Show SECOND ROUND ION I Yi i Leaders In Con Con- Conferences ConI Conferences I in New York City I I NEW EW YORK Aug 12 tM 4 managers and promoters to- to today to today to-I to day entered upon the second round of their heavyweight auction with Jack Dempsey Dempey and Harry Harry- Wills on the block lock Promoter Tex with Gene Tunney of ot Now New V e York signed to a II contract to fight tight Harry Harr Wills next month held one important I telegram am t lc Iam and was waiting for the wires to wing him another The message In ht hand contained an I urgent ur ent request from Dempsey to sign sl n Wills Ills for lor a n. championship battle as soon lIoon as possible po He awaited another from Wills Trills tour tour- touring tourin touring ing in somewhere over there with regard to the Tunney y fight I Paddy Mullins manager of ot Wills today had bad two O conferences on his schedule After Ater discussing with promoter pr mo er Floyd Fitzsimmons of ot Michigan City CIt Ind tho the latter's I proposal to stage a a. Dempsey Wills-Dempsey light tight next year car he reserved reser de decision de- de cl until word Is received from I de-I Wills Tills l packing an i agreement by b Dempsey to box the negro arranged for an an- another another another I other conference today Mullins also hooked booked himself for a ses ses- session session sion slon with Rickard at which they the planned to take up both the Tun Tun- Tunney ncy ney ne and Dempsey Dempse fights Jack Kearns 1 s. s who is manager of or Dempsey Dempst y according to his hili own view and who has ha nothing to say about Dempsey's affairs In the opinion of ot the champion exploded once yesterday esterday and threatened to todo todo todo do so again Friday Frida Ill IU have o plenty to say MY to the boxing commission was the tho promise of or the man who guided I Dempsey through his important battles declaring that he would sign Jack to tight fight Wills and Mickey Walker alker to defend his welt welt- welterweight welterweight I championship against Dave e Shade Those forecasts threatened to I touch off ott a bomb In Cali Cali- California fornia Dempsey nettled by the action of ot the New ew York boxing call I board In declaring him Ineligible for lor delaying the Wills negotiations has stricken New ew York state off ot the list as a possible scene for forthe forthe forthe I the defense of ot his title He Ile has also rejected Kearns Since the latter still holds a contract as the champions champion's cham pion's manager prospect or of throwing the situation Into a a. com com- complete com completo pleto piete jumble loomed as an almost certain outcome of ot fulfillment of ot Kearns Kearns' promise was inclined to side side- sidetrack sidetrack f I track tra the tho Tunney n Issue in favor f ot of the prospect of clinching I the Dempsey le e fight Rickard n k CI intimated W a. a that the tho biggest st purse pur c ever offered Wills lIIs was awaiting the signature of o the negros negro's manager to a con con- contract contract contract tract to fight tight the New ew York heavyweight but It did not tempt Mullins As a matter of tact fact fact Mullins admitted he could not be tempted by anything so long as liS Wills con con- continued continued to remain silent in Europe Wills lIIs not Mullins and Wills Wills' wife who has frequently aided the negro fighter tighter to make de de- decisions decisions will cast cut the deciding votes voles y |