The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10
viii Not Take Chance of AL
lowing Big Crowd to Get
Thanked" at Fight.
STANLEY KETCHEL FAST
ROLLING DOWN HILL
Payton Does Not Yet Believe
That JeffrieS- johnson
Fight Will Go.
BY JEFF THOMPSON.


NEW YORK. April 9.-Jack Gleason,
promoter Of the Jefries-Johnson fight,
has been offered SO. 900 day for July
1. 2 and for the bar privileges In the
arena TO he built on the race track at
Emeryvine. Gleason turned down the
offer.
4 short time ago a tentative offer for
the bar privileges was made to Gleason
while he was in Chicago on his way 10
this city, He said then that he would
not allow the sale OF liquor at the arena
on the day OF the Jeffries-J johnson fight,
although he said nothing about the pre-,
vious DAYS when other fights will be held
as sort OF preliminaries to the big cll-
making batting.
| couldn't figure out why Gleason should
turn down a small fortune when 1t was
his for the taking.
:I'U tell YOU" said he. "there is go
ing TO be great deal of feeling in that
fight. There is going to be so much that
there is danger Of race riots We shall
have the arena policed as no other sim
liar gathering was ever policed before.
but I'm taking no chances on booze. OF
course we cannot stop men from carry
ing drink i'm TASKS but we are not going
to sell any, at least that is the inten-
ton now. IL we should operate bar
there will be a great deal OF drinking
and the excitement from the liquor Is
likely TO cause no end of trouble,
From now on we can look for the
usual batch of false alarms from the
training camps 1t is always me case
Some one will start a rumor that john
son has broken a toe that Jeffries has
tackled a mountain lion and had both
his arms chewed off and thus they Will
continue.
But there is too much at stake for
harm to overtake either man through
carelessness. Why. there is talk of In
surfing each nghter and the referee for
81 %. 900 each.
There will be 165 press seats in the
arena which will be built for the Jeffries-
Johnson fight, and ] daresay there VIII
be about 265 newspaper men and alleged
newspaper men to oil them.
AS planned on paper the new arena is
the greatest thing in the history OF
hehting. IL has been decided that IL be
erected OH the inhed and Will he 800
ty OF 10000, but the plans have been
left open so that ii might be stretched
into seating 10000 persons. IT Will re-
qulre more than half n million feet OF
lumber to build it. The arena will be
divided into three octagonal sections.
Next to the ring will be the 165 press
seats, Next come the boxes and seats
which will range in price from $50 TO
$50 The second section will contain $40
to $40 seats, while the third section will
hold the So seats. These are box office
prices. Do not blame me for speculator
prices afterwards.
High Roller,
Some time ago when I wrote that
Stanley Ketche was high rolling and
rapidly spelling his good physique by
rapid living his friends rose up in wrath
denying It's truth. However, ! know from
my own personal knowledge that | spoke
the truth and subsequent developments
have proved my words,
Ketchel seemed TO lose complete con-
troll of himself after his manager, VII
making Hercucan efforts 70 get him
back into form, but the lure of the bright
lights and the tinkle OF the piano
sounded better to Steve,
The fact that Ketchel is now out of
the championship class leaves room for
middle weight champion This ought
to he settled pretty soon. Langford
seems the best contender now.
Many persons do not know 1t, but q
fighter loses weight at the rate OF i've
pounds TO the hour in long fight, A
heavy weight may enter the ring at 235
nifty round fight, crawl through the ropes
weighing about 220 pounds.
When Battling Nelson met Ad VOL
CAST he tipped the beam at 1873 pounds.
After his forty rounds of fighting he
weighed l2S pounds
There is a possibility that New Or
leans and not California may see Bat
tlng Nelson in his next star fight Mel
son has been dickering with 'Matty"
Baldwin for an engagement in New Or
leans early in June. The coast pro-
champion with Cyclone Johnny Thomp-
son for long fight In Frisco. The New
Orleans offer carried with II guaran-
teed purse OF S45O0 and so per cent OF
the gross receipts. AS Baldwin agreed
to make 133 pounds. allowing Nelson to
nght ut catch weights. the Battler was
disposed to look with favor upon the Of
fer.
Tommy Murphy, who has been touted
as the next logical contender for Ad
Wolgast. is scheduled TO meet Abe At
tell before the National Sporting club
April 90. They will meet at catch
weights.
Digger Stanley. the English bantam
weight. is due here from England to
meet string OF good Yankee lads The
Digger is most anxious to- tackle Jimmy
Walsh OF Boston. They have fought four
times each getting a victory. The otn,
two fights were draws.
After Ketchel called off his three fights
In Atlanta. New Orleans and Memphis,
Sam Langford. who Is scheduled to meet
the former assassin in Philadelphia. be-
gan to get frightened that Ketchel
would call this off, too ketchel inti-
mated that his thumb-he says he broke
it hitting Frank Klaus over the head in
Pittsburg-was in bad shape and he
would have To have n postponement- Then
igoe let loose the story that Ketchel ana