The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1919, Page 10

—_ or i MON a 6: Ac RECENT 10 THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1919, | PICKARD BREAKS A RECORD BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK WREIAREDFOX IN EVERY FIGHT HE PROMOTES + That Scheduled for July 4 Between Willard and Dempsey Is Only His Fourth Venture, but, Like the Three Others, It Is a Championship Affair—Tex’s Keen Judgment in Pick- ing Contests and His Financial Boldness Squelch All Oppo- sition in Promotion. HOW TEX HAS FIGURED IN BOXING HISTORY —-_ MOST STYLISHDO | JUDGING ENTRIES 199 of Them Among Total of 2,589 at This Year's Garden Show. 4 By Robert Edgren. Many canines of h legrees have wen nominated fo -third ‘ Ceprtaht. 1919, by The Frese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) annual dog show ninster OW that Tex Rickard is around as a prospective promoter of a Jess AAUarA GardGh Go OU. 16; HIRE N Willard championship fight, it Isn't altogether impossible that the| i. the seenty Gut Sess in eae ponderous champion may bo seen again in the ring. Rickard has a| hte tre ag habit of getting what he wants, even | can Re Cross, the © as last 589, ctual number of dogs jeligible to compete for prizes in money and p is 1 the Garden Dog Show one largest ever held in any if it cosis him a barrel of money | You notice that I use a few qualify- ing adjectives in mentioning “Wi! lard” and “fight” in the same sen- tence, Personally, I will believe that Willard intends to “defend” that long undefended title when I see Jess in one corner of the ring, stripped for action, his opponent in another cor. ner, and hear the bell clang for the beginning of the first round. After that Jess can't very well get out while the ne valu count The largest entry in any breed is for wire-haired fox terriers, with 199, Next in numerical strength come Boston — ferrie with 167; chow chows at 143; shepherd dogs, fore jmerly listed as German shepherd dogs, 139; Airedale terriers, 131; col- lies, 130; cocker spaniels, 120, and CKARDS FIRST VENTURE Be Dr PRONSTER, WAS THE Famous FIGHT THAT PUT GOLDFIELD On THE MAP. MUG Ad JESS Loves Peace WE Loves B\o0,000, MORE. iT Tex 4 ‘ ‘ ex Pm H(01,000 For irik te : “ ke Of it. There's one thing about Willard — much as ho hates f " 4 t THe JEFFRIES - JONSON BouT, | Other. brecde “¢ te Wave tsb to risk being beaten, when he is once in the ring and has been handed @ AND REFERGED IT HIMSELF, | strong include English bull dogs and few hard wailops he will fight. But he has to be stung Into it. If he isn’t French bull dogs, each with 9% one jtr s; English setters, 98; Great nes, 86; beagles, 81; bull terriers, 66, and aceranemans — ———_—_ — ~ new title for Dachs . In the toy breeds, which will be empsey Is Coming East 23° $2. 88%atut a | largest entry is in Pomeranian: burt he will just clown through his bout, pawing playfully and turning his expectant smile from side to side as If to assure the crowd that It is seeing something really funny, Probably nothing but such a sum 4 as Tex Rickard, and no other lMVving) $100,000 is the amount that would promoter could offer Willard could! turn the trick, and just to make sure induce big Jess to take on any kind| in case other promoter happened ef a real fight. When Tex atiees | 70 Be etary ond ortee cuainn Be made $100,000 for his end to Willard he ‘ went right to the point by offering| Tex Was King. Willard something he couldn't resist. They Had to Admit with 86. Next in line are Pekinges to Sign at Any Terms iver’ cftiict i sitits eck shire terriers and toy poodles, which | ° Wi Wi have each an even dozen of entries, Muoh as Jess loves peace, he loves! Wie comeoth, and Uncle Tom Me- " for Fight ith illard an iiaaica $100,000 more, |Curey heard of ‘Rickard's offer they “i <i Mona bad beet ini a) It was like Rickard to leap into fully withdrew, without argu