Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-31
A DISPUTE At
LAST ARISES
PRINCIPALS QUARREL OVER
PICTURE CONTRACT
Cans, Kid Herman and Manager Riley
Of the Casino Athletic Club
Enter Into First Battle
with Words
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
TONOPAH New, Dec. 29.-The SER
entity which has marked the relations
between club officials and fighters
since the signing of articles was broken
today for the first time. A dispute
arose between Cans and Manager
Riley of the Casino Athletic club over
alleged flaws in the moving picture
contracts, and a lively time between
the two took place in the office of the
manager. 1t threatens to eliminate the
pictures from the coming fight.
1t seems that in signing the contracts
for the taking of the pictures Riley af-
liked his personal signature as an in
dividual, while in the contract between
the fighters and the club Riley placed
his name thereon as representing the
club. Cans claimed that such contracts
were not binding and insisted that the
club manager make out new contracts
and destroy the old ones. He was sup
ported in this contention by Herman's
manager. Riley refused to agree to
this. A long and bitter wrangle fol-
lowed, in which considerable strong
language was used.
Finally Cans and Hermans manager
presented new contracts for Riley to
sign and the latter has promised to
take the matter under consideration. 1t
was announced that unless Riley
signed he will take out an injunction
against the taking of pictures. The
task of seeing that the hundreds of
visitors who are expected in Tonopah
tomorrow night and Wednesday morn
ing are properly fed is worrying the
fight promoters to a great extent. The
cooks and walters in all the hotels and
restaurants have been on strike for
over a week and from present indica-
tons the differences will not have adj
justed themselves until after the fight
There is but one restaurant in town
open to the public and this is being
conducted by the Casino Athletic club.
Manager Riley stated today that it is
his intention to convert the training
quarters of Cans and Herman into
temporary eating establishments and
that he believes by this means no one
Will go hungry The quarters are
very large and according to the man
agement many hundreds can be fed at
single sitting without suffering in
convenience, Cans went through his
usual course of training today and an
nounced that he will continue light
work right up to ring time. Late this
afternoon Cans sent for several of the
newspaper men and weighed in their
presence. The beam was set at the
133-pound mark and the colored cham
pion failed to raise it,
1t was quiet day at the Herman
camp. The Hebrew was out on the
road for short spin in the morning
He did no work of any kind in the
afternoon.
The arena is now practically COM
pleted. All night long and throughout
the day workmen were putting on the
finishing touches to the structure.
Eight huge stoves are snugly hidden
under the seats at widely separated
parts of the building and fires have
been kept going night and day so that
there will be no lack of heat on New
Years afternoon. Experts and news
paper men are unanimous in pronounce
ing the arena the best arranged build
ing of its kind ever constructed. The
seats and angles are so arranged that
the holders of the cheapest tickets will
enjoy comparatively the same view of
the ring as the possessors of the higher
priced pasteboards.
The weather tonight is very cold and
disagreeable and snow is predicted for
tomorrow.
Although the sale of tickets for the
fight is going on constantly the ad-
vance purchases have not come up to
the expectations of the club officials
That the fight will be a losing venture
after the expenses and cost of the
arena are deducted from the receipts,
is generally admitted.
AT Goldfield the sale of seats is re-
ported to be heavy and it is expected
that that place and Tonopah will vie
with one another in the matter of at
tendance.