The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-05-13
TICKETS
NOT EVEN
PRINTED
YET
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IN rush has begun
Everybody's trying TO 80 Tex
/RicSrArd.
Crowds are faiiing an over
themselves trying TO ec, TO him
Those who don't want jobs want con-
cssxicns. and those who want neither
5ohs nor concessions want tickets
It's raining people and gold around
Madison Square garden Up ther~
In the tower Is harrtcaded the man
who's putting on the Dempsey Car
pensier million-loliar fight
A broad shouldered office boy
and five flights OF stairs stand be
tween tht crowd and Richard.
Only the money laden postmAn
giides BY unchsllenged-
"A million-doilar fightr' says Rick.
ard -It certainly looks IKE II the
vay the moneys pouring In
sl6ors than 100000 has arrived
airsAAy. And the tickets aren't even
prmssdi
-And the arena isn's bum yeti
Locks a. II veil seli the tickets FIRST
ana build the arena TO measure
\ Arrhtscrs plans eUv1 Rickarfs
III. They are plans for the arena
W built on Boyle's Thirty Aercs~
cvSr In Jersey Gay.
Also, there arc plans for temper
ary houses for workmen- These
houses are Just beginning to 20 up.
m a few more weeks Thirty Acres
yin look like a war munitions town
in It's first bloom
Were figuring on the arena cost
nag 500. ooo." said Richard Maybe
II win cost more-if we make II big
enough to hold $4,000 people
my first idea was an arena for
81. 900 peopie-or at most. $4,000. But
zen make the arena larger II neces-
my.
Tickets win run from s. 10 $50.
/ On this basis. the total rcceipts can
easily top the million dollar marx.
That will 10 more than twice the
Is receipts AT the Dempsey-Wiliard
Rdxht In Toledo. which fell something
= hort OF half million.
u ~We're In a better location here.
TEX. "a few minutes ride 10 the
ON Tubes viii take you from
York TO either Grove-st or Sum-
lave. station. Thirty Acres Is
~ kut half way between these two
\ xhbe stations.
sOue reason picked this site.
r1rhs In New York's back yard. was
ne fact that three railroads run
near. There Is track space for $40
Pullman cars SO even II the hotels
are fun. people out OF town can
I'VE In the Puilmans'
Are they coming from long dis
tsnces to see Dempsey and Carpen-
tier mix
Look at one days mail. more than
s,x weeks befor- the fight, This
single day brought s7z reservations
from out Of town, each calling for
$50 ticket. That's $4,000 in one
day.
A special order has come from Chi
caro for block OF 200 top-priced
seats. The fans are coming in a
speciaI train. Of the goth Century
Limited type.
Orders from Canada alone total
SIS. 900 TO date.
A. A. Schwab Of Los Angeles has
l made reservations for a special train
n $50. Special trains have also
Parranged from Spokane. Dallase
Scrt Worth, Tulsa and Kansas City.
: Some pessirnist wondered II blue
law Performers" would try TO stop
the big battle.
s,Haven't heard OF any movement
Yet" smiled Richard.
Hes not worrying, either. He has
Governor Edward 7. Edwards and
Mayor Frank Hague OF Jersey City
behind him.
Everybody that knows me-" said
Tex seriously. knows I'm arranging
: rood contest--one that hope will
70 a sufficient number OF rounds TO
satisfy the crowd. ] don't care who
wine"
A change for IN. better in the
sILaroind public attitude toward the
big bout has come since Richard.
after severiDg relations with Charles
u. Cochran and William A. Brady.
announced that the $4,000 purse
kad been eliminated.
So now both Dempsey and Car
/. nnr,ttsr have more at stake. The
&6f1rr will get SO per cent OF the
~rors receipts. the loser - per cent
n the gate In 81 ,000.o 900 that
means $4,000 for the winner and
4,4o 600 for the loser. The arenas