Show P I 1 GRANTS DAYS AS fiGHT r ARt OVER I SHERIFF SHE IFF JOSEPH C 0 SHARP SAYS NO PRIZE FIGHTS WILL WILLBE WILLBE WILLBE BE PERMITTED AT SALTAIR SAD BLOW TO TOR TOR TOp p R It ALEXANDER ALE ER AND GANG Prize P lights fights will ill not n t bo permitted I In hi Salt Lake Lako county count o ot or tho In ln Incorporated clUes cities says ays Deseret News 1 This decision was reached r by b Sheriff Shorn Joseph C Sharp this morning when I he notified no Promoter R B Alexander Grant of or County C Attorney Top Jop P Lyon Lyou that no more fights or boxing contests would be allowed at whether It was for forono ono round or twenty When hen the announcement of meal men was made It sent a host ticket prize fighters rs scurrying to cover coer These lh se pugs have hoo Infested Salt f Lake City for several months and particularly since the limit was talen taken off and 20 round slugging matches 1 were vere allowed at by br County Count t Attorney Lyon Tho The promoters oC of prize fights ight will not be to advertise fights anti and f the first effort that is s made to pull pullS S off aU a n bout moans that warrants willbe will ho be issued for the arrest of the tho promo promoters promoters promoters as ns well wall as the principals Sheriff I Sharp has hns taken this stand because I 2 prize fights aro arc against the tho law and j Lo ho Intends to enforce it While It Is not Sheriff Sharps duty to step in iii inand and swear to complaints ho he realizes I that hat tho the decent and law abiding poo poolo I plo lo oC of Salt SaIl Lake want the fight stop stopped stopped ped pod and he Intends to see that no nomore more mora are held in this jurisdiction Where Fights Are Held Heldt t Outside o or 01 there thero aro two where fights are held These two clubs the Manhattan club and tho Salt Satt Lake Athletic club are aru Incorporated and in Jn Salt Lake Cit City Tho The Manhattan club dub holds Its prize prizefights prizefights prizefights fights at tho the Salt SnIt Palace saucer track and tho other has leased tho audi auditorium auditorium auditorium In tho the heart of o the city dt Sheriff Sharp will take tao no action against these clubs at present He Ho feels that It Is not his duty to police pollee Salt Lake City when tho people are paying for fora a police force to do this work workS S Grant a 1 Figure Head Grant began his prize fight promoting Jug ing In Ogden Ater pulling off of two e or three fights there ho put In lU tho the opening wedge in tho the game in Salt Lake Backed by Frank E Eld Ehl and somo soma other prominent men mon monin in the sporting element Grant leased the Coliseum at Saltair and began ad advertising advertising tho fight about five days das before it was I pulled off Tho The men had been in I training for the bout and tho th pro promoters mot rs had boon been assured that the fight would not be interfered with by lIy County Job P Lyon Lon unless s sf somebody came camo In and swore out a 3 f F complaint These arrangements were ere soon soen to before the fight was ever ad advertised a advertised I |