Show SAt KET 1 lAKE IS CELEBRATING IN HONOR Of TEX lEX RICKARD 1 I H I II I I 1 W I H oi i-oi-i- I H z i 6 SOME OVER SUNDAY to or FIGHT DEVELOPMENTS 4 oI- 1 T Rickard makes formal formali 4 i iI I It 1 and final announcement that the 4 Johnson Jeffries-Johnson boxing contest 4 will Trill be held in Salt Lake City 4 i. 6 Rickard Bickard announces to tho thoi 4 v i 4 stakeholder that he be will forfeit 4 4 i- i tIm the entire purse of if 4 r 4 the the bout is not held in Salt Lake Laker 4 f r Jack Jock Gleason offers to bet 4 4 that that- the that tho bout will not be bo bei i 4 4 J held hold in Salt Lake and Rickard 4 immediately posts for 4 4 of 4 Gleason Gleaso which tho latter fails 4 I r. r i. to do 4 Ie i Tex Tes Rickard Bickard and senta 4 J- J I tives fives of tho the management of 4 I t. t Saltair Beach Deach company meet to 44 4 4 arran arrange arrango e details for holding holdin the theor 4 4 or bout at Saltair beach 4 I Hi H H-H- H i H i-i- i Since Saturday night Salt Lake has been wildly Jubilant over the fact that now all 1111 doubt as to the flu location of the tho big bg Johnson Jeffries fight Is at an end and that Salt Lake gets sets the big bis mill when tho the news first began to spread Saturday evening there were some who I were ere skeptical but as soon as the letter Stakeholder written I by hy Tex Rickard to Tim Sullivan of New York offering to post the thc entire of the tho purse to be forfeited in ra case e the bout was stopped in Utah was made public they were con con- vinced In Tn getting the big bout for Salt talt Lake Tex f Rickard used only like business methods method The business men of Salt Lake were induced through the influence of W. W D. D Rishel and others to make a concerted concerted con eon effort to get the bout for Salt Lake before all hope was abandoned The re result result re- re sult suit was I so satisfactory that tho the business businessmen men men Including bankers I mining n men and f d ft merchants h fit perfectly y safe in guaranteeing guaran guaran- guaranteeing teeing Mr 11 Rickard that the tho people of the city were wel unanimous for tho the bout hout and that there would be no opposition to it Mr arrived in Salt Lake Lalo l Friday Fri Fri- rl- rl day t and on Saturday morning things began to look bright for Salt Lako Lake and Several meetings were ere held Saturday after a long one ono Saturday afternoon between between between be be- tween Mr 11 Rickard and a number of Salt Lake business men official announcement was made that Salt faIt Lake Lake- had won A special delivery letter lett r was sent at nt i once to Stakeholder Tim Sullivan making mak mak- log ing the announcement that Salt Lake Lako was tho the location of the bout and backing this announcement with the tho entire puree purva of to bo be posted at once and to b bo be forfeited to tho the fighters Jf it the mat match h were not pulled off otT In Salt Lake Scarcely had Salt Lake begun to cheer than San Francisco had begun to wait As fast as a wire could carry It came a mighty bluff from froni Jack Gleason Ho He In Insisted Insisted In- In slated tho the fI tight fight ht would I be he held in San Francisco Fr and offered to bet that Salt Lako Lake would not get the tho fight and leave the matters to the fighters Tex Tax Rickard at once posed a and nd called on Gleason to cover It Gleason however on his own proposition and declined to post his Word has come como from Jack Johnson saying that Rickard Is the real promoter and that he alone has the naming of the location In spite of assertions of the governor that he will stop a a. finish fight the promoters promoters promoters promo promo- are going right ahead and making all arrangements for the contest They are apparently satisfied that the governor will follow the precedent he established In inthe tho the Sullivan-Collins Sullivan fight at Ogden and Interpret the law so 50 as to permit boxing contests for a limited number of rounds but prohibiting finish prize fights Before the tho meeting with the Salt Saltair air people this morning Mr 11 Rickard said that the tho bout would I undoubtedly take place at Saltair He said that ho he would open offices in Salt Lako Lake in about four weeks The Tho bout will h. h bo he under the auspices auspices au au- au spices of ot a local club which will be formed later It is understood that while Johnson Is te anxious to fight in Salt Lake LakA Jeffries and arid Berger would prefer San J Francisco as the tho battle ground Jeffries will be in Salt SaIt Lake next Saturday night with the big Gotch Jeffries-Gotch show and at that time he be will be asked to tell the people what sort of an agreement there thero existed as to location location loca loca- tion lion and whether or not he wished to fight here Tex Tea Rickard will appear at atthe atthe the tho show and will announce positively ely to the audience that Salt Lake will get th the bout Tho The show will bo be staged at the Colonial theatre |