Show HEV ADA LEADING FIGHT CENTER It Cost Tonopah Money to Get Place on Pugilistic Map but Goldfield Came Out Winner placed Itself on the map nt at n ii cost to the promoters of the tot of about GolU got there thoro with a profit or oJ nearly tili sarno Hamo amount or at money Now the promoters are dickering for a arIght rIght with Gans Gaim cud JImmy and andt t O ts say they thoy will so go down In theIr jeans md and yank out tor or the tI ht which thoy the hope to on March 1 is isTen Ten years ago next St day the dyes of the tho pugilistic world were eon cen centered on Cox City Nov Nev where JIm Corb tt and Bob wore hay hayIng ing It Cut Ut for the tho heavyweight champion championship championshIp ship whIch Bob won on with lila his solar plexus blow in the fourteenth round It was the tho battle which placed ovada on the pugilistic map and it has hus boon beon thero over since Dan stuart starts Game Dan Stuart who promoted the tho mm mill Dearly two years bringing Bob Dob and JIm together Having Baying business Interests at Dallas Texas lie he tried to boom that town by matching thorn thom to light fIght there He for a largo large arena and things were workIng smoothly when Gov Cul Cu Culberson berson put down hlo hie toot foot on the tho affair and tim the jig was up Stuart then r word tram from tho Hot Bot Springs Ark that ho bo could pull orr the fight In that town The however over ovel overlooked looked Governor Clarke and as the gov governor governor held the tho trump hand band Stuart and the town threw their cards In tho discard Dan was determined to pun pull off oll that championship tIght and after atter the r fight in MexIco Langtry Tex TeL whIch took place Feb leb 21 1896 ho scouted around for a state that needed boosting and one the governor of whIch was not particular as asto asto to the methods employed to make It It talked ot of Dag Daa wont went about his work 3 and determinedly and when the theT T sporting fraternity had given up all of Corbett and Fitzsimmons ever cor together he surprised the sport sporting I ing world by the mon men and guaranteed to pull ot off the fight in the State ot of Nevada whore where there was no law against glove tights fights to a finish stuart Got Bill Through Stuart did not play his trump card until ho 10 had bad secured the tho passage ot of a bill per glove encounters and that law sUIl is intact Nevada as a prize fight state was lost eIght of after the i imUl mill mUl until July 3 1005 when Reno Rono butted I in and pulled ot off the Marvin Root championship fIght which Hart won in fri the twelfth round Interest was added to the tho event by the appearance of Jim JeffrIes as referee Jeff retIred a tew months before the tho battle and when he declared Hart tho winner he also declAred him tho heavyweight champion The bat battle battie tie tle from a financIal standpoint w wa a failure allure and when rex Ricard offered for no a lightweight battle between Joe Guns Gans and Battling Nelson directly interested In the sport wondered whore where the rs Would get off The fight drew a gate and as the tho clubs expenses did not toot up It killed two birds with ono one its town and cleaned up lip a nIce chunk of mono mone |