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Big FightLooks Like | A Frame UpNew York Dec. 9.—The secrecy of the meeting of Jeffries, Johnson, and the fight promoters in a Hoboken j hotel, just before announcing thesigning of the articles of agreement, now is believed by many sorting authorities to have been for the purpose of| making a second and privat agreee^ meat in which the principals stipu-( laled to split the purse evenly, in-j stead of 75 per cent, to the winner i and 25 per cent to the loser. |The reason ascribed by a man close! to the principals for this secret j change in the published division of the purse is that at 75 and 25 per cent each contestant was betting the other three to one that he would w7in, while, as a matter of fact, no such I odds prevail now7, nor are they expect-, ed to be offered. It now is consider-!ei an ven money chance.The night after bids for tha fight were opened and the day theR.ckard bid was accepted, “Tex” Rickard spent eight hours in Jeffries’ hotel room, but today the Nevada sporting man denied that he had offered or given Jeffries $10,000 in cash to ^ favor his bid This story was current on Broadway.
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Brandon Weekly Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Dec 16, 1909
Page 11
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