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Show Jack has a icslk-ss disposition, a:-. he is itching to get out on his own ; He is far more likely to join force.- ! with Floyd Fitzsimmon.s and oilier; in a promotion scneme in Miehigai and lose a lot of mon;V---than In is to stick to real cash with his nos, to the grind.-.! one. I GARDEN WANTS JACK DEMPSEY Carey Has Attractive I'roposi-t I'roposi-t ion in "Real .Money" ; Other Oilers Made. j By FiiA.N K GKTTV NEW YORK, Mar. 12.- M'.i: ' Madison Square Garden makes its j bid for Jack Dempsey today. ; It will be a bid to which the former for-mer heavyweight champion may turn a deaf ear. since he has been offereri far larger sums for the immediate futuic than the corporation corpor-ation of which the late Tex Hickar l was active head can afford to pay. Wili Fi'esent Proposition Nevertheless, W. F. Carey, at present vice president of the Garden Gar-den and slated to succeed Rickard as its head, will ride downtown with De'nipsey shortly before noon and will lay before Jack a proposition proposi-tion to which the man from Manas-sa Manas-sa would be well advised to listen When the Madison Square Garden Gar-den corporation talks money, it is referr ing to United States currency, whe'reas some of the other offers made to Dempsey involve some-tiling some-tiling decidedly more nebulous. Jack can have his choice of a number of things, but if he decides to stick with the Garden crowd he' is making one of the wise decisions of his carer, And since he has niada 1 so many bad ones, the former title-holder title-holder might as well start in attempting at-tempting to balance' the account. The fact that Carey and his associates asso-ciates at the head of Madison Square Garden want Jack Dempsey with them is one of the finest compliments com-pliments yet paid the man who has won the' acclaim of millions without always winning the approval of his associates. "I want to say here and now that Jack Dempsey is one of the squar-est squar-est and ablest men in this line of work that I ever have met." W. F. Carey told the' United Press today before setting out on the trip downtown down-town with the ex-champion. "Jack worked night and day for the success of the fight at Miami Beach last month, and if we can get him, we' want him with us." Humbert J. Fugazy, the Italian-American Italian-American promoter who aspired to rival Tex Rickard during the lat-ter's lat-ter's last years, also had an appointment ap-pointment today with Dempsey. It is a certainty that Fugazy will talk in far bigger figures than Carey will use' on behalf of the Garden. Gar-den. But with all due respect to Fugazy, who is dependable and charming his own right, the two propositions hardly bear comparison. compari-son. What the Madison Square Garden Gar-den corporation offers Dei'ipsey is real mont'y; if Jack ties up with some of the others, he may have to whistle for his share of the spoils. This is not to suggest that Fugazy is not sincere or honorable, for he is both ; but Humbert is just too darned optimistic. Dempse'y porbably will accept neither Carey's offer nor Fugazy's. |