| Show Western Vestern Fight Fans Answer Decisive Howl of Easterners Flood of Orders for Seats at Shelby Bout Shows West C Can Cn n Support Big Affair SHELBY Mont May As A. As bustling Shelby proceeds feverishly In Its preparations for the Dempsey fight July 4 It laughs laugh a at et the opinions from the East that the championship affair will be a bloomer financially Some Eastern experts expert unfamiliar with Western West West- em em ern conditions and the circumstances under which the tha bout will be conducted 1 have ao been e predicting I t freely at that t. t the pro promoters pro pro- r will find themselves In n the tha hole one hundred thousand dollars or more when the receipts are counted With the fight nearly six weeks away reservations have been received receive for over one hundred thousand dollars worth of seats These Thee are the ringside 1 best They do not Include the general admission chairs or those thole in the cheaper heaper sections Before either Dempsey or Gibbons had I I been signed to a contract there was wall deposited deposIted de de- de posited In Montana banks bank In cash eash a guarantee of or the state that the show would not be a a. flivver Less Leu than a week after arter It wa was wac an an- flounced that articles had been signed Montana and Canadian people had sub o scribed to another worth of seats And all this without any sales campaign SUCCESS OF EVENT So Bo there were worth of seats disposed of b before fore either Ither the champion or r the tha challenger er had pitched their camps lamps When the West sets out to accomplish i something it usually does It This cham cham- fight is I. an example The Tle West Vest has ma heard the challenge of the East that it I cannot support such lIuch an affair and has set about to answer It Just now flow the Pacific coast is rallying I to the cause caulle of bf f the West From From- Seattle Seat Seat- I tle lie down to San Diego requests are pourIng pourIng pour- pour Ing i ng In for for- reservations The arena filled tilled will hold hoid Some Som of or the requests I for tickets convey the Impression that the tha I senders tear fear ear they the may nosy be too late to tt ret get et a a. seat Beat But it tt takes take a lot of people to make up The promoters need only to make a success of the undertaking undertaking under under- taking and these thue seem assured at this early date One Eastern writer who presumes to know says ns the promoters knowing the fight will be a II failure have something up their sleeve He lie suggests that a big movie company is III backing the bout to use pictures of the show as aa a climax for a a picture or that the oilmen of or the district are using the show as a. an adver adver- for their oil fields He Ue is wrong in either Instance Mon Mon- tana decided that it was waa time for tor the West Vest to stage a championship match It is ts thirteen lears years since the heavy peavy- weights f s mingled g in the West for too the worlds world's c championship p. p TAKE FlOUT FIGHT OVER EASTERN EASTER PROTEST 1 Montana fontana and Shelby thought it was time for tor the West Vest to step to the front i ragain again eo so It went ahead and signed Dempsey and Gibbons over over the pr protests tests of ot the East The ticket sale Is no not nearly so Ii high I as all prevailed at the Dempsey Dempsey-Carpentier affair in New ew Jersey That fight was considered a walkaway I for tor the champion J a month before it was held Jack knows that Gibbons will give him a fight He lIe Is la taking the matter so seriously that he lie has already gone Into training hard barring the gates of his camp to all vIllI visitors tors except for an hour every afternoon afternoon after after- noon when they watch him box Gibbons is III taking a big gamble ramble on his hili chances of landing the title The St. St Paul contender is ii so filled with ence that he Can a tip J Jack over that ht he Is t taking the biggest g st chance n evel of of any any- one If It the promoters do not clear elear anything anything any any- thing neither will Tommy He lIe i is III bankIng bank bank- ing log on what revenues the tha championship will bring him |
