RUSH FOR SEATS
BURNS-PATRICK BOUT NIGHT VIGIL IN SYDNEY RACKETEERS ACTIVE SYDNEY, Jan. 29. Twenty-four hours before the boosting opened for seats for the BurnsPatrick fight which is to take place next Saturday, a queue for tickets began to form. The doors were opened at 8.45 a.m. to-day, but a few were present yesterday morning. At 1 a.m. there was a queue of men and women in Martin Place and Pitt street extending 150 yards. At 10.30 p.m. the police inspected the queue and stopped all card playing and ordered bedrolls to be placed close against the buildings. Earlier, one of Sydney’s most notorious rackets stepped in when smartly-dressed young women left a taxi and offered to sell tickets at £2O each. There were no takers. One man in the queue told a reporter: “I don’t want you to get me wrong. I am not here for my health. I am not going to see the fight. I am here to get a few easy quid. The four tickets I get will go off like hot scones before the boys enter the ring.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 6
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183RUSH FOR SEATS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 6
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