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[aster Gambler From Texas, Gold Field igure, Rickard Was Top Fight Promoter It may be too soon to label box- ng the sick man of sport, but the batient is suffering more and more quent chills in the region of the box office. His doctors shake their heads sadly when they count the ngside customers, and prescribe maller and smaller doses of tele- sion. At the recent National Boxing as- oclation meeting her, Commis- joner Abe Greene .recommended ration of one T.V. show a week. Emall clubs are dying, young box- rs are not coming along right and trophy is setting in, he said. Such defensive cringing would have been most unseemly in the anly art a generation ago, when master gambler was promoting he biggest matches. More than once Tex Rickard fac- bd disaffection and despair, Each me he made up in ballyhoo and bluster what his attractions lacked hit by a parcel of wires and va- cuum tubes. He would surely have found a way to turn the trouble to his own advantage. That was what he did the sum- mer of 1921, when he turned what might have been a million dollar flop into the first million dollar box office attraction. He had put up a $500,000. purse for a heavyweight championship bout between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. He had built a $150,000 arena in Jersy City, N. J., for the figt He had piled up a long list lesser expenses. KEPT PRESS OUT On paper it looked like a story- book battle, writes Harry Pease in The Milwaukee Journal. Dempsey, the slugger, was nearing the hieght of his career. Carpentier was a boxer who could punch; his record included 48 knockouts in Europe. punch. It is hard to imagine him throwing in the towel after being Dempsey bore the label of slacker for having worked in a shipyard during World War 2; Carpentier was a French aviator war hero. Dempsey was a mining camp plug ugly, Carpentier a handsome continental gentleman. Even "min- isters and nice old ladies ached to see the gallant Frenchman knock the Manassa Mauler right out from under his hat. Carpentier's first drill in this country was a private affair--for which Rickard, who attended, was thankful. The Frenchman was the picture of grace in the ring, but even his sparring partners had no trouble crowding in close. That was where Dempsey fought best. It was obvious that Carpentier was If word got around that the ouf- come was a cinch, the cash eus- tomers for the fight could-be ac- commodated in a hall bedroom. Said Rickard: "The newspaper boys ain't going' to see this." Strong-arm men were hired fo keep the press and the public away. Competitive Prices, Pl Special Values & Reminders for Thurs., Fri. and Sat. 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His promoter instinct be-|moronto, boys and girls will judge | ard operated--get an idea and then (8an fo stir. 'livestock, girls compete in domes back it to the hilt with money Bo a P . lond time this year. Local experts and icicle nerve. Tex has been tic science contests and both visit believ J iy : called the greatest promoter of all industries. Last year 69 boys and |Pelieve last winter's floods, which time. He came up the hard way. 43 girls represented the nation's swept this Essex area, had some- 4,400 clubs. thing to do with the double crop. Insist on Seeing GE ULTRAVISION In TV the picture's the thing See the BEST...COMPARE THE REST Insist on seeing G-E Ultra-Vision operated side by side with any other set at your dealer's. Ordinary TV just can't match the blacker blacks, whiter whites you'll enjoy with Ultra-Vision's picture. An extraordinary Aluminized Pi Tube--engineered and intro- duced by G.E.--was created expressly for G-E Ultra-Vision. 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