BOXING.
RECORD CRUSH. The record for attendance at a boxing programme, established with the Willard-Firpo fight at Boyle’s Thirty Acres. July 12, 1923, was shattered with the Dc-mpsey-Tunney fight, when at least 130,600 people occupied seats, not 'including the staff of 5000 assistants. Attendance figures on the important ring contests of the past follow: Willard-Firpo 100,000 Dempsey-Carpentier 90,000 Dempsey-Firpo 90,000 Milk Fund Show (1923) 63,000 Leonard-Tendler (1922) 60,000 Leonard-Tendler (1923) 58,000 Berlenbach-Stribling 55,000 Kilbane-Burns (Jersey City) .. 47,000 Milk Fund Show (1924) 45,000 Tunney-Carpentier 40,000 Italian Hospital Fund ...... 40,000 Berlenbach-Delaney 40,000 Leonard-Hart (Philadelphia) .. 35,000 Dundee-Criqui 32,000 Wilson-Downey 30,000 Tendler-Barrett (Philadelphia) 29,000 Britton-Leonard 26,000 Kilbane-Criqui 217100 Villa-Wilde 20,000 Jeffries-aohnson 20,000 Dempsey-Willard 20,000 Carpentier-Lewis (England) .. 16,000 Dempsey-Brennan 15,000
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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115BOXING. Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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