The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-23

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Another official tears tie ticket
I'm two and returns the half of it.
Ali you have passed gate. Then
another group takes you in tow
there were so many that it was i'm
possible to tell just what their func-
ton is. But they are polite.
Then a Zone Major tells you
where to go, and AFTER you go
few steps Zone Captain repeats it
all very kindly and nicely-then
Zone Courier comes to look after
your needs and help you.
1 INALLY your seat. 1t was
Ia like being ushered to the
opera. And why not, aren't
the seats more expensive?
It is still early and but few seats
have been filled. Ours is near the
northwest corner of the ring and
slightly elevated. Much better than
right at the ringside because those
reporters will have sore necks in the
morning from craning.
The loud speaker is paging an
electrician. And now it is police
captain that is wanted.
Cameramen and photographers
have taken their places on elevated
platforms to the north of the ring.
They send their plate holders up
and down on strings and then the
hustlers forming wedges push
through the crowd to get them to
the Office.
The ring is not in the center-fact
Is it is almost two-thirds of the
way to the south end. Folks sitting
in the lower priced seats in the
north end look like children from
where we are.
" LULL-one wonders what I'm
TAI pressario Tex Richard will do
with all the lumber used in
building the temporary seats.
One takes little walk to shake
off the chill of wind coming off
the lake.
Delos Avery, reporter on a Chicago
paper comes with telescope and
portable radio-he will write a story
from a SIS seat.
1t grows dark-7 here, but you are
eating your supper in indianapolis
and the giant flood lights are turned
on. Everything is orderly and
almost perfection.
The boys in the press seats are
turning out yards of copy and you
are wondering who will win.
Seven thirty and the crowd be-
comes much thicker-the crowd be-
comes more Kentucky Derby like, If
you know what one means. The
smartly gowned and tailored begin
to make their appearance. Some give
evidence Of having dined too well.
#%E
-ULTURE and commonalty
IL begin to rub shoulders
cheers and jeers come alike
from hoi-polloi and the elite. High
brow and roughneck all sit to-
gether.
It is the most cosmopolitan crowd
ever gathered in Chicago.
Sporadic fiashlight explosions will
tomorrow-perhaps tonight-show
an eager public their favorites at
tending the battle of millions.
There are no stars tonight-snloke
from countless cigarets and cigars
seem to make canopy over the
massive structure and enclose It.
The -ladies--God bless 'em-lght
up, too.
The burning of so much tobacco
seems to have raised the tempera-
ture considerably. 1t is not nearly
so cold.
There is no music and no one
seems to mind. Fact is, it isn't no
tged until one of the intelligentsia
among the reporters mentions it.
In his blase manner he thinks latter
all, why should there be at a hang
ing?" He hadn't been able to get
table at his favorite club.
H! q journalist approaches to
| a sit near our group. How do
LII we know? Spats, a cane,
pince nez with a wide black ribbon
and flowing tie. Remember what
Ebert Hubbard said a journalist
was-a newspaperman out Of job.
Two white sweatered mermidons
climb into the ring, test the ropes
and sprinkle resin on the padded
floor.
Five minutes before scheduled
time the first preliminary boys
climb into the ring. Their new red
gloves look like ripe tomatoes.
One sees immense blocks of empty
seats that have not been sold.
Scalpers of tickets won't get rich
off this fight. }
City Controller Claude Johnson,
accompanied by A. v. Good, &C.
countant at the city hall, are ush-
cred to their seats among the ma
hobs.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
car Of baseball, stops to chat with
some Of the newspaperiaen he
knows. He also knows how to get
publicity.
RI CUTE figure wearing what
IAI looks like an artists smock
neatly trimmed in black
holds a card aloft, showing the
number Of the round about to be
fought.
Mayor William Hale Thompson
gets bigger hand than Governor
Len Small.
The first preliminary bout is over
and no one cares. Only the true
puglovers watch it.
Home town Chuck Virgins make!