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The promoter Tex Rickard was anxious to give the bout at least a hint of respectability.
Jack Johnson was a pioneer who gave hope to black boxers everywhere 2010
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It was quite a thrill for me when Tex Rickard announced that Preacher Roe was coming in to relieve Billy Loes when the Yankees got to him.
Baseball Talk The Daily Growler 2006
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With me on the gunboat was an old Western friend, Tex Rickard, of the Panhandle and Alaska and various places in between.
II. Up the Paraguay 1914
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With me on the gunboat was an old Western friend, Tex Rickard, of the
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Only one of his siblings, Janie Johnson Rhodes, did, and five of her descendants, including Haywood, plan to attend the event that will feature tours of the fight site and Johnson's training camp, lectures, and appearances by family members of Jeffries and promoter Tex Rickard.
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Only one of his siblings, Janie Johnson Rhodes, did, and five of her descendants, including Haywood, plan to attend the event that will feature tours of the fight site and Johnson's training camp, lectures, and appearances by family members of Jeffries and promoter Tex Rickard.
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They quickly convinced promoter Tex Rickard they could host the fight and could quickly build
Brownsville Herald : 2010
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They quickly convinced promoter Tex Rickard they could host the fight and could quickly build
News 2010
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They quickly convinced promoter Tex Rickard they could host the fight and could quickly build
Brownsville Herald : 2010
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Promoter Tex Rickard planned a 30,000-seat temporary arena.
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"Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one of the first great sports impresarios."
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 17
January 24, 2017