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Show i Death of Tex Rickard i Public interest in sports being what it is, the death of George L. ("Tex") Rickard in Miami after a brief illness attracted nation-wide notice beyond that which might attach o the passing of a high official or oher dignitary. mcKara was a character such as is commonly described as "colorful," and championship bouts his only claim his preeminence as a promoter of to prominence has served to keep him in the limelight for sevral years. And it can not be denied that in his particular par-ticular line of effort he was a master. Any promoter who can induce a crowd of fight fans to pay $2,650,000 to witness a boxing bout, as they did to see Tunney win a decision over Dempsey on September 22, 1927, is a showman extraordinary. In several other battles staged by Rickard the gate receipts were between $1,000 noo and $1,800,000. While the followers of fisticuffs felt that R'ekard's prices and purses were high, they still stood for htem, and he might have repeated his former exploits ex-ploits had he lived. With his passing it may be that exponents of the manh, art will be placed on a financial basis more in keeping with their real importance im-portance in the world. |