Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26

- Wv YORK August 2>.-~II>
n d3v al the million dollar gate
has eone-hut not Tor eooc
Some day a vourc man, ul-
known 70 fight tandom @t
ryrg-nt. viii come Str'6ne out 81 on
scur,tv and punch his way INTO We
hearts a the fans, who VIII once hN'F
bcsisce the box Offices 70 pay any nFl't
demanded for allc2eo rln2Slde Sea'S.
Put not now None knows IL ncltH
than the promoters, Tex kicNara IN =.
Guided The Gene TInneN~ ON !, f t9,,.
e>~sr, was costly lesson Ia RicSarC
ArS -syal promoters have not the Shcht~
80 o,,,r,tion q bid for The monopoly
,,,.,#r1, Try with every manifestation y
Measure. 5 reiinQutShlnE
SENSING thc apathy Of the ians, a.
-,e,-1v shown by the intake al the
p;rI7r6 box office rival promoters nav
y,l1er ~ line and adoptcdS Tex III
+,-,,a'i,r, 10 fighters and fhe'r mana
r~n,-l. No more guarantees. You h2h'
ror 8 nrvcentsce of the money NNd -
$40. ~ The box office, ms Is tn'
r,~~osf stem forward the boxing cPn2
49, taken in wears. both from we spec
t.tnre and fighters viewpoint
-l,- fans ere giving loud cheers, III
!, q hannenS that they have mspecieH
thc Inc If goods of the current run
~ l,rsyvweicntS and have not pee.
overly Impressed John RlsNo. toh
Hee,,cv Jack .Sharkey. Paollno ozc,l-
am Knute Hansen and others on 80,
~ ire public are stock names. WI
+aik ABOUT miilion-dollar gates IhSI5
fsr-. a real punch II the "hoie lot an"
when the punch Is missing 'he'e ! Il"
resl thrill. -. when
But things Will change again. Wh.n
Jesse Willard took the ulle a"aS 'u,.,
Jack johnson the fight game Co'1. .I',IS..
.ns4 IS uninterestlng as II was WneH
~, ,,nnor,uIar negro was galllvantlnR
80 over Fl,rope lodging a prison SEN
serc9 willard regarded the title as a
,,,ncre ~ arassinc all the money ne
~o,I}6 from cullibIes who yearned "a ea1e
,,rc7, i,fs annie frame Jesse helc tht
t;tIc frnr,1 kpril 5. 1915, until july :,
1910 and had but two scraps, q Io-touil0
-,o.'5o~isioY, affair with Frank Moran
erS tho three-rouno massacre IN Which
.ya~k Drrnsev TOOK possession o. the
roth-eaten title
ne,,nsnv IS 4 good Illustration 81 Wha'
an unknown with a punch can 90
Around the mining camps OF Coiorsoo
and Utah. Dempsey vas 2 hooo "nu
vas handy uith his dukes, ne even
vent 50 far as % promote ms OWE
FIGHTS When Jack KeaTns first LOOK
Dempssv in hand. the latter was a
one-hsnde6 scrapper with pencnails
for wild swinging keaTnS IS cfeoltea
--ith tvinr Jacks right hand behino ms
hack forcing him 70 use the otherwise
,,seIess lptt both for offense and defense.
Dempsey Produces Thrills
After Ke7rnS took, the outcaSt IN
l,-S the name nf Jack Dempsey APP
nesred in the sport pages with ever
growing frequency The man with the
ry,Iych had arrived and the fans sal
hack 10 await tl7s day when he would
y-,irr1 f7iz way to the throne. Dempsey
Tf1 taaf very thing and II is not
stretching the truth to say that JACK
DemrSev mas produced more thrills IN
side the padded ring than any other
fighter in the history Of the fight
racket
You can have your Riskos. Sharkeys:.
Heenevs Paolinos and Hansens ana
The fans will not give you q dime 2
dozen for the lot BRING on the young
man with the punch
There was tine not so long ago when
Tex 7fckard thought seriously Of build
Ir- huge outdoor stadium 10 seat the
hundreds of thousands who wished to
SOC q heavyweight spectacle That was
oTlv dream. There was plenty OF
room IN the field and in the stands Of
tins Yankee Stadium last month. and
P!ckard is in the money he would nave
sDent erecting a mammoth stadium.
But there is nothing the matter with
The fight game The fault ties With the
neople in H. Just let q youngster Or
even rms IF fhe present crop. unleash
srvtrinr resembling wallop and the
nd interest ail1 come back as strong rs
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