See end of this message for instructions on how to unsubscribe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Nevada > Washoe Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=25241 More articles for Washoe can be found at: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1006 Article Title: Albuquerque Morning Journal Article Date: July 2 1910 Article Description: Reno Crowded With Fight Followers Article Text: With the appointment today of a timekeeper, the ringside officialdom for the Fourth of July battle between Jeffries and Johnson upon which rests the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world was completed. The officials are: Tex Rickard of Nevada, referee. Charles White of New York,alternate referee. George F Harting of San Francisco,timekeeper. billy Jordan of San Francisco,announcer. tim Sullivan of New York,stakeholder. Tom Corbett of San Francisco betting commissioner. Despite the persistence of rumors that Rickard does not intend to actually referee the contest no tangible ground for the report could be discovered. Rickard himself denied emphatically that he had any intention of stepping down at the last minute in favor of the New Yorker. I am the referee he reiterated and I am going to do the refereeing. Here Rickard reached into his pocket and produced a roll of bills. Here just bet that fifty dollar for me that I referee the fight. That's how I feel about it. Of the fight officials named above, all but Jordan are on the ground. Harting and Sullivan arrived today. I have fifty thousand of the purse money in my own hands said Sullivan and the rest will be turned over to me tomnorrow. Rickard was at the depot to meet Sullivan. After a brief conference the pair climbed into an automobile and set out for Jeffrie's camp. Five members of sullivan's party accompanied them. When the machine drew up in front of Jeffries' cottage the fighter came forward. Hell Tim he said extending his hand. Hello replied Sullivan I wish you all kinds of luck boy. After a few moments of talk with the big man,Rickard and Sullivan whirled over the dusty road to Johnson's quarters.They arrived just after the champion returned from his afternoon road work. The greeting between Sullivan and Johnson was cordial and after an interchange of remarks the two hastened back to the city. Reno was much perturbed today by rumors.They were flying everywhere rumors about Jeffries,rumors about Johnson,rumors about Rickard and the referee job,rumors about everything and everybody directly or indirectly connected with the fight. Taking the Jeffries rumors in chronological order, this morning he broke his left forearm,at noon he ruptured a blood vessel in his elbow and at two o'clock in the afternoon he underwent an operation for appendicitis. In spite of all this hard luck, Jeffries was sufficiently recovered at five to look up from a game of cards and drawl: well so long as I am all right on Monday afternoon,it don't cut much figure what happens to me now does it? The only real affliction to come upon Jeffries during the day was one which threatened his pocket book. A suit for five thousand dollars in attorney's fees was filed against him in the district court by the local lawyers who drew up the contract conveying the fighter's share in the moving pictures to an eastern syndicate. The lawyers alleged that because of the terms of the contract with the syndicate's representative they were entitled to at least five thousand dollars they argued that since by the contract Jeffries and his partner in the deal,Tex Rickard would be sixty six thousand in good hard money as soon as the first gong tapped on Monday and that even if no blow was struck in the fight that sixty six thousand belonged to Tex and Jim absolutely and they could throw it at the birds if they likeed, five thousand did not look very big after all. Richard said later in the day that the matter had been adjusted. The lawyers said that it had not.They admitted however that it was liable to be settled at any moment.There were numerous conferences at the lawyer's offices during the day and Rickard did not appear worried in the least, so it is supposed that it was all setttled to his satisfaction or would be any moment. Another of the flock of rumors that electried into life the corps of newspaper men and sports that dotted the shady side of Center street was one to the effect that Sam Langford would box with Jim Jeffries before daylight faded.That particular rumor kept the war correspondents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMPORTANT: To stop receiving these notifications, you need to know if you are receiving them through a mailing list or if you subscribed through the Newspaper Abstracts website. Either way, you had to have subscribed yourself, as we do NOT just add people randomly to our notifications. To determine what you subscribed to, look at the subject line of this message. If the subject line begins with the words 'Old-News' followed by 'New Article for', then you are receiving this notification through a mailing list. Look at the end of this message for instructions on how to unsubscribe. 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