unless | felt certain had a
chance of landing the match
There was rumor around town last
evening that Prof jose Fernandez n
millionaire Cuban, with large planta-
tion interests near Havana, has made
bid of $1,000 for the fight. According
to the story, the Cuban intends to pull
il off at or near Tia Juana, Just over
the Mexican border line. the same
talked of place where the racetrack
1,.ar fa6 1ffaT-
Stanley Ketchel was caught speeding
his new racing auto along Eddy street
last evening by Policeman j. Wright,
who quickly gathered him in. Ketch
produced s100 in coin and promised to
show UP in the police court this morn
ing. He will equal Johnson's pinch"
record If he keeps on.
Several trainloads of local fight fans
are expected to journey across the bay
tonight to see Monte Attell and Jimmy
Carroll tangle up in their 10 round
argument before the Oakland Wheel
men club in Piedmont pavilion. So Bit
ter has been the feeling between these
two little fellows that ii is confidently
expected the affair will end in knock
out.
Both of the lads have. trained consci-
entiously for the struggle-Carroll be-
cause he expects to wrest the title from
his old enemy, and Attell because he
has in mind a 25 round struggle with
Danny Webster in Los Angeles on
Thanksgiving day and he does not want
to take any chances in tonight's en-
counter. Monte confesses that "Danc-
ing Jimmy" Is one of the most danger
Gus of the local bantams. and for that
reason declares that he will try to stop
him in as short time as possible.
Al Emmick. formerly a top notch
contender for bantam weight honors,
appears in the special event of the
evening, his opponent being that freak
OF the modern ring, Percy Cove. The
Seattle lad will be at his best tonight
having persuaded Emmick TO meet him
at 124 pounds, or practically catch
weights Cove made 1872 pounds for
Joe Leahy a month or so ago and pun
| ished the local lad badly for six rounds.