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$1,000,000 IS PAID BY SAN FRANCISCO TO SEE PRIZE FIGHT BATTLE MAD MOBS JAM RENO Nevada Metropolis Is a Seeth ing Maelstrom of Crowd ing, Crushing Throngs HUNDREDS STRUGGLE FOR FOOD AND DRINK Hotel Doorways Blocked and Restaurants Overwhelmed; Gamblers Reap Harvest PICKPOCKETS GATHER FROM FAR AND NEAR ROBERT EDGREN [Special Dispatch to The Call] REXO, July 3. — Only a few hours more and the battle of the cen tury will be in full swing. We have waited long for this time to come, yet even now we can hardly realize that all the training, the hard work, the period of sudden rumors and alarms, is over. Two days ago Reno was merely a hustling Nevada town, with here and there a face familiar on other and distant Erects. In 48 hours it has become a swirling, seething maelstrom of rushing, crushing, colliding bodies, a tossinfr sea of excited faces, a twist ing, writhing current of humanity torn by the rocks of a score of different desires and emotions. The streets are jammed. The hotel lobbies are packed to suffocation. Once crushed in through the doorways, one finds it impossible to move hand or foot, for endless periods of time, near the hotel <lesks hundreds clamor for rooms, and all the rooms were given out days ago. At the dining- room entrances hundreds more struggle and elbow for advantage, peering eagerly past the guards at the feeding multitude ineide. Restaurants are overwhelmed. This morning I ate V'Teakfast in Reno's most celebrated restaurant. I ordered pancakes. The wateir came back In a moment and shook his head. "Nothing doing," he said briefly. NOTUIXQ BIT PE.AIX STUFF Why? 1 i asked. "Cook's up In the ai:\" paid the waiter. -He says nothing 4»oes ( bUt plain stuff from now on. All hell cook is fried eggs and plain steak." At the more conservative hotels an absolute order lias been issued to serve only rooming guests. Today specials rushed in almost hourly. Tonight the railroad kept on rumbling as train after train rolled in from the Pacific coast and took it's place on the sidetracks. The streets became more and more jammed. At every step big gambling places did a rushing- business. Every where the click of the dice, the whirl of the roulette wheel, the call of the dealer and the ciink of gold and silver coin. Into the gambling district poured a steady stream of eastern money. Eastern men had never seen anything ; liko it before. They were fascinated. And the lean, brown tanned men of the west collected steadily. They had con tributed liberally to the arena and the i tight fund. Xow they were playing even. Their money was coming back to them. PICKPOCKETS CAPTURED All through the crowd circulated Scores of pickpockets, most of them from Xew York. They were a gleeful lot of pickpockets. Reno was their oyster, and they weren't delicate in opening it. They alternated in ab stracting- watches from easy pockets and raiding hotel rooms. Last night Jim Flanasan. brother of the famous John and the scarce less famous Tom, had a room a little way down the hal! from mine in the Golden. He carefully folded his clothes, placed thorn on the chair beside his bed and ivcnt to sleep. In the morning he found his clothes lying near the door. He was shy just $120 in cash, a watch end chain and one of John Flanagan's championship hammer throwing med a!s. Poor Jim nearly wept when he told me about tlio watch and medal. And there were others. Captain Cox of the .state police caught a pickpocket redhanded in the hotel lobby. This Captain Cox, by the way, is a genius. lie showed me his collection of data on American crooks, and believe me he can //.entify a crook from Xew York as £faickly as one from Nevada. Captain Cox had his men distributed arouna through the crowd, playing roulette, loafing, talking fight on the street cor ners. He had crooks and pickpockets spotted the moment they left the trains. Tonight he was ready for a grand clean up, and at a certain hour his men closed in on their victims. In 15 minutes 27 pickpockets, most of them from New York, were behind the bars. The San Francisco "dips" will be snapped up from this moment on as they leave the trains. Every crook identified will spend his time in a Reno jail until the fight is over and the crowd has left Nevada. Never have the pickpockets and strong arm men been handled so summarily before. Nevada is a law abiding hpot, and the visiting crooks are going to find it a mighty hard place to get away from. AL.li KINDS THERK But these fellows are a mere detail, remotely connected with the movement of the sporting public upon Nevada. Reno's great arena tomorrow will