The Washington herald., 1921-04-10
New Stadium, to Seat
From $4,000 to 10000
! Persons viii Be Built
. And Prices Will Range
From S. to $50.

NEW YORK. April s.-NeN Jer-
sey soil will provide the battle
ground for Jack Dempsey and
Georges Carpenter on July 2.
Tex Rickard announced here this
afternoon that the worlds hesNy-
weight championship hght VIII be
staged In Atlantic City. Newark or
Jersey City.
His choice will be announced as
soon as he clears Up some unsettled
dets sils with New Jersey state ON
cIsls.
while the exact location lie in
doubt. Rickard has completed plans
for the arena in which the cham
pIon and his challenger will settle
the question of worlds superiority.
Patterned along the lines OF the
big wooden Toledo OCtSgon in which
Dempsey. battered the giant. jess
1yllard of the throne, the arena
will be built for $4,000 spectators
and provisions made fer enlarge
rnsnt 20 seat 10000 II the demand
for tickets warrants.
Tickets from SS 90 $50.
Tickets at from S. TO $50 will be
niaced on sale on May ] in Madison
SdNNNh
Iected for the bout
An other details Of the bout were
covered in the amended agreement
signed by Dempsey and Carpe n'iet
The original agreement calls Tor
-. bout of not less than ten ROUNDS
and not more than fifteen rounos
10 a decision. fought in accordance
with the rules existing in the state
selected
However. the present New Jersey
boxing law permits only twelve
round, no-decision bouts. The act
may be amended 10 legaliLe hfteeh
rounds to a decision, il is under
stood.
| Dempsey and Carpenter will d.
vide so per cent Of the gate re-
ceipts. according TO the agreement
the champion getting 3s per cent
and the challenger 20 per cent
The referee. judges. timekeepers
and other oficials will be chosen
later BY the fighters. subject to the
approval Of the promoter.
1 Hardly more than a rift appears
in the cloud Of uncertainty that has
enyeIoped the site since the articles
were fret signed.
mcnt left the army Of guessers
still busy.
Atlantic City Eltminsted-
Transportation facilities and no
ltel accommodations being OF vital
importance. Il is thought that At
llantic City is Que Of the running
and. that the choice rests between
Newark and Jersey City.
Hotels are always jsmmed at the
popular watering place around the
national holiday, and IL is almost
impossible TO get standing room on
the regular trains and excursions
running into the resort.
: Jersey City. within q stones throw
Of the Metropolis. just about twenty
minutes from Times Square. has
lleen and still is considered the
logical place.
Roth Jersey City and Newark srs
ideal so far as transportation snc
other facilities are concerned.
Jersey City isn't well fortihec
J with hotels and eating places, hui
the Hudson tubes and ferry hno'
make the city so convenient to New
York that ticketholders could leave
the heart Of the city one hour be
fore the fght.
Newark. much larger. has bette
hotel accommodations and IL thirty
, FIVE minutes from New York by tn
tubes and by rail.
Rickard's announcement that tn
arena will be used for other cham
pionship fights during the season
makes il more certain that eithe
Newark or Jersey City will be Sc
Iected. as both cities depend almos
lentirely on New York attendance a
their summer shows.