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light tiros Hu*. Everywhere 1 so it is tin* sain*' old storv. Hill nothing shk rim me more than that one query: •Will the fight lie on the level. Mr Rickard?'I have heard that so much that I am thoroughly disgusted. That fight will be on the level if ever a battle was The men will not get a dollar unless the fifrht is absolutely on the level. That private agreement Is all bosh, and they are not going to fight for the benefit, of stretching the pictures. I , have Instructed big Tim Sullivan no* to pay over one dollar unless the men fight on the level.‘•The battle will not Is* decided in San Francisco. The fight will come off in Salt Lake City. It will be held if the Salt palace, about three blocks fiom the business district. Every man in the town wants the bout. The bus! ness men are wild over It and take it trom me that it will be held t!:**re. and it means a lot to them.“About the leteree. f am willing 'o • stand for Eddie (Jraney. but believe me. no other aClifornia man will satisfy me. I am running the bout and ! am going to have something 10 say about what shall la* done.“From my point of view Sail LaL*e , City Is the ideal spot for the fight. Many people ^ ill go there who would iiot think of going to a point farther west. The middle west will bo Well represented.“Rickard has signed up Jimmy Walsh of Boston to fight for tin world’s Imntatn-weight championship title as a preliminary to tin* big mill between Jlt; ffrjes and Johnson. The promoter said he had not closed with Walsh's cpjHinent. Digger Stanley uf England, but that he was negotiating for ihat end of the affair and had been assured that the deal was safe. He also signed Sam Lang lord 10 meet any middle-weight in the world, preferably Stanley Keteliel. if the bout can possibly be arranged, the latte: contest to take place in June, about a month ahead of the big fight.SALT LAKE CITYTHERE’S WHERE THE BIC BAT TLE WILL OCCUR.Tex Rickard Also Has Something to Say About the Squareness of the Fight.Boston. Mass.. Dec. 11.—George Lewis (Tex”) Rickard, who is in this city looking after his mining im ten sis. when seen regarding the coming fight between Jeffries and Johnson said:This incessant talk about the Pig
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Traverse City Evening Record
Traverse City, Michigan, US
Mon, Dec 13, 1909
Page 4
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