Show PP IS 8 lOSING I WAITING I. I fOR FIGHT Coffroth Defends Def the Confessor Con Conj j fessor lessor and Calls Him lIim a I Much Abused Fighter BY H. H L. L BAGGERLY SAX SAN FRANCISCO Aug H. H UI vs some lom word Is received from BUly the Illinois thunderbolt today either by Sunny James Jam Coffroth regarding th ih I possibility of or a match with wit Philadelphia Jack OBrien O'Brien or by Matchmaker Garibaldi ot of f the North End club who Is trying to i get the German Into a match with Frank Mantell the tile lad hid from Kewanee Ke- Ke wanee is apt to find himself out In the cold as far a all as matches matched In San I f fare are concerned at If least ast for or somo omo months month to come corn At this thin stage of or the game Jamp It ita j ja a case o of he who hesitates hesitate Is lost and though both the promoters and the tho I would U like krs to oros see t I In action c oen again 2 i the time Is growing n short t tn and n the g gentlemen gentle men who s sit cit back In n the e n and d corner g cut n I carnivals 1 at are compelled II t to get I bU busy i There i Is III no O doubt In lb the mind of ot the writer that is laying back In the thC hope that Iet Ketchel hel will run TUn out of ot hI his I match with In which case clUe a fifth meeting between n the l an and himself could probably be arranged Billys Billy's s one consuming ambition Is to get another crack at the assassin this time tinte over the Marathon l distance and to do that he Is willing to sacrifice any other match which may be offered to him hint Is convinced that he can whip the present middle weight champion and has not ceased to mourn over o the decision made against him by Referee Roche Heche on the occasion slon of ot their last lut engagement Coffroth has haa signified his willingness to lo stage and Ketchel for a forty- forty round five battle any time the they are ready but until It Is definitely decided what Ketchel will do with the Langford and Johnson matches there Is little chance for tor forthe forthe the thunderbolt to get on with his hi old time rival James Janice Coffroth has rushed to the defense de de- de- de tense of ot Confessor Jack Jacle OBrien O'Brien who Is li now In Los Angeles but who leaves that city today for tor San Fr Francisco o. o wh where re rehe rehe he hopes to secure a match with some top topnotch topnotch topnotch notch middle or heavy weight In order ordera to convince O t the local o sporting fraternity that a he has been e plucked like a brand from the burning and Is now the honest hon hon- est eat straightforward pugilist which the public believed him to be some years ears agol ago l I 1 dont don't want to appear to Justify any of ot O'Brien's crooked work In the past put said the promoter yesterday afternoon but buthe buthe buthe he at least confessed that he had done wrong and that is more than a lot of ot others have done Since then Jack has been straight as all a string and in view of the fact tact that he Is ore one of ot the cleverest men in the ring today toda I cannot figure why he shouldn't be given gl his chance just as well as the rest of ot them Look at I Britt and Cans Gans for tor Instance The public condemned them as takers fakers and then turned out b by thousands to watch them Gans' Gans reputation was especially bad worse bad worse than O'Brien's to m my mind mind mind- yet Jack Is condemned m as a pariah r even a f t asco after he has been e accepted e e In the east and and- has made nade ade good I consider O OBrien O'Brien one of ot the best cards card II in the pugilistic deck today and If It a battle between him and either Kaufman or Johnson can be arranged I believe It will be one of ot the greatest spectacles we have had out herd her In some time Both Kaufman Kautman and are acting foolishly In refusing the matches offered to them continued Sunshine Jim In spite of or the fact that they both think they are right ht How can a man expect to reach the top of ot the ladder der unless he Is willing to work Kaufman when he had hada hadI a I chance to meet Johnson the Johnson the chance that he had been demanding for months months- sud suddenly subsided and announced that he lie was as too young to meet the bla black k man still hoping for tor another match with Ketchel passes up other good matches where he could pick up some easy money This Is nonsense A fighter Is I a fighter and makes his living out of ot fighting or or should do so flO That Is what I like about OBrien O'Brien and Ketchel They are both ready to tackle l anything that comes along and andO go O Just as far tar as they can with them This constant bickering and squabbling over weights and an records Is I. what hurts was the s g game driving and a makes team the up e in promoter the t mountains oci wish I he some place Sam Fitzpatrick P w who Is handling Frank ll na t 1 Mantell Is eagerly eagerly fy awaiting t news concerning concerning con con- decision Sam flam declares that his Is willing to meet any of ot the tho middle weights but especially wants Wante to harness up with the Kewanee lad owing to the latter having secured a round one-round victory over him some time ago alto Should the match fall tall through Mantell Manteli has offered to take on Jack Twin Sullivan again in which case he will endeavor to prove proe to the Dos Boa that the tho Sacramento victory was neither a fluke nuke nor an unjust decision There Is III a possibility that the North NorthEnd NorthEnd NorthEnd End club will sign these those chaps chops for tar a twenty-round twenty go next month |