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Joe Louis-Savold Ticket Sales Light Fans Blast IBCV Closed Video Plan Both Men Finished Training Yesterday; Daly Says Lee Will Knock Out Ex-Champ By BARNEY NAGLER - Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y., June 11.— The open-door policy is the International Boxing Clubs only hope for profit under the stars at the Polo Grounds tomorrow night. "Were looking forward to a surge for tickets at the park," said Harry Markson, the IBCs bos in charge of keeping things straight. "Its misleading these times to talk about advances when there is no television." Marksons expression doubtless hid the total advance for the 15-round struggle between old Lee Savold and older Joe Louis. Some put the sum in the wicket at 0,000, others at 5,000. Whatever it is, it is small enough. "We had 0,000 going in for LaMottas non-television bout with Mitri in the Garden last July," Markson pointed out, "and you know what that fight did . 00,000. Okay. 9,000. It was the same with Pep-Saddler outdoors. We did 12,000 at the box-office the night of the fight." While Markson properly was concerning himself with the gate, Louis, at Pompton Lakes, N. J., and Savold, at South Falls-burg, N. Y., completed training today. They each sparred a couple of rounds and reported themselves fit for the fighting. The alibis, if -any, will come after the flailing. Stays at Pompton -Until Tomorrow Louis, as is his custom, will stay at Pompton until Wednesday morning. Hell drive into town in time for the 12:30 vteigh-in at the State Athletic Commission dungeon in Worth Street. Savold is coming in this morning and will rest at the Edison Hotel. Bill Daly, manager of 36-year-old Savold, was at the IBC office today, buying tickets for his Jersey constituents, and he persisted in his forecast of a knockout victory for the blond veteran from Engle-. wood, N. H. There was one correction in his prediction. "Ill not go seven or eight," he said. "Ill go five at the most. Lee cant miss knocking this guy out. He just cant miss." The IBC in New York received at least 150 letters and telegrams of protest against the theatre-only television policy for the fight. One letter, from a lady-r-okay, a woman — accused Jimm Norris, JBC president of being money-hungry, and hoped he choked on the profit made from the fight. It can be reported here and now that Norris will not have to open his mouth very wide to ingest the lucre, therell be precious little left when is over. All over town there were beefs over the failure of the JBC to put Louis-Savold on open-circuit television. One fight reporter was told by a hackie: "They left us television guys in the lurch with this one. Hows that for mistreating good people?" The closed-circuit television, which will go into .theaters in Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Baltimore and Albany, will not bring more than ,000 to the IBC, payment will be on the basis of 40 cents for each seat in the theaters, occupied or otherwise. At least six theaters will take the show, including two in Chicago. Negotiations already are underway for the same set-up on the Murphy-LaMotta bout at the Yankee Stadium, June 27. For that one, however, there will be more than five cities involved, possibly as many as the maximum 13 equipped for such close-circuit reception.
