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Show DEMPSEY WILL MEET LEVINSKY lM;ih Mauler Sitfns For HutWa Willi Confitu'ror of Tommy Tom-my Louihran. sey is the drawing card, but Levin-sky's Levin-sky's handlers dictated terms as if Levinsky wns the big attraction." Levinsky has been guaranteed $7,n00 with a privilege of 15 per , cent of the gate receipts. Matchmaker Match-maker Nate Lewis predicted today the Dempsey-Levinsky bout would ! si II out the stadium, attracting about 21,000 persons and about $rr,ooo. linking Heavyweight CHICACO. Feb. f d'.pi - - Jack 1 I Dempsey has' signed for his first I "fight" since he failed to defeat Gene Tunney in Soldier Field, Chi- c.'igo, in 1927. Dempsey will meet King Levin-! Levin-! sky. ranked No. 7 among the heavyweights heavy-weights by the Nation Boxing association, as-sociation, in a 4-round bout at the Chicago stadium Feb. 18, and 6-ounce 6-ounce gloves will- be used if Levinsky Levin-sky will agree to them. "This is going to be a fight," said Leonard Sacks, Dempsey 's manager. "It will be an exhibition in name only. Dempsey is going to try to knock out Levinsky because of the tactics resorted to by his handlers. Dempsey has received 50 per cent of the icceipts for all his j appearances, but he had to cut his end to allow the Chicago stadium to meet Levinsky's demands. Demp-ln Demp-ln taking on levinsy, Dempsey will meet a ranking heavyweight for the first time since he began his exhibition tour in Reno, Nev., j last August. Levinsky had Tommy I Loughran on the floor three times j in New Lork in December, defeated vent her "baby brother" from getting get-ting hurt. Regardless of what kind of gloves are used Levinsky, with his dangerous dan-gerous if crude wild hook, should be able to test Dempsey's ability to take punishment. Paulino Uzcudun and lost to Max Baer in his last three bouts. The matter of what weight gloves will be used probably will cause a lot of wrangling back and forth because be-cause Lena Levy, Levinsky's sister-manager, sister-manager, wants big gloves to pre- |