Show W WHO l IS S TEX TEXT RICKARD RICKARD- RICKARD WE WELL tl II i i Ii I K j J I I S 'S AMAZING AAG AM r r f h r S T I D Y OF i iM M tP LIFE 6 IF E t I TrU 11 Ii I I s 7 r C I i 1 n Cv I h I Ir 4 I t I r. r t 1 4 ut c I Ic- Ic t I bI b I L 2 S c Pi iS ox 4 k i I I j I Jo I I 1 I id s. s ft 12 MR AND MRS TEX rEX RICKARD 1 EW YORK July D G Tex Tex ru Rickard kar l N NEW I Went cent broke broke a house d during the Klondike goi gold rush rueh He lie lost everything because because he ran a game Tha Thata his hit reputation the reputation ha he always YIl runs a IL square game V j Its It's tho chief reason reaBon why whir he cashed In on tho the million-dollar million Dempse fight Millions of or v people were vere excited about the big fight Tex Tax Rickard I He Hed He'd carried the whole burden himself set fot ho not only was not excited about about- It but he lia has found found- to to transform Madison Square Garden into the biggest swimming pool poor In hi the world Rickard is Is' tile the modern D Barnum the Barnum-the the um-the the worl worlds world's s 's greatest snowman He lie became a a. showman b by ac accident and he be has rondo made a fortune out of ot it He's Hes the be mo most moat L sought after man in New York Ho lie sits behind barred doors up In In- th tho tower lower of Madison l Square Carden Gar Car Garden Garden den calmly smoking big fat cigars and watching th golden flood 1 pour in SEASIDE J IN CITY IT i Out through a D. D little muo door In the back backof I of hi his office ho lie can step step onto onto a 3 balcony high up among the rafters u of ot the great I building and see ice the Indoor 3 seaside aldo re resort te- te sort on which he has Just spent Nobody has ever Icer been able ablo to make mako Square Gard Garden n pay bec because use It ItI I was a white while elephant in the tha summer Bummer time Rickard m mude a bet with himself he could make mako It pay Rickard rd always 15 bets wIth himself himself and and andon n 1 on himself If It he ever worries he doesn show It Jt If U ho he loses loses- his temper he be ke It to himself He Ire has h a a. good poker t face ce H He Is always calm cairn Im and ad unafraid and he bas baa nerve nene Ill take a a. L chance on anything that looks like Uko an nn even chance he said Id turning with 1 a a. satisfied s twinkle In his eyes from a n. desk ulc strewn with letters letter marked marke PersonalS Personal and filled with checks H HE'S HES E S JUST 50 SO Rickard RIckard Is just 50 Is medium sized slightly chunky has thin hair carefully carefully care care- fully brushed over a large bald spot a n wide smile that shows hows even en teeth and an unhurried manner His touch hi has turned everything ovary ovary- thing into gold since the day in 1906 when he ho turned from his gambling house houseIn In Nevada Ne put on the map mp and his own on name In the newspapers by staging the Nelson Cans fight Since then ho has hns staged thirty na- na and international bouts bouta and not one has been a n nn financial failure He lie took in at tho the Jeffries- Jeffries Johnson fight In Reno at the Hie ard Moran Willard lor n fight in New York and at nt tho the Willard Dempsey tI fight nt In Toledo Then there was the gate W at Jerse Jersey City The fight promoter w was s born in K sa City Ci January 2 1 1871 1271 11 and wn was taken l to Texa Texas as ns a n child wild His ills father was an I Illinois millwright n At Jut 1 12 he WM was Wait left alone to to support A widowed mother and I two brothers brother and three sisters He became be be- be came calno a cowpuncher and at 21 was elected L marshal of Henrietta Tex Tex Tec went to Alaska in 1894 and was wis wasat wasat I at Circle City when tho the Klondike I gold old rush started He Ho hurried there staked a a claim and sold Bold It for OOOO Eleo Eta Hie o opened ned a gambling house hOUS and wont went broke In U the winter of 1898 he and Rex Beach the author sawed wood at Ram part for a 3 living Later ho ho he went to Nome and finally to Goldfield where he opened another gambling house and fell teU accidentally into fight promoting CATTLE KING His first love the love the cattle G game still game still remains Ho Is a no partner In a cattle raising enterprise In South America A A. syndicate he heads has a t acro acre ranch mach In Ja The people have played square with me me and 1 I try to play square with them says Sal's Tex I dont don't play pIny them for suck- suck 1 I leIs ers era I The Tile man who has out out-Barnum d Barnum Barnum Bar Bar- has hRs another num name besides Tex Tax rl Ills His first name Is George Gorge He Ho Is rc married and his wife wIre IB tuc his l last 1st adviser er |