seat the large crowd that invades I the streets. It's a wonderfully interesting crowd. Every trade, profession and de gree of leisure is represented in it. There are cooks and millionaires, cow punchers, miners, capitalists, Indians. Chinese, bankers, businessmen, College students, professors, gamblers — every thing you can Imagine. The betting on the fight has been brisk. Big men from the east have come in with Jeffries money and have stirred things up. Robert Guggenheim from New York, lor instance, hardly hopped from his speciaJ car before he tossed $10,000 into iJawler's poolroom with instructions that it must be placed on Jeffries at 10 to 7. Frazee, Jeffries' theatrical agent, put up $10,000 in real money on Jeffries when the odds were 10 to 6%, and the odds fell half a point. STAKEHOLDER, TIME KEEPER AND AUXILIAIW REFEREE (LEFT TQ RIGHT]) SNAPPED INi MERRY: MOO BIG OPPORTUNITY AWAITS JOHNSON Black Man f s Supporters Declare He Is Secretly Yearning to Meet Jeffries By ASHLEIGH B. SIMPSON Continued From Pace 10, Column O siderably different from what they are at present. The black champion has worked with might and main toward the realiza tion of his dream.- He will undoubtedly step into the ring in the best condition that he ever will be in, and if he loses lie will lose hard and it will probably be the beginning of the end for him as far as the fighting game is con cerned. SPECULATION O.V OUTCOME Many influences, many effects, have been suggested according to the out come of the battle. If Johnson wins/ there will be a riot in the south; if Johnson wins, the game of pugilism will suffer, and so forth. It has been said by some that this fight will prob ably be the last great heavy weight contest of its kind that the world will ever see. There is something in the statement and it comes right back to — if Johnson wins — again. If Johnson does win, the heavy weight-* fighting game will probably continue for some time. If he doesn't, it will probably mean the end, the death of heavy weight championships. 97 RUNS GO TO NIELD'S CREDIT Alameda Cricket Club Easily De feats Barbarians ajt Stadium Wicket WILLIAM UNMACK The Alameda cricket club yesterday easily defeated the Barbarians at the Stadium ticket by 97 runs. The Bar barians could do nothing with the bowling of Nield and Irish and were all dismissed for 33 runs; Newman with 16 runs to his credit, being the only base man to reach double figures. The Alameda team soon put the re sult of the game beyond doubt by scor ing 130 runs and Nield again displayed his ability, this time with the bat. In bowling against the Barbs, Nield dis missed six of the team for only 15 runs, and when he went in to bat he made a splendid inning of 75 runs and was unfortunate to pull a ball on to his wicket at a time when he looked set for a century. Nield batted .splendidly and placed the ball all over theyfield. He scored quickly, and though he gave one or two chances that were not ac cepted the innings were otherwise bril liant. This score of 75 by Nield is the sec ond highest individual score of , the season. A. Wilding also batted nicely for his quota of 20, and Price added a. vigorous 15. The Wanderers and the San Fran cisco teams played a close game at the Alameda grounds yesterday, the Wan derers winning by 20 runs on the first innings. The San Francisco team could only compile a total of 27 runs, the de liveries of Stuart and Charlton lfteing too much for the county batsmen. Th« Wanderers replied with 47 runs, of which Charlton contributed 17 and Stuart 15. -The Alameda team then ' took the wickets for the second time and had amassed a total- of_ 70 for the loss of only four wickets when they declared their Inning and sent their opponents to the creases. . The Wanderers fared badly, and had it not been for the call of time would have been in a sad fix. The game, on account of not being com pleted, was therefore decided on the first inning, which gave the Wanderers a win by 20 runs. . AL KAUFMAN,; heavyweight fighter on Johnson* training? staff— l have not seen Jeffries and can not say anything about his condition. Therefore,; I am unable to talk much about him.. I want to say that Johnson is perfectly trained and Is ready, for any kind of fight. : You can take my word' for it, I think he wilKwin this side of the twentieth- round. My experience "with him has thoroughly convinced me,th'at he is a great boxer « arid ', a ','.. willing, courageous fighter. THE '< SM" FRANOISCQI CALL, MOND&T, r JULYf \ -1910 TOMMY BURNS (AT LEFT) GREETING STANLEY KETCHEL AT RENO*. JEFF BRANDS 'EXCLUSIVE SIGNED ARTICLES' RANK NEWSPAPER FAKE RENO, July. 3.