Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-14
Of World Are Now On.
Which Is All Agog

TOLEDO, May 14-Three hundred
thousand proud inhabitants of TINS
city are quite agog yer the coming
of the Willard-Dempsey championship
lfontest. This enthusiastic state OF
hind, which has spread to all Of the
Buckeye state. promises to grow even
more enthu5iastio as the next seven
lweeks slowly are tolled of and the
Dig sorappNs get into the arena July
4 for their IL round bout.
Toledo feels hat it has it on all the
other cities, towns n villages OF this
proud land for there were many as
pirants and Toledo was the CHOICE OF
And Toledo won or fits merits. I'm
like the others in the race Toledo Of
fered no bonus.
Ad Thacher, president of the To-
iedo Athletic Club, and the city's ofd-
ciai matchmaker, Is the hero OF the
hour alongside Mayor Cornell Schrei-
Der, staunch friend OF boxing. Tha-
cher officially is the promoter Of the
Willard Dempsey fight for he obtained
the boxing permit to stage the show
OF course, everyone knows Tex Rick
Irti the mar behind the gun.
It perhaps will prove the greatest
modern struggle between gloved glad
greatest gate any boxing contest ever
drew for 5000 seats will be erected
and IL the arena is filled $500, 900 will
be collected.
1t win be the first important heavy
weight bout in recent years to be held
In the populous section Of the United
States. California and the far western
states have drawn nearly all such con-
tests In. the last two decades.
Toledo Is q city of around 100000
inhabitants and heretofore its chief
claim TO a niche In the hall OF fame
has been Its great automobile indus
try, turning out many thousands OF
super-fiivvers every year.
The boxing element didn't crowo
the fight off on Toledo. The city
wanted 1t. Al wanted 1t bad enough
to donate the use OF one OF Its public
parks, Bayvfew, for the contest. From
the mayor down most everyone IL for
st. 1t is regarded as one Of the adver-
Using coups OF modern times.
Today hotels already are receiving
requests for reservations. Some of the
fight fans expect to be here for several
days previous to the big match. Others
probably will sleep the night before
the fight on the <xcursiop boats and
on .Pullmans. And others will find
Accommodations at Cedar Point, a pig
resort. on Lake Erie a short boat ride
AWAY.
Fifty million inhabitants of the
United States are within twelve hours
ride Of Toledo. The site of the big
July 4 bout is a hundred miles from
the Center of population, a little town
I'M Indiana. Within q 500-mile radius
of Toledo are a majority Of the largest
and most important cities of the coun-
try. New York is barely outside that
line. They'll swarm in from all di-
rections. to see the July 4 scrap.
Good automobile roads connect To-
ledo with Cleveland, Detroit and Chi
Scago and parking space Will be ar
ranged for thousands of cars.
Toledo is one of the most import
ant railroad centers in the country.
The city is on Lake Erie and tn
arena site on Maumee Bay. Big boat
can dock at the arena from Detroit
Cleveland and Buffalo. Special dock
Will be erected on the bay.
Bssf1al diamonds, golf links. foot
baIi1helds and soccer grounds now oc
cupy the space where Willard an
Dempsey will box. The site is Bay
view Park, owned by the city of To
Iiedo. on Maumee Bay and three mile
from town. 1t is a 20-minutes' rid'
by street ar.