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That is how some people thought it would be when it was announced that Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, was to fight Dave Shade, the Californian who had been three years trying to pick just this scrap, before Tex Rickard accommodated him and fixed the place of the bout in the Yankee Stadium in New York City...
Dempsey. Last week, Heavyweight Champion William Harrison Dempsey signed a contract with promoter Tex Rickard to fight two bouts with whomsoever Rickard should select-one bout this year, one next He agreed to post a "good faith" guarantee of $100,000. His first opponent will be Gene Tunney, pretty onetime marine, George Godfrey, Philadelphia Negro, or Jack Renault, lumberjack-in-the-box. Then, if not defeated, he will face patient Harry Wills. "Will you retire if you beat Wills?" asked a reporter. Said Dempsey: "Not me! I'm going to fight until somebody knocks me from under the gilded...
...track, banked steep and high at the corners, a band of hunched-over bicycle riders ground their pedals up and down incessantly, circling lap after lap, mile after mile without leaving the ellipse. It was an international six-day race, for Distance against Time, for Money against Monotony. Tex Rickard, promoter, chewed cigars, watched the customers come and go, talked with his henchmen, went home and slept, came back again to chew, watch, talk...
Prince Leopold of Belgium, Foreign Minister Hymans, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, Burgomaster Max of Brussels, Mr. Edgar Rickard of the U. S, Belgian Relief Commission, other officials and dignitaries, doffed hats and made, speeches as mortar was applied to the cornerstone of new buildings for the free university in Brussels...
...Jersey City, painters and carpenters swarmed about inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying. They were employed by the saucer's lessee, Promoter Rickard. He expects tens of thousands of customers to go and sit in it on Sept. 11 to see 425 pounds, of humanity in violent gyration-Harry Wills and Bull Firpo...