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Show JACK DEMPSEY AWAITSEND OF ' CONTRACT Refuses to Fight Until Kearns Agreement Ends on i Sept. 1926 LOS ANGELES, Aug. IS. (IT) Jack Dempsey threatened to play an ace-in-the-hole today in his cross-continental poker game with Jack Kearns, his ex-partner. The chnmpion served notice on his manager and the New York boxing box-ing commission that he will hang up his gloves until the Kearns-Dempsey contract expires in September 1920. if Kearns matches hhn today with Harry Wills. Dempsey reiterated he was doing his own match making and that Kearns would not get his 35 per cent cut on the Harry Wills match next July unless ho maintained a "hands off policy. "Anything Kearns does before the New York boxing commission today regarding my proposed fight with Harry Wills, will lie without my authority and not binding," the title-holder said. "If he posts a forfeit for that match and Mullins covers it, then Mullins will lose the bout and I will quit fighting until my present contract con-tract with Kearns expires." |
