WILLARD-DEMPSEY FIGHT.
NEW YORK, Feb. B.— Tes .Rickard announces that he expects to spend more than £40,000 on preparations for the Willard-Dempsey world's championship fight. Hs will build an open-air arena M-ith a seating capacity of 55,000. The fighters are expected to sign articles in a few days. If the opposition to the fight in the United Sates is insurmountable it will be held abroad.
A London correspondent writing of the recent army boxing carnival; atates : Sergeant Des. Lawless, welter-Weight, was also beaten by an Australian, Pte. Tiorney, who is not yet 21 years of age, a-nd a is said to have known nothing of boxing till he went into the army. Tierney pot a bad cut over the eye early in the first round from Lawless'^ dangerous right, but won a good bout Lawless' expert : knowledge stood him in good stead, but Tierney had a fine natural right puncht
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14839, 17 February 1919, Page 5
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