Show KEARNS REMAINS AS MIRACLE MAN OF BOXING i A. L L. 4 I k 4 k V 4 Jk I 4 4 10 k c Jo i i Former Manager of Mauler Gets Walker Title Go Signing for Championship Bout in Miami Marks larks Kearns Kearns' Comeback By Dixon Stewart United Press Correspondent NEW YORK Jan 7 7 WIth With the signing signing sign- sign for forthe forthe ing ng of contracts this afternoon the he Max Mickey Mickey Walker orld heavyweight championship bout boutt at t Miami Fla February 26 28 Jack 1 Kea Kearns Cearns s mana manager er of of tams f Walker his ranking maintains maintains main mam f j t as the miracle man manof of modern fight h I I managers Kearns signed r I Ifor t P t for or many heavyweight heavyweight heavy heay weight championship champion- champion r fl I Iship ship hip fights as manger man man- r j t ger of Jack Dempey Dempsey Demp- Demp 1919 se sey ey between ad nd 1923 1023 But to r 1 land and a heavyweight heavy heavy- j j weIght championship champion champion- t ship hip contract after Kearns eight years' years absence from champion champion- accomplish accomplish- ship hip councils is a real ment When Kearns after his break with I Dempsey announced he would be beack beback beback dictating heavyweight heavyweight heavy- heavy back ack at the top weight eight affairs after Dempsey was gone one and forgotten few people took his lis words seriously And when he took ook over Mickey Walker who had hadl lost ost the welterweight title to Pete Petel ballyhooing him as asa asa Latzo and began I a heavyweight title contender folks shook hook their heads and agreed that poor old Doc Doe Kearns was slightly balmy PROVES ROVES SMART Sl Balmy he may have been but he heas hehns has hns as forced Walkers Walker's acceptance as opponent for Champion Max ing ng And if Walker wins the stage will willbe willbe be c set for Jack Dempsey whose asso asso- with Kearns has run the gamut amut from inseparable friendship to o bitter enmity would be in line for or the first chance at Walkers Walker's title Kearns' Kearns present Interest is the signing signing signing sign sign- ing of ot contracts for the Walker- Walker bout scheduled for 3 o'clock clock this afternoon ROUND 5 BOUT I The bout will be over a round 15 route oute in Madison Square Garden arena rena at Miami on February 26 with George Blake of Los Angeles as ref ret ree cree The Madison Square Garden corporations corporations cor- cor orations of Florida and Illinois will cooperate in the promotion with receiving 40 per cent of the he ic net receipts and Walker accepting accept accept- ng mg 15 p per pen r cent |