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Show 1 . - i .1. - Jack Would Like Bout With Georges Carpentierl ilueiins; witli a fno. IJlfncss irks him; almost rn.Hdlons hi:n. ''I will to into tlii. t hr:i! rioal tliins for a whil' Imi t nnlv a liltlp whilr," he aij. ''I nnt lo l"i'l:t an. I 1 fnn't Iiilht on a rttftt', oun If I vo Jack K-;irns tu kirh nny old m;iv!i lhat looks like a i';NM f-.r m and I'll jZoT buy just rs ijiu-!v as on-.l.li in olearintf away the iihtt'rs who aro left in n:v JiviMon. "Thry t 1 1 me this Oeors "urp',ii-tier "urp',ii-tier is kTuod. LiUnl lo ht-ar it. I w.mt to f iijlit him the quir kT tlie bfifr. And I "11 fvht hitn anywhere. If it s true that he itf raid of water nnd won't cross the ot-can, 111 do a'l tli-1 cro5sirik;. Ail tli-v'e tT' t to dc in Kra n e c or K r. j 1 a n A j s to talk c n o 1 1 ! i money it n 1 I will t a k o on a n v 1 o i y they name. Kij:ht in is my bu sin .! not nrtini: and I hoj e that 1 uiil ho krnt buv. Jack kearns ripresed his dinr-- LointtTnt Ht tli iifws tVit Hn'ihni: cvinsky had shaded ii.llv Mim1. " V sort ot hoj ed thnt Billy wouhl make a good showinf thru a bout I between hini and l'mpjpy could be I utarfcd in the fall. P. ;t nuw it look? ! like nothing doini; on Minke. rromntT-j I won't back a match that isn't hkeiy ; , to draw. "In the meantime -lack stands ready to fight anybody, but there nre ib-t many logical nnpnnents bt ' . IIj i cleaned up most of the bik! fallows and, i ho put the skids under Villnrit von know. Wo have had a tentative oift-r for a match with Harry (ir-'b. I don't think ijrfb viil havo a cliance with Jack, but if any promoter wants to gamble on sut-h a proposition he can have the fiprht.'' "What nre your immediate plans?'' Dempsey was a?krd. "Oh, I'll just loaf around for a day or two until we clo;o some thentrieal deal. Then I pues I'll hike west nnd visit my folks in Salt Lake City for a few days. ' ' By th way. I 'in orry I had to cut up "Willnrd tho way I did. I dnn't like to batter a man that way but 1 had to do it to win. He certainly was game. People that arc calling him a quitter don't know what they're talking talk-ing about. If ho was a quitter do you suppose he would have got up so often in that first round, or would he have come out for tho seeond round, or tho third? "The towel wasn't thrown into the ring until he had collapsed and it was humn nly impossible for hi m to come up for another round. Vilhi rd took the hardest beating of any man I have ever met. He's gamo nil the way through and dont let thorn tell you different. ' ' j By FBANK O. MZNKE. : Staff Correspondent I'niversal Service. TOLEDO, O., July 5 Tho battle is over. The crowd has gone. Toledo To-ledo is slipping back quickly to the normal days that preefded the staging of the most sensational fis-'tic fis-'tic battle of niedorn times. But the g:ad:ators, whos activities for nearly ix months kept the sporting sport-ing nation agog, still remain, one by j design, the other by nees?ity. ' A day u r two n -. o r e and they, too. ! will have fsd-'d from Toledo's view j arid then th?re will be nothing here but j an immense s : a d i i m :ui d la 1 1 e n ed I poeke'books to remind this town of j the glory that was iM in The staging j of a fistic drama unlike any of mod-I mod-I cm tin.. Jack Dempsey. ruler of all he s'ir-v s'ir-v ey 3 in the world of swat, spnt the day rending congratulatory telegram and a score or more that wer" of business nature. They carried to Dempsey the message that the vaude- ville staire calls to him that the movies want to register him so that nil the world can gaze upon his filmed likeness. Has Fat Offers! "Every one of those offers is a lulu,'' comments Jack Kearns. "We are not pure whif h one we will grab. But wc will do tho grabbing in a hurry now. as we want to get away from here. ' ' While Dempspy bowed to the plaudits plaud-its of the multitude and waved back their frenzied greetings to a new idol, there lav out in a cottaee far removed re-moved from the scene of Friday's con-flift con-flift a broken, battered and smashed giant Jess WiHard, ex-heavyweight champion of th world. By his side was a faithful wife, j swa'thine' the wounds that Dempsey 'si j mighty fists had wrought; trying with: i tender care to restore to something akin to normal a face pounded olniost beyond recognition. And even while she administered to her husband, Mrs. WUInrd said: ! "I am glad that it is all over. I1 should liked to have seen Jess win ; any woman wants her husband to tri- , umph. But he didn't and tbere is no remorse just gladness for me. For this perhaps means the end' of the fighting career of my husband. I never have liked it and never can. And now he is through with it for all time." Dempsey Will Fight. Even as tho announcement comes that Jess Willnrd probably has fought his last ring battle, there coms a battle, bat-tle, erv from the throat of Dempsey. For this "X'tah mauler'' is the true f i glit in g man a human who finds no creator iov than that which comes iu |