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Show PHILADELPHIA JACK O'BRIEN (By Thomas Garret.) The Time The present week. The Place San Francisco. The Speaker "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien. "My trip Ihis time has cost me a little do-ray-me and a few falsols. Time and money both fly. I don't mind the time no much, but I will say that I've clipped the winRS on a few of the C.olden Kagles issued by your Uncle Un-cle Sam. and 'they're raising nice broods for me in tlio various banking depositories. "I am going to build a hall in Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. No, it's not for my Bole use I Intend to rent it to various societies and political parties. It's jto-h)R jto-h)R lo he the blRuest hall In Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Will hold 4.000 persons, unless they're sufTiapetleP. Only hold 2..100 "suffys." ' I notice this younp man, Sam LanR-ford. LanR-ford. Is iirhlnR, nrhlnR, and splUinR over to .bed someone's pore. Far be 11 from me to care to offer myself as a sacrifice, hut If Lansford desires to have a little soclAl chitchat with me iu some nice arena for six rounds I'm his man. "Sam and I could do nicely In Philadelphia Phila-delphia in a six-round bout. Ketchel and Lansford drew more than $21.0u In Philly. and I think Sam and myself my-self could be popularized In San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The fans Ret plenty of flRhting In six rounds. You see. when the boys only have six rounds to ro they tear in and fight There Ih no stalling In the short-round bouts." Jack nienson may po upon the stage. Gleason will not follow In the footsteps of James .1 Jeffries and Sam Berper. but will enter a thirty weeks tour telling the people: "How Me and Tex Skunned the Other Promoters. Were Driven Out of California and Finally Pulled Off tho Big Mill in Reno." Bill Lang, the Australian heavyweight heavy-weight champion, who came to this country for tbe purpose of Retting on a fight with some of the pood men we hae here, has finally been successful success-ful In landinc a )ont. Billy Gibson, manager of the Falrmount A. C, has matched him to meet Stanley Ketchel, the middleweight champion, for ten rounds at a special show to be held bv tbe club on Friday evenlnp, Aug 12 HuRh Mcintosh arranged all the details for Ijng. while Wilson Mlz ner did the business for Ketchel. As this is the most 'important fight held In New York In a long time the chances are that the clubhouse will be packed to its capacity. i |