Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 6 | Kearns Continues Negotiations with Title Aspirants

Ir KEARNS EARNS CONTINUES NEGOTIATIONS I huE ASPIRANTS j J Rickard 0 Wants Meet Jess Willard First and Then Take on Harry Wi is i's 1 Luis Firpo Greatly Improved Is Ready to Emb Embark rk for Gotham Kearns to Confer With Frazee and About Proposed Propos d Match Today 1 I NEW W YORK Jan 26 Negotiations will b be e contin continued ed today i J between Jack Kearns manager of Jack Dempsey and several boxing promoters who ar are are anxious anxious' to stage several championship bouts with the title holder a and d so some ome me of his challengers next nest s summer I Despite te the six-day six option Kearns sold yesterday esterday to 1 3 ex exI I Rickard one of or the promoters binding t h e champion from accepting for lor a I by work week r other bidders any offer ft for that h the l em may champions champion's ba be made service It is expected that conversation conversa tion will ensue today Kearns Probably will confer with Harry Frazee owner of the Boston Red I Sox and Tom matchmaker tor for the club which has a license to sta stage e bouts at the Polo Grounds and perhaps he will see Rickard again in todaY to- to daY caf At an any rat rate a definite agreement will III be mad made with no one except the Texan While negotiations are Litis Angel Firpo the Argentine giant will be preparing to embark for the States He will sail from Buenos Aires on February 1 and arrive hereabout here I about February 1 19 h. 5 I I Reports from South America are aro that that t Firpo Is la much improved in ring ability and capable of ot taking care of ot himself when he meets BUI DIU Brennan here here- hereon on I March 12 12 n By Dy HENY L. L I p R I U. U P P. Staff Correspondent NEW EW YORK Jan It n isn't int one ono I of or my iny my habits to toss away one thousand thou thou- j I sand dollar bills Just for lor amusement amusement Tex Rickard said today This means that Rickard fa 11 after liter I Jack Dempsey's s next fight and when Tex goes after alter them he usually gets j emI em Rickard will make Dempsey an otter for tOr two fights the fights the first against Jess I Willard and the second against Harry try Mills Mills Mills-it it was learned today If Ir ard and makes an offer otter It means that RiI Rf kard k k- ard will get the champions champion's signature because no no promoter will be bo able to outbid him The Dempsey Willard bout bout- wm will bo be staged In inthe the Jersey City stadium early in the summer around June 30 and nd the Wills number ma may be put on therOr there ther or In the Yankee ball park Announcement that Rickard had given gl gj glen I en Jack Kearns 1000 to lay off nil all contracts contracts' until February 1 i fine tine but the skeptics around the gArden garden garden gar gAr- gar gar- I den today were sniffing something inthe in inthe the woodpile Rickard ha has had Dempsey Dempse all the time That one grand layoff Is Just astall a a. astall stall to give Kearns an answer VCr for tor or Frazee I and the rest of ot them Who want to bid was the popular story etory Rickard usually is a a. quick thinker and it doesn't sound reasonable that he would r require a W week t to m make o up his mind J Gamblers e s have e eo to o be q quicker fr than that on the trigger and Rickard Is a good gambler In addition to Tom Who has nas already gained many columns of or print with his million dollar offer otter Harry Harry Har Har- ry Frazee owner of ot the tho Boston Red Sox is said to be figuring on a a. bid Frazee has dabbled a a. little in the fight tIght game and he he- knows something about it It as he had a a. hand In the Johnson Johnson- Willard bout Rickard however has the e Inside ld of if erh ah I th the track a because he ne has t two tiro i places In which to stage e the fight