Sport: Shelby Prepares

Artfully concealed in the body of a story from Shelby, Mont., is the vital intelligence that "booze" and "real good beer" are available. Six dance halls thrive in this town of 400 that will play host on July 4 to the Dempsey Gibbons fight for the heavyweight championship. Lesser details of the despatch revealed that eight miles of railroad track will be installed for Pullman parking space, the two schools will be turned into temporary lodging houses, canvas and wooden shacks are rising like weeds, and other arrangements are feverishly under way, at...

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