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Show TEX DISAPPOINTED IN PROFITS; BAN PUT ON FIGHT JFILMS IN OHIO Rickard Feels That $100,000 Not Enough to Compensate Him for Physical and Mental Strain Undergone in Promoting Bout; Censors Vote Against Screening of Pictures in Carnation State. i I lug ti.- t r.i In n,g aid I iie unvols, .he f al'I, ! I 'T 1 -'li.-ii I low :i pit .'lit e- I . -'; !.i p 1 ' 1 1 1 1 r it d'.ij t a fight are 1 ! a ho n I .ut t-i.i.il 11 a uol'lim; wit h-ait h j brnle." florte I I'liinl- 1;. II ill of Ne-v I N nrlv. .., 01' t pn t ip ) - d--larfd he will I J .mii, ltl 1 iro I hrounii the 1 t- no 'i .-. ' mi ion. "We 'In take the :.et.,i, ;im final." s.1 Id ) I . 1 1 . in.' i!!iii; to put 11(1 a h-T.d 1 ti.it J;o hi ll .Ml M'-'t-T )tl 1A ill .'.f f b m 1 1 ! - 1 : ; . T!-f film in : : v purt s, t ne f irM t f'i " di .1 1 : ;:c u I ; h ;. : r l:i ne. Hunts and human mt- n : t f- ai urea of 1 he "'I'll.' p.ffin.-.-i ,:.: ) t-.-rmit t '-d to go In' o 1 1,. r Miili-, a: Ihf o 1 1 ! 1 1 ; 1 1 perm it in T"h .1" fir a 'l"iink' .ont.o't' and let a p'ir.f lurht. atid tri-n-tore the national na-tional l.i '.v :t i', 1 1 1,- t mt . f: '.i 1 t ra r import a-t'on a-t'on of t'j:i,t vii.iuti . m.i' he. held n'H to app v." Hy LniThal iSrvio. Ti)lj;ii. Ohio, July 7. -Tex bl.kard sas his profits on tho lomp.M .Vil.ard fht will not be over Jlio.0o. Tim miit" ncelpti! have imt h-vw cuia'l e'. The money, tied up In ban, hllll n pc--' 1 1: a Toledo bank vault, but Te saM th.e t d.tl will bo only about $"".;'), alth.oin-'h i" "Us h(.'ii the Pi'l i-.ttiou.; wero tii.il It wo. iid r- .i-h l.i'".. " "I TloU.-t;. w rtit Iikm hot rake:, a' I he start, but aft r M'uiethl'ir, lik,- fj..".o "' wot I h -f t fe at lot Jiad been d.-p' 'd of thi-ro c.iiiio h t-luu.p. and a ( u oaM hcl'MO tho f uli( p,.ul.1tol. appeal, d Willi 10 hc.it s. whi.li th-V idi-ted below be-low f Ik ii- faee alue. That put an end to Ki.k.iids ol a million-, b. II. 1 r 1 "gatf." ; "allure of (lie niilroa.N to furnhdi spe-eial spe-eial trains and tho bad linn oMmi .ausfl by nev . 1 .!).. -r M rn s (f crow d. d h. -i 1.-. and hi'li prn-.-s picaient In T.ifilo atf b'amed bv Tex t"r di m-ouim g i ng people wle ol)i'rw:o would h..c e.one to the f.ht. Near-by ctti.-s lulled to contribute contrib-ute their expected ;uot:is of at t end n no. New York and I h i lad i ph :a . be . were wfll i-'pl "esf ill d, but (.'hlcago'H UlI-ei;.Mlon UlI-ei;.Mlon was -mv small. Al'.'KP'lur, Tex le. is that be will re -ceio a very p""r ri-turn Pt the pby steal and me nt ai st ra in and r sk nf kv-; fo'.aneial lo-s iii.-ldent to the promot ion of th" big fiMie evenr. And Tex is 11. d ttirt milv one who feels he has be.-n unu'." . lirn I Thierv and Irny l.i. htei:Meln of . lii.Tti.-i. who hd ihf lemonade pnvi-iTe, pnvi-iTe, claim that they ut the w-.r-' "f aii. Liat .Neison, witn i'UViiiy in inoio, -et mi a tent for himself just fMs.de the barhrd-w ire f-nec Fin-rounding the arena. The. ntgut before ihe fu:ht he d'cld..d be would take a f-'ponpe bath nod. peeing a b't of bie tanks piled up Hear by, he trade an lnsp'-eiion and found them filled with what se' mod tn bo water. He thereupon decided in favor of a plunge bath and jumped into one of them. Thierv and IJrlitensr ei u discovered next morning that liat had bathed in some of their treasured lemonade. A loss of at least S jooo Is claimed bv Billy MfCaripy and Ad Thatcher, who equipped a building with some iuo sleeping sleep-ing rots for the accommodation of the an tie 'pa ted crowds. I 'enmsey and Willard are. about the only ones who have not madft any complaint com-plaint about