| Show JEFF AND JOHNSON PLAY PLA Y I IFOR FOR ENORMOUS nUS PURSE FURSE I OW York Nov unless present Indications amount to lo nothing Jef I fries and Johnson will IlIa play three San Francisco promoters against t one an another another other In forcing the offer of an enol mons purse for feil the big light fIght SkI Sid Hester of the Mission A Cof C of ofSan San Francisco Is on record with with an offer of a purse or 01 70 I per r cent erit of the gross groBs receipts and 50 per cent of the tho movIng picture privileges James Coffroth of the Colma A C said some time lime ago that he would make malte a higher bit bid than anybody od but when ho he heard of the lion after his arrival here Coffroth refused to hint at rho size of the purse he will hang up In addition to Hester and Coffroth another Frisco promoter Jack Glea Gleason son has hns wired Jeffries that lint he be bc hero toda today with an offer that will land the tho battle batU and that he will build a hugo amphitheater just outside of San Francisco to accommodate spec spectators Meanwhile Ican the tho Miller Broth cry cra of 1701 Ranch Oklahoma have I announced an offer or of I Ing the governor or of the state will grant graut granta I Ia a permit I Frisco Will Get the Mill Sifting It down to cases it seems to be a foregone conclusion that co will get the mill but not until Cof Coffroth Coffroth froth Hester und and Gleason hwo havo out outbid bId one another to the to top price The unless they are arc secretly tied up with one of those promoters wilt will probably hold off for Cor the thc biggest pos inducement which It Is thought may reach the mark There Thero were some persons In town to todar today day dar who were Inclined to think that i a serious hitch In the negotiations would occur The They saId that thal If It was true that Coffroth had Johnson sewed up and refused to outbid Hester and Glea Gleason son his rivals In the promotion o of fights on the coast Jeffries could cas casIly easIly Ily block the match by accepting either or Gleasons offer But sporting men In general declared ed that Jeffries could not he hc blam blamed ed cd for accepting the biggest purse and that If Johnson refused to join hands with him on such a proposition It would simply moan mean that the nebro was afraid of the tho Issue In III FrIsco Coffroth Hester and Gleason Glea Gleason son have the Inside track In securing permits to hold the big ring contests and there Is much blUer bitter rivalry among I them For that reason It looks as If there would be a lively struggle to so se 1 I cure the tho match with the pugilists as II bend claries |
