Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-07
Deaths in the Prizering
Stir Nations Indignation
Three Fatalities and One Serious Injury Are But
part of the Record for Apr-The Statutes Are on
The Books, But Officials Appear to be Inactive.

: grams sent him by the ministerial ass
| sociatiOns.
The scattering FIRE of protest is fast
becoming broadsIde of Indignation.
/ however In Seattle, the Western
Washington Sunday School association
mas taken the matter up and entered "a
| general protest against prize fights
The association also commends the
! ministers Of san Francisco for the
stand taken against fighting The min
listers OF the Methodist EoiscopaI
church have held formal meeting and
resolutions have been forwarded 90
GOV. Gillette asking him e. act
l'r. John Wesley HIN ~ tho Metro
politau temple in New York has started
an evangelical campaign against priz,
lights The dispatches tell every day
Of a more compact and organized
movement 20 down prize fighting n
the agitation Us kept up which I- ON
foot now, the prize fight game viii soon
be thing NJ the past
As result Of the death ~ Stanley
Rogers in Philadelphia and Mccarthy
100 san Francisco, the police authorities
thought the circumstances serious
enough To arrest the other participant
and promoters and seconds IN each
case the principals were charged with
manslaughter Moran was released ON
defective complaint and cole who
killed Rogers will have To stand trial
Moran is not a free man. by any means.
and he will probably be brought 90
book Joe O'Brieu who Killed Max
Landy was released and that ring
fatality has almost been forgotten.
SOME EXCUSES ON CLUTCHES
The fans who follow fighting as the
best sport" have offered different OK
cuses in each OF the three deaths whigh
have occurred IN the ring in the last
month. Rogers was overturned. Landy
and 80 far he has not answered the
lack Of condition are the main ones
When Jim Jeffries was asked about
IL he was close mouthed as usual and
refused 10 talk about McCarthy's death
Sam Berger said that he did not be-
lieve that the mere death OF one prize
fighter would cause such opposition
as TO prevent the fight. But since then
Berger has been pulling the wirc-
against all the opposition that has been
aroused
The agitation has reached salt Lake
In regard 10 prize hghtlng and this
week will probably see a well defined
movement on foot TO stop the fight
scheduled for May 10 at Saltair. r 4
Grant who has been connected with
a number OF theaters IN Salt Lake and
ogden has seen ht TO break into the
game III SAT- Lake. ne mas leaEtQ the
old bicycle arena at SHltair and pro-
poses to pull of all kinds of sports His
first announcement il a 20-rOund prize
fight on about 10 days notice. between
Cyclone" Johnny Thompson and Pete
Sullivan. Sullivan and THOMPSON are
supposed 10 be training for the event
now They also expect TO be i'm good
shape In 10 days. These men have
fought three times before Neither
has gained a decision by a knockout
two Of the three fights going the limit
Grant the promoter, has no regular
place of business. He has So far made
his headquarters at Councilman Null
vey's saloon and he does not appear
10 be the only man backing the game
County Atty Lyon, who took such
a decided stand when il was talked of
the Jeffries-Johnson fight here.
says he will not take Il upon his own
responsibility to stop this fight The
law r. being violated just as much,
however, whether JEFF and johnson
lFht or sullivan and Thompson.