Imperial Valley press., 1921-06-27
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ARENA FOR
BATTLE: Of
CENTURY
Tex Richard Has Used $40
Carloads of Lumber and
Spent 100000 10 Build
Fight Bowl.
fBy Associated rresaD

NEW YORK, June 81 The great
est arena Tex Richard has built IS
ready to accommodate Approximately
10000 spectators when Champion Jack
Dempsey meets Georges Carpenter
in Jersey City, July ..
Since April %, more than 600 work
men have been distributed over all
sections of the huge oetagOnal saucer
which grew daily under their tattoo
Of hammers until today, when their
labor was completed The great re-
inforced structure. covering nearly Il
third of the tract known as"Boyle's
Thirty Acres" awaits the inspection
of government engineers and the in
stallatiOn of telegraph wires through
which millions of persons, compared
to whom the 10000 actual spectators
will be numerically insignificant, will
see the Battle Of the Century
through their minds eve.
twenty-five minutes from Broadway
and 42nd street, a more advantageous
site for the contest could not have
been chosen. Tube trains under the
Hudson river will carry thousands OF
persons to stations near the arena.
Ferry boats will carry more thousands
across the river from Manhattan to
trolley centers in Jersey City within
easy reach of the battle ground. More
than dozen trunk line railroads with
Jersey City as q terminal, will bring
their quota from distant places. Sew
eral transcontinental railroads, with
yards only few blocks from "Boyle's
Thirty Acres" will park their special
trains of Pullman cars on convenient
sidings which enthusiasts from distant
points will use for shelter during the
stay here.
The arena is the largest ever built
by Richard or any other promoter for
a boxing contest. 1t exceeds by Tar
the amphitheater in which Johnson
and Jcffries met in 1910 at Reno,
New, and also the one where Jess
Willard lost his title to Jack Dempsey
at Toledo, O., two years ago. 1t has
been built at cost Of 100000. Two
and half million feet of lumber,
equal to ATS miles of boards, laid end
to end, or about l40 car loads, have
been used in the construction.
Advance sales have indicated that q
greater proportion of women will at
tend the bout than has ever been the
case in title match heretofore. Rick
ard has declared that nearly one
fourth of the crowd viii be composed
Of feminine spectators. Boxes, i'm
mediately in the rear of the $50 seats,
have been constructed with the aim
of accommodating 'boX parties" COM
fortably.
Numerous groups of officials. in
Guiding Governor Edwards of New
Jersey and his staff: Mavor Hague of
Jersey City and possibly Harry NJ,
Daugherty, attorney general of the
United States. will add to the color
and the quality of the unusual throng.
/ Only in the. varying distance at
which the different priced seats are
located from the ring, will they vary
in dcsirability. Persons IN every part
of the arena will have clear view
of the boxers throughout. No posts,
poles or distractions will hamper the
vision From the ring, raised about
five feet above the level of the ground
the seats extend in gentle slope up
ward in every direction for approx
mately 800 feet, making the breadth
of the arena from side to side, slight
ly more than 900 feet. The structure,
at its most distant point, is So feet
high