The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-07
RECEIPTS FALL
SHORT Of CLAIM
Naughton Says Sydney Fight
Did Not Draw Near the
Amount Claimed.
BY w. w. NAUeHToN.

There is a stock saying which has il
that trifeTs z-ith the truth should have
good memories. Il an orderly mind ana
a good recollection were the only thin-s
necessary. however. numbers Of persons
of the writer's acquaintance would make
a greater success Of fbbing than they do
(By ". Y. Nsushtonl
To me q heater prorerb would be- "A
gar should have a fairly sound knowledge
OF the thing he Is trying TO distoTt' II
re wishes. for instance, TO diss animate
the Impression that a record amount
passed through prize nghJ gate he
should fOrtify himself with knowledge OF
the gate.
when johnson and Burns fought re-
Gently in sydney the cable told us that
the house or rather. the stadium-held
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Whewt We ali whistisd. That just about
doubles the McCov-Corbett gate in New
fork. and more than doubles ali the hign
water marks Of other hght-fostering cen
Eh. what GolddeId. too? Why, GER
tainis, Golddeld, too. although il is mean
70 recall the fibbing that local pride i'm
peliea the Tex Ricard crowd TO be guilty
Of. Goldheld Chat is Nelson and Cans
went ON record as a sixty-nins thousand
dollar gate, but not with unbelievers like
jim Coffroth.
I remember one night when man who
had to DO with Goldheld was being joshed
about the sixty-nine thousand, and he
said. biushingly: We'll. Ve might have
sWelled il ten thousand, but I'm darned
II III take another cent off.
However, We are talking about Aus
tralis.
In the mails arriving recently were
bundles Of the show printing used by Pro-
moter Mcintosh and his associates in the
Burns-Johnson venture. Among the stuff
was a ground plan or diagram Of the seat
ing capacity Of the Rushcutter's Bay
stadium. minus the bleachcrs. Il is an
octagonal affair. with the points OF the
different sections tapsr ring towards thu
ring, and it contains by actual count $50
seats.
When the local prize ring stststicians
got hold of this they smiled. Then they
took OH their pencils ana figured. To
begin with. they allowed that twelve rows
of bleachers continued outward and up
ward beyond the reserved sccton-all
that stadium would bear without
making Il the size of Il race track-WOuid
provide for the housing OF 400 spectators
more. Then. with total seating capa-
city Of $50, the price Of seats was hunted
up. These, In American money, ranged
from - % 10 $50 and here is how the local
Ee-uaileTS came out
Bleachers. 2GQ at S5..-----..-..,. .si0.t.l
Bleacners. 700 at S2.5o.......-..-..--.. 5.g00
Reserved seat. so at S5O..----------- 25,o5v
Reserved seats. J0o at t75...-........-- l2-5d0
Reserved seats. so at sl5.-...-....... 100
Reserved seats. 80 at sfe-.-..-......- 2. SOC
And Of all of this the grand total Is
su5.Eti ana not lNfytt- as Tue cahie Hau
IT, Even allowing that the promoters.
with crowding and close seating packed
Si.9d9 in addition thus making the gate
5000 it still falls short more tlian % per
cent Of the amount claimed.
ii may be that when eZpiaua tiens come
along il viii be made 10 appear that tue
stadium was torn 90 pieces and remodeled
after the printing vent out or that IL
was decided at the last moment 70 treble
the prices Of admission. But. no ma
mat the Australian matchmake-
say. the fellows on This side with -
chant for facts and figures will insIsi thar
the cable lied about the Burns-Jchnson
takincs.