The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-12
RICHARD EXPECTS
 8O,OOO PEOPLE TO SEE TITULAR BOUT
Crowd For Dempsey-C -Carpen- tier Fight Still Stands Su-
 preme As Largest

NEW YORK, Sept 11.=(By As- soclated ss.)-When Jack Demp- sey, worlds heavyweight champion and Luis Angel Firpo collide in their scheduled 15-round contest at the Polo Grounds September 14, Tex Rickard, promoter of the match, ex- poets the second largest crowd that ever witnessed a glove contest to be in attendance.
 The Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants and one of the big gest baseball plants in the country, will be converted into massive arena, with seating capacity of approximately S0,000 The playing field will be covered with temporary seats around the ring, which will be erected in the center of the dia- mond.
 The greatest crowd that ever saw a boxing contest gathered in the pine bowEson Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jer- sey. City, N T., July 2, 1921, to see Dempsey defend his title against Georges Carpenter. Close to 98.OoO persons were damned into the great spaces of the bowl that day. The total receipts approximated $1,60O, 900. 4
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 Claims were made that this figure was eXeeeded at the recent Willard
 
 Rickard estimating the attendance at 100, ,Oo0, but revised figures showed that the paid attendance was only 75,000 and the receipts. S429,920.
 The championship bout between Dempsey and Willard at Toledo on July 4, 1919, although seen by only 19tb50 spectators, drew gate of S452,522. This enormous rate was made possible because of the high price of the tickets. Ringside seats sold for S60, while the cheapest benches brought $10 each.
 The bouts held in the Yankee Stadium May 12 of this year for the benefit of the New York Milk Fund attracted 63,Q00 persons. who paid $S90,000. In the principal bouts Fir DO knocked out Jack McAuliffe II, Willard knocked out Floyd Johnson, and Fred Fulton lost to Jack Re hault on q foul.
 55,0O0 Saw LightweiGhts. F The first of the two contests be- tween Benny Leonard, worlds light weight champion, and Lew Tendler, held at Boyle's Thirty Acres in 1922, was witnessed by 55,000 with gate of S367S52. But all records for a lightweight championship were broken when the same men met in the Yankee Stadium two months ago. It was estimated that about 60000 persons paid close to S400.000 to see Leonard defend his title.
 The famous battle of Reno, New, of Julys4, 1910f in which Jack John son, negro holder of the heavywe ght title beat Jim Jeffries into submis- sion in II rounds, was witnessed by 20, 900 persons Unusually high prices swelled the gate receipts to $27o,- 775.
 The fourth of July battle between Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons, fought in the boom town of Shelby, Mont, July A. was perhaps the big gest financial failure in the history of championship glove fights. Due to the last minute turn of events, when the guarantee due Dempsey was not forthcoming, causing ru- mors that the battle would not be held, the attendance was held to ap- proXimately 12,500 with estimated re- ceipts of $201,4S5. Dempsey's prom ised share alone was more than this sum.
 Other famous ring battles that at tracted large crowds. with corre- spending gate receipts, follow:
 Principals ance Receipts Jack Dempsey Bill
 Brennan 15,oOo $1e2.76o Jess Willard Frank
 Moran .........-....1 15,0OO loZ,oO0
 criqui s.......21. 900 s2.5O9 9~nnie Leonard Richie
 Mitchell .,..,.,.. .',-. 1z'oVo o'4oO Benny Leonard-Jack
 Britton ......,.. 26.000 13O.200 Benny Leonard Rocky
 Kansas ......... ...l ,5OU 1Zb,IoU Johnny Dundee-Eugene
 Criqui ,........ .S3,3S9 l34,4lo Georges Carpenter-B
 Livinsky ...........12 12,120 12O,OO0 Jimmy Wilde-Pancho