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Show 1 1 -" r Fighters Mix With Sparring Partners . j TV rv - : : . .1 -mm-, :: : (', . : . . J - " . -i H - , Vx ' A V ?! ; ; f - ... ' 4 ;,. -yj; -...,.-; ; ' JL? ; 1 V - -I ;: ( j JAMAICA KID AND JACK DEMPSEY. ! I . .v- - " , I ' .' ; ' .v. i . .- .. , .. '. ; ,s p :' : .. f , v-'.. ... ' i . , j - , . - j -" -J . - : . . . ' i . :'; '.. 1 ... . . JESS WHiLAED SPARKING- ITH WALTER M0N"A1LN. Toledo Crowded to Its Gates by Fight-Mad Mob TOLEDO. Ohio. July 2. Sweeim.g down upon this rfty. situated on the shores of Lake Krie. 1 y ev.-ry means of modern transport.UKin, thousands of boxing enthusiasts are tonight seeking places to lay tluir heads during the forty-odd hours that intervene before Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey enter the ring. Dong hues of railroad trains, strings of sten m boats, endless chains of automobiles and - en an occasional airpla ne, ar-i depositing their burdens of human freight. Every arrangement for the caring f'r the visitors is beimr tested to the limit, and it appears certain that tomorrow night sleeping accommodations v id not be available at any price. It was stated tonight every one of the C3,'0 hotel cots and beds had been reserved, while the overflow wa.s being shunted into private rooming places'- and hu?- vacant stores and office buildings filled withcts. n the outskirts and in the parks along tlie lake fronts tents are being erected. The gathering of the vanuua rd bepnn to make its presence felt -early today. At twilight it was almost impossible to move about the corridors of the leading hotels except at a slow, wiggling, dodging dodg-ing gait, and tlie novice rubbed should. -rs with sport celebrities from all parts of the con ti ient. It is estimated that bet wepn ?,u, 000 and 70,000 visitors will surge into Toledo during the final twenty-four hour:-. Manv visitors, dry and dusty, found a surpris! iig and w.'h.-ome o:sis hc-hir.1 p.dms ant swinging doors ul r al bar-; P'oms. where bri-,'ad-. of white-uni- ' fo;nd a t ; r . .ti.i r t n ioorue I up i r- the mmh old mahogany ai.d. lederal and state laws to th- -ontrary no t w! t : t ;i n r i . n'. mnenett-d t ink I ins; drinks in wheh John rcrl"'i orn nlay.-d an important part. It d.d not rcnire a personal introduetion to .the apro::--cI Gentry in -oni.-r to come In close eontaet with these dut dreriehers, and many a man who brought ids liquid re: rfsh ments v.gth htm from distant points mareVd at th.- reports of dryness w hi'h eaust-d i'.kj rinamaal out la v and nrceaution before he v at rained for To-led... To-led... I.uneh rooriis, cafeterias nnd S'-ores of temporary booths nnd s'.a'.is. ereeted at wntaire points on s'.de ftref-ts a. ml roaia le.ul'iig to the arena, have laid in vast stoefcp of luneheon material, as Well as soft drinks, until Toh do app, ars ready to fee-1 an army of li:mt tans without th1 aid of the regular hotel dining-room service. As if this were not en oh eh, private res! decors in certain sections of the cit" h-ar the si-n, ".Meals served at all hojrr-." There is no reason, apparently, why any visitor should go hunnry, though unable to thid slee)ing rjuarters. At the cle of the training the camp attendants' b--'ian to dismantle the canvas can-vas in closures and the tempurary rings. It was announced that mof than 51, OO'i sneeiaiors 'nad paid to see the champion training and that the gross receipts were close to Sirt.'tO'i. |