The San Francisco call., 1910-11-07
Orphans Home
TO BENEFIT BY
MONSTER SHOW
Promoter COffrOth Completes
Program With Amateur and
Professional Entertainers
Sprinters, Baseball Players,
WrestIers, Boxers and Stage
FavOrites Promise Stunts

The monster benefit performance at
the Auditorium next Thursday evening
eives promise Of attracting record
crowd from persons in every walk of
life. Promoter James ". Cofroth. who
has taken charge Of this great show
expects that it viii realize several
thousand dollars for the orphans who
were burned out Of their home when
Mount 81. Joseph's asylum was de-
stroyed by fire three weeks ago.
After several days OF hard. consci-
entioas work, Conroth has about COM
pieted the program One glance at this
is enough 10 convince sIl admirers of
amateur and professional sports and
high class vaudeville that ii is worth
many times the 50 cents asked for ad-
mission.
Every athlete. amateur and profes-
sionsi, who was asked 10 aid the
worthy cause volunteered without a
seconds hesitation. The same can also
be said OF the theatrical folk. They
were all glad To 90 what they could
nd each of them promised TO even eN-
tend himself in order 70 make the pro
gram All the more interesting, as well
as exciting.
SPBINTERs MATCHED TO RACE
The match race between four Of the
speediest spripters in the Coast league
stands out one Of the prominent
features OF the program. The men who
VII take part are Maggsrt and Hogan
OF Oakland and Witt and Madden of
san Francisco. The distance viii be
100 yards and the men will wear the
new patent rubber spikes TO prevent
them from slipping.
The thousands Of persons who have
been attending the baseball games all
season have long been awaiting
chance 10 see these speedy runners in
action. On several occasions, arrange
ments were made TO bring them to-
Sether in q match race. but for some
reason or other these plans inyaria bly,
fell through. It remained for Coff-
roth 10 bring about the match.
This proposed speed contest has
stirred up interest among all the fol-
lowers of the game. Last night Henry
Berry. manager OF the Los Angeles
baseball team. bet 500 with Ed Wal
ters president Of the Oakland club that
Witt would beat Hogan. over in Oak
Nnd they think that Hogan is the
fastest man IN the league. while all the
san Francisco fans believe that Witt
ca Ike his measure.
Az If1hOa i0tE 1ONIESI
The accurate throwing contest is an
other act which should prove close and
exciting. Msggart Witt. Madden Ho-
gan. McArdle and Mite viii take part
in this. The distance viii be l27 feet
inches. just the same as from the
home plate TO second base. All these
men are accurate throp-ers and the
contest promises to be very close
Handsome cups viii he given the win
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The two wrestling contests for the
amateur welter weight and lightweight
championships Of the coast should
prove very exciting. In the welter
weight affair Herbert Duncan and Carl
Thias viii meet, and H F. Kolb and r
=. Bsrsty viii contest for lightweight
honors.
Each bout will be decided on the
best two out Of three falls. under the
strict rules Of the Pacific amateur as
Sociation. John A. Hammersmith and
Charles T. Krelling. the prominent
olympic club men and authorities on
the sport. Will referee the contests.
DASH By FAST RUNNERS
The special IS yard dash will bring
together the fastest bunch Of sprinters
on the coast The entry list includes
of Lick school. Claudius of the Uni
Versitv Of California. Starrett OF St
Msry's college and NEEDING of the United
States army.
These men have never faced each
other in a ike event and II goes with
out saying that the finish Will be close
and exciting.
Three well known athletes are en-
tered in the shotput. They are Snedi-
gar and Wallfisch Of the Olympic club
and Scott or the University Of Cali
fornia. This trio is very proficient in
the art OF hurting the heavy weight.
and much rivalry exists between each
Of its members
The potato race viii furnish the fun
of the evening. This event has the
largest list Of entries of any on the
program. All the members OF the
speedy Olympic club Rugby football
team will compete The members are
as follows: GooddeH. Mckenzie. Wall
fisch. Webster. Miller. Dolsn. sharp.
I.unt, Laumeister. Trowbridge Haley.
SHOW. Meyer. Parker and Aguierre All
these men are experts at the potato
race game
All Of the field events viii be ref
creed by Joseph r. Hickey and Frank
Foran. two Of the best known athletic
members Of the Olympic club
BATTLING NELSON IN RING
Battling Nelson promises TO show the
crowd how he "csme back when he
takes part in the three round sparring
exhibition with Eddie Dennis. the
champion amateur feather weight OF
the coast. Nelson is anxious to make
good showing on that particular oe-
cssion and he will overlook no oppor-
tunity to show the crowd that he is
still the Durable Dane"
In addition there viii be another
three round exhibition between zone
Round" Hogan and Johnny Frayne
Hogan is known as the best four round
lightweight in the country. while
Frayne recently returned from New
Orleans where he fought 10 round
draws with owen Moran, the noted
British lightweight. and Harlem Tomm,
Murphy. looked upon as one of the
cleverest men in the American ring
today
Antoine Ia Grave. the young boxer
from Butchertown who made such q
wonderful showing against Nelson las
Monday night, has also volunteered hi:
services He is willing TO box an.
man whom Coffroth picks out for hin
and II is likely that the promoter viii
arrange a bout for La Grave som,
time today This viii complete a grea'
fstic card.
Eddie Smith. the famous referee. vii
offciste in one contest and John T
clark. one OF the best known sporting
men in the country. viii referee th'
other