Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-03-28
RICHARD DENIES ALL
CHARGES Of GIRLS
Promoter Rests Case and It
May Go to the Jury Late
This Afternoon.
BY Associated Press to every Ey.oins.

New York, March 2s Evidence ia
the Rickard trial was all In at noon.
! Supreme Court Justice Wasseryogel
told the jury he hoped 10 give them
| the case late today after both sides
had summed up.
Tho State, In its efforts 10 prove
that Tex Rickard had assaulted Is
year-old Sarah Sehoenfeld, called only
one Witness in rebuttaI Detective Me-
Gam. who arrested the sport promoter
last January. The defense took several
exceptions
The sport promoter this morning
| admitted he was so little acquainted
| with football that he didn't know the
| number OF players on a team.
| The first touch OF levlty that has
| marked the trial came while the de-
fendsnt was being cross examined
regarding his alibi that he was at the
Dartmouth -Pennsylvsn football game
at the Polo Grounds on November 12
nj the time when he was supposed TO
have met Sarah Schoenfeld
Richard testified that the Dart
mouth Pennsylvania encounter was
the first and only game Of football
he ever had aeen and that he went TO
the Polo Grounds only 10 get the air.
Asked how the elevens lined up. he
answered that they just Scattered
around"
Did you see any kick off?" ask ed
Assistant District Attorney Pecora.
What kind Of a kick off?"
Asked TO describe plays he had wit
messed, he said ne had seen everyone
trying 10 take the ball away from the
man who was running with 81. He nd
mitted later he didn't know this was a
violation OF the rules He added that
he crowd seemed crazy about some
run that they were talking about.
| lie denied he ever had gone to a
newspaper office 20 talk with w s
Farnsworth. sporting editor. about
him having seen him at the Polo
Grounds. Farnsworth had previously
esti fed to seeing Rickard at the game
when the cross examination shifted
q richards business enterprises. nc
admitted ne had promoted a number
- oil and mining compa nies that
never had paid any dividends. He alsc
testified 10 having tried TO sell stock
n the South American Land and Cat.
tie Company. an organization which
he said had met with littLe success.
Rickard, In three and a half hour.
OF examination yesterday not only de.
MED entirely and empha ticalIy the
charge on which he IN being tried
misconduct with a, fifteen-year-old gir
but also told pretty much the Who'll,
story OF his life.
Gambler. saloonkeeper, miner. pros
pector. adventurer in Wild places
gun toter. cowboy, night promoter
these and many other things ne ha.
been. he said.
r But he never violated a law with
Sarah Schoenfeld. the child of tn,
tenements who accuses him. he swore
: Neither was he ever with her or he,
: so-called corroboratory witness. Neui,
: Gasko, in the apartments Nos. 20 OF
"a West Attn street. He never haS
those girls or any other woman ex
2 cept his wife riding with him In hi
l automobile. He never entertaine,
them or other girls in the tower o
Madison Square Garden
) November IL last. Rickard swor,
T. (as number OF witnesses have al
$ ready sworn he witnessed football
g game at the Polo Grounds in the AT
ternoon, dined at home. No. so Madi
son avenue, then went 10 the Gardel
with old friends To a dance. This &
the date when the girls said the,
mot him at No. 20 West sTth street a
7.SO in the evening. after having seel
him at the Garden In mid-afternoon
. Two hours OF cross examination b,
: Chief Assistant District Attorney Fer
dinand Pecora, an incisive. clever in
terrogator, did not shake the leas
:. bit the structure OF Richards story