UNROMANTIC DEATH
TEX RICKARD BURIED
JACK DEMPSEY’S MUSINGS
(United Service)
NEW YOl-tlv, Sunday.
The ex-champion heavy-weight boxer, Jack Dempsey, helped to lay the remains of Mr. Tex Rickard in a solid bronze casket which cost £3,000. It weighed 2,2001 b, and 10 policemen and eight firemen were required to carry it.
Dempsey’s comment was that Mr. Rickard’s end was strangely unromantic for a man who had dominated the turbulent Alaska in the wildest days of tho Ivlondyke. He recalled the fact that Mr. Rickard had talced tho first claim on the Bonanza Creek with an Indian partner, Skookum Jim. The deceased first startled the sports world by piling 30,000 dollars in gold pieces in the window of a Nevada store as a purse for a prize-light. He amassed another fortune in cattle ranching in Argentina. Tho amazing thing was that Mr. Rickard could shed his sombrero and his faro dealer’s green vizor for the sleek raiment of a New York business man and become the world’s greatest showman. Only twice in his career did he make bad sneculations. He lost £20.000 last summer in matching Jimmv McLarnin and Sam Mandell and £60,000 on the Tunney-Heeney contest.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 556, 8 January 1929, Page 9
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196UNROMANTIC DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 556, 8 January 1929, Page 9
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