Show f Coffroth Appears to Have Landed Fight h. h Has Dempsey at L Least j t i 1 f J Famous amous Frisco and Tijuana Promoter Puts Up UpI 4 S Purse for f Round Forty Bout I 5 I J Just Jut Across Mexican Border and 11 j t f y Dempsey Signs J f. f L LOS QS ANGELES Gal CaL J Jan n. n 5 5 5 14 A proposition made by Jam James L Jil MS Coffroth to stage the theS S Jack Jacl Georges Dempsey-Georges Carp Carpentier Carpen- Carpen n. n It tier tiet ie fight at Tiju Tijuana iju na Lower Lover California had been accepted today by Jack Kearns manager of the tho American heavyweight champion S The proposition provides t a purse purse o of for a forty-five- forty round bout Tijuana is just over the c bordel border bor bor- border der del line in Mexico exico eighteen milesS miles S from San Diego Cal J Kearns announced was was making every J effort ff rt now t to P proc procure re Carpenti r s consent to I th the bout through his rep representative S tive in Europe Charles Harvey Coffroth th Is is president of ot th the Lower California Jockey club and has promoted pro promoted pro pro- several big fights Including the Corbett Jeffries and the Fitzsimmons battles S Kearns announced Dempsey would be willing to split the purse on a a. aI I I basis of ot the winner taking i and the loser Kearns learns de declared de de- clued lared they would want the moving picture rights and nd other privileges Now Up to Coffroth Kearns Says I LOS ANGELES c Es Jan 5 Its It's U up toS to I S Coffroth now to sign up g cr r said Jack Kearns manager of ot Jack Dempsey S today Joa oay and I understand he has a representative representative 1 Charles Harvey In Europe now i to do Just that t. t tJ This Is the most satisfactory offer I I we we 55 have haye had We are re willing to accept 1 It on a I winner Inner and loser basis perhaps S i for the winner and for forthe I the loser oser Details Details' will wll be worked out I later fer S Coffroth may mav not tot want the motion emotion picture rights but whether her he do does s or ori I i not we will want 1 a percentage of them S and all aU other privileges Kearns earna said Coffroth had been in Los r S Angeles for several days talking the Uie mat I ter over with hintS hint S Kearns' Kearns announcement was made after he had been asked if It he M l accepted or orS S would accept an offer to Dempsey of oC I and a ten weeks weeks' theatrical en enI engagement en en- I I. I in Europe at a week I I announced in Chicago by Charles Coch- Coch ran an I English theatrical magnate I Commenting on the Cochran offer Kearns said tl lI I will not consider anything less lees than and his offer of a week weekS I I S does not Interest me Dempsey got 1 13 fright ight gOO coo h here week kiJ hi In America his rl theatrical a If these s engagement n European EuropeanS u 1 promoters want to get Dempsey for S thing t they'll have hav to pay dOU double J t i 1 Has Stolen March MarchOn MarchOn 1 On Cochran I S 3 H United United Press Staff Correspondent Correspondent S. S NEW EW YORK TORK Jan it 5 Jim i.-Jim Jim the tle American promoter seems to have haie haveS S imade nade a triple jump into the king row In Inthe the game me after the Dempsey Dempsey-C Dempsey e 1 l fight e S the silence le which I has hJ hung pcr over the Dempsey s camp pw since e last t July JulyS subjects pertaining pertaining- to the real bustS busl- busl S S 55 Jack a Kearns has announced c that j Si he be sha shaa has signed n the champions champion's I services rv S J over to Coffroth I A k purse of ot for a forty five round fight In Tijuana Lower California Califor Califor- nia prompted the champion to get out j S of or r the Ohe camera amera focus long Iong enough to TAMES JAMES COFFROTH corn com com com- JAMES J referred to as s Sunshine Sunshine Sun shine Jim wh who appears appears to f have beaten all others to Jack JackI t I signature for the big fight with Georges Carpentier Car Car- t S 5 S S 'S i I scribble his John Harrison on on an agreement I Coffroth now faces the task of getting the French aviator Monsieur Carpentier to use some ink on the second line His lot seems more hopeful than that of Charles Cochran the London producer who is here chasing Dempsey with witha a parchment signed by the blaster of England's England's En En- glands gland's hopes Cochran it seems made a bum play too earl early in the game Instead of getting getting get get- ting Ung the champion in cl close se quarters for tor his bid of ot he exposed his hand and Coffroth immediately slammed one higher on the board S Cochran Still ill in s S 1 t Chicago If CHICAGO Jan 5 Charles Cochran ae arf ad English the theatrical m magnate te who pr proposes pro pro- P poses poses to promote l in London a worl worlds world's s 's championship fight between Jack Dempsey Demp- Demp sey sey and Georges s said ld here today he had sent a personal representative representative n- n to Los Angeles to fo confer fer with manager I v Cochran Cachran has offered Dempsey a flat gU guarantee rantee of ot and In addition says saja he will guarantee the champion ten weeks of theatrical engagement in EnI England England En En- I gland and France rance at a week weel He also said that he not only has the I French champions champion's signature to a contract contract con con- tract calling for but has ad advanced ad- ad to Carpentier London i is the logical place for the battle said Mr Cochran It Is IB neutral neutral neu neu- ti-al ti ground We Ve have there all the fa facilities facilities fa- fa duties necessary for staging a a. worlds world championship and can be assured that our investment will be secure We Ve are offering Dempsey the largest sum ever evea paid to a a. fighter I am doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful that we would be justified in placing placing ing so 80 much money at stake in the United States I 1 am cert certain ln there would be no interference In London and that our city would draw the largest attendance attend attend- ance S |