The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-22


moral basis The fight was expected to bring
thousands of dead game sports" and good
spenders" to the city of the Golden Gate. But
and here's the rub-the Panama Exposition
would bring, first and last, more people, more
money, and longer season of being Mecca
for tourists With New Orleans in the field,
with her race track closed, San Francisco and
California felt that the chances of obtaining
the exposition would be greatly jeopardized If
the States representatives went before peace
loving Congress with the stain of bloody
mill upon It's 'scntcheon. 1t becomes evident
that the Governor simply committed his State
10 mercenarv speculation, in lieu of sport
ing certainty. While the country cares little for
the fortunes of Mr.. Tex Ricard, it will not look
with kindness upon procedure the part of
the State authorities, which first encouraged him
to spend his money and then threw him down
Before blow has been struck, Mr. Ricard,
whose game is to bring fighters together rather
than 10 tight himself, knows the feel of the upper
cut and the double cross which he has seen so
often result in the temporary slumbcr of his
gadiators.
We are pleased to note. however. that Cali
fornia is not going to get past with this sort
of devious programme without lively tilt Hav-
papers have turned on New Orleans The
Chronicle, in particular, is severe. 1t claims
that the climate of New Orleans is one which
causes Everybody who has the price to fee the
city between June and October. For six months
in the year, it says. you can fry an egg on the
sidewalk The masonry of the town absorbs
heat by day and radiates it by night. Sleep is
sought, often vainlv on porches and verandas,
r. oh ms do
Elk's reunion there the poorest in the history
Iof the order, are likely to appear in any sum
mer and start stampede danger which
should be most threatening when people have
aocked from Central and South American points,
bringing whatever infection there is, and where
crowds. wholly unaccustomed to the water
drink it with the freedom inspired by dog days.
And, claiming for California climate whose
maximum heat never goes beyond sixty degrees
the Chronicle throws science aside and mikes
it up as follows:
THE place is moss-grown, swetering, lazy,
Inegro-infested city, which looks to fair as It's
only way of escape from the financial conse-
quences of its congenital laxity. An exposition
/ there would degenerate into grab game"
This sort of talk naturally brings the New
Orleans Picayune bristing to the ringside. Il
points out that New Orleans is now free of yell
low fever, that It's winter climate is ideal while
that of San Francisco is mixture of steam
ing fog the year round. while the bubonic plague
in California is still far from under control and
in the event of a gathering from all the world
could we'll become ''frightful menace. II
supports these statements by official Government
reports, and, so far az the negro situation is
concerned, counters heavily with sharp alu
sion to the Chinese sums of the Western Metro
polls. AS TO San Francisco weather, it quotes d
letter from resident of that city in which he
pays the following tribute to the famous climate
Here the rain doesn't come down
in refreshing and cleansing showers,
but comes in clouds of fog-cold,
drearv and depressing. On a sunshinv
afternoon you start out thinking that
certainly YOU dispense with your,
! overcoat. Within an hour the sun will
/ be obscured by the fog, your teeth will
be chattering and most likely before you
can get back TO your hotel you will
have laid the foundation for week in
bed with near-pneumonia. 1t is we'll
known fact that many persons coming
here from better climates have con-
tracted fatal cases of grip and pneu-
monia."
All of which would indicate that, in squelch-
ing the prize fight, California has not at any
rate embarked thereby upon a season of sweet and
boodless peace Congress having decided to
postpone action in the matter of the exposition,
there may be expected many other rounds. In
view of the fact that Governor Gillett seems to
have cleared the way for abuse of Caifornia's
rival by action certainly suggestive of hypocrisy
in view of the fact that San Francisco has thrown
the first handful of mud, we are glad that
if it needs be that the muck hy-New Orleans
sits not conpaeent under the plastering OF
her good repute with slime.
.'Ip and at EN-, is the word. If both cities
can devote their attention, in the pauses of mud
Singing to cleaning up their own moral premises,
the unseemly fight for commercial prize may,
after all, result in some definite good.
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