Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
EAST WILL Be WELL
REPRESENTED AT FIGHT
Interest Extends Among All
Classes and Conditions of
PeopIe-CIubs Forming.
By James J. Corbett.

Copyright. 1910, by the Tribune Company. IN:
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Well we will soon be on the way. 1t
won't be long now before we hear the IA
rniliar "AlI aboard cry on the depot
platforms, and even the deaf and the
blind In the little old town of Gotham
must appreciate the fact that. judging
from all the preparations which are being
made, the east will be we'll represented
among the thousands who will gather at
the Emeryville race track Monday, July 4,
to see the great championship battle be-
tween Jeffries and Johnson.
In all my ring experience / have never
seen so much interest manifested as In
this coming contest, and what makes IL
particularly remarkable is to note now
widely this interest extends among all
classes and conditions of people
We naturally expect to see the regu-
lars" among the fight fans at the ring
side but as | go up and down Broadway
and about the big city ! am auestloneu py
millionar Tres, statesmen, secret SocletS
members business men of Wall street ana
even clergymen and women VINO seek III
formation of various kinds about traNei:
hotels fight tickets and who VIII Wlh' OF
course When the list is made up OF
'.among those present | venture the pre-
diction it will show the most cosmopolitan
crowd ever gathered at nght arena III
the history of the world.
To my positive knowledge at least TWEEN
~ parties have been organized for special
cars and oven whole trains. and scores OF
others are being formed. The same pre-
paratory steps are being made IN all the
other large cities of the east.
Such a demand is being made for Steep
ing cars that a leading passenger agent
told me this week it would probably be
impossible to make reservations aIter
June u for the trip TO San FRANCISCO.
The Pullman company is revising Hs
schedule so as to bring every car possible
into this territory during the rush. Wnch
will be at its height from June % 10
June IS.
The cost of the trip from New York Will
vary all the way from about $3.50 for the
economical to 5000 or more for those
who ride in the special de luxe Inc
summer rate to San Francisco and return I'm
Is about SlOI to which must be added S'So
for sleepers and S24 for meals for eight
DAYS Hotel bills in San Francisco and
an arena ticket will make up the bai-
ance.
For S4Oo one can travel in good style
and obtain a good seat at the night. On
some of the specials" arrangements are
being made for stopover privileges at Dig
cities and points of interest. the Trip last
ing nearly three weeks
Clubs Forming.
Aside from the many clubs being formed
In Wall street. the New York Athletic,
the Elks and Eagles, the Tammany Halff
Club of Timothy D. Sullivan, holder or
the fight stakes. the United States Steel
CORPORATION officers the Lambs Club, the
publishers and the big fight promoters of
local clubs. there will be at least half
dozen or more special cars chartered by
leading men in the theatrical procession.
Abe Erlanger. who has been putting In
some hard ticks of late at Jack Cooper
gym with Harry Harris. the former
bantam champion, but now a big light
weight has made up a party ,hat VIII
go to the coast ten days before the nght,
as Mr. ErIanger, who frequently has put
on the gloves for friendly setto with
Jeffries, is anxious to visit his training
York will be filled entirely with enthusi-
astic coored men headed by Baron
Wilkes who some time ago expected to
raise a syndicate fund of $4,000 to bet on
Johnson, although the fund does not ap-
pear to have materialiZed.
The reduction in the price of tickets
from the original scale of $40 up to 500
a seat to So up to $50 is going to be a
big boost for the fight. 1t will be bene-
fetal not alone to that attraction, but
also to the sport generally. Boxing is
sport that appeals quite as strongly to the
people of moderate means as to the rich,
and il would have been a serious mis-
take to fix the prices for this great battle
at a rate few could pay
To be sure contest of this kind is to
be seen perhaps only once in a lifetime.
but, even SO. the early sale of tickets will
show that it is from the common people
boxing derives its chief support, and 1T
is through such patronage that all popu-
lar sports have f1ourished for the COM
mon people are the real people after all.
Probably for the first time in the his
tory OF boxing. at least since the Horton
law was passed. all the clubs around New
York are making money There are nearly
a dozen now giving "stags for members
only weekly, and they have the police
bunaloed to the extent that when an in
spcctor or captain with about twenty
men from one precinct recently appeared
at the door of club house the clubs at
torney had no trouble i'm convincing them
that twas up TO them to move on, which
they did.
Prosperity Among Clubs.
1t is this prosperity among the fight