The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-25
7nickSeats
Killed By
Jacobs
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

WOVO4 Aeb4 4ACANp duO Vi 00VC0 Ou0
or two additional ones in his
own right, has turned funda-
mentalist.
That is to say that Steam
boat" Mike has become a pur-
ist.
Clipping close to the 50-year
mark, Mike. the former Hudson
River steamboat peanut and pop
corn concessionaire, has decided
that the ways of his youth are
best and that after all, no matter
what you sell the public, 1t Is
o. K. just so long as the contents
are plainly marked on the outside
Of the packages.
Stub Will Mean Something
So, when the tickets for the June
10 nuptials Of Joey Louis and
Make Schmeling are printed, the
publishers thereof will be ordered
by steamboat" Mike to legend
them in the good old fashioned
way.
Which means If the ticket stub
indicates the seat is in row A ring
side, for instance, the holder can
be fairly certain he is to sit in the
very first, Or front row Of seats,
behind the actual working press
section.
Or, if Mike happens to use the
numeral system for indicating the
row. and q holder observes Row
i" on his ticket, ne may be abSo-
1utely sure that there are no
seats in front Of his, excepting, Of
course, those of the typewriter
technicians working by the very
sweat of their brows.
These tiding Mike authorized
me recently to relay to all and
Sundry who are interested and
who might have some idea OF see
ing Louis and Schmeling in their
physical debate a little less than
two months off.
Ticket Confusion
It seems that either Steam.
boat" Mike, or his printer, or his
head ticket expert, or his Man
Friday, Mushky Jackson. or some
body around the Twentieth Cen.
tury Sporting Club, possibly the
policeman on the beat. got the
ticket chart all messed UP ahead
Of the Louis-Baer congress last
September.
The Washington influence,
which gave existence to the AAA
and PWA, must have crept into
the printing Of the Baer-Louis
tickets, as it was widely rumored
after the fight that one needed
an Egyptologist to decide the
exact location Of a given seat,
using the stub markings as the
main basis Of reckoning.
For instance, prosperous Mid.
die West manufacturer. who never
had any trouble computing his
income tax, including the excess
levy, was complaining that he was
going to have to 60 back from the
Louis-Baer fight and take a cor
respondence course in reading and
writing and arithmetic.
Twice as Good as Good
He had purchased a ticket in
row AA-from a speculator. The
seller, who said he was giving the
visitor q bargain by letting him
have it at twice the face value, ex-
planned the double lettering to
mean that a seat in row IA was
twice as good as seat in row A,
for instance, and in that A was
the very first letter Of the alpha.
bet, in New York as well as back
there in Lima, Ohio, such seat
was practically in one Of the fight
er'S corners. !
MY friend steamboat" Mike
assures me there can be no such
confusion in any Of his future
fight promotions. There win be no
more double AS or triple AS,
and he didn't need the United
States Supreme Court to hit him
over his sparsely thatched head
with their mallet, to impress that
on him. There may be one "A"
but not more than that.
Single Standard
All future JacobS-SponSored
fights will adhere in ticket mark
ings, to the good single :tandard,
and If you can count from to 100
or know your alphabet from A to
z, you should have no difficulty
determining in which row your
ticket entities you to sit. One
system or the other will be used,
the numeral or alphabetical, but
not both.
Furthermore, Jacobs promises
Their won't be a .,ad seat in the
next or the -lext or the following
show he produces, because after
the fourteenth row Of ringsides,
the seats will be gradually elevated
not in price-but in altitude.
BY contrast, he reminds you that
for the Baer-Louis fight the ele:
waited vantage points commenced
at the fortieth row.
Too, in tie forthcoming June
fight. Nv order Of the New York
State Boxing Commission. there
will be but four rows Of working
press seats, as against nine last
September.
So help me-and Mike!