Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20
GREATEST F||S.
&c Z, PROMOTER
George Lewis (''Tex") Rick
ard is Declared to be
B0xing's Greatest
Snowman.
ONCE A COWPUNCHER
Expect 81, 100000 for Demp-
sey-C Carpenter Bout in
July.
ONCE A COWPUNCHER
NV The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated Press.)
New York, June Bookings great
est Snowman" That is the title which
George Lewis ("Tex') Richard, pro-
moter of the coming Dempsey Carpen-
tier bout, has earned in the staging OF
several bouts drawing the largest gate
receipts in the history of the sport.
Thrown in contact with the boxing
game by accident, Richard, an account
Of whose career reads like fiction, ac-
complished nearly everything he set his
mind on doing and has kept going along
successfully, despite conditions that
sometimes made the word quit" seem
attractive.
Richard was born in Kansas City,
Mo, Jan. 9, 1871. His father, mill
wright, moved to the Panhandle OF
Texas when the embryo promoter was
a small boy. At the age Of twelve years,
thrown on his own resources, with
widowed mother, two brothers and
three sisters to support, '"Tex" turned
to the calling of COW punching universal
in Texas.
Citizen of World.
Then started the travels which have
made this man ''citizen of the world"
He met success in the cattle business
and in 1894 "hit the trail'' for the Klon-
dixie. Months of hardship brought fair
returns but after a year or two in
Dawson, Richard again moved. This
time, he drew up in Goldfield, New, at
the time when the mining craze engulf-
I'd that section.
But Goldfield was not satisfied with
the local activity which the miners
brought to that place. The town boost
ers" wanted national note and Richard
suggested a championship boxing
match.
The promotion Of big enterprises with
the aid Of virtually no capital has been
Characteristic ofthis prospecter who
has tapped the so1l mines of Broadway
as well ms of the klondikc and Nevada.
From his fricnds lie secured enough
money to offer Jimmy Britt and Terry
McGovern a $4,000 guarantee for a
championship bout in Goldlield. Com
Ing from an unknown, ut that time,
the offer was hailed by the boxers and
their managers as a joke.
Richard kcptsright on however and
the managers of Joe Cans and Battling
Nelson were more susceptible to the
CLINT Of $4,000 in gold pieces laid be-
fore them. The lightwcights fought a
memorable battle at Goldtield. The
town was advertised nationally and
TEX" Richard became successful
fistic promoter.
Slogan Take Chance"
Since that time, Richard has pro-
noted from j financial point OF view.
the great test ring contests ever staged.
They have been successes only because
of the extraordinary "showmanship OF
the man. Always his slogan has been
take Il chance" He astounded the
country with his guarantees for the
johnson j effries battle ut Reno IN 1910.
But his receipts totalled $21O,OOO and
lie emerged winner by 100000.
Receipts for the Willard Dempsey bout
at Toledo. July 4, 1919, amounted to
$3.50, 600, new high mark.
Bouts staged by him in Madison
Square Garden during the six months
previous to last March brought in more
than $1.3OO,OOO. Approximately $1,000
zoo will flow into the box office before
Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpenter
square off at Jersey City, July ,. easily
covering the tremendous outlay ncces-
sary to stage this bout. Richard is one
of the few who have coaxcd substantial
returns out of promotion in the boxing
game.