The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1934, Page 15

v THE "DAILY ‘ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1934 WITH THE FIGHT GAME IN U, $2 Eurapean Tex Rickwrd Says ‘Too Much Bally- hoo., Too Little Fighting’ By GAYLE TALBOT (Associated Press Sports Writer) LONDON, June 8—The . trouble with boxing in the United States, says Jeff Dickson, of the Jackson, Miss., Dicksons, is that there is entirely too much ballyhoo and too little boxing. “Now, take my championship fights,” said the 37-year-old black- haired promoter from ‘America as he stretched his legs under a table in the Savoy bar. “Ten days is my limit. A fight either will'make itself in that time, or it's a flop. Strange -talk, perhaps, but the talker is the one who, in the last 10 years, has gained a virtual monopoly on almost any kind of sport you can name in Engzland, France and Spain. He’s just an American doughboy who came over during the war and remained to become about the best known fig- ure, barring Lloyd George, on this side of the Atlantic. Title Fights On Week’s Notice “They've got the wrong idea, ‘Madison Square Garden and the others,’ continued Dickson, with no trace of the Mississippi drawl he must have had back in '18. “They spend too much time blowing up a fight. Me, I figure if it looks like a real scrap the fans will turn out. “I've even put on title fights with ;a week’s notice and had a packed house. What the custom- ers want is action—not a lot of newspaper space telling them what @ fight they might possibly see a month from now.” “Never Printed A Rain Check” The “Tex Rickard of Europe” bhas an amazing store of self con- fidence. He was a newsreel pho- tographer from the énd of the war until 1921, and a man in that calling learns not to be a blushing violet. “I've put on seven big outdoor shows in Europe in the last. 10 years,” he confided, “and I haven't yet printed a rain check. It's sim- ply not going to rain whep I'm fight. havmg a I never even Not Because We Are Cheaper BUT BETTER | RICE & AHLERS CO. |}/ | rPLuMEmG HEATING | SHLET METAL | “We tell you in advance what Job will cont™ | fast, lunch or dinner— you'll find at Bailey's & great variety of tasty || dishes. Youwll like our |} -special business men’s {| lunch. BAILEY’S | . - BEER <If Desired “Knuckle Down!” et v e & The honor and distinction bf' beh‘g New York's first girls’ marb! champion rests on the pretty head of 13-year-old Patty Smyth, of Flushing, L. I. She is nhown in ac- tion during finals. Patty maintains she could have beaten a lot of ‘the contestants in the male tourney. taken out rain insurance.” He is a born gambler, just like Rickard. Dickson - has taken a chance all The way, and the an- swer is that he's got all the best indoor and eutdoor arenas in Lon- don, Paris and Barcelona tied up and is putting on some kind of show practically every night in a week. For instance, he has England’s two leading heavyweights signed up for a fight in the open air this summer. But he's not announcing it, yet. They're going on fighting as often as they please, about once every two weeks, yet Dickson isn't worried. Making Visit to States If they continue to win, so much better for the build-up. I one of them loses, tough luck. Dickson will have to get even somewhere else. His are so numerous that a loss on one fight isn’t going to ruin his sleep. Right now, the promoter from Mississippi is excited chiefly about a trip home. He expects to spend a couple of days in New York and then a week with his folks in Jackson. After that it will be right back to London and Paris, where he' has over 250 persons on his payroll. Does he expect to do any busi-| ness in the United States even a little bit. A Hint Of Romance “I'm not interested in any fight- ers they have in America,” declared. “I don't want anything they've got and you may be sure T'am not sending them any of my boys.” There have been recurrent ru- mors on the continent that Dick- Not son and Miss Sonja Henie, Nor-| way's famous figure skater, were| “like that.” He isn't saying any- thing one way or the other. But, at luncheon, he was fidgeting as | couriers brought him reports on the progress of a transatlantic call he had made to the beautiful’ Sonja in New York. —eee— SKAGWAY PASSENGERS will please communicate with Tom Smith, Float. —adv. | HOLLYWOQOD SHOE, PARLOR Shoes Made Like New While U Wait Salmon Creek Roadhouse P ST Phone 36 g FOR VERY PROMPT DELIVERY! JUNEAU LIQUOR CO. Percy REYNoLDS, Manager enterprises | he| M. S. YAKOBI at City| LILIAN. HARVEY PUTS COMEBACK. BEFORE CRASH Says Next Picture Will Tell Tale Whether It's Career or Marriage for Her By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, June 8-—Dainty Lilian Harvey is in the peculiar position of essaying a ‘comeback” high place in the matter of salary. In Hollywood the rule is that a star who fails in the last one to suspect. the unpleasant truth. Lil- ian proves the rule. She’s the ex- ception. “I know I was a frost, a flop,” she says frankly. “There'd be no point in kidding myself.. It isn't pleasant, to be drawing ‘a salary and to feel youre not worth it— or -that you haven't been worth it.” “Serenade” Will Tell Her next picture, “Serenade,” she expects will “tell the tale.” She is have to break my neck to do it I'm willing,” she says pluckily—or she is going to Europe to get mar- ried and rear a family. Her con- tract calls for three pictures after “Serenade,” but unless that film is exceptionally good she doesn't ex-| pect to imake the others. At any rate, she will visit her home in the south of France after this pieture, and while gone she may be married to Willy Fritsch, her German actor-fiance. Mar- riage at that time depends on ar- ranging their mutual affairs so that they can be together, either here or abroad. Marriage is rather pointless, says Lilian, be with your husband. ™ But marrying Willy Fritsch, and having babies, are definitely in her plans, BALLYHOO HANDICAP Miss Harvey, subject of extensive ballyhoo when she arrived a year ago fresh from her triumph in “Congress Dances,” seems unem- bittered by what she calls her “failure” in Hollywood. Perhaps she says, the ballyhoo provided too great a handicap. Especially un- fortunate, she considers, was thc She had noth- Fox on her arrival. | ForD | AGENCY | (Authorized Dealers) | GAS | | OILS : * GREASES | | l Juneau ' Motors - FOOT OF MAIN ST. without having fallen from her} | i going to make good in it—“and if II if you can't| exploitation of the studio bunga-' low that was her surprise gift from| “In Hospital | | { | | Virginia Peine Lehman, Chicage socialite known on the screen at Virginia Pine, was taken to a Hol lywood hespital for observation and rest. She was suffering from an un- explained iliness when she returned from a trip to N=w York. aged Press Photo) (Associ | with wine if destred ing to do with beautiful, but— it, and “People who work hard to scrapul together money for a movie can't be expected to warm up to a girl who has a lamp trimmed in er- mine tails in her dressing rooms.! | making three pictures without & sense of humor. . side her bungalow. | doesn’'t come to failures. i adv. | it's very I hate that lamp"—and she glares at it. “I'm going to burn it some day” ‘Withal, however, the vivacious Lilian—a tiny, 'blue-eyed . blonde who worked herself to a shadow day of rest—retains an ebulient There’s a “welcome” mat out- “I've thought of taking ‘that it,™ she laughs, “and putting up'a sign instead: “This is the dog-house; All the same, ‘the “failure” can't be as bad as she-seems to think. l There were .stacks of fan mail be-, ,ing answeved there—and fan mail During my absence, Dr. W. J. B. 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