New Britain herald., 1927-09-13
FIGHT GATE SEEMS
 NEAR 3 MILLIONS
DempSey-Iunney Battle Drawing
 Big Sale

Chicago, Sept. 13.-UP)-With
 Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey ap-
 preaching what the boys call the last
 lap of training for the world s
 heavyweight championship fight, the
 customers today were beginning to
 be more persistent in their inquiries
 as to where, how and if any they
 were going to be able to see the l fight.
 There is no lack of customers
 from $40 down Tex Rickard, who is | permitting himself to sit back and | let his Chicago associates take the
 rap from the angry mob, predicts that he will have 15o:ooo customers in Soldiers Field. And he has l figures pencilled on frayed enve- | lope that look very much like s. | 100000. Wen have about three millions
 to count up after the fight" Rick
 ard said, and for confirmation he
 turned to his secretary. Miss Naoma Lowenshon and asked-"How much ! have we got now?"
 Better than two million" she answered
 Rickard isn't alarmed at the shout from his customers with their de- mands to know where their seats are located. The process of buying q ticket has been simply the motions Of walking up to the window, put ting the money on the line and talk ing what Joe Boynton slips under the fence.
 There always have been wells in every fight I ever staged" Rickard said, "but in this fight We have per feet arrangements. The sale of the tickets is being handled by com n'ittee of disinterested persons and every seat will he good one"
 The concern being manifested by the customers is mindful of the football game last year between the Army and the Navy in the same field. Chicago's commercial. social and professional leaders raised a mighty row because they couldn't buy front row boxes unless they went to spectators.
 It was pointed out by eastern writers when congressional influence was being eyerted to get the cadets and the midshipmen out 10 the lake front for their annual battle that Chicago would be disappointed and would want no more of the nations greatest football spectacle.
 The same prediction is advanced now about the business of prize fighting. Chicago will not want an- other heavyweight championship fight. The hotels and the eating places, Of course. will profit from the crowd, but the citizenry of Chi cago will be forced to take it on the jaw.
 Beyond the fact, as advertised, that Tunney and Dempsey are going to meet in a return bout for the championship, Chicago doesn't know much about the fight. The gamblers Of Broadway, New York, appear to have much more information.
 There was the story going around New York yesterday that the same birds who fixed the 1919 Worlds Series had offered Tunncy one mil lion 10 take a dive and that Tunney "as so inccnsed he almost sWore.
 There is still a lot of talk around New York that some business is to be done, but such stories always are passed around before big fight. Personally, we do not believe that there is enough money in the world 10 turn either of the two fighters.
 Information from Dempsey's and Tunney's camps suggests that the champion and the challenger may work in private for the remaining days of their training, but that is of no importance.
 The experts say they are in great shape and the stunts they pull off to entertain their guests around the training ring have never shown much. Dempsey has worked lot in private when he was preparing for other matches and so has ~Tun- ney. .,