Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-03

where decomposition has set in Never
.Sas there n bout arranged that prom.
Used so bountiful return OF the
worlds most coveted merchandise as
the above contest. The whole country,
that IL, that part OF II that has an In
king OF sporting blood In their veins,
We're aroused to a thirty-second degree
of interest II was on the tongues OF
everybody and anybody that possibly
could intended 20 be present when the
best two little men IN the country to-
day cl0shed TO settle the question Of SUI
premacy.
The advance sale Of tickets IN Louis
vile, which reached the $4,000 mark
indicated all this. II would have been
simply question Of whether or not the
building would have held all the people
that desired admission and $50 900 would
have been a fair figure 10 have placed
the question Of receipts. The people
wanted the match ana when the public
demands n thing II is hard TO see how
the same can develop into failure.
OF course no fault OF the Louisville
fiasco can be placed at the door OF the
promoters or ilghers. II was an unfor-
tunate occurrence that the courts should
act as they did just at that time. But
It's one OF the fortunes OF war, and they
We're forced TO accept that which they
could not prevent Everything that was
possible to be done was done by Bob
Gray and his associates With the fall
ure at Louisville came another lapse Of
interest for several months and the
fighters and their manager again in
vited the bids Of clubs desiring the con-
test
It had been confidently expected by
those I'm the know" that Bob Gray and
his Louisville club would secure the
prize. Instead however, TO the surprise
of almost verybody, Detroit doomed up
as factor and captured the prize (prize
u you care 10 call II such az this tlme).
1t was almost foreg0ne conclusion
that Detroit could not bring off the
bout. But II was rumored IN certain
circles that II was never the intention
10 have Terry and Corbett polish each
others faces In that quiet and stald old
burg. II was given out that "the man
ayers know their business or they
wouldn't have posted that $1,000 with
the Cincinnati Enquirer"
That was the prime and Juicy yarn
that was handed to the public and II
now turns out that the 5000, II ever
II was put up, was In stage money, and
that the little pieces Of paper which
your Uncle Samuel Is supposed TO sign
were never deposited with the Cinoin-
natl paper as the articles call for. II Is
therefore only fair to state that the man
who made the match and allowed both
Terry and the champion TO 20 into
training without first insisting that the
deposit be placed where Il belonged
ought to have his head felt. He's GER
tainly prime subject, that could cas-
lily be developed into a "horrblc ex-
ample for some doctor illustrating the
doctrine of lunacy.
sun, no one is entitled to have any
sympathy for the principals In this af-
fair. It's their own fault that they have
not come together They could have
gone to San Francisco, where several
clubs bid for their services without the
least chance Of interference on the part
Of the authorities. Instead, however.
they preferred to remain east" and eat
snowballs for Christmas instead OF a
slice of Aunt Fistanas plum pudding. "
II was ever thus with those whose
think tank is too dense to cope with
the opportunities that present them
selves.
The constant changing Of day, date
and place Of exhibition, as the old show
man would say, has caused all inter-
est in the fight Of vanish, and unless
some heroic promoter with a faculty
of arousing the public TO take new
hold on the interest in the same II will
nor draw enouph rnonav 81 tho dooc 90
pay for the training expenses of either
man. That's the situation in a nutshell.
SO what's the use Of beating about the
bush and deceiyng ourselves?
If Young Corbett and Terry Nc
Govern are sincere In their efforts they
will stop even listening To eastern pro-