The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-10
RICHARD TO PAY $3OO,OOO FOR 4
 PONDEROUS BOUT
Willard Will GetAbout $780,. 7 900 For Fight And Firpo
 $135,000
By WESTBROOk PEGLER .eaSed Wire To Ire AGe-Herald. l


 NEW YORK, July 9.--Without re- sort to single bankers conference or any appeal to the state pride of New Jersey, Tex Rickard, the man who made 1t so hard for heavyweight teamsters to keep their minds of their work and their feet on the floor, will pay two ponderous parties about $500, 900 for a prize fight Thursday night.
 Jess Willard, if the receipts rise high as Rickard now erpects, will be paid about $1So,000. Luis Angelo Firpo. the Charley Ebbets of the Argentine, and tireless advocate of the coinage of a half-cent piece, will receive about s135,000 for 12 rounds or less of appalling commotion in the widespread pine bowl on all thirty of the recent MT. Boyle's Jersey acres.
 These estimates are based on the probable aggregate figure of s600,000 at the box offices established by Rickard in New York and Jersey City. Willard Makes Haul.
 As Willard recently got $55,000 for clubbing Little Floyd Johnson at the milk fund charity show, his aggregate earnings for littl emore than half the summer as an aged ex-champion will come to almost as much as the firm of &empsey & Kearns received for their biennial bout in Montana last week. Considering that Willard pays his manager only a salary instead Of percentage, and considering, too, that he has no championship to lose, he appears a far better business man than the champion. Dempsey and ixri1a hafr a evenly and their running expenses, in artining and out, are very high. Willard divides his money only with the income tax people and he usually runs in low gear whether training for fight or entertaining the press at dutch treat at the one-arm lunch.
 Firpo Economical.
 Luis Angelos disbursements are even more carefully restraiedn, if that be possible, and the receipts of this bout therefore should leave him a profit of about S279, 400 for the season, allowing 5000 for his living, training and entertainment since January 1.
 Even if Willard loses to Firpo as so many people think he is bound to, he will have picked up more money in two summertime scraps as an ex- CndmplOn Indn HlOSl Ol lllt ClldIii- pions before the time of Dempsey were able to make in all their fights. He came out of retirement two times between his defeat in 1919 and the early spring of this year and was frightened back into the house by the jeers of the rabble. But this year, feeling himself growing old, he de termined to see what he could do for himself before accepting the carpet slippers and niche by the fireplace. His summer campaign has been just an afterthought, just a second glean- ing of the fields where he once was head man of the harvest, for he had no more idea six months ago that he could ever win back the champion ship than Firpo has of endowing a barber college. Firpo. it should be explained here. is one of the few men living who can cut their ownsSnair
 Firpo is drawing all the crowds at training for Thursdays fight. South American boxing experts are sending expensive cable dispatches to Buenos Aires and Rio concerning his newly developed cleverness with his left hand, not knowing that Firpo always clevers his left hand before a fight and forgets all his new learning the moment he steps into the ring.