Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-03-01 | Page 4 | Rickard Swamped with Big Offers

I RICARDS SWAMPED WITH BIG OFFERS Every Little Ha Hamlet let and Town Puts in in Bid for July 4 Scra Scrap By Otto Fl Floto to toK ANSAS CITY Mar I 1 wish K KANSAS said Tex Rickard to us the other day you ou could see the stack of and letters I have from a thousand towns hamlets and andi i villages offering to stage the big Wil- Wil lard Dempsey bout And the strange part of it all is went on Tex about 90 per cent ot of them are chaff and only 10 0 per cent are worth consideration Every little spot from Center to Clay Corners seems imbued with the idea that the price of a telegram telegram tele- tele gram to me will give them a million dollars worth of publicity They figure I am going to give it out to the press and in that Way theY'll see the name of their burg in print Fact of the matter is I am not hot giving out any Information information In- In formation whatever as to the probable site of the battle and for the very good reason I myself at this writing have not the remotest idea where it might be staged When the proper time rolls around Ill I'll consider all offers which appear to tobe tobe be bona fide and then I will select the theone theone one which offers the better inducements induce induce- meats ments and where the advantages are the best Tile The size or location ot of the town is going to cut no figure at all allin in ri Ilg at a d decisIon n. n I I I I I I I We Informed the u-ic ramous famous promoter we knew of three towns worthy of consideration because of our l knowledge knowl- knowl edge of the responsibility of the men behind the projects Two of them are what the actor would term on the I kerosene circuit while the other boasts of a population of probably human souls a splendid I kennel ennel I of Airedale dogs and several Angora cat breeders When we gave Tex the thelow thelow low down clown on these towns he said Well WeIl that sounds better to me than any other information I have had Ill I'll keep all that in mind But with It all Tex is not going to allow himself to be used as a to draw the publicity chestnuts out ot of the fire for the towns which have no Idea of the project or or no financial emoluments sufficient to stage the bout even een though their efforts were sincere lie He knows its it's a golden opportunity opportunity op- op to secure publicity and lie he wont won't be a party to this deception of the public As he states above bona bonafide tide fide offers will receive attention and I publicity as w well ll