Show COLLINS OUTSHINES RICKARD AS PROMOTER 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ONCE STARRED AS PROFESSIONAL t II B Bl BOn BOIl MA L I Writer SHELBY Mont Ment June 9 TeX I RIkArd Rickard has hns a s rival 1 Mike MIlo Collins and promoter ot of o the Gibbons Dempsey Dempsey I tight fight at Shelby on July 4 hll has hai In ded d ft II field that Tex Tax ha has long g 1 looked upon as aa his own oin 0 n private property I I Here Heretofore tore Tn T X alone alene h has dred dar ith the staging of ot ring attractions In-I In in- in h hl volin vol hundreds l of thousands h running d of o dollars dollar's Into toWa the Vt el RIckard has been shrewd d With uncanny judgment be he ha has hu r ICI the places for tor holding his rights I end nj In almost lI esery case the tho results s have been ben ucc stul sul I But never In lii hi Ills j et did dd T Tex Tx x undertake the til that Mike Mlle Collins hi dared dred I IMe nc no ha lia brought ht together Dell p sPY sy y and Gibbons Gibbon or a bout Ih the cx ei pense of which I will Ill run at lEAst IMst la 4 And th the sit site for tor the thC tight fight tiffi Is Sh lb Mont Monti a thousand miles Irom any large Irge center enter ot of o lion A town toan tov n itself of o but 1000 In- In inhabitants habitants Iron Front present Indications tle tl-e tl- tl fl fishi hI will 11 be a financial 1 Already dy the advance sate sale of o tick tick tick- tickets eu ets his S run tar far ahead of ot any pre pre- pr JOll fight Collins kne knew his west He knew kne I the free and easy of o Its people He H knew their do do- do d termination to finish nn anything they the started He Ife knew knea the field a n as I irgin tight fight territory not territory not Ince f memorable Johnson battle In 1910 has the test nest wit wit- witnessed witnessed an important hl match Mike Collins hails from Ot t Paul Pau 1 where he Is a n fight tight promoter man man- n r Of o and with all fInds time to attend to 10 hl editorial du tle ties a 11 bead of ot the Doting M fOlD DI C C I 1 had asked him to tel me some some- something something som thing of ot his life and ho how hots he came caine to 10 enter the ring game came ame of curiosity stokers would be be ticket purchasers end the thou thou- and and one others then Who Imagine that tI they must see sec the head hend or of ora a great reat ring bou bout Mike managed to 0 a i ay y I l was as horn born in Hudson Wis Is IsH 44 H years ago 10 I 1 I grad graduated u ted fro high school and the thet the spent a year yea nt fit t t John s 5 college Then I I left Ift l ft school in my anti anti- et in tn get gt at St hat wh haL l I 1 thought WM Wit wits my life lites a ambition And It wan ain I Ithe th the ring either cither tl I wanted to b 5 he i t halt ball laer tn in 1 1107 I J was u aith Enu Eau Claire In th the Wisconsin ae league eger ager pirt of ot the tho time as man man- manager maneger I played 1 cry c ery po position 0 oi on the th team t am starting In as s pitcher pilcher bUll but butI liu I f ac not quite good enough at a a I each pi place nee and lly wound up u 1 In fIeld Irr RT RI n 7 HING itc s tc In In 1907 I 1 lr first iret t got mixed u up 11 I the ring ring- am game George Gori Barton n a friend nd of mine on the th I I 0 News who ho wa a was also alo A 1 boxer cam cain to me and requested d that I n a tl tight fight ht at Somerset W Wi V II he and Mike Gibbons then corn com corn unknown As ti t H i ie promoter of ot the fight t a nas unknown to 10 both bolh h hp and Mike e and as s I was as supposed to 11 be nan n an authority on sporting rae Chirac 1 I I te tore In the stale state of ot Wisconsin scon ln they mfr InC to al also aio o g guarantee n th thi l purse I 1 agreed to that as u each lIch boy was ass 9 to reetie e 6 5 and expenses Some ome ome difference b between purses In those das dais and no now I I didn't nt know anything about abou refereeing so BO I 1 I nt the Iho next three days in rehearsing rehearsing- We e L int nt to 10 Somerset together and due toI to I delays la s on ae account of c snow a and nd cold old we e e arrived nt ot 10 p II m in to find the hall halt where th match was as to be he held COI cola coin l and an dark I was waC told that we could probably find the promoter In II a ceria certain I n aloon HE irn T TO COUNT T We 4 him hun all right but buthI buthe bu he hI claimed It u was as too late But I 1 Iwan win wan t oln going coing to 10 miss that th t fight all my rehearsing t I got the fighters dressed in theIr trunks and we e mid m the rounds of the thre saloons saloon Ill lii Somerset where here I 1 I houg bought ht drinks for the th s ero crowd d an ani 1 explained that mat we tie tere tereon re i the on our way ay t to the arena rena to 10 hold 1 the fight We c doted cloSed every even eve the bartenders rs coming along The rite Th local promoter collected the th 2 rate gate receipts amounting l to 10 82 62 hen rhen Barton and Gibbons went ent to t It Darton went ent do down doan II In the h firth fifth toI I v was as so e excited that I 1 tor forgot ot to count until tike like idled riled ened count I 1 ihen we w started to collect but bUI bu nur our promoter wan wain t I I to he ha found Between ern th the tho drinks drinke and the fight fight- fight fri pu purses s Ih that t I I had guaranteed guarantee Iff I was as out 5 05 6 I made up my mind that I wu was going to get et that mony back out ou l lot of Ih the fight game camo amo and I ha base ha e been boen boenI bee I at nt It 1 er c er since |