The evening world., 1921-01-20

tickets can't do It. I, however. insI
YorR Is entitled to see 1t because it isS
hhe best thing in its hnc that can be
furnished.
II don't think the public should
worry about the risk ! figured 10
lake In holding It. What the boxers
are 20 receive shouldn't be the sub
ject Of alarm either. maintain that
men In any business are enHtled to
what they can get for their services,
the same as intellectual giants" Tex,
m his sharp, terse manner of speech,
was warming up 10 his subject.
CCX you didn't hear any loud roar
OF disapproval when the
New York Baseball Club
paid $3.50, 900 for Babe Ruth. did you?
No, because the fans wanted the
champion batsman on the local team.
The Giants are said 20 be willing TO
nay something like 100000 for
tlornsby Of st. Louis Is anybody OBJ
iecting to that transaction? No
again. Instead everybody i8 hoping IL
viii be put through successfully be-
cause It may bring the championship
70 the Polo Grounds.
"All this talk about the com
merci ialism Of boxing has little foun-
dation in fact Anybody that didn't
stop 20 consider the cost OF cond0ct-
ing a contest, not to mention the men
tai worry, would think there Is q
fortune in 1t for me.
LET me tell you something along
that line. Since / took charge Of
Madison Square Garden, less than six
months ago, the receipts from boxing
matches have been close TO a million
dollars. OF this the boxers have
taken about SO per cent, or 100000
City, Stale and Federal taxes have
amounted to at least S225,OO0. or the
whole amount not more than $500, 900
has been left TO meet the upkeep OF
The Garden, salaries Of a large cleri-
cal force and dozen other fixed
charyyes. Not much left in the way
OF dividends you'll have TO admit.
f6FTHERE Is a rivalry among
boxing promoters as there
Is in any business, am not
anxious 70 give Dempsey or Carpen-
tier 100000 to split up between them,
but II Brady. Cochran and / didn't
some other promoter would In fact,
we were outbid as II was. but the
boxers preferred to accept our terms
because OF our previous promoting
experience.
TT doesn't seem exactly right to
force US TO take this bout outside Of
New York State.
I'VE have not yet decided on the
spot. We can pick out any place
on this continent or England, but we
don't deny that New York would
beat the world for a battle ground.
While there is a law on the statute
books al Albany there should not be
any valid reason why such an inter
esting event should be denied the
sport-lOving public Of the Empire
state or the hundreds from all parts
OF the country who would gladly
make tho trip here to see IT,
gCV DON'T want to place myself in
the position II criticising the
state authorities. Instead
bow 70 them and respect their laws
rules and regulations, as every goo
citizen should ! don't have to be toll
anything twice, but II the Dempsey.
Carpenter bout isn't permissible
here under the provisions Of the
Walker law, then an the boxing con.
tests which have been held in thi,
state since It's inception have been H.
Heal
Il am a big taxpayer. Last yea
the, taxes on the Garden, a city land
mark, were about $4,000, and thi
year they will run into 100000, I;
addition there are insurance charge
20 be met ] took over the histon
spot for a term Of ten years at an
annual rental Of 100000, and now /
appears that i am 70 be denied IN
chonce-thats all u is-tO earn some
thing on my investment. II doesn
seem right / think / am entitled Z
some consideration both, as / said be
fore, as a citizen Of New York and a
one Of IT'S biggest individual taxpayer
Il have no means OF knowing hoy
the legislators feel about the big bou
nor do ! know how Gov. Miller view
81 but ! can assure them that the so
called commercialim that has bee
attached 70 the meeting OF Dempse
and Carpenter should not be take
100 seriously, for the reasons which
haze tried 10 point out, Finally yol
ran say for me that the bout wi
come on as scheduled somewhere
"furincmnre IN Brady and eochra
want tQ withdraw they can 10 riEh
m ~ Flil prQmVte 1Tno I0OIi aipiit