Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-24 | Page 56 | Give Public Square Deal, Says Coffroth

GIVE PUBLIC SQUARE DEAL, SMITH Coast Fight Promoter Keeps Scale of Prices Same for All Bouts. i . j 'EW YORK. May 23. " Sunny j Jim"' Coffroth, of ban Francisco, vrbo is makiug more money u promoting J fights than any other man in the country, coun-try, savs tbo secret of success in the tight promotion business is to "give the public a square deal." And out on the roast that's exactly what. Coffroth g-ives the fans. He doesn 't boost his ' bleacher ' ' prices for the star bouts and thus freeze out ! the tVilov.s who can afford ouly $1 or $2. Those prices always remain the same, no matter -tvhnt the attraction. 'The $1 and $- boys ore the ones that help me make ends meet when I'm st;i2ing just an ordinary bout.'1 says Cott'rorh. '"Those boys are my friends and you can bet ou it that T have made it an ironclad rule never to increase the price of iheir seats. "Whether it's just an ordinary scrap or one in which the championship is at stoke the prices are the same. Coffroth. although always a fight fan, never pave the promotion end of the game a thought nut.il IftnO. Just about that time, the fTorton fJpht law was re-pnaled re-pnaled in New York state and Jim Kennedy, a New York fight promoter, nrriverl in San Francisco looking for a site for an arena. He sought out Coffroth. Cof-froth. who then was secretary to the supreme court in lhat city. ''The game ought to make, money out i here if f can get a permit.' said Kennedy. Ken-nedy. ''I'll get the permit if you'll take i me into partnership with vou, ' ' paid I Coffroth. ! ""You're on." answered Kennedy, j And Coffroth has been "on" ever since.