at, TEX RICKARD HANDED Hi ne: a Baseball Briefs Dig figures without any preliminary |Mment, and went hon They wished ta> Balreuhe Gichas. to meet Willard in the ring. I have Rickard luck, and their sole com- , Much of Mystery Surrounding |peon fichting two years for the} | , , , ance t n " rT 1 ALBANY. Fe g Assemblyman i : ie ) chance to win the championship ana} : Match Cleared Away by 1 am going to win it. They talk of|John G. Malone, Republican, of Albany, News From Kansas City. | wittara paving advantages, he has) t0 Jad the fight in the Lower House a ESPNS pele One baa be I have phe Baseball bil Aw y . ertens and gther qualifi-ja con got of infiven' By Vincent Treanor. cations which [ believe will make it] men Interested in national game ip M CH: of the mystery surround-| possible for me to win. | have had| 8% decided to m: ny Daggling. From first venture “S) ment was that any one who was s0 ‘a promoter he has had all other gen-|careless with money needn't worry tlemen in his particular line of en-|about having opposition from them. % There | Tex they opined, was one game guy. deavor backed off the boards avid They were perfectly willing to let =, 1g no competition when Tex is In the |iim nave the fight, and sit in a ring \, field. side seat and look on, One hundred To appreciate Rickard one only | 4nd one thousand dollars! They were Ci .|slad it wasn't their funeral, Needs to follow his career, In early |" ye. intended to hold that fight te youth he was a Texas cattle man.|sun [rancisco, He went there, had Hence the “Te Drifting through | Jeffries training at Rowerdenan and the frontier States—or what was left Johnson at the beach near the Beal : Rocks. He opened offices, had tickets Of the old ¢rontier—he lived a life of| printed, leased Central Park and built adventure, At times he was a gam-|o huge arena, posted the whole purse, uy i ke ing Jack Dempsey and his de-| More fights than Wil ‘Bhey. say | fonmaruean Sy havi T have won too in the first 2 Assembly and a Deme Malone !n any round, well, that's the way I'll be sign Tex Rickard's articles of agree-| at the champion if L cane tt will be fe | stalone tne nent for his match with Willard has the fastest first round the fans have with baseball yeen cleared away. 1d. Cochrane, | ver seen, advocates look upon hecgroheey) “Lam going to take perfect carc|move, because it lay in reaching New York to e a "I ing World's K f n of fishermen of th , Tx Temas cower KE, ., 1} The Evening of inyself and run no risk of injury. : n ip his line. |#pent a mint of money, and had an Wad A so ea tN 5 : low > iSerinka at frst the Sunday Bas: to pers Dier, and a first class mai We a ne. Gavance sale running into. the hun: But WE ALWAYS HAD AMBITIONS. correspondent, saw Demps ri nt nd te be in perfect condition Ahem to witout ‘Tex has nothing to conceal about Ms} aregy of thousands of dollars—pro- and got from him the first statement hen TL face him. I do not care where of arrest. mete ont | We fight, all 1 want to see is a ring Wife as a follower of chance. From|mising a most amazing gate of half he has made since the announcement We fant to ing Beats Texas to Nome he was known as ala million—and had the whole affair with Willard in ono of the corners. , CICINNATI. 0., “square S e big match was on. Coch-| “1 do think | will he w, manager ” had a reputa-{}Well in hand when an unexpected . NATIONAL TENNIS AWARDS, |tst the bis mate! ite hink Twill, go. on. the Pal Rt tar canker, nia be jodie political kink caused the Governor of Uni (Zz ates ans ranie’e Peport is as follows stage an more. I do not want to get} the New sore ) ayaa - neinnati for Wa: the State to suddenly reverse hix at- Weet Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, Specie) to The Evening World Hee ee ae Canta eee pe) toute 11 mada ae deat of. His games were “square” and he|titude toward the bout and order ite N. Ye—National