The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-07-26
Even Smaller Bouts Where Admission
Fee is Charged viii Be Opposed
in Future
SHERIFF BAILEY
EXPLAINS POSITION
Exhibition Was Boxing Contest and No
Prize Fight and His Office Had No
Legal Right TO Interfere


= think this will be the last affair
lof this kind that is likely to be pulled
off in this county, declared County
Attorney Venable to representative
OF the Daily Express this morning. II
others are planned or advertised they
win have to go through the same exre-
rience as the Flynn-Tate contest, be
the exhibition great OF small. This re-
fers not only to large fights. such as
the one that came off last night, but to
any kind of a boxing contest where an
admission fee is charged OF where ad.
mission to which is not limited 10
members Of the club under whose an.
spices they are held II an admission
fee Is not charged and If the members
OF an athletic club want to see boys
box it will be all right so long as no
body Is hurt. But even under these
circumstances II any one is injured
prosecutions win follow This will
take the elements Of prize fight out
Of such exhibition
Boys Have Been Hurt.
The county attorney recounted sew
|eral instances Of late where BOYS eli,
gaging in local bouts have been pain.
fully hurt but this sas ssssst e5ms no his
knowledge,
Teis Goes % Capital.
Following the visit Of Rev =. ID.
Teis to Oklahoma City on Monday
continued Mr.. venabe, sat which time
he submitted advertisements which
had been published regarding the OK
hibition to the governor. Governor
Williams yesterday afternoon phoned
me suggesting that file s.r~7rmation
against the parties concerned under
the following section OF the 1915 aes.
sion laws:
Section l. II two Or more persons
conspire either to commit any offenee
against the state OF Oklahoma Or TO -.
fraud the state Of Oklahoma III any
manner or for any purpose. and IL one
or more OF such parties do any act to
effect the object OF the conspiracy. all
the parties to such conspiracy shaIi be
liable to penalty OF not more than
ten thousand (Sl0,OOO) on the irnpris-
onment for not more than two years.
or to both fine and imprisonment in
the discretion Of the court or jury"
AT 1880 last night took such action
before County Judge Davenport, ask
ing for warrant charging conspiracy
under this section OF the law against
the following defendants: Tate and
Flynn, principals, Curiey and ELS
worth, promoters, Ed Cochran, sport
Ing editor Of the Kansas City Star, and
Otto Floto Of the Denver Post. who
were advertised to act as referees, and
the two seconds, John Doe warrants.
to be filled in when the names 0Ethe
seconds became known. 1t was my
intention to have these warrants taken
out to the ringside by the proper offi.
GERS and served as aoon as the fight
started Although Dt, Richardson had
stated they had bonds prepared, these
were upon another charge and had the
warrants been served the men would
have had to appear before Judge De
yenport and make tsw bonds before
they could have returned to the ring.
Judge Davenport said he would
take the matter under advisement and
at $3.50 last night he advised me that
he had decided that in this instance
prize fight had not been advertised
neither had tickets been sold to prize
fight. and failed to issue the Warrants.
which asked for
No Frietlcn Exists.
Both the county attorney and the
sheriff this morning stated that there
had been no friction. whatyer. between
the two officers during the past few
days and that the notes which had
been interchanged had been Intended
to be and we're written In most
friendly spirit.
The county attorney intimated that
no prosecutions would follow last
nights bout "From information which