Things are looking up in the fisticuff business. For years it has been unexciting largely because it was held in the horny hollow of one man's hand, Tex Rickard's. Others sought to enter the field of promotion from time to time but failed because they could not cope with the supreme showmanship of the old master. Then Rickard died (TIME, Jan. 21).
Last week William Francis Carey was elected to the presidency of Madison Square Garden Corp., the position left vacant by Rickard. When he announced, next day, that he had leased for outdoor bouts both the Polo Grounds and the Yankee...
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