The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
START RUMORS TO
CHANGE THE ODDS
That's What Will Happen From
Now Until Fourth
of July.
GAG OLD, BUT STILL WORKS
PHILADELPHIA JACK O'BRIEN
INDUCED HIMSELF.
GAG OLD, BUT STILL WORKS
BY Q. e. VAN LOAN.

New York. May 1.-THE day Of the
pugilistic roorback has arrived once
more. It's an easy thing to start a pri-
vate line of inside information about
any man in whom the public is inter-
ested.
Now, for instance, let us suppose that
Jones tells Smith that he has heard
from Rowardennan that Jeffs left arm
is stiff. Smith tells Brown that Jeffs
left arm Is sore as boil and not fit
to be used. Brown tells Green that
he understands that they may have to
postpone the big fight because Jeff is
in such horrible condition that it would
be murder to send him into the ring.
And If you don't watch Green he will
have Jeff dead and buried before night.
The funny thing about 1t is that a
whole lot of people who ought to know
better will receive this CUFF with open
mouths and pass it along, fifty per
cent stronger than they got 1t. Almost
any story gathers something in the
telling Three good men handy at
embroidering alleged facts can take the
most innocent circumstance and mag
Nifty II into a national calamity.
There are some folks who lie for
fun. some who lie for money and others
lie because they want to affect the
betting. Plenty of men have made
juicy prices Tor themselves Dy q little
1UdiciouS use OF conversation. Philadel-
phia Jack O'Brien once turned as neat
a trick IN this line as may be found
In ring history, and he did II single
handed and alone. All he did was to
pass on a little talk to a man whom ne
felt would leak" to the right people,
O'Brie1 had been up in the Klondfke
On one of his long yearly pilgrim
ages after the mazuma- He was signed
by wire to meet Al Kaufman AL
then SfJnn0Sad "a 70 dc
mon for he had been rocking them to
all to sleep with one mighty poke, and
the San Franciscans thought we'll of
him.
Met Mt Gangplank.
OBrien walked down the gangplank
Of the steamer and started for his no.
tel. Harry Foley trailed along Harry
was once quite a fighter himself, but
he had a Jaw which refused to stand
up under bombardment. Harry also
had tongue and a wide acquaintance
He was on the Job to find out what
OBrien thought about the tough young
giant he was to meet.
OBrien was very pesSimiStic.
'Of course you know, Harry, that I'm
not quite as young as L used to be and
my hands are b-a-a-d. To come right
down to it, I'm probably making a fool
match, but the northern trip didn't
one must make expenses. / may De
able to get the decision over Kaufman
at that. but I'd like to be about six
years younger for the job
That was plenty It was enough to
send Kaufman into the betting a 2
to 1 choice. Foley told some of the
"wise ones" and the "wise ones" told
their friends, and pretty soon there
wasn't any money but Kaufman
money. When the price suited him
OBrien quietly unbelted and sent in
the family bank roll. He slew Kauf-
man at his leisure and the men who
had been counting on Jacks b-a-a-a-d
hands got the trimming of their lives,
and every dollar that O'Brien had to
spare got him two the next morning.
Many Rumor Starters.
There will be a lot of Jeffries men
setting afloat horrible rumors in the
hope of bringing the odds to a bar
gain counter basis. There will be some
Johnson men playing the same game.
The fellow who believes everything
he hears and worries about it will be
as busy as bald hornet from now on
to July.
The reports out of the Jeffries camp
are bound to be colored by the per-
sonal opinion of the man who sends
them Every fellow whose business
will take him to Rowardennan has
been besieged by friends with requests
for "the real dope on Jeffries" Most
of these men will respond TO the best
of their ability, and their reports on
Jeffries will be based upon their per-
sonal opinions.
Already we have had several scarey
tales about the big fellows wind. 1t \
is not good, they say. Now, when was
a fighters wind in good condition
three months away from his fight?
That's one of the things man usually
goes into training to correct tendency
to short windedness. And because
Jeff puffs a little after hard work
these men are worried. They evil
IDENTIFY believe he should be in per-
feet trim before getting into training.
If a man could hop into his work at
a few days notice and show no signs
of short wind, there would be no need
of the long gruelling training process.
There is one thing which Jeff needs
and which the Importance of this fight
demands that he should have, and that