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Show Raise Their Bid. NEW YORK. Jan. 19. Tex Rickard k and Samuel McCracken. who made the ' original offer of $15,000 for a ten-round ,f' bout here between Jess Willard and yy . Frank Moran. increased lhat offer lohiv-O' to $13, Mill. Thev have come to an agre-y j n-ent with Moran by which the Pittsburg Pitts-burg man's end of the purse will be j 0ml. instead of S15.0UO. and have wired to Willard and his manager thai the will i ivc the world's champion $:I2.oW, the Sricinal offer having been $M.i00. : .Uoran said today that he had accepted i the terms offered by Rickard and Mi ; t'racken, with Iho understanding that ; the bout should be indoors next March, and until the exoiralion of that month he would not consider ariy other proposition .; to meet Willard. |