The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-04
GREAT PURSES
FOR bATTLERS
Both Men Certain of Snug
Fortune.
AIR SURCHANGED WITH DOPE
Sports Jam the Streets OF
Reno Today.
John L. and Corbett Find
j. Defeat Levels.
Noted Sports and Sporting Men From
All the World on Hand--Great
Throngs Move to the Pa Ivilion
Where the Battle VIII Occur
BY United Press Wire.

Where the Battle VIII Occur
BY United Press Wire
Win or lose, today's fight means
q fortune for the two men I'm the
ring.
The purse of 1O1 900 is to be split
seventy-five per cent. TO the winner
and twenty-five per cent. to the los
er.
Share OF $1O1,OOO P75,75O SOS, $50
Share of moving
pictures S88,688 &C.
Side bet $4,000 $4,000
theatrical engagements
(about) 100000 $4,000
Total s252, ,416. S17G,916
johnson.
Share OF $fO1,OOO $75,75O $25,25O
Share of moving
pictures $4,000 $50, 900
Bonus' TO each $4,000 $4,000
Theatrical engagements
about) P75,OOO. $50, 900
Total $4,000 $135,25O
Estimated amount OF gate money
S38O,OOO.
Estimated profits TO Richard and
Gleason $175, 200. :. E. E. :. -.
Estimated training expenses OF
fighters and cost of putting on the
fight $125,000. ...... -. -. =. :.
Estimated sum bet on the fight I'm
the United States.
Estimated number OF peole I'm Unit
ed States Interested I'm the fight (see
forth coming census report ON total
population In 1910.
Reno, July 4,-No element OF the
safe and sane Fourth movement has
penetrated the says brush country.
Reno, after a week of jabberlng hys
terra and convulsions, awoke today
stark, starting fight mad.
Even before the dawn the side
walks were congested with noisy par
ries. some deserters OF impossible
cots packed into hotel corners and
store rooms, other patrons OF the
hundreds of games, which after a
Sunday ldleness. reopened at mid
night and were kept going full blast
throughout. the day. But even at the
gambling tables the talk was not OF
the red or of the balck, the turn of a
card, or the roll of the dice. 1t was
OF the fight.
In the cafes and restaurants hotel
corridors and dining rooms, on the
streets and at every place where
more than two persons met the talk
was fight, fight, fight. The very air
was surcharged with the spirit OF the
contest. The date was forgotten. Al
parently no one remembered In the
excitement of the hour that any gteai
event of interest to Americans had
been consumed on the day to be made
more famous by the meeting Of. JET.
fries and Johnson.
BY the time the breakfast hour
was over, a roll call of the throne
in front OF the Golden would have
sounded like the index of who's who
in Sportdom. Jake Kilrain, Bot
Fitzsimmons. Tommy Burns. Abe
Attedl. Battling Nelson. Stanley Ket.
chel, Eddie Hanlon, Jack McAullffe
Sam Langford. Young Peter Jackson
Bill Lange and many other past and
present stars and near stars, togeth.
er with practically every prominent
trainer, referee, stakeholder and
sporting man In the country were
I'm the crowd.
But while the loud clothes and
huse diamonds OF the sporting IRA
ternity predominated In the throng
they did not. by any means, complete
the picture. Acters. literary lights
writers and artists. newspaper men
and other celebrities whose names
are nationally famous. mixed with
the crowd, while the presence of O
few Indians (taxed II they saw the
fight;) cattlemen In CHAPS and
sombrerors and a sprinkling of de-
termined Nevada rangers added tc
the picturesqueness of the crowd.
Nimble fingered dips" worked
through the crowd and reaped a rich
harvest of timepieces and pocket
books. Occasionally one would bt
nabbed and and yanked out of the
crowd and off to jail by husky rams
er or special policeman, but the mis-
creants protestations of innocence and
the victims howl of wrath were
drowned In the general babble and
caused but slight ripples In the sur.
rounding human tides.
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