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Finance. Prize fighting became important business in 1921, when Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier fought each other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first. N. W. Ayer had three honorable mentions. McCann-Erickson had two honorable mentions, Lennen & Mitchell, Fuller & Smith & Ross, Rickard & Co. and Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc. one each. W. J. Cameron of the Ford program won third radio medal...
...lineups: Harvard--g., Williams, Gray; r.f., Bradley; l.f., Robie; r.h., Burbank, Rickard; c.h., R. Scott; l.h., Phillips, Haskell; r.o., Hastings; r.i., Holcombe; c., Lewis; l.i., Johansen, Johnson; l.o., Wood (Capt...
...Harvard lineup: g., Williams; r.f, Bradley; lf., Robie; rh., Burbank; ch., R. Scott, Rickard; lh., Phillips, Haskell; ro., Hastings. Parsons; rl., Harnden, Lewis; c., Holcombe, Johnson; li., Johansen; lo., Wood...
Among the list of first team candidates, men to solve Coach Carr's present worries may possibly be found among the following: Robert M. Briggs '37, goal; Philip H. Sheridan '39 and Fitzwilliam Sargent, 3rd., fullbacks; Charles F. Rickard '37, Ernest Sachs, Jr. '38, and Robert E. White '38, fullbacks, and Pierre C. Fraley '37, Frank R. Harnden '39, Richard M. Grandin '38, and John M. Johansen '38, forwards...