The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
Observation-Disclosures.


Ey Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec l-Sporting men
gathered here were tecnly disappointed
in what many considered a puritanIcal
intcrposiiion of the anti-prize fight laws
in this state, but Police Comm ssioncr
Baker had served notice that no such
announcement could be made in New
York with propricty. Accordingly it
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.
Gossip in sporting circles tonight
picked as tho winning bidder James
Coffroth of the Colma athletic club
San Francisco: Jack Gleason, the Cali
fornia baseball mH9nItc, and ''Tex
Rickard, the Nevada boomer. who ap-
paren,ly have formed triple alliance
10 get the fight.
Coffroth Has Pull.
Con'rolh is commonly credited with a
close alliance with the persons control
ing tho two basic patents of The NOV
ing picture machine. Gleason is known
rs a close personal friend of Sam Bcr-
ger manager for icflries. Thus the
talk among sporting men is that Glca-
son and Coffroth pooled their interests
who pulled OF the GPnS.Nelson fight,
cIMc in with Il threat IN bid such an
enormous sun that il would not be dc
njcd
The result WAS. according 10 general
belief, that Gleason, already united with
Co1'roth in one bid for 'iComa, Ocean
View or san Francisco, also united
with Rickard IN the offer for 'Utah.
Nevada or California
Tnm McCarcy and Eddie Graney,
both big bidders seemed 10 realize that
they wcrc moi 20 be considered scr
iously. McCarcy said before the bids
were opened
Cards are Stacked.
''Thc cards have been stacked
against my Los Angeles club. But If
the highest and best bid that has no
private strings attached to it. is TO be
accepted, Los Angeles Will get the
fight. -
After The bids were opened he said :
81 have bid the most money, a guar
antec of $ll0000 and 30 per cent of the
picture proceeds II they turn that
down. il shows that somebody is get
ting more than appears on the bids sub
mitfed -
The opening of jhc bids today. be
sides revealing the apparent Coffroth-
Gleason Richard combination yielded
another surprise-the fact that PRO
1nO1cr cDulH GUcTs ana DICK II WIN cdSn,
purse of $4,000 10 be divided as the
contestants saw fit.
What Fight Is Worth
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 pro.
moter would bid more than $4,000 aud
would then claim onet third of the NOV
ing picture revenue: Incidentally, it
is conservatively estimated that, if the
fight runs 90 or % rounds on a clear
day. the moving pictures. il displayed
throughout the world, Will be worth
at least $500 900
Both Jcffries and johnson appca red
IN a ring at the Madison Square Garden
tonight in what Will probably be their
last similar display before the public
expectations, the garden was not well
filed. johnson came on first and
spared with white opponent in a mild
manner Jcffries came on an hour and
half later and went five snappy
rounds with Sam Berger, the fastest
started training for the fight The
crowd sized up Jeffrics rs being in good
condition and showing good form, but
his old nose trouble bothered him con
siderably.
Graney's Offer.
Graney, representing the Tuxedo
Athletic club of San Francisco. made a
bid involving three different PROPOSE
tons, In his first proposition Graney
offered eighty per cent of the gross re
ceipts with guarantee Of $4,000, the
management to have sole ownership o1
the picture privileges; the second was
eighty per cent of the gross receipts
with $4,000 guarantee and an Of
fer of $4,000 for one-third OF the pic
ture proceeds; and the third proposi
tion was ninety per cent of the gross
receipts with no guarantee.
CLANCY agreed, if the offer was ac
ceptcd TO build a pavilion seating %.
900 people in OF within five miles Of Sar
Francisco.
Bid From Gleason.
John Gleason Of San Francisco. ir
commission of James CofIroth, sub
mitted bid Of $l25.000 for fight
on July i at either the Colma Athletic
club or Ocean Viey- or San Francisco
reserving full rights to the picture pro
! ceeds. Gleason agreed, if the bid was
accepted. Immediately to deposit a
check for 100000, Gleason made z