The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-16
HONOLULU BIDS
FOR BIC FIGHT
Cables Invitation to JeffrieS and
Johnson to Hold Bout
Here.
NAMES PUNCHBOWL AS ARENA
But BreckOnS Declares Federal
Law Would Apply and He
Would Enforce 1t.

"W. w Norton, Sporting Editor, Ex-
aminer. San Francisco, California.
'WilI you try and fix Jeffries-John-
son fight. Honolulu good place for
fight. Have full authority to grant
permi ssion. Dictate your own terms.
Please give matter your own personal
attention. Cable Western Union code.
"SCULLY -McRAE
This cable was despatched yesterday
by the signers after some strenuous
hustling to make sure that the author
tiles would not block the big event
here and throw the whole sporting
world into a state Of bewilderment, up
set the transcontinental railroad and
steamship schedules, San Francisco
hotel arrangements and sidetrack thou
everywhere as has been done within the
last twenty-four hours by the Governor
of California
AS soon as Mr.. McRae learned that
the big battle must move again, that
California had been forced to put a
damper on the Jeffries-J ohnson bout
being pulled off in the Golden Gate city,
he conceived the idea Of making bid
for the show to come to Honolulu.
The thousands of sports who would
come down, attracted by the event, to
spend their money freely as they whiled
away a delightful sojourn in the tran
guilty of this Paradise of the Pacific,
would, he supposed, be given the glad
hand and the merry aloha. Why, he
figured, it would be a windfall to Ho-
nolulu, and the wealth that would fol-
low in to the local merchants would suf-
fee to deaden any delicate aversion
that might be felt to witnessing such
an exhibition in this peaceful city,
while the worldwide fame that would
suddenly descend upon Honolulu would
put the Hawaii Promotion Committee
to shame.
Immediately this popular actor man
set to work on little political jobbing,
and last night, when questioned as to
the ''full authority for granting per-
mission to hold the fight here, he as
sured The Advertiser that he had that
''all fxed,' and if the big fellows
would venture down to this garden
spot they need have no misgivings as
to their being permitted to wage the
battle to finish. They could have
Punchbowl basin to hold their exhibit
ton in, with accommodation for all
the multitude who might crowd these
shores.
Having it doped ont thus, the smiling
McRae flashed the cable to his old
friend Norton, and then took Jack
Scully into his confidence, and both of
these gentlemen took on the air of pro-
meters of world events
They overlooked Il. w. Breckons in
the game, however, and did not know
that he had his ante down
United States District ATTORNEY
Breckons soon spiked the big gun.
When told of the action taken bv the
local promoters, that a cable had been
sent saying that such an affair as the
Jetfrles-Johnson fight would not be pre-
vented in Honolulu, he begged to differ.
lheie II 'Ae lederal law, ne sad, which
he would enforce to the letter.
'Much as | should like to see such
a scrap, for it would be a fine exhibit
tion,' Mr.. Breckons said, u would
enforce the law against it, and there is
no doubt that any such prizefght
would be in violation of the statutes.
both IN spirit and to the letter.
TINS law, under which Breckons
would knock out both champions, was
passed by the federal government for
the express purpose of preventing the
Corbett Fitzsimmons/fght from coming
Off IN the Territory of Arizona, and was
framed to fit just such a case as this
Jeffnes-Johnson affair, that appears to
be under Californian cloud.
Fake Saws Governor