The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
FOR ME BIG FIGHT.
No Police Interference - Gate Re
ceipts Will Be 100000.

ceipts Will Be 100000.
New York, Nov. There will be no
interference from the authorities at the
Jefries- Sharkey heavy weight cham
pionship battle, to take place at Coney
Island on Friday night. Chief of Police
Devery is authority for this statement
Said the chief:
I have no idea of stopping the bout.
The Fitzsimmons-Je ffries affair, held
in the same club house, was properly
conducted and have assurances from
the officials of the Coney Island CLUB,
which is a regularly Incorporated or
ganization, that everything pertaining
to the match will be strictly according
to the Horton law. The police arrange
Prevailed at the Jefries-F itzsimmonS
contest. I will probably take personal
command of the men at the ring side"
A feature at the club house on Fri
day night will be the lighting apparatus
operating the moving picture machine
There will be 400 incandescent lights
shedding brilliancy on the ring 1t was
found in experimenting with the lights
last night that they greatly enhanced
the view of the men in the arena.
Present indications are that the gate
receipts will be larger by many thou
sands of dOllarS-by tens of thousands
of dOllars-than the gate receipts of
any sporting or dramatic event. or any
other event to which an admission fee
is charged, in the history of the cOun-
try
Irving and Patti in rival houses or in
the same house could not draw so much
money in two weeks, playing every
night in the week. The receipts of no
turf or trOtting event, football match
or baseball match would approach it,
and at the Brooklyn handicap of 1895
the gate receipts were upward of $40,-
600.
If the entire house for this fight
should be sold out it will mean a gate
receipt of $4,000 The total sale up
to last night was in the neighbOrhood
n wit hn hot 1fc
sum will be increased to $4,000 before
the doors are thrown open on Friday
night Every box seat has been sold,
which in itself represents about S25, 900.
The prices for other seats are So, SO
and SIS, according to their location. 1t
is not likely that there will be a vacant
seat IN the club house when the men
enter the ring. Indeed, the probabilities
are that standing room viii be at a
premium.
OF itself New York is the strongest
and most generous sporting constit-
uency in America and for that matter,
IN the world. On this occasion the
hosts of New York sporting men are
to be supplemented by sporting men
from every city in America-from Hall
fax to San Francisco, and from cities
far on the other side of the Canadian
boundary line to cities and towns on
the Gulf
They are coming from San Francisco
and Denver from Omaha and Kansas
city, Chicago and St. Louis, St. Paul
and Minneapolis. Cleveland and Mil
waukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia
Pittsburg and numerous other Ameri-
can cities, as well as from many Cana
dian points.
Already they are beginning to ar
rive.
The big fight will be preceded bv a.
10 round bout between Kid GOulette of
Rochester and Tommy Moran Of Brook
1yn. They will hight at 1913 pounds
a n Tof
fries and Sharkey have agreed to be in
the club house at 9:15 and to enter the
ring at 9:45.
Betting on the big fight opened in
earnest at the Aqueduct race track
today, where wagers We're made The
biggest bet recorded was So to $780,
the odds on Jeffries. Sharkey, at his
training quarters at NeWdOrp today de-
voted most of his time to bag punching
and boxing with Armstrong. He does
not seem to need another hours pre-
paratlon and IS in as fine trim as any
puglIlst that ever entered a ring, so far
as the eye can tell. He is perfection
in the line of bodily condition and if
he is as well trained in science as he is
bodily he ought to put up a great bat
tie.
In the contest with the sailor on Fri
day night Jeffries will occupy the
northeast corner, the same he occupied
when he defeated F'itzsimmOns for the
championship of the world. Sharkey
viii sit in the southwest corner, the one
occupied by FitzsimmOns when Jeffries
knocked him out. This was agreed to
at a meeting between O'Rourke AMI
Brady today. O'Rourke wanted the
southwest corner, because he consider
ed 1t a lucky one, all of his men having
fought in that corner having proved
successful. AS Jeffries won the cham
pionship from Fitz in the northeast cor
ner he was very naturally pleased with
O'ROurke's selection.
Jeffries will be seconded in his fight
against Sharkey by Will Delaney, Tom
my Ryan, Dick Dolan, Jack Jeffries and
A. Brady Sharkey's advisers will be
Tom ORourke, George Dixon, Bob
Armstrong and Tim McGrath. Both
! Sharlzey and Jeffries have agreed to
weigh in before the battle begins, so as
I to let the public know exactly what
each man weighs. Jeffries will pro-
I badly fight at PIP pounds, while Shar-
key will probably weigh II pounds less.