Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-06

ABOARD BERRY HANCOCK SPE-
CIAL, FRESNO, July 5.-Informaton
CLEANED from wealthy sportsmen on
board the special Justites the state
ment that the Los Angeles sportsmeh
are returning home 100000 poorer than
when they went to Reno in expectation
of seeing Jeffries maintain his great
record as "undemolished bull of the
woods" in his announced final appear
ance in the role of heavyweight cham
pion of the world.
Clarence Berry, brother of the great
Hen Berry, is the heaviest individual
loser, not only in our delegation, put
anywhere else, his bank roll having
shrunk considerably more than S4O,OOO
in that disastrous hour of fighting. A
Los Angeles merchant. who wishes his
name withheld for business reasons, Is
reported to have lost 100000, but 1ntl-
mate friends say that his loss Will be
less than half that amount. Jack kip
Der, business partner of Jeffries, says
he was fortunate in not being able 10
place the full amount he had intended
to bet, owing to lack of Johnson money
at Reno and San Francisco, ana ne
gets off with a loss of $4,000. Fully a
dozen others dropped from $500 to $4,000
EACH but since the fight all are retlcent
in this regard, whereas they were Will
ing to talk of their wagers before. This
Tom Jones, who dropped $4400. Jones
placed $1,000 the night before the fight.
Jeffries and those friends who stayed
with him during the final week VIII
start home not later than tomorrow
according to plans last night. Jetfrles
will go to his ranch for long rest, put
his plans for the future are not yet
completed beyond the fact that his re-
tirenent to private life will be real this
time. as he always has desired to avoid
the limelight, and now that he has add
ed a nice fortune to his possessions he
will be able to retire to life of ease
and enjoyment.
JEFF'S SHARE 100000
Until some official statement Is CIV
en- out, nobody will know the fighters
shares of the big purse. 1t is known
that johnson insisted upon changing
the division from 75 and % per cent
to an even split three days pe[ore tne
fight, and sent a representative to Jeft-
ries with an ultimatum that there
would be no fight otherwise. A com
nromise was effected at 80 and 40 per
cent, the general impression being tnat
the winner was to get 96 per cent, but
a close friend of Jetfries, who ought TO
know what he is talking about, SAID
before the fight that new arrange
ment gave Jeffries so per cent regard
less of the result. Estimating his anti
fight theatrical engagements at $4,000,
and adding $4,000 for his interest in
the fight pictures and $4SOQ0 at least
for his share of the purse, Jettrles
cleaned UP close to 100000 out of the
match with Johnson
Johnson cleared more in this one
fight than he received in all his other
fights, and he too is comparatively
wealthy. .oo ooo
Gleason and Rickard will net 100000
profits at least. Unofficial attendance
figures place the value of the house at
$4,000. 1t cost probably $4,000 to stage
the fight. not any more. Rickard has
disposed of his one-s sixth interest in the
pictures for $4,000, while Gleason re-
fused to sell at this figure
Johnson will earn quite nice for
tune in the next few months in theat-
rical engagements, beginning next
Monday in New York under the dlrec-
tion of Hammerstein, having already
left Reno in his special car for New
York via Chicago.
Sl,OOOOOO SPENT
Fight fans paid about $1OOO,OO9 in
one way and another for the privilege
of seeing the new champion deteat the
old champion. Nearly one-fourth this
sum was paid at the gate yesterday:
Half a million dollars were paid to the
railroads and the balance represents
the minimum of incidental expenses to
and from Reno.
Twenty-one special trains were run
to Reno in addition to regular trains,
making it reasonable to estimate the
attendance at 10000 visitors.
The Berry Hancock special, carrying
the Los Angeles delegation, was sched-
uled to leave Reno at o'clock last
night and arrive in Los Angeles at b
today, but the railroad company could
not supply engines fast enough ana
the special did not leave until O'CLOCK
this morning. Running on SLOW
schedule behind other trains it did not
arrive at Sacramento until noon, but
is proceeding on its own special sched-
ule now and will arrive home between
midnight and daylight, barring acci-
dents 1t probably will be near 8
o'clock in the morning when we ar
rive. The trip to Reno was featured
by a rollicking, frolicking good time
and by high hopes for success of JEFF
fries. Returning the party is unable
TO get up a smile and the cars are as
quiet as a graveyard. Along the route
we are being kidded as the Los An
geles funeral party
NEGRO OUT OF JOB
BY his defeat of Jeffries the negro
not only has become undisputed cham
pion of the world, hut has also fought
himself out OF d JOB. as there is only
one other fighter LETT in all the world
who should be given chance to whip
the big negro. LangtOrd was intro
duced with the other great fighters of
the past and present just before the
fight started and issued a challenge to
johnson and renewed his $4,000 side
bet Offer removing all conditions re-
garding the result of the Jeffries-
Johnson scrap. That he is sincere in
this side bet offer Is proved by the
fact that he posted it for thirty days
recently and Johnson did not cover it.
Langford fought Johnson to stand
still once and while the champion has
improved in d remarkable degree in the
last two years, so has LangfOrd, and
the latter has really done more i'm
pressive fighting than has johnson.
The only thing that would make John
son favorite over Langford would be
his size and weight, as Langord is al
most, If not quite, as clever hits much
harder, is gamer and is JOhnson's equal
rs a ring general and in speed. Lang
ford has been giving away from ten to
fifty pounds in all his recent fights
and has been winning by the knockout
route right along. Nevada is now
about the only state left in which long
fights can be staged without interfer-
ence, and according to the previous