The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-04
FIGHT WILL Be
ON THE SQUARE
No Stall to Be Made for Fight
Pictures by the Cham
piOns.
TWO HUNDRED REPORTERS
ARE GATHERING NEWS
1t Is Estimated That Twenty
Thousand People Will See
Jeffries-JOhnsOn Battle.
BY RANDOLPH HAYES.

BY RANDOLPH HAYES.
| Special TO The Tribune.
! RENO. July S.-The last day has worn
away. Tho last night has come Another
| sun will see that great event which, for
| the moment, Will take precedence over
| the clash OF politicians, tho schemes OF
princes. tho war between capital and
| labor tho rivalrics between states and
| cities.
| At the risk of making an ont-climaI
after that Introduction, permit me TO
| here inform you that Jcffries and John
| son are TO fight for the pugilistic cham
pionship OF the world in the center OF
| this hustling little Nevada town, and be-
| fore 20, 900 OF their fellow citizens of the
| greatest republic on earth. tomorrow aft
! ernoon. Make no mistake. these earnest
| gentlemen. so they strenuously announce,
| have no personal animosity whatever for
| one another. The trifling stipend for
| which they are TO exhibit the stun that
| is in them is just SOL 000-plus.
| Right here permit me to write some
| news. That is. If there Is any news on
this spot of reclaimed sagebrush, where
upward OF two hundred newspaper men
| have fallen like Il devourtng cloud OF
locusts. think they have swept 1t clean
! However. for the news.
An hour since had confidential talk
with Mr.. BIackton. the Englishman, who
is here TO manage the taking Of the
| moving pictures With Mr. Rock one
Of his partners. he has bought five-sixths
4 OF the right TO them, third from JEFF
fr.es q third from johnson. and one
sixth from Rickard; Gleason stlll holds
his sixth They paid johnson nns $4,000 tor
| gethCr 500. 900.
Did you pay cash?" I asked Mr.. Black
ton.
"OnIy 10 per cent of 1t to bind the
| agreement" he said.
Gong Rings Up Money.
when do you pay the balance?'
THE balance. Sl35.oo0. is placed in the
hands Of third person TO be paid the
managers OF the two fighters the moment
| the bell rings for the first round.
''Then IL the fight goes only for n
minute they get the money anyway. 1t
is your gamble. You take the chances.
Certainly. We DELAYED closing the
deal for three days In our efforts 10 get
Johnson and Jeffries 10 agree 10 make
a rebate II the fight did not Inst long. We
wanted 80 per cent off II the fight did
not last 1--WE rounds. so per cent of II
II went under eight rounds, and 10 per
cent off II II lasted less than ten rounds
with our attorneys we iockeyed for Il long
time 10 get them TO consent TO some
such arrangement. Neither man would
bulge an inch. We had TO take II or
leave Il and make our own gamble on
: the fight. We finally concluded TO take
"Then there was no original agree
|
tures?"
'If there was one we never heard oi
H. and we certainly were unable TO revive
H. this last week before the fight. When
thew are both in the ring and the CONS
rings they get their money. Then we take
our chances. IS,
: TO my mind this sets at rest all tht
: rumors OF stalrng for the pictures.
: Curlously, I this morning received
confirmation OF this later news concern
: ing n possible agreement between the t"C
lighters II came from the attorney whC
! drew up the original fight articles In Ho
{ bolxcn AS you may remember there wa!
/ a secret meeting al that time. lastint
I half an hour. held after the public meet
: Ing 10 which all the newspaper men were
! invited The fact that such meeting
: was held occasioned more scepticism con
!. cernlng this fight than any o'heF '"'is
!. That Secret Meeting.
: This attorney told me what ocGurre'
: nj that secret meeting. He said that
: concerned an agreement among the iiSht
7 crs, promoters and managers 10 eHnaus
!. every effort 10 hold the hghc In Caiior
: | MIA He said that the California sltua
!. lion was thoroughly canvassed at that tim
= and n secret agreement Teached annon'
!. ou concerned to offer no objection to hold
: ing the fight in the Golden Gate. Ihes
!. ,,rn in,eryIcws have confirmed me In m,
:. nJnvious belief that there is no chant
Tor this fight 10 be anything but on tn
level Yet In spite OF th,s D Des,n, s,,nnosoSi al
: go y,yise who will still insist that II ]
It framed. TO my mind there is no NOR
y chance TO frame TINS nght 'nan '"oi
would be TO frame snoWslloe. -,
Is net nIpht about 9 o'clock Jeffrles hike
across the fields from a ranch house
+ where he had supper; and on ms ms W'iy Soii +,
miserable half starved yellow dog zen !
,rith his pacc and followed him 10 tn
I, house. when he got in and sat down n, u II
"a stretched his feet and accidentally hiche
G. '"T Tbn y. "tr stranger bowlcd and ran. with Je
OF aftcr him The dog was scarce. &c
nc was laughing as he picked up ,, inc nun nun
e. @rv onimal and looked at it. me oog
NJ SiIs u,cro all visible his tongue wa
~ iollng and his eyes roliinG., ,.,c "a y
Poor little spindle" said Jeii; as
IL put the dog down. Inen zen nj ,Iece Of steal
n came back and fed his new friend. I93a 1a
IN the tramp dog was lying under ,e.,,, oetr
IN Js iect as Tn, said he would take the dc
X, to the ring with him and hold MN , an
C. mascot Fitzsimmons arrlycd ihs. u.s., n'S : 4
i'm ,han thev did over the governor OF Sey'
ne An who got I'm this morning t"o-to -oI,
10 All night long Fitz held impr0n,pSSp pnroS h
1 Australian shaggy and showed ms }., 3a
I'D calling out, take one part sasoiii
er and one part castor oil ,s. ana ! -
youh' as much 'nlr has Hive got
not Fits Is Popular.
an rho middle of the afternoon, FIT
80 ain,mons and Tommy Burns WIZ H b'
'ba E;dgrcn and myself rode OUT 70 Je,ari'eS @
,eh house. The big fellow , or ms c,rds sns wi
go, C.or,c Considinc, Abe Attell. Eddie ir
al al nard @ and brother Jack tiiz walked va "n +,
If behind him and hit him smack ,n,,,, on
IL car"a good hard one. without io1hil
m left reached out his hand, inS' nl
Hob he said and went on PLAYING. In
lr- have not met in eighteen months, n,,
wrnt over 10 Join the group arounu M M
dI- JcffTies There were John T. Suiii'a
he lin Corbctt and Tommy BurnS; !
ear Cornishman blacksmith co'nP'c'cu
ed over AT Johnson's camp Lhc ganpiii ga2
hen wag OF a different shade. JeHries ana