The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1921-07-02
THE BIG FIGHT ARENA

New York. June 27.-The greatest
arena Tex Richard has built is ready
to accommodate approximately TO-
600 spectators when Champion Jack
Dempsey meets Georges Carpenter
In Jersey City. July 2.
Since April rs. more than 500
workmen have been distributed over
all sections of the huge octagonalsau-
Ger which grew daily under their tat
too OF hammers until to-day, when
their labor was completed. The
great reinforced structure. covering
nearly a third Of the tract known as
"Boyle's Thirty Acres" awaits the
inspection of government engineers
and the installation of telegraph
wires through which millions of per-
sons, compared to whom the 10000
actual spectators will be numerically
insignificant, will see the Battle of
the Century" through their minds
eyes.
Twenty-Five minutes from Broad
way and Fo~rty-second street, a more
advantageous site for the contest
could not have been chosen. Tube
ahoO thC IluubOu TtN6T Will
carry thousands Of persons to sta
lions near the arena. Ferry boats
will carry more thousands across the
river from Manhattan to trolley GEN.
tiers in Jersey City within easy reach
of the battle-ground. More than a
dozen trunk-line railroads with Jer-
sey City as a terminal, will bring
their quota from distant places. Sew
eral trans-continental railroads, with
yards only a few blocks from 'Boyle's
Thirty Acres" will park special trains
of Pullman carr on convenient sidings
which enthusiasts from distant points
will use for shelter during their stay
here.
The arena is the largest ever built
by Richard or any other promoter for
a boxing contest. 1t exceeds by far
the amphitheatre in which Johnson
and Jeffries met in 1910 at Reno,
New, and also the one where Jess
willard lost his title to Jack Demp-
sey at Toledo, o., two years ago. 1t
has been built at a cost of 5000, 900.
Two and q half million feet of lum-
Der, equal to ATS miles of boards,
laid end to end, or about 40 car
have been used in the construc-
ton.
Better than ever before at a boxing
protected at Jersey City. on July 2.
Long experience in the psychology of
fight crowds" has taught Tex Rick
ard the wisdom OF precaution. Fences,
with barbed wire barbados, will
mark the limits Of the various seat
sections. to which the crowd will have
access through twenty entrances. Ev-
cry seat, except the five dollar gener-
al admission, has been reserved, and
the holder of a $50 or a $40 seat will
enter and walk to the desired point of
vantage with as much ease and eel
tainty, Richard assures, as the pur-
ropolitan theatre.
Advance sales have indicated that
a greater proportion of women will
attend the bout than has ever been
the case in a title match heretofore.
Richard has declared that nearly one
fourth Of the crowd will be composed
of feminine spectators. Boxes, i'm
m~ediateiy In rear of the $50 seats,
have been constructed with the aim
of accommodating box parties" COM
fortably.
Numerous groups of officials, in
Guiding Gov. Edwards of New Jersey
and his staff; Mayor Hague of Jersey
City and possibly Harry NJ. Daugher-
ty, 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 prices seats are
located from the ring. will they vary
in d~esirability. Persons in every part
of the arena will have a clear view OF
the boxers throughout. No posts.
poles or distractions will hamper the
vision. From the ring, raised about
Ave feet above the level ofthe ground,
the seats extend in a gentle slope up
ward in every direction for approx
mateIy 500 feet, making the breadth
of the arena, from side to side, slight
ly more than 600 feet. The struc-
ture. at its most distant point, Is
thirty-eight feet high.
Inside and outside the arena, the
big bout promises to furnish the most
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