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Show RITCHIE PLAYS OiUE I MIKSTJE OTHER III Likely to Have Promoters I I ' . Bidding High to Get Next JIT ' Battle. 'J . By W. W. NATJGHTON. SAX FRANCISCO, July 19. LiRht-wcight LiRht-wcight Champion Willie Ritchie is quite willinp to risk his laurels again. Ife says lie is not particular whoEo ja Font against as long- as tho price is Ritchie is not naming the fium ho thiirlts should bo. paid. He wants tho promoters each to mako a hid and ho '," will accept thu highest offer mafic. It is no use mentioning "per-centaKc" "per-centaKc" to the champion,. He nae threshed It all out, and has discovered that flat offers aro the best. One of tho charges Billy Nolan made BrW- against the champion was that Ritchie was "money mad." Nolan meant of !: xf ' course, that monoy occupied Ritchie's l;Mi- thoughts to tho exclusion of other ',' things. There is notliiag about Ritchie's actions -when money is in question to suggest that his mind is unbalanced, Having received something like $18,-000 $18,-000 from Promoter Graney for tho fight on July Fourth, Ritchie will probably prob-ably expect as much, or 'more -when he boxes again. And tho chances are very much against his getting it. Graney Probably Loser. Tho fight between Ritchie and Rivers drew something over $29,000. . As ' ' houses ' ' go nowadays it was a mighty good "clean-up. But not for Graney for if he broke oven he is lucky. -It is easilv enough reckoned if Ritchie got $1S,000, Rivera $7000 and it cost $1500 to hire Coffroth's nroua, Graney had little more than $2500 to meet all the oxponses of advertising and help, and tho chances aro he had to dig down in his jeans. It is an object lesson for fight promoters, pro-moters, and for such as think there is monoy in handling affairs of that kitfj" Graney worked like a beaver and used ffiS . every "influence ho could command to gjf advertise his show. W 1 1 And when it came off the boxers re ft ! I" o.eivod nearly 90 per cent of the tak- S I? 'J-r8 anfl e "Drome ter found himself on Is Ja" ' the wrong "side of the ledger. Ijjl: Promoters Will Be Cautious. I This is a matter that will have to bo regulated, although it is not easy to : J sfte how it will be done. As matters if stand all a champion or near champion j !' has to do is to sot the promoters bid-- bid-- If. ding against one another, as Ritchie is Irl doins right now, and prices will go IL3 soaring. . pi-v - "What was I to do?" said Graney. Iffcl' "If I nilt1 not "ven Ritohie what; he IS ! asked somdi one else would have given fu Probably now that it '3 all ovar 'j, t Graney wishes he had not stood in the M, f ' way of some other promoter. Of course It Graney will be chary of offering big jjjf ' ' money to Ritchie again, and this means that there will be one fool the less S W:, among the promoters. |