Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 26, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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THE BORGER DAILY HERALD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26;,)929
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; FOLLOWED BY CAREY,
FOR SHARKEY-STRIBLJNG FIGHT
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XiiiV Service .Sports Editor
MIAMI BEACH, Feb. 20,—This
is another spot off the beaten path
of the battle-scarred prize fight re-
porter. But it is not another Shel-
by, Mont. Nor is it the Miami of a
number of years ato lUit tried to
get two high priced young men in-
to the ring with moneyless promis-
es, t
There was a fight, in Shelby be-
tween Jack Dempsey and Tommy
Gibbons but it was the financial bust
of history. Three banks blew up
under the strain of paving Demppsy
flOOjOOO lesK than he had been
guaranteed anil if poor Tom Gibbons
had demanded a "single copper he
would have been forced to accept
an I. O. U. signed with a borrowed
pencil.
Miami's venture, attempted later,
territory.
Some Wall Street vaults will have
to take the rap. It is not the pur-
pose of this piece to say how many
thousands of dollars are to be made
or lost on IUckard's last ve nture
or how many vacant seats there will
be when time conies for the fight
that has been advertised to produce
the next heavyweight champion of
tlio world.
It is our guess that there will be
many persons present and the guess
is based upon the experience gained
in covering the Shelby and the Mi-
ami comedy.
Memory M ltickard Around I'iglit
The men who buy tickets for
fight know that there\is going
to b-- a fight. Prospective purchas-
ers had their doubts from lhe first
about the Shelby fight and the word
went around that Tunney would
take advantage of any excuse to
duck his Miami engagement, and
this
gone into our pocket," Carey said.
Promoters Hone-i in AM Dealings
Carey, by his frankness, wou the
confidence of many customers who
i must come from miles around if
all the seats are taken for this fight,
lie even talked down .Jack Deinp-
sey when that optimistic young man
,was gloating about a half million
| dollar gate.
"Not that much, Jack, hold down
your enthusiasm," Carey admonish-
ed him.
The big difference between the
men in charge of the fight here and
those who tried to put over the
Shelby thing is not. one of experi-
ence particularly it ii one of hon-
esty with the men covering the
i
I story.
was not quite a bust. It may i>e |
ages before Shelby's record ever will' « • of the ,u,,kar<l name, was
bo tied. Miami tried to stage a fight 1101 applied to
between Willie Stribliug and Gene
Tunney without money and without
an experienced promoter in the ring
as there was at Shelby.
Tunney may not have been in fear
of the same young man who is n |cost
principal in the coming contest but
he certainly was looking for an out
and did take quick advantage of the
chance offered.
liig Money Men Assure Financial
Success
Arriving here from the north with
the predictions of northerners that
"there won't be a tight down there"
it is easy to have any misgivings
dispelled. The men in charge tell
you that Jack Sharkey and Willie
Stribling will he in there to do
something on the night of Feb. 27.
An dtliey are big money men men
of Tex Rickard's group of GOO mil-
lionaires. and, if the customers do
not make it a financial success,
there will be no explosion of the
not applied to either.
The memory of Rickard hangs
around this Miami Beach venture.
The men behind it undertook whet
they thought to bo a hopeless task
as a memorial to him that might
them two hundred thousand
dollars. They followed the Rickard
i policy of being square and telling
I the truth. Rickard showed those who
j doubted in Goldfield by pouring
| $30,000 in gold pieces in an tin-
; guarded window of his saloon and
William Fli Carey, standing here in
| Rickard's shoes, showed his hand
I and in the same manner when the
experienced reporters came to him
| with their doubts.
"Come with me," Carey said, and
he led them to the bank and showed
j them the money on hand and lie
has been showing daily receipts
from the box office that indicate
no big money will be lost on the
I fight, if any.
I "All the money we have shown
banks and trust companies in this j yo't. is fifeht money. We have itevi
The men in charge in Shelby lied
'and lied. There are more gentle
! words that might lie used but what
!they did was lie. They told 'he coun-
jtry that they had the money and
i they did ill' have it, they said they
I would get it when the pinch came
j nad they didn't have a chance to
jget it. And the experience t'ei-p was
| what caused the veteran reporters
to be so curious about the financial
I phase of this enterprise.
