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Show FANHlilG WITH FARRELL Ing are brought oat hy Uriefoll, who main-tame main-tame that both the I'nio Urounda and the uaw Yankee atadluni are too big for boxing "Whure are th fUhta thi wilt draw 100 00U epe ca'ora Ixmpaey and W Hla. of couree, hut what othv.-a? Drlaoll aaya "HraMing power of boxing ranta la mow-ly mow-ly overeat Hnatert and exugt'.eraied. Ark the ordinary fun how many fighta have drawn 20,000 at the gat-, and he will aay offhand off-hand that thero were, at least a hundred. Tell htm to name them over and he can t. "Tha Kllbane-lturna featherweight h in -ptonahlp fight tn Jeraey (hty In 191 drew 44,200 at 11 and $2 and It made a record up to that time. The Kenipaey-Carpontier fight Is on record for OO.uo. but that la an overeat Imated numlwr. W M t let Jrknn and Johnny lunle in a da a record st Madlaon Htjuare aidn laet winter when they drew U.o'ni lit. nny l.ei.nard and Jack llrltton drew t.imi) t lna auinmer and II arry Will and "Tut" Jrk n drew the aume for me In riruoMyn. Ie.tnanl and kanaaa drew XT.Aimi in II arrla-'ti anil i 'arpem Ur and l.e- 1 rmak y drew 1 l,Qhl. hero are the bout a that will outdraw them and what good are eeata for 100. P0 when you hivt tough lime setting 0.04 to a fight." By Henry L. Farrell . Vnlted Frees SportaTdlUir. NKW YORK. Ort 1. Rueceaa attending the Introduction of boxing at the National lengtje hHbHll park has developed a first clans fight. Involving no little poltttra, for the prKUfge at the new Yankee atadlum. Iterauae the new home of the New York American league club will have a Beating ' capacity of 100. 000. rival promoters eonald-er eonald-er it the most valuable place for boxing around New York. j Tex Rirkard la after the stadium with! all the aupport he can muatr. With, bos-; log conducted In both the Manhattan ball fields, hla big wooden aatn-er tn Jeraey t'ltv will be worth Juit about the aH-oiid hand lumber In It. If he fa. la to fl the Vatikee Rtadtujn. and it la underatofd frm ri-liable aouicfe of Information that he w'll. he will he out of lurk entirely for n.mmir boxing where the big money la centered. a a Rlrkard also Is 4e!ng "amnked out" of 11 ad 1 eon Houare tlafd-n, acrordlng to good Information. Thoae who now control the garden recently approached a prominent matchmaker in New York, and aakad him If he would be willing to take charge ef the big arena for the winter eeaaon. He aatd he would entertain an offer If he rnuld "be assurtd of a frae hand and pacnHa.ltoaa are aald to be atlll pending. NRjckard Is said to be tn bad with Tammany Tam-many Hall and If the atate shoolrl go Democratic Demo-cratic thla fell, the politicians eay that he will have to step down from tbs rear throne of busing. e e e TTla crer power, however, haht been a "rsarf" recently sa It was two yea re ago when he was tn sbsolate control of boxing ; i' unit New York. I lsv Priecoll was the first to ehellenge the power of R'rfcard and he got away with tt. oo much ao. that other of the am it Her pi omotera have taken heart and are actively coin pet ma against Hick jM. Drlacoll le the inatchmaker of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn ball club's f trht department and he made a great financial eurreas out of tha peat season. He ufted to confine his attentions atten-tions to haaeball. but ha took up boxing when the law waa pneaed tn New Jt-raey and he- ntade a big auccras of It. a The ftrat real teat nf power between Rlrkard Rlrk-ard end I'riP'oll came tn the skirmtah to ret J immy Wilde, the world's flyweight cham-lon, tn romt over from Kngland and J f'.sht I'sncbo 111m. the American rhampion, for the title. Dnacoli got the contract and ! in hla worde "It would knock a h-t of eyes t nut if they eaw the reasonable figure on j the ontrnct." I Previously when Rlrkard announced tat he waa after a certain fight or fighter. I all the other promoters Isld off through thai heiuf that they couldn't but k him en a' hid ding game. I ' Some 1r''ilrr pr' nn tin'l nrV ! |