Show ELY MERCHANTS BACK RICKARD Famous Nevada Promoter Seems Determined to Land Gans Nelson Bout Special to The Herald Ely Nev April 24 The ever ver offered to induce two pugilists to enter the tho ring has been hung up by Tex Bickard RIckard in an effort to get Battling Nel Nd Nelson son on anti and Joe Gans Cans to fight light here either July 4 or Labor day Sept 3 2 This purse puro Is for 4 of which amount isi has been deposited sited with the First National N bank of Jy Iy as a guarantee of good faith To lurther further show the fighters that he means moans business and that Ely wants the fight tight RIckard Bickard has secured pledges aggregating from the merchants and business businessman mon moa of or Ely El to insure the men nen that they will get their money moner nickard Rickard has wired to 10 Chicago to the addresses of the fighters tighten and their managers in order that negotiations may maybe be te taken up with them at fa nee Rickard does not impose any conditions on the men except that they must fight here liere Iere either on the afternoon of July 4 or that of ot Labor day He also requires a de deposit deposit deposIt posit of ot to be placed by each man manin m manIn n in any local bank as a II guarantee of good faith Nothing is said of ot weights or di division islon vision of the purse Half of Money in Bank One half of the money mone Is in the tho bank Said to The Herald last night and the other half will bo be deposited the minute they sign up and post their for forfeits feits I r have no conditions to make except those mentioned They can weigh what and when they the please and their mana gets Kers ers can scrap over oer the division divi ion of the th money mone That is their fight not mine The merchants of Ely are behind me rue meto 10 to the tuno tune of to Insure the men I that I will keep leep my promises The bus busl 1 nesI men here have dine nearly nearl double what Goldfield did to get the same men I together last year The Goldfield pledges were 2000 want Is the fight and we are willing to pay big money mone for tor it Big Pavilion Planned Panned The rhe signing of the articles of agree agreement agreement agreement ment will be the signal for unusual ac activity activity tivit here As soon as the men get ct to together Jether gether an athletic association will bo formed to manage manaA the affair Contracts will be let for the building of an arena arenas as na s large or larger than the one at Gold Cold Goldfield Goldfield Coldfield field It is hi the opinion of local sporting men who have followed the game that the fight will never come off of in view of the offer made by b RIckard It is HI pointed out that this fight would be of oC about the same duration as the Herman Cans Gans fight fI ht and that it would not be worth while for Cans to take Lewis on rind nd jeopardize his chances at nt the big money The purse for which Clans Gans and Nelson fought at Goldfield was The rhe purse for which they are asked to fight Is the largest in the history of the ring One purse of t OOOO was as promised in Louisi Louisiana I ana nna a number of years ago but the cash did Id not accompany the offer and was never posted I |