^-The only: thing :that "annoyed Jeffries today was the. discovery' of the fact that a news paper syndicate was printing fake articles under his signature r and : cailing'. them "exclusive." "I- didn't even know they were using : name,", said •'Jeffries*' when, shown a paper with. one of the : "By James J.. Jeffries" stones. "I haven't given any paper a. right:- to .'sign my name, to exclusive stories. This is the -first -time I knew it was being done.- -You tell all- the; newspaper ;boys that anytime; they want a story from me they can come right; to! me, and, if I know ,anythiri'g ? abbut what\t hey "want, I'll, give it; to i them," over my signature, too.- The paper has not paid me a cent for exclusive stories, and "I'm not- in that kind of business."' RIVAL TRAINERS GIVE OPINIONS EACH ADMITS OTHER'S PROWESS RENO, Nev.,' July . 3.— The \ trainers and Sparring partners of > the two fight ers tonight gave' to the •Associated Press their opinions of the. result, and of their chieftains,, as follows:. •« SAM BERGER, Manager for ' Jeffries — Jeffries has never" been ah ounce bet ter than he is right now. r I would have liked, to have seen him. do^much 'more boxing. He; is - prepared : to \u25a0 go \ a " route all | right, but because of • the "lack of sparring he! will not" warm up? to .his' pace as 'speedily as- if; he had had;; an 1 abundance lof \ glover practice. ' I don't think ; Johnson can: hurt ' him, "and-* the' farther lithe Might goes:, the-, safer^are' Jeff's -'\u25a0 chances." . . \u25a0'.",• V".'-' %.- ..- :; - '.}'- -~'>!?i ; JAMES J. .CORBETT, /Chief of ;Staff nt H " Jeffries' . Camp— l j believe .Jeff ries*. to be In; • great condition' f or/atlqngv* "gruel-' ing^battle.' I'm -satisfied \u25a0thatvnoi'dls r < : tance would be < too great!for]hlm.vPer sonally; * however, 1 I'm sorry, he 'has ? not 1 [Special Dispatch to The Call] done more fast work, such 'as- boxing and ; : shadow" dancing. " - Because* of <the lackfofi'this sort, "of? exercise I' figure that:. Johnson? will give him v a * merry timein 'the. early* stages of .the fight. Jeff, however, is in | shape Ito -'take fa beating; and; r he'lU be strong and com ing- when ,the' other fellow, is' tired. I think' Jeff i|s:a sure.wlnner. ROGER iCOBNBLL, -chief trainer for Jeffries— -I f consider that ' Jim 'Jeffries could not be "in better physical Ifix ; than ' he is/ today/ ;> HeY has gone i through 7 a ? systematic- course' 1 of trairiihgUhat-.will Uaterbe found- tolbe an absolute* novelty/in the;bdxing:game. It doesn't- -make'- much* difference how faf:this*:flght-may'go;vV Jeff, will.be just as If ast at; the :' end'^ of T3O • rounds I asltie was in the first. -I : look rto : him to so'ut b6x,'<outdistaric>;>'outfightiandioutgame Jack^Johns6n.* J "' V —:>-.: > -. ';\u25a0' \u25a0',\u25a0 -.:;-;:; x?,?OE j? t CllOYXSKl,^ Jeffries'- « parr lap partner— l- h'ave v never^ seen *as' finely a conditioned "athlete; as V Jeff ries :• is."" If there be any flaw in his physical fitness it can only come to the surface in the fight,, for the man' certainly is perfectly trained. I boxed both /Jeffries and Johnson when they were, novices. John son-will find -himself, pitted,' against a man much | faster, cleverer and stronger than' himself 'and he'll surprise me if he lasts longer than seven rounds. ' TOM FLANAGAN,"' manager . of Jack JolinMon — I never saw al,a 1 , man £ more fit 'for Ja: test -of skill, strength and- en durance. Johnson ' is pretty nearly the perfect man {'physically." I look for him-' to, win -as certainly as he enters .the^ringoniMonday. He is- ready, and anxious to -meet 'Jeffries/, arid, believes downy in ~ his '\u25a0 heart that; he can make ,the> former champion Hake;, the, count. It*,willjbea : great flght.- Johnson 'knows ith'at > he i has • the -H strength,'~,cleverness, Ikriowle'dge/of ;. the',- game- and; the heart to \u25a0; win^ thei contest. ; He ._doesn!t.under rate for .a • moment, ."- but the confidence;!^ the i thing. • \u25a0 . $' GEORGJE : ! COTTOX; ; chief.; sparrlns partner *•" of * ', Johnxon— -Johnson £ is ' - the greatest^- boxer I that *"eyer? pulled on . a 'glove. " : It1 is ' next /to to hit him. 