Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-01-15
TEX RICHARD IS
GREAT PROMOTER
RICHARDS sQUkRENESS MAKES
HIM THE BEST LIKED OF ALL
FIGHT PROMOTERS - BUNK
HURTS THE GAME.

WHY are some fight promoters
What's the main excuse for them?
How do they kid themselves int
the idea we fall for their bunk
Ask any of the sober-minded 70,
lowers OF the biting game here Il
give you a line on the game as sh'
is conducted and the answer viii b,
mostly on hot air
The intensified warmth Of the ozone
that hangs over New York's iis =,
nelehborhoods is caused by pr0mot
ers spouting off They do much talk
ing. Oh, very much, Grnd that LEI.
the most of them out. They WI
hang you up for a gahfest, tell yCt
all sorts OF fairy tales and bac.
water when they are pinned down e
cases and acres. They do it fol
what little publicity they can set out
of it. They seem to think that adyer
Using their clubs with a fine metro
politan brand OF bull is going to steer
bundles OF kale into their tlls.
Every now and then some promoter
makes match and hangs UP a purse
that is bonatide But only every now
and then If half the matches tina
are "clint led" in New York ever
came off, the fight game would find
this city the center of its universe
But that's the trouble.
There are a lot OF ten-twenty thirty
fight promoters around these parts
who spend more time posing, Wran-
Cling and trying to stuff the publ,
than real promoter would spend n
completing all arrangements for
dozen good matches.
And the tactics OF these near-fief
promoters are hurting the game
There is agitation against the fist
game, even in New York. where It
made legal by state law. The NeY
York Boxing commission hsndle'
much business for the promoters be
cause ii has right to; but it waste
a lot OF time trifling with the pei
fellows who don't amount to a Mon
day date on last years calendar
We've often criticised punk boxers
who do nothing but stall. They have
1t coming. but no more 50 than lot
of promoters who rank in their class.
There are few real promoters be-
hind boxing in this mans town, anf
standing out head and shoulders
above them all is Tex Richard. Tho
Texan is as square as the day is lor
He never wastes as much as
breath trying to put over stall
he has anything ready for the publ
he hands it out. and it is always ju
as he says. Any time Tex makes
statement, you can bet your bottom
berry that he has the goods. He ism
one of the kind who announces h.
viii give twenty or thirty thousan
dollars for a battle and lets it 80
that without further action. He
doesn't announce what he is gong
do with the roar Of lion, and
crawdsh out OF II with the mcekness
OF sholn lamb.
That's why the newspaper boys IL
and around New York are strong f.
Richard That's why they hope
see him get longtime lease O.
Madison Square Garden and conluc
shows that will be a credit TO t.C
game.
The fstic lovers of this burg lik'
to watch all the good and willin1
boys swap punches. They will go {
see two mediocre battlers trade jabs
any time, and spread their good ka
for it, but they would like to SEE
something Of the eighteen-karat
matches that nave been talked abou
for the past few months and hear less
Of the unadulterated bull.
Richard said some time ago tina
Darcy was coming to this country
He knew what he was taking about
He said also that he was trying tt
bring Carpenter here. He did
say when nor how Carpenter would
come. He is still trying to secure &
furlough for the Frenchman. II h.
succeeds Carpenter will come here
under his wing. Richard exposed hts
plans because he could not very W
get out Of It. He handed out the dope
MS ii stood from time to time, and hi
statements nave all been borne ou
in the meantime Richard has stated
that he will advise Darcy to accept
any offer that looks good Any tin
n promoter shows Darcy the coin r
will advise him to grab it. SO f.
Darcy has received one bonadde oile
for a bout in the immediate futut
The rest have been bunk bids. Ant
that's about the speed of raft I
promoters in and around New Yorh
who would talk an hour for foy
lines on the sporting pages. The
aren't helping the fight game. No
80 you could notice 1t with the nal.
eye.