Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-02

NEW YORK. July 1.-The Interna-
tional Sporting Club. backed by good
intentions and war chest that
Morgan wouldn't spurn. undertook
two big fights here. the Carpenter
Levinsky and the second Lynch
Herman bouts. The management OF
both was awful. People paid high
prices for ringside tickets and saw
the shows from the bieachers; tho
ushers were crooked: the gates were
crashed; the lights went out. and.
once, there was a fake hoidup al the
box office.
Phlladelphia's two best promoters.
Muggsy Taylor and Bob Guinness.
gave the BarrcttTepdler party in tho
Phillies' ball park recently. which
again proved Richards superiority.
Their ring was rickety. with broken
boards in the floor: the padding was
hard and thin: politicians by thou
sands crashed the gates: some Gus
toners got seats and more didn't, and
the chow wound up with as sweet 4
riot as ever you saw.
The more we see OF the work OF
other fight promoters the more we
appreciate the unrivaled genius Of
Tex Richard in handling big bouts.
Right now Richard has two more
championship contests on his pro-
gram. with the lighters signed and
the arrangements under way. These
are the Leonard Tender match and
the one between Johnny Bun. the
bantam champion. and Joe Lynch,
who used to own the bantam bauble.
Running a championship fight Is a
job for a business man, politician.
Simon Legree. diplomat. czar and
fnancIer. Richard serves one with
his right hand while stirring two
with his left. Now he Is casually
working on Carpenter to meet
Harry Greb. on Johnny Kiibane to
meet Andy CLANCY and on Dempsey
to meet Jess Willard. He gives the
people the seats they pay for and
| the fighters the purses agreed on.
And all the time he seems about
as busy as a stage-door man in a
| movie theater.
Though he be nc prophet in his own
front yard man still may get rich
on those who discount his greatness
Down in Philadelphia they got "off"
| the Athletics. Which is to say they
got ION" them and rode" them and
made tho management rich. And
when the enthusiastic dislike OF the
Athletics became just a mere passive
dislike. Connie Mack sold his play
ers one by one for individual for
tunes. Unpopularity paid after ALL
Jack Dempsey had to go abroad to
| be discovered as "just great. big.
good natured boy" There were many
in this country who didn't see him
like that. But Dempsey never made
| a dime in Europe. where they fol-
lowed him In droves. He made 1t all
| here.
Leach Cross is past example.
Hundreds of people paid to see dozens
OF his fights, hoping to see him
knocked out. And on their money,
Leach retired to California, to slip
his coupons in peace.
Philadelphia jeers Lew Tender, but
other cities see in him the best
| lightweight in the world next to
Benny Leonard and, perhaps. the very
best Of all. Yet Philadelphia has
| made I.cftie Lewis captain OF f.
nance by attending his fights
Years ago, Ty Cobb went into the
stands at the Yankees old Hilltop
Grounds, and did clog on n spec
| tator's face. The New York fans
have been riding him ever since. They
| still toll out to Harlem and over. the
hump In the sweltering hea: to the
Polo Grounds to razz the name OF