Show RICKARD GETS TITLE AS PROMOTER PROM PRO OTER State Legislature May Halt Championship Fights In N Y BY RY JOE WILLIAMS Tex Rickard thought he had hed seen seene e e Tex T x has hu li Hi 11 ed Cd life as oa Is few of the mortals mortal Jack London I would have found him a mad made to order made to order orde r character for tor one of o his western thrillers A A co coo con puncher In Texas a 0 gold miner In Klondike a II faro gambler In Goldfield a soldier r r of fortune In South America and finally a sports promoter at once powerful and ond picturesque Rickard has an e een e eventful en stirring career But he errs when he thinks he has seen e He hasn't seen n the Intricate Inner m ch sm of New York Tork politics politic The boy boys are just about bout ready to show him And If they go about It In their usually gifted manner Tex Tox will real real- real realize ize ice that cleaning out a Nevada Ne so- so sa saloon loon with nith Ith ebbIng bullets was as a amero amere amero mere mero Incident In hi his life TOO BIG FOR FOIl ThE IME G-IME G IE Rickard Richard has grown too big for tor forthe forthe the game In New Yort Yora He is 1 no longer just juat a promoter he 1 Is 10 some something thing that approaches an InstItution Institution Institution tion Other promote s mayan mayan- may an- an an announce flounce ch championship fights but the public remains unresponsive Let RickArd bring two burly brutes to- to lo-eother lo gother In a title battle bottle and ond tho turnstiles crack under the strain The public has confidence In Rickard His record shoes ehos tow few busts busU All of his fights from the first Nelson Gans struggle on the flung flung tar Nevada plains up to the Dempsey Firpo massacre have havo been on the square Rickard levels he 0 II a straight shooter hooter That s why ftc tt-e public l I ti for him Realizing Realising the security of his position position tion Rickard It Is said sald has bas not sugared the politicians In the ox- ox I I manner to which they are accustomed Very little graft has rolled out of the Madison treasury Into the tho gnarled fists of ofha the Ule ward heelers E En Esen n In the mat mt matter tel let of a strict And ble economy has hos been boen practiced practiced practiced TO RUN TEX OUT Wherefore the boys hive have decIded that Rickard must go The first shot in the campaign of effacement has been fired A gifted orator In Inthe Inthe Inthe the state legislature hai lIas lix urged that thata a 3 maximum admission price fit of 7 shall shaH prevail at t all future cham chani- championship championship fights tights It If this goes oes through Rickard's spectacular career will automatically end And If It it doesn t go through the boys bos bo s Intend Intond to lu- lu introduce In Introduce trod uce another bill designed to kill boxing outright Rickard In his lounger days days- days he hes s e 63 53 now fought now fought himself out ot of many desperate situations Most ot of othis his toes foes howe er bowel er fought out In the op open n In upstanding man to man to fashion Politicians we e are tod lod look with disfavor upon this vulgar o practice and If It the public s 8 tavo promoter gets reu anything better tretter thana than a raw deal In his bis present difficulty It will be because someone made matte a mistake ke |