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Show Mm Ul CLOSED Then Kickard Knew the White Man Had Lost the Fight Iteno. Nevada. July 3.-" Well If, " over and 1 fw, n' oday." was TVx Richard's greeting the newspaper men when cam down to breakfast. "It went thro-jtfi without a hitch and we hold the worlds record for attendance, purs, and receipts. "I don't know how- much we took In. The bank has not finished counting It but I feel we will clear SlOoooo on he gate receipts beside our Jrtrest In the pictures. There were 20 0m) people In the arena. The seating' capacity ca-pacity was a little over PJOno All the .seats wore sold except thrVe or four hundred, possibly more of th $.Ti nnd $30 places. nut there were a couple of thousand standing around the upper rim of the arena, so I aim confident wo hold the reeord for a prize fight crowd In this country' If not in the world. "We still hold a sixth Interest In the- pictures. We so!d a sixth inter.-nt before the fight for .,sM.a3:." and Rlrk-ard Rlrk-ard took a check for trie amount from his coat pocket and handed It arornd. "As it stands now neither Jolmaon. nor Jeffries has any interest In th j pictures. Joflries sold his Interest for Sf.r.Jioo, and Johnson got S5u,0ou for his. "I don't want to look b.ick over t!n past few weeks. It is too painful to think of. I can forget It now that w came through In such fine shape. It was a wonderful crowd In many ways. No one ever saw a more orderly one. There was practically no pdire pro-lection, pro-lection, but In splf of thH. 20 1)110 men camo here, went ihrnui.a everv Eort of discomfort in th" way of travel, loss of nle?p and meals, and hi a broiling sun sat for two h'Jvs an I yet there was not the least .-ign of disorder. "The only time that there was any. thing like dUordor was when th crowd at the gates, clamoring for tickets became so large that it threatened threat-ened to -wreck the box office. Then I got up on tho ticket booth and handed hand-ed down, tickets as fast as I could and Gleason knocked a hole In the feuco and took cash from all corners for admittance ad-mittance at' the hole." T' took 'in scv-eral scv-eral thousand accepting whatever WRShTindedto me.- A lot of fellow? handed me two and five-dollar bills, but I let It go at that, and they 6a w the fight mighty cheap. ' ' "As to the fight Itself you all 'pun. It. and can Judge of Jeffries' chances as well as 1 could. 1 saw, after Jeffries Jef-fries got that Jolt that closed bi eye. that Johnson had it ou him in every way. He did not have the steam. There wns no nnap and his footwork was slow. "While Jeffries was not counted out, llerger getting into the ring before be-fore the count of ten. he could not. I believe, have gotten up again. If he had be would have been such a !e-ftiiseless !e-ftiiseless mark I don't think I would have allowed Johnson to hit him, but would have given a decision -then, and there." |