New Britain herald., 1926-06-24
RECORD CROWD ID SEE TITLE FIGHT
Big League Atmosphere to Be
 Furnished Monday Night

! Hartford June 4 The gallery
 for the Kid Kaplan- Bobby Garcia .featherweight title bout in the new Hartford Telodrome next Monday night is expected 10 set new mark for New England, both for size and . i'll regard 10 the number of notables. 1 An unprecedented demand for tickets from all sections of the east .presages crowd Of more than 2O.- 1000 and a gate that will mount be- |Tond $looo6o, a figure well above that Of any boxing show ever held lin New England
 Governor TrumbulI of Connecticut
 has accepted an invitation as have , Lieutcnant-Governor Rrainard. State Comptroller Salmon. Attorney Gen i"ral Healy and Secretary of State iPallotti.
 General McArthur. who is in com lmand of the army posts in the vi- icinity Of Baltimore has purchased block of tickets Bobby Garcia was "a private in the army and stationed lat Camp nolabird in the Baltimore district when he began his career as boxer. He was the pride Of tho army in those days and the army men have followed his fortunes right iup to this time which finds him fac ling tho big chance of his life. l Chairman Farley Of the New York boxing commission will be at the Irincside as the guest Of State Box ling Commissioner Thomas F. Don { ohue who was his warm friend as "a fellow official in the Elks before their boxing commissonerships brought them in contact.
 i All the well-known boxing writers of the east. many Of them mon whose names are known 10 hundreds of thousands, will bn in the press section writing the story while more i than thirty special wires tick noisily as the blow -by-hlow tale goes to all parts ot the country.
 T. promises to ho d gala occasion. The Nelodromc. where the cham pionship bout Is to be held, is tho hest-appointed boxing arena in the least with the exception of the new Madison Square Garden; it will seat
 more than 25,ooo and. sauccr-shapod Iaffords a good view from every seat.
 With Joe Humphries doing the Iannouncirg and a brass band of 90 pieces blarinc out the popular melo- IdiHs. there will be noise in real vol Iume.
 Twenty lights. each Of 1000 watts, are being erected oyer the ring so that the boxers will work in a blaze of light and thorc are 57 lights of l.00o watts each around the arena,
 making it well lighted throughout.
 All Of these things. incidental to
 th" Garcia-kaplan tilt for the title lWijl furnish all the big league at
 mosphere Of championship clash
 while Kaplan and Garcia arc expect
 cd to furnish, within the ring. as
 much fighting as there was at
 Gettysburg.
 l lew Ten1Icr. who meets Meyer Conen of Holyoke in tho sami-fnal
 Q; ton rounds, K dU" in Hartford
 Saturday, Lew is now bUsily enGag- "d in q campaign among tho welter-
 weights, which he expects. will final
 ly bring him 10 a "shot' a' the well
 tarWcjght title.
 The ushcrinG will bc handled by - men from the Hartford drtuch- ments Of the National Guard in charge Of Captain Raircke and It. Canor0. They will wear olive drab
 shirts with black ties and each will
 have sash on which will he the
 word usher" Sunday the ushers
 will have a thrcc-hour drill at the
 Nolodrome and MoHday they will be
 ready for their task