The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-02
SETTLING MASS
OF HUMANITY
From Page OneD

/ NIOuftnuc0 FROM EEEc Onc.l
/ back they wished they had stayed there
l and started out again.
| About o'clock IL became known that
| LanEford had come in from the camp
/ piciOus looking grip. which bulged
I with suggestions of boxing gloves, and
I FASTENED back to Moana. Everybody
/ was on the jump out TO the camp again
l in moment. The road was almost
/ destroyed by the hurrying wheels. Most
/ of IL was hanging in the air, a cloud
| of binding. sitting dust. 1t did not
get chance to get back to earth for
! hours.
When the war correspondents arrived
/ at Jeffries' quarters there was no sign
Of Langford- He bad not been there. il
was declared. The scribeS. greatly dis
/ appointed, waited to watch Jeffries do
/ his last work. a few short sprints, then
abandoned him for the night Jeffries
home squirt from his rOadwork was
made under the eye OF the moving pic
ture camera and this probably is the
last time the machine will be trained
On him until he enters the ring.
Reno began To-Day TO assume some
thing OF the appearance IL will on Mon
day, before the battle. The depot was
scene of excitement all day. Every
train from the coast unloaded fighters
and fight fans at every gangway. So
many notables arrived that the CORE
spondents began to look hopeless. IT
was impossible TO talk 70 them all
Some escaped uninterviewed-
Later In the day the Overland Lin
tied from the east rolled IN Tim
Sullivan. the stakeholder. took the spot
GOtch, the wrestler. and a host of lesser
lights, some OF them from across the
Atlantic, came in for shade OF pub
lie attention. Even old Sol took an in
terest and he gazed at the cosmopolitan
thronE 50 curiously that many called
for liquid help, and ran for shelter.
All Talk Fight.
It was an odd sight along the main
thoroughfare Of the city when the
evening shades allowed the visitors to
get out on the Sidewalk and circulate
again. In front Of the hotels the pas
sengers were sOlidly blocked with no
table and unnotable men They were
all talking fight Across the street
from the door Of a pool room a hoarse
voice roared offers Of wagers through
a meEaphone-
who wants 10 to ss7 Take a chance.
boys. It's going on inside now.
They're betting real money. Ten to
six and a half; who wants it?"
From the gambling halls. which
frankly proclaim their business in this
land OF licenses, lurking behind the
modest green doors, the hum of rou-
lette wheels and droning calls of the
crap dealers and the murmur of voices
and clink Of coin floated out AS the
summer evening drew on and the air
cooled the visitors began to move about
the city, cycling everything that sug-
eested the big west BY twos and
threes and tens they surged up and
down the streets In at one gambling
hall door and out at the next, the
crowd wendell along. All stopped at
the poolrOom boards but few seemed
inclined to bet The wagering remained
very quiet. The odds had dropped from
There seemed to be little prospect of
change. One big bet was recorded
during the late afternoon, Of $1,000 TO
win $500
Mig Money In sight.
Late tonight when the days arrivals
had taken their last look at the two
fighters and compared notes. the bet
ting aspect OF the situation began 20
liven up. Tom Corbett, the betting
commissioner received $4,000 from his
brother Jim to place on Jeffries and later
in the night received $4,000 from one
New Yorker to wager at $1,000 OF better
against johnson. The only other ten
thousand dollar bet thus far made was
made by Andy Craig of Chicago some
weeks ago.
The trainers. rubbers and other csmp
attendants out at Johnson's headQuar-
ters tonight raised purse said to be
$1,000, which they were offering at 6
to 10. Up to a late hour tonight this
money had not been placed.
John Rush. of ely. came in with So
500. which he placed against $1,000.
taking the johnson end.
Not Taking Chances.
Johnson refused tonight to permit
his manager to toss for corners. At
least that was the excuse made by
Tom Flanagan when Sam Berger from
Jeffries' camp asked him to make the
trial ahead of time. Berger wanted
to toss tonight, but Flanagan insisted
that they wait until the men enter the
ring and then toss in accordance with
the time-worn custom in ring battles.
You know" said Flanagan, after the
conference with Berger, Eve NAV use
electric fans In the ring. 1t IL not de-
cided yet. We think II possible that
the other fellows may put in some
apparatus that we don't know about
and " NOT s.1rfr,or ~. -
Late tonight there was a Squabble