Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-10
JEFF AND JOHNSON
TO SANFRANC|SCO
Contest Between Hcavyweights Schcd-
uled for California-GIcason
Leaves for Coast.

Salt Lake Is out OF II when II comes to
the big boxing contest between Jenrles
and Johnson. That has been definitely de-
termincd by Tex Rickard and Jack
Gleason who have been hobnobbing In
Salt Lake for the past three days. Glca-
son leaves today for the coast and Rick
ard Will follow him shortly. after visit
to Ely. where he Will have a consultation
with his hackers.
For the first time in his life Rickard
has been compelled to take backwater. He
has laid down his hand. And ne has held
many a big one In his time. and many a
small one. which he made win. But the
winds have not been propltious and he
has stacked up against a game which
was strong, with an awful bank behind
1t. He has made a valiant fight for Salt
Lake and has put II on tho pugilistlc
map. But II was not to be.
There has been all sorts OF talk In re-
gard to JACK Gleason in and about the
city OF Salt Lake. 1t has been cited that
Tex Rckard went to New York and by
putting up $4,000 In cold cash secured
the option on the greatest glove contest
which the world has ever seen. Late revel-
ations have brought TO light the fact
that everything was cut and dried, Salt
Lake never had a chance
There Is such thing as publicity and
for the sake of advertising Salt Lake
has been a much-mootcd spot on the
sporting map. No great pug1listic event
has ever taken place In Utah. and il
Is not probable that any VIII over make
history on this soil. Public opinion Is
against 1t and the law also is very clear
In regard TO these affairs There has
boon feeling In certain quarters that
the JeurieS-J ohnson bout would give the
city much advertising. but with the far
sighted. sane business men, no matter
what their personal inclnations might
be, there has ever been the feeling that
a contest Of this sort would not rebound
to anything credltable to the city which
is TO be the commercial metropolis of the
intcrmountaln west.
AS matter of fact, the great contest
between JeffrfeS and Johnson which
finally resolves itself into combat be-
tween the white the Ethiopian races-for
that Is really what II means-is going to
take place somewhere either in San
Francisco. or In its environs. San Fran
cisco is the pugllistic center of the world.
There is a tremendous following there
and where Salt Lake would produce one
spectator san Francisco Will bring forth
ten. As for eastern visitors, they will
go to the coast quickly as they will
to Salt Lake, The difference In fare Is
immaterial. and most of them would go
In any case.
The want of an arena sufficient to ac-
commodate the immense crowd which
Will inevitably witness the event is an
other matter. The saucer track at Saltalr
has been brought forward prominently as
a suitable place 1t would not. as a mat
ter OF fact. begin to accommodate the
crowd. and the transportation facilities
arc not of the best. Talk of erecting n
place for the event in other places has
been heard but does not seem tenable
Viewing the situation from every stand
point, Notwithstanding the oft-repcated
statements of Richard that the contest
would be held In Salt Lake or no place
the conclusion is that the greatest event
in all pugilistc history is going to take
place somewhere in the neighborhood of
the Golden Gate.