TEX RICKARD DEAD
WORLD'S GREATEST SHOWMAN. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.) VANCOUVER. Jan. G. Dempsey helped to lay Tex Rickard in a. solid bronze casket, costing £3OOO. It weighed 2,209 pounds, and was so heavy that ten policemen and eight firemen were required to carry it. Dempseys comment was that Rickard’s end was strangely imromantic for a man who had dominated turbulent Alaska in the wildest Klondike days. Jack recalled flint Rickard staked his first.claim at Bonanza Creek, with an Indian partner. Skookum Jack. He first startled the sports world by idling thirty thousand dollars in gob. pieces in a Nevada store window, as a purse for a nrizo light. He invested another fortune in cattle ranching in Argentina. “The amazing thing was that lie could shed his live gallon sombrero and green faro dealer’s vizor for the sleek rainment of a New York business man. and become the world’s greatest showman.’’ Only twice in Rickard's career did ho make guesses notably wrong. He lost. £29.009 last summer in mulching Jimmy MeLarnin and Sam. Mandell, and dropped £(>j (0() over (ho Tunney-lleeney battle.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1929, Page 5
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