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Show i SALT LAKE SECURES ' ! Rickard Eifters California Com- lunation, and Fight May ; j Re Switched. I M'GARBY OF LOS AX6KLKS ii SAYS CARDS ARK STACKED J Fighters Appear Before Small ! Crowd at Madison Square ' Garden. ! HEAVYWEIGHT TIGHT IS M CINCHED TOR SALT LAKE M -I- 'SEW YOU Is. Dec. J. Salt Lake Hi v has offered largest purse for light ! H; and claims io liuvc cinched con- -I , : tosi. Decision dclavod twenty- ion r hour-. TEX Ji I CK A K D. i STATEMENT REGARDING !. - FIGHT BY GOVERNOR SPRY. l ;- I have not civon i lie liffht h !- !; Thought In fact T thought Salt. I Hj' -J Lake liad no elinneo of securing H, 1 he contest, but now 1 will look !-Hi !-Hi ! up the law on boxing and will n HI) v judge neeonlinglv -I- ! GOVERNOR" WILLIAM SPRY. H J Uy Associated Press. Hj NEW YORK, Doc. 1. Sporting men Hj; gathered licre were keenly disappointed Hi; in wlinl many considered a puritanical Hi interposition of the nnti-pme fight laws Hj1 in this state, but Police Commissioner Hi Baker bad served notice that no such H announcement could bo made in I"Y:v Hji York with propriety, Accordiugly it H was decided to press the New Jersey Hji city across the Hudson, where the bids H ij woro opened this morning, into service Hi again tomorrow for the final award. H Gossip in sporting circles tonight H picked as the winning bidder James Hi ('off roth of the Colinn athletic club, H . San I'Vaucisco: .lack Gleason. tho Cali- He fornia baseball magnate, anil "Tex" HL Jiickard, the Nevada boomer, who ap- H parcutlv have formed a triple alliance Ml to gel (he fight. I Coffroth Has Full. H Cofl'rolh is commonly credited with a It close alliance with the persons control-Ht control-Ht ing the two basic patent!? of the mov-HI mov-HI ing pirture machine. Ulcason is known H :i a elofo personal friend of Hani Her-Hi Her-Hi g!-r. manager for .lefl'rics. Thus the HI talk among sporting men is that. filea-H filea-H hon and Coffroth pooled their interests, HJI t but thai at I ho last moment Rickard, HE who pulled o!f the Gans-Nelson light, H( entire in with a throat to bid such an HI enormous sum that, it would not be de-Hp de-Hp The result was. according to general HJ belief, that. Gleason, already united with Hj, i ofl'rot Ii in one bid for ''('olnni, Ocean If View or San Francisco," also united H with Richard in the offer for "Utah. Hj Nevada or CaR fornia. 7 ' HJr Tom Me Carey and Eddie Graney, Hr both big bidders seemed to realize that Hj. they were not, fo bo considered sor-Hj sor-Hj iously. McCnrey said before the bids HI wore" opened Hi Cards arc Stacked. H "The cards have been stacked Hlf against my Los Angeles ulub. But if H the highest and best bid (hat, has no IE private strings ntiached to its is to be If accepted, Los Angeles will get the Hf After Ihe bids worn opened he, said: Hi "C have bid the most money, a guar- I .mice of $110,000 and HO per cent of Ihe. I picture proceeds. If they turn that H down, it shows that, somebody is get- Hi ting more than appears on t lie bids sub- H The opening of lie bids today, bc- Hfj sides revealing the apparent Coffrolh- I r Gleason-Riekard combination, 3-iclded It another surprise tho fact that a pro-Bit pro-Bit , motor could offer, and bnck it with cash, Ij a purse of $130,000 to be divided ns the Ii contestants saw fit. I I What Fight Ib Worth. HI I While the sporting public had eom-Hj eom-Hj monly agreed that this is to bo the I A greatest fight in the history of the prize 1 1 ring, it was not. believed i lint, a pro-It pro-It motor -would bid more than $80,000 and I t -would then claim ouo-third of the mov- II jng picture revenue. Incidentally, it Hit is conservatively estimated that, if ihe I f tight runs 20 or 25 rounds on a clear l day. tho moving pictures, if displayed i throughout tho world, will be worth HI Both Jeffries and Johnson appeared Hj hi a ring at the Madison Square Garden HT tonight in what, will probably bo their HJ' last similar display before the public HJ prior to. the fight. But, contrary to Hji. expectations, the garden was not woll HJ! filled. Johnson came on first and HJ! sparred with a white opponent in a mild HJ manuor. Jeffries came on an hour and HJ; a half later and went five snappy HJ rounds with Sam Bcrgcr. the fastest HJ work he has done in public since he HJ, started training for the fight. The HJ crowd sized up Jeffries as being in good HJ condition and showing good form, but H liis old nose trouble bothered him cou- Hj Graney's Offer. H Graney, representing the Tuxedo HJ 1 Athletic club of Sun Pranci'sco. made a HJ bid involving three different ' proposi HJ' tious, Tn his first proposition Graney HJ offered cight3T per cent of the gross re- HJ ceipts with a guarantee of $75,000, the HJ, management to have solo ownership of HJ the picture privileges; tho second was HJ eighty per cent of the gross receipts HJ, with a $70,000 guarantee and an of- Jj for of $20,000 for one-third of the pie- HJ lure proceeds; and the third proposi- HJ tiort was ninctj por cent of tho gross HJ receipts with no guarantee. HJ Chancy agreed, if tho offer was ac- HJ ceptcd to build a pavilion aentiug 25,- HJj; 000 people in or within five miles or San HJ ! Prnncisco. H j Bid From Gloaeou. H'j John Gleason of San Francisco, in Hji commission of James Coffroth, suh- HJ;I mittcd a bid of $125,000 tor a fight HJ on July 4 at either the Colma Athletic HJij club or Ocean Viev or San Francisco, HJ reserving full rights! to the picture pro- HJ ; I ceeds. Gleason agreed, if the bid was HM'i I accepted, immediately to deposit a HJ: I check for $30,000. Gleason made a Continued 011 Page il. SALT LAKE SECURES BIG RING BATTLE Continued from Page JO. second proposition of a purse of $75,000 and 6Q 2-J per cent of the picture re-coipts. re-coipts. A third proposition provided an oiTcr c o.,por cont of 11,0 "ross receipts and .pcr cent of u,r' Picture receipts. Coflroth agreed to deposit $10,000 if the ofTer was accepted, r - cablegram was received from Hugh -HcIntosh oC Australia offering $37,-uOO $37,-uOO tp each of the hunters for a eon-tc.t eon-tc.t in this country; $10,000 to each lighter for a contest in either England or Irunce and $50,000 to each lighter for a contest in. Australia. No check accompanied tho offer and McTnlodrs bid was not considered. Elckard in. Line. E. M. "Richard of Ely. Nov.. submitted sub-mitted a bid in which ho offered $15.-000 $15.-000 in cash and a cheek for $5,000 for a fight on July -1 in cither Utah or California, and a cash purse of $101,000 and C6 2:i per cent of the receipts of the moving pictures. If the bid was accepted Eickard agreed to deposit within sixlv days $,"0,000 and the remaining $50,000 fortv-eight hours before tho fight. Thomas J. McCarcy of I he Pacific Athletic, club .of Los Angeles offered tho receipts of the entire house and 50 per cent of the moving picturo receipts or a purse of $110,000 in cash and 50 pcr cent of the moving picture receipts. |