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Show BIG BOUT MAY GO TO FRANCE; JACK JOHNSON JOINS SQUEALERS' CLUB Paris Will Soon Make Offer for Willard-Dempsey Battle; Negro Declares Havana Fight Was Prearranged Affair, With Jess Certain j of Winning; Charge Is Widely . i Denied in America. P, APJS, March 13. Sporting circles here aro keenly aroused over reports re-ports that the Jack Dempsey-Willard Dempsey-Willard fi&ht may be staged in Paris. Promoters here have watched with o''eat Interest the difficulties difficul-ties encountered by Tex Rickard In America in getting a place for the bout. Offers will be made to Rickard soon, if they have not already reached him. The promoters here argue that Paris, with Its big floating American and British Brit-ish population, at present would be a better bet-ter place than either Juarez or Havana, if the bout goes outside America. Higher High-er prices could be obtained for seats than before the war. It is figured that seats that sold for ?50 for the Johnson-Moran Johnson-Moran Lout would bring 5100 now. A high army official informed the Associated As-sociated Press today , that the Dempsey-Wlllard Dempsey-Wlllard fight would not be held in the United States, adding: "There ie one man who can stop the fight in An-.orj.ca." The officer refused to divulge the name of the man. but said that Willard was not very popular in the army, owing to his attitude during the war and his refusal re-fusal to give his services to the Red Cross and tho various soldier benefits. Boxing is flourishing in Paris, and the Knights of Columbus and the T. M. C. A. are holding weekly fhows in which American Amer-ican boxers meet British and French. The superiority of the Americans, which (Continue! on Page Fifteen.) BIG FIGHT MAY BE STAGED 11 MCE (Continued from Preceding Page.) j mipht bo expected, if not over tho En- 1 ulish and tho colonials, at least over the j I-'i'iMK-h, to whom boxing is a compara- i lively new sport, Is not in evidence. j Tho American boxers are drawn from tho army for the most part and generally gener-ally are overweight and lack training and underestimate their opponents. The result has boon that the American showing show-ing has caused some criticism. The Kreneh boxt-rs an a rule train faithfully, keep in pood condition and givo a good account of th'ciiMelves. At a boxing show Tuesday niht a captain cap-tain of tho ;U'Jtn American infantry expressed ex-pressed fear that the French opponents fhoscn for his two boys would not bo able to stand up and provide a pood fight. Tlia fiars were groundless. .Michaud of Purls, with a stiff Ick caused by three machine-pun machine-pun bullets, pave Harold Fitzpatrlck of Mead ville, Pa., aa rood as ho received. Tricker, the other Frenchman, earned a .decision by a larpe marpin over Charles Morpan of Pittsluirp. Both Americana were fat and short winded. "Tho Americans should train on red wine," was the comment of Al Badoud, a French welterweight, well known in the United States. |