Sport: Fights

The boxing world was briefly disconcerted by the ukase of the New York Boxing Commission forbidding the Firpo-Willard fight in the Empire State. Willard’s advancing years, about 42 of them, was the published reason. Tex Rickard, who has signed the fighters for the bout, was undismayed. Rickard owns the largest boxing arena in the world,

Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City. He will stage the bout in the Jersey ring on June 30.

Meanwhile word comes that the Shelby, Mont., ring which is under construction for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, July 4, is similar in shape to Rickard’s arena, and will accommodate 40,208. Fifty dollars will be the top price for tickets. If the bout draws capacity the promotors will net a million dollars. Dempsey has started training at Great Falls, Mont., while Gibbons is working at Havre.