Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-10
Richards Makes First
Bow to Fandom; Final
Training Stunts TO-DAY
Phantom Mike Gibbons Here and May Box With
Delaney This Afternoon; Portland Scrap
per Carries Stiff Wallop.

A large gallery of speculative and in
terested fandom took themselves to the
"" yesterday to watch Messrs. Della
ney and Richards and their retinues
step through the PAGES preliminary to
the % rounds of hot argufying Saturday
night, when the American Legion stages
its Armistiee day card. 1t was Rich
ads first bow to the local eye and be
acquitted himself in a fashion which
breeds confidence that he is capable
of giving the st. Paul scrapper a whirl-
wind row when the horn blows.
Richards is totally different in build
from Delaney. Shorter and much thick
er through the shoulders. he is a two
handed boxer, who appears to carry
considerable medicine in each mitt. He
is weighing close to 1855 now. although
a look at the shoulders and arms is
necessary to reveal how that much
weight can register.
He is not the finished boxer that
Delaney appears. But it is easy to be-
lieve that eight of his last dozen fights
have left the other man limp on the
canvas. when both his gloves start
flashing. He went a pair of rounds
against Battling Leidle and Eddie Par
iker. He and Leidle got to mixing II
SO merrily that Dick Sharp was moved
to chide his charge to pull the blows
a bit. Several landed on Leidle with
a resounding thwack, one with a crack
which sent the Helena boxer spinning
onto the floor.
Sharp, who is the guiding star for
Richards, is enthusiastic about his
p%rotege's ability and chances in this
mill. He AYERS that Richards realizes
that a victory over Delaney would be
no mean feather in his cap and is pre-
pared to fight his hardest to add an
other knockout win to his list.
Richards a Conner
Il have never in my life seer a boy
who showed as much promise as Eddie
Richards" says Sharp, and he has no
been a fight scribe for the last nine
years for the Portland Oregonian. and
watched 'em come and go through all
that time. Portland has for several
years been one of the best boxing cities
in the country. 'sheltering many boys
with fast company reps and staging
no small number of boxing cards of the
first water.
Preceding Richards. Jimmy Delaney
and his staff had the floor. It is a dis
tinct pleasure to watch the Twin City
put up a similar structure to hold
$1,000.
This same year, 1918 to 1914, the
Yale bowl was constructed. originally
planned TO hold 10000. In 1914
Michigan put up a stadium to hold
1900. and in the same year the
Palmer stadium was erected at Prince
ton. seating $4,000.
In 1915 the College of the City Of
New York built a half amphitheater, to
seat 1000. and in the same year q
municipal stadium was erected out at
San Diego, California. seating some
2 5000. Cornell also has a half amphi-
theater construction which was origi-
nallv designed to seat about 10000.
Pennsylvania has just completed her
new stadium, and these are by no
means all.
Stands Inadequate
The impressive fact, however, is
that when the big game is played, not
one of the stadiums or bowls is any
where near large enough TO accommo-
date all the spectators who wish to
attend. And in the case of several
of the older universities there IS no
public sale of seats at all. the gradu-
ates taking more than the seating
capacity. and many being turned down.
An interesting feature of this has
been the trouble that it has cost in
the way of III feeling, and there are
many authorities who wish they had
twice as many seats so that all their
graduates and friends could be ac-
commodated. This is. especially r.
of the Army-Navy contest.