The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-05

umns that stretched through all parts
OF the, grounds, AS the gates swung
turustiles. and the surging crowds
poured rapidly into the inclosure.
In less than fifteen minutes the gal
lery seats and the wide platform skirt
ing the topmost outer rim of the arena
were half filed.
Coming in from the cool, windswept
spaces on the fiat country surrounding
the battle-ground, startling change of
temperature was noted in the arena.
The bare pine boards generated a ter.
rife heat from the scorehing sun, and
the early comers Immediately proceeded
| to shed their coats and collars.
Thirty feet from the ringside and
due west. so that the sun would not in
terfere. a battery of nine motion pi'.
ture machines superimposed in rows OF
three above one another. was being
manned and made ready for the after.
noon.
An American flag dropped on its staff
above each of the four entrances.
Many Women Attend.
Boxes built for women at the top Of
the outer west walls of the Enclosure
were soon filed and the CANDY Rats OF
the occupants added vivid touch OF
| color to the scene. =,
Half an hour after the gates had
been opened the vast arena was more
than two-thirds filed with sweltering
mass of humanity.
At 1877 there was a demonstration
Oh the part of more than thousand
holders Of twentydollar and cheaper
seats, located directly behind the mo-
ton picture shed.
At l O'Clock the arena was nearly
| filled. The heat was intense, as the
midday sun poured its rays into the
| crater like structure.
The sporting celebrities arrived early
and the ringside soon swarmed with
notables without whom no big hgnt
IS regarded as complete.
remidian sun, hundreds had taken the
precaution to bring along smoked
glasses and green shades. Others
| eouipped thems selves with picturesque
and high crowned hats.
The Reno military band entered the
arena shortly before l o'clock, sta
tioning itself directly In front of the
motion picture camera, awaited sig
nal to commence playing.
A few minutes later the band mem
bers piled pellmel into the center OF
the roped arena and RECALLED the spec
tators with stirring airs.
| George Harting. tho timekeeper,
came IN with the gloves in big green
box. TWO pairs for each fighter, In case
1 OF burst leather or dtCIuSut.
When the band played America,
the posing crowd made feeble at"
tempt to sing, but it quickly collapsed,
and the spectators went back to fans
and haadkerehiefs.
Yielding to the protests of the spec.
tatots whose view was hidden by, the
moving picture booths, Rickard ordered
one booth on the left dismantled-
Every Seat Taken.
At l:1O word was passed in from the
outside that every seat in the arena Was
sold and several thousand persons were
| still in line at the booth.
Johnson and his attendants started
for the arena st ] clock in an auto.
Old fight attendants vowed that
never before has prize fight In tlns
country had as many women spectator
as this. In addition to the seVenty;nke.
or 100 in the long booth on the rlght
Of the crater, every section was oolten
with them, from the cheapest sents IN
the upper tiers to the fifty-dollar places
lack Johnson's wife came into the
arena and was seated near the eng,
Although tho big men were scheluIoa
to enter the ring at 80, tne Prcnn,.i,
mary at these functions had not begun
lat i:45. The crowd, however, was pa
teut and good natured.,
Al N, m. il seemed that every seal
in the structure was occupied and tha'
the platform extending around the
, upper edge was alive with human
| fringe of ISLANDERS. ,,
, The veteran announcer, Billy JORDAN
, uttered the ring at 1:i5.
Jenries and his attendants lett al
l.a0 p. m. in an auto.
At 90 Announcer jordan cleared
s tho ring of photographers and hangers
on.
Billy Muldoon entered the ring =! ane
) after making neat speech extollini
fhe Zone free state in the union, ap
purently meaning Nevada sugge9stet
chat the entire asscmblage stand w
and "with heart and soul' give three
: cheers for Nevada and tho governor o.
I this state The response to these re
d marks was spontaneous and the vas
{ assomhlape rose to the man and eHcr
: cised its lungs in three rousing cheer
] for "thc one free state.
8 .Jeffries arrived at the arena at
\ il is reported a new purse division
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