The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-13
WHO WILL
The Fight is Getting All the
Advertising Necessary
Say Managers.
TOSS UP COIN FOR 1T

San ffanclsco, Way IL WIN hh 'hc
prominent Californiaus who have had
to do with the referceing of the glove
contests of years objected to by one side
or the other, the average sporting man
IN puzzled 10 know who will he select.
ed to pass Judgment If the Jeffries.
johnson fight.
When Sam Berger and Jack Johnson
agree to disagree on the point at their
initial conference on May 4, quite a
number were of the opinion that a little
s%talling was being resorted TO, 10 stim.
ulate interest in the big ring event.
"No, sir" SAID Tex. Richard deter.
minodly when the suggestion was made
in bis presence. ''This fight is getting
all the advertising that il needs and
IL seems 20 me that if any were ncces.
sary, the best boost of the affair could
receive would have been the news that
a refrcc had peer selected at the time
appointed in the articles. don I sup.
pose there will be any hitch over the
matter but il would have suite6 ne a
lot better ii they had chosen tGeir ref
rec In the first attempt
II is cviden, now that Richard 5
views are shared by the majority. II
is no secret that Berger and Johsnon
had a two hours session at the Seal
Rock House where johnson is located
on the evening of May 3, and that it
was evident when the men parted com.
pany that their conference on the fol.
lowing day would be barren of results.
In ordinary fights, politics enter
largely into the selection of the retree.
Each man with an ambition TO act as
judge and earn the accompanying fee,
not only pulls the wires in his own he.
half, but brings To bear all the influence
his personal friends can muster.
Under such circumstances the degree
NJ button. holing, whispering aud back.
biting that has been INDUCED in, the
present argument can be readily i'm.
agined. 1t is said that johnson has
been placed in his guard to such an cx.
tent, through being warned against this
man aud that his field of choice has mar.
rOwed down to Jack Wclch, and that if
the Jeffries camp does not agree To ac.
ccpt Nelch the negro Will almost 20 TO
the extreme of refusing to enter the
ring.
Johnson named Eddie Grancy too,
but it is said that when he did so it
with the full conviction that Jeffrics
would never agree to Gran Y, whatever
he might ultimately decide to de in re.
spcct to Welch. For that matter some
of Jeffries' friends are claiming that
johnson promised faithfully not to in.
troduce Granry : man as IA candidate
for the position rs refrce when the pre-.
%liminaries OF the fight were being dis.
cussed in the cast.
So far As the writer Is concerned this
is in no sense an interference that
Graney is not as well qualified as Welsh
or anybody else. l am merely catching
rumors as they fly and reducing them
to the semblance of news.
One thing is certain, Il will be an EN-.
barassing matter if either of the heavy.
weights has to accept u man he has al
ready flouted. From what has been gath.
cred from the friends of both parties
in fact, all the men discarded so far
are entirely unsupported sporting men
is likely to be packed to refree what
some one has described as "the world 3
fair of pugilism."
What Is sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander. When at the op.
ening conference 1t became natent that
Johnson wanted Welch or uraney aud
that Berger wanted Eddie Smith or
Charley Eyton, and that none of the
elibigles named are To be chosen, pro.
moter Gleason took a hand. He warn.
cd Berger and Johnson that if they
could not agree the articles required
that each side should name two men
and the club make a selection.
johnson gave the table a r~esoundiug
whack with his big fist and blurted
out "Well, If he puts down the two
names I have already objected to and
one of them is chosen, there will be no
fight"
In view of Johnson s declaration, 10y.
al fight followers are Wondering vybe,b.
err the two names he wlI submit to
Richard and Gleason in case the task
of naming the rerree devolves upon the
Eddie Graney. He knows, of course.