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...Promoter. Neither Tex Rickard nor Max Reinhardt is to stage the great spectacle. Lew Raymond, first named Lewis, a gentleman experienced in making matches before the Pioneer Athletic Club of Manhattan, a face as well known on Mulberry Street as J. P. Morgan's is on Wall Street, assumed management of the event for three friends, "each capable of the dizziest finance." So Mr. Raymond, who is credited with a melodious Neapolitan accent, is arranging the details, while 2,000 miles away Shelby, Mont., basks silently in Winter snowfall...
...Rickard (promoter of the Dempsey -Willard, Firpo -Willard, Dempsey-Firpo fights) laughed at the new promoters with indifferent scorn. He said they could not pos-sibly make money if they gave $500,000 to the fighters. He calculated that $600,000 would be the maximum receipts under most favorable circumstances, whereas expenses, including the $500,000 would approach, if not exceed, $1,000,000. Mr. Raymond is figuring on $2,000,000 receipts...
...convention town. But Swope had only begun. He gave a private luncheon at the Biltmore. For guests he had Frank Munsey, owner of three metropolitan papers, Morgan J. O'Brien (former Presiding Justice Appellate Division, N. Y. Supreme Court), A. C. Pearson, George Edgar Smith, "Tex" Rickard (fight promoter), Joseph P. Day (real estate man and auctioneer) and others of equal prominence. Why did these men come at his call? Perhaps the answer is Great Neck, L. I., where Swope has his home. There he holds great croquet parties. There he gathers his disciples?Arthur Krock, F. P. Adams, Heywood...
...glorious party. There was Judge O'Brien with a certified check for $150,000 in his pocket. There was the Judge's son, young Kenneth O'Brien, potentially famed lawyer and Secretary of the National Democratic Club. There was the Acting Mayor of New York City. There was Tex Rickard, A. C. Pearson, George E. Smith. There too was Joseph P. Day, driving auctioneer who, semi-cyclonic, sells lots out-of-doors in January in his shirt sleeves. There, of course, was Swope, voluble, roaring, dominating the scene. Boss Murphy of Tammany was not present?he had gone on ahead...
Spalla had an agreement with Tex Rickard to fight Gene Tunney in New York, Feb. 1. By sailing for South America he showed himself to be a poor business man. Flattened by Firpo, he will be no drawing card...