Show I INSISTS IT WILL BE FRISCO 1 4 44 I ISan 0 San Francisco Jan bitter 4 controversy has been engendered be between between tween the two fight Impresarios who are to handle tho championship tight Jack Gleason of ofSan ofSan San Francisco and Tex Rickard of Nevada over oer the selection of the bat 9 Just at present there Is Isn isa n a wIde difference of opinion between the two managers as to where the go 4 will be held Tex Rickard Issued a flat statement last night that the 4 9 fight would take place In Salt Lal Lake or the immediate vicinity In re response response t Jack Gleason just as positively stated that when Jeffries and 4 Johnson met in the ring the greatest 1 event In years wilt will take place In San Francisco And In this condl condi 4 tion the situation is left dangling in 4 4 midair Where the controversy Will t end Is coming to be the main topic 4 for discussion and speculation In the 4 sporting world 4 t to Rickard in his statement charges that Gleason has not advanced one cent In the transaction so far Of the forfeit guarantee that the two heavyweight pu pa pugilists were offered to induce them to tight fight It Is said only has been post posted posted ed Rickard asserts that Gleason di not put up a cent of this forfeit hence can cannot cannot not assume to dictate Gleason entrenches himself beside the declaration that Rickard could not have become a partner in the enterprise If It had not been for the Gleason Influence with Sam Berger and JIm Jeffries Salt Lake or Frisco The main point In dispute between the two managers is the question of which city shall be chosen for the Francisco or Salt Lake It appears that the matter has ceased to be a contest be between between tween the cities howe however r and that It has resolved Itself Into a tussle for authority between Gleason and Rickard The bal balance balance ance of power seems to be with the fight fighters ers era and the local sporting fraternity Is almost unanimously ot of the opinion that the fight will be held wherever Jeffries dictates Nothing has yet been heard from either of the two principals since Gleason and Richard Rickard tell fell out When all Is said and done the big fight will be held here said Jack Glea Gleason Gleason son tonight at the Olympic club I say so 50 and It was agreed In New York that I should have the naming of the place I dont care what Tex Rickard says about It I know what I am talking about I dont care to get Into a controversy over this thing but I want It under understood understood stood that I 1 am to name the place Sam Berger Borger will back me up in this matter He knows and Johnson and Little both know Depending on Berger I am content to leave It to them They will tell who was given authority to choose the battleground The fighters want to go to the place where the fight can be most advantageously handled and andI I guess that before long the world will know whether that Is San Francisco or Salt Lake Jeffries will be here in abOut ten days and then we will see It If Rickard does not care enre to live up to this agreement I will take the fight off his hands I am ready at any time to take the whole thing I can handle this fight and I intend to handle at least my end of It I say again that If Tex does not want to go through with it the way we agreed to do Ill relieve him of any further responsibility Jeff reff would never have consented to sign those articles wIth Richard Rickard as one of the partners In the affair If It had not been for me Im not going to stand for Richard Rickard being the autocrat and neither will Jeff about settle the tho die puts about Man Many sports here are skeptical the meaning of the controversy between Gleason and Rickard Some think It Is being done to keep the Interest In the match alive This however is indig indignantly indignantly denied by Gleason |