the financial returns. Pcmp-sey. Pcmp-sey. however, was besieged by an army of creditors soon after the fight, but he paid them nil promptly. He says one Salt Lake man reminded him that he owed him six bits. j One debt that b paid with grea t or wil lingness than anv of th others w as 1 that of A. J. Auerbach of Salt Lake, the man who had backed him at the start ' of liis fistic career and who bad lent him money at various times since then. Hu paid Auerbach something over $"nn, including in-cluding interest on the sums advanced. He also paid his railroad fare from Salt Lake and his hotel bills while staying here. Auerbach also had t he foresight to put down a bet of Sisoo on Jack. I ;empsey left for Cincinnati yesterday to begin iiis first week of stage appear- ' ance. He is to get $Ki,nnQ for a week. A flattering offer from a big circus also is under consideration. Insinuations made by "William H. Uncap Un-cap of the Philadelphia Public Ledger I that there was collusion between Promoter Promo-ter Tex Kickard and Jpss Willard on hist ' Friday's title bout werp investigated today to-day by the Toledo boxing commission. 1 Fvery member of the commission saw Jack iJempsey win the title anrl ridiculed ' thft Rocap statements. Promoter Kickard Kick-ard was present and offered to give t lie ; board the author! ly to look into every move he has made in connection with staging the show. The commission voted confidence in Rickard when it passed this resolution: "Whereas, the Toledo boxing commission commis-sion is of the opinion that the Willard- ' Dempspy boxing match was in every way regular and legitimate and In every way squarely and honorably conducted by the promoter. Tex Rickard; the participants, ( Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey, and all concerned, and, "Whereas, one William H. Rocap. sport editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, has expressed inferences of collusion col-lusion between the promoter, Tex. Rickard, Rick-ard, and one of the participants, Jess . Willard, and the Toledo boxing commission commis-sion is unable to find any evidence wh'at- , ever of such collusion; now, therefore, be it "Resolved, by the Toledo boxing com-', com-', mission. That said William H. Rocap be ! notified to present all proofs, if any lie has. to this commission within one week or forever hold his peace." By Universal .Service. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 7. Screening of ' the filmed pictures of the Willard-Denip-sey fight has been barred in this state by the Ohio board of motion picture cen-. cen-. sors, two of .whoso three members voted , for the ban today. Those voting against the showing of the pictures were Maurice S. Hague, chairman, and Mrs. Maud Mur-' Mur-' ray Miller, board member. Charles C. ' Williams, tho third member, was out of town. The board's decision against the pictures was made two minutes after Hague and Mrs. Miller had seen them. The pictures were advertised to show for all of this week, but tho censors' decision de-cision makes it unlawful to show them. "The prize fight, pictures may be all right, for men to see." said Mrs. Miller. 'Put we are here to protect the children of the state. The fight pictures are eu- tirely too gruesome for children to witness. wit-ness. 1 "I am sure the women of the state and . the better men wdll favor our stand. We know the women are with us because we received a. wire from the W. C. T. L. . snying that -J'l.OOO members of t hat or- ganizat ion a re against the screening of ' the pictures.' Mrs. Miller proposed that tho pictures h thnKu'tihonl. thn ficht. Those siiow- S |
