The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-13
WHY LID IS DOWN
IN OGDEN TOWN
Too Much Gibson and Grant
Puts PugiIiStic Game
on KiboSh.

From Ogden comes the announcement
that the lid has been put down on the
fight game. and that from now on there
VIII be nothing doing in the fistic line.
As is The case nine times ont of ten when
lid is nailed down so IL is I'm ogden.
the promoters themselves are TO blame.
in this case +. A. Grant and Billy Glib
son are the men who have been back OF
tho sport and if there is nothing more
doing. they have only themselves to
blame
Ogden promised to be "A good fight cen
ter ard The merchants OF that town
looked forward with envious eyes To the
nights when train load OF Salt Lake
sports visited the town and spent good
salt Lake money. Such conditions might
have continued an summer but for the
hog-it-ail disposition of Gibson and
Grant When Hyland and Corbctt fought
full thousand of Salt Lakers made the
tip. At the fight Tuesday night a hand
ini only were present. There was a rea-
son fof this. On the night Of the Hyand-
tNfncu tight the crowd that packed the
hOuSC WIS KEPT waiting FOR two hours
while Gibson tried to get tho prelimin-
aries 20 go on Tor a fivc-dDllar note.
21i1er promising ,I, them a purse of fifty dol
krS They struck and the crowd waited
Then Gibson had 10 hunt around the town
to borrow n set of gloves. because he
was too cheap TO buy a pair.
Sammy Made Them Play Up.
Another squabble took place at the box
office when Sammy McClintic had to al
most fight to get the money promised him
ly Grant and Gibson. When the fight
was made Gibson gave Sammy a bonus
% 10 per cent to sign articles. Hyland
was the card and ne was given this
amount. "a Is customary. When Grant
found 8ibsOn's name might hurt the
crowd. he came out with a statement de-
claring that Gibson had nothing to dc
with the fight. saying he did not know
then Gibson was noted from coast to coast
AS taker. and that henceforth he would
cut him out This talk was merely Tor
newspaper publication. and was as far as
Il went. Grant tried To hold out that /,
per cent Of Sammy the night Of the fight
but wise Sammy wouldn't stand for il
and got his money.
The same thing happened to Rawhidt
Kelley when he went to collect the money
for Cyclone Thompson. In this case, be
fore the fight came off Kelley told his
friends that he was getting this bonus &c
fight in Ogden. and being wise TO the
trouble McClintic had in collecting his
money. adopted the same tactics and made
Gibson and Grant come through
Say They Were Held Up.
After the fight Gibson and Grant botl
claimed they had been held up for the
fighters tales. u was part of the agree
ment. Then came the arrest and Maur-
ice Thompson was Immediately bailed out
while Cyclone was allowed to hustle fol
himself.
Before the fight. Gibson was busiIy en-.
gagged handing out the dope about tn,
condition Of Maurice Thompson. Those a.
the ringside saw the Butte man was II
no shape for fight. In fact, Thompson
did not do a faithful days work for that
fight. and none knew il better than Glib
son Thompson had training quarters a
the Sanitarium. and whenever press
man appeared he made a weak attempt a
punching the bag. and the usual stunts
and as soon as the press man got out O
sight he was hitting the high places
Thompson and Gibson fooled them all bu
The Herald
Salt Lake Crowd Wise.
The big crowd from Salt Lake failed t
appear on account OF the treatment hand
cd them by Gibson and Grant at the las
fight and everybody connected with tn
fight was disappointed. Is IL not funn,
how both Cyclone Thompson and Dicl
Hvland have the hammer out for the Glib
sou-grant combination If there was no
something doing. and both declare the.
will not fight before the Twin City clu
again? The name of the club, by the way
was selected with view of extending
operations, in Salt Lake. but II is Wis
thing to forget.
Meanwhile. Salt Lake fight fans. VIII
are willing to go to Ogden TO see a figh
and the past has shown there are man
s,1ch-as we'll as the Ogden fight fans
are kicking against the combination tina
has put the game on the bum in tn
Junction city.