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Show II Enormous Sums Involves! In 1! Championship Prize Fights 9 JACK JOHNSON would not fight fl t Fbnn unless he got what he vvant- ; ed In the way of monej. Ho Is hlm3Hlf fl 1 getting the same amount that Gang and 9 ( Nelson battled for at Goldfleld, Sept 3. fl 1906. When Tex Blckard announced .fl that he would givo $30 000 to Nelson and fl Gana tho sports gasped for breath. It fl - v as a boomerang to the boxing game fl nnd made Blckard famous. Then hp 9 set the world aflro by next offering the 9 ' largeat purse In hlstorj 5101,000 for H tho Jeffries-Johnson tight fl Johnson Is malting hay while the sun flj shines, and ou can bet that he will yfT J drag in all tho easy coin he enn get ,Jir hold of. He Is to he paid 520.000 to fight fluv S,im McVey ,n Par'3 and gets 55 000 4U f on the sido for expenses as well as S f transportation across the salty pond for ijflB Although nover ofilciaily given out, it is said the gate receipts for the fight between Jack Johnson and Tommv Burnn, pulled off bj Hugh Mclntonh. jh j the famous Australian promoter at flj I Svdncy. amounted to considerably over flj 5100.000 B! The Johnson fight at Reno was the fl fifth contest in which Jim Jeffries on- flaj gaged that broke tho record Whun ho j whipped Tom Sharkey in New York jHM. tho Coney Island club announced thut jM tho gato receipts totaled 5CG00O, of 'flj which the fighters received over J36.00O gH Tho Jeffrles-Corbctt battlo in Sap !jflj Tranclsco drew n 553 000 house and jflj their contest In New York city also H dre a big house. The Jeffres-rif- BJ blmmons fight for tho world's chani- flj ; plonshlp also drew heavily, the receipts B being 163,000 The following Is a table ' of tho largest purses given in America: IN FRISCO. Jeffries Corbett 552.340 Brltt-Nclson (IWo) -SS 311 Ganfi-Britt 35000 Rrltt-Corbctt 32.DM Jeftrles-rilzslmmons 31.S00 Joft"rics-Ruh)ln 30 4S7 Britt-Kelson (1S01) a 300 Burnb Squires j0 .51 Corbctt-Nelson (jv) u o& Corbtlt-Nelson (13) 11.36S Brltt-Whlto 9 iso O'llrlen-Kauffman G 419 Nell-Tenny 6 J70 Jscil-Hyland 6 210 Hart-Johnson 6,200 IN NEW TORIC JefTrlPS-Sharkoj 67.KO Jcfrrl09-rit7slmmon3 C3 000 Corbett-McCo 57 C00 Corbott-Sharkcy 43 OuO Ruhlln-Fltzsimmons 4a oO-D Rlihlln-Shn rkn jimi Sharkev-MqCov . 37 000 Jeffrles-CorbPtt 25 000 McGovern-Eme 22000 Sharkcy-Flt7.lmmon3 Co,000 McGovern-Dion 24 COO ChoynsU-McCoy 20 00$ IN PHILADELPHIA. Nelson-McGovcrn 23 000 IN GOLDriELD. Nelson-Gans C715 IN TONOPAIL Gano-Herman 30,703 IN NEW ORLEANS Corbctt-Sulllvan 45.000 IN RENO. JcfTrlea-Johnson M 101,000 Noto Tho purse for this f ght wns J'6,-000 J'6,-000 In nddltlon tho winner pulled down 520 0CO In ata'to mone. |