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Show once identified with the ring, had announced an-nounced that a permit would be granted grant-ed for the long route so that end of the business can be regarded as settled. set-tled. May Be More Fuss. It Is not wa certainty that everything every-thing will bo clear sailing, us several reform bodies renewed their activities as soon as It was announced that the bout would bo held within the city limits. However, It Is not likely that the tight will be stopped, as no less a person than the governor of California Cali-fornia has Htated a number of times that he himself cannot eo how anybody any-body can stop the fight as long as the club which runs It. can get a license j from the city or village authorities I The laws of California permit limit- J ed round boxlDg bouts, but at the tame time the statutes do not explain what constitutes a boxing match and what Is a prizefight. Mayor McCarthy of San Francisco has also announced I that he does not Intend to stop the ' go, to that would sec-iu to end the mat- I ter. j With the place definitely fixed we . will soon have a lino on how It will draw. As the; plans have been more or less In the air ever 6lnce the fighters signed followers of the sport have had I no chance to collect their wits. My own information Is that moro people will journey to the big show from far away points than to any other sporting sport-ing event ever held. Here in Denver 1 I know hundreds will move toward the I coast the nd of June, says Mulcahy Hogan. Special train service will be provided with all the accommodations offered by 'first-class hotels, and 1 am ' told that the railroads will have a I busy time filling all the orders. ' Peopb? from all over tho world will I be at tho ringside. My Information 19 ' 1 that probably 100 will com? from Aus- i tralla alone, and a good many moro than that will Journey from Europe. A number of fight enthusiast In Great I Britain, headed by a number of noble- ' men, have already engaged a special I train which on the way out will rua I through here. As for points in the United States, practically every town of any size will send a few. Hundreds j . will go from such centers as Chicago and New York I. PROMOTERS OF FIGHT" Hi HIIRO TIME Judging from reports from the coast the promoters of the Jeffries-Johnson bout are earning all that they will get out of the big show Klckard and Gleason have been compelled to climb hurdle after hurdle ever since they secured the big event. The long argument argu-ment over holding the Dglit in Utah was succeeded by the difficulty In picking a site in California. Then, with Emeryville decided on came thu news this week that opiioltlou, strong enought to drive them out of there, had developed. The promoters at this writing have practlaally decided to hold the show In San Francisco proper, and It Is likely like-ly that this part of the program will go through The city authorities are said to be favorably disposed toward the light and no great difficulty is likely like-ly to be experienced In getting a permit per-mit for a -15 round bout. In the past bouts within the city have been limited to 20 rounds and it will now bo ueccssary for the supervisors super-visors to tack on another 20 rounds to this. Commissioner Herget, himself I |