Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-01 | Page 8 | Dempsey Will Quit Stage for the Ring

DEMPSEY WILL QUIT STAGE FOR THE IlE RING Champions Champion's Footlight Contract Contract Contract Con Con- Con Con- tract Expires Next W Week ek He Is E Eager ger to Battle l. l ACK DEMPSEY'S DE theatrical contract contract J JACK will expire next week weel and the tho latest skip jump hop and information from the East indicates that the heavYweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavY- weight champion will pass up further stage or 01 circus work for a genuine ring battle with somebody worth while and for a purse along the same lines Contrary to what has been handed handel out neither Dempsey nor his manager Jack Kearns have as yet closed with the English En English Eri- Eri glish promoters who are so eager to stick sUck Jack and Joe Beckett or Carpentier on In some English ring within the next three or four months There was a story drifting around to the effect that th Dempsey could get the better part of for such a conflict conflict conflict con con- but when facts were sifted out it developed that the men IDen who offered the fabulous sum remained In the background when pressed for a definite proposition One pipeline from Chicago last night said that the round eight-round setto between Dempsey and Willie Meehan for tor Newark N N. J. J on Thanksgiving day had been clinched and that the Newark promoters ers already had started to let out their concessions However no definite word was received by either Meehan or his manager Dem Gay both of whom are holding out fond hopes that some local promoters will bid for the match and put it on either in San Francisco or Oakland