| Show I I I HAS CAREER rillA WOULD MAKE GOOD NOTES FOR JACK LO Or OrI l Tex Tx Richards reentry into the fighting game he ge heT brings up the question queston Who V ho is Tip Tp Wright answers the query in his hi characteristic meaner manner mar Welt Weil Wel says AYS Tap Tex Tex orG L 1 Rick Rickard Rickard ard ar as he be signs BB ida his h checks chek is f as differ different die set ent et from tr the average fight promoter as al Im urr cheese che is from attar of roses rO You expect to t meet met a big round roun bulging bug cheeked checked individual in clothes coth verging on o the te loud one of those well wl fed men ln you meet in the evening and who steep sleep until m an lep the t sun lun is ia high And Aed A you run into a thin lipped Upp chap cp with wih black k hair and keen eyes eye with those t little wrinkles which life in the sun In and an air all bring He gives the t impression of haVID hav hay having lug ing ID lived in iD large l places pl prairie prall mona moun mountain JR tain tn and stick sUck out and an as s he b speaks s with wh the soft drawl of the Texan T you yon yo are ar reminded of the t l lines Slow Sow of o speech seh but bt quick of o hand 1 And An keen k and an true t of eye e Looks the Part Par know without being belD tel that Tex Rickard Richard has b spent days dys in the t saddle dle and on the trail the latigo and rope areas are areas areas as familiar to him as the clink of money and that he is i the cool plunging gam gambler gambler gambler bler he h is reputed to be pun Rickard Ricka is a gambler of the sort Bret Harte Hare loved to describe de He has been gambling all al his hi life not necessarily with cards but with fate and he has ba played playe a winning hand because bau he dared dred take cb at which less e nervy ner men faltered falter In Texas Rickard at an early ely age was wag drawing his hi 45 and ad keep kep as a a cow man He followed the long lone horns hor in the days when Texas Tex cattle catl were considered the best b But he was a drifter this th boy who was to stage se the biggest fight in history and he worked north through Wyoming Wyom an and Montana until the call cl of ot the north no I lured him to Alaska It I was wu tat in 1 Nome Nume Noe that Tex began to accumulate money mOey and anda ad ada a reputation He was wa one of ot the th first ti men in Goldfield when dividend paying pa quartz quart was w discovered in that tt Nevada Neva camp and he became Identified ieti with the big interests Inter The he world first firt heard Mn of ot Tex Rickard when he staged the fight offering 0 to t the t men me n The goldcamp gold cold goldcamp camp battle brought a a laugh at first but Rickard Rc rd counted G in the th box office otc and ani the scoffers fer ceased oad smiling m Make Good It is because bM Rickard is i known kow in the th country from which he comes coma as a a man mn who does do things that the rest rea of the t country count accepts him as capable That he will wil stage the show Iw in good go or order orde order der de and Insure that everything is on the th level lve may my be b accepted accept on o sight light it was wa Rickard who warned Cans Gaas Gan and an Nelson Nelsen that an attempt to t fake their fight in Goldfield Goldfeld would be b the th signal for tie te t e exhibition of 01 snap shooting soot since El E Caney Casey Richard Rickard is not a sport follower but hes bes besa a student of men and he b knows know kow how and likes to do big things So S when he h de di decided de he wanted the big bg fight he be went after ater it i in a manner that left no doubt of 01 his hie Intention It was when Jack Johnson Johnn saw Rick Ri ards ars fifteen 1000 0 bills on the table tb that the th fight went to him The Th others had b talked big money mony but Richard Rickard showed the goods go This and the clause daU in I his hs bid bi that gave the fighters lighters control of the pie pic picture ture privilege settle set the game gme and pc thereafter the other bidders have havea bv a a lookin You might conclude from tom this t that Tex Rickard is I a shrewd gent get and an I dont think anyone will wil blame you |
