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Show CinSHIPBOUT I TURSSJUT FAKE I Two Thousand Dollars Are In- volved in a Rank Wk Frame-Up. MUCH MONEY TURNED ffl LOOSE AMONG SUCKERS Wt Manager of St. Regis CIul) Die- Wt. j tates Terms of Match and C j Fighters Agree. ! A string of suckers. $2000. and a fake S W5 .boxing contest advertised for the state T m amateur championship nre the features T 1 jn one of ihe biggest athletic frame- I ft ups ever attempted in this city. About I IS 1000 fans well remember the four- round championship fiht at the St WFi Kogis club last Monday night. Tt wn a big drawing card and all expected to Mmc get their money's worth, but thev t'ot : it in the neck. Tommy Fit7.gera"ldrtof IE ! California and "Peanuts" Sinclair of SE I this city, a sixtopn-vear-old lad, were E the principals in the match, while Man- SK i.'iger Price et al. of the St. Kcgi club H I were said to be the directors of the ? jtrame, and a Mr. Walker of California I was to be the fall guy. jJ ; Sinclair has made a record hero as iwn inn amateur boxer. Fitzgerald had is- 11 sued a number of challenges lo Sinclair -fTC and said he could beat the Salt Lake boy. n rhe meantime, Walker appears Sli on the scene, who had seen Fitzgerald box and was -willing lo wager .41000 iHm". that he could beat Sinclair. Fitzgerald f Bays that he went to Manager Price Jft! of The St. ftegis club and I old him that F he had a backer for $1000, Fitzgerald W9L said that Price immcdiatelv got inter- eslcd and told him that "he (Price) mm would put the match on providing Fitz- era Id would lav down to Sinclair. JB Fitzgerald says that Price offered him r 200 and (lie purse. Fitzgerald said itlmr he could not get the match in auv Jv ' other way and agreed to go on under i those terms, but. never intended to jjV j carry them out, as Walker had offered jll i Fitzgerald the .lOOO if he won tho con- ! test. All details were arranged and jfl j the $2000 was placed in the hands of Charles Fisk. the stakeholder. After jSBf the money was posted there was all kinds of money in sight that Sini'larr Wm, would win the fight,, while a few suck- K erp who did not know of the pre- mK arranged affair fell for the dope dished at our to tliem. The day of the fight came. A largo jm crowd gathered at the Auditorium to witness what would ordinarily have aK been a first-class bout had it. been on - the square; bur they were disappoint- . ed. Previous to the'eontest. men went fm among the spectators offering all kinds of money on Sinclair. Tho principals wK entered the ring and time was called. mX The first pass made by tho men showed WW up tho fake. After ihe first round of -fM a poor exhibition the crowd was too dumbfounded to say anything. A fake H had never entered' the! minds of the $M people present. But that was not all. JW As rhe contest progressed several poo- rfl pie became excited. Those who had "bet jtft laTge amounts of money that Sinclair MM would win now saw that he was losing. Instead of Walker being double-crossed, Manager Price was ro be bumped. A ' ' wireless' ' was sent to Referee Pel? sP Sullivan, aud he called all bets off and jK declared the match no contest. Sulli- H van says he was greatly surprised at the Inrn of affairs, and, had ho known how things stood, he would never have ijP allowed himself to referee the match. fK After the fight the old saying came SH, to mind. "A sucker is born every min- ute, bul none ever dies." B A statement from the fighters fol- Fightors' Statement. We. the undersigned, see by the dally pspers that we av1 barred from tho St. Regis club for fakinp our bout on lat gHp Monday. Juno 7. and deem it to the Inter- t est of the public' as well as ourselves nnd all concerned to make the following state- KL mem. nnd to show who was back of the . 'Mr. Walker was backing: Fitzgerald to the extent of 51000. Tommy went to Manager Price of the St. Regis club and mmS asked him to match him with 'Teanuts" f Sinclair, providing Price would take some ?MF of the side bet. Price sa.ld he would, take iflS? tho side bet and make the match if Fits-jrrald Fits-jrrald would agree t0 lose, for which Price SflP agreed to pay us ?200. besides the purse. Knowing that Price has control of the club, wo agreed to take the offer. After vMMJ Referee Pto Sullivan cnlhvj all bets off, MB Price could not accomplish bis purpose. :V Tho promoters. Manager Prlco ana Tre.i5- JK nrer Charles Hates have refused to pay us irj the purse. Signed. ' 5M': "PEANITTS" SINCLAIR. TOMMY FITZGERALD. |