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Show RICH PLANS IMMENSE ARENA Fifty Thousand Seats for Spectators at Willard-Dempsey Willard-Dempsey Title Match. By Universal Service. NEW YORK, May 6. Tex Rickard, promoter pro-moter of the Willard-Dempaey fight, which is to be held at Toledo, Ohio, July 4, did not appear at. all fearful today that his plans will miscarry because of the report that strenuous opposition has developed de-veloped to the contest. Rickard is standing stand-ing pat on the advice of his attorneys and of officials of Ohio that the exhibition exhibi-tion is not a prize fight in the eyes of the law, but a boxing1 exhibition, inasmuch as the contestants are employed for the contest at a fixed sum and no prize is to be contended for. There was some discussion as to the number of rounds the bout should go, and Rickard, hoping thereby, perhaps, to forestall fore-stall tho opposition , to t'ne contest, suggested sug-gested ten rounds. 1-ie did this, knowing 1 that the Toledo boxing commission had in , times past permitted f if lecn-round con-; con-; tests. Finally, it was suggested that the difference be split and that the mill be of twelve rounds. Fifty thousand tickets for the event were ordered by Rickard a fortnight ago, it was learned today almost two weeks before he knew himself where the site would be. To avoid the possibility of du- plication and counterfeiting, the tickets ; are being printed on special cardboard, the surface of which is covered with an intricate design. From $10 to 5G0 each will be charged for tickets. If they average ?35 each, which is regarded as doubtful, as the cheapest seats would naturally be in the majority, the gate receipts would reach j the enormous sum of $1,750,000. Of this i Wlllard is to receive $100,000 and Demp-sey Demp-sey $2G,G00. The huge stadium, plans for which have been prepared for some timo, is expected to cost $125,00(1. But even though Rickard appears to bo risking a large sum in a gamble for a great winning, sporting men tonight estimated esti-mated that he is playing safe nevertheless. neverthe-less. Toledo is easily accessible from Cleveland and Detroit, "well-known sporting sport-ing centers, and a world's championship bout will, of course, draw men of the sporting fraternity from all over the country. coun-try. Chicago alone, only five hours from Toledo, is expected to fill thousands of I seats. It was freely predicted tonight that a 50,000-seat stadium will not accommo- date the crowds which will clamor -for tickets even at ?10 to $60. Matt Hinkle, Cleveland sportsman, is expected to be chosen as referee. $21,000 for Charity. TOLEDO, May 6. (By the Associated Press.) Plans were being drawn today for an immense arena In Bayview park, on Maumee bay, in which the Willard-Dempsey Willard-Dempsey twelve-round bout for the heavyweight championship of the world will be staged on July 4. Toledo charity anticipates receiving $21,-000 $21,-000 as a result of the bout, figuring 7 per cent of the gate receipts, estimated by Frank Flourney, associated with Tex Rickard. who promoted the bout, to run about $300,000. The Toledo boxing commission today Issued Is-sued a permit for the bout. The arena In which the fight will be staged at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of July 4 will seat 50,000 when completed. 1 snared a long smash and one of the I eteverest batsmen that ever faced a pitcher out this way. was released by the San Francisco ball club today. Biff was not taken on the trip to Los Angeles, so his release did not come as a surprise sur-prise to him. In 1917 Schaller had one of his big years. He. did not play ball last year, preferring to work in a. shipyard, ship-yard, and that lay-off of one year put nim all to the bad. He worked harder than any man in the Seal training camp trying to gft his legs in shape to stand a hard campaign, hut he had lost much of his former speed and he was finally j benched to make room for young Joe i Connolly. The Oaks got back today from a disastrous dis-astrous trip north. They lost eight of the twelve games played, losing four out of six at Seattle and encoring themselves at Portland. Lon Rader, shortstop; Ernie Fallen-tine, Fallen-tine, a Salt Lake youngster, and George Maisel, the old Seal fly chaser, are ex- ; nected to make a big difference to the j Portland club. Paddy Siglin will go back to second base, where he shines. Fuller, ! the second baseman secured from Te- ! troit, could not make the grade and has ! been sent to San Antonio. Maisel and j Fallentine will join the Beavers at Sac- : ramento next week. Westerzil, last year with Vernon, is playing a good game at j third for the Beavers, so young Bogart : will likely got the gate. I |