'I; know .that;; he can hit.:l know .that She* has i the S heart -and the * conn"-. depc^;fjH^,wlH;surp_rlse'ißomej.wlse-bet-' .'tors A I • know.' r ,' Jack -wiri^decisively, butiit^will-beta^hard'-flght. . :;.:;.; BAT PICKS BLACK MAN ON CONDITION Nelson Declares Light Betting Proves Fight Will Be on the Level By BATTLING NELSON Continued Froiu Page 0, Column 6 win?" and "Why?" The consensus of opinion around this city is that Jeffries will win. Racial prejudice seems to influence almost 'every one here. "Who did John son ever beat?" is asked often,, but when you ask "Who did Jeff ever beat?" they have to hesitate and some will come back with the names Sharkey, Monroe and Corbett. I was joshing some* fellows last night at Thomas cafe while I was eating. One asked my opinion of the fight and I answered: "I don't know just what to think about it. Who do you think is going to win?" He replied Jeffries and I asked him why. He replied: '"Well, he beat everybody he ever fought, didn't he?" I said. "Yes, but who did he fight?" He hesitated and said, "Why, he fought Battling Nelson, didn't he?" I left the cafe and concluded that it was nothing in the world but senti ment that causes the fans to believe that Jeffries is going to win. I visited the different book makers and* asked regarding how much money was wagered, but they were all ashamed to tell the amount, stating that it is not one-quarter as much as they expected It would be. The lack of betting is the best evidence in the world that the fight is strictly on the level. FEW LARGE. BETS There were only a few large bets made today. -George Considlne of New York bet $5,000 against, $3,325 with Book Maker Tom CorbetC- Jeff ries be ing his choice. Zick Abrams Is betting heavily on Johnson. Most of the bets being made are from $10 to $100. There is a large flood of 'Jeffries .money, but the .Johnson money is beginning to show up. All day long special trains have been arriving from all points of the United States. There was a train from Seattle, which carried IS6 passengers, headed by Duncan McDonald, the man who fought Corbett, Sullivan, Dempsey and several other top riotchers. Seventy eight of. the party bought $50 scats. From the looks of that they will have a tremendous house. The outsiders are buying, Up.the^choice seats. The fight is to start promptly at 1:30, the fight ers leaving < their quarters in automo biles at 12:30 so a,s not to delay their entrance . into the ring and cause un necessary delays. \u25a0' . Jeffries will .be handled by a " more experienced bunch . than Johnson. •He will have as chief In his corner James J. Corbett, assisted by that wonderful wrestling champion, Frank Gotch;Sam Berger, Van Court, Roger Cornell' and the.old reliable Farmer Burns and Joe DEL AXE Y HEADS SECONDS • Johnson's handlers will be headed by Billy Delaney, the Napoleon of sec onds, who has handled both the James J.'s.in manya championship battle, and always successfully. 'assisted by Man ager Tom" . Flanagan, Al Kaufman, Johnny Loftus, Doc Furey atfd Pro fessor Burns. Both fighters should be kept j warm, as each 'has '"Burns" in his corner. The time keeper for Johnson will be Ketchel, .while Billy Gallagher will act in the samecapacity for the undefeated champion, Jeffries. "... GOING TO SLEEP IS REALLY QUITE A JOB One Group of Muscles After Another Gradually Relax iHowdO/we-go to sleep? How does Mother' Nature v charm away our con sciousness?- I r > pSFirJBt of all, 'she throws her spell on those, centers of our bodies that /pre side "over" the muscular system, causing one* group of \u25a0= muscles after another gradually to -collapse.'. Thereafter, va rious powers of mind succumb In regu lar order.' .First, .we lose' attention and judgment. Then memory goes and imagination . wanders away in reveries of Sits' own. ildeas of ; time arid: space ceaseito control. thought as gentle sleep —the '.nurse; of- our. life — -draws nearer. •, .Then comes the. turn-of the special senses, -beginning with sight- — eyelids close and eyeballs turn upward and In ward, 'as if ; to shut ;out all light, ' the pupils 'contracting' more and more as slumber- steals {over us. The. power of ;hearing [ fades ; away. The heart beats and-breath \u25a0> is drawn, more and -more slowly. v . Temperature falls -by perhaps two J degrees \ and . the .body- loses three times less heat' than when awake. ; 8,000 FANS GO FROM CITY Special and Regular Trains Crowded With People Who Are Headed for Reno MEAT AND DRINK ARE CARRIED BY SPORTS Railroad Men Figure That Aver* age Cost for Each Enthusiast Will Be $125 CHANCE TO SPEND COIN IN NEVADA IS GOOD SAN FRANCISCO is paying $1,000,000 to witness the Jeffries- Johnson fi^ht today in Reno. The estimate is made alonjr conser vative lines on figures collected by railroad officials, hotelmen and others about town. It is roughly estimated that at the ringside in Reno this after noon fully 8,000 San Franciscans will be seated. Taking into consideration the cost of transportation to and* from the scene of the engagement, the incidental expenses en route, the ad mittance