The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-02
90, 0,0OO FIGHT FANS
 MAKE EARLY START
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 A couple of big Jersey City police men standing nearby vouchsafed the information that Rosenbloom would get good seat.
 We'll see to that' one of them re- marked.
 Police Army On Guard. The local city commission perfect ed unprecedented plans for handling the monster crowd with dispatch and preventing disorders of any kind
 Long before the gates of the great arena were opened to the early com CTS "deadline" was established four blocks in every direction with HOO policemen and Bremen on duty to guard the territory.
 No one without a. ticket to the nsnt or a legitimate reason for pene- trating the lines, was permitted to pass through. Plain clothes men from throughout the Metropolitan dlstr1ct were on the job also, with or oerS to pick up known crooks and with eyes peeled especially for pick pockets. Such persons were to be arrested on sight and locked up until the hgt- crowd dispersed. Ferries, .~oiIey and surface lines and tube trains from Manhattan were under the surveillance of picked men for the same reason.
 Vendors of peanuts, crackerjack and the ever familiar 'lemo" were not allowed within the police lines
 
 arena itself for the first time in pugilistic history the "hot dog man. was missing. The "hot dog'' Event by the boards because fire would the fight fans. Instead. the big crowd had to content itself with cold sandwiches and colder drinks
 Fans entering the arena through all of it's eight entrances were re- lieved of newspapers. It was feared that should thousands of discarded d newspapers be dropped beneath the seats fire would be inevitable as a result of the carelessness of smokers Rather than deny the smoker his went into the discard.
 Hospital In Readiness.
 TWO hose companies were stationed just outside the arena and firemen with orders to keep a constant watch Tor the sign of a blaze anywhere in the big structure were on hand early
 An emergency hospital with nurses and doctors in attendance was the last word in the way of precaution Cots, 50 of them, were set up under a canopy and ambulanceS were in at tendance to rush serious cases of heat prostrat1on or illness from any other cause to nearby hospital
 In his campaign against the ring that attempted to bilk the public with counterfeit tickets for the big fight, Tex Rickard arranged for 20
 
 to be stationed at the entrance for the purpose of passing upon the le- gfdmate and bogus tickets. The de- c1sfon of these men was to be final.
 Within the arena itself 400 police men and 300 f1remen were stationed to keep order and guard against fire The fact that the big fight bowl is built almost exclusively of dried White pine was responsible for extra ordinary precautions against the pos stbIlity of a blaze.
 The small boy, and the stripIins alike we'll as some of their elders who had planned to witness the fight from trees, telegraph poles or build tngs in the vicinity of the arena were doomed to disappointment. For their own protection and that of private or public property all such would be witnesses of the battle of the century were ordered down from the lofty percheS.