Show 1 GLEASON MEETS I TEX RICKARD MERE HERE Former Wants Fight on Coast Latter Says Salt Lake Is the Place c BOTH CLAIM IS NO QUARREL 1 I I AnU Seems to bo be About Governor Attitude Ito He Battle Jo Jn hn S J has no serIous dispute between Tex fex Rick Rickard Rickard ard and In to 10 where the great contest or the Fourth 4 I of July Is to take taka place or Of course with m my business interests all and being a Californian and being convinced that 1 the tho neighborhood or of San Francisco 1 would draw the bIggest crowd I am amin amIn in favor II VOl or of the coast id The po or of legal complications I i lions In Salt Lake have ha much to do with the o of the tho place or of the contest I dont know just what the tho I law Is here but It scorns as It It III hi n ii the Iho same as In There is III no doubt but there thero be a tre tremendous tremendous crowd hero But can you nd iad 11 place to han handle le them That HI i iI I ono one of oc the questions question I am going out Rickard this afternoon or tomor tomorrow row to look over tho hO proposed saltair 1 L site and from what they sa say It t ought to be able to accommodate tho crowd I will bo hero here rOI or s days and before I leave lello I think that the pla plaat place u of at contest will rill be settled Then we f will know wo are nt at I vani i to say one tiling thIng and that Is that at not time havo hao Tex Tax an and I boon beon on the tho outs There Thero has been betm a lot o of press talk But that is IR all there Is to it Il IlI 1 I have havo just lett Jeff Jerr at Butte and he I I cems to bo be In lIne fine shape this far ar ahead of oC the scheduled time He goes east rein Butte an and he seems to be In Infine inline line fine shape this fj ahead of oC the thet t scheduled time lie He goes oes east cast from i Butto closIng the trIp at Duluth I From there he will go home and go Into the mountaIns for or a 0 hunt and for Cor I wind When that Is acquired he will willI I come to seine fome In the tho same Harne cli climate climate mate as tim the place where the contest Is scheduled and finish his training I Tex contest Is coming t to Salt Lake I have maintaIned this t right and still stand In ray my I tracks It can be pulled off orr hero and andI I of oC the preparations have been beon 1 made Saltair Is the tho place and as 01 soon C as I can get tet Gleason out there ho he will see that It Is an ideal place for or the th the event Already we are arc tor or prelimInaries and I will put Salt 4 Lake on the pugilistic map oven even as I 1 Idid did Goldfield p it means a whole lot for Cor the tho game gamel l at that This matter of oC centering these i glove Iove contests is 18 bad California has had nn an option on thorn them for Cor n a long and It has come to a point when whon something ought to bo be done to further g 4 the tho Scope of oC the sport New York can pull off orr almost anything except I th thc top notch events and Philadelphia b will stand for anything up to six sixt t t rounds whether the men have world I i t reputations or whether scrubs i 1 But these c big fellows arC areS coming to 1 I Salt I I Tex Tro Rickard the Nevada man mana a who went to N w York and so se secured cured the option b by depositing a In gold has all along declared that t Salt Lake was waR his choice for or the Jef fight Jul July 4 and main maln tamed that there were no legal ob obstacles obstacles Through the press stories 1 came cathe to the effect that J Jack ck Gleason I the partner of C Rickard a said that hn the I contest t could I c come off at no place I I 1 othor than Ban Fran Francisco or the vicin I ii Ity John J Gleason arrIved In Lake Lakei i I this mornIng for or a with I RichArd Ho He had Journeyed from San lJ l t Francisco to Butte where was wasI I 9 i playing and an attempt was made to toI I I induce Rickard to go there But the I rk I Nevada man gave his ultimatum to tot t ui the effect that I if Gleason wanted to tolice b see lice him he must come to Salt Lake Gleason rome came and his coming bears 1 3 out the statement of oC Ickard Bickard that It was waR up to him RIck RIckard RickI I ard and nobody chic ale At all events j the whole matter will be 00 determined U within n a low ow days 0 4 i The two promoters were together for fora or ora a short time this morning Ing salutations and asking the tho condi L of oC tho weather Beyond that t I nothing was done other than to talk I glittering generalities and to make a date for or 4 this a afternoon when ii the two skirmish lines will be thrown I I out Gleason has an abIding comic t that CalifornIa Is the logical place for or the contest and Rickard Is IR IRon Ish h on record for or Salt Lake Both Jerr rica rles and Johnson say that they have havo 1 no flO choice that It Is up to the man manI I alers agers And that Is the tho substance of oC i 0 the whole matter It 3 I Governor repeated statements that the law will be upheld and that 4 I r there will be no prIze tIght fight In Utah Is r li apparently not worrying the promoters ers era |