The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-05
Cosby Bits Picked
 Up As Smoke Of Title
 Ring Battle Blew Away
been in consultation and Tex thinks we'll of the Salt Lake possibilities.

l Deen III COHSulLdllOiI dllu leA | well of the Salt Lake possibilities. | Dempsey was the first of the com | batants to reach the arena. He got 1 to his dressing room with his man. | ager. Kearns, and his handler, Jimmy | DeForest, at 2:50 o'clock. After the | prelimaries, the canvas which cov- | cred the ring was taken up and
 new covering laid. Willard insisted
 on this as he didn't want to take any
 chances on a slippery carpet The | canvas was painted a dull brown to | protect the eyes of the fighters. | The ticket speculators were hard
 hit. Many of them bought up large | blocks of best seats and they were | trying to unload them yesterday morning at reduced prices Scalpers
 were offering a rair of $50 paste | boards for s70.
 When Walter Monahan's training
 season with Willard was finished last night he came into town and stopped
 at the first drug store where he filled l up on ice cream soda and candy. He l has been without sweets while he has has been working daily with Willard. l Johnny Dundee looked on and wished that he was a ''big guy in
 stead of a lightweight.
 The arena " filled with red 1 but only surburn.
 Near beer got more encouragement here today than it has ever received
 anywhere. You can get used to any thing in time.
 Watching a fight at 120 in the sun | takes a. lot of perseverance. Cracked ice was worth more at the arena than some cf the diamonds in the neckties 1 of the old-time sports.
 Honest John Kelly of New York
 had a. prominent place in ringside seat. Maxey Blumenthal and numer- ous other we'll known sporting lights of Gotham were there.
 Jack Doyle of New York, was blis- tered with the heat. He said he wished that he was back at the Polo frounds or down at the St. A1ban's Golf club
 Major Frank Cavanaugh of the Yankee sion, former football coach at Dartsmouth, did some exporting of the fight. Cav was almost ashamed to watch this fight after the scrapping he has been through in France.
 Jimmy Coffroth, the San Francisco boxing impressario, came on from the coast with party of about 40. In the party was Jim Griffin, the referee
 The tallest man at the fight was Cowboy Ramsden, who is over seven feet in the air. The shortest man in the fight was the man who bet his railroad tickets and everything else on the loser
 It was a holiday picnic crowd. Nearly every one bought his own box of lunch. Several of the spectators didn't eat at all and will not for sev- era1 days until they get back to work and round up some money.
 Tammany Young of New York wore the 1oudest headptece at the fight. It was a cap of green and yellow. The Jayhawkers from Lawrence, Kan., willard's home village, wore those big straw hats like the farmers are sup posed to wear.
 Lew Simmons, who worked one of the moving cameras,is just back from France. where he spent several
 months, shooting pictures of the Germans from airp1anes.
 Major A. J. Drexel Riddle, who was one of the judges of the big fight. brought a squad of marines into the ring before the main bout and put them through a bayonet drill. Major Riddle is on a recruiting campaign for the marines. The boys showed all the boxing tactics. such as duck | ing. feinting and side-stepping, which are SO valuable in bayonet fighting. | Riddle took a hand at it himself and | showed how the marines do their | fighting with knives and automatics. l In the pantomime light, Riddle | knocked out four of the marines. II | a marine wrestling match, Riddle >Jid | even better. He threw twelve marines all in one fell swoop.
 Five sharpshooters were perched | in the little lookout station with the m lotion picture cameras. Frank M Hall of New York, was in charge of | the camera men, and they picked off everything in range.
 At the ringside was old Danl o'Leary. the pedestrian. who. with a