Rickard, being of sound and disposing mind … do hereby make. . . .” Thus, with a familiar and ironic boast began the last will and testament of Tex Rickard, famed fight promoter, dead of an ...

At lunchtime in St. Louis one day last week, Gene Tunney signed his name to a piece of paper giving Tex Rickard the privilege of arranging a fight for him, in Manhattan, next September ...