Aurelio Herrera - Gilbertgia.com

suspected Nelson was sweating pounds to make weight. 164 Jacobs
might have bent the scales to benefit Herrera, as was charged,
but there was no question that Nelson was a no show at 8:30 PM.
Still, Tommy Jacobs could have done better for Herrera than
announcing “We done our share” and then leaving the ring. 165
Crooked and Swindling
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romoter McCarey was frantic. Minutes were becoming
hours, and McCarey’s pot of gold was fading before his
eyes. If the fight was canceled he would collect $2,000 in forfeit
money, but he was holding $40,000 in refundable tickets, and
managers Jacobs and Noland refused to budge on the weigh-in
dispute. McCarey would have been even more frantic if he’d
known that during his negotiations over motion picture rights,
Herrera had wired his Bakersfield bank to stop payment on his
$1,000 weigh-in guarantee. 166 A lot was going wrong.
164 Los Angeles Times, May 27, 1906, I9
165 On July 26 the Times blamed Herrera’s refusal to fight on manager Jacobs,
“the intolerable little upstart who left a hash-foundry to manage Herrera…”
166 Los Angeles Times, May 26, 1906; Daily [Bakersfield] Californian, May 30,
1906; Herrera also stopped payment on a $2,000 check he had given to McCarey
as forfeit money for non-appearance. William R. Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner
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