Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-18 | Page 12 | Jack Dempsey Has Made Cool Million in 4 Championship Bouts

I Jack Dempsey Has Made Cool Million in 4 Championship Bouts By PAUL 'H". MALLON, ' United Rroas Staff CorraaanaWnt. rf fJSW YORK. July 11 (By U. P. Jack Iampay has mad aa' ovaa million dollar out of fowr atarnoona work aa bOArywalghb champion cham-pion of tho world. ' Flgurod down In mlnutaa. It ! aa Urn a tad that tha Iron Man workad about two houra for hla cool million. Of coufaa, ha had to spend lot of tlma In training;, but thara probably tan't Any worltar In tho United BtAtea or any aport champion who rooalvod anything noar tho sum ho bag caa had in. . Dampaay got ono hundred thousand Iron mn for bowling oror Silly Miako and a hundred thouaand mora for playing around a faw rounds wllk B1U Brnan- , ' Then cam Gors;s CarponUer, tho French heau brum met. who wanted to get knocked out, aDecnpeey did it for rO.000 spectators for 4300.000. ' a . Then thero was tho Shelby affair with Tommy Gibbons. Jack Kearns, manager of the champ, after fidgeting around with tho promoter pro-moter for a while, whistled to hlmealtV "Uy Gawd, how tho money rolls In!" and plucked out .300,060. Thoeo four fight a gave Dempeey $100,000. Moris righto and other concessions bring tho total to an oven million. A few exhibitions may havo been- necessary to swell tho figure, but Jack KWrns Attended to thOS-S. Dempsey ond V earn a were just About broke when tho fight with Jeas WlUard was arranged at Toledo four yesxg Ago. e e e a . ( It was A tough break of luck that kept Zer, trie champion $-yeir-old, out of the Laatonla derby. That race was Juat what Zov needed to eet a new record for -aah earned during the season. It also would have made more certain the position he "ho I da as king of his class. The west cleaned up In tha race, winning tho first three positions at the finish. Without attempting to detract from his honor. It Is only ; fair to atvy that St probably would have beem a different story if Zev had run- . - -