cingies, father and KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. &—When| believe a complete rest for three or | Made no deal for Bee ne Siento tonne the Weets|7, ine mili a threat of culling Tennis Invasion of ae four weeks and that o careful siege: -John J. Mes President of he lett id be had, i player. Seteranss bar+ and juniors’ sine /Jack Dempsey arrives in New Yors Ail be besten for ta. then ey, ho ee This cataclysm would have over- and double , ; | Monday he will go Leet a al beady ese bitons, 1 have been work- | “Babe” Ruth on fret base every day la ern States becoming dull, Tex went UP! whelmed and crushed any man but ° ° Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadel~ | iickard and ask to sign the articles oo hard now and I need a chance | the week if “Babe” were with the Wash= frozen north and he gambled and) a Tex Rickard. ‘Tex shifted all of his nti odes in pila, Tas—National wom sles | of agreement without paying a par- '? recover ston Club, writing to a baseball {rend won and lost fortunes. | Plans over night, sold the lumber of und doubles, mixes doubles, gifls’ 1M | 1 oe attention to the terms. T Deaneey whe Tne ae aisivae dite one on oe Goldfield ana) MS arena. paid all his bills, posted a ae gles and double, ie i : ade by Dempecy " arrived here | neider, The dig strikes at Gol | big sum in bank to guarantee return was the statement ma ps South Side Tennis Club, Chicago, Ml, ursday night. He didn't come. ists other Nevada desert points drew) of any ticket money to those who will come successfully out of these to-day when he packed his trunk T I ivity Than Ever Be tignal clay court singles, doubles. n he was due to come yesterday |, BOSTON, Fod. 8 —A t tablety ME iC cas ih uaw fronller, of-| wanted it, and, movedite Nevaon tear More ACUYINY Than Ever Be-| trials and become the challengo team | Tere singles amt doublew and Excelsior Springs, a resort near to put his name to Rickard’s articies | Beating, the,names of the fourteen plays Siig new hardships and new ex: | tees eae a ee nie’ idl fore Promised in the Sport |? Bae thae Wilding and Brockes won mixed doubles, here, and prepared to leave Saturday of agreement. He didn’t show, In-|ball Club who served J th Mata Aat: : sig | there ding on the pide abet op E \< c 4 i slat eg BS : i é A the wit $ citement. His “place” in Goldfield) outskirts of Reno, the fighters were This Season Jin August, 1914, down at Forest Hills Longwond Cricket Club, Boston, | afternoon for New York, Demp, tead a telegram to Manager Kearns| traces Field, it was announced to-day was famous, Gambling was legal 0! in new camps in Nevada, Rickard was # |This would be the grand ending vf | Mass—-Natlonal doubles for men, is so elated over the opportunity to revealed the fact that instead of being|by George W. Grant, the new owner of Nevada ‘hen, and regaMed as a/per-| calmly arranging all details in his REAM ithe campaign started at last night's! Seventh Regiment Tenoly Club, New | geht Willard that he would be willing some place between here and Cbi.{t!e cup : sae fectly normal line of business, ry Sais, Gases Fanits, end the world By William Abbott. at ‘city Aka nae: Memon Fecha Nisee: leone oldies ont to fight for any pries Riekard may cago, as everybody thought, he w: Basketball | ague Disbands. * new tha big flight would come s “ > wi "er-"D | doubles for men, national singles an ‘3 ‘ fj ' . “equare shooter” like Rickard WAS) oer on its scheduled date, The crowd MERICAN tennis this year will|policy a new method of conducting | goauies for women, national singles |" °="The financial end of this affair 2t l2xcelsior Springs, Arkansas, and| The Terra Garden Basketball naturally one of the most respected | that came from all over America was be preparatory for a climax in|the ‘national doubles was arranged. | sea aeies for Juniors aml bose sine | does not worry me said