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Show JESS UD : iswortii ; milliki : Ex-Champ Is Not In Need; Brags About Oily j' ' Dollars , i ' ' " . ' NEW YORK, Feb. 4. DolUnt Gushing dollars! ."I've made A million of 'era." nays Giant Jew Willard. ' The ex-champion so rich- he . purrs has his six-cylinder heart set an beating Dempssy, "What do- 1 rarsr .for- money? It's nothing. says Willard. "I cleaned up almost $750,000 In oil alone In two years,- Totr -hetrtia TflidrirrrrriarmoTrfl I could get 1q the ring in forty years? "And Vncle hum bought my ' circus Jivesiook. W agons and all brought me 2.r..oo." The millionaire fighter laughed Kansas furmer laugh as he nailed the Willard wants to fight for money-Story. money-Story. Ill fight Dempsey any place for nothing if necessary. , "What do I care about the gats receipts? re-ceipts? Nothing! "It's the crown I lost I want back, And 1 won't be happy without it." SU'VI HONS I ( AU Jess came to New York to take care of bustnens matters. Oil leases and final legal papers for his 140,000 home In Hollywood, al which he's Just j bought, are on his mind. ! Being a millionaire hasn't kept Jess from taking exercise. 1 Hack on his Kansas farm near To-1 To-1 Pelts he's been pulling weeds, hoeing I his potato? and chopping wood. He claims he's In better shape than when Ienitsey kayoe him in Toledo. ; , Jesa looks It, OI'TIMMIR HIS GYM. i "Kvcr since the fight at Toledo I've i pen working out. Not strenuously5, put exercising. i "The whole trouble with prise fighters fight-ers who lay oTf in they turn' over on lhelr barks snd get soft and flabby. ! "ft-didn t happen o me. Not- on --u- llfs' : "My gymnasium for two years has been the great outdoors. "When I meet I'empaey In March the world will see a different fight. HIS TOLKDO JIAXK "I'm going to win. I lost to Temp-sev Temp-sev by accident. He hit me when 1 broke clean In a clinch. After the first round started 1 never knew I was tn a fight. "And If T win this time I'll defend my title against 'em all. "If I lo wall, I can't say right ' (Continued on page t JESS WILLARD (Continued from page 2.) off what rd do. Retire. I suppose. I ain't figuring on that." , WKIGHT A HfCCnKT. After the millionaire handles his financial bislnea.i he'll look over a train ina; camp In New Jersey. Refusing to glv data on his weight1 or his waist line, the giant ahifted his underpinlng. For Jess Is bigger than ever. The scales look like he d run 'em up to ?to at least. his ow Bonn, "And tell 'em I'm my own manager, too. Kay Archer Just handles my ousi-ness ousi-ness affairs for ma. " can handle myself best when left alone." With that the biggest msn who ever went down In s prise ring faded out of the picture all smiles and Jingling his oliy dollars. |