The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-02

they managed to keep themselves from being discovered.
 Harry Frazee, w. M. Brady.who or iginally was one of the promoters but dropped out, Sam Harris, Frank Craven, George M. Conan, Tom Mix, Flo zeigfeld, Eddie Leonard, Owen Moore and Willie Collier, were some of the famous ones seen in the early crowd. Several song boosters were scattered throughout the crowd. During the long wait for the pre- liminaries started they kept the crowd in good humor with their vocal efforts. The motion picture "ops" were on | the job early getting the shots at the crowd and getting their machines | focused on the ring. The movie men are perched high on platform west | of the ring. They had to put 'em high in the air so that they would not | interfere with the view of the spec | tators in the cheaper seats. The weather was not propitious for talk ing good pictures but as the fight film will be worth fortune in Europe, if Carpenter should win, every effort will be made to 'shoot the battle"
 Preliminary Bouts Start. | At noon each entrance into the big l bowl was checked with the incoming crowd. The seats were filling up rapidly and it seemed certain that a
 capacity house would be present If
 the arena is filled it means that 91 ,613
 
 the total gate will be approximately
 S1,6OO,O0O. The figure is a record breaker for sporting events. No previous gate" has ever approached
 such a figure.
 Taking into consideration the rest . lessness of the crowd Rickard started
 the first preliminary few minutes after 12 instead of at 1 o'clock as st l first planned.
 , Jackey Curtin and Mickey Del mont, teatherweights. were the first : on the program. They started al E12:13.
 The veteran announcer. Joe Hum. , phreys was on the job. Bill Erhard1 : refereed the first preliminary. Emu : lating Dempsey both lads came into Il the ring with several days growth O,
 beard. Curtin seemed to have thu s best of the first round. He hit the f hardest and most often. V In the second round Curtain in
 creased his advantage by seeking n Belmont with a lot of stiff rights tc n the body
 g Editor Brisbane Arrives. e Arthur Brisbane. editor and. journal f ist, came down to the ringside a V 1920 and took seat among tn S In the second round Curtin in ;. creased his advantage by seeking Del e mont with a lot of stiff rights to tn t body.
 y Delmont showed signs of gettini
  r the beating he was getting. Tn . seats were filling up- The specta 0 tors did not give the first preliminar, s much of a tumble" The womel
 in the crowd showed much more in e terest than the men. The one x nearest the ringside could be seer
 straining forward iE their chairs, ap e parently eager to see every blow 5. landed. When Curtin would land n stiff punch one could hear then = "Oh.'
 t The bout dragged along. Curtin n piled up steady lead but he ap d parently did not have a hefty enougl s sock to put the tough Delmont away e The spectators seemed almost a e tired of the fight as the combatant y them selves. Delmont's nose began }. to bleed in the fifth round. Tn = women began to be much more inter f ested. As far as one could see iron }. the ringside not a single ESeuber o L. the fair sex turned away. The n seemed to like it more.
 - Curtin Is Winner . In accordance with the New Jerse.