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Married. Maxine Rickard, 32, widow of Fight Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard; and Thomas Aloysius Gill, 39, Chicago stockbroker; in Chicago...
...tickets, highest box-office price since 1929. Unlike many major prizefights of the last five years, it failed to end in a foul or a disputed decision. It launched what promises to be a successful season for a new promoting organization, 20th Century Sporting Club Inc., run by Tex Rickard's onetime right-hand man, Mike Jacobs, in opposition to Madison Square Garden Corp. which Rickard founded. It caused twelve deaths from excitement. Adolf Hitler congratulated the winner. What made the fight remarkable, however, was none of these facts. It was remarkable because in it Schmeling demolished not merely...
...these inducements, Promoter Jacobs had another good reason for cocking an ear to last week's proposal. It came from none other than Jefferson Davis Dickson Jr. of Jackson, Miss, and Paris, France, whose career as a sports promoter long since caused him to be called the "Tex Rickard of Europe." Last week Promoter Dickson arrived in Manhattan on his annual visit to his homeland, promptly proved that his nickname scarcely did his talents justice. As well as talking Promoter Jacobs, long Rickard's right-hand man, into an admiring daze. Promoter Dickson explained to reporters...
...fights with the late William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, one in London and one in Paris, both of which ended in fouls. In 1931 he built his,Palais des Sports, patterned on Tex Richard's Madison Square Garden, on the site of the old Velodrome d'Hiver. Tex Rickard was proud of his "600 Millionaires." Jeff Dickson organized a "Club de Mille" whose members have their own clubroom and bar in the Palais des Sports. By this time he had achieved the unprecedented distinction of being made a member of the boxing boards of both England and France...
History has been in the making at University Hall for the past few days ever since John Simoneau, New Hampshire soft drink tycoon whose personality may be described as a combination of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jacob Ruppert, Jack Benny, Paul Harris, and Tex Rickard, has been making his presence felt in no uncertain manner...