Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-13
RICHARD FULL OF FAITH
FIGHT PROMOTER POSITIVE
HE WILL CLEAR BIG SUM
Believes wiIlBrd and Moran VIII Draw
Huge trOwd-WIlI Increase
Seating Capacity.

NEW YORK. February 12.--Tcx
Richard the man who never lost"
finds that very few New Workers. share
his present confidence that he will
make money through the staging Of
the Willard Moran fracas here OH
March s.
'H1'hc bout will be Il money-maker."
asserts Richard, in face OF the fact
that i, will cost him about $4,000 to
stage il.
Now that Madison Square Garden has
been decided upon definitely as the
place for holding the bout. Richard and
Sam McCrackci, associated with him
in the promotion of the affair. are bus
lily engaged trying to devise ways and
means OF ;pcrcasing the seating ca
pacity OF the arena.
Madison Square Garden normally can
seat about 1000. Richard is hopeful
that he can push up that capacity to
1900 or 1900 by building n sort OF
blcachcrs on the floor, instead of using
the chair system
.If No can seat 10000 can see day
light ahead" said Richard. That Will
mean that VIC will have to average
only $3.50 per scat to clear expenses.
We arc hopeful of averaging 50 per
scat. and probably $40. II We average
the latter figure, ours would be si2o-
600 house which would give us a
profit around $4,000 OH our venture.
RICHARD HAS NOT
DECIDED on PRICES
Rickard has not decided definitely on
the prices n" will charge. but IL is
likely that he will dcnaud $50 for the
first row Of seats cncircliug tho ring
SO for the next five or six rows, and
then scale down to SO for the poorest
noor seats. The range of prices for
the 1000 gallery seats will he 50. IS.
$3.50 and $40. according to present
plans.
Richard is the man who has startled
tho pugilistic world OF several other
occasions by Offering huge guarantees
to EghtcrS-thcn startled II bit moro
by making good.
When he guaranteed Fat Nelson
$4,000 and Joe Cans $1,000 for their
fight in Goidticld some years ago. every
ono thought he was what is commonly
called a nut" The opinion became
general when he gave Nelson $500
and Cans $1,000 extra as Il bonus, maxi
Ing the total pay for the fighters S335O0.
But Richard merely smiled at the
sn"crs. staged the bout and took in
Si9,7l5. His own profit in that deal
was in tho neighborhood Of $4,000. in
GLIDING moving picture profits.
In 1870 when Richard guaranteed a
$4,000 purse and later added "a $4,000
bonus for the Johnson-Jcnrics battle
lac almost was alone in tho belief that
tho bout would make money for him.
lic went ahead and built a $40. 400 arena
in California. and then had tn abandon
1t because tho law barred the stag
inC Of the act there.
Undauntcd. aud taking the $40.
loss in matter of fact way Richard
went To Reno. built an arena there. In
Cured heavy expenses. disrcGardcd the
sconing Of the wise ones" and put on
the fight. Tho gate" amounted to
S"10.II5. Dcductinc all expenses Rick
ards not prof, was $4,000. OF this
amount $1,000 came from moving
picture profit and the other $40 900 from
tho gate receipts.
And now. while the exports are
declaring that Richard is going to re-
ccive husky financial jolt through this
willard Moran affair, the man who
never lost" refuses to he disturbed ::
r"fuscs I" have shaken his superb con-
iidrncc that he viii clear at least $50 900
on the affair