The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-15
ACK Will ATTRACT
FROM NORTH,
TONY
hnger Fans Eat Up Tickets
and Clamor for Another
Block Of Them
ROMOTER EXPECTS 1000
NTH Expects Fight to Be One
Of Best Ever Staged in
North Dakota

From the north. from tho south.
ON the west. from the cast flght
MS will trek their way to Bismarck
watch Jack Mccain and Tony
roWn battle in a scheduled 10
bund bout for the heavyweight. D.
Ig championship OF North DAKOTA
thursday night al the Dome pavilion.
|idway between Bismarck and Man
Ia.
Advance ticket sales arc "partlcu-
rly encouraging" Promoter Fred j.
NTH announced here this morning.
lore than so tickets have been sold
Sanger, McCann's home town. and
rs are clamoring for o More
han that number have been sold IN
bismarck and Mandan. No report has
zen received on the ticket sale III
he Napoleon district, Tony Browns
ome town. And sales have not been
fessed east and west Of the city pro-
hoters holding seats for those sec
lons to be sold when the fans arrive
ere.
Sale Usually Slow
Advance ticket sales usually arc
slov..' Smith saws. We have made
title effort ID sell tickets early. plan
ing TO sell most ~ them THURSDAY.
Seats for 1000 fans Thursday Will
Z built in the Dome pavilion. The
romoter expects that almost all OF
be seats will be filled when the two
earyweights climb through the ropes.
"McCann viii bring them down
ON tho north and Brown will bring
hem up from the south Smith
|cints out. Jack hackers will come
rom Sanger. IIazen. Hensier, Wash
|urn. Center. Coleharbor. Wilton,
Yucca. Harmon. Baldwin and the ter
itOrics Of those communities. Brown
i'll draw hackers from Napoleon,
Gishek, Ashley. Burnstad. Eraddock
iazelton. Linton. Klntyre. Hague,
Ffedonla. and districts where fans
kase made him their faGorite.'
Though no fighters from east Of Bis
narc.- will appear on the card, DaT-
ION. the fighting center Of Kidder
kcunty. will send a large delegation 10
he show. Smith believes.
Billy Meek. Who meets jackie Grey
Il d preliminary. will be an attraction
8 fiet.c followers III tho territory be-
Wa Dickinson and tho Montana
Big State Feature
Thursday nights card wlll present
North Dakota's first heavyweight
tinht CT any Importance Smith
hays. 1T will bring together two
hice fighters. one a veteran OF many
tinrs. the other a beginner with graa.
botenfialities. A fight like this
Should pack the fans in Ike sar-
hines. 1t will be without doubt the
kreatcst fight staged in North Dakota
since Billy Petrolle and Russie Leroy
we're enjoying their hcydey regime in
Fargo. And even then this fight may
be better. because the two principals
hre heavyweights and because they
appear evenly matched
McCann and Brown both arc wind
Ing IN their training today and will
rest tomorrow and Thursday. They
will be weighed in Thursday after
hoon.
I'm in the best shape Of my life
says. and I expect TO end
The fight long before we come to the
ZENITH round. Brown is z husky lad,
hut / won't let him hit me. He can't
me out II he can't hit me. ]
know that [ will be able to reach him
with ease"
Brown maintains his customary Sc
but it is general knowledge that
|he has been training hard and will
be III great shape for his most i'm
|portant battle.
All ringside seats are reserved. and
those who want a close view Of the
show should make reservations early
the promoter said today.