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Show TEX R1CKARD IS NOW COAL MINING San Pranclsco, Aug. 12. Tex Rlck-ard. Rlck-ard. coal mine owner, who left here tour weeks aco for a sojouru i'n the .vouthern part of the state, as Tex Rickard, prizefight promoter, has returned. re-turned. His message to tho people Is that he is through with the fight game. "I've pulled off my last fight." he said last night. "The Jeffries-Johnson show at Reno was my last appearance appear-ance a a promoter. It Is not that I love 'he fight game less, hut that 1 love that coal mine of ours at Coos Day more. I'm coal mining now, you know, and that will be enough for some time." |