Show MiXED BOUT NOT PROBABLE Politicians Thumbs Down Doon on Wills Dempsey Dempsey Proposals By fly SPARROW SP ri Copyright 1923 by The examiner NEW YORK Aug 11 s 19 l the promoter pro meter who will put on en a Dempse Dempse Wills battle 1 er E 01 since the subject of this ml ed bout was broached 1 tho the writ writ- writer writer writ writer er has maintained that It t coul be heM hell and nc ne er wW will be h caust cause the politicians politicians are thumb down on the scheme They icar It would cause ructions ruction that aU d result In the abolition of bo Now a considerable time has pa se l since Jack Jacle Reims I 11 j ll flounced he was ens read ready to sill sign hisman hl his hisman man up for tor Harry Wills Yet not nota nota a promoter has come como forward r l w Ut th oven even a II tentative e offer for tor th bout t Why not Well there aio alO eral e stories One ODO Is that J Jack c Hearn has stated thit he lie want wantS wanti SO OO for signing to meet Wills Willi s said ld wr to go toward meeting a IL 60 t per er cent c cut on the gate receipts If tf thic Is so It Isn't too In ranch much in inlow 10 low ioe of Kearns demands In the post poat And it If there Is If as great public Interest In the tho tight fight as os some ome persons sen sento em to think the bottle battle could bp be b staged under these conditIons and yield the promoters a sum r respectable or large In accordance with terms I granted to Wills I And since WUl I Wills J Is III the challenger toI he lie would be bo or satisfied or ought to tobe I bc with with a n small share hare of the tha pro pro- pro proceeds CoedS Harry Oreb Greb is only 12 per cent of the lie r of hi bittle bittie with nith Johnn Johnny Wilson lson being willing to make alte a sacrifice for the pit lIege of oC l I chance at winning Inning a inning the mIddleweight championship title The other story and Is-and Is and this ap- ap appears appears ap appears pears from rom Information that has Into the tho writer the real up tip ill and up on the that situation situation that the big S promoters have bare boon hoen advised by political Interests to lay off oct this thie projected Dempsey Wills and confine their activities to bouts that are qualified 1 to posse s drawing power as gro great groat t as S this mixed bout would bo be and et cause cuse no disorder that would bring brins tho the sport Of into disrepute Wills and aDd DempseY could meet In sonic some remote state nd a-nd perhaps make a great deal of oC money but after his Montana Kearns has a haunting desiro tn to conduct further busies In where taxicabs are aro Immediately available and the police exist In numbers adequate to Insure safety safely to On esen a grasping fight tight promoter Prom Inside sources the writer gathers gather that If It Dempsey survives the assault of ot Luis Luls Firpo his nest tt opponent will be bo Tommy Gibbons the tho scene of battle New York Paste this in your hat and see flee It If 11 it It Isn't true truo Already the ballyhoo hiss liaa started In A II word ward b Gibbons and Jimmy Dougherty the tho referee of ot the bout at Shelby Gibbons claims claim he ho was wag robbed of at atthe the fight And Gibbons hD has haa this to say to the writer Without eming to appear egotistical I 1 think I can whip Dempsey the next I time wo we meet Ill I'll tell you way I I made the mistake In my last bat bat- battIe bat tie of trying to keep In close with I Dempsey whereas I should have I kept away and let him tire himself I trying to reach me Then Thop In the latter rounds I could hivo begun 1 to come on and nd taken advantage ot of ol otI lila his arm weariness by slipping I punches over on 00 him with sUffIcIent i frequency to win on points If it not kno 1 no k out but ut the champion I still bieve Mil ive Dempsey Is Jar far below betow the thep II p peak peale of ot his hia best tow form |