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...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
...like the notables in the boxes, were celebrating the formal opening of Madison Square Garden. There have been preliminary events in the new Garden-a six-day bicycle race, some amateur bouts, a championship fight-but the hockey was the fashionable start of Promoter Tex Rickard's entertainment centre. Therefore the notables in the boxes, like the men on the ice, had been led to display an interest in professional hockey, in "Les Canadiens," in the Prince of Wales Cup, which will go to the team which wins the league championship. John Ringling, Rosamond Pinchot, Frank Crowninshield, Mayor Hylan...
...Rickard's new skating plant, the Madison Square Garden Arena in New York, will be employed for practice, and the Blue will hold most of its important contests there. When the New York rink is not available for Yale's use, advantage will be taken of the offer of the Princeton Athletic Association to permit them the use of the Hobey Baker Memorial Arena at Princeton...
Died. Mrs. Edith May Rickard, 41, wife of George L. ("Tex") Rickard, famed boxing promoter, of pneumonia, in Manhattan...
Promoter Tex Rickard. "I think Dempsey must be crazy.... I have what I consider an ironclad agreement with him to box Wills for me. I think I can hold him to this contract for an amount equivalent