Evening star., 1926-09-23

body's mind and thousands of fight
fans We're excited on @ strange un-
lonely whirling concave world where
the surging spirit was to be unleashed
and tried to the limit by two perfectly
bodied symbols.
Biceps were getting their due as
the equal Of brains.
Lights Are Tried Out.
At $50 o'clock the electricians tried
out the dome of light above the ring.
Forty refiectors contained forty nitro
gen lamps of high candle power. They
glared down wrathfully and the con-
centrated heat made the telegraphers
and newspaper men sweat on their
narrow benches around the ring.
Then the loud speakers got their
test in the twilight. Twelve great
horns were nested above the light
cones. AS an orchestra came booming
out of them they looked like bouquet
of noise all bulging lips and brazen
throats.
OFF went the lights after the test
but the loud speakers howled on ana
spectators were wagging their heads
and tapping their feet to the lnsis-
tent iazz rhythm. They tested the
batteries of heavy searchlights around
the stadium. These top the parapets.
| They ride the tops Of pylons and tow.
ers. At the north end were two steel
derricks spouting with light at the
peaks.
At o'clock the entire battery Of
searchlights was turned on and kept
on. It was twilight but night simply
| laid it's head in shame and departed
from the Sesqui stadium against
such competition.
Envy of Caesars.
The crowd Is happy enjoying the
mob scene. The Caesars would have
| wept their eyes out to match the pic
| ture. The lions couldn't have howled
as loud as the loud speaker and the
martyrs had nothing on the man who
| has paid say $500 for q ringside seat.
This is the greatest crowd ever as
| sembled for a sporting event. 1t has
| taken more than Tex Richard and the
law suits to do it. Electric lighting,
| radio. the loud speaker-all science
| has its part.
| The loud speaker goes like q kennel
| Of dogs. The air shakes and shimmies
| to it's brazen throat. But far up and
| all around. in the glare of this fight
| ing world and in the dimness of tall,
mysterious space beyond. and yet be-
yond the ether, too, Is quivering and
! shaking, as it will shake and culver
| for Dempsey's fists when the radio
| announcer here gets busy.
| Nor is all of the news and rumor
| of this thing flung at random into
the air.
| Ringside betting has shifted to .
to with Dempsey still as favorite.
| Now it is night and the crowd is
| enjoying the scene. There's nothing
/ l-s 49, IL
sation Of being in a cell in an inn
mense sprawling thrilled body that
has 100000 eyes. No, the number
Of eyes is odd for One Eyed Connolly
is here, the champion gate crasher of
! them all and One Eye has retired with
his world title for he has bought his
! ticket.
Everybody Is Excited.
The loud speaker bawls that WIP
and WGBS are 'on the air.
| "Lordy, what a sight. Chez dis beats
all, get out, extraordinary. What dc
you say about this, old man? Golly
some dump. Ish wunnerful."
| You can go through the crowd and
hear these and thousand other
broken exclamations. Everybody s
excited. Everybody's thrilled Night
has gone q begging. The whole sta
dunn roars with light. is maudlin
drunk on blazing light and threat OF
time and ordinary moods and mean
ings. Nothing means anything now
except the white square of rosined
canvas under the central f1oodlights
and what is going to happen there
presently.
| At TAO an airplane came over all
| lit up like a Christmas tree, and at
| 1853 the first preliminary bout was