RICKARD’S ESTATE
REDUCED BY LOSSES ON WALL STREET TREMENDOUS CROWDS AT FUNERAL (United Service.) (Rec. January 10, 9.45 p.m.) Vancouver, January 9. Tex Rickard’s estate nets only £lOO,OOO. He made millions, but lost heavily on Wall Street last year. He was himself a sucker for every crank who came wishing for help towards the manufacture of new inventions, especially household appliances. He owned dozens of worthless patents. Tremendous crowds attended his funeral. The bier was placed exactly in the centre of Madison Square where the ring was formerly pitched. The largest floral tribute, costing thousands, was a huge blanket of carnations from Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey. An Episcopal clergyman pronounced the benediction over the remains of a man who scorned religious rites when alive, and once said he hoped rather for a referee’s “eight, nine, ten, out,” when he died with his boots on.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 91, 11 January 1929, Page 11
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