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i!State Authorities Still- Determined to Prevent Big Battle.ATTORNEY GENERAL IN SHARP RETORT*Says If Contest Is Not Prize Fight It Should Be Stopped as Fake*.-Ben Lomond, CaU June 16.—» Jeffries said today he would, go- . anywhere to fight Johnson and if necessary he would box the black in private._ i?San Francisco, Jun© 18. —Fight: fans today are in the depths of de-j spair over the governor's instrtio-: tious to the attorney general to stop the Jdffr fee-Johnson fight. There is no change In the attitude of the state authorities who soem determined that the battle shall not take place. Mayor McCarthy apparently is as determined that the fight will be pulled. off as advertised, and Promoters | Gleason and Rickard shave mad© tip i their minds to await the result of th® action of the authorities.Attorney General Makes Retort. The claim that the bout will b® nothing more than a boxing contest is met by the attorney general with the declaration that “if this contest is one in which the contestants enter the ring with the avowed intention of knocking eaclx other out, to us© the lighting term, it is a prize fight and against the law. If they do not contemplate knocking each other out, I apprehend it is a fake and ought to | be stopped.”• Hiige Loss If Stopped.Rickard says that to stop the flghfc now means a loss to the promoter of $40,000 already expended on the arena, in addition to the $20,000 forfeit to the fighters. Besides, the estimated receipts of $500,000 will be materially reduced if the fight is taken somewhere else.
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Waterloo Semi Weekly Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Jun 17, 1910
Page 5
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