New Britain herald., 1927-09-23
IS5 SEATS WERE IN
 OBSCURE PLACES
Occupants Saw But Little Of
 Big Fight

the odyssey Of the five dollar seats.
 of the homo sapiens who sat there in; and of the fight they saw-if any These five dollar seats-the cheap
 est and most remote in the crater that is Soldier field--were really not as black as they were painted. They were blacker. said some of the spec tators.
 The men who sat in them. and the womn, behaved like martyrs dur ing the first six round preliminary began directing barhed remarks at the policemen and uShcrS during the second, became untractable after the through the bluecoatcd levees and swirled down the aisles and over the planked seats into the slo. S20, and in a few cases, the ringside reser- vations.
 Two-thlrds of those who remain blocks from the ring itself. actually did not learn who won the fight un- til sometime afterward. This was due partly 10 their great distance from the white-lighted ring, partly to the twisting thousands that screened their view. and partly 10 the confusion that seemed to exist in the ring itself.
 The referees count over Tunney in the seventh round seemed uncon- sciously long to the far-from- the ringsiders. but as one of them eX- plained, light only travels 1S0,0OO miles a second.
 Those who came late and had the tenn merity to seek their exact location in the five dollar sections were greet
 ed by guffaws from nearby fans and even from the police and the ushers themselves: for there had been much
 nudging forward, d TOW at a time, by those way back. so that the best of cheap seats were occupied as soon as
 the first preliminary was on. Nearly everyone, 75 per cent at any rate, carried some kind of glass
 es--telescopes. field glasses or the little lenses that sold for a quarter.
 To these five dollar folks without
 optical aid, the ring was a dot of light on which marionettes moved, swung their arms or rushed at each
 other, for all the world like figures
 in a fantastic dream. The actors
 were such vague characters as one
 meets in that dusk between con-
 sciousness and mconsciousness-
 real, eerie-and somewhat absurd.
 The blows with which Dempsey
 dropped Tunney in the seventh were
 as obscure to the cave dwellerS on
 the five dollar blanks as they were
 to Jehus holding over their wheels
 in taxis waiting outside. All that
 could be seen were two toy puGlllsts
 one in white trunks and the other lin red, knotted together in a cor ner until the legs of one of them seemed 10 melt, dropping cham pion onto the canvas floor.
 The smoke from tens of thousands of cigarettes. cigars, pipes and from the flash powders of the cameramcr created fog over the bowl. Those in the "izzard" seats experienced the sensation of seeing the fight as though from above the clouds. Some of the most philosophical consoled themselves with the belief that they at least could see the huge electric score board across the sta dium from them; a board that car n(Nnn.h and lack in ward high letters, with place left for the round number and the re- cording of any knockdowns. Even this trifling satisfaction was denied them because when the fight got under way the holders of seats in front arose, plotting out the board.
 The difficulty Of which most of the disgrunllcd five dollar spectators complained was not so much the dis tance from the ring. but the too slight sloping of seats.
 One advantage did these five dol lar sitters have: they were nearest the exits, and consequently able to
 get out first.
 These cave dwellers of Soldier field were "at' the fight away,
 whether they saw it or not. And
 some of them learned who won
 and this is no eXaggeration-When
 they bought papers downtown some
 time later.
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