Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
ALL ROADS WILL
LEAD TO FRISCO
Jeffries-Johnson Fight the Big
gest Drawing Gard in His
tory Of Game.
ROYALTY TO SEE BIG MILL
NOblemen From France, Germany
and England Are Coming Across
the Water for It.

In the history of the world there
have been several fights that stand out
as truly great Everybody knows or
ought to know all about the, battle be-
tween David and Goliath Mythology
celebrates the desperate struggle be-
tween Hector and the invulnerable
Achilles, and we all know that Sparta
Gus was a great scrapper, and nearly
every male child hiss heard Of the Sui
Iivan-Kilrain fight. But. none OF these
can compare In point OF interest before
the actual combat with the Jeffries-
Johnson battle, which Is scheduled TO
be held at the Emeryville race track.
Emeryville. Cal, ,JuIy4.
It is estimated that che crowd that
will cheer the victor on that day will
be ten times as great az that which
turned down its thumbs at the bout In
which SpaTtacus won the gladiatorial
championship ana as many times as
big as the gang that saw Hectorrdo bis
sprint around the walls of Troy before
Achilles finally put him out
At first the promoters planned 10
erect a structure that would hold
10000 people, then 10000, and now
Richard and Gleason have shaped up
arrangements to seat 10000 wild eyed
fight fans. Reservations for seats have
been received from all over the world
People who have never before taken
any interest in boxing are going to-
see the fight Of the century Hugh
Mcintosh OF Australia is to leave the
antipodes for San Francisco with a
party Of 200 OF more. From England
half a dozen lords are coming TO take
In the big mill The party is expected
to arrive in this country early in May.
Noblemen from France and Germany
are also bound to see, the Dig mill.
Jack Gleason says he has a request
from China asking him to reserve $50
seats. Nearly every big city In the
United States is to have one or two
special trains headed for San Fran
cisco. 1t looks as If Richard and Glea-
son will have to increase the seating
capacity of the arena once more.
OF late there has been a lot OF fren-
zied writing about the probable re-
ceipts. and some of the unthinking
have estimated that 100000 or even
S1,OO0,0O0 will be raked over the box
Office desk. II is TO be said that $780,
600 will very nicely and generously
cover receipts.
VIII Bet n Million
They are saying that a full million
will be bet on the result Of the great
est Of all fist fights. A million is a lot
Of money, but there are many wise
boys and lunches who are quietly
slowing away the dollars against the
time when the betting begins to be
lively, and it is possible that the ag-
gregate of the wagers at the last will
look like picture OF the national debt.
Is it not barely possible that retire
ment Of all this coin TO Stockholders
hands might bring on stringency, tight
money and large uncertainty? This Is
not the financial editors department.
but Il is humbly suggested that IL the
JEFF Johnson mill takes the money out
of circulation, as some of the sport
writer's say It will do. the treasury ex-
perts had better arrange TO have all
the big prizehght transactions carried
out by check.
At least it is wise to leave enough
money in circulation to handle pros
perity. We want no more clearing
house certificates.
The promoters have made arrange
ments with nearly all of the leading
railroad lines to the coast and with
their cooperation will put into effect
q system OF supplying tickets for the
big fight that cannot fail to satisfy
everybody.
In brief, the plan is to make reserva-
ton for a certain number Of seats for
each railroad. A person intending to
make the trip 10 Frisco to see the fight
has only to apply TO a railroad agent,
deposit the price of the ticket he de-
sires, and the railroad company will
issue to him an order on Mr.. Gleason
or Mt. Richard for n seat in the res
ervation secured for them.
This order will be countersigned by
an agent Of the railroad when the rail-
road ticket is issued. Under this plan
spectators would have TO buy a rail-
road ticket with each ticket for the
fight. The tremendous expense, of
course, bars them from doing this.
Every safeguard will be taken
against counterfeit tickets. and Glea-
son and Richard will be Unidentified
by a substantial bond by the ticket
manufacturers. The whole scheme
has been thoroughly worked out and
pronounced fiawless.
Gleason has mapped out a color
scheme in conjunction with the tick
cts that promises to prevent the con-
fusion usually attendant upon big
events OF this kind There VIII be
eight prices Of admission. Each differ
ent priced ticket VIII be Of a certain
color. The entrances to the arena
VIII be painted in colors to correspond
with the tickets. A man holding a
blue ticket win know that he can't go
lstray II he enters the arena through