"it had to be renovated to change the entrance from one small door to two large doors in order to admit patrons" The Fire Department's Hall...
I stand corrected. Yes, it was $2 for the general admission tickets, which raises the number of patrons who would have to be on hand, probably...
Off the article, though, this reporter certainly doesn't seem to be in the promoter's pocket. The gist of the article is that the fire department...
I was curious about how that $3 general admission ticket stacks up for people of that era versus modern ticket prices. Average income for an...
I think it fair to ask why you think the reporter would simply make up a number for the gate receipts and lie about it when all this could be so...
I have seen the figures of $5 for ringside tickets and $3 for general admission. The ticket prices seem to have been so high as this was an event...
The $5000 does seem high, but it comes from a primary source. A ringside reporter at the fight. On the other hand, $16 or $43 seem rather low...
Just an aside here. The population of Ely, Nevada in 1920 was 2090. I actually passed through Ely many years ago during my footloose youth. It...
The venue was the Murray Fire Hall (or Fireman's Hall) How large could that have been? The population of Murray in 1920 was, according to the...
A reasonable point. The $5000 figure comes from the ringside report of the Deseret Evening News "The gate receipts amounted to approximately...
No problem, as long as the FBI doesn't.
"the biggest cash prize when a fighter takes a dive, is knowing the round" If folks are betting rounds. This fight was a local Salt Lake City...
This quote at least is congruent with the ringside reports, unlike most of the others. It does have the ring of truth.
I looked up the census report for 1910 on the average income for a working American, and it was $750 $500 was a solid amount of money in those...
What is missing for me is any reason to fix Dempsey losing. He was clearly the hot young gate attraction. Flynn the fading old-timer. The fix...
