The Washington times., 1927-07-26


Tunney-D Dempsey heavyweight cha
on Tex Richard, the well-known o
Today Tex will receive a deleg
to proposition to stage the S,
centennial stadium,
Next Thursday or Friday Richard
will leave for Chicago to confer with
members of the mayors committee
Of business men which is working to
book the fight for the Soldiers Me.
mortal Stadium. George F. Getz,
chairman of this committee, urged
Tex by wire yesterday to make an
appointment in Chicago at the end
of this week.
Meanwhile Rickard will not com.
NIT himself to any policy insofar as
the New York situation is concerned.
Having widened the field of promo.
ton endeavor by establishing him.
self successfully in Philadelphia last
fall. and with the Chicago offer to
consider he is in a position to ignore
arbitrary rulings of the New York
Boxing commission.
Tex made it plain yesterday
that he would not go before the
commission today TO ask for any
price revision. He is i'm the spot
to make the commission come to
him IL an effort is to be made to
keep the big fight here. The
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State Moses received wide pub.
licity yesterday. Possibly Moses,
through George e. Brewer, of
the commission, may move to
abolish price fixing in New York.
Only by inference yesterday did
Richard drop hints that New York
was out of the running. His talk
was all of superior seating capacities
in the Philadelphia and Chicago
stadiums.
ct isn't a question Of ringside
seat prices" he declared. what
need for this fight is place big
enought to accommodate a much
bigger crowd than we can get into
the Yankee Stadium, where the
crowds bulk is so great the aver.
age seat will cost less.
"MOre people are interested
I'm a second Tunney- Dempsey
fight than in the first one.
They drew 10000 last year
and / have no doubt that they
win play to 10000 next fail
If can accommodate that
many.
Those stadia with their steep
banks of seats are ideal for fight
crowds. The field can be banked
also that every ringside gets a
clear view Of the pit down in the
center. 1t was that way in Phil
adelphia. Ball parks are different.
The field seats cannot he banked
because that obstructs the views
Of those in the lower part of the
stands.
Even il I were permitted to
charge $40 or $50 for ringside seats
here | could not scale the field
sections very far back at that price
and the other stands would bring
in just about what they did for
last weeks fight. / will be under
a heavy expense for this fight and
won't be able to take anything out
for myself until after 1900, 900
comes in"
1t is known that Richard is in.
trigued with the idea of going back
to Philadelphia because he could
then expect heavy patronage from
New York. However, the Chicago
committee is prepared to show him
that he can do even better by
drawing from all over the Middle
West and handling his Chicago
patronage through a committee of
reputable business men.
This committee includes men
Of prominence including William
A. WrigIey. chewing gum mag
nate and owner Of the Cubs;
James Simpson, Of Marshall
Field and Company: James e.
Wilson. packer: John Hertz,
traction magnate, and o mum.
Der of bankers.
Getz. who Is a millionaire coal
operator, agrees to secure an I'LL.
nois promoters license for Richard.
Tex always did like those mil
lionaires.