The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-21
CHOYNSkI comes
TO COMFORT JEFF
Jim Griffin Makes Two Good
Preliminary Matches for
MOran-McCarfhy Bout
By WILLIAM I. SLATTERY

weight who hopes to toss all the vulgar
boxing gloves and punching bags out
of the Jeffries training camp and con-
dition the boiler maker on the master
pieces of Shakespeare and Wagner, ar
rived in town yesterday. He will lose
no time in getting down to Ben Lo-
mond and joining the big fellow.
Rumor has it that Joe will be the real
master of ceremonies at the camp till
such time at least as Jim Corbett hoves
in sight. Then there is liable to be
switch.
Choynski is a native son, and in his
day he was one of the greatest heavy
weights in the business. The old time
fans still remember that wonderful bat
tie which he lost to Jim Corbett on
barge outside of Benicia in 81 rounds
on the morning of June 5, 1889. This
is the fight that really gave Corbett
his start. 1t was one of the most SEN
sational contests of the time, both men
wearing skin tight gloves. 1t was
pulled off early in the morning in order
to thwart the authorities.
Choynski fought one of his last
fights in this city against the man
whom he is going to train. Choynski
and Jeffries fought 20 rounds at the
old Peoples palace, Eddy and Mason
streets, on the night of November 80,
1897. They went 90 rounds, and 1t was
called draw, though all those who
saw the fight remember that Choynski
really made a monkey out of the then
raw boiler maker from Los Angeles.
Choynski was met at the depot by
his brother Herbert, the well known
lawyer and Sam Berger. Joe could
hardly express his surprise when he
took look at Market street. He had
not seen it for a dozen years or more,
and he admitted that he would have
lost his way had not his friends been
on the job TO pilot him around 1t was
all new to old Joe.
Choynski has a whole lot to say
about the training of Jeffries. He has
new ideas and new theories which he
hopes to work out on the big fellow,
though with what success he will meet
remains to be seen. If he gets away
with some of the stunts he is figuring
on then he must be put down in the
book as wonder. for nobody else ever
has accomplished such feats.
Choynski is great student of the
boxing game. He is a constant reader
and deep thinker. He believes in the
higher ideals even in the fighting line.
so the result can easily be imagined
when he tries to work off some of the
Shakespearian stuff on that bear of a
man in the Santa Cruz mountains. If
Joe switches his talk from art, litera-
ture and science to bears and mountain
lions he will get along much better
with James ].
For several years past Choynski has
conducted a boxing school in Chicago.
! Incidentally, he is the only man who
ever knocked Jack Johnson out. Joe
turned this trick away back in 1901,
but it must be admitted that Johnson
was only a novice in those days.
!
Terry Mustain and Jack Davis will
furnish one of the ring warmers to the
| Moran Mccarthy fight at DreamlanJ on
the evening of April %. They were
signed last night by Promoter Jim
Griffin to go 10 rounds. Griffin will
also put on George Peterson and Denny
Bowers, a pair of husky middle weights,
| for six rounds. This insures the fans
! plenty of action.
The referee for the main event will
| be selected tomorrow evening. Moran
/ is very strong for Jack Welsh, and
| the chances are that he will hold out
! for the former king of the Patrero.
/ particular choice. Any of them will
do for him. He likes Eddie Hanlon. so
| there is a chance that Eddie will be
! the third man in the ring.
Moran continues to work like a tro-
| jan over at San Rafael He was out
! with the birds yesterday morning row.
| ing in his favorite boat on the bay
! near Sausalito The little Britisher
| pulled the skiff around for five miles
| and then went back to his gym, where
| he boxed four rounds with Jeff Perry
| and four rounds with Tommy Deakin.
! Griffin will head bunch of the North
| beach sports over to San Rafael tomor-
! row afternoon. Most of these lads are
Mccarthy shouters, but the auburn
| haired promoter Is anxious for them to
! get a line on the British lightweight.
! In the meantime Moran invites all as
| piring lightweights to come over and
| put on the gloves with him any after
noon.
The largest draft ever drawn for a
bunch of fight tickets will reach Tex
Richards office within the next couple
| of days. 1t comes from the sports of
| Vancouver and it's figures read $4,000.
| This money is to pay for the 20 $50
seats and the 200 SIS seats which the
| Brown Macauley party from the north
will occupy on the afternoon of July 4.
The Vancouver sports will come to
| San Francisco on the big Canadian Pa
| cific liner Mariana which the northern
| delegation has chartered for the occa-
| sion. Richard will see to it that the
men from Vancouver get the best seats
| in the house and as soon as their draft
| arrives their sections will be marked
| off and the tickets forwarded to Van
| couVer.