The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-18
FIGHT SHOULD
Be BIG MONEY
MAKING EVENT
HOW THE PROBABLE RETURNS
WORK OUT, FIGURED CON-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NO
SMALL PART OF THE GAME.

No greater testimonial TO the popu-
larity of modern glove fighting can
be had than the fact that Tex Rick
ard and Jack Gleason offered $101,-
900 as an inducement for Jim Jeffries
and Jack Johnson TO fight under their
management. This looks like an i'm
mense amount of money, but as a
spectacular attraction the fight will
be worth it, for the chances are that
the promoters will not only get back
all that they will invest, but make a
handsome profit in addition. Take an
arena to seat 10000 people, the
crowd such as will turn put to see a
big game, and place the tickets at an
average price of $40 each and the
promoters will ONE out whole with
probably $4,000 to the good, for an
arena to seat 10000 can be built for
$4,000, allowing 81 for each seat,
and the balance for fences, etc.
Where a baseball ground is available,
such as is the case in San Francisco,
where the fight will probably take
place, the expense will be much less.
At the coming fight the seats will
average better than $40 each, for it
is likely that such an amount will
cover the cost of the lowest-priced
seats only. 1t is reasonable to ex-
pect that the 1000 seats closest to
the ring can be sold for 500 each.
The next 1000 could be disposed of
for $50 each and then on down to
the bleachers, which will no doubt
hA IN nraaf demand of q tnn-do11or
bill. This would bring the receipts
anywhere from a quarter to half a
million dollars for the contest alone,
which will enable the promoters to
pay all the expenses to the fighters
and everything else incidental to the
affair and clean up a great pile of
money to repay them for their enter
prise and confidence in the love of
the American people for a modern
glove contest. In addition to the
gate receipts, however, the promoters
have a chance to get another big
chunk of money from the moving
pictures, of which they are to get
one-third, the fighters dividing the
other t%wo-thirds. Rough estimates
by experts place the picture income
as being being worth at least $780,
900.
1t might appear that the above esti-
mates are exaggerated, but when it Is
remembered that this will be the most
remarkable contest of modern times,
and that in connection with it there
is a racial feeling that has eve en-
tered into any great ring battle be-
fore, there is every eason to think
that it will attract universal interest.
1t is not unusual to charge $40 for a
six-round contest in this city for the
best seats, and it will be remember
ed that the prices which late COM
ers paid the spectators were on
siderably greater in several instances,
and there is a record of many tick
cts being bought for SIS, $40, S25
and even higher. If boxing enthus-
lasts will pay such tariff for a six
round bout, then it is not out of the
way to feel that they would readily
give up 500 for a seat close to the
ring for a contest the most important
Of a lifetime. AS to the lower
priced seats, they will sell like
proverbial hot cakes, for there is
hardly a lover of boxing in the land
who had the price who would not be
"AAiih W L UP q WI oPO W ~
Jeffries and Johnson settle the cham
pionship. Great public interest has
already been worked up in this fight,
but it must not be overlooked that the
date for the meeting of the men is
still six months away and that in the
meantime the promoters will leave
nothing undone to keep the affair be-
fore the public, which has been
found to be fairly hungry for fight
news In a contest of such magni-
tude the men who are risking their
money will have one great advantage.
they will find the newspapers all
over the world eager to report every
detail and nothing in connection with
the affair is likely to escape the
sharp eyes of the thousands of sport
ing writer's all over the world who
will devote the most of their atten-
ton during the next half year t o
placing before their readers every lit
tie item of news they can gather in
relation to next July's great fistic
event.