Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-04 | Page 4 | Rickard Carries Sleeve Full of Aces to Tunney Conference

IC ARp CAES AR IE S SLEEVE EE E fUL A ACES E TO UN EY COlF RE NCI Famous Promoter Holds Secret Chat With Char Cha Tunney's Manager and Lawyer Rickard to St St. StLouis Louis Indicating Action By Paul W. W White United Press Preas Staff Correspond NEW Jan YORK Dumb 4 a lox fOx the fighters say ot of ard tile the most successful promote the history of boxing And It begins to look as ho the Texan had slipped iv ivI fast one Vh When n Tex n I for St. St Louts LouIs where he with Gene Tunney about a nea hea weight championship fight du duthe du duthe the summer his Sleeve e will be beof ot of aces Details ot of RIckard's gy have slipped the f crecy Last Thursday the met the champIon in a Manhat hotel and made hIm an Tunney was inclined to ac acThen ace Then RIckard slipped unnoticed of a sIde aide entrance and RUin Hurni Fugazy a r rival ral al promoter mite ent with a fanfare ot of trumpets Thirty reporters and photos photo were on hand to le picture the TunneY TunneY-Fugazy in I vIew while RIckard's chat was was by journalistic en eat prize prise UNNAMED OPPONENT As an aftermath ot of his pre prel nary move Rickard and Tu will meet In St St. Louis and 2 l' l the detaIls ot of a contract callIng a bout between the champIon an opponent as yet held in September at the Yai Ya stadIum New York To indIcate that more than iii conversation is expected from Mound CIty conference taking with him Billy Gibson T ney'S manager and Dudley Malone the champions champion attorney Although the challenger will willbe be identified at tIme sIgnature Is affixed to a conta Jack Delaney champion i is the favored candid Pete Reilly Delaney's manager manager called upon Rickard just to t things over oer HAS NO CONTRACT After the conference Reilly i I flounced that Delaney would c caider csIder sIder aider a bout with Tunney 0 J JI Dempsey but would not enter heavyweight elimination touti OUt ment whIch has been in prof several months I sIgned no bindi ocum wIth Reilly said d' d hIm I wanted Delaney to I Dempsey early in the summer winner ot of that bout to meet T Ta Taney ney In the fa fall 11 Both Tunney and Rickard n at want the man who wit dra the bIggest gate gute in a a. title bout and Delaney is th man