the chal. | Would leave the morrow Night, | League, composed. of young women ins gen in the community of Goldfield. | a tribute to Tex Rickard’s personality 1920, when we are to make a/ 7/8 year 5S een tenia roar gles and doubles for girls. lenger, “What I want ix a chance| Guy the tel York some time Mon |structorg at the Dance Palace, ius dig- IMpOrtance Of the| sririted attempt to bring back the| (i oven, morons. oF th 8 mar Abas acca BI lee = ispiatiees he pedi ea tB eesstacds legram to Kearns said {banded ‘after each of the fou! ms aid that he would ‘ i back the/and winning combinations of thes: that Dempsey found all kinds of|/had indulged in two games: lyn ” hold that fight. The world knew he|8toric Davis Cup from Augtratia,|matehes will come together in the troubles on his visit to hig mother at| Hubbell, chaperc the di @h the Map. would. iy As tho best means of assuring victory {ational finals at Longwood. This will By {Salt Lake City, His kid brother had | stitution, decided the girls were jdied from the “fu” while Jack was |i2®,more attention to basketball than lon t ne ‘ Terpsichorean instruction, and broke jon his way out. and tho rest of the|up the organ Tt is possible ghe u He, too, felt}may permit the Elephant Ears and the fin's" effects on the | Ragamuffins, f whom | 0 when the Goldfield mining men| Incidentally, the gate was approx-|in the international insure a real test of ability and inct- matches in 1920 A Pears i tea were looking around for something | ‘mately a quarter of a million dollars. dentally help to cultivate doubles Fistic News _soin It was not the’ half million. that|(elesates at the annual meeting of}teams, the lack of which have tended family was la t to “put Goldfield on the map.” and) Richant's clear judgment had neon in (the United States Lawn Tennis Ax-|to retard our chances in many Davis| Dave Mackey, matchmaker of the | \tmwics A. c. of Battinory on Pe. 30 Mart | something of the i Rickard “Put Goldfield | Mii oiee uae & i Rickard isn't at all promiscuous as Newark boxer, and Charley | night * This was where Tex Rickard took | a promoter. He has promoted but wid bet igi. rounds . : a eee sf : ley fa boxing in bis beet fern vow, and as he | Someth! a fins, i H decided that nolding a world's cham-/ Sun Francisco, but tt waa good| sociation at the Waldorf last night|CUg,mitehes. | 4. | Sportsmen's Club of Newark, N. | eos got the derton orer Hil Biowm at the | ain Hast and decided he would stop | th? came, ianipions DP plonship ring battlo there would do it, | enough. It left'bim with a neat profit! smoothed over aH factional differ-|indiceted in’ the report ot GA. declared to-day that he has decided] cme cub, be i lkey 1 pve Welling a real| Ot the Springs to see a doctor. He | a the managing of the affair naturally | ?t hundred thousand or #0, Not/ences and laid out a broad unified| Dionne of the Bal Committee, who | to stage four eight-round bouts at the | hatte, \Ganger Dente a Wee [Go eer ous Dura Golt “Pro.” fell into Rickagd’s hands, ths movement to boom the court gume|reported that increased cost of mann-|next show of his club, which will be] Harold Paree , ‘ound it necessary to break all) NEWPORT, Mass. Feb. §—Louis principals im the} speed records in an auto from Long | Tellier has signed a contract to serve this season in y way possibie.|facturing and war taxes would mean | staged in the First Regiment Armory he more tournaments, the more cap-| create of nearly 25 per cent. this °" panes | over A, C.