Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
BRITT SAW FAKE
PICTURES HERE
Fighters Were Dressed Up to
Look Like Cans and
Nelson.
BUT WELSH WAS MISTREATED
Nelson's Manager Says Referee Jack
Would Have Never Recognized
Himself as Represented.

salt Lake was the scene of the big
pow-wow between railroad officials and
Tex Richard and others over rates
for a proposed third Cans Nelson fight
at Ely While in this city Willis Britt
and others of the party saw moving
pictures of the last fight which they
branded as fakes. To the Call Britt
carried his complaint and the Can tells
about ii and discusses the failure of
Richard TO get the next fight thusly:
SAY THING WAS FAKE.
All concerned in the last fight regret
that moving pictures were not taken.
Britt tells, with great gusto, OF seeing
some fake pictures of the fight which
We're displayed at Salt Lake and drew
great crowds. The makers of the pic
lures had taken the accounts of the
fight and had incorporated the various
incidents in series of pictures posed
by boxers made UP to look like Cans
and Nelson.
The boxers were fairly well repro
duced, but Referee Jack Welsh would
not have recognized himself in the per-
son of the man who posed as referee
OF the fight. The intention of Coffroth
is to have pictures taken next time.
as he feels that no matter what may be
the outcome of the fight they would be
great attraction.
TEN" WANTED TOO MUCH.
"RiCkard did his best to carry out
his part in arranging the fight" said
Britt yesterday. He expected too much
from the railroads, as, while the regu-
lar fare is s26. he expected to get a
30 rate The Nevada Northern would
not agree to this. We then went to
Salt Lake and the best rate we could
get was 1910 Richard would have
accepted this had he been able to in.
duce the Ely Townsite n corporation
controlling big interests in the mining
camp. to put up $4,000 of the purse
This the officials would not do, and he
reluctantly called the match off. He
gave me an order for the 81 coo forfeit
ne put up in the hands of John Clark
I'm this city.
IF the match is made for Admission
day Nelson will be back here in ample
lime tC train. He is spending a few
days I'm Colorado on his way to Chi
cago. where he goes to attend big
banquet rendered him by the Danish
society. He would leave Chicago the
iirst week In August and would nrob-
ably stop over in New Mexico for a
rev days shooting. / feel the match
Is assured, as Coffroth can undoubtedly
offer Cans terms which viii prove ac-
ceptable to him Cans has never been
IN position 10 dictate terms in re-
cent years, so that it will not be
new experience TO him now TO accept
the terms Of promoter"
NEVADA IS OUT.
Passing on to Richards failure TO
land the match the call SAYS:
If there II ever to he a fight In this
country with Tommy Burns as one of
the principals and either Jack john
son on Stanley Kctchel as the other
there WIN be but little faith placed in
any bids from Nevada II is evident
that Richard did all in his power To
secure conditions favorable to- the
Cans Nelson match, but as he failed
in this venture it Is not likely he win
be taken seriously In the future.
That he was sincere i'm his desire IN
secure the match has been evident from,
the start, but conditions have changed
since he carried out the first big fiebt
at Goldheld and It Is not likely thai
the flush times OF two years ago viii
return for some time to come