The Washington herald., 1910-06-27
RENO WIDE OPEN
UNTIL The FIGHT
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sponsoring the fight. Wednesday. Thurs
day, and Friday were days of frantic
Of the oiling of the money
Smelling machines everywhere, and the
sowing for the golden harvest.
Then the Pacific sports began to drop
down the mountain grade from San
Francisco. Sacramento, and Los Angeles.
ready to be early on the ground for the
prosecution Of business and the enjoy
ment of pleasure. BY Saturday there
were nearly 1000 strangers in town and
everything was ready for the big blow
of that is TO be here In this smart little
city on the Truckeo for the next ten
days. Before the county license bureau
closed business on Saturday afternoon
2l9 licenses for gambling games had been
taken out. There will be more applica-
tons on Monday and more on Tuesday,
as the belated gamblers drop into Reno
with their tents and stalls. clamoring for
a chance to do business.
Under the law the keeper Of gambling
resort must pay 500 initial license for
the year and a toll OF SIS a month for
each game, poker excepted. or rather
ignored. on each craps table, wheel, or
faro layout that he operates. Some OF
the biggest saloons in town have as
many as eight games going. and the
owners wish that you may believe them
they are not going TO feel that tax very
heavily.
Gamblers GobbIe I'D Empty stores.
There was not a back room that was
not cleared OF its rubbish, painted. and
furbelowed. and crowded with the lay
outs. Partitions were installed and ex-
tensions built, vacant stores were all
snatched Up, and their floors polished for
the tables. There is even a flourishing
gambling place below the rooms OF the
Christian Science Church. When Rick
ard dropped into Reno last Monday night
having been bled Of almost his last dol
lar by San Francisco lawyers, supervi-
sors, and political hOld-up men, he was
frankly busted, and those of his friends
who were nearest in his confidence knew
that this man. who was engineering a
deal with hundreds of thousands in IL,
didn't have the price of a second hand
automobile in his jeans.
Then stepped forth Jim May, propri-
etor Of the Palace Gambling emporium,
and Jim did the handsome by Tex. They
are friends, and once were partners in
many a scheme for licensed Joy dispens-
ing in Goldheld. jim May saw that
Richard was away down on his luck.
and he simply let the harried fight pro-
mOter IN on the ground floor of the Pal
aces profits 1t is an open secret, and
Richard, who looks upon such things
With the eyes. OF a Goldheld pioneer, ad-
mits Il, that jim May is going 10 give
him one-third OF the net profits from the
Palaces gaming tables after the big
blowout IS over May figures that his
net profits will be something like $4,000.
Ministers Preach Against Gambling.
Even though the pastor OF the First
Methodist Church announced as the topic
OF his sermon to-day. The shame OF
Reno, end the Christian Endeavor So
ciety took up as a topic of Sunday after
neon thought the disgrace Of this fair
city, Reno seemed to be enjoying the
hold-over effects Of her first big night OF
wickedness. From early morning until
after dark, every fifteen minutes an cleo
trio car. damned 10 the straps, hummed
down through the green valley of the
Truckee to Moana Springs. three miles
out of town, and there Reno feasted IT,
self on fugitive glimpses Of Jenries.
The fighter, as to whose fitness and
condition there seems to be locally q
superlative confidence. widely at variance
with the general opinion in the East. had
gone down TO the Truckee River in the
morning to enjoy some Of the privilege
which he bought with his State fshins
license on Friday. In the afternoon he
| received the homage OF all the specialists
and experts from the East and West
seated in a rocking-chair under a willow
tree in the yard of his training quarters
Jenries Keeps Silent.
Jeffries' right eye was black yesterday
because he stood with guard down, anC
asked mis- brother Jack TO punch him Al
hard as he could in the face. ant
brother Jack had done so. He sat in hi
chair, his pup Teddy in his arms. anC
maintained a severe attitude of silence
! At his right, on bench. sat William
| Muldoon, Of White Plains Next TO hin
was James ]. Corbett. and beyond hin
| him Tom Jones, the manager Of VOL
| CAST. Beyond Jones, and thus separated
| by a decent space from Corbett, wa
/ John L. Sullivan, coQplaeent in a gre!
/ suit and purple shirt and with not
| trace Of his late embarrassment on hi
pink face. Harry Monahan, an old-tim
| sparring partner of Jeffries; Ole Elliott
/ Tex Richards partner, from Goldield
| Walter Kelly, the actor. and the rest o
the complement of camp trainers, rub
bers. and sparring dummies were drapet
in a semi-ciTcle on the left hand Of tn
champion.
JeR TOusIes Reporters Hair.
All spoke in subdued voices when the,
spoke at all Sometimes one Of then
would move restlessly in his seat anC
make a tentative pat at Jeffries' foI
terrier. Occasionally a joke was cracked
but not very funny one. When 4
sporting writer from Omaha, who haS
just come in off the desert. climbed owe
the wire fence barring the herd without
he rushed for Jeffries. and when tn
! fighter, as salutation, took off the new
comer's hat and tousled his hair with al
affeetionate paw, smiles Of approva
passed around the group, Jeffries wa
himself, after all
Meanwhile. the fast-gathering crowds
outside the fence were content to form
a fringe the whole length within eye
shot of the rocking chair. and there Il
stand speeches., Just watching Therl
| were three squaWs with their papoose
In wicker, which added a touch Of colo
to the draperies of the fence. Occasion
ally. when one Of the spectators foun,
his foot going asleep, he wandered across
the road TO watch the little brown bear
In their cage. The bears sat still also.
mo Oft Tee - -
friends got into one of the two auto
which stood covered with tarpaulln be
hind the kitchen and went whirling dow
the road toward the stubby brown noun
tains in the east, the crowd drifted owe
TO the dancing pavilion and out TO tn
ball field to watch the game between
picked team OF the Jeffries camp. cohort
and another composed Of newspape
men. One more momentous day at tn.
training quarters had passed.