New-York tribune., 1922-02-11
Police at Fight
Rush Gates and
Take Best Seats
Mob of 10000 Outside Of
Garden Hurled Back by
$50 Palrolmen After
House Is Packed to Limit
Miller 10 Hear of Action
Private Detectives Told to
Mind Oun Business by
Officers in Usurped Boxes

More than twenty thousand persons
seeking admission TO the Leonard Kan
sas fight at Madison Square Garden last
night were turned away in one Of the
most spectacular assaults on the doors
% that famous edifce within police
krowledec.
The only disorder inside the Garden
was preci7itatcd by police violence
when Inspector John n. Couehlin, head
Of the Detective Bureau, with fifteen
detectives rushed the main entrance,
swept ticket takers aside and aQpro-
priated ringsidc seats reserved for
ticket holders. Employees OF the Gar
den who attempted to interfere were
buried aside by Coughlin's mon, who
shouted that the law was being vio-
lated and they were there to enforce
observance.
Ten minutes later Inspector Coleman.
N charge Of the fight crowd. accom-
Saned by fifteen men Of mis- staff. also
-ushed the main door and appropriated
xingside seats. Captain Robert Daw-
son. formerly Of TIE New York Police
Department, in charge Of City men
Agency, having charg. of naintaining
order in the arena, demonstrated with
Inspector Coughl.p.
Mind Your Business, lie Says
You go TO hsll," shouted Coughlin,
these are my men with me and they
have a right he-e. Mind your own bus;-
ness and you'll have no trouble,"
Holders Of seats thus summarily ap-
pTopriated besicged the management
and demanded the places they had paid
sor. Boxing Commissioner Hooker also
protested. and was tod by Inspec or
Coughiin to go to hell and don't bother
ne The Commissioner declared his
i1te-tlon CT reporting the actions Of
shs police to Governor Miller to-day.
Every seat in the house had been
sold at o'clock and the fact was an
nounced BY man with a megaphone,
htu despite this, thousands continued to
swarm toward Madison Square from all
directions. Inspector Coleman said he
never had seen such crowd III all his
experience at the Garden
Among prominent persons occupying
rIngsld, seats were Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, and Kermit Roosevelt; George
II. Cohan, Stephen Riordan, State Sen
ator Jams J. Walker, Owen Moore.
lhares Thorlcy and former United
States Marshal Thomas Mccarthy.
So<n after 1t ad been announced that
al tickets had been disposed Of and the
oox Office window nailed down, In
spector Coleman sent in a hurry call
tor more police. He had under his
command at that time l02 patrollnen
twenty five mounted men and fifty d.
lectives.
Additional patro!men were dispatched
from three stations, until more than
500 police were engaged in preserving
lines aud holding back the mob that
gathered out of curiosity. Ticket hold
ers were formed into q single line and
passed between long hlcs Of patrolmcn.
each candidate for admission being
compelled to display his ticket before
ne was passed toward the main en-
trance. There nc was again intercepted
and made to show his ticket At least
four ticket shovings were necessary
before holders were at last within hail
O the Garden ticket chopper.
Spectators Reap Harvest
Shop windows in Twenty-sixth and
iwenty-seveuth streets. which during
the afternoon carried signs reading
right tickets on sale reversed them
soon after p. m. and displayed the
legend Tickets ali sold Spccul1toers
reapcd harvest selling tickets at 100
per cent advance on box Office p-lces in
: ready market
hen the crowd became so dense that
police control failed for the moment
shop fronts were barrcaded and men
with megaphonos stood in second
1'oor windows shouting that no tickets
we're 10 be had. The mob was urged to
rrfrain from breaking windows.
AS the doors Of the Gard n were
THROWN open conditions became chaotic
The immense crowd surged forward in
an irresistible wave. Lines Of patrol
nien were carried with it, and even
mounted men were forced TO drift with
the multitude until arrival of fresh re-
serves stemmcd the tide patoons of
mounted men then rode or the side
walks and drove all before them. De
spite the crush, few injuries were re-
ported.
man who described himself a.
Murray Luxembourg, twenty-four wears
old, Of 271 Broomc Street, was ar
rested on charge OF selling counter
felt tickets to the fight
The fact that forged tickets were
In circulation came to light when two
sailors of a British vessel lying in port
presented IS tickets at the main en-
trance Of the Garden soon after 9
9 clock. The tickets were pronounced
counterfeit.
Luxembourg was pointed out by the
seamen to patrolmen OF the Thirty