} c hiladetp! \ uy new profession and became al- | threo fights iv all his in, athe ary ite players and the better chance of tate anata satipment n that city on the night of Feb, 26. No J. an next remy abt a Berea fated Pabrtaarte ue Gow (ee ciuhe wh re the, tion 1 Open i . sro | OH Was a championship affair, ey odes ne: . nariie: 7 | He t »ropos e nts = OMPCOLIVG pion of jong-| Country Club, where the national n Most at once a leading figure in pro | hind “was, between Jese Willard, a Winning 3 the Aptind deo next year Ax foretold, in earlier, jeauea, (he He said that the propo ed bout be- | lacs fought in Nowa: several weeks ago and they} distance phone there at The re-| gol! championship will be played this feasional sport. He offered a purse | year after Willard had whipped John. | W#® the keynote o st Ww awarding of da! tween Lew Tendler of Philadelphia|rut up such an intorwting contem that Manager| sult of Lhis conversation isn't known. |¥ear. Officers of the club, in their an= ; 4 saree elite , was unusual for the get-together|naments were made, with the West gle “hicago, which {Ter decided to hare them visa at his club, | Getting two or three ea ; houncement of Tellier's “appointment, ‘ Sf $82,000 for a fight between Light-| son, and Frank Moran, then thought! sire by delegates from all over the|Side Club at Forest Hills getting the |""d Joe Welling of Chicago, which el TEX Theat) wei ted euls of this. | inade no reference to Harry Vardon, the weight Champion Joe Gans al to be good enough to fight for the |i andsoape. . richest plum—the national singles, | he expected to have decided, is off for! | adie Reidy of St. Paul, who way manager of usually lish golfer, who was recently cabled ‘ Pg ‘ 0 a amity {Smooth brow, “Sounds just like the i rw 8 Too title claimant, Battling Nelson. | Rickard broke all world's] The report of the Davis Cup Com-| —- good. Mackey has not selected bial. sou ine wommer vis bar tonas dut te 1 {#ame stu they pulled on mo with |eycre’, (© act 88 professional at Bree the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight and a ‘promoters. Her took. the|mittes ahowed that nothing in an in-| tinedwer and ‘Tracy Win Bouts outs ax yet, but the chances are that sty, tate is mw triae fo vgn uo Mine ui | Willard in the Moran fight,” he flnal- ee Scares Nevada under the old over paid for a no-deci-|ternetional way would be attempted) At tho Summit A. ( champion Pete He am. |tone end Soldier Bartfieks for a ten-nvund nof!¥, sa ss had agreed to take| py, ' Eapere ned In Nevada un Mata, Hon lingtedsround eee ye exclg| before 1920, ax forelgn countries arclingt night Young Oscar Gardner, the|Champlon Pete Herman, bantam: | iu os i Nit Nee toe siivoram ‘a {$30,000 and Jack Curley, then one of| Perabina's Mem Play Football. ma of that State, it was tos Anisd.| One ete nd pening bout And! not kely to emerge from the Way in| fuming lightweight of Brooklyn, |WeIEBE champion, and Harold Farese | een vt a at ee mau | His {Wo Managers, Jumped to | hivago| COBLENZ, Feb. 8.--Football teams Rickard has shown keen judgment| Ne, Dad tN) bikkeat purse ever event.” condition to do much racquet|gaaily outpointed Johnny ‘Duff of New® lot Newark would mcet in one Of| iti te. cindbal ee Gibbins v ‘suing ver im|With the articles ready for Willard’s | fobresentne the 4th Corps and the ad fm picking his fights, as well as finan . Tex offered Willard $40,000, /8¥ipeing this year, But next season} York. Gardner dr Duft the) them. «agus, signature at that price, When he got] of gam % juntarily told, Moran hed mive|--ah that will be different. ‘The/ third round for the count of five und in nie pss that hay squelebed all] and i é hd had Dut’ on the cee aldo peut | him, ‘NAIE aa? much ce’ peo Mivg [American Committees, in order to|the eighth round had Pull on the verks| dot smith, v Willard, or $2 " bring foreign teams to this coun of & revolved $457 4 of games to decide the championshi, © Curley began to bid for thelof the Army of Occupation. The tinal fight himself, Well, it cost me &: Vrankie Catalan, w final 000|game in the series will be played in serigusly as finally beaten the Bayonne, No J, middienyae’st him end for ontpointing Juhumy competition. The Nelson- with an attack of huwnw 0, He Was invading extra.” Tex