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Show uu NEVADA HAS No Longer Eager to Be a Prize Fight State Salt Lake Dec. 26. Jack Curlcy of Chicago manager of Jim Flynn, the the Pueblo heavyweight, nnnouncod toda'y hnt he would guarantee Jack Johnson $20,000 ror his share of the purse, win, lose or draw, for a finish fin-ish lulled with 'Flyn7r'for"thc"be,frvy weight championship of the world. Cm ley declared thai he would scloct Neada as the battleground as ho Insisted lhat the fight be to a finish, and he did not think it could bo staged elsewhere. Local sporting men, closely in touch with the situation In Nevada, declare thaL the proposal to stage another championship battle in Reno would bring out the inhabitants of that town with riot guns. Curlcy expects to leave for Chicago Chi-cago to confer with Johnson after the Flynn-Caponi bout scheduled here for tomorrow night. Reno. Dec 20. From a legal standpoint, stand-point, there is nothing to prevent the staging of the proposed Flynn-Jobn-son battle on Nerado soil. The law enacted in 1S97 for the benefit of the promoters of the Corbett-Fitzslm-mons battle, still stands on the statute book. The announcement from Salt Lake will lip rnrnlvpri with mixed feelinc by the Nevada people. Many believe that so long as the law permitting finish fights remains In force, interference inter-ference should not be tolerated. On the other hand there arc many who are ofythe opinion that public decency would be violated "should the right be allowed and there is no doubt but that there would bo a strong demonstration demon-stration or disapproval in case the promoters endeavor to bring the men together in Nevada. Chicago, Dec. 26. Jack Johnson today to-day declined to -say positively whether wheth-er he would accept the offer to meet Jim Fljnn. "It is doubtful if I do." tie said. "Tom O'Rourke of New York has offered of-fered me a 325,000 purse, my opponent oppo-nent to bo picked later, and 1 am considering con-sidering an Australian trip which will net me oven more than that." Later Johnson was positive in asserting as-serting that he would not fight Flynn for less than a $30,000 purse. "I am willing to ineot Flynn any-wliore any-wliore In tho world." he said, "but the purse mUBt be $30,000. The O'RourJte Offer is for ten rounds and that looks protty good, to say nothing of the Australian pioposillon " rr |