South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-02
END TRAINING IN
FIGHTERS CAMPS
Willard and Dempsey Will
Rest and Eat Till Day
of Big Battle.

! TOLEDO. @. July 2.-Training
came 10 an end Tuesday in the camps
of Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey
heavyweights scheduled 10 battle
I Friday afternoon for the worlds
championship.
Toledo itself had settled 10 a pc
/ riod OF watchful waiting. The mass
| i've arena, built within a hundred
yards of where Toledo has its yacht
/ club, was finished. Bare yellow lum-
\ ber-1, 10000 feet of islands out
/ in the center of Bayview park.
| glaring octagon. laced in and out
with heavy timbers 10 keep it steady
under the weight of the enormous
! throng expected 10 witness the bout
/ Ii is practically a duplicate or the
arena Tex Richard built at Reno
| New. when he staged the mill be-
| tween James J. Jeffries then the
heavyweight champion. and Jack
johnson. II will hold many more
people. but the architect. James J.
Mclaughlin of San Francisco. built
! it TO conform TO the standards he
laid down when he built the Reno
structure.
Transportation Is Problem.
Toledo's transportation system
| probably will be sorely taxed to care
| for the great number of persons ex-
pected for the . round contest A
! single street car line runs from the
city past the park and, while the
cars are large and commodious, they
/ cannot hope To battle the gang that
Will make its descent on them Fri
| day. Taxicabs are numerous, hut
even these will not be equal to car
ing for the crowd. Many probably
Will walk from the city, a distance or
, about six miles from the downtown
| section
Hotels here for some time have
| been sold out. Outrageous prices for
; hotel rooms have been charged IN
many instances. PrOfiteering, how
| ever. always goes with big sporting
| events. The average fan Of any sort
has been so used 70 It that his old
time howls have grown to be mere
murmurs.
Report Ticket Speculation.
There has been little effort TO dis
! COuI age lltktl SptNuldl4Oi. MANY
! New Workers of the breed that
makes its living by charging huge
/ prices for admission tickets TO big
events have been on the ground for
| some weeks. buying up as many or
! the pasteboards as they coUsd get
| their hands on. These have been Of
| fered to the public in many ways
/ So many seats have been provided
that it probably will be possible for
everyone who cares to buy a seat
| from the promoters, but the choicest
places, with the exception of those
| disposed of by the promoters, TO in
dividuals, are in the hands Of the
spectators and long prices were be-
ing asked today for them.
| Dempsey and Willard locked the
gates 10 their camps today and set
tied down to rest and eat prior TO
the big test. No one was allowed
| within the silent enclosures where
the gladiators were girding them
selves. Each was busily making up
for lost time in eating of meat and
other strengthening foods. The dry
! ing-our process having ended the
fighters are now taking on weight
a great deal of propaganda re-
garding Wizards weight has been
distributed, but he probably will en-.
ter the ring weighing more than 24O
pounds. IL would not be surprising
if Dempseys weight were announced
as high as 2O5, a great thing for
him if he can accomplish that with
out fattening himself.