snapped his ja o-|Paris some time next spring, The 4th bout Jack Trac h ar «and | neded moknem a0 now 90. the to dAW8 toe) Gid everything that he expected it to,| Wilan or § O He wus invading) fy compete in eliminations, wil [Bout Jack Tracy. tte nae ie lant, | Mowant, ala of Bayonne, io their inain tent of| Gtedst ccknew end i» now oo the wad 10 Fe | gether and turning to Ike Dorgan, | Corps defated the 34 Division, die 4th " e' our of adver-| y “apie r tion, | gal ay all expe of the neat n Nu | etght, rounds at the Armory A. A, of Jomey City | 2°07 nile bee ket coneld le wee but Ih Rt a. aulate sala al Division took the Division inte It received a tremendous lot of adver-| York promoters offered no competition gelaly ey ct relia: Fy uy eThanded ou) & neat lacing to Dummy | cgi round at the ren Me eae ina, | oe to regain his pountage in antolier month, /1)5,frenersl assistant, said very|Cuinp and the 2d Division beat the lab, tising all over the world, and it “put} Willard was in Chicag Rickard | Visitor \s r at homus o a a an via | His manager Las caked off his propawed bout with | | + i t . all the scores being the same, 6 to 0, Goldfield on the map,” because mil- | sent a local sporting 1 to “sign him | — a ——— — - ee mame emmunt, the gross evita | re my friend Cochrane in Kan- ; ores $1,700, as smith | Pete Harticy, at Haltimore, on Heb, 20, City, him to get in toueh f the nvvinea, low the] Jobnny Hi tho aggremive Itaben feather {With Dempsey, ask him for a state- nde NERC, | weight, we matched to meet Kid Henry of Newark | ment on his match with Willard, when . fan eight-naund bout at te Troier A.C, of is there, &¢." ° o never heard of | UP. held out for a Mens of people who never heard of} (if), Aan: Goldfield afd its mines read about) fron, Tex the a ft every day for two months, The) $47,500, and signed him bonus” for ut any asuthority promised Joss X Way dis extra $7,500, You get half of that.|that period, i magnificent bey, but too, You were certainly worth i if] so strenuously outclassed by Willard he was.” in height, bulk, reach and all physical basketball team ftute five tee 1 ntled an he heard c Moran never stopped telling of that | advantages that tt would be a shame hie mute wit Ballin] Newark, N, J., an Feb, 31, At the mame chat on tion about it, Tex < Hobok. Stevens Meht drew spectators from all over the/ srunticd whon he heard of it. Wut itt perience, and never got over the|to mateh them. There twn't a red- hiladelodia *) Pe), ue Framkic Edvards will hook up with ins of being suspiciou easily overwhelmed Its last two United States. Rickard put up the] }ii°it Nis way to haggle over $1.50.) Von der of it, He had met other pro- | blooded man In America who could sit ck Loadinas : Manhatton and Moravian, Wikie Davis of Newark in the war lout of /that everything wasn't as it should pn aa h evidently due . Bart Headden, forward, starring 000 purse in advance in gold coin,| Madison er ea mote ata ringside to see Carpentier, wit a cigbt rounds, ‘This will be Hayes's first bout inde. Then he told of rumors tha page? “0 ae . $32, pu . : 5 vain | Madison quar Garden = was!" rex Rickard has offered Willard | his war record, beaten up by Willard, | aywointing, fur Walter Sehlicter and Bob Maxwell, | i126 months, Dempsey and Kearns had split raat both games. ho W reester Kame 1s ORE tho stack of shining gold twen- | Jammed on ihe night of the fight. The! sio¢.00 for his cnd, to defend his |with HIS war record. Tt couldn't, be | ite Quaker City criti, ware Leonard th Pempeny and ies p ch fan annual event, the visiting team h Mea was photographed and advertised | § . ran over $150,000, showing: that title in 4 championship fight, to be | done. witie Lathe Trantor, ia the Buldaiy News mre] Charley Harvey, who iooks after the affairs 1 Oh that’s an old rumor, still th By Sid record and the contest will be ab almost as much as