Show I RICKARD IS GREATEST PROMOTER PROMOTER New Yorker Is Credit to Game I When it comes to promoting prize fights or prizefights fights or or boxing matches It if you de d Bire sire sire-on on a big scale louve youse ou 0 got to sand it to Tex Rickard the orld worlds s I leading Impresario i iFor For T Tex x believes in doing big things and doln doing them right HI He offers delights in la hanging banging up II t tempting or- or of fers tars for tor champion pugilists to battle for Pugs Rho ho swap punches in tn II a bout about promoted by the Texan dont don't have to tight fight just for the glory glon is always there The three largest purses that have ever been put up the annals of ot the ring have havo been offered by the crafty Rickard Other called so-called big pots have be been n made to look like soiling selling by Rickard In his merry merry- race raco to establish record stakes stake In 1910 0 Rickard startled tim the en- en en tire entire sporting world and incidentally made Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries feel teel Ilk like kings Ings wHen wilen h he offered the th unheard of sum um of for tor a 0 i T bout between Big Dig Jeff Jett and the colored champion The Tho whole hole world gasped at the size of ot the kitty Nine sears lears ears later latr Rickard even ven out out- outdid outdid out outdid did this effort at nt Toledo when Willard and Dempse received to toI decide the heavyweight title Ot Of I this amount Jess drew do down n a IL cod bucks buck as his share of the tho purse When hen Dempsey and met met at Bolo Bolee Bo le Thirty Acres In 1931 1121 Jack carted away exactly which he ho was waa to receive win lose or draw while the Frenchman got The purse of JIlt half a million berries therefore was four times 0 as much as had ever evor boon been offered for a ring encounter In the th history of pugilism Perhaps the battle of the tho century or whatever hate er they want to call It Bant wasn't worth that turn sum but at any ao rte rate fh five fise e hundred thou thousand and Is quite a layman bit of money to the storage averAge lay man and It is i extremely mely doubtful It If I D a larger purse than that will III ever be put up to get t two 0 ring experts tog again But Dut It If It Is ls It will III no doubt be Tee Te Rickard who will III turn the trick for tor torI forthe I the tho free rare free care and going easy going Tee Tet T x Is the king bing of tight fight promoters the r oser Ho ire just dots dotes on doing bl big things in a Il big Ws bigger a bigger than anyone an one else would think ot of doing them o C oo |