Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-13 | Page 5 | Rickard Says Big Fight Will be Held

RICKARD SA SAYS YS BIG FIGHT Will BE HELD Jones Objected t to Ring Ringside ing- ing side ide Prices but R Rumpus Has as Been Settled By United Press NEW YORK Feb The 12 Jess Willard-Frank Willard Moran fight is not off Tex rex Rickard s said id so tonight admitting he 61 If anyone ought to know since he Is s shouldering a burden to put the giant heavy weights Into the ring His statement followed a story by Tom Jones Jones principal partner in the Willard holding corporation threatening to call off the bout if Rickard charged as much as 50 for ringside seats Jones ns did Put put up a fight against th thA the he 50 50 seats seats-s seats said said fd Rickard but hut he lie Ms las now changed his mind and understands understands under under- stands that b he ila- has nothing to odo do with thE he business arrangements of of the fight firlit In fact fart all that r rn i mh c. c q f I Jone and nd coI iJ d deliver i J Jess WM Willard in good condition at the stage door of ot Madison Square Garden trot not later than 9 p. p m. m on the tho night of March 8 i The average price for the entire house Rickard went on will be fae 10 a seat and the highest price m may y not be more than 25 Howe However er th the interest in in- terest is so 80 great even eyen now that I could sell every box seat in the house tonight at 50 and still sUH have bave to turn I down a number of fans Rickard said he expects the gate gat to II reach and the entire expense I I about Willard will leave Chicago for New I York Monday or Tuesday according r to Jack Curley his bIs deputy manager The heavy weight champion will I charge an admission of 50 60 cents to his I training quarters at the Pioneer A. A C I but Curle Curley explained that mere money I I I was no object the tax being designated II to prevent the rabble from cluttering up the gym while Willard VIllard Is doing his stunts Moran continued his conditioning conditioning- work at Saratoga biting off the strands like the druids of eld just to harden his neck and Jaw muscles am and abusing a corps of sp sparring partners who went with him to the New York Spa