Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-02
Associated Pressl


announcing the successful bidder for
the worlds championship heavyweight
prize fight between James J. Jeffries,
retired and undefeated champion, ana
Jack johnson, negro title holder, was
made in New York tonight because the
promoters wished to avoid any posi-
BILE clash with the police authorities
The decision will be made known IN
Hoboken, n. j., at l o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
The offers for the fight were the
largest ever made for prize ring en-
counter.
The bids we're opened in the presence
of Jack Johnson and his manager Geo.
Little; Sam Berger, representing jim
Jeffries, who was present; Thomas D.
McCarey of Los Angeles, Edward NJ
Graney of San Francisco, John j. Glea
son of san Francisco, E. NJ. Rlckard OF
Nevada, and many well known Ne"
York sporting men.
Graney. representing the Tuxedo Atm
1etic club of San Francisco, made pld
involving three different propositions.
II his first proposition Graney onered
so per cent of the gross receipts, with d
guarantee of S75 900, the management TO
have sole ownership of the picture
privilege: the second was SO per cent
of the gross receipts, with guarantee
of $4,000, and an offer of $4,000 for one
third of the picture proceeds, ana the
third proposition was so per cent OF the
gross receipts, with no guarantee.
Graney agreed, if the offer was ac-
eepted. to build pavilion seating $4,000
persons in or within five miles or san
Francisco.
coffroth's Bid
John J. Gleason of san Francisco, in
combination with James w. Coftroth,
IA G19a u0U for nglI
July 4 at either the Colma Athletic clup
or Ocean View or san Francisco, re-
serving full rights to the pictures Glea-
son agreed if the bid was accepted i'm
mediately to deposit a check for $780,
000 Gleason made a second proposi-
tion, offering a purse of $l5,OOO ana
sc 2-3 per cent of the picture receipts.
A third proposition by Gleason provided
an offer of so per cent of the gross re-
ceipts and 66 2-3 per cent of the picture
receipts. Coffroth agred to deposit $l0,-
900 if the offer was accepted.
A cablegram was received from
Hugh Mcintosh of Australia, Offering
S37, 500 to each of the fighters for
contest in this country; $4,000 to each
fighter for a contest in either England
or France, and $4,000 TO each fighter
for contest in Australia. No check
accompanied the offer, and Mcintosh 5
bid was not considered.
e. NJ. (Tex) Rickard of Ely, New,
submitted n bid in which he offered
$4,000 in cash and a check for $4,000 for
fight on July in either Utah or CAL
ifornia. and a cash purse of $l01,OOO
and 66 2-3 per cent of the receipts OF
the moving pictures. If the bid was
accepted Rickard agreed 10 deposit
within sixty days $4,000 and the re-
naming $4,000 forty-eight hours before
the fight.
Mccarey's Offer
Thomas j. McCarey of the Pacific
Athletic club of Los Angeles offered
the receipts of the entire house and 81
per cent of the moving picture receipts,
or a purse of $1,000 in cash, and so
per cent of the moving pictures.
Sporting men gathered here were
keenly disappointed in what many
considered a puritanical interposition
of the anti-prize fight laws IN TINS
state, but Police Commissioner Baker
had served notice that no such an
nouncement could be made in New
York with propriety. Accordingly 1t
was decided TO press the New Jersey
city across the Hudson, where the BIDS
were opened this morning, into service
again tomorrow for the final award.
Coffroth FaVorite
Gossip in sporting circles tonight
picked as the winner James Cotfroth
of the Colma Athletic club, San Fran
cisco; Jack Gleason, the California
baseball magnate, and Tex Rickard,
the Nevada boomer, who apparently
have formed a triple alliance to get the
fight. Coffroth is commonly credited
with a close alliance with the persons
controlling the two basic patents OF
the moving picture machine.
Gleason is known as a close personal
m n n 4 rllT
Jeffries Thus the talk among sport
ing men is that Gleason and Cofroth
pooled their interests, but that at the
last moment Rickard, who pulled on
the Gans-Nelson fight, came in with
a threat to bid such an enormous sum
that it would not be denied.
The result was, according TO general
belief. that Gleason, already united
with Coffroth in one bid for "Colma,
ocean View or San Francisco" also
united with Rickard in the offer for
Utah, Nevada or California"
McCarey Sore
Tom McCarey and Eddie Graney,
both big bidders, seemed to realize that
they we're not to be considered seri-
ousiy. McCarey said before the bids
were opened:
"The cards have been stacked
against my Los Angeles club. But If
the nlR0ESL ana BGSl Jll that AieA2 AAC
priVate strings attached to it is to be
accepted, Los Angeles will get the
fight"
After the bids were opened he said:
II have bid the most money, guar
santee of $4,000 and 80 per cent Of the
nicture proceeds. II they turn that
down it shows that somebody is get
ting more than appears on the Bids
submitted"
The opening Of the bids today besides
revealing the apparent CoffrOth-Glea-
son-Rickard combination, yielded an
other surprise-the fact that a promoter
could offer and back it with cash a
nurse of $4,000 to be divided as the
contestants saw mt
While the sporting public had com
monty agreed that this is to be the
greatest fight in the history of the
prize ring it was not believed that
promoter would bid more han $4,000
and would then claim one-third of the
moving picture revenue. Incidentally,
if is conservatively estimated that, if
the fight runs twenty or twenty-five
rounds on a clear day the moving pic
lures. if displayed throughout the
world. will be worth at least 100000,
Big Men Box
Both Jeffries and Johnson appeared
Ia a ring at the Madison Square gar