charge to the arena and the odds and ends while sojourning in Reno, it is admitted by men well qualified to judge that $125 will be tha average cost for each individual. This brings the approximate total to $1,000,000. This is what San* Francisco is pay* ing for its ticket to the fight. Nearly 4,000 fight fans left this city yesterday. The trains of a special and regular character started at 7 a. m. and continued throughout the day. sometimes within but a few minutes ot each other, until 9:30 o'clock in the evening. The man that missed this train, and there were many stragglers. ha^ scant chance of seeing the battle of the century. SPECIALS ARE LOADED Of the trains that left yesterday tha following are reported by the railroad officials: The Morrison special, leaving at 7 a. m., 125 passengers; Southern Pacific special. 9:33 a. m.» 800 pas sengers; Southern Pacific special. 12:25 p. m., 700 passengers; Indoor yacht club special, 1:40 p. m.. 175 passengers; Sage Brush special, 2:30 p. m.. 175 passengers; Lewi sonn-Foley special. 3:25 p. m.. 123 passengers; the Tribune special. 4:25 p. m., 125 passengers; the Cor bett special, 4:25 p. m.. 125 passen gers; Palace special. 5:20 p. m.. 123 passengers: Southern Pacific Xo. X, in four sections, leaving at 7:07. 7:12, 7:17 and 7:22, carrying 900. and the Southern Pacific No. 10 at 9:30 p. m., carrying 600. Many trains, of course, left last week and the week before, all crowded "with fight fans. On Saturday evening: the Union Square special, made up of guests of the Hotel St. Francis, the Golden Gate club and the Olympic club-, num bering 135 in all, left for Reno. Be tween the hour of midnight Saturday night and 9:30 o'clock last evening rail-* road men figured that 4,000 persons in-* terested in the fight had left the Oak-* land mole. REXO OVERFLOWING The trend Renowara; of course, has been going on ever since Tex Rlckard announced his Intention of moving to Nevada. Ten days ago the Reno hotel men announced that no further reserv ations for rooms would be made. Ac commodations in bpardinsr houses and 'private residences were also at a pre mium. Under these circumstances, the wise ones moved early and did not wait until the last moment to catch a' ape* clal train. Figuring in this early travel, railroadmen do not hesitate to say that more than S.OOO sports have left this city in the last fortnight for Reno. Various prices have been asked for a berth or chair on the special cars. Round trips have been advertised - fop $25 without food or berth. $35 with food and berth, $35 with food, berth and stay at Tahoe over Sunday night, and so on. From these tacts railroadmen and ho telmen have declared that $125 would be the average cost for each Individual. In many Instances U will, of course, be much larger, when $50 arena tickets, sections on the train, a case of cold bot tles and a fly at roulette are added. Be sides there is the possibility of belnjr stalled in Reno when the railroadmen attempt to get out of the small town In one day all those who have been going in for 10 days or more. SPECIALS WELL SUPPLIED Slany of the special cars took along* a supply of foodstuffs and wet goods. The Palace Hotel special and the Sage Brush special are being well taken care of in "this respect, an experienced ca terer having been employed in each; case to accompany the party. The Union Square special was at tended by hotel employes — seven bell boys, a chef, a barber, two bar tenders, and others. There will be nothing lacking on this train. The Indoor yacht club and Tom Cor bett specials were also supplied with plenty of cold meats and wet goods. KING GEORGE CHANGES NUMBERING OF ACTS System Prevailing in Victoria's Reign Again Adopted One result of the accession of Kins George, says the Solicitor's Journal, will be the introduction of a change in the numbering of the statutes and the return to the system which pre vailed in the reisn of the late Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in June, 1537, and, inasmuch as ses sions of parliament usually begin some time before, and continue some time after, the.nionth of June, the acts passed in .the sessions of 1838 are cited as the acts passed in the session of parliament held in the first and sec ond year of Her Majesty, or. mor« briefly, "1 and 2 vict." Queen Victoria died January 22, 1901. and the late king succeeded to the throne before the tommencement of the session of parliament for 1901. The acts . for 1901 are accordingly acts of 1 Ed. ! 7, those of 1902 of 2 Ed. 7. The acts for 1911 will in future, however, be acts of 1 and 2 George, and so oa la the succeeding years. 11