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...death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside...
Hockey is to Canada what baseball is to the U. S., what bridge is to a bored woman, what boule* is to southern France, what slogans are to cigarets. Two years ago Tex Rickard decided that hockey should also be made necessary to Manhattan. He included an ice manufactury in his vast Madison Square Garden and imported hockey in life-size lots from Canada...
...over the ring . . . all is darkness in the muttering mass of crowd beyond the spotlight. . . . The 'mike' is fixed on the ring floor in front of us. . . . The crowd is thickening in the seats. . . . There's Jim Jeffries . . .Mayor Thompson in a cowboy hat . . . Irvin Cobb . . . John Ringling . . . Tex Rickard in a beige fedora. . . . It's like the Roman Coliseum...
...Referee O'Sullivan counted ten seconds, declared Dempsey the winner. Under the regulations this decision was final. Though he complained loudly after coming to, Sharkey entered no formal appeal from the decision. He bore no tell-tale bruise; did not seek medical examination. Tex Rickard, promoter of the fight, proceeded at once to arrange the second meeting of Winner Dempsey and Champion Tunney, in Chicago in September...
Born. To George L. ("Tex") Rickard, fight promoter, and to Mrs. Maxine Hodges Rickard, onetime Chicago actress; a daughter; in Manhattan...