El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-07

OCAL fans who wanted TO see Jess
Willard with a circus that was
H. here recently and were disap-
pointed will read. with considerable in
terest. the explanation of the incident
supplied by Jack Curley in a letter TO
NJ writer from Fort Worth under
date of Friday. Mr.. Curley's letter is
100 long for reproduction in full. but
the important paragraphs follow:
Dear Beck
Il Just got hold Of The FL Paso Her
aid Of Tuesday and read your story Of
the Willard trouble First OF all, let
me thank you for the nice fair way
that you handled it You certainly
Quoted me correctly and I have no
kick coming over any part OF the az
fair. A few days before my arrival IN
FL Paso. you lad little paragraph
that. on my arrival. FL Paso2ns would
hear my side o. the story why l-i5
fight was transferred to Havana
feit hurt over that for I realized thar
= in my trouble and work in Havana
had overlooked writing the papers eA-
planning at the time the why ana tnS
4herefor This time 1 viii try ana
N-fve YOU my story
Heard Talk In Los Angeles.
at Los Angeles 1 heard IhaI Tex
O-Pourke had made 4 remark lhst the
betting in El PasO was TO that
would skip that town and not appear
there at all with the SellS-fIO peo-
pie Immediately 1 heard II, jumped
ove- several other towns and made
straight for Fl Paso-
.0n nv arrival in Fl Paso, I lost
No TINE IN looking UP J II Wyatt ana
Weated him at the Toltec CLUB mace
An appointment and he came 10 NY
hotel He assured me Jhat he had nor
the slightest feeling against me ana !
11T- glad TO near Il from III
Tried to stop Fight.
: Next / reminded Mr.. Wyatt that re
wired me TO Havana on the eve OF me
fight. issuing threats that ne Wouiu
stop the fight unless he was rem
bursed for money paid out, etc
r-rot- him a long letter at that time
and failed TO receive = line in answer
Mr. Wyatt at once admitted tnaI ne
had overlooked nothing in his efforts
70 block our show in Havana put lnaI
he failed REGARDING my letter, he said
Re had never received IT,
4 'GIr. Wyatt had an appointment -
- and 7 called on him the next Gay
and came right to the point w nat are
Won out Mr. Wyatt. and what do you
feel that We owe youE, J asked NJ
WYATT was not sure what sum he was
out he was not sure how much he nae
collected from the committee nor JUST
-v-o paid or who did not pay, put no
was sure that he paid something IKE
$500 at the special request OF Willard
M Jones Tor :. Y Baskin's exnense
70 Veracruz 10 meet johnson ana was
fromised by them that no matter wnar
happened. they would not let him lose ,
Did II For FL Paso.
He freely admitted that In court
room he would stand no chance but lie
felt THAI he should be REIN ou.sed - 1s
cause he personally STOOD 10 lla -.
nothing at all and what he did was Tor
= fold MIN that I also felt We did
-
7 would ike 10 come clean and II oio
dot matter whether we owed MN ,
cent or not. I wanted harmony ana
would rather pay something than 70
1--we him against Us and told him that
when 7 left Los Angeles. Tom Jones
agreed with me that We shouta D.
him $500 ana that lie would Jalk =
Yard into paying his share. just 10 oe
Eood fellows And 7 want 10 say rlsht
here that when willard bought out
Mr. Weber and M. Face, they. IN a
legal contract. assumed all outstanding
bills and agreed 20 defend him in any
court action started against him Tor
any claims previous to the dissolution,
which came months after the Havana
fight
Intimidation OF Willard.
Yesterday 1 also learned Of many
scenes and insulting. threatening. IN
tirnidating and terrOrizinE actions on
the part OF writ servers on circus day
IN FL Paso. carrying shoJEuns. etc
which. # half true, would certainly
place FL Paso on the wrong side Of the
Rio Grande-
Zones has 4 comforts BILE fortune and
Willard is quite rich He has properly
and bank accounts IN all narts OF the
country and an quite willing TO point
out some OF them to anyone and VII
lard would not shirk defending him
SELF against anV court action and any
boy can serve him with a summons He
IS easily located and ii does not seem
that If anyone had a just action against
hi-'- he would be hard TO reach
81 am still in hopes. despite all this
trouble. Of reaching an AMIGA Bile set
Element with everybody. even though
Willard told me last night that moth
ing would please him better and ne
could think OF no more enjoyable way
% spending 4 few thousand dollars
than 10 beat the Fl Paso cases in &C -
r. willard Lost s1ooo
''Of course. you car see on the face
OF It that willard lost more than $1,000
IN salary by not appearing in Fl Paso
but that does not worry him at all
q was in Fl Paso an entire week
hunted high and low for any creditors
erf anyone claiming 70 have anything
coming All 7 could find was q bill OF
S34 at Feldman's, which 7 maid J. COlly
claims something like SIS but as I
hunted high and low and failed 10 find
him. I suppose he had a summons out
Of some sort / understand that Mr..
Rnoblauch now claims 10 have some
rental coming for the college where
Willard trained
Jones Makes Kick.
when Jones received my letter at
douglas, he called me uD on the long
N-isfance phone and kicked q bit on
giving up anything over $500. I want
TO mention that Mr. Wyatt wanted
$4,000 and We agreed that he should see
Wyatt on his arrival in Fl Paso. I de-
live-ed the message to Mr. WYATT
Through no fault Of myself Jones
or anyone else the circus train arrived
n Fl Paso about 10 p. m on Sunday,
instead Of in Tie afternoon as he ex-
pected Early n the day. I learned
that the train would not be in until
d m and sent word TO Ar. Wyatt by
Billy Crosby. who later reported to me
JSsat he had delivered the message