Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-21
FIGHT PROMOTERS SEEM TO
HAVE W TO CILLETT
Jeffries Due to Leave for Reno Today-JohnsOn Will Not GO
Till Later in the Week, Thursday or Friday-Anti-Fight
Agitation on Governor DeckersOn Now Started.

Reno this evening. n will prob
ably not start for Nevada before
Wednesday and possibly not until
Thursday morning.
The Ketchel-Langford match will be
pulled off in Reno on the morning of
July 4, and 1t is expected that If Reno
builds an arena to hold $4,000 and pay
the $1,000 license fee the light will be
held there.
1t Is known here that strong pres
sure is being brought to bear to stop
he fight in Nevada, but Governor
Dickerson Is said not to be ayerse to
the fight and will not go out of his
way to prevent it.
COLUMBUS, o., June 21.-George l..
Rockwell, chairman of the "Stop that
tight post card movement, which
claimed a share of the credit for re-
moving the Jeffries-Johnson fight from
California, last night that
today a similar movement of protest to
Governor Dickerson, of Nevada, would
be started against the holding of the
contest in Nevada.
Ten thousand petitions directed to
the governor will be sent to prominent
persons throughout the country, and the
recipients will be asked to get from 20
to 500 signers for each and forward
them to Governor Dickerson. Attorney
for Stop That Fight League maintains
that there is nc authori Lation in Me-
vada laws for "a contest as proposed.
They say the law passed for the benefit
of the Corbett -Fitzsimmons contest In
1897 provided only for glove contests"
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he is expected home in a few days.
Private Secretary Finch tonight said 1t
would be impossible to answer COM
munications that have been received,
and that no action would be taken re-
garding them until word had been re-
ceived from the chief executive.
RENO, New, June 21.-Promoter
Tex Richard was warmly welcomed by
his fellow Nevadans on his arrival last
night from San Francisco with the des-
TIMES of the Jeffries ana Johnson fight.
Goldfield, represented by a score of
business men and mining men, will
struggle heroically for the honor of
the battle of the century" Among the
Goldfelders are Ole Elliott and E. s.
(Kid) Highly, former business partners
of Rickard. Elliott and three others
~journeyed to Truckee to accompany
Richard to Reno.
loon after reaching his hotel, Richard
went into conference with the Reno and
the Goldfield committees to hear the In
ducement each had to offer.
According to its optimistic delegation
of boosters" Goidfield has an excellent
prospect of getting the fight. Goldfeld's
original bid of 1920, 900, the guaranteed
sale of six thousand tickets at 500 each.
has been supplemented, 1t is said, by an
offer positively to safeguard both FRO
moters and fighters against any pos
sible loss.
Notwithstanding Goldfield's declara-
tons, sanguine expectations of all those
close to Rickard say Reno has much
the better chance and is almost certain
to and the prize.
Sid Hester, promoter of the Ketchel
and Langford match, arrived on the
train with Richard to arrange for the
staging of that contest OF the morning
of July 4. Hester says Richard has in
terposed no objections to the use of the
Jeffries-Johnson arena for the proposed
middleweight match, and he does not
look for opposition from any other
source.