Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-02-02
Bg Fight May
Be In Frisco

The Jefries.Johnson fight. to be
held In San Francisco on July 4. next.
will be operated under the auspices
OF the Jeffries-J ohnson Moving Pic
ture Corporation. says the sporting
editor OF the Los Angeles Times.
Yes. that is. the title Of the com.
pany, which is directly provided for
by the mysterious Section Z" Of the
articles OF agreement (which. we're
signed In secret in Hoboken after the
bid Of Tex Richard and Jsck Gleason
had ben, accepted the previous day
by Jenries and Johnson and their man.
ayers. .1
On that eventful day in the history
OF heavyweight pugilisni wrote 1t
down In illuminant notes that the Sc
cret meeting was held with the pur-
pose OF arranging for the cut.up on
the moving pictures and providing for
other details that would make the pic
lures success.
! have II from direct source that
the original Article ~ which was
missing when the signed agreement
was given out by Bob Murphy, the
Temporary stakeholder. to the news.
paper men from all over the United
States In that Hoboken Hotel on Dec.
3 last. provided for "dIvvy" from
the pictures to 20 on the basis OF
80 1-3 per cent. to Jeffries. the same
to Johnson and the same to the pro.
moters.
THE question was raised as to the
possibility OF the pictures failing to
draw" said John j. McKeon. who
represents Richard & Gleason In the
East, land the dread suggestion was
made to the promoters that the pic
lures would surely be punk propo.
sitiOn II Mr.. Jack johnson should
happen to hatten out Mr.. James ].
Jeffries. Which caused some com.
motion. because It was argued that
the white race the world over wouldn't
care snap OF the fingers to see the
picture Of the triumph of the negro"
Mr.. McKeon was speaking earnestly
to me In the sporting department OF
the World last night He continued:
1T was pointed out that the John.
son-Ketchel pictures. which had
been brought hefe BY Jimmy Coffroth
from San Francisco and which pic.
tured the undoing OF Ketchel, had
been coldly received by the general
public. although they were eagerly
scanned by the fancy.
"As a matter OF fact. Il had been
learned that fight pictures were not
such extraordinary money getters AZ
the public was generally. led to b&
lieve. Few Of the night reels made
anything like good money. know
that Jimmy Coffroth, who had the
Johnson.Ketchel fight Aims. was mes
gotiating to dispose OF the English
rights for $4,000. and when he notified
johnson OF that fact the negro wired 4
Hold them. have an offer OF Sis,l
900. -"
when Johnson and Cotiroth got to.
gether neither the $4,000 man nor the
$4,000 man was on the job. They had
both run out. They wouldn't have
done II II the pictures were good
proposition, and don't think $4,000
or $l2 900 looked too heavy for the
English rights. But you can see the
way the people who make that stun
their business looked at It, That Is
why Jimmy Coffroth was obliged to
hike across the ocean to peddle the
pictures as best he could, and he Is
having his troubles at that.
Gleason has a good business head
and Richard also can put two and two
together, They decided that It would
Tie better for the interests OF the pro-