Word: prizefighter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally, a funeral ceremony was held; Rickard was praised, sung over, paraded through the streets and put into the ground, at Woodlawn Cemetery near Manhattan. Two nights later, in the exact centre of Madison Square Garden, there was a prizefight and a ceremony. The ceremony was simple: Jack Dempsey climbed through the ropes; the announcer, red-faced Joe Humphreys, made a gesture; the lights went down; a bugler played taps. Presently the lights went on and Jimmy McLarnin, of Vancouver, Wash., beat Joe Glick, Brooklyn tailor...
Born in Kansas City, Tex Rickard was a Texas cowpuncher at 10, a town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay...
Murders. In the early hours of a Philadelphia morning three men with shotguns murdered a hunchback, a month ago. He was weazened, four-foot Hughie McLoon, 27, saloon keeper, prizefight manager, onetime mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Standing beneath a street lamp, he made an easy target. The assassins whizzed away into darkness...
...action lolls a bit at first but is sped up handsomely before the finish by a shooting and a whacking good imitation of a prizefight. The play is the work of Edward E. Paramore, Hyaat Daab, and George Abbott, an able and versatile trio. At the first night Tex Rickard was found babbling enthusiastically in the lobby which produced a rumor to the effect that he was backing the show.* Right beside Ringside will open The Big Fight, starring Tex Rickard's onetime breadwinner, Jack Dempsey, et ux.; thus providing theatre-goers with an example of dramatic coincidence...
Rickard. George L. ("Tex") Rickard, Manhattan prizefight promoter, who was indigent when he left Texas years ago, went to Houston in a private car. His opinion was sought on some holes in the glass of an elevator door in the Rice Hotel. They were supposed to be bullet holes made by a Texan impatient for an elevator. Opined Promoter Rickard: "They were made by some fellow with his cane...