The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-06
Special from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
 Boston, July 6.-Denouncing prize lighting as brutalizing and the exhi- bition of pictures of the Reno fight as no less so, Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, today announced that Boston would see nothing of the Jeffries-J John- son battle. The mayors announce ment followed the inception of a gen eral crusade against the fight pictures which had been begun by Secretary William Shaw of the Christian Endea- vor Society.
 Prize fighting in itself" said Mayor Fitzgerald in explaining his position, 'is brutalizing and for this reason is -prohihsted in about every state in the Union.
 'In a few months no state in the union will permit a prize fight. Bos- ton ought to take the lead in banish- ing pictures of this sort. Consequent ly I do not think that the pictures of the fight will be given in Boston,"
 MT. Shaw has sent out appeals to President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, Governor Hughes of New York and Mayor Gaynor of New York City, urg- ing their influence against the nov ing picture campaign. Today he will continue the battle and will send
 
 the United States, the following tele- gram:
 Race riots and murders already fol- low the announcement of Johnson's victory. Moving pictures of the prize fight will create more violence. Will you join in appeal to authorities, cit ies and towns. to prohibit pictures as law provides? Help save our young people from these demoralizing shows. Wire answer. (Signed William Shaw, General Secretary, United Society of Christian Endeavor."
 New York, July 6-Led by the Uni- ted Societies of Christian Endeavor with four million members, and the International Association of Police Chiefs, movement is on foot to pre- vent the exhibition of the pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight that prom ises to be international in its scope.
 The Christian Endeavor Society, through its Boston authorities, has wired a lengthy petition to the gover- nor of every state in the union asking that pictures be barred on the grounds that they reproduce an illegal act and that the moving pictures of the fight will be just as illegal as the actual fight itself.
 Secretary William Shaw declared to- day that he had also wired Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft to use their influence to prevent the pictures from being exhibited.
 The American Vitagraph Company, which owns the films of the fight, is believed to have expended a quarter of a million dollars in purchasing the exclusive rights and in taking the pie lures. Jeffries was paid $66,666 while Johnson got 0,0O0. Rickard and Gleason got a "cut" and still own one sixth of the rights. In addition, the moving picture concern spent a small e. H. ing improved pictures, sending score of expert operators to Reno and in other incidental expenses. The pie ture people expected to take in $1,- GOO 900 during the first month the films were on exhibition. This sum tho agitation against the production of the pictures continues to spread.
 It is feared that the sight of a ne- gro knocking out a white man would lead to more of the race feeling that resulted in Monday nights rioting. the stamp of disapproval on the pie lures are Washington, the national capital, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Att lanta.
 At the last meeting of the Inter national Association of Police Chiefs there was passed resolution intro duced by William A. Pinkerton, of Chicago, urging the police to stop all the moving picture shows that exhibit films casting ridicule upon the police or showing pictures of criminal acts, thus tending to increase crime
 Moving pictures of prize fights are placed in this category. Mayor Gay nor of New York today declared he would take no action looking toward barring the pictures.
 New York" he said, has not the large negro population of other cities nd T a xx-il Ioo race feeling engendered here by the pictures"
 But what Mayor Gaynor refuses to do Mayor Schwab of Cincinnati has already done 'I cannot share the be- lief of those who believe such an ex- l1ibitfon has any good effect like in- creasinR interest in physical culture. It would not be consistent to bar the actual fight and then allow the pie