George Lewis "Tex" Rickard
"The King of Fight Promoters"
b. January 2, 1870
d. January 6, 1929

     

This pair of vintage photos show promoter great Tex Rickard as he appeared on May 18, 1921... Rickard was preparing for his upcoming heavyweight title bout between champion Jack Dempsey and challenger Georges Carpentier... His masterful promotion of this mismatch would produce boxing's first million-dollar-gate!!

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measures: 5 x7" each
condition: l. closed vertical tear top right of center
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  Physically, Tex Rickard was a most engaging person, a tall man with small twinkling eyes set into a bland, smooth-skinned face. He had the gamblers’ thin-tipped trap mouth, an infectious, boyish smile and an impish expression. His trademarks were a soft, light-colored fedora hat, the snap brim turned down, a straight gold-headed malacca cane and a cigar. Although he dressed like a dandy, he had an aura of the West about him - something of the wide-open spaces, saddles and cayuses, six-guns and saloons, rustlers, sheriffs and dance halls. He looked like the West and talked like it. Gazing in awe at the crowds gathered for one of his fight promotions, he was often heard drawling in hickish wonder, “I never seed anything like it.”  
 


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