Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-16
California Attorney Gen.
eraI Follows Di-
rections.
RENO PERMIT SOUGHT
Promoters Stand to Lose HeaV.
lily in Any Event-Mayor
DefieS Gillett.

San FRANCISCO, June 1O.-WlIQ
motion for a permanent injunction
against the Jeffries-Johnson fight
and an application for a temporary
restraining order against the Kauff-
man-Langford contest to be filed in
the superior court here tomorrow
morning Attorney General Webb will
fire the first legal gun in the war de-
clared on prize fighting in this state
by Governor Gillett.
VIII Go to Another State.
Rickard said that Immediately on
an adverse decision of the court he
would make arrangements to have
the battle In some other state. He
also stated with the handing down
of an unfavorable decision he would
commence civil action against the
governor and attorney general to
recover damages for the expense al
ready undergone to prepare for the
fight here. Rickard and Gleason
have ordered all work on the arena
to cease.
Send for Permits.
Billy McCarny has been sent to
Reno with instructions to procure per-
mits for holding the two matches at
that place. One of the permits is for
the purpose of bringing off the Lang
ford-Ketchel battle July and the other
for the Jeffries-J johnson fight two days
later.
Spry Bars Utah.
Salt Lake City, June 16.--The
movement to bring the Jeffries-J ohm
son contest to this city received a
backset today when Governor Spry
positively announced he saw no rea-
son to change his former expressed
view that it could not be held in this
state. The fight will not be held
in Utah. if 1 can prevent it," said
the governor.
Fight Fans Despair.
San Francisco, June 16.-Fight fans
are today in the depths of despair over
the governors instructions to the at
torney general to stop the Jeffries-
Johnson fight. There is no change in
the attitude of the state authorities,
who seem determined the mill shall
not take place. Mayor Mccarthy, ap-
parently, is as determined the fight
will be pulled off as advertised, and
Promoters Gleason and Rickard have
made up their minds to wait the re-
suit of the action OF the authorities.
Either Prize Fight or Fake.
The claim the bout will be nothing
more than boxing contest is met by
the attorney general with the declara-
ton that ''if the conditions upon which
the contestants enter the ring is with
the avowed intention of knocking each
other out, to use a fighting term, it is
a prize fight, and against the law. If
they do not contemplate knocking each
other out l apprehend it is a fake and
ought to be stopped
Promoters Bound to Lose.
Rickard says that to stop the fight
now means the loss To the promoters
of $4,000 already expended on the
arena, in addition to the 100000 for
felt to the fighters. Besides, the esti-
mated receipts, 100000, will be ma
terially reduced if the fight is taken
somewhere else.
JeR Will Go Anywhere.
Ben Lomond, Cal, June 16.-Jefrles
said today he would go anywhere to
fight Johnson, and if necessary he
would box the black in private.
Pressure from Washington.
San Francisco, June 16.-Gover-
nor James n. Gillett yesterday di-
rected Attorney General U. S. Webb
to take whatever action may be
necessary to stop the fight between
James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson
for the heavyweight championship
of the world, which is scheduled to
be fought in this city July 4.
The governor was impelled to is
sue this order by pressure that had
been brought to bear upon him from
Washington. San Francisco is at
tempting to secure national legisla- /
ton in favor of the Panama-Pacific |
exposition. 1t has been directly in
timated to the big business interests
of California that the proposed JEFF |
fries-Johnson fight is standing in the
way of such legislation.
Railroads Interested.
Among the big interests vitally |
concerned in the proposed exposition /
is the Southern Pacific railroad. 1t /