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Show OFFER DEMPSEY FAT CONTRACTS FOR EXHIBITIONS CHICAGO. July 13. Jack Dempsey left for Los Angeles tonight after spending a day in Chicago, and announcing an-nouncing that this city would be made his headquarters after the western trip. Ills manager, Jack Keams, occupied oc-cupied virtually all day talking with promoters and agents of theatrical and circus concerns, eager to have Iiemp-sey Iiemp-sey sign contracts xfor exhibitions. As to meeting Georges Carpenticr, the French champion, or Joe Beckett of England. Dempsey said: "I am the champion and I am an American. If any of those foreigners want a crack at the title they will have to come to America." After a rest In Los Angeles and other parts of the west, including a visit to his mother at Salt Lake City, Dempsey said he would return here. |