Oli) ALASKAN
SPINS YARNS
ABOUT NORTH
NEW YORK—Tex Rickard, the
“Little Corporal” of boxing promot
ers, is without doubt the most pic
turesque figure that ever got into the
fight game.
To watch this quiet- voiced fellow
lolling in luxury at the Hotel Bilt
more and handling diplomatically all
kinds of pirates anxious to get in on
the $200,000 scrap, from movie mag
nates to real estate sharks, you would
never guess that he was once a rough
gold digger in Alaska and the Yukon.
He can wear a tuxedo as gracefully
as Reggie Vanderbilt.
Get into conversation with Rickard
and you will at once find out how the
once "humble miner became the big
gest fight promoter in history.
He has the spirit of adventure tem
pered with quiet self-possession.
1 cdfcdn’t get Tex to talk of Wil
lard, Dempsey or the world’s heavy
weight championship, but he was will
ing to yarn about his Yukon days.
“I crossed the Chikoot pass,” said
Rickard. “When I think of that jour
ney now it seems to me that I must
have been a giant.
“I had my ups and downs in that
country. I staked out a claim, sold
it for $17,500 and the next owners
took $350,000 out of it. Then I pros
pected on another bum claim for a
year and finally sold it for $4,000.
“But it was easy come, easy go. I
soon lost the fortune gambling. I went
flat broke.
“Then I opened a gambling joint.
I ran the game fair and square. It
paid. The fellows who had a crooked
wheel next door used to come into
my place and lose all their ill-gotten
winnings at a game that was strictly
on the level. But gambling’s a poor
business. I went flat broke at this,
too. *
“It was a great life out at Circle
City. When I was there there were
a bunch of 300 of the finest guys in
the world. It was a hard life, but it
was a wholesome one. There was so
I-— —
much gold around that nobody ever
hid it. Everybody kept his cabin wide
open. When the owner was away a
neighbor would go in and use the
cooking utensils, often having to re
move the stove pans of gold worth
$5,000 that were being dried out. Gold
was kept in oil and old tomato cans
and in buckets.
“Later I had a shot at ruhnlng a
hotel in Goldfield. I cleaned up thou
sands at this. I have seen as many
as 300 standing up against the bar at
7 in the morning—and now the Whole
country is going dry.
“There was a man named Louie
Meyers who built a hotel in Goldfield
that had gold knobs on all the doors.’’
Rickard’s business sense is shown
by the fact that he intends to take
out accident insurance in Lloyd’s to
the amount of $40,000, which he will
collect if either Willard or Dempsey
is injured, causing a costly postpone-'
ment of the fight.
Rickard insured both Jeffries and
Johnson at the time of the Reno
battle.
GOOD WORK BEING DONE
BY Y. M. C. A. IN SIBERIA
OMSK, Siberia, April 10 (Corres
pondence of the Associated Press).—
E. T. Heald, of Davenport, Iowa, who
is in charge of the western district of
the American Young Men's Christian
Association work in Siberia, has re
turned to Omsk after a visit to the
battle front and reports that the
Y. M. C. A." is doing everything pos
sible to lighten the hardships of the
soldiers. Two American secretaries
are working, he reports, at the fight
ing line. They are H. L. Tinkham, of
Pennsylvania, who is at Ufa, and G.
W. Riley, recently graduated from
Northwestern University at Chicago,
who has a club car further north on
the line. ' Mr. Riley brought the first
Y. M. C. A. supply train out of Vladi
vostok.
Twenty-five American secretaries
are now serving in the western Si
beria zone and have organized twenty
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canteens. A general supply depart
ment is now being organized for the
local purchase of butter, cheese and
general dairy products for which Si
beria is famous, but which the
soldiers have difficulty in obtaining.
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