The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-07-01
BIG FIGHT ECLIPSES
ROME'S GREAT SHOW
CAESARS GLADIATORIAL SPEC
TACLES WITH BOXERS NOT
so STUPENDOUS.

TOLEDO, O.-The big fight at To-
ledo on next Friday, July A, will be
the greatest sporting event ever seen
in the modern world. Perhaps when
Caesar had his triumphs in Rome,
when Nero ran his vast gladiatorial
shows in the COLISEUM, with lions and
tigers from Africa, gladiators from
Gaul, Greek and Roman wielders of
the cestus with its tough bullshide
made more deadly with studs OF
bronze and lead, the spectacle may
have been as vast. But in terms of
money there never has been anything
like the Willard-Dempsey combat in
the known world.
Figuring from the plans, and not
allowing for complimentary tickets,
it is possible for the gate receipts
to run to the tremendous sum of one
million. And Tex Richard, who is
already enlarging his arena from the
original size provided in the archi-
tect's plans, says that he will build
more banks of seats if the ticket de-
mands pass the present capacity.
Reno Fight Drew $27O,775.
Compare this $1,OOO,0O0 at the
gate with the gate receipts in other
great ring battles. How marvelously
it outclasses them all! The present
worlds record was made at Reno
when Jeffries and Johnson fought
for the big title. 1t has been thought
for years that the S270,775 paid in
at gates for that fight never would
be exceeded. Yet Tex Richard an
nounced that on June 4, one month !
before the date at Toledo, he said, in
advance payment for seats, the vast
sum of 100000 in cash.
Moran and Willard drew over
$150,OOO in their ten-round node
cision bout in Madison. Square Gar
den in New York.
johnson and Burns, in Australia, /
drew 1871, 900.
And as for the great old-time
championship fight, Jeffries and
Sharkey topped the whole list with .
what was regarded then as a ire
mendous gate, $4,000. How insig-
nifcant this looks when compared .
with Tex Richards greatest show!
Forty-one Special Trains.
The money figuring in this big fight
is beyond computation. To date for
49, 81
gagged to run from all over the coun-
try to the battle ground. Each train
consists of a large number of cars. /
The government will make a huge !
profit here. BY July Fourth this num-
Der of trains will be greatly increas-
ed. And besides the travellers on
special trains there will be scores of
thousands who will take the ordinary !
means of railroad traffic, as well as
other thousands who will come by au-
tomobile from states near and far, |
and by lake boats.
Many prominent men will attend
the battle. The list of names would
amaze the few scattered opponents
of boxing. 1t is practically who's
Who's" of America. A great number
of the most prominent men in our
national life at Washington will be
here, men holding the highest posi-
lions in our national government. |
Hundreds of them probably never
saw boxing bout before.
Even Ministers Will Attend.
There are governors of states, ex-
governors, senator's, ministers, con-
gressmen, great bankers, lawyers,
heads of nearly every great industry
in America. No doubt the wealth of
the nation will be around the ring
that day, as we'll as scores of thous-
ands of men who can just about af-
ford to see one big fight, and have
the memory of it to talk over and
enjoy for the rest of their lives.
The arena is to cost $4,000. 1t
covers six and nine-tenths acres of
ground.
The seats sell from $50 to SO.