Show KEARNS PUTS HIS OAR IN Dempsey Manager Declares De De- Declares Declares clares Jack Will Fight Harry Wills CHICAGO Aug AUf 5 UPI Jack P C Jack Jack Dempsey will fight again he ho will fight under the Iho management of ot Jack Kearns K rn and he ho will fight Har Har- Harry Harry ry Wills These Thee three points were wre emphasized as M positive by Jack Jock Kearns rn shortly after afler his arrival hero today from the coast There have been many misun misunderstandings misunderstandings d between n Dempsey and myself said Kearns but all fill of or orthelle these thelle have been over business mat mat- matters matters matters such as apartment houses and not over oer our business of fighting You can cnn say saO that Jack Dempsey Dempey will fight again where or when hn I cannot say but hilt I will leave ave here for Cor New York after the tho Walker Walker- Wells fight tIght Friday night and ex expect x ex- expect Immediately to Iron out all difficulties with the New York boxing commission over both tho the Dempsey Wills matter and the tho Walker Walker-Slade matter T T. LOS ANGELES ANGELIS S. S Cal Aug C. C OP UPI Jack J Jack ck Dempsey declared cIa de-cIa red here today that his agreement with Tex Richard to fight Harry Wills was only verbal and tentative and that time tile action and attitude of or the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York boxing commission made the champion loath to drag Rickard into an with that body by continuing negotiations further Dempsey outlined the tangled affairs of his proposed match with Wills Ills as follows Tho The keystone of my stand In Inthe Inthe inthe the matter Is that I want to fight Wills Vilis and fight tight him bins Just as soon as asI asI asI I can get In condition With I tI I that Idea in mind the he match Is open to any promoter who can tho the arrangements and can bring Wills Ills and myself to together to- to together together gether In the ring ringI I hI have agreed to fight for Floyd Fitzsimmons of or Indiana if H Fitzstmmons FitzsImmons can get Wills Wills' signa signa- ture On the other hand If Tex Rick Rick- Rickard t ard or any an other responsible pro pro- promoter prot moter meter can get the tho necessary signa signa- signatures signatures signatures tures first then he will land l nd the bout I I I VERBAL My IO agreement with Rickard was only on I a no verbal one and was only tentative At the time I die dis discussed cussed il the tho matter with Rickard I had Just JURt returned to New York from Europe I had seen Reen tho the New boxing commission and it then appeared to be fair and rea rea- reasonable Since then Chairman Farley larley of ot that commission has chosen to Ignore me entirely so far as communication with me Is concerned and what I have learned of ot the th commissions commission's actions regard- regard regardIng regardIng regarding Ing me has come to me mo only by byway byway byway way of ot press dispatches That be being be- be beIng being ing the case cas casI I am reluctant to have hae Richard Jeopardize his position position posItion tion with tho the commission by b deal- deal dealIng dealIng dealing Ing with me since gio tho commission or some of Its members evidently have ha decided to blackball In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York stale any an man who with me l nas n ns undertaken the staging of ot a n match with Wills 1118 In a a serious way Ho lio has hns ob oL- obtained obtained backing of prominent Chicago financiers and If It he can obtain Wills' Wills signature to an n agree agree- agreement ment before any other promoter tHen tuen I am his man manI manI manI I ave not heard from RIckard Pickard for tor three or four tour days |