Doyle not to be Referee
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Doyle not to be Referee is an article published in The New-York Times on 16 december 1909.
Doyle not to be Referee
Novelist Declines with Regret invitation for Jeffries-Johnson Fight.
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
LONDON, Dec. 15. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has received a cable dispatch from the committee in charge of the arrangements of the Jeffries-Johnson fight asking him to act as referee. Although the author of "Rodney Stone" is greatly pleased by the offer, he has replied regretting his inability to accept. Just now Sir Arthur is busy rehearsing his "Drama of Prize Ring, the House of Temperley," which is to be produced at the Adelphi Theatre Dec. 27.
