The San Francisco call., 1910-06-10
HERE'S "DOPE" ON
Fight SITUATION
Cart00nisf ImpaIes Johnson
LangfOrd and Other CeIebri-
ties on HarpOon of Wit
BY R. L. GOLDBERG

Don't get fussy. Eddie. We have to
stick around here till Jim Corbett and
Joe Choynski pull off their little three
round duet on Saturday afternoon
Then we will do Barney Oldf1eld down
to Rowardennan and look over every
muscle in Jeff's body, from the pull
monary bullorabus to the ulna bone.
The fight is more than three weeks
away and that will give you plenty of
time to add up your talk and divide by
gray matter
Corbett and Choynski will present a
little three round speciality in Louis
Blot's new arena at Eighth and Howard
streets, only two blocks away from the
scene of the big battle that comes off
on Independence day, as a delayed echo
of their memorable battle of 81 years
ago at o'clock in the morning on a
barge in Benicia bay.
The exhibition itself will >proba bly,
not bear expert inspection. But the
spectacle of the two veterans in the
same ring will bring many a large
lump to the throats of the old boys
who hide behind the Brussels sprouts.
Every speck of sentiment left in the
carcass of the confirmed fight fan will
be pulled out from under the bed and
memories of ye olden daye will run
rampant around the ring during the
sacred exhibition. Just imagine your
self watching a game of checkers be-
tween George Washington and General
Grant. That's the answer.
ARENA UNDER WAY
We took a good squint at the work so
far done on the Jeffries- Johnson arena.
If any one tells you that the fight will
not come off. we are willing to send
him a picture of the battle-ground in
its present state. 1t certainly looks
like real legitimate business. and any
one would be as crazy as a French Jug
gler to make such a large investment
without positive assurance that the
deal would so through to the end.
The fight arena represents an invest
ment of $25 5000 and will accommodate
80 900 people-prebabl $4,000 if crowd
ed to the limit. The average price of
seat will be $40, which brings the
possible gate receipts up to over $780,
0O0 Go to the drug store, get large
box of headache powders, lock yourself
in your room and let your mind dwell
on this fabulous layout. It's terrible,
isn't it?
Tex Ricard has already engaged the
brass band of so pieces to entertain
the crowd before the principals enter
the ring The promoter says he will
have no preliminary to the big battle
other than the musical entertainment
He believes in innoeulating the spec
tators with the holiday spirit before
bringing on the big show. Tex is
some fellow.
sCRIBEs FLOCK TO SETTLEMENT
Rickard is worried over the requests
for seats that have come from news
papermen all over the world The
way the scribes are fiocking into this
settlement is fierce. You can't shake
your fountain pen without spilling' ink
on the nose of a fight expert. Every
scribe from the sporting editor of the
Nashville Rave to the agricultural
statistician of the Budapest Egg. is or
the job. The paper mills expect to be
worked overtime from now until the
big fight.
Al Kaufman did his initial work in
Johnson's camp this afternoon. He
went four rounds with the coIorec
champion and gave the chocolate
eclafr chance to use little of hi.
unexcelled science TO good advantage
Although Kaufman is in the best OF
shane Johnson used him like bfs
TOW and let his golden smile ilIuminate
| the gymnasium uninterrupted Kauf,
man is preparing for his fight will
Sam I.angford a week from Saturday
| If the Boston cave man fights true Il
| form Kaufman is looked upon as ,
sure candidate for the dark corner.
Corbett and Choynski will come t,
town tomorrow, so jeff will have Il
postnone his long looked for hon
with "Gentleman Jim" until next week