It is out of line to he talking so
jmuch about finances. The men who
! buy tickets for a fight don't care
! whether he promoters lose their
^shirts as long as they see something
I for their money. They know fight-
j era bain and refuse to enter the
jiing when they don't see the money
| in the house, but if the money isn't
i in the house here there will lie
light. No one. however, can guaran-
tee what kind of a fight it will be.
I The promoters cannot give any
| assurances because there were only
a few whose personal appearance
j could guarantee action and one of
[those fellows is out in front pro-
I mpting the fight here.
YOUNG MAN
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! iug it war, highly
gun was opened in f
Coroner David H.
Improbable the
ailing. Although
Al water pro-
nounced it a suicide, the police |
turned the case over to the district |
attorney's; office.
Mrs. Deininger told police that |
after guests had departed early yes-i
terday, her husband burst into tears j
over the affairs of the tire business 1
in which lie was engaged since leav- j
ing .the baking busings.
She said she remonstrated with]
him. whereupon he left the bedroom, .
going out onto the sleeping porch, j
A few minutes; later she said, 8h>; |
heard the- fount! of a shot and ran]
to the sleepiiig porch where she j
found her husband.
J* ' ' —
NEW YORK- There's a dispute
over the pen with which Lincoln
[signed the emancipation proclama-
! t ion. An art gallery has affidavits to
i support the claim that the pen it
| will auction is the genuine one. Four
i year:; ago a pen, supported by docu-
i tnents as the one and only, sold at
j auction in Philadelphia for $1,000.
I Mr.'. Stuart Pritchard of
'(':eek. Mich., lias written
1 New York Times in protest
| tomorrow's sale. She claims she; owns
the one Lincoln used.
AVPATOR SAVES
PASSENGERS m
fta
Brings Giant Plane Safely to j
Earth As Each of Three ,
Motors Ouit
j feet above the city's tallest buildings i
i to a perfect stop three and one-half I
[ miles away his feat was incompara-
1 ble, they asserted.
After two motors had died, the
j passengers looked anxious but Pilot
':'ayior decided the third motor would
I 1: It. didn't.
Slowly the big plane sank to earth.
"Fishtailing," the pilot reduced speed
and brought the plane to a stop after
;kimnnng a railroad embankment,
two fences and
tree. He stopped
a few feel from a house. A propeller
•wan slightly bent and a wing was
dented.
| ploughing through
uprooting a small
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 25 <AP)
Twelve sightseeing airplane pas-1
sengers; were alive today, thankful !
for the skill of Pilot Sam Taylor who I
yesterday brought a great tri-mo- j
tored plane skidding to earth oh a
perfect three-point landing after his
motors; one by one had sputtered and j
(-(ie{; j $10. A. S. Wolf, arraigned with him, j
| wait fined $25.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. For five
false fire alarms here and in Miami.
Johnny Vvelsmuiler, swimmer, is out
SltiHH
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i,
Battle
to the
against
Pilots here call It one
est bits of flying ever
motors never stop at
aviator calculates lias t
of t he great-
seen. Three !
once as an,
hances, they .
There is no Substitute tor Experience"
declared, and when
heavy' ship from a
Taylor
height
t ook
of 2.
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Pistol, Broken at Breech, Io
Found by His Side by Wife
Soon After Hearing Shot
ROCHESTER, N. V . I'Vh. 25 (AI'i
•• A pistol, broken open at tl;<
breech, Injected an element of mys-
;ery today into the d-ath of Fred
C. Deininger. 26-year-nld heir to the
General Baking company millions.
Deinginer wa- found bv his- wife,
th( former Virginia Leniorth. nut
fiieal comedy n on the sleeping
porch of their home wit'h a !m I i - -
wound in his head and the |iis:ol on
the floor beside him. Th oik cat
ridge in the weapon had b n dis
charged
Pistol experts o! the police de-
partment sa-id it would have been
impossible for him to :iuv■ • opened
the gun after shooting himself, add
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Castleberry, H. E. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 26, 1929, newspaper, February 26, 1929; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth209684/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.