The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-06
FIGHT SATISFIES
GOV. D|CKERSON
Chief Executive of Sage-brush
State Says Big Battle
Was All Right.
PUGS BOTH GOT FORTUNES
ABOUT s12o,coo- THE PROMOT.
ERs ALSO CLEARED AN EQUAL
AMOUNT.
tAmerican News Service)

tAElSElIdH news SGENlCeJ
Reno. New, July Ex-Governor Dick
erson gave out the following statement
to newspaper friends respecting the
Jeffries-Johnson fight at which he was
one of the most interested spectators,
seated with friends among a throng
Of $4,000 others:
Il do not at all regret that the fight
was pulled Off in Nevada 1t was a
clean fight and Tex Richards assur-
ances to me personally were made per.
fectly good. l am in favor always of
manly sport, just as long as the game
is played clean and square, as was
this. There is absolutely no warrant
in my judgment for the protests that
have been made against it. The fight
just having taken place in Reno dem
onstrated fully that there was nothing
about it but what was proper for any
state to permit.
Of my own personal knowledge, the
holding OF this event in Nevada was
beneficial rather than injurious. not
withstanding the claims advanced by
some. as it has made the possibilities
and natural advantages of this state
with it's undeveloped wealth. familiar
to many who otherwise would not
have heard of the state. / am we'll
pleased with the manner with which
the match was handled and treated by
the people of Reno, and I have heard
only expressions of good will for the
city on all sides.
81 will further state that as long as
the law permits glove contests will
not attempt to interfere with such
events in the future.
"As for the contestants in this fight
can only say that the defeat of JEFF
fries demonstrated the experience and
contention of all students of athletics.
that after a man has for some time
been, out of condition he cannot re-
gain his former vitality and condition
of his physical perfection, for nature
will invariably assert itself He was
not and never could be the Jeffries of
former days"
GATE RECEIPTS LARGE.
Tex Rickard has given out the fol-
lowing official statement pertaining to
Tie dLlOuhI Ia Ny eAC ooAo VI
tickets, the approximate attendance
who witnessed the fight and the cost
of staging the big mill:
Total receipts from sale Of
tickets .................. $27O,775
Cost of staging fight, including
Frisco" fizzle and purse. 100000
Profit to Rickard and Gleason
(aDOut) 1Zo,VOU
Number of persons who paid
admissions ................ 1870
COMPLIMENTARY holders .,. 76O
Number who entered arena
without tickets (estimated). 1900
Total attendance ............ 1S,O2O
The following denominations OF
tickets were sold: 1883 at $50, $50 at
$40, 6s4 at $50, 1906 at s25. LAST at
$50. 1,706 at SIS, 1850 at $40.
What Fighters Got.
Jack Johnson was $12O,6O0 richer
when Jim Jeffries went down for the
last time in Mondays fight. He took
60 percent of the s1o1 900 purse, which
amounted to $60.600, bonus of $10.-
900. and he sold his picture interests
for $4,000.
Jeffries took a fortune out of the de-
feat at Johnson's hands. He received
40 percent of the purse. amounting to
$40, 400. the bonus Of $4,000, and he
making his total s117,000. The own
ers of the picture films are calculating
on million dollars profit.