Show SAL SALTAIR T AIR MEN SIGN FOR BIG CONTEST I lANDS PlUM Tex Rickard Promoter of J ef Boxing Bout Signs Paper With Manage Management Management ment of Saltair Beach Co FINAL AGREEMENT MADE SIGNATURES ATTACHED General Manager Langford Says Utah Has No Law Which Will Prevent Bout Being Staged in This HUSTLING WILL BE DONE DONEr J r E Langford as vice president and general manager of the Saltair Beach company and Tex Rickard as promoter of the J 45 round boxing contest for the undisputed heavyweight championship p of the world met yesterday and signed a contract to stage the bout at Salt Saltair Saltair air The two met in the office of the Saltair Beach company and signed the formal contract along the lines talked over when the trip to the lake was made Saturday The Saltair Beach company offers the use of the bicycle track coliseum free of charge agrees to enlarge the seating capacity to over seats and make all necessary alterations in incident I to the proper staging of the bout and for the accommodation of the moving picture machines The Saltair Beach company compan y B i agrees to give Mr Rickard a guat an ant t tee acceptable to him that hI he 3 rt n stage the contest and to prote t 11 against Iou In return Mr agrees to stage the bout at altai The Tb contract was properly fl a J I I witnessed and duplicates held bye by ca party Discussion of the Law When the contract waa closed no t re was mutual congratulations ant nl Tex Rickard went forth to meet J it e many friends he has made in Salt laio and assure them again that Ui l would see the great contest Both M Langford and Mr Rickard were how hew they expected to stage the without Interference from the auti auth r Each replied We know or nt I Ilaw law on the Utah statute books w i prohibits or has anything to say a bOxing contest suc l as the an meeting M 21 Rickard showed the articles article for t r I bout wherein the men agree agres to h x fort rounds round Mr Rickard will remain In Salt until Saturday to notify Jeffries g oft f ciaU daily that ho he has fixed the place r his meeting with John at Saltair Shown several PI s from which said that would not meet Johnson in Utah I there was any chance ot of tot a from the authorities Rickard sai taut Jeffries understands perfectly y t 1 P Phe he has posted to live up to r It a terms ot of the articles we have t signed I do not think he be has nia tot the credited to him al t I going to mAt Johnson in San Fra Fracisco ra cisco 1500 When I talk with him I am sure he wilt will have no further to SAlt Lake Of cours I does not want to meet Interferon e ethe 1 the authorities and he I is right H Continued on Page Two u |