The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
WHO WILL REFEREE
THE BIG FIGHT?
Question Is Real One for PrinCl-
pals, Promoters and
Fans
FIGHTERS WILL NOT AGREE
SITUATION DELICATE AND
ONLY OBJECTIONS SEEN
FIGHTERS WILL NOT AGREE
RY w NJ. NAUGHTON.

San Francisco, May 14.-With all
the prominent Californians who have
had to do with the refereeing of glove
contests OF years objected to by one
side or the other, the average sport
ing man is puzzled to know who VIII
be selected TO pass judgment OF the
Jeffries-J ohnson fight.
When Sam Berger and Jack john
son agreed to disagree on the point al
their initial conference on Nay 4, quite
a number were of the opinion that
little "stalling" was being reSorted 10,
To stimulate interest in the big ring
event.
mo. sir" said Tex Richard, deter
minedly, when the suggestion was
made in his presence IhlS nght Is
getting all the advertising 1t needs, and
/ seems TO me that if any were neces-
-arv the hest boost the affair could
receive would have been the news that
q referee had been selected st the time
appointed by the articles. 1 don't sup
pose there viii be any hitch over the
matter, but it would have suited me a
ot better if they had chosen their
referee at the first attempt"
1t is evident now that Rickard
views are shared by the majority. II
is no secret that Berger and Johnson
Rock house, where Johnson is located
IN the evening OF May 8, and that II
vas evident when the men party COM
oany that their conference on the fol-
owing day would be barren of results
In ordinary fights, politics enter
largely into the selection OF the ref
cree Each man with an ambition to
act as judge and earn the accompany
ing fee, not only pulls wires in his own
Int ly~ir1 hear all the in
fluence his personal friends can mus
ter
johnson Wants WEIGH.
Under such circumstances the de-
gree of butt onholing, whispering and
backbiting that has been INDUCED in,
the present argument can be readily
imagined. 1t is said that Johnson has
been placed on his guard TO such an
extent, through being warned against
this man and that, his field OF choice
has narrowed down to Jack WEIGH,
and that if the Jeffries camp does not
agree TO accept Welch the negro will
almost go TO the extreme OF refusing
TO enter the ring.
Johnson named Eddie Graney, too,
but it is said that when he did so It
was with the full conviction that JEFF
fries would never agree to Graney,
whatever he might ultimately decide
10 90 IN respect " w tlSil- VI lAAOe
matter. some of Jeffries' friends are
claiming that johnson promised faith
full not to introduce Graney'S name as
a candidate for the position of referee
when the preliminaries of the big fight
were being discussed III the east.
So far as the writer is concerned,
this is in no sense an inference that
Graney is not as we'll qualified to act
as WEIGH or anybody else. 1 am mereA
" catching rumOrs of the situation as
they fly, and reducing them to the
semblance of news
One thing is certain; it will be an
embarrassing matter if either of the
heavyweights has to accept man he
has already Aouted. From what can
be gathered from the friends Of both
parties. in fact, all the men discarded
so FAR. an entirely suspected sport
ing man is likely to be picked to ref
cree what some one has described as
the worlds fair of pugilism."
Gleason Takes Hand
What is sauce for the goose IL sauce
for the gander. When at the opening