New Britain herald., 1915-05-29
IHCfS OF THE
 SQUARED C|RcLE'
IS on Tex Rickld, Cattle kng of ths PIlguay.

q the liner Verdi reached New
 rom Beunos Ayres q few weeks
 brought among it's passengers
 Mrs. George Louis Rickard,
 4uay. Thereby hangs tale of
 1re and romance, of fortunes
 Sd lost. and of wanderings in
 parts of the world, as interest,"
 any yarn spun by the creators
 <-blocded" fiction.
 offlcers of the Verdi, with their
 t1ty with the pedigrees of
 American plutocrats, would
 Eo1d you that the big, bronzed,
 oding sombre who appeared on
 0eenger list as George Louis
 d is the cattle king of Para
 the principal owner of the
 6ay Land and Cattle company.
 ranch of five million acres and
 Thousands of cattle grazing on
 Ils and plains and valleys of the
 inIand republic. tucked in be-
 Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.
 our informant might have added
 his Paraguayan plutocrat, a
 xnilIionaire. Is no other than
 Eex. Rickard who put Goldfield
 map, and promoted the Cans n and Johnson-Jeffries ring
 Tex" Rickard, now in his
 forties, is rich again-which a the truth of the assertion Ecu can't keep a good man down. South American republic he febuilt his shattered fortunes.
 Tex'' Rickard the loss of one 1s but the beginning of another, Atest success will not come as a Ise to those who know the life |y of this amazing man.
 Eeporting history "Tex" Rickard long be remembered as the man |paid $101,000 for the Jeffries- bon battle in Reno, and thus 9d himself the gamest and most |g prize ring promoter in the Fy of the sport. He has been |oy, prospector, miner, gambler, hg promoter, banker and cattle n. and he has carried on his ac- eS in many parts of tine United |s and in Alaska, South Africa South America.
 ckard was born in Kansas, and state thus numbers ng it's native sons not only the pnt Champion of the world, but stellar boxing promoter of all
 He was only three or four years when his parents moved to Texas, re his father bought cattle h sTex', learned to ride a horse ,st as early as he learned to walk. youth was spent among the cow chers and when he was old enough )ecame one Of them. He made a ltation by his cool daring and his Illness, and while he was still a ngster the city dads of Henrietta red him the job of city marshal. IS a. cowpuncher Tex was getting $30 a month and board, and the
 as peace officer brought in $75
 extras. Rickard decided to ac. [ it. and while he was on the jot re were few bad men brave enough tart anything in Henrietta.
 [e hadn't been wearing star yer, z when he was afflicted with thu ska gold fever. "Tex" resigned job and hit the trail for the frigit He reached Dawson Cit, ore the rush started, and as neer prospector accumulatet ugh gold to enable him to set up oon and gambling house in Daw l. On several occasions the ba' n of the place tried to start igh house in Rickard s place, btu N always came off second best e Dawson venture was not yer 3sperous, and Tex" got enoug luey together to open anothe nbling house, this time in Nloms made a good sized pile in thi tee and was a wealthy man when h { Alaska and returned to tn Ltes IT, 1904.
 Rfckard naturally gravitated { |[l 1Ield after he had lost his wa a gambling house he had opene Seattle, and staked out a numbt claims. These banned out we'll, ar ekard found himself the possesor other fortune. The goddess ance still held an irresistible lul . him, however, and he soon opene house in Goldfeld, know the Great Northern. TexD and Il !rtners in this venture are said we split million dollars betwe, em during the first four years u orthern was operated, Tex" al |ened a saloon and gambling hou Rawf1ide and built fine hotel All his life Rickard had been inte ted in the boxing game, and |06 he branched out as a prize fig 'omoter by offering q purse of $3 "a for lightweight championsh ut between Joe Cans and Battli nlson. Everybody predicted tf rex' would be. badly stuck by Il nture, but the sale of ses to s69,oO0. and Ricka as a financial winner. It was le
 the sport, however, rather tn nancial gain, which caused Ricka break into the fight game.
 A little later some of the gr' lines in Nevada were closed doy aerA was . hig slump in mini