The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-07
GRANEY IS AFTER
GANS-NELS0N FIGHT
Left For Reno With Nolan Last
Night; Deal Still Hang
ing Fire.
QUESTION OF MONEY.
SAYS FAMOUS REFEREE
Well-FOunded RumOr Asserts
Graney Is Looking After
Gans's End.

After consultation over the Nelson
Cans fight that lasted throughout the
whole day, Eddie Graney and Billy No
Ian left together last night for Reno.
New, where they separate, Nolan 60
ing TO Goldfield and Graney to San Fran
cisco. Up to the time of their leaving
no definite agreement had been reached
Question of the Money.
1T is a matter Of dollars and cents"
said Graney. Nolan will give me the
preference IL I put up as large purse
as the Goldfleld club. am doing my best
10 land the match for San Francisco, but
Nolan wants the earth with an earth
quake clause In it. He don't like the
size OF a purse we offer, but Frisco is
the place for him to go TO get the money.
This fight will bring in $4,000 there, and
will be a big thing TO boom up the burnt
district"
Nolan Still Says Goldfeld,
These remarks, made IN the presence
of Billy Nolan. only provoked smile.
Laughingly. ne remarked: "Graney and
this fellow Levy are making money hand
over fist but they hang onto IT like Irish
Jews. But even II they offered us the
world with a fence around it, there
would be but one course for me. l have
given my word. Tonight leave for Cold
field to draw up articles of agreement
for the bout. and If the management con-
tinues to treat me In the future as they
have in the past. Nelson will certainly
fight there on Labor day.
Is Graney Managing Cans?
There is a sneaking suspicion around
| these parts that the visit OF Eddie Gra-
ney, the central figure in the California
prize fight trust and equally well known
as a referee, has a double significance.
Certainly Graney wants to land the fight
for Frisco II he can. but failing IN this
because of inability TO guarantee as
large a purse as Goldleld. 1t Is believed
| that he still has other business. Last
evening Joe Cans left Frisco for Cold
field, He went alone, and says that he
Will attend TO the drawing up OF the ar
ticles Of agreement himself. 1t is re-
markable coincidence that he will arrive
in Reno. New, at just the Same time
as Graney and Nolan, Isn't II possible
| that Graney might be looking after the
| colored boys interests? He has done
! SO before, In fact, II is common tall,
that he controls Joe Cans, and inspired
his confession of the Jimmy Britt fasco
| Is IL unreasonable, then, TO suppose that
| In this, Gans's greatest match, Graney
! should have a finger In the proceedings
especially since the pot is full OF gold
| dollars? Jf this Is so, there can be but
| one reason why GTaney desires TO keep
the fact from the public, and that is be-
cause It might make him, the otherwise
| logical man to referee the battle. in
| eligible, The public might doubt his
| ability to be fair when interested in one
| of the contestants, in spite OF the fact
| that he would strive SO TO be, In fair
| ness to Eddie Graney, let 1t be said
| that this may or may not be the case
but these sentences have at least the
| sanction Of one who listens TO the coun-
| ellis OF the inner circles.
Something About Tex Ricards.
Numerous inquiries were heard yester-
| day as to who is Tex Ricards, the man
, who has made the offer for the Cans
| Nelson bout as representative of the
! Goldfeld Athletic club, On this point Bat
| tlng Nelson said last evening:
TEX Rioards Is the biggest gambler
| in Goldheld. He has got nothing but
| money. In Nevada and Montana mining
camps he Is well known, and wherever
! known his word Is his bond"
"Ever have hotoldtime7'' Come
| l. '