There is Still Big Money in Boxing
\\7HO said that boxing was in a * ~ slump (asks the New York Police Gazette). It may be news to the calamity howlers, but such is decidely not the case. A financial report issued recently by the Madison Square Garden Corporation showed that net receipts of £253,000 were culled from boxing shows staged in the Garden from October 5, 1928, to May 23, 1929. Not only was this astounding net amount taken in over the seven-month period, but it accrued from bills that did not contain one championship bout! In the period covered there were a number of interesting encounters known as “naturals,” adroitly arranged by the Garden’s clever matchmaker. Tom McArdle: but not a single titular fracas, not a single “Battle of the Century.” And the prices, in the main, were exceedingly moderate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 12
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140There is Still Big Money in Boxing Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 12
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