Show BENTON CHARGES CHARGES' FIGHT FRAME UP AND DESERTS HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP I WillS ILLS BOUT m IS mAll All BUNK ClAIM If Dempsey Agent Asserts As t Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons' LOS ANGELES Nov 4 AP Pugilistic prophets of or gloom wh for months persistently declined t to believe Floyd Fitzsimmons r really ally could put pot over a a. Jack Dempsey IT Harry Wills title bout in 1926 even evea II after atter articles were signed ope opened It their ranks today to i receive a a. 1 brother pessimist In the person e oi ot 1 Rob Roy Benton press agent an arid ant counselor of the heavyweight chant chara pion plon Benton last night announced h he be ir was quitting the Dempsey can camp rather ratler than be a party to what ha he e e assured the world was an Impend Ing invalidation of ot the Fitzsimmons c contract an invalidation designed LY to give Jack Jalk Kearns Dempse former manager a a. chance to manage man age at least two more Dempsey jU fights before his contract with th the ir titleholder expires next September yi Just how the Fitzsimmons con contract contract it tract which binds Dempsey not to if risk his title before meeting is to be Invalidated Benton admitted admitted admit admit- ted he was not at present ready to to h ch divulge He said h he ha had l definite IV information however that Ray y ir Cannon Milwaukee attorney Wat rai ai d representing both Dempsey and d Kearns in the matter Benton vigorously ly denied reports report he had been discharged by Demp Dempsey sey and said he had not yet et re received received received re- re a reply to the telegram h be besent besent sent the champion in Mexico yesterday yes yes- asking to be released from iron r his contract as publicity man and counselor He said Sald he explained to tc I Dempsey that he wanted to get out oui 00 before a a. thunderbolt falls A small fortune in advance money I Ihas 11 has been put up by Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmon to L l' l Insure the fight Paddy Mullins I manager for fOI the negro challenger J has been paid cash and holds hold holds holds' a note for another payable In fri three weeks Notes aggregating Da another await Dempsey na upon his return from Mexico f NEW YORK Nov 4 AP AP Ef Ef Efforts tJ forts to bring about a r reconciliation s. s between Jack Dempsey C heavyweight heavY cham champion lon and hj his the manager Ja Jack k Kearns are not surprising sur Tex Rickard new Madison i Square Ga Garden den promoter said to today today today to- to day commenting on reports from iron Los Angeles that the breach be between between be be- 1 tween the two Jacks Is closing I would be glad to see the two If Jacks get together again said laid laid Rickard I t hav have been skeptical all along about the proposed fight at oat Michigan City Ind for tor which Dempsey signed to meet Harry Wills next year yea under the pro promo tion of ot Floyd Fitzsimmons Fitz I 1 have an agreement with Kearns as Dem Dempsey's sey's legal manager man ager for a match between Dempsey Demp Dempsey sey and Wills Reconciliation be between between be be- tween them will go a long way to toward toward to to- ward clearing the hazy heavyweight situation While Rickard did not say just r what plans he has In mind it l Is understood that he has Intended p right along to make every effort to bring Dempsey and Wills to together to r gether either in New York or New Xen elV Jersey |