Legal Tangles Unlikely to Halt Fight: Dempsey Spurns Advice While in Ring
RICKARD FEELS SURE IT
i WILL BE HELD THURSDAY
Record Crowd and Receipts Certain, as Gate Will
Go Close to $2,000,000 —Carpenters Working
Night and Day on Temporary Seats.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, September, 20.—Notwithstanding a maze of litiga
tion enmeshing the Dempsey-Tunney battle, fight fans apparently
have little doubt the bout will be held next Thursday night as
scheduled.
Money for seat reservations continues to pour into the hcad-
Siarters to Tex Rickard, promoter of the fight, in such a steady stream
«t the staff of clerks is all but swamped.
The sale today "had nearly reached the $1,700,000 mark, with every
mail bringing additional requests for tickets.. Rickard said he expected
the sale to go over $1,900,000. which would exceed previous records for
fight collections by more than $250,000.
The promoter expressed confidence
that a $1,000,000 bond he has arranged
to nover all legal proceedings which
might tend to interfere with the bout
would he approved by the courts. He
said the bond would serve to protect
all parties in interest until the vari
ous suits could be determined on their
merits. “It would also protect ticket
holders,” he said, “by assuring the
holding of the bout as scheduled.”
127,000 Seats Available.
“Jealous and envious people are
trying to break up this fight," he add
ed. “They are not going to do it. I
have 127,000 seats available, which
will make It. the largest attended ath
letic event in the history of the world.
