Show f oo MILLi MILLION MILLIONAIRES MILLIONAIRES' AIR ES PLAY HOSTS HOSTS TO SP SPORT J RT CH CHAMPIONS A A AT T A. A DINNE 3 TEX'S rEX'S S A T PLAN REA BEATS POLITICIANS Tunney Ruth Jones Are Among Guests at Huge Dinner By Frank G Getty tty United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK Jan 4 Tex 4 Tex Rickard's Rick Rick- ards ard's COO millionaires who have b been en an edifying adjunct to sporting sporting sport spot ing fixtures and championship prizefights during the tho past year play hosts tonight to the champions of certain lines ines of sport A worlds worMs champions' champions dinner they call can the entertainment they will offer to such monarchs of ot their re respective respective re- re realms as Gene Geno Tunney I Bobby Jones Devereux Milburn Babe Dabe Ruth and others The millionaires tho the quotation quotation quo quo- tation marks are not Mr Rickard's the comprise membership of the Madison Square Garden club tho the existence of f which marks a distinct new era in sport MILLIONAIRES ARE FAVORED It was some somo years eat ago that ard ard discovering that part of of the demand for fOt ringside seats scats at his old Madie Madison n ij Square Garden cam came from folks with real money and financial standing fn n Wall Van Wallstreet street conceived the Idea of giving th the really moneyed class of fight patrons pa pa- an opportunity to control tIre the market in good seats instead of parIng parIng paring par par- par par- Ing in ln a vulgar scramble each time Benny Denny Leonard met Johnny Dundee Accordingly Rickard organized the Madison Square G Garden club whoso Whose m members were to put up the necessary for tor a new MadIson Madison Mad Mad- ison Square Garden In return for their th-lr cash they were to receive the first choice of seats at all fights The TIle golden became an at attraction attraction at- at traction at Garden festivities occasionally occasionally occa- occa outrivaling tho the performers within the ropes Their Theil shirt fronts gleamed white from the tho solid re respectable respectable respectable re- re jet black of evening wear and Rickard used to sneak up to the gallery and beam down upon tIre the scene with wilt obvious pride Theres six six hundred hundred millionaires at this fight Tex said of one one of hi his recent and the phrase stuck RICKARD PROUD OF CLUB The new Madis Madison n Square Garden took look on the aspect of the National Sporting club of London wh where whre re the tM Prince of Wales and nd liEs his tuxedoed cronies are are fond of attending box box- boxIng boxing Ing matches All the good seats not oce occupied by by firemen policemen deputy boxing commissioners and One-Eyed One Connolly were given over to the millionaires and their lady friends Rickard Richard not only swelled with pride over the presence of this V Wealth within his S gates tes he su suc succeeded in closing the tile gates t to many of pf the mo ticket mooching politicians who vho since time began had made it ita ita ita a practice to walk in free and appropriate appropriate ap ap- ap- ap the tho best seats scats at Iy boxing xing entertainments Getting In hl free tree to prizefights prizefight was the privilege of every petty ward boss to say nothing of all hi his friends Tex put a stop to the the practice tie He made a number of persons exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- wrathful but Ire he had his millionaires so ho lie didn't care Tonight with k fare and Ind speech the 7 millionaires feast and ind toast the gladiators who performed performed performed per per- formed best beat for them d during ring 1 1927 27 |