Word: tex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pugilist now of 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...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained ''enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a ten penny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store for 98?.-TIME...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained "enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store...
...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...
...Tex 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...