Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-04
ELSE WHERE'S SAD,
GUtP DOWN GRIEF
He Who Did Not Go to Reno Feels
a Large Lump in His
Neck
BOARDSlDE BUNCH BET SIS
Only Hope Left Is that Sewing
Circle Will Permit Fight
Pictures
BUNCH BET SIS

Here in Elsewhere it is just trife
lonesome today. We who are here do
not project our heads high unto the
heavens this day. We feel, perhaps
wrongly, that we are not of the chosen
sons of EARTH 1t will be excused us,
no doubt that we swallow a lump.
All is in readiness for the big fight.
At the great cost OK $3.50 the bulletin
board has been SET up So far as we
know, Jeffries and Johnson are in the
pink of condition. Perhaps we do not
know. 1t is too far away to assert with
certainty that pink Is the color. Be
sides, there is a question whether 1t
would be possible for Johnson to be in
the pink of anything, being naturally
a decided brunette.
We who shall gather this afternoon
at the boardside are not a pretentiouS
bunch of sports.
Seats at the boardside are at no great
premium; none are reserved. A great
scuffle is the price that will be paid
for the best seats and great squeezing
and jamming and extreme difficulty
in breathing must be endured to hold
the place.
The betting here is not as strenuous
as it is at Reno. One fellow bet a
couple of dollars against ride in
wheelbarrow from the Chutes to the
Plaza that Johnson would not stay
over fifteen rounds. A few So bets
have been placed in some of the local
poolrooms. Somehow the people who
have money to bet seem to have spent
it for car fare, Pullman reservations,
Rickard- Gleason circus tickets or
something else.
Those who have lots of money have
spent some of it for the above mem
toned commodities and will no doubt
find a place for good share of the
remainder of it in Reno. Although the
news from Reno may not be altogether
authentic, we are very reliably in
formed that arrangements have been
made in that city to take care of gen.
tlemen with burdensome rolls.
LADIES AT BOARDSIDE
A number of ladies will be at the
boardside this afternoon. In fact, this
end of the greatest fistic mixup of the
century is more popular with the ladies'
than the more lively end. This quiet
scene may not be just as attractive as
it might be with the sterner sex, but
the number of women here is at least
a consoling feature. They are salts
fed and their courage will do much to
help us make it through until 1t is too
late to hope. When hope dies resig-
nation will be easier. 1t sounds ridic-
ulous, but it Is true that even after
the first gong has sounded some of us
poor deluded wretches will be wonder
ing If there is any possibility of our
getting there in time for the finish.
Twenty years from now it will not
make so much difference. When some
one says: "Well, / suppose you at
tended the Jeffries-Johnson fight back
in 1902" it will be easy to say: "Oh,
yes-well, not exactly. was busy that
day. L did not really care to go. [
knew Jeffries so we'll that [ was sure
that there would be nothing to it. Yes,
I knew Jeffrles well. l used to play
pool up at the Jeffries poolroom and
saw Jeff himself cross Spring street
one day Passed his house lots of times
on the Garvanza line" Such as that
will make us loom large in the vision
of our children's children. Posterity
is the true judge, after all.
The great crowd down here at Else
where is peaceable today. There is
not much gambling this morning. A
crap game was discovered in an alley
off Palmetto street late last night. 1t
is the only instance of a game of
chance that has been discovered. Rou-
lette wheels are not active, although
if is rumored that after the fight to-
night several pinwheels will be seen in
full operation,
Our greatest concern here in Else
where is for the moving pictures. We
onlv hope that some old lady's sewing
club. in an effort to suppress them,
will not buy them and burn them. We
also pray that the price of picture
tickets will be such as will not compel
ms to mortgage the old home to con-
meet with one.