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...Houston, editor of Our World; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins; Governor A. C. Ritchie of Maryland; T. I. Parkinson, Acting Dean of Columbia; Dr. Alexander Smith, representing Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton; John G. Agar, George Barr Baker and Edgar Rickard of the Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation; Van Lear Black; Robert S. Brookings, President of the Institute of Economics; Judge J. Harry Covington, John Daniels and H. J. Fisher of the English Speaking Union; Charles S. Guggenheimer; John W. Hallowell, former Overseer of Harvard; Frank R. Kent...
...Rickard, promoter, conferred an hour with Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, after which he said: "Wills agrees to fight for me any place in the United States on dates to be selected by myself, against heavyweights I will select, leading up to a meeting with Dempsey if Wills qualifies...
...sporting fraternity was given to understand that Wills would box Firpo (Pampas Bull) in Jersey City on June 28 or July 5. If Firpo holds to his announced intention of retiring, Rickard is likely to select either Romero-Rojas the Chilean, or Spalla the Italian, or both, to take the Negro's blows. Unless the Negro is knocked out, Rickard will let him have at Dempsey in September...
...Bridgeport, Conn., represented Experience. Paul Berlenbach, German-American, who had recently risen to sensational fame by the knock-out of his last ten opponents, typified Strength. Berlenbach's friends offered cash at 5 to 2 on the meeting of the two in Madison Square Garden. Tex Rickard in his counting house counted his receipts. The fame of Berlenbach had sold every reserved seat two days before the fight. On the newsstands, Berlenbach's picture covered the front page of The Muscle Builder, a "McFadden publication." Inside the cover Berlenbach told How I Got My Punch. Crowds reached beyond...
Romero-Rojas was faultlessly attired in evening dress. From Manhattan it has been reported that Promoter Rickard will aid in pushing this Chilean to the top next Summer. Romero "is to receive $7,500 for his first bout [in the U. S.] with substantial increases if he makes good." When-and if-he fights Champion Dempsey, $100,000 will...