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Jack Dempsey: " I set up my training camp for my fight with Gibbons at Great Falls, Mont., on the site of the first brewery established there. Its picturesque ruins are beside my training ring...
Meanwhile word comes that the Shelby, Mont., ring which is under construction for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, July 4, is similar in shape to Rickard's arena, and will accommodate 40,208. Fifty dollars will be the top price for tickets. If the bout draws capacity the promotors will net a million dollars. Dempsey has started training at Great Falls, Mont., while Gibbons is working at Havre...
...Shelby, Mont., is to take its place beside Goldfield, Nev., as the scene of a great conflict. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, has signed articles to fight 15 rounds to decision with Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in Shelby on the afternoon of July 4. Shelby is populated by slightly less than 1,000 persons and is seldom dignified by mention on the map. Montana promotors have guaranteed the champion $300,000, nearly $700 a minute, for his part in the ceremonies. Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts...
...Most of them are negroes, and they have heard of our lynching bees, Jim Crow discriminations and grandfather clauses with increasing envy. The people of Barbados are tired of having magazine writers describe their perfect government, as recently in Scribner's, and want a little Thompsonism or E. Mont Reilyism. As for the Philippines, every one knows that the Tribune for a quarter century has led the Republican press in such demands as 'Haul down the flag!' 'We want scuttle!' and 'Bryan is right on anti-imperialism !" A proud people like the Filipinos like...
...Democrats also have three places to fill on the committee. Senators Underwood, Walsh (Mont.), Robinson, and Harrison are mentioned as the most likely appointees...