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Show : otsms tomes PL&m mm fdc- Jacobs Says . Title Battle , NotSettled By BIIX COLLINS ( International Mews Sports Writer i CHICAGO, Feb. 2 "I got other ' propositions,' Michel "Mike" Jacobs : plaintively reported last night "There's nothing settled, t "Anyway, there's a lot of things ' to be ironed out." Meanwhile, Joe Trlner, chairman i of the Illinois boxing commission, j today pushed plans for staging the j 15-round championship bout be-, be-, s tween Joe Louis and Jimmy Brad- dock at Soldier's Field, the night of June IS. Triner gave evidence that he doesn't take Jacobs' other proposi- tlorve or his Ironing seriously, when he even announced a tentative price scale $2 to 25. No Trick Tickets Triner said he would insist that s the huge stadium be completed a week before the bout, to allow customers cus-tomers a chance to become acquainted with the seating arrangements. ar-rangements. He said there would be no trick tickets ringside seats somewhere in the vicinity of the field museum. He will suggest that ths fighters establish their training camps on the lake front He declared Joe i Gould, Braddock's manager, who Sunday announced acceptance of the Chicago offer of 500.000 with an option of 80 per cent of the receipts, re-ceipts, and Braddock will corns here within two weeks to sign the articles. ar-ticles. Jacobs, who holds exclusive rights to Louis' services, Louis and comanagers, John Roxborough and Julian Black, will sign at the same time, Triner said. Sheldon Clark president of the sporting club of Illinois, promoters of the match, said he expected the fight would gross a million and a half dollars. Indianapolis Bids Louis will get ths usual challenger's challen-ger's end, 12Vi per cent One of Jacobs' propositions, he revealed, was from James Norris Sr., president of the Chicago sta-diumi sta-diumi Jacobs said: "There's nothing settled. Norris' proposition is too good to be Ignored. Anyway, there are a lot of things , to be ironed out before the contest becomes a reality. I've got some contracts in New York that have to be cleared away first" The contracts he referred to are for a title match between Braddock and Max Schmeling at Madison ' Square Garden bowl In Long Island City, Juns 1. Jacobs is a copro-moter. copro-moter. Other developments included a report re-port that Captain Eddie Ricken-backer Ricken-backer is behind a movement to have the Braddock-Schmeling bout moved to Indianapolis, to be staged in conjunction with tha annual , Memorial day 500-mile race. And from Detroit came word from Jack Kearna, Olympia matchmaker, that he had "adequate financial support" to outbid any city in tha nation for a Louis-Braddock bout |