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Accordingly, he went south to Miami Beach, Fla., where in some hope of booming his own and friends' real estate properties, he began arrangements for a bout between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling, the winner to meet Jack Dempsey for the championship. Just before negotiations had crystallized into contracts, Tex Rickard died, bequeathing, to heirs unspecified in his will, a dreadful situation in the boxing business. Now there were two tasks of almost insurmountable difficulty to be encompassed. First, there must be found an heir for Tex Rickard's problems; next, an heir to Gene Tunney...
However, for promoters to be successful, they must have something to promote and unless Promoter-Pugilist Dempsey should arrange a match between himself and the winner of the Sharkey-Stribling bout, there seemed to be no further work for Rickard's successor to do until a prospective heavyweight champion appeared. Of these, only one had shown the vaguest possibility of becoming satisfactory. This was Maximilian Siegfried Victor ("Mocks") Schmeling who was once the champion of Germany, who has fought twice in the U. S., who is 23 years old, who looks like Jack Dempsey and is being taught to fight...
Died. George Lewis ("Tex") Rickard, potentate of pugilism; in Miami, Fla., where he was arranging a bout between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling. Jack Dempsey was at his deathbed...
...Columbia grappler for a fall after 12 minutes and 45 seconds of intensive fighting. Nathaniel Warner '30 won the fourth fall of the evening in the quickest time of the meet, pinning his opponent's shoulders to the mat in less than half the time allotted for the bout...
...feature bout of the meet was in the 175-pound class between F. L. Meserve '31, and J. C. Rudnich of M. I. T. Meserve threw Rundnich after two minutes and 50 seconds of the second overtime period...