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Things are looking up in the fisticuff business. For years it has been unexciting largely because it was held in the horny hollow of one man's hand, Tex Rickard's. Others sought to enter the field of promotion from time to time but failed because they could not cope with the supreme showmanship of the old master. Then Rickard died (TIME...
Last week William Francis Carey was elected to the presidency of Madison Square Garden Corp., the position left vacant by Rickard. When he announced, next day, that he had leased for outdoor bouts both the Polo Grounds and the Yankee Stadium, New York's big baseball parks, it appeared that the monopoly built up by Rickard was safe...
Then came the announcement that Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, had signed a two-year contract to promote boxing bouts with Humbert J. Fugazy. Fugazy long had been the most formidable of Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy...
...When Tex Rickard died last fortnight, the prizefight business in which he had become famed was courteously conceded to be an honorable one. Actually, it is not. So much Author March knows about the background against which he versifies the story of a colored boxer whose managers took pay to have him lose a fight, and who, not aware of this arrangement, won the fight, and was then murdered for winning...
...they may be. It is not probable therefore that Max Schmeling, if he becomes heavyweight champion, will be expected to defend his title in the back rooms of speakeasies, like John L. Sullivan, or on a barge, like James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett. The other champions,* of whom Tex Rickard made a list before he died, are as well off as ever. But perhaps million-dollar gates are now definitely in the past; perhaps to produce them it was necessary to have the assistance of the man with the cigar, the cane and the brown felt hat who lay last...