The Cordova daily times., 1919-07-03
HOW BIG CROWD IN ARENA WILL
 BE HANDLED

fight fans from the heart of Toledo to Tex Richards $15O,OOO arena four miles away in five hours is the prob lem which will face traction officials and taxicab companies when Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey meet in theid championship contest here to- morrow To solve it, everything on wheels will be pressed into service.
 The chief medium of transportation to Bay View Park, the site of the arena, will be street cars. Fortunately the city has a double track from the heart of the city to the Park, and, by running cars out on one track and re- turning on the other, can move ap- proxiametly 15,00O persons an hour. To accomplish this, it will be neces- sary to tap other city lines for ad- ditional equipment. Officials of the Toledo Rail & Light Company, the traction operating system, plan to Op- crate 120 cars an hour-one every half minute-to the arena, which is at the end of Summit street, one of the main thoroughfare of the city.
 Automobiles of various sorts will give street cars a close race in mOv- ing the crowds. Iii addition to the regular taxicab services, every auto mobile truck will go into service for the day, and hundreds of solid citizens will hang a For Rent" sign on the family car. Prices for the trips to and from the arena have not been estab- lished, but it is assured there will be no seats in automobiles bringing less
 Those coming to the contest in special train vii be within walking distance of their seats. Railroad of ficials have arranged to park hum dreds of sleeping cars in the switch yards along the Maumee river, only few minutes walk from Bay View Park. This will relieve the transpor tation problem by several thousands.
 The gates of the huge arena will be thrown open at 9 o'clock on the morn ing of the contest, but Willard and Dempsey will not climb into the ring until o'clock that afternoon. It is safe to say that approximately half the crowd will be seated early as the first preliminaries will be started at 10 o'clock and the more eager of the fans will demand to be in the monster wooden structure to see the first gloves fly.
 Toledo itself doubtless will send from 10000 to 10000 citizens to the arena, and, if the day is not too hot, these will cover the distance on foot, provided they have no automobiles. In the light of past experiences, it is probable that the crowds will start to assemble outside the four grand en- frances to the arena in the cool of the morning but the rush and crush is eX- pected to occur near noon.
 Another method of getting to Bay View Park, which is more novel than practical, is a fleet of small motor boats, which will ply between the downtown section and the park. The stadium is within a few hundred feet of the Maumee river and Maumee bay and these boats could be made a fac tor in the transportation provided enough of them operate. The throngs, however, will choose street cars and automobiles with the inevitable crush, rush and jam incident to such an oc- casiOn.
 Nor is the actual safety of the spectators the only thing which has been considered. Every effort has been made to make it certain every ticket holder will get the seat to which his ticket entities him. To take care of the big crowd, there will be four grand entrances, one each at the north, south, east and west side of the arena. At each of these will be four run ways, one each for the $1O, $15 and 1925 seats, while the fourth will take care of the $3O, $40, $50 and $6O ticket holders. In order to obtain en- trance it will be necessary to pass muster of three separte ticket takers to guard against anyone not holding ticket slipping by.
 Several hundred discharged sold- iers, all having seen service in France, will act as ushers and guards ct the arena. They will be armed. Bank clerks have been engaged by Promoter Rickard in handling the ticket sales at the arena and at the downtown headquarters on the day of the contest.