The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-26
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Spokane, Wash, EH Frank
w. Smith, of Spokane, Wash, base
ball enthusiast and patron of clean
sports, who raised fund of $780,
| 900 among mining operators and
| business men in Spokane and the
Occur d'Alenes last spring to put
on weeks carnival of fights, in
which the foremost heavy, middle
and lightweight battlers in the
world were to compete for purses of
$4,000, $4,000 and 10000, is on
the way to Los Angeles to see Jim
Jeffries, with the view to induce the
big fellow to re-enter the arena
| against Johnson or man to be Sc
| lected.
| Before starting for Portland
where he will pass day, going
! thence to southern California and
Nevada to inspect several mining
properties, Smith said:
| The 100000 fund for the big
/ fight still goes, though it may be we
will have battles in four classes in
stead of three. The plan is to bring
Jeffries and Johnson or another man
| in the class together or match Burns
and Johnson for the heavyweight
championship. That is the purpose
of my visit to Los Angeles. A purse
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| be an inducement at this time. If
! the deal is made the purse for
| fight between Cans and Nelson, Nc
| Farland or Unholtz will be $4,000,
similar amounts being offered for
| battles between Attell and Moran and
| Ketshel and Papke.
''The battles probably will be
pulled off within a couple of hours
ride to Spokane next summer or fall,
and George Siler of Chicago, and ex-
perienced men from New York
and Boston and a California author
| ity, whose names / am not at liberty
| to give at present, will be invited to
preside at the ringside. We expect to
run special trains from various parts
of the Pacific Northwest, including
the California coast, and there will
| be representative delegations from
| the middle western, eastern and
southern states.
Regarding the canceling of the
fight tournament last year, Smith
said:
The hundred thousand dollar
| fund for the battles was practically
subscribed by mine-owners and bus
mess men in eastern Washington
! and northern Idaho, the arena site
was engaged and we were in nego-
| tiatious with representative men in
| the three classes, when Richard M.
Barnhart, prosecuting attorney of
| Spokane county, clamped on the lid
| declaring he would call upon Cover
nor Mead to order out the state mi
| litia in the event of fight. This, OF
| course, was a dampeDer, and resulted
in calling everything off for time,
| but now those financing the
| tourney believe they see way out,
and if the matches can be made the
| fights will be pulled off before the
end of the year.
During a stay of thirty days on
the coast, Smith will confer with
representatives of the White Sox
and other teams now training in Cal
| ifornia, for the purpose of getting a
| line on new timber to strengthen Ed
| die Quinn's Indians. Spokane is out
for the pennant this year, and, as
there are ample funds, it is planned
| to give the city the strongest team
| 1t has yet sent out under its colors.
Smith, Quinn and others are i'm
pressed with Walter Johnson, the
California Ditcher whose work at