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Show Plans Drawn for Immense Arena For Big Fight TOLEDO, O., May 6 Plans were being drawn today for an immense arena in Bayview park, on Maumee bay, in which the Willard-Dempsey 12 round bout for the heavyweight championship cham-pionship of the world will be staged July 4th. i Toledo charity anticipates receiving $21,000 as a result of the bout, figuring figur-ing seven por cent of gate receipts, estimated by Frank Flourney, associated asso-ciated with Tex Rickard, who promoted pro-moted the bout, to run about 300,000 The Toledo boxing commission today issued a permit for the bout. The arena in which the bout will be staged at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of July 4th will seat 50.000 when completed. |