Show SIG JA JACK CURLEY RUSHES INTO TOWN AHEAD OF SHOW Like the first wave of an onrushing tide ot of big men big Jack Curr ed I Ivance vance man and general manager of the snow show arrived n 1 Bs t Lake late last night Full of enthusiasm for his show the tight fight game general and Jeffries In particular CuY Curley brought bough some om do dole along with him j First of all Curley said that the big show will arrive In Salt Lake January Januar 22 n We havo got to have the biggest place In town to stage the show In said the manager Everywhere we go It Is ca capacity capacity business and more the people get a run for their mone money They are aU all crazy to see Jeff and I want to tell you that they see a man In great shape already He Is just as confident of whipping Johnson as a man can beIn be beIn In fact he Is Inclined to look upon the outcome as a certainty One thing t I want Va t to sa say Is that every everywhere where I go they want the fight to be beheld beheld held in Salt Lake City Of course as we get to the coast It will be all Frisco up to now It has been Salt Lake As AB a show man I can see the advantages advantages of Snit Salt Lake With th the fight here hereit it Ie will draw many more people from the coast than It It would be held on the coast Jet Jeff does not care where the fight Is held Ho He would just as soon fight In Salt Lake as anywhere He has deposited to tight fight In Utah Nevada Neada or Call Cali California fornia and he Is going to stand by the articles of course It would be a great thing for Salt Lake and amI Utah If the tight fight comes here Curley says that Gotch Sam Berger Derger Dr Roller and the old war warhorse warhorse horse Farmer Burns Durns will be with the show In Salt Lake Aside from the regu regular regular lar work all comers will be invited to the mat and the more the merrier The show plays plas January 18 In Denver then Colorado Springs and Salt Lake From here It goes to Ogden Boise Dolse Butte and through the northwest ending up at Los Angeles Jeffries Is the oddest man you ever saw continued Curley to a group of fans It takes most always a block and tackle to get him to open his mouth Hd H does not care for anyone or anything Why the other day In New York I saw him talking to a hotel porter while a delegation of theatrical promoters were waiting to see him He Is a great big bigbear bigbear bear but somehow or other he mak make friends everywhere He never speaks of Johnson Only once did I hear him talk about him and then he looked up from a paper he was WIlS reading and said to me Jack I do not want to see that mans face until the gong sounds That was all but his tone told that what he intended to do then was plenty You will be surprised to see the con condition condition he Is In He Is good now and will be better although he thinks he could win easily today If the two were to meet Just keep on boosting for staging the big affair here Salt Lake Is mighty might fool foolIsh foolish Ish to pass up the chance Who do I think will win Why Jeff all the way Curley leaves today to continue paving the way for the show He will leave the staging of the go here to a number of local promoters who will announce the place within a few days |