Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-07-02
Bets S. 600 That He Will
Referee Big Fight
The List Of Ringside Officials
Is Now Complete.
Attorneys Bring . $4,000 Suit
Against JsifrIss for Fees.


Johnson, on which rests the heavy
weight championship Of the world. The
officers are:
Referee. Tex Rickard OF Nevada; al
ternate referee, Charles White of New
York: timekeeper, George F. Harting
OF San Francisco; announcer, Billy
Jordan OF San Francisco; stakeholder,
Tin" Sullivan Of New York; betting
commissioner, Tom Corbett of San
Francisco.
Despite the persistence of rumors
that Rickard does not intend actually
to referee the contest, no tangible
ground for the report could be discov-
cred today. Rickard himself denied
emphatically that he had any inten-
tion of stepping down at the last MIN
utc in favor of the New Yorker.
81 am the referee" he reiterated,
land I am going to do the refereeing."
Here Rickard reached into his pocket
and produced roll of bills Here,
,ust hot that $4,000 for me that l ref
cree tho fight. That's how feel about
it,
Of the fight officers named above, all
excent Jordan are on the ground Hart
inc and Sullivan arrived today.
II have $4,000 of the purse money
now in nv hands," said Sullivan. land
tho rest will be turned over to me to-
morrow
Rickard was at the station to meet
Sullivan. After a brief conference the
pair entered an automobile and Went
70 Jeffries camp Five members OF
Sulliyan's party accompanied them.
When the machine drew up in front OF
I.Hrics cottage, the fighter came FOR
ward.
Hello, Tim" Jeffries said. extending
his hand.
Hello" replied Sullivan. Il wish
vou all kinds of luck boy
After q few moments talk with Jel-
fri.s Rickard and Sullivan whiskeo
IN .Iobnson's quarters. They arrived
Inst after the champion returned from
i,ts ,ft.rnoon road work. The greeting
he,ween Sullivan and johnson was
cordial. After an interchange OF re.
-. r,;rtard and sullivan FASTENED
back to Peno. ,
peno was much perturhed by rumots
.odav They were flying everywhere. ru-
mors about Jeffries. rumors ABOUT 'o''.'
ar r,nors about Rickard and the ret-
.r.n runnors about everything and every
,,oa,, d,rectlv or indirectly concerned with
inc fight Taking the Jeffries rumors III
oraer iris morning he broke his le.'
foraarm. at noon he ruptured blo>d
yaase, in his elbow, and at P. NJ. he un'
aatyent an operation for appendicitis
rhasn,te nj, this Jeffries was sufficiently
recovered at S p NJ. to look UP from a
,a,ns NJ cards and drawl: "Well. as'lonG
as I am all right on Monday AFTERNOON
haDDelS
to be now. does it?"
The only real affiiction to attack Jenries
during the day was one that threatened
his pocketbook. A suit for 5000 for at
torneys,. fees was filed against him in
the district court by the Reno lawyers
who drew up the contract conveying the
fighters share in the moving pictures -
an Eastern syndicate
Another of the flock OF rumors that
kept reporters trotting was one that Sam
Langford would box with Jim Jeffries 20
day. That particular rumor kept the cor
respondents hopping around In circles
About S p NJ 1t became known that
Langford had come in from the camp to
his hotel, taken a large and spacious
looking grip that fairly bulged with sug-
gestions of boxing gloves and hastened
to Moana.
The station at Reno was scene of ex-
element all day. Every train from the
coast unloaded fighters and fight follow
ers ut every Eangway. From the gam
bling halls that lurk behind no closed
doors In this land Of license. the click
of roulette wheels. droning calls of ta-
crap dealers and clink of coin fioated out
into the summer evening. The visitors
began to move about the city during the
evening in a way that suggested the big
West. BY twos and three, and tens they
snrged up and down the streets. In one
gambling hall door and cut the next the
procession wound along. Everybody halt
ed before the pool room board. but few
seemed inclined to bet. The wagering re-
mained light, The odds had dropped baci
from to u two days ago to 10 to g.. There
seemed little prospect OF change. In the
afternoon a wager Of $lOO0 to $3.50 or
Johnson was recorded.
louisville. KY, July l.-Marven
Hart, who won from johnson on points
in 20.round battle in 1904, expects
the Negro to win the fight next Mon
day.
Il hope Jeftries will win," said Hart
nut way down IN my neart tnink
johnson has it on him. Jeffries has
loafed too much and is too fat. OF
course. you can't see the fat on the
outside. but it is on the inside enough
to keep him from regaining his former
speed.",
The fight will last between Is and 90
rounds in Hart's opinion.
g. 3D.
Jeffries Training Camp, Moana
Springs New. July 1.-Jeffries held a
levee today He shook hands with
some 200 men and nearly everyone OF
the lot bears a name known to the
sporting world from one end of the
country to the other.
There were fighters. promoters,
sporting writer's and just mere men in
the procession that. streamed between
the eye of the camera and the pugilist
Among them John L. Sullivan. George
Harting. Tommy Burns, Abe Attell.
Sam Langford. Battling Nelson. Bill
Lang and Hugh Mcintosh were promi-
nent. To each Jeffries extended his
hand and to each he accorded smile.
After the photographing was over,
Jeffriess strolled apart with Abe Attell.