the fight | Hickard was tight akuin. | ‘The local] WG where Itickard decides and on| Then there is Fulton, if he hasn't | tooman the rentiot over Moor in thetr Wuifale] Champion Ted Lewis, today reerivad a9 after of | may be something in it,” said Dore a The fight itself was a hero} ene | Derray” Wants oe ly bi ®l any date before Aug. 1, 1919. Killed his f with the story of the | tout, Ail three wetem claimed Moor made a} guarentes of $1 for Lowe to mret Jeekl “Don't you think it Nien || Rowland Hasn't Bought Milwaukee gounter, sensational through al! its| financial failure ane predicting it is the biggest ap of money ever | Demps: Bokbe Our id igo yree mm paving, is a wie. ioe fom prod ne: Seen, 8 9 stickup for more dough?” Tex was eae Clab ‘ . . t as w y +. | offer any fighter for single bout is ne y as tall as lard, ie Cimam ion Benny Leonand engaged in h 4 | twelve: uf emianey asked. ha ‘ IX 0 A ¥. forty-two rounds. The fighters re- |, \* 4 Hit It wasn't m a art's | rrhe public will hay ething tojeix fect six to Willard's’ six feet | | Cmmeon Rem brutal ete ee and bat | CEES, O., on Feb. A, Huey may eorpt it it] "On, they can't do that,” ho replied |rimme, ow the Milwaukee celved every dollar of their coin, Ana) ) uk oug oxing skill and his} Shout who Willard must fight to/seven, He's lean, and wiry, a re. | Wait © fe " pales Lame fo well enough to teitie, Britton defeated | sjcoayne voconted Poce Waplieds | Amer ation Ball Club: toe Jlong left arm make the awkward |8®Y t 1 p | With Wikdost Lannand ot Gacramento, Benay bas} (11° n, tho mame club last Mond t v my offer in the| day na bunk” the rumor that Rickard was credited with having paid! Moran flounder helylessly through the this record bankroll. Uniess the | merkable Soxer, with a left hand Uke | i ten wignal up for a t at Denver, vol, | At Dow nee My night. | yrasence of nine witnesses, agsured | Clarenc and er White the biggest purse ever put up for a n round. Jess had plenty of time |best man in sight meets Willard a rapler He is game : and he] iw. 4. Jack Tanner, fash? promoter of | THe Brow reoeipte amounted to $4,600, me he had eve legal right to do 80 | P fer had trolling ae t between lightweights, to look around and laugh—and that|bout would be only a joke, and 1 corking head for ring| Tice jms offered Frankie Brit. the Now Dat-| Charley Murray, matchmater of the Ques. Jon behalf of Dempsey and offered to| terest in t ’ was about all did © foug public wouldn't go to see It, Wh rulghip, But in veral fights | in vemtweght, a twenty-round bout there with] bey A. C. of luffale, N. ¥., hes offerd a|sign the articles then and there. i Every time Tex Rickard starts he pid He fought just | Prone knows better than our friend | with nd raters he has been 1 are sts enough to show that he could fight if|/ Bo one 8 ian ¢ lwi eccond ra as epny and the cimneew are tie aoewy* ator 00 for Rattling leviosky to me wouldn't let him, T always ve done | ¢ c #4 record [he wanted to. He was autinfien to | TEX ani Hinocke:t at or badly “dazed py a Were) and ins ame at be 9H) 8 Lamy any of Paar io the ar tont'a: | Duiness with the peimeipats.'m oll the | Influenza and kindred ae as » his money with ease and safets There is only one man for the job | punch © isn't rugied enough tol ram co iat hears waight. fe now] tie ab on Feb, 17, Len Morgan demu Serre ieeences eta 1 icaae nee : ; Mile next venture was the heavy. | earn his money with ease and safety. 