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...Connell closed the gap and 37 seconds later Andy Rickard tied the game...
...could get bouts only by accepting the short end of the purse or by agreeing to take a dive or both. His last major bout was in 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada, against a young white hope named "Battlin'" Nelson. The bout was the first promotion of the notorious Tex Rickard, at that time a local saloon owner. Rickard, who was to become the most successful promoter of the era, put up a purse of $34,000 in gold coins and displayed it in his saloon. Gans, well past his prime, pounded Nelson senseless. Nelson, however, got most of the purse...
...FOUR YEARS after the Gans-Nelson bout, Tex Rickard staged and refereed the heavyweight championship contest between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries. Jeffries, who held the title from 1899 until he retired in 1904, had been persuaded to make a comeback. Dressed for his role, Jeffries entered the ring on July 4, 1910, with American flags on his trunks, proclaiming that he would give Johnson "the licking of his life." The record-breaking crowd cheered for all it was worth. Then Johnson stepped into the ring to an anvil chorus of passionate booing and nigger baiting. Two years before, Johnson...
Jack Johnson's importance to black people lay not so much in what he did, but how he did it. His style, which the system found so outrageous, was appreciated by many blacks who understood its origin and effect. Whites also learned a lesson from Johnson. At least, Tex Rickard did. The promoter of the Johnson-Jeffries contest. Rickard later went on to manage Jack Dempsey, and in that capacity displayed the knowledge he had gotten from Johnson by never allowing his man to face Henry Wills, a black fighter whom some felt was a good as Johnson. Johnson himself...
...night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...