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Show Sport World Mourns Tex'! ... . . -ie ( ff, l . , S 1 I'll - I " ,pJ" ' I l s, " . ; r'.-'-s- ' ': I f . '.""- v. I I ; " k ' ' .' 1 ' v k : : ' : - ! TEX RICKARD Here s one of the best- pictures ever taken of Tex Rickard. noted promoter pro-moter of big sports events, who died at Miami Beach, Fla., of acute appendicitis. Rickard, whose picturesque career brought him international inter-national fame, began life as a cow 'puncher in "he west. He planted the seeds of his fortune while running a gani",lin house in Alaska during the gold rush. Later, he prospered in the gold fields of Nevada and in recent years he has promoted gigantic spr rtinr; events in which the gate receipts aggregated millions of dollars. |