Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-16
MAYOR DEFIES
GOV. GILLETT
ON BIG FIGHT.
San Francisco Executive
Says He Is Running That
City--FIqhtsrs Confident.
MAY GO TO NEVADA If
The law HOLDS
sssOsa. BY Unstsd Prs.s wsrs.

! Special By Unsted Press WIRE.
San Francisco, June 16-Attorney
General Webb will take the neces-
sary legal steps to stop not only the
Jeffries-Johnson fight, but also the
Langford-Kaufman mill scheduled
for Saturday. He made this an
nOuncement I'm statement issued to
the United Press today. Work on
the Jeffries-Johnson fight arena was
ordered stopped today.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.
San Francisco, June 16:-The
fighting element took heart today
following the gloom cast yesterday
by Governor Gillett's order to Attor-
ney General Webb to take every
legal action possible to prevent JEFF
fries and Johnson from fighting here
July A. Statements made in Chicago
by Mayor Mccarthy, of San Fran
cisco, that he is running San Fran
cisco and intends taking no orders
from Governor Gillett, and that the
fight will surely be pulled off in San
Francisco, caused Joy here.
Attorney General Webb announced
today that he was looking into the
law and will probably be able to tell
by tonight just what action he will
take.
Both Jeffries and johnson believe
the fight will come off, but say they
are ready to fight in Nevada IL the
California authorities prevent the
bout. Tex Rickard, one of the pro-
| n0fnrd aauc he urfIl null off tha a A0h
| in Nevada if necessary.
Rickard and Gleason, the promo
ters Of the fight, say they Will not
take the fight away from California
without legal battle.
Vigorous protests are being raised
by the saloonkeepers, some of the
hotel men and others who hoped to
reap harvest from the gathering of
sporting men from all parts of the
world at the pugilistic arena here on
July 4. But the clergymen, who
have vigorously opposed the fight,
are enthusiastically applauding Gov
ernor Gillett for instructing Attorney
General Webb to stop the fight. 1t
| Is said that the influence which in
duced the governor to take stand
| against the fight was exerted by
/ Congressman Bennett, of New York,
who was a delegate to the recent
Presbyterian general = assembly at
Atlantic City.
Work on the arena, which was under
construction in the heart of the city,
has been stopped. Stunned promoters
are debating what is to be done. They
still cling to the slender hope that mat
ters may be Strengthened out and that
the encounter between the white man
and the negro may yet be held in San
Francisco. But If the attorney general
is successful In his efforts to stop the
fight here the fighters will be brought
together in Utah or Nevada, although
| the date will probably be changed.
Salt Lake, Utah, and Reno and Ely,
New, are talked of by promoter '"Tex"
Rickard as possible places for the fight.
| In his letter to the attorney general
the governor said:
"The first session of the legislature
held in this state in the year 1850 en-
acted law making it felony for
two persons to fight each other upon
previous agreement upon a wager for
| money, or any other reward. This law
| has been amended from time to time,
but never SO as to make prizefghting
lawful
"Our people have the right to de-
mand that prizefghting shall cease
in this state, and 1t viii If our present
laws are enforced, especially II the
! courts follow our decisions of the su-
preme courts of our sister states in
| defining a prizefght.
''To show that the so called spar
| ring exhibitions held in this state un-
der the auspices of Incorporated ath-
letic clubs have not been sparring ex-
hibitioDs, but prizehghts, l need but
refer you to the files of our daily
newspapers. l will call your attention
! to two or three of the recent ones.
First, the Moran-McC Carthy fight. The
| Oakland Tribune in Its issue of April
80. in reporting 1t, uses this language:
"'After the sixteenth round had
gone some fifty seconds Moran landed
a blow on McCarthy's jaw. 1t did not
| look to be heavy punch, but the
| young fighter went over backward, his
head seemingly dropping below, as
| though his neck had been injured, and
as he struck the floor the sound of the
| impact could be heard throughout the
pavilion Mccarthy died.
Next the Wolgast- Nelson fight took
place on Washington's birthday. 1t
seems that prizenghters always want
to fight on Washington's birthday,
Decoration day and Independence day.
1t was reported in all the daily papers
! Of the state by rounds. l quote from
the San Francisco Chronicle of Feb.
%:
Round B9.-Wolgast appeared 10th
TO put In the finishing punch. He jab-
/ bed necessarily at the Battler's anat-
omy, and again the blood flowed in
stream. Wolgast almost sent Nelson
to the floor, landing blow after blow
on the defeDseless champions face.'"
Governor Gillett is said to have de-
termined to stop the prizefght be-
cause he feared that the contest in San
Francisco on Independence day would
create the impression that the Golden
Gate City was an unfit place for the
holding Of the proposed Panama expo
sition.
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The children of the primary de-