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Show Pocatello Wants Big Fight n n n n n n Can Handle Huge Crowd POCATELLO ATHLETIC CLUB officers: Top, left, J. Hobb Brady, president; right, O. A. Barker, scretary; bottom, Dick Leach, matchmaker. match-maker. The club has offered $160,000 oash for the WUlard-Dempsey heavyweight heavy-weight championship fight on July 4. The meratcrship of the club represents millions and Is financially able- to handle this or any other enterprise. v xi JS "A W 4, ,sSs Sss p- r ftr r J , 3 1 X' v . l ''A t; , i a U i eo 'A ', " ' ' ' 4 ' ir th t j 3 n pi Vv' M ' ' i P ' J H special to Tho Tribune. POCATKLU), Ma ho. March S. Further Fur-ther action to got the Willurd-Dempsey tight for Focntrllo was taken today by the Pocatello Athletic club. Assurance was given by Mayor Bean and the city tioun--il that tho city would l;iy no stumbling V'lock in tho vav of promoting the light In Pcatello. Tlie officers of tho Poca-tJllo Poca-tJllo ('Jolf and Country club announced th.'it t.ho proposed new Country clubhouse Tvould be completed before the date of the tight and the clubhouse would be placed at the disposal of one or both of the principals prin-cipals for tra fnlng purposes. The World War Veterans of Bannock county, Idaho, to tho number of several hundred, organised last nWht at the Commercial club rooms, elected Major Booth president and passed a resolution putting' the boLdlers of Bannock county and Idaho on record as iavoring the lit acini? of tho big tight in Pocatello. President J. Hobb Brady of the Pacific Pa-cific Athletic club buicl to a reporter for the Tribuiit) today: "The club haa received re-ceived no reply from Tex Riukard, but I have received ndvjcps from a prominent oastorn Kportlng editor by wire to the effect that tho Pocatello proposal is being be-ing forwarded to him. The question of a .suitable stadium for the fight has been rained, and I will pay t hat Brady ball park of 100 acres, almost in the he-art of town, with track and depot facilities for handling a large crowd right at its gate, will be tendered Promoter Rickard If he will accept the offer of tho Pooa-t-'llo club. It gives the best railway advantages ad-vantages for 'tight fu ns from Denver, Omaha and tho cast, Butte, San Fran-eif-co, Salt Lake City and coast towns. AY a hope the pocatello offer will be accepted. ac-cepted. T have received many messages from Idaho towns assuring support." The Pocatello Athletic club was officially offi-cially advised today that Governor Davis had signed the new boxing bill permitting t wenty - round bouts In Idaho, and, as Kicknrd has sa'.d that he does not expect the bout to go beyond that, there is good reason to believe he will look with favor on the Pocatello offer. Tho club has offered of-fered Sl.U',000 for the tight. In reply to a statement printed fn Boise pants todav bv Theodore Turner of Po-CMt-dlo, that the offer of the Pocatello AthlPtic club of $160,000 for the Willard-1 Willard-1 lompdey fUht was a hoax. J. Hobb Brady, president of tho Athletic club today to-day deposited $;0.0ut In .liberty bonds wit h Kdtlor diaries G. Sumner of the Pocatoilo Tribune, inviting Turner to deposit de-posit a like sum, and if the statement of Turner that the club did not have the f iua uctal backing to promote the fight cutd b proved, the money would be for-feiUid for-feiUid to the American lied Cross. A statement also appeared in tho Boise papers that Mayor Bean would not permit th.' fight to bo ytaged in Pocatello. This Matement was denied today by the mayor, who explained that ho had been misunderstood misunder-stood by Turner, w ho ca Ik d the mayor over lone: distanc-1 telephone from Boise lat niht regarding the m;itter. Poca-t-'llo is aide to f inn ncy and stage the l-out, and loord sportsmen are going alter the big game. I r " 1 ' I1 M - 4 J V - t ft lit J ti jj-'' I 111 k , il |