Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-04
ANGEL CITY FANS
WAY BEHIND TIME
Berry-HanCoCk Special Now Due
to Arrive in Reno at 5 This
Morning
$4,000 TO BET ON JEFFRIES
Sixty-seven More Passengers on
Train Than Originally
Provided For
$4,000 TO BET ON JEFFRIES
BY JAY DAVIDSON

ABOARD BERRY-HANCOCK SPE-
CIAL, SACRAMENTO. July 3.-Al-
though our special has been side
tracked for everything from a handcar
to the Owl and has lost about three
hours in wasted time, the actunal per
formance of the train when in motion
has been so good that the prospect for
arriving in Reno before daylight to-
morrow morning is most excellent.
We anticipated arriving there at 5
o'clock this evening, on a twenty-hour
schedule. but after eighteen hours of
road work we are still twelve hours
away from our goal, and if the sew
eral specials out of San Francisco,
all of which are ahead of u.s. run to the
form of all the other excursions we
will not get to the battle-ground before
daylight. Knowing these many an
noying delays, the party is in fine
humor and enjoying itself as much as
possible under the circumstances.
Instead of having only the full allot-
ment Of 243 passengers, there are 80
aboard, and the great majority of these
are solid business men of Los Angeles.
CLUBMEN ABOARD
OF nine coaches one is filled with
members of the California club, an
other is occupied by Jonathan club
members, while nearly all those in the
other seven coaches are business men
of the City of the Angels. The sixty
seven excess passengers are lucky ones
who were able to induce some friend
to double up" the management
agreeing to this plan on payment of the
full fare wherever holders Of berths
were agreeable to the doubling up plan.
These siXty-seven persons are small
number of those who procrastinated IN
arranging to make the trip and played
in great luck in being able to arrange
to go.
1t is a noteworthy feature of the trip
that it is strictly a stag party, with not
one woman aboard, and that it has
been a remarkably orderly party with
not one single case of roWdylsm, de-
spite the wearisome ride and the num-
ber of private bottles aboard. With
everybody a strong partisan of Jeffries
there have been no arguments except
as to the duration of the battle, and
the consensus of opinion places the eX-
treme limit that Johnson will stay on
his feet at twenty rounds.
FIFTEEN-ROUND LIMIT
General opinion places the limit at
fifteen rounds.
In the pockets of the members of the
party is a bank roll of not less than
$4,000 that will be bet on Jetfries'
chances if enough Johnson money can
be found in Reno to cover it. While
wanting the best odds obtainable, Los
Angeles sportsmen will be glad TO find
Johnson money at 10 to I, and all this
sum will be wagered at these odds II
they can be found. Including the
money already wagered by Jack Kip
per, John Brink, Henry and Clarence
Berry and others, Los Angeles sports
men will have risked considerably more
than 100000 on the result, all Wagered
on Jeffries. There have been no bets
made on the train, as everybody is OF
one mind, but some excitement was
created last night by practical joker
who went through the train with the
announcement that a certain party in
one of the sleepers had a huge roll of
Johnson money. There was a stam
pede, but no johnson money was to be
found.
There is one negro aboard and while
he is not regarded as guest of honor
he is most welcome guest. His name
is Monk, a thick-lipped Ethiopian who
is known to nearly every baseball, rae
ing and fighting man in Los Angeles.
He is always to be found on the lower
row of the bleachers at all ball games,
roofing loudly and with original wit
for the home team to win. He bet his
last cent, ten bones, on Jeffries last
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special as a porter, but was turned
down at the last moment Determined
to attend the fight, he crawled on the
train last night and was promptly
thrown off by Manager Hancock.
BIG COLLECTION
John Brink found him in tears, and
when he asCertaincd the trouble took
Monk inside the car and hid him until
the train was many miles out of Los
Angeles. Then Brink took up a cOllec-
tion and raised $106 for the negro.
Monk received SO for expense money,
anoter SO for fight ticket and $33 for
the round trip ticket. Freddie COrbett,
a lightweight fighter also was dis
covered under a seat and was about to
be dtched when Brink treasurer of
the collection fund, paid his fare and
also gave him $2O for expenses and a
fight ticket
Including those already in Reno, and
others on their way on the regular
trains, Los Angeles win have about 500
Representatives at ringside, and Jeffries
will not be able to look in any direction
without seeing a friendly face. His
Los Angeles friends regard this as a
fight strictly to wipe out any claim that
johnson may have upon the champions
ship, and during the discussion Of this
subject this afternoon sam LOWeuStein
declared that after Jefrics has whipped
Johnson he proposes to jump into the
ring and propose to the crowd that this
iS to he the last fight i'm which "a NAOMI