Show EXCITEMENT IS IN TONOPAH i i. t Eve of Big Event Finds All in Readi- Readi r. r i ness ness- T- T j i BATTLE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Both Buth Men Icil Are lC Prepared lo to Put Up the lie ri FI Fight hi ht of or I Today i i Nov Dec 81 New ow Years Year's flay day IB Is Just u n night away wa and ox excitement excitement excite excite- I ment is running running- high In Tonopah to- to ht E Everything is hi- hi in lt readiness for Cor forthe forthe the bout that may shift shirt the much- much disputed championship o of the lightweight lightweight lightweight light light- weight class closs to other shoulders than thon those o of Josephus Gans Cans the doughty colored I lad UtI who captured them from Crom Battling Nelson elson In Goldfield last September September Sep Sep- after afler one of or the greatest ring lights lights' that has ever e known Herman Iterman the man who will enter the Ilia ring with the doughty colored lad I tomorrow is a n. man made of real lighting light light- ing lug stuff I For or seven so years ears the little Chicagoan oan has struggled toward the time timo that tomorrow marks in his hiM history history his his- tor tory the great match of his life to life to try tn for fOI the championship Kid laid Herman as he is known t n to the time sporting world or Herman as ho was born Is 18 a lL great little man Win In Inor or lose tomorrow he will win go ro down In intang tang ling history as one of the pluckiest of the plucky pluck band who have made prize prize- righting ft a 11 favorite American sport sport- Overmatched O in hi reach outclassed in inexperience experience and handicapped In every Herman IIerman knows nothing possible wa way an ot or fear or doubt o of tho the outcome on the i morrow Tonight ere he retired to lo rest lie he held an Informal levee Ic at his train Irain- mg lug In quarters quarten and the tho Kid was the I lea least t tr r excited man there Cool calm and m modest mod mod- modI od- od I i est Rt Herman Is only too ea eager er for the i ifon fon gong to lo sound and the battle to lo start I In which It Is his purpose to show tho time sporting world that Gans Cans has bus met his master ill Alt Dark n ut tit Gun Guns Guns' Over at the Gans Cans camp nil all Is dark and quiet The champion too loo Is takIng takIng taking tak tak- ing Ing- his rest The rhe veteran of oC ring battles battles bat bal tics without number Is not given Iven to lo fretting on the time C eve of oC a tight light His Ills orr worry is all done when he finishes his training It Is safe to lo gamble ramble that Joe Guns does docs not even en dream o of the time fight fig that Is to lo come ome tomorrow He lie has work worked d as he has found it best besl to lo work for a n ht lie He has trained as It fl has haser ever er been his custom to train and the rest will be settled tomorrow The town la is thron thronged cd with tight light fans I and wd up and und down dot Main street under I Ith th the swinging signs I ns that thal mark marlc the big gambling halls a ceaseless tide of oC humanity hu hu- mu- mu I manit manity is All 11 day and all night the they have been wandering from Crom I place to place m med ed b by the vague unrest unrest unrest un un- rest that always stirs the public on oni i j ithe the time ore O of or any great event ent Around Around tho the shaded lights lIts that hang above c the tho 10 tables dense rings s of or men are aro packed Hacked shifting and find changing always but hut always it a crowd silent flIent watchful Intent on the time whirling of the watchful white ball about the many colored wheel or orthe the time rattle and tall tail of tho the dice In hm time thai thol clad green circle of ot the craps tables I IThe The fie spirit of unrest Is everywhere e At t the tho tables a man spends a dollar or orl two IJ I but t soon noun ho he moves mo away wh while lIe another speculator with chance takes his place Riley n a Huny Man Ion Over In the big bl arena the lights have been going g ever e since since- dark fell and here here Manager l Mike l nile Riley the man who brought the fight tight to Tonopah Is workbag work worl- lug bag harder than an any man In ht his employ em em- I Is ploy s Coat of off and hat cast aside Riley is everywhere c advising advising- ishm directing and I generally generall overseeing overseeing- while the last rou rough h corners arc are taken off tho the last touches put fut to time the monster building But there I Is one place where there Is 18 no great ent excitement though much in In- In terest In Hiley's office In the Casino the headquarters of oC the whole affair all sizes and kinds of oC sport lovers have gathered In that crowded room there thero are nrc men whose names have been flung over o the wires In to a all directions with I tho the whole sporting world waiting on the great events cents with which the they have been connected There Ther are seated men such as Jim Jeffries heavyweight champion of the world Jimmy Britt Brill the pride of San Francisco Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia Jack Jacl OBrien O'Brien and amid a dozen other great great m mon men n of or the ring In the time midst sits Jack 11 Welsh elsh elsh the man who wJ will referee the great reat fight tomorrow All about him are arc some of oC the most noted I sporting writers in the world and on onI ever every chair hair and table a typewriter I stands the tho sl sign n manual of the pr press s Outside the office the Casino hull building IB is packed to the doors as each member mem mom her ber of time the select el et assemblage in the time Inner office forced hl his way through to the door of the hol holy o of holies belles his name leaped to time the lips hips of or the thc crowd followed followed fol fol- lowed h by ringing cheers These These- men menar are ar heroes to the time sporting public and tonight the they are arc second only to the thc principals In the coming coining battle In Im- Im Since the iho last wall walk In the thc fresh air this afternoon the have renamed re remained re- re named invisible In front of or the quarters quarters tel'S the crowds have hove passed and re- re I and again and aln a.-aln the time cheers I ha have sounded in praise of tho limo ring gladiators who meet tomorrow I With the breaking of or tomorrows tomorrow's sun SUIl Tonopah will see sec the greatest tIa day In her history Time The n light ht has hns made tho time city the hub of oC the time sporting world and all through the da day the time wires willbe willbe will willbe be humming with messages outward bound It Is a great time In n Nevada and appreciate the time fact act Tack Tacit Simpson |