The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-09
BIG GO
WILL BE LOSER
(By Eddie Smith in Oakland Tri-
bune.D

(By Eddie Smith in Oakland Tri-
bune.)
Now that the Jeffries-Johnson
worlds champion bout is almost a
certainty, it is really funny to note
the scarcity of wildcat bids that are
being made. Fact of the matter is,
California looks to be the only state
that viii have a bid in for the battle.
1t was expected that some of the
camps of Nevada would take a
chance on this contest, but so far
they have remained painfully silent.
1t now looks as If there will be four
real bidders for the contest, Sid Hes
ter of the Mission club, Jack Glea-
son of the Ocean View club, Tom Nc
Carey of Los Angeles and Jimmy
Coffroth of the Sunshine club. To
the good business men it would seem
that these young men would all get
together and pool their interests in
such a manner that no matter who
got the fight, eacn would share IN
the profits. This is hardly probable,
however, or each has an ambition to
be a promoter and the interests be-
hind each n would be too great in
the matter of numbers to Warrant
cutting of the money IN so many
ways. Coffroth and Gleason are the
ones whom we look upon as having
the best chance to land the match,
but the quiet little Tom McCarey,
with an ambition to run the match
even if he loses money, will prove a
dangerous contender.
It really looks to me as if some
one was going to get stung on the
handling of this match, for the way
they have started to bid for the bat
tie makes it look as if it will take at
the very least $4,000 to land the
event. If Gleason or Hester should
land the big match at that figure it
would cost them at the least calcula-
ton $4,000 to run the show. That
looks like the very least than any
IN who has to build an arena can
expect to get away with and it is dol
lars to doughnuts that it will take a
good deal more money to handle it.
The largest gate receipts ever taken
in at a boxing contest in this country
was $4,000 at the Jeffries-Sharkey
fight at New York. The next largest
was the Jeffries-Corbett battle at San
Francisco, $65,340. Goldfield claim
ed hat they took in $69,715 at the
Gans-Nelson fight but these figures
were like some of the mining stocks
that was peddled from the famous
camp. 1t is on good authority that i
have since learned that the actual
receipts were a little over $4,000.
OF course people have forgotten that
the rivalry between Tom Sharkey
and Jim Johnson was fierce, and
they overlook the fact that the con-
test took place in the greatest show
city in the world. New York is the
banner show country for the reason
that there are more rich people there
than any place in the world, and liv-
ing there is one long hunt for plea
sure and excitement by the wealthy.
Eddie's fling at Nevada is not JUS
titled by himself. 1t comes down, In
fact the latter part of his remarks, to
an endorsement of Nevada business
sense, for as he puts it, bidding for
the fight is too high to allow of
profit, and particularly so under the
disadvantages suffered by Nevada in
the matter of high transportation
charges. Nevada has passed in var1-
Gus ways from the era of glitter to
that of solidity. She is there with
the goods as a business proposition
and in letting a the big fight go by
under the conditions that exist will
gain esteem and larger returns in the
1opo r,,p than tho fUht could bring