BIG
IG championship fights hold in small halls seating between 2000 and 5000 people and yet bringing in “gate” receipts amounting to 1,000,000 dollars (about $200,000) are visualised by Pro moter Mike Jacobs, of New York. He was commenting on the televising fights in England, which he describ- ed as "a great stunt."
of
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1989.
SPORT PARADE
"Suppose we charged a
theatre J. C. Parke, the Rugby international £200 to receive the television broad- footballer, won both singles, defeating cast like they, did in England, and sup- N. E. Brookes by developing special
or five thousand theatres tactics, and R. Heath.. pose four took it. Figure it out, for yourself."
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Jaged 81, of Cowling, near Keighley. The former, who was in business for 80 years at Blackpool, acted as a pacemak er in his younger days, for many fam ous runners.
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The proposed face is the outcome of Mr. Earnshaw's challenge to any man his own age to a 100 yards race, wrestling match, a billiards game, or a jump over a five-barred gate pro- viding it is laid flat on the ground,
match between H. E. O. Jordan THE Fullerton, of the Hawkes Bay Lawn Tennis Club, for the final of the men's championship singles, for ma close to constituting a record for ma- athon tennis.
"Don't laugh", he said. “That's what comes may happen when television into its own here. Tickets for the about fights in small halls will be £200 each, Experience shows that'
JUST to show that they are still hale there are enough folks who want to be.
and hearty in their 80's two ve CHA seen at the ringside to grab up tic-
HARLES P. DIXON, the English|
Davis Cup lawn tennis player, and a teran Yorkshire athletes are planning kets at any price.
The game occupied five and a quar "That will make a million dollars or Wimbledon don, died recently aged 66: a 100 yards race which may take place
get He captained the British Isles Davis Cup on a local football ground in the near ter hours, commencing at 10.85 a.m.,
future:
.and not concluding until 8.50 p.m. Ful- more right there. Then we can
Charles lerton. was the ultimate victor, the set together with the broadcasting com- team, and figured in the Challenge pany and arrange some kind of plan round in Melbourne against Austra- like that in England-charge each lasia in 1912, when the Cup was taken Earnshaw, aged 83, of Hartshead scores being: 46, 12-10, 84, 5—7,
to England. It was the year in which Moor, and Mr. Christopher Wilcock, and 8-6. theatre for television privileges.
The old-timers arc Mr.
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