The San Francisco call., 1909-10-18

out of the fight with nothing. All Britt
has to console him is a pair of Ketchel $
Britt is thinking of having a set of
dice made out of them, and If, he can
make few passes he. may win back
what he lost to Johnson
What we want is another fight with
Johnson says Britt. we still be-
lieve we can lick him. Steve was a
Knocked out. If he had guarded him
self when he knocked Johnson down.
he could have made it Knockout
there. It's pretty tough to come so
close to the heavy weight champion
ship and then blow it.
WANTS ONE MORE CHANCE
This little defeat is not going to
stop KetcheI. He will keep right on
lighting and he will go right up again
We will fight Langford any time. il we
get the proper inducements. Conroth
has already made a proposition 10 me
regarding that Boston smoke, and it is
possible that we will get together ana
make this match pretty soon.
Yes, we win fght Papke again. ,ad on on
fight and not dog it like he did the
last time. We won't make any weight
for Papke; though. ketchei is z
to take any chances of making rtngs1de
weight any more. If Mr.. Papke wants
any more of Ketche's game, let him
speak up quickly
Coffroth believes that the moving
pictures will be a great success. He
has already booked them in Hammer
STEMS, New York. and Tiv. Kreling
will leave for Gotham In the morning
with the films. They will also be
presented here as soon as they are
printed. Miles Brothers, who took the
pictures. say they are the finest mo-
ton pictures ever taken of a fight.
Coffroth had planned to leave for
New York in the morning. but he will
postpone his trip till Wednesday. He
L. f1n 1srcN
day of the Portola festivities, so he
will let his other business slide. The
promoter will be among the first to
meet Jeffries when the big fellow sets
foot on American soil again.
JEFF DECLARES HIMSELF
much of Johnson's victory over Ket-
chel, as the following dispatch will
show:
QUEENSTOWN. Oct. 17.-when
James ]. Jeffries heard of Jack John
San Francisco he said this would in no
way affect his plans. Ketchel, he
added, was only middle weight, and
not by any means the best of the
middle weights.
''Ketchel." continued Jeffries. lis try
ing to feed himself up TO make the
heavy weight class but il will only
fighter and he never met a good man.
His fight with Burns was no test.
Burns Is newspaper fighter / can
only hope that Johnson will cover my
money. 1 would not fight him if 1
did not think 1 could beat him.
JeffrieS now weighs 230 pounds and
he says he will fight at 210 or 212.
If nobody else wants any of John
sons gaff he will find a waiting op-
ponent in the ever faithful Sam Lang
ford, the man who is so good that he
can not get fight with any one of
them. message from Boston last
night says that Langford challenges
Johnson, and his manager Joe Wood
man, declares that he's will immediately
post any sized forfeit Johnson names
and allow the same to go as a side bet
1t does not appear that there will be
much of a chance to make this match
however, for the reason that two coll
ored fighters would not draw much
money. Langford is unquestionabIy on
the square with his challenge. for Sam
is continually on the look out for some
body to fight him.