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Show PIS AIIGII1I 111 JESS" STUNTS Champion Still Sweet on 2 Bout With Georges Carpentier - - LOS ANGELES. CaU Jan. 2. Thi f if toan-round bout betwean Jack Dampaay, heavyweight champion, and Jess Willard, former champion, ached-uled ached-uled for March 17 in New York, hat bean indefinitely postponed. Dimpiiy announced today. Oempity said he had received telegram from New York from hit manager. Jack K earns, announcing th VU indefinite postponement of the match. He said he had received no detailed , reasons, but understood it was because of the ruling of the New York boxing commission limiting the price of admission ad-mission to 915. ' By Henry L. Farrett United Prees Staff Correspondent. NKW YORK, Feb. -2. Tex Kickard's two little orphan fighU are still without a home. A sick attorney and the absence' of a half ton of Kansas brawn frohr the city are keeping the friendless wajfs of fistiana out in the cold. NO OXE THKRR. As soon as the attorney Is able t be around again after a sick spell, Klckard said today, he would become the "whole works" of the Demnsev-Carpentter Demnsev-Carpentter affair apd that tbings would begin to pop. Jess Willard has some business lnf the West that im keeping him away fur a few days and until he returns the rest aging of the "Tragedy oC Maumme Bay" cannot be discussed. hoi n ox wii.LAni). Kearnw. Oeinpsey's manager, is still strong to get Carpentler and get him I quirk, but he h getting sour on he I Willard proposition. "Willard wanted another chance at tho title and we're giving It to him.'-he him.'-he said today. "I drop everything in I California and dash here to talk with 1 him and he runs away. I'm telling the world that we can make a lot of Jack I out in the nl ka and I'm-going to go after It soon." FIGHT FADIKO. Prospects of holding the Pempsey- I Willard party here seem to be grew- I Ine thinner. The refusal of tfce state boxing com-" mission to waive the $15 top price limit makes it almost impossible to singe the bout in New York. Madison Square Garden, packed to the rafters, would not be worth more than 1100.000 at that pr'ce and Iempsey wants almost that much for gymnasium work to say stfY nothing of Wiliard's ambitions In this err t financial Jlne. I |