Show VAN LOAN BOOSTS SALT LAKE EVEN Hf E IS KNOCKING Driven to the tho last lal ditch in in their light fight to get ct the bi big Johnson Jeffries-Johnson battlo battle in California the San Francisco fans funs ha have resorted to syndicate publicity to knock Salt Lake and anti in this attempt have secured secured se sc se- se cured an admirable staff of or s sporting rtin writers to n aid l them C. C E. E Van Loan who is pro probably a Jy one 01 of the tho best sporting sport sport- jug ins writers in the world is h among them Mr 11 Van Loan however is not knocking knocking knock knock- ing Salt Lake but ut anI only the accident of its birth Salt Lake Mr lr Van Loan i ian ian is isan an excellent city and anel would be a Yer very good place for lor tao tuo light were it not roe lor lorone one or two reasons Among them is ib the tact fact that Salt Lake bake was born on an nn elevation instead of in a hollow The altitude 3 Mr 11 lr Van au I Loan oln sagely s remarks would bo be detrimental to the battling energy y of Mr lr Jeffries lie He says I The Thc 4 the Californians are very veo much peeved because th they have hac read in the tho papers that rl rl T. T Richard while r in Ban Baw- aw sting saul said something or other otner to tho the ef effect that he would woul pull lull off the tho battle of ot tho tim ages ages' in iii the Mormon man country Californians Have had bad a monopoly on all nil tho the really great reat fights for so lon long that t they tiey cy the time entry of any nJ other seat scat or or cuT war as a serious wallop at their state st lI lights Now low let us see whether tt they cy have any good rea reason reason on for lor losing sleep bleep over 1 a u remote pos possibility That First t brethren to hold such a fight as IS time the 1 Johnson Jeff affair in au an untried country would bo ho poor business jl d judg- judg n n n P Ill Secondly it would bo be sitting down between two stools tool g gaining support from nf neither ither anti and reaping nothing othin but tit bumps T. T Rickard is surely a 1 gam- gam a 1 blUt of national reputation but ho he ilal is il no al ulso o no fool and mill he lie will do ho a t lot Jot of very cry u in thinking before he decides to cut emit off the tho flow of California gold It cannot be ar argued uc that Salt Lake as a battle would draw moro morn snorting men inca from tho the east cast than would California The eastern astern men nin who will go 0 to tot that ha t fight light will bo lie tho thim sort of men to tu whom an nn extra hundred in mil mil- mail fare menus means nothing at all while i ithe tIme the California bleacher crowd crowd anti and the the 10 and amid 20 20 boys boj's from the golden west will be bc debarred l by bJ the thc 1011 long trip and the extra expense Market Is Dangerous Thirdly people Salt Lake Cit City is isan isan an untried market t No Xu fi fight ht pro promoter l t knows know what the Mormon orlon will do 10 inthe in iu tho the matter of attendance anco anti ami this is a alight light fight where the thc promoter cannot afford to dOJ more is r really When a man nian offers as us a purse purs his fight is iR going to be enough of a gamble itt in hi the very crr best market in the world and you can eai an write that in your old brown h hat t aud and wear it around with you rou With purse purse arena and amid nd other expenses n Ii a uK estimate estimate es cs- es- es puts pits Tex fex in an an eighth of a million before he hue opens Jho tho tho ticket wago wa wa- wa- wa go on and wh when a man sinks Rinks that much good LOoI money mone ho Jun wants to see as mu much h of it coming coining back as at ho he possibly can an Civic pride 1 Is a tine thin thing but It Is not Tex Tov found that out at when hn hm had baim to shift hl Ms ik meager eT bl bleacher crowd croud over o to one side BIde of or the an arena nn In order to lo present a semi sea of ot faces to the tue mo picture Jn Cl camera rn Salt SoH Lake I Js Is a n good town The dB da day It has hag 8 when one meets hs the inhabitant of or ZIon parading abroad with seven Jc 1 wi-es wi and nd seventy ent children In his wake The Halt talt Lako Lake that thit Mark Twain wrote about h liAs s pal pa d away a It Is hurled burled deeper than tho foundations of oC her new f skyscrapers rl I There are r no destroying angels In Jn the Wasatch valley dK days unless you OU i count tIm the bartenders rl The Th city Is a live one all 11 right enough h but hut even cn M so It needs a city It both lars and lively lI to pa pay pai for tor a n light fight ht It U Is a H. question whether ham Young In III JI Juts palmy days daR could have a a. gate atc of or 00 Foil Fourthly rl hI and the i 1 Fait alt Lak Iak City I Is 1200 feet above aho th the sea level IC What would that thal altitude do to a a. man who wasn't quite sure suro or his of-his wind Z J Jeff f. f who 1 Is the old wh wheel cl hor horse of this argument and the bo boy who must be consulted once one remarked with gr great at al feeling and some nm pate palo blue profanity that ho he wouldn't fl fight on the tho sage hills lulls of old Nevada c And tho the Altitude f U Nothing doing said laid he lie Why Vimy h should I go against a now new climate when nhen I dont don't know what 1 It might do to tn me Z I want to lI light ht somewhere where I know kno I Ican Ican Ican can get St right If Jf an anybody od thinks It will no ho a II cinch to I that ha 1 big rough alfalfa baron that It U would hIp help lila his wind to tn go 1200 I feet into the tho ale nh- nhIll Ill I'll take talce 0 a 0 little o of tho the other oilier end It If a n man Is In any way way way- troubled trou bled with u short hort wind that mile high country will get him and get gt him or good and plenty alii and I In fn this tIght fight Jim cant ant to gamble about tho time condition of his hIs' bellows lies lie's d too many little brown n for Of that Most people agree ogree that this light fight will ii hinge on ono one thing tIming JeWs Jeff's Jeffs Sullivan m lost his wind at Now Orleans and that la is vh why hr ho ended that tIght light rolling around on th tIme the black blak sand o of the ring rim floor Corbett tired at Carlton Carnon anti and there was wa a now new champion Jeff Jv-iT has lived all al hN hilmi life liCe In a a. low altitude do you jou 1 0 think ho lie would take a chance chanco In this case caso OIl Jf If you rou think BO so I know where you calm cad get a little even mon money |