New Britain herald., 1919-07-02
FIGHT FAN THRONG
 P0URS INTO TOLEDO
Streets Are Lined With Crowds
 Night and Day

lard and Jack Dempsey approac ches the city is filling up with the con EloneratiOn of CharaCt which can only be attracted by an engagement under the Marquis of Queensbury code with hcavyweights playing the leading roles. Men of country wide regulations in commerce and politics, Well~knoWn spOrt-lOVing citizens from coast to coast. and many who are just general public have grasped this unexpected opportunity to sec real glove contest.
 The lobby of the Secor last night was damned with mon who call each other by their first names, though they live as far apart as New York and San Francisco or Seattle and San Antonio. They arc the familiar fig ures who make up the legion of sport followers who gather only about once in a decade. All kinds and sorts of men make up this army of fight fans. They are q heterogeneou throng and some are not the kind which Toledo would care to have as permanent res tdents.
 The first indication the city has had of the nature of some of it's visitors came yesterday when Chief Herbert of the local police force discovered p gambling room running full tilt It was a real ld-time place, too, with about everything but roulette wheel. There were two or three tables for the "crap' games, a table for "blac1-ja jack" and another for 'Klondike." The police say that no local folks were implicated in the little gambling palace. When the police entered it was almost deserted and the few men present all said that they were ignorant of the pro- prietorship. The police took all the paraphernalia and sent word around to all strangers that they must not think that Toledo is going to take on the same Wild West atmosphere which pervaded Reno at the time of the Jeffries-J Johnson scrap.
 But with such q busy week at hand, and with so many strangers in town, the police force will not be able to keep up with all the sharpwits who have made a life study of run ming games under the eyes of the guardians of the law. Men who are Gextcrous with the shells and every other form of games of chance are i'll town. and it is only reasonable to suppose that they will not spend all their time talking about the fight. They have lot of time on their hands, and all the Ohioans who are flocking here from the outlying dis trcts will not be able to curb their curiosity at all times.
 Movies Open all Night.
 The police cannot watch all the strangers; there are too many of them. The movies are open all night this week, and night life is in full swing. There are as many people on the streets late at night as there usually are during the rush hours of the early evening. From now until July there will be no curfcw hour.
 The weather is getting warmer by the minute, and while there is any sign of metropolitan night life To- ledo's guests are not going to be in any hurry about going to bed. Amuse ments and refreshments are in great demand, and it is difficult to see just how any gathering of this sort is going to get along without both.
 Chief='of Police Herbert said yes terday: I've don't want citizens or visitors to get the idea that because the Wi1lard-Dempsey contest is to be held here Toledo is to be a free and easy town. We will have none of it.' That's the first warning the visitors have had to be good.
 The promoters of the fight have feared for the last few days that counterfeit tickets would be placed on the market, and Frank Flurnoy, who is aiding Rickard in running the bout, complained to Chief Herbert that the counterfeit pasteboards were already In town. He presented a $6O ticket which was brought here from Gin
 rJ>c I,Dir, T against buying tickets anywhere ex- nept at the fight headquarters. Rick ard expects a big rush for the cheaper tickets at Bay View park on the morning of the fight, and yesterday ten ticket offices were erected out side of the arena.
 The list of officials for the contest Is now complete. Willard, who at first was not going to have a timer of his own, announced that Ed. -ochrane of Kansas City would hold the watch for him. Joe Damon of New York will do the timing for Dempsey. Warren Barbour, the of fetal tim er,. and J. A. Drexel Riddle, nne of the judges, are expected to arrive today.
 Willard has been examined by Dr. Joseph Sweeney, official physician For the Toledo Boxing commission, who has declared that the champion Is in excellent physical trim for a twelVe-round bout.
 'Ir fighting a man like Dempsey the champion will use a lot of his marvellous resistance, but he still will have plenty of reserve stamina,' said Dr. Sweeney. His resistance is far above normal. The external and Obliuue muscles across tho stOma ch are very well developed and form a