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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 98, 6 February 1936, Page 3

Rush For Seats

And now about the third meeting of Petersen and Harvey. It is a fact—l have it on the authority of the promoters—that within a week after the fight was fixed something like £7OOO had been received for tickets which had yet to be printed. I am told, again by the promoters, that before the fight took place there was not a single seat for sale. It is estimated that the receipts amounted to something in the neighbourhood of £15,000. Said Mr Arthur Elvin, with whom I talked at the beginning of the week: “If it had been possible to have the fight out-of-doors tho gate would have been £50,000 at least. The demand for places was staggering. I could never have believed it.” All of which goes to prove, if proof is necessary, that there is no limit to the public for fight that asks for the making. But, like Wembley, 1 never dreamed that there were so many folk prepared to pay almost anything to see Harvey and Petersen, or indeed any two native boxers. I thought the promoters were taking a tremendous risk when they committed themselves to an expenditure of around about £IO,OOO.