1 oo diing over the huge bulk of the |xtand up in front of the big fellow aa Oe Tati iy Ne maton | ee AT Dae Mormma comands gio | ania dive promoted, “I 'think it's the) igeases start withacolds Weight championship battle between | ‘On the Level’—And Then Some|man who knocked out Johnson, ‘This | from Oklahoma, | Dempsey hit} : for taveaety's ive Dan the [Dest pls | ace pe eRe ohm it Hie Cirwt will be he Jeanette, the} gemmint he ashe, Det it is very dow ore have been rumors of a sp or, the a e : is Jack Dempac | times and knocked him for a] colowd heersweight, for elit sounds at the Arm:| Gherieg te uot overgenenucs in givitg the figntere| between Dempsey and | ’ : re A * fought at Reno, Nev. July 4, 1910 |Aiter the Dour Kickard went for) in the past fow months Dempsey | That's the answer where Ful-lory 4, 4. of Jeimy City Helgnis on Mond ier money. Kearns, |It may be noticed ren Don't trifle with it, gg Se ST | Morea: NO wn not even! yas knocked out Carl Morris, Gun- |ton is concerned, great fighter though | gght, and bis second with fighter makes no mention of hia man.| a A effries had agreed to fight} signed a contract with Rickard, or! poat Smith, Fred Fulton in 143-6 { he is waen compared with the ordl- | Wotan "bea." fir ei re w arranged for Willie "Knork-| iron in the foregoing statement from | At the first shiver or the black champion, and the biggest | asked him for # written line, He knew | seconds, and a lot of other heavies wo] nary run of thei to te brought off at Derrott Roden Jade | Kansas City. 3 all Be Reteabters in the country gathered in| Rickard’s reputation as a “squaro| pretended. to. He has shown | 1 might continue and mention a] ys ole ef Ad Jin aay | sneeze, take é Miley York to bid for the battle, tow jMccter and be oxpacted Tex !> pay! Preater fhehting ability than Willard | young man named Wills fellow |) AU yal mh 9 Ler ig 1. ee Phought that Tex Kard would get) Moran sat u chair in Rickard’s [fy 44 cay ay exoan: 12 MIAL One Bou tt v f wes an oe t manage Vel Memphis hoger, | techies Cecione few! st Routh Rethink paidepe Seaslne i mala riateen willis \ iy 7 Carey of Lo + | office On Rickard's |in Havana ney out and ra on | wie and ‘Tomy Walsh lac tamed up| Pet against ay he Metropolitan Outdoor Ice ting of fistic affaire, Jim Coffroth, and i th) Thera is Hombardier Wells, present} three, monthe, You know-—Sam [00 (NS Tete oan Nouet.|thvas'a "a. twtam tom of titeen aucds ma fat iP. M.at the Tremont Rink of 317th - Smehalt dozen of promoters of alight Rickard . hampton of Englan rree, a] Langford's former meal ticket, who [er Ot Te | Amat | Deeet 8: Street’ and Boston Road. inclide 220 | degree gathered to put in th AW an the check, splendid boxer, ur eu punch| has reversed things with Sam and of |°%*! yards quarter mil half mile, | * ? oF in thelr) Why," raic you've drawn or endure ‘4 out by |tate h on listening to the sweet |! Jan at. and the , Grand 1 Saunas Mayer the p eather. [one mile scratch and three-inie handt Ops With Tex Rickard the only question $20,000. nnd - Qoue twas ta get Al Pan Gectges Car-| music of the “ten counts” that Sam [© of srecwe S ch want 6 Pa Cap, "ats one-half’ mile. movien, “faaat | Om" ne Only e 000, a u've ma. Min $24 * hentler o couldn't be 117, Moore's: managon wily 0 ing Pal year this classic event for the loca Pas how much money must be offered | "Put it in your pocket,” sald. Tex, phere. tana | OMI chat eeuen: Aid iteal diampsccman |e nae spoed demons proved a big success, es- | Standard cold remedy for 20 years—in tables Le make sure of getting the bout when | “1 told you | was offering Willard proce exiitu ance,| Reno, And Willard thinks {tw Joe Wel peoially. so considering that It was’ the | form-eale, sure, no opiater—breaks up a roid bids were opened. Tex figure figured, At last F wren upon \, $40,000, and I'd give you halt asmuch he sre ; se, een | Meter ie Maa i hero of tour years’ fighting in thejenough to step over the color line! uuger 10 mec Mae Haru, the Durable Dane, as Willard, 1 had ‘o give Witard an great war and out of the ring for! onog re sitteaed nail nd © Mitten rand bout, to @ decision, ot the first Gime in fifteen years a track large | \@ 24 houre—telieves grip in 3 days. Mone; ry ih to be a lable f i ° ae ‘The gon SSDI esta” tainted i the groatsy ty, | fb BM. plete, -Au'AU Drag aban!