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Show Total Paid Attendance at New Madison Square Boxing, how In the class with "big business," brought a return of nearly one million dollars to the new Madison Madi-son Square garden corporation for the winter campaign just closed. Sixteen ring shows, held in Tex Rickard's new arena between December Decem-ber 11 and March 25, drew total gate receipts of $934,019, according to official of-ficial figures just made public. The total attendance was 226,701. The average "gate" was $58.-114, and the average attendance 14,169. The largest total paid attendance, 17,977, registered at the season's closing clos-ing show with Young Stribling and Jimmy Slattery as headliners, also set a record for indoor boxing anywhere any-where in the country. |