The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02

GOLDFIEI1D, Sept. 1.-The nuo OF
the fight situation today is the betting.
actual and prospective. The normal
odds in the camp are 10 to 8, with Cans
on the long end. Ten to seven wagers
have been laid. chief of which was
Ben Selig's $4,000 against Billy Nolan's
s1400 on the Dane. Selig's wager is
supposed to be out of the Golfers OF
the associated Cans management
There is plenty OF Cans money here
at the prevailing odds. Larry Sullivan
says that he has $4,000 in the trust
company treasury, sent here by East
ern hackers of Cans. and that when
that is gone he will himself bet a few
simoleons, il for no greater reason
than attaches to the sentimental In
terest a reputed manager may have. In
his protege.
The gambling element has accepted
the bulk of expert opinion that the
black champion has made the weight
easily and is in great condition Those
points admitted, there seems no reason
In the world why Joe, on dope, should
not carry the bulk of the wise money.
Some of the round town talksters have
tried to argue that there would be
even money at the rinsside. I be-
lieve that the odds will start the
OIneT way ana LndI Ll6 Od1lc 0dCkCAS =
will get good as 10 to for their
money. At that price / consider him
as good an investment as any stock
quoted on the Goldfield exchange.
LAYS s240O AGAINST $4,000.
Out of the $4,000 that Sullivan has
in custody for betting purposes. Harry
Hedrick, local broker and agent for
the concern, succeeded in getting $2400
Nlaid against $4,000 In greenbacks and
the cashier of a local bank was made
the stakeholder
The town is full of new faces. A big
attendance at the ring is guaranteed
One hundred and twenty-four fight fans
blew in from Rhyolite today to buy
seats The other camps for hundred
miles around will be represented in
proportion. Tonopah took all the tick
cts sent over there for sale and asked
for more. Manhattan ditto. The club
will have to gather in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 to break even. 1t looks
as If there will be profit
The popularity of tonight's situation
is the reluctance of the experts TO
prognosticate the outcome Of the battle
and at the same time explain the un-
dercurrent of opinion that Joe should
win In any round from one to fifty. Be
hind this is the same expert admission
that Nelson was never in better trim;
that he is tOughnesS perSOnified. that
he is capab1y managed and that it is
not beyond the bounds of possibility
that he can sound the knell to the ring
reputation of one of the cleverest fight
ers who ever donned the gloves.
SPECIAL WIRE SERVICE.
Tomorrow every one concerned in
both camps, the club and the referee
will hand the public a final opinion
before what promises to be the great
est fight for the lightweight champion
ship ever fought On the day of the
fight the whole world Will be inter
ested in the receipt of the news. Gold
field in a way has heretofore been of
the Western Union map. The com
pany sent II. S. Converse here to
handle the problem, and he has been
at every important fight for the last
twenty years. Bob" Geistlich of the
Associated Press will tell the tale by
rounds, and as guarantee of the
perfection of other arrangements
quote Converse as follows:
''As far as preparation for handling
the large volume of press matter goes
the Western Union Company could not
possibly do more than has already been
done in the short time allowed after
1t was given out that the Cans Nelson
contest would be held in Goldffeld. and
hundred miles to where we connect
gang of men was Immediately ordered
here from Southern California and. a
new wire was strung from Tono2an to